You know that amazes me, does anybody remember when chevy made that 390 horsepower ss. That truck weighed less then the lightning and still only ran a best of 14.4 or something like that. I don't remember the exact number but I no it ran alot slower then a stock L. For the amount of horsepower the L has, the truck really runs awsome.

Chevy can keep talking their *****, but what do they have in production. The extreme, OK KEEP TRYING CHEVY.

But for chevy sake I can say that ford doesn't really have a realistic car that can compare to the vette. Cobra R doesn't count for most people.

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99.5 red lightning
Cervini's ram air hood
billet grilles
clear coreners
clear tail's
A.R.E bed cover
SS street style mirror's
Super chip R9
airaid intake
trans go shift kit
lightning floor matts
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When the green light drops, the bullsh*t stops.

 

My humble submission, from last year, when the TOYota was chosen....


Sport Truck of the Year
We compare them all, and the winner is…..

Every once in a while, the choices you have to make are easy, not often but sometimes. So it was this year choosing Road and Truck’s Sport Truck of the year. We’re too lazy to go out and do a bunch of research, so we took the nominees from another well-known magazine and put them through the paces. Our distinguished colleagues didn’t get the same answer as us, but at least we weren’t on crack when we chose the winner. Most of this article is in fact stolen from other rags, but hey, we said up front we were lazy, so to get it over with, the nominees are….


SVT-F150 Lightning
This is just flat out an awesome truck. Any Sport Truck of the Year Trophy that doesn’t go to the Ontario Rocket Sled is putting Lockheed’s SR-71 in the Sport Truck Class. Another one of the magazines chose the Dodge Dakota Quad Cab based on the availability of cupholders. Our criteria is based on more visceral things, and to tell you the truth we can’t tell you to this day if the Lighting even has cupholders, and quite frankly who cares. It weighs almost five thousand pounds and will outrun an F-16 until take off, and that’s a lot more important than being able to have a convenient place for a Super Big Gulp Dr. Pepper.
Ford advertises this beast as capable of running the ¼ 14.6 seconds, but in truth Helen Keller could do low 14’s in it, and people any skill at all are getting high 13’s and more out of them, stock as a rock. Add a chip, custom exhaust and a free flowing air intake (the factory setup is the only sub-par effort on them) and you may need to get clearance from the tower at traffic lights. Hot Rod did one of their signature comparisons of this truck with a Corvette, to the hoots and snickers of the Blow Tie crowd, but when the test was finished no one from the Chevy camp was laughing anymore. For half the price and darn near twice the weight the Lightning held it’s own, and comes in handy when the Vette needs to be trailered to get it home.
Talk about fun to drive, there’s nothing like putting just the slightest pressure on the brake pedal, slamming the gas and leaving about $60.00 worth of Goodyear on the pavement. Every traffic light has the potential of causing the driver and any passenger to have serious neck injury. There are extra large grab handles on each A pillar, and out of necessity they’re fully functional. A good way to kill someone with a weak heart is to take them to the grocery store in a Lightning, for the uninitiated it’s that scary. In traffic it’s very light on it’s feet and turns heads. The biggest problem with one of these is that every five minutes some kid in Honda with Mugen stickers pulls up to you and begs to be humiliated. While this is fun, the cost in gas and rolling attire makes it worth your while to ignore all but the truly annoying. For them, you go easy out of the first light, give them a little false hope before you cloud them in white smoke and humble pie the second time out, Gotcha!
About the tires and the fine art of burning out. Anyone who can make a set of tires on a Lightning last 12,000 miles deserves to drive a ’75 Pinto Wagon the rest of their life. The point of this truck excess and if you can’t handle that, get yourself a Chevy Luv, you’ll be a lot happier and it leaves one of the less than 5,000 built this year to someone more worthy. Final word, SVT Lightning, the Sport Truck of the year by a bolt.