Classic vehicles are huge enterprise, and Velocity Trendy Classics is increasing additional into the area with its new lineup primarily based on the “Dentside” Ford F-Sequence offered between 1973 and 1979. The corporate revealed its first three examples of the sixth-gen F-Sequence – a 1973 F-100, a 1977 F-150, and a 1977 F-250 – exhibiting a trio of detailed, finely crafted pickups. They usually positive higher be well-done, contemplating Velocity will cost not less than $280,000 for the pleasure of proudly owning one.
Making The Dentside Howl Like A Coyote
Turning a F-Sequence Dentside right into a Velocity truck begins from the very backside, the place it receives a Roadster Store body to ensure structural integrity. The F-100 sport truck builds onto that platform with an impartial entrance suspension, strong rear axle, and four-wheel disc brakes from Baer. In the meantime, the four-wheel-drive F-150 and F-250 fashions characteristic strong Dana 44 entrance and Dana 60 rear axles, in addition to Wilwood four-wheel disc brakes.
Powering every variant is a Ford Efficiency 5.0-liter Coyote V8 crate engine, making 420 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque, with a 10-speed computerized sourced from the trendy F-150 pickup. A custom-built and -routed exhaust with MagnaFlow mufflers offers all three vehicles a definite, period-appropriate rumble that belies the powertrain’s trendy origins – ditto Velocity’s distinctive serpentine belt routing that turns the compressor to a Classic Air local weather management system.
Classic Type With Trendy Particulars
The sixth-generation F-Sequence, launched for the 1973 mannequin yr, will get its Dentside nickname from the concave, recessed panels that begin from beneath the clamshell hood and run all the size of the pickup. Atop this distinctive physique design, Velocity Trendy Classics performs a full sheet steel restoration to provide the vehicles solidity and power, which then will get coated in quite a lot of colours, with non-obligatory two-tone paint that lives throughout the truck’s novel “racetrack” chrome physique jewellery. Talking of, all of the brightwork on the truck is best than new, together with the chrome grille with Ford lettering, bookended by LED headlights that keep their basic look – no insectoid projectors right here.
Inside, Velocity enhances the truck’s cosmetics with a factory-fresh restoration, plus a Bluetooth stereo system, full carpeting, a tilt steering column, and energy home windows. Those that insist on extra can improve to both the Avenue Sequence on the two-wheel-drive F-100 or the Heritage Sequence on the F-150 and F-250 4x4s. Go that route and also you get a French-stitched leather-based bench seat, steering wheel, and sprint prime, plus an Alpine touchscreen head unit and Velocity custom-machined billet inside elements like door handles, energy window switches, and steering wheel spokes. Each improve packages additionally get billet exterior trim and a color-matched, spray-in Raptor Liner within the mattress.
A New Form Of Ford Vs. Ferrari
With a beginning worth of $279,900, the Velocity Trendy Classics Dentside lineup is not for the faint of coronary heart or skinny of pockets. That very same money might very simply get somebody right into a Ferrari Amalfi, Maserati MCPura, and even Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X. Somebody with off-road pretensions would possibly even be tempted by a loaded Ford F-150 Raptor R – with a Mustang Darkish Horse on the facet for every day driving – and nonetheless save about 100 grand. That stated, not one of the above choices has the approachable, down-to-earth attraction of an outdated pickup truck. Nonetheless, for $280,000, we’re slightly shocked that the billet exterior bits and stitched leather-based upholstery aren’t customary.
That most likely will not cease prospects from forking over huge money on Velocity’s new Dentside choices, which is able to reside alongside the fifth-generation “Bumpside” F-Sequence, first-gen Bronco, basic Mustang, Chevrolet Ok-5 Blazer, and Worldwide Scout II within the firm’s lineup.
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