Decades after they stopped being made, the F-100 pickups from Ford are still all the craze. People seem not to have enough of them, and over the past two months, we’ve uncovered several very interesting builds based on Ford’s star F-Series from yesteryear as part of our various coverages.
Depending on what gets into making one, today’s remade F-100s can sell for anything from change to a small fortune. But despite the large number of them we’ve seen in the recent past, we don’t remember one going for $1 short of $170,000 in a direct sale.
Yet this one here is doing just that. $169,999 is how much the owner and eBay user tiger123tiger123 is asking for it online, even if, to be fair, the Make Offer button has been enabled. The question is, what does this thing have that makes the owner confident the asking price is not just a gross exaggeration?
The custom pickup was born as a regular F-100 back in 1956, close to the beginning of the series that was soon to make history on the American market. It has been extensively modified, and work on it was over about four months or 700 miles (1,126 km) ago.
Sporting a massaged body over a full red leather interior, the truck rides on 20-inch American Racing wheels that get their spin from a stock, gen 2 Coyote engine rated at 430 hp.
But these are just words and numbers, and they do not always paint the right picture, so below this text is a short video from AutotopiaLA that tries to shed a bit more light on where the pickup started and where it is now. We reckon the video was shot shortly after the build was completed, and it might help you decide whether $170k is too much or just right for this custom truck. A drive in it is included, if you were looking for some kicks.
Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies. Full profile
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