Custom Shop Places F-100 Project Truck Up for Sale
Started by Pennsylvania’s Bent Metal Customs years ago, shop seeks a customer ready to take on their stalled F-100 build.
Have you ever found yourself losing ground on a project Ford truck? Perhaps other things have taken up your time and money. Or, maybe the project was just too much to handle after all. Or, of course, the truck simply no longer sparks joy in your heart. What then?
If you’re like most people, you’ll sell the Ford on our Ford Truck Enthusiasts Marketplace. There, someone will take up where you left off, and you come away with some cash for the next project. If you’re Bent Metal Customs of Lansdale, Pennyslvania, though, you’ll ask if one of your customers would like to fund its completion.
“We started building this 1956 Ford F-100 a few years ago and we are now too busy to work on shop projects now so we need a customer who would like to finish the build,” says shop owner Justin Brunner.
As it stands, whoever takes them up on the offer will have less work to do than if they had started with an F-100 straight out of the classifieds.
For starters, the shop planned to transplant the above 5.0-liter Coyote V8 under the F-100’s hood. They hoped to cast aside the plastic engine cover, and replace it with a Roush Performance Stage 2 supercharger, then link up the blown motor to the rear through a Getrag six-speed manual.
To keep all that power from twisting up the F-100’s body, Bent Metal Customs the cab and custom tubbed bed upon a REVO chassis from Roadster Shop. The chassis was designed for streetability, while providing room for putting the powertrain in the right place.
“With all of the parts and labor expended to get the truck to this point, we will sell it for $52,000 and finish the build in-house,” Brunner said. “This is a very desirable body style F-100, and when it is done, it will handle like a sports car and be as fast, or faster, than most out there.”
Not a bad deal, to say the least. You get an F-100 ready to rumble, and the shop will build it for you.
Photos: Bent Metal Customs/Justin Brunner
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