Muscle cars are great, but we have a soft spot for muscle trucks. Old trucks have personality and charm. When you mix that charisma with modern performance, you have a win-win.

The Ford F-series is an American classic. The 1950 F100 is one of the most beautiful vehicles to ever roll out of Detroit. John Arrendale's F1000 by Mason's Hot Rods is far-and-away, the most handsome restomod around.

But muscle trucks are often limited by their weight, requiring hundreds of horsepower to hang in the quarter-mile. And when old trucks are built up for racing, their lack of aerodynamics can be their Achilles heel. But with fifty years of experience, the craftsmen of the Mason family solved both problems. With one-thousand horsepower and a wind-tunnel ready fuselage, this custom 1950 F1000 is ready to race.

An American Dream

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John Arrendale has had a lifelong dream of driving the baddest muscle truck around. Growing up in Georgia, Arrendale's family operated a poultry business that required a fleet of more than a thousand trucks. As a young driver, he raced trucks up and down his home state's winding mountain roads. He admits to being addicted to speed ever since.

Arrendale's grandfather drove a vintage Ford F-series, and Arrendale dreamed of his own lightning-fast muscle truck restomod. A friend suggested he contact Mason's Hot Rods in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Arrendale discovered the fifty-year-old family business has built high-end custom hot rods as well as movie vehicles for The Fast and The Furious, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Talladega Nights: he knew they were his team.

John Arrendale decided on the iconic 1950 model year of the Ford F-series pickup truck. Then he bought several vintage F-100s from a collector in his hometown (for a primary truck and donor parts trucks). He delivered them to the Masons with a simple request: "I want to go fast."

Dial It Up To 1000

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Allen, Larry, and Jerry Mason are the veteran craftsmen who run Mason's Hot Rods. They knew the best way to honor Arrendale's simple request was to fit his muscle truck with a beastly, supercharged V8. Early in the process, John Arrendale and Allen Mason decided to keep as many components of the pro-touring truck as possible in the Ford family. So the Masons cannibalized a 5.4 liter Shelby V-8 from a 2009 Ford GT 500 and sent it off to Premier Automotive--also of Spartanburg South Carolina.

The engine received numerous internal upgrades, including a Cobra Jet crankshaft, Manley rods, MMR pistons, and Clevite bearings. Factory electronic ignition powers the engine. It wears extrude honed factory heads.

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The V-8 breathes through a Kenne Bell 3.6 liter liquid-cooled blower capable of creating 28 pounds of boost. As the Mason team continued dialing in the engine for more horsepower, they found intake temperature was the massive engine's weak link. The team fitted the V-8 with a BIGUN intercooler and Double Pass heat exchanger from C&R Racing. They tossed the intercooler's stander 2-quart reservoir and installed a 5-gallon reservoir in the truck bed. Then they ducted a custom system to suck exterior air through the driver side front fender. The entire system is cooled by not one, but two 10-inch electric fans. Read more about the F1000 build on MotorTrend.

The monstrous engine gets rid of exhaust through custom-built, long-tube, stainless steel headers by Barillaro Speed of Knoxville, Tennesse. The twin 3-inch exhausts growl through Kooks mufflers and exit beneath the custom running boards.

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Badge Of Honor

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The Masons found the custom supercharged and intercooled V-8 churns out an astounding 1,000 horsepower. Thus the vintage F series build earned its name: the F1000. They created an F1000 logo, etched on the truck's valve covers and stitched into the bucket seats. See Arrendale's F1000 truck on Youtube.

The 1,000 horsepower drivetrain required a custom TREMEC T56 Magnum six-speed and Atomic Twin Disc clutch to handle the power. The horsepower passes through a Currie 9-inch rear end floating on RideTech coilovers before the twelve-inch-wide rear wheels pound the pavement.

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Turbulence Troubles

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The team at Mason's Hot Rods had one more hurdle: They had successfully jammed a 200 MPH drivetrain into a 1950 Ford truck, a truck with aerodynamics of a brick. They would need to reduce drag and turbulence while significantly increasing downforce.

The professionals in Spartansburg began by removing the truck's stock glass to mount the windshield flush with the body metal and replace the vented side windows with single pieces of glass. They removed all exterior mirrors and bumpers. Then they welded shut the hood lock openings and dechromed the body. They removed the parking lights atop the fenders, then radiused the fenders to eliminate as much tire gap as possible. The hot rodders built a carbon-fiber splitter for the front of the muscle truck to prevent 200 MPH airflow from creating too much turbulence beneath the 70-year-old chassis. Finally, Allen Mason and company covered the bed with a KPR Racing custom tonneau cover with a built-in adjustable spoiler.

The final product, finished in Ford Magnetic Metallic Gray, is equally ready for the dragstrip or the car show. Arrendale's F1000 sports Shelby GT500 seats, Shelby-style American Racing turbine rims, a custom tall shifter, and an attractive, aviation-inspired console. With power steering and air conditioning, it is perfect for a cruise along Georgia mountain roads--and ready to go fast at a moment's notice.

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