Oklahoma-based tuner Trick Rides has built a carbon-fibre-bodied Ford F-100 pickup, nicknamed Tricky, and displayed it at this year's SEMA show. The build combines a classic bumpside body with a supercharged modern V8 and a lifted chassis, and it drew attention at the Las Vegas trade event.
Carbon panels and a candy-blue finish
The exposed carbon body panels, which include the quarter panels, hood, door skins, tailgate and roof, were supplied by Brothers Composites. Trick Rides then sprayed the carbon with Blue Candy paint, producing a coloured-carbon effect usually reserved for European hypercars.
A restored carbon F-100 with its original engine would already have stood out at SEMA, but the modifications went well beyond bodywork.
Supercharged Coyote V8, no power figures yet
Under the hood sits a 5.0-litre Coyote V8 fitted with a Whipple supercharger, stainless steel long-tube headers and Magnaflow mufflers. Trick Rides has not published power or torque figures, so the output remains unknown.
Carscoops suggests the truck would not look out of place against a new F-150 Raptor R off the line, though that is an impression rather than a measured result.
Lifted chassis and off-road hardware
The pickup rides on a Roadster Shop chassis with a 2.5-inch lift, front and rear sway bars and Fox coilovers. Braking comes from Baer, with six-piston front calipers and four-piston rear calipers.
It rolls on custom black 20-inch Fuel wheels wrapped in 35-inch tyres. Trick Rides says the hardware makes daily driving possible and gives the truck genuine off-road capability, even if most owners are likely to keep it as a showpiece.
The same modifications are offered in a lower, more street-focused variant for buyers who do not want the lift.
Two-seat cabin with modern audio and gauges
Inside, the two-seater has been retrimmed in black leather with blue contrast stitching on the seats and doors. Dakota Digital gauges and a new steering wheel keep a classic Ford feel, while an Alpine audio system with a subwoofer and four speakers has been added.
The truck is described as 58 years old, which points to a late-1960s F-100 generation.
Price still to be confirmed
Trick Rides has not released public pricing for a comprehensive carbon-fibre transformation of this kind. That leaves the cost of the build, and of the street-focused version, unannounced for now.
For buyers weighing a classic truck against a modern performance pickup, the appeal here is the combination: vintage shape, modern chassis and brakes, and supercharged V8 power, provided they accept that the final bill is still a mystery.
