1970 Ford F100 pick-up - COYOTE, NOT SO UGLY...

How’s this for a first American vehicle? What had originally been planned as a business promotion vehicle created by Valley Gas turned out so well that the owner decided to use it as their daily driver!

- Keith Harman

We feature a fair few trucks here in Classic American; not at all surprising with their current popularity, and a fair few of them have received modifications to make them more reliable and suitable for British roads. However, it’s rare that we see a truck taken to the level that Valley Gas Speed Shop has taken David Carr’s slick 1970 F100, especially as it’s David’s first venture into American vehicle ownership. We’ll get into the full description in a bit, but first we asked David, a company owner from Winchester in Hampshire, what attracted him to not only truck ownership, but to a full-on custom build.

David told us: “I’ve always owned sports cars mainly, not as a hobby or anything, just my preferred mode of transport. But like many guys my age, you end up watching all these US TV shows, with cool and different machinery, and I just thought, this looks really interesting, and it sort of went from there.” With his background in owning decent handling and very drivable cars, this ethos remained with him, right down to the preference for finding a right-hand-drive American vehicle to own, rather than a ‘left hooker’.