There is something special about the aesthetics of the 1960s-era SUVs that more recent models fail to replicate, and car enthusiast Barry Ellis understood it too well when he decided to graft a 1969 Ford Bronco body onto the chassis of a modern F-150. The work took 2,500 hours to complete.
The first challenge he faced was the need to match all the proportions. To that end, he cut the entire body lengthwise down the middle, taking care to remove things like the trim and the dashboard first. He added an 80-mm (roughly 3-inch) insert and put the body back together along with the dash.
The next step was to fabricate a new radiator grille, bumpers and assorted trim pieces anew. Ellis installed as many as three windshield wipers and proceeded to lay the wiring – the most difficult part of all, considering that it came in at 61 kilograms (135 lbs) of total weight.
However, it was thanks to the properly done wiring that the revived Bronco ended up with numerous modern options on board – seats with massage, heating and ventilation features, folding running boards, parking sensors and surround view cameras, to name just a few. While he was at it, the tuner also put an electronic LSD on the rear axle.
Powering the ride is a Whipple-supercharged Coyote V8 with five liters of displacement and 532 PS (525 hp / 391 kW) at the rear wheels.