Classic American

YELLOW Fever!

You could easily be forgiven for assuming this was just another ratty Ford truck slammed on some tasty modern rims, but a closer look beneath the skin reveals there’s far more going on here than initially meets the eye. As first restoration projects go, choosing a 1956 Ford F250 pick-up as a base is certainly at the more ambitious end of the scale, but that’s exactly what father and son duo Jeff and Danny Smith set out to do. “We’ve always liked the old school look with a V8 soundtrack,” Jeff explains, “with that said, we knew our project had to be something American.”

On their journey to source a suitable candidate, the usual internet sites along with the back pages of were tirelessly scanned, but once this ’56 Ford F250 made its first appearance, the pair instantly stopped scrolling. “We hadn’t yet come across

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