1932 Ford Roadster Pickup - Not What You Expect

Rarely do we find older street-rod-inspired trucks to cover in our pages. As much as we hunt at classic and rod shows, the overwhelming majority of really old vehicles are cars, not trucks. At just the point that it seems hope is flushed down the drain, a ray of light peers from the dark gray lining of our distress and shines upon something we just don't see every day. That something in this case happens to be a '32 Ford roadster pickup owned by George Poteet and built by world famous Roy Brizio Street Rods hiding in South San Francisco, California.

Beginning with absolutely nothing, the gang of merry men at Brizio's laid up a two-inch stretched frame from scratch. With fully boxed square tubing locked in the jig, Pete and Jake's stainless hairpins, front and rear, were mounted up with Pete and Jake's shocks. Buggy-style leaf springs from Durant provide height, while Wilwood drilled and slotted disc brakes at all four corners do the stopping dance under the scrutiny of stainless brake lines. Blondell-style magnesium wheels from Kittyhawk Racing are found on each rolling point. Sixteen-inch front and 18x6-inch rear wheels are tucked neatly into Dunlop early racing tires, 5.50 for steering and 7.00 for traction. A stainless, 10-gallon hand-made fuel tank hides under the truck bed for short jaunts between fill-ups.

The hood hinges sideways towards the passenger side to reveal a Roush-built 402ci V-8 detailed with a decent amount of chrome and polish. Not for the faint of heart, this little rod motor struts its stuff to the tune of 515 dyno-proven horsepower. MSD and Taylor ignition components rally together to keep the fires lit internally. A Hurst shifted 5-speed Tremec manual trans thrusts the churning numbers rearward towards the 31-spline, Ford 9-inch rearend cogged with 3.70 gears. Patriot headers coated with Cromex by RS Performance move used fumes through a custom-made stainless exhaust done in-house at Brizio. This Blue Oval small-block is not to be messed with.