Randy McDaniel was at the Pomona swap meet a few years ago when he saw a rusted, dented 1938 Ford cab-over truck that had spent its better years as a working farm truck in Fresno, Calif. “It ran, but it was beat,” he said. But McDaniel, of Yorba Linda, Calif., liked the truck, knew that probably nobody else had one, and hired McMillan Piston, Paint and Bodywork of Bellflower, Calif., to create the outrageous hauler displayed at SEMA. Powering the two-tiered hauler is a 5.9-liter Cummins diesel engine. McDaniel has a collection of half a dozen cars, including another — a blown 1934 Ford coupe — that was also on display at SEMA.
No. 2: 2009 F-150 Electric Green Truck by PML
It says “No Compromise” on the rocker panels of this Ford F-150. That’s because this truck is clean and green, yet it delivers 600 hp. What makes this F-150 clean and green is the removal of its 320-hp, gasoline-burning V-8 engine (as well as the transmission, drivetrain, exhaust and differential) and the installation of four electric motors — one within and driving each of the four wheels. British-based PML Flightlink Ltd. calls its electric power system Hi-Pa Drive. PML says the green F-150 can travel as far as 100 miles without recharging the 40-kilowatt battery, or, if set up as a gas/electric hybrid with a small fuel-burning engine, the truck could exceed 100 mpg with a range of hundreds of miles.
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