? Fun as that idea is, most people lack the equipment or fabrication skills to make a proper chassis and modifications for such a project. Well, a company has heard your request for a slightly less factory baja-ready F-150, and it comes from a world far removed from hardcore off-roading.
That's why the outfit brought off-road racing and chassis experts into the team to help build and design the Extreme Truck while also consulting with Trophy Truck/Unlimited Truck. It must be stressed that it's not being billed as a race truck or trophy truck, but a street-drivable prerunner truck—a baja-style, relatively tame rig fit for bombing across the desert—that fits up to five comfortably with heating, air conditioning, and other modern street truck comforts.
The chassis fits 2015-and-newer crew-cab F-150s. Factory Five's SEMA truck uses a 2018 cab, but its test mule back at its Boston factory uses a 2015 model. First designed in CAD before being fabricated from triangulated tubes with a, the chassis also features an independent front suspension with dual A-arms for some street civility.
, and sheet aluminum bed interior are all part of the package. Despite its one-piece looks, the front end lifts like a normal F-150 hood, but the top half of the fenders raise with the rest of the fiberglass hood, which also uses the same hood struts and latch as a standard 2015 and up F-150. Yes, carbon fiber parts are also an option to replace any of the fiberglass components if you want lighter parts that are also stronger.
From what Factory Five has told us, with the SEMA truck complete, the test mule will be broken down and then rebuilt into a race-ready package. And to add even more salvation to your off-road lips, a full-racing package is being explored, but there is no exact date on when we'll even see that prototype out and testing yet. For now, building the on-road production chassis kit is the priority.
Seems durable.
Soon ice will be history.