Street Machine

WORM BURNER

ONCE DERIDED as purely practical workhorses, pick-up trucks are finally finding their space in the street machining scene. Today we think of them as super-cool, practical sleds that can look epic jacked into the sky on muddies or laying rail on big-inch wheels.

It was this ground-pounding style that captured Glenn Smith’s imagination, though his path to this righteous, supercharged dentside Ford F100 actually began when he tried to buy a Chevy truck!

“I had put a deposit on a Chev 3100 in Queensland, but he sold it out from under me within a day of me going to-ed it home in this mystery truck I’d just bought.

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