![]() “It went completely viral,” Birdsall says. Show attendees helped the truck go viral. Scott debuted Old Smokey’s transformation at the 2016 SEMA Show where it was on display in the Auto Meter booth. Before I knew it, it was a full-blown race truck with a license plate on it.” I have a real problem with self-restraint, so one turbo turned into two and two turned into two really big ones and then it turned into needing big breaks. “I decided to make it into a shop truck to run around in and grab parts and stuff with, so we put a 12-valve Cummins diesel in it and some standard stuff. This is an earlier engine than the record-setting Freedom Racing Engines 6.7L twin turbo Cummins. I thought about flipping it because I got it so cheap, but it started to grow on me. I bought it and paid $225 for it and then dragged it back to the shop where it sat in the yard for a while. I noticed it was really solid and had a really cool patina on it. “My tool guy gave me a tip and said there was an old Ford truck on Craigslist and I should go look at it. “Old Smokey was found on Craigslist,” Birdsall says. Old Smokey F1 uses an ATS Diesel transmission.Īdmittedly, Scott says he has a problem with self-restraint when it comes vehicles. ![]() Scott and Old Smokey just set the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb record for a diesel this past weekend with a time of 11:24.065 on the 12.42-mile course featuring 156 turns and 14,000-plus-feet of elevation. The man behind the truck known as Old Smokey F1 is Scott Birdsall of Chuckles Garage in Santa Rosa, CA. What started as a $225 1949 Ford F1 soon became a 12-valve Cummins swapped shop truck and is now a $400,000 full-on road racing truck with a 1,400-horsepower 6.7L Cummins under the hood. ![]() ![]() This article orginally appeared in Engine Builder Magazine on Septemby Greg Jones ![]()
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