The motto at Beechmont Ford Performance is, “You imagine, we build.” The BFP Retro F-150 re-imagines the look of Ford pickups from decades past.
dealer-installed upfit. From the top down, the Retro addresses that omission with a chrome bed rack capped by KC Daylighter spotlights. Each light hides behind old-school yellow caps or understated black and white KC caps for those who think yellow is a wrong turn down memory lane.
If the customer chooses Fox shocks, the truck gets a two-inch lift on a Fox 2.0 suspension kit. Go with Readylift, and there’s a three-inch lift. Overallcapacity isn’t affected, but the three-inch shaves a touch off the allowable tongue weight. Either suspension choice works a quartet of polished aluminum 17-inch retro-look Pro Comp wheels wrapped in 33-inch BF Goodrich A/T tires with raised white letters.
A 5.0-liter Coyote making 400 horsepower goes under the hood unless the buyer requests something else. Watson said BFP “recommends the V8 for the retro sound,” the exhaust note plummeting into the bass range by an MBRP cat-back exhaust. An optional Whipple supercharger boosts Coyote output to 700 horsepower.
We stopped by BFP to try out a naturally aspirated version of the Retro on the Readylift suspension. As a lifted truck on tall, squishy rubber, sawing at the wheel gets the mild bob and weave such lift kits and rubber were designed to provide, while retaining all the composure necessary for daily driver duty. We took a snaking road down to the Ohio River, and the roll never became a distraction. In fact, the most noteworthy item in the cab was the MBRP exhaust note.
On a truck like this, with all its changes on the outside, the real audition is static, not dynamic. Does it hit the right notes as you approach it in a parking lot — like, notes of Whitesnake on cassette and Drakkar Noir on flannel? Does it make you feel like you might go on a vehicular
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