

Powered by a 500-hp Whipple-supercharged V-8, no thin, weak wheels could be considered. They also narrowed the rearend 2 inches to allow perfect fitment of the aggressive wheels that would soon call this truck home. Using a cantilever system combined with a parallel 4-link setup, the team assembled the rear of the F-150 to function well with the Belltech drop spindles and Airlift setup they’d mounted up front. Starting with the suspension, he and the FH Customs crew began putting together his ideal kits.
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Once Joel realized that he needed to give in to the mod bug completely, he didn’t hesitate.

What started as small mods began to snowball into larger scale changes, which led to where the truck, appropriately named Game Over, sits today.įrom stereo upgrades to static drops and wheel changes, the Ford went through many iterations during the ensuing years. The truck, an ’02 F-150 SVT Lightning, was nicely optioned from the get-go, but Joel could not leave the SVT alone. Just a few weeks before getting married, he purchased the truck from a local Ford dealer, 1 of only 4,726 Ford produced that year. Yet, when something ends, something else always begins, and that’s where Joel’s F-150 comes into play. When Joel Buchanan of Jacksonville, Illinois, hit this point in life, it was game over.

THERE COMES A TIME IN ALMOST EVERY MAN’S LIFE WHEN HE CHOOSES TO SETTLE DOWN WITH THE ONE WOMAN HE REALLY CARES ABOUT, LEAVING EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE PAST. Joel Buchanan’s 2002 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning
