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Mirage is the kind of name you only give a vehicle nobody can categorize. Is it a car, a pickup, a street rod, or a hot rod? The build shrugs at the question, because the answer is all of them stacked on a factory truck Ford sold before anyone had heard the name F-100. What started as a 1941 Ford pickup, a model truck history tends to skip entirely, is now a one-off hardtop convertible. Read on for what it takes to get there.
Ford built the 1936 half-ton to haul feed and lumber, and gave it a rounded grille and skirted fenders purely to make it look more like a car. Eighty years later that decision is why builders keep reaching for this exact body to hang wild paint, hydraulics, and a tilting front clip on. The truck that started as a tool became one of the most reworked shapes in American customizing. Read on for how a work truck became a canvas.