So as some know, I work as a tech at a Ford dealer. We recently had this very clean red 1999 F-150 Lightning come through as a trade in. A lot of us in the shop were eyeballing it, and drove it a few times (it ran VERY good, lol.... had a number of aftermarket goodies)

Anyways, the truck sold monday, and the guy that bought it (one of the sales guys brothers) wanted another key cut. So they gave it to me, I cut and programmed a new key, and parked it back out on the lot. Salesman took it around front shortly after and got it ready for the guy to pick up. He left our dealer and made it literally 1 mile down the road on the interstate (our dealer is right next to the highway), he heard a pop noise, fluid sprayed all over the windshield, aaannnddd....

(got this pic from my general manager this morning, I wasn't there)


So I get to work yesterday morning, everybody says "Hey Jonathon (my service manager) was just looking for you... he looked PISSED!" (mind you he's never serious about much of anything). So a couple minutes later he comes up to me looking all serious, says "come here for a minute we gotta talk", and walks outside behind the shop saying "you remember that red F-150 you worked on yesterday?". I'm like yea I cut a key for it. He says... "you sure that's all you did??", and pointed down over the hill at the truck sitting there. I was like HOLY S**T!! Then he couldn't keep a straight face any longer and busted up laughing cuz he had me going for awhile there, lol

But yea... there she sits in her crusty glory. Absolutely trashed.... everything except the rear











Dudes cell phone is still sitting in the center console



Master cylinder was completely melted off





The interior was absolutely MINTY in this thing







Luckily and most importantly, nobody was injured in this whole ordeal. The driver was by himself and was able to get out and away from it without harm, though he was pretty shaken up from what I hear. We really don't know what happened, though we think maybe a fuel line ruptured or popped off (somebody may have had it off and didn't snap it back in all the way). Who knows... for all we know it could have been something in the heap of aftermarket stuff that was on it, or somebody that had worked on it prior (not me!!). I'm sure the insurance company will be out before too long to analyze the situation

Oddly enough... I was actually pondering trying to buy this truck myself but decided against it cuz I need something a little more practical. Kinda glad I did, hahaha. I wish I had some before pictures, it was a very very clean Lightning

 

i guess it falls on me to be the first to say it:




That'll buff out.

 

That's a shame. Glad he is ok. Hope he had insurance on it as soon as he left the lot! :O

 

Ok i will say it i will hate myself because i am a ford fan but,

Found on road side dead! Nice flashers he really got people to notice he was on the side of the road. "Rimshot"

Now the question is when he pulled over did he put the flare 50ft away like he was supposed to??? ;D Just saying


Dang that really is sad to see that looked like a really clean truck. It even had a supercharger on it. That didn't look stock at all.

 

Stock motor - the Lightning was a SVT-built beast of a truck. Low production numbers - was a supercharged 5.4L good for 360hp @ first then bumped to 380 in the last couple years of production.

Shame to see one so clean go up like that. There were only like 28,000 of them built over 6 years.

 

that sucks... was a nice truck... any chance I could buy that supercharger?

 

another one bits the dust..... i would be pissed. pulled out of the dealership and bam. brand new car to me explodes mile after i pick it up.

what is this guy doing about it????? do you know.

 

Old thread, but that's sad to see such a awesome truck wrecked like that.