DERELICT DONE RIGHT

Wagner Tuning’s F-1 Gets the Stone Treatment

Wagner Tuning’s F-1 Gets the Stone Treatment

LET’S GET SOMETHING out of the way right from the start. Sure, patina is overdone these days. Sure, it might be considered as the “easy way out” for some. BUT, and that’s a big ol’ but (fat fender pun intended), when it comes to this particular F-1 specimen there was NOTHING easy about this build. Wagner Tuning came to Jacob Stone of Stone Fab in Fresno, California, to build them not just an average “show piece”—they wanted something to shock the senses. Something downright dirty. Weird, that just happens to be Stone’s specialty!

A derelict calling card, something that would mix and match a thrashed farm truck body with a brand-new drivetrain ready to throw down at a moment’s notice.

Over the years, Jacob Stone and crew have turned out some badass builds. Full custom chassis laid Ħat to the floor has become the daily output for the team at Stone, but this build was something quite different. A derelict calling card, something that would mix and match a thrashed farm truck body with a brandnew drivetrain ready to throw down at a moment’s notice. So, Stone plotted and planned and came up with a killer concept to get this build the attention it deserves.

Opting to keep the majority of the original F-1 cab and truck “as they were” not only allowed time and budget to be shifted elsewhere, but with a few

ABOVE: The 3.5L Twin Turbo Ecoboost is the center of this insane build. As such, a few Wagner style updates—including larger intercooler and upgraded turbos—were on the short list of NEEDS!