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Along with building a highly modified, lightweight and crazy quick and fast car or truck, there’s the segment of the performance and drag race market that prefer very select modifications to a vehicle they really like. These folks want to maintain street drivability and creature comforts while extracting every single digit of horsepower out of their stock, or close to stock engine. Enter Florida’s Mike Marcoccia.
With a love for cars and trucks that started at the age of 16, Mike worked his tail off to save for his first car. “It was a 1992 Mustang GT and I began adding the usual bolt-ons,” he explained. “I would go and drag race with this car to the Orlando Speed World track and drive it home.” That first Mustang set in motion a chain of events that has included owning over 40 Mustang Fox Bodies over the years. “I currently have three
that I like to work on: an ’89 Vortech V3 GT, a ’91 Vortech V1 triple black convertible, and a 1991 Coupe currently under rebuild.”
From a truck standpoint, Mike isn’t stuck on just his regular cab short box 2 wheel drive F150. Included in his stable of Fords he also has a 2016 Hellion twin turbo F150 due to hit the street and strip in the next few weeks. But back to his daily driver.
Story: George Pich
Photos: Eddie Maloney
In 2021 Mike ran across an ad on Craigslist for the truck. An older gentleman had driven it just 7,200 miles and when gas prices got high, he wanted to get out of a V8 truck. It was bone stock, with a barely broken-in Coyote 5.0L engine. Keep in mind, if you had said 25 years ago that a virtually stock engine in a heavy, well-optioned pickup truck
could run easy 9-second passes with bolt-on parts… you’d be called a witch and burned at the stake, but that’s exactly what Mike Marcoccia set out to do.
As you can imagine, there’s not much to tell about the truck aside from it being mostly stock with some suspension mods and, obviously, some witchery performed under the hood.
Ford Velocity Blue paint covers the factory body of the 2021 regular cab short box F150. A Cervini’s ram air hood was paint-matched and installed to help air flow under the hood, plus it looks killer. Ford Performance front fender vent trim was also added along with a Palm Beach Dyno decal on the box side.
The trucks low stance is thanks to a VAS 3/5 drop kit with traction bars, Kelltrac shocks and coilovers.