{"id":29703,"date":"2022-08-20T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=29703"},"modified":"2022-08-20T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:03:54","slug":"jay-leno-ford-f150-lightning-walmart-recreation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=29703","title":{"rendered":"Ford and Jay Leno recreate WalMart founder’s 1979 F-150 with new Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay Leno<\/a> and Ford<\/a> revealed an F-150 Lightning pickup<\/a> done up in the same paint and color<\/a> scheme as the then president and CEO of WalMart\u2019s first truck<\/a>, a 1979 F-150<\/a>. The reveal took place roadside at the 2022 running of the Woodward Dream Cruise<\/a> in front of a small crowd of onlookers.<\/p>\n

Just like Walton\u2019s F-150, Leno\u2019s new Lightning gets a two-tone red and white paint scheme. It gets the gray wheels and a grayed-out grille in Lightning fashion, and it generally looks like a faithful replica to Walton\u2019s old truck, minus much of the chrome and it not being a standard cab \u2014 Ford doesn\u2019t offer the Lightning in anything but the Crew Cab, so that\u2019s impossible to replicate. Leno\u2019s new Lightning does have the dog box in the bed of the truck, though, which is similar to what Walton used as an avid hunter.<\/p>\n

What isn\u2019t similar to Walton\u2019s pickup is how feature-rich it is. The pickup owned by the founder of WalMart was as base as base gets. It didn\u2019t even have air conditioning. We don\u2019t have any photos of the new truck\u2019s interior yet, but the Lightning\u2019s screen-heavy insides are nothing like what can be found in the F-150 back in 1979.<\/p>\n

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