Watch: this 800bhp Ford F-100 is the “Lamborghini of off-roaders”

American Tuned is back for another series on Top Gear’s YouTube channel, and to kick things off with a bang our tuning correspondent Rob Dahm has been in the California desert with a rather special restomod prerunner.

Meet ‘Vivian’. That’s the name of this 1977 Ford F-100 built by Morgan Clarke and owned by Eric Conner. We would tell you more about it here, but all you need to know is that its V8 engine makes 800bhp and its builder describes it as a “utility luxury prerunner”.

And now you want to know what it sounds like, and how that suspension looks when it gets into its flow, don’t you? You’re in luck: have a watch of that video above and then let us know your thoughts in the comments section below…