- TRUCKIN.COM [2 5 ] NOVEMBER 2019 -
B
eing branded an influencer
is the gold star of the truck
culture and essential to a
shop or a builder’s success.
We all know social media is the way we
get our name out, and Plan B Fabrication
does that daily with its 118,000 followers
(and counting). The owner of Plan B,
Rob Pique, has often used his personal
trucks as rolling billboards, but with an
arsenal of more than 70 show trucks
coming out of Plan B since the doors
opened in 2012, he doesn’t even need
to do that. Every year, Rob and his crew
expect to have their work displayed at
SEMA in Las Vegas. In 2015, Plan B only
had 1 truck, but in 2016 the team had 4,
followed by 7 in 2017, and 13 in 2018.
What originally started as a mud-
bogging shop changed with the times
and was soon one of the largest custom
truck shops in all of Florida. One of
the trucks Rob built in 2017 was a Ford
F-250 Lariat brought in by a customer.
“He wanted a simple white lifted truck
with orange suspension parts,” Rob tells
Truckin. “We completed the truck and
had it perfect in three weeks.” Although
it wasn’t Rob’s personal taste, the Ford
made waves and certainly caught a lot
of attention at the SEMA show.
As Rob was putting together a
schedule for the next year, the owner
came back to the shop and had a
different plan. “He wanted to build an
SUV for SEMA and no longer wanted
the Ford truck,” Rob adds. “So it made
sense to buy this truck from him.” Rob
knew the build inside and out, as his
hard-working team at Plan B put the
entire Ford together piece by piece.
Since the F-250 wasn’t really the color
combo and wasn’t as “loud” as Rob
preferred, he got right to work making
it match his preferences.
The entire shock setup was switched
from a 14-inch to a 12-inch to lower the
truck and get a proper height so the Ford
would be 100 percent functional. The
coilovers were relocated to the front
side for a smoother ride, creating less
stress on the lower mounts. The bypass
shock was moved behind the axle for a
cleaner appearance and a new sway bar
was built. Rob chose to roll with Chassis
Unlimited in the rebuild to show off the
company’s new line of Proform front
and rear bumpers. A necessity for all
lifted trucks is to add high-quality hooks,
so Rob went with the Monster Hooks
that neatly attach to the new bumpers.