Different origins. Dad Cars
2010 Ford F-150 Platinum
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Silenced Beast takes the 1978 Buick Century’s square-shouldered honesty and stretches it into a modern executive track package—2000mm wide, but never loud. The widebody is treated like an OEM design exercise: continuous surfacing, soft radii, and subtle arch venting that looks like it could’ve rolled out of a late-’70s advanced studio if aerodynamics had been the priority back then.
Under the calm skin is real intent. A long, gently concaved one-piece aluminum hood pulls heat out at the firewall, the trunk grows 120mm to keep the “company car” brief intact, and an electric lift spoiler rises only when it needs to. It sits low on adaptive air, deep-dish HREs filling the wells with Michelin PS4S grip—quiet power, clean lines, and speed that doesn’t announce itself.
Blueprint
The Whitepaper Room
Inspect drawing ↗Open blueprint study →Collectible Poster
Collector's Edition
Inspect poster ↗Technical dossier
Fictional engineering concept
Platform
1978 Buick Century
Powertrain concept
5.0L V8 tuned for broad torque and low NVH rather than peak numbers
Active exhaust with valve strategy focused on low-load silence and high-load flow
Cabin noise-cancellation calibration to suppress drone without muting character
Upgraded cooling package to support sustained lapping in warm ambient conditions
Aero package
Flush electric rear spoiler deploying to 110mm above deck for high-speed stability
Wheel-arch pressure relief vents shaped to minimize turbulence
Rearward hood heat-extractor bay near firewall to evacuate underhood temps
Smoothed underbody panels with discreet rear diffuser-style termination
Chassis & stance
1978 Buick Century
Wheels & tires
HRE deep-dish 20x9.5 front
HRE deep-dish 20x11 rear
Michelin Pilot Sport 4S 265/35R20 front
Michelin Pilot Sport 4S 295/30R20 rear
Fabrication notes
Widebody executed as metal-work and blended panels to preserve OEM shut lines and reflections
Hood formed from aluminum to reduce front-end mass and improve heat management
Trunk extension engineered with internal bracing to maintain latch integrity and panel stability
Aero elements packaged to sit flush at rest, prioritizing clean silhouette and consistent gaps
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