SEMA Preview 5 of 10: Mark Gearhart Truck for Hot Rod Magazine

Posted on October 30, 2019 by in What's New

We are excited to have the Hot Rod Magazine build project Factory Five Truck of Mark Gearhart’s in our indoor booth at SEMA this year. Mark has built some very impressive machines, and his Truck is being featured currently in the hallowed pages of Hot Rod as well as hotrod.com. The really cool news is that Mark’s truck is one of FIVE (!) over-the-top Truck builds that will be at SEMA this year, one of which is Joey Logano’s 800+ HP NASCAR-engined drift Truck!

Click here to catch up on Mark’s build articles.

Among the many great sponsors that have had a hand in this project, Factory Five Legacy Award winner and legendary painter Jeff “Da Bat” Miller laid down the beautiful paint on this car, and we are super proud to have it in our booth this year at SEMA. Here are some photos of the truck being built, and we will bring you the finished vehicles shots from the show!

Click here to catch up on Mark’s build articles.

Latest Factory Five News

Three Generations Embark on a Type 65 Coupe Dream Build

January 19, 2026

Dave Ryan’s Type 65 Coupe build is moving right along—and it’s become something even bigger along the way. In collaboration with Factory Five Racing, V6 Media is producing a short film documenting the build process. Recently, Dave’s father, Vaun Ryan, sat down to share his lifelong passion for performance cars and motorcycles—sparked as a young boy on the family farm in Utah, building a homemade go-kart powered by a hay-elevator motor. That curiosity for how things work turned into a lifetime of mechanical enthusiasm, passed down through generations and now culminating in Dave’s Type 65 Coupe build, which is a…

Read More
Top