Pumpkin Patch to Chilling Nights: Ford’s Halloween Haunt

October 6th, 2024 by

2023 Ford F-150 Lightning

Photo Source: Ford

Ford continues to set the standard by ensuring its consumers, who desire the finest features and capabilities in their vehicles, have access to them with the 2024 F-150 Lightning. For a pickup truck this size, the F-150 Lightning’s most remarkable characteristic isn’t its 580 horsepower rating or its 775 pound-feet of torque – it is its voluminous front-trunk (frunk) cargo bay. The additional space coupled with the ProPower onboard generator satisfies the demands of a diverse customer base in ingenious ways. 

With Halloween close at hand (2024), decorations from the past resurface to loom over the present. For example, in 2022, a New York enthusiast placed pumpkins and spotlights into the Mega Power Frunk on his Ford electric pickup and leveraged the 240-volt outlet in the bed to power a nine-foot Jack Skellington.

Ford’s Halloween Offering

Even the automaker participates in the revelry. Indeed, advertising agencies and marketing teams have painstakingly racked their brains devising eerie delights. The Halloween spirit calls for a jarring prank, and Ford stepped up to the challenge. 

To ensure all Ford test drive participants were properly frightened, the brand prepared a seemingly innocuous visit to the car wash before the test. As soon as the automobile entered the car wash, it darkened, and the occupants were unexpectedly surrounded by countless walking dead and other creatures. The vehicle’s concealed camera captured all the alarmed expressions, shrieks, and relief once the passengers understood everything revolved around Halloween scare tactics.

Beyond the Basics: Ford’s Halloween

Pickup trucks might be workhorses for most of the year, but they should occasionally be utilized recreationally. Many owners recognize this and adorn their trucks accordingly. Then again, some automobiles arrive directly from Ford appearing primed for Halloween duty. Notable horror movie images, for example, go beyond weapons and characters; some of them incorporate vehicles that have become inseparably linked with the films they’re in.

2024 Halloween- 1978 Ford Pinto

Photo Source: Warner Bros.

One iconic Ford compact car is the 1978 Pinto featured in the 1983 film Cujo, in which a mother and her son find themselves horribly caged in their car after a once even-tempered St. Bernard is bitten by a rat, causing it to terrorize them. They stay alive and combat claustrophobia in the car while the dog attempts to demolish the now classic vehicle.

On a more lighthearted note, the television series The Munsters aired in the 1960s, and it would be careless not to mention the quirky family’s daily driver, the Munster Koach. Experts chopped up three Ford Model Ts to arrive at the end result.

  • George Barris astutely accepted the flourishing hot-rod movement when assembling the Munster Koach – the car came equipped with a 289-cubic-inch V-8 engine from an AC Cobra.

Welcome Halloween with Sunrise Ford!

Halloween is a time when zombies and werewolves come alive. From the F-150 Lightning to the Mustang Mach-E, Ford’s vehicles can upgrade the festivities like never before. Check out our new or used vehicles and our new vehicle specials to benefit from a ghoulishly good time.