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My son turns 16 this year and he wanted to build his first car so after a long search, we found a project that had a good amount of the work done already. This is the truck we found.
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It already had a Crown Vic front and rear end installed with air bag suspension. It is mounted up with some 22" wheels. The bed and frame had already been modified and a Watts link with 4 bar too.
Ready to get to work:
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Then put the engine and trans back in.
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That's about where we are today. I have been reading lots of posts for ideas and figured it was time to contribute since I will have lots of questions ahead. We have to get it running by his birthday in December.
Welcome to the site. Lots of good information available here.
Truck looks real nice. I will be interested in seeing it progress.
For what its worth...The truck in my avatar was a project my son and I did...twice. First we made it safe, reliable and straight and he drove it in high school. After his graduation we blew it apart and tried to smooth out all the rough edges. Its been back on the road since July 1999.
Real nice start, and welcome aboard. What's the interior like?
I noticed a 66 grille in the picture, is that the year of the truck also?
Yes, it is a '66. There is not interior yet. The entire floor has been cut out, not just the pans. I am leaning toward fabricating an all new floor from sheet metal. The seats will be out of a modern ford with the 60/40 split bench. I want some from an extended cab with the seat belts built in. We are building a custom center console to house the Auto trans shifter.
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We have to fabricate the bed floor also. We have a bit of work to do.
Welcome to the site. Lots of good information available here.
Truck looks real nice. I will be interested in seeing it progress.
For what its worth...The truck in my avatar was a project my son and I did...twice. First we made it safe, reliable and straight and he drove it in high school. After his graduation we blew it apart and tried to smooth out all the rough edges. Its been back on the road since July 1999.
That is fantastic. I am having a great time working with my son and seeing him learn. He helped me build a Cobra a few years ago and got the bug.
I put 40/20/40 seats from a 2002 F150 Extended Cab into my '66 CC. The benefits are more comfort (subjective), ability to recline (But no room to do it in), built in 3 point seatbelts, headrests to keep you from conking your head on the back window in the event of a sudden stop, and a folddown console with drinkholders. I would have attached pictures, but I seem to have lost that privilege when I dialed back my forum participation and quit paying them money. But I digress. The disadvantages are that they require quite a bit of fabrication to install (but based upon what you're doing, it probably wouldn't slow you down), they sit up higher (which probably means a smaller diameter steering wheel is necessary), they are a tight fit widthwise and (the headrests) take away some rear visibility and headroom, and they are much bigger than the stock bench which takes up valuable interior space. The fact that you're installing an automatic trans will help. I am 5 feet 11 inches, 180 pounds and I just barely fit into my truck. If you're much bigger than I am you will probably have trouble squeezing in. Good luck.
Since you are making your own center console you could always go with buckets. Im quiet fond of my 01 mustang seats and even tested some 09 seats. I just used spacers and put 60s seat brackets on them. I also had to get some ranger seat brackets from bill wilson but im sure you could fab some of those up
I put 40/20/40 seats from a 2002 F150 Extended Cab into my '66 CC. The benefits are more comfort (subjective), ability to recline (But no room to do it in), built in 3 point seatbelts, headrests to keep you from conking your head on the back window in the event of a sudden stop, and a folddown console with drinkholders. I would have attached pictures, but I seem to have lost that privilege when I dialed back my forum participation and quit paying them money. But I digress. The disadvantages are that they require quite a bit of fabrication to install (but based upon what you're doing, it probably wouldn't slow you down), they sit up higher (which probably means a smaller diameter steering wheel is necessary), they are a tight fit widthwise and (the headrests) take away some rear visibility and headroom, and they are much bigger than the stock bench which takes up valuable interior space. The fact that you're installing an automatic trans will help. I am 5 feet 11 inches, 180 pounds and I just barely fit into my truck. If you're much bigger than I am you will probably have trouble squeezing in. Good luck.
Great info. I was wondering about headroom issues. Since I have no floor now, I have the opportunity to lower the floor a couple inches and still clear the trans. I will make sure I take advantage of it.
Great info. I was wondering about headroom issues. Since I have no floor now, I have the opportunity to lower the floor a couple inches and still clear the trans. I will make sure I take advantage of it.
Also as you can see from inside cab no room for speakers. Speaker boxes can be made in the floor under seats. Or get creative.
07-06-2015, 12:51 PM
Ill be following along
