Originally Posted by
Ford_Six
Here's the body style Suburban I'm talking about:
This is the one we used to have, just scrapped it a couple weeks back. It spun a bearing in the old 6.2, and then the guy who was going to buy it found a rust hole and backed out.
My basic intention would be to cut maybe three or four inches below the glass, and then blend that into a lower section made up from bed side panels, provided the angles of the windows can be replicated in the doors.
If the angles are funky, I'll use the roof and D pillar sections, rear doors, and make up blank sides. Custom windows would be needed, and then I could make them any angle needed to match the existing angles.
I do like the idea of lower barn doors and upper gate, but I'm not sure about fabbing up something like that. I'd probably end up using Excursion pieces, provided the width and height were close enough to work with. I do like the thought of not having a giant line up the rear view.
On edit: The Excursion has too much of an angle to the sides, I'll need something with more vertical sides.
Yea I thought you were talking about the older suburban body style. The problem is no matter what you do to the suburban roof and rear doors. They are still going to look like suburban parts. I just don't think it would look right.
I've been thinking about this a little. The 67-72 Fords have a lot of cool character/body lines on the back of the cab. So if you graft the rear roof clip from something else onto it, it's going to look strange. It's going to look like a 67-72 with a different roof welded on the back. To make it look right is going to take a
lot of metal work.
I think you might want to consider picking up another 67-72 Ford truck cab. Then cut the upper section of the rear wall off ( circled in the red in the pic ) . I'd use this for the rear piece of the truck roof. I would slant cut the bottom of it so it leans in some. Doing this will give it a better look then just a square straight up and down rear wall. You might have to do some modifying to the top of it to flow into the roof line once you lean it in some though. You'll have to fill in between the new rear wall and the back of your cab. But that will allow you to get the right contours. Use the roof skin from the suburban or a van or wagon ( some thing with the strengthening ribs ) . It's all about the details/contours. The roof edge on the 67-72's are nice and curved. While at the bottom of the roof, top of the box sides, would have the section that angles in ( marked in blue in the pic ) .
For the rear hatch and doors you'd need to make the inner structure of them from either your suburban doors or some rear van doors. Ford the rear hatch just use the rear wall and window from the 67-72 cab. then add the inner structure from the doors. For the rear doors use a 67-72 tailgate.
Just cut it in half and add the door inner structure to them.
It would be a wicked project but man that's a crap load of metal work!!
Good luck.
