My suggestion?? Fix the bed, make the F2 nice, sell it, and buy an F1 to begin with. If you are patient, you can find a decent F1, that someone has started and lost interest in, with a lot of the serious work already done or in progress, pretty reasonable. Sure, anything CAN be done, but if your F2 is truly solid, it should fetch a fairly decent price, possibly putting you well on your way to an F1, without all the hassle - those parts can be more expensive than the whole truck! Plus, shortening the frame isn't just whacking off the back end - you need to take some out of the middle, for the bed to work.

Not trying to talk you out of the project, just food for thought...

edit - Oh yeah, you'd STILL have an F1 clone, and there's be one less old Ford on the road...

But, if you DO it, I'd be interested in all your F2 parts...

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R