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Oct 2, 2020 | 08:27 AM

Paul Duffy

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Flattened Excursion

Hello, I am new to the group. I run the shop for a landscape/nursery operation. Work on a little bit of everything. Plow trucks to skid steers, A few class 8 trucks. Anyway,I just picked up a good running Excursion V10 4x4 that was flattened by a tree. I cut the top off so I could drive it around a little to check it out. My question is does anyone know if a pick up cab would fit. I measured the cab mounts on one of our 99 F250 Extended cab at 71 inches and the excursion at 61 inches. I don't have a reg cab to measure. Being in Minnesota, there is no finding a excursion body that isn't rusted out. Just looking for Ideas or some advice. I only paid $600 for it, 179k on it, an elderly couple bought it new, passed it down to there son last year, and then a tree landed on it..

Oct 2, 2020 | 10:26 AM

David_h

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I don't know if a truck body will fit but if the doors/hood are Ok how about a convertible rig like this one from the Scotsdale auto auction via Hagarty?

Oct 2, 2020 | 10:47 AM

Mike1

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From What I have read and understand, the Excursion was built on the F250 platform, more than likely the Standard cab option anlong with some frame modifications, I'm almost certain you'll have to use a standard cab, you'll probably have to do modifications to where the cab mounts to the frame, location of the mounts themselves.

Oct 4, 2020 | 09:37 AM

super 6.8

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I bet if you look hard enough in the southern states you can find an Excursion with a nice body and non-working running gear for a swap.

Oct 4, 2020 | 04:31 PM

EDC8008

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California and Arizona as well as Nevada are other options.

Oct 10, 2020 | 07:25 AM

Jakerichards1

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David posted a terrific idea.

Post St a couple pics of what you have at the moment and some side shots.

This could be an opportunity to do a kind of Jeep/bronco like soft cap kind of thing.

If you are looking to put a body on it that is super time consuming.

Around western ny near me you can find a usable v10 ex for 5 and clean southern for 9k

another option is to look for a fiberglass truck cap that you could graft into the back.

I assume if you are in this truck at all you are looking to be on a budget so you need the creative thinking cap on.

Did it crunch the back doors and c pillar?

oh. One more option would be to find a junket near you and cut off the top of the truck like you just did.

These things rot from the bottom up not top down.

Body shops cut and weld weld in corners and sections of cars all the time. This is just bigger!!!!

Oct 10, 2020 | 02:52 PM

Mac Daddy

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Beds are cheap...tailgates are expensive.

I'd just fab up a flat bed with some 2x3 3/16 tube and 10g sheets.

And I like that Scottsdale truck idea...if this were my project it might knock me off the fence on buying a tube bender...Swag Off-road seems to have an affordable DYI kit.

-Mac