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so i was a little bored, and was playing around on Photoshop 7. heres what came of my ideas, i didnt have a pic of the truck now with the bigger tires and lift, maybe later, but heres what i was thinking. i want to find a bronco frame, and put my ex can on it, and graft the ben into it to creat a bronco lengthed excab and bed. then do an exo cage on it.....most likely not the exo cage, but i love those things. if at all possible i want to find a wrecked super duty and grab the axes from it and put them under there....leaf springs of course. that way i can go bigger later. of course right now i would just swap everything over to the bronco frame, and chop the truck to look like that. what you all think, ill post a better on later, but i have to get a pic of the truck now first.
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actually i was thinkingi would just cut the cab right under that indent that runs along the truck, about 6 " back from the door jamb.then cut the bed to match leaving the fenders, and inner fender from the bed, and then cut the back of the cab to match the inner fender on the bed.......if i did it just right everything would just line up, and then i could weld it together all nice, and bondo the **** out of it hahaha.
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From: Oregon-Take me wheeling..
Originally posted by Ryan50hrl
why not just buy a bronco...and take the top off.....
why not just buy a bronco...and take the top off.....
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lol....i can just see body problems trying to graft the cab and box together.....plus later broncos are a dime a dozen.
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Bad Artwork!
Unlike IdiomaticMan I cannot draw, do not have photoshop, but I made a basic "pbrush*****" attempt to illustration what I'd like, someday.
Before you all laugh...
the front half is essentially a crewcab... with a bronco back half welded on, so the fiberglass roof section is complete, and removable. The wheel wells of the bronco back half would have to be welded and contoured with the rest of the lines of the truck, and the tailgate left intact, even though it will never open or close unless the bed is removed. This way one can remove the bed, open the tailgate, to service the power window motor and the mechanism
Of course the bed is just the standard 8' bed.
In leu of this concept, I'd settle for a way of fabricating the bronco's power window mechanism into my F350 crewcab. I'm not liking power sliders for whatever reason, but I think a fully powered slide down window would be cool. The picture really isn't to scale, the back section of the bronco is what, 6' long or thereabouts? Not 9' as my picture makes it look.
Anyway, thank you for suffering "bad art".
Before you all laugh...
the front half is essentially a crewcab... with a bronco back half welded on, so the fiberglass roof section is complete, and removable. The wheel wells of the bronco back half would have to be welded and contoured with the rest of the lines of the truck, and the tailgate left intact, even though it will never open or close unless the bed is removed. This way one can remove the bed, open the tailgate, to service the power window motor and the mechanism
Of course the bed is just the standard 8' bed.
In leu of this concept, I'd settle for a way of fabricating the bronco's power window mechanism into my F350 crewcab. I'm not liking power sliders for whatever reason, but I think a fully powered slide down window would be cool. The picture really isn't to scale, the back section of the bronco is what, 6' long or thereabouts? Not 9' as my picture makes it look.
Anyway, thank you for suffering "bad art".
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I'd give a dollar to watch you try and park that thing.
Anything that long is going to need some MAJOR frame reinforcement. Also, if you ever did it that sucka would have to be a 6x6 or it just wouldn't look right. What am I saying, even as a 6x6 it wouldn't look right. Add a hot tub in the back and you're good to go.
I've only ever seen a few chops that I like which include the Supercab/Bronco combo, the big orange one but I can't think of the guy's name for the life of me. I also liked the 6 door 70's Ford that was on Ebay a while back, in pieces but would have been awesome finished.
Anything that long is going to need some MAJOR frame reinforcement. Also, if you ever did it that sucka would have to be a 6x6 or it just wouldn't look right. What am I saying, even as a 6x6 it wouldn't look right. Add a hot tub in the back and you're good to go.I've only ever seen a few chops that I like which include the Supercab/Bronco combo, the big orange one but I can't think of the guy's name for the life of me. I also liked the 6 door 70's Ford that was on Ebay a while back, in pieces but would have been awesome finished.
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I actually extended my 81 crewcab by about six feet, as described in this thread: Extending Truck Frames, but I put a 6' wide steel cabinet there for large tools on one side, and drawers behind a cabinet door on the other side. At the time I *wanted* to do the bronco back half conversion, but at the time i couldnt find a decent enough bronco to cut up, that was cheap enough. The 81 had the older body style, so had to go with the older bronco style, but to no avail.
It didn't look half bad either... with the 48" tires on it. Though access to the cabinet/drawers in the middle was really inconvienence.
But when you're in your early 20's, 48" tires and a frame extension seem really "cool". Now that I'm much older, I'm a little more practical. My 93 crewcab will never be lifted. Just overpowered and surrounded in nice electronics Gallery. So far, got the overhead console in, and it looks like this weekend I'll have the digital cluster in. Engine run stand almost done, so when the 500cid gets here, I can put it on the run stand, break it in, and start fabricating turbo manifolds.
It didn't look half bad either... with the 48" tires on it. Though access to the cabinet/drawers in the middle was really inconvienence.
But when you're in your early 20's, 48" tires and a frame extension seem really "cool". Now that I'm much older, I'm a little more practical. My 93 crewcab will never be lifted. Just overpowered and surrounded in nice electronics
Gallery. So far, got the overhead console in, and it looks like this weekend I'll have the digital cluster in. Engine run stand almost done, so when the 500cid gets here, I can put it on the run stand, break it in, and start fabricating turbo manifolds.
