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heres a few pictures of the latest progression my '69

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more pics

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nice..... something has been done to your inner fenders, but what? how much of a chop did ya go? looks real good so far. what engine are ya planning to go with?

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Some serious work done in those pics! Nice job. Keep 'em coming!

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he has done lots more than the pics show! Grafted on a new top fixed hacked up rockers, and firewall, z'd the frame swapped to 85 running gear and brakes he hasn't been working on this truck long at all for the amout of progress! He is putting in a wide motor!

Hope you didn't mind me filling in some blanks Mike!

Kevin

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is the trailing arm crossmember flipped like i think it is?

looks awsome! i actuly didin't realize the the frame was Z'ed at first. nice work.

ondrew

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yup!

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Very nice work!!

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:phat: What kind of panard bar set-up is that? :fb:

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What does flipping the crossmember like that do? I have never heard of doing that. Very nice progress so far keep us posted..

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nice

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might be a stupid question but when you z the frame like that what do you do with the trans x member? wouldnt that make for some strange angles?

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I think he made a newcrossmember and raised it up!

I think flipping the xmember allows for more ground clearance!

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maybe this will answer a few questions,the reason this truck is so heavily modified, the only thing left of the original truck once i got ride of the rotten body and the worn out and hacked up suspension, all i had left was frame so i decided to build a custom truck. the two cabs i used came from djracer and the rest from from '69 long stepside(have great set of stepside fenders and useable tailgate left over)and the complete suspension from '85.for the questions, the inner fenders were trimmed to clear the 3" z'd frame, the trailing x-member was flipped to less'in the angle of the axle end of the trailing arm with the 6" drop in the rear, not nessicary but looks better to me. worked out fine just had to redrill a few holes.also added 4" rings to run exaust trough.the panard bar came in a kit from early classic enterprice,awsome stuff. as far as the engine it is a hot little 396 backed by th400 with 2800 stall rear gears 411. i had to custom build motor mounts to lower engine almost 2"and fabbed trans mount to raise trans 1.5" ,the motor and trans has been in the truck fits great. with all the changes, i am mocking every thing up to make sure there are no problems later. comments and sugestions welcome. i'll post more pics with more progress. thanks.

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How tough was the 4" holes? I assume it was done while you had the cross member out of the truck?

I am quasi thinking of doing the same thing.

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it was done with x-member out, just cutt some 1/2" wide pieces of 4" pipe ,took the plazma cut the holes ,test the pieces , bolted x-member back in , tacked the pipe in , removed x-member and welded up. could be done in the truck i guess.

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Kick a$$ work my friend!

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Tight!

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What are you going to do for carpet to cover the new trans tunnel ?

Your truck reminds me of what mine looked like 3 years ago. Same yellow and I even found a green rust free door too.

Nice work.

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Nice progress

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all he'll need is high hump carpet!

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it's gonna have custom center console to cover any problems there.

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Mike got any pics of the speaker box you did for the other truck? It was too sweet!

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wow....nice progress

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ok kevin, here are some pictures of the speaker box in my red 86.