So I have dreamed of having a truck like my dads for years as you can see below.
His thing was to take muscle cars of the 60's-70's and make muscle trucks. This one imitates eleanor from the original gone in 60 seconds... but then I went to college and the idea of driving a huge 4x4 with a gas guzzling 400m made it seem out of reach. So we had to do some rethinking. I got lucky because my dad works for a garage and last summer we landed a 4.6 2v police interceptor. We also got the transmission, computer out of it. So we thought well maybe that would help us with mpg ordeal. Then after some computer research we found a few people putting the front suspension out of crown vic in the old ford trucks. So we went down to the junkyard and purchased the whole front end out of a 2009 crown vic with 30k miles on it. After alot of fab work we got the new suspension to fit. We also picked up a 8.8 with 3.27s and a locker out of a police car to help us melt the rears off. Well we are at the mock up stage now and are hopefully going to have it ready by the end of august. Here are some pictures of my progress so far.
So this is what we started out with. We started out with a F250 highboy I bought for $20.00!!
And we happend to have a wrecked f100 frame
Here is a picture with the front suspension fabbed up. Thanks to my expert resident welder I got to do alot of fab myself and got to play with a plasma torch and both stick and mig welding.
I haven't got picture of the rear end yet but we actually had to put the rear axle above the leaf spring instead of under to make the rake not as bad. The crown vic front suspension lowers the front 5 inches. So this helped us to get the car more level. A later picture will show the final stance.
Here is a shot of the mod motor sitting in the frame.
Here is the full mock up with the box on. The wheels are temps.
Here's a video of my big truck before I pulled the cab off!
I'll keep posting as often as I can. Thanks for viewing!!
Check out my website in my signature to see my pictures!
His thing was to take muscle cars of the 60's-70's and make muscle trucks. This one imitates eleanor from the original gone in 60 seconds... but then I went to college and the idea of driving a huge 4x4 with a gas guzzling 400m made it seem out of reach. So we had to do some rethinking. I got lucky because my dad works for a garage and last summer we landed a 4.6 2v police interceptor. We also got the transmission, computer out of it. So we thought well maybe that would help us with mpg ordeal. Then after some computer research we found a few people putting the front suspension out of crown vic in the old ford trucks. So we went down to the junkyard and purchased the whole front end out of a 2009 crown vic with 30k miles on it. After alot of fab work we got the new suspension to fit. We also picked up a 8.8 with 3.27s and a locker out of a police car to help us melt the rears off. Well we are at the mock up stage now and are hopefully going to have it ready by the end of august. Here are some pictures of my progress so far.
So this is what we started out with. We started out with a F250 highboy I bought for $20.00!!
And we happend to have a wrecked f100 frame
Here is a picture with the front suspension fabbed up. Thanks to my expert resident welder I got to do alot of fab myself and got to play with a plasma torch and both stick and mig welding.
I haven't got picture of the rear end yet but we actually had to put the rear axle above the leaf spring instead of under to make the rake not as bad. The crown vic front suspension lowers the front 5 inches. So this helped us to get the car more level. A later picture will show the final stance.
Here is a shot of the mod motor sitting in the frame.
Here is the full mock up with the box on. The wheels are temps.
Here's a video of my big truck before I pulled the cab off!
I'll keep posting as often as I can. Thanks for viewing!!
Check out my website in my signature to see my pictures!
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