Awesome as always...looks like you could do the swap in your sleep now... Can you post some detailed pics of how you mount the front sheetmetal to the frame? That's next on my list...I have to make a core support from scratch, I've gathered, and this weekend I picked up the starting point...some rubber bushings.
i will post more pictures this week. also have a project page with more pics on my web site www.koolkustom.com
Looking good brother. I'm 1/4 of the way into a chassis swap on my Hudson right now....your site has proven to lend some good inspiration.
For those of you thinking of this type of swap, let me graphically illustrate the differences in just the trunk area, between using the GM frame, VS. a Ford one, in my case, a 1988 Linclon Town Car, to say the fit is easier with the GM floorpan (if you know where to cut) is an understatement. For comparison, Lefturn's trunk area is pictured first, mine is second. Although I am trying to retain that deep Lincoln trunk, I also had to fab new rear wheelhouses from scratch based on boat-trailer fenders, as my originals were too far off to re-use. Lefturn re-used the original GM inner fenderwells with great success. I am also sectioning my rear floor to keep the deep trunk. Lefturn only had to shorten his. All in all, the GM floorpan/chassis swap seems to prove more straight-forward and less time consuming. If I had to do it again???? Lefturn is undoubtably "The Master" of these swaps...
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