Anyone built a extended cab Model A pickup from a sedan?

I picked up the front of a tudor and the rear of a fordor on saturday. I had an idea to make an ext cab truck. Anyone done this? What did you use to fill in the wheel wells. I dont have many fancy tools. mig welder and hammer and dolly. I was thinking of useing the curves from rear of a van or something similar. Anyone have pictures of custom built Model A ext cabs? I would like to get some ideas. I think it should go straight down at the rear instead of curving like the sedan does. Im not sure if this was a score or a brain fart. The doors are very ruff. I pounded some of the dents(cave ins) out of the p***. I dont think they could ever be perfect or even nice, same with the windshield. I had to give $100 for what you see. I did not think it was too bad

 

go for it! I have collected the same pieces. I use panels cut out of donor cars for patch panels.

 

If it were me I'd keep the curve at the bottom back of the cab, with a little filler panel like a T rpu has.

 

Search for Kustombuilders FnA project.

It what you are looking for.

 

buildin me one outta a coupe! its looking pretty good. i found this coupe body that had been cut off at the back gl*** an a wooden body built to make it a truck. if you need any front fenders check out my ad.

 

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Nosy, me? Noup..... Here you are!

And another thread.

The third one.

 

How about this one?

 

Willowbilly, is that your truck? I saw that at Greenfield this year. You must get around.

 

I had the same idea only a roadster pick up which may now just end up being a modified. Or I might get sick of all the labour it has turned into and just chuck it out behind the shed and start over.

 

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No it belongs to some guy from Missouri and I think he does get around in it.

 

This is a pic of a friend bakc in Perth's A pickup. It was made from an A 5 window that had the trunk lid removed and a pickup bed attached giving a 5 window pickup !! Can't see too much from the pic though...

Paul

 

Another pic of Trev's pickup...

 

Cool pics.What do you guys do with the extra room back there?

 

I really, REALLY don't like that.

But what do I know...

 

I agree. Some of them look ok, but most of them don't. I like the shortened sedan look much more.

 

Ok, i know this is an old *** post, but im wondering if the 28 briggs cowl section will work on a model a coupe body???any one???

 

Fellow Lifters c.c. member truck. Was a 4 door sedan originally.

 

I say there is your blueprint. That looks bithchin.

 

that looks awesome!!! did you just section out the middle? or was there more to it than that?

 

Posie's did one called Thunder Road.

http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/featuredvehicles/135_0412_1929_ford_model_a_pickup/photo_01.html

 

Basically, cut out the rear doors, slid the rear section forward, filled the lower rocker section, where the rear fenders were on the body. It was featured in the December 2007 edition of Car Kulture DeLuxe and appears in a few hot rod movies and DVD's.

 

thanks alot, ill get that back issue.

 

I have to think you might get a better answer if you posted a new thread instead of burying this in the bottom of a thread from freaking 2004.

That said, I don't know why it wouldn't work, the bodies are about the same width from the front hinge post on back. You may have to play around to line up the door hinges. I have some A sedan doors I went to hang on a pickup (all 30-31) and the hinges are about an inch higher on the sedan doors, which moves them down and would make a gap above the door.

 

The build the Kustombuilder was doing in now in my garage. Dirty Sanchez,Is there ANY pics of the build of that car.? The reason I bought that car from Kustombuilder..( aka.Mike Brimm.) was to build something close as hell to Mikes Car from the Lifters.I fell in LOVE with that truck that they built.I am having some issues though.When Mike cut the sedan up he wanted to stretch the doors 2 inches because he didnt bring the body up close enough to just put the doors on it,but I am bringing it closer.I really dont want to try and cut a 2 inch section out of a doors and then re-weld it all together.He wanted the doors to fit flush.I am told the Model A doors DONT fit flush in the door opening because of the hniges.Is there a fix for bringing them doors in closer.? Anybody have an easy answer to this.?

 

low on gas:sorry, i got a question, not a solution-how wide are those rear windows? im building a similar truck from a Briggs. but i took the rear doors, shortened them up, and used the back cap from a pickup-or so the plan goes. but i dont know how wide the rear windows should be, and i only want to cut once-know what i mean. like i said before though-sorry i dont have an answer for you-at least not yet.

 

Dude weld them together and cut the lips around the wells out and make a cardboard patteren and flat sheet metal thos in to make it flow together. It will look sweet! Just my 2 cents

 

I agree, thats what makes the T look so good.

 

That's pretty much what I did, but instead of a 1 piece filler, I used several to get the curve right.

 

Here is Jim "Bubba" Linder's version with bodywork by Hammer Art on Gasoline Alley in Speedway, Indiana.

Roo