good frame?

In NZ the S10 is as rare as "rocking horse ****",
but we trip over old hilux's and L200 Mitsy's

The L200 makes a good frame swap down under, the beauty of Jap frame is they're good for 400,000 miles but the bodies are biodegradable

Here You can pick up a rotten one for $100 but add $500 for the diesel option.

I've been running a Mitsy 4D56 Diesel engine for 2 years now on Waste Engine Oil [ blended with 15% Gasoline ]
Thats where you get the economy with FREE FUEL

 

You can't walk through a junkyard around here without stepping in
rocking horse ****, I mean tripping over an s10.

 

If you can't afford to buy a daily driver, how can you afford to build one? I have $3,000 in my on the cheap built car. I could have found a decent daily driver for less.

My on the cheap built car has a modern frame (Dakota EFI V6 5 speed) that gets 20 mph, but it took 3 years to build, and it was not an "easy" build.

If your thinking an AD Chevy pickup, upgrade to disc brakes, add an efi V6, and a 5 speed ( buy a car or truck with a good drive train) and drive it. Would be the cheapest and fastest build, short of finding a running truck to tune up and drive.

Probably the best answer is to finish the Plymouth and drive it, I ***ume your 1/2 way there with it. Gene

 

If you cant afford to spend 2000 on one that runs you definately cant afford to build one so what are you smoking.

 

If there was a runing one around here for 2k I would

 

I just think the truck would lose alot of its cool old personality if you were to put a late model "metric" frame under it...
And it would be less valuable too...

 

Only thing left on the plymouth is the chop and paint. But I didn't really wanna have to drive it every day.....

 

Yup, a pile 'o work is an understatement, gotta be up on your fab skills.

Bob