Cool, it’s fun to drive. it really floats over the road, bar 4 inch lift with Kenworth wheels. it was a fleet truck and I put on that new takeoff 2020 bed I like the old style single cab it will pull a heavy gooseneck just fine
My 50 Dodge 4x4, a few months before it got totaled. The light yellow car roof you can barely see behind the cab is a 67 Dart with no drive train in it. I am 6'1" tall, when I stood on the running boards, the truck roof was still above my head, those tires are 235 75 15s. The truck is on an 80 Dodge 1/2 ton short bed 4x4 ch***is. These pictures of the underside are from before the last paint job. Though not pretty, the truck spent its life outside and was usually parked on a gr*** side yard when not being driven (it was my daily driver). The truck also plowed snow every winter. This is a picture of the driver side front cab mount. The top tube is 1/8" wall 2" x 2" square tubing. It is welded to the flat floor pan and goes across the entire width of the cab. There was a matching tube across the rear of the cab as well. The middle tube is 1/8" wall 2" x 3". The bottom tube is also 1/8" 2" x 2". The boxed frame mount is an open bottom 1/8" flat stock triangle. The top surface of it is nearly 2" above the frame. All 4 cab mounts are similar to this one. That flat floor is nearly 9" above the top of the frame! Here is the p***enger side front cab mount. The black piece you see above the frame is the top edge of the running board extension. For the record, the truck got killed in a head on crash at 30 mph. The frame was diamond shaped nearly 6" at the rear of the frame (p***enger side more rearward) and was buckled in several places between the front bumper and this crossmember you see in the picture. The cab mounts nor the frame brackets were damaged in any way, in fact, I could have reused the cab.
Too late now but....those shops with a frame puller/straightener can make a 'pretzeled frame' better than when left the factory! Worked magic on my "bumped" Mustang (they have no frame!) 6sally6
Would have been cheaper to just replace the 40 year old frame with another slightly newer one. The front axle was bent, the rear axle was bent, the cast iron transfer case was busted, and the condition of the motor was questionable (the dist was broken off the block and the front pulley was bent by the front crossmember). I did buy it back from the insurance after the crash, (the insurance company wrote me a check for $6K after the buy back) but decided it was time to move on. I sold the truck to a guy out west that needed parts. Pictures of pictures of the truck.
Thanks. It was a good truck that served me well for 12 years before the crash. Though it really was not the intention, I ended up building a second version that I put on the road in 2022 and painted in 2023. Until the new paint was on the truck and I saw pictures of it, it didn't even occur to me it was a slight revision of the earlier version. This too is a 4x4, but its a 49, and not nearly as far off the ground (I'm getting too old to climb up that high up, just to get into a truck). It too is my daily driver, including during the winter.