This is ny brothers 1952 Studebaker Truck. He bought the truck several years ago and just never did anything with it. UNTIL NOW. We sectioned the body down 6" Chopped the top 5" and put it on a 1986 Dodge d-50 frame that already had a 318 planted on it. We are just getting started and we have a long way to go but it is coming together. I was told not to use the term R@$ Rod so lets just say Rust will be the color of choice on this project when it is completed..........
I like stuff low, I just wonder if this is the ride height you plan to keep it at, will it have enough suspension travel? Especially with the current tire height, which I hope you are replacing. I suppose with a decent sized tire on it you'd have OK clearance and still be drivable. I'd like to see more as it progresses. Since you have an extra cab, I would suggest cutting the rear half of the spare cab roof off, and using it on this cab, you could save yourself a horizontal welding seam that way, and I'd cut the rear window section out in one piece and replace it after the roof is cut, that way you can use stock sized rear window gl***/rubber/trim. Just a thought.
i can dig it,....it looks like mini trucker stuff but as long as you are doing stuff with old steel good on ya. maybe once you get a little further along it might motivate you to at least shoot it in some single stage. and i kinda like the chubby look.
Thanks for the novel Squablow now I have to write one to respond.... As far as the where the cab sits it was literally just set on the frame. no modifications have been made to the cab or the MINI TRUCK frame it sits on. Our solution will be to lower the floor since the truck came factory channelled or body dropped and that will raise the cab up and give more head room at the same time. As far as the tires go that is just what was on the truck that the frame came out from under. Those wheels and tires are shot from 15 years of sitting. Good suggestion about the extra cab but though they are both studebakers that is where the similarity ends. Everything on tose two cabs where different. Two totally diferent trucks . and to ad to our frustration the other cab is so eat up with cancer we were barely able to use it for spare sheetmetal. as far as the back gl*** goes we did cut it out in one peice with no horizantal cut if you look at the pics you'll see but we did have to make a vertical cut because as the top came down it got wider........ Thanks for your suggestions though!!!!! STAY TUNED JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE NOVEL
The only real change in Stude cabs from '49 to '61 is they go to a one-piece windshield in '55 or '56. Your nose is older than '56, but that stuff all interchanges. I don't know why the other cab top wouldn't work for you.
#1 The windsheild on the 56, the one we are working on, is a flat 2 piece windsheild. the windsheild on the other, I am not sure what year it is, is flat but it s a one peice. it is curved right in the middle. #2 the 56 has a break in the middle of the cab at the top of the windsheild it comes to a point like a body line ( look at the pics) The other cab did not have this it was just rounded all the way around #3 the back gl***es on the trucks are 2 different sizes the 56 being smaller and flat and the other is larger and rounded. Even the way the back gl*** indented into the cab was different. Another difference which has no relevance was on the 56 the headlights actually mount in the fenders on the other cab the grille goes over the fenders and the headlightes mount in the grille You say the front of the truck is older then the whole truck is older. It has no identification or anything. I don't know it could be older. What year do you think it is? You are going to have me researching now...
this is gonna be cool! as long as your saving this old stude, it's fine with me. we need more studes!!!
CORRECTION ........ It is in fact a 1952 2-R Series.....The other cab is either a 3-R series or a later model 2-R Good to know ..... Don't want to look like a complete idiot ....don't even know the year of the truck I a m working on!
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