Hot Rods Model A pick up from a 2 door sedan??

I have seen guys make a stretched cab useing a 4 door sedan like the one in the picture, but what about a 2 door sedan?? The 2 door would have more depth to the stretch if I am not mistaken.

Has anyone seen one in person? Does anyone have any pictures??

Thoughts on the subject??

 

i'm taking an old 2 door sedan to pickup conversion and replacing the back with a proper closed cab pickup back, the conversion was done back in the 40's and was pretty rough.

 

what did it look like?? You must have pictures of it right?

Crudeness aside, how did it look?

 

I have an old 4 door converted in the 40s as well (to get extra gas rations). I plan to reuse the cowl and doors, but make a roadster pickup out of it. This conversion was very rough as well.

 

Sounds like it has been done many times, I have just never seen one and that's what I am after.

 

I dont think it looks right with the big ol gap between the pickup bed and the bottom of the cab.

 

i dont have pics of it before i pulled the back off, its a job i'm doing for someone else, the back had been moved up so they could install a stock model-a box in its stock location, so the cab was no longer then a stock cab, backly they moved the back up and cut and hammered and welded the corners into shape, the center section was untouched and we sold that, the corners were just a mess and there on there way to china by now. the owner did show me pics of the truck when he bought it.

 

heres my modified/rpu that i made from a tudor that some one hacked the roof off and took the doors

 

Agreed, but that could be fixed with some tweaking to the front of the bed.

 

model-t roadster pickups have the bed curved forwards.

 

heres a couple pic of what i'm doing.

 

Here's a pic of my PU that was a Tudor shortened long ago. I don't know if it was originally shortened during the depression, but the car was a Hot Rod at least in the late 60's. I personally would never shorten up a sedan to make a PU. But since this one was already done, and had some cool old paint on it, I decided to build it.

 

alot of those old pick-up conversions are rough cause they were normally done by a farmer that needed a truck during the war. "Montana Trucks" as some people call them i think.. I like them alot.. they harken back to a time when ingenuity of the common man was what was needed to survive..

 

Posies did it a few years ago. It was a Rod & Custom cover car. It just blew my mind. The only thing that could make it better is a longer nose with an inline engine, like a Packard straight-8.

http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/build/05thunderroad/index.php

 

The way the bed was done on this one is real cool. Also like the 60's vibe

 

That's funny. My PU actually did come from Montana.

 

does that mean i'm right? holy*****.. brb.. i'm marking my calender .. Seriously though that's just what i've always heard them called..

 

That is exacly what I am talking about! Any more out there?

 

That's a sweet lookin' truck... I've got '29 Pontiac 2 door sedan that I want to do something similar to...But my ideas on that ol' gal change every 10 seconds..

 

When I was a kid in the 50's there were a number of that type of conversion still running around this area. Most of them had homemade flatbeds on them and it's taken me this long to figure out why they did it. I just figured it was the local farmers method of having a cheap pickup.

 

i think jim sibley made one....

 

.....here it is http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=174499

 

Thanks for finding that picture. That is exactly what I was hoping to see. looks like it adds a ton of room, and still has some cool style!

 

Heres GMC BUBBA's "REAL STEEL"...