A truck this time...I need to stay off craigslist. Frame and cab are fairly solid, doors are straight but will need work on the bottoms. It has a later banjo and torque tube, hydraulic brakes all around, but some series cobbling done here and there. steering arms and the like are homemade and scary. The flatty is in unknown condition, I'll look it over better when I bring it to my shop this evening. It will be a while before I can fool with it due to other projects, but It'll take a while to gather parts anyway. It has what appears to be a model A bed, so I need to start looking for a bed, or maybe make one. Unfortunately he sold all the fenders earlier, maybe I'll run across some, or go fenderless for a while...a moderate chop, dropped axle and retaining the flathead are as far as I've thought so far. sorry for the pic, but you can see the bed is wrong, and the rear axle is too far back.
Looks like a good start to a new project. Nothing there that can't be corrected/changed. Keep us posted. Tim
There's no need to ditch the model a bed unless your a stickler, they're more petite. What's it's condition? Word on the street is that I'm running a model T bed on my 32, albeit heavily modified. The boys keep tellin me use what you got. Good luck. "Listen Mr... It ain't broke if I can't fix it"
thanks guys, and yes the frame is cut behind the kickup, basically the rear frame horns were cut off, and the rear crossmember and banjo were moved to the very back, I guess someone stuck a later banjo under there with the longer torque tube. I haven't had a chance to really look at the rear axle and spring to i.d. it. I do like the look of the bed, and other than the tailgate it's not terrible, but too narrow to fit over the frame rails as is....I may look into making it fit... first job will be fixing the cobble chassis, i.e. getting the rear end back where it belongs. I found some good threads on cutting down the torque tube, or maybe i'll run a later open banjo or early bronco 9"
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