What is this cab? What could it become?

Does anyone know what this could be? I think it's part of a 30's Buick.
No numbers or ID tags. Just the details.

Any suggestions on where to go with it? I have a 55 Poncho motor I
could use but the firewall is beggin for an inline. Grille? Pickup Bed?
Chop? Stance? Suicide?

Dave

 

Ok, here's an idea. Cut the door-tops off and do it up as a roadster pickup. Hasta have a buirck straight 8 .....and a gennie Buick radiator shell [complete with emblem] and you get extra points for running old Buick wire wheels with the badged buick hubcaps. Tubular headers are a must as is a Hallock style windshield. A shorty model A or T pickup box with the F-O.R.D. script removed from the tailgate and the Buick logo rolled in or airbrushed on..
I'd go with a T-5 tranny behind that straight 8 using an available adapter....
In lieu of a Hallock windshield, a pair of monacle, fold down windshields [each with it's own wiper] would be wild!

 

I concure

 

Hey i'll buy that back piece... I really need it, mine is messed up... Please..

 

Sounds desperate I know, but who cares, I need it..

 

Here is my take: Don't chop it - look at the windshield frame. It's short enough as is. And then you get to keep that really neat header piece over the windshield.

Keep it a closed cab. Since you already have a nice back section, mate it to the doors. Then do hot rod flat roof as a standard pickup, add a bed in proportion to the cab. Engine of choice (Buick aluminum 215 V8 ?) - Any 20s or 30s Buick grill shell. No fenders - And you're done.
OR
My choice:
For something classier - Add a filler piece between the back of the doors and the back section to get some legroom. Do the roof as as a canvas or padded leather top. This would make it an elegant close-coupled victoria touring coupe. Add a touring trunk insead of a bed. Long hood to cover the straight-eight Buick, and full-fenders or extra-wide, cycle-fenders maybe pirated from a 1953 Indian Chief or any year Harley (both available repro). => Custom body, hot-rod heart.

In case you've never seen a close-coupled touring coupe, I have a pic of a Rolls Royce in that body-style to suggest proportions. I'm not suggesting a resto - keep it an elegant Buick rod.

 

I have a back piece like that. Mine is 34 Ford pickup. You want it?

 

Custom frame, deep channel, roadster the thing, short bed, straight eight or six flathead, suicide front, chopped windsheild, six carbs, need I say what exhaust, posi trac rear. Yeah, that sounds about right.

But its all up to you.

 

That could make a most bitchen roadster pickup... just make sure the front is lower than the back...

Sam.

 

make a sling shot with 2 buick straight 8 inlines side by side with 12 94's and zoomie exhaust. that would be one sick car i would shit my pants

 

Heres what i had in mind....


I hope you like???

 

Yea, that looks good. For something a little different chop it about 3" ,add around 6" between the doors and back panel for more leg room. Then make a cloth top like a model A cabrioliet (sp). I thought about doing a 28-29 A pickup like that but have more projects started now than I'll probably ever finish.

 

Thanks for the responses. Great Ideas.

I do wan't to keep the visor area although a chop is possible. A suicide front end and under cowl steering are also on the list. Any suggestions on type of frame. A, 32, custom?? What about a trunk like this?