48-54 Chevy is my favorite truck bodystyle and I want a repop plasti-cab so it won't ever rust. The plan is to mount the early type cab to an S10 chassis and rock it year-round. I know I've seen the cabs advertised somewhere. Anybody know who makes them?
^We don't do that here. 
^Fixed. I has a sorry.
Find an Old Navy that hasn't been remodeled yet.
RealMiniDriver wrote: US Body
That company used to be located near Gainesville. I looked into purchasing it ~2 years ago, but couldn't make the numbers work. It was eventually sold and relocated. Not sure exactly where it ended up, but I think it's still somewhere in Fla.
You say you want fiberglass now but wait until you try to make it work.
We built a 'glass '34 Ford three years ago and it was a godawful job (Bear fiberglass body).
NOTHING fit that body properly, not the doors, not the hood, nothing. Even the windshield frame wasn't straight.
You're far better off with a steel body.
We're never going to do another 'glass car again. By the time you're done spending all the money making a fiberglass body fit together properly and look less bad, you could've had a good steel body.
Trans_Maro wrote: You say you want fiberglass now but wait until you try to make it work. We built a 'glass '34 Ford three years ago and it was a godawful job (Bear fiberglass body). NOTHING fit that body properly, not the doors, not the hood, nothing. Even the windshield frame wasn't straight. You're far better off with a steel body. We're never going to do another 'glass car again. By the time you're done spending all the money making a fiberglass body fit together properly and look less bad, you could've had a good steel body.
This is the same story I heard several times over at the Syracuse Nationals last august. The worst offender was Superior. I just hope It isn't too bad if I eventually get to build a speedway T kit.
The speedway T kit is just a tub, you're not worried about it being perfect, just a sunny day toy.
A closed car like a 34 Ford or Chevy pickup should have provisions for simple things like door seals and window regulators but apparently, you don't actually need those things.
Shawn
I suppose I could find a real steel cab from some big old flatbed farm truck somewhere, then get regular light duty fenders for it. I was looking for fiberglass because being able to use it year-round here in the northeast without fear of rust would be cool
Have a steel cab galvanized? Has worked well for the Swedes for decades. I got a quote once to get a ~5 yard dumpster style container galvanized, I don't remember the exact figure, but remember being surprised that it was much cheaper than I was expecting.
Or a high quality epoxy paint maybe.
dyintorace wrote:RealMiniDriver wrote: US BodyThat company used to be located near Gainesville. I looked into purchasing it ~2 years ago, but couldn't make the numbers work. It was eventually sold and relocated. Not sure exactly where it ended up, but I think it's still somewhere in Fla.
Yep.
Still sad.
I understand that finding a good steel piece to begin with would be difficult, but when you get to the point of doing the amount of money+work a fiberglass body would take, that seems to me like the same amount it would take to get a metal body pretty well weatherproofed. But, i definitely understand the 'just not worrying about it' appeal of a fiberglass body... once it actually fits and is put together.
phase uno - buy an S10
phase dos - buy another s10
phase tres - buy a 47-54 truck
phase D - drive one s10 in the winter, build old truck on other s10, store old truck in bad weather and keep s10 to drive in nasty stuff.
M030 wrote: I suppose I could find a real steel cab from some big old flatbed farm truck somewhere, then get regular light duty fenders for it. I was looking for fiberglass because being able to use it year-round here in the northeast without fear of rust would be cool
keep it clean and it won't rust.
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wait.
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you can keep stuff clean and it's still going to rot. salt gets everywhere. stuff rots from the inside out here.
i live in MN, where they invented and perfected the use of road salt..
even here, stuff stays nice if it's kept clean- running thru the automatic car wash every few weeks isn't "kept clean", you gotta use the coin operated car wash with the pressure washer to really get up in there and clear out all the crap that's plugging the various drain holes a few times a year..
and a little rust on a 48 Chevy pickup cab isn't a bad thing- it's just "patina"..
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