need some project parts- Hot Rod Flatbed

jose bagge · Oct 16, 2011

I've got a 96 Tioga motorhome that is mechanically strong (460 ford), but the last two winters have beaten the roof right out of it. I'm thinking that I'd like to build a Hotrod flat bed out of it- OLd late 30s-early 40's 1 ton body up front, maybe even an early cab over. Questions: anyone seen any body work like that? There'none out here in Virgina that I can find. 2. ANyone have experience cutting an RV body off the chassis? I plan on attacking it with the sawzall, with the burn pile near by.
3. ANyone need any RV parts ( wate, waste, heat, ac, electrical load center?)
Final Question: anyone have pictures of one they've done before, or seen?

TomH in PA · Oct 16, 2011

How about something like a '40 Ford Cab Over
1940 Ford

Jim in N.M. · Oct 16, 2011

Isn't that the same truck that the guy "Barry" on "Storage wars" drives ?? Jim N M

Don Hopf · Oct 16, 2011

I also seen it on Storage Wars.

Don't know if Barry was driving it or the COE was driving by and the camera person film it and the they put in it the show.

TomH in PA · Oct 16, 2011

Click the "View Related Article" under the picture, it says that Barry did own the truck for a while. He probably borrows it to drive on the show.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 16, 2011

I have seen it done several times. Lots of bracket builbing to mount body but not real bad. Cabs used to be common out west in the Dakotas and Montana- Wyoming area.

jose bagge · Oct 16, 2011

That cab style would be cool, and probably wok well with the e-350 van gear up front. I'd go with Tractor style headlights in to front, and a flat bed over dual wheels in the back. Any idea where i might find a cab like that?

504 · Oct 16, 2011

But a Hemming s magazine at Wally world.

ShadetreeRet · Oct 16, 2011

Several years ago I had to carry the company truck I was driving to a garage for some work. The elderly gentleman that owned the place had a rollback, (I don't know what year chassis), with a 'vete engine and a Chevy COE cab from about 1946. He used it to transport his restored early Chevy. pick up to shows.

Jeff NWOH · Oct 16, 2011

Saw this one down in Biloxi a week ago. Not sure of the drivetrain, but I thought it would be a good candidate for a Cummins.

fixerupper · Oct 16, 2011

I've got an old COE Dodge sitting in the barn. Heavy duty old thing that I plan to put a flatbed on to haul old stuff to the show with. I've overhauled the 251 flathead but it's not back in the frame yet. There's LOTS to do before it goes back on the road. Jim

Case Nutty 1660 · Oct 16, 2011

neat never seen a Doge one I live in Wyoming will be looking for one now!! cnt

John Harmon · Oct 16, 2011

Here"s one I admire very much.Seems it was posted in Tractor Talk once not too long ago.I was an owner operator for Aetna Freight lines hauling flat bed LTL around the Great lakes area back in the late 1960"s and had two Macks leased to them,a B61 and a B75 ,both had Shipshewana 40" sleepers and pulled 40' Transcraft Trailers.The B75 just barely made the 55" length limit.They both were good Trucks.

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