Converting 4 door to pickup
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 8:55 pm
has a body converted a 4 door into a pickup and if so any advice?
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Re: Converting 4 door to pickup
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 9:40 pm
Sorry meant to say has anybody converted a 4 door saloon to pickup?
Re: Converting 4 door to pickup
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 11:12 pm
Minor commercials have a separate chassis, whereas a saloon is monocoque.
Therefore you're in fairly deep water.
There's 2 ways to change a saloon - either by using the commercial's chassis or by making something from scratch.
The front end of a 4 door saloon can be used as a donor to make a pickup or van cab but it's a fair bit of work.
By the time you've got hold of a good chassis and converted the saloon shell into a cab and then had to sort out the load bay & sides etc.. you'd be better off starting with a commercial in the first place.
Therefore you're in fairly deep water.
There's 2 ways to change a saloon - either by using the commercial's chassis or by making something from scratch.
The front end of a 4 door saloon can be used as a donor to make a pickup or van cab but it's a fair bit of work.
By the time you've got hold of a good chassis and converted the saloon shell into a cab and then had to sort out the load bay & sides etc.. you'd be better off starting with a commercial in the first place.
Re: Converting 4 door to pickup
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:12 pm
Best to convert a Pickup into a 4 door not the other way round!!!
Re: Converting 4 door to pickup
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 11:07 am
That 4 door pick up would have looked quiet odd back in the day but with all the doube cab pick ups you see today it really does look good.iwsmithy wrote:Best to convert a Pickup into a 4 door not the other way round!!!
Re: Converting 4 door to pickup
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:41 pm
I gave this idea a lot of thought before embarking on my van restoration (although using a 2 DOOR cockpit). I just need more leg room for longer journeys.
Seems perfectly doable as long as you get the chassis lengthened in the right place which I assume to be behind the rear torsion bar mounts? Another thing to consider is fabricating the the rear of cab flange to adjoin the van body I ended up "just" doing a (currently stalled) resto, but I do have the original van chassis + a complete 2 door saloon so If I live long enough
it may come to fruition!
Several have been done which look super.
Seems perfectly doable as long as you get the chassis lengthened in the right place which I assume to be behind the rear torsion bar mounts? Another thing to consider is fabricating the the rear of cab flange to adjoin the van body I ended up "just" doing a (currently stalled) resto, but I do have the original van chassis + a complete 2 door saloon so If I live long enough
it may come to fruition!Several have been done which look super.