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Any chance you could put some more detailed pictures of the hood hinge mechanism? I'm going to have to do something for my truck since I lost my inner wheelwells.

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Very interesting thread Lowride. Credit to you for taking on such a project in NZ where parts are harder to source, similar to the UK I guess. Phil.;)

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thanx guys I'll take some pics tonight while in up pluming the bags on the sub.The suicide doors I bought a kit with hinges and latchs.My biggest issue now is getting rims to fit I tried some 20x8.5 with 5.5 backspace but they don't clear the outer fender

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here's a couple pics not the greatest

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can you say one piece windows ha ha just got my glass back from the glazier:metal:

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what else has been done to the front to get it that low? you running dropped spindles too?
I'm looking at either dumping my burb into a 2wd or picking up a 64 c-10.

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That's a cool hood set up. Did you design it yourself?

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love the suicide doors man, hoods pretty sic to, you do some pretty *****in work man, i look forward to seeing more of it

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I like how its coming along! Man...all the cool thingies wrapped up into one!

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thanx heaps guys your comments keep me going. I can't take all the glory tho my mate and i do all the work on this old girl our selves as for the hood it was an idea we had kicking around for our other trucks and it seems we tend to try everything out on the 65 first. we got the basic idea from grunions 63 another site member here. anyway just got my new rims today and they work very well there 20x9 with 6 1/2 backspace what do you guys think???

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yeh front has 2 1/2''z and 2 1/2'' drop spindles

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Those rims are nice !!! :cool:

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L0wride, you have an amazing truck. Very nice. How do work you latches on your door now? Do you just have door poppers and a remote? How difficult was the install of the suicide hinges and latches? I know that on certain vehicles they can go a little more smoothly than on other. For the reason of door weight and hinge placements and what not. I wanna do it, especially for the cool factor you get out of a relatively cheap modification. But I don't want to get in over my head.

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Those wheels are gonna look sic on there :metal:

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Thanx for your compliment at the moment haven't had time to work on the old girl for awhile so we haven't finished the latches as for the hinges the only problem we had was we had to bolt the top hinge in so if i ever needed to replace the hinge bushes i could get to it. :metal:

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thanx mike hey was edmiller much help??that 69 Tahoe of yours is looking way cool:metal: :metal: :metal:

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No response :(

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I LOOOOVVVE that hood. I wish I had the fab skills to do a hood setup similar to that.

Awesome truck.

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wow this guy is hands on i wish i hand the know how and talent to do all this i can't even get the picture of my burb posted in another place other than my profile ol' chevys rule i have a 72 burban bagged, body dropped on 22's & 20's narrowed front end front tilt hood reversed rear seat LOVE IT JUST CRUZIN A INCH OF THE GROUND AND PEOPLE LOOK DUMBFOUNDED IT'S GREAT KEEP CUTN AND TORCHN DAVE

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show some pics !!!!!!
do u leave here in sandiego?
el cajon city?

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yes in san diego go to the el cajon and la mesa shows all the time STILL trying to figure the picture loading thing only place it is is in my profile page

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if you need help posting pics try www.photobucket.com very easy to use and then its just copy and paste right to the thread your posting on.
badazz trucks by the way:cool:

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VERY nice truck build up, cant wait to start up on mine!!

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Looking good man in the NZ

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Thanx for your compliments guys:metal: about 4 weeks till we start work on the old girl agian so I'll keep you guys updated:metal: :metal: