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Keep watching. We're not done cutting yet.

Thanks Jeff

We're having fun now Rusty

Well short from the door to the back but the door will be lengthened 16"

I think that much power would scare me :lol:

25% is probably a good guess maybe less. 1/2 the quarter panel, 2/3 of the roof most of the doors the dash and the top half of the rear gate and maybe the hood.All the rest will be replaced.


Friday we got the front and back pushed back together. It looks very short in the picture but the door will get extended by 16" soon. We also got the shop cleaned up a little bit

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interesting so far... visually after you chop and section it ,it will appear a lot longer and lower.....

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btw... I was playing with your photo in "photochop"..... as the roof comes down, the upper section of the rear window, and the door frame get longer, so don't throw any of your scrap pieces away yet!**** some of that length could be remedied by leaning the rear post a little bit
when you do the doors if you have an extra set you could cut them both long , and then longer on the top to cut down on the welding and body work..

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INSANE!!! add another awesome unique build to the list that folks will be talking about for a very very long time. oh you converted a long bed into a shortbox, thats nice. bet you never converted a suburban into a coupe'!!! will that side window be a slider? i may have an extra lock...

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Funny how things move on at different pace for everyone.

Yours is suddenly a light year ahead.

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Damn that's cool. Can't wait to see more of it like as in a roller.

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Thanks for the photo chop. That helps to visualize some of the work ahead. Don't worry I'm not throwing anything away yet. I plan to chop the top and then make the doors to fit.

Thanks Pimpston. My build is inspired by the others I've read on here. I haven't decided on the window yet.

I find that this part of the build goes quite quickly. It's the small details that grinds progress to a near stand still.

I look forward to it as well but we have a little welding to do first

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Today I tried to buy some "Easy Grind" mig wire so we can start welding the body back together but I can't find any locally. I ordered some but it's a week until it arrives. So we decided to continue cutting. We put the rear inner wheel well up on the table. We laid out some cut lines to raise the wheel well 5 5/8" The fender lip has to be raised 2" so we made this cut too. The last pictures are all that is left of the original inner panel.

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We spent some time welding the inner panel back together and patching rust spots.

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whats that bump out with the 2 holes for? i dont think my burban has that...

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Part of the drivers side rear quarter panel that will be staying on the truck was badly dented. So I spent some time with the hammer and dolly trying to reshape it. Here's two photos at the start and two of the dent at the end of the day. More hammering tomorrow.

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Hey pimpston. That piece is just below the center divider between the side windows Its under the window trim. The two holes are for trim screws.

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Thanks Mark I'm learning as I go.


Just some patching on the wheel wells today.

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We finished patching the rust holes along the seam in the wheel well. Then we added a 2" strip to lower the wheel opening. The wheel opening actually ends up raised 1 5/8" on the quarter panel.

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Some rust to repair on the wheel opening edge of the inner wheel well. We started replacing the edge on the wheel opening of the quarter panel.

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since i already bought one vehicle from canada i got the customs thing down, so when all mods are done, you can ship it to me and i'll get that rust off for ya, by adding years of enjoyment!!! the looks that thing will bring oh buddy. did you pick a wheel combo yet?

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Wow you are getting after it! Great project. How do you like that Eastwood Versa Cut 60? Do you feel like it was a good investment?

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Thanks pimpston. I think I'll keep it and do the enjoying myself. The wheels I'm thinking about are american racing salt flats. See the picture below.

Thanks Luther. I like the plasma cutter for cutting odd shapes and angles.


We finished the lip of the wheel opening yesterday. Today we started the same lip on the inner panel

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Cool Build, Sub'd :metal:

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Thanks jhama.


We finished the wheel opening lip on the inner panel

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Now we have to do the same thing to the drivers side wheel well. We have about the same rust on this side. Got started on wheel opening lip.

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Nice repairs!

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Boy you sure get allot done. Looks great! The salt flats will look killer.

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Thanks A.D.


I like the old school look of the salt flats


Progress is slow and steady. But progress is progress



Finished the wheel opening lip. Then we decided to replace the inside panel on the wheel well.

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Rust repair sure takes time. We finished the side panel. Then we patched a couple of spots along the center seam. With all the rust fixed we started welding the top part of the inside wall on to the wheel well.

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Yeah, rust repair is a real time eater. You are making fast progress...lotta hours and effort. Looks good.

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Thanks A.D. We keep plugging away.

We finished welding the top of the inner panel today.

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Thanks reaper.


We got the two inch strip tacked in place to lower the wheel opening. We finally got the Easy Grind mig wire today so we can start welding the body panels back together later this week.

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We finished the welding on the two inch strip yesterday. Today we got started on the body panels. We started on the passenger side. The seam took some massaging to get it to line up. i guess the factory allowed some variation from front to back.

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Lookin good!

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Nice alignment on that panel. Will come out nice!

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Thanks Joe

Thanks A.D. The General didn't build this thing exactly the same from front to back so we had to do some more work to make it line up. See today's pictures.


We had to make a horizontal relief cut in both drivers and passenger sides

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Here's the passenger side welded and cleaned up.

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more of the frame and engine!!!

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Your work continues to just have me grin and shake my head.

You guys really are so far up that curve.

Amazing progress, and love the infills etc.

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WOW! I wanna skip ahead and see this thing finished so bad but I also like seeing the progress on builds like this.

Amazing work!

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Thanks pimpston.

We're just out in the shop havin' a bit of fun.

You can' t skip ahead you might miss some of the fun :lol:


Today we got the drivers side partly welded. Then we decided to fit the wheel well so we extended the wheel center line. Then test fit the wheel well and found it had to be trimmed to fit between the front and rear braces