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14.1 @ 96MPH
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Mesa, AZ
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How fast do you think we could do it?
Well?
Oh, build a truck of course!! ![]() Just a random thought I had last night. Somehow, some stuff from the Factory Five brochure popped into my head (Factory Five makes Cobra replica kits that use an '87-'93 Mustang as the donor car...you end up with a really nice looking Cobra, that runs like a new car, for a lot less money and work than most of the others...anyway) where they mentioned that they've had groups assemble cars in a few days for fun before... And it got me thinking... Let's say we got a decently large group of people from the board together, with all of the funds and/or parts needed to do a frame-up...how quickly do you think we could do it? I'm not saying we should necessarily (though it would be fun); we'd probably spend a week discussing whether it should be a short or longbed, two or four wheel drive, lifted, stock, or lowered, cut the dash or not, fuel injected or carbeureted, discs or drums or drums plus kevlar, leaf or coil, Chevy or GMC, '67 or '70 or '72...small block Chevy or 500 cube Caddy...stick or manual... Hell, I bet the only things we'd agree on would be an HEI and a sway bar! LOL... Just food for thought. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Barren County Kentucky
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a week deciding? for some reason i think it would be a loooot longer then that, lol. it would be fun
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Baton Rouge
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hell i think we could build it in a week, if the motor was done and the body just needed painting. if ll the parts were laid out, no waiting
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-'63 Ford Fairlane 500 coupe, v8, auto, faded and rusty. awaiting built roller 302 and some flat black -'99 Honda Prelude. vtech/5spd. no pipe, no intake, bone stock. awaiting new top end. -01 GMC Yukon SLT 5.3 dented and scratched with a noisy tranny. Take off that Von Dutch hat before i stab you with a 000 Mack. |
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Location: Pace, FL
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Re: How fast do you think we could do it?
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So Many Ideas, So Little Money
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Marshalltown, IA
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hell, even if the body was bad, set Efab to that, otherswork on frame, engine, other cmponents, we could haveone up in bout 4 days I bet
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Formerly yellow72custom
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Austin, TX
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Not even everyone agrees on HEI. There are a couple die-hard points guys on the board. (i'm a HEI man myself...)
![]() About the only thing that we could agree on is that it would be a '67-'72 ![]() I f there was enough people......maybe 5 days from a bare frame and a pile of parts into a brand new trucks. Five days of late nights and many coolers of beer ![]()
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Location: Benton, AR "The Heart of Arkansas"
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....that's what SHE said...
Let's see. We need a consensus, right? How many people are "on the board". We still have polls. We all have opinions. It could get to be like the Little Red Hen baking bread...nobody wants to help, but everybody wants to drive.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: mass
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SWAY BARS?
sway bars are the worst thing for off-roading...hehe, just kiddin, i think it would be a 2swb without cut dash. id say 4-7 days finished. ill donate a sh*tty tailgate..or two
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Baton Rouge
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i'll bring the sawzall! (cause we're gonna need it, to cut the dash!!)
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-'63 Ford Fairlane 500 coupe, v8, auto, faded and rusty. awaiting built roller 302 and some flat black -'99 Honda Prelude. vtech/5spd. no pipe, no intake, bone stock. awaiting new top end. -01 GMC Yukon SLT 5.3 dented and scratched with a noisy tranny. Take off that Von Dutch hat before i stab you with a 000 Mack. |
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Location: Pace, FL
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Yep, I'm with seanh71.
New idea!! I'll donate my truck to the project, and you guys can restore it for me!! Anybody have a new engine?
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newly minted old timer
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Hudson WI
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you would have to get seperate groups.. one for the orginal type, one for the lowered street rod custom crowd, then the lifted 4x4 monster type trucks..
of course you would have 3 groups with in each group. the 67-68 people, the 69-70 and the 71-72. i know what group id fit in. lol.. orginal 71-72 group would be a fun deal. if i win this 50mill loto ill sponcer it. hows that?
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Getting cabin fever?!?!?!
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: chisholm, mn
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we could all donate parts and build up a truck and then sell it on e-bay and give josh the money for the board. or sell raffle tickets here and whoever wins gets it and josh get's the money. i'm going to pull a lot of parts off the gmc this summer. what does everyone else think?
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
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wouldn't it be cool if we could get a bunch of us together to build one and see if we could get the fine folks at the Guiness Book of World Records to show up? Then we take the truck once it's done, and sell tickets on it in a raffle or sell it on e-bay
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Bellevue, WA
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Or on another note, we could sell it on ebay and give the $$$ to a charity or something of the sort... just a thought.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Baton Rouge
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i bet we wouldnthve to buy crap, with allthe mebers on here who have tons f trucks, i everybody brought the part that they didnt desperately need, we would have everything. i know desert rat would bring a 402, i would bring a comp cams BB rebuild kit thats laying around, whose that guy that" has a Weiand blower laying around", body parts would the easy part.
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-'63 Ford Fairlane 500 coupe, v8, auto, faded and rusty. awaiting built roller 302 and some flat black -'99 Honda Prelude. vtech/5spd. no pipe, no intake, bone stock. awaiting new top end. -01 GMC Yukon SLT 5.3 dented and scratched with a noisy tranny. Take off that Von Dutch hat before i stab you with a 000 Mack. |
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L.E.D. Freak
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Polson MT
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Even the most experienced builders, with alot of money. Doing a slamjam job, takes a average of 3-6 months. It depends on how good a job you want to do. Building a truck from the ground up takes alot of planning, and ordering waiting on parts. Waiting on paint to cure proper be fore reassembling panels. Bottom line money and lots of it.
I bet if you had a endless supply of money and wanted a truck built yesterday, it'd take quite a few people working shifts around the clock, and it'd have to be in a area with alot of shops that did true classic restorations. I'd still say a good 1 month, if you got lucky and had know delays.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Hoboken, NJ, USA
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Great idea. I have the front drums for the brakes and a pitman arm for the manual steering
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Baton Rouge
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yeah scull67, but then if it was on tv the ricer boys would try to copy it,hahaha, but they;re idea of "building an import" in a week would be putting a wing on it and everythign ele wold be elcetrical, like lights and crap, hahahha
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-'63 Ford Fairlane 500 coupe, v8, auto, faded and rusty. awaiting built roller 302 and some flat black -'99 Honda Prelude. vtech/5spd. no pipe, no intake, bone stock. awaiting new top end. -01 GMC Yukon SLT 5.3 dented and scratched with a noisy tranny. Take off that Von Dutch hat before i stab you with a 000 Mack. |
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