My 70 Panel

[jgb7038]

I posted a couple of pics of my panel on the picture thread,and a number of you wanted to see some build pics. I took most of these with a film camera,and to get them on here,I took pictures of the pictures with my digital camera,(still havent figured out my scanner yet). So,needless to say,they are not the best,but you can get the general idea at least.

My panel was originally a long bed pick up.The truck was decent,but already made up of a number of other trucks, 70 doghouse and cab,72 doors and chassis,5lug disc,etc.It was no pristine original by any means. Once the panel conversion got into by head that all there was.I found a very rusty 72 burb at the local parts yard where I had been getting some other items. Got it for next to nothing,put the peices on a trailer and drug them back to the garage I was working in at the time.

This is how the truck looked a couple of days after I originally bought it.



The donor burb,
As you can see,the burb had a hard life.....







I wanted a shorter panel,so I cut my long bed frame down to make a "factory" short bed wheel base.With that done,I reinstalled the bed,cut off the front enough to center the wheel wells and welded the front edges of the bed onto the cab corners.Removed the back cab wall,and welded the bed floor to the cab.







I needed to cut the excess length off the rear of the bed before I could start fitting the burb on to it.