The Mantis

[6 Door King]

Finally got the "parts" truck to my house and now that I have had a chance to crawl all over it I think it might become the build truck. In roughly the same shape body wise, but I like the idea of the granny low four speed and I-6 combo. Also like the idea of building a GMC as my dad always wanted one and this will be somewhat of a tip of my hat to him. Also can not bring myself to cut up the shortbed chassis. Going to hold onto it and the shortbed sheetmetal for another project (to begin after this one is sold). The new rig has buckets out of something that are bolted to 6 inch c-channel bases that are angle cut to look like a seat base. Not sure who thought this one up, but they were determined it wouldn't collapse. Also has a lovely plywood contraption screwed to the headliner with some sort of secondary terminal block with wires going everywhere. The story I got was that the original owner ordered the truck to haul his slide in camper, and ordered it with the Dana 60 w/ 4.56 gears. Previous owner saved it from the scrap pile and passed it along to me. He had to take the wheels and tires back to the previous owner x2 and now she's on jackstands and 4x4s. The rear axle is leaving tomorrow morning, Thanks Rusty...

Anyone against the idea of building a GMC instead of the Chevy?