The Mantis

[6 Door King]

Originally Posted by VA72C10

Looks tough!

That's the idea. Thanks!

After hours of soul-searching, I am starting to like the idea of the truck being lifted. The project was originally going to be lowered, not dragging rockers, but sitting low. A few friends expressed concerns that just about everyone lowers the 67-72 models, and in an effort to avoid the trend I decided to lift it. While the bald 44s aren't very impressive, the end result will be a bit more polished and show worthy. Now all I have to do is fight the nagging urge to build it into a dually. I think I am going to give in to my desire to build custom flares for it and enlarge the radius in the fenders to accomodate the bigger tires and not give it the monster truck vibe (big tires in little fender wells).