extended cab

[redneckwheelman2]

has anyone made a homemade extended cab insted of buying one of the rare ones

[JohnC]

I haven't seen anyone's home made one.

[68 TT]

I thought about it but after doing a little research I came to the conclusion it would be pretty tough even for an experienced metal worker to end up with a nice looking final product.

An easier way would be to get a crew cab instead.

You could cut down a crew cab and turn it into an extended cab so that it was still on the long bed regular cab frame but with a short bed box. It's much easier to remove metal from a crew cab than to fabricate new stuff to make a regular cab into an extended cab.

Personally I would stick with a crew cab truck if I could find a decent one and not cut it up.

[redneckwheelman2]

Originally Posted by 68 TT

I thought about it but after doing a little research I came to the conclusion it would be pretty tough even for an experienced metal worker to end up with a nice looking final product.

An easier way would be to get a crew cab instead.

You could cut down a crew cab and turn it into an extended cab so that it was still on the long bed regular cab frame but with a short bed box. It's much easier to remove metal from a crew cab than to fabricate new stuff to make a regular cab into an extended cab.

Personally I would stick with a crew cab truck if I could find a decent one and not cut it up.

i was thinking about a crew at first but they to me dont look to good with a flatbed

i was thinking a extended because one of my friends have a 78 ford extended
another has a 92 ford extended and my other one has a 98 chevy extended

[68 TT]

I have seen a Suburban turned into a Blazer like rig with no top on the back so why not modify an old Blazer body to become an extended cab truck body.

Keep what ever length you want out of it behind the front doors and still be able to pull the top off the back section like a stock Blazer. A semi-convertible flatbed.

It would be a crime to cut up a perfectly good Blazer but if you could find a wrecked one to cannibalize then why not.

[clinebarger]

Most of the rare ones are in texas (where they were built) I have one that fell in my lap

[ghettoluxury]

Here is a extended crew cab that was homemade

[redneckwheelman2]

Originally Posted by 68 TT

I have seen a Suburban turned into a Blazer like rig with no top on the back so why not modify an old Blazer body to become an extended cab truck body.

Keep what ever length you want out of it behind the front doors and still be able to pull the top off the back section like a stock Blazer. A semi-convertible flatbed.

It would be a crime to cut up a perfectly good Blazer but if you could find a wrecked one to cannibalize then why not.

i never thought of a blazer conversion thing on a extended cab but i have thought of the burb and blazer top
i have also thought of a tahoe

more things to think/dream about before im 16-18

[andrewmp6]

The 1st gen s10 extended cab side windows are a real close match and they open up too.I wanted a extended truck tell i seen the prices and have to drive far to get one i gave up.

[OARNGESI]

Originally Posted by ghettoluxury

here is a extended crew cab that was homemade

anymore pics of this

[68 TT]

The extended crew cab looks like they used a second crew cab as a donor and welded the rear doors in place. They could have made it a 3+3+3 pretty easily too.

It looks pretty nice. They did a great job.

The same could be done with a single crew cab body tub but just shortening the rear doors & welding them in place like was done with the extended crew cab but not adding the third set of doors in the middle. That would be the easy way to make an extended cab with separate rear glass.

I guess you could try to make the rear doors shorter and turn them into suicide doors like modern extended cabs but with the crew cab post in between the doors.

You could even make the front doors longer and incorporate the access to the rear area into them. This could be done with a spare regular cab body tub so it is much more easily accomplished on a budget. The longer doors might be a little tough to work with though.

I doubt they would be as big as 2nd, 3rd & 4th gen Camaro & Firebird doors are stock so it wouldn't be too bad I guess, especially since the top of the door doesn't slope inward as steeply as a Camaro. That is what made their doors so tough to deal with. The lower section of the door would be against the next car over but the top of the glass would only be a few inches out from the door jamb that you had to squeeze past to get in. With a trucks less sloped door tops it would be much easier to deal with the extra door length. This sounds like a much more realistic approach to an extended cab conversion.