47-55.1 Did ya ever see anything like this?

[MiraclePieCo]

I've never seen this body style. Is it factory or did someone cut the back off a panel truck and add it onto a truck chassis?

[mongocanfly]

looks like somebody took a delivery body and put the back part of a 5 window cab on the front of it,,you can see the corner window and rear glass cutouts...but they look bigger than the cab glass
def different

[nvrdone]

I like it. would make a great camper

[MARTINSR]

I wonder if it's an original vintage conversion or was it made last year? I just can't imagine that someone would have went through so much when a long delivery was available. But it would have been to separate the load completely from the driver and cab. Could have been a reason for that, but I dig it either way.

Brian

[dsraven]

hard to tell by the pics, is that a newer chassis maybe?
pretty cool anyway. lots of work went into it too. looks factory. those are loooong running boards.

[mongocanfly]

Theres a ton of pics of this one for sale...with a almost 50k price
...https://www.grautogallery.com/vehicl...-3800-delivery
Nothing much stock about it, but nowhere could I find anything about the build..
Some of the shots look pretty crusty for the amount of work put into it

[1project2many]

That's an interesting truck. It must have been a lot of work so why not make the interior look good?



Is this the hole for the Suburban filler neck?

[mongocanfly]

to further re-enforce the back half of a cab on the front of a delivery body theory..you can see where they scabbed together what looks like more than one cab to create the front,,,also looks to have had moon windows in it at one time..
someone put a lot of work into this

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by mongocanfly

Some of the shots look pretty crusty for the amount of work put into it

i think mongo hit on the old factor of this truck
a lot of coach builders built one off or a few off body styles for specific duty, caddy flower cars come to mind
i imagine anything to do with a chicken farm back in the 50s smelled pretty ranks and needed separation

[vintovka]

Looks poorly done if a show piece but ok for a daily. May have cost near 50K if all the work was farmed out but certainly did not get moneys worth. Another 20+ k to finish but still a kind of monstrosity.

[mr48chev]

I'm thinking that it is a fairly recent as within the past 20 years build.

From that i'd say that someone got their hands on the 3805 panel that had a bad cowl on it and rather than try to splice on a new cowl cut it back behind the door posts far enough to weld in the 5 window back section and set a good 5 window cab on in front of the now custom box. The filled round windows probably mean that it spent some time as a hippy rig, surf rig or camper rig in the 60's and or 70's when those windows were the hot lick on vans.

Chassis appears to be a 3800 137 inch wheelbase chassis with a Dana 70 8 lug rear axle. Front end was modified to get the spring hangers closer to the frame in the rear and the shackles were moved up in the frame in the front.

Typical classic car sales outfit babble when they don't actually know enough about the vehicle and go by what they think or by what the person they bought it from told them.

Still that could be a great advertising rig or a fun road rig that you could sleep in if you wanted to. i'm thinking that the sale price will be quite a bit below the asking price though.

[vintovka]

I will say the sight of open rear gave me nostalgic if not painful memories of sleeping (or trying to) in the back of one of these on my jan 1969 cross country trip from San Francisco to Altoona PA, The bed floor is like sleeping on concrete with steel ribs.