Ok yall have all probably seen the Fast and Furious movie where at the first they steal some fuel trailers and one of the pickups they have is a 69 maybe a 70 chevrolet pickup but with a semi rear end under it and they built 2 one with a 454 to do the stunts in and one with a Cummins not sure on size though but I was thinking. I wanna build one just like that, a 70 chevy cuz the rear frame off, build my own, put a semi rear end under it, drop in an 8.3L CAT and maybe a 10 spd or a 13 spd and paint the truck copper head orange and put 19.5's on the front and 22.5's on the rear and stretch it out and put the full fiberglass rear fenders over the rear tires.......... What ya'll think?

I know where a 70 chevy is out behind a guys house he's willing to sell for nuthin
I live close by a semi salvage yard so getting the rear end or trans would be no big deal
I have a buddy that went to diesel school to and works on semi's and he is willing to help me for beer
and you can get those older pepsi or beer truck those little short wheel base single axle day cab trucks for like $10,000 with good motors still in them and trans and maybe even use the rear end out of it too and they'll have those smaller CAT motors and Cummins in them along with all the air stuff and everything else.

What ya'll think????

 

That would be awesome! I want to build the same thing now

 

On paper it sounds easy but i'd have alot of frame work and id have to custom make some crossmembers but besides that i think itll be easy the air brakes might be a pain but besides that just your basic rebuild and install

 

Frame would be a lot of work but i think it would be worth it. I've always wanted to put a Caterpillar in a pickup

 

It would be sweet but by the time you got done it would be a $20,000 project but BADASS!!!

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You would basically have to build a new frame to be strong enough because i would definatly tow with it and put air ride too so you could drop it

 

i have thought about a project before to. However my idea was to take a fl70 or ih4700 frame,engine and all the goodies and put the cab of a dodge or chevy on it. I saw a truck that was a square body suburban with dually bed on a fl70 frame with the 5.9 and a eaton 10sp for sale on craigslist one day

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/2733581548.html

 

You almost wouldn't be able to put a Cat in that exact pickup from Fast and Furious. It sits way too low to the ground, you'd have a big ol' cat sticking out of the hood right in your line of vision. It would still look just as cool if it was lifted enough to get the motor under the hood

 

Yeah that would be the main prohect would be building the crosmembers and motor mounts to fit the tall motor and trans you would really have to be creative on that and the prob with puttin it on the FL frame is its too tall for what i want. Yes it would be easier but not the look im goin for but i think it could be done. Maybe a high cowl hood would help or sumthing and you'd def have to custom fab the floor pan in the cab to fit the high trans aswell

 

That would be sweet man. Hope you do it


Strokin' Away

 

If i do ill make a post on here and it might be this summer!!!