Cool street rod

[Young Ed]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Dodge-Other-Pickups-dodge-pickup-dodge-pickup-hot-rod-/110734636650?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item19c84c766a

37 dodge car front pilot house back mostly mopar drivetrain

[ggdad1951]

forgo a garage remodel, buy it!

[moparmonkey]

I think I've seen this one listed before.

Pretty good looking truck considering it used to be a car, I've seen a few and most look pretty awful. Which surprises me really, it takes a lot of fabrication to make this happen, why not go all the way?

The devil is in the details. If they had rounded the top corner of the door (why does everyone overlook this on these conversions!!!?), narrowed the bed about 3", and shortened it about 6" the proportions would look a lot better.

Especially narrowing the bed. You can see in this picture that the rear fenders stick out past the running boards. Narrow the bed until the fenders are flush. This will not only solve the fender issue, it will tuck the bed rails behind the cab and minimize the look of the bed. The best solution would obviously be an earlier bed so the front and rear fenders would match, but even the later bed would look fine if it were narrowed and shortened a tad...

[Dave72dt]

I don't know if you could take 3" out of the bed without getting in to rear spring mounts and i don't think the boards were flush with the rear fenders when stock. I think the bed length is about right compared to the hood length. What's wrong is the cab length. Perfect candidate for an extended cab or crew cab. Agree on the door corners.

[Young Ed]

forgo a garage remodel, buy it!

I've been tempted by this one

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/csw/cto/2549175354.html

[Flatie46]

I've been tempted by this one

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/csw/cto/2549175354.html

I don't know, it says it has NO WARRANTY! Would you really buy it without a 5 year 50,000 mile or something. You have to be careful you know.

[moparmonkey]

I don't know if you could take 3" out of the bed without getting in to rear spring mounts and i don't think the boards were flush with the rear fenders when stock.

Depends on which frame its on. If it's on the '37's frame, then 3" out of the width of the bed shouldn't be a problem. Obviously if its on the pilothouse frame there isn't that much room.

On a pilothouse the rear fenders are pretty much flush with the running boards, if anything the running boards stick out further than the fenders (which is why I think its not on the pilothouse frame).

For example...

[Dave72dt]

So that's what running boards look like! It almost appears as if the rear fenders have been widened but maybe it's an illusion. I hope whoever the builder was, it turned out the way he(she) envisioned. I can certainly appreciate the work that went into it.