Something interesting in the shop the other day....

[Ozwynn]

I have been thinkin bout this alot.....

Wouldnt it be easier just to drop an ext cab on a b2 frame and graft on the back part of a B2?

That way you would keep the structural integrity of the cab. It just seems like a lot less bodywork too.

That has been done. There is one in the gallery

 

[AllanD]

Better idea: stretch out a supercab frame, full B2 cab, ranger bed behind.

I've been thinking about the same sorta thing myself.

But if you are gonna "go Long" may as well go REALLY long....
and hang a 7foot bed behind it.

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but if I made a shorty like pictured above I wouldn't have wasted time
messing with the fiberglass gate.

I'd have simply sliced off the back end of a ranger bed.

to do it "right" pretty much demands hacking up a Gen1 bed anyway.

Headgate and cut down inside bedsides...

 

[adsm08]

Better idea: stretch out a supercab frame, full B2 cab, ranger bed behind.

I've been thinking about the same sorta thing myself.

I had a similar thought a few years back. I was gonna buy my dad's LD 250 and use that. Just drop both body sections on it so I'd have a 5.8, ZF-5, 10.25/D44 combo.

Then I realized a regular cab frame is a horrible choice for that if I wanted a long bed.

 

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

I want one!

 

[jcd302]

Not fond of the color, but...