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bent metal

Almost done. This is a truck that I did some work on. The owners, David and Marcy David are still working out some minor details. But it's drivable and basically finishined. Everyone who has a truck says they wish the seat would go back just a little bit more. Well this one does.

I was worried about the proportions, but I think it's pretty good. What do you guys think?

bent metal

A few more pictures. Also, I took a ride in it and it was very nice. Smooth riding truck. Air ride front and back, disk brakes all the way around.

The front is stock A-arms, not sure about the spindles. Motor, trans, and computer, along with the gauges are Lincoln Navigator. Rear end is newer Ford Thunderbird. Which is an independent suspension with disk brakes. The bed my Dad made and I painted, it's hard maple. I thought his black bed strips and stainless bolts was a cool idea. Never seen that before, I like it.

hudsonsoul

I feel that you nailed the proportions dead on. I love the way this looks and have always been impressed with your work. Was there ever an idea to make a seat in the back? It is not clear if there is one seat facing sideways on the passenger side or not.

Thanks for showing us what can be done.

Todd

royer

Awesome job!!! I wish I had gone to San Simeon to see it!!

bent metal

No seat in the back. He wants that area to put folding chairs, the wife's purse, that sort of thing. The stretch was about fifteen inches.

Royer, you missed it! I know it's hot where you are too, when I left my house it was 101 degrees at noon. San Simeon was 61 degrees at noon! It was a nice change. ....if only for a few days.

46HudsonPU

bent metal wrote:

No seat in the back. He wants that area to put folding chairs, the wife's purse, that sort of thing. The stretch was about fifteen inches.

Royer, you missed it! I know it's hot where you are too, when I left my house it was 101 degrees at noon. San Simeon was 61 degrees at noon! It was a nice change. ....if only for a few days.

Yo BM! Thanks for posting the pics. Just got back to the house, and was getting ready to start a new thread - totally different subject.
Saw your post responding to my inquiry about more pictures in another thread. Glad you started a new thread, this is such nice work it deserves one of its own.

Would love to see some pics of the work you did on the truck, am very interested in how the two rear doors were configured, made & mounted, not that I would be likely to to to that extreme... Am thinking of maybe putting in coupe doors, but that may be 'another build' somewhere down the road (if I ever get past my current two).

Lee ODell

The work on this truck is awesome. The trip to San Simeon was worth it, just to see the results of your craftsmanship. It was a stunning sight seeing that truck roll into the parking lot.

Lee

hornet_54

A few pictures of the All-California Meet are posted at: http://socalhet.org/

Bob

rambos_ride

Looks Great! Thanks for posting the pics.

Of course If I were to strech a Hudson truck - I'd go for a quad-cab, dually setup - if you're gonna strech it why not go all the way?

Browniepetersen

Rambo, I love the idea of a "dualie." Sounds like a great project. The truck looks great. It is always great to see these projects that start with a cutting torch. There is a 47 pickup locally that used a coupe door and got the extra 8inches that way. Also, a friend did a 36 Terraplane using a coupe door to get the extra door room. He chopped the top and stuff. It also looks great. Keep the photo's comming......

Ol racer

Really awsome looking Truck. I have seen cpe door stretched trucks but this is first time I ever seen the double door set-up....

Very Nice Job.....

Lee ODell

I've seen 2 door sedan doors used on stretched pu's but never with the coupe doors.

I would like to see pictures with the coupe doors on a pu.

The double doors look good, and a great attention getter.

Lee

faustmb

I like it. That is exactly what I would love to do with mine. Quad cab is too much (for me) and I prefer what you did here vs the longer coupe doors. Very nice!

The small cab is my biggest complaint about my truck.

ralpie

Thanks for the pictures of the meet Bob.

46HudsonPU

rambos_ride wrote:

Looks Great! Thanks for posting the pics.

Of course If I were to strech a Hudson truck - I'd go for a quad-cab, dually setup - if you're gonna stretch it why not go all the way?

A quad-cab sounds nice too, but I GOTTA keep that long bed, which IMO sort of evens out the truck's HUGE schnoz (nose) - and the wheelbase is already 128 inches!

rambos_ride

46HudsonPU wrote:

A quad-cab sounds nice too, but I GOTTA keep that long bed, which IMO sort of evens out the truck's HUGE schnoz (nose) - and the wheelbase is already 128 inches!

Longer is always better!

:rolleyes: My '98 CC dually has a 168.5" wheelbase :eek:

So the long bed would stay for my version of a streched Hudson truck!

I think the only thing I'd want to do for a CC dually setup is center the axel in the rear fender well front-to-back, not sure what that would look but that's what I'd try.

Back to this truck - I really do like the look and the work is Top Notch!

Ol racer

Lee O'Dell wrote:

I've seen 2 door sedan doors used on stretched pu's but never with the coupe doors.

I would like to see pictures with the coupe doors on a pu.

The double doors look good, and a great attention getter.

Lee

I think Lee is correct on questioning installing cpe doors on Trk's even though cpe's have indentical width doors as 2dr Sedans, I believe the door top near roof line is little different....

46HudsonPU

Lee O'Dell wrote:

I've seen 2 door sedan doors used on stretched pu's but never with the coupe doors.

I would like to see pictures with the coupe doors on a pu.

The double doors look good, and a great attention getter.

Lee

The coupe doors are just one of my thoughts to give the truck a bit more leg room. Can't say that I've never seen a Hudson pickup with the coupe doors - I would be interested in seeing some pictures of that. When I get a chance, I'll go through my truck photos - I think at least one of them has 'coupe' doors, and Brownie mentioned seeing one in his neighborhood also...

Back to the stretch cab pickup - I keep going back to those pictures, can't get enough of them...

jsrail

Very nice work dude! Class A job and the proportions are spot on. I really like the short extra space, not sure if a dual cab wouldn't be too long for my taste, I'd need to see some pics. But right on this one man!

essexcoupe3131

Hey Jay nice to see you tinkling on the key board, hope all is improving with you our thoughts are still there

I could do with 1 of these trucks it looks pretty cool and room for my tools and staff and would fit in nicely with the Essex image of our company, It would be like dad (hudson) and his son in tow Essex coupe LOL

Cool clean super ride

Mike

bent metal

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

I can't take all of the credit, the whole idea was the owner's dream. I just put his ideas to metal.

I'll try not to post too many pictures here, I have probably a hundred. But some of you are interested in the construction, so here are some photos for you.

bent metal

The rear doors I tried to make look like Hudson would of done it. They use factory handles and latches that bolt in, no modifying except to shorten the drag link of course. The jambs and the tops of the doors look the same as the front door. ...You can see the top of the doors in the finished truck pictures. Also I made it so you could have the back door glass roll up and down. Although the owner decided to make them stationary, they could be made to roll up and down.

jsrail

Thanks for posting these bent metal, your craftsmanship is outstanding and a work of art. The belt line matches and I like how you matched up the door tops and the windows. Too bad they didn't like roll up rear windows, I think that would have been cool. Post any more pics you'd like to, I'm sure no one around will mind at all.

Jay

52Stude

rambos_ride wrote:

Looks Great! Thanks for posting the pics.

Of course If I were to strech a Hudson truck - I'd go for a quad-cab, dually setup - if you're gonna strech it why not go all the way?

I have always had a dream of building a crew cab, but being a novice at metal work my Idea was to take an early 30's 4 door sedan and set it on a custom made chassis with an 8 foot box. my first thought was to use a model a, cause they are a dime a dozen, but a hudson would be great! here is a pic of the drawing I did based on a 32 chevrolet 4 door sedan I was looking at getting.

rambos_ride

That would be a Crew-Cab Plus Extended version!

SRCraftsman2

46HudsonPU wrote:

The coupe doors are just one of my thoughts to give the truck a bit more leg room. Can't say that I've never seen a Hudson pickup with the coupe doors - I would be interested in seeing some pictures of that. When I get a chance, I'll go through my truck photos - I think at least one of them has 'coupe' doors, and Brownie mentioned seeing one in his neighborhood also...

Back to the stretch cab pickup - I keep going back to those pictures, can't get enough of them...

RICK:

If you remember, about two years ago there was a Hudson Pickup in the Maryland area that I had talked to you about possibly looking at for me. My plans never materialized and I did not pursue it, but it was made from a coupe body with the P/U rear cab section and bed fabricated in. I do not know which frame was used probably the P/U. My interest was the longer leg room and more room between belly and steering wheel. What was the average size for a man in the 40's, 5'6" and 140#.

Jon Battles knew of the truck since the original work was done by a HET member from the VA, MD area. The owner I was conversing with started to drop in a V-8 and then lost interest. It needed total restoration.

I can not remeber if it was for sale on Ebay or the WTN.

46HudsonPU

SRCraftsman2 wrote:

RICK:

If you remember, about two years ago there was a Hudson Pickup in the Maryland area that I had talked to you about possibly looking at for me. My plans never materialized and I did not pursue it, but it was made from a coupe body with the P/U rear cab section and bed fabricated in. I do not know which frame was used probably the P/U. My interest was the longer leg room and more room between belly and steering wheel. What was the average size for a man in the 40's, 5'6" and 140#.

Jon Battles knew of the truck since the original work was done by a HET member from the VA, MD area. The owner I was conversing with started to drop in a V-8 and then lost interest. It needed total restoration.

I can not remeber if it was for sale on Ebay or the WTN.

I remember the truck well.
Jon initially posted the information on the forum, so there was at least one thread on it. The truck was/is a conversion from a Brougham, with a shorter frame and around a 6' bed.

The seller lost his storage area, and moved the vehicle to his mom's place. It sat for quite some time under tattered and leaky tarps, and was eventually put on craigslist. From the photos, it showed promise. Was disappointing in the onsite inspection, too much money for the condition it was in, and the Hudson engine/trans long-gone by that time. The intended V8 power plant was not included in the $2500 price.

Here's the link to Jon's thread on the truck -
http://classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=62&jfile=showthread.php&t=9015&highlight=pickup

Here's the second thread on it, including a couple of posts concerning observations from my visit -
http://classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=62&jfile=showthread.php&t=11690&highlight=pickup

RL Chilton

BM-

The truck turned out super! Everything looks great, color combo, bed, all of it. Can't wait to get you back on some work for me!! LOL!

It DOES look like Hudson did it, which is a great testament to your craftsmanship.

oldrodder43

Friend, you are one very talented craftsman! That truck is realllll smooth. Excellent work, great engineering. Perley

bent metal

Glad you all like it!

Here are a few more pictures with it lowered down and just before he got the side trim on.

Sarah Young

I think this was a great way to add cabsize. The choice in paint was also very tasteful.

66patrick66

IwantIwantIwant!!!

Those rear doors are ART!

I've had a concept in mind for a crew cab dually Terraplane pickup, taking a four-door body and utilizing it. A '36 would be sweet with the four suicide doors, but the larger '37 body would probably work better, IMO. My thought is to extend the four-door body a bit to allow two-door sedan/Brougham front doors and keep the rear doors.

I'm going to have to draw some pics up...!

jsrail

Dude, you should be very proud of that fine job! Everything works well together. Makes me even more determined to get one of my projects going.

Hudson308

jsrail wrote:

Dude, you should be very proud of that fine job! Everything works well together. Makes me even more determined to get one of my projects going.

He's right. I hope the owner displays a build photo album at the shows... or at the very least a picture of the truck in bare steel.

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