A good friend of mine did this with a finback back in the seventies.


From an aesthetic standpoint, it's hard to make it work when using a four door front door. You've got to extend the roof behind the B pillar significantly to make room for the passengers. What the conversion needs is a long door from a coupe to make the proportions look "right".



Joe used a set of quarter windows behind the B pillar to accommodate the extra room needed. He kept the original back window and C pillar, just pulled it forward.



When the ElCo and the Rancheroo were first produced, they were based upon the 2 door wagons that were already in production. If you pulled the removable bed floor panels, you could see the original wagon floor pans that remained after the conversion.


Jim

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