2005 Dodge Ram Cummins Peterbilt Stepside
 

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International beat them to the punch.

The International CXTs are cool too, but they are a production vehicle and they look more modern. I like this one because it's custom and looks like an antique.:cool:

Aluminum cab, wood floors, very nice.

That engine would be easy to work on.

That truck is the peak of cheap oil excesses. In 50 years people will marvel at things like that, dumbfounded at the waste.

People will look back on that truck and say "wow someone put a lot of effort into that thing" Not "jeez what waste they could have made half a dozen ****ty tiny cars out of all that metal so Mistel and all his worthless malcontent looser friends could ride around and feel good about themselves"

But thats Just me.

Nice truck.
Good mileage for the size. I imagine it has got a pretty good towing capacity too.

I was surprised at the MPG too. I had a Blazer that only got 15-17 MPG and this gets 20 MPG.:cool:

I've got a semi (pun intended). :D

I'd put a set of stacks on it, though. Cool little big rig. I'd love to do something similar but with a sleeper cab so I could put some seats in it. I definitely prefer the old school look to the SXT and Ford versions.

Stacks would look cool too, but I like that it has more of a "non-commercial" truck feel without them.

I think they did an amazing job with the proportions of the truck. It looks like the big brother of this one: :cool:
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...ord-pickup.jpg


I'd like to see someone do a pickup using this cab:
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...rochure-25.jpg

Turn in your hick card immediately!:D

COE's (Cab Over Express) are pretty big in the hot rod realm for use as haulers. I've seen a couple in person (BB gassers) and several featured in tv/mags. I'll see what I can find. Try searching for "COE hot rod" or "COE pickup" and see what comes up.

About 5 years ago we sold two late-40's vintage stainless Freuhauf trailers (a 22' and 25') that had been used for storage (and were definitely worse for wear) to a guy that restored old semi tractors. I always wanted to restore an old semi and match it up with one of them but we really needed the space and replaced them with a couple 48's. And needless to say my finances, storage, ambition and ability don't currently match my vision. :)

Cab Over Engine

WOW!!!! Thanks for the search suggestion Swamp!

http://www.classiccoe.com/oldcoetrucks/Custom.htm

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These are for you Swamp.:D

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...crewcab-1a.jpg

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...-Pickup-1a.jpg

I dunno. I look at that and think 'It's cute but seems like a lot of work for little gain.'

D'oh! Brain fart. :o:D

That's got "me" written all over it! And I could park it right next to a Jeep FC when I get my 20 car garage. :D

Check this site out: :cool::cool:
http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/g/gerstenslager/gerstenslager.htm

Imagine converting one of these to an RV Camper.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...tenslager7.jpg

One of these antique american beer trucks would be cool as an RV too:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/11/24/where-did-all-the-streamlined-beer-trucks-go/

Please stop egging me on. :) Every now and then an International Metro shows up in the Bargain News and that aforementioned, unsupportable "vision" pops up. :D I'd really dig a 40's-early 50's school bus to make into a camper, either ratrod or hotrod themed. A local bus company has had a couple sitting in their back lot for years. I guess I should be thankful that I don't have anywhere to put it otherwise I'd have anothe p.o.s. project sitting around in my yard waiting for time, energy, money and ambition.

This would be one kick-a$$ fifth wheel camper:
http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/...07_resized.jpg

That thing is awesome.:cool: It looks like a locomotive like this one:
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...stenslager.jpg

My dad just got a new truck... well new to him.

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/IMG_0051.jpg

I have a 51 GMC panel truck, the one with the windows, the original suburban. my dad got the "new" truck because it has the correct engine for my panel truck. the panel has a Chevy engine in it now, and the GMC is just different enough that it makes the truck less collectible, and my dad always wanted to fix the panel up to factory original.

The "new" truck is going to become the fun truck. i'm looking to find a diesel for it. not sure want direction this project will go, but my dad is excited about it, so thats good.

Very cool Nik ... you bought 'Mater's GMC cousin 'Tater!:D:D

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Damn you kids and your fancy picture changin' machines! :D

Looks like a fun project Nik! Cosmetic rust aside it looks like it's fairly solid (at least from this angle). It's amazing what decent sheetmetal will do.

While I'm a big Cummins fan, I prefer to match the gear to the manufacturer. A chipped Duramax paired with an Allison tranny wouldn't be a bad combo to drop in that beast! :D

Peter Pan Buslines has a Futurliner that shows up at antique truck shows and at the Big E (New England's County Fair).
http://www.futurliner.com/images/pan1.jpg
http://www.futurliner.com/pan.htm

I can't believe that thing opens up into a complete sound stage with lights.:eek::cool:

Whiskeydan needs one of those for Beanstock.:cool:

Its cool, but its built on a 3500 chassi so you can't really do anything with it.

If it was built on an over the road truck you could at least tow 30k pounds with it. NFW can you put a Volvo 160 behind that thing, you would break it. Doesn't even have air breaks, and its got the little 5.9.

Someone put a lot of work into it, but not my cup of tea. If I want to drive a real truck I can do that, when I am not at work I want to drive a Mercedes.:D Trucks are freaken loud and ride like crap, you have to wear ear plugs if you are driving the dump truck for any period of time. Not something I want to drive for fun, no thanks.

My dads first thought is to try and get a Toyota diesel from a Landcruiser because its got the correct bolt pattern for the GMC tranny. it would work because it has similar power as the GMC engine. but with them being hard to find, and all trucks having a ton of power compared to the old trucks I've been thinking Cummins, because they are the best... and brands be damed. Ford uses NaviStar a subsidiary of International Harvester, and Cummins is its own company, and the Duramax is built by Isuzu. so there is no brand loyalty, because the Big 3 just can't build a diesel. so I might as well have the best!

Hell yeah man! Cummins all the way....


I got your cherry picker in my garage, so we can use that for the swap!



That GMC is pretty badass....



(And hop online dangit!)

Thats only a clone, and not a very good looking one at that.

There was a MUCH better looking one at Cummins Truck Fest 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoCXWrHARp8

That one was done very nicely as well.:cool: Looks like it's pretty quick too.

I think it still looks like a rig though. One of the things I like about the other one is it looks like a normal truck.

Comparing the two trucks next to each other definitely makes the silver one look plain.:D

Actually you are both right!

Tom W

I saw one of these a few years ago unrestored outside of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg museum and thought ...."neat" and about a year or so later one sold for a mil or so.

Tom W

The last few years I have had a hankering for one of these a pickups for the reception of a diesel swap.

A 240d would be sweet around town.

Tom W

There's a downside to that. I bought a '59 Ford schoolbus years ago, hoping to make an RV out of it. It was mega long and had a turning radius worse than modern vehicles of the same length. The steering was manual and really serious workout when you had to extricate yourself from an intersection that you judged incorrectly, owing to the lousy turning radius.

Plus the tranny was non-synchro, much double clutching and that was only effective some of the time.

In short, I abandoned the project and sold it to a younger hippie with the same original fantasy I had.

I do like the bodies on those old rigs, those Allied moving vans pictured -- if you could put in a new drive train and front end (w/power steering) could be really cool, but sounds like a "bring money" sort of project.