has any one ever turned a single cab long bed truck into a kind of streched k5 blazer

[Anatole84]

heres my idea bolt the bed of the truck to the cab cut the front panal of the bed the back of the cab then the roof weld in a decent roll cage all the way from the front to the back and make a removable softop ad back seats and presto a k5 blazer that acually has room for cargo as well as passengers has anyone ever done any thing like this im curious i have the back seats and rear part of the floor pan from a suburban on hand but i dont know if that is necessery maybe just notch the floor of the bed to make to make it match up with floor pan of the cab then bolt a bench seat in any way just a thought any input would be appreciated

[turbohaulic]

Sounds like you want a burb

[mog-10]

i have heard of people cutting the backs off burbs and doing a button on soft top

[sjracer]

back in the early 90's we did this all the time in H.S. to our mini trucks. it was called a walk through. took out the rear window, cut out the rear of the cab and riveted sheetmetal across the gap. covered it with material then ran a snugtop (had to be the snugtop and no other) and huge speakers and a carpeted bed interior. man this brings back memories......

[Anatole84]

i had a burban but it was too heavy all the extra windows electric motors and the incredibly heavy tailgate / rear window set up was too hard on my motor and tranny thats why i put a pickup body on the chassis and the pick up is fine but i like the idea of a two door fourseat convertable but it does seam like a lot of work

[Grumpy_old_fart]

um... not for nothing... ever think about taking some weight off of it?


Edit: if I can lose 600 lbs out of a standard S10 cab, you gotta be able to lose more out of a burban.

[1970gmc4x4]

i think our suburban is about 6000 pounds with a standard cab weighing about 5000, so i would say a cut out burb could lose close to 1000 pounds.

[spidr]

We gutted the interior out of a cherokee and weighed the loss at more than 450lbs of useless shit. I bet you can get 1000lbs out of a burb if you try.

[JOKER4X4]

I say go with a burb. I took over 700lbs worth of crap out of my 90 V1500 SLT...

Removing the power-window motors from anything make the truck instantly better anyway

Look at the "Build Suburban pics" thread if you haven't already.

[allornothin]

dont forget that if you bolt the bed to the cab and the frame flex's just a little it will tear the bolts right out of the cab and bed.........street trucks you dont really have this issue.......but on a off road truck you have to solid mount the cab too just like the bed is

[Filthy McChevy]

Suburban wheelbase is a couple inches shorter than Fullsize PU too.