The Easter long weekend treated me well.
I found an ex-gov't 1982 crew cab with I'm guessing the original 81,800km's on it.The nice lady told me to go ahead and HAVE it.
She said there was a couple others too if I was interested.My interest is peaked at this point.
She says "yeah, there's one other Dodge and a Datsun, you can have them too".
I go check them out and the Datsun turns out to be identicle to my very first vehicle and the other Dodge isn't a Dodge......as best as I can tell it's a 1957 International A-120 series 4x4.
My plan is to drive the Datsun while the cab swap is under way-I'm going to clean up the crew cab and paint it before I tear down my dd club cab though.
As best as I can tell I'll "Z" the frame to get the step up in the proper location and box the frame in that area to strengthen it.
As I get deeper into it, I'll be bugging those of you who have completed yours with I'm sure a multitude of questions.
Now for the unvieling:






The IH (this would be SWEET with a Cummins):



The little Datsun:

 

The front axle under that international could be worth some money too.

 

The IH may end up for sale to help fund my other project that's my avtar.
It's a 1961 Jeep FC-170
Here's a link to the gallery. Mines the 2nd one from the left in the top row of page 13.

 

did you get the wood stove too???

 

I was thinking about it but didn't.
I did keep the slip tank c/w new pump though.

 

that dodge is about 1/4 mile long.

 

Pretty close.
We had a 18' deck trailer and with the spare tire mounted on the front rack of the trailer, the rear truck tires were only on the deck by about 1-1/2".
From bumper to bumper it measures about 249".
Needless to say, I'll be building it into a short box.

 

That Datsun needs a Cummins =D

 

No to the short box!

 

2nd that!!!!!

 

"85 Dodge D50, 2.0 4banger, 4 speed. Neighborhoods best mosquito killer...."

Those 2.0 mitsu engines have a problem burning off the tip of the oil injection valves in the head.

 

third that
only thing better than a lifted crew cab single is a lifted dully crew

 

Technically mine is a dually with Hummer rims.

 

i'm going to go ahead and put a 4th on that....but i will says shes yours you do with her whatever you want to do to her

 

Rear steer or short-box!