Hey all,

Well I just got super lucky and found a Mint 1985 4 door truck.

The Story:
Life took a change and I had a little boy ( yippee I am a DAD )but the STD Cab was not gonna cut it anymore with the family growing.. so I had to make some decisions..

1st idea: get an ext Cab truck and convert mine to ext cab..
so I went and found an ext cab truck for free from a freind.

2nd idea: get a 4 door crew cab and convert that to diesel and run that. They are Hard to find.

3rd idea: sell my STD cab and buy a newer truck with back seats..

So I got the EXT cab but it needed a lot of work and it would not fit on my frame easily..
So I listed my truck for sale. I had a bunch of tire kickers but no one would settle on a price or come up with money, then diesel fuel raised to $4.00 a gallon and all the calls stopped.

At this point I was getting irriated and wondered if this would work out or not. or would I be stuck with STD cab.

then out of the blew a friend sends me a link to a 4 door for sale but with no pics.. so I contacted guy.. and he still had the 4 door.. WOW. so eventually he sent me pics and it took a few weeks to get it but man I am so HAPPY.. this TRUCK is MINT.

So here are pics of my new project..
towing the truck home:


yes the Chevy has a Cummins


Here are other pics.





So please be patient it is gonna take me sometime to getthis project done but I will update this post as progress continues

 

Nice rig Ken,congrats on the new addition bro!(not the truck)

 

diesel swapped in to boot!

 

the cummins is in the chevy

 

yes the chevy had a Cummins put into it, and now this dodge will also get a Cummins.. us guys in NC like conversions

 

The Plan is to take the drivetrain out of my STD Cab and put it into this 4 door.. then part out the STD cab

 

Hey-
Welcome to the crew cab conversoin club.

My own conversion took a serious turn when I took the body of. Now I am sort of wishing I had just dropped in the cummins and gave it a paint job. Now I am in for the long haul.

Your crew looks really nice. Good luck. Check out the link in my signature if you haven't before.

 

cool another rig brought home . i did see a four door sitting in dayton washington i think it was. on hwy 12. back window was gone wife says we have enough rigs right now. i had my wife snap a photo while driving by but she only got a shot of it straight behind looks like a regular pickup from there . here is a shot of the lot it was on and the backof the pickup. (i think my wife thought if the pictures were bad enough i couldn't find it again.)

 

just google earth it, you'll find it then.

 

hey Thanks..

Your build looks great.. I will read threw it all later tonight..

 

Alright man, looks great!! I'll sneak by soon

 

This kind of wrench'in makes my mouth water....cant wait to see the end product!!!

 

A Few more pics I took after work today
Drivers side Dash..


Passenger side


behind rear seat.. very clean


Visor storage above dash

 

just saw two blue fourdoors dodges on gsa auction both midwest and south east i think. http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/gsaauctions/ once there click on vehicles then you can do a search for dodges if that doesn't help i can narrow it down some more if i go look them up again. gsa won't let you go to the photos and listings with out each step. just checked one is in north dakota the other is in missouri

 

do you have a link?