New project here,,new member also. I picked up this cab and nose here in Maine, it had been sitting out in the woods behind a farm since the mid 1960's I was told originally it was a beverage truck from an old bottling company that went out of business back in the 60's .The rockers and cab supports were all pretty much gone so I rebuilt them as soon as I got it home,the floor pans where also gone but I'm going to wait to get the motor and trans in it before I do the floor. I decided to build a chassis out of square tube rather than find a chassis and cut it up.(I used to build oval track race cars) The goal here is to have a safe fun hot rod for as little money spent as possible. Many years ago I had a 79 ford pickup I was hauling off for scrap and I cut the frame off just ahead of the spring hangers, basically a rear clip with springs and a 9 inch rear, that's been sitting out in the woods behind my house for 20 years! A thick grove of pine trees have grown up around the rear clip and I spent a good 2 hours getting it back out ,,chain saw, my pickup,tow chain, a 12" diameter tree had grown up between the frame rails that was a challenge! The front axle was A local Craigslist find, its from a 37 dodge pickup (50 bucks). I scored some old wide white tires from a friend that hot rodded a few cars and used modern tires and rims, they were junk to him (free!)
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, all my rear suspension is laid out as well as the front, I will need to add a pan hard bar to the front end and shock mounts front and rear but that's no problem. I'm getting very restless and wanting to start doing the chop and the other cool body mods, I really should finish the chassis first. I took some pics and used Microsoft paint program to chop the top,,maybe that will hold me over for now, I have the real pic and the a couple of different chop levels. A few of my buddies have looked at the chops and say it resembles an early freight train so that's where the Maineliner name is from
