See Mark ?@ ~! All that sitting around has made you SMART ! ;] you could also use a pair of JEEPSTER front fenders & s-t-r-e-t-c-h the nose...........long nose / short deck....... Bt What about a Willys pickup cab? roof hacked of to roadster. fenderless, channelled, HHHmmmm????????? -- Mark Price markprice242ATadelphia.net Morgantown, WV ---- Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> > Subject: [AMC-List] Jeep? Ford? same difference (hot rod chassis!) > > Still cogitating over a Rambler hot rod. Pretty much settled > on a Rambler six, 3-speed/OD, rambler rear. Probably a stock > motor or minor performance hacks. > > > But then I stumbled upon photos of a 1984 Jeep CJ chassis -- > it's of course just a pair of rails that suuuure looks a lot > like a 32 Ford! (If you take off your glasses and squint.) > > Close enough to make an all-AMC hotrod! > > So there's two ways to go with this: > > 1) strip a Jeep literally down to the rails, lower suspension to > street-car height (swap out springs etc), and find/modify/make > a rod style body to go on it. I'm not sure how low it could go, > the rear fram arch isn't very deep (but I wanted a "tall boy", > hotrod-wise). This would then be a 4wd hotrod? > > Eh, it's too much of a jeep to be a hotrod. > > > It would be a real Rambler Mentality hot rod, in the good sense > -- fun, old style, cheap and all Rambler! > > > ================ > > > I'd seen the coolest JEEP custom - > they'd taken out the center section > of the JEEP - narrowed the body - > to be a single seater - damnd cool - . > > find a CJ-8 frame if possible - much > longer - better ride. > > front suspension off most anything > can be fitted to the rails. > > > > =Bt= > milnersXcoupe > > _______________________________________________ > AMC-List mailing list > AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > > or go to http://www.amc-list.com =Bt= milnersXcoupe _______________________________________________ AMC-List mailing list AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list or go to http://www.amc-list.com