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Title: 89-98 Trucker Build from 4dr Grand Vitara/Tracker. Anyone???
Post by: longarch on March 25, 2024, 07:46:26 AM
Has anyone successfully converted/modified a 4-door Tracker/Sidekick into a little truck? I was playing around with PhotoShop the other day and thought it possible and maybe a project I'd wish to tackle. Using AutoCAD and resizing the image to wheelbase dimensions, I get an estimate of roughly a 44" internal bed.
Title: Re: 89-98 Trucker Build from 4dr Grand Vitara/Tracker. Anyone???
Post by: ButchW on March 25, 2024, 08:20:46 AM
Looks good... Do it...
Butch
Title: Re: 89-98 Trucker Build from 4dr Grand Vitara/Tracker. Anyone???
Post by: ebewley on April 05, 2024, 12:40:49 PM
Yeah, give it a shot. I've never seen one actually finished but I have seen a couple projects started along this path.

-Eric
Title: Re: 89-98 Trucker Build from 4dr Grand Vitara/Tracker. Anyone???
Post by: fordem on April 05, 2024, 04:29:21 PM
Quote from: ebewley on April 05, 2024, 12:40:49 PM
I've never seen one actually finished but I have seen a couple projects started along this path.

-Eric

I wonder why...
Title: Re: 89-98 Trucker Build from 4dr Grand Vitara/Tracker. Anyone???
Post by: ebewley on May 03, 2024, 07:23:47 AM
Quote from: fordem on April 05, 2024, 04:29:21 PM
I wonder why...

You probably meant that as rhetorical but my thought is that people underestimate the complex body work to make the cab/bed look right and function.

-Eric
Title: Re: 89-98 Trucker Build from 4dr Grand Vitara/Tracker. Anyone???
Post by: fordem on May 03, 2024, 10:05:31 AM
I think you got it right Eric, on both counts.

One of the reasons I posted the question was the exact discussion was started on another forum and at one point it looked like people were getting upset and I thought it was going to go off the rails.

Just my opinion, projects like this look easier than they really are, and as a result, they get started and then abandoned - I HAVE seen cars & station wagons cut down into pickup trucks, and the only one that looked "finished" was a VW which had been done from a kit that included a fiberglass "cap" that formed the backwall of the cab.  The remainder were functional but ugly.