To get the wheels on was another challenge due to tractors are 6x6” bolt pattern so since this doesn’t exist in car bolt patterns there were adapters made for the back but for the front a pair of 1954 Chevy spindles were machined down as for 9N tractor hubs that were narrowed and machined and bearings installed to give it that true tractor feel and the seamless look of no front brakes.   So after the motor was cleaned and polished to a gleam the body was set on and body mounts were built off of the ¾” tubing roll cage that was built by the two guys to support the new body. You must remember this was only a skin of a body no structure at all. So the guys got out the torch and went to bending over 40 feet of thick wall tubing to build a structure to be able to build a new skin onto due to a lot of the body needing new metal.
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Once the body was skinned all the way around from the bodyline down Jeff proceeded to build a new floor in the truck and firewall with tranny tunnel. A 1963 Chevy 1 ton truck master cylinder for both brake and clutch was mounted on the firewall to get some juice flowing through some Mr. McDonald homemade pedals. The bed was the last hurdle.   Jeff had planned on building a bed from scratch to match the old time jeep military trailers which he later found was made by Austin Bantam company when he was stumbling around work and found a 1953 Cushman Truckster bed that would fit perfectly so after a ton of sandblasting and cutting the bed was fit on and it was time for some major body work. Which Jeff will be quick to tell you he hates and Mike digs slinging mud.
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