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anyone ever made a "suburban" out of a Grand Waggy?


Pete M
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:hijack: I once dropped a 2 door plymouth reliant onto a 1/2 ton chevy 4x4 frame. God that thing was stoopid looking. Had a pontiac v6 for power and 40 inch ground hawgs. High range was absolutely useless. :hijack: .......and we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

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Why not get a REAL SUV

 

73 IH Travelall :cheers:

 

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You can tow a house with one.

 

Just make sure it's green with the wood panelling , large black racing stripes on the hood and twin trucker II CB antennas on the west cost mirrors :yes: And I am here to tell you that it's a great babe magnet when you are 16 :rotfl2:

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1. I agree 1000% that a Grand Waggy w/out the paneling isn't, well...., isn't a Grand Waggy IMO.

2. Travellalls were definitely cool.

3. Pat, what a buzz kill LOL. "It doesn't make sense blah blah blah". Quite clearly this thread is about "how cool would this be", not "does this make sense". Roll with it brotha!

4. DO IT!!

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  • 2 weeks later...

This as close as I could get showing scale and holy cow is the excursion a big vehicle. Even after stretching the waggy by a good 15", it doesn't measure up. :shake: Mostly this means that if I drop the waggy body on a 7.3L ford frame, I'll be shortening the ford frame for sure (excursion has the same WB as a regular cab Superduty). I also scrapped my thought of extending the very back of the waggy. Just too much work for another 6" of storage space.

 

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It does look that way, and I certainly used some less-than scientific methods to get the images close (microsoft paint has drawbacks), but the numbers tell the story:

 

stock Waggy

WB: 109"

length: 187"

 

my modded waggy

WB: 124" (+15")

length: 202" (+15")

 

Excursion

WB: 137" (+13" more)

length: 226" (+24" more)

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