Sammio rat rod pick-up
 

My everyday pick-up truck has served me well over the last 4 years but the MOT is due and I'm not confident so started looking for a replacement just in case. :icon_rolleyes:

It's a Scimitar SE6 V6 manual with overdrive, Ford model "A" floor-pan and a 32 Ford pick-up body.

It's not the ideal tool for every day use but it'll do as a stop-gap until I can find some thing a little more user friendly and I can always sell it when I'm finished with it.

We cut the floor-pan to line up with the wheel base as best we could and it was soon obvious the engine and gearbox would have to be moved back 10".
This way the radiator grill would now line-up with the front axle and we could keep the spreader bar between the front suspension turrets

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It turned out to be a nice fit with very little effort.

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Nice start . Scimitars are ideal for a Rod Chassis . the larger 6 is virtually the same wheelbase as a Model A ...That's a Rodshop Model A floorpan by the looks of it ....I used to have a mould for those many years ago ....

I couldn't remember weather it was an model "A" or a "B" but your right it does say "Rodshop" on the mould.

We also tried a SE5 chassis but as you say the wheel base of a SE6 is well suited to this floor-pan. :smile:

The new floor-pan sat high on the chassis so I made a frame to bridge the gap between the chassis and the floor-pan which was about 5".

https://i.imgur.com/pMfIlm7h.jpg

I also mounted the hand brake and gear stick.

https://i.imgur.com/jksKmEqh.jpg

BUT!!!
When all was assembled it was obvious the cab was to high. :fear:

https://i.imgur.com/sBeCfxKh.jpg

So the 5" frame work was removed along with a very large chunk of the floor-pan.

https://i.imgur.com/VJc1EqRh.jpg

I also had to remove some of the lower cab but this left a much more suitable looking fit. :eusa_dance:

https://i.imgur.com/5KvNoyLh.jpg

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. :cool:

Good luck, Paul. :)

I welded up a simple Bulkhead support to which I fitted the steering column and the foot pedals.

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More support around the bulkhead area will be added later. :nod:

I love this 'my pickup was going to fail an MOT so I'm building a new one'! Lovely. It is a bit mean to suggest it might have been quicker to repair the existing one. But not as much fun!

Dpaz It's not just the MOT work needed, I'm having a few electrical problems as well. :noidea:

If my current truck needs a lot of time, money and effort for the MOT pass I'll remove the 2.5 turbo diesel engine and gearbox and fit it into this truck.

If my current truck doesn't need a lot of time, money and effort I'll just finish this truck and sell it on.

Either way, I'll end up with what I think is a suitable and usable truck.

That's my cunning plan and as there's minimal cost involved because I'm using what I have hanging around the workshop I think it's a good plan. :humble:

I was joking, but I love your logic. Respect.
'If you ain't got a plan how do you know where it went belly up?'

Dpaz This is my daily drive.

https://i.imgur.com/AQsriJ7h.jpg

Folk don't remember me but they always remember the pick-up !!!!
So it I'm going to replace it it must be replaced with something just as "different" hence my plan :lalala:

The pick-up will have a high bed which means much will be seen from the rear view so I decided to fit a stainless steel GTE fuel tank along with a pair stainless steel rear silencers that I had laying around unused.

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I think they are well suited for the job!
And yes, I know, the rear silencers need a polish :sorry:

I think I might have started a new trend in seating.:smokin:

https://i.imgur.com/k3GqEOyh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/wL5MQ88h.jpg

They will have a padded seat cushion and a little padding on the back but as they are they are surprisingly comfortable. :lalala:

Just be sure to dress and trim the edges. Strips of plywood will do.

Nah! Trim the edges with old heater hose held on with copper wire or for a real Hill billy look, baler twine. Seats padded with hessian sacks. Personally, I think the drums look a bit flash couldn't you find some rusty ones? A 5 gall drum center child seat too?

PS Love your daily driver.

Perfect idea with the heater hose!

A Ratrod with oil drum seats?

Perfect. :cool:

The Garage Cafe near me at Burnhope, Co. Durham has lots of drum seats in gulf racing colours!

Nice, will have to do a road trip up North and stop there for lunch one day.

Called out to see scim jim over the weekend as I knew he had a set of steel 15" wheel rims that would suit this truck perfectly.

https://i.imgur.com/7QdLQIGh.jpg

They don't look much in there standard form but add a bit of chrome trim and !!

https://i.imgur.com/Jrw5dDkh.jpg

Like I said should suit the truck perfectly :love:

I going to try fitting 31/10.50/15 rear tyres and 185/80/15 front tyres and see what result I get. :icon_cool:

I have a set of plain wheels that I want to fit hubcaps to. I am looking for a simple way to add three studs to each wheel like yours in the pics. Have you added the studs on each wheel or are they original. Any practical solutions gratefully received.

You could try these as they wouldn't need to be placed quite so precisely as the stud type retainers -

https://www.justkampers.com/111-698-...iABEgL_zPD_BwE

Yes these might do. I want to fit triumph herald hubcaps which are reasonably heavy and so could be shaken loose. I have considered threaded studs that are normally used to retain soft top hoods and tonneau covers but I would need to get the location spot on

andremhush these are original GTE wheels so the hub-cap fitting's are standard.

Painted the wheels in traditional hot-rod red today.

https://i.imgur.com/GK29739h.jpg

Ready to trial fit the 31/10.50/15 rear tyres.

https://i.imgur.com/pUK3Kerh.jpg

These tyre's are larger than I thought, the coke can on the floor give them some scale!!
I might have to have a re-think. :suspicious:

Methinks 10.5 is a bit wide for your rims which look like 6.5-7.5 .
It would look monster with those on though. It might roll around on the narrow rims.

GT (coupe), not GTE (which had 14” wheels). Have you had them banded yet - they’re 5.5” as standard.

Had a little time spare so I fitted the tyres.

https://i.imgur.com/R39078yh.jpg

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They do need a 20mm spacer to clear the axle tie rods but other than that I like them. :biggrin1:

I have ordered a pair of 195x80x15 tyres for the front wheels which should give me the look I'm after. :icon_cool:

Fair doos they do look a bit lot awesome. 80s on the front should be right. With those tyres who needs springs? Respect!

Got the front tyres on.

https://i.imgur.com/bwwOaYIh.jpg

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Just about perfect for me! :high5:

And I like it too!

Looks just right, congratulations.

Like !

My trusty old FORD ANGER pick-up failed the MOT on tyres, hand brake, fog light and number plate light !!!

All now done so a new MOT was issued yesterday afternoon! :eusa_dance:

Which means I can relax and slow down on this build!

And here's me thinking you're building a new pickup because the old one was knackered, true fog and number plate light are very serious never mind now you will have two spare vehicles. A man after my own heart!

Today we collected the material to trim the dash, interior and the seats :lalala:

https://i.imgur.com/83xAhbjh.jpg

We also received the shortened prop shaft so I can now think about firing it up and getting it moving under it's own power!!

Perfect!

Perfect. Why can I never find old setees? Are they all being upcycled into Rat Rods?

Free cycle in the U.K. has loads of people giving them away. Or just buy the Saturday paper, a large coffee and hang out on the local tip approach road and intercept one on its final journey...!

I just seem to have lost the knack of scrounging. Possibly because I have so much 'useful' stuff. I will look out Freecycle. Thanks.

Obviously, I'm a big fan of re-using the leather from old sofas.

And I think that is a great colour for a car interior. :cool:

With a little bit of effort I have managed to fit the original GTE radiator.

https://i.imgur.com/hwert2Gh.jpg

Thoes of you who are fimiliar with Scimitar's will notice the front suspension bracing bar has been turned around leaving plenty of room for the grill surround to fit. :biggrin:

https://i.imgur.com/Q5NclNih.jpg

:rofl: