What if you changed to using doors from a 2-door instead of the shorter
4-door type doors the wagon has. That, plus a sloping backlite down to the
bed would lengthen the 'cab' portion of your pickup and might balance it
better with the overall length of the vehicle.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Oddity On The Road!
> Someone around here has one of these Caddy wagons, but a 72-73 model.
Must
> have been a lot of work because from the rear it looks more like an Olds
or
> Buick, complete with 'clamshell' tailgate - all done with factory parts.
> But it goes to show what interchangability exists in a car line.
>
>
> For a while I toyed with making a pickup out of the rough '60 New Yorker
> wagon I have, but after I took a side-on photo converted to drawing and
> messed with the top to see how it would look, I decided a short top and
> those long fins looks too goofy for my taste. Maybe with a sedan-style
rear
> window?
>
> Not to mention the fact that if it can even be saved it needs rear frame
> rails before anything else -
>
>
> What would be more fun had I the extra bread to pick up all the cars I'd
> need to do it (at least three) is put together a '60 DeSoto convertible,
> using a '61 Newport convert for the top and so forth.
>
>
>
> Bill K.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Homstad" <dhomstad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 2:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Oddity On The Road!
>
>
> > I have also seen a couple of aftermarket built Cadillac station wagons
> from
> > the late 70s.
> >
> > Dave Homstad
> > 56 Dodge D500
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Forward Look Mopar Discussion List
> > [mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wayne Graefen
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:56 AM
> > To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Oddity On The Road!
> >
> > There have been aftermarket companies who have built Cadillac coupes
into
> El
> > Camino types over they years and particularly the late '70s starting
with
> > '77 because the ElDorado dropped the convertible that year but the
coupes
> > were using the former convertible frames. The Cad pickups were often
> > referred to as "Texas Cadillacs" on the (very mistaken) idea that
> everybody
> > in Texas has oil money and drives a Cadillac and owns a truck. Most of
> the
> > Cad PUs that survived were stowed away in collections or show up at
> auctions
> > from time to time.
> > I once owned something similar. A '78 Eldo convertible. The factory
> > stopped making them in '76 but a company in Ohio had permission and
parts
> > from GM including use of the GM warranty to make some more. This one
came
> > from an estate auction in my small town of Kerrville. I polished and
> tuned
> > it and resold it for a couple thousand dollar profit within a couple
> months.
> > Wayne
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