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Thanks guys for the vote of confidence, It turns out the body may be just past the end of my skill set. There are some major differences between both the Chevy cab,the Ford hood and the B-7000's cab & hood. For starters the upper door feature stops short of the firewall on the B while it goes into the fender on the pickup cab. As well, the Ford hood's top surface is straight out from the back while the B's narrows towards the front. And the B's A pillars slants to the front while the pickup cab's slants to the rear. This will be seriously challenging.

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The tapered hood looks like the most challenging problem.  You could fill the back of the character line/crease at the cowl area then file & sand it to shape.  The '60-'63 cabs had wraparound windshields; '64-'66 had the same style as your Revell pickup cab, so you could just say it's a later model.  Otherwise, the AMT '60 Chevy cab could work.

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On 10/30/2015 at 5:00 PM, dodgefever said:

The tapered hood looks like the most challenging problem.  You could fill the back of the character line/crease at the cowl area then file & sand it to shape.  The '60-'63 cabs had wraparound windshields; '64-'66 had the same style as your Revell pickup cab, so you could just say it's a later model.  Otherwise, the AMT '60 Chevy cab could work.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I went back & looked at the one I'm trying to reproduce and BINGO! it is newer than 63. One less hurdle.

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Pat, you can buy this cab from frontier. He doesnt have any listed right now, but you can message him and see.

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Can't find a link. I had heard about that but the only one I could find was a 1950 or so and was no longer in productio. Does anyone know how to reach those guys?

There is one on Ebay now that ends in 5 days at $79.99 buy it now plus shipping. It is listed as 1960 dbw 9000. Listed by tbird58123. Hope this helps...Brian

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On 10/30/2015 at 5:17 PM, disabled modeler said:

Looks like a cool project...love the older trucks myself.  What does the back of the Ford cab look like..?...I have a project with a 61-63 Ford Ill have to see if I can make the back of the cab for it...?

It looks like this Mark,

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Well Pat,  if you trust me you can have it sent to me and Ill send it to Canada.

We're talking. Looks like he'll ship. If not I'll get back to you. Won't be the first time. When I restored my '34 Chevy, the  one guy in the world who had the part I needed wouldn't ship here. So I got it shipped from Ohio to Arizona to a friend who then shipped it back to me. I seem to remember it travelled over 5000 miles instead of about 700. Go figure.

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We're talking. Looks like he'll ship. If not I'll get back to you. Won't be the first time. When I restored my '34 Chevy, the  one guy in the world who had the part I needed wouldn't ship here. So I got it shipped from Ohio to Arizona to a friend who then shipped it back to me. I seem to remember it travelled over 5000 miles instead of about 700. Go figure.

Cool deal. I hope it all works out.

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On 10/31/2015 at 1:01 PM, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

I thought so. I just found them listed last week. The quality in your photos looks good. I might have to get me one.

That is what I used in my race car hauler

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