Single drive crackerbox

[53gmc]

Got this cab for my birthday, it's from global trucks. Used an astro as a donor. Following mods include:

*shortened the frame by around 2"

*shortened the fuel tanks.

*converted to single axel using the spring and axel from a freightliner 

*converted the 8v71 to 6v71. Also made the fan to be a crank driven one. Lowered the radiator to fit.

*added little details to the interior, sunglasses, map, magazine, model car kit, curtains, and roof mounted cb.

*also added roof mounted ac unit, grab handles, photo etched windshield wipers, and mudflaps.

Edited June 11 by 53gmc

[Pete75]

Looks great!

[Jim B]

Great looking Crackerbox.  Very well done.

[leafsprings2]

Excellent cracker box build. Global cab looks very good. Great choice using an Astro frame, wheels and WF single drive, paint scheme is perfect, especially like the front bumper paint treatment, the way GMC would have done it at the factory.

[53gmc]

  On 6/11/2025 at 7:41 PM, Pete75 said:

Looks great!

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Thank you!

[53gmc]

  On 6/11/2025 at 8:03 PM, Jim B said:

Great looking Crackerbox.  Very well done.

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Thank you!

[53gmc]

  On 6/12/2025 at 1:56 PM, leafsprings2 said:

Excellent cracker box build. Global cab looks very good. Great choice using an Astro frame, wheels and WF single drive, paint scheme is perfect, especially like the front bumper paint treatment, the way GMC would have done it at the factory.

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Thank you! It's a nice conversion kit, my first time working with 3d parts. It took me almost as long to pick out a paint scheme as it did to build it lol

[The Brush]

What a top job, I like the setting also. 

[DRIPTROIT 71]

I like everything about this build, from the subject to the paint scheme. Excellent work!

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[BIGTRUCK]

Very nice..I really enjoy seeing the 60's and early 70's trucks done..I liked that early style GMC with a sleeper or the daycab version.

[BK9300]

Great job on your modifications - nice looking build.  Also like the photography in the sunlight - crisp shadows of truck on the ground makes it look all the more realistic.

Edited Monday at 02:33 AM by BK9300