This is the part of our build, that alot of the saner folks in the midst, would probably call me a heretic, and proceed with the stake-burnning. One afternoon, over a case of PBR, me and my friend sat on the rusty front frame of my truck, and stared at the now exposed front frame of the Lincoln. It had been a long week, pulling the motor, prepping the trucks frame, researching the ins-and-outs of the conversion.. When I made an off-hand comment that would start us down the dark path. I said, "Wouldn't it be easier if we could just saw-zall the front frame off the Lincoln, and weld it to the truck?"
Well, an hour of measurin and guestimating, and thats just what we decided to do!
At this point, we were running out of storage space, and the landlord was pushin us to get rid of the hunk of steel that was a MkV. So out came the Sawzall, and I began cutting the hulk into sections. Later, I went back and carved ever flat usable piece of sheet, to be used as patches for the truck.
We also realised that the wheel-track of the the Lincoln was 2 inches wider than that of the F100. Not to mention the lug spacing being different, so we decided to take the 9 inch rear out of the Linc. Only then realising how much easier it would have been, to remove said differential, when the car was still more or less intact.
Can you guess how we solved that problem?
