Thread: will a '41 Chevy cab fit in the box of my Ranger?

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I'v been looking for a cheap old truck cab for a bobber truck build for a while.. found 1 on Ebay going cheap, kinda close ( 4 hr drive ).. have my '98 Ranger which gets around 28 MPG so the trip will cost a calculated estimate of $20 in gas.. still really cheap... but I just need to know the cab will fit in the back of my Ranger?.. 6ft shortbox... 4cyl 5spd

Here's the spec's.....joe

56" wide.. I'll have to measure tomorrow.. 59" width is no problem if I put it in the bed sideways.. just don't know about the 56" between the tire wells

This is my Ranger... I won't start until I finish the '51, but the Bobber truck just might replace this truck if I can get the stuff to build it cheap enough... I figure if I clean this truck up and make it look cool, I'll make a little somthing on it, and it gets 28 MPG in the meantime...


1st picture is when I brought it home. 2nd pic is what it looks like now.. fixed rusted gas door and ditched the tool box in favor of the tonneau and got 2 Cooper cobra's for the rear.. think I'll get a rollpan, and diffrent mirrors and call it good... also 2 more Cooper cobra's for the front...

Nice looking little truck Matt.

Put a mattress in the bed of the Ranger and load the cab in roof-down.

Originally Posted by techinspector1

Put a mattress in the bed of the Ranger and load the cab in roof-down.

do you mean completly upside down?

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Nice looking little truck Matt.

Thanks.. at first I was looking in dealerships for Rangers, and did find a fair priced '02 Edge, Bright red 4.0/ Auto 4x4, almost got it but decided against the payment... and I saw this 1 in the local want ad, the day the ad came out and I jumped on it.. got the truck for just over $1k

If it's 56 inches, I would doubt that it would fit, but it might. Rangers don't have big beds. At 56", the cab is 8" wider than a 4x8 piece of plywood or drywall. I seem to remember that neither would fit flat in a friends Ranger. But what the hell, at my age I'm lucky to remember that incident at all.

Maybe Tech's way would work if you can get it strapped down well enough. Or if you ain't got an old mattress, maybe a rental trailer might be best.

If all else fails borrow or rent a small trailer to get it home, plus it'll be easier to get on & off of the trailer then from the bed of your truck....joe

Put some 4x4's across the top of the bed and carry it on top of the
bed.....it'll make the little bugger top heavy but it will work.

Originally Posted by robot

Put some 4x4's across the top of the bed and carry it on top of the
bed.....it'll make the little bugger top heavy but it will work.

See there Matt, if you wait a little while, someone will come up with a cheap, workable solution. Thanks robot, you make good sense.

Thanks, Tech. It also works if your girlfriend wont fit in the pickup bed (learned that from a guy from Arkansas).

I had an 85 Ranger (long bed) and the bed had notches on the sides so you could put 2 x 4's across between the sides allowing you to put a plywood false floor above the wheel wells. I am not sure whether they had this on the short bed or whether the 1998's still had those.

Originally Posted by RestoRod

I had an 85 Ranger (long bed) and the bed had notches on the sides so you could put 2 x 4's across between the sides allowing you to put a plywood false floor above the wheel wells. I am not sure whether they had this on the short bed or whether the 1998's still had those.

I do belive my '92 Ranger has those provisions.. but I know the '98 doesn't, and I took the '92 off the road..

and as for a trailer, I have no hitch