Thread: help w/ custom chevy crewcab

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looking for any help with custom project. I have a 1980 chevy crew cub. I would like to put a tip out front clip on it. also suicide the two back doors and shave all four door handles. If there are any kits, plans or ideas to achieve my objectives I would grately appreciate the help. thank you

Don't think any kits made. Your truck is a KING cab. Get a suicide door kit for hotrods, adapt that to the doors or, find a newer truck that has the 2 suicide rear doors stock and, there is no door post and, the rear doors lock into the fronts, you could adapt the mechanisms from these. I woulden't shave the handles cause the electronics for the door releases are hard to wire and expensive.

Sorry Streets, I have always thought that King Cabs were 4 doors ( up until newer trucks started coming out with 4 full doors and being considered crew cabs ), I must have been misguided somewhere early in life to think that crew cabs had ither no rear doors or stock suicide rear doors and, that king cabs were the only 4 full door trucks. All information is good to know.

Streets,
Thanks for the reply. Would you know of any links or web sites I could visit to get an idea of what I going to do for the front clip? Also where could I find the flush door buttons you mentioned? thanks again for your help.

Originally posted by caddykid
looking for any help with custom project. I have a 1980 chevy crew cub. I would like to put a tip out front clip on it. also suicide the two back doors and shave all four door handles. If there are any kits, plans or ideas to achieve my objectives I would grately appreciate the help. thank you

There are several kits out there for shaved doors I used several and they are all about the same you just need to decide how you want it set up I've got wireless remote on my Sedan Delivery www.greganti.com/rambler and buttons on my 64 Fury www.greganti.com/mrmopar they are not that bad to put in I'll be doing my cousins 2003 Chevy next month
As far as tilting the front end my 64 is done just like streets said the only thingis I welded my hood and fenders toghter to make the frontend all one piece
if you need more info email me
Hope this helps

MM64

If you wanted to really stand out, put on those automatic electric ram rod things ( can't remember there names ), have 2, one fer each side and, when you want to open the hood, just pull the latch and, wire a switch on an auto stop ( when it's up ) so you don't have to release it and push a button turning it on, you just release it.

I am probably a little late but I ran into the same problem for a kit for my truck since the doors are so heavy. But were there's a welder there is a way. A buddy and me tackled this project using hinges from a 55-57 chevy car. They are heavy duty and allow for plenty of opening room. I would be lying if I was to say it was easy as a kit but it wasn't that bad. The hinges recess great into the jamb area. The real modification is in the door and the front striker. We had to fabricate a bracket in the door to allow for support and adjustment by using 1" wide metal roughly 3/16 in thick the length of the door. For the front striker we just fabricated as we went (Trial and Error). But we were successful. Hope this helped.