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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => 73-87 Chevy & GMC Trucks => Topic started by: 77c15 on March 15, 2008, 06:03:06 pm

Title: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: 77c15 on March 15, 2008, 06:03:06 pm
Check this out! You can build a complete fiberglass truck...would be a perfect drag truck with fiberglass instead of steel!

http://www.usbody.com/Pages_Trucks/73-Chevy.htm
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: 1978Bonanza on March 15, 2008, 07:37:48 pm
Strange... Never saw that coming. Good news to someone, not me though
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: VileZambonie on March 15, 2008, 07:44:11 pm
I've never had good luck with fiberglass panels lining up or fitting correctly. By the time I was done putting mud into it it weighed more than steel! I'd like to see one with the blazer tub in real life though
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: 77c15 on March 16, 2008, 05:47:09 am
That drag body looks cool...if you get the one without the floor the price drops significantly.
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: loudnlow87 on March 16, 2008, 03:06:31 pm
yea ive seen them before. with that price, i hope you get what you pay for.
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: Dragon on March 16, 2008, 03:22:20 pm
US Body has been doing them for a few years now, and their over all product quality of their hoods are pretty nice....  I have gotten a chance to see one of their Glass Pre Split Tilt Nose(The 73-80) finished at a Local Show, and it too was up their in quality....  The Owner said the main cause of hassle with it, happened on the Shipping Company's end, but in the end he was happy with the results....
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: Captkaos on March 17, 2008, 06:43:47 pm
This has been posted serveral times.  The tilt front end on the 73-87chevytrucks.com truck has one of their front ends.
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: 77c15 on March 17, 2008, 07:24:18 pm
Has anyone here heard of or know of one of the drag bodied trucks with no floor? I can't imagine the work that would go into the tube chassis and the finishing for the firewall and floor!
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: VileZambonie on March 17, 2008, 08:43:54 pm
By buddy built one for offroad racing.
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: 77c15 on March 18, 2008, 08:19:43 am
Any pix?
Title: Re: Complete fiberglass squarebodies?!?
Post by: Captkaos on March 18, 2008, 10:54:05 am
Truckin' magazine did a build of one of these like that on a 67-72 body.