37 cab corner explanation ?

Kdancy
Kdancy Senior Contributor
edited June 2012 in HUDSON
Stripped the cab down on the 37 Terraplane PU and find the front bottom corner sections rather odd. This appearred to be an original cab mounted on a car chassis in 37 (truck kit?) Are the cab corners factory?





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  • bent metal
    bent metal Senior Contributor
    I highly doubt that's factory. Especially since both sides were done different. The right side is a gas welded butt joint? The left a riveted lap joint. Neither side with very good results.

    If it were me, and assuming the metal below the joint is good? I would cut a stip wide enough to go below the old repair on the bottom, and high enough on the top to go past the rusted out area. Then butt weld it all in.

    At least that's what I'd do, based on the pictures.:)
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    Well, here is what I found underneath the added extensions, some one must have put these in, in order to install different fenders?
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Kdancy wrote:
    Well, here is what I found underneath the added extensions, some one must have put these in, in order to install different fenders?

    It would appear so!:huh:

    Can you post pictures of the fenders that were on the car? Perhaps a '37 owner would be able to tell if they are the original type.


    Kevin C.
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    This was a cab I got off eBay. There was no front sheet metal. The frame it is mounted on is longer from the front cab mount to the end of the frame horn then the original PU frame I am working with.
  • bent metal
    bent metal Senior Contributor
    Oh wow! I wasn't expecting that! My first thought was, is there a long and short wheel base in this year? This is where I would expect the factory to make up the different wheel base length. This could be some one trying to change a short wheel base cab to a long one? Maybe? Or maybe a different year cab?

    I have no idea, just throwing it out there.

    Need to compare it to some pictures of an untouched car/truck.
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    here is a photobucket album of the ongoing work--
    http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm97/studebaker2/37 Terraplane PU cab work/
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    Well, after the recent post on serial #'s I decided to do some more searching on the above cab "extenders".
    The serial # on the frame and on the rear end is 859816
    This should be a 1938 Hudson Custom 8 with a 122" wheel base. Were the fillers made up to cover the extra 5"? (this PU is a 37 117" wb)
  • bent metal
    bent metal Senior Contributor
    So it is a car that some one made into a truck. Or are you saying the cab is a truck, the frame is too long?
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    edited June 2012
    It is a 1938 car chassis that an actual 37 PU cab was put on to. The bed was not on when I got it. The owner told me it was used to haul coal. Came from Colorado.
    tag on cab door piller # 703836
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