Definitely a custom job. Looks like they took a long Crew Cab and grafted the back of a Super Cab and then used the Super Cab, or some other truck’s short bed, so it could use the CC’s frame w/o extending it.
I never understand the reason to own such vehicles except for the person super ego. I think this is one of problems in US automobile landscape, not to mention the carbon emissions of such large vehicle as daily driving. If it is a working vehicle, I think Toyota Dyna Extended Cab is much practical. Of course we can not get that in US, but US manufacturers need to develop the similar products.
Maybe there are other reasons. Here on Vancouver Island its 1.73.9/litre for regular today. Diesel is another .15 on top that. That’s roughly 5 bucks a gallon for the cheapest stuff using US measure and currency. 3/4 and 1 ton pickups are thick as flies around here. It’s gone as high as 2.20 (about $6.40 US per USG), and the big trucks are still selling….
Ram sells the Mega cab as a factory option which is likely close to this size. It’s very popular at campgrounds for people hauling large 5th wheels or travel trailers with a family. Limo like legroom in the back. I also once met a contractor who fit custom racks in the crew cab area to put his more expensive tools. so that could work as well. Also fairly common in race car and horse owner circles.
What part of the country you live in influences this a bit too. I used to drive extended cab long bed duallys as company vehicles at a couple jobs when I was younger. Here in CT 90% of the time they were fine to drive every day go out west and the 90% becomes almost 100%. I even drove in to NYC a few times to deliver boats and go to boat shows, a little tight but workable Boston is actually worse the NYC in some respects for fitting trucks. In alot of other countries this would be more of a pain but since semi trucks do deliveries in a lot of cities these trucks fit just fine.
I wonder what this originally was since the angled glass on the rear doors looks more like an Excursion door than a crew cab door. It looks like this was originally a long bed crew cab that was swapped to a short bed to allow grafting a Super Cab rear on. I’m curious about the interior setup, is it now a 3 row or just a two row with storage behind the seat
It would almost convincingly appear factory, if the rear door window didn’t have the cant forward, at its trailing edge. More vertical, and it would have a cleaner overall look.
A former coworker of mine had seven daughters–of reasonably close proximity in age–and so drove a six-door Ford Excursion. In reality, it was a 2012 F-250 Super Crew long-bed. The shop that built it took the bed off of the F-250, cut the back off of the F-250’s cab, and then welded in its place the B-pillar rearward of a 2000s Excursion. They were able to do this because the Super Duty was fundamentally structurally the same from 1999 all the way through 2016. They may still have had to extend the frame a bit, too. It looked something like the above.
The shop that built it was “Custom Autos By Tim,” which is in Guthrie, OK…a stone’s throw away from where we live.
When you really don’t want a van, I guess. There is a family near me I see at the pediatrician, that took a different tack and had a Nissan NV3500 passenger van modified into a 4wd, I think that one could technically fit 12 people.
There’s a 6 door pickup running around town. Full size, I don’t recall if it’s Ford or Chevy. It’s been in the local car show a few times, notable not for being good, just for existing. And in a perverse way I like it, it’s unique. As a one off it’s cool, although far, far larger than I would want or should be in a grocery store parking lot, but again, as a one off it’s cool. Now if it was production, my gawd, 25+ feet long, used as a daily driver? Facepalm.
One is interesting, even if not to my tastes. But if a manufacturer started cranking them out by the 10s or 100’s of thousands, that’s a far different story.
I’ve long had a fascination with Deuce and a halfs. They just seem like they should be able to go everywhere, do anything. Albeit slowly. Of course they’re just absurdly big, but it would be fun to pull up to a jacked up pickup truck and just look down at them. Except today’s double cab, long bed pickup is actually longer than the Deuce. Rated at carrying more weight too. But I bet the Deuce will go places the pickups won’t even think about. But if they’re no bigger than a big pickup, why shouldn’t they be used as commute vehicles?
Turning circle; Don’t ask.
The Equator?
In Tesla-speak, this is a GigaCab.
Only needs four things to be perfect……a diesel, a stick shift, dual rear wheels, and a long box.
That’s a lotta truck! Like the color.
Did Ford build it or is it a custom job?
Definitely a custom job. Looks like they took a long Crew Cab and grafted the back of a Super Cab and then used the Super Cab, or some other truck’s short bed, so it could use the CC’s frame w/o extending it.
I never understand the reason to own such vehicles except for the person super ego. I think this is one of problems in US automobile landscape, not to mention the carbon emissions of such large vehicle as daily driving. If it is a working vehicle, I think Toyota Dyna Extended Cab is much practical. Of course we can not get that in US, but US manufacturers need to develop the similar products.
Either that or the owner has 6 kids and pulls a 5th-wheel trailer recreationally but the overlap in that Venn diagram has to be pretty narrow.
Never gonna happen while fuel is so cheap in the US
Maybe there are other reasons. Here on Vancouver Island its 1.73.9/litre for regular today. Diesel is another .15 on top that. That’s roughly 5 bucks a gallon for the cheapest stuff using US measure and currency. 3/4 and 1 ton pickups are thick as flies around here. It’s gone as high as 2.20 (about $6.40 US per USG), and the big trucks are still selling….
Ram sells the Mega cab as a factory option which is likely close to this size. It’s very popular at campgrounds for people hauling large 5th wheels or travel trailers with a family. Limo like legroom in the back. I also once met a contractor who fit custom racks in the crew cab area to put his more expensive tools. so that could work as well. Also fairly common in race car and horse owner circles.
What part of the country you live in influences this a bit too. I used to drive extended cab long bed duallys as company vehicles at a couple jobs when I was younger. Here in CT 90% of the time they were fine to drive every day go out west and the 90% becomes almost 100%. I even drove in to NYC a few times to deliver boats and go to boat shows, a little tight but workable Boston is actually worse the NYC in some respects for fitting trucks. In alot of other countries this would be more of a pain but since semi trucks do deliveries in a lot of cities these trucks fit just fine.
I wonder what this originally was since the angled glass on the rear doors looks more like an Excursion door than a crew cab door. It looks like this was originally a long bed crew cab that was swapped to a short bed to allow grafting a Super Cab rear on. I’m curious about the interior setup, is it now a 3 row or just a two row with storage behind the seat
The offspring of a Checker Aerobus and a F150.
It would almost convincingly appear factory, if the rear door window didn’t have the cant forward, at its trailing edge. More vertical, and it would have a cleaner overall look.
A former coworker of mine had seven daughters–of reasonably close proximity in age–and so drove a six-door Ford Excursion. In reality, it was a 2012 F-250 Super Crew long-bed. The shop that built it took the bed off of the F-250, cut the back off of the F-250’s cab, and then welded in its place the B-pillar rearward of a 2000s Excursion. They were able to do this because the Super Duty was fundamentally structurally the same from 1999 all the way through 2016. They may still have had to extend the frame a bit, too. It looked something like the above.
The shop that built it was “Custom Autos By Tim,” which is in Guthrie, OK…a stone’s throw away from where we live.
When you really don’t want a van, I guess. There is a family near me I see at the pediatrician, that took a different tack and had a Nissan NV3500 passenger van modified into a 4wd, I think that one could technically fit 12 people.
There’s a 6 door pickup running around town. Full size, I don’t recall if it’s Ford or Chevy. It’s been in the local car show a few times, notable not for being good, just for existing. And in a perverse way I like it, it’s unique. As a one off it’s cool, although far, far larger than I would want or should be in a grocery store parking lot, but again, as a one off it’s cool. Now if it was production, my gawd, 25+ feet long, used as a daily driver? Facepalm.
One is interesting, even if not to my tastes. But if a manufacturer started cranking them out by the 10s or 100’s of thousands, that’s a far different story.
I’ve long had a fascination with Deuce and a halfs. They just seem like they should be able to go everywhere, do anything. Albeit slowly. Of course they’re just absurdly big, but it would be fun to pull up to a jacked up pickup truck and just look down at them. Except today’s double cab, long bed pickup is actually longer than the Deuce. Rated at carrying more weight too. But I bet the Deuce will go places the pickups won’t even think about. But if they’re no bigger than a big pickup, why shouldn’t they be used as commute vehicles?
The only thing missing to make this the perfect vehicle: an 8-foot bed.
But then it would probably have to be articulated! 😉