Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Patent
1992-10-13
1994-02-22
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
296 392, B60P 900, B60R 2700
Patent
active
052881245
ABSTRACT:
A method of producing a truck-like conversion van starts with a conventional, cargo van, and vertical section of the main frame of the vehicle, just rearwardly of the side doors of the van. Thereafter, a horizontal cut is made starting from the bottom of the vertical cut and progressing rearwardly all the way through the frame or existing floor of the van. Thus, a rectangular-shaped slab or cutout of the conventional van is removed. The horizontal plane in which the horizontal cut is made is above the top of the rear tail lights, so that, not only are all of the mechanical parts of the original van retained, but also the same, original tail lights are also retained. After the slab has been cut away and removed, a truck-bed liner-insert of the invention is inserted into the cut-away, rear portion of the van, which rear portion is partially hollow, by which the liner-insert may be received therein. The truck-bed liner-insert is shaped in order to simulate the bed of a conventional pick-up truck, whereby the conversion van may now take the shape of a specialty truck-conversion van having a rear truck-bed for storage and transport.
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Gerstein Milton S.
Pape Joseph D.
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