looking for GQ cab chopped swap or buy

[flexit]

G'DAY' i have 2 MINT condition GQ LWB cabs i Want to swap one for a chopped cab or give someone one of my cabs if their willing to do a chop on the other one/with cash adjustments. or if your selling a GQ chopped cab let me know . I'm near Gosford but I'm willing to travel if needed . anyone that can do a chop let me know ill give you the plan of the chop so you can work out a price/quote

[nerida67]

cosidering a chop is a few thousand (depends on quality)
i think youll need a bit better trade than lwb bodies
your best bet would be to find a ute cab and cut rear panel of and get someone to fit it up 4 u
but everyone is chasin them so prices are a tad high at the moment

[flexit]

OK' a (few thousand) ill give them blokes a miss. their's people doing chops for a (few hundred) a mate got a quot of $800 to do a Ute chop .but he found one already chopped and he got it for $200. so i know their out there . thanks anyway

[nerida67]

a few hundred for a wagon to ute chop ????
i wish
ive been ringing around (in qld)and the cheapest was around 4.5k and up from there ,hell i even got quoted 10k
noone is doin them for a coupla hundred
the rear walls outta the ute cabs are goin for more than that
thats why im doin mine myself i aint paying those prices
do a search on forum a bloke just got one finished (garth ??)and im sure it was around the 7.5 k mark

[ozy1]

have you thought about how long it takes to cut a cab?

im no panel beater, but i did my ute chop, and i have no idea how long it actually took me,

but i do know that if you can get it done for $800 id go get a dozen cabs chopped and sell them here,

im guessing a pannel beater works for about $80 an hour, that only gives him 10 hours to chop, fit panel weld and seal the cab,

[nerida67]

even on $40 an hour ,thats 20 hours to do the coversion
fabricator/panel beater would have flames hangin out his butt
$800 finished ,minus of course the rear wall,weather a 2nd handy or a new fabricated one
the fabricator/panel beater would be doin it for about $2 an hour
your cheaper option would be to try and find a ute cab
good luck with that also they start at around $500 +
(not saying there is no cheaper ones out there but youll be lookin for a while)
PS they was a cheap extra cab (shell only) just down the road from me for $500,but it had to be redone at its was not rite (a little twist in it )the bloke couldnt sell it,couldnt even give it to me (to much work to redo)so he got it scrapped

[tufflux88]

ive got a gq cut into a space cab for sale with a v8 holden motor in it with gearbox for 2500
rear wall has about 4 hrs left of work to finish it off
motor has been fully rebuilt

[flexit]

tufflux88 thanks pm sent

[Ruffy]

I think the problem here is the no-one is explaining their definition of a chop.
Are we talking panel work removed and rear welded or are we talking finished product, painted, window, lining, the Whole works?????

Anyone that is going to do a quality job will know the value and certainly charge more than a couple of hundred

[nerida67]

ruffy,
even to just remove all associated parts do chop supply and weld rear wall on (without paint,trim and finish off)
would still cost more than $800
bloke down brissie way got one done about 6 months ago
drove wagon in,got chop done (using 2 hand rear wall and window)
to primer only,no trim no tray and it was 4k odd
if any one is doin wagon to ute chops that can be engineered for road use for $800,tell me where ill start shipin down the wagon shells

[dazgq1]

after posting a thread on this forum guys i purchased the whole rear end of a rolled dualcab comp truck .rear wall n window barwork etc for bugger all . I am choppin it myself with 1 mm cutting discs and a mate (boily) is helpin weld it up all in 2 weekends im told ,so cheap, fast, quality chops can be done if u use this forum wisely and befriend a good welder lol

[dazgq1]

OK' a (few thousand) ill give them blokes a miss. their's people doing chops for a (few hundred) a mate got a quot of $800 to do a Ute chop .actually i got it for 100but he found one already chopped and he got it for $200. so i know their out there . thanks anyway

actually i got it for 100

[flexit]

you believe these Guy's? NERIDIA67 and friend's' you blokes must be jokers . sorry to say but you rape my post?why . you haven't got a cab to swap your not chopping one for me. if you were capable of helping i would of told you exactly what i wanted and didn't want done to the cab but you are not. so nerda i haven't got the time to write a three page plan on the ins and outs of my cab chop just so you and your mates have got something to read with all that time you have. if you don't think you can help dont waste everybody's time hijacking and raping posts with uninformed and irrelevant babble. its just not cool tell me if im wrong? try going out side theres other stuff to do maybe go find a female. any way back to (my thread) still looking for a chopped cab if you have one or know of one. thanks to the blokes that sent quotes/pm's just for you nerda' no quote has been over $1500. $10000 ha ha some people gotta laugh hay nerda69. daz that $2500 v8 gq with the chopped cab got sold . if i don't do some sort of trade i might have a go chopping it my self if i stuff it up i got the other cab .will Wait and see

[scuba steve 22]

maybe you should of posted in the wanted section......
then your post wouldn't have been raped

[nerida67]

sorry i hurt ure little feelings there little captain
i am doin mine myself because i to was disgusted with THESE stupid and over the top prices
so maybe instead of sitting baggin other people maybe u SHOULD ring the places that do the conversions as i did , and u to will see that the prices i have said are not far from the TRUTH
REMEMBERING that it has to be legally modified for road use
there is a bloke on this forum that just got a wagon to ute conversion done (i think his name was garth??AND IT WAS AROUND THE 7.5K MARK)or have u not bothered to do any searches and just got on the soap box with out doin your homework
just for the RECORD here, i do have better things to do,i get on these forums for information and to offer an opinion for peoples problems (i did not INTENTIONALLY HIJACK YOUR THREAD,JUST PASSING U INFORMATION I KNOW OK !!!!),so if this is the attitude of people on this forum ive got better places to be
PS have u really looked into this with google searches and forum searches, with relation to prices seems u havent
if someone will swap u a wagon shell for an extra cab UTE shell thats great
GOOD LUCK WITH UR PROBLEMS

[tufflux88]

pm sent

[Ruffy]

ruffy,
even to just remove all associated parts do chop supply and weld rear wall on (without paint,trim and finish off)
would still cost more than $800
bloke down brissie way got one done about 6 months ago
drove wagon in,got chop done (using 2 hand rear wall and window)
to primer only,no trim no tray and it was 4k odd
if any one is doin wagon to ute chops that can be engineered for road use for $800,tell me where ill start shipin down the wagon shells

Thanks Nerida,
I'm more than aware of the time and costs involved as we do them here. I was merely explaining that you cannot use a generic term when there is so many variables.

[nerida67]

ruffy,
thats cool man i understand
just kinda annoys me when people THINK they only cost a coupla hundred
jess ure lucky to get a rear wall for that
its just peoples perseption that u just cut one of and just weld the other on and all done,not quite that simple as u know
i to got told of the cheapies around and was WARNED to steer clear of cheap poor workmanship
but each to there own
and to the op,
there is a dual cab chop getting done on this forum and to get engineered after all work is done is around the $700 mark,(thats the cost ONLY for the engineer to pass the conversion)

[flexit]

hi there ' still looking for a chopped cab if you know of one?

thanks to the blokes that sent the quotes/Pm's . they have very helpful and no quote has been over $1500. thats awesome thanks again. if i don't do some sort of trade i might have a go chopping it some of the Boy's are willing to let me help to keep cost down and learn some tricks four next time . i still got 2 cabs to play withe .will Wait and see

[Straussy]

I chopped a 60 Series Landcruiser into a dual cab AND made a tube tray in a weekend with my mate Denny, i'm a boilermaker by trade and there definately were flames coming out of my ass!!