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Double cab?

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2slow5.0   +1y
sorry got tired of searching.......

does anyone have any pictures of a fab'd double cab on a mazda. like 4 door truck but using 2 cabs. i remember that lifted white one but it had 4 identical doors. id like to do the front as a normal door and the rear using only half the door so its still square. im just worried about the roof line being wavy.

any ideas will work. and yes i just got a title less truck. i just want to keep the truck but a cant with a single cab and have way to much time to turnaround and buy an extended cab, plus i want to be different.
jmzcustomz (jeff)   +1y
I have seen an S dime that way. I think they used a Blazer roof and rear doors. I wonder how off the old square bodied Explorers are from the Mazda Body lines.... May be an option. Good luck with it bro.
2slow5.0   +1y
like is said the roof is all im worried about. i guess ill cut up the other cab and put it up to my cab and see how different they are front to rear. and after measuring the ish out of my cab maybe not going for a functional door or maybe one big door, but then i have to support the cab and door hinges.

i dont know maybe ill just start hacking up the other cab and see how it looks, that way i dont mess with my cab
crazymikey   +1y
Do you want to use the 2 cabs and put them back to back?

That way you have the B pillars both in the middle for structural roof support,and your rear doors will be hinged normally,but will open up like suicide doors because the cab will be mounted backwards.

Maybe even be crazy and use an ext cab and std cab together and make it like an extended cab crew cab. With the roof line,I figure all you would need to do is put a support brace across the truck from the B pillars and weld it to the roof. To make it extra rigid,make small X braces from your support brace where the two cabs meet and run them to each A pillar.

So if you were looking up at your roof from inside the cab you would see X|X.

I've seen a quad cab made before where it was 2 cabs mated together back to back,and the guy extended the roof where the windshield raked back and squared it off like the back of a cab,but he left the doors the regular shape and looked kind of goofy.

But otherwise,it's definetly doable,just depends which way you want to mate the cabs and how much more fab work you want to do.
2slow5.0   +1y
im going to finish the truck for a show in dec. then im going to start with this cab.

yes NO GOOFY. i want people not to say, "o' he took 2 cabs and made one", i want " wow a 4 door mazda". so that means the roof has to be flat untill the windsheld and at the rear glass. i can make it strong...... im not worried about the i just want all the lines to match.

any pics of the back to back thing?
up2nogood   +1y
Is it possible to find a 4 door cab overseas?
jmzcustomz (jeff)   +1y
Yes....about 10Grand to get one state side from Australia. But that is RHD. Now Mexico has them and it may not be so hard to get back from there.
jmzcustomz (jeff)   +1y
This is what I have in mind for one.
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crazymikey   +1y
I don't see why you couldn't use a std cab for the front half,and then use the rear of an ext cab...cut the A pillars off where they meet the roof,and then butt that half of the ext cab up to the B pillars of the std cab. This way,like you said,you will get your square rear doors,plus you'll have a cool ext cab section to make a quad xab ext cab,so you can have 2 bench seats (front and back) or buckets in the front and a bench in the back,and then some audio behind the rear seats in the ext can section. Then top it all off with a long bed. Haha

I don't see the problem you'll have with the roof. If worst comes to worst,you could always do a vinyl roof covering,like Immortal1's trucks.
crazymikey   +1y
or just put a big ass slider sunroof in it and beef up your B pillars for support.