For a while I have been planning(in my head) 240 Pick up modified from 245. It has been done before several times I know, but I'd like to do my version :)
Now before I start making it, I'd like to have some information if any of you has made such project before. Or if you know people who know people who has done it.
The biggest help would be in the calculations and form of the extra structures made in to the car. I don't have a clue how getting register plates for 240 Pick up goes, but as far as I know, in Finland they can be really (too)exact in this sort of things :I

So therefore if someone has complete and officially approved calculations, it would be a major help and I would't mind if there were photos about it even I have my plans almost complete.

Thanks.

244x2

I made one of these a few years back. I took a 79 245 which had rusted pretty badly under the rear windows, welded the rear doors , cut off the roof, added the back of a Isuzu pickup cab w/sliding back glass, I was pulled over numerous times by courious policemen, each time ending with nothing more than "have a nice day" Good Luck with yours.
Poorgie

How about a 4 door pickup? Just cut out the rear portion behind the doors and build a bed for the rear section. Hey, use an old trailer box and cut it to fit. Maybe even a new one from one of those do-it-yourself kits they sell at farm supply stores. It could be on hinges with a hydraulic jack to make it a dump bed. I rented a concrete trailer like that once. Leace the rear seat so it still folds down and have the rear window and back panel on hinges so that you can extend the cargo space to six feet when needed.
As for truck plates, don't worry about it. It WAS a car and technically still IS a car - like a Chevy El Camino. Although truck plates cost more they are tax deductable, at least here in the U.S.
Ben

Unlike 242 convertibles, most 245 truck conversions I've seen do not have any additional reinforcement beyond completely welding the rear doors shut. Strength is still maintained around the door opening between the A and B pillars.

I doubt anyone's done calculations. Much like our driver's licenses, the requirements here in the US can be quite a joke. Many states do not even have regular inspections, hence why cars like this or this are on the road here.

If adding some rigidity to the back is a concern, after cutting off the top and welding the doors shut, weld some pipe along the top edge. However, I would not make one solid run from the B-pillar back. Use heavier pipe (like sch.10) from the B-pillar to over the wheel well, and run some thinwall (like EMT conduit) from there on back for finishing the look. You do not want someone rear ending you to ram a rod right through the B-pillar, y'know.

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Yep, heard about, I think she was from Michigan, getting a driver's license in the states and wasn't too convinced about that. For example after doing just one test you can drive a car in public road. In Finland you'll have to really learn all in driving school and there has been set a minimum amount of lectures you'll have to do theory in class and driving under supervisors watching eye before you can enter the exams(literal and test drive). You can also be teached by a relative.

And what comes to driving cars with such condition like in your firts picture, no way. At least not before its officially proofed. And in Finland you'll have to get your car inspected every year.
Bit off-topic, but it goes :D


So, I'm about to use body from '90 245 GLT, mount 242 doors, b-pilars and sides to replace the original pilars and doors. Then build some reinforcements to the floor and sides where rear doors used to be and cut the roof off just behind the b-pilar. Perhaps build a safety cage inside to the cabin and/or a roll over cover outside. After that make a wall behind seats and mount some sort of window to it.
Build a bed structure to the back and install for example stainless steel plates or such on it. The plates would be boltet so that they could be removed without enormous efforts. To the left rear side, inside the body, would come spare wheel to its own place and to the right side a toolbox. Tailgate would open under like in real pick up and would be a 245 tailgate cut in half from the same level as roof.

And after all a deck for the bed. Not sure what's going to look like, propably make at least two different kinds, flat and 245 look'alike.

Why 242 doors and sides? Because it looks better, rear doors will get in rust from inside of the seams which cannot be avoided and therefore rust would come out sooner than when using 242 sides (even I'm not going to use it in the winter). And it's much more easier for me to look out from the car in my 242, no b-pilar in my sight.

When I asked about making a 240 pick up from a Finnish vehicle inspector he couldn't answer, he doubted if it couldn't be registered to road use. But while there are such pick ups in Finland(haven't seen, only heard about), I don't find it hopeless to get mine to road use. If not, I'll build it anyway ;)

And perhaps install B30E from my sparepart 164 wich I was about to install in my 244 :D

Sorry about writing/spelling mistakes.