Split wishbones and cross springs are strictly a Ford design, but they make a frame lightweight and easy to build. Doing a ladder style frame with rectangular tubing and cross springs and then channeling a stovebolt cab over it would look a little "Rube Goldberg", but it would be fairly easy to build.
Jerry

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