I've got an old 40 Chev pickup that I’m working on with my daughter. We removed the windshield and surprise, the bottom of the frame has some rot.

Question: What other year trucks have the same windshield as a 40?

I'm a fairly good journeyman welder and was thinking of finding a second windshield in a similar state of rust and grafting in some of the donor frame's upper frame into my frames lower section to replaced the rotted out portion. I think the shape of the top is slightly different then the bottom, but I think I could still make it work.

Any thoughts?


John M. (Marc) Knight
VTCI #33786
Thunderbirds, 64s, 57, 2002
40 Chev Truck (Rat) project for my 16 year old daughter
Bountiful, UT