72 suburban. side windows that lift.

[Vombrown]

Chock this up to " i should have never sent to the salvage yard". Found a 72 burb at the salvage yard complete. It immediately given me dreams of the ultimate hunting rig. A truck that I can load birds and dogs into and travel to various locations for upland game birds. Yes I said birds, my girlfriend and I are both master fslconers. We hunt with falcons and hawks. So that leads me to the questions of fabrication.

Need ideas for making the rear side windows open and lift up from the outside. With perches places behind them for the falcons to ride you would lift the window and access the birds from there. Then the idea would be to have a partition being the back seat. With the dogs and birds secured in the back. Leaving the front to rows of seats for us and passengers with gear.

I know this sounds a little outlandish but follow me down the rabbit hole here a little. I haven't committed to the burb as of yet because I can't explAin it to my girlfriend just yet. If I can work this out, it might get it home.

 

[Vombrown]

It doesn't need to remAin glass. I guess we could create a bulb seal around the window pinch weld and fab a steel door to replace the window.

 

[blazinzuk]

I think I would leave the glass. Then make a flap on the outside. That's easy and the window is still there.

72 is a 3 door, but the other window is the same just no door

 

[Vombrown]

I guess I would really need to take it apart to figure out the best way to do it. Keeping the glass would be nice.

 

[blazinzuk]

Those 3 door burbs are so freaking cool. Seriously jealous

 

[Vombrown]

I haven't bought it yet. My girlfriend doesn't always see what I see. I think it could be the ultimate overland/ hunting/ camping rig. Plus I wouldn't care about modifying it heavily. I feel a little constrained with my 82 gmc as I want to keep it as stock as possible. Still need to figure this out, get some title information for the burb and get it home. The price is right as its essentially a roller. No drivetrain to get in the way.

 

[diesel4me]

I found the rear 1/4 side glass and the smaller drivers side rear window I had removed from a '71 K10 Suburban I had parted out years ago in the woods next to my garage..they had been sitting there since the 1990's I bet..
Not sure if they all survived,some tree branches fell close to the area they were in...

Too bad your a whole country away--I doubt any of them would survive a trip via UPS or Fedex..
I had saved them in hopes of putting them in the front end wall of my garage,but I never did..

I have quite a bit of the interior parts I saved from that truck still too--sun visors,ash tray,defroster ducts,dome lamp,etc...found them in the basement,thought I had chucked them out long ago..

It probably pays off being a pack rat,if you ever end up buying another truck of similar vintage--these parts are hard to get around here now,you usually have to buy a whole parts truck to get just a few things,or pay through the nose for bits & pieces..
I wish I had kept a lot more of the stuff I ended up scrapping over the years now..

 

[Vombrown]

This one is fairly complete. No seats and a few interior pieces missing. The drivetrain is complete however.
Bought the whole thing for 300 bucks. Its mine now.

 

[diesel4me]

Wow...score!...

 

[ashman]

Wow, $300 is a freaking steal! Even if you just parted it out you'd be money ahead.

 

[Vombrown]

I started a built thread on it. Figured this wasn't the right place.