Old body collision estimating books crew cab Question

[tybob81]

My father in-law runs a body shop and he always kept his old collision estimating guide books. I use them in my quest for finding NOS parts for my personal vehicles and customer resto jobs I do since they have the part #'s in them. Looking at some of these books from the late 70's(as far back as his collection goes) on the 1972-67 Ford trucks it doesn't show any reference or parts for a crew cab. I am looking to find part #'s for the rear door upper and lower trim and the upper and lower trim for in between the front and rear door. I wonder why these books (2 different estimating guide companies) don't reference a crew cab?

[Calfdemon]

The rear doors on the crew cabs were all custom made from original front doors. They did not produce the rear doors, they hand made them. That being said, all of the parts that went on the rear doors are from the front door assemblies too. The inner door rails are front door rails that are cut. The rubber seal is a front rubber seal that is cut. The inner window regulators are from the front doors as well, they just flipped them upside down and used the front passenger as the rear driver, and vise versa. Even the inner door panels are front panels that were cut and a hole was punched in a different location.

So since there were no rear door parts produced, I would guess that the trim was also cut to fit, just like everything else. From what was told to me, the only crew cab part that was actually made was the roof piece. Even the cab was 2 standard cabs that were cut and welded together. This would be my guess as to why there is no reference to crew cab parts. They just used standard cab parts that were modified to fit.

In this thread, there is a cut and paste on some interesting crew cab history that I posted: http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... =7&t=63299

[FORDification]

Actually, crewcab trucks didn't have side trim from the factory.