Question about customizing polycarbonate body

[KR15]

I want to make a body of a 2nd gen dodge ram quad cab long bed. Parma sells .03" polycarbonate bodies, but only a quad cab short bed or single cab long bed. My question is, is it possible to cut and switch truck beds to get what I want? Or is .03" poly not very easy to cut and rebuild?

[Docwolf]

I cut down a 55 Chevy sedan pro mod body. you will have to do a exterior paint job and I backed the seam with scrap I cut out. body fill, sand and prime. the other option, this is a bed so there can be a gap between the bed and cab and it fact it would add some realism.

[tozrovr]

Painting on the outside looks much more scale as well. Give it a shot.

[KR15]

If I paint the outside, should I also add some kind of clear coat finish to prevent chipping? Or what would you recommend?

[Phins Fan]

Even with clearcoat the first rollover or rub against a narrow rock alley will pretty much fubar any decent paintjob you had anyway.

[tozrovr]

But if you paint the inside silver or copper it will look nice when scraped.

[KR15]

Truck is going white. Just like my Cummins in theses pictures.

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It's going to be a while until I can get the bodies so I'll have plenty I time to think about it. Thanks for the feedback guys.

[benster]

paint the Inside of the body white and the outside so it doesn't show too much where the paint scratched and as the others said, buy both bodies and make a separate cab and bed from both and mount them on the truck. it'll take a little longer to remove the whole body, but very much Worth it IMO.