Introducing Goliath, Purpose built OBS F-350

Eldgen

Builder of Dreams
Hello all,
This build is for my son's 10th birthday. Long story short, when I was a lad every fifth birthday was a significant family trip of some sort like Disney or Yosemite for a week and as parents we wanted to keep the tradition going with our son. He chose to tour the west coast so we decided to visit every major national park from Washington to Arizona and back in about 16 days. The Project has manifested several times from the original build plan, first I was going to use the original bed and building a cage like slide in, then my pops hooked me up with some truck boxes he had tucked away that added some complication. While kicking around some challenges I was facing he said "you should just build a flat bed" Initially I thought he was crazy given I only had about 6 months to build this thing out and didn't have that expense in the budget. After looking around I found an old dump body that someone had build for a one ton truck, I picked it up with no frame or hydraulics for $300 and planned on refurbishing and repurposing whatever I could. I'm proud to say the only raw steel I had to purchase was for the overhead rack and the rear support in the bed, the rest was leftovers from other projects or recycled trucks. I am still in the building stages, I will be sound deadening the interior, adding the wiring, switches, inverter, and ARB fridge etc in the coming weeks. Our vacation begins July so no time to waste.

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Eldgen

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A few more.
 

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Eldgen

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Eldgen

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Eldgen

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Still coming.
 

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Eldgen

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Almost caught up..
 

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Eldgen

Builder of Dreams
Ok, now you are caught up to me on the build present time. Enjoy.
 

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redthies

Renaissance Redneck
I've owned many P-7100 pumped 12v Cummins trucks, and many OBS Fords. The two are a match made in heaven!
 

rayra

Expedition Leader
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Is that for tying that ocean liner to the dock?


Nice build. Going to look a lot like the military ambulance or that combat field service vehicle build when you've got the cap built.
 

Eldgen

Builder of Dreams
That's a great idea behind the driving force for this build. When does he turn 10?

He turns 10 July 27th, my wife and I celebrate our 1 yr anniversary on July 25th, so were going to end up somewhere within a couple weeks of that time around.. I don't know.. maybe VEGAS so we can get a hotel for one night to deep clean and do laundry so we don't have to pack clothing for 16 days +-.
 
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