My Proffitts 1HD-FT 80 series conversion *UPDATED WITH PICS AND VIDEO*

[Grease Cruiser]

Daniel,

You have forgotten the biggest expense of all.....you have to pay my ransom to give it back!!! I just don't think I can do it....you may have to pry the keys out of my hand.

Just kidding.



It is such a sweet truck for sure. I am glad you were able to come out and take a look. Thanks for that; we don't get to meet many customers face to face so it is always nice to finally meet someone after all the phone conversations and emails. Thanks again.

Keep me posted when it will ship.

Take care and Thanks again,

John

[60Dan]

Daniel,

You have forgotten the biggest expense of all.....you have to pay my ransom to give it back!!! I just don't think I can do it....you may have to pry the keys out of my hand.

Just kidding.



It is such a sweet truck for sure. I am glad you were able to come out and take a look. Thanks for that; we don't get to meet many customers face to face so it is always nice to finally meet someone after all the phone conversations and emails. Thanks again.

Keep me posted when it will ship.

Take care and Thanks again,

John

Hey John

Damn I didnt budget for bribe money! I knew I was forgetting something! LOL!!

Great to meet everyone, thanks again for the tour and hanging with me to answer all my questions. Hopefully I'll find myself in Salt Lake again soon ... if so I'll supply the sausage Mc Muffins again, unless your off the clock then first round of beers are on me!!

Thanks again for all your hard work

[Mauka2Makai]

60Dan, That was very stellar of you to provide such an in depth response into the cost factor for your conversion. I'm anxious to hear about some mpg figures and range once your settled in. Awesome cruiser! Thanks for sharing... I can only imagine how stoked you are.

[RMP&O]

ya cheers to you for putting the numbers out there for the world to see. I am sure many people appreciate that.

I have said it before and I will say it again, FYI, in Panama you can buy diesel 80s all day long for $10,000. I haven't looked into shipping from Panama of a half cut or just the engine + gear boxes but I am guessing $5-8k is what it would cost. I mean total too not just shipping.

I think a conversion could be done for the $12-15k range but $18k is not to much above that really. Anything under $20k is what I consider to be reasonable. $20k+ I think is to much, IMHO of course.

[Douglas S.]

ya cheers to you for putting the numbers out there for the world to see. I am sure many people appreciate that.

I have said it before and I will say it again, FYI, in Panama you can buy diesel 80s all day long for $10,000. I haven't looked into shipping from Panama of a half cut or just the engine + gear boxes but I am guessing $5-8k is what it would cost. I mean total too not just shipping.

I think a conversion could be done for the $12-15k range but $18k is not to much above that really. Anything under $20k is what I consider to be reasonable. $20k+ I think is to much, IMHO of course.

If you wait a couple years, you can find RHD ones in Canada for around the same price. My truck was about that much (I think alot of that was because the PO lived out in the middle of nowhere so it was a long drive for anyone to look at it and I'm also not totally convinced he knew exactly what he had. He didn't know the truck had lockers and a couple of other things). My $10,000 dollar truck's BEB's looked like new when I changed them and it only has 120,000km according to the odometer, which I'm inclined to believe based on the condition.

Either way, I imagine importing from Canada would be a much simpler process.

[ssssnake529]

Is Profitt's in Utah or Colorado?


Edit: Never mind, saw the pictures. Obviously Utah

[RMP&O]

Either way, I imagine importing from Canada would be a much simpler process.

True enough.


I think the point is a donor truck or a half cut is certainly the way to go. I will rephrase what I said above by saying I think it could be done for the $12-15k mark if you do the work yourself. if you pay somebody to do it, $18k is a pretty solid number considering the cost of a donor/1/2 cut.

[hovenator]

Very awesome......All I can do is drool!!! You just made every American Cruiser guy's dream come true (can you tell I'm jealous?!).

[Ryanmb21]

Congrats, that is just stellar.

[tommyd]

If you wait a couple years, you can find RHD ones in Canada for around the same price.

Either way, I imagine importing from Canada would be a much simpler process.

Yeah, but then you have a RHD truck. LHD is more desirable for most folks here. I can't speak for others, but I'd much rather have Proffitt's convert a cruiser that's already titled and registered in the U.S.

Nice truck, Dan. And thanks for posting the prices.