I bought a rusted out beat up chevette on a chevy luv frame from ebay when ebay first got real big. nothing matched up
Once I got home it was to far gone to salvage so I bought a non running chevette and stripped the body and set it on that frame and wasnt happy at allw ith it si I shortened the fram 8 inches to match the wheelbase, but then the rear frame arches didnt match the chevettes so I cut it off agian and built a custom frame from the door back.
I hualed it in and had a reconstructed title issued for it. So it was legit as a 1982 Chevette rebuild
I drove it twice and found out the luv tranny only had 1st and 3rd gear. so I pulled the body off again and swapped the jeep axles and the 231 v6 in using the stock 2wd trans with a samurai case.
I ran it about a year like this and 4wheeled it a few times, it did good but it wasnt locked.
After I blew the 231 up I got another completely rebuilt it and found a th400and d18 combo from a jeepster commando that I put in. I decided this time I wanted to make it show only so I put 35" at's on it and did a bunch of body work/interior work. I sold it before it was completed. It ran and moved but needed some finish work done.
The guy who bought it hacked jobbed what was left and then the tranny went bad on him, and he sold it, then it was sold 4 more times and I got a lead on it a year or so ago and called the guy, he wouldnt sell. I tried to call him agian but the number is bad.
There are hundreds of photos here
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v135/ ... tte%204x4/There is another album within that one of the rebuild in 2005
I started on it when I was 16yo so some fo the fab work leaves more to be desired but I did my best to make the frame look like it belonged there from the factory
I'm 5'9"...