Hey all,
My dad had a Sno Commander when I was very young but I don't know what the year was, for some reason 1977 sticks in my mind...it had the stacked headlights and the tall red and white tail lights. My father put it at grandpa's house after the frame was beginning to rot and I am wanting to restore the old truck. The body was in fine condition and still is from what I recall, just the frame was rotting away because of the crappy salt and chemicals they use during winter mix that with the rough climate of the North Eastern USA. What would be the general answer if I were to go ahead and find a frame and just drop everything on that new one? We were going to take the axles off her and put them on my dad's Ramcharger once we dropped in the 4 cyl Cummins (totally different project so I'll stop there). I'm more nostalgic than anything else I guess. I grew up on Dodge and that was the first pickup I ever rode in and it lasted until I was about 15 years old. Since then it's just been sitting in the woods at my grandparents house. Any input?

 

I think if you could find a good shape frame, it can be done. It'll take a lot of work, as pretty much all trucks that have lived in salty road areas for long periods of time have a lot of seized bolts (especially the bed bolts, a real pain) a torch will come in handy. Ive never done an entire body swap on a Dodge, but I have on a GMC. Its kinda tough lining all the panels up, but like I said if you take your time, the result will be great. Good luck!

 

Hey thanks for the encouragment! I am not one to shy from hard work, in fact being in an office job, the more work that needs to be done the happier I am. I realized my mistake about the year of the truck. After I searched Google images I'm thinking it's more of an early 80's by the looks of it.
(and the project list just keeps getting longer and longer)

 

i can usually guess by the grille 81-85 look like this

86-90 grilles look like this

and 91-93 look like the grille in my signature.

 

No problem, I hope it works out well!

 

No, it wasn't those styles, I have Rams. I'm thinking it is a late 70's after all. It's pre-Ram (hence why I don't know much about it, before my time). Sorry I haven't done much research about it. Trying to find a decent picture of the front end. Everytime I search for it I can never find the correct grille it had...maybe it was a custom job? It looked like a late 70's Power Wagon only with four lights in the front.

 

This is what the front end looked like.

 

if it looks like the one in the pick you posted i would guess it is ether a 79 or 80.

 

Yeah I'm thinking 79...I found the Pre-Ram section, sorry for posting in the wrong area.

 

you are not posting in the wrong section. this is the right section for that truck. it is a ram also. 93 and older.