opinions on glider kits

No actually a glider kit is sold with no running gear. you are talking about a glider kit that some outside company has asembled. So I would say it's as good as the company finishing it.Like stated earlyer parts can be hard since all dealers use the vin number too look up parts and a glider will not have a valid vin that they will recognize for this purpose. Also I have heard that insuring one can be dificult but I don't have first hand experience with this. I know I almost bought a new 359 pete glider back in the mid nineties. they were still selling them new then.

 

I was looking at a 379 flat top glider kit the other day. Its set up for a C-13 & 10spd. Have a totaled 379 daycab with a C-15 & 10spd and one good rear. Totaled from a tornado. I just can't see spending $80k on a rolling chassis when I can find a similar rebuilt setup with documentation for close or under the same price and not spend my time trying to make something new and something old work together like a new unit . JMHO

 

still sounds familliar -


you buy a rolling chassis of a cobra - build your 302 up - car arrives via freight at your doorstep - drop motor in - paint it - title it /license it - 25K$ later you have a hot rod....



so "glider" means a roller... hence the reference to (glider)

 

Its the exact same. Like buying a rolling chassis drag car or hot rod kit.

 

but after all that work you end up with a ford! lol

 

you all seem to have strange idea of what a glider is. A lider is nothing more then a truck sold by the manufacturer with no motor, trans and rear ends. EVERYTHING ELSE is factory assembled and come with a title for THAT truck, there is no retitling. If you wreck a truck or something you can buy a glider and put the drivetrain from our wreck in it allot cheaper then buying a whole new one.
As for the quality or whatever liek I said it's all factory but the drivetrain. If you know who built the truck you can get a better idea of the quality. I wouldn't buy an old glider that you have no idea what billy bob did to it in his back yard. But these companies who build them and sell them new I wouldn't have any concerns with buying from as long as the company passed my background check.

just so EVERYONE knows. if you ever look at used trucks you can tell a glider as it will have GL in the vin number. lots of people buy them and never know it

 

They no longer put the GL in the Vin number.

When you buy a glider now you have to take it to an authorized dealer so they can check all the numbers on the rears,trans, and engine to make sure they aren't stolen parts. They then put them numbers in the computers so when you use the Vin number to get parts they know what you have. You also have to do this to get the truck titled.

You can also get a motor with a glider....I got a 3406B Cat in mine.