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Originally Posted by joedoh
I would buy the one with the highest number of off-the-shelf parts, a daily driven truck isnt going to sit in the garage or take parade laps and parts will wear out. makes a big difference buying replacement balljoints for $25 at the local store or ordering them in from BFE for 4-5x.
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Good point there. Some of the chassis have so many hand made parts in them that if you have a worn out part problem you are stuck with waiting until they can put something together or you are stuck with a stiff cost.
I like Morrision's chassis and they do have one under their daily driver "shop truck" AD truck that is the test mule for their AD truck pieces. Again you are probably looking at 10 K but when you compare to the cost of a basic new truck off the dealer's lot it isn't so bad.
Another one to look at might be the chassis that Steve at Industrial chassis builds. His is a small shop and the wait may be more than you want though.
http://www.industrialchassisinc.com/ He builds to order and can build it mild or full tilt wild with all the trick stuff. No idea of what the shops backlog is though.
Morrison also gives several build levels rather than one cookie cutter chassis
https://www.artmorrison.com/trucks.php