[MiraclePieCo]

I have a friend whose full-time business is building hotrod AD trucks. He'll do them any way the customer wants: original frame, front clip, or S10 frame. He STRONGLY prefers the original frame. This is a business owner who counts every hour he works on these trucks. He says that by the time he builds all the body mounts etc, he has lots more hours into an S10 conversion.

So far I've done one each way: S10, and original frame. I too prefer the original frame because it was made to fit the body and has all the curves in the right places instead of having the body sitting up on stalks.

S10s are trendy, especially among the mini-truck crowd who've migrated into hot rods but are still more comfortable working with the S10 platform. Unfortunately, the majority of guys who do their first S10 conversion get the front wheel placement wrong, essentially ruining the truck.