Ok, so I’ve pestered, bothered and beaten up enough……the update! Finally
It was a fast summer with no heat, but in the shop we’ve been busting ass trying to keep up with projects, cars, future plans, construction, and trying to keep our shop dogs from escaping and freaking the golfers.
Jason’s 50 Ford has left for home, super nice, so tight you have to roll a window down to close the doors properly. I really like the way this truck turned out, and YES that the final colour(he loves that question!) He’s even had people say it looks like an elephant with the Terraplane grill on it.
There are some unusual aspects of this truck you might not notice, the rear axle is really wide, something like 4” this side of an Hummer H1; It’s a F150 rear axle, that would have usually used 17” rims, so we had to keep moving the rims out till they cleared the brakes, to compensate we widened the box out. -almost a fleet side. It’s got Air bags on the back with Schrader valves(totally recommend this set up, best ride ever).
He went with a 331 Hemi we rebuilt with a mild cam and a WC T-5 with a Hydraulic clutch, smooth set-up. I’ll got loads of pics and if there is anything you want to see or know just ask!
Bill’s 30 Plymouth is staged to come in for the finale , we been playing catch up trying to smaller jobs in and out prior to winter, I love the way this car sits, total gangster. 4 doors and fenders aren’t usually my thing but this is cool. This car will be painted and have a full interior, A/C -the works; then it’s off to Florida. Bill an I have been bantering about Cold vs. Heat, he’d like to have Snow, and of course we’d like more heat!
Keith’s 69 Mustang, I like doing work for Soldiers -direct and to the point, just like me. The fact we can parts for this one is a bonus, we’re used to dealing with custom everything. The unfortunate part of this car was that it was hit with a plow in BC then fixed, now we’ll have to tear it all down to fix the damage, before we get to have any fun rebuilding.
Chris’s shoebox, typical Canadian car and another Soldier, solid guy! Floors, inner outer rockers, floor supports, tranny tunnel, body mounts, motor swap; Plus to top it all off it had been hit hard, so we ended up cutting the “B” post’s out and re-locating them so the doors would at least close it the right spots. Now he has a safe car that he can have some fun in when he finishes it up
Joe and the Olds, nice car, we still have to do a bunch of work to this car, taillights, headlights, 4-link, etc. I really dig this car and the stance, but he wants it LOWER…. so I included some pics.
and every so often we do work to new stuff
General Fab, we do allsorts of work outside cars and bikes, general welding and fabrication is the back bone to what we do, if you need something done let us know.
T-shirts, I know I’ve talked about this before, and I’ve finally come up with a clever spin of a classic that I think you’ll think is fun, but since I’m a glutton for punishment –I’ve decided to buy our own 4 color press and make them ourselves, but then Time got in the way, Again! Stay tuned! I’ll announce it when they’re ready.
Manufacturing, That’s right –I’ve been Balls deep into trying to get everything planned out for making what I think the world needs with our twist on it, Stay tuned Kiddies! This one will be fun.
The Extension! We needed more space, so we’re making more room. Hopefully we’ll get the siding on Prior to snow.
The Show’s, we haven’t gone to any show’s this year, but starting this winter we’ll be at the indoor shows, and hitting as many as we can next summer. Come on by and say hi.
Halloween, We seem to be magnets for everything unusual as well, prior to Halloween this year we’ve made all sorts of “Movie prop like items” for costumes -the extra violent type, the kind that won’t get you into the bar for the party.
The Pool? Some of you were wondering why I had posted pics of my pool we were digging out; I’m a skater(got the broken bones to prove it) and pools are kind of rare especially up here. I had no idea what was under the dirt when we started excavating, turns out, to skate it -it’s going to need a hole lot of tranny to made so…. As luck would have it, and with my wife rolling her eyes(although happy she gets her pool back) my friend Peter needed a place to put his Heffer Ramp -48’wide, 10ft radius and a 1′ of vert!!!! it was the vert ramp they used for the first X-games in Rhode island 95/96, and it’s coming here! This spring! No you can’t come skate it…..well maybe but you’ll have to ask nice.
For Sale: Cars finance cars, and bikes finance bikes, I have to keep moving forward, once a car or bike leave the shop, it’s done, I’d rather sell it than work on it again, so I’m selling off some stuff, the harley we built for Sgt. Splatter 74 sporty and the HemiRoid -although I might paint it and drive it next year, we’ll see, taking offers on both.
Looking for a 1921 Cadillac motor, V8. we have a customer here that is looking for a block, his blew up, and is beyond repair, any leads?…..
-And finally if you see two shop dogs out running around that look like this, please bring them back –they’re friendly unless your wearing a squirrel outfit. Bishop and Chewy
