Tuesday, 3 March 2015

'27 Willy's . . .


The body has been placed onto the chasis and 'D' is hard at work welding in the step up panel . . .

As can be seen in this pic the cabin certainly looks right at home on the chassis with the flat-top really needing a lot of TLC. 'D' is carefully welding the cabin to the chassis and then there will be a lot of grinding and dremel work to clean up the welds ready for the painter's brush. . .

Monday, 2 March 2015

Chevy 4door ute. . .


Have a look at this Chevy that 'Abbo' and 'Loudy' have had hidden away for a while. . .

Fully imported and now moved on, the 4 door need repairs to its pan-hard bar. All the up and down business associated with the full air-ride system has taken its toll on the rear suspension. Not to worry, a bit of welding and a new bar attachment on the diff and she's ready for the road again  . . .

Inside is fully pimped out like a 'Gigilo's Lair'. . .
Crushed velvet, linings, full leather seats, DVD screen and full stereo system, yeah sounds like a Pimp's ride to me?

Cliffy's F100 . . .


TLC front end components include a full set of Willwood brakes. You can see from the marks that the boys had to use a fair amount of time with the plasma cutter to get the new front end components into their correct positions because there is going to be a hell of a lot of wheel travel with the huge air-ride suspension. . .




Is there anything better than looking at a set of Willwood brake rotors on the front of your rig?


Friday, 27 February 2015

Bobby with the lot . . .


Dunno if Dave's working or sleeping but he has had a lot to do under the 'Burger Rod'. New fuel lines, filters and pump and then follow that up with a transmission cooler and new braided steel lines and all this had to be contoured around the car's new exhaust system that is finally back from 'Jet Hot' coating. . .

'27 Willys . . .


This is the front LHS cowling panel, or what's left of it . . .

'D' has cut out replacement pieces and tack welded them in place before a final stitch weld and then a light finish grind. Too much heat on these panels and you will never get the buckles out. The steel will end up like ripples on a pond, so you have to go slowly and tread lightly with the heat . . .

'D' is now facing the same problems down the back on the 1/4 panels, although these panels are that flimsy they are already buckled to the shithouse. You can see the bends and waves in the pics. . .

Filling all the holes in the firewall so that the boys have a clean slate for the transition to V8 and then the auto tunnel also has to be cut out . . .

How's this for a new rear end? It came with nothing but a huge gaping hole. Andrew and 'D' have put in the hard yards and rolled a new arse end before adding a new boot lid, all hand made without any templates to follow. . .

Cliffy's '56 F100 . . .


Fair dinkum, you need an engine up your arse to follow this bloke around from job to job, he never stops, and then there's the fucking phone!
Anyway, this one shows the big fella measuring up Cliffy's F100 for its new idiot steering column. Or should I say Ididit, fucked if I know, stupid name for such a good product. . .

New steering column is now in place and you can also see the new rear brake drums over on the passenger's side floor. I love the look of these drums and might see if I can sneak a set onto the old HJ?

'59 2Door Wagon . . .


With "D' deciding to stand down on this job, Andrew stepped in and finished the internal rustwork. These areas are so work intensive it is beyond description of the work involved with sliding window guide rails to deal with as well as the rusted out wheel wells. No wonder 'D' had had enough and walked away to another job, this one was 'doing his head in'. Luckily nothing phases the big fella and he just took it in his stride and made it look easy. . .


Before giving up, 'D' made an incredible transformation of the forward flooring sections of the wagon. . .