I really like the way this car looks gangster, I had a vision to paint it like you’d see a black and white photo of this car in various grey tones, but then keeping with the sinister theme it would look better if the body was in Satin black and everything that was chrome goes gloss black with tinted windows, because it’s a Plymouth it’s got a Hemi -so the sound is right as well and the Daytons are a perfect fit for vibe. Dave has abnormally long arms and legs so we had to revise the seating arrangement for him, but the back seat is still huge. This car is Super slick and mean.  A/C -power windows, it’s got it all -and with the fenders, I’m hoping he’ll drive it in the winter as well!

The car is done for us, he’ll have the interior, windows tinted and the paint redone over the next month at various places. For now the car sits at his booth at the CNE.

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                Well kind of; The car the “HemiRoid” was put in storage and left to die, been there done that, I never move backwards always forwards –it didn’t really need anything except some love to get her back up and on the road. As some of you may know the car was never really finished, after I mocked up for Billetproof 06 that was it -it stayed on the road till I lost interest; it went into storage -got rusty then I really wasn’t interested in it. It had its share of fame, international magazines, car shows, photo shoots, fanatics in France building scale models (Kryss Michel) etc.

Then my friend Jason asked me if he could buy it…… I hummed and hawed, couldn’t really come up with a price let along figure out what I wanted to do with it, but a deal was struck and off it went. Jason saw the car for what it could be; he took it to a level where it should have gone in the first place. We ripped the car back down the chassis, painted the frame, bottom and inside of the car black, added a new wiring harness and A/C!, it needed windows to hold in all that cold air, a sunroof, door seals and a ton of Dynamat . Now the car is a full on street rod that works.

Both Jason and I like the polished metal surface but over time it had faded and the condensation from being locked in a container for a while had eaten through all the years of WD-40 that I sprayed on it. Jason had found this product called Shark Hide(brilliant stuff) we repolished the surface back up to a mirror then painted this stuff on, it says it hold the rust back for 6 years! We’ll see……

Check the pics of the up dated version, let me know if you want to know anything in particular, I’d be happy to answer.

Stony

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I had pics of this car on my wall forever; Dave asked me on day about a project and I jumped at the chance to put my spin on this car. I don’t know what the final out come will be for this one yet, I’ve pretty much got all the big stuff  thought out and located. The Donor started out as a 4 door Essex, to keep the proportions right I took 6” out of the back doors and added it to the rear section. It was widened 8.5” to give us some room for the interior and I leaned the “A” post back so the hood will clear the visor; It still needs a chop and I might raise the window sills up 2″ to make the doors look bigger.  The original car was front wheel drive, we went rear wheel with a big block. I vision this car looking like a modern version of a playboy’s car from the 20’s, with loads of engine turning.

It’s not much to look at right now so -Stay tuned for more pics 

Jason came in with an idea about a truck, he’s a big guy and driving a chopped 30’s cab wasn’t going to work for him, he found a 50’s ford that would allow him to sit comfortably with his creature comforts in style.  The cab and box had the usual amount of rust which makes an excellent candidate for a custom; the unusual part of this build is the grill, a Hudson Terraplane. The Grill is narrow at the bottom and looks skinny compared the cab and as always the challenge is to get a project to flow right. I found these giant headlights that filled up the space nicely. Jason had procured a late model F150 rear end that we used in the truck with airbags and a 4-bar; with these rims and tires on the back the total width is 4” this side of an H1. We widened the box  6” to compensate, which makes it look like a Fleetside. The interior has all the nice stuff you’d expect, power windows, heat, A/C, a ton of sound deadening. It’s running a warmed over 354 Hemi backed up with a 5 speed. Jason has big motorsports history and expects a lot of his vehicles, he hasn’t broken the truck in half yet….. so I guess building things like tanks has paid off again!

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Update -Rob has been showing me some new shots of how this car is coming together, I think him and his dad will have it on the road this year with the way there hustling on it. 

This car didn’t really look to bad, but when we started getting into it a pulled some measurements off of it -we could tell it was hit hard -really hard -the story from Keith was that it was hit by a snow plow. It was originally from BC which meant it is a solid car so it was worth saving. Both rear frame rails were bent and it seemed the front passenger side was pushed through the firewall. Nothing a dozen buckets of cheese and tar couldn’t cover; fortunately we can buy everything for this car, so the swapping out sheet metal hasn’t been too bad, just loads of it. Keith needs to have a solid base before he can start having fun with it, watch for the updates on this one -it can only get better!  I think the last two photos are awesome, these were pics he sent me while over sea’s on Tour, his Coyote was hit by a IED (everyone was good) HOLLY CRAP is an understatement!