Last Wednesday we left for Pleasanton to do the Goodguys West Coast nationals. What a great show. We took the Donkey kong car up to show off out Hot Rod Fab parts brackets before they were covered up by all the interior parts and the very nice paint work from Palmer's Customs. We also showed our project 57 Chevy on it's new chassis. I also drove the Packard up and back. We put some 200 miles on it each way. It's fun to pass people in that car at 75. They just can't imagine a big ass car like cruising at 80 mph down I-5 in the middle of no where.

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The booth was packed all weekend and Business was good. It was nice meeting all the fellow Lat-g guys.

That's a really nice looking setup you have Rodger. Very nice!

What fab brackets are you talking about in the DK camaro? A new production part or custom only?

Goodguys Best new suspension product at Columbus
 

I also forgot to mention that at Columbus this summer we were honored to be awarded the Goodguys Best New product in the Suspension, Tires, Wheels and Brakes category with out new Tri-5 chassis. That is a huge category and there are some really nice products in the category. We are really proud to come out on top with that award.

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Why isn't there an Ironworks logo on the LARGEST PLACE to be seen --- the top of the awning??

Every time I see photos I wonder the same thing.

Nice AWARD!

We have been selling all kinds of different parts to help the home builder with some parts that are tricky to mount in a car with brackets we have laser cut and in a larger quantity to sell them and use them on the various cars we are building or fabricating. We sell tons of LS1 and LS2-9 ECU brackets. Guys can trim and fit the bracket fr use however or where ever you want to place your parts.

We sell an ECU bracket that has an add on side plate to mount the factory fuse panel. We also sell the ECU bracket by itself. 40 bucks for the ECU, 20 for the add on.
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We sell an LS1 ECU bracket 45 bucks
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We sell a Lokar E brake handle bracket 40 bucks
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We have been selling a bolt in gas pedal bracket for the DBW pedal in 67-69 camaros. 40 bucks (I don't seem to have a pic of one installed, but you can see it here bolted to our display cart when I was layout the product description.)
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We are just about ready to sell our Bolt in 3 point seat belt kits. We just finalized the brackets in the Donkey Kong car for the front seat belts. I should have some pics of this next week, It's pretty slick. I'm not sure on pricing just yet.

Because the only reason you can even see the top of that awning is because I took the picture. I could not see the reasoning for another 2K to put my logo up there. That damn awning was like 5500 bucks as it is.

What about a blimp or ball?
http://www.theblimpworks.com/index.htm

That would be a more effective locator at the shows.

Thanks for the info Rodger. I will need the e brake bracket and am very interested in the seat belt system too. Is that something the can be adapted to a second gen easily, or a first gen only item?

Congrats on the award!

well not only that but the lettering on the side is hard to read, you can only see the bottoms of the letters.

I know that its probably a shade or shadow thing but, you have to think about how it will be seen in photos or in magazines. For instance a photographer could be taking a picture of a car close by, but your awning makes it into the photo, it gets put in a magazine but you can't read it, you missed another opportunity to get your name or logo out there.

Just my .02

THANK YOU! EGG ZAKETLY!

Rodger, do you make a DBW pedal bracket for a GTO style pedal? If not I guess I could modify the one in the pic. The GTO pedal mounting screws point at the firewall, they're not parallel to it. What gauge is it made from?

Nice Award!!! Congrats!!! :cheers:

Do you still offer the ISIS brackets Rodger? If so, can you PM me a price on 5? Shipping to Kentwood, MI 49508. Thanks.

The pedals brackets I have made fit the pedal that comes with the GM performance parts engine harnesses. Part number 10379038

The bracket is made from .120 P&O material steel. You could easily modify this bracket install a GTO pedal. I figure this pedal bracket will or can get modified if someone whats something custom.

I do. Shipping is a flat rate 15 buck in a postal box. We offer them in aluminum and steel for various mounting positions. They are currently 20 bucks each.

Could you fit all 5 in a flat rate box or each in their own box? I would like steel. Thanks.

All 5 will fit in the box easily. You have room for quite a bit more if needed. That's what is so cool about those boxes. However much you can stuff in a box and it ships for a flat fee.

Thats Roger Holder's Camaro right? BaddAss forsure! :hail:

Yes Sir it is.

My F3 in the 69 can keep up with that--as long as you mount it to Holder's bumper.

You can get one of those inflatible balloon signs to put on top of the trailer...and exta 2K might get you twice that in business.



Stopped by, DK looks much better now, love the dash work.

Who did the paint if you don't mind me asking?

Well my plan on the hauler is to build a fold up seating area on the roof that would give a shaded place to hang out and give vertical banner space. There are welded pivot bungs up on the roof already.

The reason we took that car wa sto show the dash work we did and what sets our work apart. The DK project has come along really nice. It's amazing how just a really clean and basic Camaro can stand out now days in a sea of over the top Camaros. The car was painted at Palmer's Customs in Camarillo. If you need his contact let me know. So far we have been really happy with his work. One of my biggest customers is looking to take to more projects to him in the next few months. We have another project there currently also. Both Dk and the other project should be at SEMA.

Rodger,
It was good to see you in Pleasanton, hope the trip was productive!
Tim

I'm generally not a fan of this type of shiny truck, but this build was executed to perfection

Well we did some custom taillight work on the 1960 Ford. We used some custom tail lights from Marquez for this project. We had to form the reveal around the taillights and build everything to get it to fit the slightly bigger light diameter. I like it. Check it out

Stock with mock up tailgate installed
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The Die we made to form the bigger reveal around the taillight. Just some 5" drill pipe Machined for the desired reveal.
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The formed ring tacked in place.
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The almost end result
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From the back side
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With the access panel cover and mock up bolts
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Doing the flashlight test.
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And both sides. Now time for a very custom tailgate. And modifying 2 nova bumpers to create the desired bumper we want. Should be cool.
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Great job. Looks awesome.

Roger you have a great team of guys working for you. There talent is sure raising the bar.

Keep up the great work :thumbsup:

:thumbsup: Looks great roger! Cant wait to see the 60 when its done!

Finally got a Ford in there eh? LOL!!

John

Yeap, We have another Ford waiting for it's turn as soon as this one goes to paint.

Second gen Camaro light there? Looks really good on that truck!

^^^^ That's what I was thinking Eric.

Rodger, if they are Sec. gen lights what would you charge a guy to knock out a set of four of those rings?

They are just bigger lights then a 2nd gen that Marquez sells regularly. They are 5" OD. The metal rings would be pretty labor intensive but could be done I suppose. Even though we made the tool there is lots of fine tuning to get it nice. Nothing nice is never easy. But I could not imagine those lights with out that reveal around them and luckily for me neither can the customer.

Rodger,:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

moar pics!

Moar?
What are you, illiterate? Pain pills are not an excuse....

Unfortunately, it's a fairly common internet term. Like using teh instead of the and pron instead of.... People do it on purpose.

LOL -- Probably. But it still makes the person using/spelling stuff like that look ignorant.

Alot of effort into a 1960 Ford truck
 

Well the tailgate is turning out to be a pretty cool detail of the truck bed. Between the hidden ice chests for BREW under the bed floor to the fully custom tailgate this truck is going to be the car show hang out.

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More to come

I'm just busting Crazy Carl's balls...he is actually very intelligent and is usually the spelling/grammar nazi!

And, if you look at it the other way, old farts like me look ignorant to the younger guys who are more up to speed on those new-fangled internets.
The kids on the soccer team I coach asked me "who are we versing Saturday" it took me a minute to even figure out what the hell they were talking about. Bad grammar is apparently epidemic....
Back to "oohing" and "aahing" over Rodgers stuff, sorry for the mini hijack!