I have one question: is this a time lapsed thread? cause you guys are doing a heckuva lot of work in a short period of time!

Amazing work.:bow:

wow!!!
that takes amazing vision to come up with that and pull it off so well, the door has a malibu/velle shape to it. makes the car look longer.

That is bitching. I can't believe what a difference altering a body line makes on the car. Please keep the pics coming!

That was a good call. Looks great!:thumbsup:

Wow, that is looking killer. Love the clean look on the car now.:thumbsup:

Truly inspirational craftsmanship:D

body lines looks very similar to a 69 camaro
and thats some fast work
at least on posts lol that would take me light years haha

Great work. this defiantly shows there is a real difference between garage build (me) and shop build.

Wow! Some really bold, and trick ideas for body-lines. Kind of like a mix between 1. and 2. gen Nova's.

Thanks everyone.

The photos are not corresponding with the actual build time. We are quite a bit further along on the car and I wanted to wait until this point before I started posting pics of the build.

I had gotten ahead of myself yesterday and left out several pics of earlier portions of the build.

Here are a few shots of the 454 LSX engine and firewall sheet metal work that has been done.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../firewall1.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../firewall2.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../firewall3.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../firewall4.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../firewall5.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../firewall6.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s.../firewall7.jpg

Another item on the cut list was the roof line of the car. Stock 66/67 Nova's tend to look like the roof is running uphill from back to front. A subtle 3/4" chop in the front along with leaning the A pillars, and pie cutting the sail panels took care of that and gave it a subtle change.

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ator/chop4.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ator/chop3.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ator/chop5.jpg

Sitting next to a stock Nova you can make out the difference in the roof line. I have better pictures some where that I will dig up showing this better.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ator/Chop6.jpg

The drip rails were also eliminated and added in a body line in their place so it wasn't a totally smoothed look.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ator/drip1.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ator/chop2.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ator/Chop1.jpg

:hail: That thing is gonna be bada$$, you guys have a great eye for details and amazing talent. :thumbsup:

Well stop holding back!! Anybody else with me??? :cheers:

I am brother. I love Roadster Shops attention to detail.

I love what you did with the drip rails. Looks much cleaner now.
Killer work guys!:cheers: :cheers:

Fab work on the rear bumper:
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/72.jpg

New, re-shaped end cap mocked up.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/73.jpg

Completed bumper corner and rear quarter lower molding
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/78.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/74.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/75.jpg

Completed bumper and start of the rear belly pan and rear diffuser
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/76.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/77.jpg

Very nice,:thumbsup: What the chance of a guy getting a shop tour sometime.:thumbsup:

Some day when I grow up I would love to be able to afford one of your builds. Awesome!

Amen to that!! Yep....someday....someday.:faint: :faint:

Ha Ha I've done the tour a couple times.:willy:

We are definitely open for shop tours when ever. Just ask for me and I'll show you around.

Marty, you still owe me for the 5 cent tours!

Thanks guys, but we do take on projects of all budgets from a simple component install all the way up to a full 1-off build like this. This type of build obviously gets a lot more attention, but we have small repair or service jobs in all the time. give us a holler if you ever need anything.

Okay next time I come up bring your daughter and I will have my girls sit and babysit while we look at all the cool stuff at the shop

You've got a deal Marty!

Here is the fab work on the rocker moldings and lower door accent moldings.

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/95.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/97.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/96.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/98.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/99.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ovator/100.jpg

Once the rocker was in place we went back and re-shapped the rear portion to accommodate the side exhaust.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...r/exhaust1.jpg

We fabbed a double walled stainless sheet metal exhaust tip to flow with the cars lines.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...r/exhaust2.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...r/exhaust3.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...r/exhaust4.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...r/exhaust5.jpg

Here is the aluminum trim piece we made for the bottom of the door. There is a reveal line tipped into the piece for added dimension.

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ovator/102.jpg

Innovator name plate was CNC'd and then welded into the front of the lower door molding.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ator/104-1.jpg

Door molding completed (Prior to Innovator logo install)
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ovator/101.jpg

Man, that is looking so sweet! I'm so in awe of the talent you guys have for creating art out of metal....

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...r/exhaust4.jpg

Marty you did hear, Phil works from home now!!!!!! Notice how all this new stuff is on the forums now!!!! He does it between diaper changes. Your going to have to talk to Jer about tours now.

I am really diggin' the new bodylines running off the wheel arches. Nice work.

that's the body lines the 2nd gen nova should have had.:thumbsup: You should try and figure out how you could sell them as parts.

Speaking of shop tours, please thank Byran for giving my dad and I a shop tour about two weeks ago. He took a lot of time to show us around each corner of the shop from the showroom out front, to the chassis fab corner in the back. He also kept talking about some Nova you guys were doing, and how much we were missing out on not seeing it because it had been sent off to the interior shop. I figure you guys have a lot of pictures to post between now and Columbus :lol:

Amazing work guys,

Matt

Thanks Matt. Glad you enjoyed the shop tour. I would have said hi if I knew it was you. Chris and I thought it might have been you, but being from Cali, we assumed it wasn't you. Sorry about that. Bryan said he spent a lot of time and gave you the grand tour though.

-Phil

Fab work on the front bumper and lower splitter.

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/80.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/84.jpg

Fabbed new bumper ends to follow the shape of the headlights, and tuck tight to the fenders.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/85.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/88.jpg

Underside of the front splitter
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/87.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/86.jpg

Further progress on the lower splitter.

Fabbed the corner pieces to match the shape of the bumper.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/90.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/91.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/92.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/93.jpg

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...novator/94.jpg

Truly amazing work!:thumbsup:

X 10 :thumbsup: Keeping them coming.

:hail: :hail: :wow: :wow: :woot:


66/67 Nova is once of my all time favorites... and this one is just OMG.

^^You said it. Amazing work guys!:hail: