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I gotta tell you... I live near Curts shop and get to see behind the scenes when I'm lucky... These guys build a beautiful car but even more important they build them so you can drive and beat the snot out them! I've witnessed it first hand! To me that is the all important factor... finish and function!

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Originally Posted by Pro Rides (Post 169066)

Jason, Hey this is Curt Ukasik not Denny or Mike. I own and run the shop at RPM/PRORIDES. Mike and Denny are both great guys and customers that help me tremendously get my feet on the ground with all the projects we have built together. Denny and his father still knock out some killer stuff in his dads garage under his house, while Mike still runs his projects thru the shop as a customer. They both have full time jobs that demand a lot of time from them. We started as great friends that seemed to have the same ideas and could see eye to eye on the builds that we were doing. What was my hobby then became my life 24/7. Eleven employees and eight complete builds going, we are hammering away at them. As for the Street Machines I don't want to let all the cats out of the bag yet. Next year is going to be fun I will tell you that. I will post a few picture of the other Chevelle in the next few days. Maybe some of your wheels would make our chances better next year at Columbus!!!!

Hey Curt, Thanks for the backstory, sorry for my confusion. Love your style and your end product and would love to get our wheels on some of your projects. Let me know what you need!

A few more build pictures.

Cool car, what seats are they btw? thanx.

The seats started as Honda or Acura 2000 year range(don't know exactly). We then cut the cages down and made them a little wider too. My leather guy carved new foam to make them look as they do now.

Beautiful car. Those 2 pics of the the frame all painted or powdercoated looks SOOOOO SWEEEEET!!!! I could look at those pics all day. I especially love the black ceramic coated exhaust. Do you mind sharing the color and the place you got them done at? I am going to have my exhaust ceramic coated and would love to do something besides the chrome look. Thanks

Hey Josh, Just want to say you too build some killer stuff. I saw you work over on the 67-72 Forums I have a 68 in the works myself that we built a chassis for and it has one of Nathan's Porterbuilt crossmembers in it 20s,22s, the list could go on & on. But again your work is awesome. On the exhaust I do a high temp powder in black first(bake it) then a black texture on the second coat then bake it a second time. It gives it different looking finish. I just do the headers in high temp black because after doing the texture on headers we found that it doesn't like the high temp. that close to the motor. I use a flex joint on all our exhausts and from there back the text holds up fine. I have been doing it for about 3 years now and we have it down pat. The sky is the limit on the colors we can do to. My buddy Jason at Allegheny Metal Finishing is the one to talk to if your interested.724-695-3233 just tell him you know Curt he'll give you the hook up. Hope that helps. Thanks

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Originally Posted by Pro Rides (Post 169384)

Thanks Curt!!!! I really appreciate the info! I am thinking about changing the plans for my truck and doing black on black and black colored exhaust would be a sweet touch. Does the black exhaust show dust easy? Also does it scratch easy? So do i get to see some build pics of this truck? Sounds SICK!!!! Thanks for the complements on my build. This is all kind of new to me so there is a big learning curve but I love every minute of it. Talk to you later.

Josh

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Originally Posted by CraigMorrison (Post 168934)

Looks great! Is this the one that you sent me the spy shots of that has our chassis under it? If so, I'd love to put this in the catalog!

Craig - I think these are different shops?????? Are they both named the same. I'm confused myself as I remember the car you are talking about.

http://www.goprorides.com/gallery/72chevelle/index.html

Just curious if there is a connection or if the username just happens to be the same name as another shop.