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I probably dont have a very good chance but figured i'd give it a shot anyways...I would like to submit some past projects i have worked on/built. The first is a 1962 Mercedes Benz my dad bought over 25 years ago. When i was 15 i started working on restoring it. Overall, the car was in good shape and only needed a paint job and some other minor repairs to freshen it up! Great starter project, but then i bought a '67 C-10 that I did all the work on and drove through high school and college. Most recently is my '69 Z/28. The Benz and C-10 have been sold and the Camaro is my only project at the time. I put on those rose colored glasses when i bought it and bit off more than i could chew! But im not one to give up so even if it takes me 10 years, i will see this project to completion!

Already have the Art Morrison Max-G chassis on a frame jig. All the new sheet metal is purchased, now i just need to set the car on the frame and fabricate the floor pans, firewall, wheel tubs, etc. I hope to stick an LS-7 and 6spd tranny in there. Still undecided on paint, but thinking i will go back to the original garnet red with black stripes and a black interior!

If i win i would use the money to purchase a bead roller to help with floor, wheel tub, firewall fabrication!

Mercedes:
http://i1012.photobucket.com/albums/...b/PB120777.jpg

http://i1012.photobucket.com/albums/...b/PB120779.jpg

I figure I might as well give this a shot too. My entry is a bit different because it isn't necessarily mine alone. I live in an apartment with no garage and work out of my fiance's dad's 3 car garage; which is home to the following....a 69 & 70 Trans Am, my 72 Chevelle on the weekends, an 07 Mazdaspeed 3, an 06 F-150, and a couple less exciting daily drivers, a part time hobbyist furniture shop, and small service garage and shop to work on and all the vehicles.

The three of us (Fiance's dad + his son + me) don't have a whole lot of spending money like many of the gifted garage fabricators on here but we do what we can to add those little touches to all of our vehicles to make them our own. The three of us have collaboratively prepped the three classics for paint with angle grinders and wire brush wheels, swapped rear ends, upgraded suspension, small body and paint modifications and lots of other small things. In addition to working on cars we also are hobbyist woodworkers so the garage sees a lot of action.

After spending a couple years on this site and being around so many skilled and knowledgeable car gurus one cannot help to be constantly tinkering and updating their ride.

I'm a dreamer so I always have plans on what I want to build, I have sketchbooks and yellow legal pads full of drawings. The problem is I don't really have any tools but I try to barrow whatever I can to get the job done. With some Baileigh bucks I could really get something to help make some of the drawings come to fruition.

Time for the pics! All of the things you are about to see are the product of one packed three car garage which could be made infinitely more useful with the help of Baileigh and their generosity.
First the muscle!
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...e/DSC_0690.jpg
In the 72 Chevelle I have stripped it down to metal, upgraded the suspension with all new upper and lower control arms, upgraded to coil-overs, swapped the front drums for discs, replaced the rear end after blowing up the old one, reupholstered the original seats only to be replaced with newer racing style buckets, Ringbrothers hood pins, and other small things here and there.
Various other projects
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps2f769a4d.jpg
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...psbfc3c53b.jpg
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...psd201a723.jpg
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps7a0d8721.jpg
Sorry for the blurry pic the bathroom is small so I had to do a panoramic shot
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...psda430b4e.jpg
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...psd1d82783.jpg
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps9fe18957.jpg
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http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps7b50267a.jpg
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps66e9fb4a.jpg
A cool installation made by Fiance's brother for school, all sorts of abstract ladders
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...psaf015a6f.jpg
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps8fac4ef5.jpg

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Originally Posted by T_Raven (Post 488161)

Shane, I ordered a bead roller from you last week. Just got it today.

Since no one's posted a video of their shop yet, here's mine.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...ps677f5242.jpg

Great job!!!
:cheering:

Looks like we got ourselves a shootout here at the final stretch. :trophy-1302:

Just got another project. I wanted to pick it up before I did my video but the guy was out of town

67 GMC 1/2 ton

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...psd742fd45.jpg

I'll be cutting it down into a short bed. The frame is easy, that's been done a ton, but I've only seen a couple people shorten these beds. When I did this 72 in 2004 I'd never heard of anyone else doing it. I'm going to do this 67 a little different though and I want to make a tube frame and maybe a 4 link rear

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...ps62c0e309.jpg

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...ps606e664e.jpg

Well, my home PC is still down and all I got access to is my iPhone (which is what I usually surf and post from anyway!). So that means that I can't post pics from this thing So, I'm out on the contest I'm sure!

But my next project is not a PT one, but a custom. Something that I can hop in and drive and not have to worry about beating on it and breaking it all the time, like my Camaro! LOL! The car is a 52 Buick Special (2 door post). I have a 92 Caprice chassis that I am going to cut up and put underneath the Buick, so I can have the lowered stance and better ride quality over the Stock junk. Not to mention the hard to find parts for straight 8 with TQ tube drivetrain. It will be nice to be able to pull into an Auto Zone and buy something that "fits" if it breaks on the road, which it WILL get driven all over the country, just like my other cars! The other parts that I have sitting ready and waiting are 55 Olds front fender/headlights, to get away from the bug eye look of the originals. I also have a 51 Merc back half that I am going to graft onto the back of car. It seems that the GM designers worked awesomely from the front to almost the back, then I think the they went on vacation when they got to the rear of the car! I want to have the car look so close to "right" while people are wondering what is not "right". I want to remove the small front dagmars in the grille and add a couple more grille bars where they were. Fill the hole in the hood and strip the emblems, but leave the awesome Buick side trim. Of course have the whitewalls and more than likely Caddy hubcaps (but not sure with the caps yet). I would like to do a 2" front and 3" rear chop, but not sure if I have the talent for that at this point!

The Camaro as most know, has a TT SBC and a TQ arm rear suspension under it, all home built in the garage with help from friends. I have yet to do any "light" Sheetmetal work on anything, so hopefully I can learn on this Buick custom with some killer Baileigh equipment!!:ups:

Wow time flies! So a little about me and my project first. I picked up my 1968 Firebird as a 30th birthday present in 2010. Car was much worse than expected but not big deal. I dove in - blowing the car to pieces, drilling spot welds, removing panels, and ordering new parts. I had originally planned to do a JRS setup with an LS motor. Project paused for about 12-18 months as I had a baby and bought a house. That is now settled and I'm back on the project.

Decided the C6 chassis parts and LS motor were too common these days for me... I wanted to do something unique. It doesn't need to be faster, but it needs to be cool and work well - and be not something you see everyday. So now I'm transplanting a BMW underneath the Firebird. Aftermarket is plentiful, performance is good, and trackwidth / wheelbase is just about right. While the project was on hold, I started accumulating parts and have most of the front and rear chassis.

While I have recently purchased some better tools, I'm pretty limited. MIG, plasma, compressor and air tools. So I've got the chassis table built and painted. Rear suspension is up on the chassis table waiting for final positioning. I've basically planned to build all the frame rails myself out of steel tube - cutting them with a cut-off wheel! :lostmarbles: What I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have is a Baileigh cold saw! While I'd still need to manage some compound angles, life would be much easier! Well, as easy as it can be in a 3.5 car garage / shop.... Future needs would be a sheet metal brake, bead roller, and..... let's see how far this can go!

I'll let the pictures do the talking from here.

- Project! -

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- Tools (or lack thereof!) -

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- Self built chassis table! -

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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-g...hoto%25204.JPG

Thanks to Baileigh's for this opportunity! Should I win, I'd love to put a nice Baileigh's decal on my ride when it's finished!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...520contest.jpg

Good Luck everyone!!!