You obvously know I love the 5th Gen Camaro and I think you guys you hit this one out of the park.

I hope you build it cause I really like the front end treatment.

you guys do killer work! I love that camaro

I havent seen anything come out of your shop i didnt want:thumbsup:

The latest happenings at Ironworks
 

So we have been pretty busy as of lately getting some things ready for the summer show season. We have been working on increasing our product line and working on some projects a little out of our normal.

Incase you missed it, Chad from Bangshift.com came by the shop to check the place out on his way to the Goodguys Pleasanton show. We had a good time showing him around the shop and hanging out for a few hours. I showed him the 1960 Ford truck that he said he was not sure if he hated the body style of those truck or the color brown more. But as you can see in this link - He is down with the brown, BABY.

http://bangshift.com/blog/sneak-peek...the-works.html

As many of you know I sold my 1968 Camaro. It is going to a good home in Texas. I'm going to take the funds from the sale of that car and look at building 2 cars to fulfill me need for Speed. First off we are about 1/3 of the way through with putting together at 1976 Nova for the Local 1/3 mile dirt oval. The car will be built as a Hobby Stock car. I'm not sure what is so stock about these cars, But I think it should fulfill me desire to race on a much more regular basis, like every other Saturday night if I want. The car will have a full cage, a 9" floater with 7.33 gears and 6000 dollar "stock" small block chevrolet with a trick out Powerglide. It should be pretty fun.

Here is what we started with. 400 bucks on craigslist. We drove to Fresno after work to pick it up from the guy selling it.
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We then trimmed just a little bit off the car to fill up the scrap bin.
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Here is how it sits today. Waiting for some spare time to weld up the stock subframe seams and mock up an engine and trans. It is amazing how cheap and simple these cars are.
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We have been knee Deep in getting some details worked out in Darrel's tube chassis for his Nova. The steering rack placement and front control arms are finalize for the rack and pinion to clear the low mount alternator of the stock LSA bracket system. When working with the LSA engine you don't have to many engine bracket system options without engineering your own complete system.

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Glad to see you're not going overboard on a Hobby Stock car. Looks awesome!


--Eric

YET! :D

Lookin good Rodger. Hopefully You'll be able to run your race car more than I've ran mine this year -zero! :mad:

oh **** is that my 62 chassis ?

Well It could be, But that would mean you might have to actaully say something nice. This one might be a little too nice for you.

Well here it is. Almost Ready for the LA Roadster show. Finally.

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Introducing the Lowest sitting, Strongest 58-64 Impala chassis on the market. You have to cut out a little bit more floor then I intended, but when stance matters I guess it is all worth it. For the first time ever we have gone to using some 3/16 plate in some of the vertical section of the chassis to raise strength even further for such a big car. The entire chassis is still TIG welded. Not just the welds that get sanded down. Enjoy

We plan to finalize the frame center section once we have routed the exhaust and mounted the engine and trans in a car or two.

Here are some pictures of the Sweet machined Taillights for the Bubbletop project that we have going on. I case you did not see it in the build thread.

Sweet.

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