Progress on the truck

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I wish I would have thought about cutting the exterior door skin off to put my power windows in. Looks like you have a lot more room to work with!

Well when the doors are sectioned and lengthened, and you have to reskin the doors anyways, you might as well put the power windows in before you reskin the door. Work smarter not harder.

WOW!!! Looks great.:thumbsup:

The firewall on the truck looks awesome. Very smooth. Can't wait to see this one finished.

Well time for some kind of update.

We got the Body for the give away car and it fit on the chassis like it was supposed to.... Go Figure. :unibrow: This is not the stance or the ride height, it does not even have springs on the front shocks. I ordered the rear axle and rear wheels this week. These bodies are unbelievably nice. I love the MADE IN THE USA sticker inside the doors...

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It has some Roller 17" C5 wheels on it for now. We are again doing the Giveaway car dance called, " Waiting For Parts".

Any updated pics of Frank's truck????


--Eric

The sleeper Packard is in Paint. This car will win money for the Old Man driving a white walled sleeper at the stop light for sure. I laugh everytime I think about how much work we have put into this car. I really learned with this car that not everyone loves the ordinary cars. It has a LS engine from a 2008 truck with custom front suspension with late model truck spindles for the 5x5 bolt pattern and 4 link rear suspension with Single adjustable coilover all around. The owner has never been to a carshow and has no interest in going. He has always dreamed of driving this 1946 Packard across country when he retires. How he ends up in my shop is beyond me, But It is really cool to see the excitement this guy has for his project. He has not cut one corner.

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Here is where this thing started from about a year ago. We basically replaced the bottom 4" of the car. It was Rusty to say the least. But apparently these cars are pretty difficult to find and customer had sentimental attachment to this one.
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Patience... Patience

And the Truck. Man have we put some time in on this one also. Frank and Mary have allowed and encouraged us to go all out on this one. We are still on track to have it at SEMA later this year. We have been working on the details for few weeks. We installed some late model Chevy Latches, they work really nice. We narrowed the grille 1" on each side in a tapering fashion to loose some heaviness of the grille. That was alot of work. We hid all the bolts in the bed and made some clean little wheel tubs in the bed. We have been working with Tracy Weaver of Recovery Room on some interior stuff. The plan is to go to paint in July and interior in Sept. SEMA in November and go back to Del Mar with a truck with a bed floor for old times sake.

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The rear bumper will be a modified unit off a 67 step side truck. It will look the part for the style of truck we are doing. We have been working on plans for the front bumper and it will probably have to be a completely scratch built unit to do what we want.

We picked up another LOCAL project. We nicknamed it DOnKey Kong transformation. Cuz she sits a little to tall for my liking and probably yours. The customer wants and really nice street car. We are replacing all the suspension with the Speedtech stuff and installing an LS3 with a 4L60 trans. It should be a nice car but really pretty basic. We have ordered all the Marquez and Ring Brothers trim parts with some Budnik wheels on this one.

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No camaro is complete without your KING of The CAGE sticker.

Rodger