1963 Fairlane at the Roadster Shop
 

This is a pretty unique project that we are building for a repeat customer. He likes cars that are out of the norm, but definitely cool in their uniqueness. We are just getting underway with the latest, a 1963 Fairlane. The car will be built to look completely stock and give it a total grandma/sleeper look. Underneath the car will be a custom fully independent Fast Track chassis. Power is coming from a Jon Kaase Boss 9 motor with a Tremec 6-speed.

As the car showed up:
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After removing the coils we played with a lot of ride heights until we got one that the owner was happy with. (the version that we were happy with was abut 4 inches lower! As the owner put it, "if it was up to you young guys every car would be so low you couldn't drive it")

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The car was disassembled and the chassis was designed and built for the car with our Fast Track IFS and IRS

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Test fitting the body on the chassis before it gets sent out to be media blasted.

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The body came back from media blaster with all kinds of surprises!
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A shot down into the bottom of the quarter revealed some real "custom" work. A true "specialist" must have been the one to originally restore this car. The bottom of the quarter was "constructed" from cardboard, spray foam, wire mesh, and a whole lot of bondo!

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Beginning of the sheetmetal work. Since Fairlanes aren't all that popular, there literally isn't a single sheet metal replacement panel available. So everything had to be fabbed from scratch.

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And then this showed up....
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Cool project! you guys are waaay to good!

That motor is freakin' awesome!:thumbsup: Going to be a great build

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Awesome, can't wait to see more.

Not a Ford guy, but damn that's sexy. :thumbsup: