Ironworks is building a 1962 Bel-Air with a Blown LSX-376 and Ironworks Chassis

[ironworks]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Possibly thin the bumper 1"+, move it inward .5"+, make a lower valance with a minimal splitter that compliments the dominant body lines.

Did you look at Neil's IG? He narrowed it a couple inches today and moved it back about that. No need to tin it as it will look thinner when chromed and not make the car look any higher then it should be.

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by ironworks

Did you look at Neil's IG? He narrowed it a couple inches today and moved it back about that. No need to tin it as it will look thinner when chromed and not make the car look any higher then it should be.

Haven't yet!

[ironworks]

Progress on the bubble top has been good. She is pretty much in 2nd prime awaiting to address some small issues to get it ready to coat the chassis and put it back together on the chassis. We want to final block the car on the chassis where it will sit till the end of days. These cars move around alot.
We are fitting the dash to the interior and getting the seating position dialed. We have a few more parts to build under the hood to finish the intake. But we are very close.

[Musclerodz]

That dash is wicked!

[ironworks]

Originally Posted by Musclerodz

That dash is wicked!

It better be....... HAHA

[Swain]

What you look at that.

Top Notch as always..

[71RS/SS396]

Kewl intake!

[ironworks]

Originally Posted by 71RS/SS396

Kewl intake!

I have an extra.

[Dave Pratt]

One of my all-time favorite cars...wicked job on the fabrication as well as the entire thought process going into this build...which leads to this question,how long did it take you to plan this build out and how many revisions to that original plan if any.I'm blown away...great work!

cheers

[ironworks]

Originally Posted by Dave Pratt

One of my all-time favorite cars...wicked job on the fabrication as well as the entire thought process going into this build...which leads to this question,how long did it take you to plan this build out and how many revisions to that original plan if any.I'm blown away...great work!

cheers

Man this might be the deepest question I have ever had on a message board.

The car is really the same concept that is was in the beginning. The road became more defined as the journey continued on. But if you go back to the original dash concept to the big chunk of billet sitting there it is still the same concept. I think if you around the custom car world you can look at a car and tell who built it. Their style stands out as much or more then then actual car styling from the manufacturer of car originally.

These are some original sketches we did of the dash concept



To latest drawing of the dash to the final product.



Good ideas never go out of style but the way you pull them off will change as you learn new methods to do things. We are doing more and more in Solidworks as it allows us to think deeper and get more detail then you could afford to in making some parts by hand.