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

[GregWeld]

Geez -- A guy goes out to dinner and comes home to find a whole bunch o shizzazel going on 'round here!



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Thanks to all for the kind words.... and AL -- I got a good belly laugh out of that man! Too funny!

Just for arguments ---- RODGER likes the brown on the LEXUS.... I love the LAVA GREY on my wifes R8... Per this picture. They also have a grey brown color per the post by SKIP showing on an R8.

Here's my problem.... a car has to kick you in the nuts... and really can't be what "somebody else wants". And brown just isn't a color that does it for me. I'm kind of going of the looks and feel of - to pick one car - a CLS 63 AMG - a car that just turns heads - everyone knows it's powerful - but won't "win" any contests particularly - but you know it kicks ass... and they're not "orange" or bright blue.... they're BLACK - or metallic grey -- or silver (that's out)... SO when I picture the car done -- it has to say '62 updated big baller road hog kool like a big ass Mercedes. Does that make any sense?

Here's the wifes LAVA GREY R8 -- which is a color that really makes the body lines shadow and highlight. But we're not done yet or settled on the final color for exterior or interior...

[coolwelder62]

Greg,Why do you have Qu-be-cul's in your garage.

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by coolwelder62

Greg,Why do you have Qu-be-cul's in your garage.

So I have a place to put my lawnmower??? -- like Lenie!



These are pics of when I bought the car. I actually went to the dealership with my son Alex to look at the S4's with him.... and this was sitting on the floor... the more I looked at it, the more I liked it. Gwen's birthday was in a couple of weeks (the lightbulb lit up!) so I bought it for her. She was driving an '06 BMW 650i Convertible... On her birthday I took here and some friends for dinner - none of them knew what I'd done. We drove her BMW and had valet park it. When we went to retrieve "her" car - they brought this up with a big red bow on it.

Her comment was priceless -- She's busy blabbing with friends -- turns around and sees this and blurts out -- WTF IS THAT? I said - it's your new car -- and she says -- WELL... WTF IS IT? It's become a standing joke now.

Anyway -- back to the thread -- RODGER is right on about the intent of the build -- a '62 Bubble Top S63 AMG. It doesn't need a 572 twin turbo rat-a-tat-tat motor it just needs massive torque... paddle shifted 4L80E... kinda fat tires - great interior - a color combo that says inviting, classy, & badass like a high end call girl... and just enough rumble to get noticed. The doors have to shut like my S63... and it has to have a compliant but capable ride (Ironworks new chassis!). Don't look for it on the autocross... look for it on the highway and on Power Tour.

[70rs]

Awesome build Greg. Very classy. And it's in good hands. (understatement)

Hope you all have a great Christmas.

[DOOM]

Greg don't change a single thing from that second rendering!!!!!

[NAPA 68]

How bout chassis pics & details!

[Fluid Power]

Anyway -- back to the thread -- RODGER is right on about the intent of the build -- a '62 Bubble Top S63 AMG. It doesn't need a 572 twin turbo rat-a-tat-tat motor it just needs massive torque... paddle shifted 4L80E... kinda fat tires - great interior - a color combo that says inviting, classy, & badass like a high end call girl... and just enough rumble to get noticed. The doors have to shut like my S63... and it has to have a compliant but capable ride (Ironworks new chassis!). Don't look for it on the autocross... look for it on the highway and on Power Tour. [/QUOTE]


Greg, I think you are spot on. I am so looking forward to this car. The details are perfect and I love the fact that the exhaust note will be subtle. I think a lot of guys that build cars similar to this ruin them by putting the big rumpty rump exhaust on them when understated power suits the build style so much better. The AMG or M5/M6 exhaust note is spot on!

I think I came a little when I saw Roger started a build thread on this!

Darren

[cencalc6]

Excellent choice of car.....I've always wanted a 62 Bel-Air....By the looks of it on that rendering, is going to be a Very Sweet looking Ride

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Fluid Power

Anyway -- back to the thread -- RODGER is right on about the intent of the build -- a '62 Bubble Top S63 AMG. It doesn't need a 572 twin turbo rat-a-tat-tat motor it just needs massive torque... paddle shifted 4L80E... kinda fat tires - great interior - a color combo that says inviting, classy, & badass like a high end call girl... and just enough rumble to get noticed. The doors have to shut like my S63... and it has to have a compliant but capable ride (Ironworks new chassis!). Don't look for it on the autocross... look for it on the highway and on Power Tour.

Greg, I think you are spot on. I am so looking forward to this car. The details are perfect and I love the fact that the exhaust note will be subtle. I think a lot of guys that build cars similar to this ruin them by putting the big rumpty rump exhaust on them when understated power suits the build style so much better. The AMG or M5/M6 exhaust note is spot on!

I think I came a little when I saw Roger started a build thread on this!

Darren[/QUOTE]


Yeah -- At one point I called "The Rajah" (as Skip calls him ) and said - lets put a NRE TT 572 in it... it's a big car with a huge engine compartment! But then he talked me off the ledge and we re-hashed the "intent".... And the intent is to put a bunch of miles on it - have it at all the major shows and prove the chassis... Plus get enough "attention" that people will want to see what Ironworks builds....

[fleetus macmullitz]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Yeah -- At one point I called "The Rajah" (as Skip calls him ) and said - lets put a NRE TT 572 in it... it's a big car with a huge engine compartment! But then he talked me off the ledge and we re-hashed the "intent".... And the intent is to put a bunch of miles on it - have it at all the major shows and prove the chassis... Plus get enough "attention" that people will want to see what Ironworks builds....

" Raja (also spelled rajah, from Sanskrit राज rāja- and Urdu: ... is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna."

Good to see Wikipedia has high (or tall? ) regard for the 'The Rajah'.


Greg, regarding the exhaust note ...I know you want to keep it low key. I like the deep, throaty sound many of the stock GM LS exhaust systems have.

A number of aftermarket systems I've heard seem to have lost that.