Full Size Pro-touring???

[bucks69]

Originally Posted by ironworks

We did all the fab work on a 52 caddy a few years ago with all global west stuff with coilovers and a four link. It had a ramjet 502.

We are working on a chopped 49 caddy fastback with a 2007 blown northstar with XLR suspension. It is pretty bad ass. I'm working with Fikse on some super cool wheels for it right now.

Neil Lea in Centre Alabama is doing bubble top for James Eudy, it will have an all aluminum 409 with a Procharger on it. It has a morrison chassis and it might be in Columbus this summer.

We are working on 4 67 chevelle currently or they are on the board for future work currently. So Full size Pro-touring is alive and well.

Rodger

What about the big truck in the background of the pics that John keeps posting of your badass truck? is there a link to that? What about some details? TIA

[ironworks]

Snubby? That is a cabover with a blown big block for a guy in Hawaii. The big block goes behind the cab. It is more like trying help an injured puppy back to life. That truck was cut up by a guy with one leg longer then the other because the roof and door were miles off. We are having to redo everything. I never understand how somebody could think a door that does not shut is acceptable work. The customer had no idea either, I noticed the roof being off before we got it off the trailer.

[awr68]

Rodger, I got passed on a bridge last summer by a bright orange CO w/ a rear mounted blown BBC...scared the hell out of me when he nailed it in evening traffic! Those are pretty cool trucks when done right!!

[Tony@AirRideTech]

Originally Posted by TwinSting

Radlark- It is on bags from airride. As I said I built it about 6 or more years ago. It has the big red valves w/4 switches and large tank and compressor up on spare tire shelf in truck. It actually improved the handling over stock!! The Hotchkis stuff is upper and lower rear trailing arms and front swaybar. If I was doing it now I would probably do the shockwave if they have them for it. They are a good product.

Thanks to the rest for the nice comments.

Twin.... that is one sweet car man! By the way we are developing a new front kit for the 65-70's that will consist of a larger tubular lower control arm that eliminates the strut rod along with a new sway bar with posi link end links. We also have the rear stong arms....Super nice stuff for the big cars. It should be ready to ship within the next week or so.

[caper150]

I guess you can't get more full size than this,plan is to fully shave,sucide the rear doors and run air ride all the way around.


I have had it for about a year and have started tear down,but a bigger project got in the way.

32X40 with heated floors.I should be back on track this summer on the build.

plan for the rear is to use this frame section to replace the rusted out section
4-Link Rear Frame

http://www.pulleyengineering.com/Cat.../4linkrear.bmp


and then use this for the suspension.
4-Link Rear Frame


http://www.ridetech.com/productinfo/images/ars13500.jpg

usin the ARS13500 system,haven't worked out the front fully yet,but it look like it'll be using some mustang parts,but I'm still working that out.

[novanutcase]

Great build! Both of them!

John

[Radlark]

Originally Posted by Tony@AirRideTech

Twin.... that is one sweet car man! By the way we are developing a new front kit for the 65-70's that will consist of a larger tubular lower control arm that eliminates the strut rod along with a new sway bar with posi link end links. We also have the rear stong arms....Super nice stuff for the big cars. It should be ready to ship within the next week or so.

That is what I have been saving my pennies up for!!! Woohoo!!!!!!

[rocketman]

Originally Posted by novanutcase

Rodger!

Why don't you ever post pics of your truck?!? That thing is BAD@SS!!!






Cab mockup before he powdercoated the frame!



John

Sweet ride, nice simple frame design( frame rails it's self), that suspension is killer with the inverted bags on the rear. can't wait till its completed

[marolf101x]

It will never handle like a smaller car, but I still dig the look of my LCC. We used this to prototype a kit for the Lincolns, so it has all our ART goodies (including some electronic stuff I can't show off yet!)

Since the kit was designed I picked up a 5.4L supercharged motor and trans out of a Ford Lightning. It's not in the car yet, but it's cold outside so I can't drive it anyway. Like I said, at 5500lbs, it'll never out handle a Vette; but top down cruising is a nice respite from driving all Bret's cars.

[preston]

Leno's Toronado certainly qualifies. I'm always disappointed in a car like that though that is a top notch build and gets a lot of press, then you never see it again. From all the articles I read they wrung it out one day at the test track , but doesn't sound like it was ever fully proved.

I would love to do a rear drive full chassis (stock they are FWD) '68+ El Dorado in black, but the only way I can justify the expense and time to do it right is to drive the car a lot when its done, and with the fuel situation I am just not looking at doing 5500 lb cars with big block motors anymore.