Been visiting the "other" similar named site and while doing a search,.....found this one. Read some posts and joined. Looks like a good group to hang out with.

I am doing a rotisserie restoration on a '55 belair 2 door sedan. Just got frame painted (black SPI epoxy primer) and all Earl Williams stuff. Will be running a BBC.

Not sure on trans yet. Have a TH400 but considering manual 4-5 speed.

Day jobs keep us in Alaska but we have property in eastern Washington. While our previous builds were in Alaska and sent to Washington to be stored, This build will be done in our Washington shop while visiting the property 4 times / year.

My wife (Caprice) and I do all the work ourselves.

We have restored several cars & boats and most are life sized Hot Wheels. We usually restore one vehicle a year but are trying to have more of a social life so no Alaska project this year. Although, I did bring up some trim pieces that need straightened and polished in my luggage.


This was in May when I put the new floor in and the tailpan.







August was the frame mods and motor mock up.









Couple of our other cars we built.

After watching hollywood knights,... Caprice wanted her bug to look like the one at the drive in. Next day, out came the sawzall!!
4" chop and seuicide doors.


Built this the same year as the bug. It was a busy winter!!





We weren't fond of the AMX hood so I made a mold and then this hood.
I pulled a mold off the bumpers and made them in Fiberglass as well.




I liked the scoop in Mad Max so much, I made this one out of aluminum..






4x4 1937 Chevy Sedan delivery!!



Caprices' '65 GMC 4x4 truck



My '79 Ford F-150



Shop truck

Before:



After:





My old renter gave me this 4 runner for free. Well it was a stock rig with a caved in fender.

3 months work and total investment $1600.00.

3" body lift, 3" suspension lift, $300 tires and rims that had too much offset soooooo,......Made 4 1/2" wide fiberglass fender flares (modeled after "arctic truck" flares) , Roof visor, hood scoop,running boards,all fiberglass. then Steel offroad bumpers copied design from our Dodge truck.
Drove it for a month and was offered $6500.....SOLD!!!



My kids wanted their own boats so in one winter, I made 3ea. 1/2 size boats like my 18' boat.



Shaping foam for plug:



finished in drywall mud:



painted:



Mold:



Making a deck:



x3:



Paint x3:












I'm burned out on molding fiberglass and am really having fun with my metal shaping tools.

Have a great older gentleman near by in Washington that is like Robert (MC&P). Can reproduce ANY panel on ANY car. He loves coming up when we are in town and we make stuff and drink root beer.

Last visit, Bob had me make a 1/2 of a ball (tennis ball size) out of a piece of 18 ga. annealed sheet metal. Using the beater bag, planishing hammer, and shrinker. My tools aren't the quality of his but he showed me how to get mine to work properly.

My '55 build isn't going to be full of custom fabbed metal parts, Just a super clean straight BBC cruiser.

Hope to help out some and learn a bunch.

Ron Pratt