Thread: My 15 week rat rod build or bust.....

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So today me and Donny, the guy who has all the know how, started cutting all the fat out. I cleaned over 10LBS of crap out of the doors, and rear floor pan. We mocked up the body on the frame. We also got the donor door off the other cowl. Man did that suck, I hate thouse little pins! I cut off the right rear quarter we are going to use once we chop the top. We came to find that the body sat upside down for many of years. So we pounded what we could straight, and we will replace the pass side roof pannels when we get there.

Donny seems to think that we will have the body channled for next weekend!!! While I did the grunt work he made a 1x1 frame for the top of the body to keep it true.

ON WITH THE PICS
Here's the bad

Nothing wrong with eyeballing it for this cut

Yeah, my head is still ringing, the Plasma cutter was out on a job today

Donny is cutting the box for the roof

Here is Donny messin' with the door...

Check out the bottom of the doors.....

The rear pan is so nice....to hell with it! Were cuttin' it out!

This fire wall is not long for life.......

So here we are after Donny played with it a few hours today. I was only able to stop by for a few mins before work tonight. But it looks like he got the body ready to be channled. He was getting ready to weld the pass side 1x1 in when I was leaving. He also told me that he had found a 80's chevy pick up that would be a good donor car. I think it was 400 bucks for it, and it runs and drives fine he said. I would pull the parts I need and sell off the rest of the stuff I don't need. So maybe on Saturday we will go pick that up....






Yeah the Broadway Title stuff is a no go in MN, so I am just going to do it the old fashion...Lie to the DMV and tell them it's a kit car!

I will let the pics do the talking.....What do you guys think?

So today who worked on the front axle. What a huge PITA it was to take the large bolts out. We tryed to press them, but that was a big no way. So I spent almost 2 hours drilling them out. We got most of the brake parts off ok. Depending on the price of parts, we may use drums in the front....?

So Donny's kid found out that one of his buddies has a 60's chevy truck with a old Nail head motor. Yeah I know, who the hell would do that swap into a work truck..... But it runs and drives I was told....and the price is FREE!!!! So we can go wrong with that one. I hope it works out.

On to the pic's

And how about a Ford Niner that Donny forgot he had laying around!


Zach
More pics this week.