Recent content by swichez63

Just the rear doors will be suicided, but thats not for afew months yet... It is a paint, basically I did 2 coats of the paint, waited for it to dry and applied the oxidiser, ill get some more pics today.

Cheers mate, its awesome to look apon all the good builds on here so its an honour. About the 4 door thing, 2 doors cost such a pretty penny over here. 4 years ago, when i was 19 and bought the 4 door, it was $18000, you couldnt pick up a 2 door for less than $40000! But ive grown to love my 4...

Sheetmetal is all held together, needs to all be tweeked a little to fir perfectly, but ill do that when I weld it tomorrow, also I painted my roof... Pics.

body goes on for its first test fit (to see how much exactly needs to be chopped away) in less than 24 hours! rather excited. Its got 1 month till the show i want to go to is on, so there will be lots of progress really quickly, fingers crossed...

chassis is almost done, just gotta fully weld everything and get my new brake bracket adaptors for my disc brakes should get back from the laser cutters in afew days...

Its the Australian built version, they all run Impala rear decks. I had this very discussion when I was in LA 19 months ago with Barry White, and he was trying to tell me what model car I had and we argued for about 10 minutes before he believed me haha. Yer Im pretty happy with the way the...

Oh and here is some pictures of the notch, i wanted to notch it quite alot so i decided on a 210mm notch haha, a little overkill but i like the look of it!

Heres some pics of new progress, got the bottom and top trailing arms mounted, and also the shocks are mounted... The next thing will be mount the panhard rod and also the top bag mounts, also my 2inch drop spindles are in transit from california all the way to me in Perth...

Cheers everyone for the welcoming, ive posted my build for my '63 up, not in a great amount of detail but im about to update it with some more pics and info...

Heres my 63 chev. I bought her 3 years ago as a stock, Australian Built, 1963 Chevrolet belair, 283 small block, 2 speed glide and a set of 14 inch 100 spokers... From there I got a front disc conversion (HQ holden i believe). I then got my airbags done. 1/2" 350 extreme valves, 10gal tank, 2x...

Hey people of the rat rod world, the names Patrick, 22, and i live in Perth Australia. In Perth we have a fairly large hot rod scene, but a small percentage actually get into rat rods, most are kinda shuned apon here as its not a 'pretty' car, but i like rust. At the mo I have a 63 chev belair...