Decisions, decisions. That’s what you’re faced with when building your ride. If it’s a restoration, many of your decisions have already been made for you. Such as interior, motor, wheels, paint color, etc. However, if you are building a custom or street rod, then you’re going to have to decide a lot of things on…
This custom motorcycle tank is completely designed and every piece fabricated. We started with a stock tank, lengthened it 3”, and added all the art deco touches. It is still in primer in this and accompanying photos. All the pieces were made in aluminum, stainless, or steel…..READ MORE
The car features only subtle body modifications. The V butt windshield, the custom grill, and flush mounted turn signals are what stand out initially. But a closer look reveals smooth custom fabricated removable side panels as well as a one piece clamshell hood. Even the headlights were cut down and fitted lower on the front fenders……READ MORE
Rick Treworgy (Owner of Muscle Car City Museum, Ponta Gorda, Florida) has owned his 1939 Chevy Coupe for over 12 years now. The interior design was dynamic and trendsetting then and still looks fresh all these years later. The design included such features as hidden under dash door handles, accent lighting behind the arm rests and the rear trim bar behind the seats, and an automatically retractable air ride gage unit that disappeared under the dash when the ignition was shut off. The metallic look of the materials offer a unique compliment to the exterior deep sapphire blue paint……..READ MORE
This 41 Chevy got a really cool radiator cover. It was to be chrome plated, so it had to be perfect. It was made in three pieces and tig welded together then hammered and dollied to perfection. What you see in the progress photos is not chrome plating but simply polished cold rolled metal…..READ MORE
Here’s proof we do it all! It’s a 1955 Oliver tractor hood. The customer was restoring this earth moving piece of equipment and wanted us to make a new hood for it. So we did. Complete with proper reliefs, openings and hinge pockets…..READ MORE
This ’37 needed a lot of work. It’s a steel car but it had a lot of bad chop and cut work done to it. So Jeff brought it to us to cut off the rear fenders, rear roll panel, and the wheel fender openings to have us remake them and weld them into place. So we did. Using the English Wheel we shaped up the new parts and corrected all the errors made throughout the years…..READ MORE
This owner of this 1967 Camaro wanted to add the cowl induction hood to his car but had some issues with the original design by GM. The backwards scoop on the OEM hood had a very large raised and pronounced peak. Additionally the scoop ended on the hood a few inches shy of the header panel…..READ MORE
You probably have seen Bill and Char’s Corvette on our Featured Cars page. The funny part of the story is the car actually came to us at Kidd Darrins with a “new” interior. However, as the project progressed we began noticing the interior was kind of bland now that the rest of the car had received such a thorough remake…..READ MORE
This 1968 Camaro received a complete interior redesign. The dash was removed and we started from scratch– even redesigning the dash cap. The customer specified a predominately black interior and we decided on red, used sparingly, to make for a nice accent color. All the red moldings you see are made from 3/16″ brass, sanded to fit and align, drilled and tapped for 4×40 studs to facilitate installation, and then primed and painted in a UV stable red…..READ MORE
