TFchronos

I saw that road course video towards the beginning of the year. I thought someone shared it already, really cool and provided good insight. Haven't seen that vehicle yet, looks awesome though.

Small Update, had to make a couple changes one was cutting off the round cylinders Revel had for the coil springs, made actual springs with some jewelry wire. I've also had to cut away the rear wheel wells so the street tires will fit properly and the ride height has been lowered a little bit. The motor is mostly assembled, still got to do run all the wires and hoses. Thanks for looking!

Amazing build Bruce! Paint and engine detail looks killer!

Very nice work and progress!

Very nice work, really liking the color and engine.

With all the body work it definitely wasn't done for Father's Day but I did the body work finished and did a little mock up for him, he's liking it a lot. Looking at it we both noted that it looked like it was sitting a little high so I'll try lowering it a little. That's next on the list as well as getting the motor finished and mounted, just remembered I still need to cut a hole in the hood for the blower.

That looks awesome as is Ray! Remember a little more can turn into too much. No worries Brayden, life is life and there's still 5 months to go so I wont mark you out just yet. Super busy as of late but I'm hoping to get mine going later next month.

Thanks, I going to try to do a bare metal finish first. It's something he's become interested in recently. For the past 2 months we have been in the process of removing all 52 odd years of paint from his 1:1 '64 Suburban, we want to take it down to the bare metal to have a clean slate of sorts. As we're revealing more of the metal he's been liking the look more and more and asked if I could do something similar for the truck. Yes, I replicated his '77 Formula back in '14. He's done a lot and the best he can and these builds are the least I can do to show my appreciation for all he's done.

This here is a model my Dad had been tinkering with every now and then for the past few years. His hands hurt a little to much to enjoy building and he's very busy with work and life type stuff so he offered to me last week to either part out or scrap all together. Naturally I'm doing neither, instead I'm going to tear it down and re-build/restore it for him as a late Father's Day present. Going in a Overhaulin' style with it, he knows it's happening but won't really get to see it until it's finished. I'll be taking a few idea's he's thrown around for his 1:1 Suburban and add few of my own in as well. The end result will be something along the lines of a Overhaulin'/ Fast & Furious/ resto-mod type'ish (lots of "ish" in there) custom truck. Some of the idea's are as follows. The one big thing he'd like to see is the bare metal finish that's becoming quite popular. Got a plan that proved to be very promising. But I'm open to hearing ideas too, backup plans are always good to have. It's going bumper less. Among some of the ideas he's tossed around for his 1:1 removing the bumpers has been something he mentions often so I'll be applying that to this build. Changing the tail light set up in the back. Not going with the usual Corvette treatment, instead I'll go with a tail light design he's very found of and that's the '67 GTO's quad light. Big horsepower, naturally. Swapping the Standard 283 small block with the 396 big block out of the '67 Pro-street Chevelle. Tossing a supercharger on it to for good measure. Custom grill and a few other ideas that I'm still working out. I was initially hoping to have it done before Father's Day but 7 days in and I'm still doing body work. There's a ton more to be done after that and as nice as it would be I'm not going to rush it, I want to do it right and to the very best of my ability. Picture time. Starting point: Believe it or not that color is that $1.29 bottle paint in Wal-Marts craft section, brushed on even. That stuff's not half bad. Rims will also be getting stripped due to the paint and scratches on them. After stripping. Removed the grill mounts to make room for the custom grill. Removed the gas cap and side trim for a smooth body. Will also be bodying in the door handles as the handles themselves are missing. Lower plate for the back with the GTO style lights. And after the first round of body work, starting on the second round. Thanks for looking, more to come.

Yep, plenty of time to join in on the fun Richard. Haven't touched my entry, planning sure but nothing physical yet. Got a 64 C-10 my father had been working on but stopped, he offered to me as parts or scrap. It's not bad at all so I'm going to rebuild it for him for Father's day.

Very impressive builds here guys. This is my favorite thread on the forum right now, keep 'em coming!

Welcome aboard Gary. Nice entry choice, should be a fun build.

Checking in, nothing visually but boy there's a ton of work happening in my head. If only actual building went as easy.

I think it's about time to post mine. I'll be rampaging through the Outback in a modified '70 Dodge Coronet. Plans are for something along the lines of the Furious 7 Charger, not as fancy or flashy though. Like last year something a moderately skilled person could pull off. I'm going to try scratching a truck 4x4 frame, if that fails I'll seek out a good junkyard donor or something. Probably keep the 426 and see about making one of those Edelbrock Fuel injection carb systems.

Nice work Pat! A straight six ought to do really well out there. Good luck at the show too.

Very nice work Misha and Jesse!

I had a feeling the Rubicon's tires were going to be very popular this year. Perfect tires for this theme. Looks good Jesse.

Roster updated, nice entries folks, here's hoping we get to see them all at the line in December. I'll be adding mine to the list towards the end of this month.

I think Rob's post covers it well enough, near as I have found standard equipment for Australian cars is very similar to US cars. Headlights, tail lights, turn signals, windshields, license plates, ect. I can't say I've found anything restricting paint schemes but keep in mind the flasher it is the more you stand out. I don't think we need to be too specific with rims and tires sizes other than you know, nothing way over sized like Monster truck tires or small rubber band tires. Those definitely wont work out for the off roading part. Something I recommended in the opening post and something I will say again is that Google (any search engine really) will be your best friend for examples of what can be seen on the roads. There's even few road traveling videos, be them long and boring at times they also provide good examples of what's on the road. The .gov link posted was the best thing I could find. I wasn't able to find a simple list of absolute specifics.

Very nice work guys.

Very nice chassis work Misha and Pat.

Very nice!

Very nicely done!

Cool and nice build!

Beautiful Mopar! Very nicely done!