Customs 53 Pontiac kustom build Sins or bust

Had this car for a few years now. it was already chopped when I had it but never finished.
I painted it in a mat finish until I had time do redo it right.
I swapped out the old straight 8 about a year after i had it.
I started the rebuild at the end of summer 2007 and I'm planning to finish it for the Sins show in Antwerp at the end of April next year.

This is how it was befor the teardown


Got my son and his mate involved with dissasembly






The plan was to take the body off and build up the chassie getting rid of the rear leaf springs and setting it up on air bags and 4 bar.

First off with the body

 

Once the body was off and out of the way it was time to start the suspension mods


Axle was temp welded in place


Then the springs removed



Lower bars were made up next I used the front spring hanger to mount it to the chassie and boxed the rear part of the chassie




Top bars

 

Air bags and exhausts fitted

 

great job , i enjoyed the photos , nice looking car what color will it be when the body work is done ?

 

Well done sir there is quite a few of us going sins or bust lets hope we make it, the Scrapers cc do one hell of a show

 

Yep looking forward to it
Got to get it finished cause i'm fed up of getting wet in the roadster

 

Nice work, glad to see someone else try to build a car in a phone booth.
My kind of body stands too! Been there twice!

Nice work on the roller, will look forward to the dropdown and paint pics

 

Nice work and great way to get the kids involved!!

 

Next back on with the body


Cut out the old trunk floor because i wanted to raise the fuel tank so when its lowered I won't have any clearance problems


New floor and fuel tank hangers made











Had to modify the rear floor pan and prop tunnel for clearance

 

Looking good mate, you never did respond to my e-mail about grilles, any designs made yet?

 

Bit of repair work on the front floorpan

 

Not decided yet, getting all the other body mods done first

 

Started stripping the paint on the body and foound a few horrors,
The rear quarters on both sides were bashed up pretty bad, with poor repairs with lots of bondo


Someone had drilled lots of holes to try and pull the dents out.
I cut the inner panel out to get better access to try and repair it

 

Next the rear window. Just had a piece of perspex in there before, I got hold of a 46 Ford rear screen and put that in

 

Engine , trans and firewall painted kandy apple red





The headers the one side were off the shelf s/steel block huggers


the drivers side would not clear the steering box so I cut out a S/Steel header flange with the plasma cutter bought some 1 1/2" s/steel bends and made my own header


put tubes over the spark plugs so I new I could get them out when finished.






This is how it is to date
Lots to do

 

show a pic of it with the bags all the way down. nice work, looks like its going to be badass

 

Damn fine work. Really dig teh engine/firewall color.

-Abone.

 

Can't wait to see it done!

 

looking good!

 

Very nice work..
LOVE that color too!!

 

Very nice work. Really like the rear window. Wild color too. Going to paint the whole car similar? Keep us posted.

 

freaking awesome!

 

nice work. Dig the red. It'll look good.

 

Yep the whole car will be painted that colour, its HOK Kandy apple red. I have put a bit of flake on the dash.

 

Oh Maaaaaan

 

I know I was winding you up at the Hayride about the paint but it's going to look very nice in that colour!!

Cool header work as well, so what's next on the list?

 

I have a 54 pontiac grille and misc. trim for sale......check out my webshot page for pictures......stan

 

Too much

Both doors have seperated from the inner skin at the bottom so lots of repair work there, hoping to finish the doors this weekend

 

Holy hayride, man you have done a super job on this baby!! Good to see the young lads out there twisting the tools. I love that tin indian body style, not a lot of the 2-dr post cars avalilable. Thanx for the great details on the build!! Bloody good!!~Sololobo~

 

awesome work man, you're taking a cool car and making it ten times better! that candy red looks bitchin'