This started a couple months back when I was asked by Larry Stewart if I wanted to do some metal work on Dave Thomas 35 Chevy 3 window . Of course I said yes . This is Dave's car so I told them to bring it down to the shop . He's owned it for almost 40 years now . It's been all over the place in many different forms . When it came to me .the chassis was already done.it was but by Ionia hot rods and it's a work of art . The body had some stuff done to it but I ended up redoing a lot including getting rid of all the wood inner structure and making it out of steel , finished up chopping the top , filled the roof and the list goes on and on and on . So far it's all in bare metal and debuting it at York in a couple of weeks . Bare with me because I have a lot of photos to post . So this is how it came to me .
now onto chopping and filling the top . This will be the third time that this car has went under the knife for the roof . The chop was starting else where I ended up bringing the front down about an inch and a half more then filled the roof using a 54 Chevy roof that I ended up taking a foot out of the center
starting to fill the roof tacked in One continuous weld pass only stopping to grab more wire metal finished to some extent
Holy shit.......that's some quality metal work. 33-35 chevs are every bit as good looking as fords of the same years.. I had a 33, 3 window but it needed more body work than I was capable of..had to let it go to somebody who could do it justice...very nice work!
Cody great work from a master . Nice meeting you at LSR . Could you tell me again who you bought your seat covers from for your 59 . When are you starting your roadster ? Thanks Blue
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