West Coast 67
 

Thought I would start a build thread and post up a 'preliminary rendering' (done by Carter Hickman... the digital miracle worker) of a 67 we are working on. The most unique mod will be the front bumper... split bumper on a truck??? We'll see how it turns out! Other changes include a Dropmember, a C4 back-half, 22 inch wheels all around, LS1 and six-speed, radiused rear roof seam, chopped top and laid back A-pillar, shaved drip-rail, custom dash and console, suicide doors, smoothed cowl, custom firewall, and the front sheetmetal/hood will get some attention. Some of the mods have already been done and posted in other threads in other parts of the board. I will be combining them all into one here. Not sure when it will all be completed, we are handeling all the metal/fab work and suspension mods... then who knows! Oh, and unsure on the color... it may end up black with polished smoothies????

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Dig it. Keep us posted with plenty of pics!

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Subscribed.

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Me too! Really want to see how the C4 back half works out! :metal:

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Who is the customer West Coast?

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A place called "West Coast Tire"... here locally.

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i like the wheel style in the second pic more so than the first

but i deffinitly cant wait to see the mods done to this thing as they go and maybe even steal some for future use and your ideas might give me ideas who knows:crazy:

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That Looks Sweat.

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nice... what kinda money does something like this run? ballpark will work if able....

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Rendering looks awesome. Judging by the work I have seen on other posts on this truck and others. If anyone can build a truck of this caliber you can. I look forward to checking your posts out. I will also be a loyal follower of this build thread. RJ22

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A few more renderings... it will most likely end up Black... here's one in blue, black, and black and blue (I like the two-tone myself, but I think the wheels would need to be addressed... maybe a painted black center with polished lip?) Let me know what you guys think.

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that truck could be almost any color and be sweet... keep up the nice work.

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I think you are right, the blue/black looks good.

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Here's some pics of the rear suspension.

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Some pics of the radiused rear cab seam.

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Some more of the rear cab seam...

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nice work

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Here's some pics of how it sits with the 22's (265 35 22's... 29.3" tall). Pretty low? I guess it wasn't low enough... the customer requested a 1" body drop so the pinch-weld would rest on the ground. See those tires? They are already touuching the hood (on the seem where my finger is pointing)... this will have to be addressed as well.

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Here's some pics of the body drop... removed the core support and cab mounts... drilled some holes one inch lower than the factory upper rivet holes... trimmed the mounts so they fit the frame-rails and don't hang down. I just bolted them in for now to check fit. Once everything is bolted together and fit properly, the truck will get blown apart and the mounts will be welded to the chassis. I thought it was plenty low enough earlier...

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Since the tires are having issues with the hood clearance we decided to make some changes. (This mod is not an original idea... Grant customs has done this to a few 67-72 trucks in the past).

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more...

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A few more... I tacked up the two edges on the fenders and will fire up the TIG welder tomorrow and make em one piece.

You can see in the previous pics where I have marked all the cuts with tape... my finger is also pointing to the lower edge of the hood where it folds over and is pinch welded... it is important to remove this edge on the hood piece and the fender piece.

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damn porter... incredible work, AMAZING!!!! what program you use for the renderings??

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Carter Hickman does ALL my renderings... as you can see he is pretty good at it! He is a board member as well and his handel is Blaze-air.

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:jdp: :jdp: :jdp: I have said it before and I will say it again you make mine an probably most others mods look easy when compared to your amazing work and craftsmanship. Keep it up I'm flabergasted.:metal:

Blaze-air deseves his props too on some very fine work also. :metal:

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What a great job- both the work on the truck and your profession, getting to do all the custom work and seeing the projects through. Good on ya!

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Dude, you got me confused! Are you actually making the hood taller? That is some awesome stuff! I'll be back to look at more.

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Not making it taller... just making the hood opening smaller. This gets rid of the pinch weld on the hood that would normally sit right above the tire. I will post some more pics up tomorrow... hopefully it will start to make some more sense to ya!:) Take a good look at the digital rendering in post #11... that gives a good visual of how the hood will open.

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Goes w/o saying, but awesome concept. I vote black. :cool:

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WOW!!:jdp: :jdp: :jdp: YOU ARE AMAZING

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I like them all but the two-tone is an eye catcher

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Thats some kick-ass amazing work!

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I like the two-tone. It goes well with the split bumpers.

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I’ll throw my own opinion out since my wife doesn’t check what I say on this forum and this better not get back to her! :lol: Anyway, I think the two-tone would look better because it would take your eye away from the new hood line which may cause it to look a little bulky since all the fender lines and hood lines have moved upward. Painting the top black would also help with making the fenders not look so tall……you know Nathan what if you pan-caked the hood a couple of degrees and then lay the windshield back the same degree?

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nathan, any chance we could see one of these renderings in black-red?

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The windshield is getting layed back. As for pancakeing the hood... it would be slick, but not my call!:) I too would like to see it in the two-tone, for all the same reasons!

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Looks clean. I vote for the 2-tone

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id like to see some more of what yer doing with the hood.
howcome after you ut the flat part out you cut the other section on the corrners ??

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Gotta watch this one.....amazing work:metal:

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Beat me to it. I'm not a big fan of the two-tone in general, but it does solve the problem of hiding the unnatural line the hood mod creates... especially at the cowl. How about either...

welding up the cowl into a giant 1-piece front end with the hood tiliting as you've now got planned? This would eliminate the hood-to-fender seam back at the cowl.

Or... what about integrating the cowl into the hood itself? That's give you a single hood line from glass, to the top front edge, back to the glass. It'd take a little work on getting the hood tilt to pitch out enough to clear the glass, but you'd just have to ply your mad skillz to it.