Guilty Customs teams up with WellBilt Kustoms to build a 67 C20

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Figured I'd start a build thread for the newest truck in the shop. Its going to be a pretty quick build, with ALOT of custom work and parts.

The truck is a 1967 Chevy C20 longbed. The owner is Carl Hanlon, owner of Guilty Customs, who builds custom choppers / bikes. The truck is being built at WellBilt Kustoms, in Southern California.

In just a few short months, the truck will be taken from its current state, to a clean show truck that will carry custom choppers to local meets and shows.

Some plans for the truck are:
-Frame off build
-Everything painted, chromed, or powdercoated
-CPP Aluminum underbed fuel cell
-Rear Air ride suspension with C-Notch
-Boxed rear frame rails
-Shaved roof drip rails, stake pockets, tailgate handle, anteanna hole, door handles, key locks, upper cab line, bumper bolts, gas filler, all side mouldings and badges.
-Grant Kustoms rear rollpan
-Cadillac tail lights
-Suicide driver door
-Shaved firewall with custom front wheel tubs
-Jet black paint, with pearl white top, and Orange pin stripping.
-Custom pin-stripping throughout, guilty logo's incorporated within the paint sceme
-Undercarriage will be all black, with heavy metallic grey for suspension and various parts
-Interior will all be redone with new bench seat, reshaped into buckets, custom center console, dynamat, billet parts.
-Wheels will be orange powdercoated rally's.

Artist rendering: A little has changed since the rendering was done, but basic look is there.


Here are some pics of the truck:

On its way to WellBilt Kustoms:










More pics to catch up with its current state later on tonight.

[rcrahn]

subscribed...Good to see another 67 C20 being done. What about the drivetrain for your project?

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Originally Posted by rcrahn

subscribed...Good to see another 67 C20 being done. What about the drivetrain for your project?

Yeah were excited to do it.

Drivetrain is just a standard chevy small block, with a th350 trans. all paint matched, and chromed out of course.

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Here are a few pics of some of the parts that have started arriving.

Billet 12-bolt differential cover:


New floor rocker panel to be patched into the cab:


Some Poly bushings:


Chrome master cylinder:


MSD spark plug wires:


Cadillac tail lights:


Caddy tail light buckets:


Grant Kustoms rollpan:


More pics tonight of how it sits now.

[mjensen]

Subscribed!

Longbeds rock!

[suville]

ok!

[rcrahn]

Cool, I used the same roll pan along with a tailgate skin from Sir Michaels. Nice stuff.
Will you keep the wood bed or switch to metal to better support and hold up to loading/unloading bikes?

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Originally Posted by rcrahn

Cool, I used the same roll pan along with a tailgate skin from Sir Michaels. Nice stuff.
Will you keep the wood bed or switch to metal to better support and hold up to loading/unloading bikes?

How did the tailgate skin fit? I will be shaving off the handle and relocating it to the inside of the gate.

The inside of the bed is still up in the air right now. Tomorrow I will be sitting down with the owner to go over a few subjects, and thats one of them. He's leaning towards a metal floor, but having it look like a wood floor with the stainless strips. And possibly sheetmetaling the sides so it looks flat and smooth.

[rcrahn]

Originally Posted by WellBilt Kustoms

How did the tailgate skin fit? I will be shaving off the handle and relocating it to the inside of the gate.

The inside of the bed is still up in the air right now. Tomorrow I will be sitting down with the owner to go over a few subjects, and thats one of them. He's leaning towards a metal floor, but having it look like a wood floor with the stainless strips. And possibly sheetmetaling the sides so it looks flat and smooth.

It fit great and the handle inside works great too. I highly recommend the metal floor. Matter of fact I purchase a metal bed just for that reason. You can see these items in my build.

http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=252364

[FRENCHBLUE72]

im in!!!!!!!

[nuke1]

Nice, can not wait to see more pics of this build.

[vegaschevy]

love the parts that have rolled in so far!!

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Originally Posted by nuke1

Nice, can not wait to see more pics of this build.

Thanks for following along with the build guys.

I haven't had time to upload the other pics to my photobucket yet. But I promise I'll get them uploaded today. I'd like to get the thread caught up to where were currently at with it now.

[GREASEMONKEY72]

the rendering looks good, cant wait to see all the progress

tow rig aint bad lookin either

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Here are a few more pics for you guys. Keep in mind these are from the past couple weeks. I will try to get you all caught up to where its currently at.

Today we got alot more of the tear down done. The owner stopped by and spent alot of time at the shop here today, and we talked about a few design ideas, and went over ordering more parts. Fun thing about full builds, is it always feels like christmas around the shop with all the parts getting dropped off and delivered.

Anyways...onto the pics.

These won't be staying on:


Getting ready to shave the stake pockets, and some random holes:


Rust in the door jambs:


Rust in the roof:


Stake pocket fillers:


Starting to shave off the roof drip:


Tacking it together to keep shape as I go along:


Shot of the rear:


Pulling the rear bumper, tailgate, and lights off:

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Removing side trim:


Bed removed:


Front of truck before we strip it all down:


Rear frame before metal work, clean up, and paint:


Stripping the body down to bare metal:


Interior before stripping it out:


Rear frame before notch:


Prepping for notch:

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Inside of notch:








Template to box back side of frame around notch:




Ready to burn it in:


Welded in:


Interior getting stripped:


Cab:

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Engine bay before tear down:






Rusted out floor pan:


Needs new rockers:


Shot of front suspension before clean up:


Seat heading out to get re-shaped and covered in leather:

[wancosc356]

Subscribed!

(Nice dually too!)

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Got alot done this weekend guys. I'm uploading the pictures right now as we speak to my photobucket.

Body is now off of the frame, inside of cab is all stripped, engine and trans is getting pulled tomorrow and sent off to machine shop. Bed, front grill, bumper, core support is getting dropped off at media blasting tomorrow as well. Then, on the way back, I will be stopping off at my metal supply, and picking up ALOT of cold rolled, sheetmetal, and tubing.

Also spent some time with the owner going over the build. Some stuff has changed, and some stuff is still up in the air. Lots and lots of parts got ordered, and should start to trickle in this week. I'll take pictures once something arrives

Changes to the truck:

-Suiciding both doors now instead of just the driver door.
-We will be reworking the whole dash, and doing something totally custom, but still retro. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag yet about it, but I'll show you a rendering of what we plan on doing along with the custom center console soon.
-Bed is going to be custom sheetmetal'd on the sides, factory looking floor with stainless strips, only not using wood, using metal plates, and custom swing out tail gate.
-3rd brake light will be totally custom made lense, backed by a series of L.E.D. bulbs.
-Hood hinges are going to be custom fabbed, and mounted to the firewall, so it looks more streamlined, and doesn't block your view of the engine bay from the side.
-Seats will be buckets instead of the reshaped and covered bench

[mistertrose]

Awesome! Gonna follow this one....

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Hey guys, been really busy with the truck lately, and my 6 month old spent two days in the hospital, so I appologize for not updating the thread. Tomorrow I'll post up some more pictures, and show you guys how the truck looks now. Basically the frame with engine and trans is sitting in the shop, and the cab is lifted up on my car lift.

BUT....Few more parts showed up for this build today


Were still missing alot of stuff, should get delivered this week. I'll post up individual parts pics and descriptions tomorrow. Just thought I'd leave you guys with a teaser pic before bed.

[WellBilt Kustoms]

Well guy's...alot has been going on with the build. still ordering and picking up parts, taking stuff to sandblasting, and dropping stuff off at powder coating.

We have the frame and suspension parts back from blasting, and I'm starting to box in the trailing arms. Also were still going at it with the cab.

I'll post up pictures today of whats going on. Now that stuff is prepped for fabrication, and we have almost all the parts we need, the cool and fun stuff will start happening now!

[VA72C10]

Looking good. nice build!!!

[67vetteal]

Nice Thread. I'm in as deep as you guys are only it's on my own truck. 1972 Fleetside. Al W.