Here's some fabbed stuff.

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I don't have a bunch of pictures, but here's some stuff I've made.

Tail light/license plate bracket that went on my '98 Harley Fat Boy custom. The "cup" that the '37 Ford tail light sits in is actually the outside radius on the bend of an old header tube. The tail light fit perfectly in the radius. Then I cut it all out with a jig saw, smoothed them with a flap disc on a grinder, drilled the holes on my dad's Bridgeport mill, then TIG welded it all together. I had it chrome plated after taking these pictures. I'll post some pics of it on the bike in a sec.





-Aaron

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More pics of the bike with the bracket above on it. I had plans to run some stainless tubing down the side of the swing arm and run the wires through it, but had the car wreck, broke my wrist, lost my job, and had to sell the bike.






-Aaron

[Slowhand]

Very cool. Seeing great fabrication on intakes and shit that are on race cars worth a quarter-million dollars is nifty, but there's nothing as cool to me as the kind of fabrication that hot rodders do.

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Here's some pictures of the engine bay of the '55 Chevy 4 door drag race car we built.

I took a piece of 1" square tubing and drilled holes in it, then welded the ends on it to make a new core/radiator support. Light weight, cool looking, and functional !! Also check out the radiator mounts and electric fan mounts my dad made.




I'll see what else I can dig up.

-Aaron

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Very cool. Seeing great fabrication on intakes and shit that are on race cars worth a quarter-million dollars is nifty, but there's nothing as cool to me as the kind of fabrication that hot rodders do.

I think the same thing. See my last post.

-Aaron

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I just remembered I have a bunch of pictures of this '59 El Camino I worked on for a couple months while working for a small hot rod shop out in the country. The guy didn't pay me the last 5 weeks I worked for him, so I had to go back to my boring regular job. It was too bad because I REALLY liked working on hot rods and custom cars.

Bear with me, I've got a bunch of pictures of this one.





-Aaron

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I did A LOT of work on this car. I wish I would have been able to stay to see it finished. I was kinda pissed when the guy wouldn't pay me and I had to quit. I was driving 40 miles each way to work and was spending more money than I was making to go to work. Fuck that.

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More pictures still.

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Still going.

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Getting closer.

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This is the rest of what I've got.

[HenryJ]

This is the rest of what I've got.

Nice work Aaron! What's the best way to finish that patch panel you started below the tail light? I've seen some guys stop welding where your at with that one and then grind down the welds and body fill and then I've seen some guys stitch the whole piece in and then smooth it out. I've been doing the latter on my mustang. But I was wondering what's the norm? I'm new at this and love looking at other hot rodder's fab work.
Thanks for sharing. I hope you get back into earning a living with the work you love one day soon.

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Nice work Aaron! What's the best way to finish that patch panel you started below the tail light? I've seen some guys stop welding where your at with that one and then grind down the welds and body fill and then I've seen some guys stitch the whole piece in and then smooth it out. I've been doing the latter on my mustang. But I was wondering what's the norm? I'm new at this and love looking at other hot rodder's fab work.
Thanks for sharing. I hope you get back into earning a living with the work you love one day soon.

Something like that, I would weld the whole thing, then smooth it all out. Just take your time and I always like to use an air hose to cool the panel down. I'll make a half a dozen tacks or so, then blow it off with the air hose so the panel doesn't distort really bad. If you can do that, and get the patch panel fit really close, you won't have nearly as much bondo to work.

My dad's car is a perfect example of fabrication. He did almost all of the body work using patch panels from other cars. He filled the roof with a section from a '59 Chevy sedan. The rear panel below the decklid is from a roof section off of a '56 Pontiac, I believe. The bottoms of the doors are from a '60 Rambler. The firewall is from a '58 Ford decklid. Even with all of the metal body work he's done, there's MAYBE a quart of bondo on the ENTIRE car. I can post more pictures of it if anyone is interested. Most of you guys have seen this car posted a few times over the years.....he's been building it since 1992 !!






-Aaron

[greenbullitt]

Here's some pictures of the engine bay of the '55 Chevy 4 door drag race car we built.

I took a piece of 1" square tubing and drilled holes in it, then welded the ends on it to make a new core/radiator support. Light weight, cool looking, and functional !! Also check out the radiator mounts and electric fan mounts my dad made.




I'll see what else I can dig up.

-Aaron

HOLY HELL! I cant remember the last time I saw a predator carb!

[turbostang]

Aaron, Good looking work man - that's one thing I've never into, sheetmetal work. That's a skillset that's unique and all it's own.