Nelson Super Cars Project Maximus 1968 Charger

[Tom Nelson]

Hi Guys, Its been a long time since I've posted. I wanted to share with everyone what we've been doing with one of our projects. I call it Maximus its a 1968 charger that we are building to show off Nelson Supercars and what we are capable of doing with metal. We are working very hard for this to be in the DynoMax's booth at SEMA in bare metal this year. I hope you enjoy the progress photos, its been really fun building this.

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[Tom Nelson]

Okay ,We built a frame table for the Charger just because we knew this thing was going to get filleted up. Then we cut the quarters off rough so when it went to blast it would get everything. We sent it out to Freddy at A&M and had it blasted. And started cutting out the cancer.

[Tom Nelson]

Okay ,so we got it on the frame table and started basically cutting the car down to nothing. We decided the floors weren't worth saving so we found a really awesome floor section in the junkyard, and cut it out of the car and drilled all the spot welds out then blasted and fit it into the car. I really wanted a stock floor piece because they fit much nicer and at this time in the project we didn't no we were going to go so hog wild on the car. We then just kept cutting because nothing looked good and I did not want to fix some rust and know there was more. So here are some shots.

[Tom Nelson]

Just a bunch more rust and a bunch more cutting I really bit off a metal restoration on this one. Pretty cool you can take a car down so far and bring it back better than new.

[capri v8 driver]

It reminds me on the charger I owned, many years ago. It took tons of welding to get the body back in good shape.

[Motorcitydak]

I have to say that makes me feel lucky with mine, the rust was no where near that bad. Also the AMD floors that I got for mine fit great but I cannot deny that I admire you guys for all the work it must have taken to cut out a floor like you did there. What are the plans for the car?

[72BBSwinger]

Tom, at least you started with a decent car.....lol! I've been following the build via Youtube and WOW! 2000+hp GEN 2 Hemi, i'm really glad to see you exploring the power handling abilities of those engines.

[67speedfreak]

Can't wait to see this one !

[kmdracer]

Nelson engines and a charger? Heck yeah I'm subscribing!

[Tom Nelson]

It reminds me on the charger I owned, many years ago. It took tons of welding to get the body back in good shape.
Yep this was the worst we've done to dater

[Tom Nelson]

We have worked hard on it hopefully you guys will like what you see

[Tom Nelson]

I have to say that makes me feel lucky with mine, the rust was no where near that bad. Also the AMD floors that I got for mine fit great but I cannot deny that I admire you guys for all the work it must have taken to cut out a floor like you did there. What are the plans for the car?
Custom one off rear suspension,vette front suspension,Tt 572 Hemi,All metal one off wide body,all and slew of other stuff

[jfreakofkorn]

it ll be interesting to see the out come of this vehicle ////

[superdve]

Awesome!

[MichaelUser]

Love it. Awesome!

[ALLstrokedOUT]

I have to Geek out for a second and say Tom Nelson, you and your team are my hero(s)!! Ive seen all of your youtube videos, and im sure this charger wont disappoint. With a corvette front suspension what are you doing to the rear? With as far as you guys have gone I would just get rid of the rear subframe as well. And with that much power I imagine you'll be sticking to an auto? Good luck!

[Tom Nelson]

So while everything was cut out and easy to get to we decided to tie in the chassis with these custom frame connectors.Whats neat about doing it this way is they clear the floor.

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[Tom Nelson]

Here we are sealing up the metal before we weld on the floors and roof etc.

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[Tom Nelson]

Here we made some roll cage landing pads before we welded the floor in. We wanted to get these in solid.

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[Tom Nelson]

So we started welding in the floors.

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[Tom Nelson]

Thanks Tim yes we ended up just making a entire new rear suspension.thanks for the good words

[Tom Nelson]

Here we are removing door box I guess you would call it. The original was to wasted to repair we cut out a good stock one from the junk yard and grafted it in.
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More rust grafted in a new piece

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Putting in the trunk starting to look like something again

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[Tom Nelson]

Heres a bunch more to accelerate to the good stuff .Heres us fitting the cage,And getting the body panels landed on.Hey its actually looking like a charger

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[72BBSwinger]

Looks great Tom, ive always thought it would be bitchen to make the hood scallops functional as heat extractors.

[dangina]

Looks great Tom, ive always thought it would be bitchen to make the hood scallops functional as heat extractors.

Me too, its a great idea. Loving the fab work so far!

[Tom Nelson]

Looks great Tom, ive always thought it would be bitchen to make the hood scallops functional as heat extractors.

Thanks .Were working our butt of to show this at Sema in the Dynomax booth this year

[Tom Nelson]

Thanks our team is throwing everything at it.I have so much more to show

[SPDMETL]

I can't get enough of these total body strip/rebuilds. Bravo! What's the V12 in the background?

[overZealous1]

good work!

[Motorcitydak]

Really happy to watch your build of the roll cage since I will be doing one in mine in about a month or so. We actually have some similar concepts for our cars like corvette front suspension and turning the hood louvers into heat extractors. The car looks awesome (as if you guys would do it any other way...)

What kind of engine is that behind you guys in those last few pics?

[Tom Nelson]

Really happy to watch your build of the roll cage since I will be doing one in mine in about a month or so. We actually have some similar concepts for our cars like corvette front suspension and turning the hood louvers into heat extractors. The car looks awesome (as if you guys would do it any other way...)

What kind of engine is that behind you guys in those last few pics?
Thanks to everyone the engine in the background is a 6.0 v-12 diablo we are building a twin turbo version for

[capri v8 driver]

Any progress?

[tyler qb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keuz4PBccWo

[capri v8 driver]

I love it!! Great build! The metal work is fantastic. A shame to hide it under the paint.

[linkstar69]

Incredible metal work, you can tell the level of passion by the way everything is described in the video.

[giocattolo03]

Check this out BEFORE you give TOM any money

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nelson-Race-Engines-Reviews/680847961957396

Please feel free to contact me directly to discuss any of the page
Cheers Glen

[Josh@Ridetech]

I have to wipe the drool off of my keyboard every time you guys post something on facebook... This is good to see!

[Peter Mc Mahon]

Check this out BEFORE you give TOM any money

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nelson-Race-Engines-Reviews/680847961957396

Please feel free to contact me directly to discuss any of the page
Cheers Glen
Wow, that's quite a read

[Justin@EntropyRad]

Those subframe connectors are wicked

[giocattolo03]

Wow, that's quite a read

Yep Tom's a THIEF and can't be trusted!!

[giocattolo03]

THE TRUTH BEHIND TOM'S LIES
I have had a number of people comment and ask why Tom has not begun defamation, slander and libel proceedings, further Tom is now contacting people from the page to provide misleading information and outright LIES! So here are the FACTS
Fact 1,TOM"S legal team accepted the judgement. The Superior Court of California document acceptance by Lloyd Mann, Tom's attorney (Mann & Zarpas LLP) An admission of guilt.
Fact 2, The judgement was accepted in its entirety, All 4 defendants, Nelson Racing Engines, Nelson Racing Enterprises, Tom Nelson & Larry Lewis accepted all fault, dishonesty and liability.
Fact 3, The judgement was not negotiated. In a negotiated judgement both sides agree and neither side admits liability. THIS NEVER HAPPENED!
Fact 4, TOM PAID THE JUDGEMENT. An unmitigated admission of guilt & fault.
According to the California Superior Court Tom Nelson is a proven FRAUDSTER and is not to be trusted.
My personal goal is to ensure that no one else has to endure the same expensive frustrating experience I have.