Amazing Trophy Truck fabrication thread

[preston]

Maybe this won't be allowed in this forum but I think we are all interested in vehicle fabrication. I am bored silly by the normal bolt it to the unibody type project and found this thread absolutely enthralling, and I learned a lot about fab and welding.

If F1 cars were made of tubular steel chassis, this is how they would be built - scroll the whole thing all 36 pages are worthwhile and it gets better with every step. Just the fabrication tables they use probably cost $25k+.

http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31417

Here is a teaser shot:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[67SSDan]

Holy crap! that's a lot of tubing!

Dan

[Samckitt]

WOW! That is all I can say about that.

[Chadman]

Talk about some triangulation, geez!

You could probably run a monster truck over that and nothing would happen. :hammer:

[greencactus3]

holy crap

[parsonsj]

Good god!

I have never, ever, seen anything like that before!

The talent, tools, and money is just incredible.

Nice link, Preston. Thanks for sharing.

jp

[HarleyR]

Thats a shot of the Terriable Herbst shop in So Cal.....Off road racing in my first lovegot the chance to co drive in a class 1(unlimited buggy) last year and was bit hard by the bug... but the 100 to 750k price tag of the vehicles seriously hampers my efforts... Almost went to work for a team when I was living in Las Vegas but it didnt make financial sense...heres the whole shop http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27287 by the way there are quite a few very experenced fabricators...

[ironworks]

Wow great post thanks for sharing

[HWY Nova]

Absolutely amazing! I like the technical aspect of this type of construction..... but WOW..... this is over-the-top! The dicipline to create the tooling alone is amazing.

I know Rodger's 'wheels' are spinning now: More shop space..... add a few more frame tables....

--Eric

[TitoJones]

Preston- you suck. I just spent 2 hours in there.

For those who need to see pics only-

Pages with pics:
1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 72, 32.

Thanks for link. I can't believe how big and clean that shop is. They have 2 18 wheelers IN the shop, and about 14 trucks in different stages.

amazing.

Tyler

[JMarsa]

Where does the driver/nvaigator sit in there?

--JMarsa

[GMracer]

absolutely stunning, the shop is a work of art on its own nevermind the work they produce. They even make trophy go-carts

[ironworks]

Absolutely amazing! I like the technical aspect of this type of construction..... but WOW..... this is over-the-top! The dicipline to create the tooling alone is amazing.

I know Rodger's 'wheels' are spinning now: More shop space..... add a few more frame tables....

--Eric

Wow you know me pretty well,With the addition of 2200 sq ft this week to the shop, I have few ideas. And yeah this thread helped speed up things

[Nate_ERC]

Holy Crap!!!!

I would KILL for fabrication facilities like that! Yesterday I thought we were professionals, but now I feel like a backwoods redneck fabricator wannabe.

[killer69]

That's REDiculious!!!!!!

I guess we all WISH our shops looked likr that!

[preston]

I would KILL for fabrication facilities like that! Yesterday I thought we were professionals, but now I feel like a backwoods redneck fabricator wannabe.


Yup, I know exactly how you feel !

Especially since I am a backwoods redneck fabricator, so think how I feel right now !

[Mangohick]

That's absolutely amazing!

[Zachalanche]

well, that just made my project look like a complete pile of sh**!

[Peter Mc Mahon]

New screensaver!

[Twentyover]

Not so much space in that spaceframe

[dug]

Good god. Thank you for posting this.