hi from europe -- and some pix

[Roddin28]

I know I know you've seen those works a lot -- but I love looking pixs so I'll post mine too.
First of all I'm not a pro - so forgive some bad weldings aaand my bad english - I'm from austria
ok here we go:
as I bought the lady:
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aand a 2nd car for the drivetrain
an crashed 2000 ws6 trans am with 6speed - witch isn't realy easy to find over here
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the rest of the wreck
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so there was no placein the garage-- so my honeys parked outside
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[Roddin28]

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ok -- readywith the trans am -- lets go
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and here you can see my new engine -- I was a lucky boy and could bought an 2002 corvette motor incl new cam,lifters ,ported heads .... it made 483hp on the dyno before the engine was removed :-)
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[Roddin28]

next was grinding her down --- and of course a lot of welding was done at this time -- but for sure you guys know rust:) -- so I don't post those pics
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[Roddin28]

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[Roddin28]

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now moved 6" to the inside for a little more tireclearance:D and I made an 5" kickup to drive lower
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compare - the new and the original
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[Roddin28]

ok - more work is done - wow that much cutting holes in a car I've never done befor:devil:
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the ladder bars are a lot too long
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so,cutting,drilling , new bracket....
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tranny into it
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then, engin/tranny mounts - and the engine - at this time I was sitting 2 hours in front of the car - just looking and feeling good:lol:
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[Roddin28]

nd more cutting and more cutting - since 8 months:yes:
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it's time to close her
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ok - one more
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but NOW :D
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this should be fun to fit the carpet :roll: :lol:
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new stuff here - sand blasted and painted gas tank and anti roll bar
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[Roddin28]

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now I've to build it together for the body work
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oooooh yea - after blasting, grinding aaaaand painting:D:D
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so when the body work is done - grinding,bondo, filler the care will be take apart again for blasting and painting the front clip........
but I've help always :lol:
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[Roddin28]

ok - more work - of course there isn't a lot to see - but a lot of hours
after the first primer - bondo and grinding:sleep:
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after doing all bodywork for straightness (hope thet is the right word) -- phosphatprimer was next---
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and the filler - and - what else - grinding -- man I hate that word:rolleyes:
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after that the whole front was removed again
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all the parts in the front are sandblasted and painted
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but some parts were not that shiny -- so extra grinding and I sprayd some extra clear coat
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ok - building together -- sorry for that bad pixs
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and this is what the rag top looks like now - it goes dirtier and dirtier - but that's the way:D
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and if you look at the trunk lid -- you can see a little result:D

[Roddin28]

next was doing the inside
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the LS1 - with complet made/ported TPIS heads / ls6 intake / bigger throttle body / cam / lifters .......:roll: - it made 483hp one the dyno (out of a c5) but without the bigger throttle body, msd... -- so lets see :yes:
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but there are so much small thing to do - nothing is fitting because all is metric and so on -- but I'm doing this "modern stuff" the first timedurch :roll:
little example for those small things ----- and I've 4 of em
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-hope I'll be ready next year

[Bow Tie 67]

Welcome nice car.

[Roddin28]

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aaaaaand a lot of new parts arrived
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[Roddin28]

after weeks of work -- trying to fit the big wheels - playing arount with hood, fenders and door fitting - grinding grinding grinding -
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand my engine runs the first time in the nova :D - but no driveshaft till yet:mad:
the lady goes to the painter - not finished now, but in a few days -- you can take a look at the moment
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what do you think?? - are those stripes looking good on a 63??
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[derekf]

Welcome to the site, thanks for all the pictures!

[Taylor1969]

Wow! nice work!

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

daaamn!

going to be a bad ass car!

[neki67]

Welcome, as far as I know you're the second Austrian on this forum. For someone from a country that doesn't have a very loving relationship with USA cars you've come a long way!

Keep us posted. I'm planning to take my car to the Alps within a year or 2 so maybe we will meet some day.

[1971CHEVELLE]

:)this car is going to be awesome. Good work

[icebird84]

wow nice cars and welcome to the site

[Rybar]

Welcome, that is a sweet build you have going there. Love the theme and direction of the car

[jy211]

nice work! Don't worry about the english..some folks here have a hard time with it..LOL and they are from here!!!

Nice roadster btw...

[Roddin28]

here are some pics from the 58 & roadster
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[454bug]

Thanks for all the pictures!! Excellent work!!! :1st:

Welcome to the site.

[Chad-1stGen]

Sweet ride. Helluva good job on the introduction. We love pics

[64Chevelle]

Schönes Auto! Soooo much effort into it, you clearly have enough of the German/Austrian attention to detail :) I can see that I have a lot to learn, I'm building my first car at the moment and I don't even know how to weld yet.

Hope you come to Big Meet Västerås in Sweden this year with the car, perhaps you will be the second Austrian in a row to win car of the show? Last years winner was a bad ass 67 Mustang street machine.

Cheers from Norway

[77thor]

Wow.. great fabrication job... I wish that I had your skill and equipment.

[poormans69]

Increadible work. I'm quite jelous my man.

[Mike Holleman]

I know I know you've seen those works a lot -- but I love looking pixs so I'll post mine too.
First of all I'm not a pro - so forgive some bad weldings aaand my bad english - I'm from austria
ok here we go:
as I bought the lady:
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aand a 2nd car for the drivetrain
an crashed 2000 ws6 trans am with 6speed - witch isn't realy easy to find over here
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so there was no placein the garage-- so my honeys parked outside
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Love the Nova. I built a 63 SS conv. for a man several years back. It is a fairly rare car in that Nova convertibles were only built in 62 and 63 and the SS conv. only in 63. I think about 1700 were built total. Purists will cringe. Nicely done.
Mike

[GBodyGMachine]

That looks great. Alot of work. Love the stance too.

[marc_b]

nice pics and great job.

[66fourspeed]

Love the cars and can't wait to see the Nova finished.

[BMF Machine]

FantastiC! I do not think I have ever seen a convertible NovA? That is Bitch'N!

[jpdeuce]

Quite an undertaking. Looks good. Keep us posted.

[thetoystore]

great car man. how hard is it to get those parts over there?

[Roddin28]

glad you guys like the nova
--and I'm very open for mistakes I made on the car -- if somebody find some stuff - but now I'm on that point I can't change a lot:bsjerk:
--the car is painted :bananna2: - so - a lot of work now - and that's good:)
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PARTS over here?? - thats a hard thing - not to get it - but to pay it -- I've to order all the parts (most of em - witch I can't built myself) from usa -- the problem is : If it is $400 in the shop it's $850.- till I've the part in my hands (taxes, shipping...) and than I could pray it will fit --- hmmm thats it

[Roddin28]

no no - not ready yet - but 2 pics after I got the lady back -- all outside trim is ready -- next is interiour -- aaaand to change my mII front brakes -- to thinner ones - Scraping the fenders:sleep: grr - I love to change new parts to new parts (and for that meens I can hang the "old Brakes" to the wall - nobody needs such stuff over here:()
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[Motown 454]

welcome . Very nice car you do fine with the english. Keep the pictures coming.

[Martin71RS]

very nice car(s)!! I just got me a 62 nova 4door....and your pics are very inspiring to me...I want to work on mine!

[Regan]

Wow, it's lookin' really sharp. Keep up the good work!

[CliffS]

Awesome build! Love the cars and believe me I feel your pain on importing parts, same overhere.

Martin, I just read your post on the Nova, drop you a line this week.

[Roddin28]

hehe . never done that befor in my own garage -- sorry - but I don't know the word for it -- but the the wheels should be straight
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[CruizinKev]

wow sieht echt super gemacht aus!!!

...oh and it's called to have your car alignend :cheers:

[Roddin28]

hehehehehe - yesterday I drove my first 3 minutes - aaaand without a problem:D - some small things to do now but -- äää - take a look
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[icebird84]

looking good

[Fo-Par]

Great car!

[SS1156]

I'm really suprised noone made a comment about the yellow 69 Camaro hit in the left rear corner. It was in one of the early pictures. I saw that blue bowtie on that yellow body.....

[CruizinKev]

d@mn nice :twothumbs

[Code Red]

very nice man

[vp23271]

Very Nice! :1st:

[1971CHEVELLE]

Awesome car:1st:

[DEIGuy38]

Very nice looking car. I love black cars with red interior. The roadster looks nice too.

[brrymnvette]

Looks great! Only problem I see is the fuel filler right next to the CD changer. I'd have that ruined on the first fill up.

[Code Red]

Looks great! Only problem I see is the fuel filler right next to the CD changer. I'd have that ruined on the first fill up.


actually i probably would of ruined the carpet

[claytonisbob]

Very clean. Good job!

That engine has to be a handful in that light car ;)

[cheapta]

You European guys always amaze me with the quantity and quality of work you produce so far from the US. I look at your small,crowded garage and the lack of space you're working in and wonder why it's taking me forever to build my 65 Nova P/T car in my 1200 s.f. shop.Nice,nice work,Brother and it's wonderful to see your boy getting his hands dirty,too!

[DaviRotten]

Nice build this thread made it look so simple.. lol

[Hellrace]

Awesome build :)

[Rybar]

Awesome build, and congrats on finishing and the first drive. It looks fantastic!

I'm guessing you were nervous taking it on the maiden voyage.

[Modo Innovations]

Very nice build. It turned out great. Is there a big American muscle car population in Austria?

[Roddin28]

we have a "lot" of mopars here (50in the whole country)- but nearly most are stock -- custom cars aren't allowed here - If the cops would really check out my car they would take away my plates --- same on the roadster:banghead: (we have around 6 hot rods here)
but the good thing is : they don't know those cars
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[NOT A TA]

Very nice! It's gotta be so much more difficult building a car where there's no local support of any kind. It's gotta be difficult just getting hardware thats not metric nevermind all of the regular type replacement parts we can just buy from local supply houses.

[BossaNova]

---and the best is
we have (what I know) 4 1st gen novas over here
no 2nd gen
3nd gen -- don't know it exactly -- by 6-10

Beautiful car. Saw it over on Steve's.

What? No 2nd generations? You've got to do something about that!