Dr.Jeff
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Lately we've had several discussions about some of the TV programming that focuses on shops building cars. The other day I watched an episode of one building a custom car for a customer and they are doing some amazing metal work. The show is "Bitchin' Rides", from Dave Kindig's "Kindig It Designs" shop. Although I'm not interested in "muscle cars", and that's primarily what they build, his guys are very talented craftsmen. And this episode of a '65 Mustang build (part 1 of 2) showed them making custom front and rear aprons; the front incorporates a nice air dam and the rear a diffuser, all in metal and really clean work. They also made great custom headers and exhaust, various other body mods (including the use of 3D printing to help achieve a complex body part), and a closely fitted roll cage that will be concealed when the interior is done. Speaking of interiors, that's another area where they have fantastic craftsmen. Despite the usual "made for TV" things that distract from the work being done, they did show a lot of the processes involved in the fabrication of the custom work. The rest of the build should be in the next episode.
It's rare but I've seen this level of custom fabrication on more interesting cars, like rather 'exotic' supercars, etc. Unfortunately the extreme cost of such work makes it unrealistic for something like the X, but that would be a very cool ride.
It's rare but I've seen this level of custom fabrication on more interesting cars, like rather 'exotic' supercars, etc. Unfortunately the extreme cost of such work makes it unrealistic for something like the X, but that would be a very cool ride.