Almost 2 years ago to the day I featured a hand-built aluminium hot rod named Emerald Tide which took it’s styling inspiration from an artist’s painting. Well the same artist has many more paintings and the same builder is creating another awesome car to match one of them. This time it’s a chopped and channeled [...]
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Tags: 1951, build from sketch, ford, hot rod, Keith Weesner, pickup, ute 
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Take one VW Fox 2-door wagon, wield your choice of cutting utensil around some structural pieces of metal rearward of the B pillar, mix in a bit of hard work and welding, and you end up with your very own US version of a VW Saveiro. That’s exactly what Shawn did, and he was nice [...]
Posted in Build Threads Tags: fox, pickup, saveiro, ute, ute conversion, volkswagen, vw 6 Comments »
Do you follow Nigel’s blog, Engineered to Slide? Well you should, he’s the crazy DIY fabricator behind two awesome S13 Nissan builds, one of which was part of the starting line-up of posts I made when this blog debuted. He’s just started a new project which I think you’ll be interested in, a hollowed-out Toyota [...]
Well this is a weird feeling, I’m posting an update on the first ever build that I featured on this site from way back in February of 2009. There’s a good chance some of you haven’t seen all of the builds I’ve posted during the life of the site, including this one, so click here [...]
You most likely saw the finished product featured on Speedhunters last week, but have you seen the build of the R33 ute? Check after the jump for the link. If that isn’t enough sportscar-to-ute conversion action for you, then you can check out these previous features: – Truckasaurus RX7 – BMW M5 ute
Here’s a build thread I’ve been reading for quite a long time, and I’ve got a slight suspicion that a lot of you are going to enjoy it. It’s another build based on the “X-chassis underneath Y-body” formula, and this time the culprits are Mazda MX5 subframes/driveline/shock towers being attached to the body of a [...]
Posted in Build Threads Tags: 520, chassis-swap, datsun, DIY, fabrication, mazda, miata, mx5, pickup, ratsun, ute 7 Comments »
Cereal submitted this build to me, but it’s something I saw years ago while reading Street Machine Magazine when the car was still a concept. It belongs to professional Aussie golfer Stuart Appleby, and it shows what happens when you’re a BMW nut with a whole lot of disposable income. An M5 sedan is given [...]
Posted in Build Threads Tags: bmw, M, M5, pick-up, pickup, Stuart Appleby, ute, ute conversion 5 Comments »Okay, I’ve waited long enough and I’ve made an executive decision. I’ve been watching this build for a while, waiting for it to be finished but I can’t wait any longer. It’s going to be debuted at the upcoming SEMA show, where I’m sure it will be photographed by numerous websites, so I wanted to [...]
Posted in Build Threads Tags: air ride, c4, chev, chevrolet, chevy, hot rod jim's, pickup, pro touring, pt-57, truck, twin turbo, ute 6 Comments »Japanese hatches such as the FC RX7 and S13 180SX make great candidates for pickup conversions, as we’ve seen before in Japan with a few drift cars getting the chop. Earl has created his own spin on the concept with this 2nd Gen RX7, come and see it get built and continually evolve.
Posted in Build Threads Tags: 13b, drift, fc, mazda, pickup, rotary, rx7, truckasaurus, ute, ute conversion 5 Comments »Traditional hot rods, rat rods, and kustoms command huge respect, if only for the sole fact that the builders will only use a combination of used and custom made parts. When I say used, I don’t mean a few years old, I mean decades old. It’s hard for most of us to grasp the idea, [...]
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