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Well, I was waiting until we had a little more progress to post this thread, but it is what it is. I'm getting too excited not to show it off a little.
The vision was from our owner/tuner/fabricator John Lee. We work at a small shop that builds mostly Corvette's, but really anything LS based. We do swaps, builds, yada yada. John and our one technician Josh have built 1000 horsepower (to the wheels) street cars in a 1500 sq. ft shop. We have just recently been lucky enough to score us a 5000 sq. ft shop and business has been slowly growing. John Lee thinks in ways that a lot of us (myself at the top of this list) don't understand. He sees options and possibilities in a completely different way. And when he wanted to build a car that represented the shop, he already had an idea.
He's owned this once stock BMW 2002 for years and years, back even into high school in fact. During a slow winter at the shop, he pulled in the fully running and driving 2002, a car some people would love to own, and busted out the plasma cutter. He laid down some sharpie and tape on the floor, and began to make the frame from scrap square tubing we had.
After a few weeks, the frame was built. The entire car follows true Rat Rod heritadge, being built out of anything and everything. The coilovers? From a C5 Corvette. The steering rack? From a Cobalt SS. The control arms? From a Panoz race car. Parts from random GM cars and things he had laying around began to now serve purpose for this evil looking car that was taking shape.
The body is chopped in nearly every aspect. Width, height, length and so forth. It's right hand drive to accommodate a problem ran into with the Cobalt steering rack. The shifter is mounted on the ceiling to keep the ergonomic Hurst handle correct (And for the "lolwut" factor). Of course, the power plant is a thrown together LS1 with a mild cam that we've just assembled. The wheels are mismatched wheels we've had in storage with a set of IROC wheels mounted backwards to clear the rear. The final wheel selection is still being discussed. Progress is slow, especially with the growing busyness of the shop, but when we do get to work, John does work.
Anyway, I thought I would show the folks of StanceWorks his build so far. He probably wouldn't want me posting it yet, since it's not near completion. It's not only going to be promotion to show the fabrication our shop can do, but also for John to drive and enjoy.
We feel notoriety isn't bought, it's made. I'm sure most of y'all can agree. Look out for more (albeit slow) updates.
The vision was from our owner/tuner/fabricator John Lee. We work at a small shop that builds mostly Corvette's, but really anything LS based. We do swaps, builds, yada yada. John and our one technician Josh have built 1000 horsepower (to the wheels) street cars in a 1500 sq. ft shop. We have just recently been lucky enough to score us a 5000 sq. ft shop and business has been slowly growing. John Lee thinks in ways that a lot of us (myself at the top of this list) don't understand. He sees options and possibilities in a completely different way. And when he wanted to build a car that represented the shop, he already had an idea.
He's owned this once stock BMW 2002 for years and years, back even into high school in fact. During a slow winter at the shop, he pulled in the fully running and driving 2002, a car some people would love to own, and busted out the plasma cutter. He laid down some sharpie and tape on the floor, and began to make the frame from scrap square tubing we had.
After a few weeks, the frame was built. The entire car follows true Rat Rod heritadge, being built out of anything and everything. The coilovers? From a C5 Corvette. The steering rack? From a Cobalt SS. The control arms? From a Panoz race car. Parts from random GM cars and things he had laying around began to now serve purpose for this evil looking car that was taking shape.
The body is chopped in nearly every aspect. Width, height, length and so forth. It's right hand drive to accommodate a problem ran into with the Cobalt steering rack. The shifter is mounted on the ceiling to keep the ergonomic Hurst handle correct (And for the "lolwut" factor). Of course, the power plant is a thrown together LS1 with a mild cam that we've just assembled. The wheels are mismatched wheels we've had in storage with a set of IROC wheels mounted backwards to clear the rear. The final wheel selection is still being discussed. Progress is slow, especially with the growing busyness of the shop, but when we do get to work, John does work.
Anyway, I thought I would show the folks of StanceWorks his build so far. He probably wouldn't want me posting it yet, since it's not near completion. It's not only going to be promotion to show the fabrication our shop can do, but also for John to drive and enjoy.
We feel notoriety isn't bought, it's made. I'm sure most of y'all can agree. Look out for more (albeit slow) updates.
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