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Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Building A Tube Frame For The Custom Bed
In the last video, Brent started working on his vision for the bed, and in this one he’s got a full tube structure going together. It’s interesting and we think this thing is going to be...
Fiberglass How-To: Using Foam And Glass To Form A Custom Dash For A 1967 C10 Pickup. Shaping And Glassing!
Here is the third video in this cool custom dash series. I happened upon this video series the other day and knew I had to share it. After recently posting a video of Brent at Halfass Kustoms doing a...
Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Building A One-Off Custom Bed For This Pickup.
Now that the chassis has been shortened up to get the proportions right, it’s time for Brent to start focusing on the bed. He wants something completely different than stock, so he’s...
Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #2 – Mack DM600.
Here’s the second video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a Mack DM600 that would make a rad ramp truck! Our friend Steve Magnante has been out of commission for a few...
LEFT-FOR-DEAD Grandpa Special OBS CHEVY BEGINS PROTOURING MAKEOVER: Suspension, Wheels, Tires, And More.
How many times have you seen a bitchin old Grandpa style pickup driving down the street and thought, man if that thing wasn’t brown and was slammed it would be awesome? Yeah, jillions of times....
Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: New Shop Move Complete, It’s Time To Cut The 1949 GMC Roadster In Half.
It’s time to shorten the frame on Brent’s custom GMC Roadster pickup now that he’s moved in the new shop. You might remember that his shp burned to the ground earlier this year and...
Will It Run?!? Mortske Picked Up Another Failed Facebook Marketplace Project! Chassis Swapped 1953 GMC with EFI!!
I say all the time that some of the best deals on projects are those that someone has either been stumped by, ran out of money or talent on, or has just lost interest in because it has taken so long...
Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Filling The Cowl Vent, And Scavenging The Yard For A Brake Master Cylinder!
The custom GMC roadster pickup project can’t have all this other custom metalwork and then still have a factory cowl vent, so in this video Brent is going to fill it in and smooth it over....
Puddin Found Another Abandoned Truck. This 1980 JUNKYARD C10 is getting pieced together for CHEAP!
We recently shared a cool video series from Puddin where he takes a junkyard find longbed truck and makes it into a short bed, lowers it, and more to make it into the new Puddin’s Fab Shop shop...
Derek From Vice Grip Garage Gets His Hands On Motion Raceworks 1,000HP ZZ632 GM Crate Engine “Work Truck” To Perform Some UPGRADES!
Well here we go! Derek has gotten his hands on the Motion Raceworks OBS Chevy pickup to make some upgrades and adjustments and boy is this thing going to be cool as hell. With the 1,000 horsepower...
Chop Top How To: Chopping The Top on a 1953 Chevy Truck. Part 1: Was The First Order Of Business To Ruin This Truck?
I’m a sucker for a chopped top on a 54 and earlier car or truck, but have never actually done one myself. I’ve fixed some bad sheet metal and welding on a couple, but never actually...
Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Making Electric Windshield Wipers From Junk And Finally Patching The Floors.
We are often amazed by Brent’s resourcefulness when it comes to recycling used parts and making completely new systems that most folks would never attempt. The windshield wipers in this episode...
Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Building A Custom Forward Tilting Hood From Spare Parks And Scrap In The Shop
In the next installment on the GMC Roadster Pickup build there is some more welding going on, as Brent works on the hood and making his own forward tilting mechanism from parts, pieces, and scrap...
1974 Dodge BIG BLOCK Shortbed Truck! A Mortske Budget Friendly Transformation Resulting In One Cool Mopar Muscle Truck!
A 1974 square body Dodge like this is always fun to see, but a grandpa owned ride like this isn’t very common anymore. I mean this thing was clean and grandpa perfect, and then Mortske got a...