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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...
The Questionable Garage Crew Saved This Rare Vehicle From The CRUSHER! But Should They Have? Let Us Know What You Think!
Sometimes you just can’t help yourself and you want to save something from being thrown away. We do it with all kinds of stuff, but for car folks it happens more often than we’d like to...
Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Welding and fitting the hood and fender swapping the 49 GMC Roadster Pickup.
In the next installment on the GMC Roadster Pickup build there is some welding going on with the hood and front fenders as getting everything to fit with semi acceptable body gaps will require some...
Abandoned 1984 Chevrolet 1 Ton 454 Big Block! Will Mortske Make It Run?!? 4×4 Square Body Transformation.
Mortske is back at it, this time working on a big block truck that he thought he should get in order to have a tow rig. Of course other projects came along and it got pushed to the side, but in...
Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – CHEAP Transformation! Paint match, Buff Job, Trim Polish, Body Alignment, and MORE!
Today’s update on the budget shop truck build, which includes a clean long bed to short bed conversion, features some spit shining, polishing, and buffing to make it look as good as possible...
One Day Wash And Flip: Taking A Crusty Square Body GMC K15 And Cleaning It Up For A Quick Profit
At one point or another, every car guy I know has seen a car or truck and said to himself “I could clean that thing up and flip it in a weekend and make me $1000”. And I’d say that...
Halfass Kustoms Newest Project: Starting Work On The 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom
This project is one that Brent has had sitting around for some time and has just been waiting to get back onto it. It isn’t your average 1949 GMC, as it is mounted on a modified Caprice chassis...
New Wrecking Yard Inventory: 1950 Chevy Panel Truck, a Packard Clipper, 1972 Vega Station Wagon a 79 Olds 88 & a Mystery Chassis!
Chad is back at it, showing off more cool projects from his classic car wrecking yard in Kansas. Nobody Else’s Auto is one of those places that is never short of cool cars, trucks, and parts....
Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – WILL IT RUN BETTER!? New Valve seals and much more!
Today’s update on the budget shop truck build, which includes a clean long bed to short bed conversion, has some work going on to make this thing have less blowby and more so that it runs...
Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – CHEAP REPAIRS. Basic Patch Panel How To With A MIG Welder
This cool low buck shop truck build is turning out really cool and we dig it. If you missed it, the long bed became a short bed, using the stock bed with the smallest of cuts and welds so that the...
Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – Gas Tank, Brakes, Driveshaft, And MORE!
In this latest video there are lots of other details getting handled, like a driveshaft, brakes, fuel system, and more. In the first video we shared the shortening of the bed and chassis to convert...