Journal

Ken Wells from NH was at the shop today working on his scratch-built Gmund Porsche SL First thing he is making is the floor pan chassis which was made entirely out of 18 gauge steel sheet bent up and spot welded. Ken has made full scale drawings and is now translating them into cardboard to […]

My friend and student Sean Colsen from RI just sent me a progress picture of his all aluminum body, tube frame, scratch-built, Frank Kurtis inspired Sports racer he is building for fair weather driving. It is powered by a Pontiac supercharged SoIstice four cylinder. I met Sean five years ago when he offered to volunteer […]

Building a Hot Rod from Scratch! This week three students started their one month plus Extended Learning Class at my shop. Jim wanted to build a Hot Rod from scratch, Lou is converting a 1967 Maserati Mistral fastback coupe into a Spyder, Harvey is building a body for a 1955 Lotus IX racecar. Jim purchased […]

The December four day coachbuilding class starts tomorrow at 9:00am. We finished the class project wireform at midnight. 1948 Virgil Exner designed futuristic Studebaker.  Day one progress at the Pro Shaper Sheet Metal four day coachbuilding class.  Day two progress at the Pro Shaper Sheet Metal four day coachbuilding class. The class is shaping panels […]

For our November Coachbuilding / Metal Shaping Class most of my students focused on a hot rod wire form design I had made.   [youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFwZqtm1_Po[/youtube]   First day for the hands on portion of my four day coachbuilding class. Two more full days left. Check out some of the results so far.   […]

The June class finished last night it was another awesome opportunity to meet a great group of people that have a passion for learning all they could about the craft of shaping and welding sheet metal into art- car forms, or sculpture. Micah Wolfe-Parsons from OK attended with her husband Jimmy Doc Parsons. Doc mostly […]

Thanks to all that attended my May 19, 20, 21, 21— 2017 coachbuilding class, it was a very special and very productive class. Benjamin Starr and Steve Shepard were at the shop to help out where ever they could, I always appreciate their help. The students came from all over, Kyell came all the way […]

Finished the second coachbuilding class in May. This class was attended by three guys ( John, Chris and Mike from US Car Tool ( www.uscartool.com) in NC and two guys from ( http://www.gabrielsportscar.com) Gabriel Sports Car in Yonkers, NY ( Frank and Javier. Frank had called me and said he would like to make new […]

My April coachbuilding class was a great time. The guys were all motivated to learn as much as possible and they all did outstanding work. Attendees Brian, Jeff, Elton, and Jim all own small English wheels and had a little shaping experience. Bob and Dave were total novices. All of the panels were made using […]

My March sheet metal shaping class is at the beginning of day three. Another great bunch of enthusiastic car guys are attending. I had six signed up for the class but Jim from NJ, had to transfer into the April class because of bad driving conditions last Thursday. John from NH had to leave last […]