The Stickman's Custom Cruiser Build thread

Are they buckets too? Sounds cool. Looking forward to that.

 

Yes I amusing 4 of the exact same bucket seat. I am going for a 4 bucket seat high performance touring wagon idea.

 

Ooooooh! Drooling days again, this year!!! I'm all hyped now! This I gotta see!

Did you see that 1974 Caddy wagon with the Opera windows, where the back doors would normally be?

ThatMoparWagon posted it in the gallery. Have a gander at that too.

 

You and your wife have to see this guy's site. I was crusing one nite for tips on applying woodgrain finishes on my aluminum woodgrain trim. And I spotted his work on his Corvair, then his Alpha, a Kellison J5, a '63 Ford Galaxie wagon, and on and on...

Diehard do-it-yourselfer. Anyway he inspired me to look into Roller Painting my wagon, from what he did to his Corvair (I owned a 1966 Monza in University). After all of that, and checking out his links to the Roller Paint link, I got the bug.

Well anyway, he's got a bunch of 'Old Links' at the bottom of the right-hand menu that you'll wanna check out. I've emailed the guy on some issues I had with heatgunning the woodgrain and he was really helpful.

He has no fear. If it appeals to him, he goes for it.

Anyway, theres' a really fine photo DIY on repairing the Galaxie's Rocker panels.

http://www.rickwrench.com/

 

Yea that's the white with blue strpie right. I may try this myself using John Deere paint. They say it's a great satin black.

 

Ok bucket seats day 2. My car is becoming more and more like my vision of a high performance touring car like i want. We worked on getting the drivers seat perfect and making brackets for the passenger seat. It took most of the day(well started at 1pm) but now I have both front seats mounted, and I can work on the backs. Here are the newest piccs of both installed. BTW there should be alot of updates this week as I plan on lowering the front end and will be getting my wheel spacers and poly bushings for the front end.

 

That's too sexy! I'm getting my keyboard bib out.

 

Well I have been slacking off with the updates so I will try to get up to date in the next few days as I will have more after that with a new radiator and intake, as well as a rebuilt trans with shift kit after it's rebuilt.

So here's what you have missed. I rebuilt the front suspension with Energy Suspension bushings and I took the Eibach springs out of the front and put the F41 RPO code springs back in. First I took a half coil off and it brought it down to the level of the Eibachs and I wanted more of a drop. SO I hacked off a whole nother coil. That might have been more extreme then I had originally wanted. But the looks and ride are perfect. So I got way lucky. Here's some picks.







Here's how I want the rear to be with some help from a friend.

Here are some coilover brackets that my wife made. Problem is I have 2 pair of Coilovers that are too long so we have to figure a way to find the extra space for them.

 

Wow! Sure makes it look longer, leaner and meaner.

 

I was snooping on this Aussie Magazine site and found this for your next one:

http://www.autospeed.com.au/cms/A_111167/article.html

 

Well I promised more updates and here they are. Here are some body mods I did with the bumpers. First the front bumpers are tucked in. The one bumper shock was partially collapsed so I collapsed it all the way. Now to collapse the other one I had to drill a hole in it. Then I stripped the bumper down and painted it black.





Then onto the rear bumper. I stripped it down and painted it black like the front. I took it off the mounts and put it against the body and it looks great. But I have to figure out the mounts to get it right but here is how I want it to like

 

You know, that looks dam good. The front end though, to me it mite look better with the grille blacked out also and just leave the chrome around the head lites. Don't get me wrong, it looks great but it almost seems like too much chrome now that the bumper is black.


But in the end, it's your wagon.

 

It's far more realistic the way you've done it. A 25 MPH bump would crush those shock absorbers and crunch the sheetmetal.

 

Here is the rear suspension mods I have done. These are my Metco Billet Aluminum LCA's. I really like these arms. They are very nice quality pieces.



They allowed me to mount a sedan swaybar on may wagon until I can get a set of much bigger wagon bars.

Here are the arms mounted without the swaybar mounted.



Here it is with the swaybar mounted.





ANd here is a pic showing the twist in it.

 

I always look forward to your posts. Always stretching the boundaries with quality work. You never disappoint!