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Congrats on the article Frizzle! You deserve to get your work seen by others (besides your fan base on here) for all the awesome work you have done. Thats one bad a$$ tahoe!!!!

Josh

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Congrats on the article Mike!

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congrats, cool that two members in the same mag, what are the odds.

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Pretty good when the photographer posts here ;)

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WOW!!!! JUST WOW!!!
Well and you know it needs to be a 4x4........right???lol

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No updates in a while...... you sleeping on the job here Frizz?

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Thanks to everyone for the congrats.

Number98, It's made it to the big time; a magazine article. What else do you want? :lol:

Actually I had a busy month or three, but I'm back at it. I've finished all the final welding on the exhaust and ground all the butt-joints smooth. From the mufflers back has been painted with high-temp ceramic embedded paint. I also made some new brackets for the rear upper shock mounts (couldn't find exactly what I needed in the catalogs). I'm relocating the rear shocks to accommodate the full length exhaust. Last thing to do on the exhaust is the cross-over pipe in front of the AT xmember, then I'll paint the intermediate pipes and do the final install.

Here are the pics. The last pic is something else that's been taking up some of my time as well (just lowered the front and started painting the tires/wheels. yes painting the tires... we'll see how it works and go from there...). The rear will be lowered next weekend.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...g?t=1220775869

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...g?t=1220775869

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...g?t=1220775869

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...g?t=1220775869

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...g?t=1220775869

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...g?t=1220775869

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Cool!
excuse my ignorance, but what kind of car is that?

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Frizzle,
I've never seen tires "painted" without them being smoothed first. How did you do that with all the letters intact?

Very cool btw! :metal:

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I actually had never seen or heard of them before I found this one. It's a 66 Sunbeam Minx. They were more often badged as Hillmans under the Rootes group. It's about the size of a VW Notchback, but has a water cooled front/rear config. It'll be the new DD soon :)
Thanks. I don't know if it'll last but I read a few success stories about using plastic paint over clean/scuffed sidewalls. If nothing else it will give me the motivation to get real ones.

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You can also go this route and use whatever tire you want:
http://www.vwparts.net/VW-70.html
They're available from other sources and in different widths but they work well. I've had blue ones on my bug with Michelins for years.

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cool, thanks for the info:thumbs:

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Cool car. I bet its hard to find parts for though.

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come on Friz, how many do ya need?

Yeah, turns out getting your truck in a mag is easy when the photographer posts here!

if we only knew him.

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i wouldn't call building a custom Tahoe "easy" ;)

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Are those Porta-Walls or another brand? Better/Same?

It's no Chevy that's for sure. But the engine is basically an iron head version of the Alpine engine, so Napa actually has some parts listed. For other stuff it's mail order, and there is a pretty good Yahoo group for them too. They are more numerous and popular in Australia and New Zealand. I read that there's actually a company in the UK repopping some sheet metal too.

I can't thank you enough man. :metal:
The hardest part is making the first big slice. It's all butter from there ;)

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Friz,
I don't know what brand they are. If I had to guess I would say they're Atlas. Those are the ones typically seen in the VW crowd. I've got a set of Color Gards from the 50's on my bug. They were made in Cleveland. Of course they're light blue and I think they were only made in colors but they're extremely nice. :)
As far as quality, they all work pretty well as long as you mount them correctly and the tire is tall enough. Low profile tires are kinda hard on 'em. One of my front ones is starting to show wear on the outside edge because the tires are kinda short.

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And if it breaks down, you can just stick it in the back of the tahoe:D

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Congrats on the mag article man.....much deserved !!!

:metal:

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Wow, that was awesome to read. I've seen those HUGE suburbans and thought man it would be nice if they weren't so large. Now that I look at my 65 PU and having limited fabrication skills I have a renewed sense of anything is possible with planning and effort.

Congrats thanks for sharing.

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You do know that you can buy wide whitewalls, right?

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Sure! Diamondback Classics, Coker and at least one other place I can't think of the name of. The problem is selection is limited, especially in small sizes and they are certainly not a budget option.
Porta-walls are nice because if you get tired of 'em you can take 'em off and you can use virtually any size and brand of tire you want.

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^^^What he said. Plus the current wheels are 13's and I plan to get some 15's or 16's of the same style. Then I'll step up to real WWW's :)

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little late butt congrats also, and i like the micro car

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Thanks again for all the props. Now I need to post some more real progress! That should be happening this weekend :D