Frame Rail arrival & inspection

Frame Rails, working with frame fixture, measuring, welding

Boxing Frame Rails

Installing Crossmembers

Front Spring
C Notches

Bob rear
frame rails

U-Coat It

Assemble Frt Suspension

Installing Ladder bars - Rear end

Sandblasting & Powder Coating

Sponsor Sign & Chassis

04 Ladder Bar

Install Engine & Trans

IN 600 Street Induction Product

Steel Tubing Structure

Installing Windshield

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Mounting Rats Glass Body to Chassis

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Mounting Radiator, Grill Shell & Insert

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Mounting of the Pulleys

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Mounting of Steering Column

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Wheel and Tire Combination

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Duvall Gets Chrome

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Cruisin Products
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Segment 17
Aug. 19, 2005

It has been quite a while since our last segment. The response to this build series has resulted in a workload that we never could have imagined.  Customer orders come first and the Roadster project was sidelined.
Let me take a moment and thank all our new customers and the friendships that have evolved from the business generated by the Roadster build series.  It has been a very busy year.
The Roadster chassis was on display this year at the Goodguys Nationals in Columbus, this past July. Since we only have one more show this year, we wanted to mount the body to the chassis for the NSRA Nationals North coming up in September in Kalamazoo, MI.
Clearing a small work area in the back of the shop, we brought the Roadster chassis out of its storage area, the company trailer.

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The Rats Glass roadster body has a raised area in the rear of the floor behind the seating area in the trunk. It allows for a higher rear crossmember to be used in the chassis as well
as routing of the exhaust over the rear end housing. We needed to cut out a little more area for our rear crossmember. The rear crossmember we are using is raised 2'' above the
frame rails.You can see the added access to the rear mounting bolts and the area opened up over the quick change.

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With the rear floor opened up the body now sits on the chassis. We lined up the body
on the chassis and checked to see how the mounting holes in the body lined up with the
holes in the frame rails.The holes were for the most part right on or very close. There wasn't a body mounting hole in the body that wasn't over a body hole in the chassis. A couple were not right on center but still close enough for our purposes.
This is where the body mounting blocks payoff. The body mounting blocks are welded to the inside of the frame rails in the stock mounting locations.Stock body mounting holes are .500 " . The mounting blocks are centered in the stock locations but are 2.000" long.
You now can be off the stock locations and still be able to mount the body.
We now start by again checking the body location on the chassis. Once we are happy with the location we pilot drill holes from the holes in the body down through the body mounting blocks welded to the inside of the frame rails.

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