Doomsday Impala
Discussion
Hi All, heres a few pics of our car Doomsday, debuted this year after a 3 odd year, 5000 hour build. Its a little late to show you the build of the car, as we bought this car in January 2007 from Antioch in California. But heres a few pictures, some of the car in the USA and one when it arrived in the UK in June 2007, one or two new ones to wet your whistle
I have tons more pictures but ill save them for another post. I have a lot of cool Photoshop montages that have been used by a couple of mags so far.
Andy
www.doomsdayimpala.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Doomsday-Impala/1178...
I have tons more pictures but ill save them for another post. I have a lot of cool Photoshop montages that have been used by a couple of mags so far.
Andy
www.doomsdayimpala.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Doomsday-Impala/1178...
Edited by doomsdayimpala on Sunday 5th February 10:03
Hi, it came at first minus glass, minus trim, minus engine and box, minus interior. Basically as a rust free (apart front both front lower wings) rolling shell. I bought it for $450 which at the time was maybe £275. It cost another $450 to transport it to the shipping point. So i guess you could say before import it it stood us at £500 ish.
If anybody gets on Streetfire.net, have a look at this. It was a feature video and has over 46,000 views so far in a couple of weeks.
(you gotta suffer my mugshot and lancashire trip and black pudding accent, but theres some nice footage done by V8TV.EU)
http://www.streetfire.net/video/doomsday-68-impala...
(you gotta suffer my mugshot and lancashire trip and black pudding accent, but theres some nice footage done by V8TV.EU)
http://www.streetfire.net/video/doomsday-68-impala...
Yeah, seems like a mad idea. We specifically wanted a 1968 impala, and theres maybe 5 or 6 in the UK. The roof line and rear quarters is whats left of the original car. Becuase it was a 60's build the entire body came off the rolling frame. We sold the rolling frame to a guy who has a white 68 for spares. So that found a good home.
The entire front end was welded together to make the base to make a fiberglass mold off.
The front wings were badly corroded at the bottom, this was repaired using the old method of fiberglass matting and bondo.
Yes this is a horrible way, but the who front clip was them welded together and filled smooth and primed.
This whole piece ended up body shop perfect in primer.
It then went to Dale AT DRE Fiberglass.
Here it is before the body shop trip. This part along with the door skins did go in the skip.
Really, out of the whole car, most of it was missing before we even got it, we only scrapped
the front bumper,
the badly corroded front wings,
the bonnet,
the door skins (thats all there was of them)
and the floor out of the main body.
we sold the rest including all the trim.
:-)
Heres a picture showing the ride height, Impala's are used extensively by the Low Rider community.
Ours is not airbagged, its fixed at this height
ha ha, wont go over bumps in the road, but Bang Shift said it had the ride height to scalp an ant, lol.
The entire front end was welded together to make the base to make a fiberglass mold off.
The front wings were badly corroded at the bottom, this was repaired using the old method of fiberglass matting and bondo.
Yes this is a horrible way, but the who front clip was them welded together and filled smooth and primed.
This whole piece ended up body shop perfect in primer.
It then went to Dale AT DRE Fiberglass.
Here it is before the body shop trip. This part along with the door skins did go in the skip.
Really, out of the whole car, most of it was missing before we even got it, we only scrapped
the front bumper,
the badly corroded front wings,
the bonnet,
the door skins (thats all there was of them)
and the floor out of the main body.
we sold the rest including all the trim.
:-)
Heres a picture showing the ride height, Impala's are used extensively by the Low Rider community.
Ours is not airbagged, its fixed at this height
ha ha, wont go over bumps in the road, but Bang Shift said it had the ride height to scalp an ant, lol.
lovely looking thing, it's a credit to you and your choice of suppliers. Is the drag scene pretty 'compact' in the uk when you get up to this sort of level? because there are a lot of names here that are also used by Andy with RV3.
is it strip only, or is it road legal
what spec is the engine, piccies and power please
is it strip only, or is it road legal
what spec is the engine, piccies and power please
here one for the guy whi likes sexy rears, fnarr fnarr
Hers is a few pics of the motor, its a Jeff Bull built, 489cu Big Block Chevrolet.
Thats 8013cc and is good for 800hp.
Its naturally aspirated (1150 cfm carb) on methanol (alky).
I guess its not that close nit and there are plenty of people that you can use.
But its down to trust really i think.
For an Auto transmission, there is nobody else we would entertain other than Andy, he is an expert in that field.
The performance of his products and work end up speaking for itself.
Same for the motor, we used various people in the early incarnations of this motor and on high octance race fuel it lasted 1 meeting.
We rebuilt the engine maybe 5 times, new bearings, crank regrinds etc.
Plus we were burning £100 worth of race gas in a weekend, hence the methanol conversion.
At the time we converted we could buy a drum of alky for £100 and thats for 55 gallons.
Its more now, a lot more, (probably because of the demaind for bio stuff)
Eventually you get to a point where you throw the lot in the bin, and start again with an expert.
Its more cash in an initial outlay, but not in the long run.
Hers is a few pics of the motor, its a Jeff Bull built, 489cu Big Block Chevrolet.
Thats 8013cc and is good for 800hp.
Its naturally aspirated (1150 cfm carb) on methanol (alky).
I guess its not that close nit and there are plenty of people that you can use.
But its down to trust really i think.
For an Auto transmission, there is nobody else we would entertain other than Andy, he is an expert in that field.
The performance of his products and work end up speaking for itself.
Same for the motor, we used various people in the early incarnations of this motor and on high octance race fuel it lasted 1 meeting.
We rebuilt the engine maybe 5 times, new bearings, crank regrinds etc.
Plus we were burning £100 worth of race gas in a weekend, hence the methanol conversion.
At the time we converted we could buy a drum of alky for £100 and thats for 55 gallons.
Its more now, a lot more, (probably because of the demaind for bio stuff)
Eventually you get to a point where you throw the lot in the bin, and start again with an expert.
Its more cash in an initial outlay, but not in the long run.
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