289 Slab-side body

[decooney]

Originally Posted by mrmustang

The yellow one in the classifieds looks like one of their better builds. Again, they had good builds, and not so good builds you have to look at each one carefully.

Bill S.

Absolutely correct, 100% from what I've seen first hand myself on the few JCF slabsides I've seen. And some may not be aware - in several cases, not each car was completely built by John at JCF either; some went out in parts. He has supplied just frames/bodies to people I know and have met over the years, and other cars we've seen have come along that had to be completely redone including chassis mods, mounts, and both front/rear suspension; uncertain of who originally built the cars. A good friend has either built and/or completely revised four of them now; especially in the suspension area. One just left the shop and two others in the shop now, one of them had all new front/rear suspension and upgrades, and a lot more to go. We've recently also seen one mostly done by John himself but have a list of changes to be made including drivetrain repositioning and more suspension changes to make the car even better. We were just chatting this week, if we could get someone to make us the slabside bodies correctly, and the base chassis, he might even start producing his own slabside cars in limited production, with some modern suspension components front/rear.

[*13*]

Why not take some classes? It's pretty close to you. If nothing else it would be a lot of fun! If I could free up the time, I'd love to take these courses.
http://www.lazzemetalshaping.com/

[decooney]

Originally Posted by *13*

Why not take some classes? It's pretty close to you. If nothing else it would be a lot of fun! If I could free up the time, I'd love to take these courses.
http://www.lazzemetalshaping.com/

Not a bad idea, actually. Thanks for sending the link, and we are aware of this place but just dreamers at the moment. Personally, it would by my own dream (or for retirement) to be able to design and shape body sheet metal like this, and create a few of my own cars and designs from scratch like this. As for my friend, if we could source the slabside glass bodies for him from someone like Mr. Bruce (for example), my buddy is possibly interested in offering the rest of the car to some customers if he has to keep upgrading these JCF cars. At this rate, he could just build his own and he pretty much is minus the body. I'm not serious about it yet by any means at this stage of life, but sort of interested in helping a friend a bit on ideas for investigating it further since he does this type stuff for business and I just do this type idea/design/build stuff as a side-hobby, time permitting; and time is short these days - argh.

[*13*]

Right there with ya! If you ever decide to take the courses, let me know. Maybe we can get a group together & try to get a discount. Getting the time off has been the only thing holding me back.

[mr bruce]

I got the bodys and frames ready to go, just need some customers, heck ,I'll even build the whole car for you!