off road rolls do over

[offroadrolls]

We scored a 454 BBC from a cowboy up in Craig CO. He had it rebuilt and then decided to go back to a SBC crate motor. So we decided to pull the Rolls back in and start over. The first picture is the start on the off road front bumper. The second pic is after we fabbed the pivot for the tilt front end, bumper and all. Then another picture of the front bumper and another of the almost done tilt front end. Second to last is a shot of the off road rear bumper we fabbed. It's coming along good, but it's missing something. And finally, one of the 2 valve cover we made for the BBC. We bought them at Summit, had em' powder coated and then wrote a custom program to carve out the tops on the Mori Seki......coolio!![cl

 

[jmlcolorado]

Pretty freakin cool! I'd love to see this monster in person!
You guys did an awesome job on the bumpers! No better way to make them look like they belong!

 

[Tim...Ok]

Ok, thats just pretty darn cool.. nice work on the valve covers, I do alot of that type thing myself..

 

[Sam_Fear]

Those bumpers are great!

 

[Mr.Gussett]

Way cool!

Being an old long time off roader and 4x4 builder from way back I have to say
Your bumpers are WAY COOL ! Nice job! And I love the BBC[cl

 

[offroadrolls]

Thanks

Thanks to everyone for the comps on the bumpers. The crazy thing is, the front and rear bumper are #4 and #5 of all the bumpers we've ever built. I guess it's beginners luck. Yesterday I said I thought there was something missing. Today we figured it out...................shackles!!

 

[morjeep]

You're a very sick man. I love it. One the best 4X4 car I've seen. I was going to build a 4X4 66 lincoln continental convertible ,but my wife talked me out of it. Kind of wish I would had done it.

 

[offroadrolls]

offroadrolls progress

Made my way to Steamboat this week to work on the Rolls. We motorized the tilt front end using a liear acuator motor we scored at the Tri State Auto swap in Denver.
Next we had to deal with the relays and wiring on the firewall
Rather than move it all we opted to cover it with and sheet of .10" alminum that we'll have powder coted in the future.
Dale crafted some nifty knobs for securing the cover over all the junk on the firewall
Today we're going to start on the covers for the fuse boxes on the firewall.

 

[Johnson]

Not sure how I missed this???

Keep up the awesome work guys. I love trars!

 

[rex1927]

Nice

I like the tilt front end.Will make any engine work needed a lot easier.
Nice job on the firewall too.

 

[Paul_J]

Well it is a rolls after all. No sense in having to put down your chardenet to tilt that front end by hand! I like what you got going here so please keep us updated.

 

[offroadrolls]

LOL Thanks!!

 

[offroadrolls]

Getting closer

Making some headway on the body panels. Have 2 coats of primer down, block sanded once. Thinking we need two more and some more block sanding. having some trouble with some body lines. We can get one to match up nice then the other won't. Might be time for a little bondo.
Also been trying to figure out some color combo's. I'll post again on that dilemma.

 

[Dirtyrat]

pretty crazy how well that bumper fits to the body, nice work!

 

[Neverdone]

So I have no idea how I missed this, especially since I am an avid offroader myself. None of my friends have anything like this though. One of my buddies did use to wheel in a pink 86 Cadillac limo though! That was pretty funny!

Bet it gets around pretty good with a 454!

 

[offroadrolls]

So we're still sanding the Rolls

and sanding some more and sanding some more. Then a buddy of ours has a son that's about to graduate up at WyoTech. So we put hm to work sanding and priming some more. Glad we did too because he found all kinds of waves in the body panels.(we're very amateur body guy's) Mean while we sent the bumpers and the framework of the tilt front end out for powder coating. We went with a copper vein mat black hammer tone. It looks so good we're doing all the exterior bright work too. Door handles, window frames, grill and all. We're going to paint the car John Deer blitz black and the copper really looks good next to it.

 

[Neverdone]

This thing is too cool!!! Any pictures of wheeling it?!?!

 

[tattoodfreak]

Very very cool-never thought I'd see a 4x4 rolls-love it!!

 

[rboutlawmotorsports]

That's what I'm talking about different AWESOME (The Outlaw)

 

[offroadrolls]

Here's a couple

Nothing too radical. We're up on Farwell peak above Steamboat Lake @ around 10,000 feet.