Broke Bastard Garage drove to Colorado to pick up his latest project: a 1937 Dodge Rat Rod that’s getting chopped 5½” in the front and 4″ in the rear, a sunroof, and custom sheet metal interior. This series of videos that take you through the whole rat rod build including:
- Chop top, roof section, and sunroof
- Window shaping and placement, reshaping the front doors
- Removing body from the frame
- Installing 4 link suspension
- Making Shock Mounts, Narrowing the Frame, airbag suspension
- Panhard bar, shocks and steering
- Frenched in tunneled Taillights
- Installing Brake pedal and master cylinder
- Making Floor Panels
- Custom Air ride controls
- Fabricating a Battery Tray and Wheel well
- Using a Shrinker and Stretcher
- Making Panels with a Sheet Metal Roller
- Fabricate Floor Panels, Gas and Brake pedal
- Sheeting Rear Wheel Wells
- Finishing the Rear Floor
- Making a Custom Dash and Custom Gauge Panel
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Trip to get 1937 Dodge Rat Rod Build
Chop Top – 1937 Rat Rod Build Updates 1+2
Roof Section And sunroof -1937 Rat Rod Build Update 3
Re-shaping the rear end – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 4
Rear window shaping and placement – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 5
"Third window shaping and placement" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 6
"Reshaping the front doors" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 7
Removing body from the frame – 1937 Rat rod Build Update 8
First day on the frame – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 9
Day 2 frame work – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 10
Installing 4 link suspension – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 12
Frame work Days 3-4-5- 1937 Rat rod build Update 11
Making Shock Mounts and Narrowing the Frame – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 14
Installing Rear airbag and frame welding – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 13
Mounting the body and cutting the wheel wells -1937 Rat Rod Build Update 15
Mounting the engine / first start * 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 16
Building the front airbag suspension – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 17
Front end Pan hart bar and mounting the Grill – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 18
Mounting radiator and exhaust layout – 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 19
" Front shocks and steering" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 20
1937 Rat Rod Build Update 21 "exhaust and skid plate"
"Fabrication of Heat plate and exhaust" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 22
"Fabrication of Rear frame and Trunk" 1937 Rat Rod Update 23
"Finishing the rear wheel wells" 1937 Rat rod Build update 24
" Working on the trunk Lid" 1937 Rat Rod Build update 25
"Making Hinges for upper trunk Lid" 1937 Rad Rod Build Update 26
"Capping the upper trunk lid" 1937 RAT ROD Build Update 27
"Making lower trunk lid" 1937 Rat Rod Update 28
"Finishing the trunk" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 29
"Making seat buckets" 1937 Rat Rod Build update 30
"Frenched in or tunneled Taillights" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 31
" Swapping small block for big block" 1937 Rat Rod Update 32
"Installing new transmission Mount and start framing the floor" 1937 Rat Rod Update 33
" Finish installing floor framing" 1937 Rat Rod Update 34
"Creating access hatch with hidden hinge" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 35
"Dash removal and framing for firewall" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 36
"Finished the interior Framing" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 37
"Installing Brake pedal and master cylinder"1937 Rat Rod Build Update 38
"Making Floor Panels Passenger Floor Board" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 39
"Framing the transmission tunnel and start sheeting" 1937 Rat Rod Update 41
"Fabricating a hidden fuse panel" Update 42 1937 Ratrod Build
"Custom Air ride controls" 1937 Rat Rod Build Update 43
"How to Plumb your Air Ride System" 1937 Rad Rod Build Update 44
"Fabricating a Battery Tray and Wheel well" 1937 Rat Rod Update 45
Using a Shrinker and Stretcher to make custom curved pieces. 1937 RAT ROD Update 46
Making Panels with a Sheet Metal Roller 1937 Rat Rod Update 47
Making the Wheel Wells for the 1937 Dodge Rat Rod Update 48
Making a cheap shifter kit fit our needs – Update 50 1937 Dodge Rat Rod
Fabricate Floor Panels around the new Gas and Brake pedal – Update 54 1937 Rat Rod
Sheeting Rear Wheel Wells – Update 55-1937 Rat Rod
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