Leigh's EK boot area sorted, fuel neck modified and moved. Tank sitting in place.

Taylor's commodore race car new rear end and strut front ends in place at ride height . Sitting a lot lower.

Corey's Falcon front nearly buttoned up. A bit of fine tuning in the grille and finish off the bonnet corners.

1953 International truck chassis off the jig and on the ground. Frame straightened out, boxed and Jag front and rear ends installed.Heading home with the owner to mock up the LS3 and 6 speed manual . Bolt the cab on and back to us.

Georges '34 coupe chassis has been cut off the jig bench and rolling also.

Leighs EK 9" rear end is mounted with triangulated four link and it's off the stands and rolling again.

Pauls super cool Injected Hemi powered Dearborn '32 roadster is in for a new set of stainless Fenton style pipes and quicken the steering a little.

Brown Sugar is one of the most asked about cars we've had here in the shop. Originally built and style but one of our friends Richard Dabbs the car past to a new owner Trent Driscoll. this is where the path or direction of this car changes. Richard built the original Brown Sugar as a no compromise 60's styled Show Rod, with little to no care about how or if the car could or should be registerable. Nothing wrong with that and let be honest we all loved the car Richard created. Trent of did enough to anti up a bunch of folding to own the car. Trent want the car but he also had one very big difference in mind he wanted a car that can be driven legally on the road when ever he liked. That or course meant there would be some refinements needed to make this possible. Please keep in mind there was a bunch or resistnce and more than a few people who felt a car as extreme as the Sugar couldn't possible be legal for the road. There rigt Brown Sugar the show car was a long way from what need to be there for a road going legal version. The list is lnog and the changes are a lot, None of this detered Trent. the following is a sample of the list of works needed to make Brown Sugar into Refined Sugar the road going legal version of one of our favorite cars. Steering column converted to be colsible and extended rear wards for a better placement, brake pedal assebly change out to one with a booster and better pedal placement, Brakes upgraded to a boosted system for better performance, wipers fitted using a 2 speed cable unit. to fit it meant moving almost everything under the dash and remounting stuff to fit. Greg then run up the A pillar polished the tube and mad new window garnishes to hide the tube, While the wipers where being fitted the front window frame lock pivots got balanced out so the front screen closed fully. The cool yellow perspex was changed out for electric front windows and rear glass that meets Australian standards. Blinkers where aded to the rear of the car, the wiring updated to seperate the blinker and park tail light functions, number plate lights fitted, a fuel tank was designed and fitted behiend the diff under the kicked up floor, with the filler mounted behiend a swing down number plated flap. To allow for inectia reel seat belt to fit a roll stainless roll bar and reinforced mounts where fitted to the cr, Anchor point reinforcemnts added under the floor allowed for the correct fitment of the belts. The entire trim was removed from the car to allow for some strengthening thru the cant rails, the area above the doors and side windows into the open roof area, Not a nice or easy job on a painted car. Greg added some extra trim support peices in place as well before fitting the trim back in place. Front axe got replaced, steering links , drag link got modified to suit the slightly narrower front axle, the rear shockers got repositioned, All the front end fasteners and hardware got changed out, blinker and park light ot added into the front headlites, Guards and guards stay got fabbed and fitted, then refabb abd fitted when they turned out to be to close, Finally a new set of fenton style headers in 4mm stainless steel an a complete new stainless exhaust system under the car to get ground clearance. A ne font spring combo, radial classis white walls and chromies big and littles, and for those hot or rainy days a fold back roof. Today the car is signed off by both a Vass approved engineer and the ASRF and is legal for the road. Richard Dabbs Brown Sugar and now the revised Trent Driscll version are while very different also the same, We feel Trent's Refined Sugar is as close to Richards vision as a road going version can be. To Trent thanks for letting us be involved. To Richard hope you dont mind the changes to much .

Brown Sugar getting 'refined' a bit more , New pipes and complete stainless exhaust system a little higher off the ground for rego requirements .

Leighs EK floor cut and inner guards moved in about 3" a side. Fuel tank hole modified to suit. A few rust repairs in lower quarter panels. Battery mount box fabbed for right hand rear quarter. Rear wheels mocked up for diff measurements.

Georges '34 chassis moving forward , split bones front and rear. Rear Spring crossmember fabricated and mocked up in place. Lever shocks mocked up on the rear. Friction shocks designed and drawn up on CAD and off to the laser cutter. Engine mount fabbed and fitted.

Marcus' Torana has now has a supercharged LSA engine and 6 speed trans Shoe horned into the engine bay.