Real Rides LTD

Graham's Dodge Ram van had a tired 318 and was struggling to get up hills.

A quick repower was needed, with a fresh built 318 built by Prescott Engines with Edelbrock heads and custom cam, a strip, clean and paint of the front suspension and a new exhaust built to suit the new headers - all in a quick 2 week turnaround!

You'll see this old van passing you sometime soon!

Mark's 66 Impala wagon is getting some serious upgrades. The underbody is off for blasting and the chassis will get fresh powder coat finish before all the new suspension and running gear gets fitted

We have been working on this VL for a while, it came in battleship gray and every trim and rubber and accessory had gray on it! After lots of labour in panel and paint and cleanup it now sports a Real Rides 2 tone paint job. We have minitubbed it and it will end up sporting a set of Simmons with 20x11 rear and 19x9 up front. Harrop supercharged LS motor will push it along gooood!

One of our current workshop projects is this MK1 Cortina 2 door I got from a racing mate, Andrew, who had one of these back as a youngster. We are replicating it to live again, however with a few mods.

Running gear will be a fresh 302w with 5speed T5 gearbox and Ford 8” diff. We will also do a 5 stud conversion and run some Wilwood brakes. No Lotus replica here!

Brett's Rambler has had a little more work this week, the engine bay and trunk area have both been prepared and painted. Also the underside of the boot lid and some extra bits are done. It is very easy to over look these areas so its good to get tidied up early in the piece.

The mighty CF Bedford camper is back for some more rust repairs and to finish painting, we have done this one in a couple of stages, will be good for travelling far and wide very soon.

The big Buick Hearse has been in for a birthday, removing dents and rust and we have also tidied up some trim and given a cut and polish, will be finished and back in service in no time.

Tony's F100 cab got painted this week and is ready to be reassembled.

Tony's F100 was modified back in the '80s and apart from the custom airbrush art, it ran a stout small block ford.

The truck has been in the shed for about 30-something years, where Tony and his mates have remodelled it with a tubbed rear end, and a 511 BB Ford.

The old paintwork had deteriorated over time and we have bare metalled it and straightened everything, and now it's getting close to regaining its former glory.

While we don't usually work on Jags, this one kinda fitted the bill.

Apart from some rust repairs and external engine modifications, we were given a set of 17 x 12 wheels with 335s on them and asked to make them fit!

We performed an 80s Lister style rear half on this XJ12, extending the rear quarter panels by 75mm per side and then making the rear bumper fit again and adding some modified Walkinshaw sideskirts.