fter the Scott’s Hotrods ’N Customs open house in May, I was pulled off my usual projects to build a rear fender for a 1936 Ford coupe. After I finished that, I was told to start working on this 1995 Silverado owned by Brian Wojcik. By this time, Sev had built the coilover chassis for it and had done some modifications to the firewall and front fenders to get the truck to a static 3- to 4-inch ride height. My task was to build a simple engine bay, shave a few things on the body, and build the bed floor—so I started with the engine bay.

The inner fenders were simple and I still had a fair amount of room to get around the tires and most of the surrounding components. The brake booster was in a tight spot though, so I had to plan my inner fenders to clear that easily. The first thing that came to my mind was doing a large reverse curve to get around it. That kind of snowballed into a pretty interesting transition from the top surface of the inner fenders to the side surface. I had to cut the inner fenders apart and put a seam between the two halves so they could be easily removable without having to remove the brake booster. After the inner fenders were finished, I started working on the core support cover panels. I knew we were going to be radiusing the bed floor so I wanted to incorporate the same radiused flow into the engine bay. I also wanted to give it a unique look that I hadn’t seen in an OBS truck, and I think we achieved that pretty well. 

Once the engine bay was finished, I tackled shaving the stock third brake light, fuel door, and antenna before moving onto the bed—which you’ll have to come back next month to see, as the first portion requires more printed real estate than your editor allowed me this month!