Car Cobbler

Designing and bead rolling body cross members. Building up the '49 Chev Fleetline body to weld it to an '06 Cadillac CTS chassis.

Learning new tricks with new tools is often the only way forward. Be bold!

How to succeed at an overwhelming job? Call it pleasure instead of work!

Fixing up the underbelly before we make the '49 Chev body fit around the Cadillac mufflers.

Nearly every car build requires a modified drive shaft length. You can do this at home for free.

We stretched the Cadillac CST chassis and inch to fit properly under the '49 Chev Fleetline, now the drive shaft is an inch too short.

Hard work makes the dream work! And I think this Cadillac based '49 Chev is coming true.

Those Saskatchewan roads in the '50's would shake your teeth out and your car apart. Now we have to do a couple of implants.

A few final tricks to make the '06 CTS chassis fit inside the '49 Fleetline body

Putting a '49 Chev Fleetline body onto a an '06 Cadillac CTS chassis and how to measure what's important, both in building a straight car and in keeping your cool.

Doing a pro job on replacing the cats with dummy pipes. Building Cherry Red '49 Fleetline, the Cadillac '06 CTS part needs some foundational upgrades.

Make your bed, clean your room, but most of all clean the junk out of your garage if you plan to do real work.

Those '49 Chev parts we need are out there somewhere. Round up the crew (youngest daughter Esther) and head for SK to do some car wrecking.

Making this '49 Fleetline body fit onto the '06 CTC chassis. Oh my!

A '49 Chev Fleetline body on an '06 Cadillac CTS chassis should make a great highway cruiser. But the Cadillac is an inch too short.

It's a huge project but we have to start somewhere. Episode 1 looks at building a highway cruiser by putting a '49 Chev Fleetline body on an '06 Cadillac CTS.

Car Cobbler introduction. Why we need a story like this.