I have been over to Bob's shop a couple of times, since it's only an hour
away from home. I found Bob likes to improve and customize. Each time I went
there was a different car there with a differing amount of custom work. He
has molds for ground effects ( not my taste), and other parts . He also has
a custom hatch mod that eliminates the drain holes in the trough. It is a
nice mod and I have done it to my hot rod car. I've received other helpful
hints and mods from him (most are hidden) that are good improvements. I
always felt that Bob was more of a customizer than Terry but I guess it's
just up to the customer and what cars are there at the time.
The one big difference is that Bob's heater box fix is simple and cheap. He
just pulls out the foam between the two 'misaligned' boxes and seals them
with an urethane roof patch. he says all amc cars are 'misaligned' the same
and most of the airflow problems can be traced to that piece of foam
blocking flow and leaking. This is an easy fix while the dash is out, and
not too bad even when the dash is in.
I have a third approach... I bought a "new" 76 as my gennie car and am
modifying a beat up 75, that would of ended up a parts car or scrapped, as a
Hot rod driver. this way I have both ends covered.
Rick 0539/2028/2884
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> When I was purchasing my B up in Mich I ran it by Bob Hoffman and we met
for
> the first time. I got a chance to see one of "his"
> bricks, which he pretty much builds from scratch exactly to manufacturer's
> specs (good and bad). What an incredible feat though. It was something
to
> see a "brand new" brick. It takes him the better part of a year to build
one
> and he gets a very pretty penny too, but it really is something to see.
The
> car looked like it came right from the factory, hydraulic doors and all.
> TT's got some cool projects also, but he does like to modify, where I get
> the sense Bob is more of the purest. Odd too, considering their roots.
> Like I've said before, two men, two unique approaches.
>
> stephan #2821
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