It had the front end on it when I pulled it out of a field after paying the owner $400, but that was quickly removed in order to check out the cars condition prior to scheming.

At this point we assumed the front end would get upgraded steering, brakes, and a slammed stance, along with a bit of powdercoating. The truth is, the chassis was about to be dragged away and sold for $250.

The front end came off in one piece, but not without sacrificing a few bolts that had to be cut off. The cop car would later donate inner fenders to the project.

Despite plywood under the carpet, weeds were growing through this hole when I first saw the car. It was love at first site.

We cut the spare tire well out because the gas tank was going there, but it was still mint. This was good, because we sold it for $200 at the swap meet. Overall, we made money on both cars after selling parts off of them.

At this point we had just gotten the ’56 body and frame separated, but had not braced the body or cut the stock floors out.

Bought for $1250 from the City of Plano in Texas, the cop car had only 65,000 miles, but had been hit in the right rear.

Tire smoke rules!!! Errrr, we had to test everything to make sure it worked right. No, really.

Who would have thought all this would fit under the hood of a ’56 Chevy, and stay in all the same spots? One interesting note. The brakes have never even been bled on Rusty because we unbolted the master from the police firewall and left it connected and with the frame through the whole transformation. Once it was bolted to the ’56 firewall, we were good to go. We hate bleeding brakes.

While this was enough damage to total the cop car, it turned out not to be bad at all. The insurance report said it had frame and floor damage, which turned out to be from the car running over something, not the rear hit. We fixed it by stomping on the floor, and then cutting the whole body off. The frame was mint.

It only took a couple hours to get the cop car to this point. After getting the interior out of it, we cut the entire floor, and most of the firewall out of it so that it could be used on the ’56.

We completely suck for not driving it this way.

Check it out. This is the very first test fit. Note the frame rails sticking out the back, which had to be cut off. It still has the stock floor in it at this point, because we weren’t sure whether we were going to fix the stock floor, or pull it out of the cop car.

Same time, different angle. At this point, we decided it needed to be channeled to be right, so bracing was soon to follow. We are looking for more photos, we’ll see what we can come up with.