Charlie’s Rods & Customs Speed Shop

Charlie’s Rods & Customs Speed Shop Chemainus BC based Hotrod Shop specializing in Rust Repair, early traditional/period Hotrod builds, restos and Customs Custom welding and all metal fabrication

Figured I should do the final update on this customers 67’ F100 she’s finally done and gone! there was a lot of work don...
01/26/2025

Figured I should do the final update on this customers 67’ F100 she’s finally done and gone! there was a lot of work done to this slick Truck, it came in on a Scott’s hotrod chassis that the customer modified even further and had me do all the custom sheet metal and rust repair work, it had cab corners, upper cowl/air boxes and inner structure work and a ton of rust repair, floor pans, custom crossmember/subframe work that all had to blend seamlessly into a scratch built brand new transmission tunnel to clear the 10 speed transmission, the bed floor had to be raised 4” to clear the notch over the rear end so a customer floor structure was fabricated to accept a wood bed kit and in house made rear wheel tubs to fit the giant rubber this truck is going to receive, I finished up with the front inner fenders using a combination of the Pullmax and bead roller, it’s been a fun project and can’t wait to see what the customer does with it! #7.3godzilla #1967

Happy New Year everyone!! Iv been quiet as usual on the social media side of things, but I’m still here, busy working on...
01/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone!! Iv been quiet as usual on the social media side of things, but I’m still here, busy working on customer Hotrods as usual, decided to finish the year doing some ‘Pullmax’ work on the trumph machine building some custom front inner fenders for this 67’ F100 will do another post on it shortly on all the work I have done to it, #1967

This week I had a short but sweet visit from Karl  and Jordan  at my shop. I had mentioned I wanted one of Karl’s beauti...
01/27/2024

This week I had a short but sweet visit from Karl and Jordan at my shop. I had mentioned I wanted one of Karl’s beautiful planishing hammer kits, they already had a trip to the island arranged and hand delivered the planishing hammer to me! so awesome, anyone needing a planishing hammer should seriously consider ordering one of these, it’s amazing quality and the dies are beautiful, iv used it everyday since receiving it, unfortunately they were in a rush to make the dang ferry and couldn’t hang out too long, thanks guys, keep being awesome doing what you do!

Built to be driven every day, even in the snow! Believe it or not, for those that don’t know this is my Dailey driver an...
01/18/2024

Built to be driven every day, even in the snow! Believe it or not, for those that don’t know this is my Dailey driver and the only vehicle I have insured and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Spent some time over the last week or so playing with my Pullmax style trumpf machine, and getting used to the different...
12/24/2023

Spent some time over the last week or so playing with my Pullmax style trumpf machine, and getting used to the different speeds and techniques to minimize tooling marks in the sheet metal etc , I started up making tooling and a table top lower insert to do embossing and factory ish looking X bead floor pan work, and finally got around to starting to make up floor pans for this customers 1930 model A coupe, it’s coming along but a lot of work left to do still, decided to go with 32 ford car style floor pans on this one, it’s amazing how much structure these X’s give a floor pan with no tin canning and not much flex in the panel, now the trunk area to do, pretty happy with the work I’m now able to put out with this machine!

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Chemainus, BC
V0R1K5

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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