1955 Chevy GASSER!! 2 Door Conversion (Part 1) 

I have been doing body/paint/fabrication work for over 45 years now. Learned the trade at junior college when I was 18 years old. Thought I knew it all back then and I had to learn a lot thru trial and error...emphasis on ERROR! Young man you are one of the great rising stars in custom/fabrication work. Your videos are some of the best, I learn sumthin new each time I watch you work. Fantastic work, keep the torch burning, you have a lifetime of greatness ahead of you.

Brother you always do Fantastic work .God has blessed you with many talons 👍

Wow dude, good clean work, interesting seeing this conversion!

Omg how have I only just found your channel love this build. Epic work!

I love this! I have seen other conversions but you do it right. Lucky man that bought this car, it is badass!

Thanks to Brent at HalfAss Kustoms for letting us know about your channel. Your 55 is looking great and you make it look so easy!

This was really fun to watch come together! Beautiful precise craftsmanship!

Great work. Would love to see more of the actual fabrication of each piece as you shape them. The rear filler panel fabrication by the wheel well. More detail would have been helpful

There are so many of these 4-door to 2-door conversion videos on RU-vid. And most of them are hacks at best. Karl, you turned this transformation into art. Both the work on the car, and the work on the video, are stellar.

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE TALENT YOU ARE!! AMAZING!! WOW!

Just awesome work can’t wait to see it go down the road!!

Wow super clean job. Second to none.

Awesome work man, I could easily watch a longer video of your work !! The fast forward play misses all the good details…

Great series...very informative and a pleasure to see how you accomplish this...keep up the amazing work

Man so much awesome quality. I normally work with heavier metals. And you've just made me want to rip out all my dodgy sheet metal work in my car and redo it learning from you. 👌🤙

It is awesome to see young people kicking ass in custom cars. Being older I worry about it becoming a lost art.

once again perfect Donnie

Growing up, my Buddy had a 56 Ford B/gasser, we ran on the street, woof.

Beautiful workmanship!!😎👍

Easy Pee Zee ! You certainly make it look that way. I will never look at a 4d the same way again !

So much fun watching you enjoy what you do. And the tips you give are super helpful and often be applied to other projects. Thanks for the great content!

Got to say I’m really impressed with your quality of work. This is second video I’ve seen but great work and not a bunch of gimmicky stuff in video. I love it

Amazing job and I. m Waiting to see the finished car

Your vision is extraordinary and technique…superb ✅👍

Pure artistry in metal! Fantastic video! I particularly liked that you didn't buy a conversion kit, instead fabricating as required and refitting the original pillars. Using the OEM spot weld points is excellent. Seeing how good that side looked, even just tacked up was really quite remarkable!

Great work Karl as always your talent comes out. The two door conversion looks great!!!!!. Keep up the great work.

You're doing a great job don't stop that door pull out came out beautiful

Beautiful work.

Look what I just found...a new channel to watch and it was great. Watching from sunny Hermanus South Africa 🇿🇦

I like your work I have a 59 Cadillac

dude i love watching what you've put out. Watching you work has helped me rethink how i work. I'm glad your here doing this as i don't know how we can be here doing this without having a plethora of mindsets available to pick from. Thank you!

My OCD is so calm now. Perfect.

you are the man for a project 55 or 57, i always wanted to see. a business coupe gasser.its a lot of bodywork,but worth it

Wow dude you’ve got some mad fabrication skills that I wish I had! You’ve got me inspired to go build something in my newly remodeled garage taking baby steps!

Awesome job, glad to see some people doin metal work correctly 👍

I just came across your channel today, Great work!!! I've been a woodworker for 20 years and now I want to venture into metal. Thanks for the info, I'm watching all of your videos!!

I like the conversion. you put a lot of work into the little details that make such a difference in the end result.

Really good work. Thank you for putting in the time and effort to record and post your work.

Hardcore Fab recommended you and you didn’t disappoint. Respect your talent.

Love your work buddy !!!

I building a 2 door but I keep watching this video man i.love it u make it look so easy lol ..now I want to change over on 4 door to 😆

Another GREAT vid!!!! 👍👍

Nice 2dr conversation you did a great job

Nice job Chad

I have seen this done many times but you by far was much better great skills00

Fantastic 👏👏👏

My first car at 16 was a 55 Chevy, 67 Corvette 327, M22 4 speed with posi Black Diamond Tuck and roll wish I still had it!

Nice work buddy !!!

Back up Bad Chad...take your skinny girl friend and get in the second row! There's a new beater boss in town. This was excellent!

You do amazing work. Great job dude..

Wish u had more time to show more of the fab. work on this project but u have amazing skills. Keep it up. Thanks

I've learned a lot, watching, but as others have commented, it'd be nice to get a bit more detail in techniques and operations as you go along. I've seen the "outcome" of such work for most of my life, back to it, while doing the "mechanicals", knowing the finished product, but only now seeing the most difficult intricacies worked out. Thanks!

Afternoon Karl, sitting here in the doctors office watching part 1 of your Gasser video, you are a excellent body man sir!!!!? Be safe God Bless

I'm new here and I am pleasantly pleased to see the quality work and also used a harbor freight hole punch. Your not stuck up like many on the tube. Thank you for being real.

Looks Great!

thanks for your great videos bro. You are an excellent teacher.

Not the kind of work you need to be nervous about doing. I'm sure many would wet themselves at the thought. Ooops. Just kidding. Great to watch you once again. Thank you.

Awesome job

I’ve seen several videos on doing this conversion. This is the cleanest by far.

awesome build. glad i stumbled on to your videos.

Drifted in & sub’d…..Lead from Half Ass Kustoms. …Great work! ….Looking forward to seeing all your video’s.

This has always been a dream of mine. Pat’s Pontiac was the first 4door convention I ever seen (only one actually)and it’s hunted me ever since

This channel should have 10,000x more subscribers!! Nice clean work as always. Cheers

It would be real custom as a 3 door. No one else would have one. I'm making a 55 Nomad from a regular 2 door wagon. I'm grafting a Nomad roof to the firewall and reworking all the metal, B pillers and C pillers too everythings different. You do nice work, nice trick with the 10 gage in the pillers. Looking forward to seeing more of your progress.

Very nice work.

I’m a new subscriber and I love your channel. I love the tri five conversions. You do remarkable work. 👍

I just discovered your video today. What amazing work you do! You make it look so easy! Well Done.

Dude so genius to do that. As a fellow tin knocker , gives me ideas on how to do stuff on my own projects. Keep it up. Your cars are super rad!

Hey Karl; Love the work you're doing... You got me inspired... I'm currently working on a restoration, of a '72 Nova, that I got in Surrey (I'm in Kelowna). However, your Kustom work, got me thinking about my next project. When I was a Kid (50 yrs ago) My Dad had a customized '64 C10 Longbox, that was customized into an extended cab shortbox. I grew up driving it on our farm... The truck is long gone, and my Dad passed away 10 yrs ago. I started thinking about building a Tribute Truck. I've been looking for a '64, without much success. So I'm putting out feelers, to folks around the industry... If you were to come across one, I'd sure appreciate a heads up... In the meantime, Keep up the Awesome Work... I Love the Work You Do... Thanks Again; Allan Lundquist

I use a little sawzall from Mac tools when i do something like this,it leaves a very small gap as apposed to a cutoff wheel,for me its easier to weld because I butt weld about everything.

really enjoy the 10 gauge steel in the pillar. It makes complete sense but one of those things that has never crossed my mind.

Thanks for making it look easy! Great work

Making 4 doors cars cool 2 doors at a time.

My all out favourite,is a studebaker golden hawk 🇬🇧

I don't know how I've never thought of this before! awesome content!

Super nice job and explanation of the process. Thanks

Nice work

Watching out of order.... Great content, sweet builds, good instruction.

Ok ok ok....SO Robert sent me over here and I am super stoked I followed his advice. HELL yes!! I have a lot to catch up on binge watching while I edit. Subscribed!! Aloha!!

Awesome content showing great attention to details.

Well this channel is expensive!! I just bought a 55 4 door to convert to 2 door!! Really enjoy the videos. If I hadn't watch your video I probably wouldn't have taken this project but I'm pumped to complete it this winter. Great channel keep up the good work.

Awesome man 👨🏽‍🔧⚡️

Great job

sounds good man

I love this

half ass customs brought me here. subscribed!!

Nice... Skill and tools

10 gauge idea......awesome

Fantastic job,you got it perfect!!

Mad skills here. Subscribed.

Outstanding , far out ! Congrads !

Thanks for the the explanations

Along for the ride...👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Awesome build always wanted a 2 door of this but only found 4s might be willing to do this myself one day if another comes around

I did a Buick Special wagon 2-dr. conversion. 2 dr. doors are 10 inches longer than 4 dr. doors. You 55 is lookin good!

Came over from Hard Core Fab , going to love this channel !

Impressive sheet metal work! Cheers, :D London

Can’t wait for part 2!!!

Great video!

Excellent..looking forward to the next video