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Note to our visually impaired visitors: We have included all of the text from all our pages here on this page - at the beginning of each area of text we provide a link to the sighted page. The gallery, complete cars and metal work pages are pretty much just pictures so although there is a link there is not much or any text because the source page has no text. Here is a quick list of the pages in this site: Although you cannot see the pictures through out this site let us describe the sites visual impact for you a little bit. A prominent feature on the top of each page is a picture of Bill's famous red, 32 Ford roadster. Red is the predominant color on this site - if you don't know what red looks like - remember it is the color of fire (heat) and blood. It is emotional and hot - just like our Hot Rods. Also at the top of each page is a moving picture of Bill's 32 roadster and his friends 51' pickup. It shows them at a dead stop and then accelerating quickly towards the viewer. Additionally, we cannot include our email address here because the program you are using to read this page is not unlike the ones spammers use to capture email addresses - sorry about that but if you want to email Bill please call Bill at (937)322-5134 for email addresses. As time permits we will try to add pertinent Hot Rod links for the visually impaired to this page. BILL'S Rod & Custom - Hot Rods - Classic Cars BILL'S ROD & CUSTOM has been in business for over 25 years. We've been providing top quality parts, services and custom work for Hot Rod enthusiasts since the seventies and we plan on doing so for many years to come. Please give us a call. Bill's Rod and Custom Shop is a provider of hot rods, custom built roadsters. classic cars, hot rod chassis, parts and much more for the serious hot rodders. Owner Bill Metz has been associated with top notch work and advice all this time. Many claim to be experts but BILL'S ROD & CUSTOM has the know how and satisfied customers to back it up. We offer:
Traditional Style Hot Rods are our specialty. Contact BILL'S ROD & CUSTOM when the other guys say "that can't be done" or "we have to send that out". You won't get excuses here. Just straight talk and honest answers. If you are in the market for a complete vehicle - ready to drive - we can supply it. We have the experience, satisfied customers and know how that comes from years of building rods to high standards. '33-'34 Ford Chassis - PRICE $5,200 Includes: reproduction frame rails, boxed full length with tubular k-member 9".. Ford rearend narrowed to proper width, 3rd member, new brake shoes, springs, wheel cyl. and drums turned. Rearend is mounted on coilover shocks or traditional leaf spring with ladder bars. Tube axle or I-beam in front with 4-link or hairpin radius rods (split wishbone on request, when available) and spring with shackles. Shock mounts and shocks, GM disc brake mounts included (less rotors and calipers). Vega steering box & mount, tierods and draglink, Ford style spindles, motor and transmission mounts, Panard bar (coilovers only), master cylinder and pedal mount with pedal and cylinder. Also available:
Complete '28-31 Ford Chassis - PRICE $4,200 Includes: reproduction frame rails with all body holes. Front and rear cross member installed. 9" Ford rearend narrowed to proper width with 3rd member and backing plates with drums and brake hardware. Rear is mounted on coilover shocks with ladder bars and panard bar, master cylinder and pedal mount (cyl. incl.), motor and transmission mounts. Front end is either I-beam or tube axle with 4-link front spring, shocks, Ford style spindles, Mustang or Vega steering, tierod, draglink with ends, GM disc brake mounts included (less rotors and calipers). Also available:
Ford Chassis - PRICE LIST '28-31 Chassis $4200 '32 Chassis $5200 '33-34 Chassis $5200 '35-40 Chassis $5400
OPTIONS - PRICE LIST Rotors & Calipers $350 (std. on '35-40) Brake lines $400 Chrome - call for price Independent front $1600 (std. on '35-40) For wheels widened and narrowed rearends please call for price. Complete '32 Ford Chassis - PRICE $5,200 Includes: reproduction frame rails, boxed full length with tubular k-member 9".. Ford rearend narrowed to proper width, 3rd member, new brake shoes, springs, wheel cyl. and drums turned. Rearend is mounted on coilover shocks or traditional leaf spring with ladder bars. Tube axle or I-beam in front with 4-link or hairpin radius rods (split wishbone on request, when available) and spring with shackles. Shock mounts and shocks, GM disc brake mounts included (less rotors and calipers). Vega steering box & mount, tierods and draglink, Ford style spindles, motor and transmission mounts, Panard bar (coilovers only), master cylinder and pedal mount with pedal and cylinder. Also available:
page: TOPS CHOPPED AND INTENSE METALWORK page 1 (no text this page) page: TOPS CHOPPED AND INTENSE METALWORK page 2 (no text this page) page: WHEELS WIDENED AND REARENDS Rearends We can provide off the shelf or custom rearends to suit your particular needs. Narrowed rearends and Quick change rearends are one of our specialties. Contact BILL'S ROD & CUSTOM for a price quote (937) 322-5134, and we'll be happy to provide you with references of our work. WE BUY, SELL and TRADE PARTS used, antique, reproduction, new and rebuilt or reworked parts for Hot Rods, Ratrods , Streetrods, early Fords and the like. Please contact us - we have been doing this for 30 years We not only provide custom rod work but we also carry a full line of parts geared for the rodder. We can provide parts form the vendors listed below and if you need a little advice after the sale - we'll be happy to oblige. Anybody can sell you a part - only BILL'S can supply the part and provide the backing should you run into trouble. We carry:
page: AUCTION AND SPECIAL ITEMS Auction Items We place specialty items on ebay.CLICK HERE FOR OUR EBAY AUCTION ITEMSIn addition to our ebay items we will soon have items up for sale on our in house auction. Please visit back. Sweet rides... Click to enlarge (Present and former customers of Bill's - please send us your photo - we would like to include all of our friends Hot Rods!) BILL'S ROD & CUSTOM is located in Springfield, Ohio. If you are ever in the area please call us and we'll try to get the place clean enough for visitors. If you want a real Hot Rod experience come see us - you'll think you've died and gone to heaven. A word of warning - if you want a pretty little showroom with fancy carpet - go to a Dentist - this place is for hot rodder's only! Call us (937) 322-5134! If you'd like please email us with any questions or inquiries you may have: The following articles were written over twenty years ago, though much has changed in these times our passion for rods remains the same. Old rodders never die - they just downshift. From Hot Rod Magazine, Nov. 1983, Vol 36 No. 8, Petersen Publishing Co. Fnote to visually impaired: the article below was accompanied by photos of rods in the autumn with lots of leaves on the ground hence the title. FALL GUYS Bill "Willie" Metz, the owner and operator of Bill's Rod & Custom Shop in Springfield, Ohio, is one of those laid back lads from the Midwest who claims he's never met a Deuce he didn't like...and this pair of down in the leaves '32 Fords is a prime example of his affection for ol' Henrys. Metz, who originally built both rodneys, started the fender free highboy a few years back, but eventually sold it to fellow Fordnatic Dan Mershon. The roadster's underpinnings consist of a Metz-massaged frame supported by a buggy sprung combination which includes an original Bell Auto dropped tube axle, front and rear Model "A" leaf springs, Bill's four-link split wishbones and ladder bars, and a Halibrand quick-change center section attached to a pair of '36 Ford axle housings. Under the "repop" bonnet lies a fully balanced and blueprinted 350 inch Chevy V8 force fed by a 6-71 Jimmy blower drawing through a set of 4-barrel fuel leaks. The black lacquer body-essentially a Wescott fiberglass replica painted by Jerry Pollack-has been fitted with such accoutrements as '41 Chevy tailights, 2-3/4 inch chopped windshield, and dark brown upholstery by Dan Dunleavy. Metz's own keeper is the red 'n' rapid, full fendered rag-top-an all steel (rear fenders excepted) "gennie" based on a set of new/old stock frame rails which have been fitted with a 5-inch droped Super Bell axle, one of Bill's quad-link split wishbone setups, Super Bell's Mustang disc brake kit, and a 9-inch Ford rearend retained by both R & C's ladder bars and a stock leaf spring. Horsepower is supplied by 350 inches of reasonably reworked (like 12.5:1 TRW slugs, forged steel crank and rods, Chevy 327/350-horse hydraulic cam, Edelbrock intake and a 650 Holley carb) mouse motor, which in turn, is tied tied to a pair of Cyclone headers and a Turbo 400 tranny. As for visuals, Willie's wagon relies on such features as tan upholstery (also by Dan Dunleavy), Ford truck red paint, '39 "cc" taillights and '50 Merc steel wheels sporting both '50 Merc hubcaps and bueaty rings to achieve a '50's look and rod fancier would "fall" for.
From Street Rodder Collectors Issue No. 2, summer 1980, McMullen Publishing Co. He's been in the business now for seven years, but twenty seven year old Bill Metz, owner of Bill's Rod & Custom in Springfield, Ohio will tell you his heart has been into rods and customs since the age of 10. At that time, young Bill was tinkering models and paging through hot rod magazines dreaming of the day when he'd have his own set of wheels. These dreams finally materialized after high school when enough enough greenbacks came together to afford a '35 Ford Tudor. In his own naive (teenage) way, Bill was investing in a career for the future. What was once just a hobby quickly evolved into a profession. Bill earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering upon completing two years of trade school. During the summer of '74, he got started in business for himself, working out of his home garage, establishing a strong clientele. As volume increased, a move was made to a largercommercial facility in the heart of town, where productivity took quite a jump. His shop, as we know it today, is at the corner of W. Main Street and Lannert Ave, specializes in street rods and accessories, custom chassis fabrication, fiberglass parts and includes a custom machine shop. Bill has taken in hired help who know the old A's through 34's like second nature. Frames are assembled in their own special jigs using heli-arc. All parts (other than Super Bell axles and Deuce Factory frames) are manufaactured there on the spot. Frames are available from and to any stage of completion. Anyone who knows Bill recognizes him as a guy with a casual unhurried manner. It seems there is no way to rush a guy who's having a good time at what he does! A couple of other guys who work with him in the shop are close friends sharing the same interest in rods. Steve West is the in-house sheet metal expert, handling body restorations and top chopping. The youngest member of the crew is Danny Kuntz who takes care of welding and keeps the sparks flying.
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