My New DVD Is Here! "Making small fiberglass Molds at home"

It took s long while but my new DVD is in stock, not even on my website yet but will be tomorrow!!! Making small fiberglass molds at home and using them! DIY for the back yard guy!!!! 3 dic's and over 7 hours of itchy goodness gang!! Check www.spritzbyfritz.com and get yours!! Watch it in the Garage and build something!!!! -FRITZ

Invasion show in Dallas Texas

I'll be in Dallas Texas next weekend with the "Baja Bandeeto" at the "Invasion car show" come on around and have a good time!!!!!

The Syracuse Nationals 2017

Got the call today that My "Bala Bandeeto" is one of Gene Winfields pics (thanks buddy) for the "Select Six" at the Syracuse Nationals in NY July 14-15-16 / 2017 see it indoors with the other contenders for the Winfield award. to be honest Im just Happy I'll get to hang with all my east coast crew! now get out in the garage and build something -FRITZ

The Beatnik Bandit clone project

sometimes I just cant get into it and then again I build up some steam and get going on it, I did a lot of work that just wasn't "Blog" worthy but the headlights are something i have been avoiding doing, its a very intricate area on the Beatnik Bandit, I made a stencil or guide out if some old plywood and traced it out onto the plaster, had to do some shaving and got things in about the right area, then I made guide lines and used a sheet rock saw to cut the headlight holes in the plaster, a set of four old plastic Folgers coffee cans were cut down and stuck in the holes so i would have a circle lip to guide the plaster so i can get the body line just so, it looks kind of like a 1960 buick la saber headlight bezel on the real car. its gonna be a lot of work but thats how it goes when you take on a project like this, Get Out In The Garage And Build Something! -FRITZ-

Slot Mods (online) Magazine

Slot Mods is an online magazine for slot car racing guys, you remember the 60's & 70's racing those 1/25th scale hot rods on those big ass race tracks! I do! I did an interview with them and here is the link for those that might be interested. Get out in the garage and build something, Yes even slot cars!!!!!! -FRITZ http://slotcarmods.com/spring2017.html

Remembering "Ed Big Daddy" Roth 1932-2001

On this Day the back yard builder and do it yourself engineer lost their greatest influence. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. "Once a Fink always a Fink" today of all days is the best day to get out in the garage and build something, Make the Old Rat Proud!!! -FRITZ

Happy Birthday Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

Detroit Autorama 2017

Been on the road for two weeks straight, First we did the Kansas City world of wheels show, but thats right in my back yard so i don't count it as an "away trip" but the following week was the Darryl Starbird show in Tulsa Oaklahoma then home for a few hours to do laundry and go on to the Detroit Autorama. I haven't been to Detroit for about 5 years, not since my friend JR passed away , he use to own the show and i must say that the new people are not car people and just care about the buck, its sad. I won't go into the behind the scenes BS and politics cause in the long run what does it really matter. I had the Baja Bndeeto & my panhead chopper in the show and they both won first place trophies in their class. trophies are nice but they don't pay the bills, Im not really and external validation guy. i was happier that everyone was digging the fake cactus I made for my display! the real purpose of the Detroit Autoramam trip was so I could visit with friends and paint slobbering monsters with friends in the artist ally in the basement, thats where the action is gang. now i have two weeks to get some work done and then its back on the road for that last show of the winter season for me. enjoy the pics then get out in the garage and build something -FRITZ

1926-1927 Ford Model T Coupe Body

Back In the late 80's and early 90"s I had a bunch of old cars, My Fav's were a 1932 Chevy woody wagon with IFS and a small block chevy v-8 and a chopped & Channeled 1930 Ford coupe with a flathead ford, this is way before the internet and the HAMB. Yah I was so cool i was frozen! well this little 27 Ford T coupe body just kinda fell in my lap. Long story short I traded a 1970's Harley motorcycle 4 speed transmission for it. one of the many reasons i love living in the mid west, all this neat stuff is just laying around!!!! I have no idea when I'll get to it, but its in the stable of dreams for now, Get Out In The Garage and Build Something!!!!!! FRITZ

2017 Darryl Starbird Offical car show T-Shirt!!!!! and guess who's on it gang!!!!!!

I keep good company, the Baja Bandeeto along with cars from Chip Foose & Darryl Starbird on the official Darryl Starbird custom car show t-shirt, get Yerself on down to Tulsa Oklahoma and git herself one!!! just another great reason to go to this show and have some fun!!!!!! FRITZ

Bill's Pontiac Starchief update #6

I had to go way back about 9 months to see where I left off on this, Its been to long for an update. as it is all not fresh in my mind anymore I'm going to just wing it. the rear body cross brace on Bill's car was totally rotted and shot, and 'cause of this the main trunk floor would flex from stuff being in there and got stress cracks here and there. we wanted to install a new gas tank that had a late model fuel injection pump in it and the closet one we could get was a 1957 Chevy for the 1957 Pontiac. so my bright idea was to replace the center of the trunk floor with a Chevy panel so the gas tank would line up with the "notches" in the trunk floor, anyone that has done a gas tank on these vintage cars knows what Im talking about. I had to replace the rear cross brace body bushings and have a sheet metal shop bend up a top & bottom rear cross brace as my metal brake wasn't wide enough or deep enough to do the job and it was some good thick stuff and a bit hard for me to bend. from here on out I'll let the photos do the story telling I'm sure you'll get the idea. I am a lot further along then this so in the coming weeks I'll try to get everyone up to speed. Get out in the garage and build something! -FRITZ

New Orleans Wild Wheels Car Show 2017

The "BAJA BANDEETO" will be at the New Orleans Wild Wheels Car show in New Orleans Louisiana super dome this March 17-18-19th

Detroit Auto-Rama Detroit MI 2017

The "BAJA BANDEETO" will be at the Detroit Auto-Rama show in Detroit Michigan this February 24-25-26th look for it in Feature car row!

Darryl Starbird custom car show Tulsa OK, 2017

The "BAJA BANDEETO" will be at the Darryl Starbird Custom Car show in Tulsa Oklahoma this February 17-18-19th

Beatnik Bandit Update!!!

So as many of you know my friend "Zim" and I have what we call "Fun with Fritz Fridays" where we work on the bandit and get BBQ for lunch! this past Friday was no different, after looking over photos I took of the real car and measurements I took off the real car and comparing them to my clone we decided that some plaster needed to come off the top of the rear body. I actually used an old axe to shave off the still damp plaster that had been on there for months! I also put some sheet rock screws along the wood ring i made for the tail light panel to help hold the plaster in place as last time I put plaster on the plywood ring it didn't hold so good and was on the garage floor the next morning. all in all on this last day of the year I think the ass end is shaping up quite nicely. it pays to do squares i guess ;) make the new years resolution to spent more time in the garage being creative and less time on face book, your phone and in front of the TV, brig the kids in the garage and build a go-kart or a hoped up valve cover for the car show valve cover races, just "Get out in the garage and build something" _FRITZ

Model A Ford Madness!!!!

SO for anyone out there that may have my "How to chop a Model A Ford at home" DVD this is the same coupe from that DVD. Its back for me to do some more work on, I've been doing sub rails and what not but I will do a post on the rear quarter panel pocket patches you can get at most every restoration place in the USA. From what I have been hearing from guys is that they all Suck, they don't fit worth a Snot, my pics below are photo proof. I could tell right away that this patch would end up about 1/4 of an inch off, I cut it into pieces and worked each one to fit as I went along, on the first patch I used a flat chisel to move a body line over about 1/8th of an inch, got the first one welded in and then the next piece was just a matter of trimming it till the body line met up, the last piece is the proof in the pudding, Yup about 1/4 of an inch just shy of doing its job. instead of trying to weld a tiny piece of steel in there I grabbed a small piece of sheet steel and bead rolled my own body line and will make a tiny patch of my own. what have you guys been doing, Id love to hear from you SPRITZBYFRITZ@AOL.COM now get out in the garage and build something! --FRITZ

Biggest Sale of the Year!

Check out the Spritz By Fritz Store and get something for everyone on your list.

2016 Hot Rod Holiday Custom Car Show Springfield Missouri

OK things have changed I was just gonna go drink a root beer and eat a hot dog while taking pics and looking at cars but I will have a booth (no show cars or bikes) and I'll be painting slobbering monsters and pins tripping stuff so stop on by and say HELLO!

Beatnik Bandit clone project update, Brining up the rear!

I had the back of the Beatnik Bandit clone project all plastered up and was doing most of my work on other areas of the car but came to a point where I needed to get the tail light area or rear end of the car shaped out. I ended up braking away all the plaster and spit wads I had set up off the body to start over again but with a better idea. Some old archived photos of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth building the real bandit came out of hiding and were posted online, I think it was the Hot Rod magazine website. but anyone thats a RatFink fan was posting them all over the internet and Facebook etc. I pulled them offline and printed them out, there is a wealth of information hidden in old photos like this. I was trying to make a solid wall of plaster & spit wads and after seeing the photos how Ed did it I changed my plan of attack!!! ED just had the rear tail light area kind of "framed out" so to do this in our day and age after the real car being built i went to the Revell model kit and took the tail light panel off the parts spar, put it on the old overhead projector and adjusted the image into the known perimeters and just traced it out onto a piece of 3/4 inch ply wood to make a frame, I'll figure out how to get it "hanging" on the car so i can build the plaster up around it later in life. but right now we are on track and moving in a positive direction! Get out in the garage and build something!!!!!!! --FRITZ

Dad's chopper gas tank, making something from junk.

OK, so as I have said while at the recycling yard one day selling my scrap steel I found this dented up sportster gas tank sitting on a pile of junk, so i tossed it in the back of my truck, Ya know, it might come in handy one day. I cut the bottom out of it and split it down the middle. I wanted to narrow it up a bit to go with the flow of the bike. After i got the two sides tack welded together I made up a new tunnel out of #16 gauge steel. I bent it around a piece of pipe fit it into the tank cavity and marked it off with a sharpie then cut it to size. I had a pro works bung & cap on hand so I'm using them, I made up a vent tube out of a piece of brake line I had laying around the garage. this is a s far as I have gotten. Im doing this in my spare time between Bill's Pontiac and a model A ford I took in this winter. what are you guys doing? get out in the garage and build something!!!!! FRITZ