Brad Anderson had never built a hot rod before he started building his Flat-Nasty 1938 Ford pickup but you couldn’t tell that by looking at the finished product. He nailed the traditional hot rod look and built a car that he’s used as a daily driver for months at a time. He jokes that there was a lot of trial and error involved in building such a sweet ride.  “Every single thing I built or fabricated on the truck I did about three times,” he says, laughing while he tells the story. “I’m not kidding.”

That includes the nifty rear roll pan, which initially took three days of work to build. Then disaster. “I had backed it out of my garage to fire it up and tune the engine,” says Anderson. “While I was out of the car it slipped into reverse and backed down the driveway and through my neighbour’s fence. It took another two days to fix the damage to the truck and quarter of a day to fix the fence,” says Anderson, still laughing about a situation that would bring tears to the eyes of many gearheads.

Finally in 2007 he started the project. He had the vision, passion and some mechanical skills but really no fabrication experience. No worries. When it came time to chop the top there was no research on the internet or pouring over books before plugging in the sawzall. “I figured just get out the tools and start working,” says Anderson. “I just cut it off and figured it out. It took me four days.” The top was chopped 7” in the front and 6.5” in the back and that was only the beginning of the modifications.