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Well I've just picked up the new 200 series, and you'll never guess where I'm taking it.
Well, I tell you what, I liked that other vehicle, that other 200 of mine, so much I
thought maybe Simon could drive that one, and maybe I'll get this silver one chopped.
So I'm just pulling into Creative Conversions. And Len from Creative Conversions is going
to chop my car in half again. And we're gonna show you what goes into chopping a car in
half. Especially a brand new 200 series.
Where do you want me to start cutting?
With that?
Yeah.
I suppose that's why they call it a conversion.
That's right.
Oh well, remember, look it's brand spanking new. There's not a mark on it. So what exactly
are you going to do to convert this thing into a ute?
Well, we're going to take all the interior out of it.
So strip all the guts out of it.
And then we're going to cut the back of it off. Weld some bits in. Extend the chassis
out. And away you go.
All right. Get to work, mate.
Now they've actually cut the entire chassis in half and taken the rear end of the truck
backwards, that way. And this is where it gets really scary for me, but these guys do
it day in day out. And this is where they put that space in. So if you have a look here,
I'll show you. I've got this little camera here.
And there it is.
My car's in two pieces. So they're actually going to stick 650 millimetres into the chassis.
650. Weld at that end. Weld it on that end. And the car, well, it becomes longer.
She's starting to take shape. Now it's all back together. So they've put all their strengthening
gutter plates in. And now they're going to start work on what goes in here. They've got
this big toolbox that goes in here, and then they can start looking at lengthening all
the wires at the back. Because remember, 650mm has gone into the chassis of this car. So
it's coming together nicely.
So what Creative Conversions do is they pre-fabricate all the parts. You can see here, I've got
all the parts here. This will be the parts for the toolbox by the look of it. They go
down in here. They get it all pre-fabricated and then they just basically put the pieces
together like a meccano set. And then weld it up. And then it's a matter of doing a bit
of body work, and then of course, they start looking at doing the final which is the top
coat. And blending that silver in.
So as you can see, behind me now, we're in the paint shop. So it means we're in the final
stages of the conversion. And this is where the real magic happens. So Paul behind me,
now this guy is good at what he does. He's real good. Because this car, when it's finished
is going to look like it came out of a Toyota factory. So his job, it's got an undercoat
there on the back, his job now is to blend that silver paint job through to the front.
And I can guarantee you won't be able to pick the difference.