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my 1980 pontiac trans am resto.

Old 05-25-2009, 10:47 PM
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well guys we've had this car since 1980 brand new off the show room floor it belonged to my dad and he passed it onto me when i turned 13 and ive had it ever since it was my DD pretty much all threw high school....it has been parked at my house for about 5 years already ever since i bought my ws6 but now its time to give sum TLC again . our plans with this car is to paint it back to its original color which is JET black with the gold bird on the hood....seats are in almost perfect condition they are white leather but it is a bitch to keep em real clean so we may end up reholpuster them again maybe a 2 tone color or all black.....as for wheels we are going to be going with the 17x10 deep dish gold snowflake wheels out back and 17x8 up front.....as for the motor we will be droppin in a 6.0L lsx that will be done within the next couple of months by J&D MOTORSPORTS

ILL HAVE SUM PICS UP AS SOON AS THEY FINISH UPLOADING

heres a pic of it back in 95 we took 1st place in a houston carshow outa like 300 cars




this is what its looking like now









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those pics where from this past friday got sum more work done today...............well got couple more pics car is basically stripped down completly now....trailered it over to JD motorsports today motor will be out tomorrow still waiting on sum parts for the 6.0 ls2 we are dropping in so it will go back to the body shop to finish up the sanding and body work on the rest of the car












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Man I can not wait to see how she looks when shes done.
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Thats exactly what I wish I could do, awesome you guys have kept that car all along, only do the best of the best on it! Goodluck with it..i'm sure it'll look great
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Originally Posted by TripleWhite96
Thats exactly what I wish I could do, awesome you guys have kept that car all along, only do the best of the best on it! Goodluck with it..i'm sure it'll look great
thanx bro
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well sorry i havnt kept up with this thread and posting pictures of progress but here are the pictures car is almost done

let me know what you all think




















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looks awesome
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i wanna see more

that black looks like its a mile deep!
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I think you will be very pleased with the results.
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Wow can you paint my 81 when you are done:


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A yellow bird on the hood is on the way I assume?
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isn't that hood a 79-81 formula non turbo hood? why didn't you go back to the stocker shaker hood if you are going to put a bird on it?
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looks slick. congrats
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paint job is done will start putting everything back together tomorrow motor is almost done as well it was going to be a 6.0 but decided to drop in just an ls1 5.7 with a 60mm turbo, te ls2 wil go into my next project (87trans am)


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