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Old Apr 11, 2010 | 12:28 AM
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I had the HONOR to help a good friend of mine take delivery of his new Factory Five GTM today. I'm so ready to tear into this thing. Car came with an 02 vette donor car that he will be parting out very soon so keep an eye on the classified boards if you need something. This thing is awesome and I will post as many pics of the build as I can supply. The last pic is us saying goodbye to his Shelby

#1 GTM and Vette arrive


#2 The boxes lol

#3 The Donor

#4 The GTM in pieces


#5 The Manual!

#6 Saying goodbye to the Shelby
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Old Apr 11, 2010 | 10:44 AM
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Forgot to post the most important part lol
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Old Apr 11, 2010 | 11:34 AM
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This is my kind of build. I wish I can come and join you guys. I love kit cars! keep us posted on the pics.
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Old Apr 17, 2010 | 05:14 PM
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John whats up. Nice job, thanks for all the kind words. I thank you again for coming over today and help with pulling and cleaning the motor from the vette. Kris
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Old Apr 17, 2010 | 08:36 PM
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Man I had a great time and am looking forward to many more Saturdays. Here some of what we did today....



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Old Apr 17, 2010 | 08:46 PM
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Awesome! We have one of those in the plans- subscribing!
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Old Apr 18, 2010 | 12:12 PM
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So did the donor car come from Factory 5 too? That's a pretty cool deal if it did.

Nice Cobra by the way!
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Old Apr 18, 2010 | 01:43 PM
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Its a damn shame I live about 5 miles from factory five and have never been there but my neighbor has a cobra which I've had a ride in a few times
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Old Apr 18, 2010 | 06:46 PM
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I built the cobra about 3 years ago. It was a vortech supercharged 5.0 with 420rwhp. If was a blast to drive as it weighed 2250lbs. Here is a couple pic's of it.









The gtm kit with ac and options was right at $23,000. The vette was purchased from a place that sells wrecked vettes. It was $6,700. I traded my cobra for both of them. The guy that had bought both the cars never got a chance to work on it. He did not even open the boxes. So he figured this way he could get a car he could drive and I got to build something else. As cool as the cobra was I enjoy the build as much as anything. Thanks, Kris

Some more pic's and a video..









after I primered and painted it



getting ready for paint.





test fitting the body, I hande made the dash from african babinga wood veneer.



Me pulling the motor for rebuilding, getting it ready for boost!!

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Those gtm cars are killer, good luck on the build
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Old May 4, 2010 | 12:35 PM
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they are very cool cars with a ton of power. If you plan on tracking this car - be prepared to tighten up the rear end - they do tend to get a little squirley.
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What's the latest on this?
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Old Jul 27, 2010 | 01:18 AM
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Nice build...keep us posted!
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Old Aug 25, 2010 | 11:10 AM
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just seen my first one the other day.very coool ride!
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