well heres the 1978 Trans Am my dad got a couple weeks ago near C-bus. Its pretty rough, but the reasons he got it was for its good interior and T tops and b/c no one has messed with it at all

heres after we got it off the trailor it sat for a bought a week


interior before we did a quick clean up


after the quick clean job


a couple before shots




after we started tearing into it, all the tear down was today btw







more updates to come!!!!!

 

holy rust

 

Interior is perfect! Its pretty typical for those cars to have back end rust like that...yearone.com will have ur sheet metal fix

 

i have one of these in the garage back home i was restoring till i left for the army now it sits lol

 

yeah dad found a good websitet to order almost everything to make it a clean rolling shell... we called it tonight on account of no wd40 left lmao.. tomorrow we are rippin the front clip off

 

nice plate, FML is exactly what I thought when I saw this car. good luck

 

ino i saw that plate and was like wow it fits perfect

 

got up around 11 today and went out to the shop with my dad and lil bro(he grinded down rust on the rear end parts)

we riped the interior out... fml... and then pulled the front clip off, and hauled it outside, then we took a lil break.. dads tryin to get a car rotisery(or however you spell it)

well heres todays pics

 

holy rust of god look at those rotors!

 

Thats gonna need a **** ton of work to get it right but once you do that I'm sure it will look awesome good luck man

 

Any idea on a powerplant? I'd go for a newer LS crate motor swap. I'd do a big turbo LS3.

 

what's the site? I have a 1979 Z28 and the two rear quarters are all rusted out...literally holes filled with bondo right now. I have searched EVERYWHERE for a two full new quarters, but I can't find anything!

 

dad wants a 400 pontiac motor... im tryin to push towards a ls1

 

Yea, tell him to LS1. Can't go wrong there.

 

National Parts Depo

 

I helped my cousin restore (sheet metal n bodywork) a 69 cougar in similar shape however the floorboards weren't toasted as bad as this one. What a **** ton of work. I can't imagine how much fuking work its going to take to button all that down.. Got any close ups of the underside frame rail? Im betting you will be patching er up. I really hope that car was free. Great project dragger tho. I would sell the interior and just build a drag car. It must smell like an old foot anyway...

 

very very jealous. i want one that exact year to restore with t-tops and auto.

 

rust bucket

 

use national parts depot or ames performance....year one can suck my dick (half their stuff fits like ****). i have a 1968 firebird that was in worse shape than ur car but damn close so have fun with the build its a big process thats for sure. And a 400 pontiac is a strong engine its what is in my car and im pushing probably low 500's in the hp range.

 

good luck.

 

its plenty do-able ill post up some pics of my resto

 

^^^^^^niiiiiiiiiice

 

Very nice, and good luck. Here is a couple pics of my baby.
80 with a 400 swap!




Good luck on yours.

 

nice birds!! and that 400 motor will hit high 400s?!?!

 

I'm not sure it only has a couple things done to it. never had it dyno'd