ch@0s

Great job! It's hard to understand how time consuming that can be. I have done it before on less complicated wheels. Great Job!

poor boy

Totally ! Amazing to read. Great work Mike and Christian!

uptown193

So is it done???

poor boy

I don't know for sure, but I think the project is finished.

uptown193

No pics....

CorvetteMike2024

My son is just weeks away from graduating HS and starting school at BYU 10 days after he graduates. So the car will be waiting for him while he's gone to school. We he gets back, we will finish it up.

Corvette Mike

jim dodd

it makes me miss my dad . we did the same thing to 58 chev back in the late 60s off frame restore he is gone now and treasuse the memorys and would give my vette and right arm to spend 5 minutes with him again thanks for the flash back its something your son will never forget just as i havnt. god bless you both .

ch@0s

Amen!!

CorvetteMike2024

My son Christian is now enrolled at Brigham Young University in Provo Utah. His car is sleeping with a blanket on it to keep it warm until he returns.

Christian, You rock ! Love you Dad

ch@0s

j-vette

leadfoot4

I've always loved those wheels! I had a '77 Trans-Am for many years, bought it new in the fall of '76. Unfortunately for me, those wheels weren't offered until the '78 models. Later on, I tried to find a set for my car, but there were pretty rare on the used market.

superstreet

Good luck to him!!

~Josh

I've got a 1 year old son, and I've been saying this for nearly a decade... I said that someday I'd get a beater for my son/daughter (if I had one) when s/he's a few years from driving and we'd rebuild it together.

I've had 2 Trans Ams in the past ('94 & '02 'Hawk) both black... and I knew that the ticket someday would be an old Bandit style Poncho.

Con-grats!!!!

KLLRVET

updates?

mazdaverx7

hay Mike, just wondering if you had any updates to share?

Galveston3

while the pictures seem to be gone now, what an awesome project to do with your son. I bought a new 79 TA back in 79 (gold) and wish like heck I kept it..... but then again, I have 3 daughters who probably wouldn't even help me wash it if I still had it! congrats

leadfoot4

This thread is 4 years old, and has been "napping" for quite some time.......

wu6fiend

I enjoyed this thread, but its unfortunate it just "stopped" without a conclusion (IIRC, the car was just out of paint, with no interior when his son left for school). And it looks like the OP is not active on the forum anymore (his last post was in 2013, from what I can see). I wonder what happened to him?

leadfoot4

It's kind of funny, how people will be deep into a discussion website, such as here at the CF, and then suddenly quit posting. For a number of years, I was a member of the Lincoln LS Owners Club, which was a web based deal. I was there for almost 9 years, until I sold the car, which was why I dropped out of that group. But at that time, I at least "signed off", explaining why I was leaving.

There were 2 other Lincoln LS enthusiasts who were also Corvette enthusiasts, and who also were also frequent visitors here at CF. One day, the one member suddenly stopped visiting both websites, never to be heard from again....