Hello All
After being a member and constantly checking out the site for the last 4 years I feel now it is my time to contribute.
I have been involved in Drag Racing my whole life and in early 2007 I came to conclusion that sometimes you just need to getaway ( hence the name Project Getaway ). So what does a car guy do to getaway, build a car. But this time it was not going to be a drag car. I have always loved the low profile corner burner look so when I started to think about what style of car I wanted to build a Pro Touring car became a easy pick. The next part was now what body style. Since I already had a 69 & 79 Camaro Drag Car I wanted to go a little bit of a different route but I just couldn't make up my mind. So I started to search the forums to get ideas on body styles and the one that stuck out the most to me were the early body Nova's. Now that I knew the theme and body style I wanted I had to now find the car I wanted and lucky me I knew where it was. Now my issue was to get my boss to sell me it. Well after a little bit of begging and promising to build it right he sold it to me.
The car was a 66 Nova that had a straight 6 and a glide in it but it was as clean as you could get. It was put in airport hanger in 1995 and wasn't pulled out until 2007. Under the 1/4 inch of dust on it I knew the car still had most of the original paint but was not sure on how the body held up. Once we got it out and cleaned up we saw that the body had almost no rust at all on it and no body work what so ever was ever done to it. The next step was to get the car over to my good friend Bob Carroll that owns Carroll's Rod and Race. We got together made a game plan and got the car into his shop. Now that I had the car, a plan and the shop next was to start stripping it apart to get it ready for a second chance at life as one bad ass Pro Touring car.
Once we started the planing process I had the idea of trying to get some media coverage for the build. So I contacted my friend Jim Campisano of Super Chevy Magazine pitched him the idea and my plan and I was lucky enough that Super Chevy was going to pick up and follow the build process. The final step was the name and since the theme of the project was to be able to use the car to getaway from drag racing so the Project Getaway was a perfect match for it. My first issue was May 2008 and the building process began.
Lead Story -
http://www.superchevy.com/technical/...ild/index.html
Since then it has appeared in 11 issues to date. When I started the build I had a 2 year plan for it to be completed and as we all know sometimes it takes a lot longer to complete a then we think. This May will mark 3 years in the build process and since we are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel I felt now is the time to hit the Internet to show the build process. In the next few months I will get everyone up to speed on the past and update the forum as much as I can without getting ahead of the Super Chevy stories that will be coming out in the next few months. Our target date at this point is to hopefully have it at SEMA 2011. I want to thank whoever took the time to read through all the BS I just wrote and now enjoy the build process of Project Getaway.
Project Getaway wouldn't be possible without the support of all the following :
Carroll's Rod & Race -
http://www.rodandracecraft.com/
Chris Alston's Chassisworks -
http://www.cachassisworks.com/
Turn Key Engine Supply -
http://www.turnkeyenginesupply.com/
Burns Stainless -
http://www.burnsstainless.com/
Strange Engineering -
http://www.strangeengineering.net/
Summit Racing -
http://www.summitracing.com/
Fesler Built -
http://www.feslerbuilt.com/
TCI Transmissions -
http://www.tciauto.com/
Aeromotive -
http://aeromotiveinc.com/
Wilwood Engineering -
http://www.wilwood.com/
Nitto Tires -
http://www.nittotire.com/index.html
Intro Wheels -
http://www.introwheels.com/
Vintage Air -
http://www.vintageair.com/
Painless Performance -
http://www.painlessperformance.com/
Ground Up Restoration Parts -
http://www.ss396.com/
Kenne Bell -
http://www.kennebell.net/
Dart Heads -
http://www.dartheads.com/
ARP Bolts -
http://www.arp-bolts.com/
Lunati -
http://www.lunatipower.com/
Moroso -
http://www.moroso.com/
Westech Performance Group -
http://www.westechperformance.com/
Anyone that may be interested in becoming involved in Project Getaway please contact me through my email:
[email protected]
Thanks Eddie
Here is the first set and I will post more in the next few days.