:woot: Damn near party time!! :woot:

BTW, I noticed the grill, ect was installed! It's nice when you get what you ask for! :D :thumbsup:

Looks and sounds great Matt.

:woot: :woot: Congrats :cheers:

Glad to see it's back together!

Sounds great Matt!

Is that the shop beater in the background? Loaner car maybe? :lol:

G.

Shop beater?? No way. I'm pretty sure a shop beater has to run :rofl:

Matt

We had another productive day at the shop. The car is pretty much together now minus several pieces, so tomorrow will mostly be dedicated to detailing the hell out of it. Before I left the shop tonight Dick told me that he expected pictures online by the time he got home.


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With a 461 LS engine, which now runs, under the hood of Penny, I'm pretty sure Steve isn't eying anything under the hood, but rather wondering what that hood would look like in Prowler Orange (I think that's the color, no?)
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Matt

Looks great Matt!

Dick really should be proud of what his shop has accomplished in such a short time!

Car looks great! Did you add more or a different flake to the paint? BOS always has some really shiny paint. :thumbsup:

Car looks great. Very impressive how quick BOS got it done.

Well done Gents!

Should I be concerned about what is taking place in the background of that first pic? Looks awesome Matt!

Bad ass car. Looks great Matt.:thumbsup: :cheers:
I'm digging that hood for sure.

Looks great! Does the car not have to be at SEMA till Monday?

Yeeeeeehaaaaaa!!! Great work guys!!! Can't wait to see you and the car at SEMA!!! What a great accomplishment!!! Best of Show --hats off man---amazing job.

Doug

Amazing work at that shop! looks killer- good luck Matt

Rich

Very Nice!!!! Can't wait to see it @ SEMA this week :thumbsup:

Great job on the rebuild, I will see it at vegas

The car looks awesome, the paint looks like glass.

Turns out that we're not only crazy and stupid, but apparently fairly good at both of those things.

First the stupid:

It was posted a while back, but it needs to be seen again. Here we have D!ck installing a subframe using a lift an engine hoist, and jackstands, all at the same time.
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Figure 2: again we can't seem to grasp the concept of the lift. Apparently I haven't figured out what creepers are for either
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Figure 3: while an explanation is probably necessary, there is no remotely logical explanation of what is taking place here. Perhaps Jon rolled over onto the floor so that he could complain (which makes him happy).
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Figure 4: Given the timeframe for the scope of this rebuild, it seemed only natural that we do our best to emulate the manner in which people dealing with big projects work. Here we've taken some pointers from Caltrans and the lovely state of California. While there are only two of us who are "supervising" pictured, there is likely one more person standing out of view, one who had to take the photo, and at least one person off in the corner fiddling around with something like a steering column (Gregg, aka Gandalf).
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Now for some proof of craziness. All of this happened in a month. Tonight the car is strapped down in its trailer and ready to hit the road tomorrow morning. It runs, it drives, and it's more complete than its ever been. There are a couple little things to fix, but with these types of cars there is always something to fix or do. I can't thank the guys enough. They did an incredible job. This year there was no all nighter like last year. We weren't up until 5am, a mere 6 hours from the time we were supposed to check in at SEMA. This year the latest D!ck left the shop was around 8pm. It only happened once, and it happened several days ago. I'm amazed at what the crew accomplished, but above all else, I'm amazed by how they accomplished this rebuild. Everyone went above and beyond what a customer could ever ask for. Nothing is a better indication of this than the fact that I was the last person to hear about our little 2010 SEMA thrash.

So, we had so much free time today I had a chance to make a stand for our new sign that Mike Casti was kind enough to create. You would be amazed what can be created with little bit of scrounging around the old parts pile, some scrap metal, and a little planning. Looks ok I think. I think it might even put all of those people with crying dolls and drive in window trays to shame.
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Here she is,
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Hope to see you guys out in Vegas,

Matt

Love the stand. :thumbsup:

Yeah, nice car and thrash too. Haha. BOS is an amazing shop. :woot:

Congratulation's Matt and BOS crew, you did an excelent job in a short amount of time. You made an already awesome car even better. I got to see the car last January in person and got a tour of BOS I was very impressed with all the cars I saw while I was there.

Matt.... Stay away from those Saturns!!!:lateral:

Makes me proud just to say I visited there once! :rofl:
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Great job guys! The car looks great and what a short rebuild time! Just amazing! Well deserved SEMA entry! See ya tomorrow!! :woot:

Congrats on getting it done in time. looks great, looking forward to seeing it tommorow!

Congrats on the car. It looks awesome!
I like the car sign as well. Have fun in Vegas!:thumbsup: :cheers:

Congrats Matt on getting it back together and done for Sema. Looks great and really like all the changes. :thumbsup:

Matt, Looks even better the 2nd time around.:thumbsup:

WOW!!:wow:

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We survived SEMA :) It was nice seeing everyone and putting more faces to screen names. We were parked sort of close to Mopar alley in the space between the south hall and central hall. It was kind of a difficult spot to find, but luckily the GM guys found their way over. Maybe it is because everyone involved with the project sees the car on a daily basis that the car becomes really familiar and "normal" to us, but I don't think we realized what we'd built until Wednesday night when we got a call notifying us that we'd won a GM design award. I'm still in disbelief.

I'm also pretty proud of the pro-touring crowd in general. A ton of members on here are taking home some very respectable hardware, from the Ring Brothers' Dragon build to the Anvil/Strope Mustang and Mark Stielow with the Gran Turismo award, it was a good year for our little group

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Matt

Congrats Matt. Always good to see you and the car was certainly deserving of the award!

Cheers Bro...:thumbsup:

Congrat on the GM design award. I saw you car parked out there next to Penny, that is one purple car I would love to own. BOS built you an amazing car

Congrats Matt :thumbsup: I agree about our members getting high end awards.

Matt, thats gotta make you feel good....congratulations!

Matt, she's top shelf.:cheers:

Matt, congrats to you and BOS for gittin er dun on time. It's a stunner for sure!
Good to meet you and chat as well. :lateral:

Congratulation's on the award. It looks awesome Matt.