Fitz,
Any pics or a build thread on the car in your profile picture?

I'm not sure the # but it's a normal tb not the ls type.

I've seen that one. One of my favorite Cuda's and one of the reasons I was glad to see what your take on a second gen 'bird was going to look like. I was talking about Fitz78TA's car in his avatar.

oops I was'nt paying attention.

I won't go into it in this thread, but I am going to start a build thread, i just need to get some pics better than cell pics. I plan on snapping some tomorrow and try to get a thread started over the weekend.

The Gold T/A in the video is her car.

Any progress?

I got it now! I might have to trade my wife in for her lol.

engine compartment
 

Well heres the almost finish product, under the hood at least. I'm running a little behind schedule!
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i.../fbengine2.jpg
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i.../fbengine1.jpg

Engine compartment is hot! What kind of paint was used for the black?

Telly look's real good.Hope thing's come togather smooth.Scott

The base is made by upol its called gravi tex then you shoot over it, I used charcoal insted of black with mat clear. Thats a little tip Mike Ring told me about.

Very nice Telly. That engine bay looks great.:thumbsup:

we made it
 

It made it so I can finally relax, I couldnt get any really good pics but heres a few.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...llyv/ta005.jpg
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...llyv/ta003.jpg
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...llyv/ta001.jpg

Looks great Telly!! Where's it going to be parked at SEMA?

It's in the parked with the rest of the cars in the ousci, I'm under the optima rig!

Sweet! See ya there! :cheers:

you we right telly, those wheels are f-ing sick!!!

Yep, she turned out really sweet. :thumbsup:

Very cool, its nice to see the later second gens getting some attention. Although they were never my favorite my first car was a 79 ta, and i still have it.

Looks great Telly! I like the hood locks.:thumbsup:

Very nice telly! :)

The car looks awesome Telly. Do you have a link to more pics? :unibrow:

Look's awesome Telly.Can't wait to see it later this year.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:Scott

Thats probably the best looking TA Ive seen lately. Looks great Telly and goodluck on the course.

Thanks everyone!! I'm really happy the way it turned out I just wish I had some time in the car. If anyone wants to me up call me and we can meet by the car. (608)547-1618

Very nice Telly. The Bandit would be proud to drive that one! LOL Good luck this weekend!

Well as many of you already know we had a little bad luck on the track, which sucks I'm sure the car would have done very well. I was running a jerico and the p.o.s. would'nt shift down into 2nd gear no matter what I did I even was using the clutch it would slam into gear and act like an emergency brake sliding the whole car out from under me, I was pretty damn lucky we were'nt at speed I'm sure the car would have been destroyed, I almost shot the rear out of the car and I was going slow so I can imagine what would've happened at full speed. So alot of people looked under the car and came to their own idea what happened but I'm 99% sure the trans was the key problem and I'm sure thats what made everything back there break.
Now my bad luck did'nt end at that, we landed last night in milwaukee around 11pm when I turned on my phone I found out that my truck was broken into where they stopped for dinner, smashing out the drivers side window and taking just about anything they could, luckily most of the stuff was locked in the trailer but they managed to get my new garmin wtf. I kinda wish they would've just stolen the whole rig so I could collect a big insurance check!
On a lighter note the car got alot of attention, we were one of the 7 cars feature leaving sema and we'll be on the cover of phr with some pretty awsome cars. And I'm sure my interview with me breaking will make tv so dont laugh I didnt know if I was going to throw up or cry! Over all it was a great time and I had a blast thanks to Jimi, Cam and everyone else at Optima they are truely a class act. Telly

Just heard the car in the video from the other thread, thing sounds badass.

wheres that?

around 1:54

Sorry if I missed it, but where did come up with the CF front end? Awesome finished car BTW! :thumbsup:

Telly, that thing is gorgeous! What a great looking car and in a short amount of time. I would probably never think of gold as a color for a project, but you killed with it with that theme and color!

Really sorry about your bad luck but I think your still a winner just having the car done. I get a lot of people looking for referrals that are out of my area and do not want to ship a car. I do not throw those referrals around losely.

You my friend are on my referral list!

Telly - so sorry about your run of bad luck. I will say, Goldmember is BAD A**! It looks great, was prob the third loudest of all the Optima cars (sounded awesome) and an overall beautiful build! I was the lucky guy driving the camera car in the parade, so here's some early eye candy...

Sorry about your bad luck Telly. Still an awesome car man. Hope you get that problem resolved. Good luck!:thumbsup: :cheers:
Glad to hear the car grabbed a lot of attention.

That car looked and sounded so badass! Def one of my top favorites amongst a lot of badass cars. :thumbsup:

yeah same for me^^^
i really felt your car was one of the baddest sounding cars there also and was so bummed that you were able to really beat on it!

Thanks guys, I know I have alot to be proud of it just stings a little. It will live to fight another day so watch out!!! Frank nice meeting you and thanks for the props!

Awesome car Telly! Car sounded wicked :thumbsup:

Wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Ok I've been dealing with all this bad **** kinda ok until know, my brother just called me due to me putting a violetto autoworks sticker on my trailer it seems you need a us dot # well who the **** new that not me this whole deal just put me past the breaking point, how much **** can one person take. In all add another $500 bucks plus to this whole ordeal. So the car is for sale as of right now!