After four hours of sleep I hit the road headed towards Jims place in the might F150 EcoBoost. It was a blistering 60-65 mph pace at 7.8 mpg, but after two red bulls and nearly a full can of SKOL to keep me awake, I arrived at Jims place 9.5 hours later. Jim was nice enough to back the trailer in and after looking the car over for a few we got to work. We made sure all the nuts and bolts where tight enough for the trip home, we broke the wheels out of the boxes and started bolting them on the car. I was a bit nervous every how they would look on the car due to the change from the original plan. I was pleasantly surprised once the first wheel was installed. After all four comers had rubber, we dropped the car on the ground and then....we just sat there and appreciated the view.

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Jim and I ate pizza and drank Pacifico while admiring the car and then called it a night.

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Today was a long day of cleaning and boxing parts. It just after 10pm and I've got any early morning ahead of me, so that's all for tonight. Besides...posting from my iPad is a real pain. I'll get the rest of the pictures up tomorrow.

:captain:

Ok...one more. Crazy to see the change.

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We want to sit and enjoy the view, too! Those wheels are packing some serious meat on them! We love it.

Ok Curtis...now I'm buyin you being way cooler than the rest of us.


:D

The wheels do look great Curtis,I am sure it is now worth the wait :king:

Nice :wow:

Wait..... 9.5 hours of trailer truckin' is all you got?

A few weeks ago I trailered from Albuquerque, NM to Sun Valley, ID.... non-stop.... 892 miles.... and I'm OLD! LOL


Damn the car looks great buddy! Now for stage deux.... get that bad boy running!

:Tomcat:

:lol: :cheers:

Congrats Curtis! What a great day in the life of the build :)

Every thing looks so great Have any side shots of the wheels? GA3's with brushed center?
Anyways, gotta be getting excited to drive

I got some pics from Curtis with car out in sun , lets just say that it looks awesome!
It has been a long road for him just to get to this point and with that much down time, came changes, but all for the better!

looking forward to car getting to my shop this evening and start the build on both the car and new LS7 that is one of the "changes" LOL

Congrats buddy!

Feel free to stop in for a few. I'll make sure there's a few cold beverages ready.

Nah....better looking though for sure. :lol:

It was worth the wait and I am SO very lucky to have had Jim do the work.

I've got some pictures of it outside, just for you!

I'm a rookie at this type of "long haul". It's fun and all, but I really would need a better equiped truck if I was going to do much more. Had to turn the AC off to keep the truck from over heating on the hill climbing out of Baker, CA. Stupid EcoBoost.

Thanks Brother. I am stoked to have it home and be onto the next step.

VR3 and yes, I've got one here somewhere. I'll post it.

Looking forward to the next leg of the adventure and appreciate all the support.
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The car and paint are tremendous!

Wish I could have stayed longer but it was great seeing you Curtis and meeting Jim.

:cheers:

Well.....after another blistering 9 hour drive, I am back in Vegas. The car arrived safe and is now resting in Jeffs shop. Didn't even have it half way out of the trailer and Jeffs neighbors where over and throwing out the complements Nice to hear and all the credit goes to Mr Wizard.

Dave was nice enough to make the drive down to Jims and help unload Johns car and then load mine. Really appreciated brother and it was great to see you!

Ok...so as promised, here's a few pictures of the car outside at Jims and a few more of it here in Vegas.

But first...the side shot of the wheels.

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If you haven't caught onto the fact that Jim does all this in a tiny little space at his house yet, I think there will put it in perspective.

Had to get Johns car out of the trailer fist off.

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Then we where able to roll mine out of the booth. One coming in. One going out.

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That's Mr Wizard on the Left. I believe Dave is showing him how to properly hold a drink at a fancy part or something.

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All loaded and ready for the ride home.

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Finally at Jeffs house.

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We rolled the car into Jeffs shop and of course we had to admire it for a few. I think Jeff was impressed with everything. We ran it up on the lift just to check out the bottom of the car. I'll get pictures of that later.

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Karen, Jeffs wife came out to lend a hand and then....she made me dinner! How awesome is that! Just what I needed after a long day and zero food.

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Laurie, my wife stopped by on her way to work for a quick look. She said it's alright. :lostmarbles:

And...it's all tucked in.

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That's it for now. Thanks for looking!

WOW Curtis that came out great!!! Beautiful looking car

:confused59: Yowza! Looks great Curtis, don't F it up!

Wow, looks better as a full roller in the sunlight. :D

I've seen some of the best work come from some of the smallest work spaces.

Curtis,

The car looks awesome.

Glad you made it home safe. It was nice talking to you yesterday.

Tu

wow evey one of those pictures is AWESOME!!!

Looks amazing now get to work so you can fire that bad boy up:thumbsup:

Fantastic! Glad you made it there and back safely.

:D

No kidding.

I appreciate cars built in home garages and back yards a great deal.

Tu, I enjoyed the conversation on the drive home. Hope to see you out here in Vegas before to long.

:flashie: I took a lot of them!! These are the only ones that turned out decent. :lol:

Jeff and I plan to start this weekend! :bump: Not sure exactly where, but we will get something done.

Thanks man. It was a great trip! I am stoked to see Johns car finally get some much needed attention and Jim is the perfect guy to take it on. I am also VERY EXCITED to have mine home.

Okay.....off to buy a case of blue tape. :lol:

Looks timeless my friend. I'll have to make the drive to Reno one of these days to approve of the work. :lol:

No Todd, all my buddy's say that we live in Southern Utah now! LOL

It isn't bad at all up in NW valley, away from all the crazies !

You are welcome anytime!

We are in the Centennial Hills area, near Farm & Jones (close to Aliante Casino)

Pretty sure we will be in the shop all weekend. Come on up and have a look.

The car looks gorgeous! Glad you had a safe trip.

Congrats afterall, that is a huge milestone on the build....love the brushed centers, thanx for posting. I'm trying to do that with my GZ3's. I get car back from paint late this week hopefully. Its done, polished and getting assembled....cept i already have my driveline.:action-smiley-027: (with 7 month old gas)

I'm working on moving to the city limits in Henderson so we are cut from the same cloth. :bigun2:

I should be able to run up this coming weekend....

Looking Killer!

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looks fantastic! Can I leave my car with you after SEMA and go in the booth after Johns comes out?

I really like your color choice. I'm enjoying your build, keep it up.

Daniel

:lol: That's funny. The LS7 build will start here pretty quick.

You can, though it sounds like Jim has 10 cars waiting, sooooo....it might be a few.

Thank You Daniel.

It's movin fast now #JetBoy.

:D

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10 cars in line:confused59: so much for my cross country road trip.

Packedup a good chunk of the parts I've been hording and hauled them over to Jeffs place and spent the better part of yesterday sorting through everything that came off the car. Jeff and I also started a list "To Do List" and the beginnings of our plan of attach.

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As part of the process we ran the car up on the lift to get a better look at what we need to accomplish.



Jims attention to detail is pretty impressive. I need to get a better picture of the how the frame connectors are blended into the floor and how the undercoating transitions to the firewall.



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I know...goofy videos, but I'm having fun and that's what it's really all about. :mock:

Thanks for looking. :captain:

Awesome glad it's home. Looking forward to the fianl phase of this build.

Sure looks Sweet under there, and in the back of that pickup! Very Nice!

Thanks Mike. Can't wait for you to see the car.

Thank Wayne. I need another truck load of parts to finish it. :G-Dub:

The Camaro is looking great. Color is outstanding.

Mike

Fellas, this car looks fantastic in person.

Somehow I ended up getting my hands dirty twisting some wrenches.

Thanks Mike. I nearly went crazy trying to pick the right color and then the right shade. Jim was a Saint and very understanding. He gave great feedback and was kind enough to do numerous spray outs for me.


Todd it was great to see you and thanks for the help. Appreciate your assistance in getting the ball rolling. You're welcome anytime. There are plenty of wrenches to go around.

The rear suspension is in, pinion agile is set and everything has been torqued. After that was finished Jeff and I started putting the brakes together. I've got the rear rotors bolted and torqued, but still need to lace them up with the safety wire. Haven't done that for awhile, so there's going to be a few do overs.

I am really enjoying working on the car. Jeff is more OCD out the details than I am and it's refreshing. There's no rush and I believe we are both enjoying the process. Jeffs shop setup is very user friendly! He has done a great job of putting it all together and and making it functional. In addition to being air conditioned, it's very clean. Never have to hunt for anything which is nice.

I'm headed to TX to do some hog hunting with some friendsand won't be back till Sunday, so no work on the car this weekend.

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