Prayers and thoughts for your grandfather.
Will be on the lookout for updates.

Thoughts and prayer heading your way Chad. Hope all is well.

Chris

Praying for you and yours brother! Stay strong for your grandpa! :thumbsup:

Are those self darkening saftey glasses?
thats alot of sparks for just a tack. My eyes hurt for 2 days when i do stuff like that.

Found one more

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c...k/IMG_6955.jpg

We should have some updates in the next week or so. Chad is back in action!

Very cool. Looks good.

Finally the long overdue update!! Its been a rough couple of months with some family medical issues, at just being swamped with everything else life can throw at you (flu, pneumonia, and now bronchitus). We finally got to concentrate 100% to this project starting last week. After roughly 10 hours with a plasma, sawzall and other assorted gadgets we got the floor cut out from the front seat mount back. We will be fabbing all new sheetmetal for the floors, trans tunnel, wheel tubs, and trunk floor. Next up came measuring, measuring, and measuring some more. The rear clip come over sized from Morrison and you cut it to fit the dimension to your liking. Once I was happy with all the measurements we then went forward with cutting off some of the front crossmember so that it would meet the measurement for inside to inside of the rockers. Before moving the clip under the car we made some 14"x 6" plates that were welded to the inner rocker structure to give something to mate the rear clip.

Once the plates were installed the clip slid under the car and right into place like it was suppossed to!! Getting all the dimensions and measurements correct is the key to this project. Once it was under the car I checked, and then double checked all the measurements again, again. Then actually decided to quit and sleep on it for night. After I was happy I proceeded to weld the front crossmember to the plates we made. The rear clip is now part of the car.

We still got some more to do before it comes off the jig table. I will be making some plates and gussets that use the rear bumper mount locations to tie into the new frame. Basically just like the factory did with the bumper to floor pieces they had installed. Once we get these plates done and welded in the car will come and go on the lift to have the front clip installed and then sit the car down on its on weight and start the sheetmetal work.

here are some pics



http://www.fletcherscustoms.com/copp...NO_FLOOR_2.JPG
http://www.fletcherscustoms.com/copp...rmal_CLIP4.jpg
http://www.fletcherscustoms.com/copp...rmal_CLIP5.jpg
http://www.fletcherscustoms.com/copp...rmal_CLIP3.jpg
http://www.fletcherscustoms.com/copp...rmal_CLIP1.jpg
http://www.fletcherscustoms.com/copp...mal_CLIP10.jpg
http://www.fletcherscustoms.com/copp...rmal_CLIP7.jpg

The latest phone pics from Chad at Fletcher's Customs. The AME frame is IN! The complete floor has pretty much been cut out now. I wouldn't recognize the car if the red steering column wasn't still in there. That will go soon enough but it is cool to see the car change around it.

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c.../IMG954003.jpg
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c.../IMG954196.jpg
[IMG]]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc231/dcamburn/1979%20Trans%20Am%20-%20Black/IMG955368.jpg[/img]
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c.../IMG958884.jpg
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c.../IMG954228.jpg

Are those motorcycle tires I'm seeing on the front?

Yes sir they sure are. I bought a set of 4 GTO spares from a GM salvage yard, and they showed up with no tires on them. Started trying to find a off the shelf tire size to fit the spares and nothing in a car tire was small enough. Started looking around at a stack of old race tires, and it hit me!!! So mounted the bike tires on the wheels, and now I have roll around wheels.