Aaron, I just read through your entire thread. Totally awesome. (To quote one of the other replies: PIMPTASTIC!) The story of the car and the builder is very cool. Plus, it's your wives. Too cool. My wife kind of took the same path...go for a ride, drive a couple times and then "honey, when do I get my own". Now we are building a 73 Trans Am...HER CAR!

Don't change a thing on how you are approaching the build. The paint is totally badass and those flares with the wheel combo is just perfect. There has to be somebody that can "machine" a replica center and 18" outside hoop painted to be "period correct" in a wide width for the 76 custom theme. EVOD did the wheels on our TA, they are 18x12" rally II replica's that turned out great. Those flares could swallow a tire pretty quickly. I can't wait to hear it screaming around an auto-x, pipes bellowing and the sun hitting those layers of color. Based upon crazy paint trends seen at SEMA, your Vette will be mainstream again.

I just want to know what color fuzzy dice will be hanging from the mirror and if bell bottoms were found in the glove box. Subscribed.

haha, thanks Jay..I'm so glad other people are seeing what we did when the garage door opened at the previous owner's house. It's just too cool to change it. It really does need some touchup work mainly just from being in the way for 22 years on jack stands. But hey, at least the dry-rotted tires don't have flat spots lol.

Oh, I've been following your TA build. I had the pleasure of meeting Albert at the PRI show last December, great guy. Looks like the TA is going to be very nice!

About the wheels, if it does get custom wheels, I will be making them. I've not done wheels before, but I've done a few "cool" parts before :headspin:
I own a engineering, design and build company. So I have access to solid modeling(CAD), CAM, and CNC machines. I'm pretty sure I can buy two piece hoops and hopefully a forged billet for the centers that I can design and machine. The more I ponder this, the more I want to do it. I love a challenge.
There is around 15" from the frame to the outer lip in the back, so yeah, should be room for some rollers :guns:
Haven't thought about the dice, but good call and no bell bottoms were found... but the wife has to wear them with a tie dye shirt when she drives. :D

Dude. Totally. Love this. Not sure how I missed it.

Very cool, Aaron.

No I haven't started a thread yet. I'm just getting started on it. Was red big block car. Definitely keep the paint.....looks cool.
Mike

Geez where have you been? lol . I thought mods saw everything here :bitchslap:

Looking forward to another vette build here Mike.

So I mentioned taking the car to Paragon Covette for some fiberglass work, but I don't think I showed the damage beforehand. Here is a picture from inside the car in the back "trunk" area...not sure what you call that open space in a Vette lol.
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2f65485d.jpg

Here is the outside showing the #4 body mount
The red loop is a patch I circled...the red line on the right is how far it was cracked.
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ps86b70f4a.jpg
quite and ugly "fix" as you can see.
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psc031c346.jpg

I'll take some pictures of Paragons repair and post them up tomorrow. The car is at my shop in the heat as the glass work needs to dry for awhile.

Time Warp
 

Man that brings me back to the late 70's when this was the norm- only cool vette was custom amazing it survived so well for that long, I dig it man!

:beavis:

I love Ron's AMX build because its home built - diff cover. My first car movie was "Corvette Summer". So you know the glass work is awesome to me! Very interesting build. If you show some 80 year old spraying laquare (spell), then you will be my idol :thumbsup:

:thankyou:

Lol, I'll see what I can come up with for a picture!

Been out since Tuesday night with some wicked flu-like crud, but I did get a few pics of the repaired body mount.http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psvf2uveng.jpghttp://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psk0fup5pa.jpg