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Prodigy Customs presnts "BACK IN BLACK"

Congratulations to our member WBlanton (Will and Shanna Blanton). This bad boy is in the trailer and on its way back home to North Carolina. No one deserves this more then you. As with most Prodigy Customs projects, this car has a story. It is a story that starts quite sad but ends very happy tomorrow morning.
So, Will was building his father a car as a surprise birthday present (a 66 Chevelle we also re did a few months back). While Will and his wife Shanna were having dads car built, Shanna decided, on the sly about halfway through dads build, to contract with the same guy building dads car to build Will a Camaro . A Pro Touring 69 Camaro convertible. Now before someone starts thinking these are really rich people, so what. I have to tell you I think they do OK, but I can tell you this was a HUGE thing for Will and Shanna with dads car, and for Shanna with Wills car. WAAAYYYY outside of their normal boundaries.
Unfortunately what was supposed to be a dream, a life long memory, turned into a life long nightmare memory! It is a long story, but the shop built the two cars, but both cars turned out horrendous! Some of the work was not only ugly to look at, but down right frightening dangerous. A few things were done (or undone) that could literally have caused death and / or fire. I will post some before shots later in the thread.
Anyway. Will contacted Prodigy Customs to fix both cars. We handled dads car first as it needed a little less time and $$$$ then the Camaro. It seemed the other shop was way over their head building the high end super modified Camaro, more over their head then the mild retro modded Chevelle. We finished the Camaro this week side by side with MotiV8tr. We tried to use as much of the car as we could as Will financially built this 1 ½ times! So we did not throw it all away, and saved what we could.
We were going for a classy Pro Touring theme, something comfortable at the Country Club, but something with some balls also. Will let Shanna and I work with Ben Hermance on the rendering an styling. I think we nailed it.
So about the car. It is a LS6 / T56 (made 360 to the tires on Norris dyno), We put in a Prodigy Bar and Prodigy / Moser 12 bolt, Wilwood 12.2” brakes, it has a Fatman subframe the first shop put in.
On the exterior after a total bare metal strip, cutting some panels off and realigning them, welding and grinding gaps, welding up holes with bondo dripping through and re metal finishing, we painted the car Magic Black with a very faint gold metallic in it. We used a Champagne color for the stripe and color match the Forgeline ZX3P centers, 18 X 8 and 19 X 9.5 with 245 / 40 / 18 and 275 / 35 / 19 BFG TA KDW2 rubber. We added a RS grill and striped and smooth the front bumper to paint it body color.
On the interior we tried to save as much of the tan as we could, but deiced to add some black Ultra Swede here and there along with two tone the dash. My man William at One Off Ride handled the trick center console, trunk, seat inserts> William also covered the Prodigy Customs Door panels (As in Project EmptyNest). William also handled the install of the Pioneer AVIC 2 Navigation system with a couple thousand watts pumpin through JBL and JL Audio speakers. The thing is a rolling concert.
The car is simply gorgeous. It is not a street fighter, it is not a street rod (anymore), I guess it is Pro Touring! I love it.

Thanks so much Will and Shanna for trusting us with both your projects. I hope we turned your nightmares back into dreams.
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you have got to be kiding!

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once it jumped up on the striker it was a little better!

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I have got to stop drinking!

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is it me or is that dash 4 colors?

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OK, I am not even going to joke about this, That is a live wire, NOT fused even.

Looks very nice Frank, very classy!! :thumbsup:

The before shots....not so much!

Very nice looking car.....color combo is awesome

frank
great looking camaro you guys put together..
very classy color combo...owners should be proud to drive that car anywhere.

radrambler

Another great job by Frank and the crew :thumbsup: !

damn frank!!! that car is sweet what part of nc??????

Very nice!!! I'm sure he happy with the finished product now!! How about some motor shots? Great job Prodigy :thumbsup:

Brent

The car is in Fayetteville.

Here is da mota

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fayetnam damn only like hour and half away maybe i can check it out sometime i would love to see your work up close frank. thanks again for the pictures brandon

Frank, the car turned out great. Did you do all the interior as well. I think there your door panels but I'm not sure about the rest. What did you end up using for seats? The center console is perfect.

Frank
That is one of the most beautiful 69 Verts I have seen. Great job as always.

Tonny

Classy Pro Touring!!!

I think you nailed "Classy Pro Touring"!!! Great job as always Frank!:thumbsup:

Great car...super clean and just right. Sounds like it couldn't have been for nicer people. Glad to hear their dream car came to fruition.

I have a question. You tightened up the gaps on the doors quite a bit. I love the look, but what about body flex? These cars aren't exactly stiff, and there is a LOT of flex in the body. Any chance a set of railroad tracks will cause a door to kiss a 1/4 or a fender?

By the way, that car looks DAMNED good! :thumbsup:

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

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Originally Posted by OLDFLM (Post 174747)

I think you nailed "Classy Pro Touring"!!! Great job as always Frank!:thumbsup:

I agree!!
Looks great.:thumbsup:
GOOD JOB PRODIGY.:cheers:

Awesome re-build. Can't quite get over that deck lid gap on the before pic...wow!

Car looks awesome Frank! Nice work! :thumbsup: