86 Monte Carlo SS, Year One?
 

Just a quick update. Been absoutly covered up at the shop and hardly anytime to work on our own toys. But with Year One just 11 days away, we thought we should get some color on the Monte.

So it's Sunday night, Monday morning at 2:30AM, and its still wet in the pics. Michael did a bang up job on "the driver" shooting it in all 3 stage colors. White pearl, Magnetic red, and peral black Mica.

Thanks to Carter Hickman for the great design. I think seeing it painted is just enough to get us over the hump. All it needs now is the motor / trans installed, the complete interior installed, all the stereo stuff installed. But we have 11 days and the 67 Vette to paint Weds and to get ready for the show too. Sounds like were right one schedule!

Michael says hes driving it to Year One, so lets see

More pics to follow when we get it in the sun and let it light up all that pearl

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Damn Frank, that thing is looking good! It has come a long ways since we talked about it on the phone! Can wait to see totally finished pics. You weren't lying when you said Michael did a "bang up job" on the paint.

Really nice! And something totally new for a while! What kind of wheels / tires ?

That's looking awesome, Frank. I love that generation of Monte's. :thumbsup:

What else? Forgelines! It gets Chrome ZX3Ps with 335s and 275s

Here is the rendering

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If you feel like sharing, what BS up front?
I love this car, if I had more time and money I would have done something like this to my Regal.
Jeff

Very nice, can't wait to see it when finished.

WOW! looks very nice... :thumbsup:

Very cool Frank.

Whats crappy is that I'm going to have to miss year one again. I gotta run the bussiness while my parrents are heading out for a trip. Oh well.

that looks badass. cant wait for the pics of it out in the sun.

Well, we are running a set of wheels we already had, not exactly right for the project. The fronts have spacers moving them out. I willl get you some final measurements when we get it dialed in.

Thankyou

That is SUWEEET! Frank!

My very first brand new car was a White 86 Monte SS. I liked it so much that when the odometer got to 186k (and she was still going strong and looking great!) I Traded her in on another 86, bergundy this time, with 40k, brought that one well past the century mark too.

OK, a quick update and back to work. The motor took it's first breath and runs great. Got the custom Prodigy Customs / Wilwood 13" six piston, 12.2" four piston kit bleed and looks killer as Wilwood always does. Did not have time to redo / widen the front Forgeline wheels, but they look killer anyway.

So, Michael I are finishing this one. There is no interior in it, no sound system, no front end alignment, We still need to rub it out, and it has not been driven one inch. Thursday morning at 8AM we need to drive it, along with a couple others, through fire, literally through fires in Ocala Florida, to be in Atlanta Thursday night for a photo shoot!

In the meantime, Parsons, Andrew and my brother Dave are in the other room finishing the blower tubing on the Prodigy Vette which got painted Friday night at 12:00 midnight. So right now we are rubbing it out and totally assembling it. It also has a photo shoot scheduled.

Wow, I better quit BSing and get back to work. I will post completed pics Thursday morning before we leave.
Here is a live action shot of the Monte Carlo, the Corvette pics are from Friday night.

See ya'll in Atlanta

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