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Old 01-06-2009, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by ProTouring442 View Post
Well, I am home sick and bored and so I started building a few cars in my heads. Please feel free to comment or build along!

1) This one hit me while flipping through a new book I received for Christmas, "The Complete Book of Corvette." Take a beat up '82 Collector's Edition (has an opening hatch) and put the front end from a '68-'72. Glass in the back end of the same, but keep the opening hatch from the '82. Add a set of nice seats for the interior, plus the usual compliment of gauges, and hit up Vette Brakes to rework the suspension. A nice LS engine and a 6-speed to round it all out.

2) '78-'80 Cutlass with T-Tops. OAI hood and lower it a bit. Nothing too fancy, but a nice LS and 6-speed will do the trick. I'm thinking of a nice Hurst style white and gold paint job and a set of the big SSIII billet wheels.

3) This one's a bit weird, but keep with me. A Ford Granada 4-door. Smooth it out and narrow the bumpers. Paint all of the trim a nice dark semi-gloss charcoal and do the body up in silver. A Chevy DOHC inline-6 with either a 5 or 6-speed and an IRS from a T-bird. The interior should get a nice compliment of gauges, lots of leather, and a moon-roof from a late model. Now there's a daily driver I can live with! If the Chevy 6 ticks off the Ford guys, maybe an SHO 6 would do the trick?

4) Here's an easy one. Take an '84 to 9? 'Vette (though I prefer the earlier, more square bumpers) and slam a nice LS in it. Upgrade the interior and get rid of the Star Wars inspired dash. With the price of early C-4 'vettes, this one should be cheap too!

Well, I've sneezed one too many times on the keyboard, so I need to stop typing before I electrocute myself. Happy new year!

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Bill
I like #2.
Remember those HURST/OLDS models they came out with? I forget what year/s.
Those would look KILLER with a nice cowl hood, given a LS6 and some nice lowering suspension parts as well as some Fiske wheels/ wilwood brake upgrades.
I can picture it now,.....
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