[navyflyer72]

Thanks, I think with the way things have been going in the past month the project is going very well. We should have some pictures to look at very shortly. Here is the approximate state that my '67 is in, although it is at Prodigy right now having a bunch of mods being done (mini-tubs, DS&E subframe connectors and DS&E front subframe).

The '67 will be radically different from this when this project, but this is the current starting point, I'll post up pictures of the "original starting point" from back in 2001, which was pretty rough shape on the build page (I'd post them here, but I odn't have them on this computer).

It started as a Black on Black 327/210 Saginaw 4 speed, California Black plate car. It ran, but barely. My wife and I drove it from Cleveland, OH to Jacksonville, FL with a stop in Kentucky for the Florida-Kentucky game. Almost made it too, about 10 miles from home the distributor gave out, a new cap and we got her home.

I had considered a stock rebuild, but then I saw Mark Steilow's "The Mule" build when thumbing through Popular Hot Rodding in the local Barnes and Noble and I was immediately bitten by the Pro-Touring bug. So the Camaro was stripped., here I am 10 years later and I have managed to put about 600 miles on the car, before sending her off in a car hauler with one of the Pro-Touring God Fathers, Frank Serafine at Prodigy. That was in 2008, just as I was leaving for my last Afghanistan deployment. I was hit by a financial stall (which basically means my wife realized what I had signed on to do and said you'd better find a way to get that in cash! So the project stalled right when it was ready to take off. So then here I am at the end of 2010 and I have cash money saved up to finish the project, and I am called up by the Navy and they say, guess what, time to deploy again. This time for a year. And so off I went.

As you saw in the intro post, I was called back to the US for my brothers funeral at the end of June and I returned to Afghanistan in the middle of July.
While home though, I called Frank and explained that I was ready to move forward again and that there was a project in the works. When I come home in November for my R&R leave I'll be in Florida and will visit Frank at Prodigy (his new bigger facility) to go over the new direction with Frank, thankfully what we had lined up and what has been done already flows nicely with the new direction also. So it is not a huge departure from the base that we have put together.

Hope you all like the project and I will get the build website linked here as soon as we launch it.

Regards,
George Hartwell