1978 Trans Am mild custom

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Originally Posted by waynieZ

The paint looks beautiful. Don't you love it when your hard work pays you back ten fold. Nice work.

What a feeling that is. Nice to step back and take in your accomplished efforts. Dont look too long at one spot though as you may decide to change it or modify it creating more work.


Assembled the door internals sans glass as that is coming. Going with a nice smoke tint as opposed to the stock green tint. Accomplished a bunch of little odds and ends and man do they take up time. Even more so when new parts are ‘direct fit’. Old leafs (Rancho Challenger GT III) were replaces w/ Comp leafs from Pro Touring Fbody. Not only had the old leaf’s arch increased due to the exposed heat from powder coating, they are a little ‘soft’ for the front spring rate and car’s power. The new leafs were not much more than rearching the Ranchos and have an increased spring rate. Left the shackles loose for now to allow for settling and prevent binding. Car sits a little high in the rear at the moment, but it did settle about 0.5” since they were installed. Not concerned yet. Will wait till after more items are installed and some miles are put on the new suspension.

Finished up the brakes and installed the good wheels. This car is taking shape and looking good. Have a list of odds and ends to do in the next few days. Mainly waiting to finalize interior fabric colors and finalize art work(hood bird and lettering). At that point, I can redye the interior and installed the rest of the sheet metal.