Prodigy Customs presnts "BACK IN BLACK" - Lateral-g Forums

ProdigyCustoms · #1 11-01-2008, 03:23 PM

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.