It's high time I put together one of these!
Here she is the day BEFORE I bought her- I met the owner at a gas station to check it out. As soon as I saw it drive up I knew it was meant to be.
Not the greatest, but I saw potential!
The interior was shot- the seats sagged and leaned, the seat backs were missing, the headline was shredded and the visors were absent. On the plus side, it had a really nice dash pad!
As the story progressed, I gave her a quickie clean-up and installed some new seats. I had a photo session with a buddy's '99 trans am after a wax on a nice day.
Then, as the months went by she sat in the shed as the streets were paved in salt. By the time summer came I already had a great daily driver so I considdered selling the tudor. But, I couldn't bring myself to even advertise it. So, I dinked around with it for a while on weekends, taking it out for a cruise here and there.
THEN... the real work started. I found a set of '88 LTC SS seats first, then came the 18" Bullitts, the big brake conversion I stumbled upon in the U-Pull, and the 2.5" lowering job. It's really coming together, I might say!
Figured I might as well throw in the tunes as well...
This was one of the first things I did to the car. It was done in a quick and dirty manner in a downtown Minneapolis parking garage. The car had NO stereo when I bought it and I had a bit of free time (yet not enough to make it look nice), so I slapped the system in. It looks crappy so one of these days I plan to rewire it to make it look better.
It's got a 1000w amp powering the 2 12" subs and a 400w amp on the surrounds. It ain't much, but it's better than a stock Chevy Impala sound system.
The big brake swap:
Mmmm... pile of rusty scap iron... ($74 worth!)
After swapping in the rear wheels:
Before:
Somehwere in the middle of the swap:
After:
Here she is the day BEFORE I bought her- I met the owner at a gas station to check it out. As soon as I saw it drive up I knew it was meant to be.
Not the greatest, but I saw potential!
The interior was shot- the seats sagged and leaned, the seat backs were missing, the headline was shredded and the visors were absent. On the plus side, it had a really nice dash pad!
As the story progressed, I gave her a quickie clean-up and installed some new seats. I had a photo session with a buddy's '99 trans am after a wax on a nice day.
Then, as the months went by she sat in the shed as the streets were paved in salt. By the time summer came I already had a great daily driver so I considdered selling the tudor. But, I couldn't bring myself to even advertise it. So, I dinked around with it for a while on weekends, taking it out for a cruise here and there.
THEN... the real work started. I found a set of '88 LTC SS seats first, then came the 18" Bullitts, the big brake conversion I stumbled upon in the U-Pull, and the 2.5" lowering job. It's really coming together, I might say!
Figured I might as well throw in the tunes as well...
This was one of the first things I did to the car. It was done in a quick and dirty manner in a downtown Minneapolis parking garage. The car had NO stereo when I bought it and I had a bit of free time (yet not enough to make it look nice), so I slapped the system in. It looks crappy so one of these days I plan to rewire it to make it look better.
It's got a 1000w amp powering the 2 12" subs and a 400w amp on the surrounds. It ain't much, but it's better than a stock Chevy Impala sound system.
The big brake swap:
Mmmm... pile of rusty scap iron... ($74 worth!)
After swapping in the rear wheels:
Before:
Somehwere in the middle of the swap:
After:
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