Mother nature pulled the April fools joke on us this year- waking up to 10 inches of snow this morning! I'm ready to move south! Anyway, some of you were asking to see pictures of the 1979 Pontiac Trans Am that Ben - my son and I are working on, so here goes.

These are pictures of the car when we got it home. Still on the trailer. If you go to my photo gallery, the pictures are of the complete car, not cut off like in the blog. In the next few days, I'll put more pictures in the photo gallery of the work and how it's progressed.

Until then, I hope all of this snow disappears and spring finally comes. We'll see you in a few days with more pictures in the photo gallery.

Later; Tom

Monday March 10th

My son Ben will be 16 in August, So we bought a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am - A former Georgia car to restore. So for the past week or so, we stripped it down to the tub, and stripped the paint off the fenders, hood, doors, and deck lid. We have completed the minor body work on those parts, and have them in primer. The car was really pretty rust free, with only minor dings. It is a 6.6 litre - 403 Olds motor (I'd rather it would have been a 400 Pontiac) automatic, positraction, and T-Tops. It's going to be a nice ride for him. I have until August 4th to get it done for him, so I'll have to hustle. The motor seems to run fine and has good - even compression so I will wait on rebuilding that for now. We're waiting now for UPS to deliver the hood bird and graphics, then I'm going to paint the base coat, put the bird on the hood, then clear coat the hood once the bird is on. It should help keep the decal from fading or from getting scratched.

So, what have you been doing in your spare time?