Making some Progress
 

Hope to have it roadworthy again soon!

Great color!

Here's another pic showing the color. It actually look darker in person.

Looks great and I love the color!

Looks GOOD!

Man !!! thant color is HOT!!! I love it. I like seeing guys going the un-beaten path. Keep it coming!!!

What are the wheels??? I am looking at the torq thrust "M" series. Look better than the regular ones.

Thanks! They are 17" x 8" front and 17" x 10" rear Boyd Junkyard Dawgs. I bought them direct from Chris Coddington a number of years ago. I may be selling the rears and going to 18s if you are interested. I think they look a little more wild than the Torq Thrust. American Racing recently bought the Junkyard Dawg design from Coddington.

They wear 285/40x17 in the rear and are 26" tall.

Still need to decide if the stripe will start at the bumper as shown in the rendering or to fade it into the area between the scoops. Also if the wheels will stay as is or maybe to paint the centers to match the stripe and the grills???

Curt, I think everything looks sweet. But I would change the boot to white, top is ok black but the boot should match the interior., Just my .02

I love the "Pro touring" look, Everything I do (little by little) will give a Pro touring look. The stance and wheels are next future plans.

Great job. Love the color too. What color is that, btw?

I also cast my vote for the white top.

There will be that eggshell finish, black or dark dark gray stripe (trimed with a thin metallic silver transition stripe) on the deck lid to match the hood. A white top or boot would probably clash with this.

I like black interiors but with the Florida sun the parchment just seemed to make more sense.

It's a custom color. We did 5 sprayouts and ended up combining two colors. Then I decided to go from tri-stage to a basecoat clearcoat so touchups would not be such a bitch. The regional PPG expert took our tristage custom sample and formulated a two stage to match it. He came really close. It lost some of the depth from the tri-stage but I was concerned that the tri-stage might look a little too "bass-boaty" because it was actually on the edge of being too metallic.

One color we started with was Lexus Noble Spinal Metallic however in the shade it took on a brownish tone. Other burgandys seemed to take on a purplish tone or even orange. With this one it retains its red in most all lighting.

Looking good! :)

HI, There are some colours that sticks out,and in the Red sektion you hit the JACKPOT. Congrats its Beatiful.:Peace::usflag:. Svante 400. PS MERRY CHRISTMAS, snow is finally arrived.

That color is beautiful!
Now the fun begins... assembling it!

Jon

Great to see it coming along!

"Normally" I would agree with the boot colour matching the interior. But you car will be far from normal! Looking at the car in the concept pic he did for you, the black boot looks right. If the colour can be kept similar to the dash and hood stripe, I think it will tie it together nicely.

It would be better to fill the rear wheel well a little more, maybe 18's will do it. What about keeping the 17's and dropping the rear a little more instead? I would hold onto the rims until she's closer to completion.

Very nice.

Colour is WOW nice choice!!!
i also have a black boot on parchment ... the white boot is gets discolored and just does not look right on a brightly coloured car.
Now dont scratch the paint during assembly watch out for the back bar install thats where i chipped mine .Picture when finished please!!!!
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Curt, that is going to look hot! I agree with you, I'd keep the black boot.

Stance
 

yeah, after it gets put back together and I put a few miles on it to let it settle I'll work on dialing in the stance. I installed the Speedtech tubular upper control arms and may go with coilovers which will make the front ride height easy to adjust.

Also took some weight off the front of the car so maybe the rear will squat some more once the bumper gets reinstalled. Also thinking about moving the battery to the trunk.

one thing at a time....

i turned my battery tray around 90deg so it goes across the front.
I placed the largest battery box in and it all sits under the hood,used a 67 GTO battery holder to hold box then went stainless steel.
i have had batteries in the boot ( trunk ) before leak and move around ...well having fun with the car in a motorama the battery came loose and you can guess the rest.

new pic
 

Almost back together, you can see the Grand Prix door handle here.

DUDE!!!! my jaw just hit the ground. GREAT looking ride.

Hope you have more pics than that to share...tease!!!

Here's another
 

Thanks Dominick, here's one more.

She really needs to be lowered but I want to drive it around some to see how much the front settles.

We're working on a front air dam something like GTO Johns and a few more things.

On this pic you can see where we got rid of that flat area on the valence for the license plate. Also extended the middle part of the valence up to reduce the gap there.

Looks like I need more of this stuff
 

Hope to reinstall dash this week....Gold interior will be history too.

Sandalwood "gold edition" in the '69 pattern
 

The plan is to use a black dash, carpet and center console similar to a parchment interior but with the "comfort weave" fabric.

Two wheel options
 

295/50x15s on 15x8 Rally II repos or 285/40x17s on Junkyard dawgs. With the Boyds you can see the new Wilwood brakes.

Looks sweet Curt!

Very nice.

New Dash and wheel in
 

Still have some wiring to button up but I'm liking the look of the dash sans the woodgrain with the Formula wheel wrapped in leather. When I bought the car it had the 70' 140mph speedo. I think it will do it....

Borgeson Steering shaft with u joints
 

Here you can see the new rag joint-less steering shaft I installed today. Tomorrow I'll be working on the hydroboost lines.

Looking great Curt. Is that a repop wheel that you had wrapped in leather later or did it come that way and if so, what brand/where bought? When I bought the Rally gauges for mine, I didn't know about the 70's only having the 140 speedo. Too much of a pita to swap it out now!

Jeff

It's the Lecarra leather reproduction from Ames
 

It was $199 for the wheel only.

Almost go time!

That wheel looks awesome, wrapped in leather!

BTW, that 140 MPH speedo looks like it came out of a '69 or '70G/P as they were the only ones with that style of numbering around (smaller)...The '70-'71 GTOs 140 MPH speedo looked like this one below (off a '70 Judge)...I have one I took off a '70 GTO back in the early 80's and it was date stamped Aug 15, 1969, on the back...

Good catch Rob, I didn't realize that. If I would of known earlier I might of tried to source a more correct one before putting the dash back in.

How difficult is it to replace a speedometer with the dash in?

Nearly impossible...Ask me how I know...:D

Mt guages are almost perfect except for the 2 little screws holding the faceplate of speedo to mechanism...They are a bit rusted and stand out..previous owner never swapped them out and I don't feel like removing my dash out now as it is original and I'm afraid I may (and Murphy's law may help me out) crack it while manipulating it...so I just left it for now...:third:

Hmmm, I didn't know that difference either, I'll have to look at mine now. Either way, not correct for 69, but as noted.. I'm not taking my dash all apart to change them!