Project Rusty our 84t-top coupe build ...

[yeahloh95]

wow those look great

[95riosnake]

Awesome build so far. I'd love to do such a complete project someday. I've seen a couple guys on svtp with those Kumho 335's and they are HUGE, I might have missed it, but what wheels are you planning on?

[03 OW SVT]

Damn! Those tires are huge...And I thought my Nitto NT-05s 315/35/17's were big.

[AdamantiumSilvr]

...definately!!! Those look like big rig tires, lol!! That's tuff ur gonna half to change the name unfortunately when all said n done. Commin along, thats for sure!!

All I gotta say is WOW! I envy you. I wish I had the time/space/money to do a build like this. Looks great!

[trbofox]

Awesome build so far. I'd love to do such a complete project someday. I've seen a couple guys on svtp with those Kumho 335's and they are HUGE, I might have missed it, but what wheels are you planning on?

Tenth anni deep dish, in gunmetal with polished lip. Gotta send the backs out to Weld Craft to go from 10'' to 12''

[trbofox]

Feel like x-mas around here, with parts arriving daily, carpet....


Halo's...


Trunk lid..



I was able to get the paint supply to make me some vinyl single stage paint in this dark charcoal that we are going with for trim, sail panels, grill, headlight buckets, center of hood etc. Makes life alot easier than spraying color and flattened clear on all this small stuff. it looks incredible here is a pic of the sail panel

Wheels came, they are beautiful, BUT 9'' on the front with UPR K-member and coil overs won't work. The offset seems pretty good, but they will have to be narrowed. These OE wheels only come 9'' or 10''. The gunmetal is gonna tie in with the dark charcoal accent pieces.

[trbofox]

The guy that is doing the buffing has agreed to do the tricky paint work for us, so we shot some test panels. He's gonna do the whole hood for us, since we are doing the flat center hood with the lx symbol showing through in body color, just like they did on Gt's back in the day.




I get the fun stuff, like all these little peices parts, but at least it's alot easier with this vinyl paint.

[1Badbird]

That's awsome! Looks like it's comming along nicely!!

[biminiLX]

Very nice.
On the front wheels, if you have to narrow them one of the 10s narrowed to 8" might be cool to keep a lip the same front and back. Just a thought, I like the wheel choice and those 335s will be sick.
I like how you're doing all the trim the same, will look very good.
-J

[Balaska347]

Wow that car is going to be awesome

[pop's stang]

VERY NICE!!! Keep the pics coming!!

[trbofox]

Well it feels like we've been on bodywork for ten years, but now it is done and we are close to having the painting completed, got a new respect for people that do this for a living.





engine bay looks better with fenders on....


We're in charge of wet sanding and Phil does most of the buffing, although I'm getting the buffing thing down now as well..

It looks alot more like a car, got some of the moldings on and fitted up the back bumper cover and tail lights...


Got the moldings from NUTTSGT on The Corral out @ Norwalk last summer, lucky to find such nice straight ones for this year.

[1Badbird]

Lookin good!! It's amazing how far this car has come. I'm not suprised though with how your other car looks.

[no1fordgirl]

Nice work! It's lookin' great

Keep me posted on the State Street cruise-ins if they are happening this year. I'm gonna try to come up for another visit this summer

[Rodeheaver's]

that thing looks great man!! great job guys, I cant wait to see here when shes done!!

[trbofox]

Thanks Tammy, we'll let ya know about State Street, thanks everyone.

Here is the latest update. Got the wheels back from widening and narrowing. Worked with a couple of local shops that we have done work with and for, and they agreed to help us out, this saved us the 4 week wait at Weldcraft and the pita of shipping both ways. The one has a bigazz lathe and they did the cutting and the other did the welding, came out great,got em painted and tomorrow we'll have en mounted and on the car.

[1Badbird]

Wow. They look great!!

[2001GTTT]

wow those wheels are sick

[trbofox]

Well, they fit.

[fork5o]

steamrollers look sick. the whole car is look great! awesome work