| Re: Few Pics of the Grand Sport Roadster |
Subject: Re: Few Pics of the Grand Sport Roadster by rklessdriver on 2016/9/15 20:13:45 Quote:
I guess it's a kinda long and involved story starting back when I first met him in 2008... The engine... I am sure everyone probably remembers when I had originally built it for him back in 2008.... It was installed in a regular old Green/Tan 96 Coupe he had at the time and he was intending to clone that car into a GS. He never got started on the cloning of that car... He ended up just driving the car... put like 30K miles on it in a few years. I knew he always wanted a real 1996 GS thou.... Anyway, fast fwd a few yrs after I built him the engine, he finds and buys this beat down 96 GS vert from somewhere in Florida. The previous owner used it as a daily driver. I guess he just started looking for a real GS when he started adding up the cost to restore and clone his coupe.... So he bought the GS vert and started making plans to rebuild it into a show car.... Better than new paint/body, install his 383 LT4, slicked up ZF6 and 4.10 rear end, Z51 suspension.... do up the audio system, ect. He brought us both cars and said you know what I want to do, find me some good people to do the work we can't.... And this is the result. We did all of the driveline swap and install. We did the restoration of the convertible top frame (was rusted to death) and some of the interior restore. We had a well known Atlanta painter/body shop do the body/paint work and another well know Atlanta shop did the all ceramic exhaust and other powder coating. He did the Z51 suspension swap and some of the interior himself. He had buddy of his in Mississippi do the stereo/audio system to his specs. Took about 3yrs total to get everything done.... He debuted it at Carlisle this year and is bringing it to Fun Fest this weekend.... not sure what other plans he has for showing it. He does also still drive it on the street quite a bit. Thanks for the compliments. Will |
