Basket's Blog

Well it was finally nice enough weather for me to go out and finish welding shut the GFX holes. I also fiber glassed all of them shut to make sure no water can get through. I’ll have to sand everything flush some time but now it’s pouring again. I also got around to mounting my D80 Spoiler and got my cowl induction hood mounted. I had to weld supports into it because it was bending, you can see the tack welding I did on the sheet metal, I’m going to fiberglass it all shut later on so you can’t see it anymore. Next up is fixing the metal  frame around the rear hatch glass, as you can see it came loose, then once that is done I need to align the hatch, gaps are enormous. I also cleaned up the garage and re-organized some things.

Well weather was nice so I’m almost at the point where I can drive the TA again. I put the new fenders on, they align perfectly and are straight as an arrow. I also finished welding up the holes on the passenger side of the vehicle, so now I only have 23 more to go on the passenger side. I also put in the new CD Player it’s from  ’99 Chevy Blazer and has an auxiliary port in it. So all I need to do to enjoy the sound is get new speakers and then I’ll be good to go.

Well I caught up with blogging now, so this is the status as of last week. All the GFX are off and all the support mountings have been removed. I still have a lot of welding to do but I also took the front bumper cover off, the impact bar and the front fenders.

Took the spoiler off this April, as I don’t want the areo wing and am going with the standard Firebird spoiler.  Welded the holes shut, and just gave a shot of paint just so it wouldn’t rust. Also you can note that I was almost done with taking off the entire GFX.

These are the 82 TA Taillights I picked up. I took them apart and cleaned them and I also repainted the “PONTIAC” lettering in Silver again as it was faded.

Well last fall I started taking off some of the GFX and I wanted to see if I could save the passenger side fender, but after I took the GFX off I figured it would be better and easier to just get a set of new front fenders, which I did this February.

Well this was my TA back in July of  ’09. At that time I rebuilt the front end with Spohn parts, swapped the wheels for 15″ just cause I will be changing to Turbo Cast rims and I didn’t want to buy new tires for the 16″.

Well this was how my TA looked like on the weekend I got him home. This was last year in April, since then I’ve done a lot of work on it and I’m going to use this site to show my progress, I hope you enjoy.