Mark's '73 Pontiac Trans Am

This is a '73 TA I found in a machine shed in '99. It actually belonged to a friend and I didn't know that he owned it. It is an original show car that he bought and started using for everyday transportation. It started to surface rust on the hood underside and a judge at a car show somewhere asked him to not put the car in judging. It was fine for him to bring it to the show but they could not judge it due to the surface rust. So he put it in the machine shed at a friends house and totally dismantled the car.

When he offered it to me he had completely taken out the motor, drive train, rear end, and dropped the front frame stub out the bottom. Because the spoilers and flairs were all moulded in and painted he could not dismantle the sheet metel so that is how I found it. Sitting on make shift saw horses like a model car body, completely intact with no frame and or running gear.

Once I started to reconstruct it I had to build it all back together with the sheet metal all installed. The pics you see are the first days on the street. First car show in 2002. While it was apart I built the motor (see below for specs).