First Car show….

Here’s a website for ya. Local Car Shows. This site displays tons of upcoming car shows/swap meets/cycle shows and etc.  Well, My father-in-law and I took the cutlass up to a car show with 100% intention of hanging out and looking at all the cars and with about 75% intention of entering my car.  When we showed up there were quite a bit of cars already there and set up all nice and all.  I thought what the heck….i’ll toss my hat in the ring and see if I can win something.  I looked at the classes and looked at the cars at the same time to see where my best chances are in winning or at least placing.  Well one category looked like I had the best chances of placing…”GM Custom”…(Since I had aftermarket wheels it qualified for custom and no longer stock) So I took my car and my #43 and found a nice spot on the grass right next to some very nice Chevelle’s to call home for the afternoon.

After settling in we took the rest of the afternoon in admiring some nice cars and also scoping out the competition as well.  Looking around we never saw a ton of cars in my class but nevertheless we had some competition.

In one class there was some serious action happening in the Mustang/Pony class for sure.  There were 19 or so cars in that class alone!  Street rod….about the same i would say.  Pre-1971 truck stock…..1…..yep one nice stock truck for sure and of course it placed 1st, Obviously.

Trophy time…..

The announcer called out the GM stock class first and a Superchief claimed first prize in that category (very very well done car for sure.  Showroom quality.  Now time for GM Custom….drumroll….Runner up- Justin Edge!   The crowd stood up and went nuts!  No actually they all just clapped.

So yep, I claimed my first trophy!  Pretty awesome experience, i also just look at the overall scope of things and just think ohhh this car has so much more potential and it will be looking so much better!  So this just basically proves to me that this car is in a good starting position for making it what I plan it to look like.

So thats it.  I look forward to the next car show I can attend and bring along the family and making it a fun family deal!  Man this car is going to be a start to some fun family memories!  Thx Dad and Mom

Tires and Wheels…done…

Well my tires and wheels are all in and have been mounted.  Here you can see the difference in width on my rear tires.  Going 255 instead of 225.  And after looking I know I could have gone wider in the rear, but it looks good either way.

going custom…..

Okay I know you may be tired of Wheels and Tires but that’s the focus on my project right now.

The wheels and tires came in!

I showed up to my tire shop and Terry said “You wanna see them?”  Of course I do!  Well when he opened the boxes I saw some nice chrome wheels!  BUT…………..they were not the right ones, well… they were but they weren’t.

I’ll explain.  Every picture I have seen of the Torq Thrust Type-M wheels were a deep dish style….Look here….But when i saw them in person here’s what they looked like…NOT a deep dish…And Below here is what it looked like on the car.  Not quite the look at all!

So I talked to Terry and he said more or less now you have to go Custom to get the deep look with a good offset to secure the deep look your wanting to achieve.  Well I sent the wheels back but kept the tires.  (Tires were awesome looking and HUGE! )

So what do I do?  Where do I go?  I dont want to spend thousands of dollars on Wheels!  I found a place who can make some Custom wheels for me and they are relatively inexpensive.  I talked with Bo at Fast toys for Boys here in Edmond and he hooked me up with a custom shop in Utah.  So monday I will be ordering some C-5′s from Coys Custom Wheels!  Here’s what they look like.

I am excited about whats to come and I know without a doubt that these will be the ones!