More pics of my 69 SS, looks like a car now!!!!!!

[DaveBonnell]

Doors are on, just need final sanding and stuff. All of my new seats came in and as soon as the tilt wheel and new dash are in, the seats will be bolted in! I polished up a set of Mickey Thompson valve covers I had and put those on last week. I am going for a 60s-early 70s street machine look with this car. I thought about going pro-touring but everybody is doing that now. I wanted mine to look like it would if I was alive back then (and I was the same age I am now, 25) and modified it to cruise/race up and down Hall Street, the famous illegal drag strip in St. Louis back then. Also gonna do a small block LT-1 Nickey clone look.

I was reading Hot Rod or whatever it was and they were talking about that they are seeing less and less young people driving vintage muscle cars, and the reasons why. Not a whole lot of these cars out there, not like the rice mobiles, and 4th gen Camaros and Firebirds. Plus these things are expensive as all hell. I tried supressing my muscle car urges with modern muscle, (a GTA Trans Am and a Firehawk) they had the grunt and body but not the sole of the muscle car. Anybody else feel this way or am I just retarded? Are there any other young muscle car drivers on this board? If so, what made you guys choose the lesser travled path of obtaining a vintage ride vs doing like 90% of people our age and getting rice, a 5.0, or a LT1 or LS1 f-body?


oh woops, in all my rambling I almost forgot the pics!