My Thirdgen experience in a nutshell...

2004 Wasaga Beach at sunset

2004 CCFBG Street Classics

2004 3 weeks after buying the car from a guy in MA.

2004 Interior shot

2004 Engine bay

2005 Engine bay, collapsed lifter

2005 Engine bay, new valvetrain and upper intake

Nov 15, 2005, crashed the red one into a ditch. Inexperience 1, Merc3065 0.

April 2006, replacement found!

Looks good right?

No rust right?

Nice and clean and shiny right?

Fenders look straight right?

Interior looks amazing and clean!

Newly recovered tan seats!

This thing looks awesome, proper notchback seats!

Sunlight does wonders for pictures

Engine bay is pretty clean

Why does a notchback have a banshee nose?

Steering wheel, not my style...needs recovering anyhow.

Why does an Iowa car have TX plates? Is that over spray I see flaking off...

Battery is hiding a very rusty battery tray...

The radio pod hit this mess...

At least the underside is clean.

Time for the transplant...

Sad day to see your first car like this.

Time to get rid of the blown rear diff...

Transplanted new diff

Transmission is in

Replace that banshee nose...Which was hiding a completely destroyed reinforcement bar and a damaged rad lower cross member.

Franken cars...

Transplant the good doors

Rattle can black looks better than mismatched paint colours

New KYB GR2 shocks and struts

Looks good in the dark eh?

Transplant the good tail lights

Finalizing engine installation

Looks good in there...

New wire holders

Fenders are all dinged up...

New reinforcement bar

As much as I like the old hood, I like this one better.

Transplanted axle was bent on pass side. Needed it replaced, so I bought both sides just in case.

Sub frames - Bolt on from competition engineering.

Finalized picking the old chassis clean... Sad day

Off to the drag strip in the sky...:dead:

And now that I'm getting married next year, the car will probably never see the light of day for at least the next 2 years. But on the plus side, I'm getting married!

congrats..family sure slow the projects down but I wont trade em for any project

Wow nice thread and when did you leave that shop in alliston as I have my car there now for the last few years

Great project thread Mike! Keep plucking away you will get her done...

Left the shop shortly after I towed the old chassis away.
It was in mid to late 2006.

Car then sat at Mr. Bastard's for almost a year until early 2007 or 2008, cant remember which.

Then hauled it back to my parents house.

Had some welding work done to the subframes where it was torn from either a tow truck idiot or a frame machine. Not sure which...
Now some rust has set in where the welds were done as the guys who did the welds, didnt seal the interior side of the floor pans afterwords.

Can't wait to tackle that f - up....

have you been driving it ?

I drove it some last year.

It's parked for now, silently developing a bad case of rusty floor boards.

It'll be going to the body shop to get structurally fixed and have the sub frames welded in as well as the rest of the bumps and bruises repaired and fixed.
While it's there I'll get the body shop to treat the rusty spots and POR 15 or Rust Bullet the interior to stop the rust from spreading.

Looking at the pics nothing has changed since then at all and ive been there 4 years now

What were you expecting? Adam runs the place...