Topic: 1978 Trans Am To do list will post picture progress

[jsevans12]

Well after having my car on Craigslist for 2 weeks and all the lo balls and people who wanted to trade junk or not even show up to look at it I have decided to keep the car. So now I have the paint I am going to just put the new Thrush Turbo exhaust system on it fix the speedo,put a new set of wheels when I get the money, take the B&M mega shifter out and replace with a stock one, the paint is white, doing a red stripe like the 1980 TA that was posted on here with the blue stripe, and uncover the interior after it was wrapped so the red interior will match the red stripe, have most the parts and will start on it as soon as possible but supposed to snow this week.









Car as of now

[Anderson0741]

Sounds sweet, you should change out the shaker for a 78 shaker too. Just a suggestion, it is your TA.

[Jolley_Man666]

Sounds like a great plan

[rkellerjr]

Excellent, glad to hear your keeping up, looking forward to your restoration.

[jsevans12]

What year shaker it is I thought it was the orginial one I have another shaker so maybe its a 78, that explains why the shaker didnt fit right always have to adjust it. thanks for the compliments,might be getting some work done to it soon have a opening in my garage my dad is almost done doing woodworking but have to paint my grandfathers van before I paint my car.

[Anderson0741]

78-81 shakers are the same, 77 had a smaller gap in the vent area, and from 76 back to some point they had the same design.  Which is the kind you have, here is a picture of my 79, and someone on google images 76 so you can see them side to side.

[Kevin]

I want a B and M Megashifter for my car pretty badly..

[jsevans12]

Never noticed that before pretty sure the other one I have is a 78-81 shaker. Wasnt the 77 shaker a low rise shaker though it seems as if the 77 shakers are lower than all the others.

[jsevans12]

I want a B and M Megashifter for my car pretty badly..

Would get rid of it but want to keep it I want to build a drag car eventually. Probably a TA or something odd like a Datsun Pick up just something that would look weird like a 59 el camino

[Kevin]

Oh ok, Gotcha.

[SoonerTA]

I can't wait to see what you do with the car.  The paint is going to look awesome and one of a kind!  Good luck with the build!

[jsevans12]

Thanks cant wait to get started on it, eventually I will paint one like this truck with maybe these wheels or a different unique looking ones

[Kevin]

Good ole EVH.. Revolutionized modern guitar playing.

[jsevans12]

yep the whole reason i even picked up a guitar I drew a TA like this Here it is


drawn a few years ago gna redo it sometime soon

[Anderson0741]

Never noticed that before pretty sure the other one I have is a 78-81 shaker. Wasnt the 77 shaker a low rise shaker though it seems as if the 77 shakers are lower than all the others.

 

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