I've decided to go with Windward Blue with double black stripes. Not an original Beaumont colour but it is on the 69 Pontiac palette. The engine was replaced last year...still a 350 but a completely rebuilt one. Also added positrac, power steering and power front disc brakes, new control arms, new shocks and Cragar wheels.

It's finally in the shop for body work now. Then comes electrical and interior. I'm going to get the wiring kit and rewire the whole thing...it's a mess under the dash.

-- Edited by MarkNS on Monday 4th of March 2013 01:44:30 PM

Hmmm...pictures didn't show. Trying again but may be an ipad issue

Now that I'm on PC I can post some pictures. I decided to go for Windward Blue rather than the Rallye Green. Yeah, I know it's a Firebird colour rather than a Beaumont one but my car is hardly original.
The body work took longer and cost significantly more than I had expected. Some of this was due to unexpected problems with the car itself but there were also a lot of extra hours required due to the parts I got from Year One not fitting right. One of the door skins had to be reshaped and one of the fenders wasn't quite right either. I won't be ordering more from Year One.

At least that's over with...now I've started a full rewire using a Painless kit. So far so good.

MarkNS wrote:

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For those interested, there's a little bit about the issues I had with the Painless kit in my blog about life in Kandahar: justdfacsmaam.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/reluctant-return/

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 Neat blog Mark. Gives a little insight into the trials of being on a tour of duty.

In my last post, I showed off the awesome body work my Visa card did on my car during my last rotation. Well, I decided that I had to eventually start actually doing some of the work on the car myself if I wanted to get away with calling it a hobby. The car had a power drain that I couldnt trace because the wiring was a bloody mess from 40 years of idiots like me ****ing with it. So, I drove a perfectly serviceable muscle car back from the shop and proceeded to tear all of the wiring out of it. I had purchased a Painless brand wiring harness/kit and soon discovered that wiring a car is really hard when you dont know what the **** youre doing.

Off to winter storage. I only temporarily broke it. I hope.

The Painless kit was pretty good in that the wires were labeled every 6 inches to tell you what circuit they were forall except one. Yeah, the *****rs left one wire unlabeled and never mentioned it at all in the instructions. There was a note that said to refer to the table on page 34 of their 27 page instruction manual which, not surprisingly, was unhelpful. So, I called their technical support line in, I guess, Texas, and my call was answered by a man I can only assume was named Bubba. I asked about the mystery wire and, in a drawl which, somewhat impressively, simultaneously conveyed both boredom and disdain, he told me ats fer the masta sinda presha sensa.  Being the helpful gent that I am I then proceeded to point out that referring to page 34 in a 27 page manual might be problematic and was met with a disinterested Yahuh. At that point I decided that a discussion of configuration management best practices and ISO 9000 would likely be poorly received. Anyway, I didnt quite get the wiring done in time due, in part, to my inability to figure out how to properly use the expensive crimper I bought. Thanks to Youtube, I eventually found out I had it upside down but, by then, it was time to hop on a plane.

Canadian Poncho wrote:

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It seems the profanity filter on here is clogged and not working...

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 I didn't notice that when I cut & pasted it. Maybe since I cut & pasted it to here, the CP filter was bypassed?