1967 Pro-Touring 122 Amazon (Project Volvo X)540 Horsepower LS6/Tremec TKO600 5-Speed

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

Here are some outside views of the runs, and I will be installing a rear sway bar setup and have better tires for the next event..

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

Here are a few video's from the GoodGuy's Autocross. I found that I am going to have to upgrade the tires by next week, because the other cars were running a softer compound than I was, and the front tires would not grip to well at that rate of speed/braking. There is also a need to work out some sort of rear sway bar, but I will get to that at a later date, because the car still did pretty good with my inexperience. I still had the car setup on a daily driver alignment and spring rate setting, and the other cars there were more track dedicated, but my inexperience times were above the average and not far off No Pro times considering everything. The normal and hard driving of the car is great, but with these types of runs I am not sure I am willing to sacrifice daily comfort for a couple of seconds.

I ran the car in 1st gear the whole time (With the Exception of one 2nd gear shift at the final straight before the checkered flags, because the car hits over 60mph in 1st gear and that was about the limits of this course. I have no autocross experience, so I found myself trying to convince myself that I needed to actually brake prior to the turn rather than just try to drift through it, but I did have a couple of fun tire smoking drifting laps with the car for a good show yesterday, and I hope that someone else captured for YouTube because I didn't have anyone there to video at that time.

Here is the GoPro exterior view, and you can really hear the Cowl Vent Intake suck during harder acceleration due to the camera being mounted just above the windshield, but you really don't hear that sound inside the car.

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

Had to take some glamour publicity/media shots for the Ultimate Street Car event, so I hope these work, because I am not much of a photographer..

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I had my paint and body guy take away some of the Daily Driver abuses for the show, and he did a perfect job matching and blending the color, and I must say that is an art form in itself...

It took a bit of finessing due to the black base being necessary, and there had to be attention taken to the amount of liquid metal color distributed over the black and around for the blend, but he nailed it...

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I still have to send the carpet out to have the black vinyl borders added to them, but these pics offer the overall appearance for now until the interior is changed at a later date.. I just needed something in it so it has a basic interior for judging and to take the race car appearance out of it.. I will do some sort of darken up or black out of the back of the gauge panel at a later date, because I haven't found the solution to what I want to do for that yet.

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

this thing just keeps getting better and better. stoked to see what ya do w/ the trunk and the interior!

Here are some pics of the interior before the carpet install...

[TruTaing]

this thing just keeps getting better and better. stoked to see what ya do w/ the trunk and the interior!

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I have worked out some trunk close out panels to hide the fuel tank and clean up the appearance a bit, and I think it will look great as soon as it is all covered in leather, and it really quieted the car down a lot also.. I have also been working on the custom carpet, and as you can see in the pictures, all the floor panels are completely covered in the Hush Mat and Carpet insulation, and this has really transformed the overall quality of the cars noise and comfort..

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

Thats awesome I love that show.

I enjoy the show myself, but I hope that I am able to beat their 63 Falcon in a few of the judging category's at the Ultimate Street Car Challenge.. LOL Here is a YouTube video about the event...

For the guys that are not familiar with the Ultimate Street Car Challenge, there are several categories of judging during a 3 day event that range from Engineering/Styling, a Road Rally with spotters and check points through city to see if the cars make sense for real world driving by not having to do special maneuvers during normal driving task, Autocross and Speed Brake Challenge, along with the Hot Lap Challenge on a full road course.. From there, they put together all the scoring to find the best over all Street/Performance car, so you can kick ass on the Road Course and suck in the real world and still lose.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qzyUU_ytI"]2011 OPTIMA® Ultimate Street Car Invitational Trailer - YouTube[/ame]

[boosted brit]

Thats awesome I love that show.

[Miroteknik]

Congrats, you deserved it!

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

The car was a hit at the Plano Texas Cars and Coffee event this weekend, and what a great monthly car show of Exotics, Muscle Cars, Classics, ect, plus there was such a huge turn out of hundreds of cars that they quit letting them in at 7:30am. I got a visit from the Discovery Channels Fast and Loud Crew from the Gas Monkey Garage to check out the car, and found out that I am competing against Aaron in the upcoming Ultimate Street Car Challenge... And after that show, I went to eat lunch at the Gas Monkey Bar and Grill and pulled up into another afternoon car show I didn't know about, so I decided to pay the entry to have awesome parking, and I won Best Street/Race Car and Best of Show... LOL

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

Here are a couple of pics of the event decaling, and I think I like it overall... I have a couple of more smaller items like event numbers, but this is the overall theme.









The decals are right and left side so the red blocking works out correctly, and I think the color spectrum works great, and the red parts of the decals actually make the red brake calipers pop inside the wheels for some reason.

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Keith.. I have done that same thing with the IPD air dam, and there is some work involved that is a matter of cutting slots out for the bumper bracket, and that is probably the direction I will go in the end. I am very curious to see what this might work out to be, because it actually is pretty period correct..

[Keith602]

Ive been thinking about doing an air dam lately too. I personally dont care for the one in the above pics. I have seen the one that ipd sells cut and mounted behind the stock bumper ant it looks really good.




My reasoning for doing the air dam is purely cosmetic though. It would be to address how much higher the front bumper is than the body of the car. I like your idea about a custom metal one, but im pretty sure I dont have the ability to make one that actually looks good. Ive also thought about trying a variety of air dams from other cars in hopes that one could fit without too much modification.