New kid from Wisconsin

[brink_79camaro]

Hey, Everyone!! I am a 19 year old college student from Wisconsin. I am attending UW-Richland here in Wisconsin and I plan to major in business with the intent to own my own business someday. I currently own my own blacktop driveway/parking lot sealcoating buisness that operates from May-September and it has proved to be VERY successful. I purchased my first "rusteration" 1979 Camaro project at the age of 15. I have worked in a body for the past 3 years. I have done all the body work to the car so far. It has new fenders, re-skinned doors, new quarter panel skins, new trunk floor drop-off's, new full length outer rocker panels, a 4" fiberglass cowl induction hood, full length floor pans, and rear outer wheelhouses. I recently decided to take the pro-touring theme after stumbling across this site a few weeks ago. I have everything to finish the car and I have decided to mini-tub the car (making own mini tubs), I have a kit to shave the door handles, a 10 point roll cage, Competition Engineering formed-rear frame rails with their weld in sub frame connectors, Autofab Racecars streetrod ladder-bars (these bars are offset and I will not have to cut the floor out under the rear seat to make room for clearance) with QA1 coilovers, completely cutting the trunk out and fabbing up a new dropped trunk floor to accomodate a new fuel cell, battery, and "the bottle". I have also decided to put a 4th gen Camaro/Firebird dash, seats, counsel, and I am thinking about making a set of door panels to resemble the 4th gens. The car is black now and I will be re-painting it black. I am going to black the windows out and put some neon lighting under the car. I have brand new Cragar wheels. I was even thinking about dropping the car some to give it a "mean look". I eventually plan to put tubular upper and lower control arms with coilovers in and also a LS1 and a 6 speed in the car when the funds are available. I will try to put some pictures on here soon.

[Bigblue73]

Welcome to the site. You'll find alot of good people here. How's the weather?

[brink_79camaro]

Yeah, I have already found this site REALLY useful!!! The weather could be a little better. It is about 15-20 degrees and we have about a foot or so of snow...it could be about 0-10 degrees and 1 1/2-2 feet of snow HAHA. I am a big snowmobiler, that's why I say that. I have done alot of snowmobiling already this winter. I am in the process of putting a mod-sled together to really rip up the snow.

[JWilson]

Another '79. Welcome aboard!

[71dusterdan]

hey brink welcome aboard, glad to have ya.I live down in rockford, il and used to get up there to richland all the time. i work for a steel distributer, so i would be glad to hook you up with steel, aluminum you need if you would hang a qtr skin and graft a whole quarter. just a thought lol. hey, nobody will say yes if you dont ask , right. good luck ,mind if i send some of this snow and cold up your way. Dan

[brink_79camaro]

Yeah!!!! Send as much cold and snow as you can up here. Snow is always welcome here in Benton...atleast by us snowmobilers HAHA

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Welcome to the site, new kid from Wisconsin.

[Bandit]

Welcome to the site from a fellow Wisconsinite. I am from the Oshkosh area originally.
I like the ideas you have for your car, except for the neons under the chassis.
You should put some under the hood to shine up from under your powdercoated headers, now that would be cool. Lika dis:


BTW this is not my car, it is "Z-zilla," maybe you've seen it before. Has some of the nicest paint and bodywork in all of Camarodom.


In any case, sounds like a great project you got going there, have fun and try to stay warm up there amongst the "frozen chosen."

Paul