WINNER SPEED-STOP 1977 PONTIAC TRANS AM

摘要

We II never tire of stories about not rodders hanging onto their first cars despite what life throws their way, then revisiting them years later to rebuild them as the car they always wished it could have been. This slick silver 77 Trans Am was Travis Hartwell's very first car, and by his own admission he was quite hard on it through his years of high school driving. But weren't we all? When it came time to go off to college, the TA went into storage as Hartwell moved forward and worked on building his future. About 10 years later when life had become more stable again, he pulled the TA out and began a very long, slow restoration on it. Hartwell wanted to keep the vintage 1970s feel of the TA, but class it up with more of a modern flair. Hartwell kept the body stock, but opted for a clean silver that was a special order Mazda Miata color and paired it with a slightly darker shade to create the hood bird. The final effect is a ghost image of the bird that is one of the best modernizations of that iconic logo that we've ever seen.