Honey Hush - 1980 Pontiac Firebird/Trans Am/GTA/Formula
This is my first car. I bought it back in high school in 1994. It was my dream car growing up so I got a paper route when I was 12 and saved every penny until just after my 16th birthday. Life events eventually put the car on the back burner. 2014 I started a full on restoration and May 2024 I can finally say it’s complete and I’m proud to say that I did 99% of it myself in my 2 car garage and a blowup paint booth in my driveway.
Car Logs for Honey Hush
Explore 13 detailed car logs for 'Honey Hush', showcasing a variety of updates, personal stories, and experiences with this ride.
Laying out the two tone
This is another first for me. Laying out the two tone was somewhat of a challenge. I find myself fortunate that I only had to do it once. Once I
Time for so color.
Finally! After countless hours of body work and paint prep it was time to paint.
Poly Primer and more sanding
I chose to apply polyurethane primer. It was an added step that I’m glad I did. It was a good tool for a novice to find the imperfections I didn
2k primer and more sanding
Time to pull out the bouncy house blow up paint booth and apply some 2k surfacer primer. Along with another few weeks of sanding.
Sanding, sanding and more sanding
I’m no bodywork expert so it took me awhile. Here is a lesson for you boys and girls. Don’t use your car as a storage shelf.
Flush door handles
After going through a couple sets of original style handles, I found the none of them fit correctly. While looking for options I found Kindig handles.
Flush glass
Ever since Year One released the first pics and videos of their Bandit Trans Am I knew I had to have Flush glass on my car. I had no idea how diffi
Here are some pics of my build
Some pics from back in the day when it was my daily driver and some pics of the first time I did body and paint and changed it to yellow
Color changed to yellow
Old pics from 2002 bringing it home after painting it at Clover Park Tech College
LT1 in its new home
My 1997 Formula Firebird donated its heart and lungs to revive the old T/A
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