good food, good friends, good times...it must be SEMA

by now i'm sure your all at SEMA, not home listening to my ramblings from your computer. Alas- I must give you an update. The GTO is located in the main hall by Optima Batteries and all the other Optima Ultimate Street Challenge contestants. Be sure to stop by and check it out!

see you all at the track!

tis' time!

Well folks.. the GTO is done...it was assembled in three weeks. INSANE!

Why you ask? cause we are crazy..no,no.. in all actuality, we love to build cars, and if that means burning the midnight oil with pizza and a drop light..then so be it.

The GTO arrived at SEMA yesterday and will be on display all week starting tomarrow, then it's going to the Optima Ultimate Street Challenge on Saturday.

Word has it some of the contestants are already on the track...but...we aren't worried..they will have to have some serious ca hones to keep up with this goat.

Enjoy!

it's down to the wire

SORRY!

i know i promised that this would be a daily occurrence..but honestly, easier said then done. so please don't throw stones at me!

The GTO is coming along great..it has till sunday morning before it gets on the trailer for SEMA and it hasn't fired yet. this is nothing new to us..we have built cars in 4 weeks...a few in 3 weeks...we won't go there..those were some dark times.

I know you don't come on here to listen to me talk so I will hold you up no longer.

here are some photos that have been waiting in the wings to be posted. Ps. if you click on them they get bigger. tah-dah!

us, stressed....naw

I got to work this morning with high hopes of the GTO frame all together. Unfortuanly life got in the way at the shop this weekend, and we didn't have the chance to get everything we wanted to done.

I'll post photos as soon as I hear a wrench is moving on the frame...but until then,


over and out!

seeing the light at the end of the tunnel..

Now when they decided to take the perfectly good GTO and remove it from it's frame, in the short time frame we have mind you, I was worried, they were worried, all of us were worried. Alas, it was past the point of no return and once it's there you have to keep looking forward. At that point all I could do was point skyward and say "please help us."

When I pulled up into the parking lot this morning I saw a sparkling new frame, mind you, I see lots of these every day so it didn't register right away that Embee had picked up, cleaned, scrubbed, AND powder coated the GTO frame in less than a day and a half....

They are supermen.

Now that the frame is back, the guys will attack it like a pack of dogs on a three legged cat to get all the new suspension, brakes, and what have you on it so it can be placed back under the GTO body, which is perched sadly on our lift at the moment.

More photos of the build tomarrow, until then...

Over and out!

it didn't stand a chance..

the GTO is offically apart, it's a nothing body with a different frame under it at the moment, and it's all hands on deck to get it ready to roll by the Optima Challenge on November 7th. We have been informed that we are the ONLY Pontiac admid the sea of Camaros that will be attending so that means we need to step it up to represent for all of our awesome Pontiac fans out there.

we will post photos of the hulk this afternoon when they are done cleaning it up.


I would like to thank all of the companies that have come together in order to help us make this GTO the bad ass car it will be.

Magnaflow, Global West, Baer Brakes, Miller's Custom Headers, QA1, R&R Marketing, Embee Powder Coating, Painless Performance Products, Optima Batteries, Moroso, McLeod Industries, Drive Line Components, Dyno-Motive, Inland Empire Driveline, MSD Ignition, Original Parts Group, All Mustang Performance -Pheonix, AZ, and last but not least our Barry's Speed Shop crew who works tirelessly to get this done!

over and out!

We're Going to PARUMP!

We have been invited to go to the Optima Battery Ultimate Street Challenge for the second year in a row, but this time... we're bringing out the big guns.

ohhh yeahh.

Rember that sweet little GTO that we had sitting in the back of the shop? well over labor day weekend, if you didn't get to attend The Great Labor Day Cruise in Costa Mesa, CA, the Barry's Speed Shop crew and the overly generous crew of Global West Suspension took the barley street legal convertable and turned it into a full blown road race car with the help of MagnaFlow Performance Exhaust, BendPak, PPG, QA1, ABS Brake, and Speed Shop Custom Paint it shaved a whole second off of it's previous stock time out on the AutoCross track. Curb feelers and all.

Now, to get back on track. No pun intended... We will be at the Spring Mountain Motorsports Park in Pahrump Nevada the weekend after SEMA.

Keep checking back for more info and photos of the GTO rebuild..AGAIN..


over and out!