When last we met, Wayne brought his newly fabricated gem home. Bill Bourbonais and Maurice Cahill had done their magic creating a foundation for the cosmetics to go on. As we know a straight solid foundation makes the paint job a lot easier to apply, but does not make what happens next any less challenging.

Wayne set the bar extremely high, the body had to be prepped to perfection so that a flawless paint job can be applied. This approach had to also include the frame and underside, the back side of the floor and fenders are as impressive as the outside of the car, even the frames paint was polished to perfection.

The build has taken so long that cameras have even changed, Wayne got rid of the old film camera and bought a digital one.

Two local guys, Neil Ramsay and Dennis Pogoda were tasked with the body prep. Both are no strangers to the completion of some very fine automobiles and Wayne knew they would do the car proud. There is also a painter waiting in the wings with some very exacting standards that these two are very well aware of, more on him later.

The filler primer went on and the block sanding began, the very fine metal work made this job a lot easier than it could have been. Never the less, it still took days, then weeks, to get the base perfect.

If it was metal, it was prepped to perfection. The frame, cross members, interior, the fenders top and underside, you name it it was primed, sanded, primed, sanded and sanded some more.

Now comes in Sean Ryan, an extremely talented second generation painter. Sean has a reputation of being one of the best, obviously the right guy to paint a contender like this.

The job was a challenge, after all, the cars owner wanted it perfect and Sean’s exacting standards pushed the project keeping Sean in the paint booth for a few hundred hours!. The results paid off...more on that in part 3.

As time progressed the paint color plan changed. The original green on the cars rendering was now going to be a PPG Lamborghini Silver that covered most of the car and the top of the car and dash received a darker modification of the Silver.

Not visible in the picture are the orange and dark taupe pinstripes that were sprayed on to separate the two tones; perfection.

The color sanding and polishing started from the bottom up, the frame. Yes the frame was polished, and any chips that resulted during the assembly stage were later touched up and polished out. The paint job is now done and perfect, time to start bolting everything together.

The suspension components, now fabricated, had to be either chromed or polished. These front caliper mounts were designed to work with spindle mount wheels.

After a few tries, the machining theme was nailed down and carried on through to some of the other parts.

Like the valve covers.

A Lokar shifter was purchased.

The shifter was disassembled, chromed, and added to a fully polished chromed and detailed 700R4 transmission. You can see the detail being put into the parts no one will even ever see once the car is assembled.

The floating cross member holds the fully detailed center section. The polished stainless brake lines will disappear into the car. The u-joints were polished, chromed and custom billet covers were installed on all of the ends.

Now with all off the chassis components installed and with everything detailed to the max, it time to start covering it up. On goes the body.

An aluminum 406 C.I. block was fully smoothed and polished as were the Edelbrock heads before an Eagle rotating assembly was installed.

What sets this motor apart are the fuel delivery components. The intake was plumbed for a hidden 8 port vacuum system

The system was reverse mounted to hide the injectors, wiring and fuel rails.

A set of Billet 48mm dia throttle bodies were stripped apart.

And painted the same color as the body stripe before being converted to electronic fuel injection, now that is cool.

Once completed, the carbs and heads are covered in custom machined pieces that carry on the same theme as the rear center section. Of course the rest of this stove is detailed to the same exacting standards as the rest of the car.

The interior was planned even before the car was built as the metal fabrications had to be part of the initial build. The seats are built right into the car.

As was the custom built console and dash, take note the hidden hinge mounting for the doors.

The dash now is dressed up with a custom machined fascia and is painted a slightly darker shade of the body color. This color tint is carried on throughout the interior.

Autometer gauges were stripped down and their faces painted to display Wayne’s logo before being reassembled and installed; a simple detail most would miss.

The interior is clean, modern, and uncluttered, with a modern contrasting color that matches the style of the car. Bet you can’t find the 500 watt 6 speaker stereo system that includes a 12" sub and remote control. Controls for the keyless ignition system, stereo, head lights, and retractable license plate are all nicely tucked away in the center console.

The v8 logo was plasma cut and hand radius before chroming.

The interior is covered in custom dyed Italian leather and sewn together with a French stitch. Obviously by someone with some talent, Jim McFail.

One of those back tracking projects were the wheels, not just the wheels, but their mounting as well; notice no lug nuts. A total redesign of the spindles had to be done to accommodate the wheels.

The front wheels are now the hub as well, they house the outer bearing seal, the inner and outer wheel bearing and race as well as the rotor mount.

The rear wheels also caused their own issues as the rear outer axle had to be redesigned to fit into the rear wheel. The tires are indexed on the rims and the valve stems moved to the inside and flush mounted behind a spoke.

Full sized drawings of the wheels were done then transfered to a CAD program before a CNC machine cut them.

And who did all of this trick machine work? A young guy named Kevin Christianson, he clearly knows his way around a milling machine.

Well the door gets opened to load this “dream car come true” into the trailer for its 3 day drive to California to the Grand National Roadster Show. 10 years goes by really quick. Join us in a few weeks to see the finished car in all of its glory. Was it worth the wait? You’ll see.