TAC, the best

[rkellerjr]

There isn't a forum out there that tops the quality of posts, admins who oversee the sight, and the people who visit this site. Thanks to all who participate in one way or another.

[79GoldnTan]

Here here, couldn't agree more!!

[FormTA]

Absolutely.  I just wonder why there are so few builds going on or why new folks aren't joining and or posting.  If I was working on my Formula, I'd be posting about that but unfortunately for you all, I'm working on my 49 Ford truck. If this site is still here by the time I get done with the truck, I'll post about the Formula.

My TA is 99% done and I just drive it so, not much to post about.

But great group here!

[apfstg]

The snow is melting and the temp creeps up - hopefully there are more like me, waiting til Mother Nature sends the sun to heat up my garage floor (haha)

[N PRGRES]

Agree 100%!  I'll be posting updates soon...if my wife EVER lays off the honey do list

[FormTA]

Ya, that ain't ever happening

[N PRGRES]

Ya, that ain't ever happening

Truth!

[5th T/A]

Well said Rich!
I really enjoy TAC, great group always trying to help out if they can. Some members are incredibly talented and knowledgeable. It would be nice if there were more member involvement and activity, but I’m grateful for what we have.

[roadking77]

It seemed when I joined quite a few years ago, there were several build threads. Now just a couple. I dont think people are restoring cars like they used to. Prices of everything have gone too high, parts are getting harder to get etc. I think its that way across the board with all cars.

[N PRGRES]

It seemed when I joined quite a few years ago, there were several build threads. Now just a couple. I don't think people are restoring cars like they used to. Prices of everything have gone too high, parts are getting harder to get etc. I think its that way across the board with all cars.

Agreed but I also think a lot of people have moved over to Farcebook, which i despise, and cant take the time to document on a forum.

[rkellerjr]

It seemed when I joined quite a few years ago, there were several build threads. Now just a couple. I don't think people are restoring cars like they used to. Prices of everything have gone too high, parts are getting harder to get etc. I think its that way across the board with all cars.

Agreed but I also think a lot of people have moved over to Farcebook, which i despise, and cant take the time to document on a forum.

Not only that it is a single thread system so to find someones post is demonstrably hard.

[nUcLeArEnVoY]

This forum has been with me from the very start of my love for these cars, and my membership remained even after I took a 10+ year hiatus after the disappointment of my first T/A purchase back in 2008 a year after I joined here.

It's definitely not as active as it used to be, but there is an allure to this board that keeps me checking it daily. Hard to believe I've been here almost 20 years since I was just a dumb 20 year old kid with a dream for a Trans Am.

[FormTA]

I have had your car picture clipped and on my phone for years. My car has the charcoal graphics and I used yours as motivation to get mine back together.

On a side note. Have you priced quality paint and primer? No wonder no one builds cars anymore. Even the supplies cost a fortune!

[nUcLeArEnVoY]

Ii has your car picture clipped and on KY phone for years. My has the charcoal graphics and I used yours as motivation to get mine back together.

On a side note. Have you priced quality paint and primer? No wonder no one builds cars anymore. Even the supplies cost a fortune!

I bought my car back in 2020 from a man in central Florida, I'm pretty sure I'm the 4th of 5th owner. I got it for only $20k, right when Covid first happened and everyone lost their jobs and the economy went into recession. I've never been a determinist person, but I sometimes think it was fate that it fell into my lap right then and there before 2021-2022 when the values of these cars skyrocketed. It was originally sold at Plaza Pontiac in Tucker, GA and is a Van Nuys car. I bought it the way it is, all I've really done is just tinkering and a tune up and enjoy it - it runs great, and if the weather is nice and I'm off from work I'll usually find an excuse to take it out. The paint on it is pretty nice, but it's by no means a show quality job. It would be a good 6-6.5/10 if I give it a paint correction to compound and polish out all the swirl marks, but it cleans up pretty nicely with a wipedown and spray wax. It's had one paint job in the original color, you can see the clearcoat masking lines in the door jambs where they didn't repaint it. I don't know how much restoration my car has had over the years, but it's a very solid above average driver condition car and very original.

I have plans for it, though, including a strip down to bare metal and show quality paint - the car is pretty much rust free (I did find some spots like you almost always will with these cars), but I would love peace of mind knowing what may or may not be under the paint. I've been counting on spending at least 25k on the paint job including any potential metal repairs. Other plans include resto-modding with a DSE full coilover suspension, rear mini-tub, and an EFI 460+ Pontiac stroker build. This won't happen for quite a few years, though, so I just enjoy it as it is. It's already a special enough site on the road as it is in its stock guise.

[N PRGRES]

Thinking of spending 25k on a plant job makes me want to throw up. I get it, you get what you pay for.

[ryeguy2006a]

Couldn't agree more. That's why even though It's been over 10 years since I sold my Trans Am, I'm still here posting about non-Trans Am cars!! Although I do have a line on a 77-78 Trans Am project local to me. If the price is right, I may be dragging it home!

[rkellerjr]

Couldn't agree more. That's why even though It's been over 10 years since I sold my Trans Am, I'm still here posting about non-Trans Am cars!! Although I do have a line on a 77-78 Trans Am project local to me. If the price is right, I may be dragging it home!

Ya buddy!

[79GoldnTan]

Now we talking, hope it works out for you!

[stros]

Much love to this forum as well.  So happy it’s back.  As mentioned in one of the other threads I appreciate that no one gives me grief about having an LS in my Pontiac unlike the PY forum.  Hopefully we can get a bit more traffic going again. 

[N PRGRES]

Much love to this forum as well.  So happy it’s back.  As mentioned in one of the other threads I appreciate that no one gives me grief about having an LS in my Pontiac unlike the PY forum.  Hopefully we can get a bit more traffic going again.

I think the bonus of the forum here is that we appreciate that at least the car is being saved. Old Pontiac motors are getting harder to find and rebuild costs are getting up there. 

[ryeguy2006a]

Much love to this forum as well.  So happy it’s back.  As mentioned in one of the other threads I appreciate that no one gives me grief about having an LS in my Pontiac unlike the PY forum.  Hopefully we can get a bit more traffic going again.

I'm probably in the majority and quite biased, but I would downright encourage an LS swap! It's almost too easy now with the parts availability. It's wild how far it's come in the last 10-15 years. Even just late model swaps in general actually. Holley sells a gen3 hemi swap kit for square body trucks! A buddy of mine is actually swapping one of the gen3 hemis and the 8 auto trans in his 80s Suburban. Going to be a really cool project.

[N PRGRES]

Much love to this forum as well.  So happy it’s back.  As mentioned in one of the other threads I appreciate that no one gives me grief about having an LS in my Pontiac unlike the PY forum.  Hopefully we can get a bit more traffic going again.

I'm probably in the majority and quite biased, but I would downright encourage an LS swap!

While I have never done one, I agree, If you want a reliable driver, you can do an LS swap for probably almost less than rebuilding a 400 with todays prices.  If I had to do it over, or my 400 ever tanks, it will get an LS.

[nas t eh]

Much love to this forum as well.  So happy it’s back.  As mentioned in one of the other threads I appreciate that no one gives me grief about having an LS in my Pontiac unlike the PY forum.  Hopefully we can get a bit more traffic going again.

So many forums have suffered since FB, it didn’t help this one when the crash wiped out the restoration threads and also photo bucket started charging to save your photos there.

[N PRGRES]

Much love to this forum as well.  So happy it’s back.  As mentioned in one of the other threads I appreciate that no one gives me grief about having an LS in my Pontiac unlike the PY forum.  Hopefully we can get a bit more traffic going again.

So many forums have suffered since FB, it didn’t help this one when the crash wiped out the restoration threads and also photo bucket started charging to save your photos there.

True but you don't have to save photos there to post them anymore, it can be doe from your phone or tablet

[Zach]

Much love to this forum as well.  So happy it’s back.  As mentioned in one of the other threads I appreciate that no one gives me grief about having an LS in my Pontiac unlike the PY forum.  Hopefully we can get a bit more traffic going again.

Could care less what kind of block a car has as long as it’s being driven and not rotting. I’m no where near a purist though… I do like the old engines though, a bit more character and uniqueness.

[nas t eh]

True but you don't have to save photos there to post them anymore, it can be doe from your phone or tablet

When I lost my restoration thread, I no longer needed photo bucket and let the photos stored there go. The photos needed to rebuild the restoration thread of my 73 TA are on a disc somewhere that I loaded when I got rid of a computer. I don’t even have a disc reader anymore, so to get the photos is possible but not pleasantly simple. I do have some photos on my phone of the car coming home after paint jail and video of the car its first time on the road, but that’s all that would be easy to upload. I lost the desire to try to document the restoration online when the restoration thread was lost.

When I see cool stuff on the road or parked I do take pictures, so I can post those, I think I may already have, not sure?

[FormTA]

Your car is what brought me here the first time. I really want to see where you are at with this car again! The other car was Ryan's LS swap thread. I really,  really love my LS1 in my 79. So much fun

[tajoe]

Nasty commented on my concerns too, with Photobucket. I don't wanna drop them, cause I'll lose all my posted pics. In my early days here, I needed the bucket to post pics, cause I couldn't get it to work from my puter. As time went on PB became a challenge, when they would change their format. Even recently its happened again. I think i've gotten past it tho. And I think this site will allow up-loads from my puter. I'll have-ta give it a try, in this comment. (Got PB to work, but not from "my pictures" Still can't figure it out).

And a yr or so ago, I couldn't get this site to load properly, and I was given warnings about its security. That all seems-ta have been worked out, and like Rich says, some of us are happy with the work from these administrators keeping us alive. I can't believe I'm considered "old school", cause I still work from my desk-top puter, and not a cell phone. So, like all above, we're hoping for a productive, and active new season here at TAC. Thanks guys.