OK...she's back from some recent paint touchup and the paint shop did a beautiful job of blending inexpensively for me after I completed all the body work, as still 3/4 of the paint is from the previous 1998-ish resto. But now no more primer spots, and far less embarrassing to look at than she was this entire past summer. So other than still having a dingy white top that needs a serious cleaning...here are the first official pics of my FINALLY cosmetically "finished" (as if there ever is such a thing) 68 400 vert-clone-restomod-driver-non-original-but-fun-as-heck-to-beat-on-or-whatever-you-wanna-call-it-machine...

PHS says it was born as a 350 2bbl car. I never have seen any of the original parts, and this car was severely molested and very poorly restored once long before I bought it. Current drivetrain is 1970 Firebird 400 engine, 1977 era Cliff Ruggles recipe Qjet, 3.08 posi rear out of a 1974 Nova and TH350 automatic out of who-knows-what...

Figured I better take a few quick fresh pics now so I remember how good she CAN look, cuz about 1 week from now I anticipate I will probably be touching up multiple rock chips already...I know how I drive LOL. A trailer queen she certainly is NOT...