After owning her for one year, this is how she looks now (above).  There's still plenty to do to keep me busy through the summer.  Below is what she looked like when I bought her.

A 1990 having several owners so you can imagine it wasn't pristine.  But all in all it wasn't in bad shape.  I started with the body - rust spots, parking lot puckers, old body work, etc. - and gave it a new paint job.  Then I replaced the leaky T-Top weatherstripping.  Now I can get a new headliner and door panels.  I'm not planning on making it a show car but I do want it to look and ride nice.  It's a fun hobby!

For some reason a previous owner cut the aerowing.  I went with a spoiler from a later model because a new aerowing costs $400.

The driver's side rear quarter panel needed some serious work.  It took quite a bit of time and elbow grease to shape it and rework the wheel opening.

I found this rust hole in the passenger front floor board quite by accident.  You couldn't see it from under the car because of the heat sheild.  Along with the hole where the drill is, there was another hole in the transmission housing.  It's all patched up with sheet metal, pop rivets and fiberglass filler.

The nose piece was in pretty bad shape.  It needed a lot of sanding and filler.  There was a strong possibility I may have had to buy a new one but I wouldn't know until after the paint went on.

Body work done.  Ready for primer/sealer, then paint.  I replaced the 15" T/A wheels with 16" Formula wheels.

I sprayed it with a sealer/primer before painting.  It actually looked pretty cool in flat black.  Sort of Batmobile-ish.  Thanks to my son Jarred.  He helped me out quite a bit.

Two coats of base and two of clear.  I would have liked to have used more but this was being done in an evening auto body class so I was working against the clock.

Here she is all painted!  A million thanks to Tom Duda at North Shore Tech in Middleton, MA and to Dean who helped extensively with the clear coat.  My next step is to reattach the ground effects and apply the decals.  Oh yeah, the nose didn't have to be replaced.

I reattached all the ground effects.  It was tougher than taking them off!  My next projects include new interior door panels, headliner, applying POR-15 to the undercarraige, and swapping the rear end from an '89 Formula 350 that I have.  After that, I'd like to start working on increasing the hp.  The car already has a Flowmaster cat-back system, a K & N air filter with a modified filter canister, under drive pulleys, and Bosch +4 spark plugs.  But I know there's so much more I can do without breaking the bank.

The suspension has been pretty well beefed up.  I used the sway bars from the Formula I mentioned earlier.  It had the WS6 suspension.  I also used KYB shocks and struts, UMI Performance panhard rod, lower control arms and wonder bar, correct height performance springs, BMR strut tower brace, and polyurathane bushings and end links.  Even though I need new tires, it handles pretty nice.  Once I swap the rear ends, I'll have disk brakes all around and I have nickle plated drilled and slotted rotors waiting to be put on.