Schwartz Performance, Inc.
 1965 Pontiac Tempest
"Project Temptress"
 
 
 
 
 Texas body
 
 
 
 
 

 
 Moisture under the carpet took it's toll
 
 Solid original wheel tubs
 
 The teardown
 
 Nick and Kyle working on the Tempest
 
Our new GM A body chassis with mandrel bent rails in the background with the stock chassis in the foreground
 
 After Imperial Blasting
 
Solid floor braces
 
 Replacing floor pans
 
 
 
New trunk pan
 
 
Minitubs before final grinding
 
 Floors after being fully welded, ground and seam sealed.

 
Floors after epoxy priming with PPG DP 90
 
 
 
Nearly finished firewall
 
Finished firewall with PPG DP90
 
 
  
 
Finished Minitub
 
 
 
 Finished trunk and minitubs
 
Patched original quarter
 
550 HP Schwartz LS3
 
 
18x9.5 and 18x13 wheels 
 
Schwartz Performance A-Body chassis powdercoated red
 
 
We're using a Dana 60 we had lying around on this Schwartz project chassis..
 
 
Schwartz REAL Carbon Fiber LS Coil covers
 
Schwartz fabricated cage almost done.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Grant and Duncan from Hong Kong and Australia on the shore of Lake Michigan in Racine, WI
 
Duncan Craft making a 1/4 mile pass at Bristol TN dragstrip
 
On the road during the Hot Rod Power Tour 2009
 
 
In the Tremec display on Hot Rod Power Tour 2009
 
Grant, ready to beat on the Temptress
 
 
This car is the 2009 Car Craft Real Street Eliminator Champion
 
I think he scared himself
 
9-24-09
 
 
 
 
 
 
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