Frank Serafine is the ring leader at Prodigy Customs in Florida, and he and his talented team have build many killer Pro-Touring style cars.  This year, they're thrashing on a 1969 Trans-Am project for SEMA 2007 called Empty Nest.

Project Empty Nest is a 1969 Pontiac Firebird ragtop featuring a pro-touring attitude and about a zillion custom touches.    As part of our SEMA Thrashers Series, we're touching base with Frank Serafine along the way as the Prodigy Customs crew builds this very cool Pontiac for SEMA, 2007.    We'll be posting audio interviews here, and shooting a feature on the car at the SEMA show in October.

This audio interview is approx. 20 minutes long.








Stay tuned for more updates from Frank and the crew, and feel free to post questions we should ask them in the next interview!

- KO

EmptyNest, a 1969 Firebird convertible, pays tribute to the popular Pontiac Trans Am, Prodigy style! Combining obvious Trans Am hues
from various years, Project EmptyNest is a Firebird like no other. From the legendary white and blue paint theme of the early cars, to
the recognizable Snowflake style wheels from the Bandit days, to the carbon fiber dash and stripes reminiscent of the "disco dash",
you can see obvious T/A influence in the modern day Pro Touring roadster.

Here are some pictures when we started on July 16




Here it is before we tear it apart



The car rested on the side of this house since 1982 when the original owner took it away from his then teenage daughter. They drove
the car to the side of the house in perfect running condition, turned it off, walked away, and there it sat. As the years passed, a
fence was installed around it, trees grew around it. It took some work to get it unlodged.



Removing it from its grave.



Inside shot with just a little rust







Custom feet warmers









Lisa getting ready to through down!



“Where do I start?”



Look, I am driving!



It just gets worse after the interior is removed



Lisa plasma cutting apart the front-end. She always wanted to play with that thing



Removing big chunks now



Draging away big chunks!

 

Jeez Frank, that thing was a pile!    Looks eerily similar to the Royal Sport Camaro we built last year!  Amazing progress! 

Prodigy Customs built this 1969 Pontiac Trans Am "Tribute" car not only for the SEMA show, but also to drive!   And technically being owned by Prodigy's Lisa Serafine, you can bet this car will see some serious street time.    Detials include an all aluminum Butler built Pontiac, custom styling and interior, one-off Forgeline wheels, the first Speedtech subframe, huge Wilwood brakes, and about a million other custom tricks.   This car was another of our "SEMA Thrashers " interviews in our V8TVshow.com forum.    There you'll find the pictures of how bad and rusty the original car was... it's amazing to see how it has transformed.  The Prodigy Customs family did it again.