Restore DEI Monte Carlo & Examine Transmission Innovation

at the very top now what is the story with this car this car is a Dei all Dei product the transmission rear end engine it's a 2000 model um and uh it's just about ready to go to paint uh wiring paint and plumbing and I'm trying to restore this thing it was a steeve park uh penoil number one Dei car we're getting ready to uh get it back on the racetrack they've got a pretty good vintage group with these cars now and uh and some of the Vintage drivers you know the old the older older retired drivers are coming out and uh and run they run strong I mean they they these guys run just as strong as they used to in the old days but uh uh this is be a kind of a neat a neat project to get done and get it back on the highway or back on the racetrack and uh like what happened to that car what happened to those guys what happened to Steve Park you know so a lot of the guys that I know are here in town still that worked on this car so we're planning on in the future to do a segment maybe with you uh to kind of you know introduce this car back to the public and uh what happened to it and where it's gone and and what's what's going on with it now yeah wanted to do video with Steve for a long time but um usually we go into Old shops and stuff and obviously we can't get into Dei so I'm like what kind of video would we do with Steve I don't know yeah well this would be a perect this would be perfect yeah I'd love to see Steve back we can get him we can get him I had him I had him in the car about 3 months ago I think it was and he came down and sat sat in his Original Seed and you know felt the steering and the pedals and the whatnot and he says man that's it we changed a few things for him and he said okay let's go with that so we're going to put it right back where it's comfortable for him we've got a cow to build for it and the air air cleaner induction system and then finalize this Dash and then we're ready to go to uh paint Bondo and paint and wiring it's pretty much there just paint if it was painted it would look like it could be ready tomorrow right well and the guy and the guys that worked on this stuff I mean it was amazing how quick they could turn cars around one thing I did notice about those is that you're using a solid rear end I think a lot of people would say you could do is that one of the requirements that you have to have it has to be a solid axle it is a at a requirement it's independent rear suspension is not legal in the class of TransAm there's a rear…