Most of us don’t still have our first car sitting in the garage. Since most everyone’s first car is a bucket, they aren’t worth keeping. Plus, they often get dinged and dented in the high school parking lot, or just torn up outright because of our lack of driving skills.

Frank Killam did his own rendering of what he had in mind for the Vega. Killam teaches at the Art Center College of Design and works as a Clay Modeler for VW of America.

“A wise man once told me…’I should have kept my first car,’ so I did,” Frank Killam says. Killam’s car is a ’72 Vega GT he bought in 1974 from a Chevrolet dealer in Burbank, California. “I drove it to high school in my senior year (1975), and raced in in Bracket 5 every weekend at Irwindale Raceway, OCIR, LACR, and Terminal Island. It probably has 10,000 miles on it, a 1/4-mile at a time,” Killam adds. “I call it Pre Skol because it’s older than old school.”

The car’s new iteration is what Killam dreamed of having in high school. Bones Fab built the all-steel car, minus a Harwood hood, with a Mast Motorsports 440-inch LSX engine, a TCI full-manual 4L80 with a brake and converter, a Chris Alston’s Chassisworks chassis with a Fab9 rear, Wilwood brakes, Eibach springs, Momo seats and steering wheel, and DJ Safety items.

That ten-foot-deep paint is a single stage Glasurit deep black applied by Wayne Henderson, while the chassis color is PPG Essentials light grey. Plus, all suspension pieces were powdercoated by California Coating in a metallic gun metal.

Finishing off the sleek look, Killam runs a set of Billet Specialties’ polished Comp 5 wheels, front and rear, on the car.

The car made its debut at last year’s SEMA show, and it won Best Pro Street Custom and Overall Best Street Machine at the 2015 Grand National Roadster show. Once the car makes its rounds at several shows, Killam plans to take the car to the track once again to see what she can do.

Along with Billet Specialties, kill marks Neo Oil and Borla Exhaust among his sponsor supporters.