Model Roxy and a 57 Chevy BelAir photoshoot
John Tisbury:
Hello. So you join me, I'm just sitting in
the Chevy and I'm just on the A6.
Although it's quiet at the moment, no
cars coming past but you'll hear the
traffic in a minute as one's coming past now. Why am I sitting here? Good question.
I'm off to pick up Roxy, a model, and
today we're going to be shooting some
pinup style shots, glamour style that
kind of thing, with the car.
It's a beautiful day. Really really nice hot sunny day.
So hopefully the location that I've scouted
won't be heaving. If it is then we may
have to go elsewhere and find another
location.
It gives us a chance to shoot some stills and that's really what I'm going to be concentrating on today
and we'll also shoot some
behind-the-scenes content as well so
you'll see the setup and the sort of
equipment I'm using that kind of thing.
I've brought along basically a boot full of
gear. Do we've got the drone,
we've got video, we've got the iFootage
track to do a bit of time-lapse.
I brought really the whole studio I guess. It gives us a lot of flexibility a lot of options.
Hopefully Roxy hasn't got loads of stuff
that she needs to put in the boot. As the boot is fairly full now.
I'm about ten minutes away from Roxy so I'm just gonna give her a bell she's
expecting me! Thankfully. And we'll then hook up of you again once we're
in position and getting set up. Alright going to sign off for now.
Just going to start the car up and close this down. Just start the car...
The nice sound of an American V8.
So we've arrived. Roxy is just working her way through the clothing store that we have.
I just chucked a few things in.
I don't know if that's your size John?
No it's not my size.
It shows my underpants through there.
Scarfs...
I know girls like scarves.
Socks....laughter
Gosh. You're good at packing. Yeah.
So we've got a boot full of gear in here. Various things, cameras, drones, iFootage stuff for time-lapse
and there's some more clothes in the car as well, blouses and tops.
So we're going to get setup. Decide what we're going to wear.
I like these.
I thought you might, they're a little bit crumpled. Yeah that's fine.
So yeah, we're just gonna get set up and then we're gonna do some some shots.
It's glorious here. We're in a little car park.
Clear blue sky. We've got the place to ourselves. Well that's a bit of a lie, because there's those cars over there.
But in terms of people who are going to annoy us, and be inquisitive, at the moment
there is no-one. Right so going to sign off
and then we're gonna get set up. See you in a bit.
Okay, just turned the car round because we felt that a) shooting into the car park wasn't
really photogenic as a background and b).
Just positioning you on the bonnet.
Erm b) what was b)? b) was the light wasn't it. We felt that the light would be
easier to control because it's so bright out
here.
We've got Roxy in the shade. I can just
add a bit of fill-in flash into that.
So we're about to start off with another
set. I'm running a time lapse in the
which you'll get to see in a second when we've finished.
We're shooting on this side of the car. I've setup a flash, at an angle, opposite the
sun to fill in the shadows. And I've set
the zoom on that to about 35m...
oh sorry 35mm in terms of zoom. I
might go in a bit closer if I need to.
It goes up to 105mm if need be, if I really
need to go in tight on the zoom.
And I've got, on the front of the camera, I've got a polarising filter to cut the glare
from the glass and saturate the colours
as well. So yeah, see how we get on.
We've just been off to get a sandwich and a drink. We just made our way back again.
I don't think I pointed this out this morning, where we are parked, there's loads of Mayflies which have
hatched. I don't know if you can see them on the camera, probably not. All dancing around in the sun.
1957 Chevy BelAir ride out
John Tisbury:
Top model Joceline and a 57 Chevy BelAir photoshoot
John Tisbury:
Hello, hello. You join us at our normal sort of car parky spot where we do some, where I...
some shots with the car and model. And
we're going to be doing some shots with
a Chevy today and Joceline. We're looking
at sort of 50s style pinup, that kind of
chic look. Sort of classic type of
emotional feeling to the shots so that's
our plan. Hopefully it'll go according to
plan. <laughter>
We'll see. I will keep you posted during the
day so I bought boot-full of stuff as I
always do. There's actually more my stuff
than Joceline's stuff for a change.
And we've got the iFootage so do a bit of
time-lapse. I've bought the drone along as
well so we'll do a few behind the scenes
bits and bobs as we go.
So there you go. We'll see you in a bit. Bye.
Let's go Daisy. Okay. All Daisy
because that's different from what we've
just shot isn't it. Lovely.
And you're still happy with
hair down right?
Yeah, I like it. We'll struggle a bit more here
because of the wind, but I don't mind
that if you're ok with fighting against
it. Totally.
So, so far we've shot one scene with Joss in a, we've called it a cocktail dress, sort of 50's cocktail
dress. We don't know if it is or not. Well yeah that's a fair point! I've called it
a cocktail dress so it's probably not a cocktail dress at all, and we'll get loads of
comments about what it actually is.
But anyway it's 50's we know that much
and it looks fab. Joss is now getting
changed to I'm sort of adverting...
...just checking that I can film.
I have no privacy requirements... <laughter>
So Joss is just sitting in the car just getting changed into the next
setup. We going to go with a sort of Daisy Duke look so shorts and a blouse
and we're gonna do some outside shots of
the car. The weather has been sort of
consistent. Very cloudy, overcast with the
odd bright spell, in terms of a sort of
hazy sun I guess would be the the best
way of explaining it. We had a little drop
of rain here and there but nothing
horrendous, just the odd spit. And yeah so
we're just taking a break, swapping
around. I'm sticking with... let's take you
over there show you. I'm shooting with the
flash guns so we've got two of the Nikon SB800's.
On lighting stands and triggered... Where's the camera? Triggered by something on top of the camera which
I appear to have lost. I think it's round here by Joss. Oh yes...it's on the other side. That's fine.
Joss is a bit indisposed at the moment
so we won't toddle round that way.
Just reach in and get that...
So on top of the camera we've got the Pocketwizard which
is really good actually. I really enjoy
using this because you can set it on
full manual and adjust the exposure
through these dials here. So yeah it's
very very straightforward and you can
put it on full automatic through TTL
or manual and I usually use it on manual
which is the preferred option and the
nice thing with the flash guns is that
you can adjust the zoom. So on the back
here we've got the option. Oooh, pressed too hard. There we go.
On the back here we've got the option, if you can actually see that...
We can adjust it with this. Give you a view where you can see.
So that's working through the zoom options there.
But enough of me rambling on and Joss looks like she's almost ready.
Yes!
I have a quick costume check. Yup.
Okay we won't be going with the cardy. <laughter>
Oh! Yeah how disappointing.
Such an unreasonable photographer, god!
<laughter> So sign off for now and
we'll catch up with you in a bit.
We're just having a little break.
Joceline is inside. Yes!
Just got the engine running and the heater on, to keep her warm, while we do a bit of a change of setup.
So I've just done some Daisy Duke shots at the front of the car which look really good!
So F2.8 with two flashes either side. So
I'll bring those up on screen so you
have a look at those.
And now we're going to turn the car
around so we can do some shots on the
tail fin and boot area, or trunk area, if
you're American.
So I'm just doing that set up, just moving things around. So I think what we're gonna to do...
I've never done this before. Is I"m actually going to use the Sony A7 mark III and use that for
time lapse, see how that goes.
Best barn find ever? 45 sports cars hidden in Virginia | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 70
Hagerty:
(exhaust bellowing)
(engine revving)
(upbeat music)
- We're driving on coastal rural Virginia
to a little town called Reedville,
which I'd never heard of.
But there's a warehouse full of cars,
interesting cars, I'm told.
It was a lead given to me by a friend,
and if he said they were
worthwhile to go and look at,
I said I gotta go look at those cars.
We're not driving a wooden car this time.
This is a rather solid
'67 Ford Country Squire.
It drives like a dream,
and if this car looks familiar to you,
it's because it appeared in
Episode 13 of Barn Finders.
Go back, check it out.
This is the car.
I wound up buying it, and
here we are four years later.
I'm doing 1,000 miles
a week with this baby.
♪ I can see you with anyone else ♪
Three trailers, I know
what they're gonna do.
They have by the end of the week
to get whatever cars are in here out.
You can't go much further in Virginia
than we are right here.
There's the water, and the ocean.
I guess it's the Outer Banks beyond that.
We're in rural Virginia, a
little town called Reedville,
really at the end of the road.
The pavement ran out, the gravel ran out,
and now we're on dirt.
We've been invited here by Mike.
Mike, thanks so much for inviting us.
- Looking forward to it.
- Mike apparently has become
the owner of a cache of cars.
So tell me what's in here.
I haven't been in here yet.
- Right.
- How many buildings, why
are they here, who owned it?
- What took place was
a gentleman in Virginia
had the opportunity to
purchase cars over a lifetime,
and started buying and
maintaining cars here.
He also had a place in Richmond, Virginia,
downtown Richmond, Virginia,
and some at his home.
Unfortunately, an illness has taken over,
and the family needs to move
on the property and the cars,
and essentially what I did
was I was fortunate enough
to purchase the entire cache.
My responsibility is to clean
it up and move the cars out.
I'm a car nut.
I've been a car nut forever.
I'm in the car business,
and I will never have the opportunity
to touch or feel these cars,
but I want to make sure
they go to the next owner
who can finish them.
Nobody can do 44 cars that I purchased,
so I'm gonna be able to split them up
and get them to new homes
and make sure that they're restored
and back on the road,
because as a car historian,
you can't let them go to waste.
- Well, thanks for having us, and lead us.
- Let's go.
And that's the neatest part.
- All right, should I turn the lights on?
Oh man.
So you haven't touched anything here?
- [Mike] Haven't touched anything.
Most of it hasn't been
touched in 15 or 20 years.
- [Tom] These are cars that he's collected
over the course of a lifetime?
Oh, man.
- [Mike] That's what I did, oh man.
I think something got in
the way of a straight line.
Thankfully, it's only a fiberglass car.
- So here's a Volkswagen
powered Porsche Speedster,
fiberglass body, which
may be an Intermeccanica,
but there were a number of
companies that made these.
Some were really good, and
some are collector's items
in themselves these days.
This has 2900 miles I
guess since it was built.
It came out of Hartsville, South Carolina.
He paid $650 to have it shipped
from San Francisco to Richmond, Virginia.
Isn't that something?
There's no date on here.
Hmm, no date.
That's pretty cheap, because I
pay a lot more than that now.
- [Mike] I know, look at this.
- Oh, it's got a built VW motor,
hot rod, dual carbs, alternator.
- [Mike] We know it was at least in 2010.
- [Tom] Oh, black plate car.
He had to buy that, 'cause
this 'aint a black plate car.
Does it have a top, I wonder?
- [Mike] It's got a cover.
- [Tom] So, when Speedsters
got to be too expensive
for an original one,
they went from $50,000
to $75,000 to $100,000,
$150,000, $200,000, $250,000,
it made sense to come
out with, like Cobras,
a fiberglass version
that people could enjoy
the look of the real car
for a small portion of the price.
So we have a diesel Rabbit pickup.
These are the cat's meow.
- [Mike] There's two more down there.
- I've got a friend in Maine
that would like to buy this right now.
It's got Scirocco wheels.
- [Mike] Actually, GTI wheels.
- [Tomm] And so they're all complete.
- [Mike] We hope complete.
- [Tom] Too many people take them apart,
and then they take another
car part and another car part,
and then you just have
parts all over the place.
- [Mike] Look down the middle.
Where'd all the motors come from?
- [Tom] So it was a 280 SL?
- 280 Four Speed.
That one is so original.
It appears as the brake
booster has been removed,
but everything else about it,
down to the last hydraulic
line, is still attached.
- [Tom] That's probably original paint.
- [Mike] We believe it is.
- Wow, it looks like 55,000 miles.
I'm not quite sure if
I'm reading that right.
This car never should be restored.
Holy mackerel.
All right, so next to
us, we have a Porsche.
- [Mike] That's a 1960
356 Porsche Cabriolet.
- [Tom] People are gonna
freak out over this episode.
This is exactly what
Hagerty customers love.
So a 1960 1600 Porsche,
it's got a hard top.
Whether it's factory or not, I'm not sure.
Obviously the soft top, luggage rack.
This is not a Speedster.
The Speedster windshield
would have been lower,
and a Speedster would not
have had roll up windows.
The Speedster had side curtains.
Look how complete it is.
- [Mike] You know what's amazing?
All four hubcaps are on top.
That would take a lifetime to find.
- There's an oil change sticker in here,
so I'm gonna see,
I know everybody criticizes Tom Cotter
for not having a flashlight.
- [Mike] You want to carry my flashlight?
I've got one.
- There's an oil change sticker here.
It says 6/28, the date, but
it doesn't give the year.
Warrington, Pennsylvania is
the town it was serviced at,
at Mobil Oil.
This says 4800 miles, so
it's probably 104,000,
something like that.
And here's the moon hubcaps.
Now I think the problem
area with these cars
was in the front here in the battery,
and it looks to be really solid.
I'm gonna just pull this
wheel out, if that's okay.
- [Mike] Yeah, sure.
You break it, you buy it.
- You got it.
Look at that floor, no rust.
It's under the battery,
under the spare tire,
where there would be rust developing.
Pretty solid car.
So it looks like it's got 104,000 miles.
I wonder if this original paint.
Let's see if we can find any remnants.
Yeah, this has been painted.
See, there's the black, but
there's a bead of red on there,
so this has been painted.
Looks to be a metallic red.
So you can tell this is an early 356,
not the later ones, like a C.
C would have had a small bolt pattern.
This you have the larger bolt pattern
like a Volkswagen Beetle.
Nice.
Okay, so this is a,
- [Mike] Volkswagen Rabbit convertible.
Cabriolet is what they called them.
He loved Rabbits.
- [Tom] Yeah, well I do, too.
- [Mike] Got rabbits
everywhere, they multiply.
- I guess we'll just go down one side.
Oh my goodness, look at that, wow.
- [Mike] Is that not amazing?
- [Tom] Jeez, so here we have an MG TD.
Could be I guess from '49 to '53.
- [Mike] '53, but this is
a '52, based on the title.
- [Tom] There used to be a 1250 CC
four cylinder engine here.
This is the toolbox.
You put your jack in there
and wrenches and stuff,
'cause obviously you needed them
when they broke down,
but this has a V8 Chevy,
distributor in the back, four
barrel Rochester generator.
Look how close that generator plate
comes to the original radiator.
You couldn't get two dimes in there.
Original exhaust manifold is going down.
They had to use some flex pipe.
What kind of transmission does it have?
- [Mike] Don't know yet.
- It's a manual gear box,
it looks like maybe a
three speed Chevy box.
- [Mike] Look at the steering wheel.
- Yeah, paddle steering wheel.
So it's got five bolt
original wheels in the front
and four bolts in the back,
so that's probably like
a Chevy Nova rear end.
Four bolt six cylinder Chevy Nova
would have had four lugs.
Dual exhaust?
No, single exhaust.
- [Mike] Really?
- What kind of hot rod is this?
Yeah, single exhaust, wow.
And it's got a brake booster
in the back, way back here.
Leaf springs, wow, you're right.
What a blast this would have
been playing with Cobras.
Look at the shifter.
- [Mike] Yeah, I'm looking
at that. Is that not wild?
- It's kind of a sideshifter,
like an early Healy.
- [Mike] Look at the bend in it.
- So it's probably an early
JC Whitney floor shifter.
- [Mike] Okay.
- The problem was it was a
good idea until you got on it,
and then the chassis flex.
It was just a skimpy little chassis.
- And there's still wood
under the chassis here.
- Yeah, man.
That's a clean truck.
- [Mike] With a shell,
which you never find,
but they put a sunroof in it.
- So this is not a diesel, this is a gas.
Volkswagen Rabbit pickup, manual
transmission, clean seats.
He cleaned this sucker up nice.
Now look at this, a body
factory colored looking top.
Very nice vehicle.
So this is probably,
- [Mike] '81, '82.
- Yeah, early '80s.
Clean pickup bed.
You see the original paint
is still back in there,
so they didn't haul around
brake drums and stuff with it.
I've got friends that like
these vehicles very much,
and look at how clean the body is.
I'm imagining the floor is just as clean.
It's got 108,000 miles on it.
- [Mike] Which is a baby.
- Yeah, it's a baby,
and who knows how long
it's been sitting here?
Is there a sticker?
- Not on this one.
- That's a good one.
I think a lot of the people
know, Barn Find Hunter,
we find Cobras and Ferraris,
and I get excited about those things,
but we find Volkswagen pickups
and I get excited about those things, too,
and I think that the
antique hobby movement
is going in this direction
for young enthusiasts
that become involved in the sport.
- This one's so original,
it's still got the
plastic tire cover shelf.
- So that's a four door?
- [Mike] That's a four door.
It's a diesel.
- [Tom] Diesel with no motor.
- [Mike] Right, the motor's
sitting over here somewhere,
and that's a Rabbit GTI.
- [Tom] You mind if I step on that bumper?
- I don't care.
- Now you guys with the camera
could have a problem with this.
So that's just a four door Rabbit,
not that there's anything wrong with it.
I used to race against a guy
that raced a four door
Rabbit at Bridgehampton.
Good car, but of course,
this is a first gen GTI,
so no engine in this one, but
it's probably here somewhere.
- [Mike] It's here somewhere.
It's an '84 model.
- [Tom] This looks to be original paint.
- [Mike] It's very, very original.
- [Tom] Wow, so this was that cinnamon,
kind of a cinnamon red.
They only were available,
as I remember, three colors.
It was red, black, white.
- [Mike] And then they became silver.
- Yep, you're right.
So this has the GTI seats in there.
It's got the golf ball shift knob.
Let's see what the mileage is on this.
85,000 miles.
It's got the seats, front
and back, all original.
Sunroof.
You can see that there's
mildew on the doors,
but that's easily cleaned.
It's got drums in the
back, discs in the front.
This was the car that
changed America's opinion
of what a muscle car could be.
This was one of the first pocket rockets.
After the Mini Cooper S, 1275 S,
back in the 60s, this was the next car.
Front wheel drive, a car
that anybody could afford,
good gas mileage, but handled great,
had a lot of power, and this brought on
a whole new generation
of muscle car in America,
if you want to call this a
muscle car. It was an econobox.
Car and Driver Magazine,
Road and Track Magazine,
loved these cars.
When I went out to buy my
second new car, my wife and I,
we didn't buy the Rabbit.
We bought the Golf version
in 1985, which we still have.
So we still have a GTI we
bought new 35 years ago.
All right, so another Volkswagen pickup,
another one with a cap on it.
Factory color, standard
transmission and a diesel.
- [Mike] Yep, which is even
more desirable for some.
- Absolutely, yeah, 'cause
these things are running
a quarter million miles easy.
102,000 miles.
Nice tan interior, very
period correct color.
Saddle interior, tan outside, very nice.
All right, so here is one of the most
unusual sports cars ever built.
People said it looked like a guppy.
Look at the nose on this thing.
It had controversial styling.
It was made by Daimler, D-A-I-M-L-E-R.
It's an SP250, or a 250SP.
I see there's a factory shop manual here.
Daimler was a company in
England that made large cars,
limousines, large sedans.
- [Mike] It was the queen's car.
- The queen's car, and they were not known
for building sports cars,
but back in the 60s,
that's where the market was going.
They developed a fiberglass sports car.
It was a two and a half liter V8.
I'm gonna show you what
that V8 looks like here.
It's a Hemi V8, and if
that looks like a miniature
Chrysler 331, 392, it is.
It's a miniature version
of a Chrysler Hemi engine.
It has two SU carburetors,
and they sounded great.
I mean, the cars did not perform
particularly well on the racetrack,
but man, they sounded so cool.
Had a dual exhaust, and
really, if you were racing this
or competing against a
Healy or an MGB or an MGA,
this would clean the floor with it.
Fiberglass body, this has
a fiberglass hard top.
Now think about that.
Think about this for a minute.
A small V8 these days is a five liter.
This is a 2.5 liter, half the
size of a Mustang GT engine.
- [Mike] It was used as a police
car for a number of years.
- Wind wing,
accessory hard top, it's
got a four speed gearbox.
Looks to be a complete car.
The seat's a little bit ripped.
This is a red car, black
interior, red piping.
The keys are there, all
the gauges are there,
Smiths gauges, padded dash.
So again, this should never be restored.
This car should just be enjoyed.
You know, the problem
with restoring these cars,
you could be upside down the
moment you start to touch it,
so you can enjoy this car as is.
It's got kind of strange
styling in the back here, too.
- [Mike] It took 50s styling
and it took 60s styling,
and it took fiberglass
from the Corvette world,
and the V8 Hemis, it was crazy.
- Kind of odd American 1960s styling
with these little fins here.
Think about a Cadillac fin, a '59 or so,
a scaled down version of that.
What year is this?
- [Mike] This one's '60.
- '60, okay.
Look at all these,
now you can tell this
guy was an enthusiast.
He saved his Hemmings
Motor Newses, 1990, 1991.
Only idiots like me and
he do that kind of thing.
This must be his literature closet.
Here's a Mercedes-Benz owner's
manual for some vehicle.
- [Mike] Probably for
the car right behind you.
- 250 SL, 280 SL.
These are all the factory
service bulletins.
Pretty cool stuff.
So this car, originally from Rhode Island,
last registered in 1980,
is a Mercedes Ponton,
a 220 Ponton, which was the
style of the car at the time.
This was a car, a sedan
version of a 190 SL sports car.
Kind of subdued styling, very round,
and then after this they
went to the fin tail,
which is a little sharper, crisper.
It probably has a four
speed on the column,
it's a standard transmission,
four in the tree.
Nice looking gauges.
It says 33,000 miles.
I guess it could be.
It has been painted.
People that didn't remove the
windows during a paint job
could never quite get the masking right,
so you could tell if some of
these have been painted or not
if there's rubber that has a
little bit of the color on it.
So another Daimler.
Now, look at this stuff here in the trunk.
Here's a California car cover.
Oh, it's Hemmings Motor News
that hasn't even been
unwrapped, Winter 2001.
An atlas, I guess this is
a boat map for boating.
Mirror, probably from this car.
So here we have another Daimler 250 SP.
Did that one have wire wheels on it?
- The other one did, this one does, also.
The one that we have as a
parts car has solid wheels.
- Little bit of footprints from a raccoon
that's visited this car.
Hopefully it's not in there.
Red car, red interior, all the
gauges, the dash is intact.
Four speed gearbox.
This is I guess a two plus two,
but boy, you had to have short legs.
Maybe kids could fit
in the back seat there.
- [Mike] This one was unusual,
because that one has a roll bar on it.
- This one has a roll bar, I saw that.
So radiator, okay, the radiator is here.
I thought it was removed.
You can see it's got a
logo on the generator,
again, another miniature Chrysler V8.
I've actually seen some American hot rods,
Model T type track roadsters
with this motor in there,
and people freak out.
Oh my God, a Hemi, a baby Hemi.
Well, that's what it is,
a 2.2 liter baby Hemi.
- [Mike] They called
it a trout mouth front.
- Right, you can tell the grill
is the looks only a mother could love.
- [Mike] What's amazing and
what's so smart on his part,
everything's inside.
The weather has not touched
any of these in years.
Look at the chrome.
While it's still there,
it's a great opportunity to start again.
- You're a lucky guy,
because if these were sitting
outside, it'd be a graveyard.
Another MG TD, that one
has chrome headlights.
This one with the V8 has
got chrome headlights,
but actually they came
with painted headlights,
and the chrome was an option.
1250 CC XPAG engine it was called.
I know because I've got one of these.
This is probably the
original color this car was,
which was kind of a greenish-gray,
but it was painted British
racing green on top of that.
Another toolbox, and a
mouse has been in here.
Two inch and a quarter SU carburetors.
This was a car that turned
America on to sports cars.
It was one that a lot of
GIs came back from England
and either brought with them
or bought when they got to the States.
You could drive it to
a racetrack, race it,
and then hopefully drive it home again.
This one is a Jaguar Mark 2, maybe.
- [Mike] It's a 3.8 S.
I don't know if the
designation was a Mark,
I think it was a Mark 2.
I thought the Mark 2 was a little smaller.
- [Tom] I don't know,
it might be on the back.
- [Mike] It says 3.8 S.
- This was a sports car, '66.
You see the porcelainized
the exhaust manifold,
double overhead cam.
You said a 3.8 liter?
Look at that wooden dash.
- [Mike] Look how clean it is,
look at the condition of it.
- [Tom] Amazing.
- [Mike] This car's gonna
clean up phenomenally well.
- I'm gonna sit in here.
I just gotta soak it in.
So it's got big plush
leather bucket seats.
Look at that dashboard.
It's got 45,000 miles.
- [Mike] Based on the condition, maybe.
- Could be.
Look at that dash.
All the gauges, cargo switches,
it's got a Blaupunkt.
It's got that proper musty smell.
And here's a key, it says Jaguar.
Now what year is this Porsche?
- [Mike] '68.
- [Tom] '68 targa, it's a 911?
- [Mike] It's a 912.
- 912, okay.
You know, until about six months ago,
nobody cared about 912s.
Now they're the hottest
thing in the world.
Is it a Sportomatic or anything?
- [Mike] You're opening the
door for the first time,
like I haven't yet.
- No, it's a stick shift, four speed.
Look at the interior,
look at the seats, dash.
He had an amazing eye for cars.
So this is, oh look, here's another badge.
Automobile Club Milano.
I wonder if he got these
cars out of Europe, wow.
- [Mike] No, most of them had titles
from either the Virginia
area, two were in California,
and the majority of them
in this east coast area.
- So this is probably missing,
yeah, it's missing a little logo.
I can see the pulls back here,
so that's obviously been
painted sometime in its life.
It's a silver and right here would be 912,
probably a 912.
It's not fuel injection,
so it wouldn't have been E, but 912.
It was a four cylinder version of a 911.
They say it was the ultimate
356, would be a 912.
It took the 356 technology
one stage further,
more sophisticated and a new body style.
Looks to be a good, solid
car, and these cars, you know,
nobody really wanted them
just a few years ago,
and now, man, people really
appreciate these cars.
Look at the interior.
Those seats could be
cleaned up beautifully.
- [Mike] It's a five gauge
dash, which is quite unusual.
- 80,000 miles?
Let me see that.
30,000, so I take it that that's 130,000,
and this car's been painted.
There's evidence of that all along here.
Silver targa, which means
the roof panel comes out,
could be stowed under the hood.
Disc brakes in the back,
disc brakes in the front.
This was probably the most sophisticated
four cylinder air-cooled
motor that Porsche made,
before putting all their
emphasis on six cylinder motors.
The hubcaps for the Porsche,
one, two, three, four.
Let's see if it turns over.
Let me just see if I can
spin the crankshaft on here.
No, I can't, but I bet unless it's seized,
there's no reason that thing wouldn't spin
and probably start up pretty easily.
See, it's got side, I guess two
downdraft, probably Solexes,
and those look like
aftermarket air cleaner.
You know what the horsepower
was, I really can't say.
Well, it's a pretty amazing
find, and you know what?
We're in the smaller building still.
There's a larger building still to come.
All right, so we have no
light in this building.
Ooh, an F150 and a Jimmy.
Are these yours as well?
- [Mike] Everything's mine.
(slow music)
- [Tom] That's a nice truck.
- [Mike] Oh yeah, I'm a Ford dealer.
This is gonna be easy for me.
- A short wheelbase four wheel drive?
- This is the only one that I recognized
and knew how to appraise.
- Right, wow.
Is it low mileage?
- [Mike] Don't know,
didn't look, didn't care.
- [Tom] Got to turn on the dash.
- [Mike] Yeah, didn't care.
- [Tom] So it's a manual gearbox.
- [Mike] Yeah, this one's 100% original.
- This will clean up so nice, beautiful.
I bet that doesn't have
30,000 miles on it.
Four wheel drive, manual gearbox,
and we can't see the mileage
because the odometer is digital,
so you have to turn the truck on
and obviously the battery's dead,
but it's got the trim,
factory chrome wheels,
is it a V8 five liter?
- Yep, five oh.
- [Tom] So that's like a five
liter Mustang motor, I guess.
Fuel injected.
I bet this is low mileage.
I'm not a truck guy.
- [Mike] This is a short bed.
- Jeez, you should make
this your company truck.
I'm spending time with this and this,
because there are Hagerty customers
that love these vehicles.
Here's one, so a race
driver friend of mine,
who you know, Elliot Forbes-Robinson,
a couple of years ago
he was looking for one
of these for his son,
'cause the thing is to get
these and lower them down.
You can slam 'em.
- [Mike] This one's a Jimmy.
- It's got an automatic, 86,000 miles.
This was a big deal back in the day.
Let's see, how do you release this?
Look at that, you could list
commonly called numbers there.
This was a big deal.
You had to walk around with a battery pack
back in these days.
And that's for sale, too?
- [Mike] Yep, everything's for sale.
- It's got a V6, so
that's a little hot rod.
- [Mike] Yeah, 2.8.
- AC, very nice.
Okay, so now let's get to the stuff
we're more interested in.
We'll start with the Volvo.
Nice Volvo wagon, automatic,
obviously its original paint.
I don't see any markings of repaint.
It's not a turbo, or is it?
I can't say that for sure.
It doesn't appear to be a turbo.
I will probably be scorned
by a number of people.
It's got factory alloy rims.
17,000, so I assume it's 117,000 miles.
The leather seats need
a little bit of work.
Here's a car I know
something about, a VW Beetle,
and don't tell me the year,
I think I can guess it.
Let's see, large taillights,
which means it's newer
than, it's '61 or newer.
Dished wheel, so it's had
some either rust repair
or probably damage repair up in the front.
It's got a new hood, so I'd
say it's probably a '63 or '64.
With that door handle,
I'm saying it's '65, '66.
- [Mike] '67.
- [Tom] '67, okay.
New fenders, brand new
fenders lying there,
all the fender welting
and hood welting on there,
so it looks like a lot of the parts
that you'd need to fix
it are here already.
That one's got 15,000 miles.
By the look of it, the wear on the pedals,
I'd say it's definitely 115,000.
The area of concern with
these cars is the battery,
and you can see back here,
there is in fact some cancer.
There's a little bit of a hole,
but this is common and really acceptable
in a Volkswagen Beetle of this vintage.
So this car could be revived real easy.
You can buy all these carpeted panels here
from aftermarket firms.
The new seat covers, which it needs.
There's the horsehair, by the way.
Door panels you can buy,
so even a home mechanic
can glue in these pieces,
put on the seat covers, put on door panels
like in a weekend and have
the whole interior revived.
This is a hard top, it
does not have a sunroof.
Everybody with a Beetle tried to fix it up
with these steering wheel covers.
- [Mike] It's got great bones.
- Yeah, it does.
Okay, well now we have,
going from the baby to the big brother.
This is a 930?
- [Mike] 911, '84 model.
- [Tom] A 911 with big
stuff welded on here.
- [Mike] We don't know
if it's factory or not.
I have to pull the codes yet,
but I haven't been able to see it.
- Maybe I can let you know right now.
That's got big flares,
and there's not a lot of
evidence that they've been added.
Was there a non-turbo wide body car?
- [Mike] Yes.
- That could be it.
16 inch wheels.
That appears to be metal,
and the undercoating is
consistent throughout
from the lip all the way in,
so it doesn't appear
that these were added on.
- [Mike] And it's an air-conditioned car.
- What liter is this, do you know?
- I'm thinking a 2.8 in '84,
but it could be a three too,
I'm not sure.
- [Tom] It's got big flares
in the front and back.
It's got this whale tail,
which was the iconic Porsche,
and the reason that was
put there was that air,
rather than slipping down
and ultimately slowing down the car,
there was a clean break,
and it was a clean break for the air,
so it just kind of shot up
and the car was not being
held back by aerodynamics.
It ultimately made a swoopy
car into a sharp tail.
A guy named Kamm, K-A-M-M,
invented around World War II the Kammtail,
and this is an extension of that.
This is all rubber.
I think the US required this to be rubber
in case pedestrians got hit by it.
I guess a factory black car?
- [Mike] Yeah, we believe it is.
- [Tom] And if it was painted,
the windshield was taken out of it.
- [Mike] Miles on this one is 87,000.
No, 67,000.
- 67,000, there's some chips here,
so either those light
chips are a lighter primer
like a gray primer, or this car
was maybe silver at one time
and they just removed the windshield.
It's got cigarette butts in the ashtray.
Looks all complete to me.
Wow, it's got a five speed gearbox.
The seats have mildew on them,
but they could be brought back to life,
and the carpets look great.
You'll have this thing sold
before you even know what you're doing.
So this was last on the road in 2000.
Virginia, December 2000.
It's got a toolkit, which
I guess is original,
including a touch up stick.
Schwartz means black,
so if this is the original
toolkit touch up stick,
then this car was a black car originally.
These are West Germany, so
this is all original stuff.
It just looks odd to me.
Those wheels don't look big
enough to fill the fenders.
Okay, so here we have an early 911.
Is it 911?
- [Mike] 912.
- It's an early 912, okay.
912, see, this is the
logo that was missing
on the other one, and the old
Porsche script along the back.
The earliest 911s had a
little Porsche script up here,
and it said 911 almost in a
script, not in block type.
That would have been '65 and '66, I think.
So this is a stock body,
stock wheels, five boat lugs,
with a steel rim and hubcaps.
There's one, two, three,
there's three or four hubcaps back here.
Mileage is 16,000, so
we'll say it's 116,000.
I see there's pieces of
the dash are missing.
The gauges are all there.
It's probably an ashtray that's missing.
- [Mike] You can go up front
and see the rest of it.
- [Tom] Oh, this is a crunch-orino.
- [Mike] Little boo boo.
- Got it, what year is this?
- [Mike] '68.
I could be mistaken, it could be a '67.
We're not sure yet.
This is one of the ones
that we don't have a title
exactly number matching.
- If I owned all these cars,
I would be so inclined,
which one am I gonna keep?
Which two, which nine am I gonna keep?
- Which 10 am I gonna keep?
Which 12 am I gonna keep?
I'm not getting rid of any of 'em.
- How many did you buy?
- 44.
- All right, so this is what I'd do.
I would tell my wife I bought 24.
(both laughing)
And then when the 24 sold,
okay, that project's done.
So we have a 356 C.
How do I know it's a C?
Well, this is a Porsche 356 C
because there's a C
back here first of all,
but the C was kind of
a transitional model.
Like that 912 was kind
of the ultimate 356,
this 356 has many of
the beginnings of a 911.
You can tell it's a 356 C,
one of the reasons it had
two air vents in the back.
It had five bolts, but it didn't
have the large bolt pattern
like we saw in the early 356s.
They were close together, so
not like a Volkswagen wheel
where the bolts were way
out here, they're closer.
And the C is the first
one to have disc brakes,
front and back.
So it's got disc brakes front and back.
I actually owned one of these for a while,
and they're a great car.
Why did I sell it, why?
Beautiful dashboard, look at that.
That could be cleaned
up and never repaired,
never taken apart.
This was the tach,
so you can see where the yellow
and the redline would be,
so it kind of redlined at 5,000 RPMs.
Porsche made its name by beating
bigger, more powerful cars
because they could maintain a higher RPM
consistently around a racetrack
and not have to come on and
off the throttle as much,
so they weren't as fast
on the straightaway,
but they were a lot faster on the corners,
and that's when you saw
Corvettes and Porches
racing competitively against one another.
14,000 miles, so I guess 114,000.
It's got a Blaupunkt AM/FM radio.
Again, the hubcaps are
scattered about in here.
There's the body company
that made Porsche bodies
called Karmann Karosserie,
which was a body company.
That was either in Austria or Germany.
Here you have the best 356 you could buy.
It had the old styling, but
it had four wheel disc brakes,
it had a big motor.
I think it was 65 horsepower, maybe.
Here we have a car that's, it's a '65.
- [Mike] Nope, this is a '64.
- '64, okay, but it's a C.
'64 was the last year of the C,
and it's 55 years old.
So here you can see the early fuses
that Volkswagens and
Porsches had across here,
the little ceramic fuses,
and if that little wire
was melted, blow the fuse.
You had a short somewhere.
Here's the missing tach,
not from this car, though.
I guess from one of the other Porsches.
Toolbox, a jack, spare inner tube,
and this is where they rusted out again.
The battery's still in
there, right over there,
so I don't know if the floor
under there is solid or not.
This car obviously was painted.
- [Mike] It has evidence of repaint.
- But I'd say it was probably
a silver car to begin with,
'cause where it's peeling away,
you kind of see silver paint.
That's a good one, man.
Okay, 635 CSL?
- [Mike] No, a 633 CSI.
- CSI, okay.
Which was such a beautiful car,
and these cars are just beginning
to become appreciated now.
It started off with a
2800 and went to a 30CS,
then the racing version was a
CSL, L stood for lightweight.
A great six cylinder overhead
cam motor, fuel injection.
They were great race cars,
they were great street cars.
They had such amazing looks.
The body, look how thin that is.
That's the A pillar, the
B pillar and the C pillar.
They were the thinnest
you could make them,
so visibility was great, but
still it had this greenhouse
that was just out in the open, perfect.
So this has a five speed manual gearbox.
It's white with navy interior, sunroof.
What year is this one?
- [Mike] '84.
- So it's got the shock
absorber bumpers on it.
- [Mike] Which are hidden.
- Yeah, they're hidden,
but the German versions of
these cars were much prettier,
because this is like a big
six by six piece of timber in the front,
which that's what you
had to have for US specs,
but the European cars
just had a slender bumper
that was actually a much prettier one,
but it wouldn't have made US specs.
Now you can bring those cars in,
because those cars are older.
- [Mike] They're 35 years old.
- Yeah, they're older than 25 years.
You can bring the
European versions in now.
So this was January 2000
this was last on the road.
And that's when cassette
tapes were big back then,
because there's a whole bunch of them
on the dashboard here.
What an eclectic taste this guy had, man.
All right, so that's the end of it?
- That's the end of it.
- Man, what a morning.
- Oh, we got a Mercedes 250, two door.
- It's in that garage
down there in the back.
- I've only seen that car once.
- So who's minding the shop?
- I've got a GM.
- How long have you been a dealer?
- It'll be 25 years this year.
I worked for Ford for 12 years.
I think that's the window
we're gonna look in.
I think he said right behind the tree.
- There's only one car in here?
- [Mike] Yeah, thank goodness.
- Oh, there it is, yeah.
It's gonna be hard to see.
It looks like a 250 Mercedes.
- [Mike] It's a '71 250.
- [Tom] Yep, manual gearbox?
- [Mike] No, automatic.
- [Tom] Those cars just don't rust out.
It's probably a pretty solid car.
- [Mikr] Did you see the four
cam Porsche motor in here?
- Oh, shut up.
So let me think, if you said Tom,
you can buy one of these cars.
- All right, so let me
show you the pictures
so you can really think.
- Just of the cars today.
The cars today, hmm.
That was a nice one.
It would probably be a Porsche.
- Then it's gotta be the silver '64.
- Yeah, but there was that other one.
- The targa?
Or not the kit car.
- No, wasn't there another
356 out in the building?
- The convertible, the '60.
- Yeah, that would be it.
- All right, I'm not a convertible guy.
- Okay, so now the other cars,
Griffiths are intriguing cars.
- [Mike] 1966, V8.
- [Tom] Made on Long Island, out of a TVR.
Tigers, another Daimler.
- Another Daimler, the two GT 6s,
it's a 219, so it was the
smaller motor Ponton Mercedes.
That was in absolutely spectacular shape.
The Lotus, the '68 Lotus SE.
- You know, that's cool for a roadster.
Probably the Lotus, yeah.
I have a soft spot for those.
- [Mike] Then there's the
Alpine with the Chevy 350.
- Well Mike, thanks so much
for spending the morning with us.
- Oh God, it was a pleasure.
- And good luck with moving these cars.
What an amazing find.
Are you gonna advertise these cars?
- We're gonna put it on our website.
- Which is what?
- AsheboroFord.com.
- AsheboroFord.com, so don't call us.
You know how to get a hold of him now.
- Call me, AsheboroFord.com.
We're in North Carolina, we deliver.
We're gonna sell 'em all.
I just want to get them to good homes
so they can get back on the road.
That's the most important part,
'cause that's what the
former owner's dream was.
- Well, you're a good caretaker.
Man, thanks.
Thanks for sharing this stuff.
Have a good one.
Happy hunting.
Here's another Ponton Mercedes.
This is what I was telling you before,
body color hubcaps, full hubcaps,
and these were always
the color of the body.
Here was the baby hubcap.
This is probably more
appropriate for a diesel.
The diesel probably had the mini hubcap.
The larger hubcap I showed you in the back
is probably for a gas car or deluxe car.
You see this has no trim
or anything like that.
Automobile Und Touring Club Tirol,
so that would have been a
German driving group, I guess.
10 Awesome Truck Bed Campers for Your Outdoor Adventures
Minds Eye Design:
- [Narrator] If you love
camping, but don't like the
creepy-crawlies sneaking
into your tent at night,
then we may have a solution for you.
This is Reacher with Mind's Eye Design,
and here are 10 awesome
truck bed campers for you
to check out.
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Number 10.
This first entry on the list
has everything you need for
for a trip of any length.
It's mounted on a patented
auto-alignment rail system
attached directly to the
chassis of the truck.
The body is composed of
molded fiberglass with
a rear-area pop-top.
It measures almost 12 feet
long and a little over six
feet wide, with an overall
height of just under
six feet.
The weight can vary from 1200
to 1500 pounds, depending
on the options you choose,
which makes it ideal for
full-sized pick-up trucks.
Standard components
include a queen-sized bed,
a one and a 1/2 cubic-foot fridge,
a dual-burner propane cook-top,
a stainless steel sink, and
a dinette area with a folding
table.
On board you'll also find a 22
gallon tank for fresh water,
and a 2.6 gallon water heater.
Power comes from a 12 volt
90 amp battery, as well as
a 200 watt solar panel
mounted to the roof.
Processing is dependent
on the model options
and can be found by
contacting the manufacturer.
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Number nine.
The size and weight of this
camper makes it the perfect
match for a 1/2 ton to 3/4
ton pick-up truck with a
five to six-foot bed.
It measures in at 15 and
a 1/2 feet in length and
seven feet in width, with a
dry weight of 1700 pounds.
The aluminum frame construction
houses a living area
with a sink and dual-burner cook-top,
a microwave, a full
bathroom with a shower,
and bench seating that can
be converted to an extra bed
if needed.
The three-foot, two-inch
high cab over-area includes
a closet, a queen-sized
bed, space for a TV,
and a three cubic foot refrigerator.
It may seem odd to have
the fridge in the cab over,
but it increases the living space,
so high-fives to the
designers on that one.
The systems monitor panel
is mounted to the wall for
control of the electrical and heating.
Pricing is dependent on
the included options,
and can be found by
contacting the manufacturer.
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Number eight.
This company has been
building truck campers
since the early 1950s, with
a goal to provide all the
comforts of home.
They're still around
after almost 70 years,
so I'd say they've achieved it.
They hold a patent for the
only hard-sided telescopic
truck camper.
The entire top of the camper
can raise and lower as needed
to provide a safer,
low-profile driving experience,
yet still allow extra
living space and protection
from the elements due to
the solid wall design.
The eight and 1/2 foot
length and six-foot ceiling
offers plenty of head room,
with a living area that
includes a three-burner stove, a sink,
a two and 1/2 cubic foot fridge,
a hideaway cassette toilet,
a dining area, and a
queen-sized bed in the cab-over.
Pricing starts at around $30,000.
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Number seven.
This short-bed pop-up is made
for 3/4 ton pick-up trucks.
It's composed of a
laminated fiberglass roof,
with a box that has aluminum sidewalls.
The closed hide is four and 1/2 feet, but
when the roof is raised, it
increases the standing height
to a little over six feet.
The usable floor space
runs eight and 1/2 feet
in length and seven feet in width.
The cab-over area includes
a full-sized mattress
which raises to allow storage underneath.
The galley area includes a
two-burner stove and sink,
a fridge, cafe-style seating
for two with a removable table,
and a bathroom area
with a toilet and sink.
It also includes a 32
gallon tank with fresh water
and a 12 gallon tank for gray water.
A four gallon water heater
provides necessary warmth
for the external shower.
Power is provided by a 12
volt deep-cycle battery,
which powers the LED lighting
and any electrical devices
via the 110 volt outlets and USB ports.
Pricing starts at $17,200.
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Number six.
This pop-up may not provide
all the features of a
full-sized camper, but it
does provide everything you'll
need for an outdoor excursion.
At just over six feet wide
and almost 13 feet long,
it's perfect for small
pick-up trucks with a five
to six-foot bed.
The construction is an aluminum
frame with aluminum siding.
It's only four and 1/2 feet
high with an eight-inch high
cab-over when the roof is lowered.
When it's raised, the
total height of the camper
increases to six feet,
four inches of head room.
There are three floor
plans to choose from,
which offer optional seating arrangements.
Standard features include
a dual-burner stove,
a stainless steel sink, a
1.7 foot cubic refrigerator,
a three-piece removable dining
table, and a furnace for
heating.
There's also room to sleep
up to three people using the
queen-size bed in the cab-over
and the couch-bed conversion.
The base model price on
this one starts at $18,000.
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Number five.
This unique design is made
for flatbed trucks instead
of the conventional pick-up truck.
This allows for the owner
to use their truck for work,
as well as recreation,
with the ability to attach
the camper in under five minutes.
It's built from a honeycomb
composite panel system.
The aluminum furniture and
enclosures are custom-made
and powder-coded in-house.
The living area is six and
1/2 feet high and features
a full wet bath, a galley
area with a dual-burner stove
and sink, a mini-fridge and
bench seating with a fold-up
table.
There's room to sleep
up to four people using
convertible bunk beds as
well as the cab-over area.
The camper comes in three
lengths, ranging from 10
to 12 feet.
It's recommended to use a one
to two ton truck for these,
as the dry weight varies
from 2600 pounds up to
3500 pounds, depending
on the configuration.
Pricing depends on model
options and can be found
by contacting the manufacturer.
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Number four.
First things first. This
camper is a monster.
It sits nine feet, two inches high,
20 feet, four inches in
length, eight feet in width,
and it has a dry weight
of almost 4200 pounds.
You won't be hauling this
beast on anything smaller
than a one ton dually.
Two slide-out sections
increase the living space,
which includes a dinette
area with bench seating,
a couch, a full-size
fridge with a freezer,
a three-burner range with an oven,
a sink, a pantry, and a
furnace with ducted heating.
The cab-over area has a
queen-sized bed, a stereo system,
and a closet with mirrored doors.
The camper offers sleeping
space for up to six
people using the dinette conversion beds,
as well as the cab-over bed.
There's also a dry bath
that has a toilet, sink,
and a private stand-up shower area.
Fresh water is stored in a 42 gallon tank,
with a gray water tank
that can hold 35 gallons.
Pricing is dependent on
the included options and
can be found by contacting
the manufacturer.
(upbeat music)
Number three.
This camper is the first
in the company's line
of truck conversions.
It sits on a 12 foot wheel base,
with an upgraded suspension
wheels, and tires, which
allows you to get in or out
of just about any off road challenge.
Features include a galley
area with a diesel stove,
a microwave with a convection pizza-oven,
a sink and a fridge with a freezer.
The dinette area has cafe-style
seating for four people
with a removable table.
There's room for sleeping two
people using the twin-size
cab-over bed and the dinette seating,
which converts to a second twin bed.
Ducted heating along
with multiple windows and
10-speed ceiling fan
provide temperature control.
There's also an exterior
shower for longer trips.
Power is provided by four
deep-cycle AGM batteries
that are powered by rooftop solar panels.
Each of these campers is designed
to customer specifications
with pricing available
from the manufacturer.
(upbeat music)
Number two.
This camper was launched in
2016 to offer an innovative
product to a larger
part of the recreational
vehicle buying population.
The aluminum body has an
overall length of 17 feet,
four inches, and a width
of eight feet, two inches.
The interior height is
six and a half feet,
which allows more than
enough head room for
the average person.
The floor area includes a
dinette table with bench seating,
a wet bath with a toilet,
a five cubic foot fridge,
a dual-burner cook-top, a
microwave, a stainless steel
sink, and a wardrobe area.
The three and a half foot
cab-over area has a raised
queen bed and a swing-out TV cabinet.
There's also additional storage
above and beside the bed.
The heated floors, air
conditioner, central heating and
electrical systems are
managed from an internal
digital control panel.
And like most others on this list,
the pricing is dependent
on the configuration
and can be found by
contacting the manufacturer.
(upbeat music)
Number one.
This camper is being
touted as the world's most
light-weight and
aerodynamic pop-up camper.
Considering the maximum dry
weight is under 150 pounds,
I can say they've definitely
nailed it on that first part.
It comes in two models.
One made of carbon fiber,
and one made of a fiber that
has composite, which weight
under 100 pounds and 150 pounds
respectively.
It's made to set-up and
break-down in seconds.
It offers over six feet in
standing room when raised.
The tent material is
waterproof with built-in
storage and zippered windows.
The extendable loft holds a
mattress which can sleep up to
two people comfortably.
Both versions are pre-wired
for solar to provide power
to the charging ports and ventilation fan.
Pricing is $10,300 for
the fiberglass version
and $14,000 for the carbon fiber model.
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5 Used SUVs You Should Never Buy
Scotty Kilmer:
Rev up your engines,
today I'm going to talk about 5 suvs that
you should never buy used, because many of
them were bad enough when they were brand
new, now suvs are getting more and more popular
because you can hold stuff in them and their
very handy and they ride pretty good these
days, the early ones were kind of bumpy but
they make them a lot better now,
well some of them are made a lot better, here
are 5 suvs that you should never buy used,
now the first suv never to buy used is the
bmw x5, you mind as well say bmw money pit,
that's all those things turn into, they've
have problems with engine oil leaks, water
leaking into the vehicle, big transmission
problems, and problems with their stability
control system that keep them from flipping
over because their so boxy, yeah their high
tech there's no arguing that, but I've had
customers with them that they got this gyro
sensor that goes bad and it's a small thing
but it costs like $1,500-1,800 for the thing,
their just high priced and it's not like their
high quality, there's so much plastic used
in those things their always getting leaks,
I had one customer with an x5, I told her,
you shouldn't have bought this thing used
their money pits, well after a year of driving
the thing and finally I put on my bmw computer
for her latest problem at it was the transmission
was going out, I did a little research and
found out that it was going to cost her 4-5
thousand to fix it so she finally got rid
of the thing, she traded it in on a used lexus
suv and boy she is happy with that lexus,
that was years ago and she's still driving
the lexus and I hardly ever she her because
the things don't break, just normal oil changes
and brake job stuff on those,
and of course bmw is so snobby they didn't
even call the x5 a suv they called it a sports
activity vehicle, well yeah because your going
to spend a lot of activity going to the bmw
dealer getting the thing fixed,
now the next suv not to buy is the cadillac
escalade, now if you want to impress your
friends and neighbors that your driving a
cadillac suv and you don't care that you get
11 mpg in actual driving, the cadillac escalade
might be for you, it's a show boat and a lot
of that show boating stuff is made out of
plastic, and guess what it cracks early and
breaks down, their known for heating and ac
problems, you might think oh that's not that
big of a deal, it's all computerized and believe
me I've seen people spend $1,500-2,500 taking
the dashs apart fixing those plastic things,
they have problems with the dash and display
system on them, just cheaply made and they'll
just come on and off at will, their poorly
made theirs no doubting that, the have early
transmission failures and awd versions they
have differential problems that cost a fortune
to fix, it's a big heavy vehicle but the internals
are not heavy duty enough, they just break
down too much from carrying all that weight
around, cadillac has been using that cadillac
top of the line image for decades, well it's
been a long time since that was even close
to the truth,
now the next suv not to buy the jeep renegade,
the renegade was created after chrysler and
fiat merged, fiat bought chrysler, the renegade
is small, it's under powered and if you tried
to take that jeep renegade off road like one
of those big jeeps good luck,
these jeep renegade, their made in Italy,
their made is Brasil, and their made in China,
they have nothing to do with the legendary
jeep, especially stay away from the 2015 renegade
that was the worst one they ever built, they
have engine failures, they have transmission
failures, they have electronic failures, the
list goes on and on and on, it's like the
combination of Italian manufacturing problems,
not surprisingly the renegades have a lot
of electronic problems, many Italian cars
have electronic weak systems that's just the
way they go, it also has a problem with blowing
head gaskets in the engine, a typical problem
that Italian cars have, you know if you want
to get a jeep I'm not that big of a fan of
the newer ones, the old ones were great, but
if you are get a regular one, don't get this
small one,
now the fourth suv not to buy used is the
Chevy traverse, I've seen engines stop on
ones that had 40,000 miles on them, the awd
system has problems and costs thousands of
dollars to fix, I mean if a vehicle has engine
and transmission problems, that says stay
away, stay far away from this vehicle, I mean
I had a customer with a traverse, it kept
flashing up service awd, then it said super
cruise system, well this car didn't have a
super cruise system yet is was saying there
was a problem in a system that it didn't even
have on the vehicle, and the gm dealer couldn't
figure out what was wrong he just lived with
that until he got rid of it, he said it was
the biggest pile of junk he ever had and he's
never going to buy another one, the last suv
never to buy used is the pontiac aztek, it
was made famous in Breaking Bad where Brian
drove one around and eventually he took it
to a garage, they fixed it all up he came
to pick it up and he looked at it and took
his hat out of the back seat, put it on his
head and walked away and gave the car to the
mechanic, I had a customer that did a similar
thing with an aztek, the thing had like 55,000
miles on it and the head gasket blew and the
engine stopped, so he had to put another engine
in, so he said to heck with that, he had a
used engine put in and then he just sold the
thing and got rid of it and said, that's it
for gm I'm never buying another one of their
products, basically the azteks were gm's version
of trying to copy a toyota matrix and man
did they fail big, the azteks actually had
a lot of different problems, but the biggest
ones were, the head gaskets of the engines
going, the transmission going out, and having
intake manifolds that would go bad and leak
oil and water into the engine, and if you
didn't watch that closely that would lead
to a blown engine too, and even if you caught
it right in the beginning you had to take
the whole engine apart and spend like $1,500
to fix something that should have never happened
in the first place, cuz I'm not talking about
cars that are 20 or 30 years old, some of
these cars were less than a year old and some
of them were 3,4,5 years old, but regardless,
they were poorly made vehicles, they don't
make them anymore obviously, now if you want
to get a pontiac suv, get a pontiac vibe,
it's the same thing as this matrix, the were
made in the same plant, the have the same
engine, transmission, wheels and everything,
the only thing different is this sheet metal
on the vehicles, so that one you can get because
it's actually a toyota product really,
showing that the expression, what's in a name
can mean a lot you want to research what's
behind that name, now sure there's plenty
of good used suvs out there but stay away
from these 5 suvs if you don't want to catch
a sports utility virus, so if you never want
to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
remember to ring that bell!
Crazy Cars in storage units next to College campus | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 63 (Part 4/4)
Hagerty:
(funky music)
- [Tom] Where to go?
So, we're up here on the panhandle.
Two hours we'll be in Oklahoma,
and maybe we'll find some old metal
between here and there.
We found an old care at a repair shop,
and obviously the owners
are probably enthusiasts,
because they have a hot
couple of pick-ups here,
so we're gonna find out
about that '59 Chevy.
- [Tom] Does it have a motor now?
- [Lot Attendant] Yes, yes, 348.
- [Tom] A 348? No kidding?
- [Lot Attendant] Yeah.
- [Tom] What a sweet body style.
- [Owner] It has been here at
least 15 years that I know of.
- [Tom] Holy mackerel!
(engine purring)
- [Tom] We're in Dodge City,
welcome to a cold morning!
So, two days ago it was 92,
yesterday it was in the mid 60s,
right now it's 47,
and threatening for rain.
So uh, it's 8:00,
we're gonna give it another hour or so
before we start knocking
on people's doors,
and see what they might
show us in their back yard.
We saw one last night,
an old Chevy panel van,
so we're gonna give that a shot.
Oh, there's somebody outside.
Okay, timing's right,
he's got a cowboy hat and everything.
Hi doggies!
(dog barking)
(door slamming)
Sir, are you a hot-rodder?
- (laughing)
- [Tom] Or used to be?
- [Jim] (laughing) well,
I had everything from a
650 Triumph to a,
I bought this panel wagon from my wife,
- [Tom] You bought it from her or for her?
- [Jim] Yeah, it was her grandfather's,
- [Tom] Oh, no kidding?
- [Jim] he used it
in California for a dairy company,
ice cream truck kinda like deal.
But anyway, I bought it from her.
- Mm hmm,
- And then--
- [Tom] And then you
wound up getting married?
- [Jim] Kept it, then
went and got married,
- (laughing)
- [Jim] Then I drove it
from Tucson, Arizona,
where I met her,
up to here.
And then well we went
on our honeymoon in it.
- [Tom] Oh really, so this
was stock when you got it?
- [Jim] Yeah, pretty much so.
It had a six cylinder in it,
and like I said,
on our honeymoon we blew out the engine.
- [Tom] So what year is it?
What year did you buy this car?
- [Jim] It's a 1950.
- [Tom] '50, but what year did you buy it?
- [Jim] Would have been about '72.
- [Tom] So I'm lookin' at,
it's got a gas cap,
did you put this gas cap in there?
- [Jim] Yeah, I had it,
I had it redone,
they put different tail lights,
- [Tom] Yeah, those things
are channeled in there, yeah.
- And it's got the Frenched antenna,
- [Jim] Yeah, they did that.
- [Tom] Yep, in California?
- [Jim] No, this was done in Dodge here.
- [Tom] So this is a GMC,
it's not a Chevy.
- [Jim] Yeah, it's a GMC.
- [Tom] But it's got the stainless grill,
that's pretty rare.
So how long you figure
it's been sitting here?
- [Jim] It's been sitting here over,
I'd say 30 years.
- [Tom] 30 years, wow!
- [Jim] (laughing) this is '19, right?
- [Tom] (laughing)
- [Jim] It's been longer than that!
- [Tom] Man, no kidding!
So all right,
what motor you got in here?
Is this open?
- [Jim] Yeah, it should.
It's a 327.
- [Tom] You can probably figure it out
better than I can.
- [Jim] (grunting) Like I said,
it hadn't been cracked open in a while.
- [Tom] Wonder what's living in there?
- [Jim] Yeah, I don't know, it's--
- [Tom] Oh well, so it's got a 327--
- [Jim] It's got a 327,
we put a Camaro steering wheel in there
because I lost the keys,
now I've lost the keys to this.
- [Tom] So you've got kinda
French door handles here?
- [Jim] Yeah, he put those in--
- [Tom] Somebody really
went to town on this thing.
Well that's pretty cool,
and you had the interior was done as well,
oh look at,
the old shag carpet?
- [Jim] Well I put,
yeah, he put,
a friend of mine do the
whole deal in carpet,
- [Tom] Uh huh,
- [Jim] Oh, now that,
that's very rusted shut too.
- [Tom] You think you're
gonna do something with it?
Or it's just a sculpture?
- [Jim] Oh, like I said I don't know,
if a ship ever came in,
I guess I'd redo it, yeah.
- [Tom] Yep, yep, yep.
Well that's a neat one, man.
Well, Jim's gotta go off to work,
and we're gonna go off to find
some other vehicles,
while we're in Dodge City.
So wish us luck.
Come along for the ride.
(funky drum music)
(engine purring)
- Driving down the road
here in Dodge City,
looking for cars,
and we just saw a front end sticking out
behind a building,
so going back to
investigate that right now.
(funky music)
Something else there,
under a cover.
Wire wheels.
Well, we're driving down a road,
first we see a Mustang under a cover,
now we see something else under cover.
Eventually we gotta get outta the car
and into the rain,
so here we go.
(car door slamming)
I knock on the door and Carlos answered
and he said "Sure,
let's take a look at it,
it's my wife's car."
so let's go see what he's
got under this cover.
Luggage rack, did you fix it up?
- [Carlos] Yes I fix it myself.
- No kidding, it looks like a new top.
So that's probably what, a '79?
- [Carlos] A '70, yes, '79.
- '79, okay, it's a rubber bumper MG.
Oh, that thing is primo.
So what's your wife's name?
- [Carlos] Alma.
- Alma, and how long has Alma owned this?
- [Carlos] Uh, five years ago.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- And so did you repaint
it and everything?
- [Carlos] Yeah, I repainted.
- You painted right here in the garage?
- [Carlos] No, actually I--
- Oh, you had it done.
- [Carlos] Yeah.
- Well that's a nice car.
Nice interior, it's got overdrive.
- [Carlos] Mm hmm.
- So see, there's a little switch
on top of the shift knob,
so you have first, second,
third, forth, and then you switch it,
it's got electric overdrive.
Man, that's a nice car.
How many miles are on it?
60,000 miles?
- [Carlos] 60.
- Yeah, oh, you did a nice job.
Do you have any other old cars?
- [Carlos] No, just this one.
- Yeah, well that's a
good one, that's cool.
So did you do the
mechanical work yourself?
- [Carlos] Yes, I do mechanical myself.
- All right, well listen,
I appreciate you showing
that to us, that's cool.
(funky music)
- [Tom] Things have changed
here in Dodge City pretty quickly,
so the sky got dark,
it starts raining these big rain drops,
and there's lightning flashing.
I guess welcome to Kansas, right?
So it could be hail,
it could be tornado,
I'm not sure.
So we're heading back to the hotel
to see if we can park this car
under the over-hang,
in case there's hail,
we don't get any damage on it.
Well, just looked at the weather forecast,
and looks like this band of bad weather
is going southwest to northeast,
so we're gonna try to go due north,
and break out of this weather system
and start hunting for cars again.
But it's 10:20 in the morning right now,
and we're getting the heck outta Dodge.
I've been wanting to use
that term my whole life!
(funky music)
- [Tom] So we are departing
the town of Great Bend, Kansas.
I thought we'd look around
there for a little while,
but it's still raining,
so we decided to just keep on truckin'
towards McPherson College,
in McPherson, Kansas.
You're probably wondering
why we're talking about
McPherson so much on this trip,
students have come down
and helped us on the car
over their winter break,
to get this car ready.
What we've decided to do,
is after we found this car,
we decided we don't need
another car ourselves,
Hagerty, Tom Cotter,
we should donate it to a good cause,
and McPherson is a good cause.
That college is the
only college in America
that offers a bachelor's degree
in automotive restoration.
Students come out of there
trained as amazing restorers.
Four-year program,
metal working, engine building,
painting, upholstery work,
and so we're gonna
donate this to the school
as a parts chaser,
a parts getter,
a run to the auto parts
store or junk yard,
to pick up supplies,
we figure this would be a neat car
for them to do that.
Plus they can finish things like,
you know, the interior door panels,
whatever they want to do to it.
So we're heading there now,
we're gonna put the car in a garage,
and tomorrow we're gonna clean her all up,
because we're gonna
present it the next night.
Tomorrow night we're gonna
present it to the school.
A lot of the students, I think,
are gonna be surprised.
Should be a really nice event.
So we made it to McPherson,
about 924 miles
from Midland, Texas.
And we're going to a shop right now,
a neat young guy named Dalton Whitfield,
who graduated from McPherson,
and opened up a shop in town here
to do restorations,
and general old car repair,
allowing us to part this indoors tonight.
(funky music)
- [Tom] Well, welcome to the sheds,
adjacent to McPherson college,
and this is where students
work on their own projects,
and I come up to Mason Duffy's car here,
and uh, say, what,
that's a Datsun, but what?
And he said "it's a second-generation 510"
I said, "Boing, I'm a 510 guy,
tell me about this."
so thank you for allowing
us hearing your car.
So tell us about this?
- [Mason] So it's a '78 510,
completely goin' a
full-custom build on it,
trying to do a period correct
to how they would have done it in the 70s.
So the term that they actually go by
is the Bosozoku cars of Japan.
- [Tom] Boso what the?
- [Mason] Bosozoku, and so it's
got the huge exhaust pipes,
which you can see right there.
And those'll be welded onto the exhaust,
and they'll be stickin' way up there.
- [Tom] So these are
gonna stick up in the air?
- [Mason] Yeah, yeah, here grab one.
- [Tom] (laughing)
- [Mason] So they uh, stick
on there like that, and then--
- [Tom] Do you have mufflers
or just straight piped?
- [Mason] It's uh straight piped.
And uh, it's got a uh,
like the "Dukes of
Hazzard" horn on there too,
to just make it even more
loud and obnoxious with it.
- [Tom] Jeez.
- [Mason] Um, but yeah,
right now I'm working
on the spoiler for it,
and the body work,
and just trying to get get it to,
get it ready for paint
next year, hopefully.
- [Tom] So you're lookin'
at pictures and video
of cars in Japan that are like this?
- [Mason] Mm hmm, yeah,
um, go, I've ordered like
several magazines from Japan
that kinda have this style of car,
and it's definitely hard
tryin' to do this in the U.S.,
because no one's really done this before,
and there's some people in
the U.S. that have done it,
and I'm tryin' to go as crazy as I can,
and within the past couple of years,
there've been a few people
that have gotten more into this, but--
- [Tom] So what are these?
- [Mason] So those are the fender flairs
that are gonna go on it,
and they'll just be
bolted right on the side,
and I'm hoping to do really wide,
small diameter tires,
so I'm hoping to do 14 by 10 in the rear.
- [Tom] Cool, so that would be--
- [Mason] That would
be the passenger side,
so let's see here,
you can see I had 'em taped on here
not too long ago,
just to mock 'em up.
But so they'll sit right on there,
right about like that-ish.
- [Tom] Yep.
- And I'm hoping to have wheels
that are just gonna be flush
with the edge of the fender flare with it.
- [Tom] (laughing) Jeez, and
what color will you paint this?
- [Mason] So the original
color of this is orange,
and that's also my favorite color,
so I am gonna keep it orange,
but I'm gonna do a two-tone,
so it's gonna be a silver
metal-flake underneath,
and it'll have candy-orange on top of it.
- [Tom] Man, and will
the engine remain stock?
- [Mason] Uh, no, so right now
I have a different head on it,
to give it a little
bit higher compression,
I put a different cam in there,
I got an Offenhauser
intake header (mumbles),
just little things to
help pep it up a little,
and then I'm hoping to swap in
the manual transmission in it here soon.
- [Tom] So how long have you had this?
- [Mason] It was actually my first car,
I bought it when I was 16,
and daily-drove it for a few months,
and then I blew the head
gasket in it, actually,
and I never touched a car
motor before in my life,
and so learned how to
work on it on the fly,
and just been learning ever since,
using it as a great tool
for me to learn on it, so.
- [Tom] And so you work
on this on your own,
but when you go over to Templeton Hall,
you working on Model-T's and things?
- [Mason] Yeah, it's
definitely kind of interesting,
'cause I love the 70s cars,
and it's not necessarily
what the program focuses on,
but it's a,
you can take what you learn there,
and apply it to anything,
and I think that's really great
and I think that's why the
sheds is really important,
'cause you can take what
you learn over there,
and you can figure out how
I can apply this technique
to my car over there,
and figure out what you need to do to it.
- [Tom] I love it, man.
Thank you, sir.
- [Mason] Thank you!
- [Tom] This was a blast!
- [Mason] Have a good one.
(rocking music)
- [Tom] Motors Europa, holy crap, hello.
Look at this, Studebaker
walk pick-up truck.
- [Tom] So nobody at this school has seen
the '62 Ford wagon that we've
just driven up from Texas,
but somebody said,
"You know there's a cool,
red Falcon wagon here,
that you want to see."
And so we're walkin' over to it,
and I looked at it a moment ago,
I said "Oh my God, this
thing looks like a smaller
version of the Country
Sedan we just drove."
so this is Nathan Poore,
and Nathan owns this car,
and so I says "Man, we gotta
take a look at this thing."
- [Nathan] It was quite a treat when
I figured it was still in the family,
and my little brother and I actually
pulled it out of a field
about two years ago.
- [Tom] So tell me, wait,
this was in your family?
- [Nathan] My great-great grandfather
bought this brand-new in 1961.
- [Tom] Is that right?
- [Nathan] And so my gramma is on my tail
making sure it stays back to original,
and you know,
we don't do anything weird or funky to it,
and just kind of enjoy it and cruise it.
- [Tom] So this was sitting in a field?
- [Nathan] Yes, this
was sitting in a field
in northwestern Kansas,
and you know,
when my grampa decided to give it up
and be done with it,
that's kinda where it ended up,
and sat it sat there--
- [Tom] Behind his house?
- [Nathan] No, it was just a lot
that one of his friends owned.
You know, kind of sat
and sunk into the ground,
we had to get new wheels and tires for it,
'cause they were shot.
One of the hardest things to find
is '61 came factory-optioned
electric rear window,
so there's no rear,
there's no crank on the back,
and so I've been kinda banging
my head against the wall
trying to figure out
what to do to fix that,
and I actually found a
rear-window mechanism
at a junk yard just north of here.
- [Tom] Is that right?
- [Nathan] Yeah.
- [Tom] So is this original
paint on here you think?
- [Nathan] This is the original paint,
someone kind of messed with the interior,
along the way,
it's not correct, obviously.
- [Tom] So it's got
three-speed on the column.
- [Nathan] Three-speed on the column,
it's the 170 Special,
they originally optioned the 144,
but in '61 you were
allowed to get the 170.
- [Tom] So this is the big block?
- [Nathan] Yeah, this was the,
a lotta, you know,
it had a lotta trim on it,
and I have a lot of the trim left,
I'm just missing a couple
of pieces up there.
- [Tom] So this decal,
is that, that was on the air cleaner,
or was that on the--
- [Nathan] That's the original decal,
but yes, they do have it
on the air cleaner as well.
- [Tom] Isn't that something.
- [Nathan] Yeah.
- [Tom] So having it sit
in a field that long,
how are the floors and rocker panels?
- [Nathan] Um, to be honest,
there's a little,
right underneath the driver
there's a little hole,
and, you know,
we did a partial,
or a temporary fix for that
until I have the money to go back through
and put a new floor section in.
But other than that,
there's really not a
whole lot of rust on it.
Interiors kinda in rough shape.
It originally had a dash pad,
and I pulled it off and
the metal dash just looks,
looks brand new under it.
- [Tom] You know, this must
be a more deluxe version
than the one we have,
because we have a metal dash,
and we have a crank-up rear window,
so this is optioned out
higher than what we have,
we have an automatic and a V8.
- [Nathan] That's a little
nicer than (laughing)
- [Tom] Well that's super.
So how does this run?
- [Nathan] Uh, it runs really well,
but to be honest,
it's a little obnoxious right now,
because we took it to Cars
and Coffee a couple weeks ago,
and the manifold actually
split into two pieces.
- [Tom] Oh, that's broken big-time.
How'd that happen?
- [Nathan] We were pulling
it on to the trailer,
and the exhaust under the whole thing
was hanging a little too low,
- [Tom] Oh, caught on the trailer?
- [Nathan] and we ended up
barely just kinda hitting it,
it was already cracked
before we hit it, so,
I mean it's starts and runs real nice.
- [Tom] Could you start it for us?
- [Nathan] Yeah, of course.
(engine starting)
(engine rumbling)
- [Nathan] So other than the exhaust leak,
it runs real good.
- [Tom] Have you found
a manifold for it yet?
- Yeah, the same place I found
the rear window mechanism.
(engine stopping)
- [Nathan] So my dad and
my uncle actually tried to
get it going around 1992,
and, you know,
didn't really have any luck,
so they just kinda let it go again.
- [Tom] (laughing)
- [Nathan] And the funny thing is,
is that my brother was the one
that wanted to pull it outta the field,
and you know,
I didn't have the time or money,
so he went ahead and
pulled it outta the field
and kinda gave up on it,
and then, so I think I was
kinda destined to have this car,
'cause there's been multiple times
where we tried to get rid of it
and it keeps coming back, but,
yeah, it's a cool little car,
and I don't ever plan on getting rid of it
or doing anything weird to it.
- [Tom] That's great, wow, man, thanks.
- [Nathan] Yeah, thank you
for coming to interview me.
- [Tom] I hope we didn't
take you out of class today.
- [Nathan] No, no, no I
don't have class right now.
- [Tom] Who's the bug-eyed guy?
- Right here.
- [Tom] You are.
How you doing? Tom Cotter.
We're walking around
the sheds and somebody
came up to us and said "You
gotta meet Shaun Robinson,
he's got a bug-eyed Sprite.",
which I love,
and he's got an interesting
story so Shaun, thank you
- [Shaun] Thanks for having me.
- [Tom] for bringing us out here.
So what's special about this car?
- [Shaun] So what's special about this is,
I bought it off a guy
who purchased it in 1964.
He had it sand-blasted and
filled with lead and primed,
and it sat ever since then,
and he recently got into
a motorcycle accident,
and had to start,
kinda selling some of his projects
that he can't work on anymore.
So I bought this to restore for my mom,
and to finish the previous owner's build,
which he was going for a
Sebring style conversion,
hence the wire wheels,
the front disk brakes,
right-hand drive,
and the roll bar.
And my mom,
I sent her a picture of it
and she absolutely fell
in love with for it,
so I'm doing the whole build just for her.
- [Tom] Isn't that nice.
So it's gonna be a street car?
- [Shaun] Yes.
- [Tom] Street car, okay.
So this is Healey blue,
it was originally that color?
- [Shaun] It was originally, I believe,
Old English white.
- [Tom] Ah, okay, huh.
- [Shaun] But we're kinda
debating on colors right now.
She loves the dark blue color,
I'm more of British
racing green kinda guy.
- [Tom] So I would bet this car was blue.
I mean, who does a paint
job all the way back there?
That's amazing, if that's a repaint,
it's an amazing repaint.
So was this low mileage?
- [Shaun] Uh, the mileage is unknown,
the title said it was about 49,000 miles,
and it being '59 to '64,
they put 60,000 miles on
it in about five years.
- [Tom] Huh, wow, so
is this a Chicago car?
- [Shaun] I bought this
from Minneapolis, Kansas,
about an hour north of here.
- [Tom] Ah, okay.
It looks like it's got an amazing body,
the floor's good,
the rocker panel's good,
and this has got a 948?
- [Shaun] It has a 1098 going in it,
or a 1275,
not sure yet.
- [Tom] Go for the 1275,
you'll never regret it.
So it was already
modified with disk brakes
and wire wheels?
- [Shaun] Yes, the previous
owner did that for me.
- [Tom] So what's next?
What are you doing to it right now?
- [Shaun] Doing the body work,
getting all the paint stripped off,
getting it ready for paint
so I can start doing the upholstery,
and just putting pieces together.
Working on the engine right now,
and the side as well.
- [Tom] And so you're gonna
do everything right here?
What year are you at school?
- [Shaun] Freshman.
- [Tom] So you want to get it done
by the time you're a senior?
- [Shaun] Yeah.
- [Tom] Isn't that cool, man.
It was a complete car when you got it?
- [Shaun] I have several
crates of parts.
- [Tom] Okay, got it.
- [Shaun] So I should have
a complete car in there somewhere.
- What year is it?
- '59.
- '59, so it was driven for five years?
- Yeah.
- Man, like a time capsule.
- Yeah.
- Very cool.
And your mom wants it,
what, dark blue?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, neat.
All right, well thanks.
We got more sheds to visit.
- Thank you.
- Very cool
- Thanks.
- [Tom] So this is Jake Pullen,
and Jake has invited us to tour
a Cortina project that he's working on.
So we have been,
actually toured around campus today,
partly by Jake Pullen.
And Jake said "Want to come to my shed
and see what I'm working on?"
and so he's working on a Ford Cortina,
so tell us what we're looking at here.
- [Jake] So this is a 1968
Ford Cortina Mark Two.
I picked it up in Redding, California,
from a widower,
and he had the car since new,
parked it in a barn for a number of years,
and then finally decided,
pull it out,
sell it and we picked it up,
and we had plans for it to part it out,
but the car was so,
the car just no rusting away,
it's all surface,
so we decided this could be a
future project for something.
And then as soon as I came out here,
my father pitched the idea
of doing a Lotus Cortina tribute,
with the 1.8 Miata motor that
I have in the back, and--
- [Tom] So show us that now.
Standard Cortina had
a push-rod 1600 motor?
- [Jake] Yes, 1600cc Kent block.
- [Tom] And then there
was a modified Cortina,
a Lotus Cortina,
mostly were, they had a
green stripe on a white body.
And so you're gonna replicate that?
- [Jake] Yes, yes, this engine came
when Ford was owning Mazda,
and so it's a lot like
the Lotus Cortina block,
and the duel-overhead cam setup is also
reminiscent of that.
- [Tom] So you're a sophomore?
- [Jake] I'm a junior.
- [Tom] You're a junior, okay.
So you're gonna put this motor in here
and it's gonna look like a Lotus Cortina,
but it's gonna be--
- [Jake] It's gonna be--
- more affordable,
easier to get parts for,
I mean, Miatas just don't break,
- [Jake] And more power.
- [Tom] Jake, thank you,
we have other sheds to go explore,
but what a blast,
I love this car.
(slapping metal)
(funky music)
- [Tom] So I'll let the owners explain
what they have,
what they've built,
and what they hope it to be.
So, Abigail, what's your last name?
- [Abigail] Abigail Morgan.
- And?
- Lane Sutterby.
- Okay, we'll you guys take it away.
- [Abigail] So I grew up around Crosley's,
my family, we have a bunch of them,
about eight, and they've
been a passion of mine.
And so my freshman year I came to college
and I met my boyfriend, Lane,
and I, you know,
really wanted to do a big shed build,
and so around sophomore year,
my parents helped us buy this Crosley body
for a thousand dollars,
so very economical for
us college students,
so we were really excited,
and then he loves big block doolies,
so that's kinda how we came up with this.
It's a conglomerate of
our two main interests,
so it's kinda really special that
we're building it together.
- [Lane] So yeah, body's a
'49 Crosley station wagon,
the chassis is a '89 Dodge 1-ton,
and I cut it in half,
shortened it 3 foot,
did a triangulated 4-link under the back,
airbags on all four corners,
and after that,
the engine is a '72 to '74 model,
not quite sure, Cadillac 472.
Rebuilt it in our advanced engines class
out here at the college.
Trans is a Super-Turbine 400
out of a '67 Buick Wildcat.
- [Abigail] So the design
we wanted to go with
is kind of a post-apocalyptic,
badass rat-rod,
so we did a lot of subtle details
to make it look like that.
Put a, you know,
heavy rake on it,
galvanized metal makes it look,
kind of, put together really,
you know, rat-rod-ish.
But also has amenities like like brand-new
auto meter gauges,
and you know,
nice comfy seats for us.
- [Lane] Steering linkage
is just 3/4 inch bar stock,
and one of the little
details is the brackets,
I've got them tack-welded out
of roller chain and I can,
got it set up so I can unbolt it,
swing that lose,
and replace that bearing,
throttle chains, roller chain,
dipstick handle is an old wrench,
I have yet to make brackets for my visor,
but they're also going to be old wrenches,
and I want to set it up so
I can adjust it on the fly.
And then inside we've
got a lot of details,
the steering wheel is also roller chain,
and then my dad and I
wrapped it with a leather
around the grip points.
- [Abigail] On the door you can kinda see
it says Maidrite Drive-In.
So my mom and dad got this
from a gentleman in
Illinois who had a few,
and this sat outside of a drive-in,
kind of as a promotional car,
so that is how it got
its great patina on it,
it probably sat out there for years.
- [Lane] 20, 30 years at least.
- [Abigail] Yeah, so I'm
glad we could rescue it.
I think it's a good car to start with.
- [Tom] You know, you
guys need your own show,
I'm retiring.
- (laughing) Oh goodness!
(funky rock music)
- [Tom] This is kind of the moment
we have been waiting for,
thinking about for more than a year,
donating this car to McPherson College.
We're driving over there right now,
to a hot dog cookout.
We're driving this in and give the keys
to the president of the college.
And we'll wash our hands.
Literally and figuratively.
So we're having an escort,
a '62 Ford is having a Model-T
Speedster in front of us,
and a Model-T sedan two cars behind us.
One's a senior and one's a
recent graduate from school,
this is what they drive around town with,
Model-T Ford,
it's a crazy experience.
(engines rumbling)
(car honking)
(funky rock music)
(crowd applauding)
- Kids should be in class now,
what's going on?
- [Mike] Welcome to McPherson!
Great to have you here!
- [Tom] What do you think, man?
- [Mike] Good to see you, looks great!
- [Tom] We'll officially
pass the keys over,
are we gonna call it Big Red do you think?
- [Mike] Uh, yeah, I mean,
- [Tom] hmm, okay, well, um,
- [Mike] Yeah, we, yeah I like that,
Big Red.
- [Tom] Big Red, okay.
- [Mike] The McWagon, for short?
(laughing)
- [Tom] We're officially
gonna pass the keys
to Mike Schnider,
Michael is the president
of McPherson College,
and he's been watching this
from a distance happen,
and here you go, pal,
- [Mike] Thank you so much.
- [Tom] no warranty.
- [Mike] This is, this is great.
Only in McPherson, Kansas will
you find something like this,
where people who love cars,
and love to keep it real,
I mean this is, I'm speechless.
Tell me about the top,
the story behind the top again.
- [Tom] Well it was rusty,
and the rust was,
you know, probably a 16th of an inch up,
- [Mike] Yeah?
And said "Well, we can't clear over that,
it's too rough,
let's just sand it down."
- [Mike] I think this
might be my favorite part,
that is so cool.
- [Tom] They sanded the top,
it was Austin and--
- [Mike] Dalton.
- [Tom] Dalton, yeah,
and they sanded it down,
and they said,
"We don't want to paint it white,
why don't we just keep it the way it is?"
so they mixed up a clear,
plus they put in some,
was it baking soda, I think?
- [Camera Operator] Corn starch.
- Corn starch.
- Corn starch.
- [Tom] And it gave it,
kind of a mottled look. (laughing)
- [Mike] I got it,
yeah, I see it now, yeah.
That is so awesome.
- [Tom] So this has got
new disk brakes in front
were put on.
New brakes in back,
new ball-joints,
new tie rods ends,
shocks, axle bearings,
wheel bearings, I mean,
this is functionally a new car.
- [Mike] I love it,
- [Tom] In an old body.
(laughing)
- [Mike] I love it,
they're gonna love it.
Thank you so much.
- [Tom] All right, well
I'm gonna get a hot dog.
- [Mike] Yes, welcome to McPherson.
(both men laughing)
- [Tom] Oh yeah, happy hunting.
(funky rock music)
(engine revving)
- [Tom] Oh boy, it won't be retired.
(engine snarling)
(crowd chattering)
(funky music)
American Graffiti (10/10) Movie CLIP - Drag Race at Paradise Road (1973) HD
Movieclips:
Laurie, what in the hell
are you doing in there?
- Is she gonna ride with you?
- Mind your own business,John.
Yeah, she's going with me.
You take care of yourself, man.
You guys ready?
You son of a bitch!
Come on, she's gonna blow.
I don't know.
Please, don't come near me.
I'm gonna be sick.
Oh, Steven.
Oh, Steven!
Please don't leave me.
- Don't leave me, please.
- I won't.
I couldn't bear it.
Please.
I'm not gonna leave you.
- I'm not gonna leave you.
- Promise me.
- I promise.
- Do you?
I'm not gonna leave you.
That was beautiful, John.
Just beautiful.
- I was losin', man.
- What?
He was pulling away from me
just before he crashed.
You're crazy! You creamed him
from right off the line.
Shit, Toad! The man had me.
He was beatin' me.
John, I don't know
what you're talking about.
It was the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen.
Should You Buy Premium Gas for Your Car? Myth Busted
Scotty Kilmer:
one, two, three, four!
Rev up your engines!
It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
today I'm going to help you answer the question, what
gasoline should you put in your car
because you don't want to waste money
buying expensive gas you don't need, but
you don't want to have the wrong gas
your car either, well here's the truth of
the matter, most modern cars are made to
run perfectly fine on regular gasoline
just pull out your owner's manual and
look inside, as it says here, use octane
rating 87 or higher, fuel-injected
engines are all controlled by computers
that make the engine run perfectly fine
on regular gasoline, if you throw in
higher octane gas, basically you're just
wasting your money and throwing it away
and realize that all gasoline sold in
the United States, by federal law, have to
contain certain additives, so that they
don't pollute and that they make the
cars run correctly, now unfortunately
unlike a milk carton that shows you
everything that's in the milk, they don't
tell you anything at a gas pump of what
ingredients are inside, so as to what
you're actually putting into your gas
tank, you never really know, because
they're not going to tell you, they're
worried about gasoline additive Wars I
guess, we're they'll have to put more and
more additive to compete with each
other, but over the last forty eight
years of fixing and driving cars, I've
learned one thing about gasoline, if your
car runs fine on the gasoline that you've
been using, stick to it, because then
you know the attitudes that are in that
gasoline, are working quite well for you
as the saying goes, if it ain't broke
don't fix it, but of course there are
exceptions, if you want a Ferrari they
are made for high test gas and they'll
only run correctly on that and take my
old motorcycle rusted in a garage here
it's got 14.5 to one compression ratio
on the engine it has to run on high test
gas, but modern technology can make you
run on regular gas, even with some of
these modern fast cars, take this
four-cylinder EcoBoost Mustang, it's got
306 horsepower when you run it on high
test gas, but it runs perfectly fine on
regular gasoline, only it goes down to
260 horsepower is now and if you have an
engine that's really worn up and is all
carbon up inside, that increases the
compression of the engine and
run better on high test gas, but if
that's the case, you really should have
your engine carbon cleaned out with a
pressure cleaning machine, to make it run
correctly and not deal with a problem by
just putting high tests gas in it, now
a lot of people are asking me about the
use of ethanol and gasoline, now realize
most modern gasolines contain 10%
ethanol to boost the octane, now on
normal car not made for running on
ethanol, ethanol can damage things, but
the gasoline that has 10 percent ethanol
also has additives in it to prevent
ethanol from doing any damage, but if your
think about using that 85 then it's 85%
ethanol, realize you can use that in one
of those flex fuel cars, it's made to
run on regular gas or on this E85 with a
high percentage of ethanol in it, only
you need to know one thing about physics
then, ethanol contains about 20 percent
less energy than gasoline, so you
generally going to get about 20 percent
worse gas mileage than you will with
gasoline, so if you're going to use the
E85, hey, realize you're going to get a lot
worse gas mileage, even though it does
burn a lot cleaner, so it's your choice
a cleaner burning engine or one that
uses more fuel, that's up to you, but
that's nothing that I have to worry
about yet, because all my cars are so old
they can't run on e85, they got to use
regular gasoline, so the truth be told if
you drive a regular car, running in on
regular gasoline will be perfectly fine
it'll run and have no problems from
gasoline and remember if you have any
car questions just visit the Scotty
Kilmer channel
Cesar Lozano & His 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS - Lowrider Roll Models Ep. 7
MotorTrend Channel:
(inspirational music)
- If you set your mind
to doing something,
nothing's impossible.
Everything's possible.
You could have whatever you dream of,
and if you keep continuing dreaming big,
you will get there one day.
(hip hop music)
You got to have a lot of patience,
dedication, and passion to
build one of these cars.
My first car was a 1963 Impala,
which I had purchased in Bakersville.
It was a project car.
The '63 Impala was a
car that was unrestored.
We took that car, stripped it all down,
frame-off restoration.
We painted it Candy Blue
with a patterned top.
It was called 'Juiced 63',
which was featured in
a couple of magazines.
So what happened when it got featured,
I got contacted a couple months
after the car got
featured in the magazine,
and they had offered me $40,000.00 for it.
And I said you know what, why not.
'Cause it was something
that I couldn't refuse.
I said, you know what, it's your car.
So, it went to Japan.
(hip hop music)
I love the cars.
Since I was a kid, like I said,
I've loved to see low riders.
There's different ways
of building a low rider.
To me, it's an art.
That's the beauty of low-riding.
Right now I'm currently
working on 1963 Impala.
A hard top.
Ive had it for 17 years and now,
I have the opportunity to try
to put it all together now.
I want it all original GM factory parts.
You know, all NOS parts,
which is New Old Stock.
It's going to also have a
whole bunch of accessories,
as it's a hard top,
it also has a few more options
that the convertible didn't come with.
This car is going to be fully loaded.
As a matter of fact, that's
what I'm calling the car, is
'Fully Loaded'.
And we should be done with
this car within the next month,
so people will see it out there.
They will appreciate it
just as much as I am.
(hip hop music)
I own a 1963 Impala
Super Sport Convertible.
When I seen this car,
it was a car that I just had to have.
It was a car that was fully
loaded with factory options.
It's very rare to find a
very optioned car out there.
When I bought that car,
I said, Im going to restore this car.
but a lot of people said,
"No leave it alone, dont mess with it."
Which i agreed with them.
I don't want to just yet go
into that full restoration
on this car because
you can still smell the old of it
when you're driving it.
It drives so nice, and it's real.
I didn't put them on there.
This car came with them already.
It's an original Honduras
Maroon, with black interior.
With a 327 engine, two speed transmission,
four barrel carburetor, with
fully optioned accessories.
Factory seat,
a cruise control,
four-way flasher,
autronic eye,
tilt steering column,
power windows,
trunk release,
tachometer,
compass,
vanity mirrors,
under the dash ashtray,
AM/FM radio,
padded dash,
power steering,
power brakes,
locking gas cap.
It was something that you just
don't see out there no more.
(light music)
when I was a young kid,
there used to be a shop down
the street from our house,
right there off of
Pacific and Walnut called
The Gold Exchange.
There used to be a guy there
that used to work there,
his name is Richard Silva.
He went by 'Ritchie Rich'.
He was the number one hopper at the time.
He was a champion for a lot of years.
He would give us money to wash his cars,
to clean the windows,
and just keep all the
kids in the neighborhood,
try to keep us off the streets,
teach us right from wrong
and talk about his cars
and the rare stuff that he had on there.
That's how I got the
passion of low-riding.
I come from a family of 11.
We learned a lot from each other.
My mom, my dad worked all
their lives just to support us.
My mom sometimes had to
work 2 jobs day and night
just to put food on our table,
clothes on our backs.
They couldn't give us everything we wanted
just because it was so many of us.
My mom was in the sewing business,
and she used to work
for a factory, sewing.
And my dad was a janitor.
It was tough once you get older,
you kind of realize what your parents did
to try to provide for you.
Once I got older, if I
wanted name-brand clothes,
I had to go work for them.
And, I found every little
way of getting out there
and hustling to try to make money,
so when we did go back to school,
I had money to buy the clothes
that I wanted, you know?
I went from collecting cans,
to selling raspados at the park,
from buying stuff at the 99-cent store and
selling it for more money.
I'd buy baseball hats
that they had one time
at the 99-cent store,
and I bought a whole bunch
of them for a dollar each
and go sell them at the
park for five bucks.
I didn't go out there begging for money,
I went out there and worked for my money.
I was a collector.
I would collect baseball cards,
hot wheels, action figures,
stuff like that that I would
go to the store and buy
a couple of the ones I
thought that were rare,
and then I was holding on
to them 'cause I figure,
one day, I'mma have a business where
I can make money with this stuff.
And my dad told me,
if you graduate,
I will help you on
whatever you want to do.
That was his dream, just try
to keep me out of trouble.
I was working for a guy at
the Santa Fe Spring Swap Meet,
which was selling the same
things I used to be a collector,
you know, baseball cards, action figures,
just stuff like that on the weekends.
I learned a lot from him.
After I graduated from highschool,
I said, that's what I want to do.
I want to have my own business,
I want to sell sports
car, to action figures,
collectibles.
I started at the outdoor
swap meet doing that.
With a small booth, $500.00.
That's how (chuckles) my dad
helped me out, with $500.00.
He didn't have much, but we
made it grow as it went on
and on and on and on and on
and it was just a weekly thing.
Once that business grew, I
got into the Compton Indoor.
The business just got bigger,
and bigger as I was in there
with more of the collectibles,
and stuff like that.
Baseball cards...
I love toys.
Maybe because we didn't get to have them
when we were kids.
We went to the store,
and all we could do was look at them
because our parents couldn't
afford to buy them for us.
When I got to a point where
I was already in junior high
and I was already making
a little bit of money,
I would go out there
and buy it and save it,
and appreciate what I had
and praise it,
like, oh, man, this is rare, this is good.
Because I didn't get to
have that when I was a kid.
I'm the founder of Collector's
Choice Toys and Hobbies.
We're located here in the
city of Paramount, California.
I started Collector's Choice back in '93,
with a simple $500.00 investment,
to being one of the biggest distributors
in the West Coast for toys.
We're a distributor,
and we're an importer, exporter of toys.
We distribute toys from
Mattel,
Revell,
Funko,
Jada,
Maisto,
McFarlane.
We sell products to customers in Mexico,
Australia,
Spain,
Japan,
you name it, world-wide.
Once we open all these doors,
we were able to sell to a
lot of mom and pop shops
that were doing what I
did when I first started.
(inspirational music)
I love what I do,
and it keeps me motivated
'cause it's fun.
It's fun and I see that
I could do more with it.
Because my toy business was so successful,
I was able to start DGA Tees
with David Gonzales,
the creator of the Homies,
which does all of this art work
which caters to the Chicano industry.
We do from T-shirts, to
seat covers, from blankets,
you name it.
There was a logo for the Lowrider Man,
but there was nothing made for him.
So I contacted Lowrider and
asked if there was an
opportunity to make this toy.
And I've seen an opportunity
to be able to license
the figurine for this Lowrider Man.
I asked Dave if he could
design me a figurine and
he was more than happy to do
it because he's always had
a passion for the brand.
He was really excited to
design the figurine for us.
Someone that doesn't get low-riding,
they're missing out.
When I'm driving my cars,
it's never bothered me
what other people thought.
Low-riding is an art.
And when I see people out
there driving a low rider,
and it's nice and clean,
you got to give it to them because
I know that ain't come easy.
My advice to a lot of the
people that are out there
that are going through the hard struggle
that I went through,
nothing is impossible.
And I encourage everybody
that's out there to not give up.
Everything is possible in life,
and you can do whatever you
accomplish yourself to do.
Just keep moving forward.
Keep opening them doors,
and once you get there,
you're going to see
the light shine on you.
My name is Cesar Lozano,
I'm an entrepreneur,
and I'm a Lowrider Roll Model.
(instrumental music)
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