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2018 Chevrolet Camaro: REVIEW

Dilawri Group of Companies:

This is the sixth-generation
2018 Chevrolet Camaro. The word Camaro
doesn't actually mean anything, at least
not officially, but it's said that GM
executives said that it means "a small,
vicious animal that eats Mustangs." Yes,
this is Chevy's direct response to the
Ford Mustang and over the years the two
have had quite the rivalry. Today we're
exploring the 1LT trim with the RS
package. The Camaro is a performance coupe that's also offered in a convertible
body style. Keep watching for our
overview and don't forget to subscribe
to see more from Canada's Largest
Automotive Group.
This Camaro has a
2.0L turbocharged inline-four paired to
an 8-speed automatic transmission but a
6-speed manual is also available. What's
great about the Camaro is that you can
really customize it to be as powerful as
you want it to be. Your engine options
include a 3.6L V6, a 6.2L V8,
and a 6.2L supercharged V8. The benefit of
the turbocharged inline-four is that it's
better suited for different situations--
for example if you drive a lot in the
city versus someone who, for example, is
dedicated to the track and may want to
opt for that V8 instead. This makes 275
horsepower at 5600 rpm and 295
pound-feet of torque between 3,000-
4,500 rpm. The 2.0L gets from 0-100 km/h in about 5.5 seconds but if you opt for
that supercharged V8 you'd be looking at
something closer to 3.7 seconds.
For reference, the highest-performing Camaro, the ZL1, makes 650 horsepower and
650 pound feet of torque.
You can't deny that the Camaro has presence on the road.
It's low, sculpted, menacing even... Today we have it in black although my personal
favorite is the Camaro in Bright Yellow. With the RS package you get this RS-specific
grille and high intensity
discharge headlamps with LED daytime
running lamps. The Camaro comes standard with 18" rims but you can upgrade to
20" options. With the addition of the
RS package you're looking at these
20" 5-split-spoke grey painted
aluminum rims.
And in the rear you have a dual exhaust
with bright tips.
The Camaro also has 258L of cargo
space. And now, moving on to the interior.
The Camaro has remote start and keyless
entry which makes it incredibly
convenient.
This has jet black cloth bucket seats but leather options are
available and so are performance bucket
seats from Recaro for the ZL1. The
driver's seat is 8-way power adjustable
and the front passenger seat is 6-way
power adjustable. Heated and ventilated
front seats are available on some of the
other trims. The Camaro has a leather
wrapped flat-bottom steering wheel with
a leather-wrapped shift knob. You also have steering wheel mounted paddle shifters.
A lot of brands are doing digital
instrument clusters but I still like the
traditional analog gauges and that is
what the 1LT has although a digital
configurable display is available.
Here are your controls for air conditioning
and heat as well as the controls for the
7" touchscreen display which
supports AM/FM radio, Bluetooth
connectivity, Android Auto and Apple
CarPlay. This Camaro also has a
six-speaker audio system and a head-up
display is available on some of the
higher trims. Let's talk about how the
Camaro performs on the road it's
rear-wheel drive and it is a lot of fun
and handles really nicely. It also has a
sport suspension so when you're taking a
corner or a ramp with vigor, it stays
tight. The Camaro also comes with a
limited slip differential for enhanced
handling and on the higher trim it becomes
an electronic LSD if you're interested
in adding a touch of performance you'll
definitely want to go for the Track
Package. which includes features like a
dual mode performance exhaust system, a performance suspension, and engine and LSD
coolers.
You have a few different drive modes:
Snow/Ice, Tour, and Sport, and for fuel
consumption the 2.0L turbocharged
inline-four gets 10.9L/100km city, and 7.7L/100KM
highway. If you're someone who's mindful of fuel
economy just know that the bigger
engines will be a little less efficient.
When it comes to safety the Camaro comes standard with the OnStar Safety &
Security Plan. Chevrolet is also offering
something called Teen Driver mode which
activates or deactivates certain
features associated with a certain key
fob. You also get an in vehicle report
which can help you monitor your teen's
and driving habits.
There are so many
options when it comes to configuring
your dream Camaro. While the 6.2L
supercharged V8 would be incredible to
have in the garage the inline-four is
still incredibly fun to drive and it's
significantly better on fuel economy. Whichever Camaro you decide to go for
will definitely depend on your driving
style, your habits, and your preference. We
encourage you to take it for a test
drive at your nearest Dilawri
dealership. Start your journey at Dilawri.ca.

STOLEN 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Bought On Copart Auto Auction

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2014 Chevrolet Camaro
this thing is pretty sick and
As you guys probably can guess it from my picture. It's been stolen
That's not a good thing for clean title cars
because usually
When I bought this from progressive when it gets stolen that has really bad history as in like solid record because it was stolen whatever
But yeah, this thing is actually pretty sick started it
Haven't really drove it yet, which that's actually my next step
Don't earier. It's really really dirty. I don't know how to explain it to you guys
But this thing looks like somebody stole it and didn't care about the car at all
Very weird and all this stuff was taken apart on the back. I don't know why tell you guys the truth
I actually kind of bag in here of some white stuff
Which is gone, obviously I reported to the new years authorities
Yeah, but the trunk man, everything was tipping apart. Like I said, I don't know why
Either they change the spare tire or something. I don't know the tires are kind of all bald
So I don't know what's going on there, but let's start it up see how it sounds
Starts up every time
The errors are kind of delayed problem. You start it like the arrows kind of go up like later than the car starts
I don't know. I think it's a Chevy thing not really sure what to make of it, but it's not bad
I mean it runs good the runs in drive great interior is dirty. So
Guess we'll clean it. We'll check out the engine bay because it's super clean. You'll see. Yeah, look how clean this thing is
Like I don't think nobody has ever cleaned this thing ever. So I guess I'll be the first and it's eighty six thousand miles
So actually no I'm not gonna clean it. Let's go take it for a test drive just to make sure everything's all coochie. I
Mean it's okay. It's driving
You'll see
This slight shake to it. I'm pretty sure it's up. All the tires are not really sure
Huh? It's alright, actually it's not bad. It might need some brake rotors or something like that slightly shaky
Next step is to change the oil because it's blacker than you know, some people's hearts
Yes, so the next customer has nice clean oil so, you know, I don't have to mention it needs an oil change
So whatever next step is to remove all these stickers and all of these
markings on the glass every Co Park car has this especially
Insurance cars they mark all over the windshield like they own it. I just get a razor blade
water and
Start scrubbing it down. You could use some wool pads
To scrape it all off but I just like using a razor blade. It's actually pretty simple
Huh takes me some time, but it's okay. I
Guess we will clean the engine bay
I like to squirt it with some
half soap
Some purple power which is some sort of degreaser and then squirt it on there then grab a cloth
It could be slightly damp. So it'll be easier to rub it all up on a plastics. It's not too hard
I mean it does take a little bit of time
If you want to do it very carefully, especially on newer cars with all these electronics, huh? It's fine
Just take a water hose after and just wash it all down
It'll be fine. Everybody trips about it. Then. Yeah, it probably probably is not a good idea to do this, but you know
Just don't sue me. I do this to my own cars because nothing ever happened and look how clean it is
Just some soapy water and this thing is brand spanking new
Next step is to remove this ding
It's the only major ding on a car which is located on the front passenger side fender
My buddy does paintless dent removal and he says he can do it within two hours
Man he did such a good job. He says he needs another hour on it, but I was like man, don't sweat it
It's fine. You know what I'm saying? So he did a really good job
Thank you for him and I'll leave his details in the description
So I have this Mustang detailed my buddy sent the pictures when he was washing the car
He's a professional inside and outside detailer
And he he was just shocked how the interior was like and I told him on my game and don't be surprised
You know what I'm saying? I brought you worse and he wasn't surprised. He just wanted to send me some of these pictures
Oh how the car looked before he cleaned it so I can show you guys how it looks now
Dang, this is such a new car compared to what it was man. This thing is beautiful. Ve a
Beautiful, I mean it's super shiny it's still slightly wet and I kind of got a carpets a little dirty, but you can tell
The difference here. I mean door gems are all clean
sparkly everything got a seat32 actually while driving back because I was in my dirty clothes but I mean
Other than that you guys can tell that it was detailed completely. I mean this thing is just really
Really clean and I actually made him put back the trunk area since everything was taken apart for some reason
My bad, dude, but he did clean it really. Well. I mean, you know
Detailing stuff I could detail the car myself, but you know
laziness hits me and I get all weird about it and don't feel like doing it cuz you know stuff and
I guess the next step should be
Tires, right? Yeah, the tires the tires should be the next step because these things are bald
So it's been a couple days now and
I am ready to install the new tires, which I do on a tire shop
I just didn't want to pay the high end for tires
I ordered them online for hundred bucks when some milestone tires or something like that, whatever. It's not bad 400 bucks
I'll do the work myself because I only trust myself
Let's get to it
And
Then I decided to install
Aftermarket LED headlight bulbs these halogen bulbs are super ugly
These LED bulbs are revised and bright and blue blue white
This is what they look like on the right. This is the stock one on the left
They are super bright super cheap. I think I got this set for like 30 bucks online. I mean
There's plenty of space inside the housing for this big little fan thing behind there. It's not bad
It looks really nice, especially in the dark looks really good. I would recommend it
And everything is done I am so happy this thing is done because I
Have so much money tied up into this you guys don't even know I will make a couple thousand dollars profit. That is true
I'm not doing this for free. I mean, I'm not really worried about it
I know it's gonna sell that these Camaros usually sell pretty well and especially how clean I made a look
It's gonna go real quick. Yeah, I'm gonna put up for sale
See what happens as a clean title eighty six thousand miles and look at that thing
Those LEDs are poppin makes it all worthwhile. Especially those LEDs is gonna sell the car
Appreciate it guys for watching if you have any questions, let me know
Subscribe message me on my facebook
I'll answer when best as I can. Alright
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Ford Shelby GT500 v Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 : Street & Circuit - /CHRIS HARRIS ON CARS

THE DRIVE:

CHRIS HARRIS: Couldn't get more
American if we tried--
Manhattan skyline and the two
muscle cars of the moment--
Camaro ZL1 and Mustang GT500.
Between them, they have
1,259 horsepower.
And yet they cost a lot less
than a 997 Turbo S.
So I've got two days
with these cars.
I want to drive them in New
York, because that's a fun
thing to do.
And then I want to drive
them on a circuit.
And then I want to reach
some conclusions
about the two of them.
As a European, I'm massively
excited.
Because they're so powerful,
and they
represent so much value.
Let's get it on.
So is this the worst place on
the planet to drive a car?
MALE SPEAKER: To drive?
CHRIS HARRIS: Could
be, couldn't it?
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah,
I think so.
CHRIS HARRIS: Could be.
Anyhow, at least I've
got a Camaro ZL1.
I suppose I'd better get that
straight first, haven't I?
Am I going to call it
a ZL1 or a Zed L1?
I suppose, being in America,
I ought to call it a ZL1.
Luckily and handily for these
purposes, General Motors has
decided to detune the
ZR1 Corvette engine
and put it in a Camaro.
And it's only got
588 horsepower.
Get that?
Detuned to 588.
566 foot-pounds of torque.
And I'm going to be able to
demonstrate about, oh, seven
of those, I would have thought,
where we're going now.
Initial thoughts, then?
It's not a difficult car
to drive slowly, this.
It's not a difficult
car at all.
Three petals, clutch is fine,
gearbox is light.
We forget that, don't we, that
if you had a car with this
much power 15 years ago--
actually, they didn't exist,
did they-- but a mega horsepower
car had awful
slackness in the gearshift,
and the whole transmission
moved around on rubber mounts
and it felt horrible.
This doesn't feel like that.
It's a little bit of slot.
But it's tight.
And it's easy to drive.

I like the cabin too.
This thing is $48,000 basic.
So it's kind of slightly
well-equipped 325i BMW money.
And you get 588 horsepower.
I don't have very good form
with New York City.
I've been here once before and
I got off the plane, had a
good afternoon, and then
the lights went off.
This was August, 2003--
I think it was-- when they
had the blackout.
I got stuck here for two days.
I spent $500 to sleep on some
stranger's floor one night.
So I don't have much
good history.
But I do find it a great place
to come on [INAUDIBLE].
And it's good for cars too.
You see some really interesting
cars, because
people just seem to use some
old, eclectic stuff and leave
it on the street side.
This morning I saw
a BMW E28 525e.
I was just cooing all over it.
People thought I was mad.
But it looked so incongruous and
cool next to all the other
new, modern cars.
Ah, look.
G63 or G55.
G55.
Are you allowed to drive a G55
if you've not got a Russian
passport and a cocaine habit?
[LAUGHTER]
MALE SPEAKER: Getting a lot of
looks around here, though, in
these two cars.
That's for sure.
CHRIS HARRIS: That's what it's
all about though, isn't it?
They are partly about being seen
and heard, aren't they?
They're pretty good at it too.
I'm at a red light and it's
clear road ahead of us.
So the temptation is to
make a lot of noise.
But I don't know, is that a bad
thing to do in New York?
What's it like in first gear?
[ENGINE SOUNDS]
CHRIS HARRIS: It's
quite quick.
I went a bit more
than 30 there.
MALE SPEAKER: What's the
speed limit here?
CHRIS HARRIS: It's a lovely
thing to tool around in.
I like it.
The seat is nice.
They've been quite
clever here.
Everything that you touch has
got sort of Alcantara on it.
So all the contact points--
there's a stumpy little gear
lever here which looks
like it was just
nicked from an M5 actually.
It feels great, because it's
all quite a soft touch.
I like this thing.
Strangely when I said I liked
it, everyone back at the Drive
office just went, [GROAN],
it's a Camaro.
I don't like them.
It's wrong.
They're all very pro-Mustang.
Of course, being a complete
foreigner, I don't really
understand the complexities and
the subtleties of the Ford
versus Chevrolet thing.
I just want to take them on
merit, really, and judge them.
This, to me, feels like
a nicely resolved car.
So I'm going to spend a bit of
time making sure that it
shifts gear well at low
speed, that the
engine's got usable torque.
It may have massive numbers,
but it's up to you how much
you use of it.
And that's all I'm going
to say about
driving the ZL1 slowly.
Because we need to go and do
some stupid stuff with it,
really, don't we?
So this is a Mustang GT500.
Its numbers are so
extraordinary, I'm not even
going to mention them now.
I'm just going to sort of settle
myself into the beast.
And then we'll discuss the
numbers in a minute.
Because they are,
frankly, [BLEEP]
ridiculous.

This is a bit brutal,
isn't it?
Jesus.
Talk about a short shift.

To quote the best motoring
journalist cliche of all, it's
like a rifle bolt.

[BLEEP]
me, that's fast.
It's got loads of grunt.
I feel like I'm sitting in
a Range Rover, though.
I'm too high relative to
the steering wheel.
If I was to get twirly in
oversteer, I could probably
shave my testicles with the
bottom of the wheel.
It's actually not the easiest
car to drive slowly, whereas
the ZL1 really does just feel
to me like any sort of three
pedal, American, fast car.
This is a bit more difficult.
The clutch bite point is high.
Because of this seat being in
the wrong position, my angle
of attack from my knee down to
the petals is a bit funny.
I'm sitting too high relative
to the wheel.
And of course there's
that power figure.
We'll come to it now.
671 horsepower.
Say that to yourself.
671 horsepower through,
effectively, a live axle.
It's just barking, isn't it?
Who was it who said, sort of
post-Lehman that Ford and GM
were going to have to sort their
shit out and stop making
muscle cars.
Well, a few years later,
we're at the 670
horsepower Mustang mark.
So someone called that
wrong, didn't they?
Torque--
631 foot-pounds.
It's a monster.
It's a much, much, more powerful
machine than that yob
yellow thing behind me, which
itself is crazy enough.
I love it.
And the price of these things--
they are $35 grand
cars if they were sold in the
UK at the same price as they
are over here.
So you could have the thick end
of 700 horsepower for the
price of a sort of mid-style,
three series BMW.
Isn't that something
to be celebrated?
When you get to that sort of
level, I don't really care
about the way they handle
or whether they're as
good as a BMW M3.
It makes no odds whatsoever,
does it?
Obviously, I'm a limey
tourist here today.
We've driven around New York.
And we've seen a few
bits and bobs.
But J.R. said, if there's one
place you want to go to, where
would it be?
Times Square, all that stuff--
not really very interested.
I like the Chrysler building,
but I've seen that before.
And I've been at the
Empire States.
And we're in cars.
But there was one place I wanted
to visit, and I've
always wanted to visit ever
since I first saw a little
program called The Sopranos.
I wanted to go to the Bing.
Who wouldn't want to
go to the Bing?
Not go into the Bing and use
its services, obviously,
because I don't need a happy
ending as we're speaking now.
But here we are-- the Bing.
[ENGINE REVVING]
CHRIS HARRIS: Boy do these
cars get some attention.
They look and sound the part.
And most of Manhattan appears
to adore them,
even the local police.
MALE SPEAKER 2: So that's
three pull-overs in
literally one hour.
And every time you've
gotten out of it.
CHRIS HARRIS: There's something
to be said for
mooching and posing in them.
Because they're not actually
that good on the open road.
I tell a lie.
That's unfair on the ZL.
The GT500 skips over bumps, the
power delivery is pretty
savage, and the exhaust
noise is grating.
The ZL is much more composed.
In fact, it's just a nicer
fast road car--
quieter and easier.
But do you buy muscle to
be easier and quieter?
I don't know.
Let's go to the track and wreck
some tires before we
even attempt to answer
that one.

OK, we're at Monticello Motor
Club now and finally have the
chance to use some of this
massive amount of horsepower.
We're in the ZL1 first, the
weakest by some margin.
How often do you say that of a
car that has 580 horsepower?
This is quite a heavy
brute though--
1,860 kilograms.
So I don't expect, given that
it's about 85 degrees outside,
to be able to pound around
for too long.
So let's go and do a couple
of laps and just
see how the car behaves.
And for me as a European, I have
to say, people like me
have quite a jaundiced view of
these American performance
cars-- too big, too heavy,
and not really on a
par with the Europeans.
But these are quite serious
performance cars.
They've got a lot
of performance.

Motor's great.
But it doesn't feel like
it's got 580 to me.
Maybe that's because
it is so heavy.
Brake pedal-- a little
bit blunt.
To me, feels like sort of M3
performance and a bit.
I've got the safety systems
on at the moment.
And it's really working
hard at the back axle.
We have got oversteer whenever
we want it, boys.
Bodes well for [INAUDIBLE].
Do you know what?
As a European, this does not
feel at all bad, this thing.
It's not the last word.
But it's pretty good.
It's really pretty good.

I have to say, initial
thoughts--
this car has hugely benefited
from having an
independent rear end.
It doesn't feel like the most
sophisticated rear end.
But it does feel--
well, I know it goes over
bumps in the middle of a
corner and doesn't get
spat sideways.
And the chassis is not being
completely overpowered by this
engine, not by a long
shot actually.
It feels like quite a nice
balanced package.

Yes.
Now we can let it move
around a bit.

But its advantage over the Ford
is it's got 305 section
rear tire-- so less power,
more mechanical grip.
It's quite a useful
recipe, isn't it?
I'm going full power here.
I can't make the thing drift.

A surprising, slightly strange
car we have here, Thomas.

I'm properly trying to back
it in, but it won't do it.
Maybe the ambient temperature
isn't helping the old girl.

Here's a good question
to ask yourself
on a Thursday afternoon.
What does 671 horsepower within
a body weighing 1,747
kilograms feel like when
it's transmitted to the
road via a live axle?

Welcome to the GT500.
I'm leaving all the systems
on to start with.
First thing's first.
This seat--
I'm sitting too high.
I've already got traction issues
and I've just used
about a third of throttle.

Yeah, this is going to be a
handful, this thing, isn't it?
What an engine.
So much more powerful than
the Camaro engine.
Yeah, this car is dominated
by its motor.
It's an engine looking
for a chassis.
I'm not convinced it's
found it in this
particular car, either.

Now we caught them-- but the
axle is absolutely having a
massive tantrum with itself.
God, it just feels so much
faster in a straight line.
Braking--
OK.
Has it got a spool diff
on it or something?
It feels like a drift car.
I think it's extraordinary,
absolutely extraordinary.
And anyone from my continent
that sniffs at it not being as
dignified as an M3 can saw it
off, because this is properly
exciting, this thing,
properly exciting.
The engine just keeps going.
And rarely has a car said to me,
as clearly and as loudly,
please turn the traction
control off.
Please turn the traction
control off.

This is a factory car--
670 horsepower.
It's not some tuner nonsense.
This comes with a warranty.
I do like it.
I do like it.
It's crude and it's--
but you know what?
For all that crudity, it's just
much more exciting and
much faster than the Camaro.
Where there's no bumps, the live
axle isn't as much of a
problem as you'd expect.
But when there are bumps,
it's not ideal.
There.
It's making me wait an eternity
to get on the gas.
It's so much fun though.
And it's the same price
as a loaded up 325i.
These are actually quite
different cars.
The Ford is lighter,
more powerful,
and generally crazier.
The Camaro is much
more rounded.
In as much as I could imagine
living with it every day the
way I could, say, an Audi RS
or an AMG Mercedes, how you
judge them clearly depends
on your Chevy or Ford
affiliation.
But once you've chosen your
tattoo, it actually comes down
to what you expect from
a modern muscle car.
Because I'm a limey not
regularly exposed to this
stuff, I wanted to rip my arms
off and scare my children.
And the ZL doesn't do that.
It's too good for that.
Despite giving away power and
weight, it was two seconds
faster around Monticello
in my hands.
But in the land of muscle,
bad is good.
And the GT500 is the
baddest of all.
Now how do I import one
to the UK again?

How to Plasti Dip Your Car - Chevy Camaro - with Scotty Kilmer

Scotty Kilmer:

it's time for show-off Sunday, where
everyone has a chance to show off their
own car and here's this week's winner,
this is my 2017 Camaro SS and I'm going to
show you around it, and since last week's
video, I have done a lot of stuff to it,
such as plasti dipping it, and a few
other things, and Scotty's asked me to
go through the process of dipping, now
most you guys are probably familiar with
these black plastic tip cans that you
could find at any auto parts store, at a
website called dipyourcar.com, they
have hundreds of different colors that
you can choose, black cans are still
pretty useful, I've done my mirrors and
also my spoiler in the matte black Plasti Dip,
but to do a whole car, you need
something a lot bigger than a rattle can,
because that'll take hours to do, so
that's why they make gallons of Plasti
Dip,
now they make these in these solid color
gallons, this one is black, and dip your
car makes a special clear coat which you
could add pearl into, this one is a matte
finish that just came out, and with these
clear gallons you can mix any pearl you
want inside, now on dipyourcar.com,
they have Pro car kits, which you can
just add to your card and order, with a
specific color that you would want,
I ordered the carbon red kit, which came
with everything I needed, but what I did
I added it a little bit more black Betty
and also a special reflective powder to
it,
this is dip your car single turbine
sprayer, they have an upgraded model but
this works perfectly fine for what I do
in my garage, and this is their sprayer
that hooks up to the compressor, if you
want a more in-depth video of the
dipping process, you can go on to dip
your cars YouTube channel and watch
their videos of them dipping cars, right
now I'll show you the process of how you
can dip something, you'll need a gas
mask because these fumes are not good
for you, now I'm going to have my mask on for
the process of me dipping it, so my voice
may be a little bit muffled, now I'm
going to be doing a white base coat just
like, so I can show you the coverage, so
what you want to do is start a light
tack coat just so, this is creating the
foundation for all the dip to stick to
your car, and you're going to need to let
this first coat dry for about five
minutes, while the
plastidip is drying, I'll be showing you
around my car, so since last week's video
I've removed the tint over my taillights
because I think it looks a lot better
with the new finish I have in my car, I
have installed a ZL1 style C7 front
splitter and also the ZL1 style
side-skirts, so it's been 5 minutes since
I laid down my first tack coat, so now
I'm going to go back over a little bit
heavier,
and you're going to want the second coat to
dry for about 10 to 15 minutes, to maintain
Plasti Dip ability to peel, you need to
do around five to six coats, now most
people don't like about Plasti Dip is
having overspray in your car, now as you
see I have some overspray inside my door
jambs, and dip your car makes a fantastic
product called dip dissolver, it's a lot
like googan or citrus solve or any of
those degreasers, but it's specifically
made to remove plastidip, now all you
have to do is just spray some into a
microfiber towel, and then all you have
to do is just wipe where you don't want
it, and that comes off super, super easy
and just like that, it's completely clean,
same thing goes for the inside of my
door, really light pressure you just have
to wipe it off, and probably the most
important thing to Plasti Dip besides
the actual Plasti Dip,
is this dip coat, and dip coat can be
used to clean your whole car but most
importantly it hardens the Plasti Dip,
and you could use it to clean little
tree sap spots, like that, all you have to do is
just spray a little on there, it wipes right
off, same thing for that little spot, just
spray a little bit on it, and it wipes
right off, and it actually protects your
dip while you're cleaning it, your going to
want to spray that dip coat on your car,
every one to two weeks, just to keep the
dip the proper condition, and it'll make
your dip last years and years, so on a
fifty-fifty overlap, you want to start at
the bottom and you want to pass over
what you've sprayed, and for something
small like this, you can go back over the
opposite direction, you get a full wet
coat,
and I'm only going to be doing around
four coats, just to show you how the dip
works and how it peels, so I'm going to
be doing the last coat right now, and for
the last coat you want to have this be
the heaviest coat,
and the texture you see right now, will
smooth out when it dries,
now all the painting is still wet you
want to peel off any tape that you have
that's touching any surface that you
want to have dip on, so to get a clean
line across this all you have to do is
just start peeling it, it may not get the
cleanest because the paint dried a
little bit, but you just do that, and it
leaves a clean edge, and then anything
that's coming up you just tap down and
all you have to do to peel the Plasti Dip
is find an edge, start rolling it up, and
it should all peel off evenly, like that,
and it's completely clean, as always you
guys can follow me at Dipfedcamaro on
Instagram, and to check out Plasti Dip go
to Dipyourcar.com and you can see all the
pro car kits they offer,
well that was this week's video, and
remember to have your car video
highlighted here on my channel, check
this out!

Jaguar F-Type 2013 review - CarBuyer

Carbuyer:

Yes, it's been a long time coming hasn't it?
But Jaguar has finally got round to building
a two seater sports car again - ladies and
gentlemen I give you the F-Type
This car is clearly the spiritual successor
to the legendary E-Type. But don't expect
any retro olde-worldey styling here. This
is a thoroughly modern looking sports car
with an all aluminium body that's been designed
to slip through the air as effortlessly as
possible.
Inside, F-Type feels every inch a true sports
car with a dash is angled towards the driver
and body hugging sports seats that hold you
firmly in place. It's got some really nice
touches too such as heater vents which stay
hidden until they are needed.
Jaguar set out to create a really sharp handling
and fun sports car with the F-Type and let
me assure you they have done just that. The
steering is nice and quick yet the car is
never twitchy. And in the corners this thing
just stays completely flat and grips and grips.
Yet when you are just cruising along the adaptive
dampers make sure that its still a comfy car
to travel in.
And if you tire of having the wind in your
hair you can easily raise the roof on the
move at up to 30mph. And with it up the F-Type
is a surprisingly quiet car to travel in....
so long as you don't put the car in dynamic
mode as this brings the active exhaust into
play.
In sport mode you also get a sharper throttle
response, weighted steering, stiffer suspension
and faster shifts from the excellent paddle
shift eight speed automatic gearbox.
You can get the F-Type in three different
flavours. This is the range-topping 488bhp
5.0litre supercharged V8S and its absolutely
mental. But you don't actually want it. The
one you want is the 3.0-litre supercharge
V6 S - it still has 375bhp and can do 0-62
mpg in about 5 seconds and being less nose
heavy is actually sharper to drive. The car
you don't want is the entry level 335bhp V6.
It's still quick enough but it doesn't get
the adaptive dampers, nor active exhaust,
nor a limited slip differential like the other
cars do. And those bits of kit are important.
Believe me they are.
There are some other issues with the F-Type
too. The touch screen infotainment system
is a bit old and awkward to use. While Jaguar
has taken a leaf out of Porsches book by charging
for stuff that should be standard like a wind
deflector. Speaking of which, poor in car
storage and a boot that's' not only tiny but
is an awkward shape means the F-Type isn't
as practical as a Boxster which is not only
cheaper but if I'm honest even better to drive
too.
Still, the difference is marginal and if you
ask me this is far the more manly looking
car. In fact Jaguar should be proud of the
F-Type, it proves that after all these years
it still knows how to build a cracking two-seater
sports car.

The Best and Worst First Cars to Buy

Scotty Kilmer:

rev up your engines, now buying a first
car can be a scary situation, there's all
kinds of different cars out there,
there's all kinds of people selling them
so I'm going to give you some advice on how
to do it the smart way, now I know a lot of
young people think, oh I want to get
a sports car for my first car, well a lot
of times that's not such a smart thing
to do, especially if you got a little
amount of money, buying a used sports car
can be a big mistake, as guys tend to
beat them, you get a used one, they
often have a lot of problems and it's going to
cost you a fortune to fix, now if you
have money and you're talking about
buying a brand-new sports car, I've
had plenty of customers buy Ford
Mustangs brand-new and take care of them
and be happy with them, but buying a used
sports car, that's often a big gamble, if
you're going to do it, pay a guy like me to
check it out first, he'll tell you
whether it's a decent deal or not
over the years I've had guys say, hey I
can get this used BMW for a really good
price I think I'll buy it is my first
car
those things are endless money pits,
they're cheap because they have all kinds
of problems that cost a fortune to fix,
you want to stay away from cars like
that, instead you might think of sporty
cars, okay this is my old Toyota Celica
not really a sports car, it's a sporty
car, the thing is based on a Toyota
Corolla platform, and yeah that's a
really old car now, but the scions that
Toyota made for years, hey there were
sporty cars too and there's plenty of
them out there that can last you a long
time, and here's a big tip, when you're
buying a first car, don't just go out and
get one that's got all the bells and
whistles, because all that stuff
generally is going to break down especially
buying a used vehicle, things like
four-wheel drive or all-wheel drive
those cars get older those things break,
they can cost a fortune to fix, so my
advice for the first car is, go simpler,
just get a front-wheel drive car or a
rear-wheel drive car, don't go and buy
all this fancy stuff that can break down
and end up that you regret your decision,
so the first thing you have to think
about when you want to buy a first car
is, how are you going to drive it, how many miles
you're going to put on it,
what's it going to be used for, now if
you're going to buy a first car, I don't
advise going to the big car dealerships
because they generally charge way too
much for the cars, but you can use them
to your advantage, because if you're not
sure what type of car you want to drive
you can test them all out there,
I told customers, hey you might not like
this car they'll ride that well even
though you think you like the way it
looks, go to a used car lot, try them out
see if you like the way they ride, you
might say, oh that thing really rides horrible,
I'm not going to buy it or you might like
it, and
here's a tip for people who just say they
have to have an SUV as a first car,
realize that SUVs specially in the United
States, are very popular so their prices
are sky high even used, you can get a
much better deal say on a Toyota Camry
sedan, then you're going to get on any
Toyota or Lexus SUV, do a little bit of
research, it's your first car you never
had one,
check out the resale value and repair
histories online, if you find that a car
has a really horrible resale value
there's generally a very good reason,
sometimes it's better to buy an older
reliable car, than it is a newer one
that's a known problem
I mean if you find a Toyota Corolla
that was 15 years old and had 140,000
miles, it might way outlast any Chrysler
product, even if it's only ten years old
and has sixty or seventy thousand miles, and
here's my last tip, never ever buy the
first model of anything for your first
car, if you're buying a new car
buy one model that's been out for a
while, don't get one that has this brand
new type of engine or brand new type of
transmission, because many times they
make mistakes on them, I've had customers buy
these Mazdas with the SKYACTIV
technology, only to find that the
variable valve systems were breaking
down in them and cost thousands and
thousands of dollars to fix, because
there's a great deal of difference
between buying the latest greatest phone
technology for maybe seven or eight
hundred bucks, and forking out a ton of
money for a car that's got new unproven
technology, and if you're thinking about
getting a hybrid as a first car, realize
that buying those things used is a real
gamble, unless you're buying a brand new one and you've
got money to burn, they can last for
quite some time before they have
problems, I got many customers with them
that they got well over a hundred
thousand miles out of them before
anything serious went wrong, just realize
that they cost a lot more and really you
never recoup the money difference in gas
mileage versus what you paid for the car,
versus the depreciation of the car
believe me, and say you're just looking
for a regular car, I know people are going to
think I'm crazy because they hear me say how
I can't stand Volkswagens, but in Europe
lots of people drive Volkswagens, I
talked to a guy in Romania and he said
Scotty we can't get parts for Toyota's
here, but there's parts for Volkswagens all
over the place and lots of people buy
Volkswagens and drive them, so if you're
in Romania, hey your first car might
be a good deal to buy a Volkswagen, so now
you've learned a bit about buying your
first car, and just remember it's your
first car, it's not the only car you're
going to have, you just want to make sure
that your first car isn't a very bad
decision, so if you never want to miss
another one of my new car repair videos,
remember to ring that Bell!

Greatest barn find collection known to man | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 46

Hagerty:

(energetic blues music)
- It's oh-dark-thirty and
we're already on the road
heading to a place north of here
by about 2 and a half hours,
where a gentleman's got
buildings full of cars
that are unbelievable.
He said, "I bought them
'cause I loved them,
"not 'cause they were
gonna go up in value."
Well they all went up in value
and so now we've been invited to see
buildings full of cars that he restored
20, 30, 40 years ago
and now they're sitting
in those buildings,
kind of unrestoring themselves.
It's a pretty sad sight
but the cars are amazing
so come along for the ride.
So whats a Barn Find guy doing flowers?
Well I like flowers, okay?
Actually, we're going
to see a guy named Billy
who's got an amazing selection of cars
and he happened to tell me that today
is his wife Carolee's birthday
so bought Carolee some flowers.
This is what you do to be a
successful barn find hunter.
Sometimes it takes buying
a bouquet of flowers.
Remember what I told you in
the past about dead end roads?
These are the roads that
contain the treasures that
nobody wants to go down a dead end road.
Well, this is where the treasures are, so
this is the perfect case-in-point
for going down dead end roads.
Look at these, here we go.
Building's full of this.
Here we go, Billy and Carolee.
This is the ladies love me.
- Oh my, thank you, they're beautiful!
- Happy birthday, Carolee.
- Thank you very much.
- [Tom] So Billy, what's your dad's name?
- Walter "Bicket" Eubanks.
- [Tom] Walter, okay.
- Just call him Bicket.
- [Tom] Nice to meet you, Bicket.
And thanks for teaching
this guy about car stuff.
Where do we start, which
room do we start in,
over here, over here?
- Well, uh, probably since
we're in here and it's raining,
let's look at the--
- [Tom] Okay.
- You wanna look at
the Lincoln and the Stutz?
Now they're dirty, I
ain't cleaned them up.
- Good, we don't want 'em clean.
- [Billy] Had a lot of fast cars and, uh,
and drove fast a lot but
I never had a ticket.
- [Tom] Never got a ticket?
- [Billy] Never had a ticket.
- [Tom] Man...
And this is a 1929 Stutz,
overhead cam shaft vertical engine.
And how long have you
had something like this?
- [Billy] It's been several years.
This is oh-40, that's a 1940.
- [Tom] 1940 Lincoln Continental?
- [Billy] Yeah, the 41,
they had two-piece fenders
but the 41's were two-pieces stamped out.
The 40's, the back half of
that fender was handmade.
- [Tom] Handmade.
- [Billy] Was six slits
in the back fender to make that turn.
- [ Tom] Oh man.
- [Billy] When I first
cleaned the paint off,
I says, "well somebody homemade
a fender on this thing.
"It's torn to pieces".
Well, I went to the show, when
I went and got that Lincoln
Ford Motor Company trophy, they said that
Lincoln handmade those fenders
and I had the only Lincoln
there, there were six Lincolns,
maybe four, four or
six, 40's there to show.
And I was the only one that had
the homemade fenders skirts on it.
- And this was basically a handmade car?
- [Billy] Yeah.
- Wow.
- That whole back end is handmade.
- Are there cars back here too?
- [Billy] The cars are
in there, the other side
(energetic blues music)
- [Tom] Oh, now we're getting
to some stuff here, wow.
Alright, so even though you're a Mopar guy
and a Hudson guy, I mean,
you've got Chevrolets.
Do you remember any stories
about any of these cars?
About who you got them from or anything?
- I was working at the
Chevrolet dealership
and this car got traded in.
It got stolen one time, you
know they got a switch on this.
Mama drove it to work one night and they,
she didn't get the switch cut off right
and somebody stole it.
It upset me so bad that
I prayed to the Lord
that he'd give it back
to me by the weekend
or he'd either give me the understanding
to handle that problem, my
faith worried me to death.
But that Friday night, the
law the from nearby town
said he had a Corvette racer.
Didn't need it, we could come get it.
They had got it out in the woods
and it won't hurt except
to say it didn't half run.
Well what the people had
done, they jerked it so hard
they pulled three spark
plug wires off the left side
when it broke the motor mount.
- [Tom] Oh, doing a burnout?
- [Billy] Yeah.
- [Tom] Oh!
- So I went down and got it and
drove it home on five cylinders.
I didn't know why it was running bad,
I was just tickled to get it back.
- [Tom] Now that's an
intriguing car right there.
A Daytona, what's the story with that car?
- If you do look back into
history of these Dodges
when they started building them,
they had a wide wing on the back.
I don't know if you ever
seen a picture of one
with a wider wing.
- [Tom] A wider one?
- A wider wing, I might have one.
I have got one somewhere, but anyway,
there's a set of holes in
this car right out here.
You can see on the inside.
Feel it where they welded them up.
They put the regular wing back on
but they did some testing
with 'em on the outside,
with the wing out flush
and this was that car.
I joined the Daytona Superbird Club
and not many of them
had clear lenses in 'em.
This one's got all clear glass in it.
No power steering, no power brakes.
It was a 440 four-speed.
- [Tom] So 440 four-speed,
single four-barrel?
- [Billy] Yep, well
it's got two on it now.
It has two on it when I got it but
it didn't come that way, I don't think.
- [Tom] And did you drive this car much?
- [Billy] I have driven
it, yeah, I've driven it.
- [Tom] It really had
no value then, did it?
- [Billy] No.
- [Tom] What did you,
do you remember what you paid for it?
- [Billy] No.
- [Tom] Now here's a 440 six-pack Charger.
- [Billy] It's the RT but I
painted to take the decals off.
- [Tom] Uh huh and
that's an automatic car.
Boy, look at that air cleaner, whoa.
So you got three two-barrels
underneath there.
You do nice paint jobs,
I gotta tell you that.
(energetic blues music)
So what cars are interesting in here?
Alright, so here we have two rare Fords.
That's a Torino Talladega.
- [Billy] Yep.
- [Tom] Is that a 70 or 69?
- [Billy] 69.
- [Tom] Now some of these had big motors.
Does this have a 429?
- Well they had the same motor in 'em.
This is a 428.
- A 428 Cobra Jet?
So that's a single four-barrel 428?
- [Billy] Yeah.
Need to oil that hood.
- See this was an extended nose
that Ford put on a standard Torino.
It's about three inches longer
or maybe longer than that.
Holman and Moody and Ford
Motor Company got together
and designed a car with
Snoopy nose, a sloopy nose
to keep it down at tracks like Talladega
so that the front end
wouldn't come up in the air.
Okay, Mercury Cyclone, that's
the Dan Gurney special.
The Mercury was tagged
"Dan Gurney Special".
- [Billy] The Mercury's a lot
rarer than the Ford to me.
700 Fords, they claimed
to make 500 Mercuries,
but I think they made about 275.
- [Tom] No kidding.
Is that an automatic car?
- [Billy] Yeah.
- This is a 302 in here?
- [Billy] No, it's a 351 I think.
- [Tom] What an intriguing
package deal here
are these two cars, wow, nice.
- [Billy] That's a 57 Chevy Nomad.
- [Tom] Mm hmm, 57 Chevy.
Now anything usual about
this engine, is it 283?
- [Billy] Yeah but it's just a Nomad.
- [Tom] So no fuel injection
or anything like that?
- [Billy] No.
- [Tom] That's a manual
gear box, three on the tree.
That's a Mark two, that
was the most expensive car.
In effect, Ford charged
so much money and yet
they still lost money in every car.
So it's a Hudson Hornet Coupe.
Oh, you have a Rolls Royce.
It's a special car.
Oh, here we have another Chrysler 300?
Another big Hemi with two four-barrels.
Boy, that's some rare stuff here.
427 Chevy Impala convertible.
It's automatic console, bucket seats.
I can't imagine the
torque that that car has.
58 Chrysler Imperial and so did you,
did you drive this car to high school?
- [Billy] I drove it to high school, yes.
- [Tom] This was your
high school car, wow.
So a 55 four-door.
- It's got 30, 36,000 miles on it.
- [Tom] No kidding.
More cars, how do you like that?
This is amazing that we're walking by cars
that on a normal episode,
we would spend a half
hour looking at that car,
salivating over it if we found it in
Northern California or Texas.
Wow, look at that 55, it's great.
But here, there's so many
other cars that are around
that I feel guilty about
not paying attention
and giving credit to these cars.
Oh, nice Jaguar.
Well you didn't know you'd be
pressed into service today.
- No, I didn't, no I didn't.
(laughter)
- On your birthday, no less.
- Right.
(chuckles)
- [Tom] Now Billy's knee has taken him
out of service for a little
while, he's got a bad knee.
So Carolee, on her
birthday, has volunteered to
walk us through these buildings.
- [Carolee] Volunteered
might be a little of--
(laughter)
- So here you've got
turbo jet 360 horsepower.
That's a big block, you can
tell by the valve covers.
That's a factory big block 427,
so we've seen two of those so far.
Red convertible and this,
I guess it's a black
or dark blue convertible.
Have you, uh, maybe you'll find
cars you never knew you had?
- It's very possible.
We have over 100.
- [Tom] No kidding.
- [Carolee] My grandchildren went around
and counted them one
day and we've got about,
they're not all fixed up
but the woods are full.
It's been quite his life work.
- [Tom] Yeah, isn't that wonderful?
So this is a Z28.
- [Carolee] Yeah.
[Tom] So, I don't know,
it's probably a 70.
So this is a Chrysler,
probably a 57 Chrysler
I'm guessing by the--
[Carolee] He liked the
Chryslers and he liked,
he really liked the old
cars that every year
got real excited about
the models coming out.
- [Tom] Now this I know
is a Lincoln Cosmopolitan.
To my knowledge, the Continental
was not a Lincoln Continental,
it was a Continental made by Lincoln.
But this is a Lincoln Cosmopolitan
so it's got both names on the fender.
And I think this was the
lower priced Lincoln,
if I'm not mistaken.
It was based on kind
of a Mercury-sized car.
- [Carolee] Well when Billy
first started collecting,
he was more into the old Lincolns.
He liked the old Lincolns.
- [Tom] Mm hmm.
- [Carolee] When we first got married,
he only had a car or two.
(laughter)
And then after our daughter was born,
I was in the hospital
and he came and he said,
"get up and look out the window."
He was just really weird, I thought,
"he's so happy about our little girl."
But he bought another car.
He had it parked outside the hospital
and wanted me to see it.
And my life has been
like that forever more.
(raucous laughter)
- [Tom] Oh man, you can't make that up.
(energetic blues music)
- [Carolee] This is the car he
wanted me to tell you about.
- [Tom] Oh, okay.
- [Carolee] This was a
car that he restored.
We have showed a few cars,
but Billy doesn't do with fixing them.
He's not that much into competing.
But we went to Gatlinburg,
we hauled this one to Gatlinburg
when my daughter, older
daughter was about 15.
Billy registered the car in her name
'cause he didn't want
to go to the banquette.
He wanted to stay out and swap car parts
with all the other nuts.
So Tammy and I went into the banquette.
You know, they gave out
all the little trophies
and Tammy was kind of disappointed.
She thought her daddy'd like a trophy.
And then they got to this big one
and they said, "Tommy Eubanks".
Well, it was Tammy Eubanks
and that child got up
and got that trophy so fast I
couldn't even get a picture.
- Isn't that something?
- She was up and back at her seat
and wanting to run out and tell her daddy.
- So this won Best of Show.
- Yeah, it did.
And it was still a bargain.
- [Tom] Oh, here he is.
We're hearing all the stories here.
Here we have a Studebaker.
So here's the supercharger's
belt-driven off the crankshaft
and drives air through that
hose and down the carburetor,
the carburetor being in here.
So it's a blow-through supercharger.
So look at this, you have an alternator,
you've got the supercharger
here driven by the belt
and spring-loaded so it's got tension.
You see that arm moves back and forth.
Here's an alternator.
It probably would've been a
generator on here originally.
And then here's an air-conditioning unit.
A lot going on with belts here.
This was a 289 engine,
it was a 289 cubic inches
Studebaker motor, not a Ford engine.
So here's another Dodge Daytona.
Most of these street cars were purchased.
Again, we'll bring up
the word homologation.
Chrysler had to build a
certain number of cars,
whether it was a Dodge or a Plymouth,
to qualify the car
homologated for NASCAR racing.
Bill France wouldn't allow
someone to build a custom car
and bring it on the track.
Remember, these were called stock cars.
They're supposed to represent what
people drove on the street.
So Chrysler came out with
a limited-production car
that people could buy but they weren't
necessarily modified very much.
They had a 440, lots
of 'em had automatics.
They had this wing and they had a nose,
a sloopy nose on there,
but they weren't really modified cars.
But some people took those
cars and modified them
and this is one of those cars.
These cars either came,
mostly came with 440s in them.
I think some had maybe 383s.
I don't know what this car had in it.
Probably a 440 originally but this one now
has a 426 Hemi in it.
It's got really huge wheels
and tires in the back
and skinnier ones in
the front, so I take it,
this was a drag car at one time.
Billy told us that the
previous owner of this car
had brought it to a test
track, Chrysler Proving Ground,
I think in Highland Park or something,
and ran it and this car
went to 190 miles an hour.
That's for a street-driven
car, which is amazing.
It's got a four-speed pistol-grip shifter.
You know, a couple of gauges were added,
a, uh, oil pressure gauge, a Suntec.
But the real modifications
are up in the front here.
This car most likely came with a 440
but this one has a 426 Hemi
engine and two four-barrels
on a high rise intake manifold
and has a big hole cut in the hood here.
So let me just put this hood down
for half a second if we can.
As you can see, those carburetors
are gonna come right out the top.
So this was a very
modified car and I take it
that this car was a drag
car that probably was
drag raced back in the day.
Very modified, who knows what the
horsepower's on that thing,
probably, y'know, 600.
Who knows, maybe more.
We don't know if it's bored in stroke.
NASCAR wouldn't allow a high
rise manifold like that.
You had to have the
carburetors under the hood.
So that's why I say this
is either a street car,
a street race car, or a drag car.
Here we are in rural
North Carolina looking at
a pretty substantial
piece of history here.
A 1970 Plymouth Superbird,
the 43rd Superbird made,
same number as Richard
Petty's famous race number.
I just want to let you
know the value of this.
I'm going through the Hagerty Price Guide
and in number four condition,
this has a value of $91,000.
The average condition or one
in good condition is $124,000.
If it were excellent, it'd be $169,000
and in concours condition, $216,000.
Well, what condition is this in?
It hasn't started in a long time.
It's dirty but I guarantee
that this car would drive,
run in drive and be cleaned up to probably
something of concours
condition or greater because
it's better than concours condition.
It's got original paint,
never been repainted.
It's got the original interior.
It's got the original drivetrain
and it's the 43rd made so
this car has a value well into
$200,000 range I would say,
according to the history
of these cars being sold.
(energetic blues music)
Well, another Hudson Hornet.
Now that's a significant car, 59 Cadillac.
This is a Biarritz Eldorado.
- [Caralee] I think it's
a Biarritz Eldorado.
- Yeah, I can't imagine what
a car like this is worth.
(door slams)
Box is blocking the way but
just look at the size of this.
The weight's probably
gotta be 5, 6000 pounds.
I mean this is the most obscene
taillight ever known to man.
It was 1959 Cadillac came out with
the fin and the tail lights.
Just amazing piece of artwork.
- [Caralee] Wanna see the Godfather?
- Oh yeah, this is it right here.
Huh, okay, another piece of history here.
41 Lincoln Continental.
This car appeared in the Godfather movie
and you can see it's got
bullet holes throughout.
This was an actual movie car.
Wow, look at this, there's a sign.
"Actual 45 caliber bullets
were fired into this
"special effects car from
a Thompson machine gun
"from the death scene in
the movie 'The Godfather'".
(bullets firing)
So this is a Hollywood star of sorts.
But this car here,
we should look at this
car for a little bit.
It's not even really a car,
it's not really a truck.
It's called a Ute and
you spell that U-T-E.
Made in Australia by
Chrysler the car company.
I think it's a Plymouth
if I'm not mistaken.
So this is probably a 56,
57 with the big fin here.
Wayfarer Chrysler, so it
usually has a tailgate.
And I'm not sure if they were built
in Australia for tax reasons.
I don't know why they were built but
they were still building Utes until just
not too many years ago.
The Airflow Chrysler,
you know, I love them
but apparently they didn't sell very well.
If you look at this 35 and any
other car, Chevrolet or Ford,
they were so much more primitive.
If you look at this car,
it's got aerodynamics.
The headlights are built into the body,
not separate, sitting up here.
And it was designed with the idea
of getting better fuel economy
and speed from a car that
was designed differently
than the normal car of the day was.
And it never caught on and
it didn't sell very well.
Now this is the car
I've been dying to see.
So this was a, what year was it?
- [Billy] 57.
- [Tom] D500.
Tell us, Billy, this is a
car you've had since new?
- [Billy] Daddy bought it new
and I've traded back for it a time or two
but I'm gonna keep it this time.
(laughter)
- [Tom] So this was a Dodge that came--
- [Billy] With a Hemi engine.
- [Tom] Equipped like you
would build like a NASCAR,
stock car out of back in the
day when they were stock cars.
It's got a Hemi engine with
a four-barrel carburetor.
Did you drive this to high school, Billy?
- Yeah.
- [Tom] So is that like a 274?
- No, it's a three-something, 315 maybe.
- [Tom] 315 so smaller
engine than a Chrysler had.
Dodges had smaller engines.
- But it was still a Hemi.
- Still a Hemi, right.
And it had a manual transmission?
- [Billy] Yeah, pretty car,
I love the chrome on it.
- [Tom] Boy, and you
bought this new, whoa.
- So you told me you ordered
it once and it came in wrong?
- [Billy] Yeah and it
was just like he ordered.
The colors were reversed,
it had an automatic in it
with the two four-barrels.
- [Tom] So his dad ordered
one from the local dealer.
- [Billy] It came wrong.
- [Tom] It had two four-barrels and a Hemi
but it had an automatic and
his dad wanted a standard.
So they went to another dealership
and ordered one with
a manual transmission.
It came with one four-barrel,
which is fine I guess.
- [Billy] It would fly.
- [Tom] Yeah, I bet, wow.
How fast have you had
this up to, do you know?
- [Billy] It didn't have the speed but
it didn't seem like it wanted to run fast
as that Imperial over there.
- [Tom] Is that right?
- [Billy] But that Imperial,
that's a 392 in it.
But this would turn
tight, it just wouldn't--
- [Tom] Is this original paint on here?
- [Billy] No, that's all my work.
- [Tom] And those are the
original hubcaps on there.
- [Billy] Yeah.
- [Tom] And that was a very
limited production car, I bet.
- [Billy] Yeah but they had one
one a little rarer than that
and we didn't know about it,
but you could get it with the 392 in it.
- Wow, that's a rare car, boy.
That's a beauty too.
- [Billy] Let's walk out
this door right here,
some more down there.
(laughter)
You like junk?
- [Tom] Oh I love junk.
(energetic blues music)
You know, I see a couple
of iconic 1960s cars.
Olds Tornado and a Buick
Riviera and both cars
are now seen as classics,
American classic cars
because they were so breathtaking,
cutting edge in their
styling and in this case,
front wheel drive,
like, who heard of that?
Front wheel drive at that point was Saabs.
And Oldsmobile did it with a huge Tornado.
Aha!
(garage door clacks)
Wow
- Open the door,
then just look inside at how nice it is.
It's got 49,000 actual miles.
- How many?
- [Billy] 49.
- 49 miles?
- [Billy] 49,000.
- Oh 49,000, right.
Wow, it's beautiful, so there's a 318?
Look how clean the fender
walls are, the fire wall.
That could be a nice car, boy, ooh.
- I got two old Chevrolets in here.
- [Tom] Oh another, two more Nomads.
Oh, ha, jeez, too many toys.
Okay, so this is the car
that Billy told us about.
This is a rare, rare car.
A 1968 Corvette 427 435 horsepower,
so it was the highest
horsepower Corvette, tri-power.
Okay, that's a rare
option it itself, okay?
Four speed, air-conditioning,
power steering, power brakes,
side exhaust, original from the factory.
It's gotta be one of the
rarest Corvettes of this era.
It's metallic blue with, it looks like,
dark brown or maybe black interior.
So this was the highest horsepower car
with all the options you
could get, so somebody was,
you know, a well heeled
person who bought this car.
They wanted power but they wanted luxury.
Factory Air, amazing.
Have you ever seen another
one optioned like this?
- [Billy] No, have you?
- No.
Power steering, power
brakes, air-conditioning,
side exhaust, high horsepower.
- [Billy] Well it's a 400 horse.
- 400 okay, so it's not 435, okay.
- [Billy] No, they
didn't make it that way.
- Ah, okay.
- [Billy] Yeah you either,
you could either have 435
or you could have air-conditioning.
But it was different cams.
- [Tom] Got it.
Okay, got it.
How you can have cars like this
and never having had a speeding
ticket, I have no idea.
Alright so here's a
sweetheart, a 57 Corvette.
So that's a four-speed car, 283.
Is this the one you'd like to
put the fuel injection on maybe?
- [Billy] Maybe.
- [Tom] Yeah.
Okay and here have another wing
car, another Dodge Daytona.
- [Billy] That's got the fast front on it
So it's a real Daytona, it's
got the double-x serial number.
That's why they had to
put, you know, all those
templates on the cars
now before they race it.
I got that front end
and I put the hood on it
the thing was 3/4 of an
inch long on the right side.
- [Tom] On purpose?
- [Billy] Yeah.
- Oh, alright so what Billy's telling us,
this is the era when NASCAR
started to require templates
before cars to go through tech inspection
because they were being built strangely
and Billy said the right side of this car
is 3/4 of an inch longer
than the left side
and he knows that because he
had to do front end repairs.
- [Billy] I had to do
rush the hood over it.
- So this nose was actually
purchased from Harry Hyde
and this was on an actual NASCAR race car
that Bobby Isaac drove.
What motor's in this?
- [Billy] It has got a red hot 440 in it.
It has to, it's got so much cam,
the power brakes don't work.
- So that's not really a street car.
There's no headlights, right?
- [Billy] No.
- X-X the first two numbers in the VIN
indicate that it's a genuine Daytona.
What year is it, 69?
- [Billy] Yeah.
- Mm hmm.
So all Superbirds are 70s and
all Daytonas are 69s, okay.
So it's got an automatic.
I wonder how many miles are on this thing.
73,206 miles.
So you got this whole nose from Harry?
- [Billy] Yeah.
- So this is--
- [Billy] Except for the hood.
- Okay, so I wonder what
was here when this plated.
- [Billy] I think they had a
place that could a hole in it.
- [Tom] Oh yeah, they
had the overflow tanks
or the sump tanks here I
guess, huh, pretty neat.
(energetic blues music)
We have a Super Bee and let's
see what's under the hood.
426 Hemi, ha ha, okay,
this is a hot rod then.
Bring that flashlight up again.
426 Hemi head, who knows
what the horsepower is in
that thing, probably at least 500.
This had to have been restored.
I mean the paint under
this hood is just perfect.
So this car has Super Bee on it,
but it wasn't born as a Super
Bee, it was born as a Coronet.
And it was born with a
318 cubic inch engine,
now it has a Hemi, so
it's a bit of a hot rod.
It's got low mileage, only 47,000 miles.
What's it worth, it's
probably worth in the,
I don't know, I'd say in
the 40's maybe because
for all practical purposes,
it is a Super Bee,
but it was just born a Coronet.
Any car, and it shows me that, you know,
Billy's into hot rodding
because, most likely,
he built this because he was able to find
a really solid Coronet and it
was hard to find a Super Bee.
Alright now we're in the
downstairs of this building.
(laughter)
So just more cars of
Billy's eclectic taste.
Another Chrysler 300
next to a Jaguar XJ12L.
58 Chevys, you know for a long time,
I walked past 58 Chevys
looking for 57 Chevys
and 55 Chevys, 56
Chevys, but now 58 Chevys
have kind of come onto their own.
Oh boy, fun never stops.
This is your Ford building?
I got a Corvette, Corvette, Corvette.
Nah, it's not all Fords.
Okay, so we have three 57 Thunderbirds,
which all three of them
have chrome wire wheels,
which was an option.
Now this is the rare one
of the three, the red one.
And Billy told me it's
got two four-barrels,
factory two four, so
this is called an E Code.
This is a T-Bird with an E
Code motor, two four-barrels.
Also, very unusual for a
T-Bird, is that it's got a
manual transmission, a
three-speed on the floor.
Oh, plus overdrive, okay,
three-speed plus overdrive.
White interior, white top, red body,
chrome wire wheels, big
motor, standard transmission.
Nice, nice little package here.
54 Corvette, now if you
know about Corvettes,
if you don't, I'll tell you about it.
53 first year of the Corvette,
fiberglass body and 54.
Those two years, it was
called a Blue Flame six.
You couldn't get a V8 in
a Corvette in those days
and the reason they
developed a car like this
is because Jaguar was the
sportiest car of the day.
And Jaguars had a six cylinder motor
and they handled well
and they performed well
and they raced well and
Corvette came out with
their own version of a Jaguar,
which was the Corvette.
Instead of a steel body,
it had a fiberglass body.
But the problem was they used
production parts they had
for sedans and so it didn't quite have
the same lineage as Jaguar did.
So it had a six cylinder
overhead valve motor
with three carburetors on it
because Jaguars also had
multiple carburetors.
This had three Rochester
side drafts I think.
Also for the first two years,
you couldn't get a standard transmission.
It was only available in
a Powerglide automatic.
Some of these were raced,
some were road raced.
Not a lot of them and they
didn't do particularly well.
But over the next couple years,
Corvettes started to come on their own.
They added a three-speed and
a four-speed and a V8 engine.
And ultimately when you got to
a Stingray, independent suspension.
But this is where it
started and thankfully,
they didn't end production on the Corvette
because as we know, it's one of the most
successful sports cars in the world.
We've seen a couple of Corvettes already.
This is, I think, the
fourth that we've seen.
This one's been off the road since 1988.
In 67, the highest
horsepower car you could get
was an L-88 427 but they're
rarer than hen's teeth.
They only made a few of them.
So this was the highest horsepower
production car you could really get.
This car's got a big block with
three two-barrels tri-power.
It's got side exhaust.
It's a four-speed and it's a sweet car.
I mean I can't imagine how
good this car would sound
if started up, my goodness.
So this is a 1980 Corvette
that Billy bought new.
He had to order it,
took a long time to get.
It had angle port heads.
It had a four-bolt main
so even though it wasn't high horsepower,
because back in 80, you know,
cars didn't have a lot
of horsepower back then,
this was a pretty special car.
He's still got plastic on the seats.
Man, look at that.
It's an automatic, let's see
what the mileage is on this.
Whoa, is that the real mileage?
Nine point two miles.
(laughter)
Wow, man.
So how's it run?
(laughter)
You know, think about that car next to us,
which is before the pollution
standards were put in place,
435 horsepower probably underrated,
probably 500 horsepower okay,
for insurance reasons 435.
That 67 to 1980, 220 horsepower.
I drive a Mini Cooper
that's got 210 horsepower
so it doesn't seem fair that a Corvette
only had that much
horsepower but, you know,
they were a comfortable, nice-driving car
and they just didn't have
a lot of horsepower at the time but it was
the best car you could get
in America in that time.
And now we're coming to
probably the last car.
Pantera was build by De
Tomaso with a Ford motor
and it was a car that you could
buy at a Lincoln dealership.
Ford at the time had lots
of high performance cars.
Boss 429s and Boss 302s and they had just
come through the Cobra era.
This was one chance that Mercury had to
get in the high performance
sports car business as well.
The Pantera was sold through
Lincoln dealerships in the day.
It had a 351 Cleveland motor but this was
the original Pantera which
had the small fenders,
not those big flairs and wings.
This was a pure sports car.
I wonder how many miles are on this.
Probably not a lot, huh?
14,532 miles, wow.
Alright, so we've seen
building on top of building,
car on top of car.
I thought I'd see all the cars.
I've found my favorite car
of the whole collection.
It's a Jaguary XK120 Coupe and
you can't really see it here,
but it's dark blue and
it's got brown interior
and as Billy told me, the interior's,
except for this one seat
bottom, the interior's original.
What a beautiful, beautiful car.
We saw an XK140 earlier,
which as a longer roof and,
for a guy like me, better leg room,
but this is the more pure design
with the short roof and the long hood.
So if Billy said take one home,
that would be it right here.
(energetic blues music)
Follow this man.
Oh, we haven't seen all the buildings yet.
Alright, this is gonna
be the most mammoth,
impressive car you've ever seen.
59 Cadillac Eldorado
Biarritz, my goodness.
Factory bucket seats.
I didn't know there was
bucket seats in 59, man.
And tri-power.
Is that a 472 or something?
- [Billy] I can't remember what it is.
- What a mammoth car, my goodness.
We looked this car up on
the Hagerty Price Guide
and it's unbelievable.
In fair condition, which is
number four condition, $101,000.
In good condition, which is what
most of them are, is $133,000.
In excellent condition 180 grand
and in concours condition $260,000.
So we're looking at a car here that
has a value greater than
the Superbirds we saw
in the other buildings.
You know what, cleaned up, I'd say this is
probably a concours car so
we're looking at a car worth
a quarter of a million
dollars, just amazing.
We've been here for
hours and hours and hours
looking at what I think is
probably the finest collection of
unknown cars that I've
ever seen in my life.
And just when we thought there
was no more buildings to see,
Billy invites us inside to see,
oh there's another building here,
and there's a 59 Cadillac
Biarritz convertible
that's, like, a piece of sculpture.
Bright red, something that
Elvis Presley would've driven
or Lucile Ball or somebody like that.
It's been an amazing
day here in the woods.
I'm glad we were able to share it with you
because it's a very private collection and
not too many people know about this but
we were given permission
by the owner to come here
respectfully and tour it.
Nothing's for sale so
don't even bother asking.
It's just one special
man who has collected
a series of special cars during his life.
He bought them when they were cheap
and kept 'em because he loved 'em,
not because they were
worth a lot of money.
And now they are worth a lot of money.
Happy hunting.
(indistinct conversation)
So, 59 Ford convertible, 58
Chevy Impala two-door hard top.
A Studebaker, oh a custom
Studebaker, look at that, ha.
A couple Eldorados.

How To Soda & Media Blast a Car! Hands-On Cars 2 from Eastwood

Eastwood Company:

on this episode of hands on cars we take
a ride in an unrestored 52 Chevy while
Kevin starts blasting the old paint and
rust office camaro before visiting a hot
rod shop owned by a former NASCAR lead
mechanic
hi I'm Kevin gates and you're watching
hands on cars
we are on a mission but we're also on a
budget this is projects and slander 78
z28 camaro that we're doing a budget
pro-touring build on pro touring is tons
of fun
twistys straight line good performance
but we're going to reach it affordably
because we don't have a giant stack of
cash to build this sucker
so one of the best ways to get the
bottom of all of the sins in the past is
to do media blasting media blasting when
you farm it out costs
don't worry we're going to show you guys
how to do it at home with some
reasonably priced equipment and do what
you need to do without destroying your
substrate but there's some things to
consider
no we're not endorsing soft drinks but I
wanted to show you what you can
accomplish with the correct media on the
right substrate
the point I'm trying to make is that
there's more than one material on this
car there's steel there's fiberglass and
there's urethane and if you choose your
media correctly and your equipment you
can get there
you can do a non-destructive job get to
the bottom of things
we're using Eastwood's dual blasting
system which has two reservoirs one for
an abrasive media and one for a
non-abrasive media
we're using aluminum oxide on one side
and soda not baking soda but bicarbonate
of soda which is much more aggressive
but still doesn't profile the substrate
it's a great system because you can use
one or the other or a blend of both with
the valve here now it's a great system
but it does require a pretty good air
supply and more importantly than a lot
of bear clean dry air
let's check one out you got to think
about the air compressor is the heart of
your shop and it's worth spending some
money on
I paint cars i do media blasting I run a
lot of air tools so i need a honkin
compressor this campbell hospital
commercial-grade compressor gives me 25
CFM at 90 psi
it's a two-stage cast iron pump and an
80 gallon horizontal storage tank
the important thing to remember is it's
got an after cooler which separates the
moisture before it even gets to the air
supply so it doesn't end up in my air
tools
it doesn't end up in my paint guns and
it doesn't end up in my abrasive media
think about it spend the money wisely
but sometimes you just got to spend it
on gusta
there's a couple of accessories you want
one is a protective hood to protect your
eyes and your ears and
all the other holes in your head to keep
the media out of it
you want to have a pair of gloves to
protect your hands from bounce back and
i like to use an old paint suit just to
keep the stuff out of all my cracks and
crevices a funnel with some sort of a
strainer is a great idea to keep the big
chunks out of your reservoirs and after
that it's a matter read the instructions
and dialing the equipment and so let's
load it up when you're choosing your
abrasive media keep in mind that sand
it's sand and it's made from silica and
that can cause silicosis which is a
horrible lung disease
seriously guys not fun aluminum oxide
doesn't contain silica a little more
expensive
it's a way better media team is a lot
safer hands on cars is brought to you by
the eastwood company when you're
restoring a car truck or motorcycle
Eastwood has everything you need to do
the job right
eastwood since 1978 looks like Kevin's
really gonna have his hands full
removing the paint and rust from the zed
sled but it should go quick with the
east with dual blaster
now remember there's a lot of different
types of materials on that old Camaro
from the standard sheet metal the pot
metal fiberglass and urethane bumpers
so we're going to get to see how the
blaster and the different media types
affect each of those materials before we
see what's hiding underneath that old
paint
let's check out Kevin's recent visit the
street visions
yeah
yeah
yeah
hey we're over here at Street visions in
Pottstown Pennsylvania look around we
got street rods late models restaurants
pro-touring full on restoration all
manner of awesome custom stuff
Derek white is the owner of this shop
with a 16-year tenure in NASCAR is a
crew chief and an engine builder and
obviously his talents and skills bleed
over into whatever he does in this shop
so let's go find Derek and give me a
shout Jack you got some great work
happening here the Stingray it's
beautiful but what caught my eyes and 55
couldn't get a cab induction hood for 55
Chevy what we did was we took a steel 55
Chevy hood and took a z28 hood and made
our own
yeah it looks like a stamped piece
another awesome detail is the smooth
bumpers are California bombers I've just
been educated as to what they're called
the panel gaps the color
this is a great traditional street rod
it's not too far from stock but it's
still custom and again we've got
beautiful custom airbrushed bel-air
emblems on the side of this car
it's an awesome street but it's
certainly not all they do here there's
plenty more to look at
now this is obviously a restoration and
a beautiful one at that
but the paint is not cut as flat as some
of the other projects that you've got in
there talk to me like that
I'm what we try to do kevin was the guy
wanted it the way the car was originally
painted you know they had peel and I'm
yeah so he wanted the car restored back
to this is the way it was a 65 tab the
appeal and it not to have a show car
show car
but anyway they came out of the factory
right it was the next year there was
strips that was runs and yeah I don't
see the drips or runs are over spray but
you you've recreated what it looked like
a good factory paint job in the day yeah
what we try to do is just keep the
texture in it and what is also a single
stage right so yeah this is a single
state your thing that we sprayed and
then we did white sand and polish if it
didn't cut
yes hard yeah so there's technique to
that as well with this you're trying to
create the illusion that this is a
factory original car right yeah it's a
little bit nicer than what a factory
came out and take a look under the hood
this is a restoration look at the hose
clamps the plug wires are only the
fourth stamping on the radiator bypass
hose the stickers
everything everything is faithfully
recreated and done in a way that it was
done may have come off the showroom just
like this down to the state full auto
life battery
this is the kind of detail that often
gets overlooked in a restoration
these guys are Street visions the
defendant asked job in this car from
stem to stern all the way around
well thanks for showing us around we're
going to get out from under your feet
let's go back to work
I appreciate you and eastwood Kevin for
coming around and you guys are always
welcome here door's always open
cool guess what we built on the driver
well I'm gonna hold you to that
I want to see some tire smoke from some
of these cars are definitely all these
cars and leave here
yeah they can spin the tires awesome all
right thank you
hands on cars were out
and that's why
I let's see what we got we did for
distinctly different substrates for
completely different materials to
sandblast with two different types of
media
the first being soda and these gills
they're made out of pot little very soft
very fragile metal aluminum oxide would
eat it up soda
smooth as a baby's butt and honestly it
kind of bounced right off of there
didn't take very long at all
let's move on now the front bumper cover
a little bit different story
this thing is in sad shape lots of sun
damage lots of damage from it just being
exposed this urethane isn't UV strong
and the paint while underneath the paint
it's pretty smooth
the soda moved it it didn't do as great
as we thought I think it was just sort
of bouncing off so if you're going to
sort of last year thin bumper
you better have a couple of bags of soda
and a little bit extra time on your
hands because it's just going to take a
while now with the fiberglass rear
spoiler and quarter panel extensions
soda did great
it left the surface very very smooth and
the paint practically blew off plus the
added bonus is I could do this on the
car
I don't have to worry about my lights
and I don't have to make stands but I
did kind of mess up i want to show you
come a little closer right here you can
see the surface is degraded a little bit
i mixed and some of the aluminum oxide
with the soda and it ate away the
fiberglass
surprise surprise I was just trying to
get the job done a little bit faster and
it bit me in the butt
so now i know only soda on the soft
stuff finally right here i use a hundred
percent aluminum oxide on this surface
rest which was nasty and is completely
gone is completely removed and the bonus
is no warpage so I'm fine with that
my goal was never to strip the entire
vehicle with the dual blaster it was to
utilize two different types of media
that are kind to the substrate or the
surface that i'm working on and not
destroy anything so mission accomplished
we're going to strip the rest of the
panels with stripping discs and be done
with it get down to the substrate find
out what since the other two or three or
four paint jobs are hiding
so we got to tear the car part throw it
on a rotisserie and start attacking this
floors
yeah feature wings and this is why it's
a really good idea to bag your
carburetor second snowstorm the taste
bad
yeah
by the way you're doing what we're
dealing with the car assembled
make sure your windows are done up or
your sunroof is closed now that we
showed you the dual blast they're
handled all the different parts of the
camaro
Kevin's going to take the body off the
frame and really start digging into it
if you'd like to learn more about
blasting click the link to visit
eastwood.com and remember there's more
media types and just aluminum oxide and
soda
we also offer wanna shells ground glass
and glass beads with a chart that shows
you the best uses for each before we
check in on Kevin's progress
we're going to take a ride in this old
unrestored chevy with Eastwood zone matt
murray you probably know matt from our
social media sites as well as project
pile house
he recently found this cool old
unrestored car and we're going to check
it out
yeah
so can you see out of this mirror over
here at all
I can't see anything out of this one I
can see here no I can't see anything I
can't even see the passenger and the
drivers bear and swaps around so how
long have you had this
I've had this thing probably about three
months now since the day I actually
pulled it out of the
Raj 1952
Debbie styleline the locks and it's a
235 with a Powerglide in it
so is that what you're looking for I
mean
that the exhaust follow
that's it gets it the rare heads on the
and Mark bombs
childhood friend of mine
his father in law on this car and
he gave me a car asked me if I was
interested I knew anybody that was said
it was a four door and I pretty much
immediately sit down right on interested
but as today send me some pictures you
know i'd like to see somebody get a hold
of it and he sent me some pictures of it
initially in the garage all covered in
dust
boxes stacked on top of it so I agreed
to come take a look at it and when I
went to see it and heard the whole story
about the card kind of fell in love and
your daughter says 51,000 almost fifty
two thousand I've been it's probably a
hundred fifty thousand on it the guy I
bought it from seems Paul is a
grandfather bought the car / a new and
52 and drive it daily
it was a family car for a few years and
Paul's father bought it from his dad he
pretty much had in my entire life so
it's not a Tony stores craft is still
good
place to buy alcohol with you
maryland and get thrown off there we go
i bought the car took it home
immediately the next morning I started
working on and I got the fire up the
same with less than 24 hours of buying
it
probably the biggest thing Savior of
this whole project was useful in aerosol
injected cleaner and look every single
hardline off the car because Paul's
father had rust proof and recruited the
whole car every hard line was still in
pristine shape so I pulled all the hard
lines few lines of brake lines and use
their so injector cleaner an idea inside
yeah that's great everything out so I
have a couple of pretty good pictures on
on our blog and eastwood blog about
blowing out these lines and show him you
know 20-foot some breaking fuel lines
and a can of that
pressurizing it which is never shaken
out the other side
yeah but the interior it looks it looks
original
apparently when the car was only a hand
for your full of years old
either his mother's grandmother stitched
a new headliner for the car door cards
sun sun visors 60 year old car
big bench seeds just a ton of history I
mean you don't make people probably did
it
I mean like right here where we're
sitting right now I I actually kind of
joke
I just all about next video isn't it
another story told me was that I him bar
and dads 52 picking this group his
girlfriend up with you know take her out
to on gates if they don't you know i'm
gonna talked about what
who knows what could have happened on
these on these seats and it's pretty
pretty neat
you got any plans for this card I did a
couple of modifications like I lowered
it can be fine PopCap's on some stuff
like that just little things going to
set a wide whites but I kept buying
supplies because if i wanted to keep it
kind of again know . correct going
through the car was like walking back in
time I got the you know the original
dealers repair manual you know the spare
tire still in there the jack and the
road flares they're in there and it's
not kept all that stuff it's kind of
cool to display the trunk
well i guess thanks for giving us a ride
problem and we should be there and back
the woodwork
unless you want to film and where is it
that we could we're not getting anywhere
to quit that
yeah
yeah
yeah
have a goal of doing this is not to
strip all the paint off is to see what
kind of metal needs to be replaced and
this is telling me that i could patch
this around here but I'm going to need a
trunk floor
kind of disappointing but at the same
time and speak to learn it now trying to
find a silver lining
it's a cloud of poo
on the next episode of hands on cars
Kevin replaces the floor pans in a
Camaro and takes jaden to the Nashville
Goodguys show before we dig up the real
dirt on this Canadian rocker

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Is Chevrolet Corvette the Greatest Racing Brand in America? - /SHAKEDOWN

THE DRIVE:

Is Chevrolet Corvette
the greatest
racing brand from America?
Well, it could be.
In 2012, in the America Le Mans
series, Corvette racing
won the GTE championship.
In Grand Am with the Corvette
Daytona prototypes, it helped
Chevrolet win the engine
manufacturer's championship
with those five Corvette DP's
running around with
the 'vette body work.
60 years of Corvette
racing and winning.
Now we're not going to take a
deep dive, but just a taste of
Corvette racing through
the years.
A snapshot look at each
generation of Corvette from C1
all the way through today's C6,
maybe a little bit of C7.
And I'm not ignoring
the current news,
but you know what?
Looking at what's going on, I'm
going to wait until some
things happen.
For example, with
Lewis Hamilton.
Sure, he left McLaren
to Mercedes.
But I want to see what he does
performing for the rest of the
year, and what happens next
year when he gets in that
silver car.
I could have talked about the
2013 F1 schedule, which now
has two US Grand Prix.
One confirmed, and
one not so much.
Circuit of the Americas
starts in 2012.
And I could have talked about
what's going to happen in 2013
at the circuit.
You're going to have a Grand
Am race, a combined double
header of WEC and the American
Le Mans sports car racing, and
then the F1 race.
But I want to wait to see
that action happen.
I could have talked
about new cars.
Hyundai, for example, announcing
their WRC car at
Paris, coming in 2014 to
compete with Toyota and
Volkswagen, and God knows
who else, and pulling
out of all US racing.
But again, I want more facts.
And I could have talked about
my trip to Lime Rock for the
Grand Am race.
Where the Grand Am officials got
all insulted that I didn't
show up with a Drive camera,
just like I did at ALMS.
But we talked to them, their
attitude is pretty much on the
same page of looking forward
to the future.
So let's talk about Corvette,
because it's going to be all
Corvette between Grand Am and
American Le Mans next year.
So it's time to take a look
at what they've done.

So today we're going to talk
about Corvette racing, but
before I do, let me get the
suit issue out of the way.
I've got a couple of business
meetings, and
we're dressed to impress.
And if you don't like it,
please email me at
subscriptions@ge
ntlemensquarterly.com, and
understand what fashion's
all about.
Let's get to the Corvette
racing story, because it
started with the Daytona
prototype thing that happened
this weekend.
They won the manufacturer's
championship for Chevrolet,
and Corvette and Chevy
are going to make a
big deal about that.
But what I'd like to do is
go back and look at their
history, which includes how
they won Le Mans with the
production based race car, and
all those ALMS championships.
So is Corvette the greatest
racing brand ever out of the
United States?
Well, let's start with C1.
First generation Corvette
from 1953 to 1962.
And this may be the first
Corvette race car ever.
The car ran the Panamera
down in Mexico.
But the real story of the first
generation Corvette was
the 1957 SS Mule that Zora
Duntov developed, brought to
Sebring, had Fangio in the car
doing some practice laps.
It evolved to the SS race
car you see here.
Which got us to 1963 to '67,
and the C2 generation.
And the racing story
here was really all
about the grand sports.
Five of them, maybe six were
built, and guys like Penske
got a hold of them.
Here's Penske's grand sport
in the Sebring paddock.
C3 Corvettes ran from
1968 to 1982.
And the two racing stories,
well, actually the three
racing stories caught
my mind this way.
In Europe, Greeter--
I think it's Greeter--
ran the Le Mans Corvettes
multiple years.
There was always that yellow
car and a blue car, and
actually, if you watch McQueen's
Le Mans movie, you
can see the Corvette pulling out
of the start right behind
the Porsches.
In America, there was the
Greenwood Corvette programs.
First of all, production
based.
As you see here the,
car number 28.
And then more exotic, with all
that bat wing, wide fender
shaping that actually, Zora
designed for John Greenwood
and those Corvettes, and they
ran IMSA GT in the US and
internationally.
And it all evolved to the most
extreme Corvette, John Paul,
his dad, the Sun team ran this
IMSA GT car, which had pretty
much everything exotic, and
pretty much non-Corvette.
But it was out there
under that brand.
That brings us to the
C4 generation's
Corvette, 1984 to 1996.
And the production race cars
kind of took a backseat to
this Corvette racing GTP, raced
by Hendrick racing.
Not a V8, a twin turbo V6,
but mega horsepower.
And a lot of people think
this is a beautiful,
beautiful, race car.
It kind of performed.
It was always up front, 12 pole
positions, but only two
wins in its life.
But it certainly got attention
for Corvette racing.
From the production standpoint,
Corvette built
their own racing series
back then.
The Corvette challenge series.
And here's one of
the race cars.
Becoming pretty good collectible
cars, and
certainly the launching point
for a lot of name drivers back
in that time.
And Corvette racing, the
production side actually did
do some international racing.
In 1995, a guy named Doug
Rippie, a real Corvette racing
fan, built this ZR1 with the
Lotus ZR1 based motor, his
version of new arrow, and took
it to Sebring to race.
Didn't do well, but developed
it to bring it to Le Mans.
It didn't succeed, but it
certainly got people's
attention being there.
And back in the US, a company
called Protofab built a
modified tube frame GTO
Corvette, and ran an IMSA in
that class.
And I believe won those
championships.
Which got us to C5, the 1997
to 2004 years for Corvette.
And frankly in racing, what
everyone really remembers most
is when the C5R raced at Daytona
with Dale Earnhardt
Sr. and Jr. in the cars.
Now, I don't think the Dale
number three car won, but it
was certainly there at the
finish, and everyone was
paying attention to
the great Dale
Earnhardt racing a Corvette.
And the stories go on that if
Dale was still here, he would
be running his own Corvette
racing team.
C6, the current generation.
2005 up to 2013.
And we all know about
the ALMS car.
GTE championships many,
many times.
And repeated Le Mans 24 wins,
because really, that's the
focus of this program.
And then in 2012, Corvette
decided to spend some money at
Jim France's behest to build
Corvette body work.
And they won eight of 13 Grand
Am races, but the chassis
underneath is really a
Riley or a Delara,
or the Coyote chassis.
But the body work is supposed
to be all Corvette.
The engines are from the
Earnhardt Childress racing
engine company.
They did the motors, they
won the manufacturer's
championship for Chevrolet.
Does that Corvette
Daytona prototype
body work look familiar?
Well, it kind of should
if you've been
following Corvette racing.
Because back in 2010, Pratt
Miller did a design study, an
engineering study, for a
Corvette GTP, which were to be
the new ACO Le Mans rules
for a category of car.
It went all the way to
a wind tunnel model.
And I've still got the
engineering proposal sitting
in my files.
Shh, don't tell.
Which gets us to C7, the
new car coming in 2014.
Here's the Jalopnik.com release
of what the production
car will look like.
And as you probably know, and
maybe have heard in an earlier
Shakedown, Pratt Miller
is working on the
C7R are as we speak.
And I'm assuming the Daytona
prototype body work will be
updated to C7 look as well.
So here's where I stop and
ask you guys to weigh in.
This was a snapshot look.
I'm sure you experts about
Corvette and racing have a lot
more details, and can fill in
a lot of blanks about what
went on with Corvette
racing history.
Sure, they won a lot of
championships over the years.
And there were a lot of
race cars out there.
Back in 1973 at Sebring, for
example, there were a full 18
Corvettes running that race.
But how well they performed, and
how much they really won
maybe is a topic for you
guys to discuss.
And any details of great
Corvette racing history, we'd
love for you to share.
And that's the bottom line
question I want you to ask.
Is Corvette really the
greatest racing
brand out of America?
Or is there something else we
should be talking about?
On Friday we'll get to some
other racing news, and like I
said earlier, with the big
racing news, we'll catch it as
they do things.
Who cares about my opinion?
Now, I'm going to go straighten
my tie, go to work,
make some money, and you
stay tuned for Tuned.

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