Cesar Lozano & His 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS - Lowrider Roll Models Ep. 7
MotorTrend Channel:
(inspirational music)
- If you set your mind
to doing something,
nothing's impossible.
Everything's possible.
You could have whatever you dream of,
and if you keep continuing dreaming big,
you will get there one day.
(hip hop music)
You got to have a lot of patience,
dedication, and passion to
build one of these cars.
My first car was a 1963 Impala,
which I had purchased in Bakersville.
It was a project car.
The '63 Impala was a
car that was unrestored.
We took that car, stripped it all down,
frame-off restoration.
We painted it Candy Blue
with a patterned top.
It was called 'Juiced 63',
which was featured in
a couple of magazines.
So what happened when it got featured,
I got contacted a couple months
after the car got
featured in the magazine,
and they had offered me $40,000.00 for it.
And I said you know what, why not.
'Cause it was something
that I couldn't refuse.
I said, you know what, it's your car.
So, it went to Japan.
(hip hop music)
I love the cars.
Since I was a kid, like I said,
I've loved to see low riders.
There's different ways
of building a low rider.
To me, it's an art.
That's the beauty of low-riding.
Right now I'm currently
working on 1963 Impala.
A hard top.
Ive had it for 17 years and now,
I have the opportunity to try
to put it all together now.
I want it all original GM factory parts.
You know, all NOS parts,
which is New Old Stock.
It's going to also have a
whole bunch of accessories,
as it's a hard top,
it also has a few more options
that the convertible didn't come with.
This car is going to be fully loaded.
As a matter of fact, that's
what I'm calling the car, is
'Fully Loaded'.
And we should be done with
this car within the next month,
so people will see it out there.
They will appreciate it
just as much as I am.
(hip hop music)
I own a 1963 Impala
Super Sport Convertible.
When I seen this car,
it was a car that I just had to have.
It was a car that was fully
loaded with factory options.
It's very rare to find a
very optioned car out there.
When I bought that car,
I said, Im going to restore this car.
but a lot of people said,
"No leave it alone, dont mess with it."
Which i agreed with them.
I don't want to just yet go
into that full restoration
on this car because
you can still smell the old of it
when you're driving it.
It drives so nice, and it's real.
I didn't put them on there.
This car came with them already.
It's an original Honduras
Maroon, with black interior.
With a 327 engine, two speed transmission,
four barrel carburetor, with
fully optioned accessories.
Factory seat,
a cruise control,
four-way flasher,
autronic eye,
tilt steering column,
power windows,
trunk release,
tachometer,
compass,
vanity mirrors,
under the dash ashtray,
AM/FM radio,
padded dash,
power steering,
power brakes,
locking gas cap.
It was something that you just
don't see out there no more.
(light music)
when I was a young kid,
there used to be a shop down
the street from our house,
right there off of
Pacific and Walnut called
The Gold Exchange.
There used to be a guy there
that used to work there,
his name is Richard Silva.
He went by 'Ritchie Rich'.
He was the number one hopper at the time.
He was a champion for a lot of years.
He would give us money to wash his cars,
to clean the windows,
and just keep all the
kids in the neighborhood,
try to keep us off the streets,
teach us right from wrong
and talk about his cars
and the rare stuff that he had on there.
That's how I got the
passion of low-riding.
I come from a family of 11.
We learned a lot from each other.
My mom, my dad worked all
their lives just to support us.
My mom sometimes had to
work 2 jobs day and night
just to put food on our table,
clothes on our backs.
They couldn't give us everything we wanted
just because it was so many of us.
My mom was in the sewing business,
and she used to work
for a factory, sewing.
And my dad was a janitor.
It was tough once you get older,
you kind of realize what your parents did
to try to provide for you.
Once I got older, if I
wanted name-brand clothes,
I had to go work for them.
And, I found every little
way of getting out there
and hustling to try to make money,
so when we did go back to school,
I had money to buy the clothes
that I wanted, you know?
I went from collecting cans,
to selling raspados at the park,
from buying stuff at the 99-cent store and
selling it for more money.
I'd buy baseball hats
that they had one time
at the 99-cent store,
and I bought a whole bunch
of them for a dollar each
and go sell them at the
park for five bucks.
I didn't go out there begging for money,
I went out there and worked for my money.
I was a collector.
I would collect baseball cards,
hot wheels, action figures,
stuff like that that I would
go to the store and buy
a couple of the ones I
thought that were rare,
and then I was holding on
to them 'cause I figure,
one day, I'mma have a business where
I can make money with this stuff.
And my dad told me,
if you graduate,
I will help you on
whatever you want to do.
That was his dream, just try
to keep me out of trouble.
I was working for a guy at
the Santa Fe Spring Swap Meet,
which was selling the same
things I used to be a collector,
you know, baseball cards, action figures,
just stuff like that on the weekends.
I learned a lot from him.
After I graduated from highschool,
I said, that's what I want to do.
I want to have my own business,
I want to sell sports
car, to action figures,
collectibles.
I started at the outdoor
swap meet doing that.
With a small booth, $500.00.
That's how (chuckles) my dad
helped me out, with $500.00.
He didn't have much, but we
made it grow as it went on
and on and on and on and on
and it was just a weekly thing.
Once that business grew, I
got into the Compton Indoor.
The business just got bigger,
and bigger as I was in there
with more of the collectibles,
and stuff like that.
Baseball cards...
I love toys.
Maybe because we didn't get to have them
when we were kids.
We went to the store,
and all we could do was look at them
because our parents couldn't
afford to buy them for us.
When I got to a point where
I was already in junior high
and I was already making
a little bit of money,
I would go out there
and buy it and save it,
and appreciate what I had
and praise it,
like, oh, man, this is rare, this is good.
Because I didn't get to
have that when I was a kid.
I'm the founder of Collector's
Choice Toys and Hobbies.
We're located here in the
city of Paramount, California.
I started Collector's Choice back in '93,
with a simple $500.00 investment,
to being one of the biggest distributors
in the West Coast for toys.
We're a distributor,
and we're an importer, exporter of toys.
We distribute toys from
Mattel,
Revell,
Funko,
Jada,
Maisto,
McFarlane.
We sell products to customers in Mexico,
Australia,
Spain,
Japan,
you name it, world-wide.
Once we open all these doors,
we were able to sell to a
lot of mom and pop shops
that were doing what I
did when I first started.
(inspirational music)
I love what I do,
and it keeps me motivated
'cause it's fun.
It's fun and I see that
I could do more with it.
Because my toy business was so successful,
I was able to start DGA Tees
with David Gonzales,
the creator of the Homies,
which does all of this art work
which caters to the Chicano industry.
We do from T-shirts, to
seat covers, from blankets,
you name it.
There was a logo for the Lowrider Man,
but there was nothing made for him.
So I contacted Lowrider and
asked if there was an
opportunity to make this toy.
And I've seen an opportunity
to be able to license
the figurine for this Lowrider Man.
I asked Dave if he could
design me a figurine and
he was more than happy to do
it because he's always had
a passion for the brand.
He was really excited to
design the figurine for us.
Someone that doesn't get low-riding,
they're missing out.
When I'm driving my cars,
it's never bothered me
what other people thought.
Low-riding is an art.
And when I see people out
there driving a low rider,
and it's nice and clean,
you got to give it to them because
I know that ain't come easy.
My advice to a lot of the
people that are out there
that are going through the hard struggle
that I went through,
nothing is impossible.
And I encourage everybody
that's out there to not give up.
Everything is possible in life,
and you can do whatever you
accomplish yourself to do.
Just keep moving forward.
Keep opening them doors,
and once you get there,
you're going to see
the light shine on you.
My name is Cesar Lozano,
I'm an entrepreneur,
and I'm a Lowrider Roll Model.
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Forgotten warehouse full of cars must go! | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 21
Hagerty:
(engine starting)
- Oh boy.
Some people think this
is what heaven looks like
and other people might think this is hell.
What year is this one?
- '67.
- '67 E type.
So, how long have you owned this?
- He actually gave it to me.
- So its unrestored.
- Yeah.
- And this, oh this is a
sun roof car, a '53 car with
a sunroof, it's a pretty rare item.
There seems to be a lot of
Volkswagens in this area.
We're seeing them cruising around.
We're seeing them in driveways.
We're seeing them in parking lots.
This vehicle is all stock on the outside,
stock on the inside and
really has wonderful patina
and a real solid body.
You know, 11 grand for this,
this is a good vehicle.
A cargo van, you don't see many of these.
Hi, this is Tom Cotter.
I've been hunting down cars
since I was 12 years old,
and I'm still doing it today.
Follow me in this series as we hunt down
hidden classics all across America.
(rhythmic guitar music)
We're in New Hampshire.
We're in the part of New
Hampshire that's part of
a resort area near Lake Winnipesaukee.
There seems to be an over
abundance of Porsches and
Volksagens in this area, so
we're gonna go search out
a couple that we've heard about.
(door closes)
I'm gonna go inside here and
tell them we're going in there.
We're with Randy Courier who has a
foreign car repair shop in
Holderness, New Hampshire,
and he's invited us into his little stash,
his collection of cars
that he owns personally,
and this is a car that's
pretty intriguing.
He's gonna allow us to take a look at it.
What year is this one?
- '67.
- '67 E type Roadster.
And you got a little bit of
history with this car, right?
- Yes, I do.
A friend of mine bought it
brand new back in '67 and it's
quite a story behind him
buying the car also because
he wasn't looking for this particular car.
They we're trying to sell
him a black one and they
finally came up with, I'll take those two,
this car for him and so
he bought it brand new.
I think it has 56,000 miles
on it or something like that.
- So it's unrestored.
- Yep, 68,000 miles.
- So, this is 50 years old right now.
- Yep.
- Man.
- Yep.
- And, so, how did you wind up with it?
- Well, my friend was an
attorney and we used to sell gas
out front here and he drove
in one day before I knew him.
And I was 15 years old and so
I went out and I was pumping
gas and there was a really nice
looking lady sitting in the
driver's seat and I just
said, "really nice car."
He goes, "do you want to sit in it?"
I said "no, I'd like
to drive it actually."
So I took him for a ride
from here to Ashland,
about five miles away at, you
know, a hundred miles an hour,
and came back, and he said,
"You're not gonna have
a license very long, son."
And I said, "well I don't have one yet."
- Ha ha ha!
- We got to be pretty good
friends and then it turns out
he knew my mother from many
years ago when they had a farm
up here on Elbrook, so
Harry's a very unique guy
and he's been inducted in
the hall of fame for hockey
and all kinds of different
things like that too.
- So, how long have you owned this?
- He actually gave it to
me, but he's still alive,
and I keep threatening to
restore it one of these days,
but I've had it probably
30 plus years here.
- I see the last time it
was registered was 1976.
- Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
- Wow.
- It hasn't run in a while.
- Has it been stored
indoors all these years.
- Yes, yep, it's always been inside.
- So it's a solid car.
- It is, and I actually have,
I bought all the right exhaust
systems and stuff back in
the days when that stuff was
available, so I have all the pieces
to put this car together too.
As you know, it's all about time.
You can end up with thousands
of hours into these things.
So I'm not sure, it really
needs a paint job, but the way
these cars are going these
days, the original patina on 'em
is another deal too.
- Yup, just wax this up and little scars,
a little rust is fine.
Have you driven it, I mean,
since you have owned it?
- No, it hasn't been on the
road in 20 years anyways.
- Well, this is a great car.
We like to show on Barn
Car Hunter complete cars,
but this is a unique enough car that its
worth looking at it the way it is.
This is a 1953 Volkswagen Beetle.
It's an oval window Beetle
which means it's got
the small window in the back.
'53 was a split year, so some
of the cars had oval windows,
the newer ones had oval windows,
the earlier ones in '53 had
a split window which is a
divider right down the back of the window.
This is a 1953, a very solid car.
It comes out of California
and it's absolutely complete.
The rocker panels are
solid, the floors solid,
the doors are all solid.
This is where the semiphores would go.
A semiphore's a blinker that comes out.
In Europe these little fingers
would come out and point the
way you wanted to go instead of
a flashing light in the back.
So this is a real early car.
It's got the real early dashboard.
It's a solid car, it's
100 percent complete.
Right now it's stripped, but
he has every piece for it
except the proper motor.
And he has a motor for it,
he would of included this,
but this car is for sale,
I don't know how much he wants for it.
The floor pans are solid, so like I said,
everything is right here.
There's boxes and boxes of
pieces that go with the car.
Here's the little taillights
that go on the back.
So, these cars, when I was
a kid, you could get cars
like this for five hundred bucks.
Well, they're worth quite
a bit more now and there's
a lot of interest.
Ever since Jerry Seinfeld
sold his very, very old Beetle
a few years ago on Amelia
Island for a lot of money,
people's attention has been
spiked about old Beetles,
and also buses and transporters.
And this is a sunroof car.
A '53 car with a sunroof,
it's a pretty rare item.
So, pretty desirable car.
You can't help but see
Volkswagens when you ride around
this area, we've seen them on the road.
We've heard about a couple more
just a couple of miles away
we're going to go check out right now.
This is a 1967 VW Van.
'67's got two flat windshields
separated by one piece
of metal, so it was a lot
cheaper to make a vehicle with
flat glass than to have compound curves.
This one seems to be a deluxe one.
It's got a chrome emblem on
the front a split paint job,
two colors, nice trim in the
middle separating the two.
And really, this thing is a time capsule.
If you look inside here,
these are probably not
the original seats, this is probably not
the original door panel,
but it is 50 years old.
If you climb inside here,
see how tight things are.
Basically your legs, your
knees, are the bumpers.
If you get hit in a front end
collision with something else,
the big fear that people
had in this day was that
they'd be killed because there's no engine
to take up or chassis
to take up a collision.
I had a crew cab Volkswagen,
it was a three door and I
drove it around a little
bit, not much though.
They're great vehicles, its very nostalgic
to drive something like this.
It really brings back
memories of the old days when
gas was 25 or 30 cents a gallon
and I have a funny story.
I went to borrow my friend's,
actually he's my
brother-in-law now, Bob Mead,
I borrowed his Volkswagen van
in high school to go out to lunch.
I ran out of gas.
I coasted to a gas
station across the median,
into a gas station and I
had 15 cents in my pocket
and I bought 15 cents
worth of gas and that
was enough to get me back to
the high school parking lot.
So, that tells you the gas
mileage these things got,
and also the cost of gas back in the day.
(door slams)
This vehicle is all stock on the outside,
stock on the inside and
really has wonderful patina
and a real solid body.
Floors are really solid on it.
Where it differs from stock
is that the owner has put in
a suped up motor.
It's got twin carburetors.
It's got a degreed fly wheel pulling.
It's got a big warp kit.
I don't know what the cubes
are, the CC's or the horsepower,
but if its one thing
that buses always needed,
was more horsepower and
now this one has it.
And we have another van over here.
Over here is a '68 cargo van.
No windows on the sides.
And the big change here is
a completely redesigned van.
It's got one windshield, which
it's got compound curves.
No divider in the middle,
so this is the first,
the new generation of Volkswagen vans.
And being a cargo van, you
don't see many of these,
with no windows on the side,
although this is the kind
of thing that I would say
should have Porsche Racing
Team on the side of it.
Probably should have
painted it light blue.
It's got lots more leg room.
It probably has some more
body cladding in the front
to give a little more protection
in the event of a collision.
It had a bigger engine, I'm not sure, '68,
might have been maybe '53 horsepower,
but don't write nasty letters if its not.
But you can see the
complete motor in there.
All the air cleaner, kind of
a complex air cleaner system.
Pre-heater tubes, everything's in place.
So, this is a runner.
You know, 11 grand for this,
this is a good vehicle.
It's got a nice paint job on it.
Not perfect, it's got a
lot of orange peel in it,
but just for a cargo van,
this would be wonderful to
have for a little business.
But a nice plain jane vehicle
that you never see these days.
Oh this has got dual exhaust
coming out the sides,
it's probably got some kind
of extractor header system.
And you see it's got non-chrome
bumpers, non-chrome hubcaps,
it's kind of a standard
commercial vehicle.
Pretty sweet deal.
(rhythmic rock music)
I love atlases.
I gotta tell ya, I like
GPS, to me, a GPS is a tool.
An atlas is a pleasure to me.
This is 2008, I bought it at a truck stop.
It has a heavy plastic
cover and even though
the pages are coming apart,
its like the family bible, I
don't want to get rid of it,
so I like to see where I'm
going and how I'm getting there
as opposed to just getting there,
which GPS does a good job of.
But this way I can pick
out where I want to go
and since I want to look for old cars,
I don't want to take the interstate,
so it looks like highway 101
and 9 going to Brattleboro
is probably going to
be the best route to go
through some rural areas and
through some small towns.
So that's where we're gonna head now.
(rhythmic rock music)
We're driving down this
road 101 heading westbound,
just saw a couple of interesting
cars in this guys driveway.
We'll have to check it out, right?
One definitely looked like a
Dunebuggy, behind the garage,
I can see the headlight of it,
and I don't know what those cars are,
they're wrapped up
tightly, so I'm gonna go
knock on the door, see what the deal is.
This looks more like a Deserter,
which they were made in
Marblehead, Mass, by Caldwell
Automotive I think it was.
I think this is the first
Dunebuggy we've found on the
Barn Find Hunter series, so
at two grand, this is a really
good starting point to have
yourself a fun summer vehicle.
(rhythmic rock music)
Before I go on a barn-finding
adventure, I go on Facebook
and just say "I'm going to this area,
does anybody have any leads
that we can follow up on
old cars neglected and forgotten?"
So I put out a note recently
on Facebook "I'm going to New
England, does anybody
know of any cars we should
follow up on while we're in
town with the Hagerty crew?"
And so my friend Rick Carey
responded to that and said
"You know I have a friend
who recently passed away
and he has a lot of projects left over
he didn't get time to finish.
Maybe you'd be interested in coming up
and seeing those."
And that's how we wound up here.
- Okay!
- Ha ha, you lead the way.
- You're gonna make me
lead the way, alright.
I have a Viper.
Come down here.
- Wow.
Alright, what have we got here?
Oh boy.
(cranking)
Geeze, wow!
Some people think this
is what heaven looks like
and other people might think this is hell.
- Yeah.
- Ha ha ha, geeze!
This looks like a drag
race '56 Chevy Nomad.
This has a straight front
axle, so this is a gasser.
This is pretty darn cool.
- There's no motor.
- I dig gassers.
Look at this, it's got
a straight front axle
and slicks in the back,
geeze, how could you
put any rubber down when the slick is
that close to the fender lip?
- Maybe you have really strong springs.
- Boy, this is a Chevy Nomad.
It's different than a Chevy Station Wagon
would have been in the day.
A Nomad was GM's attempt to
bring styling to Station Wagons.
And so, it's a two-door wagon,
it's got this really nice
slant B pillar, it's got
these ribs across the roof.
This mox, the B pillar
right here, it's got
a slanted back window with
lines on the tail gate
and it was a real stylish wagon.
They made a version
like this '55, '56, '57
and then even though
the name stayed around,
the '58's and beyond didn't
have this classic look.
What do we have back here?
'61 Chevy?
- '61 Impala SS, according
to the chassis number.
- Uh huh, '61 Impala SS,
so is that a 348 or 283?
That's a bubble top.
This is the cat's meow
with a 409 in it, I think.
- Yeah.
- Okay, so where do we go next?
So, we have a late model
VW Beetle convertible,
round window super Beetle.
I know these cars well.
It's probably, I'm guessing,
'79, '80, I'm not sure.
It seems to have a good
top, nice and tight.
It seems to have a good
body, probably a repaint.
Engine's in there and looks complete.
The keys are in the ignition.
These cars, you can get parts for them.
They're easy to service, they're reliable,
they're fun to drive.
It's got such a nicely padded top.
It's got a headliner and padding in there,
that it's a good car to drive.
You can drive in foul weather
and you don't get wet or windy
inside like a sports car.
You could put the kids in the backseat.
So VW convertibles are a
really good way to have a
sporty type car for minimal
money and not a big burden
as far as maintenance and
repairs are concerned.
Okay, so next in our selection
of unfinished projects
is an engine-less shoebox
Nova, looks like a '66, '67.
- '66 SS.
- SS, it's got late model
Corvette wheels and it's got
rack-and-pinion steering I noticed
so this thing has been modified somehow.
I wonder if its got an independent rear.
Son of a gun, it's got a
Corvette independent rear.
Four bar link suspension in the back here.
Somebody did a nice job with this thing.
It's got welded reinforcements
onto the unibody.
Ford suspension A arms,
it's got disc brakes.
It looks like traction bar mount.
It's a pretty cool car.
It's a Corvette in Nova clothing.
That could be a neat car.
Boy, just put a healthy
little 327 in there or LS.
So this is a Brooklyn S1?
- SV1.
- SV1.
- Safety Vehicle 1.
- Safety Vehicle 1.
And these are made by a
guy named Malcolm Bricklin
who made a name in the
auto industry by bringing
Subaru's into the United States
45 years ago or something.
Little tiny Subaru 360's.
Little tiny cars, and when
people didn't buy them,
he turned them into go
carts and you could rent,
he'd put them in first gear
and you could race around
go cart tracks and race these Subaru's
because he couldn't
sell them any other way.
Then he built his own
car and this is it, SV1,
out of fiberglass.
You can see the problem with these cars is
the fiberglass becomes delaminated
and starts warping in temperature so these
gull-wing doors start lifing up.
Ironically, its a safety car.
Supposed to have been built
with internal roll cages
and very strong structure,
but if it went on its roof,
I don't know a way to get out of this car
because the gull-wing
doors have to come up.
If its on its roof they can't come up.
Funny story about
Bricklin, a friend of mine
in North Carolina, Phil
Barringer, had some extra money
back when these were
being built and he said
to his new wife, "honey we
should go broke buying that car
because its gonna be worth
so much money one day
that we can't lose."
So he bought the car brand new,
it's got 30 miles on it still
and he still has the same
wife, but he still has this car
sitting in the garage and he can't get
what he paid for it new 40 years ago,
so they never really went anywhere.
That's a pretty nice thing.
These have a bad habit of rusting out.
Looks like it would be a fiberglass car,
but its actually metal.
We can't find a number
plate on here that will
give us the year of the car,
but it's probably a '74, '75,
I'm not really an expert
on the years of these cars.
Volkswagen things are great cars.
They look like Dune
Buggies, they're really not,
but they have a metal body.
Most Dune Buggies are
fiberglass, this one is metal,
so they are very prone to rust.
This one seems to be in
amazingly good shape.
It looks to have new paint
under these layers of dust.
Inside here its got all the side curtains,
I guess its a convertible
top and seats in here.
It has an engine, which I
suppose is the original motor.
It's got a VW motor and
its absolutely complete
with all the air cleaners and hoses.
Looks to be a good car.
I would own this car.
I mean, except for this
dent which probably happened
during storage, the body
looks to be solid, complete
and well painted all around.
The Hagerty value guide
teaches us a few things
about the Volkswagen Thing.
I said they only made it for two years,
well they made it '71 through '75,
so they made it for five years.
It was called the type 181 and it was an
updated version of Germany's
military Kรผbelwagen.
So if this car were in concourse condition
which its far from, it
would be worth $33,700.
If you think about that,
if you were to find
a concourse version of this for $33,000,
you could have something you
could drive onto the lawn
of a car show and be proud
of for only 33 grand.
Fair condition is $10,400 and
good condition is $16,800,
so I'd imagine this would fall
under fair condition, $10.400.
If it's complete I bet it
runs, somebody would get
a nice buy here for 10 grand or under.
So, we've just seen what
Bob has in this garage that
now his wife Jean has to sell off,
but what is this I hear about another car?
- Yup, there's another car up in York
about another 20 minutes
drive, 15 minutes drive.
- I don't even know what
it is, I don't wanna know.
- Okay, we'll make it a surprise.
- Alright, cool.
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.
Eddie Motorsports Billet Aluminum Battery Boxes Automotive Car Pickup Truck Street Rod Hot Rod
JEGS Performance:
At Eddie Motorsports, we make a variety of
billet aluminum battery boxes.
This particular model is for a D33 Optima,
a very popular battery.
They're made out of billet aluminum here in
our California facility.
They come with a top and a bottom, and they're
mounted through the base with four five-sixteenths
fasteners, held together with a billet rod,
and use stainless steel fasteners.
They're a great product for mounting a battery
in your trunk or anywhere else you think they
can fit.
Like all products at Eddie Motorsports, they
come in a variety of finishes.
We have a gloss black anodized, a matte black
fusion coat, cerulean red, cerulean blue,
and a clear anodized finish.
Goss' Garage: Buying Classic Cars - Spotting An Authentic Find
MotorWeek:
So you think it’s time to buy that collectible
car that you’ve been dreaming about all
these years.
Well, that’s a good thing, but unless you
do it right you might not wind up with what
you think you’re getting.
And here to give us some pointers we have
Tony Fleming from Fleming’s Ultimate Garage.
Tony welcome back to Goss’ garage.
Thanks so much for having me Pat.
Alright, now this is a gorgeous Corvette,
but what makes it a really top notch car as
opposed to just being a lump?
Well, a lump is well said.
Alright, so start with how does a car look?
When you walk up to a car is it a great looking
car?
And a lot of time you’ll say well that’s
a great looking car but you never know why
it’s a great looking car right?
To make those cars desirable things like where
we paint the wheel the way it’s supposed
to be and the wheel cover goes over top and
you have the thin little pin stripe of the
paint color… adding the wide white so they’re
period correct so they still look great.
This car in particular is the last year you
could get the painted cove on the side, and
I think it looks great, I personally love
those.
And then you throw in the high performance
engine you could get right?
This car right here has two 4-barrel carburetors
on it.
It’s the original engine that came in the
car and the car’s over 50 years old.
When you think about that that’s pretty
cool.
Alright, now another thing I’ve noticed
over the years that makes a big difference
is the authenticity of little things like
the decals and the stencils even down to hose
clamps
Very well said.
So the provenance of a car whether you have
some paperwork from back in the day or you
have like the Harrison radiator decal the
overflow tank decal even the horsepower call-out
decals on some other cars it makes it look
neat when you open the hood.
That’s the way the car would have come from
the factory.
This one even has the Wonderbar radio in it,
so it’s the original factory radio it’s
a 50-year-old radio and its pretty cool to
look at.
Yeah, alright so unless you do your homework,
you can wind up buying something that really
isn’t worth the dollars this is worth more
than one that doesn’t have all of these
things.
Well that’s a very important part you say
there.
So there’s a big difference between this
same car for let’s say 60 thousand versus
a car for 90 thousand.
Like what is the difference?
So some people just go out and buy a car because
they see it’s red and white and they think
it should bring a certain amount of money
you gotta do a little homework or buy it from
somebody who can show you the reasons why
you should get that and spend the extra and
keep that money.
ok an auction may not be the best answer.
Well the auction really is just putting the
buyer and the seller together with no warranty
whatsoever.
ok, Tony thank you.
And if you have a question or a comment drop
me a line right here at MotorWeek.
EPAS Performance Application Specific Electric Power Steering Conversion Kits
JEGS Performance:
Jeff: Hello, I'm Jeff from EPAS Performance
and I'm here to present you our C1 Electric
Power Steering Kit.
The kit is composed of our electric motor,
our pre-wired control module with the wiring
harness, all the couplers required to do the
install, and the installation manual.
This is one of our more challenging kits to
install, it will require knowledge and some
tools.
Now Jim will show you how to install it.
Jim: Hi, my name is Jim.
I'm here to show you how to do this install.
First order of business, we've got to take
the steering wheel off, turn signal assembly
out.
Next we'll need to remove the steering column
strap underneath the steering column.
Moving on we're going to go underneath the
car remove the lower half of the steering
column and Pitman arm.
Just going to remove the last bolt here, let
the steering column lie and we're going to
move the topside of the car to remove the
column.
Next you'll need to remove the hood to make
clearance for the steering column to come
out.
With the steering column removed out of the
car you'll need to make your first cut from
this flange 23-1/4 inches up the shaft, cut
it all the way through cutting the inside
shaft.
You'll need to disassemble the whole steering
gear and you'll need to cut five eighths inches
off this lower shaft and then make a Double
D.
Before reassembly of the lower half steering
gear steering shaft a three-eighths hole needs
to be drilled one inch in from the cut in.
After assembling the lower half steering gear
we'll need to assemble the electric motor
with a steering column adapter and a spline
adapter to Double D and then we'll have to
do the upper half to accommodate the upper
half shaft which gets puts in the vehicle
later.
When you receive the electric motor these
two adapters, the spline and Double D adapter
and this input shaft will come with set screws,
they need to be removed to be replaced at
a later time.
First order of assembly, the lower Double
D Spline Shaft will need to be placed on and
tightened.
Next is the steering column adapter.
Then we move to the other side of the electric
steering motor and assemble the other adapter.
We're getting ready to reassemble the lower
half steering gear.
First we take our shaft that we just made
our Double D on, reinsert the bearing, insert
it into the steering column and the back half
bearing retainer, we'll have to set pre-load.
Next we'll need to install the Sector Shaft.
Now we're going to reinstall the steering
shaft and steering box.
Things are about to get real easy, we're getting
ready to install the EPAS Electric Steering
Motor into the lower half steering column.
Now we're going to install two set screws
inside the three-eighths hole that we drilled
on the bottom side of the steering column.
I've reinstalled the turn signal assembly,
left it loose, we're going to put the upper
half of the steering column into the electric
motor adapter and then tighten the set screws.
We're getting ready to install the band clamp
on the steering column.
Now we are going to install the upper steering
shaft into the steering column.
Now that we've installed the upper steering
shaft into the steering column there's two
set screws that are in this opening down here.
Before tightening completely a measurement
needs to be taken from the face here to the
end of the splines, and that is an inch and
a half.
Once we've achieved the inch and a half we
need to tighten up the two set screws.
Now that the turn signal assembly has been
reinstalled on the top of the steering column
we need to mount the steering wheel and then
move on to the pre-wired wiring harness.
Now that we've installed the steering column
and electric motor we need to install the
module.
The module has electric output which runs
to the electric motor.
We have Battery In which is going to end up
hooking to the terminals on the battery, signal
going to the top of the electric motor, Ignition
Hot and Feedback Control.
Our control module we mounted behind the center
console free of obstructions and that suited
us just fine.
This is a battery wiring harness coming out
of a five-eighths inch grommet, we're going
to go ahead and hook it up to our battery
terminals down here, we're going to go in
and turn Ignition Hot and we should hear a
click from the module.
Now that I've made it back to the driver's
seat we're going to give Ignition Hot and
listen for the click.
Now we can go cruising.
Thank you very much.
Jeff: Thank you for purchasing our Electric
Power Steering Kit from EPAS Performance.
We hope this video has been helpful for your
install and we hope you enjoy it for many
miles to come.
Edelbrock E-Street EFI Systems 1967 Chevy Corvette 350 Electronic Fuel Injection Conversion Install
JEGS Performance:
Man 1: This is a 1967 Corvette convertible.
It belongs to a friend of ours that has been
in our shop a few times. He's got a ZZ4 crate
motor under the hood. It's a 350. Now, this
car was built to be a driver. It was not built
for the race track, it was not built to sit
in a garage, it was actually built as a daily
driver and he's got a five speed behind it,
so he can get a little bit better gas mileage.
We're going to be taking the carburetor off
of this 350 and we're going to be installing
an Edelbrock E-Street EFI System. It's going
to be a complete standalone unit that's going
to bolt on in place of the carburetor and
we're expecting to get a little bit better
performance and economy out of of it. One
thing people most people don't realize is
that Edelbrock has got more than a 30 year
history in doing EFI, so they've got a lot
of experience in building these systems. The
system we're putting on this car is very sophisticated.
It's got self-learning capabilities, it's
very easy to use. It's something that, even
if you've spent your entire life tuning cars
with a screwdriver and a box full of jets,
you're not going to have an intimidation factor
putting it on this car.
The advantage of the EFI system is you get
better starting, you get better idle, you
get better throttle response and you're going
to get a better economy because you basically,
you're tuning the system with the EFI. The
EFI is going to be a self-learning system
with the O2 sensor, it's going to determine
where the fuel ratio needs to be and it's
going to adjust accordingly. If you can answer
a couple of questions like you do with any
computer screen or any device that you set
up, basically, you've got the same thing here.
There's nothing really mechanical that you
need to do once you've installed it. There's
questions that'll come up on the screen and
it's just pushing a button on a screen and
then just making your answer.
Now, we've actually already got the system
on the car, so we're kind of going to be doing
this in the reverse order. We're going to
be showing you how it performs and then we're
going to be showing you how we actually installed
it. One thing that Edelbrock really prides
themselves on is the driveablilty of this
system. They worked on it until they got it
right. They wanted to make sure that no matter
what operating regime the engine was in, it
was going to operate correctly.
Now, there's a lot of different EFI conversion
systems on the market and it makes good sense
to do your research and figure out what's
going to work best for you. One of the real
strengths of the Edelbrock system is that
it's got a nice smooth idle, it's not going
to die on you at a light, and it makes it
nice for a stick car like this, where you're
not going to have that high idle set to sit
there and sit against the torque converter
at the light. When you take it out of gear,
the engine smooths right out, coast right
along. Now of course, a beautiful day like
this, top down, driving around is a lot of
fun, but this is a system that's also going
to work when it's cold outside, when it's
a little bit rainy, not that this is a car
that we would ever want to take out in the
rain, but still, it's nice to know that you've
got something that's going to run no matter
what the weather's doing outside. And as someone
who is old enough to remember the not so great
manual choke days, I can tell you that it's
just, I'm spoiled rotten by the fact that
you can sit down in this car, stone cold crank
it, and it starts on the first try. That's
just something that you're not going to get
with a carbureted car. Bottom line on this
E-Street kit is that it's going to take your
muscle car and turn it into something you're
going to want to drive every day. It takes
all the worry and hassle out of owning a classic
car. It's fantastic. There's really no downside.
Now normally when you're doing this kind of
conversion from a well-tuned carburetor to
an EFI system, you expect it to be a wash
power-wise, where perhaps you're going to
lose a horsepower or two and that's a good
trade-off for the better driveability and
better starting and just in general, better
street manners. In our case, we actually picked
up power. It's not necessarily going to be
a typical experience, but hey, we're not going
to turn down the extra ponies.
Man 2: Before we ran the car with just the
carburetor, our best numbers we got was right
at 287 horsepower and about 330 foot pound
of torque. I was actually extremely surprised.
Once we got this fuel injection on there,
my first pull was 304 horsepower. There was
a little blip at about 4200 RPM where you
could see a little variance in the RPM as
you were going through it, so I went ahead
and did a second pull after cool down, and
I was actually super impressed by how quick
this thing learned. It straightened that blip
right up and my second dyno on this 310 horsepower.
Man 1: Now the wireless tablet is really a
great feature for this. It's an Android tablet.
It connects wirelessly to the ECU and it handles
all the tuning functions. There's a setup
wizard that basically walks you through all
the different choices you need to make to
get the baseline tune set, things like engine
displacement cam specs, that sort of thing.
Then, once the car is up and running, it's
learning all the time. It's getting feedback
from the wide-band oxygen sensor and continually
building out those fuel tables so that as
you drive it, it actually comes better. Now,
the system also has a lot of user definable
parameters, things like everything from RPM
limits to when the fans kick on and that's
just as easy to set up. Now the system doesn't
require the tablet to be in the car and operating
in order to work properly, but if you want
to bring it along, there's a dashboard mount
for it and you can use it to monitor things
like all the different engine ECU parameters
and you can also bring up a gauge display
that shows you all that stuff in real time
in a pretty cool layout. It's really designed
to be easy for a novice to use and have enough
power so that pros have the ability to adjust
a lot of the parameters that they want to
have direct control over.
Man 2: This kit comes with everything you'll
need minus a couple little fittings if in
fact you decide to run...where you decide
to mount your components. You may need a little
bit of extra fuel line or a couple of extra
fittings, but it actually says that in the
instructions as well. But I actually didn't
need any extra fittings, it supplied me with
everything I needed.
Man 1: The E-Street EFI system has several
main components. There's the E-Street ECU,
which is the brains of the system, the seven-inch
tablet and the EFI throttle body assembly.
Now the throttle body assembly contains most
of the hardware involved in the installation,
things like the injectors and a few of the
sensors. You also get an included oxygen sensor,
a cooling temperature sensor, and Edelbrock
also provides all of the wiring harnesses
you need to do your installation. This is
going to be ideal for any V8 engine that was
originally equipped with a carburetor and
has an intake manifold set up with a 4150
style square bore flange.
Man 2: For the novice, you could probably
expect about a day and a half, maybe two days
to install this kit. What we recommend is
lay it out first. Look at what's going into
the car, read the instructions, determine
where you want to mount things. One of the
things that we did is we got the car in early,
we decided where we're going to mount components,
we decided what was best and then we went
from there. If you wait to do all that when
you're going to install it, then you're going
to be taking a little bit more time. But once
you've made all these decisions and you've
decided where you're going to mount things
and how you're going to run your fuel lines
and everything, about a day and a half, maybe
two days.
Well, that's kind of the nice thing. There's
three different setups that you can get with
the Edelbrock unit. The first system that's
available is a returnless style system. What
that means is you put an inline electric fuel
pump and you feed the throttle body directly
and you don't have to worry about running
a line back to the fuel tank. The second fuel
system available for the E-Street EFI is the
return style fuel system. What that means
is you're going to take the fuel from the
tank either with an electric inline pump or
an in-tank pump, feed the throttle body and
then you run a line back to the fuel tank.
That means you're going to have to find a
location for that return line to the fuel
tank. The third system for the E-street EFI
is the sump tank kit, which is what we're
using. You use a mechanical fuel pump on the
front of the engine as a lift pump and that
feeds the sump tank. The sump tank will store
about a gallon of fuel and the electric pump
is inside the sump tank and that feeds your
throttle body.
Man 1: Anytime you have a fuel injected vehicle,
it uses an O2 sensor to monitor your air fuel
ratio for the tuning of the fuel system. It
tells you how much fuel to add or take away,
depending on what the car is doing and it
was actually a really simple install as well.
I did it myself, because obviously we have
a shop here, but if you were just an at home
installer, you could take this car to an exhaust
shop, a day or two before you're ready to
do the install and have them weld a bung in
it and it includes a plug as well, so you
don't have to run the O2 bung in a car when
it's not warmed up, which will destroy your
O2 bung, or your O2 sensor. No, actually,
in our specific application, we decided to
actually flip our fuel rails around on the
throttle body, which they are identical, so
you can put them passenger side or driver
side and because of where we mounted our sump,
we decided to come out the driver side with
them. And so the only thing we had to do there
was point the fuel line down to clear the
bottom of the air cleaner.
Now this is a really super simple wiring harness.
Your electrical knowledge can be next to none
to really plug this thing in. You need power
ground, ignition and other than that, a tach
signal and besides those things, it's all
plug and play, super layable, really easy
to know. They have really good pictures of
every electrical connection in their instruction
manual. So, if you're like, "Oh, I don't know
what a map sensor is," there's a picture of
it.
Well, get used to seeing some improvements.
As cliche as it sounds, these kind of kits,
they do pay for themselves, because you're
going to get better fuel mileage. The car
is going to run a lot better. These types
of kits, the nice thing about them is you
can go out on a cold day, you can turn the
key and it starts up. You're not messing with
a choke, you're not messing with trying to
start it by pumping the gas pedal, you don't
have to worry about any of that. It's just
going to be a lot more convenient, it's going
to make your classic car a lot more driveable
and you're going to want to drive it more.
I think that as the system becomes more popular,
it's really going to do a lot for the hot
rodding hobby just because it's going to get
a lot of cars that are sitting in garages
right now out onto the road. People are too
frustrated with having a carburetor that's
ill-tuned or, pulling up to cruise night and
the car just reeks of gas because it's pig
rich or whatever. This totally eliminates
that. It just makes the car run.
Vortec 8100: Everything You Want to Know | Specs and More
Dust Runners Automotive Journal:
Back in 2001 GM wanted to offer an alternative to their popular Duramax engine
They needed something mean they needed something lean and they needed something powered by gasoline
What's up, guys, my name is Bryce with Dust Runners Automotive Journal and today
I'm gonna tell you everything you need to know about the Vortec 8100.
The idea of a gasoline alternative to a diesel engine is definitely not new and is definitely not exclusive to GM
Before diesel engines became so popular in light duty trucks
The 454 big-block was the normal for 2500 or 3500 truck. If you love GM trucks need something heavy-duty
But don't want to have to deal with finding diesel every time you need to go fill up, then Vortec 8100 is for you.
Although most people would rather have the Duramax engine there were enough people who wanted a gasoline
Alternative at the time that GM decided to make it happen
Basically, they took the crankcase of the old 454 big-block and gave it even more stroke
Officially the Vortech 8100 is not recognized as the gen7 big-block although it shares so many things with the Gen 6 big-block
That most people just consider it the gen 7
Even though GM does not what makes the Vortech 8100 more powerful than any big block before it, is mostly the displacement.
I mean, 496 cubic inches is a lot. It also has better cylinder heads and slightly improved electronics
The resulting output is 340 horsepower and 450 foot pounds of torque, which is pretty good considering the outgoing
454 had 290 horsepower and 410 foot-pounds of torque
There were variants of the Vortec 8100 that had upwards of 500 horsepower
But those were not used in the light duty trucks where the Vortec 8100 is most known for
This engine is available in GM 2500 and 3500 vehicles such as a Silverado, Sierra,
Yukon XL, Suburban, and Express. It's also available in Workhorse class a motor homes
Malibu boats
Mastercraft boats and
1898 combat armored vehicle you may have noticed on that list that there are no
Small cars and we'll explain why in just a second the weirdest thing about this engine is that when most people hear the word Vortec
They immediately think of the LS based
5.3 liter truck engine that pretty much everyone swaps into their cars the cool thing about the LS based
truck engine is that you can use other LS parts such as
ls1 heads for example
Unfortunately, there are a couple things that hold the Vortech 8100 back from ever being as popular as the ls based Vortec engines
as you could imagine putting an engine this heavy in a Corvette or Camaro would completely throw off the weight balance and make it really
hard to handle properly
Second thing holding this engine back from being popular is availability
Now the Chevy LS you can find it in pretty much any junkyard in the u.s
Vortec 8100 was not nearly as popular as the LS
So just finding one by itself is kind of hard to do and then what you do find one the price may be kind of
High because there's not a whole lot of them around this
Availability also transfers over to the aftermarket as the Vortech does not have a very good aftermarket
See, for the LS
There's pretty much anything you want from swap kits turbo kits superchargers cams heads
Pretty much anything you want aftermarket plus you can use other LS based parts such as putting
LS1 heads on a 5.3 truck engine
Unfortunately, the Vortech is not like this. So you can't just take a Vortech 8100 and put LS one heads on it
It doesn't work that way if you want better cylinder heads
You have to go aftermarket if you want a better camshaft
You have to go aftermarket if you want anything you pretty much have to go aftermarket
You can't just pick from the pile of GM performance parts out there
Those three things combined really hold the Vortech 8100 back from being popular in the enthusiast community
Although there are some hot rodders out there who really like this engine for the most part
Most people would rather just have an LS based truck engine when it comes to the aftermarket for the Vortec 8100
There is one really cool company that comes to mind and that's Raylar Engineering
What they do is they take an already giant
496 cubic inch engine and crank it up to either
511 or 540 cubic inches
They also offer camshafts cylinder heads superchargers and a couple other things for the 8100
There's stage 3 540 cubic inch kit for example takes that 340 horsepower
8100 and cranks it up to
680 horsepower
685 horsepower for a 540 cubic inch engine really isn't that much but the thing is with that stroker kit
It's going to make 680 foot-pounds of torque
Which is way more than an LS is going to make actually aspirated as we mentioned earlier
Vortech was supposed to be an alternative to the lb7 Duramax
Which was the Duramax that GM used at the time the 8100 did make more horsepower when it came out
But it didn't have the same amount of torque the Duramax made 70 foot-pounds of torque
More but it also made that torque at a lower rpm
so if you really if you were really into towing and hauling the Duramax was still the better option and that
torque gap grows even greater
Farther down the Duramax engine line you go that torque gap gets even larger and larger making the Vortech 8100 less and less attractive
To put this all simply the Vortech 8100 is a good engine
but it's not as good as the Duramax which
Ultimately kind of led to it being killed off with the six liter LS based truck engine to fill its shoes
Due to a heavy weight lack of availability and a small aftermarket. It's also not very popular in the hotrod community
Although there are there are a lot of guys who like this engine and it is gaining momentum
It'll never be as popular as the LS, but it is gaining momentum right now
So there you have it. That's the quick and short story of a Vortech 8100
Let me know down in the comments below what you guys think of this engine
Be sure to hit that thumbs up button and subscribe and I'll see you guys in the next one
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How to unlock a car door (without a key)
Make It Easy Mechanic:
locking your keys inside the car sucks
in this video I'm going to unlock three
different vehicles using different
methods and tools to help you figure out
what method works best for your car.
First make sure you have proof it is
your car or whoever you're helping can
prove it is their car. Check every door,
window, trunk or tailgate, and glass! You
just might get lucky. Our first vehicle
has a vertical knob on top of the door
panel and the most accessible tool
you're most likely to have on you is a
shoelace or a string. Make sure it is
long enough to cover the window
diagonally. Step number one - slide the
string in through the top corner of the
door. Tip: now when you go to fit the
string in you might run into weather
stripping and rubber molding that
doesn't let you get past it, so use a
thin object to guide the string in over
the rubber molding. Step number two: once the string is inside move it to one side
of the window and make a slip knot
here's a better view of how to make one:
basically it's like tying your shoe - you
pull on one side it tightens your knot
you pull on the other side it tightens
your loop. Now pull the slip knot into
the window area and try to fit it over
the knob
Here is a tip: if your loop is pointing away
from the knob you can twist the string
and slide the twisted part into the
window area and then pull back to make
the loop point in the right direction,
like this! Once you put the loop over the
knob
pull the string ends apart to tie the
knot and pull up and there we go the
first car is unlocked
next tool we can use is a wire hanger or
any long wire you can find very helpful
tool you can use it in many different
applications unwind the hanger and
straighten it out leaving a hook on one
end. Now let's take a closer look at our
knob - all it really is, is just a rod
going down to the latching mechanism
so what I'm gonna do is let the hook
down between the window and the
weatherstripping
which I do recommend removing to get a
better visual of what's inside the door
catch the rod or the part of the
latching mechanism it is attached to and
pull up and the door is unlocked
another useful tool is a slim jim basic
concept: Pull on one side and push on the
other to navigate the loop that you
would slide over a vertical knob.
Same basic steps you may have to pry the door
a little bit
slide the slim jim down, fit it over the
knob and pull up. I personally don't
really care for this tool, I think it has
very limited application.
However the door is unlocked and let's move on to
the second vehicle this vehicle does not
have a vertical knob, the locking knob
moves horizontally and is significantly
harder to get to but take note - pulling
the door handle unlocks the door!
And we also have a manual window which could be used to our advantage
And now again let's take a closer look
at our locking knob: all it is - is just
another rod that goes to the latching
mechanism moving horizontally instead of
vertically here
I took the latching mechanism out of the
door so you can see that there is a
black piece moving up and down as I move
the rod back and forth. So all we need to
do is pull up on it and the door will be
unlocked. While I'm trying to catch the
mechanism I wanted to mention that your
wiper blades (except curved ones) have
metal rods in them that you can use for
this method just pull the blade end down
to get them exposed. You may have to use
pliers to pull one out, bend it to make a
hook and you're ready to go!
Now back to our board:
I finally caught the mechanism and all I
need to do is pull up and the second car
is unlocked
Now since the inside handle unlocks the
door, we can try to utilize that too
let's grab the other end of our wire
hanger and make a loop about a finger in
size
make sure to twist it a few times so
that it doesn't unwind when you pull on
it
next pry the top corner of the door and
fit a wedge in it. I am using a small ice
scraper to get it started and a wooden
wedge you can use a doorstop or some
wooden kitchenware like spatulas and
such try not to use screwdrivers as they
will damage your paint. Basically you're
just trying to create an opening just
big enough to fit in the wire
once the wire is in throw the loop over
the handle and here I want to share
another tip with you: once you're on the
handle - bring the wire down so that
you're pulling straight back, instead of half up - half back
And there we go! That sweet sound of the
door finally opening. And let me play this one more time!
And finally our third
and most difficult car: It has no
vertical knob, it does have a "lock/unlock" button but pretty hard to get to
the locking tab is cone-shaped and the
door handle does not unlock the door
- pretty tricky. On top of it, it has cables
instead of rods, so nothing to really
grab on to. So the easiest thing to do
here is to use an actual lockout toolkit
used by professionals which consists of:
a long reach tool, inflatable bag, and a
wedge tool. Since this door doesn't have a
metal frame around the glass I'm going
to use the inflatable bag - wedge it in,
inflate it, give yourself some room to
fit the metal rod through. Don't pry it
more than you have to - you don't want to
shatter the glass, obviously.
then just fit in the rod and here you
have two options: you can either push the
unlock button or turn the locking knob.
Now while I'm trying to get it unlocked
I wanted to mention even though most of
you probably don't have a tool kit like
this handy you can try to imitate it
with something like an antenna or a hood
prop rod from another car of course I've
seen people use golf clubs the bottom
line is there are options so don't get
discouraged and use your imagination.
And there we go, our third car is unlocked!
now I am going to try to turn the
locking knob
Thanks to the rubber tip, it takes no time to execute. And again that sweet sound of the door opening
You can also use this tool to open manual
windows, push locking tabs, and pull on
door handles. Now this should be enough
for one video, if it was helpful please
give it a thumbs up in the next video
I'm going to talk more about unlocking
this Subaru and other cars using a less
conventional approach and about
preventing yourself from being locked
out thank you for watching good luck and
take care
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