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Cesar Lozano & His 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS - Lowrider Roll Models Ep. 7

Cesar Lozano & His 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS - Lowrider Roll Models Ep. 7

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(inspirational music)
- If you set your mind
to doing something,
nothing's impossible.
Everything's possible.
You could have whatever you dream of,
and if you keep continuing dreaming big,
you will get there one day.
(hip hop music)
You got to have a lot of patience,
dedication, and passion to
build one of these cars.
My first car was a 1963 Impala,
which I had purchased in Bakersville.
It was a project car.
The '63 Impala was a
car that was unrestored.
We took that car, stripped it all down,
frame-off restoration.
We painted it Candy Blue
with a patterned top.
It was called 'Juiced 63',
which was featured in
a couple of magazines.
So what happened when it got featured,
I got contacted a couple months
after the car got
featured in the magazine,
and they had offered me $40,000.00 for it.
And I said you know what, why not.
'Cause it was something
that I couldn't refuse.
I said, you know what, it's your car.
So, it went to Japan.
(hip hop music)
I love the cars.
Since I was a kid, like I said,
I've loved to see low riders.
There's different ways
of building a low rider.
To me, it's an art.
That's the beauty of low-riding.
Right now I'm currently
working on 1963 Impala.
A hard top.
Ive had it for 17 years and now,
I have the opportunity to try
to put it all together now.
I want it all original GM factory parts.
You know, all NOS parts,
which is New Old Stock.
It's going to also have a
whole bunch of accessories,
as it's a hard top,
it also has a few more options
that the convertible didn't come with.
This car is going to be fully loaded.
As a matter of fact, that's
what I'm calling the car, is
'Fully Loaded'.
And we should be done with
this car within the next month,
so people will see it out there.
They will appreciate it
just as much as I am.
(hip hop music)
I own a 1963 Impala
Super Sport Convertible.
When I seen this car,
it was a car that I just had to have.
It was a car that was fully
loaded with factory options.
It's very rare to find a
very optioned car out there.
When I bought that car,
I said, Im going to restore this car.
but a lot of people said,
"No leave it alone, dont mess with it."
Which i agreed with them.
I don't want to just yet go
into that full restoration
on this car because
you can still smell the old of it
when you're driving it.
It drives so nice, and it's real.
I didn't put them on there.
This car came with them already.
It's an original Honduras
Maroon, with black interior.
With a 327 engine, two speed transmission,
four barrel carburetor, with
fully optioned accessories.
Factory seat,
a cruise control,
four-way flasher,
autronic eye,
tilt steering column,
power windows,
trunk release,
tachometer,
compass,
vanity mirrors,
under the dash ashtray,
AM/FM radio,
padded dash,
power steering,
power brakes,
locking gas cap.
It was something that you just
don't see out there no more.
(light music)
when I was a young kid,
there used to be a shop down
the street from our house,
right there off of
Pacific and Walnut called
The Gold Exchange.
There used to be a guy there
that used to work there,
his name is Richard Silva.
He went by 'Ritchie Rich'.
He was the number one hopper at the time.
He was a champion for a lot of years.
He would give us money to wash his cars,
to clean the windows,
and just keep all the
kids in the neighborhood,
try to keep us off the streets,
teach us right from wrong
and talk about his cars
and the rare stuff that he had on there.
That's how I got the
passion of low-riding.
I come from a family of 11.
We learned a lot from each other.
My mom, my dad worked all
their lives just to support us.
My mom sometimes had to
work 2 jobs day and night
just to put food on our table,
clothes on our backs.
They couldn't give us everything we wanted
just because it was so many of us.
My mom was in the sewing business,
and she used to work
for a factory, sewing.
And my dad was a janitor.
It was tough once you get older,
you kind of realize what your parents did
to try to provide for you.
Once I got older, if I
wanted name-brand clothes,
I had to go work for them.
And, I found every little
way of getting out there
and hustling to try to make money,
so when we did go back to school,
I had money to buy the clothes
that I wanted, you know?
I went from collecting cans,
to selling raspados at the park,
from buying stuff at the 99-cent store and
selling it for more money.
I'd buy baseball hats
that they had one time
at the 99-cent store,
and I bought a whole bunch
of them for a dollar each
and go sell them at the
park for five bucks.
I didn't go out there begging for money,
I went out there and worked for my money.
I was a collector.
I would collect baseball cards,
hot wheels, action figures,
stuff like that that I would
go to the store and buy
a couple of the ones I
thought that were rare,
and then I was holding on
to them 'cause I figure,
one day, I'mma have a business where
I can make money with this stuff.
And my dad told me,
if you graduate,
I will help you on
whatever you want to do.
That was his dream, just try
to keep me out of trouble.
I was working for a guy at
the Santa Fe Spring Swap Meet,
which was selling the same
things I used to be a collector,
you know, baseball cards, action figures,
just stuff like that on the weekends.
I learned a lot from him.
After I graduated from highschool,
I said, that's what I want to do.
I want to have my own business,
I want to sell sports
car, to action figures,
collectibles.
I started at the outdoor
swap meet doing that.
With a small booth, $500.00.
That's how (chuckles) my dad
helped me out, with $500.00.
He didn't have much, but we
made it grow as it went on
and on and on and on and on
and it was just a weekly thing.
Once that business grew, I
got into the Compton Indoor.
The business just got bigger,
and bigger as I was in there
with more of the collectibles,
and stuff like that.
Baseball cards...
I love toys.
Maybe because we didn't get to have them
when we were kids.
We went to the store,
and all we could do was look at them
because our parents couldn't
afford to buy them for us.
When I got to a point where
I was already in junior high
and I was already making
a little bit of money,
I would go out there
and buy it and save it,
and appreciate what I had
and praise it,
like, oh, man, this is rare, this is good.
Because I didn't get to
have that when I was a kid.
I'm the founder of Collector's
Choice Toys and Hobbies.
We're located here in the
city of Paramount, California.
I started Collector's Choice back in '93,
with a simple $500.00 investment,
to being one of the biggest distributors
in the West Coast for toys.
We're a distributor,
and we're an importer, exporter of toys.
We distribute toys from
Mattel,
Revell,
Funko,
Jada,
Maisto,
McFarlane.
We sell products to customers in Mexico,
Australia,
Spain,
Japan,
you name it, world-wide.
Once we open all these doors,
we were able to sell to a
lot of mom and pop shops
that were doing what I
did when I first started.
(inspirational music)
I love what I do,
and it keeps me motivated
'cause it's fun.
It's fun and I see that
I could do more with it.
Because my toy business was so successful,
I was able to start DGA Tees
with David Gonzales,
the creator of the Homies,
which does all of this art work
which caters to the Chicano industry.
We do from T-shirts, to
seat covers, from blankets,
you name it.
There was a logo for the Lowrider Man,
but there was nothing made for him.
So I contacted Lowrider and
asked if there was an
opportunity to make this toy.
And I've seen an opportunity
to be able to license
the figurine for this Lowrider Man.
I asked Dave if he could
design me a figurine and
he was more than happy to do
it because he's always had
a passion for the brand.
He was really excited to
design the figurine for us.
Someone that doesn't get low-riding,
they're missing out.
When I'm driving my cars,
it's never bothered me
what other people thought.
Low-riding is an art.
And when I see people out
there driving a low rider,
and it's nice and clean,
you got to give it to them because
I know that ain't come easy.
My advice to a lot of the
people that are out there
that are going through the hard struggle
that I went through,
nothing is impossible.
And I encourage everybody
that's out there to not give up.
Everything is possible in life,
and you can do whatever you
accomplish yourself to do.
Just keep moving forward.
Keep opening them doors,
and once you get there,
you're going to see
the light shine on you.
My name is Cesar Lozano,
I'm an entrepreneur,
and I'm a Lowrider Roll Model.
(instrumental music)

Forgotten warehouse full of cars must go! | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 21

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

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 do your own pre-purchase car inspection | Hagerty DIY

How to do your own pre-purchase car inspection | Hagerty DIY

Hagerty:

Hi, Randy Klaus here with Hagerty today
we're going to give you a few pointers a
few tips on what to look for while
purchasing a classic car so today we're
looking at a 1950 Willy's Jeepster the
first thing I'm going to look at is I'm
just going to walk around the car do a
quick visual I'm gonna look for chips
scratches any rust just the general
condition of the body so let's take a
walk first thing I'm noticing is we got
a few minor scratches no big deal
chrome looks good bumper you know
nothing's really bent or really messed
up at all I'm looking at the body seams
looking at the fenders looking at the
door gaps just kinda in general looking
at the chrome looking to see if there's
anything missing anything that's not
supposed to be there I'm noticing one
thing right away here is the tires we
have one kind of tire on the ground and
we have a different spare tire and the
spare tire is flat so that may be a
concern really doesn't look too bad
oh look at this see a big ol chip here
in the door now typically metal doesn't
chip typically metal will Bend if it
opens up so let's open the door and you
can see that there's a great big chip
out of this so that's most likely means
there's a bunch of bondo or plastic
filler in the door so I'm going to go
ahead right now and I'm going to open
the hood and let's do a little quick
inspection under there just to make sure
that everything looks in order one of
the first things I'm going to look for
under the hood because I want to see
what kind of oil extension has does it
is the oil running out of the key valve
covers it all over everything what kind
of condition everything's in in this
particular case somebody looks like
they've done a very good job of
maintaining the car though I don't see
any real significant oil leaks on the
motor everything is nice and clean
coolant hoses are in good shape
they're pliable it's got a newer battery
in it with a newer cables on it battery
hold-down a good shape
firewall looks good it's got a new fuel
filter on it
the air cleaner is is an original air
cleaner but it's it's nice and clean
also I want to take a look at the engine
oil engine oil was nice and clean so
what we don't want to see is we don't
want to see black thick oil in it we'd
like to see nice clean oil
we're from northern Michigan so rubber
items stay pretty pretty pliable but in
the southern states and into the deserts
the the heat really takes its toll on it
so what we're really looking for on all
the rubber hoses and the belts and
everything is just to look to see if
they're pliable squeeze them twist them
a little bit you know what you don't
want to feel is you don't want to feel
hard hoses and you don't want to see any
cracking in them you know other than
that you know if there is hardness or
cracking then a good indication that we
have to go ahead and change them up at
some point another thing to look at in
the radiator is on the back side you
want to make sure that the the radiator
fins themselves are in good order
sometimes water pumps go bad and what
will happen is the fan will start
wobbling and it'll actually do damage to
the radiator so you just want to make
sure that the radiator looks to be in
good order so let's go ahead and start
it up and see how it sounds
so right off the bat I can see the fuel
coming into the fuel filter the fuel
filters nice and clean
motor Riedel is pretty smooth they're
not all gonna idle perfect no real
dilute net noises or ticks snacks belts
belts got a little bit of squeak but
they all do a little so just go around
here and check one more thing inside the
car I can see that the oil pressure is
running about 40 pounds at an idle which
is really good you know it's charging so
that kind of tells me the alternator is
good generator is good the other thing I
want to do what sitting here is just
check the clutch so I put it in gear and
I just want to see what it takes to make
the car move so really it's about two
inches off the floor it's coming in
that's about right so I don't want to
feel where there's just a ton of play or
it's a super hard clutch because either
one of those could indicate it's getting
time to either one of those could
indicate it's time to replace the clutch
but my next inspection is going to be
jack up the front tire and check the
ball joint in the suspension very easy
check to do and this particular card has
a leaf spring on the front end so I'm
able to jack up on that and by jacking
up on that leaf spring what I'm going to
do is I'm going to take any tension off
of the off the suspension components so
now since I'm not gonna be under the car
I'm not gonna worry too much about a
jack stand at this point so basically
all I'm really gonna do now is just
taking that to tap in the bottom of the
tire I'm just gonna look for looseness
and I can actually feel looseness and I
hear a clunk a little bit side to side
but there's more top and bottom
this car has kingpins in it so I'm going
to assume it's either a kingpin or a
wheel bearing issue again I don't know
that much about the cars right now to do
the diagnosis I'm just looking to see
that there is somewhere so let's go
ahead and check the other
if you can't do that yourself my
recommendation would be you're probably
going to want to find a mechanic that's
gonna work on it I would try to get the
car inspected by that mechanic that way
you have a good idea if anything's wrong
in the car just to be safe okay this
site actually has a little more movement
so basically what that's telling me is
knowing I'm going to be looking at
investing some money into the front end
that's got some worn parts so just you
have to keep an open mind on the
purchase price that as we keep finding
these things it obviously takes away
from the value of the car so along with
doing a front suspension check we also
should do a light check check the
headlights check the dimmer switch check
the turn signals check the brake lights
just make sure all the lighting is good
working order so turn the light switch
on okay I've got two headlights now in
this model of the parking lights this
don't work unless it's in the parking
mode got tail lights good check the
dimmer switch yup I have dim lights
that's good I'll turn these off to one
notch and that should give me parking
lights up front yep those work so turn
signals they are flashing very fast so
basically what that indicates to me is
this probably got the wrong flasher in
it as time goes on a lot of a lot of
folks will put the wrong flashers in and
they don't have the right resistance so
that means that the reef flasher will
flash too fast so what I asked here is a
brake prop rod so I don't have to have a
buddy come and hold my brake pedal for
me I can just manually apply the brakes
and I have brake lights so all the
lights pass test and on this car we have
something extra special we have a
spotlight so this would have probably
been an option in a car so let's see
look at that it even works
it's functional so that's that's good
news so different options in the cars
also are worth different values so if
you're looking to buy something that's
that's a really special car anything
that has four options always increases a
value so this is the part where I'm not
totally scared of the car so mate I'm
gonna probably want to go do a little
deeper look at it I happen to have a
hoist here available to me but probably
those of you that don't either you're
gonna need to get on the ground crawl
around underneath the car and do this
inspection or drive it if you can to a
local repair shop and have them put it
up in the air and do the under car
inspection for you so right now I've got
it up about eye level and I'm already
starting to see some telltale signs of
bodywork if we come up this fender and
we come across this body line right here
you can see that it's fading away it's
got a kind of a hump here it's got kind
of and you can actually see right there
where the bondo is or the filler is
inside so it what obviously the car's
been repainted but at some point they've
put a lot of bondo into this fender so
that's not looking good for the home
team here it's going to be I have a
feeling that we're gonna find a lot of
bodywork in this car okay so I can see
right from here how we got a pretty
decent line here and and all of a sudden
it just fades away a lot of a lot of
body guys or a lot of people don't do
any more repair than they have to when
they're doing these jobs they just do
the bare minimum up on top where you can
see it but as you look down you can see
where there's kinks there's actually
pieces of the fender missing lots of
bondo here and then I can see back here
where they've actually replaced some of
the rocker panel that rocker panel
should come through so this thing has
really had an extensive amount of
bodywork done on it so another good
trick to use as the magnet now be really
careful because obviously if you drag
magnets on the paint you can actually do
damage to the paint but let's we'll
start right here go around this magnet
is barely sticking to any of this metal
and this is a good strong magnet so it
should take a lot to pull it off
this door see it doesn't even hardly
stick it all to the door so that means
this doors probably full of bondo and
you can see the door fit see how it's
got a great big gap here and it's real
thick so obviously that's kept on doing
it so let's go around so look at that
there's an absolutely no stick to this
magnet whatsoever right there we've got
a little bit there none there none there
you can hear the difference so
definitely a lot of bondo right here in
this area no they did a pretty good job
of sanding it I don't really see it in
the paint a lot of times you can see
deformity I guess you'd say or you could
see it but and this one they did a
pretty good job
let's take a peek underneath
oh my so we actually have rust holes we
actually have great big gaping holes
under here so you can actually see the
rocker panel or the repair they did you
can see the new metal on one side this
is the old metal that's where this this
panel should have ended and then it
would look just above it and there's a
great big rust holes just holes all the
way through this whole side so in fact I
need some rust anyone also I'm seeing up
here where they've actually used some
foam some spray foam to plug some holes
so obviously there was a hole up there
and they were running through water
puddles or something and the water was
actually running inside the car so how
they repaired that was they just put
some spray foam in there not really the
best in repairs look around in the back
it's not looking too bad under here
oh wow this is all bondo here in this
corner as well you can actually see the
bondo where they brought that bond or
the plastic filler around the edge and
there's actually a line of it they never
even bothered to sand it off or flatten
it off or anything so let's go through
here and do some check-in magnet doesn't
stick it all up there and knot it all
down here at all so look at nothing
there let's just start sticking up here
a little bit so this whole area is been
repaired bondo as well and then we're
seeing the same on this side this this
panel has been remade same rust on this
side so doors have been so from our from
a body inspection the body is I would
say in pretty poor shape so depending on
what you're buying if you're if you're
buying a car thinking it's a number one
car this is probably a number four car
number one being a really super nice car
showroom condition versus a number five
car which is a parts car I would label
this is a four four and a half maybe a
five where because of all the body work
that's been done on it so the car
definitely has has less value than one
that was properly repaired so just make
sure that that you you know what you're
buying so one more thing I'm going to
look at under here is just take a quick
peek at the exhaust the exhaust out
looks good the shocks look good I mean
they're not seeing any leaking the no
bushings are worn out looking at the
leaf springs I want what you don't want
to see on the leaf spring is you don't
want to see a bunch of separation in the
springs you I want to be nice and tight
you don't want to see any cracking gas
tank has been repaired which isn't
uncommon no it's dry there's no fuel
leakage coming out of it also looking at
the fuel lines the fuel lines are all
soft and pliable in fact this one's just
been replaced it looks like with new
clamps also I'm looking at brake lines
while we're under here just to make sure
that all our brake lines
are in good working order they're not
rusty so they look good as well general
inspection underneath the front no real
signs of oil leaks so I would say this
car has probably been maintained really
well it's it's just had because of
Michigan it's probably hid lived a rough
life with the weather so another thing
we want to look at as long as we
especially since we have it in the air
as the tires all the tires look like
they have pretty decent tread on all the
tires from after 1980 they actually have
a date code stamped on them there's
going to be a d-o-t number some numbers
in a date code a three-digit date code
means that they were produced before the
year 2000 if there's a three-digit code
like this one is to 9ol so that means
this tire was made the 29th week of 1980
there's no if it was the 29th week of
1990 there should be a little diamond
after the number which we don't have
so typically tires they like to say six
years six years to ten years on a tire
so these tires
although there'd look in good condition
I would say they're probably not safe
for highway use anymore they should be
replaced so that's another consideration
just to look at the tires look at the
dates on the tires verify how old they
are a newer tire after 2000 will have a
four-digit code the first two digits
will be the week of the year it's made
the second two digits will be the year
so like if it said 4208 that would mean
it would be the 42nd week of 2008 that
the tire was produced also on tires
along with the date we'd want to also
look at a lot of times around the beat
area we're gonna start seeing some
cracking anything that's been out in the
Sun and sun-baked you're probably gonna
see cracking going on any time you see
that they're probably due to be replaced
so another thing I'm going to inspect on
this is the convertible top some of
these cars are just open cars some of
them have taps that come up so this one
like
looking and it does have a convertible
top so let's uh let's see what it's
going to take to get at it really
so basically when I ran into is the snap
itself did one on snap so I'm taking a
screwdriver and I'm going on the back
side so I don't rip the material and I
was able to get a ton Hut on snap Wow
bunch of them giving me a problem
so you can slide that boot forward and
these usually just typically pick out
well we can see that to the top is
actually looks like it's in really good
condition so with the top coming down
this this should actually be going clear
out to the windshield so it needs to
grow about two inches or stretch two
inches a lot of times these taps relax
after they've sat for a long period of
time and it takes like sunlight and heat
to actually stretch them back out so but
fabric wise it looks pretty good the
other thing I'm looking at is the bows
all the material inside here it's all
been freshly painted so at some point
somebody's done some work on the top so
that can be a very expensive piece to
repair so that's encouraging for the for
the tap another thing I noticed that it
that it has is it's got a universal car
cover so that's a nice nice touch you
know so that again tells me they must
care somewhat for the car if they're
willing to put a car cover on it
something else I'm noticing on the
interior now is that the seats let's put
this boot back down out of the way the
seats are decent
they've got decent upholstery going on
in it both front and rear but the side
panels are fiberglass and they should be
a a cardboard with a vinyl over it so at
some point somebody has actually changed
out these side panels - they're just
fiberglass like bathroom enclosure
pieces that they've cut out you know -
wise all the gauges are matching gauges
all the knobs the choke the lights all
the knobs are there the dash is painted
well so that part of the this part of
the car is I'm looking in really good
shape
this car is showing a 94 352 so ninety
four thousand three hundred and
fifty-two miles it's been it's been
driven a lot keep in mind that with
odometers they can be switched from car
to car so it's a good thing to look at
them but you can't always often trust
them to be actual mileage another thing
to look at or think about is the tap is
in good shape
but there should be some window glass
and some door glass in the owner states
that they're no longer with the car so
that's something that I'm gonna have to
find if I'm really seriously interested
in the car
could be a very expensive find so we've
done our walk-around we've done our
inspection of the interior and the motor
we've heard it run that all seems to be
pretty good I think my next step now is
is I want to see the title I want to see
that the title is in the seller's name I
want to see the title has no lien
against it and then I want to verify the
the vehicle identification number on the
tag wherever it may be on the car to the
VIN number on the title a lot of times
we run into where the either somebody
has jumped title they're selling it for
somebody else that can really become a
problem when you go to register the car
if it's not in the person that's selling
it to you if it's not in their name or
if they don't have a power of attorney
to be selling the car for somebody else
a very important piece is to make sure
the title is a good clean title thanks
for watching guys hope you found it
informative if you have any comments
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Persistence Pays Off! Tom finds a Plethora of Pontiacs | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 53

Persistence Pays Off! Tom finds a Plethora of Pontiacs | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 53

Hagerty:

(rhythmic guitar music)
- Welcome to Le Claire, Iowa,
with the Mississippi River
as a backdrop, and we're
pulling off Main Street.
We're pulling right over here
to a place called Antique Archeology.
And you may know that if
you watch American Pickers,
this is the headquarters
for American Pickers.
Le Claire, Iowa.
And we just thought that it would be fun
to come searching for old cars in the town
that American Pickers is based in.
Wouldn't it be something if
we found something really cool
just a block or two away?
These guys are scuttling all
around the United States,
and we find something in their backyard.
So wish us luck.
Okay, I'm gonna show you how simple it is.
You pull out of the parking
lot, and you go up the hill.
One block, two blocks,
and as we come up to
the third block, I say,
whoa, what's that?
It's a Model T chassis.
There's somebody here
that's got a Model T.
So we're literally three
blocks from American Pickers.
I'm gonna knock on the door.
(knocking on door)
Well, it doesn't seem like anybody's home,
and it doesn't seem
like anybody lives here.
But we're gonna continue
to drive around Le Claire,
and see if we can find other
things right underneath
the noses of our American Picker buddies.
(rhythmic guitar music)
Should I go in the front
door or the back door?
(door closes)
Hello, I noticed your old
truck in the driveway.
This is a crazy thing.
- A car find hunter.
- Right, I go around the
country looking for old cars
- Yeah.
- And just, reporting on it.
And I figured, wouldn't
it be funny to come to
Le Claire, home of Pickers, and
find cars in their own back yard.
So we just saw a Model-
- There's a lot of them in Le Claire
in people's back yards actually.
- Really?
- Yeah, yeah, there's
a man right down there,
he has parts to an old
one, I think a roadster,
I see him out there now.
- Alright. Well, my name's
Tom Cotter, thank you.
Thank you very much!
- Bye.
- Did you hear that?
Okay, now we're cooking.
(rhythmic guitar music)
(knocking on door)
- Hello, my name's Tom Cotter, and
Rich Boyer's wife told
me to come down here.
We ride around the country
looking for old cars.
It's called Barn Find Hunter-
- Oh yeah.
- It's a program?
Just looking for old cars, and she said,
well that man, and she
says, right over there.
And I said, in the town
of American Pickers,
how can there be any old cars left?
(laughter)
But there is, obviously is.
- Yeah, I've had that a long time.
- Can we use it, can we
take pictures of this stuff?
- Yeah, sure, if you want to.
- We're literally four
blocks from American Pickers
world headquarters, in Le Claire, Iowa.
And our idea is to go to
American Pickers' home town
and see what we can find that
they haven't picked already.
And we're just a couple of blocks away,
and we meet Ron Voss, and we drive by
and there's a Model A
coupe body in a driveway
and a chassis right here.
Are you restoring this car,
what are you doing with it?
- Well, that's my intentions, yes.
I've had this car since 1963.
- Whoa!
- (laughing)
- It was your high
school car, or something?
- Yeah, yeah, it was.
- No kidding.
And did you drive it to high school?
- Oh, once in a while I did, yeah.
- No kidding, and it wasn't
a hot rod, it was original.
- No, it's all original, yeah.
- No kidding. So here
you've got the chassis,
here you've got the body, it's a coupe.
29, do you have all the pieces to it?
- Yeah, I got a storage building that's
completely full of all the fenders and
all the rest of the sheet metal.
- No kidding, wow.
1963, so what did you pay for it in '63?
- A hundred and seventy-five
dollars. (laughing)
- And it was a running car?
- Yeah, it was a running car at that time.
- What a great story.
So, what color was this
car when you had it?
- It was black.
- Black, would you paint it black again?
- I don't know, I was thinking about maybe
a two-tone color of some kind.
- Got your, still has a soft top on there.
- Yeah.
- So you have the engine
for it, interesting--
- Yeah it's pretty much all complete
- No kidding.
- Except for the stuff that
I need for the restoration.
- When did you take it apart?
- Oh, that was probably back in,
probably about '84?
- '84.
- Yeah.
- Oh, it's coming up on quite a few years.
- Yeah, it's been sitting,
for quite a long time.
- So the chassis is out
here, but I was curious about
what's in front of the chassis.
So, this is, this is a what?
- I'm not sure what year it is,
it's a Model A motor.
- Not on a Model A frame, though.
- No.
- And this is an air compressor.
- Yeah, there was a kit
that you could buy through,
oh there was many different
places that sold the kit.
It was a special head, you had
the two outside cylinders were the power.
And the two inner cylinders
were the compressor.
- So if you think about this, this is
a four-cylinder motor,
it runs on two cylinders,
and the other two cylinders
are used as an air pump
pumping air into this
container, I suppose, right?
- Yeah, that's the gas tank there,
the air tank is back behind.
- Okay, this is heavier steel.
- Yeah.
- Did you get it for a
curiosity, or did you
get for the motor to put it in the other--
- Oh, just mainly for curiosity. (laughs)
- Now it's on some other
kind of chassis, I would say.
- Yeah, I think it's probably a GM.
- Yeah, leaf springs.
- Running gear underneath there.
- Would you consider selling
this, or it's not for sale?
- No, it's not for sale.
- Well, good deal, I mean
your high school car,
that's pretty sweet.
- Yeah.
- Alright well, Ron,
I thank you very much.
- Sure, yeah.
- Thanks for having us
on this 28-degree day.
- (laughing)
(bluesy rock music)
- We made our first connection
with a car guy in town.
Ron showed us his '29 Model A.
And he told us of another
couple of cars around,
but they were restored,
Auburn, another Model T.
We're not looking for restored cars,
we're looking for forgotten
and neglected cars.
- We're just gonna keep
driving around town
with our eyes open.
(bluesy guitar music)
- That's a good-looking one, huh?
(car door thunks)
- This sports car looks like--
- Not that one.
- That one.
- That's pretty low.
- That sports car looks pretty wide.
(bluesy music)
- We stopped at a repair
shop, and the woman
who seemed to be in charge,
she scratched her head,
I don't know of any old cars, oh!
Yeah, right across, oh look it,
there's one right there, 51 40.
She said, right across the river,
which is the Mississippi River,
there's somebody with some old cars,
right across from Brothers Restaurant.
- And there's Brothers Restaurant.
- And I'll knock on the door.
Nobody's home, but this is a good place.
We need to come back.
Obviously they're at work, but
not only the cars you
see in the driveway here,
but in the back, there's cars
stored against the fence,
and another large garage
behind this front garage.
There's worthwhile things
here, I'd say, so...
We need to come back here later.
Yeah, see all the stuff back there?
- Oh yeah, jeez.
- And then, behind there, see
that big garage back there?
There's some good stuff here.
There's no doorbell but
I knocked several times.
(bluesy guitar music)
Alright, I'll get Chad to
tell my wife I loved her.
(car door clunks)
So your name is?
- Dave.
- Dave, I'd shake your hand
but I know you have a cold.
So, I saw something in
the back, under a shed?
You got something, like
an old sedan or something?
- That is, that's a 1941 Nash.
- Oh, wow.
- And then I have another
one inside the building.
It's pretty close quarters in here.
- Coe College. I've never
heard of Coe College.
So a Plymouth, wow.
- It's a 1936.
- Have you had this for a while?
- This is the one I've had the longest.
And I bought it from a family in Geneseo,
and it needed a lot of help too.
- Mm-hmm. And this runs well?
- Yeah, it's got the flathead six in it.
I can raise the hood if you want.
- No, that's okay.
You know but, I don't know
if you can see this drawing,
but this is a picture of a sailing ship,
and it's the Plymouth, was Plymouth Rock.
- Yeah.
- This is when the, it
symbolized when the pilgrims
came to the United States.
- This needs interior work as well.
It will fire, I don't know.
- Oh man.
(laughs)
(squeaking)
- I think I took the battery out of it.
- Oh okay, no worries.
- But it starts and runs good.
- Yup, yup.
- It is a driver.
- Nice.
And how long have you had this one?
- Let's, see, this I've had
it for thirty-some years.
- No kidding!
Look at the paint on the ground here.
I guess that's where you
painted the Buick. (laughs)
- Some of it.
- (laughs) Wow.
- That's actually the gas
tank out of the Buick,
'cause, had a problem
with the gas tank leaking.
Gonna put some gas tank sealer in it.
- Oh yeah.
You gotta watch that stuff these days
with the new gas, it eats up the sealer.
- Yeah.
- Make sure it's good for,
got ethanol, or whatever.
(bluesy guitar music)
- I also collect antique outboard motors.
- Oh, look at that.
Wow, all sorts of different brands.
- Most of what I have is OMC equipment.
- Do you have a boat?
- I have a 1941 Richardson.
- So this is a Nash.
- This is a 1941 Nash.
- You don't see many of these.
- No, the Nash was a very
popular line in the forties,
thirties and forties, because
of the size of the car
for large farm families, you know?
This, I bought from a
car lot in Rock Island.
- I see.
- Which is down here in the Quad Cities.
At the time I was buying
a lot of these cars,
When I was younger I had
a carpooler business.
And I did decks and stuff.
- Oh, so you got to go to
people's houses and found these?
- Well, that's kind of how I got into it.
- Yeah, yeah yeah.
- And it was a hobby, it's
always been just a hobby.
Something I did on the side.
And, all original interior.
- That's a solid car, man.
- And it's got water damage
on some of the doors,
but, it's all--
- Look at that original
mohair in the back there.
- It's a beautiful, because
of the size you could get
half a dozen people or
more, in these cars.
- So this must be low mileage, to have
the interior that's that nice.
What's the mileage on this?
- Yeah, this one only
has fifty thousand, yeah.
- Wow.
- That's a low miler.
- No kidding.
Did you paint it, or it came like this?
- The color is close
to the original color,
you can see it on the door.
- Oh yeah, oh that's pretty good, yeah.
- And I matched that paint.
- How long you had this one?
- Oh, twenty-five maybe, years.
- No kidding.
Well, I appreciate it, thank you so much.
- You're welcome.
(bluesy rock music)
- Well, it takes perseverance
to go barn find hunting.
We passed this place
before, and nobody was home.
Or so we thought.
And we came back again
and knocked on the door,
nobody was home so we
left and came back again,
knocked on the door, nobody was home.
And we're sitting out here for an hour,
hour and a half, waiting
for somebody to come home.
And Rick Wiley comes
walking out of the house,
he was sleeping, he works at night,
so it was just a strange,
I guess, twist of schedules, you know.
So thanks for hanging around, because
he's got to go off to work now.
But he's got a bunch of, neat cars,
including this '51 Ford
Crestliner behind me.
So just tell me about these cars,
we can walk around, look at them quickly.
You're a Pontiac guy and a
Ford guy, is that what I see?
- Mmmm, I'm a car guy.
I like cars.
I really don't have any Chevys, because
I raced the Pontiacs for a long time, and
was an underdog, and
some of the Chevy guys
were kind of hard to take.
But I do like their cars.
- You drag raced them?
- I have, yes.
- So here's a Le Mans, what year is this?
- '67.
- And is this a project
car, or a parts car?
- Oh, that car's probably for sale.
I've had that for about 12 years or so,
and I've got so many cars
just waiting in line,
and who knows how long it'll wait.
I might as well let somebody else have it.
- So it's a two-door hard
top, and it says 326.
- It's an original overhead cam six.
I probably could get my
hands on the original engine,
too, if somebody wanted it.
- It had a V8 in it.
- It does have a, it's a
Pontiac 350 that's in it
right now, but that just
had the overhead cam six
signs on it, and they just got taken off,
and those just happened
to fit, which is probably,
they're off of a '65, I think.
- Ah, okay.
- So this is not right.
- A cam six, that's a rare little motor.
And so, is this a pretty good
car, pretty good flourish?
- No, it's a, it's a project.
- Yeah, okay.
- You know, it's not all together.
It's kind of in the works.
- What would you ask for this?
- Well, I've been looking on
eBay, and cars about like this
seem to be going for
around five grand or so.
(metallic thunk sound)
I don't know, I guess
I'll just have to see.
- Yup, and you've pointed out this truck,
that's a sweetheart.
- Yes, that's kind of a pride and joy
with everyone in the family here.
- And you've had this a while?
- About three years.
- Oh, that's it?
- Yup, my uncle always
works on old trucks for
two or three years, and then he gets
ready for something else, and I found out
he had that, and I went
and looked at it, and said,
when you get done with
that one, I want that one.
- So is that a four-speed box?
- Yes, 352 with a truck four-speed.
- So the first gear really low.
- Yup, it's got a great granny gear.
- And how's the body on that?
- Oh, it's just like it looks.
It had one paint job on it and that's it.
It needs a couple things.
I've got most of the interior for it.
I just gotta get it done.
- Classic Ford truck colors, too.
- Yeah.
- It's a deluxe two-tone trim.
96 thousand miles.
- Yup.
- Wow.
(car door slams)
Now, stuff in the back here.
What's going on here, you got
your own little junk yard?
- Yeah, that's, that
Grand Prix right there,
it's a low-mile car, but
it's rusted beyond belief.
- Oh, boy.
- It had 86 thousand miles on it,
I have the engine in the garage.
- It's a 389 you say?
- No, it's a '67, it's a 400.
- Oh, 400, yeah.
- They had 400s and 428s in those.
The quickest way to
tell one from the other
is the 400 still had a
Carter carburetor on it,
and the 428s they put a quadra jet on.
- Got it. And what do you got
back here, two more box of,
two-box Fords?
- Yup, '50 Crestliner
and a '51 Ford parts car
from Colorado that's not rusted, at all.
That could be negotiated in
with the Crestliner deal also.
- Oh.
- Floorboard stuff, and
cowl, it's all good.
- So this is a '50 Crestliner,
and we're not on the
road to '51, they only
made them two years, right?
- Two years, they made
it all the way through
the '50 year, and then
'51, only until February.
And they dropped it because,
the reason those cars came to be
is because they didn't have a hard top.
Like GM and Chrysler.
So they figured they'd
jazz up the two-door sedan.
Soon as the hard top come out, people,
that's what they were waiting for,
so they dropped the Crestliner.
- So what Rick is saying is,
this was a stylized Ford that was produced
because Ford had not yet
developed a hard top.
So in other words a car
without this pillar,
so they came out with this Crestliner
to sell us kind of a up-market car,
until the hardtop came
out halfway through 51,
then this car was
discontinued, interesting.
The way you tell a 51 from a 49 or 50
you could see this has got as bigger
kind of a fin here should be chrome
going to the taillight
and here's rather small.
So 49 and 50 had a small
lump in the quarter panel
and a 51 had a bolt on larger lump.
These rusted out quickly these pieces
because this car was made during
the Korean War and metals, copper
and things like that to make chrome
last longer were being used
for war time services so to find
these in good shape is pretty rare.
- What about this messy garage?
- Oh my god it's bad.
- Oh so there's the other Crestliner.
- Yeah it just came here
so I've got boxes of parts.
- So that just came here?
- Yeah, it was in Colorado that-
- 'Cause that was your dad's?
- Yes.
- No kidding.
- They live there and they came back here
and so the car has only been back here
for just a little while
but it originally was here.
- So you got an alternator on
here. So it's a 12 volt car?
- Yes, it is now.
- Three in a column.
- Yep, overdrive.
- So three Crestliners
in one location that's--
- (laughs) Unusual.
- Yeah, man I mean you could
go a decade without seeing one.
So what's the deal with Tempest, I see
okay is this is a GT?
- This actually is for real a Tempest,
it's like what you were
talking about earlier.
It's an easy clone, well it's not
as easy to clone these as the others
and a lot of people are against cloning
because you know later down the road
somebody might pay big money
for thinking it's a GTO and it's not.
And so I figure you know as long
as we're keeping it it
doesn't matter that much
and I never tell anybody
it's a GTO for real so.
- Yep, so how long have you had this car?
- Probably at least 20 years.
- Alright so this is one of those unique
cars with automatic on a column
and force feet on the floor.
(laughter)
I've never seen that combination before.
- And you can make 'em
run pretty decent too.
- Yeah yeah yeah.
- This particular car right here had a
350 in it that I took out of a 68 Le Mans
and I mean it was just every day driver
and it ran 14 flat at the drag strip
just without even doing anything.
- Is that the drag strip
we saw up the road?
- Yeah.
- Yeah okay we passed it.
Alright so now Riviera,
I see Pontiacs here
and Crestliners but where'd
the Riviera thing come from?
- Oh I've had a couple of those
and a guy had it and was wanting
to sell it and contacted me
and asked if I wanted it.
- That's gonna be restored?
- Oh I don't know.
You know what I don't really know.
Some things I just have to have you know.
It's inside if somebody
wanted to buy it they could.
- It's not getting any worse.
- No.
- So what year is this one?
- '66.
- '66 Riviera and okay.
If someone wanted to buy it
what would you sell it for?
- Well I don't know I don't think I'd want
to take any less than 2500 bucks for that
and I mean that's probably
pretty realistic I think.
- Is that a runner?
- I haven't had it
started since I've had it
but the guy said the engine has been
completely gone through
and it's a 425 nail head.
- And do you have the
fender and the bumper
and all that stuff?
- Yes I have all the parts
to it, that's how I got it.
- Do you have these lights,
can you turn these lights on
right here, so another Pontiac
and two more Pontiacs, wow.
And a Crestliner on the wall, I love it.
- That's my dad's artistic
abilities right there.
- Look at the door handle, the mirror.
- That's life size I meant that's--
- I love it.
- So what is this car?
- '67 GTL, I've had that car for
probably 32 years maybe and
I did used to drive that one.
It's just you know I had kids and stuff
and didn't really have the money
but I was just able to keep the stuff
and I had started taking it apart
and I'm pretty ready to
have it back I think so--
- Is this damage or is this the way it's--
- No that was--
- Okay.
- Yeah it had had the
fender and the door replaced
on that side right there
so somebody must've hit it right there.
- And this car was white originally?
- Yes, and it will be again.
- Oh really?
- Yeah.
- White with the vinyl tops?
- Most have a black vinyl top.
I have the vinyl top for it,
I'm not a vinyl top
person I'm still debating
on whether to put it on or not.
I would like it better myself
if it didn't have one but--
- Is that four speed car?
- Yes.
- 389?
- 400.
- 400 okay.
- For '66 and seven is where
they made that switch.
- Got it.
- Yeah it's a tack dash, disk brake
switch was the first year for those
and this one does have disk brakes,
I don't care about those
myself but somebody might.
- Did you drag race that as well?
- It has been on the drag strip before
but it wasn't really a
drag racing car at all.
- And another Pontiac,
your last Pontiac here.
Yeah I wish you guys could see these cars.
I mean usually the garage isn't this bad
but it's just kind of--
- We're used to this, I
mean this is what we do.
- I'm not.
- This is what we do.
- I don't like.
- We like it with clutter.
So is that GTO as well?
- '66, that's an original three speed car
which most of them were
I mean that was standard.
- Three on the floor.
- Yes, yup.
Most muscle cars come
standard with three speed
so I see these ads for cars--
- Are you out of here Courtney?
- It says rare three speed you know.
- Alright, nice to meet you.
- They're not rare at all.
That's what they came with.
- Even early Stingrays had three speeds.
- So that car there the first time
I ever saw that car I really wanted it
and of course the guy wouldn't sell it
and I saw the way he was driving it
and I figured I'd wait 'til he wrecked it
and he did and then that's how I got it.
- And you've had that for how long?
- 30 years.
- Boy you keep this stuff, that's great.
- I never used to but every time
I'd get rid of something I'd think
man I should've never got rid of that.
So I just hang on to it and--
- Yup, yup alright well Rick,
delayed going to work I hope his boss
doesn't reprimand him for it.
But thank you so much Rick Riley for
inviting us to your house.
Well it's been cold, it's been a long day
but we've been successful,
found a few people around town
all within a mile or
less of American Pickers
world headquarters in Le Claire, Iowa.
We knocked on the door here, no answer.
Went to lunch came back,
knocked on the door
no answer, sat in the truck
for an hour and a half
and then Rick Riley comes
walking out of the house
to go to work.
He stayed around, let us look at his cars
we thank him very much
but persistence pays off.
Happy hunting.
(upbeat country music)

Goss' Garage: Buying Classic Cars - Spotting An Authentic Find

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.

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Dashboard Warning Lights And Indicators

Dashboard Warning Lights And Indicators

World Driving:

Hello I'm Chris.
A modern car has many sensors how your car is behaving.
If there's something wrong then normally the first you'll know about it will be a warning light on the dashboard.
There are so many different warning lights and indicators.
If you ignore an important warning light then you could put your safety at risk
or end up with an expensive car repair bill.
You can find certain dashboard lights in all cars and some are more specific
for the make and model.
I'm in a manual diesel Ford Fiesta.
Using the owners manual for reference I'll explain what each dashboard light means,
but always check in your owners manual in case there's any differences.
When you start the car, you will some warning lights come on,
but don't worry this is normal.
It's just a routine check to show that they're all functioning.
If certain warning lights stay on after 5 seconds of starting the car then there is a problem.
Generally red lights mean that there's a serious problem and you should stop your car as soon as it's safe to.
If it's critical then it might also flash.
Once you've stopped in a safe place, it's time to check your car manual to find out if it's safe
to carry on driving.
Amber or yellow lights generally mean that something requires attention when possible or needs servicing.
Green and blue lights confirm activation.
Such as your main beam headlights are on.
In this Ford Fiesta further information is sometimes displayed on this screen.
So let's have a look at what each of the different lights mean.
If this one illuminates then it means that you have a malfunction with your anti-lock braking system.
The car manual says that you'll continue to have the normal braking system unless the brake system
warning light is also illuminated.
Get it checked when possible.
When your ignition or engine is on and you're stationery, you'll see this light which means
the parking brake is on.
If you see this light when driving then check that the parking brake isn't still on.
If it isn't then it indicates low brake fluid or a brake system malfunction.
Get your car checked immediately.
Driving with this warning light on is dangerous.
This will be illuminated when you have cruise control on.
These are your left or right directional indicators or the hazard warning lights.
They'll flash when turned on.
If the indicators stay on or flash faster than normal then check for a burnt out bulb.
You will see this light if the bonnet, boot or any door hasn't been closed properly.
There's a malfunction if this stays on after starting the engine
or when driving.
It's important to stop your car as soon as it's safe to and switch off your engine.
The car manual says to check your coolant level but don't resume your journey
if it illuminates despite having the correct coolant level.
Have your car checked by a mechanic immediately.
Engine oil warning light.
If this comes on when the engine is running or whilst you're driving then there's a malfunction.
Stop your car as soon as it's safe to do so and switch off your engine.
The car manual says to check your oil level but don't carry on driving if the oil level
is correct and this light is still on.
Unfortunately, it's time to call a mechanic.
If either of these lights are on when the engine is running then there's a malfunction.
Your car will continue to run but it may have limited power.
If it flashes when you're driving then slow down as soon as it's safe to.
If it continues to flash the avoid heavy acceleration or deceleration.
Have your car checked immediately.
If both lights are on together then stop your car as soon as it's safe.
The car manual says to switch the ignition off and try to restart the engine.
If the engine restarts then have your car checked immediately.
If the engine doesn't start then you'll have to call for assistance.
If this doesn't go off or flashes once you've started your car then get it checked.
This illuminates when the front fog lights are on.
You will see this light when the outside temperature is 4 degrees or below.
If this light is on then wait until it goes off before starting the car.
This illuminates when you have the dipped beam headlights or the side and tail lights on.
When you switch the main beam headlights on you will then see this blue light on the dashboard.
It will flash when you use the headlight flasher.
If you see this light when driving then there's a malfunction.
The manual recommends switching off unnecessary electrical equipment
and have your car checked immediately.
This light warns you that you have low fuel and to refuel as soon as possible.
If you have your rear fog lights on then this will be illuminated.
If you haven't got your seat belt on then you will see this light
and it will make a sound to remind you.
This informs you that changing to a higher gear may help to reduce fuel consumption
and CO2 emmisions.
It won't come on during periods of high acceleration, braking or if the clutch is pressed down.
In this Ford Fiesta you will see it in the central information display.
This flashes when the stability control is operating.
If this light stays on continuously while driving then there's a malfunction.
If there is a malfunction then the system switches off and you should have your car checked as
soon as possible.
This light illuminates if you've switched off the stability control.
This light will come on when the engine has automatically stopped.
It flashes to let you know when the engine needs to restart.
You will see this light if one or more tyres are significantly under inflated.
Stop your car as soon as it's safe to do so, check your tyres and inflate them to the correct pressure.
Well that's the end of our video on the dashboard lights of a Ford Fiesta.
A lot of cars have similar lights but just make sure that you check in your car manual
as there might be some differences.
Thanks a lot for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for our latest videos.
Stay safe on the road and see you on the next video!

Rat Rod vs Lamborghini Aventador! Roadkill Episode 5

Rat Rod vs Lamborghini Aventador! Roadkill Episode 5

MotorTrend Channel:

if you had twenty-four hours with these
two cars
what would you do



as it turns out our company is sort of
annoyed with all that dirt ball stuff
that we've been doing on road kill so
they threw money at us they give a six
thousand dollars
so we went and rented this Lamborghini
Aventador that's like
that's like four dollars a minute for
the next 24 hours that's like
if you're from Alabama that's your
mortgage for about
seven or eight months that car cost
as much as my house the tax on it is
as much as we pay you in a year that hurts
this is a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador
it's supposed to be the king of the hill
the California model has 691 horsepower
it's a seven-speed paddle shifted single
clutch transmission
its all-wheel-drive and it looks like a
giant piece a Tupperware
we got 24 hours to do whatever we want
with it
but we didn't really want to be seen it
so we also brought this car with
this rat rod at the 1930 Model a
two-door sedan
and it was bought as sort of a hacked up
rat rod
and Hot Rod Magazine in conjunction with
mackie's hot rod shop
reworked it for Sailor Jerry rum it's a
marketing piece it's designed basically
to just be looked at which is kind of a
good thing is it a little hard to drive
with how
heavily chopped and channel that is it's
powered by a small block Chevy and has a
turbo 350 automatic transmission
so we're gonna hit the road here in
Southern California see what kinda
damage we can do
which one you gonna drive I know you're
the boss so
for you to pick you pick I'm taking the
rat rod how I was surprise
I alright that was such surprise my
glasses are in
yeah I'm not sure which one of these is
worse that I haven't heard
not sure how to even drive this thing
okay
this car actually has like bathroom
door locks
that's what sex sounds like
you're right there
do you see my steering wheel anywhere don't worry
that a buff out
I found it don't hurt yourself boy


okay are you ready to go on that gold chain mobile
I know this cool place down by the beach
we're gonna go breakfast see what people
think it is two cars together okay

stuck he got stuck
its stuck I a thought thats awesome
thats why I chose the lamborghini
he can't go backwards either
as big a douche bags I feel for
driving a rented Lamborghini
the fact that he's stuck in the death
trap on a driveway that's too steep
that somehow worse to me you man it's
hard to get out of this thing
gonna be a long
day for him
hey fennigan I think I'll justlisten to the radio I
can't even get out
I need a hand I literally can't get out
what a piece a crap
not happening I think rocking it was
helping
yeah ready

not happening the rocker stuck in
the ground
yeah I know you beached it hot rods are
perfectly practical vehicles for daily
use
dude it bashed the door
you need to get out too
we need the weight off it okay let's
see if we can shove it backwards
girl of
okay one two
3 okay yeah
jump in it back up hug this wall and
then come across this
okay hard yeah there you go
by doing this thing runs
start it yeah don't stop just go
are you sure that's not going to just
rip the corner panels off it
this is the only driveway but does that
mean you want to rip the corner panels
corner panels off
do this cut the wheel this way back up
more and make more of an angle
go for it

Sailor Jerry I'll probably never loan us their car again
whoops you know when I leave the doors
not gonna fly open
love the Lambo
good thing that it was this car not the Lamborghini
I'm so glad that was you and not me
the rat rod as a whole lot of fun
in theory until somebody forces you
to actually drive it the car
so heavily chopped that there's barely
any windshield in it
and it's so heavily channel that there's
not a lot of headroom and not a lot of
space between the steering wheel
and the floor so to drive this thing I had lean way back put my foot
up on the dash and sort of drive
full on monkey style
is actually pretty miserable the most
excitement I'm having right now is
hitting the button to raise and lower
the front and for railroad tracks
potholes in driveways
so pretty much I'm relegated to just
posing right now saying hey a girl
how you doing meanwhile Freiburger is in
the talk like a pirate car
yeah baby with no air conditioning
no radio lease it's quite
no safety impossible to see out this thing
no shame oh yeah
this is hot roding

yeah I could drive this every day you're
right on that
I could be fantastic if there wasn't no
other cars on the road nobody's really
looking at me
this car like I'm invisible
they're all checking out the pirate car in front of me
model A is popular right now
I think as people are worried about
running into it and needing a tetanus shot
afterwards
oh yes it is better to look good and
feel good
and I look good
turn signal lever is kind of in a weird
spot here because of the paddle shifters
notice the hand signal yeah there's no turn signal
i know if i remember what those are
Corvette guy digs me
the old broads like Sailor Jerry check it
out
see old
people dig it
no one gives a shit about the lamborghini

David is driving so slow because he
drove any faster
kill himself there is no speedometer the
brakes
only sorta work you can't see anything
yeah just get used to this it's going to
be like whole
trip
out of gas
David just ran outta gas
are you sure it just didn't load up
0 fuel pressure
that's out of gas so I need to go get gas
in a Lamborghini
yeah I go throw a five gallon jug in
there nobody will know yeah nobody will care
fight spill any on the
leather not bothering me right now
alright what good is a six thousand
dollar rental but you can't go get gas in
it's a good point be somebody I'll be
back
i win the chick attention thing so far
out dude told you it's a senior citizen
blue hairs back there that we're
literally ready to rip they're jogging
suits of for you
now where do you find gas in Hermosa Beach

what you didn't want to spill it on the lambo
California gas can
get stuck in the driveway run outta gas
I see how this day is going
dude the restaurants is right around the
corner and it's like right on the beach
chicks playing volleyball in the whole
deal we're gonna prove once again the
chicks dig the rat rod
not the Lambo beautiful downtown Hermosa
Beach California
where people have no idea what they're
looking at with this
car a big part of what we're doing here
is really figuring out which one of
these cars is a better attention hore
and we went down to the beach first
thing and I gotta say
chicks check out the rat rod and dudes
check out the Lamborghini
inverted of what you would think so so
far
I completely win the chick contest I'm
serious
let me tell you something the only people that checked
me
in that car are dudes I stopped open the door
next thing I know a little point and shoot camera
came in the window
I was like what the and it was some guy I
got a picture
the aventador logo for my roommate I
couldn't get out of the car
that car is a death trap I have to lay
down in its just to be able to steer
I can hear you're saying because there's chicks playing volleyball
wow this is the right place to come
I figure from here were almost
obligated to cruise pch a little bit and
then mulholland
right we need to get out the city the Lambo is useless
yeah the rat rod is fairly useless in traffic I didn't get out of third gear
it sucked so from here out in the city
mulholland
then after we can go out to the desert go really fast and not go to jail
we have 24 hours to kill
who's driving what I'm driving the rat rod
cruise the beach we're gonna go to mulholland so
I'm not gonna argue with your ready
are gonna suck in that thing
not for me I've never had the countach
poster when I was a kid I not a
Lamborghini fanboy
I'd just don't care it's not automatic
things are hard to get into as the hot
rod
all these guys were worshiping that car
on the motor Trend YouTube channel
everything the week I'm gonna give it to
you straight the Lamborghini
really that cool if you paid four
hundred thousand dollars for a car
wouldn't want electric seat adjuster

the rat rod is a total freak show
difficult to drive
but badass none the less
the thing is a naturally aspirated V12
6.5 liters
691 horsepower and i truly appreciate
that 8500 rpm redline
you hear that pumping
and thing does not drive that much
differently then the hot rod
I wonder if it'll downshift
yes it will okay it's peppy
I feel like Carlos Lago right now
poor Finnegan in front of me in the hot
rod not good
so I was driving the Sailor Jerry car
and
our goal is to get both cars at the mulholland drive and drive around the curves
we get stuck in typical LA traffic about
five miles into
literally crawling i watch the temp
gauge just go 220
230 240 a it's getting
hot
you wanna pull over
not my car
I never even look at the gage
I'm going to film this there's cops everywhere
yeah it's our maiden voyage in traffic
so
apparently found out the limit on the
cooling system it's alright if we sit
here for a few minutes let it cool off and get it out of the way
okay I know we shouldn't be
I hate to hurt the motor
we rented it
strange
and I think I'm getting better so I
guess drive
leaking coolant everywhere it's not going to cool off with the engine on

I'll see if it'll start
so my first experience driving the rat
rod
was it overheating in LA traffic five
miles after I get behind the wheel
this thing is boiling over I got to
get off the road before I can even get off the
highway
it goes 260 on the gauge and geysers
comes out
and we really shot straight up in the
air over the cabinet staying
it's got a cam is top on it that wasn't
on there and I was literally leaning
over thinking
I'm getting burned right here it's going
through the roof it will use
so on road kill were on a loose schedule
yeah I remember that thing we said we
are gonna do about going to mulholland and hauling butt around curves
that's not happening cuz this thing
overheated california has this bitch in
program with guys and truck to just
drive around to help stranded motorists
and so that
guy pulled over game is so much water
cooled off and we hit the road again
maybe half an hour later
and after that is fine as long as I cars
moving your good to go
you get stuck in traffic your getting
scaled probably overheating blew our
plans to go blast around Mulholland and
the thing we've got to do now
give get out to the desert because what
we're really doing with these two cars
is shooting really important a cover
for a all new issue Hot Rod magazine
and we've got to meet the photographer
out there
and with any luck we'll get there early
enough we can beat the hell out these things
on the open road
hop in
see the beauty this is it's not my
Lamborghini so we can do it
it doesn't sound good to you there you
go all seven grand
when we stopped out with the middle of the desert we meet this young couple
and once again the guy love the Lambo the
chick really liked
the hot rod what do you think of the model A
almost every woman we ran into
wants to go for a ride and model A what
you think like
I want to keep it
yes for what the cars
and ready
soI pick pick what let me guess
the one that doesn't doesn't hurt your ass bingo
alright
bout to go drag racing in a car that you
really can see more than
10 feet in front of I wanna my brightest
moves
but aleast I'll look cool

lets go drag race

how do you stall a automatic Lamborghini
the Lamborghini has what they call
thrust mode
launch control drag race to launch
control and I tried to activate it but
seems if you hold the thing up on the
rev limiter long enough while your trying to
launch
that it eventually backed down or I
lifted the gauge
automatic clutch I don't know I beat Freiberger
driving the rat rod the first race
second he kick the crap outta me once
you figure out how to drive the car
the thrust modes actually kind of cool
you turn off the stability control and
it lets you stand on the break floor the
gas becomes up to
like 5400 rpm and then you just swap
feet and mat it
and hooks up and launches it doesn't launch
that hard to me its not four hundred
thousand dollars fast at all
if that the best at work ever this is
probably the best one
I so after we were done messin around
out in the desert we had to wait till
dusk
and we went straight into our Hot Rod
Magazine cover shoot we found an
abandoned desert road in the first thing
we did
is we got a couple very slow car to car
shots to get from action for the
magazine
and then our photographer west allison set them both up on the road
and we lit them to shoot the cover
at the September issue of Hot Rod
magazine which is going to be
this all-new complete makeover on the
magazine
so this was a really important shoot
it doesn't seem like it but it's really hard work falling around with really
great cars and so
done with photo shoot time to go eat
some food here's
we can't drink in the Lambo
we signed a contract if can't afford to fail that contract
I will say this I'm not a Lambo guy but I'm
definitely a v12 guy
now about 8500 rpm
nothing sounds like that badass it's
like playing a video game here in
seventh gear in
tap tap tap year and second unit doesn't
care doesn't whine about
thats totally the best part the cars the
seventy mile an hour quadruple downshift
in
it's really it's only redeeming
value because
chick seemed like this better most
people say that they would take this
home instead of that
you have to admitt it yeah those people never gone
for a ride it doesn't stop
it doesn't go this is literally a
compound fracture
waiting to happen this is a death trap
just legs broken
dangling off I so
what now I'm you go somewhere we've got
nearly eight hours left paying five
dollars a minute
lamborghini and were hanging out in this pile and
I was 25 bucks for it there
I'm getting out of here
this was ostensibly a comparison to
these two cars although we really know
that it was just a freak show for our
fun and enjoyment
but I do have some thoughts to take away
from it
the rat rod think it's so popular right
now and I know why it's because the cars
are cartoony and fun and
evil and they just look like we wish hot
rods really were the truth is
it's not fast it's not a performance car
it's not
that fun to drive around unless all you
want to do is get looked at
it's a miracle I'm sitting here today
the rat rod
there's no good way to describe this
thing where you're going to want to
drive this car
it's an attention grabber it's a lot of
fun it's a cartoon
great marketing tool for Sailor Jerry
but not something that you want to drive
every single day
even though you can drive it whatever
car show you want the Lamborghini
I I just don't see it Finnegan thinks
the car is brutally fast if you're real
hot rodder you're probably not gonna say
you like a Lamborghini
but if you ever got the chance to be toss
the keys to one
you can't buy it seems it does have some
value on the freeway
when your cruise along into sixth or
seventh and you downshift like
second stand on it the v12 screams like
a banshee and that is pretty cool to me
that's the best feature the car
is being able to shriek at the 8500 rpm
but you know what it's just as hard to
get you now to the Lamborghini is it is
the rat rod the scissor doors are just
annoying and you need like know how to
run a
Hewlett Packard computer to function the
center console
way too many switches and gadget on it
it's not that comfortable
it's not that fast the thing I will give
it
is that we had no real track time at all
no performance testing on a road course
I think the Lamborghini with really kick
ass
the all-wheel-drive unbeatable but
that's just not our skills that we were
looking at this more from the
regular muscle car died their
one-dimensional car as you drive a ride
cuz you want to be seen
you by the Lambo cuz you want to be seen
you're never gonna push it
the way you should push it or the way we
pushed it now
so pretty much their posers cars you
know
you can afford either one you buy for
whatever reason you're

Autorestomod Review of RetroSound Model Two Classic Car Radio

Autorestomod Review of RetroSound Model Two Classic Car Radio

Retro Manufacturing, LLC:

We're not actors or TV personalities
we're just a couple of guys that want
to show you how to restore your car. At
times we mess up sometimes in consult
approach your problem it's always a
project this week on Auto restomod Jeff
talks old-school sound in the lab
explore the new model to
bluetooth-enabled Retro Sound radio well
folks let's face it the face of car
audio has been in a constant state of
flux since the middle 60s even before
that they were trying some pretty wacky
things in the cars you could at one
point get a honest-to-goodness record
player to put in your car. Fortunately
things have moved on since then and the
next move from there was the 8-track
tape. Now the 8-track was large bulky and
a lot of times if you didn't get a
really good high-quality 8-track it
would actually change in the middle of a
really long song say if you were playing
on a god of davido or something like
that so the next move from there was to
also miniaturize him from there in the
mountain middle 70s the most popular
thing running was the cassette. Now the
cassette gave you everything you had
with the 8-track plus more you could get
more music on there you can get more
stuff on it so what you got with that
then is a little bit smaller setup in
the car from there everybody decided
that we needed to go to CDs and then
with a CD you got even more
miniaturization a lot slimmer you get a
lot more of those things in your console
in today. Where is that coming from edge
up our challenge I'm doing well what is
put a score on this radio oh I was just
checking out the Bluetooth connection to
the new retro sound model - blue who
know now who blue - like like a tooth
like teeth like - so this Bluetooth
stuff that you speak up how did you do
that because basically I'm hearing what
I see on the screen which basically this
is your iPad correct and you're actually
playing the video from the show through
the sound system how is that happening
because there's no wires connected he
exactly it's like you were talking about
things of advancement from the radio to
the cassette to the CD
and then we had different connection
methods we had RCA jacks we had FM
modulator 's and even have the mini Jack
inputs now right Bluetooth is the latest
standard for connection it's completely
wireless standard so anything that is
Bluetooth enabled I'm sure you've heard
that term. Jeff- Wait a minute so you're
telling me like let's just say my
Android phone because I've got a smart
phone that I use on a daily basis now
that's basically internet connected I
can do anything I want to through it I
can connect my Android phone through the
model to radio from retro sound yeah
yeah you can play all your music there
you can play I Heart Radio Pandora and
you can even use it as a wireless
speaker phone while you're driving on
the road so wait a minute
we've now basically taken a vintage car
radio because basically this rate I'll
go in pretty much any kind of car at all
because of the unique way that they've
set their system up and we'll go into
that in a little bit more detail in just
a few minutes but basically the way
that's set up you can literally run this
old radio so to speak which is a new
radio oh it's not looking exactly it's
an old looking radio but you can run the
old looking radio through that and have
hands-free operation inside the car like
you would with a brand new car yes
absolutely
Wow and there's just so many features on
this radio it's got all kinds of
different inputs it's got two different
auxilary port input so you could use
that if you wanted to hook in a CD
player or an old tape deck or anything
like that it's you know of course it's
got the FM antenna so you can still
write them tuner you can still run it as
a standard am/fm radio if you want oh is
all your presets and stuff like that I
understand this radio is even set up for
Europe as well so in other words you
don't have to have anything special for
European radio radios already set up to
do that yeah they even talked about the
chassis being set up for the European
car Jags, beamers, and Porsches things
like that yeah so what's not like so
even if you got a European based car
that you brought over into the United
States the model 2 will actually bolt
right into the dash panel even if you
want to run the USA sound stuff in it
you can put that radio in there run USA
radio signals right through the radio
that looks like an original one in the
dash panel and you keep the classic look
and the little buttons that look like
the old preset radio right
my Diablo 3 cell radio button well I
mean I just thought this was going to be
a radio but it looks to me like we've
got a little bit more going on here I
mean we've got a lot of features that
are available through this thing so
basically you can even run your iPod
it's actually got USB connections on it
so not only can you connect your iPod to
it you can control the iPod through the
through the radio knobs well I think
that's what I was looking for that's
what I'm here for
I know about the knobs I mean I
understand knobs but you're the you're
the electronics guy so I guess well not
just knobs in an old-school radio you
knob you may have had a little volume
control you might have had fade and tone
and things like that so these knobs will
actually control cycling through
different inputs you can control your
equalizer settings and on the right hand
knobs you can actually control your iPod
go through your playlists and if you
want to find a particular song all that
right on the knob so if I had let's say
this memory stick that we got sitting
here on the table a memory stick full of
different music that I want to put on
the system I can actually just plug that
into the one of the USB ports it's got
what like two on it it's got two you
could plug that into one of the USB
ports have your iPod on the other u.s.
before I understand even on it even
charges the iPod right yeah yeah so wow
that's really good option that's just
the input but wait there's mid-level
wait there's more it's got all kinds of
different outputs we've got RCA outputs
for going to an amplifier it's got the
separate subwoofer outputs and I
understand through this system you can
actually control the subwoofer output
too you can set your volume levels and
all that kind of stuff on it and a
built-in crossover for your frequency
levels going to the subwoofer Wow and
it's even got the plane the other
speaker connections if you sure want to
hook it up if you're not going for a
real wild a high-powered system you can
hook it that's what we have here
directly to speakers yeah we've got a
pair of there the Retro Sound 4X10's
now with our subtle but we're going to
be doing it on Fairlane The Fairly is
going to actually be getting the four by
tens some five and a half inch rounds
and two eight inch subwoofers from the
guys at retro sound so that stuff will
be going in the car a little later on
down the road but we were so excited to
get this because this is literally
literally hot off the press that's
actually a pre-production model sitting
there on
there are some mechanical considerations
to make on this retro sound model to
radio and that is a fact that this thing
is literally completely adjustable the
basics of the radio are this box system
that you see here and it comes
completely blown apart and disassembled
which at first blush seems like it would
be kind of frustrating but what it
actually does is it opens you up to
pretty much any application that you may
work with in other words if you wanted
to pull your radio out of one car and
put it into something else say you're
selling the other car and you're moving
on to a new automobile but the old radio
back in the old car you can take the
radio out and put it into another
vehicle so much so to the point that you
can actually take on some of the early
applications for Cadillac and forward
where your knobs are all on one side you
can set the knobs up in just that
configuration plug them in on the other
side of the car and you're good to go on
our application it's going to basically
set up this way we're going to run these
through here and then this plugs in on
the side of the radio right here and
then what you'll want to do is you'll
want to take and use the shaft
assemblies that come with the kit and
there's all the brackets and everything
set up your distances and then you can
put the radio together with that now
what I would recommend you doing in a
case like this is actually going in and
using the original radio if it's still
in the car to set this thing up some
radios especially some of the early Ford
products actually have offsets for the
two different knob assemblies so you'll
be able to go in and move your brackets
around to put that into position the
guys are retro sound also offer
faceplate setups that will allow you to
put it in any kind of opening let's say
you're working on a 55 Chevy pickup
truck or a Cadillac or whatever they
have different radio openings available
they also have several different knob
sets available as well now these knobs
that we have here on the table are the
ones that they sent with the radio they
actually have these in chrome which for
the Fairlane that we're going to be
doing will make this really nice because
they really mimic the original radio
knobs that came with the car back in the
day and I do recommend using the knobs
on this because as Benny's going to show
you here in a minute with some of the
functions that you have these little
tabs that stick off the top of the radio
like we have here are going to come in
real
handy when you're trying to receive
calls or just work with the radio in
general because pretty much everything
you do works off of those now now we
want to take a minute and go through
some of the features and the setup of
the retro sound radio it's actually
really intuitive almost everything is
set up just using the two knobs you've
got left knob and right knob now there
is a left rear and left front and then a
right rear and right front that's it
you've got four knobs that do almost all
of your settings now right now the radio
is how it would be when you've just
completed your installation and you've
powered it on for the first time so
first things first we'll turn it on you
just push the left knob and it turns on
now also on the left knob if you push
the button that'll turn you into your
different modes you can do your
equalizer your bass your mid your treble
balance and fader one of them I'd like
to really focus on here is you can
actually turn the subwoofer controls off
and on which is really handy if you have
a subwoofer in the car but maybe you got
a little bit of a headache you don't
want the bass pounding you for the
moment you can actually turn that off
and on and then the other thing you can
do is you can actually set your
crossover frequencies right from the
unit so if you were going right out of
the subwoofer outputs to an amplifier
that does not have a built-in crossover
this does the crossover functions for
you know over on the right hand side you
push and hold the button until you hear
a beep
and it brings you into a menu there and
if you keep pushing the knob in it'll
take you to some different menu items
one of the nice ones as the clock is
right there so once you get on the clock
you just turn the knob and you can set
your hours push the knob again now you
can set the minutes which I've had some
radios in the past you had to snow some
kind of secret code for being able to
set the clock and if you lose the user's
manual and then next year when they do
daylight savings time you don't know how
to set your clock it's kind of
aggravating one of the other features on
here you'll come across one that says
scan when you first powered on you see
it scanning through all the different
colors that it's capable of displaying
32,000 and all now I went through this
several times I thought scanned with
something for scanning through radio
frequencies so I kind of blazed over it
scan is actually - the color setting on
this radio so I prefer to set a color I
like green so I'm going to set it for
green
and then you can set it for a high
illumination or a low illumination a B T
stands for Bluetooth so you want to make
sure that's on if you have a Bluetooth
enabled device like an iPhone you can
pair it to the radius then you can
listen to whatever music you have on the
device right through your car stereo and
you can also you do a hands-free mode
whenever you receive or make a phone
call
so pairing the device to the radio it's
really pretty easy you just go to your
Bluetooth settings and you'll see retro
sound come up on the menu we're going to
select that if it asks for a code the
default on the retro sound radio is four
zeros and now you see that they're
connected so with the phone paired it's
really cool on incoming calls you don't
even need to touch your phone to receive
them the second a phone call comes in oh
look at that got a phone call now Gina's
calling me I just turn the left knob hey
sweetie Hey sure I can do that for you
kind of in the middle of something right
now this I'm gonna need to let you go
love you so just like that I could have
been driving down the road never would
have had to touch the phone and
hands-free is much better and much safer
another cool thing like we had
demonstrated before is through the
Bluetooth connection you can listen to
music or even use the audio looking at
YouTube videos right from your iPhone or
Bluetooth enabled device the
possibilities are just endless and you
also notice when the call came in the
audio was automatically muted yep very
cool and the nice thing is it doesn't
require an Apple product to run for
instance we hook this up to my android
and everything works just fine same
thing with my pod Nano or even an iPad
we've had all of those devices running
through this radio with absolutely no
problems at all we like this product
it's a really neat piece you should try
to look into one too because we think
you'll like it just as much as we do
well that's our show for the week we
hope you enjoyed it yeah next we're
going to be coming back with how to
rebuild a 4100 Auto like carburetor
basically if you get a 2100 everything
we do to this 41 will apply to your
carburetor there will just be a little
less for you to do then we
have to do the 4100 so be sure to come
back and watch us on that on Autorestomod
have a great week folks!

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