What Chevrolet Is In Nascar - Damino Media

LEGO Speed Champions NASCAR Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 review! 75891

JANGBRiCKS:

hey everybody I have here another lego speed
champions car this one is the Chevy
Camaro zl1 race car now this is based
directly upon the 2018 plus Chevy Camaro
zl1 race car body design that was
introduced to the top rung of NASCAR
racing in America as a replacement for
the Chevy SS body that had been used
previously and more specific than that
this represents the very car that was
used to announce that body style change
so on the box they actually show you the
exact car that its intended to represent
and there are a billion more pictures of
this car available online if you want to
check it out and compare it as as usual
for speed champions cars and
particularly race liveried ones this
does have quite some reliance on
stickers to the point of even having to
sticker sheets included in the set one
that is white backed with mostly the
blue colored stickers and then one that
is clear back for the stickers used for
the windscreen and that includes the
front one the sunshade and then the
window netting here on the left and
there's also a window sticker on the
other side as well to show a little bit
of the ducting something that is special
here is the inclusion of the new for
2019 wheel insert for high profile tires
and here they've done the exclusive
Chevy Camaro print on those so you get a
full set of four of these this is all
just hard plastic just fits into a
standard speed champions wheel just
inserts like all the rest have done in
the past and most of the other details
on this are stickers except for that
right there they needed that Chevrolet
word right there to be just larger than
it could be possible with a sticker on a
small piece and also just from the
construction here they ended up needing
to do it as a print if they could have
done that as a sticker I'm sure they
would have but as you come around to the
back you can see that there is building
on the side with studs up facing towards
you right now and also upside down
building for the the underside of it in
the diffuser area of it and just
following along with the the actual
design of the cars and how they're
engineered in real life you have the
exhaust on one side so there are the
exhaust tips the outlets and that takes
you around the entire thing looking at
it from a higher angle you can see even
more of the stickers especially the ones
used on the hood and around the hood
that's five different stickers on five
different pieces there and there's also
a sticker on the roof that one shows the
number five compared to the the actual
car which was number eight I don't know
what the difference is but this one also
is marked for 2019 whereas the car was
actually unveiled in 2017 as a 2018
racing model and finally there are two
more stickers here on being basically in
the tops of the c-pillar c-pillars to
give you a little bit more of a
suggestion of the back window to widen
that up the interior of this car is
unique in the line that it has an actual
roll cage there or a bit of a roll cage
bit of safety mechanism and there you
could see it as part of the Hans device
if you want to because of the way that
it actually fits around a driver's head
like so goes on both sides just a little
with something extra a little bit
different there is a steering wheel way
down in there and when you put this on
with the winds windshield windscreen
back on everything just squeezes in
there it's a little bit a little bit
tightly packed
sorry about the focus there we go but it
does work it definitely does work
notice also looking through the back
window they've got a bar that's lined up
with
the the stickers they're pretty well to
show just a continuity of you know the
visibility of the rollcage elements you
know looking through the windows with
the driver figure perhaps there's not
all that much to see here because the
torso print is fairly simple and that's
the only thing that's printed on there I
mean beyond the face of course it has
print around the back with the chevy
racing logo on it and the head does only
have one single face the tool the
combination wrench and pry bar there is
always included with these speed
champion sets to help you to remove the
wheel covers you stick it through the
hole in the center of the hub from the
inside if you ever want to change that
out for a side build in this set they
include a high-pressure fuelling
canister which is designed to look like
the ones that are used in the pits at
NASCAR and as a side build it is
definitely something very appropriate to
this set the fuel sticker there is also
only clear back to sticker sheet looks
like it trapped some air under there
strangely now that wasn't there
previously
but the stickers are pretty much the
standard quality it's a simple build but
again it's very appropriate for this set
in terms of value the price to part
ratio on this set is a little bit better
than the average for speed champions
individual car sets by virtue of the
high park count here there are a lot of
particularly small pieces in here so you
don't end up with a vehicle that's
larger than standard or anything but in
the end looking at value on a more
subjective basis I mean it's it's a car
and it's a pretty good-looking car so to
me it's value is is right there with any
of the other ones that they've done up
to now the the build on this one is no
McLaren Senna but it is pretty cool and
just looking at this more from a
subjective perspective
I think that's a fantastic looking
little car as soon as I look at it it
definitely says Chevy maybe at first
glance I would think Corvette a little
bit if I didn't see him if it didn't say
Camaro just imagine this without most of
the stickers without the zero-one there
and everything just looking at the
overall shapes this down the center to
me kind of says Corvette but overall it
definitely looks like a Camaro it
definitely looks like this car yeah I
think this particular image that they
chose this photo that they chose is not
a great representation for this model
because from other angles it looks
better and at different focal lengths I
think it looks closer this looks closer
to this or vice versa so I'm super super
happy with this these wheel inserts are
great I want to get more and more and
more of these I want these to be become
more available they do great things to
the line I think it's just a great
addition a very good new mold anybody
wants to see this relative to the last
Camaro that they did a street car that
can be arranged the builds are very
different between these two very very
very different and you know obviously
some of the lines have been preserved as
they should be especially back towards
the haunches but I mean that the front
ends are done completely differently you
do have studs exposed on both which i
think is it's fine they are lEGO models
they're not static plastic you know glue
together models I'm okay with that
where where it needs to be the front end
of this was just so much more rounded as
the newer cars are but some of that's
gonna be subjective but I think this is
just a better looking front end and of
course this is based on the NASCAR car
which is based on or as is derived from
a standardized template so it's it's not
as unique as the the street car but I
think this this looks more like the
source material then this do
do you know there there are different
generations of cars and different
specific trims and all that still you
know nice little progression I think
forward going from here to here the only
thing that I wish was a little bit
better in the set is just the print on
the torso or the print on the minifig in
generally just to me strikes me as
particularly plain especially compared
to the you know the vinyl scheme on this
one because you know this has a lot of
graphic details and this has very little
I think maybe they could have put some
some fake sponsorships in there often
times that comes down to business deals
there you've got Lego having to work
with multiple teams probably to get
approvals on this one but that is what
it isn't it's just a small team with no
print on the on the figure it's it's
actually more usable this way in more
different scenarios so as far as I'm
concerned this is a very good one if you
like what it looks like you will
definitely enjoy the build I believe in
of course you can see the build video
for this one on my build channel the
most convenient link to it will be right
after the end of right at the end of the
review you can check that out I'll be
doing more builds over there before the
reviews I mean here are the pieces left
over from that build just the spares
nothing particularly interesting to see
here except that's hollow and that's a
short version of a bar but they give you
a couple extra stickers I don't know if
that was because they were expecting
people to get air under these clear
backed stickers and to want to redo some
stuff or if it was just because they
were forced to have some extra space
left over on a rectangular sticker sheet
because of just the shapes of the
stickers they needed to do here one for
the fuel can and you know they just had
some extra space so they put a couple
extras on there I don't know what but
there you go and that's it for this
review thanks for watching I'll talk to
you soon

This NASCAR Fan Met Richard Petty & Won a Chevy Camaro // Omaze

Omaze:

I'm sure it has a radar detector in it, right?
I don't think so.
I've been a fan of NASCAR and Richard Petty
probably since the mid-'70s.
I got here this morning.
We went into the Petty Museum
and got to tour the museum with
all of his awards and his cars.
Seeing all the history and everything
that goes along with it, it's just amazing.
Then we got to go out to his personal property,
where his home is,
got presented with the car.
That's beautiful.
Richard: Get in trouble with that, you know it?
Renae: Yes.
You have to be careful.
Yes.
The car is special because it was customized
by Richard Petty's crew
and has his signature on it.
I haven't had a car this special in...
probably since my first car.
My favorite part of the entire day
was meeting Richard Petty,
and what a generous and wonderful man he really is.
With Richard Petty sitting next to me,
and I hadn't driven a stick in years and years,
that was very nerve-racking.
You can go out and really just hone and practice...
Yes.
Where nobody is watching you.
Exactly.
You'll be driving like a champ then.
When she told me about this whole deal
I didn't believe we'd ever win it,
but she said it'd be a chance to meet Richard Petty,
so I said, "Let's do it."
And then we won, so...
That's all I can say is "thank you."
We will take care of this car,
and we will find out what it'll do.

Gas Monkey's '52 Chevy Coupe Stock Car | Fast N' Loud

Discovery:

♪♪
Announcer:
GOOD EVENING, RACE FANS.
[ CHEERING ]
WELCOME TO THE KICKOFF
OF THE 1952 RACE SEASON
HERE AT KENNEDALE SPEEDWAY.
BE SURE TO VISIT OUR
CONCESSION STANDS FOR A SNACK
AND YOUR FAVORITE BEVERAGE
AND SETTLE IN
FOR AN ACTION-PACKED NIGHT
OF RACING!
♪♪
ALL EYES TONIGHT
ARE ON THE NUMBER 4 CAR,
THE 1952 CHEVY COUPE BUILT
BY GAS MONKEY GARAGE
AND DRIVEN BY RICHARD RAWLINGS.
I GUESS YOU GOT POWER?
[ ENGINE STARTS ]
[ ENGINE REVVING ]
Announcer:
RAWLINGS IS PUTTING IT ALL ON
THE LINE WITH THIS CHEVY COUPE,
AND WE'RE ALL WAITING TO SEE
IF NUMBER 4 LIVES UP
TO THE GAS MONKEY LEGEND.
THE PACK IS APPROACHING
THE STARTING LINE,
AND THEY'RE OFF AND RACING!
[ CHEERING ]
[ ENGINE REVVING ]
♪♪
[ ENGINE REVVING ]
Richard: I TOOK THE '52 CHEVY
OUT ON THE TRACK
TO TEST OUT HOW WELL IT PERFORMS
AND TO SEE HOW IT FEELS
TO BE AN OLD-TIME NASCAR RACER
FROM BACK IN THE DAY.
♪♪
IF YOU'RE GOING TO JUMP INTO
NASCAR LIKE I DID,
YOU GOT TO PAY TRIBUTE
TO YOUR ROOTS,
AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW
WHERE YOU'RE HEADED,
YOU GOT TO KNOW
WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
Announcer: AND IT'S
RICHARD RAWLINGS
IN THE GAS MONKEY CHEVROLET
FOR THE WIN!
♪♪
Richard: REAR-WHEEL DRIVE,
A MONSTER V-8,
MANUAL TRANSMISSION --
THAT'S THE STUFF OF STOCK CAR
RACING LEGENDS.
♪♪
I WANTED TO BUILD A BADASS
OLD-SCHOOL RACER FOR A WHILE,
AND NOW, SEEING IT ON THE TRACK,
I KNOW IT WAS THE RIGHT DECISION
TO BUILD THIS CAR INTO ONE.
♪♪
BUILDING ANY KIND OF RACE CAR,
YOU NEED POWER,
HANDLING, AND BRAKING.
UGH! DANG!
WHEN IT CAME TO THE MOTOR,
WE NEEDED A LOT OF POWER
AND BULLETPROOF RELIABILITY.
HERE WE GO.
GOING UP.
SO WE WENT WITH A 383 CHEVY
SMALL-BLOCK STROKER
TURNING OUT
MORE THAN 400 HORSES.
AW, SNAP.
IT'S COUPLED TO A NEW
FIVE-SPEED TRANSMISSION
TO PUT ALL THAT POWER
TO THE GROUND
AND GET OUT OF THE CORNERS
WITH NO HESITATION.
[ CHEERING ]
HOLLEY HOOKED US UP.
TO SQUEEZE EVERY BIT OF POWER
OUT OF THAT SMALL-BLOCK,
WE TURNED TO HOLLEY FOR
THE CARB, FUEL PUMP, HEADERS,
AND EVERYTHING ELSE WE NEEDED
TO MAKE THAT CAR
PERFORM LIKE WE ASKED.
♪♪
OF COURSE, WITH A LOT
OF HORSEPOWER,
YOU NEED A LOT
OF STOPPING POWER.
THERE'S NO ONE BETTER
THAN THE TEAM AT WILWOOD,
AND THEY CAME THROUGH
WITH A KILLER SET OF BRAKES.
YOU CAN'T WIN WITHOUT
THE RIGHT HANDLING,
SO WE DIDN'T HOLD BACK
ON BUILDING THE SUSPENSION.
WE WENT WITH RIDETECH COILOVERS
COUPLED WITH
AN INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION
FROM JIMENEZ BROTHERS
CUSTOMS.
THIS THING HANDLES
LIKE IT'S ON RAILS.
♪♪
AIN'T NOTHING LIKE
A GOOD REAR END,
AND THE DUTCHMAN'S REAR AXLE
WITH EXTREME-DUTY WHEEL BEARINGS
WAS THE PERFECT FIT.
HOLY COW.
♪♪

IBM, Chevy helping NASCAR drivers gain competitive edge

Fox Business:

Chevrolet Performance Taps The Weather Company

IBM:

You know, there's probably,
at the end of the day,
one optimum setup for a car that's
gonna make it run it's fastest lap.
But what these guys have
to do going that fast is
you know, they gotta decided when
to lift off the throttle and turn in
with things coming at
them at 300 ft/sec almost.
So it's very intense.
You have to mange your emotions.
You gotta manage that adrenaline rush,
and remain in calm, and
slowing things down.
And if it rains, and instead
of coming into pit when logic
would dictate that we do
it, we're gonna stay out.
And if it rains, then everybody has come
into pit and your the
last car on the track
that hasn't pitted, you're in the lead.
And that happened to us once last year,
and we won a race because of it.
What my team has done over the years,
our job has kinda been to introduce
these various pieces of
technology to the race teams.
They're the ones that will
take the weather feed, and
all the other information we provide,
and kind of bake that into
what are we going to do next
and when are we going to do it.
Timely, accurate, and easily
digestible information
about weather and integrating with
our other tools is very important to us.
So, that's what we're going to do
with The Weather Company data.
Just have to cross first,
doesn't matter by how much.

Ford unveils NASCAR Mustang race car in Flat Rock

Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV:

CHEVY MONTE CARLO - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

Donut Media:

- Hey kid, you wanna go fast?
You wanna be real comfortable too?
You wanna be a NASCAR driver?
Well, I got what you need right here.
It's got two doors, and it's named after
an administrative area of principality
of Monaco in the south of France.
This is everything you need to know
to get up to speed on
the Chevy Monte Carlo.
Sometimes, you're just
too tired to do the job,
whether that's hosting a
show, writing a script,
or washing your car.
But thanks to NOS Energy,
I got that good energy that
helps me get the job done.
♪ Power baby ♪
♪ More power baby ♪
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♪ More power ♪
- It was the mid-60s and
Chevy was doing well.
With 12 different models for sale,
like the Camaro, Impala, and Malibu,
it seemed like them bow tie
boys and girls had it all.
But the grass ain't always greener.
Sometimes, it has big yellow spots
where your dog's been doing his business.
Chevy had a problem, and that problem
was named the Ford Thunderbird.
Ford's luxury two-door had
been selling well enough
since the mid-50s to force GM brands
like Pontiac and Buick
to respond with cars
like the Grand Prix and the Riviera.
GM brass was stoked, but back at Chevy,
there was another story.
Chevy general manager, Pete Estes,
remember him from the Camaro episode,
he's literally (bleep) nuts.
He was pissed off.
If Pontiac and Buick were allowed to have
personal luxury cars, why shouldn't Chevy?
Chevy division sales manager,
Lee Mays, didn't agree.
He was like, "No means no, Estes.
"Jesus, literally walking out the door.
"I gotta get to a frickin'
recital, don't you know?"
So there wouldn't be a Chevy
competitor to the Thunderbird,
not for a few more years.
Then, it was 1968.
John Z. DeLorean, you ever heard of him,
was now the general manager at Chevy.
He was hot off his success at Pontiac
where he made the Grand Prix a
worthy Thunderbird competitor
and helped start the muscle car
wars with the legendary GTO.
DeLorean was a marketing fricking genius,
who knew that making young
people like your brand
was the key to success,
kind of like how the Champion brand
used to be for your Uncle Jeff,
but now Ryan Tuerck wears them
and they sell for 75
bucks at Urban Outfitters.
I bought four.
Tuerck's cool.
So in walks John DeLorean with that BDE,
and he didn't get along
with Lee Mays either.
DeLorean goes to the top GM brass and says
that Mays is straight
up getting in the way
of DeLorean's success.
Mays was reassigned to Buick
general manager shortly after.
Now that he was out, no
more Mays, no more problem.
That's how you gotta be, man.
If someone's in the way
of where you gotta be,
get them out of there.
That's the Kentucky cobra way.
With Mays gone, the Chevy team got to work
on their new personal luxury vehicle,
code name, Concurs.
Here's how it's spelled.
That's how I'm gonna say it.
The car was based off
of GM's G-body platform.
Coincidentally, the same
as the Pontiac Grand Prix.
To make sure buyers knew that Chevy's new
personal luxury vehicle was luxurious,
the Concurs team took inspiration
from another one of GM's luxury cars,
the 1967 Cadillac El Dorado.
And when I say inspiration,
I mean they basically traced the design
and changed a few things
like the headlights.
Cadillac was like, "What the heck, bro?"
But the Concurs team kept working.
They were like, "Don't even
freaking worry about it, dude."
They dressed up the recycled bits,
so people wouldn't feel bad
about dropping more coin
on what was basically
a dressed up Chevelle
wearing a Cadillac fur coat.
Before the Concurs, again how it's spelled
and how I say it, went on sale,
they gave it a new name.
What better name for a big
bodied coupe built in Detroit
than that of a principality at
the base of the Maritime Alps
nestled in the south of France?
In 1970, General Motors
debuted the all new
Chevy Monte Carlo.
The buzz was undeniable.
Car and Driver said it's
a composite of Buick,
Oldsmobile, and Cadillac.
That's what I call high praise.
Along with the base Monte Carlo,
Chevy also made a performance
model with the SS badge,
The main difference
between the base and the SS
was the engine.
The SS was equipped with
a 7.4 liter, 454 V8,
making 360 hrsprs.
To help this beefy boy get around turns,
the SS was outfitted with wider tires
to get the power down
and heavy duty, self-leveling suspension.
To critics, the Monte
Carlo might have been
an odd mish-mash of GM parts and styling,
but to customers, it
was the most affordable
personal luxury car in
America at the time,
and it sold well in the
first two years of its life.
- [Announcer] Monte Carlo, number one
in the personal luxury car field.
- And since the Monte didn't
have a lot of bespoke parts
that were expensive to make,
it made Chevy a lot of money.
Unfortunately for some fans,
the SS was not here to stay.
Chevy bigwigs thought the
idea of a quick luxury car
was a contradiction and axed
the Monte Carlo SS in 1972.
However, that contradiction
did not stop them
from making the Monte
Carlo custom package,
which was basically an
SS without the badges.
Speaking of badges, Chevy loves them.
And they were so committed
to making the Monte Carlo
a luxury mainstay that
they kept the number
of Chevy badges on the car to a minimum.
- Hey Craig, what is that car over there?
It looks like a Chevy but nice.
- I don't know, Jerry.
- I guess we'll never know.
Anyway, we're late for our
reservation at Applebee's, whee.
- I'm gonna be frank.
Throughout the rest of the 70s,
the Monte Carlo wasn't that exciting.
It was making GM money, sure,
and it was getting some
fancier touches along the way.
Engineers fitted the MC with
front seats that could swivel
sideways to make getting
in and out easier.
I would love if seats
swiveled back and forth
that make it easier to get out.
Cut to a super cut of me
getting in and out of cars.
Despite one of the coolest technologies
ever in automotive history,
the old gas crisis hit.
And that wasn't Chevy's only problem.
Japanese car makers were
making life hard for Detroit.
Japan's cars were reliable, economical,
and most importantly, very affordable.
The Monte Carlo was literally
none of those things.
So, (sighs) they would
have to make it smaller.
The third gen Monte was produced
from 1978 all the way to 1980.
That's 12 whole years, 12
whole years, 12 whole years.
1978 all the way to 1980.
That's 12 whole years.
The flat grill was familiar
to the Chevy faithful,
but the rest of the car
was downsized and reshaped
into a sleeker form.
It wasn't a bad car, but the Monte Carlo
had yet to really reach
its full potential.
And this.
Is this where you talk about the part
where the Monte Carlo
reaches its full potential?
Am I really that predictable?
I mean, your content is entertaining,
but let's be honest, you
really do have a formula.
Well, if you've figured out that formula,
feel free to submit to
write for this show.
Go to donutmedia.com, and
then there's a clicky spot
where it says, "Join the team."
1981, the Monte Carlo was leaner
and meaner than ever before
and still retained the
signature personal luxury.
There were a ton of choices
when it came to engines.
Buyers could choose from small
V6's, Oldsmobile 350 diesel,
and even a turbo-charged V6 from Buick.
The variety was proof Chevy
wanted the Monte Carlo
to be the luxury car for everyone.
There was just one problem.
That (bleep) Ford Thunderbird.
For the 1983 NASCAR
season, Ford introduced
a new Thunderbird stock car.
It was a super sleek
and aerodynamic design.
Some people started
calling it the Aero-Bird.
The Aero-Bird would break 200
on an oval on the regular,
and it even set a race
lap record at Talladega
that still stands today, today.
Chevy responded by petitioning NASCAR
to let them run a new
nose on the Monte Carlo
for the 1983 season, which NASCAR allowed.
We got friends at NASCAR.
Shout-out Matt Sommers.
But since it was stock car racing,
that meant the Monte Carlo road car
had to be produced with
the new nose as well,
and that wasn't all.
Since the Monte Carlo was
now an aerodynamic race car,
it needed
performance to match.
Chevy dropped a 305 cubic
inch V8 under the hood
and brought back a long lost trim level.
Super sport.
Yes, the Monte Carlo SS was back
for the first time in 12 years
and looked better than ever.
The new SS was a huge hit with customers,
outselling the more luxurious LS package
and becoming the most
popular Monte Carlo trim.
It also didn't hurt that the Monte Carlo
was kicking (bleep) in NASCAR.
That's what you call kickin' Nass.
The Monte Carlo was holding
its own against the T-Bird,
but holding its own wasn't good enough.
As Monte Carlos screamed around the track,
the dramatic drop of the rear window
created a high pressure zone,
which pulled backwards on the car.
If they could make that
angle smoother, the car
would go faster, so that's what they did.
Chevy engineers made a
three-piece rear window
that significantly decreased
the slope to 25 degrees.
They called it the Aerocoupe.
Chevy had to build 200 of
these things for the public
to meet homologation rules.
So in 1986, that's what they did.
But something weird happened.
People really liked them.
So in 1987, they didn't
limit Aerocoupe production
and ended up selling more
than 6000 of them that year.
But wait, what about your friend, Dale?
Dale Earnhardt was a one-time
Winston Cup champion.
He spent the mid-80s behind the wheel
of a Ford Aero-Bird but switched
to a Monte Carlo Aerocoupe
for the 86 season.
Good move, Dale.
He took the blue and
yellow Wrangler Jeans Monte
all the way to the tippity top
and earned his second
championship that year.
The next year, he followed it
up with another championship.
That makes three, which was fitting
because that's also his number.
Dale's in your face driving style
and nearly unquenchable need to win
earned him the nickname, The Intimidator.
The intimidation factor
was made official in 1988
when Dale got a new sponsor.
His Monte Carlo went from
the jovial blue and yellow
to a new paint scheme that
truly embodied his nickname.
It was painted black.
If that didn't make other drivers puh-poo
in their puh-pants, nothing would.
Earnhardt would win
four more championships,
bringing the total to seven.
As the 80s came to an end,
Dale had made the Monte Carlo a legend.
Unfortunately, that wasn't enough
to justify the car's
existence in the real world.
Those Japanese cars the
Monte Carlo had downsized
to fight 10 years earlier were getting
really, really, really good.
So 1988 was the last model
year for the Monte Carlo
and would be replaced by the
front wheel drive Lumina.
But this wasn't the end
for the Monte Carlo.
All right.
By 1995, the Lumina's image was
very, very, very boring.
So to spice things up, Chevy
renamed the two-door Lumina,
the Monte Carlo.
Whoo, we're back, baby.
But not really.
The new Monte didn't
really have anything to do
with the old one.
Aww, man.
Chevy did eventually introduce
a new SS model in 2004
featuring a supercharged
V6, making 240 horsepower.
In an attempt to relive the glory days,
Chevy also released a Dale
Earnhardt edition Monte Carlo,
available in either black for Senior
or red for Junior.
The Earnhardt edition had a bunch
of other NASCAR style touches,
like either Senior or Junior's
number plastered inside
and some race inspired gauges.
Most importantly, the black one came
with an Intimidator badge on the back.
You could only buy one of those
if you were truly most
definitely doing it for Dale.
Shouts to Cleetus
McFarland, what's up, man?
I like you a lot.
We should hang out.
The Monte Carlo got its
final refresh in 2006
with its most notable
improvement under the hood.
The Monte Carlo SS was
once again powered by a V8
the first time in 18 years.
That's right, a V8.
I don't know, yeah, they do it.
Chevy announced that the Monte
Carlo would be discontinued
for 2007, citing low consumer interest,
i.e., no one cared.
And fears that the Monte might steal sales
from the upcoming Camaro,
which I don't really follow along with.
I just want to give a quick
shouts to (bleep) helmets,
I'm gonna have to bleep
your name on the episode,
This guy painted this
really cool helmet for me,
and he talked to me about it
and he let me design it with him.
I'm very happy with it,
so check out his Instagram
and his website, I'll put the
link in the description below.
I love you.

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Retro NASCAR-Inspired 1960 Ford Starliner - The House Of Muscle Ep. 6

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- Automotive enthusiasts
tend to get their inspiration
from what surrounds them.
Now, Ryan Kertz is a fabricator,
who also happens to own a shop
here at Sonoma Raceway.
Now a raceway means, well, race
cars, which kind of explains
the look of the 1964 Galaxy
Starliner (engine revs)
you see beside me.
(engine revving)
(quiet jazz music)
(engines racing)
The car's kind of just
environmental in that
we're here at the race track, which is
one of the last two road race NASCAR track
and we happen to have
a couple shops out here
that host vintage NASCARs,
and seeing them on track
days, to see 'em drive by and
as I'm watching the car
go by, then I see my car,
and it just kind of clicked.
That we needed to do that.
(cool jazz music)
- When he got this car, it had a 352
cubic inch Ford.
The motor was tired.
And he said he drove
it like that for awhile
but then it developed a
rod knock, and so he's like
alright, let me pull in,
I'm going to shelve that,
and that was it.
He also got kind of tired
of the original Mag Wheels
that were on the car
and as opposed to just
dumping money into the body, he said
"Let me just have a little fun".
Put a 390 into it out of a Thunderbird,
tuned it up, it's got three tube barrel
Rochester carbs on it and you know what?
It's pretty good like, you jump on it
and you get this thing
to rev a little bit.
(motor revving)
Get it to open up...
And it sounds like...
(motor revving)
Yo, that's proper!
Like that sounds proper!
And it's just cool.
- I bought it from a guy
out towards the coast
who wasn't doing anything
with it, you know,
he was a painter and
he wanted to paint it,
he loved the car but, just
wasn't able to, you know,
didn't have the time, space, or money,
whatever is required to
get the project done.
So we took it off of his hands
and began a mechanical restoration.
We put put air ride suspension throughout
and mechanically pulled
the car apart completely.
Every part of the engine is new,
transmission has all gone through,
rear axles rebuilt with epoxy.
Four wheel power disc brakes on the car.
Some things to just make
it drive a little nicer.
Installed brand new lines.
Painted and plated everything
underneath the car.
One of the coolest features of the car,
I think, is the side exhaust.
I was at a swap meet and picked up
some old hot rod magazines from 1963
and it documented how a (mumbles),
the Mercury NASCARs of the day,
ran the exhaust through the frame rails.
And for obvious reasons, shorter exhausts
for getting it through the frame rail,
eliminated the scraper on the ground
that could run the car lower.
We had seen one of those at
some of the vintage races
and I really just wanted
to duplicate that.
So the exhaust comes
through the frame rail
and then out the side of the body.
(revving)
- This was originally a column shift,
it was a three on the tree.
Now, I don't know if any of you guys,
at least the younger
guys, know what that is
but that was an actual manual transmission
where it was like first, second, third,
whatever the case is.
And it took a little while to get used to
but your shifter was here, not here.
So aside from upgrading the
brakes to four wheel discs,
Ryan also upgraded the wheels and tires.
He's running big 17 by
8's steelies on the front,
17 by 9's on the back with a new set of
Continental extreme contact sport tires.
The bonus of upgrading wheels and tires
on an old car like this is obviously
one, you can fit a little
bit of brake under that,
but, two, you do get that extra grip
and on something that's,
well, 19 feet long
not a bad thing to have.
(laughter)
- I think the look of the car
is ruined with the windows up.
I love this thin roof line.
Two door hardtop, no pillar.
It's just a very open feeling.
Debated on putting bucket seats
and a roll cage in it,
but I think that would
kind of ruin the car,
I think that would make
you not want to drive it,
it'd be less comfortable.
So we opted for the bench seat
and a low back at that, even.
So it just keeps a very open design,
very free feeling.
- The interior of the
car is just cool, right?
Four speed is in the perfect spot.
Ryan did this beautiful bench seat.
Another thing that's super cool,
I want you to look at these door panels
because at first glance you
look at them and you'll be like
"Oh, those a are really nice
leather covered door panels".
No they're not leather
covered door panels!
These are actually aluminum.
Ryan took a sheet of textured aluminum,
painted them and then
put them on his roller
so it would look like a padded panel.
That's the type of crap you can
do when you're a fabricator.
Cause you know why?
Fabricators make (muted) that you can't.
He can do that.
- The door panels on
the car, when we got it,
they were just terrible.
Had been sitting out on the sun
and just weathered and all that.
Typically, the NASCARs of the day,
they ran this textured
aluminum for the door panels
and other features on the
car like bumper fairings
and instrument block offs.
So we were able to get some of that
and I just bead-rolled some lines in it
to simulate what the original
interior looked like.
And then we painted the top and bottom red
and had the aluminum just stand out.
Really long lines that connect with the
exterior features of the car.
- This is Ford's big,
old full-sized for 1960.
It's a 1960 Ford Galaxie Starliner.
And think of that name, Starliner.
"Where do you want to go?"
"I want to go to the stars".
You really going to get there?
No.
This car right here,
this is no lightweight.
The Starliner weighs about
36, 38 hundred pounds.
It sits on a 119 inch wheel base.
And with this massive bubble top,
it makes you fell like you
came right out of the Jetsons.
This is just (revving flying sound)
It's pretty cool.
And it actually kind of sounds like that.
(revving flying sound)
Love this thing.
(cool jazz music)
So the exterior of this
car is a sight to behold.
It looks like a badass
NASCAR that was just
found in a barn and pulled out.
Plues the fact that it
is a Starliner is cool.
Look at the headlights and how
they're kind of recessed into the grill.
Look at the fins on the back,
they're not vertical fins
like you see on the '59 Caddy.
They're actually horizontal fins
that are splayed out, you know,
almost like a '59 Batwing.
The taillights have moon shapes
and you've got these little details
and these nuances that really
take it to the next level.
We do have the ancillary Jpods
but all the controls
are actually very cool,
I mean, we have these
kind of large switches
and knobs here that are very
correct for the time period.
This is what automotive styling was,
it's almost like the designers....
would look at science fiction
and they would get ideas for these cars
and then they would come back
and they would incorporate
them into the interiors.
And it looks great.
I mean, even on the front of the car
we have these little markers on the ends
of the front fenders that are
like these little bullseye.
Old steering is...
Well, just old steering, right?
So if I go like this...
Check it out.
You see the car moving back and forth?
No.
You know why?
It ain't moving back and forth.
You get used to this, believe it or not.
I mean, as somebody who
drives old stuff for a living,
every time you make an
input you're just like
"Well, I know I'm going to turn the wheel
"at least an eighth of a
turn in every direction
"before anything happens".
You just kind of factor
it in, it's what you do.
What's cool is that Ryan is a fabricator,
but more so than that, he's also a pilot.
So, having a car that kind of represents
his love for aviation and
for anything that goes up
is kind of neat because he
was able to craft something
well, that is just meant
to stay on the ground.
- I am a pilot.
I was always in love with airplanes,
my father was a pilot.
Growing up just fascinated with flying.
And this car really, to
me it represents aviation.
It was a design change in 1960 for Ford.
I think car design, it doesn't happen
in a vacuum, it reflects what's happening
in the culture at large.
Two years earlier, Sputnik
had orbited the Earth
and I think everyone's
eyes were on the moon,
we were in the Cold War.
So, the car designers tried to...
connect with that, with
these highlight lines,
this very long line
that runs down the car.
And theme it towards aviation and jets.
I was very fortunate to have wood shop,
auto shop, metal shop, and drafting
all at the high school that I went to.
Very fortunate for that.
I think without those skills,
just be another tech guy
or something like that, would never--
The schools were force
feeding you at the time.
We kind of went the other way, was like
"No, this is cool, welding sparks".
Yeah.
Go fast, do burnouts.
Right?
(motor revving)
- [Mike] This car and
everything that went into it
is a product of vocational education.
The beautiful welds, the mechanics,
and the metal fabrications
are skills acquired
by utilizing your hands,
eyes, and other senses
and not just by sitting
in a massive lecture hall.
Vocational education has
sparked the imagination
of millions upon millions of young minds
and encouraged them to follow
the road less traveled.
It led to business owners, technicians,
and craftsmen who have turned out
some of the greatest
creations we've ever seen.
It leaves me wondering
why programs like this
are going away.
And although I'm not
sure what the answer is,
I do know men like Ryan,
they're going to be busy
for quite some time.
- Got my first job out at the
race track building race cars
and just fell in love with it.
Was basically working eight
to ten hours a day at one job.
I was able to get some shop space
and started buying tools and equipment
and then working nights and weekends,
realized that I was making
a lot more money down there
than at the real job.
So, just eventually got the confidence
and broke off and did my own thing.
Yeah, we do see some projects
that come in that are
less than quality.
I don't really think we're
in competition with them,
we're in competition with ourselves.
So every project that we
do we try to do better.
We had some roll cages came in
with some welds that
just wouldn't pass tech
and that's kind of sad,
like, it's a safety thing.
People try to save money
on building roll cages
and you really shouldn't.
That's where you should spend the money.
- Everything mechanically
has been gone through
in this car to the point where
turn the key, start it,
drive it where ever you're going to go.
It's not going to overheat,
it's not going to do anything funky.
It's just going to run.
- Did a mechanical restoration on it
because that's the stuff that we focus on.
The car needs to be on the race track,
it needs to finish the race
and those are the things
that are important to us.
The look of the body...
The car kind of sells itself.
Sure, it's weathered and
all that but I think that
the look is unique.
- The looks of this car...
It's pretty cool.
And I go back and forth
with a lot of people
in regards to where you
should put your money.
Should you put your money
back into the paint and body?
Should you put your money into mechanics?
First and foremost, get
your car to run correctly.
Because you could have the
greatest paint job in the world
but if you're broken down
on the side of the road...
Well, have fun with that.
Right?
The only thing that's going to happen
is people are going to
look at you and be like
"Wow, that's a really nice car...
"not moving with smoke coming out of it".
"He's not having a good day".
How do I know that?
Well, years ago when I
first bought my Charger,
I was more concerned with the way it looks
than the way it ran.
Paint and body were flawless.
I remember one day going
out to East Hampton
and my wife and I were sitting
on the side of the road
after the car vapor locked and just,
well basically stopped.
Traffic going out to The Hamptons was huge
and the license plate on
that car back in the day said
"Mr. Angry".
And I just remember this one woman
driving by with her window down and going
"I bet he's angry now".
And I never forgot that.
Since that day, my main
concern is mechanics.
Make the car run correctly.
Spend the money.
Get the right carburetor,
get the right fuel injections,
do whatever you have to
do to make it proper.
People ask me "Why do you
drive a '70 Monte every day"?
One is because I can, I live in a place
where it's allowable, the
weather lets us do that.
Two, it makes me feel special.
Three, when you pull up
to something like this
at a gas station or at a supermarket
or at a light or where you go,
people want to know.
People want to talk to you,
they want to ask you
questions about the car,
they want to ask you questions
about what you do for a living.
It's a massive engagement piece.
And because of that, you know,
because of that...
It just makes you feel good.
And there's nothing
wrong with feeling good.
Right?
Every (muted) day in the world
you get in this thing,
hear the side pipes
roar, leg into the pedal,
(motor roaring)
bounce through the gears.
Man, this is the way it's supposed to be.
If you look hard enough,
you could find fault in anything.
And sometimes I think
that's just what people do.
Take this old Ford, for example.
To some, it's just a
kind of a rusty old body
with red wheels and some faded paint.
But to others, it's a
source of inspiration.
For me personally, I'm glad
somebody decided to save it
and give it a new lease on
life because in the end,
isn't that what this life all about?
so just a reminder that episodes of the
House of Muscle go live on Motor Trend
On Demand.com about a month before they
go live on YouTube so head on over there
and check them out
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that's amazing
Oh manual steering

Superbird+Daytona - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

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(tires screeching)
- What the heck was that?
It came like that!
You're eight years old,
exploring Dead Man's Creek
behind Old Man Spankenburg's house.
Everyone knows you don't go into
that old red barn, but somethin'
catches your eye, in the
corner you notice a shape
under a fraying canvas tarp.
You pull the sheet and as the dust
settles, you discover the most beautifully
weird car you've ever friggin' seen.
What is this, how did it get here?
This is everything you need to know
to get up to speed on the Dodge Daytona,
and the Plymouth Superbird.
In 1968 Nascar was a big deal,
and Dodge was gettin' their butt
kicked by Ford and struggling to keep up
with their sister company, Plymouth.
It was pretty embarrassing.
- It's completely humiliating.
- So, the order came from the very top,
build a car that can win
and do whatever it takes.
The first try was a modified Charger.
The '68 Charger is an icon, probably
top five best looking American cars ever,
but it was a crummy race car.
The wide ass grill trapped in a bunch
of air and the flying buttresses created
a vacuum that sucked the car upward,
making it impossible to
drive at high speeds.
To fix this, Dodge fitted
the Charger with the
grill from the Coronet and made the rear
window flush with the b-pillars.
The result was the Charger 500,
a much smoother car that could
actually handle at high speed
But it wasn't enough to win as
Ford had also been perfecting
their own stock car, the Gran Torino,
named after Clint Eastwood.
When the Charger and
Torino met at Daytona,
Ford went home with the win.
Dodge was fucking pissed.
And to add insult to injury, Plymouth's
star driver Richard Petty was tired
of driving such a crummy
race car and left for Ford,
promptly winning the first race of 1969.
The pressure was on Dodge to save face
and lure Petty back to the team.
Dodge engineers whipped up a radical
concept with a pointy
nose and a big ass wing.
They sent the sketch to Dodge
general manager, Rob McCurry.
And he said it was the
ugliest car he had ever seen.
But, he followed it up
with, will it win races,
I gotta win Nascar or I'm
gonna get friggin' fired.
The Charger Daytona was a go.
Dodge even brought in a
guy from Chrysler's missile
division to work on the Daytona project.
Wait, what, Chrysler had a
missile division, what the frick?
Yeah, dude, Chrysler built
ballistic missiles for
the government, missiles
designed by Nazi scientists
that we brought over
here after World War II.
It was called Operation Paperclip,
it's a real thing.
Happened, Google it.
Back to the car, John
Pointer was a literal
rocket scientist.
Chrysler thought that
building the Daytona was
more than the Cold War, that's what
I call having your priorities in order.
Dodge took their winged beast to
the Chelsea Proving
Grounds for some testing.
But, when the drivers got to the track,
the Dodge engineers gave them specific
instructions not to go
over 190 miles per hour.
Here's why they couldn't do that,
Ford had spy planes circling the track,
this is weird, right?
Chrysler had a missile division
and Ford had spy planes.
What a time to be alive!
Dodge driver Charlie
Glotzbach drove the Daytona
to 204 miles an hour, the first Nascar to
break the 200 mile an hour mark.
The team kept the top speed a secret,
no one outside of Chrysler's engineering
staff or upper management knew how
fast their car really was.
The Daytona made its public debut
on September 14th, 1969 at the
Alabama International
Speedway, AKA, the house that
Ricky Bobby built.
- Well Jack, here's the
deal, I'm the best there is,
plain and simple, I mean I wake up
in the morning and I piss excellence
- The Daytona took pole position with ease
and claimed victory the next day.
Ford and Chevy had no idea what hit them.
What just hit us?
Dude I have no idea what just hit us!
Why have we been fighting this whole time?
You're actually pretty cool.
Nah, but we're rivals.
And then they pretended
to hate each other.
The Daytona then won seven out of the last
10 races of the 1969 season.
It was clear, their
hard work had paid off.
The pointy nose cut through the air
better than anything else on the track.
And that insane wing gave it insane grip.
And those little scoops on the fenders
weren't just for looks babe.
Dodge told Nascar they were for
wheel clearance at high speeds.
But what the vents really did
was relieve air pressure that built
up under the car, keeping
it glued to the track.
Oh, and about that wing,
the wing was so big,
because it needed to be in the clean air.
John Pointer, our rocket
scientist from before, remember?
He knew that the already swirling air just
above the tail would have
less contrasting forces,
so he put the wing up high where it could
produce significantly more
downforce to the rear wheels.
Also, for the Daytona to be legal to race,
Dodge had to build 500 production models
for the public to buy.
On Sunday you could watch
the craziest looking
race cat ever destroy the competition,
then go buy the same car on Monday.
That's marketing, baby,
but it really didn't work.
Dealers had a really, really
hard time selling the Daytona.
It was weird looking, and the nose
made engine overheating a real problem.
It got even harder the
next year when Nascar rules
said 1,500 cars had to
be delivered to dealers.
That's three times as many.
The next season, Plymouth brought to life
a winged car of their own, the Superbird.
(tires screeching)
And even though both the
'tona and the bird looked
pretty similar, there are some
subtle differences betwixt them.
You gotta be a real connoisseur
of winged, pointy nosed
Nascar cars to know.
For one, Plymouth designers
really didn't like
the idea of putting a big nose
on their prized Roadrunner,
and only agreed to do it
if they could make it look better.
The nose was reshaped
and the wing was placed
further up on the trunk.
These changes made the Superbird around
three miles per hour slower than
the Daytona, and after two hundred laps,
I gotta be honest with you, that
makes a pretty big difference.
But that didn't stop Richard Petty from
returning to Plymouth for the 1970 season.
In his signature Petty blue paint scheme.
Well, well, well, we
finally have a good car
and now suddenly Richie's interested?
I see how it is, dick.
Now, we have two race
cars with giant wings
that people would buy at the dealership.
Am I the only one who sees how
fucking crazy this is?
Chrysler wanted to win Nascar so bad
that they made 3,000 cars that will only
be sold to two guys, Joe Dirt,
and Matthew McConaughey
in Dazed and Confused.
Actually, if you think about it,
I'm sort of a mix between Joe Dirt and
Matthew McConaughey from
Dazed and Confused, Dads?
They 1970 season was friggin' dominated
by Chrysler's aero car,
the Daytona and Superbird
won 33 out of 48 races that season.
But, their supremacy was short lived.
For the 1971 season, Nascar rules mandated
that any aero car couldn't have an engine
bigger than 300 cubic inches, the fuck?
The rule killed the Daytona
and Superbird over night.
Nascar officials said they were concerned
with the crazy high speeds
these cars could achieve.
Oh, come on, Nascar, I thought
that we were here to race.
That's not the real reason, how about
you be honest.
No, no, I'm good, I've only had one drink.
Today, the Daytona and Superbird live
on as legendary muscle cars.
Outlandish survivors from a time before
stock cars became shapeless blobs
with painted on headlights.
Maybe someday Nascar will put the stock
back in stock car racing, but until
then I'll be fantasizing about
having a Daytona of my own.
Oh, and if anyone from Nascar is watching,
please add more road courses
to the calendar, thanks.
So, there it is,
everything you need to know
to get up to speed on the
Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird.
We're gonna move beyond cars, we're gonna
start doing track,
rivalries, racing series,
designers, drivers, et cetera.
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