63 Thunderbird Revival - First "Drive" in Decades!
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2020
- A customer just brought me one of my all time favorite cars and it's in dire need of mechanical attention and body work! Come along #WITHME as I get this old car running and driving again for the first time in decades and assess the damage for future repairs.
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Looks like an intense project. Made it through 15 min and looking forward to watching the rest soon, been super busy.
Man, that dipstick rotating assembly issue is weird, didn’t know that was possible. Good work getting it driving, the customer is lucky to have a video documenting the process. When you turned around and “The Green Machine” was there ready for the parts run it was a badass moment, it looks so fun to drive and must turn heads everywhere you go. How long do you expect this project to take? Interested to see how the body and paint process goes.
@@eastbayhounds7604 Thanks man! I literally just got back inside from an awesome day of dirtbikes and camp fires. At the time it seemed logical but I'm starting to question my decision to stuff ALL of this into part one. I think I'll try not to make the next part so long. This was my first experiment in filming work free hand with no camera stand and I honestly feel a lot of the shots are really cramped/claustrophobic feeling but I didn't wanna throw them away either.
And yeah The Green Machine generates crazy attention, people are always waving, snapping pictures and starting up conversations.
The Tbird could be here a couple months though, longest I've ever had a customers car here was 8 months but that was weather/timing related and it sat here over the winter. I wanna try to get this one roadworthy before I jump into the body work so we likely won't see much visual improvement for an episode or two. Hope you're doing good! Thanks for taking the time to check out the vid!
Pretty well intact classic even with the rust and separating pieces
@Antonio Claudio Michael Yeah overall it's a pretty solid car
The T-Bird looks really complete.
@King Erik The Great, The 1st Yeah I wish the stock air cleaner was still here. Pretty good apart from that though.
that mud wasp thing really added something to the lesson
@KissOff LoL thanks
Always loved the Thunderbirds 👌🏻
@Old Skool Only Garage Same here, 61-63 is one of my all time favorite cars!
Bringing it back to life! 👍
@B5 BEAST Doing the best I can! thanks for watching!
Interior isn't bad at all that back bench is in amazing condition
@Antonio Claudio Michael Yeah a good thorough cleaning, patches for the floor rot, some cheap slip on covers for the front seats and a new carpet kit would work wonders for the interior.
Right on man! I remember my first drive in my 1961 Chevy Apache, it had been sitting for 22 years, since 1992 as well.
@Steve's Channel Thanks! I love those old trucks!
best 1.5 hours in a long time
She sounds really good.
@King Erik The Great, The 1st I know man! It finally started sounding good there at the end when I had (almost) all of the vaccuum leaks sorted.
She is a beautiful
Came from the king of the hill video.
Good Video bro nice 62 thunderbird
@Antonio Claudio Michael Thanks dude!
The green machine is cool.
I don't think i've ever seen one of these. What a cool body style for a car. I don't have time to finish this video today, but i will be back soon, promise! This is a long one!
@Consolidated Freedom Thanks a lot man! I put a lot of effort into the car and this vid so it turned out very long. Some of the more redundant parts like extra times I had to remove/install and retune the carb and a lot of the cleanup process were left on the cutting room floor for times sake though. This video could have easily been over two hours long.
Cool I love that car and you should play my summer car
@Nothing It's on my list but I haven't had a chance to pick it up yet. Thanks for watching!
Cool car. The cougar next?
thing sounds pretty good still.
@Efurd Garage Thanks for watching man! It does sound really good now! First couple times I started it up it sounded hurt though LoL
@@Impactjunky i could imagine how bad it was there in person. once it all cleared up the oil got everywhere and the fuel cleaned somethings it did sound good
Tbh it kinda looks like the American land yatch version of a datsun 350z
Are the valve seats hardened on green machine's engine, or do you use a lead additive?
@King Erik The Great, The 1st I used to use NOS octane booster that has a lead additive back when I had the old 66 273 but this is a 93 ish 5.9 Magnum with a carb swap intake and old school Mopar Performance electronic distributor. It runs great on pump premium and I can run pretty much any pump gas with adjustments.
Impact's Garage and Gaming is the current engine out of a truck?
@@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860 It came out of a full size Ram van but the 5.9 magnum from trucks, Rams, vans and Durangos are identical.
No Bondo replace the metal really??
@Raymond Holley You do realize that almost everyone that welds new metal into a car body has to use bondo to smooth out the repair right? I've been watching and doing resto work for years and never seen a metal patch panel get zapped in that didn't need a layer of bondo to make it perfect.
Might have to put some metal in the car there is no metal in that car it needs a complete rame off all new metal restoration to do it right you will spend probably ten times more than the car will be worth when finish it's not a desirable car
@Raymond Holley This is a unibody car, it doesn't have a frame. You can't do a frame off restoration on a car that doesn't have a removable frame. Also this car only has a few minor rust holes in it so I'll have it fixed and looking beautiful for my customer in no time at all with a very small bill. The car is gonna look as good as new when I'm done and it will only cost him about $1500-$2000. The best part is the 61-63 is the most desirable highest price Thunderbird ever made so after paying me 2k he can turn around and resell the car for several times what he paid to get it fixed.
Man i dont know if i give you to fix my car. Then you start talking like you want to screw the new parts or maybe weld it. Oh boy oh boy just dont do it
@idealu5 Your english is is horrible dude. And a 40 year restoration professional taught me how to rivet and screw in patch panels. Properly installed rivets or screws hold just as strong as any weld. If rivets and screws are good enough for a massive 400 MPH bomber plane then I think they can handle a 120 MPH car just fine.
@@Impactjunky my english is not my main language, but its good that you understand me. There i live noone is doing this, only self made mechanics. There are meny steps to do this properly, it took much more time but its worth it. We fix car until its allmoust perfect and no need a lot of putty, we using spoters, sand blasters, welding machine old cars worth it.
Wayyyyyyyyy to long
@Mik Cun Thanks for the dislike. Your attention span will grow longer as you grow older and wiser.