we're downtown
Pottstown Pennsylvania at wheels in motion this beautiful old deco building
was a car dealership 483 years and now it's a full service collision center and
custom restoration shop
rumor has it there's some awesome survivor cars in the back let's go
particular now the showroom here is immaculate the cars are changed out all
the time today is restored and unrestored Corvettes the history of this
place is unbelievable you just don't see this anymore and it's beautifully
documented and still frame photography on the back wall
but what we're really here to see is untouched under restored cars from the
fifties and sixties
let's go Mike you got a real nice clean shop here and obviously late model
collision repair mix it with a bunch of classics including that f-body camaro
over there which is near and dear to my heart with Zed sled project right
but tell me about the unrestored cars what's this 63 and Palace super sport
convertible 38,000 miles original owner
he parked at 1974 and we just drag it out of the garage and hear it
pull this bubble top 61 bubble-top i bought it 1999 and I finally sold to my
son when he was 16 years old
you just shine it up a little bit and foot Lancers and white walls he's
getting ready to cruise
very cool and I could stand here and talk about these cars all day long
- when you show me the 59 show you the 59 I'll go one better
let's take it for a ride I like that
yeah
so is this manual steering power steering power steering
yes manual brakes power steering yep it's a 283 turbo applied and the turbo
glide doesn't have gears as three torque converters and you won't feel shift it's
more just a transition between each converter so all those ads in popular
science magazine they call these 59 palace whispering smooth
that's what that was about right that's right the turbo glide and they got a bad
rap
back in the day because a lot of them behind 348 right and they didn't hold up
well but behind the 283
they're actually a pretty cool transmission yeah but this car is just
so cherry the headliner I you could lie to me and say you replace this stuff in
the carpet is just unbelievable man what a time capsule it is
let me tell you a little about the car the car was sold - at my shop was a
Chevrolet dealer in 1959
but when I was a young kid this belonged to a local gas station owner and on the
days he brought this forward to work you weren't allowed near the the air pump to
put air in your bicycle tire
ok and I always admired it was unusual color and that was in the sixties
it was a in heated garage for 44 years he passed away and like 1989
so it literally sat from 89 to 2012 when i bought it
he had all the mileage written down
he put a hundred miles a year on it so the car never got driven but who didn't
own a few years later I'd wind up buying the building where it came from New what
car has that Providence
that's fantastic it is yeah so the colors of these cars you might think
that people in 1959 we're colorblind but yeah but the truth is you got a pallet
and you can order this car in any color combinations you want as long as it was
in the color choice guide right right right somebody chose this weird bluish
gray - color and the rose-colored exterior have the Cameo coral I didn't
know but I found out through taking it the different shows
it's a very rare color own palace that means its original paint and 34,000
miles is probably the only one around that's this color on your stored
yeah now you and I are both old enough to have gone to drive in movies when we
were kids but I was your age is to you know this car makes me think drive-in
movies drive-in movies make me think of ridiculously inappropriate things
happening in the back step back see what I'm looking at it and I don't see i see
original upholstery that's in pretty good shape so i think i say we're safe
and remember we how many people you can put in the trunk of this car robbery
enter this contest to get into the this one would have definitely helped a lot
of people
yeah you know yep and i canna can a thing that you know I do my research and
stuff
the car only weighs 3,600 pounds really and you would expect it to be four
thousand i would i would have said not in my head and said if you said 4,500
pounds and I was in disbelief like it has to be wrong but every piece of
documentation i could find 3600 Wow
and a late model GT Mustang weighs about thirty six and a half with all that
plastic yeah i know this is all steel we were talking about the fins earlier on
and my dad had a 59 el camino when we were kids
yeah and my dad mom would stress over that car because of me and my brother
Blaine because my mom would stress over us riding our bikes around that carbon
their bicycles because these fins are deadly freaking weapon yes and my dad
must stress over us riding bikes around the car because the handlebars as you
tried to ask you
hey mom was worried about your health and God was worried about the car
I don't know if I mentioned Kevin work we're riding right now is high street
and pots
and from the 50 60 70 is a tease this was literally the cruising capital of
the east coast
ok everybody came here their hot rods they had illegal drag racing out on the
bypass
I'm not really an attraction of course in the last few years it's died down
they change the lane configurations and nobody does that anymore but for 40
years this was a place the cruise
yeah Kevin you want to drive it back are you kidding me
ok i'm not kidding you okay here yesterday yes I do hope i can see over
the steering wheel
Wow effortless steering man yeah i don't know if you know this or not but I grew
up in british columbia canada
ok yeah I'm is from Canada moved out of the states in 1984
so for me to hear and read about woodward avenue and and you know it
screws in california yet on high street with a beautiful unrestored car cruising
this is awesome man
there's just something about being in a car like this it just it's almost like a
form of meditation
oh you like you like this - yeah of course we have the tube radio it needs a
warm up yeah a lot of people don't remember that but we only got am so what
I bought as much
remember these from the seventies a spark o matic remember spark ematic
converter typed it through the original tube radio
so we have a mf'n through the original sounding 59 radio with the speaker in
the center of the back seat huh
and the speaker up front so there that there's that
well Mike I don't want to run this odometer up anymore i'm gonna turn in
we're clocking on the miles a dealership here and I just want to say thanks man
this is it just pull her out front of an absolute thrill to be able to drive this
car
and I thank you I thank you for coming in this is awesome yeah
yeah