(car engine roars)
(car starting)
(banging)
(car screeching away)
- Well we're going to pick up a car
that is ah let's say Cadillacish.
(upbeat rock music)
Dude, I've been fully waiting to break this thing out.
- She’s a beaut.
- I actually like it.
- Man.
- It's turd brown, but it's fantastic.
Check how motor is just crammed in here.
This is the engine that your 61 actually maybe needs.
500 inches of Cadillac power.
- Bigger is better.
All we got to do is move the nitrous bottle,
put it in the passenger seat, and we can go.
- Yup, I'm going to hop in.
- Let's do burnouts before we even put the seat in.
- Man, I've never even sat in this thing.
Oh wow, it's actually really good.
(upbeat music)
I bought this thing at a low buck drag race
that we had here in Tucson way back in January 2018,
so it's been sitting here like 11 months.
It's a 1973 AMC Gremlin,
but the guy stuffed it
with a 500 cubic inch Cadillac engine.
That would be the engine that was
in like a 1970 to 72 Cad, the same engine family as a 472.
And it has a turbo 400 in it.
I don't remember what it has for rear end.
Oh, I think it has a Mopar eight and 3/4, I'll have to look.
But it's hopped up a little bit,
it's go a cam and stuff in take manifold Holley,
and of course, nitrous.
They told me that they once had
to throw this car off the track
her in Tucson because it went 1080 with no roll bar,
and so I had a roll bar put in while it was sitting here,
but I've never driven the thing,
and unfortunately we're not going to be able
to drag race it here in this episode
cause we gave the track no notice whatsoever
that we were going to be here.
But we are going to be able to go thrash it around,
do burnouts, check it out, get to know it,
and break it, to make it our own.
Ready to start this thing?
(car engine roars)
- Wow.
- See.
- This sounds good.
- Runs pretty good.
(car engine revs loudly)
- This may be more reliable than the other car.
- This thing runs better than anything we own.
- Yeah, it really does.
- Yeah.
Burnouts?
- Burnouts.
(upbeat rock music)
(car engine running)
- Does not have power steering.
That's not very Cadillac-ish.
You know we've been wanting
to build the Hemmy Gremmy forever.
This is the Caddi Gremmy.
Be able to find out how much I love Gremmies.
The slicks are a little flat on one side
from sitting for a long time.
(laughs)
(car revs loudly)
Spunky.
Ah man, this thing's going to be good.
He's got the front end set up loose, it transfers a lot.
(car revs loudly)
Oh yeah.
(car revs loudly)
- Hello, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop.
Stop. Come back.
Kill it.
- What happened?
- You don't have a water pump anymore.
- The belt flew off?
- Yeah.
- Went to 5000 rpm, hit the rev limiter.
(relaxed rock music)
That was fun.
It was just stupid, but it's fun.
- You might get one more burnout out of that.
- Yeah that's hashed.
But we can get one more burnout out of it.
There's no part stores open now right?
- I think it's going to work.
- Okay, let's try this again.
Hopefully it runs.
This time I'm going to try and keep it off 5000 rpm
and keep the belt on it.
(car starts)
Yes! - Aha, it started.
- Okay, fuel pump, fan.
(car engine revs)
(upbeat rock music) (car revs loudly)
- (laughs) Hit it, it's like bunny hopping to the left.
- (laughs)
- Do it again. That was great.
(car revs)
Ooh!
- Aha! It wants to do distance instead it breaks down,
it kind of hooks up and bounces.
It's so fun.
- That was it?
I'm actually a little disappointed.
Maybe I should drive.
- The fan belt's still on, yeah!
- It's still there, but only half way,
it's actually twisted right now.
(upbeat rock music)
(car revs loudly)
(laughs)
(laughs) That just got melted.
- That was pretty good.
(yells excitedly) It still hops, it does not like that.
And I'm destroying these slicks, but we don't care.
- Ahhh, this time on Roadkill, mediocrity at it's finest.
- [David Freiburger] That was pretty good.