- Start of time lapse.
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Hi, this is Davin with Hagerty
and our Redline Rebuild Update.
Now last time we were talking,
I'm working on a 1950 five-window Chevy pickup
with a Stovebolt-six.
That project is still in process,
but today, I'm over here with a 1951 Buick.
This is our Hagerty garage,
and so this is a little bit more behind the scenes,
even relative to the bigger picture of things
that we do here at Hagerty.
So, within our garage, we have this '51 Buick,
and it's going to go through a complete transformation.
So this was a barn-find vehicle
that I found, actually, out at Hershey
about seven years ago.
It's a '51 Buick Super.
It has the straight eight.
The car, option-wise, is fairly loaded,
so it has a power convertible top, it has power seats.
It is a bench, but it's a power seat.
It also has heated seats, which is really interesting,
or maybe not heated seats, it has a floor-heat system,
and, I mean, it's a really cool car.
Right now it looks like, well nothing, probably,
but it's solid, for the most part.
I mean, all these inners are good and solid.
The floor plan, of course, has the normal issues,
as far as rust.
I mean, let's face it, window seals are not the greatest
in general in the 50s,
and now you put a drop-top on it and they're even worse.
So you always have water,
the carpeting soaks it up, it never dries,
and you're going to have a rotted floorpan.
But that's something that
the Hagerty garage here is gonna take care of.
My task is simply, simply the straight-eight Buick.
So this is where we starting today.
I'm gonna grab Brett, he's gonna give me a hand.
We're gonna get this motor pulled out
and get it over to our video garage to do a Redline rebuild.
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Yeah, right now, we just need to hook the strap up to it,
get the cherry picker in.
The only thing that's holding it in right now
is the front mounts.
In fact, everything did this a little bit with the back.
- [Brett] No (mumbles).
- Yeah, we gotta put a support underneath
that brick of a transmission,
because we don't need that thing just deciding
to go to the floor.
But otherwise, we are that close really fast.
Good thing, no fenders to work over.
This is all right. - All right, super easy.
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- All right, motor is out.
It is ready to move over to our shop.
The motor was running, so we're not gonna do
any of that type of stuff,
but we are gonna completely tear it down
and see what's inside because you know
you never know what you're gonna find out
until you get in there.
But hey, in the meantime, click and subscribe.
We'll see you back at the video garage.
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