- Hey, this is Davin with Hagerty
and today we're doing something
just slightly different than our normal projects.
We have a good friend of mine here,
and he has a very interesting car back here on a trailer
and Cam, what do we have other than a covered car?
- Right, we got a '69 (Mustang) Mach 1.
- Ooh.
- It was kind of a project that we never
got to with my grandpa.
- Right.
- My grandma told me that she was the last one to drive it
from our shop back in the day.
And they parked it at our old warehouse
and it's just been sitting ever since.
And it was always the project that we never got to.
We wanted to eventually, you know, get it running,
maybe restore it down the road, change a couple things,
but it just sat and it got buried.
- When you say project car,
is this a rotted piece of poo doo that was in the.
- No, no it's,
body-wise it looks like an awesome car.
Great shape, it just, I, it I've told no accidents.
It just got parked and there
it sat for the majority of my life.
I've been told somewhere from 25 to 30 years
it's been sitting.
- So you're not throwing some bombshell on me here that it's
- No
- All right. All right, cool.
Well, let's, let's get this cover off.
- Okay.
- And let's see what we got.
We start here?
- Yeah.
- Got the tail lights in it so that's looking good.
Ooh,
Just lying around huh?
- [Cam] Yeah.
- Beautiful.
- [Cam] Little dirty, but.
- Well that's to be expected.
So how long has it been on the, sitting in here
on the trailer do you think?
- [Cam] Like this,
I moved it from our old warehouse
onto this trailer
that had to be
probably about 15 years ago.
- [Davin] Really?
- [Cam] Yeah.
- [Davin] Wow.
- [Cam] And we moved it over here.
We changed warehouses from across town to over here
and it got sitting and like I said,
me and my grandpa we'll do that next.
We'll get to that car next.
He was always messing with cars and projects and it just
kept getting pushed, pushed to the side and you know,
things happened and he ended up passing away
and just kind of
came across it the day and I was like, man,
that'd be really cool to get going.
And my grandma would really love to see it
on the road again so.
- What an awesome, holy.
- [Cam] and here she is.
Just sitting around.
- [Davin] So you've unloaded this car onto here.
You're showing me this thing it's gorgeous.
I mean, from a,
as it sits here for X amount of years.
Now looking at it's one thing.
And since I'm not Tom Cotter,
I don't like to just look at them with people.
- [Cam] Okay.
- What do you think we can get this running?
game?
- Yeah. Yeah absolutely.
- Because it's about getting in the shop and getting stuff
done. So do you mind if we take this over to our shop,
- I would love nothing more.
I've been itching for about 15 years to see this thing
on the road. So that sounds awesome.
- Cool. All right.
First thing, let's get this a little more in the daylight.
- [Cam] Okay.
- And let's see what it looks like underneath the hood.
Start wrapping my head around some things and then
lets tow it over there.
- All right, let's do it.
- Cool.
(funky music)
- Let's see what we got here.
- I haven't seen it in the sun in ages.
- Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Nice.
Nice little 351 Windsor.
Cool.
All right. Well,
you know what they say?
First thing is, make sure she rolls over.
Let's see, sometimes.
Oh, well that's a good sign.
So the crank turns.
Alright.
Okay.
That's good enough for me to give it a shot.
- I'm excited.
- I am too. Well let's get this Chevy
in the front and the front of this trailer
and drag her back over to our shop.
- All right.
- [Davin] We're good. Right.
All right.
See you at the ranch.
(funky music continues)
All right, Cam well,
we'll, we'll take good care of her for you.
- Cool.
- And,
and then we'll give you a call and let you know when
it's ready.
- Okay.
- How easy is that huh?
- Sounds, that sounds ideal.
- But I'll let you get back to work.
Thanks for letting us well, take your car,
let alone use your trailer.
- Yeah, no, thank you.
I'm excited. I'm I,
the thought of this being on the road is like too much to
even comprehend. So, but yeah.
(garage door closing)
- All right, now we get to get to the really good stuff.
So,
let's look at this.
We'll get the hood back open.
Okay, so we briefly talked about this with Cam,
but this is from a personal standpoint. And I mean,
my person and our group, we want a real quick payback.
That's right. So we've been working all summer long.
We got the trail 70 running, and quite honestly,
we're hooked. We want to see something else done quickly.
So, and the weather is beautiful this fall.
It's holding on.
So we're going to take this in two weeks,
turn it to where it's driving down the road and
enjoying it again. So our first things first are,
all we know is it turns over by hand and it's been parked
for a long time. Here's what we're going to do.
We're going to go through and just replace all the ignition
stuff a hundred percent just to avoid a problem and be,
as I'll say, as quick as we can be so fresh wires,
fresh cap, fresh rotor,
we're going to put a fresh points in it and a condenser.
And quite frankly, I'm gonna throw a coil at it.
Now that may be a little bit more than you may or may not
want to do, but at the same token,
it will completely eliminate all those ignition problems.
So as long as the key gets power to the ignition,
you should have spark without any questions.
From there, we'll get it running. We'll put fresh gas,
that type of stuff in it,
fire it up and make sure it just doesn't puke
its guts everywhere.
It looks like it's got a little bit of an
oil leak here, there,
but we'll clean things off to understand where it's at.
And if it's something fairly quick and simple,
we'll go ahead and do that. Valve cover gaskets
are usually a big one because they're cork.
And that's what cork gasket to do is leak.
Then,
after that,
we'll go through and replace hoses and make sure they're
nice and you know, good.
These aren't bad by any means as far as like brittle and
cracking, but we want to drive this down the road.
It'd be nice to have some good faith that it's not going to
reach temperature and then blow anti-freeze everywhere.
So we will replace the heater lines and this little bypass
hose, upper hose, the lower hose.
I'm not real sure what condition this radiators in.
I guess we're going to kind of play that one by ear.
So we may put fluid in it and find that we have
a little leak on the radiator,
but we'll address that as we go.
Get it so it sits here and runs idle and doesn't
overheat, from that aspect.
And then we'll assess the driving function.
So the keywords in driving is,
as a friend of mine says stop and pull over.
So we got to have breaks and we have to be able to steer it.
So we'll, we'll look at those, get the wheels off,
look at what the brakes look like.
Make sure the wheel cylinders aren't puking all over and
they're not seized up.
I see a little bit of oil maybe in the right rear corner,
just kind of taking the chains off it.
So we might have a wheel seal back there,
but that's not horrendous either.
And basically get it so we can drive it down the road.
And I think we might be able to surprise his grandma too.
Cause it sounds like she would be pretty pumped to see this,
not only in the sunlight, but moving down the road.
And I hear she's got a little bit of a lead foot.
So according to cam, maybe I shouldn't say that,
but that's what I hear. So,
that's our plan.
Get a list together. And I'll quite frankly,
I'm going to put rock auto to the test cause they say they
got parts for all kinds of cars. So with that,
we're going to end this episode with,
I want to see if it'll run right now.
Let's get this out of the way.
There's no hood insulation to catch on fire.
That's a good sign.
All right.
Put this over here.
That's a whopping pizza pan.
What's that?
That's no good.
Here's our battery.
Now this is out of our engine tests.
Then we'll have to take our terminals off, but
let's double check and make sure we have,
we have some oil.
Actually that's kind of topped off and black.
Well, that's good.
Now of course, there's always a concern that
we're going to fire this up.
The bearings are all going to be dry and it's going to
woop everything out. Well, here's what we're going to do.
We're going to spin it over, minus coil wear,
so it does not try to fire,
but at least kind of spin things around and get some
oil pressure going.
So we'll do that.
Here's my coil wire.
All right. We've got interior lights.
Hey, the radio turns on.
(engine revving)
That's a good sign.
Okay.
Let's give that starter just a second.
Let's do one more crank and then I'll hook up the
coil wire again.
(engine revving)
Okay.
We'll let that cool off a little bit.
Now this is truly,
if I were to write a for sale sign for this
from talking with Kim, this is a ran when parked.
So ran when parked means everything is still there, right?
Everything's still connected.
Cool.
It might be interesting to see what we get there,
but I tell you what I'm going to have,
Jordan, my expert key turner
Jordan, just take in a
crack the throttle just a little bit and spin it over.
(engine revving)
I bet our points are corroded as hell,
but,
we can check it,
but I would bet our points are pretty well cooked.
I'm just going to clean the points real fast.
Again. I'm not trying to fix the problem per se,
other than I'd love to hear...
Just a little.
Clean up them contact surfaces just enough.
This is a more of, can I make it work real fast?
(engine revving)
Nope. We're not getting any spark.
Well bummer.
I was really hoping it would fire right up, but yeah,
sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't,
but it spins over clean. So that's good.
I'm going to get my parts ordered
and I'm going to get them put on.
So the next week, you are going to hear this run.
So I'm going to get to my stuff.
You're going to go get to your stuff.
Go get your stuff done.
And we'll see you right back here next week
when this is running.
Deadline, we're making deadlines.
(grunts)
Yeah buddy.