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- [Tony] So what we're going to do here is we're taking this
pipe exhaust system that we bought from Summit Racing
that showed up with no hangers, no hardware,
no clamps, and no instructions.
So I'm assuming that somebody bought it,
absconded with all the good stuff,
taped it back up, somehow we wound up with it.
- [Lucky] Hold on.
(beep)
Siri, what's absconded mean?
(lift motor)
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Hey, hold on let me get some safety wire
and I'll just hang the tail pipes.
- Please do something.
Ugh, hey hold it right there.
- Yeah
- Whoa.
(laughing)
(clanking of metal)
- I'm going to just get the welder out
and we'll just start tacking this stuff.
(buzzing)
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(impact humming)
Just got our rear end back from Frank at South Bay
Truck & 4x4.
And we put 4/10 gears in it and a very basic posse.
He hot tanked it, he cleaned it up,
and he put new studs in it cuz he said it looks like
it had been sitting in the ocean for a couple years.
So, way better, lets drop it in.
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(power tools)
Any H stock class you were allowed to run traction bars
on your car, and Dan Chug makes an awesome weld-in set.
It's just these little brackets going to weld in right around
the front spring perch, and then bolt up with the axle
to be very straight forward and get rid of any kind
of axle wrap from all sorts of horsepower we're going to
be putting down.
I love it.
(metal banging)
(impact humming)
It is finally time to turn our beautiful frame into an
ugly race car.
We got that 265 in there.
It looks brand new and it should be ready to run, We got a
three-speed of unknown origin it came with the engine.
Seems to shift alright so far.
The rear end is all refreshed, its got 4/10's in it
and a limited slip, new exhaust, headers, we're ready to go.
(dragging noise)
Come on over.
going back.
Alright, so when the rear gets close enough just push the
shocks inboard of the frame rails.
(banging)
- That sounded expensive.
Those creeks scare me, it's like what is it falling on.
- I'm just waiting on it to fall off.
- It can fall this far right now.
K. That's it.
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- So now lets put the lift on the frame,
and pick the whole thing back up.
- Man that feels a lot more solid than I thought it would.
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- Body on frame.
(impact humming)
This car is secure,
and I mean that in a not very secure way.
We've got the body finally married to the frame
on this thing, here's what we're going to do, We're going to slap
this thing back together and we're going to take it to the
track and see if we can run the original time that it ran
as a 1965 NHRA National Champion.
- That's it, paint it black, hit the track.
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We just got here at Auto Club Famoso Raceway.
- [Lucky] In sunny Bakersfield California.
- Over the last couple of weeks we have killed ourselves
basically doing an entire frame-under.
- Frame-under
- Frame-under restoration.
Now remember this thing was the best, fastest,
H stock car in 1965.
We're missing some trim,
we're missing a couple of back seats, headliner, carpet,
bumpers.
- Grill
- Probably down 300 pounds.
- You think that much?
- So that's working for us.
Working against us is the fact that it's
- Hot.
- a hundred degrees here.
- So we'll leave that stuff off and we'll see what it runs.
I think it's going to be kind of even itself out,
and we're going to try and hit that 15.3 number.
- Not try, we're going to do it.
- We're going to do it.
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(race car motor)
- This is definitely the first time this thing has been
down the track in at least a couple of decades.
And I really don't have a clue what's going to happen.
The only thing that is still original, and super sketchy
is the driver and the body.
Let's check it out.
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(car motor)