*Engine revving*
Hey you guys!
Thanks for joining us on another journey! Today, we're in Oregon
Oh, yeah, Joseph Oregon still on that motorcycle ride throughout Oregon
And today we're checking out the old antique car show. What's the name of it? The Oregon Mountain Cruise
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*Car sounds*
Wayne, this is Wayne!
Well, nice meeting you, Wayne
It's a 1951 Kaiser Henry J Kaiser... Okay
Well Henry J Kaiser formed that for his his shipyard workers back in the 40s and
he had access to steel on all that and so he decided he could make cars and
This was the first year first thing he made was a 51 Henry J. Now is that
modified or is that real? It's--Because it looks much more that it looks more like today's car than...
Yeah, it's it's still all steel body
But I've widened it and shorten it and extended it and chopped it and done things to it
But it's still an original steel body car
That's what they looked like originally
What kind of chassis are you running? Is it still the same chassis?
No, no--It's...
The drivetrain is pretty much all Dodge Viper. Dodge Viper, ok. When I was looking at it, going there's no way this is a '51
It came with a Willys motor in them when they originally--oh, okay
Six cylinder Willys. I'm sure you take all kinds of awards on this, huh?
I think because it is so different, you know--right--you know, I kind of made a sports car
out of kind of an ugly little duck. Yeah, yeah
Turned it into a sports car
Yeah, that's way cool. I did do all the work, I did everything myself. All except the upholstery. I did all the body paint and everything
Got lots of hours in this. I'm not a pro by any means at all
*Music*
Here's a Victoria and there's a Crown Victoria. And so this is original, this has not been restored. And what year is this?
56 ...I had it painted in '79, 40 years ago
So they were saying they bought it for two hundred dollars? $250 What year?
1967. that's a steal back then. Well, it wasn't that big of a deal then, no really. No?
I mean it was a steal but
It wasn't unusual to buy a pretty good car in those days for
That kind of money. 'Course that was a lot of money then too - yeah true, right? Yeah
Yeah, cuz what, I mean, what would you earn for a wage back then?
twenty-five dollars a day probably
Yeah, maybe a dollar twenty-five an hour when I started at Montgomery Wards. Oh, wow. That was minimum wage
It does smell old
Yeah? yeah, I like it. Well we'll have to try the smell-a-vision--yeah, right?
You guys smell it? --right? This is "Smell-o-Tube"! He was saying
They had some old ladies through here last year? Some time and they were
Like "Ooooh do I have memories of that backseat!"
*Laughter*
Fogging up the windows
At the drive-in, right?
*Music and our singing along*
I almost bought one of these once
Yeah?
Yeah, it was a total POS. It was gonna cost me too much money to fix when I didn't have it
Yeah
Did your mama dress you funny?
Come here, say I'm the Wildflower
Is she part Chihuahua? Chihuahua and Jack Russell. That's what I thought I got Jack Russells at home
*Music*
*Engine revving*
Got some serious meat on this thing!
The tires weigh more than the whole chassis
Pretty much. What is this? It's a 37. Okay, it is '37. Pickup. Yes
And so you just tubbed out the rear-end on it?
That's in our Morrison's 4 link and because I'm anti-tub. Ok. So, you know when I
narrowed the bed and mounted the fenders to the axis both front and rear are all mounted if you look in here close you
If you look down in here you can
See, this is an exoskeleton. You can really see it on the other side
Okay, oh I see
So it's literally two halves that go around the axle and
I narrowed the inside of them and they have a little clearance there so it gets compression, you know, and it
Holds 'em big suckers right in there. Yeah? You know, you figure that's 18 inches of fender hanging out. So are you a machinist?
I mean this--I'm just an obsessive welder, okay
I mean I know you got skills
You didn't pick this up in your garage
This is my first one. Oh really? Yeah
It's beautiful. Yeah, thank you. I wanted to be different. Yeah, I love it. I love it
I don't want to be like everybody else. I get that. If you look at it
That motor's out of a boat
That's a tall deck boat motor. Those are locomotives
Bucket seats out of a Canadian locomotive
I know you've got some hours in this and I really love the flat black. I got five years in it. I don't doubt it
But I mean, you know, it's like six weeks to build that fender
Oh really? And lots of cardboard lots of cardboard templates
And a lot of time
Custom, lots of custom. Don't get in a hurry
Yeah, and then once you start drilling holes
You end up doing it forever
I mean literally I started with the engine mounts and pretty soon
It was it was the shock mounts and then it was--it's everything. Everywhere you look I just drilled holes
All the fender mounts
But they all gotta line up and you chamfer in each hole and you know by the time you're done it all blends
It would almost--it makes them look different to have holes in them, it completes them, you know. Sure
And it's just like all the bracketry when I first put it on there was kind of flat
Then you go to work on it on the sander, pretty soon you come up with a look that you like
And then you have to match it and match it and match it, you know. Gotcha
It was a lot of fun
I bet
Just different ideas. Yeah. Because you've gotta make nobody happy but you. Right, right.
That's the beauty of it. It is. This is your creation, not one like it. It's artwork. It's artwork. It's a gentleman's rat rod
Even if ya don't call it that
My version of a pickup
Instead of a rat rod, it's a gentleman's rod--I get it. That is a beautiful ride.
When I brought it home, my cousin was there
and he says to me, he goes,
"Why, why would you pay money for that?"
And I told him I said "Richard, you gotta have vision!" And he looks at me and goes "Paul. You need to have your vision checked"
I laughed when he said that and then I took him for a ride in it when it was done. He don't say nothing no more, he just hangs on
Yeah
Oh yeah, I bet she moves out, especially with being an old boat motor
She can turn a lot more RPMs than a car motor. You can hold it to the floor and you can't hurt it. It's a tall deck
so it's a long stroke. Yeah--turns a little slower, but you can't hurt it
What do you got for gearing in the rear end? I've got three 70s. I had four Elevens but it was too much
Yeah, didn't cruise very well. Yeah, you know you're doing 50. Yeah
And about seven miles to the gallon but but getting to 50 was like that. Oh, right now,
right now. But it's fun. It's a time machine. Yeah. You know, it's hot rod therapy
*Car honks and sounds*
Tell us about that, I don't know anything the car
Anglias? Well, the Anglias were--they're English Ford. They're imported from like
1947-48
to the mid-70s, I think and they were just a
Small car that kind of Ford thought they could compete with the Volkswagens or something
I guess. They came with like a four-cylinder motor with about 20 horsepower
Yeah, I think in 48 there was only like 3000 of these imported. Oh, really?
With the left-hand drive because in Britain they were all right-hand drive. Okay, yeah
Awful lot of these--when they got into the United States the back in the day of the old hot runners
You know, out comes that little four cylinder and didn't want a flathead Ford or something or Oldsmobile or something--
They all went to the drag strip and good share of them got wrecked and
This one's all steel. It's got a small-block Chevy, of course in it, powered by Ford nine-inch rear end
No, I wouldn't think it's much over 2,000 pounds. Oh wow
Just like driving on overgrown go-kart
Just a little faster
Now I'm old enough I've got that out of my system--you outgrow that? I'm slow, I drive slow
Are you sure about that? Well, I have. Okay
Maybe it's just the reflexes. I'm hoping I don't outgrow that
Maybe it's just the reflexes that I've lost
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