it's Freiburger i'm standing here at the
drag strip after having run out of gas
with the crop duster at the very last
minute and i'm waiting for somebody to
bring fuel so that we can run again
that's the type of thing that you end up
seeing on Roadkill Extra which is the
daily show' on Motor Trend On Demand
where we show you behind the scenes of
Roadkill and Roadkill Garage and we do
question-and-answer sessions tech tips
stuff like that it airs every weekday on
Motor Trend On Demand a lot of people
needed a taste of it though they wanted
to find out what it's all about
so we're going to put one right here on
youtube so you can kind of see what
roadkill extra is all about and
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so here you go check out the most
popular episode of roadkill extra that
we've had on motor trend on demand so
far
this is going to be a behind-the-scenes
look at the twisted collection of Steve
dulcet who's my co-host both on roadkill
garage and also on engine masters now I
would have dulcet here himself telling
you about this stuff but he would deny
most of what I'm about to tell you
because the guy he's like am I really a
Mopar guy like dude you have dodges
stacked up like cordwood in your
equipment yard here and in particular
i'm gonna tell you about his fetish for
these seventies dodge trucks this is a
d100 that you'll probably recognize
because we had this in an episode of
roadkill garage
it was a truck that he bought just for
parts because I guess it's not that it
has been trashed it's more that it had
registration nightmares and it owed so
much money to the DMV that there was no
way he was ever going to register it so
it became apart struck we think this one
is a 75 and it was sitting around after
he sort of harvested some junk off of it
but it had an engine in it and if you
flash back to my favorite episode of
roadkill garage so far you'll see us
putting that engine in 270 dodge
challenger but in episode before that we
made this truck running drive with a
clapped-out 360 small-block Mopar and a
727 automatic transmission and we went
and thrash the thing in the field just
because we knew that we were actually
going to take this drivetrain and throw
it in that challenger this truck is
actually kind of good because it's a 75
which in California smog exempt that's
kind of the magic number for us in
California zoo 75 and older whenever I
go on craigslist i go on the thing that
lets you choose model year and I just
look at all the junk that is smog exempt
because I don't even want to deal with
that but this truck is a short bed which
makes it pretty good because he needed a
bed
let's ask why check out this truck over
here this is one that dosage had as a
daily driver for a long time and
unfortunately he got sideswiped by
somebody i think he said it was like in
a tourist or something and they mangle
the bed and they took out the whole
front end of the
thing which is a real drag this was a
nice truck he had the thing like all
reupholstered the rats have eaten all of
that look there's actual rat poop there
you can see the tack in there
I like the seventies dodge trucks too
because in my experience they have a ton
more legroom than the Fords and Chevy's
of the same era that's what makes them
good what makes them bad is that it's
really hard to find parts for him which
is why he's got these things all stacked
around
look here's a hood for one this is kind
of interesting this color is like very
close to Hemi orange sort of on-the-go
mango side that's a little like a muscle
car color but they used it on the
Caltrans trucks i think it's omaha
orange and I had a whole dodge
ram charger this color once but see he's
got I think this is a 408 small-block
maybe it's a 340 in this thing he used
to tell me this thing would run 7000 rpm
which doesn't sound like a good idea for
a big truck to me but he really liked
this truck until I got wiped out and
that's why he bought that black one
because the front clip needed to go on
this and so did the bed but wait there's
more
you walk over here and you've got a
slightly later won the grill on this one
indicates that it's like I'm not really
really good on this but it's not a
seventy two three four or five so it's
like a 76 and up that has these marker
lights in it and this one I can tell by
looking at the shape of the transmission
bellhousing bolt pattern had a slant six
in it which is that Chrysler inline
six-cylinder engine that's actually
leaned over at an angle like this it's
kind of a funky motor i like this truck
because it's a manual transmission and
it's got no power brakes which is you
know kind of a thing for me
no power steering but it does have discs
on it and most importantly it's a
stepside which personally I kind of
favor on these trucks i think that it's
pretty good
these things have the same wheel bolt
pattern as a Chrysler muscle car to its
kind of like a muscle car just in the
shape of a pickup truck
this isn't the only one though let's go
see more
the ramcharger right here sort of falls
out of the formula of the early
seventies dodge trucks but it's kind of
the same thing
this is the more squared-off body style
with the non removable top when they
went into i'm gonna guess let me think
eighty three or four ish they went to
the non removable top like that I'm
probably wrong on that year but the
later ones the top didn't come off which
is kind of a drag up here there's some
even better stuff see right now dosage
be saying things like you know I don't
really horde these things and i'm
actually going to get the thing running
soon and oh man you can't say that this
truck is junk because it's really good
he'd be saying things like that so over
here is the truck that he's working on
currently this is my favorite one so far
actually I think I said that was my
favorite one this one is better because
this one is about to run and drive it
has a 318 in it i can remember how to
open these things it's been a long time
since i owned one of these myself
secondary latch there it is
ok so that's got a bone stock 318 in it
and you'll notice he's added aftermarket
air conditioning compressor to because
he likes his heir it's all freshly
rewired once again manual break truck
it does have power steering this thing
is all that original sort of bronze
color look how nice the interior is
though about to kill the camera guy
falling into the ditch there look at
that all fresh
it's got an 8-bit 833 overdrive for
speed in it which is an interesting
transmission that mopar used in the
mid-seventies too early eighties it's
just like the 833 hemi 4-speed that they
ran in actually not a hemi 4-speed but
like a muscle car for Speed that would
be in a 3-3 darter 340 duster
except for that third gear is overdrive
and fourth gear is one-to-one so the you
flip over one of the levers on the
shifter so you're doing a normal h
pattern to shift but you're really going
first second fourth third I don't know
why that's the way it is but third is in
fact the overdrive ratio so when you're
driving it seems like forth but this is
a really nice truck and once again a
shortbed stepside but that's not the
only one
come over here yet another one this
truck you can actually see in an episode
of roadkill i forget which one there's a
scene of dosage and I driving in this
thing in a roadkill and I really don't
remember which one it was
this used to be a daily driver for him i
remember when we used to haul parts
around in this thing and my favorite
part of this one is the 15 I 10 dish
mags all the way around that makes this
one
swank I bet he'd trade that's when to me
for something that's kind of my thought
let's see are there any more think there
is there's one more that's a farmtruck
there it is
oh but this one's the earlier body style
this is 1970 I believe dodge truck he
doesn't have as much of a kink for these
things that does the earlier ones they
changed the bodies elements and 71 that
right or was it 72 that they went to the
new body style one of the other I should
know these things off the top of my head
but that's what you get when you come to
these videos on motor trend on demand
we're just trying to give you more
content sort of off the top of our head
giving you a behind-the-scenes look at
the twisted worlds of in this case
roadkill garage but check it out we have
a whole bunch more videos here on motor
trend on the man not just the
full-length shows that we do but more
and more this behind-the-scenes stuff
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