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00:00A few years ago, we brought in two 1970 Cudas. One is a 340 car, one's a 383 car. Both cars
00:09were in a collision. One car looks beautiful, 70 Cuda, 340 automatic loaded. We even featured it
00:16in one of our autopsy reports. The other car is a 1970 Cuda that when you see the pictures of it
00:21beforehand, it was a mess, a living mess. Each one of those cars has individual hits to them
00:28that are unique. What I call a high hit and what I call a low hit. And so today, now that they're
00:34back from the dipper and they're on stands, one's on a rotisserie, I'm going to show you what the
00:38difference is between a high hit and a low hit and what the secondary damage of that's going to look
00:44like. The orange 1970 Cuda 383 four-speed is a numbers car. It's a very rusty car, hit really hard
00:51in the left quarter panel. We've got before shots of it so you can see how devastatingly violent
00:58the hit was. Interestingly enough, the car we're going to be comparing it to, a 1970 Cuda 340 automatic
01:04car, doesn't look bad at all. Doesn't look nearly like this one does. However, it took a worse blunt
01:11force trauma than the orange 1970 Cuda 383 four-speed. I believe that Shane has them both in the shop and
01:20ready to go. I'm just pulling up to the old graveyard. As soon as I get inside, I like to shut it off
01:29while I'm rolling. Time to go to work. Hollywood time.
01:40If you didn't have Mark Orman, you'd have to invent him. How did I get here?
02:03I have no idea why my dad is crazy. It's not easy being the number one painter.
02:18Mark hates everybody. He always has.
02:21They're coming to get you, Barbara.
02:52Okay, so the first car I'm going to take a look at here is what you call a high hit. This is a car
02:57that I believe got hit in such a way that it wasn't directly on the bumper and the frame rail but yet
03:01over the top of it. The area that was hit first and foremost is the primary impact point and the
03:10primary damage is right here. Secondary damage is the fact you're missing a quarter panel all the way up
03:15to the door and any other blunt force trauma that it may have sustained. This one got hit high on this
03:21side so my frame rail is beautiful but it rolled the body panel in. Interesting here.
03:27It hit with such speed and such force that it basically can openered the quarter panel ripping
03:32it loose from the rear body panel ripping the trunk gutter which is spot welded to the Dutchman panel
03:38completely off. It basically just sheared it off of there. It sheared the quarter panel off of the car
03:43but it didn't stop there. These are unibodies. So the front frame rails, rear frame rails,
03:48wheelhouses and floors and rockers, they all make up the structural integrity of this car.
03:53In the case of a high hit like this one it's important to see yes it looks terrible it looks
03:58like it's just torn the living hell out of something but did it actually damage the unibody
04:03and the structure of the car. Rear body panel, beautiful. Flat as a pancake, absolutely perfect.
04:09So we know that there's most likely not going to be any damage to the frame rail. So the next thing we
04:15have to go is to what's the true secondary damage besides this little ripple effect over here and
04:20it happens on the quarter panel and where that quarter panel was driven into the door. Now keep
04:25in mind we have cut off the bag quarter. You look at the original footage of the car that we took before
04:30we disassembled it and it was on there we just wadded all the way up to the door. We just got it out of
04:34the way so we could see and so we could share with you people at home what we're talking about. Again the
04:38primary point of impact right here I believe that the car that hit it rolled this in and grabbed that quarter
04:44panel and drove it all the way up to here that's how much this thing buckled. Let's just look at it.
04:50Keep in mind over the rail versus under the rail or in the rail. This went over the rail so we've
04:56got an enormous amount of sheet metal damage but we don't have structural damage. Boom comes along and
05:01hits it. We did take the extension off of the quarter panel took the quarter panel off car so this
05:06wasn't ripped off in it it wasn't helped in it but it wasn't ripped off in it. This is that trunk
05:11gutter I was showing you. This is what's left to the old girl that did attach all the way over to
05:16here on your Dutchman panel which speaking of your Dutchman there she is right there look at how it
05:21ripped out all the factory spot welds every one of them because it literally tore that quarter panel
05:26off of the Dutchman and it tore the quarter panel off of this trunk gutter. Another really amazing thing
05:32is how far this wheelhouse you can see clearly this wheelhouse is crushed. This should just be a nice
05:39round even good looking wheelhouse in or out of you've seen us replace them a million times. To
05:45get this to go here it had to rip out all these spot welds and it rolled that thing around that's
05:52secondary impact is it hit there and it just kept on moving so this thing gets rolled around it
05:57destroys the wheel opening parts of the quarter are still on the car. Here is part of the quarter panel
06:04all the way up to here pretty ugly. This at one time came down went around and met right here that's
06:11how far off that piece is. This is what's left to your jack bracket your forward jack bracket right
06:16here they used to cradle a jack but won't do that any longer and you can even see inside there there is
06:23a vertical pillar support this is the one that AMD just started making it until they started making it
06:28we had that like on our catalog car we had a get a donor this is now being made which is good now because
06:33we need one that's wadded up all the way through here this is all just a result of that impact
06:41and it's ugly I'm not gonna lie to you it's ugly. The good news this is our frame rail now it's got
06:47holes in it from rust that's cute it's definitely a rusty car but as far as a flat plane that thing is
06:54like a pancake it's beautiful there's no damage from this impact to that frame rail it sits down very
07:02clearly you can see on the stand beautifully fits right down on it no problems didn't have to pull
07:07it down just sitting there all these factory spot wells there's no pulling apart here like you would
07:13have if you had a bent frame rail and everything was buckled down the only damage to this is that
07:18secondary damage from coming down the side of the car some people at home probably are going to say
07:22that's primary damage I don't care I think the point of impact is primary I think this is secondary
07:27you don't like it they're not doing anything like this on any other network
07:31here's my favorite part when you talk about secondary secondary damage this is awesome take
07:37a real nice look here's the front of your quarter panel where it goes into the door jam you see it
07:43right there you see that little mark that little indentation you'll notice it matches that indentation
07:49because when this got hit this door spit out a quarter of an inch and when it did this point right
07:56here that you see is damaged hit that door that hit that and they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle
08:02so now you have to say if that thing took that nasty of a hit on the door you have to be mindful
08:08of your gaps up here I look at it and we just kind of bolted this back together for now purposes my
08:15suspicion is if anything bent on this car in the way of trauma from this door impact it would have been
08:21where the hinge actually mounts to the door because that is the most vulnerable spot you're not going
08:25to bend one of those hinges on a straight impact like this you can hyperextend one but you're not
08:29going to hit it like that it's quarter inch steel and it bolts to the hinge pillar which is a very
08:34reinforced piece too so it is my guess that we're going to replace the door anyway because it's rotten
08:39we're going to do a quarter panel inner and outer wheelhouse now I'm just talking about the parts
08:43that need to be replaced due to the impact the whole car is rusty we're going to replace a lot of metal on it
08:49but one thing we know for sure is to start out on this car with this high hit we've got a structurally
08:54sound safe car that doesn't have to go on the frame rack if it fit on the jigs that we made we
09:00know it's x y and z width height and length are all where they're supposed to be so now we can move to
09:07the next one show you what a low hit or a direct hit does to a car coming up mark reveals the truth
09:15about low hit collisions and the true amount of damage hidden under the surface all this is
09:21secondary damage meanwhile alissa aids dougie in deconstructing a rear axle assembly to rebuild
09:29another it's always a little easier to work with doug than it is my dad but does alissa have a
09:34connection to this rear axle dougie knows whose rear end it is but alissa doesn't find out when graveyard
09:41cars returns okay so alissa today what we're doing we're transferring all of the parts out of
09:49this axle housing that mark built first into another axle housing that he's gonna put in his car now
09:56previously you saw where i had found my original rear axle housing out of my 70 charger the guy had
10:02saved it for whatever reason when the car went off to get crushed he saved that and we showed you
10:08the housing the condition that it was in and reminisce for a little bit about the last time
10:14we saw that housing dougie knows whose rear end it is and what the importance of it is marky knows but
10:20alissa doesn't we have to remove the brake drums on both ends okay the brake shoes and all the hardware
10:26the backing plates the axles in order to get the third member and the gears out of this housing to put
10:34all this into the next housing so we got a lot of work to do so i'm back at graveyard cars part-time
10:40i can't be full-time yet just because my kids are still little so i just have the half day but i'm
10:44really excited to be back my first day i'm working with doug which i'm excited about because it's always
10:49a little easier to work with doug than it is my dad we're going to start by removing the drum we've done
10:53that before so go ahead and pull the drum off set it on the table over there yeah they are heavy don't drop
10:59it on your toe bring back one of those tools uh the silver one and uh i'll show you how to use that
11:05okay so this tool has a little hook on one side and it's to remove these upper brake springs okay
11:12you put the tool over the little knob catch the little hook against the spring and you twist it
11:18and then you rock it off there like that and that's how you remove the upper spring and so now that
11:24that's off here's how you put it back on you put this in the spring and you situate it so it's
11:31pulling real straight and you kind of pull towards yourself pop it back on twist it out so that's how
11:41you reinstall it okay that's a handy tool it is it's pretty cool oh it'd be tough without it yeah and then
11:48pull down there you go nope wait you seem like you're scared am i doing it right oh got it perfect
11:54perfect okay i'm gonna do the other side is that okay sure oh okay both are off do you fish it out
12:01yep got it now we have to take the brake shoes off and in order to take the brake shoes off they're held
12:07on with this little hat and the spring and the nail the back of it is over on this side on the backing
12:14plate so you hold that okay with your finger and then you'll see that there's little openings a quarter
12:22of a turn away from where that pin is setting okay so in order to pull that off you put this tool over
12:28it get it straight push in give it a quarter of a turn until it comes off oh okay so the spring and
12:36retainer that hold the brake shoe to the backing plate we call the top of the fastener a hat because
12:43it's kind of hat shaped it has a crosshair in the center of it and the pin has a flat tip like a
12:49screwdriver tip so the pin goes through the backing plate through the brake shoe goes through one hat
12:56retainer then there's a spring and then the top hat retainer pushes down over the spring and you give
13:04it a quarter of a turn and it can't come back off that's how you pull the spring off and then you can pull
13:10the nail out the back so that's what holds the brake shoes against the backing plate okay i'll go ahead
13:20and do this side so as i said you just put this tool over it hold the pin from the back give it a
13:26quarter of a turn pull the spring off there we go and the nail out the back perfect okay so now we can just
13:35open the shoes up twist it out kind of that was kind of holding it all together that's our leading
13:42shoe we've got this spring here the self-adjuster and the rear shoe there it is so that's the park
13:50brake cable ah you just twist this out like that and there's your rear shoe we got to take that these
13:58pieces off or they're good okay yep they're good so there are a lot of components to these brake systems
14:03and i know alissa has worked with me before on these but it's really good to go over these again
14:09and refresh so that we can reacclimate alissa to the braking systems so this here is the spreader
14:15bar that goes between the shoes it goes down in here under the wheel cylinder so we'll take that out
14:21and we've also got this little piece that goes up on the top like a washer behind the springs yeah
14:27exactly okay so now we've got all the hardware off here and we're down to the axle there's axle nuts
14:34behind it on the flange that holds the axle in to the housing in order to remove those you have to
14:40rotate the axle five times to get in there and undo these nuts that are behind it that sucks yeah so
14:49one thing my dad's always told me is that chrysler has always done things for a reason
14:53so the reason why there's a hole in the axle is so that you can get to the nuts with a socket if you
14:57didn't have that there then you'd have to use a wrench and that would make the job a lot more
15:00difficult so on these mosher axles the access to those nuts is really tight and i can get in a
15:08lot better with this little quarter inch okay a small one so in order to remove the nuts we're just gonna
15:14uh run through them got it got it yep sweet okay there's one i'm gonna rotate this around and i'm
15:24gonna let you go ahead and run the rest of these off okay so right about there's where we want it
15:29there you go okay turn okay i think it's easier to work with doug than my dad because doug has a
15:41little bit more patience just in general but also for me and you know my dad is full of knowledge
15:45which is great but he can be really wound tight so for my first day back it's nice to warm up working
15:56with doug perfect okay so we got five of those put those on the table yep okay so now we're gonna
16:07pull the axle out pull the backing plate off then we're gonna turn this around and as your dad would
16:13say we're gonna lather rent and repeat okay that wasn't too hard so this was just put together recently
16:19let's let's see how it's gonna be heavy there you go okay lift up lift up a little bit and hold it
16:26off the seal when you take it out of there that's good to know yeah ah sweet we're good right we're good
16:33so inside of there is a rubber seal that keeps the gear oil from leaking out so just be mindful when you
16:39pull the axle out that you don't drag it across the seal i typically lift it up and pull it out without
16:46to try not to damage the seal okay what happens if it does get damaged it'll leak then you have to
16:52redo it all okay yeah so here's our park brake cable i'm gonna pull that out of the axle housing here
16:59and the right hand brake cable is always longer than the left so with any luck we can pull this backing
17:08plate off so oh there we go there we go so here's our backing plate and our park brake cable
17:18all right now one side done already
17:26the car behind me that we're going to go over right now is what i call a low hit very simple hi
17:31oh i've even got it marked off just like the other one this is going to show you what happens when
17:36it is hit directly on a frame rail such as the rear bumper which bolts to the rear frame rail
17:41and how the primary and the secondary damage transfers how that energy transfers throughout
17:46the car now this car is what we call a low hit we just talked about the high hit and primary and
17:51secondary damage of that this is a low hit which is i consider to be more traumatic even though it
17:56doesn't look more traumatic if you go back and look at the pictures of this car before we took it apart
18:02very good clean car mostly original paint yeah you could see there was a dent in the quarter panel
18:07some damage back here but you didn't quite see the extent of what i'm going to share with you now
18:11the difference between the low hit and the high hit as i mentioned earlier is a low hit can cause more
18:17structural damage so here's what i believe happened the bumper bolts on right here these two bolt holes
18:23that you see are the two bolt holes that would hold the bumper bracket on the right hand side identical
18:29ones on the left hand side we have our whirly jig connected to it when the car got hit by something
18:36could have been a pickup truck because i have a feeling the car's down in the back as well as being
18:41shoved forward it hit on the bumper destroying the bumper or should have destroyed the bumper the
18:47primary points of impact are this area here where the rear body panel has an extension piece off of
18:55it and a quarter extension piece they're all rolled in and up same with the trunk floor marries to the
19:01rear body panel this area right here i believe is up in the air from the actual primary hit including
19:08this dent right here you see in the quarter you also see a slight separation here at the trunk gutter
19:12to rear body not much not much but if you had a lid on there and you were trying to square it all you
19:17would find that all of this stuff right here needs to come down in this space primary all needs to go
19:24up but this stuff needs to come down in space so we have a rear body panel that's very solid we want to
19:29be able to save that we want to be able to save as many of these pieces as we possibly can because
19:34they're not raw and in this case we just have to address not only this primary damage but the secondary
19:40damage which is what i'm going to show you now when this got hit right here on the bumper and wadded up
19:46this area that ends us seeing this quarter panel made of sheet metal
19:53had nowhere to go it's welded into a b pillar right here very solid area incredibly solid area i know it
20:01didn't move because if you look at the original pictures the gap between the door and the quarter
20:06on the passenger side is malissimo so now you say okay the quarter panel shortened up so so it's no
20:13longer the original length from there to there it shortened up that is your compression buckle that
20:18had to go somewhere take a piece of paper buckle it like that and you're going to have compression
20:22buckle all the way down into here you almost a straight line i mean yeah there's a little snake to
20:28it but that whole thing is manipulated not from a shot on it like that not from that not from that
20:34from this whole thing coming down like that and it had nowhere to go so it caved in right here if you step
20:42back right now this is really interesting look at the style line that goes down the side and you will
20:46see that at the point of the biggest part of the compression buckle you can literally see the style
20:52line gently going downhill that gives you proof that it is down in the back and it couldn't go down in the back if the structural
21:01part of it wasn't bent down as well you can even see it in all the side marker right here
21:07now this swells out and then it dips in and all this is secondary damage there's another point that
21:14has some secondary damage up further forward i am not positive because i didn't get to see the accident
21:22this could be from a completely different incident but the fact that we have a buckle in the frame rail
21:28you can't be sure look at that dent nice big caved in dent however i don't see any points of impact
21:35right there i don't see where another car hit into it or or a telephone pole hit it there's no gouges
21:42in the metal so that does lend me to think that this along with what we have going on here is your
21:50secondary damage you've got a great big quarter panel there that's been shortened up so if you're at
21:56home and you don't notice this and you don't notice what i'm going to show you down lower on the frame
22:00rail you go to put your brand new shiny amd quarter panel on there you put it in place you got this one
22:06cut off and it comes back to here maybe it's an inch longer those maniacs over there they making a bad
22:14part i'm going on the internet and i'm going to tell everybody well before you do that make sure your
22:20car is square and that's what we're going to talk about next is the frame rail we can see what
22:24secondary damage does here but because it took a shot low remember low hit right on that frame
22:29rail it's got damage down here that transferred to that's the importance of looking at an accident
22:35digesting everything that you see and coming up with a plan before you ever pick up a wrench or a
22:40hammer or a frame rack so here's our frame rail for the right hand side this area right through here
22:46is really nice and flat it's a factory frame rail very good solid car nice and flat through there
22:53we jump past this damage area that i'm going to show you and go here nice and flat because
22:58they're supposed to be you'll notice that our frame rail has a natural arc to it that's the most
23:03vulnerable point in accident so now i want to show you this pucker right here and this puckered area
23:11right here imagine that this frame rail at the very back where the bumper is gets hit hard and downward
23:19it has nowhere to go it can't transfer throughout the car it's a unibody it's got to go somewhere
23:26it went right here the energy was absorbed in this frame rail thus when you fold this rail down
23:32you get a pucker here and a pucker here so the things that i'm pointing out right now are something
23:36that'd be really easy to undercoat over the top of and you wouldn't see it that's how cars are sold
23:41every day they get painted over carpet hides a multitude of sins well under coating and paint hide a lot too so
23:46you get a car bear like this this is the best testimonial you're going to have once you get
23:50your car back from the dipper or media black thing whatever you do look for these things look for the
23:54key areas look for things that for some reason don't line up anymore we know this frame rail if it
24:00were setting on the ground is down when it's down like that it causes the buckle right here but look
24:06at more secondary damage this is the inner wheelhouse and the outer wheelhouse this should be flat as a
24:12pancake and it is not see how it's like the ocean through there look at the puckering right there
24:18this panel and this panel are puckered you can see it physically in the high spots as well as look how
24:24it's separated right here from the trunk floor flange see that gap right there that little gap right there
24:30is all from that wheelhouse inner wheelhouse outer quarter panel which i showed you the buckle
24:38and this rail having nowhere else to go upon an impact that's just the way these work so we're
24:43going to put this on a frame rack where we're going to lock it down into the pinch welds on the body and
24:48we're going to raise this rail up high enough that we can stress relieve beat down these areas that are
24:56puckered that when we let off of the frame rack the frame rail stays when we're done we should have a
25:02smooth flat frame rail through here and on the back side and a smooth wheelhouse after the break
25:09mark tasks his top body man to mend the structural damage to this 1970 cuda let's put some pressure
25:16on and just see what it wants to do but will this end up being a more complicated job than he was
25:22expecting we're kind of hoping it might all walk out with one pull it isn't meanwhile alissa continues to
25:27help dougie but will she end up finding out the secret behind this rear axle i'm gonna go ahead
25:33and let her in on it find out when graveyard cars returns okay to be able to pull a frame rail you
25:42have to lock the car down which is where you're at now you've got it on the frame rack and you've
25:48locked all four of the tight pinch welds the pinch weld is the area you see underneath there where the
25:53clamps come together and they grab hold of that small pinch weld he has that in four different
25:57points so that car can't move the only thing that can move is what we pull on which is going to be
26:02the frame rail and you think that we've got a good height yeah because you want to pull back and up
26:07raise the whole back car up when he presses the button on the pump this ram is going to come out
26:12right here when it comes back like that the tower here is going to roll back a little bit and when it
26:19rolls back the chain part right here will pull tight just like that that's going to make all of this
26:25stuff right here pull out that's going to be our goal is get the frame rail to come out and to come
26:32up just a little bit now several things will happen as the frame rail goes up it's going to stretch the
26:37buckles out so you'll see the buckles actually start to come out of the quarters it won't be the
26:41perfection but you'll see a little bit of movement in those the only thing i want to take one second
26:45before you get pulling because i know you're like a kid in a candy store and wait to hit that pump i just
26:49want to show how much we're trying to gain from that right hand rail remember we have two kinks in
26:54that rail that are puckered out when he has this thing loaded up he's going to beat those things
26:58down so that it stays but i want to show you how far off the two rails are to prove what i was saying
27:04earlier is true so before we start pulling i'll just say that we took the measurements earlier he took
27:08a tape measure and he put it from the frame rack up to the frame rail on the undamaged side yeah and then
27:14he moves that over to the passenger side which is the side that's got a problem how far roughly did
27:20you see that that frame rail is down passenger side is about a half inch low so we know that
27:24that rail has to go up half an inch but the fact that the quarter panel shortened up it probably also
27:29needs to come a little back not very much not much okay i think with that we're ready to make our very
27:33first pull and see what comes out of the quarter panel and see if that rail comes back to where we
27:38want it okay go ahead and let's put some pressure on it just see what it wants to do
27:44it's going up going up going up
27:55ah hear that yeah this is cool when we make these pulls we're reversing things that happened right
28:02when you hear it pop when we lift the frame rail up is of course just going back into position
28:07again and taking that den out you're within a half a millimeter and there it is you're you
28:13you've cleared the rail at that point but i bet when you let off it's going to come down so do you
28:17want to do your stress relieving now yeah even that came out a lot did it really yeah i love it so we
28:23have to come back up to the normal height and a little bit further so we can go in and do the
28:28stress relieving because we know that when we let go we want to be perfect well to do that you've got
28:32to take some of that stretching back out of the panels and that's what this stress relieving does
28:37some with just a hammer some with a hammer and dolly let's go up just a hair chain it up to the
28:42highest point to make it pull up higher oh okay yeah because if you're getting your stretches out
28:47then we would want to go higher with the next bullet yeah because it doesn't really need much
28:50for length it mostly needs height so where do you want this one at just go up a few links yeah
28:55up on the next give me some more slack okay that's all i have slack that's all you got you got it
29:01i can get you one more that's that's good i think just one let's just try that okay because it's
29:06really almost cleared there yeah nice yeah you're clear to buy it this is metalsmithing it's a lost
29:20art there's just not a lot of interest in our younger generation in doing it shane is much older
29:25than he looks i think he's 80. he grew up in the body shops doing this stuff so he learned how to
29:30be a metal smith cut that whole thing almost walked out except for a little bit right there
29:36that's going to need a good heavy hit on it right there
29:43he had it up a quarter of an inch past where it needed to go but when he lets off even after
29:47his stress relieving it's relaxing back down so he's going to have to go up even a little bit higher
29:52than that and stress relieve it some more he may have to stress relieve the quarter a little bit too
29:56it's together collectively they're making the strength but go ahead and raise it
30:00that's the oil cannon
30:06good we do have a quarter pull to make right now it's the frame rail i just don't know if you're
30:10going to get the frame rail to stay right now it's plenty high it's a quarter inch too high right now
30:15it's over raising it it's buckling the top of the quarter and this gotcha swallowing it in there
30:20so you need to make a pull on it you can come down a little bit but when you take the pressure off of
30:24that that's just going to go right back down right yeah so what he's going to have to do is let that
30:29frame rail down and then make a pull on the quarter panel that's what you see the yellow
30:32piece hanging out of the tail light opening for he needs to pull on the quarter then he's going to
30:37come back over and pull on this is that right right okay we have made all of the frame pulls now so the
30:43frame is within just a hair maybe a half a millimeter or where it needs to be it's really really close
30:49so now we have to pull the sheet metal okay because they're even though they're all welded
30:53together you can't get that frame rail so far out to pull all these dents out of here if you did
30:58you'd rip the frame rail off so now we have this big j hook which mounts inside right on this damaged
31:04area and it's the most watered up you can see here clearly where the bumper has hit it and caved it
31:09in real bad so this is where we're wanting to pull is right through here so he can pull that and while
31:15he's pulling that he'll stress relieve these different buckles that are and that one by the
31:21way at the front is almost perfect it's going to start loading that tower keep an eye on this area
31:26right through here look at that whopping right out of there that's just now starting to pull out
31:42can you get a pull right on that yeah um no because it's it's double wall right i'm gonna have
31:48to do some other fancier pulling i'm gonna put a hook in right there i think what we're going to
31:54end up doing and just so everybody knows these things take a long time they could spend a day or
31:59two on here because you don't want to over pull you don't want to under pull but you get the gist of it
32:03how the stress relieving of the metal makes things stay the way they're supposed to so from here i'm just
32:09going to cut them loose because i believe he's got to weld the tab on here and pull a couple
32:13different areas make some pulls when he does that he'll stress relieve all this we were kind of hoping
32:18it might all walk out with one pull the way it went in but it isn't it's it's more pulling apart
32:23right there so we'll let him go ahead and do all of his magic on it and we'll come back
32:27it should be all fixed up beautiful and ready to go to mud good job thanks
32:31still to come as alissa and dougie continue their disassembly of the rear end alissa probes doug for
32:41answers about his and mark's past he tells me stuff like all the girls liked him he had the coolest car
32:47down at the gut he told you that meanwhile mark reviews shane's work on the 1970 cuda body but what
32:54still needs to get done before this car is truly healed it's torn it's ripped it's ugly find out when
33:02graveyard cars returns going up okay
33:24perfect it was really fun working with alissa on this one and uh sharing a lot of history from
33:30our youth okay so let's see how tight this thing is sometimes these are stuck really tight so here we go
33:39oh came right off
33:43oh look at that there's hardly any sealer on this hardly anything gosh if that would have leaked you
33:49know whose fault it would have been even though i didn't build this yours oh yeah so i don't know
33:54why mark doesn't put enough sealer on these things i'm a firm believer in plenty of sealer so
34:00you're going to notice when i put this back together it's got good sealer okay so we got
34:04this out i'm going to swing this over here temporarily all right what now it's all empty
34:09we've got all the parts off this housing that mark built for his car so now we're going to go get the
34:15new housing and i'll tell you the story i know that alissa is very anxious to hear the back story on
34:21this job that we're doing right now now that i have the third member out i'm going to go ahead and
34:25let her in on it now here's the rear end that we're going to put back together we'll go ahead
34:29and put it up on the stand this is the last existing part that i know of for my old charger
34:35and i really thought it would be neat if doug could work with her on it but now let her know that
34:40this is a part of my life and my history that she's had the opportunity to work on this is the
34:46actual rear end housing that was in your dad's car back when he was 16 years old that's crazy yes
34:53why would he have that but not the car who knows so my dad was able to get it back and this is it
34:59this is the rear end that we actually worked on with our hands when we were 15 and 16 years of age
35:05so i had no idea this was the original axle housing out of my dad's old charger i know that he was
35:10looking for that car for a long time and he was really upset when he found out that it got crushed
35:14so the fact that he still has a piece from that car is really cool okay so i have a question while we
35:19do this okay my dad likes to tell me all kinds of stories about how like he was down how awesome
35:23he was exactly you know where i'm going with it he tells me stuff like all the girls liked him he had
35:28the coolest car down at the gut or whatever that means he told you that all right look i i'm not
35:33that guy that likes braggadocio all right but yeah i i did pretty pretty well with the ladies i was
35:38running the gut we called it the gut well i'm a street we cruised it on saturday night and friday nights
35:43that's why we worked on our cars all week so we could go up there cruise around you always wanted to
35:47find the car load full of chicks and chase them up and down willamette street get one of them to
35:51ride around with you kind of like american graffiti is fairly innocent stuff but this part
35:56is true if doug will just be honest yeah that can't be true right no i don't know if he was ever
36:02at the gut his car was always broke down just like mine was why was it broke down well we always
36:07broke them like doing stupid stuff yeah like burning out for a half mile yeah well then how'd you
36:12guys get around if you had broken cars well we had to spend all our time fixing them on weekends
36:17with money we didn't have where'd you guys get the money mark had 50 cents a day to go get gas
36:21for his car was that a lot back then well it got him to the 7-eleven and back what's this putting 50
36:27cents in my car driving down to 7-eleven to get a big gulp royal and i walked down to 7-eleven when we
36:33were kids we didn't have cars we were 13 14 years old we had a pool table out in my carport we shoot
36:39some stick go down there and get some glugs and head back to the house he's he's mixing his stories i try
36:44to stay as factual as humanly possible but dougie i think he's just kind of slipping out there and
36:49that's cool you know we all slip sometimes so yeah i don't know anything about mark's stories about
36:54getting girls all the time at the get the girls like him i don't know i didn't hang out with him
36:59did you did you have a girlfriend i had my own car and my own girlfriend oh you did yeah okay my dad
37:03told me he you were jealous of his charger but you had a barracuda yeah that's better than a charger
37:09and then he tells me all these stories like your dad bought you the barracuda and your dad did everything for
37:13you colorful stories alissa okay so you had a job so you could buy your own car right that's right
37:19did you save up for it save up for the car yeah see how doug answers a question with a question the
37:24only time he does that is he's getting ready to lay an untruth on everybody you're getting close to the
37:29story alissa you need to stay on him stay on him don't let him go well i sold my first car that got
37:34me part of the payment for my car part of the payment okay what'd you do for the rest i had to get a loan
37:39yeah dougie walked into the credit union walked out with a handful of cash to buy his barracuda but
37:44he didn't have a gun and a mask elissa keep on him and you'll find out what he did have they just went
37:49down to the bank is that what they did back then we'll see the mill i worked for was also
37:56in the credit union oh perfect and
37:59my dad suggested that i get a loan at the credit union where he banked that here thank you this
38:08reminds me a few good men when caffy's got jessup on the stand stay on him stay on him did you order
38:14that code red well that's awesome so you had good enough credit to just get a loan well dad co-signed
38:20for me ah maybe that's what my dad's talking about yeah was his dad dead yet yeah oh that's where the
38:26animosity comes from and the truth shall set you free there it is folks there it is daddy co-signed
38:34walked in didn't get carried in by six pole bearers to co-sign for a loan for a car so he could just
38:41upscale me with a 70 barracuda you know at the end of a few good men it was the first time that
38:46caffy realized he was an officer and he demanded that jessup treat him like one alicia you just
38:52earned officer status with me good job now go arrest the son of a bitch
39:04right behind you don't trip okay so i got to take off a little bit early i feel bad leaving doug with
39:09the rest of the project but i did have a lot of fun and i learned a lot and i really enjoyed his stories
39:14i think they're just as funny as my dad's and i can't wait to learn more about my dad's childhood
39:19so after alissa left i had to finish up the axle i had to put the backing plates on axles in all the
39:25brake hardware brake drums finish all this up and this thing looked really nice when it was done so
39:30now having this rear axle done mark is one step closer to having his charger back and i'm looking
39:36forward to going for a ride shane has been working really hard on this corner paddle he's got a lot
39:57of hours in the dolly and the hammering and the pulling and the tweaking but our goal was to save
40:05the quarter panel as much of the original quarter panel as humanly possible and that's what he's
40:10done now that he's finished up to here there's a couple areas he's gonna have to do some more work
40:14on but this was about saving the frame rail squaring the body and saving this quarter panel so looking
40:20at the quarter you've got a beautiful flat surface now there's a couple little deviations that the
40:25filler will take care of but this is very straight very flat down through here if you remember this was
40:31all caved in back in the day this this was a compression buckle from the rear end it is now
40:37straight and that wheel opening so nice through there moving down this area came out great it didn't
40:43have much it was a little deviation in it but this is like smooth as glass this almost would need just
40:48primer and block uh he had a crown here he's knocked that down the area down here that was so puckered
40:55out around that side marker is now flat flat all flat through there so i stand back now and i look
41:03and i've got a quarter panel that is an original quarter panel original holes for the vinyl top
41:08original spot welds on it we were able to save that the only thing that we are going to end up
41:13having to change out is if you look right here at the quarter panel area where the hit actually happened
41:22where the bumper got driven into it right through here it's torn it's ripped it's it's ugly so we're
41:29going to take a new amd quarter and cut a section probably including this but because it's kind of
41:36damaged right in here probably going to go here and then straight down or something to that effect
41:44because we have rust here so we're going to have to replace that rust so if we're going to do that and
41:48we're going to do this we don't want to do patches that's one of the things we see on a lot
41:51of cars that come in to get patches but you know to make this area go away and this damaged area go
41:58away we'll be putting a small piece in i could not be more pleased with the condition of the quarter
42:03panel and knowing that it's as much original metal this is a very rare car a lot of cool options on it
42:10let's take a look at the frame rail now that was a big part of this right let's take a look at that
42:14frame rail shane and i went over the measurements on this and this frame rail is the exact same
42:21height width and length as the other side so it can't really get any better than that that that's
42:26is probably better than it was at the factory they usually give themselves you know an eighth of an
42:31inch well we don't do that we try to make it perfect looking at the frame rail remember all the buckles
42:35that went right through here and right through here you can see a little bit of shiny spot where he was
42:39hammering on that that's all that is we are now flat right through there both sides you can't see the
42:47inside it's impossible to see but what i can tell you is we have a flat frame rail in space where it's
42:54supposed to be absolutely in space where it's supposed to be so everything through here is as
43:00it's supposed to be so this is exactly what i was hoping the outcome would be we've got an original
43:07quarter panel that we've saved original frame rail and our geometry is perfect so with that shane's
43:13going to put a small piece in he's got a little bit of work to do on the other side of it and then
43:17he is going to ship it out to the mudroom where they can smooth the car out next time you see it
43:23oh willie if he ever comes back from his honeymoon we'll do some paint work on it
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