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Graveyard Carz Season 20 Episode 10
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00:00Hey everybody, Mark Warman coming at you here from beautiful downtown Springfield,
00:04Oregon and Graveyard Motors bringing you the deal of the week. See that Super B right there?
00:12That ought to say supercharged because it's that fast. This is an all original paint 1969 Dodge
00:19Super B two-door post three and three-fourth speed ram charger hood. That's right. Check those little
00:25m46s out. That's right. Those ain't factory. Well, yes, they are too, sir. Just check your broadcast
00:31sheet. The roof has a little bit of damage on it. I think somebody may have set a coffee cup up there,
00:36so you see a little ding right there, but you're talking original paint, man. This car is low mile
00:42one-owner numbers matching. You name it, it's got it. Ram charger. See that 383? That's 383 reasons why
00:50you ought to call me right now and buy it. You see what I'm saying? Is anybody listening? You see
00:56that? Do that to a new car. Let's take a look under that hood. Now, this hood has a couple of doinks in
01:03it, okay? Nothing a paintless dent guy couldn't fix right now, but look at that grill. Look at that beam.
01:09Killer reef. I want to show you something right now y'all ain't seen in a hundred years. All original 383.
01:16You've got the original distributor, original carburetor, original paint, original ram charger
01:21box on it. Go find one. You don't like this one because it's got a little stone ding in the hood
01:28that upsets you. Well, go find another original paint one. This car is everything you'd ever... What's
01:35that in there? A rally dash with a tachometer? I'll be dipped in horse bucky. Come on down. Graveyard
01:43motors. Honest, Mark. This is your love machine. You don't like this one? Fine. You don't got no taste?
01:50That's fine. Go over to some Bowtie Motors. If you're looking for a Mopar, you check out that yard.
01:56We have 150 cars to choose from. Just kidding. I'm just gonna hop in here and fire this bad boy up.
02:05Who took the seat? Just cut. You don't need this.
02:19Follow Rome, where the deer and the antelope play.
02:31If you didn't have Mark Orman, you'd have to invent him.
02:36How did I get here?
02:37And the skies are not cloudy all day.
02:43I have no idea why my dad is crazy.
02:52It's not easy being the number one painter.
02:57Mark hates everybody. He always has.
03:00They're coming to get you, Barbara.
03:25We just got in a couple of cars that I bought about two months ago out of the Florida area.
03:34One is a 1969 Dodge Charger. This is an RT car, a 440. It has a four-speed in it now,
03:41but it started life as an automatic. The crown jewel in this package is a 69 Super B, and I knew this when
03:48I bought it. It had a tree branch fall on the roof and on the fender, and it also had a C-step engine.
03:52We had to take the engine out, knock all the pistons out of it, clean everything up,
03:56clean the cylinders up, but we were able to put it back together with the original bearings and
04:00original everything except gaskets. I made the decision that I wanted to repair the roof,
04:05and I wanted to repair the fender like we did on a 71 Super B a few seasons ago.
04:12All right, so right now we are setting up to push this roof up into position. It is caved all the
04:19way down to here. We took earlier measurements of it, and you'll see that this has to travel
04:23up in space about three or four inches. That's my guess. In order to be able to have a good reveal
04:27line for the glass, to have a good seal right here, we're going to reverse the damage. That's our goal.
04:33The last point that went in is going to be the first point that comes out. So Shane's getting
04:38everything loaded up right now, and we're going to use our hydraulic ram from OTC. That's a great system.
04:43Looks like he is getting ready to be in position, so let's do this thing. As I mentioned earlier,
04:49this is not our first tree branch or building falling in on a car. We've had a few of them
04:55here over the years when Doug and I went up and bought the 71 Super B. That car was damaged by
05:00a falling roof beam, and we were able to get that roof back out to the correct height where we could
05:07put a correct original molding on it and get that door glass to roll up and down and seat. Our goal is
05:12going to be to do the same thing with this car. I love that. Oh, that's an oil can. You see that?
05:26The hole for a half oil can back out again. Stop there. Stop there. Yeah. Wow. Better than I thought it
05:37was going to be. So when I'm talking about a port of power, this is a hydraulic ram. This one has the
05:43ability to push, I think, four tons. So the way it's jigged up right now is so that when we press on
05:48the foot pedal, that ram will come out, push into the caved in area of the roof. Hopefully at that point,
05:55it begins to walk out the roof. That's our goal is to get it to walk that roof panel out. But I will tell
06:00you now there's going to be multiple pushes on this to get that done. What we didn't gain is anything
06:05out here in the outer skirt. So we may have to make a pillar push. Probably. I'm going to probably have to pull that.
06:09Yeah. We may have to push on that.
06:14That's good. That back down. Mostly Shane could do it by himself, but I wanted to be on camera for this, so.
06:22The branch comes down, hits the roof, but it isn't just one piece of metal that it caved in.
06:26It caved in a roof skin, a side header, side header reinforcement, drew the roof reinforcement bows
06:35down. That metal is stretched. It has a memory to it. So when we push back up, other areas
06:41aren't going to respond as well. We're going to have to push on the skin, push on the reinforcement,
06:45push on the side header, move back around and push on the skin and just kind of walk that into place.
06:51It's a little bit right there. That's good. What do you think about this spot right?
06:56Right there. We're going to push down right here on this low spot. Just a little bit right there,
07:02I think. Keep in mind, we're not making this perfect. What we're trying to do is rough it out.
07:08We will have to access certain points that are hidden inside the reinforcement side rail and the
07:14roof skin with pry bars so we can make it move in the areas that we need it to move in. But just
07:19remember, all we want this to do is to hold a weather strip and for the window to go up into
07:23position and for it, you know, 10 feet away to look right. I think I'm going to have to pry it out
07:28with the pry bar. Oh, yeah. It's sticking in between the two. Right here is behind a reinforcement. So
07:34he can't get in there and like just hit it out with his hand or his fist or a hammer. He's got to
07:38get in there and pry that out. But we need to relieve this. Let me check this V and see. We had 35 and
07:44three quarter when we started. Hey, we've got 36 and a half now. So we're three quarters of an inch
07:49up at that drip rail. When Graveyard Cars returns. Actually, I told Shane before we got started on this
07:58to remove the weather strip retainer and he goes, you can't argue with that. That's a good point.
08:06It's sucking that down. It is. Oh. Currently, we are just putting the final touches on 1969 Plymouth Road
08:12Runner 392 with a Silver Sport 841 four-speed automatic transmission. Oh, that's nice.
08:24Okay, so we're going to take a weather strip retainer off right here. This chrome piece.
08:30This piece is one big piece right here. It goes all the way down the pillar and up.
08:36And since we don't have any more of these, we've got to try to save it. Actually, I told Shane before
08:40we got started on this to remove the weather strip retainer and he goes,
08:46You can't argue with that. That's a good point. So here we are. We have to take the weather strip
08:50retainer out of the way and then we can push directly on the roof pillar. So yeah, let's show
08:58him that real quick here. So he'll be able to lay this whole piece on like a steel frame, steel bench,
09:04hammer and dolly it out and save it, make it pretty decent. He didn't want to push right here with the
09:08port of power and take a chance of rolling it and kinking it and destroying it because this is the
09:12only one we got. I want to kind of push it out too, not just straight up. So I want it to be...
09:16So you're probably right there. Yeah, I think right in there looks good.
09:24That might be... It's sucking that down. It is. Oh.
09:27Give it a hammer right here with your fist and stretch it. There you go. Watch really close here while
09:33he's pushing on that roof pillar. As it goes back up into place, you'll see that the roof that we had
09:41popped out 10 seconds earlier is no longer popping out, but popping back down again. That's the
09:46stretched metal. When metal stretches, it doesn't go back like a rubber band. It has nowhere else to go.
09:51When I mentioned that we're going to move it up here and then move it up here and then work it back
09:55here and stretch relieve it there and up and back, that's the back and forth. That's the teeter-totter effect
10:00of trying to repair a stretched metal panel. It's just a matter of being patient and trying to push
10:06in the right areas. Boy, if you draw an invisible line on this pinch weld, it's on the money. The
10:14pinch weld's on the money. The drip rail's a little low, but that drip rail could be rolled down
10:18underneath the mold. It might be. You might be able to pry it up and stake it back down where it belongs.
10:23But right now, everything's staying in place. The door fits good. That's a nice reveal right through
10:32there so the pillar didn't suck back at all. Right now, I think it's just a matter of dolly and hammer
10:38and just kind of tweaking things around a little bit, but that's how you push out a roof graveyard
10:42car style. Nice. Good job, Sheno. Thanks. Make it look easy. Yeah. I kind of guided him through
10:53everything he needed to do there. I mean, he's kind of a newbie still. I've been doing it 60 years.
11:00Good job. Good job.
11:03So there you have it, folks. This is a great example of roughing something out. It came out great. If you
11:09look at the measurements, we have an identical measurement within, I think it's a sixteenth of
11:14an inch from side to side. So that means that the height of the roof is where it belongs. The
11:19side rail for the roof is where it belongs. That means the window is going to go up and seat where
11:25it belongs. We were able to straighten the weatherstrip retainer out and put it back on again. Once the
11:31roof was done, Shane didn't need me, so I just cut him loose with the camera operator and a couple of
11:35GoPros to catch what we could on that left fender. Again, it suffered part of that tree branch that
11:41fell down on it. Had it pushed in pretty good where the side of the fender was bulged out. But he took
11:47his time and the same thing that we did on the roof. We began pushing up and then pushing in, pushing up,
11:53pushing in, pushing up, pushing in. Dolly, hammer, get access, get in there, tweak the inner
11:58reinforcement areas. It came out really nice. I mean, you almost didn't even know it was wrecked except
12:04you can see the crinkles and the paint and stuff like that. But boy, it is really straight. So
12:10there you have it. Roof straightened out, fender straightened out. We're going to clean this car
12:14up, make sure it runs good and put it on eBay. And I need my money. Like Richard Pryor said,
12:21I need my money better than the hog needs slop. So off of that Bad Words Crazy album.
12:34Last year, a friend of mine from Cottage Grove Chrysler called up and said they had a car show
12:38down in Cottage Grove at their dealership coming up, that they were doing a fundraiser for suicide
12:43prevention with the Veterans Affairs. Sounds like a great cause to me. Asked if we want to be involved
12:48in that. We had the little dead wagon down there. We gave them some swag, you know, shirts and stuff
12:53that they could raffle off or give out as prizes. And we also did a signed autographed poster. The auctioned
12:59that off and did really well. At the end of the day, I think they raised $7,700 and some change
13:04just at Cottage Grove Chrysler. This car show was a lot of fun for me for a couple different reasons.
13:11First of all, I live in Cottage Grove, so I don't have far to drive at all. And also the folks at
13:15Cottage Grove Chrysler are all such nice people. It's so much fun to work with these folks. And maybe
13:20most importantly, it's for such a great cause. I got down there fairly early in the morning with Will,
13:25so we could walk around, check out the cars, meet and greet people. It's always nice to go to a local
13:30show and visit with fans and look at different cars and just visit with everybody. And even though
13:35they weren't invited, I know Michael showed up, Marty showed up, they know the cameras are there. They
13:40want to be on TV and just accidentally bump into you. So it's always fun with those guys. So it was fun
13:45to see all the cars. It was quite a wide variety of cars. There were old ones, there were new ones,
13:50there were even some pickup trucks and not just the classics that we work on, so it was a pretty
13:56cool car show. I was surprised by how much late model horsepower was there. What I enjoyed about
14:02it was it wasn't just a Mopar-based show. I love cars. So, you know, Mustangs and Camaros and the
14:08variety was huge, so it was nice to actually see some different cars that we don't normally get to.
14:12And then having the new muscle cars here, which I'm not a huge fan of, like 50 years from now,
14:16they're going to be classics just like the ones we're working on. But my favorite was the llama.
14:22I like saying llama. Llama. Llama. So we got to spend almost the whole day there. It was a really
14:29good show. Met a lot of really nice people. It was for a great cause and that was really rewarding.
14:34I hope they do it again next year.
14:41I wanted to thank all of you for coming here today. This is a very special moment
14:46to honor Levi Foster and to support other veterans in our community.
14:53So Patrick and Tracy, on behalf of Levi Foster and the Foster family and in coordination with our
15:00dealership Cottage Grove Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and our partnership with Graveyard Motors,
15:05we'd like to present you with this check for the 2024 Levi Foster Car Show. Thank you.
15:11So the Roseburg VA Healthcare System, CDCE, we can't thank you enough for all you've done for us
15:18to help veterans. And thank you so much for your support, for your family, for all they do.
15:22You guys are amazing. This means a great deal to the veterans we serve. Thank you.
15:27Thank you. Fantastic.
15:39After the break. What I have in front of me are four fan clutches. These three are the most commonly
15:51sought after ones. So I'm going to pick one and show you how to decode it. 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner
15:57RM27 identical to the one he had when he was in high school. This A4 silver is super transparent.
16:04So if there is a sand scratch in the base coat, that means I have to repaint at least half the car.
16:09Can't ask for much more than that, folks.
16:20I've been selling parts since 1979. And while you can look up some information about them online,
16:25you're not going to find everything. That's why I'm here. I'm Tony D'Agostino from Tony's Mopar
16:30Parts in Harrington, Delaware. Welcome to Tony's Tech Tips.
16:48What I have in front of me are four fan clutches. These three are the most commonly sought after ones.
16:52The number is 2806070, referred to as the 070 fan clutch. Its application is 67
16:59through early 72 B&E body cars with max cooling. The fan clutch on my right, you'll notice it's
17:06different. It has a spring in the middle. This is a thermal type fan clutch used only on air
17:11conditioning cars. But this is really about reading the date codes. So I'm going to pick one and show
17:15you how to decode it. This one here is a perfect example of why just about every other date coding
17:21system or even numbering system does not use the letter I because it could be mistaken for a one.
17:27In this case, the date code is H1I. The H represents the month of the year. In this case, A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
17:37H, the eighth month, which is August. The second digit, the one, represents the day of the month.
17:44So we have August 1st. And the last letter is an I. Looks an awful lot like a one, doesn't it folks?
17:51That's why hardly any, if any of the other date coding systems use the letter I. So the I is
17:56representing the year. The way how the years were dated, A represents zero. So A in this case is 1960.
18:04B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I. So this fan clutch is dated August 1st, 1968. Now let's look at the one next to
18:16it. The date code on this is H1J. And H, as we just learned, is for the month of August. The number one
18:22is also the first day of the month. So August 1st. In this case, the year is a J. A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
18:31H, I, J. So it's 1969. So the date code on this is August 1st, 1969. Can I save the people at home
18:43a lot of headaches? Okay. Because he'll keep going all day. I love your bits. I've been watching them at
18:48home there. But I'm going to put you on the spot and tell you I'm terrified. Now that you're retired.
18:52I'm sorry. No. No. No. You're right. He's not retired, folks. Nope. I still have Tony's parts,
18:59original NLS parts. Okay. So Tony still runs the used and new old stock parts. I no longer have
19:06Tony's reproduction parts. This is why I'm scared because I used to get these for free. But Vans Auto has
19:13bought Tony's reproduction parts. Vans Auto. They bought the entire new reproduction? All my new,
19:19yep. All my new reproduction parts. I just want to know that when I call up for my 2806070,
19:24I get treated like royalty. Because I mean, you know. Vans will take care of you. They have a lot
19:30of great parts they make on their own. And they have all of my parts now too. Okay. My new parts.
19:35Like I said, the NLS and original stuff, still call up Tony's parts and we'll hook you up. But if I
19:39want to 2806070, I just call up my old buddy Dwayne over at Vans and he's going to hook me up.
19:45Dwayne or Tom, I'll work with you. And put it on your account.
19:47Thanks for watching Tony's Tech Tips. I'm Mark Warman along with...
19:51Tony D'Agostino. Can I go home now? I hope so.
20:05Tony D'Agostino. Currently, we are just putting the final touches on a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner RM27.
20:13This is a factory 383 automatic convertible. Now, I bought this car a few years ago as a used car
20:19for Graveyard Motors before I even really started Graveyard Motors up. The engine was gone out of it,
20:24did not have the original engine in it. I think it did have the original transmission. It had a
20:29seat body bench seat in it, but it was a good solid car. It was a good decent bones car. Well,
20:35fast forward, I made a deal with a gentleman named Bill to build that car for him identical
20:41to the one he had apparently when he was in high school, except that he wanted modern drivetrain.
20:47So, he wanted an A4 Buff Silver car with black interior, bench seat, column shift. His car,
20:52of course, was a 383 automatic. Originally, we made this one a 392 with a Silver Sport A41
20:59four-speed automatic transmission. The body, as I say, when the car got here was pretty good. We did
21:05have to replace trunk floor, main floor, bottoms of quarters. We had some work to do, but it was not a
21:10rust bucket by any means. It spent about six months in the metal shop getting completely dialed in.
21:15When you're putting a 392 in one of these that puts out 485 horsepower, you need to stiffen the
21:20bottom of it up. So, we put in our subframe connectors. These are a weld-in, low-profile,
21:26steel subframe connector to help keep the body from doing any of this twists and stuff that they like to
21:31do. We also had to make the rest of the provisions for it to take the Magnum Force front suspension,
21:36which is relocating things like the upper control arm bump stops and just little things like that.
21:42Getting to 392, we had to carve out the little area of the right frame rail where it's pinch-welded together
21:46at the shock tower to make room for the alternator. We did provisions on this one so we'd be able to
21:51mount the computer in a really nice concealed area underneath the right-hand pillar. We learn on
21:57every one of these cars as we go what all has to be done to make them better than they were before
22:02that. So, fast forward over to the mudroom, guys did a great job smoothing out the car. The convertibles,
22:07again, they're hard to do because today you raise it up in the air and you do the bottom of the quarters,
22:12you let it back down, and then the quarter doesn't match the door anymore because the car moved.
22:16But Michael did a fantastic job, got it final blocked out in 120, and at that point he handed
22:22it off to Will where it was his problem. This Roadrunner came out beautiful, as they all do,
22:29but this isn't the first one that I've done this color. I've done two other Roadrunners in A4 Silver.
22:34So the first one I did was a 1969 Roadrunner with a Hemi and Pewter interior. So that car did not have
22:41a vinyl top, so it meant more spray time. But without the vinyl top, the car still looked beautiful.
22:46This is a 426 Hemi automatic column shift car. Strange car. Really weird colors, weird everything
22:53about it. But a neat car. Third time that we finished the car, gave it back to the owner,
22:59and then gotten a call within a few months saying, I am terrified to drive that car. For all these years
23:05and waiting for their car to be done, he said the car's too good for us. So he wanted to re-home the car.
23:11The A4 cars, that silver is a very popular color. You start putting on things like B21
23:17sport treatments on the hood, they just get sexy fast. So the second one I did was Don Jones'
23:23Roadrunner. It had the vinyl top, it had the blackout, it had the console, and the bucket seats
23:28inside. So that car was awesome. The cool thing about doing this reveal there is Don's dad actually
23:34owned the dealership back in the 70s. And Don worked for his dad in the paint shop there.
23:39So Don was able to work there and actually save up his money to buy that car. So this is a great
23:44example of a car and a story coming full circle.
23:47So this car is just like the last one I did. This A4 silver is super transparent. It's a base coat,
23:54clear coat. You have to make sure the prep on this is perfect. So Brody had to go over it,
23:58finish it in 600. So when I go to put color on it, you don't see any sand scratches or any pinholes.
24:03So if there is a sand scratch in the base coat and I don't catch it, I'll go to clear it and you will
24:07see it. That means I have to repaint at least half the car. Then it's seven or eight coats of our
24:13Deltron base coat. So silver is tricky. You can't paint silver apart and you can't just stop in the
24:19middle of the panel because you have a dark spot. If you stopped short here, then picked it up here,
24:23it would be darker right in the middle. So you have to do the whole entire car. So I go down the whole
24:27side around the other side and just do the same thing seven or eight times. I'll let that sit overnight,
24:34come in the next day, double check everything, clear it. Three or four coats of our polyurethane
24:392002 clear. Let that sit for about a week or two, get it cut and buffed, make sure everything looks
24:45good, undercoat it, and then get it over to assembly. There's a lot of masking and prep to do the B21.
24:54The most time consuming part of it is the getting the measurements and the masking just right. You'll
24:59see me using a blue tape on the edges. That's my blue fine line. It's like a rubbery material.
25:04Paint won't stick to it. It'll keep the line perfectly straight. I use it just for the outline of my stripes
25:09and then I mask up to it. So the B21 you see me doing on these hoods is a special paint that we
25:18get from 877 for paint one. It's a long title, but they duplicate all the specialty finishes
25:24in the seventies that we use today. This company just doesn't make the B21 paint. They do the dash
25:31paint, steering columns, interiors, rear tail light panels. They cover it all to make us look great.
25:36So I call them for everything that I don't have on my bench. It's a great product and it's great
25:40people out there that help us look good. When I'm all done, I unmask it and I got a beautiful
25:46V21 sport hood treatment.
25:55Still to come. Now I'm taking a car out with a Mopar Performance or Direct Connection 392
26:05Hemi. Oh wow, that sounds nice. Good morning all the way from California to see the most beautiful
26:13Roadrunner convertible ever built. No one is like you in this industry. There are creative people,
26:19there are Imagineers, and then there's Mark Warman. I'm going to have to spend every day
26:24trying to deflate that head of his.
26:30Now when I took the Hemi Roadrunner, the other one I'm talking about that we bought back,
26:34keep in mind is a real J code 426 Hemi. So it has the elephant in it, the original,
26:39the second generation Hemi. It's a big husky engine, put out four and a quarter horse,
26:44had a 727 torque flight in behind it. Plenty of power, plenty of torque, but it wasn't nimble.
26:50It's integral steering, old school steering. It was a manual steering car. So if you see me in the car
26:55when I'm driving it, moving that wheel half a turn both ways and the car's not moving, that's the
27:00inherent nature of these cars back in the day. Now I'm taking a car out with a Mopar Performance or
27:05Direct Connection 392 Hemi. It has a Silver Sport 841 four-speed automatic transmission in behind.
27:11It has a brand new Mosier eight and three quarter 489 case 323 gear, sure grip in the back of it.
27:18I know automatically I'm several hundred pounds lighter, but underneath it all is the Magnum
27:24Force Transformer front suspension. You can see all the parts laid out there. What an intricate system
27:29it is that takes the place of the torsion bars and the original K-member. It also has power disc
27:35brakes. It has coil over front suspension and a huge sway bar. So I'm really excited to get this
27:40car out and drive it and compare the drivability and the comfort of this car and performance.
27:46It's a regular car channel. Versus the original J-Code big clumsy husky fire-breathing Hemi Roadrunner that we
27:55did drive. Well that's that's nice. Now he had us add cutouts. Check this out. You hear that? Those are
28:06now uncapped headers. What we call uncapped headers. We're going to close them. There we go. All right.
28:15We've converted the steering column to a four-speed automatic overdrive versus the original 727 torque
28:21flight three-speed and we are off. That's a nice original shift. I like it. The computer actually
28:29controls the shift based on the throttle pressure. Hey, this is driving nice. We did have the alignment
28:37done in fairness. The alignment has been done. This is really feeling good and solid. We have the Magnum
28:43Force power rack and pinion front suspension. So very responsive. You see me moving around there.
28:49You won't see that in an integral steering car.
28:54Very nice. Sounds good. Sounds solid. Okay. Left turn signal. Yep. That's working. Right turn signal. Yep.
29:03We've got a nice functioning two gauges. We have a fuel gauge and a temperature gauge and a tachometer.
29:10These are not rally instrument clusters. The Plymouth didn't get them in 69. The Dodges did,
29:15but the Plymouth didn't get them until 70. So this has got that long analog style speedometer in it
29:22with just a few gauges and mostly idiot lights, what we call idiot lights. So far so good. I'm not
29:28having any rattles, which is fantastic for a car like this. Convertibles typically are a little soft,
29:34meaning they usually have some rattles to them. Boy, that sounds great.
29:43Oh wow. That sounds nice. And it feels good. I've got no vibration. It's got BF Goodrich TA radials on it.
29:50275-60 in the back. We have a 245-60 in the front. Kreger SS rims in the back. We've got a 8 inch,
29:58a 15 by 8. In the front, we have a 15 by 7. I'm going to try our air conditioner. This is a classic
30:05auto air vintage retro system that they make. Turn the fan on high. We have registers below the dash.
30:11And it's starting to get cold. Oh, that's nice. That is nice. I am so glad that we put the classic
30:24auto air in it. That's something Bill wanted. He wanted air conditioning. He lives down in Southern
30:28California. It's hot down there. So we added the classic auto air. This is the retrofit system. So
30:33when you look under the hood, the items that make up the air conditioning aren't exactly the same as
30:38the ones that were on an original car. Of course, you couldn't get a Hemi with air conditioning.
30:42The classic auto air is a really phenomenal system. It kept it about 38 degrees inside the car.
30:47I had the top down, of course, so you don't really get the full benefit of it,
30:50but you can feel it blowing on you. And that makes a big difference when you're in your
30:54late 40s and, you know, slightly overweight.
31:02Boy, that feels good. It sounds good. The engine is very throaty.
31:06We ended up putting a Magnaflow exhaust system on the car. And boy, does that sound nice. It's got
31:12that old school rumble to it, but it's a very sanitary installation. Open this up a little.
31:23Can't ask for much more than that, folks. What a nice driver Bill will have with this car.
31:29This is a great driver. The Wilwood power disc brakes are beautiful. Just stop on a dime.
31:35The other thing Mark had me help out with was the Wilwood four-wheel disc brake system. This
31:40Wilwood system goes in amazingly well. It bolts right in. Now we have four-wheel
31:44Wilwood power brakes on our 69 Roadrunner convertible.
31:50Very successful. So I'm heading back to the shop right now. And when I get there, I'll
31:56get the camera guys out, the folks, and then we'll get our camera rig,
32:01the follow rig out, and go get you guys some footage. So see you real soon on the road.
32:11Now something to point out here is, if you guys recall, Tiny Dancer and Aaron destroyed a million
32:16dollars worth of equipment, and we had to go back and rebuild everything. He has not shut up about
32:21this. It's been like, what, two years or something? Okay, so there was a little bit of damage to the
32:25magnum, but I mean, it's just, we caved in the roof. I mean, really, that's, that's all we did.
32:29That's, I mean, okay, well, I mean, there was the crane. But the good news is they were sorry,
32:34and that really helped pay for things. And then, of course, there was the Mobi that was completely
32:38destroyed. We had to get a new gimbal, and then, you know, the camera was in pieces. We had to send
32:42that back. They ruined the magnum. They ruined the camera. It's all back together now. You'll notice
32:46the neat, neat camera work that this driving rig allows us to do. We don't, you know, we're not a
32:52high-dollar production company. We're small right here in Springfield. So this is a real treat for us.
32:57I have to admit, it is really, really great to have everything back in working order,
33:01and back on the road again, and getting some really cool driving footage. Check out this shot. I mean,
33:05it's hard to realize just how close the camera is, and these cars, how close they are. For as much as
33:10Mark complains about the little tiny accident that happened with this thing, he's the one who's always
33:15telling us over these headsets, which he insisted that we get, that we've got to just get closer,
33:18get closer, get closer. It's like he wants to get in an accident, but it's worth it. I mean,
33:22look at this shot right now.
33:34Look at this. Oh my goodness. Good morning. All the way from California to see the most beautiful
33:53Roadrunner convertible ever built. It's exactly the way you wanted it. This has taken 65 years off my
33:59life, Mark. This thing I am flashing back to. Catella High School, 1969. My father bought me the car
34:05because I got straight A's four years in a row. He said, you'll never do it. I said, yes, I will.
34:11Keep your promise. On the day I graduated, I showed him my report card. We went to the Mopar dealer.
34:16Went there. Seriously?
34:17Went there. He said, look at the cars. We're not getting it. I changed my mind, and I went home with
34:23tears in my eyes. The next morning, the car that I chose, this car was in my parking lot.
34:29Oh my gosh.
34:30Yeah. That's my dad, Cosmo Taramini.
34:32That is crazy.
34:33Yep.
34:33You know, for me, one of the funnest things about what I do is getting to hear the old stories,
34:38because that's really why I started Graveyard Cars. That's why even the cars that I do for Graveyard
34:42Cars, I do them as inexpensively as possible because I look at it more as a passion than I do a business,
34:49which isn't always a good businessman move.
34:51We used to drag race in the Orange Grows, and Anaheim PD pulled me over one day and said,
34:55you got one choice, Bill. You're either going to keep drag racing in the Orange Grows and go to jail,
35:00or you're never going to do this again, and I'm not going to tell your dad. I said,
35:03I'll take choice number two.
35:04Yeah.
35:05That was it.
35:06For me, the best part is to go back and see the smiles on their faces when they get their cars back.
35:11We've done, I don't know, 40 or 50 reveals on the show over the years, and it's just really,
35:17to me, the best part of the whole process. I love the air grabber.
35:22So beautiful.
35:22Even though it's not functional because of the 392.
35:24It doesn't have to be.
35:25No.
35:26It just screams 1969 car of the year.
35:29Tell me what you think of the stance.
35:31I love the stance.
35:32I know you wanted a little bit.
35:33Just a little bit because now it won't rub, and we have a ground clearance, and it's not sitting up
35:39too high. It looks like a factory stance to me.
35:40It does. It's a real nice set.
35:42Once a car comes back from the dipper, I take over talking to the clients.
35:46In this case, it was Bill, phenomenal guy, easy to talk to, and I've built quite a great relationship
35:52with him during the process of his car. I always worry if they're going to be completely different
35:56in person as opposed to phone calls and text messages. When Bill got here, he was one of our
36:02nicest clients. Just a gem of a guy, very heartfelt guy, very appreciative for everything we did,
36:08and just a wonderful human being.
36:10My God, the detail.
36:11Have a look, man.
36:12Will, thank you.
36:12Of course.
36:13What do you think of him? He hasn't done anything in there.
36:15No, he never does.
36:16I know.
36:17He sprayed the car.
36:18Yeah, he did a good job.
36:19You didn't detail the interior.
36:21The fact that you were able to adapt those power windows in there and make it all work.
36:25That's all Brian.
36:26Wow.
36:27Brian, thank you, brother.
36:29That's all Brian.
36:30I want nothing to do.
36:31I'm colorblind as a bat, so when it says attach green wire here, I'll kill somebody.
36:35This system from New Relics, it really laid out nice.
36:37Everything was plug and play.
36:39Put it in the car, bolt it in, plug everything in, hit the buttons,
36:43and now we have power windows in our 69 Roadrunner convertible.
36:46They're so smooth.
36:47You can't even hear them run.
36:48I know.
36:49Look at that.
36:50I mean, I didn't even know you were doing it.
36:51Usually you can hear the motor.
36:52You can't even hear the motor.
36:54You want to sit in it?
36:55I would love to sit in it.
36:56I would be happy to do that.
36:57I think you should do that.
36:58You know, why not?
36:59You're a tall fella.
37:00I hope it's going to work for you.
37:01No, it works perfect.
37:02Nice.
37:02The fact that you've got the proper dash, the proper radio, the proper tachometer,
37:07all of this stuff is just...
37:08I wish they made some of those pads and stuff new.
37:10Those are the best ones.
37:11I've been saving them for years.
37:12You were telling me about the patina.
37:14That doesn't show patina.
37:16And even if it did, it would even be better.
37:18My point is, it's perfect.
37:20You know, and the thing that really blows my mind is the way that you've adapted the shifter
37:26to include the overdrive.
37:27One thing that Bill wanted is he wanted an automatic on the column, which is no problem.
37:32This car actually started life as an automatic on the column.
37:34But we're now putting a Silver Sport four-speed automatic overdrive in it.
37:39What we did was we took a 69 Plymouth Roadrunner column, the original column,
37:44and we modified the heck out of it.
37:46We had to get a longer throw out of it because we've got more gears now.
37:48So we had to be able to go up and down, up and down, all the way from park, all the way down to low,
37:53then second, then drive, then overdrive.
37:56Mark, this is one of one.
37:57It is.
37:58And the fact that you were able to program this with all the connection points with the computer
38:04and all the technicals that go with it, this is your point about being an innovator.
38:08I couldn't do this.
38:09No.
38:09I can bolt them together when it's done, but the days of going out and spraying cars,
38:12even though I was better than Will, it still was hard on my hands and hard on my lungs.
38:19I hear you.
38:19I've got more to live for than him.
38:21Right on.
38:22So Shane did all that.
38:23He took his time.
38:24It really, even at the end of the day, I wasn't thrilled.
38:28It wasn't perfect to me.
38:29It felt a little clunky, but it did work fine.
38:31It just, I wanted it to be exactly like an original shifter.
38:35And to my knowledge, there's nobody making any of that stuff.
38:37So it's really nice to watch Bill appreciate how much work and effort went into making that
38:43an automatic on the column car with a four-speed automatic overdrive.
38:47So I think the latch is just here if I remember.
38:49See if you can remember how to open it.
38:50I do.
38:51I do.
38:51And there's another safety right there.
38:53There it is.
38:54You remember that?
38:54You never forget.
38:55Look at the way you put that baby in there.
38:59When you believe this, folks, have a take a look at this.
39:01This is really a neat setup.
39:03Like I say, all's credit to Brian on the installation.
39:05Bought him in, got it prepped out.
39:07But the incredible part, this looks like it was engineered from Chrysler.
39:11The way that everything is cohesively blended together.
39:14So the cooling system on that car, like you've seen us do before on our third generation Hemis,
39:18we just call up Be Cool and we tell them what we're working with.
39:21We got a nice radiator from Be Cool with dual fans.
39:24We've got the relays.
39:25We've got all the wiring.
39:26Put it in the car.
39:27Hook it up.
39:28We're good to go.
39:29And we're keeping this thing nice and cool.
39:31Sight down the side of the car, Nick.
39:33And Will, you sight down the side on that side.
39:35And tell me if you see anything that looks like a ripple.
39:38It is a piece of glass.
39:40Right.
39:43It's actually way better.
39:44It's actually way better, yeah.
39:45I know what you're saying.
39:45It seems like that.
39:47But if you saw a factory one, you'd say, oh God, that's horrible.
39:49In the factory, they stamp it and you're done.
39:50Here they plane it and you'll see.
39:52Right.
39:53Got your standing bird.
39:54There he is.
39:55This is what we looked for as kids.
39:57So back in the day, when you pulled up behind the car,
39:58you saw, I'm going to go drag race that guy.
40:00And you saw that little marker right there?
40:01That badge.
40:02So maybe not today.
40:03Change lanes.
40:03Oh man, change lanes covered.
40:05So that is a replica of the original spare you would have got.
40:08Oh, thank you.
40:09Which is an F6015 with the original jack and the original jacking instructions.
40:13Oh my gosh.
40:14That is such a detail with the raised right letter, but the small right letter.
40:16It's beautiful, yeah.
40:17And the F, which is the way they designed tires then.
40:20They didn't have 205, 62, whatever.
40:22They didn't have metrics.
40:23They had analogs.
40:24So they had a C50, a D50, a E50.
40:26And you relocated the battery.
40:28Excellent idea.
40:28Relocation here.
40:29That's all, Brian.
40:30He did that.
40:31Beautiful.
40:31He routed the wires, sanitary underneath the car.
40:33You are gifted.
40:34Everything's just.
40:35Oh yeah.
40:36Well, he's because I taught him.
40:38This has been an interesting delivery of the car.
40:40Bill came up with his son and his grandson.
40:43So three generations of Terminas.
40:45And we're walking around the car and we're talking.
40:47We're having a nice sequential conversation.
40:49He's a very even keel guy.
40:51But as we were going along, all of a sudden, Bill goes into this little formal kind of a
40:56speech presentation he had, I think, prepared for me.
41:00There are icons in the automotive industry for the last 150 years since the beginning.
41:06We won't need you for this, Will.
41:07Yeah.
41:08We're not going to be talking about it.
41:09No, no.
41:10Okay, okay, okay.
41:11You got your Carroll Shelby.
41:13You got your Lee Iacocca.
41:14You got your DeLorean.
41:17I believe that you are an icon in real life.
41:21And that what you represent is more than just sheet metal and paint.
41:24You represent rewinding the clock, bringing the memories back that we lived as kids.
41:31No one is like you in this industry.
41:32There are creative people.
41:34There are Imagineers.
41:35And then there's Mark Warman.
41:36So I want to thank you.
41:38Bill's a wonderful guy.
41:39Love him to death.
41:40We all did.
41:41But once he started praising Mark, you can just see Mark's head getting bigger and bigger
41:45and bigger.
41:46And he doesn't realize what he's doing.
41:48He gets to hop on a plane and go home.
41:50I'm going to have to spend every day trying to deflate that head of his.
41:55Carroll Shelby, Mark Warman, come on, man.
41:57That dog don't hunt.
41:58I can take credit for making the deal with you and making sure that at the end of the
42:01day it looks like that.
42:02Got it.
42:03But the craftsmen that did it are the guys that are around.
42:06Bring them all.
42:06Will.
42:06Yeah.
42:07You're very welcome.
42:08God bless you.
42:09That's very nice of you to say.
42:16The nicest part of all that was Alyssa, of course, has had another child.
42:20And she's a full-time mom at home.
42:21So that's why you didn't see her this season very much, if at all.
42:24I called her up and I said,
42:25Hey, Mr. Termina is here to get his car today.
42:27Is there any chance?
42:28And so she came in, blessed her heart.
42:29She signed the car.
42:30Bill was really happy to see her.
42:31And while she didn't have her hands on any part of this car,
42:34she has been an intricate part of my growth over the years.
42:38You know, Graveyard Cars is not here just because Mark Warman's kept his nose to the grindstone.
42:42It's because of the people you see signing that car.
42:45The Will, the Bryans, the Dylans, the Brodies, the Dougies, the Martys.
42:52Everybody, even the camera folks behind us that tolerate my insanity are all part of why Graveyard
42:58Cars has become this kind of a bit of an anomaly out there that I'm like JR Ewing, the guy you love to hate.
43:04I can also say to all you Graveyard Cars customers, it might take a while to get a car built.
43:12Believe me, it's worth the wait every day, every hour, because the end result is unmatched.
43:19You're lucky to be a customer, and you're going to enjoy your ride as much as I'm going to enjoy mine.
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