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Graveyard Carz Season 20 Episode 2
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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 were in a
00:09collision one car looks beautiful 70 cuda 340 automatic loaded we even featured it in one of
00:16our autopsy reports the other cars in 1970 cuda that when you see the pictures of it beforehand
00:22it was a mess a living mess each one of those cars has individual hits to them that are unique
00:29what I call a high hit and what I call a low hit and so today now that they're back from the dipper
00:34and they're on stands one's on a rotisserie I'm going to show you what the difference is between
00:39a high hit and a low hit and what the secondary damage you that's going to look like the orange
00:451970 cuda 383 four-speed is a numbers car it's a very rusty car hit really hard in the left quarter
00:52panel we've got before shots of it so you can see how devastatingly violent the hit was interestingly
01:00enough the car we're going to be comparing it to a 1970 cuda 340 automatic car doesn't look bad at all
01:06doesn't look nearly like this one does however it took a worse blunt force trauma than the orange 1970
01:14scooter 383 four-speed I believe that Shane has them both in the shop and ready to go I'm just pulling
01:21up to the old graveyard as soon as I get inside I like to shut it off while I'm rolling time to go to work
01:31Hollywood time
01:33if you didn't have Mark Orman you'd have to invent him how did I get here
01:59I have no idea why my dad is crazy it's not easy being the number one painter
02:15Mark hates everybody he always has
02:21they're coming to get you Barbara
02:47okay 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 primary
03:10damage is right here secondary damage is in fact you're missing a quarter panel all the way up to the
03:15door and any other blunt force trauma that it may have sustained this one got hit high on this side
03:21so my frame rail is beautiful but it rolled the body panel in interesting here it hit with such speed
03:28and such force that it basically can opener the quarter panel ripping it loose from the rear body
03:34panel ripping the trunk gutter which is spot welded to the Dutchman panel completely off it basically just
03:40sheared it sheared it off of there it sheared the quarter panel off of the car but it didn't stop there
03:44these are unibodies so the front frame rails rear frame rails wheelhouses and floors and rockers they all make
03:50up the structural integrity of this car in the case of a high hit like this one it's important to see yes it looks
03:57terrible it looks like it's just torn the living hell out of something but did it actually damage the unibody in the structure of the car
04:04rear body panel beautiful flat as a pancake absolutely perfect so we know that there's most likely not
04:12going to be any damage to the frame rail so the next thing we have to go is to what's the true secondary
04:17damage besides this little ripple effect over here and it happens on the quarter panel and where that
04:22quarter panel was driven into the door now keep in mind we have cut off the bag quarter you look at the
04:27original footage of the car that we took before we disassembled it and it was on there we just wadded all
04:33the way up to the door we just got it out of the way so we could see and so we could share with you
04:36people at home what we're talking about again the primary point of impact right here i believe that
04:41the car that hit it rolled this in and grabbed that quarter panel and drove it all the way up to here
04:47that's how much this thing buckled let's just look at it keep in mind over the rail versus under the rail or
04:53in the rail this went over the rail so we've got an enormous amount of sheet metal damage but we don't
04:59have structural damage boom comes along and hits it we did take the extension off of the quarter
05:04panel took the quarter panel off car so this wasn't ripped off in it it wasn't helped in it but it
05:09wasn't ripped off in it this is that trunk gutter i was showing you this is what's left to the old girl
05:15that did attach all the way over to here on your dutchman panel which speaking of your dutchman there
05:19she is right there look at how it ripped out all the factory spot welds every one of them because it literally
05:25tore that quarter panel off of the dutchman and it tore the quarter panel off of this trunk gutter
05:30another really amazing thing is how far this wheelhouse you can see clearly this wheelhouse
05:36is crushed this should just be a nice round even good looking wheelhouse in or now you've seen us
05:43replace them a million times to get this to go here it had to rip out all these spot welds and it rolled
05:50that thing around that secondary impact is it hit there and it just kept on moving so this thing gets
05:56rolled around it destroys the wheel opening parts of the quarter are still on the car here is part of
06:03the quarter panel all the way up to here pretty ugly this at one time came down went around and met
06:10right here that's how far off that piece is this is what's left to your jack bracket your forward jack
06:16bracket right here they used to cradle a jack but won't do that any longer and you can even see
06:21inside there there is a vertical pillar support this is the one that amd just started making it
06:27until they started making it we had that like on our catalog card we had a get a donor this is now being
06:31made which is good now because we need one that's wadded up all the way through here this is all just
06:39a result of that impact and it's ugly i'm not gonna lie to you it's ugly the good news this is
06:45our frame rail now it's got holes in it from rust that's cute it's definitely a rusty car but as far
06:52as a flat plane that thing is like a pancake it's beautiful there's no damage from this impact to
06:59that frame rail it sits down very clearly you can see on the stand beautifully fits right down on it no
07:06problems didn't have to pull it down just setting there all these factory spot wells there's no
07:12pulling apart here like you would have if you had a bent frame rail and everything was buckled down
07:16the only damage to this is that secondary damage from coming down the side of the car some people
07:21at home probably are going to say that's primary damage i don't care i think the point of impact is
07:25primary i think this is secondary you don't like it they're not doing anything like this on any other
07:30network here's my favorite part when you talk about secondary secondary damage this is awesome
07:37take a real nice look here's the front of your quarter panel where it goes into the door jam you
07:43see it right there you see that little mark that little indentation you'll notice it matches that
07:48indentation because when this got hit this door spit out a quarter of an inch and when it did this point
07:56right here that you see is damaged hit that door that hit that and they fit together like a jigsaw
08:01puzzle so now you have to say if that thing took that nasty of a hit on the door you have to be
08:07mindful of your gaps up here i look at it and we just kind of bolted this back together for now purposes
08:14my suspicion is if anything bent on this car in the way of trauma from this door impact it would have
08:20been where 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 that
08:43need 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
09:07to the 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 secondary
09:22damage meanwhile alissa aids dougie in deconstructing a rear axle assembly to rebuild another it's
09:30always a little easier to work with doug than it is my dad but does alissa have a connection to this
09:35rear axle dougie knows whose rear end it is but elissa doesn't find out when graveyard cars returns
09:45okay so alissa today what we're doing we're transferring all of the parts out of this axle
09:50housing 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 the
10:09housing the condition that it was in and reminisced for a little bit about the last time we saw that
10:14housing dougie knows whose rear end it is and what the importance of it is marky knows but elissa doesn't
10:21we have to remove the brake drums on both ends okay the brake shoes and all the hardware the backing
10:27plates the axles in order to get the third member and the gears out of this housing to put all this
10:34into the next housing so we got a lot of work to do so i'm back at graveyard cars part-time i can't be
10:40full-time yet just because my kids are still little so i just have the half day but i'm really excited
10:45to be back my first day i'm working with doug which i'm excited about because it's always a little
10:49easier to work with doug than it is my dad we're going to start by removing the drum we've done that
10:53before 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 you
11:12put the tool over the little knob catch the little hook against the spring and you twist it and then
11:18you rock it off there like that and that's how you remove the upper spring and so now that that's off
11:25here's how you put it back on you put this in the spring and you situate it so it's pulling real straight
11:32and you kind of pull towards yourself pop it back on twist it out so that's how you reinstall it
11:42okay that's a handy tool it is it's pretty cool oh it'd be tough without it yeah and then pull down
11:49there you go nope wait you seem like you're scared am i doing it right oh got it perfect perfect okay
11:55i'm gonna do the other side is that okay sure oh okay both are off do you fish it out yep got it now
12:02we have to take the brake shoes off and in order to take the brake shoes off they're held on with this
12:08little hat and the spring and the nail the back of it is over on this side on the backing plate so you
12:14hold that okay with your finger and then you'll see that there's little openings a quarter of a turn
12:22away from where that pin is setting okay so in order to pull that off you put this tool over it get it
12:29straight push in give it a quarter of a turn until it comes off oh okay so the spring and retainer
12:37that hold the brake shoe to the backing plate we call the top of the fastener a hat because it's kind
12:44of hat shaped it has a crosshair in the center of it and the pin has a flat tip like a screwdriver tip
12:50so the pin goes through the backing plate through the brake shoe goes through one hat retainer then
12:57there's a spring and then the top hat retainer pushes down over the spring and you give it a
13:04quarter 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 and
13:20do this side so as i said you just put this tool over it hold the pin from the back give it a quarter of a turn
13:26pull the spring off there we go and the nail out the back perfect okay so now we can just open the
13:36shoes up twist it out kind of that was kind of holding it all together that's our leading shoe
13:42we've got this spring here the self-adjuster and the rear shoe there it is so that's the park brake
13:50cable ah you just twist this out like that and there's your rear shoe we got to take that these
13:58pieces off or you're good okay yep they're good so there are a lot of components to these brake systems
14:03and i know alyssa 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 alyssa to the braking systems so this here is the spreader bar
14:15that 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 in the springs yeah exactly
14:28okay so now we've got all the hardware off here and we're down to the axle there's axle nuts behind
14:34it on the flange that holds the axle in to the housing in order to remove those you have to rotate
14:40the axle five times to get in there and undo these nuts that are behind it that sucks yeah
14:48so one thing my dad's always told me is that chrysler has always done things for a reason so the
14:53reason why there's a hole in the axle is so that you can get to the nuts with a socket if you didn't
14:57have that there then you'd have to use a wrench and that would make the job a lot more difficult so
15:01on these mosher axles the access to those nuts is really tight and i can get in a lot better with
15:08this little quarter inch okay small one so in order to remove the nuts we're just gonna
15:19got it yep sweet okay there's one i'm going to rotate this around and i'm going to let you go
15:25ahead and run the rest of these off so right about there's where we want it there you go
15:31okay okay i think it's easier to work with doug than my dad because doug has a little bit more
15:41patience just in general but also for me and you know my dad is full of knowledge which is great
15:46but he can be really wound tight so for my first day back it's nice to warm up working with doug
16:00perfect nice okay so we got five of those put those on the table yep okay so now we're going to pull
16:07the axle out pull the backing plate off then we're going to turn this around and as your dad would say
16:13we're going to lather rent and repeat okay that wasn't too hard so this was just put together
16:18recently let's let's see how it's gonna be heavy there you go okay lift up lift up a little bit and
16:26hold it off the seal when you take it out of there that's good to know yeah ah sweet we're good right
16:32we're good so inside of there is a rubber seal that keeps the gear oil from leaking out so just be
16:38mindful when you pull the axle out that you don't drag it across the seal i typically lift it up and
16:44pull it out without to try not to damage the seal okay what happens if it does get damaged it'll leak
16:51then you have to redo it all okay yeah so here's our park brake cable i'm going to pull that out of
16:58the axle housing here and the right hand brake cable is always longer than the left so with any luck
17:07we can pull this backing plate off so oh there we go there we go so here's our backing plate
17:14and our park brake cable all 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-oh i've
17:32even got it marked off just like the other one this is going to show you what happens when it is hit
17:36directly on a frame rail such as the rear bumper which bolts to the rear frame rail and how the
17:41primary and the secondary damage transfers how that energy transfers throughout the car now this car
17:48is what we call a low hit we just talked about the high hit and primary secondary damage of that
17:53this is a low hit which is i consider to be more traumatic even though it doesn't look more
17:57traumatic if you go back and look at the pictures of this car before we took it apart very good clean
18:03car mostly original paint yeah you could see there was a dent in the quarter panel some damage back
18:08here but you didn't quite see the extent of what i'm going to share with you now the difference
18:12between the low hit and the high hit as i mentioned earlier is a low hit can cause more structural
18:17damage so here's what i believe happened the bumper bolts on right here these two bolt holes that
18:24you 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
18:55of it and a quarter extension piece they're all rolled in and up same with the trunk floor marries
19:01to the rear body panel this area right here i believe is up in the air from the actual primary hit
19:07including this dent right here you see in the quarter you also see a slight separation here at the
19:12trunk gutter to rear body not much not much but if you had a lid on there and you were trying to
19:17square it all you would find that all of this stuff right here needs to come down in this space
19:23primary all needs to go up but this stuff needs to come down in space so we have a rear body panel
19:28that's very solid we want to be able to save that we want to be able to save as many of these pieces
19:32as we possibly can because they're not wrong and in this case we just have to address not only this
19:38primary damage but the secondary damage which is what i'm going to show you now when this got hit
19:44right here on the bumper and wadded up this area that into the scene this quarter panel made of sheet
19:50metal had nowhere to go it's welded into a b pillar right here very solid area incredibly solid area
20:01i know it didn't move because if you look at the original pictures the gap between the door and the
20:06quarter on the passenger side is malissimo so now you say okay the quarter panel shortened up so
20:13so it's no longer the original link from there to there it's shortened up that is your compression
20:17buckle that had to go somewhere take a piece of paper buckle it like that and you're going to have
20:22compression buckle all the way down into here you almost a straight line i mean yeah there's a little
20:27snake to it but that whole thing is manipulated not from a shot on it like that not from that not from that
20:35from this whole thing coming down like that and it had nowhere to go so it caved in right here if you
20:41step back 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
20:59the back if the structural part of it wasn't bent down as well you can even see it in all the side
21:06marker right here now this swells out and then it dips in and all this is secondary damage there's
21:13another point that has some secondary damage up further forward i am not positive because i didn't get
21:20to see the accident this could be from a completely different incident but the fact that we have a
21:26a buckle in the frame rail you can't be sure look at that dent nice big caved in dent however i don't
21:34see any points of impact right there i don't see where another car hit into it or or a telephone pole
21:40hit it there's no gouges in the metal so that does lend me to think that this along with what we have going
21:49on here is your secondary damage you've got a great big quarter panel there that's been shortened up
21:55so if you're at home and you don't notice this and you don't notice what i'm going to show you down
21:59lower on the frame rail you go to put your brand new shiny amd quarter panel on there you put it in
22:05place you got this one cut off and it comes back to here maybe it's an inch longer those maniacs over
22:13there they making a bad part i'm going on the internet and i'm going to tell everybody well
22:18before you do that make sure your car is square and that's what we're going to talk about next is
22:22the frame rail we can see what secondary damage does here but because it took a shot low remember
22:28low hit right on that frame rail it's got damage down here that transferred too that's the importance
22:33of looking at an accident digesting everything that you see and coming up with a plan before you ever
22:39pick up a wrench or a hammer or a frame rack so here's our frame rail for the right hand side
22:45this area right through here is really nice and flat it's a factory frame rail very good solid car
22:51nice and flat through there we jump past this damage area that i'm going to show you and go here
22:57nice and flat because they're supposed to be you'll notice that our frame rail has a natural arc to it
23:02that's the most vulnerable point in an accident so now i want to show you this pucker right here
23:09and this puckered area right here imagine that this frame rail at the very back where the bumper is
23:16gets hit hard and downward it has nowhere to go it can't transfer throughout the car it's a unibody
23:24it's got to go somewhere it went right here the energy was absorbed in this frame rail thus when you
23:30fold this rail down you get a pucker here and a pucker here so the things that i'm pointing out right now
23:36are something that'd be really easy to undercoat over the top of and you wouldn't see it that's how
23:40cars are sold every day they get painted over carpet hides a multitude of sins well under coating and
23:45paint hide a lot too so you get a car bearer like this this is the best testimonial you're going to
23:49have once you get your car back from the dipper or media black thing whatever you do look for these
23:53things look for the key areas look for things that for some reason don't line up anymore we know this
23:58frame rail if it were setting on the ground is down when it's down like that it causes the buckle right
24:04here but look at more secondary damage this is the inner wheelhouse and the outer wheelhouse this should
24:11be flat as a pancake and it is not see how it's like the ocean through there look at the puckering
24:17right there this panel this panel are puckered you can see it physically in the high spots as well as
24:24look how it's separated right here from the trunk floor flange see that gap right there that little gap
24:30right there is all from that wheelhouse inner wheelhouse outer quarter panel which i showed
24:37you the buckle and this rail having nowhere else to go upon an impact that's just the way these work
24:43so we're going to put this on a frame rack where we're going to lock it down into the pinch welds on
24:47the body and we're going to raise this rail up high enough that we can stress relieve beat down these
24:55areas that are puckered that when we let off of the frame rack the frame rail stays when we're done we
25:02should have a smooth flat frame rail through here and on the back side and a smooth wheelhouse
25:08after the break mark tasks his top body man to mend the structural damage to this 1970 cuda let's put
25:16some pressure on and just see what it wants to do but will this end up being a more complicated job
25:21than he was expecting we were kind of hoping it might all walk out with one pull it isn't meanwhile
25:26alissa continues to help dougie but will she end up finding out the secret behind this rear axle
25:32i'm gonna go ahead and let her in on it find out when graveyard cars returns
25:39okay to be able to pull a frame rail you have to lock the car down which is where you're at now you've
25:46got it on the frame rack and you've locked all four of the tight pinch welds the pinch weld is the
25:51area you see underneath there where the clamps come together and they grab hold of that small
25:55pinch weld he has that in four different points so that car can't move the only thing that can move
26:00is what we pull on which is going to be the frame rail and you think that we've got a good height
26:05yeah could you want to pull back and up raise all that car up when he presses the button on the pump
26:11this ram is going to come out right here when it comes back like that the tower here is going to roll
26:17back a little bit and when it rolls back the chain part right here will pull tight just like that
26:23that's going to make all of this stuff right here pull out that's going to be our goal is get the
26:29frame rail to come out and to come up just a little bit now several things will happen as the frame
26:35rail goes up it's going to stretch the buckles out so you'll see the buckles actually start to
26:39come out of the quarters it won't be the perfection but you'll see a little bit of movement in those
26:43the only thing i want to take one second before you get pulling because i know you're like a kid
26:47in a candy store and wait to hit that pump i just want to show how much we're trying to gain from
26:51that right hand rail remember we have two kinks in that rail that are puckered out when he has this
26:56thing loaded up he's going to beat those things down so that it stays but i want to show you how far
27:01off the two rails are to prove what i was saying earlier is true so before we start pulling i'll just
27:06say that we took the measurements earlier he took a tape measure and he put it from the frame rack up to
27:11the frame rail on the undamaged side yeah and then he moves that over to the passenger side which is
27:16the side that's got a problem how far roughly did you see that that frame rail is down passenger side
27:22is about a half inch low so we know that that rail has to go up half an inch but the fact that the
27:27quarter panel shortened up it probably also needs to come a little back not very much not much okay i
27:32think with that we're ready to make our very first pull and see what comes out of the quarter panel
27:36and see if that rail comes back to where we want it okay go ahead and let's put some pressure on it
27:41just see what it wants to do it's going up going up going up ah hear that yeah this is cool when we
27:58make these pulls we're reversing things that happened right when you hear it pop when we lift the frame
28:05rail up is of course just going back into position again taking that den out you're within a half a
28:10millimeter and there it is you're you you've cleared the rail at that point but i bet when you let off
28:16it's going to come down so do you want to do your stress relieving now yeah even that came out a lot
28:20did it really yeah i love it so we have to come back up to the normal height and a little bit further
28:26so we can go in and do the stress relieving because we know that when we let go we want to be perfect
28:31well to do that you've got to take some of that stretching back out of the panels and that's what the
28:36stress relieving does some with just a hammer some with a hammer and dolly let's go up just a hair
28:42chain it up to the highest point to make it pull up higher oh okay yeah because if you're getting your
28:46stretches out then we would want to go higher with the next bullet yeah because it doesn't really need
28:50much of a 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 suck that's all you got you got it i can get you
29:01up one more that's that's good i think just one let's just try that okay because it's really almost
29:07cleared there yeah nice yeah you're clear to buy it this is metal smithing it's a lost art there's just
29:21not a lot of interest in our younger generation in doing it shane is much older than he looks i think
29:26he's 80. he grew up in the body shops doing this stuff so he learned how to be a metal smith god
29:32that whole thing almost walked out except for a little bit right there that's gonna need a good
29:38heavy hit on it right there he had it up a quarter of an inch past where it needed to go but when he
29:46lets off even after his stress relieving it's relaxing back down so he's gonna have to go up even
29:51a little bit higher than that and stress relieve it some more he may have to stress relieve the quarter a
29:55little bit too it's together collectively they're making the strength but go ahead and raise it
30:03that'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 corner gotcha swallowing it in there so you need to
30:20make a pull on it you can come down a little bit but when you take the pressure off of it that's
30:25this is going to go right back down right yeah so what he's going to have to do is let that frame
30:29rail down and then make a pull on the quarter panel that's what you see the yellow piece hanging out of
30:33the tail light opening for he needs to pull on the quarter then he's going to come back over and pull
30:38on this is that right right okay we have made all of the frame pulls now so the frame is within just
30:45a hair maybe a half a millimeter or where it needs to be it's really really close so now we have to pull the
30:50sheet metal okay because they're even though they're all welded together you can't get that
30:54frame rail so far out to pull all these dents out of here if you did you'd rip the frame rail off
30:59so now he has this big j hook which mounts inside right on this damaged area and it's the most watered
31:06up you can see here clearly where the bumper is hit it and caved it in real bad so this is where we're
31:11wanting to pull is right through here so he can pull that and while he's pulling that he'll stress
31:17relieve these different buckles that are and that one by the way at the front is almost perfect it's
31:24going to start loading that tower keep an eye on this area right through here
31:33look at that walking right out of there
31:39that's just now starting to pull out can you get a pull right on that yeah
31:44yeah i don't know because it's double walled in there right in there i'm gonna have to do some
31:49other fancier pulling i'm gonna put a hook in right there i think what we're going to end up
31:54doing and just so everybody knows these things take a long time they could spend a day or two
31:59on 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
32:09just going 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
32:17hoping it might all walk out with one pull the way it went in but it isn't it's it's more pulling
32:23apart right 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
32:35still to come as alyssa and dougie continue their disassembly of the rear end
32:40alyssa probes doug for answers about his and mark's past he tells me stuff like all the girls
32:46liked him he had the coolest car down at the gut he told you that meanwhile mark reviews shane's work
32:51on the 1970 cuda body but what still needs to get done before this car is truly healed it's torn
32:59it's ripped it's ugly find out when graveyard cars returns
33:14going up okay
33:15perfect so it was really fun working with alyssa on this one and uh sharing a lot of history from our
33:30youth okay so let's see how tight this thing is sometimes these are stuck really tight so here we go
33:37oh came right off oh look at that there's hardly any sealer on this hardly anything gosh if that
33:48would have leaked you know whose fault it would have been even though i didn't build this yours oh yeah
33:53so i don't know why mark doesn't put enough sealer on these things i'm a firm believer in plenty of
33:59sealer so you're going to notice when i put this back together it's got good sealer okay so we got this
34:05out i'm going to swing this over here temporarily all right what now it's all empty we've got all
34:10the parts off this housing that mark built for his car so now we're going to go get the new housing
34:16and i'll tell you the story i know that alyssa is very anxious to hear the back story on this job that
34:22we're doing right now now that i have the third member out i'm going to go ahead and let her in on
34:26it now here's the rear end that we're going to put back together we'll go ahead and put it up on the
34:30stand this is the last existing part that i know of for my old charger and i really thought it would
34:37be neat if doug could work with her on it but now let her know that this is a part of my life and my
34:42history that she's had the opportunity to work on this is the actual rear end housing that was in your
34:48dad's car back when he was 16 years old that's crazy yes why would he have that but not the car who
34:56knows so my dad was able to get it back and this is it this is the rear end that we actually worked
35:01on with our hands when we were 15 and 16 years of age so i had no idea this was the original axle
35:07housing out of my dad's old charger i know that he was looking for that car for a long time and he was
35:13really upset when he found out that it got crushed so the fact that he still has a piece from that car
35:16is really cool okay so i have a question while we do this okay my dad likes to tell me all kinds of
35:21stories about how like he was down he was exactly you know where i'm going with it he tells me stuff
35:26like all the girls liked him he had the coolest car down at the gut or whatever that means he told
35:31you that all right look i i'm not that guy that likes braggadocio all right but yeah i i did pretty
35:36pretty well with the ladies i was running the gut we called it the gut willamette street we cruised it
35:41on saturday night and friday nights that's why we worked on our cars all week so we could go up there
35:46cruise around you always wanted to find the carload full of chicks and chase them up and down willamette
35:50street get one of them to ride around with you kind of like american graffiti is fairly innocent
35:54stuff but this part is true if doug will just be honest yeah that can't be true right no i don't
36:01know if he was ever at the gut his car was always broke down just like mine was why was it broke down
36:07well we always broke them like doing stupid stuff yeah like burning out for a half mile yeah well then
36:12how'd you guys 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
36:2750 cents in my car driving down to 7-eleven to get a big gulp royal and i walked down to 7-eleven when
36:32we were kids we didn't have cars we were 13 14 years old we had a pool table out in my carport we
36:39shoot some stick go down there and get some glugs and head back to the house he's he's mixing his
36:44stories i try to stay as factual as humanly possible but dougie i think he's just kind
36:48of slipping out there that's cool you know we all slip sometimes so yeah i don't know anything
36:53about mark's stories about getting girls all the time at the gut the girls like him i don't know
36:57i didn't hang out with him did you did you have a girlfriend i have my own car and my own girlfriend
37:02oh you did yeah okay my dad told me he you were jealous of his charger but you had a barracuda
37:07yeah that's better than a charger and then he tells me all these stories like your dad
37:11bought you the barracuda and your dad did everything for you colorful stories alissa
37:15okay so you had a job so you could buy your own car right that's right did you save up for it save
37:20up for the car yeah see how doug answers a question with a question the only time he does
37:25that is he's getting ready to lay an untruth on everybody you're getting close to the story
37:29alissa you need to stay on him stay on him don't let him go well i sold my first car that got me
37:34part 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
37:44but he didn't have a gun and a mask alissa keep on him and you'll find out what he did have
37:49then you just went down to the bank is that what they did back then we'll see the mill i worked for
37:53was also in the credit union oh perfect and
38:02my dad suggested that i get a loan at the credit union where he banked at here thank you
38:08this reminds me of a few good men when caffy's got jess up on the stand stay on him stay on him
38:14did you order that code red well that's awesome so you had good enough credit to just get a loan
38:18well dad co-signed for me ah okay maybe that's what my dad's talking about yeah was his dad dead yet
38:24yeah oh that's where the animosity comes from and the truth shall set you free there it is folks there it
38:32is daddy co-signed walked in didn't get carried in by six pole bearers to co-sign for a loan for a car
38:40so he could just upscale me with a 70 barracuda you know at the end of a few good men it was the first
38:46time that caffy realized he was an officer and he demanded that jessup treat him like one alissa you
38:52just earned officer status with me good job now go arrest the son of a bitch
39:04right behind you don't fret okay so i got to take off a little bit early i feel bad leaving
39:08doug with the rest of the project but i did have a lot of fun and i learned a lot and i really enjoyed
39:13his stories i think they're just as funny as my dad's and i can't wait to learn more about my dad's
39:18childhood so after alissa left i had to finish up the axle i had to put the backing plates on
39:24axles in all the brake hardware brake drums finish all this up and this thing looked really nice when
39:29it was done so now having this rear axle done mark is one step closer to having his charger back
39:35and i'm looking forward to going for a ride
39:54shane has been working really hard on this corner paddle he's got a lot of hours in the dolly
40:00and the hammering and the pulling and the tweaking but our goal was to save the quarter panel as much
40:06of the original quarter panel as humanly possible and that's what he's done now that he's finished up
40:11to here there's a couple areas he's gonna have to do some more work on but this was about saving the
40:15frame rail squaring the body and saving this quarter panel so looking at the quarter you've got a beautiful
40:22flat surface now there's a couple little deviations that the filler will take care of but this is very
40:27straight very flat down through here if you remember this was all caved in back in the day this this
40:34was a compression buckle from the rear end it is now straight and that wheel opening so nice through
40:40there moving down this area came out great it didn't have much there was a little deviation in
40:45it but this is like smoothest glass this almost would need just primer and block uh he had a crown
40:51here he's knocked that down the area down here that was so puckered out around that side marker is
40:56now flat flat all flat through there so i stand back now and i look and i've got a quarter panel
41:05that is an original quarter panel original holes for the vinyl top original spot welds on it we're able
41:10to save that the only thing that we are going to end up having to change out is if you look right here
41:17at the quarter panel area where the hit actually happened where the bumper got driven into it right
41:24through here it's torn it's ripped it's it's ugly so we're going to take a new amd quarter and cut a
41:32section probably including this but because it's kind of damaged right in here probably going to go here
41:40and then straight down or something to that effect because we have rust here so we're going to have
41:46to replace that rust so if we're going to do that and we're going to do this we don't want to do
41:49patches that's one of the things we see on a lot of cars that come in to get patches but you know to
41:55make this area go away and this damaged area go away we'll be putting a small piece in i could not be
42:01more pleased with the condition of the quarter panel and knowing that it's as much original metal this
42:07a very rare car a lot of cool options on it let's take a look at the frame rail now that was a big
42:12part of this right let's take a look at that frame rail shane and i went over the measurements on this
42:19and this frame rail is the exact same height width and length as the other side so it can't really get
42:25any better than that that that's probably better than it was at the factory they usually give themselves
42:30you know an eighth of an inch well we don't do that we try to make it perfect looking at the frame rail
42:34remember all the buckles that went right through here and right through here you can see a little
42:37bit of shiny spot where he was hammering on that that's all that is we are now flat right through
42:45there both sides you can't see the inside it's impossible to see but what i can tell you is we have
42:51a flat frame rail in space where it's supposed to be absolutely in space where it's supposed to be
42:58so everything through here is as it's supposed to be so this is exactly what i was hoping the
43:04outcome would be we've got an original quarter panel that we've saved original frame rail and
43:10our geometry is perfect so with that shane's going to put a small piece in he's got a little bit of
43:16work to do on the other side of it and then he is going to ship it out to the mudroom where they can
43:21smooth the car out next time you see it old willy if he ever comes back from his honeymoon
43:26we'll do some pant work on it
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