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Tim Allen puts his car knowledge on display in this behind-the-scenes look at Shifting Gears. As he reviews a Camaro, it’s clear that both Tim and Matt share serious gearhead credentials. Stream Shifting Gears on Hulu.

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00:00The whole deal with this is when I used to race with the other guys on Woodward
00:03Avenue in Detroit which is a car we used to race up and down of course
00:08legally and the fastest car was a guy named Tom Sherwood he had a 327 Camaro
00:13that this color and I always loved that car so what I did was I found one but I
00:18like to modify resto rod so I took this and Smoky Eunuch which is a race car
00:24driver he raced a Camaro that was squat and fat and they lowered it and they
00:29put flared fenders on it so I added that to this old 68 Camaro body it's got
00:34natural flares which you can barely tell because I did such a good job not me
00:39personally I'm the process artist I don't actually do the work and then I put stock
00:44wheels on it which are not stock at all it's got the one of the very few 427
00:48small blocks anybody knows that they're gonna say that's not possible they did
00:52make a 427 small block and then it's all underneath is like a NASCAR chassis
00:59427 great chassis the problems I had with it was the it's a 68 Camaro body and
01:08they made great cars some of this stuff a little cheesy back in they make cars
01:13better now there's a better way to say it so it's been a lot of work to get it to
01:16keep it where it was but I want to drive it like a brand new car and this is a
01:20badass car it's a it's a really a nice car to me it drives like
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