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Hey kids, with you don't want to be hard of hearing and have tinnitus when your my age, use hearing protection... or you just tell me to piss off and enjoy the lifetime of ringing in your head!!😎👍

Super super super super super super super

Mooi hé...Zijn dit De vries vd Mick uit Vinkenveen? doen die dit nog?

Wooow quiero ser nieto de esos señores jaja

That was cool to watch. They made it look easy

Open root.? I'd never put a butt joint on a rim

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badass grandpha

Kkkkkkkkkkk

sheesh no coolant or oil

When I see basic steel rims now I’ll visualise them modified to fit wider tyres.

Widening the wheels is fine. BUT ARE THE CENTER STRONG ENOUGH FOR THAT ADDED PRESSURE?

wtf this old man only used stick welding back of the days...and resault like a TIG

Waar heb jij precies velgen verbreden gemaakt?

Them old codgers do good work

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Eso lo llamo yo unos tipos habilidosos, unos viejos zorros.

love it a dying breed

Wow.... Your welding skill is awesome

Dude,u don’t need gloves.Don’t be a pussy,Hold the rim while i spot weld it.

Trabajan muy bien .....con un estilo muy técnico y bien hecho.........lo único malo que el señor de más edad no se cubre las manos del calor de la soldadura ni para su cara.....👌

Old is gold.. 👍

BRAWO......👌

Now if only he had the variable shade two beer bottles on the fingers "Mask"

Now I must learn welding while smoking a cigar just because.

and this was banned in the mid 70s because of repeated failure, so please don't risk it

Good welding man . A few bits of safety gear would help you stay safe.

Master of cool old school wheel banding... hat's off to em....

Experience excellent.

Only fault I found is when the extension band was cut and welded. You do not stick weld down vericialy.

Oud Holllands vakwerk ;)

Show this work to millennials and they'll faint.

Hard werkers hier in Nederland, mooi staaltje vakman schap en roken op de werkvloer fuck it haha oldschool

True craftsmanship. Its to bad skill levels like this are a dying breed. Now you just order a new rim on Amazon and *POOF * you get one delivered in 2 days that was made in a Chinese factory with shitty materials! Imagine what the millennials today would say or think trying to apprentice under these guys LOL. I remember when I started my apprenticeship under the old school Electricians in my day and they were hard asses that would make you carry their lunch and they showed you things once and if you didn't catch on then buddy you better watch out cause you had an ass chewing coming! At the end of the day though they would give you the shirt off their back and a ride home cause that was just the way it was. I remember two guys in particular who absolutely made me hate him but years later I recognised the electrician they made out of me and the skill level I had that others didn't and I was able to get jobs that paid much more because of it! My family and myself benefited from it in the long run due to them being so hard on me and I wish I could thank them today. I remember when they gave me all of their old Klein tools that they had from when they were just a green hand and they gave them to me because I was just a broke 18 yr old drop out with a kid. I see now that they saw themselves in me because they too were once just a couple of guys from a humble background and not much of a future and they also were 18 or 19 with a kid and wife and trying to make it. I still have and still use many of those tools and everytime I see them I think of the history and what they mean to me. Thank you Ed & RJ Fowler.

4:08 is that Clarkson waiting for his wheels ?

Very nice work.Old school Is the best👍

We all 😍loved the small working garage behind the taxistand near the small road crossing in the green low lands of van der Mik in Vinkeveen. How many people came and went and how many wheels where widened by this trained team, countless! For my road and race cars I brought many sets, even a set for my girlfriends tiny Renault Clio and the quality of their work constantly of the highest level. Never a millimeter or even a little of that off in hight or wide so no disbalance and never a leak as well. A smear of paint of any kind available was enough to protect it against corrosion etc. And it always was a treat to look at their performance which never missed a single beat, it was like watching a play in a theater. Always in a good mood to answer a question. Like what was the max they did in mm, for racecars on the the former racecircuit Baarlo they widened rims with the height of a 60 litre oil drum! They disliked the widening of the wheels of my little Suzuki as the front of the streetcar could only handle half an inch widening which was difficult to weld so close to each other, they promoted wider with a smile, extra inches added didn t cost a penny more they offered smiling 😀 And when the ET count was not up to wish they were able to change the offset by bore out the or welds by replacing or even turn around the centre plate. Never a doubt their work would be unsafe at what speed or what performance at how many horsepower and torque whatsoever. Cost was I think15 builders extra a piece, I recall wiring a rim was 25 or 30 a piece, peanuts to the amount of work, the performance and the quality and to the sole other offered of simular services named Piper from their automatic mig welded rims. At van Mik could take a copied quarter of an A4 paper with the small pricelist with a dress and telephone number to give to a racefried or so as a kind of prehistoric but functional business card. I always think of it when I pass by to visit the Saab garage nearby sorry the van der Mik people don t do this widening stuff with all extra effects anymore, it was brilliant😎, luckily we still have the remembrance and the film here, hope more will show up. Cheers, Ron

Mooi verslag, vakmannen!!

Spit the shit out of your mouth and speak so people can understand you or shut the fuk up !!!

🙌 Legends!

skills like this are becoming a thing of the past...

zgrane dziadki:)

Wiat is the purpose of doing this job. Is not easier to buy wider new rims ?

Ahh yes, the good old day's, ... when men were men, and the sheep were skiddish, just sayin'

Close enough for a cigar

Mooi om te zien dit en nog elektrode ook

Doing a video w/ the radio playing?

Old people knows better? Totally agree!

Young guys couldn't do this, only video games for them.

Von diesen Leuten kann man was Lernen !!!