SAVING A HEMICUDA FROM THE ASHES: TOUGHEST RESURRECTION IN GYC HISTORY.
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- čas přidán 16. 09. 2022
- When we were commissioned to try to save this 1971 Hemicuda, we really didn't know what we were in for. Here you will see the troubles we face and how we can work around them.
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I’m from Detroit, MI. and my bro in law helped design the Challenger.
I love hearing the history of this car.
So awsome ! Thank you for sharing, please make a video of your experience
@@yodagang_, I was on the front page of the Detroit free press about the re release of the Challenger.
Holy hell... I've watched pretty much every show like this on streaming platforms and cable that I could find, but THIS ONE is just focusing on the car and the build, without fake BS drama horseshit, and that is 100% right up my alley. Finally. Instant subbed.
I think they should add some orange county choppers drama like him and his daughter are always fighting and braking $hit then she opens her own shop and ......
Sorry but I disagree the owner acts like a j e r k
I find it beyond amazing this program is surviving despite it's main character.
I unsubscribed because I think it should fail precisely due to Mark's behavior. If he were my boss, I would quit yesterday
I think he's a great boss. How many bosses have a sense of humor like that? Come on.
@@ivoman7 He's a smarmy know-it-all who refuses to admit that he's really a nerd who somehow scored a TV show.
@@stkyfngrszmooth Like his comment - Sorry, you must be color blind for Blue as the Skatpack Bea repo is not the same color and hug as the original..
That guy knows his shit. Takes a great person to build that type of company. Seems like his employees are happy to be where they at.
As GYC doesn’t discuss price’s of repairs. As a bodyman of 30yrs…working my way up from crappy shops to high end shops, I can tell you the repair bill on many of these cars has to be 50-100 grand. It depends on which state you live in. The labor rates can vary drastically depending upon which region of the States your having restoration done.
I’m guessing the shops who do these rebuilds live in a high labor rate area of the country. At least it would make business sense
I’d say closer to $100-$150k!
It's worth it too!😊💰💵👍🧔♂️👩🏼🔧👨🏻🦳🚙
if you need an interior done, you can go down to Mexico and get a whole interior done for 300 bucks. Door cards and all
You get what you pay for
Love how detailed they are and explain every step this is awesome
The season finale with this car was the best piece of TV I've seen in a long time.
Quality work! What an inspection. Love the learning moments too.
I'm new to this channel and I love this guys, they really know what they're doing, the boss cracks me up, too funny, what great show!!
The Hemi Cuda is my dream pony car - actually, my dream car full stop. So glad you're bringing it back
When these were being born, they were my favorite, too, but when they finally did, I tried one on for size at a dealership for fun, and couldn't fit. At 6'1" I was too tall. Well, I couldn't afford it anyway.
@@williams3631 oh man, I'm the same height as you are - that's very unfortunate for ever getting one of these (along with the prices now of course)
Love you guys and the cars you save❤️ so glad i found you on CZcams!!! Flipping awesome!!!! Keep on bring Em back to life!!!! P.S. doug is great and needs more camera time👍 and P.S. tell George's eyes to take 3 steps away from each other, way to close together 👍
Mark has said he's colorblind, he probably had no clue about the stickers!
😂🤣😅
The camera man probably enjoyed making him look like a stooge!
The attention to detail is incredible. I’m hooked. Got to see the finished
This was insanely good!! Meticulous craftsmanship and tough love leadership leading to fantastic results with the family. SUBBED !
Found ya'll on yt glad to see you still kicking them out and yes its an older episode. 👍
You guys do amazing work! Every time i watch you’re videos i get pumped up to go work on my cars 👍
You being ridiculous
You need motivation to work on your own cars
THAT'S bad for your projects
Don't start something you can't finish
@@Gar99 guy i work 14 hrs a day 🤦♂️how is that being ridiculous? I work on them when i have free time
New to the show. Theres some home town feel to these guys. I feel like I watched eps of GC on tv back in the day but the owner dude was always stressed out and pissed off back then lol But Im more digging his new chill vibe on the show now.
My buddy had one of those we would take to Whittier Blvd in the 70s, never lost a race. Shades of American Graffiti. such a sweet ride
I am lost for words.....YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!!!!!
Sometimes automakers run out of parts and substitute what they have available. It’s highly possible that these drums might be from, say,a truck and were used because the factory ran out of 10 inch drums.
Are you trying to say that the 71 Dodge drives like a truck 😜😜
My friend Carl Jez, may he RIP, collected muscle cars instead of investing in the traditional investments. He had a Hemi Cuda convertible, a 69 Dodge Daytona with only 600 miles on it, a bunch of 440 motors, and a few more classic cars.
He died during a road test with a customer, when a kid ran a stop sign killing Carl instantly. His smart investments paid for all his kids to go to college.
Glad you are bringing this classic back to life!
WOW! you guys work Miracles!😇
I love you guys. I did have a motortrend sub but I dont watch tv much. I am here on my computer and love your on here. Thanks guys.
Awesome! I lost my house and workshop to fire, it took my vintage Vette, F-150 and Harley Night Train. I know the feeling.
Absolutely love this show, Mark is a riot
He reminds me of Al Delvecchio from Happy Days.
After viewing this video, I find the owner absolutely loves hearing himself talk, and wants to show whoever is watching, that he knows all the terms of the car, lastly, he's a freaking know-it-all. No more viewing for me
Great episode, but those two bees looked nothing alike!! Someone needs their eyes checked 😅🤣, all kidding aside, very impressive work and your knowledge of Mopar stats and general information is astounding!
Just found this channel, I'm not a Mopar guy but these guys know their stuff and seem to do great work. The owner is a little weird but most really smart people I've been around are.
Vary awesome indeed. Keep up the great work you guys. Okay.
I love that little side show you do like that cartoon would love to see the rest of it
I'm pretty sure the blue in those stickers are no where close to the same lol
You know your stuff man! Beautiful work you guys do! BTW, just wanted to mention, at 36:10 I could see both 70s, the blue and the red one, and there is a difference between the 2, the "face" of the red one looks right, the blue one has the front edge of the hood shaped more straight, with out the proper curvature, which makes it look weird, or not right lets say. I`ve notice that a long time ago in some of them. Keep up the great work 🏆
Love this. I am 1950 model, became, in those days as as known, "motor mechanic ", in South Africa. 1970.
Love these restoration videos. I learnt my trade on Dodge, and As was known in South Africa, Valiant, cars,
Question, when blasting, sand or water, what about dry ice application❓🤔
Thanks guys, love the programme, just found your programme.
I have loved molars since the mid 70's I had no idea you all existed when I watch you guys my heart rate in creases I see so many cars I want if I had the $$$$$ I'd buy a 73 challenger!!!! I had a 69 charger for a short time and I regretted letting it go
I love my molars too!! 🦷
Very impressed with your attention to detail. In cooking, the best Chefs always insist on the same thing..That’s what separates the pros from the amateurs
You guys do amazing work!
The fish joke was the best part for me... thx and Shalom.
That's not arrogant, you know what your doing. Man of much experience and car knowledge.
Oh how I miss my 'cudas! The one I never should have sold though, was a 1970 Barracuda Grand Coupe, Burnt Orange Metallic. The last five digits of the VIN were 0009, and yes it was fully loaded. Must have been first day production for the E body, and was probably intended to be a showstopper in some dealer's showroom.
I wish so badly i learned mechanics and got into all of this stuff as a career … Doing something you love to do or even just enjoy is priceless …. That was a funny joke by the way … lol
you aren't dead, you still can do it.
A bodyman at Romania's told me back in 1980 that bodymen were invented to make the panels fit that didn't fit at the factory the first time.
Highly detailed part number knowledge seems to be more specific to MOPAR vehicles than either Ford or Chevy. Being able to ID such part numbers and applications is impressive to say the least.
they only do Mopar.
This is the guy that Google googles when it needs some information on cars. He's sharp as a razor.
My dream car. Nice job.
Of all the American reality "car" shows out there, GYC on average seems to be the one most consistently about cars, and not some made up drama bullcrap. Sure there's some TV stuff in the mix but it's kept to a minimum, and more than a few times it manages to make me chuckle for real.
"Rapid Roy, That Stock-car Boy" was a hit by the fabulous Jim Croce, back in the Good Ole Daze. I played in a Country/Rock group that had this song in our repertoire, and it was cool to hear Mark in his "Rock-star" Mode.
Love these guys but its a poignant love for me. The sad thing is that these guys are really knowledgeable. Once they are gone so goes their knowledge. Do you think you could find many young folks in this day and age who could rebuild a Hemi Cuda or any old Mopar? There may be a few but they will be far and few in between. These guys are craftsman and artists of an age gone by. I sincerely wish I had the money to afford to have them rebuild me a car. I love the fact that they are restoring some muscle cars that are rare keeping the past alive. Hat's off to you Graveyard cars!
always educational and entertaining...
You guys are damn MASTERS extremely respect for your job simply amazing 🤯🤯🤯🤯
First time... Amazing.. that main dude is a killer. Dude knows everything.. what an inspection
Boy it was so smart to wrap it up, can you imagine if anything would have gotten damaged? Somehow that seems like a very bizarre comment.
Man I would be very apprehensive about the temper in all the steel for everything that was left in that car.
Yeah me too a burnt car is never the same i don't think
Yea I bet metal is a lil soft
@Andy Smythe when steel loses its temper it becomes soft and more playable. I would expect unusual wear on moving parts and bending and denting on structural parts
While I understand what you're getting at, I want to point out that cars like this are made with mild steel, and that doesn't harden or temper back. Carbon steels and some stainless alloys will, but mild steel doesn't react in a detrimantal way to heating, except to oxidise rapidly (all the agressive rust this had). What they've done with this car is not only perfectly fine, at the point they left it in this show it's better than any other car like it ever left the factory back then, both in strength and finish quality. This thing has become art and history in one, which given the price of these now is honestly pretty appropriate. :/
@@Broadpaw_Fox Excellent point, I was thinking about drive shafts differential joints gear boxes, brake parts, engine components, much of which I'm hoping was replaced. There is a lot in a car that does require a temper but even so the amount of miles these show cars see is very limited so perhaps not that big of an issue.
You guys should look into lazer cleaning. Its awesome. Takes everything off rust to paint.
No crying about budgets, deadlines or any other nose great video pure professional!!
I love your work, and the end results are amazing. But let's be fair here, this car is essentially you lifted up the serial number and built another car under it. You did retain some of it, but it is mostly a new shell. Good work though and preserving history in any way shape or form at this point is always worth it.
There was really no other way to do it. It was totaled under any normal definition of the word. The JYC crew worked a small miracle if anything.
Two fishes in a Tank!!! This is exactly my humor!! LOL
Old hot rodder tricks from back in the day was to swap in heavier duty/beefier brake assemblies off of pickup trucks such as the Dana 60s used in Dodge pickups which had both the larger diameter drums as well as the wider shoes which outperformed the stock 9",or 10" drums that had the slightly narrower friction materials as well as non finned drums... Non finned drums couldn't dissipate heat as quickly or well as the finned drums did... They were often found on race cars meant to handle twisty turns with extreme braking over and over again as well as some dedicated street/strip drag cars back then...
I love the murder by Death reference sketch in this!
In the diesel industry, we _always_ use Loctite or Permatex on the gasket, applied to _both_ sides. Makes for a wayyy better seal.
Do you use the loctite red spray ?
@@Whateverpoopiepants Very, very rarely use aerosols, and when we do it's usually an adhesive like 3M Super 77 just to help it stick while trying to get things lined up. We only use it for things that will be mounted externally and not see any oil, water, or fuel passing by it; like safety release valves, or a block off plate.
wish i could afford to take my old chellenger to these guys, im in coos bay so it's close enough could drive it there
Would love to check out your shop . Awesome show
Wow i realy did not know this you nice guys!
I can tell from a mile away there’s a huge difference between both stickers. First off the blue is too light on the reproduction sticker and the outlines around the bee on the new sticker are off by a lot .. I have bad ocd and I notice little details like that.
In fact, if he is that colour and detail blind , then it's a bad sign for the rest of the work !! Or is it a case of just expecting the customers to believe all the sales bullsbit.
Check out Retropower videos for actual quality without the ego or salesmanship.
Right!!? I was saying the same thing. Glad someone else noticed that.
@@johnelove4714 Even if you are color blind you could see it.
@@johnelove4714 send me a link , I’ll check them out
Yeah in the video the blue is way off, the thing I'm not sure of is if that is actually a colour difference or if it is an artefact of the video. Some cameras do weird things with colours.
You're killin' me with the cue cards!
At least 86 times you guys state the cars been a fire, ....No Sh^T!?🥴
0:35 That car looks like it just got retrieved from the world of Mad Max. But you definitely have to admit, that the Hemi Cuda "Phoenix" truly lived up to its name in the most literal sense of the word.
Mark, you and the ghouls did one Helluva job restoring that '71 Phoenix HEMI 'cuda, i hate to see valuable Musclecars get destroyed by fire!!! A great friend of mine lost his '70 Plymouth Roadrunner due to a very bad garage fire!!! That car was a RM21, 383, 4spd, suregrip rear, HD suspension, FC7 paint, very Beautiful example of a '70 Roadrunner, which became deep fried chicken!!! Now we know who can bring a burnt car back to life!!! Mopar Nate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mopar or no car
I want that garage fire Hemicuda restored ♥️❤️♥️😍
Nice that Mark is so humble
Why does he remind me of a older version of michael scott? He isnt in the paper business but he is in the mopar business 😂 love this show man
Thank you for saving me from wasting 44 minutes of my life!
Sadly as time goes by there are very few hammer n dolly body men left,with very few new ones to take their places due to simply replacing panels with aftermarket repops have become the norm along with high build spray filler primers which simply masks or hides the imperfections rather than massaging them away as we did back in the day... Swiping entire bodies with bondo will hide it along with weak body work,panel alignment,gaps etc. when sprayed with heavy filler primers and very light block work... And we won't even discuss custom metal work such as chopping,narrowing,channeling,frenching,leading seams,etc. as they've all almost become a total thing of the past... 😢
engineering tip: on paper gaskets, don't use permatex, rub grease into the paper till it is thinly coated. it seals paper from moisture and paper to surface, stops rot and makes easy removal as it usually does not stick to surfaces when u dismantle.
If you don't use some kind of gasket seal on those old cars they will leak
@@donaldkinzel8307 grease is ALL you need. over 40 yrs as a Diesel fitter i have never had a problem
Impressive. We are seeing quality workmanship here.
It would be awesome to work in a shop like that.
I'm wondering what they charge for a major job like this.
My 1988 Dodge Lancer has a pretty wide gap between the right side doors, much wider than this gap. Makes me wonder where the body weld is off. The hood and trunk are centered in their opening. How is it possible for the right side doors to be wider apart than the left?
But that is an example of mass production compared to hand crafted.
At GYC they have no need of torque specs or torque wrenches….it’s all done by feel. That’s how good they are🙂👍
They are morons.
When you've bolted enough stuff down, it becomes very easy to feel the torque
@@masonhales Nonsense.
@@gmonynegro595 How much stuff have you bolted down to spec?
@@masonhales yes to a certain degree , but on critical fasteners a torque wrench is the best way.
I thought this was the one from Steve Dulchich's fire that he and Feiburger dropped a new engine and such in.
Good lord. Are all the video like this? Jumping around everywhere. Stay on one subject.
You are the best man 😁❤️
Experience with knowledge is not arrogance. Knowledge without experience IS arrogance.
Was hoping their would be a finished reveal at the end....no luck on that, so I'm unsure where to look and find it?
In 1979 when I was 19 years old I bought a 1971 "Cuda with a 340 engine. I was working at a gas station in Houston and bought it for $600. It had a Mechanic's lean. In 1980 the ball joints were toast and the car became undrivable. I was injured at work and got fired. So I didn't have the money to get it repaired.
After the third time it was towed from my apartments, I just let it go. To this day I regret that like you will never imagine!
19:39 if I may offer an addendum to your joke sir, I would add: "water-in the-world are you talking about?"
WOW, nice work..what was the start to finish final cost..?
would you guys ever go into detail on how to do weather stripping on a door in another video?
I had a photo with a picture of that exact car on my locker in Vietnam. I had every intention of buying it when I got back. But there was no warrantee at all and that bothered me.
I always worry about the metallurgy of burned parts. Even armor plate can be adversely affected by a fire. Then again I don't know.
Very soon, for nearly all people on Earth, restoring an old junk car would be a luxury that can only be dreamed of. That such videos as these are popular now means most people are unaware of what is coming.
Ice Hole, if the shoe fits>>> I Enjoy your show, great America Car's Man, also fits.
Thank you for these beautiful restorations. QUESTION: Do your videos have pixel distortion intentionally OR is it my internet provider?
Great rebuild. Great shop. But the annoying music almost ruins it. Why the producers think it's necessary is beyond me.
Best youtube channel ever.
What amazes me is you'll see a classic car on someone's property dying a slow rusted death. Knock on the door, its either they want way too much for it or they say they are going to fix it up one day. And you'll keep passing it for years sitting until it shows up like this one.
How do they paint or coat inside the body rails ? Dipping I presume ?
The most sensuous cars ever made.
From the factory these old Mopars often arrived at the stealerships with horrible gaps and panel alignments which one could look down the sides at the body panels and see fenders sticking out wider than the front of the door panels,while the rear of the door panels sometimes were set in further than the rear quarters,or visa versa... The gaps were often so different at one end,at the middle and at the other end as to vary as much as an 1/8" or more... MOPARS were not the fit and finish equals of those finer European autos,and just as bad if not worse than the Furd,and GM offerings... But us true Mopar fanatics didn't care and some of us even massaged away a lot of the factories lousy fitments,or even reworked fenders to where the body lines were actually inline from front to the rear as well as body panel gaps being consistently the same along every meeting place and realigning the bumpers,and occasionallymoving the qide gapped bumpers closer into the body panels for a smoother fitment and sleeker look.. Which considering the rocker panels often differing as much as 3/16" different gaps on the right or left sides was saying a lot... We often wondered if Stevie Wonder,Ray Charles,and Ronnie Milsap all had worked on the Dodge,Chrysler,Plymouth body assembly lines back then..😮 😂
How about "ice hole"? OMG these guy are funny! 😆
Not to asking like detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds, but would you ever consider brightening a 2005 Honda Pilot?
All you hear nowadays especially from classic car dealers is "nut&bolt" restored or "rotisserie restored".
Now that's all well and good I guess, but does anyone else besides me feel that when every inch of a car is disassembled to the point of having just a hunk of metal, that it takes away from it's originality?
To me, owning a piece of automotive history is more than just having the vehicle, but it's also about having as much of the vehicle and all of it's components still in tact from the hands that put it together all those years ago.
I understand that the older a vehicle gets the more it is likely that parts will need to come off for repair or replacement, but I've seen plenty of cars over the years where they were totally torn apart unnecessarily in my opinion but that's just me.
I guess what I'm trying to say is to truly have an original is to have one that hasn't been disassembled since it rolled off the assembly line.
to protect cars against rust : put grease every where : between carpet and metal, inside rear gate, doors, under the car, rear wings, behind bumpers, when these places cannot be reached, with a paintbrush, use an extender to pour oil. to be repeted regulary for oil.
Grease is the only thing really very efficient againt rust. it is my experience of 35 years..
from france.
despite my love for the Mopars, it was a torture sitting thru the whole 44 minutes watching this. They tell you what they found, what they will do and how they will do it, and then tell you what they have done. its all telling but no actual work is ever shown or seen. this is the worst kind of videos one can come across. one might as well listen to a podcast.
Agreed 100%
Used to record episodes then I got tired of this and haven’t went back
I concur. I want to see fabrication and machining, not just talk and the occasional prank.
I wasted my time watching it as well, I wanted to see the work being done, and the car when it was finished, but got nothing.
What you have at GRAVE YARD IS WORTH MILLIONS the usn will buy all them for BOAT ANCHORS the navy loves them
The windshield wiper inside the sandblaster.. freaking genius
Water blaster not sand blaster. Sand blaster would eat that wiper and the glass would be scored.
Anyone here tried ice blasting parts, frames and bodies?
Is it me or does the top of the tunnel near where the driveshaft/trans meet have a good sized rust hole? It shows up twice and never addressed.