Full Build: 1973 Buick Century Restomod
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2025
- With a restoration budget of $10K, MuscleCar has practical performance plans for its 1973 Buick Century, Project "Blue Collar Buick". The guys go on an engine-hunt, bring back a Buick 455, and tear it down before sending it to the machine shop. Rick and Tommy show how to replace the entire roof and it loses some serious weight from the front and rear bumpers. Rick shows how to graft in different door handles and replaces the tail panel. Plus, he designs some one-off budget tail lights using some unusual materials. Then, the '73 Buick Century turns over a new leaf with a screaming orange and sinister charcoal paint scheme. It gets a refreshed interior on a budget before hitting the road for the first time. A new cam, heads, intake and carb are just the beginning! The Buick gets a new rear end that will stand up to increased horsepower. Then Blue Collar makes a dyno run to see if the performance upgrades brought us up to our goal. Tommy installs a hood tach, then takes the Buick on a road trip to the GS Nationals and hits the drag strip.
Even though the sound was messed up, so many things on this build turned out better that I thought they would. I love it.
Probably a lot of licensed music issues
Unfortunately, since some of our videos are older TH-cam mutes the sound due to copyright issues. Sorry about that!
@@powernation2 No worries, I'm just happy to have them on here. :)
What do you think. Bigger jets and some more timing???
@@powernation2 Aw man... Any way to get around that? Some video editing maybe?
I'm guessing nobody checked the video before/after upload? The sound cuts out ALL over the place.
Real professional, awesome job. It's not like this is high class production from people who do this for a living or anything. Bravo.
/these guys are definitely better at chopping and welding body panels than AV snippets :D
they arent professional video people but it was because of copyright issues from nazee youtube
@@Fony_turgeson yep, they cut sound out because it had music that kepy getting the whole audio flagged.
It unusual for their videos and a year after your comment it's still like that. Oh well.
@@Clearanceman2 I just watched it and rebooted my computer thinking it was me.
Thanks for the close ups on the welding process! I was tired of having vision anyway
Thanks again Tommy, overall nice project, yep darn sound problems. But left me with a happy face.... :)
Paintjob came out lookin' tasty! Big props for turning a rather boring smog era hoopty into something you'd actually wanna drive. (and do big burnouts!)
And saving a salvage car too.
Man!! I can watch these master of metal work all day!!! They have great chemistry and work ethic!! Make everything look so easy!! AMAZING JOB FELLAS!!!
I miss this show. Classic stuff.
My dad had a 73 4 door.... thing was HUGE. Like remove the hood and use it as a thanksgiving banquet table big..... My dad totalled it in the very early 80's because he jumped a stoplight.....
Rick and Tommy are a great team, I bet they would be awesome in a less scripted show too. Not a huge fan of the big wheels, but the rest of the build is really cool!
Yes I thought it was a beautiful build....those wheels and tires hurt my soul though!
I just wish they could have taught Tom how to talk on camera, I always trhought he was trying too hard.
my god guys ... these new components are nothing short of beautiful ... stunning engineering..... almost jewelry !
Undoubtedly my favorite Power Nation build. David Dunbar Buick would be proud of the car built by Tommy and Rick.
Great watch guys are informative and experienced pleasure to view/listen.
I actually like the Buick tail lights. Over all this was a great build guys!
Such skill. Took a salvage car and made it look like a show car. And even though 10,000 in 2010 is more like 14000 now, they did a heck of a job.
I really enjoyed watching this build. I appreciate what you did with this Buick that is not the first thing people think of when you say muscle car. Well Done!
Best automotive content I've seen in a good while . Not promoting anything the hobby. Rick , tell your cousin Kevin Lawson said "hey". You and Tom are purest and corporate puppet/actors. Rock on !
Let them hate I love those old buicks and tell the editor to fix your sound please...
I like that bench seat...its in good shape
You guys have hit this one out of the park you guys are genius everything you done to this car makes it a one of a kind the best one yet keep on keeping on
That Buick really got transformed. Looks 🔥
They straight up turned a turd into a super clean ride!.. great job guys
You fellas are very good at this, love your work :)
The work on the air cleaner was really trick. Love the work these guys put into this car.
I never got into those 73-77 huge B-body cars.
I had a few of them back in the day, and they were HEAVY, long, tanks that didn't handle real well. The doors on the two door versions of these were ridiculously heavy, and the hinge pins were always shot after no time, and the strap to close the doors would always tear off from trying to close such a heavy door. Especially ones with power locks and windows. The 74 442 I had, had swivel bucket seats to get in and out with, because the thing was so huge.
I DID enjoy the big blocks these things came with however, and swiped plenty of them to put in smaller, lighter cars. Hit a junk yard, rip a healthy big-block out of one of these things for $200, cam it up a little, put an intake and carb on it, a set of headers, find a nice G-body for $800 to toss it into, and you instantly had a 12 second street car for less than $2500.
Give me a 67-72 A-body, or a 78-87 G-body, any day and I'm set. 👌
I never liked the 73 b-bodies in particular, I always thought the rear fascias were ugly, especially on the Monte Carlos.
Tommy is the best at handling any truck car or a Drag racing hurst !! Add Rick to the Show and end result will be phe·nom·e·nal
That is an excellent show. The quality of it is superb.
Love your show! Sure do wish you would have been around back in my day. I had a 63 Chevy ragtop Impala 327 cu in . This car had a 2 piece drive shaft, by the way I kept busting them, so I put a many drive shaft in that car. My favorite car of all time. I am 66 yrs going on 32 LOL
I’d love to see what you could do with one of those. I’ll keep my eye on your show. You guys have great personality’s. 👍
Nice build I love seeing the Buicks get some love I have 64 electra 2 door . Dont like the wheels on this build but taste is different for everybody.
Loved this thing. My Aunt had. The same model in Brown.
This is by far my favorite channel!
I love it guys i watch the hole car build and ternd out gorgeous great job guys keep on keeping on
WOW!!!!, You guys are Good , Thank You.Love the Show.!!
Luv this Channel, You guys know you're Craft!!!
1:32:26 oh my aunt learned why it’s so expensive when she was younger. Someone hit her Camaro in a parking lot and didn’t have insurance (or didn’t want to mess with the insurance) so she did it herself in an auto parts shopping lot. It was a lot of work and she would never do it again but she is proud of it
wow unbelievable work great teamwork and skills bravo
I would have loved to roll into that event with my father's '69 Buick Special fully restored. 😉
These guys are my favorite duo
You guys are awesome everything you guys do to this car makes it look even better cant wait to see the Buick done going to be the best looking century on the road love it
I’ll love do this kind of stuff like this someday and me and my dad will be doing do this 😊❤
Half century ago when I was 13 years old,we didn't waste time worrying about 5mpg bumpers or less horsepower, you either drove what you got,or for real car lovers, you never settle no matter what, which is easy to do when you're born and raised in Detroit.
man, I love the finish build on this car, excellent job.the way they took an old car and turn it into a pure custom ride. I would love to have the knowledge and skills and money to do this. when I was a teenager hotrods was all I wanted to build but I never had the money or help to do it. I think this car is extremely Amazing and one of a kind; I wonder what they do with all the cars after there done with the build. man when they was riding in it, I was with them. 😎 great video. Thanks 😎👍
I like the finish build on this car, thank you
You guys gotta fix that sound issue. Overall GREAT JOB! love this build! 😎
seems like a youtube copyright issue, they've "fixed" it best they can
It's probably copyright. The songs are probably not license for profitable use. So they can only play less than 10secs of it on TH-cam. Maybe the music they used was only licensed for TV when they made this episode a while back and not streaming use. Licensing is stupidly strict on the internet. You can not use any videos of the Olympics or F1 unless authorized, they come after you in a heartbeat. Even Disney don't want people to post Disney pictures on their social media. Ferrari, the worst of the bunch.
This is my favorite. car...Had it for9 yrs.Hunter green in n out.
Man I love this car, hate the wheels but I love the car
beautiful work
Loving the full build videos, dropped a sub.
Grandes felicitaciones
Omg the sound!!!
Nothing but 👍 here.... sometimes $hit happens. 😂 love that big land yacht.
Y'all catz are cold you guys really have gift
I always liked bench seats with a column shifter in a car. All the other seats and floor shifters get in the way when my girl rest her head in my lap....😂😂😂
Complainers nuts. This is a great idea. $10K is a great idea.
Man she's a beauty...I love it!
hi from venezuela, my dad have a car like that, you make awesome job, beautiful
Was the Buick crank info top secret? Having Kirk Hammet working on the show is cool 😆 🤣 😂
Guys love the bumpers they look amazing this car is going to be a gorgeous car now i wont one great job guys keep on keeping on
Great ride out of a less than exciting car. The 73-75 weren't the best looking cars around. But with the nice changes like the bumpers, door handles, new side mirrors and paint, it looks a lot better! Godd idea changing out tne front bench and column shifter too. But, even though I like the wheel style... They're 2 inches too big. 18 inches are the biggest I would have gone but gone wider like 9 to 10 inches with with 275 section tires all around. More rubber look better on these. But, that's my opinion. Great build guys, very nice! Especially for that budget!
Don't forget about those G.M. driveshafts that had the "plastic" that was squirted into a passage in the yoke when it was in a liquid state, and then hardened up inside the yoke, and groove in the side of the U-Joint cap, and held it in there without the use of a clip.
One could beat on those u-joint caps for hours with a sledge hammer, and the caps will NOT budge. You had to heat up the yoke, and all around those caps, REAL well with a propane torch until all that "plastic" would melt and come squirting out the little holes in the yoke. THEN you could pound the caps out with a hammer.
The very first time I ran across one of these drive shafts, I beat on it forever trying to get the u-joint out with zero luck. It wasn't until I heat it up with a torch thinking a little heat would help to loosen it up, and all that plastic came squirting out, did I realize what was actually holding it in there. After I realized this, they came out VERY easy. There was no internet back in the late 70's-early 80's to help a guy with these little tricks.
04:15 finding black oil in one is a good sign that it wasn't ran dry on oil and filled up to see if it would be ok and a good sign that one isn't leaking oil or was burning oil...
1:18:04
Blinker fluid is low.
I think I would have added some blacked out screens to the air intakes that were turn signals. That would help keeping out small stones/pebbles from getting ingested.
Stop messing with the sound.!
It's the editor
Unfortunately, since some of our videos are older TH-cam mutes the sound due to copyright issues. Sorry about that!
I thought they was the Russians....
I agree
Thought it was just me. Frustrating!
you guys are amazing great job
oh my god this true skill best video thank you for it
Nice job
Great video
That car is awesome
Affordable builds are a great idea:
Just beautiful
Gracias, Pequeño Remanente fiel por salvaguardar la verdadera Misa, el culto católico. Dios les bendiga
They are amazing
definitely a car for the hood... lot of work.
Gay
My brother bought one of these for his wife back then no it wasn't new it had really low miles on it. He got a good deal. Years down the road he asked if I wanted to buy it as he wanted family to have the fist shot @ it. Yea my brother is very kind. @ the Time I was investing quite a bit in a 70 Monte Carlo. So I turned him down. Now years later I still have dreams of me driving around in it. Strange .. Now that I have better cars I own already , Maybe after all I really did prize the thing higher than I was willing to admit to back then when I Had the chance to get it for practically nothing. Oh well. Of given a chance nowadays if funds are available & aren't needed for more daily or future endeavors , I'll get one then..
Beautiful build.. I love it... But the sound was really messed up 🤔🤔
9:43 he goes to grab the hot bolt with his bare hands 😂
What the heck was your sound tech smoking ? Music too loud and cut off completely what was being said half of the time ! This is not the first time this has happened on this show , I love your builds and cool tech ! Too bad I couldn't hear half of it ! Please fix this problem for future episodes !!! Thanks for all of your hard work , I really appreciate all you guys do !!!
I wondered what was causing that.
seeing as this was a TV show from 12 years ago I doubt they can fix it lol
Its Because Of Copyright I Guess And You Know TH-cam And Its Guidelines 🤣
Stepped up to Makita, good call 🍺
Good looking car
Amazing! I would work more on the rust tho
I love it!
03:57 ultra rare ACRS.... crash air bags---I believe?
Bring the show back
Love all Customizing you guys did it on the Buick sumthing was goin on w the sound on the video tho
pro tip: when removing old exhaust manifold studs you want to tighten it then loosen it, repeat until it spins. once loose, do not remove it, it needs to hold the manifold in place while you loosen the rest of the manifold bolts or you will have too much pressure on the remaining bolts.
My father hated automatics so he ordered his 2-door from the factory with 3 on the column.
Coming from a country where labour is cheap and the owners of the business don't usually spend so much time personally doing manual labour, I will say this: You guys sure aren't lazy!
Beautiful 🌹 😊
That would be a great "power tour" car.
Great work, great video but guys pay your editor more for better audio.
Great show. I love the options they show you have and they show you that its very possible to do this stuff in your garage. But the sound issues are very annoying. You can't hear anything many times through the whole show. Whoever is posting these video's are you watching them before you post them. This is not the first time I have seen one of these video's with no sound.
My brother had a 71 Ford truck that had a Pontiac hood tach.
Man I had the same car..👍
How can y’all put a video out with the sound cutting in and out so annoying
Unfortunately, since some of our videos are older TH-cam mutes the sound due to copyright issues. Sorry about that!
I've already seen this episode.
This car looks great, only thing that bothered me was the door handles. I would've gone with a style that was more era correct.
Should have kept the bench seats…. It’s part of the appeal of cars of that era.
I have a 74 A-Body Collonade Chevelle, that getting chopped up this summer with LS Swap, Brakes, etc. However, the things my son and I HATE are the huge Fed Mandated Bumpers, and Door Handles. I’ll follow your work on the Bumpers, but WHAT later Model GM Car did the Door Handles come from that you swapped over to? They look like Monte Carlo, Grand Prix, Buick, or Truck Handles? Any info would were great! Thanks. Beautiful custom car.
Audio missing
@1:56:39 umm that was alot of smoke but the tires weren't spinning
1973 Buick Century