Hey brother, I just wanted to say, "way to go" it is awsom to see you and your son working together outside!!!! That just dont happen any more, so congrats on being an awsom dad, your son will do well in life!!!
I have a harbor freight 12,000 lb winch double lined with a single snatch block drug my 751 bobcat on my tilt deck when it would not move . But my superwinch 12,000 lb single line pulled it also a couple times . Love watching you work with your son dragging old cars home or working on them . Keep it. Up 👍💪
Bummer on the crumbled.If not for the time,I'm guessing you would've saved the wheels,right door glass,and the 1 bumper.I like the Opal GT's.Can't wait to see a cleaned out episode on the Fastback.Well done guys!
I bet some of the lights also cost quite a bit. Would have taken them off before trying to move it, then again you never know how they will behave after all these years. Takes time.
America needs more fathers like Brad. A decorated retired Marine A real deal American badass. Positive role model esp for his son. "Get em off the Xbox & into the garage". I love that!!! Doing what he absolutely loves doing with his life; yanking all the old cars he can find & afford out the woods. Super awesome!! Brad you rock brotha keep up the good work I look forward to whatever you can save next. Honestly cant stop thi king about that green 69 GTX 440 4 speed Dana car ya found. When you need pulled the tarp & said "she bad I can tell already" then you opened the door & seem that stick shift in there & how in awe you were realizing you were sitting in one of the baddest ass Plymouth muscle cars built. First thing I noticed was the complete lack of wear on the pedals- a low mileage beast fo sho! "Only thing make it better would be disc brakes & Hemi" to quote Mr. Chris Birdsong. What happened with that car isit still there or ?. Anyway I live in western Washin gton state & the environment is very harsh on old cars setting out for years & years over here too so find em & save em while they still can be saved guys! Props to Dezzy Junkerup & the Hotrod Hoarder as well. Peace yall.
Speaking of old cars rotting this is sad but true. In the winter of 98 I was cruising a random alley in Bremerton Wa & spotted a blue 67 GTO in a backyard. Parked directly behind it was a dark green 68 GTO. It is now 2021 & they are STILL THERE. I attempted to contact the owner & got yelled at run off the property. Those goats were probably parked there in the 70s or early 80s been there ever since. Makes me I'll just thinking about them cuz even tho I'm a total Mopar geek my second favorite muscle car is a GTO of any year. I got a feeling one might even be a real Ram Air car too (the 68) Never even could get close enough to tell for sure. A waste of two sick ass rides k guess it's one of those situations where so.eone has to die first before they can be saved. Sometimes we gotta be patient...
You should consider getting that 65 fastback on the road if it can be done. Leave it all ratty just like ya found it. As you are well aware 65 fastbacks aren't chump change nowadays either... esp one came with a 289 4bbl auto... just my thoughts on that car...
I always liked those Opels, they have a cool look to them, toss in a healthy small block and your in business! hopefully some of the stuff is salvageable. glad you're out there saving what you can, now if that's what he left outside to rot,I wonder if he's got anything good sitting in the garage in the background rusting away too . you weren't kidding,that winch did quite alright indeed!!! thanks again guys!!!
I would LOVE to have them opel GT s !!.. I ve saved worse,, over 100 so far.. Been a GT fanatic, since 1970( 7 years old, I saw my first buick ad !!!)..
@@robertbisson9499 there’s no “numbers matching” early fords. Sure you can use your vin to see what came in it but there’s no way to actually prove that is the original block that came in the car.
Hey Brad thanks for responding that's awesome! I been following your vids for about a year now look forward to each & every one. My first car at age 15 didn't even have my license yet was a beat to hell 68 charger r/t 440 auto console shift b7 blue white vinyl top. 440 replaced with a 340 still hella fast car. This is in 81 junior in hs driving a loud ass pos Charger doing burnouts in the parking lot.... my dad never even knew I had that thing I parked it a block from my house. Sadly that car ended up getting towed after I bent the core support & could not shut the hood so I just dumped it. I still thi k about that one that i wish i would be able to keep but pops was not supportive of my muscle car obsession. Keep in mind this is smack in the middle of Dukes of Hazzard era so rolling in a 68 r/t charger you are the cats ass. Good times! Anyway I could keep going with cars I've had over the years (I'm 54) but I'm looking to grab my second 05 hemi Magnum r/t (definitely a futre collectible esp the SRT8s the 08s are the rarest at 232 or 240 built depending on who you ask) anyway Brad I just wanted to share that with you cuz we speak the same language so to speak. Rock on brotha ttyl.
Damn I'm sorry I was like15-16 years old at that time i dont think i ever thought to get a picture of it i didn't even know what the fender tag was back then but here's what I do know- 1968 Charger R/T B7 blue stripe delete, white vinyl top white bucket seat interior with console shift automatic. Even with the 340 in it that car was an animal "rip a tire" as you say (actually had the 8 3/4 with the Sure Grip so it would rip both with gusto. I'm so lucky my guardian angel was working overtime for sure cuz my buddies & I were freaking lunatics behind the wheel. Like I said pops had no clue I'm running the streets at 15 with no license yet in a pos musclecar. I'm so lucky to this day knock on wood I never even scratched one of my fast rides much less wrecked one. I do consider myself a skilled driver I know how to handle a powerful car plus I'm all growled up know & am a little more responsible about where & when I get crazy.... anyway Brad sorry no pics of my "first" car but i know you know your mopars so yes my description is accurate. If I'da known then what I had in my possession I probably woulda took better care of it & tried to actually restore it to its former glory. When I got my mitts on it it was just a 12-13 year old beat up worn out musclecar & I didn't really know dick about cars & mechanics at the time. All I knew is that I looked cool driving it lol!!!!
On that note I would like to try to get pics of my 05 magnum R/T but my digital camera with all the pictures on it was stolen out of my van while I've been in the hospital. Damn those tweakers! Hate them all. Cool pics of my dog too all gone so gimme time to get that sorted out but she is original paint (I will not buy a car without it) code PPK "Magnesium Pearlcoat" I think it's a one year color but do not quote me on that. Done some upgrades to it so its gotta be pushing 400 to the tires. I have not done any time trials with it yet since then. Also I am terrible with computers i dont even own one just my cellphone so sending videos & pics Ima have to recruit someone who can do that for me. Gimme a week or two see what I can do. I alsomentioed I'm looking at another 05 Magnum R/T this one is factory silver but needs an engine. I just hope dude hasn't sold it while I've been in the hospital.... anyway Brad thanks for responding & reading my babble it helps me kill time sitting in my hospital bed & keeping me from going insane with boredom. Taking advantage of the free WiFi yo!! Ttyl brotha.
So those folk that you'ns got it from are holding on to the big old boat that probably seen its last trip to the water anyway but thinking about what did it get power from as in a chevy or dodge or ford engine..... some were some real hot engines and that stuff bolted to the engine is priceless unless nature took its course on that too. Don't know if its enough to get it back together on the mustang but some parts can make all the difference and those tin worms thats hiding down there had some delicious food for a while now... since say 75 or so. Been a while to grow some of those trees so atta boy getting them out... makes for interesting yard art
awesome man, have done that many times with my dad and my sons,...but never for a fastback. great find, hope its solid enuff to work with. enjoyed watchn yall
To clarify what I'm talking about regarding early gen 3 5.7 liter hemis & how to beef em up the right way please refer to "Hotrod Garage" episode #61...
Daaaang, those opals are rough! I had to laugh when the one knuckle pulled right off. Barely any structure left. Sad to see it scrapped but it would've been a pain to strip the last few good parts off and for little benefit. 9:07 That a Beetle peeking out way back behind the Mustang? 13:01 Oh hey, a dune-buggy shell, neat!
I tried to help out the Opel community with parts off that second car we yanked and nobody wanted anything after sitting here for about 3 weeks, so unfortunately that one went to the scrap yard too. I think the car you are referring to was a MG, and it was the neighbors. Dune buggy shell went to the same Neighbor. Really nothing I could do with it. This was one of my favorite vids...
The Opal brings back memories. A friend in high school had one ( in the 80s).We always called it a mini Vette 😂 The brakes failed one day and he ended up totaling it. No power house but fun car👍
I still like an Opel. You can find them cheap running and driving....I joined a Opel group page, just to tell people about the parts car and see if anybody at all wanted anything off it. Just got hate and discontent, the usual.....so it had to go unfortunately
Last comment for tonight. Bored with alota time on my hands cuz I'm in a hospital currently recovering from some serious gastrointestinal issues that damn near killed me a month ago today actually. Finnally getting out to.oorrow thank God!! I'll spare the details.... but I wanted to share my first experience riding in a 69 bigblock Roadrunner at the age of 15 I think. Green 383 factory 4 speed car with a hella nastyass cammed up headers super loud built 440 in it. Older kid owned it & built it himself. Cruising PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) I'm in the back seat 5 heads in the car we cruising at 60 in 4th gear when suddenly with zero warning dude downshifts it into third & stomped on it. That Roadrunner lit up the rear tires at 60+ & was fish tailing all over the road we hit well over 100 in mere seconds. Wow I just remember the roar of that 440 & the brutal acceleration pinning me to the back seat... it just kept pulling so hard. It made a lasting impression on me I can still remember like it was yesterday. That was my first "real" ride in a big block mopar & boy she was a good one...
Nothing like a 440! Just straight out of the box they are bad to the bone! The purple 66 Coronet you see at the top of my channel. That car was lost for 20 years on the side of a shed, never to be driven again. We got her fired up and man she would rip a tire! Love a 440...
Hell yeah Brad if you decide to keep that 66 (my birth year btw) I'd love to see your videos on a build up of that 440 & install. A buddy of mine had a 66 Satellite with a factory 383 auto bucket seat car unfortunately he totalled it 4 houses away from mine. He was reaching in the back seat took his eyes off the road & hit my neighbor's parked 84 Bronco head on so hard it shoved it about 100 feet up onto the next door neighbors lawn. Both vehicles totally destroyed. That Satellite was a sweet ride before that original burgundy paint & perfect trim throughout. . The front end was folded up like an accordion. Sad but true story. That one bummed me out.
According to the accident investigation he hit that Bronco at 45- 50 mph. In broad daylight. It was a gnarly wreck but of the 3 heads in the car the only injury was the guy in the backseat cut his knee open real good on that big ol chrome center console... "that's gonna leave a scar" lol.
A note regarding that badass green 69 4 speed RR from my hood when I was a teenager- dude (his name was Greg) terrorized the streets with that bad boy for a good two years before he accumulated too many tickets the cops were not very happy with him so he pulled that 440 4speed out & for the life ofme cant recall what he dropped it into just to throw off the LAPD. For a bit at least... sadly he dumped the RR body in a alley near my house & all I can think of is how clean & rust free that 69 RR body was at the time. Hauled off to a boneyard a week later & probably picked clean within days. Today that RR body would be worth at least 15 -20K easy with no drivetrain in it. Thems were the days....
Ok so another war story from back in the day ... there was a Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Manchester Blvd in LA probably still there but that was the local meeting spot for the street racing crowd on Friday & Saturday nights. The races would usually go down a few miles away on Pershing Blvd west of the LAX airport runway. Anyway to make a long story short (still in the freakin hospital so excuse me if I'm bored) there was this evil primer spotted 67 chevelle wagon that would come in on a trailer. Tunnel rammed nitrous injected 427 power glide trans fully tubbed& wheeliebarred. By far the fastest car there it got to where nobody would try to race him that Chevelle wagon would squat on the bars & carry the front wheels a foot off the ground for half the quarter mile he had to be running deep in the 8s at 160 plus. He would beat nitrous street bikes like nothing that car was so fun to watch run. I never seen or even heard of him losing a race. This was also the early 80s so having a "street car" running 8s is pretty freaking awesome. Good times yo!!!
That's a lot of work for not much Mustang. But I would've saved it to. Although where I live it would have been a 1979 2wd Dodge club cab in similar condition.😂
Yup people tryna get big bux for a rusted out clapped out pile of crap just cuz it's a charger. Still some decent deals to be found but ya gotta jump on those immediately with cash in hand or someone else will... the days of the running driving $800 chargers ended a looooong time ago.... 88ju
Those fastbacks are so hard to find, good save. One question, I'm located in central South Carolina and I've been in quite a few yards and private collections, I've even got a friend down the road that has about 50 classic cars in the woods since the 80's. That being said, why do the cars at your location rot so bad? Are you near the ocean? Don't get me wrong, they rust here too but not like these that are so completely gone that you can't pull them out without breaking them into pieces. Great show, keep up the good work for us rat junkies.
Ok Rob again. I love the 05 to 08 dodge magnum R/T & SRT8s. I feel like I need to share a little of my mechanical knowledge about the first years of the gen 3 hemi chargers magnums & 300Cs that I've learned since owning one- first of all the Achilles heal in the engines is the valve train. With the MDS (multiple displacement thing) where at idle & light throttle it disables 4 cylinders). On a stock early Gen 3 first thing you should do is rebuild the valveyrain & disable that shit. Hell with the gas mileage it's a freaking Hemicar fer crying out loud. Long tube headers with a full cat back system with free up alota horses too. Those engines also respond very well with a higher lift cam.. The trans although built strong ( they had to be!!!) don't like to shift well freakin slushboxes so a proper rebuild with a good shift kit & higher stall tc is a must if ya like to beat on your hemi car like I do. If you like stupid power turbos & blower & shit I also highly recommend you put stronger halfshafts n the IRS cuz eventually holeshots with stupid torque will snap your stock ones. Last llil secret- that little button in the center of the dash many do not know this but to properly disable the traction control you must press & hold for more than 10 seconds. Now you can smoke both rear tires down the block pissing off the neighbors. Hope this info helps any of yall out there with an early gen3 hemicar btw the SRT8s are an entirely different animal no MDS but same trans as the R/Ts.... same rear end etc. Just waaaay more horsepower... anyway hope this info helps someone out there. Peace yall ttyl.
Yeah I forgot to mention about the gen 3 5.7 hemis with the MDS system... the faults are specifically the valvesprings cuz if that MDS system. I've heard of them breaking dropping the valves into the pistons at idle to full throttle. It happened to my car when my radiator split at the bottom lost all the coolant & by the time I realized what was happening the engine had rapidly overheated & the #1 & #6 valvesprings had broken dropped the valves & destroyed the top of those pistons. An expensive lesson learned. Had a new engine built & installed at a local shop kick ass job. Anyway that is why yall early Gen3 5.7 hemi owners should beef up the springs before it happens to your car. Not saying it will hopefully not but be aware of it....
Best 1/4 mile in my magnum bone stock with 122xxx miles on street tires was 14.02 at 102 mph clocked by GPS. Pretty darn impressive. The trap speed was what surprised me the most. . Btw top speed is 129 mph with the "governor" in the ECM. It can be disabled & yall can push it to near 150 mph... those cars are super stable at 100+ just be responsible when & where you do shit like that. Ever see all the wrecked Hellcat Challengers & Chargers on TH-cam? Those cars are not for the novice drivers you must respect a car with that much power cuz if you dont it'll go outta control before you can even say "oh shit"...
Cool video, By what I saw that is a Mustang a GT gt stripe with individual lettering has a 4 barell intake 5th digit A or k code would confirm if its a GT
Man, just what we need! Lol We have a few more update videos to do on that car. We just put the Indy Wheels on it last night. It looks soooooo gooood !
Yo Brad I got a question for ya been bugging me regarding a comment you made at the start of the video where you rescued that 66 Saty in the same yard the 69 GTX sits- you said "ya know what I missed out on today? A freakin Hemi Charger..." as you were petting that engine block in the garage.... could you please tell us what that was about? I'm very interested in the story behind that & I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. Whenever ya get the time I'd love to hear about it. Thanks man once again keep up the good work.
Yeah no problem brother. I got a message from a guy that follows my FB group page. He gave me a call and told me that he knew where a charger, (1970 I believe ) was siting. He said it’s been there for years, and he wanted it but money was tight so he wanted to see if I wanted it. The owner wanted 5000 for it firm. A couple days went by and the guy called me and said he was going to talk to the owner and see when I could get out there to buy it. He told me the engine was out of the car but he thought it was stashed in the shed on the property. Of coarse as he approached the house, he noticed the car was gone. It sat there for 20 plus years, and now it just disappeared. Turns out the neighbor was home as he pulled in the driveway. The neighbor told him it just sold a few days back and the engine they pulled out of the shed was a Hemi! 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦. That’s about the jist of that one.....
Wow man I bet you were super bummed when you seen it was gone & got that bad news. Chargers get swooped on quicker than cat snot these days. Perhaps you could track it down in the future ya never know if you might get a chance snag it again in a few years.... always the optimist. Cool story tho sorry ya missed it 70 Hemi Chargers weren't common even when new. I think Dodge built less than 100 of those beasts but dont quote me on that. Very rare regardless. Thanks for the quick reply Brad ttyl.
I am from Washington state and have seen enough cars waste away due to people being too greedy to pass on a project because they don’t have money to finish it so it sits until they are too far gone I knew where a 70 cuda hemi car sat they pulled the motor and sank it in a oil drum to keep it from rusting it’s probably still there and still in parts
I only found and know of 1 Hemi cuda. It’s still in a garage tucked away. It’s the only 426 Hemi car I ever found around here, and I think about it all the time.. it’s lime green. I should do a interview video about it, but I don’t have pictures so no one would believe me lol....
@@PoorBoysGarageUSMC man I'm 54 years old & to this day I've never actually seen with my own eyes a real deal 66-71 hemicar. Never at local street races car shows only in magazines. Hopefully some day I can gaze upon one of the baddest American muscle cars on the planet ya know? Seen plenty 1st gens & 3rd gens are as common as Camrys today but still never seen a 426 hemicar.
Just a thought you know Chrysler & Dodge have always been sandbagging on their horsepower & torque ratings that is just common knowledge to us mopar fanatics but this is a great example of this- when the hellcats came out in 15 I think it was K&N strapped one of them on their chassis dyno. Said it was the mist powerful car they every put on that dyno anyway the first hellcats were rated at 707 hp forgot the tq but that car put down 727 TO THE TIRES. No joke yall look it up. How baddass is that?!!!.
I had to repop it because I had Jimi Hendrix playing in the background and they didn’t appreciate that to much. I’ve been saving cars for about 10 years and I would put real music behind my videos. Well I didn’t think anything of it until my TH-cam page started taking off. So that’s the story in a nut shell, and the video was one of my favorite rescues so I reposted it......
If you dont mind me asking what part of North Carolina is it? I heard you say North Carolina in the Cornet video. Im in the western part and know of many classics.
Well done you ripped a car in half and straight to the scrap if you had checked the value of that car in Europe you would be crying for the next year and you got to keep that pony dude save on that and get a big return you deserve it after all that hard work
Yup very true ol Richard Rawlings made a killing off an old Jag that was falling apart someone overseas paid stupid money for that pos!! Cha-ching!!! I love the 70-73 opel gt's
But honestly if you watch that video & notice how totally rotten that opel gt was I'm not surprised it split apart the thing had no floorpans left therefore no structural integrity I do believe those bodies are aluminum can anyone verify that? I know the front ends are all one piece... I'm
Yes, we do sell, it’s the only way to keep this whole car thing going! We also do some customer work here and there if I feel like messing with it. But some we keep around here, and have some fun with. The 71 is a prime example. That car isn’t going anywhere any time soon. We also had a bad 66 Fairlane we did, bb 390 4 speed 355 posi rear. I have footage of that build, I’ll post up one of these days!
My buddy that grew up here in New Bern, knew about them 30 years ago. We went looking for the mustang basically laughing and thinking he was BSing us, and sure enough it was in the woods! You can’t see those cars off that road because they were pretty far back, not to mention it was a dead end road they were on.
Do you have any Opel parts left? Your channel rocks! I have videos of my GT First drive: th-cam.com/video/pleK7nQ_LoM/w-d-xo.html First Start: th-cam.com/video/XNCITb8qEEs/w-d-xo.html And I have a few other videos of it. What kind of camera do you use. Thanks.
Hot Rodding and Parenting done right!
Thanks Rick, got to teach these young guys, and get the passion engrained, like us!
Great Dad. Nothing better Eh
Please tell us there's gonna be a build series on the fast back!
I would love to see more on the Mustang... I have always wanted a Fastback
We saved 3 Fastback now. The first two were 1970s. Jadon and I grabbed those as well. I do have pictures but never made a video of that pull...
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Thank god that mustang was saved! I HATE seeing classic cars rotting or abandoned especially classic mustangs. GREAT WORK!!!
Nicely done! Get that once-proud pony back on the ROAD!
No matter how far gone they are there’s ALWAYS something of value.
Agree! And the challenge of actually saving them....
Just started watching this Channel and I love It. Thank you for your service to freedom and now this channel 🙏
Thanks for the support P D
Such a simple and good video! Great to see and I am looking forward to seeing what you can do with that Mustang!
Awesome, you gotta do something with the stang, please she would be great to have fun with. Keep it coming doing great.
Now that my friend is definitely a project car.
Those memories will stay with you both forever 👍👍
Yep I hope so.
Would like to see a build series on the fastback
at minimum save the wheels with center caps and trim rings.
Hey brother, I just wanted to say, "way to go" it is awsom to see you and your son working together outside!!!! That just dont happen any more, so congrats on being an awsom dad, your son will do well in life!!!
Thanks Ron, although he needs to do more wrenching in my opinion, he loves this stuff to, I can tell....lol
I have a harbor freight 12,000 lb winch double lined with a single snatch block drug my 751 bobcat on my tilt deck when it would not move . But my superwinch 12,000 lb single line pulled it also a couple times . Love watching you work with your son dragging old cars home or working on them . Keep it. Up
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Awe man thanks brother, we love rescuing these old things......
Amazed at how it cleaned up. great effort.
T/y Scott, it was there for over 30 years
Gotta Love saving them Classics! 👍 Thanks PBG!
Bummer on the crumbled.If not for the time,I'm guessing you would've saved the wheels,right door glass,and the 1 bumper.I like the Opal GT's.Can't wait to see a cleaned out episode on the Fastback.Well done guys!
I bet some of the lights also cost quite a bit. Would have taken them off before trying to move it, then again you never know how they will behave after all these years. Takes time.
First opel had glass and went to scrap yard. Second opel was missing some glass.
Looks Like A Great Weekend To Me!! When I Saw The Stripes On The Fastback, I Was Hoping It Was A Real Shelby For You!!
Lol I wish! I could then retire for the second time....lol
At least you cleaned up a field. At best you saved a Mustang and a Jag frame (mostly). Nice work-hard work!
Good score ! I love all old cars , but have a sore spot for mustangs , i still have two of them . Good job guys
America needs more fathers like Brad. A decorated retired Marine A real deal American badass. Positive role model esp for his son. "Get em off the Xbox & into the garage". I love that!!! Doing what he absolutely loves doing with his life; yanking all the old cars he can find & afford out the woods. Super awesome!! Brad you rock brotha keep up the good work I look forward to whatever you can save next. Honestly cant stop thi king about that green 69 GTX 440 4 speed Dana car ya found. When you need pulled the tarp & said "she bad I can tell already" then you opened the door & seem that stick shift in there & how in awe you were realizing you were sitting in one of the baddest ass Plymouth muscle cars built. First thing I noticed was the complete lack of wear on the pedals- a low mileage beast fo sho! "Only thing make it better would be disc brakes & Hemi" to quote Mr. Chris Birdsong. What happened with that car isit still there or ?. Anyway I live in western Washin gton state & the environment is very harsh on old cars setting out for years & years over here too so find em & save em while they still can be saved guys! Props to Dezzy Junkerup & the Hotrod Hoarder as well. Peace yall.
Speaking of old cars rotting this is sad but true. In the winter of 98 I was cruising a random alley in Bremerton Wa & spotted a blue 67 GTO in a backyard. Parked directly behind it was a dark green 68 GTO. It is now 2021 & they are STILL THERE. I attempted to contact the owner & got yelled at run off the property. Those goats were probably parked there in the 70s or early 80s been there ever since. Makes me I'll just thinking about them cuz even tho I'm a total Mopar geek my second favorite muscle car is a GTO of any year. I got a feeling one might even be a real Ram Air car too (the 68) Never even could get close enough to tell for sure. A waste of two sick ass rides k guess it's one of those situations where so.eone has to die first before they can be saved. Sometimes we gotta be patient...
BTW both GTOs are original paint & never been wrecked...
Thanks for the great comment brother, much appreciated! Yes GTX is still there, just drove by it a few days ago. Thanks again Robert
Brad
You should consider getting that 65 fastback on the road if it can be done. Leave it all ratty just like ya found it. As you are well aware 65 fastbacks aren't chump change nowadays either... esp one came with a 289 4bbl auto... just my thoughts on that car...
Love the 65 Fastback.
Consider plywood sheets to act as skids. Maybe even with holes for straps in the corners to pull front of board up in front
Food for thought, I built some hotdog carts out of Dune buggy bodies... Cheer from Vietnam
I always liked those Opels, they have a cool look to them, toss in a healthy small block and your in business! hopefully some of the stuff is salvageable. glad you're out there saving what you can, now if that's what he left outside to rot,I wonder if he's got anything good sitting in the garage in the background rusting away too . you weren't kidding,that winch did quite alright indeed!!! thanks again guys!!!
The stuff in the background was the neighbors, not the guy I grabbed all the cars from.
Put a big ole angle iron on front of trailer and build a slider where you can slide your winch from side to side
OHhh...no worries. That Fastback will buff right out.
I wish, that FB was just a little rough…..
Looks like you bagged an A code GT. Nice find!
I would LOVE to have them opel GT s !!..
I ve saved worse,, over 100 so far.. Been a GT fanatic, since 1970( 7 years old, I saw my first buick ad !!!)..
A lot of work, but I would tackle that second one. When one is retired( and absolutely opel influenced, and live for them), Labor is free- LOL!-!!...
Good job retrieving those cars.i guess a 351 will go back in the ford lolo.Good job again with your boy.from canada.
Why put a 351 in a 65 fastback stang that came with a 289 4bbl from the factory? That is probably the numbers engine in that car!!! Just sayin...
@@robertbisson9499 there’s no “numbers matching” early fords. Sure you can use your vin to see what came in it but there’s no way to actually prove that is the original block that came in the car.
The doors and the rear end looked ok on the GT still
Slow and steady. Nice.
Hey Brad thanks for responding that's awesome! I been following your vids for about a year now look forward to each & every one. My first car at age 15 didn't even have my license yet was a beat to hell 68 charger r/t 440 auto console shift b7 blue white vinyl top. 440 replaced with a 340 still hella fast car. This is in 81 junior in hs driving a loud ass pos Charger doing burnouts in the parking lot.... my dad never even knew I had that thing I parked it a block from my house. Sadly that car ended up getting towed after I bent the core support & could not shut the hood so I just dumped it. I still thi k about that one that i wish i would be able to keep but pops was not supportive of my muscle car obsession. Keep in mind this is smack in the middle of Dukes of Hazzard era so rolling in a 68 r/t charger you are the cats ass. Good times! Anyway I could keep going with cars I've had over the years (I'm 54) but I'm looking to grab my second 05 hemi Magnum r/t (definitely a futre collectible esp the SRT8s the 08s are the rarest at 232 or 240 built depending on who you ask) anyway Brad I just wanted to share that with you cuz we speak the same language so to speak. Rock on brotha ttyl.
Man love to see pictures of your Charger R/T! Thanks for sharing Robert I love hearing about these kind of stories....
Brad
Damn I'm sorry I was like15-16 years old at that time i dont think i ever thought to get a picture of it i didn't even know what the fender tag was back then but here's what I do know- 1968 Charger R/T B7 blue stripe delete, white vinyl top white bucket seat interior with console shift automatic. Even with the 340 in it that car was an animal "rip a tire" as you say (actually had the 8 3/4 with the Sure Grip so it would rip both with gusto. I'm so lucky my guardian angel was working overtime for sure cuz my buddies & I were freaking lunatics behind the wheel. Like I said pops had no clue I'm running the streets at 15 with no license yet in a pos musclecar. I'm so lucky to this day knock on wood I never even scratched one of my fast rides much less wrecked one. I do consider myself a skilled driver I know how to handle a powerful car plus I'm all growled up know & am a little more responsible about where & when I get crazy.... anyway Brad sorry no pics of my "first" car but i know you know your mopars so yes my description is accurate. If I'da known then what I had in my possession I probably woulda took better care of it & tried to actually restore it to its former glory. When I got my mitts on it it was just a 12-13 year old beat up worn out musclecar & I didn't really know dick about cars & mechanics at the time. All I knew is that I looked cool driving it lol!!!!
On that note I would like to try to get pics of my 05 magnum R/T but my digital camera with all the pictures on it was stolen out of my van while I've been in the hospital. Damn those tweakers! Hate them all. Cool pics of my dog too all gone so gimme time to get that sorted out but she is original paint (I will not buy a car without it) code PPK "Magnesium Pearlcoat" I think it's a one year color but do not quote me on that. Done some upgrades to it so its gotta be pushing 400 to the tires. I have not done any time trials with it yet since then. Also I am terrible with computers i dont even own one just my cellphone so sending videos & pics Ima have to recruit someone who can do that for me. Gimme a week or two see what I can do. I alsomentioed I'm looking at another 05 Magnum R/T this one is factory silver but needs an engine. I just hope dude hasn't sold it while I've been in the hospital.... anyway Brad thanks for responding & reading my babble it helps me kill time sitting in my hospital bed & keeping me from going insane with boredom. Taking advantage of the free WiFi yo!! Ttyl brotha.
That Mustang is going to be really nice
Rough one nice work guys and your winch kicks total ass.
Nice score on the GT fastback
So those folk that you'ns got it from are holding on to the big old boat that probably seen its last trip to the water anyway but thinking about what did it get power from as in a chevy or dodge or ford engine..... some were some real hot engines and that stuff bolted to the engine is priceless unless nature took its course on that too. Don't know if its enough to get it back together on the mustang but some parts can make all the difference and those tin worms thats hiding down there had some delicious food for a while now... since say 75 or so. Been a while to grow some of those trees so atta boy getting them out... makes for interesting yard art
That's a cool score going to need a lot of work though way to go guys
Interesting like your music nice job both of you
awesome man, have done that many times with my dad and my sons,...but never for a fastback. great find, hope its solid enuff to work with. enjoyed watchn yall
Thanks Shaun, appreciate ya!
I was wondering about that poison ivy until you said something about it. It's everywhere around my house too. Cool finds!
I got crushed! Nothing happened to my son, but it got me good, lol
@@PoorBoysGarageUSMC That sucks! I can't walk pass it without it jumping on me.
I knew about it, I just never seen a car break apart before, interesting
Great find
beautiful
To clarify what I'm talking about regarding early gen 3 5.7 liter hemis & how to beef em up the right way please refer to "Hotrod Garage" episode #61...
Daaaang, those opals are rough! I had to laugh when the one knuckle pulled right off. Barely any structure left.
Sad to see it scrapped but it would've been a pain to strip the last few good parts off and for little benefit.
9:07 That a Beetle peeking out way back behind the Mustang? 13:01 Oh hey, a dune-buggy shell, neat!
I tried to help out the Opel community with parts off that second car we yanked and nobody wanted anything after sitting here for about 3 weeks, so unfortunately that one went to the scrap yard too. I think the car you are referring to was a MG, and it was the neighbors. Dune buggy shell went to the same Neighbor. Really nothing I could do with it. This was one of my favorite vids...
hell yeah love this channel. keep up the videos please!
Thanks brother, means alot
Nice mustang! Nice find
The Opal brings back memories. A friend in high school had one ( in the 80s).We always called it a mini Vette 😂
The brakes failed one day and he ended up totaling it. No power house but fun car👍
I still like an Opel. You can find them cheap running and driving....I joined a Opel group page, just to tell people about the parts car and see if anybody at all wanted anything off it. Just got hate and discontent, the usual.....so it had to go unfortunately
Last comment for tonight. Bored with alota time on my hands cuz I'm in a hospital currently recovering from some serious gastrointestinal issues that damn near killed me a month ago today actually. Finnally getting out to.oorrow thank God!! I'll spare the details.... but I wanted to share my first experience riding in a 69 bigblock Roadrunner at the age of 15 I think. Green 383 factory 4 speed car with a hella nastyass cammed up headers super loud built 440 in it. Older kid owned it & built it himself. Cruising PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) I'm in the back seat 5 heads in the car we cruising at 60 in 4th gear when suddenly with zero warning dude downshifts it into third & stomped on it. That Roadrunner lit up the rear tires at 60+ & was fish tailing all over the road we hit well over 100 in mere seconds. Wow I just remember the roar of that 440 & the brutal acceleration pinning me to the back seat... it just kept pulling so hard. It made a lasting impression on me I can still remember like it was yesterday. That was my first "real" ride in a big block mopar & boy she was a good one...
Nothing like a 440! Just straight out of the box they are bad to the bone! The purple 66 Coronet you see at the top of my channel. That car was lost for 20 years on the side of a shed, never to be driven again. We got her fired up and man she would rip a tire! Love a 440...
Hell yeah Brad if you decide to keep that 66 (my birth year btw) I'd love to see your videos on a build up of that 440 & install. A buddy of mine had a 66 Satellite with a factory 383 auto bucket seat car unfortunately he totalled it 4 houses away from mine. He was reaching in the back seat took his eyes off the road & hit my neighbor's parked 84 Bronco head on so hard it shoved it about 100 feet up onto the next door neighbors lawn. Both vehicles totally destroyed. That Satellite was a sweet ride before that original burgundy paint & perfect trim throughout.
. The front end was folded up like an accordion. Sad but true story. That one bummed me out.
According to the accident investigation he hit that Bronco at 45- 50 mph. In broad daylight. It was a gnarly wreck but of the 3 heads in the car the only injury was the guy in the backseat cut his knee open real good on that big ol chrome center console... "that's gonna leave a scar" lol.
A note regarding that badass green 69 4 speed RR from my hood when I was a teenager- dude (his name was Greg) terrorized the streets with that bad boy for a good two years before he accumulated too many tickets the cops were not very happy with him so he pulled that 440 4speed out & for the life ofme cant recall what he dropped it into just to throw off the LAPD. For a bit at least... sadly he dumped the RR body in a alley near my house & all I can think of is how clean & rust free that 69 RR body was at the time. Hauled off to a boneyard a week later & probably picked clean within days. Today that RR body would be worth at least 15 -20K easy with no drivetrain in it. Thems were the days....
Ok so another war story from back in the day ... there was a Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Manchester Blvd in LA probably still there but that was the local meeting spot for the street racing crowd on Friday & Saturday nights. The races would usually go down a few miles away on Pershing Blvd west of the LAX airport runway. Anyway to make a long story short (still in the freakin hospital so excuse me if I'm bored) there was this evil primer spotted 67 chevelle wagon that would come in on a trailer. Tunnel rammed nitrous injected 427 power glide trans fully tubbed& wheeliebarred. By far the fastest car there it got to where nobody would try to race him that Chevelle wagon would squat on the bars & carry the front wheels a foot off the ground for half the quarter mile he had to be running deep in the 8s at 160 plus. He would beat nitrous street bikes like nothing that car was so fun to watch run. I never seen or even heard of him losing a race. This was also the early 80s so having a "street car" running 8s is pretty freaking awesome. Good times yo!!!
Definitely looks like the Mustang was more than salvageable when it was parked back there!
Yes she was rough as could be, no doubt
That's a lot of work for not much Mustang. But I would've saved it to. Although where I live it would have been a 1979 2wd Dodge club cab in similar condition.😂
In 81 I bought that Charger R//
T running & driving for $400! Thems were the days. Nowadays ya lucky to find a taillight or a piece of trim for $400!!
Man I wish we could still find them that cheap!
Yup people tryna get big bux for a rusted out clapped out pile of crap just cuz it's a charger. Still some decent deals to be found but ya gotta jump on those immediately with cash in hand or someone else will... the days of the running driving
$800 chargers ended a looooong time ago.... 88ju
Those fastbacks are so hard to find, good save. One question, I'm located in central South Carolina and I've been in quite a few yards and private collections, I've even got a friend down the road that has about 50 classic cars in the woods since the 80's. That being said, why do the cars at your location rot so bad? Are you near the ocean? Don't get me wrong, they rust here too but not like these that are so completely gone that you can't pull them out without breaking them into pieces. Great show, keep up the good work for us rat junkies.
The engine and the transmission can be saved for those who nee. Save as much as you cand. Don't scrap it all
Ok Rob again. I love the 05 to 08 dodge magnum R/T & SRT8s. I feel like I need to share a little of my mechanical knowledge about the first years of the gen 3 hemi chargers magnums & 300Cs that I've learned since owning one- first of all the Achilles heal in the engines is the valve train. With the MDS (multiple displacement thing) where at idle & light throttle it disables 4 cylinders). On a stock early Gen 3 first thing you should do is rebuild the valveyrain & disable that shit. Hell with the gas mileage it's a freaking Hemicar fer crying out loud. Long tube headers with a full cat back system with free up alota horses too. Those engines also respond very well with a higher lift cam.. The trans although built strong ( they had to be!!!) don't like to shift well freakin slushboxes so a proper rebuild with a good shift kit & higher stall tc is a must if ya like to beat on your hemi car like I do. If you like stupid power turbos & blower & shit I also highly recommend you put stronger halfshafts n the IRS cuz eventually holeshots with stupid torque will snap your stock ones. Last llil secret- that little button in the center of the dash many do not know this but to properly disable the traction control you must press & hold for more than 10 seconds. Now you can smoke both rear tires down the block pissing off the neighbors. Hope this info helps any of yall out there with an early gen3 hemicar btw the SRT8s are an entirely different animal no MDS but same trans as the R/Ts.... same rear end etc. Just waaaay more horsepower... anyway hope this info helps someone out there. Peace yall ttyl.
Yeah I forgot to mention about the gen 3 5.7 hemis with the MDS system... the faults are specifically the valvesprings cuz if that MDS system. I've heard of them breaking dropping the valves into the pistons at idle to full throttle. It happened to my car when my radiator split at the bottom lost all the coolant & by the time I realized what was happening the engine had rapidly overheated & the #1 & #6 valvesprings had broken dropped the valves & destroyed the top of those pistons. An expensive lesson learned. Had a new engine built & installed at a local shop kick ass job. Anyway that is why yall early Gen3 5.7 hemi owners should beef up the springs before it happens to your car. Not saying it will hopefully not but be aware of it....
Best 1/4 mile in my magnum bone stock with 122xxx miles on street tires was 14.02 at 102 mph clocked by GPS. Pretty darn impressive. The trap speed was what surprised me the most. . Btw top speed is 129 mph with the "governor" in the ECM. It can be disabled & yall can push it to near 150 mph... those cars are super stable at 100+ just be responsible when & where you do shit like that. Ever see all the wrecked Hellcat Challengers & Chargers on TH-cam? Those cars are not for the novice drivers you must respect a car with that much power cuz if you dont it'll go outta control before you can even say "oh shit"...
Nice Mustang!!
Cool video, By what I saw that is a Mustang a GT gt stripe with individual lettering has a 4 barell intake 5th digit A or k code would confirm if its a GT
Yes it was a GT, A code, 4 bbl carb and disc front brakes.
You give Jaden that 71 'bee as his first car you just might be a grandpa real quick the chicks will be swarming all over him lol.
Man, just what we need! Lol We have a few more update videos to do on that car. We just put the Indy Wheels on it last night. It looks soooooo gooood !
Nice!
The 71- 72 Chargers are actually my favorite body style.
Rust never sleeps. Too bad about the Opels. Always thought those GT's were cool. Looked like shrunken Vettes. And who doesn't love a fastback Mustang.
No doubt!
you decyphered the vin tag/fender tag? what CI engine is in it?
Yes it was an A code 289 4 bbl. I think it was a GT
Yo Brad I got a question for ya been bugging me regarding a comment you made at the start of the video where you rescued that 66 Saty in the same yard the 69 GTX sits- you said "ya know what I missed out on today? A freakin Hemi Charger..." as you were petting that engine block in the garage.... could you please tell us what that was about? I'm very interested in the story behind that & I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. Whenever ya get the time I'd love to hear about it. Thanks man once again keep up the good work.
Yeah no problem brother. I got a message from a guy that follows my FB group page. He gave me a call and told me that he knew where a charger, (1970 I believe ) was siting. He said it’s been there for years, and he wanted it but money was tight so he wanted to see if I wanted it. The owner wanted 5000 for it firm. A couple days went by and the guy called me and said he was going to talk to the owner and see when I could get out there to buy it. He told me the engine was out of the car but he thought it was stashed in the shed on the property. Of coarse as he approached the house, he noticed the car was gone. It sat there for 20 plus years, and now it just disappeared. Turns out the neighbor was home as he pulled in the driveway. The neighbor told him it just sold a few days back and the engine they pulled out of the shed was a Hemi! 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦. That’s about the jist of that one.....
Wow man I bet you were super bummed when you seen it was gone & got that bad news. Chargers get swooped on quicker than cat snot these days. Perhaps you could track it down in the future ya never know if you might get a chance snag it again in a few years.... always the optimist. Cool story tho sorry ya missed it 70 Hemi Chargers weren't common even when new. I think Dodge built less than 100 of those beasts but dont quote me on that. Very rare regardless. Thanks for the quick reply Brad ttyl.
Your videos are cool 🙂
Id like to see someone unhitch the trailer and drag it on
You can drag the trailer under the car as it will tilt then winch the trailer out
man those opals are rough
What harbor freight winch was that you used
ZRX 12000 best winch ever! It’s definitely done it’s job and then some....
Go back and snatch the fiberglass dune buggy those things are like gold in California
I should have, I ended up giving it to the neighbor, with that boat.....I know where a few of those are around here
4:52 - 5:55 The kid looks bored out of his skull. "Can we go home now?"
He was thinking about Xbox and I was thinking about Fastback rescues
What are you doing with these cars ?
Some we keep, some we sell, some get sacrificed to save others. That’s about the jist of it in the car game....
What did you wind up doing with this car?
Ended up going to get a restore, in Arizona.....
Still have the jag frame ?
Guy driver here from Texas, for the frame. He was restoring a Jag and needed something out of the rear end on the one we had, so he grabbed it.
iv seen guys use a sheet of thin sheet of steal 4' x 8' across the ramps and lock it on the ramps ,,,so nothing catches
Great parenting but dude there's nuthin left to save there bro.
Yep it was rough, but still can be used as a parts car.....
i want that opel and how much for the fastback
I am from Washington state and have seen enough cars waste away due to people being too greedy to pass on a project because they don’t have money to finish it so it sits until they are too far gone I knew where a 70 cuda hemi car sat they pulled the motor and sank it in a oil drum to keep it from rusting it’s probably still there and still in parts
Damn bro that one is worth checking up on. That is a "holy grail" mopar ya dont just find real hemicudas laying in backyards anymore...
I only found and know of 1 Hemi cuda. It’s still in a garage tucked away. It’s the only 426 Hemi car I ever found around here, and I think about it all the time.. it’s lime green. I should do a interview video about it, but I don’t have pictures so no one would believe me lol....
@@PoorBoysGarageUSMC man I'm 54 years old & to this day I've never actually seen with my own eyes a real deal 66-71 hemicar. Never at local street races car shows only in magazines. Hopefully some day I can gaze upon one of the baddest American muscle cars on the planet ya know? Seen plenty 1st gens & 3rd gens are as common as Camrys today but still never seen a 426 hemicar.
Btw I believe you about the lime green hemicuda in a garage cuz your not the type to be bsing people just sayin.
Just a thought you know Chrysler & Dodge have always been sandbagging on their horsepower & torque ratings that is just common knowledge to us mopar fanatics but this is a great example of this- when the hellcats came out in 15 I think it was K&N strapped one of them on their chassis dyno. Said it was the mist powerful car they every put on that dyno anyway the first hellcats were rated at 707 hp forgot the tq but that car put down 727 TO THE TIRES. No joke yall look it up. How baddass is that?!!!.
Part 2 washing please
What's going to happen to the Stang?
Buddy of mine, that’s unto FBs came and grabbed it. Then I think it went to Arizona to get restored
03:41 The Winch ripped the car in half, or was the car that bad that it fell apart ?
Car was bad, yes but that winch still did some damage!
😎👍
Judging by the stripes and lettering on the mustang it’s a GT
I think so, had the disc brakes on it too.
That's not just a 65 that a frigging gt 350 or 500 very rare
Yes it was an A Code, GT. It was a good car, but she was roasted! It was in those woods for over 30 years...Thanks Chandler
Brad, why is it showing this video as being taken 5 days ago...."I watched this bout month ago when subscribed to you!!!!"
What I'm saying
I had to repop it because I had Jimi Hendrix playing in the background and they didn’t appreciate that to much. I’ve been saving cars for about 10 years and I would put real music behind my videos. Well I didn’t think anything of it until my TH-cam page started taking off. So that’s the story in a nut shell, and the video was one of my favorite rescues so I reposted it......
@@PoorBoysGarageUSMC understand now!!!!
If you dont mind me asking what part of North Carolina is it? I heard you say North Carolina in the Cornet video. Im in the western part and know of many classics.
We are down here in New Bern NC.
Im sure ive seen you pull these out in an older video
looks like a K code GT maybe .. well worth fixing ..
It was a GT A code
@@PoorBoysGarageUSMC equally worth saving ,, good job .
Are you going to be selling the Fastback? I'm just down the road from you
It sold.
Well done you ripped a car in half and straight to the scrap if you had checked the value of that car in Europe you would be crying for the next year and you got to keep that pony dude save on that and get a big return you deserve it after all that hard work
Yup very true ol Richard Rawlings made a killing off an old Jag that was falling apart someone overseas paid stupid money for that pos!! Cha-ching!!! I love the 70-73 opel gt's
They always kinda reminded me of a little mini German Corvette.
But honestly if you watch that video & notice how totally rotten that opel gt was I'm not surprised it split apart the thing had no floorpans left therefore no structural integrity I do believe those bodies are aluminum can anyone verify that? I know the front ends are all one piece... I'm
Ever sell any of these projects in the videos?
Yes, we do sell, it’s the only way to keep this whole car thing going! We also do some customer work here and there if I feel like messing with it. But some we keep around here, and have some fun with. The 71 is a prime example. That car isn’t going anywhere any time soon. We also had a bad 66 Fairlane we did, bb 390 4 speed 355 posi rear. I have footage of that build, I’ll post up one of these days!
Did u just find the car in the woods or was it up for sale?
My buddy that grew up here in New Bern, knew about them 30 years ago. We went looking for the mustang basically laughing and thinking he was BSing us, and sure enough it was in the woods! You can’t see those cars off that road because they were pretty far back, not to mention it was a dead end road they were on.
@@PoorBoysGarageUSMC free car... Sweet
Lol- "hey man what's wrong with your car?" Answer. Nothing man just a loose nut between the steering wheel & the seat"....
are you selling the ja g frame if so how much.
Sold guy from Texas drove here to NC and bought it
Why would you want to waste your time pulling the Opel out of the woods? What are you
smoking?
The only way we could get the mustang was that I had to get everything cleaned off the property. I know I didn’t want to take the Opel’s either….
That is a mustang GT ,either a code or X code a code would be 225 HP 289 cu in or X code 271 HP 289 cu In engine
It was an A code. 1965
K code was the 271hp solid lift 289, not a X code.
dune buggy body!!!!
Lol I gave it to the neighbors
a repost?
That’s sad that she was just sitting there
The guy who drug the cars in there 30 plus years ago passed away, that’s how they got there, and were forgotten about....unfortunately
I got poison ivy just watching.
Hahaha! I got crushed with it after we were done with these cars. My son got nothing!
top ng
13:09 vw dune buggy body?
Do you have any Opel parts left? Your channel rocks! I have videos of my GT
First drive: th-cam.com/video/pleK7nQ_LoM/w-d-xo.html
First Start: th-cam.com/video/XNCITb8qEEs/w-d-xo.html
And I have a few other videos of it.
What kind of camera do you use.
Thanks.
No sorry, I tried to part out the second one, and I didn’t get one text about it.