I Bought The Cheapest And Worst Corvette In The USA (And Its Hooptie Cadillac Cousin)
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Escalades...on quiet nights one can actually hear them depreciate.
Not as bad as an Alfa
@@parkerhowell646 yeah but the Alfas depreciation is drowned out by the noise of it rusting.
@@benholroyd5221 Alfas don't rust anymore 🙄
@@BavarianM because they all sleep nice and dry in the workshop all the time :p
@@stefan2meter Remember, if there's no oil under an Alfa, there's no oil in it either.
"I have a bad car to sell" "I know a guy".
Who is the gutsy!? 🤣
Shit, tell them to come and get this POS Volvo S40 I've got!!
'Hoovy drives the Corvette in'
Hoovy: "Wiiiizaard"
Wizard: "Awww sheet, here we go again!".
Not a German car, not a German car, not a German car...oh thank the Lord, I can actually finish a car this month and make payroll
Its a nice car.
At least it was before cross fire fuel injection fcked everythang up.
Wizard: "Honey, I can now afford to finish the boat!!"
I want to sell hoovie my humvee
More like "hell yes, more upgrades for my boat"
Hoovie is the only guy who would get a complement on his cars and respond “thanks, it’s a rescue.”
Its like a dog rescue center but just 4 trash cars
That is fucking funny. This comment is underrated
Hahaha that is a good one ;D
If Hoovie had a Doug Score, one of his major rating groups would be "amount of cushion".
I get the feeling some "lucky" person is going to be gifted the Caddy in a coming Christmas episode.
Doug demuro?...
Big Daddy Doug needs a pimp mobile
Literally was telling myself that old caddy is going to fire right up and it did! Great car! Whoever gets it is lucky
I would not mind that!!!
I think Wizard will buy it.
Ooooo oooo! Pick me! Pick me!
popeye as a nickname for the 'vette is hilarious to me - smokes, winks, a timeless classic - the wizard never lies!
Nope a stinkholenncorvette
Those are fiber optics not leds hoovie
The wizard is going to end up buying the caddy from Hoovie.
It will probably be his Christmas present from Hoovie.
I feel this
I hope not. I want to see stuff with that nice cadillac
I had a friend in high school that had an old corvette with a crossfire V8, he called it the “ceasefire” because he had so many problems lol
Now that's funny..my twin brother and I shared a 80 ford fiesta, oxidized burnt orange, named it "the pumpkin", when we upgraded, sold it to a friend who painted it white with flames "the flaming marshmallow"
That friend deserves an award. That's pure genius!
That name's been around since '85.
The two-tone and rim combo on that C4 is just...*chef’s kiss*
*fry cook’s kiss*
"Clearly I'm inept"
-Tyler Hoover 2020
Never change, Hoovie.
My grandpa was actually one of the engineers who helped get the C4 to production.
Your gandpa was hot
It’s true I’m the C4
Pretty rare to find an older Cadillac without huge rims.
It’s Kansas. People worry that the rims will get them mistaken for drug dealers.
I bought a 82 cadillac Eldorado about 3 years ago and now I'm almost down fuller restoring it and I absolutely love it... I love it way more than my new Infiniti...
Cadillac dropping the V8 from their most popular model: another self-defeating move from GM
"End of an era, BEFORE Cadillac went all plastic fantastic" Pans camera over acres of fake PLASTIC wood.. LOL!
You would have to go back to say 1964 or so for that comment to be remotely true...
I think he meant before Cadillac had cheap plastic interiors and build quality like they did in like early to late 2000s
Did a double take when I saw the original selling dealer nameplate on the trunk of the Caddy as well as the original license plate frame the car was sold with. O'Keeffe Cadillac right here in Westport, Connecticut. My buddy was the parts manager there for about ten years. The recession hit them hard and they went under about ten years ago. I wonder if I know the original owner ?
Cadillac quality has been shit since the late 70s
@@diablocls55 Yup, I read somewhere they were trying for "affordable luxury" and forgot about "Standard of the World."
“This is why we don’t let you touch things.”
-weezard
*I love your videos man but if you think you bought the worst Corvette ever you haven’t seen my latest videos of swamp thing from Florida sat in a swamp for 14 years with no top and has produced two geckos since arriving at my shop lol*
I was waiting for your comment about this 😂
Oh yeah Randy in da house! 😎👍
To bad you didn’t get this for the parts car for swampthing so people wouldn’t be hating on you for using the red one for parts lol
I was just about to comment about Swamp Thing
When i saw the title and thumbnail, I thought it was THAT corvette. (same color and everything.) They're like twins!
A good detailer could probably bring the paint back on that Caddy.
"Clearly I'm inept." The smartest thing Hoovie has ever said.
The good ole days when you could brand GM into your hand with a seatbelt buckle in the summer.
Lol
Damn you ain’t lyin, my mom drove a 91 caddy fleetwood growing up. In the summers here in Florida that damn buckle would blister your ass if it caught you lacking wearing shorts lmao 😂
🤣
Don´t get me wrong Tyler, but Auto Auction Rebuilds has one in way worse shape :D
Agreed. Their Swamp Thing is quite the basket case.
I clicked just to say this....
Plus well you know there was a period of time when a certain garage of _hooligans_ strip the Corvette down to the frame and made a go-kart out of it...
During the time it was chopped to bits and before the rebuild that was also in bad shape.
That’s cause auto actions rebuilds is worse than Tyler’s channel in every way, guys a joke
The auto auction rebuilds swamp thing is a challenge from other you tubers though
@@LakeSideRides agreed
Car Wizard full-time job is Hoovie personal mechanic and his side hustle is working at Omega Auto Clinic
My wife and I used to get high driving my mom's new 1973 Sedan Deville.
My mom read the dealers option book. She customized the interior, exterior, and roof.
My wife and I were eighteen.
We had such a good time driving that Cadillac.
In 1968, I was thirteen.
My mom got a Honking Sedan Deville.
I had no girl friends.
I used to sneak it out of the garage.
It is hard to believe how spectacular it was to drive it around the block!
"Fleetwood Bro-hum" 💀💀 Tyler always keeps me on my toes with his interesting pronunciations 😂
The Brougham needs some Gold stripe whitewall Vougue tires!! pimpin ain't easy
The black walls are all wrong on that car.
I feel like wizard is putting that rolls royce v8 he has in the Chevelle.
Oh I hope 🙏
This is what I thought but couldn’t remember if he sold it or not
Check out my caprice on my channel
Thay would be awesome!
My first thought
18:50 - Those lights are actually fiber optic cables, the light isn’t located there.
Came here to say this! This way it will tell you if the bulb is burned out!!
I had a 1975 Cadillac with the same tail light indicators, and they are an early type of fiber optic cable.
I believe the low washer fluid light is also an LED. It was on my '85 olds.
Came to say this, optical cable/glass fiber from the bulb location to that indicator.
If the bulb goes out, do does that ... Had them on my 87 Oldsmobile Nintey-Eight Regency Brougham ( got it when Grandpa passed)
That interior is SOOOOO familiar to me.... Before the 87, Grandpa had a '77 Olds Nintey-Eight. With most of that same interior, but powder blue velour, instead of Leather.
When he traded the 77 on 87, the body was rusted out, but even with 250k miles, the salesman wanted that Olds 400 for his boat....
I own a 1992 cadillac brougham and I still love her granted it's been taken care since it's first day bought. Great car and it is indeed a land yach.
Didn't James May have a Caddy Bro-ham like this when Top Gear did their Florida road trip on Top Gear?
Wizard: "We don't bring barn finds back to life . . . that's not what we do here!"
In drives Hooptie.
@auto auction rebuilds might have you been for how much is Corvette cost. You guys both make fantastic content keep up the hard work
I was waiting to too who would drop @autoauctionrebuilds series first! heh.
Those lights on the fenders and in the rear of the cabin aren't just LED's, they're fiber optics.
Yes, no LEDs except in the radio display. The fiber optics allowed you to actually see light (or none) from the individual bulbs. The ones above the rear window can be read at a glance from the rear view mirror, and are more intense when braking or signalling, as long as both filaments in the 1157s are working. The front fender pods had three lenses each, Amber for the parking lights, clear for low beams, and blue for high beams.
I always thought that was neat. My first car was a 1989 sedan Deville and it had those.
@@palmermccall7309 The radio is lit with the dash lights with incandescent bulbs, and the display is a fluorescent unit.
Yes ...
These guys were born too late to remember fiber optic light indicators on Cadillacs.
My parent's 60s-80s Airstream trailers had a similar fiber optic pod on the driver's side. You could check the trailer's taillights by looking at them in the door mirror. Again no LEDs or similar - you were viewing light from the actual bulbs. Among the many DeVilles I owned back then, the '77 actually had the Wonder Bar-type mechanical signal search, not even the vacuum fluorescent numerals. Thanks for the correction!
When Mr and Mrs Wizard's kids graduate college they should send Hoovie a huge thank you card.
My parents both had Cadillac late 70’s models. This takes me back, plenty of room and comfort for our trips to royals games.
Man, I am a huge fan of C4 Corvettes, but... *Yikes*
It looks good to me for $1000 but I’m a crossfire fan.
Yeah an 85 vette and 90-92 brougham would be much better
@@thebigpicture2032 you’re a rare bird.
YES! We have parts for both of these...hit us up!
Remember when James May bought a Brougham for the Top Gear US Special?
I loved that episode, when Richard almost drove his truck into the gator infested creek
Ah yes the Titanic
Yup and then he bragged about his functioning AC so Jeremy and Richard woke up in the middle of the night and broke it.
Yep had the bits at the back fucked on his as well.
@@Muddy.Teabagger Ah yes and it was "fixed" with old newspaper
Would love to see that caddy LS swapped. And all the factory stuff inside the cabin left alone.
15:33 "nothing up here?"
Wizard: "that's another $137..."
Damn , I swear I could smell that Corvette over here in Europe !
Plastic fantastic
I own a 91 c4 corvette and I just bought a 90 cadillac seville so this video hits a little close to home, Tyler...
You could write “nascar sucks” on the back of the caddy
But it's not true tho. Nascar is one of the most popular motorsports in the world.
1. F1
2. Nascar
3. Moto GP
4. IndyCar
5. WRC
Hahahahahah
@@basshead. he makes the fun of topgear uk, they wrote nascar sucks on the James may s caddy.
Don't forget "Hillary for President" on the driver's side
basshead head ass
I had an 85 Vette with the TPI (Tuned Port Fuel Injection) and it was a lot of fun! If I recall correctly from over 30 years ago the specs were 240 HP, 0-60 in 5.7 and 1/4 in 14.1. 16" wheels were huge for the time with the Goodyear 255 VR50 16 Gatorbacks ($332 Cdn list each at the time). Brake fade was very scary at high speeds. Good times though! King of the hill (back then), the 1990 ZR1 (380 HP?) did 0-60 in 4.7 which was insane in those times! HP specs seemed very underrated.
They aren't "el eeee deeez" they are fiber optics.......
10 year cold motor?
Hoovie: Lets rev that thing!
*Vehicles were obviously driven there*.
*No light or gauge indicating cold motor.*
"10 year cold motor"
Yeah, okay.
Wont hurt a thing
Its a 350. You can't hurt them.
This is the rare occasion when I'll say you overpaid on a $1,000 car.
Every time hoovie sings crossfire - I am reminded of the kids firing steel marbles at each-other google crossfire game 90’s if your curious 👍🏻👍🏻😂😂
Great pair of GM cars! I can offer something surprising about the technology used: Those lights you see on the front fenders and above the rear window inside are actually not lights. They're lamp monitors, quite common on Cadillacs built in the 70s and 80s. They were pioneered by Chevrolet in the 60s. On your car, a piece of fiber optic cable runs to each lamp assembly, passing light from the high/low beams up front and turn signals/parking lights front and rear. What brings us high speed internet today was tasked back then with protecting the Cadillac owner from a post-19th hole DUI due to poor judgement and a burned out bulb.
Actually, the headliner is sort of interesting.
11:12 Wizard missed an opportunity to say "Crossfire? Smells like Misfire."
"Misfire. Kill that son of a bitch..."
{Draws gun, gets shots by William Munny/Clint Eastwood}
Excuse me seriously please and thankyou
@@boilerhousegarage "Deserves" got nuthin' to do with it
More likely, "on fire"...
Wizard: "It's like Popeye"
Also Wizard: Proceeds to laugh like Popeye
Air shock fill behind the plate, yup that's where we used to put them back in the day. The fender lights where a fiber optic i believe not led.
Fiber optic, from way back. Sixties, maybe fifties.
@@robertlee9395 No. The fender turn signals started in 1960 and they had normal bulbs.
@@mexicanspec What about the fiber optic lights for the brake lights? When did they start? I know GM started using fiber optics in the fifties, but I don't remember the first use.
@@robertlee9395 Actually I think they started with the 1976 Seville. It may have been a little earlier. I can't remember if any of my '70s cars had them.
Hoovie, this video was made back in 1987 @ the Clark Street assembly plant where the same Caddys were built, just before that plant was closed for good. Tyler, I thought that you would like to see this video. Good luck with this awesome Caddy project that you've got going on. It's nice to see someone preserving history. th-cam.com/video/Mjf-FNvrXqw/w-d-xo.html
Ohh that Cadillac has my heart! I absolutely LOVE these old Broughams and I hope to own one some day! I have a 2016 XTS that is great, but they don’t make them today like they did back then!
Remember when Mythbusters put a decaying pig in one of these?
Yup, it was a shame but i guess the car probably had no title..
Good times.
And tried to sell it for cheap?
@@nslouka90 Tried to sell it for whatever they could get. If I remember right I think they said the buyer was going to part it out.
@@bluerazor7049 it was definitely titled.. an older gentleman sold it to them and was horrified and upset when he found out what was about to happen to it..
Finally no bmws or Mercedes. These two cars that most can relate to
Yep I totally agree.
Cant wait to see the Cadillac all cleaned up! Hope ya go ahead and get it roadworthy. You could actually make some money on both of those.
While I've never wrenched on a C4 with the cross fire injection, the Corvette forums have very detailed posts on how to diagnose just about anything with the cross fire injection, and the fix. Granted theory doesn't always translate to real world results. But it's surprising that two shops couldn't get it working.
Did you do a separate video of the Cadillac Brougham when repairs were complete? I would really like to see that if it's available. Thank you in advance.
I love the Cadillac. There's just something about the land yachts I find appealing
@Eric Hansen Lol, nope. My first car was similar in size, and got a whole 8 - 10 mpg.
@Eric Hansen so fuckin what? people who want fuel economy dont think about land yachts and vise versa. Stop trying to be funny
Bro I don't even care about cars anymore, this is such a wholesome channel.
The Wizard is an incredibly knowledgeable mechanic.
DUH, are you new here?
Except when he switches the fluids in your amg
Hoovie: I bought a cheap C4 Corvette!
Rabbit has entered the chat
I was thinking exactly the same thing
More like Auto Auction Rebuilds has entered the chat!! He has been doing a C4 build for weeks now.
@@jeffreyscruggs6380 rabbits been into c4 corvettes since 88
@@limoboy27 Well no shit...
@@limoboy27 Randy has been doing the Swamp Thing C4 rebuild for a couple weeks now and has been getting lots of views so others are gonna chim in on what’s hot and do the same things for more views. AKA Steeling the thunder... Kind of like how super car rebuilds, Mclarens, are all the rage right now.Same thing here...
"I'm known as the poop scooper of my Facebook group..."
I really really love the retro futuristic cool of the C4 Corvette, I hope it isn't a junk job
Ahhhh, '84 Vette with Cease Fire Injection. Had one.
replace fire with another f word
Not a single TH-cam personality can pronounce " Brougham."
BRAWM!!! it isnt that hard lmao
Broughmmmm
My 1st car was a POS Dodge Monaco Brougham...
Broo - gam :)
as a brit, i'd say broo-um. what should it be? 😁
What's with Tyler's unhealthy obsession with land yachts? Ten dollars says he was taken advantage of by drunken cougar in the back seat of one in a country club parking lot as a teenager.
The dances at the beginning are killing me ; this isn’t the first time he’s done that
I really hope someone doesn't get that Fleetwood and put stupid 26" rims on it and ruin it.
Anything would be better than it sitting for another 10 years
No. I'd use 22s and turn it into a low rider. All the black guys will think I'm cool then..
Dood, you gots to SLAM it!
@@boilerhousegarage Ha. Based name btw
What else does one really do with a car like this in the modern era....?
Love these two, I can just imagine me running them on my tiny local British roads, then filling them up with gas at 6 Dollars a gallon.....
Who else opened this wondering if he'd bought Swamp Thing?
His channel is absolutely crap and I frequently see him commenting on other more successful channels to try and gain exposure basically trying to ride on there coat tails.
Ah, Ceasefire Injection...
Damn shame about the 70's and 80's. Without all that emissions junk, or if they had thought it out better, that Cadillac could've made 300 horsepower and got better mileage.
Welcome to the Cadillac family! I have an 88 Brougham and a 93 Fleetwood Brougham - love them both...the bumper fillers are easy to find - throw some Vogues on after the repaint and that car will be perfect! Unfortunately the switches aren't metal but chrome plated plastic. The seat controls on my 88 are starting to peel. And if you need the owners manual for the 87, I have one I'll send you
Dat is NICE 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Good finds!
Dude you don’t get a check mark?
@@mr.wonkastyle2558 right???? How tf do I get one of those
@@TheInja check m8
😂😂😂 hey Inja when are you getting your sports car
Ironically I have a 1984 Corvette with the Cross Fire Injection V8. It’s my project car.
was this filmed in Chernobyl Hoovie? looks like the reactor sarcophagus in the background. your cars might grow an extra cylinder or two
They run on 3.6 rontgen
He’s ill. Take him to the infirmary
Wizard screws the wingnut onto the air cleaner: cha ching, that's $100 to start with.....lol
I would love to have that Cadillac. That car is truly a gem and it captures the true essence of what Cadillac stood for years prior
Wizard has a snazzier shop work shirt on today. He must’ve seen how sharp the Car Nina looks in his outfits, and upgraded.
wow sitting for 10 years and the oil is still thin enough to drive. That's a Christmas Miracle!
I thought the “Crossfire” was a game that shot metal balls on a hungry hippos like tray.
Hey I had one of those as a kid about 15 years ago. Forgot about that thing. Thanks!
"the pooper scooper of Facebook" hahaha
I wouldn't mind having that Cadillac, big comfy car, that rides on air, win.
The amount of smoke that vette was putting out I wondered for a minute when did Chevy make a diesel vette?
I was wondering if he emptied a can of smoke up the exhaust just for effect.
The Wizard found a home for his Olds 350 Diesel 😜
They could have done that in the 80s. Olds 5.7 diesel would probably bolt in there.
😂
My community college has had that model corvette since new and it feels like you're driving a bunker
Randy from *auto auction rebuilds* will have a comment on this 😁
Swamp thing has entered the chat.
Yes he has the cheapest corvette hovie dose not do actual research.
@@stevenplaskett7728 Hoovie got a better deal, Randy got it for 650$ in a much worse condition, that too it's a salvage title. This one isn't.
The c4 corvette is the coolest corvette ever change my mind!
I agree, 80s cars are great!
they are good old fashioned hot rods and the best deal in the corvette world now. But getting a 1997 or newer c5 and up will get a much improved frame without so many squeaks and rattles.
A neat thing about those little indicators. Those are actually fiber optic lines from their respective lights. Also, one of the lights should be an indicator for cruise control.
“Cheapest and worst Corvette in America”? I don’t remember selling you my Vette, Hoovie.
YES!!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A C4!!!
This corvette is litterally my dream car (in a broken version). Here in Europe it looks really exotic and is very rare ! I'm saving to get one
Same here in Australia mate 👍🇦🇺
@@craigkaschan4822 Wanna check a dope C4 youtube channel ?
How much you got, I'll send you one lol.
Don’t get a crossfire car, if you can I’d look for an lt1 6 speed c4, or an l98 tpi but I’d avoid the crossfire vettes like the plague if I were you, especially over there where parts will be expensive and tougher to find
C4 isen’t rare.. atleast not in Sweden... but man.... THEY ARE SOO UGLY🤢
The last Cadillac worth buying was the 1996 Fleetwood.
For the Brougham - not LED in the front fenders or rear headliner for the turn signal/headlight indication/stop light - it is fiber optics!
Also the sail panels/C pillars use 120VAC powered fluorescent lights. In the trunk you'll find a wire harness with yellow tape wrapped around it cautioning about the higher voltage.
I had a '74 SDV that had the same thing
I guess Tyler liked Weezard's Brougham a bit too much…
All GM products from the 80's have that door rattle when you close them.
Ohh the amount is headliners I put in those Cadillac's over the years.
And Chryslers too, I'm sure.
I’d do a 2jz swap on it in metallic blue
I have an Acura CL type S in a 6 speed. Acura’s rarest car ever made, you could buy it from me Tyler lol
@@sidefx996 I love the car, but if I could sell it to him for the price I’d like I would.
140HP FROM 5 LITRES ?!
They must have been trying to get an award for the lowest HP per L !!
I had a 1974 Ford pickup with a 460 ci V-8 in it (think that’s a 7.5L); it had less than than iirc
Engines from that era were truly terrible. My 400M cu. in. Ford (6.2l, I think) had ~170 hp. And still got 10 mpg. Just awful, garbage motors.
Murcan muscles lmao