Project Bottle Rocket Grows Up - Here Are The Numbers, Facts, History And It's Future
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- It's been a long, bumpy road with many setbacks, but our ultra low budget 4 Door Dodge Coronet Street Racer has finally evolved into the car we envisioned when we started this project four years ago.
Here is a rundown of her history and intended goals, along with the background story of our grudge race last week against Casper from @unitymotorsportsgarage.
We go over the time slip from that run, review all the circumstances and parts that went into it, and announce the cars new direction and hopefully piss off a few people in the process.
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I was not around since the beginning but damn, it's supposed to be FUN. Can't understand why people are so uptight. The race looked like a blast to me.
I like your comment that is supposed to be fun and that's absolutely true. My opinion is all these trolls are internet junkies and probably don't have any real-life experience and if they actually do have a race car they probably don't understand the fact that you can actually make at leif spring car work without caltracs or a pinion snubber. We all have our ways of doing things .
Agreed, bunch of TH-cam jackasses. people who are hating have nothing to run and ZERO drag racing accomplishments. bet this thing runs 7.0s or faster when Tony sorts it out. none of these turds could do what he's doing on this budget
Was a blast! You are right! I had fun watching it !!
Perfect analysis of this race and of American Society today! It was a blast for those in it and for those on the sidelines smart enough to not take them self to seriously. Thanks again Tony and Lady Kathy.
Fabulous loose 318!! ❤
Very curious if Forged Pistons were used? Nitrous engines usually mandatory or blow-up..
A legit question 🤔
Good video Tony!
Your killing it UTG!! I can’t imagine hooking that hard. Just shows how someone that actually knows what he is doing can make things work!! Thrown thousand and thousands at a project hoping for this type of fun but it seems just out of reach. To have Tony in the pits with a reasonable budget I just can’t imagine the joy.
I have enjoyed every moment of Bottle Rocket. I've learned alot and can't wait to apply it to my Dart project. Keep up the great content Tony (and Andy). This is fun!
In the end you won and thats what matters awsome car thanks for all the help Uncle Tony
Ha-Ha! Sweet. I'm looking forward to see what happens next. Never doubted you, Uncle Tony. Go get 'em!
The race was pretty exciting and fun to watch. Thanks for the entertainment UTG...👍🤠
It’s almost motivating me to start a project car. Once I’m done with six more vintage Mx bikes and clients parts and bikes.
You forgot the best part. You had FUN. Rock and Roll Tony
Loved it. Sorry anybody has to deal with naysayers but it goes with the territory. Keep up with the great work
Tony you and your car did real good.
Love to see a Steve Mags altered wheelbase funny car go head to head with a stock car drag car to see the difference between the two.
Watching the race (and both you and Andy talked about Casper running out of track) Andy was going around Bottle Rocket. So the question in my mind is how do you get more out of the top end to keep that from happening. I think it was mentioned post race but how much speed did Casper have at the finish line as it was still pulling strong? BR seems to have the torque to handle taller gears which would give you a higher top speed but can you detune it enough at the start to keep from breaking the tires loose off the line and through the 60'? I like the aspect of learning as you go and plan on enjoying watching you make progressive changes to make her faster.
Love the channel UT 😁
I love how tony doesn’t care what all the commenters think
Other people can build their cars anyway they want. I just thought Andy fell asleep.
Lol I love how the comments bug the fuc outta Tony And he always says like every video it doesn’t bother me. 😂
Idk what n/t means but put it up your rear window i hope you got a laugh outta that Uncle Tony love ya and the channel. Amazing content hope to meet you in the near future.
You read the comments too much. Don't let them ruin it for everybody else. Great thumbnail of mop guy!
You tell them tony
I like how you talk Tony
AWESOME...MOPAR 4 EVER.
they cant appreciate the old school ways Uncle Tony..that car is bad ass for what it is and represents low budget hot rodding at its finest..well done
Tony, don't worry about the immature 30 year old adolescents who feel they have to prove their manhood by challenging everyone and everything to a "grudge race". I'm 73 and I learned this years ago. The only one you have to impress is YOU, and you're doing exactly the right thing by calling these idiots out. Keep up the great work and content. I look forward to your vids every day and you don't disappoint. I've picked up a lot of useful info from you over the past few years and thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. I'm just as old school as you are and since I'm older and suffer from CRS I appreciate your reminding me of a lot of stuff I've forgotten over the years. Keep it up!
Agree , I’m 55 and while boastful idiots are not new it’s more prevalent now. 🤦♂️
I said it months ago when he did last test run that I think BR Could go 6.80s after his discussion today about the circumstances I think I’m not far off.
Totally agree! 👍🏻
@@jamessharp9790 yes you're correct, the tube is their soapbox.
Cheers😊
My thoughts exactly
I dont think u gotta wait till the end of the video for people to be pissed at ya..mm haha
That car left the line harder than it ever had in it's history 🗿 Awesome what you've done with it Tony👍 Thanks for sharing
*its*
@@YippeeSkippie426 it's its!!
Ha Ha Ha,!!! Dammm give em Hell , built don’t buy
More satisfaction and out come
HaHaHa !! How ya like me how!
Build don’t buy, more satisfying
Tony, over the years you've shown that an ordinary guy with almost no money in his pocket can build a good performing car and have fun. My hat's off to you!
I believe that Thomas Jefferson once said " never argue with a fool, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience" I love the channel and what you do. Mini bikes, motorcycles, old cars, all of it is fun.
Keep up the good work!
Davis St. Pierre: Good one David, but I believe that was Mark Twain.
@@seniorrider9337well, z I’d just like to add:
Ya can’t FIX stupid!
It was cool to see bottle rocket launch so hard. Great work UT! I know you'll custom tune it from here and set her up even better.
This is my favorite channel, the use of stock parts and stuff I can afford is perfect.
Way to go Uncle Tony. I remember reading your 5.0 drag racing stuff as a teen. Keep it up
Me too! A phenomenal magazine writer.
What was his handle? "Uncle Tony"?
@@1DEADBEEF1 Tony Defeo.
He was a legend back in those days. Best magazine period.
I still have the issues! You should see a pic of him back then 👍
😂 You were extra entertaining this video. I normally watch your videos to learn, even though I have no intention of building up a car. The fact that you are willing to call people out that deserve it speaks loudly about being true to yourself. Thanks for the education and laughs.
Had to laugh at the ding-dongs comment. It appears Blind Melon Chitlin is alive and well?
I don't care what anyone says, I MISS 1/4 mile dragstrips !
You proved how awesome a classic LA318 can be with basically stock parts,
I can't wait to watch round two
@@moparsareeverything1980 junk parts 0 traction what could go wrong
Ohhhh wait o forget to mention the NOs
@@BurchellAtTheWharf ???
Years ago I may or may not have been inovolved with renting neons from hertz and putting big nitrous kits on them and running sub 12's in the 1/4 making money on the weekends racing
@@bcbloc02 Nah you didn't.
You did not mention that you flipped the pistons from one side to another? Or was that on another engine?
Very good job uncle tony. You built a fun low buck hot with parts that nobody wants to use i love that. I try do that as much as possible. I work at a salvage yard and some times run across some pretty good parts i get for cheap. You have inspired me to doing what i love to do and have fun at it. Again good job
Common sense is a tree that does not grow in everyone's garden...GOLD 🤣🤣
I have to admit, I did not expect Bottlerocket to do what it did. To be quite honest I thought this was going to be a slaughter for months. It was such a crazy shock that I was laughing out loud when I saw the actual race video. Go Mopar!!!!!!
With the confidence Uncle Tony was showing, I knew not to underestimate what Bottle Rocket was capable of.. especially when Andy set a wager of $1000 and Uncle Tony RAISED IT TO $5000!!! Only a fool would do that if they weren't confident in their cars capabilities and Uncle Tony definitely is not a fool
Andy was sleeping at the light. Driver mod
@@todddenio3200 there's a very, very old saying; "a fool and his money are soon parted". There's a reason that saying is still being used today.
Most of the people bitching probably don't know what N/T means
From our or my perspective without times who cares? The only way that could be interesting is if we know the person you are racing you need a hero and a villain. I didn't care who won your last race I just wanted to see how the car did. Are you going to race other TH-camrs? To me, without times you might as well take Bottle Rocket off the channel. What are going to do to make your fixes then tell us "It felt faster"? Ha, you think you have trolls now... I don't care if your predictions are correct all of the time. I don't care about the times. I like the evolution I spent this much I did these things here is the time.. I learned X, Y and Z so I made these changes A, B and C. A and C worked B didn't do what I had hoped it would do, here are the times. Without the times why watch? and what about the other cars in your fleet that you planned to race? What is going to stop the trolls from hurting your feelings again? No times on those either? Hell if it weren't for time slips we could all say we have 8 second cars.
I’ve been here since the beginning! Your channel is 100% in my opinion one of the best channels going.
Seen bottle rocket transform huge.
Keep it real tony, many of us appreciate you.
Your channel is awesome
It’s just reality!!
That’s why I like it!!
Get ‘em Big Tony! Love your channel.
Common sense is a rare commodity these days 😂
I mentioned rear suspension in that video but wasn’t criticizing. Like I said would love to see you get into doing the rear suspension and how to setup and adjust it without buying expensive high end parts.
The air shock preload looks like a great idea.
Freaking love this channel!
Love the occasional tirades interspersed with a very generous amount of old-school hard-core gear head tech! Don't care about the bike/pit bike stuff, but today's episode really truly knocked it out of the park for me!
I kind of like the bike diversions: just fun with zero ego.
@@moparsareeverything1980 Did you get payed, or are you just dumb enough to enjoy trolling ?
For those of you wondering what N/T means, (Tony really should have explained it) it's just grudge racing on a dragstrip. No E.T. or trap speed is announced or recorded. It's just a race, you either win or lose, and that's all there is to it.
Thanks. I was wondering what it meant.
It’s recorded. You still get a time slip. It’s just not shown on the board.
No preps are no time as well, even front of the track races.
People with half a brain and a stopwatch can get within a couple of tenths. N/T is dumb.
It means, be sure you know what your messing with!. Lol
Never underestimate an old time Staten Island street racer, It's not how much bucks you got into a car, it's knowing how to build it and that comes with experiance and you cant buy that. Good Job Tony and keep pissing of Chumps!
oh bottle stands for nitrous i thought it was for jack daniels hahahahaha some peeps just dont get it cause they are not old school racers
Tony, just that fact that you got this 4 door grocery getter boat of a car that was about to be scraped to a drag strip and made it do 91 mph is absolutely amazing and awesome no matter what else happened. Particularly on a budget! Like most others here are saying, ignore all the knuckleheads. Keep up the great work.
It was like the Brady Bunch car racing the Partridge Family's new truck.
If Bottlerocket was a dog it would be jumping all over Tony licking his face.
Usually the ones that are telling you how to do it, never have any videos showing you how to do it LOL.
I think the car is awesome, I've always liked old four doors and wagons.
And let me add, this is true hot rodding... There was no Summit or Jegs catalogs when the boys got back from the War. They used leftover junk, undesirable Surplus parts and built everything out of whatever was readily available.
Sure it has evolved over the generations, but doing stuff like this is where it got its start. Don't get me wrong, these new builds and Technology of today is freaking incredible, but what you did is a dying art form
Time slip be damned, put the N/T on the windshield ! It's impressive to see what someone who knows what they are doing can accomplish on the cheap side. Can't wait to see yo get her dialed in, and meet Andy again, he has work to do too.
What does the N/T sticker mean? I haven't any idea..
@@FrankF-vp4pt me too😅
@@FrankF-vp4pt it means you won’t see a time slip on it. Or a scoreboard time at the track. Grudge racing.
N/T stands for No time.
I don't want Tony to EVER race Andy again.
He meant it when he said it was like a gunfight. One and done.
Saw the race, thought it was sheriff Roscoe and Uncle Jessie
Your race inspired me to start racing my street 1970 340 Dart again. I had a lot of fun racing in the past and am tired of just driving it to get a burger or lay down some late night tire rubber. The weight of Bottle Rocket is weighing on my mind. I dont want to cut anything off my 340 Swinger but any unbolted parts I have never sold, just boxed up to return to original if needed.As to the people who just bitch and whine, sheesh what pests! Its got to be about having fun!
Quarter window. Btw, 100% of the haters have no idea what N/T means and when they Google it, they'll burst a vein. 😵
"Pro N/T."
Hey Tony, how about racing my 4x4 quad cab with a 5.9 magnum? I will need you to spot me about 25 car lengths. Lol!
I have to admit, I was surprised how fast bottle rocket is. Keep showing us how to do it on a budget! Thanks
Tony, I love your videos and learn a lot from them. I am a true novice rebuilding a 66 thunderbird. Great race with Andy. I really appreciate your budget minded building style. That's what most of us are stuck doing. I have to make the parts I have work, because I cannot afford to buy new ones and couldn't find them anyway...Keep up the great work
You guys go out and have a good time and everyone looses their minds 😂😂😂 that was a awesome race, great run
U did what u said u do good for u never mine the b s the race was a crap shoot luck was on your side that day eneone ho,s race knows that! Every dog has his day race was fare
22:05-Tony's motor is so loose you could throw a cat in the intake and it would come out the tailpipe whining. 🤣🤣
i havent been called a ding dong in like 30 years hahaha 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Never has so much drama surrounded a 12 flat (1/4 mile) run - good job Tony! My suggestion for the next improvement is to install a rear anti-roll bar (not sway bar or different pressure in the right air shock). 2,900 lbs. is admirable. I have little doubt that you can drop several tenths in the 1/8 (middle lower11's 1/4 mile). 10's in the 1/4 mile (~ 6.8x's 1/8th mile) is going to take some work in my opinion - but it will make me smile if you get it there. Good luck UT!
Surely things may have seemed “weird” last Year because of some “bad actors” but I feel that if you look past that, at the core it’s a solid event and would be a great place to show off some N/T passes in “Bottle Rocket”
Insurance salesmanship is unbecoming
Dart Sport🙂
TH-cam morons ticked Tony off! Bwahahaha
Love your entire channel. You did exactly what you said you would. It almost hurt not to route for Andy. Mad respect for him and Casper. Hes a class act! Stay true to you.
i would be equaly happy with either winning! they both ran a good race, great attitudes!
Casper has a lot more performance potential. I'm looking forward to seeing what Andy can get that Ford to do with some more testing and tuning.
I didn't care who won. The fun is in the race!!!
Wish each had a better run.
Next time👍👍👍😎
People just get mad when they spend 50k to run 12s in the 1/4 and you are digging parts out of the dumpster and having fun for cheap same as sloppys 8f8s
Loved seeing you win keeping it simple keeps it fun
That's a 1972 Dodge Coronet Custom, exactly like my grandfather had,this might even be the actual car, with 318 V8
back in the day the trick was 15 psi 5 psi on the airbags , 5 driver side 15 pass side , that was what worked best on my lx
Tony been with you from the start of bottle rocket reminds me of the old days I'm 61 years old I live up north on a hill I spent 38 years at a car lot where the owner loves nothing but mopars and race them I still work on cars one of our first cars we built was a high-compression 318 and used to race it at the track it was a lot of fun.if I was younger and lived closer to you I'd be begging you for a job . I work for free don't let all these guys get to you your channel is perfect and if you get a chance please let me know what you mean by you don't need a transbrake because you have drum brakes I'm very interested in knowing what you mean by that and if you could explain it I appreciate everything you do and Uncle Kathy to.
You're all right ,, Tony.. I don't have much comment, mainly because I never get any feedback.. & I don't have your experience..
SO ,:;
CHEERS FROM VIETNAM
Car worked great as far as I'm concerned!
Do me a favor, go get that mop guy at the track and shoot a how to video with him, only with a shop broom. Looks like he'd know how to sweep. Got a couple guys at work that apparently have no idea what a broom is for. However they are on their phones a lot, maybe they'd see the video and learn something. It'd help if you used the theme song from a cartoon.
Can’t wait to see some more races!
I get the impression that the 318 was embraced more so here in Australia than it did in the US. I have only ever remember hearing positive stories about how well and how hard the 318 goes.
There's a tendancy in North America (I'm Canadian) to discount the more economy V8s. On paper there's nothing wrong with the 318 but it's not a 340 or a big block so, to many people, there's no point building one.
Here in the States, the 318 has always been viewed as nothing more than an economy engine intended either for Grandma to go to the supermarket on Wednesdays and to church on Sundays, or for fleet/work vehicles that are always on the go which means that fuel economy, long term reliability, and having just enough power to build up enough speed to safely enter freeways and maintain the speed limits are all that matters. Very few people here in the states realize the potential these engines have... Even the 273 is more recognized as a potential performance engine than the 318 is.
Way more 318s over there...therefore cheaper. The 318 is everything you'd ever need for our A Bodies...360 was too much for the chassis!
The story with the 318 is the same as with the 302 Mustang and definitely 2 bbl. SBC Chevy's and ALL of the inline 6 cars of the 60's and early 70's.
People simply sneered and stated that's a 318 car, not worth a crap and the entire car engine trans and all went to the crushing yard. Same for Mustangs and Chevy.
Imagine how many 289-302 Mercury Cougars that were just sent to the crusher, which was almost all of the Cougars produced.
Heck even 360- 390 2bbl. were sneered upon in trucks. A 390 2bbl. was a definitely 300,000 mile engine with some care applied. They had plenty of pulling power to not have a need to go above 4000RPM to pull anything anywhere.
There was so much of a push back in the 80's to make everything MINT. So if you didn't have anything RARE in the MINT arena there was nothing to be had. Value to the floor with that car.
The Shelby GT500, California Specials, Boss, Cobra Jet, Yenko, Hemi, or PACK cars; and other rarities has ALWAYS been the top tier, and anything less was trash. That's been the mentality since the 60's....
There was even a great lull between 351C even being anything but a hunk of metal here in the states. That's why they are no longer around. NASCAR raped most of the heads in the early 80's from the face of the planet.
The 318 was never a performance engine from the factory. It didn’t even get a 4 bbl. til 1981 when it became the only V8 option in the passenger cars. They did put true dual exhaust on the ‘73-‘74 road runner standard 318 2bbl.
I was there walked the track before they sprayed it I seen Casper and I was like no that was someone built one to look like it lol😂 I was rooting for Andy I was like wow that car really hauled ass also that left lane had a big crack just after the sixty foot did not help the traction either
Tony the car needs 17 psi for the
Drag radials to work with a set of
Viking double adjustable front shocks
To control rebound and let the car
Settle back down after pulls the front
Wheels so it won’t unload the rear
Suspension and loose traction
This is what my 71 Pontiac Lemans
Runs car is a 10.80 car with
A 495 Pontiac motor and 4:10
Rear 29 inch tire. Your right N/T
Put in the middle of your rear
Window connecting highways
N.Y.C. For ever Brother I
Just turn 60 the March
“F” those trolls!!
Im still a 1/4 mile man tony. 1/8 mile is only half the race for gods sake lol
Ha! You can't duplicate this car for $2500 now.
Thanks to Bottle Rocket's success, you've made even these ugly duckling (4-door, no less!) body styles popular. So now the raw car's gonna cost you $2k alone.
Rev up your 318s!
318 Magnum reporting in! 😅
The comment “take the bottle off!” Wtf. “Id beat you if you had less power.” Yup probably your point?
Damn good video! That's a damn fast street car built from knowledge and hard work. Good job getting weight out of that thing. Would never guess under 3k! Would love some more stuff on weight saving, by the way. Now im gonna go dig my last time slip up because i wanna see how bad Uncle Tony would kick my ass! My car is a 2000 z28 ls1 6 speed with cam and home ported heads. I know it ran 12.0 @ 119. Street car. Drove it there and home, and it did not break. Sure, there is faster stuff out there. But my car is fast enough to be fun and that's what it's about. Will post my 8th mile time and mph tomorrow when i dig it out of the car. Thanks again uncle Tony. That ol mopar gets down i dont care what the trolls say.
My Grandmother drove one of those in the 70's. Then, it did the grocery store, hair place, and church. To think she could have took it drag racing on the weekends. Go Grandma.
Great race Tony. You did a great job.
People suck, and they take all the fun out of the game! I'm happy you and the car did good!
UT wasn't even hiding anything... If the trolls bothered to watch the post race video, he gives his ET and MPH starting at 14:10 mark. Gives Andy's MPH also.
You are soo cool Tony I'm just finishing up my 1971 ford f100 as a daily driver I had to build it on a very small budget and in the same way you were building urs now I'm starting to think what have I possibly built lol great TH-cam channel
Cut those heavy cop car wheels , and ANOTHER set of cop car wheels , and weld them back together into a set of even heavier 10" wheels .
I don't hate 1/8 mile. but I wish you had a local quarter track.
Agreed. I'm old school, West Coast, and have a difficult time with converting 1/8 to what I've only known. 👍
London Ky and Bowling Green Ky both run 1/4mile racing still and are only about an hour or two from Tony
Most tracks are 1/8 mile these days due to insurance as cars have gotten so fast. Top Fuel and Funny Car with be 1/8 or, 800 feet within the next few years . They are really close to 300 mph in 1/8 now it top fuel.
@@fr.rustymatheny7707 that's fine. But 1/4 mile mph at the traps and et tell me story I can compare to an awful lot of data points that really relate to decades of records for similar cars. And I don't think UT is going to be doing 300 mph.
@@bbb462cid whatever floats your boat dude, whatever floats your boat.
Don't listen to Eraser Heads. Looking forward to seeing this car run once it's dialed in. Cheers UTG !!
If ya aren't pissing someone off, yer not doing it right!
I'm always for the under dog. I fell out when I saw it leave pulling the left front.
You should be proud Tony, you did what you said you'd do and that's that. Maybe that irks some people, that's their problem, Nice race and nice job.
I love the whole idea! Been watching since the beginning So much more fun and rewarding doing it cheap and fun way.
Always loved the bold lines of this body, and wished they would’ve made a 2 dr version. Exited to see how this project evolves, and to see that mad scientists are still busy in their laboratories. 👍
YES, I always wanted a 2 door 71 Coronet. 👍
2dr. version was the '71-'74 Charger. Stupid looking cars. These are way more tougherer.
The “Charger” was the 2 door Coronet. The VIN even starts with a “W” like the 4 doors.
71-74 satellite and road runners are the same (2dr) car...satellites are EXACTLY the same as the road runners....the snobs like to tell stories about magic components that really did nothing and 50hp stickers and badges....but theyre the same enough that $50 and a welder means theyre the same..
mopar (honest all the big 3) had no rules and no honest documentation at the time...thousands of cars went to dealer owners and execs not matching the build sheets...maybe 10's of thousands of cars.
especially if what we got at ford dealers (even in canada) in the late 90s was any hint
it is so funny seeing people that have never actually raced and cant build a carb try to tell you what you are doing wrong
429 killers for $2500?! I love it!! On an unrelated note when will we see N/T t-shirts?
"Pro N/T"
Not sure if you have done a video about angle gaping plugs , if not blow some kids ,minds wide open About flame front.
I owned a 1974 Dodge Coronet Custom, with 318, that was the best car I have ever owned.
Driver side rear window! And I've got a Huffy 10 speed. I'll take you and that half assed taxi on any day.
Uncle T was running nitro when these call out guys were in the womb
Ignore the idiots Unca Tony. This is awesome race with Casper
Are you entertaining a rematch? Once Andy gets his torque converter woes sorted, Casper is going to be a beast!