IS THIS THE WORST DODGE DAYTONA WING CAR EVER?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- In Episode 204 of Mike Finnegan's Garage we hang out at Motor Trend's Roadkill Nights event, which is powered by Dodge. The event is unique because the city of Pontiac, Michigan, allows Roadkill to hold street legal drag racing right on Woodward ave. Newbern and I drove the Roadkill ramp truck there while hauling precious cargo as part of a really cool upcoming episode of Roadkill, which you can see of Motor Trend Plus streaming app. Rather than drive all the way back home to Georgia with an empty ramp truck, we decided to buy a really rusty and slightly butchered pro street 1970 Dodge Charger. The car is a mess but I have a vision and a few used speed parts that will someday go on this car. In the meantime, enjoy the trip and the fun of celebrating Mike Cotten's new car that he bought at RKN as well!
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That Daytona is one of those "good news/bad news " cars. The good news is they make every panel for that car, the bad news is you need every one of them.
You can buy these panels new?
that... is some funny ass shit right there, son.
@@daniesalex7073 they're repops so they will need to be massaged to fit. There is no such thing as a "bolt-on" panel for these cars that will fit perfectly out of the box.
@@daniesalex7073 Look for Chis Birdsong here on youtube he can show you how to make the repops fit . He is a Charger Guru!!
@@daniesalex7073 Like Glenn Says, look up Junkerup...He did all the Work on Mayhem. He's quite the Fabricator, and a damned good racer too.
I think it's cool that Finnegan and Dolich are hanging out together. Show's respect and class.
Why wouldn't they hang out?
@@hendo337 Because one might think there would be some rivalry on being the cohost of Roadkill, but this video proves otherwise.
@@Ironwind1972 Hell no... they've ALL been buddies years before these shows even began. They all worked at Hot Rod magazine and have known each other from there for a long time.
There is no such thing as the "Worst Daytona Wing Car Ever" ... only the "least restored".
I concur
I think a burnt one is worse, lol. But yeah I'd love to have it. Of course we know the blasphemous mods like narrowed rear, mesh over headlights and the rust offend purists, but I'D LOVE TO HAVE IT.
that's not a Daytona wing car it's a clone and not a very good clone iether
they are all garbage
Most original.!
What I really love about "Faster with Finnegan" is you have managed to keep the authentic feel of three great buddies doing stuff together with typical guy level lack of planning and resulting mayhem. I hope you guys stay humble with the mistakes and keep the great chemistry between you three.
Pepto Dismal is the most perfect, hilarious name for that car 🤣 Good to see Cotton on the channel again!
Stinky sanches is my vote
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"Did you buy a lemon?"
"No, this thing's orange"
I'm dead...that joke murdered me...
Glad my portion of motortrend money can go to help Michael Cotten with his free cars and transportation. No one deserves it more! Love the fake wing car too. I’d drive the wheels off it.
Send me some monthly money so me and my 74 year old mother aren't walking to the store... I'm sure motor trend has enough money
@@stephenbarabas6286 hustle hard
@@stephenbarabas6286 get a beater car. Why are you making your 74 year old mother walk to the store?
FK MT OD
I am Aussie and watched Roadkill from day one. can't even watch Motortrend anymore because of some stupid American law.
Like to know how much money they lost because of it.
You really need to take it first to a 24 hours of Lemons race. Just imagine how glorious it would be to see this on a race track like it was intended!
lol, you got me, I almost missed LEMONS........
I just came from one of the videos
@@davidthayer6969 it’s a real race series, if you’re not familiar with it. Although I suspect this car may be outside of the Lemons budget limits…
@@suzu9404 On no, lol I have heard of it........I just didnt have my glasses on!!!!!!!
2.4 hours of Le Mullets at the Freedom Factory
My favorite thing about you guys is that you make regular people feel like they can hotrod too! It doesn't have to be fully restored and super nice to go out and enjoy your old car. No matter how bad it is just get it running and enjoy it the way it is and upgrade it to the best your budget allows! And that not just you guys bet freiburger and Tony Angelo and all the guys doing it with the passion yall have.
Wow. I’m not even a Mopar guy and I’m already fully in on this build. Amazing content as always.
Oh. And 1hr episodes are where it’s at. 👊🏻
Probably going to be the best project you guys have worked on in a while. Can’t wait to see it running.
cannot wait to see the burn outs! and at a skid comp
maybe a cleetus event???
Thank you Mike Finnegan for inspiring me to help my son work on his two basket case trucks! You and the Roadkill episodes made me smile during some sad times in life.
Ya know. When Cotton is just talking and telling stories he's a totally different guy! I'm jealous of his freebie. I love that thing! that weird 90's graphic style is right from my high school years!
“I’m not gonna work on it any time soon” yeah me… I’d spend every damn second of every day wrenching on it!
@@Mercedes.benz_300e Right!? I'll bet he's just got a spun bearing or something and might be able to grind the rod journals and rebuild it for not too much money. Can't wait till he's got it apart.
I have a hard time watching Cotten on Faster With Finnegan. He's such a drama queen. If he doesn't know the camera is on I think he's a lot cooler. He's the reason I quit watching FWF
@@jeffparris8387 Same. I think normal Cotten would bring much more to the show than drama Cotten. Wonder if it's the producers that make that decision.
Got DAMN! Mike’s vids are so smooth and fun to watch. A guy worth like $3 million comes across as just a regular guy.
So happy you're putting a Hemi in the "Rustona" ! FYI; Stage V Engineering used to do twin-plug Hemi rocker covers. Are they still around ? They also did 383/400/440 conversion heads to make them a Hemi. They worked, and were good !
Rustona!
haha
Repop Rustona
Or "Gaytona"?? 🤷
I was going to write something like "and now all you have to do is to find a rotary engine or a diesel from an old Opel to carry on your great tradition of engine choices" but i was so happy when you presented the plan for the hemi. Love it! It's going to be awesome.
The real question is can the Ramp Truck do a burnout with the Dayton on the back
Yes
Which the Daytona doing a burnout on the bed
That is my dream car, I had a picture of a Daytona on my wall when I was 5, I hope you guys have lots of fun with it and I hope you guys keep building it and make it the best rustona in the world.
For the love of all that is holy.... please build this into that exact prostreet menace that you have in mind! I would love to see you save the car and replace all the rusted metal to make it an actual competitor a not just the burnout beast that looks fast.
I am incredibly excited for this build!
I'm having flashbacks to Street Machine Nat's West in Sacramento during the early 80s. The only car I really remember was a Daytona or Superbird with a blown Hemi. Those were the good old days. Pro-Street everywhere you looked.
I just really enjoy seeing the old ramp truck getting used for regular work, and seeing it finished, pretty, and working well. I enjoyed the "old days" of you and Freiburger slapping cars together and doing burnouts, but I really enjoy seeing you guys take a few of your favorites and really finishing them well, or at least starting down the road of finishing them well. Blasphemi is going to be super cool in full street mode.
Very sweet bye what's up with the 200 mph Cadillac haven't seen anything on it in a while
Dude, that is my dream project right there, a "daytona" that is not so nice I wouldn't mind actually having fun with it.
Can't wait to see more.
Dang it ! that was your smoke detector going ping ! Had me racing through the garage looking for trouble. 🤣
Me too, lol.
Awesome new project! The only thing I'd change when repairing the rust is to add the rear window plug and get the back window right for a Daytona. Find a Vega hatch and get to chop cut rebuilding! I'm loving the plans for the car. Definitely going to be epic!
I casually follow most of your builds, but this one, I'm very excited to watch! I can't wait! A pro-street Daytona with wheelie bars, big stacks out the hood, so awesome!
Only Finnegan would buy a pile in worst shape than Death metal! Love it.....
I love it when cotton gives the guys his goofy side eye. Makes me laugh every time 👀👀👀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
TH-cam, making car guys dreams a reality keep up the great fun guys
I need to see an episode of roadkill with this and the hemi gremmie together once its built!!
this is by far the most anxious I've been for a build series and I'm a diehard chevy guy.
Cotton did himself good on that deal that car is so ugly it's cool. It definitely sucked that the wheel came off on his drive home. The Daytona looks good on the ramp truck even though it was falling apart on the drive home.
Yeah I love the ugly ones that made it full circle. That and I'm from the 80's and that paint job is hot stuff.
Respect for always doing what makes YOU happy 'ol Finny Boy, always a treat to see what choas brews inside your head!
Finnegan, you have some pretty great friends. Even Michael Wayne Cotten likes you.
9:50 "I flock to Beaters!"
Best shirt for the occasion
Looking good guys! I'd love to see more on the caddy!
This needs to be #1 #1 #1 priority!!! Omg I wasn’t expecting the end even with the click bait picture! I thought it was a joke. Damn this is going to be awesome I want to see this soon!!
Alright for starters I've come to realize that you guys sre freaking awesome I think what I appreciate the most about u and everyone that is involved with all the shows that are tied together with roadkill is that u guys do it like the everyday Joe so for that I gave u mad respect now watching this video I saw something that made me stop an say holy shit they are the real deal the side cutter that u used in the shop are harbor freight now that's is the complete reason I give u guys more respect than I can ever say to any please don't change keep it rolling
So stoked to see more of this car, looks like it will be a fun build! ....
I guess you could say "one mans trash, is Mike Finnegan's video content"
This project my friend is one hell of a weapon in the making.
I seriously can not wait to see this come together 👌🏻 🧡
The dual plug Hemi has a lot of interesting history, I rediscovered some of it in the book about the development of the Motown Missile, which was a sorta back-door factory race development car. The original dual head distributors were made by grafting a second distributor head onto the mechanical tach drive of a tach drive distributor, so the caps sat at right angles instead of side by side like later ones. As I recall, dual plugs didn’t result in a huge power gain (on gasoline, anyway) so it didn’t take the world by storm, but it would eventually become the standard Fuel engine configuration. Super cool plan!
I can't wait to see this project come alive. I want to see the entire engine build video. Plus I think it would be even better if you did a parallel 4 link in the rear. That would make the car handle a lot better and it would make things easier in the long run.
This car was in front of a junkyard in Saint Augustine, Florida for years. It was for sale, and I actually stopped and looked at it on more than one occasion. I wanted to do with it what you are doing but didn't have the $$$. Will be fun to watch.
Cotten is my hero! Also, DD isn't a battery size it's a "fun size ".
That whole idea definitely makes me smile! And the heads are as old as I am! At least within a month.
Whatever engine you put in it please keep under the stock flat hood. The lines on those cars aren't suited for holes cut in the hood for big superchargers or turbos sticking out IMO. A nice large by huge Hemi or Max Wedge big block. Unless you can get Dodge to give you a Hellcat Redeye and 6 speed manual or Viper V10 and 6 speed.
Viper v10 and trans would be sweet
Correct sentiment, wrong reasons -- a giant blower sticking out of the hood would ruin the aerodynamics, wing cars came factory-butchered. Those vents on the front fenders? They're there because NASCAR at the time still had to be stock bodies. Pretty sure the homologation cars sold to the public had solid metal under those, but on the racecars they covered massive holes cut in the fender to keep the tires from rubbing at 200+ mph, so they had to put them on the non-race versions too, so it looked like the real car..
@@UmmmmmmmWhat Mopar make a modern 426 Hemi crate motor, no real relation to the 426 that was an option in the car originally, it's basically the Hellcat/Demon engine with a slight overbore to make it the Historic Displacement, and makes a thousand horsepower.
@@DeliveryMcGee With the fender vents on the Daytona, they were still open on the street cars, but sealed off on the street Superbirds if I remember correctly
Yeah, these things actually have a great drag coefficient, I like a scoop or velocity stacks on almost anything, but on this... Meh.
WJ on your dream wheels stands for White Jam. Some folks call it White Juice. That setup used to make the old owner's racing suit get real tight in 1 spot and then there was some White Jam in his suit.
Didn't the wheel studs on mopars of that era have left hand threads on the driver's side? That may explain the difficulty removing the left rear wheel.
If it has the factory lugs on it , and the axle is on the correct side , the 8.75 axles on a B Body rear are the same length and will fit either side even though one side has an adjuster on the wheel bearing ... yes it would be left hand thread front and rear , that changed about 1973 .
Oh ya! Who hasn't screwed that up at least once?
Lol, yea when that first one snapped, wondered if they knew? Being youngsters & all... Saw lots of guys standing on a cheater bar, when a 6" ratchet really worked, harhar!
What was the reason for doing it like that?
@@Globbs That way it would be impossible for a lug nut on either side to come loose while driving forward, even if one wasn't tightened correctly, it could not come loose considering how it would have to spin in relation to the wheel spinning. A good safety measure, that was done away with only because of the number of wrecked wheel studs
One of these days you need to find a suitable project car to prepare for competing in nostalgia drag racing. This one may be better suited for demolition derby. Love it!
Heck yeah! This build is going to be sick. It would be sweet to do the body work correctly and make it a one of a kind clone
Excited to see the end product of this one!
I absolutely love the idea of this car, but what the heck ever happened to the caddy? Why did you guys just stop the project? That thing was cool as hell.
Aren't they waiting for the engine to be built?
@@milanskipala7593 they might be. I'm not sure, I'll go back and try to watch the last video they posted about it. I know COVIDA still has a ton of things messed up.
Finnegan for 56minutes,nothing gets better than that👍
Somehow you found a Daytona worse than the one Joe Dirt has, and I love it! My vote goes to putting the hemi from general mayhem in it and mounting it on a nascar chassis and do top speed runs with it. Cheers!
Hemi from mayhem? The hellcat motor? Chris birdsong has that engine in a 68/69 charger
@@jameswilson864 Didn't know that, I was wondering where that motor went.
They gave him the engine in trade for all the metal work on mayhem. Chris birdsong has a TH-cam check it out
@@jameswilson864 I belive its still in his backyard
That car need some Chris Birdsong rust repair.
Always good to see Cotton, and he does the best worm I have ever seen.
Given the fuel hickup, would it be possible to readjust the gauge or reprogramme it by draining the tank to the bottom, and checking what it's showing on the gauge, then readjusting to show empty?
Least then you've got an accurate gauge rather guesswork.
S.O.B… this is exactly how I figure out s..t! Best channel ever. Thanks guys.
"IDK if it'll even fit on the ramp truck, it's so long." I've heard they had problems with them on the assembly line, the Charger/Roadrunner line was spaced for ... well, the real cars, and that extra foot and a half in the nose caused Problems. Also, is that Freiburger being the Voice of Reason as they load it up?
that nose kept it from lifting whih is why dodge was allowed to run the same car into the late 1970s until they made the nascar slantnose magnum by which time there was no real nascar anymore just rollcages with name badges
man that's so cool I live 20 mins from Lexington KY I would have gave anything to have met you guys thank u for all the content you do I love how it's all across the board
Some of my earliest memories are standing on the hump between the bucket seats holding on to the seats as Mom is banging gears, racing from stop light to stop light on Woodward in my Dad's brand new fresh out of the factory 1962 Tempest, 4 cylinder 4 barrel 4 speed. Mom would drop Dad off at the A&P where he was a butcher, then go out to do a little light to light street racing. My mother was a dirty hot rodder. She used to race her 57 Pontiac out at the old Pontiac airport when they used to have races there in the late 50s. Even had a couple of trophies. And it was always fun on a Monday morning going back to school after the weekend and having somebody come up and ask what does your mother have under the hood of that Oldsmobile station wagon?because she blew my doors off. My reply was always refer to the Chilton's auto repair manual 1964 to 1971. The green one. Find page 707,on the bottom right of the page,F/85 engine identification.Year 1965 production code W. With a four barrel and a 4-speed. I had to explain it to him like this because if I told them what the book said. That's an hour long argument.
michigan is a cesspool
But, those 4 cylinder Tempests were NOT fast at all...
This build is the one that I will follow more than another in youtube. I'm so excited for this.
Would be cool to build a 471 stroker big block Mopar for the 80 Dodge
Mr. B ! These cars where cool then and Mike you hit the nail on the head with one. I know many would not agree ! Am 70 the few I show on the streets of NY were cool .
Where does Finnegan keep all his rust buckets? I kinda want to see a tour of his storage, just so we can get an update on what's going on with all the projects he's forgotten about... like the fiero from that episode that just went up on MTOD... =p
Tour of some on new video
Gotta say ,the contents of Finnegans shed is quite the impressive collection.
Pepto needs a gen. 3 Hemi swap with a cope transmission behind it!
The sight of the dual plug Hemi head was a huge relief! I was so expecting you to say big block Chevy! LOL Can't wait to see this running and driving.
Best video of the year. Cheers to new blood on the show. Looking forward to it.
Mannn that Day-"TOW"-na is going to be siiiiick I'm super stoked to see smoke bellowing out from under that badboy!
Pepto Dismal is a great name. The stripes alone give me heartburn.
That is amazing, you and freiburger are some of the big influences in my automotive journey, remember the Muscle truck engine into the jet boat roadkill episode like it was yesterday, cant wait to see how this comes out and cant wait to get a project of my own
Replace your smoke detector battery, lol great episode as always, can’t wait to see the build development!
This is why Mike is a legend
Rear window came out on the highway bringing my '68 Firebird home. Hit front bumper of car behind, no damage thankfully, nobody hurt. Scary event for sure.
Wow... I really want to see you do something with the Daytona! Yeah I know it's not a 'real' one, but that thing is ICONIC. Fix it up and make others take notice of it. Thanks guys for the video.
This is what I was hoping would happen to it when you posted the picture! Hell ya!
You should call it the Hand Grenade!!! Back in the 90’s I had a dirt track motor that was all used parts. None of the pistons or rods matched, don’t know what the crank was out of, all the numbers were ground off of the cam, two different heads, and everyone said it would hand grande at any moment. It lasted half the season, before Elvis left the building
Man I wish I would have knew you were at exit 141 in Tennessee. That is the exit I live off of. I'm 15 minutes from there and I would have loved to have met ya'll. I love the show by the way. Keep up the amazing work on the show.
That peacemaker wheelstander is a beautiful and show stopping vehicle in my opinion
Please please please keep this as a finnagans garage project so those of us that can’t get motortrend anymore can follow along with the build.
Can't wait to see what you build out of this Dayclona. 🤘
The right picture of the "Daytona" on the ramp truck is the perfect t-shirt.
OMG I can hardly wait to see this one running!!!!
Damn, those kind of Chargers are infamous but legendary in Nascar. This poor monster is in DESPERATE need to be restored.
Dude I can't wait! For any and all of the projects described in this video!
love it! you have inspired me too start my own you tube channel and do crazy stuff like you guys do! Been working on cars since 1980 ,love what you guys do keep it up.
Dave Newbern, king of roadtrip snacking!
I'm stoked for this build.
"More Money than Brains" is a good T-Shirt motif.
Gotta give props for using the free Harbor Freight tape measure!!! Keeping it real!
When I bought my Superbird I learned the hard way that at 80mph the wing starts to work and presses the trailer down, thus unloading the tongue and...
Can’t wait to see car progress, I enjoyed watching the 55 being put together , awesome
Now this is a build I can get behind. I can't wait to see more of it!
I remember one of the first episodes of RK David: what tools we bring?
Mike: None!-becouse when we takw tools we neeed them.🤣😂
And now is 180° diffrent aproach.
I can't wait to see it come together
Saw you going down I75 in Tennessee while I was working on the shoulder of the interstate. It does look awesome on the back of a ramp truck.
One panel you definitely need is the hatch off a hatchback Vega. fills in that rear window panel very well
The Mirada brought back so many memories. I had a black 81 for my first car. I miss it so much!!!!!!!
Look forward to having you prove me wrong but thats the worst buy ever! What a cluster.
The clearly hung over day after Roadkill nights was hilarious.
A video about the Mini Truck would be AWESOME!
All I can say is, I can't wait to see this one completed!!👍