ABANDONED '69 DODGE DAYTONA CLONE DRIVES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- This is Episode 255 of Mike Finnegan's Garage and it's a good one because are finally wrapping up the last few details before test driving my 1969 Dodge Charger for the very first time. There's lots of fab work and laughs in this video and some really cool tools that you might want to check out for yourself.
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-Finnegan
"Rust you can depend on."
I think you found the new slogan for the shop, Mike.
That needs to be on a t-shirt
if all else fails it can be Mopars new slogan lol
@@cdoublejj
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😂 needs a Rusteze sticker
I like, "Bad ideas, beautifully executed".
"The car still sucks but it runs now" and "we just need to fix some of the things wrong with the car so that we're not going to die" basically sum up my entire life wrenching on cars.
😂 laying in the gravel, covered in grease..
in 16 years, ive owned 36 vehicles. only two of which cost more than $1000. my last one was a 2006 Impala i paid $150 for with a good safety sticker somehow. I immediately cut the cat off, and put in a piece of scrap pipe i had, bent with pie cuts lol. got my $175 for the cat, so the car was essentially free. I drove the bag off that thing for 8 months. 365k kms on it. the only thing i ever put on it were wipers, and tires from our scrap pile at the shop (still had 4/32" tread), aligned with a measuring tape. eventually the transmisson went, so i scrapped it for $600, which more than covered my registration fee and insurance for that 8 month period. FREE CAR! lol.
BUT, I will say. I have only ONCE got stranded on the side of the road, and that was due to a bad ignition switch. I had wires and a relay, as well as a momentary push button in my random bag of tricks and tools in the trunk, so i wired up my own switch and made it home unassisted!.
Beater cars rule dude.
I just had an idea...
When you're done with ROADKILL NIGHTS in Michigan.. ship the car to Dulcich in Cali and let him make an episode where he repairs the torsion bar holders and the floor pans.
Because you need this thing being better, and we need more of the big man.
Tech tip: early Mopar hoods have to be drilled with a 357 Magnum. The steel was thicker back then.
They dont make em like they used to
And STILL, they would ripple.
@@ronjones-6977 Yep, might have been thick. But it was weak as pop cans.
So…THAT’S why the classic Milwaukee 1/2” corded drill is called a Magnum Hole Shooter?
The trick is to lay underneath and shoot through both the core support and the hood. That way the hood pins always line up...🤣
It's fun watching someone who truly enjoys what they're doing, especially when they have low expectations...
It’s humbling ain’t it!
More like "no expectations" gotta lovem lol
Low expectations for a very sought after car? Boy is that car in the wrong hands!
He said himself, he's not a sheet metal guy. I just love that he's sticking to the Roadkill way of "that'll probably work..."
@31terikennedy it's not a real factory wing car
I remember this car when it sat in front of 675 Holmes Blvd. St. Augustine Fl for a couple of years. It came out of barn find that my boss bought about 25 cars out of. Nice to see it on the road again.
Really? Angie got pics of the barn it was in or pics from back in the day?
@FinnegansGarage I can ask a couple of friends who worked with me there if they have any pictures of it when it sat out front. They might remember what barn it came out of too.
I was happy to see that wiper motor cover being built the way I would do it, now I feel like I could help around your shop.
I'm actually just worried that what they needed to do was get a motor in there. I mean, what if it rains on the way there?...
@@vtr0104 I always think about that kind of stuff on these kind of builds. I've done similar stuff in the past and have regretted not having at least wipers and a semi functional heater. I guess it's just how they like to roll!
@@TomsTinkeringandAdventures Meanwhile I get angsty when the wipers start leaving streaks :))))
You're right though, it IS Roadkill :P
@@TomsTinkeringandAdventures*laughs in VW sandrail*
It was awesome seeing yall at roadkill yesterday. Thank you for signing my wife's and son's shirt. That burnout in the dumpster fire Daytona was actually pretty epic. I have video of you doing it Yall rock and keep up the amazing content
Mike Finnegan, is the equivalent of Adam Savage to the automotive community.
One of the coolest shops, the best toys, fantastic tools ( including some strange and quirky), and is at the point of their career, where they are chasing accuracy and give a hoot.
Fantastic work Mike. Never change mate 👌🏼
Floors and torque boxes look like a perfect job for Birdsong.
Only if you want it done right.
I was thinking Dulcich
Growing up to the early roadkill , loving every second of it! this longer and way more detailed content is amazing. cant get enough and learning so much! even if its not 100% the correct method hahaha
There was a moment when I thought its neck was on the chopping block!
Glad to see you guys got it together!! With any luck the ole charger will be the king of the fleet when it comes to Fuel mileage!
This is the content I love to see where you take the clapped out vehicles and just make them into fun machines keep up the good work Fin.
Finnegan, you (or someone else on Roadkill) cut the center section of the crossmember out to clear the trans... the crossmember that holds the torsion bar mounts. You see the box section at 15:35 - that seems important.
That’s the structural box trying into each side of the frame that provides resistance to the twist for the torsion bars. Need to figure out a way to incorporate that back into the car…or go with the aftermarket IFS coil spring front subframe that eliminates the torsion bars.
Was on the fence last night at roadkill nights when you did burnout, crazy to see and feel it roll by in person. Job well done
If you'd like to join the class-action lawsuit with all the other people that breathed in the rust falling off this thing, just send a note to the lawyer: Wee, Cheatum, & Howe.
I know it's just a rusty clone, but there's something I really like about the dumpster fire Daytona.
I'm glad you got it running and it made it to Roadkill Nights and we got to see it for a brief couple of minutes on the live feed, but I understand that you didn't want it to fold in half (I was hoping to go, but health issues at the last minute prevented that).
I realize you have no intentions of actually restoring it, but I hope you eventually have the time or interest in at least fixing it enough to keep it on par with the work you've put into Death Metal.
I also know everything takes money, and you have things that priority over this project too. Maybe Birdsong would be interested in donating some time and/or parts at in the future to keep it at least more functional and less likely to crumple into a Mopar ball of decaying tin foil.
In either event, I'm glad you kept it from not being used and languishing more, and we get to see it. Hopefully it sticks around in the collection.
Seems like the algoritm doesn't like the link, but Finn...looks like this was up for sale in October 2020 on Copart.
It was down in Orlando, Florida, which would explain the swampiness. Found a link to a Barn Finds discussion board where they were talking about it, but the actual listing has disappeared into the ether. Sounds like he wanted big money at that time too for what it is.
@@jokerace72 Were they trying to sell it as genuine, or were they upfront about the cloniness?
The original ad is gone, but it sounds lke from the discussion that they were either alluding it to it being real or srating it directly.
What they were originally turning down souns like they were trying to charged real but beater money for it supposedly eas.
If this car isn't named 'Dumpster Fire Daytona' then we absolutely need to fix that too.
…And the shirt’s subtitle can be “Making Joe Dirt SWANKY in comparison has never looked so hol[e]y!”
36:00 I love nutserts. They make a pneumatic version of that tool as well. It looks like a pneumatic drill. Super quick and easy. We use them mostly in polycarb to attach it to to backlit signs, and make it easy to remove for maintenance.
Thanks a lot! "Numbers-matching rust" made me spit coffee all over my computer screen.
I need a new welder because my son won't let me use his anymore because I broke it the last time I used it! He was a little pissed, fortunately he fixed it, now I am banned from welding until I get a welder of my own. Love watching you all wrenching and am inspired to do more wrenching on my CJ-7 and my Harley thank you!
You need to raise the front of the hood hinge to lower the back of the hood. Sounds strange but that's how it works.
“Numbers matching rust” 😂 love it! Great co-host with these too
I love this kind of content. I’ve learned a lot of things from watching Finnegans Garage and really enjoy applying it in my own. Transfer punches, nutzerts, poster board templates… Thanks, Mike! Also, speaking of Roadkill Nights, it was an honor to meet you there briefly last year!
This is 10x more entertaining than the boatstuff. And 1000x more entertaing than watching you opening mail😎
When it comes to sheet metal fabrication, there is none better then Fitzee's Fabrication on Y.T.!!!
😂 watching you get the tunnel just right on a for real rotting platform, we’ll it’s why I tune in 😂
My wife and I made it to roadkill nights for the frist time
Stayed through the rain delaly
And shook your had before Ice Cube took the stage. We had an amazing time. The excitement of that day will stay with me forever.
Nice work. And amazing that Fin and crew can do all of this work, record it and make it available every weekend. Unlike Motortrend, who will sit on this footage, add a bunch of meaningless edits and gimmicky shit then release it months down the road..
hawaiian_judge5113 And what they release is not the full video clip. Maybe 10/15 mins. if you are lucky.
Mike you killed it! This is one Of the best video you have done in awhile. So cool seeing the behind the scene of roadkill cars, and building. Classic FG love it
Thank u!
Just a thought to seal around your new sheet metal flooring, to keep the exhaust fumes out. Get some putty tape from a R.V. Store and seal up the gaps with it, and you can remove it if you need to and reapply.
I'm just here for the Big Lebowski references and Christmas vacation posters! The first class car content is just a bonus.
Finnegan explaining how to get good marks form a fine tip sharpie on steel. Meanwhile there is a bottle of Dykem Blue sitting RIGHT THERE staring at him.
I had a 68 charger back in the day. M/T N50-15s tucked under and in perfectly without any modifications. Don't remember what the offset of rim was. But it fit between rails and quarter. Satin Centerlines with 50's tucked, looked so badass from behind. Especially with the 68 taillights. 1968 was my favorite yr of the charger, because of the rear panel and taillights.
Weld the donkey to the roof of the Daytona and take him to Roadkill nights! LOL
One thing's for certain,, admirably,, Mike has accomplished that shifter hole patch so much nicer than a lot of rod builders would have. Don't believe me? Go shopping for an already done pro street car and see what you find. A lot of 'em will only pass the 20/10 test. 20 feet away @ 10mph. Don't look too closely and they'll look GR8.🙂
That car has total epic potiental to be awesome and perfect.
I once bought a 71' satellite for $300 with rust,bad trans,bad frontend,timing chain had a foot of play. I fixed everything in my driveway. When it rained i worked underneath. Long story short after $12-$15k to fix everything i bought some roadrunner trim parts and laid out RR stripes and graphics by hand and painted them on. In the end i had a badass RR clone. Just took money,love, and time.
Walker flex pipe would make ideal snorkels from each mesh headlight cover to a rad shroud.
I Love the fact your making it run and drive! According to Richard Petty these cars were that good with the nose cone and wing it was dam near impossible to spin one of these out!!! It might not be a bad idea to have Chris Birdsong put a new tail light panel in the car and mabe fix the rust like he did General Mayhem, he could probably fix the quarters too and weld it bracing that a real Daytona would have to support the down force from the wing!!! Love this car man it will sick seeing you race and drive it!!!! Roadkill for life!!!! Best show ever other than Finnegans Garage!!!
Great episode, always amazed what you can drive on American roads , the cops here, would have you off the road so fast, you wouldn't need to worry about coolant temps
Enjoying the "Dayclona" content. Getting there!
In a lot of the old pics of Daytonas and the ones I've seen in person, they have a baby chin spoiler to direct air into the radiator. Also have seen them with the opening of the nose enlarged like a Superbird.(it extended under the nose) Almost all of those had a 18x24" opening with a sceen held by an aluminum frame with a bar in the center. It makes a huge difference
“Not going to die while driving it.” Always good advice!! 😂
Everytime i watch Finnigan working in his shop i get super jelly of all his tools and setup... haha
One two combination of finn and joe roadkill style.....I dig it ....🙂👍
Reminds me of my grandpa's charger, it's sitting on 33x22.5s crazy to see what all it takes to get that to fit lol
I have a 95 airbagged short bed Chevy, it's been a show truck for part of its life. I grew up in Montana, my teenager years I was a Cali,style lowrider guy. But I just subscribed to Truckin magazine. I knew I could find ol show trucks someday, still looking for the yellow ex cab shorty with chromed, wish bone front suspension..
Hey bud. Just a tip, when I'm tapping threads in places I can't use the handle in. The right size 12 point socket will hold the square end of taps and extractors.
@TELE-GRAM__TheFinnegansGarage. what's up buddy.
in case you did not know those cars from the factory had extra bracing inside the truck going from bottom of the wing to the floor of the truck to stabilize them more because the wing would move and bend the quarter panels with out the extra bracing
20:45 The torsion bar is the most stable form of sprung suspension ever devised because it has virtually zero jounce or rebound, as compared to oil or leaf type springs.
It is a sad shame that so few people realize how superior they are to coil or leaf suspensions when it comes to actual, roadable traction, especially on rough pavement.
Admittedly, well built air suspension is better, but it takes up more space and requires more work to install than to reinstall the original T.B.S.
Formula One calls Torsion Bars "Rising Rate Suspension", because the more you twist, the stiffer it gets.
The Torsion Bars on Current F1 cars are about 30cm long, and Titanium....
Good to see that you guys have it on the road 👍 Good luck with the trip.
That's an awesome engine package!! I like how you are both taking your time and planning everything out, not many people your age can wait and end up rushing everything making it harder in the end, especially getting the suspension ready for more horsepower!
Good to see my ol' friend Joe! Looks like you're having fun doing what you love to do!
Love the vid. I adore sheet metal and bodywork. My Dad ( pre sharpies ) used an old small screwdriver. Ground to a point and that scores a lovely fine line in the metal.
Nice burn out at roadkill nights. Thanks for signing my hat
Thats my kind of work 'Super Shock Class' Just make it have it till the rivet counters cry.
You need an "Astro Pneumatic Tool ADN14 Rivet Nut Drill Adapter Kit." Attaches to your impact driver and uses battery power instead of your hand power. makes installing riv-nuts simple and easy.
Fake/ clone or not. It looks awesome 😎
If it was safe an reliable I would daily it as it looks , no problem.
Vega hatchback for back metal and rear window is what they use on clones.......Guy with NASCAR Daytona in Colorado can steer you in right direction
Someday, gonna need to hear Joe’s story.
Edit: car history… and how you found him, got him to uproot and move… and his project(s).
I met Joe through a boating forum in the early 2000s. Have been racing drag boats together ever since. It wasn’t a hard sell to get him to leave Socal. He said yes before I finished the sentence and told him what the job was. Lol
@@FinnegansGarage Anyone that doesn't want to leave SoCal is part of the problem in the first place.
the biggest shade tree mechanic on youtube 🤣🤣🤟
We fit a lot of these side shift trans to various US and EU cars, the best way to box off the shifter area is to bend a vertical 3-side piece in the brake, and behind the shifter let it stick through the round shape of the tunnel a little bit. That way you can run the sharpie past the edge and have a perfect fit.
"Oh...It's never going to line-up right. I just don't want it to fall off." - Mike Finnegan
duct tape will hide the misalignment!
Rule of thumb with thin or small sheet metal measure precise but leave the line when u cut the bend will return metal to precise zero
Ordered a nut sert kit for my shop from Amazon a couple weeks ago that has a range from 8/32 to 1/2". It's a tool I know I won't use that much but the times I've needed it and didn't have it were frustrating. Great tool to have. When I built my car and added a close out panel to the firewall where the ac box once was, I mounted my fuel pressure regulator to the panel by drilling 1/4" holes all the way through and mounting it with bolts. I needed help from my son to do this. With this tool I could have added nut serts to the panel and mounted the regulator myself. It would have been worth the cost of the tool for just that job alone.
I love the poster of Uncle Eddy emptying his shitter in the backround next to the whiteboard, your my spirit animal sir lol
@FINNEGAN : You should contact QA1 for a front suspension. I am sure they would love to have it shown to all of your and Roadkill's watchers!! That will get rid of the crossmember issues and torsion bars taking up real-estate.. Also, looks like the hood is coming down on the air cleaner..
The tranquil sounds of cascading rust down the inside of the hood was priceless. 😂😂
Also, I have MTOD specifically to watch Roadkill and Faster with Finnegan. I can't wait for that new episode of RK.
@Finnegan_GarageMike you already know that I'll be checking periodically. I've been watching y'all since the first Raunchero episode. My favorite episode was #23 with y'all building the General Mayhem with the RV 440 and the 727 out of the 24 Hours of Lemons car and then I think it was episode 32 when y'all took it to DirtFish. When MTOD became a thing I knew the price of subscription was worth it. It's been paying off ever since. Thank you for the years of entertainment in many different shows. I also really enjoyed the Corvette to the Bowling Green Corvette Museum episode. The gator head on the dash and the eagle's head on the toolbox was the crowning touch!
24:56 super easy method: sight the line between the two as close as possible. Draw a dot in the middle (hump, in this case). Sight the line between the two halves, draw a dot in those centers, rinse and repeat until you have a decent middle line. Close one eye or use a mirror to sight down the line. Both will work just as well.
DUDE. Are you really fixing to drive that beast 15 hours from GA. to MI.? Brutal. Man, that's Dedication right there. Hell yeah! 🤘👍💪💯
The wing, if I remember correctly...
had a reinforcement from fender to frame.
The "Daytona" looks so sick with the Pro convos in it.
I did the tin work on one of my prostreet cars with two pieces of angle iron in a vise. I love the Convo Pros. That car needs a roots blower.
All of Finnegan's friends are super cool. Friends with Finnegan!
Those inserts/blind nuts are great until they slip and spin, usually in the worst location to try and drill or cut out. The smaller mandrels are easy to break too 🤦🏽♂️
You'll need a big flat, slightly angled forward, scoop attached to the core support to get big air up into the radiator.
1969 Dodge Dayclona awesome build!
I was excited about the Dayclona when you bought it. Glad to see it run.
The guys that make the nut cert tool are in the next town over from me in Mass.
How convenient!
50:22, You know you would do it again, in a heartbeat!
been using the "nut-Certs" or Poly Rivets what ever you want to call them since the early 90's, 4 of them held a mag lock door magnet with 1200 lbs of holding force for 25 years
so you guys forgot about cup holder when you were building that trans tunnel! They would definitely come in handy on the road trip!
Nice work and I can see that charger on a shirt now with writing over it saying " Rust you can depend on!"
Funny how thay say this car is insainly rusted but as a canadian its one of the cleanest "rough" charger i seen in years
Finn, in case you didn't see my reply to my own comment (and since you were asking if anyone knew anything more)...looks like this was up for sale around October 2020 on Copart.
It was down in Orlando, Florida, which would explain the swampiness. Found a link to a Barn Finds discussion board where they were talking about it, but the actual listing has disappeared into the ether (they had several photos of it, but they appear to be about the same condition as you got it up here).
Sounds like he wanted big money at that time too for what it is and may have been representing it as real, based k the amount he turned down for it.
I saved the 5 pics (you should be able to find it if you do a Google search), but if you want them just to document it, let me know and I'd be happy to email them to you.
-Jeff
39:40 vacuum hose split down the side, washer hose split down the side. That works well as well.
I love the fact that you're concerned about the hood gaps!😂 Oh, what a pile!! Have a good one, Fin! Thanks for the episode, dude; I'm looking forward to the Roadkill episode! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦
Bend up a couple of scoops to funnel air from under the nose up into the radiator. Just a suggestion. Maybe some sound mat on the floor for the trip so you're not deaf when you get to RoadKill Nights 😂
Please get some Allen's sockets. Watching your boy use an old school Allen wrench when you have snap on tool boxes is killing me.. you can also pick those up at home depot. Otherwise much love and respect.
@ 21:44 ---> you could hammer a relief into the top-side for clearance... Sandbag and a ballpeen hammer.
Eternabond RV roof seal tape, good sticky stuff, “fix” them floors up!
Would be cool if you and Chris Birdsong could get together to fix the floors and boxes. No big rebuild like General Mayhem but enough to make it safe and fun.
You did an awesome job on that charger and also on the caddy beautiful 🤩. I could imagine how the 63 Vett is going to look 👀 hurry up. Awesome show and keep up the great work 👍👍👍🍺🤩🍺
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when l was a kid my uncle worked for Steakley Bro.s Chevy in TX. My cousin could drive any car on the used car lot except the corvettes. We always wanted to drive the mopars but they rarely took them in on trade. l remember my uncle saying they dont take dodge/chrysler/plymouths because they were prone to rust like no other cars when just a few years old. This was the 70s so they had a reputation then when these cars were newish.
Brake out the aluminum sheets and make an Air duct going from the nose to the Rad and make some headlight mounts and send it! LOL
We run a shop that specializes in floor pans and sheet metal for classic cars if you need help with that we can also salvage that quarter panel that’s barely hanging on.
Hey Mike. A better template for making the tunnel would be the crossmember piece of tunnel you cut out. And you can work on the bench with it
I learned that hole finding trick in the army. We couldn't get wheel sealing gaskets, so we made them out of a manila folder.
New quote if you cant make it perfect make it adjustable😂
Awesome work there the dash come out real nice in my opinion was good to see it in person for the first time last weekend
Rooftop Donkey is the Benjamin Button of Burros.