2,000 mile road trip in a 1970 Cadillac DeVille!
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- Join is as we cannonball this 1970 Cadillac Sedan DeVille from Tn to Ohio - over 600 miles in one day. There's lots of country side views and tunes in this one! We're needing to get to Norwalk, OH for the start of Hot Rod Power Tour.
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Dang it! It's tearing me up thinking of the memories you y'all are creating together, especially for those boys. Doing exactly what your doing is some of the best memories I have as a kid.
Thumbs up right back at yah boys 😆👍
Amen to that! When I was 8, we drove from CA to MN. Did it again when I was 11. Great trip. Great memories.
@kevin barker 😆 so true! I'm surprised my dad didn't throat punch us kids on long road trips!
My best memories where made in a couple different vehicles.
1963 Chevy Impala, (still have)
1975 International 4X4 reg cab short bed, (trying to track down)
1977 Chevy Bonanza 400sb 4x4
Exactly, I remember them well.
@@Rusty.1776 I never was throat punched on a road trip but I do remember getting a spanking on the side of the highway.
This is, by far, the best channel on TH-cam. It has everything a guy loves. Old cars, a great family, and awesome content that just might teach a guy something a time or two. Thanks for the awesome content!
And no bulls**t
I agree with this comment 100%
Best channel in ANY media I say....
@@ingares any new films out
Tied with hickok45 to me!
So much content in the past few days. Boggles the mind!
Bottles my mind as well
Makes a guy want a wobble pop or ten! 🍻
Bottles the mind yes. Time to grab a Cold snack
Derek is too good for us
Im trying to figure out what has happened
Your wife is so prepared every time she's the perfect wife with 3 kids and you she's awesome!!!
AH your boy wearing the Metallica t shirt 😎 just warms this old metal heads heart ✌
Hell yeah! This 42 year old metalhead spotted that too!🤘
This 52 year old metal head also noticed the t-shirt. Look at us old metal heads coming together to rock out. I went to Ozzy's ultimate sin tour In New Orleans I think in 1987. Metallica was the opening band. I also believe Randy Roads was still alive. I was tripping on blotter acid. It was an awesome show. I will never forget about it. It was the first time I had real tunnel vision on acid. Really cool and thank you for jarring the memory lose! I believe it was the kill'em All tour!!
*/w\METAL/w\*
@@hillbillyhicks8102 Hey yeah Bro I was at the Monsters of rock tour in 89 as well good times
Raising em right
As I was watching, I was remembering 20 years worth of road trips with my boys. Thank you for sharing one of yours with us. Gives old fellers like me a tear or two remembering those days.
Good stuff. There is a reason folks are tuning in more to private content like this vs the bizzaro nonsense we get force fed through mainstream media these days.
Well, I’ll Be Dipped! Vice Grip Garage is moving to the Free State of Tennessee! Welcome to the South Y’all! I enjoy both yer channels!
Road trip is great in a Cadillac because it'll be like driving a living room couch to your destination. (Two couches 3:34 😂)
This is my favorite American car channel. Vice Grip Garage Is basically the American version of the Aussie channel Iron Empire. ( I'm Aussie 🇦🇺)
Thank you Derek and family for taking us along for the ride.
Watching a family enjoy a road trip together just like the good old days. Sometimes you forget what things were like until something reminds you.
This was my life growing up. Big family, visiting relatives. Except we traveled in 40s and 50s buick’s, Living on the farm. one room house, well, outhouse, one light hanging from the ceiling. My first car at 15 had a blown engine. rebuilt it under the shade tree. I wouldn’t change my childhood with anyone.
Gotta have the fender skirts. Lol and some curb scratchers
I remember when we rode behind the backseat and star gazed
That is a classic land yacht, floats down the hiway i bet
Strangely enough, I remember these family trips with a bit more…tension.
This is a wholesome family trip. I've never seen myself wanting to start a family but this has definitely lit a fire in my heart. Thanks for the awesome content as always! 👍
I could tell you the downsides to put that fire out if u like.
Buy something. Quick. Before you can't.
Family is real wealth bro
Living the American dream, perfect! Driving across the country in a big block 60's or 70's American car cannot get any better!
VGG you are the absolute best car channel out there period, end of story. Remember when that Caddy was just sitting in the swamp. That triple white beauty has been given a 2nd lease on life thanks to you Derek. Hope you all have a ball 👍👍 on the tour. Looking forward to each and every episode.
Him pulling that caddy out was the first vgg video I watched... Been saying I don't know, I'll bee dipped and hooked on watching ever since!
True that !
One of my favorite episodes.
Ah, Derek, this video has brought back memories of my childhood and trips with my parents across two continents. One memorable trip with my dad had us stranded on the side of the road while he took the fuel make it hapener apart to clean the bowl of debris. Then I got to push the car 3 times while he popped the clutch. The 4 time I was done in but dad remembered to turn the key on, and it started.
I think your Dad just wanted to make sure you'd remember it years later.😊
@@habsom1406 it is indeed a fine memory of time with my dad. As I watch the video of Derek and Jessica with the boys it does my heart good just thinking of the memories they are making for the future
Welcome to Tennessee, I live over by Cookeville. When I retired from the Army I moved here. Thanks for the content!
Athens area here.
I’m having fun jumping backward and forward in time, watching stuff from years ago, then days ago, then years ago. 😂❤
Thank you for bringing us all along no fighting kids in back I'm impressed
I have 3 brothers and we never fought! LOL. Dad and Mom took us all over in a 62 rambler classic then we moved up to a 64 dodge dart wagon for more room as we got to be young teenagers. I know I'll never forget those trips. They have an edit button but we can imagine.....
For me, someone who doesn't know the difference between a crescent wrench and a crescent roll, the channel still entertains and even edumakates me some. Love the beautiful old Caddy and fam on the road. Stuff like this fills up my boring days stuck inside, sick and on oxygen and scared of this damn virus at 74 years old. If I'd known I was gonna get this old, I'da taken better care of myself!
Hoping and Praying for many more HEALTHY years in your future.
His videos really are a good way to pass time. Good personality and good family values are hard to find in a person these days. Take care.
Keep on keeping on Catherine and your only 74 years young not old
Reject fear Catherine, keep that sense of humor and stay positive. I wish you the best
@@garystearns784 Thanks fellers. If I could fix my peepers on ya I'd give ya a thankee nod and a thumbs up.
My Mom's 79, and she says she'll be here till God comes for her...so if she can make it, you can too.
This is my favorite channel. I look forward to each and every episode. Seeing you with your family really warms a guys heart.
just to see allmost everysingal transmission work for you in everysingal video no matter how old they are, is great to see that usa made is best!
By far the best and most wholesome channel on TH-cam. It is truly amazing to have stumbled across somebody like you Derek in this messed up, materialistic and social media driven world where people are so screwed up. Knowing we can tune in here and tune out all the world noise and have a really good time, plus learn something, from you is just awesome. You’re very talented and I wish you all the best. This guy is amazing… He’s on a 2000 mile road trip and still provides us with new content at the same time. I was worried we wouldn’t get a new video for a month!!!!
Thanks for the kind words
Well again, thank you for the content. Safe travels and I’ll be following along…
Waiting to see some more Ramblers
Well said, A R!
Thanks for sharing your adventures and your family with us Derek and Jessica. You guys are real entertainers. Much love from Australia guys!😉🇦🇺
One of your best episodes, and that’s saying a lot cause you’ve got one of the best channels on TH-cam!
Great family you and Jess have!
Love this stuff. Abandoned Cadillac to a family cruiser cruising roads again!!!
I’ve never felt such genuine affection for a TH-cam channel as I do this one. Great stuff!
Same... the friendliness
He said: "Send Me junk !"
😯😯😯🍗🍖🥩🍽️
Thank you for taking the Caddy, that made it a guarantee that I will watch every Vid on this trip.!!
Jessica is such a trooper! Your a lucky man Derek
Just thinking that. Not one complaint, just smiles. What a lady!
Me also thinks that, guy won the fricken lottery there. Well , way the better than the lottery. He has some well behaved good boys too. All around great American family !
Understatement. Keeper.
You guys do understand if you get a woman who actually loves you she will support your zany hobbies. I'm writing this as we drive with a trailer to pickup a 1993 honda eg to make a shitbox racecar.
He's luckier than me, because he can kiss my ass and I cant! 😂🤣 please don't get upset I love this dude, its just a joke! 🥰
Please don’t ever change the channel and it’s content. Such a great channel.
Love how your including the family in this trip. Your truly a roll model to them 3 boys…
Been watching your vids for a few. First time I've seen you and the whole family together. What a lovely family you have! Family roadtrip, that's the good stuff. Hope you all make some great memories together.
I can’t explain how pumped I am to see so many new videos! Thank you and your family for your hard work and keep em coming!!
Lovely family love to see vice grip garage and and a blessed family have a good days ahead aameen
_Derek: [Touches hot thing] "Oh, that's hot, whatever this thing is."_
_Jessica: "I told you not to burn yourself."_
_Derek: [Touches hot thing again] "Ouch, that's hot, whatever this thing is."_
I'm just smirking, I've done that far too many times, myself. Twice in one making-lunch-time a guy has touched the stove element immediately followed by the pan. I'll tell ya, I ain't a specimen of manliness and ability-to-fearlessly-grab-fire, it heckin' hurt me wee piano fingers
Ha ha ho yeah, I hear ya. A lifetime of playing with these stubbly fingers has a feller convinced that next time around I'll order up the extra long size ivory ticklers. And keeping them mostly un-blistered will be job one.
@@motomuso right
The good news is that with a move to Tennessee, Derek will not be paying any income tax to the state.
Always love a VGG adventure, thanks for bringing us along! I love when Derek hams it up a little for the camera. Some of his delivery and antics remind me, a bit, of a young Chevy Chase. Am I the only one that catches that? Can't be. Love seeing the whole family adventuring together!
"Wally World...Roy Wally World", in a Wagon Queen Family Truckster!
Thank god he didn't bring the dog & ole grandma huh.
Derek is actually funny though.
@@richardmorris7063 Yep; that would've been "Dinky" and "Aunt Edna"!
Who would have ever guessed this old girl would go on a family road trip again in it's life? Awesome!
So, how long, I wonder, will it take for the MN "O's" to take on a TN "twang?" The dialectic mix could get interesting.
A feller was wondering that himself...🤣
It's gonna be funny when he says fuel make it happener to a southerner..
But then again, some o these here southern boys have their own dialectic themselves..👌
Won't happen. Have a friend that moved from NoDak to SE KS. She's been here 8 years and fakes her Kansas accent to keep from awkward conversations with strangers lol
his is not that far off honestly. few things are different but if i never knew he was from mn id would have thought he was from neck of the woods.
@@SethRileyOkieFromNotMuskogee "Kansas accent" never heard anyone use those two words together before.
I have some friends from MN that moved here to IN 35 years ago. The MN "O's" never go away.
You moved away from the arctic north? Finally, congratulations! But aren't you afraid you'll miss those 6-foot snowdrifts in May?
Thank you so much for this high quality, educational entertainment! Your artistry always deserves the Big Screen real estate at my house
"sounds like a grain truck going up hill"...ha ha ha! Best looking Grain Truck I ever saw!!
Just a tip with plugged jet inside the carb. With the engine running and air cleaner off, place your hand on the choke flap , fully hit the throttle and quickly shut the choke flap then release the choke and let off the throttle. See how well that works after a time or two.
My girlfriend's weekend luggage would have taken up that whole trunk, so shout out to Jessica! 😂
Those Caddy trunks are huge. We used to sneak 5-6 people into the drive in movies in the trunk of my buddie’s Caddilac!😂😂
Thanks for Makin' a Guy get emotional bout Road Trip Memories with the Family, back in the Day, when Big Blocks were King & the Rainbow still meant God's Covenant with Noah!
Traveling Mercies to "Betty White & Crew"...
🙏🙏🙏
Sometimes a feller just needs to give her the old I-tallion tune up to get her all flushed out don't ya know. Love seeing the whole family on a road trip, brings back fond memory's of my own travels with my 2 younger brothers in the back of the station wagon while dad warns of pulling this thing over if we don't quit thumping on each other. The trucker honking game was one of our fave's too along with the red barn spotting game.
15:05 A shout out to all the cool truckers out there that amused me as a little kid, by honking their airhorns when I asked them to do so during family road trips. :-)
what an awesome family. man/wife that love and respect each other, kids that are behaved and will grow up to be decent, productive adults due to good parenting.
working hard, doing what you love, inspiring others.. what a great channel.
gives a fella hope for this great country yet.
Great video. The road trip reminds me of all the family trips I took in the 70’s and 80’s in the family truckster, a 74 kingswood wagon. Nothing better than highway cruising in a big body gm.
Same here with the travelling, only we did it in a '71 Chevy Impala. That in the windshield antenna just brings back all those great memories.
That's my childhood too, mom and 4 kids barreling down the hwy air going full tilt in our full size Buick. Miss those days
That in window antenna brings back childhood memories
Old cadillacs bottle my mind. They were designed to do 2000 mile road trips up and down mountains fully loaded 50 years ago. But they can sit in a mud bog for 20 years, and do 2000 miles no bogging, no problem. Old cadillacs are the best.
Loving all the content Brother. You have a awesome family. None of you will ever forget these times spent together.
Thanks for watching
So, Jessica is so awesome, that sometimes I can't believe it. The amazing part of your family is that you are relatable and appeal to people from the 1950's to the 2020's. Great work! Just enjoy the good stuff!
Uhhh, mostly to us from the 1950's. But that's OK!!
I had a good family unit too, but it was my mother who was the handy one. My dad could grill steaks and change out swimming pool filters. That was the extent of his handiness. Go figure.
My mom could change out an AC light switch expertly among other skills. I get my mechanical aptitude from her side. I get my crass and juvenile sense of humor from my dads side. LOL.
I'm plenty good with that.
Just missed y’all in Scott county. Nothing beats an good old family road trip
I like the way you cruise the whole way without getting in the passing lane! That's the way to enjoy a trip.
🤘
Awesome! We are happy to have y'all here in the great state Tennessee. Hope to see you around sometime. Safe travels and God bless!
Fantastic video, it’s truly refreshing to see three well groomed and well mannered young men! Well done Mom and Dad!
Love your channel this cadillac is awesome my grandfather had this car in a 2 door when I was a little kid same color such a beautiful car God Bless
Reminds me of when I was young and my parents would take my brother, sister and me on long road trips. They could not afford hotels or motels so we slept in church parking lots in the car and then in the morning wash up at the gas station and have a cooler for food. We got to see a lot of country that way. Great trips and great times. You never lose those memories. Thank God I had the best caring and loving parents you could ask for. Hats off to you and the family!!
Same for me only dad sprung for cheap motels.Did it pulling a camper too,that's a whole other adventure.
Absolutely loving the fact you have been releasing so much content lately!
Watching the family leaving with the 3 boys in the back of the old Caddy, kinda makes an old feller teary-eyed, as that was me in the back with my two brothers, taking rides in my dad's Aqua/blue 1970 Cadillac Sedan De Ville back in, hmm...1970.
This family and channel are singlehandedly restoring my Canadian faith in America.
It’s been a long time coming.
wish you all the good luck on the road trip with this beautiful project! Love to see this Cadillac having second life! Thnk you for entertaining Vice Grip Garage! Greetings from Latvia! Marko
Loving all the VGG content coming out this week, all of New Zealand is in L4 lockdown right now so not much to do so TH-cam and VGG are my go to, great work Derek and great to see Jess and the kidlets are well brother, stay safe 👌👌👌
Why are you guys in lockdown? Isn’t the 2 weeks over yet?? Ridiculous what is going on.
God bless New Zealand! We are praying for you all!
@@jackd2083 got extended until this Friday, guaranteed to be extended again 🤦🏻♂️ a guy just want's to go to work
@@trevorwilliamgrindrod3999
Throw the politicians out on their asses and live your lives.
I hit the like button before the video even started. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Loving the soundtrack,
#metoo
Definitely the best channel on TH-cam I’m hoping to catch you guys in Illinois and get you to sign my glove box for my 1970 Cadillac Fleetwood
Fantastic road trip. Also, as I work roads, I dig seeing the superelevations in the FFW'd parts... Tennessee has some nice I-States, I opine.
Roadtrip with the familie🥲the best times and the best memories.
Love this! Just like road tripping in my 69 Fleetwood Brougham. Literally just floats down the road. Also, I absolutely believe that gas mileage. I think the last time I took my Caddy from Pittsburgh to Detroit for the Woodward Dream Cruise, she got right around 18mpg. You couldn’t have picked a better rig to cruise in, especially with the family which is just perfect.
I can’t believe a guy went and moved outta Minnesota! Well actually I can! Hope you keep up the great channel tho! Good luck on the new venture
It's sad to see you leave the ND / MN area :(. You were a great representation of the type of wholesome people we have out here!
Wonder why the move? warmer?
@@MicroSoftner gettin sick of all the rusty cars maybe? Haha
@@MicroSoftnerOn one of his shows he mentioned the cold Minnesota winters, which probably made 5 months of the year finding, and working on cars outside more of a hardship.
Couldn't be because of politics in MN.
Also Tennessee has no income taxes
Hoot another American road trip... road side rebuilds, great vistas with the missus and young mechanics in an icon of American iron luxury...a pillar less Cadillac.
Nothing more precious in a man's life than time with the family building memories.
Hey did a fella see you pass a corvette with hood popped for cooling 😁 that caddy is cadillacing.
Thanks for taking all of us in TH-cam world along for the ride Team Bieri 👍 your living the dream
Thanks for the great content Derek, you didn't have to share this family trip with us but you did. I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we are forever grateful for your excellent work and making us a little happier in this world. Again, thank you! 🙏
The time lapse out the windshield with the antenna wires in it instantly brought me back to my first car. 1974 Impala 4 door hardtop. Very similar to Betty. Hit a deer with it in 1999 and wrote it off. Wish I still had it. Miss it everyday. Love the channel and the build. Long live the B bodies!
Ahhh yes, got the peepers looking forward past the good old radio antenna that's built right into the windshield.
I had forgotten about those until this video!
They ran those up to the 80s. My Dad's 83 Caprice had it.
This Video makes me miss my 73 Cadillac fleetwood. Named it Memphis. Even had fold down foot rests for the back seat. Gotta love a 472 Big block.
The transmission in that '70 Cadillac must be in pretty decent shape, along with a well-tuned engine in good condition. I'm not surprised that it had been getting over 14 MPG. It's probably running as efficiently as it did back in the early-70's.
TH400s just go and go......the old school stuff just handled neglect and age better.
@@hoost3056, they often had a slight slip from 1st to 2nd, but would run fine like that forever if you didn’t beat them.
New radial tires also contribute to better fuel economy, as radials have less rolling resistance than bias-ply tires. The hole in the muffler results in less back pressure, helping to lower fuel consumption. When the muffler falls off the MPG will improve even further..
@@brianevans656 Muffler delete = weight reduction!
I can't imagine how that's possible! I could believe 10....but 14?
man, I remember family trips like this - back when I was a kid in the 80's.
windows open, stops few - the road open . quite an experience.
I can just imagine how nice the ride is on that Caddy on a highway road trip. The comfort is worth the lesser mileage.🥳🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing your family adventure with us.
Derek, your editing's great stuff. I was in tv production/engineering for a long time.... this is top notch work.
Wow, thank you
I was just thinking the same thing. "This is better than most TV shows"
❤️
Total respect to the marriage you two have. Driving all day and editing a video at night is in itself a very tall task but keeping everyone full of snacks and food is another. Excited to see how your family trip goes. Thank you for taking us along with you.
Thanks Jason
Indeed! Your wife is awesome and those boys are so well behaved!! Awesome family!!
Been hearing the talk of a move mentioned several times but haven’t heard located a video discussing why. Is there family in Tennessee?
Loving the family road trip content! 🙂
Welcome to Tennessee. First Scotty K and now you. Tennessee is becoming the TH-cam car guy capitol of the universe.
Welcome to the South Derek. You're going to love it. Lot's of friendly folks and humidity.
Much love from Western KY.
He’s gonna hate the humidity. It’s terrible here in eastern KY
I've wanted to see more test driving of these old cars after you fixed on em. The power tour is a perfect opportunity for it. Glad to see the lone wolf bringing the family along on an adventure. I hope its mostly smooth sailing.
She's beautiful man. I'm so glad you kept the big gal original. I've seen so many old cadillac's go to the crusher over the last few months, and many people buy a prestine car just to gut and rat out.. It takes alot of work to bring them back this way. My '69 is coming out of storage, and I couldn't be happier.
Betty White is definitely my favorite family transportation device on VGG
Gotta say. The lane discipline 👌
I remember those cross country road trips with my two brothers in the back seat. A couple times my dad would pull over when we'd start fighting and get us out of the car and line us up and slap us down like the three stooges in front of God and everybody on the interstate. Then snivlin back into the car for more family fun.
Good for your dad! mine would take his belt off!
You moved to Tennessee! That is freaking awesome! There is so much to do here, so many cool people, it's so car friendly and best of all, zero rust.
Close enough now that I could actually buy or sell a car from/to him someday without having to take a 6 day roadtrip!
Moved to TN!! Ill have to come say hi when im back up there visiting the family.
You and Scotty Kilmer should meet up sometime being that you both live in Tennessee...you'll could have a blast talking cars!
@@larrysutton925 Scotty Kilmer is in Houston
@@dougdier3104 I believe he moved to Tennessee a few months ago...he talked about it in some of his videos
I love seeing y'all as together as a family and having a great time with the trip. I hope that I can do that soon with my family because I haven't seen them in over 2 years due to covid and that I'm in a different country and is very expensive for them to come over. I love this channel.
Hope you get to see your fam soon
Thank you.
The view out the windshield near the beginning brought back memories of sort-of functional 'in the windshield' radio antennas.
Hell yes, wondered how many others knew about those anymore. My mom’s 74 Volvo wagon had that feeding it’s AM radio.
Damn Derek!! You're uploading more than a guy can watch lol. Have a fantastic trip my friend. Love that car and if you sell it on evil bay it's going to be a bidding frenzy
I took my driver's test in a 1969 Fleetwood . In 1972!
The laid back self deprecating humor got me to subscribe to this channel . Also no bull crap Hollywood antics like other rusty car channels .
I remember taking epic trips like this one with the parents and one younger brother in a loaded 1968 Pontiac Bonneville station wagon, with the rear facing third row bench seat. Getting truckers to honk their horns was fun!
Welcome to Tennessee. You and your family will love it here
Love your vids. You've really got it all man. Beautiful wife, beautiful children. You're doing what you want. Keep living the dream, it's great to watch.
Appreciate you taking us along in your life Derek. Always a good time.
Keep on cruising that caddy! Have fun!
I've learned by listening to Derek that, Words are fun!
Especially the bleep boops bops!!!
Love your videos. The Caddie is cool, and I smile and shake my head at the same time when I see the rust in the front guards (we call fenders mud guards, guards for short). We would get defected and shut down in Australia for that. Except in South Australia where they don't do annual registration (rego) checks. Apparently they've thought about it but decided it would take about 73.5% of private cars off the road. Anyway, enjoy your freedom. We are currently locked down tight. We can't even visit our new grandson only an hour away.
Got to make a fella proud to have the beautiful wife an good kid's like you do!!!!! Keep doing you Derek an god bless 💯💚🙏🙏🙏🙏