Fabricating the front fender of a 1991 NASCAR Race Car (4K) | Petty's Garage
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Follow along as Brian fabricates a new front fender for this customers car.
Intro song by user Dreamkid83 on Instagram
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Unapproved fender. Nascar wants all your points, suspension of driver/ crew chief, lots of money,and your first born child.
@fryguy42005
Жыл бұрын
In 1991 they didn't care about rules 😅
@dalehilborn691
Жыл бұрын
They had like 3 or 4 templates then lol
@TheMrtgamer
Жыл бұрын
In 1991, this would've been an approved fender... Today, not so much
@lesmawson7298
Жыл бұрын
It takes the crew so long to make that fender and then it takes Richard less than a race to wreck it, with help of course
This feels like real life Days of Thunder rebuilding the car from scratch
@TheMrtgamer
Жыл бұрын
This was how cars were built back then too... It's a shame that skilled work like this has gone away in the sport
@MiColorPodcast
Жыл бұрын
I came to write the same comment... I feel like Robert Duval speaking to the car and everything he will to do it
@craigplunkett5426
Жыл бұрын
Lol same bloody thing went thru my mind to
This is a lost art. I can keep watching this over and over again and not get bored. It's like a study guide on how to build a car. You need to understand how much time it take to plan, measure and fabricate. This takes me back when i was helping out a bud who was racing super stocks. Cutting sections of stock body monte carlos making them thinner, pop riviting panel sections together. It was long hours but the final product always looked nice. Great video and great job! Thanks for posting this up!
@carrsllccarrillo6507
Жыл бұрын
...and I'm not gonna lie, I'm loving that intro music in the beginning of this video and yes I have watched this at least 4 times. Shared it with others and yeah I miss this kind of old school racing approach.
He even took the time to bevel the holes so the rivets would sit flush.... man VERY good attention to detail! Loved this whole series.
@Piecenotwar
Жыл бұрын
In ww2 I think the British did the same when upgrading the Spitfires, countersink the holes so the head of the rivets were flush and squeezed another x amount of mph top speed.
@midway27272727
Жыл бұрын
@@Piecenotwar They did, we did too...more streamline, less drag.
Really enjoy how these videos are shot. Just showing us how it’s done.
@MisterMonsieur
Жыл бұрын
[Dubstep Blaring] _"YOOOOOOOO, guys! Today we're rebuilding the fender on some old guys car and making it fire again!"_ 🤪
'Most have no idea of just how much time even what they might think is a simple job but yet, takes hours and hours to do it right; just like we saw here. I sat down and watched the whole 33+ minutes and enjoyed every minute! And the small talk conversations. Wonderful!
This brings back so many memories not building these cars in the late 80-90s. This was how it was done, and the really good body men were worth gold to the teams
Days of thunder-ish intro. Love seeing the old way of hanging body components!
Love the 90s era body’s especially for local street / super stock classes heck even late-models. This yr has just the perfect amount of roll imo
wonderful really this car is beautyiful and fabulous. For all car enthusiasts, the work that this guy is doing is awesome. 15:22 I never paid attention to those indentations/recess on the bottom of the door, wow. 27:25 for me it's of the art clearly !
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen in my life!!! Thank you!!!
I wish someone would make a channel with just NASCAR bodies being hung and finished all day long! I couldn’t take my eyes off every change he slowly made working a flat piece of metal into a race car! I was lucky enough to be trained as best as the man could train me on the break and wheel! But we are a dieing breed!! Keep up the good content! We want more! We want more! I’m right down hwy 220 a few miles from Rockingham speedway! Y’all come on down they have repaved the track and are bringing more and more venues in
@Hunter-zr6rz
Жыл бұрын
Gotta agree on this. A few months before this was posted I was looking everywhere for this information, and it's worth its weight in gold apparently, there's none of this information available. It's definitely a dying breed! I've been gathering plans to build one, and finding old parts and chassis is getting slim. Someone needs to make some new banjo and laughlin chassis lol. I'm off 220 in Roanoke and am gonna have to make a trip to see some of these cars along with Bill Rhines collection and shop
Bro it felt like an 80’s movie!! The music and great editing!! I was wanting for Stallone to walk out!!
Makes you appreciate those cars so much more. A field of 43 had thousands of hours into them.
No BS talking about subscribing to the channels paid section, no shit talking bout give away cars and stuff. Just a Classic phantastic clip of good old Garage life. Thank you guys so much 🤩🤩🤩👍
Awesome video, shows the talent and craftsmanship that made nascar great...and then!
Man watching a master fabroicator is like watching a magician. I can't imagine having this talent. Bravo Zulu
Awesome craftsmanship, these guys could make anything..
The old guy bodyman in me automatically closed my eyes for each mig tack. Then I reminded myself you can't get flash burn on you tube, lol
This video made my day, just kickin it old school !👍👌 the craftsmanship and metal fab is just so nice to see again !
@MisterMonsieur
Жыл бұрын
Today's generation wants to "3D print" and CNC everything. Take away their toys and what are they good for? _Nothing!_
So cool to watch. It's one thing when I'm in my own garage doing this but y'all are doing the Lord's work.
I feel for the fabricators who just ended up watching the car get balled up in a race. It's a form of art in it's own medium.
That is the most badass thing I've ever seen.
Man you know how to make a good looking fender! That totally changed the look. Great job!
The music to this is legendary.
That dude has talent. Respect
This type of work is amazing to me So good at their craft
Skilled craftsman in a clean, well lit, organized shop producing great results.
Man I miss doing this with my grandfather when I was a teenager in the early 90s building Late Models.
Beginning @20:30 for a few seconds, while he's working with the hood up, there's a short stubby looking bit of front roll bar bracing, angling down out of the firewall, low, just to the right of the steering shaft. That bar looks like it had a MAJOR impact. Looks like it's bent half in two. Maybe from the Sonoma crash ? Awesome vid.
Days of Thunder vibes!!!
Days of Thunder vibes. LOVE IT
Hard STOP! Liked and subscribed after watching the first five seconds.
Craftsmanship…Great work sir💪
Great tradesman, great team
People are unanimous in the comments that NASCAR was better before. my god the look of this bolide was magnifique reallt the pontiac grand prix wa very un obus and was a design so cool very very! "I feel like I'm seeing Harry Haug building the car of Cale Trickle. the work of quality just a great great respect congratulations guy
Great as always 😊
Man this reminds me of my days being a structural fabricator on F-15E's. I'll always miss my job even though it was demanding I'd love to do this again. Amazing what can be made out of a piece of sheet metal.
Amazing how much work goes into fabricating this fender!
I just wish he had a pad to kneel on. My knees are hurting just watching. Really glad I found this channel.
Fantastic video. Give us more!
I’d like to see how to build car like this man, like days of thunder. This video is perfect, you’re showing how to build one. Thank you.
oh man that blue charger all the way in the back is gorgeous 15:50
So cool man I miss these cars
Can we get a build of an entire body start to finish from scratch? This is amazing to watch.
This shit is amazing. Please continue to make more content. You’re an artist.
You mean to tell me all the years I’ve been running hand shears, I’ve been doing it upside down? Awesome video!
MAGINIFICO
That's a true racecar!
Great video.
Great job. I miss working with metal and on car
Great video. I really enjoyed hanging bodies. I learned from being around it, and from some talented racers. A lot of satisfaction in seeing it finished. Last one I did, I sold he car and the guy flipped it....
NO GLOVES?? What a beast of a man! :)
AWESOME.... THATS TALENT..
Finally. I've been wanting to see how they "Hang" a body on a Nascar for years.
Oh yeah…more of these, please
1:20 You think guys working on '90s era cup cars would be listening to Skynyrd but no they got Alanis Morissette on LMAO
Just started this video and getting those vibes too, which is awesome. But if he breaks out the long body fitment test piece, I might shed a tear.
Good afternoon Brian, that fender has a fantastic bulge fit and roll. Really looks very aerodynamic. Makes that car look aggressive setting still. Thanks for the great video.
Can't do that anymore. But they should have a throwback race series where you can . Lost art right there
Nice job
My dream job. I wanted to get a job on a NASCAR team to do just that when I was young. Back in the early 90's. Wonderful Video. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
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I miss the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's of NASCAR.
Looks like Harry when he's not eating ice cream
Is it weird being a painter in the automotive field watching this video I can smell the metal as he's cutting with the 90 degree cut off tool or I can smell the weld's in my head it's so fascinating for me to watch
this is the car that Keiichi Tsuchiya raced at Suzuka!
@PettysGarage how did you guys sorce the front bumper cover?
It's sad they don't race these cars anymore. Gen 4 should of never gone away.
Damn that is cool.
This must've been some really high end camera equipment for back then. The quality is better than most current KZread documentaries. Edit: lol I'm an idiot!!!!! I saw the dudes apple watch and realized it's a current video of an old car. Ugh.
I have the same rims on my el Camino paid 1 grand for them and the Mickey Thompson’s. Didn’t know they were used in nascar.
Imagine working for Stewart-Haas, & having to do this to Danica Patrick’s car after every race….
@michael.dennis
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
Tag this as Unintentional ASMR. This was relaxing!
Great vid!!!👍👍43
Ah the ole bent fender brace. We got caught on Casey Atwood’s Castrol Chevy in 1999 with them. We’d bend them forward on the left front so when we’d make our first pit stop the front tire changer would grab them and bend them straight to pull the left front out. Not on speedways though of course. Fun times.
@Pettys-garage
Жыл бұрын
Brian said, "We did the same thing! We bent them on this project to clear the oil cooler though."
That was the good old days. No stamped out parts. You took a flat piece of sheet metal and shaped it to fit. Hours of work and skill involved.
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Question for Richard petty do you still stay in touch with Marcos Ambrose? Because I beat if you brought him back on your team since your team has gotten better i think he might get some more points and maybe a second win in the cups series because there is now more road courses and the gen 7 is good for the road course and can take a beating for his crazy driving style!
Your REALY lucky would love to vork in the shop
I would love some of the pieces cut off for wall Art
Question: this looks like an actual old race car, and the fender looked undamaged, so why the new fatter fender? I mean, I truly enjoyed watching the process, true craftsmanship, I'm just curious what's actually going on with it.
based broom operator
Today I learned Richard Petty has a youtube channel
This car and subsequent videos shows how much skill and work used to go into these cars back when teams built cars from the ground up... It's too bad NASCAR got away from this because teams wanted to save some $$$
Couldn"t find what track that was in the intro.
Commenting for algorithm.
The way it's suppose to be, we owned a 95 Grand Prix for a million miles, til my youngest daughter wrecked it, just had to do normal maintenance, a great car, GM sure knows how to build em.
@user-Dr.
Жыл бұрын
@nosoyallowed828 The 90's is when the best cars were produced, Grand Prix was a GM corporate car, Pontiacs were among the best cars in the world, when we lost that car I bought a 96 Olds Cutlass Supreme, pretty much the same car with a different body, this car will be about broke in this summer when it rolls 500 thousand, maybe you weren't around yet when these cars were built, possibly why you don't know, I bought a 93 Camaro new just for road racing, been racing it for 30 years now, 250 thousand miles of pure road racing, the car looks and drives better now than when it was new.
He's so good his name should be Geralt.
When I was a child this is exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I had a plan to sell everything and fly to North Carolina. I was going to go shop to race shop until someone hired me. Life had a different plan... yeah I knocked up my girlfriend. Oh well I'm still a sheetmetal worker but it's not this cool.
@themetalfusionologist
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t regret it too much man. There were LOOOOOOOTS of 12,16, 20 hour days. Money was good, but not great. It could best be described as an orchestrated catastrophe at all times
My Dream kid . Build a 90's nascar
I didn't know anyone still used the small death wheels on a die grinder.
What do you call those flush rivets that you were using 30 minutes in? I'm fimilar with the clecos, but that was pretty neat :-)
@Pettys-garage
Жыл бұрын
They are countersink rivets. They are beveled on the bottom and flat on top
Wow, that Grand Prix nose kind of had a splitter before they were a thing.
badass . thanks for sharing this
Is there a part 4 of the seams getting filled and the car repainted??
@Pettys-garage
Жыл бұрын
Next week! Just the other fender though. Part 5 will be seams filled and other paint and body work.
im a mechanic... love this kind of videos the only thing i dont get it iw how can someone work without music kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
This is a race car. Not the bullshit they race today.
Easy peasy, right? I have a question I've always wondered about. When someone came into the pits with fender damage, were you limited in the types of tools that could cross the wall? I always wondered why they never used a rim you could mount that could help you reshape the fender. So the rim could be the shape of the tire with just an inch larger diameter. That way you could have jacked up the car, put this rim on, dropped the car hard on it, and only need a few hammer blows to get the right shape before putting a new wheel/tire on.
@Pettys-garage
Жыл бұрын
They used to use aluminum bats to roll the fenders out during the race! No joke
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