Who's here after the last Late Brake Show episode? 😉🙋

@gabriellundmark

Ай бұрын

Everyone

@waynekerr5645

Ай бұрын

Yep!

@davecoussens9801

Ай бұрын

Hello 🙂

@Robferist

Ай бұрын

hahaha was just about to comment the same!

@eddiek821

Ай бұрын

👌

For a car that's sat outside for the best part of twenty years and has a targa top, the interior has already come up fantastically well.

Came over from The Late Brake show, really good to see how one of Johny's barn finds goes. Don't know anything about these American cars but great work on that interior

It's amazing how the design of this gen Corvette has aged so well. Cool looking car.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

We really love the interior, its genuinely a nice interior and looking at it through a classic car eyes its well put together for the time!

Good job with the interior 👏👏 it seems like new and in a incredibly good condition after 18 years out there.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks Marcos!! We think we’re lucky with the interior and agree it’s held up really well!

You guys have a captive market right now. You'd be mad to wait 6 days before releasing this vid - assuming its finished

@cheeselouise

Ай бұрын

Once a week is fine chill out

@LFCsince93

Ай бұрын

@@cheeselouisesome are inpatient and want everything now lol

@ant2312

Ай бұрын

@@LFCsince93 well some are ungrateful and demanding, it is free content after all, you could always pay to be a Patreon member if they started that

That's an impressive transformation! Amazing what a bit of elbow grease can do.

@Auto_Funk

2 күн бұрын

Thankyou :)!! Makes it a bit nicer to be around.

Definitely, you need to get it uploaded mid week at the latest 👍👍

Excited to follow your progress... great job rescuing this King of the Hill.

I'm not massively surprised that so much stuff worked - it's from the golden age of pre-can car electronics, where most things are properly sorted, simple switches and relays. 😊

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

I think 90s cars are peak cars too!

It is so satisfying to bring back a minging car to a more sanitary condition. Good luck with the remaining recommissioning.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more, just a first clean to reduce the number of spores down a fraction!

@youxkio

Ай бұрын

@@Auto_Funk Will you drive it to Shetland and show it to the previous owner after all? I can hardly wait to see him cry with joy.

Nice seeing a couple blokes from across the pond taking the time to save an old American classic from my teens!!!

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Definitely something different in the UK … Ordinary C4’s are scarce enough here never mind ZR-1’s!

Because of Jonny I noticed You both with Your ZR1. I will follow You on this journey.

The Late Brake Show brought me here, and I'm staying for the ride! Nice job on the cleaning, looking good already :)

Go guys!! Greetings from South Africa!! 😂You asked for it😂😂😂!! ❤❤❤

@deanrowles3665

Ай бұрын

get the grillers on the bri and pull up a chair under the lapa

The dirt protected the interior.. 😮😮😮

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

It might well have done to be fair! Protected it from the UV!

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

We reckon it was a combination of the dirt and that solar windshield, what do you think??

A good clean is always a good morale booster for a new project

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Part the reason why we did it, see whats what and make it nicer to work on. Tbh you don't want debris falling in everywhere!

I agreed. KZread watches get bored easy. You need to churn the uploads out whilst the iron is hot. Once you have built up a fan base, then you can settle down in to a routine

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Agreed!! We’re going to try and out lots of content out ASAP for you all 👌👍🏻👍🏻

@cheeselouise

Ай бұрын

Na, take your time and don't burn yourself out. Quality over quantity. Work on the thumbnails too. Need to build a wider audience, the subs you have aren't going anywhere. We know why we joined.

@ant2312

Ай бұрын

Proper car enthusiasts don't get bored easily

@ZafiraSteve

Ай бұрын

@@ant2312 they do, hence why we own loads of cars and change them often and modify/ work on them

Looks amazing

My 1992 Corvette was the most reliable car I have owned.

@julianowens4071

Ай бұрын

What a car,great video looking forward to the next one

Great work guys can't wait to watch the progress.

Just watching your video back and that interior has cleaned up very well and glad you taking your time to work in this

Top job Boys, keep them coming. What a Iconic car. Amazing👊

Doing a great job cleaning that interior guys, night and day!

Loving the car, loving the backing music.

I’m insanely jealous of this. I’m a 42 year old American and this is my dream car. Look up WEST Corvette Japan. Their C4 ZR-1s are absolutely legendary.

This will be a great project! Keep it coming lads.

Great work guys on the interior! Relays are always a beast!.Anyways will be awaiting next video!!

Look forward to following the progress of this boys!

Looking forward to the next episode.Fingers crossed you get the car started👍

Nice start guys

Agree, work with what you've got there!!

Looking forward to seeing you guys getting it running and driving.

Looking forward to the progress!

Thanks guys. Quite refreshing to watch two normal guys bring a car back to life. Looking forward to the next episode.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks Peter! Our videos will get better as we learn and grow too :) glad you are enjoying it so far!

Looking good fellas! Cant wait to see you get it going.

Came here via the Late Brake show (which I''d never seen before last night!). Love what you're doing on this, always had a soft spot for old American stuff. Fascinated to see this restoration progress....

@deanrowles3665

Ай бұрын

gotta have a staple injection of jonny smith and the late brake show regularly

Nice job guys, The ZR1 is cleaning up a treat 🙂

Also enjoying the Funk part of AutoFunk, well done, nice differentiator

Great job guys, Cheers from Canada!!!

It's always satisfying to see a mucky interior clean up well. Great news on so many electronics still showing signs of life.

New subscriber here! Great project car and great likeable presenters! Can’t wait for the next episode

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks Craig!! We really appreciate you coming aboard! 👌😃

great video guys looking forward to hearing it running

Really satisfying to see this car clean up 👍 love your video's so far, keep it up 💪🏼

Enjoyed that guy's looking forward to watching you bring this beautiful Corvette C4 ZR-1 back to it's best thanks for the video 👍

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks Cosmos! We really appreciate the positivity and support 🙌🙌

Wow that interior has come up really well.x

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks! It’s not bad at all given how long it has been sat!

Awesome guys you must be stoked!

The King is feeling the love!!

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

:D :D :D absolutely!!

A great start, a long way to go...😊👍

Great viewing appreciate the 'funky' music roll on part3

Looking forward guys to seeing the transformation 👍🏽😎 Great job already !

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Coming soon!😻😻🫡

Wow, impressive! Almost all of the electronics work! Amazing car, well done.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Really surprised myself!! Unbelievable actually! And they reckon American cars are rubbish! Pah!

Looking good after that spring clean! Good work chaps. 👍🍻

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks Keith! It is a massive improvement so far…!

Wow amazing guys looks like a diffrent corvette love it what Transformation guys 👍🏽👍🏽

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Jeff! We appreciate the support!! 🙏

Achieved a shed load. Great clean up.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Its a start and makes it much less grim to work with!

Yes I am and will continue to watch the development of this car ❤

Great vid guys, looking forward to seeing how you get on the refurb

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks! We will have some more updates early next week when I’m back in the UK 😃

Good work guys 💪

@Auto_Funk

29 күн бұрын

Thank you 🙌

Keep the videos comming will be a beast once finished

Greetings from the United States. I love the work you are doing on this Corvette as I remember them when they were new. I worked at a Chevrolet dealership at the time. I see it has the heated outside mirror option, the coating on the front windshield/windscreen suggests to me the car is optioned with the heated windshield/windscreen. This was a somewhat popular option in the northern states on certain Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, Pontiac and Oldsmobile models. The option codes for the car can be decoded for the option code or group that will confirm this. Great to see this car being repaired back to roadworthy condition. Keep up the great work!👍

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Interesting with the heated screen! One of the beauty of american cars imo is they are built to work in Death Valley or Minnesota!

Love it everything has a price 👌👌

Arrived here from TLBS just as many others have. Looking forward to following the build. I listed after Corvettes, the ZR1 in particular, when I lived in the states. The seats look so comfortable and ready for a large American arse to rest upon them for a cross country trip from New York to Los Angeles.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

They're surprisingly hugging and very plush!

Well done fellas

Liking this car already. Jonny sent me and he was right. This will be interesting.

It’s looking really well preserved, I know it’s not anywhere near clean enough yet, but it’s great start 👍🏻, looking forward to hearing this roar 😊

New subscriber here. Loving your work lads. Not a massive yank tank fan, but this is no ordinary car eh. And I do love a good project with good presenters. I’m gonna stray from the standard comments about the origin of my following, and give you huge props on the beats on your videos. Really nice. I’ll be watching and bobbing my head along from here in. Good luck with the vet. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

What a legend, thanks for the support!! It’s certainly not a typical yank tank which is part of its charm for me as well! Glad you like the tunes on the vids ! ☺️☺️

Great work

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

This going to be an interesting ride. That car looks so good because we live in a work of identicars

Can’t wait to see you guys get this car back to its former glory. The C4 was a proper poster car for me growing up, love them.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks Tim! 🙌

Great job on the interior and really interesting to follow a Late Brake Show barn find. Looking forward to seeing how you guys get on. Really impressed with how much still works after 18 years.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Same! We fully expected hardly anything to function.

Well lads. That went remarkably well hey? A quality motor evidently. Looking forward to the next bit.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Ah man we are stoked!! Can’t wait to get cracking!! Thanks for watching!

Cracking second part guys. Yes a lot of cleaning and effort to get the interior looking a hell of a lot better then what it was first like. Like you said it's still not properly cleaned yet but Roman wasn't built in a day. Plus I dear say you were getting sick of spraying and rubbing all that dirt off. Looking forward to your next stage in the restoration of the car.

Good job to kick things off.

It seems like this car was built well. The electronics have mostly stood the test of time, and cleaning is working wonders.

Great couple vids. I’ll stick around. I have a 93 C4 that needed a lot of love, and that is the fun !! Subscribed

Great project to get involed in, and what a great start you have made. Looking forward to hearing that engine start up. Love the fact that it has Lotus links too

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Being brits we love the lotus connection as well!! 🤓

Those seats are so bloody comfortable looking, they remind me of the sierra cosworth leather Recaros as they have that really soft looking leather, now take out those seats and clean the car properly.😊

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

They're 100% coming out for a proper clean!

@Shane-zx4ps

Ай бұрын

@@Auto_Funk. Good lad, I’ll be keeping my OCD eye on you guys to makes sure 👌 😳

Great episode. Cleaning the yellow leather in my Z4 has been one of the most challenging jobs so far on its restoration. Great work.

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Never easy is it!! I’d recommend furniture clinic personally 👍🏻👍🏻

What a lovely car!

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks! We’re hoping it’s going to be beautiful when it’s completed 😃😃🙌

@schpiedie

Ай бұрын

@@Auto_Funk No doubt it will be! Looking forward to see further episodes!

Multi-time Corvette owner here and ya'll are off to an excellent start! What a find in that ZR1.

Here from LBS but I'm staying because I want to see you get this car back on the road again. But I see you have done another one so I will be watching those videos as well. Keep up the great work.

Watching from france , looking forward to following your progress 👍

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Merci pour le subscription! 🙏☺️

It will be stunning when done. I have a 90 in the same colour combo that I am working on. A million electrical faults on mine or so it feels. Good luck with the resurrection. Rock Auto is a good place to look for spares or any of the guys on the Zr-1 net registry.

It's an American built car of course everything is going to work!

A steamer is great and all but it cannot break down certain types of deposits the way a general purpose cleaning agent can. Also it tends to blow dirt around while losening it.I would recommend getting a wet-vacuum aswell. It is imperative to kill off the funghi and get rid of the spores. The spores are what is dangerous inhaling. Great project and looking forward following it :)

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more, we are planning on a deep clean in the near future! This is just a first stage clean to make it a bit more pleasant to be around. It 100% needs a lot more.

@chestrockwell8328

Ай бұрын

@@Auto_Funk Great to see this is in the plan. I too came to comment about the need for the entire interior must be removed, carpet, seats, panels, and dash. Get into the HVAC piping and consider it a win the blower fan did not operate and blow who knows what in your face. There will be rodent nests and droppings as well as mold spores throughout every fiber of your ZR1. Do the car justice and go the extra mile with a fully proper decontamination. One last thing, use care when trying the steamer which can loosen the upholstery adhesives and ruin things like head liners and door trim panels (cards)

the ZR-1 is one tough bastard ,you will get it running in no time👍

G101 diluted cleaner is your friend!

Last year I was looking at a ZR1 engine in France, very beautiful engine, unfortunately I have no use for it so I passed. I find it amazing to find this stuff in Europe, I don't know how many were imported but it can't be too many.

Thanks, Jonny for introducing me to Auto Funk, I just Subscribed good luck with the engine guys.

Really interesting project on a very interesting car that deserves to be put right

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I reckon so too - I can’t wait to see this car finished and looking beautiful again (not to mention bringing all those lost ponies back into the stable 🐎 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎)

Amazing work on the interior. You must be buzzing on how it came out

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Over the moon! Other than cleaning we're hopeful there isn't a lot to do in there and we can focus on the oily bits!

Another Late Brake Show visitor! I'd say starter solenoid, cables and contacts in that whole circuit, and potentially starter motor itself will be the issue. Voltage on the dash looks pretty low, and the dimming when turning the key suggests it's trying to fire the solenoid. Having recently had issues with an American V8 to resolve though, I'd suggest taking all the wires off the starter circuitry, clean the terminals etc and charge the battery completely, ideally even leave a booster on in case it's weak. These things have some compression and I believe have the big block starter, which is a fairly savage combination. Love the car though, enjoying your videos so far too. Really keen to see it shine, start, and do some hooning as intended. I think I saw it on ebay and was too chicken to bid, so I'll be annoyed if it doesn't need too much!

this is so fun! love seeing the twin bro of my ZR1 come back from the dead! Not many Black over grey int made out of the 6939 produced. awesome find! (btw get 16 new injectors while that Plenum is off) We are watchin’!

Great stuff. Subscribed. Best wishes from Tasmania :)

Oh man, I'm in love with this thing. Two fella's and their Zeeeee R1 😄 I've been looking up various sites in its homeland, trying to see what sort of money they are going for. Someday, if I'm lucky, I'd love to have one. Very much looking forward to following this 'Vette's adventure back to roadworthiness and adventures in the future....

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Zeeeeee RRRRR one! 🔥🔥🔥 hard to value in England but we think this one justifies a t o TLC!

Good work boy's 💯

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thanks 🔥

Lysol does wonders on mold and makes the car smell good. Spray it on, liberally covering the mold and leaving it.

Great video guys , just subscribed after I saw this on late brake show and thought it would be a interesting series to follow , what a lovely car it’s going to be can’t wait for the next one , good luck guys 👍👍

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

Thankyou for the support :)!!

A very productive days work.

Great job guys, looks amazing inside compared to when you started. Looking forward to hearing it fire up :)

@Auto_Funk

Ай бұрын

So are we! We can't wait, going to fire the parts cannon at it!