The guys should've known to have the cameraman on the passenger side during the smoke show. Having him pan down to the tire that isn't spinning, was comical.

@marvinellis1517

4 жыл бұрын

one wheel peel

@JW...-oj5iw

4 жыл бұрын

Spinning wheels in place is just a stunt. Actually accelerating is the true test. My '56 Chevy 4dr sedan with a tired 327 and Borg Warner T-10 and DragFast shifter accounted for providing taillight views to quite a number of would-be street runners. Transmissions and rear gears have a lot to do with translating engine revs to forward thrust. After a while, I got tired of the oil burning and rocker arm issues and set the car aside for an engine refresh. Unfortunately, my budget wouldn't allow me to have the machine shop bring the old small block back to the beginning, so it sat for a few years and may have been fallow even longer if a creep and a drunk Mexican woman hadn't wrecked my '66 Riviera. I drove it for a while with a lot of the right front fender gone while I tried to come up with a way to get it fixed. I really wish I had the insight to know how much of a collector car it would become. Anyway, changing jobs brought me to the decision to revive the '56. Good body, but no engine or transmission. '66 Riviera wreck with a good engine and transmission. It was quite a chore to squeeze a 425 Buick nailhead engine and Turbo 400 transmission into a car that never heard of a big block engine. Admittedly, the workmanship was crude, but effective. During the Chevy's storage, a friend bought the wheels and tires from it, trading me his 14" factory wheels and tires from his Firebird. Once the car was running, the little tires were "toast". I created a number of volcanoes with them. It was spectacular, but meaningless. Small contact patches with massive torque applied instantaneously. I did that to them because they were scheduled to be replaced with as large of 14" tires as I could find. Since those cost money, I used a much more gentle application of throttle during acceleration. When I moved to a rural community, the '56 became an attraction. We had a few street racing outings and nothing could begin to compete. One guy had a potential car, but apparently it was all show. He would never participate, even though it was a '70 Chevelle SS 454 with a tunnel ram and dual Holleys. He never showed its performance, only slowly cruising the main road through town. Lots of guys tried to get him to run against my '56 jalopy, but he wouldn't take the bait. I guess he couldn't take the chance of losing to my turd. Anyway, I bought a truck up there and the '56 didn't get a lot of driving after that, but I lit it up now and then. One of the sons of the guy I worked for was old enough to drive and pretty responsible, so I asked him if he would drive the tub while I was away for vacation. He was more than happy to do so. I told him not to race it, knowing that he probably would anyway. When I got back, he brought the car to me at work. He had one of his friends with him and was trying to make the visit short. I took the key and looked him in the eye, asking, "you raced it, didn't you?" He kind of looked down and nodded. I grinned at him and told him I knew he would. When he realized he wasn't in trouble, I had him tell me about it. The challenger was a squirrel with a '65 El Camino running a stock 327 and, of all things, a 3 on the tree. I knew a car like that would be zero competition to my car. I asked how badly they beat the guy. The answer kind of upset me at first. He said they beat him by "over a car length". I was astounded that some goofball in a stocker with a column shift could stay in the same zip code, let alone stay close to the rear bumper. I told Charlie that the '56 should have done a lot better. That's when they revealed the rest of the story. In the beginning, they had him by "two football fields, so we stopped and waited for him to catch up." I still laugh when I think about it.

@alanmyers5081

4 жыл бұрын

Cool story bro.

@jeromewieland55

4 жыл бұрын

@@JW...-oj5iw great story and great memories!!!

@CJColvin

2 жыл бұрын

@@JW...-oj5iw Cool story man.

The 70 Stage1 455 GS & especially the Stage1 GSX are in the top 10 American Muscle Cars ever made

Keep the Buick videos coming this video has my heart beating so fast that I thought I was having a heart attack lol I always have loved Buicks my first job was at a local Buick dealership and I'm blessed to own a 1967 Buick Lesabre Convertible black top red bottom this really made my day thanks😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Rick and Tommy rock! 🇺🇸 Loved the tail lights, rims, interior and paint with the combination of the amount of horses under the hood for a low budget! 👍👍

Love it! Just change to some old school wheels and extend those exhaust tips so your bumper doesn't get stained and your perfect.

Mannnn, the look of those Cherry Bomb mufflers got me excited. I need to get another V8 in my life before I kick the bucket.

I have used the vinyl dye a number of times on several different types of vinyl and the stuff really works well, but on the driver's seat bottom you will probably have to touch it a couple of times a year as the dye will wear off, but the respray blends right in usually.

@zackjay71

2 жыл бұрын

As kong as you prep the vinyl and use an adhesion promoter And don’t drag over the surface it works great.

Years ago my grandfather had a '73 Buick Century. Loved the styling of that car and it sounded so awesome when running. Never got to legally drive it, too young, but just around the driveway. It had almost 200k miles when it was finally too rusted to pass inspection. You can never miss that pointed bumper. I wouldn't mind finding and fixing one up myself. Love your choice of color scheme. Wheels not keen on though.

Reminds me of our old Laguna. 400SB 4 barrel. Wish I still had it! It was heavy but made all the right noises. My wife has a 64 Malibu in her dad's garage tho in storage that I'm gonna restore a second time soon. We already did once twenty five years ago but it's in need again.

Looks great!! Like the paint the stance and the wheels! Thanks for a great build

I really need that Buick, please, please, please I really need that Buick! You guys totally ROCK!!!

@CamaroAmx

4 жыл бұрын

ToyCarCollector.com that car is washing machine now. Most of the build cars are crushed after a car show circuit. A member of the company sometimes buys them or they might be auctioned off for charity. But 9 chances out of 10, they are crushed. They can’t legally sell them outright due to liability issues (thanks lawyers).

The squeeze box music while he's sewing 😄😁😆,,Perfect

Always fun to watch these personable and talented guys do their work/magic. Have a nice day all. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.

Great job, enjoyed every episode,Love the paint scheme. I always loved these and Laguna models.An old friend of mine had a 73 Impala custom that did a lot of the same mods you guys did.thanks for the memories.

Good job guys, I like the way you made everything look easy for the average Joe. Great inspiration.

Im a big fan of this build, my dad had a 73 Century when I was a kid

Nice! Looks like 1997 never left us! Next project is an Escalade with 22 inch spinners and full undercarriage lights.

Great build! Just goes to show one of the many ways to have a very cool ride for a very modest cost. Well done.

Amazing talent! The artistry is fantastic as usual.

Nice job..the 20s were dope!!

Awesome ride guys beutiful job!

That turned out amazing! Just gorgeous curves. Americans used to build nice cars.

This was always one of my all time favorites from Muscle Car

Sitting at #12 and tied for 10th spot overall ..and with the smallest engine in the top 20, is the 1971 Ford Boss 351 Mustang w/the drag pack option, ...clocking in at 13.80 @ 104 ...Impressive! The guy says that people don't use Buick and preformance in the same breath but I got clued in about Buick real quick when my friends dad gave him the family Buick when we were in High School in 1972. It was a 1965 Grand Sport ..black w/2 speed automatic behind a 425 and that thing would smoke the tires the entire length of the high school, from one stop light to the next.

The first five vehicle's of my youth were all Buick's! I then purchased a Pontiac Grand-Am SE with the 3.3 ltr V-6 & Then I purchased my 1st fwd Buick Regal GS!!! All prior were Rear wheel drive! G.M. ruled when the majority were RWD, Front Wheel Drive was a blight of which I wish we could all forget Though the fwd Buick Regal did pretty good while it lasted.

The nice thing about those Oldsmobile console shifters, is how easily you can slide a used B&M Megashifter in place and not even be noticed if you put the stock round knob on. Another choice is a similar year Z-28 or Trans Am shifter...pull back to first, push the shifter over to the passenger, and its factory ratchet all thru 3 gears. As for the one-wheel peel, stick an air shock or bag in the rear coils and pump up the pressure to plant that tire. But I fully love a build like this--park it next to a row of red '69 Z/28's and '57 Chevies dripping in billet, and watch what car the real car guys cloud around. If you know your way around oddball cars and a junkyard, you can pull something together people haven't seen in a while, for about this price spread out over time.

best one ive ever seen...great job!

Those tailights came out really good, I like the body mods done

Instead of wasting your money on those gross wheels you should have put a posi in it. the 1 wheel scene is dead.

@halleffect1

4 жыл бұрын

saves money, only have to buy 1 tire after burnouts

@johnjarvis8185

4 жыл бұрын

@@halleffect1 But twice as soon. so you loose money because you have to put it in the shop twice as much

@mrvapor4791

4 жыл бұрын

Your really turning hatred into an art form.... respect

@gabesgarage3131

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao shitty paint scheme, ugly wheels and an open diff? What's not to like??

Fellows, I often hear about people using soapy water and 4-ought steel wool to clean coatings off glass. That will work if you are very good. But a lot can be learned from doing dishes. Steel wool will cut glass cuz it's harder than glass. For cleaning baked on crud on Pyrex you should use a copper pad, like a ChoreBoy pad (they used to be called ChoreGirl pads until the fem movement objected). Copper never scratched my Pyrex but it still gets the crud off. Steel wool often will scratch it as evidenced by a duller surface.

I guess because this was the late 2000s, the Chip Foose inspired "Overhaulin" two-tone paint job was all the rage. Looks good on a Camaro or Mustang, but a big-ass Colonnade coupe needs a solid color IMO.

Nice low budget project! But, I gotta agree with most everyone....those 20s look horrible. Sell those rubber band 20s to the ricers and get a nice set of 17s with more sidewall.

@fordf-2505

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think they have it anymore, though. This was 2010, after all.

@jbncnow

4 жыл бұрын

Everybody runs big wheels now well i dont but thats the trend, even in Summit most of the new rims are 17 inch and up, in my day wide was in 15x10 in the back and 15x8 up front

@karlsmith2570

4 жыл бұрын

I personally would've put 18 inch wheels on on it myself and a different style of the rims

Love the paint scheme utilizing the hood design and using it to favor the body lines. Wheels are not bad but who doesn't love the buick olds pontiac side of the general motors division😎

Kojak would have loved this Buick Baby!

455 are killer Engines!

Interesting how these folks reinterpret GM design. If I were part of the top brass at GM, Ford or Chrysler I would incorporate these ideas into my new cars. I love the paint work and everything you do.

Nice car you got up

Like that exterior color scheme .

Solid color + different rims (smaller) = Win!!

I like the paint colors.

Nice

Came out pretty cool imo

outstanding!!!

Nice job. Amazing how bad the 5MPH bumpers looked and how well they turned out with your mods. Not wild about the wheels. This car needs more tire sidewall, IMO. 17" wheels may be a better choice. But staying within the budget for the overall project was damned impressive!! Thumbs up for the tail light treatment and interior colors.

Thats one fine ass ride. fasho!!!

My total budget is closer to the $1200 that they have left.

@garlicbreadjenkins5780

4 жыл бұрын

my budget is closer whatever you had left from that 1200

@trillrifaxegrindor4411

3 жыл бұрын

buy a bicycle

One of my favorite builds. I like the Colonade Bodies. Need more builds on them. Kinda hard to find in some places.

I absoutely luv it

CHEECH AND CHONG WANTS THERE CAR BACK! You forgot chain link steering wheel and furry dice!

I've had a 1970 Buick Skylark since 78', wouldn't get rid of it for the world.

Nice job..👍 like custom look of the taillights.

So that's how you install a windshield? Great style, great work, on everything y'all handle. Happy holidays!

I wish i could hire these guys👌

13:25 Stage 1 automatics were calibrated by Buick engineers to shift at 2800 RPM. This saved wear and tear on the drivetrain.

I would change the wheels , other than that nice build

@karlsmith2570

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I'd have put 18" wheels on this one and a different style of rims for that matter

Another good addition for this car would be to graft in some Ram Air inserts from Grand Sport! Into the hood that is!

Looked better stock

awesome car

Awesome car

Was that a 1 wheel peel ? Damnnnnn

Thumbs up for everything EXCEPT the 20" rims👎👎

@smoothpotato957

4 жыл бұрын

Hater

@bryceocain7508

4 жыл бұрын

And paint for me, but rims are terrible

@wrightgraham1677

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, wheels screwed it up

@fiber9m

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah those rims are garbage on that car

@Truckerdaddy

4 жыл бұрын

Rims are hideous on that car

Maple Motors in Hendersonville, TN ... old school muscle for amazing prices every damn week ! 😱

@theamishsoylentretailersof1952

4 жыл бұрын

SmoothTheKid. agreed brother

This 73 Buick Centery would be a great Hotwheels car.

Its awesome but I would've chosen centerlines with 295 50 15s and air shocks in the back and red with a black vinyl roof for colors... but its still better than I could do LOL

Nice one wheel peel

One Wheel Peel Baby!

This car turned into the cookie cutter custom look. They do nice work.. just tired of this look. One color with smaller wheels and more rubber!

@brianmaynard7320

4 жыл бұрын

And the same colors as everything they paint.. Nova.. C' mon guys.. Low buck budget is almost 10k..

@CJColvin

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree brother.

@lobmin

4 жыл бұрын

It's the whole street rod style of the 90's/00's....these guys were already late at it, and now it just looks outdated.

@CJColvin

4 жыл бұрын

@@lobmin I totally agree brother.

@Animalmawds

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not a fan of two tone paint jobs on anything other than pickup trucks and those rims 🤢. Eighteens would have looked much better. Loved everything thing else but like someone else said, it's looks dated.

I was really happy watching this build, and then they put 20" rims on it... smh

@karlsmith2570

4 жыл бұрын

Would you rather have them put 26" wheels on it and make look like a jacked up drug dealers car??

@bobhilly546312156332

4 жыл бұрын

Karl Smith it kinda looks like a drug dealer car

@oldgoatroper7030

3 жыл бұрын

yes, the 20" wheels are over-sized. I think 17" would have looked great yet still would allow some decent, comfortable tires.

@americanpatriot2.06

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely the ugliest ones I've seen. Slightly smaller with better styling would finish the car properly.

I liked the original buick wheels and the gray paint way better then what they did

15:20 that sound!

I see the that the Stage 1 vs. Hemi shootout was featured here ~11:00. That race happened in Dec. '84 and was featured in the March 1985 Muscle Car Review . It was organized by MCR on the spur of the moment between two "little guy" enthusiasts. The Mopar guy had maligned and challenged the Buick GS in the Letters Column of the Nov. '84 issue of Muscle Car Review. The Buick GS Stage 1 was then driven to the track 125 mi. away and blew away TWO trailered Hemis that day. Just go to "Hot Rod Hemi Killer" to see the old video from 1984. That particular Stage 1 vs. Hemi race was the only one that really mattered. The other later ones were too orchestrated, "set up" and political in nature to be really relevant.

In the description, why didn't you show the name of the adhesive used to fix the crack in the dash, and the name of the flexible glaze material used to cover the adhesive ? Those are products some of us viewers might like to use on our own projects.

I would love that car in Candy Apple Blue Metallic/Silver color combo. With 18 in. Rims and tires. Nice build though.

Had a friend in HS that had one of these. It was the fastest car anyone had.

@trillrifaxegrindor4411

3 жыл бұрын

musta lived in a shitty town.i was surrounded by big block chevelles,cudas,gto's,LT1 camaros,c2 vettes,blown vegas .....

A two-tone satin-gloss black on black paint with cragers or torque thrust 18's and this would have been much more eye-catching (in a good way). IMO.

Y'all did all that work on that car you didn't put a posi🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

@brandonijahfulla4094

4 жыл бұрын

James Harper I was thinking the same thing. That peg leg action will not cut it and is not a great way to end. Anyway- Shout out to them for showing us some muscles car tips.

@karlsmith2570

4 жыл бұрын

Not all posi-track rear-ends deliver power to both rear tires from the start, some of them have a slight delay in the transfer of power from one side to the other

@trillrifaxegrindor4411

3 жыл бұрын

probably a posi,they dont always lite up both wheels right away

@w41duvernay

3 жыл бұрын

Have to work on the drivetrain some more. I do understand it was a low buck project, but yes I could have gotten a rebuilt 200r4 and a posi in the differential.

Tommy on the Banjo and Fiddle

Happy Halloween.

Good ol one tire fire

Clean ass whip

I liked everything except those hideous wheels and the fact that you left the original column shifter boss on the steering column.... a new steering column wouldn’t have been too hard to find.... other than that it’s a pretty sweet ride!!!!!

how about just leaving it original?

Lots of haters. In the series he said multiple times that the purpose of the build was to make the best muscle car possible for the least amount of cash. They had a cap of $10K. I bet they did much better than most. That's for damn sure.

kojak called and wants the 15" back.

Nicely done Although, I personally would've done a few things differently: Completely reupholstered the interior Smaller 18" rims instead of 20" rims LED lights Updated the gauges Swap out the steering column for an aftermarket one with tilt steering Install a new soundsystem that looks like an OEM system

I have 75 lemans w a 455 im going to use some of your ideas bumbers, how u fixed the dash & dyed the interior but it will b 1 color w betr wheels & stance thanks for your help

Buick's don't get the respect they deserve. They are the Chevrolet step child that could blow the doors off in 1970 and 1987.

There's a lot a things I don't like about the styling of this car. The wheels, the painted bumpers (it's no the 90s anymore) and the grey interior. The paint's a bit iffy to (might be OK with chrome bumpers). But as a project idea, I respect it.

The car looks good but the wheels look so hideous.

Ya'll just made a recees pieces DONK.

@bigaparker1977

4 жыл бұрын

Only chevys are donks,71 thru 76, caprice, impala

@jimweishuhn2910

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigaparker1977 I stand corrected Sir. It is at the very least a Donk Cousin.

@bigaparker1977

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimweishuhn2910 To me that ceturion is worth more than any Donk. it's only 2 or 3 years that they made them. I woulda left it alone. Definitely wouldn't be that reeses Halloween color. If u think rims make it a Donk though nah that ain't it. Nobody is putting them little ass 20s on a Donk anyway.

@jimweishuhn2910

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigaparker1977 I agree with you that left alone would have been better, The wheels didnt give me the impression as much as the stance and color scheme. Not to mention the fact that they were trying to look cool driving it in an Urban setting. I could see what they were getting at.

@AutoYoung

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimweishuhn2910 It's downtown Nashville. They've done A LOT of cruising and shots down there...

Sprat painted interior? Damn man!

On second thought, they have been heavily influenced by "two-tone Foose"!

you can sew from the front too

I like the videos. However, I think the same writer who wrote the scrpts for Dragnet. Writes for these guys.

gad dayum them wheels ugly, and that stance is all wrong

@basshead.

4 жыл бұрын

Haters gonna hate, ballers gonna ball.

@kevinbamvakais5136

4 жыл бұрын

Duh, whats a cruiser der.. if you have ever driven a car on 20s with rubber band tires you'd know it rides like shit and crashes over every bump and I mean everyyyyyy bump. The cars cool and would still be a good cruiser on 17s or 18s on it that actually fit the car, filled out the wheel wells and didn't look 4 inches too narrow and ride like shit

@fordf-2505

4 жыл бұрын

@@basshead. haters gonna hate lovers gonna love, I don't even want none of the above

@fordf-2505

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree with you on the wheels, but you might be right on the stance

@0Heeroyuy01

4 жыл бұрын

@@basshead. haters my hate,ballers my ball but the comment section agrees the rims are ugly and need to be changed.

Everybody's complaining about the wheels but it's the style not the size. They're fugly but they're on a budget.

color scheme looks like a 90s misfire, and the rims are 15 years ago....more rubber, solid, more subtle, mono color. It's a cool car, just my 2 pennies

@bmstylee

4 жыл бұрын

15 years ago. Or around the time this build was done.

You know, if they had kept the original door handles and put Ralleys on the Buick, itd be pretty cool

they chip foose that poor Buick.

14:25, there was a clear cut winner, hemi got beat and the owner (disc jockey?) was so despondent he sold the car... Buick was owned and driven by Gary Lasseter...