Richard Petty Tribute 1972 Dodge Charger Needs Help to Race Again! (It Has Serious Problems)

a week from thursday so you got nine days pull back monkey monkey [ __ ] football yeah that was exactly what i was thinking power is only going to get you to the wall faster and that's going in the beginning of the video the included fire suit actually fits me this is like shower [ __ ] i don't want to limp away from this piece i want it to kill me telling me there's no cross member in this thing whatsoever there's no cross member i never laughed at a car i've been working on this much before what are we about to do right now what are we walking up on oh we're gonna go we're gonna have some fun we're gonna show you guys what racing was really like and you're gonna get to participate not just talk about it and this is over if you guys man i wish i could race back in the day we'll see let's see see what we got back here looks like an aardvark park i mean what what actually is the year and model of the car like the body i have no idea there's a plaque inside yeah i think it's a 74. 74 road runner body or charger body on a something frame besides this wannabe hat oh there's a butterfly a really cool uniform so here's kind of like what they came with it that's what they were going for what is this thing and we got we got a couple 604s and some 602s for the modifieds in the shop in there we've got transmission you guys are going to have to change the motor and transmission not bolt this thing i don't even know what rear end it has is that a quick change yet i don't think so i don't know it was stuck down there and see what's in this thing so we don't even know what gear is it how much power does that engine make probably like 12. oh hey this one 12 i mean the one that we're going to put in here oh maybe 375 400. how much would you think this car weighs uh half a million pounds [Laughter] if you ground all the weld off that's not doing anything about 2500 that looks like a quick change yeah oh quick change so we got to make sure it's got some seat belts i think we got enough junk laying around here to make this a little less junkier it's good we're good maybe it's a long hood oh that's a long hood you could you could use that as a family picnic table that hurts these valve covers so i would just take all of that out take all of that out and i'll give you a motor and transmission that's you don't get to keep the motor transmission you got to take it back out when we get back here nice they take all this mess out of there put it in there and then while you got it apart you could probably finish welding the chassis together somebody just take a break so what's you always playing here what are you gonna do um you got like eight digs i think we could do it i mean this thing's pretty simple it's carbureted four speed there's gotta be like 30 nuts and bolts to hold this thing in there maybe i think that might be all that's left on it yeah probably just the bolts i think all the nuts fell off right starting today right now no you got work to do in the shop over there them guys had other jobs back then too okay they did this tonight that's fine with me i'm here for it you drive a race car i'm ready to drive a race car i'm ready to drive race car this would be entertaining i'm ready to get the popcorn and cool with that me too but i'm wearing the hat while i work the only thing i got to do is make sure i measure the modified bumper and make sure it lines up with this one so it was a week from thursday a week from thursday so you got nine days we can do it perfect ready to roll i think it's sfr-rated i don't know no we're gonna get you a real hummus 1988. as hard as that head is i'm pretty sure you still need a helmet i think we can handle it oh we got this let's go to the shop move around see what we got here all right i'd rather not use my good 602 motor in that thing but we can we just have to see what all bolts together okay uh we got a t10 transmission bell housing clutch all that stuff i'd replace all that mess in that thing because it's it's right out it's junk this is this is what's buzzed for we've we haven't even worked on this thing yet he's covered in dirt you look like the floor i look like i work hard because i do here's a radiator right here but it's got screw-on fittings i don't know how much money you all want to spend on making that thing run personally i wouldn't spend anything we'll get one of those motors there's a transmission back there bellhousing's over there are those both 602s uh one of them is yeah what's the other one uh cup motor oh 100 cup motor old one yeah that's something i don't know anything about setting setting up a car or spraying stuff i mean i i know the the principles i could figure it out but i've just i've never had to do it before so i'm excited to learn i just want to see which one of you is going to end up in the fence but if he drives first oh yeah maybe i shouldn't let him drive first if i want to drive at all i'm just going to zone out i've been dirty daytona since i was like and he had a grasshopper so if you want to get in that thing i would you have the dream now you got to get the mechanics to get there we can do that huh let's do it okay so this bud you can have off work every day at 3 30. 3 30. there you go 4 10. let's do it y'all need to figure out a plan you got eight days okay so i think step one would be get everything out of the way and establish our work space what do you think i'm down okay full box has wheels wherever it is windows 60 miles an hour so you're playing enough to get this one was this a michael waltrip car cover oh we are back spud got clocked out of his real job clocked into the night shift he's already got the thing on stands stuff out of the way we got the perfect old michael waltrip dei car cover background so we got some big jack stands but we might have to click those up a few more clicks if he wants me to get under there what kind of spindle we got what is this chassis do you have any idea what it is you know what some cobbled together like it looks like an old late model chassis i think it's a street like a street stock chassis yeah because it's got the exhaust hole in the door yeah but it's got 180 degree headers oh it does maybe it used to have 180 degree headers it doesn't anymore oh look at that did you see uh the bell housing is like plasma cut in half have so much confidence in this car what do you want uh good question just laying on that wall probably over there we got to get this strap brace out of here look at this header how smashed it is for the steering shaft can you see that beat it to fit it still rubs on the shaft that's funny it's fine we don't need horsepower we're both racing the same car so slow is slow and slow we need some wire cutters to cut this so we can get this truck out of here this thing's pretty wedged in here we can there we go pull that out [Music] oh yeah guys spider ah where'd he go i can't find it a barn side battery cover that was insulated with weathertech and then a napa mud flap was in there oh man 2018 this is new it's a new car so we just made a discovery here the most legit thing on this car yeah it is i can tell he signed it because you can see the marks going across the ink over like that if it was printed it wouldn't do that yeah but that's i mean that's yeah because right here you can see where the marks and the ink are all going yeah that's that's a legit sign now did he just sign a sticker and they put it on there or did they probably sign a stick yeah cool not knowing it was going to go on to this uh wonderful masterpiece yeah eight feet they were going to hold this on by double-sided foam oh yeah definitely that would work they realized it wasn't going to fit that's hilarious gosh like this is [ __ ] this is like shower [ __ ] this should be sponsored by joel's boy it's all cocked up really we found [ __ ] shower cloth oh my gosh and it was this insulation foam or something that goes like between like behind drywall that was just so they'd have to build it because they made it yeah oh wow yikes there's [ __ ] all over it's like they that's like they painted over the clock painted [ __ ] yeah his how much of this cage is welded and how much [ __ ] yeah all right look how big i see oh my god richard petty car at least we have bug screen in here too yeah hey but it's riveted i mean they bead rolled this and then zip tied it in there how do you have a bead roller but not like a break to do this nicely i don't i don't know i'm just chilling there's actual shock or is it something on this side it's just flat and then there's clock holding it on this one they ran out of [ __ ] the included fire suit actually fits me how is this how's this possible here you look more like an astronaut am i blocking anything important on the car yeah it's the number i don't want to block the numbers yeah i don't want to block the 43 we're guests bud you know you need the feather hat oh yeah that's my original pose hat got some more stuff disconnected up there throttle linkage oil pressure on the battery oh cool strain look at this this piece is like the old frame rail they just hacked off and kind of left this horn here that has to be the biggest stitch maker i've ever seen in my life did you see all this [ __ ] this car's full of [ __ ] [ __ ] there's [ __ ] all over this car that's a big [ __ ] car i've never seen this much talking i like the three-piece sway bar tube or whatever that is i know i just looked at that you all need to put this thing out of his misery guess star split here you go so this custom high speed deal here see for your shift linkage what nascar guys do here is we take these hose clamps and we just wrap it around the entire tail housing all that and just get all that up in there see quality and then we paint over it that's all powder coat and that's two tenths let's see we got all these speed holes let's get for getting there out of the car right there that's your driver comfort it's pretty much mint man look at these exhaust mounts there one inch tube a couple tack welds booger it on you're good to go what's what's you got buddy you think the cat king always wore sunglasses so you have to stare like this i think the king wore sunglasses because his future was so bright we're gonna take the take the headers off pull that thing off right here is that all good all right i'm gonna start tearing this drive shaft out i could hand you stuff what do you need uh 5 16 boxing okay let's get the headers off here the bolts how tight are those bolts not tight you can do one turn and then just get it with your finger oh man look at that little pencil wow no the front drive shaft on the escalade is like that thick and let me tell you i didn't even have to pry it from back there and the nuts weren't even tight how's that crossmember situation looking well i usually take the crossmember out and then the tail shaft drops down oh there's no there's no cross member for the [ __ ] at all how does that work i don't know that's what i was looking for like where it's mounted and it's like just on the back of the engine so there's just some horsepower right there so they're telling me there's no crossmember in this thing whatsoever there's no cross member so she's there the transmission is completely supported by the engine yeah just an input chef wow that's beefy input chef bro high speed hell no how easy is that cross member get a well it don't got one there you go even better you don't need cross members where we're going that's freaking did you see how smash this header is you can take the spark plug wires off if they get in your way my confidence in this ride just keeps going if that's sarcasm i'm right there with you the way i meant to go like if this is how it's going to be is it what i think this is neutral how far is the throw from first a second dude it hits the seat did you disconnect that yet no that's just how it is all right second start i'm pretty sure a mack truck has a shorter goal for that oh my god yeah we gotta we gotta put a different shifter in here i mean i don't know if you're a fan of the uh santa claus sleigh shifter that's in this piece look at this watch it go from first to second how far it is i don't know i think this is like a shepherd's staff that they cut down yeah it's a santa sleigh hey richard petty for president this thing is funny i never laughed at a car i've been working on this much before did you see the brick what's wrong with the brake pedal look at this oh my god that must have club foot i couldn't get the kicker in there so he's like beat it look at the broad look at the brake rod look at the gas pedal it's like a little baby this guy was so disproportionate like he had a little baby foot and then a club foot or something i don't know oh man oh man i like the paint drippings oh the heavier the runs yeah yeah like why did you even bother to paint it did you just want to cover up all the caulk yeah you want to hide your little car you can't hide the [ __ ] when there's this much [ __ ] there's no hiding it never in my life the most cockfield car i've ever seen shove it in take that carburetor off i'll grab a lift plate this is our lift plate right here this butterfly she's tied the plug wires see that i'll be one of the time bandits that used to come by the race shop and take up all your time then you have to stay past midnight to get your job done it's a shame because this would have been a really i mean it was a cool concept and they just ruined it aside from this thing being being all boogered up what what are we gonna do to it to make it turn better if that's even possible i think all you choices you got here is those jack bolt things start putting rounds in the jack bolt and raising the track bar up and down i don't think turning's gonna be a problem though i know it's gonna be fast enough that it'll actually matter you don't think it'll make a difference if we do anything to the front like any like washer spacers anything no it's not gonna be fast enough to matter i don't think it's gonna be fast enough that's my opinion what's the what's gonna be the determining factor if there's no finesse to be had from power power is only going to get you to the wall faster and that's going in the beginning of the video hey this thing's even got a vin number on it really you see that they can make it street legal we can take it to the petty museum and get banned for life it's got a chrysler vin number on stapled to the dashboard right there oh yeah it does i think that's kind of i think that is actually highly illegal whoever did that i don't think you can just like pop rivet the vin number on the car [Applause] oh we're gonna throw a lift plate on here we got double gaskets it's more like this one's like probably burned on there and they didn't feel like scraped it off so they're just like that's just lazy in this second we'll just throw it it's fine i like your shop out here yeah that's nice we got ambient air you know it's a nice old-school vibe wow we used to work on our cars car there's only place to head light and you could watch it what year range was that ninety two three round in there and what kind of cars we had some friend of mine had a dirt lake model we'd ride around and race that thing sometimes when you race two three nights a week you just spend a night for truck wash your car and car wash do everything you have to do go on to the next race i've had to work on some cup cars in parking lots really a couple times what kind of scenario would force that hand one time we were out west and there was like it's like a back-to-back race and we went out and we thought we were going to be tricky and not come back to the shop this was back in the early 90s and uh we ended up working in a kmart parking lot get our car all ready to go are you having fun with that it's like a whirly gig i thought i wanted a bucket out of i thought it did yeah i saw it in the slow mo just that start going huh that's neat it's not that cool what a coincidence stapleton otherwise.com natural sharp plug slapper on there chief all right kasha you okay spud i didn't eat a cheeseburger while i was here did i no should we time-lapse this or you like got to figure it out any kind of baby wolf be funny farting his face poured in his face he's stuck [Applause] all right so what do you guys think one i want your i want your feedback in the comments we're all going to read this is is this car going to work well enough for us to get around the track we're working on it question well we we got to like get the the feedback of the people here two will i beat spud he's from north carolina i don't know if that means anything i'm from pennsylvania so it was aaron and he owns this place so i don't know if that says anything either i also grew up as a farmer so it's not like i'm well trained i grew up as an idiot on back roads with a lot of tickets and then we did the same thing yeah by trade i was a bad college student i didn't go to college i don't want a technical school so yeah i got a plumbing degree or i'm sorry certificate plumbing i don't want to bend this fender oh yeah oh yeah we're taking this thing to pebble beach i can't that's the fender oh let's go on the pike's peak what if we just crank it up a little bit yeah and it'll fall out yeah it'll buff crank that soldier boy i don't think that you could possibly bend anything else worse than it already is no it's fine i don't think that like this is you hit this it's no problem it does not matter back there can you see no you're you're not on anything it just hasn't picked up that's floating it just hasn't picked up that silent motor yet there you go there we go what are we hitting now nothing you're free keep going come back a little bit towards you and yeah yeah we may have to pull the distributor maybe okay so here we go monkey monkey [ __ ] football yeah that was exactly what i was thinking one of the early sucking ones that doesn't look like a t10 it looks like a poop junkie junk jump tomorrow or during the day or come over and sort some stuff out and you know we'll put that other motor and transmission and all that you know to deal together and then maybe tomorrow night we can drop that other motor back in there cool sound good to me and i'd go through this chassis and make a list of all the things that you think we need fixed and if we need to add a few bars to this to keep us uh you know we can um i don't think if there's anything we should do that would be easier with the engine out exactly i could do that now like power wash it yeah get it on casters not that that's gonna make it look any better i'd make a list and i say mitch if you want to come over during the day and start swapping out some of these cheesy ass bolts with some real bolts and some of this stuff and you can get the porta power out porter power from that side of the frame to this side and push these you know push this all back out i mean just make sure all that stuff ain't gonna come vibrating out of there i mean that don't even have a lock nut on it i get it i get it you're trying to do something and it's not but it don't tin snips work the same it don't cost nothing to run a pair of tin snips right or a rivet gun right you know some of this stuff is just like what are you doing you know it's not a matter of how much money you got or anything else it's just taking the time to do it right with what you have to work with you know it's a shame because it'd be a really cool car it's a sad the seat belts are still good for date wise but it doesn't look like they're installed yeah mitch what you need to do is over here just like where they got this goofy looking thing going here all the hardware and all these seat belts…