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for the boy scouts-- they never told me what it was gonna be or when it was gonna come in. my first impression was, what was that? because i've never seen a car like that before, and it's huge. it is a big '61. it's gonna be nice, it's gonna look really good. it was shocking. i saw it, it's like an old-school suburban in a way, and i wasn't told anything about it and i was just real interested in what exactly it was doing here, what we were gonna be doing to it. i think it's gonna be a very fun project. everybody seems to be enthused about it, and it's going for a very good cause. oh, boy, here we go. a lot of work. paco: i like it. nice body style.

just the body lines kind of give it the look of a... late sixties-style chevy pickup with a gmc grill. i really like the taillights, because they almost look custom, but they're factory. they're recessed in, they're a nice shape. i think it needs a lot of work. i don't even know where to begin. we like everything to be very straight and perfect, and it's not very straight and perfect. i don't think we're gonna strip it to metal, i think we're gonna try to save it, because the man that did it prior did a reasonable job, so we're gonna try to salvage some of his body work. at this point right now it's not exactly a muscle car. it's the power of the engine and the year of the car. i guess that would have everything to do with a muscle car. it's definitely gonna have power, and it's definitely gonna be unique.

i think just the body style, you know, given that it's a sixties-style body, so even just sitting there it just looks tough. a supporter of the boy scouts, lonnie poole of new smyrna beach is the mastermind behind this project. he's on his way here now to toss around some ideas. alan: everybody, this is lonnie poole. lonnie is going to be building a boy scout- cub scout vehicle. gives us roughly three months to get this vehicle done. obviously that's a v-6, but we're gonna put a big v-8 in this thing, we're gonna put air-conditioning in this thing, and do a custom interior on it for you. your thinking? sounds great. the car needs to be usable. that's very important, just as though you would take it to a camp. the scouts have two colors, guys. they have the blue and the gold, that's the little guys, that's the cubs, and then they have the bigger guys,

and that's the olive and the red. so i personally like the blue and the gold a little better. we're gonna have to have this as a show-quality car, the paint job's got to be good. so that's more important, really, than the colors, but if we can work all the colors in, that's great. he's fast to agree what you guys can do. can y'all get this done? ( all agree ) great, great. everybody's on the page with this? so we got roughly seven days to get fuller ideas on one nice piece of canvas. and then while we're doing that we'll also be disassembling that truck of yours. 'cause that doesn't change, we still have to get it disassembled. so one week from now you will have a rendering and a truck in a bunch of parts. okay. sounds good? sounds great. thank you, alan. we look forward to doing this. you guys ready? let's go make some money. that's a big project on the books, and a short turnaround time to complete it.

we'll be seeing plenty of that carryall, but we can't lay down on the rest of the cars. in fact, paco went straight to the cutlass where he's smoothing out the skin. there's nothing worse than when the car is done, look down the side and you see any type of imperfection. it should be one-flat- plate-of-glass look... throughout the whole car. i bet i'd have probably a week in one panel, from start to finish, in each panel. but that's sanded, buffed, and everything, so it's really not that bad, considering.

i think i've been on it for six, seven, eight months. i'd say probably 30 hours per panel, so i don't know, probably close to 300 hours. a lot of sanding.

now we're starting one of my favorite jobs-- disassembling the vehicle. we have two back-to-back. first, the carryall. we're gutting the interior and removing all the hardware. we had a meeting with lonnie, who's the guy who's bringing the '61 carryall gmc to us to do the boy scouts. the good news out of that conversation is, i gotta be careful not to get too many things that ain't muscle cars, because that's not what we do here. fortunately for him, he wants to put some horsepower in it, he wants to put some noise coming out of it, so it made it a little bit more interesting for us, because my guys will definitely lose interest if all they were doing was building a '61 carryall, making it into a school bus type of thing. so the good news is, they're gonna let us custom paint on it, they're gonna let us put a big block v-8 in it, they're gonna let us put headers in it, they're gonna let us put some performance in it. so we got our work cut out for us.

megan: where are we starting? right up front. we're gonna take the headlights and the grill out first. megan. yeah? i got this bumper. get me a hammer that's in the bottom of that red tray. one-inch? that's fine. ( power tools whine ) we don't see too many of these too often. i know it. a fairly simple windshield, though. simply pop the wipers off like that. generally, on the removal of the windshield here you leave all the chrome inside the glass and go to the inside and start unhooking the pinch welds, unhook the rubber from the pinch welds, and it should push right out fairly easy. there we go, just loosening up the pinch welds. it's harder to go back in

than to take out. and that's that. on your side glass removal, it's a little bit different style of a rubber. it's got a little-- this is what you call an interlocking rubber. you can get your little tool in here... how ya doin' on that, tim? she's looking good. she's gonna come out nice and easy. alan: okay, megan, i'm gonna need your hand. with what? i'm gonna get underneath the truck, i'm gonna show you what to do up here. just hold if i'm turning. i'm holding it. okay, you gotta go to the back, where you were in there back there. okay. take that? same thing? yeah, i think i gotta change the sides for you and me. when i do it it doesn't go. ( laughs ) is it the angle that i'm holding it? "when i do it, it don't go." ( laughs ) it doesn't.

i'm gonna go underneath the car again. the front two are done already. i'm thinking that i should let you do-- you're so little. you should be underneath, not the big old fat guy. does that look like i've got the right bolts? see the bolts i'm moving? i can't actually see the bolts. okay. if i was on the other side and the speaker wasn't there i'd be able to see 'em. okay, i'll look. how many phillips heads do you have in here, young lady? i don't think i have any. do i? the one in your hand. oh. odds are that speaker box ain't even bolted down. it's just heavy. right. you get out of that office for a few minutes, you break a sweat a little bit, you get a bit of an attitude, don't you? no! well, listen, can you move your heinie for a second? can i--i'm still-- okay.

or you can move this speaker box. wow. they were proud of this speaker box. i'll let you do that. you can tell. they were quite proud of it. she's a big 'un, as my dad would say. a big 'un? a big 'un. too bad it wasn't like this for your trip. yeah, really. you would have been fine. perfect. the t-bucket, it didn't take a lot to take it apart because it's obviously a lot simpler of an automobile. no fenders, no air-conditioning, no luxuries whatsoever. there's not even doors on the car, you jump into the car. you have no trunk. so the car itself will come apart real quick. it looks kind of like somebody, you know, liked cars, but didn't work on 'em, so they had a little bit of mechanical, you know, aptitude, but...it was-- it was pieced together.

alan: the car took apart in no time at all. i don't think we had a day and a half taking that whole car apart, every nut and bolt. for me the most difficult part would be just seeing how brutal the work was done on it. this piece right here? it's a fake. really? yeah. you can see the u-bolts. alan: there was no one particular thing that made it difficult to take apart, except the old style work. paco: it almost looks like it was an afterthought. they built a whole car and it was like, "what are we gonna do about fuel?" so somebody just welded up a gas tank and put it in there.

you could tell it was done-- well, i should hope somebody had done it in their garage. looking at the way it was built, i hope an actual shop didn't do it. they just used odds and ends and just nuts and bolts that didn't match. a lot of stuff that i wouldn't have done. that thing probably weighs sixty, eighty pounds, with no interior or nothing on it. it's all fiberglass. ( indistinct ) good. nice cup. what's up with that? transmission fluid. wanna try some?

no, thank you. no guts, no glory. perfect! this is perfect stuff! why? it's a paint cup. it's a paint cup because i lost my real cup, and then one day i started drinking out of this. then now this is the bottom line. now i drink out of a paint cup, now i can't stop. really? if i drink out of a regular cup, they think i lost my paint cup. megan: looks like skip and frank are cleaning up the car, but i think something's missing. kevin's finishing up the prep work on the valance so paco can get it into his spray booth.

hey, that looks great! after a little dry time, don assembles the clips and attaches the valance. ( engine idling ) megan: the motor is running great, and it looks fantastic. now comes the real fun. alan is taking it out for a quality control test drive. alan: that car drives like... a 'cuda,

like the chrysler. i'm not a chrysler fan, we didn't do any modifications to the suspension on that car, so it drives atypical. it's a pretty strong runner. not an overly aggressive car. but dick was happy with it, which is the important thing. ( tires squeal ) now i'm gonna test drive the roadster.

right there. ( indistinct chatter )

( honks horn ) good? here. megan: i bet dick french is gonna back that one off the car hauler and put it through the paces as soon as it arrives. dick french: all right. ( engine starts )

let's go. ( turns off engine ) all right. the car ain't runnin'. see what-- oh, boy. looks like i'm leaking gas. yeah, from the carburetor. i don't know if i can drive this thing home. definitely looks like it's leaking. yeah? well, underneath... no, i'm driving it now. well, i'm not driving it now, let me put it that way. i don't really know exactly what he did, but it was a brand-new carburetor, not even a re-built.

and he just-- he toasted it. i wasn't there for it, but he... just totally destroyed that whole thing, he blew the accelerator pump right out of it. i turned it off, when i went to start it back up i smelled gas everywhere, blew a lot of black smoke out the back. and now it's not doing anything. i don't want to keep turning it, 'cause you can tell, it's just not catching. my first reaction, 'cause it was his family member that picked up the car, and my reaction was, that car drove absolutely fantastic. and i even took dave and we drove up and down the road and he couldn't get over how good that drove. and now you're telling me it doesn't run good within two days? so that was my reaction. my reaction was immediately a little bit on the defensive side. it's all a carburetion problem. we put a more user-friendly carburetor on it. a lot of times the accelerator pump blow out of 'em, so we got him out of that. i couldn't get it to run quite as good

on the power band part of it, but we got it to run much more user-friendly. megan: one more time, the orange'70 'cuda is going home. i was very thrilled to see it, especially when it was parked. i've got a new '08, and when they're parked side-by-side, it looks very cool. the two oranges were about the same color. when i took a picture at an angle, it looked very cool with the two orange cars side-by-side.

( indistinct chatter) it drives exactly like a 1970 car would. we didn't put any new suspension, we didn't do a whole lot to this car.

chrysler had kind of a boaty feel to their driving. it's kind of a fun thing just to get in and cruise. you got eight inches between each time you turn the wheel, and then it starts to turn. but other than that, it's got a nice pedal to it, it shifts nice, the a.c. blows ice-cold, so it's fun to drive back and forth to the store and just cruise around in. ( honks horn ) what a crazy week we've had here at the shop. but at least we cleared out some space for the carryall. next week we'll begin the body work on that and hopefully make some progress on the gto. looks like we also have some work scheduled for the '71 'cuda body and the nova motor. for more information on this program, visit our website at...

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