That was a typo from my brain doing that thing it does where I type a similar, but wrong word. But like you said, it works! So I am leaving it.
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And here we are beyond 40 comments so far and nobody has yet uttered the immortal words: that’ll buff out.
So it falls to me.
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Anyone notice around the damage there was little metal? It was all bond-o (or similar product). Hard to call these ‘restorations’ when it’s more like ‘recreations’.
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I just loved the beautifully understated overheard comment: " 'kin knob "
Truth.
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Looks like a Peugeot, probably a Diesel. Owner’s manual probably specifies this method of adjusting the injectors.
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The blower is very real, and it’s huge. You can hear the whine clearly under the lumpy cam (as also required by a supercharger that big). It’s set down low on the hood line, but look closely, it is there. From the sound, it’s probably an 8-71 and thus very much needs both those four barrels. If nothing else because to supercharge with draw through carburetors, you have to run extremely rich to prevent detonation at WOT.
Say what you will about the driver and the rest of the car, but that motor is the real deal. Probably puts down four digit horsepower.
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Yup, modern cars have crumple zones. Because it’s easier to replace a damaged car, than damaged occupants.
01:50 in here is a good example:
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Unless that occupant is Vin Diesel.
That Dodge Charger of his looked remarkably good after T-boning a big rig at about 120 mph
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That scene was so unrealistic.
In real life nobody would ever drop a Diesel in a Dodge Charger.
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Just need a few cartons of this:
No way to say for sure from that footage, but it’s possible you’re seeing the layer under the paint. On modern resto-mods like this, it’s common to cover the entire body with filler (Bondo) after sheetmetal work is done because it sands smoother and easier than the metal. You can create a really crazy smooth surface for that “next level” shine that people want on these cars.
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Just a couple days ago I was telling my partner that I learned to use Bondo before I learned to drive. And explaining that that wasn’t any sort of a brag, just a fact of life growing up near saltwater. And yet I never knew of that trick.
So ya know what, to hell with all those time machine cheat sheets, if I ever get this flux transistor working I’ll make sure I get your phone number before I go back!
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I feel your pain. The 1970 Chevelle SS was, perhaps, the epitome of the muscle car aesthetic. No wonder it appeared in the first John Wick movie. Here’s an SS 396 for your viewing pleasure. It appeared on a ship I was working on, back in June. In transit from Long Beach to Honolulu. It was in perfectly mint condition.
Fortunately, dickhead (I did hear the word, “dickhead,” in the video, right? So not my word.), was not driving a 1970. Note doubled headlights, versus the singles in my pic.
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Guessing the left tire was down about 1.5 PSI?
Like this gentleman:
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Doc chose the DeLorean specifically because he needed the stainless steel exterior for the flux capacitor to work. Cover it in bondo and you’ll be driving into a wall at 88 mph.
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Oddly enough I was more impressed with the damage to the wall. At the bottom of our street there is a long straight road with an S-bend just where our street meets it. The people in the house at the corner of the S bend have had their garden wall and their front house wall driven into three times since I’ve been here (about eight years). Their garden wall is only three feet high but it is now two feet thick and reinforced. They also have CCTV. Where I used to live some idiot drove through forty feet of wall and killed somebody. And then drove home. They were identified, but had the cheek to claim that they were not the driver of the the car at the time. That didn’t stand up in court. When I say forty feet of wall, they drove through and over all forty feet of the wall. They knocked down the whole thing. And a person. There is one rule: “Respect other road-users.” Including walls.
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Yeah, that sounded more like an excuse to buy the car he wanted to me…
Marty: Wait a minute, wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me that you
built a time machine out of a DeLorean?
Doc: The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car
why not do it with some style. Besides, the stainless, steel construction made the flux dispersal - look out!
Anyway, the DeLorean’s stainless steel exterior is just panels on a fibreglass body on a tubular frame, not a (self-supporting) uni-body construction. With a motor based on an engine block intended for lorries.
The car was very much like the man behind it.
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It’s a pretty shitty wall, tbf
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