Thank you for sharing this story, Kim D.

I agree. That's how I run my business. I start with fresh keen bright kids and train then right from scratch. Don't hire many with much experience because they can be half trained, bad habits etc. Easier to start from scratch. Train them right. We don't make a lot of money but we all make a living working for repeat customers who trust us.

@@indyrock8148 id love to find a shop like that. Ive only changed my oil myself ONCE! But damnit I'm really eager to learn about cars! ❤

@@indyrock8148 you betcha,if you want a good apple don't get from the barrel,get it from the tree!Sean Connery from,"The Untouchables".

Well said Kim D.. your Grandfathers spirit lives on ,,in people like Uncle Tony.. remember KZfaq has straight, no bs,honest people too,, not all,..crap-artists,,.

Any man that would go to sea for fun , would go to hell for a holiday

Fuck me! Now I'm in trouble. I have to show this to my wife! You Nailed it on the head. She has her fathers "mechanic " do everything. NOT ANYMORE!!!

“if you think you hate it now, wait till you drive it”

I've heard a similar saying: "If you health care is expensive now, just wait till it's free."

If you think a good mechanic is expensive, try using some hillbilly wizards in the woods

Dad was spot on

Right as usual.

Sounds like you have a smart old man, my dad would always say the same

I bought my vehicle new in 1996 and has become a trusty beater over the decades. However, she runs like new because only I have worked on her, upgraded her, maintained her. It makes an enormous different if you are the only one to work on your vehicle. You will take time to do it right. You will take pride on your vehicle. A, "professional," will only rush through a job and punch a clock. There used to be a time when you wanted something done right, you called a professional. Today, if you want something done right, you study, get the tools, take your time, and do it yourself.

Same

Fuck, man...you are my hero of the hour.

Haha

Proverbial "thinking stick"! I'm so stealing this! Hilarious!!!

Is that a " homemade " thinking stick ?

@@mikeleo7189 it's a Bugler. I used to smoke them back in the day up in NY - no idea where to find those here. Also - I smoke a lotta thinking sticks. it's the only way my IQ exceeds the octane of my fuel :D

If my mechanic ain't got a cig I dont trust it

@@MK-sk2mi Indeed

I'll bet he didn't even think about having that cig in his hand, he has probably had a cig in either hand or mouth for more than 20 hours in a day since he was 12.

lol

I bet this sum bitch can patch up his lung cancer too

I agree, i’ve got an uncle trev and he’s been in the car fixing business 40 years

Anyone know where he’s located?

This guy is a loon

@@stevenmays5075 ?

Good idea. We need an Uncle Tony app for phones.

Charlie I sold a 1982 Olds Cutlass Ciera my wife bought brand fricken new in 81. We sold it outright to a single mom with 3 unappreciative brats. She sang to my wife and I her sad song about no money, low paying job, etc etc etc. I fell for it, took 500 dollars of the asking price, told her all the things about the car that she should b aware of. She payed me drove off, 1 month later she subpoenaed me to small claims court for falsifying and screwing her on the car!!!?? WTF??!! Lesson learned do not trust anyone!!

Were Berlinetta:'s V8 or Iron Duke I4?

@@elcabezon5487 They were V8 305.. Only the 350 V8 were options. But the inline six was dropped years before that..

My mechanic is mormon lol

"Fumes what are you talking about filter it through a cigarette"

😂😂

@phat cat mouse killer. Or drink whiskey. Lol

My mechanic does coke & he helps me out alot lol

I’m from Kentucky my family runs a body shop there and we do good work but there’s those fly by night guys that will do anything body work mechanical work restore cars it may not look or run good 100footers for sure 😂😂 but there cheap and that’s what ya get 😂

@@itsjusta2v198 I'm from Kentucky myself and I have seen bad work from all over the world.what does Kentucky have to do with someone that makes a video from buttfuck his momma Georgia or I bet hes the Fuck up who did it indiana

Thystaff Thywill until they see a corner

@DB those letters must stand for Dick Breath...am I right? Thought so.

Well at least they had a shot , some city folk have lost the ability to even change a lightbulb

And they want you to play with their lug nuts

They try to push their dipstick down your throat and want to lubricate your rear end. All they want to do is polish their pushrods at your expense.

So graphic guys, so graphic!

They want to take off your belt and play with your pullys and water pump.

@@davidhardcore704 You do not even want to know what they want to do your your cylinder bore with their oversized piston.

Thats terrible lol

LoL I had to fix a convertible with the same problem a 66 Chevy had to box it in

I think that tops it all!!!!

i had a early 70s corvette come in one time that was like that on the frame but they used newspaper and body fill instead!

Lol

Buyer beware if it is 1 minutes old.......sometimes they are wrecked prior to being sold as brand new.

@@johnnyhotrod2608 I agree 100%...I have been around cars for 50 years...every car has a story...I don`t think the person who did this frame patch work thought they did anything wrong they just were not qualified for this type of repair

@@johnnyhotrod2608 Yep had a Great Uncle who was a body man at a Cadillac dealer in Suburban Chicago. Cadillac zone liked his work and often sent them "presents" when he retired in the 80's the zone was sending $30,000-35,000 a year in work for him to fix.

This is still a service showing people what to look for

@@ShaunHensley I agree 100%...there is so much to look for...It is amazing what a little seam sealer and undercoating can cover....And we didn`t even get into the vin tag swapping

the most dangerous ones are unit body cars, or the hybrid chassis cars like Camaro's and Nova's . when rot sets in they are death traps. the rocker panels and the floor mounting points for the front A-frame are the real bad spots on those cars.

I learned the hard way on a 66 Mustang.. I was young and dumb and.....

@@BAZZAROU812 And....?

@@betosgarage you can't figure out what the last word is going to be. Well I'll give you a hint, it starts with s. And it's opposite of smart.

@@dafyd242 The mopars are unibody cars, I always liked them though but it's tough to find one that's not rotted and at a decent price

SUBd brother!

Some of these BARN FINDER videos make people think that total rusty garbage is worth thousands of dollars. In reality you and I Rex & poor ole Tony is gonna be dealing with this shit a lot more thanks to these fucktards pedaling these dreams of grandious made of rusty fucking shit you and I would toss in the shit pile. The reality is some people make tons of money selling this rusty shit to unsuspecting people and lot of them have those people pedaling that old parts car they bought. These shifty bastards also have this little tiny fine print clause on their sales invoice that says the vehicle is being sold as a nostalgia piece which means it was not sold to be put back on the road. We just had a happening here and it was a Plymouth Duster... But when we were kids WAY BACK when we didn't call em a Plymouth Ruster for no reason at all. People read your sales contracts okay and look for that little little tiny area that says THIS VEHICLE OR THIS ITEM IS BEING SOLD FOR NOSTALGIA PURPOSES ONLY. The clause also does not have to say anything about it even being a vehicle. Once it says being sold as Nostalgia piece you better look up the definition of the word Nostalgia means you are the person that deems it an item worth what you are paying for it. It does not imply the item has any identifiable value so even if ya file a court case the judge throws it out once he explains to you and your lawyer that NOSTALGIA has no stated value and no warranty clause exists for Nostalgia Hardware unless it is stated on that contract with specifics that pertain to that item you bought and that can still be null and void in the eyes of a judge unless the warranty clause is exclusive to the item and vehicle you bought. Okay we are seeing a lot of this shit right here living in the SALT BELT RUST BELT STATE of PENNSYLVANIA I have a speed and performance shop right here and I have been seeing a lot of this since these barn find videos surfaced. Uncle Harry's crashed rusted old 69 Camaro someone sprinkled coal dust on with a shop vac in reverse all of sudden becomes worth 10K because it's an original Z28 and the guy selling it knows it wasn't his uncle Harry's nor is it a real Z28 and he's trying to find another sucker just like is to buy it. Do your homework people don't get that fever that rises up making you impulsive and foolish with your dough... Fact is most of those relics are gone have been found and restored. Now people are pedaling shit out of pure greed because the law allows em loop holes to do so... I must have looked at over 3 dozen alleged all original 1969 Z28's and I got news for you every selling em said they had matching numbers and we in decent shape or the accident damages were semi exposed to me.. I got news 4 ya not one of em had matching numbers not on the engine or body and doors.. It's junk basically. And if I want it they'll come down 500 bucks from nine grand..

Any classic car that you see that is under coated everywhere it shouldn't be is a red flag that you should walk away quickly. Because if you buy it, you will empty your wallet trying to fix what should've gone to the crusher......

@@heyrod59 Most of these fraudsters are indeed spraying right over old rust. I only found one technique that even comes close to working is I use that CMP rust reformer let it dry a few days and I spray over that with Sherwin Williams DTM black paint and I seal it with a clear coat. it has held up decent on my trucks I restore so that is not necessarily the truth unless you mean it is actual undercoating because no sane shop that exists uses true undercoating everyone knows what it does to a frame is it eats inside then out. The undercoating for one makes people buy because most of the time it is still all shinny but as you said they never think it's a disguise. Us pros take that trusty ole retired screw driver along and poke poke poke especially seem areas and sub frames. Most of us wore that one time sucker stamp on our foreheads never to be worn again. Once ya get hosed for some serious cash it lasts a life time... But these barn find videos are making people believe that Camaro that's been lying the weeds the last 35 years is somehow worth 5K 10K... It's worth shit the frame is gone the original motors and trans long gone... Idiots.. Now I got fucktards coming around my property for the first time lifting tarps having their camera adventures and now stealing parts for the first time since I live here because they took their cameras and let all their buddies know where there rare valuable parts are at... Some of this is shit 4 the birds.

@@heyrod59 Once I see all of the undercoating I just walk away, you know fucking well that the car was just pieced together for a quick sale.

@butchtropic snowflakes piss me off.

Imagine how long it time to box in both frame rails with patches, just silly.

AMEN, my thoughts exactly, a dead give away.

Or insurance

Amen.

One word, Ego.

did no one ever (or 95% of people)

You said it brother, take it to a shop with a lift too

Was gonna buy a MK2 golf, drove it up on a high curb, got under and the thing was rotten.

it's considered rude in here

The funniest/ most dangerous I've seen is a Subaru with paper mache rocker panels,Lol

People don't believe it when I told them about all the cars I bought for under a grand. Yeah, we had to rebuild them ourselves. We didn't have much money!

Nice ramble :) Maybe hit "Enter" now and then next time, that makes reading easier...

You are correct but modern day "mud" does not crack or soak up water like the old crap. Duraglass is the "new panel in the can"! There have also been "muds" with metal added for those "smart" guys with magnets.....lol

@@johnnyhotrod2608 I used Duraglass 40 years ago for small holes or patch seams because it doesn't absorb water from behind the repair, but the stuff won't feather or cut straight, so it always needed to be topped with the smooth mud. There was also metal-filled mud back then, but it also didn't feather or cut well, and the metal it contained was powdered aluminum. I doubt there has ever been a ferrous metal mud. There's no way to mix enough metal in the resin to make it hold a magnet like solid metal. It would be half plastic and half metal, it would weigh a ton and it would definitely sand and feather like shit.

@Rusty Climber The infamous Rustang. Lol

You're right! I saw a Studebaker at a swap meet some years ago with a beautiful burgundy metallic paint job,tweed interior and roses etched on the windows.Looked trick,right??I knelt down to look underneath of it and the owner didn't even sweep the cobwebs and crap off of the rusty a$$ frame.

LOL yup alot of people think rust is worth its weight in gold

You are right!! Sellers are using the (Great Patina) lingo, for a piece of sh--

Part of the problem is the people that are foolish enough to shell out the 10k that old farmer wants for his rusty, crusty, nothing-special-about-it Camaro, Charger, Mustang, Chevelle, etc sitting out back or the barn. Then after that, these people bring that rust bucket to my shop wanting it restored. Then when I go over the restoration invoice line by line, they get all shocked and upset, and then the nickel and diming starts. How much to do just this? How much to fix just that? Explaining to them that it doesn't work like that gets old. They could have bought a previously restored version already for half the price and been done. I still see run-of-the-mill first gen Camaro's already restored going for mid-30k or less all day long.

Yeah it's real bad. Even the undesirable cars are going for stupid money. What's also annoying is every car has a "special" option that means jacking up the price. I could give a damn about option unless it had to do with the engine

HexagramMan, 6k for a roller 2nd gen isn't even worth the consideration. That guy selling it can keep it for backyard target practice.

👍👍hoooooooooooo

My first car was a 1968 ford fairlane 500, mint condition low miles ran and drove beautifully. from Utah. $350 in about 1980

i agree lower level!

Asteticic

Shinny.

ive patched alot of frames and some 3/16 plate and cardboard templates can make a frame section stronger than factory.. but it cant be pieced together from 2" chunks you need to take the time to make a plate to fit the length and dont skimp on steel add an extra 6-8" onto whatever is rotten find solid good steel to tie into it takes no extra time to make a 24" repair than it does to make an 18" one

remember the good ol days when cars were "clipped" and the sections were brazed together, I saw that hundreds of times.

Find an old person in your neighborhood and ask them where they take their cars. When old folks have found a loyal mechanic, they stick with them.

Yes we did that once and the indy inspector found no rust but when we received the car it was full of bondo, so that is no insurance that it is a good car,

@@rodneyrobbins9526 that's just a crummy mechanic, a good one would have noticed... You need to find a specialist for the type of car you are inspecting if you can find one.

@@rodneyrobbins9526 lol your problem was you went to a mechanic , when you needed to find both a mechanic , and a competent body man. I don't know why so many people skip step two of this process. Most regular passenger /light truck mechanics /technicians don't know shit about body and frame repairs , and vice versa.

Oh man, sorry for your fiasco on that thing...but, you're in good company. There are thousands of guys out there that can tell that same story with different names and slightly different details. Good luck with it man. Keep your eyes on the prize and just keep inching forward

That's the plan!!@@UncleTonysGarage

Like most 70s mopars. Haha. My 71 valiant hasnt even been in an accident....no rust..low miles. (Canada, so youd know the rot, factory undercoat still ) But man the door gaps and alignment are awful on it.

@@tays8306 My first car , when in high school here in Oz . . was a Valiant Regal 770 2 door , long boot Charger with the 265 hemi , straight as a die , no rust , mech A1 for $175

@@benwinter2420 Poorly assmebled mopars seems to be a thing on this continent...atleast in the 70s. 60s stuff seems alot better. Not suprising from the company that circles the bankruptcy drain every decade.

@@tays8306 Mopars were called 'wog chariots' here back then . . the Greek fellows had a particular liking for them , I suppose with their long civilisation . . they knew quality when they saw it

MrJeffcoley1 absolutely agree, old skin on top of a tube chassis

go fuck yourself kraut Greetings from 'Murica

Max & Moritz Ignore that hater! 🤡 Hello, from the USA! ✌

@@firecrow7973 deine Mudda du Nigga

firecrow 797 dude why

Buy one then.

Yeah, we've seen plenty like that, but the catch on this car is that the body and interior are pristine.

@@UncleTonysGarage Its a wonder why nobody ever made re-pop front and rear subframes for mopars, would have saved a lot of cars. Would be perfect for that!

They are available, and have been for some time.

@@MaliciousSRT they do

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