8-DOOR Airport Car '71 Chrysler! Road Trip and Donuts! | Roadkill | MotorTrend

oh look at him look at the majesty of this thing [Music] man so a year and a half ago we bought this thing sight unseen because it's probably the greatest vehicle that we've ever had as a starting point quickly i saw it on instagram yeah yeah but you never saw it in person never saw a video i just knew it was a great idea just knew we had to have it yeah not only is it like the full-on chrysler i think it's a new port but it's got bonus doors check this out count them dave two three four handles on each side yeah you know what the greatest thing about this vehicle is that it's not a limo it's an airport car so it's not designed for like you know the las vegas stripper party it's designed to haul people from an airport to a hotel so it's got one two three four doors on each side and bench seats in each location 12. that's how many people you could fit in here comfortably 16 if you try hard exactly oh look at the mold yuck look at all of the controls on the dash what is that the front seat has headrests built into it it reminds me of the bucket seats in some of your cars yeah this thing's gangster man it needs 10 windows and a big block and a locked rear end and a lot of burnouts for distance yes i can see the snow from where i'm standing by looking through the carpet of the car that's a bad sign but during the summer it won't matter that's like air conditioning it's like opening the bat cave here open says me wow oh can you smell it from here no roadkill car belongs in a shop this nice this looks a lot better than the last time we saw it no it doesn't no it doesn't no it doesn't look at the roof rack dude oh there's a lot of stuff growing in there oh and it stinks yeah it's funky so i will say it again this is not a limo it's an airport car which was a specific thing that existed in the 50s through the mid 70s let's drift this around snow what makes it not a limit what makes it not a limo is that it has four rows of seats limos don't have that there's no partition limo would be a big nice open area back here with just another set of doors you're right like airport cars were before they had like shuttle services at the airport it's actually disgusting it's all moldy it is it stinks i want to drive it but i don't want to be in it they had to put a new big block chrysler in it it's a 400 cubic inch big block they had to deal with suspension brakes they had to throw a section of sheet metal in the front in order to cover the rust holes this big but we're gonna have fun because this thing is absurd and by the way not factory an aftermarket company stretched this thing out and probably did it very sketchy that aftermarket company being stage stageway coaches incorporated body by arm brewster in fort smith arkansas i'm not leaving this building until we clean and disinfect this car oh die spiders die oh they don't want to move oh my god dude [Music] yuck it'll come out ow [Music] holy cow there's no floor there [Music] ah it's heavier than i thought ready [Music] let's go all right let's go ah this is the most disgusting dashboard we've ever had [Music] all right you ready as i'll ever be oh the steering is very stiff it's really loud with no floor oh the fumes are really bad it's been one and a half miles and even i cannot cope with the exhaustion so watch this this is pretty genius we got rubber floor mats and a weighted blanket so we're gonna cover giant holes in the floor with rubber floor mats oh yeah that's gonna work yeah that's pretty good have you seen this floor yeah there we go that's much much better [Music] do you want to weight it down with this dash sure there we go i just joined the wolf pack and the return of homeless dams oh you're back yeah well it's good to see you this is going to keep me alive no shame in my game [Music] ladies not available [Music] wow seems better already oh yeah it actually does it was fuming me out the steering is so strange like but you turn the wheel at least 30 degrees before anything happens so watch this ready oh weird yeah dude i saw that it's like a delayed reaction yeah that makes no sense no evasive maneuvers i've never seen that before that is weird so watch it's going to go to the right right yeah i'm going to start correcting left nothing happening that's pure depth welcome to fargo we're back let's feed this thing through the wood chipper i'm sure they're tired of that joke here all right so there's a roundabout go straight i don't know if we're gonna make it if i go straight all right good luck everybody keep coming made it never done a doughnut in a limo before remember it's 24 feet long donut limo i tell you what never let it be said that we don't listen to our fans because you spoke we heard you loud and clear this limo deserves to be on dirt better yet a banked dirt oval race track like this one the audience continues to challenge us and we continue to answer those challenges yes you can answer it first or am i going to answer it first i actually want to watch i got to be honest oh yeah so i'm up don't break it i'll stand on the infield i you get four laps one warm-up two hots one cool down here we go okay i've got eight doors a 20 foot wheelbase a two barrel with no power oh i can actually fling it a little bit here it's so majestic looking as it goes around [Music] and here all right here comes lap number one oh look at that hanging it out there all the way through turn one oh yeah oh oh it doesn't have enough power to carry it [Music] boom all right that was a 25.14 second lap oh he's getting aggressive now [Music] oh this is a mess [Music] [Applause] oh did i throw a tire something feels weird did he break it no you can't have broken it already i haven't gone yeah something went wrong oh he blew a tire did i flaw tyler you peeled the tire off the rim ah that's what i thought it's on the rim it just popped dude that's weird i can break anything um and i know this is gonna sound a lot like a or a lose the shot moment but we lose the track in an hour we can't we do i mean we don't have a spare right like that's it well i dove the thing into the turn up here and that right front tire just dug into the dirt because the thing weighs so much and the dirt's so thick we were hoping we could pop it back on the bead with the uh can of air but it looks like there's a hole on the inside well that was short-lived that limits our options here you want to do some laps on three tires okay okay mike finnegan freestyle so he's gonna go out on the flat tire and see what kind of fun he can have in this thing it is uh roadkill with more doors and less floors here we go oh it pulls to the right immediately all right oh man that thing looks ridiculous you know this car is actually more hilarious than i've given it credit for it doesn't want to turn very well he said i ran 25 and a half seconds he is going faster than i was right now he's also not sliding it 28 five three seconds slower when he's down handicapped by one tire oh he's hauling now i hope he's having fun oh he might be faster this time 23 24 25 that tire is coming apart hard oh i think i lost my tire he's really pushing it i have a feeling he wants to kill the motor [Music] 27 8. i gotta stop the engine is so not heavy [Music] that does not breathe good 27 8 was your best that was all she had you were handicapped i it was handy capable i felt good about that it was fun let's look at this tire new sport limo racing on three wheels when you got eight doors you only need three tires you just don't care so we're gonna keep on going finnegan once again laying it down on bare rim ooh burnout oh he runs over his own tire and the doors fly open let's see what he does [Music] oh sliding it a little bit oh i needed a wider lens the thing's 24 feet long oh i broke the gas pedal didn't see that coming ah he's coasting to a stop it's still running we might be done here we're stuck what did you do i broke the gas pedal this is not a failure failure there is no throttle cable it's gone the car is not dead i say we keep it oh absolutely there's more fun to be had with this you take the boring car you move it to a different place you have more fun clearly the dirt track was where this thing belonged its whole life boring is as boring does indeed i'll see you next time on roadkill [Music] you

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Length: 13min 10sec (790 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 05 2022