Dead Man's Curve Hot Rod Club (Director's Cut)

here comes that guy from dead man's curve those hooligans [Music] [Applause] you're all insane we get that a lot thank you hi i'm dennis gage and welcome to my classic car well this week we're in montville new jersey at the world famous hot rod farm to visit the dead man's curve car club do you ever see a fork club with this kind of cars though no it's pretty crazy i've known these guys for quite a while and they're one of the more interesting casts of characters i've ever met are you all out on the work release thing the weekend pretty much yeah and they build some of the wildest cars i've ever seen gasser vets i just it just doesn't seem to go together usually but for you guys it does well corvette people hate you right off the bat i believe that so i thought let's get the guys together and have them bring some of their cars over we'll just see what happens i'm feeling this is kind of a normal time for you guys so let's see what happens why the obsession with gassers it's just cool it's just you know which is cool it's all about the look everything about cars and horsepower and motors and metal working and this is what we do we all got our own garages at home the whole set up and ready to go you guys live this life though oh yeah if you're gonna build the gas or you're hanging with the best yes yes absolutely absolutely but you got to be accepted i was made you know it's like one of those things you all just told me nuts yeah we like to be different that about sums it up just about summed it up so start your end it's fun with the show rich this is really all your fault is that right all right you could say that here at the world famous hot rod farm and this is one of the cars that started it all is that true yes yes so dead man's curve car club since 78 1978 when did you build this uh i finished it in 1976. i started in 74 put it on the road in black primer in 75 painted in my farm born in 76 and most of it's the original lacquer paint that i did back then so i mean back in 76 and were gassers in this neck of the woods big things were other people building these were you kind of out there well it was all the rage in the early 70s this is a little extreme it's what you call a street freak you couldn't get them jacked up high enough back in the day the whole drag race scene in the 60s came over onto the street in the 70s in the early 70s so there's a lot of this stuff going on and you know i just basically wanted to look really wild really cool and uh be streetable and you've became kind of the master of these straight axles yeah i've probably done 50 of them or more in cars a lot of the club guys a lot for other guys and uh we got it down to a science works really well the steering everything works really good on the street and you will put it on anything from what i've seen oh yeah you don't don't care the crazier the car the crazier it ends up you know raider wheels yeah what are the odds yeah go figure yep something i loved ever since i was a kid in the 60s how long have you been doing the wheels 20 years 20 years yes so what's the engine in this thing it's a 327 chevy corvette motor bought it brand new in the crate in 1975. wow paid 400 for it undid the crate i should have bought 10 of them but you know you bought one from chevrolet and uh yeah put it in uh took the double bump heads put on it and uh i've run it over a hundred thousand miles we freshened the motor up three years ago you've run this over a hundred thousand yeah that's that's four hundred thousand quarter miles yes there you go yes that's quite a few yeah how about the hood i mean is that something that i can barely see again at the time the l88 hood was all the rage in the early 70s oh yeah that's what that is isn't it yeah and uh yeah it was an aftermarket we bonded it onto the steel hood and it's uh it's just i always like tear drop scoop but i went with the l88 and it's kind of been a signature to this particular car you got a pretty cushy interior in it for yeah it's a little worn out probably needs a upgrade but it's a little freshening yeah so this has been rolling around montville new jersey since 76. yes painted like you said painted like this just pretty much yep wow so that's that's pretty crazy and pretty wild and out there but i saw your woody that 39 woody yeah let's go look at that because that's awesome absolutely this is cool now this this is great this is a 39 yes right where'd you find this thing because i mean this looks kind of like how you found it yes 39 deluxe found it in a garage in new jersey uh the fenders were flapping it was kind of smashed and dilapidated two years ago i did this sheet metal over all the wood's original just cleaned it up put a new roof on it i wanted the look that a surfer would have found maybe in the garage in the early 60s and went to the beach with the surfboards so you haven't gassered it up or anything no i actually lowered it if you can believe that i'm shocked i'm absolutely shocked and and uh it's pretty running the same engine yeah original flathead v8 i just bought a 53 flathead v8 from a pickup truck i'm gonna put two twos on it aluminum heads do a full dress flatty but right now it's a stock motor with a one carburetor and this trim was original to it yes yeah that's all original i polished all the stainless bars on the grill i redid the headlight rings the repros don't fit had to redo the old ones yeah i actually got a lot of plans i wanted a leather interior rover original leather like i like i like the rugs yeah yeah those are cheap seat covers it's original yes yep and even the wooden uh the wooden yeah all the original yep all original stuff yeah you'd i i could see you going to the beach in this absolutely do you do much surfing in jersey i've done some i'm not real good at it uh i believe it or not i was up on that hanson superlate board the bright yellow one there yeah long time ago it's since gotten pretty beat up schlepping it around the garage in the shop and on and off cars you know but uh it's it's all about the look and and and it's all about with dead man's curve it's all kind of about the camaraderie too this is an interesting bunch of guys yes yep and and how did it you know just three guys started it and uh we just loved all the cars from the early to mid 60s um we loved the music you know surf music um all the hot rods all the cars from the 60s and uh it just grew it grew and you're still doing it yes you're still doing it yes it's 78 yes unbelievable you're my hero well you're my hero thank you sir [Music] now ed this is one of the original cars in the club is that right correct yes so built when i i got it in 1978 i traded my 55 chevy for it originally what didn't look like this obviously no i mean was it a stock vet or no it was an old drag car it had a 427 uh 69 l88 motor in it pretty cool but it was it was never finished you know and then i took it all apart and i took the engine out which i shouldn't have but um and i put a small block in it but this thing's been rolling around since the late 70s just like this too just like riches yes one of the original cars you must be one of the original members yeah yeah one of the founding members yeah you're rich and another guy and you guys just live to tell about it yeah yeah yeah fortunately yes so was she was she lifted like this was she raised like this when you got it when i got it no um it originally had stock suspension yeah i had the spacer plates in it to you drop the front end down and then years later i was like it's not high enough we always wanted to do a gasser it's a gas or vet yeah so we went even higher and so you still run a 350 or it's a 327 327 2500 carburetors it looks like a period manifold there too where do you guys stuff what do you find didn't change the interior much no it's basically a stock interior i changed the color to rugs you know i chromed out the dash yes i saw that in a 1967 magazine with an old drag car that had that done everybody said you don't want to chrome it because the sun when you drive it's going to reflect well yes i understand that but i just move my head a little bit the roll bar is an old moon roll bar i was told but i've known only one other one in existence so original founding member um hung with this group since 78 what would you say characterize this dead man's curve the friendship yeah just how well everybody gets along um like i said it's all friends before car club and then if everybody's into the same thing we just go from there and it's all about the cars it's all about the cars so 59 vet that's been totally gasser and i'm sure the corvette guys are just thrilled about that oh yeah oh yeah they love it they just totally love it but i gotta tell you it's it's one bad bet thanks i love it thanks thank you you're insane yep and you remember we're watching my classic car with [Music] so mary when i when i met you at the wild hot rod party and then we saw you again at the wild hot rod weekend uh you know you had the the green willies i mean it's a spectacular car you said you brought that again today yep as well as three other cars so so let's let's start here because falcons are near and dear to my heart you got a 63 260. really near and dear to my heart but this is an interesting car not only is it a gasser which is pretty insane but it's a future a sprint sprint's future right yep great little car and because it's a sprint it's got the bucket seats because of the future it's like dressed up a little bit more so why'd you gaster the falcon well i was inspired by an old isca show car called tarantula and i like the look and uh you know we we're really into the gassers and i you know i figured i'd like like why not why not why not i love it though i love it but then but then you bring this baby this this that this is awesome man this is a fun car i wanted to have something that we could just like around with that night it's a mags it's really amazing it's a 1965 mags yup where did you find this these are actually in queens queens new york yeah man yeah i had to have it and i did a few mods and i just having fun with it you know it's a good it's a good tool around everyday fun car fun car and a true classic but i tell you absolutely the one that just knocked me out is the tub the tub the tub you know the tub yeah yeah the tub let's go look at that they're tough all right yeah this is it this is this is a show stopper this thing is crazy this is so 60s extreme that's the whole idea dud tub so what's the deal what do we got well it's a it's a 1923 t-touring car it's a it's a glass body it's a steve archer body he only made like a hundred of them so it's a very rare win in 1969 69 69 yep the car was built in 1972 by famed hot rod builder randy bianchi and it went through a few hands and another club member actually dave hanley uh had bought it uh in the early 90s he did the radicalness to it and then i just and then i took it from there and and i did it my way uh and then i redid it about five years ago to this way so um this setup that is a weigh-in six deuce carburetor set up on top of a blower as you can see uh i had made these pipes a 67.5 degree bend uh for the scoops i want something higher to raise over the roof of course you give it to the radical look of course and pin striped inside yeah had that all done uh actually the guy who originally built it randy bianchi came back and he he tuned up to carburetors and made all this linkage and made it actually work on the road and they're not leaking they're not leaking i can't but that wasn't easy that was not easy it took some time but we got it straight and that thing runs like like a clock you're not a tall guy thank god no you couldn't sit in here well you could you actually yeah you it's actually comfortable once you're in here because it's actually stretched the seat was taken back this was originally was a four seater tub car so dave originally when he had gotten the car he had put in the seat back more so you'd have more leg room in here and made of storage in the back and i had made this all this uh compartments in here for storage and is that the gas filter that's a gas fill in there that fills it up this is so cool you guys are thank you insane you're all you're all just totally nuts yeah we like well they to be different you know where and uh and i think this uh that was how to make that statement that would then this this car makes a statement it really definitely makes and it's a fun car to drive too tough the tub love it yes well jeff this looks pretty healthy what's your history with the club well i'm actually the fourth member really all right there was a rich ed and a friend of ours keith that started the club back like 78 78 right and i came around in 78 and a half 79 and i was always into cars and i met these guys hanging out at burger king and the rest as they say yeah that's right exactly right so this is gorgeous i mean this is one shiny shiny ride for this group of course you've got some shiny rides in this room what do you have 32 right what's the engine it's a small block chevy with a wind blower on it she's pushing about 500 and something horsepower i guess yeah rear um most of the work was done right here at the hot rod farm actually the welding and everything is that is that really what you guys i mean do you really hang out here and just work on each other's cars um to an extent which does most of the welding here for us he's the uh welder yeah so he does a lot of it and then he helps us fabricate the stuff and then we take it back to our own garage most of us and finish whatever we're gonna do put the motor in you know so you have a shop too you work out or your own place it's yeah yeah i guess it's the shop ten car garage which is yeah yeah it is a shop out of shops yeah the contracting business in this is pretty well full [Laughter] so all the crewmen and everything you you know did you build all this stuff too or yeah yeah we you know we uh um fabricate it up rough it up and everything send it out to the chromer and it's like ah muscle chrome that you'll see if you come to my shop and see the satellite that i'm building you'll see it's like you might as well chrome that and it's like might as well okay that's damn i'm gonna polish this and it's like if it's not shiny it's not good you're you're a shot you're definitely a shiny guy and man you're a red interior guy too that is right is that is that like a corvette red that's a well what we call lipstick red yeah yeah right man rich was like he was a little nervous he's like i don't know how that's going to look with the we were going to put flames on his car and he goes man it looks so sweet like that he goes let's just leave it let's not put flames on this thing it's just it does i mean it's clean this thing is really really clean is this an original body or is this it's a brookville huh yeah uh that's new metal that's kind of a nice way to go yeah so we uh we did her up right and uh yeah man just your basic black single strand of pearls right and everything's got well almost everything's got to have a roll bar in our cloud as you probably noticed as you look around actually some of the horsepower you guys are pumping on it's not a bad idea yeah if you have a roll bar yep exactly this is definitely a good bunch of guys to to hang out they're great guys we you know if somebody needs to some help or something we're all we're all there to chip in or whatever you know whether it's a build or crazy i mean that there's there's a wild hot rod party that happens here that's i was here a few years ago that's a blast yeah oh yeah wild hot rod weekend yeah which is exploding oh my god since you were there we doubled the capacity we just blew it we blew it right out of water it's cool though i mean it's really cool yeah it it is and uh and we can't figure it out but hey it's happening that's a sweet ride man this is a sweet 32 but but wait there's more you have another one here yes i do i got a totally different theme yep my original car that i actually actually i bought after i got in the club i had a nova at first and then we went to that wow 64 vets so you've had this for a while yeah like like what's a while 79 that's a while i believe yeah uh 5 000 i think i paid for it which actually a little bit of work to it um restored it kind of was was really good shape i had it that was actually red and i kind of got lambasted a little bit for painting it black but i just like black vehicles as you're considering myself apparently so is it still stock engine and everything pretty well whatever it's a little dirty right now but it's it's again it's got the chrome yeah there's some chrome in there yeah and you've really had this for a long long time yeah i have as a matter of fact um i met my wife and kind i can't sell it kind of has a little bit to do with her um and the whole uh marriage thing uh this blind date and she she they really didn't like me she actually hated me on my first date and a lot of times that's a good thing yeah because she goes uh uh the guy i'm gonna marry is gonna has a red vet and i go i just happen to have one no you don't i took her out to my garage which is separate from my house at the time i said this that's not yours i go absolutely is and she won't let me sell it and we're married 31 31 years this week i guess the only thing i don't understand you've been with the band i've been with the band since like 78 and neither of these are gassers i am that's the one i have in the garage i knew it found an oddball uh 66 plymouth satellite out in california oh man so i had it delivered right here to the world famous high ride farm world famous hot rod and i wasn't here because i was awake for the weekend go figure and rich goes you got to see this thing jeff i bought a sight unseen it was immaculate not a bit of rust on it it had so much undercoating that had the original overspray still underneath or whatever once i scraped it off so that that's going to be your game that that's it that's it it's in the shop right now and it's almost done it'll be coming out for a wild weekend this year oh man and uh i might have to get by and see that you might have just started to get me you might have to cool stuff my man all right good talking to you and uh um thanks for coming out to the world famous hot rod hey how could i how could i not and a beautiful day enjoyed so danny you brought three cars today i got three three this this one wasn't very nice how many had this this one i had about 10 years and like all three cars have either been barn finds or garage finds really so i mean this looks like an old drag car actually it was so what's the engine 400 yeah with it i mean that high-rise manifold is looked like from back in the day it's from the 60s it's period correct you know with the duals and you know everything here is just stuff that you would build back in the day you got a stock dash into things yeah yeah it's all stock and look at the gauges i mean they're the original old 60 sun gauges well how about the seats though they're where they from those things if you could see they were painted they're they're out of a camaro which of course upholstery they call it dye yeah it's painted [Laughter] it's got three and a half inch off the headers instead of like the normal that's why it sounds the way it rumbles yeah it really does yeah we did it special right now you guys then you got the rat pink uh distribute back here yeah this is uh for big daddy yeah absolutely that's what i grew up with all this building his models and everything like that right down to the uh you got the you got the tattoo i got the reference tattoo right on me you really you're serious joel sophie painted it on there for me so is this i mean there it is original four banger right there this there was something to it when i got it there was mice living inside it we took it inside yeah we took it completely apart um that's the original right there this is back in the day this is a 31 this is where they stored tools really yup this was for tools when guys were working on it and they put their tools right up here and it was easier for them to work this is another one that looks just amazingly solid this came out of a barn or something like this yeah believe it or not this is from the conklin family where we're here today farm and it was in a barn and everything you see you know i just pinstriped it cleaned it up and threw some wrapping memorabilia i mean you've redone the interior i mean that can't be original right this is the way i found it just like this yeah i have no history on this interior whatsoever yeah except for all the dust and mice that we're living on does she run pretty good though yeah she starts right up yeah she she purrs you know and then of course no it's a rumble there's the rumble seat you can't dig it you know is this was this where they the rear amount for the this a spare yeah you step to the rumble seat oh yeah you just you give it one of these and you're in and you were in boom yeah okay one two what's the third car the third car is the nova oh the no let's go for a walk okay so this this one's uh not not quite the cream puff to some of the other all right take a good look at this this was found in yonkers new york in a garage this guy had an old man it's basic 100 body it was a six cylinder three on the tree and i fell in love with it but if you look real close at it there's a lot of dings and dents you know it's patinated it looks like original paint it's original paint i haven't done anything to it were you doing gassers before you started hanging with the the dead man's curve guys or is this part of the disease you caught it when you started hanging with them no my disease started when i was in the 60s when i was a kid for a long time and then you know when i hooked up with these guys and i saw rich's 55 which has been around since 1974 that was it i mean you know got to do it and this is what we do and this thing's got a 400 in it and with the torque this thing throws i mean we did everything like everything i did here these are all hand built and stuff like you would back in the day yeah man i mean we flattened them out yeah we flattened them out and the reason i did this and we reinforced the body underneath this motor's so strong in his car oh yeah almost blew the black back window out so so how about you so the axle and everything where where'd that setup come from rich did it did he did he make it i mean yeah and that's what rich specializes in is the straight axle look he did the whole underneath for me yeah man i mean it looks like i'm serious i got 373s in the rear and again i have the uh cherry bomb set up and it's loud like the 55. you got dents just in the right places oh yeah i haven't touched the body what you see right right you haven't touched the interior either right no no that's all original interior and i even left this to remember to remember it by nobody buys that though oh yeah you got to say oh yeah but you do get people that shows going 600 let me fire it up no but it gets a lot of attention you know wherever it goes because it's loud and it's got that look and i just want i didn't want anything fancy i just wanted it you know plain jane i love it and it rumbles it ruffles it rumbles i dig it [Applause] [Music] so michael 57 bird yes sir that's kind of a well there's a lot of different cars here this and you're one of the younger guys in the club i am i'm how'd you pull that off i've been around these guys since i was 14 years old wow my father was into cars he brought me around the farm i got to know rich and uh i just start hanging out you're here yeah well this is an interesting one though i mean these aren't usually hot rodded no no no it's it's usually not um i i found the car it was actually for sale here at the spring fever show three years ago i wanted to do a t-bird as a gasser or or a hot rod after the show was over and everything like that i started thinking about it and i called rich up and said hey do you know who owned that t-bird i was at the farm do you know if it's sold he knew who it was he knew where it went so i went there mario met me that monday we looked at a whole car over it needed a few things it was sitting for a while so you're going to turn into a gasser i mean this is a dead man's curve you know yeah yeah it's going to have a straight axle is it really yeah so you're really going to do you're going to do a gasser out of this yeah that was my intent it's got a real different look to it kind of a funky look you know it's not skirted or anything like that yeah the dog dish absolutely yeah it was ordered very bare bones it was ordered with the uh the 312 versus the 292 that was standard with it it had a three-speed overdrive seat belts and power steering and that was it oh that's pretty cool that was it so so what's what's it like hanging with these guys i mean these these are some cool you know they're like my big brothers yeah you know i you know i have a big brother but these guys are you know they're my big brother yeah yeah i don't know how else to explain it they're uh they're wild yeah yeah well guys if you're gonna build the gas or you're hanging with the best yes yes absolutely absolutely 37 pretty cool oh another gasser what are the odds what are the others so buick yep skylark 1966 66 scarlock two-door hardtop there was a little ladies car when we first bought it rich richard brought her home one afternoon and i pulled in i said oh that's got to have that does he do that like he just brings things home he yeah he does that a lot one of the things that caught my eye though right off the bat where were these scoops what are they from back in the day too they're not they're actually not they're just they're re-pops but they're cast so they look pretty cool pop the hood i want to see absolutely also i mean so you got the nail head in there yeah it's a 65 425 buick nail head man that is a really strong engine yeah it's very strong a lot of horsepower a lot of lots of torque a lot of tools a lot of torque and uh we got a turbo 400 trans from larry put that in there and uh just isn't automatic so it's just very comfortable to drive it's a really powerful fun car to drive and you can really see the road when you're sitting absolutely when you're sitting up that high absolutely and and is this another uh rich creation on yeah yes it is yeah we all we all got together with some with parts and pieces and everybody helping me so yeah that's what you guys do here absolutely absolutely everybody everybody shows up chips and it helps everybody build cars grind torch absolutely the whole thing yeah it's a good time man i mean it looks it looks right the other thing i mean you you guys take these cars and you don't do much to the body i mean this is again this is the kind of it's the it's the 66 skylark yeah it's the original paint original you know body so and and original interior too original interior you haven't even changed it you threw a towel and that's about it right there's really nothing some gauges you can trust what i've always liked about these cars uh and 66 and seven in the gm was just flying absolutely back window that's just a that's just the coolest absolutely very cool why why the obsession with gassers in this group well but it's just a very nostalgic you know back in the day it's drag racing yeah it's just cool it's just cool it's cool you know they're fun cars to build they're fun cars to ride in you know to work on i really dig how some of you guys don't mess with the paint jobs so this is what a 66 paint job will look like today absolutely man and how long you been with the club about eight years yeah what an interesting bunch of characters we get that a lot thank you we haven't heard that before very interesting yeah some of them you know a couple years older than me but uh they've they've taught me a lot you know we have a good really good time together well and here at the world famous hot rod farm absolutely man i love it man and it's i heard it this is a rowdy car you don't ever take this track around yeah no no just just for fun run at the home depot stuff like that yeah yeah beautiful i love it 66 skylark whoo another cream puff here mike now this is most of these things are like hopped up fire breathing monsters this is a bit of a different take on it yeah this is uh you know how i sees an old 50s you know hot rod a whole four banger in there yeah uh and i wanted to leave it traditional you know everyone asks when you're going to finish it it's done it's done what do you mean there's other cars i'm working on that'll be more like some of these other ones that are out here i've only owned this car 37 years got it right out of high school but this is just a fun car to run around i think i spend more time working on it than driving that's what other guys have said too in fact you took some flack from these guys i don't know like they don't seem like that kind of people no i'm not no they're they're all gentlemen yeah no perfect gentleman those trailers are around the corner they sign the flap but it's a lot of fun i mean just earlier this week uh head was off it had to go through it it had got some water in it seized up so i had it all apart honed it all out back together pistons back in it so these are actually pretty easy to pull apart put back together right pretty simple they're they're babbitted bearings okay so long they're in good shape but you can actually drop the oil pan on this on this baby and with the head off obviously you can pull the pistons out of it and go in there and you know if your cylinder's in good enough shape just put a good hone on it and uh re-ring it and put it back together what's the what's the carb setup well first of all this is a a 30 it's a 31 the car but it's a 32 uh model b you know 32 roaster four banger uh and it is uh this is an old zephyr manifold from the 50s and these carburetors are stromberg 81s i mean everyone runs to 97. and so on but but with 97's two of them are too large unless you've got some big kids you just drowned it you drown it exactly so the 81's actually has a 7 8 strong play versus the uh a one inch on the 97s and a small inventory so they run real well on there which would you find the zephyr i mean that's a 50s piece you know one of the fellows a friend of the club actually had that manifold and i bugged and bugged and bugged them and and finally sold it to me and right after i bought it i found another one that bought me of course that was so it that is a wind high compression aluminum head on there that was an nos piece in the box when i bought it wow it has an anson valve cover it was just neat 50s speed equipment on it how about the exhaust side i made that pipe for it yeah put weld that all together uh nickel plated i didn't want to put paint on it or chrome which are not worthy of chrome no but i did a little nickel plate to keep it from rusting in there and it you know it obviously blew it up and changed colors you can see the different color line right here that's because it's where the baffle starts okay so you know that gives it a cool look yeah yeah it's neat uh you know it i run this thing strong and hard it's got a very uh rare wicco mag model x magneto and what makes it rare is wikileaks a lot of magnetos for the four bangers and the four cylinders and a lot of industrial stuff but this particular mag uses an external coil i saw that yeah yeah trying to figure that out and and you know obviously he's got the you know the port here for plugging the coil wire into all the others and i have a bunch of them uh or all internal coils but this one runs real strong now again was another nos piece i bought years ago uh before guys find all this stuff you know it's ebay it's a wonderful thing for the car hobbies it is and you know we go out to carlisle uh and to hershey swap meets and just dig throughout when we spend days out there and just just search for people's junk and you know you find beautiful things out there once in a while and it's it's just part of the fun of hot rodding yeah man this is because this is cool yeah it's neat you know it's got obviously the raider wheels obviously the raiders gotta have the theme rich calls these greaters because i don't polish them and i i had to make wheel adapters and so on for them that is a wicco tachometer again they put those out they were used on boats and believe it or not police cars wow so it kind of matches the magneto yeah yeah i've got a mitchell uh tamale transmission but it's a mitchell version which has synchro second and third gear oh wow so it makes a lot more fun driving it and i've got my nice uh mexican seat covers very nice they work for you know a little bit of rust but i don't think you're probably gonna address that either no not now it's a later date i've got two other projects i'm working on so once they're together i may decide to do something you know but right now i love it the way it is it's you know it's got character it's got character yeah like like most of the people in this club it's got we all have a unique you have things about each of us yeah that's a nice way to play yeah no respect no none at all cool man 31. i love it man well rich it's great to see you again i mean the first time uh i met you was actually at the world famous hot rock for the wild hot rod party and had the green pilot which is just a magnificent thank you my 48 that's just i love that car this is this is insane when i saw this from afar i thought oh it's a rambler it's not and plus steering wheel's on the wrong side yeah at least in my this is book cortina ford cortina right ford cortina what they call a mach 1 cortina and you've had this since uh i think it was 74.75 it was my first car i was still in high school so it was my high school like over in england in england um and i started hot rodding way back in the early 70s and then we did a five-inch roof chop on it well you've done something so you've done some work on yeah i've had it many many years and was hot riding that big in 73 back in england it was all right it really kicked in wow it was going pretty good in the 60s and then um for me 70s it really kicked in so you did all sorts of cutting and chopping up here too not only did you chop it here but you had to what else have you done when you when we chop you change the aperture of the windshield so rather than lay the windshield back we chop the roof straight down the middle yeah and then straight across that way added in three inches here and about five inches here and then weld it all back together and then letted it out it's easier to make the steel fit the glass and vice versa yeah glass doesn't bend no it does really early all that chopping and sectioning and leading and everything 73 ish around 73. i know i'd say the chopping was probably around 75 and then we were playing with different engines different gearboxes and then we had put the axle in the front and this this is a whole this whole nose tilts and i i cut the whole front of the car i've done away with the inner fenders and everything get designed dude can you tilt it or is it lie down just sit down you don't have the daimler in here anymore what's what's the engine we changed it out to 250 now head which is the riva vehicle like from the sp250 that that hemi that yes oh that's an interesting engine yeah yeah nice really steep and funny carburetion system and everything 2su carburetors lovely little engine you had it over there but you brought over how did you get over here anyway uh come over in 2000 had an opportunity to move to the states yeah and then meet up with these guys yes wow all the places i came to new jersey but i love it i love jersey i love the people yeah it's great and i love the guys in the club are just so much fun well this this is i mean it's a wild card but you came rolling in in this blue bomb over here i love it let's go let's check this baby okay you know there's a lot to look at here there really is and you know not least which course the engine but but i think what caught my eye when when you came in was the roof on this car this is a 34 this is 34. but you but it's a solid steel roof yeah this was a this is factory built most of them came with the canvas insert right because henry couldn't produce them with one piece this was made for export only they were exported to south america and south africa i found this in argentina just the body and shipped it back and purely because i wanted it with a one point a one piece still roof uh because the compound is correct it looks awesome yeah it is it is and they also they did 32s as well we really can't find out why um henry had him dumb but he did and all for export in all time south america south africa south africa south america how many do you think they did i would say a couple of hundred because they do show up really yeah they do show up well then and then of course you slapped in three thirty one three one yeah there's a smaller one of the two because it's got runs a 39 um ford top loader trans three speed 392 would just smash it to pieces having said that i'm on my third trans and my second rear so you know so and the manifold setup and i mean are you running all six of them yeah all six all six run i idle on the center two and the other four are on progressive uh they all run you can tell because they leak yeah right and uh this is the x3 edelbrook manifold which is um pretty hard to come by i think i was told they made 50 of them wow so is that polished yes okay yeah you tap on my fingers [Laughter] they used to be a lot longer right yeah and these are these are pretty honking buckets too yeah this was a carlisle find uh there were 20 bucks and i just we're in terrible shape or now they're brand new in a box you're kidding for 20 bucks i offered him 15. but oh this i mean this is beautiful i love the pilot the cartina is great but this is just and it's the roof i mean all of it's great but the roof is so good yeah the roof was a lot of work and you i mean you actually have a shop nearby too right yep you know mostly cars for myself and a few other little bits and pieces i do just just for that just yeah right just for the fun pretty fun bunch to hang out with her oh my god don't understand you've been to our show [Music] [Music] i'm enjoying this this is just a small snippet of the the cars and the phone this is the club this is as big as some car shows and it's just a club and it's not all the club cars no we've we're about 39 40 today we we've probably still got 15 20 at home we've got a lot of cars on the construction right now i love it now yeah it's good dennis it's good fun very cool very cool rich thanks dennis [Music] well johnny this is cool 50 57 chevy and you're like the newest member of the club is that right long time friends uh but about a year and a half ago uh you became i became an official dead man's curse officials dead man's group remember what an honor yeah it actually is actually it is it is a great bunch of guys and this is a great car this is an interesting car um you know one of the things that i noticed right off the bat was the teardrop hood i mean that's a kind of a classic ford hood performance hood and you put on a chevy always you get some crap for that no i don't really no no i really don't a lot of you know a lot of people say wow that's it's different and i just try to do different things like the flames and the hood and uh yeah man i think i always love the uh the hoods so i decided to put one on after i saw it on a 55 chevy uh at another show so what's under the hood i have a 396. 69 396. oh dressed up pretty nice too yeah did a little bit of pinstriping uh on the valve covers uh used to be a lot of chrome but i kind of detuned it a little and went this route did it fit in okay yeah one thing with these here i didn't use motor mounts i used a hurst motor mount in the front so it gave me room to pull it forward and i never had to dimple the uh the firewall or anything so it fit right in with plenty of room yeah well then yeah i mean you know you got it's not a gasser i'm shocked i mean you're not sitting up three feet yeah no i'm not no i'm not i may raise the nose up a little uh we got some uh ball joint spacers that'll be done down the road yeah but um also got another project coming up so i mean really i mean this is a you know one of the more tame looking cars here yeah yeah and it's not that chain yeah no no it's uh got a 400 automatic in it with a um 12-volt posi out of a nova in the rear and of course uh slicks and raider wheels of course it's just a good driver i've driven i've had this now 31 years this month no kidding yeah so and you and you've known these guys forever so you've been coming yeah i've been very good friends with with rich since like god 79 about a year after uh he formed the club and i just got to know the guys year after year and i've been up here i come up here a lot to help rich and uh yeah and then after a while i was an associate member and then uh about a year and a half ago right in one of the barns they uh they officially uh is it amazing is it like is it like the secret ceremony this cabal well it's like you know i used the word i was made you know it's like one of those things but it's just a great bunch of guys we have passion for cars and uh yeah and i just i take it everywhere i drive it everywhere it's just beautiful driver thank you very much yeah i got another 10 right that's a 210 sport coupe and they made 22 000 of that body style they were supposed to be bel airs the mar they the sales were dropping back then i had met up with a guy from terrytown yeah he was a worker there so they said well let's do something with the no post so they said why don't we make it a 210 and put sport coupe on it and they produced 22 000 of these because the bel airs didn't have this did they bel air had all the way to here okay that's any insert uh-huh okay and then the 210 kept it a short arm and uh just chevrolet on it so i filled it in with some some flames johnny nice 396. thank you but next time that front end needs to be higher you're right i got another project uh working on um doing a 1927 model t and you like a shop your place or just no no right here right here here at the farm yeah it's a beautiful thing thank you very much i appreciate it yeah definitely uh alex this is a this is a real sweetheart now you're actually one of richard's son so you grew up right here on the world famous hot rod farm right yeah and it's been in the fam for almost 100 years yeah yeah 100 years this year so so 1916 same year as a car and this is a 1916. yes sir what is this it is a maxwell touring car really i mean this isn't maxwell engaging no no that you just tricked this up this was a maxwell two-door touring car it was a four-door oh okay um there was a tree that grew through the middle of it so we didn't have the middle section so we just kind of shortened it up it just so happened that the back door is lined up with the front cowl and uh it fits pretty nicely on the monolay chassis this is something you just created out of bits and pieces in the in the barn yeah just out of spare parts we had laying around for the most part so what's the engine 350 283 283 my goodness it's 283. yeah it was at an impala super sport we had here the car was totally rotted to the ground but it still ran and drove so we there there we pulled the motor out and what are these from the headers um my dad found them at a swap meet they were off an old dragster and they fit huh yeah they work it goes with the car you know so um you've just hacked this stuff together how long have you had it in in the current condition uh i think about four or five years oh no kidding yeah wow yeah take it to a couple shows i don't go too far you know i wouldn't either it actually rides way nicer than it looks you know i mean it does i'll tell you that much what was it what was it like uh growing up here it was very interesting i thought it was very very very different you know everything was about cars and horsepower and motors and metal working and whatever else you know it sounds like pretty good time to me yeah yeah so a 1916 maxwell two-door touring car 283 chev maxwell headlights model a grille shell dragster headers i mean just bits and pieces from everywhere right yeah that about sums it up just about sums it up thanks alex way cool well larry this is probably one of the tamest vehicles here i'm the conservative one are you the the anchor on that on that wing someday yeah so what do we have we got a 71 chevy pickup small block automatic very close cleaned up very clean yeah and dropped down a bit yeah lowered you know uh most things here are raised this group likes them high yeah but you're just being a contrarian here yeah kind of an anchor somewhere gotta have it so how long you had this uh probably about five or six years and this was something you just wanted to you you wanted this look you wanted the i'm into these pickup trucks i do a lot of them this one i bought actually as a parts truck when i started taking it apart turned out it was too good to break up for pieces so i ended up doing it so you did the interior up really nice too i mean it's the houndstooth upholstery and and the embossed door panels i mean yeah a little upgrading there are 72 panels in a 71 truck they're nicer style yeah and the houndstooth probably not original in the truck but it just gives it a little more pizzazz yeah it looks really nice i mean it's it's it's all it's all very blue it's very fishy you don't like blue you're not gonna like you're not just trucking i'm surprised this isn't you're tired yeah yeah yeah right matches the tires did you do this work at your place or do it here no i do i've got my own barn i do my own work okay this is a hobby so you just uh build different things build cars build hot rods and stuff like for you know just just for fun it's kind of what all you guys do so exactly we're all doing we all got our own garages at home the whole set up and ready to go you guys lived this life though oh yeah yeah well they've been in it all our lives and it's right from the beginning there are worse things to blow a bunch of money on and you can blow a bunch of money in boy and it's getting worse it's tough to keep these things on the road and build them no doubt about it it looks great though 71 chef very nice thank you well this is cool thank you very much so dave what what do we look at what year this is a 34 ford cab uh it's original steel cab bought it as a kind of an abandoned project came out at a tennessee from jason graham hot rods jason graham was working this yeah this was jason graham when it was built started buildings for somebody and he got transferred in the army i believe or air force oh so that's that's what ended the project yeah and so he just wanted to get rid of it and it's this car actually came out of a shop about a week before the shop burned down oh really weird but that's another story but anyway it's a completely custom built chassis it's uh you know drop beam it's a 396 uh 350 horsepower stock and then i did it over wow the pipes are handmade so i mean you you do that kind of with the guys here you yeah i build all my own stuff and i drive it all yeah got a shop and stuff yeah it's all built in my house over in north jersey man thanks and you just do this for this you're just doing this for yourself i'm in the asphalt business so i get paid three or four months vacation every year so winter yes so i sit in the garage and i build hot rods you have to come see my knowing what's going on but that's another story so 396 you don't see that used a lot in india yeah big blocks it's a full manual freddie brown turbo 400 uh you have to shift it there's no drive by the way these tires are ridiculous yeah i couldn't find any bigger ones and they still don't hook it it's basically just all business it's dana 60 410 posi it's of the four link oh a cool look and it just it works uh i run like blazing the tires down the track like low eights in the eighth mile absolutely loose all over the place it's something i i drive when i can it's it's fun you know but it is driven have you got these baffled at all or right now there's a muffler in each one yeah when i run it i take them out when they're open the way the cab is set up you have to wear earplugs or a helmet it's it's definitely i believe it and the front wheels i mean classic that's just a raider yeah classic look greater you know 12 spokes and is that is that an old uh that's an old land yeah it's all old stuff i built all my stuff out of junk where'd you find this stuff i collect for ever i've been collecting i got so much stuff i could build four more cars out of my basement oh my gosh so you know you know these guys for a long time yeah too long too long so this is where i mean this is not air or anything she just sits this low that's you saw it you didn't make it out of the barn i had to pack out i knew that was gonna happen you would leave an oil pan there this is like kind of my beater you know it's got attitude and it can be driven and it's got attitude that's for sure of course that's most of the clubs club's got attitude yeah i love it thank you very much cool you know gasser vets i just it just doesn't seem to go together usually but for you guys it does well corvette people hate you right off the bat i believe that and especially when this is 53 54 what is it 54 yeah they definitely hate you they totally hate you but it's fun to be hated yeah right so how much vets left it's got a corvette interior in it the only thing that's been changed it has 12 volt gauges i have the original convertible top four i mean you really haven't touched the body no nothing's been cut a tiny bit of uh inner fender for the header i have the original axle and the way that uh rich and i installed it it can be put back in what's the engine uh it's a 355 actually bored out it was built by big house toy box just yeah just for me uh being a member of dead man's curve being a friend of rich's uh he didn't put his advertisement on it because we told them we were going to kind of showcase rich's wheels the raider wheels and the raider slicks and i love how your headers up and up up and over and down they're down and through yeah and they see they've got to go around the steering i i know you're woven yeah in fact you have to have the column out to put them in don't you no they they do come apart oh they do yeah they come apart to get it in there but uh crazy oh yeah yeah it's a fun car to drive and uh and you still have a single master cylinder break oh yeah yeah you don't worry about it anybody i'm just interested in going it's insane so was it did you build it at your place you build a lot of it here i built all of it down south jersey uh friends i actually sent the body to a young's uh fiberglass which is a boat guy i figured if he could make a 40-foot boat you can ice probably do this yeah the body style of 53 and 4 was so wild yeah well that's why i kept it all i did was raise the front end and basically everything else is corvette and uh i've kept it corvette this isn't where the exhaust comes out is it yes it is originally yeah originally my mind i didn't close off the holes because i didn't want to change anything for the corvette right that's the way the corvette was the clear license plate that's corvette everything's the way it was for corvette yeah you know the corvette guys might forgive you i don't know they get out with their little yellow chairs with their yellow car with their yellow shirt that says what your car they got and i come in they can't hear and they get all upset well you got a black car you got a black shirt that guy from dead man's curve those derelicts i don't know those hooligans that's pretty cool man i was inspired by dead man's curve i've been hanging out with these guys for over 20 years yeah and in fact i used to drink when i started hanging out with and that's been a while and it's pretty pretty fun bunch of guys to hang out with uh we always have fun and the club is based on friends first and really i mean anybody will help you and that's why i like it i drive a little bit it's a small group you know it's you can't just say hey i want to be a member you know you got to be accepted you got to show me 3 000 worth of beer receipts i respect that cool man i uh been a close friend of rich conklins yeah and she and this baby sounds great man thank you thank you thank you very much city for a vet yeah and they hate you they hate so jim you've been with the club quite a while yes 1983. so not long after it's it's creation and you've been hanging with us this bunch of derelicts ever since then wow still am so this is yours yes it's a 1927 26 steel body model a frame 1953 317 lincoln really yeah a 317 lincoln 17 well i saw the the lincoln valve covers i figured that was just it's real it's real it's real the gentleman i bought a pile of parts from actually had the engine wow and how about the manifold same thing mark uh the gentleman i bought the car he had that too he had the uh he's very much into collecting vintage speed because that's from 50s 50s yeah yeah in edmonds yep and how about the carbs they're holley 1900 series teapots you know this has got some interesting stuff on it this is sort of a sleeper you you know look at this yeah that's awesome vintage yep dual point distributor the mallory ignition system so this thing's probably pretty strong actually i haven't blown it up yet you've tried though we've run it a little bit it's been on the road for a while i've driven it quite far i'd like the uh schlitz uh my schlitz shifter yeah i've had that for a collection of years is this is this merc that's 40 ford it's 44 44 dash cut in half narrowed it quite a lot uh yup got the radio with lincoln hornby lincoln early 50s 5152 how does it drive when you drive very well uh hands off it'll go fine go straight yeah i have no i have no issues very reliable i have to say i have driven it quite far and you've had it to all the uh dead man's curve eventually even before i even started building it i first brought it out when i in a pile of parts so we brought it out first year this will be a car someday that's exactly what happened yep so lincoln engine yep model t body body or the cab you want to sit in yeah and you have the the model a bed yeah we cut about a little over a foot out of it it's technically a touring car cut in half it's a lot of fun i enjoy it very much i think i think i would too we might have to go out for a spin in that later okay come on game thanks jim you're welcome so andy i met you years ago uh at a show and you had that insane 61 miner wagon and i was like what is that thing then you built this even more insane bubble top fury i was like what is that and that's when i realized i really had to get to know this club better because you guys are totally crazy so you brought those two and three more today like this vet this is a 60 out of all the cars that i have my wife and i enjoy this one the best we go out and at all time we put a lot of miles on this every year i'm glad you got the hood off because it's this manifold that just i just think is awesome what is that it's a often hauser intake mouthful it's a regular two four barrel intake manifold and these pieces came and they bolt on these two cross ram type pieces yeah and it came with all the linkage and and these studs um i altered it a little bit because the original studs that it came with they were believe it or not just aluminum that were threaded into there and they couldn't they couldn't withstand it they they would make play so i actually drilled them out and i actually put nuts underneath and and they're steel bolts hardened bolts so there's no playing it now and it works good works really good it's a wild look yeah this is a 327 originally this 1960 vet came with a 283 but this is a 65 corvette 327 that's been built um and it moves so you so this is like the one you dig yeah this one you can just hop in and go on a nice day um and it moves well you've got you got that crazy little 61 rambler over there which i'm sure you're going to do something with because it's pretty stock and you that's it you might just you might just leave it that's a time warp there but what you brought is this your real fine 509 i saw this rolling in and this really sounded healthy and you got a 409 crossed out 509 i saw it come in the first thing i said oh it's a 348 you know because the valve covers and everything right right but oh no it's four or nine oh no it's not a 409 it's a 509 and then and then some so what's the engine uh it's a 509 all aluminum it's aluminum block which started as a 409 and was bored out or whatever yes it started at 409 it was bored out um the intake manifold is a one-of-a-kind i've never seen another one uh like it there's a there was a company called custom ufab back in the 60s and it was sold as a kit and everything was a part all they gave you was a piece of sheet metal that was bent to the angle of the heads and they gave you tubes and they gave you a piece of pipe for the distributor and you had to put everything together really yeah i found it on ebay totally together but when i got it it looked like a hunk of junk and i bought it to the chromer he took it all apart redid it all and it really came out really nice so this i mean did you just finish this thing or have you had this for a while i had it on the road last year and then i blew the front seal out of a turbo 400 and decided to put a five-speed tremec manual transient so i just got it back on the road and and now i can really feel the power with the manual trans i i just i love the mirror firewall yeah now it's got two engines in it look it's got it's got two engines now this car has um a lot of value to the car club because this car was owned by one of the members who passed away uh bill i called i called the the two bill corps because both guys that passed away were named bill they were in the car club one bill on the car the other bill built the 409 that was originally in it and now i put the five one on it so i call it the two bills car um well yeah it's so cool that you guys you guys are a crazy bunch of guys anyway but to to get bring everybody together you know 40 cars it's not even all of them but i mean there are car shows that don't have this many cars this is just the cars that you guys have and you all have you know pretty much you all have shops y'all working stuff all the time yep some of the shops are pretty cool yeah some of the cars are pretty cool andy you got to take me for a ride all right sure real fine you're sure yeah let me think about that you know hanging with the dead man's crew guys is an absolute blast i'm always thrilled to come away in one piece check out their shows jersey yeah yeah that's how you do it that's how you do it [Music] at this time we liked uh on behalf of the whole demands curved car club oh my goodness we would like to present this to you and a sticker a sticker we'd like you to be an honorary member of the dead man's corps of car club take this huh what do you think dig this honorary remember yeah all right [Laughter] yeah man

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Published: Tue Feb 14 2017