Driving a 1973 Duster to the NEW shop in Tennessee! (Bought Sight Unseen)

about six months ago i bought this 1973 plymouth duster sight unseen and today i'm finally in southern tennessee to not only see it for the first time yep but of course i'm gonna try to drive it home [Music] [Applause] [Music] this supposedly runs right should already yeah he said something to paraphrase like mike could make it home which i think is a southern thing for i don't know to be honest so that'd be a little interesting but should run but you want to give us a little tour here sure absolutely so the story for this car was i bought this thing from a nice old lady just right down the road and it's kind of a place called lick skillet alabama and it was on butter and egg road to be exact and she bought this car new or not new did you say butter and egg roll did say butternut road okay yeah so you know backwoods kind of stuff right here anyways this is a 73 with a six cylinder automatic she bought it in 75 and i think i bought it around 2015 2016. so it was a two owner car but she had it for however many years that is if you want to do the math but what i've done to it since then is put some wheels and tires on it make it look a little bit race car and did a little cleaning up on the interior nothing crazy more probably just dropped the headliner and made it look worse on the inside but i did a couple things cosmetically got it to run drove it to columbus ohio put a nice little ebay oh yeah two barrel on it and two into one job exactly nice lehman tower of power and this should be a 225 right should be should be how do we tell them i couldn't tell you i don't like these things i always put it to the floor and see to the pants will tell us it doesn't do anything like that was this painted with like a roller or a brush or something so the story goes this was a what's called a gold duster and if you look closely you can still kind of see the sticker some on one of these fenders where it says gold yeah so what it's supposed to have is trim right here i've shrimp and a half vinyl top with like a gator grain and it's kind of a gold color and then obviously the gold duster with stripes down the side and you can still see some of the stripe right there on the inside of the door oh sure enough so that's what it's supposed to have yeah i i was on a budget back in like college probably my sophomore year took the carpet out pressure washed it spray painted it with some walmart paint uh this is all sounding good so oh man i mean listen this stuff is top of the line i wouldn't sell you a junk car you don't you don't believe that right i would i would say nothing but goodness and you he learned me up on these hub calculators here with the holes in them that's uh cop car stuff cool the brakes or something you know this thing basically has comp suspension cop brakes cough tires all the good stuff now oh yeah a little weight reduction yeah yeah then that's that's standard equipment right there and uh you said you were wiring up for some subwoofers or something absolutely i never understood this in the mopars it pretty much all got that don't they right it's yeah slightly inconvenient yeah somewhat like that a little bit more than slightly i'm going to say it burns oil yeah well not a whole lot it's got a little blow by a little choochy but this is just from the safe side and i'll be honest with you i know it's got oil pressure but that's probably overkill i doubt that that engine is that bad off but it's just what i had laying around and that's what's in it what was that animal that just landed there did you see that i don't know i didn't want to look at it it was juicy whatever it was tires look great they're only a couple years old you said right yes what i did these wheels right here were actually an inch wider and i don't know why the the original were like 14 by four and a halfs which is ridiculous and then these were five and a half's but they were on the back so i took those put them on the front 235 60 14s and then these are actually i bought these at the coker tire show that they have it every year they sell overstock stuff this is a small bolt pattern wheel in a 15x7 that's a brand new wheel they don't they never produce that from the factory so that way you could put a big giant 275 it looks good i like the look so it's it's overkill i mean it kills all your your bottom end which this car never had that to begin with so it doesn't really matter you just basically lean forward a lot with slant sixes interior looks not too bad and i think one of the handful of photos i saw on this there's a license plate covering some rust somewhere yes that's approved we'll leave that i don't even want to know where it's at we'll just let that be a mystery yeah what is this thing here that is an fm converter for the am radio that's in the car oh hey and i'm not oh it's completely wired with alligator clips on every connector so i took it all out before it turned the car down i mean this car is just full of goodness it's already got the little trees it's got a plug-in for your bluetooth stuff down there didn't even have to bring that that's good i hope those are seat bolts that aren't installed that's fairly solid bunch of parts door panels actually in pretty good shape not too bad yeah not too bad at all also i walk past this it's got a hitch on it already so and a license plate can i keep this for a while or do you have to transfer those and you can catch the floor if you wanted to i actually think you can transfer that huh i do already have a duster of course but it's got a blown up 318 and slipping transmission and it lit on fire the last time i tried to move it so i figured why not just pick up another one and why are these hornets red is that normal they're just angry look at that thing i killed about 20 of them in this door right here the nest is still in there so if you see one fly around while you're driving it i apologize great all right man well it looks pretty solid i guess we'll try to get her fired up he's going to keep this never start battery i'm going to get something else in here for now but i think the plan is we'll swing by the parts store and get another battery and maybe put some sparkle laters in it or something probably needs a good set of plugs he said so but cool man thanks for holding it for a year or whatever it was half a year absolutely appreciate it and i'll let you know if i make it home i guess well i hope so i really do yeah the warranty expires when you leave the driveway i knew that was coming dang it so i'm actually in the process of moving to tennessee right now and just by pure half and stance or luck wizardry i don't know one could say magic my house to here is actually only 40 miles so we don't have a long ways to go but you know what they say don't count your chicken eggs when they're while they're while they're hatching you know because something could happen let's take a closer look back here got some extra coolant let's save some money looks like the original air cleaner sure we got an empty box you never know when you need that another empty box or the evil bay fuel make it happen or came out of it that must be the original holly one barra keep that look at this back seat though that's in really good shape actually and we have seat belts sure as far as mileage goes 139 or 239 i don't know probably probably 239 dome light works got no headliner but that makes it better sure that's factory actually oh okay well let's forget i don't know forget that this seems to still do something apparently i'm excited to use that fm transistor switcher over box if and it still works and there really is some license plates somewhere in here i think they're over here but we're just you know pretend that that didn't happen he also did say he switched the brake master cylindrey out and supposedly it has brakes which is you know that's new on me we'll take it this is the battery i traded for a max but you know a third of the size that's fine this is also the smallest negative cable i've ever seen in my life and this one's partially lit on fire and crowded so that's okay ac system is complete in this car though i'm actually looking forward maybe we try to fire that up i don't know we got to dump some juice in it somewhere maybe here doubtful very but we'll see what happens it's got a bunch of you know there's all right sure we'll put that back it also leaks an alarming amount of atf so that's good never have to change that just keeps auto magically flushing well let's go ahead and just fire this thing up and see what it sounds like huh oh the seat is straight luxury and i ain't kidding ya see mopar keys are always upside down gotta be different starter sounds like a dying dolphin that's completely normal fellers don't worry about that fired right up sounds pretty good not bad something whistling awesome don't make it happen might have to get the tanya harding and bend this bracket a little bit just kind of cranked in there but slight miss not horrible but we could probably fix that with some sparklators [Applause] see what it sounds like oh yeah definitely gotta miss maybe two we'll see if we could bring that out of it though the miss there is really escalating and it's being accompanied by some anti-skeeter she's really starting to smoke up a storm here so i think what a guy should do is just jam this thing on the highway and let's just go to the closest o'reilly auto parts store they're gonna have everything we need and can a guy just you know tune it up right there in the lot i think so i think we can do that i didn't bring much for tools or anything with me today but i should have enough to put some sparklators in it we'll take a look at the lightning wheeler and some other stuff and maybe we'll even change on the oil no idea when that was changed last puffing quite a bit of blow-by there but we'll pretend we didn't see that oh unicorn sticker so i did find an o'reilly's just 10 miles from here actually so we should be able to make it there just fine no probably not but as we're on the way we can also beep boop you know analyze a little bit if we need to throw anything else on the list there and hopefully the brakes actually do work that would be a first and probably last all right here we go whoa throttle is tricky all right okay i think that's third gear already and transmission's soggier than a newborn baby's diaper but it's there you know we're like that in third gear responsive steering it's almost like an f1 race car horn works everything's going fine blinker doesn't do anything this blinker it doesn't do anything really hoping the fuel gauge doesn't work because it's snapped off below e and i did not ask him how much fuel is in here that's that's also fine alternator is charging like mad must be that little battery in there oh brakes oh we do got brakes oh be dipped like good brakes all right i wonder if i just manually blank this is that gonna blink any lights i don't know here we go oh yeah that's 58 59 horsepower there's third gear again immediately well it should whip us into town anyway [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now we made it here i think first thing we're going to do is take out this lawn tractor battery swap this in for something with the go handle i plan on driving this rig quite a bit if we get her tuned up right so i'll also have a good battery and like i said we'll get some sparklators and we'll bust the cap off the lightning wheeler down there and see how that looks it definitely has an oil leak going on must be the valve cover gasket at least we know there's still some in it after the trip got a fix on that throttle cable i think we just put a little band dinner grab this and then of course we better do an italian tune-up to the old gal that should be right over here there we go scooted around back here snagged up some shade you know and also didn't want to take up their spots up front life of kids followed me down with the going to town pickup and thankfully i threw in a jack and some jack stands and of course my trusty tool kit snagged up a drain pan here and all the other essentials i think i don't know if i need more it's right there you know i think what i'm going to do is start with the sparklators the exhaust is on the other side on these chrysler slant sixes so you don't burn your forearms off that's nice and that way the oil cools a little bit so instead of burning my hand all the way off it's only going to severely scold me that'd be nice sounds weird saying it but other than the miss runs good it did get progressively worse as i was coming into town at the shutter down lights it started you know burping and bopping actually quit on me a couple times so i think a plug is definitely fouled and it's just getting to the point we got to change these things seems like this keeps getting lower guys back later is going to be out oh this one's finger tight i wonder what jody messina is she ever gonna make another album well what an devil is this oh there goes the socket all right [Music] i'm back i got it attempt number 392 good news i'm still on the first one sun's going down nope not even close but you know what i'm saying i got more vacuum hoses unplugged in here than i can count i don't think you need them though come on now ouch that's hot oh yeah wow okay well she's running richer than that warren buffet guy whatever he does there's also a ton of oil around us i mean excessive so i'm going to pretend i didn't see that rings are fine the heads are probably good too let's just keep going you know all right gapped there's a big fancy car wash back here you can hear that thing that's whipping away guy gets this finished up in time maybe we dip a toe to jacuzzi get this car sparkled up a little bit how much is there watch 25 maybe we wait till it rains i don't know well how long are the threads on this this can't be normal oh i really gotta got 15 wobble jockeys and nine extensions on here torqued the new ones you know they're they're in there you can see down here a couple of these cylinders were just really chewing on the oil especially the number five there six that's most likely the cause of that miss well 92.37 anyway someday a guy should probably do a compression test here and maybe even leak down test nope probably not okay the oil's still piping hot so let's go ahead and get this up and drop that fun game a guy likes to play by himself is slam a jack under a car and start lifting it's going to grab something eventually well what kind of an alien looking frame is this i don't know i'll just just jam it in under here maybe like that sure captain's log observations a through c3 this is some organized moss and mold also this thing has just been bouncing off the bump stops that's neat got the chrysler oil pan wrench just snugged on there should be able to get that off yeah finger tight i guess so didn't even need that to begin with see what we got here hips uh oh it is hot and i ain't getting not a lot of metal on the mega mint that's good oil didn't look that bad but didn't hurt us any changing on it cheap insurance and now we know we can write the date and miles on the filter there i didn't see any glitter parties or legos or chicken bones or anything like that coming out so that's good clean this up a little bit i'm actually just to run it in and have them recycle it mazel right here and then i don't splish splash around the trunk you know you fellers must be catching on this place was clean out of the hotel rotella t4 heavy duty diesel oil which that's great but leave leave a little bit for a guy you know that's all right we'll just slide over and use the house brand 1540. this meter exceeds caterpillar mac cummins so surely it's good for a slant six right oh yeah there we go [Music] yeah that ought to do it might as well top off the ice cube juice this is free laying in the back seat that's a win oh there's a big chunk of room temperature vulcanization cream floating around in there so that means the water pump's been replaced here maybe the thermostat or i don't know it's not supposed to be in there it's what i'm saying so i'm gonna do the right thing and just put the cap back on yeah well let's fire on it now see if that miss is still hanging around or maybe it's a neighbor now oh starter great oh yeah i gotta fix that throttle it's nothing then all sounds a lot better actually well it's i immediately take that back still missing not as bad though not as bad we're just gonna have to take it [Applause] idling a little steadier though let's fix the throttle real quick [Music] so this here is bent oh and loose kind of in an odd shape i'm wondering if a guy just re-bends the band this way maybe this won't be so stuck like that well i think i got her you know just hooked that on there and went until i felt my tendon popping sure enough she's all bent in and aligned now and that might not be so sticky also a little tip here fellers change on your sparkly layers just you know keep the best of the bad throw her down there especially when you're burning some earl like this because you just never know when you need one well i think that's that maybe we uh go on ahead and jam it in that thing see how good it you know keeps water out no it's not going to one of my little humans decided it was much cooler riding home with that than this huh yep also supernova no idea smells weird but let's go ahead and put it in here there we go still don't know what that does but i guess it'll just hang them for now one last thing before we get on the road we got to get this italian tune up down she's tuned throttle action is much better hey do you want to go uh swing through that car wash yep you think it'll leak yes there's no towels in here is there's one back there all right oh she's low i guess fellers [Music] 45 that can't be real is that what this says no i don't know what to do hello what's that cooper you gotta speak up i don't is there a human being i'm just gonna put money in and see what happens hello i don't know how to do it let's add some armor all sure you gotta line us up here some sort of pre-soak now we just have to hope it doesn't quit in the car wash yes remember that one time when we were in it was like a blue chevy and we broke down in the middle of a car wash yeah get out and push it push it out yep been there a time or three oh he's uh scrubbing it looks like a broom with a shop towel wrapped around the end just really getting the bugs off the front does radio work uh uh how about wipers nope i don't know i got neon lights in here that's all the soap though we're done soaping i need more soap i don't think you can hear me oh yeah we got leakage back here like you wouldn't believe i guess i could stick my hand out over here that makes sense how you doing over there yeah oh here comes the waterfall this is where it's gonna go yeah we're good i'll be there oh nope we got just more water okay all right we're doing fine oh there's the wheel scrubber that's the armor alls you know they get a i don't know it was a machine or something okay i guess that was twenty dollars i'd like about 16 back please well i guess we just we just drive home huh okay here we go [Music] so [Music] [Music] raining cats and kittens right now and i ain't kidding yet good thing we just took a 78 million dollar car wash that's fine topping it off again real quick since i don't have a fuel gauge here did cool off though that's nice you getting hungry yeah yeah me too possibly go get something huh she's got tail lips [Music] i don't know about up front here oh yeah hey we're good to go boy look how nice that is when it's shiny pizza ding ding it's time for supper no pretty sure that's wrong swung into another o'reilly's picked up some rain x and a professional rain poncho also known as a garbage bag is it really a dumb idea if it works not sure if brainx is as effective when you apply it real straining but i don't have any options i got hot pizza here fellers i gotta get home well it's significantly better a guy can kinda sorta 22 and see where i'm going now at least well hey we made it to the house and the new vice grip garage headquarters here in tennessee we just beat the rain and now it caught up to us again i'd sure like to show you more in the shop but we're actually having some stuff done to the floors right now so we can't get in there but obviously you're gonna see it a bunch in the future long day but any day you could bring a duster home is a awesome day i do have i think a plan brewed up on this and it's going to involve getting the dents out in that corner panel over there if you've got some ideas down below and i'll take a look at them thanks guys for watching appreciate it very much we'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Vice Grip Garage

Views: 1,113,358

Keywords: motortrend, roadkill, vice grip garage, vise grip garage, vgg, dodge, plymouth, chyrsler, mopar, duster, gold duster, slant 6, 340, 360, 440, abandoned, forgotten, drive it home, dylan mccool

Id: 9FD47f6P868

Length: 31min 8sec (1868 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 03 2021