How I got SCAMMED buying a Plymouth Superbird online sight unseen (So much broken/missing)

you ready to get probed like a tricorder or something yeah if you get the right spot at different sounds oh okay okay we'll turn that off we want to meet meep sound yeah let's see what we got here there it is here it is mimi i even gave blood oh sacrificed blood to it oh no get your new hoovies garage superbeard t-shirt limited to only 250 link below welcome to hooves garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and this is my 1970 plymouth super bird which i bought so i hadn't seen on bring a trailer for 130 000 these things are quite valuable and that price did make it the cheapest hemi super bird in the usa but it had a weird story attached to it that i actually kind of like now these were built to be in compliance with nascar's rules back in the day they had to build 1500 super birds so they could race these at nascar but this one's actually special because it was literally a race car at one point but it was wrecked apparently t-boned on this side spun out and uh well they list it as a partial re-body on the super bird registry but it is a 426 hemi car so 130 000 really cheap for a hemi car but it has that ding on whatever they call the super bird carfax and uh it is cosmetically in really nice condition but the seller did not know of or did not disclose a ton of issues with this car a ton of issues and i know a lot of people they go on these sites like bring a trailer like several other nice auction sites and they think they're getting some kind of special vetting process when it comes to these cars but in reality a little bit but not much they're still at the mercy of whatever the seller tells them the car is like and in this case a lot of things were missed i mean it's hard to be disappointed when there's a super bird in your driveway in all of its ridiculous magnificence but there were some issues starting with after the sale so i bought this thing on bring a trailer for 130 000 and then i contacted uh the seller who sent me the financial information to wire the money to him which i did promptly we spoke on the phone and then he started telling me about issues with the car which you don't start telling people issues with the car after they buy you tell bring a trailer so they'll put it in the ad he told me about the suspension how it used to be raked in a kind of dragster sort of stance that he fixed and put different wheels on it but they needed to be adjusted and uh well by needing to be adjusted i mean there is no absorption going on at all a horrible clunk and it basically makes this car undrivable i'm gonna drive it up to the car wizards today but it's probably a stupid thing for me to do given the suspension is basically locked up at this point so that was a bummer but then the hits kept coming so this car was listed with a bunch of vintage nascar paraphernalia that was really really cool a richard petty signed hat which was a famous driver of the superbird in 1970 he won the nascar season with it so i was supposed to get a signed cowboy hat from him along with a bunch of really cool nascar memorabilia from the period it showed up with none of that the seller said well probably the shipper took it which i asked the shipper and he has no reason to take these things and he sent me pictures of the car when it's picked up including the interior that's supposed to be sitting in the passenger seat it wasn't there the seller said he'd follow up and look for it but he's never followed up with anything so the first thing i did is i got into this car and i wanted to honk the horn because it has the meet me porn when you hit the button it goes meep meep just like the road runner and well sadly that didn't work which was a major bummer and then i started driving the car and well oh crap so there's the meat meat horn that purple thing down there but as you can see coolant started gushing out of the radiator which i'm hoping it was some simple things one it could be overfilled it looks like someone recently replaced the thermostats and may have overfilled it uh or it could have been the cap which i have replaced now with this generic cap hopefully it holds for the drive up or it could be uh coolant pressure from the engine like a bad head gasket and this engine it runs pretty good when it's warmed up i don't see any issues with the the engine as far as runability wise other than not liking cold starts but the temperatures do creep up when you let the car sit and i'm hoping it's just because these cooling fans are not kicking on and it's a characteristic of the superbird because of this crazy nose in addition well a lot of things don't work the climate control uh i haven't played with it too much but i couldn't really get it to work it's an aftermarket vintage air type system a lot of the gauges the speedometer the fuel level don't work the temperature works because i see it creep up the oil pressure a little concerning i'm hoping this gauge is often not that it's low when it's hot which that would mean a bad 20 something thousand dollar engine and when you turn on the ignition there's just this awful horrible noise you can hear this pump is running and it's really really loud it's like a vacuum pump to operate the headlights which are vacuum operated basically this pump runs all the time you can't really hear the engine idling over it and it's like there's a massive leak to where it needs to run all the time and well it's really loud and really annoying so that's a lot of issues for a car that was 130 thousand dollars thankfully the car is in wonderful cosmetic condition to where i don't have to say restore it again but it does need a lot of sorting and there are well a lot of undisclosed issues so bring a trailer was kind enough to refund me the 5 000 profit that they would have made on this sale just to show they don't want to make money on a bad deal like this and they heavily noted the seller which will affect him being able to uh list cars again on bring a trailer i've contacted him four five six times about the issues and he just basically did the whole head in the sand thing didn't even want to address them with me pretended like i i was never sending the text which is fine he could be that way and please don't go and bring a trailer and sleuth out his name and his address and go hunt him down and all that stuff it's fine if he wants to be like that he can be like that i feel like karma will bite him back in the end when you do things like that i would prefer not to have any kind of interaction with someone like that anyway i mean they didn't even respond to say you know i didn't know about these issues it was sitting a long time which is an easy out just no response at all to repeated requests on if they even knew about these issues and what we should do about them so with that i'm going to attempt to drive this thing now uh 30 miles to the car wizards i've never driven this thing more than say a few miles away from my house and hopefully that radiator cap thing is all it needs to stop it from puking out coolant and it seems like if i keep moving it doesn't overheat because it needs the cooling fans at idle so fingers crossed we'll hit the road i'm still really happy to have a super bird so don't don't get me wrong i'm not complaining i'm not upset it's just the reality of buying cars online which you should definitely be aware of if you're going on say a classic car auction website and you can't see the car in person things like this can happen but things can happen at a collector car auction uh even seeing the car in person since you can't really test drive them you can't see hidden issues like a transmission being bad or something like that and when you're buying a car in these kind of situations you just have to expect you're going to spend thousands on the car after you get it to sort it out or have it exactly the way you want it it's just the way things are with that wish me luck okay up onto the highway we go for the first time in my covered wagon basically when it comes to suspension all right well i don't know how fast i'm going but it feels feels about 50 160 now all right not bad we're up as long as we don't hit a pothole and i bounce like a neil armstrong on the moon to orbit the puppy just fine okay okay all right in the suspension probably because of the way that it's been set up now it might have hurt something so any kind of bump in the road is just terrifying in this car but it's working i mean i don't know how i can be sad about owning this car in any condition so i'm still happy we'll see what the wizard has to say still have quite a ways to go though so make it you can do it oh the meat meat doesn't work blizzard still knows i'm there wizard hello oh whoa long nose sorry i need to look where i'm going here yeah super bird turning radius is just hilariously bad all right it's in it's in it's in is this the real thing it's it's the real deal yeah pop the hood [Applause] oh [Music] it works for the headlights so that is why is it so loud i have no idea why it's so loud but it's a pump that probably should shut off once it has whatever vacuum it needs to operate the headlights and whatever else but it just runs all the time and it's super annoying um do you have a temperature gun by chance because i'm wondering if the the temp gauge is accurate i'm just too busy googling over this thing oh my god so like you could tell people it's a hemi it really is it is a real hemi super bird although this isn't the original hemi obviously it's a sort of a resto mod but it's very rare hemi super bird with uh some splooging issues which i don't think it's splooging anymore actually i put a radiator cap on it wizarding um yeah it's not dripping anymore good i'll go get you a temperature gun okay is that the sensor there yeah 180 185 [Music] so the gauge was like a little high like two thirds still in the normal range but it was like in the 210s or something like that so that's a good thing i guess it's just a little off but still somewhat okay but there's other gauges that don't work the speedometer it doesn't work the oil pressure gauge is the big worry though because it seems like no matter what i do whether i floor it it's always at like the first peg on the oil pressure like 20 psi which is that's true then this motors smoke which i i don't think i don't i don't think it is i don't i don't know that's just oil from pcv gases yeah so so it's like a 20 psi no matter if you rev it or anything right it doesn't move which makes no sense wow yeah we definitely need to check into that it's not running hot though that's good compress my suspension please compressor yes try and bounce it what the heck yeah i know what the heck is something seriously wrong what does that do you got it's got a little appendage basically there's no shock absorption it just just the tires moving but otherwise yeah try it really try there's no compressing that suspension and there's kind of a clunk something's not right definitely not right with that the seller told me it needed adjustment that's an adjustment that's something's wrong we'll definitely need to get it in the air this thing is amazing though it is in great cosmetic shape so thank goodness there's not any hidden you know cosmetic snafus but uh yeah a lot of things that need sorting but i think i don't think this car is like gone by any means this is one of those scenarios like people bring me a ten thousand dollar car and they put want to put 30 grand into it i'm like no this is definitely a car it is worth the expenditure yep well shall we look underneath yes kind of looks like an aircraft for this angle doesn't it it kind of does it's like it's flying it just needs wings yeah well it has a big wing it needs like side wings i suppose yeah what do you think of the gold wheels i guess it fits the era but i'm not a fan of gold wheels really i really like them i i think it's cool and different you never see one of these that's customized and resto modded which i thought was kind of cool but i guess we'll see how good of a restaurant it is huh yep look at that all that room in there so that's the hole to get to the radiator long way to go but it seems to be doing its job it's not overheating which is nice to know it's not that's correct the gauge is just a little a little off did you do that it's a duck bill i suppose well shall we yeah um well what's that uh is that leftover coolant that's engine oil why is it up front i don't know is there something up in here i see a line going in right there hmm what do you got it's like an oil cooler yeah oh it's uh it's leaking it's that's wet yes that oil it could be the loose lines or the oil cooler itself is leaking okay you need a rag well i got your shoulder i suppose i'm not a rag well it gets dirty when you work right like a rag all right yes okay good much better anyway you know people would probably pay money for this shirt now i hope not uh all right so that's a pretty big leak that uh well not not a hard one to fix though right no it won't be hard to fix look it's got a degreed harmonic balancer there or main pulley for timing like yes ignition timing yep cam timing everything use the timing light old school huh yep got a remote oil filter oh the way up there you see him yeah i think i see an oil tank when i had to hood up earlier it's a filter's way up you can see it when we put it back down big my loading yeah very uh restomatier yep let's check out these shocks oh yeah good question well this one first off is blown out look at it all the oil around it it certainly is it looks like it's been adjusted a lot so in the old picture of this thing it was kind of slanted like this and he jacked it up and now it rides like crap so huh yeah you can see where it was yeah they cranked it it looks like a good two inches at least that explains why i mean the spring is cranked so tight right now that it won't physically move anymore and also it's at full extension all the time which means when you do get it to move a tiny bit it goes right back to full extension again that's your clump i think it could be fixed really easily with a little bit longer shocks if this is the right height you want yeah i like the height of it so you're saying we need to make it two inches longer whatever adjustable shock we get yes of whatever this whatever brand it is it needs to have the ride height but also have up and down movement for the suspension to actually move gotcha okay so you'll have to take them out measure it and then match it up to whatever it is yes a little bit of time there but not the end of the world as far as the suspension goes huh correct not that big of a deal really okay well moving on uh it's more oil more wetness is it you're just verifying against the same taste as the oil up front yeah that's engine oil okay it looks like it's coming up around the top let's see what we see up these headers are awesome they're hot don't touch them yeah but they're cool they are they are really cool uh oh there's your oil pressure sending unit up there see the little bell shape i can there's no way the camera's seeing it but i see light reflecting on it yes see if it's wet looks like a ufo yep there's oil coming out of that i think that sending units dying it's dripping everywhere and would that make it not read accurately that could so i don't have low oil pressure in the engine i hope not what we can do is hook an oil pressure gauge to that and actually get a true accurate reading put your head down you got a little gorbachev oil mark on your head now do i yes where did it come from i don't know it probably dripped on me from up there yeah all right well we're moving to the transmission i don't see anything leaking i am concerned about the speedometer not working yeah here's the cable actually goes into the transmission this is a trim transmission either the gear inside is bad the cable is broken or the gauge itself is dead but we'll definitely could find that out which one is the least expensive the cable it's that please okay and the undercarriage on this car is beautiful so the story on this thing is it was wrecked and partially re-bodied so this was a race car that was t-boned on the track after it got sideways oh wow and then it's dinged on the shelby or that's just a shelby what what did i buy i it's got it yes so it's dinged on the super bird registry because of that and they call it a partial re-body which and you see where it was well this is where the frame i don't see anything maybe this is a complete new pan here yeah the undercarriage it looks the exact same on this side yeah i'm trying to see where something was spliced together right through here but it looks the exact same on this side it wasn't both sides that were t-boned it was re-bodied did they do the whole body or just half of it they called it a partial re-body so i'm not seeing where it was partially re-bodied unless it was done very very well yeah it was done the whole car has been done very well that's a nice beefy drive shaft lengthy as well for the length of this car yes it needs better mufflers louder ones yeah you know i kind of like the way it sounds do you yeah partially quiet yes other than that damn pump that will not shut up yeah we definitely need to lower it and take a look at that there's some track bars rear suspension actually feels okay yeah that's good the shocks are not blown out they look fairly new it's got good ridge stainless steel braided flex hose there looks like it was done well here's your fuel cell so it's not some cobbled together frankenstein mess no i don't think it is what a relief okay all right well if you want to look into this uh pump noise yes i mean it's so annoying it sounds horrible it really detracts from the car agreed so i know vacuums needed on this car to operate a lot of things like the headlights the the pods that open it are vacuum operated but usually that's ran off the engine so why why do we need this noisy terrible thing the camshaft that's on this engine is very likely very high performance and when you get to a certain level of performance on a gasoline engine you actually don't have hardly any vacuum at idle really yeah so there is some there it's just not enough to operate things off of so okay that's the reason for the vacuum pump this pump shouldn't be that loud though and it shouldn't be running all the time if it was that loud i imagine it shouldn't be let's see where's the we can unhook this hose i can hook a vacuum gauge to it and see if it holds that works you hear that noise it had vacuum it's working it's just that it's so loud we could just probably replace the pump with a nice quiet unit everything will still work i don't even need to hook up my gauge i know that's holding vacuum off of what i heard yeah that was that was quite a whoosh okay awesome just shut that thing up just yeah just take the vacuum cleaner motor out of this thing that'd be great yeah a little more good news from the top here you can see the oily oh yeah it's pretty sludgy in there we need to see what's going on there there is one very disastrous thing that's wrong with this car yes very big the meat meat porn doesn't the meat me porn does absolutely nothing and it is a tragedy there it is down there in purple we need to put power to it we unplug this just to shut it up yes we can okay otherwise we won't hear anything over the darn pump all right we're still running what [Music] here hook that one back up let's see see if they work they go together yeah [Music] do we need two no we shouldn't need two [Music] well let's shut them both up [Music] so they both work on the same on the same hose because if i plug this one you can hear that one change [Music] why does it need two [Music] i don't know no [Music] ah much better another thing is the fans are running you can hear the fans you can finally hear them now huh so they do work i was wrong about that you ready to get probed like a tricorder or something yeah if you get the right spot it's a different sound oh okay okay we'll turn that off we want to meet meep sound yeah let's see what we got here there it is here it is mimi i even gave blood oh sacrificed blood to it oh no so it works it does work it's just not working up there maybe a blown fuse or so it's not a disaster no the motor seems healthy it's not overheating it probably doesn't have low oil pressure um it doesn't seem to be leaking coolant anymore but it is leaking from other places with oil the suspension uh that's a thing we have to look up that yes but electrical issues it doesn't seem that bad it's it's really not we'll see when we end up in the office i suppose what you end up shopping for yes that'll be a surprise uh sperm sperm whale oil yeah this is particularly suited for oiling precision instruments what instrument are you trying to put sperm oil on well i think we could use in the shop it would be really good for this is a call back to the old mopar i had the 66 imperial yes where in the owner's manual it said they treated the leather seats with sperm whale oil yes uh it was weird then it's weird now okay uh how much is that for a grain i can get a case of a bunch of a thousand dollars okay i like the price though wizard that's that's good realistic the price isn't bad i think we could really use that in the shop it would be great uh interesting yeah oils and materials charge me a sperm oil chair anyway are you making any donations today no no no okay back to the super bird yes i got a price list for you it's actually not that bad we can replace those coilovers with two inch longer set of eibach spring coilover spring set 12.50 1250 yep that two inches will make all the difference eh yeah that oil is going to come in handy you started it with fifty dollars all right yeah yeah so just new adjust those shocks are pretty expensive then huh yeah the most of that probably ninety percent of that is the the shocks but it just you just unbolt them and put the new ones on that's cool okay all right oil pressure sender remove and replace with a new one 100 bucks great horn repair wiring or the horn button on the steering wheel 100 bucks it's not going to be very expensive it works the meat meep works it drew some blood but it works it did drop some blood yeah you want me to kiss it make it better no okay i'll put some oil on it when it comes out and might he would have okay for your vacuum pumps they actually make one that's made for brakes vacuum boosters and it's silence dead silence but it's expensive really 1500 bucks to install labor everything to install a silent vac does that get me down to one pump though because right now it's a tandem-like makes no sense it doesn't there's two tanks yeah weird okay fifteen hundred dollars for silence that it's expensive but yes yes okay okay or cooler leak one to two hundred bucks is probably just a seal or probably could be loose that could go higher if the oil cooler itself is leaking but i don't think that it is all right speedo repair is very likely just a gear or the cable 200 bucks that'll do all right oil change i'm going to give you a special deal since we're we've got plenty of money here i can send my order in today all right a dollar ninety seven for a dollar okay all right i like that you must like this car yes it is a very cool car all right usually when i bring him like a bentley or something it's it's brutal for multiple reasons but also you don't like it but okay grand total thirty four hundred dollars thirty four hundred dollars well i mean i don't really owe the seller an apology because he didn't disclose all of these issues to me and they're definitely things that someone would have noticed known about right the shocks of suspension the the speedometer not working uh leaks you know there's some pretty decent leaks there yeah but bring a trailer did refund me their fee which was more than that on the car okay just to be a stand-up organization so i guess it's a win i i guess well the car is definitely worth 3 400 investment oh yeah oh yeah all right go to town i'm gonna leave it with you and i guess i can drive something home maybe the ferrari 456 is it done yeah we actually just finished it up now nice i'll get my order going all right thank you for watching and sorry about the sperm oil thing it's weird i know get your new hoovies garage super bird t-shirt limited to only 250 link below

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Published: Wed Dec 15 2021