Runnin On Empty | 1959 BMW Isetta Runs After 30 Years | Turnin Rust Episode 5

small-town business owners Wyatt and Lance Bush teamed together to form Craven customs a father and son duo scavenging the web along with the North East Texas woods in search of rusty relics while buying and building on the budget they recreate and preserve hidden patina giving each one a story of its own chasing their passion they're giving the past a future saving loss trees one vehicle at a time with help from God nature in Blalock media these guys in part by maxed trailers next on turn and rust the guys Kindle an old flame with a 1955 Chevy pickup having high hopes to finding it a new home they dress it up with a little turn and rust appeal to seal the deal back at the shop wrenches are turning to get the 1954 retro metro alive and on the road again at the request from the new Denmark owners this former forgotten yard art would be transformed into a pinup picture of patina perfection out on the prow of all East Texas towns they cross lines with a 1962 Chevy stepside c10 tracking down the owner they're able to catch up on the history of this untouched all original workhorse will this purchase be a success or are they just been in their wheel following some questionable directions past memories are sparked as Lance gets a lead on a 63 short bus that's just too old-school cool to pass up in the midst of Texas heat Magra vation the guys fight to save the life of a 1959 BMW Isetta at the point of pulling the plug sparks ignite to revive the heartbeat in what hasn't ran in over 30 years feeling overly confident Wesley challenges Lance and Wyatt to a little micro car competition each bringing out the big guns they line up to see who walks away with small-town bragging rights Willie have what it takes to win the race or will this be a total rust buster [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we bought this 55 Chevy a little while I'm back from a good buddy of ours when we bought this thing I figured I'd be able to flip it really quick and easy we've had it for sale for a few months now just haven't had a whole lot of bites on it I love the colors that this truck has on it but it just doesn't have anything that really just will catch your attention a whole lot so we decided we take it to our good friend Dan shanks in Texarkana and have him go ahead and logo these doors up we haven't really done a turning rough style truck yet so we're going to go with some turning rush logos on this one just something to have a little bit more color a little bit more character on this truck and hopefully we can find a buyer for it [Music] where you going there wait wait wait a minute [Music] [Music] hey man how's it going pretty good hot enough for you yes sir you know this Texas weather yeah it's pretty warm hey what you got this is a 55 we bought this truck about two or three months ago and I've listed it online trying to sell it I figured it's gonna be a truck I'd flip pretty quick and easy I said being a 55 and you don't say a whole lot a minute in this body style but it's just not grabbing the attention I need to get what I need out of it so I figured is this the one that we talked about maybe doing some letter no yes sir yeah I think I want to kind of do the turning rest logos on this kind of like what we talked about we haven't really done a turning rust truck yet so we thought it'd be kind of cool too the doors are just kind of plain right now just needs a little extra color added to them and a little character added to the truck so well I got some old computer if you look at it okay I'll just go then we're gonna we're going to stress all this make an override right yeah yeah well it won't look so so stiff once we put it on the truck it'll have some rough edges and things like that right yeah this won't be so stiff because this is just gonna be a hand knock out still but this makes it easier for me to just kind of plan something and kind of get kind of get a rough idea right I might make a pattern of this and the ovals you know you need to make a good over right because you really your your your your letter is not gonna be any better than your sketch it was pretty happy with the design that shanks come up with on this truck it's really just a simple design which was kind of what we wanted on this thing the colors does enough for this truck to get the people's attention but it just needed something to kind of push it over the edge to just make it more attractive to people and just maybe find that perfect buyer for us [Music] you're gonna bring me anything it runs it runs as fast even push it downstairs [Applause] [Music] all right bud we'll get you done good see again just starts to appreciate it and just do your thing let me know when then get it ready and we'll come back over here and pick it up so I have a surprise when they bring you Metro to have you like oh cool it'll be fun yeah I like I like doing those yeah all right all right thanks a lot thanks you guys may remember on the previous episode we saw that Metro to the people out of Denmark well we've got the thing up and running now and they've kind of are convinced that they would like to put some logos on it as well they want something that's really going to stand out over there not that the Metro is not going to stand out enough as it is but they want some really big massive logos on this thing so I didn't tell shanks exactly what he's getting into but there wasn't some logos that almost cover up the whole side of this Metro they want some peanut girls with their retro style handbag logos on the side will have shanks kind of distressed it to match the pain but we're also going to add a little bit of rust to the paint ourselves so just give it a little bit more of a patina world [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so guys on the last episode we sold this metro to our denmark friends part of the deal that they wanted on this metro was they wanted it to actually be running and driving to get it over there where they can sell handbags out of it when we bought the thing that guy told us that it was just had been used as a fence for some time the front axle was gone out from underneath it the motor had a hole in both sides of the block about that big the rear end was locked up in it so we were able to take all the parts that we took off the mighty metro and make this thing run again so now we've got the new front axle put up underneath here we were able to use the leaf springs we've got the motor and transmission mounted in here we switched out the rear end got the brakes bled there working all good and everything now we just lack up a couple just running the fuel lines hooking the driveshaft up just a few small things and hopefully this will get this thing back on the road [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] what happened there ran out of gas we'll get you some gas well folks after getting back on the road after who knows how long this thing's been sitting around she actually ran pretty good the only issue that we ran into is apparently she was a little bit thirstier than we expected so we're gonna get some gas put back in or get it primed up and get it back on the road [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so we've made it about a hundred yards up the road and we're broke down again we were pretty sure that we'd ran out of fuel on it I'm pretty sure that's what happened but a lot of times these our tanks get rusty when we put more gas in it it probably broke loose some trash and now it's getting into the carburetor causing it not to run right backfiring and everything else so we're going to tear apart this carburetor and we have like two blocks up the road to make it worst case scenario we'll pull it home but hopefully we can get this thing up and running and get it back to the show [Music] [Music] so it's running off the gas that we got it you can tell it's about to die any time so apparently we have a fuel pump problem so looks like we're gonna tow it back to the shop unfortunately getting their fuel pump on this thing and should be good to go for that seems how this thing's not going to keep the gas coming through the top there we're gonna try to gravity feed it before we have to go get the trailer try this one last night so we'll just set the tank up here let the gravity pull it down in there and the way will go [Music] [Music] [Music] I had a friend come by the shop the other day who says that supposedly he found an old short school bus that was right up our alley it's in a small town called Canton that's only about a little over an hour from us there's a lot of cool antique stuff there in that town anyways so he give us some directions and we're going to just hit a head over there and see if we can find the thing see if it may be something [Music] pretty cool a little more smiler pretty good now you need a little car to believe it's Pam Lance nice to meet you I'm on Wayne nice baby man you mind if we check out that old bus 63 years my sister bought it with a business she bought and used it for a billboard and she sold the business cents now she wanted to sell it had a lot of people looking at it mm-hmm cranked it up and we don't we don't have a title 40 they can't be able to say yes iron in this place she bought it mm-hmm it's in pretty good shape though it's not all rusty to heaven right yeah yes it's a short one that's what I like about it I we we kind of mess around with a lot of old short buses and cab overs and milk trucks and I've never had one this new but it's cool I'm trying not to show it but I'm pretty excited things pretty cool yeah I'm assuming whoever probably painted it it doesn't look like paint jobs terribly oh they probably helped to save on a lot of that maybe they fixed it back on me put that last paint job on there too [Music] say have you do you know if the motor even turns over it's not I know that a pudding mine look did he said it's not stir but he's been a while yeah I don't know that I would I mean I I'd like to see if I can get stuff running when it's all there you know just to just kind of save a little bit of the history behind it even if you get it running and pull it out and change it later on it's just neat to hear them come back to life again 5500 what about the little a little Morris Minor over there under 1000 it's it's complete it's got a Pheebs and transmission still in I've got a bunch of extra parts for it - it's been 12 on or down yeah that's a cool little car yeah they pull the front seat top set in the back then heavy legroom yeah you're at 1200 on the or the more spit inside of this one make a little laser getting it home wouldn't it would you do 38 I'll tell you what I'd do full green on a pair of if you'd give you one folks during negotiation on this bus sometimes it's a little easier to buy things when you maybe add other things that marks the deal he had the little Morris Minor which was a cool little car was nothing we really had to have or needed we've had one once before I think it's neat because it's small and unique but heck I thought I'd throw that in there just to see if maybe we could make a better deal by buying both of them and sure enough it worked out we were able to buy the bus cheaper and the car cheaper so I'm not really sure what we'll do with it maybe I should have just bought the bus but he may have took less for the bus I don't know but but now we got a bus anymore she could we do 38 50 cash today [Music] it's hot out here so I'm trying I'm hoping I'm hoping that works in my favor let's do 39 you're happy with 3939 Sam kidding me all right thanks sorry when we pulled up and I saw this bus I instantly remembered it I mean I've been chasing this bus for like three years now trying to buy and the people that I'd contacted to try to buy from they just weren't that interested in buying it I offered them cash and the process they had come back with we're just really not realistic for us to buy at all so to me it was pretty crazy to be here three years later and have the option of buying it for cheaper than the first offer that I'd made them I mean it's pretty crazy that to me that's just how God works I mean sometimes we in life we get disappointed because things don't go the way we think they should and here it is being such a blessing later on that we're still being able to get this bus but it's a better deal for us [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] pretty happy that we were able to close the deal on this bus today and I had no idea that we'd be actually needing to get this Morris Minor home as well the record just didn't have room to fit both of them so we're gonna come back in a day or two pick this thing up this thing is a cool little car there's a kind of got a small following for them so we'll try to see if there's anybody looking forward but the bus is definitely something that I want to hang around the shop and definitely build the thing [Music] trying to get this thing cleaned up and sprayed off it has a bunch of old moss it's kind of grown up on it you can start seeing a lot of the whole color show through on this paint where you can really see these logos really well and what we're going to do we're just trying to get this cleaned up to where we can get new silver paint put over it just say the skies that because she doesn't want these her logos to be able to see these old logos through it so we'll get it cleaned up get that silver put over that and then take it to shanks where he'll do his magic [Music] [Music] so now that we got this van pressure washed off it had a whole lot of loose paint on the side you can barely see the old toms peanut logos on this side actually on the doors they showed up a lot more you can actually see that they were five cents back then which is pretty cool like I said on this side though they're kind of hard to read if you come over to the other side the colors are a lot more vibrant and you can actually read this logo really well and so what we're doing now is we need to get a silver paint put over these logos so that when shanks does his logos on it you don't see a lot of these letters coming through on the in-between spots we want this truck to look like the logos that we put on it was the only logos this truck ever had so what we'll basically do is scotch-brite over this thing put some silver on here a lot of these rusty spots the patina spots it already has we'll go ahead and leave because we're going to be adding real patina later on as well so right now we're just going to get it scotch-brite get some silver paint on there and get it brought over to Shane's [Applause] we've been playing with this silver color to go over the old logos on this Metro I believe I got it pretty close here it doesn't have to be exact as he's going to put the logos on it that'll kind of disguise eyes and we'll also be putting you know the fake rust patina on it as well but we want it kind of close just so it doesn't look just like obvious that something's been done there I've got this color here it's getting real close I'm just going to add a little black toner to it just darken it a little bit more when you're adding toner you just want to be real careful just to add just a little bit at a time that way because the color can change drastically just just like that so I'll just add a little bit of toner to it start it up you know do a little test on it see how it looks and maybe do a spray-out card but I really think that we're getting really close with this color right here [Music] [Music] now that I've put a little silver paint over the old logos we've kind of sanded through in a few areas just to give it a little bit of a distressed look to match the rest of the Metro now we're about to load it up bring it over to shanks he's going to put some super cool logos on it the customer wanted a pin-up girl with her retro style handbag logos on the side so once he gets done with that we'll bring it back we'll continue to distress the exterior paint of the Metro by adding a patina rust fake rust and distressing the logos he does [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] that's and white go out into the wilderness headed to Texarkana to meet up with Dan shanks while we're out paintings we can do something sting with and that folks is how you transition to the next scene [Music] dislocated I just keep watering [Music] quality florence's that I am [Music] [Music] hey man how's it going pretty good brought you another project over I can't do nothing with him no I can't neither got anything made up for the Metro that I brought oh yeah yeah that's kind of where we're at which thing yeah can you uh I'm the UH little font here can you do that in a different color or will that be yeah it's gonna be maroon or whatever in that part I think that were crap about right and the flesh tones are gonna be different we just just kind of got a little modeler to kind of go by yeah yeah that's definitely gonna be your name you ain't you added the handbag there as well right yeah yeah that's what is that what's gonna happen we gonna sell handbags down yes that's the plan she's gonna set up at little spots to sell out of it you know she sales American handbags and just kind of kind of cool sell in America oh yeah I'm hex homer in Denmark yeah that'll be that'll cut all the draw yeah that'll draw pretty good for ya yeah so she'll just set it up in spots and sell out of it and just kind of using that to grab people's attention and advertise with more than anything so we see if we can pull it off right yeah the 55 did you were you able to knock it out it's back there in the back got a rail got it ready yeah can't we check it out check it out lead the way all right I'm back it gave you any trouble no not really just just trying to get that head painted like you wanted yeah put that on there yeah that that gave it a little bit more color in this area just the truck was so cool with all the different colors everywhere but the doors just still had way too much paint left on them so we Wicked's we could spend a lot more time on that dummy head but we're gonna get out of budget when we do so I'm trying to keep it like a rat rod and right yeah you know and ya know that's that's perfect that's exactly what I was looking forward to something that that's just gonna make this truck a little bit different than then every other one you see out there and and in the meantime until I sell it you know it's advertisement for us so yeah it's not hard to would be that hard to you know pull that off the kind of business rusty and all that somebody wanted it they could you know they could bring it back here and we could change the head or change the whole change the whole deal you know you just take that off add some rust to it if we needed to whatever doing the right thing that up yeah that worked yeah well I'm gonna get it back and get it cleaned up and the best I can and post it back for sale and see who can't live without it yeah hopefully it'll go to a new home that's uh I like that body style the fact that it's a 55 really adds you know a lot of value to it right that first series yeah well you might be the person I'm looking forward to buy yeah all right all right you and get this Metro I'm gonna let's get unloaded [Music] [Applause] [Music] so you like how that's placed on there yeah got the drawing here made off of pattern so if you like that I'll uh yeah to me it fits everything proportionate you know it's not too big not too small everything looks centered it looks good to me alright we're gonna do the same thing on the other side and I got a pattern these got a little hole of perforated in there we've got an electric D little dental punch holes in ER so it makes it makes my job as a leisure drawing this thing twice this is just a bag of charcoal we've got in a sock yeah works pretty good just kind of lays an outline we're gonna take that yeah you'll see when we take it off if the holes are good you'll see in a second just how good it we don't need much to see we just need a little bit this is not really perforated all that great but it's uh it's close enough then what we're gonna do is it's going to work out and just fine let's pull it off and see the magic yeah you can just lightly see it but its own there all right yeah and so now we can we can put this on the other side and and have the same thing on both sides [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh man I hate to run but we need to get back to the shop got some stuff to tinker on all right hot out here don't care yourself - this is uh this is just how we base it in we go from where it'll uh we'll put all the detail in it and surprisingly it look pretty good right I hope so anyway that's already coming together I can definitely say the pictures yeah it just this is this is the hard this is the hard part customers saying this part of it is really the hard part but once it all comes together that's pretty good yeah before never let me down y'all get out of here see you later well unfortunately we need to head back to the shop we got shanks busy finishing up the logos over there and it's hot out here it's like 102 degrees out here right now there's super hot and humid I love what I've loved what's coming out so far on and I know the finished product is gonna be even better but we need to get back to the shop we're gonna get working on that 59 eyes data that we picked up last episode but first we're going to go ahead and load up this 55 I love the logos on this thing as well it just gives it gave it some character and I know somebody will be able to find somebody that's out there looking for this truck that I was interested in buying it now so we'll get it cleaned up a little bit get it posted on the internet and say who's interested [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you guys might remember this 1959 eyes data that would purchase on the last episode we haven't had a whole lot of spare time to work or tinker with this thing haven't even really got to look it over real well the story behind it was that it was parked about 30-something years ago because the brakes were locking up on it it appears to be fairly complete the motor still in it everything that shifter the transmission all that still there tires are obviously shot I mean this thing's still a project but right now we're about to just dig into this thing see if the motor actually turn over see if you know just what the what problems we might have to actually try to get this thing back on the road again this is a little one cylinder 12 horsepower motor on this car very small I've studied up on these cars it says that they got about 75 to 80 miles per gallon which is really wild the top speed was around 4550 miles an hour so you weren't getting anywhere fast in this car it looks to be complete as far as I can tell there's obviously a lot of wires that have been disconnected probably brats been chewing on them and everything like that so we're gonna have to dig into that figure out which wires go where there's some old hoses that are dry rotted on this thing just about everywhere it will probably have to replace hoses the motor does actually turn over by hand which is great that means it's not locked up or anything the spark plug wasn't even in this thing so it's kind of kind of ironic and and and crazy that it didn't get rust formed in that cylinder but we're going to just start looking into this thing get a plug in it make sure we're getting compression try to figure out these wires to get some fire and get it a little fuel and hopefully she'll fire up [Music] I can see all the wires that run down here to the ignition on this thing the points are actually behind this flywheel and I really don't want to have to take it off I believe that we can move just this open hole here and be able to get to them a lot of times they just get corroded up with a little bit of rust and just nastiness and if they're not sparking it's not going to send spark to your spark plug so none of the wires that run off these points are connected to anything but I believe we can we can figure them out figure out which ones run to which side of the cool go ahead and get these points clean now the spark plugs brand-new we got that put in there get this thing I believe this right here like I said I'm not real sure on these things but this looks like maybe the starter was built inside this thing so we're going to try this and make sure see if this is the starter let's it turn over and just go from there [Music] what we're going to do is temporarily bypass ignition switching this thing didn't we when we bought the car it didn't have a key anyways and the wiring is just so mangled and Haywired on this steel we've looked all over on it the only thing that looks to be like it could have possibly been a place to connect a starter wire was right here so what we're going to do we just got some jumper cables here we got a little 12-volt battery we're going to try to see if you know hook some hook some juice up to that see if it turns over we've got the points clean and everything so then we'll wire in to the cool make sure we're getting fire at the points make sure we're getting fire at the plug add a little fuel and hopefully she'll fire up we got them we got a well I wasn't expecting that in today but it does run that means that's a good motor so it's that's a great deal on this car obviously there's a lot more stuff we need to get going on this thing for it so I'd only not be popping like it is but we'll go through that I'm probably going to tear this carburetor off rebuild it fix just the hoses to make it run right but I mean this car has been sitting for over 30 years I mean that makes me pretty happy to actually hear this thing make a little noise and I'm sure the cars pretty happy to know that it's it could be closer to getting on the road again so overall really happy with today with what we got done and I can't wait to get this thing a little further along well come on back we'll take a look looks good from here if that's what you want oh yeah yeah it changed a lot from the last time we were over here a lot of detail wired kind of a lot of time yeah a lot more time minute than than what it looks like it's uh let's put a number on it before you start right you know anyway it looks good if you're gonna take it and do a little bit of yeah we're gonna take it back and add a little a rust fact you know fake rust and patina to it kind of de-stress the logos and stuff a little bit to kind of she wanted to kind of look like they had been on the truck for a long time you know so we're gonna get it back over there and be pretty up your work yeah I would I would spray that with some clear flat krylon or something when you when you get through kind of I kind of left it that way right so you can go in there and stress it as much as you want okay you can you can get you an airbrush and whip it out and do a little touch-up and you need private right yeah it's not rocket surgery I'll get inside and get you paid up and get this thing loaded a you didn't bring that much money and I was afraid no if you put any money in the bag it's all good what is in there I appreciate it thanks a lot we'll see you next time well we're at least one step closer on getting this match I was sent over to Denmark shanks got the logos done they turned out fabulous I really liked them I think the customers gonna like them as well now we'll just get this thing cranked up hopefully it's going to crank up fine it's been over here for a little while get it cranked up we'll bring it back to town or I'll add some rust to it we're going to show you guys how we do or are fake rust or fake patina maybe it'll help y'all if y'all ever have a project where you want to just add a little bit more rust to it a little bit you know age to it will age these logos where it looks like they've been on there for a long time [Music] [Music] so this time we decided to take a different route coming over to shanks on the way up here we were just trying to scout out the area see if there was anything we might be able to find that we didn't already know about happen to come across some really cool mid-sixties Chevrolet pickup truck it's a stepside truck super cool patina to it looks to be in pretty good shape there's a for sale sign in the window so we're gonna stop by there on the way back through and just see if we can find somebody around or see if that thing may actually even be bobble hey guys I don't know if y'all know this I'm kind of a big deal I'm here let's melt the pickle that's gross back in Tupelo when 1935 baby boys rock the world brother game live kids are in nineteen years oh and Memphis Tennessee Sam or something come to me howdy hey how's it going pretty good it's still for sale yeah I'm Lance Bruce let me try Spencer hey Dave let meet you yeah we come through here earlier and seen it sitting out by the road almost panicked when I seen it gone I figured a dump in Seoul no I just moved it in the shade it's a hot after trying to get two air conditioning to work oh yeah yeah the they see hadn't been running years so yeah I think what it's gonna need is probably everything the belts gone off of it needs that idler pulleys kind of stiff it hadn't turned in years I noticed it was a clean truck just driving Bob it looks pretty clean underneath the hood too is it yeah that's been in the family or no I actually picked it up Oklahoma it was a barn fine sitting behind a man's barn out there and I was bored after work so I'd go over there and talk to him about it and he sold it to me I'd worked on it every evening and he had these in his barn separate oh yeah he had taken those off and had done some work on it he put some new headlights in it yeah I put those bezels back on there and but it is a running driving truck yeah yeah it's running drive it all the stuff works on it all the doors work all the windows work events work the glovebox is gone but the keys that are in there all the ignition is stuff is original stuff the keys still locked the door Wow so you can lock it up yeah which is rare right it's a one owner original truck from Grand Prairie Texas and though it's it's really dry I've never seen one that has rest there on the lower fenders and yes I'm arrested all on the truck a little little bit right there it had had some hail damage if you look at it close you can see the hell but it broke the windshield out yeah so I put a new window in it new wipers and seat cover and you know the varmints took over and ate all the wires off of it it's up there for 33 years yeah and so the rust intiatives the way it looks is pretty much the way I got it I shot a little bit of paint on there right I started messing around I shouldn't have never touched it but you know I'm not a body guy that's my you heard I seen your price and the windshield as far as that goes are you how well I mean as you say it runs like is it just movable or would you drive it anywhere yeah I think you could drive it pretty much anywhere you wanted to it'd be a hot rod but tires are brand-new everything on it's tight it drives good clutches master cylinder brakes others need slave cylinders news the starter is a little weak the Bendix on it you know every now and then it doesn't want to crank but yeah it's a running truck the speedometer does not work so there's no kind of ass you'd be going but I picked out if you'll get a ticket yeah unless you really these all trucks you know when you're moving pretty quick and I want to know if you're really though if you're going fast well watch you watch your best opera everything's negotiable in a hit run sure she sounds pretty good yeah roastery smooth don't ever get hot or anything like that other than just the temperature outside yeah it has a there's a new temperature gauge in up there on the day the whole pressure gauge it these old motors don't develop a lot of how oil pressure anyway but when are sitting and idling it's low but when you're driving any it comes up and it's got to do all pumping okay and it shouldn't get hot if it does slow down yeah our speed up and higher you haven't get where you're going like it so we brought some cash typically we look around when we go places you try to find stuff sometimes it works sometimes it don't I'd love for it to work today but yeah just depends on where where you need to be on it what I mean what what do you think would be your absolute low dollar on it oh I was thinking around 6500 what do you have mine ah I said I don't really have a whole lot that I can try to bargain with you on this line it's pretty cool got plenty of power yeah yes posit rack rear end it it's that's pretty good it'll burn the tires on it yeah tell you what if you'll do I've got 6 grand cash you show me that this truck has a little fun behind it I'll take it ok alright let's see what it'll do smell today he was down the road something about this wreckers never get [Music] well looks like I just bought me a 62 Chevrolet there good that's pretty cool thank you well my love affair with old 60 model Chevrolet trucks started when I was about 13 years old my grandfather had a brand need 64 shortbed Chevrolet pickup truck had a 283 and automatic in it I was soon to get my driver's license and that truck was a hand-me-down truck and unfortunately my older brother got a hold of it before I did and I never got to drive it so after he got finished with it it wasn't usable anymore so I've liked him and wanted him ever since [Music] looks like traveling these back East Texas towns today really paid off for us I mean this truck is immaculate to be all original there is no rod on these fenders there's no rod above the windshield all the typical places where these trucks normally rust out this truck is still solid the floor pans are solid seems to run and drive really good you never know we're going to find these old things that I believe the guy said this town has a population of like 200 people I mean the trucks as big as their City Hall here but I'm super happy with this my I love the colors on it I'm not sure exactly what we're going to do with it other than I know it's really hot today and dad looks really good in this truck so I'm gonna let him drive it home bring in some prints why decide to bang make you uptight and dense you're high-strung babe you're a strong babe and a high strong woman makes for a high-strung man this thing was running good I mean it was getting down the road we couldn't even see dad's taillights anymore we come around the corner and there he says that's not good what happened neither gets really bad gas mileage I run out of gas that's how they said it he said it was full but it's this bone-dry I started cutting out about about a mile back down the road there and I I followed it up to boxelder almost pop the hood and see if it'll crank on something typically I prefer to haul these old vehicles home even when they are running and driving just because of this reason right here dad said the truck was running and driving really good seem to be he got a good ways ahead of us and I think it may have ran out of gas it supposedly had a full tank of gas in it doesn't mean that someone might have stolen the gas out of it or maybe has a leak somewhere we're gonna spray a little carb cleaner in this thing see if we can get it to fire up then we'll know if we're need to get some gas in it or not yeah I'm pretty sure it's out of gas that's exactly what it's acting like we have no gas can no gas no nice ready I guess if you don't mind if you just wanna you wanna go away this ER I'll stick here with this no one want to be still a truck alright late you found the shady spot yep that's right I'll be right back alright I ain't got that guy from turnin Russ just spent 25 bucks on a $5 gas camera the guy gave us a taillight guarantees and when we left with the truck that he'd guaranteed it until he couldn't see the taillights anymore so guess I worked out pretty good for him [Music] [Applause] [Music] who rest Lee must have been driving it took y'all forever hot out here you're trying to hurry where's Lee out of food [Music] many problem apparently whatever's going around on these vehicles that's sucking the gas out of them it's just very contagious and it's catching hold of everything we have so it's gonna be pretty easy to name this episode running on empty [Music] [Music] [Applause] we've been tinkering around with this little Isaiah here and there we've been able to get it run when we first got it to crank up it only run off the off the carburetor cleaner we'd spray through the carburetor here we tried hooking fuel lines up to it the carburetor was all gummed up with gunk and stuff so we pulled the carburetor off got all that cleaned up as you can see here on the inside of this engine there was some some wiring issues that we had to address where some wires have gotten a war down we had to go ahead and replace the points they stopped sparking on us but we got this thing turning over now and everything going to put the flywheel back on it rerun the gas to it we've had to rework the pedals they were all rusted and just not moving right so we've got them working right so hopefully we've got this thing one step closer onto getting on the road [Music] we're about to try this thing out now the factory gas tank is mounted back here the way it's designed the fuel just gravity feeds into the carburetor here right now we can see there's an obvious hole in the bottom of this gas tank so we set up a temporary gas tank above the headlight it's just going to gravity feed the fuel into the carburetor just like the stock one would we've got to rent a wire ran to our cool here we're getting fire at the points so now we're just going to turn it over and see if she'll crank up and run one thing that's been consistent on this car is the problems that keep popping up we feel like we make a couple steps ahead and then just do we make three steps back we've got it getting fired to the points we got to get in fire to the plug now we've got gas to the carburetor it's working like it needs to be but now a problem that keeps popping up as it doesn't want to turn over like it needs to this doesn't have an external starter on it the starter is actually built into this and unit what's called a dynastar it's got little small brushes that allow electricity to flow through it and let this thing turn over I'm probably gonna have to tear into it just to clean them brushes you can buy new brushes for these you can buy a new dinosaur unit but parts for these are almost impossible to find so I'm gonna dig into it tear into it a little bit more see if I can't get them cleaned up get it turning back over again but while I'm doing that we actually had our new tires come in I'm gonna have dad get onto those too putting the mountain those up these tires on this thing we're definitely not usable they're just dry rotted as can be but maybe we can get some tires on this thing get this thing turning over again get it to crank and feel like we've made some headway at least today Lance had me order some tires for this I set about doing that so I thought I'd go out and get the white walls in that and fix that thing up pretty nice lookin in that these 10 inch wheels from tires or they're kind of hard to find so hopefully there won't be a moment [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] all right Leon these old tires that after they've set for a while especially moisture just never that rest around the beat now so what I'm doing is I'm fixing taking a wire brush kind of knock off some of these rust in that so it'll seal better so I won't have any leaking around the seal [Music] [Music] [Music] they're just teens but I keep them clean we're going to give this thing one more shot it's extremely hot in the shop here today it's like over a hundred degrees here in Texas if this doesn't work out I'm just going to step away from and getting a little agitated with it so I'll just come back on another day and hopefully things will work out better but we're gonna say we're gonna turn it over and just see what she does [Music] I used to have a job but I used to have a wife but she said man what's going on guys I miss anything about time you showed up yeah you miss it just crank up what do you mean I always show up about this song I know man we've been working on this thing all day long in the heat waiting for you to show up and it just cranked up right before you got here I promise man I did yeah I was just trying to get a snack it sounds good man it sounds strong sounds fast really yeah you say fast yeah I bet he won't take this thing you all about that smart car ain't you dude 80 horsepower it ain't it ain't gonna take it man this is this is old school 12 horsepower there's there's pure power there why don't we take it to the streets there's streets right it's not look you won't race for money I don't care man I got some faith in this time well you say 100 bucks and bring right hunter buck some bragging rights we're kind of like how long of a race I'm thinking until we run out of gas till we run out of gas that sucker gets sent five miles to bowling let's do that part of this was race here that mean I've got a Subaru 360 down there little about last Super 360 it runs off way Tator gas it might take us it's got to be the same kind of weight class is it it's probably it's in between these two sizes my third man let's do a three-man race quarter mile quarter mile race winner 100 bucks and bragging rights let's do it me huh shake on it good it's something [Music] oh my gosh that was an interesting ride I never got the thing out of first gear cuz the brakes still ain't working on it but I made it to the carwash this thing's run pretty good for what it was I didn't think we were going to get there today super happy to get it running again now just gonna knock this thirty-year-old dust off [Music] [Music] [Music] surprisingly I'm really happy the way this projects turned out I mean it got a little aggravating and a little confusing here and there but now she seems to be running great she shifted fine I'm pretty sure that after we blew the dust off of it it might be a little bit faster I know I think I might be able to give Wesley and dad a run for the money [Music] [Music] now that we got this short bus back to the shop we kind of dug into it and the guy wasn't sure if it would run or not it looked like it should it's got a really big v6 in it and it's kind of a strange design though the spark plugs actually come straight up by the intake rather than coming out of the side of the heads which is kind of weird I've never seen this setup before we put a battery on it and turned over it wasn't locked up or anything we had to put a cool on it in order for it to get fire again put a little car a little gas in the carburetor and it actually cranked up in idled we dug into a little deeper and found out that the master cylinder was out on it got that replaced now it looks like the clutch slave cylinder isn't working it looks like the little plunger part on it might be rusted up so we've got a product we use called evapo rust on cases like this it's a really good cleaning agent and it cleans the the rust off of it we're going to pull that slave cylinder off let it soak in that evapo rust hopefully that'll save us a little money and get this thing where the clutches working on it so the current situation on the short bus is that we have a problem with a Stokes slave cylinder these the slave cylinders have a piston down in here and I don't know if you can tell but this thing is just rusted up solid and it won't allow the piston to move in and out that it engages and disengages the clutch what we have here is a product called evapo rust we've used it around the shop just about on everything I've never used it on something like this but what it is is it's really simple to use it works really well you just drop something in there if it's really rusty it's safe on your hands it's safe on plastics you just let it set in there for a couple hours and it'll clean it almost down to just a bare metal so what we're going to do is we're just going to let this thing soak in there for a little bit come back and hopefully it'll loosen all that rust up clean it up where it'll get on the vehicle and be working good for us again [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so it's just been a little over a couple hours of letting this thing soak in this evapo rust and you can already tell I mean this stuff works miracles it stripped all the old grease and air and grime off of it the cylinder in here is just as smooth as can be before you could rub your finger in there and it was just really coarse where that rust had built up and that was allowing this this piston that pushed out the rod to engage the clutch they just couldn't move because it built up that rust I mean this thing is just as smooth as the inside of a cylinder wall now and so what we'll do is we'll just clean it up a little bit dry it off you rinse it off with some just water and dip it back in there and that kind of will neutralize it from rusting again but we'll get it cleaned up get some paint on it put it on that bus and get that clutch working okay go ahead and pop it alright that's good [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you'll answer yes sir my name is Tom nice mate your time I just saw a boss minor guy said you belong to it down south for selfish praise yes sir yeah kind of mine I haven't picked it up yet I bought it whenever I bought this old school bus actually and need to go pick it up but yeah that's that's mine you interested yeah yeah yeah yeah boy it's pretty cool yeah I've been chasing after this thing for about three years now and finally got my hands on it and the little Morris was kind of just a a bonus when we got over there so I had one of those but 40 years ago your door yeah but I never got it running didn't have money to do it then but yeah I'd be yeah I don't know a whole lot about the car I know he said there was a ton of parts inside of it I kind of looked over at about five minutes while we were there I don't know I know the motor is it stuffs in it but I don't know a whole lot about it you know I kind of looked it over I was curious whatever else was in it but anyway I would move heavily yeah um well normally I like to try to get them running and see what I you know try to get the most out of it and everything have any idea what something like that be worth to you no idea green huh see i bundled those things together when I bought on you doing watching murky well it works so trying to think back of what I got into that car I don't think a thousand is gonna get me where I need to be on it I'd really rather try to but you willing to buy it right there on the spot Oh sir I'll pick it up right there Hey Dude they don't leave you moving the room right like I said I don't know a whole lot about the car he assumed it would run and everything but that'd be something you'd have to just dig into her and everything I'd really really for me to feel comfortable I need to be around 1,600 on it though I think you tracked me down so I know you're know you gotta be interested in it give it up I'm hiding out from work yeah 14:14 don't work man my name is Tom O'Leary I just bought the little Morris Minor had one about 40 years ago but basically my plan is to clean it up and try to get it running just like it is and maybe someday in the in the future paint it but I don't really want to offer it much at all I just like put it back just like it is does it's pretty cool or low-cost there simple [Music] it seems to be running pretty good we got some stuff kind of temporarily rigged for now the new cool just setting in place and we're just running off a little external gas tank there but now that we've got this clutch sly sailing there on there it seems to be working well let's get this thing on the road [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] whoo well I feel like today has been a success this thing runs it drives the clutch is working good on it you know the guy told us that this thing's been setting up for 15 years he had no idea if it ran we've worked on it for a few hours today and got it running driving and everything top it off had someone come by and buy the Morris Minor I wasn't really sure why Haven bought that car anyways but that turned out to be a great blessing as well so all in all pretty happy day [Music] now that we got this retro Metro back at the shop here I've been playing around with the rust on this thing this is all paint right here the customer decided that they wanted this thing to just look old rugged and worn out and that's where we're trying to get with this thing I'm still working on the front here and we decided we'd go ahead and show you guys how we're doing it but for right now we've got the logos here that shanks did we'll go ahead and we'll start distressing them I'm going to show you how we do that to make them list look a little aged chipped up scratched up stuff like that the customer decided that she wanted to put door logos on this as well so we got a pretty cool design worked up we're going to paint that on there now we'll distress it as well and then we'll start showing you kind of how we do the rust around here and and hopefully it'll help you all out so when you're dealing with these patina style paint jobs you know the object of the game is from the look rough to look worn out and everything but when you're prepping for them when you're trying to do them you take every step like you would on a normal paint job so now I've got this door scotch-brite it so the logos will stick well I've just got some wax and grease remover here you can pick it up just about any automotive school around here I'm just going to wipe it down clean it up real good we've got three separate patterns here we'll lay out for the logos get them painted on and move on to the next thing [Music] so that's just like a starting just getting them set up on there just to have an idea of where stuff needs to be placed it looks like I want to write the bag up just a little bit more and the handbags is a little off-center to me so we'll get a tape measure ahold of it we just kind of have an idea where we want everything now so we'll get a tape measure get everything centered a hotwives width wise and stick things on there [Music] [Music] we've got these decals put on the truck now when we were pulling the outer layer off it peeled a little bit of this paint that's on the Metro here it'll probably actually work in our favor because it just kind of adds to the patina of this thing so once we paint on here we'll be using a single stage paint and I'll brush it on there now the reason why I'll brush it on there is because it'll be easier when we go to distress it to make it look aged you'll see the brush marks in it where if he was to spray it it's just gonna be harder to distress it's just going to all come off at warrants so we're going to mix up a little bit of single stage it's just a two-part paint that's got a hardener in it we'll brush it on there we'll peel these off let it dry good and then we'll come back and distress on the letters of this thing we're just going to use they're just a standard black on it we're using some two-part urethane paint it mixes 8 to 1 with a hardener normally you put a little bit of reducer in there if you were going to spray it through a gun but I've just got a mixed with the hardener here I'm just going to use a standard just a little inch and a half brush to paint it on there with don't glob the stuff on there just kind of go easy with it with the light coat at first and then and then follow it up with another coat and keep in mind when you're doing these things if you're looking for like an old distressed aged look a lot of times the paint's already going to be missing it's going to be a little bit thinner than it needs to be anyways but just keep that in mind when you're applying this stuff you kind of to kind of hold back on the paint though to kind of give it just an old weathered look [Music] [Music] now I'm mixing up the red that we're going to use on this handbag here we kind of went with the maroon color to match the retro style logo there it'll be the same concept as we did on the font same pain same mixing ratio I use a little bit different brush here I'll kind of go around the edges a little darker just how shanks did on his luck on his logo so that Center will be a little bit brushed a little thinner just so it looks a little aged as you can tell here when we peel the sticker off in some of these areas it took some more paint off of it but it never fails you try to prep these things just right and something like this will happen but it's not a big deal at all we'll go back I can feather that all out get it where it's going to be good and staying on there and it'll actually probably work out for our benefit because it's going to add just an extra layer in our patina [Music] [Music] we've got these logos done now and basically we've got as far as we can get on them until the paint dries we'll come back and distress them once that's good and dry now we've got these logos here though we'll go back and I'm going to show you all how we distress them we just used a little bit of acetone it kind of softens the paint makes it come off and I've got a really rough scotch-brite here it just makes it I mean you can use a regular scotch brite and the trick really is just kind of getting that acetone on there getting a layer on it let it sit for just a second and then that paint will come off a little laser and this it's really you got to be really careful in this area because you can take it off too much or you could spend a lot of time and not get it off just right so you're just gonna have to play around with it and just see what you like the best when you go to do this pick your point that's kind of low or kind of small just test a little area just to see how it works just to get used to it I'm gonna start down here on their leg and just kind of work my way up and then I'll come back to do the letters there at the end but basically you just kind of get to like I said get the pad a little a little wet kind of let it wipe on there a set and it doesn't take much force just to just start scratching at it you can see it's starting to come off there and just play around with it take it off where you think it needs it leave it where you think it needs it and just do the best you can [Music] so basically you just keep scuffing around on it until you get a desired look like you're wanting she wanted this thing to be really rusty really aged look like it been on there for a while so I'm going a little extra further on this one here we'll just keep keep aging it all hit it with some flat clear after that and then we'll begin our rust process [Music] [Music] hey you doing sir hey man well yup they came for ya how about to throw some rust on this old Metro here so just pretty short yeah just distress the logos a little bit Scotch brighten it up and start the rush process on it so she wanted to look look worse than what it did so that's what line that's where I come in one of these days I'm gonna send you one of my shop trucks to let you hook it up yeah that's fine man I love doing speaking the shop trucks man you know we do the interiors over here next door to you and deport well we just finished up a guy and that's part of my payment but I've already owned it once I can take it back home again oh yeah I was hoping you might be saying a spot a empty spot over here huh I was hoping you might be interested taking it off our hands man what is a 65 not sure not a hundred percent sure unibody though I originally picked that up from a guy in Dallas about seven years ago mm-hmm and traded it off to one of my customers done another car for him and heard the shop and he's conned me into taking it back so yeah my anniversary is tomorrow I'm scared to take it home yeah he's got a good record ankle it yeah he's got a few extra doors there got a hood in the back the trophy yeah it's not a hundred percent banged up it does come with a lot of bugs you got some ants yeah Texas fire ants you know what you need to get out of the thing I'd like to have about five hundred or whatever you can come off of yeah maybe a little less I don't have title huh yeah I don't typically deal with a whole lot of Ford's not that I don't like um I just I've never never messed with them a whole lot but I know that Union bodies are kind of a sought after vehicle see what you got I've seen rest here it's not too bad it's buildable is that a no Crown Vic front clip yeah I think somebody had thought maybe they would dis break it and yeah maybe put fuel-injected motor one of these days but yeah I think these cross members are pretty pretty plug and play on these trucks they worked pretty good yeah she's not real appealing not two hundred dollars a billing I just a fat one okay I can keep you out of trouble I'll give you two hundred you may say yes sir my name is Sammy ham I've been since 2008 working on old cars street rods Pro mods doing interior work inside restoration ran across slants through a mutual friend know he collects a lot of these old trucks so we brought this one about seven or eight years ago from a guy out of Rockwall as part of payment on an interior job for him why fighting real happy about bringing that home today it happened to me again I got the old truck back thrown one of my customers in clarksville as payment on a 55 interior anniversaries tomorrow so it's kind of scared to take it home for the second time and Lance looked like a good place to hopefully dump that off I had the hood on it whenever you come up here I probably went ahead and gave 500 to go out in cash man I got your 20 stud lace looks like you got a little bit more right appreciate it pretty delivery right yeah I'll do something with it I don't know what maybe I'll keep you outside what for sure it'll keep me out of trouble all right well thanks for stopping by laughs you bet see how it's easy man well we had to wait overnight for these logos to dry and we've got them distressed now and to me they turned out great they got to look just what I was wanting to go for it on it we've got her distress we've got the retro styles distressed as well and now we're just kind of going over the whole thing with the scotch-brite just to give it a sand where that rust can stick to it will blow it off clean it up real good I'm going to shoot just some flat clear over the logos to kind of protect them as we're doing the rust that we do but right now we're just going to run over it with a scotch brite get it cleaned up and start from there [Music] with patina style paint jobs they're all a little bit different on this body line here this Metro it had a lot of like crackly paint just a lot of cracks in the paint that ran along this body line across the whole Metro here so we've got a way that we can recreate that crackle paint effect and they're going to show you what we use I'm gonna have Dad the next step on this is we're going to tape off all the window rubbers and stuff they've got up they're old they're going to be replaced anyways but for right now we want to try to keep this as clean of a job as we can so I have I'll have him go around taping up everything but right now I'm just going to kind of show you how we do the crinkle pink on this body line here to recreate this crackle effect what we use here is a crackle medium there's a lot of people they'll use glue to do it others I don't I don't consider myself an expert in this at all there's a lot of people that do patina style paint jobs with airbrushing I mean there's just a lot of time and detail that can be involved in this but this is just a crackle medium you brush it on there kind of get a little sloppy and stagger with your brush marks that's what's going to give it to it effect as it starts to crackle once it dries we'll come over it with another paint and then you'll start seeing the magic happen [Music] here in Texas we've been having triple degree weather for about three weeks now this thing is too tall to fit inside so we've been having to work on it outside which is no fun at all we kind of wait until the evenings that where it's cool enough for this product to work the way we need it to so I'm trying to hurry up and work this all out what I'll do next is I'll add just some just some krylon flat black paint I'm going to go around the wheel well here across the bottom where the rust is typically a little darker this will just be our first step that's real easy anybody can do this you just you just start applying it here we'll go with other colors as well after that but this is just the first around step on it [Music] there's really not a wrong way about applying this stuff next I'm going to go with the brown color that'll kind of extend a little bit further on and if you look at Oh vehicles when they're rusty a lot of times they're just more rusty around this wheel arch here and across the bottom this one's got this drip rail here where it probably would have you know started to rust a little bit more up top here so add a little brown there I'll just play with these different colors just back and forth until I find it where I think I'm happy with it then we'll move on to our next step of applying the rust over that it looks like our crackle medium is pretty much dried and dry to touch what I've got here is just a little bit of red oxide primer mixed up you'll brush it on top of that as well there's a trick to this when you brush it try not to get too crazy with this just try to cover it all at once if you can now once again the thinner you put it the smaller cracks the thicker you put it you're going to have the bigger cracks I'm going to try to get a big big crack effect on there so I'll put my wipe it on kind of wet and like I said just don't try to overwork the area because then it just doesn't work as well [Music] well I told you guys earlier that this metro wouldn't fit inside and we've been slaving on it out here in the heat dad just let me know that we have rain in the forecast for like a solid week now and I really need to get this thing knocked out and get it finished I'm right here in the middle of this thing so I can't just stop and just just let it go our doors eight foot tall this Metro is about a little over eight eight and a half feet tall so what we're going to the plan is we're going to get it up close to the door we're going to take the back wheels off of it lower it down just a little bit with the forklift push it inside and it'll be we have plenty hot inside once we get it inside that way we can go ahead and knock this thing out and just get it down for [Music] well it barely fit in there but we got it inside I didn't even think we were going to be able to shut the door down on him but it did work so we got it in there we've got the first few steps of this Russ process completed on this same it hasn't changed a whole lot I know we've got the crackle paint done on the body line here I've kind of went around the edges darken them up with just some black and some brown spray paint what I'll do next is I'll go around it with our rust paint that we use I'll sponge it on in some places I've used different stuff I've used Walmart sacks just different types of sponges paintbrushes and I'll spray it through my HVLP spray gun and there's just all kinds of ways and once again I'm not an expert at this there's there's lots of guys out there that are airbrushing this stuff turns out really cool really wild but this works really well for us and we'll just kind of show you what we use and how it works what we have here is a two-part system on our rust away we do it it's just a medium black base that we use and we mix an iron powder with it now what the iron powder is it's just really crushed up small pieces of metal you can buy there's lots of different companies that make this it's kind of just you know they have different sizes you want to go with something that's really fine though we've got it mixed here in this base and it's waterborne paint so you reduce it with water of course if you're really wanting a dark-colored rust you're going to want the paint to be a little bit thicker you can reduce it down to kind of make it a little transparent and it'll it'll give you kind of a transparent rust where you can still see layers underneath it what you're going to need to do is just kind of play around with it what I like to do is I like to put some dark spots on there just to give it like in some scratches some just some really dark thick rust around in places then I like to go over it with just kind of a medium coat just to kind of blend everything really well but on this two-part system you have your iron you have your iron particles inside the paint and then what you have is an activator which is just a copper salt activator as all it is when it when it reach it when that copper hits that the steel in that paint it begins to form a rust so in essence it is a real rust but it's paint form here it's it's not going to get any worse or make your truck rust through or anything like that it's just on the paint side of it so what I'll do now is I'll start getting some different sponges I have all kinds of different styles you'll never have enough sponges so if you just have and you could use a dish washing sponge whatever like I said I've used Walmart sachs paintbrushes I'll use my spray gun just whatever works for you it's just fun to play around with it and just see what you come up with [Music] what I'm going to do now is go around cut the edges of this Metro here I've just got a couple different sponges here I'll use different techniques are putting it on now try to stay away from just doing a straight line with it because rust would typically never form that way so I'll just kind of come up in some areas I'll use it wetter in some areas it'll kind of give it a texture a darker look and just really kind of add some rust to this thing so right now I'll start here I'll work my way around and then I'll kind of come up and add some to the actual sides here as well [Music] [Applause] [Music] this pain had already flaked off here so I'm just using this brush to kind of follow along that line that way it'll it'll fill in that line and just be where Russ would actually be on the thing so I'm just kind of being careful following that line if you get and get over or over where you need to be just take a wet rag and it'll vibrato [Music] what I'm going to do now is go over the sides of this thing right here is a lot of paint was chipped off it would have normally been it was rusty there when we put the silver over the side of it it kind of overspray went and covered it up so I'll take it just a small brush go around these edges so it has a good clean edge to it sponge it in there brush it in there whatever I'll find some spots up here where I feel like it needs a little extra rust some dark spots and then I'll mix up some rust in my gun spray it around here let it blend really well and then we'll just actually start the process of turning rust [Music] now I'm mixing up a little of this paint so I can spray through my going I need it to be pretty thin I actually just sprayed through my base coat gun now you could use a primer gun something that you know allow thicker material to go through and spray it a little thicker I just need this to be thin and I'll go over the areas where I've sponged it and stuff just to let it blend a little further it needs to be pretty thin in my gun so I'm gonna add a lot of water to it to make it transparent and be sure whenever you you use your gun that you clean it really well if you don't get this stuff cleaned up it will start to rust inside your gun so be sure that you clean it out with lacquer things are really good after you get through [Music] got my paint mixed up in my gun here what I'm going to do is go around all these edges where i sponged it on there go around the top the bottom here then it'll just allow this for us to kind of blend out here and once that dries I'll come back I'll reduce this paint down just a little bit more and then I'll just do a whole alot coat over the whole thing sometimes I like to go around the edges of these spots here where the darker rust would be just because a lot of times where this dark rust is it'll tend to have lot of rust coming off of it so I'll go over that I'll go over this crackle paint here and pretty soon it'll be turning rust on us [Music] [Music] now I'm just going to thin down this pain a little bit more and I'll just put a real light coat over the whole thing it'll work really well it'll actually go over her logo and then we'll clean it off and it'll stay in the low spots kind of leaving some rust stains here and there to really add to the look of this thing just being really old now that we've let that first coat flash off and you need to let it dry at least about an hour with the humidity here in Texas it's this rust acts a little bit slower and it's very temperature sensitive sometimes it reacts really quick sometimes it takes it overnight to do so the humidity is really bad here right now we're hoping it'll react pretty quick but you really we just don't know until you start putting it on there but what we're going to do here is just pour a little bit of this copper salt into the paint gun I'll spray a light coat on it wait about five minutes hit it with another light coat and then you'll just let it dry off about 30-40 minutes and you'll slowly start seeing it get the rust in the areas where we put the rest back [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's about 1 a.m. here and we decided we're gonna call it a night we've let this product flash off for about 30 minutes now and as you can tell it's already starting to turn rust we'll let it set overnight it'll eventually keep turning a little bit more and more but like I said I'm gonna come back and add another coat I'm not real happy with the top here I don't like it to look like it's outlined or boxed in so I have more rust up here to kind of take away from that and once again we can need to match it up with the front area here but so far this is the first step it worked out just the way it needed to we'll come back tomorrow and just finish it up [Music] Oh [Music] well here we are a day to of turning rust and this kind of shows you what this product does after it sets overnight it continued to keep rusting a little bit now what we're going to do is come back and add another layer of it we'll go over it with the scotch brite because you always need your paint to have a scratch to stick into so we'll go over this and if you know with rust if you've ever seen it on a vehicle it's it's very porous and kind of rough and just it's just you can rub your hand across it and it'll come off so we're going to get that smooth we'll start with another layer on here up here at the top I want it to have a little bit more rustic raus there I may add a little bit more scratches here and there on it and it's going to continue to darken up but with it already having this base coat on there the second coat tends to activate a little bit easier and it'll really start changing good on us [Music] what I'm gonna do here is I got just a little bit of bass co-producer I'm gonna put it on a rag and take off some of this rust where it's went over the logos here we want these logos to kind of show up on this thing but you also want them to be a little rusty as well if I keep rusting over this the way it is they're almost just going to blend right in with the rust and you're not going to be able to see them so I'll just take a little bit of reducer on my rag here clean it around you know just nothing nothing trying to be too particular about it but just clean it up a little bit that way when I go with the second coat of rust you'll actually be able to see [Music] now we're about to go over this with the second and final coat of rust here on this since I started panel painting it it's going to be really crucial that I make this door match up with the front of it the door to me is a little darker already than this back panel so I'll go a little lighter on it I'll go around some areas just to darken up the rust a little bit and then I'll go over it with a full final coat as well this stuff will start changing it pretty quick and it should give the look that we're looking for on this side [Music] [Applause] [Music] we've let this flash off for about 30 minutes now and as you can tell it's darkened up a little bit but it's still just not the look that we're looking for if any of y'all have seen the first episode you might remember us talking about the secret hurry up sauce it's there's really not that big of a secret behind it there's more of a secret behind this two-part paint that we use with the iron particles in it and the copper salts what the secret hurry up sauce is is none other than just regular ol distilled vinegar and a lot of people know with distilled vinegar you can put it over bare metal and it'll make it rust you can mix it with hydrogen peroxide and a little salt and it'll rust just within minutes the problem with that is you're stripping your vehicle down the bare metal it's actually causing the metal to rot away over time it's real rust this too is real rust it's just on the exterior of the outside on the paint so it's not going to make your metal begin to rust and get worse so now I'm just going to hit it with a coat or two of this vinegar and it'll start changing a little bit more [Music] [Music] well we've got the first couple steps of the patina rust process completed now and this thing is going to continue to keep changing overnight there's a few things that I'm still going to change on it around the retro style logos there will we'll clean this rust off to kind of give it a look it'll show back that silver that's around it and it'll kind of look like someone maybe clean the rust off to put these logos on you'll also see the rust that's still on the logos and there'll be some rust on her as well to make it look like they've just been on there for a really long time so we'll just keep on working on this I don't consider myself an expert at this site by any means I mean there's tons of guys out there that are just awesome at doing this airbrush patina work but this is just we just want to show you kind of the basics of what we're doing it around here I mean it's worked for us it's it's it's definitely gets you that rust look and we're just going to keep on messing with this will go around finishing the rest of it and we hope to have this thing finished by our car show come September first and hopefully you guys can make it out and see it there who says cheaters never win [Music] [Music] [Music] guess that was a hundred dollars well spent gotta be kidding me man [Music] pay up suckers [Music] [Music]

Channel: Turnin Rust Network

Views: 1,774,428

Keywords: Turnin Rust, 1959 BMW Isetta, 1959 BMW isetta 300, bmw isetta 300, bmw isetta, isetta, bmw, turning rust, international metro van, rusty vehicles, barn find, turnin rust episode 6, rat rod, patina, bogata tx, kravened kustoms, 1962 GMC C10, 1954 international metro, 1955 chevvy pickup, 1962 GMC Short Bus, runnin on empty, 1959 bmw runs after 30 years

Id: 2oN150bDtIU

Length: 111min 21sec (6681 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 18 2018