Why Did I Ruin One Of The Rarest Muscle Cars Of All Time?

all right guys at the shop uh this week uh house machine still does not work another week goes by it still sits there the world's uh the largest and most expensive paperweight but they tell me that uh they tell me that there's hope in the future so 60 days been waiting for that thing to run correctly um and hopefully so you got shipbox in here waiting on the turbo still for that we got 2.0 some updates with that but today i'm going to take you over to my garage over at uh m1 concourse and i'm going to show you the one of the rarest muscle cars that was ever built and i destroyed it so you tell me if you think it's destroyed or not comes to be good after you see about that also got some merchandise updates also i was up north this past weekend so i got a garage shot in here whatever show you the pole barn up north and the toys that are up there um that we use up north and then i give you another episode or another another segment in tom bailey's life and uh today i cover cars i had growing up and the cars i was in love with so thanks for watching guys stay tuned finally we've got the sick the mag shirts so they're in there's two versions of them that just came in you go find them link be in the description and www.baileydashracing.com but first one both same on the front you have sick the mag this is the g rated version you've got synthetic logo on the back of it go check it out that's the g-rated version so in that g-rated version we're calling the luke version because luke told me he's like ah well we can't get the other version because it'll offend people and people might not like it and it won't have as much uh foothold so we're gonna call that the luke version and so we made sure we got a bunch of the loop version in but we also got what we'll call the tom version same thing logo on the front uh i've got to show you it's got the qr code or whatever on the sleeve takes your website so hopefully you're out wearing in public somebody wants to subscribe to the magazine they can just scan your arm and they're good to go but here's the top [Music] version on the back a little bit different so with that that's a tom version we've got the luke version there's more of the sick machining shirts in stock on the website so uh link in description but www.baileydashracing.com is where that stuff's at sick the mags going gangbusters it's awesome like the support that we've had with it we're getting ready to leave to release a package of posters that's going out to the first thousand subscribers to the magazine so it's a package i think the package ends up with six posters in it um they're surprise posters when the people get them hopefully they like what the posters represent about the dragon drive type scene but uh there's still uh about 100 slots left for people to go subscribe to the magazine and be part of that first thousand shipment of posters that are out there because we're coaching on over 800 subscribers as it is which is amazing considering the first magazine won't be out until august um a lot of the press has been out there the previews have been out there that luke's put out there regarding the magazine what's going to look like couple sample pages i'm telling it's going to be awesome weighted in the other day because we had to get one of our samples weighed uh for postage so that we knew what it was going to be for postage but 1.4 pounds is one of the magazines 128 pages thick stock two covers like i mean just an awesome magazine so get over there to www.sickthemag.com you check out the magazine hopefully you like it you like the idea but you subscribe to it so now on with today's stuff all right guys there's been a lot of a lot of requests for more about this car uh basically introduce you to one of my favorite cars today um it's my favorite car for especially driving down the highway cruising uh thing cruises at 80 miles an hour 2000 rpm i mean i don't know i guess that's a common theme because i put overdrives and everything i do everything to get low rpm highway cruise speeds with it uh just i like the idea of not winding the motor hard and being able to cruise down the expressway uh basically with anything i have but this car is a car that basically i ruined one of the most limited production um muscle cars ever so 1969 talladega it's a ford talladega most people aren't familiar with it the first time i saw this car um kind of a funny story because the the first time i saw this car i was in wisconsin with the indian barrel ground car my first 69 camaro for drag week um the orange one and at ron weasley shop and sitting there and car pulls up and dr ford pulled up with this car and i looked at i'm like what kind of car is that i had no clue i had never seen one in my entire life and he said it's a ford talladega and i said okay well it's the first ford that i think that i like so when it comes to cars i'm not that i love all cars but i mean not particularly do a lot of the ford body styles grab my attention like this car did and i'm like wow i mean it is probably the coolest looking car body shape that i have seen and he went on to tell me basically it's a limited production it's uh it's based off of a torino um fortrino and it's basically one of the aero cars so there's four aero cars there's the dodge daytona there's a plymouth super bird there's the uh the ford talladega um and then there's the mercury cyclone so those are those are the four aero cars and there's actually an aerocar reunion that happens every year every year every couple years down in alabama a couple years ago alice and i went down to the one we drove we drove the talladega from here in michigan we drove it all the way down to alabama we stopped at holly on the way for a day to basically do a little tuning on the car and um took it the rest way down there uh drove it about 600 miles that week from track to track got to drive it on um on the atlanta speedway uh the talladega super speedway we got to go to the race at talladega but we didn't get to drive on the track there and um so i mean this car's got tons of miles on it it was actually so i guess gotta jump back to the story though but so doc ford he had the car and he's like it i had one before it took me forever to find another one i regretted selling that i'll never get rid of it and i'm like well if you ever decide you want to get rid of it then give me a call and it was 2015 so that would have been 2000 that would have been 2010 2011 2015 it gives me a call and he's like hey are you still interested in that car um working on another car and i want to sell it and i'm like and i at the time definitely didn't need a project we were working on sick um six seconds 2.0 was being built at that time so um so whatever so that project was going very heavy um that's uh then my wife had just died in december of 2014 so that was fresh in there but i'm like well i just definitely can't pass up the car so aiden and i uh jumped in the rig and we went out there like a week or so later to go pick it up and a roller as a roller he had converted it all these cars um all these cars were bench seat automatics and um this particular one he had converted to with a center console and bucket seats and a stick shift so but it was a roller so it didn't have anything in it at a time and we went and picked it up it got shelved because we're working on 2.0 so it just sat in the shed for two years two years before well over a year like i mean until 2.0 was completed before this actually started getting worked on and long story short shorter story long however you want to put it i also have a 70 cougar which was my grandma's car my grandma bought that car new that car went from my grandma i used to when i was the whole time growing up i remember that car and i used to take it for oil changes when i turned 16 uh lots of stuff i mean we'll cover the the cougar and stuff but like but it went from my grandma to my dad uh to my sister back to my dad and then to me and it's sitting um it's sitting at my buddy shop or whatever but trying to come up with it because this was gonna be i guess whatever i'm going all over the place with this story but um this car was gonna be a quick one because it's like hey it's already a stick shift so the idea was we're gonna put a we're gonna drop a coyote in it um we're gonna put a coyote in it and a five-speed and we'll have it on the road in six months easy-peasy so go to fit it for the coyote and then try and get the stance right so with how it needs to sit because uh as all you guys know everything has to have the right stance well with putting a coyote in it we couldn't get the right stance with it no matter what we did so it ended up needing a full chassis so that just extended the build by years um had grocery shop build a chassis for it uh custom fit for the coyote in it it's actually got a six-speed tremec in it and uh four-wheel carbon ceramic brakes that's actually um those are off of a z28 so they made those mark steelo actually hooked me up with those because he had those for a project and he ended up doing something different on the project so i got lucky because i priced carbon ceramic brakes at pri and i learned that i did not want it i would i still wanted to have carbon ceramic brakes but i i could not bring myself to spend the money for carbon ceramic brakes so luckily i take off on a z28 which as you know mark steelo was a designer engineer for the z28 so with that carbon survivor brake carbon ceramic brakes ended up all the way around it uh coyote motor bullseye uh sponsored me on the turbos on this project so it's got twin twin bullseye turbo chargers on it um we call it talladega tt this actually debuted at sema in to i wanna say 2018. i think 2018 maybe 2019 it debuted at sema 2000 i'm not sure but uh one of those years because 2020 yeah 2020 we drove it um we drove it down to alabama allison and i so it would have been that was 2020 so this debuted at sema 2019. so but no further ado show you a little bit around this car as you can see i mean we call it talladega tt carbon ceramic brakes forge lines twin turbos which from the factory um from the factory those were headlights that twin headlights now it has one turbo one headlight so cover a little bit on these again i told you that based off of a torino so a torino has the same body lines it basically shares the same body of the torino the difference is i mean there's multiple subtle difference but the main difference is is that a torino would end about here to where this nose was actually put on in the parking lot at the ford factory the torino factory so they came off the assembly line my understanding from everything i know as a torino and then in the parking lot they added this front eight inches a torino the hood is actually the furthest thing forward on the car it actually overhangs the grill talladegas have this and this is all for nascar so and this is actually the a rear bumper that's turned upside down shaved and put up in the front and they do the same thing with a swap bumper in the back to basically make the whole thing more aerodynamic so we call it the talladega tt i'll show you here that's actually the center console out of a camaro actually fit in there perfect originally we didn't have a center console and when first got it done i felt like it needed that center console so we had the center console stereo is actually inside the center console because i didn't like the idea of putting one of those big flat screen stereos or anything like that in this i wanted it to look the part as much as possible tmi seats so they actually supplied all the material for recovering reskin in the back seat to match the front seats and open the hood for you there you go twin bullseye turbo chargers so these are 66s you can see all this piping all the custom exhaust with the headers all coated comes up through the turbo and then back out through underneath it's got full exhaust comes all the way out the back of the car and then it does have electronic cutouts that actually are controlled via the old um traction control switch that would be in the center console of the camaro but turbosmart wastegates turbosmart blow-off valves turbosmoke always supplied me with all of all of that stuff for my cars bullseye took care of the turbos for it so and that is a stock stock coyote motor stock block that's the uh the boost rated version so we keep this all everything's controlled via holley and these are all holley custom gauges so that they did i actually don't believe you can get some of this stuff with control but there are the custom holley gauges they put those backgrounds on there holley computer the old ricky bobby saying not first or last so had this on power tour as well um but talladega they made 745 of these this is number 648 it's a real talladega not a recreation the obviously the reason i ruined it is it's sitting on a custom chassis and it has coyote power plant six-speed tremec basically no body lines have been altered at all on this car everything is kept the same um change with that and these are just i mean a low slung car from the factory like i said one of my favorite cars so do one other quick walk around for you there you go that's a 69 ford talladega like i said they made 745 of them luckily this one when i got it had no drivetrain original drivetrain was nowhere to be found so this is so i didn't feel bad for that i was modifying or making significant changes to it because and when we went to the uh we went to the arrow warriors reunion down in alabama i was afraid that there might be some purists that really would be upset over the whole situation but actually everyone loved it they love the looks of it um they love the mods to it and keeping it basically real that uh it still looks the same it's just modern conveniences so what do you call that a restaurant rod it also has a flex fuel sensor in it so motion race works uh with the bracket for it so this runs on e85 primarily when i'm running on the track here at m1 uh we bleed that out to just pump gas for the winter because don't like letting the e85 sit in there for too long and this will sit all winter here in michigan in the garage so there you go 69 talladega all right guys uh holiday weekend uh fourth of july weekend um it's been crazy with midwest drags with rocky mountain and the stuff going on we haven't been up north if you don't know what up north is uh we live in michigan i grew up in ohio so there wasn't enough northern ohio some people had cabins on the on lake area some people had some places in pennsylvania where they went hunting michigan everything is about up north in the summer well also in the winter when you go snowmobiling and most people well i don't even know most people let's say i'd i'd say 80 of the people somebody in their family has a place up north uh where people go to in the summertime um a lot of people we know have place up north or their family has up north but we have a place up north it's about two and a half hours from where we live at and on the lake we try to get up here in the in the summertime as much as possible uh basically we have in michigan as you southerners probably don't realize we have to take the dock out we have to get our boats out we have to take everything because everything freezes up here so we snowmobile on the lake in the winter time and in the summertime i mean we boat and jet ski on it so typically we do dock in memorial day weekend knockout labor day weekend we had midwest drags going on we had rocky mountain race week so actually the first time we are up here is fourth of july weekend so this weekend we have to get dock in we got to get the toys out um go play with stuff be set up for summer and it'll be quick because end of august we got to get everything out again by labor day which i have a race labor day weekend so therefore before labor day we got to get everything out of here uh but i figured that very well here might as well show you the stuff that's in the shed we got a pole barn up here so uh most of summer toys and stuff stay up here they get put away winterized and then we got to take them all out so just give you a little tour of the the stuff that's here while we get that stuff out of out of the pole barn so we have a razor we can use that in the spring in the fall um no mods if anybody's asking to the razor we just take it on the trail we do have we do have tracks for it back here they're tucked away back there so um it is awesome in the winter time especially with the tracks it's it's it's pretty much unstoppable so it's almost takes the fun out of it so for the most part i think we've had the tracks on there a couple times it actually came with it i bought it used it had the tracks on it so summer toys you got a couple jet skis back there um you got spark and then you got uh i think that's a sea doo 260 um older one we've had for a while so bobcat uh you're really not anybody in my book unless you got a bobcat so uh does it get used as much as it probably should no we use it for plowing snow and stuff up here but anytime if you've never experienced messing around with a bobcat you're missing out because i know some guys do it for a living so they're probably tired of it but for the casual person man you can have a lot of fun and you can blow off a lot of steam by digging dirt so uh snowmobiles so they're up here for the winter they were moved to the front typically like after we get this stuff out of here we move those to the back the boats will be up towards the front uh you got our wakeboard boat um malibu wakeboard boat uh you got the jet boat like finnegan just not as fast but it's like an 86 carrera got off my buddy grubby um years ago but we got to clean that up get that in uh just big block chevy jet drive but man the wakes if we get some videos if we get it out this week in the videos i mean it is it is crazy the wake or the rooster tail that we can get out of that thing but and then the old pontoon boat i mean just like the just like the great outdoors i mean i guess that's why we call that boat suck my wake one of my favorite movies is great outdoors but um would you rather don't even know exactly how that quote goes but you got pontoon boat definitely good for going down to the we got sand bar on the lake so go hang out there um and have some fun so there's also the stand-up jet ski the yamaha back there we do have another jet ski that's still at the shop but uh it's officially only been ridden a couple times because it broke and whatever so we didn't have it all last year hoping to get it back this year because it's from australia so they waiting on parts to get over here so it's called the reaper so if anybody's known or heard about those it was it was a short period of time when they could be shipped into the u.s so but that's it figured just give you a quick tour of the garage and the stuff that's here in the pole barn uh they'll get out on the lake um probably get some more video out on the lake this weekend to just give you guys an update on things so thanks for watching guys please subscribe all right guys i guess we're on to another episode of tom bailey's background um i guess that's what we call it but last time when we talked about it talked about me growing up talked about getting into uh getting into sales at a young age with kirby vacuum cleaners and learning a lot of life lessons through all of that uh also growing up that we didn't have a repairman so we had to fix everything ourselves whether it was the car the dishwasher a roof on the garage build a garage cut what i mean it matter i mean obviously from the comments lots of people grow up the same way that i did which call it that um i call it that uh that i don't know if you'd call it lower middle class but that lower middle class work ethic where everybody works really hard for everything that they have so grew up in that same thing learn that from my dad so when we get into cars which we'll talk about here i grew up with tons of hot wheels cars collected hot wheels cars had thousands hot wheels cars a lot of my hot wheels cars still exist today they uh my kids had them and now i think they're in a box in the basement a decent amount of them and beat up these are not hot wheel cars in the cases these are used hot wheels cars that we basically tortured every which way shape or form growing up and my aunt's car was probably the first car that i was in love with at a young age i was i was probably 12 or 13. and i wouldn't know what a rare car was or not was i mean that at that point in time like the information i had i got from hot rod magazine did it cover did it cover everything all the makes models we had no internet we had no we had encyclopedias so you want to learn something you looked up encyclopedia i can tell you that a lot of that stuff wasn't covered there but she had a 70 had a 70 chrysler 300 hurst edition this was a white car gold stripe hearst emblems on it it was an automatic um that was the first car that i was in love with that i wanted and i was 12 or 13 years old it was always in my grandma's driveway my aunt lived with my grandma and my grandma had a 70 cougar sitting in the garage and not the eliminator package it was just regular 72 or cougar but it was the 351 cleveland engine in there and but that chrysler 300 was my favorite car her daughter her daughter lanita's i don't know if his boyfriend at the time her husband not sure she lived in texas and jimmy and uh jimmy ended up with that car and i was so mad and now granted i was probably 14 or 15 years old but that was the car i wanted when i turned 16. and so when jimmy got it i didn't like jimmy um necessarily i had no reason to but whatever like uh me and jimmy get along great today so but uh he ended up with that car and that would be my first disappointing loss of a car at 13 14 years old in the car that i wanted so it needs to say love cars love the old style cars my dad with the 70 cougar of my grandmas he did all the ohio i'm born and raised in ohio um he did all the bodywork on the car to basically repaint it i think my dad redid that 70 cougar twice that 70 cougars still exist it went from went from my grandma to my dad to my sister to my dad and then back to me i've had in my possession for six or seven years um it's it's stripped down to get something done to it and the talladega um which i started to allude to in this in the scattered brain story but the talladega took all the design stuff i wanted to do to the cougars i wanted to do a coyote six-speed deal twin turbo setup and that's what the cougar is going to be so then after doing the talladega the cougar then needs a new purpose and i've gone back and forth from different options i don't want to i don't want to cover that here but like i'm always changing my mind on what to do with that car because that car is my grandma bought the car from she's the second owner of the car she didn't buy the car new but she had it since early 70s with it had the title of the original owner that was her friend that she bought it off of that's one of those kind of forever cars that i'll always have if i hurry up and get around to figure out what i want to do with it and then work on getting that car done but that's also the car that when i turned 16 um even prior to 16 i would drive that car i take it for oil changes and oil changes were always extended with that car because i'd end up taking it to school that's how i learned to do different types of mischievous things with a car was with my grandma's 70 cougar when i had it for an oil change i know one time when i took it back to her mysteriously like a week later needed a transmission she never blamed me once for it so that's my grandma was a sweetheart um but definitely when that car was in my possession it definitely got used now in my grandma's possession i remember my parents had a little shop in brimfield where i grew up in my grandma would come visit at the shop and every time she left she would do a burnout out of the parking lot onto the street and down the street squealing the tires and um or the tire it was a single open rear differential so it would only do a one-wheel peel but it did awesome one-wheel peels with those little bias fly tires that were around in the 70s um but that would be the other car that i loved couldn't afford either one of them at the time um my first car when i turned 16 was a 74 chevy van and it was the brown van with the bubble windows in the back and the uh and the couch that turned into a bed still can't believe to this day my dad let me buy that band but on the way back from getting my license on my 16th birthday so back then kids if there's any kids watching but back then that was the deal on your birthday you were at the dmv getting your driver's license that was as soon as you could possibly get it and that's the day you were getting so on the way back from getting my driver's license we stopped and looked at it 74 chevy van bubble windows in the back it had the carpeted upper console with the stereo and the cv in it and it had the fiberglass running boards going down the side it had craggers on it um had headers it was a 350 uh 352 barrel though but um had headers with glass packs so it was loud it was cool it was rusted it was basically a piece of crap that probably anybody but me i thought it was the coolest thing and um my birthday's in october so in ohio with at that point like 60s were wide so i drove that for through the first winter so if you want to learn how to drive in winter weathery conditions a 74 chevy van with 60s on it open rear differential in the winter in ohio you will learn how to get your car out of ditches you'll learn how to do a donut in the middle of the road without trying you will learn a lot of things um with a vehicle like that so that was my first vehicle uh with that that was my normal vehicle and to make money on the side dodge omnis were famous in that in that era call it the call it the 86 to 86 to 88 1986 88 uh they were common with the older ones so i don't even know what year they were i'd say that they were early 80s once but um they had the like a shelby version of it and they had the sportier version called the two plus two type version i i don't remember what it is but those had an aluminum headed like 2.2 dodge motor in them and uh in the omni the hatchback version the four-door not sporty version had a cast iron head on so they were known with the aluminum head for overheating crack in the head and then you could buy that sporty two plus two version whatever that was i don't i don't remember but you could buy that you could buy that with a blown up engine for a couple hundred bucks well you could go buy the hatchback version of it for a couple hundred bucks because nobody wanted those well what i would do is in the garage at night after work or in the morning before work during the summer i would drop the front end out so um basically the front cradle with the with the axles with everything and i just swap them on the two cars and i jump out the omni because it had a blown engine and the two plus two i could sell that for like 800 900 sometimes a thousand dollars and that's call it side hustle call it side money whatever but that was the that was the way to make money on those vehicles so i must have went through i must have went through 20 of those doing that had one of them actually that um buddy that a buddy that died in high school brian poguet bought off of me but uh one day coming home from work i actually worked at the uh at the bakery like on the there's two off days so you have to go into like two o'clock in the morning and you'd work like two to noon or something like that you worked like this weird shift you got paid extra but it was it was a hard shift to do because it was too late to stay up for and it was like it was too late to stay up for and too early to get up for so i lost that job because i slept in too many times because one of my days i had to work was on a saturday so i'd try and be out friday and get up and go to that job at four in the morning i think actually it's four in the morning but i don't i don't recall either way coming back from that one time on i think tuesdays and saturdays uh in the summer but uh coming back and had this great idea to cut the top off of the nominee so we made an omni into a convertible as you know an omni is a unibody so therefore without the top it usually loses its structural support so after a while really started cave in the middle um had issues with it but brian fogate he bought it and i mean that dude drove it in the winter with like a tarp over top of it but uh that'd be one of the one of the early deals with the with car stuff um also mercury monarch i mean i can remember i must have went through 50 cars in high school so which is different stuff that would get it fix it up or get it because it was broke and then make changes to it the ones that really stand out are um at a 74 j10 pickup truck so bought that from out of a farm field had no brakes that was four wheel four-wheel drum brakes but um had no brakes and ran in a while but my dad and i got that running uh redid that and um jeff landis another buddy i grew up with ended up buying that from me um down the road after but my dad had a 76 cj5 that we redid the cj5 completely the body and everything in the garage we painted it in the garage did everything to it in the in the garage of our house which was just the normal single car garage we actually it was a pull through so it'd be two cars long but um we repainted that fixed it up and he actually gave that to me for my high school graduation so i had that for a few years after that and then ended up selling that uh to another buddy in high school i can't remember his name but um just say that's kind of my my car background growing up i had a 68 camaro that i bought off a buddy that needed to be put together i never got it together i ended up selling it as a incomplete car that basically i sold it the same way i got it because when i looked in the parts catalog and i couldn't afford any of this off to build this car even in the late 80s early 90s that that never happened i had a uh at a 74 in nova that we went on vacation in alabama uh would be so i had the van so this would have been the summer after my 16th birthday we drove down there bought this 74 nova it was actually a hatchback which was rare there wasn't a lot of those um stick shift 350 headers built four speed and loved that car drove that all the way back from alabama had that for a couple years actually i had that for several years i never officially sold that car when i moved out to pennsylvania when i was 18 my parents got tired of it sitting there and then my dad ended up selling it i don't even know where it went i also had a 84 monte carlo that um the kreger stuff my grandma actually bought me that car um trying to think how old i would have been when she bought me that car i mean i was still in high school so i mean might have been 17 or something for a birthday present she got it it was just uh it was just a normal but then i uh then i got from a junkyard to ss nose and stuff off of a wrecked ss so i converted into an ss clone um same thing same thing with that car that car and the nova that car and the novo were there when i moved out and then just one time when i came back my dad said he got rid of him because he was tired of them sitting in the yard so can't blame him but that would be the the early stuff with cars as far as going down the drag strip when a couple times um a couple times growing up nothing fast i think uh 16 seconds or something like uh it wasn't i didn't i didn't have that drag racing bug at that point in time like everybody else or not like everybody else but like some of my other buddies that uh that did it a lot um i definitely was fascinated by it i just couldn't afford anything that would be fast and i wanted to and i wanted to go fast so as far as being on a drag strip a few times that definitely happened but so hopefully that gives you some more insight into my car background i mean i know that we're only at i know that we're only at 18 uh with the car background but i mean went through quite a cars quite a few cars in that period of time so hopefully that lights you thanks for watching guys talk to you soon

Channel: Tom Bailey

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Length: 39min 32sec (2372 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 08 2021