Wrecks To Riches | 1969 Camaro [Part 1 of 4]

doesn't look too bad at all Barry White doesn't believe in fairy tales you got a deal okay thank you but this job might just convince him with a structural problem a car can be cursed Christine [Music] how to make a buck the Barry White Way [Music] find the wreck it's exactly what we're looking for get the right people the right parts someone wants to buy it let their money break your happiness that's how you get from wrecks to riches [Music] [Music] in working yards across the US there's hidden treasure if you know what you're looking for buyers who spend good money for a piece of nostalgia but how do you make this from this it's a nice car yeah hotrod guru Barry White and his designer Chris Brown know the secrets it looks like we could salvage that one I don't think they troll junkyards real and virtual to find hidden gems like this 69 Chevrolet Camaro why don't you give me a call okay Becky and I'll run out there and take a look at it and see what what it looks like all right if Barry can transform this wreck into a showroom beauty for the Jackson Hole Ottawa just make it count [Music] 20 years in the hotrod business Barry knows a thing or two about building cars especially sixties Muscle a lot of them uh starts at Camaros Nova's all that kind of stuff our unibody cars which mean they only had a frame on the front of them so the back half of the car the body is the frame and had rails that were actually welded right to the floor pan of the car so there's not a complete chassis the floor is real important in these cars [Music] they've come to Terry Gwynn's wrecking yard 40 acres 350 wrecks but Terry knows this buyer only has eyes for his Camaro this is it I got the end of an era it may look like a pile of junk front looks good no major rust but Barry knows its potential the Camaro is the quintessential muscle car I mean I was built to compete with the Mustang and it did [Music] GM's Mustang killer first hit the road in 1967 retailing at $2,500 for the six-cylinder base model [Music] the car that I remember in my neighborhood when I was a kid was that 69 Camaro that was silver it had a 302 cross Ram stick shift car to me it was just that was it I mean that was as good as it got seems like everybody's got some sort of a memory about a Camaro or somebody they knew that had a Camaro or they had one when they were high school so I think it'll sell real easy [Music] what do you want for it uh you know I think I got to get about seven grand for it grand that's it huh what's your bottom I mean well and then your room at all well you know I'll work with you what do you what what do you got what do you wanna do we're trying to make money off of a car I mean that's part of the the premise of the project so we need to find a the least expensive car we can but we don't want to find something that's completely rotting away how about like six grand hey meet me in the middle ah I can go about 6,200 that's about it all my budget can 62 today yeah today we delivered under 50 miles hey yeah I think it is yeah sorry about 30 miles away you got a deal okay man thank you [Music] at berry speed shop in Corona California his crew awaits wait save it or not 6000 he's a lot for a show see if the rain falls out on the ranch but they just don't make them like this anymore yeah and Barry's hoping to fetch 10 times that when he's done Chris gets to work in designing a showstopper well I wanna know what color were faintness Camaros fucking rendering come thinking silver flash drives yeah I thought you weren't a big fan of silver I don't like silver but now back when I was a kid there was a guy in our neighborhood they had a silver z28 with black stripes Chris's design is crucial to draw in the big buyers nothing BTE look silvers kind of a stealthy color it doesn't grab it quite as much as some of the other bright colors but it just it looks real aggressive it's a very mechanical kind of color silver car looks like it's all metal you know looks like it's just a metal car which is real kind of on the edge the engine is gonna be a very mechanical looking piece on this car with a blower the sheet metal valve covers get it down real low getting the spoiler under the front like a z28 would have it's gonna have a really kind of racy look to it it should take less than a week to get the body prepared and painted that's if the shell is as good as barring Fencibles [Music] but the Camaro starts to show its true self rust on both sides has Barry bought a lemon come on over I got to show you son in less than four weeks the Camaro goes under that hammer injection but the resort town attracts money and that's what Barry's gonna need I'll show you the good side this $6,000 wreck is gonna cost him a whole lot more we had a structural problem I wonder if they make that piece that's what I'm thinking we'd have to cut this whole section out somebody try to fix this one on this side this is their body filler the body panels are a mess it's write a pretty damn good I was hoping that we'd have a little bit better sheet metal on the car than we do and that all-important unibody floor how's the floors and the floors okay see what we got here in the corner problem is is that puts us in a bind we can either fix what's there which is gonna require a lot of patchwork what's our time frame I don't know if that's a realistic idea rust and the structural unibody and it's just about every panel on the car [Music] under the paint more bad news botched repair jobs at this rate it'll take a month to fix the body the team has a week what I've learned with these old cars it seems like the more paint that's on the the more somebody's had their fingers in it and they've either been hit filled with bondo or what-have-you were just bad repair work every time we hit it with the grinder we just uncover another bad spot where there's either rust or bondo work for no reason what have you it's not the way we wanted to start this car off [Music] berries bought a dog [Music] no matter how many further by every once a while you buy a car that you think it's better than it is the owner that had it didn't realize what was wrong and neither did I when his tight deadline buries in a bind his only option put more money down upon new panels [Music]

Channel: Automotive Channel

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Length: 11min 8sec (668 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 02 2017