The Bentley's are Back: A Journey of Restoration and Redemption

As I sat in my Jeep Wrangler, surrounded by the remnants of a bygone era, I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia wash over me. The Jeep had been my trusty companion for many years, and its restoration was a labor of love that had finally come to an end. But as I looked at the finished product, I knew that this journey was far from over.

The Bentley's are Back: A New Adventure Begins

I had always been fascinated by classic cars, but it wasn't until I stumbled upon a 1967 Jeep Wrangler that I realized my true passion. The Jeep had been my baby for many years, and its restoration was a project that had taken me down many twists and turns. From the moment I first laid eyes on the car, I knew that it was special - its unique blend of ruggedness and sophistication was something that couldn't be replicated.

The Cooling System: A Mineral Oil Marvel

As I delved deeper into the Jeep's restoration process, I began to appreciate the intricate details that went into keeping this engine running smoothly. The cooling system, in particular, caught my eye. With its sleek design and efficient mineral oil-based lubrication, it was a marvel of engineering that seemed almost like magic.

But even with all these technological advancements, the Jeep still had its quirks. And as I sat there tinkering with the engine, I couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration at the seemingly endless stream of problems that arose. The number one leak on the cooling system was just the beginning - and it seemed like every time we thought we'd finally solved one problem, another would arise.

A Lesson in Patience: A Journey Through Time

As I sat there fiddling with the engine, I couldn't help but think back to the countless hours I had spent working on this Jeep. It was a journey that had taken me through many ups and downs - from the highs of finally completing the restoration project to the lows of dealing with the inevitable setbacks that came with it.

One of the most significant challenges I faced during this time was the body shop. Despite my best efforts, I found myself stuck in limbo, waiting for what felt like an eternity for the Jeep to be finished. It was a frustrating experience - but one that ultimately taught me a valuable lesson about patience and perseverance.

The Manifold: A Critical Component

As I continued on with the restoration process, I realized just how critical the manifold was. Not only did it play a key role in the engine's performance, but it also served as a kind of testbed for my skills as a mechanic. With its intricate design and delicate components, it was a true challenge to get right - but one that ultimately made the Jeep run smoothly.

Upholstery: A Plaid Masterpiece

One of the most surprising aspects of restoring this Jeep was the upholstery job. The plaid fabric that adorned the interior was not only stunningly beautiful, but also provided a level of comfort and functionality that I had never experienced before.

But despite its many charms, the upholstery job was not without its flaws. As I sat in the Jeep, I couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness at the shag carpets that covered the floor. They were a reminder of the many hours that had been spent cleaning up after accidents and spills - and the countless miles that had been driven through mud and dust.

Freedom at Last: A New Chapter Begins

As I sat there in my newly restored Jeep, I felt a sense of freedom that I hadn't experienced in years. The tax bill was finally paid, and I was free to explore the world once again - or at least, as freely as one could while navigating the complexities of modern life.

And so, with the Jeep by my side, I set off into the sunset - ready for whatever adventures lay ahead. Whether it was a road trip across the country or simply a quiet drive through the countryside, I knew that this Jeep would be there to provide me with companionship and comfort every step of the way.

The Shag Carpets: A Final Touch

As I looked around at the finished product, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. The shag carpets may not have been the most glamorous feature of the Jeep, but they added a level of warmth and texture that made the interior truly special.

And so, as I climbed into the Jeep and hit the road, I knew that this journey was only just beginning. With its restored engine and comfortable interior, the Jeep was ready to take on whatever adventures lay ahead - and I couldn't wait to see where they would lead me.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and today is a very exciting day because cartrick is live on tavares's channel right now if you're not familiar with car trek it's me ed bolin and tavares freddie hernandez we did a sort of tribute to classic top gear in a show called car trek and this is the fourth series the four series is ferraris for the price of a toyota camry and this was my entry into the challenge a 1994 ferrari 456 gt with the gated 6-speed manual transmission i imported it from dubai originally spent most of its life in japan and it only had 10 000 kilometers on it when it started it now has 13 000 kilometers on it which means we drove it about a thousand miles for the challenge and you can see live on tavares's channel right now how it did this was our most ambitious challenge yet and i really think it came out well so be sure to check out tavares youtube channel and also check out our sponsors auto tempest without auto tempest which is the greatest search aggregator for all the major listing sites bringing them in to one place this wouldn't be possible so do me a favor do what i do every day is go on autotempest.com and search for a car just for fun or for me i actually end up buying a car once every couple of weeks when i have money but if you also make it your home page every single time you open your browser that would be another cool thing to do that way you don't forget to search on autotempest every day and you make car trek and hoovey's garage possible but the other exciting news today is up at the car wizards who is also in car trek in the first episode he did a mechanic segment with our cars and he says a giant crate has arrived with what he imagines is a corvette engine inside of it so i'm really happy to unveil what's going inside of the corvette he also mentions that another project is nearing completion i need to go pick up some parts for another american vehicle that i've been waiting on getting finished for years literally years and to celebrate card trick i guess i'll head up there in the ferrari so let's roll actually i was wrong it has 14 000 kilometers on it right now because i did drive it all the way home after the car trek in the thousand mile trip and i'm just so happy with this thing i'm so excited for you guys to see the videos on this cartoon it is just so dang nice these cars are just so underappreciated i also wanted to take a moment and send my condolences to the strat man i'm sure a lot of you watched his video and removed by well the flood of emotions coming out of him from losing his dad and it's just absolutely awful my heart goes out to man and kind of went through the same thing a year ago with my biggest cheerleader my grandmother who watched a lot of my videos and was my biggest cheerleader she died right before i hit a million subscribers and it was a very emotional bittersweet moment because you go through and you hit this huge milestone and then you don't have your favorite person to celebrate these things with uh to celebrate with and it feels really hollow and empty it takes a long time to get over that i'm still not totally over it but it does get better hang in there we all love you incredible crazy awesome and a great tribute to your dad so anyway best of luck strad man let's uh continue up to the wizards wizard hey hey it's back from the upholstery shop it's not a very close match but i didn't want to redo the whole seat just because i kind of like the weathered patina look of the interior when i need to dye or you know wear this out but i didn't want holes in the upholstery but the headliner i'm very excited about what do you think let's go take a look plaid oh my god that's amazing it's like scottish what are they the kilts that they wear i suppose it is a kilt but uh something about wood paneling and plaid it just goes together wow that turned out really good yeah yes well you'll stick a chinchilla on that yep he'll have that done tomorrow done tomorrow that's perfect because i can pick it up and then drive the azure back up here no mineral oil leaks but now cooling system malfunction it just never ends with that car i'm so glad i'm down to one bentley because the turbo r is leaving this evening fingers crossed then it's just one to contend with which is a full-time job and speaking of full-time jobs lamborghinis yes let's go my 2006 murcielago belt squeak not just the tensioner you found some other things we got a brand new tensioner in and did not solve it i finally pulled off the idler pulley you can see there's a gray coating that's missing yeah it's also noisy there's a lot of play in that that would make the belt just enough to walk back and forth and squeak i ordered a brand new one from lamborghini which took a little over a week and uh this is it and they sent us a tensioner pulley yay the numbers match three zero four five nine nine three zero four nine nine yep they were going off the wrong number it needs to come off of this number here ah well lamborghini ownership as i said before with the diablo is patience so probably another week for the right pulley and then to put it back together and if this were a corvette it would be fixed well weeks ago yeah it would have been it would have never been broken in the first place but lamborghinis you have to have lots of patience lots of patience and speaking of corvettes that's the main reason why we're here today before we go over there i guess the cadillac it has all of its chrome back on looks like a fleetwood broom again waiting on a headliner some tires and uh air conditioning right conditioning is fixed oh new compressor yeah the old one sounded like a a gun going off so we did a full flush of the system new orifice tube receiver dryer flush hole system new compressor and it's ice cold now so we're very close we're getting really close on this one nice okay well corvette i am very excited about because well it wasn't exciting that the engine was bad when i bought this thing but it had been sitting for so long that's the reality of buying a car that's been sitting for years you can get them running but the engines aren't good you see those barn find videos where they start a car after 30 years the engines sound bad and they stay sounding bad so what i have in here is supposedly the correct engine for this corvette i didn't go with a modern crate motor i wanted something that would be just like the original even though it has a nice modern tremec 5 speed behind it and this is a 66 427 block 390 horse not the uh the hypo one or whatever the 400 the 400 and something horsepower one this is the right one to the car now the person who rebuilds this said that he could stamp this thing to match the vin number of my corvette and make it a numbers matching corvette and that's something i guess that he's famous for doing where the ncrs the top corvette judging people can not even tell and i i didn't have him do that so it makes you wonder how many numbers matching corvettes and anything else out there are actually numbers matching because it would be so easy to fake but in the pictures it looked very pretty but in person well i could see it in person now thank you for the gun wizard let me do the honors if i can wow um okay is it on high speed or i don't i don't know yeah just it works okay i'm getting the hang of it there we go most work i've done in a little while and it looks like it just came out of the gym factory yeah yeah that's the right paint doesn't have the fancy aftermarket valve covers wow it even has a sensor and everything yeah new thermostat in there this is just a drop-in motor excellent very easy on the labor side of things hopefully yeah it definitely won't be as hard as some efi computer controlled it'll just be swap just swap it right over wonderful because it was quite expensive eight thousand dollars uh yeah but i wanted the right engine for it and uh i bought this thing cheap enough to where it's still worth it i hope i hope but i guess you and uh magic mike can go to town on this there's even the firing order there one eight four three six five seven two it does look like a brand new factory crate engine from 1966 and there's where the vin could have gone uh but he didn't too so i guess i'll check back in tomorrow when this is out of the crate and maybe starting to go in there and the wagoneer's good to go and the bentley is coming back again the bentley's they just they live here it's back it's bad i'm back i'm not surprised the azure is back it's back yes check out the cooling system mineral oil system seems to be doing great though good but uh yeah with one leak comes another yeah like a haiku or whatever but look at you guys magic mike has been my goodness oh yeah i got a lot done today so this is old engine this is the the doa engine dead on arrival yeah when we drained the antifreeze out of this thing there was half of it was engine oil oh well it wasn't like that before that was that was after my last drive i suppose i really really cooked it good yeah so it's dead you cooked the goose on this one and let's just make sure we already kind of made sure but i want to verify not the numbers matching engine it was a crate motor at some point so i'm not throwing away something uh ruining the value but uh the replacement engine now the crate looks looks very very clean you've already got the manifolds on there yep exhaust manifolds are on new manifold gaskets spark plugs yeah got a lot done cool well i think i'm gonna keep the right valve covers on there i will this tells everybody that it's a 427 big block i kind of like the stock look yes very pretty and engine bay well you have plenty of room for activities radiators out it's gonna need a good flushing i imagine huh yep forwards and backwards flush lovely okay well i guess my chariot awaits is it finished it is done the jeep is oh i gotta check this out i've been waiting two years to say this thing's finished and well oh yes oh yeah that is a look looks like a scottish kilt it is beautiful and it's finished thank you wizard here's the the bentley key i'll be i'll be on my way i suppose as always okay just on the wagoneer right well here's the big bill well not so big actually 911 i thought it was against your religion to have a bill for less than a thousand dollars oh i have quite a few that are less than that well it happens once in a while it's a lot of work putting that thing back together fixing my wood getting it straight again and it was all a limp and uh lots of other things to fix yes oh fresh oil change yes that's quite a deal okay well i'll pay you and be on the way sounds good to me be on my way i can talk i promise i can talk just the camera turns on and i can't talk well i just got off the highway and it's by my old house and really last time i drove this thing in existence i was at the old hoovey's garage right here that one right there i don't think i was married yet i didn't have frank the dog yet it has been over two years since i've been able to drive this wagon here it was very frustrating that i've sat at that body shop for over a year not getting really any work done and i guess that's a lesson it happens to a lot of shops when they get too busy and then there's too many projects and the big one just kind of falls by the wayside and you bug them and they still don't do anything and you know you just you don't be mean about it you just go get the car hopefully you haven't put out a bunch of money up front but you just just go get it and finish it and thankfully the guys at mako are able to bring this thing to the finish line wizard was able to put this all together the one upholstery amazing plaid headliner and this jeep is done it needs a detail horribly from the two years of body shop dust and wizard dust so that's coming up soon the shag carpets are well quite bad but uh i'm really happy and this thing drives way too good having this wagon on your back just kind of cushion the blow because i did just sell my g55 amg it was still worth quite a bit of money even though i had a bunch of miles on it and uh that money has gotten me to the finish line uh with the tax thing that i was having so i finally have freedom again to uh well go shopping i suppose and spend myself in the same hole that uh well happened last year it just never fails this is plaid it's crazy thank you for watching and also be sure to search auto tempest go down click the link below search auto temp is right now i'm just going to drive in silence and uh wait for you to do that just go really i hope you've gone have you gone yet please just just go down there you seriously haven't left yet have you click on the link below right now pleasewelcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and today is a very exciting day because cartrick is live on tavares's channel right now if you're not familiar with car trek it's me ed bolin and tavares freddie hernandez we did a sort of tribute to classic top gear in a show called car trek and this is the fourth series the four series is ferraris for the price of a toyota camry and this was my entry into the challenge a 1994 ferrari 456 gt with the gated 6-speed manual transmission i imported it from dubai originally spent most of its life in japan and it only had 10 000 kilometers on it when it started it now has 13 000 kilometers on it which means we drove it about a thousand miles for the challenge and you can see live on tavares's channel right now how it did this was our most ambitious challenge yet and i really think it came out well so be sure to check out tavares youtube channel and also check out our sponsors auto tempest without auto tempest which is the greatest search aggregator for all the major listing sites bringing them in to one place this wouldn't be possible so do me a favor do what i do every day is go on autotempest.com and search for a car just for fun or for me i actually end up buying a car once every couple of weeks when i have money but if you also make it your home page every single time you open your browser that would be another cool thing to do that way you don't forget to search on autotempest every day and you make car trek and hoovey's garage possible but the other exciting news today is up at the car wizards who is also in car trek in the first episode he did a mechanic segment with our cars and he says a giant crate has arrived with what he imagines is a corvette engine inside of it so i'm really happy to unveil what's going inside of the corvette he also mentions that another project is nearing completion i need to go pick up some parts for another american vehicle that i've been waiting on getting finished for years literally years and to celebrate card trick i guess i'll head up there in the ferrari so let's roll actually i was wrong it has 14 000 kilometers on it right now because i did drive it all the way home after the car trek in the thousand mile trip and i'm just so happy with this thing i'm so excited for you guys to see the videos on this cartoon it is just so dang nice these cars are just so underappreciated i also wanted to take a moment and send my condolences to the strat man i'm sure a lot of you watched his video and removed by well the flood of emotions coming out of him from losing his dad and it's just absolutely awful my heart goes out to man and kind of went through the same thing a year ago with my biggest cheerleader my grandmother who watched a lot of my videos and was my biggest cheerleader she died right before i hit a million subscribers and it was a very emotional bittersweet moment because you go through and you hit this huge milestone and then you don't have your favorite person to celebrate these things with uh to celebrate with and it feels really hollow and empty it takes a long time to get over that i'm still not totally over it but it does get better hang in there we all love you incredible crazy awesome and a great tribute to your dad so anyway best of luck strad man let's uh continue up to the wizards wizard hey hey it's back from the upholstery shop it's not a very close match but i didn't want to redo the whole seat just because i kind of like the weathered patina look of the interior when i need to dye or you know wear this out but i didn't want holes in the upholstery but the headliner i'm very excited about what do you think let's go take a look plaid oh my god that's amazing it's like scottish what are they the kilts that they wear i suppose it is a kilt but uh something about wood paneling and plaid it just goes together wow that turned out really good yeah yes well you'll stick a chinchilla on that yep he'll have that done tomorrow done tomorrow that's perfect because i can pick it up and then drive the azure back up here no mineral oil leaks but now cooling system malfunction it just never ends with that car i'm so glad i'm down to one bentley because the turbo r is leaving this evening fingers crossed then it's just one to contend with which is a full-time job and speaking of full-time jobs lamborghinis yes let's go my 2006 murcielago belt squeak not just the tensioner you found some other things we got a brand new tensioner in and did not solve it i finally pulled off the idler pulley you can see there's a gray coating that's missing yeah it's also noisy there's a lot of play in that that would make the belt just enough to walk back and forth and squeak i ordered a brand new one from lamborghini which took a little over a week and uh this is it and they sent us a tensioner pulley yay the numbers match three zero four five nine nine three zero four nine nine yep they were going off the wrong number it needs to come off of this number here ah well lamborghini ownership as i said before with the diablo is patience so probably another week for the right pulley and then to put it back together and if this were a corvette it would be fixed well weeks ago yeah it would have been it would have never been broken in the first place but lamborghinis you have to have lots of patience lots of patience and speaking of corvettes that's the main reason why we're here today before we go over there i guess the cadillac it has all of its chrome back on looks like a fleetwood broom again waiting on a headliner some tires and uh air conditioning right conditioning is fixed oh new compressor yeah the old one sounded like a a gun going off so we did a full flush of the system new orifice tube receiver dryer flush hole system new compressor and it's ice cold now so we're very close we're getting really close on this one nice okay well corvette i am very excited about because well it wasn't exciting that the engine was bad when i bought this thing but it had been sitting for so long that's the reality of buying a car that's been sitting for years you can get them running but the engines aren't good you see those barn find videos where they start a car after 30 years the engines sound bad and they stay sounding bad so what i have in here is supposedly the correct engine for this corvette i didn't go with a modern crate motor i wanted something that would be just like the original even though it has a nice modern tremec 5 speed behind it and this is a 66 427 block 390 horse not the uh the hypo one or whatever the 400 the 400 and something horsepower one this is the right one to the car now the person who rebuilds this said that he could stamp this thing to match the vin number of my corvette and make it a numbers matching corvette and that's something i guess that he's famous for doing where the ncrs the top corvette judging people can not even tell and i i didn't have him do that so it makes you wonder how many numbers matching corvettes and anything else out there are actually numbers matching because it would be so easy to fake but in the pictures it looked very pretty but in person well i could see it in person now thank you for the gun wizard let me do the honors if i can wow um okay is it on high speed or i don't i don't know yeah just it works okay i'm getting the hang of it there we go most work i've done in a little while and it looks like it just came out of the gym factory yeah yeah that's the right paint doesn't have the fancy aftermarket valve covers wow it even has a sensor and everything yeah new thermostat in there this is just a drop-in motor excellent very easy on the labor side of things hopefully yeah it definitely won't be as hard as some efi computer controlled it'll just be swap just swap it right over wonderful because it was quite expensive eight thousand dollars uh yeah but i wanted the right engine for it and uh i bought this thing cheap enough to where it's still worth it i hope i hope but i guess you and uh magic mike can go to town on this there's even the firing order there one eight four three six five seven two it does look like a brand new factory crate engine from 1966 and there's where the vin could have gone uh but he didn't too so i guess i'll check back in tomorrow when this is out of the crate and maybe starting to go in there and the wagoneer's good to go and the bentley is coming back again the bentley's they just they live here it's back it's bad i'm back i'm not surprised the azure is back it's back yes check out the cooling system mineral oil system seems to be doing great though good but uh yeah with one leak comes another yeah like a haiku or whatever but look at you guys magic mike has been my goodness oh yeah i got a lot done today so this is old engine this is the the doa engine dead on arrival yeah when we drained the antifreeze out of this thing there was half of it was engine oil oh well it wasn't like that before that was that was after my last drive i suppose i really really cooked it good yeah so it's dead you cooked the goose on this one and let's just make sure we already kind of made sure but i want to verify not the numbers matching engine it was a crate motor at some point so i'm not throwing away something uh ruining the value but uh the replacement engine now the crate looks looks very very clean you've already got the manifolds on there yep exhaust manifolds are on new manifold gaskets spark plugs yeah got a lot done cool well i think i'm gonna keep the right valve covers on there i will this tells everybody that it's a 427 big block i kind of like the stock look yes very pretty and engine bay well you have plenty of room for activities radiators out it's gonna need a good flushing i imagine huh yep forwards and backwards flush lovely okay well i guess my chariot awaits is it finished it is done the jeep is oh i gotta check this out i've been waiting two years to say this thing's finished and well oh yes oh yeah that is a look looks like a scottish kilt it is beautiful and it's finished thank you wizard here's the the bentley key i'll be i'll be on my way i suppose as always okay just on the wagoneer right well here's the big bill well not so big actually 911 i thought it was against your religion to have a bill for less than a thousand dollars oh i have quite a few that are less than that well it happens once in a while it's a lot of work putting that thing back together fixing my wood getting it straight again and it was all a limp and uh lots of other things to fix yes oh fresh oil change yes that's quite a deal okay well i'll pay you and be on the way sounds good to me be on my way i can talk i promise i can talk just the camera turns on and i can't talk well i just got off the highway and it's by my old house and really last time i drove this thing in existence i was at the old hoovey's garage right here that one right there i don't think i was married yet i didn't have frank the dog yet it has been over two years since i've been able to drive this wagon here it was very frustrating that i've sat at that body shop for over a year not getting really any work done and i guess that's a lesson it happens to a lot of shops when they get too busy and then there's too many projects and the big one just kind of falls by the wayside and you bug them and they still don't do anything and you know you just you don't be mean about it you just go get the car hopefully you haven't put out a bunch of money up front but you just just go get it and finish it and thankfully the guys at mako are able to bring this thing to the finish line wizard was able to put this all together the one upholstery amazing plaid headliner and this jeep is done it needs a detail horribly from the two years of body shop dust and wizard dust so that's coming up soon the shag carpets are well quite bad but uh i'm really happy and this thing drives way too good having this wagon on your back just kind of cushion the blow because i did just sell my g55 amg it was still worth quite a bit of money even though i had a bunch of miles on it and uh that money has gotten me to the finish line uh with the tax thing that i was having so i finally have freedom again to uh well go shopping i suppose and spend myself in the same hole that uh well happened last year it just never fails this is plaid it's crazy thank you for watching and also be sure to search auto tempest go down click the link below search auto temp is right now i'm just going to drive in silence and uh wait for you to do that just go really i hope you've gone have you gone yet please just just go down there you seriously haven't left yet have you click on the link below right now please\n"