**A Look at the Projects**

Take It For A Ride We Want To Make Sure Everything Is Okay But I Think It's One Of The Most Beautiful Bikes In Motorcycling History It Really Is Uh Really Is An Amazing Piece Of Kit This Thing You Know Proper Hand Shift And H It's Just Great Dual Oil Pumps And H It's A Fantastic Bike But We'll Do That Another Time Okay As We Head To The Dining Room To Look At The Hamy This Is Another Bike Under Construction This Is A Norton 650ss This Is A Model That Really Did Not Come To America But It's A Fantastic Bike But Uh I Getting A Little Lower Compression One Piston Than The Other So We Just Took It Apart We're Replacing Both Pistons Now Uh We'll Take It Take It 40 Over Put Some New Pistons In It And Uh She'll Be Ready To Roll Again There's Cylinder Head There See There Lot There A Lot Of Projects On The Way To The Other Project There's Another Bru Superior Right There Ss80 That Is A Brooklyn Circuit Bike Uh Really Quite Fast About 1923 1924 But Come On Let Me Show You The Hemi We're In The Dino Room Jim Is Running The Dyo Come On And We'll Show You The Hemi Engine This Is The Original Motor That Came With The Car I Think It's A Magnificent Looking Engine What A Beautiful Beautiful Motor Uh This Is A 331 Chrysler Hemi Uh Originally Had Cast Iron Heads As I Mentioned Before A Company Named Hote Heads Makes These Aluminum Heads Which Are Fantastic They Save 150 Lbs Of Weight Which Is Great When It's Hanging Off The Front End Uh With The Exception Of That Um It's Pretty Much Stock Uh Should Make Around 250 260 Horse We're Breaking The Engine In Here As You See Two Four Barrel Carburetors Which Are Kind Of Cool That's Exactly The Way It Came Originally The Car Came With A Two-Speed Uh Chrysler Auto Automatic Put Although It Did Have A Clutch Pedal To Get You Into First Then You Shift It Automatically Well Well I'm Putting My Favorite Transmission And The Trimic They're Bulletproof It'll Work Great And We're Keeping Everything Stock So If We Want To Go Back To An Automatic For Whatever Reason You Can Do That But Uh Jim's Going To Fire It Up Now And Uh We'll Show It Running So What Are You Making Jim About 250 Horse Uh A Little Better Than That Wow That's Better Than What We Thought Huh Yeah Yeah Which Doesn't Sound Like A Whole Lot In This Era Of 900 Horsepower But Don't Forget This Is 1952 So That Was A Pretty Impressive Number And It's Only 331 Cubic In You Know We Tend To Think Of Hems As Being 426 Cubic In But The Originals Were Pretty Small So Oh It's Smooth Isn't It Here We Have It Yeah So That's That's Like 275 Uh And That's Uncorrected Horsepower Yeah 275 Huh Yeah That's Pretty Good So You Should Be Happy With That 300 Ft-Lbs Of Torque Cool Come On You Have It Yeah I Got One Last Thing To Show You Come On Well This Is My Mercedes 600 You Might Remember We Did A Video On This A While Back It's One Of My Favorite Cars I Used To Work For Mercedes When I Was A Kid And Getting To Drive One Of These Was Such A Thrill So When I Was Able To Obtain One It Was Really Exciting Uh This One's Been Modified It Had A Supercharger On It Uh Which Made It Really Fast These Are Pretty Quick Already But You Can Actually Chirp The Tires In Second Gear Which Was Hilarious Trouble Is The Supercharger Was A Gear Driven Unit This One Here And Really Really Noisy It Ran Off Oil From The Engine And It Just I Mean It Was Fast And It Gave Plenty Of Power But These Are Supposed To Be Quiet Like A Rolls-Royce She Can't Even Tell They're Running And When It Was When It Was Idling Going Down The Road You Hear That Just That Gear Mash You Know From Going Around The Around And Around Well Bernard Was Able To Obtain A Uh Supercharge With Ceramic Bearings In It Which Requires No Lubrication Of Any Kind So That's And And They're Perfectly Quiet They Don't Make Any Noise At All So What We're Doing Is We're Replacing That Sort Of Old-Fashioned Uh Supercharger With This One And Uh Hopefully That's Going To Well That's Going To Involve Well See There's A Lot Involved Here We Found The Radio Had A Leak So Let's Take The Radio Out Get That Fixed And We've Got To Change The Pulley And Come Up With Some New Belt To Run This One Because The Drive Is A Little Bit Different On It But Uh We Will We Will Keep You Posted

**The Norton 650ss and Its Construction**

This is another bike under construction. It's a Norton 650ss, a model that really did not come to America but it's a fantastic bike. I got a little lower compression one piston than the other so we just took it apart. We're replacing both pistons now. We'll take it, take it 40 over put some new pistons in it and uh she'll be ready to roll again. There's cylinder head there, see there lot, there's a lot of projects on the way to the other project.

**The Mercedes 600 and Its Supercharger**

This is my Mercedes 600, you might remember we did a video on this a while back. It's one of my favorite cars. I used to work for Mercedes when I was a kid, and getting to drive one of these was such a thrill. So when I was able to obtain one, it was really exciting. Uh, this one's been modified it had a supercharger on it which made it really fast. These are pretty quick already but you can actually chirp the tires in second gear which was hilarious.

**The Hemi Engine and Its History**

We're in the dino room, Jim is running the doyo, come on and we'll show you the Hemi engine. This is the original motor that came with the car. I think it's a magnificent looking engine what a beautiful beautiful motor uh this is a 331 Chrysler Hemi uh originally had cast iron heads as i mentioned before a company named hote heads makes these aluminum heads which are fantastic they save 150 lbs of weight which is great when its hanging off the front end uh with the exception of that um its pretty much stock uh should make around 250 260 horse we're breaking the engine in here as you see two four barrel carburetors which are kind of cool thats exactly the way it came originally the car came with a two-speed uh chrysler auto automatic put although it did have a clutch pedal to get you into first then you shift it automatically well well im putting my favorite transmission and the trimic theyre bulletproof itsll work great and we're keeping everything stock so if we want to go back to an automatic for whatever reason you can do that but uh jims going to fire it up now and uh we'll show it running

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome another episode of Jon's garage restoration blog to show you we do read the comment sections everybody keeps asking hey how's that project you've been working on remember a couple months ago we showed you uh a few of the things we were doing here at the shop well we going to update you now this is our 1914 Detroit electric it looks a lot better than it did the last time you saw it uh just to recap for you uh what I bought for ,000 with a was a rotted out body in chassis no motor no nothing and uh we even though the wood was rotted we were able to recreate every piece of wood with fresh new wood and fit the old metal over it to make it a bit more secure um this car was an electric car top speed is about 22 M an hour they were basically shopping cars back in the day what we're doing with this is Resto moding it we're uh putting a modern electric uh Tesla power it's not a Tesla engine but it'll be powerful like a Tesla when it's done uh and uh it's really kind of cool because it's not that different from what it was originally let me show you the emotive we're using this is by uqm they were a company at a Longmont Colorado uh you know they're probably the greatest innovators with these electric power they've done everything electric boats uh a while back maybe two or three years ago we did a thing about a city here in California was doing electric buses and they're having tremendous success with they built the the motors for that and this is one of their Motors it's 380 volts and it should uh be able to give us pretty high top speed I don't know how fast you want to go in this thing but it'll be a lot faster than stock plus it will have air conditioning plus it'll have Bluetooth it'll be a modern electric car in a 1914 body uh what you see around here these are lithium ion batteries that were donated from a Nissan Leaf we're very thankful to Nissan they were able to uh get us some of their uh lithium ion batteries so we should have a pretty good range we've just got our fireone non-skid tires look at that see non-skid you can't skid in those and this is Brock from Simple Solution come on over here how you doing good good see I'm not see you notice electric hot roders look different than traditional hot roders it's a more of a long hair in long hair I don't want to use the nerd phrase that that would be cruel and insensitive but but it's different it's different a lack of tattoos you know that type of thing but but but these guys are really clever they they run a company and you're one of the co-founders correct that's correct that's correct and and what these guys do is they convert just about anything to Electric right Anything Can Dream up vws common gears all that kind of stuff and there's been so many advances in CU When I was a kid homemade electric cars went 15 miles 20 miles you know now you can go 60 M an hour and go 50 M 60 80 miles lot cases yeah even more yeah so he's he's helping us actually he's doing it I don't know what I'm doing with this electric stuff but the interesting thing is this UK uqm motor these are great Motors aren't they they're really great Motors we used them on a previous project we' had really good success with them uh with the electric Drive Hummers and you know ukm's a great company they've always provided us good support and and the nice thing is this motor is really not much different in size than the original motor that came on this car it's not but it has 10 times the power 10 times the power is the old motor yeah yeah and the fasc thing is fascinating to show you how much torque electric car have look at the size of the rear end on this car I mean this is this is Kardashian we're talking ladies and gentlemen take a look here okay because that shows you how much torque it almost looks like something you'd see behind a big diesel truck or something with a big Hemi engine in it but uh electric cars are very powerful there's a lot of torque from rest there's a lot of initial grunt right from t zero RPM yeah exactly so that's the stock rear end and we're confident it should be able to take uh the power uh what are you doing now you're fitting batteries what do you yeah I'm playing with some battery bracketry uh we're going to do half of the Nissan pack in the front and half in the rear in the original battery compartments of the vehicle uh we're going to put the motor controller and uh some other electronics under the seat and probably going to tuck the Chargers up underneath yeah yeah so they're kind of out of the way and we all run a standard 240 240 volt charger on it right standard 240 or or 110 if you're if you're if you're hurting now so when I plug in my Tesla or the the Fiat or the BT that we have here it's all the same plug so that's really really kind of cool as you can see p our body man is on a wonderful job we're just getting all this together now and we'll get some our gaug we just put the we just did the roof using some of the original some of the original style material for the headliner so it's coming along good so just want to give you a brief update on that but I'll show you a new project we just started a couple weeks ago Brock thanks you a little bit thanks sir got let him get back to work well here's a project you guys haven't seen yet uh this is a 1971 Porsche 911t uh this is a one-owner car this is one of these deals it's been been in Beverly Hills its whole life in the late 90s I guess it was parked in an underground Garage in a condo and another car got parked in back of it and then it just s of sad you know this guy parked in his mother's condo I don't know what happened he got another car whatever anyway eventually all four tires went flat then it was covered with dust and then he didn't want to deal with it and then he passed away and and I got a call saying would I be interested in this car and I I sort have been looking for a 911 especially an early one like this but the amazing thing is being a Southern California car there's no body Rod at all it's a nice honest car it's got a lot of miles on it it says what does it read uh 38,000 but that's got to be 138,000 judging by the condition of the seat but the body is all nice and you know I thought the the paint was just awful but I've been using this stuff called uh gloss it just to bring it back and uh you know couple of different products you use and uh geez the original paint has come back very nice so it's never been in a major accident it's never been hit obviously we're doing uh brake lines and the we did the calipers rid the wheels just got a new muffler from Porsche John willhoit our friend who does the 356 is he says always gets replacement once from Porsche because the aftermarket ones never really seem to fit but the engine runs runs it's free it runs good and so we're getting new Rubber and we're just sort of bringing it back and try to keep it as riginal as possible and just make a nice driver out of it because as you can see uh seats a little chewed up headliner is kind of gone you know as soon as you fix one part of it uh-oh you realize how bad the other part looks so this will be one of those things we say we're just going to do this we'll probably wind up doing a lot more but the important thing is it's a nice straight car with no body rod and that's the nice thing about it cuz as you know air cooled 911s like this that's kind of where it's at these days and uh we pulled the gas tank obviously boiled that out cleaned that out coated it uh obviously new batteries uh new rubber in here already and so that's pretty much where it is and I'll keep you updated on this one as we go along now here's something that we've been working on for a while it took a long time to get get it done but it made a big difference come on I'll show you okay this is a real quick one uh this is my Cunningham we we did a piece on this a long time ago this is a very uh sort of high class American car one of the first V8s 455 cubic inch engine let me show you what we got here but the trouble with it with with it was uh the steering box it was tight it was worn out from just almost a 100 years of use you turned it took so much force uh George and the boys pulled the steering box out and uh that was a lot of work open it up everything was pretty much worn out and tight and we went to our friend Weissman they're the people that do the transmissions for the f1s and the McLaren and all those and they made us all new gears for the steering box and and now it steers fine so that just goes to show you there's really nothing you can't fix on these old cars a lot of old cars get put away for one reason that the old be cuz the dino flow is not working anymore or whatever it might be uh a lot of these cars the steering boxes just freeze up on them or they they just wear out and and they get tight and the car doesn't get used and that's all it takes so that's just a quick update on that we finally got that together now this one this is our Cunningham this has been coming along nicely you saw this when we pulled it out of the barn in Tennessee and been parked there since ' 68 my friend B made us all these new pieces here here this is a pretty tricky car to restore because the fenders are welded to the frame it doesn't come apart if this thing gets hit you got a lot of problems luckily the car has never been hit uh we still have the original magnesium Wheels but it's magnesium that's almost 60 more than 60 years old and you can't trust it so we had some new modified some new Wheels to resemble the old ones uh we new glass did it back in the original colors uh as you can see we Dynamat everything just for sound deadening and for heat and insulation uh there's nothing like there are plenty of places that'll make you new glass you know a lot of people think oh they call junkyards trying to find a windshield but you can have a new I think that ran about was about 800 bucks George I think that's what it was 800 bucks for new windshield I mean if you found one it would probably CA you close to that anyway and it would probably be scratched and whatever but I don't think you'd find one so that just goes to show you there are plenty of people that make stuff don't give up on things because uh you can't find it right away now the engine in this uh believe it or not is a Hemi engine 331 um in fact it's on the dyno right now come on we'll show it to you we had our friend Ed pink go through it and we went to hote heads they make these aluminum heads that take 150 lbs of weight off the engine come on let's show you that thing running oh before I take you to the dining room and show you the Hemi thought you might get a kick out of this this is a 1925 Bru Superior ss100 this is the type of bike Lawrence of Arabia would have had exactly as the type of bike he would have had this has the pendy engine in it which means was guaranteed to do 110 mph in 1925 notice how it has straps to hold the tank on the others just had the usual tank mounts where this one had extra straps you got the touring bags this is I think sort of one of the Holy Grails of motorcycling to find one one of these and this bike hasn't been run since 1973 it's just been it was in a guy's basement and uh we're just checking the valves and going through it before we fire it and take it for a ride we want to make sure everything is okay but I think it's one of the most beautiful bikes in motorcycling history it really is uh really is an amazing piece of Kit this thing you know proper hand shift and H it's just great dual oil pumps and H it's a fantastic bike but we'll do that another time okay as we head to the dining room to look at the hamy this is another bike under construction this is a Norton 650ss this is a model that really did not come to America but it's a fantastic bike but uh I getting a little lower compression one piston than the other so we just took it apart we're replacing both Pistons now uh we'll take it take it 40 over put some new pistons in it and uh she'll be ready to roll again there's cylinder head there see there lot there a lot of projects on the way to the other project there's another bru Superior right there ss80 that is a Brooklyn circuit bike uh really quite fast about 1923 1924 but come on let me show you the Hemi we're in the dino room Jim is running the dyo come on and we'll show you the Hemi engine this is the original motor that came with the car I think it's a magnificent looking engine what a beautiful beautiful motor uh this is a 331 Chrysler Hemi uh originally had cast iron heads as I mentioned before a company named hote heads makes these aluminum heads which are fantastic they save 150 lbs of weight which is great when it's hanging off the front end uh with the exception of that um it's pretty much stock uh should make around 250 260 horse we're breaking the engine in here as you see two four barrel carburetors which are kind of cool that's exactly the way it came originally the car came with a two-speed uh Chrysler Auto automatic put although it did have a clutch pedal to get you into first then you shift it automatically well well I'm putting my favorite transmission and the trimic they're bulletproof it'll work great and we're keeping everything stock so if we want to go back to an automatic for whatever reason you can do that but uh Jim's going to fire it up now and uh we'll show it running so what are you making Jim about 250 horse uh a little better than that wow that's better than what we thought huh yeah yeah which doesn't sound like a whole lot in this era of 900 horsepower but don't forget this is 1952 so that was a pretty impressive number and it's only 331 cubic in you know we tend to think of hems as being 426 cubic in but the originals were pretty small so oh it's smooth isn't it here we have it yeah so that's that's like 275 uh and that's uncorrected horsepower yeah 275 huh yeah that's pretty good so you should be happy with that 300 ft-lbs of torque cool come on you have it yeah I got one last thing to show you come on well this is my Mercedes 600 you might remember we did a video on this a while back it's one of my favorite cars I used to work for Mercedes when I was a kid and getting to drive one of these was such a thrill so when I was able to obtain one it was really exciting uh this one's been modified it had a supercharger on it uh which made it really fast these are pretty quick already but you can actually chirp the tires in second gear which was hilarious trouble is the supercharger was a gear driven unit this one here and really really noisy it ran off oil from the engine and it just I mean it was fast and it gave plenty of power but these are supposed to be quiet like a Rolls-Royce she can't even tell they're running and when it was when it was idling going down the road you hear that just that gear Mash you know from going around the around and around well Bernard was able to obtain a uh supercharge with ceramic bearings in it which requires no lubrication of any kind so that's and and they're perfectly quiet they don't make any noise at all so what we're doing is we're replacing that sort of old-fashioned uh supercharger with this one and uh hopefully that's going to well that's going to involve well see there's a lot involved here we found the radio had a leak so let's take the radio out get that fixed and we've got to change the pulley and come up with some new belt to run this one because the drive is a little bit different on it but uh we will we will keep you posted and that's pretty much some of the projects that uh we're involved with here so we have a busy week ahead of us see you next weekwelcome another episode of Jon's garage restoration blog to show you we do read the comment sections everybody keeps asking hey how's that project you've been working on remember a couple months ago we showed you uh a few of the things we were doing here at the shop well we going to update you now this is our 1914 Detroit electric it looks a lot better than it did the last time you saw it uh just to recap for you uh what I bought for ,000 with a was a rotted out body in chassis no motor no nothing and uh we even though the wood was rotted we were able to recreate every piece of wood with fresh new wood and fit the old metal over it to make it a bit more secure um this car was an electric car top speed is about 22 M an hour they were basically shopping cars back in the day what we're doing with this is Resto moding it we're uh putting a modern electric uh Tesla power it's not a Tesla engine but it'll be powerful like a Tesla when it's done uh and uh it's really kind of cool because it's not that different from what it was originally let me show you the emotive we're using this is by uqm they were a company at a Longmont Colorado uh you know they're probably the greatest innovators with these electric power they've done everything electric boats uh a while back maybe two or three years ago we did a thing about a city here in California was doing electric buses and they're having tremendous success with they built the the motors for that and this is one of their Motors it's 380 volts and it should uh be able to give us pretty high top speed I don't know how fast you want to go in this thing but it'll be a lot faster than stock plus it will have air conditioning plus it'll have Bluetooth it'll be a modern electric car in a 1914 body uh what you see around here these are lithium ion batteries that were donated from a Nissan Leaf we're very thankful to Nissan they were able to uh get us some of their uh lithium ion batteries so we should have a pretty good range we've just got our fireone non-skid tires look at that see non-skid you can't skid in those and this is Brock from Simple Solution come on over here how you doing good good see I'm not see you notice electric hot roders look different than traditional hot roders it's a more of a long hair in long hair I don't want to use the nerd phrase that that would be cruel and insensitive but but it's different it's different a lack of tattoos you know that type of thing but but but these guys are really clever they they run a company and you're one of the co-founders correct that's correct that's correct and and what these guys do is they convert just about anything to Electric right Anything Can Dream up vws common gears all that kind of stuff and there's been so many advances in CU When I was a kid homemade electric cars went 15 miles 20 miles you know now you can go 60 M an hour and go 50 M 60 80 miles lot cases yeah even more yeah so he's he's helping us actually he's doing it I don't know what I'm doing with this electric stuff but the interesting thing is this UK uqm motor these are great Motors aren't they they're really great Motors we used them on a previous project we' had really good success with them uh with the electric Drive Hummers and you know ukm's a great company they've always provided us good support and and the nice thing is this motor is really not much different in size than the original motor that came on this car it's not but it has 10 times the power 10 times the power is the old motor yeah yeah and the fasc thing is fascinating to show you how much torque electric car have look at the size of the rear end on this car I mean this is this is Kardashian we're talking ladies and gentlemen take a look here okay because that shows you how much torque it almost looks like something you'd see behind a big diesel truck or something with a big Hemi engine in it but uh electric cars are very powerful there's a lot of torque from rest there's a lot of initial grunt right from t zero RPM yeah exactly so that's the stock rear end and we're confident it should be able to take uh the power uh what are you doing now you're fitting batteries what do you yeah I'm playing with some battery bracketry uh we're going to do half of the Nissan pack in the front and half in the rear in the original battery compartments of the vehicle uh we're going to put the motor controller and uh some other electronics under the seat and probably going to tuck the Chargers up underneath yeah yeah so they're kind of out of the way and we all run a standard 240 240 volt charger on it right standard 240 or or 110 if you're if you're if you're hurting now so when I plug in my Tesla or the the Fiat or the BT that we have here it's all the same plug so that's really really kind of cool as you can see p our body man is on a wonderful job we're just getting all this together now and we'll get some our gaug we just put the we just did the roof using some of the original some of the original style material for the headliner so it's coming along good so just want to give you a brief update on that but I'll show you a new project we just started a couple weeks ago Brock thanks you a little bit thanks sir got let him get back to work well here's a project you guys haven't seen yet uh this is a 1971 Porsche 911t uh this is a one-owner car this is one of these deals it's been been in Beverly Hills its whole life in the late 90s I guess it was parked in an underground Garage in a condo and another car got parked in back of it and then it just s of sad you know this guy parked in his mother's condo I don't know what happened he got another car whatever anyway eventually all four tires went flat then it was covered with dust and then he didn't want to deal with it and then he passed away and and I got a call saying would I be interested in this car and I I sort have been looking for a 911 especially an early one like this but the amazing thing is being a Southern California car there's no body Rod at all it's a nice honest car it's got a lot of miles on it it says what does it read uh 38,000 but that's got to be 138,000 judging by the condition of the seat but the body is all nice and you know I thought the the paint was just awful but I've been using this stuff called uh gloss it just to bring it back and uh you know couple of different products you use and uh geez the original paint has come back very nice so it's never been in a major accident it's never been hit obviously we're doing uh brake lines and the we did the calipers rid the wheels just got a new muffler from Porsche John willhoit our friend who does the 356 is he says always gets replacement once from Porsche because the aftermarket ones never really seem to fit but the engine runs runs it's free it runs good and so we're getting new Rubber and we're just sort of bringing it back and try to keep it as riginal as possible and just make a nice driver out of it because as you can see uh seats a little chewed up headliner is kind of gone you know as soon as you fix one part of it uh-oh you realize how bad the other part looks so this will be one of those things we say we're just going to do this we'll probably wind up doing a lot more but the important thing is it's a nice straight car with no body rod and that's the nice thing about it cuz as you know air cooled 911s like this that's kind of where it's at these days and uh we pulled the gas tank obviously boiled that out cleaned that out coated it uh obviously new batteries uh new rubber in here already and so that's pretty much where it is and I'll keep you updated on this one as we go along now here's something that we've been working on for a while it took a long time to get get it done but it made a big difference come on I'll show you okay this is a real quick one uh this is my Cunningham we we did a piece on this a long time ago this is a very uh sort of high class American car one of the first V8s 455 cubic inch engine let me show you what we got here but the trouble with it with with it was uh the steering box it was tight it was worn out from just almost a 100 years of use you turned it took so much force uh George and the boys pulled the steering box out and uh that was a lot of work open it up everything was pretty much worn out and tight and we went to our friend Weissman they're the people that do the transmissions for the f1s and the McLaren and all those and they made us all new gears for the steering box and and now it steers fine so that just goes to show you there's really nothing you can't fix on these old cars a lot of old cars get put away for one reason that the old be cuz the dino flow is not working anymore or whatever it might be uh a lot of these cars the steering boxes just freeze up on them or they they just wear out and and they get tight and the car doesn't get used and that's all it takes so that's just a quick update on that we finally got that together now this one this is our Cunningham this has been coming along nicely you saw this when we pulled it out of the barn in Tennessee and been parked there since ' 68 my friend B made us all these new pieces here here this is a pretty tricky car to restore because the fenders are welded to the frame it doesn't come apart if this thing gets hit you got a lot of problems luckily the car has never been hit uh we still have the original magnesium Wheels but it's magnesium that's almost 60 more than 60 years old and you can't trust it so we had some new modified some new Wheels to resemble the old ones uh we new glass did it back in the original colors uh as you can see we Dynamat everything just for sound deadening and for heat and insulation uh there's nothing like there are plenty of places that'll make you new glass you know a lot of people think oh they call junkyards trying to find a windshield but you can have a new I think that ran about was about 800 bucks George I think that's what it was 800 bucks for new windshield I mean if you found one it would probably CA you close to that anyway and it would probably be scratched and whatever but I don't think you'd find one so that just goes to show you there are plenty of people that make stuff don't give up on things because uh you can't find it right away now the engine in this uh believe it or not is a Hemi engine 331 um in fact it's on the dyno right now come on we'll show it to you we had our friend Ed pink go through it and we went to hote heads they make these aluminum heads that take 150 lbs of weight off the engine come on let's show you that thing running oh before I take you to the dining room and show you the Hemi thought you might get a kick out of this this is a 1925 Bru Superior ss100 this is the type of bike Lawrence of Arabia would have had exactly as the type of bike he would have had this has the pendy engine in it which means was guaranteed to do 110 mph in 1925 notice how it has straps to hold the tank on the others just had the usual tank mounts where this one had extra straps you got the touring bags this is I think sort of one of the Holy Grails of motorcycling to find one one of these and this bike hasn't been run since 1973 it's just been it was in a guy's basement and uh we're just checking the valves and going through it before we fire it and take it for a ride we want to make sure everything is okay but I think it's one of the most beautiful bikes in motorcycling history it really is uh really is an amazing piece of Kit this thing you know proper hand shift and H it's just great dual oil pumps and H it's a fantastic bike but we'll do that another time okay as we head to the dining room to look at the hamy this is another bike under construction this is a Norton 650ss this is a model that really did not come to America but it's a fantastic bike but uh I getting a little lower compression one piston than the other so we just took it apart we're replacing both Pistons now uh we'll take it take it 40 over put some new pistons in it and uh she'll be ready to roll again there's cylinder head there see there lot there a lot of projects on the way to the other project there's another bru Superior right there ss80 that is a Brooklyn circuit bike uh really quite fast about 1923 1924 but come on let me show you the Hemi we're in the dino room Jim is running the dyo come on and we'll show you the Hemi engine this is the original motor that came with the car I think it's a magnificent looking engine what a beautiful beautiful motor uh this is a 331 Chrysler Hemi uh originally had cast iron heads as I mentioned before a company named hote heads makes these aluminum heads which are fantastic they save 150 lbs of weight which is great when it's hanging off the front end uh with the exception of that um it's pretty much stock uh should make around 250 260 horse we're breaking the engine in here as you see two four barrel carburetors which are kind of cool that's exactly the way it came originally the car came with a two-speed uh Chrysler Auto automatic put although it did have a clutch pedal to get you into first then you shift it automatically well well I'm putting my favorite transmission and the trimic they're bulletproof it'll work great and we're keeping everything stock so if we want to go back to an automatic for whatever reason you can do that but uh Jim's going to fire it up now and uh we'll show it running so what are you making Jim about 250 horse uh a little better than that wow that's better than what we thought huh yeah yeah which doesn't sound like a whole lot in this era of 900 horsepower but don't forget this is 1952 so that was a pretty impressive number and it's only 331 cubic in you know we tend to think of hems as being 426 cubic in but the originals were pretty small so oh it's smooth isn't it here we have it yeah so that's that's like 275 uh and that's uncorrected horsepower yeah 275 huh yeah that's pretty good so you should be happy with that 300 ft-lbs of torque cool come on you have it yeah I got one last thing to show you come on well this is my Mercedes 600 you might remember we did a video on this a while back it's one of my favorite cars I used to work for Mercedes when I was a kid and getting to drive one of these was such a thrill so when I was able to obtain one it was really exciting uh this one's been modified it had a supercharger on it uh which made it really fast these are pretty quick already but you can actually chirp the tires in second gear which was hilarious trouble is the supercharger was a gear driven unit this one here and really really noisy it ran off oil from the engine and it just I mean it was fast and it gave plenty of power but these are supposed to be quiet like a Rolls-Royce she can't even tell they're running and when it was when it was idling going down the road you hear that just that gear Mash you know from going around the around and around well Bernard was able to obtain a uh supercharge with ceramic bearings in it which requires no lubrication of any kind so that's and and they're perfectly quiet they don't make any noise at all so what we're doing is we're replacing that sort of old-fashioned uh supercharger with this one and uh hopefully that's going to well that's going to involve well see there's a lot involved here we found the radio had a leak so let's take the radio out get that fixed and we've got to change the pulley and come up with some new belt to run this one because the drive is a little bit different on it but uh we will we will keep you posted and that's pretty much some of the projects that uh we're involved with here so we have a busy week ahead of us see you next week\n"