The J Garage: Exploring Rare and Unique Vehicles

Like the white one I showed you earlier, we were storing this is a nice original car I got it from the original family who bought it new. It just needs everything, we're going to do that one as well. And this is a really unusual car I'm not quite sure what to do with this. This is a penard damik, uh very Art Deco 1930s notice that you sit in the middle, you have a seat on each side it has what they call a sleeve valve engine. We'll get into that a little bit later. The trouble with sleeve valve engines is they smoke, they smoke a lot when you drive a car like this in California. The villagers chase you with pickaxes because you're sort of polluting um it is classic French Art Deco, uh it's just one of the most unusual cars ever. We will do a full road test on this one as well.

I'm trying to figure out how to keep it from smoking. I wish there was some special oil, some different oil but sleeve valve engines just smoke if you don't know what a sleeve valve engine is Google it and I'll explain it to you. It'll take a little long to do it here but um this is another project. And we will have a full road test on this one for you as well. Come on let's move over some American stuff. This is one of the coolest cars, the early 1960s. This is a 1960 Chrysler 300G, this is one of the legendary letter cars has the 413 V8 with the cross Rams on it. When we do the full uh road test on this I'll show it to you right now. Uh the heat Riser is leaking it's got a B exhaust leak as soon as we fix that we'll put this one up on the website and do a full road test on it.

But what I'm going to show you now is a really rare, rare piece. It's an all original car I think it's the most original one left. It's a Cunningham, take a look now. This last car I'm going to show you is a project we haven't started yet. I'm still deciding what to do with this. This is a 1953 Cunningham uh if you've never heard of these they're very rare they only built about 34 cars. Briggs Cunningham was an American Sportsman, he raced at Lamar, he was the American Sportsman who could afford to indulge his passion and uh to qualify his cars for racing, he had to build street cars and that's what this is I believe this is about the last all original Cunningham out there.

These were European bodies with American engines and American drivetrains. Uh they were built in West Palm Beach Florida of all places. Uh the bodies went to Italy um well here let me show you what it's got. The engine is incredible, it's got a Chrysler Hemi, a 331 Hemi with two four barrel carburetors so these were not slow and these were not inexpensive cars. These were $115,000 in 1953 and this was in a barn in Tennessee. It belonged to a collector he was a Porsche guy and he bought it and it sat from 1968 until I got it.

So here let me show you under the hood just to wet your appetite a bit there it is, big Chrysler Hemi two four barel carburetors. Unfortunately I had a two-speed Chrysler transmission in it, I'll probably put a three-speed torque flight in it. I'd like to keep it all original, a lot of guys convert these to manual shift cars that would be okay but you know it's such a valuable piece and it's so original I'm going to do it back to the original colors of gray and red uh and uh other than the three-speed, obviously clean up the engine and go through it and everything. But this one's going to take a while but it's going to be worth it.

We're glad you enjoyed watching us look at some of the projects we have on the back burner here at The J garage. We decided to do this piece based on your comments when we did our 1 million subscriber video, we asked you what do you want to see more of what do you want to see less of what do you like and that's why we did this. Everybody said what are you working on hey what happened to that Dammler I saw a couple of months ago well you can't restore a car contrary to popular belief in a couple of weeks, so that's why it takes a while but listen as I said we do read all the comments keep them coming and uh we'll see you guys next week

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to another episode of Jay loon's garage you know on our 1 million subscriber video we did a while back we asked for your comments and what you wanted to see what you don't want to see everybody really seemed interested in the projects we had going here because a lot of times we'd start a project we'd show you a video on it and then months would go by and people hey you know this is one of those shows where they restore a car in six days we it's not really possible so I'm going to show you a bunch of products we're working on and uh kind of bring you up to date this is one I've been working on for quite a while this is a 1932 Rolls-Royce P2 chassis with a Merlin engine in it out of a uh one of the um World War II uh British fighter planes uh using our 3D printer we made a intake manifold to take Weber carburetors the body was built here at the shop it's although the engine is authentic the chassis is authentic the body is uh made to look period correct and we will keep you updated on this this one as we go along okay oh let me show you the uh the damler that's something we did a restoration blog on uh about eight nine months ago let's show you where we are with that one come on this is our damler Dart or sp250 as they called it here in America they couldn't use the dart name because Dodge had the Dodge Dart and that was a conflict uh here's what it looked like when I got it it sat in New York outside for like 30 years uh we're slowly bringing it back it's almost finished as you can see uh interior's done uh the engine's done new steering rack we'll be Road testing this car very very soon but I just wanted to give you a little update on what was happening with that so here it is take a look it's starting to look good take a look this another project where you may have bitten off more than we can chew uh this started out as a 1914 Detroit electric uh much like my Baker electric car um these were quite popular back in the day this sat outside the wood as you can see well look it's coming apart in my hand it was all rotted we had to reconstruct all the wood recreate the whole thing using the original pieces here um this one's going to this one's going to take a while but the cool thing is we're putting a modern electric drivetrain in it out of a mo of out of a modern electric car um we got from Ford one of their Ford test trucks from the early 2000s that were Electric and we're going to put that powertrain in this so hopefully be a pretty fast electric vehicle and uh as you can see you're starting to see it's starting to look like a car and this is Jim Hall's Lotus CA it just got back from being a media blasted um here here's a piece we did on it now as you've been to this website before you know uh Jim Hall is our Lotus man he did the Alan and uh but this is not my car this is his I've been telling him to buy a Lotus C and he kept putting it off and finally he found one and it was a little high price and I said no they're only going to go crazy if you don't get it right now so he took my advice he bought it right now and then the next day the prices went crazy didn't they they I mean and you're telling the absolute truth you come in Jim you got to buy it it's like well buy it now you were yeah and the prices gone now even really bad ones are $30 $40,000 and a lot of them aren't even real Lotus cortinas cuz they built cortinas the way Ford built Ford Falcons in England but only certain ones were Lotus ones and 65 was probably my favorite year because that's when Jim Clark was driving for Lotus correct yeah and well you know the instrument panel has a little thing they won the Indianapolis 500 that year um it it's sort of the GT 350 of of British cars yeah that's true and you know in the day it seemed so exotic twin camam foure oh my God I mean all cars almost have twin cam now but back then this was the car to have and as you can see Jim being the master Lotus guy has taking it back to literally more than Bare Bones back to almost just the DNA now you just had this sand blasted correct well I they call they call it Media Blasting and what that is uh sand is sand right uh media can be all kinds of things uh it could be Walnut shells in this case they use a plastic media what it does it it doesn't damage the metal right sometimes if somebody's rough with a sand blaster it damages the metal as well as it leaves it really vulnerable to rust and I like it bear while we're doing all the mechanical stuff to it cuz I don't want a well done paint right as you can see now this looked perfectly fine before didn't it yeah when the car was the white and green but someone did a bad repair here and you can still see holes well and you can see it's swiss cheese down in here right uh this this whole panel was built up with Bondo you look down at this rocker panel it's been all eaten out and straightened clear back here at the back end of the car just on the Lotus cortinas they put the battery in the trunk right all right look at that so now down in this area it's it's completely swiss cheese oh my God yeah that looks uh and again back to the media blasting actually it's an old friend National sand blasting but they do Media Blasting they mostly do Aerospace stuff and they're right here in Southern California correct yeah they're kind of South Central uh I went down there when I was talking to him about it and it's like oh you have to look at this and there's this giant thing that stand it's 8 feet tall and it's like 10 ft wide it's a motor mount for a SpaceX booster wow so these guys I mean they know what they're doing it isn't just the guy over in his backyard blasting something these these guys work for the big aerospace companies so if you got a car and you want to get media blasted the proper way take it down there here's the website or here's their address I guess uh okay now you've got this on a rotisserie let's show people what a thorough job they do and you might have to help me a little bit here yeah kind of lift up back there all right man that let's go again keep going up yeah there we go that that would be one of my body hammers yeah yeah don't leave stuff in the car when you're turning it over on the rotisserie that's the first step of restoration so anyway they it wasn't on the rotisserie when they had it but they go to the trouble of lifting it up putting on saw horses and Blasting underneath cuz this was all covered with undercoat yeah so as we work on it we'll repair all this all the uh cancer right and we can roll it upside down we can fix it it's like oh now I can see where a drive shaft had broken and beat up the the underside of the car so when people say they do a frame off restoration this is what they're talking about stripping the car of every single part Media Blasting it like this cleaning everything doing all the repairs it would be very easy to fill this with Bondo and paint it over and nobody would really know but Jim would know and he would not be able to sleep with that so there you go so that's and that's cuz the battery was in the trunk that's just some battery acid is that's battery acid cool cool all right so watch this spay this is going to take a while not a rush restoration but uh keep watching then you'll you'll see how this goes that one over there that's my Ford Bronco we're going to put a modern Ford Coyote engine in that and uh that should be a real uh a really fun car when it's has done but that one's a little further down the line let's go to more immediate stuff come on come on in here now this is a really rare car this a 1958 Chrysler this belongs to peir pear is our painter uh this car left the factory with fuel injection now what happened back in 58 the fuel injection was not successful it didn't really work very well and chry called all of them back and most of them were replaced with two forb carburetors which were considered much more reliable we're trying to track down a fuel injection unit for this car but as you can see the frames been powder coated the engine's in uh the body's out back that's being worked on and that one's uh that one's about a year away too come on I'll show you some more stuff now you might remember a while back we showed you a segment on the side car rig that Bernard was building you know our shop foreman uh well this year using a side car he borrowed from somebody else he won the championship look at that first place so now he's got the sidecar bug and he's been building this thing here at the shop in fact he's going to weld this trophy right on here to drive around and show off there Bernard come on in this is a pretty ambitious project well it it's getting to be bigger than I thought it would you know yeah yeah but uh we're making good progress on it so we should have it ready for really and and this is still technically a motorcycle because it has three wheels correct okay yeah and uh well this is coming along we we will we will have updates for you on this but as you can see he's made some progress what have we what have you done since the last time you got the sprocket on well we got the rear suspension is done supension on the front suspension is done okay motor is mounted the brakes are mounted brakes are mounted okay still got to put on the oil cooler that's actually a radiator a radiator cool that's right that's right using them yeah water cooled Yamaha cool cool well okay we'll keep you updated on this one as you can see this isn't something you can do in two or three weeks like on a lot of these car shows this takes a this takes a long time thanks Bernard thank you uh now this back here this is a 1922 Riv uh engine uh the car is next door I'll show you that in just a minute this is a car I've had for like 15 years we started it it went on the back burner we didn't do anything for about 5 years then we decided to really get into the motor the thing that makes this unique is it uses a dusenberg engine uh this is called a dusenberg rodchester engine in fact let me turn this around and you can see the uh the magic name dusenberg right on there there you go pretty cool so we had to have rods made and pistons made and the whole deal for this and uh the car is actually finished uh once the engine is done we'll drop it in come on I'll show you the car and this is the car it's going in uh we had to recast all of this boy this is a project I've been doing for 10 maybe maybe even 15 years it just kind of got put on the back burner while we're waiting for uh engine pieces or whatnot but the the car is basically done we just have to put the engine in so when this one is up and running we'll have a full report on it for you so come on let's move on now this is a car I've had for almost 30 years this is my uh 69 Lamborghini asata you know I drove this thing as I said for 30 years and about nine months ago we decided you know it's starting to get a little rust a few other things let's restore it so that's what we've been doing we'll have a full update on that one for you the car has been painted now uh we've got a a little bit of work to do the interior and whatnot but uh we'll have a full report on that one very very soon now this one over here uh this is a fantastic car this is a 1960 penard uh it is a two-cylinder automobile 850 CC's uh but it's actually pretty quick uh this was a nice original car we're not really restoring restoring it we're just sort of cleaning it up we painted the firewall the interior is original the uh paint on the outside is original but the fascinating thing about this car is the engine come on I'll show you take a look it looks like a BMW motor but it's not it's a uh 850cc pan Ard engine uh roller bearings it's it looks like it wouldn't be very fast it's actually pretty quick top speed 94 miles an hour something like this it's about 60 horsepower and and really really smooth uh it's just a fantastic motor and George Swift you know George he's been he's our steam guy well he's come off steam for a while and he's doing this one for us so this is moving along good so keep you posted on this one too we here something I'm really proud of I've had this motorcycle oh my God for 30 years and it's been apart for 25 it's just one of those things we took apart and just never ever got finished well it's finished now it's a a Bru Superior 680 this was kind of the Poor Man's ss100 um although I don't think too many poor guys had these these were very expensive motorcycles back in the day but it's a very rare bike uh whereas the ss100 a lot of them were 3-speeds this is a four-speed so it's a it's a nice bike it's light it's fast and we'll have a full road test for you on this one coming up very very soon come on let's go next door this is a pretty rare car we haven't done anything on this car I've had it for a number of years this car ran at Brooklyn's in 19 21 it ran under the name of rabbit one a lot of people thought this is one of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cars it wasn't there were three chitty chitty bang gang bang cars but this wasn't one of them uh I've got the whole history on this car I've got to make new water jackets for it but uh I want to keep it pretty original it's a 1908 Mercedes chassis with a Benz engine out of one of the big graph Zeppelin aircrafts and make no mistake this is a big engine take a look look oh my God hilarious 18 L six-cylinder big Zenith carburetors we'll do a full road test on this one very soon too what I've got to do is make new water jackets every time I fire this I fill it with coolant but I have to drain the coolant each time because it it leaks out because it's a paracity problem so we'll make new jackets for it but as soon as this one's done we'll do a full road test on that one too so okay on to the next project if I can get the hood to close this is the German section of the garage mercedesbenz Porsche this is a car I lust it after since I was a kid I used to work at a Mercedes-Benz dealership and to me the 6.3 Mercedes seal was the epitome of fast four-door sedans I always love one of these I bought this car it had 32 4,000 miles on it when I got it I got it practically nothing cuz they thought it was worn out and the idea was you're going to sort of restom mod it I've got an engine and a drivetrain from an SLS Mercedes and we were going to drop it in here but you know we did a service on the 6.3 motor and it runs so strong and it runs so fast and so nice I'm torn about uh putting the modern drivetrain in it I'd like to get your thoughts let us know in the comment section what you think cuz I've had this this engine over here in the corner I've got to do a bit of body work as you can see it's it's got a few Nicks and things in it but the air suspension works perfectly it's really fast it's a lot of fun to drive to me this is the most Mercedes of Mercedes-Benz to me this I thought was just the greatest car in the world in fact when it came out in what 1968 it was the uh world's fastest four-door San so I want to get your thoughts on it should I keep it the way it is or should I put this engine in it over here here come on I'll show you take a look as I mentioned here's the engine under this plastic I don't want to cut it all open right now cuz we're not going to do it today that's the transmission and I'm torn should I put this in my 1972 6.3 and make it really really fast or keep it stock in original where it's just fast fast let me know what you think be curious meanwhile let's go look at another project and you can tell by the paintings on the wall this is the French section of the garage uh sichan penard uh there's another penard Diner like the white one I showed you earlier we were storing this is a nice original car I got it from the original family who bought it new it just needs everything we're going to do that one as well and this is a really unusual car I'm not quite sure what to do with this this is a penard damik uh very Art Deco 1930s notice that you sit in the middle you have a seat on each side it has what they call a sleeve valve engine we'll get into that a little bit later the trouble with sleeve valve engine is they smoke they smoke a lot when you drive a car like this in California the villagers chase you with pickaxes because you're sort of polluting um it is classic French Art Deco uh it's just one of the most unusual cars ever um we will do a full road test on this one as well I'm trying to figure out how to keep it from smoking I wish there was some some oil some different oil but sleeve valve engines just smoke if you don't know what a sleeve valve engine is Google it and I'll explain it to you it'll take a little long to do it here but um this is another project and we will have a full road test on this one for you as well come on let's move over some American stuff and this is one of the coolest cars the early 1960s this is a 1960 Chrysler 300g this is one of the legendary letter cars has the 413 V8 with the cross Rams on it when we do the full uh road test on this I'll show it to you right now uh the the heat Riser is leaking it's got a B exhaust leak as soon as we fix that we'll put this one up on the website and do a full road test on it but what I'm going to show you now is a really rare rare piece it's an all original car I think it's the most original one left it is a Cunningham take a look now this last car I'm going to show you is a project we haven't started yet I'm still deciding what to do this is a 1953 Cunningham uh if you've never heard of these it's it's it's that's it's reasonable because they're very rare they only Built about 34 cars Briggs Cunningham was an American Sportsman he raced at Lamar he was The American Sportsman he won America's Cup and he loved racing uh he was a real real Enthusiast who could afford to indulge his passion and uh to qualify his cars for racing he had to build street cars and that's what this is I I believe this is about the last all original Cunningham out there these were uh European bodies with American engines and American drivetrains uh they were built in West Palm Beach Florida of all places uh the bodies went to Italy um well here let me show you what it's got the engine is incredible it's it's got the least likely engine you would think it's got a Chrysler Hemi a 331 Hemi with two four barrel carburetors so these were not slow and these were not inexpensive cars these were $115,000 in 195 three and this was in a barn in Tennessee it belonged to a collector he was a Porsche guy and he bought it and it sat from 1968 until I got it so here let me show you under the hood just to wet your appetite a bit there it is there big Chrysler Hemi two four barel carburetors unfortunately I had a two-speed Chrysler transmission in it I'll probably put a three-speed torque flight in it I'd like to keep it all original a lot of guys convert these to manual shift cars that would be okay but you know it's such a valuable piece and it's so original I'm going to do it back to the original colors of gray and red uh and uh other than the three-speed I obviously clean up the engine and go through it and everything but uh this one's going to take a while but it's going to be worth it well I hope you enjoyed uh I look at some of the projects we have on the back burner here at the J garage uh you know we decided to do this piece BAS Bas on your comments when we did our 1 million subscriber video we asked you what do you want to see more of what do you want to see less of what do you like what don't you like and that's why we did this everybody said what are you working on hey what happened to that damler I saw a couple of months ago well you can't you can't restore a car contrary to popular belief in a couple of weeks so that's why it takes a while but listen as I said we do read all the comments keep them coming and uh we'll see you guys next week awelcome to another episode of Jay loon's garage you know on our 1 million subscriber video we did a while back we asked for your comments and what you wanted to see what you don't want to see everybody really seemed interested in the projects we had going here because a lot of times we'd start a project we'd show you a video on it and then months would go by and people hey you know this is one of those shows where they restore a car in six days we it's not really possible so I'm going to show you a bunch of products we're working on and uh kind of bring you up to date this is one I've been working on for quite a while this is a 1932 Rolls-Royce P2 chassis with a Merlin engine in it out of a uh one of the um World War II uh British fighter planes uh using our 3D printer we made a intake manifold to take Weber carburetors the body was built here at the shop it's although the engine is authentic the chassis is authentic the body is uh made to look period correct and we will keep you updated on this this one as we go along okay oh let me show you the uh the damler that's something we did a restoration blog on uh about eight nine months ago let's show you where we are with that one come on this is our damler Dart or sp250 as they called it here in America they couldn't use the dart name because Dodge had the Dodge Dart and that was a conflict uh here's what it looked like when I got it it sat in New York outside for like 30 years uh we're slowly bringing it back it's almost finished as you can see uh interior's done uh the engine's done new steering rack we'll be Road testing this car very very soon but I just wanted to give you a little update on what was happening with that so here it is take a look it's starting to look good take a look this another project where you may have bitten off more than we can chew uh this started out as a 1914 Detroit electric uh much like my Baker electric car um these were quite popular back in the day this sat outside the wood as you can see well look it's coming apart in my hand it was all rotted we had to reconstruct all the wood recreate the whole thing using the original pieces here um this one's going to this one's going to take a while but the cool thing is we're putting a modern electric drivetrain in it out of a mo of out of a modern electric car um we got from Ford one of their Ford test trucks from the early 2000s that were Electric and we're going to put that powertrain in this so hopefully be a pretty fast electric vehicle and uh as you can see you're starting to see it's starting to look like a car and this is Jim Hall's Lotus CA it just got back from being a media blasted um here here's a piece we did on it now as you've been to this website before you know uh Jim Hall is our Lotus man he did the Alan and uh but this is not my car this is his I've been telling him to buy a Lotus C and he kept putting it off and finally he found one and it was a little high price and I said no they're only going to go crazy if you don't get it right now so he took my advice he bought it right now and then the next day the prices went crazy didn't they they I mean and you're telling the absolute truth you come in Jim you got to buy it it's like well buy it now you were yeah and the prices gone now even really bad ones are $30 $40,000 and a lot of them aren't even real Lotus cortinas cuz they built cortinas the way Ford built Ford Falcons in England but only certain ones were Lotus ones and 65 was probably my favorite year because that's when Jim Clark was driving for Lotus correct yeah and well you know the instrument panel has a little thing they won the Indianapolis 500 that year um it it's sort of the GT 350 of of British cars yeah that's true and you know in the day it seemed so exotic twin camam foure oh my God I mean all cars almost have twin cam now but back then this was the car to have and as you can see Jim being the master Lotus guy has taking it back to literally more than Bare Bones back to almost just the DNA now you just had this sand blasted correct well I they call they call it Media Blasting and what that is uh sand is sand right uh media can be all kinds of things uh it could be Walnut shells in this case they use a plastic media what it does it it doesn't damage the metal right sometimes if somebody's rough with a sand blaster it damages the metal as well as it leaves it really vulnerable to rust and I like it bear while we're doing all the mechanical stuff to it cuz I don't want a well done paint right as you can see now this looked perfectly fine before didn't it yeah when the car was the white and green but someone did a bad repair here and you can still see holes well and you can see it's swiss cheese down in here right uh this this whole panel was built up with Bondo you look down at this rocker panel it's been all eaten out and straightened clear back here at the back end of the car just on the Lotus cortinas they put the battery in the trunk right all right look at that so now down in this area it's it's completely swiss cheese oh my God yeah that looks uh and again back to the media blasting actually it's an old friend National sand blasting but they do Media Blasting they mostly do Aerospace stuff and they're right here in Southern California correct yeah they're kind of South Central uh I went down there when I was talking to him about it and it's like oh you have to look at this and there's this giant thing that stand it's 8 feet tall and it's like 10 ft wide it's a motor mount for a SpaceX booster wow so these guys I mean they know what they're doing it isn't just the guy over in his backyard blasting something these these guys work for the big aerospace companies so if you got a car and you want to get media blasted the proper way take it down there here's the website or here's their address I guess uh okay now you've got this on a rotisserie let's show people what a thorough job they do and you might have to help me a little bit here yeah kind of lift up back there all right man that let's go again keep going up yeah there we go that that would be one of my body hammers yeah yeah don't leave stuff in the car when you're turning it over on the rotisserie that's the first step of restoration so anyway they it wasn't on the rotisserie when they had it but they go to the trouble of lifting it up putting on saw horses and Blasting underneath cuz this was all covered with undercoat yeah so as we work on it we'll repair all this all the uh cancer right and we can roll it upside down we can fix it it's like oh now I can see where a drive shaft had broken and beat up the the underside of the car so when people say they do a frame off restoration this is what they're talking about stripping the car of every single part Media Blasting it like this cleaning everything doing all the repairs it would be very easy to fill this with Bondo and paint it over and nobody would really know but Jim would know and he would not be able to sleep with that so there you go so that's and that's cuz the battery was in the trunk that's just some battery acid is that's battery acid cool cool all right so watch this spay this is going to take a while not a rush restoration but uh keep watching then you'll you'll see how this goes that one over there that's my Ford Bronco we're going to put a modern Ford Coyote engine in that and uh that should be a real uh a really fun car when it's has done but that one's a little further down the line let's go to more immediate stuff come on come on in here now this is a really rare car this a 1958 Chrysler this belongs to peir pear is our painter uh this car left the factory with fuel injection now what happened back in 58 the fuel injection was not successful it didn't really work very well and chry called all of them back and most of them were replaced with two forb carburetors which were considered much more reliable we're trying to track down a fuel injection unit for this car but as you can see the frames been powder coated the engine's in uh the body's out back that's being worked on and that one's uh that one's about a year away too come on I'll show you some more stuff now you might remember a while back we showed you a segment on the side car rig that Bernard was building you know our shop foreman uh well this year using a side car he borrowed from somebody else he won the championship look at that first place so now he's got the sidecar bug and he's been building this thing here at the shop in fact he's going to weld this trophy right on here to drive around and show off there Bernard come on in this is a pretty ambitious project well it it's getting to be bigger than I thought it would you know yeah yeah but uh we're making good progress on it so we should have it ready for really and and this is still technically a motorcycle because it has three wheels correct okay yeah and uh well this is coming along we we will we will have updates for you on this but as you can see he's made some progress what have we what have you done since the last time you got the sprocket on well we got the rear suspension is done supension on the front suspension is done okay motor is mounted the brakes are mounted brakes are mounted okay still got to put on the oil cooler that's actually a radiator a radiator cool that's right that's right using them yeah water cooled Yamaha cool cool well okay we'll keep you updated on this one as you can see this isn't something you can do in two or three weeks like on a lot of these car shows this takes a this takes a long time thanks Bernard thank you uh now this back here this is a 1922 Riv uh engine uh the car is next door I'll show you that in just a minute this is a car I've had for like 15 years we started it it went on the back burner we didn't do anything for about 5 years then we decided to really get into the motor the thing that makes this unique is it uses a dusenberg engine uh this is called a dusenberg rodchester engine in fact let me turn this around and you can see the uh the magic name dusenberg right on there there you go pretty cool so we had to have rods made and pistons made and the whole deal for this and uh the car is actually finished uh once the engine is done we'll drop it in come on I'll show you the car and this is the car it's going in uh we had to recast all of this boy this is a project I've been doing for 10 maybe maybe even 15 years it just kind of got put on the back burner while we're waiting for uh engine pieces or whatnot but the the car is basically done we just have to put the engine in so when this one is up and running we'll have a full report on it for you so come on let's move on now this is a car I've had for almost 30 years this is my uh 69 Lamborghini asata you know I drove this thing as I said for 30 years and about nine months ago we decided you know it's starting to get a little rust a few other things let's restore it so that's what we've been doing we'll have a full update on that one for you the car has been painted now uh we've got a a little bit of work to do the interior and whatnot but uh we'll have a full report on that one very very soon now this one over here uh this is a fantastic car this is a 1960 penard uh it is a two-cylinder automobile 850 CC's uh but it's actually pretty quick uh this was a nice original car we're not really restoring restoring it we're just sort of cleaning it up we painted the firewall the interior is original the uh paint on the outside is original but the fascinating thing about this car is the engine come on I'll show you take a look it looks like a BMW motor but it's not it's a uh 850cc pan Ard engine uh roller bearings it's it looks like it wouldn't be very fast it's actually pretty quick top speed 94 miles an hour something like this it's about 60 horsepower and and really really smooth uh it's just a fantastic motor and George Swift you know George he's been he's our steam guy well he's come off steam for a while and he's doing this one for us so this is moving along good so keep you posted on this one too we here something I'm really proud of I've had this motorcycle oh my God for 30 years and it's been apart for 25 it's just one of those things we took apart and just never ever got finished well it's finished now it's a a Bru Superior 680 this was kind of the Poor Man's ss100 um although I don't think too many poor guys had these these were very expensive motorcycles back in the day but it's a very rare bike uh whereas the ss100 a lot of them were 3-speeds this is a four-speed so it's a it's a nice bike it's light it's fast and we'll have a full road test for you on this one coming up very very soon come on let's go next door this is a pretty rare car we haven't done anything on this car I've had it for a number of years this car ran at Brooklyn's in 19 21 it ran under the name of rabbit one a lot of people thought this is one of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cars it wasn't there were three chitty chitty bang gang bang cars but this wasn't one of them uh I've got the whole history on this car I've got to make new water jackets for it but uh I want to keep it pretty original it's a 1908 Mercedes chassis with a Benz engine out of one of the big graph Zeppelin aircrafts and make no mistake this is a big engine take a look look oh my God hilarious 18 L six-cylinder big Zenith carburetors we'll do a full road test on this one very soon too what I've got to do is make new water jackets every time I fire this I fill it with coolant but I have to drain the coolant each time because it it leaks out because it's a paracity problem so we'll make new jackets for it but as soon as this one's done we'll do a full road test on that one too so okay on to the next project if I can get the hood to close this is the German section of the garage mercedesbenz Porsche this is a car I lust it after since I was a kid I used to work at a Mercedes-Benz dealership and to me the 6.3 Mercedes seal was the epitome of fast four-door sedans I always love one of these I bought this car it had 32 4,000 miles on it when I got it I got it practically nothing cuz they thought it was worn out and the idea was you're going to sort of restom mod it I've got an engine and a drivetrain from an SLS Mercedes and we were going to drop it in here but you know we did a service on the 6.3 motor and it runs so strong and it runs so fast and so nice I'm torn about uh putting the modern drivetrain in it I'd like to get your thoughts let us know in the comment section what you think cuz I've had this this engine over here in the corner I've got to do a bit of body work as you can see it's it's got a few Nicks and things in it but the air suspension works perfectly it's really fast it's a lot of fun to drive to me this is the most Mercedes of Mercedes-Benz to me this I thought was just the greatest car in the world in fact when it came out in what 1968 it was the uh world's fastest four-door San so I want to get your thoughts on it should I keep it the way it is or should I put this engine in it over here here come on I'll show you take a look as I mentioned here's the engine under this plastic I don't want to cut it all open right now cuz we're not going to do it today that's the transmission and I'm torn should I put this in my 1972 6.3 and make it really really fast or keep it stock in original where it's just fast fast let me know what you think be curious meanwhile let's go look at another project and you can tell by the paintings on the wall this is the French section of the garage uh sichan penard uh there's another penard Diner like the white one I showed you earlier we were storing this is a nice original car I got it from the original family who bought it new it just needs everything we're going to do that one as well and this is a really unusual car I'm not quite sure what to do with this this is a penard damik uh very Art Deco 1930s notice that you sit in the middle you have a seat on each side it has what they call a sleeve valve engine we'll get into that a little bit later the trouble with sleeve valve engine is they smoke they smoke a lot when you drive a car like this in California the villagers chase you with pickaxes because you're sort of polluting um it is classic French Art Deco uh it's just one of the most unusual cars ever um we will do a full road test on this one as well I'm trying to figure out how to keep it from smoking I wish there was some some oil some different oil but sleeve valve engines just smoke if you don't know what a sleeve valve engine is Google it and I'll explain it to you it'll take a little long to do it here but um this is another project and we will have a full road test on this one for you as well come on let's move over some American stuff and this is one of the coolest cars the early 1960s this is a 1960 Chrysler 300g this is one of the legendary letter cars has the 413 V8 with the cross Rams on it when we do the full uh road test on this I'll show it to you right now uh the the heat Riser is leaking it's got a B exhaust leak as soon as we fix that we'll put this one up on the website and do a full road test on it but what I'm going to show you now is a really rare rare piece it's an all original car I think it's the most original one left it is a Cunningham take a look now this last car I'm going to show you is a project we haven't started yet I'm still deciding what to do this is a 1953 Cunningham uh if you've never heard of these it's it's it's that's it's reasonable because they're very rare they only Built about 34 cars Briggs Cunningham was an American Sportsman he raced at Lamar he was The American Sportsman he won America's Cup and he loved racing uh he was a real real Enthusiast who could afford to indulge his passion and uh to qualify his cars for racing he had to build street cars and that's what this is I I believe this is about the last all original Cunningham out there these were uh European bodies with American engines and American drivetrains uh they were built in West Palm Beach Florida of all places uh the bodies went to Italy um well here let me show you what it's got the engine is incredible it's it's got the least likely engine you would think it's got a Chrysler Hemi a 331 Hemi with two four barrel carburetors so these were not slow and these were not inexpensive cars these were $115,000 in 195 three and this was in a barn in Tennessee it belonged to a collector he was a Porsche guy and he bought it and it sat from 1968 until I got it so here let me show you under the hood just to wet your appetite a bit there it is there big Chrysler Hemi two four barel carburetors unfortunately I had a two-speed Chrysler transmission in it I'll probably put a three-speed torque flight in it I'd like to keep it all original a lot of guys convert these to manual shift cars that would be okay but you know it's such a valuable piece and it's so original I'm going to do it back to the original colors of gray and red uh and uh other than the three-speed I obviously clean up the engine and go through it and everything but uh this one's going to take a while but it's going to be worth it well I hope you enjoyed uh I look at some of the projects we have on the back burner here at the J garage uh you know we decided to do this piece BAS Bas on your comments when we did our 1 million subscriber video we asked you what do you want to see more of what do you want to see less of what do you like what don't you like and that's why we did this everybody said what are you working on hey what happened to that damler I saw a couple of months ago well you can't you can't restore a car contrary to popular belief in a couple of weeks so that's why it takes a while but listen as I said we do read all the comments keep them coming and uh we'll see you guys next week a\n"