Roadkill (2012–2020): Season 7, Episode 8 - Vintage Circle-Track Charger Rescue! - full transcript
Mike Finnegan has had Charger lust since his childhood exposure to the General Lee on The Dukes of Hazzard, so he recently bought a 1968 Dodge Charger that had been wrecked when new, then ...
- Please don't break.
(engine revving)
This time on Roadkill,
the ultimate barn find.
A Charger buried for 50 years!
- Hell yeah!
- [Finn] Woo-hoo!
(engine roars) (laughing)
(engine starting)
(tires squealing)
(hard rock music)
(car engine growls)
(upbeat rock music)
- See this rusty '68 Charger?
Dream car, I have always wanted one
ever since I watched the
Dukes of Hazzard as a kid.
This has been my dream,
except I didn't want a nice
charger, I wanted junk.
Junk that I could slide around dirt roads,
junk that I could go off-roading with,
and as it turns out, I found the junk--
- You found a junk one, you sure did.
- On Ebay, of all places, late at night.
I may have been under the influence
of some frosty cold beverages
when I bought this thing,
thinking it was a dirt track car.
But then I found out a man named Joe Berry
built this car to go to racing in '68,
and never finished the job.
- I love that part of the story
because of the way the rules were set up,
he could do it by building
something in his back yard,
and he built it and he
never got it to the race.
So this car has just unfulfilled promise,
and if we're trying to get
this car back on the road,
and we're going to drive
it back up to Indy.
- We're going to go find Mister Joe Berry,
who's never driven the car.
When I picked up the car,
it was missing its original
383 and four-speed trans.
I had a new 383 engine and six-speed trans
that I've been wanting to
put in the right Charger,
and this was a perfect match.
- [Tony] I came in a few days ago,
we've has a bunch of help from other guys,
and we've already got an
engine and trans in this thing,
we've got the brakes figured out.
It's been a long haul but
there's tons left to do.
- Here's an indication of how
long I've wanted a Charger.
I had this engine two years
before I ever found this car.
So yeah, we're going to get
this thing running and driving,
put a plate on it, and head to Indy
and find Mister Joe Berry.
So, lots left to do, let's go to work.
(tools hammering and drilling)
(saw humming)
- All right, so we dug in
this car and it's crazy.
No one ever built them
like this I don't think.
The bars and stuff that he used
to make this car are way too thick.
It's all super industrial,
like 250 wall tubing.
This car must weigh an
extra thousand pounds,
but I'll show you, he's
got a perimeter frame,
basically like a roll cage,
that goes all the way
around the entire car.
It's got Ford F250 brakes,
and he went in and somebody weld in
the F250 spindle on this thing.
So it does have giant bearings and stuff,
12 inch brakes, it should work.
He got C-body bars from
like a Fury or something,
make a Fury cop car.
Welded it behind the B-body mount,
and sort of made it all work.
He's got a Willys rear end in this thing.
- [Finn] Yeah it's like a '48 to '53
ten kinder end out of a Willy truck.
- Out of a Willys truck.
It actually came with some super cool
NASCAR 8 lug racing wheels
that I don't think you
could ever find again.
They're going to go on this car
and it's going to look awesome,
and we're going to make this
thing finally see some action.
If you cut out the
inner fender of a Mopar,
that's where all the structure
and all the strength of this whole,
holding the front end up is,
so I'm going to replace it.
I'm going to come in with
a tube welded in here,
come across and tie it
in to the roll cage,
and that will support the whole front end,
and then I can mount the shocks on it.
- There's absolutely no wiring in the car,
so from tail lights to headlights,
ignition system, all that stuff,
we've got to run wires throughout the car,
got to mount the ignition blocks.
Some of these things can't happen
until we know where they need to go.
Like, until the seat's
in, you really don't know
where you want the switches to go,
because once you're all buckled in
you got to be able to reach that stuff.
We're making educated guesses
and making as much progress as we can.
(funky rock music)
- This side is a little more complicated,
there's a clutch master down there.
There's the brake master up here,
I want to make sure that we can still
get the reservoir cap off then
fill that thing up easily.
- So here's our dilemma, right?
We hacked up the bottom of the car
to put in our T56 trans,
and we used a Silver Sport
transmissions kit to install it.
Part of the kit is this nifty crossmember
that should go right there
if your Charger is stock.
Ours is not.
Joe Berry took C-body torsion bars
which come from a longer car, right?
Making all this much
bigger than it used to be,
and because of that,
our Silver Sport transmissions crossmember
will not fit in here at all.
We're going to build a new one.
We got to clear the exhaust,
we got to stiffen the floor back up,
we've got to make all this
better than it currently is.
- I've gotten the new
shock support bars in,
and I've got all the plates made.
Going to put this thing on the ground
so that it's level and
under its own weight
before I weld those in.
But one thing we've been short on
are these adjuster springs.
We've gotten like 10
different sets ordered,
and none of them are exactly right.
I'm just sort of modifying the ends on it.
They're not perfect, but I'm
going to make these springs work.
- Here's something for you guys at home.
If you don't have a tube bender,
don't let that stop you from making
a tubular transmission mount.
This is just some two by four rectangulars
you would make a frame rail out of.
Slash cut two holes drilled through it,
bolted to the isolator for the trans.
(metal clanging)
Okay, it's done.
Look at that, we're Star Trek.
(imitating engine revving)
To the transmission!
To the transmission and beyond!
- So had this drive shaft
made by a local dude,
and hopefully it's the right length.
Oh yeah, I think we're in business here.
That's awesome, one less
thing to worry about.
(drilling)
- Now let it down.
Done!
(groaning)
Oh man, it's a good day.
We got a lot of stuff built,
we have radiator hoses now,
we have a trans mount,
we have a drive shaft,
we got a whole bunch of parts in boxes
we haven't even opened yet.
And it looks like Tony's
going to finish the brakes.
(humming)
(drilling)
The front drums fit fine,
and I couldn't get the back ones on,
and then thought about it
to myself, you know what?
The fronts seemed loose and
the backs were super tight,
so I swapped them, now they went right on.
I just put the wheels
on for the last time,
Finn's got the exhaust up
and we can put this thing on the ground.
- [Finn] Comin' down.
- [Tony] Oh my God this car
is so low to the ground.
- Super low.
That is bad ass, dude it's
a good stance, it's great.
- It looks great.
- Either the front frame
rails are bent down,
(Tony laughs) or it has great rake.
- Look at that.
It's perfect.
- Oh my God, this just got real.
Now I can taste it.
- [Tony] Yeah.
- Dude, this is bad ass, man.
- [Tony] It looks pretty square.
- We're not making it on these tires.
Look how much camber's in it.
- [Tony] On that one not this one,
this one's straight up and down.
Evil.
It's probably going to drive great,
'cause it looks awesome.
(upbeat rock music)
(welder hissing)
- Right about now I'm ripping
out the old fuel cell,
and installing a new one
which is actually smaller.
So none of the old mounting points work.
Our fuel cell isn't flat
on the bottom like his was,
it's got a stump like
a drag race style deal.
It's got a rear stump to
angle the fuel backwards
in to the pick up area.
But the problem with that
is it hit the angle iron.
So I cut the angle iron in half,
then I made this piece which is notched.
I'll butt that up against
the two pieces of angle iron,
weld it all the way around.
That'll give room for the stump
and the fittings to come through.
Oh look at that!
- [Tony] Boom!
- [Finn] Fits!
It's starting to look like a race car.
- [Tony] It's gettin' there.
So both bars, I'm just
burning them in for good,
and then that'll be it
except for just adding
the shock mounts.
- The bars really made it,
really spruce the place up.
- What do we got left?
- Let's go over the list.
What can we cross off?
- Obviously the motor is in,
the trans connected to the
rear with the drive shaft,
there's a bunch more wiring to do.
- [Finn] Let's make it run.
- Wire it up, we'll make it run,
and then the next big
hurdle will be stuff like...
- Driving.
- Yeah, I like driving.
It's like my favorite.
- Driving's good, you're
pretty good at it.
- Thanks, buddy.
You're my Bo or Luke?
- You're dark haired
so that makes you Luke.
And Luke never drove.
- [Tony] Luke doesn't drive.
- Luke never drove. (Tony laughs)
(tools hammering and whirring)
- We are nearing the end.
Right now Tony's inside
the car wiring up the dash,
I am buttoning up a couple of things
under the hood right now
including, remarkably,
a puke tank for our cooling system.
Moving on.
(upbeat rock guitar)
- We went to the part
store got some truck shocks
that are like 22 inches fully extended,
something like that.
It's perfect length,
and I'm going to weld them in,
and then this thing is
totally done, suspension-wise.
Fire in the hole.
(welder hissing)
(upbeat rock music)
- Let's go out with it.
This is it, after 50 years,
this car is finally going to run.
We have a brand new engine,
brand new transmission.
Used tires, I don't even
know how old those are,
and that is not going to
stop us from pretending
that we are Bo and Luke
Duke goin' NASCAR racin'.
- That's right.
Boshears, want to break
in that new camshaft?
- [Finn] All right, here we go,
(engine cranking)
- Timing close, or what?
- It's not even burblin'.
- Give it a shot?
(engine cranking)
(engine growling)
- [Finn] How many marks on that thing?
The actual marks?
- One mark, and then the tabs touch.
- Well how far does the tab go?
- 10 degrees.
- We can get it close.
- Yeah.
- It's so cool!
Can you believe it?
That thing has not made noise in 50 years.
Right now the guys are
eyeballing the engine,
checking cylinder head
temperatures for every port.
- It's stable now, I
don't want that camshaft
to go flat, even though it seems like
the cylinders aren't
running exactly the same,
they're different temperatures.
Once we turn it off,
play with the carburetor,
make sure the timing's dialed,
and hopefully we can actually
put some load on this thing,
finally drive this car.
- Motor sounds insane, still though,
breaking in a flat tappet
cam always scares me,
so I'm going to pull the
oil filter out of the car,
cut it open, look inside
the pleats, look for metal.
So I like to use a metal pan like this,
'cause it's light colored
and if you see anything
in there it'll be obvious.
(metal clanking)
Boshears builds a good engine.
There are no metal flakes in this filter.
If that camshaft was going away,
we'd see nothing but glitter in here.
- I feel pretty good about it.
(slapping high five)
Oh wait, check this out, (mumbling).
Look at that, look at those lights.
Have you seen this thing li up?
- No I've never seen
these tail lights lit up.
Dude, those are great!
That is evil.
- [Tony] It looks awesome.
It looks like a shark, it's
so big and low, it's awesome.
All right dudes, that's it for tonight.
Going to leave in the morning.
(tools buzzing)
I'm going to officially
make this a race car
by puttin' stickers on
it 'cause everybody knows
that's what makes race cars fast.
- This is from Pro Car.
Classic set of reclining vinyl seats.
Safety first.
- It the belt, let's put the belt in.
- We are one seat away
from backing the Charger
out of the garage,
and hitting the road.
Once this mirror's on we can leave.
- I'm so ready.
It looks good.
- We are off to Indiana.
(car engine firing up)
When's the last time
this car ever did this?
Dude the breaks aren't that bad.
- No way.
- Really not.
(engine revving)
Come on baby.
- What is that?
- Drive shaft hitting the floor?
- Yeah, maybe.
(car engine growling)
- [Tony] How's temp and everything?
- Temp's good, oil's good.
Something turning loose.
Pulls to the left,
really wants to go left.
- [Tony] I bet it does.
- I'm going to get on it a little bit,
see if something hits the floor.
- Okay.
(engine revving and clunking)
Yeah.
- All right we need to
go back to the house.
Well that was success.
This car ran and drove all
the way around my block,
and made two or three horrific noises
that prompted us to come
back to the garage here.
Felt like the drive shaft
was hitting something under the car.
Then it sounded like
something was falling off
the front of the car.
But overall, not bad.
I think I know what part
of the problem might be.
When the pinion wraps,
I think it's pushing the drive shaft
into the floor of the car.
- Yeah, I was going to say
as soon as you hit the gas,
it gets pretty rocked.
- That's what it is, I can
see a mark on the drive shaft,
it looks like the floor has been smacked.
What we're going to do is I'm
going to jack the rear end up,
and take some of the load off
of the bolts going through
the Lee Spring hangers.
Tony's going to knock the bolts out
and move the bolt and the
eyelet of the Lee Spring
down one hole into the hanger,
which is going to increase
the distance between
the frame rail and the
axle, lifting the car up.
(hydraulics squealing)
- Coming down.
- It raised it up a little.
- Oh yeah.
- I'm not even going to look, it's fixed.
- Yeah for sure.
(car engine growling)
- Now, much better.
This may be the fastest
this car has ever gone.
(car engine revving)
I love the quarter
panels on this car, dude.
- Oh this car is sexy as hell.
- [Finn] Man, so far so good!
- [Tony] Yeah, well we did
it, we're driving a Charger.
- We are.
Oh hell.
- What's going on here?
- Tires maybe?
Bent wheel?
- The rear end is hopping up and down.
- [Finn] Rear end is loud.
- Yeah this rear end sucks.
Might be a Steve thing.
- [Finn] We're going 59.
- I torqued the wheels,
I never touched the
rear end. (loud popping)
- [Finn] That's the pinion.
- [Tony] Still?
- Yeah.
It hit a bump and went up and hit it.
- If we hit the gas,
it'll blow right over.
(loud popping)
- Yeah, that's the ear of the yoke.
- Yep.
How the brakes doing?
- Oh, they pull to the
right, and to the left.
And they stink.
- [Tony] They stink.
- It's backwards day.
We are not overheating,
we have oil pressure,
the thing seems to drive okay,
and yet here we are next
to an auto parts store
because although we lifted
the car a little bit,
not nearly enough.
Every time we hit a bump,
the pinion of the rear end
and that yoke right there,
U-Joint, are smacking
the bottom of the car.
What we are going to do,
is make the problem
slightly more comfortable.
These are rubber brakes.
These go on the pedals so
your feet don't slip off,
but I figure if you stack
enough of these together,
and tape them to the
pinion of the rear end,
every time it rotates
up and hits the floor,
it won't be that big of a deal.
And if that doesn't work
then maybe we'll attempt
at actually fixing the real problem.
Well all right.
I'm sure that repair is
going to last at least
four or five miles.
(pinion clunking)
That's better.
(car engine revving)
So we're mobbing doin'
like 70 miles an hour,
and all of a sudden we hit a bump.
Our brand new isolator
falls out the rear end,
suddenly the rear end's
hitting the sheet metal again,
that kind of sucks, we can deal with that.
But then it starts pouring rain.
And oddly enough, these 40 or 50 year old
Hoosier dirt track tires don't
work too well in the rain.
So called my buddy Boshears,
say, "Who do you know in Calhoun?"
He says, "Go see the boys
at Sexton Automotive,
they have a tire machine."
So we're going to put on
a set of BFG Radial TAs,
like big fat 295 ones.
and hopefully we'll be
back on the road shortly.
- So you should have a bead,
so the tire almost fall back off of the--
- Right, that's just smooth.
- It's just smooth, there's nothin' there
for the tire to catch on.
- Wow, so that's why
these had tubes in 'em.
Let's recap what happened here.
I bought a car 'cause I fell
in love with the wheels.
I mean yeah, it's a Charger,
but this is a crappy Charger.
I really liked the fact
that it had eight lug wheels on it,
and now we can't put new radial
tires on these old wheels,
'cause these old wheels need tubes.
Why can't you run a tube with a radial?
- You can, they just don't recommend it.
- Tubes reduce the
flexibility of tubeless tires.
This could shorten the life of
the tire rather dramatically
if you run it anywhere
near it's maximum load
or speed rating.
Oh we don't have to worry about that.
This car got death wobbles
at 70 miles an hour.
I think we're fine,
I think we can make it to
Indiana on tubes in our radials.
Please don't ever do this at home,
I don't know why, but
I'm told it's a bad idea.
- So these guys have a lift,
you can really see what's going on.
We are going to put in a
pinion snubber more or less.
We're going to mount it right to this
reinforced floor panel right here,
and hopefully it smashes in
the snout of this rear end,
and stops the yoke from
smashing into the floor.
- It's version 2.0 of
our suspension system.
- We're just evolving our
design, it's no big deal.
- So I'm happy that we have tires now.
I'm happy that the drive shaft's
no longer hitting the floor.
- Yeah, the dudes at Sexton's are awesome.
- You need illegal tubes
put in your radial tires?
You know where to go.
- Allegedly, allegedly.
(both laughing)
- All right do it, do it.
- I just did it.
Ha, suck it, Bo Duke!
(car engine firing up)
(engine revving)
(tires squealing)
(laughing)
- All right!
(car engine revving)
- Oh, it drives better.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Tires are good.
- You just did a burnout.
- Yeah.
- That was pretty dope.
- And the rear end didn't break yet.
- [Tony] How 'about that?
- Woo hoo!
- [Tony] All right.
- [Finn] Only 450 more miles to go!
- [Tony] That ain't bad.
- We got to find Joe Berry, and have fun.
- Yeah.
- Dude it's Friday night
and we're cruising in this.
Woo! (laughing)
(soft rock music)
- It was my turn behind the wheel,
I'm like getting the feel for it,
and it's kind of swervy
and it's kind of darty,
but I got it dialed in.
Really feeling like a
sense of accomplishment,
and all of a sudden,
the front of the corner
of the car just fell,
and I could feel, I knew
a tire was goin' away,
and it started pulling it
really hard to the left.
That whole corner of the car
starts draggin' on the ground,
but right now we're out of options.
This thing's going to hit a flatbed.
We'll find somewhere to crash,
and we will figure it out in the morning.
(drill buzzing)
- So earlier we told you that
these, for bias ply tires,
do not mix with those radial tires at all.
But we were going to do
it anyway, and we did,
and then we blew a tire.
So now...
- And it was scary.
- It was a little scary, it was.
And we also told you that these wheels
don't have a bead around the inside of 'em
to kind of hold the radial tires on there
so that you can even mount them.
And as it turns out,
with enough air pressure,
you can mount radial
tires on these wheels,
without these in there.
So we're going to do that.
And all though this is not
the right way to do things,
this is Roadkill and, well we're
going to go find Joe Berry.
In our car, not on a trailer.
Or we're goin' tubin'.
- Yeah, that sounds dope 'cause it's hot.
- Find a river, a 12 pack.
- Let's do this.
(country rock music)
- The guy's in a charger right behind us.
(engine revving)
- Come on do it!
(car engine growling)
- Are there Roadkill fans?
- [Tony] I guess there are now.
- [Finn] Wow, that's great!
We're doin' it, on the road again!
- [Tony] Finally, dude.
- It's better, it doesn't return.
It still wants to, if you're going left,
you're going to keep going left.
- Yeah you got to steer it.
- But it's less twitchy now.
(car engine growling)
I think we're already going
faster than we ever have, 73.
- I can smell oil when you're
hammering on it though.
- Yeah, those breathers
don't have baffles in them.
- Somethin'.
- And the valve cover leaks.
We're doin' good.
(upbeat rock music)
(car engine growling)
(engine revving faster)
(upbeat rock music)
- I feel like I've been
beaten like a rented mule.
- Yeah I feel like I got run
over by a dump truck, dude.
- Almost there.
- We're in Indy, we made it.
- We made it.
- We go here 2:45 in the morning.
We're here and it's
time to meet this dude.
- Yeah.
(car engine growling)
- Go to the right here.
- Oh hey.
That's the guy.
- [Tony] There he is.
- [Finn] Dude he's not sure.
Why is the seat like this?
- [Tony] 'Cause the seats were different.
(groaning)
How's it going, I'm Tony.
- I'm Joe.
- Nice to meet you.
- Morning.
- Morning.
- Hey Joe.
- How you doin'?
- I'm doin' great!
Doing better now.
When was the last time you saw this car?
- Real close to 50 years.
- [Both Guys] Wow.
- [Finn] Oh my goodness.
- [Tony] Didn't you just tell me
how you got your hands on this originally?
- Had a friend that had a friend.
He bought it brand new and wrecked it.
We put it all back together.
- Did you even get to go around
the block in it or anything?
- Oh yeah, we lived out in the country,
and I had it out, but--
- [Tony] Okay, just never on the track.
- [Joe] Never got it on the track.
- [Tony] Very cool, want
to see what we did to it?
- Yeah.
- We did a couple of upgrades.
- Said the engine, the engine wasn't in it
when you got it?
- No when I got it, the
four-speed was gone,
and the 383 was gone.
Tony and I, and a few of
our friends got together,
and in six days put a new 383 in it,
a new six speed trans.
- It runs good, we've
been driving this thing.
We've put 500 miles on
it last couple days.
- Never had it ready for NASCAR,
but we got an invitation.
I got a letter from NASCAR there.
- Ontario Motor Speedway.
- 500 miles on a two and a half mile oval.
- It's still there, December 7th, 1970.
- [Finn] So you were going to go try
to make that race you think?
- No.
- Oh no you weren't, okay.
- No, I didn't have money to finish that,
let alone drag that thing to California.
- This is so cool because now we know
what it did look like.
Like that door is green,
so I imagine you got a door
out of the junkyard there
to replace the old one
that was smashed up?
- [Joe] Yes, yeah.
- Do you want to ride in this thing?
- Nah.
- Come on, no?
Not even around the block?
- [Joe] No.
- Do you want to drive it?
- Nah, that is a death trap.
(Tony laughing)
- He is totally aware.
- That's pretty much what
they were like back then.
They were death traps, all of 'em.
- Yeah, is it hard to see
it after all these years?
- Ah, just a big broken
dream, at the time.
- [Tony] Yeah.
- Really enjoyed seeing it, it's neat.
- We enjoyed putting
it back together, man,
it was super fun.
This is my dream car, I always wanted one.
I never wanted a show car,
because I like to drive 'em.
The name on the door was
how we tracked you down.
Always put your name on your car.
Like your mom did on your
underwear when you were three.
(Joe laughing)
All right, we're going
to get out of your hair.
- All right.
- Thank you.
- Thank you!
- Thank you very much, it's
been an honor to meet you.
- Enjoyed it, enjoyed meeting you guys.
- We met the man, the myth, the legend,
the guy that built this Charger.
I mean, we saw old photos of the car,
letter from USAC saying
he could go race NASCAR with this car.
It's been an amazing time,
it's been an amazing journey.
- We're going to take this death trap out,
and we're going to hit this
local airport that we rented,
and see if it feel like a race car,
'cause we're going to finally
see some action in this thing.
- All right, thanks, Joe, see ya.
- Have a great one.
(country rock music)
- [Finn] That was awesome!
- [Tony] Hell yeah!
- [Finn] Oh my god.
- [Tony] We did it.
- I can't believe he
had a photo of the car,
and did you see how nice it was?
- It looked great!
I think he was a little emotional.
- He was, 'cause there was
a point in the conversation
where I was like, oh
God, what have I done?
(car engine revving)
(helicopter whirling)
- All right, so this
Charger's almost there.
We resurrected this thing,
we drove it across the country,
we found Joe Berry, the
original racer owner.
And it's never seen
any real action, right?
- Right.
- Well let's do it.
(car engine roaring)
(piston banging)
- Hello!
- Hey, that's pretty good!
- Yeah!
Woo!
(excited whooping)
- Oh yeah!
(metal scraping)
We're going real fast.
(car engine growling)
- [Finn] 71!
- Whoa!
(laughing)
(pistons banging)
(laughing)
- That was awesome!
- Woo!
- [Finn] It corners kind of good.
- It does corner kind of good!
- [Finn] Still alive though.
- That was fun and terrifying!
- Nice work.
(tires squealing)
(engine revving)
(laughing)
(tires squealing)
(engine revving)
- Whoa!
(laughing)
- Geez!
(laughing)
(coughing and laughing)
- I hear it knocking and I
think it's coming in, dude.
- Hopes and dreams are
holdin' that axle in this car.
- Woo!
All right, I think we're done.
(coughing)
This here engine's about
to tear through the floor.
- Oh, we're on fire, get out, get out.
- Fire.
- We're on fire, get out.
- [Man On Radio] Hey guys, it's on fire.
(sharp exhaling blows)
(coughing)
- Want me spit on it?
It's just oil, we'll be all right.
Wow, that's a lot of oil.
See look at that!
- It's out!
- Nice work, right here.
(high five slapping)
Oh, it's getting worse.
This is the end.
- [Tony] All right, yeah we're done.
- There's a fitting on the radiator
that we don't have a
replacement for that's--
- [Tony] It's got a cap on it,
those rubber caps never last, dude.
- Yeah, not through that.
- Oh my God, dude.
This car rules though.
It is very fun to drive around turns.
It will not stop, we almost
went on the highway there.
- Joe Berry's a genius.
Did you see how well it cornered?
- Yeah, pretty good.
- I mean the brakes are horrific, but...
Beer?
- Yeah, beers.
Beers, flights home.
- [Finn] So in the end,
a two dollar fitting
in the radiator burned us,
and we couldn't drive
around the track anymore.
But that's not the point.
The best thing about this,
is that we took one man's broken dream,
and were able together a dream of our own.
I've always wanted my own
version of the General Lee,
and now I've got it.
In a matter of days,
we brought this Charger back to life,
and put it back on the
road where it belongs.
This thing is rough, it's a mess,
and certainly has more kinks to work out,
but it's unbelievably fun to romp on,
and looks awesome while doing so.
And if that's not enough of a win,
you're probably doing it all wrong.
- [Announcer] Support companies
that support Roadkill.
- Lets go find Joe Berry.
- Drive your Charger.
- Wow, that's full lock, going
to take out the garbage can.
- [Tony] Might clear it.
- Nope. (laughs)
It's a big car.
(engine revving)
This time on Roadkill,
the ultimate barn find.
A Charger buried for 50 years!
- Hell yeah!
- [Finn] Woo-hoo!
(engine roars) (laughing)
(engine starting)
(tires squealing)
(hard rock music)
(car engine growls)
(upbeat rock music)
- See this rusty '68 Charger?
Dream car, I have always wanted one
ever since I watched the
Dukes of Hazzard as a kid.
This has been my dream,
except I didn't want a nice
charger, I wanted junk.
Junk that I could slide around dirt roads,
junk that I could go off-roading with,
and as it turns out, I found the junk--
- You found a junk one, you sure did.
- On Ebay, of all places, late at night.
I may have been under the influence
of some frosty cold beverages
when I bought this thing,
thinking it was a dirt track car.
But then I found out a man named Joe Berry
built this car to go to racing in '68,
and never finished the job.
- I love that part of the story
because of the way the rules were set up,
he could do it by building
something in his back yard,
and he built it and he
never got it to the race.
So this car has just unfulfilled promise,
and if we're trying to get
this car back on the road,
and we're going to drive
it back up to Indy.
- We're going to go find Mister Joe Berry,
who's never driven the car.
When I picked up the car,
it was missing its original
383 and four-speed trans.
I had a new 383 engine and six-speed trans
that I've been wanting to
put in the right Charger,
and this was a perfect match.
- [Tony] I came in a few days ago,
we've has a bunch of help from other guys,
and we've already got an
engine and trans in this thing,
we've got the brakes figured out.
It's been a long haul but
there's tons left to do.
- Here's an indication of how
long I've wanted a Charger.
I had this engine two years
before I ever found this car.
So yeah, we're going to get
this thing running and driving,
put a plate on it, and head to Indy
and find Mister Joe Berry.
So, lots left to do, let's go to work.
(tools hammering and drilling)
(saw humming)
- All right, so we dug in
this car and it's crazy.
No one ever built them
like this I don't think.
The bars and stuff that he used
to make this car are way too thick.
It's all super industrial,
like 250 wall tubing.
This car must weigh an
extra thousand pounds,
but I'll show you, he's
got a perimeter frame,
basically like a roll cage,
that goes all the way
around the entire car.
It's got Ford F250 brakes,
and he went in and somebody weld in
the F250 spindle on this thing.
So it does have giant bearings and stuff,
12 inch brakes, it should work.
He got C-body bars from
like a Fury or something,
make a Fury cop car.
Welded it behind the B-body mount,
and sort of made it all work.
He's got a Willys rear end in this thing.
- [Finn] Yeah it's like a '48 to '53
ten kinder end out of a Willy truck.
- Out of a Willys truck.
It actually came with some super cool
NASCAR 8 lug racing wheels
that I don't think you
could ever find again.
They're going to go on this car
and it's going to look awesome,
and we're going to make this
thing finally see some action.
If you cut out the
inner fender of a Mopar,
that's where all the structure
and all the strength of this whole,
holding the front end up is,
so I'm going to replace it.
I'm going to come in with
a tube welded in here,
come across and tie it
in to the roll cage,
and that will support the whole front end,
and then I can mount the shocks on it.
- There's absolutely no wiring in the car,
so from tail lights to headlights,
ignition system, all that stuff,
we've got to run wires throughout the car,
got to mount the ignition blocks.
Some of these things can't happen
until we know where they need to go.
Like, until the seat's
in, you really don't know
where you want the switches to go,
because once you're all buckled in
you got to be able to reach that stuff.
We're making educated guesses
and making as much progress as we can.
(funky rock music)
- This side is a little more complicated,
there's a clutch master down there.
There's the brake master up here,
I want to make sure that we can still
get the reservoir cap off then
fill that thing up easily.
- So here's our dilemma, right?
We hacked up the bottom of the car
to put in our T56 trans,
and we used a Silver Sport
transmissions kit to install it.
Part of the kit is this nifty crossmember
that should go right there
if your Charger is stock.
Ours is not.
Joe Berry took C-body torsion bars
which come from a longer car, right?
Making all this much
bigger than it used to be,
and because of that,
our Silver Sport transmissions crossmember
will not fit in here at all.
We're going to build a new one.
We got to clear the exhaust,
we got to stiffen the floor back up,
we've got to make all this
better than it currently is.
- I've gotten the new
shock support bars in,
and I've got all the plates made.
Going to put this thing on the ground
so that it's level and
under its own weight
before I weld those in.
But one thing we've been short on
are these adjuster springs.
We've gotten like 10
different sets ordered,
and none of them are exactly right.
I'm just sort of modifying the ends on it.
They're not perfect, but I'm
going to make these springs work.
- Here's something for you guys at home.
If you don't have a tube bender,
don't let that stop you from making
a tubular transmission mount.
This is just some two by four rectangulars
you would make a frame rail out of.
Slash cut two holes drilled through it,
bolted to the isolator for the trans.
(metal clanging)
Okay, it's done.
Look at that, we're Star Trek.
(imitating engine revving)
To the transmission!
To the transmission and beyond!
- So had this drive shaft
made by a local dude,
and hopefully it's the right length.
Oh yeah, I think we're in business here.
That's awesome, one less
thing to worry about.
(drilling)
- Now let it down.
Done!
(groaning)
Oh man, it's a good day.
We got a lot of stuff built,
we have radiator hoses now,
we have a trans mount,
we have a drive shaft,
we got a whole bunch of parts in boxes
we haven't even opened yet.
And it looks like Tony's
going to finish the brakes.
(humming)
(drilling)
The front drums fit fine,
and I couldn't get the back ones on,
and then thought about it
to myself, you know what?
The fronts seemed loose and
the backs were super tight,
so I swapped them, now they went right on.
I just put the wheels
on for the last time,
Finn's got the exhaust up
and we can put this thing on the ground.
- [Finn] Comin' down.
- [Tony] Oh my God this car
is so low to the ground.
- Super low.
That is bad ass, dude it's
a good stance, it's great.
- It looks great.
- Either the front frame
rails are bent down,
(Tony laughs) or it has great rake.
- Look at that.
It's perfect.
- Oh my God, this just got real.
Now I can taste it.
- [Tony] Yeah.
- Dude, this is bad ass, man.
- [Tony] It looks pretty square.
- We're not making it on these tires.
Look how much camber's in it.
- [Tony] On that one not this one,
this one's straight up and down.
Evil.
It's probably going to drive great,
'cause it looks awesome.
(upbeat rock music)
(welder hissing)
- Right about now I'm ripping
out the old fuel cell,
and installing a new one
which is actually smaller.
So none of the old mounting points work.
Our fuel cell isn't flat
on the bottom like his was,
it's got a stump like
a drag race style deal.
It's got a rear stump to
angle the fuel backwards
in to the pick up area.
But the problem with that
is it hit the angle iron.
So I cut the angle iron in half,
then I made this piece which is notched.
I'll butt that up against
the two pieces of angle iron,
weld it all the way around.
That'll give room for the stump
and the fittings to come through.
Oh look at that!
- [Tony] Boom!
- [Finn] Fits!
It's starting to look like a race car.
- [Tony] It's gettin' there.
So both bars, I'm just
burning them in for good,
and then that'll be it
except for just adding
the shock mounts.
- The bars really made it,
really spruce the place up.
- What do we got left?
- Let's go over the list.
What can we cross off?
- Obviously the motor is in,
the trans connected to the
rear with the drive shaft,
there's a bunch more wiring to do.
- [Finn] Let's make it run.
- Wire it up, we'll make it run,
and then the next big
hurdle will be stuff like...
- Driving.
- Yeah, I like driving.
It's like my favorite.
- Driving's good, you're
pretty good at it.
- Thanks, buddy.
You're my Bo or Luke?
- You're dark haired
so that makes you Luke.
And Luke never drove.
- [Tony] Luke doesn't drive.
- Luke never drove. (Tony laughs)
(tools hammering and whirring)
- We are nearing the end.
Right now Tony's inside
the car wiring up the dash,
I am buttoning up a couple of things
under the hood right now
including, remarkably,
a puke tank for our cooling system.
Moving on.
(upbeat rock guitar)
- We went to the part
store got some truck shocks
that are like 22 inches fully extended,
something like that.
It's perfect length,
and I'm going to weld them in,
and then this thing is
totally done, suspension-wise.
Fire in the hole.
(welder hissing)
(upbeat rock music)
- Let's go out with it.
This is it, after 50 years,
this car is finally going to run.
We have a brand new engine,
brand new transmission.
Used tires, I don't even
know how old those are,
and that is not going to
stop us from pretending
that we are Bo and Luke
Duke goin' NASCAR racin'.
- That's right.
Boshears, want to break
in that new camshaft?
- [Finn] All right, here we go,
(engine cranking)
- Timing close, or what?
- It's not even burblin'.
- Give it a shot?
(engine cranking)
(engine growling)
- [Finn] How many marks on that thing?
The actual marks?
- One mark, and then the tabs touch.
- Well how far does the tab go?
- 10 degrees.
- We can get it close.
- Yeah.
- It's so cool!
Can you believe it?
That thing has not made noise in 50 years.
Right now the guys are
eyeballing the engine,
checking cylinder head
temperatures for every port.
- It's stable now, I
don't want that camshaft
to go flat, even though it seems like
the cylinders aren't
running exactly the same,
they're different temperatures.
Once we turn it off,
play with the carburetor,
make sure the timing's dialed,
and hopefully we can actually
put some load on this thing,
finally drive this car.
- Motor sounds insane, still though,
breaking in a flat tappet
cam always scares me,
so I'm going to pull the
oil filter out of the car,
cut it open, look inside
the pleats, look for metal.
So I like to use a metal pan like this,
'cause it's light colored
and if you see anything
in there it'll be obvious.
(metal clanking)
Boshears builds a good engine.
There are no metal flakes in this filter.
If that camshaft was going away,
we'd see nothing but glitter in here.
- I feel pretty good about it.
(slapping high five)
Oh wait, check this out, (mumbling).
Look at that, look at those lights.
Have you seen this thing li up?
- No I've never seen
these tail lights lit up.
Dude, those are great!
That is evil.
- [Tony] It looks awesome.
It looks like a shark, it's
so big and low, it's awesome.
All right dudes, that's it for tonight.
Going to leave in the morning.
(tools buzzing)
I'm going to officially
make this a race car
by puttin' stickers on
it 'cause everybody knows
that's what makes race cars fast.
- This is from Pro Car.
Classic set of reclining vinyl seats.
Safety first.
- It the belt, let's put the belt in.
- We are one seat away
from backing the Charger
out of the garage,
and hitting the road.
Once this mirror's on we can leave.
- I'm so ready.
It looks good.
- We are off to Indiana.
(car engine firing up)
When's the last time
this car ever did this?
Dude the breaks aren't that bad.
- No way.
- Really not.
(engine revving)
Come on baby.
- What is that?
- Drive shaft hitting the floor?
- Yeah, maybe.
(car engine growling)
- [Tony] How's temp and everything?
- Temp's good, oil's good.
Something turning loose.
Pulls to the left,
really wants to go left.
- [Tony] I bet it does.
- I'm going to get on it a little bit,
see if something hits the floor.
- Okay.
(engine revving and clunking)
Yeah.
- All right we need to
go back to the house.
Well that was success.
This car ran and drove all
the way around my block,
and made two or three horrific noises
that prompted us to come
back to the garage here.
Felt like the drive shaft
was hitting something under the car.
Then it sounded like
something was falling off
the front of the car.
But overall, not bad.
I think I know what part
of the problem might be.
When the pinion wraps,
I think it's pushing the drive shaft
into the floor of the car.
- Yeah, I was going to say
as soon as you hit the gas,
it gets pretty rocked.
- That's what it is, I can
see a mark on the drive shaft,
it looks like the floor has been smacked.
What we're going to do is I'm
going to jack the rear end up,
and take some of the load off
of the bolts going through
the Lee Spring hangers.
Tony's going to knock the bolts out
and move the bolt and the
eyelet of the Lee Spring
down one hole into the hanger,
which is going to increase
the distance between
the frame rail and the
axle, lifting the car up.
(hydraulics squealing)
- Coming down.
- It raised it up a little.
- Oh yeah.
- I'm not even going to look, it's fixed.
- Yeah for sure.
(car engine growling)
- Now, much better.
This may be the fastest
this car has ever gone.
(car engine revving)
I love the quarter
panels on this car, dude.
- Oh this car is sexy as hell.
- [Finn] Man, so far so good!
- [Tony] Yeah, well we did
it, we're driving a Charger.
- We are.
Oh hell.
- What's going on here?
- Tires maybe?
Bent wheel?
- The rear end is hopping up and down.
- [Finn] Rear end is loud.
- Yeah this rear end sucks.
Might be a Steve thing.
- [Finn] We're going 59.
- I torqued the wheels,
I never touched the
rear end. (loud popping)
- [Finn] That's the pinion.
- [Tony] Still?
- Yeah.
It hit a bump and went up and hit it.
- If we hit the gas,
it'll blow right over.
(loud popping)
- Yeah, that's the ear of the yoke.
- Yep.
How the brakes doing?
- Oh, they pull to the
right, and to the left.
And they stink.
- [Tony] They stink.
- It's backwards day.
We are not overheating,
we have oil pressure,
the thing seems to drive okay,
and yet here we are next
to an auto parts store
because although we lifted
the car a little bit,
not nearly enough.
Every time we hit a bump,
the pinion of the rear end
and that yoke right there,
U-Joint, are smacking
the bottom of the car.
What we are going to do,
is make the problem
slightly more comfortable.
These are rubber brakes.
These go on the pedals so
your feet don't slip off,
but I figure if you stack
enough of these together,
and tape them to the
pinion of the rear end,
every time it rotates
up and hits the floor,
it won't be that big of a deal.
And if that doesn't work
then maybe we'll attempt
at actually fixing the real problem.
Well all right.
I'm sure that repair is
going to last at least
four or five miles.
(pinion clunking)
That's better.
(car engine revving)
So we're mobbing doin'
like 70 miles an hour,
and all of a sudden we hit a bump.
Our brand new isolator
falls out the rear end,
suddenly the rear end's
hitting the sheet metal again,
that kind of sucks, we can deal with that.
But then it starts pouring rain.
And oddly enough, these 40 or 50 year old
Hoosier dirt track tires don't
work too well in the rain.
So called my buddy Boshears,
say, "Who do you know in Calhoun?"
He says, "Go see the boys
at Sexton Automotive,
they have a tire machine."
So we're going to put on
a set of BFG Radial TAs,
like big fat 295 ones.
and hopefully we'll be
back on the road shortly.
- So you should have a bead,
so the tire almost fall back off of the--
- Right, that's just smooth.
- It's just smooth, there's nothin' there
for the tire to catch on.
- Wow, so that's why
these had tubes in 'em.
Let's recap what happened here.
I bought a car 'cause I fell
in love with the wheels.
I mean yeah, it's a Charger,
but this is a crappy Charger.
I really liked the fact
that it had eight lug wheels on it,
and now we can't put new radial
tires on these old wheels,
'cause these old wheels need tubes.
Why can't you run a tube with a radial?
- You can, they just don't recommend it.
- Tubes reduce the
flexibility of tubeless tires.
This could shorten the life of
the tire rather dramatically
if you run it anywhere
near it's maximum load
or speed rating.
Oh we don't have to worry about that.
This car got death wobbles
at 70 miles an hour.
I think we're fine,
I think we can make it to
Indiana on tubes in our radials.
Please don't ever do this at home,
I don't know why, but
I'm told it's a bad idea.
- So these guys have a lift,
you can really see what's going on.
We are going to put in a
pinion snubber more or less.
We're going to mount it right to this
reinforced floor panel right here,
and hopefully it smashes in
the snout of this rear end,
and stops the yoke from
smashing into the floor.
- It's version 2.0 of
our suspension system.
- We're just evolving our
design, it's no big deal.
- So I'm happy that we have tires now.
I'm happy that the drive shaft's
no longer hitting the floor.
- Yeah, the dudes at Sexton's are awesome.
- You need illegal tubes
put in your radial tires?
You know where to go.
- Allegedly, allegedly.
(both laughing)
- All right do it, do it.
- I just did it.
Ha, suck it, Bo Duke!
(car engine firing up)
(engine revving)
(tires squealing)
(laughing)
- All right!
(car engine revving)
- Oh, it drives better.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Tires are good.
- You just did a burnout.
- Yeah.
- That was pretty dope.
- And the rear end didn't break yet.
- [Tony] How 'about that?
- Woo hoo!
- [Tony] All right.
- [Finn] Only 450 more miles to go!
- [Tony] That ain't bad.
- We got to find Joe Berry, and have fun.
- Yeah.
- Dude it's Friday night
and we're cruising in this.
Woo! (laughing)
(soft rock music)
- It was my turn behind the wheel,
I'm like getting the feel for it,
and it's kind of swervy
and it's kind of darty,
but I got it dialed in.
Really feeling like a
sense of accomplishment,
and all of a sudden,
the front of the corner
of the car just fell,
and I could feel, I knew
a tire was goin' away,
and it started pulling it
really hard to the left.
That whole corner of the car
starts draggin' on the ground,
but right now we're out of options.
This thing's going to hit a flatbed.
We'll find somewhere to crash,
and we will figure it out in the morning.
(drill buzzing)
- So earlier we told you that
these, for bias ply tires,
do not mix with those radial tires at all.
But we were going to do
it anyway, and we did,
and then we blew a tire.
So now...
- And it was scary.
- It was a little scary, it was.
And we also told you that these wheels
don't have a bead around the inside of 'em
to kind of hold the radial tires on there
so that you can even mount them.
And as it turns out,
with enough air pressure,
you can mount radial
tires on these wheels,
without these in there.
So we're going to do that.
And all though this is not
the right way to do things,
this is Roadkill and, well we're
going to go find Joe Berry.
In our car, not on a trailer.
Or we're goin' tubin'.
- Yeah, that sounds dope 'cause it's hot.
- Find a river, a 12 pack.
- Let's do this.
(country rock music)
- The guy's in a charger right behind us.
(engine revving)
- Come on do it!
(car engine growling)
- Are there Roadkill fans?
- [Tony] I guess there are now.
- [Finn] Wow, that's great!
We're doin' it, on the road again!
- [Tony] Finally, dude.
- It's better, it doesn't return.
It still wants to, if you're going left,
you're going to keep going left.
- Yeah you got to steer it.
- But it's less twitchy now.
(car engine growling)
I think we're already going
faster than we ever have, 73.
- I can smell oil when you're
hammering on it though.
- Yeah, those breathers
don't have baffles in them.
- Somethin'.
- And the valve cover leaks.
We're doin' good.
(upbeat rock music)
(car engine growling)
(engine revving faster)
(upbeat rock music)
- I feel like I've been
beaten like a rented mule.
- Yeah I feel like I got run
over by a dump truck, dude.
- Almost there.
- We're in Indy, we made it.
- We made it.
- We go here 2:45 in the morning.
We're here and it's
time to meet this dude.
- Yeah.
(car engine growling)
- Go to the right here.
- Oh hey.
That's the guy.
- [Tony] There he is.
- [Finn] Dude he's not sure.
Why is the seat like this?
- [Tony] 'Cause the seats were different.
(groaning)
How's it going, I'm Tony.
- I'm Joe.
- Nice to meet you.
- Morning.
- Morning.
- Hey Joe.
- How you doin'?
- I'm doin' great!
Doing better now.
When was the last time you saw this car?
- Real close to 50 years.
- [Both Guys] Wow.
- [Finn] Oh my goodness.
- [Tony] Didn't you just tell me
how you got your hands on this originally?
- Had a friend that had a friend.
He bought it brand new and wrecked it.
We put it all back together.
- Did you even get to go around
the block in it or anything?
- Oh yeah, we lived out in the country,
and I had it out, but--
- [Tony] Okay, just never on the track.
- [Joe] Never got it on the track.
- [Tony] Very cool, want
to see what we did to it?
- Yeah.
- We did a couple of upgrades.
- Said the engine, the engine wasn't in it
when you got it?
- No when I got it, the
four-speed was gone,
and the 383 was gone.
Tony and I, and a few of
our friends got together,
and in six days put a new 383 in it,
a new six speed trans.
- It runs good, we've
been driving this thing.
We've put 500 miles on
it last couple days.
- Never had it ready for NASCAR,
but we got an invitation.
I got a letter from NASCAR there.
- Ontario Motor Speedway.
- 500 miles on a two and a half mile oval.
- It's still there, December 7th, 1970.
- [Finn] So you were going to go try
to make that race you think?
- No.
- Oh no you weren't, okay.
- No, I didn't have money to finish that,
let alone drag that thing to California.
- This is so cool because now we know
what it did look like.
Like that door is green,
so I imagine you got a door
out of the junkyard there
to replace the old one
that was smashed up?
- [Joe] Yes, yeah.
- Do you want to ride in this thing?
- Nah.
- Come on, no?
Not even around the block?
- [Joe] No.
- Do you want to drive it?
- Nah, that is a death trap.
(Tony laughing)
- He is totally aware.
- That's pretty much what
they were like back then.
They were death traps, all of 'em.
- Yeah, is it hard to see
it after all these years?
- Ah, just a big broken
dream, at the time.
- [Tony] Yeah.
- Really enjoyed seeing it, it's neat.
- We enjoyed putting
it back together, man,
it was super fun.
This is my dream car, I always wanted one.
I never wanted a show car,
because I like to drive 'em.
The name on the door was
how we tracked you down.
Always put your name on your car.
Like your mom did on your
underwear when you were three.
(Joe laughing)
All right, we're going
to get out of your hair.
- All right.
- Thank you.
- Thank you!
- Thank you very much, it's
been an honor to meet you.
- Enjoyed it, enjoyed meeting you guys.
- We met the man, the myth, the legend,
the guy that built this Charger.
I mean, we saw old photos of the car,
letter from USAC saying
he could go race NASCAR with this car.
It's been an amazing time,
it's been an amazing journey.
- We're going to take this death trap out,
and we're going to hit this
local airport that we rented,
and see if it feel like a race car,
'cause we're going to finally
see some action in this thing.
- All right, thanks, Joe, see ya.
- Have a great one.
(country rock music)
- [Finn] That was awesome!
- [Tony] Hell yeah!
- [Finn] Oh my god.
- [Tony] We did it.
- I can't believe he
had a photo of the car,
and did you see how nice it was?
- It looked great!
I think he was a little emotional.
- He was, 'cause there was
a point in the conversation
where I was like, oh
God, what have I done?
(car engine revving)
(helicopter whirling)
- All right, so this
Charger's almost there.
We resurrected this thing,
we drove it across the country,
we found Joe Berry, the
original racer owner.
And it's never seen
any real action, right?
- Right.
- Well let's do it.
(car engine roaring)
(piston banging)
- Hello!
- Hey, that's pretty good!
- Yeah!
Woo!
(excited whooping)
- Oh yeah!
(metal scraping)
We're going real fast.
(car engine growling)
- [Finn] 71!
- Whoa!
(laughing)
(pistons banging)
(laughing)
- That was awesome!
- Woo!
- [Finn] It corners kind of good.
- It does corner kind of good!
- [Finn] Still alive though.
- That was fun and terrifying!
- Nice work.
(tires squealing)
(engine revving)
(laughing)
(tires squealing)
(engine revving)
- Whoa!
(laughing)
- Geez!
(laughing)
(coughing and laughing)
- I hear it knocking and I
think it's coming in, dude.
- Hopes and dreams are
holdin' that axle in this car.
- Woo!
All right, I think we're done.
(coughing)
This here engine's about
to tear through the floor.
- Oh, we're on fire, get out, get out.
- Fire.
- We're on fire, get out.
- [Man On Radio] Hey guys, it's on fire.
(sharp exhaling blows)
(coughing)
- Want me spit on it?
It's just oil, we'll be all right.
Wow, that's a lot of oil.
See look at that!
- It's out!
- Nice work, right here.
(high five slapping)
Oh, it's getting worse.
This is the end.
- [Tony] All right, yeah we're done.
- There's a fitting on the radiator
that we don't have a
replacement for that's--
- [Tony] It's got a cap on it,
those rubber caps never last, dude.
- Yeah, not through that.
- Oh my God, dude.
This car rules though.
It is very fun to drive around turns.
It will not stop, we almost
went on the highway there.
- Joe Berry's a genius.
Did you see how well it cornered?
- Yeah, pretty good.
- I mean the brakes are horrific, but...
Beer?
- Yeah, beers.
Beers, flights home.
- [Finn] So in the end,
a two dollar fitting
in the radiator burned us,
and we couldn't drive
around the track anymore.
But that's not the point.
The best thing about this,
is that we took one man's broken dream,
and were able together a dream of our own.
I've always wanted my own
version of the General Lee,
and now I've got it.
In a matter of days,
we brought this Charger back to life,
and put it back on the
road where it belongs.
This thing is rough, it's a mess,
and certainly has more kinks to work out,
but it's unbelievably fun to romp on,
and looks awesome while doing so.
And if that's not enough of a win,
you're probably doing it all wrong.
- [Announcer] Support companies
that support Roadkill.
- Lets go find Joe Berry.
- Drive your Charger.
- Wow, that's full lock, going
to take out the garbage can.
- [Tony] Might clear it.
- Nope. (laughs)
It's a big car.