Roadkill (2012–2020): Season 4, Episode 2 - Winter Wagon Adventure: 1,000 Miles with a Few Missing Windows in a 1969 Buick - full transcript

- This time on Roadkill,
homeless Dave and I

drive all the way to Kansas in February.

In a wagon.

- With no windows and no heater!

- But a lot of style.

(laughs)

(car speeding past)

(car ignition starting
and tires screeching)

(heavy rock music)

(jazz music)

- [Dave] So I bought this
thing at Pomona for 800 bucks.



- [Mike] Really?

- [Dave] And I figured I was
going to flip it same day--

- [Mike] Right.

- [Dave] How do you think that ended?

- [Mike] (Laughs) You buy
high and sell low so--

- [Dave] Well--

- [Mike] You still have it though.

- Ultimately I put it on our Facebook page

and I found this kid in
Wichita who wants it really bad

and so we have to drive it to Wichita.

- This?
- Yep.

- In February? We've been to Alaska--

- I didn't consider that
is it going to snow on us?

- It's going to snow.
- I don't know.



- She's ready for a derby.

- (laughs)

- Holy crap dude, where's the doors?

- So the guy I bought
this from has another one

and he bought this car and hacked it up

just because he wanted the
window regulators out of it.

- That was the only way
to get the regulators out?

- Yeah, the skins are
back here in the back.

So it's got no glass, no
door skins, no rear glass

so we can breathe fumes.

- (Blows raspberries)

- Oh it's bad.

There's a guy who's here, I
don't even know where he lives.

He's like a half an hour away.

He has a Buick junk yard in his backyard

so on the way out I want to
pick up some other doors for it,

we'll probably keep these
in case the kid wants these

but who knows, maybe we'll paint the car

half way there or something.

- I was going to say those other doors

better be the right color.

- No they're not, they're
like blue so I think--

- Because I remember the cuda episode,

you couldn't stand to live with yourself

when you had blue doors on the white car--

- [Dave] I couldn't.

Oh it's going to look bad I know.

- [Mike] The red brake
drums are a nice touch,

did you paint those yourself?--

- I can not be charged with that crime.

400 4-barrel.

- Is it fast?
- No.

- This is solid, I think other than

we're going to freeze our nuts off

this looks like this will get there.

- The wagon's really good,

I regret that the guy hacked it up.

He thought it was a worthless car,

he's like 'Man this thing's garbage',

he was almost ready to give it to me

then I offered him 500 bucks

and he said no so he took eight.

- That's half price, it says
$1750 on the windshield.

- Oh that was me trying to flip it.

I assumed if I put $1750 it's Pomona

so somebody would give me $1200 for it.

I was wrong.

- Okay but, this cannot be
the second wagon episode

where we buy it, it doesn't
break and we don't make it fast.

- [Dave] I hadn't
actually considered that,

that was a flop last time wasn't it?

- [Mike] Yeah (laughs).

And this may not break either.

This actually looks pretty nice.

- Now I'm thinking we hose it down

with every sponsor part
we can lay our hands on.

Let's nitrous fuel injection, paint it,

lower it, you know, whatever.

- Okay.

Starting with anti-freeze
'cause it's begging for it--

- Yeah fill that up.

- [Mike] You need this
before you start it.

- (laughs) I'm prepared.

(car ignition starts)

- Doesn't have a lifter tick.

(engine rumbles loudly)

Home free.

Oh look!

Oh we're going to be fine.

We got the gallon bottle.

- Why did you need that much?
- [Dave] (laughs)

(car hood slams loudly)

Ahh this is going to end
well I can tell already.

- [Mike] Perfect (laughs).

Ah made it around the block,

I see no reason why we can't
go cross country in this.

- We've done it before, we'll do it again.

- That's right.

- We might need the
roof rack 'cause we can,

when the car overheats,
install the roof rack

and then mount the hood to the roof rack.

- This car's big enough, you
could put the hood inside.

- Yeah.

- We shouldn't clean
the windshield because--

- Really?

- It has a price on it,
somebody might buy this from us.

- I can avoid that part.

After I bought this car
at the Pomona swap meet

and failed to sell it that day,

we decided to get rid of it

and I put it on our Facebook page

and said that it was for sale.

We got a bunch of response from fans

but there was one guy who really stood out

as dying to have this car
and he didn't have the cash

but he said 'You know what?

I'll trade you for my Z24 Cavalier.'

And who can pass that up?

- [Mike] We started putting
two and two together

and realized we didn't need a Z24,

no one really does so we decided
to just give him the Buick.

- [Dave] We're at Hector's place.

That's all you need to know.

Car Hec's is what he calls his business

which is basically a backyard junk yard.

All he does is part out GM stuff

and I got hooked up with
him through Facebook

'cause he saw the wagon, he's like

'Man I can get you the parts you need'.

- Ready to sell some
parts, drink some beer?

You guys want a beer?

- [Dave] That happens.
- Alright.

- The joys of Craig's list.

David buys a car, it
really doesn't have doors

and even though it looks like it has doors

and Hector here apparently
has a yard back there

full of parts that will fit this car

and these are all his buddies.

And ah, they're very smart men

because they lured us here
with Buick parts and cold beer.

- Well let's go look at your stash

we could probably go shopping right?

- [Hector] Yeah, come on.

Here we have the door section.

- You know what?

That's the color this car used to be.

- Really?
- Those are nice.

- I think the insides of
it, it's like verduro green

or something like that.

And these have door panels too?

- No I--
- What?!

- Dude it is slowing you down.

- What are you trying
to give me here man?!

- [Hector] We had 'em but
you guys called me too late--

- [Mike] I know.
- [Hector] You know--

- [Mike] I'm just happy they have windows.

Who cares about the door panels.

- [Hector] Oh and the windows work.

- So what's our plan
here, what are we doing?

- Well we got your doors, we
got, what other parts are you--

- We should put the doors on.

- You, you want to put the doors on?

- We should paint the car.

- We have to look at time.
- Oh yeah.

- We do have to make it
to Kansas in four days.

- But you can't go there looking fugly.

- I know, I'm kind of--

- I got a shower dude.

- (laughs)
- Can we ah--

What makes you think I need that? Ever?

- Wash the dirt off your feet.

- I say let's bolt some doors on--

- Let's put the doors on--
- then figure it out.

Can we pull our junk in the back yard?

- [Hector] Yeah.
- Okay.

(fast banjo music)

We're working on the wagon
trying to put new doors on it

because the old ones were
completely hacked out

by the guy who owned this thing before.

The wagon is a '69

and we assumed that
either '68 or '69 Buick

four-door doors were going to
fit and that's what he's got

but he doesn't have four-door wagon doors

and so the window frame on the back doors

doesn't match the shape of the wagon.

So we're somewhat screwed here

tryin'a figure out how to overcome.

- [Hector] Dude, that's not going to work!

- [Mike] That's backwards

- [Dave] Why not? Oh it's a different ah--

- [Everyone] Oh (laughs)

- Fail! These are off a four-door.

- If it matches up right here,
just take the top part off.

- But then the window won't work.

- Well we'll cut the glass.
- (Laughs)

- [Man] No you can't cut glass.

- You can't cut that.
That's not going to work.

Our wagon is a '69 Buick Special

and I thought that the doors would work

off a Buick four-door sedan,

that turned out not to be true.

The doors in the rear
have a different shape

on the window opening and a
different shape in the door jam.

So we weren't going to be
able to use those doors,

we could use the fronts though

and 50 per cent, that's
a Roadkill average.

While we were working on the doors,

Hector's guys decided
that we needed a new seat.

They pulled our old one out of the car

and they came up with this new plush unit

complete with fold down arm rest.

In theory, this was going
to be the lap of luxury.

(Upbeat rock music)

Last night when we left Hector's

we loaded the car up on a trailer

and had a guy cannonball
it here to Phoenix for us

because we've got five
days to make it to Wichita

and we wanted to be able to
do some hop-ups on the car

and also drive everyday.

I was kind of bummed about the doors

and so what we're going to
do is paint the whole car,

we're going to put nitrous on it

because it does not do burn-outs right now

and to do the nitrous, we're
also going to upgrade the EFI

and put an ignition system on it

and anything else that comes
our way along the road.

My goal is to give this guy way
more than his money's worth.

- We wanted to paint the car,

but we only managed to
find two cans of blue paint

that we liked here at this Pet Boys

so now our plan is, every
day stop at a Pet Boys,

try and get even more of the same color

and keep transforming the car.

So I think we'll start at the front

and by the end of the trip,

maybe the whole car will be one color

and that kid won't be disappointed.

- This seat blows.

- I promise the cover would'a helped it.

- That was a downgrade. Hector!

- (laughs)
- Your free seat sucks!

- Hector boned us.

- Yeah--

- Right now Hector's at home going

check out the couch I got.

- Yeah. No I think he's going,

check it out I needed to
sell a guy one of these seats

for about 300 bucks and I didn't have one.

So I gave these chumps
the fold-down arm rest

leaning forward dog piece seat
that doesn't mold in right.

We know how Hector rolls.

- Somehow I'm okay with it.

This side is actually not bad.

I think it's 'cause there's
no steering wheel in my lap.

- Yeah, this side's tilting forward,

too close to the wheel,

no lumbar and smells like dog pee.

Once we rolled out of
Phoenix we could only handle

so much asphalt before we got bored

but in Flagstaff we found
this cool little road

and we couldn't help but check it out.

- Ready for this?

- You're planning on blowing up

the transmission right now aren't you

- (laughs)

I think neutral drops the
only way we get enough speed.

- Why did I mistakenly give you the wheel?

Let's go.

(car rumbling)

- [Dave] Come on girl.

- [Mike] Oh this is rough.

- Ah this is not bad.

- This is very rough.

- Oh dude, this is cush.

- Wow she's floating over this.

- [Dave] No problem at all.

Check the articulation.

- [Mike] Like a butterfly.

- Ooh, oh!

- That might hurt you okay.

(laughs)

(car rumbling over road)

Once again, off-road muscle cars.

- [Dave] Wow. Can not be beat.

- Greatest things ever.

- Ooh oh! A oh hoah!

That one hurt.

- [Mike] I didn't see that one coming!

- [Dave] That could've been prevented.

Don't hit that one!

- No that one I see,
that one we're not hit--

- Oh!

- Where'd that come from?

- That was oil pan dude!

- I think we've gotten lower.

- I think we actually need
to look at the oil pan.

- There's a cross member there right?

- [Dave] It's been a long
time since we were out

on the open road with
just a few hours to kill,

so we did some off-road and
checked out the scenery,

just hung back a little bit,
before it started to get dark

and we had to find our
way back to pavement.

Ah!

- This is the coldest I've
ever been in a car on Roadkill.

Hands down, colder than Alaska.

- We're in Gallup, New Mexico.

We made it like 275 miles today

so we're technically at a
schedule but it's like 32 degrees

- (laughs)

- and because of Hector
we don't have rear glass.

- I hate you Hector.

(laughs)

- And that toe is frost-bitten.

- [Mitch] That might fall off.

- I need beer.

- I need a hot tub.

I can't get warm, this sucks.

- [Dave] Oh, that hurts.

It's 25 degrees, it's Gallup New Mexico.

Our main concern right now

is that it's going to be so
cold between now and Wichita

that we're not going to be
able to paint this thing

'cause it's like an ice cube right now.

- That's not my main concern--

- [Dave] No?

- My main concern is
freezing my gillets off.

- [Dave] (chuckles) Oh yeah.

So what's the plan today?

We need to put brakes on
it, we need to paint it,

need to put fuel injection,
need to put nitrous.

- That all involves working outdoors.

- Yeah.

- My plan during the
first part of the drive

was to call a florist back at home

and order my wife flowers
for Valentines Day tomorrow

but my excuse when I don't do that

will be that it was too cold

to take the gloves off
to dial the phone number.

- Here, roll the window down.

- Oh dude we're smoking out the lobby.

- Are we?

Oh (chuckles) we're
blowing smoke in the lobby.

(laughs)

(car ignition starts)

Oh dude, not cool (laughs).

- Went into pet boys here to
get a few things we needed

to paint the car later
and then, I don't know,

Freiburger was so disgusted by the car

that he just decided to blow it apart

and he's starting to clean it,

now he's talking about
changing the brakes out.

So, maybe we're doing a brake
job right now, I'm not sure.

I'm not even sure what day it is

and I'm not sure of the name of the kid

who's accepting this awesome automobile

and I don't know when we need to be there.

So I don't know if I should be concerned

about the fact that we
just started a yard sale

in the parking lot of Pet Boys
Gallup instead of driving.

(car door slams)

- Feels good not to be freezing.

- Don't get used to it.

We don't even get one block away

from the Pet Boys parking lot

before the left rear tire starts rubbing.

We're going to have to
do something about this.

- It's going to eat right through

the side wall like it's beginning to.

So we got a sledgehammer and
I'm going to take this off

and just fold in, not the lip,

but the actual inside of
the quarter panel here.

(hammer hitting metal loudly)

That's not doing anything.

- What if I hold the propane
tank up against the side.

(laughs loudly)
- Do you want to hit it?

- [Mike] This might be a first.

- Yeah.

(loud metal thudding)

- It's working.

(hammer hitting metal loudly)

- Woohoo. Oh that's mint.

(hammer hitting metal loudly)

- We're good now.
- We're good.

(metal scraping ground)

We're going to end up
spray-painting this car

and ah, I don't want the
doors to be mismatched

so I'm going to paint the doors white.

I'm just going to scuff a little bit,

wipe it down, mask it and fog it,

then we're going to do the front
brakes here at the same time.

Before we left town, I
had converted the Buick

from factory drum brakes over
to discs with CPP pistons.

But our goal here is to pretty much

mooch everything we can from our sponsors

so that this guy can get a
really cool car when we're done.

So we stopped and upgraded the rotors

to some units from EBC brakes

and also threw on some
EBC yellow stuffed pads.

People question the environmental
rules and regulations

of doing this in a parking lot,

but my answer to that is,
this isn't California.

We're in the United
States, this is New Mexico.

Wow this might actually match pretty well.

So you may think that
I'm a complete butcher

but there's actually a method

to the artfulness of beaters.

(phone dialing)

- [Woman on phone] Good Morning.

- [Mike] Good morning, how are ya?

- [Woman on phone] Oh
we're busy how are you?

- [Mike] I'm doing great.

I'll be doing even better if you can send

a dozen roses to my wife
tomorrow so I can stay married.

- [Woman on phone] Okay.

- [Mike] No pressure.

- [Woman on phone] You want a
dozen red roses for tomorrow.

- [Mike] Yes ma'am.

- [Woman on phone] What do
you want the card to read?

- [Mike] Sorry for once
again missing Valentines Day,

I hope you still love me.

- [Woman on phone] Well
tomorrow's Valentines Day.

- [Mike] Yeah, I'm in New Mexico.

- [Woman on phone] Oh okay.
Oh I see what you're saying.

- [Mike] And please add,
pretend these are diamonds.

- [Dave] (laughs)
- [Woman on phone] (laughs)

- [Mike] Love, Mike. Or dead man.

- [Woman on phone] (laughs)

- [Dave] I think we've gone
maybe 20 miles out of Gallup

and I had to pull over because the lifters

are clattering on the engine.

I thought the oil was going to be low,

it's not as low as I would like it to be

for that level of lifter noise.

I'm going to pour in some
Lucas oil stabilizer,

'cause we have it.

Gloop (laughs). Wow.

- [Mike] It's like 90 weight.

- [Dave] Yep.

- Alright, all fixed.

- So, quarter mile down the road--

- Whoops--

- we ran out of oil, I
checked it and it was low.

Quarter mile later I'm like huh,

transmission's slipping a little bit.

- (laughs)

- So yeah we checked that...

it's low.
- (laughs)

- Low to zero.

So here's my thought on the paint.

We only have three cans, we should start

and just do the roof in case
it turns into a nightmare

and we don't want to finish
it, it'll just be two-toned.

- Yeah, let's flake the roof.

- Just metal-flaked roof,
everything else white

and then we can sort of judge
our progress from there.

- Let's do it right here right now.

- We can.

- I'm ready.

(fast-paced cafe music)

Well, our other two cans of spray paint

magically disappeared.

So now we have to unmask the car

and try to find another
store that sells this paint,

re-mask the car and
continue on with our art.

- [Dave] Oh! Class!

(laughs)

It's Valentines Day.

Sunday February 14th, is it Saturday?

No! That is not happening.

It's Valentines Day!

Right now we're going to head
over to an auto part store

and try and buy more paint

because we lost that stuff yesterday

because finishing that roof is a priority

over getting nitrous and
fuel injection on the wagon.

That's the plan today
then we still got like

600 miles to go to Wichita.

- Happy Valentines Day!

- It's fantastic.

- Yeah, can't believe
I'm spending it with you.

It's amazing, again!

- [Dave] Want me to call your wife for ya?

- [Mike] How many of these
have we spent together?

- [Dave] Lot of wife birthdays,
lot of Valentines Days,

lot of eerily Thanksgivings.

- [Mike] In separate hotel
rooms, mind you. Okay.

- [Dave] That's got to clarify.

- [Mike] Yeah, we don't
have a lot of budget

but we have enough budget for two rooms.

(light rock music)

Do we have 600 miles to go,

two days to get there
and we have to put on

nitrous, EFI, an ignition
system and paint the roof.

- Right.

But I'm also worried about expediency.

- And then we hand this over
to Z24 kid and say, sorry.

- Yeah.

- (laughs loudly)

- Hey he's got to learn.

- [Mitch] Un-roadkill you're car.

- (laughs) exactly.

- So we're in Albuquerque,
just went into this Pet Boys

and found a single can of
blue spray paint that we need

but the good news is there are

five more Pet Boys here in Albuquerque.

So if we go to every one of those places

and they only have one
can, we can paint the roof.

We also found a speed
shop that has nitrous jets

and a bunch of other stuff we need

so we may actually
finish this install today

and get on the road.

- We hit a muffler shop
because we needed to weld in

a bung for an oxygen
sensor for the atomic EFI

and while we were there I realised

the Buick is way too
quiet and what's louder?

A cheap glass pack.

So I picked one up and asked those guys

to weld it in the system so that we can

actually make some noise with this turd.

- They have a welder and
a man willing to weld in

David's bung into the exhaust
pipe on Valentines Day.

Ha ha kill me!

(door slams)

- Ready for the sound of power!

(ignition starts)

That's disappointingly quiet.

- It's the same.
- It's the same.

That does not sound any different.

Wow, muffler fail!

That's redonk!

- Alright the day's half over
what have we accomplished?

- In theory, we are
right now cannon-balling

to Vega, Texas for the
world's best onion rings

and the EFI instalation.

It says we arrive there at four.

Just in time for it to be dark.

- At four o'clock? That's when
the Valentines dinner starts.

- Perfect.

We won't bother anybody on Valentines Day

changing our fuel system
in the parking lot

of a high-end restaurant.

Actually, would you call
it high-end or just tasty?

- The food is high-end.
- Yeah.

- The place, not so much

- Welcome to Vega, Texas

where we're going to be installing EFI.

That right there is the boot hill saloon,

the greatest onion rings known to man

and we're not allowed
to eat even one of them

until this thing runs--

- What?
- On fuel injection.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait
we didn't talk about that.

- You missed it while
your headphones were on.

- We didn't talk about that at all.

- We'll be installing MSD atomic EFI,

which is a throttle-body deal they claim

it's the simplest fuel injection
you can possibly install

and so we'll have to see
if we can get it running

in time for Finnegan to be
able to eat his onion ring.

Most of the day we've been
rolling with the Glimpse app

which if you haven't checked
that out it's pretty cool.

You get it on your phone

and you can follow us live on a GPS map

and because we have that rolling

all of a sudden a bunch of
fans showed up to hang out.

So carburetor off, EFI on

and then we got to plumb
a new fuel system for it.

So the deal with this is that

it's throttle-body fuel injection

but it's a little different
than the old GM ones.

It's got injectors here
and here, four of them

and so you just run your fuel in one side

and out the other, you can run the system

either return style or return-less.

The thing that's going to slow us down

more than anything here
is the fuel system.

We'll be under the back
of the car in the dark,

trying to figure out
where to put the pump.

- That's the bung we had welded

into the exhaust pipe this morning.

This is an oxygen sensor.

The computer's going
to use this to monitor

air-fuel ratio of the engine.

- We're about halfway through

the fuel injection installation

and I realize we don't have
the fuel pressure regulator

that we needed and it's getting dark

and it's starting to freeze

and there was bad news
from the restaurant.

The ah, fuel pressure regulator

isn't going to happen
right here, right now

and we just got the news that they have

a Valentines Day menu with no onion rings!

- (beep) this dude!

- (laughs) It's all over!

Looking like our options right now

are put the carburetor back on the thing

and drive it back to Amarillo,

try and convince somebody that we know

to open their speed shop on Sunday

to get us an EFI fuel pressure regulator

to drive 400 miles from
here to Wichita tomorrow.

- Z24 kid, you better appreciate this.

- That's right.

- Building your car
kid, building your car.

(car engine starts)

- It's about 32 degrees here
in Vega, Texas right now.

We didn't finish the
fuel injection last night

because we had a problem with
the fuel pressure regulator

and I did not find out until
we were actually eating a steak

that we didn't really need it.

- I don't know if I
said this 20 or 30 times

already on this episode but
Z24 kid better like this car.

- Oh I know.

You know what, this is like
the end of Saving Private Ryan

when Tom Hanks is like
'earn this kid, earn this'.

Saving private Buick (laughs).

(slow guitar music)

From Vega, Texas to Wichita, Kansas

where we were dropping
the car off was 388 miles.

Now that doesn't sound too bad for you,

but the odds of Roadkill
doing 388 in a day are low,

especially since we still had to make

the EFI run on this garbage.

- There goes my legs.

- I'm thinking of this as balmy right now

because of what we have coming in Wichita.

I'm enjoying the heat.

- I think the glory that comes

with successful EFI installation, nitrous

and a painted roof will keep us warm.

- When does that glory come? Because..

(laughs)

it's been elusive so far.

We're going to install the EFI right here

before we get to Wichita
that's even colder

than it is right now which is like,

low 40s, high 30s, something like that.

And off comes the carburetor once again.

- The good news is that
although we've got to

re-do quite a bit of
work we did last night,

we're probably about 50
percent done with this.

The controller is
already run into the cab,

the power modules on the firewall,

some of the wiring is finished.

- [Dave] Think this is the junkiest motor

that parts this nice have
ever been installed on.

Probably not, I've watched Roadkill.

- So this is the coolant
temperature sensor

which the atomic EFI uses to ah,

decide how much timing
to put into this thing,

how much fuel to put into it, you know,

start it up in the morning, engine's cold,

it'll throw more fuel at the motor

and ah, we can't get the
old sending in and out

of the intake manifold that
goes to the factory gauge

'cause it's froze in there

but there's a port right
here on the radiator

which means I could stuff this thing

into a piece of hose with a hose-clamp,

clamp it to the radiator on the other end

and generally just put this
wherever I damn well please.

- This is innovation that
you're witnessing right now,

ladies and gentlemen.

- This will be the only thing
on the car not butchered.

Alright so we need to plumb fuel line

and install fuel pump and we're there.

- Putting off the ugly part 'til last.

Fuel line means crawling under,

getting gas on your hands
in freezing cold weather.

- Holy (beep) that's cold.

- Next question is,

do we want to use the
factory hard line for fuel,

which they recommend against
but it would be easier?

- [Mike] How cold are you?

- [Dave] Yeah.
- (laughs)

By now we've got the
throttle body installed,

all the wiring is done

and I'm underneath the car

having to run all of the fuel line

and I am completely over it at this point.

The level of suffering could be worse,

but my mental attitude
probably couldn't be.

- Argh! It's cold!

I wasn't this cold in Alaska.

My goodness.

- The ground's cold, my hands are cold,

stainless steel line is cold.

I'm trying to make sure that the fuel line

doesn't fall on the exhaust pipe here.

- [Mike] Feel the sun?
- [Dave] Wow

- [Mike] Feel the sun.
- [Dave] That's almost warm.

- [Mike] Woah.

Thank you, Jesus.

- [Dave] Okay ready?

- [Mike] Yeah go for it.

- [Dave] Okay tighten.

Wow that was minimal spillage.

- [Mike] (laughs) I know.

- [Dave] The installation's
all complete now we think

and Finnegan's going through
the hand-held controller.

You just have to tell
it really basic stuff

like what cam-shaft's in
it, what displacement it is

and then the EFI will pick
just a basic fuel map,

it's usually a little bit rich,

just to make sure it'll run

and after you get it fired up and driving,

it starts to look at the
data from the O-2 sensor

and it looks at the
target air-fuel mixtures

and it starts to correct how
much fuel it's delivering to it

and it remembers that
and makes its own map.

It's actually an overlay of the map

that tells it a percentage of correction

and that's how the
self-learning deal works.

- [Mike] Okay, engine
coolant temp 38 degrees.

- 38 degrees engine coolant temp, awesome.

- [Mike] TPS zero. That's good.

- I don't think you have
to train the TPS do you?

Oh we still haven't
done wide open throttle.

- This says 100 percent.

- Wow, we're good!

- Battery volts, 12.2. Alright.

- [Dave] Alright, let's see if it primes.

(engine starting)
Stop.

Major leak at that same connection
we've been messing with.

- [Dave] We're getting there late,

I think we'll be meeting this kid tomorrow

before, you know, right
before we get on the airplane

in which case it'll be
like every other time

we have to leave a car somewhere will be,

hey look at all these parts
we didn't get time to install

um, you'll have to paint the roof yourself

and keep the tools, later.

(engine running)

- [Dave] Wow. You got to
give that some credit.

- Yeah.

- [Dave] First key turn, runs.

- My goodness.

- Amazing.

(light rock music)

- It's still too cold to be painting

but I'm going to try it
'cause I can't stand the fact

that we're going to deliver
this thing half blue

and I think it's going
to look kind of good

if we can get it done.

Do not spray under temperatures below 60.

- [Mike] (laughs) It looks like that.

If people you know, were on the fence

about whether or not we were
truly hacks on this show,

this will just cement the legend.

- [Dave] This leaves no doubt.

(light rock music)

Got my nails done.

You know, we only rolled
about 30 miles out of Vega

before we stopped in
Amarillo to install that EFI

and so once it was running
and once the roof was painted,

'cause that was critical,
we still had 350 miles

to drive that day and it
was getting dark and cold.

I opened the radiator
a little bit too soon

and splattered stuff everywhere.

Turns out, this right here was not

that genius of an idea after all.

The thing is running super super rich

because there's no water
getting to that sensor

and so it thinks that the
coolant temp is 32 degrees

so it's richening it
up so that it would run

in that cold of a weather.

So I'm going to fill up the
radiator as much as I possibly can,

get water to that sensor.

Might have to move it again.

You might think it's cold at your house

just because you've got
like 12 feet of snow

in your front yard but let me tell you

at 25 degrees at night in a '69
Buick with no windows in it,

the heater blowing ice
cubes on your toes, is bad.

And it excuses what's about to happen.

- [Mike] Ah, I feel better already.

- [Dave] You're not sharing the comforter?

(laughs)

Hey!
- [Mike] Oh sorry (laughs).

- [Dave] You always steal the covers!

(laughs)

- [Mike] Hey the door ate my blanky.

- [Dave] Give me some.
- [Mike] Hold on.

Holy crap it's cold!

(jazz music)

Look at the steam coming off.

- I know. That's going
to freeze right away.

The wipers are just smearing the rain

and ah, if I don't have the wipers on,

it freezes the rain to the windshield

'cause we got no heat whatsoever inside.

We have a couple solutions here,

step one, Rain-X.

Step two, dress.

Step three--

- (laughs)

- we got a 12 volt little
like semi-truck in-cab heater

that we're going to plug
in to put right here

to try and like make a defroster.

- Ah it's like a bed
and breakfast in here.

And now that we have Rain-X and a heater

and a windshield scraper just in case,

I think we'll be fine and we'll make it.

- [Dave] Oh, we left a bottle in the hood.

- [Mike] Well just jump
right out there and get that.

- [Dave] It'll be fine.

(slow guitar music)

Finally got to the point where
we had to throw in the towel.

The freezing rain was coming down

and icing directly on the windshield,

there was nothing we could do about it,

we had this 12 volt heater
and it caught on fire

but didn't even make enough flame

to melt the ice on the window.

- [Dave] It's on fire.

It is, it's fully on fire.

Yeah, not good.

So we caved in and stopped
and spent the night

at Elk City, Oklahoma, nowhere near where

we needed to be the next morning.

Now it's like ten o'clock,

we're completely behind schedule,

we're not going to make it to Wichita

in time to actually see that guy

so I think we're going
to go to Oklahoma city

and if we live that long

we're going to play it by ear from there.

Does that cover the deal?

- [Mike] Yeah, sounds good to me.

Oh hey
- [Dave] Yeah.

- How good do you think the EFI

works right now in 25 degree?

- [Dave] Ha! Well
considering the controller's

been hanging out the
door all night long...

(laughs)

- [Mike] Oh then you know, it's custom.

It's a custom.

- [Dave] Oh, hope I didn't pinch the wire.

(car engine starts)

- [Mike] Look at that!

- [Dave] Have you noticed how good

the paint job actually is?

- [Mike] Well it's blue.

(car running noisily)

- That's right just burn through.

Finally, the thing does a burn out.

- Ah right.

- We need donuts dude!

- Ooh. Let's go find a parking lot.

- We need a donut shop.

- We need a large parking lot.

(car drives noisily)

- It's not happening.

It's not happening at all.

- Maybe it works better on the right.

(car drives noisily)

(laughs)

(gentle guitar music)

Thank god for the blanket
that I'm using as a skirt.

It's working. I'm warm.

- You're skirt is helping?

- Totally.

- So are the three pairs
of pants I'm wearing.

- [Dave] There was still evidence of all

of the gnarly crashes
that we'd heard about

on the highway with the
black ice the night before.

And what' worse is that the
weather had put us so far behind

and there was something
that I could not escape

at the office the next day

and so I was going to have to fly home,

leaving Finnegan to suffer
out the rest of the trip.

- Woo! Just iron-maned
about 170 miles of freeway.

Freezing my honies off, but we're here.

We are blocks away from Z24 kids house,

we're going to go show up and surprise him

with a car that he thinks he's trading for

but I'm actually going to give it to him.

I hope he appreciates it.

(light guitar music)

- I'm Mike.

- Hi, I'm Dalton.

- Dalton. There she is.

- Wow.

- Road-proven, a thousand miles.

- Yeah that's road-worthy.

- So I think I'm just
going to give it to you.

- No way.
- Yeah.

I'm not going to lie, I
don't want to Z24 Cavalier.

You're the only man in America
that has one that still runs,

you should keep that

because this really
should not be on the road.

- Are you sure?

- I should be arrested
for driving in here.

So you should keep that and
drive that while you fix this.

Yeah. That's what I think should happen.

But there's a few rules here.

- Okay.

- Stipulations. Um, which we
should spell out on the hood.

Seat belts, they're in
there, they're just not

hold together to anything.

You're going to be cold,
put the windows back in.

Lights, water pump.

Check the air pressure in
the tires, we never did.

Neutral safety switch sometimes works.

After you've done all of this

and every time you cross
something off the way we do,

I want photographic evidence of it.

- Yeah.

- You need to email, text,
Facebook whatever it is

just cross it off, let us
know you're taking care of her

and when mom and dad say this
list is done and she's safe

go ahead and drive her.

I feel good about this.

- I do too.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- Welcome to the Roadkill family.

I'm sorry, I really am.

(laughs)

When we started this trip,
I was a little worried.

I thought okay, another station wagon,

another road trip, we're not going racing,

how fun will this actually be?

But by the time I got
to Wichita I realized,

you know what it doesn't
matter what you're driving.

It doesn't matter where you're going,

old cars break, mother
nature gets in the way,

you're going to make new
friends, no matter what,

just get out there and
have yourself a good time.

And that's what Roadkill's all about.

- I'm shocked how many people
of the younger generation

have not seen this.

This is called the dual action tailgate.

Check that out, it opens this way

and it opens this way.

Check out the action on that baby.

Yeah, that's like magic isn't it?

How do they do that?

(laughs)

- This is much better.

- I don't even know why we have these

they're not doing much.

(laughs)

- You look great.

- It's a fashion statement
more than anything.

I'm going to go sleep in the gutter.

(laughs)

- That's free on this, odorless,
penniless and tasteless,

you should never huff it.

There's your good Samaritan
tech tip for the day.

- You've got two out of three.

You're colorless and tasteless.

- For most part, 17 narc.

- Why do we always end up
somehow off-road with our cars?

It's kind of a thing.

- Video guys wanted a scenic location,

we'll give them a scenic location.

- (laughs)

We may not be leaving this location.

- Yeah we're unexpectedly
spending the night in Flagstaff.

My junk always falls out
of the front of boxers.

- And I'm leaving.
- (laughs)

- Oh I'm leaving.
- (laughs)

On the road again.

- I can't wait to get on the road again.

Making music with my friends

- I can't wait to go on the road again.

This is route 66, I just
saw it on the ground.

- Yep.