Roadkill (2012–2020): Season 6, Episode 12 - Roadkill - full transcript
The Mustang now known as the Disgustang sat ignored for many more months until the start of this episode where the guys planned to head north from California to the DirtFish Rally School nearly 1,300 miles away.
- This time on Roadkill.
(Mike yells)
- We're back in Dirtfish.
(Mike woops)
(tire screeching)
(rock music)
- [Mike] Yeah!
- [David] The Disgustang is back.
Remember this 1969 Mustang Mach 1?
We dragged it out of
Colorado Auto and Parts,
a junkyard where it had
been sitting for 37 years.
That was episode 66 of Roadkill.
- Green shag carpet.
- [David] Man, it was tough getting
this thing running and driving
and it was worse cleaning it out.
The reason why it's
called "The Disgustang"
is it was truly gross, loaded
with raccoon poop and worse.
When we finally got it running,
all we really did is some donuts
there at the junkyard, which was a riot,
but it didn't fulfill the need
for a road trip in this garbage.
And so this time, that's
exactly what we're going to do.
We're heading 1,000 plus miles north
to Dirtfish Rally School
but first we got to
get it out of Dulcich's backyard
where it's been sitting for a year.
- [David] So the Disgustang
has become the cliche
of the car that rolls
into Dulcich's backyard
and sits there forever.
Nothing has changed about the car
since we pulled it out of the junkyard
except it got a new
exhaust system yesterday.
That's it.
- [Mike] So it may still
smoke and barely do a burnout.
- [David] Yeah.
- And we're going to drive to Washington.
- Right now.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Let's go.
- You ready to go, Steve?
- Thanks Steve.
- Okay, guys.
- Have a storage.
- Have fun.
- What are the wires
taped to the turn signal?
- That's the starter
'cause he lost the key.
- Oh, sorry.
- So the car's gotten better
since last time I rode in it.
- How?
- Well, the wire's brand new.
- Right.
(laughter)
(engine revs)
- Still smokes.
- Here we go.
- Come on, this is the
only Mustang I'd ever own.
We're going to die.
But at least we'll look
good while we're dying.
- Junkyard fresh.
- [Mike] Let's go.
- No idea what to expect here.
We have no gauges in here, so,
I have no bad news.
- More people should just get into a car
with no gauges and no
plan and see America.
- No history, no nothing.
- Live life.
Having gauges, how many road trips
has that interrupted,
unnecessarily for people?
How many layers of dog and rat poop
have stopped people from plucking
and otherwise good car,
fixing it up, and driving it?
- I think we have the
market on rat poop covered.
- [Mike] Yeah.
- [David] But are you
ready to get really dirty?
- Wouldn't be the first time.
Let's break her in proper.
(David laughs)
- I don't want to laugh,
I'll get dirt in my mouth.
- I can't tell where we are.
(both laugh)
(upbeat music)
- This is how every great
road trip should start out.
A beat up car, no plan, and a parking lot
with which to do donuts in.
- That's kind of what we wanted to do,
was shake it down a little bit.
This thing feels just a little bit fragile
and the engine is making
more noise than it ever was.
- Sounds very sewing machine-like now.
- Yeah, it did not like
that RPM, that's for sure.
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
- I'm having fury flashbacks right now.
- Meaning what?
- I don't think it's
going to last very long.
- I bet it goes all the way.
Yeah.
- It's getting loud.
- My numbers matching 351 is going away.
- Dude, are you accelerating more
or is it just getting louder?
- It's just getting louder.
- Oh my god, we might
make it to a gas station.
(Mike laughs)
- I was really hoping
to go on a road trip.
Not sit on Dulcich's farm.
- Naw, we're going on a road trip.
- All right.
- Back to Dulcich's farm.
(both laugh)
- That's better, just
coast all the way there.
- Oh.
- That's a rod knock.
Oh, it's done.
What have we gone, 5 miles?
- That's probably oil
starvation doing donuts.
I may retract my prior statement.
(both laugh)
- Hey look there's a swap meet.
Maybe they have, aw, no way, it's done.
- It's done, it just locked up.
(engine sputtering)
- Ah, it doesn't want to crank.
Give it some gas.
- It's all over.
(engine sputtering)
- Smoke.
- I don't want to hang out at
Dulcich's house for a week.
I want to see America.
(David sighs)
- We can change the engine in one day.
- If we had one.
- We do, someone just has to
drive to Westech and get it.
There's people behind us.
Go around.
- Go around, idiot, we're broke down.
(both laugh)
- Haven't you ever seen this show before?
(David laughs)
- [Mike] Five donuts, five
miles, five minutes, done.
- [David] We went out to the field
to see if we could break the Mustang
and it had a little bit
of a delayed reaction
but sure enough, we've
blown up the engine.
- [Mike] So what are we going to do?
- [David] New engine.
- [Mike] Make it better, all right?
- That 4-10 that we used on Engine Masters
is on it's way here now.
- Wow, you aren't wasting any time.
- No, so this engine's
pretty much wrecked.
However, Dulcich and I do this other show
called Engine Masters where
we dyno cut stuff all the time
and we just did a 410 cubic
inch, small block Ford
that will be a direct
replacement for this.
It's all the way down
at Westech Performance
which is like 3 hours from here.
But, we've got somebody running down there
to pick it up and they're going to bring
the long block up here and so it's
just going to be R and
R, rusty old junk out,
gleaming new, you know,
480 horsepower engine, in.
And then the transmission
will blow up later.
(upbeat music)
- This engine's locked up solid.
We're trying to figure
out how we're going to
get it rotated to get the
torque converter bolts off.
It does not move.
- Look at that, how impressive
is the engine, then,
when you think about this?
We were driving along and it was fine
and the moment you lifted off the gas.
(David imitates screeching noise)
- It just stopped.
- Yeah.
- And now it will not move with a
two foot long breaker bar on it.
- So we've threaded two
three eighths diameter
bolts into a damper that's, I don't know,
40 years old, and now we
have an eight foot long
solid chunk of steel.
This effectively
multiplies the torque here
by a factor of 27.9 Dulcich's.
That's taking your 180 pound feet
and making it six or seven hundred.
- [David] It's turning like butter now.
- Nice work.
- We're passed the ugly part.
Let's make sure you're not turning past
the converter bolt.
- Yeah let's get the bolts out.
- [Dulcich] I feel like a
superhero with my giant bar.
- I really didn't want to take
the accessories off the front of this.
- With my big pole.
- But seeing you wield that rusty pole,
totally made it all worthwhile.
We might've been a little rough there.
- Well, that took way too long
but we're finally ready
to pluck the engine.
Theoretically, the numbers
match the engine for this car.
My level of caring.
- [Mike] All right, now you can go up.
- That's sort of a ritual.
- We have a green pool of
coolant all over the floor now.
- We have a mop now, though.
- I blame myself.
- [Mike] So on day one, drove the car,
did donuts in the car,
broke the engine in the car,
got the engine out of the car.
- Think of it this way, we broke the car
one one thousandths of
a way into our journey.
That's pretty impressive, ready?
- Well, it was.
- All right, where can we put this
where it'll sit for six months?
(upbeat music)
- Well we're super lucky that I had this
sitting around from
our Engine Masters show
and I intended to put this engine
in the Disgustang eventually,
but not as quickly as
we're going to do it now.
Because we're going to strangle it
with like stock exhaust manifolds
and a bunch of greasy parts and stuff.
What it is is a 410 cubic inch stroker
which is based on the 351 Windsor
just like what came out of the car.
And this thing makes about 480 horsepower
and 520 pound feet of torque which is
just enough to blow up
the FMX transmission.
Okay, here's the most hideous thing
that's going to happen, probably during
this whole installation.
Look at the difference in size in the port
on the cylinder head versus
the port in the manifold.
That is like the worst performance
situation you can get.
These are going to be some
power-robbing manifolds.
But, we don't have headers,
we don't have time.
Great parts, bad cars, bad
ideas, brilliant execution.
- [Mike] Looks good.
- This is bad.
Fortunately the old flex plate
off the car is going to
be a little work here.
This car is an FMX automatic transmission.
The thing about these Fords is you have to
make sure you have the
right external balance.
The 351 is a 28 ounce inch offset
and so is this blueprint crete engine.
So, it's going to go right together.
Boy was that lucky, drop it in.
- This is exciting, I mean, I'm not saying
we're getting out of here today
but the engine might go in the car.
I don't even know if it'll stay in the car
but the engine will go in the car.
- I can assure you guys that you
will be out of here by noon.
- Noon?
- Yes.
- No, three.
- Three? Okay.
- I'll give you until three to get
this thing the eff out of here.
(all laugh)
- Then you're shutting the door.
(rock music)
- [Dulcich] What, it fell in!
It installed itself.
- I don't want to jinx us,
but this is going really well.
Engine's in the car,
transmission is almost
perfectly aligned, and right now
we're just going to throw
a couple bolts in it
and make sure the torque
converter lines up
with the flex plate and if it does,
we'll continue to bolt things together.
We may leave today, maybe.
(rock music)
(engine sputters)
- Do you have the ignition on?
- [Dulcich] Oh.
(engine revs)
- Pretty good.
- Hey, we get to go on a road trip.
- [Mike And David] Yay!
- I forgot about that.
(Mike laughs)
- All right, Dulcich, we're out of here.
- Thanks, man.
- No test drive, we're just leaving.
Talk to you in five minutes.
- He's turning his cell
phone off this time.
- I would if I was him.
- [Mike] He's too smart not to.
- [David] Ready?
- [Mike] Don't break it.
(engine revs)
- You're brave, didn't even warm it up.
(David laughs)
- Little bit of smoke, but
that's got to be residual stuff.
- Oh yeah, it's got no brakes at all.
We can't drive, that's no brakes.
And what's going on?
Okay.
- All right.
- Hey Dulcich!
Eh, look.
All right, we made it 50
feet and all of a sudden
there's no brakes, what so ever.
No front brakes.
Like something went wrong with something.
So, I will be much more carefully
driving it back to Steve's house
who could've possibly seen that coming?
Why would it have no fluid
in the front brakes at all?
That means like a line broke somewhere.
- Technically, I'm still on a road trip.
Even if it's on foot.
That's the way I'm looking at it.
We need brake fluid, we have absolutely
no brakes but master cylinder's empty
so back to Dulcich's,
we'll get some brake fluid.
I'm sure that's the only
issue we're having tonight.
Looks cool, though, only on Roadkill
can you change the motor
and loose the brakes.
You got like mutant bunnies here
that eat extension cords and brake lines?
- [Dulcich] Something strange
must be happening for sure.
- [Mike] All the bunnies I hang with,
they wouldn't have done this.
They wouldn't have eaten that brake line.
- [Dulcich] Really, you get
the good bunnies and I get...
- Treat 'em right, man.
Whoa, easy, turbo.
- Never can just fire
it up and drive away.
It's always the little stuff.
- [Mike] I never would've expected it.
- It's 70 miles to Fresno.
It's dark and we have no seat belts.
- Ready to rock?
- Yeah.
- [David] Headlights.
How do headlights and taillights work
on a car that's been
sitting in the junkyard
for, what, 30 something years,
and I can't make 'em
work on anything I own?
- I feel like this car was abandoned
and thus has built up
a lot of good car karma
over the years and it wants to be driven.
Which is why the electrical
has not failed us yet.
- [David] But the engine did.
The engine did not want to be driven.
At least not in circles at high speeds.
- Yes, not on rough terrain
in circles at high RPM.
- All right, highway
for the very first time.
- Yeah, buddy.
- [David] You'll notice
I am not romping on it.
- Please don't.
- Yeah.
- Let's just, let's just road trip.
Come on baby, shift.
- [David] I want some miles.
- [Mike] It's working.
- Kind of, it's got a good shake.
- [Mike] It's just got to work itself in.
- We just have to get used to the terror.
That's what it is.
- Think about it, when was the last time
a human drove this fast in this car.
We still don't know why somebody
stopped driving this car.
- I hope we don't find out the hard way.
I got a lot of dirt blowing
in my eyes, how about you?
- Uh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's why I brought these.
- Oh, you're smarter than me.
- Not really, you're the one driving
maybe I should give them to you.
- This has been a hell of a day.
We got the car running, we drove it,
I don't know, almost 75 miles
which is about 12 times further
than we went on day number one.
So, I'm calling this success.
We're going to stop here tonight.
Get up in the morning
and go have an adventure.
- You realize I still haven't
gone wide open throttle.
I had to lie awake all
night waiting for it.
- We're not there yet.
And I don't want you to
ruin this moment for us.
'Cause I don't know if
you realize the gravity
of what we're about to do, don't do it.
We're piloting a car that
hasn't moved since 1982
to a drag strip that nobody
has run on in decades
where they used to send
not just top fuel cars,
but jet cars down in four at a time.
- So this is Raisin City.
- Yeah, it's out in farm country.
Allegedly the tower is still there.
The strip is still there
and it's not fenced in.
According to Google Earth
we can get in there.
- I love it when the
old tower's still there.
To me, that's like the
icon that makes you go,
"Wow, stuff really went
down here, stuff happened."
- [David] Man can you
imagine guys bringing their
top fuel cars here in the '60s?
The tower is rad.
- [Mike] It's round.
- I read that it came from a local airport
before it was here at the drag strip.
- This is wide, but it's not that wide.
Imagine being the dudes
on the outside lanes
in a four car showdown right there.
- [David] I think the track
was on the right side.
- [Mike] Yeah, it's over
here, it's over here.
- [David] Oh, look at this thing,
I have to check this out.
Oh that's cool, that's
really, really cool.
- Oh, there's a ladder to the top of it.
Too bad it caved in.
I want to see you climb up there.
- [David] No.
- [Mike] Cause it seems really safe.
- [David] It's falling in.
- [Mike] Dibs on the
Mustang when it goes wrong.
- This is where they
stored the Christmas tree.
It says tree bottom, start line.
This is where they stored
all the crap for the racing.
Like maybe that stand was for the tree.
- Imagine everything
that this tower has seen.
First being in a local airport,
then coming here to the drag strip,
seeing all those match racers back
in the '60s and very early '70s.
Running four wide down here,
jet cars, top fuel cars.
Back in the golden age of drag racing.
- This is one of the coolest
things we've ever seen.
- I think you can see where this is going.
You're at an abandoned track,
you've got nice, perfectly good 1320 feet
of torn up old concrete in front of you.
Let's find out if we can break this thing.
I don't even know if
this thing is going to,
ya know, bog and die
or backfire and surge.
We know nothing, I've just cruised it.
- We know a few things.
- [David] I don't know.
- Nothing that applies to
this scenario right now.
- Ready?
- Roast 'em.
- I think it's going to
backfire and die, let's see.
- Yeehaw ha ha!
(engine revs)
- [David] There's the secondaries.
There's second gear.
- And keep going, here ya go, 82.
We just made a pass down a drag strip.
- Hey, we did.
- [Mike] Yeah, we did.
Not bad.
- It's not overheating
and we have oil pressure,
we have a transmission, victory!
- [Mike] Yeah!
- [David] All right, what next?
Old car hunting?
- Yeah, let's go find another project.
Or let's go look at cars we can't afford
or have no place to store.
(rock music)
- Yeah, let's find this fence,
this is the kind of fence that hides cars.
- Yeah, it is.
Oh, I feel like I'm entering the lair.
- International Pick 'Em.
Cougar, Cadillac, I'm home.
- [David] Oh this is pretty good.
It's going to be great.
- [Mike] This is awesome.
- [David] I think this is
a '63 Comet Mercury Meteor.
That's a good wagon, too, actually.
- Fenders.
- [David] Sweet.
Oh, Sandy Inez Airport.
- [Mike] Dude, this is rad.
- [David] This is cool.
Oh this is really good.
Look at that.
- [Mike] Oh, wait a minute, dude,
this is a Brookwood, this is worth money.
- [David] Brookwood, it's
just a low trim level.
- Yeah, but it's...
- This has more rat poop than our norm.
- Which is the higher one,
the Parkwood or the Brookwood?
- That's a good question, you
may have stumped me on that.
That is a lot of rat poop.
- Look at how straight it is.
This has perfect petina,
it's just weathered
but it's not beat up and
there's no holes in it.
I really like this.
- [David] I really like it.
- He's got all kinds of Rancheros here.
I'm not a Ranchero guy though.
- That Jeep's been pieced together
from a bunch of different Jeeps.
- More of an El Camino that I never
want to paint kind of guy.
- Good ol' flat fender Jeep.
It's World War II as you can tell
by the dash but the rest of it's been
all hacked together, the
back has been put together,
it's got a Willy's hood on it and stuff.
But nevertheless, found a flat fender.
- A lot of trucks, I don't care how
old the truck is, I dig trucks.
- There was a guy named Dave Koffel
who actually raced one of these
in the Gas Class way back in the day.
It was called the Flintstone Flyer
and he ran the tiny, I think it was a
265 Chevy engine in this big mammoth car.
He was playing the game
of weight per cubic inch.
And winning with a very slow car.
This is all stuff that's like older
than what we're used to messing with.
- Yeah, I was just...
- But I like it.
- I was just saying, like,
I dig all this stuff.
I love the chrome, I love the styling,
I just can't relate to any of it
'cause it was never in my
high school parking lot.
Is that an Imperial?
- [David] I'm wondering if
it's a Chrysler or an Imperial.
But yes, it is one or the other.
That is an Imperial.
- Hmm, I got it right,
I never get it right.
Have to give myself a gold star.
- If you really dig junkyard
wandering like this,
check out this new show that's going to be
on Motor Trend OnDemand,
it's called Junkyard Gold.
It's Steve Magnante doing
nothing but mind barf
on cool automotive trivia.
- Hey Dave, somebody turned
a van into a ramp truck.
And it's got a T-bird on it.
I kind of want to see this do wheelies.
They cut the back of the van off.
- [David] Yeah, I've seen this before.
Well, I don't see anything we need to own
'cause the '58 wagon was already sold.
- That was too good to be true.
- [David] Yeah, so, next.
- [Mike] All right, keep on truckin'.
- [David] Yeah, ugh, dust.
(David coughs)
- That was cool.
- Yeah, that was pretty good.
- [Mike] Let's go that way.
(engine revs)
- Smell that rubber,
they need to bottle it
and make it a cologne.
- It's pretty great.
- For those less fortunate
who don't have a car
that can make the cologne.
- Okay, we have an issue,
though I don't think
it's deadly, the left
front suspension's making
this horrible clacking
sound on the highway.
(clacking)
- Seems worse than that,
though, doesn't it?
(clacking)
- [Mike] Oh, I think
the shock broke in half.
- Yeah, seems like something like that.
- [Mike] Oh, yeah, so that's the piston
hitting the tower, I think.
- [Dave] Yeah.
- [Mike] Do it again.
- Check this out.
- [Mike] Oh that is cool.
(clacking)
- [Mike] Yeah, the shock
broke off the bushing.
- Yeah the rod completely
came off the round part.
- That's not going to kill us though.
- That's hilarious, that
will not kill us, however...
- This one's still there.
- Are you ready, check this out.
As if by magic, look what I have.
- Oh.
- New shocks.
This is a rear, I do have a front.
When we got this thing in Colorado...
- Totally uninterested in
installing that right now.
- And now we broke one in half.
You know what, it's getting dark
and I'd like to go to Medesto
or somewhere like that
and so basically I'm not concerned.
It's not going to kill
us, at least not tonight.
- We're fully on the
same page right now, man.
- [David] I feel good about it.
- This is like, it's
like you read my mind.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Aw, I thought for sure you would want to
just fix that to ensure handling
on the mountain roads on the way back.
- No, I'm not even driving this
and there's no seatbelts so...
- [David] Do you want to?
- Naw, I'm good.
- No?
- I'm good.
- Oh, man.
Kind of hurt.
- I only drive cars with
four working shocks, dude.
- Ah, forgot your standards
were much higher than mine.
(rock music)
- Boat car.
- Dude.
- [David] What is up with us?
- [Mike] I think I've
seen this climb this.
- Oh it's a four by, oh no
it's not a four by four.
- [Mike] Dude, that is a 23 feet Nordic.
- That is genius.
- On a truck chassy.
- This is what you've wanted to do
except for actual floating.
- Yeah.
- No way.
Oh this is hilarious.
- [Mike] Wow, this is a rare boat.
- [David] It is?
- [Mike] Yes.
- [David] I don't care.
Oh yeah, it's got a full Chevy truck dash
and everything in it.
- This is a really rare boat.
- It's pretty stupid.
It is four wheel drive, isn't it?
It's just, it's a late model, yeah,
it's four wheel drive, independent.
Okay this looks like we did it.
Literally, we're just
driving in the middle
of nowhere from like Yosemite to Modesto
and I spotted this
thing and I'm like boat!
He's wanted to do this except for actual
seal the tires off so it'll float
and I have a feeling this is going to
make him have to do that.
It has the complete floor pan
out of the truck and everything.
Look, it's just ratchet strapped on, dude.
The body is ratchet
strapped to the chassy.
- [Mike] That is how we would do it.
- [David] This is exactly
how we would do it.
(Mike laughs)
- I know this is not what I want to do.
I want to build an
actual amphibious vehicle
for another episode of Roadkill.
This is motivation, certainly,
'cause it's cool looking.
It really is, I'm glad we stopped.
- Now he's going to force
me to make one, I know it.
(rock music)
- Morning, so the Mustang and me
are like on a third date now.
It's kind of like, still
the get to know you phase
but starting to get into it.
- What base have you reached?
- That's at least becoming
within the circle of trust, but--
- What base is the circle of trust?
- I cannot stand the broken shock.
So we're going to fix that.
Last night that got real irritating.
- He's only made it to
first base, definitely.
- Yeah, I happen to have these shocks
from when we were in
Colorado, I ordered them,
'cause I thought we would
change them at the junkyard.
- Then you did offroad
donuts and broke that one.
- That was my fault?
- I wasn't driving.
- I was influenced.
Check this out, okay.
- Wait a minute.
- What?
- That's rusty there, that's been broken.
- You're saying it was
broken the whole time?
- That's been broken a long time, dude.
- Really?
- Yulp.
That is a 100% rusty--
- Oh, you're right.
- Where the shaft should meet.
- Well, it was still
making an irritating noise.
- This shock, is like school
in the summertime, no class.
Definitely not doing the second one.
- [David] No.
- Professional mechanics everywhere
just shaking their heads right now.
Want to drive or ride today?
- Want to drive? You should.
- I don't want to drive.
- Let's go.
- All right.
I think I'm ready, I think I've earned it.
'Cause I installed half a shock.
- By the way, have you noted the complete
like diaper situation that
we have going on here?
This car was so repulsive when we got it,
so soaked in raccoon and rat urine
that we had to take the seats out,
which are actually in pretty good shape,
pressure wash them, wrap
them in plastic trash bags,
and then put cheapy seat covers on.
That's what that's all about.
Ready?
You need training or do you have this?
- I think I watched, so let's see.
I know it's a two-handed affair
to find the neutral safety switch.
(engine sputters)
I know the ignition should probably be on.
- That, too.
There ya go.
- Wow.
- Fires right up.
- That starts very easy.
Oh, no power steering.
- [David] No power steering.
(upbeat music)
- It's been awhile since
you looked truly homeless.
- I know, I didn't count on this.
When we left this morning
it was like 70 something
and now it's 30 something and yes,
I'm in shorts and sandals.
I'm also going to fix the
rear window in the car.
- I feel like you have a handle on this.
I'm just going to get in the car.
- Oh my fingers are getting numb.
Oh my sack is stuck to my thigh.
I think it's frozen there.
Oh my god, it's cold, we're in California,
why's it cold?
- [David] We're stupid, minor success.
- Good game, way to hustle.
(Mike groans)
- We have no heater,
we have no floor board.
This is not going to stick,
this is the tech tip,
is the skirt action, you
got to get the blanket
going just right here and
you turn it into the skirt
before you sit down in the car like so.
And then you take your second one
and you stuff it around your feet
and it's actually pretty good.
Proven through many miles.
Here's some kindling, start the fire.
(Mike laughs)
Now the key's in my pocket.
(Mike laughs)
(upbeat music)
- It's like the good ol' days,
a car with no hood, my toes are frozen.
We're still rolling though, I mean,
it's remarkably reliable, even though
it looks like absolute garbage.
- Oh we lived, I did the math because
the speedo actually works in this thing.
We've gone 699 miles, we're
in Medford, Oregon now
and the worst thing about it,
it stinks like pee now that we've
got all the windows up and stuff.
I think maybe like there's
a nest or something
that's still up under the dash.
Either that or Finnigan
irrigated his pants.
But if he did, it's so cold in there
it would have turned into a pee slushy.
That's gross, all right, see you tomorrow.
Nice parking job.
- [Mike] Yeah.
- I also appreciate that
the engine is covered
from rain, except for the distributor.
- Oh the electronic parts, you want those
exposed to the elements, that
way they can get moisture,
freeze, then unfreeze,
actually it loosens up
all molecules.
- Shouldn't the distributor be
on the other end of the engine?
- In my world it is.
- Okay, ready?
Oh that's liquid, see?
Don't need antifreeze.
- There's freeze plugs
pop out of this thing.
- I know, let's put some in because
it's only getting worse from here.
I hate it when he's right.
- Earlier he and Dulcich ridiculed me
for wanting to put
antifreeze in this thing.
- It was California then.
You put antifreeze in racecars.
- I do, because mine usually overheat.
Remember it's antifreeze and coolant.
Raising the boiling point
or whatever it does.
- That'll do plenty.
- Haha a little dab will do ya.
- You really think that'll help,
I was expecting you to drain some out.
- I feel better about it.
You better not break today, car,
because it's only going to get colder.
- Yeah, it's going to rain
for the rest of the trip,
so we got wipers, we got
rainex, we've got blankets
that we wisely left in the car
so they would be plenty
cold for us to wear
as we leave this morning.
- You want to keep your
numbers matching wiper blades?
- No thanks, too much stuff in the garage.
The Mustang turns out to be pretty good
on the road except for the fact that it's
got no floors, no interior,
a bunch of rust holes,
and we were freezing to
death and what made it worse
is a torrential downpour
right at the end of the trip.
Water coming in the
floors, soaking our feet.
It was miserable but then we made it
to our destination which made all
the suffering worth while.
- [Mike] We made it, this
is going to be awesome.
- The Mustang drove almost 1300 miles.
- This is paradise,
look at all the gravel.
- Oh yeah, that's what makes this place
genius is the gravel.
Yeah!
Oh man we're back in DirtFish.
(Mike and David wooping)
(car engine revs)
- [David] Oh man, this is going to be fun.
- Yeah, buddy, keep going, oh!
Woooooo!
Oh boy, hahaha.
That was awesome!
- [David] The Disgustang
finally did the road trip
that we should have executed
when we pulled it out of the junkyard.
And yeah, the engine blew up,
which was kind of a drag,
Dulcich actually took the
engine apart and found out why.
There was leaves in the oil pan
and they blocked the oil pickup
and so that thing is junk
and I got that 410 small block
in this thing quicker than expected.
The real miracle here
is that the transmission
didn't explode with all of
that power in front of it
which is a good thing because we are going
to thrash the Disgustang right along side
against a whole bunch of other Roadkill
project vehicles in the
next episode of Roadkill.
- All our good stuff
is here, look at that.
We got Lafonda, we got
Dodge the minitruck,
we got the Mazarati, the Crusher Impala,
the Hornet, Mascarma, and
of course, General Mayhem.
Yeehaw!
It's glorious!
- [Narrator] Support companies
that support Roadkill.
(rock music)
(Mike yells)
- We're back in Dirtfish.
(Mike woops)
(tire screeching)
(rock music)
- [Mike] Yeah!
- [David] The Disgustang is back.
Remember this 1969 Mustang Mach 1?
We dragged it out of
Colorado Auto and Parts,
a junkyard where it had
been sitting for 37 years.
That was episode 66 of Roadkill.
- Green shag carpet.
- [David] Man, it was tough getting
this thing running and driving
and it was worse cleaning it out.
The reason why it's
called "The Disgustang"
is it was truly gross, loaded
with raccoon poop and worse.
When we finally got it running,
all we really did is some donuts
there at the junkyard, which was a riot,
but it didn't fulfill the need
for a road trip in this garbage.
And so this time, that's
exactly what we're going to do.
We're heading 1,000 plus miles north
to Dirtfish Rally School
but first we got to
get it out of Dulcich's backyard
where it's been sitting for a year.
- [David] So the Disgustang
has become the cliche
of the car that rolls
into Dulcich's backyard
and sits there forever.
Nothing has changed about the car
since we pulled it out of the junkyard
except it got a new
exhaust system yesterday.
That's it.
- [Mike] So it may still
smoke and barely do a burnout.
- [David] Yeah.
- And we're going to drive to Washington.
- Right now.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Let's go.
- You ready to go, Steve?
- Thanks Steve.
- Okay, guys.
- Have a storage.
- Have fun.
- What are the wires
taped to the turn signal?
- That's the starter
'cause he lost the key.
- Oh, sorry.
- So the car's gotten better
since last time I rode in it.
- How?
- Well, the wire's brand new.
- Right.
(laughter)
(engine revs)
- Still smokes.
- Here we go.
- Come on, this is the
only Mustang I'd ever own.
We're going to die.
But at least we'll look
good while we're dying.
- Junkyard fresh.
- [Mike] Let's go.
- No idea what to expect here.
We have no gauges in here, so,
I have no bad news.
- More people should just get into a car
with no gauges and no
plan and see America.
- No history, no nothing.
- Live life.
Having gauges, how many road trips
has that interrupted,
unnecessarily for people?
How many layers of dog and rat poop
have stopped people from plucking
and otherwise good car,
fixing it up, and driving it?
- I think we have the
market on rat poop covered.
- [Mike] Yeah.
- [David] But are you
ready to get really dirty?
- Wouldn't be the first time.
Let's break her in proper.
(David laughs)
- I don't want to laugh,
I'll get dirt in my mouth.
- I can't tell where we are.
(both laugh)
(upbeat music)
- This is how every great
road trip should start out.
A beat up car, no plan, and a parking lot
with which to do donuts in.
- That's kind of what we wanted to do,
was shake it down a little bit.
This thing feels just a little bit fragile
and the engine is making
more noise than it ever was.
- Sounds very sewing machine-like now.
- Yeah, it did not like
that RPM, that's for sure.
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
- I'm having fury flashbacks right now.
- Meaning what?
- I don't think it's
going to last very long.
- I bet it goes all the way.
Yeah.
- It's getting loud.
- My numbers matching 351 is going away.
- Dude, are you accelerating more
or is it just getting louder?
- It's just getting louder.
- Oh my god, we might
make it to a gas station.
(Mike laughs)
- I was really hoping
to go on a road trip.
Not sit on Dulcich's farm.
- Naw, we're going on a road trip.
- All right.
- Back to Dulcich's farm.
(both laugh)
- That's better, just
coast all the way there.
- Oh.
- That's a rod knock.
Oh, it's done.
What have we gone, 5 miles?
- That's probably oil
starvation doing donuts.
I may retract my prior statement.
(both laugh)
- Hey look there's a swap meet.
Maybe they have, aw, no way, it's done.
- It's done, it just locked up.
(engine sputtering)
- Ah, it doesn't want to crank.
Give it some gas.
- It's all over.
(engine sputtering)
- Smoke.
- I don't want to hang out at
Dulcich's house for a week.
I want to see America.
(David sighs)
- We can change the engine in one day.
- If we had one.
- We do, someone just has to
drive to Westech and get it.
There's people behind us.
Go around.
- Go around, idiot, we're broke down.
(both laugh)
- Haven't you ever seen this show before?
(David laughs)
- [Mike] Five donuts, five
miles, five minutes, done.
- [David] We went out to the field
to see if we could break the Mustang
and it had a little bit
of a delayed reaction
but sure enough, we've
blown up the engine.
- [Mike] So what are we going to do?
- [David] New engine.
- [Mike] Make it better, all right?
- That 4-10 that we used on Engine Masters
is on it's way here now.
- Wow, you aren't wasting any time.
- No, so this engine's
pretty much wrecked.
However, Dulcich and I do this other show
called Engine Masters where
we dyno cut stuff all the time
and we just did a 410 cubic
inch, small block Ford
that will be a direct
replacement for this.
It's all the way down
at Westech Performance
which is like 3 hours from here.
But, we've got somebody running down there
to pick it up and they're going to bring
the long block up here and so it's
just going to be R and
R, rusty old junk out,
gleaming new, you know,
480 horsepower engine, in.
And then the transmission
will blow up later.
(upbeat music)
- This engine's locked up solid.
We're trying to figure
out how we're going to
get it rotated to get the
torque converter bolts off.
It does not move.
- Look at that, how impressive
is the engine, then,
when you think about this?
We were driving along and it was fine
and the moment you lifted off the gas.
(David imitates screeching noise)
- It just stopped.
- Yeah.
- And now it will not move with a
two foot long breaker bar on it.
- So we've threaded two
three eighths diameter
bolts into a damper that's, I don't know,
40 years old, and now we
have an eight foot long
solid chunk of steel.
This effectively
multiplies the torque here
by a factor of 27.9 Dulcich's.
That's taking your 180 pound feet
and making it six or seven hundred.
- [David] It's turning like butter now.
- Nice work.
- We're passed the ugly part.
Let's make sure you're not turning past
the converter bolt.
- Yeah let's get the bolts out.
- [Dulcich] I feel like a
superhero with my giant bar.
- I really didn't want to take
the accessories off the front of this.
- With my big pole.
- But seeing you wield that rusty pole,
totally made it all worthwhile.
We might've been a little rough there.
- Well, that took way too long
but we're finally ready
to pluck the engine.
Theoretically, the numbers
match the engine for this car.
My level of caring.
- [Mike] All right, now you can go up.
- That's sort of a ritual.
- We have a green pool of
coolant all over the floor now.
- We have a mop now, though.
- I blame myself.
- [Mike] So on day one, drove the car,
did donuts in the car,
broke the engine in the car,
got the engine out of the car.
- Think of it this way, we broke the car
one one thousandths of
a way into our journey.
That's pretty impressive, ready?
- Well, it was.
- All right, where can we put this
where it'll sit for six months?
(upbeat music)
- Well we're super lucky that I had this
sitting around from
our Engine Masters show
and I intended to put this engine
in the Disgustang eventually,
but not as quickly as
we're going to do it now.
Because we're going to strangle it
with like stock exhaust manifolds
and a bunch of greasy parts and stuff.
What it is is a 410 cubic inch stroker
which is based on the 351 Windsor
just like what came out of the car.
And this thing makes about 480 horsepower
and 520 pound feet of torque which is
just enough to blow up
the FMX transmission.
Okay, here's the most hideous thing
that's going to happen, probably during
this whole installation.
Look at the difference in size in the port
on the cylinder head versus
the port in the manifold.
That is like the worst performance
situation you can get.
These are going to be some
power-robbing manifolds.
But, we don't have headers,
we don't have time.
Great parts, bad cars, bad
ideas, brilliant execution.
- [Mike] Looks good.
- This is bad.
Fortunately the old flex plate
off the car is going to
be a little work here.
This car is an FMX automatic transmission.
The thing about these Fords is you have to
make sure you have the
right external balance.
The 351 is a 28 ounce inch offset
and so is this blueprint crete engine.
So, it's going to go right together.
Boy was that lucky, drop it in.
- This is exciting, I mean, I'm not saying
we're getting out of here today
but the engine might go in the car.
I don't even know if it'll stay in the car
but the engine will go in the car.
- I can assure you guys that you
will be out of here by noon.
- Noon?
- Yes.
- No, three.
- Three? Okay.
- I'll give you until three to get
this thing the eff out of here.
(all laugh)
- Then you're shutting the door.
(rock music)
- [Dulcich] What, it fell in!
It installed itself.
- I don't want to jinx us,
but this is going really well.
Engine's in the car,
transmission is almost
perfectly aligned, and right now
we're just going to throw
a couple bolts in it
and make sure the torque
converter lines up
with the flex plate and if it does,
we'll continue to bolt things together.
We may leave today, maybe.
(rock music)
(engine sputters)
- Do you have the ignition on?
- [Dulcich] Oh.
(engine revs)
- Pretty good.
- Hey, we get to go on a road trip.
- [Mike And David] Yay!
- I forgot about that.
(Mike laughs)
- All right, Dulcich, we're out of here.
- Thanks, man.
- No test drive, we're just leaving.
Talk to you in five minutes.
- He's turning his cell
phone off this time.
- I would if I was him.
- [Mike] He's too smart not to.
- [David] Ready?
- [Mike] Don't break it.
(engine revs)
- You're brave, didn't even warm it up.
(David laughs)
- Little bit of smoke, but
that's got to be residual stuff.
- Oh yeah, it's got no brakes at all.
We can't drive, that's no brakes.
And what's going on?
Okay.
- All right.
- Hey Dulcich!
Eh, look.
All right, we made it 50
feet and all of a sudden
there's no brakes, what so ever.
No front brakes.
Like something went wrong with something.
So, I will be much more carefully
driving it back to Steve's house
who could've possibly seen that coming?
Why would it have no fluid
in the front brakes at all?
That means like a line broke somewhere.
- Technically, I'm still on a road trip.
Even if it's on foot.
That's the way I'm looking at it.
We need brake fluid, we have absolutely
no brakes but master cylinder's empty
so back to Dulcich's,
we'll get some brake fluid.
I'm sure that's the only
issue we're having tonight.
Looks cool, though, only on Roadkill
can you change the motor
and loose the brakes.
You got like mutant bunnies here
that eat extension cords and brake lines?
- [Dulcich] Something strange
must be happening for sure.
- [Mike] All the bunnies I hang with,
they wouldn't have done this.
They wouldn't have eaten that brake line.
- [Dulcich] Really, you get
the good bunnies and I get...
- Treat 'em right, man.
Whoa, easy, turbo.
- Never can just fire
it up and drive away.
It's always the little stuff.
- [Mike] I never would've expected it.
- It's 70 miles to Fresno.
It's dark and we have no seat belts.
- Ready to rock?
- Yeah.
- [David] Headlights.
How do headlights and taillights work
on a car that's been
sitting in the junkyard
for, what, 30 something years,
and I can't make 'em
work on anything I own?
- I feel like this car was abandoned
and thus has built up
a lot of good car karma
over the years and it wants to be driven.
Which is why the electrical
has not failed us yet.
- [David] But the engine did.
The engine did not want to be driven.
At least not in circles at high speeds.
- Yes, not on rough terrain
in circles at high RPM.
- All right, highway
for the very first time.
- Yeah, buddy.
- [David] You'll notice
I am not romping on it.
- Please don't.
- Yeah.
- Let's just, let's just road trip.
Come on baby, shift.
- [David] I want some miles.
- [Mike] It's working.
- Kind of, it's got a good shake.
- [Mike] It's just got to work itself in.
- We just have to get used to the terror.
That's what it is.
- Think about it, when was the last time
a human drove this fast in this car.
We still don't know why somebody
stopped driving this car.
- I hope we don't find out the hard way.
I got a lot of dirt blowing
in my eyes, how about you?
- Uh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's why I brought these.
- Oh, you're smarter than me.
- Not really, you're the one driving
maybe I should give them to you.
- This has been a hell of a day.
We got the car running, we drove it,
I don't know, almost 75 miles
which is about 12 times further
than we went on day number one.
So, I'm calling this success.
We're going to stop here tonight.
Get up in the morning
and go have an adventure.
- You realize I still haven't
gone wide open throttle.
I had to lie awake all
night waiting for it.
- We're not there yet.
And I don't want you to
ruin this moment for us.
'Cause I don't know if
you realize the gravity
of what we're about to do, don't do it.
We're piloting a car that
hasn't moved since 1982
to a drag strip that nobody
has run on in decades
where they used to send
not just top fuel cars,
but jet cars down in four at a time.
- So this is Raisin City.
- Yeah, it's out in farm country.
Allegedly the tower is still there.
The strip is still there
and it's not fenced in.
According to Google Earth
we can get in there.
- I love it when the
old tower's still there.
To me, that's like the
icon that makes you go,
"Wow, stuff really went
down here, stuff happened."
- [David] Man can you
imagine guys bringing their
top fuel cars here in the '60s?
The tower is rad.
- [Mike] It's round.
- I read that it came from a local airport
before it was here at the drag strip.
- This is wide, but it's not that wide.
Imagine being the dudes
on the outside lanes
in a four car showdown right there.
- [David] I think the track
was on the right side.
- [Mike] Yeah, it's over
here, it's over here.
- [David] Oh, look at this thing,
I have to check this out.
Oh that's cool, that's
really, really cool.
- Oh, there's a ladder to the top of it.
Too bad it caved in.
I want to see you climb up there.
- [David] No.
- [Mike] Cause it seems really safe.
- [David] It's falling in.
- [Mike] Dibs on the
Mustang when it goes wrong.
- This is where they
stored the Christmas tree.
It says tree bottom, start line.
This is where they stored
all the crap for the racing.
Like maybe that stand was for the tree.
- Imagine everything
that this tower has seen.
First being in a local airport,
then coming here to the drag strip,
seeing all those match racers back
in the '60s and very early '70s.
Running four wide down here,
jet cars, top fuel cars.
Back in the golden age of drag racing.
- This is one of the coolest
things we've ever seen.
- I think you can see where this is going.
You're at an abandoned track,
you've got nice, perfectly good 1320 feet
of torn up old concrete in front of you.
Let's find out if we can break this thing.
I don't even know if
this thing is going to,
ya know, bog and die
or backfire and surge.
We know nothing, I've just cruised it.
- We know a few things.
- [David] I don't know.
- Nothing that applies to
this scenario right now.
- Ready?
- Roast 'em.
- I think it's going to
backfire and die, let's see.
- Yeehaw ha ha!
(engine revs)
- [David] There's the secondaries.
There's second gear.
- And keep going, here ya go, 82.
We just made a pass down a drag strip.
- Hey, we did.
- [Mike] Yeah, we did.
Not bad.
- It's not overheating
and we have oil pressure,
we have a transmission, victory!
- [Mike] Yeah!
- [David] All right, what next?
Old car hunting?
- Yeah, let's go find another project.
Or let's go look at cars we can't afford
or have no place to store.
(rock music)
- Yeah, let's find this fence,
this is the kind of fence that hides cars.
- Yeah, it is.
Oh, I feel like I'm entering the lair.
- International Pick 'Em.
Cougar, Cadillac, I'm home.
- [David] Oh this is pretty good.
It's going to be great.
- [Mike] This is awesome.
- [David] I think this is
a '63 Comet Mercury Meteor.
That's a good wagon, too, actually.
- Fenders.
- [David] Sweet.
Oh, Sandy Inez Airport.
- [Mike] Dude, this is rad.
- [David] This is cool.
Oh this is really good.
Look at that.
- [Mike] Oh, wait a minute, dude,
this is a Brookwood, this is worth money.
- [David] Brookwood, it's
just a low trim level.
- Yeah, but it's...
- This has more rat poop than our norm.
- Which is the higher one,
the Parkwood or the Brookwood?
- That's a good question, you
may have stumped me on that.
That is a lot of rat poop.
- Look at how straight it is.
This has perfect petina,
it's just weathered
but it's not beat up and
there's no holes in it.
I really like this.
- [David] I really like it.
- He's got all kinds of Rancheros here.
I'm not a Ranchero guy though.
- That Jeep's been pieced together
from a bunch of different Jeeps.
- More of an El Camino that I never
want to paint kind of guy.
- Good ol' flat fender Jeep.
It's World War II as you can tell
by the dash but the rest of it's been
all hacked together, the
back has been put together,
it's got a Willy's hood on it and stuff.
But nevertheless, found a flat fender.
- A lot of trucks, I don't care how
old the truck is, I dig trucks.
- There was a guy named Dave Koffel
who actually raced one of these
in the Gas Class way back in the day.
It was called the Flintstone Flyer
and he ran the tiny, I think it was a
265 Chevy engine in this big mammoth car.
He was playing the game
of weight per cubic inch.
And winning with a very slow car.
This is all stuff that's like older
than what we're used to messing with.
- Yeah, I was just...
- But I like it.
- I was just saying, like,
I dig all this stuff.
I love the chrome, I love the styling,
I just can't relate to any of it
'cause it was never in my
high school parking lot.
Is that an Imperial?
- [David] I'm wondering if
it's a Chrysler or an Imperial.
But yes, it is one or the other.
That is an Imperial.
- Hmm, I got it right,
I never get it right.
Have to give myself a gold star.
- If you really dig junkyard
wandering like this,
check out this new show that's going to be
on Motor Trend OnDemand,
it's called Junkyard Gold.
It's Steve Magnante doing
nothing but mind barf
on cool automotive trivia.
- Hey Dave, somebody turned
a van into a ramp truck.
And it's got a T-bird on it.
I kind of want to see this do wheelies.
They cut the back of the van off.
- [David] Yeah, I've seen this before.
Well, I don't see anything we need to own
'cause the '58 wagon was already sold.
- That was too good to be true.
- [David] Yeah, so, next.
- [Mike] All right, keep on truckin'.
- [David] Yeah, ugh, dust.
(David coughs)
- That was cool.
- Yeah, that was pretty good.
- [Mike] Let's go that way.
(engine revs)
- Smell that rubber,
they need to bottle it
and make it a cologne.
- It's pretty great.
- For those less fortunate
who don't have a car
that can make the cologne.
- Okay, we have an issue,
though I don't think
it's deadly, the left
front suspension's making
this horrible clacking
sound on the highway.
(clacking)
- Seems worse than that,
though, doesn't it?
(clacking)
- [Mike] Oh, I think
the shock broke in half.
- Yeah, seems like something like that.
- [Mike] Oh, yeah, so that's the piston
hitting the tower, I think.
- [Dave] Yeah.
- [Mike] Do it again.
- Check this out.
- [Mike] Oh that is cool.
(clacking)
- [Mike] Yeah, the shock
broke off the bushing.
- Yeah the rod completely
came off the round part.
- That's not going to kill us though.
- That's hilarious, that
will not kill us, however...
- This one's still there.
- Are you ready, check this out.
As if by magic, look what I have.
- Oh.
- New shocks.
This is a rear, I do have a front.
When we got this thing in Colorado...
- Totally uninterested in
installing that right now.
- And now we broke one in half.
You know what, it's getting dark
and I'd like to go to Medesto
or somewhere like that
and so basically I'm not concerned.
It's not going to kill
us, at least not tonight.
- We're fully on the
same page right now, man.
- [David] I feel good about it.
- This is like, it's
like you read my mind.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Aw, I thought for sure you would want to
just fix that to ensure handling
on the mountain roads on the way back.
- No, I'm not even driving this
and there's no seatbelts so...
- [David] Do you want to?
- Naw, I'm good.
- No?
- I'm good.
- Oh, man.
Kind of hurt.
- I only drive cars with
four working shocks, dude.
- Ah, forgot your standards
were much higher than mine.
(rock music)
- Boat car.
- Dude.
- [David] What is up with us?
- [Mike] I think I've
seen this climb this.
- Oh it's a four by, oh no
it's not a four by four.
- [Mike] Dude, that is a 23 feet Nordic.
- That is genius.
- On a truck chassy.
- This is what you've wanted to do
except for actual floating.
- Yeah.
- No way.
Oh this is hilarious.
- [Mike] Wow, this is a rare boat.
- [David] It is?
- [Mike] Yes.
- [David] I don't care.
Oh yeah, it's got a full Chevy truck dash
and everything in it.
- This is a really rare boat.
- It's pretty stupid.
It is four wheel drive, isn't it?
It's just, it's a late model, yeah,
it's four wheel drive, independent.
Okay this looks like we did it.
Literally, we're just
driving in the middle
of nowhere from like Yosemite to Modesto
and I spotted this
thing and I'm like boat!
He's wanted to do this except for actual
seal the tires off so it'll float
and I have a feeling this is going to
make him have to do that.
It has the complete floor pan
out of the truck and everything.
Look, it's just ratchet strapped on, dude.
The body is ratchet
strapped to the chassy.
- [Mike] That is how we would do it.
- [David] This is exactly
how we would do it.
(Mike laughs)
- I know this is not what I want to do.
I want to build an
actual amphibious vehicle
for another episode of Roadkill.
This is motivation, certainly,
'cause it's cool looking.
It really is, I'm glad we stopped.
- Now he's going to force
me to make one, I know it.
(rock music)
- Morning, so the Mustang and me
are like on a third date now.
It's kind of like, still
the get to know you phase
but starting to get into it.
- What base have you reached?
- That's at least becoming
within the circle of trust, but--
- What base is the circle of trust?
- I cannot stand the broken shock.
So we're going to fix that.
Last night that got real irritating.
- He's only made it to
first base, definitely.
- Yeah, I happen to have these shocks
from when we were in
Colorado, I ordered them,
'cause I thought we would
change them at the junkyard.
- Then you did offroad
donuts and broke that one.
- That was my fault?
- I wasn't driving.
- I was influenced.
Check this out, okay.
- Wait a minute.
- What?
- That's rusty there, that's been broken.
- You're saying it was
broken the whole time?
- That's been broken a long time, dude.
- Really?
- Yulp.
That is a 100% rusty--
- Oh, you're right.
- Where the shaft should meet.
- Well, it was still
making an irritating noise.
- This shock, is like school
in the summertime, no class.
Definitely not doing the second one.
- [David] No.
- Professional mechanics everywhere
just shaking their heads right now.
Want to drive or ride today?
- Want to drive? You should.
- I don't want to drive.
- Let's go.
- All right.
I think I'm ready, I think I've earned it.
'Cause I installed half a shock.
- By the way, have you noted the complete
like diaper situation that
we have going on here?
This car was so repulsive when we got it,
so soaked in raccoon and rat urine
that we had to take the seats out,
which are actually in pretty good shape,
pressure wash them, wrap
them in plastic trash bags,
and then put cheapy seat covers on.
That's what that's all about.
Ready?
You need training or do you have this?
- I think I watched, so let's see.
I know it's a two-handed affair
to find the neutral safety switch.
(engine sputters)
I know the ignition should probably be on.
- That, too.
There ya go.
- Wow.
- Fires right up.
- That starts very easy.
Oh, no power steering.
- [David] No power steering.
(upbeat music)
- It's been awhile since
you looked truly homeless.
- I know, I didn't count on this.
When we left this morning
it was like 70 something
and now it's 30 something and yes,
I'm in shorts and sandals.
I'm also going to fix the
rear window in the car.
- I feel like you have a handle on this.
I'm just going to get in the car.
- Oh my fingers are getting numb.
Oh my sack is stuck to my thigh.
I think it's frozen there.
Oh my god, it's cold, we're in California,
why's it cold?
- [David] We're stupid, minor success.
- Good game, way to hustle.
(Mike groans)
- We have no heater,
we have no floor board.
This is not going to stick,
this is the tech tip,
is the skirt action, you
got to get the blanket
going just right here and
you turn it into the skirt
before you sit down in the car like so.
And then you take your second one
and you stuff it around your feet
and it's actually pretty good.
Proven through many miles.
Here's some kindling, start the fire.
(Mike laughs)
Now the key's in my pocket.
(Mike laughs)
(upbeat music)
- It's like the good ol' days,
a car with no hood, my toes are frozen.
We're still rolling though, I mean,
it's remarkably reliable, even though
it looks like absolute garbage.
- Oh we lived, I did the math because
the speedo actually works in this thing.
We've gone 699 miles, we're
in Medford, Oregon now
and the worst thing about it,
it stinks like pee now that we've
got all the windows up and stuff.
I think maybe like there's
a nest or something
that's still up under the dash.
Either that or Finnigan
irrigated his pants.
But if he did, it's so cold in there
it would have turned into a pee slushy.
That's gross, all right, see you tomorrow.
Nice parking job.
- [Mike] Yeah.
- I also appreciate that
the engine is covered
from rain, except for the distributor.
- Oh the electronic parts, you want those
exposed to the elements, that
way they can get moisture,
freeze, then unfreeze,
actually it loosens up
all molecules.
- Shouldn't the distributor be
on the other end of the engine?
- In my world it is.
- Okay, ready?
Oh that's liquid, see?
Don't need antifreeze.
- There's freeze plugs
pop out of this thing.
- I know, let's put some in because
it's only getting worse from here.
I hate it when he's right.
- Earlier he and Dulcich ridiculed me
for wanting to put
antifreeze in this thing.
- It was California then.
You put antifreeze in racecars.
- I do, because mine usually overheat.
Remember it's antifreeze and coolant.
Raising the boiling point
or whatever it does.
- That'll do plenty.
- Haha a little dab will do ya.
- You really think that'll help,
I was expecting you to drain some out.
- I feel better about it.
You better not break today, car,
because it's only going to get colder.
- Yeah, it's going to rain
for the rest of the trip,
so we got wipers, we got
rainex, we've got blankets
that we wisely left in the car
so they would be plenty
cold for us to wear
as we leave this morning.
- You want to keep your
numbers matching wiper blades?
- No thanks, too much stuff in the garage.
The Mustang turns out to be pretty good
on the road except for the fact that it's
got no floors, no interior,
a bunch of rust holes,
and we were freezing to
death and what made it worse
is a torrential downpour
right at the end of the trip.
Water coming in the
floors, soaking our feet.
It was miserable but then we made it
to our destination which made all
the suffering worth while.
- [Mike] We made it, this
is going to be awesome.
- The Mustang drove almost 1300 miles.
- This is paradise,
look at all the gravel.
- Oh yeah, that's what makes this place
genius is the gravel.
Yeah!
Oh man we're back in DirtFish.
(Mike and David wooping)
(car engine revs)
- [David] Oh man, this is going to be fun.
- Yeah, buddy, keep going, oh!
Woooooo!
Oh boy, hahaha.
That was awesome!
- [David] The Disgustang
finally did the road trip
that we should have executed
when we pulled it out of the junkyard.
And yeah, the engine blew up,
which was kind of a drag,
Dulcich actually took the
engine apart and found out why.
There was leaves in the oil pan
and they blocked the oil pickup
and so that thing is junk
and I got that 410 small block
in this thing quicker than expected.
The real miracle here
is that the transmission
didn't explode with all of
that power in front of it
which is a good thing because we are going
to thrash the Disgustang right along side
against a whole bunch of other Roadkill
project vehicles in the
next episode of Roadkill.
- All our good stuff
is here, look at that.
We got Lafonda, we got
Dodge the minitruck,
we got the Mazarati, the Crusher Impala,
the Hornet, Mascarma, and
of course, General Mayhem.
Yeehaw!
It's glorious!
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(rock music)