Roadkill (2012–2020): Season 7, Episode 82 - From the Junkyard to Pikes Peak! - full transcript

- This time on Roadkill,

we take a 50 year old car
to the top of Pike's Peak,

which is over there somewhere.

- We just don't quite make
it all the way back down.

- Not really.

(car engine roaring)

(car engine cranking)

(tires squealing)

(upbeat hard rock music)

(car engine purring)

(bluesy hard rock music)



- If you remember, we were here

at Andy Moss' collection
of junk back in episode 55

when we built a Broughammer Cadillac.

(car engine revving)

(guys cheering)

- Remember that car?

Cadillac, cut the roof off of it.

Stuffed a 12 valve Cummins
under the hood of that,

and then jumped it.

(car thudding to ground)

- I saw this 1967 Chevy
Biscayne at that time,

and it stuck in my brain.

I've always wanted to go

to the 14 thousand foot
peak of Pike's Peak,



which is where they do that
annual hill climb event

that's been goin' on forever.

So I had to acquire a
car, which is right there.

This thing's been sitting long enough

that it's a good junkyard rescue.

Let's pick that thing up, make it run,

and see if we can get a
1967, 50 year old Chevrolet,

to the top of Pike's Peak.

(hard rock music)

(sprayer fizzing)

- (laughing) What is that stuff?

- It's strong.

- Wow, that's hardcore. (laughing)

Problem is, this place is
like loaded with wasps,

and they apparently make
nests in door jambs.

- You picked the car that
they're all going into.

- I know it.

So you have absolutely no
understanding of this car, right?

- I don't know, like every Roadkill,

I go into it with negative info.

I don't even bother
Wikipeding what we're driving.

- 67 Chevy Biscayne which
is the same as an Impala,

but it's the lowest possible trim line,

and it's the sedan version.

It's just a cool body style,

they made 427 4-speeds in
'68 and '66, but not in '67.

The thing is though, this GM platform--

- You love.

- I love, it is just the
ultimate highway cruiser,

and it handles terribly,

and has really bad manual drum brakes,

so it's perfect for
what we're going to do.

- [Mike] You've proven
with the crusher Impala,

that they are a lot of fun.

- [David] Except for this
is a 283 with a Powerglide.

- Still, awesome car.

- Wow.

- The jungle's trying to
reclaim this, look at that.

- Pretty bad.

- The mice did not get to
this part of the wiring,

so that means we can put an Optima in here

and at least try to crank it.

- Yeah.

- We need oil.

What we're doin' here is just going over

the basic fluid check.

Theoretically it fires right
up and runs and drives.

I brought the fire.

- [Mike] All right.

- Ooh, the interior's nice.

(bright funky brass music)

Wow, it's hot in here.

Is this in park-ish?

Oh wow.

(car engine cranking)

Okay, that was way too easy.

- It's a good sign.

I'll put some water in the radiator.

- [David] Yeah, this is far too easy.

This is going to bite us later.

- It's fired up, it's made minimal noise.

(engine purring and banging)

I'll fix it.

- [David] No! (laughing)

- It's got to be flammable, right?

(engine revving)

- It's not picking up,

or the accelerator pump isn't working.

Well, there's nothing wrong
with the old fuel filter.

(sharp exhaling)

You can breathe right through that thing,

but I'm going to put a new one on anyway,

so that narrows down
either the fuel pump's bad,

or we've got a hole in
the fuel line somewhere,

or we don't have enough gas
in the tank, I don't know.

(engine cranks)

Now we've been cranking
it, and cranking it,

and cranking it, and running
it on starting fluid,

and pouring gas down the throat,

and it's still not picking up fuel.

But you'll see I came prepared.

Before I came here, Andy kind of told me

what the situation was with the car,

and I ended up buying a
bunch of replacement parts.

New fuel pump going in.

(ratchet cranking)

(upbeat country rock music)

- [Mike] All right.

- Ready to start it again?

- Yeah.

- [David] Cross your fingers.

(engine cranking)

- [Mike] There we go.

(engine purring)

Fuel!

- [David] Yes!

- It's alive, and it's not noisy at all.

- What a relief.

Okay, giant car, no power
steering, no brakes at all.

Going to drive the thing through

a little narrow alleyway to get inside.

(hood slamming shut)

- Be out here directing,
air traffic control, oh boy.

You're good!

- [David] That clear?

- [Mike] Plenty of room, keep going.

All right, straight.

(steady country music)

This way, you're good.

- Well, we got it inside.

Okay, I got it!

This is our old list from
when we did the Broughammer,

and it's still here.

This one is going to be the Biz-Bomb.

So, brakes.

- [Mike] Plug wires.

- [David] Plug wires.

- Tires.

- Yup.

We need to like, vacuum it out, right?

- This, oh dude, that's all turds.

- [David] Okay, that's not bad.

- [Mike] No, not at all.

- Where do you want to begin, food?

- Yeah. (both laughing)

- I'm down with food.

- I like dinner.

- Do you want to just call it for the day,

and vacation and come back tomorrow?

(steady country music)

(upbeat country rock music)

- Well, it's Tuesday brake day,

I think we're going to pull
all the drums off this thing

and just see what we've got to deal with,

and then what, spark plug wires,

vacuum it out, hit the road.

(car jack squeaking)

(drill buzzing)

- It's day two, things are going good.

Car is already up on jack
stands. (drill buzzing)

We're going to take the wheels off,

we're going to look at the breaks,

we're probably going to find lots wrong,

ignore most of it, just
bleed them and hit the road.

'Cause we're thirsting for adventure.

- Wow, this wheel bearing's bone dry.

- Well then it's a good thing

we're doing all this
preventative maintenance.

- [David] When I opened
this, I wanted to check

to see if the wheel bearing was leaking

and it was completely dry down here,

but then I peeled back this rubber end,

and puke, it started leaking fluid out.

The piston in there is
leaking brake fluid,

so I have to fix it.

(hammering tire drum)

- This one won't come off
so it's probably okay.

So I can't seem to get my drum

off the passenger side of the car.

This one, that slot doesn't exist.

You can't put the screwdriver in there.

This feels very Roadkill.

- Okay, got my wheel cylinder
out, and my brake hose.

This is a because
Roadkill, the brass washer,

which is the thing that
seals this to the cylinder

came in the box maimed.

Completely broken all the way through.

I'm going to attempt to
get it out of the old one.

Which could be a trick.

(metal snapping)

Oh, nice!

There we go, boom!

50 year old washer saves the day.

- Yay! (tools hammering and drilling)

I never work on drum brakes.

In fact, these really weren't
in my high school parking lot.

Drum brakes shouldn't
even be in my vocabulary.

So if I don't take a picture,

I'm going to forget where everything goes.

Got the drum off, got
the wheel cylinder out.

Problem is, when I did all that,

I broke the brake line that goes

from the wheel cylinder to the frame.

It was going to break,
probably going up Pike's Peak,

so it's better that I broke it here.

(drill buzzing)

(drill buzzing slowly)

So that's no good, we're going
to take that wheel cylinder out,

and put some fluid in the rear end.

Be on our way after we fix that
brake line I broke earlier.

- [David] Boom!

That's great, mine's good,

but I guess I might as well replace it.

(upbeat rock music)

- There are ladybugs everywhere,

look all the luck crawling up right now.

- [David] Man, that's classy.

- Notice how I went under the linkage.

We've never done this.

- [David] We've done
fuel line over the roof.

(Mike laughing)

I don't recall brake line
over the engine before.

We broke that brake line on
the other side of the car,

and so Finnegan went and got
a really, really long line,

and instead of trying to bend it

around the front cross
member and everything,

we're just going right
up and over the engine.

And all new wheel cylinders,

we didn't do the master but it pumps up,

so I think we're good.

Ready to bleed?

- Yes!

- These cars are great, they're so comfy.

- Okay, go for it.

- Okay, one, two, three,
four, five, holding.

- Oh yeah, I heard air
come right out of it.

- [David] Yep, I felt
air come right out of it.

(up beat hard rock music)

- [Mike] Hey, that's a new tire.

- We got new tires, brakes are bled,

we finally get to put tires on,

and put this thing on the ground.

You know what's super cool?

Is that Andy was able to
mount and balance these things

right here in his own shop.

I got Cooper Cobra GTs,
which Tire Rack now sells,

and 245/60s in the front,
275/60s in the rear.

Let's find out if I
screwed up, or if they fit.

- Other nice thing about
coming to this place was

we had a bent wheel on the
car, he swapped it out for us.

So now we have four round ones.

(drill buzzing)

- That feels like a victory.

- [Mike] Oh, this thing's going
to ride good, look at that.

This is the kind of action you want.

That's what you want, right there.

- Brakes done, plug
wires done, tires done.

All we have is interior
detailing, we're good to go.

(vacuum humming)

(upbeat country rock music)

(car and truck engines roaring)

(car engine starting)

- [David] Ooh, brakes that brake.

- You're doing great!

- I'm really not going to hit it.

- It's a large car, it's
hard to tell, I know.

(car door slamming)

No bees, no hornets.

- [David] I don't smell anything unusual.

- [Mike] No, so far, so good.

- First time on the road
for five years or so.

Not bad.

- That's a nice steering wheel.

- It's pretty good.

(engine revving)

- [Mike] Low gear.

High gear.

- Perfect.

We are set.

- [Mike] We can go
anywhere we want right now.

- See the USA in your Chevrolet!

- We have two speeds, four tires,

I assure you, before I
forget, those brakes work.

- They'll be fine.

- Yeah, they're not going to leak.

- [David] Is it proven?

- Oh yeah, does it stop?

- Oh, that's a good point, ready?

- Yeah, hit it.

(engine puttering slowly)

Look at what we made!

- It died.

We're out of gas. (laughs)

- [Mike] Oh, let's get gas.

- Yeah, we're going to.

It drives great, it handles terrible.

So let's go up Pike's Peak.

- [Mike] Yeah.

- I'm legitimately concerned

that I'm going to have altitude sickness.

- I'm excited to find
out what that feels like.

- Okay, now it's getting hot.

Naturally.

Now it's 200.

- I'm okay with 200.

- Well we made it like
three miles down the road,

filled it up with gas,
and now's the time for,

that famous expression.

You think you hate it now,
but wait till you drive it.

- I get to drive?

- You're up!

We're going to a racetrack,
I figured you'd want to.

- [Mike] Are you giving it to me now

'cause it's overheating?

- Yeah.

We're off.

(upbeat jazzy music)

(car engine purring)

- Decent turn in, okay,
I like it, I like it.

- [David] It handles like a
bowling ball on a waterbed.

- Wants to push a little bit here.

She could stand to be
lighter and stiffer, and--

- Better?

- Yeah, better.

Things we can't really
take care of right now.

- [David] Less Biscayne?

- Yeah, a lot less Biscayne.

- [David] Now it's 200.

I think it's probably low on water.

- [Mike] Imagine that, we're overheating.

- Thing is this thing runs cool

just sitting there for half an hour,

but as soon as you go 55 miles an hour,

it runs at 200, then 210, then 220,

so it's just an airflow issue.

This fan clutch is garbage.

- Which we ordered for tomorrow, so.

- I think that helps.

- It's already better.

- We could get rid of the
air conditioning condenser.

(metal banging against metal)

- Win, I think it's better.

- [David] Done, it's got to be.

- I don't think it's fixed.

- [David] Can't be worse.

- But I think it's better.

It's certainly lighter.

Practically a race car now.

(engine revving up)

Is that it?

Really, that's all?

- Go, go, go.

(engine roaring)

- I have to merge with
traffic car, come on!

Ah, we lived.

(engine purring)

Recognize this place?

- Oh yeah, right.

The road should be right there.

- [Mike] Do you have any idea

what the name of this place is?

- It's a out of business road race track.

That's all I know, and
it's cool with a bridge.

- Oh, hey, look at this.

- There, you're on it.

- This is the track, dude.

We are on the racing surface.

- Yep.

Boom, check this out, the
overheating is not fixed,

but this is how much we
care, because we found this.

- What an awesome day!

- This is an abandoned road race track

in the middle of nowhere Colorado.

- Without a no trespassing sign,

I mean it's implied, they just dumped dirt

along the middle of the
start and finish area.

- [David] But there's no sign anywhere.

- There was no sign saying,

"Do not drive your overheating car here."

- The sign to me said,

"Drive through here
where there's no dirt."

- Right.

- Yeah, so we're going to make
a lap, it's going to be good.

(car engine revs faster)

I forgot you don't care
about this car at all,

I should have had that in my mind.

(hard rock music)

Think this is a right.

- [Mike] Yep.

(laughing)

That's pretty bad ass.

- [David] It had a little
brush around the corner,

that makes me happy.

- All right, there's a left hand turn

somewhere over here.
- Somewhere in here.

- [Mike] Right here.

(tires squealing)

- Oh yeah. (both laughing)

- We're doing great!

- [David] Oh wow, let's
go, you're off the track!

- [Mike] Are you sure?

It's really hard to tell. (laughing)

- Oh wait, make right, you're over there.

Oh, you're actually swimming around, yeah.

I guess the plans are a little bit loose.

- [Mike] Oh, hello!

- Down here.

- Yeah, yeah, down there.

(upbeat punk music)

- [David] I know you can
handle the straightaway.

- [Mike] I can see now.

(yelling excitedly)

- That looked like a bad one.

- That was a really big one.

- [David] And stop.

We made it!

- [Mike] Yes, we lived!

Oh wow, you should look
at the radiator now.

- Oh, that is not better.

- It looks like Christmas in there!

- Yeah, it's on good. (Mike laughing)

We can fix that.

This is awesome, this is not helping

the overheating situation, look at this.

This is what we get for
beating on our brand new car,

it won't run now.

Maybe it's because,
what is all this stuff?

- [Mike] No, that's the AC stuff.

- [David] Is it?

- [Mike] That was already off.

- Our problem now is
we had a bunch of fun,

but we've been punished
because now the car won't run.

- [Mike] What's the fuel filter look like?

- [David] So pretty much I think,

we're going to be stuck
here again till tomorrow.

'Cause the fuel filter is dead empty.

- Wow, we ran out of gas.

- [David] Yeah, this time
you'll have to walk for gas.

(water spray hissing)

There's one thing that you
should learn from Raodkill,

I think it's that if
you pick up an old car,

the Achilles heel is the cooling system.

- Always.

- Every single time.

But remember when we solved it

in the Draguar episode with a car wash?

- [Mike] Yes.

- We're going to do it again.

- [Mike] Yes, right now. (slapping car)

(loud bluesy rock music)

(hose sprayer hissing)

- The thing we're worried about

is that there was a bunch
of dirt and obviously leaves

packed into the fins of the radiator,

and we think it was getting no airflow.

Either that or it's
completely plugged inside,

one or the other.

- This is what I was born to do.

- As soon as he's done
he's going to squirt me,

so I'm walking over here.

- Now I'm just detailing.

Can't turn it off.

You know what that means, you
know what I got to do, right?

(laughs) I wouldn't.

That's just mean, I wouldn't do that.

Do we just drive straight to Pike's Peak

and halfway up the mountain
when we're delirious,

that's when we change the fan clutch?

- Sure, I'm delirious now.

I think it'll only get
worse at 14 thousand feet.

(cheerful rock music)

- 140 degrees.

- [David] Staying super cold so far.

- Yeah, almost as if we
know what we were doing.

Oh yeah, master level problem solving.

Not just parts changing.

- [David] All right here comes

the true scientific test of cooling.

- With Mike behind the wheel,

does it overheat on the freeway?

(bluesy rock music)

- [David] That was troubleshooting, right?

Yeah, look at us, the
engine's surging a little bit.

But I think we might be affecting it

giving that hard throttle, leaning it out.

Which'll be good for Pike's Peak.

There's less air at the top,

so it gets richer and richer as you go.

So if there's a vacuum leak,

that's more air in the motor.

- Right.

- It's perfectly tuned for altitude.

(car engine purring)

(bluesy rock music)

Car wash time again!

- [Mike] Yeah, it's running poorly.

- Yeah, you're right.

In addition to still overheating,

although we made it better,
it overheats more slowly.

- Yes.

- It runs like doo doo.

It's got a big vacuum leak,

which is why it keeps
dying at every signal,

and that's also telling
us that it's dead lean,

which would make an engine hot, and surge.

- So we're going to try
to fix our vacuum leak,

cause I think that is going
to be the key to our success.

- Trying to cool off the parts
we're going to be touching.

So look, if I spin the fan up like this,

and then stop, it just
keeps spinning, that's bad.

So the fan clutch is a
device that's on there

that's supposed to have a
thermostatic control on it,

or sometimes they're centrifugal,

and it's got a fluid coupling
in it and a little clutch,

so when you're driving on the highway

and it's running cool it's
'cause the air coming through it

is supposed to disengage the clutch,

but I think it's disengaged
always right now.

It's an easy fix and we
already bought the clutch.

You know we could have
fixed all these problems

all at the same time,

but then we wouldn't be
on the road having fun,

we'd still be back at that junkyard.

- [Mike] Got it.

- There we go.

See there's the little temperature coil,

it's all clogged up with junk.

You have to be careful with fan clutches,

you can buy them that
spin the wrong direction.

We're having to rob bolts off the car

because our old fan clutch had studs in it

to hold on the fan on,

and the new one has just bolt holes.

So I'm thieving 5 16th
coarse bolts off the car

in order to hold the fan on.

- This is going to solve
a number of problems.

- The deal with this vacuum leak

is when the engine's running,

there's a vacuum in the intake
manifold, negative pressure.

And if you've got an open hole

in the intake manifold so that's leaking,

the engine just doesn't like to run right,

it especially stalls at idle.

And I just found a real big vacuum leak

in this line right here.

What I'm going to do is
make a plug out of this hose

by cutting off the bad end,

putting a spark plug in this end,

and then hose clamping
it back on, look at that!

This is an official GM hose.

So rumor has it,

this car has an original 59
thousand original miles on it

and it's so trashed 'cause it
sat out in a field forever,

and there's some indicators
that could be true,

GM hose, original windshield wipers.

And now we just put a spark plug in there,

that becomes and awesome vacuum plug.

We're going to be good.

- [Mike] Let's go, we
got a mountain to climb.

- I think we just turned a corner.

- Oh, dude.

- [David] Smooth sailing.

- [Mike] We're going
right up a mountain now.

(car hood slams)

- [David] This works, that was the tweak.

(car engine roaring)

Less than 160 degrees right now,

but this is not the true challenge.

Got to get on the highway.

(car engine purring)

It's not fixed but it's comin' off, yeah.

(laughing)

- [Mike] Brakes work.

- Well, it still overheats bad.

Like 235 degrees on the highway,

which probably means
the radiator's plugged.

Which means, old school Roadkill fans,

we're about to go to the classic.

Yup, hood on the roof.

- This is going to work.

- But wait, I was prepared for this,

check this out, this is
going to be high fashion.

I don't want to dent the roof
with the hood, so we got pads.

Did you want to go floral or striped?

- It's appropriate that you got stuff

that would come from Grandma's furniture

to protect Grandma's car.

- So Grandma's more floral, right?

- [Mike] Definitely.

(ratchet cranking)

- [David] That's pretty good.

- [Mike] Yeah, that's really good.

- Proven to work, I think.

If it doesn't I'm calling it a bad gauge.

(car engine purring)

(fast hard rock music)

Hood's not moving,
straps aren't fluttering.

Home free, again.

- We're holding steady at 180.

Maybe the gauge is off by like 20 degrees.

(fast hard rock music)

(car engine purring)

- Finally, this is it.

We're going to the top of Pike's Peak.

14 thousand, 100 plus elevation.

So here's what makes this relevant,

this is the scene of the
Pike's Peak hill climb

that's been going on since 1916.

Guys race this windy road
all the way to the top

and when I was the editor
of Hot Rod Magazine,

I used to pore over the
old images in our archives

of guys running up there
in like giant '50s sedans

and sprint cars, and muscle
cars, and full size stuff,

like there was one guy
with a Olds Toronado,

so big things like this car.

And there was one image
that always stuck in my mind

of this early Plymouth B-body
just teetering over the edge,

and that's where the peril comes in.

And so we've got cliffs, we've got turns,

we got junky old car,

and then of course
there's altitude sickness.

- [Mike] We're going to make it.

(peaceful music)

- That's where we're goin', look at that.

Up to the top.

- [Mike] There's still
snow patches up there,

and it's June.

And we now have our cans of oxygen.

I want to try this just to
see if it does anything.

What if it's a scam?

- It could be.

- Let's find out.

- [David] How's it feel?

- Like air, I guess.

When the race began, this
was all dirt, correct?

- The guy made this highway wide,

it used to be like a carriage road,

and he made it into a
double wide dirt road,

and to promote that, he started the race.

(intense orchestral music)

- We're doing what no
men in a '67 Biscayne

have ever done before.

- It's the first time it's been done

in a 50 year old '67 Biscayne.

- [Mike] With no hood.

- [David] No hood.

- This is steep, are we overheating?

No we're good, all right, we're good.

Oh, I was worried they
weren't going to let us in.

- Hi.

- Yeah
- Oh yeah.

- We do too.

- Yes ma'am.

- It is very.

- Oh you can't drive
all the way to the top?

- No.

- Okay.

- Thanks.

- [Mike] Here we go.

- [David] And we're off.

(car engine revving)

- Oh, I feel my ears.

- Already?

- I laugh in the place
of altitude. (laughs)

- So I'll drive to the
end of the tree line,

and you can take it from the tree line up.

- [Mike] I don't know what that means.

- Well at some altitude,
trees don't grow anymore,

and so that's where the tree line is.

Oh wow, this is pretty great.

- [Mike] We're almost even
with the clouds, look at that.

- They call this the climb of the clouds.

- Oh really?

- This is America's mountain,

and the race is a climb to the clouds.

- Oh, hey look, a lake!

- [David] Look, lake!

- [Mike] That's cool lookin'.

- [David] Roadkill fan.

- Roadkill fan. (David laughing)

How did he know?

- [David] That was cool.

We lived to 11 thousand, 440 feet.

- [Mike] And look, there's
the tree line right there.

- Honestly the whole thing's just awesome.

This is pretty cool.

- [Mike] You want to drive or ride?

- You should drive.

- [Mike] All right.

(pensive piano music)

- Car's nice and cool, here we go.

I have a feeling going back down

might be more sketchy than going up.

- [Mike] And I'm also gettin'
some good blow by up here.

We're going to be well oiled
by the time we're done here.

- Look off to your left.

Fear, up here, now imagine
going 90 miles an hour

around this corner.

- Not in this turd.

- [David] Wow, this is why they call it

race to the clouds, look at that.

- [Mike] This is amazing.

Feels like we're going to
just drive straight up.

- [David] Yep.

- [Mike] To the moon.

- Man, I just can't imagine it in dirt!

- Or at speed, like look
at this turn right here.

How many guys have just
run right into this wall?

- Better that than over that edge.

Wow!

- How bad is it down there if they go off?

- Oh, it's death. (Mike laughs)

- [Mike] Why am I laughing?

- It is certain death.

- Aw, it's incredible!

Look at that, there's the sky.

- Yep, that's it.

- [Mike] There's the top right there.

- Oh yeah, 12 thousand, 780 feet.

This is where they stop us.

(groaning in frustration)

Unbelievable.

- What if we just go ask nicely?

- [David] Here's the sitch,

we're at Devil's Playground,
12 thousand, 780 feet,

and we got the big downer.

They were like, stop here.

Today is June 7th, on June 1st,

they stopped allowing cars
to go all the way to the top

and they're shuttling people from here.

But, we're special.

- Apparently, 'cause they're
going to let us drive

this hunk of crap all the way to the top!

- Can you believe it?

We totally just sweet talked a guy

and they're going to let us
drive all the way to the summit

which is great 'cause Mike
and I were like, (groaning).

- I want the full experience man.

- [David] I do too!

- I want blood out of the nose.

- We need to do it before
they change their minds.

I'm totally stoked now.

- [Mike] Thank you!

Here we go.

- Aw, this is great.

(triumphant rock music)

This is a downhill,
slightly off camber left

with a death cliff.

- [Mike] And no guardrail.

- [David] How do they do it?

- [Mike] Yeah 'cause this is
the fast part of the track.

- Right, lots of straight
to go really fast.

- [Together] 13 thousand feet!

- [Mike] I feel fine!

- [David] Yeah, me too.

- [Mike] Maybe I'm delirious.

(triumphant rock music)

- [Mike] There it is, there's
people standing there.

- [David] Yep.

- Finish line, look.

- This is it.

This is the peak.

- [Mike] We made it!

- [David] Conquered Pike's Peak

in a junkyard, 50 year old car.

This is awesome.

Did it!

And now it died.

Made it!

14 thousand, 115 feet.

- I feel like such a man now.

- This thing is like an
allegory for Roadkill,

you know why?

- I don't know what that means.

- It's all downhill from here.

- Oh, all right.

- That's it.

- Then yes, it's what you said it is.

Do you feel dizzy at all?

- [David] No.

- [Mike] Neither do I.

- [David] I know, what's wrong with us?

(smooth country rock music)

- [Mike] Oh look, look,
beaver, groundhog, what is it?

- [David] It's a marmot.

- [Mike] What a marmot?

- [David] That, that's a marmot.

- [Mike] What does it do?

- [David] Walks around.

- [Mike] All right.

- [David] This is rad.

- [Mike] This is one of the coolest places

we've ever been.

- I know, and I don't even feel

like I'm at 14 thousand feet.

- No, I feel great, we
need to double that.

- We'd have to go 28 thousand.

We'd need to do a Roadkill plane.

- Yeah, Planekill.

That's what we need to do next.

- [David] The panorama
shot is pretty incredible.

You know, this ends up being

a pretty mellow Roadkill overall.

That Biscayne fired
right up at the junkyard,

a whole lot easier than I expected.

It had that overheating problem and stuff,

but really no big deal.

It ended up being the vacation
that I was hoping for,

because we made it all the way here

to the top of Pike's Peak,

and it's not like we raced
the Pike's Peak Hill Climb,

but man, this is victory none the less.

This is awesome.

This is why you need to
get out and see America,

and do it in old clapped out garbage!

This has been pretty rad.

Snow, climbing hills, drum brakes,

- [Mike] Varmints.

- [David] Lightning, varmints.

- I've been on the brakes
for almost a mile now.

- Yeah, everything could go wrong.

Well you knew Roadkill
could not end with victory.

- [Mike] Oh, it never does.

- There was such glory up
at the top of the hill,

as it turns out, getting
down is the hard part

when you've got 50 year old drum brakes.

- We had a lot of wins though,

when you really think about it,

we got this thing out of the junkyard,

we made the Magic Mountain of brake lines

over the motor, which is still working.

- And we raced on an abandoned race track,

but now, on the way down,

the problem is with the
Powerglide transmission,

there's no compression braking,

so you got to drag the
brakes the whole time,

and it's like boiling the
fluid, killing the pads,

and we're probably done.

- 14 thousand, 115
feet, that was our peak,

we should have just quit
while we were ahead.

- I told you it's all downhill from here.

- [Mike] Nobody said we
had to get back down,

you just said, "Let's go to the top."

- [David] It's all I said.

- [Mike] I feel good.

- Man, that was good old-fashioned
Roadkill right there.

We pulled a 50 year old
car out of the junkyard,

and road tripped it,
with minor difficulty,

all the way to the top of Pike's Peak.

Right up to the point

where we tried to come
down from Pike's Peak,

those ancient four wheel
drum brakes just smoked,

and we ended up having
the thing flat-bedded

off the mountain.

And you know where it went?

Right back to Andy's
junkyard in Eerie, Colorado.

Where, I might add, he has
a whole bunch of other cars

that I'd really like to have,

and now that we have some credit,

having left him both the
Broughammer and the Biscayne,

I'm thinking I've got my choice of cars

out of that place.

And if we go there again
and pick another car

and make an even bigger and
badder road trip out of it,

you will guaranteed see that

on a future episode of Roadkill.

- [Announcer] Support companies
that support Roadkill,

- It's like you can't shake up the oxygen,

you can't feel the oxygen,
you can't hear the oxygen,

- I believe that's a scam.

Maybe if you go through
the side of the head,

through your ear.