Yes, I do - thank you for hating but you are stuck with it. If RU-vid just had a bit more brains than money, they could implement a feature where you could upload a revised video without losing all of the original's viewing history.
Yes I do, thank you. If youtube allowed progressive file updates like kaizen.place (for music), I could have turfed that long ago. So skip it, man - sorry to so easily annoy you.
Nice overview to entice someone to take part in the future....but as is soooo common, it's too fast to really absorb details. Should be at least 5-8 seconds on each car.
We try to show a many vehicles as possible but there is no easy figuring on what image "speed" works for everyone. Use settings to slow playback, or you can stare all day at the photographs used here: www.flickr.com/photos/specialcarstore/albums/72177720310652583
Whups - good eye, thank you. I spelled the name incorrectly on the filename and never adjusted the title. Notice I did get the "p" correct in the description.
As they are all extremely beautiful cars, the way to divide them into good, better, best, very best.... is to see in what condition they are, and which one has been restored best with original parts. But there weren't any "un-gorgious cars" to be seen. The reason why a French car - the Citroen SM - managed to slip throught the "'Italians only" watchdogs is of course because it has a Maserati motor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_SM
Thank you - it is always a challenge to balance pace with user interest. To slow down the video, try Settings/Playback speed rate to 0.75 - or just watch over and over.
@@specialcarchannel That is exactly what I do. There are people who are unaware of the Setting and playback speed feature. Incidentally, pre COVID, I had a booth there with my hand painted auto Logo Art. Perhaps we will return one day.
It was really cool that the Nethercutts found André Bith and included him in the restoration - very providential that he was around to be able to help them verify so many details!
Sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime. (BABVVEN & TEBBVEN laws )
The beat dictates the pace; slower presentation will halve the images or double the video length. For a car rally I think it is perhaps better to go fast than slow to heighten the sense of activity. Take your long gaze time with photographs here: flickr.com/photos/specialcarstore/albums/72177720298649579.
I would suggest that the reason there is carpeting is because those areas gat very warm due to the exhaust being relocated and the panels being installed underneath. If that was bare metal it would have been unbearable.
Good stuff...It's a tragedy that M/T himself isn't with us to tell the story of this car and others.M/T changed racing forever and it's a sad story indeed about his passing...R.I.P. Mickey,you are missed...
Yes the W (348-409 type) was a drag race engine. I bought a pair 63 & 66 Vettes in pieces from a guy. In the 63 there sat a 427W. He claimed it "came that way" thinking it was a 409. It had a modified M/T dual quad manifold on it. The drag racer guy up the street knew what it was and arranged a sale where I got $500 more for the engine than I paid for the whole package. Wish I had kept it.
Not exactly... The W series 427 is often confused with the "mystery motor", but that name really only applies to the Mark II 427, mentioned and shown in this video. People were very familiar with the W series engines by '63, there was nothing mysterious about them, even though they tried to keep the larger 427 inch displacement a secret for a while. Nobody knew what the Mark II was, not even when they looked at it, and that's why it was dubbed "the mystery motor". It was a new, experimental engine at the time and only about 20 of them were ever built. As for the "Mark III", there are two theories about what it was. The best known theory is that Chevy was going to make an engine based on the old Packard V8s, since GM bought the blueprints and tooling for those engines in the early '60s, but that theory has recently been debunked. A GM engineer (I can't remember his name) said that Chevy never had any intention of ever building Packard V8s, nor to modify them into a new Chevy engine. He claimed that the "Mark III" was blueprinted to be an even bigger displacement version of the Mark II, but for whatever reason the Tonawanda engine plant didn't want to, or wasn't able to, bore the blocks that large, so the project was scrapped and the Mark IV was developed instead. So, yes, three different engines have been called "mystery motors" but one wasn't a mystery, the second one earned the name, and the third never even existed.
Magensium rear end center section... TOM has the original pattern boards and MAG rear end which was in the car when he purchased it. I remember the article from the 1980's which Hot Rod did prior to Tom buying it OR right after he bought it.
According to Junior Johnson actually speaking on video about the '63 Impala that he ran with Ray Fox for the '63 NASCAR season, GM gave 7 of these exotic big-bore short stroke "mystery motors" to him, 7 more to Smokey Yunick, and then 3 additional motors wherein 1 was given to each of 3 competitors. 2 of those were 1 for Moody and 1 for Kiekhaefer........and I can't remember who the 3rd team was. Those 3 engines HAD TO BE given to competitors who didn't run or race Chevy, they just wanted 1 for inspection & analysis. The reason was NASCAR had a rule back then, that any engine offered to race by a manufacturer, they had to make at least 1 of those engines available to at least a few of the competitors, so they could learn what they would be racing against for that season. So according to Junior Johnson........and he should know better than anyone........there were a total of only 17 of these exotic big-bore short stroke "mystery motors" ever produced & released to the racing world: Again, that was 7 to Junior Johnson, and 7 to Smokey Yunick, with only 3 more dispersed to 3 different competitors for analysis, for a total of 17 total engines. Johnson was able to BUY BACK the 3 other motors, for a total of 10 in their possession, to ensure him & Ray Fox, who was his engine builder, had enough of these engines to last the entire racing season. Junior Johnson said that Ray Fox & Smokey Yunick were making between 700 and 800 horsepower with these mystery motors in 1963.........but the heads were plagued with valve train issues that often would not last for a 500 mile race. But while they were running, Junior Johnson at the very least led EVERY race before the engine failed.......and of the races where the engine survived, they won EVERY race, and flat out spanked everything else on the track. Johnson & Ray Fox both claim that had these mystery motors held up for every race, they would've WON every race in 1963. Don't take it from me.......go see the video for yourselves to witness Johnson making that claim. It's here on youtube: simply enter a youtube search as: "Junior Johnson/1963 NASCAR season".......the video should be at the top or very close to the top of the results page. Great video, where they displayed & spoke about the entire race car, including the "mystery motor". The car itself was ahead of its time too.
I was so born in the wrong era , this is when GM was the best and classy , I believe the basement was in the Warren tech center , kinda like a skunk works , man I love the Corvette , what a beautiful picture of history. My Dad had a silver 1966 Vette , it was gorgeous and I was lucky to have a 77 as my first car I bought with my own money , it was a basket case but I loved it dearly , I wish I had her still.
Tom's Z06 was a basket case - now it's probably better than new (and 250x the sticker price). Some people earn and deserve such great things in life. Painfully, I wish I had dozens of great cars that left my hands. My 1967 Corvette might not be one of them - overheated on every other trip...
