1951 Buick Rat Rod - will it RUN and DRIVE? 

Love your vids and the projects!

I wish we were neighbors. I had a great neighbor like you once, he did what made him happy, the rest be damned. He flipped 80 cars in 15 years. Even won a major car show or two. Like you, he was a river of knowledge and a spoonful of talk. Factree!

Derek, make these kind of videos again. Raw camera, totally jacked car, experimenting as you go. This is what we love. Best to you, your brother and your family.

"we got about 5 minutes of battree left and we're 10 minutes from home." a minute later, "let's take it on the interstate!"

I can really relate to this car guy. Not sure how I got here, but I am an INSTANT subscriber five minutes into this!!! ☻👍🏾

I finally found the rat rod video from your intro . Love it !

I love your torquing pan bolts approach. I never thought of the jawbone exploding analogy. I always tighten until I see stars afterwards. This approach has always worked for me. My Dad always said, "Nothing too strong ever broke."

Love going back to watch these older videos. You’ve come a long way Derek. Keep it up fella.

Hands down the most creative use of a junkyard frame pile.

Sometimes I come back to these old episodes just to visit the classics. VGG Forever 🙅‍♂️!

the car on ramps being held by another car is full send, safety third, keep up the good work.

This is one of my favourite videos that has Shaun and Derek. Re watching in 2024 and VGG has nearly 2 million subscribers.

I found one of your videos... which led to another... and another. Now I'm here and hooked! Love it!

This is the first time I've seen a video this old, it's amazing to see how far VGG came in just four years.

Weld up the holes, fix the broken bits, pound it out 30, maybe fifty foot straight, paint it olive drab, stencil a white star on the side and claim it was General Eisenhower's last staff car. Yeah, that'll sell it!

Keep up the good work! I appreciate that your videos do not include foul language.

Between the haunted house door hinges, the possessed engine and transmission, and the Frankenstein frame, this is the scariest ride I've ever seen.

Never underestimate the value of living in a non-inspection state!

Four door, cobbled frame, significant body work to be done, I’d pass it on. Or keep it for the same reasons.

I like to catch up on the videos from the beginning, shows just how far a guy has come and where he’s been. Good to see you haven’t changed, still a stand up guy we’ve all grown to love !

I think the Buick is my most favorite one yet I have always wanted to fix up a 50's Buick Rod

You know the best part of your videos. After I watch them, any motivation I had to work on my own car ends at the end of your videos. I felt like i completely something with out doing anything. Keepum coming. I have a truck for you.

The reason I sub'ed for this channel is, when you do a project with repeated steps, You do all but one or two off camera, so we can see what it all looks like, then you show how to get it that way! Great job

That body style is bad ass !! I love the rally wheels on it . I'd like to have that car .

You, my dear friend, are having entirely too damn much fun. Keep up the good fight. :-D

im gonna over torque the bolts, rtv everything and weld that, this is the best youtube car channel, its the stuff i say lol

The deadpan delivery puts the the bow on the videos. The Interweb never ever was this entertaining before. When I'm watching these videos my wife asks me what I'm laughing at...I tell her not her and she don't believe me.:)

Watching this and knowing how far you've come since is awesome! Love these old videos.

you are my new super-hero!!!! love love love the Buick!!!!!

I love these older videos, a guy has bit more of an edge to him!

Love how you include your boy and let him tag along. That is the kinda stuff you will both remember; what matters. If I knew nothing more about you, that would be enough. Good stuff.

Seeing how far you have came from this video and you trailer as a lift to the awesome shops and facilities now shows what hard work can do

Never has the term "connect the frames" been more significant...

You're a champion! The stuff that legends are made of. I love your channel.

In a world gone health and safety mad your the only guy that looks normal .

I had a 82 Camaro that came with a 2.5 automatic. With the factory rear end it was low gear with a strong 350 in front,but didnt last long. Once my alt wire fraid and came out of the plug it only had like 2 strands still hooked to the alt.When you went over 1500 rpm it sounded like a turbo, so my buddy and me done the right thing left it alone til it finally burnt up.

When I can't get the right torque converter bolts I just weld the converter to the flex plate. Works every time!

Not sure if I keep coming back for the cars or your subtle sense of humor! LOL

That alternator was all types of fancy.

Looking back t this video from what they are now, the production quality grew %100 .

Oh your car was wired by Lighthouse for the Blind to! My Camaro has a relatively expensive aftermarket electric fan in it from “Be Cool” and when I bought it, it was wired with a ground switch duct taped to the radiator overflow tank. I’ll be honest and say that I hate wiring, but some of the shit people do is just incredible. If you have to rig something to get out of a jam so you can get home that’s understandable, but these are not permanent fixes. I never understood how people could spend a ton of money on engines / swaps, transmissions, wheels, paint etc... yet ignore or purposely wire something to where it looks like Stevie Wonder did the job

This fella lives in heaven, he just doesn't know it yet!!! Epic stuff!!!

When you're driving on the highway "Yeah, let's get off right away" that made me laugh out loud.

Better entertainment than the lousy cable box crap keep up the good work reviving heaps of junk. I haven't laughed so much since the mother in law fell over on the ice lol. Tom. UK

Absolute Gold,the most natural car content creator on Y/T,bar non,and has me 🤣 all the way Brilliant.

A whole lot of us gear heads dig your style brother! Keep up the half ass work because that’s the entertainment that others seem to forget about and is plain old fun to watch!

This guy is awesome, I could watch him all day!

15:06...I love that jam...specially the harmonics on the guitar.

You guys are awesome.love that the rear is ready to go and the kid is back there...lol..I live in the suburbs outside philly and the life style was like this when I was growing up .im 46 miss the kind of stuff you guys can do.everybody in this area has become so uptight and snobby..

Great entertainment. Keep it or sell it, I don`t really care. As long are you keep doing this, I`ll watch! BTW, I know this is an older video but whoever you are wearing that CranioCareBears bracelet, I hope all is well/better with them. Will keep in my thoughts and prayers. It's never easy when little ones are sick/suffering.

This goes against every thing I've learned. Playing with cars over the last 40 years!! Lol you are having way to much fun! Enjoyed it! 🤘

Love the power brake tip. Sorry it is two years late. Love the channel. Please, do not stop the content. The channel is an inspiration to the next generation of vise grip mechanics.

Going through a car wash without a back window, love it. You reminded me of stuff I've done like sitting on a car trailer with a cable jack after dark cause the car broke down and the wench didn't work. Good times.

Classic RAT-ROD! :D Love this beast! Everything a Rat-Rod should be: unsafe, rusty, falling apart, and burnouts for dayyyyyyyys! LMAO

A guy needs to go way back and watch the older videos to! This is awesome!

I love the Buicks (and other vehicles) of this era, but the sketchy frame on this rig is pretty scary!

It’s awesome watching the earlier episodes.

Best video yet. Live the kid in the back seat while doing a burn out. Rock on DAD😷 lmao

I've only come accross your vids recently. Subbed on the first one I saw. Now I'm going through them all trying to get them in chronological order. Very entertaining to say the least. Love that Buick. We didn't get most of the cars you have there in the states here in Oz. We got Fairlanes and Falcons which we built here. Our local GM was Holden which were mostly unique smaller versions of Chevys. We also built Chrysler Valiants, similar to yours but with different grills and tailights. Keep up the good works.

Great stuff! - pretty much all the same techniques that keeps my ‘60 Chevy on the road for 25 yrs! You don’t need lots of money, just an attitude! Love it

This is the funniest show 😂😂 I’m glad he’s on RU-vid ! Thanks

Man oh man..... ‘57 Chevy, ‘51 Buick, ‘69 Chevelle............. this is what I imagine Heaven to be like

As the engineer protagonist said in Robert Heinlein's Door Into Summer: "Bash to fit, file to hide, paint to cover."

Yes Sir I can relate. I bought a rusty '69 Chevelle while stationed in Va. I drove that home to Ca. The only hiccup was the horn relay lost ground in Knoxville, Tn. A $2 recharge and she finished using a quart of oil every 200 miles. She had a 400 csb with 3.31 one leg diff. In 2012 I bought a '61 Apache pickup in San Diego, I didn't brave the chance to drive it home. The tires were dated 16.5 bias ply. She had exhaust blown at the y-pipe and #1 cylinder had cracked rings. The headlight was smashed on driverside which meant I would have no lights at all. It would have been a 3 hour drive home so I trailored it.

I found your channel some how man do me and my wife like watching you she never gets into my car shows and even she like watching you your awesome man keep it up you got two new subscribers

I stopped watching tv a few years ago. Watching your stuff is pure awesome :)

When I was a teenager our neighbor down the street a mechanic decided he was going to take his brother's 50 Buick straight 8 and build a dune buggy I remember with all the neighborhood kids we rolled the body off to the side leaving the chassis engine and drivetrain. We ended up shortening it probably two and a half feet, put seats on it, cobbled a 3 inch water pipe roll bar not very safe of course. We built their own dual wheels to bolt onto the stock hub. we even went as far as to fill the rear tires with calcium carbonate to make extra weight. We had a lot of fun with this thing. This is 1968. In 1969 we discovered VW Beetles and started our dune buggies

💙 the Buick you do a whole series of video's on it keeping it a Rat Rod and fixing some of the really sketchy stuff while putting your touches on it ...like welding the diff and making it a posi. , body work where there is some serious rust..etc

I been looking for this video for awhile.. I saw a part of it on your intro. Glade I found it

Derek....I have not laughed that hard in a long time. You were tightening that alternator bolt and the wrench took a shit. Priceless....just toss it to the side and move on. Love it!

Ole "Frankie" don't look bad at all from 10-12 feet away. Those Chevy Rally wheels look damn good on her. Who ever did all the butchery on that pile should have their tool license revoked for life. LOL! BTW LOVE your channel!!!

Love the Roadmasters, so jealous. I'd never let that car go.

Keep it, It really is the poor mans hot rod.I think it has a lot of potential .

people take note, all the sketchy stuff on the car and the sketchy repairs he performed are what most of us need to look for when considering purchasing someone else's project. trust me i learned the hard way.

Love the way this channel has grown and the way you address the challenges............

Lol a really easy “cold air intake “ you can do on those older carbureted cars is u can take the air filter cover and flip it upside down and put the screw back on😂

I think you should keep it bro and slowly redo the whole car starting with the frame so that it’s safe and not so sketchy and and scary to drive love to see more of this car on here Love these old Buicks to

Gotta love Buicks. My father traded his '66 Chevelle for a '69 LeSabre in 1970. Myself and my younger brother and sister would be laughing, swaying about in that big rear Buick seat while the the old man howled the tires on the way back from Cortina Pizza. Had to get home before the pizza got cold.

yup , that little bit of smoke got me chuckling .... poor Brad , kid took it good tho , ....''''

love the posi vs non-posi inspection tip, love your channel the more episodes i get into it. keep it up

"mind bottling"

Tight is tight. To tight is 2 pieces. Derek progressed a lot the last few years. May success find those earning it and life be full of rusty, dirty, smelly old cars and fun!

So a guy went and became a member just because this is the best channel ever!

How do you keep the local law off your back, your neighbors must not really hate you your to much fun to have around. This is the stuff of legends that will be talked about long after you move on. I'd would give you more likes if I could.

I finally found the best damn you tube car channel, thanks for your videos and humor...laughed my ass entirely off!

Derrick, love your background music! Just don’t let it drown out your snappy patter.These episodes always make my day.

Dang it seemed like that Buick was pretty fun to drive once you did a little maintenance to it! She burned them off pretty good for what she is! Seems like you have pretty good luck finding cool old cars! Your videos are pretty fun to watch! Thanks for posting such cool videos!

Keep it and take it on a road trip 👍👍👍👍

“We’re all here, cause he’s not all there...” That’s Right!

Banging around underneath with that spanner and calling it maintenance after overtighening all the bolts! Hilarious. I needed that.

Nothin' better than an old episode from your beginnings - love it!

Lol... love your “ we’re going to fix it right and carblesnorfle it together” attitude! Lol

i love how you just have fun with whatever you work on. reminds me of myself.

This is my favorite car you did a video on so far I love 50s cars

Ignore your haters. I enjoy your channel. If you ever need help in Texas hit me up.

I just found your channel over the weekend. Very cool ! Very funny looking forward to see more. U rock my friend😎👍

Waitaminute-am I actually fixing something? Hilarity! "On the sketchy scale, 1-10 what is this?" "About a 12."

Where were you when I was a kid? Please keep that car and do some fix-up on it. I love old Buicks and when they have a big motor, that just makes me love'em more.

Looks like a guy went to the Colin Furze Safety School of Engineering. Love it!

Damn that thing is a death trap you ever put those frames together like that need to have their heads examined what a freaking nightmare from hell that car is lol