You've done it again, Ben! Massive thanks to you and your pop for all the help. Maybe the next video on this ol' girl will be its trip to Bonneville so we can recreate some of those photos! 😎
Great story, great work documenting it, great car, and great people. Nick Arias, Alex Xydias, Stu Hilborn, Phil Remington, and Barney Navarro and the rest of those guys, were heroes. I never get tired of hearing about that period of HotRodding history
HOW AWESOME!!!!! SO EPIC, JUST LEGENDARY. I LOVE HISTORIC RACE CAR HISTORY AND WHEN THEY ARE FOUND AND BACK IN SAFE HANDS. GOD BLESS , LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING GET RESTORED AND BACK ON THE ROAD!!🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁👍👍
Man what a story! Love how you pieces it together leaving all the details in. Glad I got to be there on the sidelines first hand. I’m still amazed that the car was found about 20 minutes from where Justin currently lives. Great detective work Christian and Justin!
Amazing story,stuff like this is a once in a life time type of thing,almost magical. And looks like Justin made a new solid friend in Christian. All I can say is unbeleviable
Vids like this one remind me why I luv cars and this story brought me to applauding when the call from Justin came in at the end. Justin is a natural story teller who, I'm guessing, was much like his granddad. It's the car! That declaration was great. I was actually clapping at the end. It was put together well...good job.
man so well documented to date the car and to prove it so you have brought us along for the start of this journey you just got to finish this and bring us along i have subscribed so pleas lets finish this journey Big Cheers mate
I really enjoyed this story Thank you for sharing . I'm a firm believer that our souls pass though our children and today i seen you're grandfather speaking though you . Im second gen mechanic and my son is third gen . Sometimes when say something it's exactly how my dad said it . And now that my son is in his 30s I can see Dad at times in him they way he talks and his actions . And my son never knew my dad . I'm sure we've not seen the last of this hot rod . Im a Bonneville fan myself . Be cool to see it at Speed week some day 😎✌️
A friend of mine was walking in the woods in New Hampshire and notice an old race car that was pushed into a gully. He went to a house nearby and inquired about it, and as told whose car it was. It turned out it was run by a great modified racer who was famous and ran all over the Northeast. The car was all there except the running gear. This kid got a small block chevy and transmission and a rear end and restored the car. It now sits in the kid's garage, painted with the original color and numbers. I am one of the few people who has seen this car, and I keep telling him to take it to the oldies nights at the local track, but he is scared to bring it out. It looks exactly like it looked in the 1960's
Very awesome story, kind of a similar story with my grandfather. My grandfather had this very nice 1957 Belair 2 door convertible, white with red interior, and he unfortunately had to sell it years ago because he was running broke blowing powerglide transmissions left and right. My grandma tells us stories about how he used to street race people all of the time and had never lost because his belair was the cream of the crop in its day. He had a nice 'hide away' license plate that was operated via a lever in the cab and a string, my grandpa was also a master welder and a very talented mechanic so he made his own fabricated parts for his hot rods like you see in this video. My dad wanted to surprise my grandfather with the '57 before he passed but the time ran too short and it couldn't be accomplished, but I know he's driving one now. This video was not only very well put together, but it makes a lot of us car nuts proud seeing another family gem being brought back to its rightful owner.
Hi great work at documenting,priceless history, I let a race car go back in the late 80,s and have wondered what became of it,its a two door hard top Australian monoro,you guys have inspired me to go and look for it,great job you guys, God bless you all
I Just want to say something, If that's your Grandfather's Don't ever sell it, Money will never replace your Grandfathers Past. That is a Awesome find, I wish I could find my uncles races cares from the Danbury Race arena, In Conn. Danbury Fair, When they closed there door's my Uncles name was Mentioned that last day. Such a great man and full of Kindness, Loved by everyone, so God bless and glad you found loving memories of your Grandfather.
Regarding the hand pump. My boss Don Garlits stated that when they started running nitro they had to run 10psi so they would use hand to achieve that when they switched over.
I hope you tell the year of the old car, its either a 37,38,39 chevy business man coup, i just lost my dad 6 months ago and inherited his 37 Chevy business mans coupe its all apart and partially restored he passes before he got it done, hopefully this spring i can start on getting it back together, cool vid
Jimmy 6s ruled in the early 50s in stock car racing on the east coast They were torque monsters Know for breaking bell housings boring the 270 Jimmy to 301 cu in Hebert Rollar cam a Vertex Magneto six 97s on a Mcgurk intake on Wayne head this was stock car racing at Wall township New Jersey 1951,52,53 .
like you said its an old racecar , could verry well be that they replaced the body of the car as for the small tank mecanical and electric pump : you might be tinking about it wrong way round and the guy ran nitro in the big tank and gas in the small tank , the switch on the floor of the car couldve been one mounted in a floor mounted consolle and nothing more than an electric switch
What an awesome story, keep us posted moving forward, I'd love to see this restored back to as raced condition. And excellent job on the video, audio, editing, everything, it's on point young man. Keep up the good work!
This is just so cool! Congrats on this incredible recovery, and big thanks to Christian for being so cool about it. Can't wait to see it in person someday, hopefully running!
This is hands down my favorite episode that you've done so far, Ben! Documenting this type of rich hot rodding history, and a car of this caliber finally coming home is totally sick. Well done man. 👏🏻
It definitely looks like Nick Arias' fingerprints are all over that car. What an incredible story and I can't wait to see Justin bring it back to life and eventually bring it back to Bonneville! I'd love to be there when he does and see it run.
Please never stop these types of videos as a SoCal kid myself seeing that hot rodding and muscle cars are still going strong here makes me so happy. Amazing to see that these cars are still out there! Keep up the dope work!
Amazing story and so cool to watch and just shows you what is still out there lying around. Really hope to see more of this on your channel ?? Please !!!
Arias Pistons? I'm a great fan of the Jimmy Six! And to see a couple of actual race tuned versions getting woken up would make great content...hint hint. 😉 PS one of the old mates from NZ,Kiwi Kev picked up a 37-38 coupe back in the 70's with a tuned 270 in it, he swapped the engine into 46 Chev pickup... I raced against a couple of 38 GMC powered coupes on the old Dirt track,South of Auckland which were crazy fast. I have a pic somewhere of another competing in a hill climb,sideways on the bitumen in the early 60's. NZ had plenty of GMC engines as the US forces left a few hundred behind after WW2.
Wow what a history story on a lost survivor racer,so much Documentation.tks u Ben an all that was involved in this video.hope u do a update sometime..tks
words fail me. an incredible car and an incredible, special, story. I'm so happy for justin and the family... got me kinda emotional. thank god for good friends like christian too. please... follow this story and document progress as you can and thanks!
Awesome video. That's when REAL craftsmen worked on hot rods. No computers or expensive education. That jet assortment board was really neat. He took a ton of pride in his work. Would like to see build updates. Is this going to be happening?
Great story and find, I bet you sit in that seat, fall asleep grandpa will be with you. I would start moving furniture out of living room to get that Baby in! Cheers...
Super cool car, I love to hear the history, when I built motors I always used veolia pistons. My first one was a 289 Hi-Po and it had .030 pistons, and I had to call someone at Veniola to get some specs and some racing secrets and tips.
A great story of some of the great California hot rodders and a special 37/8 Chevy Coupe. So glad it has returned to this gentleman's family. Hopefully, a rear end matching its glory days will be found and the car be refinished to a running and driving condition of it's racing heritage.
