Dad and me now have a P.O. Box! 1772 Cortaro Az 85652-1772 Also in the description of this video is a “must have” list of tools and things we use to work on these old cars. Like our dewalt traveling tool kit. All on Amazon. Thanks for watching guys
I remember the 1st car that I learned how to drive on was a 67 El Camino with a 283 and a factory four-speed. I have a soft heart for El Caminos. I think it's a good thing trying to save that old truck for the simple fact we gotta save as many of these old cars as possible. I always say the old cars have a soul and a story to tell.
It's actually sunlight that destroys tires. If you want to store good tires for a prolonged period of time, put them in heavy mill black trash bags and store them in a cool, dry, dark place.They will last indefinitely stored this way.
great job getting the old girl running again. If I was you guys....... I would dump a can of Seafoam in that gas tank right quick , it will help clean out the junk in that carb. Also , what about hooking a up a heater hose to that top fitting on the heater core and then pouring in as much CLR as it can hold and let it sit over night. I'm think that it would clean out all the old junk in that heater core. Not sure if it will work , but it's wirth a try. Keep up the great work guys
Good gosh! You folks are going from strength to strength! I really enjoy the non-screaming, drama-free, relaxing wrenching! Good on Dad for finding ways to use up the extra paint that was left over from the wheels. Indeed…who can afford to pore it into something and let it dry up at today’s paint prices? I felt I was just leaning over your fenders and scootching down under the car to watch you folks. You made wonderful camera angle and editing choices. The little snippets of Boo supervising the operation were most welcome, too. This 60+ year-old geezer had very little trouble making out your speaking on this one-speaker iPad. The sound on your video is quite serviceable! You moved your narrative along nicely by buying properly-designed and professionally-built wiring harnesses; hacking an electrical system out of corroded wires, lousy soldering and electrical tape cuts the cheese, not the mustard. Mahalo for not putting yourselves…and us…through that, 😂😅. It’s obvious you, your Dad and Boo are relaxed and just humming along and having fun doing this project. I look forward to the next installment! Aloha!
THAT WAS AWESOME, TO TAKE A OLD CAR AND RESTORE IT, YOU GUYS TAKE YOUR TIME, WHAT AA CHALLENGE, I WATCH DIFFERENT KINDS OF OLD CARS VIDEOS, THANK YOU SO MUCH,
Hi guys good to see it coming together to get back on the road an with the fan some cars had a bigger bolt pattern in they had a clutch fan . Cheers guys 🇦🇺
Those rims and tires look absolutely incredible. When I saw the fast motion of dad painting the hood I was like what??? Looks pretty sweet though. I love watching you guys work on this car. Reminds me of when I was doing my 59 impala. Even though it’s an El Camino there’s a lot of similarities to my two door hardtop. I recognized the green reverse light wire right away. Lol. Looking forward to your next vid. It’s awesome how you and your dad work together on it.
Awesome video. I think the patina will show through on the parts that were painted, after some time passes. Looking forward to seeing you drive it. The rims came out great, BTW!
Enjoyed your New Upgrades on the El Camino. Can't belive the Fuel Tank and Fuel line were still 🔥 good 🌄 after all those year's Great Job 👍 Keep the Videos 📹 coming.
Your paint color is crown sapphire metallic, the color Scott at coldwarmotors dusted in on his 59 biscayne, that car had engine completely frozen, so another six from a Pontiac was found needing a starter, fuel pump, carb, and point which for for the first test were from a coffee can and of unknown origin and not from a car, part from 59 pontiac helped, and new points, it's really great seeing it come together and the paint surprise is great
Those rims look really sharp after your dad painted them. I think that he would like to do a repaint on the Elcamino! Looks and sounds perfect good! You and your dad are doing a fine job 👍
HI TRAVIS AND RICK-DAD,, GREAT VIDEO ON THE TIPS OF THE RADIATOR, WIRING HARNESS --THAT WAS SO COOL IT'S ALL WIRED UP PERFECT!!! ..RICK ALWAYS DOES A GREAT JOB PAINTING ..THE ENGINE,, RIMS,, ROOF,, HOOD ,,JOB GREAT!!! THE CAR COLOR IS GOING TO ALL BLEND IN WHEN IT'S DONE,, IT'S A-OKAY -GREAT.....JUST LOOK AT THE WORK YOUR DOING ,,VIDEO TAPE IT BACK AND SEE YOUR GREAT WORK !!! SOUNDS GREAT,, MY SON MAX AND I CANT WAIT TO SEE THE NEXT VIDEO!! ,,PEACE..
Great video (except your Audio is all over the place) with a wide variety of items covered ... you guys do your level best to not let little things get in your way ... like that ! Painting hack for you in dry climates (from Texas but also lived in Morenci) ... before you start painting, dampen the ground with your garden hose (just enough to wet it but not make mud). The overspray will be attracted by the Water (Hydrogen bonding) and less floating in the air and being ingested into your mask/Lungs. Also helps keep the dust down and out of your Paint surfaces.
The extra paint on top and hood looks fine. Being you've painted the rally rims it works. Your attention to details is great. I appreciate bringing a scrap piece of Americana back to life. keep up the great videos!
I've always had good luck with Goodyear tires. They seem to last the longest and don't really care if they're sitting around for a while. But we had a family friend who worked a tire shop and would always sell us the very best Goodyear tires they had for 90 bucks per tire for our fleet of c1500s. Also I've never done that antiseize on the coolant hose trick before. That would be handy because I've had to just get a box cutter and cut a slit and peel it off the neck before.
I like your channel the heater core has a bolt on heater control valve it might be stuck in the off position.They make the heater core but you will have to reuse the control valve . There are places that can rebuild the control valve . Doing it on the cheap what I did mine is a Biscayne I bought one for a 1962 with out A/C it's the same width and height but a little shorter and you will have to redrill the holes in the fire wall and put a inline heater valve.
Dad - WTF? how could u have painted over 53 yrs of history? over the character of that patina? twas a restoration crime! Travis did a good job of taking that in stride. one wonders whether the new paint can be stripped - worth a try? even if not the same as the patina, might look better with the other patina panels. in any case, it's special to see father and son collaborating and the paint-over mistake can be accepted as part of the work that is being created / revealed. cant wait to see the finish on this. :)
Ive seen people strap the fuel tank With rocks in it to a rear wheel on a truck or tractor on jackstands and let it scrub it out. Seemed like those radiator bolts were 4" long fine thread.
The project is really coming along great, inspires me to keep working on my El Camino project. Can you leave a link to where you got the wiring harness. Thanks again for another good episode
It's a joy for me to watch you and your dad work together on the cars . I'm 78 and I wanted to do this with my son, but I'm sorry to say it didn't work out . Now I can hardly pump gas in my car , so it's too late for me to do it . I'll just watch you guys .
My first car was a 60 Impala 235/Powerglide. It was the same turquoise color as your Elco. I'm 55 now, my dad passed 40 years ago. It is PRICELESS that you have yours there to make memories with. Awesome.
Love it !! Your technical expertise and common sense frugality are making this project constantly on the move forward. Can't wait for the next video and hope you are having luck trying to score that IHC pickup's drivers side door.
Really enjoy your videos - great wrenching and am looking forward to the next one. Especially like that it's not the 'we have a 48h deadline to get everything fixed' type situation. I think your dad painting the hood and roof is OK - just think of your El Camino having a three tone paint job now. 😉 You'll need to do some painting when you repair rust holes anyhow and the mix of new and patina looks interesting.
I missed your earliest videos, just wondered if your Dad was in the auto repair and tire business during his earlier life. Most of my friends who are into old cars dont have tire mounting equipment in their shops and neither do I.. Love the 60 Camino. Looking good.
Here I can take refuge from all the flashy, attention seeking 5 second shorts from youtube and other platforms. Still glad to see down to earth and original content, it really is a safe haven from the noise internet gives you these days. Dont have time for that.. Just relaxed wrenching thats all i need. Very grateful
Potentiometer, not rheostat. Also you should use RectorSeal instead of antiseize, on all pipe, electrical, tubing, and hose connections. I use Tru Blu, #21 and Tplus2, myself.
Just an FYI for you guys. Red White and boosted did a video this week on a collection in Arkansas I believe and the guy has several 59 and 60 el Camino and impala cars that he is fixing and parting out. I’m not sure if you have all the trim pieces you need for yours or not. He says in the video to hit him up and he would connect you to the guy. Love what your doing. Keep up the good work.
My mom had a 1960 ElCamino when I was little. I remember her taking me to school many times. If you are going to sell this project I would love to buy it when you are done
an old guy showed me a trick for gaskets many years ago and i used it on manifolds, trans pan and oil pans. thread a length of cotton sewing thread thru bolt holes and such until you get the bolts started. then you can pull it all out before tightening everything up. works like a charm! ....if you miss a piece here n there the gasket still seals just fine. love them wheels n tires! 😁 oh, and cut that air cleaner stud before you poke a hole in the hood!
I'm 52 years old and when I was growing up abandoned vehicles were vehicle that have been left on side the road and parks and woods, vehicles that sit in somebody yard field or Barnes for 30 or more plus years are neglected vehicles.....
So was this car actually abandon…??? Or was it just sitting on somebody’s property not being cared for …?? Or did somebody drive it onto the property in the middle of the night , and abandon it on somebody else’s property? .??? I’m just curious after reading this gentleman’s comment …, I see what he’s talking about. By the way I love this El Camino. I had a 59 Biscayne …!🎉
@@iplaymytele interesting questions. You in The Sims fella. Go back and watch the early videos. If I remember right they pull the Salvage junkyard. So whatever that makes it. But you can go back and watch the earlier episodes and decide for yourself. Well everybody calls at barn find or they discovered a lost abandoned vehicle. I'm speaking in general not specifically these two guys. But in most cases they are there and somebody knows that they're they're so they're not lost. Somebody to drive on the property at midnight and leave them. Now if you'd be interested in a very low mileage 79 trans am. It was definitely abandoned in 1979 late or early 1980. They cleaned up the car a little bit back then. Even a repo guy would not go after it. Not really sure how they got it back that far in the woods. But is a group of teenagers I got high on dope and blew their brains out in the car. That one's definitely 😁 abandoned. They're back to for a little while for him but I found them. They went back to respirators hazmat suits and drugged out the majority of their bodies had rotted away yet. Parts of them are still splattered and the car today but they should be dried out. The car is pretty much rusted into the ground.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-1983 ... Man I would’ve abandon that car too...! I am 68 years old, and have had MANY MANY .., Very cool cars over my illustrious lifetime...😹😹😹 when I was in junior high one of my best buddies Andy Foster, his dad it was one of the big wigs at the Alpo dog food factory in my hometown in Illinois... I have lived in Alabama for more than half of my life now...! But anyhow in his yard set a 1957 Goldenhawk Studebaker with a monstrous V-8 in one of the early superchargers...! It had a manual overdrive and was three speed on the tree...! Andy’s dad had long since stop driving the car I know it’s sat there for probably four or five years and his yard not running...! I talked to Andy’s dad and he said the people at the Alpo plant did not want the car anymore and they just gave it to him! I never saw Andy’s dad drive the car or attempt to... One day on the way to my grandmother’s house I stopped at Andy’s house and asked his father if he wanted to sell the Studebaker in his yard...! He told me if I would give him $75 he would air the tires up so we could tow it home...! I was only 13 or14 at the time so my father went with me to get the car with a toe strap he brought some gas along in a can with some jumper cables...! We were going to see if it would start just for the heck of it... We bought some gas in the carburetor jumped it off and the car started right up...!!! We ended up driving the car back to my house and I hot rod of the snot out of that old Goldenhawk till I think I traded it off for a, 59 Fire flight sportsman Desoto ...😹😹😹 I also got a 1953 Chrysler Windsor deluxe from a farmer that was sitting next to his barn for probably 30 years....! He said his brother parked it and left it there so I guess it was abandoned also...! I traded a CB radio for it...😹😹😹
@@iplaymytele yeah I like her whole said it was abandoned until he got it. Neglected when you forget to wash your car or air up the tires. So this car was abandoned by its owner and it could be sitting on his own property and still be abandoned. But that doesn't mean that somebody has right come in take the parts. I've got that problem from time to time. I could borrow a crappy old 58 Chevy with all the extras on including the 348. By the time I walked away from that car in 1977 or so, I could have bought it for $25. You know as well as me your $75 in your story and my $25 in My story by quite a bit more back then. But in any case there's a two-door hardtop it wasn't a scratch on or dent on it. The interior look like it's brand new and it should cuz they had something like 45 to 60 thousand miles on it. Ideas don't remember. I wish I'd bought the car like you said he knows it's an ugly old crappy 58. But at least it's a car and it isn't beat up. Well my cousins and me kept walking after looking at for a half an hour. He couldn't believe I was really thinking about buying it. It was an ugly old 58 Chevy. Remember it was America graffiti in the years after that that brought the 58 Chevy into the limelight. it was an ugly styling it still is not near as pretty as a 57. But given its current value I sure wish I'd bought it and put it in the barn. I say $25 it might have been $75 but if somewhere in that low price range. I wasn't anywhere near old enough to drive the car and had only sold a couple of lawn mowers that I'd fixed up and that's why I had that big wad of money on me. Yeah I know Studebaker had that little engine with their supercharged system on it about seven years after Oldsmobile had it in their 88. I always stuck with the 67 through 72 width 67 and 68 being my favorite ever since high school and before that. No I did have a couple of Camaros right out of high school one completely rebuilt and one I just fixed up. We're nothing completely rebuilt that one with my dad, I put a 327 out of a dirt track car in it. I sure wish I had that one back. But I traded it straight up for a Porsche that was a couple years older than that. You know until recently I never thought about all the great cars that I had. Now people and talk about the great little front-wheel-drive cars they had when they were kids. Well that's why we got to work against new people into the car hobby to keep it going and growing. thanks for the reply
Even though I'm in a electric wheelchair I like to see ur videos. When I was a kid b4 my accident I just to help my dad fix his car so I like the projects u have with your dad, God bless you guys. Ones u done with the motor what's next? How about the bad rust .
If you need parts and bits and pieces you should hit up the guys at red white and boosted channel they came across a honey hole of 59and60 cars for parts and said they would share the info if someone contacted them
Engine sounds good like said little bit out of time but it sound like is at a fast idle. That comment oughta be long enough to help out on the algorithms. You and your father doing great work on this car
Love that car Travis! It is a looker on the cheap, so to speak! It will make someone a happy driver when completed, and maybe totally redone. Dad is pretty smart, he went to town on them cooling lines! Couldn't have done them any better.
Good for Pops painting the so called 'patina'! Patina was ugly 40 years ago and it's still ugly today! Anybody proud of patina in one lazy S.O.B. PAINT IT! It's like being glad and happy for the rust holes! Besides, everything your putting on this beauty is made in CHI-NA!!!
You guys are an awesome team. One piece of constructive feedback: check the audio levels during the editing. Some parts in the video blast my ears with loud tool noises while in other sections the voice over and general talk is very quiet. Keep up with these amazing videos, dude. Best wishes!
Honestly, I think you should go full circle and paint the whole body. Maybe not everything at once, but maybe one part at a time , and maybe tackle the rust holes.
Man... Total Bummer on the "I have extra paint" move. I can't imagine the labor you're going to have to do to remove all of the overspray from your beautiful engin/trim/glass ect. Not to mention killing the wonderful patina and making those parts stand out like a sore thumb. Could have painted the gas pump or something else... or just tossed the paint. Sorry to see that. I would have been pissed.
COOL, it's been years I had a 60 with a 348cid in it. It started out as a work vehicle for my grandfather (house painter) I got the car in 1975 and drove it for 2yrs in high school. Sold it to guy who restored it and have not seen it since.
Hey guys I'm watching the video on your El Camino and you said some guy put air socks on it I don't know if you realize but all El caminos came with rear air shocks from factory it was standard equipment so they could hold a little more weight because they were very weak when it came to that? I love watching you guys's videos I like when you go on road trips and rescue cars and drive them back those are always fun to watch take care and give your dog a kiss for me.
Those tires are 15yrs old, they may be ok for running around town but that's it. If a tire is over 6yrs or 7rys old they are not safe. Look on you tube for Old New Tires Videos. I think you guys are doing a great job, some one is going to be very happy for sure! :-D
Love this build! Great job guys! The roof I could live maybe add pearl white lace. But the hood no it looks out of place. I'd have sand it down, some to bare metal, spray it with salt water or something to make it rust.
Dude its fine about the hood and roof looks good. I'm subbed now! Let it sit under some rusty wet tin for awhile and it will look good. For what you spent on those poor under performing ram horns. You could of just got some cheap Facebook headers!! Or even a donated set it's only a sbc. Sounds good and healthy
I watch videos with captions and when you were talking about transmission lines, every time you said tranny it would skip that word. I wonder if they think you're saying transvestite.
I've always just hit the inside of the hoses with a little WD-40 and rubbed it around with my finger. I don't know if I'd want some of the silver particles from the never-seize floating through my cooling system. Granted, it's not much.... but being the paranoid creature I am I'd just rather not risk it.
