Slow, Low, And Being Seen In a Cool Low Buck Buick Restmod - MuscleCar S5, E22 

one wheel peel

Spinning wheels in place is just a stunt. Actually accelerating is the true test. My '56 Chevy 4dr sedan with a tired 327 and Borg Warner T-10 and DragFast shifter accounted for providing taillight views to quite a number of would-be street runners. Transmissions and rear gears have a lot to do with translating engine revs to forward thrust. After a while, I got tired of the oil burning and rocker arm issues and set the car aside for an engine refresh. Unfortunately, my budget wouldn't allow me to have the machine shop bring the old small block back to the beginning, so it sat for a few years and may have been fallow even longer if a creep and a drunk Mexican woman hadn't wrecked my '66 Riviera. I drove it for a while with a lot of the right front fender gone while I tried to come up with a way to get it fixed. I really wish I had the insight to know how much of a collector car it would become. Anyway, changing jobs brought me to the decision to revive the '56. Good body, but no engine or transmission. '66 Riviera wreck with a good engine and transmission. It was quite a chore to squeeze a 425 Buick nailhead engine and Turbo 400 transmission into a car that never heard of a big block engine. Admittedly, the workmanship was crude, but effective. During the Chevy's storage, a friend bought the wheels and tires from it, trading me his 14" factory wheels and tires from his Firebird. Once the car was running, the little tires were "toast". I created a number of volcanoes with them. It was spectacular, but meaningless. Small contact patches with massive torque applied instantaneously. I did that to them because they were scheduled to be replaced with as large of 14" tires as I could find. Since those cost money, I used a much more gentle application of throttle during acceleration. When I moved to a rural community, the '56 became an attraction. We had a few street racing outings and nothing could begin to compete. One guy had a potential car, but apparently it was all show. He would never participate, even though it was a '70 Chevelle SS 454 with a tunnel ram and dual Holleys. He never showed its performance, only slowly cruising the main road through town. Lots of guys tried to get him to run against my '56 jalopy, but he wouldn't take the bait. I guess he couldn't take the chance of losing to my turd. Anyway, I bought a truck up there and the '56 didn't get a lot of driving after that, but I lit it up now and then. One of the sons of the guy I worked for was old enough to drive and pretty responsible, so I asked him if he would drive the tub while I was away for vacation. He was more than happy to do so. I told him not to race it, knowing that he probably would anyway. When I got back, he brought the car to me at work. He had one of his friends with him and was trying to make the visit short. I took the key and looked him in the eye, asking, "you raced it, didn't you?" He kind of looked down and nodded. I grinned at him and told him I knew he would. When he realized he wasn't in trouble, I had him tell me about it. The challenger was a squirrel with a '65 El Camino running a stock 327 and, of all things, a 3 on the tree. I knew a car like that would be zero competition to my car. I asked how badly they beat the guy. The answer kind of upset me at first. He said they beat him by "over a car length". I was astounded that some goofball in a stocker with a column shift could stay in the same zip code, let alone stay close to the rear bumper. I told Charlie that the '56 should have done a lot better. That's when they revealed the rest of the story. In the beginning, they had him by "two football fields, so we stopped and waited for him to catch up." I still laugh when I think about it.

Cool story bro.

@@JW...-oj5iw great story and great memories!!!

@@JW...-oj5iw Cool story man.

saves money, only have to buy 1 tire after burnouts

@@halleffect1 But twice as soon. so you loose money because you have to put it in the shop twice as much

Your really turning hatred into an art form.... respect

Lmao shitty paint scheme, ugly wheels and an open diff? What's not to like??

I don't think they have it anymore, though. This was 2010, after all.

Everybody runs big wheels now well i dont but thats the trend, even in Summit most of the new rims are 17 inch and up, in my day wide was in 15x10 in the back and 15x8 up front

I personally would've put 18 inch wheels on on it myself and a different style of the rims

my budget is closer whatever you had left from that 1200

buy a bicycle

Agreed, I'd have put 18" wheels on this one and a different style of rims for that matter

And the same colors as everything they paint.. Nova.. C' mon guys.. Low buck budget is almost 10k..

I totally agree brother.

It's the whole street rod style of the 90's/00's....these guys were already late at it, and now it just looks outdated.

@@lobmin I totally agree brother.

I'm not a fan of two tone paint jobs on anything other than pickup trucks and those rims 🤢. Eighteens would have looked much better. Loved everything thing else but like someone else said, it's looks dated.

James Harper I was thinking the same thing. That peg leg action will not cut it and is not a great way to end. Anyway- Shout out to them for showing us some muscles car tips.

Not all posi-track rear-ends deliver power to both rear tires from the start, some of them have a slight delay in the transfer of power from one side to the other

probably a posi,they dont always lite up both wheels right away

Have to work on the drivetrain some more. I do understand it was a low buck project, but yes I could have gotten a rebuilt 200r4 and a posi in the differential.

Would you rather have them put 26" wheels on it and make look like a jacked up drug dealers car??

Karl Smith it kinda looks like a drug dealer car

yes, the 20" wheels are over-sized. I think 17" would have looked great yet still would allow some decent, comfortable tires.

Definitely the ugliest ones I've seen. Slightly smaller with better styling would finish the car properly.

ToyCarCollector.com that car is washing machine now. Most of the build cars are crushed after a car show circuit. A member of the company sometimes buys them or they might be auctioned off for charity. But 9 chances out of 10, they are crushed. They can’t legally sell them outright due to liability issues (thanks lawyers).

Only chevys are donks,71 thru 76, caprice, impala

@@bigaparker1977 I stand corrected Sir. It is at the very least a Donk Cousin.

@@jimweishuhn2910 To me that ceturion is worth more than any Donk. it's only 2 or 3 years that they made them. I woulda left it alone. Definitely wouldn't be that reeses Halloween color. If u think rims make it a Donk though nah that ain't it. Nobody is putting them little ass 20s on a Donk anyway.

@@bigaparker1977 I agree with you that left alone would have been better, The wheels didnt give me the impression as much as the stance and color scheme. Not to mention the fact that they were trying to look cool driving it in an Urban setting. I could see what they were getting at.

@@jimweishuhn2910 It's downtown Nashville. They've done A LOT of cruising and shots down there...

Haters gonna hate, ballers gonna ball.

Duh, whats a cruiser der.. if you have ever driven a car on 20s with rubber band tires you'd know it rides like shit and crashes over every bump and I mean everyyyyyy bump. The cars cool and would still be a good cruiser on 17s or 18s on it that actually fit the car, filled out the wheel wells and didn't look 4 inches too narrow and ride like shit

@@basshead. haters gonna hate lovers gonna love, I don't even want none of the above

I disagree with you on the wheels, but you might be right on the stance

@@basshead. haters my hate,ballers my ball but the comment section agrees the rims are ugly and need to be changed.

SmoothTheKid. agreed brother

"What are you wearing, 'Jake' from State Farm?"

The car is ugly as sin

@@jimcatx3090 I liked it better in its original state.

Tyler Bauman it’s called a resto mod not a restoration. Do your research.

musta lived in a shitty town.i was surrounded by big block chevelles,cudas,gto's,LT1 camaros,c2 vettes,blown vegas .....

Hater

And paint for me, but rims are terrible

I agree, wheels screwed it up

Yeah those rims are garbage on that car

Rims are hideous on that car

@ 8:52 to 8:59 the steering column is different- shows installation of custom steering wheel. Either removed the shifter column collar the arm goes into, or got a column without column shifter...

Color Bond

15 years ago. Or around the time this build was done.