Man, 50 years ago in the early 70's when I was a wee lad of 14 in San Diego, my friends oldest brother bought a 66 Fastback from a neighbor for $600. He was 19. His 17 yr old brother bought a 56 Bel Air 2 door two tone, white over copper for $175. . His parents drove a 60 Impala. We had a 58 Impala 2 door. 283 Blue two tone with red, white and blue tuck and roll. Had duel glass packs on it. Great memories growing up with great cars. Thanks for the show it's fun to watch.
This guy is my cousin and he is as original as they come! Plays a mean guitar! And he was right about Bill Smith Cafe. My husband and I had our first date there, 53 years ago!
If the world had more people like you in it,, it would be a much better place for all,,, your knowledge across the board on most cars and trucks is profound but the way you treat people and carry yourself is beyond measure.
Another great video. I know I have said it time & time again, but plethora of knowledge that Dennis has amazes me. I hope y'all get that F100 step side short bed.
Another great episode. Love how this series not just captures the back story of the cars but also the best restaurants in town too! Ever the gentlemen and the font of all knowledge. Thanks again for taking us along for the ride Dennis.
I agree with Dennis about doing a resto-mod on that Mustang Fastback. 6cyl is the way but I wouldn't put in any old 6cyl, I'd throw in a Ford Australia Barra turbo 4.0L 6cyl in it mated to a good TR-6060 box. It's a pity that the majority of Americans don't know anything about the Barra 6cyl. It's best engine to modify & will knock the majority of V8's off their perch. I'm a GM-Holden bloke & I have a very healthy respect for a good Ford Barra engine. Another great vid Dennis. I don't know where you find these blokes that have all this stuff sitting around but it's damned good. Keep it up.
The amount of syrup swimming around on his plate is incredible. I hope someone gets the knowledge out of his head and down on paper before his arteries crack.
Muscle cars and vintage cars are freakin awesome. But the back stories and just conversing about them and things that happened in them or because of the old cars is really what I love the most, as I'm sure it is for a lot of car people. Amazing videos, amazing cars, and good times, glad you chose to share them. Thank you!!!
When I was 8 to 10 years old my Dad had a 67 Fastback When he sold the car I cried! Litterally it was a 289 Automatic and my Dad put a LTD rear in it with larger tires and a different gearing damn that thing boogied there was one parkway on ramp my Dad timed himself in a quater mile run after every upgrade on performance he did in our garage in the early 70s he got all the parts at a Junkyard and did all the work himself
Cannot wait til you rescue an old Buick Lesabre/Park Avenue with a 3800 series 2 motor which is arguably one of the very best and most reliable motors ever produced to this day!
@@yukonjack. yes I’ve had a 2001 Buick Lesabre and a 2003 Buick Park Avenue both with the 3800 Series 2 motors and they both were the most reliable vehicles I’ve ever owned . The Lesabre I picked up with 118,000 miles and ran it until 303,000 miles and the Park Avenue I purchased with 180,000 miles and ran it until 323,000 miles. I sold both of them while they were still running very strong with no issues (just because of the high mileage) and to this day regret parting with either. Other than routine maintenance and very minor repairs both cars never left me stranded and always started right up regardless of the temperature outside. For my next vehicle my eyes are peeled for another Buick with the 3800 :)
The difference between the mustangs and the aussie built,but american built shells transported to australia with the american spec front end parts,which broke under aussie test conditions,the later 2 door falcon hard top american coupes never made it to australia,but were stretched out to make the XT/XW/XY 4 door versions which were pretty successful here,then Ford australia started making our own models,like the XA/B/C models and later the XD/E/F/G/H was totally Australian built and manufactured cars
@@shannonschneider8413 oh is that how they did that back then. Did they make the falcons down there though or were those imported also? I know you had the GM of course to Holden's but I wasn't too sure about the some of the Fords
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist the later models were aussie designed and built here,plus all the variants as well like the ute,wagons,4 door sedans,station wagons,the Futura,then the Fairmont and then the Fairlane which were based on the sedan platform,but came out with lots of options for them
Dennis is the gold standard for how to do business the right way and the star of the show, but can we take a moment to show some love to Alex and Zach because the "staff" deserves some recognition also. Well done gentlemen!
@@AUmarcus a Aussie Ute is more like the American Ranchero or El Camino. Coupe Utilities . Pick ups in America were separate cab chassis with few exceptions like the unibody Fords in the early 60s
Dennis make the ultimate car that's never been done. A XK120 with a 6.0 lambo V-12 all wheel drive frame off build with a cluster of Sterling gauges. No ipad stuff or screens in the car. Flare the fenders in the middle and give the car an hour glass look and set some big meats on it. Has to be 100 spoke and no thin wall tire. You'll have a million dollar car. Pop 12 stacks out of the hood and Pipes out of the side running alone the running boards. It's gonna be a real art to get 6 pipes that look good coming out to the collector and widening the fenders with no straight lines. Never been done and the XK120 has the lines that's has never been beat.
I am a car guy and foodie so this is right up my alley! I would eat that meal any day of the week especially after seeing Dennis react to that bite the way he did!
the guys that have these cars for decades and never fix them are keeping the car alive and enabling people like dennis to bring them back to life,there must be many many guys that have collections like this and never sell them
Really like the way you ask the locals where to eat and put it into the end of the videos please keep it as part of your videos when you can! Thank you.
Dennis I always enjoy your video's Your Knowledge of reading tag plates is to admire . Great interesting to watch and as Dan said Just laying around &NO monkeying around Keep safe and Keep posting.
In its day, the Ford 4WD Stepside was a kickass truck. I’d love to have one fully restored. Love your comment about putting together “the ultimate bite.” I do that all the time! Greatness.
Well Dennis.. if you ever find a short bed for obs f150 (I'm building a first gen lightning) let me know.... Wow, you find some gems. Definitely easy to deal with to, straight to the point, no hazzle.. (unlike someone else we know (RR). THANKS FOR THE COFFEE WALKS!
My neighbor at our lake house has 3 64-67 mustangs. One is white convertible with a black top and roof racks and truck racks but it’s a 4 lug pattern, the other one is a red roller car with no drivetrain or interior but no rust, and then a blue 289. He also has a 25 anniversary corvette and a stingray split rear window. The old man died years ago and the wife just lets the cars sit under a overhang where they have been for the past 20-30 years. Another buddy of mine has a 1970 boss 302 that he bought new and it’s been sitting in his barn with the original drive train hanging from a cherry picker since 1989
Dennis , I live in Chicago , and I was wondering if you have ever used dry ice blasting on your rebuilds , you can set it on high and remove paint , or on soft an clean interiors , I had my 6 series Bmw cleaned Engine, under body , and interior, within 4 hours there was no dirt grease, road rash left on the under body . The engine bay looked brand new , the interior also looks brand new , now it sits in the my garage, I just look at it at night as I drink a beer , I do go to cars and coffee on Saturday…… all that work would have been 1400, for engine and under body, 400 for the interior, 1800 well worth it , p.s. he charge me 1000. ., he says that Machine is being used 8 to 10 hours a day. He does work on a ton of exotics , he says this dry ice blasting , keeps his shop clean , also most all customers when have ing work done in his shop , request the engine be cleaned…..ck it out
You are a lot smarter than me on cars but I did some research on k code Falcons and from what I found out was they made 7 of them in 1965 and they were all made in Canada, and only 2 are left,if I am wrong let me know because I am a big Falcon fan
I bought 3 t-shirts a couple weeks ago .visiting from Houston. brother lives in Murphy. went by and the staff is so friendly. Dennis Collins style. get you some of that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Coffee Walk kicks A. Alex is the Man .
A friend of my dad bought a red 69 mach 1 with red interior! It had the original 351 windsor engine with around 80,000 miles on it! The exhaust manifolds were replaced with headers, which she took of and put manifolds back on and put brand new tires on it!! It was good to go! She might have put 100 miles on it and it sat in her yard for quite some years! I kept telling my dad to tell her to put that damn car under a shed or something! Eventually she let me build a lean-to on back of her house and she put it under there !!! After she moved she too car and put it in the old dairy barn and to best of my knowledge she is still sitting there!! The brand news tires she had put on it are shredded from dry rot! Good thing is it's a unmolested 69 mach 1 with rear window louvers! It's had the gold stripe down the side!!! To my knowledge everything is there!!! Hasn't probably run since 1985 or so!? I remember yrs back when it sat in yard I opened door and saw water sitting in floor board! Couldn't stand to see it so a got my drill out and drilled a 3/8 hole in floor with hopes of preventing worse damage!!! This car is in georgia about 70 miles east of atlanta!!!
Nice mustang and wow no rust and it's been out side for that long defo restore and one mustang too have is jim morrions blue lady if you can find her be worth a fortune but great video all
My first car. Needed rear leaf springs real bad but was otherwise in great shape. I got ticked at it (that's what teens do) and held the throttle to blow it. After it sang at 8200 for several seconds, I apologized to it and never pulled that stunt again. The 289 had a factory dual-point distributor. I added a used hi-rise and Holly 3310--too much carb, but it never complained.
Dennis, I've been enjoying your videos. You come across as a man of integrity and thats one of the reasons I like you. But today, when you "put a little bit of everything", well darn it all Sir, you've proven to me that you're a man of the world with exquisite Taste to boot!! Mt Son thinks we're both nuts, but what does he know! LOL! Keep being real Sir! And Thank You!
Back around 1977 my dad was helping me look for my first car... he found a blue 1965 or 66 Mustang fastback 2+2 so we went and looked at it. It was beautiful but my dad said it was too fast for me considering I wasn't driving for very long. I ended up buying a 68 Dodge Dart 340... my dad smirked but he was okay with it. :) Ah the memories!
That looks like a crazy way to transport a top . You think you have flipped it over so that no air is trying to lift the roof up , and probably use two or three straps and make sure there’s no loose ends hanging down towards the tires.