This 2008 Pontiac G8 GT has an interesting story 

When can we expect a 1965 Mustang video?

Looking forward to hearing how the conversation with the former owner went. There's a lot of fraud in this world.

That would make a good drag car, clean undersides, no rust and already stripped.

Yes! You’re back. I was having sarcasm withdrawals. Doctor said a few more days without sarcasm, I might’ve become a RU-vid troll!

I've been turning wrenches since '95 full time and all I use are tools that my grandpa used for many years and left to me when he passed away. Don't need to have fancy tools and boxes to make a good living. Enjoy your videos.

If this happened to you, just imagine how how badly the rest of us would have been "dazed and confused". Thanks for taking us on this journey of discovery. Thumbs up Scott!

This car seems a lot like our state government: assembled from junk to appear like it could possibly work, at least in theory.

Theres good money in all the paneling of that car. Especially the front end. The bumpers and hood and the hood scoops are worth good money

Thank you sir. Im glad all is well and I appreciate your content. NJ

Thanks for sharing what you do with us. Always enjoyable sir.

Wow, you really did take a big chance on that one! Glad you were able to get it running. Reminds me of one of those "Will it run?" channels. Keep up the good work.

Im suprised how well it ran considering wherever the engine came from. Looks like you'll have some useful parts anyway so not a complete waste of time. Enjoy your videos. All the best from Wisconsin.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall when & if that call goes through. I’ll be here next week to see where this project goes. You really amaze me at your fearlessness to take on any project. Keep up the great work!

I’m guessing it had a built motor with a high stall converter and a flashed pcm. So they took it all out to put on their next project. Maybe had nice down pipes as well. Then ran some water into the engine and called it a day

I love your detailed step by step videos, thank u from nyc

Enjoy your videos as they have Great content and are very educational! Keep up the Great work!!!!

You got my vote, ....started up to good and ran to smooth for a flooded car. Great video and many,many thanks for making these videos Mr V.

It still amazes me how easy you make repairing someone else’s bodged repairs. I use the word repair because I don’t swear YT doesn’t like it 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I LOVE that You're A Pontiac Lover ......ESPECIALLY G8's !!!!!! Always Impressed w The Quality Of Your Work,

what an awesome channel. love the humor.

Another candidate for Scott’s parts Emporium because someone has been there Big time. Great video 🤙🏽

Glad to see your back in your sarcasm mood ,missed you last week.you do love your G8’s ,overall car not bad looking.your in your element.as always great video.just keep doing what your doing and carry on 👍👍👍😎😎😎

I follow a lot of car repair channels and this seems to be a common theme with the insurance shenanigans. It's really kind of surprising the amount of trouble some people will go through to throw a salvage yard engine into a junky car.

bro you know your stuff , ups to you i love with that silverado keep making those great video you got me

Great videos man! Keep it up!

Scott you are the best entertainment!

Thanks for the entertaining video Scott. Also, you've inspired me to start thinking about taking on a project now that my kids are coming of driving age. BTW, I'm also a G8 GXP, M6 owner. In order to keep the miles off of it I settle for driving the crappy Grand Prix GXP! ;)

RULE NUMBER 1 WILL NEVER GET OLD! BEST CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott I cat tell you how much I enjoy your videos i do the same on the side as you but in a smaller scale with 88-98 Chevy obs trucks. Godspeed to you.

Cool video. Wish I could get ahold of one in good shape/mechanically sound for less than asking! The folks with a good one know what they have(dang it!), and have it priced accordingly. Badass looking car with performance to match!

Looks good from the outside so great parts car as you said! 👍 Hoping for an interesting story if you get the former owner to talk... 😃

Very nice explanation, blessings

Ooooh a flood car!!!!! This ought to be very interesting coming from the Vehcor Channel.

Damn, that’s a great looking car/truck on the outside. Hope you do an update. Best Regards

Now that's what I call a gamble & this time it turned out to be a good one, I hope you can give us all an update on what happened to this G8? Good Video 👍

Love the videos 🥰

Someone put a lot of time and effort into that butcher job. Great video. Can't wait to hear the owners story.

It’s too bad that it was so badly stripped, as the exterior looks pretty good. But if it really had been under water, then you salvage what you can and discard the rest. At least you got a running 5.3l out of the deal!

18:50 Snap-On! That's what we've been waiting for.

An alternative theory on the history is that the car, with the 6.0, was flooded. Then, someone bought the flood car, removed the trashed 6.0, and decided to put in the 5.3 from his rusted-out truck. After struggling with that, realized it was a futile effort for such a worthless car, and sent the thing for auction/junk. The insurance knows it as a flood car, so the label sticks until someone updates them, which nobody ever did since it was not back on the road.

Ayyyy! Looks like you fixed the white balance setting on your camera. The shop lights don’t make you look like a Simpsons extra anymore.

I like how you make your videos, you are the best, when you record videos and then add your voice to explain what you did, this way makes the videos rich , somebody talks too much and works just a little, my advice to you, do something more exiting, like body swapping or something more challenging and some epic stuff, Hope you the best and stay blessed

I believe that G8 was supercharged in its previous life. When my procharger was put on my G8 GT the alternator had to be relocated and power steering pump relocated to fit it. So most likely this was a previously boosted G8 GT.

One of the best guys to watch on RU-vid if you want to learn about cars, how they work and are put together. Any chance on getting a European car in the future?

Woooo..hoooooo.. another Pontiac. De Lorean would be proud! Popcorn ready. Have a great weekend. Stay safe and be well.

Interesting to see the lengths that people will go to. It does look a good, straight, rust free shell Scott. Could you buy another bent example and make a good one out of the two, or is there more value in the component parts?.

Scott, amazing deductions as always-a nice looking car-but....... TOO BAD! take care of those tools! Rich

So I can't use my SK tools anymore when I work on my vehicles? I didn't know! Thanks Scott that car is a great parts car.

Right when I saw that alternator and everything not connected I figured it was a junkyard swap to hide it. Seen it before with another RU-vidr. Great video! Let us know what the owner says lol!

I like the approach of this guy when fixing something, he's realistic and doesn't start changing parts like an idiot as many other youtubers do specially the ones that work on shitty BMW's lol, well done with not buying new spark plugs

Great video!

Use the tools you have or make em. It's what real mechanics do. I really enjoy your show you have shown me some great tricks.

That's like the SL500 Copart video I made, the car was stripped of all electronics, broken speedo and radio were not bolted in and the electronic ignition switch even had BAD written on it, all before LKQ bought it. They even put on Mazda wheels!

Today's been a shit day, funeral. Got home - the king of sarcasm has a new video.... At least the day is ending better..... Thanks for what you do!

@vehcor I hope you have a great weekend!

In Australia we used to call them Holden Commodore. But I either called them crumple door or dunny door as usually these were found broken down on the side of the road next to a ford. These were also a favourite car for the break and enter gangs

good video. love the pontiacs.. lots of 6.0 litre police caprices to get cheap.

Sorry Scott I did laugh when the hood fell, I’m probably suspended for a week now, love your posts

I once had a G8, not the cool one though. My uncle is still driving it to this very day. Solid video as usual!

I know you wouldn't put this back together but I would love too see it!! Get the interior back together, hook up Convertor, driveshaft and power steering, straight pipe it and drive it!

I hear you about the weather I'm just south of Rockford so I know exactly what you're talking about

Thats the beauty and the risk of buying a rebuilder vehicle without actually seeing it in person. That how I got a 2013 short box 2500 HD thats two wheel drive and not 4 wheel drive. But thats on me for not diving into the details before pulling the trigger. Still have a really nice low cost truck for summer weather here in Nebraska.

Even if you turn the engine counterclockwise, some of the pistons are going to go up, not down because they were in the down stroke position. But it all worked out. By the way, I would like to have that 6L80 transmission, but I just can't drive all the way to Scott's Truck Parts Emporium.

Great find with that car wish you was in trinidad

Down here in the Mt. Vernon area it went from 15-20 degrees to 50 in one day, again as they say if you don't like Illinois weather just wait 10 minutes.

LOL Gotta love the insurance scammers. I'm sure we'll see another smashed G8 come in for that body. Happy Weekend!!

My theory...He had a truck that he wanted to upgrade the engine on, so he swapped in the 6.0 from his ex's Pontiac. Dropped the 5.3 into the Pontiac, shot a garden hose down the intake, and called the insurance agent. Presto! Free engine upgrade!

I buy auction Crown Vics and flip them. I really must watch every single one of your fine videos.

It sounded good. I’m sure someone wanted the motor and took it and put the 5.3 back in then they flooded the 5.3 to make it look like flooded damage so they could claim it on insurance. Was such a good looking car too. Oh well atleast u got good clean body parts for ur project. Glad u got a good motor

If I did happen to have the right tool for the job your still a lot better than me. The snap on hood rod well that's the name brand stuff and it was out of place that's why it failed. Thanks for posting SIR.

That is actually a good looking car! I love the wheels. Where those factory ones?

looking good

That’s a Holden Commodore exported from Australia, our junkyards are full of them. Only difference is ours are right hand drive.

Curious what the owner told you when you called him? As always good video! Your sarcasm kills me! LMAO!

That bracket is the same one that is on my S-10 , The air conditioner pump sets on top and power steering on bottom. You need a pully puller to get it off of bracket.

It’s more like Scott’s GM, Car and Truck Emporium Definitely an interesting one that’s for sure.

Love my G8 GT! Had it since it rolled off the delivery truck straight from the factory. Sad someone would trash this car like that.

Thank you

Great Job!!! Thank You…. :-)

Well, I live in south Louisiana. We did have some bad hurricanes last year. Maybe a result of the flooding that occurred. As far as the other engine shenanigans, when dealing with New Orleans, anything goes LOL….

Oh man that sucks about the interior. Yup part it out I enjoy your builds and the sarcasm 😂

Yep...stories can change everytime they're told. 😁

Those are very nice rims!

Looks good. 🖒🤠

Surprise Scott! Lol ! I guess you could yard the engine out and keep it for another project? Should fit right in it Scott's in GM Emporium!

Yea weather down here in Mississippi change’s like that to

That sucks. It looks really clean on the outside and I love those cars.

HAHAHAHA @ " Must be one of those BLUETOOTH air filters ". Too Funny

Saw your comment on insurance adjusters so I thought I would share this funny(I think) story. We had to train adjusters one day being a direct repair shop. I had to demonstrate how to pull a frame on this '95 Nissan Sentra rear rail extension. It was down for replacement so it didn't matter if I ripped a chunk out of it. Which I did as I explained how dangerous frame work can be and how that is the reason for charging more. I had it on a AutoRobot. You know the rickity machine with the 8' damage dozer. Pop pop pop KABAM. Two of the trainee's were last seen running to their cars. Both called in and quit their jobs. Soooooo the head honcho in charge of the insurance companies direct repair program wanted to have a chat with me. This was a $100k a month account. Needless to say my boss was mortified. When aske by said head honcho why I did it told him. "Just separating the wheat from the chaff sir". He offered me a job. I told hin no. Can't afford the pay cut.

Same oil filter wrench my dad used forever.

Some adjuster didn't do their job. I picked up on the alternator as soon as the hood was opened. Too bad it's got a parts title. Would have made a nice swap to do drag or rocky mountain race week.

Did you know that you can get a peace of pipe, like small conduit pipe and split it length wise just big enough to slip over the rams and cut it off to length and then set it on the rams, it will hold the hood up so it won't keep falling on you. This also works on farm tractors, the loaders.

Picked up some HF sockets yesterday and getting them off the display holder thing was rather annoying. No wonder I'm not a good mechanic.

Insurance fraud. They kept the 6.0, drove the car into a river. They pulled the PCM because the game would have been up when they scanned computer to get the mileage. I like those wheels too...

Yet another possible donor engine for the El Camino but now I also have a masterbathroom to build... Man the tile she picked is expensive... And the heated floor...

Scott's back yea

lots of good parts there

Nice Job

Him taking on this 4 Door Nightmare makes me love him even more!

The rims look really cool.