This Dent Repair Secret Will Save You Time and Money. 1953 Chevy radical kustom project 

As always - I feel that I have received a free class from a master metal craftsman. I really enjoyed this one.

Part of learning to drive on a 69 C10 was being able to untangle the 3 on the tree. 😂

At 30 plus years I have to say you are truly a master of your craft. Enjoy the videos and the teaching. Thanks.

Got dents? Call the antidentist,, 👍‍‍🤪👍‍‍ Thank you kindly for sharing your magic Kyle,, 💖🙏💖

"This is supposed to...not be that way." New favorite quote!

Always enjoy watching you decode metal damage and show how to repair it. Master of metal!

Very satisfying to be able to actually see the metal move back to where it's supposed to be along that big crease.

Crawling into the fender opening like that also cleans out all the hidden spider webs and nests, hahaha

I am a disabled senior and I love watching your show for entertainment value I look forward to watching it I'll never be able to do anything like you're doing but you are truly a master at what you're doing

Hahaha Brain day. You know when your OLD occasionally lose direction or Brain day. Another good instructional video.

Par excellence…Body work and humor. Where’s the cats? Great teaching too! Love it.

Best show on TV Kyle

Who among us hasn't had to put the fix on the miracle of Chevy shift kludge, They are famous for that it used to be taught in jr. high here in the states. get the lever in neutral, the align the linkage on the column, then wait for it to happen again. That's how Fenton linkage came to be. nobody had money for the good stuff ( HURST)

Now I have to watch this channel for English suggestions. "'Uponst' further reflection". uponst? Outstanding, over and above the panel beating.

That human flesh pro tip is a great tip, but a couple of decades too late 😂😂😂

So much great tips you give to both old and young old car and truck lovers. So nice to see such a young person with such knowledge sharing with us. I have learnt many new techniques that I am sure to use. Can hardly wait for next video. Glad you showed about Pay Pal Hope other are not discouraged and try again. I know I will.

I find it amazing the amount of forensics that is involved in body repair. And and how something nowhere near obvious damage effects the way the obvious damage presents itself. Thanks for the education and nice work Kyle!!

Hi, Kyle: I can hardly believe how far this unique build has come along from a forsaken, rusty dented shell of a truck.Always appreciate how you ' reverse engineer' major or minor old body damage!

You hilarious spaz, you must've been pretty entertaining in school. I'm sure I am not the only one who enjoys seeing your lighter side as you school us on bodywork. Great episode and I hope paypal sorts you out

Loving the humour mixed in with the excellent teaching mate.

Ok, not a three speed story but my brother and I jammed a v8 into an old 65 Chevy pickup when we were teenagers. It was a three on the tree but we converted it to automatic with a chunk of threaded rod through the floor to use as a shifter. I was driving one day and my dog jumped on my arm thereby jamming the truck into park at about 40 miles per hour. The engine torqued so much that it broke the distributor cap. Five mile walk home. Replaced the cap and amazingly the transmission worked perfectly fine. It was an old two speed slush bucket.

I had my 71 Chevy Impala stock car chained to the power pole in the alley banging on a fender under tension after a rough Saturday night of racing. Our city attorney drove up and said just so you know, if the power goes out and a crew has to come out on Sunday you will be paying them time and a half plus costs. He lived a block away and saw the lines to the transformer on the pole wiggling with each blow. Needless to say, I moved to the birch tree in the front yard of the house I was renting. Live and learn. BTW the attorney was one of my sponsors and a good friend. Thanks for sparking the memory That was 40 years ago

I wasn't there as I only saw the cave drawings of the incident. According to ancient lore (and the drawings) it seems as though the damage to the front fender occurred when an innocent Triceratops was grazing along a footpath when suddenly, a rogue dinosaur rancher from a neighboring and rival farm decided to attempt to wrangle the competition's herd onto his ranch. The truck crested over a hill (more of a grassy knoll) and struck the Triceratops, breaking off one of it's horns (the Triceratops, not the truck) and scraped the remains 2 horns along the upper side portion of the fender. Hence the offending damage to that area of the offender's fender. On a serious note.... GREAT video on getting the fender roughed in so you're not fighting it when the modifications start. Thanks for keeping us up to date on the progress.

Oh Yah... My daughter got caught in an intersection... I had to talk her through unjaming the linkage over the phone. She loved driving that old square-body 😍

I had a 60 Ford stepside van (milk truck) that used to jam on the 1-2 shift. Which of course always happened in the middle of an intersection after accellerating from a green light. The only fix was to pull over, shut it down and wrestle with the linkage to unjam it. The previous owner had conveniently cut an access hole in the floorboards with a torch. It never occurred to me to fix it - I just didn't have that kind of know-how at age 17 lol.

Never get tired of watchin you do your thing ... another great video ... always learning something ...

Oh yeah. The early 50s Chevy's were famous for tangled shift links. My 1st car was a 1950 Chev fastback and I was 17 in 1958 and my friends and me had a large time keeping that thing straight while we were jumping sand dunes out on Padre Island in Corpus Christi, Tx. Thanks for the memory. Love your show.

How much coffee did you have before filming this one? 😂😂

Great video Kyle! Thank you for sharing your expertise with us beginners!

Delving into the fascinating world of headlight bucket retention hardware, there is a plethora of options one can choose from. I have three classic vehicles and they showcase three of the more regular options one finds.....well, here in New Zealand at least. The 1979 Triumph 2500S has her original factory fitment - Philips head (aka crass-head) sheet metal screws. The 2500S has never been restored and still runs her standard sealed beam headlamps, so either someone was very careful and never dropped one into the abyss or they have never been removed. The 1977 Mini has its buckets pop-rivetted in place. This would have been when the refurbishment of its body was last performed - approx 10 years ago - by the owner two back before I got it. The reason I am able to ascertain such an exact time frame is that the sun-visors, the rear view mirror and several other smallish accoutrements have also been fastened to the bodywork with rivets rather than screws. Its grille, however, is held on by such a range of wood screws, ranging from 3-inch countersunk pozi-drive to one-inch dome-headed standard slot, that I guess they used the screws from everywhere else to hold the grille on. The 1974 Triumph Stag I own was refreshed by a neanderthalic speciman that survived in the hills of the South Island since the last ice age, but who was mistaken for a Beatnik in the late 70s and employed by a local body shop. When the Stag came in for a refresh in the mid-1980s, they gainfully lost every gasket, grommet and seal that they could and then for the piece de resistance, swept the floor of the shop and used whatever screws they found to fit the headlights, grille sections and such. They did take care to ensure that no two screws were the same size, type, thread, drive or head.....and for the 34 screws that make up the headlight and grille panel in the front of the car, that is quite an impressive effort on their part, I feel. There should be an award for that and should I find out who did it, I am certain I can find a suitable piece of lead with which to crown them to show my appreciation. I have been enjoying this series and have learned a fair bit watching you work and listening to the reasons behind what to look for in a panel and why. I then go down to my project Mini (another 1977 beasty) and stare at it for a while before picking up my hammer and dolly and belting another panel back into shape with renewed vigour. It is always interesting to find what is hidden under filler.....and sometimes one wishes one had never picked up the grinder.....but we're here now and that's just the way it is. To say my Mini project is above my skillset is an understatement, but listening to you and others in the trade (or who have been in it for years and retired), learning by having a go is the only way to see whether I can put the tips and tricks to any good effective use....and so far it's fairly promising and better than it was a year or two ago. Besides which - and if nothing else - watching you is inspiring me to work on the thing! So thankyou, my friend. All the best.

I had to learn the linkage fix in the middle of an intersection with a 1965 Bel Air 230 3 on the tree . Lesson learned

The slide hammer tip was well received! I was cringing....perhaps due to a past unpleasant altercation with a similar tool. YIPES that hurt! Thanks for another great vid!

Thank you Kyle. I found this episode educational. I'm really enjoying the details which are going into building the chicken truck. This is fascinating! Cheers.

I don’t know anyone who would have the patience not to mention the importance of preparation in doing what is necessary to move forward on this project.

My first car was.a 48 chev style master coupe, eventually I could shift from first to second so that 60% of the time it worked every time.

Front fenders are 54 and early 55 . They are recessed for the park lights which only came like that those years . I had a 54 that had to have that fender replaced in about 1975 and you would think a lot of fenders like that would be around at that time . Well the body shop found an older one with out that recessed area , so he just cut a hole behind the park light for it to stick back in to . Well it could not be seen from the out side but when I found it later I always told others to not go to the lazy sneaky guy but to find somebody else . A couple of years or less he left town do to not enough work I found out shortly after that , made me smile .😊.

Never had a 3 speed jammed. Had a 4 speed jammed a couple of times in a 1970 Nova SS. 350 300 hp. It was really jammed. Good times. Looking forward to seeing more. ❤Cheers

Yes Sir!!!

My first car was a 1950 Ford club coop with three on the tree. I was always pulling over to untangle the shift linkage.

Love the sense of humor and the knowledge! Keep up the great work.

Bang bang squared up. The basics a great reminder for me.

I bought my f100 with a disassembled column but fortunately the rods were still attached so I could lean over the fender and change gears. I do recall my brothers showroom 73 Nova he changed from 3 to 4 speed and having to do a roadside gear linkage issue.

67 3/4 ton chevy going from 1st to 2 nd locked up now and then get underneath and wack the linkages.

Sorry about your PayPal situation Kyle. I am really into the channel and this project. You answered my question before I asked. I was curious if you knew there was that much work needed on the front clip before you brought it home. One of my very favorite channels for sure. 👍

Yes I have had the rare and enviable thrill of lying on my back in snow to overcome one of Ford's better ideas. I lucked out and managed to buy a used Econoline van from Honest Abraham's Dicey Emporium. One day it decided it only needed one front motor mount, it also got lazy and leaned onto the engine bay. Managed to get it into second, and after frequent exposure to the delicious aroma of burning clutch I got home. Yet another occasion, I found myself also flat on my back in mud and water, attempting to hand shift a fire truck's transfer case, thus it is hard to teach me any knew cuse words, but I am continuing my education to learn new and more definitive combinations. Sadly the latest generation lack such skills as they rely heavily on the "f" word. Oh yeah, just about forgot (geezer moment), great work on that tortured fender and explaining for us amateurs the measuring nine ways for Sunday to get stuff to line up.

I am very experienced with the dreaded "three on the tree" lock-up. When I was a kid all our cars were equipped with a large screwdriver under the driver's seat for just such an emergency. I know all too well the sickening feeling as you went from third to first and felt that "clunk" (usually at 5:00pm in rush hour) Cheers from the shed

When I was younger I got caught up with one of those slide hammers lol

Really digging this series. Even the zoomies. Be careful when you get that blank stare off into an indeterminate distance just before they happen. Your depth perception can be affected and the next thing you know is that you have slammed into a wall or trolley jack or something.

Thank you for again sharing with us just some of your amazing knowledge and experience again Mr. Carter.

This was a great video. Love the step by step, even if you have done similar before we all love new content.

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your channel. I find you both entertaining with you dry sense of humor; you are very knowledgeable and a good teacher. Please continue to bring a good knowledge to channel and keep the humor. Regards Barry from Western Australia.

Another fine job Kyle! I too have had to fix a stuck shifter a few times in my younger days. lol. You are an extremely talented person. Keep up the great work! Thanks for sharing!

Mary times with the three speed locking up it seems it was a common thing.

Lots of great lessons in this video. Thank you very much.

Kyle, after a closer review of the irreversible damage to the Chicken Truck, including the devastation to the front fender, this does indicate indeed the truck had a rough life and was involved in numerous terrific battles. The forensic evidence shows the chicken truck was in a horrible battle with the mighty Triceratops. Also other battle scars revealed that there’s a 99% chance the Chicken Truck encountered numerous epic battles with one of the most feared and deadly creature to ever walk the face of the earth, none other than the Rustasaurus.

Not sure what your day job is, but your nightly activities are top notch. I suspect agewise you are my junior, but knowledge wise, I am a kindergartner compared to you. Thanks for your sarcasm, cynicism, good humor, and massive amount of knowledge.

Yes. 74 C10 250cu in 3 on the tree. Hauling up the on-ramp on the interstate freeway jammed 1st and 2nd with a sloppy rounded shift. Had to pull over and crawl under to unjam her on the shoulder. I was in a suit and tie.

Yes on having to play with the column shift linkage to get it unstuck on the side of the road.

When I bought my 64 F100 the cab was on the chassis and everything else was in a pile behind his garage. As I dug through the pile while loading it onto the second trailer, I was amazed that all the parts seemed to be there. None of the metal was bare but the disassembling had not gone smoothly. Lots of damage due to rusted fasteners that had refused to come apart. Let's just say, a torch was involved😢 Thanks for the videos!:)

I learned to drive in a 1953 Chevy sedan when I was 13. You probably shouldn't do that anymore. The column standard shift linkage periodically jammed. It was easy enough to fix. You just had to pop the hood and pull up on one linkage levers. I have no urge to remove dents from cars myself, but I like to watch you do it. .

Around 7:40, I saw what looked like smoke and got really excited, but it turned out it was just dust dislodged from the inner fender, falling into the camera. That's okay, this was a fantastic tutorial, even if there was no fire! I have very similar damage to my project--it's funny how a somewhat minor whack to the front will throw the geometry and fit out in enough places, just enough to drive you nuts. Thanks for sharing your craftsmanship and knowledge, I'm really enjoying watching this project take shape!

1954 buick bezel ,loving this build more when I saw that

Had 1954 Belair finally went to floor shift and it was worse .than the column. Sold car, was a fool, Glad you are young and got you act together. Great metal work Kyle

And I think the Tallahassee Two Step is a young thin metal finisher technique

It would be cool if there was some wizardry that could turn your hammer sounds when speed up into a tune... great work, good humor!

#garagechoreography Kyle, you are a sculptor. Really enjoy your work.

I had a 67 chevy with a 3 on the tree. About 3 or 4 different times I had to fix the linkage on the side of the road and another time the pin broke off the shifter handle. Never a dull moment with that truck.

Im new to the channel. I love your content, humor, acting ability and the skill in metal work. This is the project i have always wanted to do, but have afraid to destroy the metal and take away the beauty of these old trucks.

Very impressive, this upload… I, too, have been felled by the deciduous one-two linkage lockup. Always in traffic, with the “choose your own embarrassment” options of a), proceed very slowly AND loudly in first gear, or b) block traffic with the hood up, jiggle the branches free of each other, thus enabling the old bastard to start rolling off in neutral, precipitating a frantic dash for the cockpit in order to avoid further damage.

You make a lot of sense - thanks

my whole car is held in place by the tried and tested RIP (rust in place) method. and sweet axle stand technique, i'm going to have to try that

My cat is fascinated by the flash of the MIG welder.

You are a teacher I wish I had years ago

Hi Kyle, I heard the bell ring and I knew school was in session. Myself I love hearing your explanation of how the metal reacts when it has an impact on it. When I look at any damage the first thing I do is look for the primary point of impact and then work backwards from there. It’s like a mystery that needs solved, when you explained all of that I was waiting for someone to say how did you know all of that and your answer would be it was elementary my dear Watson. And I was cracking up with your comments missing leg and brain days for all those years. But the jokes aside you have an unbelievable understanding of your craft and a great ability to explain how and what you are doing. I watch and follow many creators who do bodywork on this platform and in my opinion you are one of the best people I follow. And that’s no joke. Attention to detail how meticulous you are in doing your work checking and working and rechecking till you get it done right and to your satisfaction. Keep up the great job you’re doing and keep sharing your amazing videos. Anyway that’s my opinion and thanks for all the work and sharing. Later

I love that torque twist technique!!! Just be careful you don't pull a neck muscle!!! The human body is an amazing tool!! Thanks for sharing Kyle.

You have an eye for detail, great job😊😊😊

This project is amazing.you have a great eye for detail

Many times going on a date with my wife lol, great job great video. you are a master at repairs and explaining how to get it done.

Yes, I've untangled a 3 speed linkage a few times. In a 65 Merc truck, a 66 Rambler wagon and a 77 Chevy van. I hope paypal gets their stuff together. I know you're not to much into Fords, neither am I really, but I've often thought it would be cool to make one of the early Rangers look like a 66 F-100. I'm running out of time for things like that though, lol. Cheers, Kyle.

I had the three speed linkage fall apart in my '53 on the way home one day. In LA traffic I climbed under and tied it back together with a rag (all I had). Was enough to get into 2nd and leave it there. Put in a new bolt when I got home. Been fine for years since.

My Mother had an old beat up '57Chevy. It was my job to jump out pop the hood and pull the levers up.later I had a 70 C 10 that would get hung up at the worst times. Some guy t boned me so I scavenged parts put another cab on a k10 frame with the truck 4sp and never looked back. Hey your doing great on the chicken truck.😅

That's one clean Malibu next to the truck! Love those even in a crewcab version

I used to drive my Dad’s 1967 Chevy Nova and it did frequently get stuck in gear while on the road. It had a 3-speed transmission on the column. My Dad had cut a guava tree branch with a short smaller j-branch to hook the linkages back into neutral. Worked like a dream! Used it so many times by the side of the road.

Hope you got the cats on speed dial in case you get stuck when using the human portapower. Yep that pot metal/ aluminum soupbox shifter was an engineering marvel. Trained on a 56 chev truck. Nice video!

Yep, pull off the road and grab the wrench I keep under the seat for "untangling". I finally cleaned everything up well, applied lots of grease, then baling wire. It's been years now.

Hey Kyle thanks for all the metal work tips on those 54-551st series fenders great job. really enjoying the build. God bless

Have I ever had to untangle a 3 speed linkage alongside the road? Actually hundreds of times. I owned a 64 Rambler Classic. That three on the tree had more wobble in it than my Grandmother’s knees!

Great video, Love you humor Kyle

Oh, the frenzied pace ...

The '53 Bel Air shift linkage jams, but only when my husband is driving. I prefer the log chain and tree method for panel pulling. That's probably what was done to the front of that truck. Thanks for more info. and some entertainment.

New to the channel, you use a lot of the same tool's i use, and that's whatever's available lol. I have worked on old Chevy's in the past, my bucket list Chevy would be a 36 chevy business coupe. My grandpa was looking for one to restore with me, but died in 1999. The first car he ever drove, and it was brand new, and the guy he worked for as a teenager let him drive it to deliver stuff for him. G-d bless.

Loved the human porta power

I had a Chevy truck with a wore out 3 speed on the column I carried a jack handle under the drivers seat it got hung up all the time . Until I learned it’s little quicks . That fender brace bolting right back in place shows you know what you are doing . There at end you saying the panel had to be straight before you could then start working on it thanks for that . Great video

Great video Kyle lots of great info and undoing the damage the reverse of the way it went in

Yes , by all means. I have had to unstuck shift linkage many times . I've done it on Chevys and Fords . After a couple of years you learn how to shift w/o hanging the linkage up.

Hi My Dear Friend Very Very Good Job ❤❤❤❤❤

Ya I did I had a 73 Chevy pickup always jambed in gear got tired of doing that mostly at intersections took apart and installed an automatic life was good then

Now I know where I went wrong with my body work. Too much hemanned and not enought using my brain. Nice work Kyle. That sounds like it will be one cool truck.👍

I too have utilized the Tallahassee Two Step.... Kind of handy! God bless.