This old Chevy was once a restored beauty but has been sitting outside for 21 years. Come along as I try to get this car running and moving out of its resting place!
Fun video that brought back memories. Our family car in the 50s was a 49 Chevy. I got my drivers license in it on my 16th birthday. It didn't have turn signals so I had to use arm signals, which we were taught in drivers ed in HS.
Finally, the first time i see you taking the time to weed out around an working area around a car. And maybe removing stuff thats in the way. Bravo 👏. I like your video's, your simple approach to get these car/truck to run again. Two 👍 up. Michael from the Province of Quebec, Canada.
@@whattherust Looking forward 👌 to another video, enjoy watching someone that really knows what he is doing 😀. Do many or any of your car rescue get back to you with further work or restoration done?
Your content is good. Keep running the will it run videos. Too many on RU-vid try to get out into other things and ruins the simple pleasure. Thanks again. Dave
Great video. Love the content of your channel. Those old 1950 Chevy's are a joy to see again and again. Another classic for someone to enjoy driving. Thanks!
I am working on another 1950 right now. It is a powerglide automatic and is loaded with options. Time has not been kind to it, and it is proving to be quite a challenge.
Great to see some one else that's enthusiastic about bringing back old cars to life. I'm 72, born in 1951, so your car is 73 years old. Cheers from eastern TN
I remember back in the 60's and living on a farm, we had a 52 Chevy I think, we had to push it to get it started. You have a new subscriber. Love your content. Thank you for helping this veteran get his car running again that brought a big smile on his face.
I'd say about 80% of the classic vehicles I brought home when I lived in Alabama from my friends junkyard always had a good happy ending just like this, for just a little patience and a little tune-up that fire right back up, my last project was a 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook with a flathead 6 and the original six volt system and she heard and sound just like this old Chevy after a couple of days of love
Just found you, great video. I will be browsing all the rest. I have a 1950 Plymouth business coup with a stuck lifter. Not sure if I want to dump more money in the pit.
@@whattherust Lots of MMO - long story, got it to free up, but happened again 3 months later, Not sure how to make sure it does not happen again, can't find the right valve spring compression tool.
That is really cool and I really can't believe that a car can sit in the open for 20 years, and you can make it run again. I really hope someone can save that car.
New subsciber, 153624 is the firing order. My 51 had the same engine. I remember having to time it off the fly wheel. You shined the timing light into the hole on the spark plug side. Loosen the distributor and rotate it till the ball bearing lined up with the arrow. Good job young Man, appreciate you bringing old ones back to life.
Back in the mid 60s I had a 54 Bel air that was chopped and dropped love going to the Tasty Freeze jut to show off my ride. Thanks for taking me back in time.
My first starts: Remove plugs, squirt some thin lube into each cylinder, rotate fan a few times with plugs out, put new oil into engine, install plugs then try starting.
Runs great and its a two door ! Only one negative thing those clear plastic fuel filters are a fire waiting to happen. especially when placed between the carb and fuel pump.
1. Back in that era, heaters were a factory option. You paid extra. Also backup lights. Turn signals were aftermarket. 2. ALWAYS have a copy of your important files on your own media, offline.
That little Chevy runs like a sewing machine. And peers like a kitten you have some good video I going to have to push that subscribe. Looking forward to some more videos.
Something that really helps with off setting the cost of resurrecting these old cars is throughout the year collecting any brand of oil that you run across that's cheap. I've done it forever I'm talking garage sales estate sales discount stores even when your just on a road trip. You can get a quart of oil anywhere from a quarter to a few bucks. 1 here 2 there. I've collected over 40 quarts of oil in a garage sale season and only paid about 60$ for all of them. Yeah they were mis matched but I was able to resurrect old cars that had no oil in em and and run em for just about nothing. Same with oil filters you never know if your gonna run into a car that uses that 50 cent oil filter you picked up at that yard sale.
Those where work horses. My dad had a 51, we cut a big maple tree the trunk set on the saw's bar. my brother climbed up the tree, hooked rope to it, and the other end to the car, and pulled the tree down. With basically the same mechanics as this 50 model. Dad painted houses for a living, he carried his step ladders in the trunk, a 40' and 20' wooden extension ladders on top. I wish I had one now.
It is really, really sad that the owner has let this sweet ride sit here and get in this sad shape. I also used to have a '50 Chevy. Mine was a two door with the six cylinder three on-the-tree. Loved that car. Had to let it go because I wasn't making enough money at the time (very early 60's) to pay for insurance and maintenance. I've always had a fondness for these cars.
My father had a gray two-door '50 Fleetline DeLuxe with no turn signals. By the time he traded it in 2 1/2 years later, in his words, everything was shot. It was burning oil as fast as he could put it in.
A fine video, and such a nice find, that old vet tho will probably never do anything with it as its still needing work that his abilities are limited to, he is my age as we are vets of nam.
Did you notice the cooking pot next to the radiator to keep it from overheating? I'd recommend a 4 core radiator for it. It's a possibility that's why it was parked. Between a low volume water pump and a narrow radiator it could have had some serious overheating problems in its past that were never taken care of.. New headliner and a really good detail and paint job would turn this baby into a gem at a car show!!
Old man in my town had a '50. Bought it brand new and never missed a car show even when he was well into his 90s. Passed about ten yrs ago maybe more. Never saw it again.
Those stubs with the rubber ends on the steering wheel are the remains of the broken horn ring. Someone put rubber ends on the broken stubs because those remaining stubs are probably sharp.
The horn ring was broken off ,is why it looked like that.I have a 51 sports coup..rebuilt 216 ,headers,duel exaust.newly cromed bumpers,guards,+ wing tips on bumpers.
Being a 216 with poured babbitt rods you must use non detergent oil if it is to be driven, detergent oil will wear out the rods prematurely and you will need to pull the oil pan off and remove a shim or two from the rods if it starts knocking.
