Roadworthy Rescues tonight
 

Derek Bieri is working on a 1955 Pontiac Chieftain on MotorTrend TV (8:00 PM Central). May be interesting.

Recording it.

Cool, thanks for the heads up. This is one of the better Motor Trend shows.

79 TA was good too , and the Cammer Lemans.

Never seen it but I’ll watch it because it has a Pontiac on it.

Was it the issue sparkolators, fuel maken happener or the lightning sticks?

No, it was intake gasket in a bottle

Recorded the 55 Pontiac last night, check it out today.

Roadworthy Rescues is one of my favorite car related shows. Derek comes across as a very calm cool likeable dude. The show seems genuine without all the fluff, fake drama, and BS that ruins most car related shows. I would like to hang out and have a beer with Derek and his brother.

the show is good, but not as good as his original "Vice Grip Garage - Will it drive xxx miles(?)" videos;
The high dollar thing really dilutes it for me;
I like seeing the real world struggle, and low-buck ones.
The 'Rot-bird' was astoundingly rusted... and to my utter disbelief, it made it!!

Watched it - good episode - good show.

Missed it. My first car was 2 tone blue 55 Chieftain.

Just watched the recording. Fun show to watch. I think he spent more time with a screwchisel and a burr removing the belt that was fused to the pulley than he did on the engine itself!

You gotta record everything on tat channel, commercials are real bad

Too bad I put tonight in the title. But,

This coming Wednesday, 8:00 Central on MotorTrend, will be showcasing a GTO. '70, I believe.

I love the show. He's hilarious. Just watched the gasser episode with Freiburger. Was good. Only thing was them saying they had to weld up the "peg leg" rear end. Then watch them welding up a posi. Maybe the posi was trash. Very minor detail. Usually no BS.

Apparently there has to be some credible intel on all these cars that ensures they were running/driving when parked. I doubt any of us could just walk up on an old car sitting in the weeds and get it cranked, running, and driving. All I’ve ever seen were parked because the engine was blown, transmission was burnt up, and-or a host of severe electrical, suspension, chassis, or driveline failures.

I missed the cheiftain some how, it didn’t record :confused:

Here's a dad, and son rescuing a 2 owner 55 Pontiac picked up in San Antonio Texas, driving it back to Tucson Arizona. This kid, and his dad are constantly doing this on You Tube, looks believable too. Their main focus is Cummins/dodge diesels, but he works and flips a little of everything.

Be prepared, it a little over 2 hours long, but well documented as they go to Texas, get the car ready drive back home, and their journey back to Tucson. The car is quite well preserved being it was sold new in Texas, and lived it's life there. It's a 2 tone 4 door sedan. The car is very similar to a 56 I bought as a young teenager decades ago, but mine was even more rare, 3 on the tree, 317. Rochester 4 bbl..........:)

Link..........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvs77J2WXzs

He also makes a reference to the true lineage of the Pontiac V8 "Stratostreak" Few people know that terminology, but it's the correct name given to the engine by Pontiac engineers.

https://i.ibb.co/dkSt9kw/stratostreak-VC.jpg

Picture of the Stratostreak T shirts I designed, and sold about 15 years ago. I still wear them today as I saved myself a few.

https://i.ibb.co/r5n3x7j/stratoback1.jpg

Anyway another saved, and drive home video with an ancient Pontiac Chieftain being saved. You don't have to worry about recording it, because it's already been done.

Well, it must be Pontiac season on the Rescues. Tonight's episode was a '62 Bonneville.

I like Roadworthy Rescues also. Some of his 'ideas' are inventive and practical. I watched him recover that 70 GTO. Water in cylinders, he added oh,oh,(mind goes into neutral) Marvel Mystery Oil and got ,pistons,cylinder loosened. I still cant believe that. Drove car around. There might be more to his inventiveness than what's shown still like him.