Great video and Tim is Awesome…question what magazine is that year and month with Tim’s car in it ?

WARNERS/DISCOVERY'S REPORTED A 3 BILLION DOLLAR PROFIT IN THEIR 3Q FINANCIAL REPORT !!! REPORT CAME OUT NOV.7TH. I DO NOT KNOW HOW YOU CAN REPORT THEIR 4Q LOSS WHEN THIS VID AIRED IN NOVEMBER. HARD TO BELIEVE YOUR 4TH QUARTER CLAIM !!! THEY REPORTED A 3 BILLION DOLLAR PROFIT !!! NOT A 10 BILLION LOSS AS YOU STATED !!! ALSO THEY HAVE CLOSE TO 20- 30 CHANNELS SO HOW 95% OF THAT IS DRAG RACING SEEMS ridiculous !!! MY SOURCES INFORM ME THAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE NOT WATCHING ROADKILL ETC, WELL NOT ENOUGH ARE WATCHING! ALSO THE SHOWS HAVE AN AGENDA . NOW THEY DO VEER ODD IT AT TIMES BUT THAT IS PLANNED TO GIVE SHOW SOME DRAMA. I HAVE SEEN HOST SAY THAT A FEW TIMES, MAINLY PERTAINING TO THE RIDICULOUS DEADLINES THAT APPEAR TO SET FOR A PROJECT COMPLETION !!! ALSO I SAY AT LEAST 50% OF THE IN CAR SHOTS OF HOST DRIVING ARE NOT MOVING !!! I DO AGREE IT IS MONEY RELATED. I BELIEVE IT IS THEM MISSING SOME IMPORTANT DEADLINES, AND BEING DIFFICULT . Finnegan GET CREW THROWN OUT OF A CAR SHOW ONCE. THEY DRANK ALCOHOL ON SET UNTIL MOTOR TREND SAID NO MORE DRINKING. I BELEIVE THEY GOT TOO DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH BECAUSE THEY DID NOT LIKE THE MOTORTREND PEOPLE & MOTORTREND PEOPE DID NOT LIKE DAVID & MICHAEL IS ALSO WHY IT ENDED.....AS I SAID BEFORE I HAVE WATCHED ABOUT 15 YEARS OF RERUNS & KNOW SOME SHOWS VERBATIM!!!!! AS YOU SAID LOOK IT UP !!!!! I DID !!!

Gone on to see about IT

Richard??? You know the previous owner's name? Oooh... I get the joke 😂

Good comparison. Really depends on car, and if parts are available, and your skill level. Thanks jeff for the vid, hope your 2025 is stellar.

Super relatable!!! My son (nearly 3 years old at this writing) loves-loves-loves our mustangs. The s550 gt we take to his school for drop-off, he loves pushing the start button on the dash and about a month ago I let him rev the car after warming up. The giggle and laugh that came out of him was pure mania and joy mixed. Thanks for the story, Jeff; Merry Christmas to you & yours!

I get like that every so often (nostalgic) about my car growth and the old car guys who made me. My uncles used to like to tell the story of when I was a little kid back in Hopkins, South Carolina and they would always keep me around them and their 340 Dusters, most of their friends had mopar, I was a rambunctious kid around the cars and their friend that had a 69 Roadrunner would fuss at my about running my hands up and down his clean car, but he wasn’t mean about it. Now that I’m a 55 year old man I wax nostalgic about those days, I didn’t become a mopar guy, I’m Oldsmobile because that same uncle helped me purchase my first car, a 77 Cutlass S (anyone that knows NASCAR and my first name may see the irony). I passed my love of cars onto my kids.

You better quit taking the younger to waffle house! Seed oil in their food will not you both sooner or later.

Thank you learning and watching

I have 2 gearheads I am raising. 1 loves Mopars and 1 is into 63 Fairlanes and 72 Rancheros. Awesome to see them having fun.

I commented on the video about John and his Torino. I WILL be following along on this, since I have a 1970 Torino I have been dumping money into sionce 2017, and it's pretty much ready for the road since last weekend. I have a 351 Cleveland engine from a 71 Torino that I found in my own neighborhood, and I am contemplating having it built, and then use the crate engine for a custom rod project. Anyway, I wish you luck for a speedy trouble free build.

Great story, and thanks for sharing it. I live in Houston, and wanted a Torino from the time I was fifteen years old, with an old yellowed magazine ad thumbtacked to my wall. I dreamed about having one and at the time they were only about ten years old. Suddenly, my Uncle by marriage, was ready to let go of his 1971 Torino 500. It was Dark Ivy green and had been garage kept its entire life, and lowish mileage. It looked new to my 16 year old eyes, that's how clean it was. Anyway, I finally convinced my Dad to go look at it, and hopefully it would be my first car. My Dad drove it around the block a couple of times, then simply said no.... I was 100% crushed... Anyway, fast forward about ten years to about 91-92, I was driving down the street one day, and saw a 71 GT exactly like yours. Light green fastback 351C 2V, running, and $1300?!?!?! I tried desperately to make it happen, immediately put my car up for sale, a beater 71 Convertible Cutlass with a leaky roof... Nope, 3-4 days later the 71 Torino GT was gone... Then, life happened, and I forgot about it for decades, 25-26 years to be exact, then it hit me one day, if I don't get one soon, I will never have one. I began selling items off that I could spare or no longer wanted. Guitars, vintage bicycles, etc etc etc.... A couple of years later I had saved up enough to go looking for one. Then, it popped up... 1970 formal roof that had been de-badged in it's one and only repaint, 302 ginger interior, and someone had ordered with almost no options but power steering, a/c, and one astounding splurge, they ordered it with the bucket seats, center console, and floor shifter. The seller delivered it to my driveway for $3600... That was Spring of 2017... Just last weekend, after years of saving, spending, and doing all of the work myself except trans rebuild, etc, it FINALLY moves under it's own power, and doesn't drive like a complete pile of junk. I even had a 367 hp Blueprint 302 in it, and it was STILL giving me a lot of headaches. I think the car was cursed, or I was... I feel like a kid again, at 58 years old. The most important part of the whole ordeal. There were all of the Autorestomod KZbin videos. They helped me WAY more than you can possibly know. THANK YOU for all you do, and the information you have passed along to millions of old car hobbyists.

I've got a nephew who has recently started working on Tesla's(thankfully he drives a '19 f150 w/ coyote😁) so i put him on the Scanner Danner training book and youtube videos. The boy cannot get enough. He was already doing some import drifting etc. I bought my youngest son his first vehicle this summer. I looked for a year to locate a solid '94 F150 5.0l w/ less tah than 100k original miles. He has never been happier. Showed him today how to tighten the cooler lines at radiator to stop a leak. Now who turned me on? Honestly, probably a surveyor i worked with after high school who was yapping one day anout his "new" toyota camry. I couldn't have cared any less. However, when my '68 f100 started skipping he was quick to tell me how to diagnose it in the parking lot...leave it idling and pop plug wires off 1 at a time and when you find one that has no effect you got it. Yeah i got it all right- 1 thru 4 were fine. #5 was not! I don't recall hearing anything but $>×)@&^! Did it shock the crap out of me. My elbow ached, my eyeballs were sore, i thought i died and was shocked back to life. Seems the boot had a break in the insulation. Son that was not a good introduction but since then I've wanted to help work on anything from 8N tractor, to '04 3v 5.4l triton (if it isn't a Ford it doesn’t sleep in my driveway! ). I do allow wife's '17 Jag because most parts have FoMoCo embossed on them.😅

Does any of the thunderbirds interior or suspension fit a 1966 Ford Galaxy 500

I have a '64 Westcoaster Post Office truck that I take to local shows. One of the few cars people are allowed to touch. I let people (mostly young ones) sit in, climb through, etc, & I tell them about it. It's fun & the kids get enthused. When building it, I had local kids all over it, helping (even if I had to redo their work)

Trosley was an inspiration to me as a young artist too!

I am a High School shop teacher that runs a drag racing club, I have had this feeling many many times.

Good stuff Sir … A very Merry Christmas to You and Your Family.🎄⛽️

What close that's terrible

Why that's terrible 😮

Chevy Nephew! Merry Christmas Jeff and team! 🎄🎁🤶

I remember when Krass & Bernie first came out. I was disappointed when the magazine they were in disappeared 🤥, but was thrilled when they reappeared in a different rag 🤪. But I was truly apprehensive about how my old gang might inspire the youngsters 🥴; turns out, they admitted to being inspired to out do us 😵‍💫.

Awesome stories.

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Jeff. And yep; I spent way too much time in study hall back in High School reading Cartoons. And between George Trosley and Shawn Kerri, I gained a deeper appreciation for that art form because it reflected my fascination for the cars that I grew up seeing as "new cars" on the street back in the 1960s. So by the time the 1970s and then the 1980s rolled around, I had the bug. Well, technically I had the 1957 Chevy Bel-Air coupe that my dad gave me for Christmas in 1979 when I was 15. The first Bug wouldn't come for a few years later, and was the first car I ever rewired from tip-to-tail, but not the last. I can still remember my dad taking me to Daryl Starbird's shows and Hunters Custom Rod and Auto shows, and we would go through all the show cars, observing what we each liked and didn't like, comparing notes and discussing what to do with the 57 Chevy. And you know what? That car was one of the deepest bonds I got the chance to experience with him before he passed away when I was 19. So this cartoon reminds me of that, and of one other important lesson. In the end, it's not JUST about the cars. Cars come and cars go. A good project is a reflection of the person who puts some of themselves into it. But in situations like what you are talking about here, it's the bonds of common interests, of sharing that part of yourself with someone who has the spark but perhaps not the years of the flame burning already, that will be remembered most when you are a memory and a legacy. Much like your friend's Torino project, we remember the person by the car. It's not just transportation; it's a talisman to evoke some of what we share with others, even IF (in the case of the cartoon) the effects our efforts far exceed the initial actions. Anyway, good post and I wish you a successful next year.

I was converted by the guy down the street who had a 67 Ford Fairlane GT. This was back in 69. I have always been open to kids and teenagers who ask about my 68 Ranchero.

In the summer of 2023, I was ready to put the rebuilt 260, with the Tremec 5 speed bolted to it, back in the 64 Falcon. I had no one around to help guide the engine and trans. into the engine bay. So I asked the neighbor kid who was 14, for some help. He had already been around when I worked on the car in the past,and seemed really interested. We shoe horned it in with the headers attached, was not easy. For helping me I took him to several car shows and cruise ins. He seemed to be into the old car thing big time. But at the end of the summer I asked him what car he would like, and he said he wants a 2019 or newer Chevy 4 door extended cab 4x4 truck. So it did not work as far as introducing him to old cars! Happy holidays to you and your family.

Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

A Merry Christmas to you and yours.

That sure is a sweet ride that you drew for your friend.

Merry Christmas Jeff. Maybe I’ll get to get over there visit with ya and see the shop in 2025.

TY Jeff. Both of my sons are in the automotive industry. My oldest has his own shop, doing anything from repairs to bagging cars. His first car driving experience was a burn out in my 68.5 CJ Cougar when he was 10( now 32) and we were living in Mexico. My youngest, 26, works at at small high end hot rod shop and does everything from sheet metal work, body work, paint, and much more. He has a 68 Cougar and is into hot rodding EF civics.

Finally, thanks for including Red Barchetta … I’m a lifelong Rush fan, perfect simili.

And thank you for your impact on me, and countless others back in your Magazine editor days. I’m an alumni, Pony Trail 2001 in Seattle !

Way to bring in Cody, Carla’s nephew, to cars. Keep converting all souls and bring them to the junkyards.

Nice !

Great story, I enjoyed listening to it. I have two sons that I taught to work on their own cars and troubleshoot problems. I've been trying to get my granddaughter's interested, they are in their pre-teens and teens but getting them interested has been rough. I've often sit back and wondered if the days of the DIYer on cars is slowly dying off. The younger generation don't seem much interested and I'm really hoping and praying that changes.

One of my soon to be stepdaughters has gotten into classic for trucks from the 70s. When her mom and I were dating she would send her mom pics of 70s Fords she seen at body shops wanting me to help her build one like it. It's a feeling you can't describe when one falls into this life.

Just this past Summer, a couple of kids (12 yr olds) from a few streets down stopped on their bikes to ask what i had under the car cover. They had me take the cover off my '66 Mustang. I let them look through it, popped the hood for them, started it up when they asked. Reminded me and one of my childhood buddies when we were that age! I had to shoot my buddy a text and tell him the story. I have a good feeling that those two kids are well on their way to being car guys, if they're not already.

Nice story time. Thanks Jeff

It also depends on how much needs to be patched. For little stuff, just make your own patch panel.

Keep an original fender and patch it up. A little more time, who cares.

Working on a 1967 Firebird 400, found rust in the back wheel well... went with a rear quarter patch. Yes lots of work but better than cutting out a whole rear quarter. Great video man!

Let's see you install the patch panel

If your buying a 4r70w how can you tell its the correct type that will bolt up to my my 302?

Lets see you weld that patch panel. 😂

The ground that was added to the firewall would have better contact if it was put under the rubber bushing instead of ontop.

Patch panel 👍🏻

With this title i thought we would hear about valve seat damage from no lead gas. But nothing about that.

I’d watch another weld vid, just about to start another project and deciding which way I’ll go, didn’t have to worry about it as much on XBARRA Xb coupe build. Cheers for the content

Jeff, good morning & Merry Christmas! For myself the answer is easy, while yes the patch panel is “ cheaper” a full fender would, in my view, be the better value, especially if paying to have the repair as install made. On that note if anyone happens to have a driver side fender for a 69 Fairlane in Meadowlark Yellow, let’s talk