Fabricating the front fender of a 1991 NASCAR Race Car (4K) | Petty's Garage

[@billp6191]

Unapproved fender. Nascar wants all your points, suspension of driver/ crew chief, lots of money,and your first born child.

[@fryguy42005]

In 1991 they didn't care about rules 😅

[@dalehilborn691]

They had like 3 or 4 templates then lol

[@TheMrtgamer]

In 1991, this would've been an approved fender... Today, not so much

[@lesmawson7298]

It takes the crew so long to make that fender and then it takes Richard less than a race to wreck it, with help of course

[@Action46MotorMadness]

This feels like real life Days of Thunder rebuilding the car from scratch

[@TheMrtgamer]

This was how cars were built back then too... It's a shame that skilled work like this has gone away in the sport

[@MiColorPodcast]

I came to write the same comment... I feel like Robert Duval speaking to the car and everything he will to do it

[@craigplunkett5426]

Lol same bloody thing went thru my mind to

[@carrsllccarrillo6507]

This is a lost art. I can keep watching this over and over again and not get bored. It's like a study guide on how to build a car. You need to understand how much time it take to plan, measure and fabricate. This takes me back when i was helping out a bud who was racing super stocks. Cutting sections of stock body monte carlos making them thinner, pop riviting panel sections together. It was long hours but the final product always looked nice. Great video and great job! Thanks for posting this up!

[@carrsllccarrillo6507]

...and I'm not gonna lie, I'm loving that intro music in the beginning of this video and yes I have watched this at least 4 times. Shared it with others and yeah I miss this kind of old school racing approach.

[@synonyx]

He even took the time to bevel the holes so the rivets would sit flush.... man VERY good attention to detail! Loved this whole series.

[@Piecenotwar]

In ww2 I think the British did the same when upgrading the Spitfires, countersink the holes so the head of the rivets were flush and squeezed another x amount of mph top speed.

[@midway27272727]

@@Piecenotwar They did, we did too...more streamline, less drag.

[@negativematt]

These were the golden years of watching NASCAR for me! Days of Thunder was awesome in the theater! I even have a 1990 Pontiac Turbo Grand Prix just like the pace car. I need one of these Grand Prix noses for my shop!

[@RyanBradfieldRacing]

Really enjoy how these videos are shot. Just showing us how it’s done.

[@MisterMonsieur]

[Dubstep Blaring] _"YOOOOOOOO, guys! Today we're rebuilding the fender on some old guys car and making it fire again!"_ 🤪

[@peanutsmcgonnagle2458]

'Most have no idea of just how much time even what they might think is a simple job but yet, takes hours and hours to do it right; just like we saw here. I sat down and watched the whole 33+ minutes and enjoyed every minute! And the small talk conversations. Wonderful!

[@waldemargerhardt77]

No BS talking about subscribing to the channels paid section, no shit talking bout give away cars and stuff. Just a Classic phantastic clip of good old Garage life. Thank you guys so much 🤩🤩🤩👍

[@fascar_living]

Days of thunder-ish intro. Love seeing the old way of hanging body components!

[@bobbyhall7472]

Bro it felt like an 80’s movie!! The music and great editing!! I was wanting for Stallone to walk out!!

[@brandonlee6158]

I wish someone would make a channel with just NASCAR bodies being hung and finished all day long! I couldn’t take my eyes off every change he slowly made working a flat piece of metal into a race car! I was lucky enough to be trained as best as the man could train me on the break and wheel! But we are a dieing breed!! Keep up the good content! We want more! We want more! I’m right down hwy 220 a few miles from Rockingham speedway! Y’all come on down they have repaved the track and are bringing more and more venues in

[@Hunter-zr6rz]

Gotta agree on this. A few months before this was posted I was looking everywhere for this information, and it's worth its weight in gold apparently, there's none of this information available. It's definitely a dying breed! I've been gathering plans to build one, and finding old parts and chassis is getting slim. Someone needs to make some new banjo and laughlin chassis lol. I'm off 220 in Roanoke and am gonna have to make a trip to see some of these cars along with Bill Rhines collection and shop

[@redheadedstepchild4130]

So cool to watch. It's one thing when I'm in my own garage doing this but y'all are doing the Lord's work.

[@stewpuddy4161]

Makes you appreciate those cars so much more. A field of 43 had thousands of hours into them.

[@HammerLaneInc]

Man watching a master fabroicator is like watching a magician. I can't imagine having this talent. Bravo Zulu

[@nascarvintage17]

wonderful really this car is beautyiful and fabulous. For all car enthusiasts, the work that this guy is doing is awesome. 15:22 I never paid attention to those indentations/recess on the bottom of the door, wow. 27:25 for me it's of the art clearly !

[@Ever443]

This brings back so many memories not building these cars in the late 80-90s. This was how it was done, and the really good body men were worth gold to the teams

[@Pete99994]

Awesome video, shows the talent and craftsmanship that made nascar great...and then!

[@shanew.williams]

Beginning @20:30 for a few seconds, while he's working with the hood up, there's a short stubby looking bit of front roll bar bracing, angling down out of the firewall, low, just to the right of the steering shaft. That bar looks like it had a MAJOR impact. Looks like it's bent half in two. Maybe from the Sonoma crash ? Awesome vid.

[@angrymike6759]

This video made my day, just kickin it old school !👍👌 the craftsmanship and metal fab is just so nice to see again !

[@MisterMonsieur]

Today's generation wants to "3D print" and CNC everything. Take away their toys and what are they good for? _Nothing!_

[@rayblaszczak8922]

The old guy bodyman in me automatically closed my eyes for each mig tack. Then I reminded myself you can't get flash burn on you tube, lol

[@picax8398]

oh man that blue charger all the way in the back is gorgeous 15:50

[@iceman_fox1]

Days of Thunder vibes. LOVE IT

[@yotalicious]

Hard STOP! Liked and subscribed after watching the first five seconds.

[@Travisesty]

One of the best videos I’ve ever seen in my life!!! Thank you!!!

[@TheLukaCeeChannel]

My dream job. I wanted to get a job on a NASCAR team to do just that when I was young. Back in the early 90's. Wonderful Video. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.

[@gregoneill1495]

Amazing how much work goes into fabricating this fender!

[@baims8367]

Love the 90s era body’s especially for local street / super stock classes heck even late-models. This yr has just the perfect amount of roll imo

[@haroldbirckhead9997]

Awesome craftsmanship, these guys could make anything..

[@loveforsimracing8197]

Man I miss doing this with my grandfather when I was a teenager in the early 90s building Late Models.

[@IHWKR]

Man this reminds me of my days being a structural fabricator on F-15E's. I'll always miss my job even though it was demanding I'd love to do this again. Amazing what can be made out of a piece of sheet metal.

[@1ls376]

Skilled craftsman in a clean, well lit, organized shop producing great results.

[@King1614]

Can we get a build of an entire body start to finish from scratch? This is amazing to watch.

[@travisshephard5491]

Man you know how to make a good looking fender! That totally changed the look. Great job!

[@rodneyrhonemus3197]

The music to this is legendary.

[@TheCrusadersNet101]

I’d like to see how to build car like this man, like days of thunder. This video is perfect, you’re showing how to build one. Thank you.

[@pickle4034]

That is the most badass thing I've ever seen.

[@stevescoville8465]

I just wish he had a pad to kneel on. My knees are hurting just watching. Really glad I found this channel.

[@PullStartStables]

You mean to tell me all the years I’ve been running hand shears, I’ve been doing it upside down? Awesome video!

[@joshuahamilton6217]

Is it weird being a painter in the automotive field watching this video I can smell the metal as he's cutting with the 90 degree cut off tool or I can smell the weld's in my head it's so fascinating for me to watch

[@VintageTamiya]

That dude has talent. Respect

[@E180TEKNO]

People are unanimous in the comments that NASCAR was better before. my god the look of this bolide was magnifique reallt the pontiac grand prix wa very un obus and was a design so cool very very! "I feel like I'm seeing Harry Haug building the car of Cale Trickle. the work of quality just a great great respect congratulations guy

[@damnsilly666]

I miss the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's of NASCAR.

[@StretchArmstroong]

Hit the pacecar .. actually dont as that fender took a age to make .. great work 🎉

[@falcon0351]

Craftsmanship…Great work sir💪

[@piratescove4]

Just started this video and getting those vibes too, which is awesome. But if he breaks out the long body fitment test piece, I might shed a tear.

[@nicksothep8472]

Question: this looks like an actual old race car, and the fender looked undamaged, so why the new fatter fender? I mean, I truly enjoyed watching the process, true craftsmanship, I'm just curious what's actually going on with it.

[@stevejanka361]

Good afternoon Brian, that fender has a fantastic bulge fit and roll. Really looks very aerodynamic. Makes that car look aggressive setting still. Thanks for the great video.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

Easy peasy, right? I have a question I've always wondered about. When someone came into the pits with fender damage, were you limited in the types of tools that could cross the wall? I always wondered why they never used a rim you could mount that could help you reshape the fender. So the rim could be the shape of the tire with just an inch larger diameter. That way you could have jacked up the car, put this rim on, dropped the car hard on it, and only need a few hammer blows to get the right shape before putting a new wheel/tire on.

[@Pettys-garage]

They used to use aluminum bats to roll the fenders out during the race! No joke

[@johnnycomelately6341]

Great tradesman, great team

[@gregorygolden1296]

Great video. I really enjoyed hanging bodies. I learned from being around it, and from some talented racers. A lot of satisfaction in seeing it finished. Last one I did, I sold he car and the guy flipped it....

[@msm8698]

This shit is amazing. Please continue to make more content. You’re an artist.

[@philiphagemann4773]

Days of Thunder vibes!!!

[@chriswilgus4752]

Can't do that anymore. But they should have a throwback race series where you can . Lost art right there

[@CaMOnLy89]

I feel for the fabricators who just ended up watching the car get balled up in a race. It's a form of art in it's own medium.

[@shandyhilling7889]

So why cut up the good part ? Idk anything just curious. Was there front end damage?

[@Pettys-garage]

The fender didn't cover the tire and the wheel openings were the wrong shape. This topic is discussed a little more in depth in our previous video

[@shandyhilling7889]

@Petty's Garage thanks for the reply, I watched the other vids and saw why. Love these videos thanks so much

[@DeansFabShop]

Ah the ole bent fender brace. We got caught on Casey Atwood’s Castrol Chevy in 1999 with them. We’d bend them forward on the left front so when we’d make our first pit stop the front tire changer would grab them and bend them straight to pull the left front out. Not on speedways though of course. Fun times.

[@Pettys-garage]

Brian said, "We did the same thing! We bent them on this project to clear the oil cooler though."

[@RetroGamerr1991]

1:20 You think guys working on '90s era cup cars would be listening to Skynyrd but no they got Alanis Morissette on LMAO

[@gusthesheltie154]

This type of work is amazing to me So good at their craft

[@inkslinger6156]

Great job. I miss working with metal and on car

[@Poplar70bodiam]

Question for Richard petty do you still stay in touch with Marcos Ambrose? Because I beat if you brought him back on your team since your team has gotten better i think he might get some more points and maybe a second win in the cups series because there is now more road courses and the gen 7 is good for the road course and can take a beating for his crazy driving style!

[@FastPaull]

Finally. I've been wanting to see how they "Hang" a body on a Nascar for years.

[@cannedheat2264]

I have the same rims on my el Camino paid 1 grand for them and the Mickey Thompson’s. Didn’t know they were used in nascar.

[@jsprague2453]

Tag this as Unintentional ASMR. This was relaxing!

[@weaseltown]

This must've been some really high end camera equipment for back then. The quality is better than most current KZbin documentaries. Edit: lol I'm an idiot!!!!! I saw the dudes apple watch and realized it's a current video of an old car. Ugh.

[@outlaw11x]

@PettysGarage how did you guys sorce the front bumper cover?

[@atneks4]

Fantastic video. Give us more!

[@TheMrtgamer]

This car and subsequent videos shows how much skill and work used to go into these cars back when teams built cars from the ground up... It's too bad NASCAR got away from this because teams wanted to save some $$$

[@concerned201]

That was the good old days. No stamped out parts. You took a flat piece of sheet metal and shaped it to fit. Hours of work and skill involved.

[@henryracingcompany6909]

So cool man I miss these cars

[@daviddooley5361]

Is there a part 4 of the seams getting filled and the car repainted??

[@Pettys-garage]

Next week! Just the other fender though. Part 5 will be seams filled and other paint and body work.

[@jimdouglasgregory]

What do you call those flush rivets that you were using 30 minutes in? I'm fimilar with the clecos, but that was pretty neat :-)

[@Pettys-garage]

They are countersink rivets. They are beveled on the bottom and flat on top

[@Rickard53]

Back in the day.. were there pre-made fenders and stuff or how did you guys fix a car with light damage for example..? This is such a satisfying video but I can't imagine doing all this job for weeks just to mess it up on lap 1..? 😅 Sorry for my bad english!

[@keithpendleton4059]

I would love some of the pieces cut off for wall Art

[@jamesprice6381]

NO GLOVES?? What a beast of a man! :)

[@robertbruce700]

It's sad they don't race these cars anymore. Gen 4 should of never gone away.

[@saratoga123321]

Oh yeah…more of these, please

[@terrymeyer7084]

This is a race car. Not the bullshit they race today.

[@BMWE304Life]

Couldn"t find what track that was in the intro.

[@TSi99999]

That's a true racecar!

[@jamesculbertson1746]

Imagine working for Stewart-Haas, & having to do this to Danica Patrick’s car after every race….

[@michael.dennis]

😂😂😂

[@KimiWallrus]

I didn't know anyone still used the small death wheels on a die grinder.

[@andreiapostol5906]

this is the car that Keiichi Tsuchiya raced at Suzuka!

[@lisachaney7504]

Great as always 😊

[@dane-my1qo]

Your REALY lucky would love to vork in the shop

[@monstertrucker35]

Is there a place that still manufactures the front and rear fiberglass Lumina body parts that y’all know of?

[@Everythingisgoingtobealright]

5 star race car bodies.

[@monstertrucker35]

@@Everythingisgoingtobealright thank you for the reply. I did look over their website, however I didn’t find this era of car body specifically. But I do appreciate the lead. 👍🏽

[@Everythingisgoingtobealright]

@@monstertrucker35 They may still have the molds, it’s probably worth a call.

[@monstertrucker35]

@@Everythingisgoingtobealright thanks again!

[@Hunter-zr6rz]

@@monstertrucker35 Check out Bill Rhine, he's bought a ton of the molds, and a bunch of front and rear ends to make molds with.

[@craigsteen8938]

Great video.

[@robertbruce700]

When I was a child this is exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I had a plan to sell everything and fly to North Carolina. I was going to go shop to race shop until someone hired me. Life had a different plan... yeah I knocked up my girlfriend. Oh well I'm still a sheetmetal worker but it's not this cool.

[@themetalfusionologist]

I wouldn’t regret it too much man. There were LOOOOOOOTS of 12,16, 20 hour days. Money was good, but not great. It could best be described as an orchestrated catastrophe at all times

[@dontfrankitupfrank1479]

AWESOME.... THATS TALENT..

[@SmokeyYunick13]

I’ve been wanting to build a 1990 lumina for a while, just like this with headlights turn signals brake lights and maybe a nice v8 with an Xpipe!!!

[@gorjlg]

Wow, that Grand Prix nose kind of had a splitter before they were a thing.

[@user-Dr.]

The way it's suppose to be, we owned a 95 Grand Prix for a million miles, til my youngest daughter wrecked it, just had to do normal maintenance, a great car, GM sure knows how to build em.

[@user-Dr.]

@nosoyallowed828 The 90's is when the best cars were produced, Grand Prix was a GM corporate car, Pontiacs were among the best cars in the world, when we lost that car I bought a 96 Olds Cutlass Supreme, pretty much the same car with a different body, this car will be about broke in this summer when it rolls 500 thousand, maybe you weren't around yet when these cars were built, possibly why you don't know, I bought a 93 Camaro new just for road racing, been racing it for 30 years now, 250 thousand miles of pure road racing, the car looks and drives better now than when it was new.

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Great vid!!!👍👍43

[@MUSIKSAVE]

Nice job

[@oliviersac1]

Looks like Harry when he's not eating ice cream

[@cvpuga]

im a mechanic... love this kind of videos the only thing i dont get it iw how can someone work without music kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@tiago1982-z3n]

MAGINIFICO

[@chardelraconner7324]

stats please

[@aassaammiigg]

งานมือในยุคนั้นมันเจ่งมาก😮

[@ste7193]

Why make it out of two pieces?

[@picax8398]

cutting through the original paint and decals hurt just a little lol