Firing up a 1960s dragster motor for the first time in over 50 years! The Motor Underground, ep. 4

[@SchnebsGarage]

Not sure how I found this but damn I'm glad I clicked on it.. great job.

[@johnnyrocket7922]

I'm 35 years old and I'm in a wheelchair and I eat sleep breathe rat rods and rockabilly music my dad is a drummer in a rockabilly band in MN

[@V8Deuce]

RIP Anthony Castaneda - coined the phrase Rat Rod.

[@danielstoner2843]

Pour one out for the homie, frank...

[@destro513]

Respectfully

[@Nothing_to_see_here]

Love the gentle ribbing from the real mechanic to the art school dude who's car is a complete mystery to him. Classic.

[@Breeer]

I'm rejuvenated once again ! Thank you very much.

[@danielstoner2843]

Just wait till we actually get pedals made for it!

[@Breeer]

@@danielstoner2843 I'll be watching Dan

[@AndyGeesGarage]

It was happening everywhere. In 93 I was a punk kid that bought a 60 pontiac in 93, torched the coils, skinny whites on chrome reverse wheels and spray bombed it flat black and I’m still at it and currently building a real steel ‘22 T bucket late 50s early 60s style on a shortened model A frame, 283 from a 59 Impala, trans and diff from a 57 chevy, it started with a pair of $100 headers. It’s been on the go for 3 years and counting.

[@danielstoner2843]

PICS of that T-bucket, Andy!!!

[@AndyGeesGarage]

@@danielstoner2843 there’s a play list on my channel. kzbin.info/aero/PL1LrqNEZ1NpxloF6F-kR1sXFdEu-Ro9Co

[@kennethpromo8946]

please come through with pics 🙏

[@timweidner3335]

I am so glad I found this project. I'm a 70 yr old cat from Michigan with a few cars under my belt, currently working on a 67 Chevy C10 Step Side, but I have been falling in love with the Salt Flat (Rolling Bones) type of Hot Rod. With that said, these California (Shifter) Hot Rod's are the real deal. Soo damn cool!

[@peterbellwood5412]

20:15 . I'm right there with you , man ! I genuinely believe that sound coupled with the hot-rod , custom , and drag-racing scene saved my life . My mum died in '62 when I was 11 . My dad bought me some 'exotic' , foreign , American car magz in the late '50s and I was / still am blown away by it all . Love , peace and respect . Pete UK

[@stringybarkin]

This here is what it is all about!!! Love everything about this car

[@carloscordova2404]

I like yhe way you encapsulated 1960 in the sound the engine made. Your reaction to the start up was awesome. Good for you bro!

[@josemejia9349]

That was AWESOME

[@danielstoner2843]

YOU'RE awesomer!!

[@harleydavidson4404]

I have been waiting to hear this thing run I bought an old dragster motor myself came out of a slingshot dragster it's a hemi 😎👍

[@danielstoner2843]

TALK MORE, Harley Davidson--we wanna hear all about this motor of yours!

[@harleydavidson4404]

@@danielstoner2843 do you have like a web page or some other site than KZbin I could tell you all about this engine

[@joshuamccuistion559]

Thanks for the great memories. It was guys like you who got me hooked on hot rods 20 years ago. The car looks great man.

[@danielstoner2843]

Hell, this car is as old as your hot rod hook, Joshua!

[@joshuamccuistion559]

@@danielstoner2843 It takes me back to the cars I fell in love with. Your car makes me feel just like I did back then. It's perfect man.

[@paulmbylbie6065]

Car culture is kind of who a man is inside of his head got to love it

[@georgetantardini9133]

Great video, Even tho I'm little bit younger I was there at these shows and being around mostly everyone in this video, miss those days the kulture is definitely not the same now.

[@danielstoner2843]

Crazy how The Shifters are now a 30 year-old hot rod club...but my grey hair knows the deal!

[@georgetantardini9133]

@@danielstoner2843 yeah crazy to think that forsure

[@georgetantardini9133]

@@danielstoner2843 oh yeah thank you for the write up on the garden grove camaro you did, very grateful that you did it.

[@danielstoner2843]

@@georgetantardini9133 absolutely love that car, George! Hope to see you both again soon...

[@joshdanison11]

Dan! Hell yeah she sounds amazing!

[@patrickmoran8790]

For the “new stuff”, that camper special, extra long wheelbase Ford F-350 is a sight for sore eyes, because I haven’t seen one of those since about 1980. On the hotrod side, Coop’s sedan is very inspirational for mine, along with the Eastwood & Barakat sedan in a 1982 Hot Rod Magazine. Want to take your mind away from work for a while? Build a real hotrod like these guys and mine, then drive the damn thing for hours to meet up with guys like you to relax more! Done it!

[@danielstoner2843]

Git 'er done, Patrick--and let's see pics of your hawt rawd!

[@trevorcalhoun4530]

Hey Dan….. I read everything on Hemmings that you put out. Followed you as you built the car and to hear it running is mind blowing! Congrats and now get her finished as I am looking forward to seeing it finally on the strip!

[@danielstoner2843]

So that was YOU, the whole time, Trevor?!? Glad to have you aboard, my dood--more to come!

[@MrStacy1974]

This looks like something Bernie and Krass would have built in Cartoons magazine.

[@danielstoner2843]

I'd like to think Trosley would approve, Mr.Stacy!

[@thomasmatta7188]

this documentary about hot rods is outstanding you guys are the goats 💎💎💎💎💎💎👑

[@hemmingsmotornews]

🤘 🤘 🤘

[@thomasmatta7188]

@@hemmingsmotornews 💯✌️

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Great vid, really enjoyed!!! 👍👍

[@christophernoto]

Wow. Great story. Well told. Love the sound, which I pumped through my stereo, for full impact! 🔥❤️🔥👍👍

[@danielstoner2843]

Oh, man...we need one of those stereos to listen to it, Chris--or we're coming over to YOUR house!

[@christophernoto]

@@danielstoner2843 You’re welcome any time! 😊

[@jimpuglisi7973]

Fuckin great video you guys are living the rockabilly and hot rod life fuckin awesome 👍🏻

[@apexmetalrestoration2805]

That thing sounds so sick.

[@GregoryBamber]

Dan's description of hot rodders is me. I've never been the same as everyone else and never wish to be.

[@kevinwilliams7979]

Well done dan 👏 I'm getting after my T coupe really soon. Thsnk for all the inspiration 🙌

[@GregoryBamber]

One word - - - AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!

[@knutbkristiansen]

Awesome episode

[@waldoamaya2612]

THANKS 4 shoving me over the edge.....

[@mikakari9498]

Great storytelling! 👍

[@hemmingsmotornews]

Glad you liked it! Appreciate the support 🤝🤝🤝

[@larrydavis1648]

Soo Bitchin to learn all about this car and it’s contributors🤘🏼

[@differentgroove1]

Your High T is out of this world !!!

[@warrenfloyd1484]

Awesome video, thanks😎👍

[@nathanlebell9353]

What an awesome show 👍👍

[@hemmingsmotornews]

Thanks for the support! 🤝🤝🤝

[@losthubcap]

I love it ! Great Video.

[@FARTYCREAM4U]

greatest beer ever ,cant get it in IL i love that shit .car was awsome to lol

[@danielstoner2843]

Glad you noticed the YANGALANG, Farty!

[@ttgarage71]

Bitchin! Congrats, Dan! Thomas Ommen

[@johnnyrocket7922]

Stray cats are my number one favorite band in the world

[@danielstoner2843]

I took the Stray Cats for granted when they were on the pop charts, Johnny--much more respect for Setzer and the guys now that understand what they really did for us...

[@denniscliff2071]

You could have built that hot rod yourself. You have the fire and passion and the IQ. You don't seem to have the confidence, but that is acquired over the years. Your hot rod in its present configuration, is one of the most esthetically satisfying hot rods that I have ever seen. I wonder how you will resolve the apparent sight line problem of the sheet metal blocking your view down the road ahead. Excellent videos. Thank you.

[@hemmingsmotornews]

🙌🙌🙌 Thank you for the support!

[@馬伕]

The late 80's also saw the emergence of Japanese cars getting modified. Maybe that's worth documenting also.

[@marklewis1884]

Dan stoner loving your name ❤

[@xmo552]

Trying to B-boy and you kicked the ghetto blaster 🤣👌

[@richardsmith-qy6vl]

I remember being a kid in school drawing cars all day I never did my school work I been obsessed with hot rods ever sense I remember when people started with lace paint jobs and ì wanted a black car and a candy blue laced roof paint the sail panels silver then throw a lace table cloth on it and spray the candy blue. I always wanted a big block or bad ass small block with

[@4speedlover684]

Freaking badass !!👀

[@scotty8469]

FINNN A!!

[@SolfierzoRynsewynd]

it's gonna be more motor than he can handle...

[@danielstoner2843]

Truer words never spoken, Fabian...

[@rollin19]

Really cool culture and to think many of them lived through it with all the alcohol that was involved. There were no rules other then to not let perfectionism weigh them down by car show trophy hoarders and their high dollar builds,they just wanted to be free and live in another time that most people at that time were afraid to live,the modern society thought if you cant have a lot of money and build a perfect looking chromed out high dollar painted hot rod,then you weren't in their club! Well they showed them how you didn't have to have a lot of money to build a hot rod,that sounded cool and in inspired young people who didn't need to work their whole lives to have a hot rod that they could enjoy and not have to worry about getting a nick or a ding,let's face they built them to drive and go fast and have fun. Although i like trailer queens too and pretty paint jobs,just build something on minimal income and being able to just have fun,having a rough around the edges automobile,loud and fast,you are making a statement,that's what real hot rodding is about.

[@Cmvalteau]

Anthony RIP.✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@danielstoner2843]

😇

[@keithadamo304]

Von Franco looking Krazy lol

[@danielstoner2843]

As always, amiright?!?

[@CycolacFan]

Weirdest thing for me on this coupe is the cut down Daimler grille. Is there a radiator on there anywhere, is the intention to put it on the street?

[@joeyherrera9088]

I'.Understand the motor is from a. "Top fuel dragster! And. I'. Also. Understand. The driver pass-away! Because the. 'Parachuite did not . Open! So what. It. Prove's to me! That when. The Driver crash into. The. Ditch! The crash was. 'Seriously-Dangerous! And you did some good! In rebuilding that. 'Motor! And that's all! '4 Now! Signed! ('Albert-J-Herrera!) Down. 'Inn's. (PH-PH-Ph-Flinttown-North-End!). 'Peach-Owwutt!

[@LawnDart98k]

Elka is such a Babe

[@icantintyou]

yessir

[@V8Deuce]

Anyone out there know the date on the Shifters Anniversary show?

[@danielstoner2843]

Hold tight, frank--I've been talking to the club about this and we might have some surprises in store for you!

[@judgejury3230]

Show us the real 60s treasure you have Stoner.

[@danielstoner2843]

DON'T MAKE ME DO IT, Judge!!!

[@jimallison4350]

"Building off that cast off old junk" has turned used up parts into gold.

[@shoominati23]

The number of Cadillacs and Lincolns (or whatever make/model Elvi' happened to be feeling like benefacting that day) out there that got bought for people's parents and are now slowly rotting in some farm because they refuse to believe they aren't worth a quarter of a million dollars is astonishing!

[@xmo552]

I can't covet my neighbor's Cadillac. No promises on that one.

[@AmusedDaffodils-mz5rw]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@craigwilson4439]

Oh, come on man. Please stop saying 60 something years, I was born on the last day of 65 and I've still got a while yet. But me and my mates were into 50's style hot rods in the early 80's. My dad was a member of the first club in the southern hemisphere. Those guys made it all come together by organizing the first legal drag races and that was in the 1950s. Hot rod shows by the 60's, and eventually multi club functions. They found it a bit strange that we were all digging what they had moved on from but kind of liked telling the old stories and hearing the old music getting new life breathed into it. Many of us started rockabilly bands, and eventually even psychobilly bands. This is not a new thing as I'm sure you know. I'm still a gear head, love old rods , not the rat variety though. Still got some of my dads old stuff amongst mine and it means more to me than any new shit. But, please we're not yet 60 something . Cheers from Australia.

[@drflex8549]

wheres this car now?

[@ericbengtson3490]

On nitro will make you cry.

[@danielstoner2843]

on gas practically made me cry, Eric!

[@xmo552]

@@danielstoner2843 392?

[@danielstoner2843]

@@xmo552 yep-but it’s something around 42??? now?

[@xmo552]

@@danielstoner2843 Huh

[@daryllect6659]

The rubber fuel lines is stupid.

[@TheBFN]

👿🔱😈..what is the engine and whats in it ???...

[@reddysteddy2030]

This guy is straight reading off of a cue card it sounds kind of phony

[@YippeeKiYayMrFalcon]

And did he lowkey brag about being vaxxed when he said he was "boosted" lol 😆 Nothing says you're a badass hotrodder like bragging about getting the Fauci ouchie and a booster 💉🤓

[@bigdaddydellnunya5830]

Yall talk way to much wanna see and hèar cars

[@robbycard4293]

HowDo? I just stumbled on to your vidio and I'm very enthused on your program.I kinda remember that T from ODR_CKD back in the early mid 2000s.I see the old gal still got her snap,Oh I bet that thing can be a BEAR to drive,anyway; keep the climb going my friend.I'll keep following up on your program, and thank you 👍🦿🦿🤩

[@danielstoner2843]

This car would never have been in OSR/CKD, Robby--but you might be talking about the orange one that a lot of people thought was mine when it hit the interwebs a few years ago? I think that one's still scootin' around the Midwest somewhere, if memory serves...

[@robbycard4293]

@@danielstoner2843 HowDoDaniel.There's so many that are similar,but I do agree with you.I do apologize for assuming about seeing your rod in either magazine.l'll still follow up on your progress and good luck on the the old gal. Sincerely... Robby Card.

[@danielstoner2843]

@@robbycard4293 oh, don't sweat it--glad to hear you're looking out for these cars!!