Rebuilding a TOTALED Rolls-Royce Ghost For Dirt Cheap In The Front Yard Using GM Parts... PART 1

In this video I am going to rebuild a Rolls-Royce ghost that was totaled out by the insurance company. The goal of this rebuild is to spend the least amount of money on repairs as possible, that means we have to fix all the parts instead of replacing anything. And we are going to use GM parts to fix the original Rolls-Royce parts with. Some would call this a redneck rebuild or redneck engineering. But I would call it "the extreme budget exotic car build".
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[@togafly.]

A really unique approach to rebuilding. I like it.

[@fix206]

Thank you, appreciate that !!

[@mrampy7927]

Great work ! Can’t wait to see finished project!!!

[@fix206]

You won't have to wait long, next video will be out in just a few days !!

[@owenparker6651]

Interesting as hell! As per usual. Well done!!

[@fix206]

Thank you Owen, more vids to come soon my friend !!

[@wolf76092]

Excelente trabajo! Sigo tu canal desde hace poco pero he visto tus videos una y otra vez por que la explicación y tu trabajo es increíble. Saludos desde Toluca,Mexico.

[@fix206]

JC, Muchas gracias por las amables palabras

[@garyp2215]

Nice work. I really enjoy your videos and I am glad you started posting again. 👍👍👍

[@fix206]

Thank you Gary, I am making a conscious effort to be more consistent with the videos !!

[@tkskagen]

As a fellow Washingtonion, I am surprised that I didn't find your Channel sooner! Thank you, T -Bremerton Region

[@fix206]

Thanks man, yeah my channel is still pretty small... but I am planning on posting a lot more in the coming weeks and months so hopefully channel will get a bit more exposure... I am Auburn/Federal Way area

[@mrstratau6513]

Fantastic work guys.

[@fix206]

Thank you so much 😀

[@DavidHarnadek]

I like the creativity in getting around obstacles. Need a donor door skin?... How about this Tahoe door? And using the come along to pull the door seam back to shape. Using your head.

[@fix206]

No need to complicate things more than they have to be :-) my buddy is a cheap bastard, but so am I. I ended up spending a bit more time on repairing the busted parts but he sure saved a ton of money in a process by not having to purchase anything but the materials such as body filler, sand paper, primer, paint, etc. I think between fixing the fender, the door and the quarter panel I probably save him somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K in parts.

[@UNIQUEGrills]

Got her straight 💪

[@fix206]

Yes I did 👍

[@uptrend9378]

Okay okay 👌🏽 I gotta see this

[@fix206]

Oh it is coming, you better believe it :-)

[@mrhunter3220]

Great job ❤❤

[@fix206]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jrv858]

Great work....enjoy all of your videos

[@fix206]

Thank you Jrv !!

[@dm-zx7xb]

Awesome man! Can't wait until the next video.

[@fix206]

Promise I won't make you wait long for the next one 👍

[@boistoys5451]

Awesome job!!!!!! So the Rolls Royce door is steel????????? I thought it was aluminum..

[@fix206]

That's what I thought at first, but then I put a magnet up to the door and it stuck to it, if this door was aluminum it for sure would be going straight into a scrap pile. That's why I love working with steel, it's a lot more forgiving and much easier to work with

[@vita8208]

was thinking the same thing

[@pietown044]

there isn't much like this on yt, so for the people who want to rebuild these for fun Thank you!

[@fix206]

Thanks for watching !!!

[@nzuncovered1845]

Man that is such a good looking car, I would have been spewing when it got hit.

[@fix206]

It's for sure is a nice looking rig, I'm glad I was able to get it back together looking good as new :-)

[@Badhabbitgaming]

Killing it brother 👌💯

[@fix206]

Thank you my friend !!

[@MeFixingEverything]

Good luck and all the best.

[@fix206]

Thank you my friend !!

[@pinkie626]

Great Job!!

[@fix206]

Thank you.... Thank you very much... 🎤🕺🏻

[@luizhenriqueribeiro1970]

Muito bom essa recuperação. Gostaria de ver a preparação dessa peça...

[@fix206]

Abrigado Luiz !!

[@justinshields4216]

Impressive.. i need to go back out to pick-n-pull for some more scrap panels instead of sourcing raw metal and bending from a straight piece..

[@fix206]

We literally pulled the donor door out of a pile of scrap that was in the back of my friends backyard, in a way we also got lucky because of how close the contour of the donor door was to the original Royals Royce door. We had to tweak things less to get a desired result which is always a big plus !

[@PhillipHall01]

Arthur would be proud of you, I am too! Great work using your hand and your mind! Thanks for the video and thanks again for posting again. I have missed you making new videos. This one was well worth the wait. Top quality!

[@fix206]

Thank you Philip, my goal is to start posting on the regular more then what I have been as of late... Arthur is a hero of mine, I hope one day to match his level of awesome :-)

[@PhillipHall01]

I will make a bold but true statement and say. You are already there in desire, determination, and quality of work. I have all confidence you can fix anything. Your way of thinking overcomes all obstacles. Keep up the good quality work. Looking forward to the next video. Gods Blessings to you my friend. Sincerely, Phillip Hall

[@fix206]

Thank you Phillip, I promise not to disappoint :-)

[@walterbrown4484]

What a genius

[@fix206]

I am far from a genius, but I do appreciate the compliment !!

[@walterbrown4484]

And your heart is good keep up the great work

[@fix206]

Will do.. Thank you Walter !!!

[@MeFixingEverything]

This will be interesting.

[@fix206]

I sure hope so 😇

[@vita8208]

Frankenstein rolly polly. nice!

[@fix206]

It sure is... LOL

[@HiMattHigh]

Nice repair, but it looked like you left out that bent inner brace. Was that intentional, or did it just not get shown in the footage?

[@fix206]

After I straightened it out it got welded back in, just didn't make it into the vid... so the door got put back together with all of its original components, besides the donor door skin :-)

[@Sk.SNgamer909]

Nice work

[@fix206]

Thank you Sk ... !!

[@gghffgbddghhhffgfffg4671]

Good job and good luck 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@fix206]

Thank you Gghffgbddgh :)))

[@davidlee-mf5yf]

Awesome, hurry up and push out the next vid 😂

[@fix206]

Thats the plan !

[@collinreesejones5525]

I like it!

[@fix206]

Thank you Collin !

[@krekautofunilaria9730]

Muito bom...

[@fix206]

Obrigado me amigo !!

[@justinshields4216]

No frame pulling post? You get rid of it?

[@fix206]

I think you are talking about my frame rack, I do have it. Not getting rid of that thing anytime soon :-) but since I'm doing this repair over at my friends house I can't easily bring the frame rack with me. And also the damage is light enough to where we can make all of the necessary pulls with a simple comealong. If damage was more severe than it would require the use of the frame rack but in this instance,comealong will do just fine :-)

[@kestutisbagusauskas8323]

When all else fails get out the angle grinder!

[@fix206]

Hey grinder is one hell of a tool :)

[@michaelmugo247]

Nice car

[@fix206]

Thank you, Michael !

[@user-pw7wl3nu1l]

Молоток Димон 👍

[@fix206]

Привет, это кто?

[@user-pw7wl3nu1l]

@@fix206 это Леха из Такомы, помнишь мы с тобой насчёт фрейма разговаривали?

[@fix206]

Лёха привет, 100 лет, 100 зим :) давно не общались, как дела?

[@petar443]

Once again some negative guys in the comments..You guys should go and watch the other guys from Collision Hub channel. They have some stupid protocol and swear on everyone who is not following it. There are many ways to repair a vehicle successfully. Here is the moment to say once again your video is very enjoyable to watch. Only thing i would consider carefully is rust protection on the inside of the door , where the back of the weld is. Also same thing when using spotter to fix the quarter panel. i think rust can develop after some years if not coated the inside with wax or epoxy or some other type of coating.Maybe some kind of direct to metal undercoating brushed on.Cheers i hope everything turns out OKAY

[@fix206]

We did spray the inside of the door with some primer to prevent things from rusting, but the inside of the quarter panel was filled with some sort of a foam, it was possibly sprayed in there for sound deadening purposes? But I tell you what, I watched a video a few months back on this one Russian KZbin channel, and the guy was actually repairing the vehicle that he already did some work on about five years prior. He was specifically talking about the weld spots on the inside of the quarter panel from the spotter work that looked the same after all these years with zero rust. Generally the cabin area of the vehicle stays dry as well as the trunk area, otherwise you're get musty smells in the car along with mold. There is for sure nothing wrong with encapsulating any type of exposed metal anywhere on the vehicle, it's just less crucial in the trunk or in the cabin space. The way I see it, even though I live in Seattle area where it rains a lot and there's quite a bit of moisture in the air, if I leave a bare piece of metal in my garage it will stay there for years without getting any surface rust on it let alone start rusting through.

[@frodobaggins3773]

Сделать Роллс на фронтярде (не своём даже, кстати, а в походных условиях!) это очень сильно. Горжусь тем, что на тебя подписан, покажу видео знакомым из России)

[@fix206]

Дружище, спасибо за крутой коммент !!

[@gregh7457]

bringing junk back from the dead. You're giving Arthur Tussik a run for his money

[@fix206]

I do love seeing these cars come back from the dead for sure. Arthur is a legend, I strive to be as good as him one day :-)

[@harshanbanuka6270]

Bro explain your but welding clamp set

[@fix206]

Clams just go in and they keep both panels at same exact surface height, thus making much cleaner end result

[@justenzo6342]

I would love to do this with a car. But I just don’t know where to start or how to learn.

[@fix206]

I am self taught, you just have to start something and commit to it. You'll have a ton of questions along the way, luckily you can find the answers to just about all of your questions online these days

[@user-km5dr9qe5y]

Как всегда лайчик!

[@fix206]

Денис, благодарю !!

[@mayoubm1683]

❤️

[@fix206]

👍👍

[@nelsonstirling288]

That's why you have insurance for, I guess if he doesn't have fully cover he probably still owes money on it...

[@fix206]

It was totaled out due to all of the damage... My buddy bought it back from ins. company and we got it fixed

[@RODZILLA65]

That is so crazy, that the leading edge of the Tahoe door was the same as the RR once You flattened it out.

[@fix206]

I know, that was pretty crazy. I guess we just got lucky with that one, but even if the leading edge on the whole door was off I still would've made it work, it would have just taken me longer...

[@christianalegre9809]

Hola buen día desde Argentina Buenos Aires. Con este trabajo casi consagramos la experiencia? 😉👍. Y lo bueno es que no tengo importa que vehículo venga al taller siempre es un cliente . A mí me juzgaron por poder un vehículo 1999 Ford Courier Van. Pariente de la Ford jhorner no se si lo escribí bien? Y me contestaron?? A! Esos cacharros no hago. Pregunto cómo se adquiere ese puente separador está muy bueno y veo que el trabajo sale mucho mejor para el punteado de las piezas . Y también le generamos aporte a la soldadura . Muy bueno ese tips . Aquí en Argentina Buenos no hay. Cómo se pueden fabricar. Estaría bueno un vídeo de esas herramientas que utilizas . Y me agradaron mucho. Saludos 🙂👍 y hasta luego !

[@fix206]

Gracias por to comentario, pero me español no es muy bueno, así que me cuesta entender lo que estas diciendo

[@christianalegre9809]

@@fix206 que aquí subestiman al cliente por su automóvil si es viejo no quieren trabajar . Y muy lindo trabajo que te toco hacer . Felicitaciones! 😉👍

[@fix206]

@@christianalegre9809 Gracias !!! 👍👍👍

[@BrucePierson]

This door was un-repairable, until you came along!! Pretty unconventional, using part of a GM door on a Rolls-Royce. The purists would be freaking out. But once it's finished, nobody would even know that the Rolls was ever damaged. Is there anything that you can't fix? Looking forward to seeing more progress and the Rolls returned to pristine condition. At the end, can you do a cost comparison as to what a conventional repair with all new parts would have cost and how much it actually cost doing it your way? Would be interesting.

[@fix206]

Once again Bruce, thank you for the kind words! The idea for this rebuild was to spend the least amount of money as humanly possible :) good idea on the comparison of the price of the repair. I'll make sure to include that in the last video of this project 👍

[@daninyiri7637]

The angle grinder is destroying the side window.😕 it will leave a lot of rust dots.

[@fix206]

The grinder only destroyed the window of the donor door. That door was bound for a scrap pile anyways. Rolls-Royce glass doesn't have a single mark on it so all is good there :-)

[@Veikra]

i though those were in aluminium :( I like the aluminium a8 because it doesnt corrode even after 345 000 miles. Oh well im stuck in the a8 with the climate i live in

[@fix206]

Thank God the car was not made of aluminum, because then the door and quarter panel would have been much harder to fix.

[@Veikra]

@@fix206 2016 up is aluminium. I prefer aluminium when its done right.*coughs ford* But yes, takes more skills to fix

[@justenzo6342]

Would you like so grey Gray Poupon?

[@fix206]

LOL...

[@TheGbab]

I thought Rolls Royces were all aluminum, but that is just regular steel sheet metal.

[@fix206]

Maybe some of the newer ones have a bit more aluminum in them, but this one was all steel..

[@colinhoward74]

The Ghost is an all steel body , being developed off the BMW F01 7 series , a steel bodied car

[@willtacoma2ndgen661]

How the hell you driving a 250 thousand dollars cars and not have a unlimited insurance plan on it. Wtf 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🙄

[@fix206]

It's my buddy's car :)

[@OTGBob]

That was my thought too.

[@Grimsaviour]

If you want to keep your friend alive you should recommend he get himself a new door. I was a fan of your MDX video, seeing the ingenuity making the frame rack and all but this is just wrong. There's huge liability for improper repairs.

[@dm-zx7xb]

Yeah. People should just buy a new car in the event of any fender bender. Just in case. Cause it is only going to be safe as long as it's completely factory original everything.

[@Grimsaviour]

@@dm-zx7xb Used door would be the way to go. If that thing gets hit again it won't react the way it supposed to in a crash. I smell your sarcasm. It's not your fault you aren't educated.

[@dm-zx7xb]

@@Grimsaviourit's all good man. I've made a decent life for myself as an automotive mechanic. I'm not a collision specialist or a body guy. You are correct, a used door would be better. Anything that is not factory condition can be argued as unsafe because it is untested. Manufactures spend mega dollars proving to the government that their vehicles are safety compliant when it comes to collisions by crashing them in controlled environments with high dollar testing equipment. Probably need to replace the a pillar too while he is at it because it wasn't designed to ever have the forces applied to it the way that the damaged door shows that it has... because safety.

[@fix206]

Grim, I do appreciate your concern for my friend's safety. Buying an undamaged door would have been ideal, but I normally don't even buy cars that cost as much as the used door does for this vehicle 😱 It is my friend's car and it was his call to get the door fixed. But really, when it comes to safety I would say that this door is at about 98-99% integrity compared to an undamaged door. Getting door skin replaced is a standard body shop procedure (I know I didn't replace the whole skin, just part of it). Door skin is made out of thin sheet of metal, it doesn't really carry a whole lot of structural strength (Saturn brand cars didn't even use any sheet metal for fenders, door skins or quarter panels, all of those panels were made out of plastic, because that's not where the structural integrity lies). Most of the door strength comes from a door shell that is made out of much thicker/stronger metal and also there are reinforcing crossmembers that are welded into the inside of the door shell. The way I see it, there are much less safe repair options out there that are 100% approved by the OEM manufacture such as partial frame rail replacement, where you would literally cut half of the damaged frame rail off and weld in an undamaged peace in its place.

[@Grimsaviour]

@@fix206 if the car was a 2005 or less I would agree with your repair idea. That was the turning point for car safety when manufacturers started using many different types of high strength steel. We used to do repairs just like that, removing part of the skin and rewelding it on was normal. As a professional nowadays we strictly follow OEM repair procedures because of liability. I fully understand the costs involved with repair vs replace, and it's often a battle we have to fight for on behalf of customers to their insurance company. The door being as expensive as it is, sure makes it a tough Decision for a friend.

[@borisfohrman3133]

Rebuild 1968 RR put a Chevy engine and transmission.repanted new hub caps @ $500 , need ed ONLY 2,out paint was better than factory.

[@fix206]

There you go... You made that RR better by dropping a GM ending in it :)