Tear Down DISASTER - Stripping Our 1964 Chevy Nova To Be A GASSER

Cars done!
So let's tear it completely apart. I ordered the full "gasser" kit from Speedway Motors earlier this week. New front sub frame with a heavy wall axle and disc brakes. Once the parts show up I'm thinking the car should go back together in a hurry. them we can make room for the solid lifter 327 th350 combo. Should be wicked!
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[@Valek_5150]

T-shirt idea. DD Speed Shop "It's not Really That Bad" 🤣😁

[@ericproctor1579]

Don't put your battery on the cement. My dad's been telling that for 40 years.😅

[@russellfuchs7903]

Greta's head is spinning off her shoulders. How dare you! 😂😂

[@waynekoszenski9913]

nice job dan you are becoming quite the the kind of person who gets things done i enjoy your work you work ethic

[@franksgarage8551]

My 51 is a straight axle, 60 mph and one hand on the wheel. Not sketchy at all. Most of the time.

[@stomper2582]

Yea, people didn’t used to drive as far or as fast before there were interstate highways. 55 mph was about it. And a 100 mile trip was a long trip in the 50s.😮

[@terrallputnam7979]

If at first you don't succeed, break out the Gas Axe!!! I have worked on cars with absolutely too many bolts holding the Fenders on. 78 AMC Matador Coupe for one, and it was the ugliest car I ever worked on too. Well, maybe it tied for that title with the Pacer, another AMC dog with fleas!

[@Mr.Avuncular]

STAND BACK!!! DAN'S GOT THE" VICTOR BLUE WRENCH OUT!" HOLY MOLY ITS JUST A FENDER BOLT FOR CRYIN OUT IN THE NIGHT!🤣🤣🤣💥💥

[@timemerson4162]

I'm at the realization that replacing hardware is a given. so far in my project i've had bolts either snap or strip.

[@patrickancona1193]

Can’t be stuck if it’s liquid, sometimes have the kid turn the canned air upside down & spray the part that is not wanted to flow to the storm drain

[@Mr.Avuncular]

@@timemerson4162 You can guarantee that ....(unless whatever was hermetically sealed)....that your project will require fasteners from that era,just figure those in. After being a paint& bodyman for 30+yrs.. I still have coffee cans of model specific nuts bolts ect...trim dodads clips . There gold sometimes my friend,to the right person. Plus dealing with stuck rusted shoddy butchered previously stuff you just kinda giggle and carry on like it's a nice spring day!! 👍🏁🏁🏁👍

[@corydriver7634]

😂

[@mikefoit7351]

Danny I can't wait till the next video, it is going to be awesome with all those new speed way parts .I can't wait till the gasser is built, it is going to be amazing. Danny you do amazing work by your self .I wish I was there to help you, I love working on those old cars. Mike Foit from Athens, Ohio..keep up the amazing work you do and God Bless to you and your wife and dogs

[@firefly3333]

“The leatherman of garage tools” My leatherman identifies as a garage tool, and is therefore offended.

[@tonypatrick9362]

Great video guys can’t wait going to be awesome driver 😊

[@ryanhicks942]

Really cool to watch the tear down . Great video

[@TairnKA]

"Is it bad?" "It's not good." No truer words have been spoken. ;-D I'm guessing 80% of your vehicles are or will be "Gassers"? ;-)

[@CaseysCustoms]

Don’t come a knocking if the torch is rocking baby!

[@brokenbackunlimited2187]

You should have left the fenders and core support tog. I built a 62 Nova with tilt front-end, in1979. To accommodate a bad ass 396.

[@bonniekelly2250]

Dan , there's a guy in Saskatoon who has a bunch of old junk Chevy pickups . I think his name is Kyle Carter, and he seems partial to Chevy 6 cylinders. Maybe he'd take them off your hands.

[@Tim-57]

Hey Dan Great video, keep having fun. Looking forward to watch it go back together again. Take care

[@scootermcd5756]

That was some true high school shade tree stuff.

[@CoryGraves-fo2mf]

Don't say self-tapper too loudly, @PoleBarnGarage may hear you and want to talk about his jag.

[@jeffsr8300]

You sir owe me a cup of coffee, when that emblem flew off on your second strike I spit my coffee all over the floor laughing.👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@tombrenes2411]

Hey Dani See the sparks and molten steel close to the skin and cotton Mayonnaise and fire extinguisher on standby Then ice water and pain killers 3rd

[@carlosquintana6930]

Me and my son was waiting for this build for a long time lol I can’t wait to see it done ✔️

[@nwcove]

i drove my 65 nova gasser everywhere.......no fun around the corners, but still perfectly drivable on the hwy, in the city and on country roads!

[@kennethnewman1055]

I know it’s rain and or drain but it sounds like your recorded the video while people are peeing in the background. Lol

[@melisachard6208]

Nova paid how about novacharged

[@timerickson7056]

Old leaf springs make great knifes or in Canuck STABBY THINGS

[@edwardreis7122]

There is NOTHING better than working on a car in a dry garage when it's raining out.

[@jasonbose3507]

Hey Dan, I love 💕 that this Chevy II project is something that the both of you can enjoy together, so cool and I'm so excited for the both of you with this car. Thanks.

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Dan there’s the right way, the wrong way, and the dd speed shop way. Only 1 is incorrect 😁

[@mikecolemire3692]

If it rides rough, pull some front leafs out. If you don't go to high and run 7 or 8 degrees caster it'll drive fine. I've built a few and they drove great.

[@stevenwert2459]

I'm so ready to watch this series on this car. This shit is my jam man. Please keep showing as much of the actual work on the car as possible if possible. Keep up the good work. I love what you do.

[@franksgarage8551]

Ya im sure lots of viewers wont appreciate the hackery that follows. Your keys,your title. Give er all you got laddy!

[@dennisgetz8879]

I do not think u overpaid for that nova

[@russellfuchs7903]

Get a pillow or pad for that roller seat. My arse hurts just looking at it.😮

[@kevinl.2291]

This car is going to be awesome as a gasser. I put it up there with a 57 Chevy gasser they make the coolest. Looking forward to this build Dan. 👍😎✌️

[@roberttaynor5672]

hi thats why they make rubber gloves to put on the back of the tailshaft

[@bobclark5479]

If you're not hard on your equipment you're not using it.

[@clausschuster470]

should of welder front clip together to make a flip front

[@brettemerich3237]

Dan there isn’t much left of this car hope all the part for the build work out for you. This will be interesting. Nice vudeo

[@larrydixon-vi7ld]

You won't loose your striker if you make hook and attach it to your belt loop

[@kevinfrench4695]

Love it my first car was a 63 chevy nova four door

[@mediumjumbo7484]

Dont tail novabody, butt DD hakshop haz become my faveritt channul 😅👍🇺🇸

[@johnmundstock7950]

I like the look of the $1000 dog dish caps on the Caprice. Seriously...I do.

[@DDSpeedShop]

Haha money well spent

[@marcmo7138]

Really like your time lapse music.

[@matzrat5006]

Keep the rocker trim.

[@haroldrogers6083]

The T-shirt : this seems sketchy - DD speed Shop

[@bobhalstead1879]

You now have a use for sawdust and cat litter

[@mrbill8542]

Dan--get your welder going on that front clip--can you say 1 piece tilt front end ????

[@jamesjohnson8867]

No worries anyone who has ever pulled a motor has made the same mess. But it's always funnier when it happens to someone else. Lol

[@DDSpeedShop]

I'm always the someone else haha

[@jasonbose3507]

I absolutely love 💕 😘 the both of you!!! I was rolling when you both were poking fun at both of your craftsmanship being less than stellar, so funny 🤣 😂 😆 👍!!! The DD Speed Shop Way, barely hanging on is the only way, so funny! You two ROCK!!!

[@DDSpeedShop]

Haha we like to have fun here

[@francisrizzo1529]

Disassembly is the part I'm best at, it's the "put back together" part that I end up with some extra parts... ps - this is not like a MoPar, the inner fenders are welded in on those cars...

[@bryanpeltz3255]

Can't be stuck if it's liquid! Looking forward to the finished product.

[@nathanielpotanko7880]

True Hot rodding taking apart a running vehicle because it needs to be cooler 👍 great vid

[@02blackLightning]

Old school trick for the torch striker. They make a clip for it to clip on to your pants. Us old timers use to do that back in the day

[@ChristianRolph-f2i]

I did this for my daily/race car 67 chevy II and it drastically improved every aspect of the driving and weight transfer.Awesome job you two crazy kids.

[@timroush6814]

That is ALOT of fluid! #moneyshot

[@brianschmidt2747]

Dan why didn't you remove the core support. Huh.....

[@DDSpeedShop]

There where alot of bolts for that

[@robertironside3166]

Dan.... ever watch the film Better Off Dead? The Camaro in that film.... is the most perfect Black Camaro I've ever seen. Worth checking out. An early John Cusak comedy by Savage Steve Holland.... classic flick and when you see this car all of a sudden it's like "WTF!! W:HERE DID THIS COME FROM!!" well Hollywood in the early 80's when some of these cars were still out there for chump change but... check it out... if you did a DD Tractor paint version of this car... my new fave muscle car to look at ... well it's right up there with the Cuda from the Phantasm flicks.. it's cooler than that Cuda and... well its at th every least the dead nuts tied for 1st place. So slick! lol

[@frederickdarling-t8g]

Your a badass I love what you do I bought a 1954 Oldsmobile 98 to do a LS SWAP THE STEERING GEAR BOX IS GOING TO BE Totally in the way any ideas or thanks Fred

[@dougr.6734]

Back to the Chevy II....yes!

[@xozindustries7451]

I built my straight axle 69 Rambler gasser with a 454 TH400 ford 9” with a spool and 5.14 gears and 315/60r15 drag radials sold it to a guy who drove it all the way to the Lake George car show like that, probably 4 hours each way, drove perfectly straight and didn’t miss a beat he said

[@strokermaverick]

Dan, I was in Honduras 22 years ago. I saw a couple Novas. I said "Oh wow, look at the Nova! My translator said, "People, won't fix them." Nova means, "No good."

[@jeffreybond6491]

* Let me know when Dan the car Butcher gets done with this Chevy ll project.... There are none around from the 1970s 😢 after my juvenile 16 year old friends destroyed all of them they could get their hands on"... I will come back to watch D&D Speed Shop when this debauchery is over... lol

[@armondoborjas4362]

So Dan. This must be a Canadian way ?🤷🏽‍♂️ l had to tell my grandson to go finish his homework? 👍🏻🤷🏽‍♂️

[@robertdemore8706]

I think it's awesome it's going to be great it's get her done

[@hooligan_56labelle22]

According to me and probably only me the 64 always looked better than the latter novas. When I saw what a friend of mine did to a 64. Blue jacked up front and back and back. 427 '4 on the floor 'blue tinted windows ' big back tires chrome reverse wheels 'baby moon hubcaps etc 'etc. Bad ass gasser

[@mattmurray3183]

That look at the beginning of the video. That is the street rat back in late 80s-early90s on front street in Philly. I was 18-22 years old and racing was all I knew. Cars like this wicked small block and 4 speed. They fooled alot of people

[@jeffreybond6491]

Is Carolina squat legal?  Under the new law, a truck or car driven on the roadway raised four or more inches higher in the front than the back will be considered a traffic violation, and the vehicle can be towed away on the spot.May 25, 2023

[@user-ThomReec8587]

Hot-Rodding find a old car make it run & drive. DDSpeedShops defenition find a old car and Butcher it then make it drivable sorta maybe🤗😃

[@iainstarrs1371]

You need some T shirts with ‘ The struggle is real’! Dan. My back hurts just watching you!

[@CatholicBoy1957]

With a closeup of Dan working on a buggy? I'd buy it. .

[@shartne]

I owned a 62 Ford F100 that had a straight axle. Lots or ALL of ford f100s in the sixities had straight axle. All Sixties model ford trucks had striaight axles. You should buy another over priced chevy nova because yo have spare parts for it.

[@morgansword]

Ya .... you forgot the drain pan and who hasn't that does this. I like you, say this is a first as I never messed with a bolt on subframe job. I sure do like that it does unbolt tho. Just my thinking and heaven forbid should you argre to my idea... go with a tube front end on the nova or no go. Then with new possibilities of doing a big block or LS as in biggest one they make, have all the room for headers, set engine where ever you like it and then make those fenders agree with your plan. Plus if ya just put it where ya want it or real close to where its going to allow fenders to just bolt in, I am thinking a tilt front end. I guess since I don't know that the mustang frontend would allow you to make fenders, tires, etc, fit to the right spacing. Tilt is not cheap when done right for sure but oh so much easier to get to the different things when full blown race mode. I had gassers with tilt front ends and the dang things drove fine on the highway because we didn't trailer them to the track. I would of give a arm almost for say a "IDIDT" steering column. Automatics were not near anything nice like todays selection so it was four speeds and scatter shields. Brent is doing that old chevy right now and I don't remember the name of the frontend he used out of his scrap collection. Wasn't BMW but something in those foreign car lineups. I am so dang sick right now with being on hospice and fed the stuff drug addicts love. I personally hate drugs and dying just wasn't on my wishlist. The stuff they used to make me feel okay in surgery took out the kidneys and ya just don't look good in orange.... this ain't chevy's hugger orange either. If I can, I am going to try to live at least another year and lets say, its a lot shorter than wishing you were old enough to get the drivers licence or some other thing thats a year off. Just too soon to go

[@tomgribble9292]

THAT CEVEY 2 WOUD MAKE A GREAT GASSER.

[@mikedmt]

Somebody needs the front end and diff.... This is why you keep an eye on marketplace, fellas. Junk to Dan, but gold to someone. Straight axle should be a riot.

[@unchained20000000]

DD SPEED SHOP concrete conditioner, get you a bottle today, only $5.99 while quantities last!

[@miker252]

Memories, at 15 yrs old, the first engine I pulled was in a 1960 Comet six cylinder. I neglected to disconnect the shift linkage and bent them so bad.

[@cjmahovic9406]

8 bolts hold the front clip to the unibody and the entire clip rolls away after unhooking the all the attachments ( brake lines, etc.).

[@michaelalexander7293]

No no Dan I didn't mean that you can't drive a straight axle on the street ,it will handle like s... ! Pardon my French..but bottom line it's your car right. Gest saying bro.i do hope you have a great time.

[@glennnickerson8325]

What is Nova spelled backwards... Avon!!! Ding-Dong Avon (and Dan)!!! 😆

[@tonyflorio3269]

For everyone worried about driving a front straight axle car, note that every Jeep Wrangler running around is a live front/rear axle vehicle. I'm sure a modern speedway front clip will be drivable. Not an autocrosser, but not meant to be one either!

[@jasonbose3507]

Dan, doing this work will make your LADY LOVE 💕 😘 💋 YOU LONG TIME!!!

[@zacbeagan2908]

You gotta look into the princess auto air over hydraulic cylinder for that engine hoist. Well worth the money. Made everything so much easier on mine. But love your videos, keep them coming!

[@DarrenShaw-ev5tb]

Double D & Peg - Perfect Partner ship - Peg Breaks & You Harf Arse it bac together !! - Possible Colab in the Future ?

[@Jesse_gc]

Looking good Dan I have had a few 62 and 63 Chevy ll that looked just like that they go back together fast just keep your radiator support you will need it I tossed mine out and ended up making one out of aluminum no fun .have a great day

[@jetrat1589]

Once you sell the 56 Wagon you’ll recoup some of the money you’re plopping down in this beast. Going to be killer.

[@kimjameson7979]

I'd name it "Aldo" or "Waldo." Of course we know that Nova means "No Go" in Spanish.

[@larrydixon-vi7ld]

Love the Nova gasser style , but PLEASE body work and paint this fine little car

[@steveaustin5451]

Our family car was a 1967 Nova wagon with a 6. New York salt destroyed it in 12 years.

[@tomgribble9292]

LOL. YOU REMIND ME OF ME.

[@davidanderson2393]

I like the way you work, there is no pussy footing around a new project, it's all in balls to the wall hot wrench a blazing, should be wild when the parts hit the door step.

[@johnnyholland4818]

Why don't you remove fan and water pump off and the rocker trim instead of bending it that's a cool car man .I love your channel but it seems you butcher things not trying to talk shit brother but do it rite man

[@Robert-ni6ut]

Them fender 🔩 bolts are tough because their made in the USA 🇺🇸 not China lol 😂

[@patreed7966]

If people don't like the way you're doing it they can more than gladly volunteer to come work for free and do it for you. You're soap, your shower, you can wash it as hard and as fast as you want to and you're the one that decides when it's clean

[@drewunderwood2859]

Was more of a fan of the other direction but that is just my opinion ( not a gasser fan) but your names on the title make it yours. I know Summit makes a heater for drag cars that has mutiple outlets so you will still have a defroster and a floor heater and be able to not have to deal with a stock heater core and free up space for electronics or smuggle Moon pies across the border.

[@MarkHerring-z3n]

I will not comment about what or how you are doing. You got it going on. I will say I like your music, or Dani's which ever is the case 😉

[@haroldrogers6083]

Woth the dog dish hub caps on the Gramps Caprice it looks like a unmarked caop car !! Not cool at all !! Get some daisies for it Dan !!

[@ricksavage582]

When you find the missing strikers, they will be chillin with the 10mm sockets!

[@JS_CIC]

Bro, tie the hair back when you've got your head stuck under the fender with a cutting torch !! ;-)

[@juanpalos3657]

Can’t wait to see what you do to it …. Keep up the great work big shout out to you from Mexico.

[@ChickenFarmer-ep2bp]

Sorry Dan but. ( NOVA CARES ) what you paid for the car. It's a hot rod.

[@slickrick5735]

Just returned from a car show in my 57 Gasser to find this cool next episode from DD Speed

[@olskoolsgarage9987]

You know I’m a fan of straight axle cars!! Can’t wait to see this one done!! Badass as always!!