80s Built Chevelle Drag Car - Will It RUN AND DRIVE 450 miles home?

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Derek's personality, the way he speaks, and goofs around, mixed in with these car revivals. Makes sitting through a 2hour long YouTube video, like it's nothing and still wanting more. Just goes to show how amazing VGG channels content is.

You know you’re a geezer when a couple of vice grip drives-homes is Saturday nite’s entertainment 😮

I was filling my semi and the filler popped out of the tank and poured a large puddle of diesel on the ground. I asked the ladies behind the counter if they had quick dry, they looked at me kinda dumbfounded and said, we do but you’re the first guy to ever ask to clean up his mess, most just leave it 🤷🏻‍♂️. Guess I was raised right 😂

Go through the engine, fix the shock problem leave the finish clean replace the radiator and the see how strong it really is. I personally don’t care for the abuse of burnout competition; I came up having to scrape and save for every single thing I had. So I have a great respect for well put together machines.

Not for nothing, but I'm an HVAC mechanic in Texas. I've been watching so many of these videos (&loving them) that I've started to speak like Derrick when I talk to my customers. I've never gotten more 5 star reviews or made as much profit. Thanks, man. You're approach to mechanics in general has helped me more than I can tell you.

Love the cammed out sound of this beast. Brings back memories of a teenager hanging with the older gear-heads and learning a thing or three.

I'm in love with that Chevelle and I would love it if before you do anything on that ol rig, take it to the strip and make a few passes. Lets see what a 1980s build really can do in an 1/8th or 1/4

Derek, I vote you keep the engine that's in it, fix whatever needs fixin' or upgradin' (new rad, quick release steering wheel, new seat brackets, disc brakes, new shocks, beefier trans w/overdrive and trans brake, better posi unit?, large fuel cell in the trunk) and keep the nice blue paint. Maybe you could call the ol' girl "Blue Lightning", maybe even put some decals with that on her. As quite a few people have said, keeping the original engine and paint and driving the car would be old-school-cool...and we'd like to see you dyno that engine after you have everything worked out (new double roller chain or gear drive for the cam when you replace the timing cover?), take it and drag race it and see what kind of best times it can do.

This guy is incredible. He's the mechanic that every carpenter wants to be. Great show Bad ass 71 Im hooked. Thanks JC Houston

Dude this thing left me wanting more footage. The stock look was sick. The color was perfect for the car. It's definitely setup to get down. Really badass.

I'm thinking keep it as it is for this coming season. Just go through it and make sure everything is right and maybe swap in an overdrive shiftomatic. It would be really, really interesting to see what it will run as it sits as soon as the tracks open back up!

Call it liberty, wrap it up, and give it the wallet so it'll be 100% dependable for the drive and drags. Itll never be independence 2.0 but it can fill its shoes in its own way. Oh, and keep the motor just spruce it up since its pretty solid as a hat tip to the old timer who put it together.

The fifty weight that runs in a fellers veins warmed up to temperature watching this. This car is just awesome can't wait to see more of it. Keep up the great work with everything Derek, massive respect to you.

Back in the mid 1990s, I flew out and bought a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T, 440 Torqueflite for $4,500 and drove it 500 miles back from Chicago to Pittsburgh. It was a western car in primer, with zero rust and all numbers matching. The engine and transmission and brakes (Kelsey Hays four piston discs) were great but all the tires were bald, the U joints crapped out in western Ohio, it had no wipers (rained like hell), one headlight. In short not "road worthy". I also had no plates. But I lucked out and found a garage and motel in the middle of nowhere before nightfall, and the guy that ran the garage dug car. Cost around $400 to get everything squared away and made it back in two days taking old US route 40. I liked that trip. Every time I stopped for gas, which was pretty often with the 440 Magnum and 3:55 gears, the mechanics at the stations would check out the car because they knew what it was, even though it had none of the R/T trim pieces, they were all in the trunk.They saw the "power buldge" hood and recognized the 440 Magnum just by the sound. Adventure!

Not a single other channel on YouTube that I'll watch a 2 hour video on, but I enjoy every minute of yours. Thanks for all the awesome and enjoyable content, I really appreciate all the hard work you put in.

That has to be one of the cleanest cars You ever revived! What an awesome colour too! If was mine, I would leave it that colour as is so close to Independence. Sure looked to Me When You had valve covers off, that they are defiantly solid lifters. Must have been a nightmare in the rain without wipers.

This is therapeutic to just listen to. Takes me back to hanging out in the garage and listening to my uncles bs while they worked on project cars.

Thanks Derek. This is Derrick from Spokane Washington. I have a old Toyota 4 runner in my shop and a 89 chevy heavy half ton sitting in my shop that hasn't run in 10 years. I lost interest in when we lost a child we had in our life's. We think of him as a son. After returning home after duty from Afghanistan. Your stuff has given me insight and inspiration to get them running. Once more. Thank you brother. Love your stuff your awesome

Favorite thing for me and my son to do on Friday evenings, is watch VGG on the big screen with some snacks and just chill out. Thank you for being down home, good clean content to share with my son