My new transport business has gone well, one happy customer, but i'm gon na do it. Just like my favorite businessman and we'll hand you the keys, but not before you pay the bills, no checks in the mail welcome to hoovy's garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube - and this is my 2004 dodge ram 2500 cummins that i bought with 993 000 miles on it - yes, almost 1 million miles because it's spent its entire life before me, hot shotting oil field parts to places in urgent need basically driving non-stop cross-country for years and years, but then they stopped just short of the finish line of a million miles And then sold it to someone else who then consigned it to a dealership and sold it to me to where i have the privilege to drive this thing over a million miles, if i don't blow it up now, as you know, cummins is a very industrial engine Maker they supply these engines for dodge and in semis and other heavy equipment things. This kind of long, lasting million mile plus operation is fairly normal, but it is kind of unusual to see it in a normal civilian dodge like this, which has issues like rust, which this one's starting to have a little bit of and, of course, the suspension death Wobble a common thing among this era which well this truck may have had before, but it's very tight now and leak free, but the engine itself does have one fatal flaw that dowel pin of death a dowel pin inside the engine, that, with vibrations from diesels over The years it works its way loose and then falls into the engine, a steel pin and wreaks havoc. That's why it's called the dowel pin of death, but uh.

I don't think that's going to happen on this engine with 997 000 miles on us now. I loaned it to my friend magic mike who works for the car wizard for his long commute. He got it up to 997 almost 998 and he had absolutely no issues at all. Here.

We are six months in ownership on this thing with ridiculous miles, and i've had to fix absolutely nothing other than the initial sorting, which was just some normal leaks. Nothing that would stop this truck from going anywhere right now, but i do need to get it over. The edge over that million-mile mark, so i asked my friend urination bob if he needed anything hauled and he said well, i do have something in rogers arkansas that you could pick up for me. Take the trailer which i'm going to do.

Also, i'm going to go check on the porsches at leonard's because he lives nearby, but that'll be for another video, so we're going to hit the road in this thing, get it closer to a million miles and actually pick up something pretty darn cool. Let's hit the road got, ta, wait for the glow plugs to glow and ignition. Oh listen to that diesel, and this is actually an slt. It's not a no-frills work truck, but it doesn't have very much there's very little creature comfort.

You have ac a radio, that's after market now, cruise control, uh cloth, seats and carpet. So no vinyl, i guess so not a work truck, but really not much such a big difference in comparison to today's pickup trucks that have every single piece of technology from say. A mercedes s-class in it and that's why they're every bit of a hundred thousand dollars, also under the hood, is every bit as complicated with emissions systems and other things to make them more efficient and all that complication just makes the cars less reliable. The more you have the more to break and that's why i don't think you'll ever see a truck like this ever again, something capable of well 997 000 miles that i drove cross country not that long ago, and now i have no worries about taking it across State lines: oh there's no wood to knock on, but should be fine.

Well, i can definitely see why transporting a car is so difficult right now, inexpensive with diesel prices, but my first gig as a transporter is actually going pretty well we're picking up something pretty cool. A 1988 dodge diplomat this is the last of the rear. Wheel, drive chrysler bodies. I have a plymouth fury at home, the cop car from season one of car issues.

This is the dodge version, there's also the chrysler new yorker that i gave away a few years ago, but this is the last: the rear, wheel, drive kind of full-sized platform from chrysler chevy held on kept going with the caprice until 1996 or the buick roadmaster, and Of course, ford kept going with the crown victoria into the 2010s, but this was it dodge was the first to sort of give up on this. They had lee iacocca wanting to do the k, cars and all that business and they sort of got out of making these big full-sized cars. This one only has 66 thousand miles on it. It looks like it's really really honest and original.

Oh just awesome: the vinyl roof with the se trim crest, oh, that is classy the owner of the car who sold it to bob, is not home. It looks like he's an enthusiast of big old yachts, uh, so he's supposed to just leave the keys in here. Under the mat, it is the midwest after all and yeah. Here it is wow.

This thing is gorgeous and the red velour interior, wow backseat, looks just as clean the headliner's not coming down. Well. This is really really something just it just popped right over cold. My cop car certainly doesn't do that.

It takes a lot of effort to start it cold. When it's been sitting for a while wow a little 318v in these rear wheel drive. I think bob did good with this one. I'm sure he'll put it for sale at some point.

So if you're interested, you can look up your nation bob and give him a price. Well, it's euro asian bob! If you looked up urination you'd, probably go in a bad spot at google, so anyway i'll load. This thing up and we'll continue on our trip. Why don't we take it for a little spin first before we load it up on the trailer? Oh yeah.

This is a very, very nice old school land yacht here, but it's not absolutely massive though oh. This is so good that brake's a little touchy, though kind of used to that after the truck. Let's get the air going well, even the stereo is kind of cool digital. How do we power that on that works? Let's hit it? No power, even though it's a big v8, but it is very, very smooth and super comfortable.

There's such a big following for these cars now, because the clean examples of cars like these are just getting harder and harder to find, and they certainly don't make a car like this anymore, chrysler. 300, it's it's a decent car for a modern car, but it is not comfy. It is not a relaxing comfortable cruiser like this, where you can just oh chill man, i'm impressed i'm kind of tempted now all right dodge time to put you to work well, you've ever worked a day in your life, just 990 000 miles of it. I am towing a fairly heavy car and i mean it's back there, but you can't really tell because all the torque of this thing it still pulls just as hard as it did before, with an empty trailer super impressed.

Of course, that's diesels, and now the formerly rough ride is completely gone because these things were built to haul things comfortably, not just drive around so actually with the suspension loaded down. Now the ride is much better in the rear, i'm not getting bounced around as hard, because that's this truck's purpose when this truck came out, it was in sort of the birth of people buying trucks to use them as daily drivers, rather than just normal cars or Whatever to get around so they didn't think to build them to be comfortable for like normal around town cruising, but nowadays that's what everybody does at least well up until very recently. Maybe the five dollar gas will stop some of them, but this old rig is certainly old school and hopefully makes it home. Well, that's klingon, for i think good fighter success or something like that.

You've made it 998 392 miles and bob wanted me to deliver it at shift a nice storage facility here in downtown. He keeps some of his cars, so hopefully he likes it. It's urination bob you're euro-asian, bob, oh hey! What's going on! I know that clattering sound very well one of these with just a few miles on it right. It's got uh about 200 on it now, just just a baby, just a baby.

This thing is the ultimate transport vehicle. It actually rides better with a trailer kind of weighing it down with a suspension and everything. Doesn't it just feels better that way? Yeah yeah unloaded they're a little bouncy yeah, but your diplomat, hey, let's take a look. You did you bought this on unseen, like i do right, yeah i bought it yeah a hoovey moment.

I saw it and i wired the guy money and i'm going. Oh my gosh, i i'm not hovie. What have i done? Well, i mean so tell me: how did i do you told me how i did well, you did really really well it's missing. This beauty cover on the hubcap here, a little bit of wear, but a very honest, 60 000 mile car in the interior.

When you open it up, oh baby, you, oh you nailed it here. I got to do it. Yes, oh oh yeah. I feel that pillow yep the vinyl top's in great shape.

I mean there's a little bit of fading here yeah and i knew about that. He disclosed that little clear coat, but i mean really honest. I would say original new tires. Yeah man did you drive it before uh you loaded it i took it around.

The block seems to have no problems. The air was blowing cold it. It worked. Yeah yeah good deal, so my new transport business has gone well, one happy customer, but i'm gon na do it.

Just like my favorite businessman and we'll hand you the keys, but not before you pay the bills, no checks in the mail yep we'll have to sit down in the office and uh write something up, and then you get these. Yes, oh wait a minute. I transported something for you. So isn't this a push? I i guess we were trading favors weren't we yeah, so yeah bob was in atlanta filming some more vinwicki car stories and he drove over a car that you all haven't seen before.

We can go check it out. I guess it's funny, because we have the dodge diplomat. The last three wheel drive full uh dodges chrysler products. This is the last of the old-school diesels and then over here.

Oh this thing's. So cool is a 2003 dodge viper. The last analog say: chrysler corp, supercar right; yes, definitely supercar, oh man. I i drove this back from atlanta and uh just had a freaking fantastic time.

So i bought this thing for car trek. It's car trek eights. We filmed seven and eight in the same two-week period, so you have to wait a few months before you see what i did with this thing, but it is an incredible car, low mileage of 2003.. I think these are really undervalued and i like them so much better than say the first and second generation dodge vipers, they're yeah me too they're, so primitive and crude, and you give up so much, whereas this one, you have all the fun of that first gen Viper no traction control over 500 horsepower and a big v10, but you have a top that actually folds down easily and when it's up it's sealed really well and nice.

The seats are actually comfortable. You have modern conveniences like air conditioning, because the dodges, the first vipers, didn't, have them a nice stereo, but it'll still kill you if you do something stupid, yeah, yeah, there's still no abs or traction control on this car right. I was so pleased when i saw this thing for the first time too, because it is so so clean and it was a salvage title car, but it was like barely a wreck. I guess it takes nothing to total these and the car was still drivable from the accident.

Nothing was was like seriously damaged and it looks to me like it's all, just been cosmetic yeah, it's all bolt-on stuff, but the problem was: is parts probably weren't available at the time right, and so the insurance company had no choice other than to total the car. But this is definitely not a totaled, the fender bolts. Are they look good? Nothing looks out of place on this thing, which is why i think i got a fantastic deal uh, but now the car trick's over - and i guess i can just enjoy it - you'll - have to wait to see right. Did you enjoy the drive home bob uh? Yes, i enjoyed the drive home immensely immensely, so i guess we can trade keys then, because i have the diplomat and you have the viper yes yeah.

Oh wait. Wait a minute! Wait a minute how much how much hey that don't slap the cars like that! That's really hard. They complain the videos all the time about me doing all the people's cars well you're doing it on the paint with your ring, i'm doing it on the top there's a difference. You want it um.

I told you when i first saw this car. I really missed my green one and uh and then, when it comes to time for this car to potentially move on to its next owner, i wanted to be that next owner. Well, i guess we need to do some negotiations off camera and uh anyway. The dodge is doing fantastic, we'll get to a million miles very soon and hopefully it'll be a big event.

Yeah yeah, i would. I have more cars for you to go pick up, but i don't know. I think this could be yours for maybe 60 grand. We got some talking to do well.

That was a nice change of pace, doing a video where i don't spend a hundred thousand dollars buying some hoopty or making the wizards mansion payment or funding another piece of fine art for him just enjoying a vehicle taking a nice long road trip something i used To do all the time in my past life opening freddy's restaurants and as a car dealer going to auctions and such but don't have much time for today unless there's a bunch of cameras around. So it was very nice in that sense and i am very excited to get the cummins to 1 million miles and i'm trying to think of what i should do to celebrate. Now i'm thinking of visiting columbus indiana where the cummins factory is and seeing the new ones built and celebrating this whole dodge's achievements or i guess i could just send it to whistle and diesel and have him blow it up. I'm absolutely kidding on that.

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