Oh wow, oh, this is good. This is really really really good. No, it didn't get far now it's overheating. So oh, that's the poo water! Oh! No! What does that? One taste like wizard? I don't think i'm gon na taste that one no, no you're, not! I know what that is, you taste everything you don't need to identify what it is welcome to movies garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and today is a fantastic day, because i got a phone call from the car wizard and he said that my Corvette is not only running, but it is running and driving.

This 1966 chevrolet corvette 427 coupe the first year of the big block 427, and i bought it not even a week ago, barely running from a barn or a storage building, whatever you guys want to call it, it was a barn find in my eyes it's a Barn find - and it was all kind of taken apart - he had put a new five-speed transmission in it, a new shifter, a modern five-speed. This thing came with a four-speed that was called the rock crusher known for well, not crushing, rocks, but a very tough transmission that whined he replaced it with a modern transmission, modern shifter, and now it is all it's all put together. There are some other things that need to be put together as well, and i guess i guess it's all done we'll consult with the car wizard and then and then drive it wizard. You, wonderful, wonderful man, you it's a living, breathing corvette! Oh i'm basking the nassau blue again and i see everything is put together and tidy in here.

You got me a reservoir for my clutch huh, that's a wood reservoir. Yes, okay and we haven't updated the brake set. You just you just fill them up right, yeah and they work. I think the guy put all the hoses and upgrades and things and that's as far as he got.

He didn't get any fluid in it once we got fluid in it, they're, fine, okay, so the clutch works yes brakes, work, yeah and shifter is in it is in. I think i could use a boot to hide the bolts, but nothing was included with the car. We're going to have to research and see what could go there to make it look right. Well that looks pretty good and it's a short throw shifter huh.

It clicks into gear very nicely, so it feels good. Yes, okay! Well, one other thing i wanted to check on this car. Before i go is we were debating whether it has original paint, and i was doing some research and i guess if it is original paint, then it will have this dot right by the cowling and uh. When it gets repainted, of course, they sand this away.

For some reason in the factory they put a little dot here, some kind of raised bump, and it has the dot. It's still there. It's still there. So this this is an original paint from the factory nassau.

Blue 427 coupe the engine is not numbers matching. Unfortunately, but uh looks like it's a lot more fun than what the original engine was. Have you driven it yet uh mike has driven it magic mike. He says it drove fine okay, so it has been out once, but now i'm i'm the ultimate stress, tester.

Obviously yeah we haven't done any burnouts or anything crazy. We just verified that it runs and drives okay. Well, i'm gon na. Take it easy at first and then i guess, we'll see huh yeah we'll see so it has fresh fuel in it.

The old feels out it has fresh fuel you're going to need to get some more fuel, but we got enough in there for the road test. Okay, all right and a fresh oil change. Okay, no five year old oil. That's good yep! All right! Well, i guess i'll start it up.

Let's see what the shifter feels like! Oh my goodness, that is, that belongs in like a new porsche, not a 60s corvette. Wow, oh that's like oh smooth action. That's great clutch clutch is very firm, but not not too firm. All right holy smokes all right, nassau, blue in the sun.

Oh it's it's so pretty, and the shifter is amazing. Clutch is firm, maybe a little too firm, but not that bad compared to say other exotic cars - oh oh wow. Oh, this is good. This is really really really good and actually smooth too the tires they don't feel out of round.

Are you sure you were sitting for five years? Obviously the steering wheel is way off because they added power steering so it needs an alignment. But it's it's going down the road straight. All right. I'm feeling good enough about this car to get up on a highway.

On-Ramp here so i can open it up. A little bit, okay seems seems a little down on power at the higher rpm, but it's going it may need some tuning on the carb. After all, he did force a lot of rotten gasoline down his throat and it's been sitting forever and things dry up in there, but overall it shouldn't be driving this. Well, it really shouldn't the fuel gauge is showing empty empty though so i'll stop for some gas.

This is unbelievable. The nice thing about that rear race tank back there is, you can fill it up from either side, whether it's the most convenient you can pull up to either side of the gas pump. No problem uh this thing's driving so well. I think i think i need to take it on a longer test drive, so i'm just going to let the wizard know that it's not coming back anytime, soon, wizard.

What's up hello, wizard um! Yes, you fixed the tachometer and you didn't tell me it's working. Yes, it's alive what'd, you do uh, we've had to buy an adapter, an msd adapter for the distributor, and it worked perfectly okay. Well, it's it's driving so well, uh that i think i'm gon na test it a little bit more. Oh, it's not coming back! No! No, you, may you may see me in a day or two okay in a day or two.

That's all right, no problem we're just filming. Oh that's, urination, bob's, car you're, a nation bob's car. Yes, well, have fun with that, and i will uh enjoy this uh. 427, hopefully i come back on my own power and not a flatbed, but it's it's doing great.

Honestly. Yes, all right, bye, wizard, yeah! Let's, let's take this thing home for sure. Oh yes, no! It didn't get far now it's overheating. So let's get it back here! Well, it got a little hot, just just a little bit hot pulled over about two miles from the car wizards and uh wait for it to cool off, and then i will put putt back to a shop darn dern maiden voyage.

I asked a lot for this car. I guess. Oh, the car has been sitting for a long time. What do you think wizard is it the thermostat could be, it could be.

The the fan is not working very well. How do you check that, when it's hot it should be starting to stiffen up? That's too, it turns too easy. You might need a thermal clutch fan squirted a little fluid out, but not much yeah. That's an aluminum radiator! Yes, i'm at the thermostat, just no good.

Okay, we'll get a thermostat on it, we'll put a new thermal clutch fan that should take care of it. Then i'll. Try it again, i'm the best test driver there is wizard. You know that really is a stress tester.

This is what happens when a car sits for five years. You just have to get out there and drive it and see what's gon na happen, and you have to work your way through this guy forgot to do this forgot to do that. Well, that's just if it's a sticky thermostat, that's just from sitting right yeah, but there may be other things as you drive it more. Who knows all right well to be continued yep, i'm not disappointed yet not even close! I'm back! I'm back! Well! You guys are always here, but i'm back, it's been a few days and to recap the car badly overheated.

I was trying to drive it home and i turned around because it was overheating and i guess wizard knows why. Yes, yes, the cooling system from sitting so long is so full of rust. It's like caked inside the radiator, really yep, so some nasty water then huh very nasty water. I just did one round of it.

It's all sitting down at the bottom, still yeah there. It is yeah, oh that's the pooh water sewage, oh! No! That's it in the bottom of there is all flakes of rust and all kinds of nastiness. Well, that's not from the aluminum radiator. So is that the block that's rusted or what's what's, causing that it's from the block? That's where it came from cast iron block, so that's from coolant going bad and getting corrosive right like just putting in straight water.

Luckily, we're able to flush it out, we'll get it cleaned out, it'll be fine, but there was just flakes and flakes and flakes all inside the radiator. What does that one taste like wizard? I don't think i'm going to taste that one no, no you're, not! I know what that is. You taste everything you don't need to identify what it is okay, so the second issue was when i got on the throttle. There wasn't any power, it was actually shuttering a little bit about 3000 rpm, almost like we hit a rev limiter but uh.

I looked in the ignition which is under there under that blanket and you pull off the little tab and it was set at 6200 rpm, which is the right rpm. Yes, oh wizard doesn't have fingernails but yeah. It's set at the right rpm under there, so it was something else and wizard discovered it pretty quickly. With this carburetor huh yeah, the four barrels, the vacuum secondaries were not even functioning.

This carbs been setting so long that all the little passages all the things in there are just all gunked up. It probably didn't help that i started it up with five-year-old fuel, but i wanted to hear it run right and rebuilding these things. You know takes time a lot of effort and really replacements. They aren't that expensive right and it looks just like it.

So i guess it showed in the box here new holly four barrel brand new brand new looks absolutely identical, except nice and clean yeah for the cost. It would take for me to go through and clean all that in the gasket. So you're not too far away. Just to buy a new carburetor, it doesn't make sense anymore to rebuild them right so easy enough.

We'll do some more flushing. I guess magic mike can do that part and maybe i'll play with a carburetor well in typical fashion. Is it normally works out? Whoever's more capable, usually takes pity on me or is very concerned about what i'm doing and just completely takes over. I had the linkages all wrong.

I had a lot of things all wrong he's basically doing everything over again. I've saved him. Zero i've added time to this job actually, but the carburetor is on carburetor is on and now we can go back to flushing poo water. Maybe i can help with that or at least observe and then give it another try.

So that's a garden hose. That's a garden hose we're going to flush out your radiator. We got your upper radiator hose disconnected we're gon na run some through there. We're gon na run some through here and we're gon na run some through your lower radiator hose as well.

You've already done this once i've already done this once we're probably gon na have to do it three or four times. Ah until the water is clear until it's clear until it's not poo until it's not poo, wonderful! Oh that's! That's still very brown, still very brown. That is all you can eat taco tuesday, with a bean burrito for dessert gross. It's like flushing, a sewer, it's a nassau blue corvette wizard is not a sewer.

You might change your mind if you look at the bucket down there, you guys are just cleaning the radiator wait till you clean out the actual engine where all the gunk came from. Oh, this is a thermostat housing, so brown and rusty in there. Oh no thinking of sewage drainage. I think i need to go hit.

The bathroom myself i'll, be back in a little bit, just snug them up a little bit. Okay and then we'll see how she does. Oh, that's not looking too bad, oh okay, a little brown and there's some green yep. That's good! Okay! Well, she's, all flushed huh! All flushed! I see the new thermostats on new thermostats on sand.

Clutch going any going any maybe blizzard is, is observing. Yes, i'm doing management he's managing this thing's going to be amazing. When you get the four barrels working like they should be. I bet it's gon na just burn river.

All over the place green going in green, concentrate going in, so we already got some water kind of sitting in the block and a little bit in the heater core as well. We're gon na do about three bottles of this pure concentrate he's very professional wizard yeah. Unlike me, i learned from the best yeah. Yes, yes, carburetor probably needs a little bit of an adjustment.

Oh yeah, that throttle is much much better. All four barrels opening up all four barrels, that's good! It sounds a little a little ticky, though yeah. If you've got something going on on this side, we'll probably have to make a valve adjustment on it. Yeah it looks like we'll have to make it.

Oh yeah. You can feel it yeah we'll have to make a valve adjustment on it. Do both sides. They are solid, lifters yeah wizard is this is a solid, lifter car right? Yes, so you need to go through with feeler gauges and hopefully nothing's messed up from sitting for so long.

I hope not, but i don't. I don't think it is. It just needs a valve adjustment and i think we'll be golden. If it is it's pretty simple up there right, there's! No, it's not tough to do at all right, but driving at home today, probably not the wisest idea with it, making that ticking noise just in case yeah, we need to get that taken care of before you.

Take it back around the road again. Okay, we also like to road test to make sure it's not going to overheat again right right. So a little bit of a doobie continued, but progress yeah. I did get to drive it briefly.

You did very exciting well to be continued. I suppose subscribe make sure you don't miss any more updates on this car, i'm very bad at endings. Thank you for watching. Oh that's, still very brown, still very brown.