Welcome to hoovy's garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i'm at barrett-jackson's 50th anniversary celebration in scottsdale, arizona where they are selling over a thousand cars and no i'm not selling my super bird, but this is well an almost exact copy. It is a 1970 plymouth super bird hemi car in vitamin c orange just like mine, but it's probably the most blessed one ever in existence, only 6 000 original miles, all original numbers matching engine, everything original this car inside and out, and it's a template of everything. That's good and everything, that's bad with my hemi super bird at home. If you recall, i bought this thing online at an auction.

It had several issues and unfortunately, we're still working through them, but a lot of people, especially those on the internet, that love to sit in their chairs and talk about things being fake without seeing them in person. They say that my car is a fake. Now it's listed in the registry as a partial re-body. I think it's real, but then i get a continuous barrage of comments and i'm starting to have a little bit of doubt.

So i'm having a mopar expert and friend and co-host here at barrett-jackson, going to go over this car and my car sort of virtually to verify whether or not mine is real. The jury is still out and then we will do a tour of barrett-jackson their facility. What they're doing for their 50th there's some incredible exotic cars and some incredible hoopties. So it is very uh representative of what i love, so i'm very excited for this week.

So let's get started by taking a look at this incredible example. So let's find out - and i'm here with steve magnante - who is a mopar expert, he's literally written in the book on mopars or well everything right, well kind of yeah, one thousand steven young, his 1001 muscle car facts is uh. It's a great book. It's all about! Mopars and chevys and fords, but i will say this: tyler always fill your library before you do the garage and things like this here.

This is the muscle car number guide for dodge and plymouth and in these you'll find you know pretty much all the numbers and codes and prices, and these are the sorts of things that i use to just make sure i know what i'm talking about. I was born in 64., so i didn't design these cars. I didn't build them, i'm a spectator like like you are you know so, but you got to have some information to make the right decisions and your super bird has great eyeball and i got to say i remember when it crossed here at barrett-jackson 345. Whatever years ago, and i thought wow what a rare car - it's - an r code - 135 million - it's a street hemi - why did the people who presented this car take such freestyle chances and choices on it? So i've had a lot of people.

Tell me that my super birds, not real, you know they're armchair people of the internet, telling you that you are pretty qualified in this you've been doing it for a very long time. You actually saw the car, i mean you barely remember it obviously, but we have a real supervisor to compare it by. I should also mention uh. Not only are we co-hosting barrett-jackson together so tune in this weekend, there'll be some incredible cars which i will go around here in a little bit, but also uh steve has started you've been doing it for a while a youtube channel that is really taking off.

He does a lot of his old junkyard crawls that he had on motor trend for many years, he's basically taking that into sort of a youtube channel, among other things, and it's really good so be sure to check it out. I'll put a link in the description below to where you can subscribe. I watch it pretty much every day because you post every day which it's awesome but uh yeah. So one thing my card doesn't have - and i know, there's like a hidden vin here in the quarter underneath the trunk lip and obviously mine probably doesn't exist because it was t-boned on the side and it's listed as a partial free body.

But he'll say it's fake. Well, yeah, you know that's the funny thing is i mean if cars could talk, we probably wouldn't want to hear most of what they had to say because you know many muscle cars most of them were like a candy bar or a piece of bubble. Gum. Wasn't a meal, it was a snack and people used them up quickly.

Now hemi super bird is a rare, rare bird literally and they were not cheap, so the second or third owner is usually the person who mangles and destroys and really hurts a car um. So, but again as a hemi car, it probably spent many many die or days or times over 100 miles an hour, so accidents would be expected. So again, when you clip a car yeah, you lose the tail. You lose the numbers, but what you have on your car, which makes it uh you know royal, is the vin, yes with the r code in the fifth spot.

So you know, there's no doubting that that is the most important part. Now, if the rest of the car has been well cobbled or whatever well it's, it's still real, so this car only six thousand original miles on it. So it's probably the best surviving super bird in existence just happens to be a me car and vitamin c like mine, but just a very blessed life uh, but mine still has the vin plate. Like this i mean the chrysler's paint job sort of long gone on.

It but it's a real yeah: it is 135 hemi-powered, sick birds out about 1230 real. You know wing cars super most for 440s or six packs, but the hemi cars are the royalty and you've got one of them. Now. Here's the thing! If you look at many many cars on the planet, you know it looks like it's nicely restored.

But again, if you could talk you wouldn't you know it would tell you about the fact that it was jumped. It was used at the high school promise. You know the photo platform, any kids standing on it. Jumping up and down denting led zeppelin, you know, and cars are, you know they are what they are when you see them, but yours has great eyeball and i am a little puzzled by the fact that the restorers or the rebuilders of it got rid of the Torsion bar front suspension you put in those those sort of uh, controversial, coils yeah, so here's the normal torsion bar well, it's kind of hidden there as well yeah, these guys, they're kind of hard to see but yeah.

This thing right here this bar yes versus normal coilovers uh. Of course the factory wheels rather than my uh gold things. I know you're not you're, very diplomatic, but you're, not a fan of them and another thing to it down under the car too. There's a thing called the torque box only seen on hemi cars, and i think yours are still there and it's the rear leaf spring that structure right there.

That is not there. What you see on a 440 car it stops here, that's all air, but on a hemi car only. This is a convertible part, spin item which reinforces the bulkhead for the front of the leaf spring and um. That's another hemi-only thing and i think i saw them on the pictures for your car, but that's another nice thing, but it is kind of weird to have uh.

You know coil-over shocks or springs up front, no torsion bars. I think the shock that did that. Why would they well so when you saw it at the auction, it was kind of set up like a dragster like this, and he jacked it up to where it rode terrible. We found some little struts that boilers at work, but uh yeah.

I don't get it either, but it was the cheapest super bird. So yeah, it's a it's an r, it's a heavy and it has a hemi in it. That's the most important thing: if that was an r code with a 440 or 33 plugged in there. That would be big, minus, but you'd have an actual mobile performance, crate hemi right, which is fine, yes, but this is what it came with.

This is a numbers matching 426 and uh. It does look a lot more appropriate, but these things have trouble overheating just like what i'm dealing with right now right, it's true the nose cone there's not much of a vent, there's! No, no real air access a small place in the bottom, but these cars were intentionally never offered with air conditioning even with the 444 barrel, because the chrysler engineers knew that in traffic, the only thing drawing air was going to be. That fan right there and you know moving, is when these things do their best cooling, so yeah air conditioning and overheating uh. Two things are mutually exclusive.

On these things. I will say this, though you know folks, can either compliment a car or insult it with what they do to it, that poor bird was well a bit of both, but again sometimes it's the person doing the work that doesn't maybe have a sense of history. So maybe i won't say a camaro shop, but somebody unhip for the ways of mopar might have had that car did their best with it put it like that. The price was right, though yeah.

Well, i appreciate the you know the little jab and then you know pulling the knife out. You know not digging too deep, but yeah there are. I noticed, like the you know, the meaty horn mine's mounted down here. I guess it's supposed to be mounted there.

So i need to move that uh. The battery is not living here anymore. They one of the vacuum pumps was here. They had two you know running, they were so loud and annoying so now one's hidden back down here appropriately.

So i couldn't move a battery back. If i wanted to uh, but my vin tag is, is fake on mine. Well, here's the thing, the the vin tags. These are crucial and a lot of the reproductions are just too crisp and a lot of them.

You know at the factory they're bent up and because before they painted because they'd peel it up and then spray the card and push it back down, put the second screw in it, and that was part of getting the paint, because otherwise it's screwed down no pain. Underneath it and that's asking for rust, so chrysler actually often did that, but reproduction trim tags are too tidy, and that sometimes is the case. I don't know that yours is redone, but the one thing you can reproduce these, it's not a felony. It's not a breaking of the law, but what is a felony is reproducing the wind yeah.

It's a felony and yours is real. So you know it's a good thing. It's real yeah! Also. I have a metal nose, coat yeah right, not fiberglass! That's right! There are, there are fiberglass replicas of the noses and the wings dayclona.com ted and carol yannick back in the 70s and 80s.

I mean these are such popular cars, but yeah. The real ones have steel noses and, and you got one, that's a good thing awesome. Well, i guess so. My car is real ish.

What would you call it? Yeah, it's kind of a it's a it's a resto mod. You know i mean it's, it's the real thing and i would say that maybe somewhere down the road, these cars are not going down in value. It's conceivable that somebody might run a comb over that car from front to back and bring it back to 10 tenths. 100 point status, but it'll never be an unclipped car, it's kind of maybe two cars in one, but with that said, you show me another one: it's not that's a pretty rare bird pun intended well, that's where, on the bird as as you just told me, i Stole that line just i'm stealing his jokes, but we won't see this car sell before the video comes out so i'll post a comment in the description of what it sells.

For i mean the nicest one, obviously mine's, not the nicest one uh, but let's continue we'll look at some other really cool cars going on here at the sale that there's some really significant, supercars and stuff that probably set some records over here. Thank you. So much and be sure to subscribe to his youtube channel hoobie's garage, so they call this area the salons the place where some of the most significant guards selling at barry jackson are being sold. There's you know 10 plus tents over a thousand cars out here.

These are some of the nicest that you can see, starting with the eleanor and a few muscle cars down here, but then we get into the exotics. You have a huracan spider. You have the last mclaren senna, absolutely gorgeous along with the mclaren p1. We start the hypercar holy trinity here, and this one was sent off to mclaren mso for repaints halfway through its life, it's just a crazy metallic color and next to it porsche 918 spider.

Of course, the next in the hyper car no ferrari la ferrari, but we have a porsche carrera gt next to it, which i love these things they have been exploding in value. As of late v10 manual transmission, i had an opportunity to ride and jaylen was on his show a few years ago and it was crazy blindfolded to guess it so much fun. But then you see four gts out the yin yang, which is just ridiculous. Having three of the new four gts and well four of my favorites, the 0.506s that have also been exploding in value lately, but orbiting around there's some more interesting and significant cars which i'll have to fight through some crowds to get to.

But then we'll go. Look at some hoopties there's some cheap cars, there's cars for everybody here and well, when they sell i'll, try and post the sale price in the description. Because a lot of these aren't going to sell before i post the video say: 458 special wowza sls final edition. G-Wagon 6x6, which is absolutely insane, and then you have two original cobras.

These aren't replicas. This is a very early 1962 right here and then in 1967, so a very significant one of the earliest cobras being sold here, along with some other shelbys. On the other side, we'll head over there fighting crowds - i mean it's only tuesday when i'm filming this - and it's already just packed well duck under the ropes for this one, because it's a 65 shelby gt350 that was set up for drag racing. You can see the huge slicks on the back, but what's crazy about this, is it's an all original survivor.

This is original paint original everything when it was set up. You know back 50 years ago and it's just absolutely incredible compared to this very early one. Next to it another 350 without the stripe, but this one's perfectly restored. So do you want a survivor, or do you want the nicest restored example of a gt350 in existence? It is just so cool to see the variety here and we'll see a lot more variety outside.

Let's get to some hoopties, it's so much fun to watch the big boy sell for millions of dollars on friday and super saturday, but the early days. I really love because of the variety and well, some good buys out there. Some things. I've never seen before, like these mini cars, old, mazda rx-7s, and then you see like a pt cruiser and it only has 9 000 original miles on it.

Boyd coddington, rims customized. It just very odd two-door, gmt-400 tahoe jag xjs the later inline six one, not the v12, that just looks absolutely mint and yesterday, on the first day that they were selling cars, there were some really cheap ones. Things were selling for six, eight thousand dollars for like a lexus or a bmw, some old 80s and 90s models. So there really is something for everybody here, there's even a prius out there in the tent somewhere.

You see something for everybody. The early days, such variety, a maserati, chrysler, lebaron, those crazy plush seats, just so freaking cool that they went to, pin and free and sort of customized a lebaron, a 300 zx, a giant boat, yellow cadillac audi tt with a luggage rack. Then you have a 107. That's actually a really rare coupe model: 450 slc.

I imagine extra space in the rear, so cool. I have no idea what the heck that is, of course, the shoebox ford 126 mercedes buick riada seriously a buick riota. It looks like it's a later one, not the one with the crt touchscreen, but still this is something cool: a mint blue, buick riyada, a shelby dodge which actually carol shelby worked with the chrysler corporation for many years before going back to ford. So this is a really rare, find right here in the early days of the auction, so really something for everybody.

You know i love pretty much. Everything usually go from hoopties to exotics and back and forth in my channel, and this is what barrett-jackson basically is. So i love it back in pre-stage now with an old lotus, another xjs, another 126. So it like, i said something for everybody and if you want to tune in, you can watch on history or the fyi channel.

We're doing live coverage all this week be sure to tune in if you can and once again. Thank you so much for watching you all watching these videos is the reason that i'm here that i got this opportunity to basically get my hosting dream job. I started going to these auctions as a kid in 2004 and was offered its well a little over a year ago because of you watching these videos and somehow giving me a legitimacy. I guess to get offered a crazy job like this.

So, thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate it. Don't forget to get to your hooves garage merch, which is linked below. We still have some hemi super bird shirts left so get those while supplies last also hoop d stickers, five dollar stickers, to cover up all your hoopty issues, check it out.