This is our classic car show that we've been having for, I think, nine years now.

This is the 1973 Dodge Challenger.

When I bought it in 1974, first car I ever bought I was only 12.

(laughs) It's a 1955, three quarter ton truck took me ten years to do what you see today.

So we have best of class 1960 to 1972.

Entry number.

Every car has a story (car races by) like the best thing ever.

For some, they end up here.

(thuds) (metal crushing) These are just some of the stories about those who collect and restore vehicles, giving them a renewed lease on life so that their stories can be told right here on the radical restoration.

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(car honk ) Tire dash Tag dot com Additional funding provided by Nutrafarms and Hagerty Insurance (music) This is our classic car show that we've been of for, I think, nine years now.

Usually we have about on a car show off, and we're always lucky with our good weather here.

(music continues) All right.

Forward just a little there, you go up a little bit.

(car rumbles) I'm going to have to get you a little tighter.

What's up?

I just thought we had an angle (music) and get it in.

You might OK.

Thank you., we are having a car show.

We are checking people in at this point in time.

Everybody's invited to enter into a category and then there's extra categories that they can pick from that pertain to each of their vehicles that also go into their windshield along with their place cards.

Our ballots are here, and the ballots can match up with the extra voting sheets that are in the windshield for an extra chances to win.

They win these wonderful trophies back here.

This simple.

Yes, you are.

Yeah.

That's your window.

And that'll eliminate somebody.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

Don't, don't.

Oh, my name is Dave Engle, and this is a 57 Chevy two door hardtop sport coupe.

I've had it 44 years.

My wife and I got married in it.

And so the last two years, I got busy fixing it up, it's got air, cruise, power brakes, rack and Pinion Steering.

It's got Bluetooth radio, backup camera transmission is a dodge R4 700 GM with overdrive and it's got a nine inch Ford rear end with Detroit Locker No, no.

40 years ago, it was not like this.

But the seats are all leather lumbar and are a lot of parts from different cars on here.

These are JAG copy seats and it's got the elderberry, the fuel injection system in it.

You can tune it right from your phone.

Here's an app.

You can adjust the timing in the in you know, like air fuel mixture and all that and stuff right from your phone.

Well, I've had it 44 years, but I really got busy on it Two years ago, my nephew painted it for me five years ago and then COVID hit.

So I had a little idle time and I thought, well, if I don't do it now, I don't know when I'm going to do it, you know?

So it's, it's been fun project and it's drivable it's got cruise control you down a thruway with it so it's not bad.

South Dakota you can't see anything like this Dakota Digital dash and then you put in reverse.

The backup camera comes on.

Wow.

So that works good Bluetooth radio.

So it looks like a stock AM radio, but then we turn it on.

It goes digital all the turn signals, Oh, wow This is a remote exhaust cut out But I'll I had it we had in our wedding in 1983 (engine revs) But I'll I had it we had in our wedding in 1983 so it was not quite this nice, but it was in the wedding.

And so my daughter's getting married in the Fall and so she asked me if I could have it in her wedding.

So that should be a kind of a full circle thing.

Should be fun.

I wasn't allowed to go here, but setting up in her office.

Right.

But however you want to do it.

(car rumbles) Yeah.

Power steering.

Power in the arm (music) Looking good.

I could jump up here a little bit more.

A little bit more?

Just a little bit.

Perfect.

I'm Fred Calledine It's a 1968 Pontiac GTO manufactured in Baltimore, Maryland.

We are the third owner of this vehicle.

The original owner was John Goodman in Maryland sold it to his nephew.

And his nephew sold my son in 95.

(Tiger Roar) It was in about a thousand pieces when I started restoring it.

It took about two and a half years to restore to this point.

It just took a lot of energy and a lot of knuckle juice and blood sweat.

And money and money and a little more money.

Well, I was in the military and I was stationed in Maryland, right.

And he came home from work one day and he says, Dad, there's a GTO for sale for $5,000 up the road.

Will you go take a look at it with me.

I said.

Nope If you want it, Go get your job, save the money and go buy it.

Came home one day.

He said, I got the money.

You want to go with me by it?

Nope.

So you take take out $3,000 in $1 bills and go offer it to the guy and he did We got it.

(music) to register.

You have to be together for, like, crazy for voting.

If any of these things to change your car, you put those in your windshield as well and then they match up for when people are going around and voting for.

Okay.

Okay.

As many as you would like some more.

Hi, how are you?

Good.

How are you?

Good.

Are you pre-registered?

No, I'm not.

Hey, I'm going (music) in 1999.

Real business of this day.

My name is Dave Bauer.

Born in Utica, taught at UFA, taught at Home Pack, taught at SUNY College of Technology.

One ended up going to Alabama, which I'm still a professor in Alabama, and then out to the West Coast at the University of Nevada and just, you know, was able to keep working.

I actually started out teaching at BOCES.

I taught Autobody at BOCES.

All right.

Then I taught health, biology.

I kept going to school.

So it's worked out.

But the car we bought in New Jersey about 13 years ago and we had a six cylinder, they actually they come with tractor engines.

Austin Healeys They're really a British tractor engine.

This one we put in a this is a 5.0 liter V8 fuel injected with trick flow and everything else.

I kept on it and a cam, you know, and boared it out a little bit.

I mean, it's, it's really fast.

It weighs 2,000 lbs and it goes like the wind.

You know.

but a lot of fun.

Go to car shows, meet other motor heads out.

But everybody came about it differently.

But people say you're a professor?

Yeah.

What did you start out?

It started out painting cars in my garage when I was 15, and I worked at BOCES, teaching kids how to paint cars.

Yeah.

So, yeah, it's been a fun ride, but we like New York so much, we had to come back, sold off some stuff in Nevada, Lake Tahoe and said, nope, going back to upstate New York, best place to live.

And I'm a teacher, right?

Like, where you going?

To get your hair done.

Everybody tells everybody what they want, right?

So I went to this guy who I met at a car show at an upholstery shop and he said that I would really like to do your car And I said, Well, what would you do to it?

He said, No.

Everybody tells me what they want to done What would you do it?

He said, Well, I like the louvers.

And he said, I think what we should do is maintain the louvers on the hood So we go into the seats with louvers.

(engine starts up) I'm 78 years old I want to be as noisy as I can until I die.

Right.

(music) A lot of fun (music continues) Mike Nichols from Gouverneur and a 1930 Ford model-A two door sedan.

And I did everything built the frame, chopped the top put it together and made a rat rod out of it.

I built a rocket near a couple weeks ago.

Put my bag chairs in, my grandson, he's.

He's my big helper over there.

So I made these out of the exhaust pipe, three inch exhaust, built them up and the welder and I cut wheel and cut them up and put them together.

Still a work in progress 55 gallon drums to make the seats (music) I took the column and everything took all the chrome off of it stripped off everything and that's what it ended up.

Well, I'm kind of going to leave it that way until I find something to put in the center I got to get this opened up.

I got to, you know, fight crime.

(music) And, you know, my name is Francis Gray.

I live in Clayton The Barracuda.

We purchased in January of this year at an auction.

and I owned a 65 Barracuda.

My wife and I bought one when I graduated from college.

So this is my one.

This car.

I found it online that they had one, in November and then I decided that I I didn't want to go to Florida, so that kind of ended it.

But my wife, my son, girlfriend took over without my knowledge and they had a friend who lived in here near Melbourne and they wired him the money.

He went to auction the day of the auction they said come up to the house for live streaming and see what that car goes for So, we watched, and the car came up it sold my son looked at me and says Merry Christmas Dad.

(music) I'm Jerry Spaziani and I live in Watertown I have a 1967 GTO that I bought brand new, the only car ever owned and it's all original.

I had it painted ten years ago.

12 years ago.

I've never seen snow, never seen rain.

But I know I picked up a real nice (music) Well, it's a 1971 I bought the car.

when it had 26,500 miles on it.

I've had it over 20 years just turned 42,000 actual miles the horse ratio on the car dailed at 7000 R.P.M Is 1143 horse It'll get your where you want to go But getting there is very expensive.

Racing gas is $11 a gallon (music) My name's Phil Nuffer This is the 1973 Dodge Challenger.

When I bought it in 1974 first car I ever bought.

I was only 12.

(laughs) All original.

I mean, it's still got all matching numbers and everything.

I just had just one of them.

The engine, when you open the hood off, look a little better than just stock stuff in there.

So I did that and it's really nice and it sounds really nice.

(car starts up and rumbles) (music) Not a fan to trust hydraulics.

So easy to break hold My name's Tom Black.

I'm from Governuer.

So, 1955, three quarter tonne truck It took me ten years to do what you see today.

And I've had it on the road for about 15 years now.

Why this truck was what I could find for a price I could afford, and I found three of them in a gravel pit.

So I picked the best one and used the other two for parts trucks.

But I started out this was going to be a real handy truck around the farm.

And then I started reconditioning everything and always was looking pretty good by the time I got to the end of the cab.

So it just kind of changed and turned into a play toy I have had a lot of fun with it over the years.

originally it was going to be just a really heavy truck to have around the farm, you know.

And then I got cut out looking pretty good.

So (music) My name is Rick Reed.

I'm from Black Lake, New York, and this is 100 year old bike It was built with parts from 1913 all the way up to 2013 and a little bird like a month and a half.

And I went to a showing the opening of the trailer and a shock they didn't clean it.

So we turn our crop season first, we'll get things ready and I opened up the trailer.

You put suicide shifter on this But no, this this is original.

This is the way it was on the tank.

I mean, you know, I hooked up.

Yeah.

So.

Right.

That's what I'm trying to get in.

And it was it was really simple.

Had to do is make the linkage look right but I mean that's what you did.

You kept it to give it to the original look, right?

Yeah.

(music) within a month and a half, I went to a show and I opened up a trailer and a show.

(music) When I was a kid, I had a station wagon that must come along about five years ago and I bought it was that it didn't run good But we got it, got it.

But that's a lot of fun.

But there's less than a thousand of them in the whole United States.

Now.

Hi Scott.

I got yeah, I read the book every year (music) (music continues) Hows the ride?

Oh, it's great, right?

Rides great.

Don't take it on a dirt road with potholes.

Right.

But on the road and right here, it's actually has a Chevy 1970 Chevy Camaro, front end its a 305 with a V8 turbo transmission.

Do you take it out much.

I took it as much as I can.

I just.

If it's raining, no.

It doesn't go out.

You know, this has never been in it.

In the rain.

At all, ever.

And if it's snowing, forget about it.

(music) (music continues) So we have best of class 1960 to 1972.

Entry number 32, Jerry Spaziani.

Next car is best classic 59 or older entry number ten, 1957 Chevy Bel Air, David Engle.

(music) (car honks) (car rumbles away (cars driving by) Funding for Radical Restoration is provided by (Music) Rakabot sources sustainable materials to create boot racks that organize footwear that allows drippings to go in the bowl.

Models designed for home, work or recreational settings are available on line at Rakabot dot com Joe's Hand Cleaner Manufactured by Clean Products supports Radical Restoration With our without water Joe's Hand Cleaner cleanses to ingredients that are food or cosmetic grade A family business since 1948.

On line at Joe's Hand Cleaner dot com.

Tire tag.

Re Usable labelling to organize tire rotation and re-mounting.

Tire Tag.

(car honk ) Tire dash Tag dot com Additional funding provided by Nutrafarms and Hagerty Insurance Thank you for joining us.

My name's Gary Nichols.

Until next time, may all your rides be radical.

(car drives by) (sanding) (shop sounds) (music)