Always kept it in the garage and finally got the time and the money together to give it to Gary.

And I knew I had it in good hands.

Very unique car.

Little big, big motor in them.

Lots of power, lots of torque.

Luckily enough, we were even able to still keep the old badging, great looking car, but all they had was a flathead four cylinder engine.

So the engines were notorious for blowing up.

Every car has a story.

I think the best thing ever for some, they end up here.

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.

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In 1970, Lincoln Continental and a 1971 Buick Riviera and for the muscle we had a 1971 Dodge Charger R2 (cars roars by) (music) You've had this car for 25 years for 25 years now.

Maybe actually 26 or 27, but it's something around there.

Bought it when I was actually at my first job I had a 71 Monte Carlo, and that pretty much went on me.

And like I said, I love this car all along.

And so when one it went up for sale in St. Catharines, I picked it up and I promised myself I would hold on to it until I had it just the way I wanted.

And so that's what I did.

I oil spread it religiously every year and looked after really well, always kept it in the garage and finally got the time and the money together to give it to Gary.

And I knew I had it in good hands and he did a fantastic job.

My favorite car.

There's a couple others that I really like, but they're all the same class, the big luxury cruisers and I always love the GM's.

I think they're the best designs, the best lines, the best engines and transmissions.

So out of them all, This is my favorite.

I love the two-door and I love the fact there's a big, long car.

And I. I knew I'd go up in value as well, you know, so there was I didn't spend a lot of money on insurance and that kind of a thing on the car over the years.

So whatever I put into it, I'll probably get back.

The rear vents are just a 1 year option only, they made them in 1971, just as the year of the car, and they were functional.

They exhausted the heat of the cold air from the car.

So as part of the ventilation system.

But apparently it didn't work too well because in 72 they discontinued it.

But I'm fine with that because it adds to the rarity of the car.

So this trunk lid, you can only get on a 71.

The other feature that was really interesting was the max track that I mentioned, and that's a pretty, pretty forward thinking for 1971 to have a microprocessor comparing the speed of the rotor against the speed of the output of the transmission and the electronic lug that they put on was pretty bad for emissions.

It was one year option as well and is a pretty rare option.

So you won't see a lot of cars with an even these Riviera's with that option.

The only thing this car doesn't have is the G-S option, which gives you a different cam, the slightly differently tuned carburetor and a few other go fast goodies.

That would be nice to have, but I never ran across a G-S good working order that was at a reasonable price.

So I'm happy enough with this car (music) (shop noises).

This, ah, 61 Chrysler.

Imperial is a very interesting car.

It originally came in just a stock white color.

So we went with the tropical turquoise, which was a popular GM color in 1955 to 1957.

And we took the white and kept the white in the spirit area to give it that two tone effect with the white walls.

Then what we've done is we were able to match the interior colors.

So what we've done here is we're getting very close to completion on this car.

We've made two tone seats, we've made all the dash and the door panels to match with the chrome trim all the little crown accent pieces.

This car is very interesting.

It has a push button transmission, and I'm afraid the steering wheel is not in it right now, but it's actually a square design is something reminiscent of The Jetsons cartoon show.

A lot of work went into this car.

This one needed a lot of work.

It had been hit on this side, a considerable amount of damage.

And you can really see that at this in this era that this was highly influenced by, you know, all the aerospace industry and the space race that was going on at the time.

You see all the little accent pieces like the headlights are actually on pedestals, on the headlights at the front.

If they if you come to the rear of the car, you can see that the same the same accent becomes clear here is that you see pedestals again, very spear shaped wings wing tipped same on the trunk lid.

You know you've got the plane design.

So with cars and certain era's you can really see that you know how they're influenced by certain designers and what's going on at that in that time period (music) (grinding) in the seventies, when you think of luxury, you think of the 1970 Lincoln Continental, big, luxurious, with many innovative features.

Hi, my name is Robert Vieira and this is a 1970 Lincoln Mach-3 that's been restored at Radical Restoration in Barrie here.

Robert brought it in.

This thing needed a lot of work.

All the wheel wells were rotted out, floor, trunk We picked this color.

It's actually based on an Audi steel blue.

It's such a big car, it needs a color that suits it.

You know, it can't be too bold.

Very unique car though.

Big, big motor in them lots of power, lots of torque.

Luckily enough, we were even able to still keep the old badging.

Car's originally out of Dallas, Texas.

(music ) I just like the looks of it, I've always liked big cars.

I've had Cadillacs and big Lincolns in the past.

And I seen this one and I really liked the looks of it, the style of it, and the way they drive.

And it has lots of power in this car.

It's a 7.5 liter engine in it.

It's around 400 horsepower.

This car has, came with fiber optics in it original equipment in 1970, which is kind of unusual for back then.

It has a airflow system on it.

And you can leave all the windows up.

And if you just want fresh air and there's special vents underneath the car, you open the vents up and the air comes through the car without any noise and it goes out through the vents at the back window.

And that's where that vent is on the trunk.

It just goes underneath the window and back out again.

So that that's one feature.

The other thing is all the wood in this car is actual walnut wood.

It's real wood.

that they put in these things.

(music) For me, it's just it's just a pleasure to have it, I don't plan on selling it.

I plan on keeping it.

I love to see these things coming back to life instead of getting crushed when it comes to muscle.

The 1971 charger.

RT, It's loud (engine revs loudly) and fast.

Hi, I'm Gary.

It's my 1971 charger RT 440 automatic that I found in a garage.

in Barrie, covered in coach on the hood.

love seats on the trunk and a single seat on the other part of the car and I was fortunate enough to find it and had Gary restore it for me.

And it turned out pretty good.

You know what, when I, I wasn't really hot on the, on the 71 Chargers at first, but when I saw the hood on this, it was something so different I'd never seen one before, to be honest with you.

And I just sort of fell in love with the body lines and and and the hood and everything in general about the car.

I even like the profile of the hood from the inside of the car.

(music) Well, you know, what was kind of funny was this is the car before it was restored, I found the old cherry bombs back in the trunk.

They were brand still in the box.

So I thought, you know what, definitely put them on the car so it's kind of loud.

But I like the sound we were looking for to try and buy a Challenger.

And make a long story short, my friend told me there was a Challenger in a garage just down from his house.

The fella decided he wanted to sell it.

Yeah, it was golden It was an amber gold interior.

And like I say, I fell in love with the lines of the car, especially the hood, things like that.

And I had a vision to paint it black.

They did a lot of work straighten it out, painted it black, put the flat black stripes on it And it turned out exactly the way I wanted it.

I'm pretty happy.

(engines revs) (music) (shop sounds) (music) (truck drives by) Hello, my name is Lisa Wallis of Dolcella Gelato So welcome to my mobile Gelateria.

I am a gelato maker and I run a vintage gelato truck.

I'm going to be serving some customers.

Actually, I believe there's a little bit of a line up on the other side there.

So I'm going to serve up some gelato that I handcraft myself.

Gelato served on a bit of a warmer temperatures, so sometimes putting it on a cone is a little bit more challenging.

Traditionally, it's served in a cup.

I wanted to start a business.

A gelato business and my late father was into old cars, hot rods, classic cars.

So kind of as a tribute to him, I thought instead of opening up a gelato shop, maybe I'd open up a gelato food truck.

(laughs) So there, about start my started my search for a truck.

So I looked at a lot of different vintage trucks and I came across the Divco, and I pretty much fell in love with it.

So I managed to find something online.

It was actually an auction from Fort Lauderdale, so I won the auction and I won the truck.

So I brought it back down here, brought it directly to Radical Rods and Restorations, and that's kind of where the journey started in terms of the restoring of the truck.

Originally, when Lisa picked it in Florida, at the auction, we had it brought up and we got some surprises.

When we...(laughs) When we started to inspect the vehicle, we found that somebody had grafted in a sort of midsized Chevy frame rails in the front.

And the way they done it, they basically just cut it off at the firewall and they're only tack welded in.

So when you actually pushed on the vehicle, the frame rail was actually separating.

So, you know, basically down the road, a good bump to frame rails would have just dropped after we sorted out the problems with the frame.

One of the other big issues with this, Divco, was the steering.

They had basically just run a bar and they had a basically a round bolt that was holding the column in place.

And every time it rotated, it was actually cutting into the pipe and it was only mounted in the sheet metal on the inner on the inner fenders.

So it was just a recipe for, for trouble.

We actually kept the original cream color.

This is the color that it came in.

And then we added the the blue and the brown.

And then Lisa got these great graphics done.

I mean, we basically went over the whole vehicle.

There was no wiring in it, there was no wiper motors.

We got all the gauges working, sorted out the steering, the horn in the back.

We dropped the floor, made a new subfloor, took all the old wood and weight out of the back of it, went with lighter components and foam insulation, raised the bow's in the roof to give it a little bit more height inside.

What I always find interesting is watching Lisa driving it down to 400 and she could barely see over the steering wheel.

But I know it's her (laughs) (music) So this truck has helped my business because it's it's an awesome, awesome marketing tool.

The truck gets noticed wherever I go.

I have people giving me the thumbs up and, you know, second, third, look, I have people stopping me all the time asking me about it.

So, I mean, it's just such an eye catcher.

It's so different and and it fits the business as well.

Being an old built truck.

So, and me selling gelato.

So yeah, it's, it's been a great marketing tool from that aspect.

(truck drives by) White chocolate.

What year is the Divco?

1965 And where were You able to get it?

In Florida.

Fort Lauderdale Did you tow it up to restore it?

Yeah, Want me to restore it for you?

Radical Rods and Rides and Restorations.

have started it.

Yeah.

Yeah they did all the work for you?

Yeah.

You want this one.

Okay.

Reason why I'm here is because of your truck Oh, really?

Yeah.

I started Working out of a Divco 50 years ago, you started working out of a Divco or on 50 years agoReally?

It was a 56 Divco and this is the first one I've seen in probably 47 years that's right.

So here you go.

Here's so you drove you delivered milk from a Divco My Dad was a milk, man.

There you go.

See.

Well the 56 Divco and this is the 65, but they're similar in body style But yeah, when I saw it and I was just driving home and I seen it for the last few weeks, it really brought back a lot of fond memories, by all means, the sliding doors the way You got it all set up.

I've had actually quite a few people come up to me and and say that they've driven in in these old Divco's They remember them when they were kids, you know, and they used to have milk delivered to them.

I had one guy come up to me and say that he used to work for one of the dairies and he used to drive these for 20 years.

So that's pretty cool.

When people come up to you and recognize the truck and know exactly what it is and the history behind it.

The truck is a one of a kind is a basically this truck is amazing.

The history before you when people look at the name on the truck, they look at the truck and that even make the name looks even better on the truck.

I grew up around old cars.

I was dragged to quite a few car shows when I was younger and my dad's always had old cars, so I'm familiar with it.

It's kind of what I know.

And my dad passed away several years ago now and kind of as a tribute to him.

I thought it would be pretty cool if I was able to incorporate, you know, an old truck into my business plan.

So I did that.

(music) It's hard to imagine how the design for the Camaro evolved.

But up next, we look at a unique car that rocked the automotive world and was the predecessor to the classic Camaro style, the Chevy Corvair.

My name is Bob.

Bob Pedal.

What we have here is a 1966 Chevrolet Corvair.

I've had it for about nine years now, four years on the road.

And with the help of these guys here, we put this thing together.

This car was a lot of metal work, kind of I think it was over 15 patches just in the front trunk because obviously it's rear engine just in the front alone, complete floor pan We made up struts and braces underneath there.

We did a two tone custom interior for it, which came out really nice.

We carried the blue through inside, made a couple of little billet pieces.

I don't know if you can see where the gauges are.

We made that piece there some blocks for underneath the steering column carried the two colors through into the steering wheel and the dash.

You know, it's just these little emblems that you find the stuff.

It's hard to get.

What we did was Yenko actually did a that was notoriously well known for their Camaros, and Yenko actually did a Corvair at one point.

You can actually see a lot of the body styles in this car.

You can see them carried forward into the Camaros in 67, 68, 69, such as the roofline, the front pillar and even the front end parts are very, very similar.

Design Why this car is actually driving by and on a trip to Angus one day.

to met a friend just spotted this thing at a used car dealership.

2 offers later it was in my driveway and the next few weeks I had to convince my wife to let me keep it.

So so this is a an air cooled plastics engine.

It's 164 cubic inch and rated at 110 horsepower.

Not a very quick car, but don't need to drive.

Drive too fast for this one.

Simply you don't see them on the road.

And so it's a unique car and just a beautiful car to drive.

(car engine) Yeah.

So this this shifter is just.

I always start off in low get the RPM's up I have a small issue with my my transmission.

Got a bit of a vacuum leak, so I just got to get the RPM's up to get that vacuum sealed.

And I put her in drive and away I go.

but it's it's on the dash that's factory (music) pretty cool little feature (music continues) There's just not a lot of these around anymore and it's nice to see it brought back to life.

(music) Well we finally got a break from the winter weather and first sunny day out, we thought you'd show a couple of really nice Willys coupes.

Chris came up from Toronto, brought his up for the day.

These cars originally were manufactured in Toledo, Ohio, and just after Willys Overland and come out of bankruptcy, this is when they started on these cars.

They needed something new and fresh.

They came out of bankruptcy in about 1936 and then 37.

They started to design the Willies and they changed the name of the company to Willys Overland Motors.

The problem with these cars is great looking car, but all they had was a flathead four cylinder in them, so the engines were notorious for blowing up.

So they were a prime target for all of the hot rodders to take them and put V-8s in them and take them to the Drag strip.

And that's where the real history of this car came along was the gasers and they became a legend at the Drag strip.

(tires squealing) This one is a fiberglass body.

The originals are just almost impossible to find.

And even if you found one in a field all rotted out as it was, and the true steel one is still worth about $40,000.

So a lot of manufacturers are doing these fiberglass shells and the quality of them is pretty good.

This one has the LS Corvette motor in it, the true favorites.

They like to put blown big blocks with blowers on them or Hemi's with blowers.

And that seems to be the typical style of this car.

Most of them are tubbed out at the rear, which allows for the much bigger tire.

The body styles are just gorgeous, the long sloping back.

These are considered flat fender cars, sort of 1936 to, you know, 40, 42 ish.

You would see these these cars and they're just a great style.

1940, they went with the split grille and then in 41, they went the fine tooth grille were solid without any center section.

This car we did approximately seven or eight years ago now.

And what this is, is a stroked small block Chevy.

And we did this injection unit.

It's actually carburetor that's hidden underneath.

You can see here, these are hardier functional on the street.

But this is a great look because it gives it that old gasser look.

This car has a tube chassis in its turbo 400 automatic as the narrowed nine inch fork rear end.

As you can see here, we took the purple real fire paint all through the front and then we've dragged it inside with the purple in the seats and the door panels.

This is a very neat car over the years.

This is one, I would say probably 30 plus trophies Chris yeah, still picks up Best Paint after eight years.

It's got a few marks in it, but Chris drives it.

Hi, my name is Chris Hayes.

I am from Mississauga, Ontario.

Always dreamt of owning a 1941 Willys Coupe since I was 15 years old.

I watched a movie called Hot Rod that most hot rodders watch and they dream of owning one of these vehicles.

I purchased an all steel vehicle back in the late seventies, and they started rebuilding it to be a gasser, which is the front end is high, the back end is low.

But then I was injured at work where I broke three vertebrae and the car sadly had to sit in a garage for about maybe 8 to 10 years.

And they finally decided that I had to get rid of the car.

When it left, I actually cried and I came inside and I was just just crying like a baby because, you know, your dream has suddenly gone.

(car drives by) I went for a drive one day.

And we came across in Innisfil at the time, Radical Rods and Rides, and there's a big trailer out there with the Willys on it.

Then my wife says, Why don't we just take a look inside here?

And I went, okay.

(car drives by) As I'm looking at the car drooling, my wife is talking to Gary and my wife Susan.

She sat there and came back and said, Well, you're going to buy this car.

And I said, I don't have the money.

She said, don't worry this is your dream.

It's going to become a reality from there through Gary we had this car built originally there was a 392 Hemi in it, but wanted something with a little less horsepower.

So it's not as radical.

You're getting thumbs up from people.

You're getting all kinds of people just like, stop, stop.

pull over let me look at your car, let me look at your car It's a 383 stroker It's pumping out, in between 556 horsepower.

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.

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(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.

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