- The current ride is a 70 - Duster, 340 rotisserie restored, all numbers matching.

- It's a 1929 Dodge Brothers sedan.

The engine is a 57 DeSoto 341 cubic inch Hemi.

- Got lots of jam.

Every car has a story - Like the best thing ever.

For some they end up here.

These are just some of the stories about those who collect, restore, giving them a renewed lease on life so that their stories can be told right here on restoration.

- Closed captioning is provided by Senior Discovery tours online@seniordiscoverytours.ca.

Funding for radical restoration is provided by -Rakabot sources sustainable materials to create boot racks that organize footwear while allowing drippings to go in the bowl.

Models designed for home work or recreational settings are available online@rabo.com.

Birds underwater in Crystal - River, Florida supports radical restoration, offering guided excursions with Florida manatees, kayak rentals, scuba diving certifications and boat tours are also available since 1993 and online@birdsunderwater.com.

- In this episode, we visit the Wasega Beach Cruisers at one of their events and check out some of the cars at the show.

- We've got a lot - My name is Brian Curry.

I'm president of the Wasaga Beach Cruisers.

You actually see here tonight is our regular Monday night crews.

This is pretty standard for us.

Maybe a few more than normal, but not really long.

Weekends we'll get 350 400 cars with our, you know, our club members and visitors coming out to see us.

So we're a very active group doing stuff two and three times a week.

- My name is Wayne Hawk and I am the coordinator for our Fun Run show and I'm an active member of the club.

Great car club.

We have close to 200 members, probably represent in excess of 300, 350 cars.

I have four myself.

I had five until Friday night and I have one that's on its way right now to to Alberta.

So I have a 1930 Durant six 14.

I have a 1954 F 100 pickup truck.

It runs lots of power.

I have a 69 Mach, one Mustang that's been Repowered.

I have an oh six Mustang GT convertible and I just sold a Shelby Supers snake that went to, went to Alberta.

So two people.

Quite a difference in reaction when it left our yard.

My wife did a happy dance and I had tears in my eyes.

So you did.

So and that's what you get into if you're gonna run with classic cars.

Your wife's a big part of this whole program.

I've had this car for over 20 years.

Bought this car in 2001 when my wife and I were dating back in 1970 a 69 M This is what I was driving.

And just to show you the interest difference in cars back then to now.

Wisher was coming on in about 1972 and I needed a pickup truck to haul my snow machine around.

So I traded it to a guy for his pickup truck.

Biggest both offside trade I think I ever made.

And so after kids came along and I always said that someday I was gonna buy a 69 mark one again and and get it back.

And I looked and looked and I would find one and what?

Someday, someday.

Someday.

And then my father passed away very in 2001 and I thought someday comes real quick member.

And six months later I owned this car and that was 20, 21 years ago.

Come on, we need a club member to come and it'll stay.

This car will go to my daughter.

It'll, it'll stay in our family.

At least My daughters told me if she ever wants, if I ever want to see my grandkids again, I keep the car Buick.

Just - A little bit of background on your, on your black bug.

Yeah.

Like how long have you had that car?

36 years.

36 years.

And I saw it come in and it was literally in pieces in the back of the trailer.

Yeah.

'cause he lives around the corner from him.

Yeah.

And he rebuilt the entire car and it's absolutely dropped dead.

Perfect.

Gorgeous.

Yeah.

Perfect.

And that was, that was what, a five year project?

- Yeah, I didn't buy it new.

I bought it in Chatsworth off a lawn and brought it home, drove it for 16 years the way it was and then it started to rust and fall apart.

I had it in a garage for six, seven years.

Then we moved up here to Wasa Beach and it stayed in my garage for another four or five years and then I decided to restore it and I, it went to Body Shop and Stainer and it was in there for two and a half years and brought it home.

And then I started putting it together, working on it and got it completed.

I had a 76 Super Beetle as well.

And a lady at one of the cruise nights here, a visitor decided she had to have the car and she was from Prince Edward Island visiting her son here in Hillsdale.

He brought her here to the cruise night and she had to have the car and was on at my place on the weekend and bought it.

So then I saw this and because it's a newer car, it's an 80 87 Gabrielle, so it's a water pumper as opposed to an air cooled.

And I wasn't, I've always been sort of a beetle guy and, but after I saw it I had to have it.

And I've had this, I've had this now for about seven or eight years.

I've always had Beatles in the family.

My brother's got four or five of them.

So yeah, it's, and when, when I started my club here 16, 17 years ago, I was the only guy with a international car.

Everybody else, the basic hot rods and the classic cars and everything.

And I was kind of an outsider.

And since then, over the years, maybe not tonight, but there's usually half a dozen to a dozen beetles that'll come up.

So it makes me feel good that, you know, we got an influx of different blood of them.

Not the only one.

- It's not so much that we're just a car club.

We are as biggest supporter of the town of Wasa Beach as Wasa Beach town is of us for our charity work.

We have three major sponsors that we sponsor.

Hospice Campbell House Hospice, our friend's house and the food bank.

And we'll do in excess of $20,000 a year in cash and food and and gifts to these charities.

So we're a very, very integral part of the community as well.

- I've been retired for 10 years and this what's keeping me busy, it's a 1929 Dodge Brothers sedan.

Yeah.

- Why did you have to have it - The car before this was a Camaro convertible and we really enjoyed it.

But I, I just wanted to build another hot rod.

I, I built a lot when I was young and my brother actually owned this car, but it, it was somebody had started a project and then he bought that and it sat in his garage for about 10 years.

And I always just love the lines of it and it's different.

I like different.

So I told him, if you ever want to part with that thing, let me know.

And one day he let me know.

So I bought it and tinkered with it for a few years till I sold the Camaro and then I did an all out thrash on it and there it is.

The engine is a 50 70 Soto, 3 41 cubic inch Hemi.

And when, when I was in my early twenties two friends and I raced a drag race and we used a Hemi and I always just loved the engine and being a dodge car, we decided it had to have a Hemi.

So I searched, searched and found that one and I rebuilt it and everything and there.

So I basically did every single thing on that car except the last coat of paint.

I took it to the body shop runs good, it's air conditioned power steering, it's got electric power steering, power brakes.

That was part of the deal with my wife.

If I buy one, it had to be comfortable and had to be air conditioned so, so she's actually driven it.

So well that started the day I brought it home 'cause she was always asking me what it looked like.

I said, well you'll see when I bring it home.

So soon as it, I pulled in the driveway with it on the trailer, she come out, she said that looks like an Al Capone car 'cause it's got the suicide back doors and everything.

Oh nice.

Wow.

So this is where the guys would stand with the machine guns and because we love those gangster movies.

So once that kind of stock and then she bought me those license plates for my birthday.

Nice.

Yeah.

And then of course on the pin stripping, we had to put this hutch on there.

- My name is Stewart and I'm from Orillia in Ontario.

I ready, I'm met This gentleman, when I had a Shelby Cobra, went for a nice little ride and got it filmed.

It's been a lifelong dream.

I've lusted after this car, probably since I was eight years old, I got rid of the Shelby and I got a nice 65 Satellite with a 528 Hemi in it.

Very quick.

Not as fast as the Cobra - Though.

And - After that I got a 69 Dodge Dodge GTS convertible.

Nice little 340.

Kept that for two years.

And the current ride is a 70 duster, 340 rotisserie restored, all numbers matching.

Just love it.

It's fun to drive.

Well the real reason was I went to look at another GTS and we couldn't come, we couldn't make a deal and in the, in his little showroom and off to the corner sat this.

So I, I went over and looked at it and thought that looks pretty good, pretty clean.

And we worked out a deal.

So I've had it not quite two years.

It's fun, fun to drive.

- This is a 1956 GMC.

So we originally did this truck a couple years ago and came back and he had bought a, a used LT four Corvette motor and transmission.

So we've made all this fit.

There are not a lot of room, but anyway we've, we've got a, actually that's what's in that box there.

It's a dry sump oil system.

'cause on these, the oil stays in a tank off the side.

So we had to get something a little bit smaller to fit in here.

But this is real, this is gonna be a rocket, apparently it's for his wife.

He says I, I said so she has to rush to get groceries and he said no rush to the beer store.

So there you go.

So this, this should be good.

This is gonna be real interesting.

This one nice truck.

It's got a lot of, lot of features on it and this is sort of the icing on the cape so it'll, it is a very expensive engine, these things.

So the computer system's on 'em are very detailed.

I think the wiring, wiring harnesses alone are somewhere in the vicinity of $9,000 just for the wiring.

So it's a lot involved in it.

Everything's computerized.

Transmission motor - Take out the old making room for the new.

What's happening with this one, we're putting a Corvette engine into it.

Supercharged Corvette engine and new tranny obviously you can see that already.

I dropped the engine already and the tranny is there.

Okay.

That is removing the old transmission lines to make way for the new ones in a different location.

So this one is gaining an LT four Corvette supercharge engine into the soil pickup guy bought a smash up 2017 Corvette bought the motor out of it at a better deal of 10,000 I think.

And because to buy the new they're gonna be at least 20 so half price and I don't think it had very many miles.

That's probably why they bought it.

I don't know the exact mileage And I'm just getting ready to do the plumbing and wiring and you'll, you'll flash in under the hood there and you'll actually see the steps it takes to get this Corvette LT four engine into this Chevy pickup.

I was working in this area, I know I gotta cut a little bit outta the frame to make that work, but we'll do that another day when, and I'll move forward with some of the wiring and stuff like, - My name's John Morrison.

This is my wife's 1956 GMC that we've spent a lot of time, effort, money, blood, sweat and tears and finally are getting to take it home.

So you know, bill, sorry not Bill.

Gary's told a little bit about it.

We've, we had some bad luck at another garage that we took it to and, and took, took advantage of us a little bit.

So we've, we brought it to Gary to finish up some stuff last year and then found out that the motor that was sold to us with no good so we had to put a new motor in it.

So we put a LT four motor out of a 2019 Corvette.

So since that we've had lots of engineering issues and things to make it fit.

But Bill did an amazing job here and finally got it put put together for us.

So it's running so now we can drive it home.

My wife just likes old trucks so I wanted something that had a bunch of chrome on the front of it, make it look nice and old and, and then she decided that she didn't like the step side that it comes in.

So we put a fleet side on it And yeah, now hopefully she can enjoy it.

Got lots to jam.

He has lots of jam.

- You saw why you picked the Corvette engine?

- No, not necessarily.

It was more that it was fuel injected, turnkey ready with lots of horsepower and I just wanted it to be, you know, worry free for my wife.

What do you think?

I love it.

We might have to put bigger brakes on it but it's time to let her go for a rip anyways.

- Alright, - Well John, what do you think of this?

Well tell me about this.

It's a 1948 Bentley and it's an LS powered with an overdrive automatic.

They're having some issues with it.

It's vibrating at speed on the highway so I guess they did all the normal checking.

They went around and rebalanced wheels and tires and they were monkeying around with drive shaft angles and stuff like that.

I think what's happened is the bracketry in the rear for the rear suspension is out so we're going to rejig the rear suspension in it and a few other things.

I think the tilt back angle of the motor, you know it should be three to four degrees.

I think it's pretty much flush.

I think they sort of changed it a little bit with the, the transmission cross member and mount, but I think they've got, I think they've got some other problems there.

So we're, that's basically what we're gonna do is try and sort it out.

I guess it's been to a few places and they haven't been able to figure it out so, and whoever did the work, a nice job on it, you know, a real nice job on it.

It has an old style X frame in it and I think that's where some of the issues come.

The drive shaft can't be brought down properly so there's gonna have to be some stuff made.

This is part of a collection from some fellows in the city, so they've got a few other cars as well, but I thought they did a nice job on it.

Really sharp.

Just get it needs a tweak or two?

Nope.

Okay, now you can see we've got plastic all over everything but sea inside is pretty cool.

I love the rims actually kind of suited.

- Closed captioning is provided by senior discovery tours online@seniordiscoverytours.ca.

Funding for radical restoration is provided by - Rakabot sources sustainable materials to create boot racks that organize footwear while allowing drippings to go in the bowl.

Models designed for home work or recreational settings are available online@rabo.com.

Birds underwater - In Crystal River supports radical restoration, offering guided excursions with Florida manatees, kayak rentals, scuba diving certifications and boat tours are also available since 1993 and online@birdsunderwater.com.

- Thank you for joining us.

My name's Gary Nichols.

Until next time, may all your rides be radical.