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Funniest part is my accent is considered very mild compared to most around me, for the most part I pronounce my R's except for a few key words lol.

This one is just under a super tight timeline so I'm feeling every little hang-up. Usually I'm not this stressed out and can roll with the flow, too many fish in the barrel and too many hands in the pot is right now is all.

It is, both of my own personal vehicles are black and it's a chore for sure. This is actually going right out have ppf reapplied to it, the entire car is clear wrapped, so that company will handle that.

Thank you 👍, it's coming along nicely

It's a restomod going across Barret so not to worried about HP (stock is fine for this chassis), but nothing bugs me more than seeing vehicles with frame off resto's and a dirty shitty engine sitting between the rails. Even the 600+hp builds we've done get fully detailed.

It'll be pretty consistent posting ponce we get rolling on it, I'll have all the videos on it in a separate playlist as well when they start to accumulate.

Glad it helped, they're pretty easy overall. The only part that gets complicated is where to install the senders if you're not using the stock locations. Other than that it's very plug -and-play

The base lift kit is only 499.95. That's all you need to do the lift using the factory struts and shocks. I opted to used their M1 shocks and struts so that added an additional 669.90 bringing the total to 1169.85. But you don't have to use anything besides the base kit for 499.95, I just splurged for the hell of it on the extra shocks and struts.

Thanks, we like to try to keep the original colors if its a rare one, This was a 1 year only Cordova Orange option for this truck so we repainted it, expensive as all hell for the paint. That truck kept all the original glass as well, all polished back to like new condition. We have a 70 we're doing right now in the original Yucatan gold and Wimbledon white and that one got all of it's original trim restored to go back on it.

@@quick455 I had an orange 69 highboy when I was in high school back in 76. Some great memories in that truck. You guys do great work.

About 25 years now for me doing it now and I can't stand it when it's a mess when it only takes a little bit more time to make it neat.

We're in Massachusetts

The owner has a bunch of old classic Italian cars along with a fleet of other classics.

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Free is for me, and we're standing until we're done drinking. Seats are prime 1st baseline roof box.

🤷‍♂️ As far as I knew, but I'm not an expert so don't quote me, Bel Airs and Biscaynes had two tail lights per side; the Impalas had three tail lights per side

@@quick455 yeah I had the impala with a 283 two speed power glide , fun car

The paint is killer the video doesn't do it justice and it's filthy from pollen right now too. He likes the wheels and ultimately its his call.

62 actually, I fat fingered while typing on the phone with gloves on. Didn't realize it until your comment, fixed it

I had oil soaked dirt before this for almost a decade.

Owner likes them and he's the one that shelled out the money 🤷‍♂️

Lol those are run of the mill pigmats that everyone has. And as far as the air conditioning, I've earned it. I've got just 25 years in the industry so far, I'm coming up on 3 years in October where I am now, and this is the first shop I've ever worked in that had air conditioning. The last place I was at was a literal sweatshop, if it was 80° out it was 110° in the shop. Everything besides the last 3 years was torture in the hot months.

@quick455 lol, no doubt man, I'm just giving you crap 😂 we all started somewhere 😏

I know lol, I just like bringing up the air conditioning fact because it really is a massive deal when you've been punished by the summer for 2 decades.

It'll be better than it ever was once we're done with it 👍

Thanks. When we get them and they're not a run of the mill color we like to try to preserve that much of it since we're usually updating everything else.

For sure, not a fan of them but they're still better to work on than the Gracale's

It's a nice package for sure, the car is real strong

@@quick455 When your V was stock, did it have a 3-4 shift power loss. Mine at the track would fall on its face when the 3-4 shift happens. Is that trq management related? Thanks

It's been so long since mine was stock I'm thinking back I don't ever remember feeling like it was dropping any power on the 3-4 shift, but it very well could be torque management pulling timing

@@quick455 It almost feels a split second it lost power. I have HP Tuners as well. What kind of moves would you recommend? I thought initially it was fuel. The ZR1 "LS9" had a about 400 rpm higher fuel cut of than the V. Thanks

I would max out engine TM, Goat Rope Garage has a good How Too for those adjustments, far easier than me trying to go over each one on tat tab. I also like to make sure my RPM limits under the DFCO tab are all about 500 higher than my shift points in every gear to help eliminate hitting those on shifts. You could be hitting one of your limits or it could be TM kicking in. Hard to tell without logging it and watching what is happening

I've done so many I'm almost on autopilot doing them now lol. American Autowire has a really good system going with their packaging and paperwork, makes it very easy. I've changed a few things since doing this truck, always learning new things and ways around things

I'll be editing up a video on it at some point tomorrow, I have a bunch of test drives on it because I had to do a bunch of tuning. I didn't take the top down unfortunately, but you really didn't need the top down to hear the engine. It's a baaaaaad ride

I've got a top of the line Fluke, brought it with me, there just wasn't a need for it with this. It's was all 12 volt signals and there isn't a resistance value I could find for the distributor pickup so I never broke it out. We gave Holley my findings now and they are getting us a couple new units and looking into specs on the distributor for us to check.

It is cool, but it's a nightmare to drive, so many blindspots you basically only have a windshield to see out of.

No idea, but the new owner has more money than god so if he wants them in there they'll be bought and installed

@@quick455 kinda gotta be to afford one that was safe to assume.

We used the jumper harness they give you on the "cab harness" connector and used one wire out of it, circuit 53M light blue wire, and the dome lamp body grounded. That jumper harness is a three wire and includes a Tan Gas Gauge wire Feed to the Primary Fuel Tank Sender, a BLK/Red with no printing Feed to the Cargo Lamp, and Lt Blue 12V CTSY SW Feed to the Dome Lamp. It should be in bag "G" of the kit

@@quick455 awesome thank you 🙏

No prob 👍

True you can paint any vehicle this color but this truck was one of 37 that came that way from the factory. Add to that it was a super rare one year only color, so 1 of 37 period, that's why they made such a fuss about it. It cost an arm and a leg for the paint, it's one of the most expensive paint jobs to date we've done. And unfortunately as much as I'd like an all original F100 with low miles to go for this, it never would even get near 1/4 of this sale. The only numbers matching original low mile American vehicles that do good like that are classics and collectables (mostly muscle cars). It's just not there in the truck market, we've tried. We went for the middle ground in keeping as much originality in the looks as we could but with all modern equipment. Two guys really wanted it and they battled back and forth until one won it. To this day the new owner is still getting featured in magazines and online articles, and winning almost every show he enters with it. We talk to him often, it's his favorite truck and he has quite a few. He's @garage_of_fords on Instagram

He already changed it and had me put the touring mufflers on it, it's so much better now and there's no more drone.

Funny I have the awe touring right now on my Eray and was going to change it to the track version BUT after watching your video I think I will keep the touring. I do not want any drone at hwy speeds and that constant hum would drive me nuts!!! Thx for the real world drive for me to hear🔥🔥👍👍

It sure is!

Wasn't even close, wide angle lens makes it look a lot closer than it was