This is a lost art. I can keep watching this over and over again and not get bored. It's like a study guide on how to build a car. You need to understand how much time it take to plan, measure and fabricate. This takes me back when i was helping out a bud who was racing super stocks. Cutting sections of stock body monte carlos making them thinner, pop riviting panel sections together. It was long hours but the final product always looked nice. Great video and great job! Thanks for posting this up!
...and I'm not gonna lie, I'm loving that intro music in the beginning of this video and yes I have watched this at least 4 times. Shared it with others and yeah I miss this kind of old school racing approach.
In ww2 I think the British did the same when upgrading the Spitfires, countersink the holes so the head of the rivets were flush and squeezed another x amount of mph top speed.
I wish someone would make a channel with just NASCAR bodies being hung and finished all day long! I couldn’t take my eyes off every change he slowly made working a flat piece of metal into a race car! I was lucky enough to be trained as best as the man could train me on the break and wheel! But we are a dieing breed!! Keep up the good content! We want more! We want more! I’m right down hwy 220 a few miles from Rockingham speedway! Y’all come on down they have repaved the track and are bringing more and more venues in
Gotta agree on this. A few months before this was posted I was looking everywhere for this information, and it's worth its weight in gold apparently, there's none of this information available. It's definitely a dying breed! I've been gathering plans to build one, and finding old parts and chassis is getting slim. Someone needs to make some new banjo and laughlin chassis lol. I'm off 220 in Roanoke and am gonna have to make a trip to see some of these cars along with Bill Rhines collection and shop
'Most have no idea of just how much time even what they might think is a simple job but yet, takes hours and hours to do it right; just like we saw here. I sat down and watched the whole 33+ minutes and enjoyed every minute! And the small talk conversations. Wonderful!
This brings back so many memories not building these cars in the late 80-90s. This was how it was done, and the really good body men were worth gold to the teams
When I was a child this is exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I had a plan to sell everything and fly to North Carolina. I was going to go shop to race shop until someone hired me. Life had a different plan... yeah I knocked up my girlfriend. Oh well I'm still a sheetmetal worker but it's not this cool.
I wouldn’t regret it too much man. There were LOOOOOOOTS of 12,16, 20 hour days. Money was good, but not great. It could best be described as an orchestrated catastrophe at all times
wonderful really this car is beautyiful and fabulous. For all car enthusiasts, the work that this guy is doing is awesome. 15:22 I never paid attention to those indentations/recess on the bottom of the door, wow. 27:25 for me it's of the art clearly !
No BS talking about subscribing to the channels paid section, no shit talking bout give away cars and stuff. Just a Classic phantastic clip of good old Garage life. Thank you guys so much 🤩🤩🤩👍
People are unanimous in the comments that NASCAR was better before. my god the look of this bolide was magnifique reallt the pontiac grand prix wa very un obus and was a design so cool very very! "I feel like I'm seeing Harry Haug building the car of Cale Trickle. the work of quality just a great great respect congratulations guy
Easy peasy, right? I have a question I've always wondered about. When someone came into the pits with fender damage, were you limited in the types of tools that could cross the wall? I always wondered why they never used a rim you could mount that could help you reshape the fender. So the rim could be the shape of the tire with just an inch larger diameter. That way you could have jacked up the car, put this rim on, dropped the car hard on it, and only need a few hammer blows to get the right shape before putting a new wheel/tire on.
Good afternoon Brian, that fender has a fantastic bulge fit and roll. Really looks very aerodynamic. Makes that car look aggressive setting still. Thanks for the great video.
Nascar is so far away from what it used to be. Race on Sunday sell on Monday. Now its plastic bodies and rear tow links bars that snap all the time. To modified and over engineered.
Please say hello to family... Aero dynamics, more aero dynamic, doesn't it cut in cooling of tires. Creating oven type of effect making them hotter more slippery,melting... Yous are the expert's. So I don't want to say the wrong thing. William ll, James r IBEW local 94 international NJ recommend Nice fabrication... Lincoln tech graduate's if need future help. Ethan Williams
Beginning @20:30 for a few seconds, while he's working with the hood up, there's a short stubby looking bit of front roll bar bracing, angling down out of the firewall, low, just to the right of the steering shaft. That bar looks like it had a MAJOR impact. Looks like it's bent half in two. Maybe from the Sonoma crash ? Awesome vid.
Is it weird being a painter in the automotive field watching this video I can smell the metal as he's cutting with the 90 degree cut off tool or I can smell the weld's in my head it's so fascinating for me to watch
Question: this looks like an actual old race car, and the fender looked undamaged, so why the new fatter fender? I mean, I truly enjoyed watching the process, true craftsmanship, I'm just curious what's actually going on with it.
The biggest thing I hate about the next Gen is that so many people lost their jobs. Hendrick had a ton of employees that made their cars and now they just buy everything. They made chassis for decades and now nothing. Just sad.
This must've been some really high end camera equipment for back then. The quality is better than most current RUclips documentaries. Edit: lol I'm an idiot!!!!! I saw the dudes apple watch and realized it's a current video of an old car. Ugh.
Man this reminds me of my days being a structural fabricator on F-15E's. I'll always miss my job even though it was demanding I'd love to do this again. Amazing what can be made out of a piece of sheet metal.
This car and subsequent videos shows how much skill and work used to go into these cars back when teams built cars from the ground up... It's too bad NASCAR got away from this because teams wanted to save some $$$
The way it's suppose to be, we owned a 95 Grand Prix for a million miles, til my youngest daughter wrecked it, just had to do normal maintenance, a great car, GM sure knows how to build em.
@nosoyallowed828 The 90's is when the best cars were produced, Grand Prix was a GM corporate car, Pontiacs were among the best cars in the world, when we lost that car I bought a 96 Olds Cutlass Supreme, pretty much the same car with a different body, this car will be about broke in this summer when it rolls 500 thousand, maybe you weren't around yet when these cars were built, possibly why you don't know, I bought a 93 Camaro new just for road racing, been racing it for 30 years now, 250 thousand miles of pure road racing, the car looks and drives better now than when it was new.
Question for Richard petty do you still stay in touch with Marcos Ambrose? Because I beat if you brought him back on your team since your team has gotten better i think he might get some more points and maybe a second win in the cups series because there is now more road courses and the gen 7 is good for the road course and can take a beating for his crazy driving style!
Great video. I really enjoyed hanging bodies. I learned from being around it, and from some talented racers. A lot of satisfaction in seeing it finished. Last one I did, I sold he car and the guy flipped it....
Unapproved fender. Nascar wants all your points, suspension of driver/ crew chief, lots of money,and your first born child.
In 1991 they didn't care about rules 😅
They had like 3 or 4 templates then lol
In 1991, this would've been an approved fender... Today, not so much
It takes the crew so long to make that fender and then it takes Richard less than a race to wreck it, with help of course
This feels like real life Days of Thunder rebuilding the car from scratch
This was how cars were built back then too... It's a shame that skilled work like this has gone away in the sport
I came to write the same comment... I feel like Robert Duval speaking to the car and everything he will to do it
Lol same bloody thing went thru my mind to
This is a lost art. I can keep watching this over and over again and not get bored. It's like a study guide on how to build a car. You need to understand how much time it take to plan, measure and fabricate. This takes me back when i was helping out a bud who was racing super stocks. Cutting sections of stock body monte carlos making them thinner, pop riviting panel sections together. It was long hours but the final product always looked nice.
Great video and great job! Thanks for posting this up!
...and I'm not gonna lie, I'm loving that intro music in the beginning of this video and yes I have watched this at least 4 times. Shared it with others and yeah I miss this kind of old school racing approach.
Really enjoy how these videos are shot. Just showing us how it’s done.
[Dubstep Blaring] _"YOOOOOOOO, guys! Today we're rebuilding the fender on some old guys car and making it fire again!"_ 🤪
He even took the time to bevel the holes so the rivets would sit flush.... man VERY good attention to detail! Loved this whole series.
In ww2 I think the British did the same when upgrading the Spitfires, countersink the holes so the head of the rivets were flush and squeezed another x amount of mph top speed.
@@Piecenotwar They did, we did too...more streamline, less drag.
I wish someone would make a channel with just NASCAR bodies being hung and finished all day long! I couldn’t take my eyes off every change he slowly made working a flat piece of metal into a race car! I was lucky enough to be trained as best as the man could train me on the break and wheel! But we are a dieing breed!! Keep up the good content! We want more! We want more! I’m right down hwy 220 a few miles from Rockingham speedway! Y’all come on down they have repaved the track and are bringing more and more venues in
Gotta agree on this. A few months before this was posted I was looking everywhere for this information, and it's worth its weight in gold apparently, there's none of this information available. It's definitely a dying breed! I've been gathering plans to build one, and finding old parts and chassis is getting slim. Someone needs to make some new banjo and laughlin chassis lol. I'm off 220 in Roanoke and am gonna have to make a trip to see some of these cars along with Bill Rhines collection and shop
'Most have no idea of just how much time even what they might think is a simple job but yet, takes hours and hours to do it right; just like we saw here. I sat down and watched the whole 33+ minutes and enjoyed every minute! And the small talk conversations. Wonderful!
Hard STOP! Liked and subscribed after watching the first five seconds.
This brings back so many memories not building these cars in the late 80-90s. This was how it was done, and the really good body men were worth gold to the teams
When I was a child this is exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I had a plan to sell everything and fly to North Carolina. I was going to go shop to race shop until someone hired me. Life had a different plan... yeah I knocked up my girlfriend. Oh well I'm still a sheetmetal worker but it's not this cool.
I wouldn’t regret it too much man.
There were LOOOOOOOTS of 12,16, 20 hour days.
Money was good, but not great.
It could best be described as an orchestrated catastrophe at all times
Awesome video, shows the talent and craftsmanship that made nascar great...and then!
wonderful really this car is beautyiful and fabulous.
For all car enthusiasts, the work that this guy is doing is awesome.
15:22 I never paid attention to those indentations/recess on the bottom of the door, wow.
27:25 for me it's of the art clearly !
Imagine working for Stewart-Haas, & having to do this to Danica Patrick’s car after every race….
😂😂😂
The old guy bodyman in me automatically closed my eyes for each mig tack. Then I reminded myself you can't get flash burn on you tube, lol
Great vid!!!👍👍43
Bro it felt like an 80’s movie!! The music and great editing!! I was wanting for Stallone to walk out!!
Days of thunder-ish intro. Love seeing the old way of hanging body components!
1:20 You think guys working on '90s era cup cars would be listening to Skynyrd but no they got Alanis Morissette on LMAO
It sucks that all these fabricators lost there jobs because of these shit cookie cutter cars today.
Makes you appreciate those cars so much more. A field of 43 had thousands of hours into them.
Man I miss doing this with my grandfather when I was a teenager in the early 90s building Late Models.
No BS talking about subscribing to the channels paid section, no shit talking bout give away cars and stuff. Just a Classic phantastic clip of good old Garage life. Thank you guys so much 🤩🤩🤩👍
This video made my day, just kickin it old school !👍👌 the craftsmanship and metal fab is just so nice to see again !
Today's generation wants to "3D print" and CNC everything. Take away their toys and what are they good for? _Nothing!_
It's sad they don't race these cars anymore. Gen 4 should of never gone away.
This is a race car. Not the bullshit they race today.
Man watching a master fabroicator is like watching a magician. I can't imagine having this talent. Bravo Zulu
Can we get a build of an entire body start to finish from scratch? This is amazing to watch.
People are unanimous in the comments that NASCAR was better before.
my god the look of this bolide was magnifique reallt the pontiac grand prix wa very un obus and was a design so cool very very!
"I feel like I'm seeing Harry Haug building the car of Cale Trickle.
the work of quality just a great great respect congratulations guy
Easy peasy, right?
I have a question I've always wondered about. When someone came into the pits with fender damage, were you limited in the types of tools that could cross the wall? I always wondered why they never used a rim you could mount that could help you reshape the fender. So the rim could be the shape of the tire with just an inch larger diameter. That way you could have jacked up the car, put this rim on, dropped the car hard on it, and only need a few hammer blows to get the right shape before putting a new wheel/tire on.
They used to use aluminum bats to roll the fenders out during the race! No joke
Good afternoon Brian, that fender has a fantastic bulge fit and roll. Really looks very aerodynamic. Makes that car look aggressive setting still. Thanks for the great video.
Nascar is so far away from what it used to be. Race on Sunday sell on Monday. Now its plastic bodies and rear tow links bars that snap all the time. To modified and over engineered.
So why cut up the good part ? Idk anything just curious. Was there front end damage?
The fender didn't cover the tire and the wheel openings were the wrong shape. This topic is discussed a little more in depth in our previous video
@Petty's Garage thanks for the reply, I watched the other vids and saw why. Love these videos thanks so much
Please say hello to family...
Aero dynamics, more aero dynamic, doesn't it cut in cooling of tires. Creating oven type of effect making them hotter more slippery,melting... Yous are the expert's. So I don't want to say the wrong thing.
William ll, James r
IBEW local 94 international NJ recommend
Nice fabrication...
Lincoln tech graduate's if need future help.
Ethan Williams
Amazing how much work goes into fabricating this fender!
Days of Thunder vibes. LOVE IT
Beginning @20:30 for a few seconds, while he's working with the hood up, there's a short stubby looking bit of front roll bar bracing, angling down out of the firewall, low, just to the right of the steering shaft. That bar looks like it had a MAJOR impact. Looks like it's bent half in two. Maybe from the Sonoma crash ? Awesome vid.
Is it weird being a painter in the automotive field watching this video I can smell the metal as he's cutting with the 90 degree cut off tool or I can smell the weld's in my head it's so fascinating for me to watch
Question: this looks like an actual old race car, and the fender looked undamaged, so why the new fatter fender? I mean, I truly enjoyed watching the process, true craftsmanship, I'm just curious what's actually going on with it.
stats please
None of that fender is made right. Not one piece is in a relaxed state. Every piece is stretched and forced into position
Awesome craftsmanship, these guys could make anything..
They ruined NASCAR when they took the craftsmanship of the teams out of racing
3 wks LAter…… you have a fender that will be / her wadded up 20 mins of being on the track lmao. 😂
This shit is amazing. Please continue to make more content. You’re an artist.
I have the same rims on my el Camino paid 1 grand for them and the Mickey Thompson’s. Didn’t know they were used in nascar.
Love the 90s era body’s especially for local street / super stock classes heck even late-models. This yr has just the perfect amount of roll imo
I feel for the fabricators who just ended up watching the car get balled up in a race. It's a form of art in it's own medium.
@PettysGarage how did you guys sorce the front bumper cover?
FAKE....... he didnt talk to the chassis during the night before....
I just wish he had a pad to kneel on. My knees are hurting just watching. Really glad I found this channel.
Man you know how to make a good looking fender! That totally changed the look. Great job!
If the drivers learned how to hang sheet metal maybe they wouldn't tear it up so much.
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen in my life!!! Thank you!!!
Your REALY lucky would love to vork in the shop
Nascar needs to go back to letting teams hand build every part of the body and car
Kids, don't do it this way at home. Or just become a good bondo guy.
The biggest thing I hate about the next Gen is that so many people lost their jobs. Hendrick had a ton of employees that made their cars and now they just buy everything. They made chassis for decades and now nothing. Just sad.
Great job. I miss working with metal and on car
Today I learned Richard Petty has a youtube channel
This must've been some really high end camera equipment for back then. The quality is better than most current RUclips documentaries. Edit: lol I'm an idiot!!!!! I saw the dudes apple watch and realized it's a current video of an old car. Ugh.
Nothing difficult about metal fabrication, cut to fit and paint to match.
NO GLOVES?? What a beast of a man! :)
Man this reminds me of my days being a structural fabricator on F-15E's. I'll always miss my job even though it was demanding I'd love to do this again. Amazing what can be made out of a piece of sheet metal.
This car and subsequent videos shows how much skill and work used to go into these cars back when teams built cars from the ground up... It's too bad NASCAR got away from this because teams wanted to save some $$$
You mean to tell me all the years I’ve been running hand shears, I’ve been doing it upside down? Awesome video!
Looks like Harry when he's not eating ice cream
I didn't know anyone still used the small death wheels on a die grinder.
Fantastic video. Give us more!
The way it's suppose to be, we owned a 95 Grand Prix for a million miles, til my youngest daughter wrecked it, just had to do normal maintenance, a great car, GM sure knows how to build em.
@nosoyallowed828 The 90's is when the best cars were produced, Grand Prix was a GM corporate car, Pontiacs were among the best cars in the world, when we lost that car I bought a 96 Olds Cutlass Supreme, pretty much the same car with a different body, this car will be about broke in this summer when it rolls 500 thousand, maybe you weren't around yet when these cars were built, possibly why you don't know, I bought a 93 Camaro new just for road racing, been racing it for 30 years now, 250 thousand miles of pure road racing, the car looks and drives better now than when it was new.
I’d like to see how to build car like this man, like days of thunder. This video is perfect, you’re showing how to build one. Thank you.
Takes 4 minutes to bolt a fender on now.👎🏻
Days of Thunder vibes!!!
cutting through the original paint and decals hurt just a little lol
Question for Richard petty do you still stay in touch with Marcos Ambrose? Because I beat if you brought him back on your team since your team has gotten better i think he might get some more points and maybe a second win in the cups series because there is now more road courses and the gen 7 is good for the road course and can take a beating for his crazy driving style!
Dont want you spoiled Buck
My Dream kid . Build a 90's nascar
He's so good his name should be Geralt.
THEY need buy him some better drill bits lol
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Here is a guy that doesn’t get paid enough money
So cool to watch. It's one thing when I'm in my own garage doing this but y'all are doing the Lord's work.
I miss the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's of NASCAR.
Couldn"t find what track that was in the intro.
I would love some of the pieces cut off for wall Art
Awesome skill! Man I would be so pissed to spend all that time making the body then watching the driver wreck the car!
this is the car that Keiichi Tsuchiya raced at Suzuka!
That is the most badass thing I've ever seen.
Finally. I've been wanting to see how they "Hang" a body on a Nascar for years.
Great video. I really enjoyed hanging bodies. I learned from being around it, and from some talented racers. A lot of satisfaction in seeing it finished. Last one I did, I sold he car and the guy flipped it....
Just started this video and getting those vibes too, which is awesome. But if he breaks out the long body fitment test piece, I might shed a tear.
Commenting for algorithm.
Skilled craftsman in a clean, well lit, organized shop producing great results.
That was the good old days. No stamped out parts. You took a flat piece of sheet metal and shaped it to fit. Hours of work and skill involved.
Why make it out of two pieces?
Wow, that Grand Prix nose kind of had a splitter before they were a thing.
that nosecone must be a pain to find now
That dude has talent. Respect
im a mechanic... love this kind of videos
the only thing i dont get it iw how can someone work without music kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Tag this as Unintentional ASMR. This was relaxing!
Can't do that anymore. But they should have a throwback race series where you can . Lost art right there