I Found My Childhood Dream Car Rotting Away After 25 Years & The Owner Let Me Wash It! TA RESCUE!

racing sounds like a big block yes it sounds good seeing these Old cars will fool you but on the contrary they sound very fast but many of them are not at all unfortunately especially by today's standards when we have factory Hellcats and things like that with 700 and 800 horsepower or whatever they have. I like it. mel oh, sounds good, I know we're about to hit December here, but next year, oh yeah, maybe this will be on the road, who knows, while he turns on the air compressor, I'm

wash

ing this car, which is also very satisfying because there are some areas that we couldn't completely clean with the pressure

wash

er.

I'll probably have to do this a few times because I'll most likely miss some spots, but I've spent about an hour and a half pressure washing. This car is a lot longer than I thought.let's see here this is coming out great what do you think it looks good bringing back memories oh yeah yeah yeah this sure is this car I used to drive this car everyone loves it I know which I loved when I was a kid, I mean, it's uh it's a fast car, no, 5.7 liters, yeah, yeah, I just didn't have the right time, so after talking to Mel a little bit, he bought it in the '90s, so it wasn't that old and that makes sense because I'm 37 so I've been looking at this car for about 25

years

something like that so I must have been walking around when this car had 20 30 000 miles uh it's 125 now the car has a new engine.

However, let me know if you want to see a video of me trying to power this thing up for the first time. I think we're figuring it out. It's been about six or seven

years

like this, so let me know. in the comments section if you want to see a future video of this in operation, but take a look at what we've done, this is what the car looked like when I got here about four hours ago, it literally had mold growing on the doors. Dirt and debris accumulated on every inch of this car. It was unpleasant and this is what we have now.

We have some air in the tires. I washed the car and dried it and it's obviously not perfect a lot of times with the plastic bumpers. The paint color does not match. This is a little more than that. I imagine we would need to repaint some parts of the car. Maybe we can polish this, polish it, but overall there is no damage to the clear coat at all. car, which is a little surprising and the chrome wheels have a little pitting and I can hear a little leak, yeah a leak right there, that's very common, a lot of GM chrome wheels were recalled for that same problem, but we do.

It has a little bit of plasti dip coming off the trans am right there, but take a look at this panel, it's in very good condition, it needs a good polish, but it's solid, it doesn't have bubbles or anything like the later ones, but take a look A look. on the back of the car this is what it looked like before and this is what it looks like after much much better very presentable if you saw this car driving down the street you would think it was just a normal trans am so no I already see a lot of these, so something like this is actually a rare car, it's a 1996 so the last year of the lt1 was 97 and honestly i can't tell you the last time i saw an lt1 car, just a normal lt1 car.

Cruising down the road and it's quite possible that one day Mel will be cruising down the road once again, especially now that it's looking so much better, it's a bit of motivation to get it running again, so here's what the hood looked like before and here we are after and this is what the molded door looked like before and here it is after much better and there you have it clean title 96 lt1 trans am 125,000 miles said it has about 5,000 miles it is most likely a stock rebuilt engine and Mel said he would part with this car so if there are any lt1 fans out there follow me on Instagram and Facebook at legit trams and after talking to Mel see what he wants for this and me.

I'll post it for him now with that, we got this, oh you gotta be kidding me, it's raining again, I just dried this and it was perfect, guys, I'm back in my garage at home, the weather just isn't cooperating. It has been raining on and off all day. I'm completely soaked from the rain and the pressure washer that's leaking and it's cold outside so I'm freezing. I just want to get in and warm up, so I'm not going to get there. cleaning the trailblazer in this video but let me know in the comments section if you want to see a future video on cleaning the trailblazer also let me know if you want to see me start that trans am if we do i will have to bring it back to my garage or legit three quarters and do it correctly, so we want to take out the spark plugs, lubricate the cylinders, turn it over by hand.

He believes the engine only has 5,000 miles on it, so we definitely don't want to damage it. let me know if you want to see a video on it, maybe we can even test it, who knows, it might also have some future content on my turbo trans am that's hanging on the wall, it's been in a couple of magazines. I have some ideas for some modifications on that car that I might want to do towards the end of winter after I've been through a few other projects, but let me know if you want to see the resurrection of my own white trans am.

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