THE T/A THAT WAS FOUND IN A CRAB-SHACK ON THE COAST LONG BEFORE GRAVEYARD CARZ

Before the glitz and glamor the car shows and the trophies before we can make a dream come true we have to wake up from the nightmare still under the gun after the copious shutdown the demons are putting the

graveyard

machine into high gear our Mopar undertakers are label and bag drainage fluids and pack these bodies into small tight boxes. Continue the process that nature began, except we will bring them back through our record number of takedowns. Will Mark's Dream Team keep up? Plus, Mark and Tony will dive deep into a strange world. ta Challenger option and this Rapid Transit duster held Clues to an unsolved crime.

Find out in this episode of

graveyard

cars under the fog behind the rust. Sometimes they come back, there is only one internationally recognized Mopar master, Mark Warman, accompanied by his friends, his family and his dream team. the demons no one wants to face the things we take Reviving The Past 100% intact Survivor resurrecting the icons of American Muscle We are the Shaolin priests of Mopart discovering stories it's the baddest car we have here and restoring dreams the most iconic muscle car in the planet returning cars to their place on the roads here we go beyond a passion oh that's wild a man's obsession with Mopar Perfection this is a graveyard of cars here we go thank you sir you're welcome another gift okay so one of the Last few times Tony was here, I met with him, we love validating cars when he's here, when I look at a car for the first time with Mark or any car, really looking initially to see if there are any red flags, anything that just doesn't smell Well it was the car. recorporated was number swapping, manipulated engine numbers or whatever you like, I had a TA Challenger, it's a red car with auto matching numbers, it really is a very nice car.

The cool thing is when you look at a car like this, I don't get it. I've been on the road since '89 according to the license plate and there wasn't a lot of fun stuff back then, but things could have happened: sometimes you get in a head-on accident and they changed a front clip on the car just to keep the car on the road, He and I took some time to look at the car and I wanted Doug to be involved. The reason for this is not to make fun of Douge because Douge is my friend, it is because he can learn a lot while we do. point out the things that are correct it will help you get back into your mind if you are trying to put together some parts for one of the assemblers what is correct and what is not so the six pack is standard how many CFM in a 346 1350 pack it's the same thing, could you imagine your screaming little 340 and your Barracuda 70 putting a 1350 extended plank toilet in that thing?

Well that's why they were secondary vacuums, yeah I know, so you didn't have that until the throttle was there, yeah, another interesting thing here. it's on these multi carb setups, if you would have said this car was 1970 Challenger RT 440 sixpack 390 horsepower, right, the three two barrel Holly carb readers total 1350 CFM cfm, that's a lot of air . of fuel moving around there, the carburetors actually have different numbers on the 340, but they still total 1350 CFM in your mind, you say, holy cow, a 1350 on a 340, are you crazy, but because of the vacuum secondary, could you run? out of the primary somehow not only worked but actually woke them up.

It's just interesting that they didn't have a carburetor set up with smaller CFM spring clamps. I know you and I are doing some research on that, maybe by the time this airs we'll have a solution, but it definitely has the spring type clamp that holds what appears to be possibly the original filter, but I know those clamps were included in the service, yes, then it is a service filter and no. In an assembly line situation we are talking about the upper fuel line, the fuel filter looks like it has been there forever, I can't prove it but it looks like it and it uses a spring type clamp that holds it in place.

I argued for a

long

time. time that was an assembly line, that's how it should be because it's even in the book, it's even in the service manual, but there's a page in one of the manuals that shows that in the service manual, so are they saying That's how? you repair it or this is what it looked like when it hit the assembly line. Good point, though, Tony not

long

ago spoke to Mike Manini, an instrument specialist who is also a very smart guru on this stuff and he said that he had taken some of the separates that use the Oer clamp.

The Squeeze clamp, which makes more sense because this is an assembly line, lets the next guy down the road when he puts a filter on put an easier to use clamp on there, but just to answer the question, we think if it was a restoration correct from the assembly line, should have AER clamps in all the positions where the spring clamps would be seen, pretty good original old car, obviously headers and some stuff like that, cables, but yeah, there's some good DNA here, yeah , it is very original car, I mean, the heads are not much, as we look under the hood of the car, we are showing that it is very original, the original valve covers, the radiator, the brake booster, the master cylinder, the valves brake, the two-speed wiper motor you get with the standard Dash, the original six-pack carburetors on the car.

I mean, I didn't check the numbers very closely, but they really look old and there, you know, fix the power steering pump coolers and a lot of times they go south. so it has a lot of the hard to find original components nowadays, except the headers that are on the car, they just aren't on the engine, the right radiator 299 8974 is fine, yes, with the big font, everything is great, Overall, a pretty clean car. I'd bet your original carburetors that someone added electronics at some point in this life, they're at an angle like that, which is weird, it almost looks like another voltage regulator, yeah, you know, I mean, yeah, yeah, it's an electronic system, it would be a broader game. on the two speed bolt on wipers because of the one eyed monster, funny how that cleans the air filter, you couldn't have it as a b body car because it's located more in the middle, you know what it says, brakes of interesting power discs, well, why interesting?

All TA cars already have power, this brake standard is also available in all Superbirds, but not all Daytonas now. I think it's a riot when Mark tries to catch Tony or Tony tries to catch Mark. They are both constantly defending the other. My problem is me. I can't tell when one catches up to the other because they are so quick on their feet. I bet you the steering box must have the TA on the side, the TA cast into it, the box is in quick ratio, we discussed this. part yes it is the longer pitman arm but the stops inside the box are closer so because of the longer pitman arm if you could have the same travel you would be hitting the frame rail.

I have to understand it. Listen, this is a great example. Of the difference between Tony and I now we are both here at the top level of Mopar knowledge, there is no doubt about that and there are things he certainly knows that I don't know and I bet you there are things that I know. he doesn't know that I'm a mature person when they point out something that's new to me or maybe I already knew it and I forgot it's okay to say I didn't know and act surprised oh wow that's very interesting yeah. that's really interesting, let's say I point out something that's new to him or that he already knew and forgot, he'll say yes, yes, I know there's a possibility, you know, that's what I was trying to say there and they'll back off a bit. little and you will see that this is the disease I am talking about.

I personally have no problem admitting that he didn't know something, you don't know, Tony, um, you know, one of the coolest little cars we've ever driven by. I don't get too excited about B-bodies, they're not my favorite, but this little gem is actually the second 1969 Cornet RT we've restored. That car was red on red. This car is tan. This is the. t7 is a 440 Magnum car is a Ram Charger Hood automatic really nice car all the numbers match part of the reason I really want to see the car go through the shop is the great memories my friend will have when he thinks about 69 Dodge Coronet RTS because if you remember those of you who have been watching for a long time, the original pilot episode featured the art of the 1969 Dodge Coronet, a very rare car, just a great story and you'll see why it's so fun for me to relive the misery because of Will's work, my goodness, that red r six car, panel painted one of the first M parts he made for me, he painted the panel of the car, which means he painted the body separate from the doors and the fender hood and trunk lid, I remember telling him. he specifically now here was the order, right, Colonel Jessup gave the order.

I want you to count the number of coats it takes to hide because it's too easy for these cars to have a little transparency in the color that you can't see. in the cabin until they both put the whole car together a week before the car was supposed to come out, we had a chance to screw it together to see that Will didn't follow the instructions at all I made a mistake 27 years old Mark made a mistake from me in the movie is a bugle, I painted it on a panel, he put it back together, one panel didn't match the other, it looked like a package of red skittles and it turns out that we have it on camera because of the program.

In the end I have people here who make mistakes all the time. I had a car completely assembled. I went to get it out of our parking lot. I turned left, but the steering wasn't engaged correctly, so the car went straight. Where is that footage? So I ended up staying up all night redoing it, blocking it and painting it myself. So it was perfect and then I could go home. I arrived on Monday and Mark had repainted the entire car, so everything went well, that's why. I'll mess with you if you don't follow orders. I don't think I've been marked or colored by anything I've done other than that.

Now I'm Bird's number one and number two and we'd do great if this was GMO. you follow orders where people die, it's that simple right, you're very lucky it's not a GMO and I'm not Colonel Jess. Another great example. I have a car over an assembly, the dome light needs to be installed and this particular technician uses two long screws so they put two small Audi bumps on the roof. I have to repaint the back half of the car, where is that footage? This happens all the time. One mistake in 27 years is not bad. Assembly is a walking bug, so backstory. in this car with the owner who sent it to me, he grew up looking at that car, it was 1989, he had the opportunity to buy the car from his best friend's parents, the neighbor, he drove it until '91, maybe he didn't volunteer for this.

I would say I was running the engine pretty hard at the time the timing chain broke and they did that in the past, the original ones weren't as durable and it broke and sent a valve to the piston which parked the car, now its aim. It was taking the engine out, rebuilding it and getting back on the road. Friends at home, what happens, life gets in the way and here we are, 40 or 35 years later, working on the car, so I know you're excited. just for the record, we haven't had it for 35 years and in case any of you at home wanted to know how much you paid for that car in 1989, keep in mind it ran great, you paid $1,800, those were the days when my friend I thought they would never be done today when we were done with the car it's about a $150,000 car that's just what happens to the dollar and that's what happens when you have a really rare Mopar that you had enough foresight to keep it for all these years, so the gentleman wants me to return the car 100% OEM as it should be.

By the way, OEM means original equipment manufacturing as it was on the assembly line. He is making a couple of internal modifications to the engine. I'm going to do a little different head job or change the cam a little so it gets a little more power but otherwise 100% assembly line the car was t7 dark bronze and had a seat interior tan cube type. with a folding armrest kind of cool, it was column automatic 440 Magnum Ram Charger Hood black vinyl top very nice optional car Bumblebee striped car its fender tag actually says c16 which is a center console, this car is all original, mostly original paint for the drive, no one ever messed with that interior and it came off the assembly line with the fold down center armrest not the center console so I don't know what changed that if it was just a tight bat , those are the fun little things that Tony and I love to see, so the guys worked hard to completely take the car apart.

Only his birthday suit remainsraw original. There's nothing on that car, which means it's now queuing up on the shelf and preparing to be chemically dipped. Go ahead and read what you have. I was curious about a couple of questions, one thing that is for all the T's, but it's kind of interesting is that it's a j H, not a JS, they never understood it, so they weren't trying to pass Sid the insurance code like They were trying. to trick the a66 cars away from the JS, so we're going to enter the first two digits of the vehicle identification number.

A Challenger RT is a JS, the J stands for Challenger, the s stands for special price class, in that case. means RT if you had a charger it would be it actually carries a JH price code now the reason I think it might be because the second digit of the VIN probably increased the price of the car to the insurance companies so they left the S out. This is all a hypothesis and Sid increased the possible extra money he would have had to pay. It's true that CL didn't have a version of an a66 car, not true, Auda came with a 340 optionally, yes, so maybe Dodge was trying to do that and they were able to fool you on the rally gauges too.

There's a guy I know who calls the standard Dash, the non-rally Dash with the big speedo, a one-eyed monster, is he from the east

coast

? Yeah, you want to see if everything else looks good there. I enjoy seeing Mark and Tony when they are in their zones, they are both incredibly knowledgeable, but they definitely have a different way of speaking on the east

coast

. Do you see a j 68? No, but there is a j54. Yes, I don't understand it. This is a trami ham. Obviously they only built the artas in hamic and this and j54 of course. is the sports hood the rally The hood lifts the hood the n94 what is the fiberglass hood Bill Goldberg 70 Cuda 440 six barrel four speed car The Car screams crazy at j54 and n96 and what is the difference between n96 and n94 by the way n94 is the The n96 fiberglass hood is the fresh air charger, a gra a hood.

Look at the fender tag on this car, it's coded for n94. November '94, which is the Trans Am style cold air induction hood, but on that fender label you also see the original Sport. Hood, if you go to two other cudas I have, both cars are built with the la8 plant shaker hood. Cars, one calls out the j54 Sport Hood and the n96, while the other does not, why is there a call in some cases? for two hoods you can't do that from the factory, we don't know the answer, you know something else that is also very strange if it is a JS car and an RT.

I can understand having the j54, but this is a JH car, why? Could they even put the j54 in there right now? There's a great one. Could you get it? Comes standard in 340 in a66. It's such a long stretch. Yeah, I don't know the answer to that. Another thing about the fiberglass hood. It's always open. not like a shaker that has it turned on out of the air. The handle closes and opens but these hoods are always open so the air filter has drains so when water comes in it escapes and there are some hoses coming out of those drains to direct the water away from the engine oh it has the Trans Am label, yes, transas.

I realized why there is something there that all the A and ta had, they were considered Trans Am package cars, yes. I remember loving the look of the Aruda. When We Were Young I didn't know exactly what All American Racing meant at the time. It is the first of three Plymouth cudas built by Dan Gurn's All-American Racers to compete in the 1970 Trans Am Championship. Dodge's answer to the Trans Am racing series was a TA Challenger. I love learning these things. Did you see the shock lock nut on the upper shock? They are very rarely replaced. I worked at JC Penny Auto Center where all I did was tires, batteries, accessories. and all I wanted was to get that crazy thing out of there, oh yeah, send it flying, put some aftermarket crap in the power steering with the cooler of course, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's weird not seeing nothing about a car hood latch, right?

It seems really dangerous. It is not like this? Those hood pins were not safety pins or anything to hold the hood on. These are totally the A12 cars in 69 they had firus hoods but they lifted up, they weren't hinged, these have hinges and they still didn't. Put any type of safety latch or latch on the front, the only thing holding these hoods on is just the hood pins. Did you notice the factory hood locking pins, like the locking gas cap? Extra cargo theft was a real thing even back then, folks, so one thing about cars with hinged fiberglass hoods, they had light springs so they wouldn't damage the hood when you closed them, of course, that didn't happen.

It was a problem with steel hood cars, they had heavier springs, but the owner in this case, I actually modified these springs to have even less tension, so I guess there is less chance of damaging the hood or maybe was it having a hard time closing it or maybe he was smart enough and knew that some of the other cars hoods were getting damaged and he just went ahead by extending these springs so we wouldn't have as much tension on them and therefore we closed them even more easily. Well, just give us your thoughts on a few other things here, how about the front?

One of the next cars coming up for disassembly is one of my favorites. It's a 1970 Barracuda with a slanted 6 and an automatic in the column. This is such a cool little car and I have some history with it. The car doesn't have many options. and i think it holds the record to date for the shortest autopsy report in gyc. Looking at this Fender label, it looks like this will be the shortest autopsy report I've ever done. There are only three lines of J25 variable speed wipers, which I believe. the record is the only option this car has years ago when I was a teenager this car belonged to a friend of mine and his girlfriend when Mark and I went to see it the girlfriend still owned the car.

I had a great time reminiscing with Heidi when we went to get the car back when we were kids, she called the car Dreamboat Annie and she still calls it that to this day Mark, you know her name is Annie, her name is Annie, yeah, Heart Barracuda dream B, Annie, oh, very good with this car. disassembled, he stands in line waiting to go to the Dipper and then returns to the metal shop. Dougles when you look through the beak of this little Honker, what do you see there that's cool? If it is there, the fog lights are fine.

Great, but they're not there. One of the fun points about the car, I thought, was that it has fog lights. You know, obviously the owner added some things to the car. The Cuda fog lights were something I had never seen on a Challenger. I added the rear window lights, which I think look great on the car and are very appropriate. I've never seen a Challenger fog lights and they really look like the original Cuda fog lights. They must have

found

them when they were available, probably cheap. a junkyard had some chin spoilers. I don't want the crazy people at TA to hang up on me, but I think all the T's got it, I'm pretty sure, but if not, feel free to light up my Facebook page and Call me an idiot because I like the black grill.

That's also exclusive to the TA Challenger RTS. Yes, I understand it quite early. Yes. I know you're doing well with that one. Full fiberglass hood. Cold air induction. Hey? The most interesting points of a TA Challenger is the TA hood, it is fiberglass, this one is in very good condition, many times they are deformed in the middle of the fenders, it stinks like that, you mean you can try to correct them, but this one here is one of the best I have seen it has the original squirters on the rear that are specific to the a& TA hood.

They are quite rare and difficult to get because they only came in these cars, the other cars have the squires on the back. the Calin I like what Chrysler did with these cars this in the A and now we have an A that we are painting which is the ef8 green that we will do it, I don't know, maybe last season or something like that and this Be the first to pass around the shop with you guys looking years and years ago, before I even started graveyard cars, I made a Top Banana yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger that I bought from a guy in Portland, this car had been in storage for 30 years.

In a

crab

they call them Crab Shacks on the coast and I guess they keep all their

crab

gear and everything in it, but it's right on the ocean so that car was probably the rottiest car I've ever done in my entire life. . That's when I wish I had taken more photos and could share a day, but overall this car is a super nice, clean car with matching numbers. It would be great if it was a four speed, not an automatic in my opinion, but if you drive the car, it is much more fun to drive an automatic only car like we said it came from the factory with two different tire sizes g615 in the rear e615 in the front hood fiberglass antenna relocated the details of these things four speed did you even know that? if it was a four speed it used a different lever on the transmission so the ebo would shorten the step from first, second, third to fourth, then in 71 they just held the lever twice so you could make your car TA or not a TA or an AR not an AR a short shift so Challenger a challenger a challenger on the right same side markers different decals of course on the TA talked about the fender Fender but it just rolled to the right the same door just a different decal, these two act like they're It's a natural thing but when they said something about the rolled up Fender, I later asked Mark what they were talking about, turns out the Hemi ebody cars and transm a came from the factory with 15 inch wheels, so to make sure the tires didn't.

They didn't hit the fender, they rolled the inside of the fender lip, how about the megaphone exhaust? It's cool that it's still there, hell yeah, one of the coolest things about the A and ta cars is the side exit exhaust, I dunno. yeah another car that really came like that, but you know, at that time it was really cool, the rear tires on these are bigger than the front ones, the rear ones, the g60, which is the biggest size ever put on an electric body because even the Hemi car has f60. front and rear, the taller rear tires help with clearance for the side exhaust tips, that's a clean side exhaust and it's not like this car has the stock tires, but all the AR and Tas.

It was the only car I could think of that had different size tires I could never find one that was different it was always the TA and the AR the only car that at least Chrysler left maybe there were some brand Yeah. I don't know, g60 and E60, yeah, yeah, Th aller and a Aruda came off the assembly line with two different tire sizes, as far as we know, it's the only Chrysler muscle car to do so. I don't even know what other cars did, but the only chrysal MUSC cars we can think of did. A G6015 in the rear and an E60 jumped over the F, which is standard on their hemic cudas.

Okay, we think it's to leave the clearance in the rear, it's a taller tire than an F in the rear and a shorter e in the front because the megaphone exhaust comes out right in front of the tire, you might have clearance issues there, we think that was the reasoning behind it, if we're wrong, we're wrong, we're not saying 1,000% for that, but that's what we believe. The next car to be taken apart is also one of my favorites, it appeared a couple years ago in an autopsy report, but just to summarize, this 1970 Cuda 340 is automatic and loaded with options.

This is a metallic fire blue B5. It has all blue. Interior with bucket seat, console and air conditioning, also has factory power windows and a factory roof rack. It has a rubber front bumper through the tipped exhaust, hockey stick stripes and a black vinyl top now that this car is loaded. With options including AMFM stereo, the only thing stopping it from being perfect is that it doesn't have an 8-track player like my Barracuda, as Eddie would say, two tickets to paradise. The guys did a great job taking the Cuda apart and inventorying all the parts, so now that it's stripped down to the Shell, it lines up to go to the Dipper so they can clean off all the paint and see what we have, so there are three cars great disassembled ready to store the rear window blinds. added but I think they are original when you look inside these are standard gauges you know the one eyed monster has the cool tactic but what about the standard gauges although the 70 Challenger standard gauges arebuild it, then Bri Byron. that he customized the car he only had you five weeks in Goa and he didn't like it.

I told him there weren't really any interior mods or any under the hood mods uh all they do under the hood as far as I know is all the rapid transit or show cars they just spray it black so they don't even They need us, they just sprout black, yeah, now the last thing I want to talk about is something that very, very few people know anything about, it's a research discovery thing, so Juliano when he got the car, yeah, I know. he was in his parking lot, it took him forever to talk to the guys to sell it from the parking lot, that's how he

found

the car and I want to say this is a tribute to Steve, he was tenacious, he just wouldn't give up.

I wanted to find these cars. He put ads in all the national newspapers and magazines for hot rods and stuff. Someone answered him and said: Hey, I know where that car you're looking for is. He's in a parking lot in Detroit and Steve won't let him. any grass that grew on this flew straight to Detroit and when he got the car when he got home mhm he opened the trunk MH well the biggest thing in there was an air conditioner that's why he was sitting in the back when he got it got. Springs broke like a house like the noise of a window, air conditioning and after that there was a leopard skin rug a bloody machete and women's underwear in the trunk in the trunk a bloody machete Hollywood props for blood real cleaned it and didn't want to know, you don't know, you have no idea what it is, like why it was there, no, the car was left for dead in the early '80s, so it was there for over 10 13 years, well, It turns out that the mysterious machete and the panties and and the leopard print are still in the trunk Bingo, you know you touched the last letter Bingo B6 I don't know what the code for the squirrel cover is it wasn't the guy's name it wasn't Jason who he had the car it is unknown maybe he does it appears now that he sees it on television here is the difference between a sense of humor and not a sense of humor I have a sense of humor, right?

Tony really believes that weird Jason from Friday the 13th will come out and find out. watch the episode, okay, Jason has a lot of things to do. I don't think he's going to be looking at the cemetery cars unless it's Friday night. I don't know, but he won't go out and check the car after hockey. mask and everything and say yes, that's where I left my machete. I couldn't understand it, come on man, it's fucked Jason, I think that's a good way to end it.