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Rare Barn Find classic 70s Japanese RWD Coupe discovered - will it run after 30 years?

Mar 11, 2024
Carb connections remove the fuel line because we probably want to bypass the main fuel tank which apparently has an electromagnetic fuel pump, but then first of all we'll turn it over with all the spark plugs out and double check. that and then see if we get a spark, take a look inside the lid, that's what we're going to do. I want you to tell me about how to go faster Stripes because we had a chat off camera oh yeah I just put it on I put them on because I thought I'd make it look a little neat well this was in the early 80's yeah it's ago long, long time, but I love it, in the back, here it goes into a couple of other Stripes like Stripes, there's just a little bit of clippings of what I just put there to sell for money, although you did it, yeah, and they were there too.
rare barn find classic 70s japanese rwd coupe discovered   will it run after 30 years
I'll put them there where the upper one also has clothing badges, oh yes, you should say the earth, yes, I have You still have it, you still have it, yes, it's somewhere a little oil, a little oil in the holes, Engine access is phenomenal, isn't it? Yes, you can get into these cars, you can't get in and you can see. I can see straight down the spark plug hole, there's nothing to mess it up, it's a wonderful thing. He bought the top of the range, although in the curve you were not playing, you opted for a double two-liter carburetor.
rare barn find classic 70s japanese rwd coupe discovered   will it run after 30 years

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Can you remember what it felt like to drive? Did it feel fast? Yeah, it was pretty fast, right? Yeah, battery with uh, yeah, let's put a battery in it. There are two things that could happen: we could get the engine to fire and a spark, but it

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also work the digital clock on the overhead console because that's what everyone wants to know that's the positive side of it, uh, yeah, I just want to make sure that is not as it is, it is not going to stretch, they should return some, if they can, very old milk pasteurized by Northern Dairies. chassis rail down there there's two there's two frames of thought you could put two gallons of fuel in the tank yeah let it bleed the initial gunge and then try it or you could put an inline filter on it or we can run something straight off of that. we do, we have an electric fuel pump, yes we could run off a car battery, a short piece of pipe made and then you avoid all that possible gunpowder rust there exactly, so I think we do it that way, do you? do you work?, give them the key tries to see that, yes, do you want to do the honors?
rare barn find classic 70s japanese rwd coupe discovered   will it run after 30 years
Well, that sounds great, that sounds healthy, well, that was exciting. Can we say when was the last time you flipped the damn car? I have no idea what I can. I don't remember, just try it one more time where all the dashboard lights light up sweetly, that's good right? Yeah, that's very good, so let's see if there's a um, let's see if there's a spark there, so take plug number one, yeah, take number one. Is that number one, that or is that number one, yeah, now if you want to turn it over in a second, Kevin, yeah, yeah, spark, we've got a spot, so plug it back in and then we'll install some padding. and let me.
rare barn find classic 70s japanese rwd coupe discovered   will it run after 30 years
Let's see if I have any spare lines. I tried. I tried looking up Sephora's online history. It's so

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it's eerily scarce and based on how many are left dot Co dot ukl.com there are four on the road in Britain and there are five sawn ones that this may or may not be from so we're talking less about the ones I have sapporous fingers in groups almost one of those characters as missing in the past, right? It's absolute, so at this point I have to Thank Tony BMW again for building me this awesome custom cam that is for fuel injected cars, but we can use it in this case.
I could just press it. It has a built-in fuel pump. Hooray, we're going to have new fuel. hook it up to the twin carbs, give it a little pulse to prime them, flip them over to see if we get a pop and let's go from there tonybmw.co.uk what a lovely guy so I'll just give it a quick pulse. just to see if we've put any fuel in the bowls, there you hear we've got fuel, we've got sparks, we've got water, um yeah we're gonna rock, wanna do the honors? Kevin, yeah, sure, okay. Oh my God, in two seconds the fuel was good again.
Do you want us to move on? Yes that's fine. I'm not going to give you any more fuel for the moment. I just hope I didn't put in too much fuel. Tony's Hope type, ready, yeah, I'm going to speed up a little bit, do you want me to speed up here? okay, no, yeah, sorry, that's pretty ready, wow, oh my gosh, listen to that too, oh my gosh, that's so soft. turn it off, oh my god, guys, oh my god, how about that? It's good, it's very smooth, yeah, yeah, that's it, that's Stone Cold, no air filters when running on a small can of Hope, that's not bad, it was effortless and you see how smooth it already was and that is. like it's on choke, well we know, I mean if you want we can turn it back on and uh we know we could run it for a little bit longer cuz we know the cooldown is okay let it warm up yeah you can see .
If we can get it to you, you know, warm up a little bit, we'll keep an eye on it, but yeah, wow, that's cool, so happy you're doing that last time this started. How old were you? I ask you how old you are. was that in 93. is that a year ago is what is a year ago so I was 31, so you were 31 the last time this car started, yeah, possibly, wow, and get all the lights working from the board, just check them all. of them work even on the sidelines, that's Mega, we just started the car.
I know it's amazing, absolutely amazing, something I never thought I'd say. I could see your face from anywhere behind the wheel and you know I was just giving it a go. You accelerated a little under the hood and said, "Oh my God, I'm going to feel like he wants to live again." The reason I say that is you think about how easily the lug nuts came loose. and how the rear end brakes without binding, think about how easy it was to remove the spark plugs, sometimes everything is stuck and you are in a car that is famous for being rotten, it is actually quite good, what is more exciting, the engine running above. digital clock running engine running It doesn't bother me that much I'm very excited about the clock, let's see if we can run it for longer than you know 20 seconds, here we go, look, you see you can hear the fuel pump tone change I'll wait , let's just fill a bottle with milk.
It's actually moving fuel much faster than I expected. There we go, thank you. Let's hold this up to the light. The truck looks like it's Tizer, but it's actually Apple. juice, isn't it the option for a new generation? I mean, in terms of sediment, it doesn't really have any chunks, so it's clear, but it's obviously old. I think we should remove this for safety, yeah, and I think I think We'll put another can, we'll put another can to catch that because it doesn't do any harm to purge it anyway. I think you hit it again and I'll give the electric fuel pump a tickle.
Start there, yes, laugh. gotta run out of gas, I'll give it a quick tickle, take it off, that's so cute, another tick that's okay, looks all the way in, that's it, that's out of the choke, wow, that's pretty good, that's really good , It is not like this? How nice is that look, there is no vibration at all with no fuel filter or air filter. I am surprised by the state of the board. This type of Stitch Dash faux leather. It is an excellent service brochure. This is a 1978 car, the first generation of Sephora, to go into production. in 78. up to 80. so this is one of the first cars, here we go, that original owner, Middlesbrough cowies, it's like that and then we have this, the official catalog of cult accessories, oh yeah, do you want a sports jacket cult or a career on a shelf?
Just look at this high performance sport kit, two 40 dcoes Weber double choke sport wheels and it gets even better. The Recaro driving seat set would have been an expensive option now, right? Or what look like faux shearling covers, how could you? possibly covers these seats are too good what is this? this is a decal that i'm going to hold up to the light this is a lotus decal from john's player special team can you see it's not used? this has to go on, although not sure what you were playing on that you probably saw music was that yeah, we can't play, maybe we can play it, you can try it that way, yeah, yeah, it works fine, it still burns because we have it going and because I am sorry. for him and Kevin, I can see Kevin Swan in his face.
We're going to wash him a little. We

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remove those

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of dirt. This is not a detailed video. Do not judge me. This car is clearly. I'm going to need some paint repair anyway, okay, hasn't that been exciting? I love when we can light one up and take it out for the first time in 30

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. Mechanically turned on. It sounds glorious. Here's a Japanese Cooper from the 70s. Very, very less scenic and less famous than the other cars of its era, maybe you know a car that you think I should go investigate, whether in a garage, in a

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