- This time on Roadkill, we had no plan whatsoever!
That turned into a clapped out Datsun mini truck,
an epic road trip, a massive purchase,
and a lot of tire smoke, ready?
(engine revving)
Yeah!
(engine revving)
(engine turning)
(tires screeching)
(upbeat rock music)
(engine humming)
- The Mazdarati did not get the
mini truck out of your system?
- No, nothing ever will.
- Really? (laughing)
- Once mini trucks get under your skin, they don't get out.
- They sort of fester?
- It's like scabies.
(laughing)
- We're up near Pismo Beach, California,
not exactly sure where, sort of off in the boondocks.
And we're buying our car for this episode
which is a mini truck.
Now Finnegan has, like, a mini truck kink.
He used to be the editor of Mini Truck Magazine,
and every time he brings it up,
I'm sort of sketched out by it because all I think of
is crazy '80s graphics and too big of wheels,
and all sorts of things, but then there's this.
The 1968 Datsun, which I dig.
Not because its well executed,
but because it is stanced just the right way.
This thing is chopped, the A-pillars are laid back,
they've sectioned the bed down so the wheels are really low,
it's on air.
I think it's really cool.
I just don't know if this thing's
going to make it on the freeway.
How's it going?
- [Shawn] Good.
- You're a mini trucker.
- So are you, huh?
- That's what he says. - I still claim it,
I just wasn't sure if you would.
How you doing?
- Sean. - Mike.
- David Freiburger, how are you?
- Nice to meet you guys. - You too.
- Did you build this or buy it?
- Bought it.
- Yeah?
- [David] This is so cool.
- This is built by a mini trucker,
you can tell by the welds.
This is better than the Jeep rod.
- You think?
Like better engineered or better sketchy?
- No, no, this is better engineered.
- Have you ever driven it?
- Yeah, drove it yesterday.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Cool.
So we're going to survive?
- We'll see!
(laughing)
I got it in fourth gear, so...
- Oh it's a stick?
Even better.
- [Mike] So we have an air tank, we have a compressor.
- [David] Yeah, what kind of travel's in the airbags?
- They go up big.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
It gets...
- Oh no way.
So you can actually steer it.
- You can steer it, yeah, front goes up pretty high.
- Oh wow.
- I'm falling in love.
So two things landed us here.
Number one, I love old Datsuns.
And number two, my car cutting up career
started with mini trucks.
I've owned, I think, four of them
and almost all of them were chopped up,
airbagged, body dropped,
you never get 'em out of your system
once you've dragged something down the highway
and throw sparks and stop traffic.
That never leaves you.
So when I spotted this on Craigslist,
I knew we had to come here.
Feels like I'm 20 again.
- Ooh good.
Now it's a little bit of a tail-dragger, looks cool.
There you go.
Oh yeah, oh, this thing's comfy.
- [Mike] Yeah you look good in there.
- Yeah there's really no problem with this at all.
- Definitely mini trucker owned, polished the valve cover.
Yep, but didn't clean the motor at all.
- This is pretty standard mini truck.
- But we need to test drive it before we buy it.
- We do?
- Yeah.
- Oh, where's your sense of adventure?
- You're right, let's just buy it.
(laughing)
- This is Roadkill dude!
Man this thing is cool.
It's only about this much better than our flat rod Jeep,
but it's got a way more wicked look to it, I dig it.
You know a lot of times, Finnegan and I will
get a new car for Roadkill and we're sitting around going
man, is it a keeper?
What should we do?
I think this one's going to be a keeper.
We could make this really good.
This thing is probably going to kill me.
I mean, we're going to die.
There's no doubt about it.
My back is gonzo.
- Let's go mini truckin'.
- [David] OK!
- Pay the man.
(country rock music)
And we're mini truckin', not the floor.
- Oh nice!
Chicks are digging us already though.
- It's 180 miles to LA, we can do this!
- I'm just waiting for the first time I grind the frame
on the ground and kill my teeth and my back.
- Are you ready?
- No don't do it! - I can make that happen,
I can make that happen!
(engine humming)
- I can hear the drive line vibration already.
- Oh!
Parts are falling off already!
- Oh you didn't need that.
- Does it smell hot to you?
- Nah.
- Did you check any fluids?
- Nah!
We didn't even test drive it!
(laughing)
I feel like we're too high.
(banging)
(laughing)
(rattling)
(laughing)
(rock music)
Wait a minute, I need to set the e-brake.
(banging)
(laughing)
- Here's the thing, this is like Finnegan's
teenage dream vehicle,
and I have my teenage dream vehicle.
Significantly more expensive than this one.
Yeah there's a '71 Roadrunner
up in Pioneer, California that I really want,
and I actually got permission from my wife,
even though it's a lot of money.
I'm non-committal, but we're sort of headed that direction,
so I might pick that thing up.
- Right when we got off the freeway here,
I'm deaf,
I'm wind-blind,
and all of a sudden the dash lights up with red and yellow,
I'm like that's it, we're going to jail,
we're getting pulled over.
Thank God it was an ambulance or something.
We're just floating down the highway
and it's a mini truck, how can you not smile
while driving one of those and getting bugs in your teeth?
(chuckling)
- This morning we're in Paso Robles, California
and Fred Williams from Dirt Every Day lives here.
Like over there somewhere.
So we're going to go visit him and find out
if we can park this underneath one of his trucks.
And I want to force him to drive this around the block,
cuz he's used to stuff that sits up here
and this sits down here.
(whooping)
Think you can get the hood under there?
- I can get the bed of the truck under there,
I don't know if we can get the,
the cab's not going under that
but the bed is going under that.
- Think so?
- Oh yeah.
- [David] Fred baby!
We're going to park under your junk!
- Look at this cute little thing.
- Will it fit?
- Yeah, back it up!
- There ya go.
Just don't hit that driveshaft
- You got it.
You got about two inches on that driveshaft.
- Yeah you can go two to three inches.
- Go, go, go!
- There we go!
- This thing's awesome!
- We're going to force Fred to drive this turd,
and we're going to drive that.
- Oh jeez.
(laughing)
- It's awful isn't it?
- Yeah.
- I'll just use that as a step.
Does this have seatbelts?
- Look at that, we have seatbelts.
(country rock music)
Oh I could actually see the link bar mount
moving on the chassis.
Part of me is enjoying this.
The other part of me is like oh boy,
if he drags a hole in the gas tank,
we're going to have to fix that.
- We'll just take this all the way to wherever we're going.
- Is that you shaking us left to right?
- No!
(laughing) It's doing it!
- What a pile!
- The flat spots in the tires will work their way out
once the tires get a little warm from rolling.
Pull up just so I can't see him which is right there.
(laughing)
How's your rear view look?
- Looks awesome, all I see is
front differential Dana 60.
- [David] Here we go.
Have fun Fred!
(country rock music)
(laughing)
- See you guys later.
- I swear I thought he was going to run over little D.
So Fred went back to his land of four wheelering
or whatever he does, and we were going to keep on
going north until we realized there was dirt
all over the hood of this thing blowing straight in our eyes
and we had to do something about it.
- No lumber racks, no ladder racks,
no dual lanes, we're good.
- Yeah, we've had worse ideas than this one.
You can't drive around in a dirty truck, man,
it doesn't work.
Make sure you get the rainbow polish.
Not responsible for mirrors, don't have those.
Rear windshield, don't have that,
wipers, don't have that,
antennas, bug shield, sun visor, prior damage.
(laughing) Oh my God!
What's in that soap?
- See now that feels good.
Ah.
(laughing)
The next step.
- Oh I forgot about the jet drier.
No stopping now!
All right we're good.
Oh here it comes! - Oh here it comes already!
- [Mike] It'll be flinging GoPro cameras in our face.
- [David] That's what I thought.
- Aw, hell no.
- Oh this is going to be torture.
- Oh boy.
(laughing)
- Why are we doing this?
Just think, this is the driest part of the program.
(whirring)
- Ow! (laughing)
(rattling)
Wow.
All right, we're clear.
(laughing)
Thank you for not getting the spotless rinse
and the spray wax.
- No!
- Oh, wait, wait, wait!
I don't want that!
Ahh! - Ahh!
(laughing)
That was the worst!
That's very waxy.
- Here comes the blow job.
- I want you to linger here.
Oh, that's cold!
- I'm freezing!
- That's very cold!
(laughing)
That's very cold.
Okay, I think you can drive now.
(screaming)
(laughing) Oh my god, it's so cold.
(laughing)
- Ah, the trucks clean.
- I feel better now.
- I actually feel pretty good.
- If you were wondering,
no, it aint worth it.
Don't do this.
- Don't do it.
- If you're thinking about this-
- Just pull the plug.
- Yeah, not worth it.
- Not good.
(country rock music)
We've been driving and suffering
on our way out of Paso Robles up north.
And so we've taken protective measures.
(engine roaring)
Whoa!
Did you see that guy?
- No.
- There was a guy passing those cars
coming right at us.
Wow.
(country rock music)
We're like halfway to Fresno now
and just driving this thing is a fully immersive experience.
With no windshield, it's like riding a motorcycle.
You get every bug on your glasses,
you got wind in your face,
you smell every cow that you drive past,
every slaughter house, every diesel truck.
It's kind of a disaster.
And the other thing is
you drive this thing wide open all the time
and it goes 55 miles-an-hour and that's all you get.
So this is going to turn in to a long night.
It is 7:00 right now.
We got about another two and a half hours to go.
(country rock music)
- I'm having a wagon flashback.
- [David] Me too.
- [Mike] The Wichita.
- At least we're not sharing this time.
Although, I'm equally homeless.
- This is about that cold.
You do look homeless.
- Dude.
So it's only like, I don't know, 55 out or something,
but when you're going 55, 60 miles-an-hour
the windchill is really bad.
And I had a bug hit my lens
that like it left its liver on me.
It was that big.
It was so bad.
Ugh.
You always want to travel the 99 through California
when you're trying to avoid bugs cuz you have no windshield.
Not.
I think it's colder today than it was yesterday.
- Because you're about to drop 11 grand
on a car that you may or may not actually like in person
but will be forced to spend the money
because, well, that's what this whole episode is about.
(laughing)
- That's what it became.
Tell you what, I will drive from here to there
so that when you take the bullet later.
- Oh, no, no, no.
- No? - I'm a man.
I got this.
- When did that start?
- As soon I realized the sun's
on that side of the truck this morning.
And my people don't do well with sunshine.
- I'm thinking that's north.
- Right.
There's the sun.
Your side of the truck.
- Has the sun, right?
- Yeah.
- Warm.
- Oh yeah.
(laughing)
But sunburning.
You'll be on fire by the time we get to the next exit.
- I'm plenty good with that.
- That's what I'm telling myself.
- This by the way, was the best $2.50 I've ever spent.
(engine roaring)
(mellow rock music)
Clear.
- [Mike] This road looks like the end
of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.
- Yeah, it's almost exactly on the way.
- We should check it out.
- That's not morbid at all.
- [David] Yep, right here.
- This does look familiar.
- Yeah, I think they were coming this way, maybe.
There's the tracks
which are no longer in use.
This is kind of a geeky thing
but one my favorite car chase movies
is Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.
I think 1974, Peter Fonda, Susan George,
even Roddy McDowall's in it.
But at the very, very end of the movie,
I won't spoil it for you. - No, don't give away
the ending.
- But the scene looked a lot like our career.
And (laughing) it happens right there
at the railroad tracks.
This is the very, very end of that movie.
(mellow rock music)
- You drive better than Fonda.
(chuckling)
(country rock music)
(clanking)
(laughing)
- [David] That was bad.
- There's your car.
- We brought all the death with us.
- How are you guys doing?
- How's it going?
- [Brian] Pretty good.
- I'm David.
- Brian.
- How you doin, I'm Mike. - Hi.
- Nice to meet you, David.
- Hi. - Here's Henry.
- Hey Henry.
- Henry's going to be shy but they watch you guys all the time.
- Oh cool!
Thanks guys.
Cool.
- So how long have you had the Roadrunner for?
- [Brian] We've had that for just about a year.
- [David] And when you got had it been sitting a long time?
- Sitting a long time, yeah.
- [David] He has the air grabber too.
- This is a big car.
- Yeah, Bee bodies are not small.
Well, we're here acquiring my '71 Roadrunner.
This story all starts right here.
See this scar all the way up and down my arm?
I got a metal plate in there
and a bunch of drywall screws holding me together.
I got hit by a car
walking home from high school when I was 17.
And there was no suing anybody back then
but the insurance company went, "Here, have $11,000."
And in 1986 that's like a really big deal.
And as soon as I turned 19
that money was burning a hole in my pocket
and I bought a '71
446-pack,
4-speed, triple black Roadrunner with an air grabber.
And my father hated it.
I ended up selling it.
I've always wanted another one.
I bought a '72, but that wasn't good enough for me.
I had to have just the right car
and, finally, Brian here emailed me
because he saw on my Facebook
pleas asking for anybody who had a '71 Roadrunner out there
and he emailed the Roadkill email address
and sent me a bunch of pictures and here we are.
We're going to drive it home.
The inside is just like the Roadrunner that I had
when I was 19.
- Want to see in the trunk?
(metal creaking)
Sounds like a Mopar, doesn't it?
- Yeah it does.
That sounds exactly like everyone I've ever had.
This thing has an interesting combination of options
in that I've never seen a car actually optioned
with the tough-wheel before.
- Yeah, that was kind of neat
and it's on the original window sticker.
- Right, I know, I read the window sticker which is neat.
- Yeah, which is kind of cool.
- This is a nice car.
- Yeah, I really like it's because, you know-
- The meep-meep horn works.
Henry, you want to show him?
- Yeah, go meep-meep.
Did you know they have this?
(horn honking)
It's like Roadrunner.
- That's awesome.
- And he might have hit a coyote with this.
- I know, I saw that.
- [Brian] Yeah, it's either a dog or coyote.
- [David] Yeah, this is awesome.
- Yeah, it all worked out but-
- [Mike] Here, pay the man.
Let's go get fired up.
- Let's go do donuts.
- Yeah.
- Oh, it has that same 700 pound door I remember.
- [Mike] Yes.
- Okay what's the starting trick?
- A little bit of gas.
(engine turning)
- [David] Oh nice.
- This is a great car for you.
- I know, now I'm excited.
I was stressed out before, now I'm happy.
This is good.
- This is one of those rare moments in life
where I'm genuinely happy
to see Freiburger smiling about a car.
I think he just bought his high school dream car.
You would think the Super Bee is his dream car
but really that's just the car
he's had ever since he was 16.
I don't think he truly loves it.
This car, I think he's in love with
and he's going to buy it and drive it all the way back to LA
from this mountain.
And that's a pretty epic road trip right there.
- This is really good too.
This makes me super excited
cuz my old one had an air grabber.
Okay, I'm thinking cross wise, like this.
- Okay.
- You just want to just go up and over?
(engine humming) (metal loudly vibrating)
Wow, I'm ready to drive 9 hours home.
I know Freiburger is.
I believe we're done here.
- So now I guess we head for home
and hope this thing actually makes it.
He's only driven it about an hour at a time he said
and just locally, so this could be a bit of a mystery.
(jazz-rock music)
Okay, I'm having a problem
and I can't tell if it's the engine surging
or if it's the transmission slipping.
Very strange.
Oh, it's engine for sure.
So this is brilliant.
Finnegan took off.
He was running way ahead of me with the Datsun.
And this thing is surging really badly.
At first I thought the transmission was slipping
but then I realized that the engine is bucking.
See it runs fine at idle and it runs fine in neutral
but cruising down the highway
it's just like constant hesitation.
Oh this sweet.
Check out the, oh, see.
There you go, that's what it did.
I'm going to call fuel filter somewhere, or lack of one.
That is probably it.
The filter is pretty dirty.
So I'm going to cruise til I hit another parts store
and buy a screwdriver and a filter
and keep cruising.
How come the Datsun's more reliable than my Roadrunner?
That's annoying.
(country rock music)
(engine roaring) (metal rattling)
Hey.
- Hey.
- Did you make a 20 mile round trip to visit me?
- [Mike] No, no, 30.
- 30?
- Which means to just get back to where I was is 60 miles.
- Right.
- I'm glad we got some miles under our belt
before it got cold out tonight.
- How come the Datsun's reliable
and thing's already breaking down?
- What happened?
- It surges real bad and it starts when it's warm.
The fuel filter looks really clogged
but the fuel line is also run right between
the water pump and the block
so I'm going to run the fuel line cool
and put a new filter in it.
- Found your problem.
- Or it could be that.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
That's exactly what was wrong with the Ram truck.
Remember when it surged? - That's incredible.
- Look, diagnosed just like that.
I didn't have to come back 30 miles.
- No, it's a good thing you did.
I wouldn't have figured that out.
With the points ignition that's a real thing.
- With any ignition that's a real thing.
(laughing)
So we're staying here tonight, right, and we're drinking?
(laughing)
- Well the fuel filter's still really clogged.
- Might as well work on it.
(laughing)
(engine humming) (metal vibrating)
(country rock music)
- The battery repair, while critical, was not the fix.
I got out there on the highway
and this thing is still just like bucking and surging.
It actually started backfiring.
- The mini truck's starting to look pretty good
right about now.
- I'm pretty sure the fuel filter is clogged
so I'm changing it
but I'm also rerouting the fuel line
because this problem seems to get worse
as the car get hotter.
- It's a nice night to change the filter
and have that not fix the problem.
- I need to arrange something to tie this down
so that it doesn't get in either the fan
or the damper or the belt.
Okay, what's going to happen now
is yesterday I bought this beanie
and I cut this end open so that I could wear it over my head
to protect my face in the Datsun
and now all of this is going to become
life-saving zip tie replacement.
So I'll be using this to tie my new fuel hose
down to the K-member
so that it does not interfere with the fan.
Okay well the string off the hat was good
I have to admit I did pack shoes on this trip
but clearly don't need them
and so then I went and got the shoestring off my sneaker,
which I am now going to use as a zip tie.
All right, I say let's try it.
(thudding)
I hope this junk is fixed.
- It's got to be fixed.
We don't have anymore tools
to fix other things that might be broke.
- Well the test drive lasted about one block
and then it died again so we got out
and just started wiggling every wire that we could
and it turns out that I saw a little spark
coming from the positive side of the coil and that was it.
So we found it was loose.
That'll fix it, right?
- [Mike] Yes.
- Confidence level high.
Of course, it was also on the completely clogged filter
and it was also on the completely loose battery cable.
You know these things all needed to be repaired.
I always say you never really get your old car sorted out
until you take a road trip, so we are.
Okay, let's go.
(rock music)
So that's the story of Finnegan's sort-of dream Datsun
and my complete dream '71 Roadrunner.
There's really a debate at this point
whether we're keeping the Datsun around or not.
It is just so cool.
It has just the right look
but is it good enough that we actually want to fix it?
I know we want to bolt some titanium blocks to the thing
and throw some sparks.
But the '71 Roadrunner, that one's a keeper
and you will see that on future episodes of Roadkill Garage,
but we're going to tune this thing up big time.
But meanwhile, it's tire smoke and throwin' sparks
until next on Roadkill.
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