The Hagerty Redline Rebuild series has been awesome and continues to be awesome because of variety. From top fuel engines to workaday power plants, this thing has really been chock full of the kinds of things that gearheads love. This time the engine that’s the star of the show has an interesting tale. It was installed in a GMC trucks more than a half-century ago, put in it time as a worker bee and then ended up shoved into the woods to lead a quiet existence and return to nature. Then the guys from Hagerty showed up.
This particulate Redline Rebuild is different and cool because we not only see the engine coming together we see them extracting the truck and we get the payoff of listening to the finished product run and groan as these engines do.
What will you learn from this video? Maybe a bunch if you have never been inside of a Stovebolt six engine before. This 216ci inliner was the staple of Chevy’s existence for many, many years. In some respects it is stodgy because it makes little power but the reality is that these were smooth, torquey engines that may not have won drag races but they got millions of people around safely and reliably.
Watch this one get saved from the woods and rebuilt with all the love, care, and attention, that it deserves!
I enjoyed this one