Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, CAR FEATURES, DRIVETRAIN, ENGINE, Project Cars, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
The Fab Rat’s Barn Find 1967 Pontiac Firebird Is Finally Doing Burnouts!
Mar 21, 2022Chad Reynolds1
It’s burnout time baby! The barn find ’67 Firebird made it home and is getting some tweaks so it will be ready to drive and ready to do burnouts! If you missed the previous stories about...
Money No Object: This 1972 Buick Electra Is A Bitchin’ Battlecruiser!
Feb 06, 2022Bryan McTaggart4
Show me an off-the-wall car built with the attitude that it properly deserves, and I’ll drool like Pavlov’s dog when the dinner bell starts to ring. You should know what that means: find...
Metal Fabrication: How to TIG Weld Thin Sheet Metal Panels – 1960 Cadillac Restoration!!!
Nov 29, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Metal Fabrication: How to TIG Weld Thin Sheet Metal Panels – 1960 Cadillac Restoration!!!
There are a lot of ways to join two pieces of metal, and several of them are different welding processes. While stick welding sheet metal is possible, it is probably the least effective and hardest...
English Wheel Metal Shaping: Rust Repair On A 1960 Cadillac Coupe De Ville. Big Quarter Panels Mean Big Patch Panels
Nov 20, 2021Chad Reynolds4
Old Caddy’s are awesome. I grew up with them, love them, and think that they are super fun cars to drive and to look at. The only downside to a big Cadillac is that they are big. LOL If...
1960 Cadillac Rust Repair Fix: Hammer Forming Trunk Drop Downs And Bead Rolling a Curved Flange On Make It Kustom’s Caddy Project
Nov 13, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on 1960 Cadillac Rust Repair Fix: Hammer Forming Trunk Drop Downs And Bead Rolling a Curved Flange On Make It Kustom’s Caddy Project
Karl from Make It Kustom just moved into a new shop and a new house where he and his wife Kristina are planning some big things for the Make It Kustom Channel and their hot rod company Japhands...
Puddin Gets A Bitchin 1958 Pontiac Chieftain Running After Sitting For 40 Years
Nov 05, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Puddin Gets A Bitchin 1958 Pontiac Chieftain Running After Sitting For 40 Years
The insane number of “Will it Run?” videos that you find on YouTube now are kind of annoying sometimes. Why? Well because if an engine was running when the car was parked, no matter how...
Saved From The Crusher: This 1958 Pontiac Pathfinder Needs A New Lease On Life. Will It Run And Drive As Is Though?
Oct 03, 2021Chad Reynolds1
Sometimes all the “It’s been abandoned for 15 years! Will it ever run again?!?!” videos drive me nuts because many of them will clearly run again with little work. It’s not...
The Fiero Revival, Part 12: Assembly? Sure…Let’s Start There.
Nov 23, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The Fiero Revival, Part 12: Assembly? Sure…Let’s Start There.
With everything that he has done to the 1985 Pontiac Fiero 2M4 that he drug out of the woods, you would think that with every painted body panel that is going on, that the end is in sight, that the...
The Goldsmobile Is Back On The Road! New Fuel Tank, New Power Steering Pump, And More!
Oct 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The Goldsmobile Is Back On The Road! New Fuel Tank, New Power Steering Pump, And More!
Right place, right time. That is simply the explanation as to how this 1972 Olds Cutlass has returned to the land of the living. The right person was told about the car and instead of being cut up as...
Actually Fixing It Up: The Gold Cutlass Gets Some Proper Wrench Time In!
Oct 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Actually Fixing It Up: The Gold Cutlass Gets Some Proper Wrench Time In!
Over the years, as I’ve been on this never-ending revival kick, many of you have wondered if, after the cameras are shut off and the video is uploaded, if any of these YouTubers actually go...
Polishing Up The Gold Nugget: Buffing Out The Storage-Shed 1972 Cutlass
Sep 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
The more I see this car get cleaned up, the more I have to hand it to Kevin. Okay, kudos, for sure, but money for a lottery ticket as well, because he scored when he got his hands on this absolute...
Dusting Off The Gold Nugget: The 1972 Storage Shed Cutlass Comes Out Into The Light
Sep 21, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Dusting Off The Gold Nugget: The 1972 Storage Shed Cutlass Comes Out Into The Light
The luck that this year has brought certainly smells like a nugget of something, doesn’t it? I think that most of us can agree that the only “nugget” that 2020 has brought us is the...
Cleaning Out The Caddy: How Bad Does Vice Grip Garage’s Field-Find DeVille Look Under The Carpets?
Jun 21, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Dragging out a 1970 Cadillac sedan from a field in Minnesota where it’d been sinking into the earth under the weight of it’s bulk is a fairly easy concept to understand. Cadillacs from...
Classic YouTube: Check Out This 1957 Chrysler Corporation Training Film – Nine-Way Car Battle With Buick, Olds And Cadillac!
Jun 03, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
This Chrysler Corporation training film might have been showcased as a nine-way vehicle test, but let’s be quite honest: no, it’s not. In the Fifties, the manufacturers were cut-throat...





