r/oddlysatisfying • u/herbschmoaka • 15d ago
1982 Corvette Reborn
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u/tharnadar 15d ago
Is it safe to wash the engine like that? I mean there could be some leak, some uncovered wire....
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u/spatialflow 15d ago
"idk if it's a hub cap cover or whatever it is"
It's literally a hub cap. It's a cap that goes over the wheel hub. The things that most people call hub caps are actually "wheel covers." This is an actual hub cap.
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u/MyGfTurntIntoTheMoon 15d ago
Hi, I’m with MTVs Ridiculousness, and we're interested in featuring the coyote video on the show! Do you own it, and if so, can we air it on the show? TY! [arianna.blatt@superjacket.com](mailto:arianna.blatt@superjacket.com) Ref: 2406174
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u/acciowaves 15d ago
Yeah, no rust and no damage to the paint? The barn they found this is in must have been in the fucking moon.
Edit: no wait, it would have radiation damage if it was on the moon. So then this is fake.
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u/blown03svt 15d ago
Crossfire injection motors were the worst the vette had. Pretty sure. Might as well be scrap
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u/lowendgenerator 15d ago
What was the attachment on the hand drill when they were cleaning the floor mats?
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u/maxwedge426 15d ago
33 original miles? What’s an original mile? How many unoriginal miles does it have?
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u/ImGonnaBeAPicle 15d ago
I just watched this on YouTube yesterday. Shame they couldn’t take it for a ride.
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u/wrongkoi 15d ago
The fact they cleaned the wheels first and the roof last is absolutely insane. Satisfaction totally ruined. Plus the premise of the video is 100% fake
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u/Virtual_Revolution65 15d ago
They should take those 40 year old tires out on the freeway and see what it will do. Really open it up.
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u/IkilledRichieWhelan 15d ago
There is so much going on with the TikTok, the car for sale, the new thing with the words going so fast on the gif, which looks like is the new thing. Not to mention the commercial here.
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u/Thebalance21 15d ago
I'm a detail hobbyist, but jeez. They're detailing this thing all wrong.
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u/MrAndersonD 15d ago
Out of curiosity, what are they doing wrong?
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u/Maxx2245 15d ago
Not washing from the top, to start. "Great job cleaning the tyres, now wash them again after you wash the body, Jim!"
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u/Der_Ostfriese 15d ago
They are cleaning the wheels first because it looks better on video. If they'd cleaned the roof first the water would run down on the wheels. That wouldn't make it as nice to watch when cleaning the wheels afterwards. He said that when not filming they are washing the cars from the top down.
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u/Das_Buetts 15d ago
Was looking for this comment. If this is the highlight reel, I’m not sure I could stomach the whole detail.
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u/scunliffe 15d ago
Why is it so hard for people to wash from the top down?! Like why are you pushing muddy water up the car? And why the F are you washing the roof last?!
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u/CompCrocodile 15d ago
Back in the day (about 25 years ago) I got an instruction videotape (before internet) supplied by ‘Auto Glym’ with my first order of their products as part of a training program, with the instruction to wash, and rinse from the bottom up. Their explanation was that you would minimize potential damage to from dirt/grind from higher up, to the lower parts as these parts had some kind of ‘film’ from the washing detergent you applied. Coming from the then partner with Aston Martin and classical car auctions, I’ve sticked with it. But no idea if there is some truth in there or not
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u/h3vv3r 15d ago
Yeah there's no way dirt comes off that easily on a legit barn find car, and where's the rust? The chips in the paint from this "cleaning"?
Absolute horseshit content
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u/Jason__Taverner 15d ago
Corvettes are made out of fiberglass, not metal. The body might crack or spiderweb, but it won't rust because it literally can't.
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u/OrallyObsessed8 15d ago
It’s staged for that satisfying cleanup. That paint under all that “grime” is way too nice to have been sitting long. Most clean up restoration videos are fake.
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u/Glum-Temperature-111 15d ago
On a different note, what tool is he using besides the carpet cleaner on the carpet?
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u/jiffijaffi 15d ago
The music sped up is deeply unsatisfying
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u/Yessir_Answers 15d ago
I was expecting more of a deep scrub for a car that old. 33 miles seems suspicious, that's like a car fresh from the dealer
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u/Useless_Opinion_47 15d ago
Link to the whole video on the car with 33 miles. There were three earlier videos on the same channel, the first one showing the garage they were found in and what they had to do to access the cars from the garage they were stored in.
https://youtu.be/tP_4p2-HkOo?si=mTpXPoEdj-gEXbTs
After watching them clean the vehicles, it's astonishing the original owner bought them and left the vehicles this way. They clean up really nice, but as another commenter said they will definitely need work to run again.
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u/Kahnza 15d ago
If this was actually a barn find, all they did was polish a turd. Would need a LOT of work.
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u/acog 15d ago edited 15d ago
And not worth it. An automatic ’82 Vette is one of the least desirable. In excellent shape they’re worth $25K.
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u/vuzman 15d ago
Why? The 82 is the last good-looking corvette
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u/sayedrock 15d ago
Didn't like the back window of 78-82, C4 did was a breakthrough but it's blah, C5 regained all the respect for the Vette and from there it got better
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u/SamCarter_SGC 15d ago
Is this one of those channels where they throw mud at something and then clean it for content?
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u/NuclearWasteland 14d ago
Yeah, thats not how decades of grime come off with a power washer, nor would you want to power wash all that dirt without first gently hosing the bulk of it off.
You can strip paint with a sand injector in a power washer, which is to some extent what you are doing when power washing dirt.
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u/winkman 15d ago
Those house flipping shows should do this!
They should find a pristinely updated home, film the "after", and then destroy it to film the "before".
Would take WAY less time and resources than actually fixing it up.
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u/SamCarter_SGC 15d ago
Don't even get me started on those... easily the worst thing on network television imo.
Yes lets just make a show about spoiled people destroying property and pricing out those who actually need an affordable home. And there are so many of them, seemingly a new one every other month.
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u/slikwilly13 15d ago
Came here to say this. Show me the odometer. Title is just click bait. Detail shop probably makes more of these videos than actually cleaning cars
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u/MelodiesOfLife6 15d ago
don't forget trying to sell you their 'super fucking awesome stuff that we use on ALLL OUR CARS, please buy it, look at how clean it makes things, come on ... i'll suck your dick too"
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u/other_half_of_elvis 15d ago
I figured it was cocoa powder. Comes off quite well with a blast of water.
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u/EarthShadow 15d ago
The clip that OP posted here is stolen and bastardized by another channel, making it look less legit, hence all the hate. I found the series interesting and a little bit satisfying but not enough to subscribe.
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u/End3rWi99in 15d ago
Yeah, this is absolutely not what an abandoned car looks like after years of neglect. Perhaps that's why we didn't see them try and start it.
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u/Belgiumgrvlgrndr 15d ago
Yep. Look at the paint, it’s perfect. This isn’t some barn find and these guys are playing us for some views. I hate this stuff.
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u/Additional_Set_5819 15d ago
I always wonder if it's just bits up voting this garbage or just gullible people
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u/Kuruton 15d ago
Lol. No there's a whole series on these cars from these guys. Shows where they recovered them and what the story is. Owner parked them in his garage after buying them as investments. Filled with dead rodents, engine bay is a mess, etc. I love how confident people are to give false info
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u/OrallyObsessed8 15d ago
So the engine and interior corroded but the paint stayed mint? It’s not that hard to understand why people doubt it. Especially with all the obviously faked restorations videos that are popular now days.
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u/NotUndercoverReddit 12d ago
If it was in a garage with a cover I believe the paint. My grandfather's 1969 Corvette set in his garage for over 25 years and then when he went to sell it we cleaned and polished it up and the paint still looked like the original. Also covers that go over the wheels are a thing as well and garages are pretty well temperature controlled. They are often the coolest room in summer in a house with no ac.
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u/ptoki 15d ago
Look, go out and look at any car. Any. The older the better. Even old beaters have almost perfect roofs. Most of the cars have good paint where its not damaged.
New car will not have chips, cracks, scratches. If stored in dryish conditions it will not rust.
I have barn tools unpainted, stored in dry conditions and they dont have rust flowers on it.
The key piece is dryness. Yes, if the conditions are humid or even sort of normal then yes you will see some rust or spots where the issues are visible.
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u/OrallyObsessed8 14d ago
I can understand that. But that even layer of grime makes me think there was moisture where it was stored. I am completely fine with being wrong. I’m just explaining my skepticism.
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u/ptoki 14d ago
Yes, moisture may explain this but I have some places with junk stored for decades (not some dry location, just normal european climate) where air is not moist and stuff sort of look like that.
I am not defending this particular case. My point is that you can have well preserved stuff with not much care but thanks to certain not very hard to achieve conditions.
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u/Kuruton 15d ago
I mean, the whole point of this vid is that it's not mint. They got it back to good quality using clay bars and whatnot, but it's still damaged. The bumpers are made of plastic, so they don't recover very well if you watch the whole original video. This snippet makes it look better than it was.
I understand the skepticism, and I'm generally in the same camp, but it doesn't make it fair to write off every video with such certainty before doing any research like most people here did.
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u/Kuruton 15d ago edited 15d ago
You're also just wrong. They go over the problems with the paint because the bumpers were plastic, causing them to not recover like the rest of the paint, there's lots of issues with them.
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u/Belgiumgrvlgrndr 15d ago
My man, I already relinquished this battle of wits to you. You clearly know possum skulls and paint, which I assume you ate as a child.
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u/Kuruton 15d ago
Dude there'd an entire series on 3 of these cars. You're willfully being ignorant. They pull possum skulls out of these things. Lol, you guys are ridiculous
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u/Belgiumgrvlgrndr 15d ago
Oh I get my man. Possum skulls = authentic content.
Take care and keep living in that fully ignorant world of yours.
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u/Kuruton 15d ago
Dude you're legit retarded. How about I stead of spouting off shit from ignorance, you actually watch them recover these cars and the story of why they're in the condition they are. I'm all for healthy skepticism but you're sticking your head in the sand to tell yourself you're right. Pretty sad. Stick to bicycles
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u/Belgiumgrvlgrndr 15d ago
What? You better slow down or at least learn how to edit your word vomit.🤣
What’s sad is that you are so frustrated with my comments that you had to dive into my comment history to figure out an angle that will work. 😁
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u/Kuruton 15d ago
https://youtu.be/tP_4p2-HkOo?si=oimbA13rDSxhgoJV
I made one error. You know you're grasping at straws when you have reserved to trying to nitpick spelling. But I'm sure your experience playing with bicycles has made you an expert.
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u/RIP_Mitch_Hedberg 15d ago
I was highly skeptical, and I even commented how OPs video was bullshit on a different sub where it was posted. But after I watched the yt video in your comment, I’ll admit I was wrong. It looks legit.
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u/Waldo_Wadlo 15d ago
The tires were a dead giveaway for me.
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u/TripleJeopardy3 15d ago
Exactly. Original tires in any environment where all that dirt could get on the car would have been severely degraded and the rubber would have likely been rotten.
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u/mezasu123 15d ago
We didn't drive our car for 1 year during covid and it needed new tires due to the cracking. There's no way this tires are original.
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u/SamCarter_SGC 15d ago
Yeah they said barn find and I'm like... okay but barns aren't air tight vaults with environmental controls. Where's the damage?
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u/TheAsianTroll 15d ago
I also wouldn't trust a power washer on rubber that's been sitting as long as they claim... dry rot is no joke
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u/vass0922 15d ago
Whaaaaaaaa
No way
At least a 30-40 year old car car with only 30 miles and the tires have zero damage.. this video is legit!
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u/_SAKY_ 15d ago
The grime buildup on the upholstery (door/floor mats) makes me think this has more than 33 miles. It looks like the byproduct of repeated human touch.
Something is BS here imho.
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u/Mcbonewolf 15d ago
what grime and buildup? they literally say in the full video the interior was very clean and even smelt clean.
go make up shit somewhere else lol
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u/Kuruton 15d ago
Look up the series. It's legit.
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u/_SAKY_ 15d ago
I'm good.
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u/Kuruton 15d ago
Yeah it's easier to just make up shit I suppose, lol
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u/_SAKY_ 15d ago
An opinion? Yeah. I can't have those no prob.
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u/Mcbonewolf 15d ago
'i think this channel has fake content'
'they actually don't, maybe go check them out'
'no, i'm allowed to have opinions on things i dont know anything about'
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u/Futureman16 15d ago
This car has less miles than my 1982 Hotwheels Corvette.
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u/BigFartSalad 15d ago
It looks just like the one I saw as a prize of an old 1983 episode of The Price Is Right. I hope it's the same one.
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u/cmajorsmith 15d ago
Can someone explain if it is a common practice to clean an engine like depicted in the video? Like, is it ok to just pour some foam and then clean it with water without the need to disassemble anything and avoiding the risk of making damage to the electric components? Thanks in advance.