![]() ![]() That is a very hard question because I love them all, but I will try to narrow it down to two vehicles. Q: What is your favorite revived ride right at this moment? The warmer climate here is also wetter, so I encounter different rust issues here, mainly along the rain channels along the roofs of old vehicles. ![]() It already feels like home with the friendly people here, plus it is much closer than Minnesota to every major car guy event in the southeastern United States.Īlso, the long winters in Minnesota kept me away from road adventures for about four months and Tennessee’s milder climate gives me year-round opportunities. We (my wife Jessica and I) knew we had to get south ever since out first visit here about 10 years ago when we discovered the beautiful scenery here in Tennessee. ![]() Q: Your answer directly relates to our third question. Therefore, I had to shut down the excessively loud heaters whenever I recorded segments for my show, so it was a slow and cold process. Not well, I used kerosene instead of diesel fuel in my heaters to keep me alive–and warm my fingers for approximately two minutes-because they (heaters) were extremely noisy and no match for cold winters, so I had to adapt because I was also shooting the episodes. Q: How well did portable heaters work during a Minnesota winter? It was a two-day trip that turned into a week and required two Vice Grip Garage episodes to tell the full story. Then I bought an old ramp truck (sight unseen) to haul the car the rest of the way home, but it was also in bad shape, so I had to nurse the truck home with the Rebel on back. The car’s massive engine leak onto the exhaust manifold created a major smoke issue that could only be described as a ‘campfire sprinkled with engine oil’, so I had to rethink my travel plans in Georgia. I took the car for a quick track test and then decided to hit the road for the 800-mile trip back to my Tennessee home. The car’s former owners had no idea what to do with a custom AMC sedan that now sported a mid-engine 327 AMC small block positioned in front of the driver who is now in control from the back seat. I bought a 1969 AMC Rebel in Braderton, Florida and intended to drive it 800 miles to reach my new home in Tennessee. (Derek had to think about this question for a minute, mainly because he has undertaken so many road adventures over the years, but he deferred to his recent YouTube 2-part road trip) MyStarCollectorCar caught up with the likable host of one of YouTube’s most popular car guy channels and asked him five questions about his world of mechanical chaos and practical solutions to his automotive problems: Derek works without a safety net, so every road adventure behind the wheel of a revived bush or field car is the real deal for him.ĭerek had a modest goal of 100,000 YouTube subscribers but is now at 1 million (and counting) in that department, primarily because he takes his audience on a weekly unscripted adventure with his growing fleet of unloved old cars and trucks. The old vehicles are very important to Derek because he believes they all have a story, one that can be preserved whenever he is able to bring them back on the road for their next journey. ![]() Derek Bieri has become one of the most famous names in car guy world because he is the star of ‘Vice Grip Garage’, a hands-on YouTube show which typically involves the resuscitation of long-dead cars and trucks that are many years past their best-before date.ĭerek breathes life back into the mechanically dead and gives them a future instead of a past. ![]()
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