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Dick Bear, who kindly gave Wray the McBearen to inspire future students to build their dream car. This car has been in the shop for a few months and another amazing helper Esteban Perez is kindly going through the car to see what repairs are needed to bring the car back to it's original glory!
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hi it's ray from proshape a workshop in
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child in Massachusetts and today I
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wanted to show you another character
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you've met Frank super volunteer Frank
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and you know Marc he's the cameraman
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well this is Esteban Perez and he's
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gonna be a regular in a lot of the
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videos and he's been helping out as much
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as possible around the shop he's been
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doing some of his own work too and what
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he's been working on is this car here
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which is you watch that earlier video I
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think about three or four months ago we
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made a video of this car
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it's called amic baron and it was built
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by dick Baer a friend of mine and he did
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it in 2005 and it was the first car he
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ever built
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he came to one of our group
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get-togethers which was a metal meet
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event back in 2004 I believe got
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inspired took a class from me and he was
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in living in North Carolina at the time
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he rented a shop and he got busy and he
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had some friends I believe in the in the
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NASCAR circuit because he did
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advertising work for the NASCAR and
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stuff and he has a knowledge of a CAD
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program I don't know what program it was
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he drew it up and CAD he heavily
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publicized this if you look on the
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internet you're gonna find a lot of
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stuff if you search McFerrin he named it
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the McLaren because it's influenced by
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the McLaren m8b I believe it is which
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had a v8 motor and Dick opted to put
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this Honda VTEC 4-cylinder in which I
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believe he bought used and he used the
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fat man fabrications Mustang 2 front end
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kid in it and he built all the
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suspension geometry for himself in the
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back
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that's a tube frame it's mostly all
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square or rectangle tubing and believe
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it or not he registered this and I
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believe like 2006 or so and he drove it
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around the country for 50,000 miles
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and he was up in Colorado we have one of
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his sons live and he was going pretty
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fast down the road and a deer hit him
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and it flew over the car and he went
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into a ditch and the suspension got
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damaged the ball joint is bent and this
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piece here is bent and some of the rear
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suspension in the back is bent and some
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of the bodywork got banged up
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so Esteban has been tasked with finding
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out what all the problems are and he's
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fixing all the problems and slowly but
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surely trying to find out who's the
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source of all the parts and we found we
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needed a rotor for this and uh it was a
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Mustang uh it's a Mustang too front end
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but it has a Ford Granada rotor on it so
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we got that but we need a new ball joint
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we have to make a new suspension pod in
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the back and that's Esteban's gonna be
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doing all that so I can in the car both
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this car and this Lola Indy car right
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here we're both gifted to me by dick
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dick is 77 I believe now and he just
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felt that he wasn't going to be doing
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anything more with the Cosby's he's got
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bad bad arthritis and he thought that
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these would be very inspirational to my
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students at my classes so we intended to
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fix these sooner but because of the
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corona stuff I had to cancel the classes
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for a while and now we're getting to
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them we got to fixed a little bit of the
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panel work that needs to be fixed and
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get these running and intent is to have
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them outside the shop and when the
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students come to the class we'll get
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them fired up and they can run around in
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the parking lot with them I don't think
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we're gonna be registering them yet but
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possible so this one needs a little work
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too but we're gonna get to that after we
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get this one finished first I'm just
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gonna talk about what I have done with
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the car again we got the car and we are
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like in the process of doing a thorough
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inspection of it just checking what
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needs to be addressed what needs to be
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replaced as Raymond
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the car got a light heat on one of the
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sides so when we started and it was
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missing these when I call it a bumper
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holder it was missing so it was my task
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just to yeah well did cotton and welded
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yeah just use this one for having the
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the pattern and then just weld it in
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place now after that we went through the
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suspension and some of the pieces or at
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least on this side are bent so I
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proceeded to dismantle everything and
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check it out and now the we order the
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pieces that needed to be replaced one of
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them was the caliper and battle there's
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a couple of other pieces that need a we
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need to fabricate or fixed and that's
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where in the process I'm doing that one
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of the challenges that we have
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encountered here is that one it's a
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bespoke creation meaning that dick bear
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made most of the parts and in order to
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replace them we we have to fabricate
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them again and as Ray mentions he used a
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Honda VTEC engine and transmission it
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these specific engine came from the 7
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generation on that Civic Si so because
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it's a Honda we have the reliability and
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because it's a honed that we have tons
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of aftermarket parts that we could use I
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mean we could even stock it has good
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power like around 160 horsepower but the
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sky's the limit I mean we could
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supercharge it supercharge it we can do
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a lot of stuff with it and the regional
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car probably had like 2500 pounds this
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one it's probably 1500 so which well he
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said like 1,000 pounds of the original
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car so even as I said in
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configuration is stuck with the slight
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body it's mostly aluminum and tube
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chassis this car it's gonna have like
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good power good power and handling and
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our ultimate goal here is that like fix
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it and return it to its natural habitat
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which is the racecourse all across a
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band okay we want to talk about the rear
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suspension this is a coil over
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adjustable suspension it's a nice setup
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it's like horizontal coil over fully
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adjustable and he played with a lot of
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spring rates and I think that he found
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the best setup and it's really unique
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he kept obviously most of the transaxle
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from the Honda so it's a nice setup you
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can see here the the chassis the tube
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chassis you can see here in the back how
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he installed the engine it's actually
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backwards but that's that's the way he
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had to use it in order to work with this
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what he created but it works perfect I
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mean even the going through the through
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the gears it's it's it's perfect so we
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still have a lot of work ahead of us
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it's a good project or we're very
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excited we we hope students come and
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also get to enjoy it and drive it around
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a lot
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this is esteban perez r a shillings brow
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shaper workshop here in Charlton Mass I
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hope to see you soon
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