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Today. It's how to personalize your new GMC truck before you even drive it off the lot. And we're going to put their new remote start and truck information system to a real world test.

Then we're traveling to one of the best truck shows in the nation summit's annual Truck Fast.

And we'll roll the tape back for a rewind segment on the basics of doing a paint job. Right the first time out.

That's all today here on trucks.

Hey, welcome to the truck shop. But what a couple of brothers named Max and Morris

Brown,

he had to do with our show

or even trucks in general. Well, if you're up on your trucks trivia, then you already know that these guys formed the

Gorski Motor Vehicle company and sold their very first manufactured truck to the American garment cleaning company back in 1902.

Investors were quick to pick up on a good thing and a few mergers later, the first GMC logo was slapped

a truck in 1911.

There was no turning back from there. GMC has sold over 10 million trucks over the last 100 years or so

and show no signs of stopping.

So we're going to take a look at this vintage 1951 GMC as well as this 2008 GMC Sierra. We're going to compare a few notes and see what's changed in a little more than 50 years.

This three quarter ton truck was beautifully restored by Randy Payne in Dixon Tennessee.

It features a 90 horsepower 228 cubic inch straight six shift on the column, three speed manual transmission and 411 gears.

But it also features accessories like a passenger side visor, a deluxe heater with defrost a radio. Although Randy's updated his with a more modern unit, an inside rearview mirror,

an outer windshield visor chrome grill and chrome bumpers and left and right side mirrors.

But Randy took things a step further and added

the steel strips and new wood to the bed and you've already seen the chrome valve cover and the oil is air cleaner, but he kept things in the spirit of what was available way back when

now. Obviously, Randy's truck is not typical of a truck that old. It's got a considerable amount of accessories and comfort enhancing items, but this 08 with this thing is off the hook, it is loaded

inside. We've got 10 way power adjustable seats with heaters, leather upholstery

steering wheel controls,

an in dash CD player

adjustable pedals.

It's even got a sun roof.

Now GM has just developed this new key

fob remote start system with an impressive list of features and we'll talk more about this later on when we test it out,

our truck rolls on 20 inch factory alloy wheels and Goodyear rubber as well as having the heavy duty towing package with locking diff and trans cooler. The 5.3 L Flex fuel engine with active fuel management pushes this full size truck to better than 20

MPG.

All in all. This is a well equipped truck with a long, long list of accessories. Now, believe it or not, most of the accessories found on this 51 GMC were available over the part store counter.

So I guess it's fair to say the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Now, accessorizing your vehicle, it's nothing new. Most people start customizing within the 1st 10,000 miles of a new vehicle purchase. So we're going to show you what's new with GM accessories and what you can buy over the GM parts counter to start personalizing your new truck. But the best part is that you can roll that cost back into your low interest truck payment.

Let's get started. We'll get this old girl out of the way.

Don't let that 90 horsepower get away from you. I try not to

what we're installing on this truck is just a fraction of what GM offers over the counter.

So your options are almost unlimited when it comes to restyling with parts that are guaranteed to fit.

Now, beside all the chrome hardware and bolt on accessories, GM also offers some performance hardware in the form of their own cold air intakes and cap back exhaust systems. That'll let the engine breathe easier and free up a few ponies.

But now early on, we showed you their new key

fob remote start system that has a long list of neat features. Plus they claim a 1000 ft starting range. So we're gonna keep them honest and test it out.

Now, obviously, Ryan is still in the truck and we've measured off 1000 ft, which is represented by a little pile of rocks. Now, I've got the ignition key in my hand, so Ryan can't start the truck. So we'll see if the key fob will

start

it

up.

Yeah, it started out. Not only that the climate control came on wide open and blowing cold.

Ok. Now, try and put it in gear.

Oh, won't let me.

Well, that's one of the cool features too because if there's somebody in your vehicle when your remote started, they're not going to be able to put it in gear without the key in the ignition.

And incidentally, there's a, there's a sensor here that'll tell you if somebody's in there as well.

Hey, do you wanna know what your tire pressure is?

Sure? Why not?

Left front is 29

right front is 29

right rear is 30

left rear is 30

cool. I said them all to 30 right before we left the shop.

Ok. It's telling me that I've started it by remote one. Too many times. It will only give you two remote starts. Then you have to go back in and cycle the ignition with the key. It's kind of a safety feature

so I can

fire it up.

It's a long way away

up next. We're going to Summits Truck f

and later we'll show you even more detail on how to take on your very first paint job. Stay tuned.

Hey, welcome back. Well, like you guys, we love working on our trucks here in the shop, but every once in a while, we need to get out and hit the show circuit and get some fresh ideas for our TV projects, but it's hard to find time to travel. So when we do get to go, we wanna hit the best show we can find and one of the best of the best is Summit Racing's annual Truck Best Show. And as you're about to see this one's got all the right ingredients.

It happens every September,

thousands of truck enthusiasts congregate at Truck fest. A free family show that salutes the East Coast. Best trucks

and the guys who build them truck

fest is

over 800 street trucks, customs

classics, minis, jacked up, dropped, chopped and blown. You name it.

It's we literally, I mean, we get thousands of people here. I mean, this event. It's an annual program.

This weekend, we're here to celebrate really cool trucks. It's really a great event.

Even the ultimate lifted monster showed up to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Bigfoot driver, Jim Kramer has been piloting the gigantic Ford since 1977

and it's always nice to come out to a deal like some of the truck fest and everything and bring Bigfoot number five. Believe me, it's a rarity that this truck even gets out. What surprises a lot of people is, it actually moves,

you know, it drives quite well.

Jim, ain't kidding. We both angled for time behind the wheel and as you might imagine

it was a blast.

Now, this

is

a rush,

the fun factor. It's the largest pickup truck in the world. It's in the Guinness Book of World Records again this year

and every time you get to drive something like that, it's, it's a, it's a great deal.

We just want to say thanks for letting us have some seat time at any time, guys. You know what? You're a quick study.

Yeah, and we had to be quick to see all the rigs Vine for the best of class honor. What we do is we try to go ahead and judge the trucks, uh based on a variety of criteria and then we give out trophies for the best trucks and again, they're all customer truck. So they're very proud to be able to get that trophy winners were everywhere from this chopped and dropped S 10

to this lifted rear steer F 350. But the dominant theme was the old school classics

like this Cherry 46 Studebaker M five featuring air ride suspension and a stout 351 Cleveland

and the shaved LT one powered 56 Chevy loaded with subtle details.

Now, here's one of the neat things. Look at the chrome trim around the rear glass. It's airbrush, it's not chrome,

that's just somebody's artisan ship. That's neat man.

Truck F bristles with unique rigs that bring out the fateful

check out this cool 65 Falcon Ranchero complete with period. Correct. Straight six and 32 barrel off

the intake. How about this stealthy F 100 panel sporting a potent 32 valve Cobra V8 with a five speed

or this pearl 32 hot rod pick up packing in Edelbrock equipped flathead

or this faithfully restored vintage 54 Chevy half ton. Perfect with every original detail.

Everyone came for inspiration, even movie car icon, George Barris,

the king of the customizer flew in from Hollywood to take in the show and talk about building a truck. Did I give you a car with us?

Ok, good.

Well, keep in touch with me and let me know. Ok,

great.

When then we can uh

maybe do something else,

George, we will take you up on that,

but this is more than just a show and shine for custom fans. It's also a show and climb for four by four fans.

Speaking of inspiration. Well, there's more to summit truck vest and Bigfoot cool parts in the show and shine out here at the fairgrounds. They got a rock crawl set up so these guys can test the rigs. Let's see if they can break some parts.

The serious four by four guys attack concrete pyramids,

piles of road barriers and fields of boulders with everything from jeeps to Tundras.

Caged buggies,

stay

on top

buddies

most of the time without too much drama. Sometimes with a little help and occasionally, well, this guy is gonna need his summit catalog,

whether you're into custom street trucks, gnarly off roaders or both. This may be the best show of. All right. Thanks again. Thanks for, thanks for having me.

Bye.

See you next trip.

Now, it's cool to see all those great looking trucks and hang out with those guys. If you want to see some top notch iron ride the rocks or hang out with fellow truck enthusiasts, mark your calendar for next September 13th.

We'll see you there.

Hey guys, welcome back to the shop a while back. We started doing a segment we call Rewind, which is a way for us to give you a more in depth look at certain projects. Well, today we're gonna revisit the paint job I did on Holland S 10.

Now it takes us about a week to film just one of the shows that you guys see. So it's no secret that some of what we captured doesn't get used. But you guys did see Ryan lay down a nice paint job on this truck, especially considering it was the first time he'd ever painted a vehicle. So what we're gonna do is show you some of the footage that didn't get used in the show and take a closer look at the fundamentals of automotive painting.

We showed you some basic set up when it comes to gravity fed paint guns. But like anything else, there's always more detail that you can go into.

Now, the paint gun settings we showed you are gonna get you started on a nice even wet coat of paint. But if, when testing your gun, you end up with a pattern that looks like this. Well, chances are

your air cap vent is plugged, needs to be cleaned.

If you end up with a pattern like this, it's light in the middle and heavy on the sides where you've got too much inlet pressure at your gun, back your pressure down and it should even out what you want to look for is an elliptical or football shaped pattern like this about 6 to 8 inches tall.

See what we're doing is we're practicing on the paper, not in our project, not in the booth walls. This gives Ryan a feel of what the real paint looks like. We tested our pattern. We got the nice elliptical pattern. We're good to go. He's a natural

now. I sprayed every square inch of Halling S 10, but I did get some coaching now and then and a few tricks of the trade.

Ok. A panel like this is a little different. You gotta treat it like a box. Don't get fooled and tricked into these crevices and openings. What you wanna do is paint all the way across it,

make your pass and step back and look, if you gotta go in and feather in a little bit, that's fine. But do it afterwards, go for it.

He doesn't need any coaching. He's got it.

That's great.

Now, one of the things I had to get used to is what to do with the air hose when spraying

the air hose actually got into the wet paint on the side of the truck and I didn't want that to happen again.

So Kevin gave me a tip. He said, either put the air hose over your shoulder and spray that way or go ahead and route it behind your back and hold it with your free hand.

It's just whatever works for you and what you're comfortable with

the leapfrogging technique lets you move up the vehicle in a staggered pattern, keeping everything wet as you travel, but you don't want to get trapped into stopping on your panel brakes.

Ok, see how Ryan's painting past the panel brake. This is so you don't get a big build up on that edge. That's good technique.

Now, you've seen Ryan spray across here painting the paper. It's not a mistake. A little more paint here is not gonna cost you much more, but it's gonna keep the dust from blowing from the paper up into your paint job.

Now, if you've painted very much at all, you're gonna get runs of the paint, it just happens and that's because there's this imaginary line between enough paint on the panel and too much which causes runs. So think of our

little drawing here as a cross section of a panel that's been turned sideways. Here's your metal and here's your paint. Now, when you get excessive build up, it actually draws the paint level in on either side of the run. And if you try and fix this with sandpaper, there's a chance that you can sand through into your base coat causing yourself a redo. So think about this as the razor blade we showed you in the run razor technique.

Now, scraping with the razor blade

levels the surface of the run until it's even

with the rest of the surrounding paint

and creates a smooth surface

that can be buffed up to gloss without the danger of burning through.

I didn't handle any of the mixing of the paint or anything like that.

So how do you know how much paint to buy? And that's an important question because automotive paint can get very expensive, but it's easy to figure out how much paint you need to buy if you use Kevin's rule of seven, which is quite simply, it's gonna take you about seven ounces of mixed paint per panel per coat. So if you factor in your seven ounces of mixed paint and our truck head 10 panels for one coat, it gives you 70 ounces. Now remember that there's 32 ounces in a quart. So this gives us a little bit better than two full quarts of sprayable paint, which is almost exactly what it took us to make one coat on the truck. So if you count your panels factor in Kevin's rule of seven, you can figure out how much paint you need to buy almost to the ounce and not blow your budget.

Now for you guys that want to balance the exhaust flow of your trucks left and right cylinder banks, but there's no direct bolt in kit.

Well, Flowmaster makes it real easy for you with their universal H pipe kit, comes with all needed hardware and is available in two and a quarter, 2.5 and three inch sizes. Now, if space is at a premium underneath your truck, well, they're hush power to mufflers just might fit the bill. They offer stainless steel construction, a mellow fifties tone and all the benefits of their street and race mufflers. They also support up to 400 horsepower plush power two mufflers are available in 22 and a quarter and 2.5 inch sizes and prices range from 100 and 69 to 100 and $89.

The universal H pipe kit, 55 bucks.

Now, if you're putting together a high performance engine, but Royal Purple has everything you need to get you from bear block to the race track starting with their max tough synthetic assembly loop. It'll extend engine life and prevent metal to metal contact on that crucial first start up.

Now you saw us use their purple ice cooling system additive. It'll lower radiator temperatures by reducing the surface tension of the water allowing heat transfer to take place more effectively.

It'll also condition the water pump seals

and X Pr is their newest synthetic race oil. Now, this stuff is made for the grueling conditions you see at the track and will free up as much horsepower and torque as possible while maximizing protection against heat and wear Royal Purple, complete line of products is available at most auto parts stores.

Now, even though your paint still looks shiny over time, dirt and contamination can get ground into the pores of the paint eventually killing the gloss.

You can even hear it

but mothers has come up with a clay bar paint saving system that's designed to roll that contamination out of the paint reviving it.

It starts with the instant detailer that comes in the kit

then taking the clay bar, you rub it with a back and forth motion over the paint.

Now, you don't have to rub very long or very hard. But look at the contamination. The clay picked up out of that hood.

Next, take a polishing cloth

and wipe off the detailer.

And after you're through with that,

take the car

nuba wax and give it a nice coat of wax that will protect it. But listen,

now that's clean

and you can pick up a mother's clay bar system for a little less than 20 bucks at almost any automotive retailer. Thank you for watching trucks. See you guys next week.