horsepower tv idiots

I don't know if this was old episode or not, but they did a very commendable job with the 69 Barracuda they built some years ago when Chuck Hanson was still on the show. They even went to the trouble to locate and retrieve a K member from a Mopar salvage yard in Alabama. The original had been hacked up when someone did a small block to big block conversion.

They used a crate engine for that build as I recall.

The show isn't the same without Chuck. He left the show shortly after his son was killed in a car accident. That will take a lot out of anyone and he couldn't keep pace with the demands of the shooting schedule anymore. Joe's okay, but they never really found anyone to take Chuck's place.