These guys take pride in rebuilding rusty car engines so they can run again

Nobody would give a second look if they saw a seven-decade-old car today, even if it was a then-popular muscle or classic car — let alone a truck from the late 1950s — but these guys obviously cared and attempted to fix several well-aged car engines.

Let’s be real — spending precious time and resources on an old and rusty car engine doesn’t seem worth the hassle, but sometimes car enthusiasts just have a different way of thinking.

It’s certainly exponentially more difficult of a job than it sounds, and one needs exceptional amounts of sheer will even to attempt something like this.

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Rebuilding rusty car engines

The team at Hagerty takes pride in what they do — and every last bit of it is justified.

It’s one thing to find a gem of a car in a barn find, but entirely something else to restore its hardware to get it up and running.

For instance, we have seen our fair share of some of the greatest barn finds ever, but only a few of these cars, which aren’t that old, get to hit the roads again.

Hagerty actually has a series of videos of such engine rebuilds and extractions on their YouTube channel, and we’re here to discuss one particular rebuild.

In that video, the team — well, it’s mostly one person — rebuilt a Chevy Stovebolt 6 engine.

For context, that’s from a 1950 Chevrolet pickup truck, so it’s not like they picked an iconic vehicle by modern standards.

Getting a ’50s Chevy truck up and running again

The engine was quite roughed up in the beginning — with several layers of rust and whatnot.

But dedication can take you places, so they began by carefully cleaning off all the unwanted stuff in order to get access to the actual hardware.

Time can be seriously harsh on machines, especially car engines.

Its combustion chamber had cracks, and the engine overall had many unusable areas, making it quite a challenge.

However, the team didn’t falter, and since they had enough experience with such engines, they managed to put it all back together.

The engine was now ready to fit into the age-old pickup truck, which had also been restored to a certain extent.

It’s not every day you see a vehicle from the 50s up and running, so it’s certainly a rare and cool sight.

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