1957 Cadillac CLEANED For The First Time in 50 YEARS Insane Barn Find Transformation

In last week's video you saw us working on a 1995 Cadillac Fleetwood for a wife who lost her husband. But now it's time to turn the clocks back 38 years because we found a 1957 Cadillac Fleetwood sitting in this barn for the last 50 years and this was also for a wife who lost her husband. The story's almost exactly the same with the same car only 38 years apart. All right guys we are here with the owner of the car that's in this barn, Ms. Jean and Ms. Jean I do not know what vehicle is in here it's been kept a secret from me so I'm really excited to see I've heard it's a it's pretty interesting. It's been here probably about 50 years. Oh my gosh let's see it. Watch your step. Oh my gosh look at that thing. Wow I've never seen fins like this ever on a hood. She's a beauty. Yeah she is. Wow you know I think we had done look at the two-tone the white with the baby blue. What do you think is there any hope for it? I think so yeah. And I'm not sure exactly how long it's been here probably about 50 years. This was one of the older barns on the farm that he started putting them in several barns he had. This was your husband's vehicle? I'm not sure where he got it a lot of them he took on trade he'd take anything on trade including me probably if he could have but there was we used to fly down to Atlanta for the auction down there and then he'd buy and we'd drive him back so some of the cars some things that he had he picked up on his way back home if he'd see him in the yard. A lot of people used to sell their vehicles in the yard. Is your husband still with us? No he passed away eight years ago. Oh I'm sorry to hear. I'll take a look at this interior. Wow Brian come look at this look at this seat. What do you think any hope? Yeah I'd say so. I mean it's gonna be a lot of work but I think it's gonna look incredible once it's all done. So your husband had a quite a lot of cars? Yeah he had I think there were 53. 53 cars? What was it what was his favorite? What was the coolest one out of the bunch? Probably the Superbird but he got a 33 Chevy out of Indiana. Well he obviously had great taste and I wish we'd been able to take a look at that Superbird before you guys had moved it. So thankful you're trusting us with the uh with driving out here and cleaning it up. Yeah we'll do it uh what was your husband's name? Arden. We'll do it for Arden. There's very little chance that this is going to hold air but we're going to try for fun. What do you think Mike? I usually have quite high hopes for this uh but today I don't know. If this holds air I will be very impressed. It'll make it load this thing way easier. It might work. There's no way. Oh my gosh. There's no way. That's insane. How is that happening? Well these have a tube inside them right? No the tubeless it says right there. Oh it is tubeless just enough to get it in the trailer. Yeah that's. And now we're going to start pulling the car out of the barn but now that you guys have seen this car and if you watched our video last week I'm curious about what you guys think of the progression of Cadillac as a brand. We literally got to showcase what these cars were in the 50s all the way up until the 90s and how they changed over the course of almost 40 years between two different videos. And then you can see what Cadillac is making now. So how do you feel about all of that? Do you like where Cadillac is and where it's going or do you like what it used to be? And we got all excited for nothing because as you can see the tires only lasted until we got out of the barn and went completely flat. But that's okay we're going to get brand new tires for this car for the reveal. But I do want to say make sure you're subscribed to this channel because we have some insane videos lined up for the next like four weeks for you. And the next WD giveaway is coming. You do not want to miss it. It's one of the coolest things we're ever going to give away. All right so we have finally made it back with the Cadillac. We have it on jack stands because all four tires are completely flat and so we're going to have to replace those. This car has a bit more patina than we initially had thought or seen when it was in the barn. So it's going to take us quite some time to just clean it up and make it look presentable enough. But I need you guys to stay until the end to see what I end up doing with this paint because believe it or not this thing is going to shine. It is pretty interesting to see the Fleetwood as it's aged in time and I'm really excited to see the insides and the differences over the years of Cadillac because this thing is super big, super cool, super heavy and hard to move because this was really hard to get here just like you see it now. One thing I will say though about the interior it stinks like pee. I wish you guys well actually I'm glad you guys can't smell through your TV screens or your phone screens because the smell inside is absolutely disgusting. But first things first we're going to go ahead and remove the wheels from this car so that we can send them out to get new tires. These nuts look completely rusted to this wheel so what I'm going to do is take some PB Blaster and spray it on here because when we go to take it off we don't want to break any of these while we're doing it. It'll just make our lives a little bit easier later on. I want to show you something that's pretty unique about this Cadillac and luckily I figured it out before I made a big mistake. This is my impact gun and it's on righty tighty right now but this Cadillac has reverse threads on the driver's side. This was a feature on some cars of this vintage but we don't often see it and we have to be very careful and usually what you'll see I don't know if you could make it out. There's a little L right here imprinted on top to let you know that this is reverse thread so these come right off. Now on the other side of the car it's like regular you just take it off the regular way you would. I'm not sure why they thought this was a good idea because I'm sure many people have made a mistake and broken some studs or destroyed some bolts with this but luckily I didn't do that today. What are the chances that this guy just comes right out? I'm gonna say not good. Oh gosh. There it went. I got pretty lucky on that one. Some big old drum breaks up front. All right guys there's something that you need to know about RJ and that's that he has a major spending problem. Thankfully Mike keeps RJ's spending in check at least as best he can but if you don't have a mic to help you manage your cash flow and your spending habits you can use this video sponsor Current. 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We're going to be using Iron Kryptonite as a pre-wash because we're going to try to get as much of this rust off as we can. And I want you guys to actually watch through this process because I think you're going to be super surprised with how much this actually comes back to life. And although we have to reapply Iron Kryptonite a few times it works so well on this paint. Okay it might not look like it yet but you guys just need to trust the process. As you watch all the water getting washed away not only will you see the purple in the water you can also see brown which is the rust getting rinsed off the top of this paint. We didn't know that there was paint actually hiding underneath the rust but it's actually still there and I'm curious how this even happened. Either way we're going to keep going keep removing some of this rust and see what happens at the end. So what do you guys think? As you just saw so much of the rust is coming off and that's all from our Iron Kryptonite. We haven't put any kind of mitts or any kind of brushes on this paint. It's zero contact. If you guys are interested in using this on your own cars at home it will take any of the rust or the iron particles out of your paint and make it look so good. You could get it in the description below at our website. All right hold on Mike before we finish washing the car I just noticed something. Come look at these taillights and tell me what they look like to you. Do you not see a face that's yelling? I mean yeah now I do. Yeah two eyes a little nose and then oh I was like screaming. I'm never going to be able to look at this car the same. Both sides it's got I don't know if it's from like a skull or just a person with their eyes. I mean I don't think they meant that. Nose and mouth. But I definitely see it now. If you guys see it leave a comment. And we get this question a lot why do we use these brushes on emblems, lights, mirrors and all that stuff in these videos. And the reason being is because our microfiber mitts are going to miss a lot of what's behind these and these brushes are super soft. And we finally have our own brush kits on our website if you guys want to get these and use them on your own cars at home. It's up to you if you want to go that detailed but they're still great for so many other things. And people have been begging us to release brushes that they can use. So now they're finally available. So make sure you get yours before they sell out. All right we're going to take a look at what's under the hood of this Cadillac Fleetwood. I did a little research so I have a pretty good idea. I believe that is... Yes it is. It's a 385 cubic inch v8. This is a 6 liter v8. And it was actually really powerful for its time. This car is from 1956 but this thing made over 280 horsepower. Which is definitely nothing to sneeze at. As you guys can see the mice have definitely been in here. There's actually a whole ear of corn right back there. I'm gonna have to pull that out. Nice. Well you never know what they'll bring in the car. Some of these wires are chewed up in this motor. And we don't have a lot of time to work on this thing. We'll be able to clean it up and hopefully give them a head start. Probably won't be able to get this thing running on this video. Just because we are in such a time crunch and this thing needs a lot of help. Now we're going to do one last application of iron kryptonite. And that's because we're going to pull out our clay mitts. And get whatever paints on here ready for RJ's polishing later. And I'm telling you guys you're going to want to keep watching. Because the difference is actually crazy. All right guys. So this interior is one of the grossest that we have ever seen. Sadly I had to sit in this car for a little bit when we were picking it up. And we can't do that. Just for health reasons this thing is nasty. A lot of mice have been in here. And they have definitely peed and pooed everywhere. It reeks. It's smelling up our entire shop. So we're going to be using masks on this one. And probably eye protection as well. Just because we don't want to get anything nasty inside of us. But I'll have Brent do a little pan shot of the interior. So you guys can get a peek of what it looks like now before we get to cleaning it. And it is unique and interesting. Although it just reeks. We have not opened the trunk of this car yet. I don't see any big nests. So I'm thinking maybe we'll find something in here. But we'll see. Because like I said this car when we came in this morning the whole shop just reeked. Action bulb is pretty nice. Okay. Well there you go. That stinks. Look at the middle of that tire. Yeah. So we're going to address the trunk first. So we're going to do multiple levels of cleaning here. First we're just going to clean everything out. And then at the end of the detail I'm going to spray a bacteria killing spray on everything. And we're going to put an ozone machine in this car and let it sit for two hours. Although two hours may not be enough for this one. It's all the time that we have. And we're going to let the owners know to let this thing air out as much as possible. And we'll give them some other options that they can do furthermore. All right guys. God it's hard to even take this mask off. But as you can see this carpet is absolutely thrashed. It is covered in mouse urine. And there's no saving it. You can even see if I touch it here. It just rips right apart. I mean this carpet needs to go. Otherwise this car will never smell nice again. So we're going to strip the whole entire interior of any kind of fabric like this. And throw it all away. And then we'll vacuum everything up. And then we'll clean the actual metal. And hopefully we can remove some of that mouse urine smell. It's actually kind of crazy because the carpet is in such bad condition. But the seats are actually in great condition. There's not one rip on any of the seats. Actually the door cards are in great shape too. So really the only part of the car that needs to be removed is this carpet. And I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that that helps with the smell. And now we have Joey on the chrome. And this chrome is not in the greatest condition. We thought we'd be able to bring it back 100 percent. And although it does come back really well in a lot of spots. Joey was only able to bring it back I'd say about 85 percent. Which honestly with the condition that this car is in I think we'll take it. All right now it's time to polish some Fleetwood. And I'm sure you guys are wondering RJ how the heck are you going to polish something that has so much rust. But there is a good amount of paint still. And I can make that shiny believe it or not. And to be honest I really like these patina look cars. Like I think they they look cool. I think they tell a story. It has all the patina in the right places. It might not be everyone's taste. But I definitely like it. But just to prove to you guys that I can make this car shiny. I did this last night. I mean look at that. It's actually really really clear. And that's what I'm talking about. How the patina kind of adds to the paint job. And if this is a shiny blue with a nice shiny white roof. I think this thing is going to look incredible. But I have so much to do. So let's get to work. All right guys we are back with the owner of the Cadillac Miss Jean. And we're here at the Classic Rod Shop. Which is the shop that's going to be working on the Cadillac. And this was a little bit more than we initially anticipated. Do you remember what it looked like coming out of that barn? Pretty ugly. Yeah pretty ugly. And pretty stinky too. And we did our best. I'm really excited for you to see it. I'm excited to see it. All right let's let's take a walk outside and show you. Here you go. Wow it's blue. Not too bad huh? No it looks good. It actually shines a little bit. Yeah we got some fresh tires on it. Otherwise we would have a lot of trouble getting it back here. Because it was a lot of trouble getting it out of the out of your barn. And then into the garage. But. Wow you cleaned up the inside. Right not too shabby. Yeah here actually give it a whiff in there. Let me know if you still think it stinks. Smells good. It smells better that's for sure. But that steering wheel is huge. Yeah the steering wheel came out great. The interior came out great. So you know what? I actually really like patina cars like this. I like when they have the character of all the rust of where they're found. I do too. That's what makes it original. Exactly yeah. And I even got some of the blue. You know the spots that still had paint to shine. Somebody that's looking for a project. Oh yeah. This with a big motor in it driving around town. It's in pretty good good shape. It's solid bones for sure. I even got the the white roof to shine up pretty well. Yeah the roof shines up nice. Yeah it's all smooth and whatnot as well. Yeah you guys did a great job. Oh thank you. This one was definitely a labor of love for us especially because we. She was nestled in there for a long time in that barn. Absolutely. Yeah that's for sure. And you said you had had a couple other cars including this AMX in your barn as well. Right. Which is nuts. We would have loved to have done that one. That one is beautiful. I can only imagine your husband is looking down on us. Hopefully proud that those cars get to live on. I think so. He was always tickled when he got a gem. To carry on you know your husband's legacy and his passion for cars. And we're just thankful that you trusted us and our passion for cars. To take this from your home and and clean it up for you. Thank you. You're very welcome. Thank you so much for the opportunity. And thank you guys so much for watching. We truly appreciate each and every one of you. Without you none of this is possible. If you want to see more videos like this you can hit subscribe. And we're going to see you next week with a pretty wild video. So definitely subscribe if you want to see something wild.