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A Collection of Classics in Ghent, MN - Dale Remme
Clip: 5/19/2024 | 7m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Dale Remme, from Ghent, MN has restored and preserved a variety of classic vehicles.
Dale Remme, from Ghent, MN has restored and preserved a variety of classic vehicles along with his wife Joette. Dales craftsmanship and attention to detail shine through as each vehicle is displayed.
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A Collection of Classics in Ghent, MN - Dale Remme
Clip: 5/19/2024 | 7m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Dale Remme, from Ghent, MN has restored and preserved a variety of classic vehicles along with his wife Joette. Dales craftsmanship and attention to detail shine through as each vehicle is displayed.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- My name's Dale Remme from Gent, Minnesota and I have a small collection of vehicles to show you.
I have a 1929 model, a sedan delivery, a 1941 Dodge WC - 12 19 46 - Mercury, two door sedan, 1949 Ford F1 and a 1967 Mustang Fastback.
The 67 Mustang was the first one I built after I was buying my toys back and that was bought down in Gutenberg, Iowa.
It took 10 years to do a full restoration on it.
It was pretty rough when we picked it up.
So it took quite a bit of work.
Both rear quarters, fenders doors, trunk floor, main floor, engine transmission, everything was going through and we brought it back to the original colors, kept the original 2 89 V eight in it.
The original color was Wimbledon White.
When we bought it, it was a dark green, so somebody had tried to make a bullet clone or something like that.
We put it back.
Wimbledon White with the standard black interior.
That took about 10 years, but I had three little kids at home at the time, so it takes a little longer.
Then my dad owned a DX station in Hardwick, Minnesota.
This was the truck you used to go out and do on the farm tire repair 'cause you can get out in the field with it pretty easy.
And that one's been completely restored right down to the frame.
So everything works on it again.
So after he died, I inherited that truck, but that's was originally a military half ton.
So it's four wheel drive and we went completely through it still has the flathead and the four speed has been upgraded to a 12 volt system.
And we had to turn signals and I couldn't bring myself to paint olive grabs.
So it's Dodge Truck red.
So that was first truck I learned to drive in that one.
My father-in-Law bought that new when he got outta the service in 1946.
In the years, some time in the sixties, he pulled the engine out and put it in one of the trucks on the farm.
So it just got pushed back in the grove and the pieces would fall off.
Like the trimming stuff, they'd just throw it in the back seat.
It was pretty rough when we got it.
And Duet finally got permission to redo it.
And that's her car.
I just do the work on that one.
- My mom would take lunch out to the fields with this car and in the meantime we would play with it inside and turn on all the buttons and, and all the knobs and play with the radio.
And so when she wanted to take it out, drive it to the field with lunch, the wouldn't start because we had wore the battery down.
Took about three years, work on it before Dale had it done.
- 49 Ford F1.
A friend of mine told me about that.
We went and looked at it and this was a gentleman who was having health issues and he'd started the project and wasn't gonna finish it.
Price was right.
So we just bought that one and we finished it up, kept the original Flathead V eight, fitted with a five speed transmission, so it cruises down the road pretty nice.
Now, model A that was sitting in a barn at the edge of town here.
I've lived here since 75.
I didn't even know it was there.
It was pretty rough shape.
It was basically a shell engine was seized, but then that gives you an excuse to put 'em aftermarket in and an engine in it.
So we added two more cylinders.
So it's got a little V six in it.
Now this is a three liter V six out of a Taurus, SHO, built by Yamaha working on the interior right now.
I still have to put the correct wheels and tires on it, but it's getting close.
Do everything in a 22 by 24 garage.
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