Dealership Cars Abandoned in Field for Decades Sold at Auction! Classic Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Buick!
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- Mr. Goodpliers walks around a field of old dealership cars and trucks sold at auction in South Dakota! Check out classic Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Plymouth, Buick, Ford, Packard, Rambler and more! 1950's, 60's, 70's, 80's and more. This is part one of the series of four videos from this location, filmed and auctioned August 27, 2022 in Miller, South Dakota
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those were all somebody’s pride & joy at one time. they all have a history.
Enjoyed your commentary. I drove Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles around the 1968 to 1976 era in my job and as personal vehicles. Enjoyed their quality and reliability at the time before all the cars started looking alike. I can remember the day when you could identify the make of the car 1/2 mile ahead of you just by the tail lights.
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Today, a person is LUCKY to be able to "identify" these JAPANESE CLONES by their "nameplate"! STYLE, AND "VEHICLE ROMANCE" IS DEAD!
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A nice mix of cars and trucks from the 40s to the 90s.
These cars are amoung the best cars ever! I like the cars with the post. I also agree about the black cars with red interior. The trucks are awesome as well. Rare finds.
I don't care what anybody says. Those 4 doors would sell to the right buyers just to restore and put in a cruise or a show. Not everyone likes hot rods all the time.
great video, I love all of the vintage vehicles and everything else vintage Mr. Goodpliers 👍 I'm glad I found your channel.
2:07 That Hudson is a restoration gold mine.
Omg , these are beautiful . I'm overwhelmed
In West Virginia we would call that a junk yard.
DANG...you sure know your stuff! Love your vids, and thanks for showing the motorcycles when they sell.
Thanks for stopping by the channel, Jeff! And thank you for your kind words
if he knew his kjb. and was saved and ready for heaven. would be much better
@@mr.goodpliers6988 u got most of them right g as fo da Hudson hornet it was a 52 g
You find the coolest place! Thanks for taking us with you! 👍
I like those Toronados with the wrap around rear window also.
Yes, those are the rarer model, though there is one shown at the Swedish Immigrant Farmstead Auction.
Retired, GM ASE Master Automotive Technician 42 years and I remember all these cars, some good and some bad lol. I personally owned, 3-Trans Am, 1-Camaro, 3-Corvette, and many more cars and trucks over the years, but my favorite was my 1978 Trans Am that looked just like the Smokey And The Bandit car Burt Reynolds drove in the movie. Thanks for the tour, Mike
One of the main reasons I'm subscribed is your amazing encyclopedia of knowledge of these 50's thru 80's cars and their current and at the time, their available options. I applaud you friend, your knowledge is unfounded. I appreciate ALL your efforts and enjoy ALL your vids. Thank you very much.
Damn your like a walking encyclopaedia. Very impressive collection that hopefully they all go to good homes. 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍
This story of a Oldsmobile car dealership in South Dakota, that held onto there customers traded in vehicles all these years, reminds me of the Chevrolet dealer in Nebraska that was named Lambrecht Chevrolet, it was said that the owner would not sale a used vehicle, not even when the locals ask him to sell a car that they saw traded in, he would refuse. sometime around 2017 there was a large auction held to sell off the family's huge used car inventory. This story & auction is posted on CZcams also. I find this stuff very interesting, instead of selling these cars as used cars or project vehicles when they could have been worth something more than junk price , they just let them sit in in the dirt, out in the elements of mother nature to degrade, decay, into basically scrap or possibly a somewhat viable parts vehicle.
You have to recall that America was awash in cars during that era, and people only kept a car for a few years typically, especially in rust-belt areas. I am old enough to remember when used 1960s cars could be had for $100-200 back in the 1970s, and 1940s-50s cars for as little as $25. My dad owned a 1948 Pontiac up until the mid-1970s, and he picked up a matching 1947 Pontiac for $35 from a gas station nearby for a parts car. I used to play in it as a kid. So these old four-door plain-jane family cars were a dime a dozen and just not that desirable or valuable (then or now), so having a few dozen to a few hundred of them sitting around really didn't add up to all that much. Plus, a lot of people in farm country had plenty of excess land and just put anything and everything that they were done using out in the "back 40"(acres) somewhere and it stayed there until after they died. Now if this was a field of RS/SS Camaros, or Judge GTOs and other such rarities, then I could agree with you more.
Lambrecht was particularly nutty, he tossed brand new cars and trucks with a few miles in a field for decades for no good reason. His family couldn't really explain why.
Chevrolet dealer wouldn't sell the old model new cars when the new models came out. Numerous vehicles were brand new never titled vehicles in decent condition.
@@redmondjp You're exactly right. I bought a raggedy 1962 Impala Super Sport in 1978 for $25, lol.
The 63 olds has a tree growing out of it.
How can anyone just let these cars rot away? What a shame!!
That's just crazy, leaving out to rot.
Dude my wife continues to try and open other peoples car doors because she cannot distinguish our car from other peoples cars in a parking lot. You remember ever car and every year.
Stop at the 1960 Oldsmobile - Complete with the “Fashion Aire” grill! Love it 😀 You have a gold mine!
Fantastic video. Thank you!
They all had that new car smell at once.🤩
Thank great video great looking back
Very interesting Sir !! Thank you for sharing your journey !!! God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy
a bunch of rusty old 4 door cars that have been baking in the sun for the last 50 years. cool.
I don't understand why a new car dealership would decide to put these once "wholesale" cars up for sale now and not once they were traded...
Sir; I profoundly appreciate your car knowledge. Thank you 😊
I remember quite a few wood floored pickups of that era, and those old white stock racks.
LOVED the old 67pontiac gp hide away head lights an the olds super 88s and the silver toronado...i had a 77..BLEW my mind when you showed the 6000 with the 4.3 diesel !!!
Great, thanks for sharing.
THANK YOU!!!
Had a 79 Phoenix. Paid a whopping $75 for it, got it running, got rid of a lumpy vinyl roof, did metal work, painted it, drove it daily. Once did a hot lap at the local dirt track after races were over, got yelled at by track officials, but the car stuck in the corners real well, foot to the floor in 2nd in the dark, no track lights. Fun!
I want them all ! lol Reminds of the Lambrecht auction a few years back.
I like how you can tell all those cars apart from each other that is cool thank you for the video
Howdy! Found ya via Nobody Else's Auto, and subscribed. Cheers from Alberta, Canada!
What a find, lots of beauties.
LOVE the old faces @2:37. Great for a drum riser with lights working.
I had a '77 Cutlass Supreme Brougham that had the striped interior. They don't make interiors like that anymore. Great car. Great video.
We saw a pristine Cutlass with that striped interior at the GM Heritage Center and I have been drooling over them since. One of the best periods of design history, especially considering all the budding gov't regs of the time - what they still managed to do on these cars was amazing!
Ohhh, so many complete cars.
I'm a fan of the 1965 Dodge Coronet. That 4 door not so much but the 2 door cars are cool.
good quality old cars in this place. nice to see, some wrack yards just full of stuff too far rotten out to restore, loads here in useable condition
AWESOME TIM 👍
AWESOME video. Great job.
Nice post! You really know your vehicles, OMG, thank you! Makes me appreciate all the vintage cars I drove and restored as a youth, thought they were rough, but mint compared to these. You forget how long ago it really was. That said, I wonder at all the broken windshields/glass, as I don't recall seeing that in my wrecking yard searches, likely kids on destruction rampages? I worked for a Olds/Chevy dealership in the 1970's and we never kept our rough trade-ins.
thanks for videos like this. many are cars that are not seen at car shows etc but fun to see now.
Very Kool Tim
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is thinking, "What a shame these were just left outside to rot like this!"
So sad. What a waste!
Most...or should I say many are totally restorable.
Frank, I see you getting all Dewey eyed over these 3 ton land yachts. Lets remember why they are all sitting in a field and have been doing so for 40 odd years. these monsters did 8 to 12 miles a galleon as the daily drivers they once wer. That was all well and good when gas was cheap but by the mid 70s going forward they were expensive to tank up and use daily. These cars were the reason there are so many Honda accords on the road since then.
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@@franksmith6871Frank! your just being a little bit of a silly sausage now!
The blue '54 Packard looked like it was well preserved. Hope if goes to a good home.
Excellent.
If I remember correctly ,when I ordered my 76 C10 the wood floor in the bed was a $40 option in the long bed. Steel flooring was std equipment.
After 1977 the stepside beds were the only way to get the wood slat floor boards! If you wanted a wood bed in a fleetside it had to be plywood mounted in!
Interesting business model, take in a used car and shove it in a field, smash the screen and strip off just enough parts to make it non functional then leave it for 40 years or more. Sadly most of these are now scrap value but hopefully a few of the two doors will be saved. That V8 Ford wagon must have collector value.
A nightmare scene of 4 doors
It would be so fun going to some of these auctions you go to.Awesome job.
That 67 Grand Prix had a 400. If it had a 428, it would have had badging on the fenders, console and fan shroud. However, the GP 400 made 350 hp. That 69 Bonneville came standard with a 428. The 455 didn't come out until 1970.
i had a 455 in my 70 GTO it was not a common option . had a muncie m22 . the car flew !
👉amazing koleksion.... Very2 komplit classic car. 🙏🤘😎
Wow great job love all the info on things
Very cool!!!!!
It's hard to believe that there are people in this world so devoid of any form of intelligence to let those cars just rot away .
There are not many people in South Dakota. By keeping the trade-ins off the market, the dealer forced people to buy new ones, so in his situation, he thought, that he made more money, & he may have, since the land to park them on was cheap & generally, trade-ins don't really cost dealers much if anything. What many customers didn't realize in those days, that the dealer was willing to sell you the car at the same price, whether they had a trade-in or not. In fact, early in the automotive industry, Ford's policy was to crush trade-ins, rather than selling them, so new car sales wouldn't need to compete with used cars. This policy likely lasted in areas, where it continued to work.
If instead they’d been resold soon after being traded in, they would all have been long gone to the junkyard by now. They may be in pretty rough shape, but at least they haven’t been turned into washing machines and paper clips!
Although the four door models aren't usually super-desirable for restoration, there's certainly a gold-mine sitting there in parts.
Dear sir could I get your address of where theses old cars are please thanku and I'm cliff Gill of new Zealand
This was when cars were all different and had style not like the garbage they make today!
Love that '53-'54 Plymouth (second left-first shot) This would be FANTASTIC to TOTALLY RESTORE or A GREAT HOT-ROD!
Love the Videos, my 1986 Bonneville came with her skirts
Nice collection. Any Cutlass Ciera coupe is rare. They only made them I think 1 or 2 years and the 4 doors were much more popular. The Citation red coupe is a keeper. Chevy tilt cab truck you just never see anymore. Cool truck. It would be great with a fuel truck body.
Hi tim love the 58 to 62 an few earlier ones also i love the cars when chrome was king . Cheers mate🇦🇺
Man what a dream auction. Bucket List.
great tour 👍
The '51 Studebaker Bullet Nose reminds me of the Fallout games. I can't believe they aren't more valuable.
Wow, can you believe that pair of Tornados are nearing 50 years old. I'm guessing they're 77 or 78. They were overshadowed by the Eldorado of the same era. My dad owned a mint 78 Biarritz when I was in high school in the late 80s. It was a "trip" to drive. Think of it like floating in a cushy sofa. What a car! GM had some unique interiors in the 70s. Has anyone ever seen the interior on a Fleetwood Talisman of that era? Over the top!!
A dealer who never wholesaled their trades must have had plenty of dough or zeroed out each unit when they capped their deals.
My mom drove an early 80's pontiac phoenix. Nice video of cars we just don't see on the roads anymore.
Learned a lot just walking around with you... Someday I want to build a vintage ramp truck using an old 'light commercial' truck as many states you can't run the full commercial as personal antique vehicles anymore. Maybe you told us that many videos ago now... Anyways, thanks for the coverage.
Great video Tim, amazing knowledge. The 53 and 54 Plymouth cars had two door sedans with a long roof line with small rear vent windows. They also made coupes with a short roof. I have a 53 Cranbrook club coupe. They also made business coupes with fixed rear windows and no back seat. 53 Belvedere was the top of the line hardtop
The '53 Plymouths (Dodges too!) WERE COOL! These were cars that were WELL BUILT, COMFORTABLE, AND PERFORMED EXCELLENT!
I believe 1952 was the last year that Plymouth offered the business coupe. By then Plymouth was likely the only one offering a business coupe.
@@ernielaw They were COOL cars, though! I saw a few Plymouth and Dodge "business coupes" growing up! GREAT BODY STYLE!
that 53 Buick Special plus the 68(?) Bonneville Coupe and the Black Biscayne were nice
some good peices there
Dude you are amazingly knowledgeable. I went along with you and tried hard to call out the year and model, but you win....geeez....I thought I was good.
I never knew that the livestock needed the wood bed floor for traction, great knowledge. Cool truck also. 73 was the only year the square body trucks had rain gutter delete. Many did have gutters but I have a 73 without. Whenever it rains we know why the rest of the series all did
Damn field of dreams
Thanks for video... four door city
I am driving A Buick 2001 Century. It has only 40000 miles with its original battery. No repairs .Love it
Great video. Thankyou
I visited America in 1987. Some of these cars take me back to then.
The ‘53 Buick is a Super. It has the bigger body with a 322 CID Nailhead. The only Buick with four portholes in 1953 is the Roadmaster.
We had a dealership here in Comanche Texas owned by the Dudley Bros. They did the same exact thing. In the end over 250 cars went up for auction
Oh wow, we bought some cars from that dealership.
I live in New Zealand. My uncle was a car mechanic, and he owned a Rambler Ambassador in the 1960s. He worked on many different cars.
After Ted Kennedy wrecked his 1967 Delta 88 at Chappaquidick, he bought a 1969 Skylark.Wonder what became of the Delta 88 after that. On another note, Oldsmobile and Buick made 1964 the last year for making full sized station wagons for time being. Oldsmobile got back to making full sized wagons with the all new Custom Cruiser in 1971. Buick resumed full sized wagon production by introducing the Estate Wagon in 1970.
If he had drove a Volkswagen, he would have been president 😉
It probably got scrapped after the investigation. There are a lot of pics of it online. The roof was collapsed and the passenger side was pretty wiped out.
He also wrecked Mary Jo Kopechne, He was not a good person.
Супер обзор, обожаю эти автомобили и считаю их самыми красивыми в мире!
These cars are in remarkable shape.
The green sedan is a 73 buicI had a 72 estate wagon. Rusty than all get out but a great runner. Later.
A lot of nice old iron, looks like most of the two doors were already gone. Also noticed the local kids must have broken some of the windshields. will be interesting to see what these cars go for $$ thank you for sharing this video.
Field of parts!
All Mopars up to 1964 were all push button automatics 1965 was the first year for the shiftier on the column and the first year for the one piece axles instead of the two piece deal they had before that
Hard to believe how rotten some of those cars end up. Thanks for the video.
If this were a hollywood movie, the Hero would run up to one of these cars, jump inside and go flying down the road! I'm lookin at you, finn and rey stealing the millinium falcon when it was clearly a derelict! I hope all of these vehicles find good homes! I would trade my PT cruiser for that Stude! Great video!
I love the used car sales of the month!, credit is not a problem,!no high pressure sales here son, let us take you to the promise land 🇺🇸👍
I was looking for a 1966 Toronado. my favorite older car
I remember when I was kid in the sixties they used these cars as ataxi for long trips in west bank Palestine
Big story is these classic cars restored and made to exceed 30 miles to the gallon while looking stock using 100s of years of specialized expertise all housed in
Proper Detroit warehouse museum w union maintenance staff.
My dad worked on all makes, including two Packards that our neighbors, the Mustads (yes, THAT Norwegian Mustad) had in their garage. No one knows what a P. is today. My uncle, dad's younger brother, walked into an Olds dealer in 63 and paid CASH for his Olds. You drove an Olds "on your way to arrive", then moved up to Cadillac. GM often used Olds to try out new tech: I have a vaccum cruise control, a lever bar horn on the steering wheel on my 1970 big block. Neither were used by Caddy: they basically failed. We as kids used to hit that horn bar a lot. The vac. cruise was probably over run by other tech. choices for Caddys. Now no one know what an Olds is: end of an era. Plus you need a bus sized RV garage to park it in if fully restored.
You were on target with the year models and the engines. I remember when most of these cars were new.