Saving More Cars from the Crusher! Part 1 of 2
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- čas přidán 12. 11. 2012
- I went to the Stan Reynolds site to buy a couple of 1951 Kaisers that were going to be destroyed if they didn't find a home. I got lucky and heard about these cars just in time; many others had already been cubed. In part 2 of this video I take a walk past the stacks of the less fortunate ones...
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You're 10 years younger than me. In that extra 10 years you'll save so many cars. Keep it up. I still have fond memories of the '49 Mercury our family had as a daily up until the late '70s.
It’s kinda cool to peek back at ancient episodes. Nice to see Stella too
mr coldwar ,thanks for preserving our heritage ,i'm right there with you mate
I had a 51 Studebaker Champion that was given to me, literally, in pieces. To my benefit it was all there. It was pretty incredible how well those cars were thought out. Cheers Scott, happy Sunday.
Fantastic yard! Thanks for doing that deed for the Kaisers!!
I am so envious about you guys being able to go and see and buy these vintage cars unlike in the UK nobody keeps old cars on land
I love that You are saving history. These car's are an art form that is mostly poopooed by the art world. They are wrong. 👍👍
when you crush an old car you crush your own history.........
thanks for that run through. I'm so glad you said collection, I hope people realize how much time, effort, money, resources and foresight some of our elders had in accumulating those pieces. some see junk,I see a piece of history. thanks for appreciating and sharing this with us. let me guess, tract houses or another box store in the name of "progress " in its place and more planned obsolescence devices made from those decades of collecting. oh well, I'll burn one in memory of this.thanks again
I asked about an F-86 Sabre they had there, but it was spoken for! That sure would have looked awesome in my front yard.
Yes, I will definitely be able to put together a running Kaiser now. Thanks for watching!
I paid scrap value for them. The owners of the yard were just trying to find them homes so they wouldn't have to crush them. Thanks for watching! Definitely more to come with these Kaisers..,.
right right! if we had the time, money and space!!! YOUR A GOOD MAN!
its great to hear 300 of them were saved!!!! great work :)
They had actually lowered the prices to scrap value just to find buyers. There were about 450 cars in that field and about 300 of them did sell.
Thanks, and yes, that is exactly the plan. The one I got last year is pretty solid but has broken glass and the engine is stuck. These two have good glass and complete engines. I'm hoping to put the solid one together and drive it with the original paint untouched. Maybe next summer?
Cheers!
Awesome walk around
Just out of curiousity how much do the yards get for this old Detroit iron for scrap metal? If I had space and didn't have persnikity nieghbors I would love to save a few. Good job, your doing it right. I get a smile on each old beauty you rescue.
+teknonut1946 It varies... scrap prices are all over the place depending on demand from (mostly) China. anywhere from $100 to $400 per car, I guess...
Wow , that much up there. Its way down here in Michigan , I'm sitting on a stack of aluminum waiting for it to go up lol
Dude it sucks to see some of these good cars go, some of them don't even look like they need to be destroyed, some of these they should be fixing up or even restoring them depending on their rarity.
There could be at least some people who would want to buy an old car they want or that they're looking for.
cant believe somebody could even just think of crushing them.could you try to talk to them to lower the price and have a heart for automobile history?
Stella says hi! Thanks for watching this stuff!
Very sad. But you've saved so many!
At a time like this I think I want to puke...damn I hate the crusher....
I would love to have a Kaiser
it's so sad seeing all those cars left to rot -(
Good of you to save them. Are you planning to build one driver '51 Kaiser out of the three parts-car '51 Kaisers you now have?
Stan Reynolds collected hundreds of cars, bikes, tractors, airplanes etc, he left behind a great museum, his museum has a alot of cool stuff including a Duesenburg and a fill size replica of the avro arrow, cool guy. He died in February.
Sorry to read that.
Criminal to crush those cars. Their money, but damn. They are worth more than the crusher, if somebody would take the effort to market them.
I used to trade at a gas station and garage of a guy who went for Studebakers in a big way. You must save them all !!
keep doing what you are doing
LUCKY! I have a 1948 Kaiser Special and I have only seen one other kaiser in person my entire life and that was a kaiser deuce.I'm in need of a parts car(or a few)and they are very hard to find on the east coast.
That's funny you, ended up getting those parts cars for the Frazer anyway. haha
Yeah, I should have known they'd follow me home sooner or later...
im crying over the 35 dodge two door coupe and the 66 chevelle
I often feel bad that I don't have the space for any more cars than two.
Wow, another mans work of life, goes all into the toilet :(
Sad to se all this old iron goes to the crusher.. Very good that you save some.. In Sweden many of this cars had been restored.
SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE SOMETHING AWAY TO SAVE IT!!!!!! MUCH SADNESS!!!
What a cool collection of stuff, thanks for the video. BTW that's the remains of an Avro Anson at the 8:25 mark.
Hey, thanks for the info! I knew someone would identify that plane for me sooner or later.
I wonder how many (if any) of the others were actually saved?
Tempted to send you the money to save that Hudson for the world!
I had a friend who had a 48 or 49 Frazer...a real beauty but the engine was underpowered...he traded it for a VW
Wow Scott, how much for the property and the car’s. ? Everything!!!😲😲😲
The sad cold hard truth of the matter is that you watch all these videos showing acres of vintage tin, and you know the ultimate fate they will suffer. Hopefully, the video record will survive.
All i know is if I bought that pieceof land I would definitely expect the cars with it haha, you shouldve bought a plane. Oh well maybe at least you can get 1 or 2 running kaisers out of the 3 you have now.
Me too!
Any cars you take do you just fix them or what do you do with them?
The wooden airframe was ,I think a mosquito and the one with the gun turret looked like an Anson. The window frame of the Mosquito is probably worth more than anything else in that yard.
at times like that you wish you had alot of money and alot of space
Canada geese i hear
if you dont mind how much you paid for them Kaisers? Loving the vids would like to see more
The big choppers were Piasecki “flying bananas” and I think I saw an Anson and a Blenheim
Thanks for the note and the info! I knew eventually someone would be able to ID those! Cheers...
coldwarmotors Keep ‘em flying boys....I think they called the unusual roof line on the Kaisers “sweetheart curves”. Well worth the effort...
I like Kaiser - Frazer cars ! Unfortunately, I am in Europe - these cars look very easy to repair, how much would a Kaiser in that condition be worth ? I would like one...how is spares availability ?
Hi Michael! These Kaisers are worth very little in rough condition. I bought all 3 of the ones in this video to use for parts for my 1949 Frazer. Driveline parts are fairly easy to get; trim is used-only, but they are not too rare. Cheers!
@@coldwarmotors Thank you very much ! Considering the car I am doing at the moment, these 3 just look like brand - new cars; certainly no donor - cars. As long as brake components, engine - parts etc. are available, there would be no problem to take one as an - almost - daily driver; my 1953 Borgward wants to be on the road as well...where is the best place to find one ? Trim, chrome, rust = minor problem...
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I wonder how they got there.
just curious if those Hudson hornets were saved or crushed
question is; what do the pink Xs mean? save or :(
300 out of 450 sold is nit that bad guys. It pains me to see the "crusher" eat up these cars tht are a part of Americana.
that sunbeam would be a rare car did you save that
Hey Stell ;)
Save the hudson.
Sweet having to watch again, sitting here as I tune my '60 Jazzmaster
'60 Jazzmaster? Niiiice...
Five window you should of bought just for yard
PLEASE tell me someone saved that Hudson!
Any news on these things? All I see is Rat Rod, Rat Rod, cool resto, parts for another rat rod, 35 Dodge Rat Rod that needs a hemi, 40 Ford Sedan Deliv. that needs a big engine and turned into a rat rod.
Why destroy classics
It's a sin.
Alberta.
Blessed with the perfect conditions for preservation of old cars. Very arid.
Thousands upon thousands are preserved.
Blessed with all the oil under them to keep them running forever.
Only a few escape the crusher.
The day is coming they will no longer exist.
A finite resource.
Oh, cars will still be left out do the cycle.
Held on to for some reason, only to be kept long enough to lose any real value so they will only be worth crushing as the market for 4 door Tempo's and Oldsmobile Alero's 30-40 years from now will be small.
You need to start a non profit and build a museum and get some of that oil royalty money, last I checked, $2.93/barrel, likely only breaking even on what the government spends to support the oil industry, tp preserve what's left and keep it out of the crusher's.
It's disgusting people crush these relics... Those people should feel what it's like to be crushed.
Wait! He traded a 49 Frazer for a VW? Are you serious?
The problem is, the younger generation generally isn't interested in stuff like this. They tend increasingly not to own cars, or if they aspire to one, it's electric. They have all drunk the climate change Kool aid.
WHAT A SHAME
Need to salvage stainless trip , and bumper guards crush the car
For Gods sake edit you clomping around. Here your footsteps better than your editorial