Hard day at work today Steve I come home and listen to your junk yard crawl episode and it makes the stress of my day soften . Thank you. Keep them coming.
Great job Steve. We had Oldsmobiles with both gold and blue valve covers. My '70 Cutlass had gold and my father's and mother's '78, I believe had blue valve covers. Miss my 1970.
@@guglielmo64 I don't doubt that, but I think no matter a Buick, Pontiac, Olds, they were all the same blue color, engines were shared between divisions
Love these videos. That barn reminds me of my late granddad’s garage and shop. He ran a rural mechanic shop for over 50 years and had so much of an accumulation of parts, motors, miscellaneous stuff as well as tools and machinery that toward the end he could no longer get a car inside to work on. I remember vividly spending a weekend in the cold rain and mud underneath his 67 Impala when I was 14 or 15 helping him install a new clutch. Anyway everything inside was fascinating to me and had some story or history attached. Like that barn. Sadly ceilings and roofs, even walls collapse as the years pass. Classic collections like these are buried, or even bulldozed away because real estate takes precedence over the past.
Oh Yea, great barn walk through, For all the years i have hearf FE ford block Ford , Edsel block is the first time ive heard that term, always pick up something new, great video
Hello Jeff Clark, the FE was joined by the MEL series (typically seen as the 430 and 462) where MEL stands for Mercury, Edsel, Lincoln. Again, the cars they were installed in during the 1958 - 1967 period (mostly in Lincolns) but the '58 Edsel could be had with the massive 430 and Mercury offered the 1958 Super Marauder 430 with THREE 2-barrel carbs and Detroit's first 400-hp rating! Need to find one in the junkyard. On a similar note, in an upcoming episode of the OLDS Red Barn, could it be that we discover an Oldsmobile with THREE CARBURETORS? Could be! Please stay tuned. Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
@Steve Magnante thanks so much for responding, yes,I've seen several of those 430 Lincoln engines back in the 1990s in a couple old T Birds,The water pump alone was massive I don't miss a single episode, We chat about the show over morning coffee,thumbs up
Hi Steve 👋🏼 great little video of what's in the Olds Red Barn? 😀 as a person who loves old buildings, can you do a walk around of the barn and its structure, Steve? I mentioned before that I've downsized my inventory of stuff quite a bit and can't help but take note of the fact that I have so many more 'antiques' to get rid of. 🙄 I really hate knowing someone someday would have to get that stuff sold off hauled off or just burn it all down and scrap what's left behind. 😕 I have now made over 50ish or so trips around our sun, and the one thing that stands out very clearly is that all of us want our lives to have purpose and meaning. Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind, and our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hang on to, If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you can not achieve.🤔 Hopefully, someone will buy up all of this man's lifetime collection of antiques and put it to use. These kinds of videos turn me into the same people who watch home shopping club or QVC and buy the next shiny thing presented. 😬 📞💸💰 Palmer MA thats where Post10 saved the lake drain...another RU-vidr Have a blessed day everyone 🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼
Hi Chris, agreed. We cannot live forever (can you imagine the Double Edge Sword that would be?). I am "at peace" with the idea that when I punch out, I have ZERO concern for what happens to "my stuff". It could go into a dumpster or into a collection...I'd never know the difference. And that is very "freeing" of the worries I used to have about this stuff. I'm 58 (going on 9) and see every new day as a prize! Sure, a guy like Henry Ford might want to MAKE SOME PLANS about who might run the factory later. With regard to the OLDS Red Barn, fear not, we'll dive deep into - and under - it in the next 7 days (there are 8 episodes before we get back to Bernardston). Spoiler Alert....did we discover a '57 Olds J2 convertible????? Could be! THANKS for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante I use one I heard years ago: "A little Christmas each and every day". That is doing something for someone else and yourself as well. Or, enjoying life one day at a time.
The 394 reminds me of my pops 63 holiday 88... i have a picture of him and my mom standing in front of the car and dealership when he picked it up new... Good stuff away from the other good stuff.. thanks for sharing 👉🍕
Love it - if I had a big barn on my property I have no doubt it would soon be filled to the rafters with an eclectic mix of automobilia, petrolinia, and God knows what else! Since I don’t, our guest room is currently serving that purpose - don’t even get my wife started…….😂 Cool segment! I have spent most of my working career traveling around the country and cannot tell you how many old country places I have driven by where I fantasize about what cool cars or other stuff is tucked inside that big building out back! Amazing that thing is still standing - it looks as if the next big wind might topple it right over…..😮
I often see the same vehicles on my trips. I've seen a 2nd generation Camaro on a Wisconsin farm for a number of years now. As you're passing by doing 50+ MPH, it's to see, and many times, I'm driving. We've actually had to stop for cows crossing the road. LOL.
It was an Oldsmobile that first caused the octane in my veins. I was 4 years old when i first met my soon to be stepfather in 1974. He pulled into our driveway in a 1968 Hurst Oldsmobile. Of course there was no way that i would have known what the car was at the time. But i took note of the exhaust tone. Something I'll never forget. And the color. It was a silver metal flake with black stripes. What a beautiful car that was. A few years later as i had gotten to be around 6 or 7 he took me to our local track and made a few passes with me in the passenger seat. Anyways, thats how it got into my blood and i grew up thinking that someday I would have a 68 Hurst Olds for myself. 😂 Yea right. There were only 538 (?) Of them ever built. So that dream of mine will have to remain just that, a dream. Unless of course i could live in it... Which sometimes is seriously considered. 😉 I can't even look at pictures or videos of that car without getting emotional. I would rather have one above all other automobiles ever built in the world. It is seriously one really awesome hot rod
A client I work with is kind of an interesting old guy in his mid-70’s who has owned many new vehicles over the years as he historically purchased both he and his wife a new vehicle every three years. He has said that of all the cars he has ever owned, the one that got far and away the most attention was his ‘68 Oldsmobile Cutlass! Not surprising, as that ‘68 GM midsize body was such a radical departure from the models before it, and the first year Olds version was (IMO) particularly attractive……..👍
Those Hurst Olds were fast! I went down to raceway Park Englishtown with my older brother in 1968, I was 12. There were 2 cars bracket racing that day that got everyone's attention. Both were new 1968 models. A dark blue 340 Dart gts and a white and gold Hurst 442. Between rounds they had a friendly heads up 3 out of 4 "grudge match". The Dart took the first pass, the guy was asleep at the line in the Olds. Lol although the Dart would get him off the line, the Olds would catch, and pass him at the top end. I did manage to acquire a 1969 Gts 4 speed which I restored and drove for about 10 years. I had to sell it , a sad day indeed. But, I was lucky enough to grow up in the muscle car Era. The memories, PRICELESS!
Steve, I appreciate your knowledge on ALL things cars & trucks! Keep the good work. Enjoy your you tube videos! I just purchased a 40 Chevy Master Deluxe 2dr Sedan, CA car. Keeping it bone stock, 216 3speed on the tree.
Steve is fearless! He routinely blindly sticks his bare hands into mouse and spider-infested glove boxes! A creaky, dry rotted collapsing barn is evidently nothing in comparison 😉.
love your content Steve. I have your passion for junkyard and old automotive but my level of knowledge does not compare. your automotive wisdom is god like
Those tall deck engines run one extra compression ring totalling 4, not 5. The oilpan is 8 quart and about all it fits outside the heavy trucks is pickups. If its a 427 someone may think they want it but a 366 is as good as a boat anchor with its puny 305 esque bore. The cranks are forged 3.75" pieces but its one of those why are you playing with puny cubic inches things nowadays. For reference i have a forged 427 cranknthat is machined and ready to go, with bearings even, and for cheap... and i can't even give it away... so popular lol.
I was just up in Southbridge Mass. Rented a room in the old American Optical building. Such a beautiful historic building, I'm glad it was saved and repurposed rather than abandon like so many of them
GMC used a lot of Pontiac V8s, but they also used Olds V8s occasionally too! I thought I seen a Fox Mustang front bucket seat, and then you uncovered an upside-down Fox or Square Crown Vic upper intake for a SBF 5.0 @7:13.
Hey Steve, that last ford upper intake is off of a 5.0 HO fox mustang, the non HO had the throttle body reversed (ie crown Vic), and those seats are foxbody lx seats from the same era and I assume from the same era as the bumper covers and phone dial wheels in the background, I rarely comment but just some of the useless information I hold.love the channel man
Great video sir. Years ago I assembled a 454 truck engine for my Vega drag car. This particular engine has 1 inch taller deck than the car 454. Bored the block, stroked the crank, Childs Albert aluminum rods, Can’t remember what pistons I used. Had to notch the oil pan rails to make clearance for the rods. Crane roller cam, and Eldebrock tunnel ram with 2 Holley Dominators. End results was 525 cubic inches and best eighth mile pass was 5.42. Thanks again sir.
Carl Kiekhaefer took a 427 tall block (truck motor) stroked it and some other stuff off the shelf at Chevy and turned it into a 482 offshore race motor back in 1969/70.
A barn full of treasures, or stuff that was treasured by the owner at least! My FIL was an Oldsmobile man. From the time he got out of the Army in '53 until he traded in his '72 Delta 88 in 1978 (on a Dodge van !?) he owned Olds. The GM engine 'substitution' fiasco of the time put him off buying another new one.
Thanks so much for posting!! I'm a Ford and Mopar guy, alive & well here also in Massachusetts, who's always admired Oldsmobile above any other GM marques!! ( Pontiac a close 2nd ). Also, Palmer is a nice little rural town, close to my beloved Ludlow....Little Portugal.
W00 H00! Nothing like some barnyard finds! This is awesome! Maybe lockjaw is hiding in there somewhere too lol. Great creative content! Steve 4 President! I forgot to add how cool that 48 Cadillac piece was as well as the different motors, Someone used to drive with those and if only they could talk. Knowledge and skill like this is an art form! Keep up the cool work n use your artistic skill to keep these amazing videos coming! Your knowledge is a treasure, and with the comedy and shane's camera skills we can only grow from here!
The bucket seat looks like it came out of an early 80s Mustang. I think I saw some other parts from the same car in there…front bumper cover? Gr8 content Steve. Hope to bump into you out here around Holland and Brimfield
Outstanding new segment Steve !! Tremendous barn finds 💖 🙆♂️ Mr Warren D. Has quite a collection on his hands Those Oldsmobile engines are a great find . Look at all of those , cylinder heads too !! #BarnFinds
That circular stamping pointed out in the video was on ALL 394s. On one engine bank that hole was punched out, into which a crankcase ventilation road draft tube was inserted to extract excess, unspent engine emissions from the engine. The bottom end was angle-cut & scavenged those waste emissions, expelling them below the engine as the car was driven down the highway. If a buyer chose the hi-compression Starfire 394 motor, that specific engines' dress-up package included the following chromed pieces; a ventilated oil filler cap, valve covers, air cleaner housing, & road draft tube.
People nowadays just don’t get that feeling of class and style when you’re cruising down the road with that olds emblem on the steering wheel or up on the hood.
Thank you as always! Part way through the video I thought, “When did Olds switch engine colors, mid-60s……70s….I’m not certain…..”. Sure enough, I just had to wait a bit for you to share your knowledge! ~ Chuck
Great videos Steve, the 366 Chevrolet 427, and 402 , and 396 was the same crankshaft. Over 90% of the crankshaft was steel casting number 6223 very good crankshaft. Also the tall deck 427 you can put shorter Pistons with longer rods very good Motors. Also the tall deck you can bore up to 120 thousands oversized.
