Cleaning the Nasty Forgotten Yard Find - 1956 Oval Vw Beetle - What's inside ? 

Old VW`s, a beer, the sun is shining and birds chirping in the background. Does not get any better than that.....👍

Jay, I finally figured you out when you say you have to visualize a "plan" for the cars you rescue... You ARE the "VW Whisperer"!!! 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐴🐴

That basketball gag was hilarious 😆

He should have sold it to you 20 years ago.

I really appreciate the gumption you guys have to take on these massive rescue efforts. P.S. 'Austausch' = exchange (replacement) motor

auto heitz is still in oparation... i looked it up on google.... love the channel.... you do a great job... greetsz from holland...max

The T-top that flew, that's a great story! XD

While I'm LIVING,in a VAN,down by the RIVER.. Classic shirt there J..

Make sure that if you decide to let this one go to a friend you charge them a clean out fee. Great video! Hope you have a great weekend.

That dealer is in Garmisch Partenkirchen an alpine ski resort in southern Germany, Great video by the way.

Working on cars in track pants? Blowing the inside out with a yard blower? Is this a New England thing? Rock on!!😘

The first page of the paperwork in German is a guarantee for an exchange motor (6 mo. or 10000 km). The second page is the certification from the garage that the motor #1495362 was replaced by the motor #1464723 which one has to show to the equivalent of the DMV. I would assume then that since the number of the replacement motor is less than that of the original motor, the replacement motor was a rebuilt one.

Auto Heitz in Garmisch is still in business! Live in Garmisch currently, funny watching your video and see my local VW dealers listed on the service booklet from 1963. Good luck on the restoration. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

I appreciate that the old guy held on to it for 40 years so you could save it , but I can’t help thinking how nice it could be if stored indoors

Superb leaf blower technique!

I like seeing these videos by a local guy. I pass by your shop a few times a month. Always interesting trying to identify where your travels bring you since I am from your area, also.

Alright the Adventure continues!

It's awesome that you put some hubcaps on her for this video!

Thanks for the update. Keep ‘em coming. Good luck with the next rescue.

Crazy story about that Beetle. I like your channel. By the way, you have the papers of an "Austauschmotor" wich means that the engine was replaced by a new one in 1963. Strange that it only lasted 7 years, I thought the Beetle engines were somewhat undestroyable. Greetings from Germany, Andreas

I towed our 1970 cabriolet 200 miles, the car was facing backwards on the uhaul. The original trunk VW sign let loose sometime and caught/saved itself between the aerial and the windscreen. It’s back in place and lives another life. So glad you saved the file… Nice car.

The Austausch Motor means that the engine was replaced officially by VW.

Funny video! Many good laughs 😆🤣

1976 was a very excellent year, there garcon. Due to the fact that 1976 was the year I lost a certain something with a certain beautiful,wonderful,awesome girl,at the ripe old ancient age of..12.5....Literally at the 4th of July fireworks show in Pensacola Fl,and again later at Pensacola beaches Ft. PICKENS where all of our folks had the rvs,and campers,and kids tents set up for that long weekend and the following 2 weeks of summer vacation on the beach... Most wonderful premium memories of my pre teen life right there !! 😂 Is there any mention of these awesome events in that newspaper J?😅

So, I am watching the video and I could swear I saw Carl Spackler sitting in a Adirondack Chair next to the 56 Oval VW Beetle. He just needed a golf club and a gopher coming out of the VW! But, once II saw the cavernous holes inside the VW I knew it was you Jason (you VW Rescuer you) 😅🤣😂. To get a vision for the car you just gotta stay focused.... hehehehe😁. Thanks for another great one friend. John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee.

I did the same thing with a drink on the bumper of my Chevy Atro van back about 1992 or so. Left the bar, got home. Went outside the next day, walked past the van, and saw that drink on the bumper. It was something red in a glass glass.

When I found cars like this the first stop was a self serve car wash. I would spend hours and money cleaning out my barn finds. The worst was a 62 Porsche 356 that had almost rusted into the ground.

All Beetles need saving! Heh, as far as I'm concerned, that "patina" look is always a winner, on someone else's car. Given the resources, and climate, (UK? Not.) I'd get it sand blasted back to metal, repair panels and paint it that original mid red that I had on a couple of mid 60's Beetles 30+ years back. Can't rem the colour's name.

'Austausch Motor' means Switch/Exchange Motor... and though being not overly familiar with vehicle paperwork, based on what I could just read...the motor was replaced (1963) with another motor and they give you the new number which they recommend you get added to your DMV record for the car. This was done in Southern Bavaria (Garmisch-Partenkirchen) - the former owner was US Military? Garmisch has a vacation facility site there for US military personnel and families and likely some sort of military depot/small base/facility in the region.

I remember that reserve lever. I had to use it one night with Cynthia . She was a looker. The birds love you. 1962 with Cynthia. Her brother drove a 1960 Jag e type. Go get another one.

Another great video Jason. Hopefully someone who's good with a mig welder and grinder get their hands on that 56 to replace the rusty metal. I had to replace all those panels on my 69' vert during it's pan off restoration. Salty roads do amazing things to cars. Lots of cutting, grinding and a few rolls of mig wire. I think I'm still blowing grinding dust out of my nose years later! :) Keep up the good work on your channel.

Love the VW's! Mine is only a baby, a 1972 rag top, in baby blue! My baby! We enjoy your videos. Tom has a 72 bus!

Great video Jason. An other great find

Crazy Story for Sure So When's Mustie One Coming Over to Will it Run Episode lol!!! Got line everyone up same places so we can compare classic 😎 👍

Oh damn I would love to get my hands on that. Would make a great restoration! You got some great paperwork for that! Wow!!! It made it without falling off!!! 😳😳😳 That was a strong T top 😂

This time Jason fires up the leaf blower supreme. It's by his own account, that Jerry Garcia improvised his music all the time. When Jason cleans out a VW, it's like when Jerry Garcia was improvising on his guitar. It's fresh, unique, and entertaining as all get out.

Crazy to see the seats in such good condition but the floor all rotted out.

Hell yeah!! Git er done RAD DUDE!!!

This has to be one of my favorites, not just because of the Volkswagen, but because of the bird's nest and the basketball!😂

That is a good project car and you can always rebuild a beetle.

Feat: CT whoooow

Nice basketball shot ! Meadowlark Lemon would be proud.

Rick Flair Wooooo! killed me. LOL

german here, it says it was an original VW Replacement Engine. the original engine was replaced with 95148 kilometer on 17 may 1963

Good.job😄👍👍👍👏👏👏Nice car 😍

Looking forward to you getting that 36hp running again. That unmistakable whine sound is so sweet

Big hug from friend 🤜🤛🇧🇷

I've replaced the entire bottom 1/4 on my 72 and in retrospect, it was kinda fun, no real headscratch fitment issues. but lotsa bracing! Good luck and subscribed!

I wonder if the dash color is because the P.O. smoked ? . My '59's dashboard has -so- much tobacco tar on it I can't figure out the original color . The rear parcel shelf certainly looks like Strato Silver to me . Using a leaf blower is hilarious . The local boys hereabouts would be going gaga for that de laminating windshield . Nice to see you grasp the work it takes . -Nate

I put my wallet on the trunk while putting my sisters child in the baby seat, getting in the car at the front, I remembered I looked thinking it was on the inside rear parcel shelf. In reality it was outside the car for 5 miles.....lol

It's very cool what you do. Those ovals are getting pricey. You gotta a few. Busses are money too. So ya can sell slow and make money as ya go.

loved that 2-point shot through the car (or was it a "foul" shot??). Good luck with this one!!

I agree with the previous comment by Larry, 'austausch means 'exchange'. So a factory replacement motor.

My allergies act up again! I'm not even there and that blow out! Woo!

Hi Jason....At first when the trunk lid was opened I thought it was going to be the pinecone vidio Lol...Well it's summer you could leave the floors open would be like A/C...😅 Great Vidio Jason!👍

You got the hardes working song birds in the state of Connecticut

Rat rod....make it solid but please keep it old looking❤ i love this so. Far..wish i was tour neibor...so cool

I so much want to see it finished as I had one in 1973 a great little bugger it was😂😂

The Mustie1 trailer stuff is even funnier because I saw the comment on the last vid. lol

This is the story of your life , the fight against nature taking over your cars .😂

Beaitiful car! Original austausch motor means original exchange engine

I'm having a Beer watching 😀

I think this is the video where you find the title. That really floored me, I know exactly there that street is located in University City, STL suburb. I'm guessing he might have gone to either Wash U or SLU.

I'm confused , are you rescuing VW's or compost? 😁

I was three years old when that was built. Let that sink in.

I found a Cell phone at the bottom of a highway exit. Turns out it belonged to the guy in charge of all the West Coast Guitar Center stores. They came all the way from San Francisco ....about 30 or 40 miles and with that phone on the roof of their SUV. It had an if found message on the screen....

This refab revamp is going be a charming nightmare :) Call her Marlene Dietrich hih

Sec of State “shoe box” Paul Powell! LOL!

😮old car would look great with some clear over that patina

I lost (actually my 1st wife lost) a t-top off of my 1985 Trans Am because she put them on but didnt lock them. Many many small pieces of glass. $900 to replace back in 1995, no bueno.

Very, very cool. I'm hoping to find something like that here in Kenya.

Love your videos although I’m sure you may have heard this from others. I’m 63 yrs old and I can definitely tell you to take better precautions with your lungs. You only have one set and they have to go the distance. Wear some sort of mask. Enjoy

that's a bigger project then i would want to take on buddy good luck big improvement on what you have already done good job

Ah Garmisch. My favorite place in FRG.

You've done a good job of demouseifing it. If Mustie gives you grief about this car ask him hows the orange econovan is going as progress has ground to a halt on it as i keep seeing it in the background of all his vids. LOL

I see 2 options. One is combine it with a desert car, which usually has good floors but bad seats and engine. The other is to weld the floors etc. functional but ugly, as long as the seats go back in the right place and everything is strong enough, that is good enough. Just weld in the sides of a bunch of old appliances cut and shaped to fit for 20 minutes or so. Interior welding need not be pretty, just strong a weather resistant. Maybe you should get in touch with a cross country car hauler who can either ship your cars to the desert, ship desert cars to you, or both, since all your cars seem to need the same parts, in order to get those parts, like floors, you need cars from a different climate. You could travel if your car hauler is fuel efficient, but efficient long distance hauls are usually at least 2 or 3 cars at once.

My dad drove home with a circular saw on his truck mudguard

Thumb down by mistake, love these vids

Que lindo esporte.

Woooooo

Well, that's one place to store your leaves, I guess! Maybe that big hole had the tree thru it! Another beauty Jason! They are all worth saving man. On another note, where were your seats in that new halen concert?

That car with the rust repaired and in drive-able condition would look sweet with the patina left on it, some black wheels with the stock caps and stuff and some wide white wall tires. Maybe a slight drop in the suspension but not overly low.

I can almost certainly smell the leaves being blown out of that 56 beetle the you through a ball into the front.

Afternoon mate

cool bug

When did a 1950s-era Beetle first become valuable?

😱 Uuuuh, I definitely know that! I'm good in leaving my purse and/or wallet with all documents in it on the roof of my car before driving away. Over the years it happened 3 times that everything flew off and I always got everything back because of decent human beings. I must've an enormous big guardian angel. At least I'm always good as a bad example! 😁 ;-) 🙈

That’s going to be a pretty big job putting that bug right. Sure paint a car but not brown, must be one of the worst colours to paint a car

lol --outstanding !!!!!

Great video mate

A fuel powered steam cleaner will be a best tool for any restoration, or patina type cleaning.. Steam,and heat,along with water pressure will do what lots of elbow grease,a ton of effort,and a pressure washer wont. .

I bet mustie 1 ain't got no pack pack leaf blower though 😂.

I'm having an asthma attack just watching this.... 😛

Whoa! 🤣😆😂

Pull the body put it on the rebuilt chassis leave the patina 👍

my strato silver car had the same brown over the paint. it was like the metallic rusted then turned brown because it was not active. Really werid

Your leaf blower shots were beautiful cinema! A little slow motion, and it would have rivaled citizens Kane! Your a brave soldier, Jay

Believe that Chapdog

OMG, You should have put music to the leave blowing scenes. I played Coldplay Yellow...

U don't need a fancy trailer if ur original one works 👍