Closed antique auto parts warehouse! 100,000+ vintage parts now for sale. 50 years of inventory! 

I did this for years. I went all over the US and bought up old GM, Ford and Mopar dealership left over NOS parts. I found some really neat parts. lots of chrome, lenses, trim you name it i got it. found a lot of parts in the midwest and up north. It blew my mind how much was still out there in the 1980's. I made a living for 23 years doing it. It was the best times of my life. I miss it.

In the 1960's while I was in High School I worked in a place like that. They also had a small machine shop to rebuild engines, starters and alternators. I learned a lot working there. Good times !!!

I just got off the phone with Glenn. What a great guy. We talked until he got another call and had to hang up. What a fascinating situation he is in. The story about this place is absolutely hard to believe. He is going to check and see if he has a water pump for my Chrysler. Guys you have to check him out.

At the 14.08 minute mark where you see the Nelson triple tilt windows; that is from the business which occupied the building before Toohey’s. It was the J.T. Nelson company owned by my grandfather and uncle. They made storm windows and doors along with aluminum siding. Very cool seeing inside the building. Thanks for this video. ..

All that old merchandise would sell in Cuba. 🎉 I was a counterman at and chain autoparts company in California from 1972- 1979, so this brought back memories.

I work for a few inventory companies. We do buy/sells. We go in...inventory the entire place...get a dollar amount for what they have and submit it to the buyer. It's perfect for the buyer. They know what is there and it's in it's prospective bin location. Makes selling an item a whole lot easier for the customers. Awesome find...I'd be a kid in a candy store myself..lol 30 years in the biz.

What an amazing find. I can only imagine the amount of NOS and USA made replacement parts in there. The library alone is worth its weight in gold. There are literally tens of thousands of people out there probably looking for a part that's in there somewhere. Kudos to you and Christina for bringing this video for a potential buyer. The work to inventory that all would be worth it to the right dealer. If I was retired I'd volunteer to help inventory the A/C parts myself. Hopefully it all is saved. 1:06:01

It's like a complete set of parts for almost any make and model for any car!

I worked on more than a few cars it that parking lot…..they were open late, kept me on the road. Thanks THOOEYS.

Mr. B. Here ! That is a Time Machine to the Pass ! When the small guy could build a life for his and his hometown !

A time capsule in deed.amazing find hope all is saved and used where needed😎

National treasure depository; classic auto parts companies need to get together and inventory this building.

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane! I lived in Louisville from 1995 until 2006... I knew George and his son Doug and would hang out at the store once in a while... It was like being in Candy Store! The store was just a few blocks away from my house that was between Iroquois Park and Churchill Downs. I didn't have any contact with them or any of the other incredibly cool employees after I moved away in 2006... I was shocked to learn that Doug followed his dad in passing, only by one year... I think George was in his Eighties when he went... But Doug couldn't have been Sixty. The box from the grill you saw... I think the employees probably burnt out a new grill just about ever six months... as I remember, I think they'd barbeque their lunch almost every day around that joint!😂 Everyone there was an "old time parts man" and could damn near get you parts for a Stanley Steamer if you needed them... No computers and asking "what's this going on?" Or "what model is it?"... I had a '55 Buick Roadmaster coupe that I think I rebuilt half of with parts from Toohey's. One of my friends had a '51 Pontiac hardtop that was in great shape, but the interior was really worn out. He ended up buying a set of incredible PLAID New Old Stock seat covers from Mister George... That was back in the early Nineties. I miss places like that! Cheers

The building I use for my bike shop was an old auto parts store. It operated from 1925 thru 2008, when they locked the door and walked away. I purchased the building in 2017 and it still had all the inventory on the shelves. Much smaller scale than Toohey’s, but your tour reminds me a lot of our building, when we got it.

Wow! Wow! Some of these stuff, I haven't seen in 40 years! Brings back memories! There is a lot money in here! Specially for restorers!

I can't imagine what it would take to clear out and list the parts. There's so much good old stock in there . Great stuff . I hope someone buys this and brings it all back .

YES! SAVE THOSE PARTS!!! Randy from Chattanooga, Tennessee said it.

As someone trying to keep my 1955 chevy 4 door 235/2sp power glide With all original parts I would give almost anything to go through that place. Awesome man just plain awesome.

I hope the lots and lots of people find out about this I would hate to see all those parts made in good old U S A be threw away great video guys as always thanks

Wow that's astonishing a warehouse is gonna be needed to store a warehouse 😮 A serious amount of value sits there.

Definitely need a couple of those FE fuel pumps!

I’m 70 and I bought parts there in Louisville . “When your car goes phooey call Toohey!

Auto parts gold mine.

Wowwwww!!! When I was a kid growing up in Lexington Ky. There were two locations one on South Broadway where my dad used to frequent and the location in North Lexington. The location where you are was identical to what both of the stores looked like when I was a kid in the early 1970s.

This is freaking awesome. Send it to my brother, who's a mechanic. I have never seen that much stuff. That's a one big building. It's like a time capsule.❤

I really do hope you guys can save as much of this inventory as possible ! There is so much stuff here that you will never see anywhere else ! This building is looking like it doesn't have much time left before the roof caves in and the whole thing goes away.

Absolutely amazing!! A veritable time capsule. If you're restoring an old car, those are the parts you need for sure. I hope a lot of people who are looking for these parts find this video.....incredible! Thanks for sharing Richard and Christina!! I don't know a lot of people restoring, but if I do, I'll send them to this video. 👍👍

Although you probably didn't have time, y'all should've gotten one of the urban explorerer guys from RU-vid to document this. Most of them have high quality cameras and lighting. That would been handy for the office areas.

When I see old buildings or houses I think if they could talk what stories they would tell I like hearing about stuff like this

That place is so cool! It would feel like when I go to a new junk yard with hundreds of car it is just so much fun and overwhelming at all of these good parts!!

WOW! I hope all the stuff, finds a home. Thousands of dollars of stuff. Just so time consuming to go through all of it. Yea got to wonder how much of that goes to the scrape yard. Could be a gold mine but who has the time. This just blows my mind. Thank you for sharing this with us. love the vid.

Oh man !!!!!! there is a god !!!!!!! Merry automotive christmas !!!!!!!

Jay Leno would be the guy to get these parts out to the masses.

Cold war motors would love this stuff

I dream of places like this. Thought they were all gone. My family was in the auto parts business. My dad started his repair business in 1946. I do have some memories of them.

It always amazes me what gets left behind.

I was going to say there is a small fortune in merchandise just waiting to be sold. I stand corrected. That warehouse is a gold mine of everything automotive.

What a freaking gold mine that is! WOW!

Incredible happening ....1954 inventory of automobile ...wow that is treasure for many vintage car lovers may be even motorcycle parts that surely should elevate spirits of many enthusiasts who can revamp their parts.

OMG! This has to be the most amazing content that’s been posted in a long time! AMAZING!! Thank you!

wow a lot of vintage parts! Thanks for making the video and making these parts known.

WOWZA ! Someone surely will come in and buy whats usable in the collector car market.

Wow, just wow. Absolutely incredible. I could spend weeks crawling through there just to see what's what. If it was closer to Boise Idaho I most certainly would 😋

I worked at an auto part house in the early 70’s in Alexandria,La. The building was a nice quite unique as was an old motorcar sales from the 20’s.

I am now 72 and worked in auto parts since I was 14 so a breath from the past

WOW! I don't know where to start. I have a '54 Ford, a '61 Mercury and a '65 T-Bird. I'm always doing something to them, but they're largely done with their mechanical refurbishment. I do need a power steering pump to the '61 FE powered Mercury, so I need to give them a call. I just hope they have a working inventory system that will get me the correct part for my application. A million thanks for the heads up on this incredible old parts warehouse.

A candy store for gear heads. Very cool.

I have never seen a parts warehouse that huge, it had to be the main supplier of the satellite parts store of the same name.

WoW! Just Incredible! You need to get hold of people who do car shoes & not just swap meets! Am sure there's people out there who been lookin high & low for some of that stuff! ❤

The random scattering of parts combined with the cash registers and phones seems to indicate that those pallets of boxes of parts are what was returned here as the stores were closed.

I live 10 minutes away. What is there is pure gold! Pure gold!

There are people in the business of liquidating inventory like this, I’m confident someone is going to make some money, looks like there is a lot of good stuff in here.

G'day from West Australia😉 The owner is sitting on a literal gold mine of parts. Wish I was a billionaire😊

Holy crap! You were 2 miles from my house. I'm not sure when you shot this but I was in it last year and bought some cool stuff out of there.

Wow !!! I hope most of this gets saved. It would be very sad to see it go to a landfill. As always Guys I liked and shared. All my very best. One of a very few times I wished I were rich. : )

Thanks!

I’d love to be able to go back in there again. A lot of the stuff was sold earlier this year but I’ve been trying to get ahold of people to go back

I SOLD TOOLS TO THE MECHANICS WHO WORKED IN THE AUTO REPAIR SHOP IN THE EARLY 1970'S, P,LUS I HAVE BOUGHT MANY CAR PARTS THERE UP IN THE 1980' S. THE STORE IS LOCATED IN THE SOUTH END OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY AND IS ONLY ABOUT ONE MILE FROM THE LOUISVILLE AIRPORT. IT'S NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

Excellent video Christine :) , Richard :) also that so cool for Automotive Restoration companies and all parts maybe need even ones do on own owner of vehicles parts hard to get in this present years on old vechiles too! Hopefully you bought some parts you need too for project your working on Richard :) !

Man. That's awesome!! Jeez over wellming ,but I've actually seen this type of place before. A couple years ago. A big store ,& machine shop that closed its doors 1 day!!

I wish someone would buy the whole lot then open up a VINTAGE parts wharehous! Can you imaganie how instanly thus would become the Hottest parts house for vintage parts around!!

I've always dreamed of owning something like that... 100% awesome

Wow!! This just made my day! George Toohey is my grandpa and I grew up essentially next door to this location. I used to play hide and go seek in the mazes of shelves as a little girl and spent a good chunk of time bugging Marie, grandpa, and the mechanics out back for candy and grape coke. The part of the video of you walking through that from office area.. I haven't had that view in nearly 30 years. Thank you so much for sharing ❤

There will be thousands of people who need those parts !

I remember one over in Louisville KY.

wow what a gold mine its to bad someone cant restore and clean it up as a parts store thank you for sharing

so much of that inventory can be sold on eBay.

I am blown away amazing i could spend all year in there.

looks like some one was in there that shouldnt have been there. what an awsome find.

WOW! Even the old Pepsi soda vending machines are worth money if you find an collector or sell to an person who restores old soda vending machines to sell. I myself is into collecting Coca-Cola items.

I worked in the auto parts industry for over 60 years. Stated out as a driver and ended up owner m6 own store chain. It was a great business. I miss it a lot . Would go crazy trying to get this cleaned up and selling off the parts. Good luck to the people who have to get this cleaned up. Don

Mr. B. Here ! What you 👀 👀in offices is simple ( if it ain’t broke don’t fix it ) I grew up in NY and saw many places that that . If Mr. Toohey grew up in depression nothing got put in the trash ! What guys are walking thru is a ( Gold Mine ). Hope all items sale . That is 🇺🇸🇺🇸 American History Museum , never to be seen again ! 🍺🍺🍺 🚗🚗🚗

impressed me this warehouse unbelievable 😮 they have more then a million auto parts incredible Richard. thanks for sharing this information

Wow, that's our old auto parts store around here back in the 70's , " When your car goes phooey, call Tooheys"! I liked Tooheys better than any auto parts houses nowadays, know what I mean? Those ol boys that worked there, our Tooheys anyway, took pride in their work and job. They had a store right down here on the corner of Limestone and Carlisle Ave.

Freaking amazing i hope this inventory get saved

I would love to have the box that has "DX" on it. DX Sunray was a refinery in Duncan OK that my dad worked in for about 40 years as a chemist. The refinery here is no longer and the property is unusable, everything has been torn down and removed. Sunoco bought the DX refinery here in the 70s

What was awesome u can pretty much almost build u a hot rod a couple of times over im super jelly I totally would turn back into a little boy again I see Richard had that glow and tweekle in his eye I but he felt like a teenager rlinf about with his buddy's life in your guises last video when u were working on that 1928 or 1930 wasn't sure on the year sorry for the ear full I get so happy and warm inside to see u two keeping us happy and finding the time to do this while working full-time and family time to thank u thank u thank u u did a aweso.e job too Christina by wife have not stepped on foot in there because of the 🐀 or mouse hahahahha

Rock Auto would probably buy all of it.

The way to watch this video is mute the sound and run it at 1/4 speed. Solid gold find from back when aftermarket parts where actually well made!

Holy cow! Richard, at 2:10 when you flipped the card and read the (truly odd) message on the back, I almost busted a gut. I’m not sure why I found it so funny, but I think it was your somewhat perplexed tone as you deadpanned “I don’t know what that’s all about” instead of opting for the “What the hell??” that you were probably actually thinking. 😂😂😂 Anyway, it probably wasn’t intentional, but it absolutely killed me…and I’m still cracking up. Thanks for the laugh! I needed that! 😂

OOH THIS HURTS MY HEAD! So many parts that are just not available anymore . Somebody save this.

From the looks of the place, it's going to take a small army of people to empty it out and get it all squared away.

The Aladdins Cave. I bet that feels the same as being an explorer of an Egyptian tomb.

Would love to buy up their stock of old (pre 2000's) glass packs, especially any old Cherry Bomb or Thrush mufflers.

This reminds me of the auto part stores of my youth. I'd go with my Dad on a Saturday morning to get tune up parts for our car. My Dads' high school buddy was behind the counter. No computers, just parts books & old time cash registers.

I worked for an automotive WD (warehouse distributor) which is what Toohey's basically was.... they had a store in our town.... that warehouse is in HORRIBLE condition... nothing seems to be stocked from the pallets, and so on... I don't see any bin locations, or anything indicating a regular warehouse... even organization by parts vendors .... they sold Sorenson, and I saw some of that stuff in a big box, but it would have to be organized in order to track par levels and the like....that didn't appear until you went into the large section with the long aisles... the shopping carts would probably have been to pick orders for customers, or maybe local garages... the old parts catalogs (prior to the years they closed up shop) would be valuable to research older model year part numbers from the various manufacturers in the aftermarket... as they dropped out of the catalogs, they'd be helpful looking up and cross referencing older parts

What an amazing place! I hope they can sell most of the parts before the rest are destroyed! I wish I was close to there. I would spend all day looking through all that stuff for my '54 Chevy Bel-Air!! Thanks for the tour!

Hope you all can save those parts it would be such a shame from to be to away in the trash

It would well worth the time and expense to have all this stuff appraised and maybe a list of everything found.

At 48:30 in this video the modulator he holds up is for the 1986 F 150. It went on the driver side of your block just above the oil pan.

I used to tow for George and bought many parts from him.. I brought a lot of people over to Woodlawn location in Louisville.. great stuff was there and great people

I would love to spend a weekend going thru that stuff ! Going to give that guy a call !!

OMG..... this is soooo fascinating, so sad and so overwhelming to watch. I'm thoroughly enjoying the video, but .... Being a person with level four OCD, I must admit it's giving me anxiety. I truly hope that someone saves this stuff from going to the landfill. I can't even fathom the thought of that happening. Once gine, it's fine forever.

One thing is for certain, somebody is going to make a fortune from selling the contents of this place !!

All those parts books should make it possible to identify exactly what's there. What a job that will be. Wish I could see the labels on the boxes. Some I could see, most not so.

Well, I say buy what you can, NOW before it all goes away !

Talk about a visit “ Back to the Future”…What’s truly ironic is these NOS parts outlived the cars they were made for, usually it’s the other way around. More sad is hundreds of thousand’s of these cars have long been crushed-melted- and recycled.

What an amazing place. Great video.

When your car goes "fooey" call toohey's was their slogan

I hope someone like jay leno sees this video! It needs a wealthy brave car guy to step in here. I sincerely hope this Aladdin’s cave of parts get saved. All the parts catalogues should be saved as they are the key to the future of the hoard.