Cutting Abandoned Car Out Of A Tree After 40 Years | 1968 SAAB 96 | RESTORED 

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I grew up with a grandfather who owned a lumbermill as a young man and cut and hauled lumber with his brother using mules and skids to pull the logs out of the woods. Later, after his brother lost his leg in a horrible mill accident, he built new houses from scratch. My grandfather would draw a plan on a paper grocery sack and then take 2x4s and frame a home on cement blocks I would help mix the bonding cement for. He gave me my first hammer at 8, after he taught me to drive his Ford 1949 F1 half ton. This was 1960. Watching this is like watching my Daddy Ben work a problem out just because something old is valuable to "some" of us. Thank you.

When I was a teenager, I got a 62 Saab 96 running from 2 different cars. The one i fixed looked a lot like the one you rescued. That car had a 2 cycle 3 cylinder engine. I am 64 years old so that tells you how long it's been. I wish I had that car back 55 miles a gallon. My grandpa tried to give me his Saab 95, I think, that was the station wagon type. It was parked out back beside his garage for years. He proudly gave me the keys, I unlocked the door, hopped into the driver's seat and immediately fell all the way to the ground! The unibody was rusted completely away. It was useless. but I was able to pull the engine out of that to put in my 62. Lot's of memories of that car.

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That car does indeed have a V-4 engine in it. It is a later model SAAB 96. Earlier models had a 2-stroke inline 3 cylinder engine. I know...my family had two of them back in the late 60s-early 70s. One thing that may surprise you is the free-wheeling feature of the transmission. It was a great fuel saver and reduced engine wear by a considerable amount. Great car to drive and it has a full underside panel useful for keeping precipitation out of the engine bay.

That tree is fighting for its true love to the death. This is turning into a real Saab story

Cody's comment at the end resonated with me. He said at first, he was skeptical whether or not the car was actually going to come out of the trees. He didn't know how it was going to work but kept chipping away at it and finally it came. Seems like that's the story of all great challenges. We know what we want the outcome to be but don't know how it will play out. It seems the key is to keep working faithfully, doesn't it? We aren't required to know how we will get there but we are required to do the work and persevere.

The amount of work and perseverance you put into these rescues is amazing.

Hey there! First video of your show! Am impressed of your patience n how you treated each other with respect, which is sometimes rare these days with Reality shows! All of you got the job done without drama!! Will be watching more! Didn’t know trees could grow into cars(where have I been?)truly team effort getting it out🤗so awesome!!

What a TREE-MENDOUS rescue. I was STUMPED at the beginning thinking this thing would not be coming out of its 40 year home!

Check out the Ford F-100 we rescued from the same property here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZEa7CCtfTYo.html

I’ve seen a tree grown over a bicycle before but not a car. Y’all must really want that car. Good luck finding parts.😂

I admire the work ethic and expertise that went into this job. Great work!

To quote lord of the rings: “The trees are strong, my lord. Their roots grow deep…”

Like everyone else on here, I cannot wait to see how that bad boy turns out. I hope the restoration goes fast 😬

Great video, watching you all work together was as much fun as seeing the car finally come out.

Watch our latest rescue video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2fUlmfeNhjw.html

I just found you guys yesterday and immediately loved what you do. I've been a big fan of VGG for a while and then your coolab with him was amazing but that was just the gateway. I love your message too. The Beetle video was very powerful. I had to become a member as soon as I could. Keep up the good work. Also, I can't believe how many songs I've had to look up because the ones you use are all so good!

Thats remarkable perseverance with the 60's Saab. Good luck with remaining wheel rim & bumper. Trust the restoration goes smoothly 👌 from here on! Thanks for letting us share the journey of the salvage to freedom !

Please let the car rest in peace with the love of the trees. A pure Icon of civilization and nature.

Thank you so much! SAAB needs to be saved! Born from Jets I'm currently on way to Sturgis South Dakota for the Saab owners convention where there is the museum

Can't wait to see the next one with this old car. I really like to see you two / three get this old car running I think that would be pretty cool. God Bless you Guy's and Girl!

Amazing what nature does when it reclaims it's land. Imagine how very slowly those dents were pushed into those panels...40 years in the making!

Watch Us Attempt To Get This Car Running Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FpF9vZRhUc8.html

Your videos are always so chilled and easy and always getting a history lesson about the car ❤️

As a Swede I was literally shouting at the TV “Its a SAAB v4 rescue it, save it, RESTORE IT!!!”. Hoping for a 2nd episode on this car! I hope it is restorable after the long lovestory with tree and nature.

Keep that piece of wood on the bumper and stain/varnish it as a memento. It adds character and tells a story.

Great work, I love seeing old cars brought back to life. Nice to see Ernest Hemingway called in to assist 👍🇦🇺

26:20 it's so entertaining to watch a experienced Sawyer cut those trees, you make it look so effortless, every cut perfectly placed, ever tree dropping in exactly the right spot. Thank you for letting us watch you work.

As a Swede it warms my heart that you rescue this neat old SAAB! Thanks from Sweden!! 🇸🇪

whaaaaaw , unbelievable, what a release this was and what a reviving project , i love what you did guy's , my fully respect ❤❤

A friend with equipment is a great friend to have, plus kudus to him for pitching in.

That was a safe recovery. everything went well. good job Guys.

Guys you just keep getting better and better episodes but what amazes me more than anything is truly I can say your show something the whole family can watch and honestly I could sit down and watch this with Jesus and not feel ashamed in anyway shape or form keep up the great work guys

I watched all the way to the end without skipping over anything. Well worth the wait! The best part was the last line which I'll make others watch for themselves. 🤣

When Cody of Roselle Tree Service said “ it’s the whittle things that take a long time” I laughed for a good long time. I’d hire that guy no problem if I needed a tree to come down. Great Video guys I’m looking forward to see what happens next.

Super cool. This story is gonna follow that car forever now. Looking forward to the restoration. Good work guys. Liked and subscribed.

You Guys definitely had Your work cut out for you for sure...Its amazing how trees can grow right around metal and the metal end up inside the trees themselves. Keeping that piece of bumper is definitely a conversation piece..Great job gettting it out And Great Video...

Well, that was a great job, I never thought you boys would get that car out, but you did. thank you, great show,👍👍👍

WOW! A blast from the past. My first car (at 16 years old in '72) was an abandoned '67 Model 96. I had it for 10 years. I still have some parts for it.

Best one yet by far!!I was a bit skeptical about even getting that thing loose. But you guys prevailed again!! Now on to round 2 of this forgotten gem! Looking forward to seeing more of this one to see the mystery and the wonder if it'll ever run again.

I really like how you all work together. You are are all thoughtful and humble. I don't see anyone among you that knows it all. Very refreshing!

Can't believe it! The family has been driving SAAB scandi for decades . I hope you guys can restore it back to beautiful. They were great rally cars.

Wow your love for classics really shows in your videos keep saving them

Thanks for saving this car! I always look forward to see what not too often seen treasures you gentleman discover and bring back to life in one way or another.

A little more than 30 years ago my brother and I had gotten a contract from a bank to clean up a foreclosed property of the abandoned vehicles the previous owner had left there. There were 9 heavy trucks and 4 light trucks and vans and 23 cars one of which was one of those old SAAB’s a rust bucket but otherwise identical to that one right down to the color and V4 engine. The previous owner had built a driveway behind it that was about 4 ft higher than the ground where the car was and it had a steep embankment (about a 70 degree slope) that was about a foot away from the cars bumper and a swamp started about 3 ft from the other bumper. When we got it about half way up the slope, something under the car got snagged on something and proceeded to pull the bottom of the car in half so the roof was all that was holding the car in 1 piece. It suddenly came free from whatever it was snagged on and the rear half of the car twisted up on the driver side to about a 45 degree angle which popped the rear window out of the car sending it flying through the air for about 20 ft and landing on a pile of bowling ball sized rocks with sharp points and jagged edges on them. Somehow the window didn’t break. We pulled the car the rest of the way up to level ground where the rear floor section snagged into the gravel and folded it up even more at the rear bumper until it folded it forward onto the front section of the car. To load the sections on the trailer to haul them out we just cut the A pillars at the windshield and winched each piece onto the trailer separately. We did save 3 of the heavy trucks and 2 of the other cars for ourselves, sold 4 cars, and 1 van and light truck, had 1 van and 3 cars stolen one night, and we scrapped or parted out the rest. I could tell about the adventures of the rest of that property cleanup but it would be the size of a humor novel, but it was hilarious at least once per vehicle other than the ones that were stolen, and definitely proved to be an adventure. For example me riding over ruts, boulders and logs pumping a squeeze ball to keep gas going to keep it running while on the front fender on a 47 Studebaker Dump truck wrapped around the turn signal canister like it was a saddle horn during a rodeo while my brother drove it out (fuel line was too short to reach the cab). He had hooked the fuel line to the input of the fuel pump instead of directly to the carburetor and I didn’t pay attention to that fact because if I stopped pumping it the truck would stall out after about 5 seconds because the fuel pump didn’t work. He hit a log hard enough to blow out the front tire which rang my chimes on the turn signal so I quit pumping the squeeze ball only to find the trucks fuel pump had started working. Any bull rider in a rodeo would have been proud to have made such a ride.

This was so much work for y'all. Action packed Lance! It's amazing what you guy's go through for a car..... But that's what your vidio's are for..... Great Job...Thank's Lance And Wyatt....Top Shelf Productions!👍

That was amazing, really enjoyed watching, what team work, great job.

The content you guys are putting out is getting better and better ! So glad to see how far this channel has come, please keep the good stuff coming 🙏🏻

You guys did an amazing job removing that car. I can’t wait to see this car restored.

Great job you guys, never saw anything like this removing trees that had grown into a car. Hope I can see the restoration❗

Loved the word play starting between minutes 30-40. It shows you guys know how to make a "light" thing of "heavy" work, (yes all bad puns intended) I can hear you groan and your eyes rolling too! Let the tree trimming guys read this for a good laugh🤣😁👍 keep up the great work in saving old cars from a grusome demise! Doug🤓⭐

Blessings to you all the way from Fremont Nebraska! Such great fun watching you guys I've learnt a lot since I started a watching nearly 2 year ago after open heart surgery. Didn't have much else to do lol. So you have been such a blessing throughout my recovery. Love and more blessings to you all.

Thanks that was a lot of fun to watch looking forward to the next episode see what happens to this old girl

Boy that thing was buried in there well hopefully you'll get it running you usually do have a great day

Wow!!! What a project,cant wait to see it completed!!!!

Thought this was going to turn into a saab story, but yall got it out intact! Awesome work!

Now thats a rough project. Look forward to Part 2. Thanks for the fun video

Amazing !!! You all really worked for it!!

Beautiful cinematograhy in all your videos. You really got a talent for this guys!

A truely enjoyable video to watch until the end. I hope you manage to retrieve the wheel. Looking forward to the start vid and the first wash in decades. I am thinking it will come up good. Saabs are usually painted with enamel paint.

Good video guys. I'm very interested to see what it will take for that Saab to get running! I hope your family is doing well. Blessings to all of you!!!

When finally she comes, the old boy put his hand on and never leaves her... Pretty tender😍

Well done! This was fun to watch , thank you ❤

I am really glad you saved that cool old school car. I really hope it runs and drives to. God bless you all my friends.

This car deserves a second chance, over here in Europe that car would be worth a lot of money 💵 💲

Love this channel and the cars your finding and restoring. Some incredible finds in some interesting places.

جهودكم جباره..تستحقون كل الاعجاب والتقدير..

Unreal! I've seen my share of cars/trucks with tree's growing through them, but that one there really takes 1st prize. You boys did an awesome job getting her out. It's a real great testimony to human will. Thank you for this amazing content, and may the peace of the Lord be with you all.

Without a doubt you guys are the best on RU-vid. I love watching you here in the uk, in fact I subscribe to hundreds of American car channels. You guys are ace and do things that bit better than any other country in the world. Brilliant content from two amazingly talented and clever guys 👌👌

I haven't ever seen a SAAB like that either. Though I am no fan of SAAB, there can't be that many of those left, and I am a sucker for the oddballs that you don't see everyday. I have also never seen trees grown up though a car to that degree. This one is definitely a unique challenge, but one that it is certainly worth attempting. That car has definitely been there at least forty years, and probably longer that that. This is certainly one that you can prove is not a fake, lol.

This was so interesting. Thanks guys!

This rescue is something you read about in sci fi books haha. You guys are awesome! I learnt a lot from you! Greetings from Argentina!

This was interesting. I did a total restoration of one of these Saabs back in 1987 , mine was a 1971 this one is a 67 or 68 the 69 had blinkers on the front fenders. 67 was the firts year for the V4 engine. Good luck with the restoration.

Wow …that was really interesting…ya got the car out and got lots of fire wood too !!!…can’t wait to see if it can be restored…it looks like a cool car ……love from Ireland 🇮🇪

these SAAB cars was made in sweden. They also made Jet planes to Airfors. So glad you give it a second chanse. 🇸🇪👌

Thanks for saving that Saab!

I had this type of car in Sweden as my first car. The SAAB V4 is not overpowered in any way, but it was fun to drive. The free wheel made the car different from other cars in a good way. It was also a very good car in wintertime.

Wow, I think I've seen this particular vehicle on some urbex/abandoned car page before, it was so unique how the bumper became one with the tree, it was like a natural art installation. When I've seen it, I thought that poor Saab is probably gonna rot there forever in peace, nobody's gonna bother to cut out all those trees for a weird, crumpled wreck of a car... but you did! Amazing job! I hope the car is saveable, though the trees and time probably did a bit too much damage... it's gonna be a lot of work for sure. But that car was a rally legend, I bet it'll be fun to drive once it's finished.

Wow, great team! Thanks for sharing.

I've been through this. The most direct method is to top the tree and then cut it again, at, or below ground level. It is miserable work but it does allow for a speedier removal of the vehicle. Then it's just a matter of reducing the wood that's left attached to the vehicle, which always seems far easier once the vehicle is back at the shop.

I my self have cut a car out of a tree but nothing like this car this is the most epic car rescue i have ever seen that car has earned her right to be put back on the road

Classic example of backyard finds," don't low ball me ,I know what I got".

This is a work of nature the car was grafted onto the tree no one was interested in taking it off before now it looks like it took a breath 🤩👍👍

Hard to believe how grown into the tree that was! Good job in getting it extracted and that it only took minimal damage! I look forward to the will it start video!

Wow awesome! That you saved this Old Saab 96, Here in Sweden We had one of these Saab 96 when I was a child. The one we had was a 1969 model, also v4 but with a different front grill than this one. They are kinda robust little cars :P

It’s incredible….amazing car and very very heavy Job to get it out. Congratulations!!!

I stepped away for a moment, I thought the tractor motor was the car running for a moment. LOL!!

Yep, it’s actually a Ford V-4 engine with a 4 speed manual on the column and front wheel drive. Grew up with one of these ‘68 SAAB 96’s and spent countless hours working on it with my dad. Very cool car that got great gas mileage and was terrific in the snow, not fun to get parts for though. Can’t tell you how many of those tail light assemblies we went through, they stick out and they’re the first thing that gets hit in the parking lot!

So do love your videos my favorite channel period God Bless you all my friends

Holy crap guys! What a nightmare right here at Halloween! 🎃 Tree surgeon meets Saab Monster! Awesome job everyone! 👍❤

Extremely stuck in the trees! Great job getting her out!

Absolutely insane what nature is capable of! Love the video thanks for sharing!🙌🏽

waow! a lot of job to save that Saab, i had a 1968 stationwagon in my youth, regards from Sweden

Wow, really great video.im very glad i found this channel.💙

Huge effort to recover lost one good team work old is gold. Pakistan

This was awesome to see! Can't wait to see you guys get it running. God bless you.

Excelente trabalho em equipe,meu sonho fazer uma restauração em um carro que supostamente não serve mais...

Before your arrive everything was perfect, the trees and the car in harmony in the slowest fight of endurance and stamina ever! I don't know what , but this one you should have left it right as it was.

You guys are masters of the play on words!