Dealership Cars Abandoned in Field for Decades Sold at Auction! Classic Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Buick! 

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Today, a person is LUCKY to be able to "identify" these JAPANESE CLONES by their "nameplate"! STYLE, AND "VEHICLE ROMANCE" IS DEAD!

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You have to recall that America was awash in cars during that era, and people only kept a car for a few years typically, especially in rust-belt areas. I am old enough to remember when used 1960s cars could be had for $100-200 back in the 1970s, and 1940s-50s cars for as little as $25. My dad owned a 1948 Pontiac up until the mid-1970s, and he picked up a matching 1947 Pontiac for $35 from a gas station nearby for a parts car. I used to play in it as a kid. So these old four-door plain-jane family cars were a dime a dozen and just not that desirable or valuable (then or now), so having a few dozen to a few hundred of them sitting around really didn't add up to all that much. Plus, a lot of people in farm country had plenty of excess land and just put anything and everything that they were done using out in the "back 40"(acres) somewhere and it stayed there until after they died. Now if this was a field of RS/SS Camaros, or Judge GTOs and other such rarities, then I could agree with you more.

Lambrecht was particularly nutty, he tossed brand new cars and trucks with a few miles in a field for decades for no good reason. His family couldn't really explain why.

Chevrolet dealer wouldn't sell the old model new cars when the new models came out. Numerous vehicles were brand new never titled vehicles in decent condition.

@@redmondjp You're exactly right. I bought a raggedy 1962 Impala Super Sport in 1978 for $25, lol.

The 63 olds has a tree growing out of it.

Thanks for stopping by the channel, Jeff! And thank you for your kind words

if he knew his kjb. and was saved and ready for heaven. would be much better

​@@mr.goodpliers6988 u got most of them right g as fo da Hudson hornet it was a 52 g

Yes, those are the rarer model, though there is one shown at the Swedish Immigrant Farmstead Auction.

We saw a pristine Cutlass with that striped interior at the GM Heritage Center and I have been drooling over them since. One of the best periods of design history, especially considering all the budding gov't regs of the time - what they still managed to do on these cars was amazing!

After 1977 the stepside beds were the only way to get the wood slat floor boards! If you wanted a wood bed in a fleetside it had to be plywood mounted in!

i had a 455 in my 70 GTO it was not a common option . had a muncie m22 . the car flew !

Most...or should I say many are totally restorable.

Frank, I see you getting all Dewey eyed over these 3 ton land yachts. Lets remember why they are all sitting in a field and have been doing so for 40 odd years. these monsters did 8 to 12 miles a galleon as the daily drivers they once wer. That was all well and good when gas was cheap but by the mid 70s going forward they were expensive to tank up and use daily. These cars were the reason there are so many Honda accords on the road since then.

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@@franksmith6871Frank! your just being a little bit of a silly sausage now!

If he had drove a Volkswagen, he would have been president 😉

It probably got scrapped after the investigation. There are a lot of pics of it online. The roof was collapsed and the passenger side was pretty wiped out.

He also wrecked Mary Jo Kopechne, He was not a good person.

There are not many people in South Dakota. By keeping the trade-ins off the market, the dealer forced people to buy new ones, so in his situation, he thought, that he made more money, & he may have, since the land to park them on was cheap & generally, trade-ins don't really cost dealers much if anything. What many customers didn't realize in those days, that the dealer was willing to sell you the car at the same price, whether they had a trade-in or not. In fact, early in the automotive industry, Ford's policy was to crush trade-ins, rather than selling them, so new car sales wouldn't need to compete with used cars. This policy likely lasted in areas, where it continued to work.

If instead they’d been resold soon after being traded in, they would all have been long gone to the junkyard by now. They may be in pretty rough shape, but at least they haven’t been turned into washing machines and paper clips!

The '53 Plymouths (Dodges too!) WERE COOL! These were cars that were WELL BUILT, COMFORTABLE, AND PERFORMED EXCELLENT!

I believe 1952 was the last year that Plymouth offered the business coupe. By then Plymouth was likely the only one offering a business coupe.

@@ernielaw They were COOL cars, though! I saw a few Plymouth and Dodge "business coupes" growing up! GREAT BODY STYLE!

Because they wanted customers to buy new cars they had in inventory

There was a Ford dealer in Indiana that did the same thing. Never sold a trade in but instead took them to several plots of land he owned and let them sit. The story was that he thought WWIII was coming and that he would make a fortune selling them for scrap.

Parts

Pretty crappy that someone went through and busted all of those windshields

They sold most of them, these were just the poorer, less desirable cars. Cheaper to park em out in the field than any other option.

There was a slight difference in the grille that gave the appearance of a stripe. I believe the had '76 had round outboard a/c vents and the '77 were rectangle matching the center stack. I owned a '77.

That is a logistical impossibility in nearly every case. This sale was 500 miles from home, and a friend shared it with me after seeing it on Facebook. So I detoured to check it out. I got there the night before and shot footage for two days. After, it takes around a week to edit that raw footage into a total of four finished videos. Every movie, sitcom, documentary, and reality show you watch on TV was filmed months beforehand, and it is the same here. We have a busy auction "season" of several months of the year, then several when they take a break. Spacing the videos out provides uniform scheduled content, no different from TV programs which air in slots through the weeks and months. My primary work is with old cars, and this channel is a way to provide informational storytelling. It would be logistically impossible to visit a location months beforehand, shoot it, then drive that distance over again to shoot the sale. And after both were posted, it would all still be viewed after the event had happened for the years to come that the video is available on the platform. The second reason in the case of this specific sale was security, because two vehicles were stolen before the sale. Putting it on blast on a platform would have drawn more attention and possibly more of that type of activity. The stories of these artifacts transcend the place and time where they are found, and film is a way of capturing the time they were together.

Makes perfect sense!

@@mr.goodpliers6988 Nonsense! Auctions want to draw more attention dude! Like duh! The auction will get more bidders driving up the prices! Just make a quick post about it right when you find out like "hey friends there's an upcoming auction if you guys want to bid! I'm gonna be there shooting footage!" or whatever. Not a logistical nightmare at all. It's actually really simple. Then you can still go on to edit your footage make your vids and do all your transcendent informational artifact storytelling too! Hooray!!

@@urbandisturbin man these auctions are in 99.9% of all cases advertised months in advance on the auctioneer's site. These days we have a thing called "Google" which finds them all if you're interested in buying. Mr. G only documents them, he's not a service for interested parties.

Closed for parts now, but open to tourists and picture takers as an outdoor museum

Next three videos will show more from this sale - stay tuned

Thanks for stopping by Kevin!

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