Mr. Goodpliers heads off to the farm auction for more fresh picks with Joe and Gordon! Check out old Ford trucks, Falcons, Mercury Park Lane, Sunbeam Alpine, Ranchero, tractors and equipment! Stick around to see us load our picks!
Not only are you an impressive car expert, you're a fine student of history as well! You never fail to add proper & correct historical context to your narrations... well done!
Thanks, Badsocket! I agree with you the 60's Falcons and Fairlanes are beyond cool, but I have a difficult time deciding which year is the coolest. The 1960 Fairlane Town Sedan was a gorgeous car for a high-end salesman or a junior executive but, just like the '67 Galaxy 500, the '67 Fairlane 500 with the 390 V8 was one of the coolest cars to ever roam the back roads of West Texas on a warm Spring night after Junior Prom, in search of a back road with an out-of-the-way place to park. My first car was a tan '67 Galaxy 500 with the 390. I bought it at 18 years old in 1977, with 50K original miles on it. Good God, but was that car fast! Even better, it had a bench-style front seat that was wide enough and long enough for two high-school age kids to get comfortable on. No need to move to the back seat!
The V8 flathead air compressor used 4 cylinders for horsepower and the other 4 cylinders were used to make air for wherever needed . Very common in the old days . Thank you and God bless !!!! Eddy
That Park Lane was the star of the show, fo’ sho’. The 68’- 72’ full-size Mercury aesthetic is the peak in styling. 390, 427, 428, 429 engines with like, 10 1/2 to 1 compression ratios, make another peak they reach in horsepower& torque
Back in about 70 or 71 my best friend had a matchbox car that looked like the Hawaii 5-0 car. We used to fight over it and who was gonna be Steve McGarrett. Lol. Cool you showed the Park Lane. Good memories!
The old IH at 17:10 made me smile. I use in the fall harvest a 1978 IH 1800 tandom. It has a gas 446 (I think that's the number) IH engine. All original except for the "gold box" ignition, we had to do away with that box a few years ago. The lens covers on the taillights even have IH in the red plastic.
Bonneville was the top of the line at Pontiac, it is not a G body but a B body. l retired from Pontiac Motors and worked on hundreds of thousands of them. A body was Lemans or Tempest and G body was the Grand Prix. Bonnevilles and Catalinas downsized in 1977 and Lemans and Grand Prix in 1978.
Grew up on the great hi plains of northwest ks. I was runnin a W-6 at eight yrs old with arm strong steering, of course. Pulling a 3 bottom plow. This ole farm reminded me of home. If you can could you be a bit more specific where the auction is....I would appreciate it. Have to say you do a remarkable job Mr. goodpliers with the videos, impressed with your vast knowledge of machinery and basically anything with wheels n tires and everything else. Think I covered it. Love the lil 61 unibody. I rolled a longbed version of the same truck when I was 11. My brother,cousin and I were just shaken up. We were on our way to work the field. Dad got the 4020 and pulled her back on the wheels. Checked the fluids,started right up, and other than a bent rim we drove that old truck yrs. after. It was white we called it whiteass. Feel blessed to have discovered your channel. Thanks Much and God Bless...
Hi, !STEVE! This week with cars! has both Sunbeam Alpines and Sunbeam Tigers in his huge collection of British cars, has at least 2 race built Tigers with the factory 289 in them..Also a sought after car back in England again..
Actually, the Falcon convertible is a 1965. Easy mistake (64 or 65?) because they look so much alike. 64's had generator 260; 65's had alternator 289. This is a great video and you did a great job narrating it. Thank you.
Wow, some one was into the early Falcons....If I had the means I would drag every one of those vintage trucks home, definitely some affordable prices, I was bummed when ya'll cut that frame section...Wife would have a fit..I have to ask, what your plans are for the Bonneville?? .be safe, God Bless!!
Thanks for stopping by the channel Michael! The Bonneville will be used for parts. First thing will be to remove the interior so that I can cut out the floor pans for a Cutlass
Yes it was $1100. We bid $1050. It needs a lot but it's about the king of the mountain for collectible Ford trucks. The GM bucket seats would have made over half the money back, so it's still not a huge buy-in
Videos that you do and others do that cover farm auctions are great, yet sad. That Chevy truck has been sitting there for possibly 60+ years. Once it gets bought it'll be gone forever. Sometimes I wish cars weren't found or discovered
Mr. Badsocket - as always, I really enjoy your videos. Please record as many of these farm auctions as you can. A lot of people [including myself] think they make for fascinating viewing. I have a question: At 40:26, you changed scenes right as a "windmil tower" came up for bidding. Can you look at your edited [cut] video and tell me how much that windmill tower sold for? Thanks.
Unfortunately I did not film that part of the sale. There were a couple people who were flea market resellers there, so I am sure that it didn't sell for scrap.
I would have done $500 on the Alpine. I think it went way too high. (I maybe wrong) The Falcons & Rambler wgn, Ford unit body little window, and Ranchero would interest me for right price. They don’t complain if you buy a “truck” and only take the rad, front axles, lights and tips of the fenders? Lol?
The Chinese were doing it, but when word got out, certain corporations (think American) got involved. Independent farmers grumble about "corporation farms" but that beats the heck out of the Chinese getting "our" food. It takes a special breed of person to work a farm-it is very hard work.
I don’t know if you find things like this I mean here I am a lover of the old vehicle not a mechanic or any of that I would love to get me an older vehicle Ford Chevy it would have to be in an affordable price for someone on average income and I would want to be all original no butchering no customization so tell me how do you find us can you reach out I seen some of your videos were you had a few things that you might would sell that I was interested in however I didn’t reach out because I’m sure I’m not able to purchase
At 48: whatever second's, How or why did you compare pulling a decapitated front axle with a little bit of rad grill and partial fender up a uneven mini beavertail bent big gaps ramp to like trying to ride a motorcycle ? These two things have absolutely nothing in common I'm sure of that, never manually pulled that type of thing but rode more motorcycles than you could ever dream of & that what spurred me to be here , I'm guessing You failed or gave up terribly at the latter.
Joe cut the front of the truck off for wall art. Most of the time we cut up 1940s and 50s vehicles for wall art, which does not include the axle. We just pulled it up there because it still had wheels on it
joe looking cool, and it's almost as good as being there, yet if l was, i'd be the guiding hand, stopping tim crushing spiders....all god's creatures. funny how a whole load of tires inflated so easily after so many potus-changing years
gosh durn ya spend more time showin us how to inflate front tires then in the auction showing what the rust buckets sell for, golly jeepers are they payin too much?
