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Just finished up a behind the scene's tour last week with Steve. Super humble guy. The passion he has for cars/trucks or anything with a motor. He truly means it when he says' he'll show ya around. This stuff won't be here forever! The younger generation doesn't give much of a damn for stuff like this anymore. If you've got something like this near you.. Appreciate it! Before it all disappears..
Love your show. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. My old man was a steelworker, and raced a 57 Chev. Hard nose type guy. Sounds like your Dad. I can relate to a lot of your memories and thinking. I don’t build exactly what you do but I got more into the muscle cars. However, I love the shit you build and would own one in a heartbeat, but I have too many cars now. I just found the you tube stuff you do and am a follower for life. When I lived in Vegas I never got around to see all that old stuff out in the desert. Maybe you ought to start a tour guide service and shuttle people around to those hot spots of yours.
Watch Richard Rawlings on Joe Rogan Experience podcast on youtube. You might feel a little differently about him after you see the real Richard. I know I did, and definitely have more respect for him. I've heard more than once of how much he actually is decent to his fans in person.
@@LameJonesGarage I may have to do that. But I have much more respect for darnel at welder up because he builds and designs his own stuff himself. Rich is a masterful middleman . I just feel different vibes from these guys.
I love those old cars, as a car collector I can appreciate the rarity of all the cars showed. That yard is a great find, I would love to see it for myself. The stainless visor is a rare find it it’s own. Good job on the find.
One of my favorite memories as a young teenager was hanging out, looking at old cars in a junkyard owned by a buddies dad! If we found something we liked, we worked for it by pulling engines, wrenching or what ever he needed done to pull off the swap!
I love going to the wrecking yard. Whenever my dad would need to go to one when I was a kid, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to go with him. I love old cars too. If I had the opportunity to go to a yard like that I don't believe I could get through it in one day. In fact, I'd probably want to just camp out there so I could continue looking at all the history the following day. Which brings me to my newest great idea( eye of the beholder)... I'm sure I'm not the only one that would enjoy a camping trip at the old car wrecking yard. The owners should think about making that place into a wrecking yard/ Campground. I'm pretty sure it would be the first one in the world and it would give them an additional source of income using what they already have! And all I charge for my ideas is one weekend free pass to walk the yard( I Can Dream can't I?) Anyway, awesome yard, great stories, and all around great video. Subscribed!
I love the way you show how someone’s “junk” is really a treasure. I went on a trip as a kid, with my brother and dad. No motor home, in an 86 Buick Skylark. Got to the site, muffler fell off and my brother and I thought it sounded super cool, but my dad was pissed lol. My dad bought a “6 pack” of Rainer 40’s. it was how he got around to telling my mom how he only drank 6 beer lmao. Best trip of my life, most memories I have of being together with my brother and dad. Thanks for this video 😁
It would be a blast seeing that stuff in person!!! I'm an old car nut, love em all. 70s stuff and back! I'd be like the kid, tell the wife they followed me home!!!
My husband helped run a junk yard back in the late 60's and I loved to walk around and see what I could find. I would love to look at those beauties again
My father owned a Dodge motor home, we been on many trips with it. The motoer home was way better than the Chevy van going on trip. My Pop's would park along the beach of Mexico best memories.
Hay Steve not sure if you would remember me, I use to work for Paul at RMS. That yard is across the freeway from my parents place. There is some cool stuff there.
I was a teenager in the 70's and the kids now don't know what they missed. The freedom and fun was off the charts. Every day was an adventure. I would spend my summers at my grampa's gas station and small farm in the middle of nowhere. In the back was a grave yard of old wrecked cars; what a gas playing around in them. To this day I love the smell of gas and oil. I guess I have oil flowing in my veins. And am PROUD of it.
When I was only 9 years old my dad was in the army and we are from Texas, he was sent to be stationed in fort Irwin CA. We where on our way back to Texas, and think about this this was in 1959. Well it was night and my mom was driving and my dad and sister where in the back sleeping. I was riding up front with my mom, I kept see a sign and it said little barrel 1 mile. This continues for about 20 miles and I said to my mom where's this town little barrel. Well my mom breaks out laughing son see the barrel on the side of the road well that's your little barrel and it litter barrel not little barrel. Mom and dad had a good laugh about it told my grandfather and the rest of the family they all though it was funny.
@@nicholaslandolina really you don't know It's a trash barrel on the side of the road and it's there to put trash in, instead of throwing it on the side of the road .
You guys are so lucky to have such good steel just sitting around out there. Up here in the Northeast pretty much anything sitting around is completely rotted and destroyed. Every project we do is usually a car that we purchased from the Midwest somewhere, head out drag it out of a field and bring it back home. Hearts is another issue LOL sometimes we have to completely rebuild everything, sometimes we get lucky and find a part but we make do with what we have out here. absolutely beautiful, thank you for taking us along
In the 40’s during the war trucks were able to get rashioned fuel during the war because of farms and cars were refused gas. So many converted cars to trucks for fuel. Learned that from a farmer.
As kids, before we had BB guns, I used to make giant slingshots out of broom sticks and bicycle inner tubes. Nail a tube onto the end of the broomstick and stick it into the ground. We called them cannons. Then we would shoot marbles into a junk yard about a block away. Fast forward about 10 years. I bought a '57 Chevy 2-door body out of that same junkyard to build a BBC street car. It had broken windows and dents all over it. Got a few of the marbles back that we cannoned into that '57 Chevy as kids......
OMG!!! Don't let them get scrapped! So many people would love to bring those cars back and its hard to find bodies like that to start with. Come on Welderup, start restoring those cars and selling them, make videos of the restorations and put it on tv. Forget the added drama, it should be about the techniques and the build, like an educational show like Full Custom Garage, that would be awesome!
Yeah, my Dad was in the Air Force. We lived in Germany from 72' thru 76' . every summer we would load up in the Cadillac and go somewhere like france, Italy, Spain. One year while going thru Italy, we were rear ended. We got a small scratch, the other car was totaled. The guy couldn't stop apologizing. It was funny to watch....
I could spend a month in there perhaps a year! I'd make the little Dodge open road motorhome into base camp get to know everything about every single one of the vehicles in the yard! Awesome find! Thank you for sharing!
Love the video,I used to go junkyard hopping in the mid '70s in and around Tampa town Fl. With my dad. We were searching for parts to tinker on a 1952 chevy 2 door deluxe. I started high school in '76.but before I was old enough to drive that cool '52 chevy deluxe it was sold.my heart was sad for a while.then by the time I was old enough to drive on my own in'78 I found and bought a '64 impala two door hard top 327.it would be cool if you could take tours to that salvage yard and leave it as it is and preserve it for a longer period of time.I always thought one could line up those awesome cars in front of a big screen and make a walk in vintage drive-inn theater with the old cars already in place; you pick the car you want to sit in and watch old movies in them.with popcorn,soda and pizza like they did in the '50s,60s,and 70s.now that would be a cool experience with my grand kids now in 2019. You could have the speakers wired in the dashes and hanging on the doors like old times. Thanks for making the video and sharing memories with you and your Dad.☆☆☆☆☆
Love your road trip stories as a kid. My father took us from Mexico City to the Panama canal in a pickup camper smaller than that. It was my parents, my two brothers and I. I have fond memories of it but I also remember being horribly hot. I remember once being run out of town because we had plugged or air conditioner in and blown the electricity at the only grocery store in a small town. We lived in that tiny camper for months. Now I have to say this happened back in 1970 or 1971 so we're not talking super highways here. Backroads and rainforest. I remember my father pulling over somewhere in the Yucatan to talk to a local "chiclero" (someone who goes into the jungle looking for chicle trees to harvest the sap and sell it to the gum factories.) After that conversation we found ourselves hiking through the jungle to a Mayan city where no white Man had ever set foot. Great memories! My father had no fear and a great sense of adventure. Thanks for the memories
I love it 😍👌 when I was 13 I was on my grandparents farm in upper Michigan and I was shooting my dad's. 30.30 at one of my dad's 1936 Chevy by the time I got older there must of been a hundred holes in it.
Its my understanding that the reason for the car into truck transformations was because pickups were given more fuel rations than cars were during the war
It wasnt a factory job.It was for solely utilitarian reasons . Some inventive dude converted it from scratch.No one could buy both a car and a truck in those times.(at least the people kin to me!)
Whoever did the conversion did a good job from what little I could see. The thing that jumped out at me was the fact that it was probably the first extended cab pickup ever made. Just thinking the original builder might have gotton a lot of ribbing for a truck with a long cab on it. LOL.......
We had a 28 Chevy that my dad converted into an Orchard car. He put a wood flatbed on it. He quit using it after he returned from the WWll and bought a surplus Jeep. Which I learned to drive 16 years later.
@@WelderUpVegas I'm from Vegas but currently in the Cedar City area, would love to know where this is to go check it out, I LOVE places like this and loved to see tractors in this video. Love the show, Randy
This is such a rarity to me as I'm from London so A, Europe generally doesn't have many cool cars and B, the weather is quite dissimilar to what you have there! (lucky sod!) I do remember years ago though there used to be an American car scrapyard near the notorious Blackwall Tunnel and a mate took me there as he was looking for some bits for his 80's Chevy Caprice (I think) and it was so crappy it only had a 6 cylinder engine but by European standards it was still massive. It was quite the oddest feeling walking around this yard looking at all the cars, the optimism in their potential but then the melancholic realisation that very few if any would ever see the road again. They ended up clearing that entire yard and most of that small peninsula above the tunnel so they could build the 'Millenium Dome' which was later sold and renamed the O2 Arena. I've been incredibly lucky (and broke!) having owned some pretty iconic cars and motorbikes over the years and one of my favourites was a 1980 Ford Thunderbird, not much I know by Americans standards but to an Englishman it was amazing as it was both a left hooker and my first V8 which again is quite a rarity in England. IIRC it had a 260 cube motor and the body was black with a white vinyl roof and a deep burgundy interior. I actually traded my old Austin Mini towards buying this car and the wife went with me when I picked it up and it was quite funny considering we drive on the other side of the road here, so we pull up in a tiny right hand drive shoebox and drive home in a relatively huge left hooker. One of the many great vehicles I've owned and like the trip to the junk yard, my memories to me are priceless. Cheers for another great video and good luck!
Enjoyed your comment. That 1980 Thunderbird was a nice luxury car, sounds like it was top of the line. At 10 years old I started riding my bike to the nearest junk yard where I spent my days dreaming of the car I would build out of junk one day and here I am today. There is nothing that makes me happier than a good junk yard. Thanks for watching and sharing your memories.
So glad you've gone to RU-vid, beats commercial TV. Talk about Road trips, in Australia back in the 50s and 60s we had General motors holden, like you have General motors, in 67 my dad bought a panel van, to my surprise it had a radio and a heater. Long story short, in 87 we go for a road trip this old car does a diff, a distributor, alternator, but the beauty about these old cars is on the road people had them laying around in yards, we just had to knock and ask. No only do you get your car fixed but you get to meet good people. Got to get over and see your side.
Your story reminded me, me and a mate were taken up to Scotland in 1983 by his dad. We went in an old Bedford CF. we went up as far as Aviemore, via Kingussie and St Andrews, we were meant to get as far as Dawnoch. It was a really fun trip, we had so much fun! My mate's dad died the following year! Very sad, but we will always remember that trip!
There was a junkyard ALOT like this one here but in Winchester NH yrs ago..They had countless rows of classic cars and hotrods.. Several Mustang GT350's, 500's, and even had brand new leftover '57 T-Bird motors still crated in the shop...Was an amazing place to visit as he was selective about who saw what and even worse about selling things.
My Uncle was cruising in his 1978 F150, another guy was doing a water burnout then my Uncle gets on the trans-brake revs his truck so loud everyone on the island could hear it. Then as we are heading back to the hotel, the guy who was doing a burnout was driving past us and gave my uncle dirty looks
Ok I worked for a gentleman 40 years ago, I ran moonshine for him he had a 50 model Chevy Deluxe 2 doored . The car had 21 bullet holes on the passenger side of the car the ATF in the late 50s shot at him never penetrated the metal but it's mine now setting on blocks under our shop .... LOVE the video and your show
im 19 and i go to school at lincoln tech and i gotta say working in the diesel field is one of the best things i will ever do. i watch a lot of videos on old cars, tractors and just about everything in between. if its rusty and been sitting there for a long time, i love to get my hands on them and try to get the started. and its always been a dream about starting my own car collection. and call me weird but i want the first one to be a 72 Opel GT. i just think they are cool cars, watched a video n one and fell in love with it. Keep up with the videos loved it!!
Hey Steve! What a cool video ... some of my fondest memories are of me and my dad picking through junkyards! I'll never forget putting together 2 project trucks one trip: 2 of my friends, my dad and I. basically built 2 trucks in the junkyard to bring back with us. My dad and i put together a 1968 Dodge D100 (Mainly a parts truck) ... my buddys put together a C10 ... short frame off one truck .. .cab off another ... rear end outa some other wreck. We worked our asses off that day .. so much fun!! Thanks for the Video! Luke
My sister still swears that I shot her on purpose with the coolest toy I ever had, a Daisy 880 10 pump BB gun! Railroad tracks behind our house were part of the Pennsylvania RR of sidings that delivery to small towns in Maryland was done on so shooting next to her to scare her was my intention. I didn't count on the ricochet! She still tells me decades now that it still hurts & it's on my x-ray! My reply is that the next shot was almost what that fellow said about it moving his hair, but it struck the left lens of my glass glasses in a kid's metal vault somewhere to remind me that what the old folks said was true, "One day you are going to put your eye out with that thing! There is a perfect bullseye in that lens! 😭
@@mcshawnboy One of the few things my father told us about shooting, was, "don't shoot at railroad tracks, it can ricochet and come right back at you".
I remember shooting at barn swallows for fun (shame on me) in our old dairy barn... Shot up at a swallow on a rafter and saw the bb ricochet back directly at me ... I could see it go and could see it on the return flying back at me ...and nicked my ear. I was very lucky I didn't put my eye out.
Wow what a treasure trove. Australian hot roders and original only restores would love to get a hold of any of those pieces of history. Man if only I was still in a workshop of my own instead of a full time carer for my mum I would put my hand up for one so I could sell one in Australia. Just a pipe dream to get back on top again😉🙂👍👍
Family camping in 1963-4 Corvair Greenbrier. Great Smokey mts. I was 13 me and brother sleeping in the van a bear came through the campsite rocked the van scared shit out of us. Left paw print on the windshield. Didn’t wash it for the longest time. Will never forget that Greenbrier.
With videos like this, I always have to remind myself that each and every one of these vehicles was once absolutely mint, factory fresh, and stood gleaming at some dealership.
Kick Ass !!! Would love to see all that history. I could spend a whole the day looking at all that history and seeing how people did any mods back then. GREAT VIDEO !
I remember going to old salvage yards as a child with my dad. This video reminds me of so many fond memories. You don't see them like this any more! Great Job!
I would love to get a hold of those military trucks. As A vet, I can restore them. Also, they were not turn signals, those are black out lights, for driving at night so you are not seen by the enemy. Love the video.
When I lived in Oklahoma there was a field loaded with old Cadillac’s, Lincoln’s, hemis, herses . the guy would put all the rare cars he got from repos, deaths, ect. He would buy them and store them... about 1,000 cars. He never sold anything... then he died... his wife got a crusher and they were all turned into scrap.... these were rare and solid cars, and were in amazing condition, desoto, Hudson’s , willys, on and in it went , I use to play there a lot but never broke anything. Truth is.... these will likely be all crushed as I’ve heard of this happening a lot . We stop and speak with a lot of people on our journeys ... this story about crushing these cars is a common theme. And it pains me to hear. Thanks again
Man I would love to build up one of those old sweet cars or trucks or all of them. Haha. I’m only a few hours away. Give me a hint to where it is and if he would sell any of them.
Reminds me of Gray hound going through the Arkansas mountains, heard a guy after he went in yell "oh f**k" after landing elbow first in the sink because the road ahead was blocked off right around a hair pin turn out of hind sight going 60mph. Driver swerve and locked breaks, guy in bathroom bounced from wall to sink.
We went to Okefenokee swamp in Georgia with the Boy Scouts. My father and five of us scouts were in a boat when my father, who was quite a jokester, decided he was going to catch a alligator. So we pulled up along side this 4 foot gator, we were feeding it marshmallows when my dad grabbed the gator by the tail and directed this scout piloting the boat to pull up to the shore. The boy gunned the throttle on the engine, the boat crashed into the shore, five boy scouts and my dad fell out of the boat and the gator washed into the boat. We were extremely lucky. We couldn't get the gator out of the boat, there were no cell phones in 1974 so we sat on shore for 3 hours until a game warden came riding by. My dad got in trouble, we could not use the boats anymore that weekend but we had one hell of a tell from that day.
Went through one of the driver through Safari things with family. We piled in grandparents Delta 88 1979 vintage. They had baboons. 2 jumped on the hood, and stop dad was making faces at them. One made faces back.... The other one crapped one the hood, then smeared it on windshield while staring at step dad the whole time, then flipped him off and jumped off, laughing. Granny was not amused, but all 4 grandkids were rolling 😁
About 15 years ago, two of my buddies and I went old wrecking yard hopping in southern Idaho. We had stopped at a resturant on the way and they both ate the chili. Later, one of my friends needed to stop and drop. No toilet paper led to him using a sock. We called him "one sock" after that trip
My dad had a similar motorhome. The old Dodge was a common sight. They ran hot and would regularly have engine compartment fires. The carburetors were always needing to be tuned. Great memories.
My neighbor who farmed the land our house is built on got one in the early 50s for $3,000 & sold it 50 years later for the same money, but he got the best out it!
That place is amazing!!❤🇺🇸❤🇺🇸 I haven't seen one that diverse since I was in High school and lived in Seattle. Thank you for sharing. If you don't mind sharing the location I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you
Shit is rear to see all the stuff people we'd kill for is still surviving Time good to see the cool stuff . You the man . Welder Up Real Deal . True Story 👍
My uncle used to have a small junkyard when we were kids. He was an excellent mechanic and still is at almost 80 he still paints cars you can't stop him. Anyway we used to shoot the old cars for target practice. The best shot was to hit the steering wheel. Damn good times
Hey Steve, if you bought every car you saw, then there would be nowhere left in Las Vegas to park, there was some neat cars there though and a lot of good parts. I have never found anything as interesting as you, but I remember a while back when in a one make yard I came across the same model of panel van as one of our lady drivers drove, this van however had the roof over the cab missing, this lady always complained that she only got one arm sun tanned. I took a picture of this van minus its roof and put a copy on the drivers notice board saying the new van gives you an all over tan, she was amused by it.
Definitely a mountainous area in the West & likely North as of those 2 things. If you care you can do what the guy who bought a picture of Billy the Kid for a dollar from a box of glass negatives as he had to prove it was real to make it valuable. He took the profile of the mountains and used some type of software to compare the topography profile. When he got it he talked to an old ranch hand who filled him in on things that were not the same anymore. It's a long shot but maybe Welderup had Geotags on when the footage was shot!
You Kidding hot roders in Australia would love to get a hold of any of those pieces of history and revive them!!! In fact so would the Original only guy's!!!
Wish I had the money to buy a few of those old cars, I'd hide out and build as many old rat rods as I could! What a place! I'm glad we had old farts that kept those old cars all these years! God bless them!
