Mr. Goodpliers looks around a collection of vintage cars, trucks and tractors near Wenona Illinois! These barn finds were locked away untouched for decades, and they have been pulled out. Come back for part two to see the auction action!
Oh the adventures you find, thanks for bringing us along, thumbs up, its amazing what is out there, I used to have a catolog of VW body conversions, they had everything,
Being a Pontiac fan, loved seeing the 39, but especially the 35. Pretty rare that both had the 8 instead of the much more common 6. The 35 had the Indian maiden hood ornament (first year for hood ornament as 34 and older had outside radiator caps). The 8 had the Indian maiden, the 6 had the Indian head with the feather. It is amazing that the Indian maiden hood ornament still had the feather on top of her head and not broken off. I have a real nice 35 Indian maiden hood ornament but it is missing the feather. That 35 is about as good as a restoration candidate as you are going to find when it comes to a 35 Pontiac. I hope you can buy it.
When you said Illinois I knew there would be some rot cases but also some very nice cars that were stored inside. Thunderbird and Pontiac coupe both awesome. No clue on that bush basher buggy but it looks like fun!
The 66 thunderbird vinyl top has been replaced (like many have) The vinyl seam from the factory was near the edge on both sides of the roof. On this one the seam is inboard quite a ways because the vinyl was so narrow compared to factory.
Land o' lakes,wi...here ! ..your up here in the rust belt,,,,come up any farther north they just start to disappear !!!😮.... just horrible to see them up here on top of wisconsin,,,gone with the wind,,,,,notsorry.,,,,,,,tnx,great content again,,,pat&family..
The '36 Pontiac is the gem. The 8C model to boot! What a rare gem that'll be once restored. I'd return it back to the blue color with black wall tires.
Hi Bud, that orange buggy had a lot of Triumph parts on it, maybe a Triumph Herald or Spitfire with the twin carbs being factory fitted, If It was a Herald back axle the rear wheels would lean at funny angles until the car was loaded but the spitfire had a more controlled rear axle alignment, so I suggest it has a non-triumph rear axle. Now the wheels look like MGB steelies so maybe an MGB axle - who knows.. Thanks for the video
That first one was a 1940 Ford coupe. 39 would have the wipers mounted over the top of the windshield, and the windshield had a frame that cranked out. 39 was ford's last year for the crank out windshield.
7:15..Amen, brother!.."I just don't like modified cars"..finally, a kindred spirit on this...butchery is what I call it..the current butchery is slamming, bagging, and LS swapping everything...
That Pontiac coupe looks like all you would need fresh plugs fresh oil change fresh tires flush out old gas or replace the tank and it looks like you could go for a cruise ! So glad those mean yankee raccoons didn’t tear up the interior of that coop !
I can settle the debate on the "whatzit corner" i bought it at the auction and had a week figuing it out. it is a 1962 tr3 engine, drivetrain, and 3/4 of the chassis, front suspension and crossmember is out of 53 to 62 corvette. It is now running and driving.
Great vid as per usual Tim, thanks. Yep you've done yourself proud. You are the best YTuber in this category with your unique tone to your voice, (kinda soothing and Bing Crosby-ish). I'm a Brit and remember back in the 70's my brother owned a Chevy er. Bel-Air left hand drive that we would cruise about the country lanes blocking the whole road going from pub to pub burring PETROL at the rate of 17 gallons to the mile. I myself owned a Mustang fastback but obviously didn't appreciate it at the time as a "chick" magnet, and couldn't quite get the hang of the left hand drive. I bet Mustie 1 would like that snub nosed beetle, it' kinda cute. Keep 'em cummins buddy, and greetings from the Isle of Wight, England
The earth actually breaths water vapor in and out even through concrete, that's why vapor barriers are required under the concrete for houses. Our dairy barn ended up a car storage barn, 20 years and all inside were rusted from bottom up.
I guess it's been mentioned already but the orange buggy is a Triumph TR. The body probably rotted off early in the piece and it was to good mechanically to scrap so it became a buggy.
I think most of these vehicles must have come from fairly local sources. Northern Illinois is notorious for road salt damage... But there are still a lot of savable vehicles in the group. The Pontiac is a real gem. I would prefer a regular trunk to a rumble seat, but as rare as these are you take what you can get. The shoebox Fords were nice, as was the '55 Crown Vic. Some people are going to come away from this auction very happy...and considerably poorer....
1/2 Ass Customs needs that 39 coupe..Yes the bent up Chevy pickup is a 51..The 46 prk lights on the Ford is like the 41s and 42s..47-48 were under the headlights..
Those are called end gate seeders originally for horse drawn wooden wagons with some kind of ground drive chain to wagon hub for broadcasting small grains.
Wife’s sister and her husband live in Illinois. Max and I looked at a Jeep he was interested in. I mentioned that he needed to negotiate hard as it needed a frame swap. Body wasn’t too bad but the frame had rust holes in it
So let me get this. You rescue some vintage iron that is rusting away in one yard. Bring it home so it can continue to rust in your yard. Yep makes perfect sense
I know people like that in our area. I try to work on one vehicle until it’s where it needs to be. I build rat rods though so fit and finish take a back seat to safety
The wooden yard sticks gave me a chuckle ! When I was a child, my brothers and I would often get our spankings with the old wooden yard sticks.....until my mom broke one on my brother's backside.....then, we started getting the belt !
The "whatzit corner" is a Triumph but not a Herald or Spitfire engine as it is too big, although it is still a 4. I would say it is a TR 2 or 3. The dash in this "thing" has TR 2 /3 style gages and that binnacle for the minor gages is out of one of those cars.
That makes sense. The look of the buggy was from the time when a Spitfire would have still been a new car, too valuable yet to have been cut up for a project like this
What a shame that 53 Merc at 3:15 was so damaged by racoons. My 52 is still missing a headliner thanks to those destructive beasts. Otherwise it survived pretty well. I see the carb and intake has been changed over to the 3 bolt Ford style carburetor from the original 4 bolt Holley.
I grew up in rural cass county nebraska and i remember every creek that wandered across the farms and fields had old cars along the banks for erosion and flood control.
I had an environmental sciences class in college and learned about the days of the erosion control using junk cars in the banks ....they didn't take much into consideration - with the old oil and fluids that polluted the very streams they were trying to save !
A buddy found a 37 International truck in a hillside in eastern Colorado,. Property own there said if you can dig it out you can have it. Made for a very crusty rat rod
Not too much left for good picking but from some of these newest channel startups, seen them drag out and take home a very very rusty mouse house... 52 chevy two door sedan with no floors, engine, automatic left out in the elements, south dakota rig.... dreams of a LS swap and in its shape, they are not going to have much problem locating engine into it... but just what is it going to be attached to????? Guy us a one legged man with small kids to help him.... heavy kids as well that don't know how to take a tire off with someone helping.... sad but so true. So he is paying to clean someones back yard for them.
I don't much care for the term "yard art", really it's just letting it finish rusting out. I always look at it like there is one of every model restored to original, so modifying them to suit your own style is what gives them personality.
