It's certainly eerie, makes you think about life,how short it is, looking at all those great vehicles,that once had a life,,most of the people driving them have all passed on maybe,,, great video..
Bringing back a memory. I made the trip from Illinois to visit this yard in 1987 with a friend. Loaded up my truck with 1956 Olddmobile parts. Showed the owners what I had and paid what I considered a very reasonable price. Back then, there more cars from the 1920's thru the 1950's. Not so much any more. Still interesting to see what they have.
I think everyone agrees with you, hate to see them like that but fortunate to be able to see them.. At first it seemed that Minnesota required engines to be pulled. But it was good to see a few with engines. Not much left but a few good parts. Everything good looks to be gone.
You should have been there 20 to 30 years ago, I always went twice a year and got a lot of cool stuff. I know I'm old now but that was the go to place for cool parts.
I was in that junkyard with my pops picking 67 Coronet R/T parts in the 80's and they would give you the post card photo and they had 5-6 R/T's at that time. If you did not see any of those they must be gone. One was yellow and on the north side of the road.You had the 67 Coronet 500 in the one shot towards the beginning. Was a great place. Couldn't walk it now though like many others I got old!
You are so right Matt. A total erie movie set. I think of all the people who owned these cars and their stories. Thank you for this Matt. Blessings - Judith 🎵🎭
Hi, like the background music on this video, hope you took some bottle water with you , looks mighty dry out there in the field ! Thanks for posting this yard 😊
That place was never real organized. Last time I was there it took me 2 day's to drive thru it. Thank God for 4 wheel drive and 2 tanks of gas. Place is truely amazing!!!!
Cool and eerie at the same time. Great job filming this. Brings home the point that humans have converted a great deal of natural resources to make different things that just end up decaying in huge piles. But some interesting older models.
Hey Matt, thank you for listening to my advice. That place has such a special post-apocalyptic atmosphere. It takes time to wander around and realize how time is passing by over us.
The old panel truck at beginning.. Looks exactly like one of my first vehicles. Mine was black. That one was at one time. Plus I see some familiar markings.. I drove the thing off the coast during Camille..
Another one of your great scrapyard vids loveing them ideal when you have Covid! At 6.22 in this vid that little black car is an Austin A40 Farina from here in little old England!
I'm building a roadster right now that is using parts from Windy Hill. A Hupmobile cowl and 1930 Chevy coupe quarter panels. I also bought a 1963 Rover half cab from there. A friend is now driving it. Also bought a Crosley wagon body there. Windy used to be twice that size with old cars and trucks on the other side of the road. There is an aerial photo of it. You do a great job with your videos, Matt.
@4:44 - '53 Chevy @4:50 - '54 Chevy wagon @ 6:24 - '55 Chevy 150. Somewhat of a rare car. I'll take that one! @ 6:50 - '57 Chevy BelAir @7:33 - 8:11 - '64 Chevys 9:04 - '60 Chevy @11:04 - '59 Chevy BelAir 4dr sedan @12:39 - '60 Cadillac @13:14 - '61 Cadillac; '60 Chevy sedan @ 44:21. I could spend all day watching videos of old car yards. My favorite yard here in PA no longer exists, although I did rescue many parts from those insanely rotted cars before they were crushed. Perusing old car yards was like treasure hunting, but always guaranteed you''ll find some kind of treasure.
In the story and the movie Christine was a’58 Fury. In reality she was a Belvedere. In 1958 the Fury was never offered in red, you could get it only in one color, Buckskin Beige with gold anodized trim, and no they could not be special ordered in another color. They were like the Ford Model T‘s, you could them in any color you like, as long as it was black.
Greetings from australia.. what an adventure for a car fan.. the range of vehicles amazing and interesting.. thankyou for letting us just look and take in the eerie silence of such a unique place...
I can't believe that I stayed and watched you through the whole journey; And I even took notes.... I guess that I love old cars more than I realize. When it comes to a junk yard car search, I would be looking for cars that are intact (complete with doors, windows, hood, trunk, front and rear lights and assemblies, etc), because a conventional restoration involves changing the engine and drive train to something conventional (from this era). At 10:13, you walked past a 1966 Chevy Station Wagon (but didn't show the passenger side) that would be good to restore. At 18:06, the 1966 Delta 88 was intact enough to also consider. At 22:30, when you saw the junk yard dogs, you could have jumped on top of one- of the vehicles (old school) because dogs can't climb. At 25:16, when you heard the gun shots, I would have commented that "somebody must have shot the dogs." At 29:35, The bread truck was a good choice. At 30:31, I wish that I could get an old Ice Cream Truck like that for a personal project. At 39:23, you featured another vehicle with restorable potential, but I failed to write down what it was. At 44:08, the Dodge Panel truck could definitely "live to see another (better) day!" Minnesota weather can turn these vehicles into rust buckets, but I enjoyed the adventure... TY!!!
I thinks it's time for you to pick up your own hotrod Matt? Get some local guys that watch your videos together and do some cruise night videos. Wouldn't mind meeting up, going for a burger and a cruise wit cha.
The 59 chevy had wide teardrop tailights the 60 had individual tail light's 2 or 3 per side depending on model. great video new subscriber here thanks for posting
Hi their Matt, great video!!!🌟⚡✨!! Wish their were some 58 EDSELS, not 59s as I do need jus a few hard to find parts for both of mines. Take care, more please, 👌✌️👍.
Just like everything has it time and place and these cars did too great to see that some are still around. Made in U.S.A. thats what 🇺🇸 was proud about industrial manufacturers and everything else we did way back wen early 1900s amazing that any of car body n parts are left 😒☺
Been there. Much better yards around. Try Roehners, just a little way off, or French lake, 'bout 35 miles east, in town of same name. (Unfortunately, French lake has been modernizing their inventory. Can't blame 'em. They gotta eat too.) But the old style yards are going, along with the old timers who started them. There's some awesome yards in the Dakotas, if you take the time to hunt for them.
I've been there twice. The last time in 1996, the yard was 140 acres. How you got around was by checking in at the office, inquire, and they'd draw a route on a post card with an aerial photo of the place to the cars you were interested in. It's so large you were allowed to drive on to the property to get around. Oddly, it looks more sparse then the photos I took then. At that time, they didn't clean out. There were cars there that still had 1950's plates on them. >>>>WATCH OUT FOR TICKS!!!!!!!
That Vega was cool and yes it was a 72 I could see it had a glove box in it as the 71 Vega didn't have a glove box in the dash also it's a non GT model to bad the driver side fender was messed up on it looking for a good one for my 72 Vega I'm building
My dads favorite car is the Chevy Nomad. It’s actually his dream car. I’d like to start the process of finding one. He just turned 70 and I’d love to surprise him and start a restoration process with him because we don’t spend any time together anymore
"I have no idea how it's organized out here" looking like neither does the owner 😁 just came upon your channel excellent content consider me subscribed!
Matt if you are ever near grand forks north Dakota there's a huge junk yard that has another next to it weekly's auto parts. I was there around 2015 they were willing to let me walk through looking back at google earth I never even got 1/4 of way in ticks were crawling all over me so I had to leave definitely check it out!! Thanks Matt Hawkins
I bought a pair of 1957 Pontiac 2 door hardtop window flipper for my 1957 Chevy Bel Air at Windy Hills a long long time ago think i paid $15 bucks each, cars were in better shape back then, they had a 1955 Chevy Nomad missing some body part - i wanted to buy the whole car he said no we just sell parts not complete cars that was then no idea if they will now
That place is so huge ...I believe you could benefit from a flying drone camera! ...plus could you please show any 1966 Pontiac Executives, not Bonnevilles as they are rare.
Sad to see, this represents the passage of time which I lived through, history that is gone and is not coming back, just like the days of youth. However, there are a lot of parts that are still useful before the classic car industry fades away, bumpers, trim, fenders, hoods could be used for someone's project. Still a picture of time from the past, sad to see it go.
I always wondered if any of my old cars that I scrap in the past is still around. I had an old 91 Accord LX that still ran but there were lots of problems with it, I scrap it a year later in 2015 and bought an old 04 Nissan Sentra SER Spec V 6 Speed Manual Transmission. About 2 years later, the Transmission died the engine had 370,000km I scrap it in 2017 I wonder if those cars are still around. car is still around.
I never realized there that many people in Minnesota to junk that many cars LOL But seriously, I see all these old cars and it kind of makes me sad but think every single one of them would have an interesting story to tell, about where they've been, who drove them and why they ended up where they did.
....??? .... are you trying to say - "I never realized THERE ARE that many people......" if so, your vocabulary needs help. Maybe you never got past the third grade ??
The real bad thing about these classics. is, that sitting on the field for decade's makes the frames rot out. Maybe the body can be saved, but you gotta have a new frame and floor boards to replace.
I was in min. for about 4mo. in the winter. Those junk yrds. are everywhere. Hard too see. Most of the inventory is worthless from the glass down due to the ROAD SALT. Lotta old classic cars up there too be found.
I once knew a junkyard dog named Screw. A pitbull mix of some sort, Screw lived in a junkyard located outside a town called Jacumba, in the Cali desert. Screw had more scars on his face than skin, and he had one white eye. Screw would trot right up to a woman with his tail wagging, wanting a pat, but he didn't like men. Not one bit. Especially men wearing boots. The few times I went in that yard Screw would shadow me, lurking just behind cars, where I couldn't see him. The last time I was there I came around a pile of cars and Screw was there. He put his head down low and he growled, low is his throat, with his lip curled. I have always been good with dogs, but not 'ol Screw. I got the h*** out of there and I never went back. It makes my skin crawl to think what 'ol Screw would have done to the unlucky b****** he found in that yard at night.
