In this latest continuation of progress from the antique car and truck junkyard Auction, Mr. Goodpliers races against the scrap man (or several) to pull and load vintage collector car parts! Come along to see what I found!
I could never play a part in crushing vintage cars. I just would not have the stomach for it. Glad you were able to save what you did, Mr G. Appreciate your videos, knowledge and narration.
Many years ago I was working on the body of a car. While grinding, a panel, a spark went into my left eye. Besides the immense pain I experienced, I was also concerned about loosing my eyesight. Safety is never something that should be disnlmissed.
"Once in a lifetime" opportunity is right! I am glad you were able to save so many of those "miscellaneous" parts. All those pre-1930 cars have likely sat in the same place since 1960. This yard is a great example of you should not try to keep everything indefinitely. There was a time when so much of those parts could have been reused and saved years ago when many of the pre-1930 cars were high on peoples restoration projects. Very enjoyable videos but kind of sad to see so much now gone forever.
I went to an auction where a pile was sold off as choice. I was sifting through it and the auctioneer got pissed at me. The pile went to scrap and I talked to the scrap guy about going through it and he let me keep a fair amount of the stuff for half of what he paid for the pile. Sometimes it's better for the junk man to get it and work a deal out with them after.
Same here! Maybe you go into a restaurant or something where they hang this stuff on the wall and you can become fixated on a wooden wheel they may have there. And yet this place had rows of them, crazy.
Damn if there weren't some painful scenes in this one, hard to watch. I'm glad you saved what you did, I admire your passion greatly. Shoot, I'd be honored just to be there to pitch in a helping hand and yet go home empty handed.
Glad you were there to save some and also you saved a lot by just with your videos, Video HISTORY Cannot imigine the amount of work required to stage this stuff for auction.
Definitely an excellent margin on the bumpers, given the info from the other vids, roughly 50 cents a bumper in outlay- not counting time for pick/load/unload. Thanks for clarification on Buick items, I'd noticed the cowls & was mistaking them as Packard. I understand completely how the 'circle' works, but still a sad thing thing watching it get wadded up. Again, when time permits do a walk around on the vehicles from this one please.
Thank you for saving these irreplaceable pieces. Man that three on the tree setup is awesome. I just finished converting my 59 Buick from Dynaflow to Synchromesh using parts off a 59 Three Speed 59 Buick. I grabbed the cowl tag off that car shortly before it went to scrap too. It was a Black three on the tree 59 Sport Coupe Invicta. Gone forever now.
Chance of a lifetime 4 U ! Sad 2 C it go, but it's circle of life! Excellent job Tim!!! Proud of you 4 what you R doing, Saving history 4 future generations
I wonder how much of that stuff I could have gotten for fifty grand? Had no idea that auction happened or where but I would have been there with the Freightliner and semi trailer and made sure it got packed tight!! Maybe another will come around in 2022 or 2023 with 1940's stuff and even late 30's stuff. My oh my, how about all those rims? What fun that would have been to buy them all and then spend the winter making up sets.
Tim,scrap buyers can be a greedy bunch. To them metal is metal. Don't care if it has rare parts or hard to find window trim among other things. A lot of those parts would have been useful to complete a classic or ratrod. Unfortunately you and Joe can't buy it all. Al B in Ohio.
Great Vids! . My favorite pick would have been the 1934(?) Lincoln V12 which looked 99% complete . I reckon it would have made an interesting Steam Punk Custom with it's distinctive body lines .
It's great you where able to save a lot of good parts. Good job trying to stay ahead of those scrap guys. So many great old parts where there wow. You said you got a lot of 47 to 53 chevy truck parts I've been trying to find a speker grill with trim and ash tray for a 50 chevy truck. Would you happen to have any? Thanks for sharing Sad to see all that stuff in the scrap guys hands but at least some got saved. Take care👍
MRGP: The trim tags you show at 25:03 are cool. I would say Ihey're more like dog tags than they are tombstones, though. As I watched this video, I had a thought I want to run by you. As you dug through those huge piles of eighty and hundred year-old automotive brik-a-brak, did it occur to you this is what the big metal drives of WW I and WW II must have been like? I have collected old things my entire life [I'll turn 63 next week, God willing]. I have often thought those drives are the reason why relatively few metal artifacts from the 1800's and early 1900's are still around. This is why I get so excited when I see the early harvesters you and Silas [aka the "Anti-Mr. Goodpliers"] shoot video of at farm auctions and clean-ups. It makes me crazy to see that stuff go for scrap, and it makes me truly appreciate what you are trying to do at the Rust Ranch. Good job, Mr. Badsocket! Keep it up!
I love your videos and just bought a 31 ford model A 5 window coupe hot rod would you please consider sell a grill shell I’ve been trying to find a garage hanger
Well I think anybody in their right mind would never just scrap these parts. There is someone looking for the smallest parts just like me looking for a 1929 Dodge hubcap, which I can't seem to find anywhere .
Honestly it looks like a lot of that stuff on the ground was junk but hard to tell. What was that being shoveled into a container? A bunch of exhaust systems? Hard to tell. I really wanted that 59 Edsel dammit.
Bit bittersweet seeing much of that go to scrap and what you could save. If ebay and the like was around 30 years ago I wonder how much of it could have been saved and sold on. Still, pre war cars sure have taken a nose dive in popularity last 10 years. Time marches on.
My understanding was that the property and inventory had been available as a unit, but it wouldn't have been cheap. For what they were asking I don't know long it would have taken to get the investment back and start making money. I'm not sure how much they did to get the word out. I never heard about it for sale as a whole.
Mr good pliers I don't know make me understand when you go home with so many scrap is it to sell or do you use it for other stuff I just curious how is joe?Im asking because sometimes I see he is very handy most of the time so he knows what he's doing but as always your the man. 👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍I almost forgot Are you a dragrace fan?
That was a once in a lifetime thing, but a ton of those parts were there so long that they were no longer useful, that's the sad part....hope 60% of that stuff will be used....be safe, God Bless!!!!
Wow, I literally have been doing the same thing with old VIN/dataplate tags. I am a fan of very early Japanese stuff, so i have a fair amount of Datsun, Toyota, and Honda tags, but also grabbed many off of old American Iron. Each one tells it's own story. "Tombstone of the car" really resonates with me. Good on ya Kansas (from your neighbors to the north in Nebraska)
Would recommend for the next time rear bumper Continental kit’s , outside visors,spot lights & any Chevy SS Impales AC parts,floor shifters all the Steering Wheels u could have grab from early bel-Airs impales el camino suburban Chevy’s 🥛 box trucks 🛻 they are very nice if you can find them Not crack on the grips just need to polished up I hang them around my room in angles behind my headboard of my 🛌 💯
3:03 Looks like 67 Impala wheel cover on the left A lot of hours spent in yrs past disassembling & categorizing those parts.....to come to this. Agree about poor presentation of auction.....just out for a quick, easy $
You know Tim, I was thinking.. an hard too.... your in a small bunch of towns an what, a hundred mile radius... an that pile existed, an you may of even knowed this fellow who would no more sell a front wall art clip for less than say five hundred for a "fair looking piece" an now your into them for pennies on the dollar comparison. I am thinking how many square hundreds of miles, that like the kid, over in new york.. iron trap garage who hit a glory hole of 36 fords of all styles, an he put up the change to get. What I am getting at is there is fifty states an some, ain't got much more than a few old timers garage's, or a lean too.... even a genuine barn... just waiting for this kind of run off of parts. That rich fellow, Dennis Collins just found an bought a genuine GT 40 complete and covered in a shop behind a home with a ton of parts.. thats a million dollar rig.... not to me but it is to a few yet. I would put money on the yard that you were just in, had in parts value, millions of dollars worth of parts to make a lot more rigs up an going again. They will be lone star beer cans now, as they were hurt by the weather fairly bad. From the looks of them, I'm thinking that the weather has been doing some of its worst, since the seventies! That paint is at least a hundred feet straight down on some hard pan, where the rain washed it to. When it comes to old timers, we are the worst enemy them cars had, as we white knuckle held on to them. Most folk don't realize. really how short our lives are, till we are there. I will shorten this book so maybe you won't dodge my too long comments later
Having a hard time wrapping my brain around that place. So many questions. Was that an actual salvage yard or just an eccentric hoarder..? Was it open for business or closed for many decades..? I partly understand the urgency in the scrapping, scrap steel is at a premium right now. Someone is making a nice profit on that history. What a shame. 😞
I'm a little bit confused why no one else took these parts instead of leaving them to be scrapped of course if they are to far gone is one thing but looks like a lot of them could be reused for projects and restorations Just saying.
Wish I could have been there with you, I have a 23t bucket that I am trying to build.and have little access to parts in North Carolina message me back if it's possible I would love to buy some parts from you you have any for sale
Allot old timers getting taken down by old age none of the family want to be bothered, want yard full of "stock" cash ready when you need it. glad you saved some of it. that yard looked like lifetime of hard worked saved for future Income, sold off off for quick profit, people will never learn from past mistakes.. Thing is that isn't cheap steel. high quality American steel. They where given most likely tin prices for Steel profit. Crying shame, to see all going to make New Fridge.
cool on the front clips since no one wanted to make sense of the entire units. :"circle of Life", nothing lasts forever and "you cant save the world" heard it all. How much time did you divide from parting to do the vids? Be well, GET REAL.
Thanks for stopping by the channel Arthur. This place was in Iola Kansas. All of this was wrapped up and hauled away by the time I got the video posted. We are just north of Wichita Kansas.
At this point is BTC or a rusty acre of rust a better investment, is this like people selling stable's in 1913 as a future investment against them new fangled horseless buggys and electric run about wagons and trolly cars with no horses...poo wee harness oil and water and hay is the future.
