Rescuing Two 1970s GM Cars From a Salvage Yard! (1971 Caprice, 1973 Oldsmobile) 

The engine's and transmission's were worth the trip plus all the cosmetic parts,grills,bumpers,that 1 year only trunk lid,good find,good video,Thankyou.

O like that 71 Caprice

i like early 1970s cars.

Good for parts if nothing else!!

Love mine 76 chevy caprice classic, 4 door, 400 motor, vinyl roof🇺🇸🇳🇴

I love them all, the USA built beautiful cars .

I use to work on cars like the one in your video all the time, back when they were common on the road still. I had a 76 Ninety Eight..... it was so bad, I left in in a local parking lot, windows down, with the keys in the ignition, and no one stole it. The police finally told me it needed to be moved, so I gave it to the shop where I worked for a derby car. It still needed work to make it good enough for a derby, so they didn't even want it. I ended up giving it to a local salvage yard. It was a 455 with every option Oldsmobile offered for 1976. It was a monstrous tank. I got it for free from a friends dad that bought it new. It had almost 400,000 miles. All the steering linkage was so worn out, the steering had about a half turn of play. Everything was shot on it, the brakes barely worked. The dash was lit up like a Christmas Tree with all the idiot lights it had. It would shift from first to second at 45+ then drive at 70+..... it had many vacuum leaks and must not have been getting vacuum to the modulator to make it shift correctly. I tried to blow the 455, but it didn't even run good enough to get enough revs to blow. The one good thing about it, it was mostly rust free and had a mint interior.... the front seat had been reupholstered, correctly at one time, so it matched the rest of the interior perfectly. The salvage yard sold its interior and most of the body sheetmetal..... so it did save some other Nighty Eight's. That Chevy has some rare options for that era.

The ‘71 Caprice is unusual in having power locks but manual windows. The 98 in those years was really a rolling luxury suite.

We had a seventy two model Oldsmobile ninety eight growing up it had a four fifty five four barrel carb on it. It was a good ol car.. awesome video buddy 👍

Hey that 71 is great car, i have a 71 Impala and love it

Wow! Keys right in the ignition and no one stole it! 😉

The front of the Chevy don't look too bad 👍👍👍👍

Can't wait to see a video getting these running

hopefully someone will be able to bring them back to life

the caprices looks to be in better shape than the 98.

Learned how to drive on a 71 Impala. So this definitely brought back fond memories. I was surprised to see power locks and power seats, but no power windows. That seemed very odd.

Excellent video

Yeah, 2 Land Yachts cool. They fit just right on the trailer. 😎👍🇨🇦

Just like the 70 Impala one year only.

That caprice hard

71 caprice

Had a 71 4dr hard top

My favorite year is...all of em! 71 thru 76 full size chevies that is. The 71 was a brilliant departure from the 1960s automotive world, you had to be there, but it was genius marketing move.

Nice to see that you´re looking to save these nice cars, i´m that guy who really love the 4-door hardtop roof/Body style and i´m still restoring an ´67 Chevy Caprice 4 Door hardtop, rebuilded all 4 wheel arches, especially the front fender wheel arches was made with hand shaped/hammered new sheet metal because i live at bavaria and there aren´t junk yards to get better fenders, so it was a hard but nice job to get them back into rust free, new sheet metal condition :) I really learned to shape and weld on this project! & yes, i´m proud of learning this sheet matal work, never thought that this work could be so nice, too! The same done with the whole lower windshield frame, and still working on the trinklid weatherstrip channel (hope i name all right, because yes, my language is german and english is that laguage what i had to learn at school, but more with rebuild and trade with those us classic cars, too! :) The Chevy ^^ is a father son project of me and after i´ve finished it, i´, looking for ansother one mid - fullsize 4 door hardtop; Are you selling sometimes anyone of your finds??? Because i was interested to get another one for even the next father son project :) I love rescue these cars, because it looks to be ordinary to save the "Muscle Cars" or even 2 door smaller sized us classic cars. But so less people have the eyes to see the beauty and importand history behind the 4 doors, mid- & fullsized us classics, hmmh...What is a little sad, because for me it smells like the american way of drive to drive these larger 4 doors on the roads, too! :) Have a nice day an best wishes from bavaria! Cheers Till

I had a 1973 Chevy caprice 2 door with a 400 small block ! Wish I kept it because now they are desirable with some 22 inch rims !

That '71 Caprice was top of the line back then. She has nice styling for a four door.

I've had a 71 Custom Coupe. Sandalwood with brown vinyl top and Sandalwood vinyl interior. 350 auto with AC. My dad and Grandma both had 71 Custom Coupes. both with black cloth interior and black vinyl top. Grandma had a red one and Dad's was Aqua. They were sequential VINs. Hertz purchased 6 71 Chevys in a row. 2 Coupes and 4 Sedans. So I have always been fond of the 71 Impala.

I had a fully equipped ‘73 Caprice 4-door from 1979 - 1993 (14 years). It had a 454 with a TH400. In the end it had JC Whitney headers, B&M Quick Silver shifter, Offenhauser intake manifold, Holley vacuum secondary carb, pointless ignition and glass packs. I plan on radically modifying a 3D drawing of one and post it on Instagram. After that I will be looking for a real one to build up.

I'm partial to the '73's. I owned a '73 Grandville and a '73 Ninety Eight many moons ago. Both excellent cruisers. I know the Olds was higher on the food chain but I actually enjoyed the Grandville more.

Perhaps I'm biased by virtue of owning one, but my favorites got to be the 72' delta 88 4 door pillarless hardtop personally

Gotta love these big 70's cars 👍 best to you Ryan, excellent videos!

Many of those died as Derby Cars.

Good Stuff!... Thanks for Sharing

I like the body style of the 71. My friend had one back in the 90s. Hers was gold with the black top and a 400 sbc. Dual flowmasters. Was a fun car.

Ah yes, the true midwesterner, completely ignoring the tornado siren when it goes off. 2:25 Looking forward to seeing what you do with them!

I had a 72 Buick Limited, 455 under the hood. I fell on hard times and had to sell it. I wish I still had it.

Can’t believe the derby guys didn’t get em already if they’ve been there that long

Really liking the Chevy!!! She would look great restored, THX

Brother had a '73 Impala, very basic 4 dr. 350 dual exhaust. Ran great!

I am partial to the 76! My first car was a 76 Oldsmobile Delta 88!

They call 71s aces

1973 Chevy Impala was the best. Mom had two.. And we had the 1972 olds vista cruiser

Debt cars 🚗not/classic cars love them =I rather have them then dang junk of today /nice sir

I don't get doing the power locks but not windows. I've seen it on GM two doors and thought it was weird.

Wish i could send pic of my 63

I had a 72 Caprice with a small block 400 4~Door Hardtop year's ago it was nice i miss alot of my Old Rides i had😥💪🏼🤙🏼💯☑⚡

I love 73 olds they are so cool and the 73‘s is kind of sore after in decent condition

That Chevy would make a nice starter Donk

yea , agree that loader is never good ideal, but don't think those body's are future saves, lots good parts, drive train, etc.. lights glass... at least you saved them. Now you find 72 Buick centurion Convertible. I'll trade my running driving 79 Bronco. as long it's good shape.

I am old as dirt as I remember when both of those were brand new.. i drove a 71 Impala and my mom had a 76 98 regency -- biggest cars I have ever drove...

'72 is my favorite. Reason being is because I have a '72 chevy nova.

Hey Thanks for filming these big old 70s era cars -as well as those beautiful cat's eye Impalas'. Actually my fave classic American cars are the powerhouses of the 1960s. Regards from UK.

Gotta love the luxury barges. Are you going to save one of them?

Don't destroy it

Learned how to drive on a Chevy like that. Great car.

I worked as a painter at Olds dealers from 1969to 1989, and worked on those '73s when they were new. I remember the day I looked at a new 73 that just came off the carrier and thinking that some day ( thinking it would be a long time) they would be in salvage yards. Well, I'm 71 yrs old now and that day came quicker than I could have imagined back then.

The '71 GM cars had what was called "Flo - Thru Ventilation". That's why they have the slits in the back. The ac/heater fan would run continuously even if switched off. Owners hated that cold air flowing in on a cold morning. Good intension; bad idea...

Would have loved to have seen the engines in them, especially the Chevy since I don't see to many of those with big block power.

I have a 93 caprice. Love it. Michigan.

niiiiice video, can we invite you to do one for us?

Dude paint that 98 yellow and clone Sam Raimi’s ‘73 Delta 88

What do you do with these cars

The olds can go to the crusher

You should talk to Shawn Ellington at 187 customs he keeps finding 71 threw 76s

double check! lots had posi rear ends!

Right on

The 455 ROCKET motor was a real runner. I had alot of old cars back in the day. If l had em today, ld be rich. 🇺🇸😂👍

Pontiac was always 5 on 5 for the full size cars........

🙂GKK👍🚘1971❤❤

What a shame two luxury cars ended up like that. The 98 especially hurts my heart as my grandparents bought one new and eventually was passed down to me.

Hey Ryan you're getting into the '70's! I have to admit the cars of the '70's and newer kinda loose that pizzazz of the '50's and 60's. However your still saving vehicles that would go to the crushers. Good for you. Have you been looking at Howard's (Old Car Alley) videos lately? Hope you don't mind us discussing the cars that you buy. We both like that '60's Olds that you got. I think it would make a good restoration project for someone.

Sold/traded/swapped Mopar stuff over the years. In the end, I ended up with a '76 Valiant V8 sedan from an older lady. Solid, no rot, 88k miles, all beige...with tax, title, tags I was out $150. It had a leaky heater core- that's what sidelined it.

how much you want for the 71 impala i need that car bad

Do you sell parts?

Donk nation

If a 455 Olds is a big block what is the cid of a small block Old?

Best car I ever owned was a 73 cutlass 350 rocket rules!!

How can I purchase parts off that caprice?

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I thought the vented trunk indicate it had the 402 big block

why would you even want it

Ship anchors. I'm not sure what GM was thinking in those years. Ugly huge cars.

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100 : 1 - ratio of cars without vs with fender skirts that were factory equipped.

Chevy might be a 73

Picking up cars like that can ruin the exhaust an floor pans even ruin frames

pull the drivetrain and scrap the bodies.

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And if you dont mind how much you huys really paying for those cars?

those cars are not worth fixing... not popular so parts they may have are worthless... say no to drugs guys