Mr. Goodpliers and his loyal sidekick Junkin' Joe pick another farmstead. Watch as we risk our lives to recover parts from an abandoned rail car. And we discover our rarest barn find car yet!
The Fiberglass car is a real Canadian manufacturer Bricklin as you have probably found out by now. Should have the Ford 351 in it. Not many built. Maybe 2300 of them. They have a following. A good one restored usually go for $15-$25000 CAD.
RANDY!!! Your channel may very well be my favorite one on RU-vid!! Everything is right: the places you find, your taste in vehicles, your approach to restoration/preservation, your collaborative spirit with the people you meet, and your mellow personality. I may have watched every one of the high desert collection videos more than once... after each one, feeling very disappointed that I live 1700 miles away! I may have shed a tear or two seeing your family's old Packard come back home. I may have leaned forward right along with you as you coaxed the Bus up the hill for its first drive home. And, I may have also shoveled out a car buried up to its hubs, and heard your voice in my head "Dig 'em up and drive 'em!"
I can't believe you didn't know right off the bat what that car was. That was a Bricklin. Really rare Canadian car. I saw a bunch of stuff there I woulda picked and saved immediately. I woulda saved that spoked Model A rim in the rail car, and the pile of T parts in the field, and all of that stuff and made yard art out of it. Alot of great stuff that shouldn't be scrapped.
Model T's, was what a Holiday Inn was to the Ritz Charlton a place to stay or in the Ts place a basic piece of transportation, they were 20 years obsolete when they were brand new. They were prolific because they were cheap, no one that could afford a better car like a Buick or Olds or Stude or Hudson would ever say they would prefer a car that you had to crank to start that used the same suspension that your great grandfather had on his buggy and mostly the same brake, push against the wheel to stop. The Ford was still using the same suspension in1950 that was used in 1904, that's called progress. The flathead V8 lasted from 1932 until 1954 and had the least horsepower of any 8 cylinder on the market, straight or V8. Put it in a race with a Buick Century and if in a round track it will get lapped repeatedly, if in a drag race it will get beat by 10 seconds at least in the 1\4 mile even if it has the overhead valves heads put on. A good boat anchor, and people today still fool around with them, like it's a Hemi from a Chrysler 300. Can't explain it, like still being in love with your 3rd-grade teacher when your 70, somethings are inexplicable. Why do some people, try to restore junk, that was thought junk when it was made and is even worse junk now. Like the people that pay so much for past industrial junk, that goes with nothing and was left behind when the shop closed because its purpose was used up. Now we have idiots that rave about it and spend lots of money on it. My motto is if a middle-class family wouldn't have it in their house or drive it when it was new, why waste any time or money on it today. Like spending a 1,000,000 dollars on Superman no.1 or a Honus Wagoner baseball, I could find better ways to invest that money, how much is Honus' card worth now and what if a plethora of his cards are found, it's not like finding a De Vince or a Picasso.
I completely agree with you on the T -- a useful reminder of the initial innovations which led to its mass-production, and the period during which America was "put on wheels", but not a very good car at any time and routinely looked at with rose-colored glasses today. By the mid-'20s these obsolescent machines were being purchased only by the critically cash-strapped, by existing T owners (mostly farmers) with stubborn brand loyalty, and by clueless ladies whom someone convinced that Ts were "reliable and easy to drive".
If it’s all still available in this farmstead, then don’t forget the old wood that was on it Be sure and take enough of that to cover the door plus somore !!
We walked the place with the property owner. I was invited here. Have not been to any places that I was not invited to. All property is owned by someone... Abandoned is simply a search keyword.
Old places like this has become like hens teeth here in N. Georgia I think every place has been gone through a half dozen times. Guess I'm going to have to go on a trip out in your part of the country.
Thanks for stopping by, Rick! Yes, it is a Bricklin. This is a 1974 model with a factory equipped AMC V8... in the 1975 model year they switched over to Ford V8's
Well, what do you know... If you know the name of the first Subaru or Yugo importer to the US then you'll also know the name of the "Safety car" he had built in Canada for the American market. The Bricklin SV-1 (S [afety] V [ehicle] one) was a car built only in 1974 & '75 and though unique was a sales flop. The organization didn't prepare a proper network, had parts delays and problems with fit & finish of the units. Bricklin himself was a questionable personality and caused Canada to pay for a lot of what he failed to pay in the form of industrial debt. The most notable item features of the Bricklin were the gull wing doors and the lack of an ashtray.
Yeah where you picked up that Dodge ram that was an old railroad car a wooden one and you killed by the ladder going up the side and the way it was built
Central Kansas seems to be the "in between" for dangerous snakes. I have never seen or heard of them in our area. The biggest hazard here is brown recluse spiders.
Yalls just passing up on so much money. I see things i can sell to collector's right away and rail road cart if you find some old irons on them people buy for wall hanger as you would say! Or decorations people like useing make house look more rustic!
We did great on that type of items in 2013, '14 and into '15. Then our main flea market ended when the location got sold. That stuff was so hot that variations and derivative items started showing up at Hobby Lobby and the chain lumberyards. Around that time a lot of the people who were decorating in rustic and farmhouse, finished their remodels for the most part, and the market cooled significantly. We felt the squeeze on our end as the pickers, and shifted our focus mainly to vehicles.
The one still standing was decent and will remain on the farm for storage. The other was half rotted and had parts missing before we came. We salvaged what we could before it collapses over.
Thanks for the info. Old box cars like that are so cool. Probably teens to the 20's. Great video. In Pa. where I live we don't have places like that to explore.
What do you call someone who takes things without asking? I'm amazed that you publish the act on youtube. The people who have done the very same thing to our farm were convicted in a court and paying restitution to the owner. Please think about what you are doing.
Ask questions before you jump to conclusions... The property owner was with us during the entire video, he was the guy in the skid loader. He actually invited us there. I have never been somewhere I wasn't invited.
I'm glad you are doing it properly. I didn't recognize that in my view of the video. We have been victimized by several people who haven't asked about it.
Bricklin.... They were actually a decent car but the odds were stacked against them making it like other small upstart auto makers who literally didnt have unlimited finances and a team of lawyers large enough to equal the population of a small city.
Doing this is not a very good idea. What may appear to be abandoned may end up getting someone hurt or worse. I have a barn. Doesn't mean it's abandoned. I had someone decide to go in and call me asking how much money I wanted for items in it. They got an answer they were not expecting. People do protect their property. Talking about going into abandoned looking places hunting "treasures" may well get someone hurt. Naming this or any video as abandoned farmstead may well lead to bad decisions.
We were invited there, walked the place with the owner. Abandoned in this case means that the person who owned it previously moved away or died. It isn't a perfectly descriptive word, but for this type of video it is the best searchable term to guide someone to the video.
I happen to own one of these old farmsteads & I get very tired of assholes always stealing shit & breaking gates & doors down. these clickbait videos just encourage it. I stand by my comment, if you don't own it, stay the hell out.@@mrdiplomat9018
