That Chrysler Imperial. My dad had one of those, and when I was a kid, instead of getting an allowance, I was able to earn money by polishing his car. That thing took all day.
+Shaun Clifton thanks! My wife might disagree when this stuff comes home ;) but if you watched the police car build I did, I move pretty fast and get stuff done :) thanks for watching!
It' not a racing ambulance. Racetracks need an ambulance on site to be legallly allowed to put on a race. It's much cheaper to own the ambulance and hire part time qualified attendants than it is to pay for an ambulance and 2 full time paramedis to just sit for the day
The Fiat is a Toppolino Gardiniera (sometimes called a Gardinietta.) It was the car that preceded the famous Fiat 500 and they used to be all over the place in Italy as late as the 1980s/ early '90s in saloon/sedan form, though the Gardiniera was much rarer as the factory wooden body as seen with this car made them much more expensive to build and therefore much more expensive to buy. Definitely an unusual car and certainly so in the US or Canada as I didn't think the Gardiniera was ever officially sold there...
Alex, I'm betting the ambulance is still on your mind! lol That would be pretty neat restored to running condition and all the body graphics just left as they are.
I understand that the classic Airstream trailers are worth a lot of money now, even rough ones that can be re-modeled inside to make them suitable for modern tastes...
2:52 are those doors to a Spartan or other trailer ? I need a door/ maybe two for a '50 spartanette. 6:16 '63 or 4 Imperial Coupe. 7:22 Green Hornet cars were 4 door sedans ! , not Coupes. And YES, you are panning too fast. There is loads to see and you're going to fast.
+sixpoint3 the doors are off an old trailer, not sure what kind though. Yes you are right of course about it bring a four door, I meant to say it east hrs and style. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the reply! Looks like a fun place to look around. I'm a little far away from there. But that'd be a cool adventure! What is the name of the yard? Thanks again.
Random question. Do you have any luck selling vintage board games. I run into them from time to time - they're super cool, but I literally can't give them away. Thx.
My friend has 200 acres north of SF and he keeps buying old Jeeps and other military vehicles. He has MBs through to civilian CJ2s, three M37s... list goes on. I have a 52 Korean War M37, my friend has a Canadian M37 with a 251 flathead (American issue like mine has a 230), I wanted to restore it but it needs everything and I found a decent one to start with. He needs to start selling or restoring or end up like yard hoarders. I would be happy with a bit more room to mess with unforseen jems. I rent two spaces at a storage place in my town for two I restored, one is an orange 71 240 Z.
The little grey sports car next to the woody station wagon at 1:29 looks very much like a late '40s/early '50s Austin A40 sports with alloy body by Jensen, a very rare and collectible car now. In front of it is an Austin A55 (Cambridge) Countryman, the first of the famous Farina series of cars built by BMC from the late '50s up to about 1970 in Austin, Morris, Wolseley, MG and Riley variants, though only the Austin (as here) and the Morris (Oxford Traveler) were available as estates/station wagons. An early 'big fin' Farina estate is a very rare car in Europe and highly prized among Farina fans...
+Curiosity Incorporated That's a very unusual car and pretty interesting. It would be worth having a look under the bonnet/hood as quite a few of these cars ended up fitted with performance equipment to boost the power of the little 1200cc B-Series engine and some of the performance kits they were fitted with are very rare and much sought after in the historic racing community and can be worth very big money even in as-found condition...
The truck cab at 1:11 isn't a cab over, it's what is often called a low cab forward or LCF. They were a cross between conventional bonnet/hood trucks and cab overs, the idea being to reduce the amount of space the engine took up in the chassis while still keeping the cab height low enough to enable them to access height restricted areas. Most of the survivors in this format are lighter trucks but I have seen pictures of tractor units in this format too. Cab overs, having the cab fully above the engine, are rather tall which can be a disadvantage if you need to access confined areas such as pick up or drop points that are within older buildings which were built with horse and cart in mind, and conventional trucks are longer which makes them much more difficult to position in confined spaces hence the LCF concept. They don't seem to have been hugely popular, but as relatively few operators had need of vehicles to operate in such confined spaces that is not a great surprise. The lighter versions, however, do seem to have been very popular for farming use where the ability to access barns and the like made them very useful. The LCF concept, however, does live on, with most manufacturers that offer cab over trucks also producing low line variants with smaller cabs that, in some cases, also have the cab floor shaped to sit around the engine rather than the flat floors most commonly seen today. Some manufacturers even go as far as to offer low line variants that have unique mechanical set ups such as flat or boxer engines, or where the engine and transmission sit much further back in the chassis/frame behind the cab and under the load body, these variants can often be seen operating in airports on servicing and maintenance of aircraft where the low cab height means they can get close to planes without there being any risk of the cab hitting and damaging the skin and air frame of the planes...
I have owned several LCF trucks the term LCF low cab forward and COE cab over engine are now interchangeable terms referring mostly to the big thee trucks produced from the late 1930s thru the mid 1960s tho there lesser known manufactures doing the same.
Sorry, but what is the point of going to this yard other than TH-cam content? These are just rusty parts cars picked over and incomplete. You don't seem to be in the market for a parts car and there isn't one car you could justify a restoration for.
My brother-in-law used to have a station wagon that was painted to look like wood. Everyone used to tease him and ask him when he was going to take his station wagon out of the crate, lol!
11:30 another Renault Caravelle, like the other one at the beginning ? 12:30 just making whoever saved these cars CRINGE !, for saying that "parts, all that trim people might be looking for.." REALLY, think about it ! He did not keep these cars together this long to have them pilfered now....
Why do people hoard this stuff. What mental processes are going on in their head. If they scrapped this stuff for parts they would make a tidy pile. As they stand. Crusher bait and all those parts go to waste.
+Mike Winkelman thanks Mike! This yard was so big I had to split the video up into three parts! Other two will post shortly. I’m trying to buy some of these cars too :)
Hey curiosity I've been following you for awhile just wondering where this junk yard is my old lady's been looking for a pickup truck project or a very old bus
Curiosity Incorporated I actually just live in the Sherwood Park area myself he's the guy willing to sell and does he have any old motorcycles as well wondering if you would allow somebody like myself to walk around and take a look
Wow it would take a few days to look at everything in there. If the stuff went up for sale 10 years ago much more would have been salvageable. It always seems to be the thing, a yard full of stuff but the owner won't part with it and it all turns into scrap by the time they pass on.
Keep in mind, that EVEN if he sold it (cheaper) there is no guarantee it would have fared any better. I believe it would NOT have, since at a low price the level of commitment and dedication would be just as low !
The Packard woody wagon doesn't look like a factory-produced car, what can be seen of the roof structure at the rear looks to be the work of a coachbuilder which suggests that this may well be a very rare car and possibly a one-off built for someone with very deep pockets and a desire for something that they couldn't get from Packard themselves. I would imagine it would be of great interest to Packard enthusiasts and although a challenging project it would be well worth restoring to have something no-one else does...
+Curiosity Incorporated It's certainly worth finding out. It's probably a project that is going to cost a lot of money to finish as any missing parts for the rear end may have to be made from scratch but that won't bother a real enthusiast who wants something truly different and potentially unique. There is also a very good chance that a very unusual car like this is going to have a very interesting history with interesting owners which, due to the car's rarity, may well be much easier to trace than with a standard car...
Yes and no. Consider that people that ever came in contact or know about this car are getting up in age, We are talking about an early 50ies (?) car, that was 60+ years ago
+sixpoint3 That's certainly true. Perhaps I should have said a more documented history. An unusual and possibly unique car like this is likely to have been photographed and recorded dozens of times and it is likely that people will have kept those records and will be going around wondering if the car still exists. And that does double if the car had interesting previous owners and was recorded with them...
It was more of a rhetorical question, as there is no such thing, unless you invent your own term, which you did, and then you can make it anything you want....
I bet that Volvo would fire right up lol.
All those old vehicles should be restored. ESPECIALLY those Woodies.
Where is it at I like The black transam
That Chrysler Imperial. My dad had one of those, and when I was a kid, instead of getting an allowance, I was able to earn money by polishing his car. That thing took all day.
Cool cars. Sad to see 'em in such sorry state.
I love how you enjoy your junkyard hunting. I am the same way...always have been. You have great taste. 👍
+Shaun Clifton thanks! My wife might disagree when this stuff comes home ;) but if you watched the police car build I did, I move pretty fast and get stuff done :) thanks for watching!
Well done, literally tons of history . Next time pick me up when you go again!
This is really good quality video that you filmed with your phone it looks like
Thanks Michael
It' not a racing ambulance. Racetracks need an ambulance on site to be legallly allowed to put on a race. It's much cheaper to own the ambulance and hire part time qualified attendants than it is to pay for an ambulance and 2 full time paramedis to just sit for the day
+paddyboyyy I should have clarified, that’s exactly what I meant, just came out sounding like it actually raced ;)
I miss them all!!!! 😟
I like those classic cars based from 40s up to 90s
cat alert @2:14 :)
You know your stuff!
+snoozinghipo I’m still learning but I am getting better :)
I`m surprised you know so much about European cars! Hello from Sweden !
I'm from Sweden too :)
Its sad that they let them rot away , for such a long time..
I find it amazing that nobody can ever tell you where these places are when they start off the video
I don’t tell to respect the privacy of the yard owner... it’s not a scrap yard but a private collection
Cool video and gave you a thumbs up.
Wish i had junk yards like that neer me...all i have is a junk yard with 1990 and up junk
This isn't a scrapyard. It's a GOLD mine!
+Chas Riggs I thought so!
Could care less about the forign cars. Would like to have seen more of the 54 Mercury wagon that you passed up.
The first woody looked more like a Crosley than a Fiat.
owen milam it’s a Fiat 500c.
Coldwar motors would love this place
+john neild we might go out there together next week :)
Would love to have all the old trucks and truck parts
The Fiat is a Toppolino Gardiniera (sometimes called a Gardinietta.) It was the car that preceded the famous Fiat 500 and they used to be all over the place in Italy as late as the 1980s/ early '90s in saloon/sedan form, though the Gardiniera was much rarer as the factory wooden body as seen with this car made them much more expensive to build and therefore much more expensive to buy. Definitely an unusual car and certainly so in the US or Canada as I didn't think the Gardiniera was ever officially sold there...
Maybe brought in by an Italian immigrant.
The old Dodge truck at 13:01 is cool , I own a 68 myself.
These folks ever hear about the internet ? They want to sell stuff, they need to get on the 'net !
Saw some 70's & I believe an 81 chevy silverado I'd love to have. Great video, awesome collection!
Bc...i need to move..to bad it gets colder there then down in ontario where i live
Interesting hobby! Take a bunch of rare old cars and dump them out in the woods where no pesky restorers will notice until they rot away into scrap!
They restored a bunch over the years... but never got to all these
"The Dude" I hope that was saved.
agreed what was the asking price?
I was just there on Tuesday. I’d like to get hold the 13 panel that’s been NFS for a decade.
u know where all the good stuff is
Alex, I'm betting the ambulance is still on your mind! lol That would be pretty neat restored to running condition and all the body graphics just left as they are.
+stude1953 it is! BTW there are numerous stubebakers here,hawks etc
1942 Packard Woody
Nice video
Thanks Robert!
He in middle Mo. scap was 275 ton about a yr.. . Ppl scapped all things from cars to cattle x-ossing signs..
Renault convertible is called Floride or Caravelle depending on the trim, a car that Brigitte Bardot used to drive.
Wear do we find this yard?
It was in Canada but is gone now
48-50 Packard woody station wagon, straight 8 engine.
I wish you would have looked inside the Airstreams.
I could run a business just from the glass out of all those vehicles.
That’s so true!
I was thinking the same thing..as well as the hub caps and lights.
Where is this place located?
+alex perea outside of Edmonton AB
That is quite an adventure yard.
Were are you at
Alberta Canada
I understand that the classic Airstream trailers are worth a lot of money now, even rough ones that can be re-modeled inside to make them suitable for modern tastes...
+gosportjamie it’s a beautiful old trailer! They don’t want to sell it just yet though:(
hi and how much is the supernova if still avalible please
2:52 are those doors to a Spartan or other trailer ?
I need a door/ maybe two for a '50 spartanette.
6:16 '63 or 4 Imperial Coupe.
7:22 Green Hornet cars were 4 door sedans ! , not Coupes.
And YES, you are panning too fast. There is loads to see and you're going to fast.
+sixpoint3 the doors are off an old trailer, not sure what kind though. Yes you are right of course about it bring a four door, I meant to say it east hrs and style. Thanks for watching!
I Love the camper truck love your videos
Location?
Edmonton AB
Thanks for the reply! Looks like a fun place to look around. I'm a little far away from there. But that'd be a cool adventure! What is the name of the yard? Thanks again.
Where is this junkyard located?
+Aaron Wilkinson just outside of Edmonton
Curiosity Incorporated thanks
Corgi came out with a Green Hornet Car. I have one bought for my son but never gave it to him. lol
One of my favourite toys!
Wery happy american people!!!
do you kids know anything about new Zealand ! hobbits?
My mom lived in Christchurch as a kid
Random question. Do you have any luck selling vintage board games. I run into them from time to time - they're super cool, but I literally can't give them away. Thx.
No they are hard to sell, I try not to buy them unless it’s cheap and a really cool theme.
Curiosity Incorporated - sounds good. Thanks!
looks like heaven to me
+david craddock I’m losing sleep until I can get back there again :)
I like that Austin, I have no more space myself! I just got a 1952 Dodge truck so I can't handle more.
I think I would need a car lot for the amount of stuff I’d like to have ;)
My friend has 200 acres north of SF and he keeps buying old Jeeps and other military vehicles. He has MBs through to civilian CJ2s, three M37s... list goes on. I have a 52 Korean War M37, my friend has a Canadian M37 with a 251 flathead (American issue like mine has a 230), I wanted to restore it but it needs everything and I found a decent one to start with. He needs to start selling or restoring or end up like yard hoarders. I would be happy with a bit more room to mess with unforseen jems. I rent two spaces at a storage place in my town for two I restored, one is an orange 71 240 Z.
Wow! This place is a gold mine.
+NZ Salt Flats Racer I think so too! :) hopefully going back to get a couple cars next week
Yeah that Fiat woody is you, in fact anything woody is money these days.
whats with the playboy tire at 0:25? never heard of them.
I’m not too sure either! Short run maybe?
The little grey sports car next to the woody station wagon at 1:29 looks very much like a late '40s/early '50s Austin A40 sports with alloy body by Jensen, a very rare and collectible car now. In front of it is an Austin A55 (Cambridge) Countryman, the first of the famous Farina series of cars built by BMC from the late '50s up to about 1970 in Austin, Morris, Wolseley, MG and Riley variants, though only the Austin (as here) and the Morris (Oxford Traveler) were available as estates/station wagons. An early 'big fin' Farina estate is a very rare car in Europe and highly prized among Farina fans...
+gosportjamie you are right it did turn out to be a Jensen bodied a40!
Curiosity Incorporated But did you guys attempt to buy it ? It is Awesome
gosportjamie That Austin is so Awesome.
+Curiosity Incorporated That's a very unusual car and pretty interesting. It would be worth having a look under the bonnet/hood as quite a few of these cars ended up fitted with performance equipment to boost the power of the little 1200cc B-Series engine and some of the performance kits they were fitted with are very rare and much sought after in the historic racing community and can be worth very big money even in as-found condition...
www.mossmotoring.com/car-profile-austin-a40-sports/
The truck cab at 1:11 isn't a cab over, it's what is often called a low cab forward or LCF. They were a cross between conventional bonnet/hood trucks and cab overs, the idea being to reduce the amount of space the engine took up in the chassis while still keeping the cab height low enough to enable them to access height restricted areas. Most of the survivors in this format are lighter trucks but I have seen pictures of tractor units in this format too. Cab overs, having the cab fully above the engine, are rather tall which can be a disadvantage if you need to access confined areas such as pick up or drop points that are within older buildings which were built with horse and cart in mind, and conventional trucks are longer which makes them much more difficult to position in confined spaces hence the LCF concept. They don't seem to have been hugely popular, but as relatively few operators had need of vehicles to operate in such confined spaces that is not a great surprise. The lighter versions, however, do seem to have been very popular for farming use where the ability to access barns and the like made them very useful. The LCF concept, however, does live on, with most manufacturers that offer cab over trucks also producing low line variants with smaller cabs that, in some cases, also have the cab floor shaped to sit around the engine rather than the flat floors most commonly seen today. Some manufacturers even go as far as to offer low line variants that have unique mechanical set ups such as flat or boxer engines, or where the engine and transmission sit much further back in the chassis/frame behind the cab and under the load body, these variants can often be seen operating in airports on servicing and maintenance of aircraft where the low cab height means they can get close to planes without there being any risk of the cab hitting and damaging the skin and air frame of the planes...
+gosportjamie that’s some amazing info thank you!
I have owned several LCF trucks the term LCF low cab forward and COE cab over engine are now interchangeable terms referring mostly to the big thee trucks produced from the late 1930s thru the mid 1960s tho there lesser known manufactures doing the same.
I'm heartbroken
This guy knoes
That Austin is a special Austin A40 bodied by jenson's of West Bromwich
Sorry, but what is the point of going to this yard other than TH-cam content? These are just rusty parts cars picked over and incomplete. You don't seem to be in the market for a parts car and there isn't one car you could justify a restoration for.
I went to buy some parts
Your "racing ambulance " is really an old hearse, look at the black paint underneath the advertisement!
My brother-in-law used to have a station wagon that was painted to look like wood. Everyone used to tease him and ask him when he was going to take his station wagon out of the crate, lol!
cute cat!
have a auction best offers before the scrapper gets it,other wise not worth much!
Show some pickups
I bought the old Fargo in another episode :)
😟😥😔🙁😐👎👎
It's an Austin A40 Coupe Sport
I thought that that car at 1:43 was a Corvair too
FANTASTIC ! Wow what a field of DREAMS. Love to see junk yards... Thanks = )
+JOHNNIE: LORD OF THE MungoidHen PEOPLE thanks Johnnie!
11:30 another Renault Caravelle, like the other one at the beginning ?
12:30 just making whoever saved these cars CRINGE !, for saying that "parts, all that trim people might be looking for.."
REALLY, think about it !
He did not keep these cars together this long to have them pilfered now....
sixpoint3 moo on
At 1:45, it's a Renault Floride (florida), 1300 cc from 1958 to 1968.
+Isabelle Prometeus thank you! I think there were a few in this yard, and thank you for watching!
The green hornet, with Bruce Lee, as Kato the masked driver. Thanks again for the journey.!
+Antonio Mao stay tuned for the final two videos of this tour as well, it was a big yard! Thanks again Antonio:)
It is in Cranbrook, British Columbia. When is it coming up for sale?
+Bill Murphy this is all in Alberta, and is all up for sale now (in a couple weeks)
Why do people hoard this stuff. What mental processes are going on in their head. If they scrapped this stuff for parts they would make a tidy pile. As they stand. Crusher bait and all those parts go to waste.
+Michael Naisbitt it’s all being sold now
What a gem of a junkyard man I wish I was their with you they just get better great job on your videos take care
+Mike Winkelman thanks Mike! This yard was so big I had to split the video up into three parts! Other two will post shortly. I’m trying to buy some of these cars too :)
Packard Eight Station Wagon. I've seen two or three over the years at the car shows
+Vincent Basso nice looking cars!
Is there any 67-68 firebirds in the lot? I didnt see any.
+hugo weisenhiemer not that I saw
Morw guy stuff :)
what are they askin for the green and white 55 pontiac with the wire wheels
Steven Hagebusc
Triumph's a Renown, I think.
+Fred Hopkins she thought it was a mayflower
Bean. Luv it!
Hey curiosity I've been following you for awhile just wondering where this junk yard is my old lady's been looking for a pickup truck project or a very old bus
+Gringo just outside of Edmonton:)
Curiosity Incorporated I actually just live in the Sherwood Park area myself he's the guy willing to sell and does he have any old motorcycles as well wondering if you would allow somebody like myself to walk around and take a look
I would hope they would hold an auction
+justin gray selling as much as they can before an auction
Wow it would take a few days to look at everything in there. If the stuff went up for sale 10 years ago much more would have been salvageable. It always seems to be the thing, a yard full of stuff but the owner won't part with it and it all turns into scrap by the time they pass on.
+Tyblorg true, but they topolino in the barn is still really solid!
Keep in mind, that EVEN if he sold it (cheaper) there is no guarantee it would have fared any better.
I believe it would NOT have, since at a low price the level of commitment and
dedication would be just as low !
OMG a dodge dude! Those things are super rare if it's a real one! It needs to be saved!
+57GMC it’s real, and looked complete
Curiosity Incorporated where is the yard located?
WALKED RIGHT BY THE NICEST CARS to young
The Packard woody wagon doesn't look like a factory-produced car, what can be seen of the roof structure at the rear looks to be the work of a coachbuilder which suggests that this may well be a very rare car and possibly a one-off built for someone with very deep pockets and a desire for something that they couldn't get from Packard themselves. I would imagine it would be of great interest to Packard enthusiasts and although a challenging project it would be well worth restoring to have something no-one else does...
+gosportjamie it’s a very interesting project, I’m going to see what they will sell it for
+Curiosity Incorporated It's certainly worth finding out. It's probably a project that is going to cost a lot of money to finish as any missing parts for the rear end may have to be made from scratch but that won't bother a real enthusiast who wants something truly different and potentially unique. There is also a very good chance that a very unusual car like this is going to have a very interesting history with interesting owners which, due to the car's rarity, may well be much easier to trace than with a standard car...
Yes and no.
Consider that people that ever came in contact or know about this car are getting up in age, We are talking about an early 50ies (?) car, that was 60+ years ago
+sixpoint3 That's certainly true. Perhaps I should have said a more documented history. An unusual and possibly unique car like this is likely to have been photographed and recorded dozens of times and it is likely that people will have kept those records and will be going around wondering if the car still exists. And that does double if the car had interesting previous owners and was recorded with them...
It’s a factory car I had one they made quite a few of them mine was a 49
how much for the mayflower???
I think it was $2500
Hows its interior
Mint interior, engine needs a rebuild
seems like a steal rust free???
Where is this at??
+rich7717 near Edmonton. :)
Curiosity Incorporated I guess in Canada
What an enormous amount of automobile knowledge contained in the persons of Alex and his friends .
What's a racing ambulance ?
...for beating the lawyers to the accidents.
+sixpoint3 just an ambulance they used at the races in case of an accident on the track
+Mercmad I like your answer better!
It was more of a rhetorical question, as there is no such thing, unless you invent your own term, which you did, and then you can make it anything you want....
you have a merc 6.3 300SEL ?