This is one of the best videos on TH-cam. I live in Western N.C. and between your house and mine, are some of the coolest and most unusual collection of cars and trucks in the world. Great video. Thanks for the upload.
These videos take me back to a time when junkyards were full of what most consider rare cars today. I scrapped a couple myself after giving them a good thrashing. You could buy another running car cheaper than rebuilding one back then. Hats off to guys like this that had the hindsight to save them and to you for bringing these collections to us.
you remember the "hotline" as they called it? They always had them blaring in their offices. What a crappy inefficient system that was but it was all they had at the time
Tommy, really appreciate you indexing all the chapters. I watched 100% of the video regardless, but I wish this was something that all channels did to all videos. Thanks!
Lots of people can restore their cars from a catalog...and thats great. But for those of us who are off the beaten path(odd) we need guys like this. I'm gonna get in touch with these guys for sure. Awesome collection.
Wow, talk about your honey holes. Never seen so many Vegas and Monzas in 1 place. My favorite was the 66 bright red Charger though. As I had 1 the same color back in the mid 80's. Mine was a big block 4spd car (don't see many 4spds) Just 1 of the many cars I wish I never sold. Thanks for the video.
Send those Vegas brought back very fine memories one of the first race cars drag cars I was ever in with my uncle's and had a Chevy Vega with a small block in it men it was so much fun to go for rides.
Thanks to you and the owner for letting us in to see all his treasures. You really can get a good idea of how small that hillman is sitting next to that Triumph.
Brother that's one of the many reasons I love your channel, you really go to work and find these great honey hole's that gives us gear heads the dream of these cars are still out there, you just have to go find theme which takes me back when me and my cousin would ride with my dad and his and hook up on some deals that didn't even have a for sale sign in site, you just stop and ask..... really cool as always 👍👍👍👍👍✅✅✅✅✅
I could tell you really liked this one, me to! I had a few vega ,I tried to do a V8 swap but gave up. I've seen about 3 cosworth vega's in the junkyards in Detroit area ,I thought what a shame. About 5 years ago I got a 67 Vette with a 409 4spd never seen or thought about that type of swap. Keep up the great hunting I just love it. Makes me feel like the world has hope!
Funny story about the yellow roadsters the roll cage was redone by Tim Dixon and vega guy had me sit in it and if I remember what he said correctly if it can fit around him I can get in it easy lol
In 1976 I bought a 1976 Cosworth Vega new it was firethon red I put it away for 6 years when I was in active duty Marine sold it mid 1980's with 600 actual miles got into big block Camero' s still have original window price sticker thanks brought great memories catch you on next video !!!
My dad had a Hillman Huskie wagon he drove for his job. I learned to drive in it and if I could find one today, I would buy it. It was basically an MG sports car with a station wagon body. Nice raspy exhause note and a 4 speed trans.
Good morning, wow, what a collection, would be nice to see all of these cars & parts inventoried, cataloged....just sad to see everything piled up, cars over grown with weeds...be safe, God Bless!!!
They are still a few places like this in upper east tn. ( TRUE E.TN.) Carter,Johnson,Unicoi with batches of cars like this...mostly G.M. That is off the beaten path for sure that never want to be known about that have a goldmine in there yard......that would die before driving a Japenese car to boot....Loyal people on there brand and what the cars are no matter the state they are in.......and money is no factor.....just knowing they have them unlike the money hungary market that flips them. Thinks for sharing this man....you a little west from here and flat lander.....but I enjoy your Love of the Ol cars man.
Such a great video ! He must own a lot of property to have so many cars & projects. I used to ride in and drive a black cosworth vega a friend of mine had back in the day. It was fast & suprised quite a few guys ! Not real fast on takeoff ,but came on real strong after that .! Only guy I knew that had one of those. Thanks for another cool tour.!
Love it there is a fortune in parts i can just imagine how much they have in all them car's crazy got to get more of them parts under roofs sad to see it rust away
I'd love to have a couple of those Monza's it's hard to change plugs once you have a small block stuffed in one...... But well worth the scraped up knuckles . 😆
@@HotRodHoarder fella I try and watch every video you put on here. I love walking through places like that. I grew up with a dad that used to put auto glass in. So I've sat in some pretty unique and rare cars. The Vegas take me back to my childhood. My grandma had a Vega station wagon. I wear the scars from the passenger side dash still today.
One memory you brought back: an older-than-me engineer friend way back in '75 traded his '69 Corvette 427 roadster and money for a Cosworth Vega. If he regretted it, he kept it to himself.
Coming from the UK I have been really surprised that Hillman huskys are being used for drag cars in the US but they are rare here so to see them where they are is really cool, those cosworth Vega's are really really cool, here in the UK cosworth are legends and much admired, I bet the cosworth Vega's are quick little cars and they've sparked a new interest for me so thanks for the introduction to them!. At the end of the video I noticed the fiat 124.. lots of potential in that car and I have a soft spot for Fiat's, I had a much modified 128 that was a total wolf in sheep's clothing,alot of people got shocked by it!.
I had a 76 vega gt and i loved it very fun car the torque box broke in it and my parents wouldn't let me keep it at thier house until i got it fixed .I always wanted to do a grand national setup in one
...seeing those 62 Chevy's reminded me my brother Wayne had a 62 Golden anniversary Impala SS...he traded it in on a 64 Dodge Dart formula S 273ci 4 speed convertible...
Awesome collection! A leaf blower would save a lot of that stuff.. Maybe pressure wash... Need a full time guy probably .. I am sure it gets overwhelming.. Stuff only gets more rare leaving the rough junk more needed...
Not sure how old this guy is but I hope he's young because he has years of project work. 😏 He has a lot there and that's great. I get it he wants to keep a lot and not come off of it but mother nature is bilking his dreams every time it rains. He could be making a lot more money if he let people come out and make an offer on the spot.
Two weeks ago I went to a auction and spotted a sunbird formula car and a Capri RS. I didn't buy them but I should have. But I got other stuff to . Pro stock valve covers and a performer intake.
I had the good fortune to talk to George Barris years ago and he used to tell me you wouldn’t believe how many cars went to the junkyard after guys would try to chop and channel cars by not making the right cuts.
The thing with Vega's if you let them sit in the weather for too long and there becomes nothing left. they love to rust and rust fast. I like the early Vega's that look like the early 70's Cameo's
Thanks for this find. I saw a 348/409 in beginning wondering if he has he wants to sell? Also in your adventures I’m also looking for a BBC Edelbrock In take C 68
The thing that frustrates me about car hoarders is these guys NEVER have the time or money to repair these cars and just leave them rotting outside. They refuse to sell a single one. Perhaps this guy is different. I will never take on "projects" I can't finish. This is the reason so many classics go to waste. Then if these guys do decide to to let one go it's for an unreasonable price. These guys need counseling.
I think the thing to remember is if they weren't there outdoors rusting they probably would have been crushed and no one would get the parts they provide.
@@HotRodHoarder here you are,BTW my late brother had a spitfire stolen in South London UK,and plod returned it in 3 hours,respect metropolanan police en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Motor_Company
I found a cosworth vega in a San Diego junkyard in the early/mid nineties. Rims, engine, number plate on dash. I had no way of taking it or place to store it. Made me ill.
Wouldnt it be awesome to find out that 409 is actually one of the very limited 427s that were used in the 63 impala, would have a 13.5:1 compression ratio slightly modified heads and a factory dual quad set up.
The 16valve Cosworth Vega is extremely underrated and IMO very collectible because it must have been one of the very first mass produced multi-valve cars to ever come on the market. It is from the same time frame as the Triumph Dolomite Sprint (1973) that also had a 16V head and was arguably THE first mass produced 16V car ever on the market, the Ford Escort mk1 RS1600 BDA 16V. (1969) was not a mass produced car but a homologation special for rally and race competition, it also had a cosworth 16v head and was a world rally championship winning engine. Back in those days Cosworth made the extremely succesful world championship winning DFV V8 F1 racecar engine. About the Vega 16v engine, i seem to have read somewhere that they suffered from early excessive cylinder bore ware. So maybe it is why they are not so popular? But with todays knowledge, modern synthetic oils and precision machining i bet a good workshop could put some tuff steel sleeves in a Vega block and make the 16V engine run great again. In the early 1980's the Japanese motorcycle brands became BIG with DOHC 16V engines (Honda CB900F/F2, CB1100F, Suzuki GSX750E, GSX1100, Yamaha even came up with a 20valve head on the FZ750). By the late 1990's every Japanese , Korean and European car brand offered multi-valve engines as well. What about the US automakers? They lagged behind, again..., trying to catch up f.i. with the Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth Neon. (which was a good effort IMO) Imagine what COULD have been if the Vega Cosworth had become a resounding succes...
Cosworth could never make the Vega-block hold up to the rigors of racing. The free-standing cylinder-bores would shift and crack the soft aluminum block or the pistons would scuff the siliconized aluminum bores. You are correct, today's synthetic lubricants will help a Vega-based engine work better.
I know where there's a few spots of hoarded up pile of cars. Non are for sale though. When father passed away the oldest 2 kids let 20 cars go for junk. Rest were not available for sale. Til some day they will decide to let more go. Old stock cars, classic cars etc..
This is one of the best videos on TH-cam. I live in Western N.C. and between your house and mine, are some of the coolest and most unusual collection of cars and trucks in the world. Great video. Thanks for the upload.
These videos take me back to a time when junkyards were full of what most consider rare cars today. I scrapped a couple myself after giving them a good thrashing. You could buy another running car cheaper than rebuilding one back then. Hats off to guys like this that had the hindsight to save them and to you for bringing these collections to us.
you remember the "hotline" as they called it? They always had them blaring in their offices. What a crappy inefficient system that was but it was all they had at the time
@@gregh7457 I remember hearing that in the larger yards. Imagine listening to that all day. Pre computer days, the memory bank was in their heads.
Tommy, really appreciate you indexing all the chapters. I watched 100% of the video regardless, but I wish this was something that all channels did to all videos. Thanks!
Lots of people can restore their cars from a catalog...and thats great. But for those of us who are off the beaten path(odd) we need guys like this. I'm gonna get in touch with these guys for sure. Awesome collection.
I wanted to buy a Vega GT back in 73. My Dad talked me out of it. I bought a Camaro instead. Thanks, Dad! You were a lot smarter than me!
Wow, talk about your honey holes. Never seen so many Vegas and Monzas in 1 place. My favorite was the 66 bright red Charger though. As I had 1 the same color back in the mid 80's. Mine was a big block 4spd car (don't see many 4spds) Just 1 of the many cars I wish I never sold. Thanks for the video.
Lots of junkyard gold there to be sure!! 😎 Awesome collection! Thanks for sharing!
Very cool, really enjoyed!!!
Thank you for watching!
@@HotRodHoarder 👍😉
Send those Vegas brought back very fine memories one of the first race cars drag cars I was ever in with my uncle's and had a Chevy Vega with a small block in it men it was so much fun to go for rides.
Thanks to you and the owner for letting us in to see all his treasures. You really can get a good idea of how small that hillman is sitting next to that Triumph.
Brother that's one of the many reasons I love your channel, you really go to work and find these great honey hole's that gives us gear heads the dream of these cars are still out there, you just have to go find theme which takes me back when me and my cousin would ride with my dad and his and hook up on some deals that didn't even have a for sale sign in site, you just stop and ask..... really cool as always 👍👍👍👍👍✅✅✅✅✅
I could tell you really liked this one, me to! I had a few vega ,I tried to do a V8 swap but gave up. I've seen about 3 cosworth vega's in the junkyards in Detroit area ,I thought what a shame. About 5 years ago I got a 67 Vette with a 409 4spd never seen or thought about that type of swap. Keep up the great hunting I just love it. Makes me feel like the world has hope!
Just came across ur channel I'm from Kentucky love what ur doing bro.
Funny story about the yellow roadsters the roll cage was redone by Tim Dixon and vega guy had me sit in it and if I remember what he said correctly if it can fit around him I can get in it easy lol
Haha, that's pretty awesome.
Tim does good work. If you're talking about GasAxe ChopShop.
@@RedEyedPatriot that's the one
That 4 cylinder at 9:00 is a Vega block. Probably one of the 6 left that hasn't warped out of shape.
As they sit and rot. Hoarders are interesting people. I'll get to it someday...................
Cool video champion. Love seeing those old drag cars. 🇦🇺👍
Looks like a lot of projects that will never get done 😒🤘🇨🇦🤘
In 1976 I bought a 1976 Cosworth Vega new it was firethon red I put it away for 6 years when I was in active duty Marine sold it mid 1980's with 600 actual miles got into big block Camero' s still have original window price sticker thanks brought great memories catch you on next video !!!
Looks like my grandma's farm. But blackberries growing over everything.
I should start to drag them out one by one and sell them.
My dad had a Hillman Huskie wagon he drove for his job. I learned to drive in it and if I could find one today, I would buy it. It was basically an MG sports car with a station wagon body. Nice raspy exhause note and a 4 speed trans.
Good morning, wow, what a collection, would be nice to see all of these cars & parts inventoried, cataloged....just sad to see everything piled up, cars over grown with weeds...be safe, God Bless!!!
They are still a few places like this in upper east tn. ( TRUE E.TN.) Carter,Johnson,Unicoi with batches of cars like this...mostly G.M. That is off the beaten path for sure that never want to be known about that have a goldmine in there yard......that would die before driving a Japenese car to boot....Loyal people on there brand and what the cars are no matter the state they are in.......and money is no factor.....just knowing they have them unlike the money hungary market that flips them. Thinks for sharing this man....you a little west from here and flat lander.....but I enjoy your Love of the Ol cars man.
so sad just to see them rot!!cant wait for the estate sale!!!!
I had a 1977 Vega ended up selling it and it got built into a drag car the 404 and the hemi behind it are like gold great video
Love that Mercury Capri... It didn't look to bad
Great video, thanks for sharing👍
Such a great video ! He must own a lot of property to have so many cars & projects. I used to ride in and drive a black cosworth vega a friend of mine had back in the day. It was fast & suprised quite a few guys ! Not real fast on takeoff ,but came on real strong after that .! Only guy I knew that had one of those. Thanks for another cool tour.!
I just passed a pristine show quality Vega on the road the other day. Cool video.
Great video, that Triumph is a GT-6 based on the Spitfire but with a six cylinder engine, very fun car, didn't expect to see that there.
This place is still there Wow!!I moved away from the area some years ago.
Great story and history thank you for all you do 👍🏁
Thanks for sharing!
I'd like that bin full of model kits!!!!
Love it there is a fortune in parts i can just imagine how much they have in all them car's crazy got to get more of them parts under roofs sad to see it rust away
Pretty awesome 😎 collection
Surprised not to see a Monza Spider
I'm sure there's a Spyder hidden in there somewhere. I didn't spend a lot of time with the Monzas...I think I was too excited about the Vega's haha.
I'd love to have a couple of those Monza's it's hard to change plugs once you have a small block stuffed in one...... But well worth the scraped up knuckles . 😆
Gotta have those parts guys great job
Very cool video
Thanks for watching Clay!
@@HotRodHoarder fella I try and watch every video you put on here. I love walking through places like that. I grew up with a dad that used to put auto glass in. So I've sat in some pretty unique and rare cars. The Vegas take me back to my childhood. My grandma had a Vega station wagon. I wear the scars from the passenger side dash still today.
One memory you brought back: an older-than-me engineer friend way back in '75 traded his '69 Corvette 427 roadster and money for a Cosworth Vega. If he regretted it, he kept it to himself.
If he didn’t regret it, I’ll regret it for him.
Coming from the UK I have been really surprised that Hillman huskys are being used for drag cars in the US but they are rare here so to see them where they are is really cool, those cosworth Vega's are really really cool, here in the UK cosworth are legends and much admired, I bet the cosworth Vega's are quick little cars and they've sparked a new interest for me so thanks for the introduction to them!. At the end of the video I noticed the fiat 124.. lots of potential in that car and I have a soft spot for Fiat's, I had a much modified 128 that was a total wolf in sheep's clothing,alot of people got shocked by it!.
great content keep it up
Wow holly molly 40 Vegas? 11 cosworth Vegas ? That's like finding a Buick grand national stock yard.
I had a 76 vega gt and i loved it very fun car the torque box broke in it and my parents wouldn't let me keep it at thier house until i got it fixed .I always wanted to do a grand national setup in one
...seeing those 62 Chevy's reminded me my brother Wayne had a 62 Golden anniversary Impala SS...he traded it in on a 64 Dodge Dart formula S 273ci 4 speed convertible...
All the sweet golden goodness in one place
Nice collection.
Awesome collection! A leaf blower would save a lot of that stuff.. Maybe pressure wash... Need a full time guy probably .. I am sure it gets overwhelming.. Stuff only gets more rare leaving the rough junk more needed...
There was a lil fiat spider. 124 spider. Love the Vegas and charger
Crazy I saw a couple of these cars during transport
I didn't know they were that many Vegas left in the United States
" I'm gonna restore them one day".
The same twincam engine in the Vega came out here in Aus in an Escort Cosworth GT.
7.32 GTO?
Very cool
Not sure how old this guy is but I hope he's young because he has years of project work. 😏 He has a lot there and that's great. I get it he wants to keep a lot and not come off of it but mother nature is bilking his dreams every time it rains. He could be making a lot more money if he let people come out and make an offer on the spot.
Two weeks ago I went to a auction and spotted a sunbird formula car and a Capri RS. I didn't buy them but I should have. But I got other stuff to . Pro stock valve covers and a performer intake.
I had the good fortune to talk to George Barris years ago and he used to tell me you wouldn’t believe how many cars went to the junkyard after guys would try to chop and channel cars by not making the right cuts.
The thing with Vega's if you let them sit in the weather for too long and there becomes nothing left. they love to rust and rust fast. I like the early Vega's that look like the early 70's Cameo's
For sure, Vega's didn't last very long in the weather.
Man I love a monza or Vega drag car
14:15 this was the same car the talked bout earlier in your video.
Thanks for this find. I saw a 348/409 in beginning wondering if he has he wants to sell? Also in your adventures I’m also looking for a BBC Edelbrock In take C 68
Nice man maynardville tn here
Find out what he wants for both chevettes I have a 79 and I need parts for it
The triumph fastback is a GT6 basically a 2.0 s6 spitfire coupé.
my mom owned a 1975 Vega sunflower 🌻 yellow with baby moons and 3.8 liter v6 Monte Carlo engine in it and transmission with glass-packs on it
He has over 6500 items for sale on eBay
I'm highly interested in the 1968 camaro at the beginning of the video. If it's for sale? Thanks for another great video !
contact him, his ebay username is mentioned
With the spoiler and that it is setup for a small block the Z car looks like a Scarab conversion.
Wow..just wow
The vaga wagon off the chain
The thing that frustrates me about car hoarders is these guys NEVER have the time or money to repair these cars and just leave them rotting outside. They refuse to sell a single one. Perhaps this guy is different. I will never take on "projects" I can't finish. This is the reason so many classics go to waste. Then if these guys do decide to to let one go it's for an unreasonable price. These guys need counseling.
I think the thing to remember is if they weren't there outdoors rusting they probably would have been crushed and no one would get the parts they provide.
WAY more of these care will rot to nothing before selling some parts makes it worth them rotting away.
@DDspeedshop needs that fiberglass 55 front
A lot of nice cars. My dream car is a 65 Mustang or 67 Shelby
A Monza Mirage. It cant be many of them today, Wasent it a one year model?
That triumph is a Gt 6 with a 2/2.5 litre straight six,based on the Spitfire 👍👍
I need to get some schooling on sports cars. They look cool, but I'm kinda clueless about them. Thanks for the info!
@@HotRodHoarder here you are,BTW my late brother had a spitfire stolen in South London UK,and plod returned it in 3 hours,respect metropolanan police
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Motor_Company
18:09 I would love too have that one as a project car
The 1976-76 cosworth Vegas should have been production models, they're the only ones that didn't rust.
Cool find nice to see people don't all think they are junk a take them to the crusher have any 67 chevelle for parts
Sad thing is is when this guy passes away someone will buy the property and probably haul all of these off to the crusher…smh
Took my drivers test in a Monza Mirage, 307 car!
That Rambler is a 1964 model probably a 6 cylinder,I don’t know what they had for V-8’s back then.
Did the 65 Nova have the hood lip molding and if so is he interested in selling that piece?
More than five lifetimes of projects there
Need to pick half a dozen and get rid of the rest
Shortened wagon from the movie with bill Murray where the buffalo rome
I would like to know if he would sell one of them crossword Vegas complete
Triumph is a Spitfire GT6, it was the a competitor to the MGB GT, both are six cylinder cars.
Very cool, thanks for the info!
I found a cosworth vega in a San Diego junkyard in the early/mid nineties. Rims, engine, number plate on dash. I had no way of taking it or place to store it. Made me ill.
that hillman van is very similar to fords 100e van (300e )
I often wonder why people leave these rare and classic cars to sit out and rust !
It's truly a sickness. I don't think anyone understands except the afflicted.
I'm with ya though. Move em along or something.
Wouldnt it be awesome to find out that 409 is actually one of the very limited 427s that were used in the 63 impala, would have a 13.5:1 compression ratio slightly modified heads and a factory dual quad set up.
Why did you get rid of the Nova?
The 16valve Cosworth Vega is extremely underrated and IMO very collectible because it must have been one of the very first mass produced multi-valve cars to ever come on the market. It is from the same time frame as
the Triumph Dolomite Sprint (1973) that also had a 16V head and was arguably THE first mass produced 16V car ever on the market,
the Ford Escort mk1 RS1600 BDA 16V. (1969) was not a mass produced car but a homologation special for rally and race competition, it also had a cosworth 16v head and was a world rally championship winning engine.
Back in those days Cosworth made the extremely succesful world championship winning DFV V8 F1 racecar engine.
About the Vega 16v engine, i seem to have read somewhere that they suffered from early excessive cylinder bore ware. So maybe it is why they are not so popular? But with todays knowledge, modern synthetic oils and precision machining i bet a good workshop could put some tuff steel sleeves in a Vega block and make the 16V engine run great again.
In the early 1980's the Japanese motorcycle brands became BIG with DOHC 16V engines (Honda CB900F/F2, CB1100F, Suzuki GSX750E, GSX1100, Yamaha even came up with a 20valve head on the FZ750).
By the late 1990's every Japanese , Korean and European car brand offered multi-valve engines as well.
What about the US automakers? They lagged behind, again..., trying to catch up f.i. with the Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth Neon. (which was a good effort IMO)
Imagine what COULD have been if the Vega Cosworth had become a resounding succes...
Cosworth could never make the Vega-block hold up to the rigors of racing. The free-standing cylinder-bores would shift and crack the soft aluminum block or the pistons would scuff the siliconized aluminum bores. You are correct, today's synthetic lubricants will help a Vega-based engine work better.
I am interested in that 68' Camaro..SERIOUSLY...& Did I see a 70' -73' Camaro as well
I need an air bag assembly for a 1929 Duesenberg Model J
Nice Yard
I never realised that Cosworth got into the American market? 😎😎
For a short time...pretty wild to think that Chevrolet pulled it off.
I know where there's a few spots of hoarded up pile of cars. Non are for sale though. When father passed away the oldest 2 kids let 20 cars go for junk. Rest were not available for sale. Til some day they will decide to let more go. Old stock cars, classic cars etc..
This is the classic cars of American pickers
Hell' this reminds me of 'Cabin Creek' the place Criss' n Rob called a : STATE of MIND.