Searching For Gems at a POLICE IMPOUND AUCTION
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Today on The Skid Factory Woody visits a local Impound Auction to have a look at some cars and see if there's any Gems within the lot worth buying..
These auctions happen roughly once a year and are full of vehicles that are either crashed, abandoned or impounded by Council, Main Roads or the Police.
Some cars have keys, Many of them don't.
All vehicles have been checked for encumbrance and are sold As is.
Maybe next time ill have more of a plan and come home with something.....
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What are you bidding on?
Woody would you think of putting skidfactorys content on Rumble ???
I'm asking as I'm about to walk away from TH-cam over their double standards around censoring content and still wish to see what you guys are doing...
If not have a good one guys as youtube is going bye-bye as of Friday this week.
Probably that fg xr8
Wouldn't mind a throwback to my first car.... vr exec... Got an ls1 in my shed just looking for a home...
The Volvo of course!
the Jimny just over woodies shoulder 11:27 .. well the drivers rear 1/4 looks ok
I picked up a 96 Ford 4x4 1 ton pick-up truck at an auction in Chicago for 900.00 U.S.
Just wanted the motor.
460 big block
I brought a trailer, but before loaded it.
I put a battery in it to see if I could drive it on the trailer.
Turned the key on, and the odometer had less than 1500 miles on it.
Around 2400 kilometers for you Aussie's.
Did believe it, so I went found the guy that owned the lot.
He said my truck was an old City of Chicago truck that they used for one season to plow snow.
Then they parked in a garage for 12 years.
I did not drive it on trailer.
Didn't even try, and start it.
When I got it home.
I replaced the brake lines, gas lines, put some oil down cylinders and let it sit for day before I turned it over.
Fired right up, and went down the road like a brand new truck, because it was.
Ended up selling it two weeks later for $15,000
Not a bad days work. 15g in the pocket gotta be warm n fuzzy.
Cool story bro.
It’s always a sobering aspect of auctions when you realise how many people were living in these cars..
I'd say alot of them were just campers/tourists that just gave up on the car.
@@Quetzalcoatl999 Yep, all backpacker shitboxes that they abandon before jumping on a plane home. Heaps in sydney airport valet parking that are never going to leave except on a tow truck to one of these yards
Probably because they weren't sober
Slightly morbid, but is it likely a lot of these cars have been found with people overdosing in them?
Big thing in the states.
@@inserstnamehere Not as big a thing in Aus.
Anyone else see an awesome $1000 challenge here for Woody and Al?
I would love for woody and Allen buying two challengers, doing them up and then doing some challenges vs each other.
@@paule4204 Nope, there is already 20 other TH-cam channels that do that crap.
We are here because the skid factory is different to the dickhead channels.
@@paule4204 Delayed response, I know. $1000 challenge would entail, buy a car for a $1000. And you get to spend $1000.
Series of challenges (Top Gear style), winner gets to do whatever they want with challenger's car (who cares if they fall in love with it right). Charity Ebay auction?...
First car I see(airbrushed Chrysler) used to be owned by someone that worked at greens biscuits,carole Park.
Remember seeing it as I left work daily
Brisbane
I used to go to the salvage auctions with my dad in the '80s and by cars for our wreckers. Lots of memories here. Everything seems so new. Thanks Woodrigous
' Someone said 🍗KFC ' Such a quick witty one liner 🤣🤣
I don't get it? 🤷🏻♂️
What does it stand for, apart from Kentucky Fried Chicken?
@@TheManLab7 KFC'S ad campaign in Australia recently has been a variety of ads with people saying "Did someone say KFC"
I love this. I used to work at an auction house. I loved just the variety of cars and bikes that came through.
I work for a tow yard in the states. It’s amazing some of the stuff we get in on impound.
We def need more of this content
Why?
For all the apparent gems in the yard 🙄
Man, that would be an awesome day out for me, I'd love it. I'd also get myself into trouble with the misses so whatever I bought would have to be warm to sleep in..
Any AU is a good AU… The pinnacle of Australian motoring.
Not necessarily.
@@kennethsmith3260 sorry for the typo.
Any AU is a great* AU.
Good on you Woody…. I’m all in!
Can’t wait to see future content from skid factory 2.0 👍🏻
Well that certainly was different.
I finally made it onto The Skid Factory... I was volunteering with the Scouts cooking up breakfast! I wish I'd realised you were there Woody & I would have come to say g'day!
Man I was going to grab some breaky but the line was massive!!
If I’d known, you would have got VIP treatment!
"Somebody said KFC" 😭😅 Woody is hilarious sometimes. lmao
Went to this auction 5 years ago. Picked up 1 ls statesman $1200 1 VT Ss iron lion 5 speed for $800 1 v6 triton $300 and a L series subie for $375 all delivered for an extra $300 just can’t get the deals anymore at this auction.
Yeah apparently used to be the place for a bargain!
if its anything like north queensland, all the scrap yards are owned by overseas types, buy EVERYTHING, then they rip out engines, boxes etc and ship it overseas. damn near impossible to go down the wreckers and grab a part these days.
@@paulplatts4264 same thing happens in Melbourne so much from the wreckers get shipped overseas, lots to the middle east I believe. There's also a paddock in central Vic that has about 30-40 pre 90's Toyota's sitting on it, I once asked if any were for sale and got a firm no, the owner ships them back to Japan for huge $$$ apparently
That one Astra can be a fun little coupe just like 2sexy plus those engine's (at least here in Europe, mostly UK) are well know to take a beat and being swapped in a lot of random projects, also seen a few mini with one of those. I think project Binky also has used this same engine
Astras in Australia have larger motors in them...smallest was 1.8, middle was 2.0 and largest was 2.2 litre.
So not sure now good the engines were...they don't really have a good reputation here too.
@@daniel.s8126 oh yeah u right I keep getting confused with another similar project I saw 😅 my bad
@@stevenbalekic5683 interesting to know that. Thought I'm surprised. But yeah saw a few cars with those getting decent power, some of them needed better cooling, but in here yeah we see quite a few.
@@stevenbalekic5683 we got those engines in the UK too, although many opted for diesels or the smaller 1.6 and 1.4 engines offered due toi emissions/tax rules here
The car are a piece of art but the only problem it the little scratches on them
Years ago I was stopped by the Police in a 98' wrx sti sportswagon, mate was driving, I was plastered.
The copper grabbed the keys out the ignition and goes "Who's the owner of this car? it's coming back as stolen"
Baffled and slurring I replied "Huh, Its mine, I bought it from you's" 🤣🤣🤦♂️
After what seemed like an eternity and damn near pissing myself they let us go saying "Sorry mate, bit of a mix up but shouldn't have anymore issue's"
That's so funny!!!
you fellas should do something with an intech one day. big single type of thing
Low Standards? I know someone who could have that red Commodore built in only 4 weeks! Shout out to Jay!
The ford at 8:54 that has been destroyed is a MK2 FPV GS with a SC.
Challengers are a fav of backpackers 👍
I find these yards quite sad , a good friend of mine had his shmick HQ Monaro impounded from outside his home in Prahran , melb due to drug addiction .
😒
Nice gen1 paj at @0:35
dude those 5 cilinder volvo engines are pretty dope, you should do a T5 swap into something
Not to work on there not so awesome. To get to the alternator it like 4 hours of work just to access the shit.
@@jrock5995 yeah Just take the engine out en put it ib something elkse. Problem solved xD hopefully
Also, buy that fairmont front swapped1 ute, skid factory needs to do an intech. where's Kevin
Backpacker cars? Dumped at the airport quite often.
You’re probably onto something!
Pre-COVID, Melbourne airport would get either Pickles or Manheim to auction off the cars that had been dumped at the airport by backpackers/students/people who had to leave the country. There would be the occasional tasty car from that last category....
I gather this is North coast? Your stomping ground. I reckon a lot of those vehicles came out of flooded paddocks after the big rains. I reckon a few have been for a swim...
Chev badge on the stato, thats another 1000hp ahahahahaha
When Woody said astra turbo I felt a bit sad... Until it turned out it was an astra G, those things were utter sheds.
I kid you not I saw the falcon in the thumbnail on marketplace a couple of weeks ago ahahahha
Excellent video
We need a follow up with some prices that the interesting things sold for
I didn’t hang around for the rest of the day but as I mentioned anything that was of value was getting snapped up for good $$$$. I was told the FGX sprint with the miami sold for 15k
@@theskidfactory the pancake? Wholly hell that's nuts 🤣
U could probably import one from U.S. for less than 5 🤔 idk what U.S. prices are like though lol
@@theskidfactory Wasn't a sprint, was only a GS as it was a 315kw
@@5lcalais1 How would you import it from the states though??
The Miami is an Australia market only engine, built in Cambelfield Vic🤔
@@darianistead2239 fair enough but they did also build em in the states just named differently.
Maybe some very slight differences but 98ish% the same 5L
"A lot of these cars will be rebirthed."
Yep 😅
"Rebirthed" has a pretty specific and illicit meaning in the car world, if memory serves.
I thought the same thing 😅
Come to central coast nsw plenty of cars need taking away and sold at auction
the Chrysler 300 in first part of video with scarface on passenger side n godfather on the driver's side, that paint job was insured for 30k
That 300c used to be in Ipswich many years ago haha funny it ended up there
You should check behind the back seats for bags lol
V6 challenger a mighty fine vehicle?
Ha ha yep if you own BP.
They get impounded for reckless driving, hooning, speeding, running red lights, being a heap of junk, being unroadworthy, bring unregistered or other?
Man as an American seeing Aussie cars is such a culture shock. boss 290 he says it's such a massive engine, all I can think is man that's the tiniest V8 I ever seen
It's a 5.4L V8, 290 is not ci or HP it's in kilowatts, it's nearly 400hp.
It's the same engine that's in a Lincoln Navigator in the 2000s. They are physically huge.
I love the car auctions they're gambling for car people...
5:45 ROFL why the diss on the Commodore Executive? "This thing says low standards all over."
That Astra black top would of been a nice snag, Marty shoulda came picked that up for the Chevette
I drove past when this was on and thought "who buys this shit" 🤣
I'm flipping out at how many VEs I see in the background. Finding G8 parts in the US is pretty difficult.
What the hell happened to that XR8? Looks like it went through a crusher!
Likely a 200klm/h+ somersault 🤔
Firies recovery chop job by the look.
We had a 17 year old '05 Nissan X-trail at home, it's a complete write off now, but I used to drive it for back when i was practicing for my Ls and Ps and later on my sister used to daily drive until she ended up indirectly involved in a terrible car accident, luckily the airbags did deploy sucessfully, she survived, just barely with a few broken bones, fractures on her wrist and forearm, in serious pain, was immediately taken to hospital by paramedics, had to be admistered with morphine, it was that painful and had to have an operation, the good news is that she is alive, was not at fault, some absolute genius on the road decided to pull out and then stopped right infront of her, she tried to swerve away to avoid colliding with the driver, but it was too late the other driver as they stopped, clipped her side which upon impact sent her veering into the oncoming, crashed into an oncoming vehicle, although the traffic in the oncoming wasn't travelling at speed, was slowing down to stop for a redlight, investigation is still on going and the driver who pulled out is confirmed to be at fault, not only by admitting, however is still refusing to give correct details of the vehicles registration, my father looked up the plates and rego, nothing came up, so that guy involved at the time probably lied to authorities and to my father, as my dad tried to contact the other party involved to confirm details and finalise the claim.
I am glad she and everyone else is okay, I'm also grateful that she is still with us, as for the car, we had a damn good run, but it's time to say good bye to the little troopper.
cool story bro
The 4m40 in my old 94 party paj loved 20psi boost all day with 600,000 on the clock I couldn't kill it
Probably wasn't building the same kind of cylinder pressure 20 psi puts on a tight new engine.
think i have been to that lot before, near maroochydore or smth
Haha, was positive you would buy something.
One buck boat!
"I'm living in that. It just needs a wash." - Next Australian PM
pretty interesting place, would be cool if you found something for a project at one of these auctions
cheers 🍻 just negotiating on a project now 👍🏼
TJ says epicccccc
Wasn't a FG XR8, was a FPV GS mk2 s/c v8 miami engine. They are worth a bit 👌
Someone said kFC 😂love it
Those cars remind me of zombie apocalypse video games.
5:47 is a vp commodore not a vn. used to own one they go hard
Where was this and how you get in these?
id love to pick up one of those utes, cant find them here in the states.
looks like fun, thinking some of them probably stolen and people claimed insurance, or couldn't find the owners?
get that gen1 paj and put the lexus v8 in it pls
or any motor really, gen1 paj is best paj
Well done Woody, interesting content
Could rebirth that V8 Falcon easy enough
I would have liked that Astra Turbo 😬
You can bet that if someone who is in the little group and knows the right handshake owned one of those cars and "got caught hooning" their car wouldn't be stolen by those wonderful cops who were protecting the pavement from that dangerous rubber.
Lot of flood cars I would say
"someone said kfc" lol
I love this type videos
That rolled fg xr8 supercharged makes me verry sad
that uzj100 would have been a good buy if you got it cheap. Just needed a clean, it had leather seats, and some new glass and you'd have an awesome daily for cheap as. I daily my UZJ100 it's the best vehicle ever made, and I've owned a shit load, including a 200 series turbo diesel which was an absolute dog
I dunno about that one! It was pretty trashed
honestly i would probably bid on the multicolor ute
Where was the auction Woody? Thanks for sharing legend
This was Clayton's auction in Nambour Qld
CA20E. Any prairies left?
how do you find police impound auctions? which one was this? there was a gen 1 r1 that was pretty cool
The Skid factory, needs a skid car.
Watch this space…
Where was this??
Is this auction on the sunny coast Im pretty sure I know who owned the Fairlane Ute
Yeah it is too! Hahah I can tell you that girl has seen a few sets
Good stuff Woody something different cheers
Good time's
Hahaha that ute looks similar to my old one 🤣 😆
Yous should buy all the manuals and v8s
Did you walk past a roo barred up fiat Panda?
A lot of cars are from international travelers who can't sell before going home
They get good money sending front cuts and complete engine and transmissions overseas they pay silly money
Were is this
Where abouts is this?
Very interesting.
I was keen on buying a trailer and a bike or 2 but released it was in qld and im in vic
Where was this auction held? Any info for future auctions?
This was Clayton’s towing yard, usually on once a year
@@Woodrigos We try to do them quarterly, but Covid slowed that down. Should be back on track in 2023. Awesome to see you there 👍👍
dope video mate do another one soon
How many times Woody said G.D.
Any Updates on the ironlion kingswood.
It's undergoing a body resto atm.
Mate, some of those cars are people’s last resort and their rego ran out so the police impounded their shelter!!!
Reckon you guys have the profile to get a charity up to donate rego to people on their arse.
I reckon there should be something like that out there, because all of us have needed a helping hand at one stage or another .. You pretty much need a car to work these days and there isn't much in the way of help for that (yet the great unwashed who block highways and protest for extinction rebellion seem to be able to get free money hand over fist)
They should secure the keys
They're chained to the column, or removed prior.
Where was this?
Up the sunny coast or in Brissie??
Claytons Towing Nambour
AFD All Fluids Drained?