Wiper blades, radio knobs, starters, all that little stuff used to be hard to find. Some still is, especially original parts. Im only 42 so not that old, but i used to buy kits and rebuild my own starters and alternators just like my dad did. Believe it or not, parts stores weren't always open every day of the week and just down the road. They were 9-5 weekdays and if you didn't have miscellaneous parts on hand you could get screwed pretty easily on a weekend repair on your ride. All that stuff was gold. Gotta remember, the interwebs wasn't around either to order everything. The wheels and tires....keeping rollers around for project vehicles is a no brainier. Especially if you have a small space and need to move stuff in and out often. The previous owner had a method to his madness and knew exactly what he was doing. Good luck on things!
You’re not wrong, and I live through the transition to parts stores being open while the rebuilding shops closed. I also remember one part stores sold parts to things and not just whole replacements. But part of the method, this guys madness seems to reflect my own Grab the spare take the part you need out of it, leave the corpse on the bench and shove the working one in the car and get down the road
Would be nice to expand the shop to the side with a carport on the front , just some cheap ideas would make it amazing with some white paint and lights
I watched the video when you showed the place , and then this one.. Honestly I`m not a american muscle car guy, or a truck guy either .. but you really DID hooked me up with this old shop videos! I really enjoy them ! Suscribed
There's a blue bleacher cushion on the shop floor, that says "West Limestone Wildcats" on it. The only school I know by that name is West Limestone High School in Limestone County, Alabama. I went to school there from the time I was in 2nd grade all the way til I graduated from there. I still live 10 or 12 miles from the school. Pretty awesome that that's in your video.
Queensland I’d love to get there someday! A conscientious viewer suggested I make a little more repair first make it safer before sharing. He made a good point about how in the the very very very slim chance that the right attention by the wrong people could shut the project down. He was right and the video will go back up one day once the property is more secure but thanks for reaching out
Always enjoy the channel and I’m excited for you on this new adventure! I hope you don’t mind if I offer one bit of constructive criticism.. please slow down with the selfie stick. I know cinematography is not priority numero uno in this project and I do appreciate you taking us along so please take with a grain of salt. But maybe leave the camera on the tripod? Possibly spin slower? It’s just a bit tooo dizzying… 😵💫 I’m sure this project is too so keep doing your thang. You’re working your tail off and the progress you show is inspiring. Keep up the good work, sir! 😅
shoot me an email at betweenthesharks@gmail.com. they are neat but don't need to collect dust i would rather them go to someone building something thats watching the channel cheers
They lived throught the Great Depression and a time when lifes technology was very narrow. Cans of nuts and bolts, tins of clothing buttons, clipping the pig tail off lamps before discarding. My dad would reuse wood. remove nails and screws to keep. What wood was too rotted to repurpose he'd burn for heat and pick the nails and screws from the ashes. That sorta frugality doesn't work in a plastic world with short production runs of everything with hardly any commonality.
Same here. My dad didn't throw anything out. He would get a new pair of company provided work boots every year but wouldn't throw the old ones out. ( He was a welder, his boots were nasty) I remember about twenty pairs of boots under the basement stairs until my brother and I threw them out.
I'm gonna go with the guy was a rebuilder of sorts. '67 to '70 maybe, Caro/Fireburd/T/A's. Had a buddy in school, and that's what him and his brothers did. Camaro and Firebirds mostly. Starters went bad back then. Keep a few to swap parts. Bumperettes, fit on many Chev/Pontiac models. Corvette stuff was a little rare, and VALUABLE! Even more valuable today. Lugnuts? Swap meet finds. Always have extras. Especially if you dealt with Older cars. Left hand thread and all. BUT!!!!! You did come out of it with a tire machine, right?
i mean ... i came out with a tire machine, i saved all the pulleys, brackets, lug nuts, brakes and spindles, carburetors, water pumps, the inline 6, 2 engine stands...and most important...2 harley beers
i assume the guy just liked fixing things, and other people's junk was his treasure... in his mind it wouldve been like ''i dont care that the tires a bold on these wheels... they are nice and i wont throw them out, they will be useful for some project possibly or if i need to pull something from the scrapyard''
If that has the twin-spark hemi-head engine that mine had, that thing was a great engine! Drove it until someone totaled it out from under me and then tried to buy it back from the insurance company.
Look at 67 comaro pics to see if that trunk luggage rack is to suit could be a bit of coin there and for the emblems. Plus the comaro nuts might be interested in the starters motors for date codes on restos as silly as it may sound to you. The Chinese gear is junk. 👍
good point about the camaros. also a good point about the starter date codes. all of it is just in a pile at the moment i will look closer at it before it goes anywhere... my old cars are beater drivers sometimes i forget about the true blue restorers
That’s interesting but According to his wife there was a 73 corvette and a 66 chevelle that wen through that garage. So… possibly but I d guess the chevelle If any of those stores are true
My horde has saved my butt many times over especially at 2:00 in the morning when I need a starter and I don't have a crowbar I mean a key to the local auto parts store
i hear ya... most of my repairs are done in the wee hours to get to work in the am. i follow this philosophy as well and i have several spares lol... the ones that made it to the scrap pile are the disassembled ones... cause man... my projects already have their own projects you know what i mean
i dont think they will, and i have a my own stack at my shop.... back in the day i would have dropped them at my rebuilders as a courtesy but that place closed 10 years ago... but they were great
That’s a good note. Thanks it didn’t sound that why in the editing with my headphones. I will be listen through the computer speakers too. Out of curiosity we’re you watching on a tv? I want to solve this for future videos
I think you've reversed the old saying "One man's trash is another man's treasure" Looks a lot more to me like "One man's treasures are another man's trash" Keep it up, you are getting somewhere, roof fix would be a big bonus.
its a little bit of both... i just happen to already have a duplicate "treasure collection" at my other shop... buckets of mismatched bolts, old used starters, carbs, magazines piles of old clothes... you know... a tribute to the unorganized craftsman.
From what I know from his wife he was a BMW mechanic and came home and worked on a Harley’s and “race cars”. All I know is his garage says he’s a Chevy man through and through. And I probably could’ve hung out with him.
@@indianaslim4971 makes me understand the man even more... i can always limp my chevys home and fix them over night and be back on my way to work in the am... my neighbor has a bmw... she asks me to look at it for her... i stand there and say, humm how about that... and off to the shop it goes
Dude you are not wrong. I have not figured out the break in on that machine … so I am afraid to mess it up lol that’s on me. That should have been the first project before cleaning the place out
I’m guilty of hoarding old jumper cables. Not the cheap kind that you buy in the 7-11 at 2am when your car is dead in front of the bar. The good ones are great stock for making battery cables in hot rods.
I hear you ! But I keep all of them even the cheap ones. Nothing in there is the right gauge, but I’m keeping every last one because I have been in a bind many times before. Anything can be better than none
The contents appear to predate the internet and the rise of Chinesium parts. I still vaguely remember a time when those things weren't cheap and hard to find.
That is fair. I guess my first car was still pre Internet parts, and I had to order a 57 Chevy starter from Napa. And also back in those days, there were local rebuilders…. So I guess we did have a big 50 gallon drum full of Cores.
I don’t mean to give the wrong impression I could’ve hung out with this guy and we collect basically the same thing. I really appreciate everything it was left behind. I was just trying to have a little fun partially at my own expense about Lugnuts and windshield wipers.
lot people say same thing the great depression left mark on lot people waste not want not rules to meal ticket man was keeping busy if you have what you want fine let share this ever been hungery want earn one mans junk lawan mower spit polish get the grocery bill the light bill was no light man was cheap worked outside fresh air no fumes plus sure the came took goodies left you scraps gas cost money time cost it is what is fresh cheap paint job get with it quite wasteing time cant buy it damn kid head up your ass time is money
man if i got id of the crap i would not have a thing at all... but you are right... its slowing me down. you are a philosopher.... and i am not kidding
Wiper blades, radio knobs, starters, all that little stuff used to be hard to find. Some still is, especially original parts. Im only 42 so not that old, but i used to buy kits and rebuild my own starters and alternators just like my dad did. Believe it or not, parts stores weren't always open every day of the week and just down the road. They were 9-5 weekdays and if you didn't have miscellaneous parts on hand you could get screwed pretty easily on a weekend repair on your ride. All that stuff was gold. Gotta remember, the interwebs wasn't around either to order everything.
The wheels and tires....keeping rollers around for project vehicles is a no brainier. Especially if you have a small space and need to move stuff in and out often. The previous owner had a method to his madness and knew exactly what he was doing.
Good luck on things!
You’re not wrong, and I live through the transition to parts stores being open while the rebuilding shops closed. I also remember one part stores sold parts to things and not just whole replacements.
But part of the method, this guys madness seems to reflect my own Grab the spare take the part you need out of it, leave the corpse on the bench and shove the working one in the car and get down the road
@@betweenthesharksgarage never know when you might need the leftovers! Aint nobody got time to clean! I also suffer from that infliction 🤣🤣🤣
@@johnw55018 What kits do I need to rebuild alternators and starters. Im just wondering. Cause I want to learn how to rebuild them
I find this fascinating. A garage cleanup with lots of potential here.
Thanks man. I doubled down on it. Stick around and we’ll see what we can do with it.
For real tho i like this type of videos cleanup refixing old cars
Would be nice to expand the shop to the side with a carport on the front , just some cheap ideas would make it amazing with some white paint and lights
Great Job! Thank you! Keep up the good work! Excited to see the progress!
thanks man
Can't wait to see a new roof on the garage and better setup in it great job looks way better
You and me both!
I’d put those fake hood pins on the new riding mower right away! And DeeZee is a big name in after market truck geegaws and doodads.
That’s interesting about deezee. And I’m absolutely doing that on the lawnmower.
You may be surprised how much those nos original badges go for.
Sounds like it
I sold a lot of old radio knobs on eBay for good money. Found a table full of them in an old house, they sold quick as well.
interesting, these were the cheapest 80's plastic chrome a guy could find
I watched the video when you showed the place , and then this one.. Honestly I`m not a american muscle car guy, or a truck guy either .. but you really DID hooked me up with this old shop videos! I really enjoy them ! Suscribed
Thanks man I appreciate it. There is plenty more to do !
Rest your excavator bucket on the ground, less stress on the machine that way👍love the content ❤👍
Thanks for the tip
Interesting video looking foreard to seeing whats in the wheel shed.
You and me both!
There's a blue bleacher cushion on the shop floor, that says "West Limestone Wildcats" on it. The only school I know by that name is West Limestone High School in Limestone County, Alabama. I went to school there from the time I was in 2nd grade all the way til I graduated from there. I still live 10 or 12 miles from the school. Pretty awesome that that's in your video.
That’s cool. I had no idea where it was. I used it to save my knees working on the mower in there. It cleaned up very well
Nice work cleaning up and Remember scrap every thing it will help pay for the dumpster
That’s a good point
I'd love one of those chinese mini-ex or the mini-skidsteer like you have, look awesome to use.
I am gonna do a video on em soon. I really haven’t spent any time with them
unless they were building race lawn mowers , NO race cars have been thru that shop. not one race calander or sticker on the tool boxes.
Awesome content,looking forward to see you doing more work around the place.
Awesome, thank you!
How come you took the last video down? What a difference it will make when just the whole cleanup is finished. Billy J.... Queensland, Australia.
Queensland I’d love to get there someday! A conscientious viewer suggested I make a little more repair first make it safer before sharing. He made a good point about how in the the very very very slim chance that the right attention by the wrong people could shut the project down. He was right and the video will go back up one day once the property is more secure but thanks for reaching out
Always enjoy the channel and I’m excited for you on this new adventure!
I hope you don’t mind if I offer one bit of constructive criticism.. please slow down with the selfie stick.
I know cinematography is not priority numero uno in this project and I do appreciate you taking us along so please take with a grain of salt. But maybe leave the camera on the tripod? Possibly spin slower? It’s just a bit tooo dizzying… 😵💫
I’m sure this project is too so keep doing your thang. You’re working your tail off and the progress you show is inspiring. Keep up the good work, sir! 😅
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thank you welcome aboard
@@betweenthesharksgarage I love ur videos keep it up 😀
Used to work on the older vehicles were interchangeable parts for alot of vehicles
Most of the Chevy stuff will work in everything I have from 54-early 80s
That’s a cool Isuzu you have, they all rotted away in the uk can’t find them any more
i love that thing, i have gone out of my way to keep it alive... including swapping a 4.3 with a 700r4 into it to get rid of the 4l30e transmission
I have a 67 Camaro. I’d love to buy those badges
shoot me an email at betweenthesharks@gmail.com. they are neat but don't need to collect dust i would rather them go to someone building something thats watching the channel cheers
That red bench like thing was for standing on when working on higher trucks
They lived throught the Great Depression and a time when lifes technology was very narrow. Cans of nuts and bolts, tins of clothing buttons, clipping the pig tail off lamps before discarding. My dad would reuse wood. remove nails and screws to keep. What wood was too rotted to repurpose he'd burn for heat and pick the nails and screws from the ashes. That sorta frugality doesn't work in a plastic world with short production runs of everything with hardly any commonality.
Same here. My dad didn't throw anything out. He would get a new pair of company provided work boots every year but wouldn't throw the old ones out. ( He was a welder, his boots were nasty) I remember about twenty pairs of boots under the basement stairs until my brother and I threw them out.
Heck yeah brother cool video canit wait to see how it turns out your getting that truck running
Thank man. Can’t wait to get to the truck
I’m sooooo waiting for that Datsuns video I’ve been a nut job of Nissans and Datsuns rangining from 1970s to the 90s d21s
I am excited for it…. I have been working on old cars for 20 years but I have never lifted the bid on a Datsun
Car guy stuff that sates my OCD? Oh man, loving this. My dream to buy a property like this to clean up!
I'm gonna go with the guy was a rebuilder of sorts. '67 to '70 maybe, Caro/Fireburd/T/A's. Had a buddy in school, and that's what him and his brothers did. Camaro and Firebirds mostly. Starters went bad back then. Keep a few to swap parts. Bumperettes, fit on many Chev/Pontiac models. Corvette stuff was a little rare, and VALUABLE! Even more valuable today. Lugnuts? Swap meet finds. Always have extras. Especially if you dealt with Older cars. Left hand thread and all. BUT!!!!! You did come out of it with a tire machine, right?
i mean ... i came out with a tire machine, i saved all the pulleys, brackets, lug nuts, brakes and spindles, carburetors, water pumps, the inline 6, 2 engine stands...and most important...2 harley beers
I love to have some of those Wheels I'm actually looking for a stock set of GM Wheels now
Those knobs look like they could be accessory knobs. The older vehicles use those for light switches and what not.
these were cheap radio knobs. but I do know what you are talking about.... i wish thats what it was
What are you going to do with the two Chevy rally wheels,one on the shelf,one on the floor,looking for two that got stolen
Cool stuff
its pretty neat
I love to have them car emblems, I would definitely say 70 Camaro or 69 I will put them on my wall next to my model kit
Nice one
thanks man
The 396 is a 68-69 Camaro front fender emblem, the Z/28 are also a first gen Camaro fender emblem.
i assume the guy just liked fixing things, and other people's junk was his treasure... in his mind it wouldve been like ''i dont care that the tires a bold on these wheels... they are nice and i wont throw them out, they will be useful for some project possibly or if i need to pull something from the scrapyard''
Beau travail de rangement 💪💪
merci
Awesome job bude
thanks man
That datsun 720 is the best shop truck. Keep that 720 alive!!
we will see if we can get her back into service
If that has the twin-spark hemi-head engine that mine had, that thing was a great engine! Drove it until someone totaled it out from under me and then tried to buy it back from the insurance company.
Definitely 69 Z emblems to go with the 69 mirrors looks like he had a 69 Z28 big block. Sweet car.
Sounds like it was man
Are you wanting to reuse the hardware nuts and bolts?
its always good to have a spare in a pinch... but preferably not
is there anything on the clip board below the clock?
You know I looked at it and forgot. I ll have to go look again
Look at 67 comaro pics to see if that trunk luggage rack is to suit could be a bit of coin there and for the emblems. Plus the comaro nuts might be interested in the starters motors for date codes on restos as silly as it may sound to you. The Chinese gear is junk. 👍
good point about the camaros. also a good point about the starter date codes. all of it is just in a pile at the moment i will look closer at it before it goes anywhere... my old cars are beater drivers sometimes i forget about the true blue restorers
Part of me wonders if he was going to do a 396 build in that Datsun. I know it was a thing done in Z cars
That’s interesting but According to his wife there was a 73 corvette and a 66 chevelle that wen through that garage. So… possibly but I d guess the chevelle If any of those stores are true
My horde has saved my butt many times over especially at 2:00 in the morning when I need a starter and I don't have a crowbar I mean a key to the local auto parts store
i hear ya... most of my repairs are done in the wee hours to get to work in the am. i follow this philosophy as well and i have several spares lol... the ones that made it to the scrap pile are the disassembled ones... cause man... my projects already have their own projects you know what i mean
Will your auto parts store take the starters for the core fee?
i dont think they will, and i have a my own stack at my shop.... back in the day i would have dropped them at my rebuilders as a courtesy but that place closed 10 years ago... but they were great
I would use that track loader to haul the stuff out to the dumpster
that would have been the smarter thing for me to do
Progress 👍
indeed
You have a brand new machine with a bucket on it. You can use it to move trash to the dumpster. Kind of what it is for. Why are you not using it
short answer... i am in idiot. i am in the habit of moving heavy stuff to get things done... i didnt even think about it
I seen at least 7 Chevy slotted rally wheels,original.
Sorry for complaining, but please level down the music to match speech. Crank the volume to hear you talk and then music blasts way loud.
That’s a good note. Thanks it didn’t sound that why in the editing with my headphones. I will be listen through the computer speakers too. Out of curiosity we’re you watching on a tv? I want to solve this for future videos
I think you've reversed the old saying "One man's trash is another man's treasure" Looks a lot more to me like "One man's treasures are another man's trash" Keep it up, you are getting somewhere, roof fix would be a big bonus.
its a little bit of both... i just happen to already have a duplicate "treasure collection" at my other shop... buckets of mismatched bolts, old used starters, carbs, magazines piles of old clothes... you know... a tribute to the unorganized craftsman.
People make clocks out of those hubcaps
thats cool
I got that beer can
thats great where were they sold
My theory is that the guy was into flipping cars and he hoarded whatever he could so he didn't have to go buy stuff.
From what I know from his wife he was a BMW mechanic and came home and worked on a Harley’s and “race cars”. All I know is his garage says he’s a Chevy man through and through. And I probably could’ve hung out with him.
@@betweenthesharksgarage as a retired mechanic myself that has worked on BMW's, they can make you want to work on Chevy's, especially analog ones...
@@indianaslim4971 makes me understand the man even more... i can always limp my chevys home and fix them over night and be back on my way to work in the am... my neighbor has a bmw... she asks me to look at it for her... i stand there and say, humm how about that... and off to the shop it goes
Dooh? Dragging the heavy bins to the dumpster and in the garage stands a little yellow machine...... Think it's called a skidster????😂
Dude you are not wrong. I have not figured out the break in on that machine … so I am afraid to mess it up lol that’s on me. That should have been the first project before cleaning the place out
please save the 720!
check the latest videos... its in triage
I’m guilty of hoarding old jumper cables. Not the cheap kind that you buy in the 7-11 at 2am when your car is dead in front of the bar. The good ones are great stock for making battery cables in hot rods.
I hear you ! But I keep all of them even the cheap ones. Nothing in there is the right gauge, but I’m keeping every last one because I have been in a bind many times before. Anything can be better than none
it was before internet so u keep everything
Content of garage probably would have made more sense before the ransack. Maybe 🥴
all i can say is if someone took over my shop tomorrow... they would say the same thing about me... this dude and i are very much alike
Making some money back in scrap and parts at least
its not a bad stash at all
The amount of me that wants those kickplates🤤
They will eventually need a good home. No sales yet but eventually if I won’t use it I ll get it in the hands of someone that will
@@betweenthesharksgarage if you end up selling them lmk lol
The contents appear to predate the internet and the rise of Chinesium parts. I still vaguely remember a time when those things weren't cheap and hard to find.
That is fair. I guess my first car was still pre Internet parts, and I had to order a 57 Chevy starter from Napa. And also back in those days, there were local rebuilders…. So I guess we did have a big 50 gallon drum full of Cores.
@@betweenthesharksgarageI ended with a bunch of rebuild parts but scrapped most of them. Just not worth putting on ebay.😁
Give ya 50 bucks for the 69 camaro z28 badges and 396 badges
I wanted to send you pics from ebay
90. Each NOS Z28 mblems
199. PAIR 396 emblems
Interesting. They are really highly quality
@@betweenthesharksgarage I cringed when those Z28 badges hit the floor…
Why don't you take all metal and stuff to scrap yard those lock selenders add in weight and make money of them
Just because the guy collected stuff you don't like doesn't mean it was wrong
I don’t mean to give the wrong impression I could’ve hung out with this guy and we collect basically the same thing. I really appreciate everything it was left behind. I was just trying to have a little fun partially at my own expense about Lugnuts and windshield wipers.
lot people say same thing the great depression left mark on lot people waste not want not rules to meal ticket man was keeping busy
if you have what you want fine let share this
ever been hungery want earn one mans junk lawan mower spit polish get the grocery bill the light bill was no light man was cheap worked outside fresh air no fumes plus sure the came took goodies left you scraps gas cost money time cost it is what is fresh cheap paint job get with it quite wasteing time cant buy it damn kid head up your ass time is money
soo much talking so little doing. Not my favorite video style, sorry
That’s fair buddy. To each their own… but thanks for checking it out
Bruh get rid of the crap it’s slowing you down…
man if i got id of the crap i would not have a thing at all... but you are right... its slowing me down. you are a philosopher.... and i am not kidding