I was hoping to see the VIN on the LH door post there, and the fender tag. I got some of the VIN from the glancing shot you did. As you know, it goes like this with the VIN for the win: W for Coronet, H for High price class (Coronet 440), 41 for four door sedan, F for 318 V8 with two barrel, 7 for 1967 model year, 1 for Lynch Road, Detroit, MI assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Lynch Road facility closed in April 1981 and a powder coating business is on that site now. As other stated, I would have grabbed some of those tools. They would clean up sitting in vinegar in an hour or two. With the tag, you can brag: WH41 for Coronet (W), High price class/440 (H), four door sedan (41), 41 for 318 V8, 5 for three speed automatic transmission, H1B for Blue interior trim, WW1 for White exterior paint, S-1 for factory AC, R-1 for AM radio, h-7 for fender mounted turn signal indicators, A-1 for 26" radiator (due to it having AC more than likely), among other codes. I would guess that the RH fender was changed at one point. Never go by those yard tags as you know they can be wrong. Go by the VIN number and cowl tags (yes, those could be switched as well, but less likely). O.Z. Hall Ford is gone and I believe Mr. Hall was the Birmingham, AL tax collector for some time. Yes, the T-Bird is a 1987, with the VIN for the win: 1FA for US made Ford passenger car, B for manual seat belts, P61 for Thunderbird, F for 5.0L (302) V8 with EFI, 4 is a check digit, H for the 1987 model year, H for Lorain, OH assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Lorain, OH plant operated from 1958 to 2005 and produced about 8 million vehicles in the time it was around. Should be paint code 1K Light Gray exterior paint.
Hey it's Ivan, glad you got to check out the Coronet. I got to it on Saturday and found four silver dollars, a bunch of 8 track tapes, and a pack of Jimmy Dean baseball cards unopened from 1993 in the back seat, Nolan Ryan was the cover card. I bet that car was a storage unit by the 90's. Found a few capacitors in the toolbox in the trunk. Thanks for showing off the car to your viewers, I hope they will use the parts. Junk yard trips are freakin fun even if you don't haul away any gems, it's a good time none the less.
Pretty sure Tony has said in the past that once the cars are in this yard they can never be put back on the road again and thus you can't buy the entire car. Now if he wants to cut it up and buy all the parts, that might be a different story, lol
I just rescued a 2dr hardtop '68 Chevelle from Purkey's salvage yard on the Oklahoma-Kansas state line outside of Coffeyville. The yard is so old it has stuff all the way back to the 40's and even a handful of 30's. There's an old closed dirt racetrack next to it and some of the old racetrack equipment is still there. This yard is incredible! He's selling whole cars and stuff is disappearing fast. However, I suspect he's possibly crushing, too. People! Get out there and buy these cars before it's too late!
Most 1967 318 Coronets have 7.25" rear ends. Some manual transmission 273 Coronets have 8.75" rears and 1969 trailer towing package 318's got a 727 trans in place of the 904, with an 8.25" rear.
You should buy that parts cars Tony. It'd be worth it. Besides, you know you want it. That's a Kennedy machinist box. You could get the same box in oak as well.
I know everyone here has experienced the anguish of "those parts! Were are they!!!" in videos or junkyard crawl posts like this. A mid-80s Shelby Charger w/all 4 of the 5x100mm "Pizza Wheels" underneath the rear hatch - improperly shod, of course, with 195/60-15 tires by its final owner. A Dodge Dart Swinger w/intact rear glass and a set of dog-dish hubcaps. A Plymouth Satellite w/full wraparound bumper. A Ford Falcon wagon with clean grille and D-pillar trim. Even the occasional Malaise-Era automobile that was garaged and still has its full dashboard panel and top cover intact. Treasures, all. Thank you, Tony.
@@shaggydogg630 from time to time he comes up with things I didn't even know about. And in the late 50s when I was a baby my mother used to set with me out on the front porch of The farmhouse and point out the cars going by and tell me what it was year, make, model, tell me the engine, carburetor and transmission options. That I could tell if it was an automatic or a stick by watching the exhaust and you could tell when it shifted. I know a little something about automobiles..Mom was a dirty hot rodder, she used to race her 57 Pontiac out at the old Pontiac airstrip. When it was a brand new car..Some of my first memories are standing on the hump between the bucket seats hanging on as Mom is busy going through the gears racing from stoplight to stop light on Woodward in Dad's brand new 62 Tempest.
@@shaggydogg630 it would have been Mom's 85th birthday today, and I didn't realize I was missing her that much. How many people's mothers used to rebuild their own four barrels on the dining room table? or my ever favorite one when I was in high school, Monday mornings having people ask me what does your mother have in that red 68 Catalina? Because she blew my doors off. Mom used to go out and race from stop light to stop light on the highway on Friday and Saturday nights when Dad was at work. And on the night he would take the Catalina to work she'd be out in his 69 Chevy truck with a 70 Corvette 454 and embarrassing the teenagers. I came up alongside her a couple times in my 66 GTO and that old woman could work a 4 speed.
Fan shroud causes fan to run in a low pressure area , and gives less drag , as well as pulling air through the condenser. Run Shroud. 69 Ranchero was my first car
Yep I know how you feel about that. Few years back there was a late 70s trans am in the yard that was complete. Yellow v8 auto car just mint sheet metal besides some typical f body rust starting in the cowl by the window original paint but had a decent amount of patina to it. Came back the next day and the car was cut in HALF! Someone took the doors, cut floor pans, cut the rear half of the roof off. Poor thing was shaped like a taco. Sad to see but glad someone got parts off of it they needed.
I've gotten lucky in that regard. I got a running Trans Am with a title for free from a coworker's neighbor and it came with a garage full of NOS, used and new aftermarket parts. Only thing I didn't take was the 1978 Trans Am engine because I didn't have a way to move it at the time. That engine would be worth a few bucks now. I wound selling the car in 2006 (I got it in 2002). It even had a valid title. I kept the OEM NOS parts and the good used parts. I flipped the high performance aftermarket junk and made some money on that. I remember shipping the MSD wire set over to Poland from an Ebay sale. Another time a local guy (actually twice) called me up and said he had parts cars he was done with and I could take whatever I wanted for nothing. I jumped at the opportunity. The one car was an '81 Trans Am with a 301 non-turbo pulled from a junkyard and the other was an '80 Espirit 301. I got good used stuff from both of them. The 1981 had a note under the scoop addressed to the guy I knew that pulled it from the yard. It was from the guy who junked it. The letter cursed out this guy and said, "How dare you take my baby from its' final resting spot. I loved this car. I hope you hit a pole." I showed it to the guy. He was a Greek-American and a bit superstitious. He said, "Dude, that's bad karma. What are you going to do?" I said "Write back". So I did. I wrote, "Dear, Mr. Trans Am owner. If you took better care of this car, it wouldn't be here with me picking parts off of it. It's only a 301 and you should have thought of that before you put "your baby" in its' final resting spot. I'm going to pull the parts off of it, and you're going to like it. Signed, me". With that, I put the note back under the hood, thanked the guy I knew and left. LOL.
@@googleusergp yeah thats crazy if the car was really that important to him why not do something with it? I don't understand these people that buy all these junk cars and just let them rot. most of them are already in their late 50's or 60's and think they'll live forever and finish all of them. they refuse to sell anything and usually they die of a heart attack and everything gets scraped by the next of kin. happened to my uncle and i wanted to buy a few things off them and by the time I heard he was gone so was everything else. there was a 69 chevelle ss 396 a 72 ls6 454 chevelle a 67 mustang gt390 and much more all went to the scrap yard cuz of greed!
The Fred Flintstone mod? I had an Olds wagon that was basically just carpet over rust holes. In winter it would get wet and freeze like a skating rink under my feet lol.
Yea you always hate to see them end up there but, you'll get a good bunch of goodies there and maybe a quarter section. The Ranchero squire is a 70 or 71. 68-69 look similar to each other - but that one is the next body group. Thanks for sharing
Nice find!....take your time and make sure you get what you want on the first go around, no regrets. Next time you go back, the things you wanted will likely be gone.
A couple videos ago you talked about rolling around scrap yards before you could drive. And here you are X amount of time later still doing it. Truly practicing what you preach 👍
@@ClassicRideSociety I was able to get enough of it to figure most out of it out. WH41F71....W for Coronet, H for High price class (Coronet 440), 41 for four door sedan, F for 318 V8 with two barrel, 7 for 1967 model year, 1 for Lynch Road, Detroit, MI assembly and the rest is the production sequence. Most of the tag can be figured out too. It's not his thing to show the VIN and the tag, not everyone does that (or cares). I do, it shows us what we have, but it's the creator's channel not mine, so they do as they see fit.
Great video! Me and a buddy used to spend days at the junk yards here in San Diego going to all around sweeping looking for parts pulling parts for various projects or parts for friends buddy's looking for parts great times, the hunt we called it, back in the 90s early 2000s before most the classics just didn't show up anymore
There's a special kind of thrill that goes along with getting your hands on a junkyard find before anyone else. That Ranchero is a crime against the hobby, that car was pretty solid. It's rare to see an 80s car in the wreckers some days, nevermind a 70s or especially some 60s metal - and in that kind of shape? Not around here!
I recently stumbled across a 67 Falcon and 67 Coupe deville in the yard here in Michigan. Crazy that these people don't care. Those vehicles could have been a project for someone. More importantly saved,and not melted down for a import!
just soak the tools to remove the mouse urine--I usually go with 50/50 vinegar and table salt to get rid of rust. Personally i find that many tools in the trunk mean the mechanicals were on their way out and perhaps the electronics too. but it can be repaired if it's not reproduced. before I had a car worth having, I melted credit cards on stuff like this, pulling stuff not reproduced off old cars (even tower screw clamps for hoses). a dollar here and there and it added up when you were a kid with nothing else to do on a weekend but get into trouble.
@@albertgaspar627 Yup. I saved a whole box of tools I bought off of a guy for $10. They had been through Superstorm Sandy. I soaked them in vinegar and baking soda and most got to useable condition. One or two were broken, so I got them to the point where I could ID them and off they went to Sears to swap out. This was around 2019 when Sears was still around in my area.
@@lawrenceveinotte heehee, I stopped at one last week and mulled around. Nothing I really wanted, but on 1 table was a wooden coca cola crate filled with stuff I didn't want(looks like 70s era for the 1 liter bottles) Scored it for 15$. Eh, it's nothing really special I just thought it was cool.
I just rescued a 2dr hardtop '68 Chevelle from Purkey's salvage yard on the Oklahoma-Kansas state line outside of Coffeyville. The yard is so old it has stuff all the way back to the 40's and even a handful of 30's. There's an old closed dirt racetrack next to it and some of the old racetrack equipment is still there. This yard is incredible! He's selling whole cars and stuff is disappearing fast. However, I suspect he's possibly crushing, too. People! Get out there and buy these cars before it's too late!
I hope you get your parts Tony one thing ive learned is get the parts when your their dont wait for tomorrow I lost out on a lot of good stuff doing that .
Get the dash panel and gauges Tony.....maybe you can use it in the Charger as a last resort if those gauges aren't working. New or working Charger gauges are almost impossible to find. I just sold my 66 Charger a couple months ago, but I planned to replace the dash for a Coronet panel....I think you can get a new re po panel and most of the gauges.
I’ve got a nearly identical car but the 2 door hardtop version. Same color, drivetrain,etc. It’s a time capsule just like this one all the way down to original keys/owner’s manual/coors beer cans under the front seat.
I suspect full size cars like this popularized the painted roof option since the manufacturers had practice with cop cars. As for the FredFlinstonefloor, we called that that the "ditch the beer its 5.0" option. That Ranchero sure is the Squire option, all those holes are for the fake framing of the fake wood paneling. My 1975 Country Squire Pinto wagon had studs sticking out of the bodywork for it's trim.
Could we get at least a brief segment on that spark amplifier? That looks pretty cool and a bit of history and an explanation of how it works would be pretty cool. Great info and content as always Tony!
I had a 67 Coronet 440 2d hard top black with a white top. I had it since I was 18 just sold it like 6 years ago I'm 46 now so I had it most of my life. Loved that car had a 318 2bl when I got it but ran it till it blew so I put a 400 out of a Dodge truck then it had a 440 when I sold it. Miss it till this day! Peace
I can smell that thing from here😊. Funny story, when I was in high school in the 70’s a friend of mine bought one of those but was disappointed that it wasn’t as fast as it should be cause it was a 440…he almost cried when I looked under the hood and informed him it was a 318.
This is a great opportunity for content, see how much of the car you can cut up, take home and reasseamble. I've done something similar before TH-cam days.
I get physically ill when I see old cars like that in the Junkyard. I've seen too many cars that could easily be back on the road with the right owner. Ugh, I'm gonna stop now. I'm getting agitated
When we were down in Tennessee from Michigan I found it hilarious that you still had the beat to hell shit boxes running around but there was absolutely no rust on any of them they were just solid... but shit boxed
My dad had one of those 5.0 thunderbirds when I was a little kid, he called it the thinderchicken 😅 he liked it but a 2 door coupe became impractical by about the 3rd kid 😆
The tools you need for removing the parts you need other than the quarter panel are probably all right there in the trunk. I have found that junkyards are often willing to cut a great deal on old tools and tool boxes as long as they have rust on them. Does that car have the hideaway headlights in it? It kinda looks like it might, but I cant tell for sure. That Ranchero looks more like about a 71 to me.
With your knowledge of these cars. And prior experience selling used parts. Have you ever thought about starting an eBay store? I work at a collision repair/body shop. I asked my boss if I could go through the parts before anything goes in the dumpster. He doesn't care, so I keep the parts that still have life in them. I like it because I'm keeping usable parts out of the landfill, I get to help somebody fix their car at a discount, and I make a little money on the side. I list when I have time so i don't have to worry about it like a regular business. With your previous parts business. And knowledge of old Mopars. You could do pretty good.
All 1967 and some early 68 318 cylinder blocks have thicker cylinder walls than the later 68 and newer 318 blocks. Dodge had planned a high performance engine with a 4 inch bore for the 67 Dart to compete with the 327 Chevy II, but due to lack of performance, it was scratched from production and the 318 benefited from its cylinder block, with the 68 340 being developed from its failure. An original 1967 318 block should be a heavy one. The 1967 318 usually has a forged steel crankshaft too.
@MrHillfolk most places here will work with people when thy have classic cars, yards in small towns are car guys also and know thy are worth more money as a whole then just scrap.
@@MrTheHillfolk my local pull a part is like that but they do have a section that you can buy whole cars for usually a reasonable price. They had a 60s buick in it at one time for around $5k that didn't look horrible but was a little ratty.
@@MrTheHillfolk There's a yard by me that gets tons of old cars, and they're more than willing to sell them whole. The famous Victory Auto Wreckers in Bensenville, Illinois will also do that... recently notable with a good condition 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and a 1970 Dodge Charger!
Parts gold mine for sure! That spark amplifier I have never seen before! Cool. The Ranchero would be a good fixer upper. As for the Coronet, I had a 4 door in white white the 6cyl back in the early 1980s in Winnipeg. A great reliable car. Happy hunting!
I think I'd buy that frame rail off the dodge, and use it on the charger, or I'd buy the entire car and drop ship it next to the charger to make the swapping of sheetmetal and frame work easier.
Not having the vinyl roof saved it. If it was the vinyl option you could put a screwdriver through the rust and felt that crunch below your fingers! Over here in the UK rust wiped out a lot of 60s and 70s cars decades ago
What would they want for the whole car? Probably less then the parts you want. Its been a while since I've been to a bone yard but it doesnt take long before they destroyed! In the late 70's a friend of mine had a 73 LeMans sport. His first car and he had managed to find a 73 GTO rally gauge cluster for it. Late 80's I found the car in a junk yard with the interior still intact. Short on time and funds at the moment I figured I'd get it a week later. Next Saturday I go back to grab the dash and its smashed! Not removed but smashed. This was a tach and gauge cluster, pretty hard to find for a 73 GTO.
Thats funny you did a junkyard video today....today i was in pick n pull (first time in over 10 years) to pull a 360 magnum for my 77 powerwagon.... its fun in the yard.... unfortunately i had to pull the engine when it was dumping rain, and the truck was in a huge 4"-6" lake!! Fun stuff!!
Wow, we were there yesterday afternoon also, grabbing some parts off a square body Chevy. You have to grab parts while you can, doesn’t take long for the classics to get stripped.
Unbelievable you start working on your charger and this coronet shows up thats cool. you probably were telling your self i wish i had a parts car and this shows up. I hope you strip that car down till theres nothing left that charger of yours deserves it. its a wicked cool car one of my favorite on you channel i remember the first time i seen it. Ive ben waitng to see you pull it back out and start working on it again. Looking forward to see how your going to straighten it out.
I spent a lot of my youth in junk yards. My Dad was a tow truck driver. I was more a Chevy and Ford person but I saw a lot of cool and valuable car parts just sitting there.
I'm the same way - l hate seeing those early models getting crushed...l think that's a good 318 in that car & maybe it was the following series - but l remember a Coronet 330 2dr post...I've always liked that Coronet - it looked Mean...strong car too
i had a 87 tbird 5.0 beautiful car would smoke the tires with a blip of throttle but got rid of it because heater core issue. ,it was more than 8hrs of shop time fun personal luxury car
That Corenet and Ranchero are real crying shames, even that good vintage 87 5.0 T-Bird. Like you I hate seeing them in yards but also like you I've raided them for myself and others.
I would absolutely pull everything off that from ALL the bright work to the glass all the way down to the old hardware, it’s all good these days.I would leave nothing but a carcass. I miss the good old days where you would find this stuff everywhere and every man and his dog wasn’t trying to get rich of everything and anything like today.
Junkyards ain't what they used to be. I remember pulling a RAM AIR 3 400 Pontiac out of a 70 Formula Firebird, believe I paid $50 bucks for it. Also scored many bigblocks and smallblock engines, 12-bolt rearends, T400 transmissions, etc. Muscle cars everywhere. Paid $150 bucks for a complete totaled 66 Chevy 2 Nova SS with the L-79 327 in it, Muncie M-21 4spd, 4-11 posi 12-bolt rearend. Used to be a gold mine for the picking. Now it's a bunch of 10-20yr old junk that needs to be crushed. All them old yards pretty much been crushed out and cleaned up. Best time to go to the junkyard was the late 70s early 80s. Cars from the 50s and 60s were worth nothing in that era. I passed on a 69 Super Bee 440 six pack car that had the six pack replaced with a Torker intake and 800 doublepumper. Asking price was $350 bucks, it was lime green. I almost bought it, but I didn't because it was a Dodge. Already had a big stash of GM parts at that time. Wish I would have bought that Super Bee now. That was probably 35+yrs ago.
I miss seeing junkyards with gems like these.
I was hoping to see the VIN on the LH door post there, and the fender tag. I got some of the VIN from the glancing shot you did. As you know, it goes like this with the VIN for the win:
W for Coronet, H for High price class (Coronet 440), 41 for four door sedan, F for 318 V8 with two barrel, 7 for 1967 model year, 1 for Lynch Road, Detroit, MI assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Lynch Road facility closed in April 1981 and a powder coating business is on that site now. As other stated, I would have grabbed some of those tools. They would clean up sitting in vinegar in an hour or two.
With the tag, you can brag: WH41 for Coronet (W), High price class/440 (H), four door sedan (41), 41 for 318 V8, 5 for three speed automatic transmission, H1B for Blue interior trim, WW1 for White exterior paint, S-1 for factory AC, R-1 for AM radio, h-7 for fender mounted turn signal indicators, A-1 for 26" radiator (due to it having AC more than likely), among other codes. I would guess that the RH fender was changed at one point. Never go by those yard tags as you know they can be wrong. Go by the VIN number and cowl tags (yes, those could be switched as well, but less likely). O.Z. Hall Ford is gone and I believe Mr. Hall was the Birmingham, AL tax collector for some time.
Yes, the T-Bird is a 1987, with the VIN for the win: 1FA for US made Ford passenger car, B for manual seat belts, P61 for Thunderbird, F for 5.0L (302) V8 with EFI, 4 is a check digit, H for the 1987 model year, H for Lorain, OH assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Lorain, OH plant operated from 1958 to 2005 and produced about 8 million vehicles in the time it was around. Should be paint code 1K Light Gray exterior paint.
Hey it's Ivan, glad you got to check out the Coronet. I got to it on Saturday and found four silver dollars, a bunch of 8 track tapes, and a pack of Jimmy Dean baseball cards unopened from 1993 in the back seat, Nolan Ryan was the cover card. I bet that car was a storage unit by the 90's. Found a few capacitors in the toolbox in the trunk. Thanks for showing off the car to your viewers, I hope they will use the parts. Junk yard trips are freakin fun even if you don't haul away any gems, it's a good time none the less.
What yard was this Ivan? There’s a few yards I go to in tn but this doesn’t look like one I’ve been to yet,I’m looking it stuff for my dart sport
Need to take the whole car home, that thing is a Treasure Trove of Good Parts !
Hell of a find these days! Lots of good stuff to help out some other mopar guys.
Whole car Tony... Whole car. Get it.
YES
Pretty sure Tony has said in the past that once the cars are in this yard they can never be put back on the road again and thus you can't buy the entire car. Now if he wants to cut it up and buy all the parts, that might be a different story, lol
Most yards won't sell you a whole car once they make it to the rows anymore.
I just rescued a 2dr hardtop '68 Chevelle from Purkey's salvage yard on the Oklahoma-Kansas state line outside of Coffeyville. The yard is so old it has stuff all the way back to the 40's and even a handful of 30's. There's an old closed dirt racetrack next to it and some of the old racetrack equipment is still there. This yard is incredible! He's selling whole cars and stuff is disappearing fast. However, I suspect he's possibly crushing, too. People! Get out there and buy these cars before it's too late!
@@drussell_ Yeah it sucks, some cars I've seen shouldn't even be in the junk yard, I go to pull a part all the time.
I love a boneyard tour. I could walk through them all day.
It's Relaxing and Exciting at the same time. Always has been.
Isn't the auswitz runner spouse to be cutting up a rail or you believe his jewdog bullshit
@5:30; " ... the optional Mopar fuse box fire." Hilarious.
Breaks my heart to see it in it's condition.
All the artifacts inside of cars can be just as exciting as the cars 😺 Happy New Year !
I miss the days of fender mounted turn signal indicators. Reminds me of my ‘73 Polara.
If the Coronet has a 8.75 rear end, it's the perfect one for a A-body swap. '65-67 are my favorites to use! Thanks for sharing
Most 1967 318 Coronets have 7.25" rear ends. Some manual transmission 273 Coronets have 8.75" rears and 1969 trailer towing package 318's got a 727 trans in place of the 904, with an 8.25" rear.
You should buy that parts cars Tony. It'd be worth it. Besides, you know you want it.
That's a Kennedy machinist box. You could get the same box in oak as well.
U pull yards wont sell the car once they own it.
@@daddysbrokegarage might depend on where they are and who the manager is.
I know everyone here has experienced the anguish of "those parts! Were are they!!!" in videos or junkyard crawl posts like this.
A mid-80s Shelby Charger w/all 4 of the 5x100mm "Pizza Wheels" underneath the rear hatch - improperly shod, of course, with 195/60-15 tires by its final owner.
A Dodge Dart Swinger w/intact rear glass and a set of dog-dish hubcaps.
A Plymouth Satellite w/full wraparound bumper.
A Ford Falcon wagon with clean grille and D-pillar trim.
Even the occasional Malaise-Era automobile that was garaged and still has its full dashboard panel and top cover intact.
Treasures, all.
Thank you, Tony.
I always enjoy a good junkyard tour.
Try Steve Magnate’s junk yard crawl if you haven’t already. He never fails to deliver.
@@shaggydogg630 from time to time he comes up with things I didn't even know about. And in the late 50s when I was a baby my mother used to set with me out on the front porch of The farmhouse and point out the cars going by and tell me what it was year, make, model, tell me the engine, carburetor and transmission options. That I could tell if it was an automatic or a stick by watching the exhaust and you could tell when it shifted. I know a little something about automobiles..Mom was a dirty hot rodder, she used to race her 57 Pontiac out at the old Pontiac airstrip. When it was a brand new car..Some of my first memories are standing on the hump between the bucket seats hanging on as Mom is busy going through the gears racing from stoplight to stop light on Woodward in Dad's brand new 62 Tempest.
@@mudduck754 that’s a great story. Thanks for sharing.
@@shaggydogg630 it would have been Mom's 85th birthday today, and I didn't realize I was missing her that much. How many people's mothers used to rebuild their own four barrels on the dining room table? or my ever favorite one when I was in high school, Monday mornings having people ask me what does your mother have in that red 68 Catalina? Because she blew my doors off. Mom used to go out and race from stop light to stop light on the highway on Friday and Saturday nights when Dad was at work. And on the night he would take the Catalina to work she'd be out in his 69 Chevy truck with a 70 Corvette 454 and embarrassing the teenagers. I came up alongside her a couple times in my 66 GTO and that old woman could work a 4 speed.
I used to tour junkyards even when I didn't need anything 👍
Fan shroud causes fan to run in a low pressure area , and gives less drag , as well as pulling air through the condenser. Run Shroud.
69 Ranchero was my first car
Yep I know how you feel about that. Few years back there was a late 70s trans am in the yard that was complete. Yellow v8 auto car just mint sheet metal besides some typical f body rust starting in the cowl by the window original paint but had a decent amount of patina to it. Came back the next day and the car was cut in HALF! Someone took the doors, cut floor pans, cut the rear half of the roof off. Poor thing was shaped like a taco. Sad to see but glad someone got parts off of it they needed.
I've gotten lucky in that regard. I got a running Trans Am with a title for free from a coworker's neighbor and it came with a garage full of NOS, used and new aftermarket parts. Only thing I didn't take was the 1978 Trans Am engine because I didn't have a way to move it at the time. That engine would be worth a few bucks now. I wound selling the car in 2006 (I got it in 2002). It even had a valid title. I kept the OEM NOS parts and the good used parts. I flipped the high performance aftermarket junk and made some money on that. I remember shipping the MSD wire set over to Poland from an Ebay sale.
Another time a local guy (actually twice) called me up and said he had parts cars he was done with and I could take whatever I wanted for nothing. I jumped at the opportunity. The one car was an '81 Trans Am with a 301 non-turbo pulled from a junkyard and the other was an '80 Espirit 301. I got good used stuff from both of them. The 1981 had a note under the scoop addressed to the guy I knew that pulled it from the yard. It was from the guy who junked it. The letter cursed out this guy and said, "How dare you take my baby from its' final resting spot. I loved this car. I hope you hit a pole." I showed it to the guy. He was a Greek-American and a bit superstitious. He said, "Dude, that's bad karma. What are you going to do?" I said "Write back". So I did. I wrote, "Dear, Mr. Trans Am owner. If you took better care of this car, it wouldn't be here with me picking parts off of it. It's only a 301 and you should have thought of that before you put "your baby" in its' final resting spot. I'm going to pull the parts off of it, and you're going to like it. Signed, me". With that, I put the note back under the hood, thanked the guy I knew and left. LOL.
U know fukin fuk all dog if U think tony is anything other than escaping from auswitz abortion buket U dumber than his jewdog mommies
@@googleusergp yeah thats crazy if the car was really that important to him why not do something with it? I don't understand these people that buy all these junk cars and just let them rot. most of them are already in their late 50's or 60's and think they'll live forever and finish all of them. they refuse to sell anything and usually they die of a heart attack and everything gets scraped by the next of kin. happened to my uncle and i wanted to buy a few things off them and by the time I heard he was gone so was everything else. there was a 69 chevelle ss 396 a 72 ls6 454 chevelle a 67 mustang gt390 and much more all went to the scrap yard cuz of greed!
I like to refer to those floor holes as the “structural carpet option”
The Fred Flintstone mod? I had an Olds wagon that was basically just carpet over rust holes. In winter it would get wet and freeze like a skating rink under my feet lol.
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Yea you always hate to see them end up there but, you'll get a good bunch of goodies there and maybe a quarter section. The Ranchero squire is a 70 or 71. 68-69 look similar to each other - but that one is the next body group. Thanks for sharing
Nice find!....take your time and make sure you get what you want on the first go around, no regrets. Next time you go back, the things you wanted will likely be gone.
I love a good junkyard crawl. Thanks Uncle Tony!
Lol 😂 bet that whole car goes home with him ❤
That's what I was thinking. Just take the whole car.
Heck! Why not flatbed it home, take a lot of digital reference pictures and part it out at your own leisure and send what's left to the crusher...?
The yards in tennessee once they are in the yard the only way they leave is in parts unfortunately
Junkyard tour with UTG love it.
A couple videos ago you talked about rolling around scrap yards before you could drive. And here you are X amount of time later still doing it. Truly practicing what you preach 👍
probably 25 yrs since I popped a trunk a found a stuffed tool box - still have some of the craftsman!
Junkyard Finds are my thing so ya know I had to click on this video 💯👍
Not only that, it looks like ones you've found on your channel. LOL.
@@googleusergp agreed 😄
@@googleusergp dang so close but no vin 😄 his GoPro came close 😄
@@ClassicRideSociety I was able to get enough of it to figure most out of it out. WH41F71....W for Coronet, H for High price class (Coronet 440), 41 for four door sedan, F for 318 V8 with two barrel, 7 for 1967 model year, 1 for Lynch Road, Detroit, MI assembly and the rest is the production sequence. Most of the tag can be figured out too. It's not his thing to show the VIN and the tag, not everyone does that (or cares). I do, it shows us what we have, but it's the creator's channel not mine, so they do as they see fit.
My first car was a white 440 1967 4 door coronet!!! Loved that car! Great 318 engine
Great video! Me and a buddy used to spend days at the junk yards here in San Diego going to all around sweeping looking for parts pulling parts for various projects or parts for friends buddy's looking for parts great times, the hunt we called it, back in the 90s early 2000s before most the classics just didn't show up anymore
There's a special kind of thrill that goes along with getting your hands on a junkyard find before anyone else. That Ranchero is a crime against the hobby, that car was pretty solid. It's rare to see an 80s car in the wreckers some days, nevermind a 70s or especially some 60s metal - and in that kind of shape? Not around here!
Love junk yard finds. Brings back a lot of memories.
My dad had a 67 Coronet 440 with a 318. I loved that car
I recently stumbled across a 67 Falcon and 67 Coupe deville in the yard here in Michigan. Crazy that these people don't care. Those vehicles could have been a project for someone. More importantly saved,and not melted down for a import!
Even if they don't care they could of sold it for more than the money they got from pull a part!!??🤷🏻♂️
@@natevanlandingham1945
Very much so!
Some of those tools could be a score too, I'd be going through that toolbox asap.
I used to buy old tool boxes full of tools from a second hand store owner who went to every garage sale around, lots of great stuff.
just soak the tools to remove the mouse urine--I usually go with 50/50 vinegar and table salt to get rid of rust. Personally i find that many tools in the trunk mean the mechanicals were on their way out and perhaps the electronics too. but it can be repaired if it's not reproduced.
before I had a car worth having, I melted credit cards on stuff like this, pulling stuff not reproduced off old cars (even tower screw clamps for hoses). a dollar here and there and it added up when you were a kid with nothing else to do on a weekend but get into trouble.
No doubt. There was surely a name brand or two in there.
@@albertgaspar627 Yup. I saved a whole box of tools I bought off of a guy for $10. They had been through Superstorm Sandy. I soaked them in vinegar and baking soda and most got to useable condition. One or two were broken, so I got them to the point where I could ID them and off they went to Sears to swap out. This was around 2019 when Sears was still around in my area.
@@lawrenceveinotte heehee, I stopped at one last week and mulled around.
Nothing I really wanted, but on 1 table was a wooden coca cola crate filled with stuff I didn't want(looks like 70s era for the 1 liter bottles)
Scored it for 15$.
Eh, it's nothing really special I just thought it was cool.
LOL, first thing I saw when the hood was lifted on the Coronet, was the "Spark Amplifier" on the dist. cap. Deja Vue all over again!
I just rescued a 2dr hardtop '68 Chevelle from Purkey's salvage yard on the Oklahoma-Kansas state line outside of Coffeyville. The yard is so old it has stuff all the way back to the 40's and even a handful of 30's. There's an old closed dirt racetrack next to it and some of the old racetrack equipment is still there. This yard is incredible! He's selling whole cars and stuff is disappearing fast. However, I suspect he's possibly crushing, too. People! Get out there and buy these cars before it's too late!
I hope you get your parts Tony one thing ive learned is get the parts when your their dont wait for tomorrow I lost out on a lot of good stuff doing that .
I was cringing the whole time, because I have seen it way too many times.
I have a 4 door 65 coronet 440 with a slant 6 and it's just my favorite car ever.
Get the dash panel and gauges Tony.....maybe you can use it in the Charger as a last resort if those gauges aren't working. New or working Charger gauges are almost impossible to find.
I just sold my 66 Charger a couple months ago, but I planned to replace the dash for a Coronet panel....I think you can get a new re po panel and most of the gauges.
I’ve got a nearly identical car but the 2 door hardtop version. Same color, drivetrain,etc. It’s a time capsule just like this one all the way down to original keys/owner’s manual/coors beer cans under the front seat.
I suspect full size cars like this popularized the painted roof option since the manufacturers had practice with cop cars. As for the FredFlinstonefloor, we called that that the "ditch the beer its 5.0" option.
That Ranchero sure is the Squire option, all those holes are for the fake framing of the fake wood paneling. My 1975 Country Squire Pinto wagon had studs sticking out of the bodywork for it's trim.
I had one of those spark amplifiers on my 76 Córdoba and my dad had one on his 70 Sport Fury for a while.😂
At least these grand old beasts are giving up themselves to keep other classics alive and on the road!
Those early B bodies are the best looking cars Chrysler made IMO. Love my '66.
Man, there's a scrap yard here in Indianapolis I go to that has acres and acres of old relics like this that sit unknown in a back corner.
Could we get at least a brief segment on that spark amplifier? That looks pretty cool and a bit of history and an explanation of how it works would be pretty cool. Great info and content as always Tony!
Most likely out of the JC Whitney catalog.
Buy the whole car! You will always have future project cars that can benefit from this donor car.
I had a 67 Coronet 440 2d hard top black with a white top. I had it since I was 18 just sold it like 6 years ago I'm 46 now so I had it most of my life. Loved that car had a 318 2bl when I got it but ran it till it blew so I put a 400 out of a Dodge truck then it had a 440 when I sold it. Miss it till this day! Peace
That one of those old sparkplug cleaners in the boot you ran off your battery, tiny little sand blasters? Back in the day folks.
I can smell that thing from here😊. Funny story, when I was in high school in the 70’s a friend of mine bought one of those but was disappointed that it wasn’t as fast as it should be cause it was a 440…he almost cried when I looked under the hood and informed him it was a 318.
My first car in high school 1967 Dodge Coronet 2dr hardtop factory air white interior with 383cid loved the car another one that gotaway.
Not many treasures like this one left.
This is a great opportunity for content, see how much of the car you can cut up, take home and reasseamble. I've done something similar before TH-cam days.
I get physically ill when I see old cars like that in the Junkyard. I've seen too many cars that could easily be back on the road with the right owner. Ugh, I'm gonna stop now. I'm getting agitated
I agree. And many places the government is trying to force this stuff off the road.
It is so sad I agree. I remember when these cars were 500 dollars.
@@shaggydogg630 Thats what I paid back in the early 1980s. Great cars. Cheap to fix and run.
Agitated, it's the 2020s don't you meanTRIGGERED🤣🤣
@@mikemoscato2995 yep, that is the word to use!
Kind of like doing a Steve Magante👍🏻
Happy New Year Tony and Kath🥂🍾
Not really he is there for parts. This is Steve’s class room. 😂
@@michaeladamo1188 🤠👍🏻 ya I can see that too
When we were down in Tennessee from Michigan I found it hilarious that you still had the beat to hell shit boxes running around but there was absolutely no rust on any of them they were just solid... but shit boxed
Incredible odds to actually have a Coronet show up like this when you're looking to reup the Charger. Nice find & Happy New Year!
How's the piece of shit got auswitz runner to do with the rail he's lying jewdog assol said he's cutting yesterday lies from a auswitz runner
Uncle T, I'm in central bama and i have that Exact car in my little Mopar junkyard so if need anything let me know, never miss an episode 👍👍👍👍👍✅✅✅✅✅
I can hear Dylan Mcool crying that he didn't get to it before it went to the kill shelter that is a Pull-A-Part.
Like you said its gonna be a big job, glad to see you're fixing it, looking forward to more updates... good luck! 👍
U want to drain me fukin spudz princess tony
The entire car could be brought back to life actually!
Yards are folding up around here for older cars more than 10 years old
My dad had one of those 5.0 thunderbirds when I was a little kid, he called it the thinderchicken 😅 he liked it but a 2 door coupe became impractical by about the 3rd kid 😆
The tools you need for removing the parts you need other than the quarter panel are probably all right there in the trunk. I have found that junkyards are often willing to cut a great deal on old tools and tool boxes as long as they have rust on them. Does that car have the hideaway headlights in it? It kinda looks like it might, but I cant tell for sure. That Ranchero looks more like about a 71 to me.
All of our yards have long been picked over by east coasters. I watched semi loads of classic cars hauled east.
With your knowledge of these cars. And prior experience selling used parts. Have you ever thought about starting an eBay store?
I work at a collision repair/body shop. I asked my boss if I could go through the parts before anything goes in the dumpster. He doesn't care, so I keep the parts that still have life in them. I like it because I'm keeping usable parts out of the landfill, I get to help somebody fix their car at a discount, and I make a little money on the side. I list when I have time so i don't have to worry about it like a regular business.
With your previous parts business. And knowledge of old Mopars. You could do pretty good.
Not only that, you're lowering the carting bill for your boss. Less in the dumpster=less waste, and everyone wins.
All 1967 and some early 68 318 cylinder blocks have thicker cylinder walls than the later 68 and newer 318 blocks. Dodge had planned a high performance engine with a 4 inch bore for the 67 Dart to compete with the 327 Chevy II, but due to lack of performance, it was scratched from production and the 318 benefited from its cylinder block, with the 68 340 being developed from its failure. An original 1967 318 block should be a heavy one. The 1967 318 usually has a forged steel crankshaft too.
Shrouds are necessary.
What you can find in junkyards is incredible. That's where I found my 62 impala 2 door hardtop.
How'd you get it ?
Most yards I know of ,once it's there it's doomed and they don't sell whole cars back to the public.
@@MrTheHillfolk bc Canada
@MrHillfolk most places here will work with people when thy have classic cars, yards in small towns are car guys also and know thy are worth more money as a whole then just scrap.
@@MrTheHillfolk my local pull a part is like that but they do have a section that you can buy whole cars for usually a reasonable price. They had a 60s buick in it at one time for around $5k that didn't look horrible but was a little ratty.
@@MrTheHillfolk There's a yard by me that gets tons of old cars, and they're more than willing to sell them whole. The famous Victory Auto Wreckers in Bensenville, Illinois will also do that... recently notable with a good condition 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and a 1970 Dodge Charger!
Parts gold mine for sure! That spark amplifier I have never seen before! Cool. The Ranchero would be a good fixer upper. As for the Coronet, I had a 4 door in white white the 6cyl back in the early 1980s in Winnipeg. A great reliable car. Happy hunting!
Sweet cars. There’s a big mopar junkyard near me, here in Oregon.
Tony, I'm not sure but I think 2 of of those headlights were T-3 you might want to grab those as well
I agree. They are good for cars that will be judged.
I had a 1966 Dodge Coronet 500, 225 Slant Six, manual everything, and the best car I ever owned. Literally drove it until it collapsed.
I remember when that's all you would see in the yards. Oh look! A 1969 RS/SS Camaro......
I think I'd buy that frame rail off the dodge, and use it on the charger, or I'd buy the entire car and drop ship it next to the charger to make the swapping of sheetmetal and frame work easier.
Not having the vinyl roof saved it. If it was the vinyl option you could put a screwdriver through the rust and felt that crunch below your fingers! Over here in the UK rust wiped out a lot of 60s and 70s cars decades ago
What would they want for the whole car? Probably less then the parts you want. Its been a while since I've been to a bone yard but it doesnt take long before they destroyed!
In the late 70's a friend of mine had a 73 LeMans sport. His first car and he had managed to find a 73 GTO rally gauge cluster for it. Late 80's I found the car in a junk yard with the interior still intact. Short on time and funds at the moment I figured I'd get it a week later. Next Saturday I go back to grab the dash and its smashed! Not removed but smashed. This was a tach and gauge cluster, pretty hard to find for a 73 GTO.
Good junkyard field trip!!!!
Thats funny you did a junkyard video today....today i was in pick n pull (first time in over 10 years) to pull a 360 magnum for my 77 powerwagon.... its fun in the yard.... unfortunately i had to pull the engine when it was dumping rain, and the truck was in a huge 4"-6" lake!!
Fun stuff!!
Wow, we were there yesterday afternoon also, grabbing some parts off a square body Chevy. You have to grab parts while you can, doesn’t take long for the classics to get stripped.
you can check the datecode on the tires, they appear to be late 60s early 70s based on the size of the whitewall
So it New Years eve, and I am looking at a 67' Coronet in the junk yard, with Uncle Tony.
Unbelievable you start working on your charger and this coronet shows up thats cool. you probably were telling your self i wish i had a parts car and this shows up. I hope you strip that car down till theres nothing left that charger of yours deserves it. its a wicked cool car one of my favorite on you channel i remember the first time i seen it. Ive ben waitng to see you pull it back out and start working on it again. Looking forward to see how your going to straighten it out.
Three comments: 1) Where's Magnante? 2) wash your hands after going through that car; and 3) Happy New Year Kathy & Tony!!
I spent a lot of my youth in junk yards. My Dad was a tow truck driver. I was more a Chevy and Ford person but I saw a lot of cool and valuable car parts just sitting there.
Sold a mint hardtop 67 440 trim level one when I got married had a D440HP2 68 Newport motor & trans … o why….. aww married
take the whole car Uncle Tony...oh Happy New Year Uncle Tony, Uncle Kathy and Uncle Krystal...
I'm the same way - l hate seeing those early models getting crushed...l think that's a good 318 in that car & maybe it was the following series - but l remember a Coronet 330 2dr post...I've always liked that Coronet - it looked Mean...strong car too
440 on the rear quarter panel.
@@brianmoran3450 440 was a model number.
i had a 87 tbird 5.0 beautiful car would smoke the tires with a blip of throttle but got rid of it because heater core issue. ,it was more than 8hrs of shop time fun personal luxury car
Ivan's a good friend!
67' Coronet RT 440 is a beautiful car
That Corenet and Ranchero are real crying shames, even that good vintage 87 5.0 T-Bird. Like you I hate seeing them in yards but also like you I've raided them for myself and others.
Tony thank you for what you do. Please come to Carlisle or the Holley-Mo-Party….
I would absolutely pull everything off that from ALL the bright work to the glass all the way down to the old hardware, it’s all good these days.I would leave nothing but a carcass. I miss the good old days where you would find this stuff everywhere and every man and his dog wasn’t trying to get rich of everything and anything like today.
U.T. was giving us such a close look at the radiator I turned my hat backwards so I could get a better look. Haha
"C'mon Mopar guy, you should be able to find that!"
-THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! 😆
Love the old Mopar!!!
HOWdy U-T-G, ...
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Coronet 440
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That car is 1000% saveable. Almost wish I could grab the whole thing.
Grab it!
Junkyards ain't what they used to be. I remember pulling a RAM AIR 3 400 Pontiac out of a 70 Formula Firebird, believe I paid $50 bucks for it. Also scored many bigblocks and smallblock engines, 12-bolt rearends, T400 transmissions, etc. Muscle cars everywhere. Paid $150 bucks for a complete totaled 66 Chevy 2 Nova SS with the L-79 327 in it, Muncie M-21 4spd, 4-11 posi 12-bolt rearend. Used to be a gold mine for the picking. Now it's a bunch of 10-20yr old junk that needs to be crushed. All them old yards pretty much been crushed out and cleaned up. Best time to go to the junkyard was the late 70s early 80s. Cars from the 50s and 60s were worth nothing in that era. I passed on a 69 Super Bee 440 six pack car that had the six pack replaced with a Torker intake and 800 doublepumper. Asking price was $350 bucks, it was lime green. I almost bought it, but I didn't because it was a Dodge. Already had a big stash of GM parts at that time. Wish I would have bought that Super Bee now. That was probably 35+yrs ago.