Barn Find Treasure Hunt!

Steve begins this EIGHT-PART Junkyard Crawl discovery series in one man’s life long stash of Oldsmobile cars and parts.

[@davidp2888]

Steve is a great storyteller and source of information.

[@Studiocraft71]

No doubt about that

[@PETERNESS]

would love to have a sit down for maybe a day or two with Steve

[@mannycarinha770]

He’s so intelligent and like a library. Love him

[@otisbailey5455]

Thanks Steve, I learn something new from your programs every time.

[@thatdudeinorange5269]

The amount of knowledge Steve Magnante has is incredible, and so great he share it to us all. Get well soon!

[@MLFranklin]

We hope and pray for your full recovery. Looking forward to seeing you back on KZbin soon.

[@tacomeatz]

This man is just a MTN of knowledge. Unreal.

[@aaron71]

Love how you're giving these old parts exposure so they might move down the road again someday!!

[@dannymac5623]

What a guy... wouldn't it be a pleasure to know him. Continue on your road to wellness my friend. ❤

[@abeneufeld9690]

Hard day at work today Steve I come home and listen to your junk yard crawl episode and it makes the stress of my day soften . Thank you. Keep them coming.

[@Tmrfe0962]

Thank you Steve….again, pure enthusiastic entertainment of our shared hobby. A true legend. Hope alls well. Peace

[@bunk-bn9eo]

I love automotive history, and having a guy like Steve share his knowledge is a delight. I could watch this content all day.

[@robertheadley8561]

Everyone loves Steve information videos

[@stephenlight647]

Love this random barn walk. Thanks!

[@guglielmo64]

Great job Steve. We had Oldsmobiles with both gold and blue valve covers. My '70 Cutlass had gold and my father's and mother's '78, I believe had blue valve covers. Miss my 1970.

[@joemiller2629]

Gold was a 350 and blue was a 455.

[@tomwesley7884]

'78 was about the time GM went to "corporate" engines

[@guglielmo64]

@@tomwesley7884 Our 1978 had an Olds engine for sure.

[@tomwesley7884]

@@guglielmo64 I don't doubt that, but I think no matter a Buick, Pontiac, Olds, they were all the same blue color, engines were shared between divisions

[@madmike2624]

Great change of pace Steve and Shane!! Super cool look into an old barn!!

[@sombra6153]

Love these videos. That barn reminds me of my late granddad’s garage and shop. He ran a rural mechanic shop for over 50 years and had so much of an accumulation of parts, motors, miscellaneous stuff as well as tools and machinery that toward the end he could no longer get a car inside to work on. I remember vividly spending a weekend in the cold rain and mud underneath his 67 Impala when I was 14 or 15 helping him install a new clutch. Anyway everything inside was fascinating to me and had some story or history attached. Like that barn. Sadly ceilings and roofs, even walls collapse as the years pass. Classic collections like these are buried, or even bulldozed away because real estate takes precedence over the past.

[@kevbev1524]

so much knowledge of horse power, Way to go Steve 😊

[@hottew_twat3963]

im sure he looks shits up before

[@jeffclark2725]

Oh Yea, great barn walk through, For all the years i have hearf FE ford block Ford , Edsel block is the first time ive heard that term, always pick up something new, great video

[@SteveMagnante]

Hello Jeff Clark, the FE was joined by the MEL series (typically seen as the 430 and 462) where MEL stands for Mercury, Edsel, Lincoln. Again, the cars they were installed in during the 1958 - 1967 period (mostly in Lincolns) but the '58 Edsel could be had with the massive 430 and Mercury offered the 1958 Super Marauder 430 with THREE 2-barrel carbs and Detroit's first 400-hp rating! Need to find one in the junkyard. On a similar note, in an upcoming episode of the OLDS Red Barn, could it be that we discover an Oldsmobile with THREE CARBURETORS? Could be! Please stay tuned. Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante

[@jeffclark2725]

@Steve Magnante thanks so much for responding, yes,I've seen several of those 430 Lincoln engines back in the 1990s in a couple old T Birds,The water pump alone was massive I don't miss a single episode, We chat about the show over morning coffee,thumbs up

[@hughmarloweverest1684]

Just very nice, Tks to Steve and his noble camera man or seductive woman operator.

[@LeSiZmOr]

Get better..soon sir! Prayers for you SM.

[@chrisscearce]

Hi Steve 👋🏼 great little video of what's in the Olds Red Barn? 😀 as a person who loves old buildings, can you do a walk around of the barn and its structure, Steve? I mentioned before that I've downsized my inventory of stuff quite a bit and can't help but take note of the fact that I have so many more 'antiques' to get rid of. 🙄 I really hate knowing someone someday would have to get that stuff sold off hauled off or just burn it all down and scrap what's left behind. 😕 I have now made over 50ish or so trips around our sun, and the one thing that stands out very clearly is that all of us want our lives to have purpose and meaning. Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind, and our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hang on to, If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you can not achieve.🤔 Hopefully, someone will buy up all of this man's lifetime collection of antiques and put it to use. These kinds of videos turn me into the same people who watch home shopping club or QVC and buy the next shiny thing presented. 😬 📞💸💰 Palmer MA thats where Post10 saved the lake drain...another KZbinr Have a blessed day everyone 🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼

[@SteveMagnante]

Hi Chris, agreed. We cannot live forever (can you imagine the Double Edge Sword that would be?). I am "at peace" with the idea that when I punch out, I have ZERO concern for what happens to "my stuff". It could go into a dumpster or into a collection...I'd never know the difference. And that is very "freeing" of the worries I used to have about this stuff. I'm 58 (going on 9) and see every new day as a prize! Sure, a guy like Henry Ford might want to MAKE SOME PLANS about who might run the factory later. With regard to the OLDS Red Barn, fear not, we'll dive deep into - and under - it in the next 7 days (there are 8 episodes before we get back to Bernardston). Spoiler Alert....did we discover a '57 Olds J2 convertible????? Could be! THANKS for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante

[@googleusergp]

@@SteveMagnante I use one I heard years ago: "A little Christmas each and every day". That is doing something for someone else and yourself as well. Or, enjoying life one day at a time.

[@rixkafer56]

The 394 reminds me of my pops 63 holiday 88... i have a picture of him and my mom standing in front of the car and dealership when he picked it up new... Good stuff away from the other good stuff.. thanks for sharing 👉🍕

[@ArnieTF]

Awesome Awesome Awesome.......Keep it up Steve really enjoy your videos. Greatings from Long Island NY

[@ddellwo]

Love it - if I had a big barn on my property I have no doubt it would soon be filled to the rafters with an eclectic mix of automobilia, petrolinia, and God knows what else! Since I don’t, our guest room is currently serving that purpose - don’t even get my wife started…….😂 Cool segment! I have spent most of my working career traveling around the country and cannot tell you how many old country places I have driven by where I fantasize about what cool cars or other stuff is tucked inside that big building out back! Amazing that thing is still standing - it looks as if the next big wind might topple it right over…..😮

[@googleusergp]

I often see the same vehicles on my trips. I've seen a 2nd generation Camaro on a Wisconsin farm for a number of years now. As you're passing by doing 50+ MPH, it's to see, and many times, I'm driving. We've actually had to stop for cows crossing the road. LOL.

[@lilmike2710]

It was an Oldsmobile that first caused the octane in my veins. I was 4 years old when i first met my soon to be stepfather in 1974. He pulled into our driveway in a 1968 Hurst Oldsmobile. Of course there was no way that i would have known what the car was at the time. But i took note of the exhaust tone. Something I'll never forget. And the color. It was a silver metal flake with black stripes. What a beautiful car that was. A few years later as i had gotten to be around 6 or 7 he took me to our local track and made a few passes with me in the passenger seat. Anyways, thats how it got into my blood and i grew up thinking that someday I would have a 68 Hurst Olds for myself. 😂 Yea right. There were only 538 (?) Of them ever built. So that dream of mine will have to remain just that, a dream. Unless of course i could live in it... Which sometimes is seriously considered. 😉 I can't even look at pictures or videos of that car without getting emotional. I would rather have one above all other automobiles ever built in the world. It is seriously one really awesome hot rod

[@googleusergp]

The main thing is you have fond memories of him.

[@lilmike2710]

@@googleusergp indeed I have. If I were to somehow have a HO it would be dedicated to his memory. He khs when I was 12

[@googleusergp]

@@lilmike2710 It's nice to have good memories of friends and family that are no longer with us.

[@ddellwo]

A client I work with is kind of an interesting old guy in his mid-70’s who has owned many new vehicles over the years as he historically purchased both he and his wife a new vehicle every three years. He has said that of all the cars he has ever owned, the one that got far and away the most attention was his ‘68 Oldsmobile Cutlass! Not surprising, as that ‘68 GM midsize body was such a radical departure from the models before it, and the first year Olds version was (IMO) particularly attractive……..👍

[@fishgeralding9224]

Those Hurst Olds were fast! I went down to raceway Park Englishtown with my older brother in 1968, I was 12. There were 2 cars bracket racing that day that got everyone's attention. Both were new 1968 models. A dark blue 340 Dart gts and a white and gold Hurst 442. Between rounds they had a friendly heads up 3 out of 4 "grudge match". The Dart took the first pass, the guy was asleep at the line in the Olds. Lol although the Dart would get him off the line, the Olds would catch, and pass him at the top end. I did manage to acquire a 1969 Gts 4 speed which I restored and drove for about 10 years. I had to sell it , a sad day indeed. But, I was lucky enough to grow up in the muscle car Era. The memories, PRICELESS!

[@xfactorautomotive1496]

Miss ya, Steve. Wishing you a fast recovery.

[@chuckcutshall2177]

We love the junkyards, but the barn is also fun!. Thanks, Steve!

[@patrickperry9690]

I am blown away that this is apparently a one-take video with no notes! Amazing knowledge!

[@johnboyington3456]

I have a Champion spark plug cleaner exactly like the one in th barn- still use it occasionally

[@frankjones4094]

Nice change of pace. I'm hoping I don't see anything I want to drag home. Outta room!

[@steveib724]

Love Oldsmobile thanks Steve.

[@JosephSieling-cl3js]

Hey Steve excellent Contant thank you for the tour I love your classrooms keep up the good work buddy take care

[@RobertNebel-e7h]

Steve, I appreciate your knowledge on ALL things cars & trucks! Keep the good work. Enjoy your you tube videos! I just purchased a 40 Chevy Master Deluxe 2dr Sedan, CA car. Keeping it bone stock, 216 3speed on the tree.

[@localcrew]

That barn is collapsing in slow motion. Don’t let it trap you in there!

[@theloudamerican2193]

😂he would probably have a great time spending eternity in something like that! This dude is a modern day national treasure!

[@sneville44]

Steve is fearless! He routinely blindly sticks his bare hands into mouse and spider-infested glove boxes! A creaky, dry rotted collapsing barn is evidently nothing in comparison 😉.

[@samholdsworth420]

It's fine 🫨

[@maineiacman]

Old barns can lean and tilt in differnt directions for decades. That barn is going to look the same for another 25-50 years.

[@Daniel-fd3wp]

Instead of a Pyramid Steve would prefer an old barn filled with car stuff. Great Videos Steve and Shane🎥

[@Barry101er]

We need to download Steve‘s brain! What a source of detail.

[@g_force3857]

“Everyone loves a barn find” but you need a 40 woody wagon to do it though…. 👍👍👍

[@Bri_Bri_the_Wise_Guy]

love your content Steve. I have your passion for junkyard and old automotive but my level of knowledge does not compare. your automotive wisdom is god like

[@rollerdragon]

love that you are local to me!! you are my every morning show!!

[@LSswapGarage1]

Those tall deck engines run one extra compression ring totalling 4, not 5. The oilpan is 8 quart and about all it fits outside the heavy trucks is pickups. If its a 427 someone may think they want it but a 366 is as good as a boat anchor with its puny 305 esque bore. The cranks are forged 3.75" pieces but its one of those why are you playing with puny cubic inches things nowadays. For reference i have a forged 427 cranknthat is machined and ready to go, with bearings even, and for cheap... and i can't even give it away... so popular lol.

[@ggordon4127]

Thanks Steve. Great information on a much loved GM division.

[@richdiscoveries]

I was just up in Southbridge Mass. Rented a room in the old American Optical building. Such a beautiful historic building, I'm glad it was saved and repurposed rather than abandon like so many of them

[@petehunter2988]

New Process Gear was owned by Chrysler. Huge plant in Syracuse, now closed.

[@DanEBoyd]

GMC used a lot of Pontiac V8s, but they also used Olds V8s occasionally too! I thought I seen a Fox Mustang front bucket seat, and then you uncovered an upside-down Fox or Square Crown Vic upper intake for a SBF 5.0 @7:13.

[@Funsho97]

Really cool stuff. Funny how what looks like "old" junk to some people looks like gems and jewels to others, glad im one of the "others" 😂

[@desertduck4177]

Was nervous for Steve as he got to the back of barn, fallen beams, lol. Get better, Steve!

[@daviderickson9445]

Thanks for the Oldsmobile content!

[@jasonadams5403]

Hey Steve, that last ford upper intake is off of a 5.0 HO fox mustang, the non HO had the throttle body reversed (ie crown Vic), and those seats are foxbody lx seats from the same era and I assume from the same era as the bumper covers and phone dial wheels in the background, I rarely comment but just some of the useless information I hold.love the channel man

[@ReadTheBible8]

Great video sir. Years ago I assembled a 454 truck engine for my Vega drag car. This particular engine has 1 inch taller deck than the car 454. Bored the block, stroked the crank, Childs Albert aluminum rods, Can’t remember what pistons I used. Had to notch the oil pan rails to make clearance for the rods. Crane roller cam, and Eldebrock tunnel ram with 2 Holley Dominators. End results was 525 cubic inches and best eighth mile pass was 5.42. Thanks again sir.

[@charliereed4642]

Steve you are amazing, and fun to listen to!! Almost inspires me to get out and work on my own car….lol

[@finscreenname]

Carl Kiekhaefer took a 427 tall block (truck motor) stroked it and some other stuff off the shelf at Chevy and turned it into a 482 offshore race motor back in 1969/70.

[@dennisgrubbs1929]

Steve the man don't know how you know it all but you are a wealth of knowledge thanks great video Thanks 👍

[@burthenry7740]

A barn full of treasures, or stuff that was treasured by the owner at least! My FIL was an Oldsmobile man. From the time he got out of the Army in '53 until he traded in his '72 Delta 88 in 1978 (on a Dodge van !?) he owned Olds. The GM engine 'substitution' fiasco of the time put him off buying another new one.

[@googleusergp]

Yes, GM was sued for the "Chevymobile" fiasco.

[@timlavance867]

Please find some motorcycles Steve!!! Love your show

[@billyk5338]

that old barn wood is priceless ! !

[@tomwesley7884]

Taking a break from Bernardston, Steve will manage to make friends with a farm dog

[@67marlins]

Thanks so much for posting!! I'm a Ford and Mopar guy, alive & well here also in Massachusetts, who's always admired Oldsmobile above any other GM marques!! ( Pontiac a close 2nd ). Also, Palmer is a nice little rural town, close to my beloved Ludlow....Little Portugal.

[@Mr.Death101]

W00 H00! Nothing like some barnyard finds! This is awesome! Maybe lockjaw is hiding in there somewhere too lol. Great creative content! Steve 4 President! I forgot to add how cool that 48 Cadillac piece was as well as the different motors, Someone used to drive with those and if only they could talk. Knowledge and skill like this is an art form! Keep up the cool work n use your artistic skill to keep these amazing videos coming! Your knowledge is a treasure, and with the comedy and shane's camera skills we can only grow from here!

[@roberttucker805]

Good morning everyone.

[@rawbsworld6604]

☕️ mornin’ 🙋‍♂️

[@ernielaw]

Good Morning America

[@rawbsworld6604]

@@ernielaw morning ☕️ ☀️ 🙋‍♂️

[@donbrooks9851]

Enjoyed the new content!

[@uasparts]

Your inner Mopar guy keeps leaking out, Steve. You called the 394 a 392 numerous times 😆

[@josephmkarpinski8362]

I can’t believe that Steve didn’t know that New Process Gear was owned by Chrysler.

[@victorxavier9977]

The amount of knowledge Steve has on everything automotive is impressive!

[@wilburjewell6842]

I love your channel. I enjoy watching it. You alot about cars

[@bmwbillr]

The bucket seat looks like it came out of an early 80s Mustang. I think I saw some other parts from the same car in there…front bumper cover? Gr8 content Steve. Hope to bump into you out here around Holland and Brimfield

[@bryanmulligan5319]

Came here to say the same thing. That looked like an 85-86 LX bumper cover.

[@justinwise6950]

I noticed it, too! I guess the fox body crew is here, lol

[@knutbkristiansen]

Awesome Steve

[@loualiberti4781]

Yes !! My prayers have been answered Steve also does Barnyard Finds !!

[@Fore-Four-Dee-Too]

Get well soon Steve!

[@butcher390]

Outstanding new segment Steve !! Tremendous barn finds 💖 🙆‍♂️ Mr Warren D. Has quite a collection on his hands Those Oldsmobile engines are a great find . Look at all of those , cylinder heads too !! #BarnFinds

[@pibble3962]

So much knowledge to share!

[@rondpert5167]

Sorry, that BB oil pan won't fit in a Chevelle. But I'd be curious about that Toronado pan.

[@cookieman0916]

Morning 😊

[@davidcollver6155]

One single snap and that Barn is on top of you. Thanks for this video that's really cool in there.

[@M21L35]

That circular stamping pointed out in the video was on ALL 394s. On one engine bank that hole was punched out, into which a crankcase ventilation road draft tube was inserted to extract excess, unspent engine emissions from the engine. The bottom end was angle-cut & scavenged those waste emissions, expelling them below the engine as the car was driven down the highway. If a buyer chose the hi-compression Starfire 394 motor, that specific engines' dress-up package included the following chromed pieces; a ventilated oil filler cap, valve covers, air cleaner housing, & road draft tube.

[@zoefaith120]

Barns keep cool old stuff... Depending on how it is stored.

[@christopherprince3250]

Love it.

[@nelsonrodriguez2263]

Get better Steve hope you get over your Brian infection, I know you will 🙏😊

[@jameshall4385]

So many treasures in that barn. Someone should catalog it so it can be saved

[@angeloavanti2538]

If I remember correctly an Olds selling point was their V8's had rotating valves. For more even wear?

[@Justacogg]

Always great entertainment!

[@chilee6994]

5 piston rings ?? Cool. Never heard of it.. thanks Steve

[@throttlewatch4614]

People nowadays just don’t get that feeling of class and style when you’re cruising down the road with that olds emblem on the steering wheel or up on the hood.

[@sodiorne2]

Yep! Love the Barn Stuff!

[@killerontheloose80]

Our merry oldsmobile

[@ernielaw]

Come and ride with me Lucille, in my merry Oldsmobile

[@DieselFuelNetwork]

Foxbody mustang seats. The 85/86 front bumper in the background as well.

[@111000100101001]

Great barn find and walk through time! I hope Every piece in that barn, even the old 2hp reel mower, finds a good home!

[@davidm4160]

My company designed and built the Trim Die for the intake manifold at 7:40, also one for the 5.0 HO which was very similar.

[@nedbrozak9325]

Another great video.

[@Kevin_Drone]

I love the old V8 valve covers!! Thanks for showing them!!

[@jucedcustoms2274]

Such a great wealth of knowledge!

[@gearbanger57]

You got to say "rocket" more often, them Olds guys eat that up.

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Cool........... 👍👍

[@charlesdalton985]

Thank you as always! Part way through the video I thought, “When did Olds switch engine colors, mid-60s……70s….I’m not certain…..”. Sure enough, I just had to wait a bit for you to share your knowledge! ~ Chuck

[@mattshansen9814]

Good to see you again.

[@luisalvarez23]

The Ford truck engine is an FT , they are brothers to the FE. One way to distinguish them is the massive water pump .

[@mightylonesome9426]

I love Steve's videos. I pick up a great deal of info and detail. Now, if I could just remember it.

[@markp0752]

Great stuff

[@sherwinstaudt1881]

Great videos Steve, the 366 Chevrolet 427, and 402 , and 396 was the same crankshaft. Over 90% of the crankshaft was steel casting number 6223 very good crankshaft. Also the tall deck 427 you can put shorter Pistons with longer rods very good Motors. Also the tall deck you can bore up to 120 thousands oversized.

[@jackmack9325]

more please! loved it!

[@jasonformulaboater357]

Great stuff. Really enjoyed this episode

[@chipper442]

You hit me right in the sweet spot Steve….all Olds, all the time.

[@RoadNoise29100]

Cool story!