What Happens to Barn Finds if No One Buys Them - Owls Head Museum | Barn Find Hunter

[@jacubillo]

This museum NEEDS a youtube channel.. showing new incomming cars, giving history lessons of the pieces they own, restoration vlogs, etc. Doesn't even have to be polsihed edited videos... anything would be amazing... just a few shorts of how they fix stuff and everyone will love it.

[@The-Real-Blissful-Ignorance]

I agree with everything you wrote! If they modeled their channel after Tyrrell's Classic Workshop, I'd be a happy man.

[@fredwalt2282]

I’m thrilled to see how the museum is so closely linked with their community. From having school children visit, to volunteers restoring and finally having estates donate their vehicles, it follows the cycle of life in the century transportation. Great respect !!! What different perspective from those that shutter their cars from public sight, while rust slowly deteriorate them into oblivion.

[@ronaldcooper7609]

I'm glad the museum is still going strong. I visited 25 years ago and it remains one of my favorites.

[@Kal-zo5ym]

Added to my museum list. My favorite car museum so far is Gilmore.

[@peterscott7384]

You can hear the passion in Toby’s voice. What a wonderful place to go to every day and actually make a difference. Well done to the museum. What a great video

[@dandahermitseals5582]

Im 80 yrs old and this leaves me nearly speechless. A lot of my life was spent theough all these categories. Built motorcycles boats airplanes ( bush piolet taildraggers rule) race cars custom everything and everything is delireaus. I want them all but the Healy makes me dream. Had a MK 3000 inline 6 Su carbs etc. One of my alltime favorite body designs like the Shelbys and GT 40s. Oooo Great video. Thanks. They must continue to represent our past. Dandahermit

[@markkinne4715]

I have lived in Maine my entire life, I am 59 years old. My wife and I finally made the trip from our house in Southern Maine up to Owls Head this past spring. It was well worth it! Great vehicles and facility. I highly recommend a visit.

[@V111HRD]

What an episode.! Tobys probably got the best job in the world. His enthusiasm speaks volumes

[@mtbikesam68]

I love Barn Finds, I love cars, and great stories never hurt. This is the best video from you yet, Tom! The knowledge and enthusiasm of this man, I am sure he will see an uptick in attendance at the museum from folks who have seen this. Wonderful!

[@bobroberts2371]

As Jay Leno has said. " you buy the story "

[@rickharper1497]

Thank you Hagerty and Tom for this video, for a lot of us this is the only means we have to visit this museum or anything like it!!

[@oldsguy49]

I enjoyed the enthusiasm he had doing this video. You can feel the love he has.

[@billschlafly4107]

Toby's honesty should be commended. Most people wouldn't be willing to tell the truth about the decision making that is involved in selling vs. preserving.

[@CAHelmer]

Owls Head is a wonderful place. Took my son when he was a toddler and got a ride in a Model A. He has been hooked ever since.

[@rancoracing7001]

Millikens Corner is located in Watkins Glen, NY, not at Lime Rock. It was named when Bill Milliken was racing in the first road race there and wrecked in the 90 degree turn as he was returning back to town.

[@bmf3000]

Love Toby's enthusiasm...those cars and planes are good hands. 👏🏻

[@logancarter2134]

What a fantastic episode and story of what is the BEST of the historical car world! ❤

[@RussellRobinson971]

Best series on Hagerty. Family friendly and informative.

[@herchelleonwood7463]

whats the obsession with family friendly content ,, i find family friendly content everywhere ,,freaking out over the pettiest things does not help kids,, my mother freaked out when i saw a boob in a movie 50 years ago,,, we still laugh about that to this day,, seeing boobs didn't hurt me !!

[@redmondjp]

@@herchelleonwood7463 It's more than just not having obscene or risque content - I would use the word wholesome. There are too many channels on here with idiots doing really stupid things (like purposefully destroying entire vehicles or engines) just to get views. I would also describe that as not family friendly, as I certainly don't want to teach that type of behavior to my children.

[@wraithmaker3081]

The engine in the airplane behind the Jeep is a modified Henderson Motorcycle engine. There was a kit sold to do the conversion and many were installed in homemade aircraft.

[@goleafsgo8496]

Wow at 15:02 the Ford 4 Door Convertible is absolutely stunning! The coach builder / designer created simply a perfect "Rembrandt" that still all these years later grabs the eye! Sexy ...... 😊

[@keywestjj]

This museum is WORLD CLASS, and I will be attending the auction in August (from Michigan!) ... wish me luck that I don't succumb to temptation and that I don't buy anything!

[@emmettrocks2]

Drove my 20+ year old Dodge Dakota to Maine from Minnesota 3 years ago & after Old Orchard Beach, The Owl's Head Museum was my "Most" memorable stop....My truck sports a Owls head sticker on the windshield. Thanks for bringing back a GREAT memory Tom!

[@fossil-bit8439]

I love just about anything from The Great War. Those planes are so cool! I could watch an entire episode on just those! There is just something about dogfighting in the air with such a primitive piece of machinery!

[@hankhenninger3601]

Nice show of a museum saving history of cars and planes. Plus seeing the passion of someone that works at the museum wanting to save the history.

[@stephenhenderson9871]

I am super glad to see a Wheel Horse in use at a super cool museum. Love his enthusiasm as well.

[@vwcadwagon]

I noticed that too!

[@EvangelineAndrews]

What a great episode. I always wondered how museums functioned.. Best series on Hagerty. Family friendly and informative..

[@jordytaylor_]

Old mate was bursting at the seems. That’s passion

[@jvepps]

When I was younger a "barn find" wasn't a darn multimillion dollar business venture.

[@Mike_hocksbig69]

You can thank Capitalism and the internet

[@JoJoJoker]

You just weren’t aware of them. Thank the internet.

[@samryan7954]

Oughta call em warehouses, or storage buildings.👍

[@valkillmore847]

@@Mike_hocksbig69 you spelled boomers wrong.

[@dontbesohumble]

It's crazy, makes no sense. Things get older and become more and more rare? What has the world come to, smh...

[@thomastrout9997]

Small local museums are the true way of preserving automobiles and automo-bilia for the future. Big city institutions have their place for sure, but for generating interest in any given subject, a 'hometown' facility, well presented and maintained is a key for maintaining interest among those who will never see a Blackhawk Collection, a Nethercutt or a Petersen.

[@ryanmundt9628]

Wow! What a place! The passion for the vehicles is oozing out of this guy! Great video!

[@henrygroff7622]

Toby, great enthusiasm.

[@Danny365x]

Dang. That place is nice and the gentleman definitely loves his work and that place. Hard to find that

[@clarencejones7916]

Always cool to see another episode of barn find hunter 👏🏼🙌🏻😎👊🏻too bad it’s far and between these days😮😬

[@doublel7337]

Loved this video, we see so many vintage cars sitting in fields wasting away. It so nice to see a group of people who lives are dedicated to working and saving these cars for people to see.

[@thekillercapricorn6334]

Best show online for car guys👍

[@kenh9097]

My favorite place, and it's in my State! Love it!

[@ebinmaine]

I've been to this Museum several times. They do a fantastic job. Very welcoming. Excellent displays. Very clean. I believe they make wonderful stewards for the future. We go every year in July for the truck and tractor show and I highly recommend it. We collect, restore, and use Wheel Horse tractors. As you can imagine we got a hell of a kick out of the one that the museum has. 5:55.

[@v860rich]

I'm glad I watched this!!! Now I know I need to change our will and leave nothing to a museum. If I left them a vehicle and found out they sold it I'd be back to haunt them forever. If this guy is telling the truth and they sold 2/3rds of one donation the place should be closed!!!!

[@onthewayup]

Tom, "One thing our viewers like is to see what people cant see" Yeah, sure, right....Tom.... It was YOU who wanted to see. Glad you brought us along. You can just tell that Tom just loves all cars.

[@EM-ru3eh]

Love Owl's Head! An uncle worked there 30 years ago- my dad, son and I were frequent visitors. Looking forward to visiting again this fall!

[@97jettatrek]

I always go to the classic bike and foreign car meets at Owl's Head every year. It's good to see them getting even more attention as they deserve it.

[@kennethmello5353]

First of all I absolutely love you, Tom Carter. Second of all I am so thrilled that you have a second home in Maine and are doing barn. Find hunting up there. And I say up there because you are definitely north of just about everybody in the country, if you’re up a trip down to Foxborough Massachusetts, I have 5/ first GEN Broncos and some 73 to 79 Ford pick ups that you and your viewers might like to see. You are welcome anytime even if you’re not interested in the vehicles you can just stop by if you’d like and we can talk about cars. You’re always welcome into me. You’re just a friend I haven’t met yet but I hope someday I will.

[@ftby59mikeD]

Passion for preservation! This place is on my bucket list of must sees!👍

[@leegoddard2618]

Thx4 asking about the Ford "jeep", Tom. I was hoping it would show. 👍

[@TobyCatVA]

What a treat to get to see these precious treasures and iconic machines.

[@mack_titan]

That home made aircraft engine looks like a 4 cylinder FN motorcycle engine....love to get one of those engines for my vintage motorcycle project.

[@RonaldHQuebec]

Its a Henderson 4 that has had the trans cut off and is reversed from normal orientation.

[@gary5481]

This video could've lasted for 4 hours, covered more cars & aeroplanes & still been interesting to watch. Toby's enthusiasm runs away with him & his knowledge is incredible.

[@paulandersen8396]

Good to see a museum with a sustainable plan for the future. Too many museums dont, they are the dream of one man, and when he passes, the dream often dies. I hope jay leno has a plan for the future.

[@andrewlorenzen1447]

Wings and Wheels event is my annual pilgrimage to one of my favorite places Owls Head!!

[@TDJUNKIEOZ]

I’m happy to say that I live in Maine, close enough to visit the Owl’s Head Museum frequently!! I’m even more happy now that my son has taken a liking to all these classic machines so I can always find a reason to go and visit lol. I look forward to seeing you at Seal Cove in a few weeks Tom!

[@isalmankhan1]

Whenever I get a chance to go visit any place in the world, this museum is definitely the first place i would choose, what a marvel of engineering history😍

[@boltonky]

Love everything tom and the crew do to bring us this and the places and people..Do wish episodes like this would be longer but i get were not paying to go there as much as heaps of us from outside the US would if possible

[@Anonymous-zv9hk]

This was great!! I'd never heard of this museum before, but it certainly makes me want to visit it before I die. The rationale of how donated vehicles were selected for restoration, or sale at auction, or for future use was fascinating, as was learning about the volunteers who participate in the efforts of the Thursday Night Restoration Crew. I hope the Museum has a KZbin channel that is used to spread the word on the fundamentals of classic car operation (such as how to start and operate a Model T Ford), maintenance and repair, how to pick vehicles to be restored, how to start a restoration, how to restore specific vehicles that are popular with different groups of enthusiasts, how to use the Internet to find parts and service manuals from sources all over the world, how to make parts or find sources that can make parts to order, etc. A side effort to raise both interest in the Museum and revenue would be either selling the restoration products used at the Museum directly to enthusiasts, or through setting up an Amazon Storefront which had the Museum's recommended tools, guidebooks, procedures, and restoration products available from one source with quick, often free, shipping of products, without tying up the time of museum volunteers and employees. Videos of various stages of actual restorations would also bring in revenue and new supporters of the Museum. If Hagerty could publish an on-line list of these types of museum, which exist all over America, it would encourage the effort to save old vehicles and help promote the efforts of those who take an active interest in vehicle restoration to see who else is involved, and help people with similar interests connect with each other. Such an effort would help people plan day trips, weekend trips and regular vacations around traveling around their state, province, region, or the USA or Canada and Mexico country visiting these types of museums or collections which either open to the public, or to members of special interest groups. Hagerty's support of such efforts would bring in new customers for its insurance products for restored classic vehicles, and create a win-win situation for all involved.

[@angeloah]

What a wonderful place, reminds me of the WAAAM in Hood River, Oregon.

[@garyallen7868]

I could sit and watch this for hours, thanks for sharing.

[@jeffm234]

I grew up a couple miles from the Owls Head Transportation Museum. As a kid I won a contest there and they gave me a ride in a Stanley Steamer. Been a car nut ever since

[@robertrantane6867]

I'm sure the museum knows their 8th Army jeep is Korean war vintage. Even though I served in the 60's it brought back memories - I drove that model for a while when I served.

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

Right, I think he said it's Korean war

[@deanirwin3645]

That dude is intense. I love it!

[@Michael666CA]

Cool, other than me in about a couple hours from owls Head and always remember going a couple times of summer as a kid to the car shows. The car show was outside and the only thing I remember from inside since my grandfather was a pilot with a small planes was the planes hanging from the ceiling.

[@aussiechique798]

I love this place was there in 2018 from Australia, Mac Mccomb is a friend of Australian racing driver Allan Moffat

[@doster59]

Another great show, I love it Tom, when you go behind the scenes.

[@BTimmer]

The airport truck is a '56 not a '53.

[@JennaLookner-ve4xq]

Great video featuring two passionate, brilliant automobile experts in a special place! Nicely done!!

[@RXRSawdustStation]

Outstanding video! That was amazing! Thank you ever so much for the fantastic tour!

[@conrads7332]

The stake-body ford truck is a 1956. Only year with the built in sun visor on the roof.

[@timothydunn8981]

Like so many others, I love the history and behind the scenes stories.

[@moparedtn]

Bravo Owls Head - a better example of being good *stewards* of these vehicles - and therefore, the hobby in general - would be hard to come by. Wonderful stuff, y'all. Good on ya. -Ed on the Ridge

[@TBHinPhilly]

Great introduction to the Owls Head Museum and behind the scenes views. Thanks for showing us and getting them some more support. (And nice you skipped the drivers club in video ad).

[@michaelreynolds1904]

One of my favorite places to visit!

[@patrickholroyd9946]

I have been to Owls Head and loved every minute..

[@larsstougaard7097]

Keep those wheels turning 🙏

[@bajaboyextra]

Not that many years ago, Jeepsters were throwaway cars. A car magazine reported that a Jeepster body would fit perfectly on top of a Chevy Blazer chassis. I wonder how many times that conversion was done?

[@valvintage89]

That's a dream place to be/work. Amazing!

[@acegard7801]

Found owls head last year, great museum

[@keithbronson9777]

Great episode. Toby needs to switch to decaf.😂

[@bhaebe6671]

Wow Toby is a talker. Tom got to say a few words here and there. A great museum.

[@garyw4211]

Museums like this are the best. ❤

[@Cartier_specialist]

Phenomenal sound quality.

[@jeffhaddock4238]

What a fantastic episode. It was very educational.

[@Gary-dc2nm]

Hey Tom you should check out Pioneer Village in Menden Nebraska Harold Warp Museum. A lot of really neat cars and much more. I would love to see an episode on it.

[@texaswunderkind]

Minden, Nebraska. That's not a well-known museum outside of central Nebraska. Thanks for giving it some love.

[@nonelost1]

Good to hear that Barn Find "failsales" are given a second life, if not directly by this museum, hopefully by to whomever they sell them. BTW, at 11:19...If that's THEE original top on that 1930 MG, patch it up rather than replace it!

[@billcunningham8485]

New Barn Find Logo? Cool. As I suggested to Tom in person…. Start selling tee shirts…

[@edwardlincoln5680]

Thanks for the tour.

[@CarShowclub]

What a great episode. I always wondered how museums functioned.

[@harryward2309]

Just added this to my bucket list.

[@jimburig7064]

Another excellent show. Thank you, Tom.

[@chuckthebull]

Love this museum.. hope i get to visit some day

[@nikolaslarson6891]

An absolutely stunning episode...

[@mikestaihr5183]

When I was around 16 years old our neighbor around the corner had one of those Jeepsters sitting in his back yard. I kept bugging the family to let me buy it. No sale. It sat for another 30 years. Then one day it just disappeared. The old folks had died and I assume the daughters just sold it off..... At 16 years old that would have been one fun machine to have driven to school back in 1972....

[@duanelawrence78]

Out standing video thanks for sharing God bless!!✌️🇺🇲

[@crbourret]

I'm looking forward to taking a trip over from NH to see this place in the Fall

[@BertMacklin_FBI]

The 36 Ford is awesome

[@henrycarlson7514]

So Wise , Thank You .

[@chrisbreault5854]

The American Heritage Museum in Stow Massachusetts would be a cool one for Hagerty to visit!

[@somerandomness4285]

Come to Connecticut!!!! Been asking for years now I know of some great cars

[@skin2117]

They need a "Go Fund Me" to further this operation.

[@noberet]

Love these shows! Thank you.

[@dennisgallear409]

Thanks amigos!

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

That was awesome, fun and educational!

[@mikewasfaret9563]

Bantam had the design of the jeep, but they weren't big enough

[@NYCS19339]

I'm thinking that Willys built the majority of the Jeeps in WW2, Ford might be close to half. My grandfather did tool and die work at Central Manufacturing in Connersville at that time. He also worked there in the Auburn/ Cord Era. Bodies went to Ford and Willys from Indiana.

[@PetesProjects0]

I've been there. A great museum for sure.

[@Mr.XJ.96]

Heck the Jeep is Important!!! Hello from Butler Pennsylvania the Birth Place of the Jeep and home of the Heritage Jeep Fest. The Bantam Car company