TOW YARD Has 80 Years of ABANDONED CARS and Some are Worth More Than Your HOUSE!

[@coolhandluke454]

Boy o boy, you shure can tell these guys are young, but i'll give them an A for effort and enthusiasm.

[@UberLummox]

They misnamed about 3/4s of them. He should say he doesn't know instead, but yeah, fun!

[@Big88Country]

Was thinking the same thing.

[@EccAnom]

Memories. I scoured that same junkyard for parts as a teenager in the sixties.

[@bigedsbeachsidegarage3968]

It's to funny the cars that you kids don't know what they are when you look at them. Love your channel Dave

[@dayslife]

wish we still had places like this here , after the 80's everything was gone ...

[@johnl1685]

I like hearing you call an engine an "engine" and not a "motor".

[@Big88Country]

After Obama's crusher program that's when we lost a lot of old gold!!!

[@mattconnor6779]

The car with fiberglass fins is a '56 Studebaker Golden Hawk. That year used a Packard 352 V-8 for power.

[@stevekenworthy8092]

The golden hawk had a 289 supercharged v8

[@mattconnor6779]

@@stevekenworthy8092 - Not in '56. As I stated, it was powered by a Packard 352 for the introductory year. It was the only model of Hawk in '56 to NOT be powered by a Studebaker engine.

[@stevekenworthy8092]

@@mattconnor6779 be that as it may lol but you are right my uncle has a 57 w the 289

[@mikec6892]

Your friends 68 mustang looks more like a Ford maverick.

[@denniscoughlin7437]

Def a Maverick.

[@UberLummox]

He misnamed more than half of the cars. He needs to take Automotive History 101 😁

[@joesphscozzari6904]

Good Eye!

[@michaelclark7037]

God Bless You David! I have never seen a video by someone with less knowledge of older vehicles than you. You certainly chose the wrong subject for a video. I'm still in awe.

[@ajcorter8117]

Lol..

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Never said I was an old car expert but I now own some so well see

[@dave-uf8ir]

He is learning u old fart

[@brandonbman5921]

Towards the end that was the Pontiac version of a Nova. Ventura.

[@Awsom47Merc]

* It's Valiant, then a LeMans convertible (not GTO) next to a Maverick, Studebaker used some fiberglass, the Chevy tow truck is a 61 only year for that hood. The AMX is an Eagle not Javelin ( junk), Lincolns have rear suicide doors not Cadillac, the Cabs are Checkers made in Kalamazoo Michigan and use 327 Chevy engines, the car/pick-up is a UTE they sell in Australia, the 60 Dodge 200D service has a 318 V8 not 440, Celicas Suck except for target practice, the taillights are a Pontiac Ventura (Pontiac version of Nova) the GTO in mid 70's was a tape stripe package only (junk), the PU beds are full of aluminum scrap.

[@stevekirksey9293]

I can’t believe all of the vehicles that you passed by and didn’t give them a second thought it’s a Ventura

[@Junkyard_Dave]

I have walked through that yard 20 times and always find stuff I have never seen before

[@unleavenedkaraiteplus3412]

@@Junkyard_Dave The one with the fiberglass; Studebaker and you bypassed all the tri-fives

[@joshroman1235]

Please what is the location and name of yard , we understand it is in Colorado?? This is a great video

[@rickloera9468]

The Viliant is actually a Valiant. The 68 Mustang is a 1970/72 Maverick. The Studebaker with the fiberglass fins was a factory add on. Studebaker didn't have the money to retool the whole quarter panel, so they made a fiberglass fin that used chrome trim to hide the seams. The Chevy with a missing engine would be a straight six or a V-8. No V-6.

[@number7__879]

It's like going to the grocery store. Seeing all these beautiful cars kind of makes me hungry.

[@ktmxkid243]

The car he thought was a mustang was a Ford maverick.

[@johnhinz1173]

Your GTO is more likely a Lemans or Tempest. The second Pontiac is a Ventura, basically Pontiacs version of the Nova.

[@jefferyhamilton8099]

To answer a couple of your questions that was an oil, bath, air cleaner, the vehicle next to what you said was a GTO was a Ford maverick, the vehicle with the fiberglass back, then was a Studebaker hawk

[@lansesteiner3563]

I wish I had vintage auto yards around me that I could ponder. It would keep me busy for hours. Love that shit

[@longroth4882]

The old one with the fiberglass fins is a 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk. Only a few thousand of them were ever made... Sad to see it go to waste.

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Yeah hopefully someone snags it

[@MrMongo107]

Cadillac never did suicide doors, a tow truck is not a rollback, and then oil bath air cleaner is not an oil filter

[@grandtheftautotune7715]

Along with about 25 other incorrect statements..These guys got bakedbefore they went out there.. Its is Colorado,after all..

[@brandonbman5921]

That’s the difference between Dave and most of us. Where 90% of us look at those and see most total sh*tboxes, Dave sees “whoa that’s cool. For the most part that’s awesome. So much potential.” That vision he has for seeing the potential in this stuff and the skills and determination to make his vision into reality. Respect.

[@ajcorter8117]

Its like watching a stoner .

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Thanks

[@brandonbman5921]

@@Junkyard_Dave thanks for the content and inspiration you give us brother. 👍🏻

[@mattcarsnmusic]

The tragedy of it is that most people enter the classic car world with the fear of scrutinization and ridicule from fellow/senior members of the car community , cars are a wonderful hobby/trade/industry to come into but the show and meet community can become vacuous and insufferable. They will most of the time emotionally chase away younger people who just love cars and want to get started because they don’t have perfect vehicles bought with 401k’s and Pensions. I remember working all day to , let’s say sand down and prime my car just so I felt it was making a little progress and spruced up for a local meet, just to have overweight old guys make fun of it, but hey I guess it comes with the territory. I ended up getting a job in a restoration shop towards my late 20’s and realized the majority of enjoyment with project cars comes from you slowly seeing the car’s Journey to becoming what YOU envisioned not what OTHER’s Expect.

[@dave-uf8ir]

Dude !

[@fishflash1]

I've never visited a tow yard. Very cool and surprised by the number of old vehicles. Great video.

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Thanks

[@johnroof2663]

Need to know the difference between a Chevy El Camino and a Ford Ranchero. The Lincoln motors of the sixties were the 430, and from 65 to 69, it was 462.

[@richardthomas1743]

HEY! Good morning Dave and thumbs UP!! I love junk yards!!

[@morenoqosh9084]

Dave, you should get 1 of those Continental & restore it or get 1 classic & make a restoration content on your channel. Can't wait to see restored those older classic. With your attention to detail, surely it will come out awesome!

[@longroth4882]

The odd looking pickup... Roof line looks like about a 51 Studebaker champion that someone converted. The yellow one with the horizontal taillights close to the end is a 74 Pontiac Ventura, built on the same platform as the Nova. Hard to tell if it was a GTO, some had spoilers on the trunk lid, most had stripes, which this doesn't have, but some were pretty plain in the back half. The front end is where the differences were, hood with shaker scoop, grille, and fender badging, which is all gone.

[@sporty196071]

Sounds like it's more fun and exciting than a car show in the city

[@glsfutura6752]

The white Pontiac up in the air in a nova body was called the Pontiac Ventura.

[@AllSpeed]

the car with the fiberglass is a Studebaker, maybe a silver hawk

[@alexemme3679]

16:30 that lightning bolt gear hood ornament was only on the 6 cyl trucks from 60-66 the v8 trucks had the old overlapped v8 logo there

[@stevensilver1014]

hey Dave need help looking for r ear 1/4 panel for 1965 mercury comet passenger side

[@Junkyard_Dave]

I don't have any

[@stevensilver1014]

ty @@Junkyard_Dave

[@americanrambler4972]

The studebaker business coupe with the pickup bed installed in it at time stamp 22:31 with the ‘DGE’ (Dodge) lettering on it is a really cool mild custom. This would be a perfect candidate to get and swap this body onto a Ford Ranger, Dodge Dakota or a Chevrolet Colorado or S-10 4x4 chassis and running gear. Back in the 40’s to early 50’s, these two door sedans with giant long trunks were a popular traveling salesman and business use vehicle. Looks like the owner removed the trunk lid and narrows a dodge pickup box and welded or bolted it in. It looks like pretty decent conversion with some style.

[@UberLummox]

Yup you nailed it.

[@MrMongo107]

An old Continental like you pointed that would have had a 4:30 in it the 500 engine was only in Cadillac and you didn't come out until 1970

[@ronbelanger4113]

Can not be the only one that sees so many of the cars that were on the road in youth!

[@jeffryblackmon4846]

@11:40 you have found a Studebaker with fiberglass fins. I an surprised to not see any mid-50s Pontiacs.

[@JonjHoffman]

Dave, That Pontiac is a Ventura 2. Same as a Chevy Nova. They did make a GTO that year with this body.

[@pzivg43]

The car you were looking at at 3:51 is a 1948 keller super chief woody wagon. Only 18 were produced. 3 are known to exist.

[@larryhall6416]

Studebaker Hawk was the one with the fiberglass

[@mikechrisman5988]

Studebaker hawk around 1957

[@teresaboucher9371]

Where exactly is this located.

[@severride0190]

Man id wish i was in the US just to find something like this junkyard with treasures hidden

[@nextchapter024]

Junkyards are soooo therapeutic!!!!

[@rayphillips332]

It's hard to find salvage yards like that anymore it was a cool walk arpund.

[@RatherBeRestoring]

@23:45 you should snag that 5 window if you can, that would make a good project.

[@chrislangston1664]

You looked at a turquoise Ford truck. Looked at the speedometer,and said it sayes six thousand miles. The way you tell if those are original or a hundred,& six thousand miles. Is look at the brake pedal. If it is worn down on the right side of it. It's a hundred,& six thousand miles. If it is not it is original miles.

[@markdeboer413]

Its a pontiac ventura..they did make them as gto..but i believe those are ventura taillights..

[@ThomasSmith-fz6wq]

The gold car on top was a Pontiac Ventura! Same as a Chevy nova!

[@windellwright5343]

There were tons of treasures there!!! Want to see what you bought

[@Junkyard_Dave]

The first car will be in tomorrows video

[@mattconnor6779]

The car with the pickup bed in the trunk is someone's creation. It is based on a '50 or '51 Studebaker business coupe.

[@Fony_turgeson]

Its people like this. That hoard stuff away. And charge high prices. Instead of just taking what someone wants to give. It's better then it sitting around. So sad. Many many cars sit around and rust because of greedy owners

[@filibertosaucedo6642]

What junk yard is that? and where is it located?

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Colorado

[@SSRsGarage]

27:54 Pontiac Ventura

[@SSRsGarage]

Could still be a gto. You’d need to run the numbers.

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Yeah

[@catlinmackenzie910]

That yellow car you thought was a gto I do believe it's around a 74 Pontiac Ventura

[@carlinshowalter1806]

Great tour,lots of cool stuff. I was digging on the 63-64 Chevys

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Thanks 👍

[@robertbarre4400]

The SAAB don't have a two-cylinder - It has a fourbanger with overhead cam from Triumph... And the so-called white El Camino is a Ford and definitley is a 1972 Ranchero, I know because I had one (GT with 351 cleveland 4W engine)... Despite this - cool to see your Junkyard tour. And I'm looking forward to see your very well built Charger wagon finished and driven.

[@dodgeplow]

Saab had 2 and 3-cylinder cars. He may not know what years.

[@d.j.9961]

I had my car sabotaged on 2004 & I traded my 03 Yamaha Blaster for a 1977 f-150 that had a 429 & c6 transmission. The previous owner built the 429 when he was in high-school 13/1 compression! It would lift the front wheels when it grabbed traction but for the most part, it would bake the 33 inch tires that I put on it.

[@moonrainbow1455]

That is the brother to the nova

[@jamesstartz289]

I am interested in the 73-75 blazer that was by the Pontiac convertible at the 9:30 point of your video. Also in the ford f1.

[@mikeleithren4808]

What you were thinking was a Pontiac GTO is a Pontiac Ventura which shared the same body with the Chevy Nova and the Olds Omega.

[@Jjf-ep3mf]

Dave where is this yard located?

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Colorado

[@genefogarty5395]

But how are the prices? I had a clown try and charge me 275 for a crusty 72 Duster fender last week, WITHOUT shipping. An hr. later I had a guy that I met on a forum driving from the neighboring state with a much cleaner fender, gauge cluster, some window trim and a console for 250. For that I had to take him out for a burger at the local watering hole, lol.

[@mikeycunningham2307]

The Pontiac is a ventura

[@davidjenkins1958]

It was a 73- around 76 Pontiac Ventura, also made into a GTO. I DONT ever remember Cadillac having suicide doors, plus Cadillac had the 500 engine not Lincoln.

[@stevekenworthy8092]

Correct Lincoln had a 462 MEL engine

[@TheNismo777]

Its a valiant/dart mostlikely 8:46 Would love to have that black 2dr impala, Great project to restore

[@elizabethwulf8710]

Just to let you know that car that was sitting beside the GTO was called a Mercury Comet

[@MM_in_Havasu]

Lotta cool stuff in there! Tow/salvage yards like that are few & far between anymore. Thanks Dave!

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Yeah its unfortunate that a lot of good cars get scrapped and crushed

[@bigsexymuthashutyomouth2546]

@Junkyard Dave Damn Silas over at Adventures Made From Scratch crushes or cuts the noses off of cool stuff all of the time. He's a scrap yard in Kansas and he can make more money selling the noses or back ends for wall art or when prices are up he can crush a car and get more money than people are willing to pay. Kinda can't blame him but damn it's sad!

[@RatherBeRestoring]

@16:05 that totally looks like someone was ejected through that front window! 😮 pre-safety glass

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Yeah the steering wheel says your probably correct

[@loualiberti4781]

Dude U R killing it with your content !!

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Thanks 😊

[@rsprockets7846]

@@Junkyard_Dave that crew cAB squarebody is worth 5k as is here

[@davidgwin4540]

I you want to build a vw beetle. Go with one 1964 and older. The older the better my friend. Cool video too. It makes me want to hit the junk yard out here in San Diego.

[@cesarmagdaleno6009]

I would have loved to get the Celica, the Pontiac that looked like the Nove and that 56’ Ford F100. I hope you got at least the Celica, so you can trick it out.

[@Junkyard_Dave]

There are tons of things I would like to buy

[@Toofargonetosave]

These cars need to be preserved they don't make these anymore. That's just history left to rot away. I hope no Chryslers were there. They deserve to be repaired and treated with love.

[@lynnmcmullen3157]

One that looks like a nova was an Oldsmobile omega I believe. Friend had one when we were young. Good times. That white Malibu oh my

[@chrissytaylor5690]

That yellow/gold Pontiac on top of that other car is a "Ventura". If it's a 74 you could still get the GTO option package with it........ But those are super rare! 🤷‍♀️

[@blacksupersport8311]

That's a 73/74 Pontiac Ventura they did have a GTO version but I don't think that was one. Buick Apollo and Oldsmobile Omega was their version also like Chevy was a Nova.

[@000nikko]

Pontiac Ventra

[@paulthomasshepherd5156]

You might find a good ashtray in one of them or even some lugnuts.

[@MrSalsa1973]

Min 9:58 … That’s a Maverick…70’s low budget Tang… Cool car tho!!

[@richardbarnes522]

Sweet video dave i love walking around salvage yards. That dodge service truck is awesome

[@fortyseven1832]

The pontiac is a 1973 or 74 ventura. If it's a 74 it could be one of 7700 74 gto package venturas

[@Big88Country]

New Sub! Hey guys, where is this place at? I'm getting ready to start traveling the country and would love to come by this place. That yellow Pontiac was a Ventura, pretty sure anyway.

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Thanks for subbing!

[@brianoleary129]

That Pontiac you were looking at was a Ventura it was a better looking Nova, but still a Nova.

[@jamescorvett]

everything is for sale if you've got the $$. Lol My buddy in Flagstaff has been sending me pics of all those junk yards out there. He's almost talked me into driving out from Indiana with a semi and double stack car hauler. I need some new projects but idk about that long-haul...but its prob worth the trip.

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Its crazy that you can still find rare cars just sitting

[@scottysgarage4393]

There sits that amazing truck and you walk around it to look at a Saab?

[@inezmartinez2333]

Good afternoon my name is Paul and I am having my 1972 Skylark convertible 2 door restored and am in need of a driver door and any other rust free parts but have an issue as they appear to be quite rare. Planing a trip to hunt yards and would like some information on locations to try. Thanks for the video. My granddaughter hijacked my KZbin account btw.

[@terrallputnam7979]

That unusual car with the fiberglass was a Studebaker Lark.

[@shanefluhr6454]

You're wrong

[@francisvolner1355]

The yellow Pontiac is a Ventura Pontiac's version of the Chevy Nova

[@reggeckmann3993]

❤ Dave! Love to see your take in an old Ford or muscle car. I'm a fomoco guy!. Be super cool!!🎉

[@soberman1976]

DD Speed Shop needs that 57 wagon!!!

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Tag em

[@soberman1976]

@@Junkyard_Dave not sure how

[@rodneybrown1696]

@ddspeedshop

[@shawnecklor7960]

At around 22:25 that is a studebaker that was a ude in Austrialia

[@d.j.9961]

That bluish Valient woukd make a nice hotrod!!! Drop in a 73 sb400 bored .030 over & stroked to a 406 stroker or 412 (.060 over) I need another 1973 sb400 in my life!!!!

[@MidnightCustoms111]

15:05 the 73 and the 67/68 chevy truck i need info

[@todddenio3200]

I'm sorry but I had to laugh at some of the misidentifications on some of the cars. That supposed 68 Mustang is a Ford Maverick. The GTO convertible was a Lemans. The car with the fiberglass that surprised you so much was a Studebaker.

[@LapLandSystem]

13:47 that isuzu amigo tho... I havent seen one in ages.

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Probably

[@brotherskrillrc6042]

Buy the elcamino,That orange station wagon looked like a 64 65chevy nova 2 wagon great car to restore😊

[@thebigfut]

If he had titles for the cars he owns there, might need to visit for my next project.

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Anything over 35 years you just bond for a title

[@CorollaMAD97]

Wow I'd love to live near that , we don't have anything like that over here , be lucky to see cars from the 90s in a scrapyard now I would do anything for that Lincoln continental I'd say the celica is pretty ruff underneath

[@Junkyard_Dave]

Yards like this are getting harder and harder to find

[@dave-uf8ir]

Yes my fav yard of 40+ years is gon sad

[@mrdiplomat9018]

At 9:00, it’s a Plymouth Valiant, only one of the most popular cars Chrysler ever made ❗️😵‍💫🤦‍♀️

[@josephsummers2427]

Yup around 1971 Plymouth Valiant. Commonly 225 slant 6 "leaning tower of power", like the engine next to it at 8:08 in the 1972 Dodge Dart.

[@shanethompson7543]

Love seeing these old cars 🚗 👊👊👊👊

[@Junkyard_Dave]

There are just so many good body lines

[@deanh7190]

8 cars! When do we get a video tour of those treasures?

[@Junkyard_Dave]

One video is coming out tomorrow

[@deanh7190]

@@Junkyard_Dave Thank you Dave.

[@americanrambler4972]

Wow. You made this old guy feel really really old! Mistaking a Plymouth Valiant for a Plymouth Road Runner. (Totally different body!) not reconsizing a Ford Maverick and calling it a Mustang. Not recognizing a Studebaker coupe from the 1950s. Fiberglass was being used on cars starting in the late 1940’s.

[@ncron1109]

Buy one of the f100s the crown vic front end just go right under the frame! It's stupid easy to modernize!!!

[@Junkyard_Dave]

I might have to get an old truck I have been wanting one

[@ncron1109]

I have a 73 and the amount of parts that are direct swaps for them are insane. I'm setup with a ls and all disk brakes