Saving More Cars From the Crusher! Part 2 of 2

I went to the Stan Reynolds site to buy a couple of 1951 Kaisers that were going to be destroyed if they didn't find a home. I got lucky and heard about these cars just in time; many others had already been cubed. In part 2 of this video I take a walk past the stacks of the less fortunate ones...

[@coldwarmotors]

Hi Paul; thanks for checking it out! Unfortunately, NJ is pretty far out of our range here; I mostly have my hands (and yard) full just rescuing local cars. I hope you are able to find homes for those classics, and thank- you for your kind offer!

[@chemxfan4340]

We live in such a throwaway society, & the things we should value the most pay the price. While everyone else is clamoring for the latest wired-up gizmobile(I hesitate to call them "automobiles"), give me a car that will require me to use MY senses in order to operate & maintain it. Thank you, Stella, & your fellow Agents for at least trying to save Automotive History.

[@coldwarmotors]

Hey, thanks and thanks for watching. You were one of the first subscribers to my channel. I saw the Plymouths you rescued; the Fury was amazing, but pretty far gone! The other 4 door didn't look too bad... I never thought I would end up with 3 of these Kaisers, either... and all 1951s! I have to put one on the road now. I love the styling of these cars!

[@insencia]

It just broke my heart to see those wonderful irreplaceable vintage treasures going into the crusher. Thank the gods of steel and fire there are men like Scott and the CWM agents who are rescuing these wrecks from certain doom. Scott, it would be a dream come true to become an agent and have you as a friend and mentor. It is such a treat to watch you turn rusty and dented metal into shiny like-new parts. I am addicted to CWM. Keep up the great work in preserving automotive history! You're a good Joe!

[@coldwarmotors]

Stel was pretty excited, but she is always pretty excited about something! Hey, thanks for watching this stuff!

[@ginomorris4873]

Every time I watch this I cringe I live in Massachusetts and have such tragic sites crushed beautiful cars I couldn't save. it's trash to so many but to the few of us who appreciate the vintage design of the past it actually hurts to see what happens to these in my opinion treasures..keep saving them buddy!!!!

[@coldwarmotors]

Hey, thanks for checking them out. Your model car junkyard is awesome, keep it up!

[@robertnicholson7192]

When I was a Locomotive engineer, we used to pass piles of baled scrap automobiles when making deliveries to Union Pacific. Like you, I always felt a little sad at the fate of someone's one time pride and joy

[@larryharp2489]

Sick seeing the crushed piles. Glad you could save two classics!

[@johnberkan1234]

Thank you so very much for saving those Kaisers, we need more people like you!

[@moparedtn]

It's almost overwhelming to think of each of those cars' histories.... The employees all along the manufacturing, then the owners in their timelines afterwards and the adventures they got into with each. To me, that's as much of the loss as the actual body itself. - Ed on the Ridge

[@1947Desoto]

Glad to see that these old beauties are getting saved from the crusher! Hope the rest of those '30s-'50s cars get saved too. Your Kaiser find would make a great article for Hemmings!

[@VintageCars999]

I like how you save these, shame that they all couldn't be saved though.

[@deREk34566]

its so sad to see such rare cool cars turned to scrap but glad to see your doing what you can to save them

[@pappabob29]

Love those 35 Ford wire wheels on Model A's. Looked like you could have filled a few trucks with them there. Shame!!! Glad you got those 3 Frazers and nice to see all the "old guys" back at "The Home". ;o)

[@Kinseydsp]

I want to personally thank you for all the Cars you save! You do what I wish I could do Thanks!

[@Kinseydsp]

@@jimd2101 LOL Really

[@malkie638]

Nice to see this older show with Stell running in the snow

[@redradiodog]

I have always been an old car nut and I enjoy watching you save these treasures!

[@angingls656]

It brings back the time when I was eight or nine ,I was watching my mamas TV. It was that great grand canyon rescue episode.

[@1949kf]

Makes me sad looking at all those crushed vintage cars. Thanks for your efforts at saving a llittle history from oblivion. I have an all original 1948 Buick Super 4 door (248 Fireball 8 w/3 speed manual) I brought back to life that surely would have been crushed just like that old Kaiser. It was beyond economc restoration , but with some effort I put it in good driving condition and "fixed up" the cosmetics so at least it doesnt look like an old abandoned car. I drive it regularly and have lots of fun with it.. So there is a place for unrestored "fixed up" old cars . They get used rather than only looked at.

[@coldwarmotors]

Yes, I agree. Fixing up a car that is not really economically feasible enough that it can be enjoyed dents and all is a great alternative to just letting it sit. All the best from us here at CWMC.

[@AudioMobil]

It's so heart breaking to see all those crushed cars. I know, you can't save them all but it's truly a shame no one else did. You're doing a great job rescuing those Kaisers. I once had the chance to buy two 57 Plymouths at a junkyard in Switzerland...and I did it. They were too far gone to be saved but good for parts. I don't think this will ever happen to me again...

[@paulbowers7343]

Old Kaisers.....memories of my childhood! My Dad had a '48 Traveller, 2 '51 Henry J, and Grandpa had a '53 Manhattan.

[@OnlyTheEd]

Way to go! Make a grown man cry because they crushed so many classic cars. :-(

[@teknonut1946]

+OnlyTheEd ...Its a horror story but all too comon in our greed based society. I've seen some nightmares up here in Genesee county Michigan, I saw a yard with a 20 foot deep pile of antique trim, get crushed, along with a Nash metro, complete repairable car, 58 Chev, 2dr yeoman wagon, probably 30-40 crushed. The places that really bothered me were the one that had 3-4 car high stacks of old cars all around and you couldn't touch anything in the stacks. When the 1st mobile crushers came around all that old detroit iron was gone.

[@oldodger]

It's always about money or, the lack of.... People ask, what you would after winning the lottery. I, would buy up these places and give the cars away to good homes like yours sir.

[@grandprismatic]

Snow adds an awesome contrast, nice work Scott on a re-watching binge

[@672egalaxie6]

same here, and still just as hard to watch those old gems getting baled up.

[@mynameis9057]

let me guess, the old grand pa that put his whole life into that yard and collection passed away and the family just saw $s parcelling the land out for more walmarts,home depots and what Mr carlen called affluen za.progress at the expense of our history ,doesn't feel like progress at all.

[@joekaplowitz2719]

I am sure this trip to the crusher made you cherish your own collection that much more!

[@BigbunnySSS]

I like that your cars have friends indeed!

[@demoderbyguy1989]

Brought tears to my eyes

[@ImForwardlook]

Thank you for saving the two friends...the bales were so sad to see...why oh why....

[@Sohave]

You are cool, thanks for the effort on bringing some cool steel back on the roads.

[@lcar4000]

Thanks for saving these two, as well as the Plymouth!

[@san379]

thoes cars are so happy you saved them..there front bumpers are smiling and they know they go to a good home .. its like going to an orphanage to look at lil kids.. you want to bring them all home and save them all because there all the best

[@icebluecuda1]

heart wrenching. Those aircraft are incredibly rare. they are... or were worth A LOT to any restoration shop working on a Blehneim or Skyraider. Criminal to crush it all.

[@thelifeofguyon]

You're a good guy.

[@stevew270]

20 years ago or so my uncle too me to visit a guy who had a 51 Kaiser Manhattan completely restored from the frame up, absolutely beautiful car, she looked and ran like a brand new one. I wish I knew if he is still alive or not, I'd love to see it again.

[@robertironside3166]

I'd love any number of these cars. Soooo sad. Good for you saving the Kaiser's. :-/ Bummer about the others. Crazy world.

[@JimBales]

I share your amazing passion for old cars.

[@coldwarmotors]

I will probably do a pretty detailed video of the entire project eventually, but if you want, I can do a walk around of the cars in the spring when the snow is gone. Then I can get the hoods and trunks open; everything is seized shut right now. Thanks for watching!

[@roosty6]

Very interesting. Hope somebody saves that Monarch. It looks way too good to crush. I've got a 52 Merc in worse shape that I am saving .

[@paulmcnair8106]

heartbreaking.... glad you were able to pull a couple.

[@aliikaimi1932]

My kinda guy. Thank you for saving those two cars. Ill try to do more in my neck of the woods. Hawaii

[@markfortin421]

After watching this video...I happened to walk by my wife, and she stopped and said "Your eyes are all red...have you been crying?" And I told her "You wouldn't understand". I walked out to the garage...and just stared at the wall for like an hour..... 😞😢😣

[@dreadpenguinlord340]

Browsing this lot gives me the same feeling as going to the dog pound and only being able to save one :(

[@johnboutchia2349]

Heart breaking to see all that history crushed

[@coldwarmotors]

A Traveler? Great! What a cool car. Good luck!

[@juliancrooks3031]

Almost criminal seeing those old classic cars destroyed

[@normmelanson9345]

Hi Scott another great episode. That's Savoy still has live in her....Maybe future project

[@coldwarmotors]

Thank you, and thanks for watching!

[@RockProductionsYT]

its actually horrifying to think there are people who still crush classic cars.

[@mynameis9057]

just a fucking crying shame,but Stella at the end and some saved made that ease the pain . I loved playing in and discovering cool stuff in car yards as a kid all through the many states i grew up in during the 70s &80s.

[@coldwarmotors]

Hey, thanks for watching 'em! I've got lots coming this summer, once the snow finally goes away...

[@ferlenarab]

That Monarch would make an awesome Lead Sled I hope it found a buyer.

[@LarsonFamilyFarm-LLC]

good job on saving the kaisers

[@joes3485]

Glad you managed to get the two Kaisers. I always thought they were nice looking cars. Unfortunately they were seriously underpowered. If I were restoring one I would try to find a more powerful engine to replace the original.

[@Jonathan-dq8hb]

How about a Jaguar DOHC six from an E type ? With a T5 stick.

[@LordVikingLive]

Save every old car you can find. And if money is a problem, sell your new shit. We're saving history here ! I feel every car is an individual.

[@coldwarmotors]

Thanks, I think they look happy, too.

[@LegendsWorkshop]

Anytime y'all want to get mad at someone for hoarding all their cars and leaving them outdoors, watch this video. This is what saved from the crusher means, and people like Scott have been doing it for 100 years. They can't all go into a building. It's either into the back 40, or into the baler.

[@ronsbeerreviewstools4361]

Good job saving those Kaisers , to me they are special cars in time.

[@coldwarmotors]

Hey thanks for checking it out; nice to hear from other Kaiser fans!

[@ronsbeerreviewstools4361]

Iam not a big Kaiser -Frazer fan, But the 1954 Kaiser-Darrin-Frazer 161, the fiber glassed body car was historical.

[@VictorGarcia-u7u4b]

Glad you cold save them it breaks my heart to see the three Kaisers that were mostly complete. they are very rare. Hope someone buys the three of them.

[@bluetoes591]

I feel queasy after watching this...so much history, just gone.

[@thebear5454]

This episode made me ill. Criminal that so many classics were crushed.

[@Fullthrottle440Garage]

thanks you for saving those cars

[@Sig721Tau]

That Poodle was like hell yeah, Im fun. Lol

[@Skili19]

Put up some videos of them I'd love to see them

[@kroakie4]

I'm glad you saved those cars.

[@MattGleason1]

Great stuff, thanks for posting! I've watched all of your videos probably more than once!

[@ranchwagonforde9780]

So many sweet solid iron bodies in there! Were the cars priced individually or was there a flat going-price per car?

[@coldwarmotors]

RanchWagon Forde Hey, thanks for the note... I think all of the cars were priced at scrap value; I only bought these two. Funny enough though, I may end up with the 3 earlier-model Kaisers in this video, too! Cheers.

[@delmascriss7299]

Sad day for all of us car guys......rebuild...save. 😎

[@san379]

wish you could of saved them all eh? just buy that old junkyard and clean it up and junk only the junk and save the big barn and line them up like a wallmart parkinglot

[@kurtmccarthy6733]

Ohhh maybe you can straitened some of that out Scott ??🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@kroakie4]

Those are such beautiful Kaisers. I

[@SecondChanceMowers710]

these are great vids for inspiration on my hobby of a model car junkyard

[@Matt40andstuff]

Yeah its true, even people like this who apparently saved hundreds of cars... dont live forever. and then a volume of cars like this is tough to sell in a reasonable amount of time. Hope one day I can buy property like this just to get the cars on it haha.

[@seanjessee2940]

Oldies are the best. 11years

[@lcar4000]

51 Kaisers were considered a landmark design. Hope you can restore at least one of them! Thanks!

[@coldwarmotors]

lcar4000 Yeah, I love 51 Kaisers; always wanted one. Now I have everything I need to put one on the road...

[@Gazpacho8]

It's a shame but there clearly just isn't enough demand for these old cars. They sit and sit and sit and then you eventually have to get rid of them. It's a business not a museum. At least you managed to save those old Kaisers slowest car in the world!

[@granskare]

we had a similar junkyard here by Mississippi River. It got flooded out and finally it all went on auction..guy likely wanted too much but now had to take what he could

[@Kevinsstuffful]

How can someone even sleep at night after destroying all tholse astonishing cars

[@gwstubbs7046]

so sad to see all those vintage vehicles crushed.

[@hcombs0104]

Looking at those crushed cars is a lot like going to a cemetery. Very sad.

[@antoniocovarrubias7831]

It’s sad to see all those classic cars in the crusher, thousands of good parts just go to the trash.

[@bossdog1480]

Crimes against carmanity. Panel beater's going to have his hands full. Absolute car-nage.

[@coldwarmotors]

Hey! Thanks for subscribing... lots more to come!

[@coldwarmotors]

I have heard that the Monarch is going to be saved. Thanks for checking it out!

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

Perhaps more of these old classic could be saved in the future if the owners did not ask such high asking prices. I tried to get a 1952 Ford from this old guy but he wanted 5000 for it

[@spiritusmalingus343]

We'll all be sent to the crusher, one day.

[@verdant2215]

As Indiana Jones would say "They belong in a museum!"

[@destry232]

Great save! Sad to see the iron that didn't make it. Did Stel hop in the Kaisers yet to give her approval of the new additions to the fleet?

[@angingls656]

Nevertheless. A while ago but the baling of those cars is horrendous. `I could see those thrashers come,and the water shone like diamonds in the dew`

[@SuperSpeedster13]

good job on saving those to bad the rest were crushed alot of those could have been restored or even parted out for double to triple the scrap value its to bad the rest were crushed

[@joshsmith8575]

So sad! We would kill to have a yard like that here! Awful that they crushed so many.

[@russelldarin1810]

Man that is so fkn depressingly sad ty for saving 2 tho

[@fastdrive55]

The crushed wooden wheel is probably the paramount of horror....

[@coldwarmotors]

Yeah, I hated seeing all of that stuff baled, especially the 41 Dodge that we had arrived too late to save.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

I don't even know how this is possible in the year 2012. Good cars of this period is getting hard to find!!! How in the hell does this happen?!?

[@stevengrotte2987]

I hope you also were able to save the Hudson & the Mercury Monarch.

[@chriskingston4270]

It seems like an awful lot of orphans were laid to rest in that part of Alberta. I've never seen so many packards, studes, or kaisers before.

[@MattGleason1]

What is this thing called 'snow'? (j/k, in Texas). Will be looking for the new videos! Wish I had some places here to explore. Everything goes to the crusher fast, not many junkyards or field cars to find anymore. Anyway, my favorite is that '58 Mayfair, very cool car (only have seen the American Plymouth version... dig the bullets on the front bumper/grille.

[@sulistiman]

Holy moley they crushed a lot of them already

[@oliverw3646]

Did you keep those two Kaisers? They were pretty nice