The Under-A-Grand Club

Steve examines five solid Mopars from the 2021 Freedom Car Auctions Great Texas Mopar Hoard Auction Event that sold for next to nothing. One is an incredibly rare 1960 Plymouth Savoy Police Pursuit that sold for just $287.50. You can’t say classic cars are too expensive after watching this video!

[@TeckTrek3055]

everyone just put all his videos in que and let it play all night and day, this man deserves it.

[@ScottDLR]

Been doing that for weeks. We let it run all night.

[@TimBrown-mq7po]

So glad to see Steve has bounced back from his encephalitis and is on the mend. Lets recognize his superiority of automotive knowledge and willingness to share it with us. God's gift to gear heads the word over. Long live Steve Magnante

[@IndridCool54]

Your knowledge is unmatched Steve, I hope you’re getting better from your medical problems and that you come back to us soon. 🙏🏼

[@garyspaun5237]

Just watched Steve on a prior Barret Jackson show - always on the top of his game.

[@Ray56z]

Good those all avoided the crusher and someone made good use of all or parts of them. Gotta love this info.

[@Daniel-fd3wp]

@Ray 56 The Car Gods saved them from the crusher.👍

[@nicktriplett1976]

Nothing saying they didn't scrap is up unfortunately

[@Ray56z]

@@nicktriplett1976 Paid more than a scrap yard will pay, at the very least some parts were used/sold before final scraping. Beginning of this series Steve said the family was just going to sell all of them to a scrap yard for $200 a piece when Spanky stepped in suggesting this auction. One alone brought the price of 14 scraped-$2800.

[@TeckTrek3055]

everyone just put all his videos in que and let it play all night and day, this man deserves it.

[@talfacprez]

You are a smart man wearing chigger protection in the tall grass.

[@SteveMagnante]

Good observation! The shin guards were mostly for protection against RATTLE SNAKE BITES. The owners of the collection insisted that we all wear them because the closest hospital was too far to drive within the 1/2 hour that rattle snake venom locks you up. I wasn't arguing, and YES I did spot a rattler! Go to the Video Menu to see a video about this now-deceased rattler! THANKS again for writing, Steve Magnante

[@UberLummox]

The black '60 Savoy Fleet Special makes Christine look like a frilly little cup cake. I need that!

[@UberLummox]

It's the Anti-Christ-ine

[@rogercamp6071]

I knew a fellow when I was a kid that had a twin to it, solid black and yes the mighty Slant 6

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

We're all pulling for you Steve. Watching your old videos to try to help pay your bills

[@akdoc2003]

Watching these sure gives hope to those looking for their first project car! With such great bodies to work with, I can't wait to see some of these in their new homes!

[@TeckTrek3055]

everyone just put all his videos in que and let it play all night and day, this man deserves it.

[@000mrman105]

I am so mad watching how cheap these went for. Great examples! Someone got lucky with enough money left to actually restore these after they bought them.

[@alan6832]

A 2 door post taxi cab? how does that work???

[@jeremyedgell9989]

I fill the same way.. Wish I could get that lucky.

[@TeckTrek3055]

everyone just put all his videos in que and let it play all night and day, this man deserves it.

[@garyspaun5237]

These videos bring back a lot of memories.

[@SuperOperator4]

About 25 years ago I sold my friends 1961 Dodge pioneer Seneca on Ebay to a man in Germany. He wanted some lawn art. Car was totally rusted out, from NH. a grand later a wrecker picked it up, put it on a barge, and overseas it went....

[@haroldbirge6881]

We sure love to have all the mopars I've owned from the beginning to the end miss them 😎 great job Steve as always 💰✌️

[@Ray56z]

Yep, between what Dad and I owned, love to have any of them again.

[@LongIslandMopars]

@@Ray56z Same here. Of all the ones we had, the 66 Coronet my dad bought new is the sole survivor that I now take care of.

[@Ray56z]

@@LongIslandMopars Nice! '66 was the last year Dad was buying new MOPARS, switched to LTDs, but we had 4 or 5 he'd bought new since '56 at that time. My favorite then at 10 yrs old was the '57 New Yorker with the 392. My 2nd tagged car at 16 was a '64 Barracuda I'd picked up riding along with a friend and his dad(used car dealer)to an auto auction. Mint condition until they started it-10 seconds and you couldn't see the sales ring for the smoke. Factory 4-epeed, console delete, every option but air. I 'somehow' blew it up 1/4 mile from home, knowing where to get a 340 a speedshop had built for a short rail slingshot the guy couldn't pay for. Of any brand car I've owned that'd be the first I'd replace if I decide to do so. I later had faster cars, a lot more valuable cars, but that'd be the one.

[@LongIslandMopars]

@@Ray56z very cool. My first car was a 64 Valiant Signet 200 convertible. It was a junkyard wreck that my dad bought in 71 and made it drivable. It was a second car until I became of driving age. Slant 6, typewriter transmission, rusty beyond imagination and patched with a/c duct sheet metal, rivets, and a whole lot of plastic fantastic. Sold her for cheap after dad passed and brought the Coronet home to be with me. It keeps my Charger company. Best memories a son could ever hope to have.

[@TeckTrek3055]

everyone just put all his videos in que and let it play all night and day, this man deserves it.

[@stevelaudico5631]

Hi Steve I'm steve also. I'm watching tha texas auction preview. growing up driving the 60 /70 s mopars my dad sold them I've had many original that were taken in on trades.i bought a 1965 coronet 440 convertible in 1990 for a 12 year restoration still have it today.. I also had a north east 64 330 with 27.000 original miles . I was on my way to work and I always saw a 64 / 4dr I waited one day to follow him to his place too note soon after I didn't see it anymore stopped by his place to find the 4drhalf in his driveway with a broken axle.it winds up being a 64 police car.after talking to the elderly man I made him a 800 dollar offer weeks later I was hauling it home .. all the heavy duty police components and the 383 were installed in the 64 330 it was a monster .dismantled the police car and saved everything years later I had to sell some stuff I'm sick knowing what there values are today ....I have been holding on to 2 1964 440s a 2dr post with everything to build a max wedge the car Its in really good shape considering it's from Montana..the other 64 is a station wagon it's a little rougher though.im not an engine person never was but I can do all that's needed..sorry for the lengthy reply

[@johnnieguitar5724]

Great Video Steve. If only I was 20 years younger and richer.....

[@UberLummox]

The '65 Chrysler in front of the '64 Savoy has white taillights. A MEGA rare 1/2 yr. option. Either that or maybe it's toasted white from the sun!

[@johnkranyics281]

I thought the New Yorkers had white tail lights and headlight covers in 65.

[@UberLummox]

@@johnkranyics281 Yeah, that's what I said, the '65 Chrysler.

[@andydanko7074]

Loving me some Steve! Hang in there buddy😢

[@dorianleclair7390]

I love how those hoods still open and stay up.

[@herrunsinn774]

10:51 My mother bought this same 440 model new, but with a 3-speed pushbutton auto. It suffered through years of my teenage driving abuse. I'd borrow it from her every weekend. After driving down the street a few blocks from our house, I would stop and pop off the hubcaps and save them in the trunk. I'd also pop off the air cleaner and stash it as well. The 318 would "growl" without an air cleaner. It had no power steering, but because it was a relatively light car, the steering wasn't heavy. I absolutely tortured this car (which teenage boys who have not learned to respect other people's property tend to do.) For example, while cruising slowly past girls, I would push the neutral button, rev the engine, then push the drive button, "laying a patch" of rubber. I did this dozens and dozens of times, without any noticeable damage to that amazing Torqueflite transmission. (And no... the girls were not impressed.) ... This car was amazing. I think she traded it in with 140k miles on it, and never had a lick of trouble with it all that time. (No thanks to me.) Thanks mom, for trusting me with your car.... and sorry for not being worthy of that trust. 😊

[@arthurmccarron4379]

This. Will go down. In. Mopar. History. Thanks

[@edsyphan3425]

I know you had your eye on that old Savoy, but that white Chrysler next to it would have got my bid.

[@DaveInCanada081]

I wish I would have known about this auction because I would have payed $3000 or $4000 for each of those cars. They are like gold!

[@peniscaughtinzipper]

I scored a 64 savoy max wedge clone for free out of a scrap pile here in alberta. Ya never know what's out there.

[@williambowen1771]

Aaaaaagg!! Unreal great price for beautiful iron.

[@tonychavez2083]

i love the plain slant 6 with 3 speed column shift, "Leaning Tower of Power"!!!

[@Dog.soldier1950]

Seeing your office makes me feel better mine about

[@stevehenderson2571]

Get well Steve. We all miss you buddy.

[@robertsnyder5149]

Steve, I had a 64 model 440 four door and I got it for 100 bucks, It had typewriter drive. I got it running by tearing the valve train apart and getting oil to the rockers. After that it ran strong and would lay rubber with the poly 318 two barrel in it. Sold it for 400 bucks.

[@johnlorusso1835]

Nice! The haney family got 750 grand for the cars The parts he had must of sold well to!!!!

[@unclebob7937]

As the Cold War Motors crew would say: Turn up the base!

[@christopherpeterson1400]

Love the old power

[@remko1238]

Rewatching - get well Steve 👏🏽

[@Pedroisanickname]

I like the rattlesnake gators Steve, thanks for bringing us along.

[@Rumpleskin]

I was thinking this ain't new England. Copperheads rattlesnake and the dreaded water moccasins....o my.

[@edysinsimon8646]

Perhaps my favorite model/year of the mopars! 1964 Plymouth Belvedere 2 door post car or if possible, the convertible model! I'll never forget the 1st time I rode in that car. Just a spectacular car! Hell, the grill alone is worth the money paid!

[@Bob0sModelFabWorx]

The first car looks like the taxis that were in the movie "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world".

[@CycolacFan]

Similar, that’s a 1960 while they were 1959 Belvederes.

[@stevehenderson2571]

Get well Steve. We miss you buddy.

[@bladerunnerbar]

love youre videos,these cars bring back many memories

[@LeSiZmOr]

Get well soon Steve!

[@pmafterdark]

It's amazing to think one man had all these cars. I'm really happy to know most of them found a home as opposed to getting crushed.

[@MrWill73]

Great rundown on these great old Mopars Steve!

[@Joshua-cv7mp]

Just found the channel. Love it

[@gthomer1231]

some great mopars there

[@paulwerner3150]

Thanks for the vids, friend. We all appreciate and envy your encyclopedic knowledge about all things cars. Hey, and you seem like a nice guy too! Cheers

[@stevehenderson2571]

I used to jokingly say when any car cranked forever before starting it sounded like a 57 Plymouth.

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

I can't believe that 62 Dart sold for $460!!! I could've bought it!!! I'm so mad at myself for not checking out the online auction. I just assumed that everything would sell for more than I could afford. So depressing. I love that oddball body style

[@Daniel-fd3wp]

@D.A.L 78 You and me both. Lots of these folks scored on these Mopars.

[@barbershoppodcast]

Scott from Cold War Motors woulda loved himself a Texas Savoy for $230 USD I tells you what I do!

[@w3dnesd4y57]

For a minute I thought Steve was gonna interview that manifold.

[@scottmiller3025]

Steve , u sure do put the magnet to use...lol , great to see the effort. Love ur work.

[@mymoparstoo]

So much knowledge!

[@bluesharp59]

Cool video and a thumbs up for you.

[@Mercmad]

Black 60 Savaloy has almost readable writing on the drivers door,something about a department.

[@CycolacFan]

Yeah I saw that, paused it at 2:20 but couldn’t work it out. Might be 84 or B4 at the left of it.

[@nicktriplett1976]

Band Department for a college maybe it's second Life? Sure could fit more than a tuba in that trunk

[@RC-cc4rv]

Get well Steve!

[@luvr381]

What about Dean's Greasy Flips?

[@dyer2cycle]

..Coldwar Motors needed those '60 Plymouths... :)

[@avalon1rae]

Thank you Steve

[@unclemarksdiyauto]

What a great bunch of cars under that $1000! Someone got some great deals!

[@dogpotter]

Thank for sharing

[@mikedrown2721]

My father had a '64 330 just like this one even the same color, but it had torqueflite

[@hughmarloweverest1684]

That 330 1964 Dodge is a dead ringer for my immediate neighbor’s car. We lived in Oceanside. My neighbors were elderly. We moved away in 1972 and lost touch with them. I can see that car being sold or traded by them.

[@robertsnyder5149]

Hey Steve,I see you have your snake gators on!

[@stevehenderson2571]

Get well buddy. We’re praying for you.m

[@arthurmccarron4379]

Very nice great shape

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Glad they went to a good home!😎👍

[@gregggoss2210]

That '64 Savoy would have went home with me.

[@TairnKA]

At 12:57: I'm confused, you say it's a three speed stick on the column, but to the right, there is what looks like a push button transmission control? ;-)

[@crazytrain7114]

Thats the heater control. The lever is for defrost, heat, the buttons for the fan

[@TairnKA]

After I had commented, I realized I'd not seen any heater controls. Doh!

[@crazytrain7114]

Thats pretty typical. My dad gave me his 62 Imperial for my first car, it took me a bit to figure out wtf was going on! Sometimes I'd be driving and the radio would just start changing stations, there were buttons on the floor to tune the radio!

[@mrdiplomat9018]

@@crazytrain7114 - Bet you wish you’d kept that one ❗️🇺🇸

[@TairnKA]

​@@crazytrain7114 My mom had a 1967(?) Chrysler Imperial Crown with a radio scan button above the dimmer switch that I used to trick my friends that the seats automatically adjusted to my favorite channel by my weight. ;-D

[@oldblueshhrchannel1847]

Good deal for a cop car! Get well soon Steve

[@user-ui9oz2ir6h]

Be well.❤

[@christophermorales6056]

Love it

[@beekeeper7535]

I'm glad I didn't know about this auction. I would have bought one at those prices problem is not the price but the fuel to get them home.

[@stevehenderson2571]

Heard you’re improving. Get well my friend.

[@triplejcustoms4305]

Steve you are a bad man

[@thomasweeks3232]

I would love to have won that 1960 Savoy for that price.

[@derekcrymble9085]

Hey Steve , Could you do a vid on 60s B-body Pontiacs ??? Not easy to find here in Canada.

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Cool ........ 👍👍👍

[@markbehr88]

You should do one on the Imperials.

[@bjr2379]

Steve is still kicking himself for paying what he did for project Remcharger...

[@SteveMagnante]

Hi RJB, I know it may seem nuts, but I live in Massachusetts. No that's not the nuts part. The nuts part is that if somebody here in Massachusetts had that 1962 Dart 4-door Police Pursuit for sale here in Massachusetts I'd have gladly paid the $5,000 plus $1,700 = $6,700 for it. That said, yes if I'd have simply gone along with the auction flow I probably would have bought it for a hig bid under $1,100. Live and learn but I'm GLAD to have it. THANKS for writing, Steve Magnante

[@coffeefish]

Steve looked over the entire collection and had his pick of the litter. He got the car he really wanted and he paid the owners a great price. I think everyone is happy.

[@bjr2379]

@@SteveMagnanteComing from the rustbelt, I probably would have done the same thing for a rust free example. Can't wait to see the build. Thanks for the great content. I've been a fan of your professional presentations for decades.

[@70stunes71]

@@SteveMagnante yeah I'm a Michigan man so I understand the salt and rust issues. Both of my cars are exceptional for being in Michigan. I got fortunate to have them really, when so many people are forced with severe body rot issues I'm not. My 69 Dodge Super Bee and my 71 Plymouth Duster both have original Steel in the floors and all exterior sheet metal. I have went and looked at vehicle through the years and it's good to recognize what you have. Looking forward to those future photographs of your build :-)

[@loubonanni7265]

Steve, great video(s)! Did you have to deal with a lot of snakes out there?

[@mikematty5104]

I kept waiting for a rattlesnake...

[@mc2whls]

Wow! The Buyers got GREAT DEALS. And, the family selling them didn't do too bad either. A WIN WIN! EH!

[@WaybackTECH]

Trick is getting the car back, which will cost probably far more in gas alone than paid for the car. Unless you are lucky and live around the corner and can drag it home with a rope... cost to bring it back gets factored into the total purchase price.

[@CR7659]

You should do five tail fin cars, DeSoto, Chrysler, Dodge, I keep seeing DeSotos in the background wondering what those sold for.

[@cmcb7230]

2:23 can anybody tell what was written on the driver door it says “B4 department” but I wonder what dept.? I would’ve thrown a rear window and left it like that.

[@don66hotrod94]

Are those shin guards snake protectors?

[@JHC4949]

Hate to bust your bubble Steve but 1959 was the first year for the Slant 6, I owned one 1969, Chrysler Corporation ruined that engine in 1980 when they converted it from Solid Lifters to Hydraulic Lifters, killed the fuel mileage, especially in Vans and Pickups!!!

[@savedin87ify]

You know dang straight I would do the under a grand. Shit even under 2 grand.

[@eastcoastmustang1713]

A magnet can’t see what’s under the paint ,patches are usually metal

[@timl9cas5696]

Average sales price ~$2,500 for the ~300 cars; much better than 200/car

[@crossarmkid42]

A lot of these sold for less than what one of their fenders would have sold for at a Mopar swap meet.

[@frankmoore159]

👍

[@jamespn]

In the 1970s running and driving 64 Dodges and Plymouths were $500 all day long. Also a thousand dollar bill would get you an early 1960s Cadillac, Buick or Oldsmobile, back then when you could pick up a used car for a song and afford to insure it.

[@curtisalan4402]

And in the 80z hot rods were gas guzzlers!! I paid 300 for 70rr (only otions grabber hood and 4 gear) in 82 and still have my first hot rod Plymouth

[@jadesmith6823]

An old lady had it and she only used it to go to the shop 🙏🙌😂

[@user-oe8gj7fz6v]

🙏🖖

[@TheopolisQSmith]

My Father had a Dodge Seneca 1960 with the six and three speed manual when I was 16-19. It would do 98 mph. Don’t ask how I know.

[@MH-rb7lp]

Sorry Steve, I am a lifelong Mopar guy but I would have passed on all of them but I know there are plenty of people out there who love them.

[@lilmike2710]

We're watching a revival take place

[@zephead4835]

The missing knockout plate on the left hand side of the dash looks exactly like a Chevy bowtie.

[@budpool4835]

Find us a 60 Sonoramic Commando.

[@cgonedfishing]

Didn’t you buy one of these?

[@terrystewart2070]

Darn Steve! Kinda makes a guy wish he woulda bought an old cop car actually in the auction.....,could have saved a pretty good pile of cash. I feel ya buddy....lost too much $$$ on old iron myself........

[@spamanator666]

I hope you have changed your password to Dodge Garage now!

[@mexicanspec]

It is a shame the cars that sold for around $200 were probably scrapped.