We Crushed Over 100 Antique Cars (Mostly Studebaker) At This Old Junkyard!

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. It was fun yet sad to make this video. A lot of history here. We saved as much as we could! I’m glad that I was able to document it, though. When I was a kid we crushed places like this all the time, and we didn’t even take pictures. I hope you understand and enjoy! Thanks for watching!
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About Adventures Made From Scratch: I’m just a regular guy who likes to find adventure in day to day life. We may not be able to go travel the world, but there are plenty of opportunities at our door step. I do a mix of vintage car stuff, scrapyard stuff, nature hiking, and who knows what else?!? Come with me as I take you along for a ride in my world! My 2nd Channel: / @moreadventuresmadefro...

[@dogbitefred6631]

Think of all the history behind these vehicles. Vacations, weddings, taking the kids to school, going to football games, going to the doctor, going to work, untold miles of faithful service to their owners, etc. If the cars could talk, what stories they would tell.

[@OKFrax-ys2op]

Rust, thieves and moths than finally judgment day 🤔

[@fernandoantoniobernalbarei1415]

Dengue autos

[@Flossie1985]

It makes me think of The Brave Little Toaster scrapyard scene where cars going to the crusher sing about the lives they led before they were thrown away as worthless.

[@paulgrimm]

Like a cemetery

[@mickeybrown8233]

To painful to watch, I hope there were nightmares involved.

[@ernestsabatino826]

I have a 55 Ford that I've had since 1965, was 18 when I bought it, now 76. Viet veteran.

[@CowboyCarCrushing]

Thank you for your service to our Great Nation. It was a Noble Cause 🇺🇸

[@fossil-bit8439]

OUCH!! As a Studebaker guy this was very hard to watch… there was still good amount of useable parts that got crushed unfortunately. Could’ve contacted the Studebaker’s drivers club might have been able to salvage a bit more. But definitely appreciate you salvaging everything you did! Someone else probably would’ve just crushed it all.

[@bigblockjalopy]

Not sure about Studebakers, but in the 50s/60s Mopar world rust free quarter panels are the most valuable parts and these here wer just crushed. I'm not into these but it made me cry

[@henktulp4400]

If oldtimer enthusiasts want to keep old parts I suggest they be more willing to purchase when available rather then look for it when they are in need....if you come to a scrapyard I suggest you try to strip a car of all bits worth keeping....it will make your friends with the same classic happy too!!....the owner of the yard can then recycle the remainings....but most will wanna buy just what they need at that moment... I am a lifelong oldtimer fan,but can also understand a scrapyard is a business to run.....place and time are precious!

[@silverstar4289]

Not worth the time to do. As he said, the only stuff not picked may have never sold, and then got little money

[@drwatson32bit]

It was hard to see a decent Lark wagon go, I wanted one terribly bad when I was younger. Had a 4 door 6 cyl in high school ~17 years ago.

[@brandonstclair6530]

They had an auction about an hour from me and a guy had about 125-130 old cars he had for years. His family ordered it all sold at auction. The more desirable stuff went between $400-$1200. 48 cars went for $210 or less to the scrapper but most of those were really rough. I did look through the cars online before they sold and the best looking of the cars going for scrap was a 1948 Frazer Manhattan. I bought it for $220. I bid on 2 beetles as parts cars for a dune buggy build. I went and picked them up and the Frazer has very little rust and is complete. To much surprise one of the beetles has a nice interior and no rust. Got the beetles for $110 and $140. 3 other beetles went for scrap but they had no engines in them. I’m pretty excited about the Frazer but it’s going to need a lot of work.

[@drwatson32bit]

did you build up the decent Beetle?

[@txviking]

Lots to see here. These cars were mostly very far gone, but so glad to hear you could save as many as thirty. I hope I can see your operation in person someday.

[@isabelle7321]

Glad ur saving parts

[@fixinggrace]

Car restoration is a business and like any other there is an element of supply and demand. Not everybody has the space to store a bunch of old car parts that someone might use in the years to come. When the yard does this they are actually losing money. This is especially true when scrap metal prices are high. The overwhelming majority of people who talk about restoring cars never do. The reason for this is obvious; it is an extremely expensive hobby to get into.

[@mikeh2006]

I see a lot of people in the comments are unhappy about other bits that could be saved such as frames, glass and doors being popular. However it would take him ages to start removing glass and frames, doors not so much but it's where to keep it all and then waiting for it to sell. I used to buy mx5s and part them out. I kept the good ones on the road though. I also used to keep almost everything to sell. When I stopped doing it after 5 years I ended up scrapping 20 doors, 5 gear boxes and a load of other junk that I couldn't even give away in the end. Oh and a load of bonnets too. All they did was take up a load of my limited space. My justification was 'theyr'e good saleable items'. Didn't work out that way. That's not to say that I wasn't sucessful with it in other ways such as diffs, 6spd boxes, engines, soft top and hard top roofs. All good money in those.

[@williamjohnson3538]

Sad to see, but anyone else would have just crushed everything. He took a lot of trouble to save as much as he could. Studebaker parts are really hard to find, so I'm glad he saved what he could.

[@alfadoofus]

My heart always faints when you crush rutabagas :)

[@lklpalka]

These cars actually died the last day they were driven, in most cases many years ago. The time passed since then is just waiting time. Everything has an end. That's just how it is. The period music was appropriate and in a weird way, fun.

[@freddishaw1031]

Like how you set the trunk lids out to catch the glass for easier cleanup

[@bigliftm]

whaha the music under the chrushing 🤣🤣 i got this bluese tune in my head for it with 3 or 4 guys shhhoeebbieedoe do singing the studebaker bluese 🤣🤣

[@kenord3437]

Love the way you did the rapid fire crushing, then normal video, then more rapid and so on, good matey, regards ken from Australia.

[@markhoffman9674]

That is most Studabakers I ever saw together! My father owned 3 Studabaker cars back in 60's, 1 was a canary yellow convertible with scotch plaid top with red leather seats. My older siblings remember riding in them. I'm glad you kept some of the rare cars and parts! If I run into anyone looking for parts I will send them your way! Keep up the great work and videos! Take care.

[@johnnydeville5701]

Lots of Studebakers lost there lives the last few weeks! Cowboy Car Crushing's channel crushed about 30 Studebakers (including an Avanti) at a clean out property in Dallas a couple weeks ago. Of the 60+ classics crushed there, I was saddest about the 2 Corvairs, and a Packard Clipper. That's great you guys spared some cars here!

[@jamesferrell9404]

That light blue cab looked in great shape. If I was younger or had better health I would be saving it. Heart attack two year ago stroke 4 days ago. Not going be taking any major projects on. Thanks for saving what you can

[@oldcarjunky]

Oh ya thanks for sharing the journey

[@rajiv4972]

Being OCD, Love watching this! 😇👌🏽👍🏽 awesome cleanup! Many Thanks

[@jamespn]

Thanks for taking us along Silas, I like watching cars getting crushed.

[@JOMAR3]

Awesome enjoy watching Silas

[@kyliepierson8718]

Going down memory lain that's awesome you had a pretty cool childhood, you were able to experience a ton of killer adventures. Love the videos it would be interesting to come visit. & get a tour.

[@adrievankempen2054]

What nice off you too make this video! And I like the "Golden Touch" how you do it with all the matirial, Thank You!!

[@jasonhutchins4760]

Thank for the awesome video. My God bless you and your family. I'm watching this on my birthday

[@excitationofstereocilia2103]

Thanku so much for saving some beautiful art - there will never be more like it 🥰❤

[@warrenthornton3432]

no worries watching the old cars get crushed as I could see they were finished especially enjoyed the sped up sections imagine if the crusher could run at that speed lol I did find it a little sad that it was the end of an era for the old scrap yard but hey life goes on keep making your adventures 😀.

[@johnreynolds7308]

I love watching cars crushed and also see cars being sold whole or parts Silas

[@bentandre5524]

at 20mins i have to say great vid with great music. you put a lot of effort into this. thnx, i enjoy watching

[@michaelbenoit248]

It’s sad to see em getting crushed, but I’m glad u were able to save some bits of em to help others live on.

[@chriswirth8860]

Very good job, Really enjoyed it.

[@waynemcgavic4709]

Very interesting love it. Thank you so much for your time and your effort you put in to love your contact

[@flatbeavergarage7692]

always sad to see the passing of the old rust but I guess you can't save them all..

[@davidortiz4808]

it is wonderful thing watching you work sir. your like a conductor of an orchestra. Saw the intro and im hooked. Love the story of you an your dad crushing cars together. the 49 Packard oh man one day. that one was beautiful. well sir you have a fan. And i will be watching. THANK YOU.

[@jaywalker712]

End of an era, but great video !

[@edburke8361]

I like it! Job well done.

[@wdh47211]

Really well put together. THanks for sharing with us. Good stuff....

[@kingbeavero]

great video , just gets better and better your videos . Lovin it from Barcelona spain

[@raybob49]

Studebaker, a favourite of mine, here in the UK. They don't make'em like they used to! Thanks for your video and best of Luck.

[@TimSmith-yz8xc]

❤love it!

[@beamer8907]

glad to see you save some parts at the end, i enjoyed.🇩🇰🔥👍

[@cameronbrown9080]

Nice one mate you keep doing what is right saved what you can and crushed what you had to ps good luck and cool music

[@markbehr88]

Thanks Silas. I really enjoyed the longer video format. Appreciate it is a lot of extra work but I found it easy to watch the whole video in one go.

[@ernestsabatino826]

Excellent, but sad!!. Still an interesting piece to watch. That's my therapy, a stroll through junk yards and every swap meet that's close, going to one Sunday and one in October . Thanks. Enjoyable

[@CowboyCarCrushing]

Well well well it's Ernest

[@barbfrank917]

Great music 🎶 I was hoping you would post the pictures of you at 6 and now side by side 😉

[@bentandre5524]

yes, i missed that too

[@Oyvind88]

Well job done😀👍

[@lelandritchie9989]

I look forward to seeing your videos here in central massachusetts.thanks,

[@stuartsmith6658]

Longer the better keep up the good work 👍👍

[@rodneyblubaugh7569]

It's very interesting watching things pop and crack and crash and crunch LOL yeah it was kind of fun watching it never actually seen it like that in real life it was fun and nice thanks

[@billreinhardt3684]

Awesome video and information

[@michaelhartloff3833]

I could watch you crush cars all day and never get bored

[@flynnclement3254]

I am happy to see you cleaned up the car mess it all needed to go

[@earlhenning1445]

I know it would be too time consuming but it would be really cool to see the year and models as they went to their final resting place.

[@corghhh]

Lov the fast forward crush niceeee.

[@larrybland8106]

Great job. Just now getting to watch. Go man go.

[@adeeponionbreath]

I enjoyed todays video! Thanks good job. Take the Mrs. some flowers.

[@thomasmyers1360]

I love watching your videos I never seen so many scrap cars. The Lord bless you and keep you

[@billyhinton9155]

Hay thanks for showing...

[@darrellsaunders4267]

Slowly but surely...great video.

[@TheCayouche]

I really appreciate your channel.. Thanks for sharing your joy.. I did love the hour video.. short ones too.. like seeing the car Crushed.. From Dieppe New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦..

[@RODALCO2007]

Great video, most cars were completely rusted out anyway. The high speed crushing action was brilliant.

[@leehardy367]

only 31 and what a work ethic you have

[@marioncobaretti2280]

The souls of those cars are cryin in agony, I can hear them ,!

[@kapekodbob]

loved it !

[@Comm0ut]

He saved the good stuff. (My first mechanic job was salvage in the 1970s.) Studebaker demand maxed out with the people from that era and we'll be gone soon. Vehicle value for most peaks when people who experienced those machines retire and for those cars that was decades ago.

[@davidwiggins3451]

Tremendous effort and a job well done.

[@joemcmillan5415]

Loved it. Keep them comming Please

[@tonymatthews1039]

Like your videos.from over here ln England.

[@tylerbauman2007]

Great video!

[@jasonhovey815]

Awesome video

[@johnje4285]

Absolutely fascinating. I love the way that you are so careful and the way that you leave the land afterwards. There is less land in England so salvage yards are much more bleak without trees. One question; what happens to the scrap now? It is a mix of metal, rubber, glass etc.

[@maplebones]

I think some places shred it, and then uses magnets or other things to sort it. I know of a place that buys whole scrap cars and puts them directly into a shredder, and the bits are fed into an attacked rebar plant. You can watch your car being shredded if you like, and if it's a 50's era vehicle with a heavy bumper you'll hear the shredder scream when it hits it.

[@AdventuresMadeFromScratch]

Modern shredders, at least the ones in the USA, sort everything as they shred it. I’d love to see one in operation some day.

[@liza.andkeithsimpson5081]

Great video

[@I.Live4oldcars.prospecting]

Awesome video. Good job 👍

[@BassBoyVA]

Howdie Mr Silas. I'm a fan of your video's, work and life you share with us. I didn't fully understand your process at 1st. I get it now, your Dad, your friends, know what your doing. I thought it was crazy at 1st cutting up cars, lawn furniture comments 😂😂 ect. Never thought I'd enjoy watching a crush. It's alot of work & cooperation between friends or what you guys do wouldn't even be possible. All the Networking at many levels that takes place. Cars are just that, it's the mechanics, the innovative people that save alot of history. Well done brother, carry on.🌻💪✌🎁 loved the rescue of the Zepher and others.

[@sonnyblazer5504]

New person with a LIKE & SUBSCRIBE! I "guess" I enjoyed that even though it was sort of SAD. I was a kid when those cars were new in our neighborhood. Thank you for the tour down memory lane. And that crusher is POWERFUL - more so than our local Bone Yards! See you on the next one!!!

[@kenlahmers9648]

Silas is the KING of the car crushers!!!

[@NM-eb5ej]

This is something we will never see again unless we watch the video again.

[@waynesuewilson4421]

Very well done!!

[@ricardboswell7490]

Good work

[@scottlambert9008]

Thanks I really enjoyed it

[@sallydickinson1408]

Great day of crushing loved it was great thank you for sharing and your time salis really great.

[@jefferysmith5280]

Awesome video silas

[@thedreamclockproject1113]

New subscriber. Love the Studebaker series. !

[@charlesstockford5913]

I'm glad you saved some.

[@PAUL-1961.]

Awsome video as always

[@davegdm954]

even though the old shells are being crushed and that history is lost. everything salvageable will go on to be used on other cars that can be pieces of history forever

[@ricardoramirezccc7242]

Nice video Sad to see all those cars get crushed Saludos amigos desde Baja California

[@joeyschouten5947]

I like that it was long seeing as you had so much in one spot

[@wesleyshoup3936]

I loved it Silas great video nothing wrong with a long video every once in a while be blessed

[@robertdensmore1696]

Love the longer video

[@mrkova12]

The one that really made me sad was the yellow international with the service body. Such a cool truck and looks as if it could've been saved. Ouch. That was hard to watch.

[@mikeyoungblood1706]

Been waiting for this, THANKS !

[@johncook3817]

Great video!! I didn't think I could watch 60 mins of car crushing in one go but I did and enjoyed it! If you painted lips and teeth on the top and bottom of the crusher it would make the speeded up parts look really funny!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work.

[@briansumner2700]

Probably the largest collection of Studebakers in NAmerica. Some of those would have been neat as street rods with a SBC/TH350 in em but virtually all of them were way too far gone. Quite the collection tho! Cute video.

[@MrEd32708]

Music to crush by.... Very good choice!!!

[@nobodynoone2500]

Would be good to scrap the trim, lenses, interior knobs and gauges before crushin em. We can remake the tin, but the rest is harder to find. Mark em with a grease pencil for easier identification and ebay em for cash, while saving some neat old cars. Seriously I spent years chasing trim bits on old cars.

[@charlesherman1831]

Silus you the man I really enjoy watching you r video s keep up the good work

[@isaaccale8650]

That was a great video

[@billgates-xr9hs]

Glad to see you saved some stuff still ashame lot of history going to be gone they don’t make the stuff anymore

[@czehner7157]

very relaxing thank you

[@Michael-it6kj]

I dont mean for this comment to be offensive so if it comes across that way i apologize. I never understood the reason for keeping old cars around just for the sake of keeping them. What is the point of saving them if all they do is get moved from one old field to the other?

[@storageyardresident]

Some of the people who own these cars are hoarders and will not sell anything to anybody because they tell everyone "I'm going to fix up all of these old cars just like new" but it does not happen because of the high cost of restoring old cars. These hoarders ruin a lot of old cars by letting them sit out in the weather for decades. What happens in the end is the old man hoarder dies and the relatives just scrap out all the accumulation of old cars. I work at a storage yard and I have seen the situation where the hoarder will not get rid of anything unless they are forced to. As to the situation where the old cars are moved from field to the other is that it seems to be part of the old car hobby. People buy these cars with the intent of using them as driving vehicles but the high cost to get them running causes the old cars just to sit around some old field. I have helped to get rid of many old cars at the storage yard so I know what the real situation really is. I hope that this has helped to answer your question. At least Silas tries to make money from these old cars by selling parts or selling them as scrap metal.

[@AdventuresMadeFromScratch]

I save some cars because I can and I like to go just walk around them. I’ll sell almost anything tho, so I’m not a total hoarder 😆

[@storageyardresident]

@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch That is why I subscribed to your channel. You have a more realistic approach to these old cars. I also like looking at the old cars and walking around them. What the reality is that you cannot save every old car because some cars are just too far gone to be saved but you can sell parts or wall art from them to at least preserve the heritage of the old cars.

[@Carcrusher1998]

The cars he's keeping he will sell parts off of and eventually they will be crushed. Got to get all the money he can out of them

[@stevengrotte2987]

THANK YOU!!

[@donstickney7938]

I liked the music. I have watched you a lot. I loved the high speed crushing.