You live such an interesting life. I am so happy for you and your family. Your children are so cute and getting a different education along with the regular education they would normally get. They are blessed to have you and your sweet wife as parents. Your store is on my bucket list.
I really enjoyed this video. The music, narrative and camera work together with still images of machines when they were new made it very entertaining, Great work guys!
This was entertaining as hell to watch. Beautiful Mercedes and I look forward to the video where we can see it all restored. Amazing it still has documentation in the glove box.
thanks so much for the positive comments! that scrapyard was a lot of fun to dig through. what you didn't see was me pulling all the stuff out of the fallen down buildings. so much good stuff there!
I really like your jazz music during the show. Don’t ever stop that part of your show. Love having the quite background music you always seem to have just the right mix of talk and music. Keep it up!,
Should have rolled the Merc off by the side of the road and called out a recovery service just to see the guys face! "I just broke down, she may be out of oil" That motorcycle was some ones pride and joy, once upon a time in Canada.
Oh no.... Lol that ambulance is toast. Great for the parts and ambulance body bits. Or a good front yard sign. I have a 64 190, finally found a rust free one.
Well that's an interesting find you got sir. It seems that needs a lot of love to come to it's former glory. I hope you 'll make it and find all the parts needed. A hard project but anyone who loves cars will understand.
Hi im from germany.. And i remember the times that these ambulaces were here as reserve EMT-cars were still active. I have some old friends that are in the german red cross..the oldest is now the chief of the whole RC of a county here and he ist 77 now! He knows all about old trucks like that .
When I was a kid, this one antique store in town had a black and white hearse as their mascot. Usually it was parked in front of the store but sometimes we'd see the 'skunk mobile', as it came to be called, driving around picking up inventory for the store. Great advertisement for the store. I love antiques because the craftsmanship of older furniture and other things from that era were so unique and beautiful. I like to troll local antique and thrift stores, estate sales and even Craig's list and eBay and Etsy. I only use antique dishes to eat on. Vintage screwback earrings are my weakness. I've never seen a scrapyard with trees growing out of the inventory. Lol. Love your channel. Lots of interesting finds.
Dad and used to restore classics and as he would say " if you have the time and $$ any turd can be polished" good luck on that project...if that fastback was 75% there...might want to consider that also as you said..they are rare.
Superb rescue - a nice universal symmetry about an ambulance being saved! Worth the pick for those beautiful torpedo lights alone! Just subscribed - please post updates on the restoration once it's underway.
Thanks so much for your feedback, I have switched gears into restoring a mode a midget race car right now. And drive a 1973 Pontiac ambulance regularly. I’m glad you subscribed and hope you like the channel. I’m always out on adventures! Alex
Great video Alex! I grew Up in Beausejour and my great uncle once owned that junk yard a very long time ago, my great grandmother lived across the street. I have been to that junk yard many times, I remember seeing old motors in the kitchen lol. Thanks.
@@CuriosityIncorporated Alex I remember seeing old signs, but all that is long gone. There was another property down the road from 1st that had old model T's and another property in Ladywood with a large collection of Mercedes cars.
Really wish their was more videos of this benz, since you've been having it for 2 months now. Since this video is in everyone's recommendation, you would've gained tons more subs.
Abby Louise Rexroth he didn’t restore this one. He commented above he wasn’t up to it and sold it soon after he bought it. The one we see in episodes now is a different one
I've stumbled on your channel due to this very video, and it's probably quite an apt video for me to have found you with. I liked your visit to the Selkirk museum in Manitoba, not only for the interesting artefacts on display, but because I live in a town called Selkirk in south-east Scotland!
+Teribus13 I appreciate you following our channel :) Many Canadian cities were named after their European counterparts :) would love to visit there someday!
I would have definitely ask for all those working (if any) bicycles and motorcycles because I just love that stuff and working on that stuff. It's pretty easy and also I love to ride
Is that how your Ghost buster ambulance started out ? That is such a cool project, I hope you didn't get any more ticks on you, They are nasty bugs, Great video, Thanks for sharing.
I had one just like that in the 70-s to transport my road racing bike. Mine too was a 230 from Binz. They were short-nosed but still had the big engine, I was told. 1967-model if I remember correctly. Nice on the road, much better than the bigger vans.
Pretty cool museum. I live in Michigan and Port Huron also has a ship museum. Not huge. Maybe a tow boat. Been many years since I've been to it. If course we took kids❤️
Cool fin tail. We bought a 1964 Mercedes 190 diesel 4 door for $70 in 1974. The original owner bought it new while in Germany and put 240,000 miles on it.and it was It as rusty as your Ambulance.
Had seen a 1950s Merc 190 based ambulance when I was five, that was 50 years ago. Was fascinated by its siren. But it had a flat roof. Years later saw a 1980s Merc ambulance in Delhi. A group of these were imported by the Indian Red Cross and later sold to a private ambulance operator. One came up for sale about 5 years ago.
+Richard Cline I would imagine that one will still be restored, despite its very rough condition. The extended-wheelbase Binz ambulances are incredibly rare, most Fintail ambulances, like the one shown in the still from the James Bond film, were based on the standard wheelbase. The extended vehicles were massively more expensive as they weren't so much a conversion on the existing car as a complete structural rebuild, and these were largely hand-built. Unlike limousine conversions which are pretty common on all sorts of vehicles in the US, the Binz had to be totally re-engineered to make it strong enough to support the extra weight of all the extra bodywork, the patient/s and the necessary life-saving equipment and, unlike a lot of limousine conversions, the Fintail was a monocoque/unibody vehicle with no separate chassis/frame so it all had to be self-supporting and it had to at least meet all the requirements for road cars in Germany at the time, and preferably exceed them as was Mercedes-Benz's practice at the time. Production figures for the Binz ambulance are uncertain as they often get mixed up with the standard wheelbase vehicles but the best sources largely agree that production of the long wheelbase vehicles probably did not exceed 100 vehicles, most of which went to ambulance services in West German cities. Survivors are few as they were often stripped for their mechanical parts after being retired to provide replacements for civilian vehicles, as the ambulances generally had the largest engines available such as the fuel-injected 2.2 litre 6-cylinder used in the 220SE and there is evidence that some were equipped with the 3.0 litre unit used in bigger Mercedes-Benz products including the famous 300SL Gullwing sports car...
Alex, you are friends with one of the finest body men in the world. That alone is a big statement. This man has restored cars that couldn't be done and its because of his love of history. He spliced a Dodge Fury with a Plymouth four door because they share the same floor ban and then when he got back to the fin area, he spliced the splice with another (I honestly don't remember) so that the trunk lid... floor, sides, and anything that pertains to the car. The Dodge Fury with all the stainless steel sweeps under the car near the tires is better than new' He lives near you..... Coldwarmotors is like having Chip Foose do the work. Sure slower cause it is just a one man with Francine, his Poodle, You just got to talk to the man and he shares similar passions you and him. I'm on serious meds for end of life and this would warm my heart
The first fin tails were introduced for the 1960 model year not '61.My dad was transferred to London(US Navy) in July 1959. In Sept. 1959 he flew to Stuttgart , picked up and drove home to London, a brand new 1960 Mercedes 220sb fintail. All the kids in the family(4 of us) learned to drive in that car.
❤️❤️❤️Wow! A blast from the past video. I thought I had gone through and watched most of your vid’s previous to the Potter’s house series when I found you. I was wrong! I’m assuming this is THE famous ambulance we know and love . No idea how much work you had put into it. Can you remember if you found a tick on you? I know you and Melissa said you don’t have them where you live but you & Stephen found out the hard way that you do have mean wasps on your new property. It would be dreamy if our family property didn’t have ticks or wasps! 80% woods in 278 acres…..lets just say I’ve lost count of how many ticks I have encountered. We go through a lot of wasp / hornet killer every year as apparently our Missouri hot and humid summers make them cranky & just plain mean.
I just love binging on your channel!!! I wish you had a image of lots of collections of sun lit bottles behind, you or something. The rays coming from the sky have a memorial type feel. Sad looking.
Watching this in 2020 tells how dedicated Alex is to a dream.
Instablaster.
I would be nothing short of a miracle that you were able to restore this vehicle! AMAZING FEAT!
The music was covering a lot of what was being said. A bit too loud.
OI agree music too loud
Nice find!
Oh my goodness!!! The actual ambulance! So cool!
Enjoyed this vid, but the background music is really distracting
Does not matter how old your video's are I watch them all
Found this old one. Scenery was great.
The birth of the Ambulance!!! You have vision Alex to see this as the reliable gem it's become and a staple to Curiosity, Inc.
You live such an interesting life. I am so happy for you and your family. Your children are so cute and getting a different education along with the regular education they would normally get. They are blessed to have you and your sweet wife as parents. Your store is on my bucket list.
Lucky you !!! you bought a valuable piece if history to yourself !!!
Lot's of neat old snowmobiles. The plains of Western Canada are gorgeous.
We call them praries, and yes, they are. My favorite time of year is harvest time, when the wheat is gold and moving in the wind. Gorgeous.
These are real treasures ,i wouldn't be able to leave such a place.
I really enjoyed this video. The music, narrative and camera work together with still images of machines when they were new made it very entertaining, Great work guys!
RAR DUNSBURY thanks very much for the comments!
This was entertaining as hell to watch. Beautiful Mercedes and I look forward to the video where we can see it all restored. Amazing it still has documentation in the glove box.
thanks so much for the positive comments! that scrapyard was a lot of fun to dig through. what you didn't see was me pulling all the stuff out of the fallen down buildings. so much good stuff there!
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I really like your jazz music during the show. Don’t ever stop that part of your show. Love having the quite background music you always seem to have just the right mix of talk and music. Keep it up!,
I spent 7 years of my childhood in Kenora and I'm an American. That was mostly a good time in my childhood back in the 1970's.
I watched it all. normally I can't make it thru a video without skipping thru it but it was enjoyable to watch.
Should have rolled the Merc off by the side of the road and called out a recovery service just to see the guys face! "I just broke down, she may be out of oil" That motorcycle was some ones pride and joy, once upon a time in Canada.
very rare car,,, fascinating video,,,,,, thanks for sharing
+Gerald Moore thanks for watching Gerald :) it was a fun trip!
I love your videos. Always interesting and fun. And...you play the BEST music!
Very cool car! Excited to see it come back to life!!
Oh no.... Lol that ambulance is toast. Great for the parts and ambulance body bits. Or a good front yard sign. I have a 64 190, finally found a rust free one.
Well that's an interesting find you got sir. It seems that needs a lot of love to come to it's former glory. I hope you 'll make it and find all the parts needed. A hard project but anyone who loves cars will understand.
I've never any jet ski's older than the late 80s. Those ones there literally look like none I've ever seen before.
Adam N They are snowmobiles. Popular in Canada eh.
Hi im from germany..
And i remember the times that these ambulaces were here as reserve EMT-cars were still active.
I have some old friends that are in the german red cross..the oldest is now the chief of the whole RC of a county here and he ist 77 now!
He knows all about old trucks like that .
Very cool, hope to see it on the road again.
I won't say that's the worst Binz ambulance I've seen, because it is the only Binz ambulance I've seen.
Matt Farah's Million Mile Lexus ha! Well that's why I bought it :) rare but rough
probably the only one left in the world.
there may be a couple more, they made 300. but not too many left that's certain
i've seen 2 for sale in Australia, so there's more than one out there!
Well then it's also the best Benz ambulance you've ever seen. :)
Fantastic,, thoroughly enjoyable vid,,a treasure of a car,,I have a toy one needing restoration,,,looking forward,,,
Had a Matchbox one back in the 60s but can't find it anymore in my old stuff. Good luck with the restoration, can't wait to see the result :)
+majedm I have the matchbox model on my desk to remind me of what it should look like ;) thanks for watching!
When I was a kid, this one antique store in town had a black and white hearse as their mascot. Usually it was parked in front of the store but sometimes we'd see the 'skunk mobile', as it came to be called, driving around picking up inventory for the store. Great advertisement for the store. I love antiques because the craftsmanship of older furniture and other things from that era were so unique and beautiful. I like to troll local antique and thrift stores, estate sales and even Craig's list and eBay and Etsy. I only use antique dishes to eat on. Vintage screwback earrings are my weakness. I've never seen a scrapyard with trees growing out of the inventory. Lol. Love your channel. Lots of interesting finds.
Hi and Good Morning. That old Texaco sign, is dated the same month and year my Dad was born. Wow!!!
Dad and used to restore classics and as he would say " if you have the time and $$ any turd can be polished" good luck on that project...if that fastback was 75% there...might want to consider that also as you said..they are rare.
Just want you to know how much I enjoy watching your page . Really inspiring. Thanks for sharing ! From Whidbey Island !!
Thanks so much! Glad you are watching with us
man as a new viewer I am REALLY impressed. You did an amazing job on fixing that old girl up!
not the same car
He didn’t , he sold it and bought a different one
Great stuff!
Thanks Mark!
Superb rescue - a nice universal symmetry about an ambulance being saved! Worth the pick for those beautiful torpedo lights alone! Just subscribed - please post updates on the restoration once it's underway.
Thanks so much for your feedback, I have switched gears into restoring a mode a midget race car right now. And drive a 1973 Pontiac ambulance regularly. I’m glad you subscribed and hope you like the channel. I’m always out on adventures! Alex
Great video Alex!
I grew Up in Beausejour and my great uncle once owned that junk yard a very long time ago, my great grandmother lived across the street. I have been to that junk yard many times, I remember seeing old motors in the kitchen lol. Thanks.
did your family keep any of the old signs that used to be there?
@@CuriosityIncorporated Alex I remember seeing old signs, but all that is long gone. There was another property down the road from 1st that had old model T's and another property in Ladywood with a large collection of Mercedes cars.
Very nice video !!
Thanks so much for watching Dariusz!
Really wish their was more videos of this benz, since you've been having it for 2 months now. Since this video is in everyone's recommendation, you would've gained tons more subs.
+Integra DIY the update video was 'driving home a 1973 ambulance'
Maybe you should keep the naming structure similar and put a " part**" so its easy to follow?
I would agree there was only a few minutes of that ambulance. It was a let down.
@@CuriosityIncorporated No such video anywhere anymore?
Wow. That Merc is the same age as me. Fortunately I have aged a bit better that it has. Best of luck with the restoration.
The birth of THEE ambulance! I'm hoping there are more videos on it's rebirth.
Abby Louise Rexroth he didn’t restore this one. He commented above he wasn’t up to it and sold it soon after he bought it. The one we see in episodes now is a different one
Oh man I'd love to see the restoration on that one.
Love the Mercedes Benz with the tall grill❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
@ 9:36 all I can think is...later on I will be watching Alez sneeze and talk about how he forgot his allergy meds.
If you have allergies... You'd relate! They can be MISERABLE!
tick tick tick......nice ambulance. Nothing $50k can't fix :)
Good to see good people in the world
+Kurt Schlesinger thanks Kurt! Just out having fun and enjoying these adventures :)
Those little old Johnson outboards are perfect for converting into lamps.
Great video
cant stop laughing ..that ambulance has to be the biggest turd yet...good luck with it
Sometimes a rare car is too far gone, put it back in the scrap yard where it belongs. :)
Ambulances are so much more live saving now.
I've stumbled on your channel due to this very video, and it's probably quite an apt video for me to have found you with.
I liked your visit to the Selkirk museum in Manitoba, not only for the interesting artefacts on display, but because I live in a town called Selkirk in south-east Scotland!
+Teribus13 I appreciate you following our channel :) Many Canadian cities were named after their European counterparts :) would love to visit there someday!
Amazing it has air in the tires.
+Featureman might have been the best thing on the car :)
Just wild to know that this car will be Mary’s last ride! 😊😊
WOW!!
I would have definitely ask for all those working (if any) bicycles and motorcycles because I just love that stuff and working on that stuff. It's pretty easy and also I love to ride
You certainly are brave.. Enjoyed.
That mercedes need a lot of love....i loved been with you and fixe it !
Alex in junkyard heaven. Tho they're trying to turn to dust and are overgrown with vegetation Alex sees them in restored glory. Ahh.
Is that how your Ghost buster ambulance started out ? That is such a cool project, I hope you didn't get any more ticks on you, They are nasty bugs, Great video, Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE YOUR BLOGS, OLD AND NEW, BUT YOU NEED TO TONE DOWN THE BACKGROUND MUSIC ....... IT IS TOO LOUD AND DROWNS OUTYOUR VOICE.....
Hi Jim I’ve adjusted it since this video :) thanks for watching!
I had one just like that in the 70-s to transport my road racing bike. Mine too was a 230 from Binz. They were short-nosed but still had the big engine, I was told. 1967-model if I remember correctly. Nice on the road, much better than the bigger vans.
+Dan Åkerman sounds like a great bike hauling rig!
Pretty cool museum. I live in Michigan and Port Huron also has a ship museum. Not huge. Maybe a tow boat. Been many years since I've been to it. If course we took kids❤️
What is your nationality? Have you any German in your ansectory?
Cool fin tail. We bought a 1964 Mercedes 190 diesel 4 door for $70 in 1974. The original owner bought it new while in Germany and put 240,000 miles on it.and it was It as rusty as your Ambulance.
Awesome. This is like American picker but better
My God , take the junker Benz back and get the cool boat !
Found this ambulance was used in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Have the pics of it. Amazing to find it!!!
Nice ...! Good for you!
+Jerold Lyons thanks Jerold! And thanks for watching :)
Had seen a 1950s Merc 190 based ambulance when I was five, that was 50 years ago. Was fascinated by its siren. But it had a flat roof. Years later saw a 1980s Merc ambulance in Delhi. A group of these were imported by the Indian Red Cross and later sold to a private ambulance operator. One came up for sale about 5 years ago.
That Mercedes is very rough. Good luck with that one, there aren't many of those ambulances left...
your'e right it was a bit too much for me sadly, BUT I did find a better ambulance shortly after! check out the video for the 1973 Pontiac! :)
Please tell me you are still going to save it! Those old classics are becoming very rare and this one is complete enough it needs restoring.
+Richard Cline I would imagine that one will still be restored, despite its very rough condition. The extended-wheelbase Binz ambulances are incredibly rare, most Fintail ambulances, like the one shown in the still from the James Bond film, were based on the standard wheelbase. The extended vehicles were massively more expensive as they weren't so much a conversion on the existing car as a complete structural rebuild, and these were largely hand-built. Unlike limousine conversions which are pretty common on all sorts of vehicles in the US, the Binz had to be totally re-engineered to make it strong enough to support the extra weight of all the extra bodywork, the patient/s and the necessary life-saving equipment and, unlike a lot of limousine conversions, the Fintail was a monocoque/unibody vehicle with no separate chassis/frame so it all had to be self-supporting and it had to at least meet all the requirements for road cars in Germany at the time, and preferably exceed them as was Mercedes-Benz's practice at the time. Production figures for the Binz ambulance are uncertain as they often get mixed up with the standard wheelbase vehicles but the best sources largely agree that production of the long wheelbase vehicles probably did not exceed 100 vehicles, most of which went to ambulance services in West German cities. Survivors are few as they were often stripped for their mechanical parts after being retired to provide replacements for civilian vehicles, as the ambulances generally had the largest engines available such as the fuel-injected 2.2 litre 6-cylinder used in the 220SE and there is evidence that some were equipped with the 3.0 litre unit used in bigger Mercedes-Benz products including the famous 300SL Gullwing sports car...
Love the way Canadians say 'gradge'.
Alex, you are friends with one of the finest body men in the world. That alone is a big statement. This man has restored cars that couldn't be done and its because of his love of history. He spliced a Dodge Fury with a Plymouth four door because they share the same floor ban and then when he got back to the fin area, he spliced the splice with another (I honestly don't remember) so that the trunk lid... floor, sides, and anything that pertains to the car. The Dodge Fury with all the stainless steel sweeps under the car near the tires is better than new' He lives near you..... Coldwarmotors is like having Chip Foose do the work. Sure slower cause it is just a one man with Francine, his Poodle, You just got to talk to the man and he shares similar passions you and him. I'm on serious meds for end of life and this would warm my heart
I recently spent nearly $2000 USA to replace the underside of my 2004 Ford Focus ZX3 manual 5 speed and reverse. I LOVE my USA Ford car!
I love "cool"stuff from junkyard to graveyard ! ! ! ! !
+Zafar Adil thanks for watching Zafar, more videos coming soon :)
Amazing cars!
Thanks so much for watching!
Curiosity Incorporated Ahh no problem
Every old Mercedes is worth saving, even if it is an ambulance.
+Johnny Buck agreed!
The first fin tails were introduced for the 1960 model year not '61.My dad was transferred to London(US Navy) in July 1959. In Sept. 1959 he flew to Stuttgart , picked up and drove home to London, a brand new 1960 Mercedes 220sb fintail. All the kids in the family(4 of us) learned to drive in that car.
I see you buying a lot of cars and some of them we never see again? Will you be restoring the ambulance? Would love to see !!
Very cool!
That's not just an ambulance.
That's a Mercedes Ambuhearse.
You can do it up as a hearse if you wanted and be period correct
Very cool car and stuff in a cool video. But please drive on the right lane with a trailer. You'd have to at the Autobahn...;)
Thank you, I will pass that along to the driver
You said you had an antique shop. Was wondering where you are located at and what antiques you have. Really like watching the videos you have!
I like your project but I want to see the face of your wife when she found what you bring home man :)
Ignacio Anaya ha! Well you can imagine her expression, but she's pretty understanding... I'm still married!
15:00 - - WOW , cool place 👀👍
At least you are playing some jazz!
❤️❤️❤️Wow! A blast from the past video. I thought I had gone through and watched most of your vid’s previous to the Potter’s house series when I found you. I was wrong! I’m assuming this is THE famous ambulance we know and love . No idea how much work you had put into it. Can you remember if you found a tick on you? I know you and Melissa said you don’t have them where you live but you & Stephen found out the hard way that you do have mean wasps on your new property. It would be dreamy if our family property didn’t have ticks or wasps! 80% woods in 278 acres…..lets just say I’ve lost count of how many ticks I have encountered. We go through a lot of wasp / hornet killer every year as apparently our Missouri hot and humid summers make them cranky & just plain mean.
That Suzuki at 8:20 --- Are starting to be a collectors item here in Europe. Is it a 380, or bigger ?
Yes, I know it isn't a Harley, but anyway.
yeah... will sub for the follow up to this of it's renovation.
Never heard anyone say, 'I've got to work my way through all this bush."
I just love binging on your channel!!! I wish you had a image of lots of collections of sun lit bottles behind, you or something. The rays coming from the sky have a memorial type feel. Sad looking.
I know a guy who had the Right hand drive Sister to that Ambulance here in Australia :-) So i posted a link to your page on their Site , Ozbenz.
I married my husband because of his red barracuda. He still had it when we divorced.
6:44 looks like a cool old bike...something that Mike from American Pickers would like.
What a scrapyard neat
Mike Winkelman it was really cool, and still lots of great stuff there! I'm hoping he'll sell me those California custom made cars :)
hAPPENED ONTO your channel today ,was at the Selkirk museum in 2000 ,I have an 88 300 SEL BENZ , we use to knock around BCs Sunshine coast..
Hey that’s a small world! I lived in Manitoba for several years and love to go back to visit :) thanks for watching!
That is a very nice find. I wouldn't want to deal with the rust, but I've seen people handle worse rust than that. I'm not that hardcore :-)
The ambulance is in the geradge. Cool.
+Andrew Samy ha! :) I don’t know any other way to say it! ;)
I had a music CD that had the Langdon Public School children singing an amazing song. I wish I still had it. Love your channel.
i wanna see videos of work gettting done on it!!!!!! i like you idea of restoring it and using it