If it has a legal VIN and he has the ability to get a lost/duplicate title it needs to go somewhere. With any luck that guy who bought it and never picked it up never retitled it in his name.
Wow, didnt even put a tarp on it!! Why would someone do that to a classic!! I remember in the early seventies there was a commercial for i think turtle wax and the guy playing the father sees an old chevy like this one that his kid brought home to fix up!! The dad says"its a heap, a junk" and the kid shoots back " its a classic, dad!!
In my city, I tried to get a 61 Impala convertible, and another man had 3 1955 Cameo PU. They both said the same thing. Then gentrification began. The cars, the owners ,and the houses disappeared in that order.
He should apply for a replacement title to ascertain if the person he sold it to transferred the title into their name. Perhaps they transferred the title to use on another car or something unexpected happened, and the title was never transferred. If so the car would still be in the original owners name. It's worth finding out if his high school car is still his.
Having resurrected one car that sat for 18 years, and now resurrecting a car that hasn't run in 15 years, that is a project and a half. The two cars I have at least were in garages, but they both had issues with frozen parts, rusty gas tanks, corroded wiring connections, rusty brake hydraulics, dried out seals, more rust, dirty switch contacts, and it's a lot of work to bring them back to life. Did I mention the rust? If that's been outside exposed to the elements for 30 years, that's going to be a nightmare.
Odds are the "buyer" needed a clean title and that was all he wanted. Some guys want to be buried with their stuff and sadly this car could in theory be his coffin. I know of a model a coupe in a field rotting away. I asked about it a couple times and it has the usual story. "It has been there a long time, and I'm used to seeing it there".
Easiest way to restore that car is to take off a piece of windshield trim or piece of moulding, spend $60k on a pristine car and reattach the trim to your new car. Restoration done. Faster and easier than installing a boatload of Chinese '56 repro parts.
@@59redwing To what end? You can restore ANY car around a couple of pieces of trim with a barrel full of money. And then sell it to the next guy for 25% of your investment if you're lucky.
@@jeffd.8917 Go for it! FYI, Dynacorn doesn't make frames. They also don't make a TON of the little bits and pieces, ancillary sheet metal and trim parts to make a whole car. You'll end up with a version of 'Christine' in the end. Half Chinese repro parts, half garbage. And it will look like it. After your $100k investment.
It’s very sad. There is a neighbor near us that has a Ford Jubilee tractor sitting in their yard with one flat tire rotting away. The wheels, the most sought after part on these old tractors, are in perfect shape. It looks complete and I bet it only needs a battery or points in the ignition system to run. Looks like it just stopped running and they gave up on it. I asked, offered them $1000, and they won’t sell it. Sad. I have a 1948 Ford 8n tractor that was sitting for 15 years because the rear wheels rotted out from calcium leaking out, and couldn’t find used ones at all, and new ones were way too expensive. Eventually found a parts tractor with a blown engine but good wheels and tires for $1200 and got the old tractor fixed up again
It would be sad if it was a 4 door but im glad its a 2 door rotting away.. its a common car youll find at any car show.. adding, this should be saved over any plastic bumpered car
Ive watched a couple of car where I live been driving by them for 25 years both 72 camaros every couple of years I go up to the house and ask the 85+ ol man if he wants to sell he always says hes going to fix em up some day😂
That is a real specialist job, but worse has been recovered. Though those sorts of rebuilds a bit like the janitor's brush. Fifteen new heads and three new shafts, but it's still the same brush! On one level it's a sin, but if all you could recover was the engine and transmission wouldn't that still be better than nothing?
Better wear your respirator as there's not much left sadly but a pile of rust! 😢 So irresponsible (almost criminal, such a shame!!!) that it wasn't taken better care of years (decades?!) ago, as so few are still in existence today! 🤥
Your neighbor should apply for a lost title at the DMV. It is probably too far gone to restore but the good new is, every part on that car is being reproduced. It is still a Bel-Air two door hardtop and that does mean something.
Sad .. I knew of a similar car 40 odd years ago . The owner wanted ridiculous money for it at the time . Don't know whatever happened to it . I was 17 at the time . I'm 59 now . As of 2 years ago it wasn't there any longer 😕
Couldn't you make a deal with your neighbor and start something up with him like a joint restoration project? I'm sure he would love to see it up and running again :)
Looks rougher than a cobb! The engine and trans would be worth something, depending on condition. Sounds like a mess with that title issue to deal with for what it is. Scrapyards aren't supposed to take a car without a title, not saying that some wouldn't though. But it would be too risky if they got caught.
That Bel Air is a mail order car. Sheet metal and most of everything can be ordered online. It will never be the same again. That's a whole lot of sheet metal welding.
Let’s assume he was 16 when he had the car, the car is a 56, so he probably got it between 5-10 years old, not many kids get bought brand new cars. He was probably born between 32-38’ if my math guess is correct, putting him in his 90s. Keep bugging him and get the car. Or help the man get his title and help him get it running and moving before he croaks. Maybe seeing it move will make him want to let it go to another home.
You can buy all panels and parts needed to restore it. Costly, but someone with the skills to do it, would save labor expense, which would be $100 plus per hour. I've seen worse. Take a look at DD Speed Shop's '57 he recently redid. It made this one look nice. He also makes 2 doors out of 4 doors.
My uncle in Montana had a 57 Nomad wagon with a bad engine(engine froze and cracked) he was also given a 327 with a 4speed from a Yvette. It sat there for so long the packrats had taken over the whole interior and he would not let anyone buy it or fix it.
That’s too much work and money for me! This would take years and 6 figures to get it right. You can buy nice show quality cars for half of what this car would need.
If you're going to save it, make a Rat Rod out of it, and save a little money, doing a numbers matching concord restoration would be rather EXPENSIVE. It's terrible the owner sold it to someone who never picked it up, or had someone pick it up.🤔🫤🫠
i just cant figure out why anyone would let a car like that rot away. its a shame.
Usually, I find the reason is illness or incapacity.
@@marksmith8928 Yep as mentioned in the video
People are messed up dude-
I know of a 54 ford stepside I've been trying to purchase it for year
The clown that owns it lets rot
I'm done trying...😢
they get emotionally attached to the car but arent able to fix them up either from one or another reason
@@taylorebenguard6998 That ain't it bro-
The owner just doesn't give a fuck☹️
That guy is going to come and get it any day now 🙂🙃🫠
I'm the one who bought it in 1978. I am awaiting a new title.
DD Speed Shop might be able to save it 🤣
It's better off where it is than letting that hack get ahold of it.
Its a rough old girl, but, hey 56 2 Dr. Bel air. Big block 4 SPD, HS Hot Rod.should, and could be saved. Love DUBS,,
Wow 427 with a 4 speed bet she was fun to dive. Sad to see a belair rust away like that
That would be quite a project. Lots of work lots of $.
It's junk and you know it.....😮🇮🇪
Off to the crusher it goes, some folks rather let something like that rot before selling at a good deal to someone who would love it and care for it.
If it has a legal VIN and he has the ability to get a lost/duplicate title it needs to go somewhere. With any luck that guy who bought it and never picked it up never retitled it in his name.
Hmm. Have the VIN plates been snuck away...!?
@@thephilpott2194 might be spot welded to the hinge side jamb of the drivers door. That’s where it is on my 1955.
Wow, didnt even put a tarp on it!! Why would someone do that to a classic!! I remember in the early seventies there was a commercial for i think turtle wax and the guy playing the father sees an old chevy like this one that his kid brought home to fix up!! The dad says"its a heap, a junk" and the kid shoots back " its a classic, dad!!
I had one of these in the 70s and ,yup,dad said get rid of that junk!!! It was NOT a junker
In my city, I tried to get a 61 Impala convertible, and another man had 3 1955 Cameo PU. They both said the same thing. Then gentrification began. The cars, the owners ,and the houses disappeared in that order.
This would still have the conventional ladder-style chassis. The "X" frame that you mention didn't come out until 1958.
Rip the 427 out for rebuild!
It'd make a very decent parts car but at this stage, that about all it's good for. A real shame.
Some people don't want anyone else to have their possessions.
If you knock at the door and a salty old man with a back brace comes out, buy the car immediately.
He should apply for a replacement title to ascertain if the person he sold it to transferred the title into their name. Perhaps they transferred the title to use on another car or something unexpected happened, and the title was never transferred. If so the car would still be in the original owners name. It's worth finding out if his high school car is still his.
They bought the title to tag a stolen car.
That BelAir is a goner at this point. Rusted and rotted beyond any reasonable cost to repair. The owner is letting it Rust In Piece(RIP).
Sad to think that this happened to so many cars out there. Just left to rot. How sad
It's a crying shame that the Bel air is in this state and I really think it's time to move on from it Mark, thanks for the update.
Having resurrected one car that sat for 18 years, and now resurrecting a car that hasn't run in 15 years, that is a project and a half. The two cars I have at least were in garages, but they both had issues with frozen parts, rusty gas tanks, corroded wiring connections, rusty brake hydraulics, dried out seals, more rust, dirty switch contacts, and it's a lot of work to bring them back to life. Did I mention the rust? If that's been outside exposed to the elements for 30 years, that's going to be a nightmare.
Parts car.
...maybe he loves seeing it every day as a reminder of his past
Odds are the "buyer" needed a clean title and that was all he wanted. Some guys want to be buried with their stuff and sadly this car could in theory be his coffin.
I know of a model a coupe in a field rotting away. I asked about it a couple times and it has the usual story. "It has been there a long time, and I'm used to seeing it there".
Nothing a 100 K for starter's can't fix.
Easiest way to restore that car is to take off a piece of windshield trim or piece of moulding, spend $60k on a pristine car and reattach the trim to your new car. Restoration done. Faster and easier than installing a boatload of Chinese '56 repro parts.
They make every panel needed to restore that car. Someone with the right skills could bring it back.
If I had lots of money .but it could be saved😊
There's nothing left there to salvage. Forget it it's a lawn ornament.
You need to watch some DD speed shop content LO.L he would have that car on the road.And about a week and a half
@@59redwing Sure, With about 75 k invested , not to mention the man hours.
@@59redwing To what end? You can restore ANY car around a couple of pieces of trim with a barrel full of money. And then sell it to the next guy for 25% of your investment if you're lucky.
Title, trim, dash? Buy a new body from Dynacorn? I would take it.
@@jeffd.8917 Go for it! FYI, Dynacorn doesn't make frames. They also don't make a TON of the little bits and pieces, ancillary sheet metal and trim parts to make a whole car. You'll end up with a version of 'Christine' in the end. Half Chinese repro parts, half garbage. And it will look like it. After your $100k investment.
It’s very sad. There is a neighbor near us that has a Ford Jubilee tractor sitting in their yard with one flat tire rotting away. The wheels, the most sought after part on these old tractors, are in perfect shape. It looks complete and I bet it only needs a battery or points in the ignition system to run. Looks like it just stopped running and they gave up on it. I asked, offered them $1000, and they won’t sell it. Sad. I have a 1948 Ford 8n tractor that was sitting for 15 years because the rear wheels rotted out from calcium leaking out, and couldn’t find used ones at all, and new ones were way too expensive. Eventually found a parts tractor with a blown engine but good wheels and tires for $1200 and got the old tractor fixed up again
The guy fondly likes the car, can sure tell.
Pull the motor and trans probably worth a nice penny
It would be sad if it was a 4 door but im glad its a 2 door rotting away.. its a common car youll find at any car show.. adding, this should be saved over any plastic bumpered car
Man would you just rescue it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Speaking as a Brit, I assume it couldn’t be put back on the road with no title?
What a shame!!
Ive watched a couple of car where I live been driving by them for 25 years both 72 camaros every couple of years I go up to the house and ask the 85+ ol man if he wants to sell he always says hes going to fix em up some day😂
Fix it Mark!!!
That is a real specialist job, but worse has been recovered. Though those sorts of rebuilds a bit like the janitor's brush. Fifteen new heads and three new shafts, but it's still the same brush!
On one level it's a sin, but if all you could recover was the engine and transmission wouldn't that still be better than nothing?
A 427 4 speed tri five…you couldn’t want anything more.
Love it!!🎉
The earth is reclaiming its raw materials back !!!
"Ahm'ol fix 'er up someday!"
Better wear your respirator as there's not much left sadly but a pile of rust! 😢 So irresponsible (almost criminal, such a shame!!!) that it wasn't taken better care of years (decades?!) ago, as so few are still in existence today! 🤥
On a happier note your yard looks great without that laurel jungle. That digger has already paid for itself in landscaping alone.
The condition and foliage looks to be at least 40 years in the same spot.
It could be saved it would have to be completely stripped acid dipped and a lot of metal removed and repair panels welded in
I have a twin 56 hardtop, but mine has been garaged since 74. The owner should be ashamed
Your neighbor should apply for a lost title at the DMV. It is probably too far gone to restore but the good new is, every part on that car is being reproduced. It is still a Bel-Air two door hardtop and that does mean something.
You will never really going know unless you go up to the front door and ask about it.....
Looks like a '57 to me. That looks like a fin back there.
Sad .. I knew of a similar car 40 odd years ago . The owner wanted ridiculous money for it at the time . Don't know whatever happened to it . I was 17 at the time . I'm 59 now . As of 2 years ago it wasn't there any longer 😕
Couldn't you make a deal with your neighbor and start something up with him like a joint restoration project? I'm sure he would love to see it up and running again :)
Great update
Looks rougher than a cobb! The engine and trans would be worth something, depending on condition. Sounds like a mess with that title issue to deal with for what it is. Scrapyards aren't supposed to take a car without a title, not saying that some wouldn't though. But it would be too risky if they got caught.
That Bel Air is a mail order car. Sheet metal and most of everything can be ordered online. It will never be the same again. That's a whole lot of sheet metal welding.
Looks like the 57 sitting in PA. It's just as bad.
It’s a shame what is wrong with people
Let’s assume he was 16 when he had the car, the car is a 56, so he probably got it between 5-10 years old, not many kids get bought brand new cars. He was probably born between 32-38’ if my math guess is correct, putting him in his 90s. Keep bugging him and get the car. Or help the man get his title and help him get it running and moving before he croaks. Maybe seeing it move will make him want to let it go to another home.
It has a vin and all sheet metal is reproduced
Never know what that engine might be. L88 and an M22?…
You can buy all panels and parts needed to restore it. Costly, but someone with the skills to do it, would save labor expense, which would be $100 plus per hour. I've seen worse. Take a look at DD Speed Shop's '57 he recently redid. It made this one look nice. He also makes 2 doors out of 4 doors.
It’s yard art only at this point unfortunately.
Yep that's a pile of car😮
Power wash it, get it running and stopping, and drive the piss out of it. That's what i did to my 55 Chevy.
Theres no saving that, way too far gone may as well leave it there
That was such a cool car I bet. What a shame.
Buy it and save it. Im sure at this point with the cars age the title is a non issue
Huge car.
Thats a shame. Really cool looking lawn ornament tho
Replace all I mean all the Rubber bushings hoses so on on that car be road worthy
Come out here to California and start with a rust free example. Cars like the one in this video are not worth restoring.
Take it down to Mexico and have it restored. Its a fraction of the price of here in the USA.
Sure, they buy their Bondo by the 55 gallon drum.
Parts. If it's grim on top it's going to be hollow underneath!
That car is roached ….
Just sad😢
427 4 speed car ?? Where is it ??
Just because he dosnt have the title for it didn't mean any. If he is the owner and it's in his name. So that not a reason to let it sit and rot.
What a shame
No x frame in 56.
What a shame it can be saved I've seen a lot worse and fixed worse
My uncle in Montana had a 57 Nomad wagon with a bad engine(engine froze and cracked) he was also given a 327 with a 4speed from a Yvette. It sat there for so long the packrats had taken over the whole interior and he would not let anyone buy it or fix it.
What ibdont understand is why you have the itch for 35 years and do nothing about it. You could have saved it.
Where is it illegal to ask yer neighbor and buy it
It’s done
Boat anchor
Let me guess. Another not
The man who owns that 56 Belair not going long it will end up in junkyard getting crush happens alot peoples die they going junk just to be crush
Maybe you can salvage the motor and trans. The rest is scrap.
😭
its toast 😢
Nope
It's his car his property. Besides it's a 56 the ugly year.
That’s too much work and money for me! This would take years and 6 figures to get it right. You can buy nice show quality cars for half of what this car would need.
If you're going to save it, make a Rat Rod out of it, and save a little money, doing a numbers matching concord restoration would be rather EXPENSIVE. It's terrible the owner sold it to someone who never picked it up, or had someone pick it up.🤔🫤🫠