What Happens to Barn Finds if No One Buys Them - Owls Head Museum | Barn Find Hunter

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

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  • @jacubillo
    @jacubillo Год назад +50

    This museum NEEDS a youtube channel.. showing new incomming cars, giving history lessons of the pieces they own, restoration vlogs, etc. Doesn't even have to be polsihed edited videos... anything would be amazing... just a few shorts of how they fix stuff and everyone will love it.

    • @The-Real-Blissful-Ignorance
      @The-Real-Blissful-Ignorance Год назад +2

      I agree with everything you wrote! If they modeled their channel after Tyrrell's Classic Workshop, I'd be a happy man.

  • @fredwalt2282
    @fredwalt2282 Год назад +23

    I’m thrilled to see how the museum is so closely linked with their community. From having school children visit, to volunteers restoring and finally having estates donate their vehicles, it follows the cycle of life in the century transportation.
    Great respect !!!
    What different perspective from those that shutter their cars from public sight, while rust slowly deteriorate them into oblivion.

  • @ronaldcooper7609
    @ronaldcooper7609 Год назад +45

    I'm glad the museum is still going strong. I visited 25 years ago and it remains one of my favorites.

    • @Kal-zo5ym
      @Kal-zo5ym Год назад

      Added to my museum list. My favorite car museum so far is Gilmore.

  • @peterscott7384
    @peterscott7384 Год назад +9

    You can hear the passion in Toby’s voice. What a wonderful place to go to every day and actually make a difference. Well done to the museum. What a great video

  • @dandahermitseals5582
    @dandahermitseals5582 Год назад +2

    Im 80 yrs old and this leaves me nearly speechless. A lot of my life was spent theough all these categories. Built motorcycles boats airplanes ( bush piolet taildraggers rule) race cars custom everything and everything is delireaus. I want them all but the Healy makes me dream. Had a MK 3000 inline 6 Su carbs etc. One of my alltime favorite body designs like the Shelbys and GT 40s. Oooo Great video. Thanks. They must continue to represent our past. Dandahermit

  • @V111HRD
    @V111HRD Год назад +5

    What an episode.! Tobys probably got the best job in the world. His enthusiasm speaks volumes

  • @mtbikesam68
    @mtbikesam68 Год назад +26

    I love Barn Finds, I love cars, and great stories never hurt. This is the best video from you yet, Tom! The knowledge and enthusiasm of this man, I am sure he will see an uptick in attendance at the museum from folks who have seen this. Wonderful!

    • @bobroberts2371
      @bobroberts2371 Год назад +1

      As Jay Leno has said. " you buy the story "

  • @rickharper1497
    @rickharper1497 Год назад +19

    Thank you Hagerty and Tom for this video, for a lot of us this is the only means we have to visit this museum or anything
    like it!!

  • @markkinne4715
    @markkinne4715 Год назад +8

    I have lived in Maine my entire life, I am 59 years old. My wife and I finally made the trip from our house in Southern Maine up to Owls Head this past spring. It was well worth it! Great vehicles and facility. I highly recommend a visit.

  • @RussellRobinson971
    @RussellRobinson971 Год назад +20

    Best series on Hagerty. Family friendly and informative.

    • @herchelleonwood7463
      @herchelleonwood7463 Год назад

      whats the obsession with family friendly content ,, i find family friendly content everywhere ,,freaking out over the pettiest things does not help kids,, my mother freaked out when i saw a boob in a movie 50 years ago,,, we still laugh about that to this day,, seeing boobs didn't hurt me !!

    • @redmondjp
      @redmondjp Год назад +2

      @@herchelleonwood7463 It's more than just not having obscene or risque content - I would use the word wholesome. There are too many channels on here with idiots doing really stupid things (like purposefully destroying entire vehicles or engines) just to get views. I would also describe that as not family friendly, as I certainly don't want to teach that type of behavior to my children.

  • @rancoracing7001
    @rancoracing7001 Год назад +5

    Millikens Corner is located in Watkins Glen, NY,
    not at Lime Rock. It was named when Bill Milliken was racing in the first road race there and wrecked in the 90 degree turn as he was returning back to town.

  • @bmf3000
    @bmf3000 Год назад +5

    Love Toby's enthusiasm...those cars and planes are good hands. 👏🏻

  • @oldsguy49
    @oldsguy49 Год назад +4

    I enjoyed the enthusiasm he had doing this video. You can feel the love he has.

  • @billschlafly4107
    @billschlafly4107 Год назад +1

    Toby's honesty should be commended. Most people wouldn't be willing to tell the truth about the decision making that is involved in selling vs. preserving.

  • @logancarter2134
    @logancarter2134 Год назад +13

    What a fantastic episode and story of what is the BEST of the historical car world! ❤

  • @kenh9097
    @kenh9097 Год назад +2

    My favorite place, and it's in my State! Love it!

  • @CAHelmer
    @CAHelmer Год назад +3

    Owls Head is a wonderful place. Took my son when he was a toddler and got a ride in a Model A. He has been hooked ever since.

  • @EvangelineAndrews
    @EvangelineAndrews Год назад +2

    What a great episode. I always wondered how museums functioned.. Best series on Hagerty. Family friendly and informative..

  • @wraithmaker3081
    @wraithmaker3081 10 месяцев назад +1

    The engine in the airplane behind the Jeep is a modified Henderson Motorcycle engine. There was a kit sold to do the conversion and many were installed in homemade aircraft.

  • @stephenhenderson9871
    @stephenhenderson9871 Год назад +1

    I am super glad to see a Wheel Horse in use at a super cool museum. Love his enthusiasm as well.

    • @vwcadwagon
      @vwcadwagon 9 месяцев назад

      I noticed that too!

  • @hankhenninger3601
    @hankhenninger3601 Год назад +2

    Nice show of a museum saving history of cars and planes. Plus seeing the passion of someone that works at the museum wanting to save the history.

  • @emmettrocks2
    @emmettrocks2 Год назад

    Drove my 20+ year old Dodge Dakota to Maine from Minnesota 3 years ago & after Old Orchard Beach, The Owl's Head Museum was my "Most" memorable stop....My truck sports a Owls head sticker on the windshield. Thanks for bringing back a GREAT memory Tom!

  • @Danny365x
    @Danny365x Год назад +1

    Dang. That place is nice and the gentleman definitely loves his work and that place. Hard to find that

  • @thekillercapricorn6334
    @thekillercapricorn6334 Год назад +4

    Best show online for car guys👍

  • @goleafsgo8496
    @goleafsgo8496 Год назад +1

    Wow at 15:02 the Ford 4 Door Convertible is absolutely stunning! The coach builder / designer created simply a perfect "Rembrandt" that still all these years later grabs the eye! Sexy ...... 😊

  • @ryanmundt9628
    @ryanmundt9628 Год назад +10

    Wow! What a place! The passion for the vehicles is oozing out of this guy! Great video!

  • @fossil-bit8439
    @fossil-bit8439 Год назад +5

    I love just about anything from The Great War. Those planes are so cool! I could watch an entire episode on just those! There is just something about dogfighting in the air with such a primitive piece of machinery!

  • @keywestjj
    @keywestjj Год назад +3

    This museum is WORLD CLASS, and I will be attending the auction in August (from Michigan!) ... wish me luck that I don't succumb to temptation and that I don't buy anything!

  • @TobyCatVA
    @TobyCatVA Год назад

    What a treat to get to see these precious treasures and iconic machines.

  • @deanirwin3645
    @deanirwin3645 Год назад +3

    That dude is intense. I love it!

  • @jordytaylor_
    @jordytaylor_ Год назад +1

    Old mate was bursting at the seems. That’s passion

  • @ebinmaine
    @ebinmaine Год назад

    I've been to this Museum several times.
    They do a fantastic job. Very welcoming. Excellent displays. Very clean.
    I believe they make wonderful stewards for the future.
    We go every year in July for the truck and tractor show and I highly recommend it.
    We collect, restore, and use Wheel Horse tractors.
    As you can imagine we got a hell of a kick out of the one that the museum has. 5:55.

  • @EM-ru3eh
    @EM-ru3eh Год назад

    Love Owl's Head! An uncle worked there 30 years ago- my dad, son and I were frequent visitors. Looking forward to visiting again this fall!

  • @leegoddard2618
    @leegoddard2618 Год назад +1

    Thx4 asking about the Ford "jeep", Tom. I was hoping it would show. 👍

  • @ftby59mikeD
    @ftby59mikeD Год назад +2

    Passion for preservation! This place is on my bucket list of must sees!👍

  • @doublel7337
    @doublel7337 Год назад

    Loved this video, we see so many vintage cars sitting in fields wasting away. It so nice to see a group of people who lives are dedicated to working and saving these cars for people to see.

  • @clarencejones7916
    @clarencejones7916 Год назад +9

    Always cool to see another episode of barn find hunter 👏🏼🙌🏻😎👊🏻too bad it’s far and between these days😮😬

  • @garyallen7868
    @garyallen7868 Год назад

    I could sit and watch this for hours, thanks for sharing.

  • @thomastrout9997
    @thomastrout9997 Год назад +1

    Small local museums are the true way of preserving automobiles and automo-bilia for the future. Big city institutions have their place for sure, but for generating interest in any given subject, a 'hometown' facility, well presented and maintained is a key for maintaining interest among those who will never see a Blackhawk Collection, a Nethercutt or a Petersen.

  • @mack_titan
    @mack_titan Год назад +2

    That home made aircraft engine looks like a 4 cylinder FN motorcycle engine....love to get one of those engines for my vintage motorcycle project.

    • @RonaldHQuebec
      @RonaldHQuebec Год назад +1

      Its a Henderson 4 that has had the trans cut off and is reversed from normal orientation.

  • @97jettatrek
    @97jettatrek Год назад +1

    I always go to the classic bike and foreign car meets at Owl's Head every year. It's good to see them getting even more attention as they deserve it.

  • @onthewayup
    @onthewayup Год назад +1

    Tom, "One thing our viewers like is to see what people cant see" Yeah, sure, right....Tom.... It was YOU who wanted to see. Glad you brought us along. You can just tell that Tom just loves all cars.

  • @TDJUNKIEOZ
    @TDJUNKIEOZ Год назад

    I’m happy to say that I live in Maine, close enough to visit the Owl’s Head Museum frequently!! I’m even more happy now that my son has taken a liking to all these classic machines so I can always find a reason to go and visit lol. I look forward to seeing you at Seal Cove in a few weeks Tom!

  • @angeloah
    @angeloah Год назад

    What a wonderful place, reminds me of the WAAAM in Hood River, Oregon.

  • @andrewlorenzen1447
    @andrewlorenzen1447 Год назад

    Wings and Wheels event is my annual pilgrimage to one of my favorite places Owls Head!!

  • @keithbronson9777
    @keithbronson9777 Год назад +4

    Great episode. Toby needs to switch to decaf.😂

  • @doster59
    @doster59 Год назад +1

    Another great show, I love it Tom, when you go behind the scenes.

  • @RXRSawdustStation
    @RXRSawdustStation Год назад

    Outstanding video! That was amazing! Thank you ever so much for the fantastic tour!

  • @v860rich
    @v860rich Год назад +1

    I'm glad I watched this!!! Now I know I need to change our will and leave nothing to a museum. If I left them a vehicle and found out they sold it I'd be back to haunt them forever.
    If this guy is telling the truth and they sold 2/3rds of one donation the place should be closed!!!!

  • @kennethmello5353
    @kennethmello5353 Год назад

    First of all I absolutely love you, Tom Carter. Second of all I am so thrilled that you have a second home in Maine and are doing barn. Find hunting up there. And I say up there because you are definitely north of just about everybody in the country, if you’re up a trip down to Foxborough Massachusetts, I have 5/ first GEN Broncos and some 73 to 79 Ford pick ups that you and your viewers might like to see. You are welcome anytime even if you’re not interested in the vehicles you can just stop by if you’d like and we can talk about cars. You’re always welcome into me. You’re just a friend I haven’t met yet but I hope someday I will.

  • @nikolaslarson6891
    @nikolaslarson6891 Год назад

    An absolutely stunning episode...

  • @edwardlincoln5680
    @edwardlincoln5680 Год назад

    Thanks for the tour.

  • @michaelreynolds1904
    @michaelreynolds1904 Год назад +1

    One of my favorite places to visit!

  • @varmint243davev7
    @varmint243davev7 Год назад +3

    Very nice !

  • @jeffhaddock4238
    @jeffhaddock4238 Год назад +1

    What a fantastic episode. It was very educational.

  • @Anonymous-zv9hk
    @Anonymous-zv9hk Год назад

    This was great!! I'd never heard of this museum before, but it certainly makes me want to visit it before I die. The rationale of how donated vehicles were selected for restoration, or sale at auction, or for future use was fascinating, as was learning about the volunteers who participate in the efforts of the Thursday Night Restoration Crew. I hope the Museum has a RUclips channel that is used to spread the word on the fundamentals of classic car operation (such as how to start and operate a Model T Ford), maintenance and repair, how to pick vehicles to be restored, how to start a restoration, how to restore specific vehicles that are popular with different groups of enthusiasts, how to use the Internet to find parts and service manuals from sources all over the world, how to make parts or find sources that can make parts to order, etc. A side effort to raise both interest in the Museum and revenue would be either selling the restoration products used at the Museum directly to enthusiasts, or through setting up an Amazon Storefront which had the Museum's recommended tools, guidebooks, procedures, and restoration products available from one source with quick, often free, shipping of products, without tying up the time of museum volunteers and employees.
    Videos of various stages of actual restorations would also bring in revenue and new supporters of the Museum. If Hagerty could publish an on-line list of these types of museum, which exist all over America, it would encourage the effort to save old vehicles and help promote the efforts of those who take an active interest in vehicle restoration to see who else is involved, and help people with similar interests connect with each other. Such an effort would help people plan day trips, weekend trips and regular vacations around traveling around their state, province, region, or the USA or Canada and Mexico country visiting these types of museums or collections which either open to the public, or to members of special interest groups. Hagerty's support of such efforts would bring in new customers for its insurance products for restored classic vehicles, and create a win-win situation for all involved.

  • @JennaLookner-ve4xq
    @JennaLookner-ve4xq Год назад

    Great video featuring two passionate, brilliant automobile experts in a special place! Nicely done!!

  • @acegard7801
    @acegard7801 Год назад

    Found owls head last year, great museum

  • @larsstougaard7097
    @larsstougaard7097 Год назад +4

    Keep those wheels turning 🙏

  • @boltonky
    @boltonky Год назад +1

    Love everything tom and the crew do to bring us this and the places and people..Do wish episodes like this would be longer but i get were not paying to go there as much as heaps of us from outside the US would if possible

  • @garyw4211
    @garyw4211 Год назад +1

    Museums like this are the best. ❤

  • @Cartier_specialist
    @Cartier_specialist Год назад

    Phenomenal sound quality.

  • @valvintage89
    @valvintage89 Год назад

    That's a dream place to be/work. Amazing!

  • @jimburig7064
    @jimburig7064 Год назад

    Another excellent show. Thank you, Tom.

  • @Michael666CA
    @Michael666CA Год назад

    Cool, other than me in about a couple hours from owls Head and always remember going a couple times of summer as a kid to the car shows. The car show was outside and the only thing I remember from inside since my grandfather was a pilot with a small planes was the planes hanging from the ceiling.

  • @timothydunn8981
    @timothydunn8981 Год назад

    Like so many others, I love the history and behind the scenes stories.

  • @aussiechique798
    @aussiechique798 Год назад

    I love this place was there in 2018 from Australia, Mac Mccomb is a friend of Australian racing driver Allan Moffat

  • @patrickholroyd9946
    @patrickholroyd9946 Год назад

    I have been to Owls Head and loved every minute..

  • @harryward2309
    @harryward2309 Год назад

    Just added this to my bucket list.

  • @jeffm234
    @jeffm234 Год назад

    I grew up a couple miles from the Owls Head Transportation Museum. As a kid I won a contest there and they gave me a ride in a Stanley Steamer. Been a car nut ever since

  • @TBHinPhilly
    @TBHinPhilly Год назад

    Great introduction to the Owls Head Museum and behind the scenes views. Thanks for showing us and getting them some more support. (And nice you skipped the drivers club in video ad).

  • @noberet
    @noberet Год назад

    Love these shows! Thank you.

  • @alexbuck7500
    @alexbuck7500 Год назад

    Great video! Well articulated

  • @chuckthebull
    @chuckthebull Год назад

    Love this museum.. hope i get to visit some day

  • @Gary-dc2nm
    @Gary-dc2nm Год назад

    Hey Tom you should check out Pioneer Village in Menden Nebraska Harold Warp Museum. A lot of really neat cars and much more. I would love to see an episode on it.

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind Год назад

      Minden, Nebraska. That's not a well-known museum outside of central Nebraska. Thanks for giving it some love.

  • @robertrantane6867
    @robertrantane6867 Год назад +1

    I'm sure the museum knows their 8th Army jeep is Korean war vintage. Even though I served in the 60's it brought back memories - I drove that model for a while when I served.

  • @BTimmer
    @BTimmer Год назад +4

    The airport truck is a '56 not a '53.

  • @moparedtn
    @moparedtn Год назад

    Bravo Owls Head - a better example of being good *stewards* of these vehicles - and therefore, the hobby in general -
    would be hard to come by. Wonderful stuff, y'all. Good on ya.
    -Ed on the Ridge

  • @kyleforeman4543
    @kyleforeman4543 Год назад

    Wow awsome video..tks for the behide scenes

  • @dannythomas3732
    @dannythomas3732 Год назад

    Awesome job Tom.

  • @THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS
    @THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS Год назад +1

    That was awesome, fun and educational!

  • @henrycarlson7514
    @henrycarlson7514 Год назад

    So Wise , Thank You .

  • @ronniebraine9692
    @ronniebraine9692 Год назад

    Another great episode Tom.

  • @BertMacklin_FBI
    @BertMacklin_FBI 2 месяца назад

    The 36 Ford is awesome

  • @paulandersen8396
    @paulandersen8396 Год назад

    Good to see a museum with a sustainable plan for the future. Too many museums dont, they are the dream of one man, and when he passes, the dream often dies. I hope jay leno has a plan for the future.

  • @crbourret
    @crbourret Год назад

    I'm looking forward to taking a trip over from NH to see this place in the Fall

  • @arichison
    @arichison Год назад

    So good! Love this. Hagerty is cool.

  • @CarShowclub
    @CarShowclub Год назад

    What a great episode. I always wondered how museums functioned.

  • @bhaebe6671
    @bhaebe6671 Год назад

    Wow Toby is a talker. Tom got to say a few words here and there. A great museum.

  • @conrads7332
    @conrads7332 Год назад

    The stake-body ford truck is a 1956. Only year with the built in sun visor on the roof.

  • @somerandomness4285
    @somerandomness4285 Год назад +1

    Come to Connecticut!!!! Been asking for years now I know of some great cars

  • @PetesProjects0
    @PetesProjects0 Год назад

    I've been there. A great museum for sure.

  • @aljosaravbar527
    @aljosaravbar527 Год назад +2

    Great video👍

  • @jvepps
    @jvepps Год назад +90

    When I was younger a "barn find" wasn't a darn multimillion dollar business venture.

    • @Mike_hocksbig69
      @Mike_hocksbig69 Год назад +10

      You can thank Capitalism and the internet

    • @JoJoJoker
      @JoJoJoker Год назад +8

      You just weren’t aware of them. Thank the internet.

    • @samryan7954
      @samryan7954 Год назад +2

      Oughta call em warehouses, or storage buildings.👍

    • @valkillmore847
      @valkillmore847 Год назад +6

      @@Mike_hocksbig69 you spelled boomers wrong.

    • @dontbesohumble
      @dontbesohumble Год назад +2

      It's crazy, makes no sense. Things get older and become more and more rare? What has the world come to, smh...

  • @dennisgallear409
    @dennisgallear409 Год назад

    Thanks amigos!

  • @idrivearttabletennis
    @idrivearttabletennis Год назад

    really cool video - the barn find hunt continues.....

  • @HewinsAuto
    @HewinsAuto 4 месяца назад

    Awesome episode

  • @isalmankhan1
    @isalmankhan1 Год назад +3

    Whenever I get a chance to go visit any place in the world, this museum is definitely the first place i would choose, what a marvel of engineering history😍

  • @chrisbreault5854
    @chrisbreault5854 Год назад

    The American Heritage Museum in Stow Massachusetts would be a cool one for Hagerty to visit!

  • @duanelawrence78
    @duanelawrence78 Год назад

    Out standing video thanks for sharing God bless!!✌️🇺🇲