Fixing up this Willys Jeep Truck with Makay Brought Back Some Great Old Memories!
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- @MerlinsOldSchoolGarage and Makay get the ol' Willys truck out and fiddle around with some things that don't quite work right. This truck brings back so many old memories of how Merlin and Makay started their friendship over 40 years ago. You won't be able to stop smiling after hearing some old stories!
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What a childhood. Kids today are missing out because they're plugged into devices every minute of spare time.
Imagine kids having to do stuff to entertain themselves or do work,
The phone phukked America out of its true potential. 😊
@@kevbev1524 Not just America. UK too. My wife and I are Scuba divers. We took our boy (11yrs old) to Red Sea to learn. He got qualified. 1st day after he could dive without an instructor and go with us we asked him what he wanted to do. I was gutted when he said "I want to relax in the room because I've missed using my phone all week". Needless to say we didn't allow it and made him dive.
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thanks for staying strong and making a stronger young man.
@@graememckay9972 I grew up without television, I have never owned one. I am bringing my kids up with little to no screen time. We have horses, goats, dogs and chickens etc. The kids spend all day outside and involved with living creatures. Animals make us human.
Story time with Merlin may be my new favorite feature.. I want to be friends with Merlin and Makayla, but I'm not willing to clean cow poop for it.😂😂😂
I second that, I could listen to Merlin’s stories for days
LOL
I still say it needs to be called "Learnin' with Merlin"
@@armithel3133 YES!!
@@armithel3133 Old School is like Learning!
There isn’t nothing better than old friends, trucks and great stories. Love the episode keep up the great work and stay safe out there.
absolutely!!!
So ture, and getting out of PA.
Merlin could post 5 hr videos like this and I’d watch them end to end.
His stories make me laugh and almost cry, they’re his memories, but they ring so true with many of my own, summer holidays, 8 years old, driving the Massey Fergusson tractor, cutting, turning and bailing hay on my uncle’s dairy farm… I’m 70 years old this month, brings my memories right back… God bless you guys ❤️
Just two ole boys reliving their youth.
Story time with Merlin... Excellent!
Those stories are the reason we all have character today. Mine was wire brushing a welding truck bed for my uncle with a 40 lb grinder at 12/13 yr old loading junk iron that summer for 5.00 ton
My 1st job, I worked for my papaw, I got paid $.50/ hr. After taxes I made $19.20 / week. I rode with 1 of my friends’ papaw in a 49 Chevy truck. I either rode my bike or walked 1/2 mile to the spring, then Mr John picked me up. 1 day I got to the spring, I could see Mr John’s truck sitting next to a car over on the Hwy construction. I walked over & could see a man’s feet, he was laying behind his car. Mr John said don’t go round there, Mr Lawson has shot his self. We waited a few minutes, sheriff came, county coroner came, I knew him from church. I finally took a look. Mr Lawson was definitely dead. A gun lay beside him, his brain was laying there too. I worked for papaw all summer about 2 months, school let out late, too many snow days. We were nailing on shingles & John went to sleep sitting on roof. Me & another old nailed John to roof. I looked up while doing that and saw papaw watching us. He didn’t say nothing, so we nailed John down real good. Then we backed up, papaw hollered Hey John. We must have used 20+ nails, Mr John wasn’t getting up. Love your channel
There's something about old school rigs , the sound they make and how easy they are to work on . I'm grinning ear to ear just listening to that Willy's ( and that rig ain't even mine ) 😁
The job in the cow poop is what help what makes guys the good men you are today, thanks for all the good stories
Just can't beat the looks of them old trucks like that, I love it!!
Great memories and good Friends = PRICELESS !!
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More videos on your car hauler please
Building dignity
Love the old stories.
Merlin is a man of all trades including story time telling great video old school.
Uncle Sherman as in Ben and Paul’s dad. Love that.
I like the old Willie's jeep.
I love watching Merlin and McKay. Like one of the other subscribers said.. LOVE to be Merlin's friend. Hubby and I say, us too.... Be well
Shes ALIVE!! 😀😀😀
Great video Merlin! Love stories of the good ‘ol days .. and kids with a work ethic! 🤣🤣
Your right about doing more then than people do today. I worked for farmers when I was young. That's work
That's sweet old jeep
Old Friends & Old Memories don't get much better than that! Thanks 4 sharing Merlin enjoy the stories
Love your story telling session when you guy’s were boys working your fingers to the bone. It reminded me of my childhood growing up in the farm belt. There wasn’t a week that went by that we did not have to clean up shit on someone’s farm. When we were 8 years old were able to sign up at the co-op or the farm bureau looking for work. Talk about good times. I was able to buy my first mini bike at the age of 10.
All of the cousins had cow pie fights in Magna Utah back in the day.
The world needs more L. Dean Andersons. Imagine kids working through summers nowadays. Boy, the stories I could tell about my summer jobs back in the 60s and 70s. Good stuff Merlin! Thanks for sharing
Merlin thank you for starting your channel I can sit and listen to your stories for days
Cool to get some background on "Old School Merlin" and Ren 🐕🚗💨
Merlin is the real deal.
😂😂😂 always start my Sundays with Merlin. Childhood friends are the best at 65 not much of them left but the stories we talk about.Thanks for the smiles always top notch entertainment about. FABRATS.!
What a cool 😎 Willys Jeep.
We had a '54 Willy's pickup that we paid $60 for. We put a Chevy 327 V8 in it and made an adapter plate from 1/2" steel plate. We installed glass door knobs on the gear shifters and put a Chevy II seat in it. I love the boyhood stories.
my buddys got a 54 willys sinkin in his backyard in copper center alaska. got a 327 in it. sittn 30+ years
Merlin, enjoy watch-n your videos.
Thanks for your appearance at your cousins. You SIR are so the master of comins diesels! What a drive just for family, you have GREAT values.
You're a great storyteller Merlin I could listen to you all day long!!. Nice Willys Truck ya got there , Motor n Trans sound Fine Nice Lumpy Cam!!!! You sure do them rite!!
Gotta tell more of the good ol ones! All about the rowdiness right there! Thxs
Keep telling stories. I love to hear them.
I Wish I was Moving out West to the Desert , I’m about done with the East Coast. Time for new Scenery
great Stroy Merlin
Thanks Guys
I love storytime!
Melvin shimmey gyro is such a funny description but I love it 😂
All of his sayings are so funny
What a truck
I love watching how Merlins mind works it is awesome. It would be cool to see what him and Paul would come up with
Way more than we need is the best way to roll 😅
Merlin is old-school, and it's cool. We love it. ;)
Merlin, what a great episode! Love the stories while working. And the stories were great. It just feels right. Thank you again.
Love the story time with uncle Merlin.
There will be many shenanigans to come with makay moving back .loved the stories and the pictures.
Cool episode Nothing better than catching up with an old friend, very real, very honest cool stories and the repair fell to the background like an oil change. I enjoy the history and understanding the long existing, catch me if you can, competition with you and your cousins and friends. Look what that has evolved into!
Good story Merlin 😂😂😂👍
What some wonderful stories.
one sweet old willys...... My mother had a 49 truck for years... all original.
With Merlin it is “Watch and learn and laugh”. Good stories. Just needed a campfire to go with the stories.
Yes !!!! Some fellow Willys action!!!!!!
I'm a piss poor mechanic but I love the stories. Good job.
I have a childhood story that is ALMOST the same....
It was a trailer used for hauling goats.
i cant wait for more updates and videos about mini semi
That's a cool jobs that you don't know what your doing before you get to work... exciting
Thanks for the history
Cool episode. Love the old pictures and the stories. Good times!
Great show Merlin it’s like at my work listening to the older men telling the stories when they were boys lol not saying I’m much younger than they are lol 😂👍👍👍
Hi Merlin, long time subscriber but first time making a comment. I love to hear stories from yester year. I'm in my seventies now and can tell a few myself, my first job was when I was nine years old, picking strawberries. Back then if you wanted something eg, a bike, you found a job and earned the money. Nothing wrong with that. How different the world is now.
That Willy's is Sick. Being from and still in WNY It is a pleasure to see some saved old iron. The first engine I really got into tearing down and rebuilding was a Flat Head 4 banger out of my good friends old Military 48 Willy's Jeep. We did it as a Auto Mech Trade school project back in High School. Did a full resto on it. Came out ok for a couple 18 year old kids without a clue.
Nothing like good times with a old friend
Looking at all your old stuff. I think how great it would be to live in an area where stuff doesn't rust instantly like here in illinois
Miles of smiles
Your buddy looks like cousin Ben. Hahaha
Love the Merlin stories! My very first vehicle was a 1957 Willys pick up. In 1976 I gave $1,500 for it. Took it down to the frame, with the help of my boss at the time ( still my best friend ) completely rebuilt the complete truck. Went through every gearbox, dropped in a 300 hp 327 out of a 64 Vette, built new cross members and put in a Saginaw steering gearbox and power steering. I upgraded the brakes from the original 9” to Ford 11”. Did away with the old through the floor pedals and fit in swinging pedals out of a 60’s Chevy pickup. Paid to have the complete interior done by Danny Green. I learned how to stick weld and weld with an oxy acetylene torch, did the body work and my friend painted it almost the same color yellow as Merlin’s. We completely re wired it one wire at a time. It took three years of working and saving making $2.25 an hour to buy the parts. I learned so much about fabrication and mechanical work. Drove it to and from work for 18 years. Sadly I had to sell it in order to satisfy an ex wife and traded it in for a newer truck with enough seats and seatbelts to be able to carry my two small children. Wish I had it back. Sorry for being so long winded. Thanks Merlin!
Kids now a days don't anything but "Walk There Cell Phones" lol Unless there raised right... Don't get me started on the so called adults that call them selves parents. Thanks for the good story Merlin :)
Even though there's a lot of cool stuff to do here in PA. He will have Even more fun out there. Safe travels
Wow !!! your neighbors must hate all the noise from the cars and trucks.... I know I would. Love your videos :O)
@MerlinsOldSchoolGarage I love your first job story!! ❤
This is a long story but the ending is worth it!!
I was also 10 yrs old when got my first "job" in the late 70s. I was "hired" as the Head Mechanic for a local stock car team!!!
We lived near a shop where the owner and most of his mechanics were into racing the local stock car tracks. I would hang out there for several hours a day asking about the cars. Part way through the summer they started taking me and my sister to the track with them on Friday and Saturday nights. We were too young to hang out in the pits so we spent the night in the stands on our own back then. Times have changed!
One day they took me out behind the shop where they had an old Ford "Spectator Stock" car parked. They asked me if I wanted to change the lifters in it. I was really mechanically inclined but I didn't even know what lifters were. But they encouraged me and said they would help me if I needed it. Half an hour later I'm sitting in the engine compartment with an air hose and a bunch of tools pulling the top of the engine apart!
They mostly left me alone the first day and just let me ask for help when I needed it. I got those lifters out and I had the blood blisters on my hands from the slid hammer to prove it!! They spent the next day "helping" me put it back together. (They wanted the car to run and they did most of the reassembly, but I was there the whole time.)We got the car running that day but they said there was just one more thing to do the next day.
⭐ This is the best part of the story. I showed up the next morning and the owner said we would go back there when they took their lunch break. When the time came, everyone from the shop went out back and we all watched as one of them hand-painted "Head Mechanic" with my name on the rooftop right behind the driver's name!
We went racing that weekend. They were introducing me to their racing buddies as their new Head Mechanic when we pulled into the pits. Then my sister and I headed up the stands like we always did but this time we were surprised to see my whole family was there. And they made sure the PA announcer include my name and title during the introductions.
I'm sure I was the happiest kid in the stands that night. Seeing my name on that car going around in circles was something that I'll never forget!
And we are all these years later but now you and Makay are the real mechanics and I would be the grunt shoveling poop out of a trailer!! 😉
Had a water pump , as soon as it warmed up , idle it up and the impeller would slip on the shaft . At idle it worked like new
Had the same problem on a Rover V8 water pump or as you in the states call it ,a Buick V8 ..fine when it was cool when she got warm the impeller would slip on the shaft .
Merlin you have a collection of the coolest vehicles on youtube. The thing that I dig is that they are all used.. Very cool.
I still have the nightstand next to my bed that I traded off Merlon when we were kids. If I remember right He made it in Doran Lamb's woodshop class in 7th grade.
The cow poop cleanup story is money! Nice to meet Makay.
Thanks for the stories and pictures Merlin,they were very entertaining.😁😁👍👍
Great story Merlin yeah I regret selling my first Willys that I bought back in 1978 turned every nut and bolt on that thing 3 or 4 times now I’ve lost count I think I’m working on my ninth Willys I guess it just gets into your blood keep up the great work 👍😎
Cool little pickup I mean pick him up. I remember back in the early sixties who knows 9 years old. My neighbor bought one painted yellow put metal sideboards on it. Headed for your soul and traded it. Corvair van red and white. I taught his wife how to drive hours 10. Cross Road in the pasture used to be hops. Good days of Northern Cal Sonoma County.
Redwoods. Things were cheaper back then so your wages but seems you got a lot more.
Forty-five $50 a week get your lot back then.
I work on a ranch driving tractors we had two nurtures cross the road. I made 15 $20 a week how I thought I was rich. Anvaya pair of Levi's five bucks friend you.
Hell not he's don't even go to the store if you got five bucks.
Good Times. Horseback riding.. threw up right next to Fred MacMurray Ranch. His Hillside was 25 yards more back you his redwoods were about a quarter of a mile from from us. Are Prindle treatments just the other side of the blackberry bushes famous partying place in the forest.
Y'all take care now it's good thing you got a late go ahead cuz it's too dang Hot For Me.
Now I live in a humid state.
I live in the state of misery as I call it.mo.🤷🏽♂️✌🏽😎🤭.
Thanks Merlin.🤚🏽😊
Good olé truck. Congrats
Can't wait to see the tow truck with the 427 being built or rescuing
I could listen too Merlin stories All day. Oh the things id learn
Excellent show, as usual.
So did that ol cattle truck ever get painted. Enjoyed the video & stories. Nothing better than a true friend over the years.
yes it did get painted
Great story about cleaning the cow trailer.❤
I'll bet the neighbors around you boys really appreciate the noise you make.,
Sweet Willeys
Love that oletime recollection...nice Willys...Great video Merlin...thx
I'm headed to havasu state park for my birthday. I really hope I run into merlin.
Great truck
That Willie's truck is gorgeous, I ike that tow truck also
Love the old storys and we have a couple of them there gasket boxes and they are handy.
The pump you took off was made for a serpentine belt which runs on the back side turning it backwards
I think you’re right I also think the pump we put on is the exact same pump with the same problem
Enjoyed story time with Merlin.
I grew up in Piute County. So I know how much work people expected you to do.
I would guess we are about the same age.
Merlyn, just put one of those Edlebrock high performance water pumps on it. They work real well on small block 400’s with Siamese’s cylinders!
Great stories, keep them coming.
You have some very cool stuff Merlin ❤️👍💪🏻✌️