Rare glimpse inside Blake's Auto Salvage | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 57
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- While in St. George, Utah, Tom Cotter learns of a junkyard with hundreds of solid old cars, where the owner never sold anything and never allowed anyone inside. In classic Barn Find Hunter fashion, Tom makes a few phone calls and sweet-talks his way into Blake’s Auto Salvage. It is indeed a veritable fortress of forgotten cars. Many are only good for parts, but among them Tom finds an R-code Torino, a vintage White 706 tour bus from Yellowstone, and a low-mile Lincoln Continental Mk III.
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Thank you for this video! Red is my Grandpa and he just passed away in December. This is such a great memory of the legacy he made.
Many condolences , thank you for sharing his life's works .
My condolences about your Grandpa Red.
Sorry for your loss. Hope some is still running the place. Love to come out there and buy something.
Wow you must have some great memories as a kid in that yard, sorry about your gramps.
Condolences.
It was kind of him to allow Tom to go through the junkyard
Thanks to Red and Jim for allowing us to view your awesome yard!
Almost speechless..so many cars, so little time and money..
Thx Tom for the heart ache..🇧🇲🍻
They are currently crushing them all.... how's that for heart ache.
@@tayloraudioslc should be illegal
Tom
Another five episodes of this wonderful place would be very appreciated by all of us who look forward to your finds. This place was truly amazing.
Thanks for continuing to search out these hideaways....
Jim was a great host! He seemed as into it as Tom
GETUP AND GO I thought he was going to be a jerk at first honestly, turned out to one of the best ones. Kinda makes or breaks the video’s for me on this channel. Not a huge fan of the main host. Not complaining either.
@@williswhatchutalkinbout4367 I like Tom as the host, but it's always neat to see how others can bring their own style to the roll
Last owner of the Lincoln Conty III had a sense of humor and knew what he had.
Utah tag LNDYAHT. Land Yacht. That is a beautiful car.
Mustah been from New England.
Best comment award! Good eyes brother! 👁️👁️👍🏼
Diminishing returns on the '58 Lincoln Land Yacht. It would be a fun driver if you built it for yourself, not to sell.
My kinda junkyard....22 minutes, way too short a video.
Of video*
Doesn't matter, you still would not have really seen anything anyway. The main charater is Tom Cotter and all you see is him bullshiting about a lot of bullshit and not really looking at the cars. I like the show and I like him, but not the content. You don't really get to see the cars and best ones there are the ones he doesn't really know anything about and won't be shown that much if he doesn't bullshit about it.
That's one rare Nash. I'm an owner of a 1957 Nash Ambassador, there are only a handful of them that have survived. Nice to see that it's definitely restorable. It would have had an AMC 327 V8 originally. AMC's first V8 engine.
I have a 57 Nash ambassador too
OsbornTramain You are wrong AMC's first V8 engine was manufactured in 1956 and was a 250. American Motors' first V8 in-house engine, the 250, was used in AMC automobiles from 1956 through 1961 and made its debut in the Nash Ambassador and Hudson Hornet "Specials" of 1956.
Just thought I would help you keep the history going.
Far out only in America awesome. And the mountains what a back drop. 👍
Red is right about certain people say they want their stuff but never come back for it. Just like storage units and stuff left behind. I work in the dealership parts world. When you order a part special order, it's pre-pay because if we didn't require pre-pay we'd be loaded-up with special order parts. The crazy thing is the amount of pre-paid parts people don't ever come back for. Expensive stuff too. People are weird.
I have a picture framing shop, same deal.
I clean foreclosed homes my true to send a box of baby pictures contacted the people never showed in the trash it went
Weird is an understatement!
People change their mind or can't stay focused on a project or idea. I have 3 projects. Just in one day while thinking and planning and working on one car plans changed. You start a project you find out how much it cost or it turns out it was not an easy fix so things change. Also sometimes you make a deal sleep on it and the next day you don't want it. The wife and I went car shopping and the first car we looked at I knew we would buy it but the wife had to look at other cars. She realized the first car was in excellent condition but it had been sitting in a garage for ten years I told her I will get it running. So all of us change our minds after thinking and something else better gets in the way or we are too dumb to make a decision.
I did maintenance and remodeling on commercial and residential properties for 24 yrs and have gone into apartments where they left everything.
this video changed the course of my life as a car guy. in december 2019, i contacted this yard with the help of mr cotter and purchased the 1962 ambulance, and while it didnt really go well with that car i cant help but feel like i wouldnt be the same person right now if i hadnt watched this video. im so glad this video was made, not only for me, but because reds yard will live forever here no matter what happens in the coming years.
WOW! It boggles the mind that such a collection can still exist. Since I'm not Tom Cotter, Barn Find Hunter I'll never get to see it so thanks so much for finding and sharing.
"A car like this would be a really neat car...if it wasnt in the condition that its in"!!!...true words my man, true words..lol!!!!
If we had some ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.
Yeah, if only my wife was 30 again.
One of the best shows on RUclips, I love those old junkyards
Thank you red and Jim, it is greatly appreciated.
Always excited to see another episode of Barn Find Hunter :) If a 1937 BMW 328 racer can end up sitting in Iowa for decades, then anything’s possible when looking for old cars.
Mr Tom... THE legend is back! Thanks for another great video!!!
Lots of salvageable cars there. Liked the gto and the Lincoln. That Ford Torino deserves a restoration. Thanks for the tour.
i wouldn't put a 428 in it... but a 427😁😁
A lot of them probably have no titles.
What an episode this has been. I'm glad the owner decided to sell, cause there is so much treasure in there that needs to be saved.
Also, i just noticed that this is episode 57(!). I've followed this series since the very first episode and i really can't comprehend how time went by! This is one of the very best car series in YT and TV. Thanks a lot Tom and Hagerty! Greetings from Greece!
DimZ The owner decided to sell. Red, the owner, might put a car outside the gate every 3 to 5 years just to find out what offers he will get. He has not sold a car in over 10 years and I don't think he will before he dies.
@@mmill6505 Ohh, i see. That's really sad... Let's hope Red changes his mind. It's not like we can take things on the other side and a lot of these cars could be saved.
That Yellowstone should be brought back. I think there was only like 10 or 12 made. True Americana
Scott Haswell I went to Yellowstone when I was 8 I have picture infront of one of the restored buses
@@joelplacido418 Well how old are you now?
John Challeen 15
The Yellowstone bus left for restoration today 1/6/2020 It is bus number 359
@@jimmccune568 Thanks for the tour and for the update.
Finally,someone who actually called it an ENGINE,and not a motor.
Kudos to you sir.
Yes, I call them motors if they are electric and engines if they have explosions on the inside.
Loved this episode; imagine my car being towed with all my stuff and I never went back, 40 years later someone came and had a look
Only show on television I'll sit through.
Keep it up
This video just made my day. It makes me think of my Grandfather when he was alive. He was also a World War II veteran who served our country. This was really positive that you could do this for him. Great Job!
THAT was good. I could watch that all day ! Thank you, Tom
Great job !
What an amazing experience to go threw the yard visually, I would LOVE to take the entire day going threw this yard. Thanks for the video, was very nostalgic.
Love these old auto salvage yard tours. I used to wander through them in my 20s and 30s, dreaming of the possibilities. I don't get why people invest so much time and money into acquiring these old cars, just to let them rot in the elements for decades. Humans are a strange species.
I can sit for hours and watch these videos. Tom is a pretty good guy, he don't go around trying to buy stuff up for next to nothing. It's good that he offers to the owners of the yards, the availability to sell the cars that they have.
wow that was cool. Thanks for showing us around & thanks to the owner for letting you. It was really interesting.
Junkyard?!?! That's a gold mine!!
For sure
I can't tell you how many times I paused the video while the drone was inflight so I could ID tons of awesome cars and trucks! A Hot Rodder's dream!
So many lost and forgotten cars and trucks waiting to be made whole again, to be driven and loved, again.
Another great episode, production wise this one was one of the best, Thanks Tom and crew
Would rather pick my first car out of here than a dealership
Totally agreed.
Go get yourself a Prius instead
57 drag chevy for a dad dream car
Snoopy Buzzkill over here
Dealer car 60k plus for trucks or SUV’s... 10-30k for 4 doors little cars so yeah... build and learn, Develop traits so yea be wise man
The continental two door is a fine lookin' automobile for sure! . If Jim were to take a pic of each vehicle in the lot and set up a link page ,he might be able to shift them quicker as I'm guessing Red is not a young man and would appreciate a few less things sitting around . Many thanks to Red for helping preserve a little part of history.
Mercmad Red is the kind that sells none a year so they just sit there waiting for him to die.
@@mmill6505 How do you know?
@@jimmccune568 I was there 22 years ago and I see most of the cars in this video that I seen then.
I congratulate you on your persistence, Mr. Cotter! 30 years ago, I bought a '77 Cordoba - & people told me "Ahhh, you'll never get that running!" But in about 3 months time, those same people were asking for rides. Keep doing what you're doing - it works! If I had the money, time, & space, I'd buy 5-10 of those vehicles & somehow put them back on the road. Maybe they wouldn't be "Concours" but then again I wouldn't be building trailer queens.
That's not Jim.That's ST Peter at the gates of heaven! Loved the red 69 gmc!
Nicely done show, obviously many of us wouldn't mind a longer tour or a part II & III. And be interesting to know if viewers here are able to make some deals.
My goodness. What a privilege it would've been to see all these vehicles in person. I personally would have been in heaven seeing the old trucks. Great content!
First time seeing tom so quite because jim really knew his stuff .
Jim looks like Stuntman Mike from Death Proof,awesome!!!
I agree , I would take that Lincoln home
I love looking at old cars like these --would never actually want to buy and/restore one of them (well, maybe the Lincoln Continental 2dr) but they're sure fun to look at. Great work. Tom
Great collection . Thanks for saving these cars ! Barn Find Hunter is by far one of the the best car shows on RUclips. Appreciate the look. Outstanding time watching from my Lazy boy!
A damn shame so many legends of automotive engineering will never have see the light of day...please tell me their is a part 2 to this yard!! The old ambo/coaches particularly intrigue me!!
Drone footage reached Full Beast Mode! Kudos to the controller! Zip~
Timestamp?
Till it hit the tree
I think he was more interested in showing off his flying skills than the yard.
@@cbro777 I agree - the drone could be a GREAT tool for this series but a nice smooth fly through not fancy do flips and fast turns etc. I am a drone pilot I would not have shot it this way ...
Best yard visit in some time. I'm even sharing the link with several friends..
I’m a freestyle kwad Pilot, what a surprise to see non dji drone footage. You guys rock!
Love the Turbo rims on the 68 GTO they where popular for a time
I believe that wheel is a Western Cyclone. American Racing had a similar wheel they called a Vector. They were pretty cool in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
B.A Baracus had then on his GMC Van on the show the A-Team.
I spied with my little eye quite a few '78 Monte Carlos. What a collection!! Thanks Tom.
Amazing Yard, amazing ars...i'm speechless...thanks Tom for this walkaround.There are so many good Shorts with the camera, you have to make a photobook from. well done. well done.greetings from Germany - love your Show.
Thanks for doing what you do. Always entertaining! Good stuff.
Best series on RUclips, by far
Reminds me of place called Memory Lane in Cali , I used to go to in the 90s all old cars nothing new it was like a pick a part but for classics I used to love walking through there and would spend hours just looking at the cars.
I could of watched this episode for hrs. These cars tell our history. When I get my back fixed , I think I would love to make one of those scouts part of my future. Thanks for bringing us such great content.
I love the host’s attitude
Gotta admit never was this happy about some random guy calling another random guy to come and hang out in his junkyard...i need therapy probably in the junkyard as well😂
Did we just become best friends?
@@5thgen691 we always been buddy, just found out about each other now😀
I think we need to have junkyard anonymous meetings at Red's place every Tuesday at 3:30.
Haha
I'm in
Pick a car to cherish
Your right Tom, that Lincoln makes the heart skip more than a beat or two!
Really awesome ‘66! I had one back when I was a senior in high school and it drove like dream. Just like a boat floating down the road lol!
Thanks for not walking by the Camaros. Great yard!
The guy that hosts the show will only bullshit about what he thinks he knows about and those are the only cars that he will bullshit about, or the camera person wil actually show for that matter. The drone flyby might show you something but don't blink when watching.
Video aired 5 days ago ..... 760k subscribers ..... I bet the phone hasn't stopped ringin' yet !
Jim is a true enthusiast which is amazing to see
Wow! In the beginning of this episode, that continental was the one I was looking at! Glad you came back and looked at it!
That drone crash at 2:13 :D
That tropical yellow foxbody is rare too
My most awaited series! Nice work Tom & the crew!
I love these kind of places! They're like untouched time-capsules.
Every car person eventually meets someone like Red....glad he found "spokesman" to handle things. Most old guys like that end up just sitting on this stuff until they die, and then it all gets scrapped.
Thanks , amazing cars. I saw several I was interested in. A few early Firebirds
Sorry for the loss of red. Hope they keep it open
Another tremendous episode. Thanks Tom and crew.
Talk about an addiction! Not too mention the money factor. Thank you for sharing !
Back in the day they couldn't give these cars away no one really wanted them and people would be very surprised anybody would want an old car they saw them as obsolete junk.
Red thank you for letting everyone take a peek at your yard. because there never getting into mine.. LOL . Mabye Its time to Let some go brother. 👍
Yeah,let your cars sit until they rust into the ground.Then your heirs can sell them for scrap.
It's time to start selling cars. But the fact is they all cost more to fix than what they are worth. So they will sit and rot away. Even if you got a car for free it is still not worth it.
Noooo don’t you’ll regret it everyone I know whose sold one hates themselves for it
Ya, Red should have sold them.... and shawnbob was right his daughters are selling them for scrap right now.... super sad
That not a junkyard, that's a classic's graveyard museum!
Very interesting!
I am in Krabi Thailand watching the show. I loved it! I own a 1963 Lincoln Continental. I would love to get one of those old trucks if I were still in America. Love the show. Keep it going. I absolutely must find a junk yard like that.
Oh man these are my favourite type of videos! Most people see wasted cars but being a kiwi I don't often see classics like this, and so a junk yard usually has all the best stuff in one place! (Dont get me wrong I love covered collections to, junkyards just have the greatest character every single one is unique)
I was born in NZ and as a teen me and the mates would often go into the countryside looking for old tin. Being part Maori helped because I knew how to approach older folk and ask about the cars they had laying about. The biggest find we ever had was a Ngaruawahia , between the state highway and the rail line. The NZR had been taking sand from a huge hole there for years .In the bottom was a car wrecker ,the place was full of prewar fords . Dozens of them . Over a whole weekend we moved a few car loads of parts out of there. the hole is filled now but it was pretty well cleaned out .
I never met or knew my sperm donor of a father,but man I'd love to find out 50+ years since my birth that he has a beautiful collection like this and it'd become my inheritance!!! Man I just love old yards like this!!! Thanks for the tour!!!!! Wow!!!!
Please save those Ford Econoline Vans ! There is a facebook page dedicated to 61-67 Ford Econoline vans , and they are always looking for parts, or restoration projects!
I just love these old scrap yards I wish we had this stuff up in Canada but like he said get the interior is up north and the metal down south and that is so true great video really enjoyed this one. 👍👍🇨🇦
When My family lived in So. Calif. in the mid 70's , our dad bought an old junkyard in Ontario Ca. , It was in the desert , all sand , all we had was a phone , and an old gutted travel trailer for an office , no water , no bathrooms , it was not good . One day , we had a Country singer or Musician (Guitars in the back seat , and a Southern accent , cowboy boots etc ) crossing the country from maybe Tennessee to Hollywood ( I wonder who he may have been , would be cool if he became famous ? ) and he ran out of money , he had like 10 bucks left for gas and wanted to trade his nice 57 chevy 4 door , really clean bronze and white , v8 powerglide and We just got in a 62 falcon 6 cyl , 3 speed stick that needed work . I found out it was just a starter solenoid and had it running when he pulled up . We got the falcon for like 35 bucks (cars were super cheap back then ) , the guy asked if I would trade him plus cash . I told him we didn't have a bunch of cash and he said I just need a car that can drive cheap on gas , the '57 wasn't too good on gas in his opinion , and he said just give me 40 bucks and this car and let me drain my gas out . . I told him I just filled the falcon up and drove it a small amount and seemed okay but wasn't sure about the car since we just got it . He said 40 bucks and this car and we shook on it . He drove out happy and my Dad was blown away that I had already swapped the falcon and only had 75 bucks into the 57 . I remember buying so many cars over the phone dirt cheap in those days . I wish I had a camera back then but I didn't .
Anybody that buys anything from there should post it ,I know Guys that have salvageable Cars that they will never get around to restoring ,But the Dream is to strong to let go ...Then the Guy dies and the Kids let stuff go cheap ...
Who saw the ambulance on the drone footage and yelled "Ghostbuster's"?
Thanks to Jim for showing us around....
About 90% of those vehicles are restorable
However 90% aren't for sale. The classic old guy who won't sell as he is getting to it.
When I was in high school,many junkyards were full of good stuff(1976).You could just explore and pull your own parts.They were cheap and plentiful,more wrecks with hot rods.I found a big ditch full of corvettes,c3, in Va.,pulled all the rotors,etc.Told one of my friends and they got a whole IRS rearend out of there. I end up stripping and crushing a 69 ram air IV GTO, still crying.
The Utah license plate reads "LNDYAHT" at the 19:45 mark
LOL!! Good eye
@@79tazman 🤪👀 This is one of my most favorite channels. Great show!
Thank you for being a fan!
@@Hagerty It is an honor to actually receive a reply from you of all people. I cannot say enough good things. Been a long time subscriber and personally obsessed with old cars, just like you who knows way more info than I do. Hope you were able to buy that rare Lincoln. Best to you and keep up the great work!
That means someone from the modern internet era was driving it. Probably hasn't been in the yard very long.
What I wouldn't give to spend time walking that yard
I'd like to walk it with ya
My kinda girl!
My father owned an auto body shop when I was growing up, and we used to hit the junk yards on Saturday mornings. He'd say to me on Friday night, "if you want to go to the junk yard with me tomorrow, you better be up on time." Needless to say, I didn't sleep a wink. Some of my fondest memories are looking for, and removing, parts in the old junk yards. I can still picture the old offices full of dusty old parts and a mangy mutt sleeping in the corner. Great memories.
Amazing and far better than going into a museum.
I had no idea that Ray Liotta worked at a junkyard.
Deric Kettel Maybe the Chantix deal didn’t work out so well LOL 😂
Tom please ask to make the vids longer so you can show the full lots you visit 👍 Free the beast !
Dave Lister
I am all on board for that!!!
Love this video. It's how you approach people & get that yes. Thanks Tom.
A wrecker museum with potential beyond belief for originality and eclectic style
Johnathan Ward would have a field day at this place!
I agree. He would have half them running in a week or two
I've been to that yard. I spent over 2 hours exploring and didn't see all of it!
Could you tell me where it is ?
Yay! A new episode of our fave RUclips channel with Tom Cotton! How about one featuring his own collection??
Thanks for the video and thanks Red/Jim for allowing us there and showing us around.
I get so frustrated at times, i hate seeing cars sit around when they have so much potential and reality is you can't take money or cars to heaven so why not let other people have/use them or least help restore them before all the greats are gone.
They have millions of dollars worth of classic cars just rusting away. I can almost smell the money rusting.
Jim couldn’t have been a better host
Damn this was awesome!! Thank you Tom so much. Keep em' coming
I hope they sell a few cars from the airing of this show and get you back. I could watch raw uncut footage for hours of you guys just walking around talking about each car. Awesome
josh -
Unbelievable...of course I paused it at all the Volkswagens😂😂 that poor yellow squareback looked damn nice.
Right! He mentions there were a ton of volkswagens at the end of the video too, yet all we saw were a couple of T3's, the same Baja like 3x, and maybe one other beetle. So excruciating!
logginsmcgee I know right...yea I saw the Baja, there was a white bug which looked restorable, then the one with the big dent in the roof..ouch.
Damn I just wanted to rescue them all!!! So sad!