84 ACRES of Old and Rusty Cars! MASSIVE Junkyard Tour! ALL FOR SALE! (French Lake Auto Parts)
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2022
- French Lake Auto Parts is located in Minnesota and is sitting on 84 acres, all of which is dedicated to old cars, scrap iron, new cars, and parts. This is by far one of the biggest junkyards I have ever toured. They have it all, fords, Chevys, dodges, Packards, Studebakers, etc.! The list goes on and on of cars they have for sale whole or parts. They were super nice too and allowed us to walk the yard and look for any parts we may need. You can also pull small parts yourself, so you may be able to locate what you need, and leave with it that same day! I hope you enjoyed this junkyard walkthrough and make sure to leave a comment on your favorite old car in the yard!
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Probably the best organized yard I've seen. No trees ,no brush, everything organized ,no parts thrown on the ground. Thank you for the tour.
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A lot of old Iron in this junkyard. Might find some great parts. And maybe a restoration. But, most are done. Love looking like yourself. Just a whole lot to take in. I appreciate you showing your viewers the old cars. And thank you for sharing!
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You're in my back yard. I live about 5 miles from French Lake Auto. I pulled my first carb for my 66 LeMans from French Lake back in the late 80s. There are a couple other yards (Rohner's in Willmar MN and Windy Hills in New London MN) as good or better nearby as well. Check them out next time you're in the neighborhood.
its a beautiful piece of country!
above all for parts cars .....sad
Love the looks of all the 57 GMs particularly the olds.
yep i love the 57 olds and buick
One of the BEST organized boneyards I have ever seen! Most have been picked clean, but if you are looking for a part that's bent on your ride, I'm sure that you will find it there. VERY few candidates for a restoration - that gold '66 Impala might have been one. A real nice walkthrough, and an excellent car paradise!!!
thanks Jorge!
Most of them aren’t worth restoration but it would be cool to get a few of them to run and drive
Damn Ryan. This video was sensory overload. My old eyes and brain were reeling after this 1. I have never seen a salvage yard of this size, in all of my 61 years. And the organization, was INSANE! Cars were arranged by models, make and year. They had the year written on most of them, and everything had an inventory number on it. I was impressed by how 50's and 40's cars there were. This video was so impressive. Thanks for sharing it with us. btw. Christine was a 58 Fury in the movie. But I think, my son told me that in the book, it was actually a 57. Which is kind of weird.
glad you liked it!
Never have seen such an amazing salvage yard really appreciate it asuame
Be careful Ryan, Steve Magnante will put rocks in your hub caps! :-D
haha, i love watching his channel...a real wealth of knowledge
Thanks Ryan, they must have heard that you sometimes get the years wrong, as they went around and numbered all the years for you! That was really thoughtful of them! BTW, It's a great yard, hope you got something!
haha yeah it was nice how organized it was
They put the year of the vehicle on it, when it comes to the yard. I have seen the process while I was there. Each one gets an ID # too. It's easier for them to search inventory!
Flames are timeless !!
Wow, what a huge place. Nice inventory and most had year make etc.. Everything was in nice line's. Great place and great video Ryan. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻
thanks for the comment!
hanks again for doing the video. It's nice to have walkthrough the salvage yard without the exercise, on my part!
haha no problem thanks for watching
Thanks, Ryan. Really appreciate your junkyard tours. So many cool cars!
Glad you like them!
Lived next to this salvage yard for many years. Great place to get late model parts also.
yes it is, tons of new stuff sitting too
So happy so sad same time 🤔 way to 🍀get R done😎✌️ good job🏆
thanks for watching
Hey Ryan thank you for the yard Tour awesome 😎
Any time!
Ryan you really find some great stuff! I always look forward to everything you post!
I appreciate that!
53:36 Car with the funky trunk lid is a Kaiser Traveler. Designed to haul cargo as well as passengers. The rear seat folds down to make a large cargo area like modern SUV's.
oh nice thanks!
Missed it in the video America's first hatchback. Always on the hunt for the first compact..the Henry J
WOW What an AWESOME yard..... WOW.... So many cool cars lined out so neatly. Fantastic organization.. WOW.WEE.. Blows my mind. I so wish we had places like this in my country down in little New Zealand. Thanks for sharing Bro. Might need to get me a plane ticket sometime soon . LoL..... I wish..
Glad you enjoyed it
It seems very clean and organized..
French Lake has helped out many Rat Rod projects!
In the late '70s they were well known for having lots of four wheel drive stuff.
Matt at Carney's in Ames, Iowa, got me a set of brand new Selectro lockouts for my '67 Chevy 4x4.
Had the phone looking thing that all salvage yards had, and just yelled for French Lake. It was like a C.B. radio on steroids.
That was about 1976. Year before I graduated high school.
yep they are a good well known yard for many years!
This is the cleanest most organized junk yard that I have ever seen, no broken windshields done by the very customers who should know how valuable any and all parts are to the person who is looking for impossible to find parts. I saw so many good usable parts. I did not see any double stacked vehicles anywhere in the whole yard, that alone is a huge blessing and not found much anymore. Very nice yard with so many good parts al over the place. I also saw a few wagons that looked to be saveable as well as a few other cars too. Thanks guy`s for sharing this wonderful yard with us.👍👍👍
yes it was nice to tour
Great video Ryan and Marshall, the Studebakers at the front end of your tour caught my eye and a whole lot more as walked around the place, this is definitely one of the better organised yards
Thanks for watching
Been there many times for parts for my 66 Barracuda
yep they have a few of those lol
Yes. More fords please! That blue Mercury Comet at 28:44 is a rare one to see. The taillights are interesting
the yard had tons of everything! lol
One of my favorite junk yards!!
same here
That is a coooollll yard would be worth my time to visit.i live in Northern Indiana.
🥰 beautiful good cars! Thanks the tour! Perfect video! 👌😊☀️🍻
thank you
I don't think I've ever seen a yard this well organized. A shame not many look like restoration candidates.
Lot’s of good iron in that yard
Watching this from Australia and l couldn't say which is my favourite as l love all American cars. Would love a 65 Impala Wagon. American cars in Australia are too expensive. Love your channel mate especially the junkyard tours.
Thanks for watching!
i would really like to come get one,amazing,love this. thank you!
Looks like the couch builders went crazy in there with their sawzall.
lol i think youre right
So many cars in one place. Don't see that down south. Great video, enjoyed very much.
Thanks Dale!
Ryan you are truly in a Honey Pot for old cars.
Thats for sure!
55:24 - forward look, pre-65 (1957 to 1964) Chrysler & Imperial section, Energy Era!
All of these should be authentically restored and returned to daily use. It would make the world, or at least USA a better place in so many ways.
Wow I really enjoyed The walk-through video seeing all the classic cars makes me happy that they are being saved for future people to enjoy I was sure hoping to see a few 68 or 69 GTO‘s I am kinda looking for a good halfway decent front bumper
I hope to see a part two of this junkyard 👍
glad you liked it! this one is only going to be a 1 part video
@@IowaClassicCars bummer
Drove there from VA just to get some parts. Great group of guys there. And apparently the original owner still shows up on Saturdays and cooks breakfast for the crew.
yeah the crew there was all super cool
@@IowaClassicCars I showed up, it was pouring! And when I say pouring, I mean it was so hard you could barely see driving. This was a couple years back. Ended up having one of the guys drive me around the lot. Showed me the whole lot! I picked his brain while we dug through the trailer that was filled with TBird parts for a good hood for a squarebird. He then looped me around one more time when I saw a '55 Capri (hard as crap to find) and I was able to grab a couple parts off of that. I was soaked at the end, but they were fair on pricing, friendly and I got a couple cups of coffee to boot. I will definitely do business with them again.
Another great walk through a lot of nice two door hardtops you do a great job of narration thanks again looking forward to the rest of this.
this is actually the whole video in 1 part! thanks for the kind words
Thanks for the walk through the salvage yard. I was correcting what out of correct and changed and somehow I sent it. More importantly to 68 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible. That car restored just the driver quality is worth a fortune. It might take a bigger Fortune to get it to that point. The hood look like a 442 Hood but I didn't take close enough look. The back part of the body looks being good shape maybe I should go back and look to see the bumper. I have an absolutely beautiful car and some may smacked back end. So the back part of that car may be helpful.
Glad you liked it!
I would love to try to start all those and listen to the awesome starters when I was cranking them!
Like all the old Chevy,s
Same
I really enjoyed this video. I really love the old fords, dodge and plymouths. I'm kinda tired of the gm cars. Seams like everyone is doing them.thanks for a refreshing video.
Glad you enjoyed it
55:04 was a '56 Dodge. A '56 DeSoto would have been ALOT BIGGER. This yard is amazing. You did a great job on the video.
thanks for the info!
great video.nice clean yard
Absolutely crazy...I didn't even think there were any yards left with that many 60s and older vehicles.
there are still tons of old cars sitting
Thanks for the great tour.
thanks for watching!
Nice to see a yard where cars are not stacked. Oh how I hate that.
i agree
I wish! So many cool cars.
oh yeah so many cool ones!
27:20 So many Edsels in one spot!
Lol yep
Some nice projects maybe. Lots of car's with two many doors.
Ford and Mercury would be the first place I would look
Wow! Great collection! Thanks for taking us! There were a lot of attention grabbers, and all that chrome amongst all that rust there toward the beginning was just so nice! The one that really caught my eye was that silver 48 Kaiser Frazier at 53:10 not sure I ever seen anything like that. Problem though is in junkyards cars have a head start, they are already lowered (no wheels or tires) and in this case no front bumper making it look quite a bit sleeker than the pics I looked up of it in concourse. Still very beautiful ride!
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60 Bel Air flattop? Well, since they had them in 59, it makes sense to offer it the following year.
yep but still weird how they were only built for a portion of the year, not sure why
@@IowaClassicCars probably because they didn’t sell well? People popped the extra bucks for the Impala. My grandfather bought an Impala “sport sedan” in 60.
@@dalekoster9955 that could be!
Good one guys. 😎👍😎
Thanks Ron
Nice
Thanks
I'm nearly speechless, this place is AMAZING! 17:20 about those 59 or so Pontiacs, they're gorgeous, and you say you haven't had great luck with them so I do wonder, if Pontiacs are "similar" to the matching year Chevrolets, how much of a hassle would it be to drop, say, a 235 Stovebolt Six or 283 SBC V8 and Powerglide into a formerly V8-powered Pontiac? Would motor mounts from a Biscayne or Bel Air bolt to the perches? Would the transmission mounts have somewhere to bolt up underneath? I'm sure radiator hoses and wiring and exhaust and a throttle linkage would be fun to make but would it be too much hassle if you had a '59 Pontiac roller and a Chevy engine and Powerglide available?
yeah im sure you could make that engine swap pretty easy lol
If you got a canadian Pontiac it would be very easy... theirs were all chevy based Pontiacs.
Fullsize pontiac guys are a small group.....trust me.....i am one
Lol im sure of that man
Thank you for your channel
thanks for tuning in!
Lot's of nice looking two doors, in Australia there were only two types of two doors, Ford falcon coup and Holden Monaro the latest one was Commander Monaro, VX, looks like pontiac, 95 condor or something like that, great video love the old car's aspecialy two Door's, all the best to yous and your loved ones
It might be pontiac cuttless that looks like Commodore Monaro, all the best to you all
thanks man
only 2 !?! Valiant Charger, Valiant hardtops ie. vg, holden torana from hb - uc all available in 2 door 🤷🏼♂️
Sure you would of got more footage of the EDSELS, I didn't any 1958s, but numerous 59s perhaps they were deeper in that stash.👍
Enjoyed the video
Great thanks!
Don't hate on the Corvair, one of the most iconic cars of the 60s for it's uniqueness.
that is very true
you shared interesting view-)
Thanks
Those ‘63 convertible seats with the wrap around chrome are worth quite a bit of money!! Lots of guys putting them in their Tri Five Chevys
i didnt know that thanks
Nice job on the tour except us Mopar fans got the short end of the sausage
you live in such a cool area for old cars. I can’t find any junkyards with them in New England lol
That i do!
very nice
Thanks
I like the taller Studebaker truck at the beginning. Wonder how much? Towing is expensive too
Way cool Ryan!
thanks man!
GROOVY❤🇺🇸🐘
Thanks Ray
Nice video
Thanks
its a two bag day and a jug of coffee thanks
yup
Thanks for the tour, Ryan. By the way, Christine was a ‘58 fury
Oh thanks okay!
A lot of four door crushers !
Jordan MN, here.
Thats not too far away
Hey Ryan I hope you bring that one home
I didnt, it was too much
At 28:35 when you were looking at, you should get that. That really and honestly looks great. Any '66 Pontiacs ? That's my favorite year in the '60's
Thanks
25:17 1970 Olds with 1972 tail lights! :-D
hey i was close lol
Yay, a 150 survives at 3:50, not all were parted out for Bel-Airs ! 4:20 - according to Standard Catalog of Chevrolet, there are no records of car production divided into series, only into body types. There were 169,016 Sport Sedans made in total. 6:58 - damn, a whole herd of bulletnose Studes ! 7:43 - OMG, OMG Packards ! PACKARDZ ! Whole packs of Pack-ards ! :) they are somewhere out there still ! 9:24 - that's a Chrysler dear sir Ryan ;) a whole bunch of Chrysler rows go from here. And you found yourself a love for first wave of Forward Look styling cues 12:32 - that's a Fleetwood 60 Special, the top of non-stretched Caddys, has tinted glass so probably had a/c on top of the power-everything. Someone spent lots of cash one day of 1962 in the dealership 14:47 yay Stude '57 and it's sweeping color inser 17:02 - yay, a flattop ! Someone go love it and care for it ! 18:44 - with that central medallion and multiple teeth it's a '50 front. 21:13 - aww the rocket taillights got smashed 23:30 - yup it looks like it was just rolled in there today straight of someone's garage. (still: got no fins ! Give it fins ! ) 27:20 - OMG Edsels ! They exist ! Yay ! Go Edsels go ! 29:27 - aww a '56 4 door hardtop, first of that year like in GM. Phaetons were 4 door hardtops specifically. Like Holidays in Oldsmobiles or Victorias in Fords (but that included all hardtops) 34:41 - leave the '59 Buick back ends alone ! They need their fins ! How are you gonna have finned car with no fins ?! Bastards ! The interior trim makes it a LeSabre 35:03 - Ryan's hood trauma kicks in, deep breaths now Ryan, deep breaths ! 35:14 - upholstery on the doors seems to be for a 98, so strange nobody got it power windows. 40:41 - awww a SMOLL Ranchero on Ranger, someone go love it ! 42:48 - omg omg, the wagons are still around ! Some of them are out there ! 43:16 - 2 sedan deliveries back there ? Nobody cares for sedan deliveries ? Come on ! 45:04 - OMG ! a '42 ! Poor last prewar ! 45:06 - people really need rear fenders off those generations of Chevys, all of them gone 47:51 - didn't know that, poor Bel-Airs, pushed out of top spot by Impala and also produced later .... 49:04 - what an intense blue on this '61 on right side ! Wow ! 51:13 - yaaay, a straight six ! Someone was thrifty 53:12 - OMG OMG ! A '49-'50 Frazer ! Someone go love it ! It can't just sit there abandoned like that ! Poor thing ! 53:23 - DAMN ! There are rows of them ! Look at them sitting nicely ! 53:54 - oh the Vagabond ! 53:51 - oh the glorious '54s ! Stripped of all the characteristic trim but still looking sharp for their era 55:01 - '56 yes, but Dodges 56:14 - with that kicked-up beltline that's a '62 Plymouth. That one that fell victim of GMs rumor that their lineup will be downsized for '62, so the Plymouths and Dodges were hastily downsized too. Meanwhile, GMs downsizing didn't actually happen 59:10 - that's a DeSoto now. A top of the line Fireflite judging by the headlight trim with waterfall spears on top
thanks for all the time stamps
@@IowaClassicCars told ya I'll write you hilariously detailed comments :) Tried to comment on what I know.
55:41 showed a Wayfarer at the end, next to that was a Coronet conv.
thanks for the info!
I wish you would have finished the Lincoln rows @30:25 im actually looking for parts for a 55
my bad lol
i would love to see a video of a junkyard walkthrough of old classic cars wearing a personal radiation dosimeter and carrying a geigercounter...cars sitting in the sun for long periods of time become radioactive due to ionizing radioisotopes from the sun hitting them and the molecular structure of the metal deteriorates...cars parked out west are probably the worst,people walking through the junkyards are being exposed to high levels of radiation...all the old cars are mostly radioactive...junkyard walkers should carry geigercounters
You need a drone!
i absolutely do! lol
What yard to you recommend for Buick’s 50 60 70 80 ? If you see a rust free hood for a 71 Buick Riviera, please let me know , I’m in the Uk !
probably this yard or DVAP in arizona
@ 3:47 - '57 Chevy 150 four door sedan. Rescue that car! I would love to restore such a popular car, but in a not-so-popular and rare body style/trim. Looks like factory Harbor Blue. Of all the cars I saw in this yard, it's this car I want.
it was pretty bad
Lotsa oysters but few pearls.
Lol good analogy
I need 84 acres !!!
lol we all do
Hello Niklas from sweden,ithink you Do a great work but how come never fenderskirts or maby crusierskirts in sweden its naturall
hm im not sure
Christine is a 1958 Plymouth Fury
ah okay thanks
Also, 2:40, I saw a steering wheel in a 55 Buick/Oldsmobile, turquoise, no driver door.... Anyway, I love that steering wheel. Would you please ask about that for me, please?
Thanks 🙂
Phone number is on google
Time stamp 4:40, that orange Dodge Crew Cab. Is it 4 Sale?
If so, would you please find out how much they want for it?
Thank you 🙂
You can call them, they are open to the public
Probably made sofas with those 55 Ford rear ends
i think youre right on that
How much for the 2 back doors and trunk lid 54 chevy wagon
He should advertise some of those cars
they do
Looking for a steering column and shaft for a 1936 Chevy.
call them
@ 38:28 - instead of the mindset of what can be robbed off some of these cars, how about thinking of grabbing the whole car to restore?
Some arent worth it
my name is Cassiano I would like to know this video that you made these cars do you have a document we can buy and restore I'm moving to moving to Texas I think these car deposits are a lot
no sorry
and at 55:35 thats a coronet (you can see the last three letter"net")and the other one to....Dodge never used the word"Comet" for any of their car models only Mercury did
thanks
I want one of the 1969 eldorado
why