My sister came in the room and she started laughing at me sitting here with my jaw dropped and saying oh my goodness..... I've always wanted a Grand National.....😮. There's a small fortune in that awesome junk yard.... Thanks Silas for sharing.
That silver Grand National is an 82. FIRST and rarest year made. THEY ONLY MADE 215 OF THEM! That 1st one shown is an 86. First year for the intercooled turbo. Small fortune in that yard!!!!
Thanks for taking us along on this adventure. Hope they are able to save at least 90% of the ones worth saving. In a situation like this always hope someone with the $ has the ability to swoop in and get them all
Who would be foolish enough to crush Grand Nationals when they would bring so much more as rebuilds? Okay, Silas, you got me. LOL - I could have just deleted my post but added to it instead. It would be interesting to hear what those cars sold for and if they were rescued in the end.
Wow thanks for doing all that scouting about the elms. I like the Riviera boat tails myself and if someone is looking for an inexpensive collectable to restore that will become very valuable the '71 is key to the best returns.
@AdventuresMadeFromScratch 15:48 Wow that’s a pretty cool in period set of Gotti wheels on that 86 Grand National. That’s a crazy amount of Grand Nationals and Turbo Buick’s in one spot! I counted at least 2 or possibly 3 1982 Grand National’s. They only made 215 of them.
"when was the last time you saw a grand national with a tree wrapped around it?" Unfortunately I think a few of them ended up that way or rather the grand national was wrapped around the tree....
Believe it or not I've seen 2 Grand Nationals that had gone off of the road within 3 years of each other.....one of them I actually helped pull out with my dad's truck when I was in high school the other one had gone over arise at high-speed went airborne and wrapped around a tree in a way that you wouldn't normally expect.......the car went nose-up vertically and looked like a cartoon car trying to climb or hug the medium sized eucalyptus.....the left and right tires were almost touching tread to tread..as there were too many emergency vehicles on the scene that night who knows if the driver was OK or not. But I always wondered if it was the same one I had pulled out of the ditch 3 years prior? Probably not.🤷♂️💁♂️
The Turbo Buicks all need pulled out of there. Two of those, that I saw, were '82 GNs. Worth thousands sitting there as is, even just as parts cars. Looks like two '86 GNs that I see, too, and a '85 WH1 T-Type. All money. The rear axles alone, as they sit, are $1500 all day long. The white Trans Am is an '84 15th-Anniversary. Better pull that one out of there, too. '68 Firebird needs pulled, the Riviera boat tail needs saved as well.
I was watching this with my grandson who just turned twelve and he wants to know if he can work with you next summer. He loves 1960s and 1970s the big boat cars. His big dream is to build his own car.
I love your videos and i hate them at the same time!I don’t really hate them,I’m a car freak from birth,and seeing all those old units and not having the means or room to get more really teases the shit out of me.good job anyhow.
I feel right at home watching this video. I grew up around junk yards. Im 42 and my dad use to buy Camaro's trans ams buick regals with turbos firebirds all kinds of hotrods from tidewater auctions in Chesapeake v.a. i would clean them and help fix them and he would sell them at his used car lot.. I love and miss those days
I owned a LeSabre TType, I really liked it, the doors were so long though, hard to get in and out in parking lots. Before that I had a Skylark TType, a 1984 I bought new. The other car I considered was a Fiero, too small. The dealership I worked at had me do all the pre delivery prep on all the Regal coupes it got in, I did the prep on 3 GNXs, I got a picture of all three of them together. Fun times. The prep dept manager knew he could trust me to not wrap one around a phone pole.
Why don’t they have a “no reserve” auction? They’ll get more than scrap prices for most of those cars. A lot of them are definitely worth saving for restoring, and the ones that’s aren’t look like good parts cars.
Nice walk through the old cars. The Grand Nationals would be a sweet investment, buy the works and start restoring. A small fortune in very desirable cars.
What a yard...I would all but sell my children to have a gran national! Closest I'll ever get is a hot wheels LOL! It breaks my heart to know they could be crushed.
1:40 I use to have one of those back in the 80's, also got a wrecked one & put the entire engine transmission & interior on my 1979 Regal which was also a rare edition model with the 2 tone paintjob & blacked out trim ,lights grille & the Buick birds on the fenders ....that car was nice & it ended up being exported but still on the road, I want to buy it back
Loving all these! My first car was a 74 Camaro, my sister had a 73 firebird, my lil bro had the Trans Am, the smokey and the bandit. Then he had a grand national. My two big brothers had a 68 charger, and a 72 z28 Camaro. Then the oldest got a 75 rally sport Camaro. Then he got married. My other older bro had a silver anniversary Corvette and a 59 Chevy Apache then married. I had a 69 stingray, 79 280zx, and a 90 240z! Then married! Sorry, but i love to share my fams love of classic cars! We were very blessed, we all had jobs to buy what we wanted, with no objections from the parents! Great content guys. New sub from Alabama ❤️🇺🇲💙
I dont kno why people wait so long and instead of crushing them old cars ...have a big aution and sell em. And then crush watever u have left...there is far and few of them left and will never be made again...give people a chance to buy em instead of crushing them
I was at an auto salvage yard probate auction 2 years ago and they had 5 or 6 Grand Nationals and the cheapest one that was wrecked and unrepairable sold for $1,500, the engine was uncovered and that was the only thing ahead of the crushed in firewall. The most complete non running, no title car sold for over $11k
iIn the early seventies, I worked in Wamego at a place that manufactured snow plows and other equipment for Caterpillar. We had Yale, Towmotors, Hysters, Clarks and more than I can remember. We called them all Hysters.
They will never bring full value because they definitely will have a salvage title if any at all ,add in the cost of restoring it if you don’t do it yourself and you can most likely buy a decent one
So strange seeing all those Ford trucks with no rust on the beds. Up here in Minnesota, they're all rusted within a few years. My 2005 Ranger has rust holes in the cab side of the bed that I bet you could drop a basketball through. Great video, Silas...as always.
......my 2005 Ranger ( which I bought new ) has less than 85K miles on the odometer ..... and still has " new car smell " ....... Besides regular oil and other fluid changes - I have only put a new battery and four new tires since I have owned it .
I would love to have that Rivera. When I was a kid my elderly neighbor had a 73 Rivera. He drove to the store & Doctors office that was it and he had his son keep it spotless for him. The son is now my age and still has the car at his dads house. He keeps a soft dust cover on it and when its outside it still sparkles like the day it was made. He has it all chromed up under the hood with a cam and Edlebrock set up in it. He also had problems with the holley carb he had on it.
the second buick GNat is the pace car edition 1981 gray with red graphics(look it up)all of them have the word "BUICK" on rear quarter panel very rare car the "GRAN NATIONAL" logo was added some time during its life it only had the "GRAND NATIONAL SWIRL" on front fenders
Didn't show GNXs, Grand Nationals aren't the same, and many more were built. The 547 GNXs were super special, you wont find those rotting away in a junkyard.
@@jimmoravec1326 same as me. Unc had garage in 60s and there were 3. 66. SS CHEV THERE on e hit in post latch but repairable. I cut the good parts outa. another Chevy and kept eye on it gathering parts unc said I could have SS. When I was 15. Of course momforbid me from getting it when she found out and car got burnt and vandalized later that year... yuck
Awesome video, I remember way back when one of my teachers bought a bran new Buick Gran national, he then moved away, also at the same time, one of my classmates also bought a new 80s, 4 or 5 Oldsmobile cutlass supreme, only thing that car I believe had a diesel engine, 🤯😱, it was a nice moroon color, great video more please, more. 😉👍
If you are a 70 and 80s GM lover you would be crying to see those cars crushed. But glad to hear most will be saved. I always liked the GSX Buicks. Not that knowledgeable about them, but I was thinking like 69 or 70 had a 455 Stage III with an air induction hood. Thanks for sharing your time and adventures. Peace
Man GM happy place Grand national/ regal T some that looks almost like those are 20k now as is TA s Camino 70 chevelle 😃 eBay parts out the wazzoo . Gold mine.
That was interesting, thanks for filming it! LOADS of collectable and rare stuff there - obviously the Grand Nationals, but also the CRX, the Corvettes, etc. Even the 80ies Toyota on the crush pile. Would love to get my hands on some of it. I also have an appreciation of the more modern stuff - not being in the US, there are a lot of cars I'd love to mess around with - anything Panther platform, some of the larger engine Jeeps. Heck I'd spend a couple of days in that yard seeing what would start and run.
Friend of my father's had a salvage yard. The plant wanted the 10 acres they paid up with the stipulation crush all the vehicles in a short period of time. They took a bulldozer and crushed them and off to the scrap they went.
My sister came in the room and she started laughing at me sitting here with my jaw dropped and saying oh my goodness..... I've always wanted a Grand National.....😮. There's a small fortune in that awesome junk yard.... Thanks Silas for sharing.
When people see me watching RUclips they usually say you watch some weird S man
That silver Grand National is an 82. FIRST and rarest year made. THEY ONLY MADE 215 OF THEM! That 1st one shown is an 86. First year for the intercooled turbo. Small fortune in that yard!!!!
Makes u cry with seeing all those grand nationals in there 😢😢😢😢
I have no idea what a Grand National is.
Love my 87 Grand National. Breaks my heart to see them in the yard😢
Thanks for taking us along on this adventure.
Hope they are able to save at least 90% of the ones worth saving.
In a situation like this always hope someone with the $ has the ability to swoop in and get them all
I wonder if he would take 1500 for one, more money than crushing it! I would rebuild the entire car!
Favorite is the Buick Boat-tails. Take care 👍
Drive a 71. In 83 with 12. K miles 😅😅
I'm a Mopar guy but dang there is some awesome GM stuff in that yard. Man I hope they don't scrap it all.
So much history and stories in these cars... People loved them one time...
Who would be foolish enough to crush Grand Nationals when they would bring so much more as rebuilds?
Okay, Silas, you got me. LOL - I could have just deleted my post but added to it instead. It would be interesting to hear what those cars sold for and if they were rescued in the end.
Too many people don't even know what they're looking at these days.......
I think those Grand Ams, Firebirds, and the Charger should be saved!
All those G body’s should be saved and that Corvette powered Buick Roadmaster! I didn’t see any G body Monti Carlos!
Don't forget the boat-tail Rivieras...
Wow thanks for doing all that scouting about the elms. I like the Riviera boat tails myself and if someone is looking for an inexpensive collectable to restore that will become very valuable the '71 is key to the best returns.
Love, love the "all roads lead to the junkyard"...!!!!!~~
Ol’ Derek from Vice Grip garage might be interested in those grand nationals.
I know that's right, he got lucky finding the one he got for sure.
I know I am
I'll be Derek today if that means i can get one of those Grand Nationals or even a T-Type
Loved the 68 firebird!!
1972 rivieras
Yep, my favorite too.
Was a 400 car too.
@AdventuresMadeFromScratch 15:48 Wow that’s a pretty cool in period set of Gotti wheels on that 86 Grand National. That’s a crazy amount of Grand Nationals and Turbo Buick’s in one spot! I counted at least 2 or possibly 3 1982 Grand National’s. They only made 215 of them.
Silas, you should see if Derek from Vice Grip Garage needs parts for his Grand National. It would be great to see him on your channel 👍
Love those firebirds and Grand nationals! Wow!!
I would buy all the Grand Nationals today!
"when was the last time you saw a grand national with a tree wrapped around it?" Unfortunately I think a few of them ended up that way or rather the grand national was wrapped around the tree....
Epic. To see a million. Bucks worth of fixable vehicles ther. Sick
Believe it or not I've seen 2 Grand Nationals that had gone off of the road within 3 years of each other.....one of them I actually helped pull out with my dad's truck when I was in high school the other one had gone over arise at high-speed went airborne and wrapped around a tree in a way that you wouldn't normally expect.......the car went nose-up vertically and looked like a cartoon car trying to climb or hug the medium sized eucalyptus.....the left and right tires were almost touching tread to tread..as there were too many emergency vehicles on the scene that night who knows if the driver was OK or not. But I always wondered if it was the same one I had pulled out of the ditch 3 years prior?
Probably not.🤷♂️💁♂️
Whoa, unreal finds, the grand nationals are worth some serious $$$, trans ams too, and that buick gsx. Holy smokes. Great finds.!!!
The cars I played on in 60s are worth thousands today
@@gerry-p9x same here
Not a GSX, just GS.
Buy the whole place,great investment
I’m probably the only one that got excited to see a crx, but I have one myself and have always loved them. Very hard to find!
bro trust me i know haha im from california people wants arms and legs for something that clean over here
I love muscle mopars but 80s Hondas are the absolute best lol
Much love for the CRX here.
CRX si- I owned one , a 1991 ..back in 1994 1995..replaced it w/ a prelude si afew yrs later
I want to save MOST of those sweet classics. 😢❤
Has to be the GRAND NATIONALS - wow ! Sad to see it being Closed and ALL Cars/Boats have to go ! Cheers from Australia!
From 🇬🇧 North Yorkshire. Thank you Mr Silas for allowing us to tag along with you both , in a true American🇺🇸 junk yard. I just love it.
The 82 Grand National! One of 215. I would love to bring that car home!
The Turbo Buicks all need pulled out of there. Two of those, that I saw, were '82 GNs. Worth thousands sitting there as is, even just as parts cars. Looks like two '86 GNs that I see, too, and a '85 WH1 T-Type. All money. The rear axles alone, as they sit, are $1500 all day long. The white Trans Am is an '84 15th-Anniversary. Better pull that one out of there, too. '68 Firebird needs pulled, the Riviera boat tail needs saved as well.
I was watching this with my grandson who just turned twelve and he wants to know if he can work with you next summer. He loves 1960s and 1970s the big boat cars. His big dream is to build his own car.
I love your videos and i hate them at the same time!I don’t really hate them,I’m a car freak from birth,and seeing all those old units and not having the means or room to get more really teases the shit out of me.good job anyhow.
Silas it would be a crime to crush some of those cars! Think you need to go shopping! 🇦🇺🍺
All the GN's & T-Types would look great in your yard.
Grand nationals worth tons in any condition..to many cars to make list but definitely worth saving.
Wowzers, there's alot of desirable GM gold there! Those GN and T-Types are incredibly amazing!
I feel right at home watching this video. I grew up around junk yards.
Im 42 and my dad use to buy Camaro's trans ams buick regals with turbos firebirds all kinds of hotrods from tidewater auctions in Chesapeake v.a. i would clean them and help fix them and he would sell them at his used car lot..
I love and miss those days
Silas - there's to many to choose from on this one!!
VERY COOL STASH!
Thank you for sharing it.
I owned a LeSabre TType, I really liked it, the doors were so long though, hard to get in and out in parking lots. Before that I had a Skylark TType, a 1984 I bought new. The other car I considered was a Fiero, too small. The dealership I worked at had me do all the pre delivery prep on all the Regal coupes it got in, I did the prep on 3 GNXs, I got a picture of all three of them together. Fun times. The prep dept manager knew he could trust me to not wrap one around a phone pole.
WOW!! Great Video!!
Tell me you're bringing the 1st Boattail Riviera that you showed, home..... that one looked phenomenal!! Missing my 73 now😓.
Wow ! Awesome Buicks and Trans And. Person could build up a Grand National or two. Dang !!
Why don’t they have a “no reserve” auction? They’ll get more than scrap prices for most of those cars. A lot of them are definitely worth saving for restoring, and the ones that’s aren’t look like good parts cars.
Nice walk through the old cars. The Grand Nationals would be a sweet investment, buy the works and start restoring. A small fortune in very desirable cars.
What a yard...I would all but sell my children to have a gran national! Closest I'll ever get is a hot wheels LOL! It breaks my heart to know they could be crushed.
1:40 I use to have one of those back in the 80's, also got a wrecked one & put the entire engine transmission & interior on my 1979 Regal which was also a rare edition model with the 2 tone paintjob & blacked out trim ,lights grille & the Buick birds on the fenders ....that car was nice & it ended up being exported but still on the road, I want to buy it back
Buick Riviera boat tail was my favorite I sure hope he saves those
Loving all these! My first car was a 74 Camaro, my sister had a 73 firebird, my lil bro had the Trans Am, the smokey and the bandit. Then he had a grand national. My two big brothers had a 68 charger, and a 72 z28 Camaro. Then the oldest got a 75 rally sport Camaro. Then he got married. My other older bro had a silver anniversary Corvette and a 59 Chevy Apache then married. I had a 69 stingray, 79 280zx, and a 90 240z! Then married! Sorry, but i love to share my fams love of classic cars! We were very blessed, we all had jobs to buy what we wanted, with no objections from the parents!
Great content guys. New sub from Alabama ❤️🇺🇲💙
I dont kno why people wait so long and instead of crushing them old cars ...have a big aution and sell em. And then crush watever u have left...there is far and few of them left and will never be made again...give people a chance to buy em instead of crushing them
half way threw vid. just wanted to thank you for getting tree whipped for all of us.
The Trans Am's and the Grand National's and the few square body's were my favorite and in the order I listed them. Awesome video.
I was at an auto salvage yard probate auction 2 years ago and they had 5 or 6 Grand Nationals and the cheapest one that was wrecked and unrepairable sold for $1,500, the engine was uncovered and that was the only thing ahead of the crushed in firewall. The most complete non running, no title car sold for over $11k
iIn the early seventies, I worked in Wamego at a place that manufactured snow plows and other equipment for Caterpillar. We had Yale, Towmotors, Hysters, Clarks and more than I can remember. We called them all Hysters.
Thanks for bringing us along! Too much fun!
Would be a sin if they crushed all those g body cars, firebirds and grand nationals, small fortune there just in parts, you better buy a few !!!
They will never bring full value because they definitely will have a salvage title if any at all ,add in the cost of restoring it if you don’t do it yourself and you can most likely buy a decent one
So strange seeing all those Ford trucks with no rust on the beds. Up here in Minnesota, they're all rusted within a few years. My 2005 Ranger has rust holes in the cab side of the bed that I bet you could drop a basketball through. Great video, Silas...as always.
......my 2005 Ranger ( which I bought new ) has less than 85K miles on the odometer ..... and still has " new car smell " .......
Besides regular oil and other fluid changes - I have only put a new battery and four new tires since I have owned it .
Amazing how many of those cars are newer than mine by several years.
This one yard just brought the value of my GN even more. Sad to see them waste away
Hopefully those grand nationals get saved
Thumbs up, great video, Mr Goodpliers would have fun there too
Great VideoThanks for sharing this
Good Afternoon There My Good Big Bro Silas
Excellent silas cheers 🥂 😊
Nice adventure 😂😂😅😅 liked it all
Where is this located Sialis???
Just finished watching someone else's video showing you buying cars at an auction then 2 minutes later here you are.
That Firebird hood at 21:15 would be great wall art.
I would love to have that Rivera. When I was a kid my elderly neighbor had a 73 Rivera. He drove to the store & Doctors office that was it and he had his son keep it spotless for him. The son is now my age and still has the car at his dads house. He keeps a soft dust cover on it and when its outside it still sparkles like the day it was made. He has it all chromed up under the hood with a cam and Edlebrock set up in it. He also had problems with the holley carb he had on it.
The Dodge magnum is not ugly. They have an unmatched gangsta coolness look.
Like walking into the past! Absolutely love it!
Thanks for the awesome tour
there is a car graveyard owned by my dads friend in a Small town called HUTTIG, ARKANSAS..a BUNCH of classics sitting out there just wasting away..
Awesome always thanks
3 Buick Rivieras !!! You gotta pick them up! And the 2dr Centurion!
Really nice cars!
Strong 1980s wrecking yard vibes going on there. Yes, it was just like that!
the second buick GNat is the pace car edition 1981 gray with red graphics(look it up)all of them have the word "BUICK" on rear quarter panel very rare car the "GRAN NATIONAL" logo was added some time during its life it only had the "GRAND NATIONAL SWIRL" on front fenders
Google says only 547 GNX were made. They now sell between $50k and $300k. How many are there? 3, 4? 20,000 grand nationals, 1500 turbo t versions.
Didn't show GNXs, Grand Nationals aren't the same, and many more were built. The 547 GNXs were super special, you wont find those rotting away in a junkyard.
I am English but had wonderful holidays in the East Coast in the 1980s and I hired a red Regal and drove 2000 miles in it. I loved that car
You should buy the grand nationals up. They are highly sought after
Cannot understand the tristed logic letting these priceless gems sit and rot then get under the gun to clear em. Out
@@gerry-p9x
Yeah makes me sick to hear about these vehicles being crushed for a whole $150.00-$200.00
People do stupid things but this is very stupid
@@jimmoravec1326 same as me. Unc had garage in 60s and there were 3. 66. SS CHEV THERE on e hit in post latch but repairable. I cut the good parts outa. another Chevy and kept eye on it gathering parts unc said I could have SS. When I was 15. Of course momforbid me from getting it when she found out and car got burnt and vandalized later that year... yuck
@@jimmoravec1326 agree if I was closer I'd bring. TRAILER
@@gerry-p9x
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About the time said no more cool cars. It was a golden shower minivan. No mention of it. This was an awesome yard!
Passed this along to VGG. He might need some of these.
Awesome video, I remember way back when one of my teachers bought a bran new Buick Gran national, he then moved away, also at the same time, one of my classmates also bought a new 80s, 4 or 5 Oldsmobile cutlass supreme, only thing that car I believe had a diesel engine, 🤯😱, it was a nice moroon color, great video more please, more. 😉👍
If you are a 70 and 80s GM lover you would be crying to see those cars crushed. But glad to hear most will be saved. I always liked the GSX Buicks. Not that knowledgeable about them, but I was thinking like 69 or 70 had a 455 Stage III with an air induction hood. Thanks for sharing your time and adventures. Peace
Buy up those grand nationals & boat tails. Keep us posted on what happens to them. I’m interested in them
He took most of them to his house and put them in the field out back
@AdventuresMadeFromScratch did you save the 84 trans am?
Good thing those weren’t thorny trees 😂
Man GM happy place Grand national/ regal T some that looks almost like those are 20k now as is TA s Camino 70 chevelle 😃 eBay parts out the wazzoo . Gold mine.
That was interesting, thanks for filming it! LOADS of collectable and rare stuff there - obviously the Grand Nationals, but also the CRX, the Corvettes, etc. Even the 80ies Toyota on the crush pile. Would love to get my hands on some of it. I also have an appreciation of the more modern stuff - not being in the US, there are a lot of cars I'd love to mess around with - anything Panther platform, some of the larger engine Jeeps. Heck I'd spend a couple of days in that yard seeing what would start and run.
20 grand. You are crazy 1 firebird is worth 20
Vice Grip Garage needs one of these for a “Will it drive?” episode!!
It always amazes me how sporty a 1970 Chevelle two door hardtop looks, and how dowdy a 4 door sedan looks
Wow, great cars in that place.
What a great place!
SAVE THEM ALL!!!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Friend of my father's had a salvage yard. The plant wanted the 10 acres they paid up with the stipulation crush all the vehicles in a short period of time. They took a bulldozer and crushed them and off to the scrap they went.
The 66 charger .Say no more .
I sure wish I would have knew about that junk yard. I would have gotten one of those grand nationals
That black suburban probably got the Earl Schieb paint job
😮 most awesome junkyard ever
A lot of cool stuff! Too bad most of them are too far gone and just parts cars. A couple of them are probably savable.
Do anyone know if ANY of those old cars are for sale and where exactly is this salvage yard located???
No and they're all gone
Did you buy the grand nationals?
No way you didn't buy them.........right?
Thanks for the Video