Such a fantastic view of a classic car “museum” of wrecked classics. The variety & “space” music allows the viewer to get into a trance of the past workmanship & details of these “works of metal art.” Thanks so much Matt for enduring the cold conditions for us to enjoy at home. 👍😎⭐️🔥✌️🍀
Awesome video.... There is nothing like American cars from 50 and 60's... true works of art.. tell my kids all the time.. drive one of these classics and you will get more head turns than anything out there today.. 1958 Buick Roadmaster...imagine most chrome on a car ever. True classics.. Thanks for the video Matt..
Don’t worry though, on the brighter side there are so many of us younger car enthusiasts that now know of this place, me personally this is close by and I didn’t even know, I’m about to get a job and once I do it’s time to start saving and putting back on the road of these old cars, I will always love old cars!
Hey Matt thanks for the excellent tour of the salvage yard as like yourself love all the real old stuff as got real style, and especially when you showed the 56 60 Chevys as got a few, but like so many others there as project heaven. Cheers and thank again.
Been going there for 65 years. Skip has really organized the yard. Was more fun when it was disorganized. Never knew when a treasure would be around the next bend.
@@MattsRadShow hey good morning, I seen you at french lake if I call with a specific car do you think they would be able to give me the info on it, I seen it in the video you did on Nov 20 thanks for the info.
@@MattsRadShow hey thanks I talked to them, if your there often would you be able to take some pictures for me and I'll send you number to you so you can send them thanks if you do.
It's easier to find specific parts, when you don't have a lot of time to roam around. That's probably why Skip started sorting through all the vehicles. It's easier for inventory too! Bob, must be one of the lucky ones, that lives close by! 🤗 Awesome 👌 Lucky guy!!!
Hey thank you so much for walking me through that yard....sitting here doing my duty LOL. Really enjoyed it ....when you get old it it takes time to finish your business so again thank you so much man... a great video.... very relaxing and entertaining. Cheers God bless you all
I don't know about the biggest but I do know that is the most organized and cleanest yard I had ever seen. Thank god I do not live close to that or I would have never ending projects and even more pissed off neighbors. Thanks for the video true eye candy.
Great fun. When I was a kid, I used to get off the school bus at our local AMC / Jeep dealer and take the new Pacers that came in from the factory and dealer prep them / wash them. Hard to believe that was in the mid 1970's . Thank you for sharing your automotive adventurers.
This is a great yard and the owner is a great guy. They've helped me out with several hard to find parts for various cars that I've owned over the years.
It's so sad to see all those cars and trucks just sitting there . I wish they could be all safed . That when cars were made and had style character. Thank you for filming yards like this. I wish I had junk yards were I lived like this. I would live in a place like that Thank you and keep filming yards like this👍
You bet, I remember, when I was younger, I could tell you what kind of car it was.. just by the headlights and the taillights! Now, they all look too similar. I guess time and retooling is expensive! At least I had experienced those days. Nice tour of the yard, and excellent descriptions of the vehicles! Hats off to Matt! Keep smiling 😃 😉 enjoyed the video immensely! Have a wonderful weekend!
Thank you! I like it. I like that in the USA antique cars save and keep because in the Russia where I live antique cars go to the furnace. In Russia you find something like that never.
C'était vraiment de très belles voitures avec beaucoup de classe c'est pas comme celle d'aujourd'hui qui sont tout en plastique bravo pour ta vidéo superbe j'adore les voitures américaines👏👏👏👍👍❤❤❤❤🚘
I love Ford "Edsel". If I only could I would take them all and and bring them back to the road. Some people say they are ugly, but as I said, I love them.
At 8:34 in your video you showed a Buick HEARSE . Doesn't look to bad of condition, for a HEARSE. I had a 66 Bonneville Hearse Ambulance and I got so annoyed when people would say,oh you own a HEARST , that I put a sign in my window saying that there is NO T in HEARSE. I'll have to plan my vacation out there one year. Great video.
Thanks for the video, I came across your channel. I think it was great, nice job. It's probably the best junkyard I've ever seen. Some of the cars have a lot of potential. And some cars just parts.
Very awesome video. Being from New England, I haven't see cars like these in junk yards since the late '70's, early 80's. In fact the cars in that junk yard now are in better shape than the ones I used to see in the junk yard when I was in high school in the late '70's. So much great Hot Rod potential in that yard. Thank you for sharing Matt.
Man it makes me sad to see all of those just sitting there rotting away I got a big heart for classic cars they my favorite type of car and I’d do anything I could to save em someone pls come get a car outta there and save it before it’s to late
As a true, TRUE car guy..who wishes he could save them all, I really appreciate you doing these videos. SOOOO sad to see these, savable cars out there. All it ever takes is the all mighty dollar, a vision and skill to bring one back. It's never, NEVER impossible to piece one back together. What is wrong with people...We are the problem sad to say.
there is an other classic car junkyard in MN. called Windy Hill Auto Parts in New London. little bit different than French Lake but worth to check out😉
Love your commentary during the video... maybe you should bring Wilson along with you LOL That yellow Studebaker Silver Hawk caught my eye, I used to have a 58. But I love Buicks, all of them. And I love those Oldsmobile tornados, and basically all big cars lol The junkyard has to be the neatest and most organized junkyard I've ever seen in my life, it's mind-boggling how many cars they have there
Mat, You have the absolute best videos out there bro. Your knowledge of the cars, your calm manner. The best package out there. Thanks from cold and snowy Canada!
Thanks for the old salvage yard videos. Hopefully someone will find use for some of them. Hate to see them rusting away but its better than the millions that have been crushed. Just love old cars.
When you watch these types of videos just think about the history of each of these vehicles . Everyone of them started out as someone's pride and joy at delivery from the dealership . Then as the weeks and months and finally years go by they were taken through happy times like weddings and sadder times like funerals . Or just taking your kids down to the local swimming hole but there is always a past history in these cars which might have gone through many future families with a new history . Then ultimately they end up in these lonely graveyards . It's very sad when you see these cars in that way . That all ends today with the throw away cars with no personality. They are used and abused and sent straight to the crusher where they won't be missed when they come back as a new refrigerator .
Running back and forth, decade after decade; so much is passing away. How many gallons of gas, antifreeze, oil etc. represented here. It isn't until a way of life is near to ending, do we get the feeling time travel. Strange feeling. My 1rst car was a 67 Mustang Coupe, 289 baby blue color, used it casy me $600 dollars. All it needed was a new paint job, and the plugs wires oil filter in put in/on it. Thanks for the video.👍
Oh my man. What an explore! Every car has a memory. You did them all justice. Such a perfectly organized ‘junk’ yard. … Matt - were many original engines in there, or all stripped? … Love your work, sir. A haunting and amazing explore. Thankyou
Been going there for years. It used to be less organized, and honestly more fun to explore. It is still good, but not what it once was. I have bought a ton of parts from there over the last couple o decades. I recall pulling a mid 70's VW bus Westfalia interior while looking at TWO Graham Shark noses parked in the same line. Yes, that happened.
Re use it, awesome scrap yard 👌 so much stuff funny seeing the small Spitfire still got my 1974 Mk 4 it was crap but fun, I did fit 😁in very cosy one day electrify it high volts and fast this time 😀 😄 #buzzofftoxic
Nice job Matt you just walked and filmed a 100 acre salvage yard of hopes and dreams to come and those that are gone, i bought a 39 Buick Century coupe , 53 Pontiac Sedan delivery , 61 Pontiac Catalina 2 door hardtop and 56 Chevy Bel Air 2 door hardtop from Floyd and Skip through many years of walking the yard . the first time i was in awe, should of packed a lunch from then on out i'd stop at a cafe for breakfast on the way to FLAP sometimes with the guys we made a day out of the adventure. One thing if you think you seen it all the 1st time the next time some cars leave and others arrive for many reasons lost interest health reasons or widows selling their husband treasures. Hat's Off to Skip Your yard never look so Great large effort to accomplish that from the days of when the Ponies roaming the yard and you got your share of stickers to take off
I love your passion for old cars. I wish more people them. Love your videos. Always wondered if you have a special car of your own. You love them all but just wondering
Great vid so cool to see these amazing cars. Would buy most of those if I had the time and money! We don’t have stuff like this in the UK thanks for sharing ✌️
@@MattsRadShow absolutely love your videos going to duluth and the north shrore videos along with any of the haunt stuff, im on tour nowsoi have been watching them as i get home sick and miss minnesota
Great vid..but where were the Cadillacs ? I bought a steering knuckle support from them and they sent it to me still attached to the complete brake/drum assembly. Score.
I've got a buddy who's into the old mail jeeps. I guess it's not that old but his every day driver is, I couldn't swear exactly but mid 60s-,ish steering wheel on the right
Why do you say Edsel was one of Fords biggest Blunder's? I owned three and loved them over any of my G. M. cars. I wish I had one now. That and a 1957 Mercury Monterey. I loved those cars and traveled everywhere in them.
Such a fantastic view of a classic car “museum” of wrecked classics. The variety & “space” music allows the viewer to get into a trance of the past workmanship & details of these “works of metal art.” Thanks so much Matt for enduring the cold conditions for us to enjoy at home. 👍😎⭐️🔥✌️🍀
Awesome video.... There is nothing like American cars from 50 and 60's... true works of art.. tell my kids all the time.. drive one of these classics and you will get more head turns than anything out there today.. 1958 Buick Roadmaster...imagine most chrome on a car ever. True classics.. Thanks for the video Matt..
Great walk, thanks to share.
Your singing is great. I like your style Brother. Thanks for the great content. ....AWESOME DUDE
Thanks man. 😎👍
To the owners of this yard,
Thank u so much for seeing history,instead of scrap $.
very nice video, thank you!!!!!
Makes a man cry to see how far his life has passed when you go through a Junk Yard. Makes me cry.
Me too
Don’t worry though, on the brighter side there are so many of us younger car enthusiasts that now know of this place, me personally this is close by and I didn’t even know, I’m about to get a job and once I do it’s time to start saving and putting back on the road of these old cars, I will always love old cars!
One man Junks is another man Treasures.
Matt very good wrecking yard. And yes lots of classics waiting for new life maybe. Thank you Matt!
Hey Matt thanks for the excellent tour of the salvage yard as like yourself love all the real old stuff as got real style, and especially when you showed the 56 60 Chevys as got a few, but like so many others there as project heaven.
Cheers and thank again.
Enjoyed the video and commentary. Thanks for sharing !
Thx! 😎👍
I think they look nice, I wish I could walk through junkyard’s and see the old cars. Their so cool, thank you for sharing.
Hello from the mountains of WNC. I think that is the neatest, most organized junk yard I have ever seen ! Thanks for showing it to us.
Absolutely love the music in the background beautiful video. Its a shame the life of these clasics are gone. One day they'll all be gone.
French lake auto salvage has to be the cleanest neatest most organized yard anywhere 👍wish it was closer maybe a road trip in the future
You bet, it's a long drive, 4.5 hrs from me, the drive is worth it, though!
Been going there for 65 years. Skip has really organized the yard. Was more fun when it was disorganized. Never knew when a treasure would be around the next bend.
Such an amazing place!
@@MattsRadShow hey good morning, I seen you at french lake if I call with a specific car do you think they would be able to give me the info on it, I seen it in the video you did on Nov 20 thanks for the info.
@@garydavis9283 They might be able too. It's a really well organized lot. Just need to contact them and ask. www.frenchlakeautoparts.com/
@@MattsRadShow hey thanks I talked to them, if your there often would you be able to take some pictures for me and I'll send you number to you so you can send them thanks if you do.
It's easier to find specific parts, when you don't have a lot of time to roam around. That's probably why Skip started sorting through all the vehicles. It's easier for inventory too! Bob, must be one of the lucky ones, that lives close by! 🤗 Awesome 👌 Lucky guy!!!
I agree this is a car show. thanks for the video
Hey thank you so much for walking me through that yard....sitting here doing my duty LOL. Really enjoyed it ....when you get old it it takes time to finish your business so again thank you so much man... a great video.... very relaxing and entertaining.
Cheers
God bless you all
I don't know about the biggest but I do know that is the most organized and cleanest yard I had ever seen. Thank god I do not live close to that or I would have never ending projects and even more pissed off neighbors. Thanks for the video true eye candy.
Great fun. When I was a kid, I used to get off the school bus at our local AMC / Jeep dealer and take the new Pacers that came in from the factory and dealer prep them / wash them. Hard to believe that was in the mid 1970's .
Thank you for sharing your automotive adventurers.
Very cool, always enjoy doing that!!!! Yes, the CHEVY II was nice ......... 😉
Nice. That's 2 votes. Lol
Amazing place , your video as well , music , a dream place , thanks a lot mate !!!!
It amazing classic video
Thanks for the update on this yard, I have an el camino that is there 😀 I gotta get to it soon! I saw it on this video!
This is a great yard and the owner is a great guy. They've helped me out with several hard to find parts for various cars that I've owned over the years.
The atmospheric music playing in the backdrop is a nice surreal touch.
What a treasure trove.
It's so sad to see all those cars and trucks just sitting there . I wish they could be all safed . That when cars were made and had style character. Thank you for filming yards like this. I wish I had junk yards were I lived like this. I would live in a place like that Thank you and keep filming yards like this👍
You bet, I remember, when I was younger, I could tell you what kind of car it was..
just by the headlights and the taillights! Now, they all look too similar. I guess time and retooling is expensive! At least I had experienced those days. Nice tour of the yard, and excellent descriptions of the vehicles! Hats off to Matt! Keep smiling 😃 😉 enjoyed the video immensely! Have a wonderful weekend!
why save them? biden and his climate alarmists are dismantling the fossil fuel industry before having a sound and realistic replacement plan.
That 64 Chevy is either a BelAir or a Biscayne. The Impala had 3 lights on each side, whereas the BelAir and Biscayne only had 2 lights on each side.
Thank you! I like it. I like that in the USA antique cars save and keep because in the Russia where I live antique cars go to the furnace. In Russia you find something like that never.
Interesting, maybe I'll take a drive over that way and check it out sometime. Might have to wait for spring.
Good one. The coolest & most organized Old Car Yard. 😎👍🇨🇦
C'était vraiment de très belles voitures avec beaucoup de classe c'est pas comme celle d'aujourd'hui qui sont tout en plastique bravo pour ta vidéo superbe j'adore les voitures américaines👏👏👏👍👍❤❤❤❤🚘
I love Ford "Edsel". If I only could I would take them all and and bring them back to the road. Some people say they are ugly, but as I said, I love them.
I feel old … these cars when I was young .. we’re running around in town when I was young ! Christmas packages kids smiling …good times… now ..
Memories are something choking you..
great documtary..love the gray day, the music you chose, and the lifeless big yellow tractor moving by. well done
Hay this is a very cool video... Thank you for showing...
Thank you for this video Matt!
Nice clean and organize yard I love it I wish to be there so my older boy is crazy about antic car 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Looking at all those old cars looked so Erie. Remnants of the past .
At 8:34 in your video you showed a Buick HEARSE . Doesn't look to bad of condition, for a HEARSE. I had a 66 Bonneville Hearse Ambulance and I got so annoyed when people would say,oh you own a HEARST , that I put a sign in my window saying that there is NO T in HEARSE. I'll have to plan my vacation out there one year. Great video.
Dude... Eat a snicker bar.
@@suewatson1912 I don't like Snikers. People just need to pronunciate correctly. Still a great video.
Very good vido tranks!!!
Wow! Thank you for sharing
Thanks in a million. Great content. Awesome. Grade: A++💥
Amazing how clean and organized the yard is. Looks like customers are not allowed to pull parts.
Yes they can.
And #s on cars
Very organized
#'s on cars = inventory control, Yeah!!
Cool junkyard.
a lot of these could be restored, great!
Loved those kaisers!!!! What a fun trip!
Yeah those were cool to see. Be fun to incorporate one of those windshields I to a build!
The fact that Kaiser is in a junkyard is unreal. At 40 years of going to car shows, I've seen 2 Kaisers, 1 Frazer and 1 Henry J
Nice junk yard. Would love to see that place. I could use some packard parts.
Thanks for the video, I came across your channel. I think it was great, nice job. It's probably the best junkyard I've ever seen. Some of the cars have a lot of potential. And some cars just parts.
Thanks for the tour
Very awesome video. Being from New England, I haven't see cars like these in junk yards since the late '70's, early 80's.
In fact the cars in that junk yard now are in better shape than the ones I used to see in the junk yard when I was in high school in the late '70's.
So much great Hot Rod potential in that yard.
Thank you for sharing Matt.
OMG that place is unreal i would love to spend a day or two in there but its a long way from home here in little old England!
Watching this video was a lot of fun, I saw a lot of cars that I would love to restore, I wish I lived closer.🙂🚗
wished i lived longer
Man it makes me sad to see all of those just sitting there rotting away I got a big heart for classic cars they my favorite type of car and I’d do anything I could to save em someone pls come get a car outta there and save it before it’s to late
They don't crush anything old.
As a true, TRUE car guy..who wishes he could save them all, I really appreciate you doing these videos. SOOOO sad to see these, savable cars out there. All it ever takes is the all mighty dollar, a vision and skill to bring one back. It's never, NEVER impossible to piece one back together. What is wrong with people...We are the problem sad to say.
there is an other classic car junkyard in MN. called Windy Hill Auto Parts in New London. little bit different than French Lake but worth to check out😉
Nice. Thanks! 😎👍
nice clean yard. lots of builders there!!!
Thanks for the tour.It seems these places are getting hard to find.
He has to have a barn full of the good one's.
Every car got a story to be told of its history
Wow!!!
Great video, Matt. Thanks for spending a little time with the 50s Packards. One of my favorites.
Thanks! Me too.
Love your commentary during the video... maybe you should bring Wilson along with you LOL
That yellow Studebaker Silver Hawk caught my eye, I used to have a 58. But I love Buicks, all of them. And I love those Oldsmobile tornados, and basically all big cars lol
The junkyard has to be the neatest and most organized junkyard I've ever seen in my life, it's mind-boggling how many cars they have there
I like your singing🎉😂 great song; I'd like to learn it😮
Mat, You have the absolute best videos out there bro. Your knowledge of the cars, your calm manner. The best package out there. Thanks from cold and snowy Canada!
Thanks man! 😎👍
These are my favorite vlogs of yours, and the restaurant ones, and the car show ones, and the destination vlogs, and the Wally ones........ 😆
Lol. Thanks man. Appreciate it. 😎👊
Awesome video 👍 best to you and yours and Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving man! 😎👍🍗
Thanks for the old salvage yard videos. Hopefully someone will find use for some of them. Hate to see them rusting away but its better than the millions that have been crushed. Just love old cars.
When you watch these types of videos just think about the history of each of these vehicles . Everyone of them started out as someone's pride and joy at delivery from the dealership . Then as the weeks and months and finally years go by they were taken through happy times like weddings and sadder times like funerals . Or just taking your kids down to the local swimming hole but there is always a past history in these cars which might have gone through many future families with a new history . Then ultimately they end up in these lonely graveyards . It's very sad when you see these cars in that way . That all ends today with the throw away cars with no personality. They are used and abused and sent straight to the crusher where they won't be missed when they come back as a new refrigerator .
All the decent 2 doors are long gone. Great yard for parts though.
Running back and forth, decade after decade; so much is passing away. How many gallons of gas, antifreeze, oil etc. represented here. It isn't until a way of life is near to ending, do we get the feeling time travel. Strange feeling. My 1rst car was a 67 Mustang Coupe, 289 baby blue color, used it casy me $600 dollars. All it needed was a new paint job, and the plugs wires oil filter in put in/on it. Thanks for the video.👍
May they all rest in peace.
Oh my man. What an explore! Every car has a memory. You did them all justice. Such a perfectly organized ‘junk’ yard. … Matt - were many original engines in there, or all stripped? … Love your work, sir. A haunting and amazing explore. Thankyou
Thanks! I think most engines were gone.
Been going there for years. It used to be less organized, and honestly more fun to explore. It is still good, but not what it once was. I have bought a ton of parts from there over the last couple o decades.
I recall pulling a mid 70's VW bus Westfalia interior while looking at TWO Graham Shark noses parked in the same line. Yes, that happened.
Cuanta historia en este yonke, How much history in that Yonke, greetings 🖐🏽😎🇲🇽
Re use it, awesome scrap yard 👌 so much stuff funny seeing the small Spitfire still got my 1974 Mk 4 it was crap but fun, I did fit 😁in very cosy one day electrify it high volts and fast this time 😀 😄 #buzzofftoxic
Lol. That's awesome. 😎👍
Nice job Matt you just walked and filmed a 100 acre salvage yard of hopes and dreams to come and those that are gone, i bought a 39 Buick Century coupe , 53 Pontiac Sedan delivery , 61 Pontiac Catalina 2 door hardtop and 56 Chevy Bel Air 2 door hardtop from Floyd and Skip through many years of walking the yard . the first time i was in awe, should of packed a lunch from then on out i'd stop at a cafe for breakfast on the way to FLAP sometimes with the guys we made a day out of the adventure. One thing if you think you seen it all the 1st time the next time some cars leave and others arrive for many reasons lost interest health reasons or widows selling their husband treasures. Hat's Off to Skip Your yard never look so Great large effort to accomplish that from the days of when the Ponies roaming the yard and you got your share of stickers to take off
Love those old Packards and chryslers
One.mans.trase.is.another.mans.treasure.australia❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I’ve bought parts online from these guys! They’re fair and ship fast!
Most of them are better than the junk i drive now. Thanks
Lol. 🤣👍
I want to restore every one of those. They all need saving, everything deserves a second chance
A verry clean car yards🇵🇷🦎 P.R.
That was only unique to the Kaisers.
Bob Owens salvage near Wellington, Texas is a treasure.
I love your passion for old cars. I wish more people them. Love your videos. Always wondered if you have a special car of your own. You love them all but just wondering
Great vid so cool to see these amazing cars. Would buy most of those if I had the time and money! We don’t have stuff like this in the UK thanks for sharing ✌️
Some.good.parts.cars.❤❤❤❤❤❤
idk why but i just love your channel, man
Thanks man. Glad ur enjoying it.😎👊
@@MattsRadShow absolutely love your videos going to duluth and the north shrore videos along with any of the haunt stuff, im on tour nowsoi have been watching them as i get home sick and miss minnesota
The longer number is probably the yards stock number.
Great vid..but where were the Cadillacs ? I bought a steering knuckle support from them and they sent it to me still attached to the complete brake/drum assembly.
Score.
Watching this from uk. . I can only hope someone saves something. If 1 car is saved then it was a result mate 👌 thanks for the awesome video
Would like to have seen more of the blue 1st gen Monte carlo
I'd take the Thunderbird.. Wondering if there was a 60s Fairlane, Comet ,Falcon section?.?
@@davemellott5060 I agree !
Those Kaisers....!!
That Song Is GREAT!!!! :)
that Imperial would make a great demo derby car cause they are supposed to have double front frames for extra strength.
I've got a buddy who's into the old mail jeeps. I guess it's not that old but his every day driver is, I couldn't swear exactly but mid 60s-,ish steering wheel on the right
Why do you say Edsel was one of Fords biggest Blunder's? I owned three and loved them over any of my G. M. cars. I wish I had one now. That and a 1957 Mercury Monterey. I loved those cars and traveled everywhere in them.