1 of 1 handmade Porsche coupe, Model T Fords, and some old Hondas | Barn Find Hunter - Ep. 41

[Music] [Music] the ultimate barn-find hunters dream is not to go out and have to search for cars but have cars come to you word got out that we're looking for cars and two contacts all through the San Diego area we got a call from a man named Randy Carlson who claimed he said I got a bunch of cars that you might be interested in there I don't like restore cars like Keith's original I love cars that are a little bit earthy and have a story so he invited us Walker's Houston [Music] boy Randy still plays with cars we've driven through an incredibly beautiful part of the country that kind of the desert I guess of California Southern California and came across Randy's house I thought there was going to be two cars here and there's more than that so this turns out to be real treat so thanks for allowing us to oh my pleasure time thanks I'll make him the trip all the way out but yeah let's see what you have here oh well it it is a Crosley but it's not a crossly it's actually a KRAS 'mobile so there was I don't know exactly if it was Canada or England or there was some other country not in the US where the they couldn't use the name Crosley so they branded it as as KRAS 'mobile I've never and I'd never heard of it either until I saw the car and then saw the emblems and the hubcaps and I scratched my so it was just built in the States yeah they were built in the States and then export how this one ended up back here I don't know but it was just kind of kind of fun to see that so but it's had some modifications to it the door tops have been modded somebody added a trunk to it because originally they didn't have a trunk and so it's kind of a mild custom of the day I guess yeah this is a cluttered little ya know it's like my mind it's full of way too many things but this is a 68 Volkswagen van this is kind of a unique one because it has what's called a door mobile top the tops off of it right now but it's a camper top that hinges sideways kind of like a big accordion when it opens up so it's not the one that tips are normally not the normal Westphalia now this one's been sitting far too long uh-huh but it's a it's one that came back to me you know if you love something set it free and if it comes back seriously keep I sold this bus years ago and then I built a bus for a friend of mine that had that doorman Beal top on it and I just in the process of doing it I went man I'd really love to have my own so I looked online and boom the ad had just been put up fifteen minutes prior and I went well I guess it's meant to come back to me so it had gone back to Michigan and then came back here it hadn't changed a bit and quite frankly it hasn't changed since I got it but it's it scared you know so how long had it back it's been back here I think for seven years now maybe eight anyway I'll take you in here as well and kind of show you some of the others it's really funny you got Crosley you got a you got a Chevy v8 here you know I dodged a Volkswagen you're all over the map I am all over them at the this is kind of my mancave yeah yeah keep a couple shiny things but these two Model T Fords were sitting in a back yard along with a model a coupe that I'm going to show you in a bit huh and this gentleman had had these cars for a long time and use them for local tours and things like that but they were sitting outside under the trees covered in leaves you know this touring is far too nice for that but in other words did you have to paint it or no no I just just cleaned it and preserved it and polished it and the car this one had been sitting I think for about ten or twelve years based on what the the widow had told me we got it fired up seemed to run pretty good and then two days later ran it on this holiday motor excursion up in in Pasadena which was like a 40 mile trip you have a reupholstered no all I did was clean it man what years of these 20 this one's a 19 and this one I think is a 23 this one's had some hop up stuff done to it both of them have the T speed the rucks toe rear end this one's got bigger brakes on it and the different suspension up front and some different things like that so don't tell me what that cars all right I mean it looks Packard ish but well it is Packard ish oh okay it is Packard it is a Packer gets that the 32 light a Packard convertible coupe with the the shovelnose there yeah only only here that they did that shovelnose 32 32 so you can see where Ford got the 33 34 grille idea from classic that's actually yeah there might have been they might have seen that and and worked with that this has been in my family for a long time we call this the mother's day Packard my dad was a car collector and had a whole variety of different stuff and he went to an auction on Mother's Day and and bought this and then came back and my mom was upset because it was Mother's Day and he was out of cars so I said I bought this one for you as if that's what my mom wanted yes that was an old Packard but recently the the race of gentlemen when they did is my Beach I thought I want to show the Ford guys up and run the straight a Packard so we knocked the fenders off of it you at the Carlson Brothers special isn't that cool and went ran it on the beach up at raagh and just you beat the Fords yeah actually you know what the the real hot flathead guys could take me okay but anything else I could whack some rad as a blast it was totally awesome and the car looks so huge compared to some little high boy for that I mean it it was monster Oh opened up the exhaust so it was really nice and loud and it being so long it just floated right across the bay a little short Ford guys were we're tweaking around what are they all these magazines stored there all your cars yeah all on the walls in here you can if you look around those are all cards that I've built or of own during in the past so what was the Honda Civics of course were kind of two of them push me pull you right so this was a weird thing I found in a local shed this little electric car called an Omega Alpha and it was the only one I've come across in any sort of any sort of hunting and um I know that you know people are into just about anything now you know looking at they that was 1980 that car so I started cleaning that up and then I saw this for sale on eBay the the way that it is and it was owned by Jeff Lane from the little Museum yeah yeah and so I contacted Jeff and said how about if we do a swap I'll trade you the little Omega Alpha and then he shipped me the goofy Honda and so I've been having a ton of fun with this and it's a driver yeah it's a driver both ends completely Drive there there so you just lock the stairwell and want to drive it the other way but it's a lot more fun if you get both wheels going and you get good in sideways and I mean I mean you have two drivers in yeah you can do two drivers you can lock the wheel and drive it one direction but so if you have two drivers in this thing I mean you have an open parking lot you just doing donuts out there yeah yeah pretty much you can crab it sideways you know you crank the wheels one way donuts are real crazy no there's no gone back in this car you it's always forward on the little 356 Porsche oh yeah we just walked by it yeah right by it so this cars got a fun history in that it was my dad's car this is a feed it's a be a 63 be that so it was always around throughout my life and I've kind of kept it and and play with it and cool stuff man I can take you outside and show you some other stuff yeah so here's a 57 Lincoln premiere mm-hmm and this came out of the same garage is that little electric car that I told you about and the car was parked in 1966 stayed in this guy's shed a California car California car so it's it's rock solid all original paint yeah you know it just needs revival original paint good buff this thing it would look for you doing I think so and the interiors definitely chewed up that's probably the worst part yep and not a cheap interior to do but and it's it's a good monster of a car and some huge 430 motor or something yeah yeah yeah this air of design is just so insane yeah yeah Wow so clean body huh yeah real clean body I haven't seen the spot of rust on it anywhere other than being a little surface spots here and there giant giant everything it's just yeah yeah in the 50s America was 9,000 pounds it's gotta be yeah and I have the tow truck driver bring it and drop it right here and I haven't tried to move it but would you be your intention to this car well I'd like to get this up and running it on its wheels yeah and basically clean it up you know the best that it could be and then find somebody for it yeah yeah you know it's a it's a good car deserves to be saved and you know I think with a little love it'll it'll be pretty respectable yeah yeah here's a fun story with these two little guys uh-huh so this right here was my very first car in your life in my life I was 13 years old and I bought it from my brother for $72 didn't have 75 right and in several pleases and I probably clean his room but by the time I had my driver's license I had it running and driving and and it was you know my fun car mm-hmm and then I've restored all these cars and this cars always just sat unloved and last year I thought okay I should really dive into the Honda so I started doing research and thought I'll buy a parts car that I can use to build another you know he's the best of both cards to build one so I saw this car local for sale and I bought it and then I got it here and started looking at it and I realized that they were both built on the same day they both started out as red cars that were painted yellow at some point they both had custom aluminum wheels put on it I mean all the connections just went on and on and on and so you know they traveled probably on the same boat over here or both in Southern California their whole life and it's just just really weird and so now you have two projects now I have two projects I don't dare cut this because it's a great car Wow but let me just move your VIN number over on this one yeah are these two silver two Soames their work or cool both the Pistons on these cars go up and down together someone's firing and ones doing exhaust at the same so they have a real weird vibration to that anyway I'll let me show you what I've got out in the yard don't tell what year that's a 60 isn't that is a 60 now how did you guess 60 well let's get the small taillights but it's got the deep-dish deer will so alright yeah pretty good well done well done so it's still got a 36 horsepower yeah this is a 36 horse which is a magnesium block right yeah no creatures in there yeah so this one's a runner this this belong did a good friend of mine his name was Randy as well and he ran a Volkswagen wrecking her it up in central California so this this is a 36 horsepower and it's a single port head and the block on these is made of magnesium so if you did any machining on there you had to be careful because the the filings coming off a milling machine or whatever could catch on fire magnesium is a very flammable and sometimes explosive material so after this era the 40 horsepower and correct me if I'm wrong were aluminum and and it was easier to work with actually I think there there was still magnesium in some of the later cases as well I know if you take one of these and you chuck it out in a in a big bonfire somewhere it gets really really bright Wow but I don't not sure when they swapped it yeah it over yeah oh I see I see daylight coming up yeah you can check road conditions right through the floor but it's it's a fun car because you can show up somewhere with it and it looks like it was abandoned everywhere you park it but it runs great it runs great it's it's a really take used to VW shows yeah I take it to to VW shows and you know it's it it always draws a crowd and the suitcase that's brilliant man yeah this one this ice chest was always on it when Randy had it it shows and when I got the car it was missing but his son managed to find it after digging through of shipping container full of stuff so it got reunited with the the car just recently and then I've been adding to it with other other crazy rusty things but yeah this one's good and rusty and I'm never going to restore it they got beautiful just the way that it is boy look at this holy Mack I miss a California car huh it is but it was near the coast it was right up in your Pismo Beach area for most of its life so you know sand and muck got in there and just ate its way out that's another Packard there huh this is a Packard yeah was just another one of your father's no this one this one that came across online for sale and what I really wanted was an old you know old rusty forward to put in the yard is that right yard art yeah I just I wanted a cool yard art thing but everybody wanted too damn much for Ford's because they build them and then I ran across this and when it's a Packard and my dad was a Packard guy and I've obviously got the 32 there's a cabriolet again not another one as well yeah so I bought this purely to to stare at and it's a it's a 27 convertible coupe six-cylinder car and not the aid that it was sold new in Portland on Christmas Eve which was kind of fun that there's a data plate on this on the front here I know I love to research new stuff anything I can do is kind of fun actually Christmas Day I take that back Christmas toilet 2808 so December 25th 928 is right so it was a Christmas Packard and what was really bizarre is I had a fifty-two Packard that I'd pulled out of a barn recently that had 1,300 miles on it from new from new still had the original tires on it had the most amazing tires it was up on jacks and I sold that at the Gooding auction last year and it went absolutely crazy because of the originality but when I looked at the paperwork and stuff from the family on that it too was delivered on Christmas Day but in 52 instead of this so I had to Christmas Packard's at once which was really bizarre so now we'll go to the car that kind of attracted us to come here in the first right okay this Ford right here this came from the same spot as the Model T's that are in the garage and I saw an ad for a Model T just had a one serve a Model T it's a Model T Ford had a price that was far too high on it but that was it so I called the guy and asked him about it and he said well I've got a model another Model T and a Model A and so I want him to take a look and he was focusing mostly on the Model T's this this he didn't put much weight to it was sitting inside yard up in a house in Riverside the grille the hood the headlights front fenders were off of it so it was just the bare frame off the front and and it just sat there cooking in the Sun but as I started looking at it I realized wait a second there's something else to it what first clued me off that it was not just the stock little Model A with this old speed center sticker from a shop in Riverside when I saw that and I went mmm all right cool when I opened up the door and you can see the the floors out of it they extended the column down a little bit there and the trans in there looks to me like it 30mins or trans yeah and then I asked you know do you have the other parts and sure enough the shed opened up and there's the 32 Ford grille shell and and the flathead motor was around the corner and you know said I'll take it I gotta have it oh yeah but the the coolest part about it I was dealing with with the younger relative of the family when it came down to you know pay for it and and do that the wife of the owner of it had you know had the paperwork and I always asked you gotta ask what the story is where did these cars come from who owned them what was the deal and this car was her husband's car and it it came from his family they bought it new it was always in Riverside County and he had a twin brother it was Frank and Frank and Fred and they both went to World War two together and they came back together and when they got back and the hot rodding was getting started up they said well we're gonna take the Model A and turn it into a hot rod so I they took it you know did juice brakes on it did the transmission swap but in a flathead put on the later headlights the 32 grill you know all the things that were in the day you know there's 39 Ford taillights on it that's a what standing apron thing is cool yeah I thought that's kind of a neat touch yeah and then the real fun thing is I as I always ask if there's old photos of the car you know when you buy something that's been with somebody for a long time and she came up with these beauties nice Frank and Fred this is Frank and Fred with this car and these were probably taken back in the early 50s or so and obviously ran it without the defenders on it at some point but but that's the car and she she remembered seeing the twins driving this thing through the local cruise nights and stuff and she had the hots for him the worst way and you could see the sparkle in her eye you know they look so good in that car and so sure enough they you know he always called it his hot rod and it stayed there forever and I think he parked it looking at the tags probably in the late 60s or so and then pulled it apart you know to fix it maybe the motor wound or something what a story so what's your intention for this well what I really like to do is to make it go I'm you know I've the flathead that was in it has been sitting out in the elements and Stefan so I think it's pretty well toast I mean obviously I could rebuild it but I found another flathead from about the same period that's a runner that somebody pulled out and what year motor you know I'd have to look and see I think it's like a late 30s motor or something well that's really that's that's a Jim man so this was the car that Henry Ford came out with after the Model T Edsel Ford had continued to ask his father let's let's update this this card needs everybody else is coming out with more modern cars we got to update it so he reluctantly went to the model eight after the Model T and so this is probably a 30 or 31 which to model my the model a went from 28 to 31 these cars were Street raised drag race brought to Bonneville Salt Flats dry Lakes this does not have a model a grill on it's got a 32 Ford deuce grill and it's been shaved so originally it had a radiator cap right here and a little emblem and said Ford or a little piece of trim but hot-rodders wanted to make it look clean so they shaved it filled in the hole and it looks like this has led it in it's not rusty I can see we're all metal so it's probably been used lead instead of bondo so this car was one of the original California hot rods after World War two so it's got different headlights than the model a headlight it has later Ford wheels or mercury wheels as a metal top insert instead of the cloth it has 1939 Ford teardrop taillights which was kind of a hot rod setup for back in the day if you look at these stickers here 1964-65 was the last year this car was registered on the road and for some reason I guess they put these brake lights in Randy's got cool cars I guess to me this is the one that kind of touches my heart the most it's all about the story but this one will make your head twist a little bit for sure so it is an Abarth portion well similar these wall sunroof Wow that's the oh yeah it's a steel body except for the hood and the engine lid I'm still trying to track the official history of it but the story that I've tracked down so far is that it was actually a design study and construction study for a trade school in Germany in a town called Kaiser Slaton which is hard to say but that they were one of the trade schools that started back in wagon making days and they're still around today with automotive design as well as other industrial design and that sort of thing so each year they would do a class project car they would start with a design sketch build it up to a completed car and this is one of those cars so I think this one was about 1960 and currently I've got somebody trying at the school trying to hunt down any records they have that school still exists so the school is still around Wow but it's it's got a 356 Porsche engine and brakes on it looking at the chassis numbers the chassis actually is a Karmann Ghia chassis from 58 everything on the body with the exception of handles and little bolt on parts was all completely hand-built mm-hmm you know the German markings on it all the details and the satellites are Porsche tails yeah Porsche taillights 356 taillights do you think that this roof existed on another car no I think they'd built it I think everything you know you look at the inner door structure you look at you know closing panels and stuff on the inside they did little strengthening ribs and they really tried to build a car that would look like a production car I'm really intrigued to try to get original blueprints and design stuff from the school which I know exists on some of the cars they did and more importantly I'd like to go a little farther I want to find out who these students work where did they end up when Deponia was a member of this well on to be some great automotive designer I don't know it's a really dry car this starti battery could you I mean what I would love to get this on video we benefited that muscle screams like it should it's loud I don't know if there's enough peace in it but it's been sitting here for a bit no it's looking dead I'm getting no light but yeah but I try to get we try to get cars started for these shows when possible I mean I could pop a battery in it and it'll fire could you I mean if you you know or you got a jumper box or something yeah well let me grab a battery I was something else I mean if it's no trouble you know I started in a bit not quite enough so you bought this car and used it all over all across Europe yeah on the seat and there's a little like photo book that I put together at the trip which is pretty fun to see that's a gas motor that's a gas motor yeah and is that fuel injection no it's carbureted okay give it a little around here and this is the motor you had this is the motor I had yeah it's not not the one that was it [Music] why fine hunter series is now in its third year and I've met a lot of really neat people and seeing a lot of great groups of cars but this may rank as the the most enjoyable spot I've been to meeting Randy seeing the goofiest collection you know there's a Lincoln premiere over there and a custom Porsche over here and there's everything else spread around here you like you're the most wonderful car guy very absolute blast for me too and your stories and what you're doing and you know they're I think we have a shared brain you know it's been really really a trip really fun thanks for coming out so keep looking because you might find a Randy in your hometown a little photo book of our European adventure in Alfred Alfred so a kind of a German name well it was you know Batman's faithful servant was okay and my father

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Id: XBNJ-lQeAv4

Length: 27min 40sec (1660 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 03 2018