American Time Capsule: Abandoned Dealership Collier Motors AMC Has 200+ Classic Cars! (FULL TOUR)

you see the sign here that's been here since i was a little boy this is open yeah and when i was 13 years old my daddy took this car in on trade this was a drag racing car here the 55 hemi just sold a two-door hard top how many cars are in here it's over 200. this got a tree growing up between the grill and the bumper wow there's a bunch of those oddities out here this was my dad's personal car in the 70s daddy said you either you don't want that car it's too fast for you you're on the way to pikeville north carolina right now to check out collier motors known among the internet as the last remaining amc dealership i don't know what the what the full backstory is we're going to figure that out but all we know is it's an amc dealership all the signs are still there it was abandoned for a long time but still owned by the family and they have from what i've read a couple hundred cars in their lot that have been there for 30 years or something we're gonna check it all out and get the story from the owner so let's go find this place i said it was right across from the autozone i think i see a car right there i couldn't even tell you what that is i'm not really familiar with all the amc models but oh my god this is like the coolest thing ever i'm so pumped for this wow if you didn't know what you were looking at you'd whiz right by this place and not even see it back there no trespassing we are not trespassing because the owner is coming to meet us this is just the most epic thing ever i i can't believe this is real are you excited this is so cool i know he's selling stuff out of here now so we can walk through here and see if there's anything cool that we might want i already told mitchell that we should have brought a trailer oh good thing we're not that far away oh i think this is him right here how you doing here pretty good what happened when you pulled up oh really okay yeah nice to meet you robbie collier mitchell mitchell all right was this paved at one point or was it a field it's a it was a it's all grass it was a lawn here we this was no cars out here at all and no cars over there except for the front line and we had a back line back in the 70s but it was it was manicured pretty good i used to mow the grass when i was a kid here we actually started downtown in pikeville it was a small building that had a garage in the back showroom in the front we were there from 55 to 1973 or four that's when he had bought this property here and uh oh i didn't even see their cars that are completely yeah yeah hidden in there right there that's blackberry vines they it just happens within a couple years it grows up that bad so when did cars start getting parked out here like in their current configuration they sort of got onto us wanting us to put a fence on around the place so uh it wasn't filled up here but uh sort of when we got the fence which one sort of felt free to fill it up uh we just bought we would buy and sell cars and we'd sell one and buy two and it just that sort of uh adds up after a while this is an ambassador here this is their top of the line car this is a 69 ambassador 343 v8 all ambassadors came with air condition it was a standard option standard equipment you that you can't say that for even cadillac because i've got a cadillac coupe the bill in the back and it doesn't have dealer i mean it doesn't have factory air in it wow also this is an eagle wagon it's a four wheel drive eagle wagon uh there's also a little uh these were forward driving sort of like the first crossover um suv type car because it was four drive and they built it on a concord chassis that's neat i've never seen a four wheel drive car like that that's a little cj5 it's got dana 44 rear end under it it started out as a v8 jeep but it's got a six in it now but it runs and drives but it's just rough as a cob this little rambler american it's a wagon but i had a two-door hard top with a v8 four-speed four-barrel i just sold it to a fella uh this is a this is around a 68 or nine rambler american wagon here's another 70 ambassador the 70 ambassadors that are 360s or four or 390s all have special cylinder heads that are made really good for drag racing so we always take note if it's a 73 60 or 390 car those heads are worth at least 500 or more this am if you want to focus on the amc motor that's a v8 in there which you can't hardly see much of it but uh that same motor started in 1967 and it continued uh the same design motor through 1991 jeep rancher grand wagoneers i can't tell them externally very much apart because they're all small blocks and they all look the same but there's difference in the deck height and the bore it goes anywhere from a 290 up to 401 the biggest motor they made concords were there mid-sized car in the 70s it used to be a hornet and then 78 it turned to a concord uh jeeps we have some jeeps out here close to 10 jeeps out here right now but uh amc was uh struggling a little bit they had been purchased partially by renault in 1980 when my dad got out they got bought by chrysler 1987 and that's when amc officially ended and it became eagle and jeep this ambassador here is a 71 two-door hardtop car uh we sold it to a family friend that worked right next to door to my dad's dealership downtown his name was carl scott he uh it had been a program car where the the our district rep was driving it and usually it has a lot of options on it well when he retired it and got a new car from amc daddy bought this from amc and he uh sold it to carl scott and he loved it and all but it came time to buy a new car and so he traded it in for a new car and daddy polished it up and tuned it up really nice and the guy fell in love with his car again and came back and bought it twice and he ended up keeping it until he passed away and i bought it from his grandson he's uh his grandson was out here this past month just look it over and see what kind of shape it was in is he gonna take it back well there's thoughts of it we don't know yet it's got a little bit of repair that needs on it now but it's a really i think it's an early 71 so it i think it still has those special heads on it that's a gremlin if you remember the gremlins that's about the only amc i know what the name is for sure uh cars 3 the movie cars 3 i think had pacers and gremlins in it but these came out in 1970 in fact the very first gremlins were two-seaters with 13-inch wheels they were really economical and they wanted they compared them with the volkswagen beetle and how they had like twice the horsepower of the beetle this is a 360 70 model car so it has those special heads they're big valves and very small combustion chambers so it has really high compression we do have other cars there's over half the cars are what we call off-brand cars they are uh fords and chevrolets we always daddy caught them off-ramp cars because they weren't amc's but uh bit yeah there's actually a ceviche club and uh there's like an escort exp club i just sold it escort exp to somebody uh rutledge wood i don't know if you know rutledge wood yeah he uh he came he filmed right here uh where he was doing a overhauling type show called lost in transmission and he came looking for some fender flares for that eagle so he filmed here with his buddy uh that does uh music videos these are pacers what good just what just got dug out of here ford exp a guy he had looked for three or four years for this little uh sporty looking two-door ford exp escort and after he found it he wasn't a month or two later he came here and saw another one so he bought it for parts but he's getting the title with it and everything wow these are pacers if you focus on pacers over here um there's three right in a row i have probably 10 or 12 maybe 13 pacers and then another 10 pacer wagons you focus on this right here that's the amc 401 engine yeah i've got a guy who uh hauls cars for us um has spoken for this he hasn't come gotten it yet so uh yeah i guess he's still gonna get it but uh it's the biggest motor amc made you can put them in wagoneers this is an ambassador but they're really popular in amx javelins and and such nice this has a in 73 and on up they had they made it with a the 401 motor they made it with the uh chrysler 727 bulletproof transmission um there's a little ford x s x court gt look over here uh this javelin let me tell you a little bit about amx's okay amx first came out it was uh came out mid-year 68 they had already released the javelins but the amx was a two-seater sports car sort of positioned between the uh corvette and the camaro um two-seater v8 really fast the weight proportion on the from front to rear was just optimal to drag race with so in 68 to 70 it was a two-seater car but it shared some body parts with a javelin well 71-4 the amx package was what they put on a javelin it included now this is a this is actually a javelin with amx spoiler on it and door panels and stuff the amex package was a fiberglass hood some some of them are fresh air hoods has a rear spoiler had a 140 mile an hour tick tock gauge set that had a tachometer and a clock built in on one side of the fluorescent lights in there and it has turned aluminum you can look through there and see the amx door panel yeah uh it had turned aluminum this one's been picked over some but uh we've had dozens and dozens of javelins but we're down to about 12 parts cars now uh yeah this is just a parks car some of the rarest things we had was a state of alabama in 1971 and two purchased from amc about 120 some state highway patrol javelins and they had their javelins interceptor cars with 401s and where it says amx on that spoiler it said 401s because that's they had to fill in those holes and it also says straight state trooper on the spoiler that's cool they all had the uh they had the one huh we sold them we saw them yeah high ball racing what's that team highball racing they were uh international uh road racing team out of raleigh but uh we used to get posters from amc when they were racing these uh spirits or really pretty paint jobs on these spirits and they were in like nurburgring uh germany racing and they were they were it was uh dennis shaw one of the guys that was with him was a guy named curt spencer and kurt spencer he uh he always within the really fast six cylinder amc's he uh even went down to mexico and got some of the four barrel cast iron intakes this was a drag racing car here like i said the amx's they hook up really good at the racetrack in fact hearst corporation prepared 52 of these two-seater amx's with 390s in them and they especially prepared them had a two holley four barrel carburetors on it uh it's called uh i can't think of the name out right now but uh dual quad yeah it was a dual quad but it was staggered it was it's a cross range cross ram yeah yeah this one actually had a at one time had a big block chevrolet motor in it but he really bragged on the car um because they you know just hook up well this is a javelin here it keeps going back here yeah yeah yeah it's back here how many cars are in here uh it's over 200 but uh we've never documented them but this javelin this is a 70 javelin which also has those special heads but um amc got in in the 60s got into uh trans am races which was competition a lot of them factory sponsored cars uh like the aar cudas yeah the ar cudas the trans ams the z28s boss mustangs all in the javelins and uh like hooters you know they all competed in trans am racing which was a road race they did pretty well to start with but then bobby uh this guy named mark donahue and roger penske uh they had been winning in chevrolet's in camaros and amc talked them to coming over to amc so in around 68 or 9 they came over to uh amc and started doing really well uh the 70 trans am car they had to make a cert like 2501 production cars like the race car so it could be homologated yeah so to have this spoiler i mean this ram air hood and the spoiler on the back they had a ducktail spoiler in the back they uh made these limited production mark donahue specials my dad ordered one is a green one brand new this little old lady came up wanting to buy it and uh he had it up on the line he always did his own dealer prep he did all the door alignments the front end alignments he did it tune it up before the customer even had the first chance to to drive the car so he had him well prepared when some dealers just took him off the truck and put him on the front line uh so he had this up on the alignment rack and uh the lady came in and said i like the color of that car i like that car her name was edith daddy said you either you don't want that car it's too fast for you it'll just get away from you you need something more like he was trying to sell a hornet or something so uh daddy said go get your brother charles and we'll talk talk it over about the car and daddy in the meantime had talked to charles and said charles let's talk her out of this car it's too fast for well charles came over and looked at it and they looked it all over and uh edith said charles what do you think of my car and he said edith it's the car for you and uh they she was sold and daddy just gave up and sold it to her well sure enough she it was too fast for her and she spun it around the intersection or two and she ended up damaging the front door on it and uh but it was a well-known car around town and this guy who uh grew up to become a dentist i think he used to take her groceries out and he hounded her for the car if she ever sold it let him let her sell it to him and somehow he ended up with i don't know if we sold it to him or if she sold to him directly we followed it all through seven owners and finally uh we wanted i always wanted to buy it back so that's that car over there no it's a it's that car is now it was here we kept it here until about a year ago i sold it to a guy in maine and he's restoring it up there that's awesome but we had a we had one other mark donahue car 396 motor i had a i had a 69 chevy cst pickup truck with air long bed red and white and uh some guys from miami came and bought it the man had rebuilt the motor this is a jeepster commando um amc bought jeep in 1970 before then uh they were putting buick v6s in their jeeps uh and other uh in fact but uh amc did furnish motors for uh does it have a latch on it i think it happened um amc did furnish engines for international uh they in their scouts you you could find uh amc six cylinder and some of their pickups and travel laws but i i don't know how many 401 motors i bought they were i came out of international travel laws and pickups this is my last little gremlin here it's a 72 it's a six cylinder with air a lady in dudley north carolina i was after her for years anyway if she ever sold it to let me buy it finally she came up and agreed to sell it here's all the 66 chevelle four-door hit hard in the front did you just buy this for parts uh he bought it just uh somebody came up wanted to sell it uh we always thought we could use parts off of it but i don't think we sold anything off of it yet we've had it for 30 years there's a couple tow trucks in here what did you use we used to use them we uh daddy he never really was a commercial tow man that we always use it for our own purposes but when uh when the snowstorms happen we would uh he would just charge them 20 to get them pulled out and everything he never really charged much but we only used it for our garage purposes we didn't do it for the public um this truck here we it's got a big old big big ford 600 motor i think a 292 or something like that but it's got a tree growing up between the grill and the bumper wow there's a bunch of those oddities out here here's the el camino i got for sale as a park car if somebody wanted to buy a car from here how was how could they find you like we want to help you out well um i guess you can my contact information is on facebook um but my name is robert robbie collier uh it's call your motors amc the business is not not actually in business um i'm the executor my wife and i are the executors for the estate and we are strictly selling it with what's not open to the public you have to come by appointment to look at the cars and we sell them one by one to people who visit and we've had people come over all over the country as far as just recently uh new mexico somebody bought a couple of convertibles from me um got people from miami and maine this is the amx it has the uh it's got the fiberglass hood and the fiberglass spoiler on the back i bought that as a parts car we just lifted the windshield out of a couple weeks ago but that still has a fiberglass hood but i sold that grill for like 1200 not too long ago when was the last year that you had all the keys for these things on a rack that you could have gone out here and driven any of them well i mean they ran when you parked it each car is a different story and my dad knew the story on most all the cars all every one of them uh each car is a different story some of them were we buy car cars at auction and some of them were auction mistakes this was our body shop oh really got an amx in there a 343 four-speed car it had rebuilt motor uh see uh these guys came three three brothers came one from maine one from maryland and one from florida they came together construction background about all of them and they dismantled our roof because it was unsafe they dismantled the whole roof to get that amx out of here wow and uh it took him one one weekend i got several trucks uh there's a ford 74 ranger that's a dodge adventurer um a ford 77 ford some of these are people are spoken for let me show you something over here this again is the nash air flight like my dad had a two-door wow he had one that was like chocolate and mint color but it was a two-door but look at the steering column that's called a uniscope st uh gauges uh all your all your gauges are in that one pod called a uniscope your temperature electrical gas odometer speedometer all that you just look at one that one spot it's a very future minded car aerodynamically uh designed it was a unibody car back when cars were uh had a frame on body this was unibody only weighs like 3 400 pounds really a chevrolet that size would probably be 4 400 it's uh it's uh they had they were pioneers in the unitized body thing this is a this was my dad's personal car in the 70s in the late 70s early 80s it was a mark uh it was a barcelona matador coupe if you notice the back glass here they had the homologate manual coops for nascar and they changed this back window here see this back window yeah they changed this back window because it's supposed to go all the way down but uh bali bobby allison had to race them and uh they changed this configuration so many production cars had to have the back glass to make it in nascar so he did really well he uh he um he won the daytona 500 and but my dad always loved this car it was a 360 four barrel just purred on the road my brother was they were going to visit me in nashville tennessee my brother was asleep in the back and he woke up and said why why we stopped uh well you know they were actually going about 65-70 miles an hour and they thought they were stopped it was ran so smooth on the road but this is uh it's suffered in here because it's actually safer outside than inside because a lot of moisture stayed in here and we didn't really realize it but uh was this in here with the other car the uh amx was under there they built all this they built that down to protect the car when they're if it hadn't been from that uh refrigerator there the car would have been crushed wow but uh they built the framework and they they actually took the roof down they took the brickwork off the edge of the building and uh he's restoring that uh i think it's a 69 amx so this is the former body shop when was uh when was this built uh well it was built probably in the 20s this it was not about my dad bought an old school school building property the campus of a school building there was a trade school in fact somebody was here this past week uh steve howell was here he used to take mechanics works over in this tin building they did different classes and back even before segregation it was a black school for trade school but uh but this was a had some other classes out here charles b had some of their classes um wow but uh he bought it in uh through a different agreement um he was he actually had bought a property across the street over there and this family uh sort of negotiated the trade properties and he ended up with this and he built the showroom in the front and the six bay garage in the back was there a paint booth in here yeah there was a guy guy sort of left to sort of soar uh he owed us quite a bit of rent money and he left a few cars on the lot here i abandoned them my dad paid him twice to paint that car and he uh he's never done it so that car was parked in there for painting it was prep for paint right there he took the windshield out he had it primed and he never never did it even though daddy paid him twice to do it wow he sort of left uh you know he also dismounted the paint booth when he left and he did some other stuff and he left three cars here what year was that i don't know it's in the 90s wow that that's crazy that that car has been in there the whole yeah the whole during the whole decay of the rest of the building yeah wow this car just got sold it's an ambassador but it's a rare model it's a 360 four-barrel two-door hard top broom model brown was always top of line it's a 73 360 with a 727 transmission it's got electric windows and it's got bucket seats which is very rare for an ambassador these are the 52 after the bathtub nash's this was the body style that pen and farina helped design you see this is a 52 that's a 54 there with a continental kit if you would focus on the uh hood ornament on the front of this car focus in on that um george petty was a artist in america he was a stroke during a uh poster he did pinup posters of girls um nash commissioned him to uh look at this this is penn and farina's logo there this is farina yeah pinot noir wow uh the same company pen and farina they built ferraris and maseratis they hand built those and they also designed fiats and alpha romeos and uh maybe even lamborghini i'm not sure but they designed those cool coke machines and five guys now yeah you see the pin and farina badge on there yeah even the uh cadillac allante was designed by finn and farina this galaxy is cool but yeah i think that's poppy red oh really yeah that's one of the cars that actually was abandoned here from the body man um yeah that's really yeah that's got a edelbrock aluminum intake on it somebody's taking the valve covers off of it but uh we have there's a 63m pallet here um 63 in power got the same front clip as a gtx but it's a sports satellite wagon oh that's cool that same grille is in a gtx got some rebels these two are rebels that was before the matador these rebels were before the matador um in fact the 70 rebel which is what this is they made a sports car a muscle car called a rebel machine we had one i sent it down to florida we took actually delivered it to florida that is a 77-ish thunderbird they used to have i used to like these cars in fact they made a heritage edition with a little uh padded landau vinyl top on it um i always liked those heritage edition but uh there's another jeep cherokee these guys were out uh bfg all-terrain best tire ever what's that got the white letter bfg's on there well uh these guys took it out to busco beach and were out planting the the dirt out there and on the hills and uh they had a little mechanical trouble when we were going back home so i saw him stop there and i offered to buy the car right they didn't even have to take it home i told him about it right here so these guys broke down and you just bought the car and took it yep what was wrong with that i don't i don't know we uh we just brought it here and we're gonna sell it so uh i'm gonna let whoever buys it worry about what's wrong with it um that's where we uh we always like niche cars um unusual cars because amc in itself was a sort of a niche what was the tin building used we actually rented it to a cabinet maker and he had his cabinet business out here really um there is actually a 67 rambler rebel tudor i mean a convertible in there that's been in there since the mid 80s hadn't been outside since 1984 or so this is a nash healey here this is the parts car i needed i bought a car that didn't have the correct motor and it looked nice on the outside red roadster but it uh motor had been transplanted so i needed a parts car so i bought this out of washington dc area this big mansion we pulled up this big mansion brought it home that's the last time this dodge crew cab car chair has been out really this thing's been everywhere my dad and mom would go pick up cars that i'd buy in nashville and bring them back down here when did you park this thing here uh 19 97. wow we yeah i was i was one when you parked that truck here yeah see the uh air tank on the front we had i think the air-conditioned pump uh conden compressor was the air pump and you could fill up tires with that uh tank this is what the bumper is well know the trucks right there i i thought we were in like the seventh ring of narnia all the way back there really weren't that far from the road i'm just so immersed in all of this right i mean you're probably used to it because it's like been part of your life but yeah for the average person that you know you see one car in your future like oh look at that car in the field and here it's like oh my god this is just this is awesome yeah phil yeah you can't see many sites like this uh uh which you know it's a sort of dying breed old cars yeah i think i could speak on behalf of the rest of the world that every car guy in the world thanks you and your family for keeping this yeah so many people criticize us you know why are you letting so many cars well we've had plenty of cars that we nice cars and rare cars that we bought and sold plenty of them and this is what just what we have left i mean and we uh some of them were auction mistakes and some dealerships policy was don't keep a car more than 30 days just get rid of it but daddy didn't have that philosophy and he didn't we didn't run a salvage yard either so we didn't sell parts off of cars at the time so uh now we will sell before we crush them we're gonna let people get parts off of them but uh you know some of them are sold and some of them are uh won't have any value later but somebody told me uh 20 years ago 30 years ago 20 years ago said you got a gold mine here but it's going to slowly turn into a lead mine and it but even the lead mine has some value so uh four-wheel drive car too i see that yeah yeah let me just tell you a little bit about amc in 64 well back way back in nash they had a little bit of trouble with their engines at one time just way early on and so they try to pattern their engines to be very durable so they patterned their engines off of rolls royce's engines really yeah and they were uh they had seven main bearings when some chevrolets and stuff had three main batteries they had seven main bearings in between each piston they were fully counterbalanced in between each throw and it had full oiling everything was oiled by pressure some old chevrolets they had a little thing that would splash oil up on something depending and then it would be spraying off to the side and it wouldn't be splashing anything emc was pressured by the government to come up with a cheaper uh more efficient cars so they had to improvise and buy uh four cylinder motors huh that's really nice on the inside yeah this is uh this has the pontiac iron duke four cylinder in it oh that's cool it's uh that's why amc had to they first bought a porsche audi engine in from say a 77 gremlin but this uh they went with a pontiac iron duke after that and that's what's in this and i got two or three other cars that have pontiac iron dude but you can even see some some jeep cj's that have pontiac iron duke in it i did not know that now these are if these are four wheel drive are they selectable or they four-wheel all the time on the year some of them are full full-time and some of them you can select them it just depends on the year now that's pretty cool we like we like four-wheel drive yeah stuff i didn't know that this existed when i closed that this is this this is a sport version with this they also have that you don't even have to worry about that i want to keep it nice this was a 79 amx spoiler uh they uh the amx package went from a two-seater to javelin then they made it a hornet amex and then a concord amx and then a spirit amx and this is the body for a spirit amx they still put 304 engines in a 79 spirit and i've got two cars here that would be donor cars that are uh v8 spirits um to have amx wheels and disc brakes and v8 drive train including the beefier rear end and transmission i've got two left plus a an american 290 wagon um i just showed somebody let me show you this car when i was 13 years old my daddy took this car in on trade i said daddy uh i fell in love with i love the color and everything it was a real pretty uh domino cinnamon dynamo domino fabric inside um but daddy said uh yeah i'll save it for you and so he kept it even though he could have sold it and made a profit and everything he kept it for me and i drove it i went over there bragging i was going to go get my license when i turned 16. and i was uh i was driving this 40 car matador coupe and uh went over there and i did what the girl said she said do a three-point turn and then i should then stop i wasn't quite straight when i stopped i didn't know then she said now back straight up well i backed straight up well i didn't realize i was going over the double lane there the little line so she failed me and so here i was a amc dealer's son oh and then i failed my driving test and uh so she she sort of humbled me but the very next day i got to drive this javelin here um and from then on i've been driving i've actually been driving i was in i used to work on a farm and they would let us drive out in the country when i was 14 15 years old in fact i learned how to drive here on this property when i was 11. we had a long driveway here it wasn't junky like this it was a long driveway and we were staying down here on a weekend and i'd been cutting up and my mom said why don't you stay outside for a while we want to keep you outside for a while stay outside and so i got in her car she had a 69 toyota corona and i uh little four-speed car and i had watched them how they changed gears and i was 11 and uh i just got she left the keys in it so i hopped in it i started driving up and down this driveway all the way back to the back it's almost a block and uh i would get it in fourth gear but then i sort of slide it in and turn the spin around and i learned how to drive all of them by myself without anybody helping me when you were 11. you're 11 years right here yeah what's this factory color called amc came out with some mod colors they call it mod colors they also had a mod package you got a plant you could get plaid interior and dummy hood scoops on your javelin but the mod colors were big bad orange big bad green and big bad blue nowadays it raises the value of the car 20 percent if it's a big bad color and they were they painted in 69 they had those two colors in 6970 but they painted the bumpers and of course they because it wasn't chrome they added this trim to a big bad car so that trim 20 years ago was like 400 i think they may re-pop them now wow but uh this is a lady on car 290 v8 with console it still runs um but it needs a gas tank and it needs fixing up now but uh so is that is that orange car there like your favorite car it was yeah i was what did it get replaced well no uh no i actually sold it i i got a guy from he's uh dick patel's nephew he's uh is that the old sign that was our old sign yeah we somebody bought some parts off of the other day a hurricane came through and knocked the sun down what year was that i don't remember it was uh i think quite a while ago it actually damaged that ambassador over there loose and stuff in there oh let's see the broken windshield yeah dang but uh my dad had made the sign himself he he got these uh special letters from the uh whatever big place like lowe's was back then and made the whole sign and had an amc logo that he all all did himself um we did have some factory signage in fact you see the sign here that's been here since i was a little boy there's one on the roof and a service sign over the uh service area but people have been asking me to sell that fine and i'm taking offers on them but that really is gonna be one of the last things to go here yeah that's that's what identifies the whole yeah the whole building right right and i don't want to just uh i did i had some stuff stolen from me and uh also i've sold up just a few signs here lately but these are this is a 70 javelin 304 three-speed manual car with a floor shift some guys some late uh lady and her husband from indiana are buying it and uh these are two matador coupes that's the ola cassini brand let me tell you about amc and designers they had a ola cassini matador which had special embroidery and specials it was color keyed it was everything had like a copper trim on it it has these badges and then it had special interior that was an old cassini matador it had a pierre cardone javelin and inside it has just this really unusual uh satin um interior so that thing still drove until somebody stole the yeah somebody stole the brake booster off they came wanting to buy a brake booster and daddy didn't sell it to them and so two weeks later we raised the hood and there was no brake booster on it they came and got it themselves wow renault company out of france bought controlling interest in amc so they had their they changed administrations then and uh that's about time daddy pretty much was getting out the interest rates jimmy carter had gotten the interest rates up to 22 and uh it's very hard to finance cars at 22 and so he just went out he didn't he didn't owe anybody anything he just decided to go out of the business they had offered him the jeep dealership is there anything on here that was a new car that was never sold no no we sold our last car now this is a javelin i just sold it for like pretty good money uh it was one owner car he worked at the amc place his whole whole career uh he and his buddy bought twin big bad blue javelins off the same truck and they were twins they only had fifty dollars different from the on the tag when the sticker on it this is a 390 with air still got some tapes in there there's another barcelona matador like was in the body shop the nascar one rambler here this is a 64 rambler american really attractive the body style is a two-door hardtop which means a hard top is uh when you roll the front back glasses down there's no post in there there's no frame around the windshield for the windows this is a two-door hard top this is the 440. they also had a 440h which was just a little bit better let me tell you about these rambler american 64. they were so popular in such better cars than mustangs and chevy 2's they're much better cars got better gas mileage when they retired the stampings and all the standards to make the fenders and the body they amc sold it to this company in argentina they continued to make this 64 model car through 1981. really just like in mexico they continue to make the volkswagen bug yeah in argentina they continue to make this ramble american they call it a renault torino down there and uh they put a different motor in it but the body's the same i think pin and farina did redesign the grill but uh this old car was in a movie well it was on it was they paid my dad and my brother to be in a movie and wilson uh they had made wilson in the old town area uh looked like uh near dallas texas when jfk got killed it was a nice little i mean they catered to lunch and they got to meet michelle pfeiffer and all um but anyway they drove that car for the movie i think it did i think it ended up on the cutting room floor though this is also a rambler classic with a v8 in it it's got a four shift uh manual it's uh i got most of the trim inside but it's called a 770h so if you look in the in the headliner it's got these chrome trims that's what made a 778's just deluxe interior a lot of them had consoles that's a somebody should buy that that we have the title for it it's a 59 oz mobile and it was uh it's it's pretty complete i think some of the trend might be on the ground but uh most of us here i got a guy i think he's in uh west virginia or someplace like that that wants to buy it but anyway it's been sitting here for a while we had a 69 chevelle we sold it it had been hit hard in the front my dad sold it to a guy and about one of the first few days he was driving it the guy said let me borrow your car and take it for a ride and within sight of they were at a ball game was when the inside of the ball game the guy totaled it he just i don't know if he wrapped around a tree or hit another car but just totaled it and they brought it back here we have we still have a title for it but it's it's sold it was 69. i got my door open with y'all knowing y'all were coming there let me show you something that happened it was sort of a freak act uh freak of nature this little tree here growing up through the hole in the uh in the uh wow that's awesome the hitch back here it didn't have a ball in it and my brother just cut it off the other day but it's still swollen up around the top and there's that's just one of the oddities along with there's a cj6 over there that's got the same type of situation that thing needs to stay with the car yeah wherever that thing ends up father and son's gonna rebuild this car it was a car that uh it's got a mod paint job on it this was a thousand dollar paint job in the early 80s when our paint job cost 200 this cost a thousand oh that's good did it come from the factory with the palm trees and stuff no it was it was it was specially made it said el toro customs on the back which was sort of a uh a tribute to george varus customs in hollywood and that brings up something that we used to have we used to have a 72 gremlin that was ucla was doing a contest alternate fuels and they decided to do a hydrogen-powered gremlin and george barris from bears customs out of hollywood the same guy that used to have the monkey monkey mobile and the batmobile and all these other custom cars he uh he handed the uh they put a big roll bar up extending through the roof like a luggage rack but it's a big old thick roll bar and it surrounded the tank we bought it out of arizona museum and we sold it these guys down in clearwater florida and they kept it for a while and they ended up putting on ebay i don't know if they ever sold it but it ended up in the don garlits uh drag racing museum down in florida so it's still there but if you look up hydrogen power grimlin you'll see as you might see my dad's standing next to it out here at the front corner of our building with the collier motor sign next to it this is a nash healy this is a better one i've got two men uh very interested in it they both have competing beds that are rather in the same place and uh uh the first guy i'm gonna let him have it uh that's a nash hubcap but it doesn't have the name embossed in it so uh that means it's a nash healy and uh they're really rare even these parts right here they're four hundred dollars a set for that little piece of trim wow my brother fell head first down into the pit where's the pit uh well i mean that's what we dug for to make the the lift oh we we ended up putting concrete over it but the lift is you know the lift was had these big shaft oh the one of the old ones were just the cylinder that comes on the ground comes out of the ground yeah they don't make those anymore okay this was barry goldwater's amx he uh he had his car uh his history with cars he had a bearish custom um jaguar then he had a 55 t-bird then he had a split window corvette and then he bought this amx new and he altered it so many times he did different things there was one page of one snapshot in time when he had altered the card and done 60 different things to it but whatever the latest technology was whether it was a third light or a even the cell phone before anybody ever had cell phones he had a cell phone in his car he had gauges out of fighter airplanes he had like a exhaust temperature gauge he had a wind speed indicator he even had an altimeter and uh when we uh we bought it from his grandson i had heard that goldwater had had a stroke and i found out he wasn't you know most i figured when they announced on the radio that uh he had had a stroke because it made national news oh yeah my stuff is still in there yeah um it made national news we have straight so i called up his office in scottsdale and said yeah he's uh we're winding down we're closing this office and uh we think he's giving the car to his grandson so we called his uh through his mother we called his grand the grandson and over a period of about a month we uh made arrangements to uh to buy the car if the car was gonna be roadworthy we thought we would try to drive it back nothing's open yeah um it's got recaro seats in it now and a momo steering wheel and vdo gauges but it's uh some of the stuff he took out before he gave it to his grandson wow um the man who bought this car recently i'm selling it pretty soon here but the guy who's made the deal on it his granddaddy used to work on this car and as a boy he would sit in the driver's seat and talk on a telephone like he was talking to president nixon and in fact speaking of nixon you know goldwater was one of the leaders of the republican party which uh i mean the watergate situation happened even nixon got reelected even with that skirmish going on but it kept brewing and brewing and uh it finally became clear that he was probably lying and he knew about it about the break-in so uh slowly he was losing support from the republican party well goldwater it was they didn't have national news channels back then it was just the big three plus pbs or whatever and but it was wall-to-wall coverage about watergate hearings everybody the whole world was focused on almost like the moon landing they were all focused on the watergate here and one afternoon goldwater and two congressmen went to nixon and spoke with him privately he drove this car on the property through the gates of the white house and he uh went and told nixon that you're basically your time's up you've lost the republican side of the support and uh and it's time to think about hanging it up and the very next day nixon resigned we have footage of him the night the day before he going through the gates in the white house that you can still see this little ham radio antenna on the top of it and it was black at the time the car was originally a black car he later paid in it red but uh you can see him driving through the gates it's very short clip but it's on the hbo special called goldwater on goldwater mr conservative i think it is and uh and you can still see just a little clip of him driving the car but he loved this car he called it spot it was his pets spot um somebody had a standing offer they offered me a thousand dollars for his personalized license plate that had his ham radio call letters on it his little red arizona license plate somebody stole one of them but i had still had one and generously the guy who is buying the car from me he allowed me to keep one because he knew somebody in dc was had offered me a thousand dollars for the for the license tag so i sent it to he's a dentist who collects tags up there um but it's gonna be leaving here in a month or so this car wow that's really cool this is like this is something that could be yeah this thing could be in the smithsonian or something well they wanted to put it in the arizona his library music his museum out there and the guy was running her up he he had to actually he had first it won't open oh uh he had first chance to buy it the guy who restores him he was trying to hand around for me to donate to them yeah that wasn't going to happen those amc motors just ran forever but you can't run them without water in them and and we saw this to a couple they had been the ones that had brought cars from the west coast to us it's a nice old couple they put it up state new york in the barn and let it stay there a couple years and uh didn't bother to check the water in it and didn't check the antifreeze so during those harsh winters up there the freeze plugs came out of it because it didn't have good enough uh head fine or any freeze from down here but not upstate new york so the freeze plugs and all the water came out well they didn't know it uh they put it on their trailer when their daughter needed a car down in texas didn't ever check the water at all uh drove it about seven miles down the interstate and it froze up because you can't drive them you know the the uh sending unit has to be touching water to show register hot on it and there was no water to be touching that unit so it looked like it was cold but it just you know you can't drive an amc motor is very durable and bulletproof but you can't drive them without water you just noticed this good wrench engine cleaner thing was cool looking yeah combustion chamber cleaner yeah that's not even open that's neat yep i would sell it i got some cash in my wallet what do you want for it would you give about ten for it maybe sure yeah we'll do that that'll be a nice yeah also uh i just told one did you hear a little uh sign the little cha-ching i uh soda if you look on here i sold a reproduction dealership license tag that we used to produce we used to buy them in metal but it says call your motors amc i do have them available um mail order it costs 11 plus 550 shipping and you can buy you know as many as you want to you got an ebay page actually ebay yeah if you look up call your motors dealer tag um you can buy them and i'll ship them i'd buy one of those too if you have any i got one was this all paved concrete yeah is there concrete the whole way around the building no just two pads on front and back side and side it's expensive for concrete huh we had crush and run was called crush and run it almost turns into cement but we'll go back this way okay there's little dots 71 dots and pick up and a chevy love pick up here some chevy love um there's an amex over there that's a javelin name it's park car here's a matador you ever seen a subaru that look like this no a little subaru poop there's another one there and there's an orange on the other side these are cute little cars my dad during this era when the gas crunch uh happened he actually gained a a relationship with a high point subaru dealer and he was really good friends with him and he we would sell new subarus through our daily dealership we also serviced them and this is what they look like 80 cutlass because we've got a tree growing out of it [Music] but if you look back here there's a this is a hemi desoto the 55 hemi the soda two door hard top it's got the fire dome eight hemi motor in it there's a little rambler american like uh on the show third rock from the sun they had a little red uh is a family of aliens and they were trying to blend in so they chose a rambler a red rambler convertible to blend in with uh this is uh this is what the rambo rebel looked like we had a we had a limited prediction production 57 ramble rebel and it looked sort of like this in the front but it was a four door hard top had the 327 it was originally designed to have a bendix fuel injection uh just like corvettes did and the the they didn't quite perfect it so they just put the four barrel motor on it all these trees came in on one were started from one pile of dirt that was it was put back here for some reason they hauled a pile of dirt in and it started sprouting trees and all these trees have sprouted from that except for just a few that we planted some pine trees in our lawn but uh is that the original tree right there or was that always there one of those yeah that's a really big one that's where the pile was near there yeah pretty rare car you know a lot of this is just yard art now it's not restorable but i mean where can you go to see a bunch of cars like this but uh nowhere this is uh here 61 ambassador that's one year only design this is that petty girl this is one of the oldest cars out here it has very low mileage but of course that's irrelevant when it's been here this long but uh that's in the 40s um and my dad he loved those cars too too uh that has another type of hood ornament on it and this if you notice this it looks a lot like the nash healy in the front this is a 55 nash ambassador and it's got the pin and farina front end with the inset headlights and uh they actually did not have their is 55 they didn't have their own v8 motor so they actually bought them from packard is that a pontiac le mans le mans over there yeah we've uh we've had we've had muscle cars over the years we've had gtos gtx's cutlass convertibles all types of stuff but uh boss mustangs over the years you know long there's a i could write two pages full of stuff we've had here but uh that is a le mans i did have a 74 gto and i sold a 67 gto i had saved up money and bought a 67 jto i sold that when we got married to pay for our honeymoon and it was the best investment i ever made because i got a really good wife my dad uh used to try this i think it's a 59 ambassador is there anything in here that's like on the property that hasn't been sold yet that you think could be made drivable oh there's plenty of cars that could be put back on the road i don't know what your what your curator picks would be for something that could both uh this uh this little rambler american like this but it was a little two-door coupe these guys had been sitting for 20 years a four-speed car and he he put brakes on it and clutch and uh keep driving it now these wheels are amx wheels [Music] um i sell the center caps for a hundred dollar piece you can kind of see in there it's got old you push the camera up to the window you can see clearly inside oh now you know more about filming than i do i wouldn't have thought of that yeah i would just like to say if you have watched until this point the very end of this almost hour-long video you are the kind of person 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Published: Fri Mar 04 2022