This small town holds a massive surprise! Mega classic car collection!

hi I'm Alex Archbold and I've been buying and selling antiques since I was nine years old from basements to scrap yards I'll look just about anywhere I can to find lost antiques and collectibles and sometimes I'll go big and buy everything I never know what's going to happen or who I'm going to meet this is our life this is our adventure and this is curiosity Inc [Music] hey guys and welcome to today's episode uh today I am revisiting a place that I've been to but that you have not been to um last year I came out to a small town just east of Edmonton and I came out to buy some old car radios which would come in very handy um I got the factory correct radio for my Mercedes Factory correct radio for my Ferrari um all from this one gentleman but what surprised me was that he had such a vast collection of really nice classic cars and I didn't get a chance to show any of that last time I was out there honestly I was too bashful into humbled by his collection to even ask to film but this time I have asked if I can film and he's given me the green light and trust me guys when you see the cars this guy has just lying around um you're gonna be floored so stick with me on today's episode as we uh show you some really cool cars first let's go check it out I have come to the amazing car place that I was thinking of which I ended up buying an mg from and the first thing that we see when we walk in the door uh Myron here the owner of all these vehicles 87 Ferrari 328 this is GTS yeah yeah okay and it looks to be an absolutely pristine condition now you were saying you did the body work and everything on this yourself right yes okay yeah it is just a phenomenal looking car um it wasn't like it wasn't a whole big bunch of Bodywork it was oh so it had a little bit of damage on the front fender we didn't didn't replace any body pounds the structural with these Ferraris the older ones you could go down to your local metal shop and pick up all the pieces that you need there you just have to fabricate them right otherwise uh had it all you know we went through everything but yeah I mean the interior looks great and this is so pretty much a lot of the cars that we've seen here are cars that you would consider selling right or are for sale actively okay you've got now that that seems like it's out of place but that is that Maserati as well or no no that one there is is a 92 LeBaron GT yep here the thing is with that it's only got 200 kilometers on it it's never been registered I still got the Nevis form why did I think that they did some sort of Le Baron Crossover with I have one okay over at the uh other my other shop oh okay uh it's a cross between uh Maserati and Chrysler right that's what I got that confused with but how many miles are on this 400 and 700 200. so it's basically a brand new car right right like I said it's never been registered and so what's something like a 202 kilometer so that's like what 150 miles or something on this since brand new what's something like that worth okay I I think that I am underpriced okay and uh was looking to get uh like twenty eight thousand dollars for the car Canadian yeah okay which you know all things considered how often do you find a brand new I guess you ought to really like them but this was sort of a specialty these Le Barons this car okay because I I have the original dealer invoice yeah this car too as well it was twenty two thousand dollars in 1992. wow and if you think if they would have spent that same amount of money I don't know how much this was in 92 but it probably wouldn't have been that much different at the time you mean when this was new not when it was new but like uh right and so this is retained its value because it's basically like brand new but this is what heck stupid in value I'm gonna make up words now they do yeah you know you know what I'm trying this was down uh oh I'm gonna say 75 80 000 yeah you know and then they really peaked up to during their 200 000. you know for a real clean one yeah and then you can find them kind of all over the place but it's like anything condition plays a role and all that stuff but classic Body Lines very similar in style to a 308 almost you know the the Alcove sort of on the side but but aside from the Exotic red car up at the front here you've got all sorts of cool American stuff a Camaro SS Z28 the cross rounds oh it's got the cross Rams in it yeah 68. oh yeah look at that and this is a numbers matching car it was authenticated uh because at one point in time when a guy was interested in buying it uh he wanted it authenticated sent the person down here uh we took it over to the other shop so that I could look up put it put it up in the Hoist and everything else and at that time the guy says yeah that's a true Z28 and he says you're not asking enough money for that the real deal so yeah but he didn't end up buying it obviously and here it is one of those guys uh I mean it's it's absolutely in pristine condition did you do the restoration on this no no it was in this kind of shape when you got it like I don't care if I bought a thousand dollar car or a hundred thousand dollar car I had to do work on all of them right but I mean you have to do something you know this one here uh ended up doing the carburetors on this one uh just you know over time they dry up and our fuel isn't as good as it used to be yep but that's the truth isn't it yeah and you've got a I mean just every kind of cool muscle car that some guy would want a a miniature of let alone the real deal you've got a full-size toy collection in here yeah good passion of mine for a long time and believe me is some people think I got a lot of money I don't I have a lot of stuff I don't have much money well I mean money is just but what fun is money it's just paper yeah it's more fun to have things you can enjoy well yes so because what year is this is 70 72 72 okay 72 and this is also a uh uh uh it's not a numbers matching because the engine is now it's got an LS6 in it okay and originally it came with an ls5 which is I think uh 390 horse but it's an authentic ass car from GM oh there it is right there oh it was sold new in Edmonton yeah a local vehicle it's always nice to have yeah and then you've got another 428 Mustang yeah it was originally a four from the eighth mark one but what it's gotten it now is an all-aluminum 427 side Oiler built by Shelby Corporation oh okay so it's a little it's a little hot yeah look at that now this one I don't know uh because I I called them up to find out how can I tell which horsepower reading this one was and where they put the serial number if you want to call it is between the block and the transmission so you have to take drop the you know take the bell housing off and like that to see it oh so it's back here somewhere yes okay because I was searching all of the front and everything else and I couldn't find then I called them up but they came with either uh 550 650 or a 750 horse and I'm not too sure which one it is all I know is when I I took it to the track uh and uh basically did a quarter mile burnout and this was uh so Shelby motor works out of Las Vegas Yes okay wow not many people have a Shelby and Carol when you got it was Carol Shelby still around no okay uh this was uh picked up in Palm Springs in Palm Springs okay what a car though I mean these have really shot up in value the last few years too this is almost like I know it's it's a Mach 1 but it has that Eleanor sort of 68 kind of look you know it you can imagine Steve McQueen get out of something like that but uh super neat and a Buick GS yes 400. this one yeah this one here this car back in 1981. for a friend of mine this I didn't have a shop or anything at that time I was working out of my back garage and he came to me and he wanted me to uh just redo the powertrain because I didn't have a body shop or anything at that time and uh anyways took then he wanted me to like do the frame up two for them so we took the body off and everything else sent the body to a body shop to get done uh which we ended up redoing afterwards because things just weren't right it wasn't the way you wanted it but this car uh it's got air conditioning it's it's uh and this was a local was this a Canadian car as well yes we added in a lot of the options on it this car did not come with air conditioning okay but we had a donor car so I cut the the firewall out of that donor car put it into this one for the air conditioning and it's got the Twilight Sentinel system you know for automatic dimming of the lights oh yeah yeah yeah the driver's seat is powered the passenger seat reclines it's got power windows power locks power trunk uh and it is a true four-speed 400 4-speed car and a true induction hood too A lot of times you see the the induction hoods and they're non-functional but this is functional yes yes where it basically draws the air right through for those watching at home that don't know yeah it just yeah right into here yep and and it goes well Treme and this isn't in a 455 horsepower Firebird not 455 horsepower or 455 cubic inch right right and the Rarity about this one is uh it has the M22 force feed and there was only either 165 or 167 built with the uh 455 ho and a M22 four-speed uh in the muncies they had an M20 M21 and an M22 pretty hot car yeah and uh when I was a kid I had the AFX slot car set and I had pretty much the same color scheme and same body as this and it was my favorite one to use I think it had working headlights even and uh so a fun childhood memories yeah of these everything is so nice and clean too like the the engine Bays I mean these are already for they're resale already yes but I tell you even though now is uh what I like to do on them if I sell one is I'll say you know what I like to go through it just to make sure that you know the brakes are working properly because after even just sitting you know the seals either dry up you know uh so I like to go that way and uh sometimes the people say no I want to take it just the way it is and I'll say okay fine you can you can you can do it yeah I mean who wouldn't want somebody to go through it though and make sure it looks and works properly but it's funny I found out I had a brother which is a whole other story but I met the guy for the first time his name Steve lovely man and I go in his backyard and you know I'm a car Enthusiast so you're you're there to meet your new relative but he had a 70 Charger in Hemi Orange in original unrestored conditions sitting in his yard under a tarp so it was like hey nice to meet oh my gosh is that a 70 oh is it sorry a 70 Cuda um and and uh with the big block and stuff in it and very similar bodies style to this and you say a brother that you didn't know I didn't know about I just I just met him last year my dad didn't know he existed either and and so we did the DNA thing yeah and then it turned up I had a half brother and anyway he's into the same stuff I'm into uh and he had this it was well yeah but that it's hard not uh showing interest in the vehicle when you're trying to you know but we went around antique stores and went and found some stuff together so it was a good time I gotta go back he's in Denver so I gotta go back and see him again but uh really cool car that's 383 with the four barrel this one here the rare thing about this about this oh so you get more this is this is the Challenger I've seen with the full Dominator seat just to give you more trunk space no well yeah if you want to pass stuff through or it gives you like a little it's kind of like a businessman's coupe almost oh I see it's got like a parcel shelf back there when it folds down well that person that opens up oh I see so that that opens up yeah you got this carpeted area it's almost like when you would see those old 30s traveling salesman cars and they'd have room back there for your samples and stuff but yeah it gives you a lot more storage really really neat and so what what is something like this going for like what what's the Challenger going for these days this one here again I got to uh kind of recalculate things right eighty thousand dollars right but what a car and it doesn't need anything it's good to go yeah an air-conditioned car too as well is this plum crazy is that the color okay they had such great names go mango plum crazy wow and again spotless under the hood here the car show ready but this isn't it you had you had showed me before you had some milder sort of pro I wouldn't say projects but you had other stuff too oh I got yeah yeah okay if we watch our step back there right now because like that's but I'm coming here today to fix because uh basically the town will not that it's kind of a stupid thing the town won't let me put a wall up oh there's always some trick hang on before you run go ahead that way I gotta show the world's coolest jukebox I I couldn't you want to hear it you know normally I'd say yes but I wouldn't just just so has placed 45s in the cab and you've got basically it looks like a truck yes it's a [Music] 51 Chef is it made from actual metal or all fiberglass molded to to look like this so and then it selects an album and starts to Play It Isn't that cool um but when our and are transporting it here from Calgary uh it jarred the system a little bit so I want somebody come here to fix it I got a name I got a guy who can come fix it excellent yeah I'll give that to you before we go yeah because I've you know I've had guys oh okay send it to me and I said no because I send it to you you fix it I bring it back and it don't work again yeah they do get uh fussy yeah they're kind of you know a little bit finicky but this one here to my knowledge what I was told in this style this with the Chevy uh uh uh Truck Yeah there's only three of them well it would have been hugely expensive to manufacture there is uh one in uh there's supposed to be one in a museum in Las Vegas and apparently and this is what I'm told Kevin Costner has a bar someplace in Montana and there's supposedly one in there and then you got yours here and this one here and there's the coin mechanism right there too this one came actually out of the museum at the Bonneville Salt Flats oh okay yeah yeah stuff like this they don't make a whole lot of right because you gotta be a I mean a jukebox was expensive enough let alone getting one that looked like a vehicle but that's so cool I I just I'm thanks for stopping to show it because it's too cool to pass up are these customer cars are these yours these 55 Chevy yeah yeah two-door post yeah yeah look at the look at the tires on that thing well that that thing was uh built for the quarter mile well I see that yeah it's a race car yeah it's got five speed in it which the very sloppy shifter right and this is another one because my uh my quarter Miler I blew the engine in it and I really never drove this thing hard at all I bought it for a guy and he backed out on the deal it's all tugged out and everything is this street legal too yeah okay so I took it down to the track my first run I missed third gear and I did a 14-8 oh geez the second run I missed second and third but I did a 14 too the Third Run I thought I'm going to slow myself I'm not going to try to speed shift so anyways Third Run did a 12-8 wow in this in that car yeah in that car and then for the qualifying run I thought okay I'm gonna put you know dial in my best time so I put down 12 8. I broke out I did the 12 two 12-2 and this this is an 11 second car once I fix up that shifter so I can shift a little bit better with it and what's happening was this a super b or this here yeah or Road Runner yes what's happening with this road running try to make a long story short the guy came to us first of all with this Road Runner and he said hey I want just a driver but the floor was rusted out of it yeah the brakes were shot the suspension was shot and I told him I said if you plan on redoing the whole car you're wasting money by doing it piece work like this like yep no no no that's what I've done so yeah we gutted the thing we put the floors in and uh we did the brakes and you know ball joints tire rod ends everything else and at that time we were also doing a rotisserie on a 74 Challenger and uh he came into the shop and he looked at the Challenger and he said I want you to do that to my car rotisserie yeah okay uh the only thing that let's say we replace the quarter panels the doors the front fenders um the roof is original or the back tail light panel that's we had to replace that too as well the trunk for the interior floor like I said we did and then he says I wanted to handle a little bit better and break better can you do disc brakes and a rack and pinion steering for me and I said you just did this all this other work on it yeah he said yeah he says but that's what I want so fine we were going through this thing we had sixty thousand dollars in our our bill right including the car that was our bill on the car and it wasn't finished yet and uh he said he hey I kind of ran out of money you can you know can you just you know hang on to the car so for two years it sat in the lean-to over at the shop they're covered up you know we had yeah I got a phone call one day and this guy says do you have this guy's car there's this Road Runner and I said yeah we do he says oh uh I'm interested in buying it from Mom and I said oh okay I said uh like uh what would you like to know and yes okay it's all done right if you want I said oh no no there's about ten thousand dollars worth of work yet yep and uh he said oh and I said oh well what are you buying it for he says twenty four thousand oh yeah and I said he's selling it for 24 Grand so I called him up right away and I just said hey word or like I mean you're selling your car and he says yeah I said for 24 Grand he says yeah I said he said I need the money and I said well I'll give you 24 grand for the car right but he says well no I already kind of made the deal with the guy and I said okay fine about two hours later he phones me back and he says Myron you want the car it's yours the guy came back and offered me eighteen thousand dollars for the car wow and so you ended up with it yeah but what happened to your bill do you ever get paid oh we got the sixty thousand dollars uh yeah I had the rest of the parts there yep that's what I said the ten thousand dollars because it was the interior gotcha okay yeah and do you have all the bits to finish it yes yes but you know how it is I got many customers stuff to try to finish off and uh so it kind of gets put on the sidelines now I'm no expert here but you might need a tire I can I can see into the Rim Yeah but the it's gonna get the uh actually the uh kind of what it came with you know the basically the standard rims with the dog dish hubcaps right yeah that'll look good on it yeah and then these craters will look good on something else they don't look bad on it but they're pretty rotted out yeah they're pretty they're beautiful yeah all right so you always have the cool stuff you make visiting out here a joy every time I have to come through here oh sure 56 57. oh 57 but they didn't really change the looks of these too much and what this is here for is because we're having a hell of a time with the temperature gauge and uh tried all kinds of resources to figure out how the hell why the damping don't work got a new sanding unit got a new gauge and it still wasn't working what it would do as soon as it started to warm up it would just usually pin the gate pin it out right so anyways there's a fellow who wants to come and work with us he's a retired guy this is his error if you want to call it he doesn't want to work full time he just wants to come you know once in a while once in a while so yeah he was here uh I don't know it was a few about a month ago when it was cold and anyways we found out uh by putting the resistor in there is that got it to work oh so good to go yeah and here's the funny thing is I got a customer's 57 outside with the same down problem so now you know what to do funny I got a uh in my hall of Die Cast I picked up there was a Prowler and I said you know it's a pretty wild Factory car that they made you know Plymouth put note basically concept vehicles at that time in the late 90s you know it's so many unusual vehicles but a factory built hot rod that was such a wild idea and you have one and I I I do I think they're an interesting looking vehicle I was never a fan of these bumpers they had to stick on there no but that was to do with the safety safety standards yeah had to have to have a bumper that would stand what is it five kilometers or something or other I can't remember anyways but that's uh it looks so much better with those things off but but uh it's factory as it is right now but I guess your headlights are I know your headlights are there so just the signals are something you could figure something out I've seen guys that took them off and that's the thing you go and change it then somebody might want it back the way it was it's almost no point that's it well you know what is is because they don't make them anymore than anything else like that so they are going to be worth more in their stock form than they are models yeah because it is a factory vehicle just absolutely wild looking thing to think you could have gone into the showroom when they were selling Dodge Caravan and Town and Country Chryslers and also picked up a Prowler yes oh I see you've got uh a lake forming back here it is just like a car Lover's Dream in here and you've got a little bit of everything but I know you have a dog stealth yes no three four of them now that was a relationship between Dodge and was it Mitsubishi yeah yeah so there's a Mitsubishi out there that looks almost the same isn't there yes and that they would have sold overseas uh three what do they call it a three thousand yeah because essentially it's a Japanese car with Dodge badging right um kind of a cool thing really I mean you know they that car the bang for your dollar is is kind of uh one of the greatest deals that car is the fastest I've driven on land not this particular one but that model yes yes and driving it not pointing it actually driving at 177 miles an hour not kilometers 177 miles an hour whoa you're flying yes and I'm driving uh this is five o'clock in the morning I'm I fall into the middle of a of a like a four lane yep okay and I do this on the cargo Church so tight yes fast staying on the ground twin turbo uh all-wheel steer all-wheel drive oh it's all-wheel steer as well like the Honda Prelude had all Wheels steering at the same time and you know like when these came out I had a dealership back when they came out and uh me and the the uh the rep got along quite well and when these things were coming and he knew I was a car guy oh yeah yeah and that was before all the computer and everything else we're ordering computers but you have to fill out the paperwork and uh submit it in that way so anyways he gave me the codes and everything else to put down for ordering and he said but you don't dare put that in until I call you and tell you so uh anyways I was the first dealer in Canada to order a stealth to order a cell do you still have it or I sold that one but I got a twin you got a twin to it okay the first uh uh Crosstown Motors uh pioneer uh Crosstown Motors I think it was Pioneer across town they got one before me and uh anyways I raised a little hell about it because I had I ordered three you ordered oh right so you're waiting on yourself well this one looks like it's in pretty good shape under the dust it it is yes well that's the whole thing that's why I want to close this thing off too as well limit the dust in the airflow and yes and all these you know like the that goes oh I can see yeah they start to get Dusty duster Dusty Dusty demon what I did is I also now I purchased the property next door oh okay so now I can I can move some stuff around that side for sure good nice little Nova two-door yes that is uh okay it's a factory documented too as well 327 327 SS speed no it's not an SS it's a 210. it's a 210. rarer than the SS when I got that car I thought it was because it had the SS badges on it yeah uh and uh yeah uh and it's got a 12 volt posi and a factory Tack and a bench seat with water speed wow yeah what an unusual combination I'm gonna I'm gonna saunter my way down here 66 T-Bird and was this like a 56 Chrysler I always like the desotos of this era they're a really neat looking vehicle I mean this is as well there's your Cadillac Allante a couple Cadillac side by side what uh caught my attention last time I was here is actually the Studebaker over there which we'll get to but you've got a Marilyn Monroe style pink T-bird back here too yeah 57 T-Bird these were so hot in the late 80s and early 90s weren't they and they they fluctuated greatly in price well that's the thing like these were so expensive in the 80s and 90s and then they came right back down yeah but uh this is this is a true that's the original color of the car I think that is a factory pink car wow that's super neat I'm gonna let's see on another Mustang sitting here not Mustang yeah this is a customers okay uh waiting to get stored um it doesn't look too bad some Rust probably underneath that vinyl top yeah and the thing is that it's the underneath oh right that we got a little Mercedes oh yeah and that wild Volkswagen over there see if I can wiggle my way through it's the ground is just pure ice underneath my feet here but that's okay I'm gonna I'm Shuffling I'm not even walking I'm gliding on the ground right now it's like a weird skiing motion but it's doing the trick is that an Audi yeah this my dear step too it's super icy of all the weird things to have next to each other you've got this Volkswagen that's been done up to look like what a 40 Ford at Great expense I can only imagine how expensive it was for somebody to do this conversion at that time with the chopped top and the split window and did you ever find out if this was a factory convertible Volkswagen at one point or it's hard to tell I guess uh hard to tell hard to tell is it still uh licensed or was it licensed as a Volkswagen yeah yeah they start with a basically a Volkswagen and and the only thing that looks like it's still Volkswagen is really maybe the fenders the front fender the nose pieces nose piece is different uh the the back end is is different I see it's got a continental kit on it yeah just what a wild ride you told me the story of this last time that you saw it from a distance and thought it was a 44. and then you get up close and you're like it didn't get any bigger when I walked up next to him Corvette you got all the toys here right they put the 396 in them and uh but I like body wise very nice because I checked it on neat and everything else but there was things that contradicted each other like for instance the the rad support was out of a fuel injected car oh okay so sometime or others somebody had a fuel injected engine had a feeling Direction into it but most probably they could have because this car was raced right and uh that's not the original motor uh and uh actually a friend of mine uh he called me up and he said that uh he's seen a video of this car at Edmonton Speedway well from like back in the 70s or something yeah 80s 80s okay yeah and uh it had a blower on it at the time oh yeah same color sequence with you know the white in the front and uh the three tail lights in the back because the one tail light was added okay yeah so you could identify that was the same car if you wanted why was there holes grilled in the back bumper and I'm thinking like what the hell would the guy have back there yeah wheelie bars wheelie bars yeah that makes sense well in it I guess because you have sort of a racing background yourself you're kind of attracted to these sort of cars like not many people would buy that green one over there but you know what that started off as is a 1963 Plymouth Belvedere four-door sedan right somebody did a hell of a lot of work on it it needs it needs a total going over though oh my gosh it's wild but the you know the uh yeah the body fillers cracking up on it and stuff like that yeah but it's it's chopped it's it's it's shortened shortened yes yes but you know you when you look at a car like this and you think okay well somebody had to go to all that effort to make something that's maybe not everybody's cup of tea uh but then somebody had to make custom glass for it well that's Plexi oh it's Plexi okay if I if I end up doing it yeah I got lots of stuff but uh if I end up redoing this car is I'm going to change it all to a glass yeah and that's that's a real skill to get glass cut for something like that oh yeah 440 with two fours so hot engine I mean even if you would have bought it just for the engine you would have been laughing pretty much basically when I bought it that's about what I paid for was the engine price yeah well I mean not hey not everybody's gonna be driving down the road and something like that no so I'm starting to pick it up like you like fast and you like weird and something sporty and classy and yeah I did yeah because yeah it's it's charged there's a four speed supercharged Studebaker four-speed transmission yeah and uh if the I guess the desirable that is most probably the more most desirable uh is the door open I adore it oh it is yeah yeah these were uh they made the Avanti 2 which was kind of a replica of this car but this is the authentic Studebaker produced Avanti yes which there's a big difference in value between this and a Studebaker too but this is a fiberglass body so you're not going to see it rust but I guess they do have a tendency to rust in certain areas that I guess you ought to watch out for but this looks like a fairly solid and fairly original car really yep I like that it's very European feeling like they they basically built almost like an Italian-American car it's so wild and crazy this is the sort of thing I like I like weird unusual and cool stuff that takes a lot of boxes and it might be for sale so there you go well that was a collection and a half you never know what's lurking inside of a cool building until you get the invite to go walk around uh I'd actually been out there once before luckily for me he let me film this time because it's one of the nicer car collections in my area but uh thank you very much to Myron for showing me his vehicles and uh if anybody's interested in any of their cars they saw you can uh send me an email and I can forward that over to Meyer and he can get in touch with you on it because there are some spectacular cars in very nice condition but guys uh that's it for me today thanks very much for watching don't forget to subscribe if you have not already and we'll see you all soon bye for now

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Length: 37min 15sec (2235 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 08 2023