You folk in the US are so lucky to have the great industrial might to create so many and such diverse engineering examples of literally everything. It always amazes me when I see all these youtube submissions. Here in the UK a deal of our stuff was crap and rotted away quickly. We do still have barn finds but, in most cases as here, it is not available for just a few bucks. My view is that you are so lucky to have so many examples of your historic engineering. It's because you can think big that you have things big, wonderful engineering and the capabilities to restore and rebuild if that is the requirement. You guys, you keep it up best as you can. You are the U.S. of A. My best respects to you all.

@snoopu2601

4 жыл бұрын

That stuff is not that easy to come by anymore. Most of the car's are scrapped or rusted out sitting over the year's and will take a lot of money to get it restored. I built a few over the year's. Like the man said someone bought it out of the country. A lot of Japanese people come over to the U.S. with cash and buy a few put them on a ship and take them home. I remember as a kid there would be many old classic car's almost in every other back front side of some one's home ready to sell for bottom dollar not no more.

@michaelbenardo5695

2 жыл бұрын

We USED to have great industrial might. Not any more, Saint Ronnie gave it all away to the Japanese.

@dyer2cycle

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbenardo5695 ..and now, the Chinese have it on us... :(

❤Clear coat and done

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Nice work. Beautiful car

My favorite prewar Cadillac--and it's even the V-16. As for all the people criticizing this guy for selling this car overseas, consider this: It's no longer going to be neglected, but restored and added to a superb collection. If anything, it will soon be more accessible than before. Let's face it--it takes an enthusiast with the means to properly restore a car like this. It's not a muscle car or a tri-chevy. In America, Cadillacs, even nice old ones sometimes, are routinely wrecked and destroyed in Hollywood movies and TV ads. Countless more are demo derbied or junked for their engines. You don't see that happen much elsewhere. Saying that a Cadillac shouldn't leave the U.S. is like saying that no Ferraris should ever leave Italy. And finally, we can't honestly call Cadillac the "Standard Of The World"...if none of them ever leave the U.S.

@robertmartin3148

6 жыл бұрын

he did not day e what he got for it , ,

How much cooler and SOULFULL would this thing look w/just a mechanical restoration!?!? Seeinging it slithering slowly down a dark, foggy street. Another one of the GREATS sold out to the Pebble-head$.

@yeahproductions

5 жыл бұрын

Man, I couldn't have said it better myself.

Classics like this change hands constantly...this is nothing surprising

When you decide to sell something...you're Done with it. Whatever happens after that is beyond your concerns. Nice Caddy!!

So you went and found an old boy who just wanted to be left alone , you managed to get yourself into his confidence and become "friends" ,he sells you his car that previously he had no intentention of selling . You put it on a trailer knowing it will generate enormous interest and then sell to the highest bidder . I live in the UK and if you come to my door I will give you a lesson you will never forget .

You sound proud of having taken advantage of an elderly man and profiting from the insincere friendship you cultivated so you could walk away with his pride and joy. Real nice.

@michaelbenardo5695

2 жыл бұрын

If it stayed there, it would have deteriorated to the point that it would have been just a parts car. At least this one has been restored.

Any updates on this spectacular automobile???

If I owned this amazing looking car I would have left it the way it is. The amazing patina and the various array of colours.. its a work of art. I'm sad the patina is going to be lost for ever.

That car is a block long! This was made and sold during the depression when most people didn't have a spare dime. Some rich person bought it.

اجمل فقر سيراة لقديم

I don't care where it went, saved is saved.

@Clarkecars

7 жыл бұрын

saved from what? The previous owner hadn't lost it or parked it in a swamp.

That blows you just flipped it. I thought the story had more Merritt!

@jeremybilbrey1133

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with this...and then to hear if went out of the country.

I knew Grady, my friend Kenny Hall took me over there in 1982 to see the car. Grady was a regular attender of our local HCCA club. I would stop in and see him after I moved out of So Cal . I have pictures of the car from my last visit just before you bought it. It was one of the largest single cars I had "found", The barn find term is getting so general these days. I "found" 2 Cadillac Roadsters: a 1930 V12 and a 1931 V16 in Michigan and 2 Duesenbergs in NORCO ca.... (of all places) with 2 late model V16 Cadillac... Sad what happened there... I heard you bought it and was hoping you would restore it, not just roll it for cash and send it out of the country. Grady has since passed away. PS FYI You tube has this categorized as a comedy.

@ziiofswe

7 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm not laughing...

@donbarnes2500

7 жыл бұрын

ziiofswe h

@krusher74

7 жыл бұрын

its ok i'm sure he went and shared his flippers profit with Grady!

@TEverettReynolds

7 жыл бұрын

> You tube has this categorized as a comedy. They should categorize it as a Fucking Tragedy... The guy gets a classic...and just sells out to the highest bidder...

@ericjohnson8482

4 жыл бұрын

@@TEverettReynolds Yep, people like this guy need to be kicked good and hard in the balls and not allowed to screw others out of their wonderful cars, is it any wonder why people let things sit and rot away now, just so assholes like this can't get them.

Did that old man know you was gonna turn around and sell his prize that he wouldn’t talk about with anyone else? I bet the old guy thought you was gonna restore it yourself, so did you share the fortune you made off the old mans good faith car?

@robertwoodpa6463

5 жыл бұрын

You are making a lot of assumptions here that the relationship was exploitive. Hey, the guy saved the car. Maybe he didn't have a hundred thousand dollars to restore it. He found the car. He fixed the car. He marketed the car. What's wrong with that?

@SC-bn6zk

5 жыл бұрын

You are right Robert. What had just happened has been going on since the beginning of civilisation.

wow you bought it and immediately sold it?

W.O.W.

Classic American car , sold out of America. no one. has a soul anymore...

@josephszilagyi6054

7 жыл бұрын

Australia is the absolute closest ally to the U.S. Because of generous vacation time, Aussies have seen more of the country than residents!

@Ecoli-jm5ik

7 жыл бұрын

No Future 68 don't worry trump will bring it back....lets make America again

@jamesdunn9714

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ecoli-jm5ik Trump is a con man. A bankruptcy specialist and would be dictator. He is too stupid to do anything positive.

Yesterday as I drove around the city I thought to myself... where have all the American brand autos gone. Never saw an American car for miles. Sad that the country that made autos possible to all no longer makes them... Sad.

not a barn find if it was a known vehicle and location

Where the hell was Jay??...Now the Caddy is Australia!....Say hello to the Aussies Riley and beautiful Elayna...

@sweaterwearingsquirrel9302

6 жыл бұрын

jamesinkeys elayna is a stunner.

MY FATHER HAD A CHANCE TO BUY ONE IN THE EARLY 80'S WHAT A MISTAKE

What's the story on the '69 Cougar convertible?

The only thing that saved this car was that it is a V 16. The cost of restoration would have been very costly

@localyokel9672

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Naisbitt That May be true, but the old guy wouldn’t have sold the car if it was a flipper, he loved that car while said flipper saw $$$$$$$$$$$$$

OF COURSE NONE of these guys complaining about buying this car and then flipping it would actually do that themselves, they would just let the car sit and rust away. Yeah right.

I never will understand cranky old people who have some rare item that they really don't want, and aren't taking care of - in fact, are letting the thing get destroyed - but who won't even talk about selling it. They just want to be ornery and hang onto it, just to be difficult.

@faerieSAALE

5 жыл бұрын

You just described my father to a T. He won't even discuss what he has with his own children - and if we persist, he's mean and takes it as a personal attack. He's 95 this year - so , , , ,

makes me sick that you sold it so quickly and out of the country.

@edmundp123

3 жыл бұрын

His to do what he wants.

Oh krikeys yes, I'll TAKE ONE!

Maybe your dream

v 16 ?

It's no longer a U.S. car it left the United States, that's what happens all the real American car's and truck's are sold out of the country and the disposable car's and truck's are on the road.

That video is literally distorted.

Well this is sucks right now just pictures but not videos that's kind of sad you know but if you got some videos that forgotten you put somewhere else but in the future you would put a video or you can ask your friend or your family or your next-door neighbors whatever you know anyway

triator....

so you stole it from grady

Where money is concerned people's deviousness know, s no bounds, Im sure plenty of stuff was straight up literally looted out of Europe by Americans during and after ww2 and shipped to the states, but I don't hear any uproar about that tho!, and he bought the car legitimetly, so what's the problem?

Being he sold it. It would have been better to just crush it. Geese !

ok so wtf happen ...

What does "out of the country" matter? At the end of the day a car is just like any other commodity, you buy it and sell it for a profit. I hope it gets a respectful restoration, but let's face it, lots of American motors get customised into something else in America! So it goes.

Well that's 5.17 minutes of my life totally wasted.

Selling classic American automobiles to foreign countries is in my opinion just about the money. You just lost your like and any future viewings from me. Do your Orange Ca. homework and tell me about Roy Coats.

@snoopu2601

6 жыл бұрын

Chuck Haynes most of California Classic Car's are getting sold to foreign countries and they want everyone to buy foreign Car's like handas Toyota's Subaru legacy Tacoma very few American cars if they do they look like foreign Car's

@garyfisher4155

6 жыл бұрын

Chuck Haynes capitalists do as they choose, sell to the highest bidder, and as no1 capitalist society in the the world its hypocritical for Americans to object!

I don’t think your deception was cool. I’m sure the old man thought you were going to restore it a not marketed it to your Pebble Beach buddies. It’s stories like this that make deals like this sour and discourage some of us true car collectors of normal financial means from ever hoping to gain the trust and access to such finds due to treasure hunters and con men like you.