I am a big car fan and I love all the vintage cars this made my heart broken

@katieb777

2 жыл бұрын

hiii Kristen aww your puupppy looks SO HAPPY and cute in ya avitar photo ( thank YOU ma'am for being a GREAT pet owner)

@deanfarr3249

2 жыл бұрын

I hope god sends these remorseless scrapers straight to hell to burn when they die pay for what they did

That last Caddie got a bit of revenge!!

@tjohnson9051

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, he had a little something extra for the loader.

@jbb8382

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't go down without a fight

@garyolivier792

3 жыл бұрын

A little bit of "Pay back Karma"

A lone Caddy got some revenge & wounded the avenging beast tractor. Good for u Mr. Caddy !

I have a really hard time watching this being a car lover This truly hurts🙏🏾🙏🏾😔

@abrosome

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I’m now sad

@deanfarr3249

2 жыл бұрын

It should be illegal to scrap classic cars seriously. TRUMP 2022

Wow! That 621B is still putting in the work 👍

@rileyhogan8248

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't expecting to see cowboy

@CowboyCarCrushing

3 жыл бұрын

@@rileyhogan8248 i love crushing. Whether I am doing it or someone else

There was a lot of good chrome trim, bumpers and body panels that could have been used to restore other cars. Sad to see it all get wasted and destroyed.

@deanfarr3249

2 жыл бұрын

Theres still alot more of them old cars left on the planet that won't get scrapped or hopefully won't get scrapped to say the least.

Imagine all the memories in those cars.🤔

@Potato-lw3fe

3 жыл бұрын

wtf memories????? memories stay in someones brain not in his car

@cutnsleep

2 жыл бұрын

Potato brain smh

@elaineewalt8137

2 жыл бұрын

They're missing the bigger picture... 😕

@charlesf4428

2 жыл бұрын

If only they could talk..

@deanfarr3249

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to smack some sense into them guys who are scrapping and whose idea it was to scrap all these valuable classics because they're too dumb and stupid to know what is valuable.

Lots of hopes and dreams went into the crusher that day.

Sadly valuble and rare hard to find parts went to the crusher

@drakeTSA

3 жыл бұрын

Like what?

@jacksprofessionalproductio9403

3 жыл бұрын

@@drakeTSA he’s probably referring to trim pieces, door handles, tail lights and unbroken windows.

@Potato-lw3fe

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacksprofessionalproductio9403 there is plenty of that on ebay

@elaineewalt8137

2 жыл бұрын

@@drakeTSA Like bumpers and taillite bezels. Many small parts you don't notice until you need them.

@dougsilva8603

2 жыл бұрын

@@drakeTSA old cars fool

Excellent crushing video keep them coming!! Thumbs up

Hard to believe the stainless wasn't saved!

I understand that these cars are beyond saving. And as the owner of a 58 cadillac that my parents bought in 1960, and I still drive, I hated to see them go. But there is no excuse for not pulling out the vintage glass thats in good shape !

@goldtruck1270

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I said. Look at all that good glass.

@johnfranklin5277

2 жыл бұрын

@@goldtruck1270 yes, and those original wheels, the glass and wheels could have been saved and put on Ebay, im sure alot of it would have sold.

Good idea putting the hoods at the crusher to catch the rust falling out .

I'm glad some of those where fairly stripped of good parts. Still painful to watch!

I was working right next door when this was going on when I was at work I ues to look over the fence and look at the cars I was always wanting them cars

I had to have a Kleenex box next to me. SAD MAN, REALLY SAD. I did shed a tear .

wow these cars look alot BETTER than the other crushing videos ive seen :( especially the car at 7:52 really seemed to be restoreable :(

@timfordfalconxf7714

3 жыл бұрын

Makes me sad as hell :(

@georgejones4111

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the very same thing

@C64Lover

2 жыл бұрын

well these were alraedy stripped shells in most cases, I've seen many movies where a lot better looking cars were crushed

The old cars took their revenge on the loader tire!! LOL

It is truly sad to see those beautiful cars to get salvaged!!!😭

@deanfarr3249

2 жыл бұрын

You would think or hope It should be illegal to cremate these valuable classics

Fought to the end. Sad to see even the most boned out rusty classics end up this way.

I don't understand, at least the taillights & glass should have been removed.

@deanfarr3249

2 жыл бұрын

NOOOOOO!!!!!! Every car should've been saved not scrapped at all!!! They hold too much value in them

I was glad to see your comments at the beginning. These cars had been in this yard for 50 years, providing parts to other cars for decades. The former owner made a valiant effort to part out and sell off as much as they could! It's easy to sit back on youtube and complain - money talks!

@jesseeldridge7619

2 жыл бұрын

But us guys don't have millions sitting around, what it would take to buy them plus land...

Just makes mine worth more. Look nobody wanted to make an offer so oh well!

It is ultimately sad seeing these beautiful cars being reduced to scrap, but you really can’t really blame people for crushing them since it’s a Snooze You Loose scenario. I mean old cars have every chance in the book to be given a fresh life, but there aren’t enough people out there who are seeking them out. And the lesson learned here is, you should really only crush old cars if they are too far gone to be restored. Like, why try to save a classic car that’s rusted out and missing all the valuable parts? When it’s easier just to buy a fully restored one.

@elaineewalt8137

2 жыл бұрын

@GT Classic Plastic Lol! 😉👍✌

And now, let's place an Tesla model X in that crusher.😄

Wow! I think about my Grandfathers 56 62 series I inherited in 65 with 66K on it. Traded for a brand new 65 Mustang. They allowed me a big $250.on trade. Gramps would have cried if he knew then, and then saw this. Brings back fond, but sad memories of another time.

They would’ve made candidates for a make over of the Cadillac ranch.

@mr.goodpliers6988

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the exact same thing!

im sorry this should never happen, these old babies are works of art

Hard to watch but fascinating all the same

@mr.goodpliers6988

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

Those Caddies had a few good bits on them yet, the problem is there doesn't seem to be a good way of the bits finding their way to the people who need them. That's on reason why Caddies of those years are hard to restore and costly.

@dogandballproductionsgoodb7215

3 жыл бұрын

Difficult, complicated, and expensive to restore, yes. As far as the parts getting to people who need them, I would disagree. These are iconic cars and they have attracted a good following of used parts dismantlers. There are many vintage Cadillac-only salvages from coast to coast that supply parts to hobbyists and restorers. Hemmings lists a multitude of them. Rick actually did a huge volume of parts, and had an immense stockpile of them. This was just the overflow, residual unsold bulk.

A very sad day I hope Rick gets to feeling better

I'm glad most of them were sold and the rest were parted out. No big losses here luckily!

Look at all the rust coming out of the yellow on at 7.00

There has to be some old silver coins under the seats of some of them.

Very Sad, I love '50's Cadillacs. They seemed fairly rust-free, (have you seen old "rust belt" New England cars) and possibly could have been restored, or at least had more parts saved. I'm sad now.

@resetsetmefree478

9 ай бұрын

I definitely hear ya there jonathan 😞. I love those 50s caddy's and the classic land yachts in general. But the overall cost to buy and maintain.... yikes 😬. About the only ones I can afford to buy are ones like these which have already been thru the crusher anyway. You can get em for like $15 a piece for the scrap metal. Then I can bang it back into shape with a sledgehammer and the rest is a bunch of diy work. Then again it's probably not the most legal thing in the world to drive a car with no title and that's already been crushed....🤔

that green 55 Cadillac was Good shape that same Elvis pink Cadillac he bought for mother but kept for himself was completed car need TCL

@boristheamerican2938

3 жыл бұрын

There is one in much better shape that actually runs that has been sitting in a driveway for sale about 10 miles from my house for 3 years.

@aaronking7326

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man...That stung me to watch that one too....Just like Elvis' Mamas...

@barockengel1465

3 жыл бұрын

... right... but it's a 1954...

@johnfranklin5277

2 жыл бұрын

Mmmm.....TLC

These old cars don't fatten very much there's actually steel in them unless the new front wheel drive junk.

I'd rather see that happen to a trailer full of new Lexuses.

@mistermood4164

2 жыл бұрын

Except Lexus will last you a million miles but a Cadillac won’t even last 70K lol

The glass, the trim, the bumpers! So sad!

@mr.goodpliers6988

3 жыл бұрын

It was hard to watch!

My friend Bob from Bob's classic cars. T-birds and Lincolns passed away recently and his yard and parts had to be sold and scraped. Was sad but is a new beginning for some real nice property.

man that sheet metal is so rotten that it is like paper

I hate to say it, but not one of the cars I've seen so far had much of anything--if anything at all--that could be salvaged. Even in a dry climate, cars continue to deteriorate ... and the kind of glass that was used in most '50s cars was laminated rather than tempered, so it would be near impossible to salvage...

So sad:"(

How often do you crush classics like this? Are these yards unusual, or are there still a lot of these fields where cars have sat for 75 years?

Wooo

It makes me sad I love all cars I love the collector's item

Que lindos autos !! Soy fanatico de los autos antiguos Que pena como terminaron .me imagino vos que sos un fanatico filmar eso que dolor !!! Muy buenos tus videos me gusta cuando estan originales y en ese estado...me gustaria que no destruyan los autos antiguos !! Por suerte ay muchos que los recuperan!!! Aguante los autos de tu pais !! Soy de dodge !!!

Collector's must be going crazy watching this video .

Why do so many of those old Junked cars still have tire on them?

@mr.goodpliers6988

Жыл бұрын

Easy answer is, they were never taken off. But, most shredders nowdays allow 4 per car - in it, or on it

Just to think the stories theses cars had to tell ??

The car God's got angry

Oh the humanity!!!

@mrdiplomat9018

3 жыл бұрын

Or the automotivity 🤪🇺🇸👍

Hahahaaa the revenge of the caddy

These cars are beyond saving. It would be too impractical to salvage and restore these.

What would've ELVIS had said about this ????????

@seanmeisner3190

Жыл бұрын

"Gimme another cheeseburger..."

@resetsetmefree478

9 ай бұрын

​@@seanmeisner3190I thought his was a pink caddy. These are all brown 🟤

Damn it hurts...! Hard to watch.. That guy is NOT going on the christmas card list.....

What company did the car crushing

Maybe spare parts for Cadillac Farm?🤔

Painful but I get it. mostly sedans and no one wants to restore these cars so what do you do with them. In the past 5 years I have seen hoards of cars being scrapped and cleared from properties. Too much time in the elements

This is so sad, my day is ruined. R.I.P. 😞

@ladiesmanturbosv2078

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

A lot of former Caddy owners spun in their graves that day!

The green Cadillac eight minutes in really hurt to watch.

The loader vs. The Caddys: Loader...6+ Caddys...1 So sad, too bad, but even the best in motorcars cannot be stopped in its journey to the crusher. After all efforts to stop it...(auctions, sales, and more sales) have been exhausted, the trip to oblivion will continue. My only hope is that even though they look like Cadillac 's, there is really nothing there worth saving.

@goldtruck1270

3 жыл бұрын

Poetic man. Poetic.

Rust in Peace

@mr.goodpliers6988

Жыл бұрын

...or in pieces

You can’t save them all a Wise man once told me

What a shame! People could have used many parts off these iconic cars!

Me partiu o coração eu tenho 2 cadilac e estou restaurando bispo Toninho do diabo

Yes, it's absolutely TRAGIC that surviving vintage cars are still being destroyed at this late date..but it is still happening! :(...I think a lot, if not most, of this occurs because the scrap value is more than what most people want to pay to save them, and the owners of these estates/property are not antique car fans, they are not interested in taking the time to part them out, they just want them gone so they can sell/develop the property as quickly as possible(this type thing happens to old/historic houses and other historic buildings for the same reasons)...and trying to sell/auction them takes far more time than just crushing them, and sadly, crushing them probably makes more money...we, as a whole, are far more interested in making money than preserving history!.. :(

@johnfranklin5277

2 жыл бұрын

Its sad, but I would have to say, a survivor car is one that is completely intact,, not very rusted, and hopefully, running and driving. Once a car reaches this stage, they are no longer a survivor, they died long ago after being stripped, and losing they're structural integrity, and mother nature's continued assault from rain and snow. But, I would suggest, that you buy a decent 50s 60s car, you can be its caretaker as long as you live, so it can continue to go down the road! Thats why my 58 caddy is still going down the road. Family owned since 1960.

Sad, but watcha gonna do. Looks like they were pretty well picked apart. Plus people had years to grab parts off

Multiple DRY piles of rust. Oozing out of the door frames. Strong image in my mind. Plus cars flatter than squished bread.

the 4 rims , one car is $ 200 here in sweden

Karma took the tire on the loader

Ohh.. in hungary 1-3 million huf.. usa 500 dollar.. :( Cool cadillacs! Too much work.. no problem! ❤️ Steve bodywork

I don’t understand why the fork operator doesn’t just push the b pillars in instead of stabbing the car 10 times.

@johnfranklin5277

2 жыл бұрын

You dont have to be intelligent for that job...

Ashes to ashes.....dust to dust

Ich bekomme keine Zierleisten und dort werden Sie zerstört. Toll.

Look at the cloud of Dust come of them😂😂😂 they are too far gone...

Why?

Wow that is hard to see. But most of those vehicles are just so rotten. Great content tho.

Cowboy car crusher.crushes the doors in side the cars.so their easyer to bale the cars.

All of these are sad to me. Were any of them restorable?

@mr.goodpliers6988

3 жыл бұрын

They had been parted on for many years. This was pretty close to Arkansas and Louisiana so many of the cars were quite rusty. Old luxury cars are notoriously complicated and difficult/expensive to restore. There was a lot of wasted potential for art, but there was a lot saved out of here that you didn't see. I did pick up a 1953 Fleetwood that I brought home complete. I will be working on it to see if I can get it running for another video.

Scrapping these old valuable treasured cars was definitely unnecessary and should've never had happened. These cars hold alot of value in them and should've been kept for donor parts cars and/or even some for Restoration projects. Rick smith should've sold them to a kustom shop instead of hiring a scrapping company

@johnfranklin5277

2 жыл бұрын

Dean, I know how you feel, I love cars too.. I love my 58 caddy, but it costs 10s of thousands of dollars to restore, even a mild restoration on a solid running car. Especially CADILLAC'S. I have my parents 58 cadillac they bought in 1960. I was 1 year old. Lifelong Southern California car, so rust is not an issue, but to keep it on the road, mechanically alone, I have spent over 20.000 dollars since my mom gave it to me in 1982. Then you have cosmetics, Paint job runs about 8000. New interior, about 4 to 5 thousand. These cars are stripped, missing everything, rusted out, no, except for the glass and wheels that should have been removed, the crusher is the right place for them. Who knows, maybe the recycled steel will make it into new CADILLAC'S!

@deanfarr3249

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnfranklin5277 right but if a custom shop like Danny Koker (aka the count) buys it cheap then they have sources for parts off them or they can restore it doing the labor themselves and save tons of money then once they're all restored then they go to sell them and make their money flip. You know what i mean? Plus new Cadillacs don't even come as close to cadillacs built back in the day. And another thing alot of scrappers dont care what's worth keeping and whats valuable all they want to do is get money and even to support their drug habit especially.

From Clark St. to Crush St.

These were all rust buckets, the good stuff was sold off. "Good" chrome was rusted, too. True collectors know what is "savable". They would rot away and disintegrate if 'saved' and left parked.

08:55 green caddy and 09:00 de ville.. oh..😔😢😩🤧

Sometimes you just gotta let go.....

Why the moldings... the chrome trim, why the bumpers, why the glass? ... Don't get that down... :-/

@mr.goodpliers6988

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I saved as much as I could, but a lot went to waste sadly

Pooh i could use driver side window glass & right rear door glass on a 53 & a starter

@dogandballproductionsgoodb7215

3 жыл бұрын

Fortunately those are flat glass. Many old glass shops can cut them from flat sheet glass, and have files of patterns on hand. Check around, someone can recreate them

@robertlyman9789

Жыл бұрын

Poo?

Not a pretty sight!

better forklift driver than 64corvan

This sickens me. There should be a law against crushing classic cars

@mistermood4164

2 жыл бұрын

Most of those cars have little to no value they’re better off as scrap

I can't believe you'd crush Ricky Ricardo's car.??

@mr.goodpliers6988

3 жыл бұрын

I was just there to document. It was a day's drive each direction, so I was only able to make one trip there to save what I could.

Repulsive!!!

Noooo Noooo why this can't be happening ☹️😩😭

@mr.goodpliers6988

3 жыл бұрын

It was very hard to watch. I saved what I could.

Why didn't they offer these last unsold cars free to whomever could take them away by a certain date? I bet all would hav been taken & not destroyed.

@Buttermilkjug

3 жыл бұрын

That's dumb~ This was his business~

I'm sure some could still have been restored

@wibo3218

3 жыл бұрын

Cant save em all

@georgejones4111

3 жыл бұрын

@@wibo3218 what could have been saved could.

@johnfranklin5277

3 жыл бұрын

No, once stripped, and just full of rust and more, they can't be restored. Also cadillacs are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE TO RESTORE. easily 60.000 dollars.

@georgejones4111

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnfranklin5277 Sad! It's a shame people just let them go to sh*t like that.

@johnfranklin5277

2 жыл бұрын

@GT Classic Plastic in order to make a Rat Rod, the vehicle still needs to have STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY. These cars don't anymore.

a lot of rare caddy parts go in to giant furnace/ sad

What a waste of money....So many parts....

Nooooooooooooooo!!

What happens when lowballers dont wanna pay anything and alot of times it ain't worth the hastle trying to sell a car no body wants to put up money but everyone wants to talk so sad to see it happen but oh well it is what it is