Definitely like to see more. It's more about the death of a car than a person. It's an image frozen in time.

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

thats a good way to think of it

I have a cousin who wrecked at least 2 classic Mustang’s in the ‘80’s plus a couple of more vehicles as a teen/early 20s.... You can thank him for personally helping in increasing classic car values

My friend bought a 77 firebird once at an insurance auction. I almost bought it,but it said biohazard on the windows and we found out someone committed suicide in it. I didn't want it anymore,so he bought it. The black rubber hose was still in the back seat. The interior smelled like slightly sweet rotting roadkill and exhaust. (Rotting corpse smell is hard to describe if you've never smelt it before).Anyway it was white w/ red interior. The deceased person's hand print was slightly,but permanently stained into the console by the shifter. That smell never really left that car. He cleaned it and cleaned it. It always had a slight rotten/ exhaust smell to it.🤮 6 months later he traded it for a S-10 p/u. You could still smell that smell. 🤮

@cindysue5474

Жыл бұрын

Thats crazy that it would of been allowed to be sold since it had the bio hazard sticker on it.

@wildestcowboy2668

Жыл бұрын

Just in your head man

I've always been fascinated by wrecked cars.

@donaldcrabbe7404

2 жыл бұрын

me, also...since childhood.

My dad was a S.P. and I saw 8x10's of fresh wreaks with the body's...it was a morbid treat as a youth to see this twisted carnage in the pre- seat belt days at my dads HQ.

@bsfunk44

2 жыл бұрын

A morbid treat? You are fucked in the head..

Amazing, these didn't get torched or have any fire damage.......Automobile wrecking yards, are spiritual, like going to church.......

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

thats the dang truth

Love the vintage boat behind the Belvidere and the '67 Coronet 2-door sedan in front of the wrecker hauling it-

Nothing morbid about wrecked cars from years ago! They can be a great source of hard to find small parts, and we can learn from them why present cars and trucks are designed the way they are...to a point however. Always was a hobby of mine to look over wrecked cars in the junk yard or tow lots and theorize as to how they were hit and by what. Later on, in the late sixties and early 70s, I was tasked with taking on the scene photographs of the whole scene in major wrecks, for others to analyze the crash. Now of course, the investigations are ultra accurate, using GPS transits, drone footage, and so on.

@diegosilang4823

Жыл бұрын

Some of the people are superstitious about buying salvaged parts from a wreck of cars with fatalities. Rumors of jinxes and haunting associate with using parts from wrecked vehicles with fatalities.

My grandparents lived next to a junkyard when I was growing up and I'd always walk through and look at the wrecks. Seen alot of nasty stuff. The two that stuck out the most was a wrecked Yugo that smelled like death and had blood everywhere in it, and a wrecked 57 Chevy Bel-Air that looked like it hit a tree headon. There was chunks of hair stuck in the wheel and what looked like a head imprint on the passenger side of the windshield. Honestly morbid stuff but oddly so neat.

@wildestcowboy2668

Жыл бұрын

Your definitely a BLOODY nut job Joe

Owned a wrecking yard and quite a few cars we parted were death cars. Parts is parts

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Yup truth

@Autobodyscotty

3 жыл бұрын

I have hundreds of car parts in my house from wrecks and see what came with it. NO SHIT watch Autobodyscotty on you-tube.

More vintage wrecks, plz!

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Will do!

@bobroberts2371

2 жыл бұрын

Have a look at the vid " 2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Bel Air Crash Test | Consumer Reports " On the channel " Consumer Reports " This shows how the 09 absorbs energy in specific areas so the passengers can ride down the crash while the entire structure of the 59 crumples.

Remember looking at remains of a big four door Pontiac that hit a tree at 100 mph and the motor was all by itself, all bolts were sheared clean off and I tried to picture the motor traveling through the air still spinning couple thousand ram. Another was Chevy nova wrapped around a power pole so that the front end and rear end were side by side.

@tracykingston9668

2 жыл бұрын

Those dang power poles are quite sturdy and durable, and usually win after an up close and personal encounter with an automobile. Ouch .

It's a miracle that kid in the Mustang walked away. Wow.......Thank you Ryan and Matt too!

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

When I was a kid, I followed an ambulance to a wreck just down from my house. Two cars hit head on. One was in the ditch, the other was in a gas station parking lot. I'll never forget that day. My dad was an insurance adjuster, so he took me to see wrecked cars all the time.

Have always been intrigued by wrecked cars. Every other weekend, our family would drive out in the country to visit the Grandparents. On the way, we went past a gas station that always had the latest wrecked car of the week right out front with a huge sign warning to "Drive with Care". I would be standing on the back seat of the old 56 Pontiac as we past, so as not to miss a thing. Still fascinating to this day.

@marktemsic485

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah,, used to have wreck of the week sitting on the corner here too..

I remember in the 90s I knew this teen girl who had a 57 chevy sedan. One day she had a bad wreck and no seatbelt the police said what kept her from being ejected through the windshield was that giant steering wheel. The steering wheel caught her knees. She had bumps and bruises but was ok. I also know someone who had a 55 chevy truck and they crashed into a hill. He died because that giant steering wheel crushed his chest.

Show us more, I would want my story told. Even if it’s sad it’s still a classic.

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Next time im there!

Death traps, they are curiously creepy. As a lifetime collision 💥 auto body guy, this stuff fascinates me. Thanks for sharing this video, I really enjoyed it! 👍😎👀💥💡

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

It’ll buff right out

I think i get it. The intensity of the damage is visually appealing, very interesting. I have a similar fascination with beat up vintage furniture, tattered vintage clothes, and all manner of abandoned buildings.

Man, that’s what a 64’ Belvedere looks like after a Semi Truck hits it. The old man had a 64’ Belvedere 4 door from 67’ to 72’, loved the push button transmission. The slant 6 was one tough motor. 😎👍🇨🇦

@charleshall9755

2 жыл бұрын

My father had a 64 Plymouth fury with a 383 engine and 3 speed on the column. It had a high rear end and would run 115 in second gear when new and 110 after it was about wore out. Used to smoke those 327 Chevys...lol

@OnkelPHMagee

2 жыл бұрын

@@charleshall9755 In 1966, I came home from the hospital in Mom and Dad's 1964 Belvedere 4-door. Navy blue, 318, manual 3 on the column. Dad said that it was their most reliable car ever. I have the owner's manual from it showing the optional belts. Of course, seat belt usage in the 1970s was uncommon.

I knew of a car that would've fit in his collection, back in1986 my friend was coming back from saturday morning football practice he was racing one of his teammates in a mid 70s LTD wagon that had a big block in it, he swerved to miss an on coming car, slid side ways took out 4 small pine trees before a big oak stopped the slide, he bounced off the tree and the car ended up across the street. The hit was on the drivers door, he wasn't wearing his seat belt and was thrown in the back cargo area, he was fine except his left side was a giant bruise from knee to shoulder. The hit was so hard the car was u shaped, the seat bottom was rolled like a toothpaste tube under itself and the seat back corner was bent 90 degrees backwards. Here's the kicker 4 yrs ago it turned up on craigslist, complete right down to the hub caps, an old ford collector had it since the wreck all those years.

@4speedBuick

3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome! Glad he was ok. Any pics of it?

@scottvincent3062

3 жыл бұрын

@@mexicanspec 1000 bucks, amonth later he dropped it to 800 and it sold, I don't know if he got what he was asking for it. When I went to look at it and he started it up for me, he ran it off a boat tank. When my friends dad bought it it had a little less than 25000 miles it looked brand new. When it was wrecked it had 35000 and change on it. It was dark brown with brown interior so we called it the turd wagon, we'd pack 10 12 people in it and that engine still could go really fast really quickly.

@scottvincent3062

3 жыл бұрын

@@4speedBuick I did take some but stupid me didn't back them up on a seperate drive from my laptop. I do remember after the wreck his mom and dad took a bunch of pictures of it and the bruising on my friends side without his shirt as he stood next to the damage.

@mexicanspec

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottvincent3062 Who would buy a crashed wagon for $800? If it was nice and running maybe.

@DrOlds7298

3 жыл бұрын

@@mexicanspec Parts Donor.

Iowa here too. There were two or three boneyards in my neck of the woods back in the '50's and 60's. Always fascinated me how some cars would fold up and others were more durable. Of course, I pity the poor folks involved.

Utterly FASCINATING!! 😳😳😳 I was under the impression totaled cars were melted down/stripped right away. These wrecked cars are as fascinating to me as sunken boats/ships!

This is definitely cool to see. The history and the fact that the Pontiac was hit when I was barely two years old. Plus the Pontiac being a factory A/C car is very interesting.

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

yeah its an odd duck!

@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703

2 жыл бұрын

I believe at the time a lot of the AC components were located in the trunk, and the vents were on either side of the back window.

@rickloera9468

2 жыл бұрын

@@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703 The Pontiac being a 55/56 I can't remember what year it was because it's been too long ago when I saw it. With that said GM used trunk mounted A/C systems were in use up to 1954 except on Cadillac models. Cadillac used the trunk A/C throught 1956 moving to in dash under hood units starting in 1957 with the 57/58 body style. Cadillac continued trunk mounted A/C for limousines that had front and rear A/C. I believe but could be wrong but Cadillac used that system for the limousine series through 1976. Chrysler went to indash under hood A/C Starting with the Foward Look 1957 models., Ford in 1955 and AMC badged Rambler till 1969 used in dash under hood A/C from day one.

Pretty cool storys this guy knows a lot, you can probably get more stories out of him.

audio wasnt real good

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

itll get better in future videos, ordered a couple wireless mics to do interviews

👍 awesome and important video to show what happens when you don't pay attention thanks for sharing

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly thanks for the comment

Heaps of awesome old cars in the back ground .

The yellow flatbed looks like the one I saw this morning, wow!!

Unique to say the least!

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Very true

Love this vid ! I too have a morbid curiosity with 50’-70’s car wrecks

My dad had a repair shop and wrecker when I was a kid, It was a home built 47 Ford 1 ton. To run the winch it had a 4cyl 1930 IH motor. You only used 1st gear and reverse on the 4 speed transmission it used. When I was a young kid in the 50s and 60s I was hoping that every phone call was the state patrol to go to a car accident. On many occasion's when a car was down a steep ditch he would have me get into the drivers seat and tell me which way to turn the steering wheel. If I didn't turn the wheal the way he wanted the profanities would fly.....good times

Another great video, with some sad stories. Keep the content coming Ryan 👍🙏

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Would love some of the factory a/c parts from that Pontiac

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Rare stuff there

Awesome video but heartbreaking too. Best to you Ryan!

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jazz

There are still plenty of good parts left on the destroyed cars. I see the quarter window is still on the mustang. The door looks good also. The Belvedere has a good trunk lid and rear bumper.

From the time I could remember, my mom and dad always had a belvedere. Four of them up until I was 12 years old. It was their car of choice for street drags, 1964 models.

"I like the cars people died in" wow. Well I guess we all got a hobby....

@michaelszczys8316

3 жыл бұрын

Remember as a small kid the highway patrol or some group would make short videos of latest mega hit car accidents involving really stupid reckless things people did with pictures of car remains. Most of them you couldn't tell what the car used to be.

@davidellefson1017

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelszczys8316 red asphalt

@wigwam622

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't say that

@truckerguy28

2 жыл бұрын

He said it's not about the death. It is all intriguing to me

@robertstone9988

Жыл бұрын

I feed my snake prepackaged dead baby mice they are called pinkys. Some ones job every day is to gas baby mice and package them for my snake. Its what he or she dose every day. A baby mouse holocaust every day and he or she plays the comadont every day gos home and reads to there kid at night.

Good lessons back in the day and now . The older I get the more I think about these things happening . It's a wake-up call. Thanks

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Well said

@bobroberts2371

2 жыл бұрын

Have a look at the vid " 2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Bel Air Crash Test | Consumer Reports " On the channel " Consumer Reports " This shows how the 09 absorbs energy in specific areas so the passengers can ride down the crash while the entire structure of the 59 crumples.

That intersection north of Miltonvale has always a widow maker. I remember a real sad wreck many years ago involving a grandma, her young grandson, and some glare ice. Horrifying.

that's one way to collect cars on a budget, gotta say this is really cool

The Morbid Car Museum would be Awesome Dude totally Cool !. The Paranormal People would come out of the woodwork to see it.

Love it I have always been fascinated with car wrecks.

@tracykingston9668

2 жыл бұрын

People are just dyin' ta help ya out with your hobby.

Ouch, poor good cars. Rest In Peace and prayers to the people that died. Thumbs up and have a good weekend.

Worked in a junk yard back in the 80s saw a lot of wrecks worst thing is when there was hair stuck to the windshield didn’t like pulling stuff off of that usually went in the pile

Cool video love old wrecks. Thanks

@IowaClassicCars

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching

awesome vedio! I would like to see more in the future!

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

He needs the Bonnie and Clyde Death Car! That would be his crowing show piece! I could look at wrecks all day.

Great video. Glad i seen this. Great idea of collecting old wrecked cars. U have a new subscriber.

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jerry

We are all into rebuilding vintage cars & this video was the exact opposite. It’s a Graveyard of the Greats. Very interesting to see how they held up back then. You can imagine the results in these wrecks vs today’s safety features. It’s not a story on death it’s a story on the car.

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

exactly

i wanna see more, this is so interesting!

that's amazing! Love the '55 Pontiac.....😎

Years ago Augusta Kansas used to display wrecked cars like these...just off the highway as you drove through town there they were...

The last car you talked about was almost the exact same wreck that killed my grandfather and 4 others in his vehicle, drunk driver crossed the centre line at a insane speed , cars slapped together with enough force it actually fused them together, happened in 1968 , he was driving home fr work in his 1966 4 door impala.

I really like the stories behind the cars!

My first car was my dads '65 Plymouth Belvedere ll.. 273 V-8. I miss that car!!

Wow. Random video I clicked on and the guys got a chuck a burger t shirt on from my hometown. Small world

Like the story be hide the cars. I'm a retired fireman & had a few wrecks I went to where people lost their life & some of those cars were crushed. Its good he kept those cars need more of those stories just found your channel

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Rudy!

Fascinating love it!

Something different I would love to see more videos like this

Drives safety Red Asphalt was a good example of reckless driving. One is on KZread but the other are online somewhere it’s uncensored and graphic especially the old farmer who didn’t wait at railroad level crossing pulling his burned body out of wrecked farm truck

Like the stories behind the wrecks as special the old cars

My highschool displayed wrecks like these with the permission of the deceased student's parents. A good friend that gave the troubled kids jobs and taught them trades was a co-founder of MADD and still had the Ram Air Trans Am he bought when he came home from Vietnam that he wrapped around a utility pole from drinking narrowly missing some children playing street hockey. Ramble over.

Love the vintage wrecked video

Fascinating! That was fun!

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Like that Glastron fin boat in the background

I LIVED IN DALY CITY CA. I SAW A 57 FORD FAIRLAINE THAT WAS A TOTAL OF ABOUT 20 INCHES HIGH, ALL OF IT, IT WAS RACING SOMEONE AND FLIPPED IT INTO A STONE WALL ABOUT 7 FEET HIGH, IT TOTALLY FLATENNED IT. I KNEW MY CAR MODELS PRETTY WELL EVEN THEN, BUT I HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT HAD BEEN, THE TOW TRUCK OWNER TOLD US. HE SAID IT WAS GOING AROUND 115 + MPH.

Me too. I been curious about wrecks all my life , dont know why ,

My wife did that to a 65 Chevy II . She lost control one the dirt road. Hit both sides of road ditches. Flipped and roll upside down. She crawled out and walked a mile back home. She hit all four corners. The only piece of sheet metal that we could save for resale. Was the glove box door!

Excellent! More

I have s great old photo of a late '50s Mercury sedan badly wrecked on the Big Island in the '50s-'60s. It was in an old house torn down where a mechanic lived in the '50s-? He owned an autobody shop and had worked as a mechanic with Ruddle Sales & Service, Ford agents on Hawaii. DeSoto cars & trucks were sold here then. On the property was an MGA roadster, a '51 Plymouth sedan and a '66 Monterey hardtop sedan. They were probably all scrapped too.

I am 60 years old and back when I was a kid we had an auto wrecking yard. We used to get all kinds of smashed up cars and I had a real fascination with them. I would often carefully sit in them while minding the broken glass that was scattered all over and imagine what the people went through during the crash. I particularly remember a 1959 Cay Eye Chevy that was hit really hard in the front. Besides the damage the car was in incredibly good shape and we actually knew the owner that was in the crash. This was before they had collapsible steering columns and I remember the steering wheel was sticking away from the housing about two feet into the interior. It was almost touching the ceiling. I could not figure out how Don the driver survived but was certainly glad he did. He was such a nice guy.

I’d like to see more of these cars

The hours of work and parts sometimes outweighs the end cost value

Yes, do some more of these please.

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

ill film more next time im at Matts!

I have pictures of a Cadillac that was broadsided by a semi. It pushed everything across the floor-pan to the passengers side.

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

im sure matt would love to see that! lol

Great video thank's 👍

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

thanks for the comment

You guys are right! Pay attention when you’re driving! And pay attention when you’re walking across a street. I was hit on April 6 2011🚦by a Nissan Maxima. Driving 30 mph. I suffered a parietal skull fracture. And Subdural Hematoma. I was in a hospital 11-weeks!

@zetametallic

2 жыл бұрын

You were hit on my 35th birthday. I guess we both celebrate the day for very different reasons but I'm just glad to hear you are still with us. X

@matthewchipman5596

2 жыл бұрын

@@zetametallic AMEN Christ saved my life from Death. Thank You for your kind words!

On that Mustang the passenger side windows still good and so is the door handles are still a good part there

I would like to see more of Matt’s amazing collection of cars.

@IowaClassicCars

2 жыл бұрын

Next time im there

Does Matt put those cars back together? Keep up the great work and God Bless you guys and your families.

I can hear my mom saying "What do you want that junk for" !

Super cool

Those wrecks looks interesting, but the car that caught my eyes is behind the bullet nosed Studebaker. A 1966 Buick Electra 225, my favorite car

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

i believe i filmed it in a previous video!

@UsefulEntertainment

3 жыл бұрын

Wadup man

Art subjective... I love wrecks also.... you sir are a body man of Genius!

@IowaClassicCars

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@kevinrice7635

Жыл бұрын

@@IowaClassicCars yar welcome 🤗 hey hey hey from Pittsburgh Pa...we got this Andy Warhol museum over here and that guy lover of auto wrecks also....has a boss photo collection in museum....yinz should ✔️ it out if you ever get by this way...... keep the faith hombre.

This is reeeeeally cool. Do more .

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

will do!

Too cool. Something you don't see every day, vintage complete wrecked cars. Of course can see in junk yards, but most every vintage crash there has been completely picked over for decades for whatever parts could be saved.

That was cool 😎

My brother in law has a 65 Ford Galaxie convertible. We went for a ride, and all I could see is the steel dash, no shoulder belts, and zero rollover protection.

Very cool!!

That was strangely entertaining

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

lol thats what i thought too

Would love to see more

That's some crazy stuff!!!!!

@IowaClassicCars

3 жыл бұрын

Its wild to look at!

A good friend of mine died in his 1968 Plymouth Runner Runner in 1974. He hit his car car head on into a 64 chevy Impala. The front end was 4 inches from the firewall. My friends dad gave me the 68 RR for free, since I was a mechanic and body and paint man. All that I could do is part the car out of reusable parts, including the rear quarter panels, with the complete rear body trunk section, rear axle,, and blood soaked interior. Saved the 4 speed Trans, and the 383 hemi engine. I left the scrap yard man just a ghost of the 68 Road Runner. Speed definitely kills folks.

Chuck A Burger, I like Matt's t-shirt. I've been there plenty of times in the old days, I won't go to that neighborhood now.

I worked in a junk yard for a while, and every car that someone had died in was prepped and crushed immediately. unless the insurance company wanted to take a look at it, then it would be parked in a shed. the yard owner didn't want relatives or friends of the deceased to see the car and have a meltdown.

Parents need to talk with there kids about the dangers of Drag racing and just driving

@bartschwartz7217

3 жыл бұрын

Street raced in 70s-80s now it’s called reckless driving suspension of dmv card but car is not illegal

@xmo552

3 жыл бұрын

Edited and still misspelled

thanks man for saving this

Awesome 🤘

@IowaClassicCars

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks ✌️