Meeting the Owner and Historical Overview

And uh Wow, I didn't even see there There's cars that are completely Yeah. Yeah. hidden in there. Right. There That's blackberry vines. They They 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 and we sort of 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 conditioning. It was a standard option standard equipment. You You can't say that about even Cadillac. They've got a Cadillac Coupe DeVille in the back and it doesn't have dealer I mean it doesn't have back or 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 And these were four-wheel drive. It's sort of like the first crossover um SUV type car cuz it was four-wheel 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 CJ-5. 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 hardtop with a V8, four-speed, four-barrel. I just sold it to a fella. Uh this is a This is around a '68 or '9 Rambler American wagon. Here's another '70 Ambassador. The '70s Ambassadors that are 360s or four or uh 390s all have special cylinder heads that are made really good for drag racing. Mhm. So, we always take note if it's a '70 360 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 really see much of it. But uh that same motor started in 1967, and it continued uh the same design motor through 1991 Jeep Grand Cher- Grand Wagoneers. You 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