hi thanks for joining today we're at the white post auto museum let's go and explore
the white post auto museum is located about an hour east of kamloops british columbia
they display and store classic custom and special interest vehicles in their showroom as well as
their field of dreams starting off in the showroom let's take a look at this 1946 mercury ute
this extremely rare vehicle was built in canada for use in australia
this is one of only 97 ever produced and spent its life down under before returning to canada
here's a 1965 chevy 2 commonly known as the chevy nova the 1965 model was the last of the first
generation novas but for chevy enthusiasts it's best known as the year that the chevy 2 became
a muscle car it could be equipped with a 327 cubic inch v8 which provided up to 300 horsepower
and in terms of straight line acceleration put it on par with the gto the 442 and the mustang 289s
here's a corvair which was manufactured by chevy between 1960 and 1969 it's the only
american designed mass-produced passenger car with a rear-mounted air-cooled engine
no transmission hump cause the engine's back here makes it handle like a sports car
it'll go almost anywhere well miller certainly love theirs
and emma says she can even park it your chevrolet dealer would be glad to listen
while you tell him which corvair would be right for your kind of living talk to him tomorrow
the rear engine combined with the type of suspension used
led to stability issues when cornering and the corvair became notoriously known as a death trap
it ended up being featured in ralph nader's book unsafe at any speed although it's hard
to say whether the corvair was actually any less safe than other vehicles at the time
since the corvair was an easy target it helped bring about the creation of the
national highway traffic safety administration and the implementation of things like crash
tests and safety standards which helped improve the safety of our vehicles today
here's a 1935 packard hearse reportedly the classic who song my generation was inspired
by this vehicle when townsend's packard hearse was towed by the queen mother
she said it reminded her of her husband who'd been buried in a similar vehicle as a result townsend
was forced to ride the train and on one trip from london to southampton he penned the lyrics
to this classic rock song this is a 1940 fargo in 1928 chrysler bought the fargo motor car company
and began to produce their own line of fargo trucks these trucks were manufactured in the
united states but if you purchased it outside of the country it would be known as a fargo
in canada the name fargo was used right up until 1972 to differentiate these trucks
from those being offered as dodge trucks from dodge dealers
this is a 1956 crown vic which was the premium trim option of ford's fair lane model popular
with collectors the crown victoria has weathered the test of time due to its excellent handling
standards and engineering that was better than most let's check out a clip from the fast and
furious 8 which sees vin diesel pitted in a road race against one of these 1956 crown vics
here's a 1941 dodge business coupe in 1941 you
could have purchased this brand new for a whopping 825 dollars
here's a pontiac firebird these were introduced in
1967 as a pony car to compete with the ford mustang and the mercury cougar
the firebird is a popular vehicle and has been seen in tv and movies it's been featured
in iconic roles like smokey and the bandit as well as tv shows like the rockford files
well god almighty would you look at that
heading out into the field of dreams you can see there's a wide range of vehicles that are ripe
for restoration projects a service vehicle from the village of port mcneil not sure how
it got here port mcneil is located 900 kilometers west on the vancouver island
stashed away in the back is a hubcap tree ready for christmas decorating
it's hard to imagine the amount of work that it would take to restore one of these vehicles
to pristine condition although this old dodge seems to be in pretty good condition
however one thing i notice is that there's a lot of cool looking hood ornaments
like this dodge ram
this austin flying a
or this pontiac indian chief
and i see a note here that this vehicle was used as a prop in the tv series man in the high castle
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time it's time to exit through the gift shop which in this case happens to be