There isn’t nothing better than old friends, trucks and great stories. Love the episode keep up the great work and stay safe out there.

What a childhood. Kids today are missing out because they're plugged into devices every minute of spare time.

Story time with Merlin may be my new favorite feature.. I want to be friends with Merlin and Makayla, but I'm not willing to clean cow poop for it.😂😂😂

Merlin could post 5 hr videos like this and I’d watch them end to end. His stories make me laugh and almost cry, they’re his memories, but they ring so true with many of my own, summer holidays, 8 years old, driving the Massey Fergusson tractor, cutting, turning and bailing hay on my uncle’s dairy farm… I’m 70 years old this month, brings my memories right back… God bless you guys ❤️

You're a great storyteller Merlin I could listen to you all day long!!. Nice Willys Truck ya got there , Motor n Trans sound Fine Nice Lumpy Cam!!!! You sure do them rite!!

Those stories are the reason we all have character today. Mine was wire brushing a welding truck bed for my uncle with a 40 lb grinder at 12/13 yr old loading junk iron that summer for 5.00 ton

There's something about old school rigs , the sound they make and how easy they are to work on . I'm grinning ear to ear just listening to that Willy's ( and that rig ain't even mine ) 😁

Story time with Merlin... Excellent!

Merlin is a man of all trades including story time telling great video old school.

Love your story telling session when you guy’s were boys working your fingers to the bone. It reminded me of my childhood growing up in the farm belt. There wasn’t a week that went by that we did not have to clean up shit on someone’s farm. When we were 8 years old were able to sign up at the co-op or the farm bureau looking for work. Talk about good times. I was able to buy my first mini bike at the age of 10.

Great video Merlin! Love stories of the good ‘ol days .. and kids with a work ethic! 🤣🤣

The world needs more L. Dean Andersons. Imagine kids working through summers nowadays. Boy, the stories I could tell about my summer jobs back in the 60s and 70s. Good stuff Merlin! Thanks for sharing

We had a '54 Willy's pickup that we paid $60 for. We put a Chevy 327 V8 in it and made an adapter plate from 1/2" steel plate. We installed glass door knobs on the gear shifters and put a Chevy II seat in it. I love the boyhood stories.

Gotta tell more of the good ol ones! All about the rowdiness right there! Thxs

Thanks for your appearance at your cousins. You SIR are so the master of comins diesels! What a drive just for family, you have GREAT values.

Great memories and good Friends = PRICELESS !! 👍👍

Cool episode Nothing better than catching up with an old friend, very real, very honest cool stories and the repair fell to the background like an oil change. I enjoy the history and understanding the long existing, catch me if you can, competition with you and your cousins and friends. Look what that has evolved into!

The job in the cow poop is what help what makes guys the good men you are today, thanks for all the good stories

Old Friends & Old Memories don't get much better than that! Thanks 4 sharing Merlin enjoy the stories

Just can't beat the looks of them old trucks like that, I love it!!

😂😂😂 always start my Sundays with Merlin. Childhood friends are the best at 65 not much of them left but the stories we talk about.Thanks for the smiles always top notch entertainment about. FABRATS.!

Your right about doing more then than people do today. I worked for farmers when I was young. That's work

Merlin, what a great episode! Love the stories while working. And the stories were great. It just feels right. Thank you again.

I love watching how Merlins mind works it is awesome. It would be cool to see what him and Paul would come up with

Merlin thank you for starting your channel I can sit and listen to your stories for days

I love watching Merlin and McKay. Like one of the other subscribers said.. LOVE to be Merlin's friend. Hubby and I say, us too.... Be well

There will be many shenanigans to come with makay moving back .loved the stories and the pictures.

Cool to get some background on "Old School Merlin" and Ren 🐕🚗💨

Merlin, enjoy watch-n your videos.

Just two ole boys reliving their youth.

My 1st job, I worked for my papaw, I got paid $.50/ hr. After taxes I made $19.20 / week. I rode with 1 of my friends’ papaw in a 49 Chevy truck. I either rode my bike or walked 1/2 mile to the spring, then Mr John picked me up. 1 day I got to the spring, I could see Mr John’s truck sitting next to a car over on the Hwy construction. I walked over & could see a man’s feet, he was laying behind his car. Mr John said don’t go round there, Mr Lawson has shot his self. We waited a few minutes, sheriff came, county coroner came, I knew him from church. I finally took a look. Mr Lawson was definitely dead. A gun lay beside him, his brain was laying there too. I worked for papaw all summer about 2 months, school let out late, too many snow days. We were nailing on shingles & John went to sleep sitting on roof. Me & another old nailed John to roof. I looked up while doing that and saw papaw watching us. He didn’t say nothing, so we nailed John down real good. Then we backed up, papaw hollered Hey John. We must have used 20+ nails, Mr John wasn’t getting up. Love your channel

Great show Merlin it’s like at my work listening to the older men telling the stories when they were boys lol not saying I’m much younger than they are lol 😂👍👍👍

All of the cousins had cow pie fights in Magna Utah back in the day.

I Wish I was Moving out West to the Desert , I’m about done with the East Coast. Time for new Scenery

Love the old stories.

Cool episode. Love the old pictures and the stories. Good times!

Thanks for the stories and pictures Merlin,they were very entertaining.😁😁👍👍

Looking at all your old stuff. I think how great it would be to live in an area where stuff doesn't rust instantly like here in illinois

That's a cool jobs that you don't know what your doing before you get to work... exciting

one sweet old willys...... My mother had a 49 truck for years... all original.

Keep telling stories. I love to hear them.

Great story Merlin yeah I regret selling my first Willys that I bought back in 1978 turned every nut and bolt on that thing 3 or 4 times now I’ve lost count I think I’m working on my ninth Willys I guess it just gets into your blood keep up the great work 👍😎

Even though there's a lot of cool stuff to do here in PA. He will have Even more fun out there. Safe travels

Hi Merlin, long time subscriber but first time making a comment. I love to hear stories from yester year. I'm in my seventies now and can tell a few myself, my first job was when I was nine years old, picking strawberries. Back then if you wanted something eg, a bike, you found a job and earned the money. Nothing wrong with that. How different the world is now.

That Willy's is Sick. Being from and still in WNY It is a pleasure to see some saved old iron. The first engine I really got into tearing down and rebuilding was a Flat Head 4 banger out of my good friends old Military 48 Willy's Jeep. We did it as a Auto Mech Trade school project back in High School. Did a full resto on it. Came out ok for a couple 18 year old kids without a clue.

Love that oletime recollection...nice Willys...Great video Merlin...thx

Love the stories you tell with the videos, they bring me back to when I was a kid. I use to cut grass or help out at the corner gas station and even fold pizza boxes at the pizza shop, and shovel snow for cash. Started at about 10 yrs old. Kids today will never know the joys of it. I even had a paper route. I miss the good days 😀

Merlin you have a collection of the coolest vehicles on youtube. The thing that I dig is that they are all used.. Very cool.

i cant wait for more updates and videos about mini semi

Wow Merlin, I grew up in LA and wish I would've met ya'll.. You guys are the best.. Love these old videos...

I still have the nightstand next to my bed that I traded off Merlon when we were kids. If I remember right He made it in Doran Lamb's woodshop class in 7th grade.

So did that ol cattle truck ever get painted. Enjoyed the video & stories. Nothing better than a true friend over the years.

Very interesting watching your projects. Thanks for sharing.

@MerlinsOldSchoolGarage I love your first job story!! ❤ This is a long story but the ending is worth it!! I was also 10 yrs old when got my first "job" in the late 70s. I was "hired" as the Head Mechanic for a local stock car team!!! We lived near a shop where the owner and most of his mechanics were into racing the local stock car tracks. I would hang out there for several hours a day asking about the cars. Part way through the summer they started taking me and my sister to the track with them on Friday and Saturday nights. We were too young to hang out in the pits so we spent the night in the stands on our own back then. Times have changed! One day they took me out behind the shop where they had an old Ford "Spectator Stock" car parked. They asked me if I wanted to change the lifters in it. I was really mechanically inclined but I didn't even know what lifters were. But they encouraged me and said they would help me if I needed it. Half an hour later I'm sitting in the engine compartment with an air hose and a bunch of tools pulling the top of the engine apart! They mostly left me alone the first day and just let me ask for help when I needed it. I got those lifters out and I had the blood blisters on my hands from the slid hammer to prove it!! They spent the next day "helping" me put it back together. (They wanted the car to run and they did most of the reassembly, but I was there the whole time.)We got the car running that day but they said there was just one more thing to do the next day. ⭐ This is the best part of the story. I showed up the next morning and the owner said we would go back there when they took their lunch break. When the time came, everyone from the shop went out back and we all watched as one of them hand-painted "Head Mechanic" with my name on the rooftop right behind the driver's name! We went racing that weekend. They were introducing me to their racing buddies as their new Head Mechanic when we pulled into the pits. Then my sister and I headed up the stands like we always did but this time we were surprised to see my whole family was there. And they made sure the PA announcer include my name and title during the introductions. I'm sure I was the happiest kid in the stands that night. Seeing my name on that car going around in circles was something that I'll never forget! And we are all these years later but now you and Makay are the real mechanics and I would be the grunt shoveling poop out of a trailer!! 😉

Merlin is old-school, and it's cool. We love it. ;)

Love the store times. Always interesting to hear that stuff gives good background on learning experiences. Kinda feel spoiled today got to see you twice seen you on FabRats channel as well set stuff on fire 😂😂😂😂

I grew up in Piute County. So I know how much work people expected you to do. I would guess we are about the same age.

You have some very cool stuff Merlin ❤️👍💪🏻✌️

Had a water pump , as soon as it warmed up , idle it up and the impeller would slip on the shaft . At idle it worked like new

Love the story time with uncle Merlin.

Love the old storys and we have a couple of them there gasket boxes and they are handy.

Gotta say Merlin, awesome video. Always cool to see Makay and to hear those stories. That’s a rare friendship. Says a lot about both of you. You can do story time any time and I’d bet most of us would enjoy it. 🌺

Great video, showing us a small glimpse of who Merlin is.. love the story and I relate so much...

Awesome truck and great stories! the yellow one looked like a good wheelin truck

Uncle Sherman as in Ben and Paul’s dad. Love that.

I had to clean & repair the back end an 18 wheeler cattle palace. Burnt up just over 2 boxes or rod... sunburnt bad after a few days. Learned to weld fairly well but boy what a job

Funny. You and I are old enough to know better but watching you with the water pump reminded me of my high school days where I took among other courses welding and auto shop. We learned how to rebuild water pumps, fuel pumps, wheel cylinders, steering boxes etc. I'm betting you not only remember those days but still live them. Love you show, stories, even some of your relatives. 👍👍 Dave from Nova Scotia Canada .

Merlin you're a great storyteller! A true professional, you never lost your place in the stories. So far my favorite video!

Great video. Been a subscriber for a while. Really appreciated the stories and pics. Maybe include more. Got a lot of experience this world needs to hear about.

Wow !!! your neighbors must hate all the noise from the cars and trucks.... I know I would. Love your videos :O)

That's sweet old jeep

More videos on your car hauler please

I had a 1957 Jeep Willy pickup.with the Super Hurricane Flathead 6. I love that old truck. I wish I would of kept it...UGH...Good Looking old Jeep. That engine is badass...Great Video...

I've always loved those old Willys trucks. I never had the money to buy one though and now they've really started to take off on their popularity so they are even more expensive to try and purchase. Maybe one day I'll have the funds to make one of my dreams come true. Great video guys and you now have a new subscriber.

Neat memories. Thanks for sharing. 💪👍🏼

Thanks for the history

Hi Merlin, I saw you at the tow truck games. I really like watching your show and enjoy you're stories. When I visit my sister in Parker I have a outboard motor you need. Great story. Bill

What some wonderful stories.

I always wanted a Willys Truck I'm 63 gonna be 64 in July And I Still Haven't Got One. Oh well , thanks for the video Merlin.

What a cool 😎 Willys Jeep.

Melvin shimmey gyro is such a funny description but I love it 😂

I was 13 and use to fish from a little 8 room hotel on the lake just next to where they were just starting to build the London Bridge across to an Island. my uncle was a gear head and it rubbed off. good channel

I like the old Willie's jeep.

Merlin's stories are priceless, I could listen for days, he should do a story-time video with Merlin once a week, I'd watch it religiously,😉👍, this channel is fast becoming one of my all-time favorites, awesome video Merlin, and thanks for sharing.

Shes ALIVE!! 😀😀😀

With Merlin it is “Watch and learn and laugh”. Good stories. Just needed a campfire to go with the stories.

Love the old stories from Merlin that’s a nice truck sounds great 👍.

Love that old truck. Don't see anything like that where I'm at ( Ohio). Can't wait to head back west

Love the Merlin stories! My very first vehicle was a 1957 Willys pick up. In 1976 I gave $1,500 for it. Took it down to the frame, with the help of my boss at the time ( still my best friend ) completely rebuilt the complete truck. Went through every gearbox, dropped in a 300 hp 327 out of a 64 Vette, built new cross members and put in a Saginaw steering gearbox and power steering. I upgraded the brakes from the original 9” to Ford 11”. Did away with the old through the floor pedals and fit in swinging pedals out of a 60’s Chevy pickup. Paid to have the complete interior done by Danny Green. I learned how to stick weld and weld with an oxy acetylene torch, did the body work and my friend painted it almost the same color yellow as Merlin’s. We completely re wired it one wire at a time. It took three years of working and saving making $2.25 an hour to buy the parts. I learned so much about fabrication and mechanical work. Drove it to and from work for 18 years. Sadly I had to sell it in order to satisfy an ex wife and traded it in for a newer truck with enough seats and seatbelts to be able to carry my two small children. Wish I had it back. Sorry for being so long winded. Thanks Merlin!

Great stories, keep them coming.

I have an old 62 Chevy that I used to have an overheating issue with. Same setup with the fan and radiator as that one. Took a few scraps of wood and made a fan shroud for it in about 30 minutes and never had that problem again. Over 30 years later and it’s still there in the truck.👍

That was fun listening to your stories of your job when you were young.

Yes !!!! Some fellow Willys action!!!!!!

Merlyn, just put one of those Edlebrock high performance water pumps on it. They work real well on small block 400’s with Siamese’s cylinders!

Good olé truck. Congrats

Excellent show, as usual.

I crossed that bridge when it was still in London in 1968. I was 11yrs. old.

Great summer time work stories. Love the content

Oh and I definitely love the older willys vehicles for sure and I also have been looking for one for years!! But here in Iowa they are all rotted out the ones that I find!! I just love the looks of them for sure!!! Awesome video Merlin!!!

I'm headed to havasu state park for my birthday. I really hope I run into merlin.