(gentle solemn music) - My name is Scott Tofte.

I own Tofte Auto and Sales and New World Salvage in Madison.

(music gaining momentum) New World Salvage is a niche market salvage company where we sell specialty vehicles.

And our focus really is muscle car era vehicles early sixties through early seventies.

A couple variations of Camaro, first generation and second.

First generation would run 67 to 69.

And then the second generation car 70 to 73.

I mean as far as- and then the range exceeds that a little bit, 55, 6, 7 Chevrolets and and maybe some newer muscle car things that might run into the late seventies.

But the, the main focus is early sixties to early seventies and primarily steel bumper cars.

Chevy two Nova Wagons 65 and 67.

The Mustang mock one, that's uh, it was a nice car prior to the crash.

More of the same stuff.

One street rod, that's a 47 chev, otherwise second gen Camaro and some Nova sprinkled in here.

A classic 65 Chevy hard top on top of the trailer deck there.

And then when it comes to pickups, the the C Series in the sixties are pretty hot stuff.

Madison's located midway between the major metroplexes.

I guess, of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Fargo and Sioux Falls.

We're 150 miles west of Minneapolis.

We're 150 miles south of Fargo.

We're 135 miles north of Sioux Falls so that's where we lie.

We're about 10 miles from the South Dakota border.

(upbeat music playing) Growing up in the sixties and the seventies muscle cars were quite prevalent.

So my first encounters with the young guys that were buying that stuff and putting it on the street, I was impressed.

You know, I, I liked the noise.

And I, I liked the speed and the spinning tires and um everything else, you know.

And then I just I picked that up and then that's uh, that's what I wanted to drive.

I didn't want a family four-door sedan.

I wanted something that would go really fast and really loud.

And sideways if I needed it to, you know.

I started with that stuff and then it wasn't long.

I was taking it apart and putting it back together and modifying it, just having a good time with it.

Some of these old photos, I mean, some of these date back to when I was literally still on the farm and I was actually doing some farming over my dad.

Other pictures here of my first location in Louisburg first building I ever rented.

Where I was on my own and.

69 Camaro that I had done that brings back some memories, was one of my favorite cars.

As crazy as it sounds I dream about still owning this car occasionally.

It must have left an impression on me.

Plenty of stories to tell that, that just from driving that car and having fun with it.

(upbeat bass playing) So, new World Salvages is a sideline to this business and it's like I say the focal point there is muscle car era stuff.

So we're doing, we're buying and reselling.

We deal heavy in projects.

We also have quite a number of parts cars.

Quite an inventory of parts and parts cars.

So there are a certain number of these cars, unfortunately that are head hard enough that are coming in where they they part out and will um, you know will be dissembling a certain amount of that stuff.

And then making parts available.

So this is a 72 Chevelle, it's a big block car.

It came out of the Houston, Texas area.

The car could go two different directions, parts or rebuild.

I'm 90% sure the car will rebuild just because of what it is.

to the layman he might look at that and say, man you're crazy.

There's no rebuilding that thing.

It's insane.

You know, some of these, if you have the expertise (hood pooping open) to do the work, you can build a car and save some money.

Maybe a lot of it's personal satisfaction but some of 'em you can save some money on too.

The big block Chevelle is probably a big deal.

And it's a factory air car.

So that's, that's gonna be attractive to somebody that's looking forward to to having one or building one.

It's not for everybody.

It's not something that you can um, I mean it's not something that you're gonna buy and take to a shop and say, fix this for me.

That's not gonna work.

Um, dollar-wise it's not gonna pencil lone.

Then if you're that guy, you need to go pick up a magazine, find a car, buy the car, drive the car.

But these cars are mainly for people that have the expertise to put 'em together.

Most of the inventory we have sells as is.

So it comes in, it gets inventoried, it goes out we re market it, somebody else buys it they take it home, they build it.