American Pickers (2010–…): Season 1, Episode 11 - Fill'er Up - full transcript
This time on American Pickers... Mike and Frank look up a Georgia collector whose storage shed is jam-packed with curios and movie memorabilia. They tour an awesome collection of vehicles in Florida but the owner proves reluctant to sell. And, the guys scour a treasure-filled outbuilding that seems too good to be true.
When she was seventeen,
there wasn't a man she'd
let near her.
When she was eighteen,
there wasn't one she kept away.
So these are what you
were watching when you were
like twelve?
Oh lord!
I mean, this guy literally
had bought every single
thing in the state of Florida
that was gas pump related.
This is our only shot
down here. This is it.
FRANK: I know. I know.
MIKE: I'm Mike Wolfe.
FRANK: And I'm Frank Fritz.
MIKE: And we're pickers.
FRANK: We travel the back
roads of America looking
for rusty gold.
We're looking for amazing
things buried in people's
garages and barns.
MIKE: What most people see
as junk, we see as dollar signs.
FRANK: We'll buy anything if
we think we can make a buck on it.
MIKE: Each item we pick
has a history all its own
and the people we meet, well
they're a breed all their own.
We make a living telling
the history of America one
piece at a time.
[♪]
MIKE: Have you noticed
when things are really
good, when we're buying
and selling really good,
Danielle books us in
really nice rooms and then
when we're not doing so
hot, twenty nine ninety five?
You know, picking in the
south is extremely tough.
It's really hard to find
anything down here.
FRANK: That just gives
you a general guideline.
Have any of that kind of stuff?
MAN: No.
MIKE: We're pickers from Iowa.
FRANK: See anything
on that list you might have?
BEARDED MAN: Nah.
MIKE: We buy old stuff...
MAN IN CAR: No. No, I
couldn't part with any of it.
MIKE: No?
MIKE: We don't make any
money unless we find something.
We're only as good as the
last deal we make, so we
had Danielle dig through
some files to see if we
had any kind of old contacts
down here whatsoever.
MIKE: Hey Danielle,
what's going on?
DANIELLE: I have a
cool lead that I think you'll
really like. I sent
you coordinates.
FRANK: Alright girl.
MIKE: Thanks honey.
MIKE: Our plan for today
is we're going to go check
out a guy named Tony.
You know, he's into movie
posters, he's into vending
machines, he's
into gas and oil stuff.
FRANK: Hopefully we can
score something out of him here.
MIKE: I mean, we got
to make it happen man.
MIKE: How you
doing? This is Frank.
TONY: Nice to meet you.
FRANK: Tony, Frank Fritz.
TONY: Nice to meet you.
MIKE: We drove all the way
down here from Iowa hoping
it would be a little bit warmer.
Everybody's complaining
to us, saying we brought the
weather with us.
TONY: I think you did.
FRANK: What's happening
down here? It's freezing.
MIKE: So your family was in
the drive-in movie business?
TONY: Yeah. Right down the road.
FRANK: Oh okay. Cool. Wow.
MIKE: You got a lot of stuff.
FRANK: Cool stuff.
He's actually the kind
of guy that I like to go to.
Just a big clutter.
TONY: I've been collecting
everything all my life.
When I was about five
or six years old, I started
collecting bottles and
it just went from there.
FRANK: It's like
a disease, isn't it?
TONY: It is. Very addictive.
MIKE: So if you're always
buying stuff, are you
selling a lot of stuff too?
TONY: I like buying
better than selling.
MIKE: Yeah? TONY: Yeah.
MIKE: I mean,
do you sell at all?
TONY: I sell a few
things occasionally.
MIKE: People come
in here and buy stuff?
TONY: Nobody ever comes in here.
MIKE: Okay, cool.
Is that early a movie camera?
TONY: That's a silent
movie era light projector.
[♪]
MIKE: Hey, the
clock back there...
TONY: That hung over a
funeral home back in the forties.
MIKE: On the primary
search, boom, first thing
I saw on the wall
was that neon clock.
That thing was smoking.
MIKE: What's the
crazy number on it?
TONY: A thousand.
MIKE: A thousand
bucks for the clock?
MIKE: That is crazy.
TONY: New neon.
MIKE: I don't think so. I
can't make any money on it.
TONY: You know you want it.
MIKE: No. Not for
a thousand bucks.
It's a cool piece, but I
got to find something I
can break the ice with.
These are cool. These
are really old huh?
What do you get for
something like that?
TONY: What would you
pay for something like that?
MIKE: I can't buy it
and then sell it Tony.
TONY: I can. I can.
MIKE: You could
see the age of them.
I mean they were probably
from the teens, twenties.
They're really great,
deco-looking designs on them.
Would you do a hundred
and fifty bucks for all of them?
TONY: Would you give
two hundred for all of them?
MIKE: No.
TONY: No?
MIKE: No, because there's
too many that are busted.
MIKE: How about a
hundred and sixty bucks.
TONY: Go ahead.
MIKE: Then we knew, it
was like, hey, game on, maybe
things aren't going to
be so expensive here.
FRANK: Watch supply stuff.
I mean, they're little
itty bitty nuts. No gears.
MIKE: Frank, you found
some very small nuts.
TONY: How much
are small nuts worth?
MIKE: I don't have small
nuts so I wouldn't know.
FRANK: Not that much.
FRANK: Inside the boxes
were a bunch of pocket
watch and wristwatch parts.
Hands, crowns, movements.
I'm at like fifteen bucks
a piece, I'll take all ten.
TONY: Just give me two
hundred bucks for all ten.
FRANK: I think for the
right person, that could
be worth some money.
FRANK: Okay, so I'm
at two hundred on those.
TONY: You can have that.
FRANK: I got a friend
named Bellamy, what would
that... what would your
price be on that clock?
TONY: Forty.
FRANK: For forty
dollars I'll take it.
TONY: Okay.
FRANK: So, on the posters,
have you ever done any
research on these?
TONY: Most of what I
have is from the late fifties,
sixties, and seventies.
MIKE: So what kind of
movies did you guys show
at the, at the drive-in Tony?
TONY: Whatever it
took. Whatever it took.
MIKE: Listen to this Frankie.
When she was seventeen,
there wasn't a man she'd
let near her.
When she was eighteen,
there wasn't one she kept away.
So these are what you
were watching when you were
like twelve?
TONY: I wasn't supposed to be.
MIKE: I mean, have you
gone through all of these?
TONY: Some of them. There
should be four or five thousand.
MIKE: Really? Holy crap.
MIKE: That's the money
to be made here and
unfortunately, we don't
have enough room in our
van to haul all those,
and another is we're not
versed in them.
FRANK: She became a stripper.
MIKE: Would you sell
any of these posters?
TONY: Yeah.
FRANK: Would you go
a buck a piece on them?
TONY: Nope. Nope.
MIKE: What do you
want for Born Losers?
TONY: What would you
give me for Born Losers?
MIKE: I knew you
were going to say that.
I don't know, I like it
'cause it's motorcycle.
TONY: Eh, twenty bucks.
MIKE: Twenty bucks? Okay.
MIKE: Who do you think
would win this fight Frank?
Billy the Kid or Dracula?
FRANK: Dracula.
'Cause he don't die.
He'd have to shoot him with
a wooden stake out of the gun.
Impossible.
MIKE: The subject matter
was so funky, unusual, different.
MIKE: How much is that?
TONY: Give me twenty
bucks. You can have it.
MIKE: You know twenty bucks.
That's a awesome piece.
How much is this thing?
TONY: Uh, we'll
go three hundred?
MIKE: I don't know.
TONY: I'll throw in the box.
This is the box, the original
box it was shipped in.
MIKE: Gas globes were
advertising pieces that
actually lit up and sat at
the top of a pump, okay?
I was like wow
that's a cool piece.
There's so many people
looking for that type of stuff.
How 'bout two hundred?
[♪]
TONY: You hard man.
MIKE: Yeah, right.
FRANK: Alright, let's get
this stuff loaded out here Mike.
Oh, the sunshine's out. Great.
MIKE: I love this clock
you got. That's cool.
FRANK: I'm all
about two fifty on that.
[♪]
FRANK: It's nice he
had the box with it.
That helps out a lot.
MIKE: There's a lot of
guys that just collect gas
globes, and this one
is worth at least eight
hundred dollars.
[♪]
MIKE: The movie reel
item, someone's going to use
those for a decorator
piece in their house, and
I think I'll get fifty bucks
a piece on those things.
[♪]
MIKE: Thanks Tony!
TONY: Thank you.
MIKE: We need to call
one of our buddies Bill out in
California, he's a
movie poster guy.
Frankie and I are down in
Georgia here, and we came
across a ton of movie posters.
This guy's got like four
thousand movie posters.
BILL: Oh wow man
that sounds great.
MIKE: You know those
Born Loser movie posters?
You know the chopper chick?
BILL: Yeah, those
are really good.
MIKE: Yeah, what
are those worth?
BILL: Probably a
couple hundred bucks.
MIKE: A couple hundred bucks?
I got three of them.
[♪]
MIKE: I'll e-mail you that
guy's contact information and
if you guys hook it up, you
know, just send us a check.
You got the address.
FRANK: Yeah, let us
know how it works out.
BILL: No problem.
MIKE: Alright buddy, take care.
MIKE: If Bill does any
deal with Tony at all,
then he's going to give
us a finder's fee on it and
that's the way we
work on a lot of things.
MIKE: Alright
dude. Let's hit it.
FMIKE: Man, I don't seek
abnothing down here dude but
strip malls, trailer
parks, tumble weeds.
FRANK: The zoning
laws down in Florida, they
don't let you have a
tractor out in the front
yard, they don't let
you have junk cars.
We do a lot of
picking by our eyes.
When you can't see
anything, you're just
driving by places that
could potentially have
stuff, but you know, we
wouldn't possibly stop.
MIKE: That leaves us
halfwhalfway through Flora
and we haven't really
scored anything but crap.
FRANK: I'll end u
to buy one of those
stuffed alligator heads
that they sell on the corners.
And that'll be my
big whole Florida trip.
[phone rings]
MIKE: Hey, what's up?
DANIELLE: Hey! I really
got a cool pick for you.
FRANK: What do you got?
DANIELLE: There's this
gentleman named Wayne.
He's got a bunch of cool stuff.
All kinds of bicycles,
motorcycles.
MIKE: We're turning around girl.
DANIELLE: Good luck.
MIKE: We're going to
have to drive all the way
back into the swamps
if we're going to find
anything at all on this trip.
FRANK: We got three
quarters of a tank so
we're looking good.
MIKE: The moment of truth.
Did we do the right thing?
FRANK: A hundred and
twenty miles out of the way.
I hope this is going to pay off.
FRANK: My name's
Frank. WAYNE: Hey Frank.
MIKE: Hey, Mike Wolfe.
WAYNE: How you doing Mike?
MIKE: Nice to meet you.
WAYNE: Nice to meet ya'll.
FRANK: You talked to Danielle?
MIKE: She said you had
some stuff and uh, here we are.
We drove all the way from Iowa.
FRANK: So we've been
seeing on the news Wayne,
this is like a record cold snap.
WAYNE: Yeah.
FRANK: You know, Wayne
has a great accumulation of
stuff here.
I'm thinking that we're
going to leave with
something good.
MIKE: I've had these
boat motors before but I
haven't seen a two
cylinder like this.
WAYNE: That was built
about nineteen fifteen.
FRANK: What do you
estimate that's worth?
WAYNE: I've turned
down a thousand dollars.
MIKE: These earlier
carburetors, they're hard
to find because they're
really show boaters.
So this is a carburetor
off this engine?
WAYNE: Right.
MIKE: This is the same
carburetor that would be
on an early motorcycle.
WAYNE: Yeah.
MIKE: I knew he probably
wasn't going to sell me
the carburetor 'cause
he had the motor to it but I
was like, what the hell.
MIKE: Two hundred bucks?
WAYNE: Nope.
FRANK: Oh, look
at that. That's cute.
MIKE: You know, we walked
in the building and we saw
the ice cream truck.
The front end of it was
real cool man, it almost
looked like a Buck
Rogers space ship.
MIKE: Is this
something you'd sell?
WAYNE: No.
FRANK: No way huh?
MIKE: He was like, oh no.
FRANK: That's
not going anywhere.
WAYNE: We got a
couple old motorcycles.
FRANK: My ears perked
up when I heard motorcycles.
WAYNE: We got a
couple of old mustangs.
MIKE: It's like really
cool economical
motorcycles back then.
WAYNE: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright, is any
of that stuff for sale?
WAYNE: No.
MIKE: Not for sale?
FRANK: The honda's not for sale?
WAYNE: No.
MIKE: The things that we
really thought were cool,
they were definitely off
limits and that's not what
we wanted to hear
after such a long trip.
MIKE: Alright. WAYNE: Yeah.
FRANK: Take care of
yourself. See you again.
MIKE: I start calculating
all the costs of this trip.
The miles, the fuel, the
hotels, Frankie's food.
It's getting crazy.
We've got to score
something soon.
FRANK: Place was a bust.
MIKE: Let's freaking
call Danielle and
share in this BS together.
[phone rings]
DANIELLE: Hello.
MIKE: We just went two
hundred and forty miles
out of our way dude.
FRANK: He wouldn't sell
nothing. The ice cream thing?
Have a nice day.
DANIELLE: Pick up your
skirt Nancy and just keep going.
[♪]
FRANK: I'm going to
check the radio station here.
RADIO: Crazy cold today again.
High of only thirty seven.
Low tonight, about
fifteen degrees.
FRANK: This is the coldest day?
And it's my first time
down here? What's up?
As long as we're driving
around, we're out there,
we're looking - that's
the best we can do.
MIKE: Above ground
pool? FRANK: No good.
MIKE: Swing set? FRANK: No good.
MIKE: Yard's mowed.
FRANK: No good.
MIKE: Brand new
truck? FRANK: No good.
MIKE: Tractor. John Deer!
FRANK: Oh, John Deer tractor.
MIKE: We're home.
MIKE: All of a sudden, we
come across this property.
We start seeing all these
tractors and we can see
some signs.
It's a little slice of
Iowa here in Florida.
MIKE: This place looks killer.
FRANK: Oh, I know. Morning!
JEFF: Good morning gentlemen!
FRANK: Hi, how you
doing? My name's Frank.
JEFF: Jeff Miller.
FRANK: Jeff? Nice to meet you.
MIKE: I'm Mike.
Good to meet you.
JEFF: Good to meet you sir.
MIKE: We're from Iowa,
so we saw the tractors.
FRANK: Yeah, we buy
a little bit of everything,
didn't know if you uh...
JEFF: I got probably
two thirds of what you're
looking for.
FRANK: That's good in our book.
MIKE: Are you used to
this weather down here?
JEFF: No sir.
JEFF: Need a little hand there.
MIKE: Oh lord.
Oh my god.
FRANK: Wow.
MIKE: This is amazing.
FRANK: This is a
good cold call stop Mike.
JEFF: It's sort of a hobby
that went wild, you know?
MIKE: I can see that!
FRANK: Some places we've
been to, certain areas and
stuff, they said that
there's like zoning laws
and ordnances on being
able to have stuff on your
own personal property.
How did you get away with
having so much stuff here
in your yard?
JEFF: Well, I'm an
attorney and they don't
want to fool with me.
MIKE: Oh, okay.
FRANK: Can we look around a bit?
JEFF: Sure! Absolutely.
MIKE: Hell yeah. Woo!
FRANK: It's a lot to
look at here Jefford.
MIKE: I mean this guy
literally had bought every
single thing in the state
of Florida that that was
gas pump related.
FRANK: Look at this! I've
never seen one of these before.
MIKE: I mean, we
were overwhelmed.
MIKE: Some kind of European
bike. It's a Jawa. Super cool.
FRANK: Hey check
this out! Check this out!
MIKE: It was like,
what do we do?
What do we buy first?
FRANK: Which way do we go?
MIKE: Yeah, which way do we go?
MIKE: This is killer dude!
FRANK: The killer part's
going to be when we ask
him about the first thing.
JEFF: Just sing out if
you have any questions.
FRANK: What do you think
about these mobile oil bottles?
JEFF: Eight of them, I'd
say about two hundred a
piece, that's sixteen
hundred plus the carrier,
you're looking at
close to two grand on it.
FRANK: Two grand?
MIKE: I was so hoping that
you weren't going to come
to me and go, Mike, I
think we can make some
money on those oil bottles.
FRANK: And all I had to
do was break one and then
we'd be going backwards.
MIKE: Were you one
of those kids that was
hanging around the service
station and somebody would
pull in and you'd go out
and wash their windshield?
JEFF: That was my whole
world, I mean, you know...
MIKE: Working at his
Grandpa's gas station, he
remembers so many
fond memories of that.
FRANK: Yeah, we're
understanding how this
collection came about.
JEFF: Let me show
you this one back here.
MIKE: Alright.
JEFF: Now that's city
service but see how they
spelled gasoline.
FRANK: Oh ya the difference. Ya.
JEFF: That came
from New England.
Now that's no reflection
on New England but they
spell it different.
MIKE: How about the Ford sign?
Is that something
that could be bought?
JEFF: No, a Ford
dealer gave it to me.
MIKE: Yeah, it's a good one.
This is actually
an all-state Vespa.
JEFF: I believe it
was sold by Sears.
MIKE: Is that
something you'd sell?
JEFF: I'd have to have
about thirty five hundred
dollars, if I was
going to sell it.
FRANK: He was like,
well, if I was going to sell it.
I thought, here we go again.
MIKE: How long
were practicing law?
JEFF: Well I started when
I was admitted to the bar
in Alabama in 1967.
Till a very perceptive
governor appointed me to
the circuit bench, which I
stayed twenty more years.
MIKE: Oh, so you were a judge?
JEFF: Yeah, twenty years.
Let me give you my card.
MIKE: It's that kinda like
a get out of jail free card?
FRANK: I was gonna say
in case we need to use your
name or something
while we're down here.
MIKE: Alright here we go Franky.
We got four of them.
JEFF: Behind you in
a Rio speed wagon.
So the band grabbed that name.
Ya the gear shifts backwards.
MIKE: I'm in winter park.
FRANK: Imagine
yourself cruisin'.
MIKE: I got a load of
oranges to get to market.
Yeah, how much is this?
JEFF: I'd say probably
about eight grand if it runs.
MIKE: What are you thinking?
JEFF: Ain't bad.
FRANK: Pass.
MIKE: I saw this
cigarette machine.
Row vending machine
company in New York.
What would you have to
have for something like that?
JEFF: Well, if I was
selling it, it would be
fairly expensive but I'm
not gonna turn it loose.
MIKE: We were like
dogs on a chain, okay.
We were at the end of the
chain, we were just like this.
We couldn't get at the stuff.
We're trying to touch
it, we're trying to buy it,
but it wasn't happening.
MIKE: Jeff, how about five d
of down on our luck in Florida.
We weren't really
finding anything.
FRANK: So being able
to find a guy like Jefford -
unbelievable.
MIKE: This is what we've
been freaking praying for.
FRANK: Oh, I know.
MIKE: This is our only
shot down here. This is it.
FRANK: I know. MIKE: This is it.
MIKE: One of the things
that we're going to need
to do with the Judge
is break the ice here.
MIKE: I think the
money's in the signs.
Signs have gone up so
much in the last ten years.
I like that Hood tire
sign. That's cool.
FRANK: Dude, that is cool.
MIKE: Why I gravitated
towards it - it's tin,
it's nineteen forty two,
it had a wood frame,
the cop on the bottom.
I just love stuff that I
can see the life in it.
I can see the personality of it.
JEFF: Yeah, that's
rough. What do you think?
MIKE: How about a
couple hundred bucks?
JEFF: Throw another
twenty five in there.
MIKE: Um, I tell you
what, I'll flip you for it.
JEFF: Alright, that'll
work. That'll work.
[♪]
In the air. Tails.
MIKE: It's tails.
FRANK: Two and a quarter.
You got what you wanted.
MIKE: Alright. Hey, thanks.
Once the ice got broken,
the adrenaline rush kicked in.
There was stuff flying
off the shelf there.
It was deal after deal.
FRANK: Alright.
JEFF: I got you bro.
MIKE: I'll take this for twenty.
JEFF: That'll work with me.
FRANK: Hey Jeff, what
about the scale over here?
It's kind of a neat piece.
JEFF: It is.
FRANK: How's
three hundred on it?
JEFF: Sold.
FRANK: Alright.
Good deal. Thank you.
MIKE: This looks like you
took a bath in it after we
went picking.
That's what's left. That
the ring around the tub.
JEFF: I'll take a buck for it.
FRANK: We'll do
it for a hundred.
FRANK: What are you
pulling out there Mike?
MIKE: It's this really
cool porcelain double
sided dealer sign.
JEFF: What do you think?
MIKE: Seventy five bucks.
JEFF: Sold.
MIKE: What can you tell
me about this sign right here?
MIKE: I've never
seen that sign before.
It's a gas service station
sign, it's large, it's in charge.
MIKE: I'm going
to check it out here.
JEFF: Most of them have
been shot with BB guns and
pellet guns and so
forth. That one's perfect.
MIKE: I thought the
sign was really cool.
I could tell there
wasn't a lot of chips in it.
It's a porcelain sign.
Really cool colors.
I'm like you wanna
sell that sign.
MIKE: Jeff, how about
five hundred bucks on that?
JEFF: Uh, that's
a hell of a sign.
MIKE: Why don't
we do this? Five fifty.
JEFF: Done. Okay.
God, I hate to see it go.
MIKE: For a while there,
I was like, hey, Judge,
price check on aisle five,
and he came back at me
with a number
and it was perfect.
MIKE: Hey, what about
this wooden propeller?
MIKE: I found a couple
other wood airplane
propellers before, we
bought them in the past.
They're very easy to sell.
MIKE: How about one fifty?
JEFF: Them? I think I
paid a hundred and fifty or
more for that thing.
Let's take it outside
and look at it.
MIKE: Alright.
JEFF: It's probably worth
two, but I'll take a buck
seventy five.
MIKE: Let's do the flip.
MIKE: Heads. [censored].
FRANK: Tails. You're
at one seventy five.
That's fifty in losses today.
MIKE: Alright,
we got a propeller.
MIKE: I realized that the
thing is probably for an airboat.
It was a pusher propeller,
and it's got an eight bowl
pattern which is indicative
to that kind of propeller.
It's still a great piece.
[♪]
JEFF: I've saved
the good stuff 'til last.
MIKE: Oh, alright.
JEFF: We can slip
through the woods.
MIKE: We're walking
through the swamp/jungle
and I see some letters
sticking out of the
ground, they're porcelain.
MIKE: C-E-E-D.
MIKE: You pick up Oprah
magazine, Martha Stewart,
restoration hardware,
pottery barn, you're going
to see those letters in there.
So now, I'm seeing the
real deal in the dirt, and
I'm digging 'em out of
the dirt and I'm thinking to
myself, okay, these
have got to be worth fifty,
sixty bucks a piece.
MIKE: Judge, can I buy a vowel?
MIKE: Any more in here?
MIKE: And I keep pulling
'em out and I'm adding
this up in my mind.
FRANK: It's like
digging for gold.
MIKE: Yeah.
FRANK: It's like
sifting through the sand.
MIKE: I was
looking for the gold.
How much for the letters?
JEFF: Well let me see what it
says and see how many we got.
MIKE: We got D-I...
you know what?
I think they are probably?
It's probably from an old
sign shop and they just
said anything, you know?
FRANK: Leftovers or something?
JEFF: I don't know, what
will you give me for them?
MIKE: Two hundred bucks.
JEFF: Take 'em. That'll work.
MIKE: Alright, thank you.
JEFF: Two hundred bucks. Done.
FRANK: At the end of
the day, we left Jeff's place,
we had a van full
of stuff, had fun.
[♪]
MIKE: And this
thing here I love.
FRANK: Ah, it's beautiful.
[♪]
I think you did
really good on this.
MIKE: Somebody's got
that sign and they're missing
that dealer section.
That's going to be like
the holy grail for them.
[♪]
We come all the way to
Florida to see stuff like this.
So I'm glad we
finally found it man.
Alright. Thank you.
JEFF: Thank you.
FRANK: We did good.
We did good man.
MIKE: Woo! We're going to
come back to Iowa with our heads
held high going, we scored!
Getting excited about
getting back to my dogs.
My little dog Ruby,
my little dog Scowl.
They miss me. What about
you? What about your cat?
FRANK: Yeah, I'm
missing Arby, he's my man.
He hears the hinge of the
gate and he knows I'm home.
MIKE: He misses
his picking papa.
[♪]
We're almost home!
We're almost home!
[honking horn]
MIKE: Hey honey!
DANIELLE: Hey!
FRANK: I got all this stuff.
All this snow.
MIKE: Long trip.
DANIELLE: Give
me an E, give me an I.
These are great.
Cool. I want all of them.
MIKE: This is a real movie.
Billy the Kid versus Dracula.
DANIELLE: I got to have this.
This is why you do what you do.
MIKE: This is the big daddy.
KENNY: This is it.
MIKE: I usually don't
mess around with buying
signs this big.
MIKE: We had Kenny come
over because we brought
the Citizens sign back
from the south and we just
wanted his opinion
on how we did on it.
Danielle cleaned up one side.
FRANK: We wanted to
show you the before and after.
MIKE: Just in case
you were interested.
KENNY: That's in
real nice condition.
Uh, one to ten, I would
grade this sign as a nine plus.
You got the original bracket.
MIKE: What do you think?
KENNY: Oh, I think
the sign will bring fifteen
hundred real easy.
MIKE: Man, I love my job.
[♪]
MIKE: Kenny, one thing
that I've always wanted to
know is, the year of
the sign, does it always
coincide with this number
down here on the very
bottom of it?
KENNY: Yeah, most of the
time, the last two numbers
on it, like this is
nineteen fifty six.
FRANK: Fifty six, okay. Cool.
KENNY: What makes
this pretty unique too if it's
got any kind of animal on it.
I mean, if this sign
didn't have this dog on
here, cut the price in half.
MIKE: We appreciate
you coming by man.
there wasn't a man she'd
let near her.
When she was eighteen,
there wasn't one she kept away.
So these are what you
were watching when you were
like twelve?
Oh lord!
I mean, this guy literally
had bought every single
thing in the state of Florida
that was gas pump related.
This is our only shot
down here. This is it.
FRANK: I know. I know.
MIKE: I'm Mike Wolfe.
FRANK: And I'm Frank Fritz.
MIKE: And we're pickers.
FRANK: We travel the back
roads of America looking
for rusty gold.
We're looking for amazing
things buried in people's
garages and barns.
MIKE: What most people see
as junk, we see as dollar signs.
FRANK: We'll buy anything if
we think we can make a buck on it.
MIKE: Each item we pick
has a history all its own
and the people we meet, well
they're a breed all their own.
We make a living telling
the history of America one
piece at a time.
[♪]
MIKE: Have you noticed
when things are really
good, when we're buying
and selling really good,
Danielle books us in
really nice rooms and then
when we're not doing so
hot, twenty nine ninety five?
You know, picking in the
south is extremely tough.
It's really hard to find
anything down here.
FRANK: That just gives
you a general guideline.
Have any of that kind of stuff?
MAN: No.
MIKE: We're pickers from Iowa.
FRANK: See anything
on that list you might have?
BEARDED MAN: Nah.
MIKE: We buy old stuff...
MAN IN CAR: No. No, I
couldn't part with any of it.
MIKE: No?
MIKE: We don't make any
money unless we find something.
We're only as good as the
last deal we make, so we
had Danielle dig through
some files to see if we
had any kind of old contacts
down here whatsoever.
MIKE: Hey Danielle,
what's going on?
DANIELLE: I have a
cool lead that I think you'll
really like. I sent
you coordinates.
FRANK: Alright girl.
MIKE: Thanks honey.
MIKE: Our plan for today
is we're going to go check
out a guy named Tony.
You know, he's into movie
posters, he's into vending
machines, he's
into gas and oil stuff.
FRANK: Hopefully we can
score something out of him here.
MIKE: I mean, we got
to make it happen man.
MIKE: How you
doing? This is Frank.
TONY: Nice to meet you.
FRANK: Tony, Frank Fritz.
TONY: Nice to meet you.
MIKE: We drove all the way
down here from Iowa hoping
it would be a little bit warmer.
Everybody's complaining
to us, saying we brought the
weather with us.
TONY: I think you did.
FRANK: What's happening
down here? It's freezing.
MIKE: So your family was in
the drive-in movie business?
TONY: Yeah. Right down the road.
FRANK: Oh okay. Cool. Wow.
MIKE: You got a lot of stuff.
FRANK: Cool stuff.
He's actually the kind
of guy that I like to go to.
Just a big clutter.
TONY: I've been collecting
everything all my life.
When I was about five
or six years old, I started
collecting bottles and
it just went from there.
FRANK: It's like
a disease, isn't it?
TONY: It is. Very addictive.
MIKE: So if you're always
buying stuff, are you
selling a lot of stuff too?
TONY: I like buying
better than selling.
MIKE: Yeah? TONY: Yeah.
MIKE: I mean,
do you sell at all?
TONY: I sell a few
things occasionally.
MIKE: People come
in here and buy stuff?
TONY: Nobody ever comes in here.
MIKE: Okay, cool.
Is that early a movie camera?
TONY: That's a silent
movie era light projector.
[♪]
MIKE: Hey, the
clock back there...
TONY: That hung over a
funeral home back in the forties.
MIKE: On the primary
search, boom, first thing
I saw on the wall
was that neon clock.
That thing was smoking.
MIKE: What's the
crazy number on it?
TONY: A thousand.
MIKE: A thousand
bucks for the clock?
MIKE: That is crazy.
TONY: New neon.
MIKE: I don't think so. I
can't make any money on it.
TONY: You know you want it.
MIKE: No. Not for
a thousand bucks.
It's a cool piece, but I
got to find something I
can break the ice with.
These are cool. These
are really old huh?
What do you get for
something like that?
TONY: What would you
pay for something like that?
MIKE: I can't buy it
and then sell it Tony.
TONY: I can. I can.
MIKE: You could
see the age of them.
I mean they were probably
from the teens, twenties.
They're really great,
deco-looking designs on them.
Would you do a hundred
and fifty bucks for all of them?
TONY: Would you give
two hundred for all of them?
MIKE: No.
TONY: No?
MIKE: No, because there's
too many that are busted.
MIKE: How about a
hundred and sixty bucks.
TONY: Go ahead.
MIKE: Then we knew, it
was like, hey, game on, maybe
things aren't going to
be so expensive here.
FRANK: Watch supply stuff.
I mean, they're little
itty bitty nuts. No gears.
MIKE: Frank, you found
some very small nuts.
TONY: How much
are small nuts worth?
MIKE: I don't have small
nuts so I wouldn't know.
FRANK: Not that much.
FRANK: Inside the boxes
were a bunch of pocket
watch and wristwatch parts.
Hands, crowns, movements.
I'm at like fifteen bucks
a piece, I'll take all ten.
TONY: Just give me two
hundred bucks for all ten.
FRANK: I think for the
right person, that could
be worth some money.
FRANK: Okay, so I'm
at two hundred on those.
TONY: You can have that.
FRANK: I got a friend
named Bellamy, what would
that... what would your
price be on that clock?
TONY: Forty.
FRANK: For forty
dollars I'll take it.
TONY: Okay.
FRANK: So, on the posters,
have you ever done any
research on these?
TONY: Most of what I
have is from the late fifties,
sixties, and seventies.
MIKE: So what kind of
movies did you guys show
at the, at the drive-in Tony?
TONY: Whatever it
took. Whatever it took.
MIKE: Listen to this Frankie.
When she was seventeen,
there wasn't a man she'd
let near her.
When she was eighteen,
there wasn't one she kept away.
So these are what you
were watching when you were
like twelve?
TONY: I wasn't supposed to be.
MIKE: I mean, have you
gone through all of these?
TONY: Some of them. There
should be four or five thousand.
MIKE: Really? Holy crap.
MIKE: That's the money
to be made here and
unfortunately, we don't
have enough room in our
van to haul all those,
and another is we're not
versed in them.
FRANK: She became a stripper.
MIKE: Would you sell
any of these posters?
TONY: Yeah.
FRANK: Would you go
a buck a piece on them?
TONY: Nope. Nope.
MIKE: What do you
want for Born Losers?
TONY: What would you
give me for Born Losers?
MIKE: I knew you
were going to say that.
I don't know, I like it
'cause it's motorcycle.
TONY: Eh, twenty bucks.
MIKE: Twenty bucks? Okay.
MIKE: Who do you think
would win this fight Frank?
Billy the Kid or Dracula?
FRANK: Dracula.
'Cause he don't die.
He'd have to shoot him with
a wooden stake out of the gun.
Impossible.
MIKE: The subject matter
was so funky, unusual, different.
MIKE: How much is that?
TONY: Give me twenty
bucks. You can have it.
MIKE: You know twenty bucks.
That's a awesome piece.
How much is this thing?
TONY: Uh, we'll
go three hundred?
MIKE: I don't know.
TONY: I'll throw in the box.
This is the box, the original
box it was shipped in.
MIKE: Gas globes were
advertising pieces that
actually lit up and sat at
the top of a pump, okay?
I was like wow
that's a cool piece.
There's so many people
looking for that type of stuff.
How 'bout two hundred?
[♪]
TONY: You hard man.
MIKE: Yeah, right.
FRANK: Alright, let's get
this stuff loaded out here Mike.
Oh, the sunshine's out. Great.
MIKE: I love this clock
you got. That's cool.
FRANK: I'm all
about two fifty on that.
[♪]
FRANK: It's nice he
had the box with it.
That helps out a lot.
MIKE: There's a lot of
guys that just collect gas
globes, and this one
is worth at least eight
hundred dollars.
[♪]
MIKE: The movie reel
item, someone's going to use
those for a decorator
piece in their house, and
I think I'll get fifty bucks
a piece on those things.
[♪]
MIKE: Thanks Tony!
TONY: Thank you.
MIKE: We need to call
one of our buddies Bill out in
California, he's a
movie poster guy.
Frankie and I are down in
Georgia here, and we came
across a ton of movie posters.
This guy's got like four
thousand movie posters.
BILL: Oh wow man
that sounds great.
MIKE: You know those
Born Loser movie posters?
You know the chopper chick?
BILL: Yeah, those
are really good.
MIKE: Yeah, what
are those worth?
BILL: Probably a
couple hundred bucks.
MIKE: A couple hundred bucks?
I got three of them.
[♪]
MIKE: I'll e-mail you that
guy's contact information and
if you guys hook it up, you
know, just send us a check.
You got the address.
FRANK: Yeah, let us
know how it works out.
BILL: No problem.
MIKE: Alright buddy, take care.
MIKE: If Bill does any
deal with Tony at all,
then he's going to give
us a finder's fee on it and
that's the way we
work on a lot of things.
MIKE: Alright
dude. Let's hit it.
FMIKE: Man, I don't seek
abnothing down here dude but
strip malls, trailer
parks, tumble weeds.
FRANK: The zoning
laws down in Florida, they
don't let you have a
tractor out in the front
yard, they don't let
you have junk cars.
We do a lot of
picking by our eyes.
When you can't see
anything, you're just
driving by places that
could potentially have
stuff, but you know, we
wouldn't possibly stop.
MIKE: That leaves us
halfwhalfway through Flora
and we haven't really
scored anything but crap.
FRANK: I'll end u
to buy one of those
stuffed alligator heads
that they sell on the corners.
And that'll be my
big whole Florida trip.
[phone rings]
MIKE: Hey, what's up?
DANIELLE: Hey! I really
got a cool pick for you.
FRANK: What do you got?
DANIELLE: There's this
gentleman named Wayne.
He's got a bunch of cool stuff.
All kinds of bicycles,
motorcycles.
MIKE: We're turning around girl.
DANIELLE: Good luck.
MIKE: We're going to
have to drive all the way
back into the swamps
if we're going to find
anything at all on this trip.
FRANK: We got three
quarters of a tank so
we're looking good.
MIKE: The moment of truth.
Did we do the right thing?
FRANK: A hundred and
twenty miles out of the way.
I hope this is going to pay off.
FRANK: My name's
Frank. WAYNE: Hey Frank.
MIKE: Hey, Mike Wolfe.
WAYNE: How you doing Mike?
MIKE: Nice to meet you.
WAYNE: Nice to meet ya'll.
FRANK: You talked to Danielle?
MIKE: She said you had
some stuff and uh, here we are.
We drove all the way from Iowa.
FRANK: So we've been
seeing on the news Wayne,
this is like a record cold snap.
WAYNE: Yeah.
FRANK: You know, Wayne
has a great accumulation of
stuff here.
I'm thinking that we're
going to leave with
something good.
MIKE: I've had these
boat motors before but I
haven't seen a two
cylinder like this.
WAYNE: That was built
about nineteen fifteen.
FRANK: What do you
estimate that's worth?
WAYNE: I've turned
down a thousand dollars.
MIKE: These earlier
carburetors, they're hard
to find because they're
really show boaters.
So this is a carburetor
off this engine?
WAYNE: Right.
MIKE: This is the same
carburetor that would be
on an early motorcycle.
WAYNE: Yeah.
MIKE: I knew he probably
wasn't going to sell me
the carburetor 'cause
he had the motor to it but I
was like, what the hell.
MIKE: Two hundred bucks?
WAYNE: Nope.
FRANK: Oh, look
at that. That's cute.
MIKE: You know, we walked
in the building and we saw
the ice cream truck.
The front end of it was
real cool man, it almost
looked like a Buck
Rogers space ship.
MIKE: Is this
something you'd sell?
WAYNE: No.
FRANK: No way huh?
MIKE: He was like, oh no.
FRANK: That's
not going anywhere.
WAYNE: We got a
couple old motorcycles.
FRANK: My ears perked
up when I heard motorcycles.
WAYNE: We got a
couple of old mustangs.
MIKE: It's like really
cool economical
motorcycles back then.
WAYNE: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright, is any
of that stuff for sale?
WAYNE: No.
MIKE: Not for sale?
FRANK: The honda's not for sale?
WAYNE: No.
MIKE: The things that we
really thought were cool,
they were definitely off
limits and that's not what
we wanted to hear
after such a long trip.
MIKE: Alright. WAYNE: Yeah.
FRANK: Take care of
yourself. See you again.
MIKE: I start calculating
all the costs of this trip.
The miles, the fuel, the
hotels, Frankie's food.
It's getting crazy.
We've got to score
something soon.
FRANK: Place was a bust.
MIKE: Let's freaking
call Danielle and
share in this BS together.
[phone rings]
DANIELLE: Hello.
MIKE: We just went two
hundred and forty miles
out of our way dude.
FRANK: He wouldn't sell
nothing. The ice cream thing?
Have a nice day.
DANIELLE: Pick up your
skirt Nancy and just keep going.
[♪]
FRANK: I'm going to
check the radio station here.
RADIO: Crazy cold today again.
High of only thirty seven.
Low tonight, about
fifteen degrees.
FRANK: This is the coldest day?
And it's my first time
down here? What's up?
As long as we're driving
around, we're out there,
we're looking - that's
the best we can do.
MIKE: Above ground
pool? FRANK: No good.
MIKE: Swing set? FRANK: No good.
MIKE: Yard's mowed.
FRANK: No good.
MIKE: Brand new
truck? FRANK: No good.
MIKE: Tractor. John Deer!
FRANK: Oh, John Deer tractor.
MIKE: We're home.
MIKE: All of a sudden, we
come across this property.
We start seeing all these
tractors and we can see
some signs.
It's a little slice of
Iowa here in Florida.
MIKE: This place looks killer.
FRANK: Oh, I know. Morning!
JEFF: Good morning gentlemen!
FRANK: Hi, how you
doing? My name's Frank.
JEFF: Jeff Miller.
FRANK: Jeff? Nice to meet you.
MIKE: I'm Mike.
Good to meet you.
JEFF: Good to meet you sir.
MIKE: We're from Iowa,
so we saw the tractors.
FRANK: Yeah, we buy
a little bit of everything,
didn't know if you uh...
JEFF: I got probably
two thirds of what you're
looking for.
FRANK: That's good in our book.
MIKE: Are you used to
this weather down here?
JEFF: No sir.
JEFF: Need a little hand there.
MIKE: Oh lord.
Oh my god.
FRANK: Wow.
MIKE: This is amazing.
FRANK: This is a
good cold call stop Mike.
JEFF: It's sort of a hobby
that went wild, you know?
MIKE: I can see that!
FRANK: Some places we've
been to, certain areas and
stuff, they said that
there's like zoning laws
and ordnances on being
able to have stuff on your
own personal property.
How did you get away with
having so much stuff here
in your yard?
JEFF: Well, I'm an
attorney and they don't
want to fool with me.
MIKE: Oh, okay.
FRANK: Can we look around a bit?
JEFF: Sure! Absolutely.
MIKE: Hell yeah. Woo!
FRANK: It's a lot to
look at here Jefford.
MIKE: I mean this guy
literally had bought every
single thing in the state
of Florida that that was
gas pump related.
FRANK: Look at this! I've
never seen one of these before.
MIKE: I mean, we
were overwhelmed.
MIKE: Some kind of European
bike. It's a Jawa. Super cool.
FRANK: Hey check
this out! Check this out!
MIKE: It was like,
what do we do?
What do we buy first?
FRANK: Which way do we go?
MIKE: Yeah, which way do we go?
MIKE: This is killer dude!
FRANK: The killer part's
going to be when we ask
him about the first thing.
JEFF: Just sing out if
you have any questions.
FRANK: What do you think
about these mobile oil bottles?
JEFF: Eight of them, I'd
say about two hundred a
piece, that's sixteen
hundred plus the carrier,
you're looking at
close to two grand on it.
FRANK: Two grand?
MIKE: I was so hoping that
you weren't going to come
to me and go, Mike, I
think we can make some
money on those oil bottles.
FRANK: And all I had to
do was break one and then
we'd be going backwards.
MIKE: Were you one
of those kids that was
hanging around the service
station and somebody would
pull in and you'd go out
and wash their windshield?
JEFF: That was my whole
world, I mean, you know...
MIKE: Working at his
Grandpa's gas station, he
remembers so many
fond memories of that.
FRANK: Yeah, we're
understanding how this
collection came about.
JEFF: Let me show
you this one back here.
MIKE: Alright.
JEFF: Now that's city
service but see how they
spelled gasoline.
FRANK: Oh ya the difference. Ya.
JEFF: That came
from New England.
Now that's no reflection
on New England but they
spell it different.
MIKE: How about the Ford sign?
Is that something
that could be bought?
JEFF: No, a Ford
dealer gave it to me.
MIKE: Yeah, it's a good one.
This is actually
an all-state Vespa.
JEFF: I believe it
was sold by Sears.
MIKE: Is that
something you'd sell?
JEFF: I'd have to have
about thirty five hundred
dollars, if I was
going to sell it.
FRANK: He was like,
well, if I was going to sell it.
I thought, here we go again.
MIKE: How long
were practicing law?
JEFF: Well I started when
I was admitted to the bar
in Alabama in 1967.
Till a very perceptive
governor appointed me to
the circuit bench, which I
stayed twenty more years.
MIKE: Oh, so you were a judge?
JEFF: Yeah, twenty years.
Let me give you my card.
MIKE: It's that kinda like
a get out of jail free card?
FRANK: I was gonna say
in case we need to use your
name or something
while we're down here.
MIKE: Alright here we go Franky.
We got four of them.
JEFF: Behind you in
a Rio speed wagon.
So the band grabbed that name.
Ya the gear shifts backwards.
MIKE: I'm in winter park.
FRANK: Imagine
yourself cruisin'.
MIKE: I got a load of
oranges to get to market.
Yeah, how much is this?
JEFF: I'd say probably
about eight grand if it runs.
MIKE: What are you thinking?
JEFF: Ain't bad.
FRANK: Pass.
MIKE: I saw this
cigarette machine.
Row vending machine
company in New York.
What would you have to
have for something like that?
JEFF: Well, if I was
selling it, it would be
fairly expensive but I'm
not gonna turn it loose.
MIKE: We were like
dogs on a chain, okay.
We were at the end of the
chain, we were just like this.
We couldn't get at the stuff.
We're trying to touch
it, we're trying to buy it,
but it wasn't happening.
MIKE: Jeff, how about five d
of down on our luck in Florida.
We weren't really
finding anything.
FRANK: So being able
to find a guy like Jefford -
unbelievable.
MIKE: This is what we've
been freaking praying for.
FRANK: Oh, I know.
MIKE: This is our only
shot down here. This is it.
FRANK: I know. MIKE: This is it.
MIKE: One of the things
that we're going to need
to do with the Judge
is break the ice here.
MIKE: I think the
money's in the signs.
Signs have gone up so
much in the last ten years.
I like that Hood tire
sign. That's cool.
FRANK: Dude, that is cool.
MIKE: Why I gravitated
towards it - it's tin,
it's nineteen forty two,
it had a wood frame,
the cop on the bottom.
I just love stuff that I
can see the life in it.
I can see the personality of it.
JEFF: Yeah, that's
rough. What do you think?
MIKE: How about a
couple hundred bucks?
JEFF: Throw another
twenty five in there.
MIKE: Um, I tell you
what, I'll flip you for it.
JEFF: Alright, that'll
work. That'll work.
[♪]
In the air. Tails.
MIKE: It's tails.
FRANK: Two and a quarter.
You got what you wanted.
MIKE: Alright. Hey, thanks.
Once the ice got broken,
the adrenaline rush kicked in.
There was stuff flying
off the shelf there.
It was deal after deal.
FRANK: Alright.
JEFF: I got you bro.
MIKE: I'll take this for twenty.
JEFF: That'll work with me.
FRANK: Hey Jeff, what
about the scale over here?
It's kind of a neat piece.
JEFF: It is.
FRANK: How's
three hundred on it?
JEFF: Sold.
FRANK: Alright.
Good deal. Thank you.
MIKE: This looks like you
took a bath in it after we
went picking.
That's what's left. That
the ring around the tub.
JEFF: I'll take a buck for it.
FRANK: We'll do
it for a hundred.
FRANK: What are you
pulling out there Mike?
MIKE: It's this really
cool porcelain double
sided dealer sign.
JEFF: What do you think?
MIKE: Seventy five bucks.
JEFF: Sold.
MIKE: What can you tell
me about this sign right here?
MIKE: I've never
seen that sign before.
It's a gas service station
sign, it's large, it's in charge.
MIKE: I'm going
to check it out here.
JEFF: Most of them have
been shot with BB guns and
pellet guns and so
forth. That one's perfect.
MIKE: I thought the
sign was really cool.
I could tell there
wasn't a lot of chips in it.
It's a porcelain sign.
Really cool colors.
I'm like you wanna
sell that sign.
MIKE: Jeff, how about
five hundred bucks on that?
JEFF: Uh, that's
a hell of a sign.
MIKE: Why don't
we do this? Five fifty.
JEFF: Done. Okay.
God, I hate to see it go.
MIKE: For a while there,
I was like, hey, Judge,
price check on aisle five,
and he came back at me
with a number
and it was perfect.
MIKE: Hey, what about
this wooden propeller?
MIKE: I found a couple
other wood airplane
propellers before, we
bought them in the past.
They're very easy to sell.
MIKE: How about one fifty?
JEFF: Them? I think I
paid a hundred and fifty or
more for that thing.
Let's take it outside
and look at it.
MIKE: Alright.
JEFF: It's probably worth
two, but I'll take a buck
seventy five.
MIKE: Let's do the flip.
MIKE: Heads. [censored].
FRANK: Tails. You're
at one seventy five.
That's fifty in losses today.
MIKE: Alright,
we got a propeller.
MIKE: I realized that the
thing is probably for an airboat.
It was a pusher propeller,
and it's got an eight bowl
pattern which is indicative
to that kind of propeller.
It's still a great piece.
[♪]
JEFF: I've saved
the good stuff 'til last.
MIKE: Oh, alright.
JEFF: We can slip
through the woods.
MIKE: We're walking
through the swamp/jungle
and I see some letters
sticking out of the
ground, they're porcelain.
MIKE: C-E-E-D.
MIKE: You pick up Oprah
magazine, Martha Stewart,
restoration hardware,
pottery barn, you're going
to see those letters in there.
So now, I'm seeing the
real deal in the dirt, and
I'm digging 'em out of
the dirt and I'm thinking to
myself, okay, these
have got to be worth fifty,
sixty bucks a piece.
MIKE: Judge, can I buy a vowel?
MIKE: Any more in here?
MIKE: And I keep pulling
'em out and I'm adding
this up in my mind.
FRANK: It's like
digging for gold.
MIKE: Yeah.
FRANK: It's like
sifting through the sand.
MIKE: I was
looking for the gold.
How much for the letters?
JEFF: Well let me see what it
says and see how many we got.
MIKE: We got D-I...
you know what?
I think they are probably?
It's probably from an old
sign shop and they just
said anything, you know?
FRANK: Leftovers or something?
JEFF: I don't know, what
will you give me for them?
MIKE: Two hundred bucks.
JEFF: Take 'em. That'll work.
MIKE: Alright, thank you.
JEFF: Two hundred bucks. Done.
FRANK: At the end of
the day, we left Jeff's place,
we had a van full
of stuff, had fun.
[♪]
MIKE: And this
thing here I love.
FRANK: Ah, it's beautiful.
[♪]
I think you did
really good on this.
MIKE: Somebody's got
that sign and they're missing
that dealer section.
That's going to be like
the holy grail for them.
[♪]
We come all the way to
Florida to see stuff like this.
So I'm glad we
finally found it man.
Alright. Thank you.
JEFF: Thank you.
FRANK: We did good.
We did good man.
MIKE: Woo! We're going to
come back to Iowa with our heads
held high going, we scored!
Getting excited about
getting back to my dogs.
My little dog Ruby,
my little dog Scowl.
They miss me. What about
you? What about your cat?
FRANK: Yeah, I'm
missing Arby, he's my man.
He hears the hinge of the
gate and he knows I'm home.
MIKE: He misses
his picking papa.
[♪]
We're almost home!
We're almost home!
[honking horn]
MIKE: Hey honey!
DANIELLE: Hey!
FRANK: I got all this stuff.
All this snow.
MIKE: Long trip.
DANIELLE: Give
me an E, give me an I.
These are great.
Cool. I want all of them.
MIKE: This is a real movie.
Billy the Kid versus Dracula.
DANIELLE: I got to have this.
This is why you do what you do.
MIKE: This is the big daddy.
KENNY: This is it.
MIKE: I usually don't
mess around with buying
signs this big.
MIKE: We had Kenny come
over because we brought
the Citizens sign back
from the south and we just
wanted his opinion
on how we did on it.
Danielle cleaned up one side.
FRANK: We wanted to
show you the before and after.
MIKE: Just in case
you were interested.
KENNY: That's in
real nice condition.
Uh, one to ten, I would
grade this sign as a nine plus.
You got the original bracket.
MIKE: What do you think?
KENNY: Oh, I think
the sign will bring fifteen
hundred real easy.
MIKE: Man, I love my job.
[♪]
MIKE: Kenny, one thing
that I've always wanted to
know is, the year of
the sign, does it always
coincide with this number
down here on the very
bottom of it?
KENNY: Yeah, most of the
time, the last two numbers
on it, like this is
nineteen fifty six.
FRANK: Fifty six, okay. Cool.
KENNY: What makes
this pretty unique too if it's
got any kind of animal on it.
I mean, if this sign
didn't have this dog on
here, cut the price in half.
MIKE: We appreciate
you coming by man.