American Pickers (2010–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Bigfoot in Alabama - full transcript
This time on American Pickers... While visiting a Mississippi motorbike collector, Mike spots a rare 1969 Kawasaki muscle bike. The guys head to Alabama where they find a prolific car hobbyist whose yard looks like a vintage parking lot. They scour the bizarre collection at the Alabama Museum of Wonder where everything is for sale, and then catch a lucky break in a Birmingham scooter shop.
MIKE: Welcome to Alabama. EO;
[laughter]
Lambretta stuff is
extremely hard to find.
MIKE: Hey, I am
interested in that Lambretta.
If you'd do forty
bucks on it, I'd buy it.
MIKE: So we stop off at the
Alabama Museum of Wonder.
BUTCH: That's a possum mummy.
MIKE: Squirrel feet, Franky.
BUTCH: This is the
Bigfoot collection.
MIKE: Who knows what
to believe in this place?
MIKE: What would
you want for this?
ALVIN: Two-thousand. Fifteen
hundred. Sixty five hundred.
FRANK: Never.
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
we think we can make a buck on.
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: All right man, we've
made the pilgrimage back
to Mississippi.
FRANK: You know, when
we came down here we thought
it was gonna be warmer. Not.
MIKE: But you know what?
It's still better than
being back home dude.
We'd be snow blowing.
FRANK: No doubt.
MIKE: John's an old lead that
we picked before in Mississippi.
We bought some really
amazing stuff in the past from him.
We're hoping this guy's
gonna be around so we can
stop again.
JOHN: Good to see ya man.
MIKE: Good to see ya too.
FRANK: How ya been?
JOHN: Great. Great.
MIKE: We were in
the neighbourhood,
thought we'd come by.
We haven't been
down here for a while.
Are we still welcome?
JOHN: Yeah.
MIKE: All right. Had to check.
JOHN: I just bought
a bunch of bikes.
MIKE: Oh you did?
FRANK: Bought some more huh?
JOHN: Yeah.
MIKE: Now what are you do
- are you gonna keep these?
Are you gonna fix these
up and sell them or what?
JOHN: Well I probably will sell
some of them but I'd ride them.
MIKE: He's seventy-two
years old. He's still riding.
I mean that is his passion.
JOHN: I have 150
bikes in all, 26 Harleys.
When I'm riding a Harley
I'm just in hog's heaven.
JOHN: Come on. I'll show you.
FRANK: All right.
MIKE: It's been two years
since we've been here.
Now when we come
back, we revisit, the stuff is
just, you know, continuing to
disintegrate into the ground.
The roofs are getting
worse on the sheds.
The water's coming in.
JOHN: Boy, it really went down.
It was in pretty
shape when I got it.
MIKE: Stuff's just not
looking that good anymore.
JOHN: It's the first time I've
been back here in five years.
MIKE: You got it all
packed in here man.
This baby's overloaded.
FRANK: These were
a fast bike in their day.
[♪]
MIKE: Oh lord.
FRANK: If you were to
sell something like this,
what would you sell it for?
JOHN: About fifteen hundred.
FRANK: The prices have went up.
They've increased thirty
percent from last time I
was here.
MIKE: So has inflation.
FRANK: Hey, how much
would something like this be,
John, that's sitting
out in the rain here?
JOHN: Two thousand. Fifteen
hundred. Sixty-five hundred.
FRANK: Never... In the
wildest days of dreams.
[laughs]
If I ask another price, I
hope Mike has smelling
salts because I'm
gonna hit the ground.
JOHN: Need any lighting?
FRANK: Lighting
what? Uh moon shine?
JOHN: Yeah white light.
FRANK: Is that moon shine?
JOHN: That's what it was.
FRANK: If I don't...
MIKE: And you
guys drank it all huh?
FRANK: If I don't buy
something pretty quick,
imma need a shot.
MIKE: Ya no doubt.
There he's got a little
bit left Franky try it.
JOHN: No I didn't
want it to freeze.
These jugs are worth
five dollars a piece.
MIKE: Oh are they?
JOHN: That's s a old Kawasaki.
MIKE: I think this is
an early one, dude.
MIKE: I kind of
took a double take.
I'm like is that really the
Kawasaki five hundred triple.
That's like the muscle
cars of that period.
This is the muscle
bike of that period.
And then what
that means to us is?
FRANK: Profit.
MIKE: Dollar signs.
[♪]
These were like stuff that
people dreamed about.
A lot of guys that were in
the war, in Nam when they
were looking at magazines,
they were like I gotta
have one of those
when I get back.
MIKE: Wouldn't that be bad if
this is like serial number one?
FRANK: Keep
telling yourself that.
MIKE: This one's
three, two, one, oh, eight.
I mean this thing is pretty
much roached but the
fact of the matter
is is that it exists.
FRANK: There's a lot
of usable parts there.
It's got the original
carbs, original airbox.
I think it's gonna be
a real usable piece.
MIKE: What would
you want for this?
JOHN: That'd be cheap.
MIKE: I know. How
cheap you talking?
JOHN: Couple of hundred.
MIKE: Couple hundred bucks?
JOHN: Yeah.
MIKE: If we can get that
bike for a hundred bucks,
even though it's roached,
even though it's trashed,
we're gonna do well on it.
FRANK: We were
kinda interested in that
Kawasaki down there.
You told us a couple hundred.
FRANK: He knows the
game. 101 bargaining.
FRANK: You say
two, we ay a hundred.
Then we'll split it. One fifty?
JOHN: Yeah. Yeah I'd do
it, to get it out of there but...
MIKE: Is that delivered?
JOHN: No.
JOHN: I like them. I
can trust them pretty well.
A lot of people come look
for the bikes, they just want
to get something but they
always pay for what they get.
JOHN: I had a fire.
MIKE: Oh you had a fire.
JOHN: And I woke up.
That blind dog woke me up.
MIKE: You had a fire in here.
JOHN: Yeah. All up here.
MIKE: Oh ya I
can see the mirror.
So your blind dog let
you know about the fire.
JOHN: Ya he woke me
up, poking me in the face.
JOHN: There he come.
Whop don't scratch up the bike.
Whop, whop, easy...
Bubba's a wide glide you
know like the wide front
end on the Harley.
FRANK: You're a good boy huh?
JOHN: If it hadn't been
for Bubba, I wouldn't have
any of this stuff. I
wouldn't even be alive.
MIKE: We're gonna see
if we can move this thing.
[♪]
FRANK: Oh lord. Has
it got the chain on it?
MIKE: It's got the chain.
FRANK: It's done,
man. It's cooked.
MIKE: It's crispy?
FRANK: Oh man.
You aint gonna be able
to cut the chain off either.
FRANK: That's what bikes do.
The chains lock on them.
You can't move them.
MIKE: See we
moved it two inches.
JOHN: That's a big mess.
FRANK: It aint gonna
work, I'm telling you.
There's no possible way that
we could have did it ourselves.
MIKE: I can't get it. We're
not gonna leave it, man.
[♪]
MIKE: John was so cool.
He fired up the tractor
for us, found a chain and
pulled it out of there.
FRANK: I guess that rain
was good for something today.
[♪]
FRANK: All right.
MIKE: Woo.
That made things
a little bit easier.
She's a beauty.
FRANK: The kind of person
probably that's gonna buy
this bike would be a
restorer, a Japanese
pre-seventies enthusiast
or probably somebody on
the net that's
probably overseas.
FRANK: Hey what's
the warranty on this?
JOHN: About thirty minutes.
FRANK: Thirty minutes?
MIKE: There's been so
many guys put foot on this
property, so many
other pickers, okay?
We came across something
that they didn't see.
FRANK: I think we found
the diamond in the rough.
[♪]
MIKE: We wouldn't have
been able to do that without you.
Thank you so much.
FRANK: Thanks
partner. That was fun.
JOHN: They'll be back.
I'll be looking forward
to seeing them again too.
[♪]
MIKE: I'm thinking we
should start heading a
little bit north and hit 'Bama.
FRANK: Hit Alabama. Alright
MIKE: Yeah
MIKE: Have you ever
been to Alabama?
FRANK: I never have
been there. Let's hit it.
[♪]
FRANK: Hopefully our
accents won't tip us off
that we're not from around here.
MIKE: Dude, I think we
ought to change our names.
You should be uh let me see.
FRANK: Porky?
MIKE: Franky Bobby
and I'll be Mikey Ray.
FRANK: All right.
[laughter]
MIKE: Try to get serious here.
We gotta make some money.
FRANK: I'm trying, dude.
I've been looking - all
I'm doing is looking and
looking and looking.
MIKE: We need a, we need
a home, sweet home Alabama
right now dude.
FRANK: I hear ya kid... Rock.
MIKE: Uh it's Mikey Ray.
FRANK: Hey. Look at this
place. Ooh there's your VW.
There's your VW.
MIKE: Yeah. Volkswagen
van. Volkswagen van.
FRANK: Swing in here real quick.
This place looks awesome man.
MIKE: All right.
First pick of 'Bama.
FRANK: Hello!
JOE: How y'all doing?
MIKE: Mikey Ray.
JOE: Joe Biggs.
FRANK: And I'm
Frank. Nice to meet ya.
JOE: Good to meet you.
FRANK: We buy a little
bit of everything here.
This is kind of one
of our little lists.
JOE: Well y'all want to
come in or look around?
MIKE: We'd love to look around.
FRANK: Yeah. If
you've got enough time.
BOB: [♪]
JOE: Every one of these
cars have little stories.
JOE: I'm a barber by profession.
My hobby is collecting stuff.
My wife says junk. I say stuff.
I just started doing it
about thirty-five years ago.
It's just grown into a
fortune that I haven't got
paid for yet. [laughing]
This truck and this car
belong to a friend of mine
twenty-five years ago.
His wife said 'I want
these cars out of my yard.'
MIKE: What happens when
you bring stuff home like this?
JOE: When I bring stuff
home, I park it back a
little and my wife turns
in the driveway and starts
up the driveway, I have
these automatic blinders
that come up on her.
You know sun visors?
I have them on
each side of her car.
FRANK: It's
called tunnel vision.
MIKE: Oh you got these
sunglasses that fold out?
JOE: Ya they fold out and
she drives up the driveway
and she does not see a thing.
FRANK: Everything's
looks normal.
JOE: Everything looks wonderful.
MIKE: Does she ever
give you any crap about all
this stuff around here?
JOE: Oh yeah, she fusses
all the time, she told me,
she said, 'if you buy
another Studdebaker, I'm
going to divorce you.
MIKE: That's when you
moved into Volkswagens?
JOE: No, no. FRANK: yup
ALL: [laughter]
MIKE: What's going on
with your Thing over here?
You got a Thing.
JOE: It's a, it's
a seventy-four.
The windshield comes
down. The doors come off.
The windows pop out.
FRANK: Yeah. Yeah I
remember. They were cool.
[♪]
JOE: Here's some
things I collect.
FRANK AND MIKE: License plates.
JOE: That sign right there
was the name of my barber
shop I had twenty-six
and half years.
JOE: This is a Lambretta.
MIKE: It's LI one twenty-five.
MIKE: We're in the
hills of Alabama here.
All of a sudden there's
an Italian motor scooter on
this guy's property.
JOE: It's all there.
MIKE: There's no
front wheel on it.
JOE: Oh. Somebody took it off.
MIKE: There's no motor either.
JOE: That's the Lambretta frame.
MIKE: Lambretta stuff
is extremely hard to find.
That scooter was all
together and running it's
fifteen hundred to
two thousand dollars.
We'll feel him out and
see what he wants for it.
If it's cheap, cheap
enough we'll buy it.
JOE: That's an old deco lamp.
FRANK: This is cool. What's
something like this worth?
JOE: Ah forty bucks.
FRANK: I don't know
if I like it forty dollars.
JOE: What do you like it for?
FRANK: I like it at twenty.
JOE: Twenty-five.
FRANK: It's a wooden kind of
modern fifties, sixties looking.
It just needs to be
cleaned up and I think
it's a great piece.
FRANK: Twenty?
All right we'll take that.
[♪]
JOE: This, my
brother-in-law was in
Vietnam and he had, he had
a Vietnamese uh paint this.
FRANK: That's cool.
JOE: On velvet, crushed velvet.
MIKE: Yeah. How much is that?
JOE: For sale?
MIKE: Yeah.
JOE: Thirty bucks.
MIKE: Thirty bucks.
JOE: It's on, it's
on real wood too.
MIKE: It's a little bit
tacky but it's actually
done really well.
It does have a signature.
It's nineteen sixty-six and
he had a cool story with it.
MIKE: How about twenty-five?
JOE: I don't know.
You can't find that kind
of green hair on anybody.
MIKE: [laughing]
I think that's mould.
All right, thirty bucks.
JOE: Okay. Deal.
FRANK: All right.
Twenty on the lamp.
MIKE: All right. We're
at fifty bucks upstairs.
JOE: Whoa. I'm really
making money on you guys.
MIKE: Hey. I'm interested
in that Lambretta.
If you'd do forty
bucks on it, I'd buy it.
JOE: Like Kenny Rogers
says, there's a time to
hold and a time to fold.
JOE: Okay.
MIKE: You know?
All right. Let's do it.
JOE: He's getting
some more of my junk.
MIKE: Now is
that, is that loaded?
JOE: What do you mean?
MIKE: Are you loading it?
JOE: I'll help you drag it out.
[laughs]
JOE: What people do for junk.
FRANK: Yeah I know.
MIKE: Yeah.
FRANK: It aint
easy being a picker.
MIKE: We are heading
towards Birmingham.
A lot of these larger
cities, they have some
sort of a scooter culture.
Maybe they'll take it
off of our hands for, you
know, three hundred bucks.
You know, get it out of
the way because we've
still got a lot of miles to go.
JOE: There's a guy that
appreciates a good buy.
Brrrr, brrrr.
MIKE: Welcome to Alabama.
[laughs]
MIKE: Is there any way
you could ride in the back of
the van and she
could ride in your seat?
How much would that cost?
FRANK: Another twenty
and I'll do anything.
MIKE: All right. Let me,
let me kick that around.
[♪]
MIKE: Oh lordy. Wait a
second. Let me get in there.
FRANK: Here. Let me hold
the weight. Here, I'll just hold it.
MIKE: Thank you so much.
FRANK: All right. Got her?
MIKE: I got her. All righty.
FRANK: All righty. Shut me in.
MIKE: So you're gonna
get, ride in the back?
I got the painting in the front.
FRANK: I'm good.
Let's go eat. Let's go eat.
MIKE: If I knew all I had
to do was offer him twenty
bucks to ride in the
- oh, oh. There he is.
[laughter]
FRANK: I got nervous back there.
MIKE: Oh lord.
FRANK: Thanks Joe.
JOE: All right. See y'all.
FRANK: See y'all later.
You have a good day.
JOE: Come back.
FRANK: Thank you.
MIKE: All right Franky,
I'm trying to remain
optimistic on a
day like today, man.
This is a soggy ass day.
Dude, I don't even know
where the hell we are.
FRANK: We're getting like
way off the beaten track here.
MIKE: My GPS says
there's no road here.
FRANK: Ah the GPS
says there's no road.
MIKE: That's not a good sign.
Let's go down this way.
FRANK: This says Poor House.
MIKE: Poor House
Road? That's us.
FRANK: Let's see if
somebody can give us some
good stuff on a Poor House Road.
MIKE: Here's a museum sign.
FRANK: Oh there's a dude
out here. Swing in here.
MIKE: All right.
This is perfect.
FRANK: Wow. Look at the dude.
[♪]
MIKE: Hey. How's it going?
BUTCH: All right.
How's it going?
FRANK: Seen your sign.
MIKE: Not so good, man. It's
soggy down here. Hey puppy.
What's up dude? Hey I'm Mike.
BUTCH: Hey. Butch.
MIKE: Hey. Nice to meet you.
FRANK: I'm Frank.
BUTCH: All right Frank.
FRANK: How ya doing?
BUTCH: Good to meet ya.
MIKE: It is just
pouring out there.
Yeah we're pickers from Iowa.
BUTCH: Yeah?
MIKE: Yeah. It looks like
you do a little picking yourself.
You got a lot of stuff
laying around here, huh?
BUTCH: Mm hmm. What
kind of junk you looking for?
MIKE: Uh I don't know. We
do a lot of advertising stuff.
We do transportation
stuff. Um...
BUTCH: Taxidermy animals.
I probably got some
of them in there.
MIKE: You got some of those?
FRANK: I see all
your squirrel tails here.
BUTCH: Yeah.
FRANK: Do you shoot them?
BUTCH: Yeah.
BUTCH: And I eat
them. FRANK: Okay.
MIKE: Lay it on me. How do
you cook one? What do you...?
BUTCH: I just batter it
up like a piece of chicken
and fry it in a skillet.
FRANK: I just think it
would take too many
squirrels to fill me up,
you know what I mean?
'Cause they'd be like
chicken wings to me.
MIKE: Yeah. You'd need
about twelve squirrels.
FRANK: I'd do one squirrel in
a shot, you know what I mean?
MIKE: We stopped. We saw you
had a uh museum sign out here.
What kind of museum is it?
BUTCH: Ah just a junk museum.
MIKE: There's stuff
for sale in there?
BUTCH: Sure.
FRANK: All righty.
BUTCH: Everything
in there is for sale.
FRANK: That's
what we like to hear.
MIKE: Maybe this aint
so bad a stop, Franky.
[♪]
MIKE: He had this
really bizarre place.
He was an artist. He had
a lot of things on display.
MIKE: What's this thing?
BUTCH: A petrified
rat. Squirrel feet.
MIKE: Squirrel feet, Franky.
BUTCH: There's a diamond
back rattle snake head in
a jar of alcohol.
There's a possum mummy.
MIKE: These are the
kind of places that you think
they're like folklore.
BUMIKE: It's Alabamahat
asoggy bottom day.
So we stop off at the
Alabama Museum of Wonder.
He had just a lot
of different things.
BUTCH: I found a lot
of these anatomy charts.
I'm an artist that makes
stuff out of junk I find.
FRANK: How long have
you been doing this?
BUTCH: Oh about thirty years.
FRANK: Thirty years huh?
BUTCH: Yep.
BUTCH: Don't buy any
art supplies at like an art
supply store.
Everything comes
out of dumpsters.
FRANK: One thing that's
got my curiosity going.
What's uh, with the letters?
BUTCH: That's fan mail.
FRANK: Fan mail?
MIKE: Wow. We
don't even get fan mail.
FRANK: We don't have any fans.
Except brass bladed ones.
MIKE: Rose dale
California, Arkansas.
BUTCH: Most of the visitors
come from out of town.
Folks from all over the
country, all over the world.
MIKE: So do you usually
charge to see all this stuff?
BUTCH: Ya one dollar.
Y'all forgot to put your
money in there.
MIKE: Uh Frank,
you got a dollar?
BUTCH: I find these
old portraits and draw
bones on them.
MIKE: Oh yeah.
That's kind of cool.
BUTCH: I sell to art
collectors, mainly folk art.
MIKE: I thought he was talented.
Some of his art was really cool.
FRANK: And he did
have a big imagination.
BUTCH: I got a loch
ness monster's nose hair.
This is bones of a dwarf.
FRANK: Wow.
MIKE: Still got the
shoes on it, like the wicked
witch of the west.
FRANK: Her feet were full size.
BUTCH: This is my
Bigfoot collection.
Bigfoot droppings,
Bigfoot tooth, hair sample.
I made these feet and
nailed them on the bottom
of my shoes and went out
there and made footprints.
MIKE: Oh you walked around
and made the footprints?
BUTCH: Yeah. That
night everybody was so
scared around there.
Somebody shot a big
old black angus cow.
MIKE: Oh really? You had
everybody all freaked out?
FRANK: All jacked up?
MIKE: That sounds fun, man.
That sounds like
something we'd do.
BUTCH: There's the
world's biggest gallstone.
FRANK: That'd be
a hard one to pass.
MIKE: Can I touch it?
BUTCH: Yeah. Pick it
up. Doctor sold it to me.
Said he cut it out of a
big fat woman down in
Albany, Georgia.
MIKE: You don't think
that gallstone was real?
FRANK: That was a piece
of dirt there that he picked
up off the ground.
MIKE: Butch, we don't even
know what to believe here, man.
You're the guy who made
up the whole Bigfoot sighting.
Got people shooting
cows and stuff.
[laughter]
How much is the old
Volkswagen emblem on the wall?
BUTCH: Oh how about
twenty-five dollars?
That came off a hippy van.
MIKE: How about twenty?
BUTCH: All right.
MIKE: I love old split window
VW stuff and those early
emblems, the really large
ones, are kind of hard to find.
So I thought it was really cool.
I mean the price was
right, twenty bucks.
For that kind of
money, I'll take it.
FRANK: This is cool.
BUTCH: Come on through this way.
FRANK: I like this. The
way the little face is cut out.
Oh you got all
kinds of stuff in here.
BUTCH: You know
what the Piggly Wiggly is?
FRANK: A grocery store?
MIKE: Oh yeah.
BUTCH: That's the
head they put on and walk
around in the parking lot with.
FRANK: To drum up business?
BUTCH: Yeah.
MIKE: I'm like oh my
god. There's a huge
frickin' pig head.
It looks like a, like an
older one, like from the
fifties, you know, like
Porky pig type thing, you
know, like old Loonie
Tunes cartoons.
[♪]
MIKE: How about sixty bucks?
BUTCH: Sixty?
MIKE: What?
BUTCH: I'm in the poor house.
Y'all won't give
me enough money.
MIKE: How about seventy-five?
BUTCH: Sold.
MIKE: All right. I'll take it.
BUTCH: They're kind of
tightwads but they're pretty cool.
MIKE: Here. Put it on. Franky.
FRANK: Why do
I have to put it on?
MIKE: Let me see.
What do you look like?
That's awesome.
FRANK: I'm having fun.
MIKE: That's killer, dude.
[♪]
MIKE: All right. Let's head.
FRANK: Thank you sir.
BUTCH: All right.
FRANK: Appreciate
it. We love your place.
MIKE: You know what?
Maybe I should have
bought some of his art.
FRANK: I believe that the
stuff that he's making now
uh forty years from now
will be worth some money.
It's neat stuff.
I mean to be able to just
come upon a guy like this and
to be able to find this
kind of stuff, that's real rare.
[♪]
MIKE: So we've spent a
couple weeks in the south
and the van is getting
extremely full, we're
cruising down the road and
bam, we get a lucky break.
MIKE: Look at that place.
FRANK: Scooter place?
MIKE: Scooter shop there, dude.
FRANK: Oh wow. Swing in.
Hey, maybe we can sell
that body, that chassis.
Looks funky. It's
our kind of place.
MIKE: How ya doing? I'm Mike.
MATTHEW: Good sir.
FRANK: My name's Frank.
MATTHEW: Frank,
Matthew. FRANK: Pleasure.
MATTHEW: Good to meet you.
MIKE: We were driving by and
saw your scooter shop and uh
we noticed you had
some vintage ones.
MATTHEW: I've got one,
an old P two hundred back
here that I'm working on now.
FRANK: Oh yeah.
MIKE: Oh yeah. It's got the
European style taillight on it?
MATTHEW: Yeah.
MIKE: We pulled a
Lambretta body out of a
barn the other day and uh,
you know, we didn't know
if you'd be interested in it
or somebody around here
or something possibly.
MATTHEW: Yeah.
MIKE: It's an Italian one.
It's not, it's not Spanish.
MATTHEW: I'd love to look at it.
MATTHEW: I've seen
scooters that are just
smashed so I didn't
know what to expect.
MATTHEW: Wow.
MIKE: Mega holdup.
See, look at that rack.
MATTHEW: Oh yeah.
MIKE: Have you
seen that rack before?
FRANK: That's
home made, isn't it?
MIKE: Right there.
See that bolts into here.
FRANK: And it, and it
flips up, which is nice.
MIKE: What do you
think? Farm fresh.
MATTHEW: Yeah.
Still has barn dust on it.
MATTHEW: It was rusty
but rust you can manage.
FRANK: It's got some nice trim.
Look at all those
strips there, Matt.
Look at those strips.
MATTHEW: Yeah.
MIKE: It's killer. The
tank's in it, you know?
Did you see the license plate?
Nineteen sixty-seven Alabama.
MATTHEW: That's very, very nice.
What's the price
you're looking for?
MIKE: For the whole
thing, I would do two fifty.
Those panels gotta be
worth two hundred bucks.
MATTHEW: Sure.
I'll do two fifty.
MIKE: That was a
seamless deal for us.
FRANK: To get rid of it
like that, make some money.
Man, that's what it's all about.
MIKE: Before and after shot.
FRANK: That's kind of the same.
MIKE: It's not that
big a difference.
MIKE: It was really cool
to see one that he had
finished that was exactly
basically the same model
that we had laid
right there before him.
MATTHEW: The bike that
Mike & Frank brought in,
what I'll probably do
is really go crazy on the
restoration and sell it for
three or four thousand dollars.
MIKE: God, I think I sold
that too cheap, Franky.
MIKE: He popped pretty quick.
MIKE: I know. He did.
MIKE: One of the greatest
things about what we do is
bringing stuff back to life.
I mean if we didn't pull
it out of there and rescue
it, it was not gonna
go anywhere.
[♪]
FRANK: Matt, nice to meet you.
MATTHEW: Thank you.
MIKE: Thank you so much.
MATTHEW: I've never
met a picker before.
It's a neat job.
I'm sure they're gonna find
some awesome jewels out there.
Well I just got one of them.
MIKE: You know
what Franky Bobby?
What do you think about uh
when we get back home the
Franky Bobby thing stickin'?
FRANK: I don't
like Franky Bobby.
MIKE: [laughs] I
knew you wouldn't.
FRANK: I don't like it.
MIKE: I knew you wouldn't.
[laughing]
[laughter]
Lambretta stuff is
extremely hard to find.
MIKE: Hey, I am
interested in that Lambretta.
If you'd do forty
bucks on it, I'd buy it.
MIKE: So we stop off at the
Alabama Museum of Wonder.
BUTCH: That's a possum mummy.
MIKE: Squirrel feet, Franky.
BUTCH: This is the
Bigfoot collection.
MIKE: Who knows what
to believe in this place?
MIKE: What would
you want for this?
ALVIN: Two-thousand. Fifteen
hundred. Sixty five hundred.
FRANK: Never.
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
we think we can make a buck on.
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: All right man, we've
made the pilgrimage back
to Mississippi.
FRANK: You know, when
we came down here we thought
it was gonna be warmer. Not.
MIKE: But you know what?
It's still better than
being back home dude.
We'd be snow blowing.
FRANK: No doubt.
MIKE: John's an old lead that
we picked before in Mississippi.
We bought some really
amazing stuff in the past from him.
We're hoping this guy's
gonna be around so we can
stop again.
JOHN: Good to see ya man.
MIKE: Good to see ya too.
FRANK: How ya been?
JOHN: Great. Great.
MIKE: We were in
the neighbourhood,
thought we'd come by.
We haven't been
down here for a while.
Are we still welcome?
JOHN: Yeah.
MIKE: All right. Had to check.
JOHN: I just bought
a bunch of bikes.
MIKE: Oh you did?
FRANK: Bought some more huh?
JOHN: Yeah.
MIKE: Now what are you do
- are you gonna keep these?
Are you gonna fix these
up and sell them or what?
JOHN: Well I probably will sell
some of them but I'd ride them.
MIKE: He's seventy-two
years old. He's still riding.
I mean that is his passion.
JOHN: I have 150
bikes in all, 26 Harleys.
When I'm riding a Harley
I'm just in hog's heaven.
JOHN: Come on. I'll show you.
FRANK: All right.
MIKE: It's been two years
since we've been here.
Now when we come
back, we revisit, the stuff is
just, you know, continuing to
disintegrate into the ground.
The roofs are getting
worse on the sheds.
The water's coming in.
JOHN: Boy, it really went down.
It was in pretty
shape when I got it.
MIKE: Stuff's just not
looking that good anymore.
JOHN: It's the first time I've
been back here in five years.
MIKE: You got it all
packed in here man.
This baby's overloaded.
FRANK: These were
a fast bike in their day.
[♪]
MIKE: Oh lord.
FRANK: If you were to
sell something like this,
what would you sell it for?
JOHN: About fifteen hundred.
FRANK: The prices have went up.
They've increased thirty
percent from last time I
was here.
MIKE: So has inflation.
FRANK: Hey, how much
would something like this be,
John, that's sitting
out in the rain here?
JOHN: Two thousand. Fifteen
hundred. Sixty-five hundred.
FRANK: Never... In the
wildest days of dreams.
[laughs]
If I ask another price, I
hope Mike has smelling
salts because I'm
gonna hit the ground.
JOHN: Need any lighting?
FRANK: Lighting
what? Uh moon shine?
JOHN: Yeah white light.
FRANK: Is that moon shine?
JOHN: That's what it was.
FRANK: If I don't...
MIKE: And you
guys drank it all huh?
FRANK: If I don't buy
something pretty quick,
imma need a shot.
MIKE: Ya no doubt.
There he's got a little
bit left Franky try it.
JOHN: No I didn't
want it to freeze.
These jugs are worth
five dollars a piece.
MIKE: Oh are they?
JOHN: That's s a old Kawasaki.
MIKE: I think this is
an early one, dude.
MIKE: I kind of
took a double take.
I'm like is that really the
Kawasaki five hundred triple.
That's like the muscle
cars of that period.
This is the muscle
bike of that period.
And then what
that means to us is?
FRANK: Profit.
MIKE: Dollar signs.
[♪]
These were like stuff that
people dreamed about.
A lot of guys that were in
the war, in Nam when they
were looking at magazines,
they were like I gotta
have one of those
when I get back.
MIKE: Wouldn't that be bad if
this is like serial number one?
FRANK: Keep
telling yourself that.
MIKE: This one's
three, two, one, oh, eight.
I mean this thing is pretty
much roached but the
fact of the matter
is is that it exists.
FRANK: There's a lot
of usable parts there.
It's got the original
carbs, original airbox.
I think it's gonna be
a real usable piece.
MIKE: What would
you want for this?
JOHN: That'd be cheap.
MIKE: I know. How
cheap you talking?
JOHN: Couple of hundred.
MIKE: Couple hundred bucks?
JOHN: Yeah.
MIKE: If we can get that
bike for a hundred bucks,
even though it's roached,
even though it's trashed,
we're gonna do well on it.
FRANK: We were
kinda interested in that
Kawasaki down there.
You told us a couple hundred.
FRANK: He knows the
game. 101 bargaining.
FRANK: You say
two, we ay a hundred.
Then we'll split it. One fifty?
JOHN: Yeah. Yeah I'd do
it, to get it out of there but...
MIKE: Is that delivered?
JOHN: No.
JOHN: I like them. I
can trust them pretty well.
A lot of people come look
for the bikes, they just want
to get something but they
always pay for what they get.
JOHN: I had a fire.
MIKE: Oh you had a fire.
JOHN: And I woke up.
That blind dog woke me up.
MIKE: You had a fire in here.
JOHN: Yeah. All up here.
MIKE: Oh ya I
can see the mirror.
So your blind dog let
you know about the fire.
JOHN: Ya he woke me
up, poking me in the face.
JOHN: There he come.
Whop don't scratch up the bike.
Whop, whop, easy...
Bubba's a wide glide you
know like the wide front
end on the Harley.
FRANK: You're a good boy huh?
JOHN: If it hadn't been
for Bubba, I wouldn't have
any of this stuff. I
wouldn't even be alive.
MIKE: We're gonna see
if we can move this thing.
[♪]
FRANK: Oh lord. Has
it got the chain on it?
MIKE: It's got the chain.
FRANK: It's done,
man. It's cooked.
MIKE: It's crispy?
FRANK: Oh man.
You aint gonna be able
to cut the chain off either.
FRANK: That's what bikes do.
The chains lock on them.
You can't move them.
MIKE: See we
moved it two inches.
JOHN: That's a big mess.
FRANK: It aint gonna
work, I'm telling you.
There's no possible way that
we could have did it ourselves.
MIKE: I can't get it. We're
not gonna leave it, man.
[♪]
MIKE: John was so cool.
He fired up the tractor
for us, found a chain and
pulled it out of there.
FRANK: I guess that rain
was good for something today.
[♪]
FRANK: All right.
MIKE: Woo.
That made things
a little bit easier.
She's a beauty.
FRANK: The kind of person
probably that's gonna buy
this bike would be a
restorer, a Japanese
pre-seventies enthusiast
or probably somebody on
the net that's
probably overseas.
FRANK: Hey what's
the warranty on this?
JOHN: About thirty minutes.
FRANK: Thirty minutes?
MIKE: There's been so
many guys put foot on this
property, so many
other pickers, okay?
We came across something
that they didn't see.
FRANK: I think we found
the diamond in the rough.
[♪]
MIKE: We wouldn't have
been able to do that without you.
Thank you so much.
FRANK: Thanks
partner. That was fun.
JOHN: They'll be back.
I'll be looking forward
to seeing them again too.
[♪]
MIKE: I'm thinking we
should start heading a
little bit north and hit 'Bama.
FRANK: Hit Alabama. Alright
MIKE: Yeah
MIKE: Have you ever
been to Alabama?
FRANK: I never have
been there. Let's hit it.
[♪]
FRANK: Hopefully our
accents won't tip us off
that we're not from around here.
MIKE: Dude, I think we
ought to change our names.
You should be uh let me see.
FRANK: Porky?
MIKE: Franky Bobby
and I'll be Mikey Ray.
FRANK: All right.
[laughter]
MIKE: Try to get serious here.
We gotta make some money.
FRANK: I'm trying, dude.
I've been looking - all
I'm doing is looking and
looking and looking.
MIKE: We need a, we need
a home, sweet home Alabama
right now dude.
FRANK: I hear ya kid... Rock.
MIKE: Uh it's Mikey Ray.
FRANK: Hey. Look at this
place. Ooh there's your VW.
There's your VW.
MIKE: Yeah. Volkswagen
van. Volkswagen van.
FRANK: Swing in here real quick.
This place looks awesome man.
MIKE: All right.
First pick of 'Bama.
FRANK: Hello!
JOE: How y'all doing?
MIKE: Mikey Ray.
JOE: Joe Biggs.
FRANK: And I'm
Frank. Nice to meet ya.
JOE: Good to meet you.
FRANK: We buy a little
bit of everything here.
This is kind of one
of our little lists.
JOE: Well y'all want to
come in or look around?
MIKE: We'd love to look around.
FRANK: Yeah. If
you've got enough time.
BOB: [♪]
JOE: Every one of these
cars have little stories.
JOE: I'm a barber by profession.
My hobby is collecting stuff.
My wife says junk. I say stuff.
I just started doing it
about thirty-five years ago.
It's just grown into a
fortune that I haven't got
paid for yet. [laughing]
This truck and this car
belong to a friend of mine
twenty-five years ago.
His wife said 'I want
these cars out of my yard.'
MIKE: What happens when
you bring stuff home like this?
JOE: When I bring stuff
home, I park it back a
little and my wife turns
in the driveway and starts
up the driveway, I have
these automatic blinders
that come up on her.
You know sun visors?
I have them on
each side of her car.
FRANK: It's
called tunnel vision.
MIKE: Oh you got these
sunglasses that fold out?
JOE: Ya they fold out and
she drives up the driveway
and she does not see a thing.
FRANK: Everything's
looks normal.
JOE: Everything looks wonderful.
MIKE: Does she ever
give you any crap about all
this stuff around here?
JOE: Oh yeah, she fusses
all the time, she told me,
she said, 'if you buy
another Studdebaker, I'm
going to divorce you.
MIKE: That's when you
moved into Volkswagens?
JOE: No, no. FRANK: yup
ALL: [laughter]
MIKE: What's going on
with your Thing over here?
You got a Thing.
JOE: It's a, it's
a seventy-four.
The windshield comes
down. The doors come off.
The windows pop out.
FRANK: Yeah. Yeah I
remember. They were cool.
[♪]
JOE: Here's some
things I collect.
FRANK AND MIKE: License plates.
JOE: That sign right there
was the name of my barber
shop I had twenty-six
and half years.
JOE: This is a Lambretta.
MIKE: It's LI one twenty-five.
MIKE: We're in the
hills of Alabama here.
All of a sudden there's
an Italian motor scooter on
this guy's property.
JOE: It's all there.
MIKE: There's no
front wheel on it.
JOE: Oh. Somebody took it off.
MIKE: There's no motor either.
JOE: That's the Lambretta frame.
MIKE: Lambretta stuff
is extremely hard to find.
That scooter was all
together and running it's
fifteen hundred to
two thousand dollars.
We'll feel him out and
see what he wants for it.
If it's cheap, cheap
enough we'll buy it.
JOE: That's an old deco lamp.
FRANK: This is cool. What's
something like this worth?
JOE: Ah forty bucks.
FRANK: I don't know
if I like it forty dollars.
JOE: What do you like it for?
FRANK: I like it at twenty.
JOE: Twenty-five.
FRANK: It's a wooden kind of
modern fifties, sixties looking.
It just needs to be
cleaned up and I think
it's a great piece.
FRANK: Twenty?
All right we'll take that.
[♪]
JOE: This, my
brother-in-law was in
Vietnam and he had, he had
a Vietnamese uh paint this.
FRANK: That's cool.
JOE: On velvet, crushed velvet.
MIKE: Yeah. How much is that?
JOE: For sale?
MIKE: Yeah.
JOE: Thirty bucks.
MIKE: Thirty bucks.
JOE: It's on, it's
on real wood too.
MIKE: It's a little bit
tacky but it's actually
done really well.
It does have a signature.
It's nineteen sixty-six and
he had a cool story with it.
MIKE: How about twenty-five?
JOE: I don't know.
You can't find that kind
of green hair on anybody.
MIKE: [laughing]
I think that's mould.
All right, thirty bucks.
JOE: Okay. Deal.
FRANK: All right.
Twenty on the lamp.
MIKE: All right. We're
at fifty bucks upstairs.
JOE: Whoa. I'm really
making money on you guys.
MIKE: Hey. I'm interested
in that Lambretta.
If you'd do forty
bucks on it, I'd buy it.
JOE: Like Kenny Rogers
says, there's a time to
hold and a time to fold.
JOE: Okay.
MIKE: You know?
All right. Let's do it.
JOE: He's getting
some more of my junk.
MIKE: Now is
that, is that loaded?
JOE: What do you mean?
MIKE: Are you loading it?
JOE: I'll help you drag it out.
[laughs]
JOE: What people do for junk.
FRANK: Yeah I know.
MIKE: Yeah.
FRANK: It aint
easy being a picker.
MIKE: We are heading
towards Birmingham.
A lot of these larger
cities, they have some
sort of a scooter culture.
Maybe they'll take it
off of our hands for, you
know, three hundred bucks.
You know, get it out of
the way because we've
still got a lot of miles to go.
JOE: There's a guy that
appreciates a good buy.
Brrrr, brrrr.
MIKE: Welcome to Alabama.
[laughs]
MIKE: Is there any way
you could ride in the back of
the van and she
could ride in your seat?
How much would that cost?
FRANK: Another twenty
and I'll do anything.
MIKE: All right. Let me,
let me kick that around.
[♪]
MIKE: Oh lordy. Wait a
second. Let me get in there.
FRANK: Here. Let me hold
the weight. Here, I'll just hold it.
MIKE: Thank you so much.
FRANK: All right. Got her?
MIKE: I got her. All righty.
FRANK: All righty. Shut me in.
MIKE: So you're gonna
get, ride in the back?
I got the painting in the front.
FRANK: I'm good.
Let's go eat. Let's go eat.
MIKE: If I knew all I had
to do was offer him twenty
bucks to ride in the
- oh, oh. There he is.
[laughter]
FRANK: I got nervous back there.
MIKE: Oh lord.
FRANK: Thanks Joe.
JOE: All right. See y'all.
FRANK: See y'all later.
You have a good day.
JOE: Come back.
FRANK: Thank you.
MIKE: All right Franky,
I'm trying to remain
optimistic on a
day like today, man.
This is a soggy ass day.
Dude, I don't even know
where the hell we are.
FRANK: We're getting like
way off the beaten track here.
MIKE: My GPS says
there's no road here.
FRANK: Ah the GPS
says there's no road.
MIKE: That's not a good sign.
Let's go down this way.
FRANK: This says Poor House.
MIKE: Poor House
Road? That's us.
FRANK: Let's see if
somebody can give us some
good stuff on a Poor House Road.
MIKE: Here's a museum sign.
FRANK: Oh there's a dude
out here. Swing in here.
MIKE: All right.
This is perfect.
FRANK: Wow. Look at the dude.
[♪]
MIKE: Hey. How's it going?
BUTCH: All right.
How's it going?
FRANK: Seen your sign.
MIKE: Not so good, man. It's
soggy down here. Hey puppy.
What's up dude? Hey I'm Mike.
BUTCH: Hey. Butch.
MIKE: Hey. Nice to meet you.
FRANK: I'm Frank.
BUTCH: All right Frank.
FRANK: How ya doing?
BUTCH: Good to meet ya.
MIKE: It is just
pouring out there.
Yeah we're pickers from Iowa.
BUTCH: Yeah?
MIKE: Yeah. It looks like
you do a little picking yourself.
You got a lot of stuff
laying around here, huh?
BUTCH: Mm hmm. What
kind of junk you looking for?
MIKE: Uh I don't know. We
do a lot of advertising stuff.
We do transportation
stuff. Um...
BUTCH: Taxidermy animals.
I probably got some
of them in there.
MIKE: You got some of those?
FRANK: I see all
your squirrel tails here.
BUTCH: Yeah.
FRANK: Do you shoot them?
BUTCH: Yeah.
BUTCH: And I eat
them. FRANK: Okay.
MIKE: Lay it on me. How do
you cook one? What do you...?
BUTCH: I just batter it
up like a piece of chicken
and fry it in a skillet.
FRANK: I just think it
would take too many
squirrels to fill me up,
you know what I mean?
'Cause they'd be like
chicken wings to me.
MIKE: Yeah. You'd need
about twelve squirrels.
FRANK: I'd do one squirrel in
a shot, you know what I mean?
MIKE: We stopped. We saw you
had a uh museum sign out here.
What kind of museum is it?
BUTCH: Ah just a junk museum.
MIKE: There's stuff
for sale in there?
BUTCH: Sure.
FRANK: All righty.
BUTCH: Everything
in there is for sale.
FRANK: That's
what we like to hear.
MIKE: Maybe this aint
so bad a stop, Franky.
[♪]
MIKE: He had this
really bizarre place.
He was an artist. He had
a lot of things on display.
MIKE: What's this thing?
BUTCH: A petrified
rat. Squirrel feet.
MIKE: Squirrel feet, Franky.
BUTCH: There's a diamond
back rattle snake head in
a jar of alcohol.
There's a possum mummy.
MIKE: These are the
kind of places that you think
they're like folklore.
BUMIKE: It's Alabamahat
asoggy bottom day.
So we stop off at the
Alabama Museum of Wonder.
He had just a lot
of different things.
BUTCH: I found a lot
of these anatomy charts.
I'm an artist that makes
stuff out of junk I find.
FRANK: How long have
you been doing this?
BUTCH: Oh about thirty years.
FRANK: Thirty years huh?
BUTCH: Yep.
BUTCH: Don't buy any
art supplies at like an art
supply store.
Everything comes
out of dumpsters.
FRANK: One thing that's
got my curiosity going.
What's uh, with the letters?
BUTCH: That's fan mail.
FRANK: Fan mail?
MIKE: Wow. We
don't even get fan mail.
FRANK: We don't have any fans.
Except brass bladed ones.
MIKE: Rose dale
California, Arkansas.
BUTCH: Most of the visitors
come from out of town.
Folks from all over the
country, all over the world.
MIKE: So do you usually
charge to see all this stuff?
BUTCH: Ya one dollar.
Y'all forgot to put your
money in there.
MIKE: Uh Frank,
you got a dollar?
BUTCH: I find these
old portraits and draw
bones on them.
MIKE: Oh yeah.
That's kind of cool.
BUTCH: I sell to art
collectors, mainly folk art.
MIKE: I thought he was talented.
Some of his art was really cool.
FRANK: And he did
have a big imagination.
BUTCH: I got a loch
ness monster's nose hair.
This is bones of a dwarf.
FRANK: Wow.
MIKE: Still got the
shoes on it, like the wicked
witch of the west.
FRANK: Her feet were full size.
BUTCH: This is my
Bigfoot collection.
Bigfoot droppings,
Bigfoot tooth, hair sample.
I made these feet and
nailed them on the bottom
of my shoes and went out
there and made footprints.
MIKE: Oh you walked around
and made the footprints?
BUTCH: Yeah. That
night everybody was so
scared around there.
Somebody shot a big
old black angus cow.
MIKE: Oh really? You had
everybody all freaked out?
FRANK: All jacked up?
MIKE: That sounds fun, man.
That sounds like
something we'd do.
BUTCH: There's the
world's biggest gallstone.
FRANK: That'd be
a hard one to pass.
MIKE: Can I touch it?
BUTCH: Yeah. Pick it
up. Doctor sold it to me.
Said he cut it out of a
big fat woman down in
Albany, Georgia.
MIKE: You don't think
that gallstone was real?
FRANK: That was a piece
of dirt there that he picked
up off the ground.
MIKE: Butch, we don't even
know what to believe here, man.
You're the guy who made
up the whole Bigfoot sighting.
Got people shooting
cows and stuff.
[laughter]
How much is the old
Volkswagen emblem on the wall?
BUTCH: Oh how about
twenty-five dollars?
That came off a hippy van.
MIKE: How about twenty?
BUTCH: All right.
MIKE: I love old split window
VW stuff and those early
emblems, the really large
ones, are kind of hard to find.
So I thought it was really cool.
I mean the price was
right, twenty bucks.
For that kind of
money, I'll take it.
FRANK: This is cool.
BUTCH: Come on through this way.
FRANK: I like this. The
way the little face is cut out.
Oh you got all
kinds of stuff in here.
BUTCH: You know
what the Piggly Wiggly is?
FRANK: A grocery store?
MIKE: Oh yeah.
BUTCH: That's the
head they put on and walk
around in the parking lot with.
FRANK: To drum up business?
BUTCH: Yeah.
MIKE: I'm like oh my
god. There's a huge
frickin' pig head.
It looks like a, like an
older one, like from the
fifties, you know, like
Porky pig type thing, you
know, like old Loonie
Tunes cartoons.
[♪]
MIKE: How about sixty bucks?
BUTCH: Sixty?
MIKE: What?
BUTCH: I'm in the poor house.
Y'all won't give
me enough money.
MIKE: How about seventy-five?
BUTCH: Sold.
MIKE: All right. I'll take it.
BUTCH: They're kind of
tightwads but they're pretty cool.
MIKE: Here. Put it on. Franky.
FRANK: Why do
I have to put it on?
MIKE: Let me see.
What do you look like?
That's awesome.
FRANK: I'm having fun.
MIKE: That's killer, dude.
[♪]
MIKE: All right. Let's head.
FRANK: Thank you sir.
BUTCH: All right.
FRANK: Appreciate
it. We love your place.
MIKE: You know what?
Maybe I should have
bought some of his art.
FRANK: I believe that the
stuff that he's making now
uh forty years from now
will be worth some money.
It's neat stuff.
I mean to be able to just
come upon a guy like this and
to be able to find this
kind of stuff, that's real rare.
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MIKE: So we've spent a
couple weeks in the south
and the van is getting
extremely full, we're
cruising down the road and
bam, we get a lucky break.
MIKE: Look at that place.
FRANK: Scooter place?
MIKE: Scooter shop there, dude.
FRANK: Oh wow. Swing in.
Hey, maybe we can sell
that body, that chassis.
Looks funky. It's
our kind of place.
MIKE: How ya doing? I'm Mike.
MATTHEW: Good sir.
FRANK: My name's Frank.
MATTHEW: Frank,
Matthew. FRANK: Pleasure.
MATTHEW: Good to meet you.
MIKE: We were driving by and
saw your scooter shop and uh
we noticed you had
some vintage ones.
MATTHEW: I've got one,
an old P two hundred back
here that I'm working on now.
FRANK: Oh yeah.
MIKE: Oh yeah. It's got the
European style taillight on it?
MATTHEW: Yeah.
MIKE: We pulled a
Lambretta body out of a
barn the other day and uh,
you know, we didn't know
if you'd be interested in it
or somebody around here
or something possibly.
MATTHEW: Yeah.
MIKE: It's an Italian one.
It's not, it's not Spanish.
MATTHEW: I'd love to look at it.
MATTHEW: I've seen
scooters that are just
smashed so I didn't
know what to expect.
MATTHEW: Wow.
MIKE: Mega holdup.
See, look at that rack.
MATTHEW: Oh yeah.
MIKE: Have you
seen that rack before?
FRANK: That's
home made, isn't it?
MIKE: Right there.
See that bolts into here.
FRANK: And it, and it
flips up, which is nice.
MIKE: What do you
think? Farm fresh.
MATTHEW: Yeah.
Still has barn dust on it.
MATTHEW: It was rusty
but rust you can manage.
FRANK: It's got some nice trim.
Look at all those
strips there, Matt.
Look at those strips.
MATTHEW: Yeah.
MIKE: It's killer. The
tank's in it, you know?
Did you see the license plate?
Nineteen sixty-seven Alabama.
MATTHEW: That's very, very nice.
What's the price
you're looking for?
MIKE: For the whole
thing, I would do two fifty.
Those panels gotta be
worth two hundred bucks.
MATTHEW: Sure.
I'll do two fifty.
MIKE: That was a
seamless deal for us.
FRANK: To get rid of it
like that, make some money.
Man, that's what it's all about.
MIKE: Before and after shot.
FRANK: That's kind of the same.
MIKE: It's not that
big a difference.
MIKE: It was really cool
to see one that he had
finished that was exactly
basically the same model
that we had laid
right there before him.
MATTHEW: The bike that
Mike & Frank brought in,
what I'll probably do
is really go crazy on the
restoration and sell it for
three or four thousand dollars.
MIKE: God, I think I sold
that too cheap, Franky.
MIKE: He popped pretty quick.
MIKE: I know. He did.
MIKE: One of the greatest
things about what we do is
bringing stuff back to life.
I mean if we didn't pull
it out of there and rescue
it, it was not gonna
go anywhere.
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FRANK: Matt, nice to meet you.
MATTHEW: Thank you.
MIKE: Thank you so much.
MATTHEW: I've never
met a picker before.
It's a neat job.
I'm sure they're gonna find
some awesome jewels out there.
Well I just got one of them.
MIKE: You know
what Franky Bobby?
What do you think about uh
when we get back home the
Franky Bobby thing stickin'?
FRANK: I don't
like Franky Bobby.
MIKE: [laughs] I
knew you wouldn't.
FRANK: I don't like it.
MIKE: I knew you wouldn't.
[laughing]