American Pickers (2010–…): Season 2, Episode 5 - Getting the Boot - full transcript
This time on American Pickers... The guys are down on their luck in Kansas until they stumble upon demolition expert Johnny Walker's staggering collection. Will he agree to sell Mike a giant 300-pound boot? The next day, Johnny refers the guys to two of his collector neighbors. And although Junior's prices are through the roof, Morris proves to be in a wheeling and dealing mood.
- WE'RE HITTING THE ROAD.
WE'RE HEADING TOWARDS KANSAS.
WHOA.
- WHOA!
- HOW MUCH IS THAT?
- GOD, HE CUT MY HAND OFF
WHEN HE REACHED IN FOR THAT.
OH. OH.
- HOW ABOUT THAT
BSA TANK? OH, MY GOD.
- WOW. OIL CAN CENTRAL.
- FRANK HAS DIED
AND GONE TO HEAVEN.
- YOU WERE LIKE, "AHHHH."
A BOOT. [laughs]
ALL RIGHT, YOU READY, FRANK?
- I'M READY.
- I'M MIKE WOLFE.
- AND I'M FRANK FRITZ.
- AND WE'RE PICKERS.
- WE TRAVEL THE BACK
ROADS OF AMERICA LOOKING
FOR RUSTY GOLD.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR AMAZING
THINGS BURIED IN PEOPLE'S
GARAGES AND BARNS.
- WHAT MOST PEOPLE SEE AS
JUNK, WE SEE AS DOLLAR SIGNS.
- WE'LL BUY ANYTHING WE
THINK WE CAN MAKE A BUCK ON.
- 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.
AS SOON AS WE GET WHERE
WE'RE GONNA REST TONIGHT...
- WE'LL GIVE YOU A BUZZ.
- YEAH, JUST HIT THE INTERNET.
YOU KNOW, JUST BLAST THE
INTERNET WITH A BUNCH OF STUFF.
JUST MAKE SURE EVERYBODY
KNOWS WE'RE OUT THERE.
- YEAH, ANYTHING YOU CAN
PICK UP DOWN THERE WOULD BE
GREAT, BECAUSE WE DON'T
REALLY KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING.
- I WILL, I JUST GOT SO
MUCH ON MY MIND RIGHT NOW.
- KANSAS HAS BEEN REALLY TOUGH.
I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO REALLY
BOOK THE BEST PICKS THERE
OR EVEN MANY PICKS THERE.
SO HOPEFULLY I CAN FIND
SOME BETTER STUFF FOR THEM
WHEN THEY GET THERE.
- DON'T BE FREAKING
OUT, SERIOUSLY.
- YEAH, DON'T STRESS OUT.
- WHEN YOU FREAK OUT,
THEN THAT STRESSES US OUT.
- I'M FEELING A
LITTLE THROW-UP SICK
RIGHT NOW ABOUT IT.
- WE'RE A TEAM. WE'RE
CREW. ALL RIGHT?
- YEAH.
- BLAST THE INTERNET.
WE'RE COMING TO KANSAS.
- I WILL.
- ALL RIGHT, BU-BYE.
- BYE. BE SAFE.
[horn honks]
I NEED A NAP.
- WE'RE HITTING THE ROAD.
WE'RE HEADING TOWARDS KANSAS.
IT'S GONNA BE ROUGH
OUT THERE, MAN.
WE'RE GONNA DIG OUR HEELS
IN AND SEE WHAT WE CAN
PULL OUT OF THERE.
- YEAH, WE'VE HAD SOME
PICKERS THAT WE KNOW THAT SAID
IT'S TOUGH OUT THERE, BUT
THAT DOESN'T DISCOURAGE US.
- FRANKY, YOU KNOW HOW
GRUMPY I GET, MAN, WHEN I MISS
MY SHOW.
- THE HILLS?
- THE HILLS, BABY. AUDRINA.
- HOW'D YOU GET HOOKED ON THAT?
- I DON'T KNOW.
REMEMBER WHEN YOU ALWAYS
USED TO GET JACKED UP ON OC?
- OH YEAH. I LOVED OC.
- I WENT FROM 90210 TO
MELROSE PLACE TO OC.
- BEFORE 90210 THOUGH,
SAVED BY THE BELL.
- I NEVER WATCHED THAT.
- YOU DIDN'T WATCH THAT?
- UH-UH.
- SCREECH?
- [scream]
- MAN, IT IS DESOLATE
OUT HERE FRANKY.
- I KNOW. THERE'S,
LIKE, NOTHING GOING ON.
- WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE
OF NOWHERE IN KANSAS,
SO WHEN WE'RE FREESTYLING,
IT'S PRETTY SKETCHY.
IT'S FEWER AND FARTHER BETWEEN.
- I TELL YA WHAT, I
LIKE GETTING LOST,
BUT THIS IS, LIKE, REALLY LOST.
[phone ringing]
- ALL RIGHT. DANIELLE'S CALLING.
HELLO?
- HEY.
- WHAT'S GOING ON?
- YOU'RE GONNA FIND
THIS REALLY INTERESTING.
- ALL RIGHT. I'M LISTENING.
- THERE'S TWO GUYS,
AUGIE AND DENNIS.
THEY DRIVE AROUND IN A BROWN VAN
JUST LIKE YOU GUYS DO.
I MEAN, I KNOW YOUR VAN'S
WHITE, BUT THEY JUST REMIND ME SO
MUCH OF YOU GUYS.
- WHAT KIND OF
STUFF DO THEY HAVE?
- THEY HAVE LIKE
HUNDREDS OF SIGNS.
THEY HAVE GAS
PUMPS, CRANK PHONES.
THEY'RE SUPER COOL.
- YEAH, WHY DON'T YOU
EMAIL US THE COORDINATES,
AND WE'LL STOP BY AND SEE
HOW COOL THESE GUYS ARE.
- THEY'RE NOWHERE NEAR
AS COOL AS YOU, OF COURSE.
- [laughing]
- ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. LATER.
- BYE.
- I SEE SOME BUILDINGS.
WOW, MAN, LOOK
AT ALL THAT [bleep].
- OH, MY GOD.
- LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A
MULTITUDE OF STUFF HERE.
- THIS PLACE LOOKS GOOD, DUDE.
- I KNOW.
- GOT SOME BIG BUILDINGS.
YOU KNOW WHAT BIG
BUILDINGS MEAN, DON'T YA?
- BIG STUFF.
- HELLO.
- YO!
- HEY, THERE'S
SOMEBODY RIGHT THERE.
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD.
- I'M MIKE.
- HI, MIKE.
- HOW YA DOING?
- FRANK.
- FRANK, LET ME
INTRODUCE YOU TO DENNIS.
- I'M DENNIS.
- HEY, DENNIS, HOW
YA DOING? FRANK.
- NICE TO MEET YOU.
- WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
- AUGIE.
- AUGIE, ALL RIGHT.
- WE STARTED TO BUY AND
SELL STUFF PROBABLY 1993.
- YEAH, I STARTED
COLLECTING WHEN
I WAS IN CALIFORNIA.
WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT
ANTIQUE WAS AT THE TIME.
WE WENT TO THE FLEA MARKET
AND STARTED SELLING THE STUFF,
AND IT SOLD REALLY WELL, AND
THAT GOT US KIND OF SPARKED.
MET UP WITH AUGIE
HERE SEVERAL YEARS AGO,
AND WE'VE BEEN BUYING
AND SELLING EVER SINCE.
- HERE'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
THAT'S, LIKE, A... JUST A KIND
OF A MENAGERIE, GENERIC LIST
OR JUST ABOUT ANYTHING
THAT MIGHT JAR YOUR MIND.
- ALL RIGHT.
YOU WANT TO LOOK THROUGH
THIS BUILDING A LITTLE BIT?
- YEAH, LET'S LOOK
THROUGH IT. HELL YEAH.
WE'LL LOOK THROUGH ANYTHING.
WOULD THIS HAVE BEEN IN
LIKE A BOX IN SOMEONE'S BARN?
- YES.
- AND THEN THEY WOULD
HAVE HAD, LIKE, A CALL PHONE
ON IT OR SOMETHING?
- PROBABLY SO.
- NOW WHAT DO YOU GET
FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
- OH, PROBABLY 35 BUCKS.
- THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WOOD TO
DIG INTO ON THIS HINGE, THOUGH.
- WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME
ABOUT THIS SMOKING
STAND HERE, AUGIE?
- IT'S AN ACRO AGAN SMOKING
STAND, PROBABLY COME...
COME ABOUT IN MAYBE
THE '30s, '40s TYPE THING.
IT'S A PRETTY COOL PIECE.
- IT IS KIND OF A COOL PIECE.
IT'S MISSING THE MAIN PART.
THAT'S THE WIRE
THAT WENT ON THERE.
IT'S PLASTIC?
- YEAH.
- WHAT'S IT SAY? USED EQUIPMENT.
- IT SAYS "CASE DEALERS
GOLD SEAL USED EQUIPMENT."
- YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT REAL...
- IT'S NOT JUMPING OUT AT ME.
- IT'S NOT JUMPING
OUT AT ME EITHER.
- LIKE '60s OR '70s.
- TO TAKE UP THAT MUCH
ROOM IN THE VAN RIGHT AWAY.
- WE CAN BUY A COOL SIGN
FOR 150 THAT'LL TAKE UP
THIS MUCH ROOM AND FLIP
IT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
THIS IS NOT A BIG
FLIPPER. IT'S HUGE.
- A LOT OF THAT STUFF
THEY HAD, I MEAN,
IT'S JUST GENERIC STUFF.
WE CAN'T BUY STUFF LIKE THAT.
WE HAVE TO BUY THE UNUSUAL,
THE IMPOSSIBLE, THE FUNKY,
THE DIFFERENT, THE BIZARRE,
THE STUFF WE HAVE
NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
NONE OF IT WAS IN
THAT WAREHOUSE.
- SO YOU GUYS ARE...
YOU GUYS ARE DABBLING
A LITTLE BIT IN RETAIL.
I MEAN, MOST OF YOUR
CUSTOMERS ARE DEALERS, YOU SAID,
BUT YOU'RE DABBLING
A LITTLE BIT IN RETAIL?
- OH, YEAH. WE DABBLE IN RETAIL.
WE GO TO FLEA
MARKET ONCE A MONTH,
AND WHATEVER WE DON'T
SELL, THIS IS WHAT'S LEFT OVER.
- AH.
- OH, LORD.
- THEY WERE SHOWING
US THE OVERLOAD.
- STUFF THEY COULDN'T SELL.
- YEAH. ALL THE GOOD
STUFF WAS GONE.
IT WAS JUST REAL LOW-END STUFF.
- WHAT DO YOU THINK, FRANKY?
- WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
I'M LOOKING AT THESE PUMPS.
- OLD MAYTAG MOTOR.
- WHAT DO YOU... WHAT?
FOR LIKE A DOORSTOP
OR SOMETHING?
- WHAT ARE YOU GETTING
FOR ONE OF THESE?
- BASICALLY ABOUT 100 BUCKS.
- OKAY, THAT'S WHAT
WE GET FOR THEM TOO.
- IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF
A CHALLENGE TO PICK
FROM SOMEBODY THAT
SELLS PROFESSIONALLY.
WE HAVE TO PAY WHOLESALE,
NOT RETAIL FOR THINGS.
- WHAT DO YOU GET FOR
SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
- PROBABLY 400 BUCKS.
- ALL RIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT WE
WOULD GET FOR IT TOO.
- WE WEREN'T REALLY
INTERESTED IN THE GAS PUMPS.
THESE GUYS HAD THE
SAME EXACT PRICE ON THEM
THAT WE WOULD SELL THEM FOR.
WE'RE PICKERS. WE NEED
MEAT LEFT ON THE BONE.
- NOTHING TO LOOK AT.
- AND FRANK AND I HAVE
ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT DISCOVERY.
WE'RE ALWAYS ABOUT
FINDING THINGS, YOU KNOW,
UNEARTHING THINGS,
DIGGING THEM UP,
AND WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH STUFF,
IT'S ALL ORGANIZED AS FAR
AS, YOU KNOW, IT'S IN ROWS
AND IT'S ALL BEEN
FOUND, THAT TREASURE,
THAT INSTANT GRATIFICATION,
IT'S ALL BEEN SWEPT
AWAY FROM THE ITEM.
- ALL RIGHT, SO WHAT HAVE
WE GOT GOING ON IN HERE GUYS?
THIS IS JUST...
- WELL IT'S JUST MORE
STUFF, STUFF THAT WE DON'T
WANT TO RUST BASICALLY.
- THIS STUFF WE DON'T
WANT TO LEAVE OUTSIDE.
IT MIGHT DISAPPEAR.
- YOU KNOW, IF WE DON'T START
HITTING SOMETHING PRETTY SOON,
I THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED
TO DO SOME FREESTYLING
OR MOVE ON.
- THERE'S A LOT OF FURNITURE.
WE DON'T DO FURNITURE.
NOTHING REALLY HOT.
I LOOK OVER, AND I SEE
THE BIG CEMENT EAGLE.
- AUGIE, WHAT'S UP
WITH THIS THING?
- THAT'S A CONCRETE WHITE
EAGLE THAT SAT ON EACH SIDE
OF THE DRIVEWAY OF THE
WHITE EAGLE SERVICE STATION.
[♪]
- I'M THINKING TO MYSELF,
OKAY, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE,
IT'S GOTTA BE WORTH SOMETHING.
I MEAN THIS COULD BE SOMETHING
WE COULD ACTUALLY MAKE SOME
MONEY ON AND PULL A RABBIT
OUT OF OUR HAT ON THIS PICK.
- AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, IT
WAS BACK IN THE '30s WHEN
THOSE WERE ALL
OVER THE PLACE, YEAH.
- WHAT ARE YOU ASKING FOR IT?
- A COUPLE HUNDRED BUCKS.
- YEAH. IT'S PRETTY COOL.
- IT IS PRETTY COOL.
- WE HAVE A GUY THAT
WE SELL A LOT OF GAS
AND OIL STUFF TO.
I WAS JUST WONDERING IF...
WOULD YOU CARE IF I CALLED HIM
AND SEE WHAT HE'S GOT TO
SAY ABOUT THE THING, YOU KNOW?
- YEAH. THAT'D BE OKAY.
- ALL RIGHT. I THINK
THAT THING'S COOL.
- I THINK IT'S A REPOP.
- YOU DO?
- MM-HMM.
- ALL RIGHT.
I'LL CALL KENNY AND SEE
WHAT THE HELL'S UP WITH THAT.
- YEAH, LET'S SEE
WHAT HIS DEAL IS.
AUGIE AND DENNIS WERE
NICE ENOUGH TO LET US STEP
OUTSIDE SO WE COULD GET
SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
TO SEE IF THIS EAGLE
WAS THE REAL DEAL.
- WHAT WE FOUND
KENNY, IT'S, LIKE, AN EAGLE.
IT'S MADE OF CONCRETE.
THE GUY SAID IT'S
FROM WHITE GASOLINE.
IT'S ABOUT THREE FOOT TALL.
IT'S GOT A LITTLE
DAMAGE ON THE BEAK.
- AND WHY'S THAT?
- OH, OKAY.
- OKAY.
- OKAY.
- ARE YOU GONNA TELL HIM?
- YOU'VE BEEN DOING THE DEAL.
I'LL LET YOU TELL HIM.
- WHAT DO YOU
MEAN? YOU TELL HIM.
- YOU BREAK IT ON HIM.
- YOU TELL HIM.
- YOU BREAK IT TO HIM.
- NO, YOU TELL HIM.
- ALL RIGHT.
- WHAT'D HE SAY?
- WELL, WE GOT A LITTLE
BIT OF INFORMATION.
- HERE'S WHAT WE FOUND OUT.
HE SAID THEY NEVER EVER
MADE ANYTHING IN CONCRETE
FOR THE WHITE GAS
COMPANY, NOTHING.
NOTHING WAS EVER
MADE IN CONCRETE.
IT WAS ALL MADE IN CAST-IRON,
ALL OF IT, SO HE SAID HE
ACTUALLY SOLD ONE LAST
WEEK THIS SIZE FOR 2,000 BUCKS.
- EVERYBODY WE HAD
TALKED TO SAID IT WAS
THE WHITE EAGLE, SO
APPARENTLY IT'S NOT,
FROM THE SOUNDS OF IT, BUT
IT MADE A GOOD STORY I GUESS.
THEY JUST DIDN'T BELIEVE US.
- AUGIE AND DENNIS, YOU KNOW,
I MEAN THEY WERE GREAT GUYS,
BUT QUANTITY IS NOT QUALITY.
- THANKS, GUYS.
- APPRECIATE IT.
- OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
- I THINK I GOT ONE.
I THINK I GOT ONE.
- ME AND FRANKY, WE'RE
NOT ABOUT SLOPPY SECONDS.
WE WANT TO PICK FIRST.
- YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY,
THIS WAS KIND OF A BUST FOR US.
I MEAN, WE REALLY NEED SOMETHING
TO MAKE THIS TRIP WORTHWHILE.
- ALL RIGHT, SEE YA.
- SEE YA LATER.
- I THOUGHT THIS WHITE EAGLE
WAS GONNA BE ONE OF THE ITEMS
THAT WOULD SALVAGE THIS
PICK, BUT UNFORTUNATELY,
THAT WASN'T THE CASE.
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG,
FRANKY AND I SLOW OUR ROLL.
WE GO BACK TO THE DRAWING
BOARD AND COME UP WITH A NEW PLAN.
RIGHT NOW IF DANIELLE
CALLED US AND SHE GOES,
"HEY WHAT'D YOU
GUYS GET IN KANSAS?"
WE'RE GONNA SAY A CARAMEL
SUNDAE AND A BANANA SPLIT.
- HEY, WE'RE WORKING ON IT.
- OH, BY THE WAY, THE GUY
THREW IN THE NUTS FOR FREE.
- THAT AIN'T GETTING ME DOWN.
WE'RE ALREADY OUT.
- I CAN KIND OF SEE THAT
YOU'VE LOST THE GLIMMER
IN YOUR EYE.
- NO, BECAUSE I'M GETTING
THE GLIMMER RIGHT BACK.
THE CARAMEL'S DOING IT FOR ME.
- THAT'S NOT GLIMMER.
THAT'S A SUGAR BUZZ.
- THAT'S OKAY.
I'LL TAKE A SUGAR BUZZ RIGHT
NOW IF IT GETS US DOWN THE ROAD.
I'D SAY LET'S JUST DO
SOME FREESTYLING.
LET'S HEAD OUT
TOWARDS OVER HERE,
BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT HERE NOW.
THIS HAS GOT SOME
POPULATION AREA,
AND IT'S KIND OF ON THE
WAY BACK HOME ANYWAY.
- YEAH.
- YOU KNOW WHAT?
AFTER THIS, WE'RE...
I HOPE WE GET A BIG PICK,
'CAUSE I'M GONNA NEED TO
WORK SOME CALORIES OFF.
- YOU DON'T HAVE ANY
ARGUMENT FROM ME THERE.
[laughing]
- WE'RE IN KANSAS.
IT'S KINDA MISERABLE.
THE CLOUDS ARE ROLLING IN.
IT'S STARTING TO
DRIZZLE A LITTLE BIT.
THAT'S NOT GONNA DETER US.
WE'RE GONNA DO SOME FREESTYLING.
THERE'S A LOT OF ROADS
AROUND HERE, MAN.
WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING FOR
ANYTHING THAT WE CAN POUNCE ON
AND MAKE SOME MONEY.
- WE'VE BEEN DRIVING AND
DRIVING AND DRIVING FOR HOURS,
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE
COME ACROSS THIS PLACE
THAT'S GOT A CABOOSE
IN THE FRONT YARD.
- TURN AROUND.
SLAM ON THE BRAKES.
- THIS IS THE FIRST GLIMMER
OF HOPE THAT WE'VE HAD.
THERE'S A LOT OF RUBBISH.
THERE'S A LOT OF OUTBUILDINGS.
- I SEE SOME RUSTY SIGNS
ON THE BARN, AND I'M THINKING
TO MYSELF, "OKAY, IF WE
DON'T STOP HERE, WE'RE IDIOTS!"
- HELLO!
HELLO! HEY, HOW YA DOING?
- WHO'S DOING ALL THE
HOLLERING OUT HERE?
- HEY, I'M MIKE.
- MIKE.
- HOW YA DOING? NICE TO MEET YA.
- HOW YA DOING?
MY NAME IS FRANK.
- I'M JOHNNY WALKER.
- JOHNNY WAS A
HARD-WORKING DUDE, MAN.
I MEAN, HE SHOOK MY HAND,
AND IT WAS LIKE THE
GUY HAD LIKE OVEN MITTS.
- WE'RE FROM IOWA.
- WE'RE PICKERS FROM IOWA.
YOU PROBABLY... IF YOU GOT
ALL THIS STUFF AROUND HERE,
YOU EVER DEAL WITH PICKERS?
- OH, ONCE IN A WHILE
SOMEBODY WILL COME IN WANTING
TO BUY SOMETHING.
- THAT'S US.
- THAT'S GUYS LIKE US.
WE'VE BEEN TRAVELING IN KANSAS.
- WE TRY TO EXPLAIN REALLY
FAST WHAT WE'RE DOING,
AND WE'RE HANDING HIM A FLIER
BEFORE THEY TRY TO
KICK US OFF THE PROPERTY.
- WE HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MUCH
STUFF IN THIS WHOLE STATE.
YOU MUST HAVE BOUGHT EVERYTHING.
- OH, YOU KNOW, I'M IN
THE DEMOLITION BUSINESS,
AND I FIND THIS STUFF
IN OLD BUILDINGS
AND STUFF THAT WE TEAR DOWN.
I USED TO... I WOULD JUST
BULLDOZE AN OLD HOUSE DOWN
AND NOT THINK ABOUT
SAVING ANYTHING,
AND THEN I KIND OF FIGURED
OUT THAT, YOU KNOW,
MAYBE I COULD GET
A DOLLAR OR TWO
OUT OF SOME OF THIS OLD STUFF,
SO I STARTED SAVING IT.
- ALL THIS STUFF HE GOT
HERE WAS STUFF HE FOUND
DEMOLITION IN WALLS, IN
CRAWL SPACES, IN BASEMENTS,
UP ATTICS, STUFF LIKE THAT,
SO RIGHT THEN I START THINKING,
YOU KNOW WHAT?
MAYBE HE DOESN'T HAVE AN
EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT WITH IT,
'CAUSE HE GOT MOST
OF THE STUFF FOR FREE.
- SO HOW LONG YOU
BEEN COLLECTING?
- OH, 30 YEARS PROBABLY.
- THIS DON'T HAPPEN
OVERNIGHT. WE CAN SEE THAT.
- OH, YEAH.
WELL YOU GUYS
WANT TO TAKE A LOOK?
- YEAH, ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO.
WE'D LOVE TO LOOK AT ANYTHING
THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SHOW US.
- WELL I'LL TELL YA I, I
GOT A LOT OF STUFF,
AND SOME OF IT I DON'T WANT
TO GET RID OF, YOU KNOW?
- OH, I UNDERSTAND.
WE'RE THE SAME WAY.
- I LIKE YOUR OLD PONTIAC.
- OH, YEAH, CHECK THAT OUT.
- THAT'S NEAT.
- THAT'S '38.
- '38.
- IT'S ALL ORIGINAL.
I PAID $75 FOR THAT CAR.
- DID YA?
- YES, I DID.
- WHAT DO YOU VALUE IT AT NOW?
- I DON'T KNOW.
8,000, 9,000, MAYBE,
SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
BECAUSE IT IS ORIGINAL.
- YEAH, IT'S SHARP, MAN.
- WHAT'S, WHAT ARE THOSE
CAST-IRON LIKE QUEEN ANNE LEG
STYLES, THAT GREEN PIECE THERE?
WHAT'S THAT OFF OF?
- THAT WAS A CITY CLOCK,
AND OF COURSE THE CLOCK IS
LONG GONE, BUT
THAT HELD A CLOCK UP.
- SO ACTUALLY THE CLOCK
SAT ON THE GROUND AND IT SAT
ON TOP OF THIS?
THE GREEN TABLE WAS
EXQUISITE. IT WAS UNUSUAL.
THE QUEEN ANNE STYLE
LEGS. IT WAS CAST-IRON.
THIS THING OOZED CLASS
AND SOPHISTICATION.
I LIKE IT. HOW MUCH IS IT?
- I'D TAKE $100 FOR THAT.
- YOU WANT 100 BUCKS FOR THIS.
WHAT ABOUT THAT
CROSS RIGHT THERE TOO?
CAN YOU TELL ME
ANYTHING ABOUT THAT?
- THAT CAME OUT OF AN OLD
BUILDING THAT WE TORE DOWN,
AND IT'S SOME KIND OF A
GRAVE MARKER, I BELIEVE.
- YOU THINK IT'S A GRAVE MARKER?
- DOES THAT SAY LAGRANGE ON IT?
- WELL, I'M NOT SURE WHAT IT IS.
IT KIND OF LOOKS LIKE IT.
I CAN'T READ THE WRITING ON IT.
- IT SAYS, "MARGARET RYAN,
ORDER OF"... I CAN'T READ IT.
IT'S COOL MAN.
- WHEN I SEE SOMETHING
LIKE THAT WHITE CROSS,
IT'S INCREDIBLE.
THIS THING WAS
CAST-IRON, ORIGINAL PAINT,
HAD A GOTH LOOK TO IT.
I MEAN THIS THING
HAD A LIFE BEFORE ME.
THESE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS
THAT KEEP ME ON THE ROAD.
- I MIGHT TAKE $150 FOR THAT.
- YOU'RE AT 250. HOW
ABOUT 200 BUCKS?
- NO. CAN'T DO THAT. NOPE. NO.
- THAT WAS FAST.
YOU SAID THAT FAST.
HOW ABOUT TWO AND A QUARTER?
- OH, 235 AND WE
GOT A DEAL ON IT.
- ALL RIGHT, 235.
- OKAY.
- ALL RIGHT MAN. I LIKE
THAT STUFF. THANKS.
THE CAST-IRON WHITE
CROSS LOOKS VERY EARLY.
I THINK IT'S AT
LEAST 100 YEARS OLD.
HOPEFULLY WE CAN FIND
SOMEBODY THAT CAN TELL US
SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?
YOU POPPING?
- I'M NOT POPPING.
- ALL RIGHT.
- WHY WE SAY POP
ON AN ITEM IS BECAUSE
WE'RE EXCITED, MAN.
WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING,
YOU JUST WANT TO EXPLODE,
AND WHEN YOU EXPLODE, BOOM!
POP!
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.
SEE ANYTHING, FRANKY?
- OH, YEAH. I SEEN
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT LIKE.
- WHAT IS IT?
- I'LL SEE IF YOU
CAN DISCOVER IT.
SEE HOW GOOD YOU ARE TODAY.
- ALL RIGHT.
- I SAW SOMETHING. I DIDN'T
SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I KNEW MIKE WOULD
HAVE TO HAVE IT.
- WHAT? THIS THING?
- NO. LET'S WALK ON OVER HERE.
- THIS IS THE CAST-IRON
BATHTUB SECTION?
- WELL YOU HAVEN'T SPOTTED
WHAT HE... WHAT HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT HERE.
- OH, HE WILL.
MIKE STILL HASN'T SEEN IT.
- OH, LOOK AT THAT. ALL
RIGHT I... OH, MAN. THE BOOT.
- I SEEN THAT OVER AN
HOUR AGO. WHERE YOU BEEN?
- YOU DID?
- YEAH, I SAID YOU
WERE GONNA GO CRAZY.
- OH, THAT'S WHAT YOU SAW?
- YEAH. YOU'RE A BOOT GUY.
I KNEW THAT HE WAS
GONNA TRIP OUT ON IT,
AND WAS I RIGHT OR WAS I RIGHT?
- WELL, WHEN I SEE
SOMETHING LIKE THAT BIG BOOT
HANGING UP THERE, THAT
IS SO UNUSUAL, SO BIZARRE,
SO OUT OF PLACE.
THAT'S THE KIND OF
THING I WANT TO HAVE.
- IS THAT METAL OR FIBERGLASS?
- THAT'S FIBERGLASS, AND
THAT WAS IN A BOOT STORE
HERE IN TOWN THAT
WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.
- SO IF IT'S ON THE
GROUND, HOW TALL IS IT?
- MUST BE ABOUT
EIGHT FOOT OR SO.
- I'D SAY EIGHT FOOT AT LEAST.
- IT'S COOL.
I MEAN IT'S LIKE WE SAY,
LARGE AND IN CHARGE, MAN.
I MEAN THAT THING IS INSANE.
NOW I KNOW IT'S FIBERGLASS,
BUT IS IT PRETTY HEAVY?
- NO.
- 300 POUNDS.
- OH, THAT MUCH?
- 300 POUNDS?
- I WOULD SAY SO, YEAH.
- NO [bleep]. THAT'S HEAVY MAN.
AND WHAT'S THE MARKET
ON AN EIGHT FOOT SHOE?
- OH, $250 WOULD
PROBABLY BUY THAT BOOT.
- HOW ABOUT 200 BUCKS?
- HMM. NO I COULDN'T
TAKE 200 FOR IT.
- REALLY? LET'S WALK
AROUND, LOOK AROUND.
- OKAY, THINK ABOUT IT.
- I'M ON THE FENCE ON THE SHOE.
I'M ON THE FENCE ON IT.
- ALL RIGHT.
- I DON'T KNOW ABOUT AN
EIGHT-FOOT SHOE, IF IT WEIGHS
300 POUNDS.
- THIS HAS GOT
SOME STUFF IN HERE.
- YEAH, HEY, SO HOW
ABOUT 200 FOR THE BOOT?
- WHAT?
- 200 FOR THE BOOT.
ALL I KEPT THINKING
ABOUT WAS THAT BOOT.
- OH, WE'RE STILL A
LITTLE WAYS AWAY.
- I WANTED $250.
- YOU'VE GOT ALL KINDS
OF STUFF IN HERE NOW.
- SHOE REPAIR. IT
IS A LITTLE TOASTY.
THE SHOE REPAIR SIGN
LOOKED A LITTLE JENKY,
BUT IT WAS COOL, MAN.
IT WAS SHAPED LIKE A SHOE.
I MEAN, SOMEONE HAD
HAND-PAINTED THAT THING.
THIS WAS LIKE A FOLK ART SIGN.
- HOW ABOUT 50 BUCKS?
- HOW ABOUT 65?
- HOW ABOUT 60?
- 65 WOULD WORK OUT
GREAT, 'CAUSE YOU'RE AT 235.
THAT'D BE AN EVEN 300.
- WELL, NOW AREN'T
YOU SOMETHING?
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
WHO ARE YOU WITH?
THIS, WE JUST MET THIS GUY.
- I KNOW, BUT I'M, I HAVEN'T
BOUGHT ANYTHING YET,
SO I WAS HOPING
HE'LL REMEMBER THAT.
- HOW COME HE'S
DOING ALL THE BUYING?
- OH, I'M JUST... I
LET HIM GO FIRST.
- 65.
- OKAY.
- GOD. FRANK. THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
I'LL GET IT FROM YOU
SOME OTHER TIME.
JOHNNY MIGHT HAVE
GOT THIS STUFF FOR FREE,
BUT, MAN, HE WAS
NOT GIVING IT AWAY.
HE BARGAINED HARD.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S SEE
WHAT ELSE YOU GOT.
- OKAY.
- I'M A SIGN GUY.
IT'S LIKE, OH, MY GOD, THIS
GUY'S GOT SO MANY SIGNS.
WHAT DO YOU GET
FOR THIS STANDARD OIL?
- OH, THAT'D BE $150.
PRETTY ROUGH, BUT IT'S...
- I'D DO 100.
- WELL, YOU GOT IT.
- THE REASON I BOUGHT
THE STANDARD OIL SIGN,
IT'S REALLY LONG.
IT'S PORCELAIN.
IT WAS KIND OF RUSTY, BUT I
THINK TO A NOVICE COLLECTOR,
I CAN SELL IT FOR 225.
- SO HOW ABOUT 200
BUCKS ON THE SHOE?
- WELL, YOU'RE JUST NOT
GONNA GIVE UP ON THAT SHOE,
ARE YA?
- HE WANTS, HE WANTS TO
PUT IT ON, HE WANTS TO HOOF IT
IN THE VAN.
- I THINK IN COLLEGE, I
TOOK A CLASS ON SUBLIMINAL
ANECDOTES JUST KIND OF THROWN
AT YOU LIKE ON A MOVIE SCREEN
OR SOMETHING, SO I WAS
TRYING THAT ANGLE WITH JOHNNY.
HE'D BE LIKE, "HEY, YOU
KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
I'D BE LIKE, "200."
"FRANK?" "200 FOR THE BOOT?"
SO HOW ABOUT 200 FOR THE BOOT?
- WELL, YOU'RE NOT ANY
CLOSER THAN YOU WAS.
WE HAGGLED BACK AND
FORTH, WELL, YOU KNOW,
ALL AFTERNOON ON THIS BOOT.
- OKAY, SO I'M EIGHT
HOURS FROM HOME.
- MINIMUM.
- THAT'S ABOUT 550 MILES.
- MINIMUM.
- AND I'VE GOT AN
EIGHT-FOOT BOOT IN MY VAN,
AND CAN I GET 400 FOR IT?
I DON'T KNOW.
THAT'S WHERE I'M AT.
- I GOT TO THINKING WHO,
WHO WANTS A BOOT, YOU KNOW?
I MEAN...
YOU KNOW, BEING YOU ARE
THE ONLY PERSON THAT'S
EVER ASKED ABOUT THAT BOOT,
AND IT HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 1986,
I'M GONNA SELL IT TO YA.
- YOU ARE?
- YOU DID THE DEAL?
- ALL RIGHT.
- YOU'RE HUNG WITH IT NOW BUDDY.
- THANKS, MAN. THANKS.
- MIKE, THROUGH HIS
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES AND HIS
BARGAINING SKILLS, WAS ABLE TO
WEAR HIM DOWN TO THE 200 MARK.
- OKAY, COME ON.
- ALL RIGHT. LET'S DO IT.
I GOT THE BOOT FOR THE PRICE I
WANTED, BUT THIS THING'S HANGING
20 FEET UP IN THE RAFTERS
AND WEIGHS 300 POUNDS.
- JUST MOVE IT A LITTLE
BIT, SEE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE.
- IT'S HEAVY.
- ONCE THIS THING STARTS
GOING, DUDE, IT'S GONNA GO.
I DON'T WANT
ANYBODY TO GET HURT.
THAT'S ONE THING I DON'T
WANT, ESPECIALLY ME.
- HERE'S WHAT I'M THINKING.
WE TIE A ROPE AROUND THE BOOT,
AND THEN WE GET SOMEONE TO
HOLD THE OTHER END.
- HE WOULD BE THE
HEAVIEST, SO WE PUT HIM
ON THE END OF THE ROPE.
- I'D TRY IT.
OKAY THERE WE GO.
- ALL RIGHT, YOU READY FOR IT?
- I'M READY. JUST DO IT SLOW.
- IT'S TIME TO CUT THE ROPE.
- OKAY, WE GOT
IT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.
- FRANKY BETTER HOLD ON.
ALL RIGHT, YOU READY?
HERE IT GOES.
- I GOT IT. I GOT IT.
- YOU GOT IT.
- ALL RIGHT. CUT THE OTHER ROPE.
- ALL RIGHT. YOU GOT IT?
ALL RIGHT, HERE GOES.
- JUST A SECOND HERE.
- YEAH, THAT JAMMED UP.
- KIND OF REMINDS ME
OF THE THREE STOOGES.
- THIS THING'S GONNA SMACK HARD.
- ALL RIGHT.
- YOU GUYS READY?
- YEP.
- OKAY. THERE WE GO. OKAY.
- PIECE OF CAKE.
- WOW. PIECE OF CAKE.
- STAND IT UP.
THAT'S AWESOME.
ALL RIGHT, JOHNNY WALKER!
- JOHNNY WALKER.
- WHOO!
FRANKY.
- I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS
GONNA BE SO MUCH TROUBLE
TO GET DOWN.
- THERE WE GO.
- OKAY.
I THINK IT CAME
DOWN PRETTY EASY.
- FRANKY AND I TRAVEL
THE BACK ROADS OF AMERICA
LOOKING FOR UNUSUAL THINGS.
- ALL RIGHT. YOU READY?
- JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE.
- LET'S HIT IT.
- SO WHEN WE COME ACROSS
A NINE-FOOT TALL, 300-POUND
FIBERGLASS BOOT IN A
BARN IN KANSAS WITH A GUY
NAMED JOHNNY WALKER AT
THE HELM OF IT, WE GOTTA BUY IT.
WHOA.
- WHOA! ALL RIGHT.
- THERE IT IS BUDDY.
- THAT'S EASY.
- IT'S A GREASY [bleep].
- I KNOW IT IS.
- ALL RIGHT. WHAT ELSE
HAVE WE GOT OVER HERE?
- CAST-IRON THING.
- HEY, THANKS FOR
LETTING US LOOK AROUND.
- WELL, THAT'S QUITE ALL RIGHT.
- JOHNNY WAS A
REALLY DECENT GUY.
JUST FROM MAKING A COLD
CALL, I MEAN, HE WAS GRACIOUS.
HE SHOWED US AROUND
THE WHOLE PLACE.
- AND HE'S LIKE, "HEY, I
GOT SOME OTHER FRIENDS.
"YOU KNOW, I COULD
TELL THEM ABOUT YOU.
I COULD EVEN SHOW
YOU WHERE THEY'RE AT."
- THIS NEIGHBOR DOWN THE
ROAD, HIS NAME'S MORRIS NELSON.
THEN ANOTHER NEIGHBOR OVER
HERE, ABOUT A HALF MILE AWAY,
JUNIOR EVANS.
- I MEAN, MAYBE TOMORROW
WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO...
- SURE, YEAH, I'LL CALL
THESE GUYS AND SEE
IF WE CAN WORK SOMETHING OUT.
- ALL RIGHT, JOHNNY WALKER.
SO WE'LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING?
- WE'LL SEE YOU
GUYS IN THE MORNING.
- TAKE US OVER TO
THAT GUY'S PLACE?
- OKAY.
- I'M GONNA CALL
DANIELLE AND TELL HER
ABOUT THE MEGA PICK.
- ALL RIGHT.
[phone ringing]
- YES, SIR.
- CHECK THIS. I GOT, LIKE, A
NINE-FOOT COWBOY BOOT.
- THAT'S AWESOME!
- IT'S INSANE!
YOU KNOW, IT'D BE REALLY
COOL IF WE COULD SELL IT TO OUR
CONNECTION DOWN IN
NASHVILLE, THE PROP HOUSE.
- YEAH, THE PROP HOUSE
WOULD BE THE PERFECT PLACE.
YOU GUYS DID A GOOD JOB.
- ALL RIGHT, LATER.
- OKAY, BYE.
- MAN, THIS JOHNNY
GUY'S HOOKING US UP.
- NO DOUBT.
HE'S MEGA HOOKING US UP.
- IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME.
WE'RE ON ONE PICK
THAT LEADS TO ANOTHER.
THE WHOLE TRIP
GETS TURNED AROUND.
- WE WOULDN'T HAVE
BEEN ON THIS ROAD.
- THAT'S WHAT BEING
A PICKER IS ALL ABOUT.
SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA
TAKE A DEEP BREATH
AND DEAL WITH THE UNCERTAINTY.
- ALL RIGHT, HE'S TURNING, SO
LET'S SEE WHAT WE GOT GOING.
- ALL RIGHT, THIS IS IT.
THIS WASN'T TOO FAR.
- NO, IT WASN'T FAR.
- I CAN SEE SOME
SIGNS AND A GAS PUMP.
I'M MIKE.
- OKAY, THIS IS JUNIOR.
- HEY, JUNIOR. HOW
YA DOING? I'M FRANK.
NICE TO MEET YA.
- HOW LONG YOU BEEN COLLECTING?
- OH, PROBABLY 40 YEARS.
- OH, REALLY?
- WOW. YOU GOT A BUNCH
OF STUFF THEN, DON'T YA?
- WELL, IF IT WENT ON A
CAR, WAS FOR AN OLD CAR,
OR ABOUT AN OLD
CAR, I'D TRY TO GET IT.
- [laughs]
- I ALWAYS KIND OF LIKED
CARS AND I LIKED TO WORK ON
THEM WHEN I WAS A KID, AND,
WELL, JUST KIND OF ONE THING
LED TO ANOTHER.
- WE'LL START, I GUESS,
THE CLOSEST BUILDING.
- OKAY. HOW MANY YOU GOT?
- OH, THERE'S ABOUT
A HALF A DOZEN.
- OH, WOW, OKAY.
- YEAH, SOME OF
THEM'S NOT VERY BIG.
- THIS LOOKED LIKE A
REAL PROMISING PLACE.
THERE WAS LOTS OF
OUTBUILDINGS, AND IT LOOKED GOOD.
- YEAH, HE WAS WILLING TO
GIVE US FULL ROCK-STAR PASS
TO DIVE ONTO ANYTHING.
- OH, MY GOD, FRANKY.
- I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I
WAS ABOUT TO WALK INTO.
- OH, MY GOSH. OIL CAN CENTRAL.
- FRANK HAS DIED
AND GONE TO HEAVEN.
FRANKY WAS JUST MESMERIZED, MAN.
HE WAS LIKE A DEER
IN THE HEADLIGHTS.
- BLINDED. BLINDED.
- HE WAS BLINDED BY THE LIGHT.
- THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE.
- THIS IS, LIKE,
FRANK'S GRACELAND.
- I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT SOME...
YOU'VE GOT SOME REAL CANS HERE.
- I WAS LOOKING AT A
MAGAZINE ONCE, AND THEY WAS
SHOWING A
COLLECTION OF OIL CANS.
SOMETHING JUST KIND OF
GRABBED ME AND SAID, "THAT'S ME,"
YOU KNOW?
- RIGHT, WELL, YOU KNOW
HOW I STARTED COLLECTING?
I STARTED COLLECTING BECAUSE
IT WAS INEXPENSIVE, YOU KNOW
WHAT I MEAN?
AND SO I GOT A LITTLE
COLLECTION GOING ON,
BUT NOTHING TO THE
MAGNITUDE OF THIS.
I MEAN, THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE.
HIS COLLECTION WAS SO AMAZING,
I COULDN'T EVEN BRING MYSELF
TO EVEN THINK ABOUT
BUYING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I MEAN A COLLECTION LIKE
THAT NEEDS TO STAY TOGETHER.
- YOU MIND IF I TAKE
A COUPLE PICTURES?
BECAUSE IT'LL BE A
LONG TIME BEFORE
I SEE THIS MANY GOOD CANS.
- GO AHEAD.
- YEAH, THIS IS GONNA BE MY
WALLPAPER AT MY HOUSE NOW.
GET YOU IN THERE.
THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH.
- ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT ANYWHERE
ELSE FOR US TO LOOK AT?
- YOU BET.
- WHOA! HE'S GOT A COUPLE
OF EVERYTHING IT LOOKS LIKE.
THERE'S A LOT TO LOOK
AT. THIS IS IT. THIS IS IT, MAN.
- I SPENT MANY A
SATURDAY STANDING AROUND
AT AN AUCTION ALL DAY LONG.
- OH, MY GOD. I GUESS.
- FIRE RING SPARK PLUGS. CLOCK?
WHAT WOULD THE VALUE OF THAT BE?
- I REALLY DON'T CARE
ABOUT SELLING THAT,
BUT PROBABLY AROUND 200.
- OKAY.
- JUNIOR WAS ASKING
$200 FOR HIS CLOCK.
THAT WAS AN INDICATION THAT
HE PUT A HIGH VALUE ON HIS ITEMS.
- THAT LOOKS LIKE A RARE SIGN.
KING BEE MOTOR OIL.
NOW WHAT'D YOU HAVE TO
PAY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
- PROBABLY AROUND
ABOUT TWO, TWO AND A HALF.
- WHAT WOULD
SOMETHING LIKE THIS BE?
- WELL, THAT'S GOT
THE FORD OIL ON IT.
THAT'S 300.
- THAT'S HIS BABY.
- ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.
- YOU KNOW, WE NEEDED TO
DO A PRICE INTERVENTION HERE.
I MEAN, COLLECTORS
HAVE TO REALIZE
THAT WE CAN'T PAY TOP DOLLAR.
- YOU GOTTA REMEMBER
THOUGH, JUNIOR, WE'RE PICKERS.
WE'RE A LONG WAYS AWAY
FROM HOME, AND AT 300...
- YOU COULDN'T MAKE MUCH.
- THERE'S NOT MUCH MEAT LEFT
ON THE BONE FOR US ON THAT.
- DIDN'T FAZE HIM
AT ALL, YOU KNOW?
I MEAN A $300 SIGN WAS $300.
- WHAT YEAR'S YOUR CAR?
- THAT'S A '32 ROADSTER.
- WHAT'S THE VALUE
OF A CAR LIKE THIS?
- PROBABLY BE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD OF 30,000.
- WOW!
- I WAS INTO CAR STUFF FIRST
AND OLD CARS, AND THEN I THOUGHT,
"WELL, IT'D BE NEAT TO
HAVE AN OLD GAS PUMP,"
SO THEN I BOUGHT ONE GAS PUMP,
AND THEN ANOTHER GAS PUMP,
AND ANOTHER ONE AND
ANOTHER ONE AND ANOTHER SIGN,
AND IT JUST KEEPS GOING ON.
IT NEVER STOPS.
- NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
HEY, YOU ONLY GO
AROUND ONE TIME.
- WE CAN UNDERSTAND SOMEONE
THAT'S A DEVOTED COLLECTOR,
BECAUSE THOSE ARE
THE KIND OF PEOPLE
THAT WE SELL THINGS TO.
IF WE FIND AN OIL
CAN, IF WE FIND A SIGN,
IF WE FIND A CAR PART,
THIS IS THE KIND OF GUY
WE WANT TO SELL IT TO,
BECAUSE HE'S USED TO PAYING UP
FOR STUFF, BUT
THESE TYPES OF GUYS
ARE REALLY HARD
TO BUY THINGS FROM.
HERE'S WHAT I'M THINKING.
IF WE DON'T FIND THE
CHECKOUT AISLE SOON,
WE GOTTA GET GOING, DUDE.
- I DIDN'T THINK YOU'D
COME OUT ALIVE.
- I KNOW. HERE'S
WHAT WE'RE THINKING.
WE'RE PICKERS. WE'RE BUYERS.
YOU HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE
TO SELL US ANYTHING.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA
TRY TO POP ON A FEW THINGS,
BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST...
YOU'RE DRIVING THE BUS MAN.
- THE TWO SHELL
LITTLE CLAM SIGNS I SEEN
IN THE BACK THERE?
THE ONES THAT ARE THE FURTHEST
AWAY FROM YOUR COLLECTION.
HOW MUCH ARE THOSE?
- I'D HAVE TO HAVE 250 APIECE.
- OKAY, NOW, SEE,
WHERE I LIVE, I CAN GET
$150 APIECE FOR THEM.
THAT'S ALL. THAT'S
ALL I CAN GET.
- LET'S LOOK AT THEM.
I WANT TO CHECK THEM
OUT FOR 250 APIECE.
- OKAY.
- I WAS LIKE, "YOU KNOW WHAT?
"OKAY. THE GLOVES ARE OFF.
"LET'S WALK BACK THERE AND
SEE WHAT A $250 SIGN LOOKS LIKE
THAT'S BEEN SITTING OUT
HERE IN THE ELEMENTS."
- YEAH, I DIDN'T
REALIZE THEY WERE...
- NO, I SEE IT'S GOT SOME
DAMAGE UP THE TOP AND
IT'S ALL PEELED OUT.
- THEY'RE NOT,
THEY'RE NOT PERFECT.
- WELL, NOW, IT'S IN THE DIRT,
AND YOU SEE IT'S NOT PERFECT.
HOW MUCH IS IT?
- THIS IN HERE I'D TAKE A
HUNDRED AND A HALF FOR IT.
- EVEN AT 150, I THINK THAT'S
PROBABLY, LIKE FRANK SAID,
WHAT WE CAN ACTUALLY
GET FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
WHERE WE'RE AT.
HOW LONG YOU BEEN
SITTING ON THAT?
- PROBABLY ABOUT SIX, SEVEN
YEARS, EIGHT YEARS MAYBE.
- I'M LIKE, "YOU KNOW, IT'S
BEEN SITTING OUT HERE
"FOR A LONG TIME.
IT'S BURIED IN THE DIRT."
I MEAN, FOR US TO EVEN BE
ABLE TO MAKE ANYTHING ON THAT,
WE HAVE TO BE IN IT AT 75 BUCKS.
WOULD YOU DO 75
BUCKS ON THIS ONE?
- WELL, OH, I GUESS
I WOULD, YEAH.
- WHAT DO YOU THINK FRANKY?
- I THINK AT 75, THEY'RE FINE.
- YEAH. ALL RIGHT.
WELL, I THINK WE'VE PRETTY
MUCH SEEN EVERYTHING, HUH?
- YEAH, YOU WANT
TO LOOK IN HERE?
I'VE GOT AN OLD WOODEN WHEEL
BICYCLE IN HERE, AN OLD ONE.
- ALL RIGHT. WELL, NOW
YOU GOT MY ATTENTION.
- THEN HE'S LIKE,
"YOU KNOW, I GOT
A WOOD-RIM BICYCLE IN HERE."
I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, "IF WE
WOULD HAVE WALKED AWAY WHEN HE
"SAID 250 ON THE SIGNS,
WE NEVER WOULD HAVE
SAW THE BICYCLE."
WHOA, WHOA, WHOA. TRIPLE-WHOA.
SO ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER.
IT'S GOT SOME NICE LINES TO IT.
IT'S GOT THIS DOUBLE,
DOUBLE SEAT STAY.
I DON'T KNOW.
LET'S ASK HIM WHAT
HE WANTS FOR IT.
IT WAS ACTUALLY
A PRETTY NICE BIKE.
- ABOUT WHAT YEAR WAS THAT MADE?
- THIS IS 1890s, AND
IT'S MADE IN CHICAGO.
IT'S MADE BY A COMPANY
CALLED CRESCENT.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT ROUGH, BUT
IT WAS KIND OF A RARE BICYCLE,
AND IT HAD A LOT OF
REALLY UNIQUE FEATURES.
IT'S GOT THE CORK GRIPS,
AND IT'S GOT A NICE SEAT ON IT,
AND THEN IT'S GOT
THIS ROLLER CHAIN.
THEY CALL THAT A ROLLER CHAIN,
HOW THAT ALL ROLLS UNDERNEATH
THERE LIKE THAT.
THESE ARE CALLED
TANGENTIAL WHEELS,
BECAUSE THE SPOKES
CROSS, AND SEE HOW
THEY'RE ALL SOLDERED TOGETHER
AT THE POINTS WHERE THEY CROSS?
YOU CAN SEE THE TUBING ON
THE BIKE IS THIS LARGER DIAMETER.
THE WAY JUNIOR WAS
THROWING PRICES AT US, I WASN'T
TOO CONFIDENT THAT HE
WAS GONNA PRICE THAT BIKE
REASONABLY, BUT I HAD TO TRY.
- MAKE ME AN OFFER.
- EVEN THOUGH THE
WHEELS ARE TRASHED,
75 BUCKS.
- OH...
COULD YOU GO 100?
THAT'S WHAT I GAVE FOR IT.
- HE'S LIKE, "I PAID
100. GIVE ME 100."
THE GUY WAS WILLING TO SELL IT
TO ME FOR WHAT HE PAID FOR IT.
- 100 BUCKS. ALL RIGHT, COOL.
- ALL RIGHT.
- I APPRECIATE IT, MAN.
THANKS. I APPRECIATE IT.
I'M JUST GONNA SIT HERE AND
DROOL ON THIS A LITTLE BIT.
- HOW DID I GET
HOOKED WITH THE SIGN?
- YOU KNOW, SINCE I'M BUYING
THE BIKE, I SHARE THE LOVE.
- OH, OKAY.
- THE SHELL SIGN WILL
GO FOR $150, NO PROBLEM.
THANKS, JUNIOR.
- YOU BET, FRANK.
- IF WE EVER GET DOWN
HERE AGAIN WE'RE GONNA
STOP IN AND SEE YA.
- THANKS BUDDY.
- ALL RIGHT. YOU BET.
- THANK YOU.
- WE'LL SEE YOU LATER.
[horn honking]
JOHNNY WALKER WAS LIKE
THE PIED PIPER OF PICKING.
WE WERE JUST
FOLLOWING HIM AROUND.
IT WAS AWESOME.
USUALLY WHEN WE'RE OUT PICKING,
IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND PEOPLE.
JOHNNY HAS TURNED US ON TO
THIS GENTLEMAN NAMED MORRIS.
THIS GUY IS SUPPOSED
TO HAVE A LOT OF STUFF.
HE USED TO OWN A GAS STATION,
AND HE'S A CAR COLLECTOR.
FOR HIM TO BRING US DOWN HERE
TO MORRIS' PLACE, THAT REALLY
IS HUGE FOR US.
- ARE YOU MORRIS?
- THIS IS MORRIS NELSON.
- NICE TO MEET YOU. VERY
NICE TO MEET YOU, SIR.
- FRANK.
- PLEASURE. HOW YA DOING?
- SO WHAT'S GOING ON?
YOU BEEN COLLECTING
STUFF FOR A WHILE?
- IF I SEE SOMETHING I
LIKE, IF I CAN'T STEAL IT,
I MIGHT TRY TO BUY IT.
- BUY IT? OKAY.
- NOW, HOW DID YOU GUYS MEET?
- OH, I'VE KNOWN
JOHN A LONG TIME.
- WE'VE BEEN NEIGHBORS
FOR 40 YEARS PROBABLY.
- OH, WOW. OKAY.
- SO WHAT DID THIS USE TO BE?
- WE HAD A FILLING STATION
HERE WITH SIX PUMPS
HERE AND OVERHEAD
TANKS IN THE BACK.
- AND WHEN DID YOU
START IN BUSINESS?
- 1946.
- OKAY, AND WHAT IS IT NOW?
- A PLAYHOUSE.
- THIS IS A PLAYHOUSE.
- IT'S YOUR PLAYHOUSE?
THERE YOU GO.
THAT'S A GOOD WORD FOR IT.
- WOULD YOU MIND IF WE
LOOKED AROUND A LITTLE BIT?
- PLEASE DO.
- WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO
FIGURE OUT IF HE'S GONNA SELL
OR NOT WITHIN ABOUT
15 MINUTES OF THE GAME.
WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN HERE?
- OH, ALL KINDS OF GOODIES.
- WHEN WE WALK
INTO AN OLD BUILDING,
ESPECIALLY A GAS STATION
THAT'S BEEN HERE SINCE 1946
AND THE HISTORY
OF THE FAMILY HERE,
IT'S JUST FUN TO GO THROUGH IT.
- THAT GOES TO A
MOTORCYCLE RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S EITHER TRIUMPH OR NORTON.
- YOU FIND SOME GOODIES?
- NO, NOT YET.
- WE'RE LOOKING. YOU
JUST PULL OPEN AND WE'LL...
- KEEP ON PULLING AND
WE'LL KEEP LOOKING.
- WE'LL JUST KEEP ON... UH-OH.
- WHOA.
- WHOA!
DID YOU... GOD, HE CUT MY HAND
OFF WHEN HE REACHED IN FOR THAT!
- BUT SOMETIMES I HAVE
A LIGHTNING REACTION,
AND I JUST GRAB SOMETHING
BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S KILLER.
HOW MUCH IS THIS?
- WOW.
- YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T EVEN
KNOW WHAT THAT GOES ONTO.
- I... AT THIS POINT,
I DON'T EVEN CARE.
IT'S SO DAMN COOL.
- I'LL TELL YOU
WHAT IT'S OFF OF.
- OKAY.
- 1926 BUICK MASTER, BIG BUICK.
AND I'LL TELL YOU
WHAT IT'S WORTH,
AND IT'LL TELL YOU
WHAT I WANT FOR IT.
I WANT $125 FOR IT.
- WHAT'S IT WORTH?
- PROBABLY 150 OR 200.
- FOR COLLECTORS THAT
REALLY APPRECIATE DETAIL,
THAT HOOD ORNAMENT
IS GONNA BE THE CHERRY
ON THE RESTORATION PIE.
- ANYBODY WHO'S GOT A BIG BUICK,
YOU COULDN'T GET ONE OF THEM.
- THERE'S NOT A LOT OF
ROOM LEFT ON IT FOR ME THERE.
HOW ABOUT 100 BUCKS?
- YOU GOT IT.
- THAT WAS FAST.
MORRIS HAD SO
MUCH AMAZING STUFF,
WE JUST LOST
OURSELVES IN IT ALL.
COUPLE BAR STOOLS.
WINDSHIELD WIPER
BLADE DISPLAY, FRANKY.
YOU NEED THAT?
- NO, I'M PASSING.
- I'M LOOKING UP IN THE RAFTERS,
AND A SHINY PIECE OF METAL
CATCHES MY EYE,
AND I'M THINKING,
"IS THAT REALLY A BSA GAS TANK?"
HOW ABOUT THAT
BSA TANK UP THERE?
WOULD YOU SELL THAT?
- YEAH.
- OH, THAT LOOKS GOOD.
- OH, MY GOD. OH, MY LORD.
BSA STANDS FOR "BIRMINGHAM
SMALL ARMS COMPANY."
THESE GUYS PRODUCED MUCH
MORE THAN MOTORCYCLES.
THEY DID AIRPLANES, THEY
DID TAXIS, THEY DID GUNS.
HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN
SITTING UP THERE, MORRIS?
- 25 OR 30 YEARS.
- OKAY.
$50!
- OH, THAT'S WORTH
MORE THAN THAT.
- WHAT'S IT WORTH?
- 100.
- IT'S 100 BUCKS?
COLLECTORS ARE ALWAYS
SEARCHING FOR ORIGINAL PARTS.
TO FIND SOMETHING
IN THAT CONDITION,
IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE FIND.
THAT'S FULL-BLOWN RETAIL?
- OH, NO, YOU COULDN'T BUY
A TANK LIKE THAT FOR $100.
- HOW ABOUT I FLIP YOU FOR IT?
IF YOU WIN, IT'S 100 BUCKS.
IF I WIN, IT'S 75.
- HEADS, I WIN. TAILS, YOU LOSE.
- OH, HE'S THROWING
IT TO THE GROUND?
- WAIT A MINUTE.
[laughs]
- IT'S HEADS. HE WON.
ALL RIGHT. 100 BUCKS.
[laughter]
I STRUCK GOLD IN THE
RAFTERS WITH THE BSA TANK.
I WAS REALLY EXCITED
TO GET IT FOR 100 BUCKS.
I THINK MORRIS HAD A GOOD
TIME FLIPPING ME FOR IT.
I'M HOPING THERE'S
MORE OF THAT BIKE LEFT
IN SOME OF THESE
OTHER BUILDINGS.
- WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE TO
HAVE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
- I'LL TAKE 25.
- RIGHT ON THE NUMBER. 25.
- THAT'S OUT OF AN OLD CAR.
- I LIKE THE DURANGO
THING. THAT'S COOL.
- HOW MUCH IS THAT?
- WHAT'S IT WORTH?
- FIVE BUCKS.
- GOT IT.
- WERE YOU IN WORLD WAR II?
- YEAH.
- WHAT BRANCH OF
SERVICE WERE YOU IN?
- NAVY, I WAS A CARRIER
PILOT AND I WAS DOING
ANTI-SUBMARINE PATROL IN THE
ATLANTIC ALL DURING THE WAR.
- WOW.
- THANK YOU.
- YEAH, THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE.
- APPRECIATE IT.
- NO, SERIOUSLY,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
- I CAN'T SAY I ENJOYED THE
WAR, BUT IT WAS THE PLACE
TO BE AT THE TIME.
- YEAH.
- WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT HIM?
I MEAN HE SERVED IN THE WAR.
HE REMEMBERS
EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW?
YOU DON'T MEET PEOPLE
LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME.
I MEAN HE'S JUST A VERY,
VERY SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL.
- I'M EXCITED HERE.
- HOW ABOUT THIS LITTLE GUY?
- THAT'S AN AIRPLANE.
THAT'S A DUF, BRUCER
DUFFEL. I FLEW THOSE.
- YOU DID?
- YEAH, I EXPECT THAT TOY
IS AT LEAST A 50-BUCKER.
- THAT'S A HUBLEY.
IT'S MADE BY
KITTY, KITTY HUBLEY.
- THE HUBLEY TOY COMPANY
WAS INCORPORATED IN 1890s.
THEY MADE TOYS UP TO THE 1960s.
USUALLY THESE SNAP OFF
AND THIS... IT'S A GOOD PIECE.
- THAT'S A GOOD ONE.
- ALTHOUGH MASS-PRODUCED,
EACH ONE WAS HAND-PAINTED.
TODAY THEY ARE VALUED HIGHLY
AND SOUGHT OUT BY COLLECTORS.
- OKAY, YOU WANT IT
OR YOU DON'T WANT IT?
- WHENEVER I SEE A TOY
THAT'S IN GREAT CONDITION,
I HAVE TO BUY IT.
- AT 50, I DON'T WANT IT.
- OKAY. AT WHAT DO YOU WANT IT?
- WELL IT'S WORTH 50, BUT WE'RE
PICKERS, AND WE SOMETIMES...
- YOU LIKE TO DOUBLE
YOUR MONEY. I UNDERSTAND.
- I'D HAVE TO DOUBLE.
WE'RE, WE ARE RIGHT
ON THE SAME PATH.
- OKAY, THEN WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT 25.
- 25, I'LL TAKE IT.
- GOT IT.
- DEAL.
- ALRIGHT MORRIS, YOU GOT A
CAR, AND OUR SIGN OUT IN FRONT
OF OUR SHOP IS A 1949
NASH BURIED IN THE GROUND.
- THAT'S WHAT THAT IS.
- YUP. 20 BUCKS.
- GOT IT.
- OH!
- LOOKS LIKE FRANKY FOUND
SOME POSTERS OVER HERE.
- OH, MY GOSH.
- YOU WERE LIKE A
BEACON OF LIGHT.
IT WAS LIKE, "AHHHHH."
WHAT YEAR WOULD THESE
BE FROM, DO YOU REMEMBER?
- YEAH, THEY WOULD
HAVE TO BE BEFORE 1970.
- ON ANY TYPE OF POSTER, I
DON'T CARE IF IT'S A MOVIE POSTER,
GAS AND OIL POSTER,
RADIO POSTER, ANYTHING,
CONDITION, CONDITION.
THIS HAD BEEN LAID OUT
FLAT. IT HADN'T BEEN ROLLED UP.
NO SUN DAMAGE. IT'S INCREDIBLE.
- ALL RIGHT, MAKE
ME TAKE IT HOME.
- I'LL MAKE YOU TAKE IT HOME.
- ALL RIGHT.
- GO AHEAD. OH, YOU...
[laughter]
I'LL TELL YA WHAT.
A GOOD FELLA LIKE YOU, I'M
GONNA MAKE YOU TAKE IT HOME.
YOU TAKE THAT DAMN THING HOME.
- FOR FREE?
- YEAH.
- OH, NO, I COULDN'T DO THAT.
- OKAY.
- ALL RIGHT, I'LL TAKE IT HOME.
- OKAY.
- I'M ROLLING IT UP.
- OKAY. ROLL IT UP.
- ALL RIGHT, THAT'S
A BEAUTY, FRANKY.
- IT IS A BEAUTY.
THIS IS ONE THING YOU
DON'T FIND ALL THE TIME.
IT'S PRICELESS TO ME.
I'LL PROBABLY HAVE IT FRAMED UP.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PIECE.
I LOVE OIL STUFF. I'M
ECSTATIC TO HAVE IT.
THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH.
THIS WILL BE SOMETHING THAT
I WILL CHERISH AT MY HOME,
AND I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER
YOU GAVE IT TO ME.
THANKS, MORRIS.
A LOT OF STUFF WE SELL.
THAT'S ONE THING I'M
GONNA KEEP AS A MEMORY.
IT'S A GOOD PIECE.
- THAT'S A GOOD ONE.
- HE'LL PUT THIS ABOVE HIS
HEADBOARD IN HIS BEDROOM.
- I PROBABLY WOULD
PUT IT IN MY BEDROOM.
- THERE'S TWO HEADS ON THIS.
- NO IT'S NOT. LET'S
SEE THE INSIDE.
- CAN I KEEP THE QUARTER?
- YEAH.
- IT'S SO DAMN COOL.
- THAT IS A NICE ONE.
- WOW.
- ALL RIGHT MORRIS,
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
- HEY, IT'S BEEN NICE.
- WE HAD A GREAT
TIME, SERIOUSLY.
I LOVE YOUR STORIES.
I LOVE THE SHOP. YEAH.
THANKS, JOHNNY, FOR BRINGING
US OVER HERE MAN, SERIOUSLY.
- THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
- ALL RIGHT. COOL.
- MAN. MORRIS IS
SO FRIGGIN' COOL.
- HE WAS COOL.
- THE GUY'S HAD
AN INCREDIBLE LIFE.
- HE DID HAVE AN
INCREDIBLE LIFE.
- KANSAS IS GOOD TO US, BROTHER.
- KANSAS IS WORKING OUT.
- LET'S CALL DANIELLE AND
GO, "HEY, WATCH THE SHOP
FOR ANOTHER WEEK."
- YEAH, SEE YA.
- DO WE EVEN NEED
DANIELLE ANYMORE?
- NO DOUBT.
- I'M THINKING WE GET RID
OF DANIELLE AND HIRE JOHNNY.
HE'S NOT GONNA BE SITTING
AROUND THE OFFICE DOING HIS NAILS.
FROM JOHNNY WALKER
AND HIS FRIENDS,
WE GOT SOME GREAT ITEMS,
BUT THERE'S A FEW WE'D
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT.
HOPEFULLY WE DID GOOD, MAN.
- DANIELLE HOOKED US UP WITH
AN APPRAISER NAMED SHANE.
THIS GUY'S IN KANSAS CITY.
SHE SAYS HE REALLY KNOWS
HIS STUFF, SO WE'RE GONNA
SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.
ALL RIGHT, SHANE.
- WOW. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE?
WHEN HE FIRST WALKED IN
THAT DOOR, I THOUGHT FOR SURE
IT CAME OFF OF AN
ORTHODOX CHURCH STEEPLE.
- I BOUGHT IT JUST BECAUSE I
SELL THINGS LIKE THIS EVERY
ONCE IN A WHILE TO DECORATORS.
YOU KNOW, I LIKE THE
OLD MILK-WHITE PAINT ON IT.
- TO SEE A PIECE OF CAST-IRON
THAT LARGE AND IN THAT
GOOD A SHAPE, IT WAS REALLY
A HIGHLY UNUSUAL PIECE.
- I WASN'T FAMILIAR WITH,
WITH IT AT ALL AS FAR AS,
YOU KNOW, THE AGE OF IT.
- THIS, THIS IS LATIN,
PAX EN CRISTO.
THAT'S PEACE IN CHRIST,
SO THIS IS A CATHOLIC
BURIAL MARKER,
IT HAS TO BE, AND IT'S DATED.
IT'S ALL ROMAN
NUMERALS RIGHT THERE.
- OKAY, YEAH.
- YOU ADD THOSE ALL
UP, THAT SAYS 1880,
BUT THE WEIRD THING IS,
IS RIGHT THERE AT THE END
IS A SMALLER FOUR, SO I WONDER
IF THEY DIED IN THE FOURTH MONTH
OF 1880.
- OKAY.
- YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN AN
AUCTIONEER FOR 16 YEARS,
AND I'VE SOLD EVERYTHING
FROM FENCE-JUMPING MULES
TO ZOO ANIMALS, AND I'VE NEVER
SOLD A BURIAL MARKER AT AUCTION.
THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL.
THIS ISN'T ANYTHING THAT
PEOPLE JUST READILY GIVE UP.
- WHEN SHANE GOT SO EXCITED
ABOUT THIS BURIAL MARKER,
I GOT EXCITED.
- CAST-IRON COLLECTORS,
ORNAMENTAL COLLECTORS,
ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTORS
WOULD PROBABLY KILL
FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
- WHAT, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE...
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE VALUE
OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS?
- I MEAN IT'S, IT'S HARD TO
VALUE SOMETHING LIKE THIS,
BECAUSE IT IS A ONE OF A KIND.
- YEAH.
- SELLING CAST-IRON THINGS,
THERE'S A HUGE FOLLOWING
FOR CAST-IRON BUYERS.
YOU GET THIS IN A GALLERY
AUCTION WITH SPECIALIZED ITEMS,
YOU'RE EASILY
LOOKING AT 600, 700.
- OKAY, COOL.
- I CAN'T BELIEVE SHANE
SAID THIS CROSS IS WORTH
600 TO 700 BUCKS.
NOW WE GET INTO BIG BOYS' TOYS.
- BIG BOYS' TOYS, THAT'S RIGHT.
- THE GUY OPENED
THE FILE CABINET.
- WHOA.
- WHOA!
- HOW MUCH IS THAT?
- GOD, HE CUT MY HAND OFF
WHEN HE REACHED IN FOR THAT.
- THIS IS A BUICK WINGED
GODDESS RADIATOR CAP.
MOST PEOPLE REFER TO
THEM AS A HOOD ORNAMENT,
BUT IT'S ACTUALLY
A RADIATOR CAP.
- OH, SEE I'VE BEEN CALLING
THEM HOOD ORNAMENTS.
- YEAH, YEAH.
1926, 1927, 1928
BUICK SEDAN, YEAH.
BUICK AND PONTIAC DID SOME
OF THE BEST HOOD ORNAMENTS
AND RADIATOR CAPS.
I MEAN THEY SURPASSED
ROLLS ROYCE EASILY.
DURING THE ROARING '20s,
THE BUICK AND PONTIAC,
THEY TRIED TO CAPITALIZE
ON THE FACT THAT WOMEN
WERE STARTING TO COME
OUT OF THE HOME, BUY VEHICLES
THEMSELVES, SO THE FEMALE
FORM WAS VERY DESIRABLE.
IT'S NICKEL ON ZINC.
THERE'S NOT A WHOLE
LOT OF CORROSION.
THIS KIND OF CORROSION RIGHT
HERE IS MORE COMMON ON THESE
CAPS BECAUSE OF THE ZINC.
ONCE YOU GET FLUIDS AND
STUFF UNDERNEATH THAT,
LIKE ANTIFREEZE, IT'LL
EAT THEM UP PRETTY WELL,
BUT SHE'S IN GREAT SHAPE.
IN THE INSIDE OF THEM, THEY
ALWAYS HAVE THE PART NUMBER.
THAT'S, THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW
THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY AUTHENTIC.
SHE IS DEFINITELY REAL.
- HIT ME WITH WHAT
YOU THINK IT'S WORTH.
- THAT'S A HIGHLY
COLLECTIBLE ITEM.
I'D SAY IN THE RIGHT CIRCLES,
YOU'RE LOOKING AT 275.
- ALL RIGHT. I DID GOOD.
I'M INTO IT FOR 100 BUCKS.
- OH, YEAH. YOU DID REAL WELL.
- SO I THINK I DID
ALL RIGHT ON IT.
- YOU DID REAL WELL.
- I GOTTA ASK, YOU INTERESTED?
- TO SELL IT FOR YA?
I GOT A BUYER AT 225.
I COULD DO THAT.
- I'D FIND A GOOD AUTOMOBILE
MEMORABILIA AUCTION,
AND I WOULD CONSIGN IT,
AND THEN I WOULD STAND
IN THE CROWD AND WATCH THAT
PUPPY GO THROUGH THE ROOF.
I REALLY WOULD.
- THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
I'M GLAD WE GOT A
CONNECTION DOWN HERE NOW.
- IT WAS GREAT MEETING YOU GUYS.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THANKS A LOT, GUYS.
- ALL RIGHT, THANKS, SHANE.
- HAVE A SAFE TRIP.
- OKAY. WOW. LET ME TOUCH IT.
- TOUCH IT.
- WOW. IT'S COOL.
- FRANKY AND I DON'T TALK ABOUT
JUST TV AND PICKS ON THE ROAD,
WE TALK ABOUT SOME
SERIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL STUFF.
- YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GO TO
THE CHIROPRACTOR, YOU KNOW,
AND SOMETIMES IT FEELS
LIKE YOU CHEAT DEATH.
IT'S LIKE THEY'VE GOT YOU BY
THE HEAD, AND THEY GO "CRRK."
- I NEVER SEEM LIKE I
CAN RELAX ENOUGH FOR
THEM TO CRACK IT.
- YOU NEVER RELAX
ENOUGH FOR ANYTHING.
- WHAT ABOUT BOILED PEANUTS?
I DON'T THINK THAT
SOUNDS SO GOOD.
- I GOT TO HAVE A LOT OF
SALT ON MY PEANUTS, MAN.
- REALLY? I JUST DON'T THINK
THAT SOUNDS SO HOT MYSELF.
- YEAH, WHEN YOU PUT
THOSE TWO WORDS TOGETHER,
BOILED AND NUTS.
I JUST, I WANT TO STEP AWAY.
- NO, YOU'RE A REDHEAD GUY.
- I KNOW.
- YOU'VE ALWAYS
BEEN A REDHEAD GUY.
I REMEMBER SINCE WE WERE
LIKE IN EIGHTH GRADE, DUDE.
YOU ALWAYS TALKED
ABOUT REDHEADS.
- REDHEADS AND GREEN EYES.
- I KNOW WHY YOU LIKE
THEM, 'CAUSE THEY'RE RARE,
AND YOU LIKE RARE STUFF, MAN.
- THEY'RE RARE, HARD TO FIND.
- THAT'S RIGHT.
- HAVE YOU?
- NO.
- HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT?
- NO.
- WOULD YOU THINK?
- NO.
- WHAT ABOUT?
- NO.
[laughing]
WE'RE HEADING TOWARDS KANSAS.
WHOA.
- WHOA!
- HOW MUCH IS THAT?
- GOD, HE CUT MY HAND OFF
WHEN HE REACHED IN FOR THAT.
OH. OH.
- HOW ABOUT THAT
BSA TANK? OH, MY GOD.
- WOW. OIL CAN CENTRAL.
- FRANK HAS DIED
AND GONE TO HEAVEN.
- YOU WERE LIKE, "AHHHH."
A BOOT. [laughs]
ALL RIGHT, YOU READY, FRANK?
- I'M READY.
- I'M MIKE WOLFE.
- AND I'M FRANK FRITZ.
- AND WE'RE PICKERS.
- WE TRAVEL THE BACK
ROADS OF AMERICA LOOKING
FOR RUSTY GOLD.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR AMAZING
THINGS BURIED IN PEOPLE'S
GARAGES AND BARNS.
- WHAT MOST PEOPLE SEE AS
JUNK, WE SEE AS DOLLAR SIGNS.
- WE'LL BUY ANYTHING WE
THINK WE CAN MAKE A BUCK ON.
- 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.
AS SOON AS WE GET WHERE
WE'RE GONNA REST TONIGHT...
- WE'LL GIVE YOU A BUZZ.
- YEAH, JUST HIT THE INTERNET.
YOU KNOW, JUST BLAST THE
INTERNET WITH A BUNCH OF STUFF.
JUST MAKE SURE EVERYBODY
KNOWS WE'RE OUT THERE.
- YEAH, ANYTHING YOU CAN
PICK UP DOWN THERE WOULD BE
GREAT, BECAUSE WE DON'T
REALLY KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING.
- I WILL, I JUST GOT SO
MUCH ON MY MIND RIGHT NOW.
- KANSAS HAS BEEN REALLY TOUGH.
I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO REALLY
BOOK THE BEST PICKS THERE
OR EVEN MANY PICKS THERE.
SO HOPEFULLY I CAN FIND
SOME BETTER STUFF FOR THEM
WHEN THEY GET THERE.
- DON'T BE FREAKING
OUT, SERIOUSLY.
- YEAH, DON'T STRESS OUT.
- WHEN YOU FREAK OUT,
THEN THAT STRESSES US OUT.
- I'M FEELING A
LITTLE THROW-UP SICK
RIGHT NOW ABOUT IT.
- WE'RE A TEAM. WE'RE
CREW. ALL RIGHT?
- YEAH.
- BLAST THE INTERNET.
WE'RE COMING TO KANSAS.
- I WILL.
- ALL RIGHT, BU-BYE.
- BYE. BE SAFE.
[horn honks]
I NEED A NAP.
- WE'RE HITTING THE ROAD.
WE'RE HEADING TOWARDS KANSAS.
IT'S GONNA BE ROUGH
OUT THERE, MAN.
WE'RE GONNA DIG OUR HEELS
IN AND SEE WHAT WE CAN
PULL OUT OF THERE.
- YEAH, WE'VE HAD SOME
PICKERS THAT WE KNOW THAT SAID
IT'S TOUGH OUT THERE, BUT
THAT DOESN'T DISCOURAGE US.
- FRANKY, YOU KNOW HOW
GRUMPY I GET, MAN, WHEN I MISS
MY SHOW.
- THE HILLS?
- THE HILLS, BABY. AUDRINA.
- HOW'D YOU GET HOOKED ON THAT?
- I DON'T KNOW.
REMEMBER WHEN YOU ALWAYS
USED TO GET JACKED UP ON OC?
- OH YEAH. I LOVED OC.
- I WENT FROM 90210 TO
MELROSE PLACE TO OC.
- BEFORE 90210 THOUGH,
SAVED BY THE BELL.
- I NEVER WATCHED THAT.
- YOU DIDN'T WATCH THAT?
- UH-UH.
- SCREECH?
- [scream]
- MAN, IT IS DESOLATE
OUT HERE FRANKY.
- I KNOW. THERE'S,
LIKE, NOTHING GOING ON.
- WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE
OF NOWHERE IN KANSAS,
SO WHEN WE'RE FREESTYLING,
IT'S PRETTY SKETCHY.
IT'S FEWER AND FARTHER BETWEEN.
- I TELL YA WHAT, I
LIKE GETTING LOST,
BUT THIS IS, LIKE, REALLY LOST.
[phone ringing]
- ALL RIGHT. DANIELLE'S CALLING.
HELLO?
- HEY.
- WHAT'S GOING ON?
- YOU'RE GONNA FIND
THIS REALLY INTERESTING.
- ALL RIGHT. I'M LISTENING.
- THERE'S TWO GUYS,
AUGIE AND DENNIS.
THEY DRIVE AROUND IN A BROWN VAN
JUST LIKE YOU GUYS DO.
I MEAN, I KNOW YOUR VAN'S
WHITE, BUT THEY JUST REMIND ME SO
MUCH OF YOU GUYS.
- WHAT KIND OF
STUFF DO THEY HAVE?
- THEY HAVE LIKE
HUNDREDS OF SIGNS.
THEY HAVE GAS
PUMPS, CRANK PHONES.
THEY'RE SUPER COOL.
- YEAH, WHY DON'T YOU
EMAIL US THE COORDINATES,
AND WE'LL STOP BY AND SEE
HOW COOL THESE GUYS ARE.
- THEY'RE NOWHERE NEAR
AS COOL AS YOU, OF COURSE.
- [laughing]
- ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. LATER.
- BYE.
- I SEE SOME BUILDINGS.
WOW, MAN, LOOK
AT ALL THAT [bleep].
- OH, MY GOD.
- LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A
MULTITUDE OF STUFF HERE.
- THIS PLACE LOOKS GOOD, DUDE.
- I KNOW.
- GOT SOME BIG BUILDINGS.
YOU KNOW WHAT BIG
BUILDINGS MEAN, DON'T YA?
- BIG STUFF.
- HELLO.
- YO!
- HEY, THERE'S
SOMEBODY RIGHT THERE.
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD.
- I'M MIKE.
- HI, MIKE.
- HOW YA DOING?
- FRANK.
- FRANK, LET ME
INTRODUCE YOU TO DENNIS.
- I'M DENNIS.
- HEY, DENNIS, HOW
YA DOING? FRANK.
- NICE TO MEET YOU.
- WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
- AUGIE.
- AUGIE, ALL RIGHT.
- WE STARTED TO BUY AND
SELL STUFF PROBABLY 1993.
- YEAH, I STARTED
COLLECTING WHEN
I WAS IN CALIFORNIA.
WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT
ANTIQUE WAS AT THE TIME.
WE WENT TO THE FLEA MARKET
AND STARTED SELLING THE STUFF,
AND IT SOLD REALLY WELL, AND
THAT GOT US KIND OF SPARKED.
MET UP WITH AUGIE
HERE SEVERAL YEARS AGO,
AND WE'VE BEEN BUYING
AND SELLING EVER SINCE.
- HERE'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
THAT'S, LIKE, A... JUST A KIND
OF A MENAGERIE, GENERIC LIST
OR JUST ABOUT ANYTHING
THAT MIGHT JAR YOUR MIND.
- ALL RIGHT.
YOU WANT TO LOOK THROUGH
THIS BUILDING A LITTLE BIT?
- YEAH, LET'S LOOK
THROUGH IT. HELL YEAH.
WE'LL LOOK THROUGH ANYTHING.
WOULD THIS HAVE BEEN IN
LIKE A BOX IN SOMEONE'S BARN?
- YES.
- AND THEN THEY WOULD
HAVE HAD, LIKE, A CALL PHONE
ON IT OR SOMETHING?
- PROBABLY SO.
- NOW WHAT DO YOU GET
FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
- OH, PROBABLY 35 BUCKS.
- THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WOOD TO
DIG INTO ON THIS HINGE, THOUGH.
- WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME
ABOUT THIS SMOKING
STAND HERE, AUGIE?
- IT'S AN ACRO AGAN SMOKING
STAND, PROBABLY COME...
COME ABOUT IN MAYBE
THE '30s, '40s TYPE THING.
IT'S A PRETTY COOL PIECE.
- IT IS KIND OF A COOL PIECE.
IT'S MISSING THE MAIN PART.
THAT'S THE WIRE
THAT WENT ON THERE.
IT'S PLASTIC?
- YEAH.
- WHAT'S IT SAY? USED EQUIPMENT.
- IT SAYS "CASE DEALERS
GOLD SEAL USED EQUIPMENT."
- YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT REAL...
- IT'S NOT JUMPING OUT AT ME.
- IT'S NOT JUMPING
OUT AT ME EITHER.
- LIKE '60s OR '70s.
- TO TAKE UP THAT MUCH
ROOM IN THE VAN RIGHT AWAY.
- WE CAN BUY A COOL SIGN
FOR 150 THAT'LL TAKE UP
THIS MUCH ROOM AND FLIP
IT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
THIS IS NOT A BIG
FLIPPER. IT'S HUGE.
- A LOT OF THAT STUFF
THEY HAD, I MEAN,
IT'S JUST GENERIC STUFF.
WE CAN'T BUY STUFF LIKE THAT.
WE HAVE TO BUY THE UNUSUAL,
THE IMPOSSIBLE, THE FUNKY,
THE DIFFERENT, THE BIZARRE,
THE STUFF WE HAVE
NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
NONE OF IT WAS IN
THAT WAREHOUSE.
- SO YOU GUYS ARE...
YOU GUYS ARE DABBLING
A LITTLE BIT IN RETAIL.
I MEAN, MOST OF YOUR
CUSTOMERS ARE DEALERS, YOU SAID,
BUT YOU'RE DABBLING
A LITTLE BIT IN RETAIL?
- OH, YEAH. WE DABBLE IN RETAIL.
WE GO TO FLEA
MARKET ONCE A MONTH,
AND WHATEVER WE DON'T
SELL, THIS IS WHAT'S LEFT OVER.
- AH.
- OH, LORD.
- THEY WERE SHOWING
US THE OVERLOAD.
- STUFF THEY COULDN'T SELL.
- YEAH. ALL THE GOOD
STUFF WAS GONE.
IT WAS JUST REAL LOW-END STUFF.
- WHAT DO YOU THINK, FRANKY?
- WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
I'M LOOKING AT THESE PUMPS.
- OLD MAYTAG MOTOR.
- WHAT DO YOU... WHAT?
FOR LIKE A DOORSTOP
OR SOMETHING?
- WHAT ARE YOU GETTING
FOR ONE OF THESE?
- BASICALLY ABOUT 100 BUCKS.
- OKAY, THAT'S WHAT
WE GET FOR THEM TOO.
- IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF
A CHALLENGE TO PICK
FROM SOMEBODY THAT
SELLS PROFESSIONALLY.
WE HAVE TO PAY WHOLESALE,
NOT RETAIL FOR THINGS.
- WHAT DO YOU GET FOR
SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
- PROBABLY 400 BUCKS.
- ALL RIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT WE
WOULD GET FOR IT TOO.
- WE WEREN'T REALLY
INTERESTED IN THE GAS PUMPS.
THESE GUYS HAD THE
SAME EXACT PRICE ON THEM
THAT WE WOULD SELL THEM FOR.
WE'RE PICKERS. WE NEED
MEAT LEFT ON THE BONE.
- NOTHING TO LOOK AT.
- AND FRANK AND I HAVE
ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT DISCOVERY.
WE'RE ALWAYS ABOUT
FINDING THINGS, YOU KNOW,
UNEARTHING THINGS,
DIGGING THEM UP,
AND WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH STUFF,
IT'S ALL ORGANIZED AS FAR
AS, YOU KNOW, IT'S IN ROWS
AND IT'S ALL BEEN
FOUND, THAT TREASURE,
THAT INSTANT GRATIFICATION,
IT'S ALL BEEN SWEPT
AWAY FROM THE ITEM.
- ALL RIGHT, SO WHAT HAVE
WE GOT GOING ON IN HERE GUYS?
THIS IS JUST...
- WELL IT'S JUST MORE
STUFF, STUFF THAT WE DON'T
WANT TO RUST BASICALLY.
- THIS STUFF WE DON'T
WANT TO LEAVE OUTSIDE.
IT MIGHT DISAPPEAR.
- YOU KNOW, IF WE DON'T START
HITTING SOMETHING PRETTY SOON,
I THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED
TO DO SOME FREESTYLING
OR MOVE ON.
- THERE'S A LOT OF FURNITURE.
WE DON'T DO FURNITURE.
NOTHING REALLY HOT.
I LOOK OVER, AND I SEE
THE BIG CEMENT EAGLE.
- AUGIE, WHAT'S UP
WITH THIS THING?
- THAT'S A CONCRETE WHITE
EAGLE THAT SAT ON EACH SIDE
OF THE DRIVEWAY OF THE
WHITE EAGLE SERVICE STATION.
[♪]
- I'M THINKING TO MYSELF,
OKAY, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE,
IT'S GOTTA BE WORTH SOMETHING.
I MEAN THIS COULD BE SOMETHING
WE COULD ACTUALLY MAKE SOME
MONEY ON AND PULL A RABBIT
OUT OF OUR HAT ON THIS PICK.
- AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, IT
WAS BACK IN THE '30s WHEN
THOSE WERE ALL
OVER THE PLACE, YEAH.
- WHAT ARE YOU ASKING FOR IT?
- A COUPLE HUNDRED BUCKS.
- YEAH. IT'S PRETTY COOL.
- IT IS PRETTY COOL.
- WE HAVE A GUY THAT
WE SELL A LOT OF GAS
AND OIL STUFF TO.
I WAS JUST WONDERING IF...
WOULD YOU CARE IF I CALLED HIM
AND SEE WHAT HE'S GOT TO
SAY ABOUT THE THING, YOU KNOW?
- YEAH. THAT'D BE OKAY.
- ALL RIGHT. I THINK
THAT THING'S COOL.
- I THINK IT'S A REPOP.
- YOU DO?
- MM-HMM.
- ALL RIGHT.
I'LL CALL KENNY AND SEE
WHAT THE HELL'S UP WITH THAT.
- YEAH, LET'S SEE
WHAT HIS DEAL IS.
AUGIE AND DENNIS WERE
NICE ENOUGH TO LET US STEP
OUTSIDE SO WE COULD GET
SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
TO SEE IF THIS EAGLE
WAS THE REAL DEAL.
- WHAT WE FOUND
KENNY, IT'S, LIKE, AN EAGLE.
IT'S MADE OF CONCRETE.
THE GUY SAID IT'S
FROM WHITE GASOLINE.
IT'S ABOUT THREE FOOT TALL.
IT'S GOT A LITTLE
DAMAGE ON THE BEAK.
- AND WHY'S THAT?
- OH, OKAY.
- OKAY.
- OKAY.
- ARE YOU GONNA TELL HIM?
- YOU'VE BEEN DOING THE DEAL.
I'LL LET YOU TELL HIM.
- WHAT DO YOU
MEAN? YOU TELL HIM.
- YOU BREAK IT ON HIM.
- YOU TELL HIM.
- YOU BREAK IT TO HIM.
- NO, YOU TELL HIM.
- ALL RIGHT.
- WHAT'D HE SAY?
- WELL, WE GOT A LITTLE
BIT OF INFORMATION.
- HERE'S WHAT WE FOUND OUT.
HE SAID THEY NEVER EVER
MADE ANYTHING IN CONCRETE
FOR THE WHITE GAS
COMPANY, NOTHING.
NOTHING WAS EVER
MADE IN CONCRETE.
IT WAS ALL MADE IN CAST-IRON,
ALL OF IT, SO HE SAID HE
ACTUALLY SOLD ONE LAST
WEEK THIS SIZE FOR 2,000 BUCKS.
- EVERYBODY WE HAD
TALKED TO SAID IT WAS
THE WHITE EAGLE, SO
APPARENTLY IT'S NOT,
FROM THE SOUNDS OF IT, BUT
IT MADE A GOOD STORY I GUESS.
THEY JUST DIDN'T BELIEVE US.
- AUGIE AND DENNIS, YOU KNOW,
I MEAN THEY WERE GREAT GUYS,
BUT QUANTITY IS NOT QUALITY.
- THANKS, GUYS.
- APPRECIATE IT.
- OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
- I THINK I GOT ONE.
I THINK I GOT ONE.
- ME AND FRANKY, WE'RE
NOT ABOUT SLOPPY SECONDS.
WE WANT TO PICK FIRST.
- YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY,
THIS WAS KIND OF A BUST FOR US.
I MEAN, WE REALLY NEED SOMETHING
TO MAKE THIS TRIP WORTHWHILE.
- ALL RIGHT, SEE YA.
- SEE YA LATER.
- I THOUGHT THIS WHITE EAGLE
WAS GONNA BE ONE OF THE ITEMS
THAT WOULD SALVAGE THIS
PICK, BUT UNFORTUNATELY,
THAT WASN'T THE CASE.
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG,
FRANKY AND I SLOW OUR ROLL.
WE GO BACK TO THE DRAWING
BOARD AND COME UP WITH A NEW PLAN.
RIGHT NOW IF DANIELLE
CALLED US AND SHE GOES,
"HEY WHAT'D YOU
GUYS GET IN KANSAS?"
WE'RE GONNA SAY A CARAMEL
SUNDAE AND A BANANA SPLIT.
- HEY, WE'RE WORKING ON IT.
- OH, BY THE WAY, THE GUY
THREW IN THE NUTS FOR FREE.
- THAT AIN'T GETTING ME DOWN.
WE'RE ALREADY OUT.
- I CAN KIND OF SEE THAT
YOU'VE LOST THE GLIMMER
IN YOUR EYE.
- NO, BECAUSE I'M GETTING
THE GLIMMER RIGHT BACK.
THE CARAMEL'S DOING IT FOR ME.
- THAT'S NOT GLIMMER.
THAT'S A SUGAR BUZZ.
- THAT'S OKAY.
I'LL TAKE A SUGAR BUZZ RIGHT
NOW IF IT GETS US DOWN THE ROAD.
I'D SAY LET'S JUST DO
SOME FREESTYLING.
LET'S HEAD OUT
TOWARDS OVER HERE,
BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT HERE NOW.
THIS HAS GOT SOME
POPULATION AREA,
AND IT'S KIND OF ON THE
WAY BACK HOME ANYWAY.
- YEAH.
- YOU KNOW WHAT?
AFTER THIS, WE'RE...
I HOPE WE GET A BIG PICK,
'CAUSE I'M GONNA NEED TO
WORK SOME CALORIES OFF.
- YOU DON'T HAVE ANY
ARGUMENT FROM ME THERE.
[laughing]
- WE'RE IN KANSAS.
IT'S KINDA MISERABLE.
THE CLOUDS ARE ROLLING IN.
IT'S STARTING TO
DRIZZLE A LITTLE BIT.
THAT'S NOT GONNA DETER US.
WE'RE GONNA DO SOME FREESTYLING.
THERE'S A LOT OF ROADS
AROUND HERE, MAN.
WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING FOR
ANYTHING THAT WE CAN POUNCE ON
AND MAKE SOME MONEY.
- WE'VE BEEN DRIVING AND
DRIVING AND DRIVING FOR HOURS,
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE
COME ACROSS THIS PLACE
THAT'S GOT A CABOOSE
IN THE FRONT YARD.
- TURN AROUND.
SLAM ON THE BRAKES.
- THIS IS THE FIRST GLIMMER
OF HOPE THAT WE'VE HAD.
THERE'S A LOT OF RUBBISH.
THERE'S A LOT OF OUTBUILDINGS.
- I SEE SOME RUSTY SIGNS
ON THE BARN, AND I'M THINKING
TO MYSELF, "OKAY, IF WE
DON'T STOP HERE, WE'RE IDIOTS!"
- HELLO!
HELLO! HEY, HOW YA DOING?
- WHO'S DOING ALL THE
HOLLERING OUT HERE?
- HEY, I'M MIKE.
- MIKE.
- HOW YA DOING? NICE TO MEET YA.
- HOW YA DOING?
MY NAME IS FRANK.
- I'M JOHNNY WALKER.
- JOHNNY WAS A
HARD-WORKING DUDE, MAN.
I MEAN, HE SHOOK MY HAND,
AND IT WAS LIKE THE
GUY HAD LIKE OVEN MITTS.
- WE'RE FROM IOWA.
- WE'RE PICKERS FROM IOWA.
YOU PROBABLY... IF YOU GOT
ALL THIS STUFF AROUND HERE,
YOU EVER DEAL WITH PICKERS?
- OH, ONCE IN A WHILE
SOMEBODY WILL COME IN WANTING
TO BUY SOMETHING.
- THAT'S US.
- THAT'S GUYS LIKE US.
WE'VE BEEN TRAVELING IN KANSAS.
- WE TRY TO EXPLAIN REALLY
FAST WHAT WE'RE DOING,
AND WE'RE HANDING HIM A FLIER
BEFORE THEY TRY TO
KICK US OFF THE PROPERTY.
- WE HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MUCH
STUFF IN THIS WHOLE STATE.
YOU MUST HAVE BOUGHT EVERYTHING.
- OH, YOU KNOW, I'M IN
THE DEMOLITION BUSINESS,
AND I FIND THIS STUFF
IN OLD BUILDINGS
AND STUFF THAT WE TEAR DOWN.
I USED TO... I WOULD JUST
BULLDOZE AN OLD HOUSE DOWN
AND NOT THINK ABOUT
SAVING ANYTHING,
AND THEN I KIND OF FIGURED
OUT THAT, YOU KNOW,
MAYBE I COULD GET
A DOLLAR OR TWO
OUT OF SOME OF THIS OLD STUFF,
SO I STARTED SAVING IT.
- ALL THIS STUFF HE GOT
HERE WAS STUFF HE FOUND
DEMOLITION IN WALLS, IN
CRAWL SPACES, IN BASEMENTS,
UP ATTICS, STUFF LIKE THAT,
SO RIGHT THEN I START THINKING,
YOU KNOW WHAT?
MAYBE HE DOESN'T HAVE AN
EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT WITH IT,
'CAUSE HE GOT MOST
OF THE STUFF FOR FREE.
- SO HOW LONG YOU
BEEN COLLECTING?
- OH, 30 YEARS PROBABLY.
- THIS DON'T HAPPEN
OVERNIGHT. WE CAN SEE THAT.
- OH, YEAH.
WELL YOU GUYS
WANT TO TAKE A LOOK?
- YEAH, ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO.
WE'D LOVE TO LOOK AT ANYTHING
THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SHOW US.
- WELL I'LL TELL YA I, I
GOT A LOT OF STUFF,
AND SOME OF IT I DON'T WANT
TO GET RID OF, YOU KNOW?
- OH, I UNDERSTAND.
WE'RE THE SAME WAY.
- I LIKE YOUR OLD PONTIAC.
- OH, YEAH, CHECK THAT OUT.
- THAT'S NEAT.
- THAT'S '38.
- '38.
- IT'S ALL ORIGINAL.
I PAID $75 FOR THAT CAR.
- DID YA?
- YES, I DID.
- WHAT DO YOU VALUE IT AT NOW?
- I DON'T KNOW.
8,000, 9,000, MAYBE,
SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
BECAUSE IT IS ORIGINAL.
- YEAH, IT'S SHARP, MAN.
- WHAT'S, WHAT ARE THOSE
CAST-IRON LIKE QUEEN ANNE LEG
STYLES, THAT GREEN PIECE THERE?
WHAT'S THAT OFF OF?
- THAT WAS A CITY CLOCK,
AND OF COURSE THE CLOCK IS
LONG GONE, BUT
THAT HELD A CLOCK UP.
- SO ACTUALLY THE CLOCK
SAT ON THE GROUND AND IT SAT
ON TOP OF THIS?
THE GREEN TABLE WAS
EXQUISITE. IT WAS UNUSUAL.
THE QUEEN ANNE STYLE
LEGS. IT WAS CAST-IRON.
THIS THING OOZED CLASS
AND SOPHISTICATION.
I LIKE IT. HOW MUCH IS IT?
- I'D TAKE $100 FOR THAT.
- YOU WANT 100 BUCKS FOR THIS.
WHAT ABOUT THAT
CROSS RIGHT THERE TOO?
CAN YOU TELL ME
ANYTHING ABOUT THAT?
- THAT CAME OUT OF AN OLD
BUILDING THAT WE TORE DOWN,
AND IT'S SOME KIND OF A
GRAVE MARKER, I BELIEVE.
- YOU THINK IT'S A GRAVE MARKER?
- DOES THAT SAY LAGRANGE ON IT?
- WELL, I'M NOT SURE WHAT IT IS.
IT KIND OF LOOKS LIKE IT.
I CAN'T READ THE WRITING ON IT.
- IT SAYS, "MARGARET RYAN,
ORDER OF"... I CAN'T READ IT.
IT'S COOL MAN.
- WHEN I SEE SOMETHING
LIKE THAT WHITE CROSS,
IT'S INCREDIBLE.
THIS THING WAS
CAST-IRON, ORIGINAL PAINT,
HAD A GOTH LOOK TO IT.
I MEAN THIS THING
HAD A LIFE BEFORE ME.
THESE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS
THAT KEEP ME ON THE ROAD.
- I MIGHT TAKE $150 FOR THAT.
- YOU'RE AT 250. HOW
ABOUT 200 BUCKS?
- NO. CAN'T DO THAT. NOPE. NO.
- THAT WAS FAST.
YOU SAID THAT FAST.
HOW ABOUT TWO AND A QUARTER?
- OH, 235 AND WE
GOT A DEAL ON IT.
- ALL RIGHT, 235.
- OKAY.
- ALL RIGHT MAN. I LIKE
THAT STUFF. THANKS.
THE CAST-IRON WHITE
CROSS LOOKS VERY EARLY.
I THINK IT'S AT
LEAST 100 YEARS OLD.
HOPEFULLY WE CAN FIND
SOMEBODY THAT CAN TELL US
SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?
YOU POPPING?
- I'M NOT POPPING.
- ALL RIGHT.
- WHY WE SAY POP
ON AN ITEM IS BECAUSE
WE'RE EXCITED, MAN.
WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING,
YOU JUST WANT TO EXPLODE,
AND WHEN YOU EXPLODE, BOOM!
POP!
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.
SEE ANYTHING, FRANKY?
- OH, YEAH. I SEEN
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT LIKE.
- WHAT IS IT?
- I'LL SEE IF YOU
CAN DISCOVER IT.
SEE HOW GOOD YOU ARE TODAY.
- ALL RIGHT.
- I SAW SOMETHING. I DIDN'T
SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I KNEW MIKE WOULD
HAVE TO HAVE IT.
- WHAT? THIS THING?
- NO. LET'S WALK ON OVER HERE.
- THIS IS THE CAST-IRON
BATHTUB SECTION?
- WELL YOU HAVEN'T SPOTTED
WHAT HE... WHAT HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT HERE.
- OH, HE WILL.
MIKE STILL HASN'T SEEN IT.
- OH, LOOK AT THAT. ALL
RIGHT I... OH, MAN. THE BOOT.
- I SEEN THAT OVER AN
HOUR AGO. WHERE YOU BEEN?
- YOU DID?
- YEAH, I SAID YOU
WERE GONNA GO CRAZY.
- OH, THAT'S WHAT YOU SAW?
- YEAH. YOU'RE A BOOT GUY.
I KNEW THAT HE WAS
GONNA TRIP OUT ON IT,
AND WAS I RIGHT OR WAS I RIGHT?
- WELL, WHEN I SEE
SOMETHING LIKE THAT BIG BOOT
HANGING UP THERE, THAT
IS SO UNUSUAL, SO BIZARRE,
SO OUT OF PLACE.
THAT'S THE KIND OF
THING I WANT TO HAVE.
- IS THAT METAL OR FIBERGLASS?
- THAT'S FIBERGLASS, AND
THAT WAS IN A BOOT STORE
HERE IN TOWN THAT
WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.
- SO IF IT'S ON THE
GROUND, HOW TALL IS IT?
- MUST BE ABOUT
EIGHT FOOT OR SO.
- I'D SAY EIGHT FOOT AT LEAST.
- IT'S COOL.
I MEAN IT'S LIKE WE SAY,
LARGE AND IN CHARGE, MAN.
I MEAN THAT THING IS INSANE.
NOW I KNOW IT'S FIBERGLASS,
BUT IS IT PRETTY HEAVY?
- NO.
- 300 POUNDS.
- OH, THAT MUCH?
- 300 POUNDS?
- I WOULD SAY SO, YEAH.
- NO [bleep]. THAT'S HEAVY MAN.
AND WHAT'S THE MARKET
ON AN EIGHT FOOT SHOE?
- OH, $250 WOULD
PROBABLY BUY THAT BOOT.
- HOW ABOUT 200 BUCKS?
- HMM. NO I COULDN'T
TAKE 200 FOR IT.
- REALLY? LET'S WALK
AROUND, LOOK AROUND.
- OKAY, THINK ABOUT IT.
- I'M ON THE FENCE ON THE SHOE.
I'M ON THE FENCE ON IT.
- ALL RIGHT.
- I DON'T KNOW ABOUT AN
EIGHT-FOOT SHOE, IF IT WEIGHS
300 POUNDS.
- THIS HAS GOT
SOME STUFF IN HERE.
- YEAH, HEY, SO HOW
ABOUT 200 FOR THE BOOT?
- WHAT?
- 200 FOR THE BOOT.
ALL I KEPT THINKING
ABOUT WAS THAT BOOT.
- OH, WE'RE STILL A
LITTLE WAYS AWAY.
- I WANTED $250.
- YOU'VE GOT ALL KINDS
OF STUFF IN HERE NOW.
- SHOE REPAIR. IT
IS A LITTLE TOASTY.
THE SHOE REPAIR SIGN
LOOKED A LITTLE JENKY,
BUT IT WAS COOL, MAN.
IT WAS SHAPED LIKE A SHOE.
I MEAN, SOMEONE HAD
HAND-PAINTED THAT THING.
THIS WAS LIKE A FOLK ART SIGN.
- HOW ABOUT 50 BUCKS?
- HOW ABOUT 65?
- HOW ABOUT 60?
- 65 WOULD WORK OUT
GREAT, 'CAUSE YOU'RE AT 235.
THAT'D BE AN EVEN 300.
- WELL, NOW AREN'T
YOU SOMETHING?
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
WHO ARE YOU WITH?
THIS, WE JUST MET THIS GUY.
- I KNOW, BUT I'M, I HAVEN'T
BOUGHT ANYTHING YET,
SO I WAS HOPING
HE'LL REMEMBER THAT.
- HOW COME HE'S
DOING ALL THE BUYING?
- OH, I'M JUST... I
LET HIM GO FIRST.
- 65.
- OKAY.
- GOD. FRANK. THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
I'LL GET IT FROM YOU
SOME OTHER TIME.
JOHNNY MIGHT HAVE
GOT THIS STUFF FOR FREE,
BUT, MAN, HE WAS
NOT GIVING IT AWAY.
HE BARGAINED HARD.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S SEE
WHAT ELSE YOU GOT.
- OKAY.
- I'M A SIGN GUY.
IT'S LIKE, OH, MY GOD, THIS
GUY'S GOT SO MANY SIGNS.
WHAT DO YOU GET
FOR THIS STANDARD OIL?
- OH, THAT'D BE $150.
PRETTY ROUGH, BUT IT'S...
- I'D DO 100.
- WELL, YOU GOT IT.
- THE REASON I BOUGHT
THE STANDARD OIL SIGN,
IT'S REALLY LONG.
IT'S PORCELAIN.
IT WAS KIND OF RUSTY, BUT I
THINK TO A NOVICE COLLECTOR,
I CAN SELL IT FOR 225.
- SO HOW ABOUT 200
BUCKS ON THE SHOE?
- WELL, YOU'RE JUST NOT
GONNA GIVE UP ON THAT SHOE,
ARE YA?
- HE WANTS, HE WANTS TO
PUT IT ON, HE WANTS TO HOOF IT
IN THE VAN.
- I THINK IN COLLEGE, I
TOOK A CLASS ON SUBLIMINAL
ANECDOTES JUST KIND OF THROWN
AT YOU LIKE ON A MOVIE SCREEN
OR SOMETHING, SO I WAS
TRYING THAT ANGLE WITH JOHNNY.
HE'D BE LIKE, "HEY, YOU
KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
I'D BE LIKE, "200."
"FRANK?" "200 FOR THE BOOT?"
SO HOW ABOUT 200 FOR THE BOOT?
- WELL, YOU'RE NOT ANY
CLOSER THAN YOU WAS.
WE HAGGLED BACK AND
FORTH, WELL, YOU KNOW,
ALL AFTERNOON ON THIS BOOT.
- OKAY, SO I'M EIGHT
HOURS FROM HOME.
- MINIMUM.
- THAT'S ABOUT 550 MILES.
- MINIMUM.
- AND I'VE GOT AN
EIGHT-FOOT BOOT IN MY VAN,
AND CAN I GET 400 FOR IT?
I DON'T KNOW.
THAT'S WHERE I'M AT.
- I GOT TO THINKING WHO,
WHO WANTS A BOOT, YOU KNOW?
I MEAN...
YOU KNOW, BEING YOU ARE
THE ONLY PERSON THAT'S
EVER ASKED ABOUT THAT BOOT,
AND IT HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 1986,
I'M GONNA SELL IT TO YA.
- YOU ARE?
- YOU DID THE DEAL?
- ALL RIGHT.
- YOU'RE HUNG WITH IT NOW BUDDY.
- THANKS, MAN. THANKS.
- MIKE, THROUGH HIS
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES AND HIS
BARGAINING SKILLS, WAS ABLE TO
WEAR HIM DOWN TO THE 200 MARK.
- OKAY, COME ON.
- ALL RIGHT. LET'S DO IT.
I GOT THE BOOT FOR THE PRICE I
WANTED, BUT THIS THING'S HANGING
20 FEET UP IN THE RAFTERS
AND WEIGHS 300 POUNDS.
- JUST MOVE IT A LITTLE
BIT, SEE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE.
- IT'S HEAVY.
- ONCE THIS THING STARTS
GOING, DUDE, IT'S GONNA GO.
I DON'T WANT
ANYBODY TO GET HURT.
THAT'S ONE THING I DON'T
WANT, ESPECIALLY ME.
- HERE'S WHAT I'M THINKING.
WE TIE A ROPE AROUND THE BOOT,
AND THEN WE GET SOMEONE TO
HOLD THE OTHER END.
- HE WOULD BE THE
HEAVIEST, SO WE PUT HIM
ON THE END OF THE ROPE.
- I'D TRY IT.
OKAY THERE WE GO.
- ALL RIGHT, YOU READY FOR IT?
- I'M READY. JUST DO IT SLOW.
- IT'S TIME TO CUT THE ROPE.
- OKAY, WE GOT
IT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.
- FRANKY BETTER HOLD ON.
ALL RIGHT, YOU READY?
HERE IT GOES.
- I GOT IT. I GOT IT.
- YOU GOT IT.
- ALL RIGHT. CUT THE OTHER ROPE.
- ALL RIGHT. YOU GOT IT?
ALL RIGHT, HERE GOES.
- JUST A SECOND HERE.
- YEAH, THAT JAMMED UP.
- KIND OF REMINDS ME
OF THE THREE STOOGES.
- THIS THING'S GONNA SMACK HARD.
- ALL RIGHT.
- YOU GUYS READY?
- YEP.
- OKAY. THERE WE GO. OKAY.
- PIECE OF CAKE.
- WOW. PIECE OF CAKE.
- STAND IT UP.
THAT'S AWESOME.
ALL RIGHT, JOHNNY WALKER!
- JOHNNY WALKER.
- WHOO!
FRANKY.
- I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS
GONNA BE SO MUCH TROUBLE
TO GET DOWN.
- THERE WE GO.
- OKAY.
I THINK IT CAME
DOWN PRETTY EASY.
- FRANKY AND I TRAVEL
THE BACK ROADS OF AMERICA
LOOKING FOR UNUSUAL THINGS.
- ALL RIGHT. YOU READY?
- JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE.
- LET'S HIT IT.
- SO WHEN WE COME ACROSS
A NINE-FOOT TALL, 300-POUND
FIBERGLASS BOOT IN A
BARN IN KANSAS WITH A GUY
NAMED JOHNNY WALKER AT
THE HELM OF IT, WE GOTTA BUY IT.
WHOA.
- WHOA! ALL RIGHT.
- THERE IT IS BUDDY.
- THAT'S EASY.
- IT'S A GREASY [bleep].
- I KNOW IT IS.
- ALL RIGHT. WHAT ELSE
HAVE WE GOT OVER HERE?
- CAST-IRON THING.
- HEY, THANKS FOR
LETTING US LOOK AROUND.
- WELL, THAT'S QUITE ALL RIGHT.
- JOHNNY WAS A
REALLY DECENT GUY.
JUST FROM MAKING A COLD
CALL, I MEAN, HE WAS GRACIOUS.
HE SHOWED US AROUND
THE WHOLE PLACE.
- AND HE'S LIKE, "HEY, I
GOT SOME OTHER FRIENDS.
"YOU KNOW, I COULD
TELL THEM ABOUT YOU.
I COULD EVEN SHOW
YOU WHERE THEY'RE AT."
- THIS NEIGHBOR DOWN THE
ROAD, HIS NAME'S MORRIS NELSON.
THEN ANOTHER NEIGHBOR OVER
HERE, ABOUT A HALF MILE AWAY,
JUNIOR EVANS.
- I MEAN, MAYBE TOMORROW
WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO...
- SURE, YEAH, I'LL CALL
THESE GUYS AND SEE
IF WE CAN WORK SOMETHING OUT.
- ALL RIGHT, JOHNNY WALKER.
SO WE'LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING?
- WE'LL SEE YOU
GUYS IN THE MORNING.
- TAKE US OVER TO
THAT GUY'S PLACE?
- OKAY.
- I'M GONNA CALL
DANIELLE AND TELL HER
ABOUT THE MEGA PICK.
- ALL RIGHT.
[phone ringing]
- YES, SIR.
- CHECK THIS. I GOT, LIKE, A
NINE-FOOT COWBOY BOOT.
- THAT'S AWESOME!
- IT'S INSANE!
YOU KNOW, IT'D BE REALLY
COOL IF WE COULD SELL IT TO OUR
CONNECTION DOWN IN
NASHVILLE, THE PROP HOUSE.
- YEAH, THE PROP HOUSE
WOULD BE THE PERFECT PLACE.
YOU GUYS DID A GOOD JOB.
- ALL RIGHT, LATER.
- OKAY, BYE.
- MAN, THIS JOHNNY
GUY'S HOOKING US UP.
- NO DOUBT.
HE'S MEGA HOOKING US UP.
- IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME.
WE'RE ON ONE PICK
THAT LEADS TO ANOTHER.
THE WHOLE TRIP
GETS TURNED AROUND.
- WE WOULDN'T HAVE
BEEN ON THIS ROAD.
- THAT'S WHAT BEING
A PICKER IS ALL ABOUT.
SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA
TAKE A DEEP BREATH
AND DEAL WITH THE UNCERTAINTY.
- ALL RIGHT, HE'S TURNING, SO
LET'S SEE WHAT WE GOT GOING.
- ALL RIGHT, THIS IS IT.
THIS WASN'T TOO FAR.
- NO, IT WASN'T FAR.
- I CAN SEE SOME
SIGNS AND A GAS PUMP.
I'M MIKE.
- OKAY, THIS IS JUNIOR.
- HEY, JUNIOR. HOW
YA DOING? I'M FRANK.
NICE TO MEET YA.
- HOW LONG YOU BEEN COLLECTING?
- OH, PROBABLY 40 YEARS.
- OH, REALLY?
- WOW. YOU GOT A BUNCH
OF STUFF THEN, DON'T YA?
- WELL, IF IT WENT ON A
CAR, WAS FOR AN OLD CAR,
OR ABOUT AN OLD
CAR, I'D TRY TO GET IT.
- [laughs]
- I ALWAYS KIND OF LIKED
CARS AND I LIKED TO WORK ON
THEM WHEN I WAS A KID, AND,
WELL, JUST KIND OF ONE THING
LED TO ANOTHER.
- WE'LL START, I GUESS,
THE CLOSEST BUILDING.
- OKAY. HOW MANY YOU GOT?
- OH, THERE'S ABOUT
A HALF A DOZEN.
- OH, WOW, OKAY.
- YEAH, SOME OF
THEM'S NOT VERY BIG.
- THIS LOOKED LIKE A
REAL PROMISING PLACE.
THERE WAS LOTS OF
OUTBUILDINGS, AND IT LOOKED GOOD.
- YEAH, HE WAS WILLING TO
GIVE US FULL ROCK-STAR PASS
TO DIVE ONTO ANYTHING.
- OH, MY GOD, FRANKY.
- I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I
WAS ABOUT TO WALK INTO.
- OH, MY GOSH. OIL CAN CENTRAL.
- FRANK HAS DIED
AND GONE TO HEAVEN.
FRANKY WAS JUST MESMERIZED, MAN.
HE WAS LIKE A DEER
IN THE HEADLIGHTS.
- BLINDED. BLINDED.
- HE WAS BLINDED BY THE LIGHT.
- THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE.
- THIS IS, LIKE,
FRANK'S GRACELAND.
- I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT SOME...
YOU'VE GOT SOME REAL CANS HERE.
- I WAS LOOKING AT A
MAGAZINE ONCE, AND THEY WAS
SHOWING A
COLLECTION OF OIL CANS.
SOMETHING JUST KIND OF
GRABBED ME AND SAID, "THAT'S ME,"
YOU KNOW?
- RIGHT, WELL, YOU KNOW
HOW I STARTED COLLECTING?
I STARTED COLLECTING BECAUSE
IT WAS INEXPENSIVE, YOU KNOW
WHAT I MEAN?
AND SO I GOT A LITTLE
COLLECTION GOING ON,
BUT NOTHING TO THE
MAGNITUDE OF THIS.
I MEAN, THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE.
HIS COLLECTION WAS SO AMAZING,
I COULDN'T EVEN BRING MYSELF
TO EVEN THINK ABOUT
BUYING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I MEAN A COLLECTION LIKE
THAT NEEDS TO STAY TOGETHER.
- YOU MIND IF I TAKE
A COUPLE PICTURES?
BECAUSE IT'LL BE A
LONG TIME BEFORE
I SEE THIS MANY GOOD CANS.
- GO AHEAD.
- YEAH, THIS IS GONNA BE MY
WALLPAPER AT MY HOUSE NOW.
GET YOU IN THERE.
THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH.
- ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT ANYWHERE
ELSE FOR US TO LOOK AT?
- YOU BET.
- WHOA! HE'S GOT A COUPLE
OF EVERYTHING IT LOOKS LIKE.
THERE'S A LOT TO LOOK
AT. THIS IS IT. THIS IS IT, MAN.
- I SPENT MANY A
SATURDAY STANDING AROUND
AT AN AUCTION ALL DAY LONG.
- OH, MY GOD. I GUESS.
- FIRE RING SPARK PLUGS. CLOCK?
WHAT WOULD THE VALUE OF THAT BE?
- I REALLY DON'T CARE
ABOUT SELLING THAT,
BUT PROBABLY AROUND 200.
- OKAY.
- JUNIOR WAS ASKING
$200 FOR HIS CLOCK.
THAT WAS AN INDICATION THAT
HE PUT A HIGH VALUE ON HIS ITEMS.
- THAT LOOKS LIKE A RARE SIGN.
KING BEE MOTOR OIL.
NOW WHAT'D YOU HAVE TO
PAY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
- PROBABLY AROUND
ABOUT TWO, TWO AND A HALF.
- WHAT WOULD
SOMETHING LIKE THIS BE?
- WELL, THAT'S GOT
THE FORD OIL ON IT.
THAT'S 300.
- THAT'S HIS BABY.
- ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.
- YOU KNOW, WE NEEDED TO
DO A PRICE INTERVENTION HERE.
I MEAN, COLLECTORS
HAVE TO REALIZE
THAT WE CAN'T PAY TOP DOLLAR.
- YOU GOTTA REMEMBER
THOUGH, JUNIOR, WE'RE PICKERS.
WE'RE A LONG WAYS AWAY
FROM HOME, AND AT 300...
- YOU COULDN'T MAKE MUCH.
- THERE'S NOT MUCH MEAT LEFT
ON THE BONE FOR US ON THAT.
- DIDN'T FAZE HIM
AT ALL, YOU KNOW?
I MEAN A $300 SIGN WAS $300.
- WHAT YEAR'S YOUR CAR?
- THAT'S A '32 ROADSTER.
- WHAT'S THE VALUE
OF A CAR LIKE THIS?
- PROBABLY BE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD OF 30,000.
- WOW!
- I WAS INTO CAR STUFF FIRST
AND OLD CARS, AND THEN I THOUGHT,
"WELL, IT'D BE NEAT TO
HAVE AN OLD GAS PUMP,"
SO THEN I BOUGHT ONE GAS PUMP,
AND THEN ANOTHER GAS PUMP,
AND ANOTHER ONE AND
ANOTHER ONE AND ANOTHER SIGN,
AND IT JUST KEEPS GOING ON.
IT NEVER STOPS.
- NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
HEY, YOU ONLY GO
AROUND ONE TIME.
- WE CAN UNDERSTAND SOMEONE
THAT'S A DEVOTED COLLECTOR,
BECAUSE THOSE ARE
THE KIND OF PEOPLE
THAT WE SELL THINGS TO.
IF WE FIND AN OIL
CAN, IF WE FIND A SIGN,
IF WE FIND A CAR PART,
THIS IS THE KIND OF GUY
WE WANT TO SELL IT TO,
BECAUSE HE'S USED TO PAYING UP
FOR STUFF, BUT
THESE TYPES OF GUYS
ARE REALLY HARD
TO BUY THINGS FROM.
HERE'S WHAT I'M THINKING.
IF WE DON'T FIND THE
CHECKOUT AISLE SOON,
WE GOTTA GET GOING, DUDE.
- I DIDN'T THINK YOU'D
COME OUT ALIVE.
- I KNOW. HERE'S
WHAT WE'RE THINKING.
WE'RE PICKERS. WE'RE BUYERS.
YOU HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE
TO SELL US ANYTHING.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA
TRY TO POP ON A FEW THINGS,
BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST...
YOU'RE DRIVING THE BUS MAN.
- THE TWO SHELL
LITTLE CLAM SIGNS I SEEN
IN THE BACK THERE?
THE ONES THAT ARE THE FURTHEST
AWAY FROM YOUR COLLECTION.
HOW MUCH ARE THOSE?
- I'D HAVE TO HAVE 250 APIECE.
- OKAY, NOW, SEE,
WHERE I LIVE, I CAN GET
$150 APIECE FOR THEM.
THAT'S ALL. THAT'S
ALL I CAN GET.
- LET'S LOOK AT THEM.
I WANT TO CHECK THEM
OUT FOR 250 APIECE.
- OKAY.
- I WAS LIKE, "YOU KNOW WHAT?
"OKAY. THE GLOVES ARE OFF.
"LET'S WALK BACK THERE AND
SEE WHAT A $250 SIGN LOOKS LIKE
THAT'S BEEN SITTING OUT
HERE IN THE ELEMENTS."
- YEAH, I DIDN'T
REALIZE THEY WERE...
- NO, I SEE IT'S GOT SOME
DAMAGE UP THE TOP AND
IT'S ALL PEELED OUT.
- THEY'RE NOT,
THEY'RE NOT PERFECT.
- WELL, NOW, IT'S IN THE DIRT,
AND YOU SEE IT'S NOT PERFECT.
HOW MUCH IS IT?
- THIS IN HERE I'D TAKE A
HUNDRED AND A HALF FOR IT.
- EVEN AT 150, I THINK THAT'S
PROBABLY, LIKE FRANK SAID,
WHAT WE CAN ACTUALLY
GET FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
WHERE WE'RE AT.
HOW LONG YOU BEEN
SITTING ON THAT?
- PROBABLY ABOUT SIX, SEVEN
YEARS, EIGHT YEARS MAYBE.
- I'M LIKE, "YOU KNOW, IT'S
BEEN SITTING OUT HERE
"FOR A LONG TIME.
IT'S BURIED IN THE DIRT."
I MEAN, FOR US TO EVEN BE
ABLE TO MAKE ANYTHING ON THAT,
WE HAVE TO BE IN IT AT 75 BUCKS.
WOULD YOU DO 75
BUCKS ON THIS ONE?
- WELL, OH, I GUESS
I WOULD, YEAH.
- WHAT DO YOU THINK FRANKY?
- I THINK AT 75, THEY'RE FINE.
- YEAH. ALL RIGHT.
WELL, I THINK WE'VE PRETTY
MUCH SEEN EVERYTHING, HUH?
- YEAH, YOU WANT
TO LOOK IN HERE?
I'VE GOT AN OLD WOODEN WHEEL
BICYCLE IN HERE, AN OLD ONE.
- ALL RIGHT. WELL, NOW
YOU GOT MY ATTENTION.
- THEN HE'S LIKE,
"YOU KNOW, I GOT
A WOOD-RIM BICYCLE IN HERE."
I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, "IF WE
WOULD HAVE WALKED AWAY WHEN HE
"SAID 250 ON THE SIGNS,
WE NEVER WOULD HAVE
SAW THE BICYCLE."
WHOA, WHOA, WHOA. TRIPLE-WHOA.
SO ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER.
IT'S GOT SOME NICE LINES TO IT.
IT'S GOT THIS DOUBLE,
DOUBLE SEAT STAY.
I DON'T KNOW.
LET'S ASK HIM WHAT
HE WANTS FOR IT.
IT WAS ACTUALLY
A PRETTY NICE BIKE.
- ABOUT WHAT YEAR WAS THAT MADE?
- THIS IS 1890s, AND
IT'S MADE IN CHICAGO.
IT'S MADE BY A COMPANY
CALLED CRESCENT.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT ROUGH, BUT
IT WAS KIND OF A RARE BICYCLE,
AND IT HAD A LOT OF
REALLY UNIQUE FEATURES.
IT'S GOT THE CORK GRIPS,
AND IT'S GOT A NICE SEAT ON IT,
AND THEN IT'S GOT
THIS ROLLER CHAIN.
THEY CALL THAT A ROLLER CHAIN,
HOW THAT ALL ROLLS UNDERNEATH
THERE LIKE THAT.
THESE ARE CALLED
TANGENTIAL WHEELS,
BECAUSE THE SPOKES
CROSS, AND SEE HOW
THEY'RE ALL SOLDERED TOGETHER
AT THE POINTS WHERE THEY CROSS?
YOU CAN SEE THE TUBING ON
THE BIKE IS THIS LARGER DIAMETER.
THE WAY JUNIOR WAS
THROWING PRICES AT US, I WASN'T
TOO CONFIDENT THAT HE
WAS GONNA PRICE THAT BIKE
REASONABLY, BUT I HAD TO TRY.
- MAKE ME AN OFFER.
- EVEN THOUGH THE
WHEELS ARE TRASHED,
75 BUCKS.
- OH...
COULD YOU GO 100?
THAT'S WHAT I GAVE FOR IT.
- HE'S LIKE, "I PAID
100. GIVE ME 100."
THE GUY WAS WILLING TO SELL IT
TO ME FOR WHAT HE PAID FOR IT.
- 100 BUCKS. ALL RIGHT, COOL.
- ALL RIGHT.
- I APPRECIATE IT, MAN.
THANKS. I APPRECIATE IT.
I'M JUST GONNA SIT HERE AND
DROOL ON THIS A LITTLE BIT.
- HOW DID I GET
HOOKED WITH THE SIGN?
- YOU KNOW, SINCE I'M BUYING
THE BIKE, I SHARE THE LOVE.
- OH, OKAY.
- THE SHELL SIGN WILL
GO FOR $150, NO PROBLEM.
THANKS, JUNIOR.
- YOU BET, FRANK.
- IF WE EVER GET DOWN
HERE AGAIN WE'RE GONNA
STOP IN AND SEE YA.
- THANKS BUDDY.
- ALL RIGHT. YOU BET.
- THANK YOU.
- WE'LL SEE YOU LATER.
[horn honking]
JOHNNY WALKER WAS LIKE
THE PIED PIPER OF PICKING.
WE WERE JUST
FOLLOWING HIM AROUND.
IT WAS AWESOME.
USUALLY WHEN WE'RE OUT PICKING,
IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND PEOPLE.
JOHNNY HAS TURNED US ON TO
THIS GENTLEMAN NAMED MORRIS.
THIS GUY IS SUPPOSED
TO HAVE A LOT OF STUFF.
HE USED TO OWN A GAS STATION,
AND HE'S A CAR COLLECTOR.
FOR HIM TO BRING US DOWN HERE
TO MORRIS' PLACE, THAT REALLY
IS HUGE FOR US.
- ARE YOU MORRIS?
- THIS IS MORRIS NELSON.
- NICE TO MEET YOU. VERY
NICE TO MEET YOU, SIR.
- FRANK.
- PLEASURE. HOW YA DOING?
- SO WHAT'S GOING ON?
YOU BEEN COLLECTING
STUFF FOR A WHILE?
- IF I SEE SOMETHING I
LIKE, IF I CAN'T STEAL IT,
I MIGHT TRY TO BUY IT.
- BUY IT? OKAY.
- NOW, HOW DID YOU GUYS MEET?
- OH, I'VE KNOWN
JOHN A LONG TIME.
- WE'VE BEEN NEIGHBORS
FOR 40 YEARS PROBABLY.
- OH, WOW. OKAY.
- SO WHAT DID THIS USE TO BE?
- WE HAD A FILLING STATION
HERE WITH SIX PUMPS
HERE AND OVERHEAD
TANKS IN THE BACK.
- AND WHEN DID YOU
START IN BUSINESS?
- 1946.
- OKAY, AND WHAT IS IT NOW?
- A PLAYHOUSE.
- THIS IS A PLAYHOUSE.
- IT'S YOUR PLAYHOUSE?
THERE YOU GO.
THAT'S A GOOD WORD FOR IT.
- WOULD YOU MIND IF WE
LOOKED AROUND A LITTLE BIT?
- PLEASE DO.
- WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO
FIGURE OUT IF HE'S GONNA SELL
OR NOT WITHIN ABOUT
15 MINUTES OF THE GAME.
WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN HERE?
- OH, ALL KINDS OF GOODIES.
- WHEN WE WALK
INTO AN OLD BUILDING,
ESPECIALLY A GAS STATION
THAT'S BEEN HERE SINCE 1946
AND THE HISTORY
OF THE FAMILY HERE,
IT'S JUST FUN TO GO THROUGH IT.
- THAT GOES TO A
MOTORCYCLE RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S EITHER TRIUMPH OR NORTON.
- YOU FIND SOME GOODIES?
- NO, NOT YET.
- WE'RE LOOKING. YOU
JUST PULL OPEN AND WE'LL...
- KEEP ON PULLING AND
WE'LL KEEP LOOKING.
- WE'LL JUST KEEP ON... UH-OH.
- WHOA.
- WHOA!
DID YOU... GOD, HE CUT MY HAND
OFF WHEN HE REACHED IN FOR THAT!
- BUT SOMETIMES I HAVE
A LIGHTNING REACTION,
AND I JUST GRAB SOMETHING
BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S KILLER.
HOW MUCH IS THIS?
- WOW.
- YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T EVEN
KNOW WHAT THAT GOES ONTO.
- I... AT THIS POINT,
I DON'T EVEN CARE.
IT'S SO DAMN COOL.
- I'LL TELL YOU
WHAT IT'S OFF OF.
- OKAY.
- 1926 BUICK MASTER, BIG BUICK.
AND I'LL TELL YOU
WHAT IT'S WORTH,
AND IT'LL TELL YOU
WHAT I WANT FOR IT.
I WANT $125 FOR IT.
- WHAT'S IT WORTH?
- PROBABLY 150 OR 200.
- FOR COLLECTORS THAT
REALLY APPRECIATE DETAIL,
THAT HOOD ORNAMENT
IS GONNA BE THE CHERRY
ON THE RESTORATION PIE.
- ANYBODY WHO'S GOT A BIG BUICK,
YOU COULDN'T GET ONE OF THEM.
- THERE'S NOT A LOT OF
ROOM LEFT ON IT FOR ME THERE.
HOW ABOUT 100 BUCKS?
- YOU GOT IT.
- THAT WAS FAST.
MORRIS HAD SO
MUCH AMAZING STUFF,
WE JUST LOST
OURSELVES IN IT ALL.
COUPLE BAR STOOLS.
WINDSHIELD WIPER
BLADE DISPLAY, FRANKY.
YOU NEED THAT?
- NO, I'M PASSING.
- I'M LOOKING UP IN THE RAFTERS,
AND A SHINY PIECE OF METAL
CATCHES MY EYE,
AND I'M THINKING,
"IS THAT REALLY A BSA GAS TANK?"
HOW ABOUT THAT
BSA TANK UP THERE?
WOULD YOU SELL THAT?
- YEAH.
- OH, THAT LOOKS GOOD.
- OH, MY GOD. OH, MY LORD.
BSA STANDS FOR "BIRMINGHAM
SMALL ARMS COMPANY."
THESE GUYS PRODUCED MUCH
MORE THAN MOTORCYCLES.
THEY DID AIRPLANES, THEY
DID TAXIS, THEY DID GUNS.
HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN
SITTING UP THERE, MORRIS?
- 25 OR 30 YEARS.
- OKAY.
$50!
- OH, THAT'S WORTH
MORE THAN THAT.
- WHAT'S IT WORTH?
- 100.
- IT'S 100 BUCKS?
COLLECTORS ARE ALWAYS
SEARCHING FOR ORIGINAL PARTS.
TO FIND SOMETHING
IN THAT CONDITION,
IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE FIND.
THAT'S FULL-BLOWN RETAIL?
- OH, NO, YOU COULDN'T BUY
A TANK LIKE THAT FOR $100.
- HOW ABOUT I FLIP YOU FOR IT?
IF YOU WIN, IT'S 100 BUCKS.
IF I WIN, IT'S 75.
- HEADS, I WIN. TAILS, YOU LOSE.
- OH, HE'S THROWING
IT TO THE GROUND?
- WAIT A MINUTE.
[laughs]
- IT'S HEADS. HE WON.
ALL RIGHT. 100 BUCKS.
[laughter]
I STRUCK GOLD IN THE
RAFTERS WITH THE BSA TANK.
I WAS REALLY EXCITED
TO GET IT FOR 100 BUCKS.
I THINK MORRIS HAD A GOOD
TIME FLIPPING ME FOR IT.
I'M HOPING THERE'S
MORE OF THAT BIKE LEFT
IN SOME OF THESE
OTHER BUILDINGS.
- WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE TO
HAVE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
- I'LL TAKE 25.
- RIGHT ON THE NUMBER. 25.
- THAT'S OUT OF AN OLD CAR.
- I LIKE THE DURANGO
THING. THAT'S COOL.
- HOW MUCH IS THAT?
- WHAT'S IT WORTH?
- FIVE BUCKS.
- GOT IT.
- WERE YOU IN WORLD WAR II?
- YEAH.
- WHAT BRANCH OF
SERVICE WERE YOU IN?
- NAVY, I WAS A CARRIER
PILOT AND I WAS DOING
ANTI-SUBMARINE PATROL IN THE
ATLANTIC ALL DURING THE WAR.
- WOW.
- THANK YOU.
- YEAH, THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE.
- APPRECIATE IT.
- NO, SERIOUSLY,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
- I CAN'T SAY I ENJOYED THE
WAR, BUT IT WAS THE PLACE
TO BE AT THE TIME.
- YEAH.
- WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT HIM?
I MEAN HE SERVED IN THE WAR.
HE REMEMBERS
EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW?
YOU DON'T MEET PEOPLE
LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME.
I MEAN HE'S JUST A VERY,
VERY SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL.
- I'M EXCITED HERE.
- HOW ABOUT THIS LITTLE GUY?
- THAT'S AN AIRPLANE.
THAT'S A DUF, BRUCER
DUFFEL. I FLEW THOSE.
- YOU DID?
- YEAH, I EXPECT THAT TOY
IS AT LEAST A 50-BUCKER.
- THAT'S A HUBLEY.
IT'S MADE BY
KITTY, KITTY HUBLEY.
- THE HUBLEY TOY COMPANY
WAS INCORPORATED IN 1890s.
THEY MADE TOYS UP TO THE 1960s.
USUALLY THESE SNAP OFF
AND THIS... IT'S A GOOD PIECE.
- THAT'S A GOOD ONE.
- ALTHOUGH MASS-PRODUCED,
EACH ONE WAS HAND-PAINTED.
TODAY THEY ARE VALUED HIGHLY
AND SOUGHT OUT BY COLLECTORS.
- OKAY, YOU WANT IT
OR YOU DON'T WANT IT?
- WHENEVER I SEE A TOY
THAT'S IN GREAT CONDITION,
I HAVE TO BUY IT.
- AT 50, I DON'T WANT IT.
- OKAY. AT WHAT DO YOU WANT IT?
- WELL IT'S WORTH 50, BUT WE'RE
PICKERS, AND WE SOMETIMES...
- YOU LIKE TO DOUBLE
YOUR MONEY. I UNDERSTAND.
- I'D HAVE TO DOUBLE.
WE'RE, WE ARE RIGHT
ON THE SAME PATH.
- OKAY, THEN WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT 25.
- 25, I'LL TAKE IT.
- GOT IT.
- DEAL.
- ALRIGHT MORRIS, YOU GOT A
CAR, AND OUR SIGN OUT IN FRONT
OF OUR SHOP IS A 1949
NASH BURIED IN THE GROUND.
- THAT'S WHAT THAT IS.
- YUP. 20 BUCKS.
- GOT IT.
- OH!
- LOOKS LIKE FRANKY FOUND
SOME POSTERS OVER HERE.
- OH, MY GOSH.
- YOU WERE LIKE A
BEACON OF LIGHT.
IT WAS LIKE, "AHHHHH."
WHAT YEAR WOULD THESE
BE FROM, DO YOU REMEMBER?
- YEAH, THEY WOULD
HAVE TO BE BEFORE 1970.
- ON ANY TYPE OF POSTER, I
DON'T CARE IF IT'S A MOVIE POSTER,
GAS AND OIL POSTER,
RADIO POSTER, ANYTHING,
CONDITION, CONDITION.
THIS HAD BEEN LAID OUT
FLAT. IT HADN'T BEEN ROLLED UP.
NO SUN DAMAGE. IT'S INCREDIBLE.
- ALL RIGHT, MAKE
ME TAKE IT HOME.
- I'LL MAKE YOU TAKE IT HOME.
- ALL RIGHT.
- GO AHEAD. OH, YOU...
[laughter]
I'LL TELL YA WHAT.
A GOOD FELLA LIKE YOU, I'M
GONNA MAKE YOU TAKE IT HOME.
YOU TAKE THAT DAMN THING HOME.
- FOR FREE?
- YEAH.
- OH, NO, I COULDN'T DO THAT.
- OKAY.
- ALL RIGHT, I'LL TAKE IT HOME.
- OKAY.
- I'M ROLLING IT UP.
- OKAY. ROLL IT UP.
- ALL RIGHT, THAT'S
A BEAUTY, FRANKY.
- IT IS A BEAUTY.
THIS IS ONE THING YOU
DON'T FIND ALL THE TIME.
IT'S PRICELESS TO ME.
I'LL PROBABLY HAVE IT FRAMED UP.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PIECE.
I LOVE OIL STUFF. I'M
ECSTATIC TO HAVE IT.
THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH.
THIS WILL BE SOMETHING THAT
I WILL CHERISH AT MY HOME,
AND I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER
YOU GAVE IT TO ME.
THANKS, MORRIS.
A LOT OF STUFF WE SELL.
THAT'S ONE THING I'M
GONNA KEEP AS A MEMORY.
IT'S A GOOD PIECE.
- THAT'S A GOOD ONE.
- HE'LL PUT THIS ABOVE HIS
HEADBOARD IN HIS BEDROOM.
- I PROBABLY WOULD
PUT IT IN MY BEDROOM.
- THERE'S TWO HEADS ON THIS.
- NO IT'S NOT. LET'S
SEE THE INSIDE.
- CAN I KEEP THE QUARTER?
- YEAH.
- IT'S SO DAMN COOL.
- THAT IS A NICE ONE.
- WOW.
- ALL RIGHT MORRIS,
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
- HEY, IT'S BEEN NICE.
- WE HAD A GREAT
TIME, SERIOUSLY.
I LOVE YOUR STORIES.
I LOVE THE SHOP. YEAH.
THANKS, JOHNNY, FOR BRINGING
US OVER HERE MAN, SERIOUSLY.
- THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
- ALL RIGHT. COOL.
- MAN. MORRIS IS
SO FRIGGIN' COOL.
- HE WAS COOL.
- THE GUY'S HAD
AN INCREDIBLE LIFE.
- HE DID HAVE AN
INCREDIBLE LIFE.
- KANSAS IS GOOD TO US, BROTHER.
- KANSAS IS WORKING OUT.
- LET'S CALL DANIELLE AND
GO, "HEY, WATCH THE SHOP
FOR ANOTHER WEEK."
- YEAH, SEE YA.
- DO WE EVEN NEED
DANIELLE ANYMORE?
- NO DOUBT.
- I'M THINKING WE GET RID
OF DANIELLE AND HIRE JOHNNY.
HE'S NOT GONNA BE SITTING
AROUND THE OFFICE DOING HIS NAILS.
FROM JOHNNY WALKER
AND HIS FRIENDS,
WE GOT SOME GREAT ITEMS,
BUT THERE'S A FEW WE'D
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT.
HOPEFULLY WE DID GOOD, MAN.
- DANIELLE HOOKED US UP WITH
AN APPRAISER NAMED SHANE.
THIS GUY'S IN KANSAS CITY.
SHE SAYS HE REALLY KNOWS
HIS STUFF, SO WE'RE GONNA
SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.
ALL RIGHT, SHANE.
- WOW. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE?
WHEN HE FIRST WALKED IN
THAT DOOR, I THOUGHT FOR SURE
IT CAME OFF OF AN
ORTHODOX CHURCH STEEPLE.
- I BOUGHT IT JUST BECAUSE I
SELL THINGS LIKE THIS EVERY
ONCE IN A WHILE TO DECORATORS.
YOU KNOW, I LIKE THE
OLD MILK-WHITE PAINT ON IT.
- TO SEE A PIECE OF CAST-IRON
THAT LARGE AND IN THAT
GOOD A SHAPE, IT WAS REALLY
A HIGHLY UNUSUAL PIECE.
- I WASN'T FAMILIAR WITH,
WITH IT AT ALL AS FAR AS,
YOU KNOW, THE AGE OF IT.
- THIS, THIS IS LATIN,
PAX EN CRISTO.
THAT'S PEACE IN CHRIST,
SO THIS IS A CATHOLIC
BURIAL MARKER,
IT HAS TO BE, AND IT'S DATED.
IT'S ALL ROMAN
NUMERALS RIGHT THERE.
- OKAY, YEAH.
- YOU ADD THOSE ALL
UP, THAT SAYS 1880,
BUT THE WEIRD THING IS,
IS RIGHT THERE AT THE END
IS A SMALLER FOUR, SO I WONDER
IF THEY DIED IN THE FOURTH MONTH
OF 1880.
- OKAY.
- YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN AN
AUCTIONEER FOR 16 YEARS,
AND I'VE SOLD EVERYTHING
FROM FENCE-JUMPING MULES
TO ZOO ANIMALS, AND I'VE NEVER
SOLD A BURIAL MARKER AT AUCTION.
THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL.
THIS ISN'T ANYTHING THAT
PEOPLE JUST READILY GIVE UP.
- WHEN SHANE GOT SO EXCITED
ABOUT THIS BURIAL MARKER,
I GOT EXCITED.
- CAST-IRON COLLECTORS,
ORNAMENTAL COLLECTORS,
ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTORS
WOULD PROBABLY KILL
FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
- WHAT, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE...
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE VALUE
OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS?
- I MEAN IT'S, IT'S HARD TO
VALUE SOMETHING LIKE THIS,
BECAUSE IT IS A ONE OF A KIND.
- YEAH.
- SELLING CAST-IRON THINGS,
THERE'S A HUGE FOLLOWING
FOR CAST-IRON BUYERS.
YOU GET THIS IN A GALLERY
AUCTION WITH SPECIALIZED ITEMS,
YOU'RE EASILY
LOOKING AT 600, 700.
- OKAY, COOL.
- I CAN'T BELIEVE SHANE
SAID THIS CROSS IS WORTH
600 TO 700 BUCKS.
NOW WE GET INTO BIG BOYS' TOYS.
- BIG BOYS' TOYS, THAT'S RIGHT.
- THE GUY OPENED
THE FILE CABINET.
- WHOA.
- WHOA!
- HOW MUCH IS THAT?
- GOD, HE CUT MY HAND OFF
WHEN HE REACHED IN FOR THAT.
- THIS IS A BUICK WINGED
GODDESS RADIATOR CAP.
MOST PEOPLE REFER TO
THEM AS A HOOD ORNAMENT,
BUT IT'S ACTUALLY
A RADIATOR CAP.
- OH, SEE I'VE BEEN CALLING
THEM HOOD ORNAMENTS.
- YEAH, YEAH.
1926, 1927, 1928
BUICK SEDAN, YEAH.
BUICK AND PONTIAC DID SOME
OF THE BEST HOOD ORNAMENTS
AND RADIATOR CAPS.
I MEAN THEY SURPASSED
ROLLS ROYCE EASILY.
DURING THE ROARING '20s,
THE BUICK AND PONTIAC,
THEY TRIED TO CAPITALIZE
ON THE FACT THAT WOMEN
WERE STARTING TO COME
OUT OF THE HOME, BUY VEHICLES
THEMSELVES, SO THE FEMALE
FORM WAS VERY DESIRABLE.
IT'S NICKEL ON ZINC.
THERE'S NOT A WHOLE
LOT OF CORROSION.
THIS KIND OF CORROSION RIGHT
HERE IS MORE COMMON ON THESE
CAPS BECAUSE OF THE ZINC.
ONCE YOU GET FLUIDS AND
STUFF UNDERNEATH THAT,
LIKE ANTIFREEZE, IT'LL
EAT THEM UP PRETTY WELL,
BUT SHE'S IN GREAT SHAPE.
IN THE INSIDE OF THEM, THEY
ALWAYS HAVE THE PART NUMBER.
THAT'S, THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW
THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY AUTHENTIC.
SHE IS DEFINITELY REAL.
- HIT ME WITH WHAT
YOU THINK IT'S WORTH.
- THAT'S A HIGHLY
COLLECTIBLE ITEM.
I'D SAY IN THE RIGHT CIRCLES,
YOU'RE LOOKING AT 275.
- ALL RIGHT. I DID GOOD.
I'M INTO IT FOR 100 BUCKS.
- OH, YEAH. YOU DID REAL WELL.
- SO I THINK I DID
ALL RIGHT ON IT.
- YOU DID REAL WELL.
- I GOTTA ASK, YOU INTERESTED?
- TO SELL IT FOR YA?
I GOT A BUYER AT 225.
I COULD DO THAT.
- I'D FIND A GOOD AUTOMOBILE
MEMORABILIA AUCTION,
AND I WOULD CONSIGN IT,
AND THEN I WOULD STAND
IN THE CROWD AND WATCH THAT
PUPPY GO THROUGH THE ROOF.
I REALLY WOULD.
- THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
I'M GLAD WE GOT A
CONNECTION DOWN HERE NOW.
- IT WAS GREAT MEETING YOU GUYS.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THANKS A LOT, GUYS.
- ALL RIGHT, THANKS, SHANE.
- HAVE A SAFE TRIP.
- OKAY. WOW. LET ME TOUCH IT.
- TOUCH IT.
- WOW. IT'S COOL.
- FRANKY AND I DON'T TALK ABOUT
JUST TV AND PICKS ON THE ROAD,
WE TALK ABOUT SOME
SERIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL STUFF.
- YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GO TO
THE CHIROPRACTOR, YOU KNOW,
AND SOMETIMES IT FEELS
LIKE YOU CHEAT DEATH.
IT'S LIKE THEY'VE GOT YOU BY
THE HEAD, AND THEY GO "CRRK."
- I NEVER SEEM LIKE I
CAN RELAX ENOUGH FOR
THEM TO CRACK IT.
- YOU NEVER RELAX
ENOUGH FOR ANYTHING.
- WHAT ABOUT BOILED PEANUTS?
I DON'T THINK THAT
SOUNDS SO GOOD.
- I GOT TO HAVE A LOT OF
SALT ON MY PEANUTS, MAN.
- REALLY? I JUST DON'T THINK
THAT SOUNDS SO HOT MYSELF.
- YEAH, WHEN YOU PUT
THOSE TWO WORDS TOGETHER,
BOILED AND NUTS.
I JUST, I WANT TO STEP AWAY.
- NO, YOU'RE A REDHEAD GUY.
- I KNOW.
- YOU'VE ALWAYS
BEEN A REDHEAD GUY.
I REMEMBER SINCE WE WERE
LIKE IN EIGHTH GRADE, DUDE.
YOU ALWAYS TALKED
ABOUT REDHEADS.
- REDHEADS AND GREEN EYES.
- I KNOW WHY YOU LIKE
THEM, 'CAUSE THEY'RE RARE,
AND YOU LIKE RARE STUFF, MAN.
- THEY'RE RARE, HARD TO FIND.
- THAT'S RIGHT.
- HAVE YOU?
- NO.
- HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT?
- NO.
- WOULD YOU THINK?
- NO.
- WHAT ABOUT?
- NO.
[laughing]