American Pickers (2010) Season 27 Episode 5

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00:00obviously you guys are legends I've heard about this place before I'm glad

00:07you're here I am holding his cane oh my gosh they are gonna be so blown away

00:16with the billboard that I have you guys are gonna freak out on this thing

00:30I'm in Kansas and I'm headed to meet Mike and Lathan at the Evel Knievel Museum Evel Knievel

00:40was a real-life superhero a few months ago I was lucky enough to find not just a sign but an

00:46original billboard from Evel Knievel Snake River Canyon jump 22 grand all right which was probably

00:53his most famous jump because he wasn't on a motorcycle he was in a rocket I've sent photos

01:00of the sign to the guys and obviously they're interested hey Bruce what's going on today man

01:09how you doing good to see you I've seen you at Davenport for right yeah yeah yeah you going this

01:13year well no I can't go this year too busy around here I bet I bet well it's the season man I'm

01:18supposed to meet Mike and Lathan okay yeah they're in the museum right around the front of the crash

01:22car through this door down the media hallway you're there okay right away I walk in and it

01:29is extremely impactful I had no idea that the displays would be so intense his leathers are

01:36there there's video it's interactive his original jump bikes are on display Wow it's emotional it's

01:45immersive it's hands-on whoa it's really incredible Mike hey how you doing man you made it oh my god

01:55this is epic I just walked through a little bit of it it's nuts hey I'm like Lathan nice to meet you

02:01guys nice to see you man oh my god this is like obviously you guys are legends I've heard about this

02:05place before but he always talks about it because it's gotten to the point now where the collection is

02:10so big that people are talking about it more and more at the antique motorcycle meets and all that

02:14stuff so it's super cool man we're glad you're here I'm Mike Patterson this is Lathan McKay and we are

02:21co-founders of the Evel Knievel Museum so I'm a kid from the 70s and if you were anybody in the 70s

02:27you knew who Evel Knievel was it started with my father he's just said you can do anything you put your

02:33mind to and that was evil Knievel's message don't just exist truly live your life I've heard about

02:39this collection a lot just because I collect old motorcycles and stuff and we're always looking for

02:43anything directly connected to evil like I bought a jacket years ago from Mill Blair he was a guy that

02:49started Easy Rider magazine oh look at this this is pretty smoking where'd you get that at from evil

02:54so you know I'm like you guys as far as like we all lived vicariously through him that's right you

02:59know I mean I can't tell you how many bicycle frames I broke right at the head tube at the

03:03down tube jumping over stuff snapping it you know what I mean we all did yeah we were all

03:07like neighborhood weekend legends you know what I mean but you know so anyway I guess the point I'm

03:13trying to make is like just walking in here and seeing what you guys have it's like I know what

03:18it takes to put together a collection you know how many miles and how many people and how many leads

03:22you chase people think that it's just motorcycle people that come to our museum everybody from the

03:2670s they knew of him I think you can see the passion and work that went into everything we've done

03:33you look at the truck you look at the bikes the restorations it's meticulous studied somebody

03:38didn't just go buy all of this in one shot this took over 12 years to accumulate how did you guys

03:44get together oh that's a long one I know I had some partners that were directly related to Jerry Lee

03:50Lewis the entertainer okay and I was having a lot of trouble restoring evil's truck a lot of trouble I

03:56bought it and it was up in Elizabeth Trucking Center in New Jersey and it just was not happening and I was

04:00putting a lot of pressure on them so I just said hey do you know anybody and they were like oh we

04:04know Mike Patterson he restored Jerry Lee's Harley Davidson he can tell you about that so I get the

04:09call from the Lewis family oh my god and said we've got Evel Knievel's truck so my ears perked up and they

04:15said we're having trouble getting it restored we know you restore motorcycles do you guys know

04:20anybody that can restore a Mack truck and I just kind of blurted out we'll just figure it out he's a guy

04:25that figures things out it's a huge endeavor I mean it's like this is a massive vehicle I mean think

04:31about all the trim the paint I mean just the small details of all of it that make it so incredible I

04:39mean this isn't a motorcycle or a car this is a huge rig so we brought in a lot of other people some

04:45experts took about two years but we got the job done and there it is when Blayton and I came together

04:50to restore this Mack truck here it just it was an idea between the two of us that there wasn't an

04:57Evel Knievel Museum and frankly I was surprised so one day I was talking I said we should do this and

05:03that's basically how it came about is this the original interior yeah absolutely yeah that's an

05:09original piece there this massive rig is the locomotive that hauled all of Evel Knievel's bad

05:14assery to every jump get the stirrups there you go this is insane seriously kind of a spiritual

05:25feeling sitting inside the cabin of this rig this was an automatic too which was very rare for semis

05:33from that era I love the ceiling oh my gosh the interior of the rig is this draped in patriotism how

05:42else would you imagine America's superhero traveling you got to remember Evel Knievel came

05:49along at a time when America needed a bigger than life hero there was a huge generation gap and a ton

05:56of social unrest anything from civil rights to the Vietnam War he put on that cape and our country's

06:04colors and risked his life to show us all that no matter what was going on no matter how bad we were

06:11all going to get up again and it was going to be okay hey Danny what's up what up Danny good morning

06:28boys how we doing today good good we're in coal country yeah Penn Jersey oh perfect you made it so

06:34you're all the way out to Mount Carmel then yeah okay so you guys are going to go see Mark Mark has

06:39inherited his father's collection who served in the military his father was a veteran a mechanic a coal

06:45miner and he kept everything what kind of stuff so as I was looking through the pictures I was seeing

06:50lots of military surplus sounds interesting sounds really cool yeah helmets jackets they're piled

06:55everywhere and then on top of that his father also collected tools yes all right let's do it all right

07:01boys you have fun I got to get back to work yeah thank you Danny yeah it's right here yeah we're

07:13here this is it this is interesting grab a flyer you mark mark can I help you guys hey I'm John hi

07:22I'm Mark how you doing to talk to Danielle on the phone oh yeah yeah this is the stuff we buy Danny

07:27says that your dad was in the military yeah he was in the military during World War two what theater

07:32was he in he was in a Pacific theater my father was born in 1923 was brought up in the depression during

07:39the depression never threw anything away he left school in the fifth grade to go into the mines and he

07:47worked in the mines until World War two came about and he went into the army eventually transferred to the

07:56Army Air Corps started out in Australia and went all the way to Japan came home in 1946 and became a coal

08:04miner again so how long ago did he pass he died in 2003 he was 80 years old not many of those guys

08:12left that's right nothing stopped these guys they were the greatest generation they went to war they

08:18came home they took care of their families and they worked every day they didn't think twice about it and

08:23we're standing on their shoulders yeah my dad's interest included military stuff and tools we

08:30have a we have a lot of it he collected military equipment uh it seemed very popular during that time

08:36we're talking you know 60s and 70s if you want to look around I'll show you some stuff ready army

08:41Navy stores were very popular and he used to trade with a lot of other people so he had a pretty extensive

08:48army surplus collection wow what is this this is a compass that came from a World War two destroyer

08:56and it's made by the Lionel corporation the same train people yeah the same people that make 027 trains

09:04son of a gun the Lionel train company was actually doing stuff for the war oh yeah a lot of people

09:10even Tyco toy company made guns for during World War two they had the machining abilities they had the

09:15the engineering skills I mean it's a beautiful piece a compass like this is very delicate it's

09:21got glass in it it's got precision jewels in it it's floating in a bath of oil beautifully made I mean

09:28you can see the bronze ring around here the engraving on here I mean this is typical of high-end

09:32engineering and machine work it's enclosed and ensconced in a bronze case with a thick glass top

09:38it's got engravings of all the compass headings you would use it's marked 1944 so that means it was

09:44in World War two it's it's interesting to me because I'm it's first off it's World War two

09:48it's it's gray Navy so that's and it's marked U.S. Navy yeah it's marked U.S. in front

09:54say jersey mark one Navy standard illuminated compass whoa so this thing would come out and this is going

10:02to the binnacle you would put this compass in this box only for transport when you put it on a ship it

10:09lives in a binnacle it's in a specialized container that holds its compass it's like a shrine for this

10:15whole thing this is a very valuable piece of equipment this tells you where you're going in

10:18the ocean remember Robbie I mean it's in World War two they didn't have GPS you ain't using this thing

10:23to go get a pack of cigarettes down a corner store you're using this thing to get to Germany retail on a

10:28compass like this is probably around 500 bucks I mean uh I wouldn't get rid of it for less than 300

10:35that's the lowest I would go done thank you buddy I appreciate you this is cool oh I love it all these

10:43empty here mark I don't know it should be I mean the cool thing about this if you cleaned it up and you

10:50can put this in your house yeah well this is brass Robbie oh I know imagine this stuff all polished up

10:55man most people would look at this cabinet and think oh I'm just gonna stick it in a garage

10:59no people are looking for that look they want that paint peeling off of it people are trying to

11:04recreate a finish like this nowadays I would just knock down all the big flakes and put a sheen sealer

11:09on it but it's just cool I mean it's just like the quality they made things back then 275

11:14come up a little bit 300 I get it 300 sounds good all right thank you buddy that's great

11:25this is the holy grail the mothership oh my gosh so how much of this is like authentic pretty much

11:44all of it really yeah we were able to save all the paneling this chair is original all of these trophies

11:50are original this is speak no evil see no evil hear no evil this is the original photo of him

11:56drinking a beer oh he's sitting in that chair this thing is like a roving Graceland he was the king of

12:02motorcycle daredevils all right dude I gotta sit in this chair man I gotta do it the chair is the thing

12:09I gotta do it the cane's right there to your left there's your cane oh he's got a bracket for the cane yeah

12:14and it's in the picture it's filled with wild turkey is it really not right now someone drank it all

12:18that was his drink of choice for sure and Olympia beer obviously Olympia beer and wild turkey no

12:23kidding so like what year do you think this is from 73 wow I am sitting in his chair I am holding

12:32his cane oh my gosh I can't imagine how anything else in this museum can be more impactful than this

12:41moment so did he need a cane after uh caesar's palace crash he was broke up pretty good and he

12:49actually lived with one leg a little bit shorter than the other okay and the cane was maybe to help

12:54at that point but then it became a part of his showmanship and his personality so it evolved I just

13:00can't stop grabbing onto this cane dude it's a cool piece I'm like this is iconic man it's working

13:04it's iconic yeah I mean if I saw nothing else the rest of the day other than this right here

13:09standing in this room and holding onto his cane and sitting in his chair I'd be content

13:13Mike there's a lot more to look at a lot more let's do it

13:17what is going on with these crates let me bring one out those crates uh before they had the plastic

13:27pelican boxes uh for equipment they used to use these aluminum ones for radios these are aluminum

13:35yeah they're ever they're aluminum this is all aluminum yeah so this could be 100 this could be

13:40polished out to be like a right like a like a aircraft fuselage yeah if you want let's see what

13:44this thing looks like oh it's full of stuff yeah there's military stuff in each of them they're made

13:49in new york city binocular case yeah look at the top of that thing like the seal on that I just like

13:54I mean what attracts me is is the size of these because this is like end table world you know like

14:00this is like industrial design has infiltrated interior design I'm a furniture guy that's what

14:07I've been doing my whole life these are attractive because there's like 21 inches tall which is that's

14:11like coffee table height I love the way that we interact with furniture how it makes us more

14:16comfortable and how it gives us style and and grace in our homes man there's stuff inside these suckers

14:22this is something you could use for a storage container but you also use it for an end table

14:27or a coffee table in your home and it's got a great industrial appeal I love those red ones

14:32Robbie blues this is od green the versatility of these crates it would appeal to me at first

14:38so mark do you know what's in these crates no in fact uh a lot of these crates probably haven't

14:45been open since the 70s no kidding yeah oh it's got latches on each side it's amazing how much how

14:50much hardware literally it it's it's almost like these things were they could have thrown them off a

14:56plane and they would have floated in the water I mean they're beautiful yeah wow these are all wool

15:03uniforms nice stuff there you go jersey last mask yeah yeah that's probably Korea yeah but the blast

15:12shield Robbie you look good that's an improvement dude you should wear that all the time looks great

15:17on you man whatever really seriously dude shirt flying heavy I mean the quality of this stuff is

15:26amazing fits you perfectly almost fits me like a glove yes these blue shirts immediately appeal to

15:33me I mean I think there's good looking shirts beautifully put together quality stitching quality

15:38material no moth holes in them they've been stored well nice dry storage they're like brand new

15:44beautifully tailored they're like new old stock jersey yeah I mean this was this work wear they're

15:49tailored so nice they could almost be formal wear they were made for combat use well U.S. Air Force

15:55yeah there's a tag right on it they changed over from the Army Air Corps to the Air Force and what 40 47

16:0147 so yeah and Korea didn't start till 50 50 so yeah so this this is probably

16:06when before or two Korea size large it feels like a medium well guys are smaller back then yeah

16:13they're really nice man I love to cover all these shirts you know the khaki stuff is cool this is

16:19cool this is really cool this is the United herringbone twill this is this is Marine Corps yeah herringbone

16:25herringbone twill that's what the Marine Corps used during World War two this is like a work wear

16:29jacket that anybody could use they were very well made people are always looking for stuff like these

16:35large large I don't see any of this large that's it just four of them a shirt like this it could run

16:42250 bucks brand new we could put these on the shelf for 100 bucks each there are a lot of buyers out

16:47there today that will appreciate both their quality and the history these retail about 100 bucks a piece

16:53how about 50 50 bucks a piece yeah yeah thanks man that's cool I love it so this what is this this

17:04is this version of it why is it this the same rig yeah it's the same rig but it was painted so like

17:08what year was it painted this is what we ended up with that's the color scheme and I was like no we

17:14had to take it back to the the big red era the exterior skin we had to take off and it's in our

17:19little restoration theater we were together one day and I was like let's make a display out of that in

17:23the in the restoration video where's that over there come on yeah let me see it oh man this is

17:29all the real deal panels yes we had to keep them so yeah this is hell yeah this is what it's like when

17:34we got it and you can see the red coming through seeing these original panels with the faded paint

17:39the evil logo takes me back to when we did the Aerosmith van I mean there was so much of it that we

17:45wanted to preserve and a lot of it we couldn't you know so it's like you know obviously the Aerosmith

17:51van was nowhere near the size of the project that they tackled here but it was equally important

17:58because that's America's rock and roll band you know this guy is America's daredevil he's America's

18:04superhero so I love that they created this room out of the original panels that they couldn't use

18:11what is this what is this what is this those are his actual ramps really original ramps from 66

18:16which jump did he use those for Caesars is the most famous but oh this is the ramp from Caesars

18:21the Caesars Palace jump is where Evel Knievel introduced himself to the world in an Evel Knievel way

18:29as kids we all sat on the edge of our seats watching his stunts I mean the guy had like a Clint Eastwood

18:36the good the bad the ugly swagger even from his very very first jumps um he was using these ramps

18:42and never changed because I think he knew how they launched him you know so he wasn't building new

18:47ramps at every venue he took these with him all the way to the end who designed who helped him

18:52design the ramps Ray Gunn Ray Gunn Ray Gunn that's the guy's name Ray Gunn Ray Gunn was kind of

18:57Evel's speedometer so Evel would make the speed runs and Ray would stand there and Evel would stop and

19:02ask him is it yeah it looks about he'd either wink or shake his head yeah he did this and waited for

19:08the win yeah so that was it did uh is Ray Gunn still alive we just lost him a couple of years ago

19:13really but were you able to get him on film or anything oh yeah he's he came he came to the

19:17museum um so we had we got a lot of great stuff we've got interviews with him yeah he was incredible

19:22for me that's the coolest thing

19:24love it what else we got in here Roddy we got to open a restaurant he sings that Christmas morning's

19:32coming on here we got to be thorough here military surplus you don't know what you're going to get

19:36think about it anybody who had any kind of manufacturing capabilities stopped what they

19:40were doing and made stuff for the war effort canvas water bucket whether it could be clothing radios

19:46shelters tents tent poles this one's got a tag on it 50 bucks a piece yeah so these are eight more

19:53here so 400 bucks sounds good all right dude thank you got it they were making millions and millions

19:57of products different kind of things that they had to fight the war with let's get them together

20:00Robbie they had to make 10,000 shirts look at that one yeah that's cool yeah and then the war ends

20:07and you have this surplus and this is all great stuff here this is what we're dealing with here

20:11this is the best stuff that we found in all the boxes but these things these are awesome the tweed

20:17look at that yep there's three of them two of them are actually used I like the look of the used ones

20:23better to tell you the truth look at that frayed pocket yep yeah it's worried so you know retail

20:27number on these are like 200 bucks can you do a hundred a piece on those sure okay all right cool

20:33and then these you know on the sweaters basically you know they're probably a hundred dollars retail

20:38we do 50 bucks a piece on those I mean these are these are awesome sweaters there's 10 of the blue

20:43yep okay there's 10 blue and three green $50 each yeah all right buddy thank you man good stuff

20:50love it hey the whole thing started are you gonna try and buy these boxes yeah I love the boxes too I

20:56mean let's think about these boxes well I'm willing to get rid of some of them 75 bucks a piece

21:01and you got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten be 750 bucks I'll tell you what I'm

21:10gonna need some of these for stored so I will sell you six any six you want okay for 75 a piece all

21:16right dude that's good thank you buddy thank you

21:18I can't believe how much square footage you guys have

21:24yeah ah have you seen this one I've absolutely never seen this one this is one of three signs

21:31that exist that we know of for Snake River Canyon yeah yeah because most of them were probably set

21:37on fire this one was taken by a guy and driven to California in the back of his van if I saw this

21:42sign before I bought the Evo Knievel billboard that I own I'd be like this is the greatest thing in the

21:49world this is advertising this is motorcycle history this is Evel Knievel but I'm just thinking

21:55in the back of my mind they are gonna be so blown away when they see the billboard that I have I want

22:02to see what you got going on already for the Snake River Canyon jump which where's that at so Evel

22:07talked about jumping a canyon soon after Caesar's Palace which had been in 1967 and started promoting

22:14the fact that he was going to jump the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon was not an option for

22:19him when the US government said you can't do this so he went and found Snake River Canyon

22:25everything in his career was leading to that this is one of my favorite pieces this was specifically

22:31for the cover of Sports Illustrated and he went down to Perrine Falls which is where he's standing

22:36right now wow and it's one of my favorite pieces because that is the rarest cape there was only one of

22:42those capes made wow when I walked up here and the way you got the clothes displayed and everything

22:48it reminds me of the other king Elvis yeah yeah when you go to Graceland they've got all his clothing

22:55behind glass like this it was Elvis Presley and Liberace put together on a motorcycle that was it

22:59oh my gosh what are these helmets from right here Caesar's Palace that Caesar's Palace helmet

23:04yeah ah my head's gonna explode this is the holy grail oh my gosh period Mike look at the scratches on that

23:11thing that's that's what I'm looking at I'm just like head first into the cement and then he hits his head

23:16the other way and scrapes it up this was the gladiator helmet that he wore when he went to battle

23:22battle so was it Linda Evans husband John Derrick that shot the whole thing yes so how did he come

23:29into play that day John Derrick came into fascination with evil and he just wanted to shoot it because

23:33he thought it was going to be the biggest thing in the world yeah but Linda Evans who eventually was

23:37on Dynasty and yeah star she shot the landing and John shot the takeoff oh I didn't know that they

23:43co-shot it together yeah he shot him ragdolling down the crash wow and that crash really vaulted his

23:51career so I don't know if he would have made it that day on Caesars I'm not sure we're standing

23:57here talking about an evil Knievel Museum yeah it was the fact that he got back up and he got back up

24:02we've all seen that slow-mo video of him hitting the ground and crashing after the Caesars Palace

24:09jump that's the epic day that he showed the world it doesn't matter how many times that you get knocked

24:15down what matters is that you get back up he kept that helmet specifically like he gave away

24:21everything else in his life that's the one thing that he held like a fabric coveted it was his

24:27fabric egg wow look at all this this was it man oh my gosh this is how evil made all his money

24:38the licensing the toys I mean he made great money jumping motorcycles but this is what brought him

24:45millions I've never seen the evil curtains I've never seen that either the walkie-talkies or the sky

24:51cycle sky cycles a toothbrush oh it's a toothbrush get the hell out of here no way you could see the

24:58further we went through the museum my true excitement and passion and that was fun this is it man that's

25:04the toy that changed the world right there boy yep every kid had one or wanted one oh my gosh it's

25:10always fun to bring people through the museum and you can get into the stories and just end up being

25:15here for hours oh my gosh look at this are you man enough what do I do this is a virtual reality jump

25:22and when you are in VR you jump 15 police cars and it feels real okay so throw a leg over it

25:31all right put these on okay let me see oh yeah oh my god okay this is the real deal right now they're

25:41backing me up for it yep all right now you're gonna go down for your approach okay this is downtown

25:46Topeka 2015 and we hired Doug Danger he's a jumper feeling evil this turns a little tricky here

25:55okay all right well you're all in now man all right dude oh it's well I'm gonna sit that mini whoa

26:01he's riding it oh my god I'm gonna get sick

26:08holy crap yeah

26:23I have something you guys might be interested in I have a world war ii belly tank it went under

26:35uh the belly of uh of an airplane there it is these would have been filled with fuel attached

26:40to the bottom of the plane after the plane would use all the fuel out of these they would actually

26:45just drop them wherever they were because they didn't want the plane to be off balance they'd take

26:48the tank release it away it went we don't know where they landed typically when they hit the ground

26:53they exploded basically or imploded you want to say because it was just made of aluminum when I first

26:59got the property up here I had to clean everything up the place was loaded with cars and other stuff but

27:04yeah I kept this because it had sentimental value for me when my dad was in the philippines he got

27:10one of these and uh he turned it into a boat to go fishing put out riggers on it and and put a little

27:16motor in it and uh and uh one day they're out fishing and uh Japanese flew over and strafed it and sunk

27:22it huh oh no kidding yeah in the 1940s when the war was over these tanks were brought home and guys in

27:29California they could build a car out of it they could put it on the salt flats and they could set

27:33a record belly tankers the guys would take motors and put race motors in these things but you know

27:37put a put a couple axles on it you know a drivetrain and racing things on the salt flats and el mirage

27:43and like you know like bonneville oh they're light enough well this is the idea and they're streamlined

27:48you know i mean they do the same thing they do let's see you can fit in there i can fit in here

27:52dude if i can't fit in here there's no reason to buy it this is like the ultimate race car you can

27:57build if you want to have a really cool race car that's really going to cost you a lot of money to

28:01build one of these belly tankers it's the perfect body for one yeah god dang it dude what the hell

28:08there ain't no cushion in this thing you're right man this thing's cutting into your skin so what man

28:14i've got a good friend of mine named bobby green in california he's a guy that does stuff like this

28:19he's got one called the old crow it's got old black paint on it it's got the dome on it it just

28:24screams speed bobby has driven this thing at the salt flats and that's what hooked me on it he would

28:30send me videos of this thing running all the time i'm gonna build one so mark you want to sell this

28:37yeah i think i would i've kind of outgrown it you know these are getting harder and harder to find

28:43this size the big thing about belly tankers are you have to have the right size they made different

28:48sizes of these things this has to come off a p38 an f4u or a corsair this is actually the size you

28:55need you need something that's big but it costs a lot of money to build something like that yeah big

28:59time yeah i mean thank god i got a number one fabricator i'd love to deal with you robbie oh it'd

29:04be cool i'd love to be cool thousand bucks mark uh i mean there's a ton of work here that has to be done

29:12yeah but how about 12. 1200 yeah sounds good buddy head down i'll show you what we got in the garage

29:23this used to be my dad's workshop oh cool tools lots of tools lots of junk back in the 20s and 30s

29:31this was a venetian blind factory man you got tons of stuff in here that this is so cool he ended up

29:37buying this venetian blind factory and uh put a garage door in and started using it as a garage

29:44to repair his coal trucks what's upstairs man lots of stuff lots of stuff lots of stuff i like it when

29:51it says that lots of stuff that's a pretty eclectic collection up there wow yeah there's a lot of stuff

29:57up here it's dusty too when i was moving stuff i was just grabbing everything and shoving it where i

30:03could and a lot of stuff ended up up on the second floor ray and frick what is this

30:10soap emergency drinking water yeah that came out in the in the 60s when they used to have bomb

30:16shelters when the apocalypse comes mark yeah i'll remember that i like the scouring soap actually

30:22day and is it actually soap it's soap what is this borax it's the scouring soap will remove dirt stains

30:29rust tarnish etc tub sinks copper brass nickel fixtures it's a scouring soap that would clean

30:36like copper pans or appliances it's like a an industrial kind of soap but the labeling day and

30:42frick it sounds like some like some bougie soap company on the streets of philadelphia this is like

30:48military issue soap you need all that yeah actually i do you could use your fingernails you'd probably

30:53take your skin off it because it's like half sandpaper and uh i didn't think someone would have

30:59an interest in it and not only did he have an interest in a bar too he wanted them all and i'm

31:04like god love you take them there's 60 bars with 30 bucks by that sure all right i i'm in the soap

31:10business man thanks this is historical soap this could be general patton's personal soap

31:16whoa ah the holy ground right there now is this the original so there were two sky cycles it was

31:26not known that there was two it was kept in secret because they wanted to test shoot one

31:30about a month before the event so this is the one they shot with nobody in it they shot nobody in

31:35had a dummy in it and did they really yeah they put it down like a crash test yeah yeah but this thing

31:40went straight in the canyon as well so that's when evil was like oh this is a problem he

31:45wanted to see a successful one and it didn't come close and he figured he was getting in this thing

31:51and pushing a button to his death it was the only time in his career that he thought he was going to

31:55perish yeah he really was giving himself 50 50. he had no choice he said he was going to do it

32:00and he kept his word the other incredible story is when he had tested a month before

32:06he got in with his suit and they found out he could not detach himself from the belts okay from the

32:11suit yeah if he oh wow crashed into the yeah he would just drown to drown so they quickly had

32:17another suit made where you'd be able to unhinge it yeah came the day of the event strapping him in

32:22crew says evil you put the wrong suit on oh he put on the old suit he said too late now oh my gosh so

32:30when he was heading towards the water he would have perished in the water he would have drowned he

32:34literally lands 10 feet from the water he would have been gone oh my god he was very lucky that so he did

32:39not make the jump dude was very lucky his whole life yeah he was but he he felt like he won because

32:44he survived and then where did you acquire this niagara falls canada one of the stories is evil had

32:49to hide it somewhere but it was up in niagara falls for like 25 30. that wheels off an airplane isn't

32:54it a lot of pieces were sourced from airplane yeah it's mostly aeronautical parts and pieces he spent

33:00seven years of his life on this project and it wasn't oh no kidding it was that long so he had engineers

33:05on it and everything that long mike every bike that he had had a set of wings on it with a turbo

33:10neek mail order propulsion kit that is a death trap really kill the average man in five seconds yeah

33:16it was a long journey for him but it shows the drive and determination of what he was all about

33:21i sent you the photo of the sign like where were you going to put this in it i mean it's

33:26no you'd have to put it to put it like right here or something it's just not going to fit in this place

33:31we are moving this museum to las vegas really yeah we're only going to be open here a few more

33:38months and then making the transition it's been great in topeka but obviously las vegas i can't

33:44even imagine how busy you guys are going to be in las vegas well i mean what is there how many how

33:47many tourists here there are over 50 million or something yeah the museum is going to be bigger

33:53and better and more exciting we're now a lot more artifacts a lot more space there's going to be a lot

33:59more to me his lifestyle the daredevil that lives in all of us and what it evokes that's las vegas

34:07the gambler high man the freaking gambler yeah he was again he was the biggest gambler ever he was

34:11the gambled with his life always we need a big sign for las vegas because it's big yeah yeah well i got

34:17it man we've known about this sign but we never really knew it still existed okay so you guys like

34:23knew from the doc that you did you've seen the footage of yeah but it's the largest one and

34:28we've never laid eyes on it so we can't wait to see it yeah we were i want to i'm dude i'm jacked up

34:32to show it to you i mean i was excited to show it to you on the way over here because you guys have

34:35a museum yeah but now after walking through here and seeing the caliber of what you've created

34:40connectivity that's how yes absolutely i mean it's just it's just the right amount of energy you know

34:45what i mean it's like when bill sold it to me the reason he turned it loose he's like listen i've

34:50had this stacked up yeah stored for so many years it's got to go somewhere nobody's seeing it it

34:55didn't take me long to figure out i got to call you we're very appreciative so we can't wait to see

35:00it we'll do let's look at it i want i want it i'm well let's do it i mean i'm not kidding yeah

35:04yeah i mean i'll talk about it be about it you know and that's what it's all about

35:07all right all right i'm going in

35:24whoa the target

35:37what the heck

35:47the newspaper will show you when they were packed yeah i know

35:51all right 1992. i mean there's a lot of stuff in here here's helmets or something that's gonna be

35:57a helmet or a helmet liner no look at that parade helmet parade helmet yep parade helmets that's what

36:05these are these are you're marching down a street in a military parade these chrome helmets are going

36:10to bring attention they're going to shine in the sunlight they're going to gleam they have to have

36:14lighters yeah because this thing sits way too low on the knee up like this it's going to look really

36:19spectacular in a parade that's what's attractive about these helmets it's really cool that they're here

36:24there's a bunch of them here there's a other helmets in here mess kit

36:30was that just civil defense stuff yes civil defense is like the citizens protecting their areas or they

36:37would point out weaknesses to the military so they could help better protect our nation we have civil

36:43defense outposts on the jersey shore they're looking for like nazi submarines back then you know we had

36:49german nazi u-boats off the coast of new jersey we're trying to penetrate into our defenses so these civil

36:55defense units would spot these nazi submarines off the coast yeah during the eisenhower era it really

37:03became popular especially around here they used a lot of the the deep coal mines as bomb shelters oh

37:09wow you wouldn't even think about that but sure it'd be perfect for that so these these chrome parade

37:16helmets they're like 100 bucks a piece retail would you do 50 a piece for them well i want to i want to

37:22keep one of the chrome ones okay i want to get rid of both those cd helmets along with the chrome so how

37:27much for the six helmets would you do 300 bucks that sounds good all right good yeah all right thank

37:32you there's he's got there we go hold it jersey i'm gonna come down the rock here go keep going yep

37:38i'm good my dad if he was here today he would be ecstatic our whole life we've been telling him stop

37:44saving all this junk got six of these hey dude they're cool i like them if he was here today and

37:50and saw all of this stuff that people actually liked and were going to use he'd be very happy i love

37:56hearing the stories of your dad man well it's a pleasure being here you guys i would have loved to

38:01met your dad yeah obviously mark's father was an amazing guy he collected these things and he

38:08respected these things and he saw value in his collection now it's our job to take these pieces

38:13that mark preserve and find a new home for them happy picking so long

38:23okay you guys are gonna freak out on this thing oh man we get a lot of calls about a lot of artifacts

38:29and i have to say our first thought is usually it's not real it's kind of where we start but

38:35getting a call from mike wolf was another level and we knew that it was probably something legit

38:41all right i'm gonna need some help because it's freaking huge let me hand one up to you

38:46so this is the middle one oh god that's beautiful okay you got it wow got it all right you sure okay

38:54you got it yep do-si-do okay here we go oh yeah look at that oh my god this is so cool all right

39:02here it goes it's freaking nuts the snake is complete i know look at that thing man let's see stand back

39:09and check it out dude you gotta get on it look at that wow i know right right that's amazing is it what

39:16i said you know whatever man look at that that's incredible oh my gosh not a lot shocks us anymore

39:22because we've seen everything but that is a very significant piece that kind of smacked me in the

39:27face i'd seen pictures of it but the scale was more than what i thought it was the brightness of the

39:33colors were more than what i thought it was the quality of the condition that thing's been well taken

39:39care of yes that's really it's just so breathtaking man it's amazing it's magical let me tell you what

39:46i want to do um i came here with the intention of saying you know hey i wanted to make a little bit

39:54of money on it i wanted to do 25 you know but in all honesty i paid 22 000 for it and after seeing what

40:03you guys have done and what you're going to do i just can't bring myself to make a dime on it i just

40:08can't i mean it's just there's just no way it was really appreciative that mike offered the price

40:14that he did knowing that that's what he bought it for and expecting to pay more than that i hate to

40:20even charge you the 22 but i'm into this deep you know what i mean forget it and i i understood the

40:24significance of it right away it is and i was blown away when the guy told me the story of how they

40:30acquired it well after the jump when he didn't make it riding just started as a slow burn and then

40:38next thing you know they were just burning and wrecking everything that was there to be wrecked

40:44and then there was a fella chopping down the pole this was on okay and then just before they got

40:50ready to throw her on the fire we were able to get it away and we saved it it would have just it would

40:56have been set on fire like everything else yeah yeah they saved it saved it for us you know and saved

41:00it for all the people to be able to see once we get it to uh las vegas you know that's what the guy

41:05wanted i think there's a certain level of energy about how this whole thing came together when bill

41:11called us it was about getting it into the hands of someone that would really understand it and respect

41:17it but after having it for a while i realized it was about more than just going to a good caretaker

41:23i knew that it had to be somewhere where everyone could see it the fact that it's coming to the museum

41:31just as they're moving to vegas is perfect timing glad it's found it's forever home dude because

41:37there's nowhere on the planet that this should be other than with you guys i mean there just really

41:41isn't i mean you guys have inspired me man you really have it's one thing to have a passion but to

41:47take that passion and turn it into something that people are inspired by and that the world can see

41:54is pretty incredible so here's the deal so it's exactly what i paid for it but i get free admission

42:00to the museum i think we can work that out i think we got you all right you got the golden ticket okay

42:05thank you buddy hey let's get you paid i like that all right buddy thank you man thank you guys

42:10it's gotta be perfect imagine it is a headboard yeah that's a headboard

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