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00:00Danny D what's up what's up girl we are in the great state of Alabama on a two-lane road oh you're
00:18on two lanes you're in your element I'll tell you right now hey I'm gonna send you guys to
00:22an old airplane hanger sounds cool like airplanes it belonged to a guy named Dick he was an engineer
00:28by trade okay yes I guess the story is that this guy invented something crazy for the military
00:33like some sort of technology nice awesome but Dick and his father had this massive collection
00:39of radios and Victrola's and they've held on to them forever so he's got really old cylinder stuff
00:46and breadboard stuff let's see Dick passed away 85 so and look like a big part of the collection
00:52was his dad's so a lot of this stuff is really old so that sounds great I've been talking to
00:58Valerie she was his friends colleague but now she's the executor of his estate but she might
01:04not be there just yet you're probably gonna be meeting him with his grandson Zach all right cool
01:09send us the address please hear me right now do not buy any old airplanes because we do not have
01:15the storage space yeah we'll figure something else
01:21look at that place is huge you get a flyer there's some dude working on a tractor right there
01:38hey how are you man we're looking for Valerie all right how you doing I'm John but she'll be here
01:44in a minute Zach I'm John hey I'm Mike man howdy Zach what's going on man what are you working on
01:48this old Moline tractor I'm from Iowa Iowa there's a there's a tractor in every barn man oh yeah yeah
01:55that's a good place we're right across the river from Moline Illinois oh yeah you know what's there
01:59don't you I believe there might be John Deere that's right so I can show you all around the
02:03hangar here yeah absolutely man whoa look at this man this place is huge man a lot of stuff in here
02:09Mike look at this plane it's a Cessna 195 what year is that 1958 it's a radial engine plane dude
02:16sure it is look all cylinders in there when's the last time this was fired up oh it's been several
02:20years now he hadn't flown for probably eight ten years he used to fly over as a kid he would
02:25drop chocolate out at her house really really yeah he did really that had to be pretty amazing
02:32yeah you're a little kid and you're standing in the front yard and he's dive bombing with chocolate
02:36and this is a big plane too there's not a little plane is a big plane this is one of those pieces
02:42that even if you don't care about aviation it's just a work of art that radial engine it's romantic
02:48it just catapults you back into a different time when travel was an adventure all right let me
02:55show the rest of the shop I'd love to see it man yo yo yo what is this thing that electrical device
03:00it's homemade I mean look at that thing it's like an open frame electric motor early like what time
03:04period you thinking turn a century that's 1890 really yeah that's early this was one of those
03:09kit motors I mean it's not branded we don't even notice electricity today we turn a switch on and there
03:14it is in the late 1800s this was new science they would sell you the castings and you would wind the
03:20coils up top here so it's the very beginning you know in a magazine you ordered a kit you'd buy parts
03:24and you build a motor the guys who are nerding out in this in 1890s were the engineers of the day
03:29my granddad was always messing with electrical stuff like this was he an electrical engineer
03:33yes so he was fascinated by this absolutely always was the family lineage here is very impressive
03:39this is the very beginnings of science electrical science I love how jacked up he gets on this I love
03:43this no I love it too I love that you love it I've heard this speech so many times
03:48at swap meets all across America Jersey John holding court in his space telling people about
03:55the evolution of electricity and steam and people are just mesmerized this contraption that is connected
04:03to this was just added to it I mean this is all kind of homemade but it's all early see how it's got
04:07leather belts on here yeah this is great Jersey's basically the science teacher that you wish you had
04:13there's wooden planets and they spin around it's like a model of the solar system there was port and
04:17starburst so one green and one red the way he describes things the way he gets into it it's
04:23adjustable so you can move it back and forth he can make you fall in love with the most technological
04:27thing you could hook like a light bulb on that and you can generate electricity because he makes all
04:33of it so sexy hey guys where are you sorry I'm light you talk to Danny on the phone yes all right very cool I'm Mike how are you Jersey
04:45I'm Valerie hi nice to meet you nice to meet you hi thanks for having us yeah Valerie
04:50welcome this place is amazing he's been showing us around Jersey's found this I think Dick's father
04:56is the one who originally found that was his father an engineer also yes he was an electrical engineer
05:03that explains a lot and they both worked for the FAA Dick came to Redstone Arsenal in 1960 and went to
05:12court for weapon sciences he was hired by warner von Braun at that time Dick didn't know who warner von Braun was
05:21Dick was an electronics engineer he was interested in lasers and he came up with the first patent
05:41using a laser to guide a missile and that was in 1963 and it became the hellfire missile which is still
05:50used so is this something you guys want to sell everything's for sale I like that Dick passed away
05:56about 18 months ago he left his estate to his four grandchildren and all four of the grandchildren have
06:03had the opportunity to go through and pick out the things that they want to keep and one of the grandsons
06:09Patrick he's a helicopter pilot and his goal is to keep the air hanger and the active runway here so all
06:16the funds that we get from selling everything will help generate enough money that he can buy the other
06:22three heirs out and he can keep it in the family keep it in the family so cool yeah I love that so let
06:27me help you okay how much do you want for this thing well it's priceless I'm no stranger to negotiating
06:36I'm also an engineer I worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for 25 years and I'm used to negotiating
06:42contracts for the federal government so I just use that skill make me an offer I could see this
06:49retailing at maybe you know maybe 600 maybe because of the apparatus with it yeah with the apparatus with
06:55it so think of 400 bucks 500 it insures 500 huh my goal is to make sure I am doing the best for the kids in my
07:07role as the executor how about 475 thank you we're gonna get along just fine today sounds like y'all got
07:15it figured out so I'm gonna head out hey man thank you good luck appreciate it thanks for meeting you
07:19man Dick's interest in and collecting things came from his father okay because his father was the one
07:26who started the collection of the radios Dick was a little bit of a hoarder he never got rid of anything
07:33he loved to collect musical instruments and books and mechanical parts electronic parts he got that gene
07:44from his dad Valerie yes I'm starting to find a decent amount of Cathedral Cathedral radios having a store
07:55in Nashville right in music city we have sold a lot of these radios over the years some people call
08:00Cathedral radios people in the industry called tombstone radios either way aesthetically historically
08:08these are small monuments of music history I would like to buy all of these this is the kind of stuff
08:14that my customers would want just aesthetically what they look like to me when you think of an old radio
08:21you think of a tombstone radio you know as far as like getting these fired up and rocking and rolling
08:26again you know sometimes most of the time that's more than the radio it's worth itself the person
08:32that's going to want one of these is an audiophile someone that's truly into music the roots of music what
08:37a lot of people are doing is a retrofitting them to Bluetooth so what are you thinking
08:42um let me see I see that veneers all just coming off pretty bad this one is a little bit sketchy
08:49like two and a quarter for all of them yeah for all of them um they are beautiful I know three okay okay
09:00thank you he would be very happy to know that someone who knew what they were and were excited
09:08about them were getting them whoa whoa oh look at the music box yes this is so cool like the gears and
09:17stuff in here uh whoa I love anything mechanical music it fascinates me to no end they developed a
09:26way in the late 1700s mechanically to reproduce sound so this is one of those boxes that predates
09:33radio even phonographs this is this is before that time this is what we call the comb in here see it
09:39looks like a comb right so that's what makes the music that's the tone we call it a comb because it
09:44has fingers on it and each finger is a different note ding ding ding ding that goes on a cylinder
09:49every time the cylinder comes around it plucks the note so this has got a clockwork mechanism in here
09:53it's got a ratcheting mechanism with a clock spring in there that held the power to power the whole
09:59darn thing so that's putting tension on these gears and then it's put in this beautiful inlay box I mean
10:06look at that oh wow that's pretty isn't that amazing yes still has a lot of color yeah it's got
10:13holly inlay in there it's got some colored inlays probably some pear wood there was a glass top in
10:17here that's broken see the framework right that's gone I think in the condition that it is I could
10:23probably sell it for like 450 500 bucks you know it's just it is a lot of work would you do 300 on
10:29it I would do 300 you would do 300 yes I got you thank you so much I'm very happy with that this is
10:38just the tip of the iceberg like what the heck else is in here
10:41Jersey look at this what you got oh whoa that's beautiful what the heck dovetailed box
10:56old mahogany anything that I find that looks like it belongs in Frankenstein's castle I'm talking
11:01something that can you know be mood altering shocking somebody hurting somebody removing hair
11:07I'm gonna show it to Jersey I don't know what that is I don't know either it looks like some kind of
11:12quackery stuff or maybe it's weather instrument he did collect uh weather instruments I think that
11:17came from his love of airplanes oh it's made by girly they made scientific instruments they also made
11:23surveying instruments of this time period every pick is an opportunity to learn something and here's
11:29a perfect example of that whatever it is it's cool I love it's got a little case I mean look how
11:34beautifully it's done it's got a little brass handle on it see the dovetail joints on there on
11:39the edges I love the way Jersey can say so much without really saying anything at all and that he's so
11:47excited about something just because he doesn't know what it is he's the guy that would completely
11:54disassemble it and look at the way it was made and then try to formulate for himself what the purpose
12:01of it was I'm taking a shot at it 75 bucks a hundred how about 90 bucks I'm gonna buy a lot
12:08more stuff here 90 bucks all right thank you what the heck this thing is I am not sure but I'm gonna
12:13have a lot of fun finding it out what's in that box right there Mike this one yes so you have to set
12:19it up like this well you can't because of the brackets it mounted on a wall see look there you go
12:26whoa oh wow damn so you got upside down this is a medical device this is quack stuff this is like
12:32electroshock therapy stuff you'd hook up an electric on this side you know batteries Jersey's looking at
12:39the technical minutiae the scientific application and these bulbs would these bulbs would regulate the
12:45electricity going through it how much bulbs you would have in here and also this would regulate
12:49electricity as well I don't think Jersey really cares if this stuff works he just wants to know
12:55how it works and he wants to dissect it over and over again I love it that's cool just because of the
13:01way it looks I mean this can be cleaned up there can be a light put in this cabinet but I couldn't be
13:06farther from that what I'm looking at is aesthetically what is pleasing to the eye the shape of it the time
13:13period that it was made the condition of the wood the condition of the screen the case itself it's
13:19interesting it's something it's something interesting to look at I mean the quality of the cabinet's
13:23amazing it's full-on steampunk man oh for sure when I'm looking at stuff like this I always try to
13:28manage for the 90 percent who's going to be interested in this to me immediately it speaks steampunk to try
13:34to build something like this to have this look with the nickel plating the gauges the box itself it would
13:40be costly but for somebody that wants something so different unique even if it's for a retail
13:45setting that's the person it can be in anything from a bar to a restaurant as far as what it used
13:51to do that's for Jersey to think about I do I do a couple hundred bucks on it would you do 250 I would
14:04okay all right cool all good what else you got
14:08these breadboard radios are really interesting I mean I love these just because you know everything
14:23is exposed there's a lot to look at here the breadboard is the base that you can use to make
14:28a lot of different electrical things in this case it's a radio the breadboard radios were probably
14:33some of the more valuable items here yeah they're beautiful to me you know especially this one with
14:39the gold tubes on it you know again you know what does it look like on a shelf when you look at the
14:44timeline of radios these are very historically significant how do you get younger people interested
14:50in it is it blue tooting it in some way or just simply is it the way it's displayed it's a major part of
14:56American history you know this is how people got their news this is how they were entertained this
15:01is how they gathered this is how they socialized imagine this in a room with Macintosh and the most
15:07incredible speakers and modern tube amps and turntables and all that even if you don't even
15:14understand that this is a radio when you look at it it just evokes all of these curiosities of
15:19like what is this thing I want to know more about it you know if this was in really nice shape I think
15:25it'd be like a thousand bucks I'd like to buy them both I'd be interested in them for like uh like
15:32six hundred dollars for both of them yeah I mean I think I'd probably put four and a half on each of
15:37them well I realize it's squeezing your profit margin but how about 700 yeah I mean I mean I'm at
15:46350 a piece on them I'm trying to get four to four and a quarter 450 out of them when's the last time you
15:52walked into an antique shop and you paid what they had on the sticker we're one of the few industries
15:56that are still negotiable how about 650 we'll make it up somewhere else I love the way your mind works
16:06okay we're gonna do 650.
16:16Valerie did you find something this cabinet you see this thing you know what it is what it's like that
16:22quack piece earlier it's a medical desk it's a desk but it's got all these bells and whistles in here
16:27for electroshock therapy basically it's the same kind of deal but this is earlier this is like 1870
16:32it's another one of these fancy quack medicine electroshock machines that look like something
16:38that should be in like you know Frankenstein's laboratory this is the way that they would treat
16:43different ailments which they didn't quite understand how to treat that's where they
16:47would store the batteries this is before the time that we had anything to plug in for electricity this
16:51is something that you would go into a doctor's office a high-end doctor's office and see this in
16:57his office and you were impressed and then you wrote your check well Victorian furniture is not
17:02doing too well right now but that's cool this piece is something different because it's you know it's
17:06got his top on it and this is this was a piece of glass in here see no glass it's broken it's gone
17:12it's missing the curved glass top that protects the instrumentation it's a custom bend you see this J
17:17bend in here imagine what that's gonna cost to replace a lot I go 300 bucks oh I think someone
17:23would pay at least 600 for that once it's restored but I got to put a you know a couple hundred bucks
17:28on a piece of glass easy would you go 350 I'll do 350 thank you all right once that glass is replaced
17:34it's gonna be beautiful look at these these say WLS on them WLS Chicago could be somebody's gonna want
17:41a pair of these hanging on their wall maybe next to the 1979 Sony Walkman that they have $20 a piece
17:47there's 200 225 okay okay this is the horn section this is the Victor wood horn this is one is really
17:58hard to find look at that that's beautiful that's beautiful too but that's for the cylinder players
18:03like this gem matter of fact the gem is really cool cylinder disc players used the pointy horns
18:08matter of fact here's the horn oh wow we call them we call them witch's hat's horn that goes like that
18:13boom and now that's a complete gem I see you got a really old jukebox this one's 1936 think about
18:21what was going on in the world in 1936 when this jukebox was lit up and people were spinning around
18:27on the dance floor look how decorative this is nickel the dime the Hoover Dam had just been completed FDR had
18:35just got reelected and the biggie Harley Davison released the first knucklehead 375 okay okay I'm
18:46doing it I'd go 1500 bucks for what you got right here how about 1700 1600 I like 1700 I'm not gonna argue
18:54with it 1700 bucks I want that that oak horn man just it's calling me I gotta have it look at this one
19:02that's metal the Asian influence of it the color of it definitely you know 30s it's got the crane and
19:09the speaker grill it's like a crinkle paint you know it's got the textured paint the detail here on top
19:15you could tell at one time that this was really bright bright brass like goldish colored even the hinges
19:23here these strap hinges that are just decorative but you know it's missing the knobs it's more of a
19:30furniture piece it's a decorator piece but it was also functional back then and that was that's the
19:35great thing about a lot of this when you look at a lot of these really large floor radios I mean they're
19:40built as a piece of furniture this was a focal point of a room that people gathered in it was a time when
19:47news and entertainment brought people together they gathered because we all heard the same thing at
19:54the same time when I was a kid stereo speakers were basically furniture when I first started buying a
20:00lot of vinyl and listening to a lot of music and like say 78 79 my speakers took up a huge part of the
20:11space in my room and the bigger they were the batter they were you know the bigger the sound I mean I had
20:17some speakers that were literally this tall you know in each corner of my room all the components
20:23the speakers the amps the preamps the equalizers the turntables all of it was meant to be seen it was
20:31meant to gather around the same exact way a lot of these really large cabinet radios were if it had more
20:38paint on it I'd pay more but I'm I'm thinking 200 bucks it is pretty yeah what do you think very
20:48decorative 250 for the kids for the kids okay what a day this has been great when the great-grandfather
20:59and the grandfather started accumulating so much of this stuff they found it interesting because they
21:06were engineers the only reason this stuff is still here and getting put back into the collectors
21:11market is because they had the foresight to see that it was significant back when it didn't really
21:18have any value at all thanks for working with us and good luck with everything thank you I know you
21:23got a big job ahead of you but it's gonna be something rewarding because it'll be out there to a lot of
21:27people well y'all are gonna come back and buy the planes okay okay they honed in on things that I
21:35didn't know existed had never heard of like electroshock therapy really odd unique items they dug out of
21:44those shelves up there they knew exactly who made them where they came from what their value was I was just
21:53astounded hey Danny D what's up girl good morning guys I'm getting the shop up and ready right now
22:15what you got I've been talking to Brad he inherited his father's motorcycle collection what kind of
22:21motorcycles German bikes British bikes American bikes nice so it is around the world so Brad's
22:27father passed away five or six years ago okay he loves the stuff he has fond memories I mean it was
22:33his dad's but he wants to find somebody who can deeply appreciate it the way his dad did we'll let
22:39you know how it goes thank you so much you got it house on the lake man that's the way to live yeah
22:53uh-huh on the water hey hello hey I'm Mike I'm Brad hey Brad John John John Danny on the phone yeah
23:05hand him a flyer when you just got motorcycles we like motorcycles a lot I heard your dad was a
23:10passionate motorcycle collector yes he was the easiest way to show you is walk around and I'll
23:15see you look cool cool let's do that this is a beautiful forever spot look out over the lake and
23:21you're just like wow such a sense of beauty and accomplishment I mean this is where the collection
23:27landed this is where they landed which way we going man it's just what a life so these are some of my
23:34dad's newer bikes cool okay so he was into about everything yeah my dad got into motorcycles about mid
23:3970s he bought his first one and it grew into a big collection after many years he was riding a
23:46Ducati oh yeah he uh he enjoyed them very much he'd get them out and run down 280 with them and he
23:53enjoyed every moment of it so you're familiar with all these bikes fairly okay yes I followed his lead
24:00whoa whoa whoa that's cool oh yeah right there sitting in the middle of the shop is a Vincent black
24:07shadow this bike is one of the most advanced engineering motorcycles in the European theater
24:19so is he the one who started restoring this was he doing all the work this was actually a project bike
24:25that he's had for a long time Vincent's are legendary and they always will be even to see one that's in
24:31the middle of a restoration is sexy to me we lived in Atlanta and my dad found a Vincent and it was
24:39down in South Georges where it was located so my dad took off from Memphis and ended up buying it he
24:46brought it home in boxes they were definitely out of his price range to buy one that was fully restored
24:51as you can see it never did get fully completed this was a major project it's a big project Phil Vincent
24:57bought the defunct HRD motorcycle company in 1928 he started assembling bikes with JAP engines and
25:05rudge engines but things changed dramatically when Phil Irving designed the first single cylinder Vincent
25:10engine you know it's I don't know if it's folklore or legend but the story goes that he left his desk
25:17with a bunch of designs on it and then he came back and the wind had blown and had layered over there were
25:25cylinders layered together and he looked at it and said oh wow this could be a twin engine not just a
25:32single in the late 40s they dropped the HRD name and started calling the bikes Vincent's Vincent was the
25:39fastest standard motorcycle in the world until 1973 when the Z1900 Kawasaki came out so this was a
25:48complete bike and then someone disassembled it he bought it the only reason I'm asking that is because
25:53I'm just wondering if it was something that he pieced together over time I'm not sure okay look at the
25:59serial number on the frame so it's okay RC seven seven four one three RC seven seven four one three so
26:13this is a matching frame so the rear triangle number and the head tube number on the frame are the same and
26:20then Jersey what's the what's on that side of the case what's that say ll49 okay and that's what this
26:27is so these these cases have always been together so then so it was and I'm really bad at math so help
26:35me with this so to document that it's the correct engine for this frame you would take the serial number
26:45of the engine and add 1900 to it no kidding how about that mike is so knowledgeable about the Vincent
26:53he knows that you could add you know 1900 to the serial number and that's the way the frame number
26:58matches in the back the serial number is 5841 you add 1900 to 7741
27:08that's it yeah that bike's always been together yeah it's a matching numbers bike and it's a 1951.
27:18that's so cool so he's the one who rebuilt this engine though that is correct okay it's all because
27:23the thing is the thing is with a bike this expensive it really especially something that's being restored
27:29the pedigree of the bike not just the restoration quality but it's also who built the engine because
27:35that's obviously the heart and soul of it and when these bikes are done they can command a lot of
27:40money it's so rare to find one that's not done because people have just gathered them you know
27:47and they were really adamant about like finishing them right from day one these bikes were works of art
27:53they're technical masterpieces there's been songs written about the legendary vincent black shadow
27:59and the black lightning there's books that have been written about finding a vincent in a barn
28:05i mean that's how legendary and iconic and part of motorcycle culture that vincent's have been
28:11since the day the first one was ever built so i got to ask you is this something that uh you're
28:16considering selling i i'm not sure yet um i can think about it i don't know brad and i both have a
28:25lot to think about he's got to decide whether or not he wants to sell it and i've got to figure out
28:30what kind of offer i can make him let me show you some of the other bikes we have yeah absolutely
28:35love to see them so this is uh what we used to call uh old row a lot of my dad's older bikes very cool
28:45oh yeah all these european bikes it's got bmws it's got the triumphs it's got the nortons it's got a
28:50freaking douglas in there which i love check this out jersey square four with a sidecar man still got mud
28:56on the tires man this thing's been ridden yeah that one actually went to uh pikes peak oh wow cool
29:03look at that they're up in pikes peak with that damn thing yes my mom and dad were involved in antique
29:08motorcycle clubs yeah yeah meet in certain different areas of the country my father passed away about six
29:14years ago and then my mother passed away just over a year ago we had not really done anything with the
29:21motorcycles as long as my mother was still alive you know she would enjoy just walking down and you
29:27know she just knew oh that's her motorcycles you know have you given any thought to what you want to
29:32do on the sidecar bikes i'd like to sell them actually i'd i'd like to sell a few of these
29:39probably most all of them can go it would be somewhat of a disservice i think to my father as well
29:44as the bikes if they do just sit around and age and not be well cared for i'd just like to know the
29:50back end on them yeah for sure we use a guy john from blue moon he's in atlanta he's got a shop he
29:56used to be a bmw dealer for 20 years he's got his finger on the pulse of so i can take pictures and
30:02just you know send them to him hey that'd be great john mike and me we've known each other for many
30:07years i mean we go back we see each other swap meets i mean he deals in rare european motorcycles
30:12john is a great guy for brad to know because he built to help him you know really establish the
30:17values on these bikes jersey look at this black shadow you walked by i know dude i didn't see that
30:22that is freaking awesome this is the last year the shadow this is 55. with all the success that vincent
30:27had worldwide the factory and the production numbers remained fairly modest and when you talk to other
30:34collectors about the 1955 vincent black shadow they'll tell you that they think they made around 500.
30:40this thing jersey this is it man this is the end of the era that's the last the last one that's the last
30:45year they made the black shadow yeah in 1955 the look of the vincent black shadow changed for one
30:51they took away that infamous dinner plate size speedometer because they went with a lucas
30:56headlight speedometer combination the reason they did that is because the 1955 vincent black shadow was
31:02supposed to roll out of the factory with a full fairing made of fiberglass very similar to the vincent black
31:10prince so is this something that you're going to kind of consider selling too i can think about it
31:15i don't know okay this is the kind of stuff collectors dream about i mean if you're a
31:18if you're into european bikes british bikes i mean this is it yep
31:31your dad had a great eye yeah because he's got a little bit of everything he's got a vincent
31:35he's got the nortons he's got quality the douglas i mean yeah the beamers he searched high low he had
31:41lots of friends and he'd always keep an eye out for something that he wanted so what was your dad's
31:46connection to the european bikes i don't know i just think he always kind of liked the nortons i
31:50think he liked the sound of them oh yeah when did he graduate high school 1959 well that makes exact
31:56perfect sense i mean that's the british invasion man we have so many bikes coming in into this country
32:00that were they're tearing it up tearing it up now this collection makes total sense i mean if you're
32:05graduate high school in 1959 that's all you saw norton's bmws triumphs look what brando was riding
32:11in the wild one he was he's ready to try him yeah the bikes that we saw during those coming of age
32:17moments those are the ones that left the biggest marks on us when we were so impressionable these
32:23bikes were coming into country they ramped up production to sell them to the u.s and they sold
32:27us a lot of them because they were lightweight motorcycles and they were high performance the
32:32engineering in these motorcycles was more advanced than we had in the american market at the time
32:37you know indian was out of business in 1953 and harley wasn't really doing anything like they had a
32:42heavyweight motorcycle and they didn't really have a lightweight motorcycle that was a direct
32:47competitor to these european motorcycles jersey you didn't even see the original paint power plus
32:51mackerel man look at that thing yeah whoa got some original nickel on it man that thing is beautiful
32:58it's dressed up man it's got the tandem seat it's got the amp gauge look it's got the abc generator
33:03for the lighting circuit oh yeah that's so cool and they put in they made a chain guard for it i'm
33:08thinking it's an original paint indian i mean that is rare oh it's well you can see like but look what
33:13it said something here but upon closer examination oh yeah yeah yeah it said something that looks like
33:18a z or something i'm finding out some very interesting things about this bike let me see something
33:23yeah it says quincy is that what it says yeah q u i n c y what was quincy illinois police department
33:30police department uh but illinois i'm thinking massachusetts okay on one side of the tank it says
33:38quincy police department i mean you can barely see it so then if it said quincy here then in the
33:43beginning then this i mean this was painted a long time ago and then they had to re-detail it they
33:48probably decommissioned it from the police department they repainted a dealership repaint yep yeah
33:53this bike is not an original paint bike it was repainted by the dealership yeah it's a hundred
33:59year old repaint so it looks like an original paint but to a trained eye yeah we know jersey this pinhole
34:05in the gas tank right here oh no look at that really yeah right there oh man anytime you see a pinhole
34:12or any kind of leak in a tank that's a big deal you're not sure if it's rusted through if it's not
34:16gonna hold fluid it's not gonna hold gas it's not gonna hold oil what are you doing i want to get in
34:20here oh it's blowing the tank dude what what's either if anything comes out the bottom watch the
34:25bottom all right yeah damn
34:31i can't unsee that i can't unsee that but it's not leaking dude okay i've never seen anybody do that
34:36give me that man of many uh talents
34:43yeah she's got some lungs mike's taking this bike over and i can hear that it's got compression
34:48these quick and easy tests give us an idea of condition which affects value is this something
34:53you would sell yes i think i would john mike hey so did you get the pictures of the uh the aerial square
35:02four with the sidecar uh yes i did uh that looks like a uh complete bike that's a watsonian sidecar
35:09i'm glad they didn't put it on the left side like they normally do in england because it wouldn't be
35:13much use here in the usa oh my god i wouldn't even i couldn't even imagine riding a bike like that hey
35:18so did you see that the chrome on the tank is pitted it's not going to clean up yeah definitely
35:23pitted what do you think what's the value of that the square four with the sidecar the square four
35:28alone i'm thinking neighborhood of 15 000 retail okay so you're saying that the retail number
35:36on the square four with the sidecar is like knocking close to 20. yeah that's cleaned up and
35:43running but yes okay i know a lot goes into setting a value you almost have to have people around you
35:50that are knowledgeable in that to come out with a fair fair price what are you thinking on the dunstall
35:56norton i think that bike could bring high teens okay what about the bike sitting next to it the red
36:03white and blue 850 commando uh i think that's ten thousand dollar bike it's like he's giving you
36:08jumping off points on this that's i wanted i maybe put you guys together because this is
36:13what he does yep i'm gonna put you guys together mike it's always a pleasure talk to you soon i was
36:18quite pleased with the values that he had thrown out i was actually kind of surprised that some of
36:23them were as high as they were i'm interested in the bike you know and i feel like i know enough people
36:39to you know finish what he started so if if you have the parts to the bike i saw some boxes over
36:46there that said vincent on them yep um i'd be a player on it at 40. when you look at the bike it
36:54really looks like the heavy lifting has been done but the paint on the tank is starting to bubble on the
37:00right hand side the whole tank needs to be repainted the engine whoever's going to buy this or look at buying
37:06it they're already thinking about taking it apart and looking at the work that was done because
37:11they're not going to go through the expensive process of finishing restoring it and not knowing
37:18anything about this engine they're just not that's why i'm at 40 on this i don't know if that does
37:24anything for you or if you've kind of kicked it around no finishing it yourself and trying to get the
37:29last buck out of it i'd be a fool to say yeah yeah i will i'm gonna keep them all and i'm gonna
37:35get them all up and run it no i'm not all right most of the parts i know are over there there could
37:40be some over in this cabinet okay okay i want to take a look around at that i'm gonna go check on jersey
37:46it's not impossible to get parts it's just that they're so incredibly expensive that's cool man we love
37:54to see old crusty bikes the bike's been run it's been subject to heat cycles you know it's lived its
38:00life broken fins the hinge pin here is really what i can find how much stuff did he accumulate for this
38:10bike you got to dig deep into these old bikes to find out what clues will show you the value what's
38:16left behind oh look at this that's how we dissect them and it really takes a trained eye to do that
38:23c d a 63 8 b so what'd you find there john this 41 is cool too i mean the power plus is neat
38:32but this 41 is awfully nice too next to this power plus it's a 1941 indian chief i mean it's a really
38:38cool bike because it's got the leaf spring on the front fork and that is really cool do you have the
38:43the dash cover for this i may have a couple of them right over here oh yeah yeah that looks like
38:49is that it let me see it that's cool that that should be it yeah that's it i mean the headlight
38:55is the right headlight um you know it's got a lot of bells and whistles on it they're there the
39:00gingerbread is pretty nice overall the restoration is not that you know it's not like a concourse the
39:05elegance restoration you got some dense paint it's kind of like it's okay you know the power plus
39:09it's not an original factory paint bike which hurts its value quite a bit but the motor's correct
39:18the wheels are correct the brakes on it it's got the ammeter on it which is the right one you know
39:23which is it's and it's the electric model too which is interesting lights were an optional thing
39:28on a lot of motorcycles and this bike carried that option it's a good looking bike um if this bike
39:34was totally original paint beautiful bike power plus you know it'd probably be 40 000 maybe 45 000
39:41right i could do 24 000 on this bike on this bike i'd feel comfortable at 18 on this bike 42 000 for
39:52the pair you know i really would like them to go as a pair uh in fact my dad bought them from the same
39:58guy that's so cool there he is huh yeah would you happen to do 45 for both of them yeah dude thank you
40:05so much did you buy the power plus yeah both bikes dude oh you bought this one too yeah dude look how
40:12nice this is i was interested in this one well i mean maybe we'd make a deal but these guys stay
40:16together i did hey listen i found pretty much everything i was having a hard time finding the
40:22chain guard i found the chain guard all right i found this version of the seat over there there's the
40:27brakes the cables here's the tail light i found the speedometer is that the right headlight too
40:33yeah i check out the speedometer it's probably been rebuilt wow there's the exhaust anyway i think i
40:40found there's a lot of parts like smaller parts like this jersey oh you know that's the switch for
40:46the headlight yeah so i feel that looks real if you're comfortable at 40 grand i would do the 40 grand
40:51with everything that i found here i'm comfortable with that that oh yeah dude yeah thank you so much
40:56that's cool the whole bike needs to be finished but it's all incredibly rewarding to put another
41:05black shadow back on the road is huge when it comes to the antique motorcycle community so we got the
41:11power plus in here yeah and then danielle will get a hold of you on the rest of the bikes all right very
41:17good thank you buddy i really appreciate you man and i tell you what sharing your story's cool
41:20boom come and see him run i'd love it i know it bothered my dad not being able to get it completed
41:29and honestly i'd love to see that bike up and up and riding at some point in time and if i run across
41:36any parts i'll be sure to reach out to danielle honestly i can't say i have any regret i i if anything
41:43it brings me joy for the bike you know i want it i want it to be loved hey here we do thanks for
41:50sharing your father's history with us thank you brad's father's collection had focus it was very
41:55deliberate he wrenched on this stuff he wrote it it was a living collection y'all take care yeah man
42:01see you down the road all right i'll bring that chief up to see you he was a true enthusiast and
42:06someone that obviously loved transportation history
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