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American Pickers - Season 27 Episode 12 -
Sign of the Times
Sign of the Times
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00:00From Lonesome Dove.
00:01Yeah, he ends up dying.
00:03Yeah, and then Tommy Lee Jones, who plays Woodrow Call,
00:06had to haul Robert Duvall's body all the way back to Georgia.
00:09Yeah.
00:10Remember the way that Robert Duvall was walking?
00:12Yeah, he had septics in his leg.
00:14Well, that's how you walk anymore.
00:15No, don't drag my foot.
00:17I can go run right now.
00:19You could run a circle.
00:20What are you talking about?
00:30Danny D, what's up?
00:39Danny, do I walk weird?
00:41Do you walk weird?
00:42Well, because my brother said that I walk like I drag my foot.
00:47I don't know, man.
00:48Why do you ask me questions like this?
00:49A little bit.
00:50You guys are, you guys are, I don't even know what you're talking about.
00:54It's not that you walk weird.
00:55You walk like you have a hitch in your giddy-up.
00:57A hitch in my giddy-up.
00:59That's right, because I compared him to a cowboy.
01:02Hey, you know what?
01:03No, here's the thing.
01:04I was watching you go up the stairs the other day to the office.
01:07Looked a little Frankenstein-ish.
01:09Frankenstein.
01:10What are you talking about?
01:11You guys are, I don't know what's wrong with you guys.
01:13I'm going to teach you a real valuable lesson here, Robbie.
01:16When you're dealing with a Colby girl, if you don't want to know, don't ask.
01:22True story.
01:23Okay.
01:23What do you have?
01:24You got anything?
01:25I have a really fun place for you to go.
01:27Actually, it's not only a pick, but it's a roadside attraction.
01:29Ooh.
01:30You got my attention.
01:31Remember when we drove Route 66 and saw all those roadside attractions?
01:35I love Route 60.
01:36I love doing Route 66 with you, Mike.
01:37It's so fun.
01:38We need to do that again soon.
01:40Ooh!
01:41Ooh!
01:42Yeah, there you go.
01:43Hey, there's the blue whale.
01:44There's the blue whale!
01:45There's the blue whale!
01:46Oh my gosh, this is cool.
01:47Please love this game!
01:49Route 66 history, baby!
01:51Holy cow, that looks amazing!
01:53Yeah, look at this!
01:54One, two, three.
01:56I love a roadside attraction!
01:59Are you boys ready?
02:00Because I am sending you to the Crystal Onyx Cave.
02:04You know what that is?
02:05I guess it's a cave?
02:07Yes, you're on it.
02:08You're on it.
02:09And the owners are Scott and Sarah.
02:11Lovely people.
02:12You're going to really enjoy them.
02:13We're literally picking a cave today.
02:16Obviously, there's not going to be much to pick in a cave, right?
02:18But they are super collectors.
02:20But they don't really have a rhyme or reason that they're collecting.
02:23So you're going to go in there and you're just going to see a bunch of very different items.
02:28All right, send us the address.
02:29All right, I love you guys.
02:31Have fun out there.
02:32Left a quarter of a mile for an adventure.
02:45The roadside attraction experience starts at the billboard that draws you in, that takes you off of the highway, that sparks the interest.
02:54Just think we could be driving over the cave right now.
02:56Oh, yeah.
02:57Look at the spider.
02:59Look at the spaceship and freaking giant ants.
03:02Look at these ants.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Man.
03:03Look at the Martian.
03:04Let the randomness begin.
03:06Look at the draft.
03:07All of these things have absolutely nothing to do with the cave.
03:12But that's what's so cool about the roadside attraction.
03:15This is awesome, man.
03:16Look at this place.
03:17Look at this.
03:18Look at this, man.
03:20Definitely a roadside attraction.
03:21Look at the shark.
03:22Yeah, that's a hot shark.
03:23He's got it.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Hello?
03:25Hey.
03:26How you doing?
03:27Hey, I'm Mike.
03:28How are you guys?
03:28You guys here for a cave tour?
03:30No, no.
03:31You talked to Danny on the phone?
03:32I talked to Danny on the phone, yes.
03:34Yeah, this is some of the stuff she might have went over.
03:36Oh, okay.
03:37Are you one of the owners?
03:38You work here?
03:38Yes, my name is Sarah.
03:39Okay.
03:40How long have you guys had this?
03:42Since 2010.
03:43How far is it from Mammoth Cave?
03:46We're about 15 miles from Mammoth Cave.
03:47No kidding.
03:48Cave City has always been a tourist town full of roadside attractions, and it's home to
03:53Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest known cave system in the world.
03:58Almost 500 miles of cave discovered right here in the hills of Kentucky.
04:04But not just Mammoth Cave, the smaller family-owned ones, too.
04:08All of this has an economic ripple effect to this little town, Cave City, Kentucky.
04:14So where are you guys from originally?
04:15Are you from this area?
04:16Michigan.
04:16Oh, yeah, you're down there.
04:18So you moved all of that stuff here from Michigan, the whole collection?
04:22Yes.
04:22That's part of the problem is all that stuff we have down here.
04:26Okay.
04:26That's why we called you guys in.
04:27Yeah.
04:27My husband's down there waiting for you guys.
04:29We'll take you down there.
04:30All right, cool.
04:31Lead the way.
04:32So who discovered the cave in 1960?
04:35Cleon Turner, and then they opened it up to the public in 1965.
04:40Okay.
04:40So where do you get all this stuff, like the rocket and the aliens and the ants?
04:43A lot of that, Scott made those.
04:45Really?
04:45Oh, he built that rocket?
04:47Yep.
04:47Did he make this ant?
04:48Nope.
04:49That there is from Mexico.
04:50Oh, it's aluminum.
04:51Yep.
04:52I saw some of these when we came in.
04:54Look at that thing, Robbie.
04:57This is exactly the kind of thing you would see in the Roadside Attraction playbook if there
05:02was one.
05:03Something that's bigger than life grabs your attention and makes you smile.
05:07Have you ever sold an ant?
05:08What do you get for an ant?
05:09About $450.
05:10Okay.
05:11$400.
05:13$400.
05:14Sounds like something we can do.
05:16You want to do it?
05:16Yeah.
05:17All right, I'm doing it.
05:18All right.
05:18Very cool.
05:19It's not the oddest thing I've ever seen to buy.
05:22Something like this that's so unique and interesting, I think, is going to be easy to sell.
05:27Let's go see Scott.
05:29Okay.
05:30Dang.
05:31That's cool.
05:31Oh, wow.
05:32This is our storage.
05:34All right.
05:34You got some gas pumps.
05:35Yeah, you got some gas pumps.
05:36Yeah.
05:36Very cool.
05:37All right, Scott, are you here?
05:38Back here.
05:39Look at that cutaway.
05:41That's cool.
05:41Holy cow.
05:42Hey, hey, hey.
05:43Hey.
05:44Well, that thing's cool.
05:45How you doing, buddy?
05:46Pretty good.
05:47How about yourself?
05:47I just bought an ant off your wife.
05:49Oh, you get the $600 for it?
05:51No.
05:52$600?
05:53I don't know.
05:53She said she started at $450.
05:54We did $4.
05:55That's coming off your pay.
05:58So where are you guys from in Michigan?
06:01Thumb.
06:01Thumb.
06:01Okay, you're right in the thumb.
06:02Right below the thumb.
06:03Okay.
06:03Before we bought this cave for about 40 years, the wife and I traveled around the country
06:07to the swap meets dealing in automotive vintage speed equipment.
06:11I deal mostly in intake manifolds and valve covers, vintage speed equipment.
06:14So you specialize in that?
06:15Yeah.
06:16Okay.
06:16But I like the oddball stuff.
06:17Yeah, I saw that.
06:18Alien or something like that.
06:20Yeah.
06:20And I saw you got some gas pumps and stuff.
06:21Oh, yeah.
06:22I'm going to let you guys talk.
06:23I've got to get back to work.
06:24Okay.
06:24Hey.
06:25Thank you so much.
06:26It was nice to meet you.
06:26Nice to meet you.
06:27Nice to meet you.
06:28What's going on with the, where'd you get that cutaway at, man?
06:31That's pretty cool.
06:31I picked up a little show called Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
06:34Oh, yeah.
06:35Yeah, that's a little one.
06:36What's the tag say?
06:38Carolina County Schools.
06:40So that's weird.
06:41So this was in a school in the U.S. and it's a Fiat.
06:45I think the unit of size, you couldn't do this with a Cadillac.
06:48No.
06:49Or you couldn't do it with a Chevy or any of that stuff.
06:50So you could do it with a little Fiat.
06:51Yeah.
06:51And this is its actual drivetrain right here.
06:54The last time I found a Fiat cutout was in its homeland in Italy.
06:58It's like a cutout.
07:01It's for the driving school.
07:03Can I turn this?
07:04Yes.
07:04I'm going to turn this thing.
07:06No, I want to turn it out this way.
07:07Okay.
07:08And look what you're talking about.
07:10You're saying this motor right here ran the whole thing?
07:12Yeah.
07:12This is where it was.
07:13But the gearbox is all there.
07:14You can put a motor back on it.
07:16So it's missing the power plant that drove everything.
07:19Correct.
07:19They did quite a good job cutting away the mufflers.
07:21Oh, it's done really well.
07:22Yeah.
07:23Even the wheel cylinders are cut down.
07:25They cut down very detailed on this.
07:27I like how they angled the motor in there, you know.
07:29I mean, is it something you want to sell?
07:32I probably could be persuaded.
07:34Well, look, what are you thinking on it?
07:36Well, 3,800.
07:37Okay.
07:37Let me see the front of it a little bit more.
07:39Obviously, like-minded people.
07:40We've been to a lot of the same shows.
07:42It sounds like he's a pretty big dealer.
07:44But that doesn't discourage me because, you know, we all get to a point where we've got
07:48too much inventory or we're just changing gears in life.
07:52If you turn this wheel, it's moving the rear end, but is it moving the interior of the
07:57transmission?
07:57Gearship is not there.
07:59That's what I'm saying.
07:59It's got to be in gear to make it happen.
08:03It'd be really cool if you could get some sort of power plant over here and just be able
08:08to flip a switch with the lights on and see all of this operating.
08:12It'd be insane.
08:13Does this whole thing pivot on here?
08:14Because, lookit, you turned this knob.
08:16You can turn that.
08:17You got it?
08:17Hold on.
08:19You getting it?
08:20I'm getting it.
08:21All right.
08:23Let's see if we can lift it now.
08:25There it goes.
08:25Yeah.
08:26There we go.
08:26Look at this.
08:26Keep going.
08:27Keep going.
08:27Keep going.
08:28Oh, right there.
08:28Oh, wow.
08:29Look at it now.
08:30That's really cool, man.
08:31Would you say $3,800?
08:32$3,800.
08:35$3,000.
08:38I mean, it looks to me like the sprocket here is there, but there's a gearbox.
08:42It's missing the top sprocket and the motor.
08:45It's got to need some work.
08:47I want to get it going.
08:48You know what?
08:49I'd probably do $32,000 on it.
08:51I'm not going to argue with you.
08:54$3,200.
08:55Yeah.
08:56Very cool.
08:57I love it, man.
08:57Well, let's pull her outside so you can see the good stuff back there.
09:00All right.
09:01It's very unusual to find a full-size car in a cutaway.
09:05Fiat did it right here.
09:06If you were working on one of these and you had this model next to you, you'd be able to fix anything on it.
09:12Leave it to the Europeans to design something so cool but so simple.
09:15Wow.
09:16So cool, man.
09:17Thing looks better outside.
09:18It's so cool that it's on this articulating stand so you can move it around and see all the different angles.
09:24It's really well thought out.
09:25It's very well made.
09:27It's basically industrial art that's a hands-on teaching aid.
09:31That's awesome.
09:32Very cool.
09:32Oh, I figured you'd want your money back now.
09:33So is a lot of this stuff like pieces and parts where you're making things out of?
09:52Because, you know, when we pull up, you've got, like, little spaceships.
09:55When I see a shape or an object, I think, how could I make an alien or a dinosaur out of it?
10:01It's just good photo ops and people just love that kind of stuff.
10:04Route 66, that's what I'm trying to go for, a roadside attraction.
10:08We get a lot of families here, a lot of children, and I'm just hoping when they get older, they say, I remember that.
10:14Maybe they'll bring their kids down here.
10:16I remember parents taking me out on trips, seeing the biggest ball of twine or whatever, and biggest Coke bottle and all that.
10:23And, you know, those all went by the wayside.
10:25He is the perfect curator for this property because he hasn't forgotten what's interesting to a child.
10:31He's still a big kid at heart.
10:33We've seen this cave about a half a dozen different times before he bought it some 20, 30 years ago.
10:38As a tourist?
10:39Yeah, as a tourist.
10:39So it's, you know, amazing that we're able to get it.
10:42We have just about every type of formation you could want to see here at Crystal Honest Cave.
10:46And it's up close.
10:47You're not standing 50 foot away, looking through plexiglass.
10:50You're literally walking through some formations.
10:53We spent about eight years refurbishing the cave.
10:55I did the work that it deserved.
10:58This cave belongs to everybody.
10:59We want to protect the cave for the future generations.
11:02What a blessing.
11:02Yes, it is.
11:03That's awesome.
11:04There's not a lot Scott can do to upgrade the experience in the caves.
11:08God made that perfect.
11:10But up here, this is Scott's playground.
11:12This is his blank canvas of whatever he dreams up.
11:21Dude, there's Rat.
11:22How much does Rat Fink?
11:24Those go for around 400 bucks.
11:27They're cast aluminum.
11:28Rat Fink is kind of like the Mickey Mouse of the hot rod world.
11:32Which is ironic because Big Daddy Roth created Rat Fink because of his dislike for Mickey Mouse.
11:38He came up with this character in the 1950s.
11:41And ever since then, Rat Fink has been one of the most recognized mascots of custom car culture.
11:47All the old guys know what it is.
11:49The old guys and, you know, we're trying to teach the young guys about it.
11:52$3.50.
11:54Oh, man.
11:55I'm pretty cheap at $400 on those.
11:57You're cheap on it.
11:58All right, I'm doing it.
11:59I'm doing $400.
12:00All right.
12:01We have a Cars and Coffee event at Columbia Motor Alley the third Saturday of every month.
12:06So I want to put this outside where kids can get their picture taken next to it.
12:10I saw some gas pumps.
12:12This is an American and this is a barn.
12:15These are visibles.
12:16Yes.
12:17What are you going to do with these?
12:18I'd probably be willing to sell them.
12:20I'd be more interested in this one right here.
12:22Oh, yes.
12:23They actually had a barn fire, so you can see they kind of got a little smoke color to them.
12:28What do you think you got to have out of all three of them?
12:30I probably would have to get around $7,000 for all three.
12:34$25,000, $25,000, $2,000.
12:36Yeah.
12:37I'd have to be around $4,000, I mean, because this one's missing the cylinder.
12:40It's missing the top, you know, the condition.
12:43I'm afraid I can't quite do $4,000 on those.
12:45Okay.
12:46But I do have a couple more.
12:47If you want to take a look at it, maybe we can do a package deal on all of them.
12:50Where are they at?
12:51Walk this way.
12:52All right.
12:53All right, man.
12:55Did you move these up here?
12:56Yeah.
12:57Dragged them up with the tractor.
12:58When I moved out of Michigan, it was like condensing five gallons into a gallon container.
13:03And those shipping containers were just really handy.
13:06Ooh.
13:06Yeah, that's one you may not even be able to walk through.
13:09Oh, yeah.
13:09Look at that Amoco sign.
13:11I know it's rough, but I was thinking probably like around $1,200 on it.
13:14I got the surround for it, the top.
13:17Ah, yeah.
13:20Yeah.
13:22That one scratch it.
13:23Flaming the ring.
13:24I'll throw those in.
13:25Let me grab the ring for it.
13:27All right.
13:27He's trying to talk us into it, Rob.
13:29He's getting a ring.
13:30The ring looks like it went to a tornado.
13:32Look at that.
13:32It's all.
13:32Oh.
13:33I mean, it needs to be heat.
13:34It could be heated up and put back in.
13:36How do you go about straightening stuff like that?
13:37You run the forklift on it, and then you let it sit for like two days, and it'll be fine.
13:41You know as well as I do, as soon as you flatten it, more porcelain comes off.
13:44It could.
13:44You have to do it.
13:45It's a slow process.
13:47$800.
13:47If there's missing pieces, I could say that.
13:50But I got the flame for the top.
13:52But what about the condition?
13:53Patina.
13:54Yeah.
13:54That's all it is.
13:55Get out of here.
13:56$1,000 bucks.
14:00$850.
14:02$950.
14:05What do you think, RJ?
14:07I guess we're doing the work.
14:09I guess we're doing it.
14:10It's there.
14:10I was thinking about, you know, straining that out a little bit.
14:13But I kind of realized, you know what?
14:15I got so many projects, probably never get around to it.
14:18So time to let her go.
14:19Robby, right here's a Mae West.
14:22Oh, it's rough on the back side of it.
14:23Yeah, that thing's rougher than a corn cob.
14:25Yeah.
14:25Is that one of the ones you were talking about?
14:27Yeah, unfortunately.
14:28Yeah, that thing's rough.
14:30I can see what you're saying.
14:31I've never seen one rotted that bad.
14:40Okay, this is the other one you're talking about?
14:42Yes.
14:43Oh, it's a token, but it's got the dial on it.
14:45This one's probably the best condition one you got.
14:47It is.
14:47This is the best one you got.
14:48Yeah.
14:49Where are you at with all five?
14:55You don't really want to sell them, do you?
14:58Not really.
14:59Yeah.
15:01I just got to walk away.
15:02There's three other containers here, and I need to dig into these.
15:04It's my favorite light.
15:08I got your favorite light.
15:10It's so unusual.
15:11I'm not even sure what it's for.
15:13Huh.
15:13Where'd you find this hat?
15:15Hershey.
15:16And that could have...
15:16Of course.
15:17That could have had a glass piece for the...
15:20Yeah, it did, because look, there's a reflector right there.
15:22I don't think it was for automobiles.
15:24I mean, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring and say, possibly trolley car.
15:28What are you thinking on that?
15:29It looks like it's missing a post on the bottom.
15:30You know, that thing's probably going to be around $1,200.
15:33It's really interesting with this orbital light on top, but yellow lenses on traffic lights
15:38didn't come out until the 1920s.
15:40There were also traffic lights called silent cop lights, where basically there was an officer
15:44at the intersection, and he was working with the light itself.
15:48So there's a lot of different possibilities.
15:50It's just so intriguing and so different, I'm not going to pass it up.
15:54$800.
15:57Can't do that.
15:59Work with me some.
16:01Bottom line, $1,000.
16:06Hold that.
16:09$1,000.
16:12Condition.
16:13That's patina.
16:15I don't know about that.
16:15That's beyond patina.
16:16That's beyond.
16:17Yeah.
16:18Okay, $1,000.
16:19Okay.
16:20Thanks, man.
16:21I appreciate it.
16:22Whoa, hey, don't scratch that.
16:24I always say when I buy something, it's like a fate worse than death, because it's just going
16:28to get locked away in my storage containers.
16:30So I'm glad somebody bought it that will enjoy it.
16:33There's even a more rare one way back there.
16:36It's called a mushroom.
16:37There's another one that's next to it that looks a little bit more ornate than it.
16:40Those are old town Chicago lights.
16:43Are those two something you'd want to sell?
16:46I'll sell them, but you probably ain't going to like the price.
16:48$3,000 for the pair.
16:50I'm going to have to come back there and take a look.
16:52All right.
16:52Back in the early days, when traffic lights were getting more and more prevalent in cities,
16:56they were made out of solid cast iron, really ornate.
17:00But as time went on, they just casted them aside and then put ugly ones in.
17:04I believe this is the mushroom.
17:06Yeah.
17:06It says mushroom right on it.
17:07So what are you thinking on the pair?
17:09$4,500 for the pair.
17:13I think that's closer to the retail number.
17:15For how unusual those are, that's a pretty decent price.
17:19I'm at $3,000.
17:20This would have had like a white globe on it.
17:23You're going to have to find the poles for the bottom of them.
17:24The base itself would have been ornate, too.
17:27I'll come up some.
17:29How much?
17:31Can I dig them out and actually look at the, you know, I want to make sure all the glass is actually intact on them.
17:36Ain't going to be an easy job, but I think we can get them out.
17:38Come on.
17:43There we go.
17:46Watch your hand.
17:47Coming down.
17:50All right.
17:51There you go.
17:54You got them?
17:55Yeah, I got it out.
17:57So that's just a base that it's sitting on.
17:59Yeah, somebody made that.
18:00How many more are there?
18:01There's one.
18:02I can get it out of here.
18:03Let me see.
18:04I'll help you.
18:05I'll go up.
18:06Yep, we got to go up, up, up.
18:08Okay.
18:09And then that down.
18:11These streetlights got thrown into the dump when they were done with them, or they got crushed.
18:16The fact that these two exist and they're still here, that's what's mind-blowing.
18:20I mean, that's a work of art.
18:22These things don't have a mark on them.
18:23They're not cracked.
18:24They're not broken.
18:25The lenses are intact.
18:26When you talk about a hundred-year-old traffic light, that is absolutely amazing.
18:31$3,700.
18:34Sounds like a deal.
18:37All right.
18:38Man, that's cool, brother.
18:39Do you remember where this one came out of?
18:41Old Town Chicago.
18:42Old Town Chicago.
18:43Both these would.
18:44Oh, my gosh.
18:45My brother and I both floated in and out of Chicago for years.
18:48The fact that these are from Chicago and that Robbie's into transportation history really
18:53drives it home and how cool they are to us.
18:56You got it?
18:58I agree.
18:58I have respect for them.
19:00I mean, they treated me fair.
19:02So, unfortunately, we couldn't come to grips on some items.
19:05But, no, I'm very happy with how it went.
19:08It was a fun day.
19:09I love what you're doing for not just your family, but for the community.
19:13It's so cool to have a place like this.
19:15When most people are at the point where they're settling down, Scott and Sarah uprooted their
19:19whole lives and moved to Cave City, Kentucky to be the caretakers of something that they
19:24were extremely passionate about.
19:26I think what continues to drive them is not only their love for each other, but also their
19:31love for adventure.
19:31Come see us in Nashville.
19:34Thank you, Will.
19:47Doлед, Danny just sent me pictures of the truck.
19:50Which one?
19:50The guys of Mr. Truck were going through.
19:52Look at that.
19:53It's a co-truck.
19:54she's sending you pictures of that truck because i'm the truck guy hey it doesn't even get any
19:59better than that look at the advertising on the side of that thing look at that here we're getting
20:04close right here gates closed there's a dude look at all his trucks too are you freaking what is up
20:12look at you yeah all right here we go got it here we're under control jones and out here
20:19sell out truck come on come on these aren't just regular trucks here i know i what's going on
20:30you dick how you doing man hey buddy what's going on i'm mike nice to meet you nice to meet you
20:38here hit him with a flyer right there trucks you have no idea how excited my brother is about trucks
20:43i like you guys are you guys are cut from the same cloth i like yeah i like trucks how many trucks
20:49you got i don't know 50. 50. that's part of the reason i called you guys i got a precious little
20:55girl by the name of bria okay she's eight and i'm hanging out with her all the time okay you got a
21:01granddaughter you know she's got a couple vehicles in here she wants papa to make sure she gets okay
21:06the rest of this stuff probably is going to go away so priorities are changing bria's my granddaughter
21:11that's a lot more important than a 65 chrysler so i came up with a five-year plan to sell 20 cars a
21:16year because i got a downside somehow i'm ready to go to hangar five all right let's how many hangars
21:21you got uh that's the only one next to the airport did these used to be hangars though no were they
21:27connected to the airport it was a funeral home okay there's a lot of people that are in the same exact
21:32position as dick dude were you the towing service it was my own rig for my own stuff they're starting
21:37to reevaluate things priorities change but he's way ahead of the game because he's making these
21:43decisions himself he's not waiting until the last minute when sometimes these decisions are made for
21:49us who's dean uh he ran a copy service here before the funeral home so we're uh working on projects in
21:56here what's going on with this thing man this is crazy look at this robbie that's an air porter made
22:00by checker this thing ryan it will run but it's probably been sleeping here for 10 years robbie take a
22:05picture of me with this thing hold on there believe it or not we have come across these checker
22:10aero buses over the years they started making them in the early 60s and really they were produced to
22:16transport people on the tarmac they're so unique looking and different a lot of times they end up
22:23as a promotional vehicle this cadillac limousine man this is a 57 cadillac fleetwood limo and back in
22:30the day governor brown from california rode in this car wow you got a singer look at that robbie so you
22:36have all these cars what did you do for a living i drilled wheels oil and gas yeah i started that in
22:421970-71 my brother brad and i did that i did the production and brad did the rigs so when you first
22:48started that what was your background how did you know to get into that we're engineers my dad went to
22:53yale university he was an engineer and of course he had four boys and every one of us wanted to be an
22:58engineer and that's what happened to us we all went off and did that i was in the south working
23:02for general electric on power plants and i got exposed to the oil field and i said no that no
23:08i know what i want to do yeah you know after a while you figure out what you want to do and that
23:12was like magic every day i'd get up and i'd be ready to jump he loved it that much yes the biggest
23:18compliment my dad ever gave me is later in life he said you are a risk taker more than i ever was
23:26you'll try anything and i was i mean i've tried a lot of stuff didn't always work but i was gonna
23:31give it a shot so what are you asking for the singer my your first lowest offer your first
23:38the only reason i'm asking about the singer is because i'm a sponge and i want to know the value
23:43of things i wanted six five sound that's a good i'll take four and if my lowest offer was two you
23:48own it yeah i'm always wanting to learn and that's the cool thing about our job man this is 56 isn't
23:55it it is the engine's a new 312 but once the ignition's finished it'll drive again what's this
24:01worth running down the road 39 000 and it's not like you're sitting in school falling asleep on
24:06your desk you know this is all hands-on history this is from our area right here boy you weren't
24:12just buying trucks now you're buying tractors that happens look at this rj got some stuff hey dick do
24:18you want to sell this propeller yeah i mean it's non-usable it looks like the plane actually crashed
24:24this is a prop if you were ever a pilot which i was i flew planes for 20 years you just have to
24:30buy something like that what do you want to give me for you 125. you want to try a little harder
24:37i threw the number out there you got to come back at me okay 200. 160. yeah that was simple everybody
24:46typically wants the wooden propellers the aluminum ones i find quite often this is just a prop it's going
24:52to go up in someone's home or it's going to go in a business so dick what mounts on here what does
24:57this stand for kr wilson buffalo new york gets an engine stand but i don't know what it fits it looks
25:03early like it would take a model a model tiara an old four-cylinder flathead something yeah what are
25:08you thinking on it would you sell it oh sure 100 bucks all right i'm gonna do that it'd be cool to
25:14display something on it this is missing a few pieces but i think we can find them and once we do
25:19we can start displaying some of the engines that we have in a better way i love it
25:35let me show you this building next door okay cool flight line roadhouse i'll show you where
25:40the airplane's at i'd love to see that what year is it that's a 34 pete and paul okay pete and paul
25:47wow nice i haven't seen this side of you dick you got glass cases cool there's some good stuff in
25:53here he's got a bar right in his office here i like your style man so this bar was a soda fountain
25:58at lloyd's landing on cross lake that sign was on it closed for violation of national prohibition act
26:06wow i was a member of an antique car club here in town and i bought a wrecker then the word got out
26:12you know and then people would call me and say well my aunt has got this old car she can't drive
26:16anymore why don't you come look at it of course i'd buy it the next thing i know it got crazy and i
26:21just kept buying stuff and it was a hobby that went astray pete and paul 34 model it was all in
26:27pieces it wasn't hard to assemble it wow look at this i drove it last month i drive it often did you
26:33yes six bolts same thing positive ground three speed i still burn rubber this thing's all sweaty
26:40who painted it we did the fenders the body's never been painted the dash and everything's
26:45original paint yes no doubt every once in a while you come across something that is an original paint
26:51and it's so nice that it just blows your mind how long ago did you paint the fenders on this thing
26:5785. no kidding see you wouldn't do that now would you i could sandblast the fenders and beat them up for
27:02you so anybody knows if you're a car guy and you want to buy a car and you got a wife
27:10it might have a problem i got it home it was valentine's day oh yeah and i said um
27:16happy valentine's day and she looked at it she said it's beautiful give me the title
27:24she wanted to make sure it was hers that's right and i did i had to no doubt man but i've been in those
27:29predicaments so this is a keeper well i lost sherry yeah okay i'm sorry well how long ago last year
27:37oh i'm sorry and i'm i'm thinking about yeah it's time how long were you with sherry 46 years oh my gosh
27:46sherry loved nice looking cars and she loved to ride and go somewhere with me we'd stop and eat ice
27:52cream in the afternoon and go to dinner at night and meet people all over she loved that that was fun
27:57i'm seven years into my five-year plan to sell 20 or 25 cars a gear of 20 to 25 cars okay i'm behind
28:06it's an emotional journey to have this much history around you it's a big deal that he's thinking about
28:13selling the cars that are connected to some of the biggest moments don't you love being around the stuff
28:19too like when i go into where my motorcycles are i love being around absolutely i love being well i
28:24never felt like i should pay a psychiatrist i could sit this and try to start it and i'm okay yeah there
28:29you go it's humbling to be with dick at this point in his life because i'm kind of approaching that stage
28:36two like you know we're all gonna be there this is a man's car right here this is starliner
28:41look at that play man four speed disc brakes locker rear end three two barrels on a 390. wow i know man
28:49so what do you value this thing at 50. what do you value the 35 at same dick wasn't screwing around
28:55when he said he was a car collector i mean there's some bad cars in here man but where are the trucks
29:02what age do you think that used car sign has on it oh it's probably uh 50 or 60. is it wood or metal
29:08it's uh metal i'm pretty sure we'll know when we get there no it's it's uh it's metal and it's got a
29:14uh a metal frame too not a wood frame it's metal on metal i'm thinking on that 300 bucks i'll give you
29:22five that's more than generous all right thank you hey thank you it's yours that used car sign in my
29:30mind it wasn't worth 500 so when you're gonna pay me 500 i need to say yes sir so dick i saw this over here
29:36chevy service where'd that sign come from have no idea that's something you want to sell dick
29:44yep see the other side of it here it's two sides um it's in pretty good shape i mean it's got some
29:51whammies on it but it's cool what are you thinking on this thing 750. i'm gonna do one better for you
29:58than that give you a thousand bucks it's yours he could have just bought it for 750 and i probably would
30:04have been happy but now i'm impressed it tells me something about it his brother same way that work
30:09yes sir
30:11is this the boardroom it is here here we go look at this super chevy service flat rate schedule 50 to
30:2654. i have a dealership from 47. did you yeah no i still do what do you want for this 25 bucks all
30:33right i gotta get i just put it on the shelf there man this book is the service rates from the 1950s so
30:38this would have been on the desk in someone's office in like the building that i own so we're
30:43kind of bringing it on home okay that's cool what are you thinking on that packard chassis 25 bucks
30:50no i'll give you i'll give you 50 bucks you're low you're low on it you know that's what i like about
30:54you yeah it was just sitting there not doing any good i figured he needed it more than i did
30:58this is a cottage chair all hand painted 18 70s 1880s this is all handmade man dude jersey is wearing
31:07off on you i know he is chairs hey you know what jersey's my furniture mentor dude i know enough to
31:13be dangerous just because i'm putting in literally hundreds of miles with jersey talking about furniture
31:20so some of this stuff that i used to walk by i'm starting to pick it up now because of my mentor
31:25furniture guy jersey john 150 bucks 300 170 170. that's more than i wanted okay all right very cool
31:38i figured it was 20 bucks but he liked it and he offered me a handsome price and of course i have
31:43to say yes i noticed this car when i was standing over there a bright orange student what year is it
31:4814. wow it's like a tractor you got hand controls back in the day you had primer cups you dribble a
31:56little down each one of these little we all benefit from guys like dick in the hobby the ones that really
32:01dive into and research the mechanical aspect of everything so then we do this close them not just
32:08to fix things but also to help us understand the evolution of what we have all right you ready yeah
32:18bam starts right up there was never a cover on that look at that look at that flywheel fence down
32:27there it's a magnificent piece of machinery
32:39so are we ever gonna go see that truck robbie did you see this sign patience has never been one of my
32:44brothers strong suits it looks like it's been through a fire are you familiar with where it was
32:49because you can see some char on this side i don't and you can see how the sign is bent well what happened
32:54was the porcelain kind of heated up you'll never get it to straighten out because they hatched it melted
32:58whatever it was right there oh yeah porcelain is pretty much indestructible but this one has been
33:04in a fire the damage that it's sustained is irreversible the retail on i think it's like 700 bucks
33:10i tell you what i'd do five let's go you want to do it yeah okay i mean here's the deal it's like
33:15there's always an entry-level collector this is a really rare sign and it does have the original
33:20bracket but condition is everything hey dick can i see those trucks all right next building over
33:27you weren't even kidding here you got a b-mac there this is an auto car you got a ford in the middle
33:32that's why we named it big truck what's this project you're working on here what are you doing
33:35to this chrysler that is a 35 chrysler wow dick you weren't a kid 35 chrysler eight cylinder one of
33:42the high-end cars for 35. he's freaking right now he likes trucks i own my own business my entire life
33:48trucks are for people that want to get stuff done in the world and you wonder why my brother always
33:53calls me that's the one 47. this is hand painted right here valentine's 86 proof this thing run yes
34:02this it's a cab over yeah yeah so the engine sits between the driver and the swamper okay would you
34:09say the driver in the who swamper you know the guy the guy does all the work the driver sits there and
34:14steers oh yeah baby look at this rj wolf yeah look at that that's the ac right there lloyd rainier
34:25who loved fords bought it and he and my friend jack thomas would drive this to the paid swap meet from
34:31street point with all their junk in the back so what is paid like two and a half three hours from
34:35here he's stuck door's locked you gotta bump it now love it i could get you out all right dick says he
34:43can get out dude it's right here i got him you're trying to tell me these guys drove this
34:57every year to the paint swap meet they did what do you sleep in the back how far is it 300 miles
35:03can you imagine robbie see this thing go down the road that'd be nuts you know let's drive 40 or
35:08something it has no rust in it whatsoever robbie look at this there's a different liquor on the other
35:12side look at that that's all hand painted wow this thing is so solid it's crazy so you got a title of
35:21this thing yeah i got a time the condition of the signage on this truck is incredible it's all hand
35:28painted the graphics the color i think this might be the coolest cabover i've seen it's a real time
35:34capsule i could see why my brother is geeking out over it 48 000 miles on it the first engine was the 47
35:41lloyd put that 53 flathead in there with the distributor and a much better engine dick is one
35:46of those guys i want to call him a savior because this truck had been sitting outside all the
35:51advertising on the side of it would have been gone it's not even faded out let me look at the other
35:56side of this thing then you got the condition of the co itself i mean it's magic this is for sale
36:02yeah i'm thinking 30. 30 000 you're thinking 30 because of the advertising yes the paintings on the
36:10back are something nobody can do over it's a time capsule i was thinking like 17.
36:21just because of the work that's going to go back into it i'm not going to put it back on the street the
36:25way it is i can't drive 40. the fact that the truck engine has been changed to a 53 with a distributor
36:31big plus easy to work on and i'll come down a little but not 17. you gotta you gotta pick your
36:39game up a little bit there i'm gonna come back and think about this okay dick kind of blew me out of
36:47the water at 30 grand get a toothpick and chew on it does that help yes sir okay and i understand where
36:53he's coming from it's got the original advertising but no one is going to drive this thing 40 mile an
36:57hour especially me i saw something over here when we first walked in so is this old mobile is that
37:12what i'm looking at here 88 rocket 88 those hung on the wall at roundtree oldsmobile in shreveport the 88
37:20was on the side of their building it was put up when the rocket 88 was the thing to buy if you
37:25kind of gauge the age of them i mean the rocket 88 came out 49 that was the first year yeah and then
37:31a lot of people consider it the first muscle car they considered the beginning of crazy hot rod times
37:37the rocket 88 motor was used in drag cars all the time oh yeah and first nascar too and that's
37:42correct they were bumping the hemi the rocket 88 was so influential that it wasn't just dominating on
37:47the track it was also dominating on the airwaves so imagine if these things were lit up man it's like
37:54there'd be smoke coming off of these suckers man well that my glass is somewhat broken like no i know
37:59i mean you'd have to do the work you'd have to pay the money to do the work yeah of course one is still
38:04in good shape thousand a piece about three how about 25 they're worth 25. would you do that yeah okay all
38:16right i'll do i'm good all right i love them i think they're really cool to have the porcelain 88
38:23off an original dealership is epic it just really elevates the value and the interest of the sign
38:29how about this one it's a 48 it's got a small block chevy and a standard four-speed so what could
38:35you cruise this at then 55 let's stay focused on this thing i'm with you okay i'm here i gave you a
38:42number your number's here i'm right here where's it need to be 26 000 i want to be at 20 grand 20 26 and
38:57i'll haul it to your house for free well how far do i have to go iowa about a thousand dollars to
39:04haul it up there probably
39:05i think i'm pretty good at what do you think of this dick if he's at 20 i know he has to come
39:14up a little bit i'm looking right through him staring at this cool motor sign okay how about if
39:22i did uh you know because it conditions everything on that i just a little bit of weight i'd do four
39:29grand on the sign i'm just gonna throw my hat in the ring and see if i can bring this deal together for
39:34these guys this is a 1930s cool motor clover shaped sign a very rare sign they also had an earlier
39:43version that they call the kite sign a lot of the cool motor stuff especially in this condition is
39:48extremely hard to find 4 000 for the sign and would you come up a grand 21 000. there you go we're doing
39:58it you're all right that work it worked all right i wasn't sure how it would twist but it
40:04twisted twisted right is that how that works i can do that okay all right you owe me 500. i'm still on
40:10as far as i'm concerned mike saved the day
40:15i don't know if i want to tell them that all right so i gotta ask were you serious about how
40:20on it for a thousand bucks yes i want to make a trip to iowa so if it's a little bit more than
40:25that i would be glad to pay okay so if it's 2500 that's okay there's a cap on it there wouldn't you
40:31crap your pants if he showed up and he drove this up there all right i gotta look at this sign now
40:37that i bought it it's clover leaf yeah man how's the other side some whammies on it on the edges of
40:43it but still it's amazing it's got the original sign frame and bracket here you need a bigger truck
40:49yeah we need a big truck we can fill that truck up and you can haul it up there for us
40:55i think he has you leaving tonight i ain't gonna live long enough to move all this stuff out i'm not
41:01really interested in calling auction company abc to come in and wipe it all out of here in a week
41:06that's no fun hey i appreciate you taking the time buddy it's been a good day it's been a good day
41:11i've had that truck went to a good home i had a lot of fun been a good day thank you thank you for
41:15coming down i appreciate it dick's one of those guys you want to inspire to be like
41:19maybe in a couple months i'll go back there and knock on the door and see how many other trucks he
41:22wants to sell see you buddy how do you go about straightening stuff like that you run the forklift
41:38on it and it'll be fine you know as well as i do as soon as you flatten it more porcelain comes off it could
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