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00:00Up next on American Restoration.
00:03We've been getting a lot busier here at the shop.
00:05An Apple vending machine?
00:06I think it's really rare.
00:08So this company probably isn't in business anymore.
00:10About 1961, they went out of business.
00:12The hardest thing on something like this is trying to get missing parts.
00:16We have a Western-themed store looking for something to put inside or outside.
00:21Western-themed, Western-item.
00:23She's gonna love this.
00:24It's a 1959 kids ride.
00:26All that, $9,500 for the whole thing.
00:30Um, that's pretty cool.
00:31I brought a 1960s tricycle.
00:34My wife had it when she was little, so I stole it from her.
00:37This is a first for me.
00:38Having a customer bring in an item, he stole.
00:41Tyler, show them what we do.
00:43Oh my God, that's mine!
00:47Look at a man's workbench.
00:49You see his passions.
00:52His work's in progress.
00:56The things that drive him crazy.
01:00Projects that, you get the point.
01:03Anyway, every workbench tells a story.
01:06And this is ours.
01:08American Restoration.
01:16Here at my shop, the majority of my business comes from a customer coming in with an item that they've had for a long time.
01:22Other times, we get people that stop by the shop hoping to find something that fits their needs and turn it into gold.
01:28Hello.
01:29I'm Rick.
01:30Hi, I'm Dana.
01:31Dana, good to meet you.
01:31You too.
01:32So, what you looking for?
01:34Well, we have a Western-themed store.
01:35So, I'm either looking for something to put inside or outside.
01:39You know what?
01:40I just bought something.
01:42It's coin-operated, but it is Western-themed.
01:44And it's in the boneyard.
01:45You want to take a look?
01:45Sure.
01:46Okay.
01:46It's this way.
01:47I have a Western-themed store, and I'm hoping that Rick would have something that would look good.
01:51So, I'm going to see what he has.
01:53There it is, right there.
01:54This is a unique piece.
01:56It might work.
01:57Yeah?
01:58What this is, is it's a 1959 Western Express kids ride.
02:03It was basically put in front of stores.
02:04You would come up and put 10 cents in it.
02:07The kids would sit here, and they would get this up and down motion.
02:10And it was a big hit.
02:11It was a huge hit.
02:12It's made by a company called Bally.
02:14And Bally, I mean, they're still kicking.
02:16They're still running today.
02:17But I can doll it up.
02:18You know, we can chrome it on here and get the motor all working again.
02:22And then maybe like a logo?
02:23Your store?
02:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:26Maybe something on the back.
02:27Okay.
02:28We'll still do the red.
02:29We'll just do your logo to where you can see it right on the back.
02:31Okay?
02:32What's the name of your store?
02:33Dale's Town and Country.
02:34That's pretty wild.
02:35That's my last name.
02:37What about all the trim work up here?
02:40Would it be close to original?
02:42Yeah.
02:42We would definitely make it exactly original.
02:44The leather that runs around the horses, it's all been sort of deteriorated.
02:48But we'll go ahead and make this stuff all over again.
02:50So do you think I need the seat belt on there for safety?
02:52I think a safety belt would not be a bad idea.
02:55At least it's there.
02:56The biggest challenge on this piece is that it's fiberglass,
02:59and I've got to strip all of the old paint off and start from white again.
03:03So what do you think it would be?
03:06Did I store it?
03:06Um, all that $9,500 for the whole thing done.
03:13Okay.
03:14I think that'll work.
03:15It'll look good.
03:16And we can make some money back, and I think it sounds like a good deal.
03:19Okay.
03:19All right.
03:19Awesome.
03:20Awesome.
03:20Thanks.
03:21When he said it was going to be $9,500, I was a little surprised.
03:25But I think with all the work that he's going to have to do with it,
03:28I think it's going to be worth it.
03:38What's up?
03:39We have some stuff that just got shipped in.
03:41You want to go over it real quick?
03:42Bradley, can you go get me a box cutter or some kind of a knife or something?
03:45Yeah.
03:45Thanks.
03:46Come on, man.
03:46Just a few.
03:48A few?
03:48A few.
03:49We've been getting a lot busier here at the shop.
03:51Problem is that I get so caught up in my work that I'm always forgetting to check out the stuff that gets shipped in.
03:58So Kelly's constantly reminding me.
04:00What in the world is this?
04:01Oh, it's a strong box.
04:05Oh, wow.
04:06It's a scale.
04:07Oh, what in the...
04:07Lift that down.
04:08Wait.
04:09Yeah, you know what?
04:10I think this goes up right.
04:14Like that.
04:16That's so cool.
04:17Move that door down now.
04:19Holy crap.
04:20So this thing's actually...
04:21This is 300 pounds.
04:22It could go on there.
04:23It's got like a little latch here.
04:24It was definitely portable where you would get guys and you just lift it up and carry it wherever it was going.
04:31What's the letter say?
04:32Hi, Kelly.
04:32I'm from Alaska and I'm shipping you this barn scale.
04:36Barn scale.
04:37To have it fully restored.
04:38So what would they weigh?
04:39Feed maybe?
04:40Maybe they were weighing bushels of produce, right?
04:43As you would buy something.
04:44They wanted each bag weighing the same amount.
04:47That's why these were on here.
04:48Dr. Scales don't have these on here because you want to be able to slide them back and forth.
04:52So you come down here to like 200 pounds, you tighten it up, and now it's right at 200.
04:57Now it's locked in, doesn't go anywhere.
04:59So each bag's going to weigh the same amount.
05:01We've fixed up a few scales here at the shop before, but this is the first barn scale we've ever gotten.
05:06I can definitely picture this thing all done up nice and look forward to eventually getting started on it.
05:11All right.
05:13Dear Rick and Kelly, I've sent my Apple vending machine to be restored.
05:17I'd like it to be all original and for it to work again.
05:19That is bad, bad, bad.
05:22Five-cent Apple machine.
05:23I've never seen such a thing.
05:25It's pretty cool.
05:26It's probably 40s, early 40s at that.
05:29You would probably stack your apples in here, and then you would put in your nickel.
05:34You would crank this, and it'd turn and open up the lever on the inside, allowing an apple to drop.
05:40As soon as it dropped, it'd go into here.
05:41You'd push this button.
05:43Apple come out.
05:44Do you think it's rare?
05:45I think it's really rare.
05:46I've never seen anything like this or heard of anything like this.
05:49It's super cool, but before I just throw this on the line, I think I should probably give someone a call who might be able to tell me a little bit more about it.
05:58Bradley, I need you to put this thing somewhere safe where it doesn't get hurt, okay?
06:02Got it.
06:02All right.
06:09Rick!
06:10Hey, we got a tricycle here.
06:11How are you?
06:12I'm Rick.
06:12Good.
06:13Rick, I'm Chris.
06:14I brought a 1960s Murray tricycle to get restored.
06:18My wife had this tricycle from when she was little, and our kids had it.
06:22Now our grandkids are riding it.
06:24That's pretty cool.
06:25I've never seen one of these with a little banana seat on it.
06:28My wife had it when she was little.
06:30It's kind of a funny story.
06:31My wife said, you're going to have to do something with this.
06:33Well, about a week later, I stole it.
06:37Oh, from her?
06:39She doesn't know where it's at?
06:40She doesn't know where it's at.
06:41And she's just besides herself.
06:43She's walked up and down the street.
06:45She looked in the yard.
06:47She drove around the subdivision knowing somebody stole it.
06:50Oh, man.
06:50I'm really excited to see when this is done and what she thinks of it.
06:55And I'm more excited that we're able to pull this off.
06:58She's gone this week, so I decided to get it out here and have you take a look at it.
07:03I could never get away with that for one minute.
07:06This guy sure is brave.
07:08I know that if I ever got caught stealing one of Kelly's prized possessions, it would be pretty.
07:14It does look 60s.
07:15It looks like a Murray, too.
07:17The thing that's sort of throwing me off is, say, Atkins?
07:20Atkins on the front of it?
07:21I think that might have been a hardware store back then, but I brought some paperwork.
07:25I'm pretty sure it's a Murray, and it shows almost an identical bike.
07:30Yeah.
07:30You know, Murray was a company that started back in the early 1900s, and they made fenders and parts for cars.
07:36In the 1920s, Murray started making pedal cars and tricycles like this one.
07:41And due to their popularity with the baby boom generation, they became a household name.
07:45I mean, it's not too bad, but the wheels are almost...
07:48I mean, I'm looking at the wheels, and they're almost...
07:50A lot of sidewalk.
07:52There's not much left for the wheels.
07:53Smile age on there.
07:54Yeah.
07:54Can you find tires and things for that?
07:56I would have to.
07:57Okay.
07:58I can pretty much do the same paint job, the same color and everything.
08:01We'll blast it.
08:03You're still wanting this design.
08:04Oh, absolutely.
08:05Okay.
08:06The total thing done all up, chromed, painted, seat done just to match the paint, new tires and wheels.
08:14I'm looking at probably 1,500 bucks.
08:18I think we better do it.
08:19Okay.
08:20She finds out that I stole it.
08:22Yeah.
08:22Mike, my work's definitely cut out for me.
08:24Let's go in the office.
08:25All right.
08:25I'm really excited to see when this is done and what she thinks of it.
08:29I hope she just loves it.
08:33Oh, my God.
08:33That's way off.
08:34Tyler!
08:35We've been working on a tricycle.
08:37I put Tyler in charge of the paint, and it's not right.
08:39Who picked the color?
08:41I did.
08:41That's way off.
08:43Here we go.
08:43I'm here to pick up my Western Express kitty ride.
08:46One, two, three.
08:48Oh, my God.
08:49Rick.
08:58It's got painted.
09:01Oh, my God.
09:02That's way off.
09:03Tyler!
09:05Tyler!
09:05Tyler!
09:05We've been working on a tricycle that a customer's going to surprise his wife with.
09:09I put Tyler in charge of the job, and I just checked the paint, and it's not right.
09:14What?
09:16Okay.
09:16We just painted this.
09:18We did.
09:18What do you think?
09:20It doesn't look the same.
09:21Who picked the color?
09:22I did.
09:23Okay.
09:23So how did you do it?
09:24I held that piece up to the color chart, and then picked what was the closest.
09:30You know, this could have been caught by my painter, Ted.
09:32But if Tyler wants to run this company someday, he needs to be the one that makes sure everything
09:37is perfect every step of the way.
09:39So I guess I'm going to have to show him how to do it again.
09:42Okay.
09:42You see this piece here, how it's got, you know, sort of metal flakes?
09:45It sort of looks like it's shiny red.
09:48Okay?
09:48It's not a flat red.
09:49Yeah.
09:49All right?
09:49I'll show you when we go outside how to match this kind of stuff the best you
09:53can.
09:53Like, it looks like that one right now.
09:55Which one inside do you think it is?
09:56I think it's that one.
09:57That one right now.
09:57Okay.
09:58So let's go outside and see if these two match.
10:00In the sun.
10:01Okay.
10:01See the difference?
10:02But it is pretty close to what we were picking on the inside.
10:04It's either one of those.
10:05But you can see the difference in the effect.
10:07See the...
10:07There's just more in that one.
10:08Right.
10:09It's crucial to match colors in the right light.
10:11But just as important, it's how you apply the paint.
10:14Both of these factors determine how the finished product will look.
10:18Here's the deal with Pauly.
10:19It's important you stir it.
10:20If you don't stir them up, then the first shot will be really, really
10:23dark.
10:23There's many different ways to manipulate the way a paint's
10:27going to look when it dries.
10:28One way is to use different colored base coats under the paint.
10:32I'm going to demonstrate this to Tyler using a primer base versus a
10:36silver metal finish base.
10:37It's important to get up a little bit and let all of this plate get
10:41all over everywhere.
10:42Okay.
10:42You ready?
10:44Stand on top.
10:45Look straight down.
10:45Which one's brighter?
10:47Yeah.
10:47The one with the silver.
10:48That's right.
10:49Big difference, huh?
10:50My dad definitely has a point.
10:51There's a lot more to painting than just matching the color.
10:54And that's why he's the boss.
10:55But I'm not about to admit that to his face.
10:58You have to do this before you waste product.
11:01And before you waste time with somebody painting it and having to
11:03repaint it.
11:04Because there's nobody that hates it worse than I do about
11:06repainting stuff.
11:07So now that I won again, you get to clean the mess.
11:09That's spectacular.
11:10Okay.
11:11Yeah.
11:16Looks good.
11:18Hey, Rick.
11:18Oh, hey.
11:20How are you doing?
11:21Mark, how you been?
11:22I've been keeping busy.
11:23Good.
11:24What do we got?
11:25I got this Apple vending machine that got shipped in.
11:28I've never seen such a thing.
11:29And I want to show it to you.
11:30Maybe you can tell me what it is.
11:32I tried to do a little research.
11:33I haven't found anything.
11:34I thought it was pretty rare.
11:35Yeah, let's take a look.
11:36Yeah.
11:37Rick sometimes calls me down when he has a piece that's come in,
11:40but he's not really sure about the history of it or whether it's a rare piece.
11:44And so I come down and take a look at it for him.
11:46What do you think?
11:47I'm thinking 40s.
11:48I don't know.
11:49Maybe you can tell me something about it.
11:50You ever seen such a thing?
11:51I have.
11:52You have?
11:53Yeah.
11:54And it actually dates a little earlier.
11:55It's about 1930.
11:57The company that made these was a company called ABT Manufacturing.
12:01Okay.
12:01And these sorts of things, you'd have them in like arcades and that,
12:05but a lot of times you'd put them in schools.
12:07Oh, yeah.
12:08So, you know, we talk about, you know, eating healthy today.
12:11Yeah, they were already there in the 30s, you know,
12:15and for a nickel, you know, they had a good little snack.
12:18Yeah, yeah.
12:18So this company probably isn't in business anymore, though.
12:20Yeah, it's long gone.
12:22About 1961, they went out of business.
12:24But it's the first machine that ABT,
12:27or one of the very first machines that they started making.
12:30It's a cool piece because it's a really unusual piece to find.
12:33The hardest thing on something like this,
12:35and I'm sure you know better than I do,
12:37is trying to get missing parts.
12:39Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
12:40Because the company's gone for decades.
12:42There's no old stock out there.
12:45You know, I've seen these in photographs,
12:46but I've never seen one in person.
12:48Obviously, it's been repainted
12:49because this is not done with the kind of skill
12:52you would normally see on one of these.
12:53Right.
12:54I think at some point, somebody decided,
12:56well, I want to make it look better.
12:58Better.
12:59Man, I'm really glad Mark was able to come check this thing out.
13:02I mean, I figured it was rare,
13:04but I didn't think it was that rare.
13:05Now that I know a little bit more about this machine,
13:08I can give the customer a call,
13:09hopefully settle on a price,
13:11and get started on this thing soon.
13:17We've been fixing up this 1950s Western Express kiddie ride
13:21that a customer picked out in the boneyard.
13:24After tearing the whole thing down
13:25and soda-blasting the fiberglass,
13:27we ripped apart the entire motor and built it back up.
13:31Hopefully, it still works.
13:32Ready?
13:33All right.
13:33One, two, three, four, five.
13:35There you go.
13:36Rick made it real clear
13:37that getting this machine working
13:39was at the top of his priorities.
13:41And if it doesn't work right,
13:42that means we have to tear it down
13:43and start all over again.
13:45I think we're good.
13:46This thing's going to haul some ass now.
13:48Do it, Fonz.
13:49Fonz of rally.
13:53Yeah!
13:53All right, so that's our stagecoach.
13:57Yeah, there's the stagecoach.
13:58There's your horses.
13:59I like it, guys.
14:01Looks good.
14:02Get the body mount,
14:03get the horses on, we're done.
14:04Nice teamwork, guys.
14:05You are.
14:06Go team.
14:07Boom.
14:08Bike out, boy.
14:15We just finished the Murray tricycle,
14:17and I can't wait to show this thing off.
14:19When the client, Chris, brought it in,
14:20he told me he had secretly stole it from his wife
14:23so he could return it to her fully restored.
14:25Today's the day she finally gets it back,
14:27and I just hope we can pull off the big surprise.
14:30So we've got a lot of ink in the right place
14:32for Coke machines, that's for sure.
14:34I'm going to take you right over here first, okay?
14:36Okay.
14:36My wife has no idea she's here to see the tricycle.
14:39She thinks we're here looking at some old Coke coolers
14:42that we might get restored.
14:44And this is more the one that you would take
14:46to the beach with the whole family,
14:47and you'd need to have some serious guns.
14:50Hey, Dad.
14:51Sorry to bother you.
14:52I've got to get this shipped out right away.
14:55I need you to QC it before I can let it go.
14:57You guys, you want to see what we do?
14:59You want to see how I show finished product?
15:01Yep.
15:02I just have to look at it.
15:06We want to make sure everything's good
15:08before we ship it out to a customer.
15:10So, Tyler, show them what we do.
15:11Okay.
15:13Oh, my God, that's mine!
15:16Hmm.
15:16Wow.
15:17That looks great.
15:23Oh, my God, that is awesome.
15:26I thought somebody stole it.
15:29How'd you do it?
15:30Contacted Rick, said I need some help.
15:32My butt's on the line.
15:34It's got to be perfect.
15:35I think they did a great job.
15:37Awesome, awesome.
15:38I can't believe it.
15:39Honestly, I thought it was gone.
15:42So, you evidently recognized it.
15:44I'm like, that's mine!
15:45Yeah, you know, it was a little dilapidated.
15:48It had a lot of life.
15:49Oh, my gosh, yes.
15:50This front thing's cool.
15:51This is for ramming into your friends.
15:53This is your bumper.
15:54You probably remember that.
15:56So, we chromed that all back together.
15:57I love it.
15:58On the handlebars, it had a broken weld here,
16:01and it was actually tilted down a little bit.
16:03So, we ended up cutting it off, re-weld,
16:05and then it make it look like a manufacturer did it,
16:07and then re-chromed it all.
16:08Our bolster goes nuts.
16:09This is, to find this material is insane.
16:12It's awesome.
16:12It's insane.
16:13You could never find red,
16:14but he found this same sort of color that the bike was.
16:18I wanted to make these tassels match, you know.
16:20So, these match the seat.
16:22This is unbelievable.
16:23I'm...
16:23There's no words that can describe just how special that is.
16:30It went from me to my kids to my grandkids.
16:32They don't make trikes like this anymore.
16:34So, for you to be able to hand it down to your, you know, generation after generation of your family,
16:38that's so cool.
16:40And now, it's all restored.
16:41They could just...
16:41You could just keep on going.
16:43Their kids could do it.
16:45What a problem.
16:46Of course.
16:47Words don't describe my emotions right now,
16:49and how happy I am.
16:51And I found my bike.
16:56Over time, wooden furniture or items will lose their shine.
17:00If you ever run out of your usual furniture polish,
17:03what could you use to make a homemade polish?
17:06A. Shoe polish and vinegar.
17:08B. Car wax and baby oil.
17:11C. Toothpaste.
17:13D. Olive oil and lemon juice.
17:15The answer, coming up next.
17:19If you ever run out of your usual furniture polish,
17:26what could you use to make a homemade polish?
17:29The correct answer is D.
17:31Olive oil and lemon juice.
17:33Combine two parts olive oil to one part lemon juice in a spray bottle.
17:38Give your bottle a good shake.
17:41Spray it on your furniture.
17:43Let it wait a few minutes, and then wipe it off.
17:46As you can see, it brought out the luster, and it won't hurt your wood.
17:57Rick!
17:58Hey!
17:59Hey, I heard my Western Express is ready.
18:01How are you doing, Dana?
18:02Good.
18:02Good to see you.
18:03I'm here at Rick's to pick up my Western Express kitty ride that Rick restored for me.
18:08I'm really excited to see it, and I hope it meets my expectations.
18:11You're ready?
18:11I'm ready.
18:12Come on, come on.
18:12It's over here.
18:13My biggest concern is that it's going to be operating 100% and be safe for everybody.
18:18Here we go.
18:19Okay, Dana, you remember what this looked like, right?
18:21Yes.
18:21Stull, cracks, didn't even know if it worked underneath.
18:24Right.
18:24It looked pretty shabby.
18:25Right.
18:26So here we go.
18:27One, two, three.
18:29Oh, my God, Rick.
18:31It does look beautiful.
18:34What do you think?
18:34It is incredible.
18:35Check it out.
18:36I like it.
18:36I like it a lot.
18:38Oh, my God.
18:39It looks like a different machine.
18:42It's cool.
18:42Check it out.
18:43Check it out.
18:44Oh, I like that.
18:45I got a store logo on here and all this extra detail where it's all dark.
18:49All the colors pop.
18:50The corridor machine.
18:51I think you managed to do that.
18:53This product's better than when it was new.
18:54So you remember when you saw it and you picked it out, it was really faded, and we didn't
18:58know if it was going to work.
18:59So what we had to do, we took it apart.
19:01The stagecoach itself came off, and then the horses came off.
19:04But in order to strip the paint off and start from scratch, the only way that I could possibly
19:09find it is we ended up soda blasting it.
19:12He took all the paint off.
19:13It came back was all white.
19:14Ted went and did all the art, and then he got it all painted.
19:17In order to make it move, there's cams and motors underneath.
19:20That's what makes it raise up and down and move the horses back and forth like you're
19:24actually riding in a stagecoach.
19:26So inside there, all the metal, we went and replated.
19:29This thing, you could flip it over, rain on it, and it never rust.
19:32So it's all made to last.
19:34This here is actually the part that a kid would hold on to right here.
19:37I know that you were concerned if there was a kid in here and then falling out.
19:41So we put a belt in here that slides forward.
19:43I think how you figured it out here is a great idea where you can adjust it and move
19:46it forward, and I think kids will be really safe in there.
19:48Right.
19:48And then the last thing we did was I remember you wanted your logo on the back, and you had
19:52this checkerboard stuff.
19:53So we did that on the side, and then what we did was in the Dales, we just thought,
19:57since you didn't have a logo, we'll just do it out of rope.
20:00We made you one.
20:01I remember you talking about the rope, and that turned out nice.
20:04The big question is, does it work?
20:06Yeah, well, we'll see.
20:07Okay.
20:07Here, here, I got a quarter.
20:08You can try it out.
20:09All right.
20:10I'm expecting a lot out of all the money I spent on this item.
20:14Oh, my gosh.
20:15That's cool.
20:17It does go all the way.
20:18Just like it went down the trail, huh?
20:19Yeah, you could have somebody.
20:20Yeah.
20:21Yeah.
20:21Once I put the quarter in and it started moving, it was like, wow, because all the rides
20:25I remember when I was little would just go, you know, one way, and that one had all
20:28three motions going, and I want to get it back to the store and let people enjoy it.
20:31I mean, this is such a fun toy.
20:32A kid would just love this kind of stuff.
20:34You're sitting up there.
20:35Everything's moving.
20:36I mean, you're getting a full adventure of the ride.
20:39Once they see one kid on here, it's going to be a big old line.
20:41It's going to make a lot of memories.
20:42It's fabulous, Rick.
20:43I can't wait to get it home.
20:45Cool.
20:45It's going to go great in front of the store.
20:46You did a beautiful job.
20:47Thanks.
20:48Thank you very much.
20:49I appreciate it.
20:49Yeah.
20:50Let's go inside.
20:51We'll take care of the paperwork.
20:59Tyler!
21:00Bradley!
21:01Come here.
21:04What's up?
21:05What?
21:05Is this ours?
21:06It has your last name on it.
21:08Yeah.
21:08No, it's not ours.
21:09All right, guys.
21:10I just revealed this to the customer, and she just absolutely loved it.
21:13So what I need you guys to do is load it up, but you've got to be really careful.
21:16You can't scratch it.
21:17So if you see anything else, here's that.
21:19All right?
21:20All right.
21:20Thanks.
21:20Yeah.
21:22All right.
21:22I mean, we're going to need the shrink.
21:24We're going to need the pads.
21:26We're going to need a bunch of stuff to wrap this thing.
21:29Dude, that's not coming back, right?
21:30I don't think so.
21:31Either way, it's not a good idea.
21:33Here we go.
21:33Oh, my God.
21:34Just saying.
21:34We're off.
21:35What if it just broke?
21:37That'd suck.
21:38That'd be so bad.
21:39Might have freaked out.
21:41Yee-haw!
21:43Yee-haw!
21:44I'm not getting in trouble for this.
21:46Woo!
21:48It's my last corner.
21:50I'm going to use it well.
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