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00:02okay buddy question of the ages yeah do you think you could go 10 rounds two minutes each
00:08with a 27 year old i'm talking super fit you know at the top of their game uh you know
00:16four
00:16years ago when i was 58 yeah no problem man i would definitely keep up now that i'm 62 man
00:20you know they say the power is the last thing to go i mean i still feel it but it's
00:25not about
00:25power for me man it's like i got the bad knees like tyson i'm talking bone on bone dude you
00:30know
00:31what i'm saying what are you talking about i'm talking about boxing i was talking about something
00:39else
00:48what's up what's up hey guys i got a pick coming up that you both are gonna love you ready
00:54yeah what
00:54you got girl what's going on i'm gonna send you guys to meet cloas cloas cloas yeah okay now listen
01:00cloas he's kind of like a meet in three he's got a lot going on okay there's a lot to
01:06choose from
01:07let's see signs fishing memorabilia coke machines knives get there fast this is a honey hole wow
01:13cool oh oh also are you boys ready to be in the coffee drinkers club is it legal to be
01:20in more
01:20than one uh i don't know maybe so cloas and his buddies knocked back about three pots of coffee
01:26a day just shooting the breeze talking about his collection nice that's hey that's that's every
01:32man's dream have everybody come over to the barn hang out yeah bring some coffee yep start the day
01:37exactly you guys have fun not too much fun all right well thank you so much we'll let you know
01:42how it goes
01:43all right later guys
01:50okay this is the place right here there's look at oh my gosh yeah check out t-bird yep there
01:56he is
01:56oh yeah he's pulling it out jersey that's cool pulling it out look at that thing yeah that thing's nice
02:02yeah got a flower yeah i got a flower hey hey did you guys talk to danny on the phone
02:10how you doing man we heard about the coffee drinker's table hope we're not too late
02:15we got a lot to talk yeah good to see you i love that hey how are you my friend
02:19nice to meet you
02:20this is the stuff we're looking for yeah well i got a little bit of all that stuff i know
02:24i got a
02:25bunch of them cap guns there you go yeah and then we got t-birds yeah i got that yeah
02:29you got what is
02:29that 62 62 ah it's beautiful it cost me ten dollars for that t-bird what one ticket well i've
02:36always liked just old stuff they had that thunderbird up there and i said i'm gonna buy
02:41me a ticket on that and i bought that ticket at one ten dollar ticket and i want it yeah
02:46my wife
02:46used parcel that car it's a beautiful we saw you pulling it out i was like dang look at that
02:51yeah
02:51that's something else i can't even win a coin toss let alone a 62 t-bird yeah a little bit
02:58of this a
02:58little bit of that man lots of stuff lots of junk wow this didn't happen overnight yeah exactly
03:05holy crap man you got some stuff in here i told him i hung every bit of this by myself
03:09now i can't
03:10get it down did you really if you don't collect there's no way that you're going to understand
03:15the mind and why we do what we do as collectors like this space the amount of effort and time
03:22that clois has put into it it's unbelievable when you think about it and look around the room
03:28so all this stuff came from the state of texas yeah oh yeah texas pickin texas pickin
03:34where'd she come from that's lady used to lay around over here is the house still there no it's
03:39gone but it's worth it when you can sit there with your friends have a cup of coffee and just
03:44look
03:45at all the history that you've collected because now your story is directly connected to everything
03:51in here because you rescued it you saved it you're telling the story of it and it becomes part of
03:57you
03:57what about this did this come out of this did these counters come out of this store i got a
04:02story on
04:02that right there there's two guys come up here and want to buy some stuff yeah both of them wanted
04:07that sign i bet and they got in a fight over it like a fist fight no they didn't rent
04:11a plane but i
04:12thought they was they almost got in a fist fight and i kind of got them settled down and they
04:17both
04:18left left a sign then either one of them get it do you know anything about the the history of
04:23it
04:23i'm 82 years old i remember a lot of old stores around here but i don't remember that one
04:27and wm price is named there is price near here yeah it's about about five miles up the road okay
04:33there's a man that lived there years ago named jm price and i think he owned most of the land
04:38around
04:39there and of course he passed on a long time ago but i guess he had that store
04:44that rough sawn piece of long leaf yellow pine look at you can see right here where it used to
04:49say
04:49something else though look at right here there's an e so it's a ghost sign underneath it the ghost
04:56lettering behind the lettering is incredible this sign was originally painted for another place another
05:02store a tavern a grocery store but now they've repainted it again over that old sign it's an
05:09amazing look and it's almost impossible to recreate this just a lady up the road i went up there to
05:14help
05:14her do something and she said i got an old sign here that you didn't she knew my dad had
05:19this shop
05:19here and then she said i want y'all to have it she said i don't have nowhere to put
05:23it where where was
05:24it where was it stored it was just on her front porch really wow and she said it's just in
05:30the way
05:30and she didn't know anything about its history is it still for sale yeah how much how much did you
05:35tell the guys on it 200 would you take 400 yes sir all right let's do it thank you a
05:42lot of people
05:43that knows about this stuff know where it come from and how old it is they they most of them
05:47done
05:47passed on matter of fact there's a picture up there that was taken right down there in an old store
05:51and
05:52it's got about seven men in it and all of them gone oh i see it yeah right here in
05:57the middle mike
05:57that's that that's all the guys used to be a little coffee well all these people is dead but
06:01this one and he come up here one day and he said all these people are dead but me and
06:05he died that
06:05day he died that day really charlie mosley did you know all these guys yeah i knew all of them
06:11they're all half of them kin to me or maybe all of them who's this guy right here this is
06:15a neat
06:16photo oh that's my daddy oh that's your daddy yeah that's what's he doing is he playing dominoes
06:21wow that's a great shot and then that's my grandma and grandpa oh well this is beautiful what you've
06:26done here clois tells me that this is not only his collection but it's a collection for the
06:31community once a week he'd had all his friends come down here and gather with him and celebrate
06:36all these pieces that are on display the things that he collected through the years he's absorbing
06:40the history of this town like a sponge and mike and i we feel like we're part of the club
06:45right now
06:46we feel like we're part of the community is this magnolene petroleum sign here is that double
06:52sided or single sided it's double sided is that something you'd sell or no yeah i said it that's
06:56pretty good price right now that's a cheap sign you got a ladder that tall oh yeah magnolene was
07:02originally from texas they started around 1911 it was one of those small oil companies that was
07:07around for a very short time that got absorbed by standard here we got it let's go let's bring it
07:13over
07:13this way let's get it in there and then open it up here we go all right i got you
07:20i got it this is
07:21all right it doesn't need to go further than that i'll uh pull it down i got the ladder safety
07:28first
07:28i'm holding the ladder forward maybe that thing gonna fall break your neck but i put that up there
07:33you know but i had a little different situation didn't have all that other stuff around the bottom
07:37down there but yeah mike kind of scares me when they climb it up he gonna fall one of these
07:42days
07:42i guarantee you all right here we go all right let's see is it double sided it's double sided ain't
07:52it yeah is it yeah is there anything left on it yeah it's all right i mean it's not as
07:56good as the
07:57other side anything gas and oil from this time period is getting harder to find and usually when you
08:03see it it's in this type of condition you want me to make an offer on it yeah uh you
08:08better make
08:09pretty good because i have been a pretty good offer on that side all right uh 750 bucks no what
08:18do you what you offered what were you offered no i'm gonna tell you what i was offered but i'll
08:21take
08:21a thousand dollar for it that's a fourteen hundred dollar sign you know what i'm saying no i know you
08:26know what i think it's worth i think it's worth 1200 bucks 900 bucks 950 925 all right 925 take
08:35his
08:35hand jersey thanks buddy thank you close is on top of stuff you know he might be slowing down but
08:41he's
08:41not slowing down up here on the prices if you can show somebody that you're knowledgeable about
08:46something that you're passionate about it chances are they might sell you that piece i actually had
08:52another one of them just like it was it better shape no that's the same that's a big deal as
08:57a
08:57collector myself you know for me to sell it to somebody that really understands it and gets it
09:02that makes a big difference to me and i know it does to close what is that right there jersey
09:08what
09:09this piece here yeah heavy wow that sure is heavy i don't know what that thing is oh man it's
09:15heavy
09:15you know heavy man it's heavy it's gotta be some kind of spotting scope for a tank or something
09:20like that or artillery weapon you know what attracted you to it well i could tell it's military
09:24but that's about all and you like military stuff i think it is but i don't know what it is
09:28the brass
09:29tag tells me a lot of information 1943 that's world war ii it says it's a telescope okay so it's
09:35some kind of range finding or viewing scope or spotting scope i'm thinking tank or howitzer because
09:41both of these pieces of equipment this artillery equipment will use a spotting scope just like this
09:46it's steel you can tell it's steel you can see the silverness in here so if it was brass or
09:51bronze
09:52it'd be navy you know that's the first thing that that tells me that it's it's army related
09:56is this something you want to sell yeah i said the price is right the price is right i mean
10:00retailing
10:01this thing's probably 125 150 bucks would you take 75 for it oh you guys come up a little bit
10:08i'd take
10:09100 for it yeah i'll do it 100 i like it it's a yep thank you very much conversation piece
10:15that's awesome yeah no that's really it's it's nice it's a nice condition hey there's a gun over here
10:20there's a gun see the deer the deer over there yeah the gun behind it that spencer rifle yeah can
10:26i
10:26take that down and look at it yeah it's the metal working is good on it but the wood is
10:31in a war
10:32i know enough to be dangerous on these rifles i saw it up on the wall i can see it's
10:36in bad
10:36condition he was gracious enough to let me pull it off the wall i mean at the beginning of the
10:41civil war that's when these guns were issued along with the henry rifle but there were a lot more
10:46spencer rifles issued than henry rifles oh hell that thing there was in battle that thing's heavy
10:55where'd this come out of my daddy bought that thing probably 75 years ago i mean here's the deal i
11:00know
11:00it's in rough shape but you know it's a rare gun oh yeah very rare we have a guy he's
11:04the gun expert man
11:05i mean in america pretty much richard yeah a guy named richard ellis can we send him pictures of
11:10it just for the heck of it yeah i'd like to know all right we'll send him here hold that
11:13jersey
11:14this right i know that's incredible right there yeah right there look at that man i guarantee you
11:19that's what that is think about how innovative the spencer repeater was i mean this was a seven shot
11:25rifle most soldiers had a single shot so it's a single shot you load again single shot you load again
11:33it was revolutionary back then well if that thing i could talk there ain't no telling what it would
11:38say wait wait wait that's winchester jersey this is winchester oh yes it is i thought it was a
11:47stanley yeah yeah that's cool yeah i put that dag on to keep the kids throwing it away
11:54yeah it's pretty cool it's got a corrugated bottom it's a joiner plane to make a long board
11:58straight like take that whole board and make it really straight along the whole edge so you could
12:02take two and put them together winchester i mean it's an arms company and they needed to produce more
12:07arms for world war one they were supplying the u.s army with ammunition with guns with rifles now they
12:13had a glut of equipment and materials after the war ended they were going to make a woodworking line
12:19this thing's probably it's old this is probably 20s didn't work by the great depression winchester
12:27wasn't making tools anymore it wasn't profitable enough for their company and that's why this
12:31winchester branded plane is very unique but it's got some real serious and condition problems this is
12:37not good i mean it's super super pitted here it's got some serious issues under sole he knows what
12:44raro jersey does the winchester is really collectible and you know they made a lot of stuff and sold
12:49stuff and you can't already find it if it's in perfect condition it's 125 plane maybe a little
12:54bit more i'm thinking 40 bucks oh you're going to come up a little better than that because i like
12:58it
12:59too i don't care what kind of trouble you found hey you like this i know you like it because
13:03you're
13:03the one who bought it i'll take 60 for it that's a little yeah i know you want yeah you
13:10read my mind i'll
13:11take it for 60 bucks man you got me hey i'll give 40 something i know that's good so you
13:16made a
13:16little money how long you had it i've had a long time but yeah i knew winchester high we're having
13:21fun going back and forth with him over all this stuff he's calling the shots it's his stuff there's
13:27the phone boy i'm making money i had one time i had a guy i shook his hand on a
13:32deal and then he backed
13:33out of it like an hour later and i go what's going on with that and he goes you didn't
13:37shake my wife's
13:38hand i go i never heard that one before but now i have and now i keep it right here
13:43so it's negotiating
13:44is there's an art to it there's a nuance to it there's a dance to it look at this it's
13:50marble
13:52it's got some age to it hey that's what the look in that goes with the clock right i know
13:56that's what
13:57i'm saying i mean that's what i'm saying who made this stuff do you know anything about the history of
14:00the top we've had that top for years here i'm gonna hook my foot on here let me see
14:08god dang that's got some weight to it look at that
14:15how much you want for these i'll have to ask my wife about that i'll go get her all right
14:21this is this is the kind of stuff she likes yeah she likes that kind of stuff all right let
14:25me see
14:26here when i'm looking at stuff like this i'm automatically thinking about what it would look
14:31like in a home because that's exactly what my customer is going to be doing they're like where
14:35can i put that there's a crack here you got a crack in it just just in one piece right
14:40there it's a
14:41piece for a glamorous hunting lodge it's got the elk it's art deco it's got marble it's the shape it's
14:46the colors you know it's got a little bit of imperfections you know i think i can fix a lot
14:51of
14:51that but man you know you don't see all of this together you might see the clock you might see
14:56the bookends this is pretty cool that's where the weight comes from i said y'all need the boss
15:04we don't want to get no trouble on this clock nice to meet you hi jersey hi nice to meet
15:09you
15:09well my wife loves certain things both of them kind of pretty you know and she really like that clock
15:14well what are you 100 to give 125 bucks well of all the things he's got in the shop that's
15:22pretty
15:23neat uh i think him 135 if that's all right with you all right thank you do it i appreciate
15:30that's
15:31awesome thank you very much thank you it's beautiful it's a deco deer clock set yeah there you go deco
15:36deer yeah did you know what an incredible eye he has as a collector yeah and yeah and i fuss
15:42at him
15:42sometimes for what he buys but i guess he knows i guess he's doing pretty good huh you don't want
15:47me to buy this he's got a good track record the old saying goes the men are the head of
15:53the house
15:53but the women are the neck they steer the head on the direction it needs to go peggy's negotiating
16:00tactics are very sweet she convinces with kindness something we all should think about doing cleveland
16:08chain it's a looks like a store display from our hardware store it had rollers on and on what i
16:13done with it had a wooden bar in there no it wasn't wood it was made out of metal it's
16:17a hardware store
16:18collectible it's a tool collectible cleveland chain company was a big company whatever you need a chain
16:23for you found it on the display and it does it in style if you had a bar in here
16:29and it had a roller
16:30spool right here and it's a chain rolled up on yeah you could put like chain in here or wire
16:35display or
16:36something like that we collect a lot of bicycle chain and motorcycle chain and this is like a
16:40perfect place to put it i got a little bit in mind kind of what i want well why don't
16:44you hit me up
16:45with the price 125 you know what i was gonna tell you 150 oh well i'll take a hundred you
16:51want to take
16:51150 files i think i think that would be fair i told you 125 that's what i know the hard
16:57way don't use them
16:58no i appreciate that i'll give you 150 bucks for this thing no problem
17:06so what's one of the things that you're most proud of in here history-wise like that thing right there
17:11wood thing that's a tomato punch you call it for spacing them out yeah put the seeds in there and
17:17then it grows a plant oh you so you plant it's like a planter mike you put it down put
17:21that on the ground
17:21and step on it yeah you put the seeds in the holes i remember that from my dad being a
17:26farmer yeah he
17:27farmed he tried to farm to starve to death you know him he couldn't make no money farming but he
17:32loved
17:33it that's what he wanted to do oh they grow everything corn peas and watermelon oh man you're making me
17:39hungry yeah me too i used to haul them water bottles a lot of kids you did yeah really big
17:46old
17:46things yeah well everything's big in texas right yeah we got we got a lot of big stuff in texas
17:50the things
17:51that clois is telling us aren't things that you're going to learn from school or maybe even from a
17:55book these come from experience of being here for so long and living in one area mostly all of your
18:03life we learn about america's history we learn about world history but we don't learn about local
18:08history in schools the only time you're going to learn about local history is if you're invited to
18:13the coffee club or you stop by because you're like hey there's something in the yard i want to buy
18:17you know you're going to get a tutorial on everything that encompasses this area and what
18:23it means to this older gentleman that has so much knowledge to share what do you want for this
18:29hundred dollars what hundred dollars come out of an old store right up the road close down 1960. 75
18:36bucks i guess so yeah i agree peggy says okay she wants me to get rid of some stuff all
18:41right we're
18:42doing it this area looks like it's kind of junked up maybe some modern tools and stuff but as we
18:47walk
18:47around there's stuff here with age there's stuff here with substance hey how about that bicycle right
18:53there yeah what do you got on this thing wait i'm hooked wait pull it up push it okay
18:59you got it dirty yeah you got it yeah the reason i'm interested in this bicycle is because it's a
19:041930s
19:05elgin with aluminum fenders it's got the rear stand it's got the crossbar handlebars on it the seat
19:12tube is curved double top tube that's curved you just look at it and the lines of it man and
19:19then
19:19you think about the time period it was made it's cool it's rough it's so rough but it's got those
19:25aluminum fenders on it imagine what these would look like all straightened up and polished there are guys
19:30guys that can roll these fenders jersey knows that yeah they got tools to actually roll these
19:37fenders you can dolly them back out nice yeah and it's got torrington 10 pedals on it that's a deluxe
19:42bike yeah it's that line though jersey look at that seat tube man i know i see it's got the
19:47curve
19:49200 bucks that's fine no i think 225. really is that what you want i believe so peggy is so
19:59sweet
19:59but sometimes it's the sweetest ones that are the hardest negotiators yeah i think 225 since it's
20:07got the aluminum fenders i'm doing it i appreciate it thank you she's like the mary k lady with an
20:14edge
20:14you know she's gonna sell you something and you're gonna pay her price it's so sweet that they bought
20:20all this stuff together and now they're selling it's a beautiful moment man i mean it's like what we all
20:25dream of somebody that gets us you know as collectors hey can you hear me richard how are you
20:30doing mike i'm doing good so you get those pictures yes i did your your dad found it my daddy
20:35bought it
20:36probably 75 years ago what it is mike is a 1860 civil war vintage spencer repeating carving abraham lincoln
20:45was shown the spencer rifle by christian spencer and he fired it right on the white house wall yeah some
20:53of
20:53this stuff kind of tells the story did you see where the the butt of the gun was hit with
20:57a ball the
20:58fact that it's got that star the side of the butt stock yeah kind of like a texas star you
21:04know it's
21:04basically a relic but you know that's quite interesting to the historians and collectors when
21:09you talk to richard ellis it's an experience he is the gun authority in america he is a historian and
21:18he's a collector himself so he's very passionate about learning about all of these things it comes
21:24natural to him was subsequently reworked after the civil war for youth you know indian wars and so
21:31identified by that little wing nut and lever ahead of the trigger which is called stable that's the
21:38safety okay so so someone put that on after the fact the arsenal did it was a magazine cut off
21:45to
21:46charges from loading so you can load a single shot okay richard what would this gun be worth in in
21:52exceptional condition exceptional condition like around four to five thousand for a mint one
22:00i meant one that son issued in a relic you know it's ten percent of that it's six to nine
22:06hundred bucks
22:07as a relic except if you could find any history on specifically who owned the gun and what battles it
22:13was in i think more of the post war history you know when you see that inlet in the stock
22:19and such
22:19it just leads to the imagination a lot of people would like that yeah absolutely i could very easily
22:25say it's double that you know to a historian antique shop market all right buddy you're awesome as
22:31always yeah i appreciate it we appreciate your time you're welcome bye so he's saying as a relic in the
22:37condition it's in six to nine hundred dollars it's worth more than that to me yeah of course
22:43i'm gonna give it to my son yeah of course now you know i need to put some oil on
22:46that sucker there's
22:47a history of the gun but then there's also the history of the gun with his family those are
22:53intertwined to clois when you hold something like this it has an energy that really never leaves it and
23:00sometimes if you close your eyes it can take you somewhere else you know just for a moment and i
23:06think
23:07that's what this gun has done for his family it's been such a historic piece maybe one of the most
23:12historic pieces that they've coveted all these years peggy can you believe he was selling anything
23:17well i can't but i'm proud he did i'm proud of him too joe joe already did they told me
23:22some things i
23:23didn't know and i think i might have talked to him a few things yeah i know i don't need
23:27to tell you
23:27how important all this stuff is you've been saving he's got so much local history in there i know it
23:32and your truck's not full clois and peggy are the preservers of history and that's what makes
23:37our job possible sweet picking buddy all right come back
23:50we're getting close jersey yeah this road goes on and on yeah there right yeah yeah
23:56she said he had 14 acres wow this is great jersey john and i roll off of this two lane
24:01busy road
24:02and as soon as we get in the dirt you know in the trees the collection comes to life look
24:08at this
24:09place attacked my neighbors would freak if i did this my neighbors don't care i know well obviously
24:14proceed to the route let me get rid of this
24:22hello hey hello god dang i didn't spot that truck a mile away you see that
24:28satellite jim martin hi i'm john nice to meet you man yes sir dude this reminds me of so many
24:34places
24:35that i kind of grew up around in iowa well this is an old farm place i mean it's been
24:39in the family
24:39since like 1946. so what generation are you with it be about the third generation no kidding so who is
24:45the last one in your family to live on this property my uncle he uh he was a world war
24:49ii
24:49veteran he lived here until like i think 2013 he was 90 years and six months when he passed really
24:55i think my uncle he was my mentor he didn't start collecting engines till he was in his mid-60s
25:01i'd bring them back for him to look at and work on and get running and he just he loved
25:06it he didn't
25:06care whether they was here's engine mine they were our engines my dad's 94 he was mechanic in korean war
25:12but yes wow both of them mechanics so did those guys work for themselves did they have their own
25:16shop or where they they had their shop martin brothers that's that's cool that's cool i grew up
25:22picking places like this guys just like his uncle that were mentors of mine even if it was for a
25:28short
25:28time i mean basically they lived in their own little world in the center of their collection really
25:34frozen in time and those are people and places that i'll never forget and the greatest gift that any
25:41of us have ever been given is more time we're all living longer and what are collectors doing
25:48we're coveting more we're collecting more we're searching for more and we're learning more and
25:53we're passing that on to younger people what's that dodge there what year is that around a 60 it's
25:59got a straight axle 318 four speed and positive track wicked cool and it's like new super solid
26:05inside of it it's pretty pretty cool oh yeah got 17 000 okay 817 miles owner this is a 1960
26:17dodge town
26:18wagon looks like original paint i like your uh battery clamps they're vice grips this is on the same food
26:24chain of like a 35 chevy suburban or a willys or a scout i mean these are the stepping stones
26:32to what we all
26:33drive today these suvs you know utilitarian four-wheel drive beefy bigger than we're ever going to use
26:39you know running around town but it's something that you feel safe in what are you thinking on
26:44this would you sell this thing i would consider uh i do like it the condition of the truck was
26:51really
26:51great i mean you could see that it was well taken care of it's been stored well it's it's got
26:56a great
26:56set of bones to it i mean like just throw a number at me 8 500 8 500 yes sir
27:03low mileage clean truck it's unusual jim has left the door open a little bit to me there's a lot
27:10of stuff here i mean there's acres this is really the first thing that i'm looking at so i want
27:14to
27:14slow my roll here a little bit just look around and see what else he has you got the windmill
27:20to this
27:21or you just got the tail fin oh the f ronstadt that was part of the linda ronstadt family it
27:28came
27:29out of linda ronstadt yeah yeah this is from her property she collects stuff that was from no that
27:34was when they were using it that was you know we're talking 1905 1910. linda ronstadt's from
27:39tucson yeah she's from that area out there absolutely maybe she wants it back
27:45this obviously started out life as a tail fin of a windmill but its application in the future is
27:51probably going to be something decorative you know like hanging this on the hallway
27:55wall directional looking down i've done that with a wooden tail fin before it's very cool the
28:01advertising is interesting the fact that it could be linda ronstadt's family takes it to the next level
28:07that means a lot to me mike okay it is the ronstadt what are you thinking i'm thinking 300.
28:15i'd say it's samson that's the that's the windmill brand that i think it is 250.
28:22you holding tight i am i really like it i mean all right i like it too it's really hard
28:28for me and
28:29the scrappers around here that they don't like me when they see me at auction they're like they just
28:33cringe they come to me and they're like jim are you yeah i mean that model t that engine that
28:39you're
28:39not taking to the scrap yard i'm going to save it i can and i will that was a display
28:44in town here in
28:45the 40s and 50s it uh it's a little bitty town with buildings wow the name of it was 500
28:51mechanical
28:52and electrical robots oh wow this is cool jersey whoa whoa what is this it was built in the 30s
29:04or 40s oh it's got a little machine shop and it with weed motors in it this is a circle
29:08on the floor
29:09this he got he went around in a circle oh yeah sure that was the action there look at the
29:13boss he's
29:14like super heavy yeah yeah yeah this is typical of mike wolf and i respect him for this a lot
29:19because
29:20he bird dog stuff really good i mean i would have passed this thing by i thought it was some
29:25boat
29:25that was covered with an old tarp and i'm realizing that this thing is an automaton it's a giant
29:31mechanical toy it's a display piece but everything freaking moves look at the detail and what these
29:39guys are doing right here in this cabinet shop yeah it's amazing i mean even the tools are hanging
29:44on the walls yes yeah built by captain elton denim value fifty thousand dollars tell your friends
29:50about it so are we are we are we good mike i mean captain valued it this whole city is
29:56a living
29:56breathing thing that's all done with a line shaft underneath you know it's powered by electricity
30:02there's all these wires and springs and belts and wooden pulleys and it's just spinning everything up top
30:08and so you're seeing people working in the barber shop and the machine shop and walking down the
30:13street and all this stuff and he did an incredible job it's the hugest piece of folk art that i've
30:19ever
30:19seen i mean this is a roadside attraction that can travel anywhere some of them i mean john d i
30:25don't
30:25think any of their heads are celluloid do you i think they are celluloid oh you think they're all
30:30celluloid i think they're all celluloid well oh and they just they're petrified celluloid yes
30:34there were so many things that he thought of you know the rocket ship the signs the advertising the
30:40people it's really incredible the problem with it is is the condition overall i mean a lot of it
30:46you want to touch it and you know it's just going to fall apart you know it really needs someone
30:50that's
30:50clever and talented to go through it and make it work again i just want to get up and see
30:55the other
30:56side of it yeah you know i get it let me get this is not like a city of robots
31:02anymore it's a city of
31:03squirrels rat squirrels it's a squirrel city now rat crap coon crap squirrel crap i mean i don't care
31:11i'm gonna get in this thing there's this one says magnetic dancers mechanical orchestra the pipe organ
31:18over here might be some kind of church so they had some music here the left side is actually more
31:22interesting than the right because it's got like this courtyard and these porches and people sitting
31:28on the porches and it's like a kaleidoscope of badassery you know the more you stare at it and
31:33move it the more entranced you are i'm just getting hypnotized by this thing there's a lot of people
31:39over here with no heads oh say it ain't so the amount of hours that will have to be put
31:46into this thing
31:47to make it viable it's staggering it would be thousands of hours have you reached out to anybody
31:52about possibly restoring it in the last five years or so no no i haven't i mean do you know
31:57anybody
31:58that's capable of doing this i really don't or would have the energy to do it yeah i don't know
32:02any idea but not now no so i'm wondering if you even had like a historical society or something that
32:07has a budget to do cool things because obviously the beauty of this is that it's history but it's
32:12going to connect with kids i'm going to look in at what you're telling me try to find somebody locally
32:18that'll work on restoring it and if not i'll get with you i'll let you know jim is smart he
32:23wants
32:23to do his research on it he wants to try to find somebody locally to do it i mean he
32:27knows the
32:28importance of it you know staying in this area yeah if you get to the point where you run into
32:32a dead
32:32end yes then we're players on wanting like i'm sure jersey you probably want this machine shop yeah i do
32:38yeah jersey this one building is your whole life yeah this machine work downstairs and woodwork
32:44upstairs yes exactly what is going on in my shop right now jersey john's it man he's into mechanical
32:48stuff he's he's a little bit of an artist himself you know i mean you know i'm looking at him
32:53going
32:53and he's going the guy's had one of my motorcycles for like eight years he's been working on you know
32:58so he he does give of his time but you know it's just pieces and parts here and there you
33:04know i mean
33:05the guy's a genius thank you thanks for showing us to be honest with you it's the craziest thing i've
33:09seen
33:10in a dude it's cool and anything like this at jersey there's tons of hit and miss engines in here
33:15man oh yeah lots of hit and miss obviously i like hit miss engines i got two or three hundred
33:20of them
33:20i just enjoy watching them run and i enjoy working on them and i enjoy the hunt finding them i
33:25just love
33:26it that's more of my style right here what's this waterloo boy that's about as small as it gets in
33:31a waterloo boy yeah no kidding so what's cool about these smaller ones i mean they're like you know the
33:35jack of all trades on a farm these engines were labor saving devices i mean we're coming from an
33:41agricultural community where there needs to be labor to process food crops they have got to be
33:48harvested they have to be sown they have to be reaped these machines help do all those things you bought
33:54the engine and it did the work of many but the cart's nice too it is it's really nice it's
33:59the original
34:00cart and everything and you see the generator on it that's pretty cool oh yeah it's got a sparker on
34:05it
34:05yes that's a sweetheart if you close your eyes and listen to jersey talk about a hit miss engine
34:12you would think that he was talking about a lady he's very descriptive he's very passionate and he's
34:19very driven when it comes to anything mechanical so is this something you want to sell i would
34:26consider selling that engine not missing any parts i mean it would it wouldn't be cheap john well how much
34:31are we talking about probably twenty two hundred dollars yeah no that's too much for me bottom line
34:37is that you know jim i mean he likes this motor and he's at a retail number for the same
34:42we're going to
34:43find something today man i like smaller stuff there's there's smaller regions here i believe you'll find
34:48something all right no problem my goal is to build a shop to to keep my better engines and just
34:55sell off
34:55what i don't need i mean i've got i've got a lot of stuff i mean obviously i can get
34:59rid of a lot of it
34:59so i'm not going to lose any sleep over it you have your own personal engine show absolutely i'm
35:04pretty jealous about that because you've got the space to do it jim is like a lot of collectors
35:08i can't tell you how many times we've heard from people saying you know hey man i want to sell
35:13some
35:13stuff because i want to build one space and kind of focus on things that is all of our dream
35:18you know
35:18instead of coming at it from like a shotgun standpoint you know everything's now in the crosshairs
35:23because at some point in time when you have this much stuff and you start thinking about the value
35:29of it you want to keep it safe you want to keep it out of the elements and that's where
35:33jim's at in
35:33his life i've been there too man we're all going to be there it's like we're all in the autumn
35:38of it
35:38you know and we're just rolling through it and still having fun open sound horn you remember where
35:45that came out or was that here when your uncle was here it might have been my uncle's sign i
35:48didn't
35:48know it was in there anything that's connected to petroleana to service stations to body shops
35:53all of this stuff is hot this would have been like and they would have pulled the door up to
35:58let you
35:58in you know especially in the winter time they weren't just keeping the door open so the sound
36:02the horn sign is cool because it's hand painted it's older i'm thinking like 75 it's one-sided and
36:08it's peeling pretty bad but obviously it's for some sort of service absolutely service garage 85 85 80.
36:17deal all right man good all right i like the way you work
36:25he's just got a steam engine in here mike there he is where here let me show you there's a
36:30lot of
36:30things that are laying around this property that are collectible now but back in the day when they
36:35were here originally they were just utilitarian that's how long these people have been on this
36:39property this is a generational property it is a rare opportunity for us to even be
36:46in a situation like this well there's a steam engine there's a steam engine which one right
36:52here that's a little creeders popcorn you grab one and i'll grab this one oh you go out can you
36:56grab
36:57that i can this little model hit miss engine is exactly like all the other hit miss engines that
37:03are on this property it's an internal combustion motor but it's made in miniature that one runs we had
37:09it running not long ago you did yes it will run so is that like a kit somebody built i
37:13want to say it
37:14is a lot of the gas engine magazines you could yeah gas engine magazine you could buy a little kit
37:19but like from what time period well well here's the thing mike you see these screws here yeah these
37:23are allen head screws okay so that came out like i would probably 50s this is cool but what do
37:28you
37:28think this is it's a steam gauge tester you put a gauge on it and you test it with it
37:33to a tractor
37:34so you put a gauge up here yes and then you would like pressurize it yeah but it it tested
37:39steam
37:39gauges i do know that it's very interesting because the way it's constructed it tests gauges
37:45for steam equipment so you would know that your gauge was accurate that it said the right pressure
37:50because if it didn't your steam engine could blow up oh yeah now the creeders man this thing is cool
37:56that is real yeah i mean i love the way that the connecting rod is all tapered it's got the
38:03bronze
38:03fittings on here it's got the label on here creators company number of it right there yeah that's a good
38:08number too the seven seven one one i mean yeah that's one of them good gambling numbers it's a
38:14small piece of steam equipment that would be on top of a popcorn machine it brings you back to like
38:20an old carnival or you're on the boardwalk in atlantic city and you could smell the popcorn and you
38:26could smell the roasted peanuts i mean the creeders is the best part oh yeah for sure that engine is
38:31worth around thirteen hundred dollars yeah i agree with you that's a good retail number on that what's
38:36one worth this thing i'm thinking 350. i think you're close you're kind of thinking like all three
38:43pieces retail 1900 maybe two grand yes all right tell you what how about 1500 bucks for all three of
38:50them
38:541550. done
39:02the struggle was real mike the struggle was real come here look at this little scooter i got here
39:07i'm not even sure what it is you probably know a little bit more about it yeah it's a moto
39:10scoot
39:11okay you know here's the front fender to it oh really do you have a fork to it actually if
39:17i do it's
39:17it's gonna be this stuff came together it might be in i don't know oh this whole pile came together
39:22yes
39:22the last time i saw one of these moto scoots frankie and i were picking a guy named joe rainbolt
39:27and he bought one of these scooters from him a moto scoot scooter between world war one world war
39:34two out of chicago wow that's cool what's a tank look like mike fresh is the day it was made
39:40it's
39:41pretty clean the only one i've ever seen scooter guys get into one type of scooter then they get into
39:46another and another and another because you know like like the way you look at the history of the hit
39:51miss engine or i look at the history of the motorcycle well the scooter guy is doing the
39:55same thing he's looking at the history of the scooter and what's great about the moto scoot
40:00is that it's just so airflow it's very art deco i mean even look at the front there oh i
40:05know that's
40:06all streamlined yeah from 1937 to 1947 the american moto scoot was made in chicago illinois there was
40:15obviously a lot of manufacturing in chicago excelsior was there super x was there ignea schwinn was
40:21there i mean chicago was a two-wheeled town what people love about the american moto scoot though is
40:27how rare they are i mean every once in a while you'll find a frame or a set of wheels
40:31or maybe a body part here what's this it was delivered what's that that's it ain't it
40:37what's this that looks like it's it this would have to sit in here yeah oh yeah look at this
40:44this thing is almost intact but what's there the bones of what's there is the beauty of the scoot
40:51itself the frame the way it swoops down that really interesting front fork that skirted fender like a
40:57little indian fender and then that art deco you know airflow piece that just sit on top of it the
41:04body
41:04that goes back i like this here this cooling these cooling yeah here that's pretty cool yeah yeah yeah
41:10yeah for sure it's just so cool there's a lot of guys out there that collect scooters but there's
41:15another breed of collector that all they collect are american-made scooters all right you ready
41:27300
41:33that was fast you got a deal thanks man hey but here's you you know more about i do i
41:39love this
41:40kind of stuff i know i see that you're passionate about it but but i want to buy it at
41:44a price where
41:45i can sell it to a guy for a reasonable price too because he's going to be the one that's
41:50going to
41:50restore it and you know that that's when the money comes oh you know what i mean i have no
41:54doubt that
41:55the stuff i let go of today there's going to be another collector that's going to want it that's
41:58going to appreciate it i've got a lot of stuff so you know i i'm okay with letting some of
42:02it go right
42:02now john find any more moto scoop parts call me i'll know how to get home all right you guys
42:08i think
42:08this is gonna be a friendship for life this is gonna be good the next time i'm in this part
42:12of the
42:12country i'm gonna give jim a call and we're gonna go to the hit miss engine meet and that's the
42:16best part
42:16about picking i mean you could meet people we both have the same interests and that's really cool
42:23moto scootin it yes sir see y'all later boot scoot motor scoot
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