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00:00Up next on American Restoration.
00:03The Pinball Hall of Fame needs your help.
00:05What is this?
00:05This is really weird.
00:07It's a Texas Ranger Gatling gun.
00:09That sounds awesome.
00:12Hey, Mike!
00:13This is a 1964 Ducati Falcon 80.
00:17Oh, it's a Ducati?
00:18Basically in a basket.
00:19God, I hope we don't need too many parts.
00:21I'm really worried about this one.
00:22I know I found all the parts I could.
00:24This scares me.
00:25This is not out of anything else.
00:27One bike, one kind, one time.
00:29Hopefully somebody in the world's got one.
00:31I knew this thing was rare, but I had no idea that it was that rare.
00:36Look at a man's workbench.
00:38You see his passions.
00:41His work's in progress.
00:45The things that drive him crazy.
00:49Projects that?
00:51You get the point.
00:52Anyway, every workbench tells a story.
00:55And this is ours.
00:57American Restoration.
01:03You probably have to make new ones of those.
01:06Somebody's here, Rick.
01:07All right, you got it?
01:08Yeah.
01:11Hey!
01:12Mike!
01:13How you doing, brother?
01:13How you been, buddy?
01:14Good. Awesome.
01:15Good to see you.
01:16Good to see you.
01:16I've got a lot of great guys that I work with.
01:19And on top of that, so many of our repeat customers have become just like a big group of friends.
01:24And I love it when one of them shows up with something new for us.
01:28Is that like a bunch of pieces?
01:29Well, yeah, you could consider the smorgasbord of Italians.
01:32I'm what's known as a finder.
01:34I find stuff that people lost years ago.
01:37I got a little bit of everything.
01:38How about a horn?
01:40I recently had a family contact me and want me to find a little Italian motorbike that their grandfather owned.
01:48After searching for a while, I finally found the bike.
01:51But it's in pieces and parts.
01:53So I hope that Rick can get it all back together again.
01:56This is a 1964 Ducati Falcon 80.
02:00Oh, it's a Ducati?
02:01It's not the run-of-the-mill 50 cc's that you see.
02:04Right.
02:04I think they may have called this the Falcon Sport 80.
02:07So it's kind of a rare bike.
02:08Ducati came out with three different types of utility bikes.
02:12The 50, the 80, and the 125 cc.
02:15People usually went with the 50 because it was cheap or the 125 because it was fast.
02:20But that's what makes seeing an 80 like this one so exciting.
02:23The family contacted me and said, you got to find this horse.
02:26It's very important.
02:27Grandpa bought it.
02:28Okay.
02:29He passed it on to his son.
02:30Yeah.
02:31Passed it on to his son.
02:32Right.
02:32Now it's going on to the baby.
02:33Wow.
02:33So right down the family tree.
02:35And you had to track down all these parts?
02:37Was it in one place?
02:38No, different places.
02:39Wow.
02:40It's amazing that you found it like really cool.
02:43In Italy, it was a bike of utility, you know?
02:47Yeah.
02:47I mean, they would load stuff on them and they'd get around a lot easier.
02:49A lot of them didn't have cars.
02:51Now, Ducati's a big deal.
02:52They're fast.
02:53Ducati started making bikes in the late 40s and has slowly become a household name around
02:58the world.
02:58They're really well known for making some of the fastest bikes ever.
03:01You know, you definitely bring me some kind of a challenge every time you come.
03:04Now you're bringing me a bike that's basically in a basket.
03:07But it looks like you found the majority of the parts.
03:09But it's got some issues.
03:11I mean, everything's out of the motor.
03:13I can see the piston.
03:14They pulled everything out.
03:15That's a shell.
03:16You're right.
03:16It's empty.
03:17Yeah.
03:18So somebody probably started to do a rebuild and then just stopped.
03:22So, God, I hope we don't need too many parts.
03:24I told this family that you're a good fella, not a wise guy.
03:27So you're going to give them a good price, right?
03:28Yes.
03:29Absolutely.
03:29We're probably right around...
03:32I'm right around 12.
03:3312?
03:3412 to do the whole bike.
03:35I think they'll be happy with that.
03:37Okay, cool.
03:37So we're going to blow their socks off, I hope.
03:40No pressure there, huh?
03:42I'm really worried about this one.
03:43I mean, these parts are Italian.
03:45So I know I found all the parts I could.
03:48I just hope Rick doesn't get stumped on one little obsolete part.
03:51So that might be a big challenge.
03:55Basically, we're just going to mock it up for now.
03:58See what we've got going on.
03:59I don't want to waste any time with this project.
04:01So first, I'm going to have my guys do a mock assembly.
04:04That way we can figure out if any parts are still missing and then go from there.
04:08Yeah, it's empty.
04:09There's nothing in there.
04:10How's it looking?
04:12Oh, Lord.
04:14All right, so this is the deal.
04:15Big Mike found the different pieces in different places, but he believes that it's all here.
04:20So what do you got?
04:22I mean, I noticed you got the tires on, you got the tank on.
04:25Tires, tank, we got fenders.
04:27The basic bike's there, right?
04:29Yeah, it looks like it.
04:30Yeah, it's just that the motor's been completely torn apart
04:32and who knows if all these gears and shims and bearings are all there or not.
04:36Well, it doesn't look like much, I'll tell you that.
04:39When somebody sends us stuff in like this, especially something we've never done, you know,
04:44it's a little hard to tell where this gear went compared to this gear.
04:47And if we go and put it together wrong, you know, it's gonna be a big...
04:50We're searching for another motor.
04:51Yeah, yeah, we're gonna end up blowing it up.
04:52So I think right now I really need to work on finding a manual or some kind of a spec
04:58sheet for this motor,
04:59you know, so that we can put it back together.
05:01So I'm gonna have to look somewhere, okay?
05:03Make some calls, all right?
05:04The last thing we want is to get something wrong when rebuilding this motor.
05:08It could dash the dreams for Mike's clients.
05:11Four generations of an Ohio family.
05:13So I'm gonna have to find someone that knows more about this bike
05:16or at least has some sort of manual that we can work from.
05:19All right, guys.
05:20All right, Kyle, let's tear this thing apart.
05:33Hey, Tim, how you been?
05:35Rick, doing good.
05:36Good to see you.
05:37I'm the director of the Pinball Hall of Fame here in Las Vegas.
05:40The Pinball Hall of Fame needs your help.
05:43Today I'm actually bringing in a project for Rick to work on
05:46so we can put it in the Pinball Museum for people to play.
05:49I got the Texas Ranger Gatling Gun.
05:52Wow.
05:53What I love about this machine is that it's just so radically different
05:57than every other machine we've got.
05:59This game has definitely got the wow factor.
06:02Tim, I've never seen one of these. What is this?
06:04This is really weird.
06:06This is a Chicago Coin Texas Ranger Gatling Gun.
06:09Chicago Coin's like a big...
06:10They made a lot of pinballs in different kinds of games, yeah?
06:13They were in business from 33 to 75,
06:16and they made thousands of different machines.
06:18And their gun games always looked the same.
06:21It was always a cabinet with a pistol or a rifle,
06:24and you just shoot some little bunnies coming by.
06:26This one stands out in your mind
06:28because the gun is so weird and so unique.
06:31You got two pieces.
06:32This is the headpiece that keeps the score.
06:34It goes up on top of that pedestal there.
06:37Here.
06:37Kid comes around here to the front.
06:39He puts a dime in here,
06:41and he actually takes and looks in here
06:43and moves it back and forth and up and down
06:45to shoot at bad men that are coming around
06:48on a little plastic diorama inside.
06:50That sounds awesome.
06:52I've seen my share of coin-op machines,
06:54but never anything like this.
06:56Leave it to Tim to show up with a friggin' Gatling gun.
06:59It's got like a bullseye.
07:00Yeah.
07:00And then it shoots right at him.
07:02They're sort of silhouettes.
07:03It's got lights in there.
07:04Yeah, it's all that up in there.
07:05I like this.
07:06It's even got these little, you know, like a barrel,
07:08like it would be spinning.
07:09Hold the bullets.
07:10It's very cool.
07:11Okay, so here's the deal.
07:12I'm good with the mechanical and the electronic stuff,
07:15and what you're good at is all the cosmetic stuff.
07:18Make it shine.
07:19Make it sizzle.
07:20Make it snap.
07:20And we'll have one great-looking, great running piece
07:23of equipment when we're done.
07:25What I'm hoping on this project is that Rick
07:27does all the cosmetic work.
07:29My part of the whole project is to take the electronics
07:31inside, completely rebuild them, make them work,
07:35and make them be reliable.
07:36A lot of the wood has some damage to it.
07:38It's going to need stripped really well.
07:40The Formica on the top is starting to peel up.
07:43Even the plywood's starting to peel.
07:44Yeah.
07:44So we're going to fix that.
07:45Now the question is, what's it going to cost?
07:48Yeah.
07:48In order to get this thing done right,
07:50you know, all the paint, all the chrome,
07:53you know, do the body work on it and everything,
07:54I'm looking at $6,500 for my end of it.
07:58I think I'm comfortable.
07:59I can live with that.
08:00You good?
08:00I think we've got a deal.
08:01All right, bud.
08:02Awesome.
08:02Thanks, Daddy-O.
08:03Both of us have our work cut out for us.
08:05I can't wait to play it.
08:07Come on in the office and we'll do the paperwork.
08:09Okay.
08:10All right.
08:11All right.
08:12Ready?
08:12Go.
08:12One kick.
08:13One kick.
08:13Ready?
08:13Wait a minute.
08:15If Ace can't get this motor to run, there could be a problem with me finishing this project.
08:19And that's not good for my reputation.
08:22Now.
08:31We're working on a Texas Ranger Gatling gun for the Pinball Hall of Fame.
08:38There's my earplugs.
08:39The first order of business is taking this thing apart so that we can get the electronics
08:43out and over to Tim since he's going to be taking care of that part himself.
08:47Whoa.
08:48Hold on.
08:51This thing ain't light.
08:54You're free.
08:55Go ahead.
08:56One thing I really love about working with Cowboy is that it's understood that I'm the
09:00brains and he's the one that does all my heavy lifting.
09:03Nice.
09:04You take care of that glass for me.
09:06Don't break it.
09:07Over your head.
09:14Big Mike recently dropped off a Ducati motorcycle and it came as a basket case.
09:20My guys got their work cut out for themselves on the rest of this thing.
09:23So I need an extra hand on the motor.
09:25Hey Ace.
09:27How you doing?
09:28Rick.
09:28What's going on?
09:30I got another project.
09:32Oh.
09:33Yeah, it's brutal.
09:33I just set it up over there, man.
09:35We'll take a look at what you got.
09:36All right.
09:36Rick comes to me when he has a problem with a motorcycle.
09:39Boy, did he bring me a bitch today.
09:41It's a 1964 Ducati Falcon 80.
09:45I will tell you the last one of these that we did was not easy to find these parts for.
09:51Okay.
09:51The reason for that is they made a 50, an 80, and a 125.
09:56Nobody wanted the 80s.
09:57The middles.
09:58So these are very low production bike.
10:01This particular year, they install any of them.
10:03They still made the 50s and the 125s as they were climbing the ladder into the bigger, faster, badder-ass
10:09bikes.
10:10This, by the way, the dinosaur, they, you know, was not popular.
10:14Why build it?
10:15Finding parts for this is going to be an absolute nightmare.
10:17If I can't find these parts, I'm going to have to make them.
10:19I mean, that's going to cost time and money.
10:22Lots of it.
10:23It's not going to be an easy project any way you look at it.
10:26This scares me.
10:28Yeah, yeah.
10:29Crankshaft.
10:29Not moving, man.
10:30This is not out of anything else.
10:32Right.
10:32One bike, one kind, one time.
10:34Hopefully, somebody in the world's got one.
10:37Ace said one of his biggest challenges is going to be this crank.
10:39I knew that it was seized, but I thought it could be fixed.
10:42He's saying we're going to have to find an all brand new one.
10:44I don't know what I'm going to do if he can't.
10:46Piston rings.
10:47Cause of all the evil to this motorcycle, in my opinion.
10:51Got some scarring on it here.
10:52See right here?
10:53Right.
10:53These have three different sizes of rings that go in the same piston.
10:56Oh.
10:57I believe they put the wrong ring in the piston.
10:59Caused the heating problem.
11:00So what we're going to have to do is find the rings.
11:04Right.
11:04Nothing about this is simple.
11:06Hopefully, we can find the crank.
11:08All right.
11:08Well, I hope you can get it done.
11:10I'll get it done.
11:10I'll get it done.
11:16While we wait to get the motor back on the Ducati,
11:19we still got a lot of work to do on this Texas Ranger game.
11:23Tim from the Pinball Museum is working on the mechanism,
11:25while the rest of the machine is in dozens of pieces spread all over the shop.
11:30I've got Manny on all the body work.
11:32Robert remaking several pieces that were too damaged.
11:35And then Ted is in charge of the paint.
11:38I really hope this thing pops.
11:45A while back, a customer came in and picked out a classic 1950s Chevron gas pump to get restored.
11:52This project was a lot of fun.
11:54Now I'm going to meet with Kyle to check it out before we deliver it.
11:57Hey Kyle, how's the Chevron pump looking?
11:59Looks good.
12:00Yeah, it does look good.
12:02The chrome on it looks phenomenal.
12:03The pump is probably 1954.
12:06What happened with National is they actually went out of business and they were bought by Wayne.
12:11Wayne just was buying everybody out.
12:13So you'll see some that say National and some say Wayne on there.
12:16So this is a little rare, actually, because it says National.
12:20And this thing was a real cool feature that they started putting on all the pumps.
12:23It's basically a hose guard.
12:25So when you're pumping, you know, it doesn't rub on it like that.
12:28This is the switch.
12:29When you open this, it actually does two things.
12:31One, it turns the lights on.
12:33Right.
12:33And two, it turns the pump on.
12:35Right.
12:35So as soon as you pull that out, everything's running.
12:37And away you go.
12:38Ding, ding, ding.
12:40Kyle, it looks fantastic.
12:42Paint job came out beautiful.
12:43The body works awesome.
12:44Let's go ahead and get it crated up and get the thing shipped out.
12:46Okay.
12:47You got it.
12:48Looks great.
12:49Thanks, Ray.
12:49You bet.
12:56I just got a call from Tim saying that the mechanism for the Texas Ranger is all done.
13:00So I sent Tyler and Bradley over to pick it up.
13:03Awesome.
13:03Thank you, Tim.
13:04Meanwhile, I sent the frame for the Ducati over to Ace's to wire up the motor and see if
13:09this thing actually works.
13:11If anyone can get this motor working, it'll be Ace.
13:14Ace.
13:15Rick.
13:15What's going on, bud?
13:16How are you doing, man?
13:17Good, good.
13:18We haven't started it yet.
13:19We wanted you to be here for the first firing of it.
13:21It was a bitch.
13:23Parts were unavailable, dude.
13:24Nothing was available for this bike.
13:26Really?
13:26Yep.
13:27We had to make it all, do every part in this motor and on this motor we had to make.
13:31There's 493 of these made.
13:33There was no parts available, so we just had to do what we do.
13:37I don't want to hear it start.
13:38I'm like sort of worried it's not going to start.
13:40You ready?
13:40Yeah.
13:41All right.
13:41Okay, man.
13:42You and Mekrik want to come over here and shine a bit for Rick?
13:46Wonderful.
13:48I'm sure Ace put his heart and soul into this job, but when I heard he had to remake everything
13:53in this motor, I'm just praying it fires up.
13:57All right, fire it.
13:59Ready?
13:59Let's go.
13:59One kick.
14:00One kick.
14:00Ready?
14:01Wait a minute.
14:02If this thing doesn't start, we might never finish this project.
14:06Wait a minute.
14:07Now.
14:09Whoa!
14:17Awesome.
14:17Awesome.
14:18Awesome.
14:19Great job.
14:20Ace did an incredible job.
14:21I mean, this thing looks like it came off the showroom floor and it sounds like it too,
14:25but we're still not out of the woods.
14:27As soon as you get it back to me, I'm hoping that the rest of it goes back together and
14:30so
14:31I got a lot of, I got a lot still to do, so.
14:33I'll get it back to you in the morning.
14:34Okay.
14:35Awesome.
14:35All right.
14:35Thanks guys.
14:36Kudos.
14:37Great job.
14:38See you later.
14:47It's right out of here.
14:48I'm here today at Rick's to pick up the Texas Ranger Gatling gun that I dropped off to have
14:53him restore.
14:54When we started out, it was a complete wreck.
14:57What I'm hoping is that you happen to be walking by and your head goes, wow.
15:01That's what I want at the pinball museum is the wow factor.
15:04I'm really excited.
15:05I remember what this machine looked like when I dropped it off.
15:09It was rusted.
15:11The paint was coming off in big chunks.
15:13The wood was delaminating and curling up at the end.
15:16Right.
15:17It was really, really in sad shape.
15:19Yeah.
15:19It was pretty ugly.
15:20It was, it was, yeah.
15:22Keep that little vision in your head there, bud.
15:23I've got, I've got the old one in my mind.
15:25Okay.
15:25Here we go.
15:26One, two, three.
15:29Whoa.
15:30Look at that.
15:32Wow.
15:33Look at the shine on that.
15:35When I first saw the machine, I just couldn't believe it.
15:39The colors, the shiny finish.
15:41This game was just incredibly sharp.
15:44This is everything I had hoped for.
15:46That is incredible.
15:48It looks like it came out of the box.
15:49Look at that door.
15:51Yeah.
15:51Look, that was all rusted solid.
15:53Yeah.
15:53Yeah.
15:54And look at it now.
15:55Wow.
15:55Yeah.
15:55It looks brand spanking new, all chromed out.
15:58Holy cow.
15:58Wow.
15:59I am impressed.
16:00Thanks.
16:01You know, when we got it, it was just a wooden box, you know?
16:04Yeah.
16:04This part of it was all sheet metal.
16:06So we took this all off first.
16:08Then we had to straighten out this whole can, pounded all the metal back out.
16:12Yup.
16:12And then Ted went and put all the graphics back on and then cleared over top of them.
16:16So now when people touch it, the paint won't come off after a while.
16:20Right.
16:20Wow.
16:20This is going to go great in the Pinball Hall of Fame.
16:22This is just going to pop out at you.
16:25And speaking of that, I'm just dying to play this thing.
16:28I really, really want to play it.
16:30Let's reel it inside where it's not as bright and we can plug it in and actually play a game
16:36of it.
16:36Okay, cool.
16:37I'd love to.
16:37This is great.
16:38Fixing up the outside of this thing was no picnic.
16:40And the inside of it didn't look any better.
16:42So I really hope Tim got this to work.
16:45Here we go.
16:46Oh, wow.
16:47Nice.
16:48Look at that.
16:48That's cool.
16:49That is great.
16:51Let me show you what I did on the inside.
16:53I took everything completely apart, reassembled it.
16:56This motor got cleaned and lubricated.
16:59Oh, wow.
16:59So it's clicking and whirring just fine.
17:01Up here, this motor had, the frame had cracked and broken.
17:05Oh.
17:05So I actually had to glue that back together.
17:07I had to make sure all of these were tight and in good position so that when you hit
17:12the Indian or the cowboy or the star, it actually scores.
17:15Scores.
17:15And I think we're ready to play.
17:17All right.
17:17So you just press this button.
17:19You ready?
17:19Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:22That's cool how bright it is in there.
17:26Man, it sounds so cool.
17:29Those stars are good.
17:31Yeah, stars are worth 10 points.
17:33Cowboys and Indians are only worth one.
17:37111, I'm sure.
17:39That thing's pretty fun.
17:40I could play that for a while.
17:41You did great.
17:42You got it.
17:42Many, many thanks.
17:43Rick and his team have really, really done great on this.
17:47This is more than I expected.
17:48It looks better than new.
17:50I just can't wait to get it back to the Pinball Museum and let people actually play it.
17:56When we prepare a piece to be refinished, we often use sand or a bead blaster to remove all
18:02the old paint, but not everyone has access to this kind of equipment.
18:07Which of these can you use instead of a sand blaster to make stripping your project easier?
18:12A, a heat gun.
18:14B, a pressure washer.
18:16C, an electric sander.
18:19D, a cordless drill.
18:20The answer and more coming up.
18:27Which of these can you use instead of a sand blaster to make stripping your project easier?
18:33The correct answer is B, a pressure washer.
18:36If you don't have one, you can rent one at your local hardware store.
18:39What I like to do is hold the nozzle at a 45 degree angle and work slowly across the piece.
18:46When you're renting one of these at the hardware store, go ahead and get the highest PSI or pressure possible.
18:52Also, get one that has heat to it.
18:55And that'll rip it off even better to where now you're ready to paint.
19:04Hey, Rick!
19:06Hey, Mike!
19:07Good to see you.
19:07Good to see you.
19:08I'm here today not by myself, but I brought a family from Ohio that is really excited to see their
19:141960s Ducati Falcon.
19:17All they know is that I found it.
19:19I mean, they don't have any idea what it looked like or what we saw.
19:23It was a mess.
19:24That's all I could say.
19:25It was a mess.
19:25But that's why we bring it to you, because you're the guy with the superglue.
19:28Yeah, right.
19:29My dad bought this bike brand new in Akron off the showroom floor in 1964.
19:35I rode it, my dad rode it, my son Rich Jr. rode it, and I can't wait to see what
19:40it looks like.
19:40This thing's gonna be cool.
19:42I hear something.
19:43I hear it.
19:44Holy crap!
19:46Here he comes.
19:49Holy .
19:50Look at that.
19:53Oh, my God!
19:54Look at that.
19:56Is that nuts?
19:58It's like it's brand new.
20:00Oh, that is awesome.
20:03Is that your motorcycle?
20:04Oh, that's it.
20:06You just went down and bought a new one, right?
20:08You can't buy that one new, sorry.
20:10You can't even find that one.
20:12That's a remake.
20:13When Rick rode up on that Ducati, I was stoked.
20:16I just couldn't believe that he could bring it back to showroom quality again.
20:20He breathed new life in that bike.
20:21It's just amazing.
20:22I can't believe you pulled it off.
20:24Now I know what grandpa felt like walking in and buying this thing new.
20:27The bike is rare.
20:29Finding parts is impossible.
20:31He brings me the bike, and the motor is in a thousand pieces.
20:35It looks like somebody tore it apart.
20:36The guy that helped me do the motor, his name's Ace, and he's really good at the old motors.
20:40He actually had to make the parts on the inside of the motor, because you can't find parts for it.
20:45Oh, this is phenomenal.
20:47This is unbelievable.
20:49It's beautiful.
20:50I can't wait to show it to my dad, and then you need to give it to your son.
20:53Oh, yeah.
20:54Your son's going to get that bike.
20:56Yeah, Jamison.
20:56It's a year and a half right now.
20:58He'll be riding it one day.
20:59So you want to ride it?
21:00Yeah.
21:01Get on it.
21:02Get on it.
21:04Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
21:06Rich.
21:06We need these.
21:10Those are real tight and leather goggles.
21:17On voyage!
21:21Oh, that's awesome.
21:23The feeling of getting on that Ducati brings back so many good memories.
21:28My dad is going to be so excited to see his bike that he bought in 1964 brand new.
21:34And now he's just going to fall in love with it all over again.
21:37I think he's going to be speechless.
21:39I mean, it's just beautiful.
21:40It's a work of art.
21:41Oh, thank you so much.
21:42I just, I can't believe it.
21:44Thank you both.
21:44We appreciate it.
21:45This is amazing.
21:46Let's go inside.
21:47We'll do the paperwork, and we'll maybe have some pasta, right?
21:50Something.
21:51I'd like to tell you mine.
21:52That's right.
21:53Can you suggest one, maybe?
21:54Yeah.
21:54I mean, uh, what?
21:5510W30?
21:5640?
21:57I mean...
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