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00:04Whoa, this is unbelievable.
00:06I want to take this thing home.
00:07To me, as a bicycle collector, the 1934 Schwinn
00:10AeroCycle is one of the world's marvels.
00:13Wow, look at the engine on that, Robbie.
00:16This is an all original 1930 airplane.
00:19It was last flown just before Pearl Harbor.
00:22It stood the test of time.
00:23It's been untouched.
00:24This has got to be one of the top five.
00:27That's actually a very cool car.
00:29Rich was saying $40,000 is what we could get for the car.
00:33Could you do $30,000?
00:35Danny, look at this green.
00:37It's amazing.
00:38Indians are some of the most beautiful motorcycles in the world.
00:42To find one of these bikes would be incredible.
00:45But there's five bikes here.
00:47Five.
00:48I'd pay $135,000 for all of them.
00:52I'm a motorcycle guy, I'm a car guy, but at the end of the day,
00:56I am into transportation history.
00:59And that is a big, beautiful world with a lot of incredible things.
01:22How are we looking there, Rich?
01:23No, don't go.
01:24Now you're clear.
01:25After these two.
01:26After these two, now I'm clear.
01:27Go, go, go, go.
01:28Get it?
01:29Get it?
01:29Everything I've learned over the last 10 years about air-cooled Porsche,
01:32I've learned from Rich.
01:34Rich has one of the premier shops in America that deals with 356 Porsche.
01:39It's not unusual to walk in the doors there and see 15 to 20 of them at one time
01:44that people have sent from all over the country.
01:47Here's the deal.
01:48I'm just, I'm freaking out that you and I are about ready to look through
01:52a guy's life's collection of Porsche 356 stuff.
01:56Absolutely.
01:57Christmas morning, man.
01:58Digging through boxes.
01:59That's the best part.
02:00All right.
02:00So here, we're coming up on it.
02:02Okay, right here.
02:03This one with the garage door open.
02:04All right.
02:06Hey.
02:09Are you Richard?
02:10I am.
02:11Hey, I'm Mike.
02:12Nice to meet you, Mike.
02:13Nice to meet you.
02:14This is Rich.
02:15Pleasure to meet you, sir.
02:15How are you?
02:16Nice to meet you.
02:16Hey, hi.
02:17How are you?
02:18Hey, I'm Mike.
02:19Nice to meet you.
02:20Monica, nice to meet you.
02:20This is my buddy, Rich.
02:21Nice to meet you, ma'am.
02:22How are you?
02:22So, I know you talked to Danielle about Porsche stuff, but there's a lot of different
02:26things that we buy.
02:27Okay.
02:28Fred Coward was my neighbor.
02:29He always had his Derby cap on, his sunglasses, his driving gloves, and he would always smile
02:36and wave to you.
02:37This was his daily driver?
02:39Yes.
02:40Really?
02:40If he had a car show in California, he would actually drive this car to California for the
02:46show.
02:46That's fantastic.
02:47He would come over and have dinner with us.
02:49We felt like Fred was part of the family.
02:52I'm still trying to figure out why Fred left everything to me.
02:56Okay.
02:57Richard will take you out in the back and you guys can shuffle through the shed.
03:00Sounds great.
03:01All right.
03:05Here you go.
03:06Look at this, man.
03:07You guys got 32.
03:0932.
03:10Woo!
03:10So, you got 32.
03:11You got two Porsches.
03:13Yep.
03:13Oh, man.
03:14Here we go.
03:14Wow.
03:15So, in the garage, there's two 356s.
03:17One is a 65SC.
03:19The other is a 57A.
03:22Check out the pans, Rich.
03:24Yeah, that's all recently redone.
03:26Looks like somebody went through the entire tub.
03:28So, I see there's an A over here.
03:31It's gotta be...
03:321957?
03:33Yes, sir.
03:34Well, actually, the neat thing with the beehive tail lights, it's early 57.
03:37Okay.
03:38That was, I believe, the first three months of production, thereabouts, before they went
03:42to the later teardrop.
03:43Okay.
03:44Correctly after.
03:44So, yes, that's actually a very cool car.
03:46It's one thing to see photographs, but to walk into a garage and put your hands on this
03:52stuff, it's pretty incredible.
03:54But, I mean, it looks like a real solid car to begin with.
03:56It's got its original numbers matched doors, which are stamped on the inside there.
04:00What are you looking at?
04:01Right below the first circle there, into the door in the center, remember there, is three
04:06digits.
04:06And what they did was they stamped the doors to match the VIN number for the car.
04:11So, these are the doors that it left the factory with.
04:14Rich is going through these cars with a fine tooth comb.
04:16Here, right there.
04:17There's a number right there.
04:18There it is, yeah.
04:18What is it?
04:19Say five, eight, seven, yeah.
04:22So, that means the hood matches the car.
04:23This is exactly what I wanted to happen.
04:25For him to nerd out, crawl underneath it, get inside of it, look at every detail, because
04:32all of that adds up to the overall value.
04:36Fuel tank, it's bigger...
04:37I noticed it was oversized.
04:38Yeah, it's oversized from the original T5 tank.
04:41You know, a lot of the Carreras had him, they used him for race cars, but he was definitely,
04:46it looks like, building an outlaw.
04:48The outlaw trend is real big in the market right now.
04:51What it does is it allows the individual to personalize their car, kind of hot rod it
04:55a little bit, not be a purist in the restoration.
04:58Like right here, this is rear glass, but it's plexiglass for this car, it's a 57.
05:03Right, but he was more than like, again, he was building an outlaw.
05:06For Rich to grace me with his presence when I know he's got a busy shop back there in
05:11Columbia, Tennessee, it's a big deal.
05:13But, you know, sitting here, listening to him talk and looking over these cars, this
05:18is exactly the reason why I wanted him with me.
05:22I'm interested in the cars.
05:24This one I'd like to put together on my own to see if I can.
05:28Okay.
05:29That one I'd be willing to get rid of.
05:31Okay.
05:32And everything we can scramble, that's 57 for that.
05:36Okay, so what I would love to do is, you know, get as many parts for the 57 together
05:41as we can.
05:41I mean, there's some that have boxes upstairs that say that.
05:44Yeah.
05:44What are you thinking?
05:45I've got to leave here at 6, so we only got a couple hours to pull parts.
05:50Oh, really?
05:51You got to leave early.
05:52Okay, you got to leave.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Okay, so.
05:55We got a couple hours, let's pull what we can and see what we can come up with.
06:00Okay.
06:00Sounds like a plan.
06:01Let's do it.
06:01I knew there was no way I was going to be able to do this pick on my own.
06:06Jared, is this it?
06:07No, that's late.
06:09Damn.
06:10Rich has turned into the boss today.
06:12He's the conductor.
06:13He's telling me and Richard what to do, what to grab.
06:16It's like, here, grab this, move that.
06:18He's rising to the occasion, man.
06:20There you go.
06:23Alcohol.
06:23All right.
06:25I've got a tack, a speedo, and a combination gauge, so we're good there.
06:29Rich from J3 is on fire, and I'm just following his lead.
06:34These guys need to hurry up, because I got an appointment that I have to be at by 6, so
06:40we're going to have to hurry.
06:41I'm going to go see if I can put hands on a windshield wiper assembly.
06:47That was another steering column.
06:49That's the one we've been looking for.
06:51Let's see what we got.
06:52Okay.
06:53Horn ring, miscellaneous brakes.
06:57Spoils to the victor.
06:59Yep.
06:59We got it.
07:00All right.
07:01Perfect.
07:03Well, we found the most important stuff for what we were looking for.
07:06Would you say it's like 90% complete?
07:08Yeah, I think that's fair.
07:09Okay.
07:09I think that's reasonable, because in this time frame, you know, trying to snatch up every little piece, it's not
07:14the easiest thing to do.
07:16Once we've come to the end of the road on finding all of the parts that we possibly could for
07:21this car, now we need to step back, look at what's there, dig a little bit deeper into the body
07:27itself, what needs to be done, the amount of money it's going to cost to do that, and then have
07:32Rich come up with a number.
07:34There's still some metal to be done on this car.
07:37I mean, you've got your spare tire weld needs to be done.
07:39There's some work that needs to be done on the bottom of the, under the rear torsion.
07:43It's not a paint-ready car.
07:45Okay.
07:45It's not ready for paint.
07:46So what's the number you think I could get for it, just like this, if I sold it with a
07:50part, said, hey, this is a 90% car, you know, where do I need to be on it?
07:55For somebody who wants to do their own build, they've got a lot of the hard stuff already done, already
07:59acquired.
08:01I think 45 is a stretch.
08:02I think 40 is a solid.
08:04I think that's your...
08:04If I could get 40 out of it.
08:05Yeah.
08:06I think that's your good retail number.
08:07All right.
08:08So basically what we're doing is we're talking about, you know, how, how much we can sell the car for
08:13just like this.
08:14Rich was saying 40,000 is what we could get for the car.
08:18Yeah.
08:19I think the retail number as she sits, everything there, I think 40 is a fair number for somebody to
08:24buy it.
08:25And then honestly, it's probably the perfect project for somebody who wants to do a home build.
08:30Because if you bring this to my shop, there's so much man hours that need to be done.
08:35Like what, just even to assemble it, like what would you...
08:37I mean, you're talking to be able to go through, set up wiring harness switch, you know, several weeks.
08:42I think for you to be able to take care of the back end, I think 25 is a solid
08:46number for what's here, you know?
08:48Because yeah, you still got shipping, still got to go through everything.
08:50We still have to go through the process of getting it ready for sale.
08:58Um, could you do 30?
09:05Do you have titles for these?
09:06I do.
09:09All right, I'm going to do 30.
09:12All right, man.
09:13I appreciate it.
09:13Well, that was a fun day.
09:17That was like speed picking, man.
09:18Man!
09:19Oh my gosh.
09:20Being able to buy the car for 30 grand, I think leaves Mike a little bit of room on the
09:25back end to be able to make money,
09:27but still have an affordable project that somebody can build going forward.
09:32On my end with the parts, you're good.
09:34I'll get with you in a week or so, and we still got a good deal, correct?
09:36We got a deal.
09:37All right.
09:37Thank you, sir.
09:38We really appreciate it.
09:39Thank you very much.
09:39Considering the shape of the car, I think Mike gave me a fair price.
09:44Danny will get a hold of you guys on shipping the body and then what's left as far as the
09:49parts.
09:50Thank you again.
09:51I think Fred was channeling us.
09:52Oh, yeah.
09:53Seriously, there was a lot of stuff.
09:55No doubt.
09:55I was giving up on finding and then like I was like, okay, it's over here.
09:59He was smiling for sure.
10:00Yeah.
10:00Thank you, sir.
10:01A lot of great energy here.
10:02Be safe. Take care.
10:03This collection was Fred's life's work and as much as he shared it when he was alive,
10:08the biggest decision and gift of all was passing it on to the right people that could benefit from it
10:15the most.
10:16See you down the road.
10:18Thanks, Mike.
10:19See you.
10:19Take care.
10:46We're going to this place called Highland Park Bowl.
10:49You know Bobby Green, right?
10:50Oh, yeah.
10:51Okay.
10:51Well, Bobby Green has a 1934 Schwinn Aerocycle original paint and he's thinking about hanging
10:57it in there.
10:58What?
10:58For decor.
10:59And I said, dude, he sent me a picture.
11:01He goes, what do you think about hanging this in there?
11:02I go, Bobby, I'd be interested in buying that bike.
11:04Yeah.
11:04And he's like, well, I don't really want to sell it.
11:07And I go, well, let's talk about the I don't want to sell it price.
11:10It's right here.
11:10All right.
11:11Oh, yeah.
11:11Look at that.
11:14All right.
11:15There we go.
11:16Get him a flyer.
11:19I told him we'd call him.
11:20Look at the front of this place.
11:22Bobby Green's one of those guys that Mike and I met through motorcycles and cars.
11:26And we just became good friends.
11:31Hey.
11:32What's up?
11:34How you doing, buddy?
11:35Good to see you, man.
11:36Good to see you.
11:37Bobby Green's got these projects all over L.A. that he has put his hands on.
11:42The Formosa, the Idol Hour, and now this bowling alley.
11:46That's the original sign.
11:47What year is it building?
11:4927.
11:50Yeah.
11:501927.
11:51Bobby Green is a preservationist, but above all, the guy's a storyteller.
11:56And the way he tells stories is through the properties he owns.
12:01Oh, my gosh.
12:01These are the old fire doors.
12:03What?
12:04Ta-da.
12:04Holy cow.
12:06Check this out.
12:07Wow.
12:08All 1927.
12:09That's everything in here.
12:10Wow.
12:11Everything.
12:11The ceiling, the lanes.
12:11So these are the old bowling mechanisms?
12:13Yes.
12:14Wow.
12:15So the machines that were here were so wrecked, I repurposed them.
12:19I made chandeliers and shelving and stuff.
12:21And this is the track, the ball return?
12:23Yeah, those are the ball returns.
12:24Look at that, Robbie.
12:24I mean, this is the ball return.
12:26It's insane.
12:26So what I was thinking about doing with the aero cycle, I'm going to put it right up here
12:29above the neon clock.
12:32Wouldn't that look great?
12:33No.
12:34Shut up.
12:34I mean, I mean, here's the deal.
12:37I mean, it would look great, seriously, if people knew what it was.
12:42Where is it anyway?
12:43I got it.
12:43It's right up here on the catwalk.
12:45Ah.
12:45All right.
12:45Can we look at it?
12:46Sure.
12:46The Schwinn aero cycle is incredible.
12:49The 1930s were huge years for Schwinn.
12:52They introduced the 26 by 2.125 balloon tire.
12:56Before that, it was a single tube tire that was really hard to maintain.
13:00The 26 by 2.125 became industry standard after that.
13:04When you think about all the bikes that Schwinn introduced in the 30s.
13:081933, the B10E.
13:10A motorbike-looking bike, but it had balloon tires.
13:13And then they went into the Schwinn aero cycle, and then the cycle plane, and then the motorbike,
13:17and then the auto cycle.
13:20Schwinn set the standard for streamline and aerodynamic bikes.
13:24I mean, when the aero cycle came out, all the other bicycle manufacturers were looking
13:29at that thing going, wow.
13:31So the ripple effect of the aero cycle in the bicycle industry was huge.
13:36Oh, my gosh.
13:38How long you had this?
13:40Maybe, like, eight years.
13:42I love that it's got the original tires on it.
13:44Dang.
13:44The tires are great, aren't they?
13:45Oh, my God.
13:46They're sick.
13:47It's just weird to me, because someone re-chromed that handlebars.
13:50Yeah, the handlebars.
13:50Like, that's the only thing they fixed up.
13:53Look at it.
13:53They chromed that.
13:54The stem.
13:55They chromed the rear stand.
13:57Yeah.
13:57You can see, look at this, Robbie.
13:58The frame broke right here.
14:00And this was common, Bobby.
14:01Yeah.
14:02I've heard that.
14:02For the frame to break at the down tube and the seat tube, right here at the bottom bracket.
14:06And sometimes, so let me open this up.
14:08Because sometimes, if it breaks here, it'll also break right at the head tube.
14:13Oh.
14:13So it's good.
14:14Look it.
14:15It's all good.
14:16What's wild about it, when you look at it initially, is, look how great the pain is
14:20on the tank and the two main tubes of the frame.
14:22And then look at the paint loss on fenders.
14:24I call this attic burn.
14:26Whether it's a car, a motorcycle, a bicycle, depending on how it's stored, dictates how
14:31it's going to age.
14:32So the grips are rotted on it, they're broken.
14:34There's been touch up a little bit here and there, like the handlebars have been chromed.
14:38But it's amazing that it's survived the way it has.
14:41Are you interested in talking numbers?
14:43Help me carry it down where I want to see what it's going to look like down there where
14:47I'm going to hang it.
14:48All right.
14:49You probably think the same way I do.
14:50I think this is the coolest bike ever made.
14:53I want to take this thing home.
14:54To me, as a bicycle collector, the 1934 Schwinn Aerocycle is one of the world's marvels.
15:00It's just so interesting what they were thinking at that time, you know?
15:04When you look at this bike, you're trying to figure out the influences.
15:07You know, get into the mind of Ignatius Schwinn.
15:10Because the tank itself looks like the fuselage of an airplane.
15:14You know, and then there's a door on the side of the tank where you can put the batteries
15:17into it.
15:17The front of it is a winged eyeball.
15:20I mean, this was so incredibly advanced.
15:22I imagine finding a Schwinn Aerocycle.
15:25Would you consider selling it?
15:28I would have to get quite a lot.
15:31Because I've got a lot into it.
15:34I mean, like, 12 grand would be pretty good.
15:41That would help?
15:41Yeah.
15:43Yeah, that would be good.
15:44Here's the deal.
15:45I don't think you're too crazy on the number with the 12.
15:47I really don't.
15:48But with me, I'm looking at the overall paint.
15:52You know?
15:52I mean, the tank's great.
15:53The frame's great.
15:54The fenders are really bad.
15:56There's a next to no paint on the fenders.
15:58You can see the repairs they did here.
16:01You know, the paint has burned off the rack.
16:03Yeah, they must have heated it up and tweaked it or something.
16:06Yeah.
16:06It sucks that the tail light lens is gone because that's impossible to find.
16:10That's like a unicorn, man, because it's a glass lens and it says Schwinn this way and Schwinn
16:15this way.
16:15It's crossed.
16:16But those do look like dead stock pedals, those Torrington 10s.
16:19They could be.
16:19I've seen this bike with a red Troxel seat.
16:23Oh, that's cool.
16:23See, this is a deluxe version with this metal band around it.
16:27You know, if the bike fell over, it wouldn't tear up the side of the seat.
16:30Oh, that is nice.
16:30And I see that big heavy metal band where it's folded over into it.
16:33Mm-hmm.
16:34Ugh.
16:35Damn, dude.
16:37All right.
16:37I'm going to make you an offer on it.
16:40$10,000.
16:41Even though it's a passion, I have to always look at it as an investment as well.
16:45Well, I tell you, I mean, we're $2,000 apart.
16:49We're close.
16:50I know, right?
16:51If you want this bike this bad, let's bowl for it.
16:55If I win, $10,500.
16:57And if you win, $10,000.
17:00Okay.
17:01Fair?
17:01All right.
17:02All right.
17:10See, I'm rusty.
17:12I'll still probably beat them.
17:14You had four pins up.
17:14You had four pins.
17:16I'm rusty.
17:18They're right here.
17:23That's a strike.
17:25Oh!
17:26You already beat it.
17:27You already beat it.
17:28I already beat it.
17:28You already beat it.
17:29I beat it.
17:29You beat it.
17:32Nice work.
17:33I won.
17:33Nice work.
17:36Nice work.
17:37Hey, I had to win somehow.
17:39Oh, well.
17:41Let me go see my bike.
17:42My brother ends up with a pre-war Schwinn, and it's an aero cycle.
17:46Strike.
17:48Strike it.
17:49Jeez.
17:50All right.
17:50Here I go.
17:51That should have been the one I did for $500.
17:54Tell him again.
17:56What?
18:01Oh, there it is.
18:03Oh!
18:04Yeah.
18:04Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
18:32Danny D, what's up?
18:33Hey, I'm sending you guys to see Rafe.
18:35So Rafe has not only been collecting his entire life,
18:38but he's been an aviation photographer for most of it.
18:41Oh, wow!
18:42Yes, and his father was a photographer during World War II.
18:45No kidding!
18:46And he hung around his dad his entire life.
18:48They were tight.
18:49And so he kind of got into photography,
18:52militaria, and crafted his eye at a really young age.
18:55Oh, hey, also, in 2000, he bought an airplane hanger
18:59to stash his collection.
19:01Dang!
19:01What?
19:02And this place is packed full.
19:04You're going to have trouble getting around.
19:05I can promise you that.
19:06Wow.
19:06It's nuts.
19:07And he sent me a selfie.
19:08He looks like the Baron of the skies.
19:11And I have to tell you,
19:12this man has the most beautiful curly mustache
19:15I have ever seen in my life.
19:17I mean, this dude's going to be a character.
19:18All right, all right.
19:23Look at that plane, man.
19:25That is killer.
19:26Check out the Texco signs.
19:28This has got to be the right place.
19:29Let's see if that's the dude.
19:32I'm going to get the wire.
19:36Hey.
19:39Hey.
19:39Hey.
19:39You got to be Rafe.
19:40I am Rafe.
19:41Okay.
19:42We've heard a lot about you.
19:44Nice to meet you, Rob.
19:45Good to meet you.
19:45Good to meet you, Mike.
19:46Here you go.
19:47Nice to meet you, Mike.
19:47How are you doing?
19:48Good to see you.
19:49No, this is Eric Preston's plane, my buddy here.
19:52All right.
19:52Wow.
19:52What year is it?
19:53Well, it was designed in 1934 in Germany,
19:56but this one was built in 51 in Spain.
19:58Wow.
19:58And it's painted in a World War II scheme.
20:00It's a German aerobatic primary training airplane,
20:03a Bucher-Youngman.
20:03They started in the early 30s
20:05and lasted through the end of World War II.
20:08Why did they make this one design for so many years?
20:10Because with aviation, I mean,
20:11doesn't technology change so dramatically every year?
20:14It does, but this airplane was such a nice flying airplane,
20:17it was really hard to match it.
20:18And this one was surplus in 1976.
20:20It was in the Spanish Air Force,
20:22currently operating in 1976.
20:23Really?
20:24No kidding.
20:25The same design from 34.
20:28Wow.
20:28So this was a training plane, though.
20:29This was a military training airplane for aerobatics.
20:31So who flies this?
20:32Do you fly it?
20:32I do.
20:33I'm a motorcycle guy.
20:34I'm a car guy.
20:35But at the end of the day,
20:37I am into transportation history.
20:39And that is a big, beautiful world
20:41with a lot of incredible things.
20:43So what's the oldest plane you have?
20:45My oldest airplane would be 1929.
20:48Really?
20:49But not in flying condition like this,
20:51but soon to be restored.
20:53So how'd you get into all this?
20:54My dad was a photographer in the Marine Corps in World War II
20:57with Pappy Boynton and the black sheep.
20:59Wow.
21:00Really?
21:00So I grew up with cameras.
21:02I guess the photography was in my DNA.
21:04Over the years, I've collected quite a few things,
21:07and I have a lot of extra stuff.
21:09Easier to show you guys, so let's take a walk next door.
21:11Okay.
21:12I'll see you guys.
21:13Eric, thanks.
21:14Hey, man.
21:14Thanks.
21:14Appreciate you.
21:15No problem.
21:16All right.
21:16Cool.
21:17So this airport started in the 60s,
21:19and they set it up for 60 hangers.
21:22Okay.
21:23And each of us individually owns our hangers,
21:25and collectively we own the 35 acres of the real estate.
21:30Ah, this place is huge.
21:32Oh, wow.
21:34That's much room.
21:36Oh, my gosh.
21:38Wow.
21:38What year is the trailer?
21:40It's a 1947 Curtis Wright trailer designed by Wally Byam.
21:45Wally Byam is the mastermind and the creator of Airstream trailers,
21:49but when World War II started, he shut down Airstream.
21:52Oh, yeah.
21:54Curtis Wright had three things going for it.
21:56One, it had the skill, two, it had the material, and three, it had the employees.
22:01What they needed was Wally Byam to help him with the design.
22:05It's 20 feet long overall.
22:07Wow.
22:07This looks all original on the inside.
22:09It is pretty original.
22:10Wally Byam designed trailers for a very short time for Curtis Wright
22:13before he opened Airstream again.
22:15So this is unbelievable.
22:17Very cool.
22:18So you're going to sell this?
22:19No, not so much.
22:20I would like to restore it because my big dream is to drive it around Canada and the U.S.
22:25Okay.
22:26That's a great dream.
22:27With a vintage 1947 truck.
22:30Oh, wow.
22:31Or a woody.
22:32Look at that, Robbie.
22:34So this is associated gas and oil.
22:36Yep.
22:37Right.
22:37Fine A.
22:37That sign right there would probably retail on us about $3,200.
22:41The only downfall to that sign is size.
22:43The associated gas sign would be the marquee going across the gas station.
22:47The flying A sign would be above that.
22:49So they were the same company, basically.
22:51What are you thinking on something like this?
22:53Like $2,000?
22:54How bad is it?
22:55Is there any on the edges, Mike, down below?
22:57No, it's not bad.
22:58Yeah, that's nice.
22:59But what's the other side look like?
23:00The other one down there.
23:01Pretty much the same thing.
23:04Just got a couple chips on it.
23:05It's got a Wham-O right there.
23:06And that's about it.
23:07Yeah.
23:07But it'll clean up.
23:08It's got a good color to it.
23:09All right.
23:09Shake his hand, Robbie.
23:11Two grand.
23:12Awesome.
23:13I'm glad to know that there are still a lot of people that are eager to collect petrolania.
23:19You had a bicycle out there with a sidecar on it.
23:22Can I look at that?
23:24Sure.
23:31So I bought this sidecar down at Huntington Beach.
23:36Okay, yeah.
23:36It says Seaplane Court, Madison, Wisconsin.
23:40Mm-hmm.
23:41Moe's sidecar.
23:43Interesting.
23:43This looks like a later Fender, though.
23:45I mean, I know it's...
23:47I don't know.
23:47This is off of Schwinn.
23:48It's got a Schwinn wheel on it.
23:50It's a Schwinn middleweight that somebody's put a heavy gauge spoke in.
23:53Obviously, they changed the hub.
23:55Obviously, they changed the hub out.
23:55To me, the bike is obviously more valuable than this.
23:59It's a Schwinn.
24:01It's original paint.
24:15Mm-hmm.
24:16The sidecar.
24:18To the right person, the sidecar could be, I don't know, maybe 600, 700 bucks.
24:23Years and years ago, I paid 400, which was the asking price.
24:29Yeah.
24:29I mean, what would you want for both together, would you think?
24:33Could you do five for both together?
24:37It's an Iowa bike.
24:39Oh, the bike came from Iowa?
24:42It's just the big circle.
24:43It's all going back.
24:44If we're able to do a deal on this, I'm going to sell the sidecar off and keep the bike.
24:49All right.
24:49Let's do it.
24:50500 bucks for the sidecar and the bike.
24:52And the bike.
25:00This is Snail Trails.
25:01Everywhere you look, it's piled shoulder high.
25:04There's actually a plane in here somewhere.
25:07This is 50-year accumulation.
25:09Every inch of this place is stacked.
25:11And you can see where there's some organization and some things that are repetitive, but then it just kind of
25:18exploded from there.
25:20Come on back.
25:20Let me show you an airplane over here.
25:22Okay.
25:24Oh, wow, man.
25:25Wow.
25:26Look at the engine on that, Robbie.
25:27Look at that radial engine.
25:29Whoa.
25:30This is an all-original 1930 airplane that came from San Bernardino.
25:35It was last flown just before Pearl Harbor.
25:38Really?
25:38And when Pearl Harbor was bombed, civilian flying on the west coast was banned.
25:43So this stayed in the hangar the whole war and never flew again.
25:46So I saw this for the very first time when the owner took me back, and we were always going
25:51to refinish it, and I desperately wanted to take him flying it one last time.
25:56Oh, yeah.
25:57Well, unfortunately, he got cancer and died, but he left it to me.
26:01Really?
26:02Wow.
26:02So half of the people love it just the way it is.
26:05Yeah.
26:05The engine has bright yellow oil.
26:07It's got new compression, and it basically...
26:10So there's basically no hours on it.
26:12Very few.
26:13They made three of these at the factory in Los Angeles.
26:15That's all they made was three.
26:16Only three.
26:16At the end of World War I, the American government sold surplus Jenny airplanes.
26:22The old Jennys were big and kind of clunky, and people wanted smaller, faster, more sporty airplanes.
26:29And Populair was built in 1930 and answered that call.
26:34Oh, wow, like the gauges and everything and the wood dash.
26:37Look at this headrest right here that's leather, Robbie.
26:39Unfortunately, the Populair came on right at the beginning of the depression in the big stock market crash.
26:46So the company failed in 1931 or 32 after just manufacturing three airplanes.
26:53The one that I have is the only remaining of the three.
26:57To find something like this unmolested, I mean, as it was.
27:02I think the last registration up in the front cockpit is dated the 1938.
27:08I love that logo on the side. What does that say?
27:11It says Populair, which is the name of it.
27:13And then it says Earl Aviation Corporation.
27:16Dang, this is so cool.
27:18Over the years, I've seen a lot of things in their natural state.
27:21It's something that stood the test of time. It's been untouched.
27:23This has got to be one of the top five.
27:26Looking at an airplane that hasn't been flown since before Pearl Harbor.
27:31It's just very cool.
27:33Would you even consider selling this?
27:35It's time for someone else, I think.
27:37Like the person I'm thinking of? I'm thinking of Rick.
27:40So this guy's got a museum and it's a motorcycle museum, but it's really evolving more into transportation.
27:47So he's got like a lot of cars and he's got all these things, but he's built these massive buildings.
27:52So if I could take some pictures of it.
27:54Sure, let's do it.
27:55I'll send him all this.
27:56Oh, excellent.
27:57Transportation history covers anything from airplanes to automobiles to bicycles to motorcycles.
28:04He's always understood that all of those things are connected to each other.
28:09Hello.
28:10Hey, did you get pics of that plane?
28:12Yeah.
28:13I know, that thing's insane, right?
28:15I like it.
28:16The gentleman that's interested in selling it, he's standing right here.
28:20He could probably tell you something about it.
28:22It was made in Los Angeles, Rick, in 1930.
28:26There were three of them made.
28:27It's a two-seat biplane.
28:29It's got a seven-cylinder Warner Scarab Jr.
28:32I think it's 115 horse.
28:35What do you want for it?
28:36Well, I'm looking for 35.
28:39And it's a complete airplane ready to hang.
28:42It's a complete airplane ready to hang.
28:44That's right.
28:45It's pretty cool, buddy.
28:46It is.
28:46It would look amazing in your museum.
28:48Looks like it's got some history behind it.
28:51I'd be interested in it.
28:52All right, Rick, I'm going to put you in contact with each other.
28:55And, hey, congratulations, man.
28:57It's a really cool piece.
28:58It does look nice.
28:59I know, right?
29:00It's nuts.
29:01It is.
29:02It's mind-blowing.
29:03I'll put you guys together.
29:05Hey, thanks.
29:06Thanks, Rick.
29:07Okay, bye.
29:08Bye.
29:09Hey, congratulations.
29:10That's awesome.
29:12You got a space.
29:12I think the popularity would be a great addition to Rick's museum in Utah.
29:17You've done your due diligence, my friend.
29:19I think so.
29:19I mean, you've given it a hell of a life.
29:21And I'm telling you what, you've got to go visit it.
29:23It's the perfect place.
29:24Well, it is.
29:25Thanks for sharing your history with us, buddy.
29:27All good.
29:28I mean that.
29:28Thank you, guys.
29:29From one bicycle guy to another.
29:31Appreciate you.
29:32It was a pleasure.
29:33All right, thank you.
29:34See you, Rick.
29:36Bye-bye.
29:54So we're going to go see a gal named Liz.
29:56It's her father's collection.
29:58Okay.
29:58Her father did pass within the last year.
30:01So there's a lot of moving parts.
30:02And they're trying to clear out properties and trying to move stuff along.
30:06Okay.
30:06He lived right on the lake.
30:08Well, what kind of stuff does he have?
30:09Well, I mean, he's got automotive.
30:10He's got mostly motorcycles.
30:131930s, right around there.
30:14Yeah.
30:14What do you mean, like Indians?
30:15Yeah.
30:16He does?
30:16Yeah.
30:20Wow, what a beautiful place.
30:22Right?
30:22Look at that view.
30:24Hey.
30:25Hey.
30:26How you doing?
30:26You Liz?
30:27Yes.
30:28Hey, I'm Mike.
30:29Hi, Mike.
30:29Nice to meet you.
30:30Hello.
30:30How you doing?
30:31This is Danny.
30:32Good to meet you.
30:33Good to meet you.
30:34Finally, in person, huh?
30:36I went to a lot of car shows, which were really boring for a little girl to go to.
30:42But when I spent time with my dad, it was usually doing something like that.
30:47Your father was an antique motorcycle collector?
30:50Yes.
30:51Yes.
30:51Did he go to the Davenport meet?
30:53Do you know if he ever went to Davenport, Iowa?
30:55He dragged me around when I was a little kid.
30:57Okay.
30:58Oh, you went on all the treasure hunts?
30:59I went on the treasure hunts.
31:01I did.
31:01Very cool.
31:02So, yeah.
31:03It's not every day there's a motorcycle in the den, but we've got one.
31:07Oh, my gosh.
31:08I love the way he's living.
31:09Whoa.
31:10This is unbelievable that the first thing you see when you walk in a dude's house is
31:14a skirted four-cylinder with a sidecar sitting right there in front of you.
31:18I've got eight motorcycles in my house.
31:20Oh, my gosh.
31:21So, it's cool to see this.
31:23It's an inline four-cylinder, and then you've got these skirted fenders.
31:27It sounds and looks like a locomotive going down the road, you know?
31:30Up to this point, there had been a number of American inline four-cylinders on the road.
31:34Brands like Ace, Cleveland, Henderson.
31:37But when Indian started skirting their fenders in 1940, dropping that fender to the side with
31:44that sexy airflow line, that streamlined look, that was a game changer.
31:49So, how long has this been in here?
31:50About 20 years.
31:52No kidding.
31:53Did he ride this ever?
31:55Yes.
31:55I rode in the sidecar.
31:57Okay.
31:57And I don't recommend it.
31:59Yeah.
31:59That's a gorgeous sidecar.
32:01Those Indian sidecars are getting harder and harder to find.
32:04Did he restore this?
32:05Yeah.
32:05This one came in pieces.
32:08So, he built this from, what, an engine?
32:09Yeah.
32:10It was literally a piece of rust.
32:13He rebuilt everything, and he would search out the original parts.
32:16He worked at Chrysler, he did the paint line, he worked in the Marine Division, and he did
32:23some of the machinist work.
32:25It was a good job for him.
32:26Did he do the engine on this?
32:28I believe so.
32:29No kidding.
32:30It's got a hydraulic front end on it.
32:31It's got a telescopic front end on it.
32:33Yeah.
32:34Indian didn't do this until the 50s.
32:36The front fork on this bike is a telescopic front end off of an Indian from the 1950s.
32:41They stopped building the four-cylinder in 1942.
32:45Oh, okay.
32:45Okay, so this would have had a leaf spring front end on it.
32:48Yeah.
32:48So, he wanted to make it more comfortable and maybe sit more upright on the bike.
32:52And he's also laid this piece of metal over the side to make this look like the side of the
32:58tank is chromed.
32:59Nice.
32:59This is probably stainless or something that he's put on the side of the tank to bring a different element
33:04to it.
33:05Yeah.
33:05I mean, this is no museum-quality restoration.
33:08This was lovingly restored in a way to where you didn't have to worry about putting it through the paces.
33:14Have you guys decided what you're going to do with this?
33:17We're probably going to have to sell it.
33:20Yeah.
33:20Okay.
33:21We're going to be moving eventually.
33:24So, we have to pick and choose what we can and cannot take with us.
33:28Mm-hmm.
33:28So.
33:29If the bike was built a period with a leaf spring front end on it and just had a little
33:33bit of a different restoration,
33:34it can bring as much as $65,000.
33:38No.
33:38But it also depends on how it runs.
33:40Because to do this engine, a four-cylinder engine, to rebuild it is a minimum of 25 grand.
33:46And a lot of people get blown away by that because it's only a four-cylinder engine.
33:51Right.
33:51But the guys that do it, that's what they do and they specialize in it.
33:55I'm completely interested in this bike.
33:57But we literally just walked in the door and Elizabeth has mentioned that he has other bikes.
34:02So, I'm just going to kind of step back and take it all in before I pull the trigger on
34:07anything.
34:08Come on in.
34:08Come on in.
34:09Wow.
34:10You got all kinds of stuff in here.
34:14This is a 1936 Harley VLD with a Goulding sidecar.
34:19So, he loves these Goulding sidecars, man.
34:21Yeah.
34:22Harley made a VLH, which was an 80-inch.
34:24And the VLD was a 74-inch, but it was considered high-performance.
34:30Hotter cams and ported cylinders.
34:32This is a pretty rare bike.
34:33This is a 36.
34:35It was the last year of the VL.
34:37When they were making this bike, they were making the 36 knucklehead.
34:41It changed everything for them.
34:43This is a beautiful bike.
34:44So, this is, again, same thing, rider's restoration.
34:47Yeah.
34:48I guess he is missing the toolbox.
34:49It's got the right headlight.
34:51It's got the right spotlights.
34:53It's got the earlier spotlights on it.
34:54It's got the right amp meter.
34:56This is an accessory Speedo.
34:58Look at these caps on here, man.
35:00Maybe he made these.
35:01I don't know.
35:01He could have.
35:03It's got a later ear cleaner on it.
35:05Woo!
35:06That's what I'm talking about.
35:07This is a desirable bike as well.
35:09I mean, a JD is a desirable bike.
35:12From 1921 to 1929, Harley made the JD.
35:16This is a 24.
35:17This is a pivotal year because this is the last year of the loop frame.
35:21And it's the first year of the big port motor.
35:24Got his paint in his paint job, man.
35:26So, this sidecar, this frame was really rough.
35:30Super pitted.
35:31Oh, yeah.
35:32You know, look at that, man.
35:33What are you guys thinking about dealing with these?
35:35We're going to have to sell them.
35:37Yeah.
35:38Yeah.
35:41To find one of these bikes would be incredible.
35:44But there's five bikes here.
35:47Five.
35:47Woo!
35:48Yeah.
35:49I love it when Mike buys motorcycles.
35:50I encourage Mike to buy motorcycles because they bring in a good amount of revenue and they
35:55never sit around.
35:56Someone's always wanting to buy a bike.
35:58So, these have probably been sitting 20 years, too.
36:00Oh, yeah.
36:01Yeah, see.
36:02I would say at least.
36:03Yeah.
36:04It's tough, you know, without hearing these things run.
36:07Right.
36:08That's the biggest thing.
36:08Here's what I know.
36:10There's five bikes here that haven't ran in 20 years.
36:13I can look at the quality of the restoration.
36:15Then, I'm looking at all the incorrect parts that are on most of the bikes.
36:20Okay, that's the stuff that I can see.
36:22What I can't see or hear is the bikes running, feel the bikes shifting, riding the bikes.
36:29And that's where I'm just kind of in my mind trying to figure all this out.
36:34Because to be honest with you, I love all of the bikes.
36:37I love the 24 JD, the 36 VL, the four cylinder, the 37 Chief, the 34 Chief.
36:43They're all incredible bikes.
36:44This is one man's life.
36:46This is his hard work.
36:47He's had his hands on every single one of these bikes.
36:51And so I'm trying to navigate which one I want to buy.
36:55And that's hard because each one of them have something really special going on in my mind as far as
37:01like the year and the type of bike.
37:12All of this is overwhelming.
37:14It's like I need a moment to kind of just step back, look around at some other stuff and decide
37:19what I want to do here.
37:24There are some significant bikes here.
37:27That is clean, man.
37:28That's what I understand the most.
37:30And that's what I'm hoping to leave here with.
37:32It also depends on how they run.
37:34Right.
37:35You know, every one of these bikes has value if it runs right, it shifts right.
37:41To rebuild a four cylinder engine is a minimum of 25 grand.
37:45Right.
37:46I mean, in my head, my head was just spinning as far as like, you know, the what ifs and
37:50everything and the incorrect parts and trying to straighten things out.
37:54And I mean, after looking over everything and just kind of assessing, you know, what the bikes are going to
38:01need to get them running,
38:03looking at the type of restoration that's on the bike, what's incorrect parts wise and what's correct parts wise.
38:09Even the smallest thing like this sidecar frame being as broken and pitted as it is.
38:14I mean, it all affects the number.
38:16Right.
38:17After looking at the bikes and crawling around them and just trying to decide on which one I want to
38:23walk away with.
38:24It's like I don't want to leave any of them behind.
38:27I'm thinking about all the bikes.
38:29That's the four cylinder in the house.
38:30That's the 36.
38:32That's the 24 and the 37 and the 34 Chiefs.
38:36There's five bikes here, which is five times the issues, but also five times the opportunity.
38:43I'd pay one hundred and thirty five thousand for all of them.
38:50A hundred thirty five thousand dollars.
38:53When I heard the number, it's stuck right here in my throat.
38:59That's where I want to throw my hat in the ring.
39:01OK.
39:03That's all five bikes that we've looked at.
39:05One hundred and thirty five thousand dollars for five bikes is twenty seven grand a piece.
39:10Are some worth more?
39:11Man, I hope so.
39:12It depends on how they run.
39:14But that's where I felt I needed to be with the quality of the restoration, the incorrect parts and just
39:20the fact that I have no idea how all of this stuff is going to pan out when it comes
39:25to getting this stuff running.
39:26I've got a friend that owns a museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.
39:30He's worked on a lot of bikes for us in the past, and I would love to get these up
39:35there and get his hands on these with his help.
39:39I think we can get them running and put them back on the road.
39:42Each one is going to be a journey, whether it's tires or cleaning the fuel tank or finding the right
39:47part or making the bike shift, whatever it is.
39:50There's so many different things that could happen with one of these bikes.
39:54The linchpin is how they are mechanically.
39:57That is the deciding factor on the real value.
40:02Think we could have a minute to maybe discuss it, maybe?
40:05Absolutely.
40:05Absolutely.
40:06All right.
40:07My dad's handprints are all over those.
40:10And he spent a lot of time with them, and he was very proud of them.
40:20We can't hold on to everything.
40:22The opportunity is here and...
40:29So have you guys thought about it at all?
40:31Where are you going to be on them or where you want to be on them?
40:34Yeah.
40:35Yeah.
40:35When I saw Mike looking at the bikes and I seen, you know, his excitement, of course, spouting off a
40:42lot of things that I didn't know, that kind of made me feel less anxious about getting rid of those.
40:50We thought about it, and I think that we could do that because we want someone to really appreciate these.
40:58We don't want them to sit in a garage.
41:00Yep.
41:00For another 20 years, right?
41:02Right.
41:03We want somebody to enjoy them as much as my dad did.
41:07All of these things represent something that none of us can buy, and that's time.
41:11We're going to get them running.
41:13I know that he's going to do what's right for them and hopefully get them on the road and somebody
41:20enjoying them and doing what they were made to do.
41:26We cleaned you out today.
41:27Yeah, we'll do.
41:28I'll send you guys some video of the bikes running.
41:31The reason these things are still all here is because people love them the way her father did.
41:36That's why they're here.
41:37So hats off to him for the life that he had here.
41:41Bye!
41:42This beautiful home right on the lake.
41:45Bye!
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