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American Pickers - Season 27 - Episode 11: Rockin' Relics
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00:08Tom what's going on buddy you remember me yeah yeah you look the same you're aging well yes
00:15you too what's going on dude there you go a lot of people know James from playing with Elvis leader
00:20of the TCB band lead guitar player and they asked me after I retired if I'd take care of the
00:26foundation for him so you're the guy taking care of business huh yes sir TCB you got the
00:32responsibility of it all one of the blessings to having a store in Nashville for over a decade
00:38is getting to know so many musicians that are serious collectors I was fortunate enough to
00:45meet James years ago when we had a stand-up bass that we needed authenticated it looks like to me
00:50they had the idea of making it look a little bit like a Bill Black bass but I don't think
00:56it could
00:56be Bill Black's bass James and I became fast friends because we share the same passions and his wife
01:03Louise is a real pistol so what's going on with this one they're gonna sell this to that I'm not
01:08sure when James gets here we're gonna talk to him oh yeah yeah there's one right there that's what the
01:1459 the 59 Corvette nice oh you guys got a Manx no way yep 69 leave it to a true
01:22Volkswagen
01:22enthusiasts to walk past the Corvette and start digging into the dude buggy this Manx is insane
01:31dude wow oh you got Burton James on there Burbank California think about these things hitting the
01:39beaches in the 60s man oh these things were huge fling back then oh my god I can't even imagine
01:45James had great taste in cars I mean he's got a Manx sitting here and then he's got the 59
01:50Corvette I
01:52love the way that James's mind works it's like two iconic fiberglass cars that are on completely
01:59different ends of the spectrum all right I just want to get a picture of the number off the block
02:04here
02:04so I can send it to Jeff he has a business called speed vet because even if I don't buy
02:10it then James
02:11and Louise will have like a jumping-off point in regards to the value of it you know yeah I
02:15get
02:15that yeah what about any of this other stuff what are they doing with all of this this is probably
02:19part
02:19of his personal collection sounds like JB's here what the hell's he driving a semi does he roll around in
02:29this all the time it's a deal now holy cow is it raining I'm freaking sapping wet dude you are
02:50getting
02:50out to doing gas next time dude hey Danny what's up what's up girl hey listen I'm gonna send you
02:58out to meet Ronnie jr. and Rhonda their dad Ronnie senior worked at the post office so he would find
03:04all kinds of stuff on his postal route he's like he's like the meter reader yep Mike picked him years
03:11ago and he had dude he had incredible stuff I don't have no money in the stock market and I
03:16don't
03:16believe in stocks I don't either all of this is my stocks and I don't have to pay no broker
03:21fee
03:22yeah that's right man sadly Ronnie senior has passed on and the kids are kind of overwhelmed
03:28they've got a lot there all right yeah I mean I appreciate it sounds like a good day except for
03:33this freaking rain is not letting up yeah call the weather service and can you put a hold in this
03:37rain
03:38for us Danny call weather service put a hold on rain got it thank you okay guys have a good
03:44one bye
03:47all right let's suit up go that's awesome yep all right cool whoo it's slipping out here man
03:57hey hey guys hey are you Ronnie how are you yes sir how you doing man Danielle sent us down
04:02great how you doing coming yeah come on in get out this rain all right cool it's freaking raining
04:07down here man wow this place is crazy come on back this is my sister Rhonda hello Rhonda I'm John
04:21Rob Wolf nice and your name is Ronnie Ron I'm Ronnie jr. Ronnie jr. okay that's all your dad's stuff
04:27yeah this is cool hey look it yeah I gotta drive one kind of for you we got here you
04:35go this is
04:36kind of stuff we're looking for and it looks like you got a lot of it my dad was Ronnie
04:39Sanders senior
04:40and he collected a lot of things uh gas pumps license plates the jukeboxes I mean growing up you know
04:47he'd
04:47have all this the music and it played the full sound kind of loud you know when he would come
04:54home the
04:54truck would be loaded down so he was a postal worker delivering the mail saying hey you want
05:00to get rid of that gas pump right hey you want to get rid of that truck I remember he
05:03bought a truck
05:03one time the guy was pulling it up putting the for sale sign on it how many years did he
05:08beat the
05:08path there uh he was total 34 whoa wow I was 36 36 that's what you guys work together no
05:16different
05:16offices oh wow I'm retired from the postal service my dad and my mom both retired walking in here I
05:23noticed you got some mailboxes over here oh yeah I like them both because they're let me see a jersey
05:29but that one grass Robbie you don't see brass post office boxes very often it was probably in a hotel
05:35lobby it was fancy it was probably polished so it was the upper scale model somebody that sold him
05:41the brass one is interested in buying it back you know had a lot of people contacting me about oh
05:46yeah
05:46okay when jersey said I see something I want already my mind was saying don't pick up that brass
05:52mailbox because the guy who sold it to my dad would like to have it back so is this something
05:57you want
05:57to hold on to I'd like to hold the brass one okay you want to hold the brass one how
06:00about the uh the
06:01steel one the blue one I know you got attached for postal stuff and I'm trying to pull teeth here
06:06I
06:06think maybe we could put these in the equation later okay all right all right yes that sounds like
06:11we'll put it in your maybe pile hey I appreciate you let me look at them and check it out
06:16and also
06:16letting us in here you might have we look around yeah yeah let's do it whoa wow it's like Jenga
06:26yeah
06:26the interior is building I mean it's like a cathedral of junk it's all over the place man it's like
06:33from
06:33Florida ceiling it's packed in there it's dense whoa there's some uh Pegasus legs yeah what's up
06:39wow these are what always got broken off I mean is that you don't have the horse I know years
06:44ago he
06:45had he had like a pair facing each other oh yeah left and right yeah these Pegasus legs are always
06:51bent and broken because that was the bolt-on point for the big Peggy that went up on the building
06:56to find
06:57two of them absolutely a miracle one is a painted version and one is a porcelain version if we had
07:03the
07:03whole thing it'd be worth some money yeah I mean I've seen him sell at auction for 15 18 thousand
07:09dollars yeah but the guy that needs this yeah that's the key yeah find that guy and this one's
07:14in good shape it's got one chip on it I mean you want to sell them yeah sure 300 for
07:20the pair how
07:22about 350 no this is probably doing it I'm doing it my biggest concern is that now there's a Pegasus
07:31horse with no legs and I hope we find it hey Jersey what find me the horse whoa are you
07:40whistling for it
07:41let's see if we can find him I'm excited to see James you're really amped up aren't you last time
07:48I
07:48talked to him he was telling me about playing with Jimmy Page Roy Orbison and Bruce Springsteen the list
07:55goes on and on he's a rock star is rock star hey is James Burton in there I want to
08:02get his autograph
08:05buddy hey good to see you good to see you been all right you look good where's Louise there she
08:13is
08:13in style you guys always roll like this yes I love you we're doing great we've been looking at all
08:22your stuff James has been a rock star for so long that he drives a tour bus like he drives
08:28a Toyota
08:28yeah when's the last time this 57 was out James I think I drove it when I bought it back
08:33in uh was
08:34a 72 or three well when I got old enough to drive I got in the cars and uh if
08:41I see something I like
08:42I go for it this Manx when's the last time you drove that the dune buggy yeah took it to
08:48uh Death
08:49Valley okay and uh played around up there and that was in the 70s yeah the very first dune buggies
08:56were
08:56basically Volkswagen Beetles with the body pulled off and then MP came along and started making aftermarket
09:02metal conversion kits they called the sportster Bruce Myers wasn't the first guy to make a dune
09:07buggy but he was the first one to make it out of fiberglass I think about how many great American
09:14industries that were impactful that started in somebody's garage Bruce Myers is one of those guys
09:19he saw the potential he saw the impact he was an artist he was a surfer I mean he was
09:25part of the
09:26California culture what are the four pans like on this thing they're pretty solid man nope here you got
09:31some rot right through here on the on the driver's side it's starting to come through as soon as I
09:36get
09:36up underneath this Volkswagen chassis it just brings back all the memories of looking at these things over
09:41the years I mean the first thing you want to look at is the shock towers you want to look
09:45at the floor
09:45pans I mean there's a little bit of damage here there's some rot but overall this is a pretty solid
09:51vehicle Bruce Myers was a genius and now they're making Myers Manx again you know they're doing electric
09:56ones Myers Manx dune buggies have been collectible for a long time but there has been a huge resurgence
10:02in interest because the company has been resurrected and they're redesigning them in electric models
10:09so now would be the time of sale though yeah wow well I'm hey I'm a player on it maybe
10:15I don't know
10:21Rhonda I see these things here hold on oh they're old dive boots wow look like something Robbie would
10:28wear get some white these dive boots are part of a deep sea diving rig they weigh you down as
10:38you're
10:38going underwater how about two and a quarter okay two two and a quarter thank you they're really cool
10:46have you seen Robbie around or we lose them I just stumbled upon the holy grail of every 45 ever
10:51made
10:52hey say your box cheap you could have a gold mine back here you got to go through every one
10:56of these
10:57boxes yeah I don't like comic books I don't know if I'd live that long I'll take one box for
11:0230 bucks
11:02there you go all right that's cool it looks like a was that a bank yeah he put the coin
11:08in there and
11:09shoot it in the oh look the guy and he's got his hands up he's getting held up I think
11:14it looks like
11:14from the 60s it's a die cast bank and they came up with a way to inject metal into a
11:19mold and they
11:20could do it thousands and thousands and thousands of times missing the bottom of course and that was
11:24probably got robbed well yeah very good I do 60 bucks how about 80 would that would that turn you
11:32still keep you going I'm in
11:38all right I'm finding some James Burton artifacts Le Mirage perfumes Beverly Hills New York
11:46I don't think he really wanted that James basically has become a friend at this point but every once
11:52in a while it takes over me and I'm like this is James Burton man this is James Burton's Corvette
11:57this is James Burton's cologne it's overwhelming sometimes I mean the achievements he's made the
12:03talents that he has it's it's incredible and to be able to call him a friend is such an honor
12:08a girl in Beverly Hills had this car drove it to school it cost her too much money to drive
12:14it
12:15so she got a common gear and I said what do you want for it she said uh $500
12:21back then I think I drove it a little bit but not much I hear listen I love it the
12:26way it looks like
12:27this it's almost kind of ghostly looking the way it is I love that it has no caps on it
12:32the black walls
12:33I mean everything about it well you'd like all of our cars then
12:38well let me ask you this James are you gonna get this car back on the road
12:41I don't think so okay we have a picture at our foundation office with him and Elvis sitting
12:48in this car in this one well I'm at the air well Elvis did have a Myers-Manks or I
12:54don't know if it
12:54was his he was in a movie with one oh so he did have one the Manx was a cultural
13:00phenomenon and not
13:02just in California it made appearances in movies like the Thomas crown affair with Steve McQueen
13:07or the opening scene of live a little love a little with Elvis Presley he was driving a Myers-Manks
13:14that was Yuma yellow exactly like the one I'm standing in front of which makes me wonder which
13:21came first Elvis's Manx or James Burton's Manx who influenced who it's beautiful I mean it's a time
13:28capsule I mean it really is both of these cars are this is the fiberglass car corner over here
13:36James hey you've got a phone call in the house from the promoter that you were waiting for
13:40James is in his 80s and he is still rocking and rolling he's a busy guy he's touring Europe he's
13:45taking phone calls I mean he's one of those guys that loves what he does and when you stop working
13:51you stop living okay well we'll pick up okay yeah take your call and I'll digest all of this stuff
14:01this is all the scientific stuff he bought what was going on you find like an old lab or something
14:05and what's going on with this thing I think it was from a school okay so I mean this is
14:09some kind of
14:10weird tuning fork with some electrical coils on it I was with dad when he bought these items from
14:15a science classroom I'm guessing that's what where they were from what the heck oh wow that's ah this
14:23is the kind of things that schools would use to demonstrate different scientific principles and
14:28techniques but what really stands out to me is his Wimhurst machine it's a demonstrator for static
14:34electricity and I mean that's the very first time we're discovering electricity is with machines like
14:40this and I think that was like the time when you know Leonardo da Vinci was around there's it
14:44starting to mess with this stuff how it works is that there's two glass discs in there and they
14:49counter rotate two opposite directions and there's these combs on each side of the glass they pick up
14:54the static electricity charge and they bring it into these capacitors and from them it discharges into
15:00these balls and it could like Frankenstein movie you know it's like it's so cool to see this I mean
15:05this piece is not made in the 15 or 1600s this is made in the 20s 1920s this one looks
15:11like it's a
15:11pretty darn good shape yeah I think it would actually work I mean look at this lamp but look
15:16at that baby it's got like a parabolic lens in there it's all like silvered also this parabolic
15:21mirror is so cool because right away what comes up in my mind is that this could be repurposed I'd
15:27be
15:27sitting on a table an Edison bulb here yeah that'd be cool that'd be wicked cool you got this little
15:34like homemade motor this came out of a school I think so yeah so your dad was buying stuff from
15:40everywhere you know if it was a good deal he was down for it it was a good deal I
15:44could see all the
15:44conversations that I could have with Ronnie senior you know I feel I'm getting to know him I'm doing
15:49it through the objects he's collected in his life before one two three four pieces here I'm thinking two
15:55and a quarter I uh in my head I was thinking 200 or above I'm taking it well I'll tell
16:00you what
16:01that I might offer you more than you wanted right yes all right thank you it's really cool I love
16:06early science stuff it's neat this used to be uh our guest house in our party house and nothing but
16:14fun fun fun went on here this is a pretty dang big guest house yeah three thousand square feet it's
16:19big
16:19uh these are some of James's cartage cases that came from LA that he used in the studios what year
16:27do you think this is from oh probably the 60s oh my gosh so this is the bottom of it's
16:32blown out
16:33yeah let me tell you how to repair it here okay you put a piece of board here okay there
16:39there and
16:40there can you put it two by four because it has to slip over this right but I think we
16:44could do it
16:45this is so cool it's got his name on it it's directly connected to him playing it held his amp
16:50but
16:50the condition is just not there I love that Louise it's like what are you talking about you can fix
16:58it
16:58this way all you gotta do is hammer this glue that and Louise is spunky she's scrappy and evidently
17:05she's handy he just recorded with Brad Paisley so really and he's getting ready to do a thing with
17:10uh Ron Dunn James is obviously best known for playing with Elvis Presley but he also played with
17:16guys like Merle Haggard Glenn Campbell Johnny Cash Elvis Costello John Denver yeah people ask him
17:24when are you gonna retire and he said to what I mean he's never worked he's only played all of
17:29his
17:29life so it's not work to him how about how about 300 in the condition it's in can I think
17:36about that
17:37absolutely okay absolutely think about that I mean that's one thing that I've seen here just walking
17:42in the door what about the untouchables game what's going on with that
17:50this has got a bunch of his music and stuff oh gosh that's awesome wow see that's the studio stuff
17:58he would be playing did James write songs he wrote Susie Q oh my gosh that's right it was a
18:04sign on
18:05and sign off song that they used at the club with Dale Hawkins and so Dale finally put words to
18:11it
18:11but how old was he when he wrote that 14 14 years old and how old was he when you
18:17came into his life
18:18I was 16 but he was 21 okay so what does your mom and dad think of that they didn't
18:23like that at all
18:24they didn't like he was a musician and they didn't like that he was older we used to have all
18:29the parties
18:30out there and it was a party house and it was decorated music stuff everywhere a lot of history
18:36history out there we don't throw anything out you know you got the cops and robbers these guys have
18:42shotguns driving the getaway car James loved it because it was cars it's basically a chase game
18:48you're the police you got a pistol grip in your hand a throttle at your foot you can see the
18:52pavement
18:53moving underneath them on this conveyor belt it's just such a hard game to find I mean yes this one's
18:59not in the best condition but it can be fixed it can be repaired I mean it's so cool to
19:05see it here
19:06in this pool house because of all the entertaining they did imagine who would have played this thing
19:12all right so I can see there's an eight track in here look at that oh yeah that's the sound
19:16that's
19:17the sound you know here's the deal I know these are expensive games when they're rocking and rolling
19:22and they're in really good condition you know I mean I don't know the market on it completely but
19:28I've seen these games bring as much as ten to twelve thousand dollars when they're they're done
19:37I mean I'm talking like really nice pristine games and that's why I wanted to see the cabinet on it
19:42yeah to see how nice the paint was on it you know what I mean so this side looks pretty
19:47good too
19:47there's some nicks a little bit of nicks in it but not much I'm thinking uh four thousand bucks
19:55Mike you gotta remember we're best friends hey I know I'm I am remembering that how about
20:03forty five and I'll throw this in four thousand for the game and five hundred for the shipping case
20:13yeah okay all right we're doing it okay all right thank you I love it we got a guy I
20:19think can get
20:19this fired up but the you know the untouchables eight track that might be a little bit difficult
20:24to get that rolling you just take a little tape don't you remember how you fixed your eight tracks
20:29years ago no I have cars with eight tracks we had to fix those all the time this is probably
20:38when he
20:39was that he was fine in these when he was doing you know when he was doing the postal picking
20:43postal picking he was out on the road he'd find hey you got a gas pump out there how much
20:46is that
20:47come back he used to dig them out the woods and I remember going on vacation me and my sister
20:51would
20:51have all kind of room you know she'd have the whole back I'd have the two the middle section yeah
20:55and
20:56then on the way home we'd like ride on top of everything you bought we're all built the same way
21:01my dad
21:02used to do the same thing we'd go out at a flea market and we'd sell a bunch of stuff
21:05and we'd go have a big
21:06dinner on the way home and that was kind of like see this is how it works a lot of
21:09time when you're
21:10collecting these gas pumps you're buying them for parts you're buying them because you need the top
21:14for one to make the other one complete so this is kind of like the graveyard of gas pumps I
21:20mean
21:20I'd be interested in both the haze pumps this haze that's here with the top it's missing the cylinder
21:25on it it's square size yeah and this one here this one right here this this you know the paint's
21:33flaking off it but it's another haze it's missing the cylinder and it's missing the top on here so
21:37I'd like to try and find the top of the cylinder if we could for this these are haze visible
21:43pumps
21:44most of the visible pumps you see are round at the bottom these are actually squared off and tapered to
21:50the top and if you look at the top it looks like a mushroom so it's just a little bit
21:54different pump
21:55a little bit harder to find parts for but these are more valuable would you sell this I would
22:01I'd do 2600 if I could find the top and a cylinder for the for the tube yep yeah I
22:09think I saw some
22:09inside let's just do 2500 for what we're looking at here okay and if we find the cylinder we can
22:18negotiate that because I'm not sure if the cylinder's got bb holes in it or cracks in it you know
22:23we didn't
22:24really look at the yeah 2500 for what we're looking at okay that worked good cool thank you awesome
22:34can I look at these slot machines over here yes you can they came out of a ski lodge we
22:40own part of
22:41years ago from Calgary Canada and Happy Valley that's where you guys were at up there yeah now it's all
22:48subdivisions we were one of the owners at one time of it there's a lot of memories in here not
22:53just
22:54like from parties and stuff but all these items you know from different places they've been so you
22:59know the fact that like you know she's telling me that the slot machines came from a casino that they
23:04were investors in in Canada I mean that's just shows like all the little things that they were doing
23:10on the side besides playing music you know they were they were running a business the business of life
23:17this one's called the mills extraordinaire and this one is the rockola revamp they're both from the same
23:23time period which is the 1930s they need work I'd like to be at like 400 a piece I tell
23:30you what
23:32I know they're worth around 1200 each if they're restored yeah if they're new and I'm not gonna do
23:37anything with them so I'll make you an offer you can't refuse okay 450 each and they're yours
23:46all right we're doing it we're doing it shake your hand Tom Tom is just as surprised
23:53as I am Louise is selling stuff we sold something yeah sold something
24:02can I look up there yes up here yeah there's stairs right here all the way around the whole
24:09messaging up there when you walk into most collector spaces I mean you kind of know what the vibe is
24:13you know right away hey this guy collects cars he collects tools he collects you know boats whatever
24:18with this pick there's a variety here I don't know where to focus oh he made this one
24:25he made it looks like it was a clock body he made yeah and fit it in there Ronnie senior
24:31looked like
24:31he was a guy that liked to tinker with different things this acto gas lens they took a clock body
24:37and
24:37put a glass lens on the inside of it and then lit it up from behind I mean it's genius
24:42it's a piece of folk
24:43art but man I tell you what I'm gonna start doing this when I saw it I thought it was
24:47a pump globe you know and
24:49then it's like wait well that's what it was going on this would have gone on the lens the lens
24:53would
24:53have but he put it in a clock body is what he did yeah it's unique 250. I think retail
25:00on it after we
25:00probably wire it and do everything to it maybe 400. yeah it's like a folk art piece is what it
25:07is
25:07I mean the lens is where the value is could you do 275 just to kind of sweeten it up
25:13a little bit 275.
25:15okay great i love it i got a feeling that your dad built that he may have
25:25the tcb band look at that oh my emery gordon jr james burton ronnie tut jerry chef glenn harden
25:35that's the only record they ever made too and we got a box of me so this was elvis's band
25:41yeah they didn't even go on the market so they never went they were never released never really
25:47no have you ever seen one of these sell just once and what did it go for uh it was
25:53up for 85 but i
25:54think 300 is closer they've never been released what year this come out 78 okay the next year after
26:02elvis went to heaven and that was the tcb band would you sell would you sell any of these yeah
26:09i'm thinking 200 would be the minimum a piece that you'd want yeah each but i would want for
26:15all right man i mean it's incredible to see so many of them there's not i mean i knew nothing
26:20about this
26:20album i nobody does we're getting ready to do a big show yeah i'm gonna release them and they're gonna
26:26be very very very expensive yeah and they'll sell if you saw them for 85 a piece what about a
26:32hundred
26:32a piece for one case how many's in a case i don't know 150 because i know how valuable they
26:41are i think
26:42there's 25 but okay louise knows she can get more for these albums than anyone else because she has a
26:49direct connection to elvis's fans they've got a big promotion coming up and and she wants to sell them
26:54a top dollar how about i buy one for your 150 and and james will sign it and james will
27:02sign it yes
27:02of course louise has been around the block long enough to know if james puts his name on something
27:07it's worth more money and she's right okay all right i'm doing that it's cool i love it
27:16look at this railroad sign dude that's a railroad crossing side it's cast iron this is probably what
27:23your dad was gonna do there's one piece probably so and there's there's the other probably so i mean
27:28it's missing a chunk it's missing a chunk out of it but still i weld these robbie you put a
27:33nickel rod
27:33on it you can weld them the people who buy these railroad signs they're model train collectors they're
27:37like the railroad buffs and they're cool it's cast iron they're kind of hard to find i got a book
27:42press
27:43here yep it still works it's got some decoration on it you're making me want to keep it yeah well
27:52i'm kidding yes it's a cast iron pile my dad was always working on something always had a project
27:59always saw something and thought how he could make a better fix it for that sign right there i go
28:05100
28:06bucks this book press here this one here retails for probably around two and a quarter so i do
28:12a hundred and a half on it for both for 250 for boom and boom yeah unless you want to
28:17book press
28:18no i really are you sure you have some books you want to press down to get some leaves
28:22i think that's good good luck with that thank you look at this this is 66 okay i see that
28:34yeah man
28:35dang james when i got it it was like brand new you bought it in vegas did you buy this
28:41in the 70s or oh
28:42yeah yeah were you guys living in vegas at the time we had a home there and one in toluca
28:46lake california
28:47okay so we'd go back and forth i can't even imagine james and louise's life vegas early 70s
28:55elvis has a residency there they've got a house they're cruising the strip in a corvette what a
29:00hard-earned life can we look at the engine yeah okay it's still there it's still there so did you
29:08put
29:09the tri-power on this james no that was on there when you bought it yeah okay our neighbor on
29:14this
29:15and he kept asking him and finally he gave up and sold it to him oh james kept bugging him
29:19that's how
29:21he gets all these cars okay james is like looks like one of the most famous guitar players in the
29:26world
29:27can you imagine him living next door to him he's like hey i want to buy your car i want
29:30to buy your car
29:31i love that i love that he's like really never forgot where he came from these guys still have a
29:36house in
29:37shreveport they're both such down-to-earth people for the lives that they have lived that speaks
29:42volumes to how he feels about these cars you know he's looking beyond the dust he's looking beyond
29:47the repairs and he's he's thinking about those snapshots those memories in his life of like you
29:53know when he got them james never lets me drive any of his cars i have to buy my own
30:00if i want to drive
30:01them i'm funny about my cars uh she could drive the automatic easier like he got me a camaro ss
30:08he'd buy me cars but that was my car he didn't want me touching his cars i mean elvis bought
30:15people cars did he ever buy you guys cars no i had more cars than he did at that time
30:20did he try to buy
30:21you car james yeah the eldorata the bicentennial he called us and said i found one and they only made
30:28250 and the dealers were keeping them we got in the car and ran over there and bought it when
30:35i worked
30:35las vegas with elvis i don't think he could drive very good because you know the guy was a little
30:42shaky
30:42leg and uh i never would let him drive my car well i figured if he had the money to
30:50buy you know he would
30:51do it but i went ahead and jumped the gun yeah yeah you wanted to make sure you can get
30:56it
31:03hey ron what you got found a milk glass body oh yeah it looks like a 13 and a half
31:09inch one side
31:10i wasn't like that earlier wait are you saying i didn't what i i didn't do that i just picked
31:19the
31:19thing up it wasn't like that earlier it does stink i saw this piece right here it's just it's pieces
31:26you know this would have been advertised in the barber shop yeah and it's at least it's a fancy
31:30one robbie yeah i mean all the chrome that's on here i don't see them too much like this i
31:35mean
31:35the chrome is nice on it porcelain a barber pole tells you that they're going to actually treat you
31:40like a professional they're going to give you the neck shave they're going to trim the ears up they're
31:46going to trim the eyebrows trim up the beard they're going to make you look like a million dollars when
31:51you leave 400 on this and 400 on this yeah i think it's a thousand dollars put together how about
32:00850
32:02do it appreciate it thank y'all man that's cool well it's been hidden up here and uh yeah we
32:07only broke
32:08one side of that so far you know yeah maybe one side you get it out of here before uh
32:14before the
32:14other side gets broken yeah james has a disease called the wonitis okay and everything he sees he
32:25wants okay even today well i might need it yeah is that the way you still are with the guitars
32:33james
32:34if it's rare enough or interesting enough they normally give them to me yeah he doesn't buy
32:38guitars but we have this foundation that we give guitars all over the world i know i know you guys
32:44do how many guitars have you guys given out thousands we never even counted them i started
32:49playing guitar when i was very young and uh i never thought i'd make any money doing it but just
32:54playing
32:54the instrument was what really made me happy then i decided i want to help the kids try to do
33:00something
33:01with music you know or some won't pianos but they're too heavy to carry around yeah we don't
33:06get piano we give them to vets too so blessed to be able to do in hospitals st jude's rhinos
33:13it
33:13changes their life we get written all these songs found purpose yeah they write songs that tell what's
33:19in their heart absolutely their mind and that's their outlet now after getting to know james and louise
33:25one of the things i love about them is how spiritual they are and how giving they are they
33:30understand that james's legacy goes way beyond him being one of the most famous guitar players in the
33:36world they know that we're all here to take care of each other and if anybody understands the impact
33:42a guitar can have on a child's life it's james did you paint this uh one of your cans of
33:50uh with the heat
33:51undercoating decided to start shooting itself here oh the can blew up yeah can blew up and sprayed
33:59undercoating all over it we should have left them in california well the louisiana weather it's very
34:05humid when you keep them in garages they sweat the upholster drives out and cracks paint's all dried out
34:12i know there's pieces that are coming off of it oh my god can i take a picture of the
34:17block number
34:18yeah so i can send it to my corvette guy just so you know you'll you'll find something out too
34:23whether or
34:23this is the original engine to the car i mean obviously this has been altered and i love the
34:28tri power on it james cares about these cars he loves these cars they're they were a big part of
34:33his life it's just that they've led such a busy lifestyle you know he's been on the road for so
34:39long he's still touring in europe now you know it's it's not that he's forgotten about the cars it's just
34:44that he knows they're there and that's enough for him let me ask you this james is this something that
34:50you would consider selling either this car or the 59 well since i'm a car collector i might consider
34:59selling one james i'm obviously interested in this car i really am i mean i would drive it just the
35:09way it looks i mean mechanically it has to be completely gone through it needs tires it needs
35:13everything oh no but i mean it's great it runs great and it will run great i'm sure
35:18i should work for the dirt number well you're talking about this is extra yeah
35:24to walk out of here with any car is obviously a long shot because i understand how much these mean
35:31to him in james's mind he's still 25 because he lives his life like he is i mean the guy
35:38is still
35:38touring he's still rock and rolling you know he's young at heart man and that's why now i think he's
35:43kind of thinking okay you know i can get these back on the road i can get them running again
35:48i want
35:48to drive these cars again and him having these cars that feel like family to him hey nothing hey i'm
35:56with i'm with james and louise and tom and we're looking at the 59 corvette right now what can you
36:02tell
36:02me about this 59 in regards to the condition of it and the value of it well it needs to
36:07be completely
36:08restored but it's kind of a cool patina looking car from what i can see from the pictures i know
36:13and
36:13that's what i like about it too how long has he had that car mike the usc decal where she
36:18went to
36:19school says 71. she was in school when we bought it okay so they bought it in the early 70s
36:24in southern
36:27school yeah but yeah i mean it looks like it's all there you know the way it sits i think
36:32a fair
36:33price for both parties would probably be in the 30 000 range 25 would be low but 30 would be
36:39a fair
36:39price hey did you get a chance to look at both cars the 66 and the 59 and whether they're
36:46matching
36:46numbers cars i did mike i looked at the 66 and that does show that it's a matching number car
36:52it's a 327
36:53350 horse which is an all 79 car the 59 does not appear to be a numbers matching car from
37:00what i
37:00could read from the bin number it doesn't appear that it's uh being that it's a manual transmission
37:05car should have different digits on the block so i don't think that's uh the original motor for that
37:10car okay so that's good information you know the way it sits i think that 66 is probably worth about
37:16the same around the 30 000 range and it needs to be completely restored of course okay so you think
37:21the
37:22value of the cars is both the same the piece and then we also have to take into consideration that
37:26they were james's cars as well all right buddy thank you for everything i appreciate it you bet
37:31thanks mike see y'all later bye you know you get too much stuff and uh you have to pick
37:36and choose
37:37what you want to keep yeah so here's what i'm thinking okay 30 000 for this one 20 000 for
37:45this one 50 000
37:52whoa look at this thing hey ron yeah man come here buddy look at this thing what you got oh
38:00this is
38:01cool oh the service center yeah you know about this day and night oh look it's got a 59 on
38:10there yeah
38:11look at the el camino right here you know it's toys back in the day where they were the best
38:15even on the
38:16inside robbie oh cool this is never been played with this is an exciting time in america you know
38:21back in the 50s people have extra money now post-war they're going on vacation they're bringing their
38:27kids they're seeing these service stations on the road and here's a toy that emulates that typical
38:32post-war toys they're just going transitioning from you know making war materials now they're starting
38:38to stamp out stuff out of tin yeah you know and then and that was comes into stuff that's made
38:42of
38:42plastic toys there's plastic pieces with tin pieces so it's very interesting it's like a transition
38:47toy like the 60s this thing would have been all blow molded plastic so it's mostly complete retail
38:53something like this four to five hundred bucks what you think um two and a quarter
39:03about 250 just a 250 bid i got you man all right appreciate it yeah man no 250 i'm glad
39:09you like
39:09yeah i'm in it ronda and ron respect the collection they understand why their dad put it together
39:16they're taking their time with it they're almost reliving their father's memory through this
39:21collection thank you thank you guys and i have a lot of respect for that that's really a great way
39:26to
39:26celebrate the guy who put it together i would like to be at fifty thousand dollars for both of these
39:36cars and i would put them i would put them both back on the road let's think about it mike
39:42okay the
39:43cars he told me today he didn't want to sell was the corvettes the t-bird and one of his
39:50cadillac
39:50convertibles a 76. we can handle four cars really good and he can drive them and enjoy them i tell
39:58you
39:58we'll take 25 on that and that's a steal 25 i sent some pictures to my guy louise and i
40:05wanted to be
40:06fair with you guys and i and i get it but at the end of the day it's like he
40:09sent me back a message
40:11and said hey this is a 25 000 car running down the road i mean it just needs a lot
40:16of work 24. hey i came
40:21down i know no that was a lot of money you know after collecting volkswagens for so long starting
40:27out with carmen guias and then with volkswagen bugs and then with vans it's like all the barns i've been
40:33to over all the years i have come across dune buggies before but now i'm starting to look at them
40:39with
40:39different eyes because you know what bruce myers did is really incredible i mean southern california
40:46culture you know people connect it to music fashion surfing all of that stuff but the dune buggy
40:53is always right there it's so original you could polish that paint it's not this is a yuma how about
41:01this i want you to have that 23 000 all right okay all right all right we did it that's
41:11his car james
41:11actually james i'm proud of you for selling a car i am too aren't you are you proud he told
41:17me if
41:18anybody he would ever sell it to he wouldn't like to have it so we said sure okay so we
41:23did that yeah
41:25i'd be glad to get it back on the road i'd like to see that i hope this has a
41:30bunch of nickels in it
41:34james and louise have such a bright light and it's not just from him being a star it's who they
41:40are
41:40as people their spirituality their humility and their generosity that is what shines through
41:48all right i'll talk to you guys soon i'll see you in nashville we'll have another catfish dinner
41:53together hey thanks for all your help buddy i want to get this myers-manks running drive to james's
41:59house in nashville and give him a ride on the natchez trace that's the day i'm looking forward to
42:05all right tcb taking care of burton you got it
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