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American Pickers: Best Of - Season 8 - Episode 02: Greatest Picks of Haul
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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!
18:03Oh, hey!
18:04Oh!
18:16Oh!
18:21What's up anyway?
18:26Oh, good now.
18:26Oh!
18:27Oh!
18:27And we're out of wind is taller.
18:31Oh!
18:32Yeah!
18:32Oh!
18:33what's up hey i'm sending you guys to see rafe so rafe has not only been collecting his entire life
18:38but he's been an aviation photographer for most of it oh wow yes and his father was a photographer
18:44during world war ii no kidding and he hung around his dad his entire life they were tight and so
18:49he
18:49kind of got into photography militaria and crafted his eye at a really young age oh hey also in 2000
18:57he bought an airplane hanger to stash his collection and this place is packed full you're
19:04gonna have trouble getting around i can promise you that wow it's nuts and he sent me a selfie he
19:09looks like the baron of the skies and i have to tell you this man has the most beautiful curly
19:14mustache i have ever seen in my life i mean this dude's gonna be a character
19:23look at that plane man that is killer check out the texco sign this has got to be the right
19:28place
19:29let's see if that's the dude
19:39hey you gotta be rafe i am rafe okay we've heard a lot about you
19:44nice to meet you rob good to meet you mike how are you doing good to see you right no
19:50this is eric
19:50preston's plane my buddy here wow what year is it well it was designed in 1934 in germany but this
19:56one was built in 51 in spain wow and it's painted in a world war ii scheme it's a german
20:01aerobatic
20:01primary training airplane a bucher youngman they started in the early 30s and lasted through the
20:07end of world war ii why did they make this one design for so many years because with aviation i
20:11mean doesn't technology change so dramatically every year it does but this airplane was such a
20:16nice flying airplane it was really hard to match it and this one was surplus in 1976 it was in
20:21the
20:21spanish air force currently operating in 1937 really no kidding the same design this exact
20:27airplane wow so this was a training plane this was a military training airplane for aerobatics
20:31so who flies this do you fly i do i'm a motorcycle guy i'm a car guy but at the
20:36end of the day
20:37i am into transportation history and that is a big beautiful world with a lot of incredible things
20:43so what's the oldest plane you have my oldest airplane would be 1929 really but not in flying
20:50condition like this but uh soon to be restored so how'd you get into all this my dad was a
20:55photographer
20:56in the marine corps in world war ii with happy boyington and the black sheep really so i grew up
21:01with
21:01cameras i guess the photography was in my dna over the years i've collected quite a few things and i
21:07have a lot of extra stuff easier to show you guys so let's take a walk next door okay i'll
21:12see you
21:12guys hey man thanks appreciate you no problem all right cool so this airport started in uh 60s and
21:20they set it up for 60 hangers okay and each of us individually owns our hanger and collectively we own
21:27the 35 acres of the real estate this place is huge oh wow oh my gosh wow what year is
21:39the trailer
21:39it's a 1947 curtis wright trailer designed by wally byam wally byam is the mastermind and the creator
21:48of airstream trailers but when world war ii started he shut down airstream oh yeah curtis wright had three
21:55things going for it one 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 it's 20 feet long overall this looks all
22:07original on the inside it is pretty original wally byam designed trailers for a very short time for
22:13curtis wright before he opened airstream again so this is unbelievable very cool so you're gonna sell
22:19this no not so much i would like to restore it because my big dream is to uh drive it
22:23around canada
22:24and the u.s okay that's a great dream with a vintage uh 1947 truck oh wow or a woody
22:32look at that robbie so this is associated gas and oil yeah right fine a that sign right there
22:38probably retail on it's about 3200 the only downfall to that sign is size the associated gas sign would
22:45be the marquee going across the gas station the flying a sign would be above that so they were the
22:50same company basically what are you thinking on something like this like 2000 how bad is is there
22:55any on the edges mike no it's not bad yeah that's nice but what's the other side look like the
23:00other
23:01one down there same thing just got a couple chips right there that's about it yeah but it'll clean up
23:08it's got a good color to it all right shake his hand robbie two grand awesome amazing i'm glad to
23:14know that there are still a lot of people that are eager to collect petrolania you had a bicycle out
23:21there with a sidecar on it can i look at that
23:31so i bought this sidecar down at uh huntington beach okay yeah it says seaplane court madison wisconsin
23:40mose sidecar interesting this looks like a later fender though i mean i know it's
23:46i don't know this is off a schwinn it's got a schwinn wheel on it's a schwinn middleweight that
23:51somebody's put a heavy gauge spoke in obviously they changed the hub out to me the bike is obviously
23:57more valuable than this it's a schwinn it's original paint i mean you can see the pinstripe on the
24:04scallops here you know and it cleans up pretty well it's got it's got a majestic head badge on it
24:09you know i probably even have a tank for that
24:13i don't know on the bike i mean i'm like 300 on the bike the sidecar to the right person
24:19the sidecar
24:20could be i don't know maybe six seven hundred bucks i years and years ago uh i paid uh 400
24:27which was the asking price yeah i mean what would you want for both together would you think
24:33did you do five for both together it's an iowa bike it's an oh you get the bike came from
24:40iowa
24:42it's just the big circle it's all going back if we're able to do a deal on this i'm going
24:46to sell
24:47the sidecar off and keep the bike all right let's do it 500 bucks for the sidecar and the bike
24:52and the
24:59bike this is snail trails everywhere you look it's piled shoulder high there's actually a plane
25:06in here somewhere this is a 50 year accumulation every inch of this place is stacked and you can
25:12see where there's some organization and some things that are repetitive but then it just kind of
25:18explode from there come on back let me show you an airplane over here okay no wow man wow look
25:26at
25:26the engine on that robbie look at that radial engine this is an all original 1930 airplane that came
25:34from san bernardino it was last flown just before pearl harbor and when pearl harbor was bombed
25:40civilian flying on the west coast was banned so this stayed in the hangar uh the whole war and never
25:46flew again so i saw this for the very first time when the owner took me back and we're always
25:51going
25:51to refinish it and i desperately wanted to take him flying it one last time well unfortunately he
25:58got cancer and died but he left it to me really so half of the people love it just the
26:04way it is
26:05the engine has bright yellow oil it's got new compression uh and it basically basically no hours
26:11on it very few they made three of these at the factory in los angeles that's all they made was
26:15three only three at the end of world war one the american government sold surplus jenny airplanes
26:22the old jenny's were big and kind of clunky and people wanted smaller faster more sporty airplanes
26:28and popular was built in 1930 and answered that call oh wow like the gauges and everything and the
26:37wood dash look at this headrest right here that's leather robbie unfortunately the popular came on
26:42right at the beginning of the depression in the big stock market crash so the company failed in 1931
26:49or 32 after just manufacturing three airplanes the one that i have is the only remaining of the three
26:57to find something like this unmolested i mean is as as it was i think the last registration up in
27:05the
27:05front cockpit is dated the 1938 i love that logo on the side what does that say it says popular
27:12which
27:12is the name of it and then it says earl aviation corporation dang this is so cool over the years
27:18i've
27:18seen a lot of things in their natural state it's something that stood the test of time it's been
27:23untouched this has got to be one of the top five looking at an airplane that hasn't been flown since
27:29before pearl harbor it's just very cool would you even consider selling this it's time for someone
27:36else i think like the person i'm thinking of i'm thinking of rick so this guy's got a museum and
27:42it's
27:42a motorcycle museum but it's really evolving more into transportation so he's got like a lot of cars
27:49and he's got all these things but he's built these massive buildings so if i could take some pictures
27:53of it sure let's do it i'll send him all this oh excellent transportation history covers anything
27:59from airplanes to automobiles to bicycles to motorcycles he's always understood that all of
28:05those things are connected to each other hey did you get pics of that plane yeah i know that thing's
28:13insane right i like it the gentleman that that's um interested in selling it he's standing right here
28:20he could probably tell you something about it it was made in los angeles uh rick in 1930 there were
28:26three of them made it's a two-seat biplane it's got a seven-cylinder warner scarab junior i think it's
28:33115 horse what do you want for it oh i'm looking for 35 and it's a complete airplane ready to
28:41hang
28:42it's a complete airplane ready to hang that's right um it's pretty cool buddy it is it would look
28:47amazing in your museum looks like it's got some history behind it i'd be interested in it all
28:52right rick i'm going to put you in contact with each other and i'm hey congratulations man it's a
28:57really cool piece it does look nice i know right it's mind-blowing it is it's mind-blowing hey man
29:03i'll
29:03put you guys together hey thanks all right thanks rick okay bye bye hey congratulations that's awesome
29:12i think the popular would be a great addition to rick's museum in utah you've done your due
29:18diligence my friend i think so i mean you've given it a hell of a life and i'm telling you
29:21what
29:21you got to go visit it it's the perfect place well it is thanks for sharing your history with us
29:27buddy oh all good i mean that thank you guys from one bicycle guy to another appreciate you it was
29:32a
29:32pleasure all right thank you thank you see you see you rick bye-bye thank you
29:54so we're gonna go see a gal named liz it's her father's collection okay her father did pass
29:59within the last year so there's a lot of moving parts and they're trying to clear out properties
30:04and trying to move stuff along okay he lived right on the lake well what kind of stuff does he
30:08have
30:09well i mean he's got automotive he's got mostly motorcycles 1930s right around there
30:14what do you mean like indians and harley's yeah he does
30:19wow what a beautiful place right look at that beauty hey hey how you doing you liz yes hey i'm
30:28mike nice to meet you hello how you doing this is danny good to meet you good to meet you
30:34finally
30:35i went to a lot of car shows which were really boring for a little girl to go to but
30:43when i spent
30:43time with my dad it was usually doing something like that your father was a antique motorcycle
30:49collector yes yes did he go to the davenport meet do you know if he ever went to davenport iowa
30:54he dragged me around when i was a little kid okay oh you went on all the treasure i went
31:00on the
31:00treasure hunts i did very cool so yeah it's not every day there's a motorcycle in the den but oh
31:06my
31:07gosh i love the way he's living whoa this is unbelievable that the first thing you see when
31:13you walk in a dude's house is a skirted four-cylinder with a sidecar sitting right there in front of
31:18you
31:18i've got eight motorcycles in my house oh my gosh so it's cool to see this it's an inline four
31:24-cylinder
31:25and then you've got these skirted fenders it sounds and looks like a locomotive going down the road you
31:30know up to this point there had been a number of american inline four-cylinders on the road brands like
31:35ace cleveland henderson but when indian started skirting their fenders in 1940 dropping that
31:42fender to the side with that sexy airflow line that streamlined look that was a game changer so how long
31:49has this been in here about 20 years no kidding yeah did he ride this ever yes i rode in
31:56the sidecar
31:57okay and i don't recommend it yeah that's a gorgeous sidecar those indian sidecars are getting
32:02harder and harder to find did he restore this yeah this one came in pieces so he built this from
32:09what
32:09an engine yeah it was literally a piece of rust he rebuilt everything and he would search out the
32:15original parts he worked at chrysler he did the paint line he worked in the marine division and he
32:23did some of the machinist work it was a good job for him did he do the engine on this
32:28i believe so
32:29no kidding it's got a hydraulic front end on it it's got a telescopic front end on it yeah indian
32:34didn't do this until the 50s the front fork on this bike is a telescopic front end off of an
32:39indian
32:40from the 1950s they stopped building the four-cylinder in 1942 okay okay so this would have had a leaf
32:47spring front end on it yeah so he wanted to make it more comfortable and maybe sit more upright on
32:52the
32:52bike and he's also laid these this piece of metal over the side to make this look like the side
32:58of
32:58the tank is chrome this is probably stainless or something that he's put on the side of the tank to
33:03bring a different element to it yeah i mean this is no museum quality restoration this was lovingly
33:10restored in a way to where you didn't have to worry about putting it through the paces have you guys
33:15decided what you're going to do with this we're probably going to have to sell it um okay we're
33:22going to be moving eventually so we have to pick and choose what we can and cannot take with us
33:28so if the bike was built a period with a leaf spring front end on it and just had a
33:33little bit
33:33of a different restoration it can bring as much as sixty five thousand dollars but it also depends
33:39on how it runs because to do this engine a four-cylinder engine to rebuild it is a minimum
33:45of 25 grand and a lot of people get blown away by that because it's only a four-cylinder engine
33:50right but the guys that do it that's what they do and they specialize in it i'm completely interested
33:57in this bike but we literally just walked in the door and elizabeth has mentioned that he has other
34:02bikes so i'm just going to kind of step back and take it all in before i pull the trigger
34:07on anything
34:08come on in come on in wow you all kinds of stuff in here this is a 1936 harley vld
34:17with a goulding
34:18sidecar so he loves these goulding sidecars man yeah harley made a vlh which was an 80 inch and the
34:25vld was a 74 inch but it was considered high performance hotter cams and ported cylinders this
34:32is a pretty rare bike this is a 36 was the last year of the vl when they were making
34:38this bike
34:38they were making the 36 knucklehead changed everything for them this is a beautiful bike so
34:44this is again same thing riders restoration yeah i guess he's missing the toolbox it's got the right
34:50headlight it's got the right spotlights it's got the earlier spotlights on it it's got the right amp
34:55meter this is an accessory speedo look at these caps on here man maybe he made these i don't know
35:01he could have got a later ear cleaner on it that's what i'm talking about this is a desirable bike
35:09as
35:09well i mean a jd is a desirable bike from 1921 to 1929 harley made the jd this is a
35:1724. this is a pivotal
35:18year because this is the last year of the loop frame and it's the first year of the big port
35:23motor got his
35:24paint this paint job man so this sidecar this frame was really rough super pitted oh yeah you know
35:32look at that man what are you guys thinking about dealing with these we're gonna have to sell them
35:37yeah yeah to find one of these bikes would be incredible but there's five bikes here five
35:48yeah i love it when mike buys motorcycles i encourage mike to buy motorcycles because
35:53they bring in a good amount of revenue and they never sit around someone's always wanting to buy
35:57a bike so these have probably been sitting 20 years too oh yeah yeah i would say at least yeah
36:04it's tough you know without hearing these things run that's the biggest thing here's what i know
36:09there's five bikes here that haven't ran in 20 years i 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 okay that's the stuff that
36:21i can
36:22see what i can't see or hear is the bikes running feel the bike shifting riding the bikes and that's
36:30where i'm just kind of in my mind trying to figure all this out because to be honest with you
36:35i love
36:36all of the bikes i love the 24 jd the 36 vl the four cylinder the 37 chief the 34
36:42chief they're all
36:43incredible bikes this is one man's life this is his hard work he's had his hands on every single one
36:50of these bikes and so i'm trying to navigate which one i want to buy and that's hard because each
36:56one
36:57of them have something really special going on in my mind as far as like the year and the type
37:02of bike
37:12um all of this is overwhelming it's like i need a moment to kind of just step back look around
37:17at some
37:17other stuff and decide what i want to do here there are some significant bikes here that's clean man
37:28that's what i understand the most and that's what i'm hoping to leave here with it also depends on how
37:33they run right you know every one of these bikes has value if it runs right it shifts right to
37:41rebuild
37:41a four-cylinder engine is a minimum of 25 grand right i mean in my head my head was just
37:47spinning as
37:48far as like you know the what ifs and everything and the incorrect parts and trying to straighten things out
37:53and it i mean after looking over everything and um just kind of assessing you know what the bikes
38:01are going to need to get them running um looking at the type of restoration that's on the bike what's
38:06incorrect
38:06parts wise and what's correct parts wise even the smallest thing like this sidecar frame being
38:11as broken and pitted as it is i mean it all affects the the number right um after looking at
38:18the bikes
38:18and crawling around them and just trying to decide on which one i want to walk away with it's like
38:25i don't
38:25want to leave any of them behind i'm thinking about all the bikes that's the four cylinder in the house
38:30that's the 36 that's the 24 and the 37 and the 34 chiefs there's five bikes here which is five
38:38times
38:38the issues but also five times the opportunity i'd pay 135 000 for all of them
38:50a hundred thirty five thousand dollars when 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 okay that's all five bikes that we've looked at
39:05135 000 for five bikes is 27 grand a piece are some worth more man i hope so it depends
39:13on how they run
39:13but that's where i felt i needed to be with the quality of the restoration the incorrect parts and
39:20just the fact that i have no idea how all of this stuff is going to pan out when it
39:25comes to getting
39:26this stuff running i've got a friend that owns a museum in maggie valley north carolina he's worked
39:31on a lot of bikes for us in the past and i would love to get these up there and
39:36and get his hands
39:37on these with his help i think we can get them running and put them back on the road each
39:42one is
39:42going to be a journey whether it's tires or cleaning the fuel tank or finding the right part or making
39:48the
39:48bike shift whatever it is there's so many different things that could happen with one of these bikes
39:53the linchpin is how they are mechanically that is the deciding factor on the real value
40:01i think we could have a minute to maybe discuss it maybe absolutely absolutely all right my dad's
40:08handprints are all over those and he spent a lot of time with them and he was very proud of
40:15them
40:20we can't hold on to everything the opportunity is here and
40:29so have you guys thought about it at all where you're going to be on them or where you want
40:33to be
40:33on them yeah when i saw mike looking at the bikes and i seen you know his excitement of course
40:41spouting off
40:42a lot of things that i didn't know that kind of made me feel less anxious about getting rid of
40:49those we thought about it and i think that we could do that because we want someone to really appreciate
40:57these we don't want them to sit in a garage for another 20 years right right we want somebody to
41:05enjoy them as much as my dad did all of these things represent something that none of us can buy
41:10and that's time we're going to get him running thank you i know that he's going to do what's right
41:16for
41:16them and hopefully get them on the road and somebody enjoying them and doing what they were made to do
41:25well we cleaned you out today i'll do i'll send you guys some video of the bikes running
41:30okay the reason these things are still all here is because people love them the way her father did
41:36that's why they're here so hats off to him for the life that he had here this beautiful home right
41:43on the
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