ROB: Hey, what's up, brother? JERSEY JON: What's up!
ROB: Get to Chip's yet?
MIKE: I'm almost there. I'm drinking cold brew,
getting all jacked up for him.
That guy, that guy's got more energy than I do.
ROB: You better bring it, man. Chip Foose is the king of cool
when it comes to cars.
JERSEY JON: Mike, when you see Chip, tell him I said hey.
MIKE: You know Chip, Jersey?
JERSEY JON: No, but I'm sure he's heard of me...
Dude, I'm Jersey Jon.
MIKE: Yeah, right! (laughing)
JERSEY JON: Listen, we're in the same business.
He restores stuff, I restore stuff.
We run in the same circles!
MIKE: You guys are more jacked up than I am.
JERSEY JON: Hell yeah, man! ROB: Hey, brother,
I got a favor to ask. MIKE: What?
ROB: I need you to ask Chip for a t-shirt or a hat.
MIKE: Are you serious?
ROB: Double extra-large,
and the hat I like the trucker one.
ROB: And can you tell him to sign the back?
MIKE: I think Robbie is probably lying about
his size so I'm gonna get XXX.
JERSEY JON: Oh yeah, Mike, Mike, I wear small.
I like to show my physique. (dial tone)
ROB: I think he hung up, Jersey.
JERSEY JON: Dude. (Rob laughs)
MIKE: I've been doing this for a long time
and I've been very fortunate to meet some really cool people.
Chip Foose is one of them.
Most people know the guy as a legendary car designer
but what a lot of people don't know
is he is a serious bicycle collector too.
We've made deals in the past
and this time I'm bringing him one of the rarest bicycles
out there, a 1930s Elgin Bluebird.
MIKE: Hey, hey! Chip!
CHIP: We're closed to the public.
(Mike laughs)
MIKE: Hey, buddy! What's up? CHIP: How are you?
MIKE: Good to see you, man. How are you?
CHIP: Good to see you. MIKE: Good to see you.
It's been too long. Here, I want to give you one of these.
CHIP: Motor scooters? MIKE: Old bicycles.
CHIP: I got some bicycles. MIKE: There you go, dude.
You managed to put more stuff in here.
CHIP: I got to find places to put my stuff.
MIKE: I know, I see that. It's looking good.
What about the Harley bike? Is that something
you scraped together or is that real?
CHIP: No, that was uh, a friend of mine
had that and the Indian and I bought both of them from him.
MIKE: Chip Foose is one of those guys when you say his name,
it just makes you smile
because the things that he makes are so inspirational,
the designs are epic, they're legendary,
they're timeless. They're what people call Evergreen now.
His stuff is beautiful,
but he's also got a big heart, man.
CHIP: I had a bike shop when I was 12 years old.
MIKE: Get out of here! CHIP: On my parents' side yard.
MIKE: Like a brick-and-mortar? CHIP: No, no, no.
It was my parents' side yard.
MIKE: I had a bike shop in the front yard too!
CHIP: I would go to swap meets. MIKE: Yeah.
CHIP: And garage sales and buy bikes.
MIKE: Oh my gosh. CHIP: I'd grab the bike
and I would repaint them and then I'd bring them home--
MIKE: Oh, you were painting them even?
CHIP: Yeah. And then I'd reassemble them
and then the neighbor kids would come in
and I'd sell them to them. MIKE: Really?
CHIP: I'm known for doing vehicles,
but the first stuff I did for myself was a bicycle.
I wanted my bicycle to be as cool as my father's car.
So I would take my bike to the shop,
I would take it apart, I would customize the frame,
I was doing all kinds of custom paint work
and that's where it really started for me.
I'm still living my childhood to this day.
MIKE: When you were painting bikes as a kid,
were you just doing it in the front yard?
CHIP: No, my dad had the hotrod shop.
MIKE: Oh my gosh! So everything looked great even then?
CHIP: This quality.
MIKE: When I first met him through conversation,
it was evident right away
that he was a bicycle guy and he'd been doing it
for a long time. And obviously,
he's looking for the rare stuff just like I am.
CHIP: Did you bring the Bluebird?
MIKE: I brough the Bluebird, yeah!
We can go get it if you want to.
CHIP: Just before you got here, I was working
on the drawing of it.
MIKE: But at the end of the day,
the community is small
and we all help each other out.
I mean we're all growing old together,
and we all love the same stuff.
What's mine now might be his some day
and back and forth so...
today I am so excited because this guy is epic.
CHIP: Where's the Bluebird? MIKE: It's in the box.
(laughing) MIKE: Remember, you said
you didn't care what shape it was in.
ROB: What up, Dani D?
DANIELLE: Hey, guys.
So, I'm going to send you to meet John.
This property's been in their family since 1912.
I mean, they've really just kind of left it alone
for the last 70 years.
JERSEY JON: Wow. ROB: What?!
DANIELLE: On top of that, their grandparents
owned an appliance store.
ROB: Appliance store like what, in the 1940s, '50s?
DANIELLE: Yes! I mean, they've opened it up
but that's where it stops. They haven't really gone inside
to organize or, like, lay hands on things just yet.
It's just all kind of there.
JERSEY JON: That's cool! So, all kinds of old TVs
and radios and stuff there.
ROB: Alright, thanks Dani. JERSEY JON: Thanks Dani!
DANIELLE: Alright, have a good time, guys.
ROB: Right here. Look at this. JERSEY JON: This is cool, man.
Look, there's the store right here!
ROB: I wonder if that's a store? JERSEY JON: No, that's cool!
ROB: Wow. JERSEY JON: Yeah, that's an appliance store!
ROB: There's the address right here.
JERSEY JON: Whoa! Look at those barns!
(honking) JERSEY JON: There he is.
JERSEY JON: Hello! I'm Jon.
JOHN: Jon. JERSEY JON: You talked to Danielle?
JOHN: I did. ROB: Rob, nice to meet you.
JOHN: Rob. Nice to meet you.
JERSEY JON: This is the kind of stuff we're looking for.
You talk to Dani about this? JOHN: Yeah, she mentioned some of this stuff.
This is an old house. It's third generation.
JERSEY JON: No kidding. JOHN: Yeah.
ROB: So, did you grow up in this house?
JOHN: I did not. My great-grandfather
moved here in 1916. ROB: Yeah?
JERSEY JON: Cool place! JOHN: And my grandfather
grew up with his brothers and sisters.
12 of them there were. Yeah.
JERSEY JON: Very cool. So, its generations.
JOHN: It's generations. JERSEY JON: A long time.
JOHN: So, when my great-uncle Larry passed away,
my dad inherited the property
and then my dad passed away and it ended up being my mom's.
JERSEY JON: Oh yeah, I love this place.
JOHN: Yeah, it's narrow stairs they had here.
JERSEY JON: It's cool. Old building.
ROB: You can tell people were smaller and skinnier back then.
JOHN: Watch your head. ROB: Alright.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, good idea. JOHN: And this is really not a railing.
It's just there for show.
JERSEY JON: Whoa, yeah. This is great.
ROB: Woo! Wow! JERSEY JON: Fantastic.
JOHN: Yeah, they'd just bring it up here
if they didn't want it anymore, and old pictures and stuff.
ROB: Any time you can get into a multi-generational
family's home, where do you want to start?
You want to start in the attic.
And I want go to the back far corner
because that's the stuff that got put in the attic first.
We're talking 100 years, one family.
JERSEY JON: Look at this! Robbie. Baseball. Who's that?
JOHN: My grandfather's in here. JERSEY JON: Wow.
JOHN: So that's my grandfather, John.
JERSEY JON: Yeah? JOHN: And my uncle Larry,
he was in there as well.
JERSEY JON: This was made by a professional photographer.
It looks like it's from the late teens, early twenties.
I mean, it's perfectly in focus.
Everybody is organized. The lighting is perfect.
And this is a New Jersey team.
That's near and dear to my heart.
JOHN: It was a semi-professional team.
ROB: Wow. JERSEY JON: The Eagles.
JOHN: So, my dad used to tell me stories
that his dad was a catcher on the team.
JERSEY JON: So this has to be something you want to keep.
JOHN: Um. Well, it's third generation, you know. So...
JERSEY JON: So you would sell it?
JOHN: Yeah, yeah. I'll sell it. JERSEY JON: Okay.
JOHN: Give me a price. What do you think?
JERSEY JON: 75 bucks.
JOHN: Okay. I think that's fair.
JERSEY JON: Alright. JOHN: I'm not sure what photos are worth.
ROB: I think photos are cool.
That tells the history of everything.
ROB: A lot of people always used to store stuff in their photos.
JOHN: Oh, I never knew that. ROB: Just checking.
Money, all kinds of different things.
JOHN: Stocks. JERSEY JON: Man...
ROB: John, what is this?
JOHN: My grandfather and his brother,
older brother and younger brother
started Manville Electric. Self-taught electricians.
ROB: I mean, to me it looks like it hung on a window.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. ROB: Like on the outside.
ROB: And when he was done with it, he was like,
oh, I'll just put it in the back seat.
JERSEY JON: It's like they used the family car for business.
ROB: This would've gone on a Model T, had two little hooks
on it, it was made of leather, you hooked it on the door,
you pulled up, you looked like a businessman.
You pulled it off, you looked like a family guy.
ROB: Two and a quarter.
JOHN: 250?
ROB: Honestly, I've never seen one before like this.
I'm gonna do it. JOHN: Alright, awesome.
ROB: I appreciate it. JOHN: Thanks.
ROB: Thank you, thank you.
MIKE: Alright. Here, I'm gonna let you do the unveiling.
(Chip laughs) MIKE: Seriously. Check it out.
CHIP: Where'd you find this? MIKE: It came out of Texas.
(laughing)
MIKE: Okay. CHIP: And it has a bonus frame?
MIKE: Yeah. Here, I like that you got the Bluebird
sitting right here.
CHIP: Yeah, I wanted something to, you know.
MIKE: Okay. Here, I'm gonna put this over here
so it won't fall and scratch that.
Okay, there you go. Look at that.
CHIP: I mean, this is the only piece that really, really was--
MIKE: Look at this. CHIP: Wow.
MIKE: Look how they did... they did some welding
or something here. CHIP: Yeah, they did.
MIKE: Believe it or not,
I have a picture of this thing together.
MAN 1: My dad had another bike
that he always would talk about. It's the Elgin Bluebird.
MIKE: Yeah!
MIKE: When I first saw this bicycle,
I thought of Chip Foose right away for two reasons.
One, because he told me that he didn't care
what condition it was, he wanted an Elgin Bluebird.
And two, he's the only guy I know that can fix
something like this, man. I mean, let's face it.
It's in a lot of different pieces.
It's in really bad shape.
And it's gonna take someone
that knows metal, that can move metal the way he can do it.
MIKE: Look at this. Here we go, baby.
CHIP: Yep. MIKE: Oh yeah.
Look at this thing. Heck yeah!
(laughing)
MIKE: Isn't it killer though? CHIP: It is!
MIKE: Look at this thing!
MIKE: I've always considered the Elgin Bluebird
the Lincoln Zephyr of bicycles
because it's so long and airflow and streamline.
And when you look at the lines of this bicycle,
it's incredible. It's a great part of history,
you know, in America, with motorcycles and cars
and automobiles. The 1930s.
The design of the Elgin Bluebird
stands with all of those different industries.
MIKE: I would love it to go somewhere
that somebody can restore it
or whatever you're gonna do with it.
CHIP: I want to build an electric Bluebird.
(laughing) MIKE: You do?!
Of course you do!
CHIP: These things are heavy. If it had a pedal assist,
I think it'd be really cool.
CHIP: I have ridden an electric assist,
you know, pedal assist bike.
And they're actually really easy to ride.
The Bluebird is a heavy bike.
It's not a bike that you just go out and have a leisurely ride.
You have to work to make that bike work.
MIKE: So, a battery would sit on top of the rack.
CHIP: No, no, underneath it. MIKE: Oh, okay.
But then where would the electric motor go?
CHIP: That'll be in the hub. MIKE: Okay.
You're gonna do one of those. CHIP: Yeah.
So, I want to give it a bit of a curve,
I'll drop the crank a little bit,
and this'll be a little bit softer through here.
So I want to soften that up. I'll have to lengthen it.
So I've got to split it anyway. MIKE: Oh, it's perfect.
CHIP: I've got to lengthen that to get that through.
MIKE: You have to actually separate this to lengthen it.
CHIP: Yes. You know, it's interesting
that this is cracked right here because this is the weak point
of the bike. This bike wants to flex right there.
MIKE: All of the pressure is right here.
CHIP: I've seen several of them that all fail there.
MIKE: One of the things that Chip pointed out
that I didn't think about was that hole
right where it broke, you know,
where the speedometer cable goes through.
You've already got a thin metal there,
the seat tube is arched,
and then they've got a hole, you know.
So there's a separation in that energy there,
you know. So, him pointing that out to me,
I was like okay, that's the ah-ha moment.
That was one of the design flaws in this bike.
MIKE: I mean, what boy is not jumping off a curb
on his bicycle, you know? He's like, ugh!
CHIP: And that's where it starts.
MIKE: When people were designing
these high end pre-war bicycles
back in the 1930s,
they weren't designing something super durable,
they were designing something beautiful.
It was basically more beauty than beast.
MIKE: You want to keep the same lines
but just kind of celebrate them more.
CHIP: It's going to get stretched a little bit
so I can put a longer fender both front and rear.
MIKE: So, it's gonna be longer than this?
CHIP: Yes.
MIKE: Oh my gosh. That's gonna be crazy!
CHIP: And then add the electric power.
MIKE: It's just so cool
to see him geek out about bicycles.
I mean, hell, he creates things like this.
He takes a piece of paper, draws a vehicle on it,
and then he will actually build it.
And he's one of the best in the world.
CHIP: I have the drawing over here,
I can show you what I'm gonna do.
MIKE: Oh my God, dude. I want to see that.
ROB: Jersey.
JERSEY JON: What do you got, Robbie?
ROB: You're always talking about what?
Your favorite thing. Coal and steam.
JERSEY JON: Oh! Actual blueprints.
ROB: Yeah. And the notes. JERSEY JON: That's cool.
This is an early engineering project.
Pratt Institute. Wow.
JOHN: So, uncle Larry went to the Pratt Institute.
Um, that's where he learned electrical engineering.
JERSEY JON: Because that was the very beginnings
of engineering and electrical engineering at least, right?
JOHN: It was at its infancy, right? Was early 1900s.
JERSEY JON: Sure, yeah. JOHN: Electricity was...
JERSEY JON: Fascinating stuff back in the day.
I mean, this guy was, like, beyond his time almost,
like thinking forward. JOHN: He was.
He was very forward-thinking.
JERSEY JON: I've been restoring antiques
for a very long time
and I've been really interested in anything
that's going to help me make the things be period-correct.
The right fasteners, the right materials to use,
and that's what's in these books.
JERSEY JON: Practical engineering and drawings.
Industrial control catalog.
This really is how to build a power plant.
JERSEY JON: Very little of the information
that's in these books is available on the internet
because it's lost technology.
And that's what I'm capturing from these early volumes.
JERSEY JON: I might glean one little piece of information.
Like, oh, wow, that's how that switch works in this circuit.
You know? JOHN: This is something you would keep then?
JERSEY JON: Yeah, yeah. This is something
I would put in my own personal library.
It's just something New Jersey related.
JOHN: Absolutely. JERSEY JON: It's just a cool
piece of engineering history.
50 bucks.
JOHN: Yeah, that sounds good. JERSEY JON: Good?
JOHN: Yeah. I can't even negotiate on that.
JERSEY JON: Dude, thank you, man.
JOHN: He was looking at the numbers
and how the different formulas were there,
and the different pictures and blueprints.
He got really excited about it.
JERSEY JON: Robbie, thank you buddy.
ROB: You know, listen. Now I'm going to have to listen
to this for the next freaking three months.
JERSEY JON: I'm gonna read this.
I'll read the whole thing in the van to him
as we go cross country. JOHN: That'll be great.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, by the time we're done,
we're gonna have a power plant done.
MIKE: Oh my God, that's so freaking cool!
CHIP: It's just got a little bit of that
more of a teardrop feel
and it's almost like an Indian fender.
A little bit lighter on the front,
a little bit heavier here to play with that line
coming off the bottom. MIKE: Yeah, yeah.
MIKE: This is incredible.
Seeing Chip put pen to paper, it's nuts man.
I mean, this artwork is so gorgeous.
CHIP: Really, the important part was the tank.
MIKE: Okay. CHIP: And you have that there.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah. CHIP: So, that's why
that frame works, you know.
I've got a nice one here but it's a shame to cut it up
because I want this softer. MIKE: Yeah.
CHIP: And this to have a bit of that art to it.
And you know the Stewart Warner front hubs?
The springer hub? MIKE: I saw that.
I saw what you were doing. I've seen them in magazines.
I haven't actually seen one. CHIP: They're cool. I have one.
MIKE: Oh, okay. CHIP: It's from the '50s,
but I'm not building something to look like 1930s. I mean.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. CHIP: I just want to build something fun.
MIKE: I mean, think about the chance of something
like this happening where you find a bike
that was motorized, broken in half, separated,
and then he has had the idea
all this time of finding something like this himself,
or someone bringing it to him like I am,
and he's going to motorize it, but with an electric motor.
CHIP: Because they're so heavy, they're not fun to ride.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
CHIP: But this would be fun to ride.
MIKE: People are gonna freak when they see this thing
going down the road. No, I mean seriously!
I mean, I love the way you're skirting the fenders.
CHIP: Thank you.
MIKE: So, this is the perfect donor
for what Chip wants to do
because it's basically like the heart,
the lungs, the kidneys, you know.
The liver. All of it's there.
MIKE: Let me throw this at you.
What about, um, possibly doing something in trade?
CHIP: I love trades. MIKE: Okay.
If I can see what you got parts-wise
or even bicycle-wise. CHIP: Yeah.
MIKE: Then maybe we can just trade for it.
CHIP: Yeah. MIKE: Oh, by the way,
I got to ask you. Have you ever heard of Jersey Jon before?
CHIP: Jersey who? MIKE: Jersey Jon.
CHIP: The plumber. (laughing)
MIKE: That's what I'm talking about, okay.
That's what I needed to know.
That's just like an inside thing
between me, Jersey, and Robbie.
ROB: I found a couple cool pieces.
JERSEY JON: Is that wooden? ROB: I don't know,
it's really early, though. This is the stand.
This is uh, this is like-- JOHN: That's for dress making, right?
ROB: Yeah. JOHN: Oh, that is fragile.
ROB: I think it's early. JOHN: I'm surprised it survived
this long in the attic. ROB: In the heat.
JOHN: I found out that my great-grandmother
made all the clothes for all the kids.
JOHN: She used to make all her dresses and stuff
for the family. JERSEY JON: Wow.
ROB: Back in those days, heck yeah.
JOHN: So that's why-- JERSEY JON: In the '30s.
JOHN: With all the measurements on it and stuff,
it was probably for making dresses.
JERSEY JON: Absolutely. ROB: And then you got this religious...
JERSEY JON: Mary. JOHN: Oh, I didn't know that.
ROB: Look at the condition of her.
JERSEY JON: Look at the way her hands are.
JOHN: Is that porcelain? What is it made out of?
ROB: No, it's... JERSEY JON: Plaster.
ROB: It's like a plaster. JOHN: I know they used to have
a lot of religious artifacts and stuff throughout the house.
JERSEY JON: My family as well. We were born and raised
Catholics, whole 9 yards, so we had a lot of this
kind of stuff laying around. JOHN: How about 100 bucks?
For both.
Good. Done. ROB: Not gonna argue with you.
JOHN: It's getting hot up here. JERSEY JON: Yeah, oh my God.
JERSEY JON: New Jersey summers are notoriously hot
and now this is proving it
because we're in a New Jersey attic.
I mean, it is crazy hot in there.
I mean, I can't even see sometimes but the sweat's
dripping in my eyes.
JERSEY JON: I think it's like table legs,
it's like pieces, this is probably from lamps
or something like that. It's got a cloth in the back.
JOHN: It's all wood? JERSEY JON: Yeah, it's wood
and this is a cast-iron piece in here.
It just looks like somebody made it.
JOHN: 125? JERSEY JON: I'd do 100.
JOHN: How about 110? JERSEY JON: Alright, 110.
JOHN: Sounds good. Alright. JERSEY JON: You got it.
ROB: Christmas must have been big around here
because I'm finding a ton of Christmas stuff here.
JOHN: It was, yeah. It was.
JOHN: When Robbie pulled out that base for the tree,
I thought that was really cool and you just imagine them
setting up their tree on that.
We'd all get together on Christmas
and it was a really good time.
JOHN: Is it cast iron? ROB: Yeah. It's 100%--
Oh, there's some of the balls right there. Look at that.
JOHN: There you go. You found them.
ROB: Wow. JOHN: They were underneath.
ROB: Yeah, they were in here. JOHN: Oh, they were inside?
ROB: They were inside this. 75 bucks.
JOHN: Alright, sounds good. ROB: That work?
JOHN: Yeah, absolutely. ROB: Appreciate it, man.
JOHN: Yep. ROB: Thank you.
CHIP: You've been up here before.
MIKE: Yeah, but it's been years.
CHIP: I don't know if I had all the hooks up here before.
MIKE: Oh, you got the wheels up. Okay.
CHIP: Wheels, and I've got frames over there.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
MIKE: The last time I was here,
it was to buy an old bicycle. It was a shaft-drive
Columbia, wood rim, but it had a leaf spring
front end on it. And I just kind of kicked myself
for not digging deep into his parts
because the guy's been doing this
I mean just as long as I have,
so who knows what's up there?
CHIP: This is either late 1800s, or early 1900s.
That's a tall unicycle. I haven't rid that one yet.
MIKE: Whoa, where'd you get that at?
CHIP: Uh... MIKE: That's a unicycle
from that time period? CHIP: Yep.
MIKE: God, this thing's nuts.
Dude, it's got the brass tag on it.
CHIP: Yeah. MIKE: Have you seen that before?
CHIP: That's from the Schwinn. MIKE: Exactly.
Every piece that I've ever seen has this
brass tag on it was from the Schwinn family collection.
CHIP: That's what he told me, it was from the Schwinn family.
MIKE: He's exactly right then.
MIKE: I was lucky enough to be in the right place
in the right time when Schwinn opened up
a building that they had housed
all these old bicycles in.
There was a guy named James Herd
that was kind of heading up the Schwinn collection,
he was marketing it.
And so there were swap meets held in Chicago
and there was actually like a little museum
down on Navy Pier.
It was a cool time to be,
kind of, entering the hobby.
MIKE: But in that building
where all those old bicycles were at,
every one of them had that brass tag.
You know. You've seen them in auctions later on
and maybe at swap meets and when you see the brass tag,
you're like, that's from the Schwinn family.
So this is a very special piece.
And on top of that, the guy rides a unicycle,
okay, so I'm learning all the stuff about Chip today.
MIKE: Do you know how to ride this?
CHIP: Yes. MIKE: Holy crap. Are you kidding me?
CHIP: I probably haven't ridden this in probably five years.
MIKE: No kidding. What do you value the big long one at?
CHIP: I don't know that I would want to sell that one.
MIKE: I don't blame you, man.
MIKE: Picking 101, don't ask a guy
that rides unicycles to buy
his rarest unicycle, because it ain't gonna happen.
MIKE: Oh, Dubuque. Dude, this is Iowa.
CHIP: Yeah? MIKE: That's Dubuque, Iowa
right there, baby. What are these bars
down here you got? What are these off?
CHIP: Uh, I'm not sure. MIKE: These look like they're off a track bar,
track bike or something. Look at this.
CHIP: And the grips are on. And those are Perelli.
MIKE: Are they? Oh yeah, Perelli grips.
So like what would you want for these in trade?
CHIP: I don't even know what they're worth.
MIKE: I mean, to me, I'll tell you what they're worth.
To me, they're worth uh, a couple hundred bucks to me.
CHIP: He's in my cabinet of old bike parts
and everything he's pulling out, "Well, maybe this."
And I'm thinking in my head, I didn't say anything,
but I'm thinking, "No!" (laughs)
MIKE: That chain ring's interesting.
CHIP: That's a Remington.
MIKE: We'll leave that out. Let me...
That might be something I would be interested in.
MIKE: I'm spotting a lot of small things
in this parts cabinet, you know,
20 here, 150 there, 200 there.
And then I start realizing, you know what,
this doesn't add up to a lot
and there's a reason why this stuff's in this cabinet.
He put it behind glass.
CHIP: See these two Hot Wheels? MIKE: Yeah.
CHIP: These are the rarest Hot Wheels ever made.
MIKE: Really?
CHIP: These were never sold
because they were pre-production prototypes.
CHIP: Do you remember when Mother's Wax,
when you bought wax... MIKE: Yeah.
CHIP: They had a Hot Wheel in it.
MIKE: Oh, cool. CHIP: They wanted to build
the Grandmaster, which is a car that I designed and built here.
They created all the tooling,
and then Mother's and Hot Wheels got into a legal battle.
MIKE: Okay. CHIP: Mattel just wanted
the rights to make this. MIKE: Yeah.
CHIP: But they couldn't because I had a deal with...
MIKE: Oh! So they never made them.
CHIP: Only six of the prototypes were ever built.
I have two of them, Mattel has the other four.
MIKE: So, has anybody estimated what they would bring?
CHIP: I have no idea what they would bring.
MIKE: Oh my gosh.
MIKE: There are so many companies that have aligned
with him. I mean, here, we're looking at Hot Wheels,
he's worked for Dodge, he's worked for Ford.
I mean he's created his own wheel line.
I mean, you know, sometimes I forget all that stuff
because we're such bike geeks, you know.
But when he pulls out the Hot Wheel and he's like,
"This is one of the rarest Hot Wheels,"
and he's telling me why, I'm like, wow man.
What talent this guy has.
MIKE: So what are you saying, you'll give me these
for the Bluebird?
CHIP: Uh, how many Bluebirds do you have?
(laughing)
MIKE: Is that where you're going with this? Is that--
CHIP: I just wanted to share the story with you.
MIKE: No, I love, no, it's great!
JOHN: My great uncle, he uh,
started this with my grandfather and his brother.
ROB: How convenient is that? He lived next door
and he could come right here to the business every day.
JOHN: Yeah, just walk right over, right?
It's like working from home.
JERSEY JON: This is cool. It looked like tile.
ROB: Oh wow! You weren't kidding here!
JERSEY JON: Whoa, man!
ROB: Look at this! Look at this, Jersey.
Look at the lights! JERSEY JON: This is great.
JERSEY JON: Walking into this old appliance store
is amazing because there's new-old stock
appliances from like 1960, 1955.
Black and white televisions that are brand new.
There was never a I Love Lucy episode on there.
JERSEY JON: $219.95. ROB: Yeah.
JOHN: Back then that was a lot of money.
JERSEY JON: That was a lot of money, man.
JERSEY JON: That was a couple weeks paycheck.
ROB: I see toasters, I see lighting and radios?
JOHN: Yeah. So, he would fix the radios and TVs,
Uncle Larry did.
JOHN: It was just a store that existed in time
and it kind of, Uncle Larry left it
and no one really touched it.
JERSEY JON: What's this Pratt Institute stuff here?
That's like a 1920s felt banner. JOHN: The pennants.
That's Uncle Larry, yeah.
JERSEY JON: The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
JERSEY JON: Man, the lettering style is neat.
JOHN: When I was a kid,
the place wasn't in business still,
but he would come out here and tinker and work on radios.
He's got a little workshop in the back.
JERSEY JON: Oh, he's got a workshop in the back?
JON: So, this guy was also proud that he
was a graduate of the Pratt. JOHN: That he went to school. Yeah.
JERSEY JON: These felt banners are really cool because
they're from the Pratt Institute. I mean,
this is something he hung up on his wall, he wanted to show
his customers, he wanted to show his family, you know,
his school pride.
They got that vintage look you can't fake.
JERSEY JON: So, I mean, this has got a big hole in it
unfortunately. Moth damage, or whatever.
ROB: You can frame that up and put a piece--
JOHN: 1928. JERSEY JON: Yeah, 1928.
But this one's nice. This one's pristine.
It's really in great shape. 175 bucks for the both.
JOHN: How about 200?
ROB: The cost of framing that's gonna add...
JERSEY JON: I know...
ROB: Because you're gonna have to frame that.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. I'm at the edge, really.
JERSEY JON: I mean, I'd go 180 bucks.
JOHN: Okay. Yeah. JERSEY JON: You'd do that?
JOHN: Yeah, I'll meet you there. JERSEY JON: Alright. Thank you.
JERSEY JON: Alright. Cool. JOHN: Great.
ROB: This one was for radio and television.
It's backlit here underneath.
JOHN: Uh-huh. ROB: So it's got a little bit
of flaking on the back of it, but the tube in it
indicates like 1957, 1962 to me.
JOHN: Okay. ROB: Somewhere in there.
You can see the tube in there. JOHN: Oh yeah, florescent tube.
ROB: Yeah. That piece and this clock... I can't tell.
JERSEY JON: Is that porcelain, Robbie?
ROB: Well, let me get up there. Can I stand on this?
JOHN: Uh, yeah, I guess. ROB: Does that work?
JERSEY JON: You sure? ROB: Yeah. I mean,
it's a washer and dryer. I used to jump on 'em as a kid.
ROB: These two pieces have been hanging on the wall in here
for a long time. RCA, when you see the advertising up there,
that's probably from the '50s. But RCA was one of those
companies that started in the early 1900s
developing the radio.
ROB: CBS.
Hytron tubes, it says.
Certified quality service.
Radio and TV in the back of it.
JERSEY JON: It's a good-looking piece.
ROB: Oh yeah. Still has the markings on it.
ROB: Look how they did the cord on this.
JERSEY JON: Oh yeah, they wrapped it around.
ROB: Wrap it around there. The hooks were never even used.
It's still here. I think this thing just
comes right off of here.
Yeah, look at that.
It still has the tags on the back of it.
JERSEY JON: Ohio Advertising Display Company.
ROB: Yeah. Are you interested in selling both pieces, John?
JOHN: Sure, yeah. I am.
ROB: Would you do 750 for the pair?
JOHN: Um, you know, it's been in the family
for quite some time. And yeah, it's good to see a new home.
ROB: Get it out to the masses.
JOHN: Yeah, it'd be great to see it.
ROB: Shake his hand, Jersey. JERSEY JON: That's cool.
ROB: Awesome. JOHN: That's great.
JOHN: You're probably the first one to look up in there.
ROB: Well, yeah. It looks like it too.
There's some dust up there. JOHN: 60 years.
ROB: Yeah. I mean, he was basically
bringing out to the people that live in this town
everything that was new back then.
JERSEY JON: Right. The new appliances as they came down.
ROB: The new appliances. JOHN: The latest and greatest.
JOHN: At the time. ROB: Yeah, in this tiny, little building here.
JERSEY JON: It was so cool to be in this space
and to imagine people coming in from around the community
and buying their appliances.
Some guys were living paycheck to paycheck,
but they wanted a TV set,
or they needed a washing machine.
This was a nice family-run business.
You shopped close to home.
Your money stayed in your community.
JERSEY JON: Here's the bubble lights.
JOHN: That's cool, too. Oh, the old bubble...
JERSEY JON: Yeah, the old bubble lights.
JOHN: That's when they had the water.
JERSEY JON: They had an oil or something in there. Those I'm interested in.
JOHN: The bubble lights were really cool.
They would have oil in them and when they heat up,
they would blow, little bubbles would pop up.
JERSEY JON: This is like Christmas morning, man.
(John laughs)
JERSEY JON: Manville Electric. He wrapped up everything, didn't he?
It had lights in it, see, it had lights in it.
JERSEY JON: This Christmas display is something you use
to advertise these bubble lights.
I mean, they reproduced these but it's not the same
kind of deal. The chemistry that's inside those old ones,
they can't use it anymore.
It's got a different quality to the light,
something you can't reproduce.
JERSEY JON: With the bubble lamps and that display there,
uh...
I'd do 125.
JOHN: I can't argue with that. JERSEY JON: Okay?
JOHN: Yeah, that's perfect. JERSEY JON: Okay, good. I mean, that's cool.
JERSEY JON: A lot of kudos to the guy that's running this store.
I mean, it's really neat that they were that organized.
Everything is priced out, everything is inventoried,
everything is boxed up nicely and protected.
ROB: This is an advertising piece of some sort.
I think it just advertised the bulbs.
JOHN: Does it light up? ROB: Well, it would.
Do you want to see how bright the bulb is,
boom, you can turn it on and off.
JOHN: Gotcha. ROB: When you wanted to buy
a bulb, you walked into the store,
these actually displayed all the different bulbs on top
and they could light them up individually.
ROB: How about 160 bucks?
JOHN: Can you do 200 on that?
ROB: Um... JOHN: It's got a great look on it.
ROB: How about 180 bucks? JOHN: Okay.
JERSEY JON: Do it? ROB: That work?
ROB: Shake his hand, Jersey. JERSEY JON: Beautiful.
JERSEY JON: Beautiful!
MIKE: So, this is like old school where, you know,
like, we've bought some concept art before.
CHIP: Yeah. MIKE: Now everybody does this on a computer.
CHIP: Right.
MIKE: But you're still
doing everything by hand? CHIP: Yeah.
MIKE: Everything? CHIP: Like that bicycle this morning.
CHIP: I was never introduced into the automotive industry.
I was born into it. My father did this for a living.
He went on his own when he was 14, started a hotrod shop.
So at the age of three,
I would sit next to him whenever he was drawing
something and I would copy what he was doing.
And I wanted to be as good as him.
MIKE: So, like, how long does it take you,
like, if you sat down, how long does it take you
to do something like this?
CHIP: Is it worth more if I say a long time?
(laughing)
MIKE: I don't know! I'm just wondering.
CHIP: That drawing was probably about an hour.
MIKE: That's it?
MIKE: What I'm doing here
is what every car enthusiast with a pulse would love to do.
Look through Chip Foose's archives, man.
All the artwork that he has done for cars.
The last time something like this happened to me
with another car legend was with George Barris.
You know, same thing. Going through this cabinet
and looking at all this artwork.
MIKE: George, did you draw these or who drew these?
GEORGE: Well, I have an artist that worked with me.
GEORGE: I designed it.
FRANK: This has got the Munster's Coach.
MIKE: This is Chip's life's work.
And he's showing it to me, man.
And he's just, he's so humble.
MIKE: When you build a car for somebody,
are they always wanting the original artwork?
CHIP: I don't give them the original artwork.
I keep the originals for my kids,
but if I'm doing an original piece of artwork
for somebody, and giving that to them,
that's normally 10 grand.
MIKE: So, if somebody commissions you
to do a piece or artwork. CHIP: Commissions, yeah.
Then it's 10 grand. MIKE: Okay.
CHIP: You know, I was involved with the first two Cars films.
So, I designed the graphics for Lightning McQueen
and Ramone and a couple of the other Cars.
And then when Disney decided to build Radiator Springs
in the theme park in Disney Land,
Pixar called me and said, "I need your help here."
So, for two and a half years,
that was an absolute dream job.
MIKE: You've set the bar so high
for so many different people which sounds like unobtainable,
but it also, it just inspires everybody.
CHIP: I have been so blessed. Hotrods aren't necessary.
MIKE: Yes.
CHIP: But they're passion-driven.
MIKE: When I first walked into this building,
the only thing that I was thinking about
was bicycle parts, you know. That was on the brain.
But now, he's got me thinking about some art, you know.
Because it's so sought after, and it's so valuable.
JOHN: So yeah, there's two cars in here. There's a Nash Rambler.
ROB: Okay. JOHN: And then there's like
a '49 I think Mercury in here.
ROB: You got a '49 Mercury? JOHN: I got a '49 Merc, yeah.
JOHN: That was my Uncle Larry's.
ROB: Okay. JOHN: Uncle Larry
and my grandfather
were able to borrow the car
from the uh, funeral home,
as long as they took care of it. And then they ended up
actually buying the car from them.
JERSEY JON: When you hear the term barn find,
barn fresh, this defines that moment.
ROB: This open, Jersey? We got to pull.
Whoa, whoa, don't break the door.
(grunting)
JOHN: I'll let you guys do the heavy lifting.
ROB: Dude, look at this thing, Jersey. Wow.
JERSEY JON: That's the Merc, Robbie?
ROB: Oh-ho-ho, it's a Merc, alright.
JERSEY JON: It's like you're walking into a burial vault.
Lo and behold, the light is like shining
on this beautiful Mercury.
This thing hasn't been touched in decades.
JERSEY JON: Wow. ROB: Oh yeah, the Merc motor.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. Yeah. ROB: There it is. Look at that.
JERSEY JON: Look, that paint's still on there.
ROB: Look at the carburetor on that thing.
JERSEY JON: Even the air cleaner is still beautiful.
Actually really in pretty good shape.
ROB: In 1949, Mercury introduced this new model.
It was produced by the Ford Motor Company
which owned the Mercury brand.
The Mercury front grill is what makes this thing
so distinctive. I mean, it's incredible.
This thing has such sleek lines on it.
ROB: The fact that this thing even exists,
this was like the greatest hotrod they ever built.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. ROB: They call it the lead sled.
Oh, they chopped it, they do everything to it.
JERSEY JON: The grill on this is outrageous.
ROB: Pre-1949, cars were blocky,
they were big. This thing was sleek and long.
ROB: It's got the skirts on the back here.
JERSEY JON: And it's a coupe, Robbie.
JOHN: Yeah, you'd think it would be a four-door
if it was for a funeral home.
ROB: That's what I thought too. JERSEY JON: But it's cool that it's a coupe, man.
ROB: There's very few 1949 Mercuries left
that have not been customized in some way.
It's like the most iconic car in American hotrod history.
It's dirty, it's dusty, but it exists.
The fact that this thing is standing in front of us
right here unchopped, unmolested,
that's what you want to save.
ROB: Look at the dash, man! JERSEY JON: How many miles on it, Robbie? How many miles?
ROB: It shows 79,000.
JERSEY JON: Wow, 79,000 miles. Somebody drove this thing.
ROB: Yeah. JOHN: It was the driver. Yeah.
JERSEY JON: Obviously. That's a lot of miles for a car like this.
ROB: John, is there a, do you have a key to this car?
Do you have a title to it? JOHN: Don't have a title.
ROB: Okay. JOHN: Don't have a key.
ROB: These cars are for sale?
JOHN: Um... Yeah, I'd have to consult my mom
real quick just to see.
ROB: Here's the deal, even if she says
they're not for sale,
I can at least help you with a value on it.
JOHN: Alright, yeah. Let me check with her. And then, uh...
ROB: Yeah, Jersey and I will open these doors real quick.
You want to go check with her? JOHN: Yeah.
ROB: Alright, sounds good. JERSEY JON: Let's do it.
ROB: Awesome.
MIKE: You got your Robins. Woo! CHIP: I have, yeah, I have...
MIKE: You still have the shaft drive Robin?
CHIP: I have the shaft drive and then these two,
and then look at this.
MIKE: Oh, you got the Skylark. Is that original paint?
CHIP: Yes. MIKE: God dang, that's nice.
MIKE: Juan Raydolphus Morgansky is the gentleman
that designed the Elgin Bluebird,
the Robin, and the Skylark.
Okay, if you can't say that three times fast,
then just say John Morgan. That's what most people say.
MIKE: Basically, he was a genius
and what these bicycle companies were doing
was they were trying to outdo each other.
So, they were hiring all these industrial artists
to change the game and that is what
Juan Raydolphus Morgansky, John Morgan,
did when he created the Elgin Bluebird.
Elgin was Sears' bicycle brand.
Not only in their brick-and-mortar stores,
but also in their catalog.
MIKE: So, what do you value this Robin at
that's painted with a dead chicken?
CHIP: I paid seven grand for that.
MIKE: Did you? CHIP: What would you value it at?
MIKE: You know, the market is all over the place.
You know what I mean. A lot of the times
on real deco bikes,
the guys that are paying more money
are the guys that aren't bike guys.
To a bicycle guy, like we see this stuff.
But to a car guy that's got a '30s Auburn
or whatever the hell he's got and he's like,
"Oh my gosh, it would be great to build that story
from that time period," you know?
So, I think that's what those go for.
CHIP: I think these are worth more than the Bluebird
that you brought me. MIKE: Oh yeah,
well, that thing's broken in half!
MIKE: Basically, what's happening here
is Chip and I love the same stuff.
You know, I'm geeking out on the Skylark,
I'm geeking out on the Elgin Robins,
you know, the Harley bike, all that kind of stuff.
So, at the end of the day, I've got a Bluebird
that's broken in half, okay?
And I'm trying to make a trade.
With these bikes at this caliber
and the value that they're at,
and how much he really loves them,
it's not going to happen.
CHIP: What are you thinking?
MIKE: Okay, here's what I'm thinking.
I paid 3,200 bucks for it.
CHIP: Mm-hmm. MIKE: You know?
I'm thinking just from a parts standpoint,
I'd like to get 38 out of it. You know.
CHIP: Do you want cash or was there anything
that you saw that you're interested in?
MIKE: I mean, to be honest with you,
I mean a lot of the bikes,
you and I have been doing bikes for so long,
and we've got different examples of the same thing.
I love the artwork. I really do. CHIP: Thank you.
MIKE: I mean, the car artwork. And I get why you have never
sold any of it before because you know,
it just becomes part of your portfolio. You know.
I mean you can look back through all the decades
you've been doing this and it's all a story
being told through the artwork, through all the cars.
CHIP: If you want a piece of art,
I'll trade you for some art.
MIKE: I mean, to be honest with you, I was blown away
by the art you did on this.
I mean, that's a very detailed drawing.
It really falls into line
with what I collect and what I do.
CHIP: When he started talking about the drawing,
I was so excited because that is the huge
compliment to me that he wanted something that I created
over some of the stuff that he's always looking for.
CHIP: I told you what I get when I do commission work.
MIKE: Yeah. CHIP: I would think a bicycle,
probably about half of that. MIKE: You would trade me
the Bluebird for the... CHIP: For the Bluebird.
(laughing)
MIKE: Okay. You'll trade me the Bluebird
that I can touch right here that's in front of me
for the Bluebird on paper? CHIP: Yeah.
If you're good with that, I'm good with it.
MIKE: Done. Okay! (laughing)
MIKE: Thank you. Seriously? We're doing this?
CHIP: No, thank you. Yeah, no, I'll do that.
MIKE: Okay! Hell yeah!
MIKE: The last thing that I thought I was gonna
walk out of here today with
was a drawing of an Elgin Bluebird,
but it's a Chip Foose drawing.
To have that, the only one,
something that he did and he's such a close friend,
that's something that I want to have,
to cherish, to put on my wall,
because one, it's bicycle,
two, it's Chip's.
And that is priceless.
CHIP: Awesome. MIKE: Seriously, man.
CHIP: Well, that's a good day in Huntington Beach.
MIKE: I love it, I love it. Thank you, buddy.
I appreciate you working with me. CHIP: My pleasure.
JOHN: So yeah, I just talked to my mom. She said, uh...
ROB: It's for sale? JOHN: Yeah. On the right price.
ROB: Look underneath the car on that side.
JERSEY JON: Alright. Let me get under here.
ROB: We'll try to get underneath this one right here.
ROB: What are you seeing, dude? JERSEY JON: Yeah, okay,
the rockers are blown out on this side, Robbie.
ROB: Oh yeah. Right here too. JERSEY JON: Yep.
ROB: It's gone.
JERSEY JON: It's been in the New Jersey salt.
JOHN: Oh really? ROB: Yep, yep, yep.
JERSEY JON: I'm getting handfuls of rust.
JERSEY JON: Coming out of the bottom here.
ROB: Same thing I got on this side.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. ROB: This thing was
through the New Jersey winter. JERSEY JON: The salt.
They use a lot of salt on the roads and that,
you know, the salt eats the cars away.
ROB: Yeah. 100%.
JERSEY JON: To me, Robbie, that's a big deal.
JERSEY JON: We have to make sure that this is not something
we're gonna have to spend too much money
to get a return out of it.
We have to be really careful not to get too emotional.
ROB: I think there's something that we could do with it.
But at the end of the day, it's like anything,
you got to buy it at the right price.
JERSEY JON: Mm-hmm. JOHN: Sure.
ROB: What kind of money are you thinking on this thing?
JOHN: Um...
Maybe at least 10,000.
ROB: It's going to cost me probably 1,000, 1,500
to get it home. At 10, that'd be 11,500.
And then by the time I got through everything,
I'd be into it, you know, minimum,
there's a minimum what's going to go into this car
to even make it run,
you're gonna be between 3 and 5,000.
Now you got to body work to it.
ROB: Or, you got to take this and the guy
that we would even try to sell it to,
this might be a candidate where they would take it and chop it.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. ROB: With that being said,
I think I'd have to be at like...
...six grand. JOHN: Mm. Um...
ROB: I mean, at that, I'd have 7,500 in it.
JERSEY JON: Yep. JOHN: Yep.
ROB: And I think 7 would be... JOHN: 6 is a little low.
ROB: I think 7's my max on it.
I mean, that would be my max with the shipping.
JOHN: You want to take a look at it outside maybe?
See if we can get it outside and check it out?
ROB: I'd love to see it out of here.
JOHN: Well, we got to get it out anyway.
ROB: I'd love to see it out of here.
JOHN: We can check it out and we'd love to move on.
ROB: You got an air compressor?
JOHN: I do. Let's see if we can get it going.
JERSEY JON: You have got to get it out of that space
so we can really see it in the light.
ROB: It's going up.
(John laughing) JOHN: It's going up!
JERSEY JON: It's holding air. ROB: I'm watching the compressor
go up 20 pounds right now.
JERSEY JON: There's a lot that can go wrong here.
I mean, we can smash a door,
we can scratch the paint,
we can pull the side of the barn down.
You know, there's a lot of things that can happen
if we're not really careful
about how we pull this car out of this space.
ROB: Alright. Slowly, John.
Slowly. I'm going to give you a tipper,
see if this thing's gonna move. Go ahead.
JERSEY JON: Whoa.
ROB: Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!
JERSEY JON: We're awfully close to the wall.
ROB: Okay, we probably should've hooked it up
to the other shackle. JOHN: Okay.
ROB: Because we hooked it up to that one
and it didn't pull it. I'm trying to get the car
to go this way.
So, we need to do it slowly.
Listen to me, I'm going to pull on that strap
to try to get it to pull. As I'm pulling,
you're pulling out. We get that to happen, we're golden.
JOHN: Robbie came up with an idea to shift over
the actual toe strap to the other side
and kind of give it an oomph as it's coming out.
ROB: Little bit, John! Little bit!
JERSEY JON: Every time that Robbie's pulling this thing,
the wheels are moving a quarter inch
and I can tell by looking down
that the front wheel is locked up,
the brake is locked up. There's something going on.
We're dragging it out, you know.
Like an old grizzly bear out of the cave.
ROB: Okay, stop!
ROB: I am going to get this thing out of here,
hell or high water.
It might knock the garage down,
but we're going to save the Mercury.
ROB: Little bit. There you go. Straight back.
Keep going. Keep going.
Keep going.
JERSEY JON: Alright, you got it!
ROB: Keep going.
JERSEY JON: You're out. ROB: You're good!
JERSEY JON: Damn! Wow. JOHN: It's finally seeing the light of day.
ROB: Look at that. JERSEY JON: It's been a long time.
JOHN: Raccoon poop and all. JERSEY JON: Yeah. Raccoons
had a field day with this thing.
ROB: Look at the dirt on this thing, look at this.
I just want to look at that engine now.
Oh, man.
JERSEY JON: Wow, look at how black that oil is.
Dude, you needed an oil change a long time ago.
ROB: There's no grit in it. JERSEY JON: I know,
but still, dude. Look how black that sucker is.
ROB: I don't mind black oil. JERSEY JON: Yeah. There's no water in it.
ROB: This is what I was talking about, John. Right here.
Look at that. JERSEY JON: On both sides, Robbie.
ROB: Look at that whole area. JERSEY JON: Robbie, this side is just as bad.
ROB: Yeah. I mean, that's all gone.
JERSEY JON: Look, dude.
ROB: Yeah. JERSEY JON: I mean, it is falling apart.
And that's the whole thing in here. It's just leaking rust.
JOHN: There was so much rust.
And then what he said made a lot of sense. The Jersey winters.
They always put salt on the road.
And back then, they probably never washed it off.
ROB: What are you thinking, Jersey?
JERSEY JON: Well, I mean...
ROB: Did your thoughts change after it came out?
JERSEY JON: That side's worse with rust
than the driver's side.
ROB: Tell you what. I was at 6.
At 65... JERSEY JON: 65?
ROB: I got 1,500 in shipping.
JOHN: I'm kind of firm at 7. Um...
ROB: Remember that Mary upstairs that I bought from you?
JOHN: Yeah. JERSEY JON: It's a Hail Mary for us, man.
ROB: I'm just taking, I'm praying to Mary
that the engine's not stuck
and I can actually get it running.
JOHN: I got an idea.
We do a coin flip for it.
Coin flip, 6500, 7?
ROB: There are a lot of different ways to negotiate
when it comes to picking. The bundle, the walkaway,
and maybe the most popular: the coin toss.
MAN 2: Heads I win, tails you lose.
MIKE: On the ground.
(laughs) It's heads. He won.
FRANK: It's heads. MIKE: Alright, here's
my professional flipper right here.
MAN 2: Heads. MIKE: God!
MAN 3: And you called what? MIKE: I called heads.
MAN 3: Bingo! MIKE: Ah!
(Frank laughs)
MIKE: I hate flipping coins because I lose, man. I lose.
ROB: But unlike my brother, I don't lose.
ROB: Alright.
JERSEY JON: It's got a heads and tails.
ROB: It's got a heads and tails. Are you calling it, Jersey?
JERSEY JON: Yeah, I'll call it. Unless you want to call it.
JOHN: No, you can call it. JERSEY JON: Alright. Heads.
Whoa.
ROB: It's tails. 7 grand. JOHN: 7,000.
JERSEY JON: You won! ROB: That's alright, dude.
JERSEY JON: That's alright, dude.
ROB: Seriously, John. That's alright,
I appreciate you, man. JERSEY JON: Thank you.
ROB: It's 7 grand, we're gonna have 1,500 in it
to get it home, that's 8,500.
I'm praying and hoping that I can get the engine running.
If I can't and I got to replace the engine
and I got to replace the transmission,
it could become a money pit.
ROB: You don't mind this sitting here for a couple days?
I'll have Danielle get a hold of you.
ROB: And then she'll work on the shipping of this.
But the other stuff, we'll grab and take today.
JOHN: Sounds good.
JOHN: I'm really glad that it's going to someone
that is going to be passionate about fixing up the car
and getting it back on the road
and maybe it'll have another life.
JOHN: Bye, guys! (honking)
ROB: Thank you! JERSEY JON: Thank you!