Mike: Oh wow...
Jim: It's a little dark in here.
Mike: Oh wow!
Jersey jon: Wow, that ambulance is cool.
Jim: Man, this place is a mess.
Robbie: He's just such an iconic guy.
Danielle: This is absolutely amazing.
Jersey jon & jim: Urgh!
Mike: Alright, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Jim: Whoa!
Mike: Oh yeah... Look at that.
Mike: I'm freaking out because some of this stuff is original
Paint, and it's all extremely hard to find.
Mike: Whoa!
Jim: That's alright...
Oh my gosh, you dented it.
♪♪
Mike: Alright jersey, where are we going?
Jersey jon: Dani sent me a text.
This guy is a retired air force general. He-
Mike: He's an air force general?
Jersey jon: Yeah.
He flies f-16s, he speaks 8 languages,
He's a surgeon.
This guy is like a superman.
Mike: No doubt.
Jersey jon: The entire time he was traveling with the air
Force, he was buying up vw parts.
Mike: Does he got volkswagens?
Jersey jon: Yeah, he's got volkswagens.
Mike: What's he got?
Jersey jon: Dani says, don't worry about it,
You're going to love it.
Mike: [laughs] get outta here.
Have you ever met a general?
Jersey jon: I'm a little intimidated.
Mike: I've never met a general,
But I do remember being introduced to...
Corporal punishment...
Jersey jon: [laughs] yeah.
Mike: [laughs] ...When I was a little kid.
Jersey jon: And major pain.
Mike: Yeah, major pain. Alright.
♪♪
Mike: Which one, this one?
Jersey jon: [giggles]
Mike: Sorry, man. [laughing]
Jersey jon: Dude, look at this road man,
This is definitely a goat trail.
Mike: Dang, this guy's way off the grid.
Jersey jon: Yeah man, look at this hill.
Woo...
Mike: Alright, that's a good sign, the gate's open.
Jersey jon: Man, you know, if he's got other stuff than
Volkswagens and stuff, man.
I want to find some like cool old furniture or
Something like that, or old motorcycle parts.
Mike: What's the guy's name?
Jersey jon: Jim.
Mike: Even though we're invited to somebody's property,
Sometimes it can be a little bit awkward when you first meet.
Jersey jon: Oh there he is.
Mike: There he is.
Jersey jon: Yep, yep.
Mike: Wow... Look at this view!
Mike: But when jersey jon and I roll up,
And we see the hood up on the truck,
We realize we're around like-minded people.
That's like the welcome mat, and we know we're
With people that speak the same language as we do.
Mike: Whoa... Hey-hey! You jim?
Hey I'm mike.
Jim: Hi, how're you doing?
Jim: My name is jim chow.
I'm from columbia, south carolina.
I joined the military while I was in medical school.
I always felt wearing a uniform was very important.
Mike: Hey, what's your name?
Dave: Dave.
Mike: Dave?
Dave: Yes sir, nice to meet you, mike.
Mike: Hey, this is my buddy jersey.
Jersey jon: Hey, how are ya?
Jim: Jersey. Good to see you.
Jersey jon: Nice to meet you, nice to meet you.
Dave: Hey jersey, nice to meet you.
Jersey jon: Hey, nice to meet you.
Jim: This is forrest.
Forrest: Forrest, nice to meet you.
Mike: What's going on, man, what do you guys got going here?
Jim: We're working on this old ford.
Trying to get it cranked up.
Mike: Dani said jim is a volkswagen guy.
But here he is working on an old ford truck.
I got a feeling he's going to have everything from a-to-z.
Jim: Quite a list there.
Mike: Right there, look at that one.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jim: Quite a, quite a list there, whoa...
Mike: Volkswagen.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jim: I think we can probably help you with that.
Jim: I collected a lot of things over the years.
But my favorite collection started off volkswagens.
My family spent many years in north africa.
My parents were missionaries there.
And my first exposure to volkswagen is when I was
Growing up seeing air-cooled volkswagens running in
The desert while other cars broke down.
So we always had a little affinity for it,
Of vw being very reliable.
Mike: So who's the mechanic here?
Jersey jon: ...Nice, man.
Mike: This guy?
Alright, dave, let's see what you got.
Dave: Fire it up, forrest.
Jim: Forrest is my son.
And he kind of grew up on this farm.
Matter of fact, we built a log home together.
We have an active farm, you know,
There's a hay field, there's a garden,
There are fruit trees here.
Forrest is in graduate school so he helps out whenever he can.
[engine cranks over & starts]
Mike: Yeah!
Jim: Got it, got it.
Mike: You got it.
I see why you got him around now.
Jim: F-16 mechanic.
Mike: Yeah, danielle said that you fly f-16s.
Jim: I did, in my younger days.
I joined the unit back in the '80s.
Mike: Where'd you guys fly out of?
Jim: Mcentire joint national guard base.
This is the man that kept it going.
Mike: Really.
Jersey jon: Wow.
Jim: Hey, we were the best.
Mike: Hey, that's how you guys met?
Jim: I was there for over 25 years.
Mike: Wow.
Jim: And he was there forever.
Jim: Dave, he knows a lot about machines.
He's also a car enthusiast.
Mike: So this is like just a place where everybody
Comes and wrenches on stuff, hangs out.
Jim: Yeah, most old vets, you know, we come
Out here, eat, work on cars, and tell lies.
Mike: [laughs]
Jersey jon: Good.
Mike: Jim is a guy that's been collecting
Volkswagen stuff his whole life.
He wasn't just digging things up in america,
He had the opportunity to pick stuff from all over the world.
Jim: Well mike, let me show you some of the
Stuff I'm talking about.
Mike: Okay absolutely.
Jim: Now forrest, why don't you help dave.
Mike: Hey, good to meet you.
Dave: Yes sir.
Jersey jon: Take care, man.
Mike: Thanks, guys.
Jim: Well come on in, I want to show you
A couple of vws I kept in here.
Mike: Alright.
Jim: Turn on the light here, here we go.
It's a little dark in here.
Mike: Oh wow!
Jersey jon: Wow!
Jim: Man, this place is a mess, haven't
Been in here for a while.
Mike: What year is the ambulance?
Jim: That's a 1937 mercedes.
Mike: Yeah.
Jim: This of course was actually used during the war.
It came out of a museum in indiana.
I've never seen another one like this.
During the war, they were all destroyed.
Mike & jersey jon: Yeah... Um -hm...
Jim: This is one of the reasons I am kind of
Transitioning into the military vehicle.
I'm just so fascinated with the german
Engineering during that era.
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: The avenues and paths we travel as
Collectors grow over time.
Your interests change, your focus shifts,
But that's the beauty of it,
Because you're constantly learning.
Mike: There's the bug over there.
Can we look at that bug?
Look at that bug, jersey.
Jim: Absolutely, come on down.
Well this bug...
Jersey jon: Oh yeah cool.
Jim: ...Have a special history.
I had this bug since college.
Mike: Really!
Jim: I had this bug longer than I have my wife.
[group laughing]
Jim: And I drove it the way it was.
As time progressed, I finally decided to restore it.
Mike: Yeah.
You're not selling this, are you?
Jim: No.
Mike: And here's your thing.
Jim: This thing...
Jersey jon: This is like 1972?
Jim: '74.
Jersey jon: '74.
Jim: This is the last year they made them.
I had this car for over 20 years.
Mike: It's a nice car, it's a solid car.
Jim: It had 86,000 miles on it.
Mike: During world war ii, americans had the jeep,
And the germans had the kübelwagen.
Then after the war, both vehicles were
Adapted for civilian use.
The jeep became the cj, and the kübelwagen became
The volkswagen thing; or otherwise known throughout
The world as the 181.
Jersey jon: Jim, what is this thing?
Jim: This is a german field kitchen.
Jersey jon: Seriously?
Jim: Yes, they call it a "gulaschkanone".
Jersey jon: A what?
Jim: It's because it looks like a canon,
And they made goulash.
Jim: The german field kitchen is a 1893
Invention the germans used for their troop.
It is very simple, but very effective.
Jim: And this thing here...
Jersey jon: Look at this!
Jim: ...Is fully restored, 'cause I like to eat.
So this is actually a coffee grinder that you can use.
It has salt and pepper and different spice.
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
Jersey jon: That's a big kettle in there? That-
Jim: What that is, is a pressure cooker.
Jersey jon: It cooks the food, it makes coffee.
Jim: Put a coffee in here.
Mike: Wow, the whole fender full of coffee.
Jersey jon: We need this, mike.
Mike: [laughs] yeah.
Jersey jon: It's got everything you need to feed an army.
Jersey jon: What fires it?
Jim: Wood, there's a little burner on the bottom,
So you can make goulash in there.
And you feed actually 125 troops.
Mike: To restore something called "the goulash canon",
You have to be passionate about its engineering.
And I think that's jim's connection with it.
Jim: Now I sit on the, the south carolina military museum.
The museum's right here in columbia, south carolina.
It's actually been there almost 30 years.
Mike: Oh wow.
Jim: This is the fourth largest national guard
Museum in the country now.
Mike: Okay.
Jim: It tells the story of south carolina militia
From 1670s all the way to the present day.
Mike: Jim's at the point now where he's curating his
Collection to directly connect with the
Museum that he's working with.
Mike: So they obviously have the right guy for the job,
Because you're a general.
And I've been wanting to talk to you about that,
But like me and jersey, when we heard that in the van,
I mean, I got to admit-
Jersey jon: Like wow.
Mike: -I mean, it's a little intimidating.
Jersey jon: Very intimidating,
We didn't know what we were walking into.
Mike: But you're- you're so down to earth,
And- and you love the same stuff that we do,
So it's like easy to talk to you.
Jersey jon: Yeah, yeah.
Jim: I'm one of the guys.
The best part is, is the people that I deal with.
Mike & jersey: Yeah.
Jim: These are folks that you go overseas,
You serve with them, and we come home as a team.
And we stay connected for years to come.
But end of the day, we're americans.
We're america of one.
I can even share my personal experiences.
I came to this country as a high schooler.
My parents were missionaries in north africa.
I came here with 2 suitcases, but my parents told me,
Go to america, be an american.
This is the greatest country there is.
Work hard, get the education, when the country calls,
Put on the uniform, do your part.
And I cannot say enough, the opportunity that was
Given to me, allowing me to be where I am today.
Mr. Brokaw talk about the greatest generation.
I can assure you, the greatest generation are
Still on the battlefield today, in afghanistan,
In iraq, and in syria.
Mike: Hm, thank you.
Jersey jon: Yeah man.
Mike: Thank you for your service.
Jersey jon: Thank you.
Mike: Jim's success is all of our success.
Just like anybody else that comes to this country
And works hard for the american dream.
Mike: I think... When I walked in here,
I felt a little bit intimidated, to be honest with you...
Jim: Oh come on...
Mike: ...But we're just collectors,
We're all just collectors.
Jersey jon: Yeah... Yeah.
Jim: No, no...
Mike: We all speak that universal language,
That universal language of collecting,
Which is at the simplest form, very passionate.
Extremely passionate.
I love your passion.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jersey jon: What a great story jim's got.
Just being with jim today was an amazing opportunity.
Mike: Show me something that you want to sell.
♪♪
Robbie: Give me a lead. Danielle: Alright.
Robbie: Give me where we're going, what are we doing?
Danielle: So we're going to see a guy today named kendall.
His late wife used to travel through the midwest,
Basically going to auctions and flea markets
And all of that kind of stuff.
She really collected a lot.
Her name was ann.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: And she's a collector before they met.
So I think basically most of the collection is his wife's.
A lot of what he has are smalls.
Robbie: But you know what, smalls can
Sometimes be the money.
Danielle: Smalls can be the money.
And then he- he collected marbles.
He loved marbles.
Robbie: I played marbles when I was a kid.
I liked to buy marbles, but I don't know enough about marbles.
Danielle: I like to buy marbles, but then it's really
Disappointing when I lose my marbles.
Robbie: Oh geez...
♪♪
Robbie: I think it's coming here.
It's right up here.
Danielle: This should be it, this should be it,
This should be it.
Robbie: Okay. Alright.
Danielle: Yeah...
Robbie: Alright.
Danielle: Alright. Kendall.
His wife's name was ann.
Robbie: Ann.
Okay. Gotcha.
Danielle: Yeah.
Robbie: Alright. I'm warming up already.
Danielle: Is it though? I'll be warm in there.
Robbie: Yeah, just think warm.
You think warm and then it'll be warm.
How're you doing, young man?
Danielle: Hi kendall.
Kendall: Hello. How are y'all?
Danielle: Danielle. This is rob.
Robbie: Rob wolfe.
Kendall: Robbie.
Robbie: Nice to meet ya, nice to meet ya.
Danielle: And this is what we're looking for right there.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: How're you doing today?
Kendall: I'm doing good.
Robbie: You staying warm?
Danielle: It's chilly, huh.
Kendall: I should have some of it, yeah.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kendall: Come on in.
Danielle: Alright. Oh it's nice and warm in here. Oh wow. See?
What a beautiful collection you've got here.
Robbie: Holy cow.
Danielle: Goodness.
Kendall: My name is kendall king
And I live in calvert city, kentucky.
I collect marbles, vaseline glass,
And several other minor stuff.
Danielle: And the marbles are what you love, right?
Kendall: That's mine, yeah. That's what I really liked.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: How long have you been collecting them?
Kendall: Oh, since I was in grade school.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kendall: Coming home with a big pocket full.
Had to gamble.
Robbie: Oh yeah.
Danielle: Yeah. [laughs]
Robbie: Yeah, heck yeah.
Kendall: I always played marbles for keeps,
In grade school and so on and so forth.
Danielle: Which is your favorite?
Kendall: These english swirls here.
Danielle: English swirls.
Kendall: And the bigger swirls there, yeah.
Danielle: Ahh.
Robbie: And these are just basically made by glass blowers?
Kendall: Um-hm.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kendall: Handmade, yeah.
Danielle: I'm curious about these ones.
Little toys inside.
Kendall: Um-hm.
Danielle: This one has an elephant in the center.
Kendall: Yeah.
Danielle: So would this have been a german marble
Or an american made?
Kendall: It would have been american made, yes.
Robbie: These marbles are great to look at.
I love the history behind them.
But this is just completely out of our wheel house.
Robbie: So you're out traveling with ann...
Kendall: Yes.
Robbie: And you're buying marbles,
And she's buying all these other things.
Kendall: That's just about right.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kendall: And I'm hauling them.
Robbie: You're hauling, and you're hauling the stuff home.
Danielle: [laughs]
Kendall: Ann loved collecting, mainly just looking
For something. And she had a booth or two here and
There and everywhere. So she bought and sold stuff.
Kendall: Here, let me show you her collections
Starting in here then.
Robbie: Okay. Alright. Wow!
Robbie: She was into everything.
Danielle: Your wife, ann, she collected all of this.
Kendall: Oh yeah.
Robbie: This room is absolutely amazing.
It's got country store, it's got toys,
It's got advertising.
Everything in here, I love.
Robbie: ...Look at the things in here...
Honestly, this is one of those rooms you got to
Walk in several times to see everything in here.
And she had great display cases.
Kendall: Yes.
She was a great eye for decorating.
She should have been a decorator.
Robbie: Yeah. You know, it's like this right here.
"third-term roosevelt 1940."
I mean, this is a neat, neat piece.
It's not marked anywhere, but it's an early chalkware.
Robbie: In 1940, roosevelt is going for
His third term as president.
Robbie: It looks to me like this leg has been repaired on the
Outside, I can tell, don't want to touch it too much.
And I- I think ann probably did a little bit of touch-up on it.
But the fact that it's a donkey, it's early chalkware,
I just love the piece. $130.
Kendall: I'll go to 100-and-a-half with it.
Robbie: I don't like that leg.
Kendall: What did you pay for the last one you bought?
Robbie: I haven't had one of these.
Kendall: Well, that's what I thought, you know.
Robbie: [laughs] you got me there.
Alright, I'll do the 150.
♪♪
Jim: Well, I have a bunch of old parts in here.
Let's take a look in here.
Mike: Alright. Oh yeah...
Jim: We need a good flashlight.
Jersey jon: Bumpers...
Jim: That's a 1960...
Nos sherman bumper.
I think this is mostly old stuff,
You know, been sitting here for, for years.
Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jim: When I was in high school, when I came here,
I bought an old beat-up '68 wrecked vw bug.
And of course after that, I- I got the "bug".
[chuckles]
Jim: I'm so glad you guy are here helping me
Clean this up, you know.
Mike: [chuckles]
Jim: I think you should be done in about 2 weeks.
Mike: What about this sign, would you sell this sign?
Jim: That came from a vw dealership,
Yeah I'll sell the sign.
Mike: There you go.
Jersey jon: It's plastic though, right?
Mike: Yeah...
Jersey jon: What to take it down?
Mike: Here pull it down, yeah pull it out,
Let's pull it out.
Mike: In the early 1950s, there were volkswagen
Dealers scattered around the us.
And if you can find advertising and memorabilia from that time
Period here in this country, that's a really big deal.
Now over in europe, there's lots of that stuff.
This plastic sign from the 1980s in europe
Would really be no big deal.
But over here in the us, it truly is,
Because it's just old enough to be valuable.
Jim: This came out from vw dealership.
They opened like as early as 1955.
I think this thing hanged in the hallway,
So it had lights on both sides.
Mike: 500 bucks.
We're doing it?
Alright.
Appreciate it.
Get that all rewired and get it lit up again, man.
Look at that. Yeah...
Jersey jon: You know, new-old stock
Volkswagen parts, bearing stuff.
Beautiful, they're from the dealership.
Jersey jon: There's a lot of new-old stock vw parts.
All in original boxes.
It's like blowing me away.
Mike: To dig through this properly, it's like...
Jim: Yeah.
Mike: ... 'cause I mean, you really can't see much
In here other than, you know it's so buried.
Jim: This is... See some of this stuff,
When you buy it, people, everything on the table...
Mike: Yeah, you're just buying everything.
Jim: Everything on the table, like the guys take it.
Jersey jon: Yeah, yeah sure.
Jim: I think you know exactly what you're looking for...
Whoa...
Jersey jon: That was nice.
Jim: That's alright, it's okay, don't worry about it.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jim: You can see the stuff I have,
We need to pull them out.
Mike: Let me grab this deck lid out here.
Jim: Actually, an os-57.
Mike: Wow.
Jim: Right after high school, I began doing a little
More traveling, and I would go to the vw shows.
And I noticed people have these flea markets.
I can remember waiting until the end of the day,
And people will want to get rid of everything on their table.
Sure enough, I end up with a variety of vw parts
And you know, whatever's on the table.
Mike: Here... These fenders say "59 to 66".
Jersey jon: 66.
Jim: Yep.
Mike: These are worth, what do you think, 250 apiece?
Jersey jon: Retail.
Mike: Yeah.
Mike: The preservationist, the enthusiast that wants to do a
Restoration and wants to use original parts,
That's the guy that's going to buy these fenders.
Mike: Those are 500, that's 500 retail.
Jim: And that's a good deck lid.
Mike: Quality original oem parts are always going to
Save money and time in a restoration.
Mike: 600 bucks.
Jim: 750 we got a deal.
That- that thing really, nos w lid.
Mike: I know.
Jim: Where are you going to find something like that?
It still has the original...
Mike: South carolina.
Jersey jon: Yeah. Out in the woods.
Jim: [laughs]
Mike: Out in the woods of south carolina.
Mike: I understand where jim's coming from
With all of these parts.
You know, he's connected to them,
He remembers exactly where he got each piece.
Jim: So that particular one, clearly...
Mike: This.
The deck lid.
Jim: I got it like in '87 in clarksville, tennessee.
Mike: Okay.
Jim: From the vw dealership.
Mike: And I also understand what a big deal it is for
Him to even turn loose of some of these things.
Mike: 675. Alright.
Alright, we're doing it.
Alright, you're thinning it out, you're getting,
Putting a little dent in it.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
♪♪
Robbie: There's so much stuff here, kendall.
I mean, I- I want to pick up everything.
Kendall: I want to sell everything,
So we're, we're going the same pace.
Robbie: Yeah, we're the same pace, alright.
Early ice cream tray.
I love the piece.
It's got great characters. 240.
Kendall: I'll go 50.
Robbie: I'll do it. I appreciate it.
So "finck's detroit - special overalls. For sale here."
I'll do 100 on it.
Kendall: Yeah.
Robbie: Yeah I'm noticing as I'm taking this down,
It's got a little burnt edge on it.
And that's what I love about it.
It's got character added to it, right there.
Danielle: Ooh it's two-sided.
Robbie: Oh yeah.
Kendall: The weatherbird sign down there was in the basement
In a fire, ann brought it home and she cleaned it up.
Robbie: Baxter-ramsey out of st. Louis.
A lot of early advertising was made out of wood.
This was like a sidewalk sign that went out
In front of the store.
Robbie: In the early 1900s, a lot of companies
Were competing to get kids' attention.
It was all about the character brand,
Such as polly parrot.
Buster brown and the dog was the most famous.
Robbie: Actually, the backside looks touched up,
Right here, and a little bit on the face here.
Kendall: She was good at matching paints.
She was an artist, and she did touch up several things, yeah.
Kendall: Ann, well she went to murray state and
Had a degree in art and art history.
You know, she could look at it and draw it.
Robbie: A lot of country store stuff,
It just didn't survive.
Robbie: I think on the high side of this,
We would probably be able to get like...
800 out of it.
I'd like to be probably around...
Like 550?
Kendall: Ah, what about 650?
Robbie: 600.
Kendall: Yeah, I'll do 600.
Robbie: Alright. I appreciate that.
Robbie: There's nothing better than to walk into
Somebody's home, and to find great antiques.
♪♪
Mike: Oh yeah, whoa!
Jersey jon: Fun never stops, man.
Jim: This is, this is a lot of stuff.
Mike: Damn, look at all this, jersey.
Jersey jon: Yeah, it's amazing.
Jim: Very well organized, eh?
Mike: You got the bicycle in here.
Jim: World war ii german bicycle.
Mike: There you go.
Mike: Jim's been around this long enough to know that he
Can't just go out and buy this much of this stuff again.
Mike: Whoa!
Jim: I'm sorry. Oh my gosh, you dented it.
[group laughing]
Mike: This is a life-long collection of a lot
Of travel overseas.
Mike: Look at these pope noses.
Mike: You know, to find this stuff in a container in south
Carolina and putting it in my hands,
I'm just like, wow.
It's like treasure chest of volkswagen parts.
Jim: Yay...
Mike: Pope nose.
Jersey jon: Dash...
Mike: Oh yeah, look at that.
Yeah baby.
Jim: That's a split window.
Mike: Yeah.
Mike: In this container, we're coming across a lot of
Early small parts that are what I call "the gingerbread."
The glass lenses, the smaller pieces - all of these smaller
Early parts in the us are extremely hard to find.
Jim: Well you know, these of course,
Collected over, literally over 40 years.
And some of this stuff have been sitting there for a long time.
Mike: That's 11 tail lights. Then you've got...
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 deck lid lights.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: I'm freaking out because some of this stuff is
Original paint, and it's all extremely hard to find.
Mike: What do you feel comfortable with this?
Jim: 800.
Mike: Yeah...
Jersey jon: We can get a grand out of this stuff?
Mike: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Jersey jon: Yeah exactly. So 800 bucks.
Mike: And then I got to find somebody,
I got to- I got to sell each piece of it.
Jim: I understand.
Mike: You know.
Mike: 650 bucks.
Jim: 750 we got a deal.
Mike: 700 bucks.
Jersey jon: Nice.
Mike: Alright man, thank you.
♪♪
Robbie: There's some amazing pieces in here,
And I mean, this is...
How many years of collecting?
Kendall: Probably 44 and then, some of it she got
From her mother.
She went with her mother before we were married.
Robbie: So where'd you guys meet?
Kendall: Well, we met at a beach party. [laughs]
Robbie: There's a beach near here?
Kendall: Oh yeah. There was then.
Robbie: Oh yeah?
Are you still buying?
Kendall: No, when ann passed, I just quit.
I just lost interest too...
Robbie: Yeah.
Kendall: ...Buying.
Robbie: There's a piece here, right here,
I've got to ask about.
Just because it's from illinois.
The new era oil company, which was just a distributor of oil,
And it was for "texaco gasoline, kerosene,
Lubricant oil and grease."
And the thermometer is intact, which is a big,
Big plus on these.
Kendall: Um-hm.
Robbie: To me, gas and oil is the best stuff to collect.
Robbie: This is probably about 1920-ish. 175.
Kendall: What about 2?
Robbie: How about 190?
Kendall: Yeah, I'll do 190.
Robbie: Alright, thank you.
Danielle: These frozen charlottes
Are really interesting.
Do you know the- the story of the frozen charlotte?
Kendall: No.
Danielle: Frozen charlotte started out like 1840s.
There was a poem that was written about a young lady.
Kendall: Um-hm.
Danielle: Who went to a ball, and the back of the stage coach
Was really cold and her mom kept telling her to wear her coat,
But she didn't wear her coat.
So by the time she got to the ball,
Charlotte was frozen to death.
And her boyfriend, charlie, died of a- of
A broken heart because she froze to death.
So her not listening to her mom led to both of them dying.
Kendall: You're telling me a story that I never heard and
I don't know anything about them.
Danielle: And so they would put these little
Frozen charlotte dolls inside cake.
And so for special occasions, they- you'd find the frozen
Charlotte, and if you found the frozen charlotte in your cake,
It was just a little reminder from your parents that you
Got to listen to them or you're going to die.
Kendall: Okay.
Danielle: Like how morbid, right? [laughs]
Kendall: Yeah.
Danielle: So the back of this one,
It's kind of discolored.
That tells me this one's probably been
Baked in a cake already.
Now this one, I mean, to find, honestly,
To find any dolls that are black, that's a rarity.
Danielle: It's important that you pay attention to the smalls,
You pay attention to the things that
Are maybe not super high-dollar.
Makes sure everybody has an opportunity to experience the
Joy of just collecting antiques, and learning about history.
Danielle: So 205 would be the total on this that
I would feel comfortable with.
Kendall: 2-and-a-quarter for all of them?
Danielle: How about let's do 215?
Kendall: Alright, I'll do that.
Danielle: Alright.
Kendall: Yeah.
Danielle: Yes.
Robbie: I see all those candy dishes in there, dani.
Danielle: Yes.
Robbie: These were made in the early 1900s.
Most of these are pretty common.
Robbie: You can imagine as a kid,
Getting candy from one of these.
This one being the most complete is probably the most expensive.
I'd like to be at $50 on this one.
And the rest, I'd like to be at 100 on them.
That'd be $150 for all of them.
Kendall: Yeah, I'll take that. Yeah.
Robbie: That'll work, thank you.
Kendall: Thank ya.
Kendall: I won't say how much I think I had in them,
But [laughs] probably $25.
♪♪
Jim: This is a, a judson super-charger.
Jersey jon: For v-dub?
Jim: For vw.
Mike: Judson...
Jim: There's 2 of them in there.
Jersey jon: Oh wait-wait-wait-wait...
Mike: This is the container where it all comes together.
This is everything that he was searching out
When he was in europe.
Mike: Alright.
Jersey jon: Ugh...
Mike: Okay, so got a 36-horse, and a 40-horse.
Look at that sucker, man, I know, man. I know.
Jersey jon: With the jar, and the regulators on top.
That's pretty cool.
Jim: But this thing here is pretty rare. Man...
Mike: Yeah, that's the 36, that's an early one.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jim: Not only that, never been used.
Jersey jon: Probably never been used.
Mike: And this is... And this is a 40.
Jim: Yea, that's a 40-horse, yeah.
Jersey jon: Vw parts is a little bit out of my comfort zone.
But I'm learning stuff.
I'm absorbing this stuff like a sponge.
Jim: That one, that's an unusual one.
Mike: Yeah. Okay.
So retail on this, is a couple of grand.
36-horse, there's a 40-horse.
You're saying this is new-old stock,
Obviously this one's been used.
Jim: Yes.
Mike: These super-chargers were bolt-on horsepower,
Without changing the displacement or
Stroke of the engine.
Believe it or not, people have been drag racing
Volkswagen beetles since the early '60s.
Mike: So, you want to do the, let's do the 1,500
For all of it.
'cause you don't have a complete kit,
You know what I mean?
Jim: 1,750.
You got a deal.
Mike: 1,600 for all of it.
You want to do it?
Jersey jon: Nice.
Mike: Alright, thank you, my friend.
Jim: That super-charger hadn't seen the light in 50 years.
And I'm so glad someone will put that on a car.
♪♪
Kendall: Finding small stuff or anything at all
Danielle: So I take it that your wife was a big fan of hat pins.
Kendall: Um-hm.
Kendall: Let's see, we got married in '65,
And she was already collecting them then,
So, if you had a hat pin, she looked at them
And pretty well just bought them, you know.
Danielle: There's some beautiful hat pins in here.
Incredible collection.
And then here's a whole 'nother collection.
And then boom, here's another one,
And boom here's another one.
And they're all in really decent condition.
I take it these are for sale?
Kendall: Yes.
Danielle: Hat pins have a really interesting history.
Obviously they help keep your cloche on or your wig or your
Hat or whatever you were wearing to cover your head.
But they also had another use.
And this is strewn all through history.
You can see ads for hat pins, and woman defending
Themselves with the hat pins.
Danielle: If I counted right, we have a total of 87 hat pins.
Some of them are small and very inexpensive,
And others are more ornate and more expensive.
Danielle: And one more added benefit-
Hat pins are great smalls for the shop.
Danielle: 425.
Kendall: Yeah, I'll go 425.
Danielle: That sounds good?
Kendall: Yeah. Alright.
Danielle: I think we'll be able to make a little bit off that.
Robbie: This is that thing we were talking about earlier,
Drink brownie.
Kendall: Um-hm.
Robbie: There he is. That's cardboard.
Robbie: Early soda in america was regional.
If you were in the south, you had to drink brownie soda.
Robbie: Probably 100 years old.
The condition is the big thing.
Robbie: The fact that it even survived though.
It's made of cardboard, and any of the soda pop guys,
They're dying to find this piece.
Robbie: Um... I've seen one of these sell for upwards
Of about 1,800, really nice.
Kendall: Condition, yeah.
Robbie: Yeah, condition's everything.
3-and-a-quarter.
Kendall: 75?
Robbie: Make it 350.
It's missing the top up here, you know,
And that's a biggie.
Kendall: Yeah, I'll do 350.
Robbie: Thanks. Thanks.
♪♪
Jim: Oh...
Mike: Oh it's like household stuff.
Jim: A lot of this was my, my mother's stuff.
Mike: Wow.
Jim: When she passed, I kind of cleaned
Her house out. Yeah.
Mike: So now that you're retired,
You're in the storage business.
Jim: Uh, not really.
I'm still continuing to practice medicine.
I'm a skin cancer surgeon.
Of course, I've been doing that for 30 years in
Conjunction with my military duty as a reservist.
Jim: The air force offered me a variety of opportunities.
Flying duties, going to, of course,
Different operations including desert storm,
Desert shield, northern watch,
Enduring freedom, iraqi freedom.
In addition to the deployment, that also included a lot
Of opportunity to do humanitarian trips.
And being a reservist, that was a great opportunity for men
And women to serve in different capacity.
Jim: I cannot say enough about practicing medicine.
It really is a privilege.
It's... Comes from here.
When you love what you do, it is easy.
Mike: Yeah.
Jim: It really is.
Mike: Hey, from one collector to another,
We share the same passion.
Thanks for even letting us look around, seriously.
♪♪
Jim: Well...
Mike: This is the perfect way to store stuff, man.
Oh it's a restored bus.
Jersey jon: Wow.
Mike: Nice.
Jim: I've had that vw bus for about 20 years.
Jim: Last time I drove it was '07.
Jim: Military duty called. I parked it there.
It's been there ever since.
Jim: It does have a later engine.
Mike: Who restored this vehicle?
Jim: This is a fellow in north carolina.
Mike: Okay. So you bought it restored?
Jim: Just the way it is.
Mike: Okay.
Jersey jon: I don't restore vws, but I've been around
Mike wolfe long enough to appreciate them.
Mike: Dang, man, this is barely, barely fits in here.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
There's not much room on this side either, mike.
Mike: I know, right?
Jim: Yeah.
Jim: That vehicle certainly is- is for sale,
Because I certainly have not had,
No time to enjoy that vehicle.
Jim: I also have another car in here.
Mike: Oh yeah, I see that. What is it?
Jim: That's a '74 ghia.
I had this since while I was in school.
Jersey jon: Is that original paint?
Jim: No.
It's been painted once.
This car, last time it was driven,
Was when I drove it here, parked it here in 1991.
Jim: And that vehicle, I drove throughout my medical training.
I was in nashville, and I actually had the
Best time with that, with the convertible top down.
Car ran great.
Mike: Man, I love a ghia!
Mike: The karmann ghia is an inexpensive stylish
Italian-german collaboration that's timeless.
Jersey jon: She's a beauty, man.
Jim: So this guy's been sitting literally all these years.
Mike: It's got your typical cracked dash.
Jim: Yes, yes.
Mike: They all have that.
Do you remember what the seats were
Like underneath these covers?
Jim: Here you go.
Mike: Yeah, the padding on that is starting to deteriorate.
Jim: Oh yeah.
Mike: '74, this is the last year, man.
Oh yeah... Look at that.
Mike: The italian -german collaboration on
This car is really evident.
The lines, the styling.
You sit low into the car, the suspension is stiff,
It corners really well.
I mean, a lot of people call them a "poor man's porsche."
Mike: This is the same exact color of my first ghia.
Jersey jon: Really.
Mike: I had a '68.
Jim: This is a... Olympic blue.
Mike: So is this something that you would sell?
Jim: Yes I would.
Mike: Did you put the bra on the front because
It's got a dent in the nose?
Jim: It does have a dent in the nose.
[group laughing]
Mike: I know, they all do, man, they all do.
Jim: That dent happened in, in nashville.
Jim: A construction worker had his backhoe,
He didn't see as he was backing up,
And he bumped into the front, and he was so apologetic,
He said, "oh my gosh, my boss is going to fire me."
I said, "just don't even worry about it."
Jersey jon: It's got duct tape on it.
Jim: Because I remember the guy saying,
He wanted $300 to fix it, and at that time,
That's like more than a week of my salary.
I'm like, oh, I'll just...
Mike: When you were an intern.
Jim: I'll buy a new bra.
Mike: You put all this foam and stuff on it...
Jersey jon: To protect it.
Mike: No, just so that it'd fill the bra out.
Jim: Yep. I believe you can probably
Knock that one out, instead of replacing...
Mike: Oh yeah, you can knock it out.
How are the floor pans in it?
Jim: I don't know, let's take a look.
Mike: Let me see...
Jim: I mean, when I had it, it was solid.
Mike: It's got some rust in the floor pans,
Like you'd expect.
Mike: Volkswagen is a german company that has
Made its way into american culture.
Jim: Oh my gosh, I cannot believe this thing still
Rolled out that good.
Mike: A lot of people that are into volkswagens have
That coming-of-age first volkswagen story.
And that is why volkswagen being a german company,
Has made its way into american culture.
Jim: Well, this guy have not seen sunlight
In the last 14 years.
Jersey jon: Wow.
Mike: You can see the metal work that they did on this side.
You can see it.
Mike: In the past, somebody has cut the rear sheet metal out of
The wheel well, and you can see it when you're looking down
The side of the van, you could see the spot welds.
Mike: Check this out, jersey.
Mike: You know, so once you actually get the van out in the
Light, you could see a lot of the body work
That's been done to the van.
I mean, this is a driver restoration.
Mike: See right here, feel, look...
Look right here.
Jim: No, no I- I can imagine they only cut one side,
They wouldn't cut both sides.
Mike: Yeah, that'd be weird.
Jim: They had to.
Mike: It's not a high-quality restoration.
I'm talking like earl scheib paint job here.
Jim: As I mentioned earlier, the engine's not original.
Mike: Yeah.
Jim: A bigger engine was put in.
But it does have the original third brake light,
And original hella tail lights.
Look at it, you can see the original stamping.
Mike: Yeah, you can feel the stamping in them.
These are extremely rare.
And you're right, this is rare.
The third, the third brake light.
I mean it's, the- the bus is late '55,
It's a rare year bus.
I think the bus in this condition's worth like...
25 to 30.
What do you think?
Jim: Well, I- I think maybe as much as 35.
You know, this thing here ran pretty well when I parked it.
Jim: So I'm trying to decide what is the best
Way to handle that, that bus situation.
I think with one day of work, you can get
The engine cranked up.
Jim: It wouldn't take much, really, to get it going.
Clean up the tank, clean up the carburetor.
Mike: Yeah.
Jim: And put some fresh gas.
I bet you I can, can probably get 25,000,
It'll go quick.
Mike: I think you could, I think you could get that out of it.
See for us...
Jim: Yeah.
Mike: You know, for me to like ship the vehicle,
You know, and then get into it...
Jersey jon: That's more expensive.
Mike: Yeah, I- I- I'd have to work...
Jim: No, no you- this just, no. No, I...
I- I hear you, loud and clear.
Mike: After he says 25k on the bus,
I'm more interested in the ghia, you know.
'cause if I can get it for a reasonable number,
I think there's more margin on that than
There is the bus itself.
Mike: So if you're at 25,000 on this,
You can get this thing running in an afternoon.
Jim: Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Mike: What about the ghia?
Jim: Okay.
Mike: You know, we can also see the ghia better.
♪♪
Kendall: Okay we'll go out here to the kitchen.
Robbie: You got a few odds and
Ends everywhere, kendall.
Danielle: Your place is packed.
Just packed with goodies.
Danielle: [whistles] man...
Robbie: Man, that match safes.
And that is a lifetime of match safes right there.
Robbie: You know, the match safe basically was developed to
Put next to your fireplace or up next to the stove.
Back in the day when we had a wooden match,
You struck it off the bottom, lit your cigar.
Robbie: I mean, here's tennessee,
Native herbs, metal polish, binders and mowers milwaukee.
Robbie: This was a form of advertising in america.
Robbie: So you got 29 of them total.
That sound right?
Kendall: Yeah.
Robbie: 29 total?
Robbie: I find match safes all the time.
But to find 29 of them in the same location is unheard of.
Robbie: There are so many good ones.
Kendall: Oh yeah.
Robbie: The biggest thing on match safes is all about
Condition and subject matter.
Robbie: There is a huge collector base when it comes
To not just the match safe, but the advertising that's on there.
Robbie: The tennessee wagon is a good one too.
These are pieces that, they're hard to find.
Robbie: Now these are great small pieces that
Complete the country store setting in your home,
In your business, wherever it may be.
Robbie: You don't have any idea what you want for all of them?
Kendall: Um-hm.
Robbie: 3 grand.
Kendall: You can even have the dust bunnies.
Robbie: Dust bunnies with it.
2,800 bucks.
Kendall: No, I've got to have the 3.
I'm going to have to stick on that.
That- that's just $100 apiece and,
Probably got than that in them.
Robbie: [tsks]
Robbie: I can sense he was not going to let these things go.
And you know what, neither was I,
'cause you never find them together like that.
Robbie: I'm doing it.
Kendall: Alrighty, appreciate it.
Robbie: I'm doing it.
I appreciate it.
Kendall: I hope- I hope somebody enjoy,
Enjoys them. Robbie: I thank you.
♪♪
Danielle: Ooh, there's so many smalls in here.
Robbie: Kentucky tavern.
Robbie: This is an early form of paper-maché that a lot of tavern
Owners might have had back in the day.
Robbie: So this one on top of the whiskey bottle?
Kendall: Yeah.
Robbie: Huh.
Kendall: I might have a bottle up there in the cabinet.
Robbie: [laughs] it's too early for that for me.
Kendall: [laughs]
Robbie: What kind of money is that?
Kendall: 25.
Robbie: I'll take a chance on it for 25 bucks.
Kendall: Okay.
Robbie: "blue-j brooms. Saves rugs carpets
And labor. Merkle's broom company."
200.
Kendall: 250.
Robbie: 2-and- a-quarter.
Kendall: Yeah, that'll work.
Robbie: Alright. I appreciate it.
Danielle: So this looks like vaseline glass or-
Or radium glass.
Is that...?
Kendall: Vaseline glass is what I call it.
Danielle: It's a pipe holder, am I right?
Kendall: Pipe holder... Yes.
Danielle: Pipe holder, a little ashtray there.
This is absolutely amazing.
But from what I understand, the yellow pieces
Are the earliest pieces.
So I'm going to grab this one real quick.
Kendall: Should be a teaberry chewing gum.
Danielle: Teaberry, that's what it is.
It's crazy 'cause teaberry was my dad's favorite gum.
He loved those clark gums.
Danielle: A lot of these vaseline glass pieces,
The early ones, were giveaways to kind of
Incentivize people to buy a product.
Danielle: This is more yellow, right?
Danielle: So vaseline glass was called vaseline glass
'cause obviously it looked like vaseline.
Had kind of that yellow-ish tint to it,
And it really shines bright green under a black light.
And that means that all vaseline glass
Pre- war is made with uranium.
Danielle: So we have pre-war, post-war.
And this is the difference in color.
And I never really noticed that that much before,
'cause I had, I don't really see the two side-by-side that often.
Danielle: But it's really worth noting that the uranium they
Used post-war was a depleted strain of uranium.
And they also added just a little bit of rust,
To change the color just slightly.
Danielle: I'd like to offer... 40 and 40.
So that'd be 80 bucks total.
Kendall: Ohh... 100.
Danielle: Can we do 90?
Kendall: Yeah, we can do that.
Danielle: Good on 90?
Kendall: Yeah.
Danielle: Alright.
Danielle: They're not pieces you see every day.
And I'm going to get them while I'm here.
Danielle: Basically, this should all just light up
If it actually is vaseline glass.
Look at that. [whistles]
Look how pretty that is under that black light.
So that's beautiful.
Kendall: Oh yeah, that's...
Danielle: You can just really tell, huh.
Danielle: Watching that vaseline yellow transform into that
Luminescent psychedelic green
Is just mind- blowing. I love it.
That's my favorite part of vaseline glass.
Danielle: Tell me about these necklaces.
'cause I have never seen...
Kendall: They come from golconda.
Danielle: Golconda, illinois.
Kendall: Yeah.
Danielle: These are definitely more rare.
They're more unique.
So let's talk about the price for these
And what you think is fair.
Kendall: 120 each.
Danielle: Ah, alright.
So I'm good on that for 120 each on these.
Kendall: Okay.
Yeah.
Danielle: And then oh, one more.
And I really love these absinthe decanters.
This is just beautiful.
Kendall: 100, we'll go.
Danielle: Alright, we'll do 100, I'll do 100 on that.
Kendall: Alright.
Danielle: Wonderful.
Danielle: Over the years, kendall and his wife,
Ann, have amassed an incredible collection.
Robbie: Ann, she had one heck of an eye.
Kendall: She did that, yeah.
Danielle: We were able to walk away with some
Super cool, rare, and historic pieces.
Kendall: And you can come back.
Robbie: Alright.
Danielle: Thank you, kendall.
It was really great to meet you, thank you
For sharing your life with us.
Kendall: Um-hm. Thank you. Alrighty.
♪♪
Mike: You know, this baby's...
This is it right here, man.
Mike: I wish I could get this car outside in the sun,
But the tires are just rotted.
Mike: Oh those tires aren't holding there.
You can put your fists through them.
Mike: So I have to make a decision in the container.
Mike: I'm a sucker for these cars, man.
I've had a lot of them.
Jim: I would love to see this...
Jersey jon: Whoa!
Jim: ...I would love to see this one on
The road again. Really.
Mike: Anybody that's going to be serious about this car,
Is going to replace the floor pans.
I'd be a player on it at 4,000 bucks.
I think if this thing was running...
Jim: Yep.
Mike: If it was running, driving down the road,
The way it sits right now, it'd be like...
You know... 9, 10.
Jim: Well, then give me a little bit more.
Mike: What are you thinking?
Jim: Between 5 and 6.
Mike: Yeah...
Mike: Jim and I have been here before.
We've done the dance.
I hit him low, he hits me high...
The interior is what- let me see the seats,
Let me see if I can see the seat better.
I mean, the dash is trashed.
Jim: Yes.
It's cracked, and... It's cracked all, all along.
Mike: This colored end is cracked.
Jim: But that's all this, this is an original top.
You can see...
Mike: The door still shut well.
Jim: Yep.
Jersey jon: Top comes down?
Mike: Oh yeah.
Jim: Yes it does. Um -hm, yes.
Mike: Yeah.
Jim: Yeah.
Mike: Alright...
5,000 bucks.
Jim: 55, we got a deal.
Mike: Uhh...
Mike: I'm a sucker for ghias, man.
I can't let, I can't let one sit.
Mike: Gosh, you're making me buy it, man. [laughs]
Jersey jon: [laughs]
Mike: Seriously, I love these things.
Jim: I'm so glad somebody is going to enjoy the vehicle,
And get joy out of that vehicle.
Jersey jon: Yeah, I got this baby.
Jim: Yeah.
Mike: I got you.
Mike: Jim is a lot of things - he's a preservationist,
He's a collector, but beyond all that,
The guy is a mentor and a leader.
It was an honor to be in his presence.
Mike: Thank you for your service.
Jersey jon: Yeah, your...
Mike: And thanks for putting up with us.
Jim: Alright. Mike: [laughs]
Jim: Come back, you got to come back.
Jersey jon: Pleasure, man, thank you
So much man, really.
Thank you so much.
Mike: Yeah.
[honks horn]
Jersey jon: Jim, I'll see you later!
Jim: Take care! Safe trip!