ROBBIE: You know, one thing I noticed out here?
There's no road kill on the roads...
anywhere.
No raccoons...
MIKE: I noticed that too!
ROBBIE: possums, nothing!
MIKE: But you know, another thing that I have not seen
out here, is the armadillo, man.
Either they're here or they're coming here.
The nine-band armadillo, call them what you want -
hillbilly speed bumps, hamburger helper,
possum-on-a-half- shell-is expanding
its territory, and it's everywhere.
Like in Tennessee,
there's like 20 of them living in my front yard.
My neighbor - 30 armadillo in his yard.
Here's the problem with them - no predators,
other than a car, or my neighbor.
He's wiped out 30 of them in his front yard so far.
Now you're probably asking yourself, oh yeah they're
kind of cute, why are you killing them?
Because if you have any kind of vegetation in your yard,
forget about it.
ROBBIE: We don't have armadillos in Iowa.
MIKE: Because listen, the last time I drove up
to Iowa from Tennessee...
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: I saw one dead, dude.
ROBBIE: In Iowa?
MIKE: No.
ROBBIE: Oh.
MIKE: In Carbondale, Illinois. [echoes]
ROBBIE: Are you okay today? You're freaking.
MIKE: Just be aware of the march of the armadillo,
that's all I'm saying.
♪ ♪ ♪
MIKE: Dani D, what's up?
DANIELLE: Hey, what's up, guys? How goes it?
MIKE: Good, man. We're in the farm country.
It's beautiful. What's going on?
DANIELLE: Okay guys, listen.
I'm sending you to Mike.
So this guy bought a 16-acre almond farm. Over the last 30
years, this dude has been collecting and piling cars
and whatnot all over his property.
Not only that, but his mom had a surf shop...
ROBBIE: Really.
DANIELLE: So he had the ultimate California experience.
ROBBIE: Alright.
I'll let Mike know that you're on your way,
I'll talk to you soon.
MIKE: Alright.
ROBBIE: Thanks, Dani.
DANIELLE: Bye.
♪ ♪ ♪
ROBBIE: Is this the right turn?
MIKE: Here it is right here. This is it.
ROBBIE: Oh my gosh, look at this place!
MIKE: Dang, this is amazing!
ROBBIE: Man, there's an Impala right there.
MIKE: Do that...
ROBBIE: Man, look at that truck.
MIKE: Yeah.
[honks horn]
MIKE: Let's see where this guy's at. Yeah...
MIKE: Hey!
MIKE SANTOS: Hey!
MIKE: What's up! It's Mike and Robbie!
You talked to Dani on the phone?
MIKE SANTOS: Yes I did. ROBBIE: Man...
MIKE: What's going on, brother?
ROBBIE: It's kind of a hard place to find.
MIKE SANTOS: Oh yeah?
ROBBIE: But I like it.
MIKE SANTOS: How're you doing?
MIKE: Off the beaten path. Hey, man.
MIKE SANTOS: Nice to meet you.
MIKE: Good to see you. Here you go.
Boom.
MIKE SANTOS: Oh. Cool.
MIKE: Yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: I think I might have a couple of these...
MIKE: I know, I saw that.
MIKE SANTOS: Huh.
MIKE: I saw all that stuff.
MIKE SANTOS: My name's Mike.
I collect cars.
I have a little place here, got a little bit of room.
People give me stuff - cars, old pieces of equipment.
MIKE SANTOS: I hate to see things go to the trash.
MIKE: What's going on with this one, man?
This looks like Robbie's speed.
MIKE SANTOS: I've had that Chevy truck for many,
many years.
MIKE: Is that...?
ROBBIE: Short-box, step-side. Does it got a V-8 in it?
MIKE SANTOS: V-8.
ROBBIE: Automatic?
MIKE SANTOS: 3 -on -the -tree.
ROBBIE: Ooh.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
ROBBIE: Who's been shooting at you with a bullet?
MIKE SANTOS: My son.
ROBBIE: Just on accident...?
MIKE SANTOS: When he was a little guy, we were at my
orchard, and I was showing him how to shoot the gun.
ROBBIE: Yeah?
MIKE SANTOS: And he's walking towards me like this, I go,
'point it down.' 'Oh dad, it's not loaded.' Bam!
ROBBIE: Right-bullet right to the doors!
[laughs]
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah. And I was right here.
Mike: [LAUGHS]
MIKE SANTOS: And you know what...
MIKE: You were standing right next to it?
ROBBIE: Standing next to the bullet in the door.
MIKE SANTOS: And he'll never ever forget that.
R will I. I thinkhe was about 7.
Oh he cried, he freaked out.
MIKE: Aw.
ROBBIE: [LAUGHS]
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: So what are you doing with this?
You're going to keep it?
MIKE SANTOS: I'm going to keep it.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: I don't blame ya.
ROBBIE: It's solid, it's solid.
MIKE: You got-what else you got going on out here?
MIKE SANTOS: Well...
MIKE: There's an Impala.
ROBBIE: I know.
MIKE SANTOS: That belongs to my son.
MIKE: This reminds of one of those places
my brother and I grew up around.
We bought a lot of stuff from guys like Mike,
and we learned a lot from guys like Mike.
MIKE: But you have to have the mentality that everything,
no matter what it is, has some sort of value.
MIKE: What do you get for boxes that are in decent shape?
MIKE: Just like these wooden crates.
You know, if there's any kind of advertising on them,
if they're solid, people will repurpose them.
MIKE: That's a decent one there.
See any other decent ones, Robbie?
ROBBIE: Ow!
MIKE: Whoa!
MIKE SANTOS: Is that a yellow-
MIKE: They're hornets, yeah they're yellow jackets.
ROBBIE: Yep, yep...
MIKE: [LAUGHS]
ROBBIE: Dang!
That's alright.
MIKE: They're all over... look it.
ROBBIE: Everywhere.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah, they're freakin' everywhere, man.
ROBBIE: I knew one was there and then I was like, man, we
disturbed the whole freakin' nest. Come on, Mike.
Get in there and grab the nest and eat it.
You got the EpiPen?
MIKE: [LAUGHS]
MIKE: It just reminds me of that moment,
you know, years ago in Iowa,
when Danny Bean grabbed a hornet's
nest with his bare hands and crushed it.
We didn't do anything like that.
MIKE: Did you see the nest?
ROBBIE: It's right there, it's on the bottom of the box.
MIKE: Oh, underneath that. Here...
[laughs]
ROBBIE: Ow!
MIKE: I was having more fun watching Robbie scream like
a little girl, than deal with the boxes.
ROBBIE: Man, the stuff we go through for 2 boxes.
MIKE SANTOS: I like that.
MIKE: I know.
They've-they've claimed the best ones.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: $14.
MIKE SANTOS: You got it. If you guys like that stuff,
I got some good stuff here...
MIKE: [LAUGHS]
ROBBIE: Alright.
MIKE SANTOS: you might like.
MIKE: Well I'll buy about anything, to be honest with you.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: Well, I- I like that attitude.
MIKE: That's-that's- that's what sells, man.
MIKE SANTOS: I like that.
MIKE: I mean, I can sell those for,
I can get 25 bucks apiec out of those.
MIKE SANTOS: You're going to love what I got in here.
I got old posters, surfers and skaters in here,
from the '80s to the '90s.
MIKE: Really!
ROBBIE: Wow.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: Oh my God, these are huge!
MIKE SANTOS: Lots of them.
MIKE: There is a lot of them.
MIKE SANTOS: A lot of them.
ROBBIE: Why did you guys have all these?
MIKE SANTOS: My mom had a surf shop, it was in Los Gatos.
But she had a vacuum shop, and next door they
opened up a surf shop.
She said, 'it's like Grand Central Station,
I'm going to try it.'
So she got rid of her vacuum shop, and it really went well.
MIKE SANTOS: I think she was probably 60.
ROBBIE: She was 60 years old when she opened a surf shop?
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah, yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: I worked there a couple of days a week.
I used to sell skateboards and I used to put them together.
MIKE: You know, I'm more interested in
the skate stuff, boards...
ROBBIE: Like these are all early, these are all posters.
I mean, they're-every one of these are skate.
MIKE SANTOS: Powell -Peralta, Tony Hawk.
MIKE: Ohh, look at that one!
ROBBIE: Oh yeah, look at that.
MIKE: Oh yeah... see this is what I'm talking about.
MIKE SANTOS: Caballero, Steve Caballero.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Oh yeah, Steve Caballero, man.
MIKE: I'm looking through this stuff, and it's bringing back
memories. I ran a bicycle shop back in the 1980s,
and we also sold skateboards.
The skaters were coming in, they were the ones
helping me do the purchasing.
MIKE: They were educating me.
I would go through the catalog, and they're like
'get that deck, get those bearings, get those trucks.'
Powell-Peralta, Vision Streetwear clothing -
this was all cutting edge stuff when it was coming out.
MIKE SANTOS: Those things got some value to them.
MIKE: Let me see here.
MIKE: It was a lifestyle, man.
Just like motorcycling, surfing, or cars.
It's the adrenaline, it's the rush.
It's about the music, the art. A lot of the posters
I'm looking at and the banners, these were the
point-of-sale pieces that we had on the walls.
MIKE: Ohh, Thrasher. That's killer.
[indistinct chatter]
ROBBIE: on there, and they're all,
ROBBIE: There's more than 3? There's like 5.
MIKE: 3...
ROBBIE: 7 of them.
MIKE: 7 of these.
Gah, I can't believe how many you have!
ROBBIE: Right here.
MIKE SANTOS: Christian Hosoi.
MIKE: Yeah...
ROBBIE: 4 of them, there's 4 of them.
MIKE: 2 of this... oh wow...
MIKE: This is the one, this is the one.
Look at that.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Whoa.
That's nuts. I know a guy that's a pro surfer.
Let me take some pictures of this stuff.
MIKE SANTOS: I got-
MIKE: His name's Mitch.
He's the guy for this stuff. He's got a spot called
the Captain's Helm,
so he's also a business owner, you know.
So he's going to know the value of this.
I could send him pictures of this stuff,
I bet he has the values on them.
MIKE SANTOS: I think I...
MIKE SANTOS: I don't like stuff getting thrown away,
I like it to be in good use.
And when we closed the shop, I went in there and cleaned it
out, and preserved what we had.
MIKE: Oh whoa, wait, what!
ROBBIE: Whoa-ho...
MIKE: Wow.
MIKE SANTOS: I got a couple of those.
ROBBIE: That's a banner too.
MIKE: These are huge banners, man.
MIKE: This stuff is collectable, because this is
new-old stock paper ephemera, decades later.
It's really untouched, uncirculated.
A lot of these pieces weren't stuff that we sold in the shop,
they were banners that the company sent us
to represent their product.
This is all dealer stuff.
ROBBIE: Look at this one.
MIKE SANTOS: That, see that, those were the main guys.
Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk.
MIKE: Oh yeah, look at this.
MIKE SANTOS: Oh, you know what that is.
MIKE: Look at that, yeah, man.
MIKE SANTOS: That's cash, that's a good one there.
MIKE: Ohh...
ROBBIE: Bones, look at that.
MIKE SANTOS: Bones.
MIKE: Look at that, man. Oh yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: That's scary.
MIKE: It's amazing to me that you guys kept all this stuff.
Alright, let me send these to my buddy, Mitch.
Woo!
I cannot believe how many of those you have.
MIKE SANTOS: I know.
MIKE: Holy crap! Wearing me out.
MIKE: Alright, what else you got over here?
MIKE SANTOS: Got a little bit of everything.
MIKE: I see that.
So this is your ornamental iron park?
MIKE: I love properties like this, because they really
get your imagination going.
So when you look at the piles of iron, you have to
have that DIY mind, that repurposing perspective.
MIKE: You're looking at everything with the
idea of what it could be.
MIKE: This is nice. Simple, direct, to the point.
MIKE SANTOS: That... I don't know where
I picked that up.
MIKE: That's just like a...
MIKE SANTOS: That's a, that's a hat rack.
MIKE SANTOS: I have a lot of rusty old stuff here.
And I've had guys that like to salvage.
It's cool.
MIKE: 25 bucks.
MIKE SANTOS: But they cut it up,
and I don't want to destroy that.
I'd rather sell them to somebody to appreciate it.
MIKE SANTOS: I think maybe 50 bucks for that.
MIKE: I think you're getting close to what I'd ask for it.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: Okay. 40?
MIKE: 40 bucks. We'll do it.
Okay so I got this piece.
MIKE SANTOS: It's sat here for many years, so...
it's going to go to a good home.
ROBBIE: So what's in this building here?
MIKE SANTOS: Cars and signs.
ROBBIE: Can we look in here?
MIKE SANTOS: You can. Let me open it up.
ROBBIE: Yeah. Mike! He said cars, signs.
MIKE: [laughs] Of course there is.
ROBBIE: This was a National, it was the only-it was...
the only National they made to...
God, somebody painted the hell out of it,
it's supposed to be porcelain.
MIKE: Is that porcelain? It just needs to be stripped.
ROBBIE: Yeah...
ROBBIE: Whoa!
the heck!
MIKE SANTOS: Most of the cars that I have,
I've had them for many years.
'Cause you know what?
I don't get rid of stuff.
MIKE: When he opens up the door, it's a different world.
ROBBIE: '54 Corvette?
MIKE: That looks like a fun project.
MIKE SANTOS: My son found it online.
MIKE: This is the next level of his collection.
MIKE: It's a nice looking car, man.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: This is the stuff that means the most to him.
MIKE: What about this baby?
This is comfortable, it's got a back seat.
MIKE SANTOS: That's my son's car.
MIKE: Okay, he wants to keep this?
I don't blame him.
MIKE SANTOS: There's a car-
ROBBIE: Hey, what's that?
MIKE SANTOS: Here's a car you need right there, Robbie.
ROBBIE: Man, looking around in here,
it doesn't look like these cars have moved.
MIKE SANTOS: They don't move.
ROBBIE: They don't move. Wow.
MIKE: Okay. Check this out.
I love it, it's like a little cobbler's desk.
Where did this come out of?
MIKE SANTOS: Big Oak, but Senora.
The guy owned a mercantile store.
He also did shoe repair.
MIKE: I mean, I love it, I think it's really cool.
What are you thinking?
MIKE SANTOS: Maybe 3.
MIKE: I was thinking 250.
It's just so crude, which is interesting about it.
MIKE SANTOS: 275.
MIKE: Okay. 275.
Thank you for working with me.
MIKE: Arrghhh...
ROBBIE: Ouch...
MIKE: Alright, bring it down a little bit...
there it goes... [exhales]
I love this piece.
Look at that green paint.
To me, when I look at this, this is kind of what I started
buying back in the day - country store primitives.
I mean, this is like something we would have pulled out of a
barn in Iowa and sold it at What Cheer, Robbie, or Solin.
ROBBIE: Yeah, yeah.
MIKE: You know, one of the big fleas.
MIKE: Hey, Mitch just called me.
[phone ringing]
MIKE: Got my...
MITCH (ON PHONE): Hello?
MIKE: Whaddup?
MITCH (ON PHONE): How's it going?
MIKE: It's going good, man.
Did you get those pictures?
MIKE: So anyway, you're the first person I thought of
because you're the only person I know that's a
professional surfer that lives in Tennessee.
[group laughing]
MIKE: So what do you think, man, I mean, can you help us
with the values of some of that stuff?
MIKE: Yeah, there's a lot more skate stuff.
MIKE: Yeah... dude-what- yeah, because we're looking,
his name and his face are on half these posters.
ROBBIE: When you think about skating in America,
Steve Caballero's right there with Tony Hawk,
Bob Burnquist, Robbie Mullen.
This is one of the greatest skating guys ever.
MIKE: He collects vintage motorcycles?
MIKE: Oh dude, I got to talk to this guy.
MIKE: Alright, well, I'll tell you what, man...
ROBBIE: Man...
MIKE: even if he says this stuff's worth next to nothing,
I'm going to be excited to talk to this guy.
[laughs]
MIKE: I owe you big time. Talk soon.
ROBBIE: Send the number.
MIKE: Thanks, Mitch.
MIKE: Bye.
MIKE SANTOS: Iconic, I like that.
MIKE: Let's call him over by the posters.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright man, I got his number. Alright...
♪ ♪ ♪
[phone rings]
STEVE (ON PHONE): Hello.
MIKE: Steve.
STEVE (ON PHONE): Yeah.
MIKE: Hey, my name's Mike, I'm a friend of Mitch's,
he told you I was going to call?
MIKE: Wolfe. Mike Wolfe.
MIKE: Yeah, man!
It's so cool to talk to you.
MIKE: Anyway, Mitch called you and sent you
some photos of some banners and some posters?
MIKE: Yeah, he said you collect old motorcycles too.
MIKE: That's awesome, dude.
This is so cool.
We'll have to talk more about that.
Um, Robbie, where are those 2 posters we found?
ROBBIE: Right here.
MIKE: Okay.
The pictures that Mitch sent you, we've got...
ROBBIE: There it is.
MIKE: A couple of posters.
The Bones Brigade, it's a grey, black, and white poster.
MIKE: It's a group photo of all 4 of you guys, man...
ROBBIE: 4 of you.
MIKE: that's so cool!
I'm talking to you while I'm looking at it.
Mike: [LAUGHS]
MIKE: What can you tell us about the value of that?
MIKE: Okay. Dude, it's so cool.
Alright, so we got that one.
And then we have another one that says
'The Search for Animal Chin.'
Bones Brigade Video poster advertising that.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
MIKE: That's cool, man.
MIKE: Can you see in the photo, there's some damage to the
bottom right corner and a little bit to the top left?
MIKE: Okay.
Alright, absolutely man, thank you.
MIKE: This content was created from his passion.
So when you're talking value, there's not a lot of people
walking around that are closer to this stuff than him.
MIKE: Bones Brigade Summer Tour '87.
MIKE: The universal language of collecting removes walls
and it gets people excited to share their passions.
It allows us all to be able to geek out about what excited us
at a younger age, and continues to do so throughout our lives.
For him to take the time to go through this stuff with us,
truly shows you he's the real deal.
MIKE: The next one we have is a Thrasher poster.
MIKE: This is one of my favorites.
The Santa Cruz, it's got the slime balls on it.
MIKE: Christian Hosoi.
MIKE: Very large Bones banner.
MIKE: Dude, it has been more than a privilege
and honor to talk to you, man, I'm serious.
When I called Mitch today, I had no idea that I'd end up
talking to you, my friend.
MIKE: [LAUGHS] Alright, well now that I got your number,
can I call you about antique motorcycles?
ROBBIE: Alright.
MIKE: Alright, buddy, man, thank you for your time.
MIKE: We'll-I'll-I'll- we'll talk soon, okay?
ROBBIE: Thank you. MIKE: Dang.
ROBBIE: Wow.
MIKE: Dude, how cool was that? What!
MIKE SANTOS: I remember all the Powell-Peralta skaters.
It was kind of exciting, you know,
it brings back old memories.
MIKE: It was pretty unbelievable talking to him.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: So now let's get down to the nitty-gritty.
So, with every piece that's here, given now that you've
heard from him on some values, where do you think
you need to be at on all of this stuff?
If-if we bought it all?
MIKE SANTOS: Well, I liked what he said, the price, but...
MIKE: You're talking about on his values?
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: Yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: I mean, I'd go a little lower.
MIKE: Yeah.
ROBBIE: If we're buying it all...
MIKE SANTOS: Buying it all?
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: Well... I think...
what do you think about 28?
ROBBIE: Well...
MIKE: What do you think of 28?
ROBBIE: 2,800.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: All of it.
ROBBIE: Let's do it.
MIKE: Alright.
ROBBIE: Seriously.
MIKE SANTOS: Okay.
MIKE: Okay. For 28.
ROBBIE: Appreciate it. Yeah.
I think...
MIKE: Because I think there's enough stuff, that if it was
presented properly, can really bring some money.
And you, you saw it before anybody else did, man.
ROBBIE: It's awesome.
MIKE: You know, you didn't take all the stuff and throw it in a
dumpster behind your mom's store.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: You grabbed it and you kept it.
And I commend you for that, my friend.
I really do.
Something tripped your trigger.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
Mike: [LAUGHS] You know, something did.
And thank God that it did.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: So it's pretty cool.
♪ ♪ ♪
MIKE: What about this right here?
You've got an early Vespa, looks like just a bod-
MIKE SANTOS: I think it's a '52.
MIKE: Yeah, it's a, there's a body.
MIKE SANTOS: Because you know what?
MIKE: There's no rear wheel.
MIKE SANTOS: No rear wheel.
MIKE: So there's no engine.
ROBBIE: Allstate. How's the back end?
MIKE: Yeah, it's nice.
I mean, I was looking at the taillights to see
if the lens was there, it's not there.
But there's a lot of it.
MIKE: Sears sold Vespa from 1951 to 1967.
In the early years, '51, '52, '53,
they actually were tagged with an Allstate badge.
This was a huge endeavor for Sears.
Ordering scooters from Italy, removing the Vespa brand,
badging them with an Allstate badge.
MIKE: Vespa and Lambretta are extremely collectable in Europe.
So imagine a collector in Europe being able to buy
something so unique, that was made for the US market.
That's what we're looking at here.
MIKE: And they call this a wide body.
The body on the scooter is a lot wider,
back in that time period.
This is blanked out.
There is no speedo, but this is like a factory blank-out.
MIKE: The reason there's no speedometer, and it's blanked
out, is because they were cheapening the scooters by
making everything into an accessory.
That's why there's no speedo, to get that price point lower.
MIKE SANTOS: Um-hm.
MIKE: Unfortunately, the door is missing.
MIKE SANTOS: No it's not, I have it.
MIKE: Oh you have it.
Because they'll be a tag on that, and that tag
will determine the serial number.
Anyway, so it's obviously missing the engine and
the rear wheel, that's all incorporated together.
There was a main bolt that went through the frame.
The cowl, this one on the bottom is gone.
But all this stuff can be fixed, you know, you hand
somebody a blank check, and you do anything you want.
The way I'm talking about this thing,
you would think it was worth a ton of money, right?
MIKE SANTOS: Well, I know you got to have
the motors and stuff with it.
MIKE: 250.
I think it's worth like 500 bucks, because there is a ton
of work, there's a ton of work that needs to be done to it.
MIKE SANTOS: That was I was thinking it was worth.
What about 4 or 5?
MIKE: I can't do it, because that's it.
There's-there's no more juice left. This thing, running down
the road, probably worth 4,500 to 6,000 bucks.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
ROBBIE: It's going to take a lot to get that there.
MIKE SANTOS: Well, we'll do it.
MIKE: You want to do it?
MIKE SANTOS: Um-hm.
MIKE: Alright, see.
Now all we need to do is turn around, and look at that sign.
I know this is a family sign, family business.
Would you sell that?
MIKE SANTOS: Well it was. It's not anymore.
We closed the shop in 1990.
The sentimental value of it is gone.
MIKE: So it needs a can built again,
and then you can light it.
ROBBIE: Yep.
MIKE SANTOS: I think it's got to be worth about 500 bucks.
MIKE: I'm going to do it, man, I love it.
I mean, the subject matter's incredible.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: I know the history of it.
MIKE SANTOS: I even have a neon like that.
There on the... Pontiac.
ROBBIE: Laying on the car over there.
Here we go, if we get shocked, we're good,
knock me off. There.
MIKE: Oh!
MIKE SANTOS: Didn't think it was the red kind...
ROBBIE: Surf shop.
MIKE: Ooh... For the pair, 300.
MIKE SANTOS: 350. Come on, Mike.
Mike: [LAUGHS]
MIKE SANTOS: Hey, Mike did it.
MIKE: Alright.
What about this?
ROBBIE: John Lennon, man.
People for peace.
MIKE: What do you feel comfortable at?
MIKE SANTOS: 40.
MIKE: 50.
MIKE SANTOS: 50.
MIKE: [chuckles] Alright, see?
MIKE SANTOS: I was thinking 50.
MIKE: See, you're going to get, you're going to get it back.
MIKE SANTOS: But you know what...
ROBBIE: Hey Mike.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
ROBBIE: Does this door go to something?
MIKE SANTOS: No.
ROBBIE: Um, is it something you want to sell then?
MIKE SANTOS: I would.
ROBBIE: I've got a sign that says 'Union Ice' on it,
it'd be kind of cool to put it together.
ROBBIE: Union Ice Company dates all the
way back to the early 1800s.
These guys were delivering ice on horseback.
This company was up in the Sierra Nevada mountains,
on a lake, taking free ice, basically.
And this company still exists today.
This door is probably late 1930s, early '40s.
When you find something with Union Ice on it, you buy it.
MIKE SANTOS: 150.
ROBBIE: I'm doing it. Thanks, appreciate it.
MIKE SANTOS: Got it.
ROBBIE: What are you finding up there, Mike?
MIKE: Ahh... you still got the car for this,
or what's going on with that?
MIKE SANTOS: No, I don't.
ROBBIE: Man, I love the jewel on that.
MIKE: I know.
ROBBIE: Look at that.
MIKE: What are you thinking?
MIKE SANTOS: I would say at least 150.
MIKE: I was going to give you 2.
MIKE SANTOS: 2, I'll go with it.
MIKE: Alright, see?
ROBBIE: Alright.
MIKE SANTOS: I'll go there.
MIKE: So, you're getting, you're getting it all back.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright now... we got a situation over here...
♪ ♪ ♪
oh yeah...
MIKE SANTOS: Oh yeah...
ROBBIE: Oh yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: That's a rare one, Mike.
MIKE: This Red Seal battery sign is not in great condition,
but it is early. It's from the 'teens.
And when you think about Red Seal batteries, you think about
motorcycles and cars that use this battery.
This is the forefather, this is the beginning of it all.
MIKE: Where do you think I need to be on that, Robbie?
ROBBIE: 6, 700 bucks.
MIKE SANTOS: Those were like a couple of grand.
ROBBIE: Yeah, but it's faded out. Yeah, yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: True.
So 700, I would entertain that.
ROBBIE: It's got a little rust on it.
MIKE: Well, why don't we entertain this?
What are you thinking on the Quaker State racing oil?
MIKE SANTOS: Ooh, that's a...
ROBBIE: This isn't rare.
But this... right here is rare.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
ROBBIE: This piece is always gone.
MIKE: I'll do 6 on this, and 6 on this.
And then, what are you thinking on that California sign?
ROBBIE: That California one?
MIKE: Yeah, I love that.
MIKE: The highway sign, it's not in great shape, but this is
a sign that anybody can relate to.
This is a main thoroughfare through California.
Beautiful road.
MIKE: 200.
ROBBIE: So it's 1,400.
MIKE SANTOS: So it's 2...
MIKE: 14.
MIKE SANTOS: 14? 1,450.
MIKE: 1,450.
MIKE SANTOS: 1,450.
MIKE: [chuckles] Alright, man.
Thank you, my friend.
MIKE SANTOS: Let me show you the inside of the house.
Follow me, guys.
MIKE: Hey.
[loud dogs barking]
ROBBIE: What's up, guys?
MIKE SANTOS: Hey Babe, hi Belle, hi Beeb.
Mike & Robbie: [laughs]
MIKE SANTOS: They think they're going to get
out, but they're mistaken.
This keeps the flies away.
MIKE: Oh wow!
That's some stuff.
MIKE: We walk into this place,
and it's obvious that Mike's a bachelor.
He's got things all the walls, it's in cabinets, on the floor.
I mean, I dig this situation.
Because when you work hard to find things, you want to
surround yourself with the things that you love.
You know, there's so much stuff in this place,
like over-stimulated.
MIKE: Wow, look at these, where'd you get these at, man?
MIKE SANTOS: I got those from my buddy.
I got 2 of them.
MIKE: Where did they come off of?
MIKE SANTOS: I don't know.
When I look at them, to me it looks like
they came from a tomb or something.
MIKE: These things look like they came
out of Dracula's castle.
I mean, they're solid bronze, it's like draped feathers.
MIKE: They got a knocker on it?
Look it, so this comes out...
MIKE: And you could tell they were gas.
Somebody's electrified them. When you talk about
architectural salvage, this is next level stuff.
You just don't see stuff like this.
MIKE: You added this shade?
MIKE SANTOS: That shade was a fountain glass.
MIKE: Oh okay.
MIKE SANTOS: The stem on it. I...
MIKE: Okay, you cut it off?
Are these something you'd sell?
MIKE SANTOS: I would.
MIKE: What are you thinking on these things, man?
MIKE SANTOS: I think they're worth some bucks.
MIKE: I know, I mean, I think they are too.
But you'd have to pull this, and do something different.
This looks cool, but it would be neat to try to figure
out something that's a little bit more correct.
800 each.
MIKE SANTOS: 9. And I'll show you a couple of
other ones that I have down below.
MIKE: Alright. They're amazing, man.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: They're amazing.
MIKE SANTOS: I got bikes downstairs in the basement.
MIKE: Really!
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE SANTOS: A lot of people don't know I have a basement.
I'm not going to go down there, but you guys can go.
Just be careful, there's clutter, a lot of clutter.
ROBBIE: This is not a very big spot here.
MIKE: I know, dude.
MIKE SANTOS: [laughs] There's not a lot of room in there.
ROBBIE: Yeah, I'm telling ya.
ROBBIE: Dude, Mike, you're cramming down everywhere.
MIKE: Let me see if I can get over here.
Where are those lights at you're talking?
Oh, here's one, it's kind of domed?
MIKE SANTOS: Help yourself.
ROBBIE: Looks like a theater light, almost.
MIKE: Here...
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: That's killer. Is it broke?
This one is full of acorn nuts.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah, I had buddies down there.
MIKE: Oh here's the other one that's all busted up.
MIKE SANTOS: Yeah.
MIKE: The light's broke.
MIKE SANTOS: Those are it.
ROBBIE: Alright, hold on here.
MIKE SANTOS: Those are all brass.
ROBBIE: I'm telling ya, I know, look at those.
MIKE SANTOS: Those are it.
MIKE: Are you kidding me?
There's a Schwinn Panther down here!
MIKE SANTOS: I think the light's missing, but I think I
got half of it in the house.
MIKE: Yeah, it's what they call a delta rocket ray.
I'm going to try to move some stuff and get it out of here.
ROBBIE: If you can get it over to here or not.
MIKE: I know, I'm trying to clear out space right...
ROBBIE: Yeah.
I can get in here, can you get to the other side of the bike?
Hold on, hold on...
MIKE: it's hooked on something...
ROBBIE: Hold on, I got the front.
Okay let me...
Ugh!
Okay.
Hold on, ahh!
Ouch!
MIKE SANTOS: Okay...
ROBBIE: Dang! Whoa...
MIKE SANTOS: Wow!
ROBBIE: Panther.
MIKE SANTOS: That's a Panther?
MIKE: Woo!
ROBBIE: That's a Panther.
MIKE: That's a Schwinn Panther.
ROBBIE: Whoa...
MIKE: Let me see this thing.
ROBBIE: Dang.
MIKE SANTOS: Leaving the best for last, huh.
MIKE: Oh God.
MIKE: In Schwinn's line, the Panther was one of
the deluxe models.
You know, you had the Schwinn Phantom,
and the Schwinn Panther.
They both had chrome fenders, but there were
major differences between the two.
The Phantom had what they called a cantilever tank, and
the Panther had the straight bar tank.
More like a big missile with wings on it.
When you're riding this thing down the road with the delta
rocket ray light guiding you, there's nothing cooler, man.
MIKE: Where'd you get this?
MIKE SANTOS: I got that from my brother.
He got it from a fella in Livermore.
MIKE: It's... man, here's the deal.
Any Schwinn deluxe bike is extremely hard to find.
And the fact that this has any kind of original paint on it,
is a huge plus.
But there's no paint on the tank of the bike too much,
you know.
MIKE SANTOS: Hm.
MIKE: You can read 'Schwinn' here,
you can't barely read it here.
ROBBIE: You got the original rims too, Mike.
MIKE: Yeah, it's got the S2 rims on it.
Man, it's cool. Uh... 550.
MIKE SANTOS: 6.
MIKE: I'd do 575.
I think we're just creeping up to, like, the value of it,
you know what I mean?
MIKE SANTOS: Enh... 6, man.
MIKE: I mean, it is... ugh...
MIKE SANTOS: It's a nice bike and you look good on it, Mike.
MIKE: I know.
What, okay so, if I'm at 6 on this, then where
are you at on the lights, you know?
ROBBIE: Yeah, the lights right here.
MIKE: When I look at a light like this, I think about where
something like this would have hung.
When you look at older architecture, especially like
old mansions and stuff, the materials that they used to
build back then were themselves a status symbol.
They're bronze.
Unfortunately that really unique beautiful shade is
broken, but you know, the light is intact.
They're incredible.
ROBBIE: Look it, hey wait, whoa -whoa-whoa,
whoa-whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa...
MIKE SANTOS: It's all brass.
MIKE: What is that?
MIKE SANTOS: Ohh... prehistoric creatures.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: What is that?
ROBBIE: Prehistoric whatever, I don't know.
MIKE: It's a bird, it's a bird...
MIKE SANTOS: It's a rat.
ROBBIE: It's a rat.
MIKE: No, it's a mouse.
ROBBIE: That's a mole rat.
MIKE: Here, put him back in there.
ROBBIE: Alright.
MIKE: What are you thinking on these?
If I'm doing the 6 on the bike,
what am I doing on these, you know?
MIKE SANTOS: How about 4?
MIKE: 4 for these?
And 6 bills on the bike?
Alright, I'm doing it, man.
I appreciate ya.
MIKE SANTOS: Here, Rob.
ROBBIE: Appreciate ya.
MIKE SANTOS: You found the prehistoric rat.
ROBBIE: Yeah, prehistoric rat, thanks.
MIKE: [laugh] Alright.
MIKE SANTOS: The lights I got from my friend that owned the
recycle center, and I didn't pay anything for them.
And the bike, I paid $250.
So I got a great deal.
But they're great pieces, and they're going to be appreciated.
MIKE: Got to hook her back up.
MIKE SANTOS: Everything that they bought, I'm happy.
I don't have any seller remorse.
I'm really pleased that all the stuff that I got is going to
go somewhere and I'll be appreciated.
MIKE: Love the way you're living, buddy.
MIKE SANTOS: Right on.
MIKE: Mike was obsessed with finding things.
And in order to be really good at something, you got to be
obsessed, because obsession leads to passion.
Mike not only was passionate about this stuff,
he was passionate about it being saved.
And that's awesome.
[honks horn]
MIKE SANTOS: Bye guys!
ROBBIE: See you on the flip side, Mike! Thanks!
MIKE SANTOS: Take it easy!
♪ ♪ ♪
MIKE: We're going to this place called Highland Park Bowl.
You know Bobby Green, right?
ROBBIE: Oh yeah.
MIKE: Okay, well Bobby Green has a 1934 Schwinn Aero-cycle,
original paint.
And he's thinking about hanging it in there.
ROBBIE: What?
MIKE: For décor.
I said, dude, he sent me a picture, he goes,
'what do you think about hanging this in there?'
I go, Bobby...
ROBBIE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
MIKE: I'd be interested in buying that bike.
He was like, 'well, I don't really want to sell it.' And I
go, well let's talk about the, I-don't-want-to-sell-it price.
ROBBIE: It's right here.
MIKE: Alright. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah...
oh yeah, oh yeah...
ROBBIE: Look at that place.
MIKE: Look at that.
Alright... here we go.
ROBBIE: I'm going to grab a flyer.
MIKE: Get him a flyer.
MIKE: Alright, I told him we'd call him.
ROBBIE: Heh, look at the front of this place.
ROBBIE: Bobby Green's one of those guys that Mike
and I met through motorcycles and cars.
And we just became good friends.
BOBBY: Hey!
MIKE: Hey, what's up dude?
BOBBY: The Wolfe brothers!
ROBBIE: How're you doing, buddy?
BOBBY: Good to see you, man, good to see you.
MIKE: Give him the flyer, Robbie.
ROBBIE: Hey, good to see you.
BOBBY: Good to see you, man.
ROBIE: Hey, check this out, check this out.
BOBBY: What, what are you trying to sell me now?
ROBBIE: Look at this.
MIKE: There you go.
We didn't know if you had any of this stuff.
ROBBIE: Loo at the top. We're looking for...
BOBBY: Okay, I'll take-I'll take one of each of these.
MIKE: There's bicycle.
ROBBIE: Bobby Green's got these projects all over LA
that he's put his hands on.
The Formosa, the Idle Hour, and now this bowling alley.
BOBBY: That's the original sign.
MIKE: What year is the building?
BOBBY: '27.
MIKE: No...
BOBBY: 1927.
MIKE: Bobby Green is a preservationist, but above all,
the guy's a storyteller.
And the way he tells stories,
is through the properties he owns.
Every property that Bobby has done is deeply
rooted in the golden age of LA.
MIKE: So when you walk into one of Bobby Green's buildings, he
wants you to feel like you've been transported back in time.
Whether it's a bar, a restaurant, or a bowling alley,
they really do an incredible job.
MIKE: Ahh!
Look at these paintings.
Were those here?
BOBBY: I brought those paintings in.
This room was a pharmacy.
MIKE: Okay.
ROBBIE: What?
BOBBY: This whole place was built by the
pharmacy company in Prohibition. 1927, right?
MIKE: Okay.
BOBBY: So they were selling whiskey on prescription.
That was how they were getting around...
MIKE: Really!
BOBBY: Yeah, you could get whiskey prescriptions.
MIKE: So they had a doctor on premises or something?
BOBBY: They had a whole scam going around Los Angeles.
They'd set up a pharmacy, doctor's offices upstairs.
And bowling in the back.
So you'd go see the doctor first...
ROBBIE: Yeah.
BOBBY: Come down, get your prescription whiskey...
MIKE: And that's how they got around the law.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
BOBBY: and go bowling. Yes.
MIKE: That is American ingenuity at its finest.
How can we open a bar and make it legal to drink?
Doctor's office upstairs, oh yeah, you have anxiety?
You got a problem?
Well, here's your prescription, go downstairs and cure yourself.
MIKE: [laughs] It's amazing, I love this story!
MIKE: Here's my question to ya.
BOBBY: Yeah.
MIKE: Where's the Aero-cycle?
BOBBY: It's here.
MIKE: I know, I'd love to see it.
ROBBIE: Is that...
BOBBY: I'm going to hang it up later today.
MIKE: Where is it?
ROBBIE: What do you mean, you're going to
hang it up later today?
MIKE: I was telling Robbie about that.
We have a whole new plan for you.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
BOBBY: Okay. Am I going to like it?
MIKE: Just you know, have a, just keep,
just keep an open mind.
ROBBIE: You're going to love it, yeah.
ROBBIE: You're going to love the idea.?
BOBBY: [laughs]
MIKE: You're going to, you're going to love it, man.
BOBBY: Well let me show you where I was going to hang it.
MIKE: Alright. Okay.
BOBBOBBY: And see if youyou whethink it's a good idea.it.
MIKE: Oh my gosh...
ROBBIE: Oh my...
BOBBY: These are the old fire doors.
ROBBIE: What!
BOBBY: Ta-dah!
ROBBIE: Holy cow!
MIKE: Oh wow.
BOBBY: Check this out.
♪
ROBBIE: What!
BOBBY: Ta-dah!
ROBBIE: Holy cow!
MIKE: Oh wow.
BOBBY: Check this out.
ROBBIE: Wow!
BOBBY: All 1927.
ROBBIE: That- everything in here.
MIKE: Wow.
BOBBY: Everything. The ceiling, the lanes...
MIKE: So these, these are the old bowling mechanisms?
BOBBY: Yes. So...
MIKE: Wow.
BOBBY: the machines that were here, were so wrecked,
I repurposed them. I made chandeliers
and shelving and stuff.
MIKE: Yeah, and then this is the track, the-the ball return?
BOBBY: Yeah, those are the ball returns.
MIKE: Look at that, Robbie, that's the ball return!
ROBBIE: It's insane.
BOBBY: And then we got the exact same machines in good
shape, and had them restored, and then we put those in here.
MIKE: Really!
BOBBY: Yeah.
And see what's crazy is, no one's ever done
a bowling alley and exposed the mechanicals.
They always hid it.
This was all hidden.
ROBBIE: Hidden.
BOBBY: Covered up.
In 1927, right, when this place opened...
ROBBIE: Okay.
BOBBY: in 1930, when they painted that...
ROBBIE: The wall.
BOBBY: wall, the machines didn't exist.
MIKE: Oh that's the original paint on the wall.
BOBBY: That's the original mural.
And so you would have had a guy setting up the pins.
ROBBIE: Oh setting up the pins,
'cause that's how early it was. 1927.
BOBBY: Exactly.
MIKE: So then what year did they go to mechanical like this?
BOBBY: 1948, right after World War II.
MIKE: Wow...
BOBBY: So be-
ROBBIE: That's how old these machines are, right here.
BOBBY: Yes.
Those are from 1948.
ROBBIE: I've always been impressed with the
projects that Bobby has done.
But he hit a homerun on this thing.
BOBBY: Upstairs was storage.
All this cool stuff was upstairs.
So we went digging through the trash and we found cool stuff.
Like, look at these banners, right?
ROBBIE: All these banners.
BOBBY: A lot of them are original, yeah.
MIKE: I love how you left all of this.
BOBBY: Yes.
ROBBIE: Yeah, the originality of the building.
BOBBY: But see, the thing is, there was a drywall wall here.
MIKE: Oh wow.
BOBBY: Painted black.
The machines and the wall, completely covered.
And I remember when I first got in here, I crawled back there
with the flashlight, behind the machines...
MIKE: Yeah.
BOBBY: And I could, I see, saw the mural.
MIKE: That's the first time.
BOBBY: Yeah.
ROBBIE: You're like...
MIKE: You must have freaked.
BOBBY: I freaked out.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
BOBBY: I was like, holy cow!
MIKE: This property was a no-brainer.
I mean, thik about it, it had all the machinery, it had an
incredible story, and it's just an unbelievable space.
MIKE: What he lucked out on, really, was stripping the
property, pulling off all the sheetrock, and then finding
so much of its original history.
The mural that's still intact, that's what
you're looking at as you're bowling.
Wooden gutters, wooden lanes.
It's almost like the Hollywood movie set.
Look at the machinery that's picking up the pins and moving
around, you know, it's just like, you're all
of a sudden transported back in time.
BOBBY: So what I was thinking about doing with the
Aero-cycle, I'm going to put it right up here,
above the neon clock.
Wouldn't that look great?
ROBBIE: No!
BOBBY: [laughs] Shut up!
Yes it will.
MIKE: I mean...
I mean, but no, I mean here's-here's the deal.
I mean, it would look great, seriously...
if people knew what it was.
MIKE: When I hear that he's going to hang
it from the ceiling, I'm like... [claps]
I can't let that happen, man, I'm a bicycle collector.
It needs to be on the ground,
being touched by people that truly love it.
MIKE: You have incredible taste.
But it's like, anybody that's going to walk in here,
who's going to even know it's an Aero-cycle?
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: I mean, why can't it be a Schwinn motorbike or
a Schwinn Phantom or Roadmaster?
ROBBIE: Could be a Phantom.
BOBBY: Me, you, and like 5 other people.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: That's what I'm saying!
BOBBY: [laughs] Alright. So...
MIKE: That's what I'm saying! So...
MIKE: The realityof it is, is when someone sees a streamline
bicycle hanging from the ceiling, they're going to look
at it and go, that's a cool bicycle.
It doesn't need to be a Schwinn Aero-cycle.
It just needs to be something that's attractive,
that connects with the rest of the space.
And that's what I'm trying to convince him of.
MIKE: Where is it anyway?
BOBBY: I got it, it's right up here on the catwalk.
MIKE: Ah! Alright, can we look at it?
BOBBY: Sure.
MIKE: Ahh!
BOBBY: Original paint.
MIKE: Original paint, original tires. Woo...
BOBBY: The tires are original.
I mean, it would makes a great display up there.
It would look good.
MIKE: The Schwinn Aero -cycle is incredible.
The 1930s were huge years for Schwinn.
They introduced the 26 -by-2.125 balloon tire.
Before that, it was a single tube tire,
it was really hard to maintain.
MIKE: The 26-by-2.125 became industry standard after that.
When you think about all the bikes that
Schwinn introduced in the '30s.
MIKE: 1933 - the B10E, a motorbike looking bike,
but it had balloon tires.
And then they went into Schwinn Aero-cycle,
and then the Cycle-plane, and then the Motorbike.
And then the Auto-cycle.
Schwinn set the standard for streamline
and aerodynamic bikes.
I mean, when the Aero-cycle came out, all the other bicycle
manufacturers were looking at that thing going...
wow!
MIKE: So the ripple effect of the Aero-cycle,
in the bicycle industry, was huge.
MIKE: Oh my gosh.
ROBBIE: How long have you had this?
BOBBY: Mm... maybe like 8 years?
MIKE: I love that it's got the original tires on it, dang.
BOBBY: The tires are great, aren't they?
MIKE: Oh my God, they're sick, man.
BOBBY: It's just weird to me, 'cause someone
re -chromed that handlebar.
ROBBIE: Yeah, the handlebars.
BOBBY: Like, that's the only thing they re-they fixed up.
MIKE: I know.
Look it, they chromed that, the stem,
they chromed the rear stand hook.
BOBBY: Yeah.
MIKE: You can see, look at this, Robbie,
the frame broke right here.
And this was common, Bobby.
BOBBY: Yeah. I've heard that.
MIKE: Right here, for the frame to break at the down tube and
the seat tube, right here at the bottom bracket.
BOBBY: I've heard that it's strong there.
MIKE: And sometimes, so let me open this up...
because sometimes, if it breaks here,
it'll also break right at the head tube.
BOBBY: Ahh...
MIKE: So it's good, look it.
It's all good.
BOBBY: It's okay.
MIKE: What's wild about it, when you look at it initially
is, look how great that paint is on the tank, and the 2 main
tubes in the frame, and then look at the
paint loss on the fenders.
I call this attic burn.
MIKE: Whether it's a car, a motorcycle, a bicycle,
depending on how it's stored, dictates how it's going to age.
So something's been in an attic for 75 years.
Okay, well there's a little window in the attic and that
window is allowing sunlight on the front of the bike.
Every day, 365 days a year, for 75 years, the heat,
you know, I call that attic burn.
It's going to burn that paint.
And these imperfections are what make
the piece unbelievable.
MIKE: The grips are rotted on it, they're broken.
There's been touch-up a little bit here and there,
like the handlebars have been chromed.
But, it's amazing that it survived the way it has.
MIKE: Are you interested in talking numbers?
BOBBY: Help me carry it down here...
I want to see what it's going to look like...
down there where I'm going to hang it.
MIKE: Alright, alright.
BOBBY: And then we'll, we'll talk about it...
I don't know.
MIKE: Hey, it's-it's...
I like that 'cause it's one step closer
towards the front door.
[group laughing]
BOBBY: I know, it's one step closer to where
I'm going to hang it.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
BOBBY: Wait, we put it, so put it right here under the-
under the sign.
ROBBIE: Yeah right here, right there, yeah.
BOBBY: Right.
ROBBIE: Yeah right there. Yeah.
MIKE: Now you got to stand back...
BOBBY: I mean, look how cool that would look.
You know, you walk in here, you-you automatically go to
the clock, and then you see the bike.
You probably think the same way I do,
I think this is the coolest bike every made.
MIKE: I want to take this thing home.
To me, as a bicycle collector, the 1934 Schwinn Aero-cycle
is one of the world's marvels.
MIKE: It's just so interesting,
what they were thinking at that time, you know.
MIKE: When you look at this bike,
you're trying to figure out the influences.
You know, get into the mind of Ignaz Schwinn.
Because the tank itself looks like the
fuselage of an airplane.
You know, and then there's the door in the side of the
tank where you can put the batteries into it.
The front of it, is a winged eyeball.
I mean, this was so incredibly advanced.
So every time I hear about one of these bikes, it brings me
back to when I first started collecting bikes in Iowa,
looking at books, wondering what it would be like
to find something like this, you know.
MIKE: This is the kind of bike that kept me on the road and
my batteries charged, because every barn I ever walked into,
I imagine finding a Schwinn Aero-cycle.
MIKE: Would you consider selling it?
BOBBY: I would have to get quite a lot.
Because I...
I've got a lot into it.
I mean like...
12 grand...
Would be pretty good?
That would help.
ROBBIE: Heh-yeah.
MIKE: Yeah, that would be good.
Here's the deal, I don't think you're too crazy on
the number with the 12, I really don't.
But with me, I'm looking at the overall paint.
You know I mean...
BOBBY: Um-hm.
MIKE: The tank's great, the frame's great,
the fenders are really bad.
There's next to no paint on the fenders.
You can see the repairs they did here.
You know, the paint is burned off the rack.
BOBBY: Yeah, they must have heated it up, and then...
MIKE: Yeah.
BOBBY: tweaked it or something.
MIKE: Yeah.
It sucks that the taillight lens is gone,
because that's impossible to find.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: That's like a unicorn, man.
Because it's a glass lens, and it says 'Schwinn' this way,
and 'Schwinn' this way.
It's crossed.
BOBBY: Oh, oh.
MIKE: But those do look like dead stock pedals,
those Torrington 10's.
BOBBY: They could be.
MIKE: I've seen this bike with a red Troxel seat.
ROBBIE: Oh.
BOBBY: Oh that's cool.
MIKE: Yeah see, this is the deluxe version
with this metal band around it.
BOBBY: Hm.
MIKE: You know, if the bike fell over,
it wouldn't tear up the side of the seat.
BOBBY: Oh, that is nice.
That's cool.
MIKE: You know, see that big heavy metal band
where it's folded over into it?
BOBBY: Um-hm.
MIKE: Ugh!
Bobby: [LAUGHS]
MIKE: Damn, dude.
Alright, I'm going to make you an offer on it.
$10,000.
Even though it's a passion, I have to always look at
it as an investment as well.
BOBBY: Well, I'll tell you...
I mean... we're 2,000 apart. We're close.
MIKE: I know. I know, right?
BOBBY: If you want this bike this bad, let's bowl for it.
If I win, 10,500; and if you win, 10.
MIKE: Okay.
BOBBY: Fair?
MIKE: Alright.
BOBBY: Alright.
ROBBIE: So 2 throws.
MIKE: Alright.
BOBBY: Yeah.
ROBBIE: One frame. Pay attention to his ball.
BOBBY: Alright.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
BOBBY: This is for all the money.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
BOBBY: Okay.
ROBBIE: Hold on, Bobby.
BOBBY: What?
MIKE & ROBBIE: [laughing]
BOBBY: See that!
That is, dang, you're throwing me!
You're throwing me.
Alright, I'm going to do the same to you then!
MIKE: No.
BOBBY: I'm going to do the same to you!
ROBBIE: Bobby owns this place.
So he's probably bowled at least 200
times down these alleys.
My brother has probably bowled 9 times total in his life.
BOBBY: Ah!
MIKE: Gah!
BOBBY: See, I'm rusty.
I'll still probably beat him.
ROBBIE: You had 4 pins up. 4 pins.
MIKE: Alright, I'm offended. [laughs]
BOBBY: I'm rusty.
MIKE: Alright here...
ROBBIE: That's a strike.
GROUP: Ohh!
ROBBIE: You already beat him, you already beat him.
MIKE: I already beat him?
ROBBIE: You already beat him!
MIKE: I beat him!
[laughs]
BOBBY: Nice work.
MIKE: I won something!
[group laughing]
BOBBY: Nice work.
ROBBIE: Hey, I had to win somehow.
BOBBY: Yeah well...
MIKE: I'm going to see my bike.
ROBBIE: My brother ends up with the pre-War Schwinn,
and it's an Aero-cycle.
It's a win-win.
MIKE: Alright, go ahead Robbie, you haven't bowled yet.
Let's see what Robbie's got.
BOBBY: Ohh!
Mike: [LAUGHS]
BOBBY: Ho-ho!
MIKE: Ohh!
MIKE: For the strike... strike it.
ROBBIE: Geez!
MIKE: Alright, here I go.
BOBBY: That should have been the one I did for 500 bucks.
MIKE: Yeah!
BOBBY: Oh!
[group laughing]
BOBBY: Oh there it is.
GROUP: Ohh!
[laughing]
BOBBY: That was hilarious.