ROBBIE: Samson, here's the kicker, listen,
I'm trying to help you out here.
Alright, I'll call you back.
MIKE: What was that about?
ROBBIE: Samson's trying to buy a truck, he don't listen.
MIKE: What, it's got the wrong wheels on it or something?
What kind of truck is it?
ROBBIE: It's a '72 Cheyenne.
But here's the kicker to it - it's got original paint.
Who cares about the wheels?
MIKE: Okay.
I mean, I-I'm just floored that, I mean,
he's not listening to you, because I mean...
MIKE: you've said, 'here's the kicker' like
at least 3 times.
What does 'here's the kicker' mean?
ROBBIE: It's like kicking it up to the next level.
Listen up, fool.
I'm trying to tell you something.
MIKE: [laughs] Where did that even come from?
ROBBIE: 8th grade.
MIKE: Yeah?
ROBBIE: I'm getting ready to ask this girl
to the dance, Becky.
She's on the fence...
MIKE: About what?
ROBBIE: I'm like... well, if she wanted to go,
if I was thinking it was going to be more or something.
And then...
MIKE: Oh she wanted to go as friends.
ROBBIE: Yeah. And I just said to her, you know, I said,
'here's the kicker, we're just going to go there and have fun.'
MIKE: Oh, so when you said, 'here's the kicker, '
she was like, done.
ROBBIE: Yeah, she's like, done, that was it.
Dude, didn't you ever watch Kojak?
MIKE: The bald dude?
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: No I didn't.
ROBBIE: He used to say, 'here's the kicker, baby.'
I just got rid of the 'baby' thing.
MIKE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: Here's the kicker.
MIKE: Did you say, 'here's the kicker, baby' to, to Becky?
ROBBIE: I don't know, I... yeah, I probably did first.
First time I probably did.
MIKE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: [laughs]
♪ ♪ ♪
[phone ringing]
MIKE: Dani D, what's up?
ROBBIE: What up, Dani?
DANIELLE: Are you guys ready for this pick today 'cause
I am sending you on an inspiring freakin' adventure.
ROBBIE: Well, you do that every day.
What are you talking about?
MIKE: [laughs]
DANIELLE: So I've been going back and forth with this gal
named Leslie, okay?
Now her dad was a Cadillac nut, and he collected every
Cadillac he could find over the years.
He was on a Cadillac quest.
ROBBIE: Does that mean he's got convertibles?
MIKE: That's awesome.
DANIELLE: The pictures Leslie's sending me
are just absolutely nuts.
I mean, the place is completely overgrown,
it's like a 1940s Cadillac dealership that exists
after humanity's gone.
It's Life After People right there in front of you.
MIKE: Really!?
DANIELLE: Yep.
ROBBIE: Alright.
MIKE: Sounds cool. Send us the coordinates.
DANIELLE: Will do, will do.
Keep me posted, I'll talk to you soon.
MIKE: Bye! DANIELLE: Bye.
♪ ♪ ♪
ROBBIE: It's right here.
MIKE: GPS is saying like right...
ROBBIE: Right, right... I think right here.
MIKE: Alright.
ROBBIE: Be careful.
Wow, sure wasn't kidding it was a jungle.
MIKE: Here's some lady right here.
Hey, how're you doing?
LESLIE: Hi.
MIKE: Hey, I'm Mike.
LESLIE: How are you?
MIKE: Hey, this is my brother, Robbie.
ROBBIE: How're you doing?
LESLIE: Hi.
ROBBIE: Nice to see ya.
MIKE: Yeah, you talked to Danielle on the phone?
LESLIE: Nice to see you. Sure.
MIKE: About some Cadillacs?
LESLIE: Yes, my dad's been collecting these cars for years.
They're buried back there, they're full of dust,
but you're welcome to look at them all you want.
MIKE: Yeah. [laughs] ROBBIE: Alright.
MIKE: I love everything that you just said.
So just go straight down here?
LESLIE: You just go straight down here,
my husband's back there and he'll direct you to where to go.
ROBBIE: Alright.
MIKE: Alright, okay.
LESLIE: Alright, you guys. See ya.
MIKE: Thank you, nice to see you.
ROBBIE: We'll see you in a bit.
Thank you.
MIKE: Dang, man...
ROBBIE: Dude, ae you sure we can get in here?
MIKE: Yeah. I mean, here's the deal.
There's already like 20 dents in the top of this van.
MIKE: When Leslie said just go forward, you know,
it was okay for about 50 feet. [laughing]
And then it just kept getting narrower and narrower.
[scratching car body sounds]
ROBBIE: Ahh!
MIKE: This van has already trimmed a few trees,
you know what I'm saying.
ROBBIE: Yeah. Holy cow, man.
Dude, just pay attention.
MIKE: My brother's freaking out about driving
down this narrow road.
MIKE: Okay, this might be a problem here, this left turn.
ROBBIE: Dude, you can't go that way.
MIKE: Whoa! No sweat, dude.
MIKE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: God-dang!
MIKE: No problems here, c'mon.
Whoa! Gee, whoa!
Okay that was a situation.
ROBBIE: I told ya!
MIKE: Wait a second, I got this, I got this.
ROBBIE: I think we're going to...
this thing's going to get stuck in here.
MIKE: No, we got 4-wheel drive.
[laughs]
ROBBIE: In between 2 trees, I think it's stuck. Yeah.
MIKE: There we go.
Where the hell is this guy at?
MIKE: There's a guy right there.
ROBBIE: Alright. Whoa, whoa...
MIKE: There, whoa... alright.
Here we go. Get a flyer.
MIKE: Hey! ROBBIE: Wow.
RUSS: Hey.
MIKE: What the heck, man!
ROBBIE: Holy cow! You weren't kidding.
Russ: [laughs]
MIKE: What's going on? I'm Mike.
ROBBIE: Geez.
RUSS: Hey, Mike.
MIKE: How'd you get these cars back in here, brother?
RUSS: Oh...
ROBBIE: Robbie, how're you doing?
RUSS: Good.
ROBBIE: Nice to meet you.
RUSS: How're you doing?
MIKE: Hand him a flyer.
RUSS: Thank you.
MIKE: See rightthere?
RUSS: All back in the day when we got them in...
MIKE: Cadillacs.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
RUSS: Yeah.
MIKE: [laughs]
RUSS: Heh. It was all opened up back then.
MIKE: So they're back here?
ROBBIE: This is where they're at?
RUSS: Yeah, straight back here and duck your
head 'cause the roof's kind of caving in.
MIKE: So how long have these been back here then?
RUSS: Oh God, they've been back here for uh...
25, 30 years?
ROBBIE: No one's driven?
MIKE: This grows that fast?
RUSS: Well, eucalyptus...
ROBBIE: They just grow.
RUSS: They're pretty, yeah, they grow.
MIKE: Whoa-ho-ho...
ROBBIE: Look at this!
MIKE: Ha-ha!
ROBBIE: Wow!
MIKE: Dang!
ROBBIE: Holy cow!
MIKE: You just can't believe your eyes.
There's so many cars back here, and you can tell that they've
been back here for an extremely long time.
ROBBIE: How long have these been here?
RUSS: 30 years, roughly.
At one time, I drove pretty much every one
of these cars you see here.
MIKE: Really?
ROBBIE: They all drove in here?
RUSS: Oh yeah.
MIKE: I mean, these are like metal beasts,
they're like dinosaurs that used to roam
the nation's highways.
This is like their resting place.
MIKE: So this must be like local folklore, this building.
RUSS: Oh yeah.
Yeah, everybody knows there's a bunch of Cadillacs back here.
MIKE: And people are like, back there,
there's a bunch of Cadillacs. Yeah.
ROBBIE: So he was known as the Cadillac Man.
RUSS: Yeah, Cadillac Man.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Woo.
RUSS: Yeah.
LESLIE: My dad loved Cadillacs.
RUSS: He did.
LESLIE: He just loved the way they rode,
and he just thought they were...
RUSS: They did, they just floated right
on down the road.
LESLIE: He'd say, 'them Lincolns, they
have a little bit of...
'cause them Cadillacs.' [laughs]
He liked Lincolns too, but he liked Cadillacs better.
MIKE: Oh wow, look at that, Robbie,
with the fender skirt on that, man.
RUSS: That's the '41.
ROBBIE: Oh look at that.
MIKE: That's bad.
RUSS: He was at a shuffleboard tournament in Vegas,
and they were driving down the road and he seen it go by.
And he followed the guy...
MIKE: [laughs] Yeah, that's the way it happens, man.
RUSS: And talked him into selling it.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: That's the way it happens.
RUSS: And so he drove it home from Vegas.
MIKE: No doubt.
RUSS: My father-in-law, he was inducted into the California
Hall of Fame and then the National all of Fame.
MIKE: The shuffleboard Hall of Fame.
RUSS: Yes, yes.
MIKE: You know what, I'd rather watch that then poker.
Russ: [laughs]
ROBBIE: Oh any day of the week.
MIKE: You know what I mean?
ROBBIE: Get some action going on.
MIKE: Yeah, dude.
RUSS: Oh it's great.
MIKE: Russ said he drove most of these cars inhere.
So they were useful, they were road-worthy, they were proud.
It's like this large Cadillac graveyard and all of these cars
are just waiting for somebody to breathe life into them.
MIKE: So every Cadillac in this building has 4 doors.
RUSS: Yes.
MIKE: This is the iconic one right here.
ROBBIE: '59.
MIKE: '59, baby, look at that.
RUSS: '59 Fleetwood.
MIKE: Um-hm.
ROBBIE: Look at the trim on that thing.
MIKE: I know, it's unbelievable.
Holy crap, man.
Look at the interior.
ROBBIE: Wow! Actually...
MIKE: This thing's not...
RUSS: Yeah...
MIKE: not bad.
RUSS: This car cleans up very nice.
ROBBIE: The biggest thing about a
'59 Cadillac, is the fins.
The taillights, everything about it,
so sexy on the back end.
MIKE: Oh here's another one.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: What's this one?
ROBBIE: This is also a '59.
MIKE: So this is a rare car because it's a Flat Top.
RUSS: Yes.
MIKE: The back end of this in '59,
like I've got a '59 El Camino, same thing with this lip.
Is this original paint?
RUSS: I believe this is on this car, yes.
Black, yes.
ROBBIE: What kind of value does this car have,
because it is the Flat Top?
RUSS: That's something you'd have to ask
the boss lady over there.
ROBBIE: Oh.
LESLIE: Hey guys.
Have we made any deals yet?
MIKE: Heeey...
ROBBIE: God.
LESLIE: Huh? How's it going, honey?
MIKE: Well yeah, well we're-the biggest...
RUSS: Good.
MIKE: the biggest question we have had to him is like,
how do you get these things out of here?
RUSS: We'd have to cut a couple of trees, I think.
LESLIE: I think so.
ROBBIE: A couple?
MIKE: Yeah, man.
RUSS: Uh, 3 or 4.
MIKE: It's just so crazy. So...
ROBBIE: Wow...
LESLIE: We'll get it out.
MIKE: how long ago did your dad pass away?
LESLIE: 2008.
MIKE: Okay. So that's when this kind of...
LESLIE: Yes, he...
MIKE: The road started disappearing?
LESLIE: Yes.
He died of heart disease, and it all started in the '70s.
He had 2 open heart surgeries, but after the first one,
he got better, and I married my wonderful husband here.
MIKE: Yeah.
LESLIE: And together, they found... these cars.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
LESLIE: And he loved them, and I'm sorry.
ROBBIE: You're alright, you're alright.
MIKE: No it's okay, there's no, you know what,
he would feel blessed that you are this
emotional about these cars.
LESLIE: My dad was a professional gambler first.
Well, he was in the Army, and then a professional gambler,
and then he married my mom, and then he opened up a little bar
with a shuffleboard, and plus we had a hog ranch.
MIKE: Is that what this building was?
Was this hogs?
LESLIE: That's what part of this building,
and that's what you see all those were hogs...
MIKE: Oh okay, with the separation of the
wall and everything.
LESLIE: Yes. ROBBIE: Yeah.
LESLIE: Then he opened up a pawn shop.
LESLIE: And he said, 'well I've been in the pawn business for...
20 years already.'
MIKE: Oh he already, he had a pawn shop too?
LESLIE: No, in the card games, they...
MIKE: Oh!
[laughs]
ROBBIE: Oh he was loaning people money already.
LESLIE: There was a lot of hocking. So anyway...
ROBBIE: He had a lot of I.O.U.'s.
RUSS: Um-hm.
LESLIE: a lot. ROBBIE: [laughs]
LESLIE: And... and like he always...
MIKE: So he was already kind of in the pawn business.
LESLIE: He was already in the pawn business.
LESLIE: So it was nothing new.
MIKE: It sounds like Leslie's dad learned at a young age
that a closed mouth doesn't get fed.
The guy was always hustling, he was always dreaming,
and he was always doing.
MIKE: So what was your dad's infatuation with Cadillac?
LESLIE: Well, when he was a young man, he rode in one.
And there was an old guy that was a farmer.
And he just would take it out in the fields
and check his fields...
MIKE: In the Cadillac. [laughs]
LESLIE: in the Cadillac.
ROBBIE: In the Cadillac. Wow.
LESLIE: And my dad said, 'I'll do that someday.'
MIKE: Yeah?
LESLIE: And he did.
MIKE: Well this, this one is, is really the most unique
that we've looked at so far, as far as you know,
the look that everybody wants.
ROBBIE: Flat Top.
LESLIE: Yeah.
MIKE: And the Flat Top and... you know.
LESLIE: Yeah, that's his baby.
He likes this one...
[laughs]
MIKE: This is the one, this is one he wants to keep?
This is one he wants to keep?
RUSS: I'm not into...
I can visualize that with a big block in its own...
on the highway.
LESLIE: That's what he keeps saying.
ROBBIE: Since you're not going to sell the '59 Flat Top...
will you sell this '59?
LESLIE: Yeah, I think this one's for sale.
It's up to him.
RUSS: I think we can come to an agreement on it.
ROBBIE: On this one?
RUSS: Yeah.
ROBBIE: One thing that's cool about a '59 Fleetwood,
is that when you roll all the windows down,
there is no posts in between.
Cadillac had to beefen that frame up.
Look at how long this thing is.
ROBBIE: And you can tell this thing's been repainted.
RUSS: Yeah, I see that.
Now that you're saying it.
LESLIE: Robbie, you remind me of my dad look at
these cars before he bought them.
ROBBIE: Hey, you got to do your due diligence on these things.
LESLIE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: It's a California car, it's all here,
the interior's intact, it's a beautiful looking car.
RUSS: I'll start out, 12,000.
ROBBIE: Um...
ROBBIE: you're at 12 grand on this.
RUSS: Yep.
ROBBIE: I think you could buy one of these cars because it's
a 4-door, running, driving down the road, 20 grand.
MIKE: You can.
What it's got going for it is, it's a '59.
I mean, from what I can see from the floors and...
ROBBIE: Yeah, you're doing...
MIKE: the rest of the car, just kind of looking it over
with it, how dirty it is, it looks pretty solid.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
And then you get into the motor aspect of it.
30 years it's been sitting here,
you're already putting new gas tank, new lines,
new brake lines, new brakes, new tires.
RUSS: My father-in-law, if he was here, he's say,
well those are pretty good looking cases,
but some air in them...
LESLIE: He'd say it's been buried in time.
ROBBIE: Was he a used car salesman?
Russ: [laughs] No.
ROBBIE: Oh yeah, he ran a pawn shop.
RUSS: Yeah.
LESLIE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: Those are buried in time.
RUSS: Um-hm.
LESLIE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: Time is money though.
LESLIE: So make an offer.
ROBBIE: 6,500 bucks...
is that, what's that usually mean?
MIKE: Does that mean yes?
ROBBIE: Does that mean yes?
LESLIE: That means, up.
RUSS: No, that...
MIKE: I thought it meant yes, and this is no, this is yes.
ROBBIE: She gave me the thumbs up!
RUSS: That, that means we're not even close.
LESLIE: That means up.
[laughs]
LESLIE: 10 grand. I mean, c'mon.
ROBBIE: I never met your dad, but I got a feeling,
he just said that come out of your mouth.
LESLIE: Yes he did.
ROBBIE: He knows it. He's like...
LESLIE: I am my father's daughter.
[laughs]
RUSS: Yeah, yeah.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: I'll tell you what, where we need to be on this car,
is like $8,000.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Because, you know, after we do what we have to
do to it to get to the 20 number,
there's not a lot of margin in it.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
LESLIE: I'll tell you what, I'll flip you for it.
ROBBIE: I'd flip you for... 8 or 85, and that's my...
[blows raspberry].
LESLIE: That...
ROBBIE: I better hope I win.
RUSS: Break out a coin.
LESLIE: Let's do it.
LESLIE: The coin flipping definitely is my dad.
He just flipped everybody for things all the time.
ROBBIE: Here, I got a quarter. [deep breath]
Now here's the deal,
you're going to call it in the air...
and we're going to let it land on the Cadillac.
LESLIE: Sounds like a plan.
ROBBIE: Okay. Alright, ready?
LESLIE: Heads.
RUSS: Heads it is.
ROBBIE: Is it?
LESLIE: [CLAPS]
ROBBIE: Son-of-a-bitch!
MIKE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: God-dang!
LESLIE: Thanks, Dad. [group laughing]
RUSS: You might be better...
keep the quarter in my hand...
LESLIE: He must have been pleased. [laughs]
MIKE: Robbie, but what I'm laughing about is,
is he couldn't see what it said.
ROBBIE: I couldn't even see the damn thing...
[group laughing]
LESLIE: Well he took his glasses off, remember?
ROBBIE: Look at him, Russ, like I can see it from here.
ROBBIE: But you know what, at the end of the day,
it's a '59, it's a Cadillac Fleetwood.
When you're behind the wheel of this thing,
I don't care if you paid 85 or you paid 28,000 for it.
You're the man.
MIKE: What about the seafoam '55?
What's going on with that?
LESLIE: That was my dad's pride.
MIKE: Oh I can see why.
LESLIE: That's what he called it.
ROBBIE: This is it.
LESLIE: That was the pride.
LESLIE: Everybody see that car, they knew that was
Bobby G going down the road, Cadillac Man. [laughs]
He was like a legend in his own time.
MIKE: What's the endgame on something like this?
I mean, is this something that you guys are going to clean up,
you're going to maybe get it under
a roof a little bit better?
LESLIE: It's probably going to sit there.
MIKE: I mean, since it was his first one or
are you going to sell this too?
LESLIE: No, it'll never be sold, no.
MIKE: Okay.
But I mean, is it something that,
if it's a family heirloom, do you guys want to get it
to the point where you can drive it again?
LESLIE: No.
MIKE: You don't want to experience that?
LESLIE: No, I-I will probably never move this car.
RUSS: We'll leave that to our kids for the...
MIKE: You want, you want it to be here
'cause he parked it here.
LESLIE: Yes.
ROBBIE: Yeah, yeah.
RUSS: Um-hm.
LESLIE: Sorry.
MIKE: I love that, I absolutely love that.
LESLIE: You don't understand.
MIKE: No, I got a little girl.
LESLIE: It's even hard for me to... talk about it.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah.
LESLIE: He called me 'Baby Doll'.
So that tells you how close I was with him.
MIKE: Yeah.
My brother and I both have, he has 3 girls, I have 1 girl.
LESLIE: Heh. ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: And um, and we both have a lot of stuff.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: And I'm always trying to instill in Charlie
how important that is.
So it's great...
LESLIE: Charlie?
MIKE: Yeah...
LESLIE: That's my little granddaughter's name.
MIKE: Yeah that's...
ROBBIE: Yeah.
LESLIE: Charlie Rose.
MIKE: Yeah. It's great, I-I love to see how connected
you were to him through this.
LESLIE: Yes. We miss him.
MIKE: He's here.
LESLIE: Oh he's with me.
He won the flip, didn't he?
MIKE: He-yeah.
[group laughing]
MIKE: He's everywhere.
ROBBIE: He's everywhere.
MIKE: He's everywhere.
MIKE: The ripple effect a collector leaves behind is a
passionate one that stays with their family
well beyond their lifetime.
Even though they're gone, all the things that they've found,
and that they've gathered,
still allows the family to be in their presence.
LESLIE: This was the hog barn.
And this is mom's stuff.
ROBBIE: Wow.
LESLIE: Yeah, she'd go to the yard sales and the flea markets.
MIKE: Um-hm. Looks like anything she can get a deal on.
LESLIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Walking into this building with this much stuff,
really represents the hard work, the passion,
and the determination people have in this family.
I mean, this is her mom's building,
and it's just completely packed.
ROBBIE: Got a wagon, Mike?
MIKE: Just a regular wagon.
MIKE: The amount of effort and the socializing it would take,
you know, just getting out and buying things from people,
to fill a space this big, is pretty unbelievable.
MIKE: It's got iron wheels on it.
A lot of these wagons this early will have
a wood spoked wheel.
LESLIE: Um-hm.
MIKE: So this has iron wheels.
It looks like it's pretty solid.
LESLIE: I'm sure that's why my mom got it. [laughs]
MIKE: Yeah. It's got a good look to it.
LESLIE: Um-hm.
MIKE: You know it's, I mean, the only problem I see with it
is the tongue here, you're missing the handle.
200 bucks.
RUSS: We beat him on the flip.
LESLIE: Alright.
ROBBIE: Ow...
MIKE: Thank you.
LESLIE: That's a good deal. [laughs]
MIKE: Thank you.
Alright, let me see if I can find something else.
It seems like the further I get back in there,
the older stuff is.
LESLIE: Okay.
ROBBIE: Your mom must have loved cookie jars.
RUSS: Oh yeah.
LESLIE: Oh you haven't seen the half of the cookie jars.
MIKE: Here's a top to a pinball machine.
ROBBIE: Pinball, I saw that.
MIKE: You get that side here you go...
wait... oh...
ROBBIE: Something there...
LESLIE: Here they come, they found something. [laughs]
MIKE: Oh yeah...
ROBBIE: Look at the subject matter on that.
LESLIE: Oh my goodness.
MIKE: Yeah, look at that.
ROBBIE: Odds & Evens.
LESLIE: Yeah, that's my mom. She had a passion...
MIKE: I mean, it's great subject matter.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
LESLIE: for um, games and kiddie rides
and things like that.
MIKE: Uh-huh.
ROBBIE: 75 bucks.
You couldn't put it back on a pinball machine...
LESLIE: 125.
ROBBIE: 100 bucks. Your dad taught me that trick.
[laughs]
LESLIE: Okay. We'll do it.
MIKE: I never get tired of being curious.
Digging and searching and uncovering.
ROBBIE: Oh it's a bingo. Is it that heavy?
MIKE: Yeah... okay you got it?
ROBBIE: I got it, I got it, I got it.
MIKE: Don't break the glass.
ROBBIE: I got it. MIKE: Alright.
ROBBIE: I got it. I got it.
MIKE: The cord.
ROBBIE: Ugh... ugh! Alright.
MIKE: Alright, there you go.
ROBBIE: Whoa!
MIKE: This is pretty cool, man.
ROBBIE: It is pretty cool.
MIKE: I like it a lot.
ROBBIE: Was an air blower, basically.
48G and 64O.
LESLIE: [laughs]
MIKE: 200 bucks.
LESLIE: 250, c'mon.
MIKE: I'd do 2 -and-a-quarter. We're not that far apart.
LESLIE: Okay, 2 -and-a-quarter.
MIKE: Let's do that.
MIKE: It's pretty cool when you unearth something that's just
been sitting around for that long, just buried.
MIKE: Man, you guys didn't tell us about this.
LESLIE: [chuckles] Yeah, it's a little hid.
MIKE: What's going on with the Land Cruiser?
RUSS: Oh that's ours.
MIKE: What is this, mid '70s?
RUSS: '74.
RUSS: I bought that Toyota for my brother-in-law.
I wanted to fix it up for her.
MIKE: See the thing is, where we're from...
LESLIE: Um-hm.
MIKE: These are all so rotted.
I mean, most of them, even if you find them...
LESLIE: Yeah, yeah.
MIKE: if you-if you're lucky enough to find one...
LESLIE: Um-hm.
MIKE: you can poke your finger through it.
MIKE: I grew up around these vehicles,
I've always had a soft spot in m heart, you know.
The Broncos, the Scouts, the Land Cruisers,
all of this stuff is extremely hot.
Utilitarian, you could get in these things,
beat the crap out of them, and look cool doing it.
MIKE: Would you entertain the thought of
at least getting it out, so we can look at it to
possibly make an offer on it?
LESLIE: Well, we have to get it out anyway, so let's do it.
ROBBIE: Alright, I got a chain.
ROBBIE: If Mike's going to think about buying this,
we got to see the rest of this vehicle.
We got to pull it out.
ROBBIE: Okay, go ahead, Russ.
Keep going... right there.
MIKE: Here it goes!
ROBBIE: Going, it's coming, it's coming,
it's coming! Keep going!
MIKE: God-dang!
ROBBIE: Turn the wheel, turn the wheel, a little bit more,
a little bit farther...
the back brakes are locking.
MIKE: Keep going, keep going!
ROBBIE: Keep going.
LESLIE: Yeah, that's what's wrong...
ROBBIE: Keep going.
MIKE: Keep going.
LESLIE: Yep.
ROBBIE: Alright.
MIKE: Alright, we're good! Woo!
[group laughing]
LESLIE: Looks good. Don't look at bad as thought.
ROBBIE: God-dang.
MIKE: How does it look on this side?
ROBBIE: Actually, it looks good.
MIKE: Does it?
MIKE: After we finally get it out of the bushes,
it's like you can see it.
And it's beautiful.
ROBBIE: I'm surprised because usually with moisture, it's...
MIKE: Hey brother, thank you, man.
[laughs]
ROBBIE: Yeah. Dang!
MIKE: [LAUGHING] But the problem is,
is that it's better than what Leslie thought too.
LESLIE: I think it's really cute. And I don't...
ROBBIE: You hear that, Russ?
LESLIE: I don't think I want to get rid of it.
[laughs]
RUSS: Yeah, I think... we're going to hang onto it.
MIKE: Oh really.
LESLIE: I love it.
MIKE: I don't blame ya!
LESLIE: I never...
ROBBIE: It's cool.
LESLIE: I never did want to get rid of it, really.
MIKE: I don't blame her.
To be honest with you, you know,
she's got a husband that can work on all of this stuff.
What a great vehicle for them to have
around their property and around town.
MIKE: Huh... alright.
What else you guys got going on?
ROBBIE: What do you think, Russ?
RUSS: Well, we got one more thing down here
we can let you look at.
MIKE: Is it a Cadillac?
RUSS: It is a Cadillac. [group laughing]
ROBBIE: It's got 4 doors?
LESLIE: It might be a Cadillac.
RUSS: Ah it's got 2 doors.
ROBBIE: What?
MIKE: What is going on, this is-this is off-brand for the...
LESLIE: Surprise, surprise. [laughs]
MIKE: for the boss.
ROBBIE: Wow.
MIKE: The '57 Cadillac Eldorado Seville,
this is the kind of car you look at...
and you sweat.
MIKE: Now why is this one out here, because it's got 2 doors?
RUSS: Yeah, it didn't look right with the 4-door cars.
LESLIE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: It didn't look right with the 4s? Wow...
MIKE: Ohh my God...
LESLIE: Everybody that sees that car loses it.
Everybody wants that car.
MIKE: So did your dad drive this car?
RUSS: Uh no.
LESLIE: No.
RUSS: This one we towed it over here,
'cause the carburetors were out of sync.
MIKE: Carburetors?
ROBBIE: What do you mean, carburetors?
MIKE: Dual power?
RUSS: It's 24s.
MIKE: Ahh... okay.
MIKE: In 1957, this was the ultimate in
luxury, power, and style.
MIKE: Ohh -oh-oh...
ROBBIE: Oh wow...
MIKE: As soon as we opened the hood, dual power,
24 -barrels, and the bat wing, air cleaner.
It's just so cool!
MIKE: Look at the headliner, Robbie.
ROBBIE: Actually, the headliner's perfect.
MIKE: It's got factory air, it's got power everything,
and all the trim garnishing is there.
It's original paint, the vinyl top is actually intact,
it's not peeling.
Teal blue leather.
ROBBIE: [whispers] I'm freaking out.
MIKE: [whispers] This is insane, man.
ROBBIE: [whispers] Yeah.
MIKE: If you're lucky enough to drive a car like this or
even own a car like this, it's something
that you would never, ever forget.
I mean, the luxury, the power, the design,
the style, you know, it's like um...
when your ticket is finally punched,
and you're heading towards that light.
And the movie of your life is playing.
This is the car you're driving.
RUSS: A barn find.
Sitting 3 miles from here just over the back
this hill across from us.
MIKE: This was 3 miles from here.
LESLIE: Yes.
RUSS: Yep.
ROBBIE: I can't believe that.
MIKE: Yeah, it's like meant to be for your dad, right?
He's a Cadillac guy and it's 3 miles from his house.
LESLIE: Well, he- he liked that.
MIKE: He had to be losing his mind.
LESLIE: [laughs] Yeah.
MIKE: Look at the back end of this car,
I mean, it was so... ahead of its time.
These pieces right here, this piece right here.
RUSS: Aluminum.
MIKE: This is aluminum, yes, it's aluminum.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: The back end of the car, the way the bumper
splits and forms on each side, and then it's
got those big round fenders with the shark fins.
It's like a large, luxurious, sportscar.
MIKE: If you look at it from just this standpoint right
here, to me, they look like... a Corvette.
ROBBIE: You know it looks like, I was going to say,
Corvette. It's a 2-door.
MIKE: I mean, it looks like the original wide whites on it.
RUSS: Yeah. It might be.
MIKE: Alright.
LESLIE: And it sat in the carport in the back.
ROBBIE: Yeah?
LESLIE: But when the tree was kind of cracking
and going to fall down, we pulled it out here.
ROBBIE: Oh.
MIKE: Yeah.
LESLIE: And then here it sat.
MIKE: It's a time capsule.
And this is the kind of stuff that everybody wants
to recreate right now, but this is the real deal.
You know, restoration yeah that's right for some people,
but cleaning this car up, polishing what's there and
just getting it running, is where it's at for me.
If they're willing to sell this car, I mean,
I've complete-I've completely shown every card that I have,
I mean, I don't have any kind of a poker face.
I'm letting them know, I'm in love.
ROBBIE: Even for sitting out here in the grass,
I can't believe how solid it is underneath there.
MIKE: It's just starting to get some edge here.
ROBBIE: Well, it's always in the trim.
MIKE: No, but I know, but that's what I'm talking about.
Like this probably just started it in the last few years if
it was underneath the roof there.
LESLIE: Probably. It did look pretty good.
MIKE & ROBBIE: Yeah.
ROBBIE: The fact that this is a California car,
and it's aged perfectly, yeah it's got some pits,
but all the stuff is here.
Nothing is missing to this car.
My brother's no different than any collector.
You actually get tunnel vision on things,
and you have to have it, no matter what,
you're going to take this thing home.
LESLIE: Well... It's for sale.
MIKE: You're going to sell this one.
LESLIE: For the right price.
MIKE: Yeah, absolutely.
So, what do you got to have for it,
have you guys thought about it?
RUSS: No haggling, 30,000.
LESLIE: And I know it needs work.
But... look at it.
MIKE: Yeah, no, I mean, I-yeah, no I mean...
ROBBIE: I get it.
MIKE: I mean, I appreciate you even putting a number on it.
LESLIE: Yeah, I mean I-
MIKE: My gosh, I mean...
LESLIE: You know.
MIKE: To find...
LESLIE: It is what it is, and it's worth every dime.
MIKE: Alright, I'm going to do it.
To find a car...
LESLIE: Thank you.
MIKE: like this... is unbelievable.
LESLIE: Thank you.
MIKE: Woo!
ROBBIE: Man.
MIKE: Wooh!
ROBBIE: Yeah.
LESLIE: And enjoy her.
MIKE: Yeah.
MIKE & ROBBIE: [laughs]
LESLIE: She'll be beautiful.
LESLIE: I know they're going to love that car.
[laughs]
RUSS: They seem like the kind of guys that get a
lot of enjoyment out of doing it, and...
LESLIE: That's why they're doing it.
RUSS: fixing them up and...
LESLIE: And even if they don't keep it,
they're going to love it for a while.
ROBBIE: What a day. What a day!
MIKE: Aaiiee! Woo!
LESLIE: Yeah, we had a heck of a day. [laughs]
ROBBIE: Wow.
LESLIE: That was great.
MIKE: Thank you for sharing stuff about your dad.
LESLIE: Thank you so much for coming.
RUSS: Thanks you, guys.
ROBBIE: Thank you, Russ.
MIKE: Oh y God.
MIKE: Leslie's father's determination, his passion,
his hard work, is what preserved all of these cars.
It's almost like he knew that's what his calling was.
I mean, yes there were Cadillacs that he drove,
but there were so many that he didn't drive.
That he just put away.
You know, put away for what, for him?
I don't think so.
He just put away for the world.
LESLIE: Thank you so much.
MIKE: Hey...
ROBBIE: Thank you so much. Thank you.
MIKE: As soon as I get that Eldorado running,
I'm going to take a video of it and send it to you guys.
RUSS: Good. Do it.
LESLIE: Hey, please do.
MIKE: Thank you, we will.
LESLIE: I would love it, I would love it.
ROBBIE: We'll do a little drag racing.
MIKE: Absolutely. Absolutely.
LESLIE: Alright.
MIKE: God blessthe Cadillac Man!
[honks horn]
[phone ringing]
MIKE: Dani D, what's up?
ROBBIE: What's up?
DANIELLE: How's it hanging, guys?
MIKE: It's hot as hell out here!
ROBBIE: 102 degrees right now.
DANIELLE: You guys are like desert lizards,
you'll be just fine.
ROBBIE: Yeah we are, we're like desert lizards.
DANIELLE: So I'm going to send you to meet Danny and Corrina.
Now their father passed away a few years ago,
but he was such a cool guy, he was a
3-time antique store owner.
MIKE: The guy had 3 different shops?
ROBBIE: 3...
DANIELLE: 3 different shops over his lifetime.
And then he took everything and he shoved it
into an old phone company that he bought.
MIKE: Dang!
ROBBIE: Dang.
MIKE: What kind of stuff does he have?
DANIELLE: He's got posters, records, toys,
just a ton of vintage.
MIKE: Send us the coordinates.
DANIELLE: Yeah, will do. Hydrate, stay cool out there.
I'll talk to you later.
MIKE: Alright.
ROBBIE: Thanks, Dani D.
MIKE: Peace out.
♪ ♪ ♪
MIKE: This place is coming up here on the right.
Right there.
ROBBIE: Right here, this blue building.
MIKE: Right here.
ROBBIE: Wow, it's big.
MIKE: It was a phone company.
ROBBIE: Huh.
MIKE: Alright. Flyer.
MIKE: Hey-hey!
DAN: Hey, can I help you?
MIKE: You guys, is it-are you Corrina? And Dan?
CORRINA: Yes, I'm Corrina. Yes.
DAN: Yeah.
ROBBIE: Dani sent us to come see ya.
DAN: Come on in.
CORRINA: Welcome.
MIKE: Hey-hey. Good to meet you, man.
DAN: Dan.
ROBBIE: Robbie. Nice to meet you.
CORRINA: Hi, I'm Corrina.
MIKE: Corrina, nice to meet you.
ROBBIE: Nice to meet you, Corrina.
How're you doing?
CORRINA: Nice to meet you uys. Good.
MIKE: Flyer.
ROBBIE: Dani said she talked to you guys.
MIKE: See, you got cast iron tubs...
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: You got the whole gamut here.
CORRINA: Yes, we have.
MIKE: So this was a phone company?
DAN: That's what we heard.
MIKE: No kidding.
DAN: Back in the '30s.
MIKE: Yeah, it's really cool.
Can we go in?
CORRINA: Yes. DAN: Yeah.
CORRINA: Help yourself.
MIKE: Oh wow.
CORRINA: Our dad's been collecting since
he was a teenager.
My grandparents were collectors also,
it was kind of in our family's blood.
MIKE: Doors, Doors, Madonna...
ROBBIE: Wow.
CORRINA: He started an antique business here
in [unintelligible].
MIKE: He was using this as a warehouse while
he had the antique shops?
CORRINA: No, he-he closed that down and
then bought this and he just started working out of here...
like on eBay...
MIKE: Okay, so he was selling out of here?
CORRINA: Um-hm.
MIKE: Okay. That's what I did for a very long time.
CORRINA: Yes.
MIKE: I had a building and it was
basically like a warehouse...
CORRINA: Um-hm.
DAN: Yeah.
MIKE: And people would call me.
That's kind of the way he's operating
a little bit right now.
CORRINA: Yeah.
CORRINA: After he passed away,
we opened that door,
you couldn't even see the floor,
it was probably what, 6 feet high?
DAN: Yeah. We've been working on it for the last 2 years.
MIKE: Oh you couldn't even walk in here.
CORRINA: Could not even walk through that door.
DAN: It was, it was this high.
ROBBIE: Piled.
MIKE: Really.
CORRINA: It was high. We made a path, and...
MIKE: So he wasn't... so he wasn't even working
in the building anymore then.
CORRINA: In the house he had a desk.
MIKE: Okay.
ROBBIE: Huh.
CORRINA: You know, we were both a little emotional...
MIKE: Yes.
CORRINA: 'cause we lost our dad.
So then we... when we finally got...
MIKE: Yeah.
DAN: We wanted to... respect our dad's legacy.
ROBBIE: Oh yeah. MIKE: Exactly.
CORRINA: Right, right. ROBBIE: Yeah.
DAN: 'Cause this was his life.
MIKE: Yes.
CORRINA: We remember seeing him here, you know.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
CORRINA: We'd come over and he'd be like, all in here...
MIKE: Is this, is this, is this something that he had done his
whole life to the point like, when you were very young,
you remember him doing this.
DAN & CORRINA: Yes.
CORRINA: He started as a teenager, him and his brother,
my uncle Bobby.
Going around town and looking for things they could sell.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
CORRINA: And then they just kind of got the,
got going on that...
MIKE: Uh-huh.
CORRINA: Then they started doing more.
MIKE: Their dad was a dealer.
His way of life became their way of life.
And out of respect for him, they didn't
just want to throw it all away.
So they wanted to go through each box, each piece,
and almost approach it from a forensic standpoint;
a forensic approach that was motivated
by their relationship with him.
ROBBIE: Hey, look at these. Bon Jovi.
MIKE: '80s.
ROBBIE: Yeah, '80s, L. A. Gun, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row.
MIKE: Oh yeah, it's bringing back the memories, man.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
Dan: [laughs]
ROBBIE: I mean, dude.
MIKE: Bringing it back. Look at that.
DAN: Is that a Rock'em Sock'em?
MIKE: This is an amazing... no this is...
ROBBIE: That's no, that's... it's missing...
MIKE: This is way before Rock'em Sock'em,
but it's missing a very large piece right here.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Would you sell this?
CORRINA: Yes.
MIKE: Okay.
I can see why he kept this around,
because it's an extremely hard piece to find.
And years ago, like let's say 25, 30 years ago,
even in this condition, this would have probably been...
at least $500.
ROBBIE: Oh yeah.
MIKE: The Japanese were driving that market, because these,
a lot of these toys were made over there
and they were buying them back.
Now something like this, if it was really clean and nice,
you know, it'd probably realize half of that.
DAN: Are you talking '20s, the '30s, '40s?
ROBBIE: No, no-no-no...
MIKE: No, this is '50s.
ROBBIE: It's '50s.
DAN: '50s.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Yeah.
MIKE: Golden Age of Sci-Fi from like late '30s to the late
'40s, there wee huge innovations in technology.
There was a focus on space travel.
And the robot was the ultimate manifestation of all of this.
MIKE: For... I mean, it's got such a ghostly look.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Almost kind of a Michael Myers look.
CORRINA: Right, oh yeah.
MIKE: You know, look at that.
CORRINA: Um-hm.
DAN: I see that.
MIKE: Tin wind-up and battery-operated robots
are extremely hard to find.
But if you find one, to this day, like this one,
it's still pretty much intact, missing a few pieces.
It's early sci-fi, it's early space race, you know,
it's in a time in America that will, God,
it will never come again. From the toys to the car you drove,
everything was inspired by the future.
MIKE: It's got some rust on it and stuff,
toy guys are very picky.
That's like a $75, $100 piece.
CORRINA: Right.
MIKE: That's what it's worth now.
I would do, like 65 bucks, in the condition it's in.
DAN: 75.
CORRINA: Can you do 75?
MIKE: I sure can. [laughs] I'm doing it.
I can tell you guys were hanging around your dad a lot.
CORRINA: Yes.
MIKE: This was his inventory, this was his warehouse.
And if you're going to make it in this business,
you got to buy a little bit of everything,
and that's what we're finding here.
ROBBIE: Whoa!
MIKE: What do you got, what do you got.
ROBBIE: Look at that.
MIKE: Oh yeah, there you go.
ROBBIE: Yeah...
MIKE: Cowboy piece.
ROBBIE: Range Rider.
Let's see if he still works.
MIKE: He doesn't do his little lasso though.
ROBBIE: The lasso's not moving, though.
I'm thinking 100 bucks.
CORRINA: He's missing his leg, we'll go 100.
MIKE: [laughs]
CORRINA: And if we find his leg, then I'll...
MIKE: He's missing a leg.
ROBBIE: Yeah, thank you.
MIKE: If you guys find a leg...
CORRINA: Yes, yes.
ROBBIE: Alright.
ROBBIE: When you start unearthing '30s and '40s toys.
It makes you wonder what else is in this collection.
It makes you want to dig deeper.
MIKE: Ugh, look at this.
This is a great piece.
So this is again battery -operated. And it's wood.
ROBBIE: Chris-Craft.
MIKE: Dual propellers. Engine cover gone.
35 bucks, I think it's like a 65, $70 piece.
CORRINA: I'll take 40.
MIKE: 40 bucks?
CORRINA: Yes.
MIKE: Are you sure?
CORRINA: Yes, I'm positive. 40.
MIKE: Final answer.
CORRINA: That is my final answer.
MIKE: [chuckles] Alright, we're doing it.
MIKE: Look at this dude, with the 8-track player.
It's a hard-to-find toy, it was only made for a few years,
so it's a 8 -track robot.
ROBBIE: And here's another one.
MIKE: I'd do 20 for the pair.
'Cause I think there's, is there only one tape?
ROBBIE: That's it.
MIKE: What do you think?
CORRINA: Would you do 30 and I'll throw in another tape.
MIKE: Another one of these tapes?
DAN: Yeah, it's a specific tape.
CORRINA: Oh it's a specific tape.
MIKE: Yeah.
I mean, I guess you could put Stranglehold,
Ted Nugent in here.
CORRINA: That's...
ROBBIE: Yeah, we could put the Marshall Tucker Band in one.
MIKE: [laughs] Alright, I'll tell you what,
I'll do 25 if you throw in the Marshall Tucker Band.
CORRINA: You got a deal. [chuckles]
ROBBIE: Alright. MIKE: Alright, let's do that.
MIKE: Hey, I found something motorcycle related.
ROBBIE: Oh look at that, sidecar fender.
MIKE: No, a Servi-Car. Servi-Car fender.
There's another one here.
DAN: So it was a sidecar?
MIKE: No, it was a Servi-Car.
ROBBIE: Well, it's a Servi-Car, basically that was a 3-wheeler.
MIKE: Harley -Davidson made the Servi -Car
from 1932 to 1972, which is basically a
3 -wheeled motorcycle with cargo space.
MIKE: Here we go...
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Look at that. So these are later fenders.
They made Servi-Cars for a very long time.
They started in like, the mid-'30s.
ROBBIE: All the way to '74 wasn't it?
MIKE: These are later fenders.
As you can tell by the type of taillight that went on them.
On the fenders and the rear wheel, 300 bucks.
You know, these are probably worth about,
to the right guy, 2 apiece.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: You know, Servi-Cars aren't real expensive
bikes unless they're really early.
The later stuff, like you can buy a complete bike...
DAN: Yeah.
MIKE: that sounds like a lot of money,
but in the Harley world it's not,
a complete bike for 10 grand.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
DAN: Yeah.
MIKE: You know.
ROBBIE: Running and driving.
MIKE: So 100, 100, and 100.300 bucks.
ROBBIE: 300 bucks.
DAN: What about 4?
MIKE: How about 350?
DAN: Deal.
MIKE: Do that?
CORRINA: I was thinking that. 350.
DAN: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright. I'll do 350. Alright, appreciate it.
This is where I found the stuff, Robbie.
MIKE: Outside, we're actually finding more stuff,
stuff that we can relate to.
ROBBIE: What's this?
DAN: It's a boat.
ROBBIE: A hole.
MIKE: Oh, there you go.
ROBBIE: This is Gilligan's Island's boat.
[group laughing]
ROBBIE: Huh.
MIKE: Hey, what was your dad's name?
DAN: Jim.
MIKE: Jim Fox?
DAN: Yeah.
MIKE: Did he have a fire in one of his shops?
DAN: Yeah, he had a shop downtown and it caught on fire.
MIKE: Okay, 'cause yeah,
he's got a sign that's half burned here.
And then he's got the big J. Fox.
DAN: Yeah.
MIKE: This is a pretty elaborate sign.
I mean, he did a good job on it.
CORRINA: Make us an offer and you know,
we have pictures of it, and it's just going to sit in here.
MIKE: The fact that their dad kept the signs from
his shop, even the burned out one,
really says a lot about the guy, you know.
That was a huge part of his life,
and these are artifacts from it.
And that's a really big deal.
If you're going to be a collector and a dealer,
you got to be a little bit of a romantic,
and you got to daydream a lot, 'cause you're always
daydreaming about finding something,
or cutting that next deal or uncovering this or that.
You know, so the shop was a big part of his life.
MIKE: So did he lose a tremendous amount of inventory?
DAN: Yes. MIKE: Wow.
DAN: Yes, like half of his store burnt.
CORRINA: In the '90s, he had one of his
shops downtown that burnt down,
and he had a big collection that he lost. It didn't slow
him down though, he just picked up from there and he relocated.
MIKE: I love the way that he branded himself.
CORRINA: Um-hm.
ROBBIE: This is gold.
MIKE: Because this is very big, bold, it's very masculine.
I'd do 200 on it.
It's not real old, but it's interesting to me.
So I think somebody would find it interesting as well.
CORRINA: Yes. I think 200's good.
MIKE: Okay. Shake her hand, Robbie.
CORRINA: 'Cause...
it'll put our dad's name out there, and...
MIKE: Okay.
CORRINA: And I think somebody will appreciate it.
MIKE: Yeah.
CORRINA: I can show you in this building over here,
this is the house.
ROBBIE: Yeah?
CORRINA: My dad never lived here,
but he started a lot of some of the good stuff in here.
ROBBIE: Alright.
CORRINA: So if you want to check it out.
ROBBIE: Wow.
ROBBIE: Some picks, everything is right out in
the open, where you can see it easily.
But this is one of those picks that's got layers to it.
MIKE: Pull that out, man, that looks like
it's out of Dracula's castle.
ROBBIE: It's kind of like an onion.
You got to peel the bad off the outside,
to get to the good flavor in the center.
MIKE: Okay, here we go.
So this is an early Stingray. '60s.
It's got the early handlebars on it, see how wide these are?
CORRINA: Right.
MIKE: These are the earlier version of the handlebars.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: It's missing the front fender.
It's got a 2-speed...
ROBBIE: Speed.
MIKE: kick back rear hub. [ch-ch]
MIKE: By the time I came round,
guys were chopping Schwinn Stingrays.
They were pulling the ape hanger handlebars off,
putting BMX handlebars on.
Or pulling the banana seat off,
putting that racing BMX saddle on.
We were making our bikes our own.
We were hot -rodding our bikes.
MIKE: That's a nice one.
That's a nice seat. Look at this...
ROBBIE: Front fender.
CORRINA: Alright.
MIKE: the front fender.
MIKE: Basically it all came back around.
What we were doing was, we were altering
the Stingray to make it into a BMX bike.
And the reason the Stingray was born,
is because kids were altering their bikes to change
it into something similar to the Stingray.
Schwinn saw that and realized there
was an opportunity there.
So there are tens of thousands of guys out there that are
directly connected to this bicycle, in one way or another.
MIKE: Look at that, look at that!
That's killer!
Oh my gosh.
So bicycle, with parts, and dog bowl, copper bowl.
2-and-a-quarter.
DAN: I got to back you up 25 bucks.
MIKE: Because of the dog bowl?
DAN: Because of the bike.
MIKE: Ugh... oh this was yours?
DAN: I had one just like it when I was a kid.
MIKE: Oh man... I know.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright, 2... 250?
DAN: Yeah.
MIKE: Figured the dog bowl's worth...
CORRINA: Right.
MIKE: to the right person,
if I can straighten it out a little bit, 50 bucks.
CORRINA: Yes. Yeah, it's cool.
MIKE: Alright. So we're good. 250.
MIKE: See this?
A little ride-on toy.
It says, 'first with the finest in television.'
So it's an old television truck.
I'd do... 75.
CORRINA: Okay, 75.
MIKE: [laughs] Alright.
CORRINA: Sounds good.
MIKE: I appreciate it.
CORRINA: I think Mike Wolfe is very attractive.
I just love his personality, and he is very attractive, yes.
[giggles]
ROBBIE: This was probably the sign that was out in front
of your dad's shop right there.
CORRINA: Exactly, I recognize it.
ROBBIE: 60 bucks.
CORRINA: 75?
ROBBIE: Uh... why-why is it, that...
every time you say something to my brother,
you're smiling at him, you're like, okay I'll do that.
DAN: [laughs]
ROBBIE: I'll do that.
CORRINA: I don't know...
[group laughing]
CORRINA: No.
ROBBIE: Alright, I'll pay the 75.
CORRINA: Rob was insinuating that I was
giving Mike better deals.
DAN: If you want a better deal, have Mike ask.
ROBBIE: Oh, I need to have my brother ask.
DAN: Yes.
MIKE: I see one piece here, that looks like to me,
like it came out of a train car.
A shelf on a train car. 50 bucks.
CORRINA: I was going to jump on that 'cause
it's been sitting there, and...
50 bucks is good.
MIKE: Alright, thank you guys.
Thank you.
ROBBIE: Hey Dan, wanted to ask you about this sign. 125.
DAN: I'm not even going to argue. 125 sounds good.
ROBBIE: Alright. Alright. Appreciate it, man.
Thank you.
MIKE: This... is a pretty incredible task light.
I mean, most of these were more utilitarian,
but this one has a glass shade.
And then also the way it's japanned.
MIKE: Japanning is basically a European
imitation of East Asian lacquer work.
MIKE: See the finish on it?
How it's kind of bronze in some places
and it's flashed everywhere?
That's called 'japaned.'
MIKE: Lacquering is a very involved process,
where japanning is a lot simpler.
It started with furniture, and then moved into metalwork.
It had a practical side, because it was kind
of like a rust-proofing.
MIKE: And then look at the length that it travels.
MIKE: The application on this lamp is for the look,
and it really sets it off.
CORRINA: This was his area to his desk.
I think that's one of the ones...
MIKE: Okay, this was your-this is where he
was working out of, right here?
CORRINA: Yes well, yeah, he had in this area where he worked.
MIKE: Actually, this is a neat one too.
CORRINA: Yeah.
MIKE: This is a glass shade as well.
CORRINA: Right, that was on his desk.
MIKE: And it's got an ornamental base.
CORRINA: Um-hm.
MIKE: For this light, and this one, I'd do 300.
And the way I'm figuring that is, 250 on this one,
and 50 on this one.
DAN: I mean, I knew that there was value there,
and I knew it was cool, but I didn't think it
was worth that much.
CORRINA: Can you do 325?
MIKE: [laughs] Okay. I'll take 325.
CORRINA: Thank you.
MIKE: Thank you. I appreciate you. I love it.
ROBBIE: Mike and I are constantly searching
for smalls for the shop.
Small items that people can take home with them.
We cannot get enough of them.
ROBBIE: This is an old radio.
Actually, it's not really the radio,
it's the transmitter that actually turns the radio on.
This would be, what, around 1930s, Mike?
MIKE: Yeah, '20s, '30s.
ROBBIE: Basically to find one of these intact,
with the original paint on it, and it's not all cracked up
and broken, almost virtually impossible.
ROBBIE: I found a couple of thermometers.
This one, I love anything tractor, and it's got,
I mean, I'm not Irish, but...
man, there sure are a lot of Irish guys out there.
And then this one right here...
ROBBIE: Advertising is one of those things that people
are always searching for.
ROBBIE: Another odd thing, it's a raven that's
actually looking to drink out of this glass.
He drinks it, he's having a good time,
and then he falls over.
CORRINA: Right.
ROBBIE: I love that. Um, 160 bucks for all of these.
CORRINA: Yes, I think so.
ROBBIE: Appreciate it.
ROBBIE: I would have never found this,
had I not moved 47 boxes to get to that hole.
MIKE: Okay, you grew up around the same time I did.
So your stereo was like your whole world,
you know what I'm saying?
DAN: Yep. In your house and in your car.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alright, here's one that I found that I
thought was really, really cool.
And you can see how heavy it is.
DAN: Marble?
MIKE: It's granite.
DAN: Oh. MIKE: Granite.
Think about it too, granite is heavy, so it's steady...
DAN: It's going to not...
MIKE: Yeah. There's no shake when you
really crank it up, when you're, you know, when you
want to blow your Klipsch.
DAN: Yeah.
MIKE: Or your, you know, RTR towers.
MIKE: Out of all the turntables on the shelf,
the reason I pulled this one off,
is because it's made out of granite.
So it played me just like it did when it was new, man.
The guy walking in the audio store, he's like,
what do I need, what's unique, what's different.
Everybody's got the same turntable.
And then boom - the granite Fred Flintstone model.
MIKE: Now I mean, I've seen people
asking 2,000 bucks for these.
DAN: Crazy.
MIKE: But usually see them, that need work,
around 500 bucks.
That's what people are asking for them,
that's what they're realizing.
I think it's really cool, I think it's unique,
I love that your dad saw value in it.
With having to go through it and everything,
I'd like to be at like 250 bucks on it.
'Cause the guy that's going to do this,
he's going to charge 75 to 80 bucks an hour
just to go through it.
You can't sell it and get good money out of it,
unless it works.
DAN: Unless it... I got to, I got to try
to get more money out of you, so 275.
MIKE: 275?
DAN: Instead of 250.
MIKE: [sighs] I'm a sucker for this stuff, man. I'd do 275.
DAN: Okay.
MIKE: I'd do it, man.
DAN: Cool.
MIKE: I think it's really cool.
DAN: Mike and Robbie and my dad were all
birds of the same feather, you know.
CORRINA: And I think my dad would be proud of us,
that we're taking it over and making something out of it.
ROBBIE: Man, what a day.
MIKE: I know.
ROBBIE: What a day.
CORRINA: Yeah.
MIKE: Ahh, there we go...
ROBBIE: I'll tell you what, your dad was a special guy.
I can sense it in everything around here.
Honestly, he was.
CORRINA: Yes.
ROBBIE: Dan and Corrina, they've got a little project
here ahead of them.
But I think they're well on their way.
MIKE: Your dad had a great eye.
CORRINA: Yes.
MIKE: And all this stuff, taking care of
you way beyond him.
ROBBIE: Yeah.
CORRINA: Yes, thank you.
MIKE: And that's a good thing.
CORRINA: I appreciate that.
MIKE: Alright, God bless you guys.
CORRINA: God bless you guys.
MIKE: See you down the road.
CORRINA: Yes.
DAN: Have a good one, be safe.
MIKE: Thank you.
CORRINA: Heyguys, wait!
You for-you forgot a sign!
ROBBIE: What?
CORRINA: You forgot something, the sign.
MIKE: [laughs]
ROBBIE: We forgot something?
CORRINA: You forgot the...
ROBBIE: I know!
CORRINA: Yes.
MIKE: [laughs] Sorry.
CORRINA: It's okay. Can't leave without that.
MIKE: Robbie! What are you doing!
ROBBIE: I don't know. God.
ROBBIE: Thank goodness for Danny and Corrina
waving us down before we pulled
all the way out of there.
I would have had my butt chewed had we gotten all the way back
to Iowa, and the sign was in California.
'Why didn't you load the sign?'
MIKE: [laughs]
CORRINA: 2 bucks.
MIKE: Thanks guys.
ROBBIE: Appreciate it. Thanks.
CORRINA: Thank you.
MIKE: Alright.
ROBBIE: Thanks.
MIKE: Alright, we'll see you down the road!
DAN: Alright.
CORRINA: Alright, thank you guys.
MIKE: Let us know if we forgot anything else!
CORRINA: Oh we will. You guys drive safe.
MIKE & ROBBIE: [laughs]
CORRINA: Bye guys.