- On tonight's episode, Corey and Chum uncover
a lot of lost inventory.
- Do you ever save anything for the pawn shop to sell?
- Yes, I do.
I take home a minimal amount of stuff.
- We're about to have an intervention about it right now.
- Hey, how do you part with such a stellar item?
So you have a rocket engine. - I do.
- It's really cool, right?
- And let me guess-- you got it from NASA.
- No.
And everyone knows how much
I flip for this sort of thing.
I love the whole Vegas theme here.
$3,000, I'll take it off your hands.
- Deal.
- You gotta have a lot of games in a game room, right?
- All right, we'll just pretend like we don't see
the very, very expensive painting
from the pawn shop either.
- But the crown jewel of my collection?
Well, maybe it could use a little more polish.
You like the paint job I did?
I messed up the hood a little bit.
I gotta redo that. But look at--
1962 Bahama blue.
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- Hey, how's it going? - Good. How are you?
- All right. This is pretty interesting.
A 7 Up cooler. Tell me where you got it.
- It was in my basement.
My ex-girlfriend left it there a while back when we broke up.
So I figured I'd bring it in here,
see what I can do with it.
- Super cool. I dig that.
That is, like, super retro.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- So you think the cooler's cool, Pops?
- I mean, matter of fact, I'm feeling cooler right now
just looking at it. - [chuckles]
- All right, I mean, it's a 7 Up aluminum cooler.
I mean, this is pretty old.
Do you have any idea about what year was made?
- 1950s. - Okay.
- You know what 7 Up was originally called?
- What?
- Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda.
- Mmm. Sounds yummy.
- They put this on the can, or--
- Apparently they did.
I mean, a couple years later, they changed it
to 7 Up Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda.
And then a few years after that, they said,
what are we doing? And then just called it 7 Up.
But no one knows exactly why they started calling it 7 Up.
But there's a bunch of theories.
- So why'd they make them out of aluminum
back then instead of steel?
- They made them out of aluminum
because it was kind of cool.
It was, like, the "in" thing in the '50s and the '60s.
And it was lightweight.
And also, it doesn't rust.
So it was a better choice for a cooler
that was gonna be wet all the time.
I mean, it's definitely collectible.
- It looks like it's a little rough, man.
It's seen its better days, though.
I mean, what's it gonna take to restore this thing?
- Not much.
A little polishing, a little paint.
I could probably sell it the way it is.
It really doesn't need to be restored.
And if it was gonna be restored,
I could do that myself in the garage.
- If you take it to your house to restore it,
you're gonna end up keeping it.
- How much do you want for the cooler?
- I was looking to sell it for about 400 bucks?
- No. - Okay.
- [chuckles]
- I'll give you 100 bucks for it.
- Um, $250?
- I'll make it very, very easy.
I'll give you 150 bucks, and not a penny more.
- All right, let's do $150.
- All right. Deal! - Thank you so much.
- We'll meet you right over there and get you paid.
- Thank you.
- That's cool.
♪
Hey, guys.
- You got some drinks in that cooler?
- No drinks in the cooler.
It's gotta be tagged and put on a shelf.
- All right.
- I kind of wanna bring it home, though.
You know what?
Put it on a shelf and I'll think about it.
Hand me my bag. I gotta go.
- That's your bag? - Yeah, that's my bag.
- It's a little fancy for you.
Where'd you get it?
- I think it was just in the back of my closet or something.
- Your closet doesn't grow bags.
- I forget where I got it.
- Pretty sure I bought that and a few others
at the event in Phoenix.
- It is a vintage leather bag.
I'm sure there's a lot of them out there.
♪
- Hello, sir.
- How are you doing? - Doing good. How are you?
- So tell me what you got here.
- Well, we got a pretty nice classic Louis Vuitton
monogram duffel bag.
The middle here, this is one of my favorite ones.
We got a later '80s, early '90s Christian Dior duffel bag.
Then on this end right here, we got a mid- to late-1980s
Louis Vuitton Epi leather duffel bag.
- Okay.
I don't know much about the history of Christian Dior.
I know Louis Vuitton started with the big steamer trunks
and stuff like that.
I mean, it's just one of those things where it says,
hey, I'm here, I've arrived, I'm doing well in life.
And that's kind of why this stuff is really expensive.
I'll tell you what. I got my friend Marko here.
Do you mind if I text him real quick and have him come down
and take a look at it? - Of course. Of course.
Do your thing.
- All right. He should be in just a second.
- Cool. Sounds good.
- Marko, what's up, man?
- Hey, what's up, Corey? I got your text. What's good?
- So tell me what you think.
You have a Louis Vuitton Epi leather,
which is, like, the subtle stunt.
You know, if you know, you know.
And if you don't, you got the little LV
right there to show you off.
It looks good.
Dior, I love this.
This is Galliano era.
So that's, like, around mid- to late-'90s.
A lot of people really love Galliano.
And I love this because it's such
a big size that it can definitely
be either a man or a woman.
And then, of course, the classic Louis bag.
I mean, this is timeless.
This is the Louis bag where you want people to know,
like, hey, I made it.
So it looks good.
It's got a little wear on the handles,
but that's where you want the wear
because it shows it was used.
Let's see how the inside is.
Got both zippers, got the serial numbers, made in France.
Everything looks great.
- So what do you think they're worth?
- I would say $700 for the Epi, $700 for the Dior.
And because it needs a little bit of TLC,
$500 for the monogrammed Louis.
- Okay.
Well, I appreciate you, man. - All right, man.
- I'll let you know if I get them.
- All right.
- What are you thinking for all three?
- $2,200 for everything. - $2,200.
Okay, so I'm not there.
I'm at $1,500 for all three.
- $1,650 and I'm out of your hair.
- All right. Sounds good, man. Take them over there.
They'll write you up. - Pleasure, pleasure.
Nice meeting you, Corey. - You too, buddy.
- Anyway, I'm thinking, guys,
my house, this weekend, barbecue.
We'll just hang out by the pool.
How's that sound? - I just bought a new floatie.
I'll definitely come. - So what are we eating?
- We'll do hamburgers, maybe some hot dogs, potato salad.
- Maybe some ribeye?
- No.
Potato salad, macaroni salad, just the standard stuff.
- I want something expensive.
I have extravagant flavor buds.
♪
- Just, like, show up for the barbecue, guys?
- Can we at least have cheeseburgers?
- I'll get cheese.
All right, talk to you guys later.
I get to go home early.
♪
- What up? I brought a watermelon.
Could you give me some help? - Sure.
- What's up with Mike? - Uh, picked it up.
I thought it'd be fun when I have people over
the house, maybe parties and stuff like that,
so it can greet people.
- I mean, it's pretty cool, but, uh--
I remember buying that.
- You bought that?
- Yeah, with the pawn shop's money.
♪
So what do you have here?
- Well, it's a life-size of Mike and Sulley
from "Monsters, Inc."
- Well, I didn't need the nameplates to know that.
So they're pretty cool.
I mean, right away, we obviously know
the movie "Monsters, Inc."
2001 is when this movie came out.
Mike and Sulley were two monsters.
Basically they were part of the power company
with a bunch of other monsters, and they had to scare the kids
to create the power for the city.
And as the movie progresses, they realize
they can produce more power by making the kids laugh.
So it has a good moral value in it,
but they don't look like they fit under the bed.
- [laughs] Definitely not.
- So where did you get them?
- Well, my husband bought them from somebody who
had them for their playroom.
But I don't have room for them, so I need to sell them.
- I really love the Mike, but Sulley's really cool
because he's, like, covered in fur.
And when you touch him, he's just--
- Soft. - It's really soft.
- I actually think that he smiles
kind of like you, Chumlee.
- He is alarmingly attractive. What can I say?
- [laughs]
- It's funny to think that this is a Steve Jobs movie, right?
Most people don't even realize that.
Pixar was created by Steve Jobs,
and he actually had this idea to bring these characters
from the movie to life, so called up a company
named Idea Planet, and this is the kind of stuff
they came up with.
These ones probably don't talk, I don't think.
But they did have some models that
you could actually interact with.
Pretty cool.
So how much are you looking to get for these?
- I was hoping for $4,000 for the pair.
- Okay, there is a market of these selling,
and the last Sully sold for around $2,500,
and the last Mike sold for around $700.
- Okay.
- Would you take $2,000 for them?
- Could you do $2,500?
- I'm really firm at $2,000.
I was thinking about offering you $1,500,
but I figured, like, I kind of do want them,
so I was just coming in with my solid price.
- Well, because of the likeness between you two,
I think I'll do that.
- It looks like I got a new buddy.
Thank you. - You're welcome.
- You can go to the counter right there
and they'll get you paid. - All right. Thank you.
- Thank you.
Pretty cute.
Speaking of cute, should we go swimming?
I brought my own towel.
I didn't think you'd have clean ones.
- It looks like you're gonna do a lot of floating.
- Yeah, I am.
♪
I really like what you've done with the place, Rick.
♪
- You know, I mean, I've had the place for a couple years.
I'm just trying to make it more Rick-ish.
- That's a little alarming, I gotta admit.
- [laughs]
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- What's up, Big Hoss? - What's up, bud?
I brought chips and buns. - Okay.
- Corey, I gotta give it to your dad.
He's doing a lot better with his decorating skills
these days.
The house is actually coming together.
Especially love "The Wasp Woman."
It goes perfect in the house.
- Pawn shop motif, I guess?
- Well, no.
I mean, just--I thought it was really amazing,
so I framed it up and put it on the wall.
- Wait, you're telling me that's from the pawn shop?
- And so is that?
♪
- What do we have here?
- Three movie posters from the 1950s.
- These are amazing. Corey, come and check this out.
- What's up?
- Really cool posters from really bad movies.
This is incredible.
I mean, this is classic mid- to late-1950s,
super inexpensive horror flicks.
- Okay, so you're telling me people
paid to go see "Wasp Woman?"
- Yes.
I think they're amazing. How much you want for them?
- I'm thinking $7,500?
- Okay, this--this is kind of a specialized, weird thing.
Some of this stuff was re-released in the '60s.
So we have to find out if these are
the original ones from the '50s or if they're from the '60s.
But my buddy Andy is actually helping me out here today.
He does all posters, so he'll probably
know everything about them.
Let me go find him. - Okay.
- Be right back.
- No kidding.
This is an incredible collection.
"Wasp Woman," "Bride of the Monster,"
and "The Astounding She-Monster."
That's fantastic too.
So all of these appear to be mid- to late-'50s
from the Changes era, which comes right after
the Golden era of film.
It's basically the movie theaters
doing everything they can to compete with television.
And all of these are quintessential
of that time period.
- Okay, so are these the original posters?
They're not reprints?
- These look authentic to me.
I'm so thrilled to see them in person.
- Okay. What are they worth?
- Honestly, Rick, I think as a group, there's more value.
It's an instant collection.
So I would think you have $6,500 worth of posters
sitting here as a collection. - Okay.
This price isn't terrifying.
[laughs] - Is it not astounding?
[laughter]
- All right. Well, thanks, man.
- Happy to help. Any time. Take care. See you.
- Thank you very much. - Yeah, my pleasure.
- Okay. So you heard from him.
He thinks it's worth, like, 6,500 bucks.
And if I do buy them off you, I gotta invest more money
because I gotta put frames.
And that stuff's not cheap,
especially for something like that.
But I'd give you $4,000 for them.
- Can't go that low.
Could you do $6,000?
- No. I'll make it short and simple.
I'll go 4,500 bucks, not a penny more.
- All right, I'll do $4,500. - All right, sweet.
We got a deal, man.
You wanna bring them up front?
- Yeah. Meet me right over there, man.
So there's one, two. Where's the third?
Because you obviously have the third somewhere.
- That's in Oregon. It's at the ranch.
- Do you ever save anything for the pawn shop to sell?
- Yes, I do.
Not everything in here and on the walls is from the shop.
- I specifically remember Blondie over there
coming in a huge rock 'n' roll collection.
♪
- Hey, Rick. How are you doing?
- Hey, you must be Richard? - That's me.
- And you have the Hard Rock collection.
- I sure do. They're all in the back.
Come on. Follow me. I'll show them.
- I mean, you got all the photos?
- I do.
So here it is.
- Whoa.
That's absolutely amazing, Deborah Harry.
Absolutely. Blondie.
- Is that Michael Jackson
playing basketball as a little kid?
- Absolutely.
These are unpublished, limited-edition prints
by Neal Preston.
And yeah, the Hard Rock got their hands on it.
It's amazing. - I mean, it's just incredible.
So you acquired all this from the Hard Rock.
- I did. I have 50 pieces.
- And how much do you want?
- I want $150,000 for them.
- Okay.
That's a lot of money.
I wanna call somebody down to take a look at these
and just make sure everything's legit.
♪
So the Hard Rock collection, he wants $150,000...
- Ooh! - For 50 pieces.
This is probably the most incredible stuff right here.
What do you think?
- $150,000 is a lot of money on one hand.
On the other hand, I mean, have you ever seen
anything like that of Michael Jackson before?
These by themselves could easily be $40,000.
- Okay.
So if I buy all of these 50 pieces
and I sell them individually,
I can probably sell them within a year?
- I'd say that's fair.
- How much do you think I'll get retail?
- $200,000. - Okay.
- Maybe I'll pick up a piece off of you.
It's fantastic. - Thanks, man.
- Congratulations on the collection.
It's really cool. - Thank you so much.
- So you've been in the art business for a while?
- I have.
- Okay, there's not a gallery in the world that would pay
$150,000 for $200,000 worth of art
that's going to take them a year to sell.
So this figure should be right around $90,000.
- Let's come up to $130,000.
- Most of the stuff I've gotta reframe.
$95,000?
- How about $100,000?
- [sighs]
- Well, I guess I'm gonna pay you 100 grand then.
- Thank you so much.
- I'm gonna go call my shop.
I'm gonna get the van down here.
I'll get you paid.
- Great. - Thanks a lot, man.
I really appreciate it.
- You're very welcome, Rick. - This is incredible.
Now the only hard part is not taking it all home
and putting it on my walls.
- Aren't you a little old for girls you had a crush on
to be hanging them on your wall?
- [chuckles]
- Are we gonna have a barbecue or what?
- I am pretty hungry.
- Let's put some stuff on the grill.
- All right.
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- Well, guys, I got burgers.
I got some ribs.
I got, like, chips and some salsa.
- What's--what's up with the duck?
- It's an old duck and it's an antique,
and I think it's really cool.
- Obviously, it's from the pawn shop.
♪
- Hey, how's it going? What do we have?
- We have a pottery duck from Colima, Mexico.
- All right.
Pops, do you know anything about ducks
from Colima, Mexico?
- Um, a little bit.
You liked rubber duckies when you were a kid.
Filled the bathtub up with them.
He had a blast with them when he was, like, three.
[laughs]
Actually, I think it's kind of cool.
It looks old.
It looks like the pottery they made,
like, a couple thousand years ago.
The Indigenous people of Mexico were incredible artists
when it came to pottery.
I think it's kind of amazing.
How much are you looking to get out of this?
- About $4,000.
- Okay, it's got me intrigued because
it could be very, very old.
But it's in incredible condition,
which is kind of scary.
I'd like someone to look at it, if you don't mind.
- Not at all. - Can you give Bob a call?
I have a friend who will know a lot about this, all right?
What's up, Bob? How are you doing?
- Hi there. How are you?
That is quite the duck.
Can I take a look at it?
- Yeah, go right ahead.
- One of the things that I'm noticing,
it's got the burnishing lines.
So they would use a stone,
and they would polish this extensively
before it would go in the kiln.
Got nice manganese blooms, but I see a repair here.
I see that there are repairs in the body.
They're almost invisible.
So whoever restored this, they did a fabulous job.
- So you think this is 100% real?
- Yeah, 100% real, 300 B.C. to 300 A.D., ancient.
- So what's it worth?
- It's authentic, it's old, it's rare.
It's stunning.
$8,000.
- Okay.
- Well, Bob, I appreciate you coming down.
- My pleasure.
- So you want $4,000 for it.
I mean, I'd give you $4,000 because it does
take a long time to sell it.
- Okay. Awesome. - You wanna go write her up?
- I'll meet you up over there. - All right.
- And he's gonna pay her in $100 bills.
[chuckles]
- How much did that cost the pawn shop?
- But don't you think it's cool?
- It's really cool.
I wanna put a dollar price on how cool it is.
- I thought we were just gonna have a barbecue,
kick back, go swimming.
- We're just enjoying Rick's unofficial museum.
I'm starting to think he pulled a bunch of stuff out
because me and Corey were coming over for a barbecue,
because you have two random tables over there
with two random items on it.
So go ahead.
Give me the story behind the book.
The standalone book over here, it's obviously a decoration.
- No, actually, I was just reading that book last night.
I did not get that in the pawn shop.
- So what is the book about?
- It's the book about a judge,
and he tried witches and stuff like that.
And it's got, like-- - Wait, wait, wait.
I remember you buying a book like this.
- I bought it years and years ago.
- It was at the pawn shop.
♪
- Hey, how can I help you? - Hi.
I have a book for you to look at today.
- Okay.
- "On the Tryal of Witches." - "On the Tryal of Witches?"
- Printed in London in 1716.
- Oh, that's great. This is about?
- About a witch trial in 1662
that later formed the basis
of the Salem witch trials in the 1690s.
- So how much are you looking to get out of it?
- I'm asking $2,500 for the book.
- Okay.
I have no idea if that's a good price or not.
Do you mind if I have someone look at it?
- Absolutely, yeah. Would love to.
- Hey, Rick.
- Rebecca.
So we have a book on witches.
- Ooh. Think about it.
If I lived in the 17th century,
I would have been called a witch.
[laughter]
- Don't cast a spell on me.
- [chuckles]
So this trial right here was a landmark case
because Cotton Mather used this as the authority
to say we will use spectral evidence
in the Salem witch trials. - Okay.
So what do you think it's worth?
- This is in okay shape.
So you have the rebind, which is not the end of the world.
And then, of course, you have the 1716 imprint here,
which tells me, too, this is not the first edition.
This was printed after the Salem witch trials, right?
So we know that first edition is gonna be more desirable
because we know that's the edition that influenced
the Salem witch trials. - Correct.
- So as far as value goes,
I would place this particular copy
around $1,500 to $1,600.
- Okay. - Okay?
- Okay.
Thanks. You're the best. - You're welcome.
- Pleasure. Nice meeting you.
- So what do you want now?
- $1,250.
- I'll give you 900 bucks for it.
- How about $1,100?
- I'll do 1,000 bucks.
♪
- All right, I'll do $1,000. - Sweet.
I will meet you right over there.
We'll do some paperwork and I'll get you paid.
- All right. Sounds good. Thank you.
- Well, I know. But I bought it years ago.
And I thought it was really, really cool.
- You do know that there are other places
to get decorations besides your place of employment?
- I have a different way of decorating than most.
- What is this?
An engine for a carburetor or something?
- That's a NASA rocket engine.
- And let me guess-- you got it from NASA.
- No.
- So you got it from the pawn shop.
- Um...
♪
- Howdy.
- Hey, what do we got here?
- I have a rocket engine that was used
to train the astronauts before they landed on the moon.
- So you have a rocket engine.
- I do.
- That's really cool.
This right here was a major, major part of NASA,
and it was never really talked about that much.
They had this crazy vehicle.
It simulated the moon's gravity,
which is a lot less than ours.
Now, somewhere over here, there was a tank
of 90% hydrogen peroxide.
And somewhere past that was probably a nitrogen tank
with, like, a few thousand pounds PSI.
And right around here, there was a valve.
And they would open that up, and it would shoot
hydrogen peroxide down there.
When you have that pure of hydrogen peroxide,
it immediately reacts, and creating 500 pounds of thrust.
Okay, so right here we have?
- That's actually the paperwork that came with this engine
that was issued by NASA.
And it has the vehicle number.
And if you look, the paperwork correlates with this tag.
- It's epic.
I'll give you that.
How much do you want for it?
- $20,000.
- I'll give you 10 grand for it.
- I would be hesitant to let it go at that price.
I'll counter with $16,000.
- I mean, the thing is, I have no idea what this thing
is gonna sell for.
I'll take a shot at $11,000.
♪
- Congratulations.
You've got yourself an artifact.
- So we got a deal. - Yeah.
- All right. I'll meet you right over there.
We'll do some paperwork and I'll get you paid.
- Okay. Thank you.
- I mean, like I said, conversation piece,
and we're having a conversation about it.
- We're about to have an intervention about it
right now.
Dad, we really need a NASA rocket thing in your house?
No one knows what that is but you, buddy.
I'm saying we could sell it.
- But it's a great conversation piece.
- Yeah, because you like to talk a lot, Dad.
That's okay.
- I might miss the rocket engine.
- You won't miss it when I sell it.
- All right, fine.
Let's just--let's get the food together.
I'm hungry. - All right.
Pre-made patties, here we come.
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♪
- What are you doing?
- Putting some seasoning on the burgers.
- Your dad needs help.
He's seasoning these burgers
like they're chicken, steak, and fish.
- Yeah, he needs help.
You wanna come check out what I found in the garage?
- What's in the garage?
- Pretty much almost everything
that we've been looking for forever.
You just you wanna come check out the garage real quick?
- Hopefully the garage is not as bad as his seasoning skills.
- Do people put cinnamon on hamburgers?
♪
- Look at all this stuff.
What's he need a motel sign for?
- I'm guessing this motel sign probably
came from the shop, Rick?
- Well, remember when we were in Austin?
- Yeah?
- Bought an old sign, restored it.
- Yeah. To sell.
- Well, I wanted to make sure it works well.
It's a neon sign.
They're supposed to last for years, right?
- All right.
- So I'm checking to see if it'll last for years.
♪
Okay, I'm intrigued. - Hi.
- Where did you get this?
- I bought it at an antique shop.
Apparently, it was used in a movie called "Hitcher,"
the remake.
All right, um, creepy movie with a motel.
- Yes, of course. - [laughs]
How much you want for it?
- I would like $6,000.
- All right.
Let me and my buddy take a look at it.
- Okay. - Todd.
- All right. - Creepy horror motel sign.
- Oh, good. All right.
- What do you think?
- This is porcelain, which is a real plus.
Porcelain signs are really desirable.
And it needs to be cleaned up, polished, new hardware,
new neon, transformer.
In its current condition, I'd say it's worth
$5,000 all day long. - Okay.
How much would the new neon and,
like, cleaning it up cost me?
- It would be about $2,500 to get it looking really nice.
- All right, so I gotta make money.
- Yes. I know. - Okay?
Will you take 3 grand for it?
- I would take 3 grand for it.
- We got a deal. 3 grand.
Just go right inside and I'll get you paid.
- Perfect. Thank you.
♪
Todd. - Good to see you, buddy.
- You got some cool stuff in here.
- This is my art.
But my new popular piece is right behind you here,
and I can't wait to show it to you.
- I love it. - So ta-da.
- It's got horror flick written all over it.
- You rung me out.
I was here till midnight last night working on this thing,
but we got it working. - Okay.
- So you have the choice.
You can do this, or you can do...
[electricity crackling]
Super horror. - [laughs]
- [growls]
You would not stop at this motel if you're driving.
- No, no, no, no.
- Someone's gonna get stabbed at this motel.
- I think it's absolutely amazing.
- Well, thank you.
- I'd almost hang it in my house,
but I'm afraid if I brought a date over,
it might creep her out at first.
[laughter]
- Well, clearly, that's attached to the wall.
So I guess that means it's not going anywhere.
- Correctamundo.
- Now, why? Just tell me why?
- Remember, we got that in Saint Paul?
I was in the warehouse the other day.
I'm noticing the brake cable was a little messed up,
so I brought it home to fix it.
- You could have fixed that in the warehouse.
You know that.
At the end of the day, Rick, it's your pawn shop,
but it's hard for me to make you money
if you don't let me sell the good stuff.
- I know, but like, it's fun to ride around on.
♪
All right. I absolutely love it.
It's a Honda ATC 70 utility vehicle.
What year is it? - It's an '85.
- Okay.
Where did you get this?
- I bought it from a buddy of mine that lives about an hour
away, and he is obsessed with trikes, bikes, everything.
- Yeah, someone has obviously modified
the hell out of this thing. - Yeah.
- I mean, yeah, there was a million
little accessories for them.
You could literally turn them into a snowmobile
if you wanted to. - Yeah.
- Now, the big question. How much you want for it?
- I bought it $4,500 brand new, but it was in mint condition.
- It looks like it's been beat up a little bit.
- Oh, I had fun with it.
I had tons of fun with it.
So $2,400?
- I'll give you 1,500 bucks.
- $1,800.
- We'll make this simple.
We'll just settle at 1,700 bucks
and we'll have a great day?
- $1,700 and you don't sue me for having a good time.
- You got a deal. [laughs]
Sweet.
Just walk right over there. They'll get you paid.
- You know, the pawn shop's not a library.
You can't just keep checking stuff out.
- You know what? I like it.
It's kind of cool in my garage.
- So are we gonna talk about the obvious elephant
in the room?
- Talking about this?
This is one of my childhood dream cars, all right?
Remember when we did the whole Route 66 thing
and I found the Karmann Ghia?
♪
Hey, James. How's it going?
- Hey, fellas. What's going on, Rick?
- This is the car you're so excited to see.
- This is an incredible car.
When I was a kid, every guy wanted one of these things.
Super easy to work on, great gas mileage.
- You know, the fact that it's actually a convertible,
finding one in this condition,
this is a diamond in the rough, right here.
- George, is this thing all original?
Have you done anything to it?
- I haven't done anything to it.
I got it just the way it is.
- Can we take it for a test spin real quick?
- Sure. Let's do it.
♪
[engine turns over]
[laughter]
- Wow.
[chuckles]
♪
Actually, it runs really, really good.
- It reminds me of the little go-karts when you're riding
at the racetrack.
♪
- The tire's rubbing on the fender or something there.
- There's rubbing, but it's not, like, horrible.
- Little cosmetic things on it, but it's got good roots to it.
Yeah, she's got her issues, but she's all right.
Let's hope this guy'll deal a little bit.
♪
[chuckles]
Brakes are good.
[laughs]
- So how was it? - It was great.
There's a few issues.
The front tire rubs when you go around a corner.
- It's got some bodywork and stuff,
and we found some spots with Bondo
and some stuff's cracking.
- So, James, what do you think it's worth?
- There's a lot of little stuff
we're gonna have to change on it.
Changing the motor, changing the tranny out,
at least six months of restoring it.
I'd say tops $11,500.
- Okay.
What will you take for it?
- I can do 12 grand on it.
- Can you do $11,000?
- I don't know, man. I think $12,000 is fair.
- How much do you love it, Rick?
- $11,800?
- I think $11,900 sounds great.
- But you know what? $11,800 sounds better.
- To you? [laughter]
Not to me.
- Can we settle on $11,800?
- I guess we can do the $11,800.
- $11,800. It's a deal. - All right.
Look at all the work I've done to this.
You like the paint job I did?
I messed up the hood a little bit.
I gotta redo that. But look at--
1962 Bahama blue.
- All right.
Rick, it's about time to eat some burgers.
But first, can we go rinse them off and re-season them?
- I'm telling you, you're gonna--
like, try something new, Chum.
- I'm gonna show you how to season a piece of meat.
- I'll tell you what, we'll cook mine,
and then we'll cook some other ones you did,
and we'll see whose is better.
- No competition.
[upbeat rock music]
♪
- Hey, Pops.
Thought you only had one pinball machine.
- No, I got multiple pinball machines.
- Where did this one come from?
- San Francisco.
♪
- Hey, hey, Rick. Welcome to Free Gold Watch.
- I think I just entered paradise.
I love this. - All right.
- You got a huge collection here.
♪
- Yeah, we got about 60 machines here.
Definitely the largest collection in San Francisco.
- Okay.
And you said you had some for sale?
- Yeah, no, we have a few games here for sale.
Follow me this way.
Here is the "Pirates of the-- is it "Cuh-rib-be-an"
or "Care-ih-bee-an?" [chuckles]
- Pinball machine looks cool.
I mean, you got a lot going on there.
- Absolutely.
This game right here is one of the--
where they crammed almost as many toys and features
as they possibly could.
You have this ship that rocks back and forth.
And then if you lock a ball into that back sector there,
it puts it into a cannon and fires the ball across.
Yeah, there's a lot going on with this game.
- So the price is?
- $27,000.
- Arr. That's a little much.
What else we got?
[laughter] - Let me show you over here.
This brings us to a really cool machine, the Riverboat Gambler.
- I love the whole Vegas theme here.
Kind of cheesy,
but I'm from Vegas, and we embrace cheesy.
- Okay. [laughter]
I like that. - So does it work?
- Absolutely it works.
- Let me test this thing out. - All right.
Press that Start button. - All right.
- Welcome aboard. [boat whistle blowing]
[laughter]
Whoo!
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Whoo! Ooh.
- [laughs] - I'm not this bad.
I am not this bad. - [laughs]
- Well, I'm super impressed with it.
So how much you want for it?
- $3,400. - Okay.
Not $2,500?
- Maybe I'd go as low as $3,200?
- I'll make it easy.
$3,000 and I'll take it off your hands.
- $3,000 out the door. Deal.
- All right, sweet. We got a deal.
- You got it. - Okay.
You gotta have a lot of games in a game room, right?
- All right, we'll just pretend like we don't see
the very, very expensive painting
from the pawn shop either. - It's a Maurice Sendak.
Remember?
Years ago, I bought a whole collection of it.
And it's one of the biggest deals I ever did.
But we still have a couple left,
so I just figured it'll be part of my rotational art.
- That's a very expensive piece of rotational art.
♪
- Hi, Rick. - Hey. How's it going?
- Good. How are you? - Good.
- Wait till you see this. These are sensational.
These are amazing illustrations
from "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak.
This is totally amazing. - Oh, that's--
- That is cool.
Even today, I mean, every kid loves this book.
- I agree with you 100%.
- He was the little boy who got sent to bed
without dinner because his mother told him
he was being a wild thing.
- Exactly.
- They're just incredible. I mean, I love these.
"Where the Wild Things Are," it was one of Maurice Sendak's
earliest books, written and actually
illustrated as well.
These are all original illustrations.
Everything is one of a kind.
- These are amazing.
It was the greatest book ever written.
So how much you want for them? - Well, that's a good question.
I mean, these works are really priceless.
What I would value the collection at
is about $375,000.
- Whoa.
I have an art expert I work with.
So let me call my buddy. - Okay.
- And we'll go from there.
- Okay. You got it.
- Hey, what's up, man? - Hey. Good to see you.
- Chad. Good to see you. - Nice to see you.
Aw, there it is.
Wow.
These are great.
He's just a international cultural phenomenon.
He's done an opera.
He's done a play.
He's done a movie.
But, I mean, the book is, of course,
the cornerstone of everything.
It's just really great.
- So, I mean, just-- seriously, though.
I mean, what can I pay and still make money?
- So there's 12 images total.
Realistically, I think you can probably get
about $310,000 to collectors. - Okay.
[exhales] Okay.
I'll let you know what happens. - All right.
Good luck to you.
- See you later, Chad.
♪
- I think they're amazing.
I'll tell you what.
I'll give you 200 grand.
- That's low.
I could do, like, $300,000.
- I'll give you $240,000.
- How about $250,000?
- Um...
[sighs]
I can't believe I'm doing this, but, um, you got a deal.
- Awesome. Congratulations. - Sweet!
It's, like, one of the coolest things I've ever bought.
It's, like, one of my favorite childhood books.
It reminds me of it.
- So you just keep it in here to remember
how great you are at making deals?
If you don't mind, I'd like to rotate
some art around my house.
- No. No, that's--you can't do that.
I feel like if you guys are the FBI
and you're searching my house.
Can we please go eat some food, guys?
- I actually would love to go eat right now
because this unofficial museum of Rick's
is getting a little overwhelming.
- All right, let's go have the burgers, all right?
- Yes, please.
- I don't know if I'm gonna have a burger.
I think I'll just have a bun with some ketchup on it.
- [chuckles]
[upbeat rock music]
♪
- Well, I got burgers.
♪
- All right.
- Are you ready? - Yeah. Put me one right here.
- Okay. There we go.
- Throw one on there Pop.
♪
- There you go.
- Rick, you know, I saw everything
you put on these burgers,
but I can't quite pin down one of the flavors.
- Cinnamon.
Makes it taste a little different, doesn't it?
- Cinnamon.
I'm too hungry to care.
- I need to get some more pepper.
- Those look familiar. - What?
- Kromex salt and pepper shakers I bought?
- These are from the pawn shop? - Yeah.
There's a whole set of canisters and everything
that I bought. It's all Kromex.
♪
Hey, how's it going? - Good. How are you?
- This is Kromex, right? - It is.
Kromex aluminum spice rack and kitchen canisters.
- I believe this is from the early '50s, right?
- Around 1957. - Okay, definitely pretty cool.
At one point, aluminum was one of the most expensive
metals in the entire world.
Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America,
made a new way to make aluminum,
and it made it a whole lot cheaper than steel.
So Alcoa, they were just gonna get in the housewares market
and create a product called Kromex.
It was a really good product.
It was something that kind of revolutionized
the whole industry here, but lasted only a few years.
They had the right idea.
I just don't think they had the people to make it really work.
- Right.
- Was it still in the original boxes or anything
like that when you got it?
I mean--because it looks brand new.
- Yeah, it was.
- Don't you wish you would have kept them?
- I really do. [chuckles]
- So what are you trying to get out of it?
- I'd like to get around $725?
- $725.
That isn't too far away from what
I think I can get out of it.
I can do $500.
- Okay. I think that's fair.
- All right, cool. We got a deal.
Meet me over there and we'll do some paperwork, okay?
- Awesome. Thank you.
♪
- You don't look like a pink salt and pepper shaker guy.
- It's Kromex. It's cool.
- As a matter of fact, I think that potato salad
came out of the fridge at the pawn shop.
- The potato salad did not come from the pawn shop.
- Good. [chuckles]
I think what's going on here, the word for it is "hoarder."
- I am not a hoarder.
- I think you are. - No.
I--people who hoard stuff hoard worthless stuff.
All my stuff is, like, cool.
- Like this?
[chuckles]
- Okay. All right, I'll admit.
That's been sitting around the pawn shop for years.
It never sold.
So I figured when people are over at the house
and we're in the backyard, we're having a barbeque
and playing in the pool and stuff like that,
maybe people could have fun trying to rope the plastic cow.
- How many times have you practiced roping on it?
- I haven't yet.
- Do you just call up your old buddies
and be like, hey, guys, wanna go rope
the fake calf in my backyard?
- [chuckles]
♪
- So this is what you're talking about, Chum?
- Yeah.
[mooing]
- You must be Kimi. - I am.
- There it is, Rick.
- Okay. That is different. [laughs]
- Yes. Come on down and I'll show you.
- Okay.
- This is Shorty. - Okay.
- He's a roping steer.
He mostly works on concrete or something solid
because he just spins his wheels in the dirt.
- And Sparky III there-- [laughs]
- Sparky III, he's also mechanical.
Runs off of a remote.
You rope the head, you turn him off,
and the heeler comes around and ropes the feet.
And you can do practice runs on him.
- Okay.
So can we see this thing work?
- You absolutely can.
You ready? - I'm all ready.
- All right.
- [laughing]
♪
- Told you it was cool, Rick.
I knew you'd love these.
- All right, I'm impressed. It's pretty cool.
And so, this thing is sorta like the same thing?
- It is.
It's a lot of fun for kids learning
position when you're roping.
So when a kid comes out or an adult--
whichever, because it's fun for all...
♪
That's horns.
And that's what you wanna catch.
- This is definitely cool.
So how much do you want for these?
- For the big one, $4,000.
And for the little one, $800.
- Okay.
- I gotta say, the big one, Pops?
That's a little much for us.
- [laughs]
This one right here is pretty cool, though.
What do you think? - I think it's great.
I'll give you 400 bucks for Shorty.
- Okay.
- 400 bucks, we got a deal? - Yep.
- All right. Thanks.
You're amazing.
I'll get you paid.
You guys load it up.
- All right.
♪
- You gotta admit, it's getting excessive
that everything you have is from the pawn shop.
- No, I--no.
It might look at a lot of stuff at first glance,
but it's a big house,
and everything sort of goes together.
- Can you pass me a water, Big Hoss?
- Yeah.
Oh, so you already took this home.
♪
- What?
You really expect that to come in the pawn shop
and me not take it home?
It is, like, one of the coolest coolers
I've ever seen in my entire existence at the pawn shop.
I had to have it. - Hoarder. [chuckles]
All right, well, I'm ready for some pool time.
I brought a floatie, and I plan on doing some floating.
- All right, I'll go get my swimming trunks on.
- I'm gonna go check his room
and see what other stuff from the pawn shop--
- My room is off limits.
- I don't think you wanna go in his room.
[chuckles]