MIKE: Okay, so this guy's 90 years old.
He was an eye doctor. Well, he was an eye surgeon.
JERSEY JON: That's cool. MIKE: Yeah, very technical.
So, that's the way his collection is too.
It's very scientific. He has a lot of smalls,
a lot of very fragile pieces.
He's got some really cool microscopes,
I saw photos of those.
Like the early ones, you know what I'm saying?
JERSEY JON: Now I see why I'm on this pick
instead of Robbie. MIKE: Why?
JERSEY JON: Because, like... Mike, come on.
I can see Robbie, like, dissecting a frog
and then eating its legs. (Mike laughs)
JERSEY JON: No? MIKE: Yes, okay!
JERSEY JON: Sergeant Slaughter would be breaking the stuff.
(Mike laughs)
MIKE: I mean, Robbie, he knows his stuff.
But you know, he's more petroliana,
he's more signs, he's more cars.
You're just a little bit more... you got more spring in your step
when it comes to science.
JERSEY JON: I love science, man. I'm all about it.
(upbeat country music)
MIKE: You know this is going to be a serious pick
when it's on gravel, baby. JERSEY JON: Yeah, man.
Over there.
MIKE: Alright, Jersey.
JERSEY JON: Let me get the flyer.
MIKE: God, it's a beautiful property.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, it's great over here.
MIKE: Oh my gosh.
(knocking)
JERSEY JON: Hello?
MIKE: Hey! JERSEY JON: Hey, how are you?
MIKE: You Olivia? Hi, I'm Mike. You talked to Dani on the phone?
OLIVIA: Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. JERSEY JON: I'm Jon.
MIKE: He's Jon. JERSEY JON: Hi! Nice to meet you.
OLIVIA: Jon, hi. You're both out here.
JERSEY JON: This is stuff we're looking for.
MIKE: You can see medical equipment on there.
OLIVIA: Yeah. Yeah. JERSEY JON: Early science stuff.
We love that. OLIVIA: Well, there's a lot of stuff on there.
Well, he's down the road if you wanted to go.
MIKE: Okay. It's a gorgeous property.
OLIVIA: Thank you. MIKE: You guys always had
plans to retire out here?
OLIVIA: Yes... well, not exactly.
No, he was a workaholic. I didn't think he'd ever retire.
MIKE: Really? How old was he when he retired?
OLIVIA: 75. MIKE: No kidding.
Hey, how are you doing? RICHARD: Good.
OLIVIA: This is my husband Richard, and this is Mike.
RICHARD: Good to see you. JERSEY JON: Jon.
RICHARD: Jon. MIKE: Nice to meet you. Show him the flyer.
OLIVIA: They got a flyer. MIKE: We're collecting some
of this stuff. Medical devices.
RICHARD: Oh. Well, you came to the right place.
MIKE: I know, that's what I hear. Cool.
What year did you build this?
RICHARD: It's been about 10 or 15 years ago.
MIKE: Okay. It's a nice building.
RICHARD: Yeah. JERSEY JON: It's full of stuff, too.
(suspenseful music)
MIKE: Wow.
MIKE: There's piles of forceps,
bone saws, things that I have absolutely
no idea what they are.
I mean, it's very medieval,
it's very mad scientist,
it's even a little bit intimidating.
MIKE: So, you got a little bit of other things
besides just medical equipment.
RICHARD: Uh, yeah.
Anything that's old, they appeal to me.
MIKE: Yeah. RICHARD: Mostly, I collect
medical antiques.
I look for strange things, different things.
I've got more than I can handle, really,
and I'd like to pare it down a little bit.
MIKE: Can I open this? OLIVIA: The cabinet is the most interesting.
JERSEY JON: The cabinet is cool, yeah.
MIKE: This right here. RICHARD: If you see something you like,
then you just help yourself.
MIKE: Look at this, Jersey. OLIVIA: Looks like a bugle.
JERSEY JON: I can't see it. What do you got?
MIKE: It's got a little chain on it and everything.
RICHARD: It has to do with amputations of the limb.
MIKE: No way. RICHARD: Yeah, loosen it up.
MIKE: Oh, you put this on that limb.
RICHARD: It's not an instrument that I used.
MIKE: Yeah. It's an interesting piece.
Is this something you've had for a long time?
RICHARD: Uh, yeah. I think so.
MIKE: Jersey Jon and I are very curious people,
so when we see something, we want to touch it.
We wanna grab a hold of it, and we wanna know what it does.
So, I'm not just going to dip my toe in the water
on this pick, I'm going full on.
I want to be baptized in this stuff.
MIKE: What time period is that from, do you think?
OLIVIA: That's the finger size, isn't it?
JERSEY JON: Yeah, that's the finger size. You pull it back...
MIKE: Ah... Dang. RICHARD: Yeah. Snaps it right off.
It's neat. MIKE: It's neat...
JERSEY JON: Yeah, it's neat for sure.
MIKE: 40 bucks.
RICHARD: That's a deal. MIKE: We're doing it?
JERSEY JON: Perfect. Thanks, buddy.
MIKE: Okay. I like it. I think it's interesting.
RICHARD: Well, I sort of come from a line of doctors.
My grandfather was a country physician
with a horse and buggy to begin with,
and later, a car.
My father was an ear, nose, and throat specialist.
He inspired me.
JERSEY JON: Wait, wait, wait.
MIKE: Wow. RICHARD: Oh, that's an eye surgery kit. Yeah.
JERSEY JON: That's eye surgery?
RICHARD: Probe a tear duct.
JERSEY JON: You would clean a tear duct with this thing?
RICHARD: Yeah, you just stick it right down there.
You have a cyst on your lid, unscrew this...
JERSEY JON: And that would go on your eyelid?
RICHARD: Yeah. You'd turn the eyelid over
so you're working from the backside,
and you cut out your cyst that's there
and it doesn't bleed.
Of course, you take the clamp off...
JERSEY JON: Then it starts to bleed.
RICHARD: A little bit. But anyway, that's what that's for.
This is a chalazion clamp. JERSEY JON: Everything is so well made.
Look how beautifully made these things are.
JERSEY JON: So, how old is this?
RICHARD: 1920s, I think. JERSEY JON: 1920s.
JERSEY JON: Now, I love this eye surgery kit
because this is what this guy does.
Think about how long it takes to become a doctor.
The passion they have, the commitment
you have to put into learning,
you're going to tend to collect these things.
And antique tools, the craftsmanship
they put in those things, it's phenomenal.
JERSEY JON: How steady are your hands?
RICHARD: Well, they're not too steady now.
JERSEY JON: Now. But I imagine they had to be really steady
when you were working on somebody's eye, of course?
RICHARD: Yeah, yeah. MIKE: What would this do for somebody's eye?
Look at that, with the little pitchfork sticking up?
OLIVIA: Oh my gosh. RICHARD: Isn't that neat?
MIKE: Yeah, what's that do? RICHARD: Now, that's to take tonsils out.
(laughter) MIKE: To take tonsils out, really?
You just grab a tonsil?
RICHARD: You stick that on the tonsil
and then you squeeze it and it cuts it off.
MIKE: Ugh... RICHARD: It's wonderful.
MIKE: Woo!
JERSEY JON: So, how much you want for something like this?
RICHARD: I don't know, $100?
(sighs)
JERSEY JON: The case is kind of...
RICHARD: Yeah. JERSEY JON: ...delaminated.
75 bucks.
RICHARD: Okay. JERSEY JON: You'll do it?
RICHARD: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Thank you, buddy.
RICHARD: Okay. JERSEY JON: Great. Alright.
MIKE: 95% of the people that collect this stuff
are in the medical field.
So, when a guy like Richard decides to sell,
that's a huge deal.
That's the same thing for, like, Jersey Jon and I,
like, we collect old motorcycles
and the only time you're gonna see
a lot of the rare stuff is when an older collector,
someone that's been doing it for so long,
decides to let things loose.
And that's a beautiful thing.
(tense music)
JERSEY JON: There's all kinds of stuff in here.
MIKE: Look at this. RICHARD: Yeah.
JERSEY JON: Whoa...
MIKE: It's just unbelievable, the detail,
and everything is numbered.
Usually some of this stuff kind of scares me
when you look at it, you know?
But this, I don't know, it's inviting for some reason.
Is that weird?
RICHARD: It's an interesting piece, yeah.
MIKE: Yeah. RICHARD: The eye model is used
to demonstrate to the patient the structure of the eye.
OLIVIA: It doesn't compare to those little plastic models
the physician has in his office now.
Even drug companies put them out.
You can certainly take them apart,
but they're just mass-produced.
It was different. It has a different feel and look to it.
RICHARD: It was made by a French company
by the name of Azu. MIKE: Okay.
RICHARD: I bought it from an antique dealer. I just liked it.
MIKE: What's the value of something like this?
RICHARD: It's probably worth, uh...
1,500 to $2500.
MIKE: This isn't just medical. It's a piece of art.
It was made by a French artisan. It's early,
it's got painting, it's got glassblowing,
it's handmade, you can disassemble it,
it's very articulate.
It's a pretty outstanding piece
when you look at the artisanship of it.
MIKE: This one, I can see there's some damage
to the paint on the front. RICHARD: Yeah.
MIKE: Quite a bit. RICHARD: Yeah.
MIKE: And then, if you can see how red this is,
and there's discoloration here.
RICHARD: Yeah. MIKE: You know.
But overall, I mean, it's a beautiful piece.
RICHARD: Yeah. MIKE: Would you take 1,500 for this one?
RICHARD: Uh, 1,600 would be better.
MIKE: Alright, let's do that. I'm gonna do 1,600.
RICHARD: Okay. MIKE: I think it's fascinating.
RICHARD: You know. MIKE: Look at that.
MIKE: I'm going all in on this one at 16
because I think there's some money to be made on it.
I mean, even if you don't specialize in collecting
medical devices, this is an interesting piece.
It's beautiful, and it's very intricate.
MIKE: Did you put this stuff on display in your office?
When people would come in, could your patients see things
like this from this time period? RICHARD: I did not, no.
MIKE: You never did that? You thought it might be kind of
a little scary to them? RICHARD: Yeah, yeah.
(laughing)
RICHARD: I thought that was a little strong for display.
MIKE: Well, it's interesting though.
RICHARD: Oh, no doubt about it. MIKE: You know, it's really interesting.
JERSEY JON: Richard, this thing is cool.
You put a card there and you can read through it.
It's almost like a vending machine for eyeglasses.
RICHARD: It is, yeah.
JERSEY JON: This machine would've been in the drugstore
in the '20s. It's for, like, reading glasses.
You know, you could go there, look through this machine
and find out what prescription is gonna work best for you
without trying on a million pair of glasses.
MIKE: What's it missing on the back?
JERSEY JON: A card would've went in here so you can--
RICHARD: Yeah, you just put a... JERSEY JON: Yeah.
RICHARD: Something with your ABCs so you can see.
JERSEY JON: Like the ABCs or whatever you had on there, look through here,
and then you can read it and can change the lenses out, Mike.
MIKE: Yeah, no. It's cool. JERSEY JON: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
You can see, like, that's worse, that's better,
that's worse, that's better, you know?
JERSEY JON: It's got a cast-iron base,
it's got sheet metal, it's got signage on it,
the instructions are wonderful. Everything works really nicely.
RICHARD: I would probably take 500 for it.
JERSEY JON: Hm. Um...
Yeah, I do like it. How about...
300?
RICHARD: 350.
JERSEY JON: Alright, I'll do the 350.
RICHARD: Okay. JERSEY JON: Shake his hand, Mike.
MIKE: Alright, 350. JERSEY JON: Thanks, buddy.
JERSEY JON: This was a really wonderful piece of point-of-sale
drugstore hardware.
JERSEY JON: I also found these. These are...
like bleeders. RICHARD: Bleeders, yeah.
JERSEY JON: So, these lancets and these knives,
these bleeders were the tool they used to piece the skin
so it would get the blood out of you.
The bad blood would leave when they pierced the skin.
JERSEY JON: They shoot into you.
JERSEY JON: So, you would this on your arm or something.
RICHARD: Yeah. And then, you know, it's so fast,
you can't pull away.
It's already cut. You cock it all the way back.
(suspenseful music)
JERSEY JON: Whoa. RICHARD: Did you see those blades?
JERSEY JON: Yeah.
JERSEY JON: It's kind of creepy
but it's also fascinating.
I just love the way they're constructed.
I mean, it's brass, it's steel, it's iron.
And, it's like, they put a lot of effort
into designing these things.
JERSEY JON: This is beautiful.
I just love how decorative... What is that?
RICHARD: Uh, I think those are leech bowls.
JERSEY JON: So, they put leeches in here?
RICHARD: Yeah. JERSEY JON: These are...
RICHARD: Those are leeches.
JERSEY JON: These are the leeches?
RICHARD: Yeah, that's my favorite one right there.
RICHARD: A lot of stuff is quackery.
(Olivia laughs) RICHARD: Uh, you didn't know
what caused the illness, you didn't know how to treat it.
Leech bowls and leeches are quackery.
George Washington got bled to death.
He was overtraded, poor old fella.
(Olivia chuckles) RICHARD: They suck blood
for an hour, and then they drop off
because they're not hungry anymore.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, I've heard about this stuff before.
And then... you're saying these are leech bowls?
They put... Live leeches would go inside here?
RICHARD: Yeah, yeah. You just carry the leech with you.
JERSEY JON: And what's cool about it, it says Rexall
which is Rexall drugs. RICHARD: It looks like a leech bowl.
JERSEY JON: It does look like a leech bowl. Here's another one.
This is a leech bowl as well, you're saying? This is pontled,
it's early, 1860, 1870,
it says Rexall. What do you got to get for these?
These three pieces right here?
I have the whole bleeder package
because I want to be prepared.
RICHARD: Okay...
$200?
JERSEY JON: Um... 150.
This has got damage, dude.
It's got some repairs done to it. It's been repaired.
RICHARD: Yeah, yeah, it's been repaired. I guess, yeah.
JERSEY JON: 150 bucks? RICHARD: Okay. 150 bucks.
JERSEY JON: Thank you, buddy. RICHARD: Okay.
JERSEY JON: Alright. Now I'm in the bleeder business.
MIKE: So, I've been looking at the glasses here.
Look at that one. This is pretty cool.
What do you value that at?
RICHARD: Well, there's two lenses there.
MIKE: Oh, there's two lenses there.
RICHARD: I believe.
MIKE: How about-- Oh! RICHARD: There, you got it.
See there? MIKE: Did you see that?
That was cool! RICHARD: Yeah, that's crazy.
MIKE: Look at that! RICHARD: You just gotta do the right thing.
MIKE: Now you got to put it back. Alright.
RICHARD: I would ask 50 for it.
MIKE: Sure. 50 bucks. RICHARD: Okay.
MIKE: I want to focus on something that appeals
to the masses, something that somebody would want to have
in their home that they can connect to
and isn't a ton of money.
The cabinet of glasses fits that bill.
RICHARD: It's a monocle. MIKE: Okay, that's a monocle.
RICHARD: Yeah. You somehow hold it with your lids.
MIKE: Yeah.
RICHARD: Good fit. MIKE: Like that?
RICHARD: Yeah. You put it in your non-dominant eye.
MIKE: What are you thinking on this?
RICHARD: Uh, I'd go 30.
MIKE: How about 25 bucks?
RICHARD: Yeah. MIKE: Okay. I'm doing it.
JERSEY JON: Look at that. RICHARD: Yeah.
OLIVIA: I mean, my heart is hot for you.
JERSEY JON: Aww... (laughing)
JERSEY JON: I've seen these novelty items before.
The liquid inside is methylene chloride.
It's got such a low boiling point,
just the heat of your hand makes it boil.
JERSEY JON: 20 bucks?
RICHARD: 25? JERSEY JON: Alright. I'll do that.
JERSEY JON: I found these as well. These are kind of neat.
Doctor is out. Please be seated,
and we'll get to you momentarily.
RICHARD: That's right. In an hour or two.
(laughing) RICHARD: You ever been to a doctor's office?
It ain't quick. JERSEY JON: It ain't quick.
You gotta wait, you gotta sit.
This'll tell you when he's coming back anyway.
RICHARD: Yeah. JERSEY JON: I'm thinking 30 bucks each.
RICHARD: We got a deal. JERSEY JON: Got a deal?
RICHARD: Yeah. JERSEY JON: I got the signs.
I can put it in my window. And the doctor is in!
MIKE: Here's another piece over here I saw.
Look at this. Amazing to me.
RICHARD: That's an operating room light.
Back before electricity.
MIKE: Okay, so operating room light.
RICHARD: Yeah. MIKE: You got a candle here,
and this reflecting, and it's pushing that light out.
RICHARD: Yeah. MIKE: God, that's cool.
MIKE: This piece is gonna transcend from surgical light
to mood light. I mean, think about this.
It can take a candle's glow
and magnify it with a reflector and a lens.
MIKE: Now, I've seen these before.
I think the value on this is like 250 bucks.
RICHARD: I paid 300 for it, but you can have it for 250.
MIKE: You think I can make something?
RICHARD: Yeah, sure! MIKE: Alright.
MIKE: Alright, I'm easy. RICHARD: Put it on the market for 4.
MIKE: Okay. Alright.
MIKE: Things like apothecary jars,
leech bowls, forceps,
all of this stuff might sound strange
to the average person to collect,
but not to somebody in the biz.
This is the roots and the marrow of the medical industry.
MIKE: Ah, Jersey, look at that! JERSEY JON: Woo!
OLIVIA: It's beautiful. MIKE: My gosh.
RICHARD: Now, this is uh... MIKE: So elaborate.
My gosh, look at that!
Wow. RICHARD: And the amazing thing
is the instruments are all there.
MIKE: Yeah, it's incredible.
RICHARD: It's probably 1800s. MIKE: No kidding?
RICHARD: This is what you would put on a boat
that's gonna be at sea for a year.
JERSEY JON: I mean, back when these tools were used,
think about it. This was a time
when we were exploring the oceans,
where we had the trade routes
where we had to go thousands of miles in the open ocean.
There was no hospital in sight.
You relied upon the doctor's skill
and the quality of these tools.
JERSEY JON: You can do an amputation or to, uh,
pull out a tooth with this thing.
MIKE: What do you value this at?
RICHARD: $10,000.
MIKE: No kidding. JERSEY JON: Wow.
MIKE: Sure, I mean... RICHARD: Yeah.
MIKE: What is this one, another one?
'Cause you got another one sitting right there.
It says "ship" on it. RICHARD: I got another one just like it.
I paid $10,000 for that too.
MIKE: So, you're into these two pieces for 20k?
RICHARD: I would like to get 20k,
that would be really good, yeah. MIKE: If you got the 20?
RICHARD: My wife would be... MIKE: Hear that, Jersey? He wants 20.
RICHARD: Often, pieces are missing from surgery sets.
So, if you find a complete one, that is really nice.
JERSEY JON: I can identify with this because watch this...
(laughing)
(mimics cutting sounds)
JERSEY JON: I'm an amputee. MIKE: You'd never know, right?
RICHARD: No, I never really noticed.
MIKE: This guy's faster than I am a lot of times.
JERSEY JON: Sometimes. I gotta get the deal before he does.
JERSEY JON: I got hit by a truck. I lost my leg
when I was 15 years old. I mean, yeah,
it was real traumatic, but it never stopped me.
I always kept going. I'm still going to this day, man.
I mean, I ride motorcycles across country,
I ski, I surf, I swim.
I really never let it hold me back.
MIKE: You've been doing this for 30, 40 years.
RICHARD: Yeah. MIKE: These are the only two of these you've ever seen.
RICHARD: Right. MIKE: That are complete.
RICHARD: Right. MIKE: I'm not surprised
you dove on them for 10 grand.
This is kind of like the Holy Grail for you, right?
RICHARD: I was like, yeah. MIKE: Because I'm looking at all these smaller kits,
I mean these are the big ones. RICHARD: They're missing pieces.
MIKE: This is the kind of piece that I'm talking about,
that's held in collections that you never see.
MIKE: This man has a good eye.
OLIVIA: Deep pockets, for what he wants.
(laughter)
RICHARD: Well, that's true.
MIKE: This is way more money than I want to spend,
but just to learn about it, to touch it,
and to hear his passion for it is exciting to me.
MIKE: Ooh.
JERSEY JON: That's cool.
MIKE: Ah!
RICHARD: Oh, you like that?
MIKE: Yeah! (laughing)
JERSEY JON: That is cool. MIKE: What are you thinking?
I understand these are glass eyes.
RICHARD: Yeah. MIKE: So, what's up with the stem behind it?
'Cause if I went like this...
...that would be uncomfortable.
So, how would you mount that to someone's head?
RICHARD: I think this is... these are eyes
in progress to be finished. MIKE: Okay.
MIKE: These are weird, they're different,
they're unusual, but they're not really, to me,
heavy on the weird part.
You know, they're more whimsical.
I mean, if you think about the artisanship of these,
like, just the blown glass, the different colors,
and they're in this sphere.
MIKE: So, these are in the process of being finished?
RICHARD: I think... That's my feeling about it. MIKE: Okay.
MIKE: It's an art installation of glass eyes.
It's got everything going for it.
RICHARD: I'd probably go 45, $50 apiece.
MIKE: Yeah, I was thinking 30 apiece.
RICHARD: 30? MIKE: Yeah, they're not done yet.
RICHARD: Oh, well, I know, but they're so unique.
MIKE: If I buy them all, if I buy them all,
how about 30 apiece?
RICHARD: Well, I'm not gonna sell them all.
I'm gonna keep at least one.
MIKE: Okay, so if I buy all but one, 30 apiece.
18, I'm buying. So, it's 18 times 30.
540 bucks. Here you go.
RICHARD: I got mine. MIKE: That's yours.
RICHARD: Okay, we'll do that. MIKE: We doing that?
OLIVIA: This is Highland porcelain from Hickory,
and they no longer produce this.
MIKE: So, what year is this from?
OLIVIA: I'd say '50 to '60s.
MIKE: So, what are you thinking on this, then?
Because I just bought the eyes.
OLIVIA: Probably 50. MIKE: How about 30?
OLIVIA: 35.
MIKE: Alright. OLIVIA: I made a deal!
MIKE: Alright, thank you!
JERSEY JON: Richard. Love your microscopes, man.
RICHARD: Ah, that is the best microscope I have.
JERSEY JON: It looks like the best one you have.
RICHARD: It is the best. JERSEY JON: I was looking at these other ones back here,
like the Bausch and Lombs, the smaller monocular ones,
but this is binocular, right? RICHARD: Yeah.
JERSEY JON: So, where did you find this?
RICHARD: Uh, that was on a European tour we did.
Olivia went to the museum and I went to the antique store.
JERSEY JON: Is that how it usually went?
RICHARD: And I saw it and I said, this is the finest
microscope I've ever seen in my life.
I had to pay whatever they asked because I had to have it.
OLIVIA: I do remember a time you came in and said
you just bought an operating room.
Do you remember that?
RICHARD: Yeah, I remember that. (laughing)
RICHARD: I mean, it's got the mechanical stage,
it's got different lenses.
All that stuff. JERSEY JON: I get it.
JERSEY JON: Early microscopes are hard for me to find.
I don't see them in everybody's collection.
JERSEY JON: 1872. It's made by Richard Morland.
JERSEY JON: Not only is this piece beautiful,
but it's historical.
JERSEY JON: So, I mean, I've been dealing with like,
scientific expeditions, Brimfield,
going to the swap meets and different shows.
RICHARD: Yeah. JERSEY JON: To me, this thing is like...
Retail is like 1,500 bucks.
Maybe 2,000?
RICHARD: I'm not high on values, I don't know,
I just know that I actually paid 3,000 for it.
JERSEY JON: You paid three grand for it.
I mean... you're in the moment, you see this thing,
you got to have it. RICHARD: Absolutely.
JERSEY JON: I've been there. I paid a lot of money
for motorcycle parts before, so I totally understand.
So, you're in it pretty deep and I get it.
RICHARD: If 3,000 is too much for you,
we've got some less expensive microscopes.
JERSEY JON: I got to buy things that make sense to me,
and Richard, he's the high-end collector.
He's the guy paying that top dollar.
But I have to purchase it for at least a profit margin
that makes sense to me.
JERSEY JON: I love the pillars on this one.
RICHARD: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Isn't that great?
OLIVIA: That's brass. JERSEY JON: This is brass.
OLIVIA: Not gold. JERSEY JON: Not gold.
Boy, wouldn't that be nice if it was gold
'cause that's got some weight to it.
JERSEY JON: This is like an 1850, 1860 microscope.
This was a microscope that could've been used
during the time of the Civil War.
JERSEY JON: For me, this is like a $600 piece.
Retail. I mean, I like to make a little bit of money on this.
I would offer 400 bucks for this.
RICHARD: Okay. Yeah. JERSEY JON: Thank you.
Now we're getting somewhere. I appreciate it, buddy.
JERSEY JON: They're so unique. And they tell the history
of scientific instruments through microscopy.
MIKE: Are these early flytraps?
RICHARD: Yes. Yes, those are flytraps.
And you just hang it over your dining room table
or wherever the flies are.
MIKE: The money shot with the flytrap is its color.
The fact that it's glass, it's handmade,
and it served a purpose.
It's very early and it's very unique.
RICHARD: $40? MIKE: I'd do that. I love it.
RICHARD: You'd do that? MIKE: I love the color of it.
JERSEY JON: Ah, cool. RICHARD: I had a granddaddy
that had a horse and buggy.
OLIVIA: That's what he used. RICHARD: Yeah.
JERSEY JON: You threw this out there
and the horse was tied to it,
and he wasn't going anywhere.
RICHARD: Worth at least 100, don't you think?
JERSEY JON: I was thinking more like 75.
RICHARD: 90.
JERSEY JON: I like it. RICHARD: They don't even make those anymore.
JERSEY JON: Of course not.
Who's gonna do house calls with a horse?
MIKE: The thing I like about this one
is it has the original top on it. JERSEY JON: Oh yeah.
MIKE: These tables are incredibly hard to find
because they're industrial, they're adjustable,
and they hold a tremendous amount of weight
in not a large space.
MIKE: 300.
OLIVIA: I think you can
probably get a little bit more for it.
RICHARD: 350? MIKE: 340.
RICHARD: Deal. (laughter)
MIKE: Alright. JERSEY JON: Thanks, guys.
MIKE: Hey, Richard! RICHARD: Yeah?
MIKE: Oh my gosh, this is amazing.
JERSEY JON: What's it say on there?
MIKE: Regimental chest
sterilizing medical department.
What time period is this thing from, Richard?
RICHARD: I would guess World War I,
but you know, do I know?
JERSEY JON: I think it's earlier than World War I, dude.
RICHARD: Yeah. MIKE: This might've been a sterilizer here.
Inside of it. I mean, obviously the thing that appeals to me
about the whole piece is the way this trunk is made.
All the brass inlays and the corner work and everything.
MIKE: Jersey, what year do you
think that trunk is from?
JERSEY JON: This is Civil War, dude.
'Cause look at the way this casting on the corners...
I do a lot of trunks, Mike.
A 1917 trunk doesn't have fittings like this.
It doesn't have locks like this.
The trunks that I'm dealing from that period are more...
These are castings. The later trunks are all stampings.
JERSEY JON: This trunk is special.
This held medical equipment.
It had cast brass corners.
It was made with quarter-sawn oak planks.
It's an absolutely gorgeous piece of travelling furniture.
JERSEY JON: These are like 1870s.
These may have been replaced.
See how that's got a little bit different--
Like, it's not brass? MIKE: Yeah.
JERSEY JON: These are not brass. MIKE: This is more elaborate.
I'm just wondering if they were added, not replaced, but added.
JERSEY JON: Yes, yes. Added. MIKE: They were added.
This was just within itself one piece.
JERSEY JON: Maybe just had a clasp on here, a brass clasp.
Not that it even matters. MIKE: Because you can see right here, Jersey.
See this knob coming out of there.
Maybe this was leather. JERSEY JON: Maybe there was a strap that went around.
MIKE: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Hooked on it.
MIKE: I was interested in this trunk,
but when Jersey Jon started pontificating about it,
going on about the bottles and the hinges
and the quarter-sawn oak and all that stuff,
he sold it, man.
RICHARD: That's rare, now.
MIKE: Yeah, I know. I'm feeling you.
I like it. I'm thinking, uh...
500 bucks.
RICHARD: Sold. MIKE: That was quick.
RICHARD: Yeah. (Mike laughs)
MIKE: Alright. OLIVIA: The top is just...
MIKE: I just love the time-- Here's the deal.
A lot of this stuff, I mean it's like
you looking at a microscope
or whatever these other pieces are back here.
I mean visually, it has to be stimulating to you
to want to buy it.
And that's what speaks to me on this.
Especially, obviously, the top of it is telling a story.
Regimental chest.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, it's a cool piece.
JERSEY JON: It's so fascinating to hang out
with a guy like Richard. He spent his life
and devoted his life to the medical profession.
I mean, and he's dove into the history of his profession,
and he collected those tools of his profession,
which I can certainly relate to.
MIKE: I felt like I was in history class.
RICHARD: Yeah? MIKE: But this time, I liked it.
I liked it this time. (laughs)
JERSEY JON: Thank you so much.
MIKE: Thank you so much.
JERSEY JON: You're the best. Thank you so much. I learned so much today.
RICHARD: The opportunity to sell a few pieces,
I thought that was, that was wonderful.
RICHARD: The sale's gonna start tomorrow.
(laughter)
(honks horn)
MIKE: See you down the road! RICHARD: Okay. Come back soon.
OLIVIA: Come back.
MIKE: What do you think about taking that um,
1913 Harley rear wheel,
you know, the one with clutch in it...
JERSEY JON: Yeah. MIKE: Fix the wheel,
and it doesn't have any of the guts.
It doesn't have the axel, none of the races,
none of the, what are they called?
The expanders, what are they called? JERSEY JON: Yeah, all the guts.
MIKE: So, it doesn't have any of that stuff.
JERSEY JON: The gazintas. MIKE: The gazintas...
(phone rings) JERSEY JON: It goes into that. Get it?
MIKE: Okay. Dani D, what's up?
DANIELLE: Alright, hey. Have you guys made it
to the hills of California yet?
MIKE: Oh my gosh, it's gorgeous out here.
JERSEY JON: Gorgeous. MIKE: Seriously, it is beautiful.
DANIELLE: Ugh. I'm jealous.
Hey, soak that in.
I'm gonna send you guys to meet Larry.
So, I've been talking to his wife Linda,
and she's kind of pushing him to clean out
his family barn which is like multi-generational.
MIKE: Dang.
DANIELLE: He's been stashing dirt bikes and motorcycles
on this property for like 50 years.
MIKE: Really?! So, that's what he's got?
He's into dirt bikes? DANIELLE: Yeah, he's into dirt bikes.
But he's got cars, VWs, parts.
I mean, there's an accumulation everywhere in this place.
MIKE: Sounds like our kind of people.
DANIELLE: So, I'll send you guys the coordinates,
you just meet them there. MIKE: Alright, thank you.
DANIELLE: Alright, bye.
JERSEY JON: Rolling, rolling. MIKE: God dang, Jersey.
We gotta come back out here riding these roads
on motorcycles, dude.
JERSEY JON: I'll bring the Indian 4 out here.
MIKE: I've never ridden up here before.
JERSEY JON: I've been through here.
MIKE: Have you really? JERSEY JON: Yeah, yeah.
MIKE: This is it right here. There's a barn,
look at that barn. That looks like an Iowa barn.
JERSEY JON: Let me get the flyer.
MIKE: Hey, hey! I'm Mike.
LINDA: Hi, Mike. MIKE: This is Jersey.
JERSEY JON: How you doing? LINDA: Hi, Jersey!
MIKE: Hey. What are you doing, cleaning this spot out
for more motorcycles? LINDA: Yep.
LARRY: I'm Larry. MIKE: What a great barn.
Good to see you, Larry. JERSEY JON: I'm Jon.
LINDA: Hi, Jon. Nice to meet you. JERSEY JON: This is cool.
LINDA: We have lots of cars and lots of motorcycles
that need to go. MIKE: Nice!
(laughing) LARRY: Let me come down.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, she's selling all your stuff, dude!
LARRY: I collect mostly motorcycles.
We race them in vintage races.
Motocross and Trials.
LARRY: I have every Japanese Trials bike made in the '70s.
MIKE: No kidding. JERSEY JON: Cool.
MIKE: And you're racing them? LARRY: Oh yeah.
MIKE: That's very cool. LARRY: About four times a year.
MIKE: God dang, I love that man. LARRY: It's fun.
MIKE: That's something I've never, never done.
But I remember like watching it on television when I was a kid,
you know, like Wild World of Sports stuff,
crazy stuff, you know. LARRY: Now I get to own
all the bikes I wanted when I was 16. MIKE: Oh yeah, absolutely.
LINDA: Hey, I think you guys are good.
I'm gonna leave you to it. Sell something, please!
JERSEY JON: Thank you. We'll do our job.
LARRY: Alright, let me take you to the back and check out the...
MIKE: Alright, here it is.
Wow. So, what year is this uh, this 500?
LARRY: That's a 400. It's '75.
MIKE: So, you still riding this? LARRY: It's got a mono shock.
MIKE: Yeah? LARRY: So, you can't run them in vintage.
JERSEY JON: '75? MIKE: So, '75 is the cutoff
for vintage races you guys are doing?
LARRY: '74. MIKE: '74 is okay.
MIKE: Larry's motorcycle passion is in the 1970s.
I'm remembering this stuff, I remember what it sounds like.
(mimics motor revving) You know, all the 2-stroke smoke,
the RMs running up and down the street.
The older kids scaring the crap out of us
because they were so big and cool.
Doing donuts on the baseball field,
all that stuff, you know.
Jumping ramps.
We were doing all of that on our bicycles.
We were imagining ourselves being Roger De Coster.
You know, painting our bikes yellow and black
and jumping over our friends
and all this stuff, breaking our frames in half.
MIKE: Hey, I got a question for you. How much is this?
(knocking) LARRY: I don't know, throw me an offer.
MIKE: It looks like it's something that came out of,
like, a conversion van or something.
It's a piece of the paneling.
LARRY: It's definitely '70s.
MIKE: Yeah, for sure. I like the fact
that he's got the girl. You usually just see him.
LARRY: Right. MIKE: Wow.
This is the rare version, Jersey.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, with the girl?
MIKE: We're all on the memory lane train, you know,
all the motorcycles, reminiscing,
and then we look on the wall
and there's the hieroglyphics from the 1970s,
you know. The Keep on Truckin'.
MIKE: 50 bucks. LARRY: Okay.
MIKE: Alright, we're doing it. JERSEY JON: That thing's killer.
MIKE: Very cool. LARRY: Well, that was my junk art room.
I'd go to garage sales at the end of the day
and they'd have art there and you'd touch it and they'd say, "Take it!"
Okay, so I'll hang that up.
That was something I picked up somewhere.
LARRY: I have a group of friends who know I'll take stuff.
MIKE: Yeah. LARRY: So. They call me
and I immediately go get it. MIKE: You got room for it.
JERSEY JON: Because you got the big barn.
LARRY: You don't want 'em to think about it.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah. (laughs)
How much is that hand?
JERSEY JON: Yeah, what is this hand?
LARRY: I did that with a chainsaw.
MIKE: Did you really? JERSEY JON: You did that?
LARRY: Yeah. MIKE: That's pretty cool.
MIKE: It's a chair? JERSEY JON: It's a chair, like the Odd Couple?
Remember the Odd Couple episode, the chair?
LARRY: I was an arborist so at lunchtime--
JERSEY JON: Oh, you were an arborist? Okay, cool.
LARRY: I'd go out at lunchtime and do this.
JERSEY JON: Is it redwood? LARRY: I think it's sycamore.
JERSEY JON: Larry's an arborist. That means he has access
to these really cool pieces of wood
which he's sawn down from people's properties.
And he's obviously very skilled with a chainsaw.
JERSEY JON: So, you would sit there, pulling a tree down,
and then you start carving on it with a chainsaw? LARRY: Yeah.
MIKE: That's heavy, man. I tried to pick it up.
JERSEY JON: Oh! MIKE: That's what I'm saying.
It's got your flashlight excited.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. (laughs)
MIKE: You know the passion behind it.
LARRY: 75 bucks.
MIKE: Alright. I'm gonna give you 80.
(laughter) MIKE: Thanks!
Seriously, this is cool man. JERSEY JON: Dude, and it's sycamore.
LARRY: And it's already on a hand truck.
MIKE: I didn't even see that! JERSEY JON: Yhe hand truck come with it?
MIKE: The springer. JERSEY JON: Dude, what about the springer? This is cool.
This thing is like... chopper city, man.
Look at this thing. It's almost as tall as me.
(laughing)
MIKE: Somebody did a good job on it.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. They would use the Ford radius rods
in here, you know. LARRY: Yeah.
Look at the weld on the top, yeah.
JERSEY JON: Yep. The weld's here and they would, you know,
there was nice, heavy suspension parts.
JERSEY JON: We spot these motorcycle parts
and they're Harley parts, they're chopper parts.
It's got the great vintage chopper look to it.
The underground chopper culture
would take these Ford radius rods
from a Model A Ford
and then use them to extend the front ends.
JERSEY JON: What are you thinking on something like this?
LARRY: You know, you're the guy that knows this stuff. I...
JERSEY JON: It's chopper history for sure.
MIKE: I know, I love the front wheel.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, the front wheel is cool.
You know, that's probably a sun rim or something like that.
MIKE: There's a lot of guys that are still building choppers.
I mean, obviously someone can take a fork
and they can make this now.
But if you can find something that's period,
that's solid, that's well made, that's what you want to use.
JERSEY JON: I spotted on the corner over here,
this bench on the shelf.
Transmission.
MIKE: Let me see the kicker plate on it.
JERSEY JON: Panhead tranny.
MIKE: Let me see this.
JERSEY JON: Panhead.
JERSEY JON: This chopper front end,
and this panhead transmission,
you can marry them together
and you're on your way to building a nice chopper.
JERSEY JON: No cracks. MIKE: No. It's in good shape.
MIKE: I mean, I wouldn't put it in a bike
without rebuilding it but... JERSEY JON: I know, but there's no crack in it.
MIKE: You can see right here. JERSEY JON: Is that a repair?
MIKE: No, it's not. I thought it was.
JERSEY JON: No. That's factory.
MIKE: When you're looking at a piece like this, you know,
a transmission case or an engine case,
you know, you really have to go over it
with a fine-tooth comb
because if you see hairline cracks,
anything like that in the case,
then you've got to repair it.
You know, so to have a solid case like this is a plus.
JERSEY JON: 2,400 for these pieces. What do you think?
LARRY: Uh... 27.
(Jersey Jon sighs)
LARRY: So, I'm not really knowledgeable
about the Harley parts.
Those are my brother's and he pretty much gave me
the guidelines of what he wanted for them, so...
LARRY: 27 is the bottom line.
JERSEY JON: Only 300 apart. Um...
Alright, I'll do 2,700. LARRY: Okay.
JERSEY JON: Alright. Thank you.
MIKE: Alright, what else you got?
What are you gonna show us? LARRY: Old cars.
MIKE: Okay. JERSEY JON: Ah, cool.
MIKE: What's going on with this Bug, man?
LARRY: I used to take it out here, drive around the fields.
JERSEY JON: I love the paint job on it.
LARRY: I painted that in the driveway of my house.
MIKE: Really? JERSEY JON: Wow.
MIKE: Oh, I see the top of it, yeah. Does it run?
LARRY: Oh yeah. MIKE: Here we go.
JERSEY JON: It's got the rollbar in the back.
It's like a dune buggy kind of thing.
MIKE: Look, it's got the Kiss on it!
JERSEY JON: That's cool, Kiss! MIKE: Kiss decal on there.
That's bad to the bone, man. JERSEY JON: I love it.
LARRY: I was a big Kiss fan back in the day.
MIKE: Yeah. It's got kind of a Happy Meal thing going on.
JERSEY JON: Happy Meal... MIKE: What are you thinking on this?
You sell this?
LARRY: Uh, I think I'll keep it. MIKE: Okay.
LARRY: They're easier to work on.
MIKE: Oh my gosh, they're so fun.
LARRY: And actually, in the dirt, they work fabulous.
MIKE: Well, this, you know, another thing,
where we're at when it snows, man, it'll go anywhere.
LARRY: Even out here in the mud.
MIKE: Yeah. They're indestructible, man.
MIKE: So, it seems like there's a lot of stuff
in the barn here that has sentimental value.
LARRY: Well, like this truck's my grandfather's.
MIKE: Oh, wow. LARRY: Some of the family members are interested.
Like, my grandfather's truck, I have a whole array
of family members that want that.
MIKE: And what do you got over here?
LARRY: That's a '63 Ranchero.
JERSEY JON: Ooh. MIKE: Ooh, nice.
LARRY: That was my dad's. That was my brother's
high school car.
JERSEY JON: You selling this?
LARRY: No, you'd have to ask my brother and I don't think so.
JERSEY JON: Okay. LARRY: I think we're keeping it 'cause it was my dad's.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, no, that's really cool
that you're keeping it, too. I mean, it's part of the family.
MIKE: We're finding out real fast here
that there's just not a lot of stuff for sale.
I mean, I can understand why his wife
is taking this position.
She's like, "You got to get rid of stuff,
you got to get rid of it." Jersey Jon and I
hear that all the time, you know.
We constantly hear that.
JERSEY JON: Is that a Caddy?
MIKE: How many doors are on this Cadillac?
LARRY: Four. MIKE: Okay.
MIKE: But here's the rub.
Larry's got plenty of space
and he's got plenty of family members
that have things in here, too.
You know, it's like, how much is that?
"That's my brother's." How much is that?
"Well, that was my dad's." How much is that?
"Well, that was my dad's cousin's hairdresser's kid's."
That's the thing with farms, you know.
With farms, you know, the stuff stayed there.
MIKE: There's an Ossa.
LARRY: That's a '71 Stiletto.
MIKE: Did you race this bike?
LARRY: I did. That was my first vintage bike I raced.
MIKE: No way. And then what am I looking at here?
JERSEY JON: It's stacked in here like cordwood, man.
LARRY: That's a Honda 150.
MIKE: In the late '50s, all the way through the '70s,
there was a lot going on
in the motorcycle scene in America.
The British invasion was already in full swing
and the Japanese bikes were coming over.
In 1969, the Honda CB750 came over.
That was a game-changer.
In '73, the Z1 900.
All of these bikes were coming over
and they were incredibly fast and they were affordable.
Young guys that were buying these bikes
had never experienced that kind of speed
and performance before.
MIKE: It's got a nice seat on it, man.
JERSEY JON: It's kind of cool.
MIKE: What are you thinking on this?
LARRY: I don't know, I'd kind of like to keep it, I think.
MIKE: Okay.
MIKE: The same exact thing
was happening in the dirt.
With all the Japanese dirt bikes coming over,
a lot of the guys that were racing this stuff
and riding it, those were the glory days, man.
And who wouldn't want to get back into it?
Especially now when you can still buy every bike
that you ever dreamed of?
MIKE: Let's see what else we got.
Woo! Oh man, you got some room up here.
LARRY: Yeah, so for years, I would stash
stuff upstairs in the barn. MIKE: Okay.
LARRY: And my dad would never go upstairs.
MIKE: Okay. (laughs)
LARRY: One day, he goes up there and he's like,
"Uh, what are you doing up here? Where'd all this come from?"
(laughing) LARRY: I had shelving, I had all my parts.
MIKE: So, this is all Japanese stuff?
LARRY: Yeah, pretty much. MIKE: Wow.
JERSEY JON: Wait, wait, wait.
What's going on with these keys?
What is this? Is this a sculpture you made
or something like that? LARRY: Well, for a while
I fixed locks. So, I'd keep all the keys.
JERSEY JON: Man, look at that thing. It's like a piece of modern art.
You know, like something Andy Warhol would've stuck
in his hallway or something. You know? 40 bucks.
LARRY: Good. JERSEY JON: Yeah?
JERSEY JON: That was easy.
LARRY: I was shocked they were interested in that.
That was kind of funny.
MIKE: What are you thinking?
LARRY: Looks kind of like a little chopper tank.
MIKE: Yeah. LARRY: 50 bucks?
MIKE: How about 30 bucks?
LARRY: 40. MIKE: Alright, 40 bucks.
JERSEY JON: Who made these cutaways? Do you know?
LARRY: I did. That's a Kawasaki 175.
That's a chainsaw.
JERSEY JON: That's a chainsaw. But it's neat that you did it.
And you polished it. You actually did a really nice job of them.
I'll give you 50 for them both. LARRY: Okay. Excellent.
JERSEY JON: Thank you. Yeah, I like them.
LARRY: My focus is the mechanical stuff.
I love taking things apart,
even if I'm not gonna keep it or fix it.
I just want to see how things work.
MIKE: Oh, here we go. Here's a bicycle.
Is that something you'd consider selling?
LARRY: Yeah. MIKE: Oh yeah.
Look at those handles. Look at those ram's horn handlebars, baby.
JERSEY JON: The Spyder 500. MIKE: Oh my gosh.
(laughing) LARRY: Sold by Sears.
MIKE: When Schwinn came out with the Pea Picker,
the Lemon Peeler, the Apple Crate,
the Cotton Picker, the Grey Ghost,
the ripple effect was bikes like this.
What people call the muscle bike era.
MIKE: Look at the length of the handlebar stem here.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, it's crazy trippy.
MIKE: Look at the length of that.
MIKE: This one's actually in pretty good condition.
It's original paint. Yes, there's some pitting
on the chrome, but there's somebody out there
reminiscing about this bike right now
that's looking to buy one.
MIKE: Dude! JERSEY JON: Yeah, it's cool.
MIKE: The color, the graphics.
Look at it, it's got double top tube.
JERSEY JON: Yep. MIKE: Yellow fade
into the green into the blue.
JERSEY JON: It's almost like a World's Fair paint-job.
MIKE: Yeah, man. I know, right?
Five speeds. This is an era that I...
That I grew up in, but as far as collectors...
JERSEY JON: As far as values go. MIKE: As far as the value goes,
I can give you just a jumping off point
to where I would feel comfortable.
200 bucks.
LARRY: Sold. MIKE: Beautiful.
JERSEY JON: Yeah? MIKE: Alright, man.
JERSEY JON: Thanks, man. MIKE: Thank you. LARRY: I haven't a clue.
MIKE: When you look at this bike, you think about
the time period that it came out.
People were driving muscle cars,
listening to the 45-minute version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,
Ritchie Blackmore, Rainbow, KC and The Sunshine Band,
all that stuff was popping, you know.
So, this bike, the paint job,
the chrome, the seat, the butterfly handlebars,
the teeter slick on the back is reminiscent of all of that.
LARRY: Alright, this is a building
I keep all my good stuff in.
MIKE: Okay, so this is everything that runs?
LARRY: Everything runs in here.
MIKE: God, I bet you never get tired of that view.
JERSEY JON: It's gorgeous.
MIKE: Whoa. Dang. LARRY: This building's bigger.
JERSEY JON: It's a lot bigger in here than it looks--
MIKE: How many square feet? LARRY: About 5,000?
MIKE: Wow. What bikes are you...
LARRY: Everything with a number plate on, I race.
MIKE: Okay.
JERSEY JON: This room is full of Larry's pride and joy.
These are really super clean bikes,
they're all vintage bikes, man.
But they look brand new. I mean, he's taken
a lot of time, he's taken a lot of effort
to make sure every nut and bolt is tight
and these things are ready to ride.
MIKE: This is cool.
Look at the condition this is in, Jersey.
LARRY: SL70. MIKE: Yeah, that's cool.
I remember these when we were kids, man.
JERSEY JON: What year is this?
LARRY: '75.
JERSEY JON: The Kawasaki KE series is one bike
that was there that I'm really interested in.
It's probably one of the longest runs
of Kawasaki motorcycles that they've made.
JERSEY JON: Are you racing this still?
LARRY: No, not that one. I have a bike I race.
This one is kind of too nice to race.
JERSEY JON: Is this for sale?
LARRY: No. JERSEY JON: Aw, man.
MIKE: Is that original paint? LARRY: Yes.
MIKE: Wow. JERSEY JON: It's so clean!
MIKE: When you talk about selling something
and the idea of selling something sounds pretty good,
but then when someone shows up, and they're like,
"Hey, I want to buy that."
Those words make it real.
And he is selling a few things,
but a lot of the stuff we're seeing
that we really love, he loves it too.
So, this is all new for him, I think.
MIKE: How about this sign right here?
Whoa. Porcelain.
LARRY: Is it? MIKE: Yeah. Oh yeah.
LARRY: Double-sided. MIKE: Double-sided.
That's the good side, actually.
MIKE: Greyhound has been around for a very long time.
I'm talking before World War I.
And I can't tell you how many times that we've been through,
that one of the coolest buildings in the town
is the Greyhound bus station.
Some of those early bus stations, you know,
they just got a look to them. Almost like a car dealership
or a service garage.
But some of these places are still open today.
Greyhound is still around driving back and forth
across America.
MIKE: Would you sell that?
LARRY: If the price is right.
MIKE: I know someone that's restoring
an old bus station right now. LARRY: Oh, okay.
MIKE: Um...
600 bucks.
LARRY: Okay. I'll do that. Cool.
MIKE: Alright, man. Yeah, baby. Appreciate it.
LARRY: So, this old guy we knew,
used to go to the Indy 500 every year.
MIKE: Yeah? LARRY: And he worked for Bear.
MIKE: Oh, wow! JERSEY JON: Whoa, that is cool.
LARRY: At Bear, they wore those and I have the hard-hat
that goes with it. MIKE: No way. Those are cool.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, that is cool. LARRY: This is his dealership.
MIKE: Oh, man!
LARRY: Periato & Son. JERSEY JON: DeSoto.
LARRY: Well, I was introduced to him, Marcel,
by a friend of mine that we ride motorcycles together.
And he and his father would deer hunt up in the mountains.
Marcel owned the property.
JERSEY JON: Whoa, racing division.
MIKE: Racing division. LARRY: As he got older,
he was on the safety crew. MIKE: Oh yeah.
LARRY: I actually got to go to the Indy 500
with him before he died.
MIKE: No way, you did? LARRY: Oh yeah.
MIKE: Chain stitched,
automotive-related coveralls, shirts,
one's got a dealership on the back of it.
This stuff gets me so jacked up,
I can't wait to try it on.
JERSEY JON: For sure. MIKE: Look at that. Jersey who?
JERSEY JON: Looks like crap on you, dude.
MIKE: Uh-huh. JERSEY JON: It would look better on me.
MIKE: Now we're all of a sudden seeing a side of Larry
that we did not know existed,
the vintage clothing side of Larry,
the guy that cares about this kind of stuff.
Yes, it could've been thrown away,
but Larry saved it. He's got that big heart,
and he was connected to the person that owned it.
MIKE: Grab those Barbour jackets, too.
Did you see those, Jersey? JERSEY JON: No.
MIKE: Barbour and Belstaff are two high-end companies
when it comes to motorcycle clothing.
Gear that you wear when you're riding.
And anybody that owns that gear will tell you
that it's high quality,
but it takes forever to break it in.
(growling) MIKE: Look at that, Jersey.
JERSEY JON: You look pretty cool. MIKE: Oh yeah.
MIKE: And so, when I'm putting on these Barbour jackets,
that's what I'm checking out. I mean, you can actually
move in them. Some of the stuff when you buy it new,
it's like armor. These are already broken in.
MIKE: Is this something that you would consider selling?
LARRY: I'll sell one of them. MIKE: And this is so...
He would've worn this stuff at Indy?
LARRY: Every May, he went to Indy for a month.
Bear would teach him how to use all the latest
alignment and straightening equipment.
MIKE: So, like, what year are you talking?
LARRY: He started in the '30s. MIKE: Wow.
LARRY: Mid-30s.
MIKE: Bear is the company who basically
invented alignment equipment
and they were the industry standard.
I mean, any body shop, any service garage,
that's who Bear is.
MIKE: He was freaking tall, man. LARRY: Yeah, he was.
JERSEY JON: But is DeSoto a Plymouth dealer?
LARRY: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Wow, cool.
MIKE: 550 bucks.
LARRY: 600?
I'll even throw in the hat.
MIKE: Try it on, Jersey.
LARRY: It's been used.
JERSEY JON: It's all full of spiders, man. You put it on.
(laughing)
MIKE: 600 bucks. LARRY: Okay.
MIKE: Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
This is so cool that you knew him for so long.
LARRY: I got to go to Indy with him.
MIKE: Everybody know him there? LARRY: Yeah. Oh yeah.
MIKE: That's so cool. What year did you go?
LARRY: '99? MIKE: Wow.
MIKE: The reason a collector doesn't want to sell something
is because they are emotionally and physically connected to it.
So, what that tells me about Larry
is that he is a very passionate man.
MIKE: Hey, hey. Oh, you got my bicycle!
MIKE: All of these things, he embraces.
You know, he just needs to get his wife to do the same.
LINDA: All this crap and he won't sell a car.
He sells a bicycle. MIKE: I had to buy something with two wheels.
(laughing) MIKE: This side, Jersey.
JERSEY JON: I got you, bro.
LARRY: Linda, you know, she really was upset
that I kept the Volkswagen.
There are cars like the Cadillac and the Pontiac
back there which are 4-doors.
They weren't really interested in it,
but I'd really like to get rid of those
because I'm never gonna work on them.
I'll do it little by little, I'll get rid of them.
JERSEY JON: Thank you so much. LINDA: Oh, thank you.
JERSEY JON: Nice to see you. Nice to meet you guys.
MIKE: Thanks for sharing your family's history with us.
MIKE: Hey. It's a slice of heaven here.
LINDA: I know. MIKE: You're very blessed.
LINDA: It's God's country. MIKE: It is God's country.
(honk, honk) MIKE: See you down the road!
LINDA: I can't believe you didn't sell the car.
(laughs) LARRY: Why would I sell the car?
I love my car.
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