Tony: Everything is going to go to her 'cause
she's my only child.
Mike: You don't want- you don't want all of this?
Christine: No.
Mike: No? [laughs]
christine: Surprising.
Jersey jon: What do you got up here? 1907?
Oh... Yep yep.
Jersey jon: It's like a hardware extravaganza.
Rob: Mostly world war ii, some world war I.
Robbie: Wow.
Danielle: Is this a gold star flag?
Rob: World war ii, it's silk.
Mike: Alright, if you remember where all the good stuff is,
tell me, don't tell jersey.
[group laughing]
danielle: Talk about the toll and the heaviness of it.
Mike: Jersey!
Jersey jon: Come on already.
Mike: Alright, you got it?
Jersey jon: I gotcha.
Mike: You sure?
Jersey jon: I got it, man. [toy noises]
robbie: For sale?
♪♪
mike: Let us know if you see us, tell me if you see us.
Christine: I will.
I'm coming up- wait I see you, there you go, hey.
Mike: Oh there you are- wait alright, alright
I see you too.
I'm backing up, alright... Alright!
Hey! [laughs]
[honks horn]
christine: There you go, you found it, great.
Mike: [laughs] alright, thank you.
Christine: Hi... Nice to meet you.
Mike: Hey, nice to meet you.
This is jersey jon.
Christine: Nice to meet you. Glad you guys found it!
Mike: Thanks for guiding us in.
Jersey jon: We're looking for this stuff.
Christine: I got a lot of this stuff, well...
Mike: Dani went through a lot of this.
Christine: He has a lot of this stuff.
Mike: Is your dad around?
Christine: He is, yeah, he's right inside here.
Come on in.
Christine: My dad collects...
Almost everything, to be honest.
Christine: Hey dad.
Tony: Hello.
Christine: I got some guys here.
Mike: Hey I'm mike.
Jersey jon: Hey.
Mike: Nice to meet you, my friend.
Tony: I've been stuffing that garage for 30 years.
I had that place especially built.
It's the same size as this house.
There's no substitute for square feet.
Mike: So christine called us and said that um...
You had a few things that you might want to sell.
Tony: Yeah.
I would hate to see a lot of this stuff go to the dump.
Everything is going to go to her 'cause she's my only child.
Mike: And you don't want it, you don't want all of this?
Christine: No.
Mike: No?
Christine: Surprising. [group laughing]
jersey jon: Come on, look at all this stuff.
Christine: It's a lot.
Tony: You should see the stuff that she's already thrown away.
I gave her my summer cottage this summer.
Mike: Okay.
Tony: And I had a trailer my father built on the property.
Mike: Oh like a travel trailer?
Tony: Travel trailer.
Tony: And she didn't want that.
Mike: What year was the travel trailer built?
Tony: '40s.
Jersey jon: He built it?
Mike: Was it skinned like in aluminum and stuff?
Tony: Yeah, it was all aluminum.
Mike: I'm imagining this handmade travel trailer,
skinned in aluminum, looking like some sort
of buck rogers ship.
Tony: She hired some guy to come in and take it and
get it out of here, he cut it all up in little pieces...
Christine: Um-hm.
Tony: ...Put it into the dumpster.
Jersey jon: Whoa...
Mike: Okay. Yeah, that's no good.
Tony: That really went over big with me.
Mike: Just... Watching it being cut up...
Mike: Man, I would have bought that!
I would have bought that!
Christine: There were raccoons living in it.
Mike: That's okay.
Jersey jon: So what, we like raccoons.
Christine: It's my mom and I that have
been dealing with the collecting.
Jersey jon: Sure.
Mike: Uh-huh.
Christine: And what ends up happening is we get overwhelmed,
and we don't know what's worth anything
and we just want it gone.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: Is this the first you've heard of this?
Christine: Oh no. Mike: [laughs]
christine: Oh no, I've lived this for many years.
Tony: You guys ready to look around?
Mike: Absolutely.
Jersey jon: Yep.
Mike: I'm going in.
Mike: Every collector's worst nightmare is that the things
that they've been coveting for all these years,
won't be pushed forward and used,
that they'd be thrown away.
Mike: [whispering] god there's so much stuff here.
Mike: Now christine gets that.
And so that's why we're here.
Mike: Check that out.
Jersey jon: The triple?
Mike: Yeah.
Tony: 1974 kawasaki s3 mach 2.
Mike: They made this in a 250, a 350,
a 400, a 500, and a 750.
Jersey jon: -750.
Mike: A lot of people called these "the widowmaker"
because the power band was incredible.
Mike: 2-stroke triple.
Jersey jon: These were like pissed off chainsaws.
Mike: [laughs] yeah.
Mike: Once you got to a certain rpm,
it just went eeee-oomm!
and it just took off.
Tony: This bike was fast as hell,
and it did scare the hell out of me.
Tony: In 1974, that was the fastest bike on the market.
Did well over 100 miles-an-hour.
You twist the throttle on that thing,
you better be leaning forward 'cause the
front wheel is going to come up.
Mike: [whistles]
jersey jon: That tank is sweet, man.
Tony: You were going to do a wheelie whether
you wanted to or not.
Mike: Let's get a little bit of a look here.
Mike: The japanese super bikes that were the king of
the road in the day, are extremely collectable now.
If you look at '69 honda cb750 sandcast,
you look at the '73 z1 900 kawi.
I mean, these were bikes that really changed the
evolution of the motorcycle.
Mike: Woo!
Mike: The kawasaki triple is one of those.
Mike: Did you look up the value of these?
Tony: It's worth at least $750.
Mike: Yeah, for- for one that's like really bad shape.
Tony: I went on the- the internet and looked up the
book value, they range all the way from $5,800
down to 750 in fair condition.
Mike: Some will even bring 5,000.
A bike that would bring 5,000 would be like,
like showroom condition, like brand new.
Jersey jon: No pitting on the cases,
all the chrome's nice.
See if it kicks over, man.
Mike: Ahh...
It's locked up.
Jersey jon: Probably a little corrosion in the cylinders or
something, pull the plugs off and...
Throw some oil in there.
Mike: What- what do- what would you feel comfortable?
Tony: Anything over 750.
Mike: Okay, well I was going to do uh... 1,750.
Tony: 1,750.
Mike: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: So 1,000 over 750.
Tony: Oh.
Mike: Because to be honest with you,
to get it to the point where it runs,
it's no big deal, there's just little things
that need to be done...
Tony: Yeah.
Mike: ...To make it ride-able.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: The fact that this bike is original paint,
it's got the original pipes, and the seat's intact.
Jersey jon: You kept everything really nice and clean,
the important stuff, and once the stuff goes,
it's really- you can't bring it back.
Mike: It could be a bike that would rule the road again,
for not a lot of money.
Mike: 1,750.
Tony: You own it.
Jersey jon: Nice.
Mike: Alright, buddy.
Christine: Alright.
Jersey jon: Awesome, man.
Mike: I appreciate ya.
Jersey jon: Thank you, tony.
Mike: We'll get it back on the road.
Jersey jon: Thanks for taking care of this bike.
Tony: Thank you.
Robbie: While mike and jersey jon are out picking in
massachusetts, dani and I are down in pennsylvania.
Danielle: Robbie!
Robbie: Slow... What?
Pay attention!
Danielle: Just keep your eyes on the road,
I swear, every time, every time.
Robbie: Hey, listen, I'm beating the gps by 14 minutes right now.
Danielle: Because you're driving with your left foot
in the other lane.
Robbie: Okay.
Danielle: This guy, his name is rob also.
He's got a basement, like chock full of militaria.
I don't think his wife wants him to keep it upstairs.
It's all in the basement.
Robbie: Okay, militaria, there it is, the jeep.
Danielle: Ahhh...
Look there's the jeep out front.
Robbie: The jeep.
Danielle: Rob!
Rob: Hey, danielle?
Danielle: This is robbie.
Robbie: Hey.
Danielle: Rob.
Rob: Hi, nice to meet ya.
Robbie: Easy name to remember.
Rob: Yeah. Alright.
Robbie: Anxious to see it all.
Danielle: I want to see this jeep you are wrenching on.
Robbie: Yeah. Wow...
Love these things, man, they go anywhere.
So what's the deal with this?
Did you do all this to it?
Rob: We- me and my father-in-law...
Robbie: Yeah?
Rob: We put all the uh...
Insignia back on it.
Robbie: Oh yeah.
That's awesome.
Danielle: Yeah you did.
This is just the beginning of your militaria, right?
Rob: Correct.
Danielle: I hear you've just got an insane collection of stuff.
Rob: Yeah.
Mostly world war ii 'cause my dad was in world war ii,
and that kind of got me going.
Rob: I've always collected.
As a kid I collected baseball cards.
My dad served in world war ii, one day I guess I found
in the closet his uniform and his stuff,
started playing army.
Danielle: That's the connection, huh,
your dad was in world war ii, and it just...
Rob: Yeah.
Still have all my dad's stuff.
Danielle: Wow.
Rob: Different souvenirs he brought back stuff.
Robbie: The air corps stuff, he was in the air corps,
so I've really zeroed in on collecting air corps.
And that just kind of snowballed to a
collection of a lot of military stuff.
Robbie: It's stacked up in here.
Rob: This is kind of the overflow of the collection.
A lot of this stuff is we do reenacting.
Robbie: What is up with these uh...
I see you got an analyzer.
Rob: There are 2 of them.
Rob: I collect military stuff mostly,
but I like picking and buying any type of little collectible.
Danielle: Yeah.
Robbie: I'd like to see what these things look like.
Rob: Alright, we're digging them out?
Danielle: Yeah, let's dig 'em out.
Robbie: Yeah, heck yeah.
Danielle: Here, hand me that.
Rob: I bought the engine testers at a car swap meet.
Robbie: ...See what we got here.
Rob: I knew they were from like '20s, '30s.
Robbie: I'm bailing these bad boys.
Rob: And they were just really cool looking.
Robbie: Allen electric equipment company.
It's got that deco look to it.
Tested everything on it - your gap,
your spark, the amps that the car was putting out.
Robbie: If your lights were dim, would have tested the generator;
if the carburetor wasn't set right,
it would have tested the vacuum; your engine's smoking?
Maybe the compression was bad.
These engine analyzers did all of that.
Robbie: Nowadays, they hook it up to a computer.
Rob: Right.
Robbie: This was the computer for six volt.
This one was the combustion.
That's got a great look, it's a great set.
Rob: Yeah.
Robbie: The cables are on the side,
man look it they're toasted.
So it's more of a display piece.
Um...
♪♪
robbie: 250 on the pair?
Rob: How about 3... For the pair?
And you can have that thing, whatever that does.
Danielle: Hm.
Robbie: This is like a dimming switch,
back in the '30s, maybe.
[exhales] 275.
Rob: Yeah, I can do that.
Robbie: Alright, appreciate it.
Rob: Alright, cool. Sure.
Robbie: Rob, I saw a sign, I'm a big advertising nut.
Rob: Alright.
Robbie: Like this sign right there.
Rob: Okay.
Robbie: I mean, is that something you want to sell?
Rob: Sure.
Robbie: Let's see if I can get back there...
What's this thing?
Rob: Kid's toy, early '40s.
Robbie: It says "usa" right on it.
What did it mount on?
Rob: It may have had a tripod at one time.
Robbie: Did it shots something out of it or it's just...?
Rob: Yep, crank the crank.
[kids toy cranking noises]
robbie: Man, it's like realistic for a kid's toy.
Rob: It is.
Robbie: 40 bucks.
Rob: 75.
Robbie: You got the bullets?
Rob: I have wood bullets that shoot.
Robbie: Do they like... Shoot -shoot?
Rob: I can hit you from here with them.
Robbie: Oh. Hmm... 60?
Rob: Alright. Robbie: Alright. Awesome.
Robbie: Alright, let's see if I can get back in here...
Get back in here... Ah...
Rob: Media's kind of local to us.
Robbie: Okay.
Rob: Halfway between here and philadelphia.
Robbie: I just love early advertising.
Do 100 bucks?
Subject matter's everything on these, you know that.
Rob: I'll do 100. Robbie: I appreciate that.
♪♪
mike: What else you got in here? Alright.
Christine: Alright.
Mike: I want to see this bicycle, tony...
Jersey jon: Check that bicycle out, man.
Mike: Ahh...
Jersey jon: That's cool.
Christine: She's an oldie.
Mike: No matter how long I've been collecting bicycles,
if I see something that's unusual,
that's different...
I'm like a raccoon in a trashcan, man,
I'm all over it.
Jersey jon: Oh it's got the tank,
look at that tank, mike.
Mike: The bike itself is what they call a monark 5-bar.
So there's 2 top tubes and there's 2 down tubes.
2, 4, 5.
This tank did not go on this bike,
somebody, somebody made that for the bike.
Tony: No, I know that.
Tony: That bicycle was my bike when I was probably
10 or 12 years old.
Tony: I used to put 10 miles every day on that thing.
Mike: What do you got on the odometer there?
You got 700...
And 78 miles on this thing.
[jersey jon & christine laughing]
mike: You know, it's got the- the basket on the front,
he was obviously carrying something.
He's got the little siren on the front fork.
He's like, hey I'm coming through, man.
Look out.
Mike: Here's the great thing about this bike,
is that it's got mismatched parts on it.
Tony: Back in the '40s, you couldn't buy a new bike,
'cause all the steel was going to the war effort,
so all you could do was buy a secondhand bike and fix it up.
Mike: So these handlebars...
Tony: Yeah.
Mike: ...Are what they call gull-wing bars,
these are off of a shelby airflow,
okay, these are the deluxe handlebars
that sweep back at you.
Mike: Those handlebars are extremely hard to find,
those gull-wing bars.
Mike: And then this seat is also off of a shelby airflow,
and notice the springs on it are horizontal.
Jersey jon: What's the tank off of, mike?
What do you think?
Mike: Possibly a sidewalk speed bike.
Back in the '30s, they were making bikes that look
like little motorcycles.
You can see...
What does that say?
Something bike right there.
Moto-bike?
M-o-t-o?
Jersey jon: Yes, yes, exactly right.
Mike: Yeah. Christine: Yeah.
Jersey jon: M-o...
Moto-bike, yeah.
Mike: Yeah, so it's a moto-bike, so this is- this is off of a
little sidewalk bike called a moto-bike.
Jersey jon: Damn, he's good.
Mike: Well here's the biggie- would you sell this?
Tony: 'course I would.
Tony: I want to see it go to somebody that's
going to make use of it.
I don't want to see it go to the landfill.
Mike: I mean, overall, the condition of the
bike is not that great.
But you know what, the bike with the different parts on it,
is- is what truly makes it...
Mike: All of this stuff adds to the personality of the bike.
Mike: I'd pay 300.
Jersey jon: Wow.
Tony: It's yours.
Mike: Yeah?
Christine: If we do this exercise again,
for cleaning out, I am absolutely going to have someone
help me, because I clearly have no idea what things are worth.
Christine: Dad, why don't I get a chair,
and then that way you can hang out here
and I'll bring them in there.
Mike: Alright, if you remember where all the good stuff is,
tell me, don't tell jersey.
Tony: I will.
Christine: [laughs] jersey jon: Hah...
Mike: [laughs] jersey jon: Ooh mike...
Mike: There you go. It's you.
There's another one right next to it.
Jersey jon: Tony!
Tony: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Look at these cans.
I just found these in the back.
Christine: Those are cool.
Tony: I got another one of those in the back here too.
Jersey jon: Oh do ya?
You want to sell these two?
Tony: Sure.
Jersey jon: People who collect these things,
they want to make a nice display out of them,
it's all about the condition.
Tony: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Would you do 35 for the pair?
Tony: 'course I would.
Jersey jon: Oh awesome, thank you,
tony, appreciate it.
Alright, cool.
Here's some golden wedding whiskey, strap flask.
Christine: Oh they're finding stuff.
Jersey jon: There's an old carpenter's chest in here.
Mike: Ooh...
Jersey jon: Man, that was heavy.
Christine: He's way up high there.
How do you like them going through your stuff?
Tony: I know you don't appreciate any of this.
Christine: Well that's not true.
Mike: [laughs]
christine: It's not that I don't appreciate it,
it's just I don't know...
I would look at that like it's garbage.
Tony: Right.
Mike: Here, take that one, you interested in that one,
that's a really good one.
Jersey jon: Ooh... Hell yeah...
Mike: Anything whiz, man.
Jersey jon: Whiz.
Mike: That's cool
jersey jon: Ooh, gimme that thing.
Christine: They're looking at it with a different lens.
Mike: What about that?
Christine: Clearly I would have been wrong.
Tony: Well, I know the lens that they use, so.
Christine: I know you like their lens,
yeah I know.
Jersey jon: This french gray is harley colored, dude.
Mike: Here's a case of it.
Jersey jon: And this could be from that period.
Mike: Ugghh! Ahh... You got it?
It's heavy. It's going to be heavy.
Jersey jon: Hee-yyeah...
Mike: Haha... I told you it's heavy! [laughs]
jersey jon: Yeah.
Tony: What'd you find?
Jersey jon: Paint.
Mike: [laughs] jersey jon: Ah... Oil,
let's see what else we got here... This is cool.
What I found really interesting is that,
this is a "high gloss french gray enamel"
from boston varnish company, and it's all hand soldered.
Jersey jon: Original paint from a hardware store or
probably an auto-paint store or a coach maker store,
but what's cool about it is they're all from around 1910,
maybe 1915, never been opened.
Tony: Paint... As long as it doesn't hit
the air it's good forever.
Jersey jon: It's french gray enamel, the color.
And that's the same color they used
in harley davidson motorcycles.
Jersey jon: Somebody comes to me in my shop and they're like,
"hey jon, I got 1910 or 1912 harley,
and I want it restored."
a lot of times we're guessing on color.
Here is an original paint can with the paint in it,
and now I know what french gray looks like,
from that time period.
Jersey jon: So that's what's really interesting,
even though, you know the can is like,
decorative, but it also has value to me in another sense.
Tony: Good.
Jersey jon: Now you got a whole case of it here,
which is really cool, with all different colors
you're talking about.
So these cans have great graphics.
I mean, look at the graphics on it,
very bright, very colorful, got a little bit of pitting
on the bottom, but it's still really a nice can.
Look at this penetrating oil, I mean,
that's going to look good on anybody's shelf in their garage.
Uh...
Whiz polish is always great, any whiz stuff is
just unusual and it's- it's very collectable.
I'd go like 125 bucks on all the cans.
Tony: That's good for me.
Jersey jon: Alright, thank you so much tony,
I really appreciate it.
They're going to a good home.
Tony: That's what I want for it.
Tony: I was wondering what the hell I was going
to do with all that paint.
♪♪
robbie: Alright, I've been hearing about this massive
collection of militaria.
Rob: Sure.
Robbie: Where's that?
Rob: That's inside.
Robbie: Let's see it.
Danielle: [claps] rob: Alright.
Rob: I outgrew my upstairs space, so...
Robbie: Wow...
Rob: I... Got sent down here 'cause
I had some much stuff.
Robbie: Wow...
Danielle: Okay.
Rob: Uh mostly world war ii, some world war I,
all countries portrayed.
Danielle: Uh... [clears throat]
the last thing I want to see entering any room ever,
is a swastika.
Danielle: Coming down here, it can be jarring.
Rob: Yes.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: Especially coming down and seeing
nazi helmets right here.
Rob: Yep.
Danielle: Very triggering.
So I have to take a moment, and really think about this.
Rob: Most everything in this case was
brought back by the americans.
Flight nurse brought this one back.
This one, this...
Robbie: The d-day.
Rob: D-day helmets, spectacular...
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: The d-day helmet is, yeah,
that's incredible.
Rob: Obviously the... The guy went through...
The american was in the 29th division.
Robbie: Okay.
Rob: D-day.
Every village he went through, he painted that village.
Robbie: Painted on there.
Rob: That symbol, you think oh that's the germans.
Robbie: Right.
Rob: That's actually painted on by our guy.
Robbie: Yeah.
Rob: The g.I. Painted this on there.
Robbie: Right.
Danielle: Why would the g .I. Have painted this?
Rob: 'cause he went through nazi germany.
Danielle: It's a piece of his story.
Robbie: Right.
Rob: This thing yeah, we beat these guys, kind of thing.
Danielle: Sure.
Danielle: The items that we're seeing right now,
by and large, are souvenirs from the war.
American soldiers brought back to show their
families why they did what they did.
Rob: A lot of guys had that feeling of,
I want to bring something home, to remember.
Robbie: Yeah. 100%.
Danielle: It's important we talk about these things,
even if they're scary.
Danielle: It's incredible because I didn't learn
anything about world war ii in school.
Rob: Yeah.
I've had kids, like high school age,
ask me if the germans helped us defeat the japanese.
Same with the opposite, you know,
did the japanese help us beat the germans.
Robbie: Yeah, yeah.
Rob: So obviously they're not getting it with the curriculum.
Danielle: Yeah.
And so it's- it's interesting to be able to go through this
and have a tactile experience.
Danielle: Being able to actually relate physically to something,
is going to teach you so much more about history.
Danielle: Is this what I think it is?
Rob: Yes, it's a...
Danielle: Is this a gold star flag?
Rob: It's a gold star flag for a gold star mother.
Danielle: And a gold star flag, basically means,
your child's not coming back.
Rob: Correct.
World war ii, it's silk, it's a 48-star flag.
Danielle: Can you imagine receiving that?
Rob: Yeah. Danielle: What a...
Robbie: No. Danielle: Wow.
Robbie: No. Rob: Yep.
Danielle: Talk about the toll and the heaviness of it.
You've lost your child.
Rob: Your- your child's not coming back.
Robbie: Yeah. Danielle: Yeah.
Danielle: That's why I want to be there and touch everything
I can, understand the history of it,
feel the weight of it, emotionally and physically.
♪♪
robbie: Rob, is this what I think this is?
Rob: It's a world war ii bomber jacket.
Danielle: Wow...
That's a hell's angels bomber jacket.
Rob: Sure is.
Robbie: Howard hughes made the movie about...
Danielle: Right, the hell's- yeah, the hell's angels.
Robbie: Yeah, that's, yeah.
Robbie: This is one of those pieces that everybody's wanting.
They want the vintage leather coat,
they want the original paintwork on the back.
It's screaming cool.
Rob: Inside it'll have his name written in it.
Danielle: There we go.
Robbie: Right here.
Danielle & rob: "w.H. Wilson."
rob: With his service number.
And from that I've researched it, found his uh... Unit.
Cecil miller was the pilot, and he passed away when
they had to jump.
This is the guy wearing this jacket.
He bailed out and he made it.
Robbie: While crossing the english coast,
3 engines were out, pilot was unable to find an emergency
airfield and ordered the crew to bail out.
Cecil miller jumped, but was killed on landing.
Danielle: Is this something that... Yeah...
Robbie: I mean, it's something I'm holding,
I mean, I'm like taking a deep breath every
time I look at this.
Danielle: Yeah.
Rob: Yeah.
Robbie: I've got a guy that we deal with on military stuff.
Rob: Sure.
Robbie: I mean, can I take some photos of this
and send it to him?
Rob: Absolutely.
Robbie: Richard is our go -to guy when
it comes to stuff like this.
I'm going to get some pictures and send them off to him.
Danielle: Rob, I got to ask.
Rob: Yeah.
Danielle: This is a kid's uniform.
Rob: Kid's uniform from world war I.
It's got, obviously it's got some moth-ing
that at 100 years old, it's not too bad.
They used the same buttons as they did on the real uniforms,
as you see.
Danielle: So basically, they would just dress up
like daddy and...
Rob: Yep.
Danielle: Play...
Rob: For parades, maybe.
Danielle: More of an honor thing.
Rob: Um-hm. Yeah.
Danielle: Okay, okay.
Danielle: For a military son, you can only imagine were very
proud of their fathers, their fathers were heroes,
and they wanted to dress like them.
Rob: The same type of wool, the same type of buttons,
it's made just the same as dad's would have
been kind of thing, yeah.
Danielle: Imagine how scratchy this would have been...
Rob: Yeah.
Danielle: ...To wear in the trenches, and...
Rob: In the middle of the, right in the middle of the
summer when you're sweating.
Robbie: This thing would be amazing in the store,
I mean it's...
Danielle: You're right.
Robbie: ...Literally, we have so many kids that come in.
Rob: And world war I is like 100 years...
Robbie: Yeah, it's world war I, it's 100 years old.
Rob: World war I doesn't come up very often.
You see plenty of world war ii child's uniforms
but I've been collecting awhile,
I don't recall seeing another world war I.
Danielle: I- I don't even know what to...
What to price something like this, really.
Rob: With the mannequin...
Robbie: Yeah, you got to have the mannequin.
Rob: Maybe like...
I was thinking about 400 bucks.
Robbie: With the signals?
Robbie: You can have the signals if you want it, yeah.
Danielle: At that time, there was so much family pride in
passing on the family name, the family tradition,
the family work.
Which is exactly why I want to bring it to the shop.
It's going to make a great display piece.
♪♪
mike: Christine, grab this.
Christine: Oh my goodness.
Mike: You got it? Here, let me see.
Whoa, okay, you got it?
You got the body?
Christine: Yep, I got it.
Mike: Okay.
Tony: Oh the little horse.
Mike: Yeah, look at that, there he is.
He's got his little leather ears still.
Mike: Leather ears, glass eyes, wooden horse.
All the pieces and parts are there,
you know, to complete this and make it
into something brilliant again.
Tony: That came from filene's, very popular
department store in boston.
Tony: My father worked there 32 years.
Tony: He worked in the warehouse,
all the stuff that came out of displays and things they'd bring
it over there and you know, throw it in the dump.
Well, my father would bring it home.
Mike: [laughs]
tony: He only had 2 sick days in 32 years.
They called him in on his day off,
gave him a hamilton watch and shook his hand.
Mike: What are you, what are you thinking on this?
Tony: $2.
Christine: [laughs]
mike: I was going to... Okay...
[laughs] you know what...
Christine: That's too...
Mike: ...I love it, I love it, I love the story you told me,
the department store.
I'd give you $100 for it.
Tony: My god, it's yours. Christine: [laughs]
jersey jon: What is that white...?
Tony: That's a practice bomb.
Jersey jon: A practice bomb?
Tony: We used to summer out at cape cod.
And from that spot, you could see this breakwater
off of the mouth of the bass river.
During world war ii, they used to use it as a target
for the airplanes to drop bombs on.
Tony: I used to watch them dropping these things.
Jersey jon: So it'd come in, whoosh, boom!
Tony: Yeah.
Tony: And I went out there after the bombing and
bring back what we could salvage.
Christine: So how'd you get this dad,
where'd this come from?
Tony: I went out and got it in my boat.
Jersey jon: You got it out, it was floating around?
Tony: No, it was in the deep water.
Some of them I didn't know and I would tie a rope on them
and tow it 50 feet behind the boat...
Jersey jon: Why?
Tony: 'cause I didn't know if it was going to go off.
[christine & jersey laughing]
jersey jon: This item is like an example of how tony lived
his life, he lived an adventurous life,
he was out getting bombs out of the bottom,
he rode motorcycles, he's like live life to its fullest.
Christine: I just, I can't believe that,
I never even heard this story before.
Jersey jon: This dude is cool.
Jersey jon: How about 100 bucks?
Christine: I would- I was actually thinking more
like 150 or 200, frankly.
Jersey jon: Hmm...
Christine: But that's just me, I don't know.
Tony: 125.
Jersey jon: Yeah, I'll do 125,
that's great, it's great history.
Mike: Jersey!
Jersey jon: Throw some stuff at me.
Mike: I'm going to hand you down a pedal car.
Jersey jon: Come on already.
Whatever you want to do, mike, just throw it at me.
Mike: Alright... Buddy...
Jersey jon: Do it, brother.
Mike: Alright, you got it?
Jersey jon: Yeah, I gotcha.
Mike: Drop it there.
Here's the headlights.
Mike: The more expensive cars have always
been really hard to find.
Jersey jon: Let's go this way.
Mike: Because those are the cars everybody
snaps up and they keep.
The car is built to look like a '34 ford.
It's got the look, the grille, the sweeping fenders,
it's streamlined.
Mike: Who restored this car, my friend?
Tony: Me.
Mike: You restored it?
Tony: 15 or 20 years ago.
Mike: Yeah, there's the lights, there's the lights.
Christine: No, it was way more than that.
Tony: No.
Christine: You restored it when I was a kid,
so 40 years ago.
Mike: When tony restored this car so many years ago,
that was the trend.
If anything was scuffed, it has rust on it,
the paint was fading, they would restore it.
Mike: So this design was on the side and you re-
tony: That design was on there I copied it.
Mike: In my eyes, you're really stripping the
history away from it.
But that's all really a personal preference.
Mike: Do you have the hood ornament?
Tony: No, it never was on it, I can remember.
Mike: Looks like something was mounted here.
Tony: I don't know what it could have been.
Mike: Maybe a little horn.
Jersey jon: These are the original tires?
Christine: Um-hm.
Tony: Yeah, those are original tires.
Mike: Yeah.
Jersey jon: They're in good shape.
Mike: And if you notice too, jersey,
they're pneumatic.
Mike: The fact that it has pneumatic tires,
tires that hold air, is really unusual.
Mike: I think it's brilliant.
Tony: My father bought that for me.
Mike: What year were you born?
Tony: 1934.
Mike: Okay, so '34, so you had this in like 1938?
Tony: Yeah.
Mike: If it was original paint, the car would command
a lot more money... But...
Tony: Yeah.
Jersey jon: It's not that bad.
Mike: ...But to be honest, it doesn't take away that...
Tony: But it looks a lot better than the original paint.
Mike: Yeah well here's, here's the original paint.
Tony: That's the original paint there.
Mike: Yeah, see.
Mike: You can see that the green was still bright,
yeah it's scuffed and it's got some scars and a little bit of
rust, but man, I'm just imagining this
piece original paint.
Mike: Um...
I'd pay uh...
♪♪
I'd pay 1,200 bucks for it.
Tony: Sold.
Mike: [laughs] thank you, my friend.
♪♪
mike: Ahh... Ooh that's killer.
Tony: That's an old indian motor platform.
Jersey jon: Ha!
Mike: Oh my god, where'd you get this at, buddy?
Jersey jon: Wow.
Let me in there.
Tony: It originally came with this propeller.
Mike: They were using it for some sort of power
source with this on it?
Tony: Yeah.
Mike: Let me see this.
Jersey jon: It's a cool propeller.
Jersey jon: This engine's got a propeller with it.
We see that quite often in early motorcycling motors.
Jersey jon: It's small for an airplane.
Mike: I mean, would it- would it have been on like
the back of a flat-bottom boat?
Tony: Small air boat.
Mike: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, like yeah.
Jersey jon: Yeah, maybe an air boat, yeah.
Jersey jon: This obviously was used for probably not
an airplane, but an air boat, 'cause it's a lightweight motor,
there's a crossover there.
Mike: So where'd you get this at?
Tony: My father brought it home in 1953,
right after indian motorcycle went bankrupt.
Mike: That's exactly right, that's the year
they went bankrupt.
Christine: It was really nice to have my dad talk to
people who actually knew what he's talking about.
Mike: So did you put the flywheel on it?
Tony: I put the v-belt...
Mike: Okay.
Tony: ...On there.
Christine: They- they speak the same language.
Mike: It's a '22, jersey, first year of the chief.
Jersey jon: Yeah, this is not the 7-horsepower,
it's the 8-horsepower.
Mike: Is that the right mag, jersey?
Jersey jon: Yeah, that's the splitdorf mag, man.
Mike: 1922 8-horse, no chips in the fins,
original mag, original carb.
Mike: Check this out, look at this,
look at the oil tank they made with the pump.
This is off an earlier indian.
Mike: The patina of the engine itself,
the way it's cradled in the bracket that held it
for so many years, it's so cool.
Jersey jon: Pretty nice shape, mike,
I mean it- I mean it- look at the bottom of the case,
it's just nice and that hasn't been sitting
in water or nothing.
Mike: Oh yeah, the fins are really nice on it.
Jersey jon: The motor... Has been...
Modified slightly.
They had to get a propeller on the output shaft of the motor.
Jersey jon: You didn't cut the shaft or nothing, right?
Tony: No I didn't cut anything.
Jersey jon: Whoever did it, didn't mar the cases up,
they didn't like ruin the crankshaft,
it looks like they just kind of bolted something on there.
Mike: Alright, so we've got the right magneto,
we've got the right carb, rear year because it's 1922,
that's the first year of the indian chief.
Jersey jon: There's still some red paint in the
very bottom of it, indian red.
Mike: From the engine cases.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jersey jon: I think it's going to be a pretty easy job
to like undo whatever that machinist did,
and have a really good valid indian motorcycle engine.
Mike: Is this something you'd sell?
Tony: I'm thinking about it.
Mike: You're thinking about it?
Tony: Yeah.
Mike: How long have you been thinking about it?
Tony: Oh... 40 years.
Mike: Yeah? [group laughing]
tony: 40 years, so just give me a few more
minutes to think about it.
Mike: Okay.
Jersey jon: Yeah absolutely, absolutely. Yep.
I saw some stuff back here I wanted to look at,
some small hardware you got.
Mike: Dig in, jersey, look at all this stuff!
Jersey jon: I know, I'm waiting for you to get out of my way.
Jersey jon: I turned a corner and he's got this workshop area
in there, and it's really tight.
Tony: It's all for sale.
Jersey jon: Alright, good.
Jersey jon: Old hardware, that's like wow...
Jersey jon: You got like, an old barometer.
Jersey jon: That's stuff I use in my restorations.
Jersey jon: Bunch of gauges and stuff,
I love gauges.
Like all this, I'm interested in this whole tray,
steam gauges, pressure gauges, some car...
Jersey jon: I'm just like, this is like crazy.
Jersey jon: This tray... Let's keep going.
Jersey jon: It's like a hardware bonanza.
Jersey jon: I got to get this stuff out of here.
What do you got up here?
Yep, yep, this one here uh...
Books, what are these things?
Jersey jon: Oh yeah, they're beautiful.
We'll figure this out.
Let me see what this is, 1907- ooh...
Cool I want those.
Mechanical movements, principles of mechanism,
that's neat.
Yeah, I'm interested in those for sure.
Wow...
Jersey jon: It's good.
Jersey jon: Let's go through this pile,
I'm getting in over my head here, I think.
We have the books here, we got the t-square book,
motor efficiency and these machine shop books,
I love these things.
Jersey jon: I have a huge library.
I've learned from books, they inspired me when I was a kid,
to do what I'm doing today.
When I'm stuck on a problem, I can go back to an old industrial
book and you just can't get that information from the internet.
Jersey jon: I'd go $50 for that pile right there.
Tony: Okay.
Jersey jon: Okay? We have...
These cool gauges, you know, the barometer
and the like, steam gauges.
There's some cool ones in there,
some common ones. I'd do 75.
Tony: That's alright.
Jersey jon: You're alright?
Tony: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Alright, so we got this,
this more bicycle stuff, we got the bicycle chain,
the sprockets in here, I would do $30 for this pile here.
Tony: Okay.
Jersey jon: Okay. So that's that.
And... Switches, dash lights for model a,
model t, guys are restoring cars...
A lot of '20s, '30s stuff.
They need a switch, how are you going to make
a switch like that for your car?
These things you don't find them everywhere.
So if I can't use this stuff, somebody's going
to buy this from me.
Jersey jon: 50 bucks for that box of switches.
Tony: That's alright.
Jersey jon: Alright. So that's that.
Mike: These are what I call task lights.
Tony: Hm.
Mike: You know, this would have been mounted
on a piece of machinery or a workshop bench.
And they're- and they're both different.
So look at this one, different clamp system,
this would have been like obviously like a wall mount.
Mike: These articulating task lights are really incredible.
They're really long, they have a lot of pivot points,
they're overbuilt.
Mike: I mean, they need a lot of work.
You need new wiring, you need shades.
You know, this one's missing the light fixture and everything.
Mike: Industrial lighting is incredibly hot,
to the point that they started reproducing it.
Once they start reproducing it,
then the original stuff starts to command more money.
Mike: For these 2, how about uh... $300.
Tony: $300?
Mike: Yeah.
Tony: Sure.
Mike: [laughs]
♪♪
robbie: We're looking at military stuff,
I mean, where did these toys come from?
Rob: A good friend of mine...
Robbie: Yeah?
Rob: ...Called me.
She had cleaned these out of her father's house,
and she's like I was thinking about getting rid of them,
'cause they're dirty, and I said I'd take them,
take them to a show, whatever.
Robbie: Wow...
Rob: I knew they had value.
Robbie: These are early. I mean, so early.
Rob: Um-hm.
Robbie: When I first started collecting back in the day,
toys were my thing.
Robbie: This was probably made in the 1890s.
Rob: Okay.
Robbie: They're both german, they would have had a clockwork.
Robbie: German clockwork toys made by
the lehmann company were so amazing.
Robbie: I mean, for being 100 years old,
I think the condition is amazing.
To survive as long as it has...
Rob: Yeah.
Robbie: These- these little propeller pieces are paper.
Robbie: Lehmann was one of those companies
that went over the top.
Robbie: The flags were always gone,
they were crushed on these pieces.
Rob: Yeah, yep.
Robbie: This is like thin metal.
Robbie: They are so delicate.
Rob: It moves real slow when you do that.
Robbie: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
It had a little motor that actually ran that.
Rob: Yeah.
Robbie: It had a little belt.
Robbie: The craftsmanship, the allure, that's what
got you to buy this toy.
Rob: I'll hold this.
Robbie: Okay.
Robbie: When it was working, or you pick it up in your hand,
you knew you were holding something that was quality.
Robbie: These were lions and tigers,
cheetahs, and they were actually riding them.
Robbie: And their mechanisms that
they put inside these things...
Robbie: And this piece here ran...
Rob: Yeah there it goes.
Robbie: They were like a rolex watch.
[music box playing]
robbie: 120 years old, still working.
Rob: That- that is cool.
Robbie: How cool is that?
Robbie: They were just incredible.
Nothing in the world worked like a german toy.
Robbie: I want to buy both pieces.
♪♪
robbie: These are early. I mean, so early.
Robbie: These toys are from the late 1800s.
Robbie: This is missing a base that it went on.
Rob: Okay.
Robbie: Good toys in general are hard to find.
To find this caliber of toy in the united states - impossible.
Robbie: Do you have the motor to it or is this all...?
Rob: There are other parts in these 2 boxes. Uh...
Robbie: What's in there?
Rob: There's a little more like riders for that.
Robbie: Okay.
Robbie: They're not missing pieces,
the pieces are here, but the little guys are broken,
their legs are broken off, their arms are broken off.
There's some repair work and some time that's
going to have to go into these.
Robbie: Condition of this one, the paint's chipping off,
you know it doesn't have the clockwork mechanism to it.
800 on that.
Rob: Okay.
Robbie: This here, because of the rarity of it,
you do have the men, this still actually works, 1,200.
Rob: So we're looking at 2, 2 for both.
Robbie: 2 grand for both. Deal?
Rob: That's a deal.
Robbie: They're going to a good home.
Rob: They are.
Danielle: Robbie. Look what's behind you.
Robbie: What?
Danielle: Right here, what's this?
Robbie: What?
Danielle: It looks like a pair of boots.
Rob: That would be a pair of stockings.
Danielle: Black silk stockings worn by queen victoria.
Robbie: What!
Rob: Yes.
Robbie: It's pretty wild to find queen victoria's stockings here,
amongst all this military stuff.
Danielle: "note crown and vr, victoria regina on welting,
circa 1870."
robbie: Queen victoria's stockings.
Danielle: Alright, let me look here.
Rob: Yes.
Danielle: There's the vr.
Robbie: The crown's on there.
Danielle: There's an m for the size.
You know what's real interesting,
it says that they're from 1870, that's after prince albert would
have died, she would have only worn black.
Rob: Okay.
Danielle: After he died, she only wore black.
Rob: Okay.
Danielle: That was it.
She was in mourning for the rest of her life.
Somebody took the time to stitch this onto a frame.
So painstakingly.
They did a really great job.
Rob: Um-hm. Yep.
Danielle: Have you ever stitched nylon before?
Rob: All the time.
Robbie: [laughs] danielle: It ain't easy to do.
What- I just don't...
Rob: Yeah, that's my thing.
Danielle: ...How in all of this, did you get
queen victoria's silk stockings?
I'm just magically drawn to them.
I'm magically drawn to them.
Are- are these for sale?
Rob: There's a little issue with that.
Uh my son, my- my expert on research...
Robbie: Yeah.
Rob: There's a little bit of a debate on,
do I own them or does he own them.
Robbie: Okay.
Rob: So if you want I can call him down and get him involved.
Danielle: Yeah.
Rob: Hey will, you up there?
Will: Yeah.
Rob: Come on down.
Will: Yeah?
Danielle: How did you get queen victoria's silk stockings?
Will: Found them at a yard sale, actually,
kind of by mistake.
It was- he found it, but somebody forgot their wallet,
so I paid for them.
Robbie: What!
Rob: So he- he's claiming since he- he put out the money,
that they're his.
Danielle: Okay, so will's the man I talk to.
Will: Yeah.
Rob: If you're going to negotiate,
I think you have to negotiate with him.
Danielle: I'm just going to- yeah I'm just
going to turn right now.
First of all, did you, did you put this in here or was this?
Will: No, it came that way from the yard sale,
guy we bought it from said that he cleaned out houses,
but he cleaned out a abandoned rosary factory...
Rob & danielle: Hosiery.
Will & robbie: Hosiery.
Danielle: A hosiery factory, sure, I gotcha.
Rob: Yeah.
Will: And...
He saved those and another pair which we didn't get.
Danielle: You know what I really love about these,
are the repairs in the hosiery.
Will: Yeah.
Danielle: It tells a story.
You want to know what happened...
Will: Yeah.
Danielle: Did she have a little dog that bit her ankle?
Rob: [laughs]
danielle: You know like, what happened there?
Will: Queen victoria was kind of known for being
one of the cheaper queens.
Danielle: There's something about that,
that I love in a queen.
Will: [chuckles] yeah.
Danielle: You're thinking of your people if you're
conserving funds, right?
That makes sense.
I- I have seen these sell mostly in europe for
right around 1,200 bucks.
I feel like I can stand tall at 1,000,
'cause I think they're really special.
Will: Well yeah, I think that's pretty fair.
It's more than I paid.
I didn't think they were worth anything,
to be honest.
Rob: [laughs]
will: They were at a yard sale, so.
Rob: Yeah.
Danielle: I'm real curious how much you paid...
Will: $20.
Danielle: $20!
Alright, yes, thank you.
Good eye, man, good eye.
Rob: There we go.
Danielle: Now I just want to take them out and put them on.
Rob: Heh...
Danielle: Don't you ever just want to do that sometimes?
Rob: No.
Robbie: Nah. [laughs]
♪♪
[phone ringing]
richard (on phone): Hello.
Robbie: Hey richard, did you get those photos I sent ya?
Richard (on phone): Yes I did, robbie.
Robbie: So, tell me what you know.
Richard (on phone): Well, a-2 jackets are highly collectable.
We know that they, they come in all forms of embellishment,
with the most popular and most expensive being the jackets that
have caricatures painted on the entire rear surface,
bugs bunny or grim reapers, obviously the nudes.
Robbie: Right.
Richard (on phone): Scantily-clad nudes,
they can go many thousands of dollars,
you know, 7 to 8,000, maybe 9,000.
Danielle: [whistles] robbie: Okay.
Richard (on phone): What I noticed about this jacket,
this is a basic jacket, just naming the nickname for
the bomber group, which was the 303rd.
Robbie: So... What kind of value do you
put on this thing, richard?
Richard (on phone): 1,500 to $2,000 range.
It's kind of a generalized thing,
but it's really about the art on the jackets,
and the history will come second.
Robbie: Okay.
Richard (on phone): You know, it depends on the art,
they're a form of art.
Robbie: Right, thank you for the information.
Rob: Thank you. [hangs up]
rob: So I mean, you guys are kind of in the
1,500 type range.
Robbie: I think we need to be at 1,500.
Rob: I just think we're too far apart.
For me, the name, the history...
Robbie: Right.
Rob: Knowing who it was, I like that aspect of it.
Robbie: Yeah.
Rob: I don't just consider it a- a painted a-2 jacket,
to me it's more special than that.
Robbie: Today's been a heck of a learning lesson.
Rob: Thank you.
Danielle: It's been eye -opening. It really has.
Robbie: 100%. Rob: Yeah.
Danielle: It was a really emotional day.
Danielle: Thanks, rob.
Rob: Alright.
Robbie: There you go. Stockings for m'lady!
Danielle: Ooh yeah.
Rob: Weapons... For m'lady.
Robbie: Weapons too. There we go.
Danielle: Stockings and weapons, that's all you need, right?
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: I'm still processing everything we talked about,
everything we've seen.
Danielle: Ooh...
Robbie: Rob, my friend...
Rob: Thank you.
Robbie: ...It's a pleasure.
Rob: Alrighty.
Danielle: The weight of it.
Danielle: I've had fun and I've learned a lot.
Rob: Thanks a lot.
Danielle: The gravity of it.
The importance of it.
Rob: I enjoy researching and finding out the
history about the things I- I find.
[honks horn]
danielle: Bye rob! Thank you!
Rob: See ya!
Rob: It's not just an object anymore,
it's- you can say well this was there,
this was somebody's.
♪♪
christine: Hey dad, I'm going to take them upstairs
to see what's up there.
Mike: Alright, we'll see you soon, buddy.
Alright...
So were you, did you have to help put
all these things up here?
Christine: No, no thankfully, I did not.
Mike: It says "spotlights" on it.
I don't see any spotlights.
Jersey jon: No, no spotlights.
Christine: That's weird.
Christine: My dad has really cool stuff,
I'm not going to kid you, I mean,
there's some really neat things that he has.
Mike: Oh my gosh, look at all these records.
Al jolson.
Jersey jon: Yeah, that's cool too.
Mike: This thing is heavy, dude. Ugh!
Christine: But at the same time, for every really awesome thing
that he has, or something that as a really cool memory...
Mike: Here's doll furniture.
Christine: Yeah.
Christine: There's like 600 other things that is just noise.
Mike: Have you ever gone through a lot of this stuff?
Christine: No, no, this is...
This is my first time too.
Mike: What's that...
Christine: Some sort of kit?
Oh it's like a barber kit.
Jersey jon: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christine: Yeah.
Christine: Without doing my own research,
I don't even know where to begin,
it's just so much stuff.
Mike: I can see why it's been a little bit overwhelming for you.
Christine: Yeah.
Mike: I've got a situation like this myself,
I'm 55, my daughter 8.
So when you're helping your dad walk around and everything,
it almost, to be honest with you,
brings kind of a tear to my eye, because um...
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Christine: Yeah.
Mike: 'cause that's what it's all about, you know.
Christine: It is.
Mike: He took care of you like that,
and now you're doing the same for him.
Jersey jon: Yeah, you're awesome.
Mike: When I'm watching those two together...
Christine: There you go.
Mike: It's hard not to realize that one day...
Tony: Ugh...
Christine: Alright?
Mike: That's going to be me and charlie.
Christine: One of the things that I think has been probably
the most impactful thus far is that my dad has a lot of value
that he puts on all of his- his stuff that he collects, right?
Jersey jon: Um -hm. Oh yeah.
Christine: And having you guys come here and
talk to him about like what something is worth...
Jersey jon: Sure.
Christine: ...Or what value it has,
it gives him validation.
Christine: My dad was trying to communicate with us its worth
and its value, and we just either didn't understand it
or maybe didn't believe him...
Mike: When I was talking about that bicycle
when I pulled it out of there...
Christine: Yeah.
Mike: ...I can't believe he had that when he was,
he was like 12, you know.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Wow, he still has it.
Christine: Which is crazy, and I didn't
even know that, and...
Christine: I would have been like,
oh this is a junky old bike, where did this come from?
And h never told me that that was his bike,
I had no idea.
Christine: And the stories that he's been telling
you guys today, like...
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Christine: I've never even heard these stories.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Christine: That... Bomb thing,
I didn't even know that that existed,
nor did I know that my dad found that.
Mike: Yeah.
Christine: It's pretty cool, yeah,
this has been amazing, actually.
Mike: Tony.
Tony: Yeah.
Mike: Here we are again, by the engine.
Christine: Yeah, so my dad and I talked,
and he's willing to, to listen to see what kind
of offer you guys can give.
Mike: Well, we appreciate that.
I love the engine and jersey jon and I kind of been knocking
around a little bit, you know, as far as like,
value as well.
The- the engine is- is, usually you find engines.
Tony: Yeah.
Jersey jon: You find motors before you find the rest of
the bike, the rest of the bike.
Mike: Yeah, because- yeah because people are using it for
different types of uses, you know,
it becomes a power plant.
Mike: Anybody that looks at this engine,
they're going to look at it from a perspective of,
it's a novelty.
What did it run, that's interesting,
oh it's an indian?
Oh that's cool.
Mike: It's kind of a trophy this way,
sitting this way...
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: ...But it deserves to be back on a bike.
Tony: It would be happy to go there.
Mike: Oh my gosh, are you kidding me,
incredibly happy.
Mike: I'm looking at it, and jersey's looking at it
as a motorcycle.
So when we're talking to him, we want to
share our passion with him.
Mike: We would, we would get this running.
Jersey jon: Oh yeah.
Mike: You know, jersey's built motorcycles out of less.
Mike: I'd pay 2,200 for it.
Tony: I thought it would be worth at least 25.
Mike: Um...
I don't think you're that far off.
The problem with it is, you know,
finding the rest of it, the '22 chief.
Mike: Find the frame, find the sheet metal,
find the front end, find the gas tank.
Mike: Not to say that this stuff's not out there.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
It's just hard to find the chassis anymore,
the chassis went to the scrapyard.
Mike: Jersey's the magic man, he's the guy that you
go to when all else fails and you can't find the part,
he makes it for you.
You know, he dreams big and being around him all these
years, it's contagious.
Mike: You guys have had this for 67 years.
I- I'd like to be the next guy.
Mike: When I'm looking at this engine,
I'm going, man, it'd be sure cool to have a first year chief,
this is the start of it.
Tony: 23.
Jersey jon: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: Alright.
Thank you, my friend.
Mike: I'm so glad that he decided to sell it to us,
because we're just the right guys.
Mike: Eh jersey, you got that?
Tony: Okay.
Jersey jon: Yeah...
Mike: This thing ain't rolling, I got to...
Jersey jon: Bombs away.
Mike: Urgh!
Mike: Tony and christine's story,
their relationship, their love and respect for each other,
really resonated with me today.
It reminded me so much of my daughter,
charlie and me.
Mike: There we go.
Christine: Alright.
Mike: Moving on down the road.
Mike: I think it's really evident that I need to share
more stories now with charlie, instead of...
Her finding out so much about me later on.
Mike: I am beyond excited...
Christine: [laughs] tony: Oh yeah?
Mike: ...For everything that you allowed us to buy.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: Thank you for sharing your family's history with us.
Tony: Well, I'm excited that you did buy it.
Mike: Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?
Tony: Listening to my wife and my daughter,
you know, get rid of that stuff, get rid of it,
get rid of it.
Mike: Oh my gosh, hey.
Tony: I say, I know there's people out there
that want this stuff.
So he can come back here once a week if he wants to,
and go picking.
Mike: Well jersey jon, he's just down in jersey.
Jersey jon: Yeah, we'll come up.
Tony: Yeah.
Mike: You know, he'll come up looking for more of your tools.
Christine: I... Feel like I heard more and
learned more about my dad today
than I have probably in the last 40 years.
Mike: I'll see you guys later!
Jersey jon: Alright, I'll see you later.
Christine: Bye.
Christine: It's amazing how much more,
so I think that that's really neat, you know.
Jersey jon: Yeah, see ya down the road!
Tony: Bye. Christine: Bye.
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