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jersey jon: You know what he does at the very end?
Mike: What?
Jersey jon: He's like, he gives me the finger!
I'm like, oh my god!
He's still busting our chops!
Danielle: I forgot to ask you, how did campbell's game go,
the volleyball game?
Robbie: I kind of got asked to leave early...
Danielle: What did you do?
Mike: So you got an email from dani?
Jersey jon: Yep.
We're going to see john and kirk kosakoski(?).
Mike: So what's their deal?
Jersey jon: Barn with some stuff in it, man.
Robbie: I did the damn ref's job!
Danielle: [laughs] robbie: It was a bad call.
Danielle: You're not supposed to fight with the refs,
you know that, we've talked about this-
robbie: I wasn't fighting, I was-
mike: Tell me, like, what do you got, like-
jersey jon: Oh, there's picassos there,
and I think there's some really cheap antique motorcycles.
Mike: [chuckles]
robbie: There was a little bit of a kerfuffle.
Danielle: Just a little kerfuffle...
Robbie: Like... I bumped into the ref.
Danielle: You... "bumped into the-"
jersey jon: Why don't you play dani for a while and I'll drive.
Danielle: Did your chest bump into the ref,
or did you fist bump into the ref?
Robbie: No, no, no, I never, never, no!
I just, you know, I'm hot-headed!
Jersey jon: There's 3 generations of stuff.
John wants to sell more than kirk does.
Mike: So john's the dad?
Jersey jon: Yeah, yeah. Looks good.
A lot of stuff. Big volume.
Robbie: And I'll get in there...
Danielle: Give him a little like, ugh! Yeah.
Robbie: Yeah, I'm like, hey, you can't-
danielle: Like ugh!
Robbie: I just... Whatever!
Mike: [laughing]
jersey jon: Really great stuff.
It's going to be awesome.
Mike: [laughing]
robbie: Those games are rigged, I'm telling ya.
Danielle: Those games are not rigged,
it's a high school game!
Mike: I, I might have to let you drive, dude.
You are not doing good with the leads.
Robbie: Sports in america.
Danielle: [laughs] sports in america.
Mike: She takes all that time to write those emails,
and then you butcher the hell out of them,
and you're like, hey they got, they got a barn full of stuff.
Jersey jon: [laughs]
mike: I'm going to tell danielle you're doing that...
Jersey jon: I don't care, she doesn't scare me.
Mike: Oh really! Oh-ho-ho!
♪♪
mike: Here we go. Oh yeah. Look at that old house, dude.
I love the architecture out here.
Jersey jon: Looks awesome, well...
Look at that junker.
Mike: There you go, that looks like that's your speed.
Jersey jon: Yeah right. [laughs] mike: [laughs]
[honks horn]
mike: Here, get the flyer.
Jersey jon: Alright.
Kirk: Hey.
Mike: What's up, man?
Kirk: Not much, can I help you?
Mike: Yeah, I'm mike.
Jersey jon: Hey, how are you? Kirk: Hi.
Mike: Talked to dani on the phone?
Kirk: Oh okay. I'm kirk.
Mike: Yeah, jersey jon.
Jersey jon: Hey kirk: Hi.
Jersey jon: Hi I'm jon. Kirk: Hi I'm kirk.
Mike: Yeah. You guys...
Jersey jon: Hey kirk, nice to meet you.
Kirk: Nice to meet you.
Mike: You guys called us?
Kirk: Hey dad! Mike: Hey, you john?
John: That's me. Jersey jon: Hey!
Mike: Alright, you talked to danielle on the phone?
John: Oh yeah. Mike: Yeah.
John: Yeah.
Mike: Dani said you guys were third generation,
and you had a lot of stuff from...
John: Yeah.
Mike: ...Previous generations and then she said that...
He was a hoarder?
[group laughing]
jersey jon: Yeah. John: Yeah. [laughs]
kirk: Yeah, I guess you could say that.
Yeah I guess so.
Mike: You and me both. Yeah.
John: Yeah... We got some of this stuff.
John: I like to sell more... You know...
Kirk: I'd like to buy more.
John: I know.
Mike: Can we look around a little bit?
John: Oh yeah sure. Mike: Alright.
Jersey jon: This is cool. This a sears barn?
Kirk: Yes it is, yeah.
Jersey jon: Very cool.
John: 1929.
Mike: Ahh... Look at all this. Beautiful car.
So you guys are trying to get this fired up?
Kirk: Yeah, trying.
John: We're having a little trouble here. No spark.
Jersey jon: What engine?
John: 283. Power pack, it's got the 4-barrel, factory.
Jersey jon: Wow.
Mike: You guys filled this up together or
was this generational?
John: Yeah.
John: We did clean out houses. So we had to take everything.
Kirk: More... Tag sale items.
John: When we'd go out and cruise the streets at night,
and pick up all kinds of stuff.
I don't know, it's just... Something...
Kirk: It's the... Adventure of finding stuff!
Mike: This thing looks fun.
John: Yeah.
John: Something tickles your fancy and you just
keep going at it, I don't know.
Kirk: Whatever catches our eye.
Yeah, yeah. And it just gets worse and worse.
John: It's like a sickness.
Kirk: Yeah.
John: It just keeps getting worse and worse.
John: It started years ago, but he's done...
Jersey jon: With your father?
John: Yeah, with my father.
Mike: He was collecting out of necessity.
Kirk: Whatever he sought out was cheap...
John: Was.. Or free.
Mike: Yeah.
Kirk: ...Or free. He got it.
Jersey jon: But he started... [laughs]
john: My dad would never throw anything away.
I mean, he never bought a bicycle in his life for us.
We put bicycles together.
I just kind of passed it onto him and now we
pick up all kinds of crap and...
Kirk: [chuckles]
john: And see if we can get it going.
Mike: This is a neat old piece.
Kirk: That's like a bolt organizer.
Mike: Yeah, exactly. John: Yeah.
Kirk: Put all your bolts in.
Jersey jon: What it's like from an old garage or something?
John: Yeah.
Kirk: Yeah, yeah, all wooden.
Mike: Yeah. Would you sell that?
John: I would, yeah, yeah.
Kirk: Oh boy. John: [laughs]
mike: Can I, can I open this door so I can see it better?
John: Yeah sure.
Mike: I don't care what you collect,
whether it's tractors, cars, motorcycles,
bicycles, airplanes - you're going to need
somewhere to put your parts.
Mike: Oh yeah, let me see what this thing looks like.
Mike: You don't want to put them on a nice shiny new shelf.
You want to put them in an old bolt cabinet,
something that looks period, something when you walk into
the garage, inspires you to want to buy more parts.
Mike: 75 bucks.
Kirk: It's up to you, dad.
John: Yeah, oh yeah.
Mike: You're doing it? John: Yeah sure.
Mike: Alright, brother. Jersey jon: Awesome.
John: Okay.
Mike: I appreciate ya. John: Yeah.
Mike: I like that, here let's pull it out of here
so we can see your car.
John: The bolt cabinet came out of the clean-up.
So we didn't pay jack- for it.
Kirk: [laughs]
john: You know, so... I feel bad about saying that kind of stuff.
Kirk: But he set the price, so, you know.
John: Well yeah, he- he threw the price out there,
and I, you see I didn't argue with him.
Kirk: No, it was generous.
John: Yeah, it was generous.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: Did you guys customize this car?
Kirk: Uh yeah, I did a little bit on it. I...
Mike: You did all this, you did the taillights?
Kirk: They're '59 caddy taillights, frenched in.
Jersey jon: That's smooth, man. You did a nice job.
John: Yep. Mike: Yeah.
Kirk: I love old cars. Everything was just
made better back in the day, and...
That's just what we like.
John: We've never, never bought a car yet that
we couldn't work on and couldn't get it running.
Mike: You a chevy guy?
Kirk: Yeah, I like chevys.
John: Chevys, they're important to me 'cause
it was my very first car.
When he was small, I says to my wife,
"where's kirk?"
she says, "look out there."
and he's standing on the seat, which you couldn't even see him,
and the steering wheel's going back and forth.
I go out there, he put in an 8-track tape in there,
and he's listening to honeycomb, and he's going crazy in there.
And I don't know if he was like 4 years old,
I don't even know how he got out there. [laughs]
kirk: [laughing] yeah... I was attached...
Mike: Let's see what else you got in here.
Mike: John and his father totally teed it up for kirk as
far as creating this cool space.
Yes, it was a working farm and everything,
but those guys were bringing stuff home.
Jersey jon: Argh!
Mike: When you have an old car, and you pull it
into an old barn, that's the kind of backdrop that
you want for your stuff.
So kirk is basking in the glory of all that has come before him.
Jersey jon: Interesting piece here.
Kirk: Out of bridgeport.
Jersey jon: Well yeah.
It's a bridgeport milling machine.
A milling machine is something that removes
metal from another piece of metal.
You mount the metal in here,
there's a cutter that goes in here.
You turn the handles, and you could actually shape
that piece of metal, put grooves in it or whatever.
What's cool about the bridgeport - made in connecticut.
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Jersey jon: Right down the road.
Kirk: Yep.
Jersey jon: It was a vertical milling machine.
What it does, it cuts slots in metals,
but it does it with high precision and a rigidity.
It revolutionized machine shops all over the world.
Jersey jon: Mom-and-pop machine shops would buy these and
they could make really nice parts with these things.
I use my bridgeports all the time.
And I know this machine intimately,
I know all about this machine.
Kirk: Yep.
Jersey jon: It's a really, really cool thing.
Mike: Listening to jersey talk about this milling machine,
[laughs] it's like he's talking about a woman or something.
He's like, look at her slants, look at her curves.
Jersey jon: This is call the knee here.
It drops down.
Mike: She's a work-horse, she's so ahead of her time.
Kirk: Yep.
Jersey jon: This thing is like a magic machine
that does a lot of work.
Mike: Him and I connect on levels of like antique
motorcycles and antique bicycles.
To hear him talk about some of these tools,
I mean, he's getting me excited about them!
Kirk: What do you think it's worth?
Jersey jon: It's probably worth about 2,500 to $3,000.
Kirk: Oh yeah?
Jersey jon: Yeah. You want to sell this thing?
Kirk: Um... This is pretty fresh to me, I just, I just got it.
I had plans on using it, I haven't hooked it up yet.
And then of course, everything got filled all around it.
But... Um... I'd like to hang onto it.
Jersey jon: I'm definitely interested if
you ever want to get rid of it.
So let me know.
Kirk: Okay. Jersey jon: Okay?
Kirk: Okay.
Kirk: See, see what you did?
John: Yeah, it's all my fault. I know.
Mike: How about this, look at this.
Does it say "ratt?"
"ratt and whitney." what do you think, dude?
Kirk: Ahh...
Mike: It's supposed to have a "p"...
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: It's supposed to have a "e".
Kirk & john: Yeah.
Mike: Pratt & whitney was an american aeronautics
manufacturer out of connecticut.
Mike: Oh yeah... Kirk: Perfect fit.
Mike: Look at that.
Mike: When I think about pratt & whitney,
I think about radial engines.
The power, the sound, the big wooden propellers.
It's easy to romanticize about that time
period in american aviation.
John: I used to wear that when I worked on the cars,
that's why the sleeves are...
Mike: Did you used to wear this?
John: Oh yeah.
Mike: When I put on a jacket like this,
or any piece of vintage clothing,
it's transforming.
It takes you back to a time and place and holds you there.
It's very personal.
This was someone's work jacket.
Jersey jon: That thing is nice.
Mike: The fact that it was in that factory,
think about the stuff they were doing,
or that they were experimenting with,
the products they were pushing out there.
I mean, this was a huge company.
Mike: 65 bucks.
Man, for that p & e, it'd be... Big money.
John: Oh I know. Kirk: Ah.
John: If we knew you were coming,
we would have put them on.
Mike: [chuckles] have the old lady stitch it up, huh.
John: Have my wife sew them on.
[group laughing]
kirk: Uh... How about 80 for it?
Mike: It does say "ratt whitney."
kirk: [laughs] john: Yeah.
Mike: 70 bucks.
Kirk: Sure, sure I'll sell it.
Mike: Alright, we're doing it.
Kirk: Okay. John: Okay.
Mike: I feel like we've kind of just scratched the surface here,
to be honest with you.
Kirk: Yeah, it's a lot of stuff.
♪♪
robbie: So what's the deal with today?
Danielle: Alright, so the skinny on today is we're
going to go see a young man named curtis...
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: ...Who just lost his father.
Sadly, he's got to go through all of his father's stuff.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: His dad was named richard,
and he loved collecting.
Spent most of his life as a dj.
Robbie: Okay.
Danielle: Curtis said to come around back.
Robbie: Right here?
Danielle: Yeah, yeah. Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: Perfect.
[honks horn]
danielle: Alright.
Robbie: You curtis?
Curtis: How's it going?
Danielle: Hi curtis.
Robbie: How're you doing?
Danielle: Danielle.
Curtis: Danielle, I'm curtis.
Danielle: Nice to finally see you.
How are ya?
Robbie: Hey, how are you, nice to see ya. Thank you.
Curtis: How's it going?
Danielle: Doing good?
Curtis: Yeah, I'm excellent.
Danielle: Good.
This is everything we're looking for,
we went over all this, but there's just a little...
Curtis: Oh yeah, we got some of these.
Curtis: My stepfather, rich, passed away earlier this year.
He was an old soul.
He loved radio, he loved old music,
he relished in the past.
We knew right away that it was going to be
overwhelming looking through everything he left behind.
Curtis: There's a lot in the house.
The garage is a great place to start though.
Danielle: Yeah, let's get into it. Right.
Robbie: Alright.
Curtis: Rich had that garage locked up and no one entered it.
Curtis: I'm warning ya, I've only been in here
once in about 20 years. Alright.
Danielle: Alright...
Curtis: After you.
Danielle: Here we go.
Robbie: Holy cow.
Curtis: Oh yeah, it's a mess.
Danielle: Yeah...
Robbie: Wow.
Robbie: The garage is in rough shape.
The ceiling is falling down, there's some water
damage on the cars.
Danielle: Ooh, check this out. Look at that.
Robbie: Willys.
Danielle: I always love it when I walk into a space,
and immediately find something that's interesting.
Robbie: That was actually the early 1900s,
is when they started making these cars.
Danielle: I mean, it's in pretty rough condition,
but it's pre-war.
Danielle: It was rusty and it was definitely dirty,
but it was double-sided porcelain.
Danielle: I'm into it if you're into selling it,
look it, the little spider want to come with though.
Robbie: He can come with.
Danielle: [laughs] so we can get 150 in the store for it,
so I think like 75 should be fair.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: How do you feel about that?
Curtis: Yeah, if you guys want to meet me halfway,
that sounds right.
Danielle: Perfect. Robbie: Alright. Awesome.
Danielle: Wow, that was a quick one!
Curtis: Yeah thanks.
Danielle: Yeah, already into it.
Robbie: Broke the ice on that one, awesome.
Man, what is up with this?
Was your dad into kit cars?
Curtis: Oh yeah.
He drove it to the prom, if I remember.
Robbie: He drove this car to prom?
Danielle: Oh! What!
Curtis: Him and his date, yep.
Showed up at prom with this.
Robbie: This is a gt bradley fiberglass kit car.
He took it and put it on top of a volkswagen.
Yeah, these things were like back to the future.
Danielle: Look at that red sparkle.
Robbie: Look at that thing shine, dani.
Curtis: Oh yeah. Danielle: Woo!
Robbie: This is cool. Man, condition's just gone though,
it's really gone.
Curtis: My stepfather, rich, and his grandfather used to
work on vehicles together.
They actually built this garage together.
You can see from here through, was when they did it sober,
and then they got a case of beer and
they tried to finish the rest of it.
Danielle: [laughs] that is hila...
Robbie: Hey, it's still standing up.
Danielle: [laughs]
curtis: What do you know about this bike?
Robbie: What is it, a kawasaki-
the engine's gone. I know that.
You can't ride it without that.
Curtis: That's right. [laughs]
robbie: I'm trying to get a feel for what kind of
collector curtis' stepdad was, and there's just
not enough in this space.
I'm really hoping there's more in the house.
Curtis: If you want to head up to the house,
I can show you the basement.
Robbie: Alright.
♪♪
curtis: This is the house that my stepfather grew up in.
Danielle: Oh he grew up here?
Curtis: He did, yeah.
Danielle: Ohh wow.
Curtis: His grandfather sold him this place,
he's lived in here almost his entire life.
Robbie: Wow.
Curtis: And then for a while there when I was
going through college, he let me live here with him.
Robbie: Awesome.
Curtis: The basement of the house is the unknown.
Curtis: We're still finding new things in here.
Curtis: I never ventured in the basement before rich passed.
Robbie: What's the deal with this?
Curtis: You'd go down there to get something out of the cooler.
You don't venture back into where that
old toilet is and all that stuff.
Robbie: Yeah... Danielle: Ohh...
Curtis: There it is.
Robbie: This is a maytag racer.
You ever race in that thing?
Danielle: Ah, I didn't see that!
Robbie: Look at that.
Danielle: Ah that's sweet!
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: "junior."
robbie: Was that you?
Curtis: No, that's him. I think it was gifted this from his,
from his grandfather.
And they had a really close relationship, so.
Robbie: Wow...
Curtis: When rich was a kid, he was helping his
grandfather around the service station, as he always did.
As payment for his help, he got to choose
either a bike or a racer.
Danielle: The brat... Curtis: The brat, yeah.
Danielle: #18.
Robbie: These were popular back in the day,
you can see it was made right here by the maytag corporation.
And they all ran the little maytag motors
that ran all the washers.
This is awesome!
It doesn't have the seat in it, but man,
I imagine being a kid ripping this thing around.
Robbie: They only went 20-mile-an-hour,
but man, they looked good doing it.
Robbie: You're probably 10 years old,
your hair's blowing back in the wind,
you're like, man I'm going fast.
Danielle: I'm outta control! Haha!
Robbie: Yeah, exactly.
That's the way it was.
You don't know where the motor is, huh?
Could be around here.
Curtis: It could be, that and the seat.
Robbie: These were produced in the early '30s up to the 1940s,
so that maytag dealers could promote the versatility
and power of a maytag motor.
Robbie: They used maytag motors on everything.
Robbie: These little motors weren't just for powering a
washing machine, they brought electricity
to the rural family farm.
They were used to run anything that was belt-driven -
from a water pump to a generator.
Robbie: The early ones were in the '30s.
This is a later version.
Robbie: These were only made for maytag dealers.
They made around 500 of them.
To find one in this basement is pretty cool!
Robbie: Is this something that you want to sell?
Curtis: Yeah, I think we're okay with parting ways with it.
Robbie: I've seen these before, but I've never seen one sell.
So it's kind of hard to price.
Robbie: 600 bucks.
Curtis: Well you said it's pretty, pretty rare.
Maybe closer to 900, I'd be more comfortable with that.
Robbie: I'll come up to 750.
Curtis: I can do 750.
Robbie: I love it. It's freakin' awesome looking.
Robbie: Get bob peterson to put his little skunk on there
and a little freakin' shroud on the back and away we go!
Mike: You finding anything, jersey?
Jersey jon: Yeah, I got something over here.
John, come here.
John: Yeah, what's up?
Jersey jon: You got a transmission over
here for a harley.
John: Yeah, it's been around for a long time.
Jersey jon: Yeah?
John: Ever since I can remember.
Jersey jon: The biggest problem here is this bicycle sprocket
that somebody put on, they welded it onto the main shaft.
John: I don't know where it came from,
my dad must have picked it up at a dump or something,
kirk: I tried putting it on your go-kart,
but it had that big sprocket on it.
John: I think I tried... Putting it on a go-kart.
John: My dad was a state cop, he was a motorcycle cop.
He rode indians.
Jersey jon: Ah cool! I love indian stuff.
Jersey jon: This is harley though.
John: Oh.
Jersey jon: Vl probably '30, '31, something
like that, I think.
John: Wow.
Jersey jon: But it- it's tough.
We've got a lot of issues with it.
If it was a perfect transmission with all the stuff in there,
yeah it's a $1,000 transmission, you know,
if it was really nice and clean and running and going. But-
john: Hm. I could have cleaned it up for you. [laughs]
jersey jon: Nah... [laughs]
no you, you'll have more work than just cleaning it.
You got to rebuild the main shaft, and... Yeah...
John: Yeah, I understand, yeah.
Jersey jon: But I'm interested in buying it.
What do you want for it?
John: I don't know, 100 bucks?
Jersey jon: Uh yeah, I'd give you $100 for it,
and I think that's fair.
You know, I could get the parts off it
and make some money on it.
John: Yeah. Jersey jon: Okay?
John: Fine.
Jersey jon: Alright, thank you very much.
John: Okay. Jersey jon: Yep.
Mike: What's this here?
Ahh I see you got it hidden here.
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Mike: I used to play with one of these when I was a kid.
There was one at the gas station.
Kirk: Yeah?
Mike: And I finally figured out after I blew up like 3 tires,
3 tubes...
Kirk: Haha!
Mike: ...That this is, this is adjustable.
Kirk: Oh yeah, yeah. Mike: Yeah, I...
Kirk: And it dings.
Mike: Would you consider selling this?
Kirk: Maybe for the right number, I...
Mike: I mean, they're really hard, they're-
kirk: ...I always had plans to mount it on a building,
I always wanted to have like a...
Mike: Yeah.
Kirk: ...Full gas station, I wanted to...
Mike: Yeah, you've got plenty of structures for it.
Kirk: And uh... Yeah.
Mike: Umm... Kirk: But uh...
Mike: I'd do uh... 650.
Kirk: 650.
Mike: Usually it's the son or daughter that's
trying to get the dad to sell.
Okay, this is the exact opposite of that.
Mike: So many people, especially on farms,
kept everything, they didn't through anything out.
Kirk: Uh-huh. Oh yeah.
Mike: I mean, they'd keep a ball of string and a...
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Mike: ...Drawer full of paper clips.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: You know, because they always knew hey,
maybe I'll need that down the road.
Kirk: Exactly.
Mike: Okay, so I get where your dad got that from.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: So how did you get into the collecting bug,
like how does that connect with you?
Kirk: I guess it just runs in the genes.
It's just real hard for me to get rid of stuff,
you know, I'm just kind of attached to it all.
Mike: Yeah.
Kirk: It's tough.
Kirk: I was collecting...
Action figures when I was really young,
actually you bought me the very first...
John: I got you the wrong one.
Kirk: Ninja turtle.
John: Yeah, the wrong one.
Kirk: They got me raphael but I really wanted leonardo.
John: Oh yeah, I heard about that.
Kirk: So then it's like well, now I got to get all 4 of them
because you got me the wrong one to start with.
John: Oh yeah, yeah.
Kirk: And then it just snowballed from there.
Mike: What are you thinking on this?
I'm at 650, what do you- where are you at?
Kirk: 650... I don't know... Um...
I'd really have to think about it, mike.
Mike: Yeah, think about it.
Mike: The passion of collecting, sometimes it skips a generation.
And to me that's so sad.
Mike: What about this sign, would you sell that?
Mike: For me, for example, I've had one child, charlie wolfe.
And I'm just hopeful that I'll be as lucky as
john was with kirk.
Kirk: I don't think I'm going to sell it.
Mike: You don't want to sell that.
Kirk: I want to hold onto that.
Mike: To see those 2 together bouncing off of each other,
is really cool because they're sharing this passion of their
family's history, then they're bringing all these other things
home and learning together about the history of these items.
When I look at them, they're not just father and son,
they're best friends.
Mike: Alright, show me something you want to sell.
Kirk: Something I want to sell...
Mike: Alright. Kirk: Uh...
Mike: How about this bag of rags right here?
Kirk: [laughs] yeah, I'll sell those.
Mike: What do you got, jersey, anything?
Jersey jon: Tell me about this sign, is that for sale?
It's in tough shape, but I'm interested.
Kirk: Yeah? Jersey jon: Yeah.
Kirk: You tell us, what- what would you pay for that?
Jersey jon: I would pay you 350 for this sign.
Kirk: Really. Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jersey jon: The supreme auto sign was a good-looking sign,
nice size, had good color.
It had its chips and dings and dents.
Jersey jon: It's probably...
Retail maybe a 500, maybe a $600 sign,
if I'm really pushing it.
I got to make money too, I got to get it back home. So...
What do you think?
Kirk: Uh... 350, huh.
John: I got that supreme oil sign from the town dump,
probably about 35 years ago.
Kirk: [chuckles] kirk: Yeah, you want it, dad?
Jersey jon: You want to do it?
John: I felt bad, I- I'm like, I'm parking this guy here,
but you know...
I'll take the 350, and- and run, I guess.
John: Yeah, we'll do it. Kirk: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Awesome.
John: Okay.
Kirk: Yeah, we'll do it.
Jersey jon: Thank you, guys. I appreciate you.
Kirk: I can't reach you from there.
John: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Thank you, brother.
Kirk: Okay.
John: I was going to leave it to you in my will, I told you that.
Kirk: Yeah I know. What are you going to do...
John: But now... I'll have to leave you something else.
Kirk: That's all. John: That's all.
Kirk: Leave me something better.
John: Somlething better, yeah.
♪♪
curtis: Why don't we head back to the radio room?
Danielle: Radio room!
Robbie: The what?
Curtis: Oh yeah.
Danielle: Let's do it.
Curtis: You guys are going to love this.
Danielle: Okay. [gasp!]
robbie: Wow!
Danielle: Yeasssss... Oh...
Robbie: Wow...
Curtis: It's pretty incredible.
Danielle: Here's his personality everywhere.
Danielle: Walking into that radio room,
I could feel that at one time, that was his sanctuary.
Curtis: He was a dj for wazl, it's an old local radio station.
Robbie: Yeah?
Curtis: And when they upgraded the equipment,
they were going to throw out the studio.
He was somehow able to fit all of this down here,
I have no clue how he got it down here.
Robbie: Curtis' dad loved his work so much,
he literally brought it home.
Danielle: Wow...
Curtis: He would actually record some commercials down here,
and play them on wazl directly from the basement.
Because it was all in working order.
Robbie: hey, this is rich from wazl radio...
Curtis: Yeah.
Everybody knew him from that radio.
Robbie: I could just see him sitting right here, right now.
Pull that microphone up to your face,
oh get it up there, that's good.
Danielle: Yeah! There you go.
Robbie: Yeah...
Curtis: Yeah... The recordings have seen better days,
but it's still here.
Robbie: Yeah. There it is.
Danielle: I see this beautiful red ge
clock radio right here too.
Curtis: Let's get it down here... Oh there is nice.
Danielle: That's so pretty, right?
Robbie: It's got marble, yeah... Yeah...
Danielle: It's got that nice pearly feel to it.
Are you looking to get rid of all of the radios or are you
looking to hold onto them?
Curtis: I definitely see getting rid of almost all of them.
I know these radios definitely.
Danielle: I would like to run with the lot of them.
Robbie: Radio collectors are always looking
for the catalin radios.
Those are the early '30s.
Danielle: Ooh... Oh yeah, that one's pretty.
Robbie: Got a good look to it.
Danielle: That's beautiful.
Robbie: These are pretty much all plain jane,
1940s into the 1960s.
But they make great decorator pieces.
Danielle: There's 12 that I think
I would like enough to take.
So I- I don't know, I'm thinking...
For all of them... About 4.
Curtis: I'll do 4. Danielle: 4?
Curtis: Yeah, that sounds great.
Danielle: Yes... Boom!
♪♪
mike: Is there anything upstairs?
Kirk: Oh sure. It's going to blow your mind.
Mike: Oh wow! Kirk: Stuff!
Mike: Dang, dude! Kirk: Heh -heh.
Mike: Now I could see why your dad called us.
So you put all this stuff in here?
Kirk: Yeah, me and my dad, yeah.
Mike: The sheer volume and the energy it took to bring all
this stuff up there and start stacking it
and putting it in there, is unbelievable!
Mike: I mean, this kind of reminds me
of jersey's house a little bit.
Jersey jon: Man... [group laughing]
john: Yeah.
Mike: A lot of this stuff is household items,
it doesn't really have an antiquity value to it.
It's more about the hunt and the art of the deal.
Mike: You got christmas, you got easter, Halloween...
Kirk: Oh yeah... Old holidays,
I want to hold onto that.
Mike: Kirk, he still got that motor running,
he's like a 2-stroke engine, you know,
the rpms are just riding high.
John: I want to sell you everything.
Mike: And john, he's just on idle
and kind of absorbing it all.
Mike: Oh I like him...
John: Yeah, I want to get rid of this sh-.
Jersey jon: You got pratt whitney stuff here.
John: Yeah.
My dad was a guard for 50 years at pratt.
Jersey jon: No kidding.
Jersey jon: I see these pratt whitney shirts in the corner,
I'm like, I'm jealous about mike's pratt whitney purchase
from downstairs, so I'm like, wow I want something from
pratt whitney, we're in connecticut.
Jersey jon: Would you sell me one of these shirts?
John: Sure.
Jersey jon: This shirt's got a lot of appeal.
It's got baby blue color,
it's got the nice patch on it, and it's clean.
Jersey jon: $20.
John: No problem there.
Jersey jon: Awesome, thank you, man.
John: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Cool.
Mike: Uniform stuff...
John: Oh yeah, that's all police...
Mike: Let's see that sweater.
John: Sweaters.
Mike: This was your pop's sweater?
John: Who knows.
Maybe it was the guy that had the locker next to him.
Mike & john: [laughs]
mike: And then this bear claw necklace kit. Plastic.
This was like an accessory piece sold by the boy scouts.
And then you've got this one, an authentic indian costume.
Somebody would have made a headdress.
John: Yep.
Mike: How about the sweater and the 2 pieces.
John: 20 bucks.
Mike: I was going to give you 30.
John: Give me 40 then!
Mike: [laughs] 30! 30.
John: How about some old 1950s candy boxes?
Jersey jon: Oh no kidding.
John: Look at that.
Jersey jon: The- yeah, the milky...
John: Got the picture, the milky way factory or what.
Jersey jon: Yeah, I think that-
I think that's actually in new jersey.
How about 25?
John: 30 bucks.
Jersey jon: I'll tell you what, throw the tootsie roll thing in,
I'll give you 30.
John: Okay.
Jersey jon: Alright, thanks, brother.
John: Okay, yep.
Jersey jon: Alright, cool.
♪♪
robbie: Ooh, look at this one. This is kind of cool. Zenith.
It's an early piece of advertising,
and it must have rotated like this.
Danielle: Oh that's neat.
Robbie: Is that something you want to sell?
Curtis: Yeah, I'd give it to you for 10 bucks.
Robbie: I'll give you 25.
Curtis: 25 sounds good to me.
Robbie: Yeah... It's the mickey mouse radio!
Danielle: That's cool.
Robbie: Any radio with a character on it,
especially disney, is very collectable.
Robbie: 75 bucks.
Curtis: We'll do 75.
Robbie: Alright. Danielle: Sweet.
Robbie: Wait... What's on this box right here...
What are these right here...
Oh yeah... Uncut sheets...
Curtis: Uncut, yeah.
Robbie: Yeah. Wow!
Robbie: I've heard about uncut sheets of baseball cards,
but I've never seen them in person.
Robbie: This looks like 1981, there's pete rose.
Robbie: These were only made in the early '80s,
because of a shift in the production process.
Robbie: This is the braves, this is the braves.
Danielle: Is it the same?
Robbie: And the only way that you could get your hands on
one of them is if you knew somebody at topps
or it fell off the back of a truck.
Robbie: That's one's the same.
Danielle: Same. Ah, here we go.
Robbie: Same. Danielle: Yeah.
Robbie: Same. Same one again.
Danielle: Yeah.
Robbie: I'm looking over the sheets, and
there's a lot of duplicates.
Robbie: And then back to the braves. Okay.
Start looking through here and see who's anybody in here.
The big thing about uncut sheets are who was
the rookie that year that was like, the guy.
Robbie: These are rare, but the value depends on what players,
and if there's a rookie on the sheet,
like cal ripken.
Robbie: They're getting a little bit moisture-damaged down here.
Danielle: Definitely.
Robbie: There's not really a hot rookie on here.
Robbie: The fact that they're uncut is a big plus.
Robbie: Even without any major players on here,
I think we can still get 100 bucks a sheet.
Robbie: There's 10 sheets here.
They need to be framed up the way they are.
I'd like to do 450 for, for the 10.
Curtis: You got yourself a deal.
Robbie: Alright. Danielle: Yes!
Robbie: Thanks.
Curtis: Alright, why don't we... Go upstairs,
I can introduce you to my mom and there's...
Plenty more where this came from.
Danielle: Oh we get to meet your mom.
♪♪
mike: Oh man, this is what we used to do, dude!
Who did this bike?
Kirk: I did the bike. The fork was the only thing I didn't do.
Mike: And then I see you got the mass-produced chopper bike.
Kirk: Yeah... Yeah.
That was in the junk.
Mike: Really?
Kirk: Someone threw it out years ago.
Maybe early '70s or something...
Mike: It's... Yeah that was what I was going to say, early '70s.
Kirk: The raleigh chopper bike,
I rode that thing a lot when I was little, and...
Had a lot of fun on it.
The only thing, the back tire blew out on me.
We replaced it with another tire.
John: Well, that's 'cause you were burning
out with it or something.
Kirk: Yeah, trying to do wheelies.
John: Skidding with it. Yeah.
Kirk: [laughs]
mike: Okay. So the bike across there...
Kirk: Um-hm.
Mike: ...The one with the forks that
have been hammered together...
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: That's the kind of bike I had when I was a kid.
Kirk: Oh no kidding.
Mike: Where we would cut the fork blades off,
add them together, but we never welded them.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: None of us could weld, so we were just
riding around with the forks loose like that.
Kirk: Oh wow.
Mike: But everybody wanted to build a chopper bike.
Mike: In the early 1960s, manufacturers were inspired
by the way kids were customizing their bikes.
And that was the beginning of what people called muscle bikes,
or wheelie bikes.
Mike: Got a double top tube, really large round down tube.
They had all different configurations of seats,
and then the handlebars being so wide,
almost like ape hangers, like on a chopper.
Kirk: Right.
Mike: This was like totally my era.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: I remember kids riding stuff like this.
Mike: These bikes weren't just built to look cool,
they dared you to do cool things.
Mike: And we could never afford a new bike like this...
Kirk: Right.
Mike: ...So we were always kind of making our own
and painting them and everything.
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Mike: Which to be honest with you, that was-
kirk: Yeah, which that- that's neat, doing that.
Mike: ...Yeah that was the more creative thing
to feed your soul, you know...
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Mike: ...Even as a little kid.
Kirk: Sure.
Mike: And obviously you can see here,
it's got the stick shift on.
Kirk: Yeah, I think it's a 3-speed on it.
Mike: Yeah, I was going to say, it's a 3-speed.
So what do you value this at?
Kirk: Probably about 125.
Mike: Okay, see, I- I think you're-
I think you're light on it.
Kirk: Really?
Mike: You know, yeah I mean...
These have kind of come around to a point where guys like me
that are my age, now we're looking back,
we're being nostalgic.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: And we want to pull back into these moments,
into these memories, and we're paying up for stuff like this.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: I'd do... 400 bucks.
Kirk: Really? Mike: Yeah.
Kirk: Wow.
Mike: Yeah, because I- I think with a little cleaning,
you know, and...
Kirk: Yeah. Yeah, it's been inside.
Mike: ...And- and sourcing the rear tire,
which would help a lot too.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: That there's money to be made on it.
Kirk: I'm thinking that sounds pretty good.
Mike: You want to do that?
Kirk: Yeah, I- I think I'd sell it.
Mike: Alright, buddy, I appreciate you.
Kirk: Okay. Alright, thank you.
♪♪
curtis: Hey, this is my mom, denise.
Danielle: Hi denise. Denise: Hi.
Danielle: Nice to actually see you.
Denise: Nice to meet you.
Danielle: Aw, this is robbie.
Denise: Hi robbie.
Robbie: Thank you so much for having us, thank you.
Denise: Thanks for coming.
Robbie: This is awesome, we're learning a lot about rich.
Denise: Good, good.
Yeah, he was a, he was a wonderful man.
Danielle: We are taking some radios home with us ...
Denise: Nice. Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: ...To remind us of him,
and his time on the radio.
Denise: Nice. Yeah.
Danielle: Yeah. Robbie: Awesome.
Denise: Well that's nice. I think he'd like that.
Robbie: Yeah.
Denise: He had told me before he passed that
if anything happens, um... Sorry...
Danielle: No, it happens.
Robbie: You're alright, you're alright.
Danielle: Yeah, yeah.
Denise: Uh... That it was going to be like
a treasure hunt here for me.
Robbie: Yeah.
Denise: And I just wished he would have left me a map.
[laughs]
danielle: Ohh... Oh-ho-ho...
Danielle: You can tell that they shared a very special bond,
a very special love.
Denise: It's only been 4 months since he's gone.
Robbie: Yeah.
Denise: So this is a little hard.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: Definitely.
Denise: But... Yeah.
But his memories live on everywhere in this house.
Denise: He enjoyed helping people,
that was just his nature.
He was selfless when it came to things like that.
Denise: Never spent a holiday at home.
He was always helping those in need with...
Danielle: What a heart.
Robbie: That's awesome. Denise: ...Serving dinners, yes.
Danielle: This is his...
Denise: That's his jewels.
Robbie: Yeah. Denise: Yeah.
He was actually exalted ruler with the elks lodge.
Danielle: Right.
Denise: He was involved with the helping hands society,
with the united way.
And he was also a member of the kiwanis.
He was actually president of kiwanis club.
Robbie: And they gave him the key to the city.
Denise: Yes.
Danielle: He looks so proud in that picture,
doesn't he?
Denise: He was, that was one of his proudest moments.
Curtis: He had a heart of gold.
Danielle: Her husband left her a bunch of treasures.
But he didn't leave a map.
So this is our opportunity to be that map.
Robbie: I noticed when I walked in here,
I was looking at this piece right here.
Denise: Oh yeah.
Danielle: Ooh, she pretty.
Robbie: Well you know what it goes to, dani, don't ya?
Danielle: It's a packard.
Robbie: What year?
Danielle: Um...
Robbie: Stroking the feathers, I'm telling you what's going on.
Danielle: '42. Robbie: No, 1940.
Denise: Wow.
Robbie: Flying lady holding the wheel out in front of her,
glass wings going back, and the glass is intact on this!
I mean, the condition of this thing is amazing!
Denise: That was really one of his prized possessions,
he really loved it.
He actually had it in our safe.
Danielle: Aww...
Denise: And I took it out, to display it.
Danielle: Ah... Robbie: It's cool.
Denise: Yeah.
Robbie: I mean, it's a great display. Is it for sale?
Denise: Yeah, anything's for sale.
Robbie: Condition's actually in great shape.
It's got a little pitting on here. But...
Denise: Well it's from the '40s, what do you expect?
Robbie: 650.
Denise: Ooh... Uh... What do you think, curt?
Curtis: Well I'm always up on it, so I'm thinking 800.
Denise: Yeah?
Danielle: [chuckles]
denise: I don't know enough about it to say,
so I'll go with curtis. 800?
Robbie: You know, you got to find the guy that's got that
car, that's going to pay the big bucks for it.
Denise: Right.
Robbie: This thing's in amazing condition,
but it's got a little pitting on it.
This isn't for the guy that's got the concours car.
This is for the guy that's got an original paint car.
Robbie: I'd split it with you. I'd do 700 on it.
Denise: What do you think?
Curtis: Splitting's uh 725, isn't it?
Denise: [chuckles]
robbie: What was I, at 650, he said 8...
Danielle: He's never been strong at math,
but he's always been good with this stuff.
Robbie: Yeah... Yeah...
Danielle: There we go.
Robbie: So... It's a deal.
Denise: Awesome. Thank you.
Danielle: Yeah.
Robbie: Appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Denise: Thanks.
Robbie: That's awesome.
♪♪
kirk: I have a feeling where jersey and my dad are.
Mike: Yeah, they're probably out buying the good stuff.
Jersey's buying the good stuff.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: Jerseeeyy!
Kirk: Come on in.
Mike: Ha-ha- ha... Hey!
Kirk: This is uh... Oh yeah, yeah.
Mike: Go figure, jersey's at the bar. Dang!
Mike: You guys open for business?
Kirk: Oh yeah.
John: Yeah, what do you want, a rheingold?
There you go.
Kirk: [laughs]
john: Look it, there's still some in it.
Mike: Look at this place! This is legit.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: Wow, you got an iowa license plate.
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Mike: Alright.
Kirk: I'm trying to collect all of them too.
Mike: What about through here, can we look through here?
Kirk: Sure.
That's pretty packed in there.
Mike: Oh yeah.
So what did you guys do, a television repair shop?
Kirk: A lot of it was all my grandpa's stuff.
Mike: Wow.
Jersey jon: Signal shifter. Ooh...
You get the aliens with this stuff?
Kirk: Probably.
Jersey jon & kirk: [laughs]
jersey jon: So this was radio repair from your grandpa?
Kirk: Yeah.
Kirk: In the '50s, he was a tv repairman.
John: And there's bags and bags of tubes for tvs
and everything in there.
They're marked "ng", no good.
But they wouldn't even throw those away, you know.
Kirk: [laughs]
jersey jon: Now, what is this? Kirk: That's a clear tv.
It came out of a prison.
Jersey jon: So the inmates can't... Stash stuff in it.
Kirk: Yeah, hide their shank
or something in there, you know.
Jersey jon: That's- I've never seen anything like that before.
Kirk: [laughs] yeah.
Jersey jon: That's...
Kirk: There's a tv in there with a record player on top.
Jersey jon: Oh yeah, look at that.
Mike: Let's see what else we got.
Jersey jon: These are transistor radios.
Kirk: Yeah.
Jersey jon: So do they still work?
Can you still get a transistor radio to pick up a station?
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Jersey jon: Transistor radios were a revolution.
It was miniaturization of electronics,
they made a radio that you could hold in your hand.
Jersey jon: Sure pocket radio. Oh look at that.
It is brand new, in the box.
Kirk: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Before this, there was like,
sitting on the couch listening to a radio
the size of an ice box.
Jersey jon: Want to sell a couple of these things?
Kirk: Uh yeah.
Jersey jon: These 5, 50 bucks?
Kirk: Yeah, we'll do that.
Jersey jon: Yeah? Kirk: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Alright, thank you.
Kirk: Okay.
Jersey jon: Yeah, cool.
Denise: This is his music room.
Robbie: This is awesome.
Danielle: Look at the guitar wall.
Robbie: Did he play the guitar?
Denise: Yeah, he was very, very musically inclined.
Robbie: Wow.
Denise: He could pick up any instrument and play it.
Robbie: Wow!
Denise: And he was an amazing singer.
His voice would melt people's hearts.
We used to go on vacation together,
and he would do karaoke,
and the women would just fawn all over him.
It was... And he loved it.
He ate it right up.
Curtis: This is a side of rich that I'm not too...
Aware of.
Denise: Yeah.
Danielle: You can tell he just cherished all this so much.
Denise: He did.
Danielle: He loved all of the autographs.
Robbie: Man, I love that red guitar right there.
Denise: Yeah.
Danielle: Where did he get this traveling wilburys guitar?
Denise: You know what, I'm not really sure.
Danielle: Are you willing to part with any of these?
Denise: Nah.
Denise: In the back of my head, I can hear him like, no.
No, don't sell her that.
Danielle: No?
Denise: I think I'll hang onto them.
Danielle: Yeah.
Denise: I didn't let them go because they did
mean so much to him.
Danielle: I don't blame you.
Denise: Yeah.
Danielle: The sentimental value meant more
to her than the money.
I respect that.
Danielle: [gasp!] check this out.
The beatles, yesterday and today.
Denise: It was so vulgar when they first sent it to the radio
station, that they didn't want them keeping any of this stuff.
Danielle: We've bought this before.
Mike: How much is this beatles butcher album?
Willy: Uh, I'd like 1,000 for that.
Willy: We were offended by dead babies on
the cover of the beatle albums.
So they recalled it.
About 100 of them got out.
Danielle: This cover didn't make it because the label thought the
subject matter was too delicate for american audiences.
[gasp!] clutches pearls.
Denise: And here's the poster for it.
Danielle: But now people can handle it because not only are
people de-sensitized, but this is a piece of history.
Denise: This is actually the letter from...
Danielle: [gasp!] what!
Denise: He worked at the radio station.
They had sent the album there.
And the poster.
Danielle: "the original cover created in England
was intended as pop art satire.
However, a sampling of public opinion in the united states
indicates that the cover design
is subject to misinterpretation."
danielle: In the letter, they actually ask for the album back,
because what they did was they went ahead
and slapped the new photo on over the old photo.
And on that album, you notice, some of those
records still have the old photo underneath.
But trying to rip off the new photo,
you ruin the old photo, which is what makes this so special.
Danielle: Does it have a record in there still?
Denise: That I don't know.
Danielle: Can I, do you mind if I open it and look?
Denise: Sure go ahead.
Danielle: Feels like, ooh...
Robbie: Is it in there?
Danielle: There's no record in there.
Denise: No, just the cover.
Robbie: No? Yeah.
Danielle: Just the cover.
Wow, that's incredible.
And you have the letter that goes with it...
Denise: Right.
Danielle: And the poster.
Denise: Yeah.
Danielle: That's the whole story.
Denise: He was really proud of this.
Danielle: So how do you feel about selling this piece,
these pieces?
'cause it would have to go as a set.
Denise: Yeah, I would, I'd be willing to sell them.
Robbie: Numbers have come down on these
things in the last few years.
Danielle: We actually have picked this album before.
Denise: Uh-huh.
Danielle: The cover was in worse condition than this one...
Denise: Uh-huh.
Danielle: But it had the record there...
Denise: Okay.
Danielle: ...Which is really important.
Danielle: But there was no letter from
capitol records and no poster.
Danielle: And this poster is really important,
because there are not many of these posters around.
This is rare.
The poster alone could get as much as 600 bucks,
in perfect condition.
Robbie: Yep.
Danielle: But the problem is,
it's really water damaged at the bottom.
Denise: Yeah.
Danielle: Here we have... Tack marks where it was
hung up on the wall.
Denise: Um-hm.
Danielle: This beatles poster, what it lacks in condition,
it more than makes up for in subject matter and rarity.
Danielle: Separated out piece-by-piece,
this is worth 150 to 200.
The poster alone, I'd put like, 3 to 400 on it.
This one, alone without these, isn't really worth much.
Denise: Right.
Danielle: Now the letter itself might not be really valuable,
but it's important because it provides
insight into music history.
The process of getting the music to the masses
isn't always so cut and dry.
Danielle: But the collection together,
it tells a whole complete story.
And then we have the backstory of exactly how it came to be.
Denise: Yeah.
Danielle: So...
Robbie: If I was a beatles guy, I'd have to have it.
Danielle: Absolutely. Same.
Robbie: I'd just have to have it, you know.
Danielle: I really think we could get 2,000.
I really do.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: I feel like it's such a rare collection to
have all these pieces together...
Robbie: Well all 3 pieces. Yeah.
Danielle: ...And if somebody did have the record...
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: ...They could put the record in here.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: And then you have a full complete collection
and they, it would be more then for that.
Denise: Right.
Robbie: The record would be easier to find than anything.
Danielle: Yes.
Robbie: Because they did, the record came out.
Danielle: Right.
Robbie: So, they didn't change the record any.
Danielle: Exactly.
And I want to make sure that I do you right on this.
So here's what I'm thinking.
I'm going to offer 1,200 for the collection.
And if we take this and we find out that it's worth an
exorbitant amount of money, I will contact you.
I will make sure to get ahold of you and
make sure to make that right.
But I feel like 1,200 is fair.
Denise: It was kind of hard for me,
because I knew how much it meant to rich.
But I think it would be better off in somebody's home that
really appreciated the beatles as much as he did.
So I'd like to see it go to a really big beatles fan.
Denise: Alright, I'll do it.
Danielle: Yeah, oh I'm so excited.
Denise: Yeah, you got a deal.
Danielle: The coolest part to the whole story,
is that rich had access to all of this being
in the radio business.
And had he not decided to pick up those precious pieces
of history, who knows where they'd be right now.
Robbie: You forgot one.
Danielle: Ooh, I did?
Robbie: Yeah, what's up?
Robbie: Today, by spending time with curtis and denise,
we got to know who rich really was.
Danielle: Right?
Denise: Thank you. Yeah.
Denise: I think rich would have really loved robbie & danielle,
they have such great personalities,
they were so easy to get along with.
She really made me feel at ease.
Danielle: Ah... [blows kisses]
denise: Thank you.
Danielle: See you later!
Curtis: Drive safe.
Denise: Bye, thanks.
Curtis: Just being able to say goodbye to the items was kind
of helping for us to say goodbye to rich.
[honks horn]
danielle: Bye! Robbie: See you guys!
Denise: Bye! Curtis: See ya!
♪♪
kirk: Come on in here, mike. I know you like bikes.
Mike: Oh you got the hondas.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: Ah, shaft-drive.
Kirk: Yeah, shaft-driven.
Mike: What kind is it, what's that?
Kirk: Wood-rim, it's a... Clipper.
Mike: Look at that.
Okay so, obviously it needs a new rim...
Kirk: Um-hm.
Mike: ...In the rear. It needs a front wheel.
Kirk: Yeah, I think...
Mike: The front wheel, to be honest with you,
the front wheel is really not that big a problem.
Kirk: Really?
Mike: Oh yeah, they're around.
In fact, I might even have one.
Kirk: Wow.
Mike: But you're missing the seat post
and you're missing the seat.
So there are a lot of manufacturers that
made shaft -drive bikes.
This was something that they were experimenting with,
back then.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: The biggest manufacturer,
the biggest bike company in the world then, was columbia.
Kirk: You know about what year it's from?
Mike: Like late 1890s into the early 20th century.
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Mike: Yeah.
Mike: The bicycle industry has always pushed the envelope
and been extremely innovative.
Anything from different materials to frame designs,
to suspensions, to different drive trains.
Mike: You know, if you look at this whole mechanism here,
and how that's all enclosed,
there's the shaft that goes this way...
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: ...A gear spinning this way.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: And then there's a gear spinning this way,
you know...
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: So it's 2 gears, that's where 2 gears meet.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: And that's basically as simple as it is.
They were beautiful bikes.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: It's kind of one of those things,
if like say for example, you found a wheel...
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: You laced the rear rim into it.
You found a seat and a seat post,
and you got this thing up on wheels.
Kirk: Um-hm.
Mike: It would be worth about...
In the condition it's in...
Probably 800 bucks.
Kirk: Oh yeah.
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of pitting on the fork
and there's a lot of pitting. But...
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: So I guess the point I'm trying to make is,
even if you put it together, it's not a huge money bike,
you know.
What's interesting about it, is that it's shaft-drive.
Kirk: Yep.
Mike: Um do you know the history of it?
Kirk: Think it was on my mother's side,
it came, I think from new york.
Mike: Yeah.
Kirk: I don't know too much more than that.
Mike: Well think about it, I mean,
it would have been a great bike for a woman to ride,
because all of this is enclosed.
Kirk: Right, they wouldn't...
Mike: Okay so there was no chain...
Kirk: Yep.
Mike: You know, and they had wooden chain guards back then,
but you know overall, this would have been nicer for the skirt,
you know, and the dress, you know,
the petticoat or whatever they
would have called it, you know.
Kirk: Yep.
Mike: Anyway... Like 200 bucks.
Kirk: 200 bucks?
Mike: Yeah, I think... To the right guy,
it might be worth like 3-and-a- quarter.
Kirk: It is a girl's bike too.
Mike: Yeah, it's a girl's bike, that hurts it,
but you know, there are people out there
that have a boy shaft -drive, and they might
want the girl's you know, sitting next to it.
Kirk: Yeah...
I think we could let it go for that.
Mike: Yeah, I just want to be straight with you and kind
of give you an idea of like, you know, what you have.
Kirk: Yeah.
Mike: It's so cool to talk to a younger collector,
because to be honest with you, that's like
the future of this industry.
You know, the antique industry, vintage,
all of that, younger people getting involved,
getting them to- to like really feel something and connect to
all of these things, and it's the future of this country.
Mike: Because anything that they collect,
they're preserving it.
Mike: Ugh, yeah!
Jersey jon: Nice sign.
Kirk: Alright, don't forget that.
Mike: Alright, there's the harley trans.
Jersey jon: Oh yeah, yeah.
Mike: You know, I want to give him my time,
I want to share my knowledge with him.
And that's what guys did for me.
It's not just about connecting with the piece and that
moment of finding it, it's about connecting with each other
and how all of this stuff connects all of us.
Mike: We did it, man.
Jersey jon: Yeah, brother. Let's do it. Cool.
John: [chuckles]
mike: Appreciate you, man.
Kirk: Okay. Alright. Thank you.
Mike: Thanks for sharing your family's history with us.
John: Yeah, okay.
Mike: I appreciate you, man.
Kirk: Today, it did help.
John: ...Some of my stuff.
Kirk: It got me in the selling mood a little, it's...
John: Yeah.
Kirk: I let a couple of things loose.
John: I- I noticed that.
Kirk: Surprising, really... John: Yeah.
Kirk: [laughs]
[honks horn]
mike: See you down the road!
Kirk: Okay. John: Take care!
Danielle: Oh... That could have almost got your head.
Sorry, grant.
Mike: Has this car ever gotten you um... A date?
John: [chuckles]
kirk: Ugh... Boy, I wish.
[group laughing]
curtis: That had some great timing,
as soon as you pointed at it, it went out.
[group laughing]
curtis: There goes the value, right.
Jersey jon: I'll fight you with one leg tied upon my back.
Mike: Come on over here, I'm going to whoop ya again.
Jersey jon: Come on, wolfe, I'm ready,
I'm feeling great.
Mike: Hey, I just took my vitamins, dude.
And I've got about a pound and a half of bengay on.
Jersey jon: [laughs]
danielle: Ugh! Like cotton candy.
Off-camera: Robbie, your light is making
him look like a Halloween person...
Robbie: Oh yeah, I didn't know it was on.
Robbie: A Halloween person.
Danielle: Ohh...
Robbie: Well there you go. What are you doing?
Danielle: Oohh... Oohhh...
Robbie: What the hell's going on here?
Danielle: [chuckles]
off- camera: Alright, we're rolling.
Robbie: [claps] we're rolling.
Robbie: I mean, if I was a beatles guy,
I'd have to have it.
Danielle: Absolutely.
Robbie: I'm not a beatles guy, don't look at me that way.
Denise: Yeah, yeah.
Danielle: My dad would flip.
[laughing]