(Martin Luther King Jr.): We are determined to be free.
(Ed Herlihy): The long anticipated freedom march
from Selma to Alabama's capital of Montgomery
finally gets under way.
Twice before the marchers had been turned back by state troopers.
Now they march with the protection of federalized
National Guard units and regular troops.
(Mike): Driving over this bridge is so powerful.
What happened here was such a pivotal part
in the Civil Rights movement.
There's so much history here, man.
This is a lot more emotional than I thought it would be.
- Yes.
- We must say, give us the ballot.
We are determined to have the ballot,
and we are determined to have it now.
(crowd cheering)
- Look at that church, Jersey. -Yeah, that's a nice church.
- The buildings here are unbelievable.
Today, Jersey Jon and I are in the great state of Alabama,
headed to an independent gas and oil company
that's been family-owned over 50 years.
Look at this place, Jersey.
There's so many of them that need to be restored.
This is the largest historic district
in the state of Alabama.
Gorgeous! Look at that.
Wow, I'm just blown away.
Arts Revive.
Oh they got a nice outside area too.
Creeping up on the address here.
Ha ha. Oh wow! Whoa!
That is the Alabama pothole. - You're going to break an axle on this thing.
- Uh-oh, are we going to hit this wire?
- Probably. - Are we going to pull it off the building?
And then we're going to be stuck. Dang...
- I think you're okay, dude. - Okay, we're good. We're good.
Look at that one- - Watch the telephone pole, dude.
Don't scrape it. Ooh, look at the hardware store.
- I know. That's what I'm saying that's what I'm talking about.
Look at that awning. - I got to take a picture...
- I got it. - That's cool.
The St. James Hotel.
- That looks like it's been recently restored.
- They put a lot of money in that building, obviously.
- This is it right here with the mural.
- Yeah, they're painting a mural on the side of the building.
Rex! How are you, brother?
- Hey. - Are you Rex?
- What's going on? I am.
- Hey, I'm Mike. - Mike, nice to meet you.
- Jersey Jon. - Jersey, Rex. Nice to meet you.
- What you got going on, man? Hey, I'm Mike.
- Oh, this is Vaughn Simms. - Vaughn, nice to meet you.
- Welcome to Selma. - Cool, what are you painting?
- We are actually doing a mural of an old gas station.
It's actually based out of Belle Plaine, Iowa,
it's called Preston Station.
- On Lincoln Highway. - Yeah, on Lincoln Highway, yes.
Okay, I want to see, what do you got?
- I've been by this place so many times.
I'm so familiar with this!
Lincoln Highway beat out Route 66 by like 10 years.
It travels coast to coast.
And this gas station is an iconic point
on the Lincoln Highway in the state of Iowa.
So how did you end up choosing this?
- Everybody asks me that. It started with the visible pumps.
I knew I needed a visible pump.
And then I came across a picture of this station
and it just spoke to me right away.
We're going to be putting a visible pump
like the one in this picture, we're going to be putting it
right here in front of the mural.
And I have an old sign from my company, Cougar Oil,
we're going to put up.
And then I have a local artist named Charlie Lucas,
they call him the Tin Man.
He's actually world-famous in the art world.
And we're going to build a gas attendant.
He'll take different pieces of metal and scrap...
- Oh out of metal. - Cool. Like weld something up?
- So he'll be next to the pump. - Yes.
- Like 3-D. - I call it 4-D. (laughs)
It closed in 1989, but they are still trying
to preserve the location.
It's actually a historic preservation site
on Lincoln Highway.
So I reached out to the owner, and they gave me their blessing,
which really makes it cool.
We have two parts of the country now
following this whole process.
For this one, we're doing a time-lapse.
So it shows him like, it will take a picture every 30 seconds.
And it just (makes whirling camera noises) you know...
It kind of shows him filling everything in.
- That's awesome! - Yeah. This is the fourth mural
that Vaughn and I have done together through an organization
called Arts Revive.
So my company partners with a non-profit,
and we put murals in Selma.
And so with this- - Well we noticed down there,
there was like a big art gallery.
- Butterflies and the art gallery, yeah that's all...
- And a big outdoor patio. - Exactly.
We say we build our community through art.
- What Rex is doing here is getting people to pay attention.
They're going to stop, they're going to look at the mural,
he's creating this moment.
They're going to take a picture, share that on social media.
It gets history out there.
This is obvious in honor of the business you guys ran.
- That's correct. - Dani said that you guys been,
what year did you open up, '71 or something?
1971. We've been in business 51 years now.
My father founded Cougar Oil.
We branched out, but we're still a Selma company.
This is our roots. - No kidding.
We're looking for this stuff.
You can take the guy out of Jersey,
but you can't take Jersey out of the guy.
He's just like, I'm done with this conversation,
here's the flyer.
So you're going to see like, gas and oil...
Oil cans, signage. All that stuff.
- I actually have some of this stuff.
- I would hope so.
- Yeah, come on, guys, I got some of this stuff this way.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.
- Look at how many cactuses...
- I know, I can't even take my eyes off this...
- Oh I love it. - Gorgeous.
- Alright. So. - Okay, focus.
We're going to see a gentleman named Drew.
So Drew likes tractors, steam engines, farm equipment.
Anything that's like, ag-related he's into.
I'm excited. This sounds like it's right up my alley.
- Yeah. It's an ag pick. - I'm ready.
This is it, right here. This is it?
- This is it, yep this is it right here.
- Wow. - See what I'm talking about?
- Holy cow. - It's all big stuff.
- Look at those trucks. - Exactly! See that?
(honks horn)
- How're you doing? - Good.
- You Drew? - I am.
- Rob Wolfe. You talked to Dani? - Drew!
- Dani, hey. - It's good to see you.
Aw, I'm so happy to see you. This is beautiful.
- Thank you. - It's crazy.
- I am a collector of all kinds of stuff.
On the big equipment that I collect,
it was my passion of saving it.
- Look at this though.
- I guess the biggest thing is, is I just don't want to see
the stuff disappear.
- It's been sitting for a while
and so we thought we'd fire her up
and see if we can get her to go. This is Al up here.
- Hey Al. - Good to see you guys.
- Are you the fire tender? - Yes, something like that.
- It reminds me of...
What's the movie... The Polar Express?
- Oh yeah. Yeah, there you go. - Amazing.
- So what year is this thing? - 1920.
So Al, he is the man on getting this stuff going.
He's done steam for how many years, Al?
- Since 1975.
It's so great to get the knowledge
of these older guys on steam,
to where I learn it, and then I can teach it to other people.
Hey Al, do you have this?
I was going to show these guys a little bit of stuff around here.
- Absolutely. - Alright.
- It's hurry up and wait now. - Nice to meet ya.
- Hurry up and wait now, that's how it is with steam?
So how many acres you got out here?
- We got 10 acres right here.
- And none of this was here before you got here.
- No. I've been out here since '97.
- Got the collecting bug, huh? - That's it.
- What's the deal with this big bad boy?
- Well, this was out at the town of Coolidge.
This dent over here, what happened was,
is a cotton picker ran into it.
They have a big basket on them. So they're over-height.
He got too close to the side of the road, and smashed the sign.
- Wow. - So they put a new one up.
- For this thing getting hit by a cotton picker,
it's actually not in bad shape.
Somebody must have painted over this or something.
- I just kind of thought that that was the old look of Rexall.
- I'd strip that off, is what I would do.
'Cause the blue is underneath there.
Somebody painted it yellow. Why?
I have no clue. I mean, it's rubbing off on my hands.
- I know the other sign, it's all blue.
- You have another one of these? - Yeah.
- Oh wow.
- Yeah, so that was the new one that they put up.
- Oh, after this one got- - After this one.
- And you got 'em both. - Correct.
I've not seen this sign with this art deco-ness on here.
This is kind of cool.
Typically when you find these Rexall signs,
it's just the round piece in the middle.
This one's got art deco stainless steel.
I mean, is this something you'd sell?
- We're working on getting a museum out here.
And I think this one would be a good fit for the museum.
- The story? - Right, the story.
I think the other one would be a better fit for you.
- Alright, I understand it. I'll look at the other one.
- This place is huge. - Yeah no, we've got...
We've got a big space here.
- This probably at one time was a façade.
- This current building was a Dodge dealership.
- Okay, so the whole thing was a Dodge dealership.
- Yeah, it was called Hooper Motor Company.
So we've been here since 1971.
- So from the very beginning, you were in this building.
- We've been here from the very beginning.
You know, we love Water Avenue and...
- Wow, man. - ...and the area down here, so.
- This is awesome, man. - Look at these desks, Mike.
- Look at that. What time period's this from?
- This is probably 1860, around Civil War.
- Where did you guys find this at?
- It's just been something my family had.
You know, as family members have passed away, we've gotten
different furniture and stuff.
- This is not self-assembled furniture.
This is not something that's going to be falling apart
in 10 years and you're throwing it in the trash.
Like this is purposely built for like a hotel desk or something.
It's going to last you forever.
Is this something you'd consider selling, you want to sell that? - Yeah, absolutely.
- So what do you want for something like that? - What would you offer be?
Um, alright so this piece is like, it doesn't open up.
If this is always meant to be just a solid piece.
And this crack here has got to be repaired.
- Oh that's a crack. - It's a crack.
- Oh I thought the top opened up like this.
- No, no, no. Look inside, Mike, you see?
You can see it, like inside...
It's just, it's all purpose built, just the way it is.
You see like, the dovetails on here, the hand-cut dovetail.
A hand-cut dovetail is a wide dovetail.
You could see the saw marks in the wood.
It looks so different than a machine-cut dovetail,
which is very consistent and smaller.
It's not a piece of junk because it's walnut.
I mean, somebody put some value in, walnut was expensive wood.
The secondary woods are poplar, which are inexpensive woods,
and that's why they're in the inside the chest.
- If there's some wood, he's going to talk about it.
I mean, he's like, Professor Woodrow Wood.
And I love that, because I'm learning constantly,
and so is the person that has the piece.
- And it's been refinished.
If it had an old original varnish finish on it,
it would be so cool.
The hand-cut dovetails tells me that this piece is pre-1880.
The primary woods and the way that they are surfaced tells me
that this piece is pre-Civil War.
The way it stands, the way it- if you didn't do anything to it,
you could probably get maybe 450,
maybe 500 bucks out of this.
- You know, what would your, you know...
- Well because it needs work, furniture values are not what they used to be.
I would go like two and a quarter on it.
Two and a quarter, how about, would you do 250?
- Yeah, alright, 250. Alright. Thank you.
It's a primitive, it's cool, it'll fit in any décor.
I want to get this piece in the shop, put a little work into it,
and get it to somebody as passionate
about the furniture as I am.
- Here's what you got going on that I'm excited about.
The 260-Z. - The 260, yeah.
- Sexy car. - So I had a 240, you know.
And that was one of the funnest cars I ever-
- Really? You had one of these things? - Oh yeah, man.
- Originally, this car belonged to my father.
And my grandfather had to have this car.
And so he bought it, and the rest of his life, he drove it.
- These are great cars, man. Mine was a 240.
And I think it was a '70.
It was an incredible car for me.
I mean, it was a poor man's sports car.
I think I scraped up like 1,200 bucks to buy this car,
and I had about $30,000 worth of fun.
So you guys going to sell this? What are you doing with this?
No. This is just sentimental value,
because of the time my grandfather spent in it.
- These are great cars. I'll tell you what,
these have come around, man, these are very collectable.
This 260, they're anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000,
depending on obviously the condition, the originality.
This car needs some work, it's been sitting for a long time.
But it's still a very desirable car.
- Whoa, look at this Cougar sign, man!
- Oh yeah. - That is outrageous! Wow!
- Yes. This is one of my favorites right there.
- I've never seen anything like this.
Have you ever seen anything like this, Mike?
- No, man, I've never seen that sign.
- So if you guys had service stations...
Were these the signs hanging on the outside of them?
- They were, they were. This was our brand.
- How old is this sign? - Uh, '70s.
- It's unbelievable, man. - It's really amazing.
- Yes. It's double-sided. - Let me see it.
But this was actually, one of them with the frame and all,
that was actually hanging,
and it's got weight to it, guys.
- To see this sign in the original building
that the company was founded in, is pretty damn cool.
So how many of these were made then?
How many stations did you guys have?
- Oh, 13 or 14 back in the day.
And we had a lot that were scrapped and stuff.
Yeah, people didn't realize the value.
- How many of these do you have? - Just a couple.
- No kidding. And they're both in this condition?
- They are.
- This sign is 1971, but gas and oil stuff
is really hot right now.
So all these small independent brands,
especially brands with animals on them, are extremely hot.
So this is incredible.
- Back when we had these 13 sites, and you know,
we had an Air Force base and different things around town.
We had a larger population.
But the nice thing is,
it's an exciting time. We're starting to redevelop things.
If you come back in a couple of years, you're not going to recognize this.
We saw down the road here right on the street, there was a hotel down there.
- The hotel's amazing over there.
They just put 7 million dollars into that hotel.
- Really! - Yeah, the St. James.
That was like the first thing that got changed.
- Okay, that was the anchor. - The anchor.
And we think Water Avenue, which we're on, is an anchor
for the redevelopment of Selma.
Selma has a tremendous history.
I mean, going back to the 1800s when cotton was king.
Now, Selma is best known for the Civil Rights struggle,
which we played an enormous role in, you know.
I like to tell people we're the capital
of the Civil Rights Movement here.
Now we've just decided that it was a good time
to kind of circle back where we began.
We've brought the Cougar brand back
and we're selling Cougar fuels throughout the Southeast.
- No kidding. - Fantastic. Congratulations.
- Thank you. The Cougar sign has a lot of sentimental value.
But you know, now it's something that not only from the past.
For this particular one, it's probably going to go up near the mural.
So it'll be hung on the pole out there.
So it's kind of part of the whole project.
- No kidding. So you're going to hang this back on the original pole?
- Yes. - That's awesome!
You know, I haven't planned, but I do have one that
I might entertain selling.
You know, I'd have to think about it for...
- Well let me, to be honest with you,
if you're kind of entertaining selling one, let me think about
what I would even offer you.
Because I've never seen one. So I've never seen one sell.
I mean, anything with animals on it is hot.
And this is porcelain, it's gas and oil, and then it's southern.
In this community, it's...
It's got a lot going on. - Yeah.
- Holy cow. What year is this machine?
- This is early '30s.
- Man, when you talk about primitive.
- Yeah. I had to buy it because it reminded me
so much of my dad's stories.
You know, riding on the combine with my dad,
he had an old pipe that he would smoke.
And the memories of that was so great.
And then whenever I got older, I got to drive the tractors.
So I think it just kind of bled me into this.
So this shed over here, I've got more stuff.
- This is a problem with the guy that's got a lot of sheds on his property.
'Cause they all get cram packed with everything.
- Well, you fill one up...
- You fill one up, you go to the next one.
Man, look at those branding irons.
Some killer stuff in here.
I see you got a nice crock in here.
- Yeah, there's a crock there. - It's got cracks on it though.
- That makes it look better.
- What's the deal with this sign that's in here?
- What is that one?
- Dixie Gas. - Oh it is?
You know, I kind of forgot I had that.
- Where the heck did the...
Why would this sign be down here?
Dixie was one of those regional brands out of Louisiana.
And you just don't find them.
- You know, it came out of a museum in Yuma
called The Tractor Dome.
- To find it out here in the middle of Arizona,
very unusual.
- Not perfect by no means.
It's actually in pretty good shape, I think.
A little fade to it, but it'd clean up.
That's a pretty rare sign, actually.
- Is it? - Yeah.
Dixie Gas, anything with Dixie on it.
The other side's not that bad.
I mean, it's got some chalkiness to it, that's the only thing,
when you look at it.
But you can put some special wax on that and let it soak in.
But if this thing was dead mint, 5K plus.
- Really? - Yeah.
And when I mean mint, it's got to be like 9.75, not a hit,
not a scratch, nothing.
Right. What are you thinking, a few grand?
1,800.
Hmm.
How about 1,900?
- I'm doing it. - Alright.
I was surprised that he threw out the number that he had,
but of course I had to bump him a little bit on it.
- So these were other brands you guys were selling gas to then.
- That's right it's kind of like the evolution of our brands.
We started Cougar, and then we went 76,
and then 76 pulled out of the Southeast.
And so my father and a group of other guys
formed the Pure Co-op.
We brought the brand back to life.
- Pure Oil Company has been around since 1914.
So it's pretty cool that Rex and a few other people
have rebranded that, brought it back to the market,
reintroduced it.
It's so cool you guys are preserving this brand.
Oh yeah. Absolutely.
What about this piece?
I mean, this is not a big money sign.
Especially because it's plastic.
But with signs escalating the way they are value-wise,
this is the stuff that, you know, I don't want to say
the future of advertising, but it's the future of it
in a way that people can afford to get into it.
You know, this has no sentimental attachment.
What would you be interested in?
I'd be interested in it for...
For like 200 bucks, to be honest with you,
I think the retail on it's probably...
- Plastic sign. - 350 to four and a quarter.
- Sounds good to me. - Alright.
(laughs) Thanks, man. And it's not a space saver, man.
- What about the car? Who restored this car?
- This was actually my aunt's father.
He was a Model A enthusiast.
I can remember Mr. Woody being in the parades
when I was younger.
Oh this is actually in good shape.
- Whoever the king of the parade or the queen
would get to ride in the rumble seat.
So that was pretty neat.
- So what's going on with this, are you guys going to sell this?
- Well, this belongs to my aunt. And I mean, she's actually here.
- You want me to go get her? - I'll listen to a number on it, yeah.
- Alright, let me go get her.
- You know, my aunt Amelia, had all this collection of stuff
that's been in the building for over 30 years.
And she was overwhelmed. Alright guys, I found her.
- Hey! - Awesome.
If I can help her sell some of these things, you know,
that'll be great.
- Are you the Model A owner? - She is.
This is my Aunt Amelia Jones.
- Hi. - Her father, Woody had this stuff.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- Hey, I'm Mike. - Hey Mike.
- How are you? - Good.
- I'm Jon. - It's a great car.
- My father was Oliver Woodruff Rives.
He loved to collect.
His passion was collecting
Model A cars and parts.
- I love the colors.
Ford had such interesting color choices for rims.
- And he was always working on something.
- What are you guys' plans for this? What are you thinking?
- Well, we'd like to sell it for the right price.
- Okay. So you guys have thought about it,
and it's something you're going to sell.
So how long ago did he restore this car?
- I think it was in the early '70s.
- And did he do most of the work himself?
- He did it all himself. - Really.
- Put a lot of time into it. - It's done really well.
- Good. - I mean, it really is.
For a restoration that's not like Concours D'Elegance
museum-quality, it's a restoration for a driver.
- Right. - Did he have other cars?
I have this and the Model A pickup,
which isn't restored yet, all the pieces there though.
Okay. And that one's not put together.
- No. - Okay.
- He could repair anything.
- And he traveled all over the United States
looking for Model A cars and trucks and parts.
- So it was definitely more than a hobby for him,
it was a passion.
- Exactly. - Okay.
So have you talked to anybody in regards to value of the car?
- I had heard maybe it's worth about 10,000.
- In this condition, sitting for as long as it has, probably...
- We'd have to go through the motor and see what's going on.
If it turns over.
There's a lot of little things you got to figure out.
- This car is a legacy piece to her.
Once we said the $10,000 number,
I could tell that's the number she wants to get.
And she probably will to the right guy that's local
that doesn't have to pay shipping and all that stuff.
Where is the um...
The truck you said you have, you got a truck in pieces?
- Yes. - Where's that at?
In the next room.
- Can we look at that? - Sure.
And then kind of think about this?
I saw you got some branding irons in here,
like a whole pile of them.
- Yeah. - What's the deal with these?
You know, a guy
had a collection of these
and I bought the whole collection from him,
and I really haven't done much research on them.
I mean, I'd be interested in all of them.
Well, I might want to keep a couple.
Let's lay these out here.
Let's figure out how many you got here.
There's a lot of them in here.
- They actually had different designs too,
like this guy here...
- Yeah, what is that? - That's a cowboy.
With the branding irons, that was the mark of the ranch.
If the cow got out of the rancher's property
and to another rancher's property,
they could identify their cattle through that brand.
So like this one here I'll probably keep.
- Double-H. - Yeah, Double-H, so.
I just couldn't pass them up.
It's just so involved to figure out
where it came from originally,
that I figured I'd let Robbie handle that.
- 24.
- 24 of them? Hmm.
460 bucks.
I'm terrible at math. What do you...
- That's 20, I'm coming up with $20 apiece.
- $20 apiece? 40 bucks, instead of 20.
(groans) So here's the deal on these.
The more ornate they are,
the more money they're going to demand.
I mean, this one that you said was a cowboy,
that's kind of unusual.
Well, I know some of them's going to be, 70, $80.
Some of them probably $10, so you know,
averaging about 40 would be about right.
- 25 bucks apiece.
- How about 30?
- 27.
- Oh, you're killing me. - I'm gonna kill ya.
- 28.50.
- Just make it 600 for all of them.
- I'll tell you what, let's do 650.
- 625.
(sighs)
You're taking way too much meat off of these.
You're at 625 and I want to be 650.
So 650...
(laughs) Dang...
- 650. - Alright.
He was playing hardball,
but I enjoy the bickering back and forth.
I think he squeaks a little bit sometimes.
- Alright yeah, this sucker is in pieces.
So I see you got the cab here.
You got a few extra frames.
He was heavy into it.
So why didn't he finish this truck?
Well, about that time,
we were able to acquire
an 1829 antebellum home.
And had to be moved.
And he volunteered to help at 65 years old.
- So you guys actually had to take it apart then, to move it?
- Oh yes. And then put it back together.
- Wow... -And um...
- Did they finish that? - He did, he finished it.
And now it took about three or four years.
But by the time he was about through, he got sick.
And he died. - Oh I'm sorry.
So he could not finish his pickup.
And on his deathbed,
he wanted me to make two promises.
That I would take care of mother, which I did.
And that I would have his pickup truck put together.
There it is. - Okay.
(sighs) It's a bigger project
than I would want to personally take on.
But Jon and I both know guys that are into trucks.
And we can, we can talk to them.
In order to get her the most money,
I don't need to be the middleman here.
I know people that can take this truck across the finish line,
restore it, put it back on the road, where it needs to be,
instead of just a pile of parts.
What about this pump here? - Sure. I'd sell it.
- What about this pump here? - Sure. I'd sell it.
- Okay so this is called a Mae West.
Has anybody told you guys that?
Okay, see the figure?
See how it goes like this? - Oh really!
It's kind of a slight hourglass shape to it.
Visible pumps were around from the 'teens through the 1920s.
This was made by Fry,
and it is an iconic pump when it comes to petroliana.
The Mae West pump might be
one of the sexiest pumps they've ever made.
See the gallon markings?
- Is this cracked anywhere on that side?
- Yeah, you got a crack right here, Mike, look it,
all the way down.
- Oh yeah it is, okay.
- Which is kind of a big deal.
This hinge is rotted off, kind of.
- Yeah, it's been sitting outside for a long time.
It's beautiful though. Was that your dad's?
- He kept it by his shop.
- OK, alright. I think the retail number on that, uhh...
(exhales)
1,800 bucks, in that shape.
Do you have any idea what you'd want for it?
What do you want for it?
You want 2,000 bucks?
(all laugh) - You're right on the money.
I can't do 2,000 bucks on it.
It's got a cracked cylinder.
- Oh. - Yeah.
(laughs)
Did you have to see that? - I know.
I thought it was a shadow.
- Are you sure it's not a drip of paint?
- No, it's a crack. This cylinder's definitely cracked.
- That's not a bird dropping. - It's not a bird dropping, no.
- Let me think about it,
'cause there's other stuff to look at here.
- Okay.
- So Amelia, what about the elephant in the room right here?
This thing is a good looking sign.
It's got a great paint on it.
The base is there, the original base.
It's got the original holder for this sign.
But the problem is this side.
- Yeah.
- You can see that's all coming off,
the paint's coming off of here.
That's the money side.
Is this something you'd consider selling?
- Sure.
- What were you thinking about you'd want for it?
- 750?
- Hmm.
- We're buying signs you can read.
One side you can't read, so to me,
I got to get this price at half the value.
I don't think I'm going to go anymore than 500 on the thing.
That's as far as I can go on something like that.
- 550?
- Ugh...
- Oh come on, look how good that one side is.
You're only going to be looking at one side, put it to the wall.
- You can put, you can put this side against the wall.
(laughs) - That's right.
Ugh... Alright, 550.
- Alright. - Thank you.
- Alright.
- I was pleased with what they offered, yeah.
- It's a good deal for everyone. - Alright.
- This one here, I was in an auction,
and I loved this one painting.
- Okay.
- But to get the painting, I had to buy the whole lot.
(laughs) And you did.
So... I did.
And it's like well, what do I do with all these other paintings?
So I stuck them in a shed.
It's going to be a little bit tight to get in here.
20 years later, it's like...
It's been 20 years?
(laughing) So here, here we go.
- Kenny Rogers. Ohh, woo-woo...
- Merle Haggard.
Right here, here's your favorite person.
- Dolly! - Yeah.
- Hi, how are you? - Hey, I'm Danielle...
- Hi Danielle. - This is Lauren.
So nice to meet you. I do.
- Yeah, we could be twins. - We could be!
- Every day of my life, I have to shut up and ask myself,
'shut up, Danielle, what would Dolly do?'
When you find the trifecta of Kenny Rogers, Merle Haggard,
and of course, the ultimate Dolly Parton,
you don't turn your back.
These appear to be original drawings.
I really hope they are.
What do you got to have for the three of these?
- I don't know...
40 apiece?
- How about 100 for all of them?
- How about 110?
- Yeah, I'll do it. For the sake of Dolly, I'll do it, yeah.
- There you go. Alright. - Awesome.
- What about the Benz? - Oh this was my dad's.
- How long has it been stored? - '90s.
- Can we see it? - Absolutely.
- What is it? It's a... - 280-E.
Ah, look at that green, man.
It's like a green-grey.
(wolf whistles) Oh yeah.
- That's a great color. - Woo!
- That's a '77.
- This was your dad's car? - Yes.
- The fact that it's been sitting since the '90s.
- Oh yeah. - Man, I mean...
They're iconic cars and they're super cool,
but they're super expensive to work on.
You know, so I'm going to pull myself away from this thing.
It's hard, but I'm going to have to do it.
So what's up with the bicycle shop over here?
- Oh man, so my father was really into biking for a while.
- So your father was a renaissance man.
I mean, he was into, he was driving the Mercedes,
he was riding a recumbent.
- Yes. - These aren't cheap bicycles.
These are recumbent bicycles.
You sit basically in a reclining position,
your legs are forward in front of you pedaling like this.
Dude, this is a titanium bike made in America.
The Litespeed brand.
I used to sell these at my bike shop.
This is a bicycle, a titanium bicycle
with Campagnolo record components.
This is a polished frame,
made in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
handmade.
Would you sell this Litespeed? - Yeah. Yeah we would.
- Oh this thing's nice.
This bike back in the day, was big money.
But right now, these bikes are extremely cheap
because they're kind of in-between.
- That thing's a nice bike. Look at the wheel.
- You know, I'd say this thing is probably late '90s.
Here we are in 2022.
You know, so it's got some time on it.
Give it another 15 years and it's going to probably explode.
600 bucks.
- Deal.
- Alright, that was easy, alright thanks, man.
- So I've got, I don't know, 100 plus tractors
that I've collected.
Now this one here, there is about 10 4H kids
that painted this one.
Every year, we were doing a tractor project.
This year was for breast cancer.
And I told them I had the perfect tractor for it.
4H is such a great organization.
They tore this thing completely down.
And then brought it back up.
To have these kids come out here, learn about tractors
and learn about how they work, and bring them back to life.
- Wow. - They did a great job.
- There's the Coke machine.
- Yeah, that's Amelia's stuff back here.
- Amelia this is all your stuff? - It is.
- Yeah, 'fraid so. (laughs)
My dad's things that he had collected through the years,
we really don't have any use for them.
And I want his things to go to somebody
that can enjoy them and restore them.
- It's a Model 39.
It's got the wheel in it.
You can see when you open the door.
It's got the round wheel where all the bottles went in,
it's aluminum.
And a lot of times that's missing.
So that's nice that it's there.
This is a desirable machine, because it's upright,
it's not a cooler, and it's original paint.
And the fountain just kicks it up a few notches,
having that on it.
This is a Vendo Model 39, late '40s, original paint.
It's got its nicks and its scuffs and its dings,
but it's complete.
When I'm looking at this, I'm looking at it from a perspective
of someone buying it and displaying it.
I mean, I'd be interested in it the way it sits right now...
for 1,000.
I think the retail on it, number the way it sits right now...
15, 16? If it ran, then it goes up.
- Yeah, the compression's not going to last long
even if it does ran.
- I don't know, what are you guys thinking?
1,200?
I'm going to do it.
- Alright. - There you go.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
- I bought something from you! - Praise God.
(group laughing)
- The fact that this one's been kept inside
for a number of years, pushes it to the next level.
Model A door handles.
- Ugh...
Amelia! - Yes.
Springfield. - Yeah.
- Paint's nice. 1963.
Kelly Tires go back to the turn-of-the-century.
One of their most popular signs featured a Kelly Girl.
In the 1920s, women's independence
was getting a huge push, and Kelly's advertisement
was forward thinking and controversial in a positive way.
These signs, unfortunately, don't feature the Kelly Girl,
but they're still valuable and highly collectable.
One, two.
500 apiece.
- Okay. = You'd do that?
- Yeah. - Oh yeah.
- We're moving now. - Cool.
- This is not a porcelain sign, this is a painted sign.
But they're new-old stock.
They'd never been distributed before,
they never been hung on a wall. They're in great condition.
Let's see if there's anything else here, Mike.
- I was cleaning up a property,
and this is what I found there.
- Ha-ha! Got some turquoise in here, okay.
- Yeah, and there's other stuff in here...
- Oohh...
- Lots of shiny. - Awesome.
Look at those, lots of cabochon...
Ooh! Turquoise cabochons.
Mike Wolfe does love some turquoise!
So these are turquoise cabochons.
And they look like there's all different kinds of them.
- So would you set that in jewelry?
These are ready to set in jewelry.
The cabochons are a polished stone.
And usually they're flat on the back so you can just set them
right into a jewelry setting.
You got a bunch of raw turquoise here too.
The raw turquoise is found as a rock,
and it has a beautiful organic shape to it.
I'm going to give you the best offer I can, but keep in mind,
I'm not a jeweler, but I am going to have a jeweler
take a look at them.
And if I'm off in price,
I will definitely reach out to you and let you know...
- OK. - And fix that.
- Cabochons are really hard to price, because you have so many
different types of turquoise, and so many different styles.
A wholesale price for a whole sheet,
I would say would be right around 50 bucks.
So if we do 50, 50, 50, that's 150 here.
And then 250 for the jar of raw turquoise.
- So we're looking at what, 400? - 400's perfect.
- Yeah, I will do that. - Yeah okay, cool.
And I'll let you know if it's anything different.
- I was so impressed with Dani's knowledge.
It was neat to see how wide of a knowledge they have on things.
You know, anywhere from old signs to jewelry.
And paintings. - I'm super stoked.
I think Mike's going to be really excited.
I know he really loves turquoise.
- So I've been collecting for, since I was 10 years old.
- I got that bug.
- Whenever you're collecting, you start gathering stuff up
that you're not in love with. - I do that all the time.
- And it's time for somebody else to see it.
This is one of them. - That's cool.
Yeah, see how this one's got the blue on it?
- Yeah, and not the- the...
- See, the other one was painted.
I think that other one was painted over.
I've seen a million Rexall Drugs signs.
But this is a version that I've never seen.
You weren't kidding. This one is nicer.
Usually when you find these, it's just the sign here.
- Oh really? - Just the oval piece.
Double bullnoses. With stainless steel trim.
I mean, this thing was art deco as can be.
But the bigger stuff is so hard.
You got to find guys that with higher ceilings, you know.
(sighs)
I mean, the neon alone on this thing
is going to be astronomical.
Can you lean this out a little bit?
- It's pretty dang heavy.
- There's another sign behind here too.
- Oh heck, I forgot about that one.
- All the insulators are in here,
none of them are broken out.
I mean, that's a big plus.
This sign's got a couple whammies on it,
but not that bad.
I mean, this isn't too bad.
This is some kid throwing rocks at it.
- That just adds to the patina, right?
2,500.
For me, it's always about finishing a project.
Putting this back together,
and then getting it back out to the public.
So you're probably looking at 22,
$2,500 just to get the neon done.
But if you can imagine this thing lit up.
I mean, this thing was a showboat back in the day.
- I bet. Yeah. - But...
I mean, by the time I'd be done with it,
I'd have 5 grand in it, maybe a little more.
- You're at 25 on it?
- The only reason I'm at 2,500 on it,
I think the end-of-the-road on this sign is probably...
6- 6,500.
How about 2,600?
What's this thing say?
Alright...
'Stop-Wear Lubrication.'
- So it doesn't show any name on it though?
- No. They just, they made different signs for everything.
You know, Stop-Wear basically was a lubrication.
I've never seen this sign before.
It's a little bit beat-up, but still, it exists.
You're at 26 there.
Make it three grand, for the pair.
And the only reason I'm at that,
because that's got a crease and the damage in the end of it.
- So four for that, then? - Yep.
- Yeah, what the heck. - Three grand.
Let's go find Danielle.
She's wanting to get into a lot of mischief on these properties.
- She's a little easier to work with too.
- Oh my gosh... I'm going to have to talk to her about that.
(laughs)
- How far apart were we on the gas pump?
I told you what I thought the retail number on it was.
Like 18 to 2,000.
But the cylinder does have a crack, and there's some...
Here's the deal, all visible gas pumps are hard to find.
I mean, I'd like to have it.
What would be your bottom number on that?
Like how far apart were we?
I'd like to get 1,250 for it.
- We're getting closer.
- Yeah. - Getting closer...
- How about...
(chuckles) - No.
- How about 1,200?
- And 50. (laughs)
Alright, 1,250.
- Good job.
- You got to take her to the swap meet with you.
- I almost felt like letting her negotiate for me.
This is great. I didn't know she had all this in her.
The negotiating side of her.
- I've got some of my daddy in me.
- Woo! There you go.
- When I was with my dad going around,
I knew how he negotiated.
And he never went for the top price.
He would always negotiate down.
Today, I negotiated up, instead of down.
- Alright, I got to ask.
I understand you want to hang one of the Cougar signs.
Which is awesome. You're going to hang it on this property.
It'd be neat to get one back out in the hobby, where it's like,
people are talking about it, advertising it.
I would be interested in one.
- The other one I have is in the brand new box.
So it's sentimental to me.
- I know. So you won't even entertain
an offer on the other one.
These signs are part of his family's legacy.
And he knows once they're gone, he's not going to get it back.
But... I had him thinking about it.
I did, I had him thinking about it.
Alright, well I had to try, man.
I had to- I had to try.
- Absolutely, I appreciate your interest in it.
He zeroes in on the things that are more rare and more valuable.
That's great. - New-in-the-box.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Ahh!
- So I was honored that he showed so much interest
in our sign.
Two here, Jersey. - Hi. - Hey, hey!
- I just wanted to meet the guys that were so nice to my mom.
Showed her such great hospitality.
- That would be me. - Not Jersey.
- I was nice to her mom! - That would be me.
- Hi, how are you? - Hi, nice to meet you.
- I'm Mike. - Angela, nice to meet you.
- My dad would love Mike and Jersey.
- She's a pretty tough negotiator.
- Yeah, she is tough.
- He could spend hours with them.
- Thank you, you are so sweet.
- She gets it from my grandfather.
- And I think he's looking down and he sees them.
(laughs)
- Thank you so much, I really appreciate it,
and thanks for the good deals.
- You used to hear about places like this.
So now, to actually be in one, and to be able to pick it
and buy a few things, is pretty epic.
Alright, come to Nashville, I'll buy you a beer.
- Yeah, man. - Sounds good.
- Amelia, I got you right there. - Y'all be safe.
- On top of that, it was a Dodge dealership.
On top of that, it was in one of the most historic communities
in the United States, Selma, Alabama.
(honks horn)
- See you guys! - See you later, guys!
- How is it looking?
- We're ready to go.
(steam whistle sounds) (cheers)
- What do I not touch here? Where am I safe?
- That's hot, don't touch that. - Alright. This good right here?
- You can steer it if you want. - Can I sit on this?
- I can steer it? Okay. Where do you want me to go?
Go that way.
(steam whistle sounds) - Holy (beep)
- You're doing fine, you're perfect.
- Taking a right? - Yeah, keep turning.
That's enough...
- Okay, that's good, okay other way, other way, other way...
- There you go. - There you go, good job.
Right there, straight.
(steam whistle sounds)