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Frank: What did you get?
Mike: Sausage and cheese. What'd you get?
Frank: Sausage and cheese. Mm, it's good.
Mike: When I first met Frank,
he had his own identity and I had my own identity
and there was a line there.
That line is getting blurred.
Like drinking the same coffees,
eating the same food.
I'm thinking something and he finishes my sentences.
Mike: Frank, did you hear that...?
Frank: A meteor exploded over Russia?
Heard about it.
Frank: Good.
Mike: Frank doesn't even like croissants.
Mike: This is too weird.
Mike: This road looks a little sketch man.
Frank: It don't look good.
Mike: We can drive ten miles without
even seeing a barn out here.
Frank: Yeah, it's desolate.
Mike: Frank and I are out freestyling the back roads
of Kansas and right now it's looking thin.
Frank: All I'm seeing is nothing but roads and
roads of hay.
Mike: Alright.
Frank: Danielle's calling right now.
Mike: Good.
Frank: What's happening girl?
Danielle: Oh I was just calling to give you a lead.
Make sure you have something to do today.
Frank: Keep going.
Danielle: Now I'm going to send you to a lady named Cammy.
And I'm going to give you a little bit of a back
story on her.
Now the stuff she has, it's important to her and
it is sentimental, but only because her dad was a
picker and this is his stuff.
You know, for a long time, she wanted to hold onto to
all of this stuff.
And like cherish the memories of her dad.
But I think recently she's realized she needs some closure.
She needs to let some of this stuff go.
Mike: Okay.
Danielle: Now she just needs a good home for it.
Mike: Well we've got a good home,
our van is completely empty.
Danielle: Well hopefully it'll fill up now.
Mike: Alright.
Send us the coordinates of this place.
Danielle: Alright, talk to you later. Bye.
Mike: Bye.
Mike: Alright, this is it my brother.
Frank: Oh yeah, I see it.
Mike: A Camaro, man. Mm hm.
Look at all the stuff out back.
Frank: This looks good.
Mike: Ooh yeah.
She's a red head and she has a Camaro.
Frank: That's not a bad combo.
Mike: There she is.
Frank: And it looks like she's been sorting some wire.
Mike: Hey. Cammy: Hey.
Frank: Hello. Mike: Are you Cammy?
Cammy: I'm Cammy. Mike: I'm Mike.
Cammy: Nice to meet you.
Frank: Hi Cammy, how you doing? I'm Frank.
Frank: That's the girl of my dreams.
She's got red hair, she's got a Camaro and she's picking junk.
Mike: Cammy Camaro. Frank: Cammy Camaro.
Cammy: I'll tell you, I'm just kind of starting to
do some cleaning up around here.
Lost my mom and dad in 2006, 2008.
Mike: Okay.
Cammy: But I got a whole building full of stuff
that I just don't know what to do.
Cammy: This actually is my dad's place.
He gathered, chased, and collected so many
treasures in life.
Frank: Man, you got some stuff here.
Look at that.
Cammy: Oh yeah.
Frank: We come across this a lot.
When people inherit their relative's collections,
it'*** or miss. Because sometimes they're not
ready to let the stuff go.
But right off the bat, it sounds like Cammy is
really motivated to sell.
So I'm getting excited here.
Mike: Oh my gosh, Frank, look at that.
That pile of insulators.
Frank: Wow, dad really collected those, huh?
Cammy: He was a junk addict.
His goal was to have one of everything.
But he has multiples of everything.
Mike: Let's see, what is this just kind of a pile
of your storage?
Cammy: This is the junk pile.
Mike: We're looking around the piles of rust and I'm
seeing some decent stuff, you know,
she's got the wire there with the copper in it
stacked up, she's got some insulators.
She's got some cast iron.
Mike: Here's an old horn, Franky.
Frank: Yeah, car.
Mike: Is that something you'd sell?
Cammy: Yup.
Mike: Believe it not someone would actually rebuild this.
Mike: So I find this old horn.
It's a Delco, these guys made horns for GM from
like 1920 to the 1970s.
Mike: I mean, this needs completely rebuilt and
somebody might even want it just for this bracket.
So they wouldn't have to make the bracket.
Mike: A Buick didn't sound like a Chevy,
a Ford didn't sound like a Cadillac.
This was the signature when you pulled into the
drive to get your lady.
Mike: I'd pay, uh, I'd pay 15 bucks for this.
Cammy: I tell you it's a treasure though. It's a treasure.
Frank: To someone.
Mike: I take it you went junking with your dad.
Cammy: Absolutely.
Mike: Okay. When you said treasure,
I know what you're talking about.
Cammy: It's a treasure.
Mike: Even though this is their father's collection,
it seems like she knows what she's looking at with
this stuff.
Mike: Probably says Delco on it.
Cammy: Probably says $25. Mike: $25?
Cammy: Don't you see that?
Mike: I'll tell you what, why don't we do this?
Get the ball rolling here a little bit.
I'd do 20 bucks on this.
Cammy: We'll split it this time.
Mike: Okay. Thank you. Frank: Alright.
Mike: Alright, I'm going to start my own pile over here then.
Mike: This was made when people took pride in their horns.
This is real steel. Not plastic.
Cammy: Oh yeah.
Mike: Look at that sink, Franky.
Cammy: Yeah, it was a couple day.
Frank: Yeah, I bet. Mike: Let's see that sink.
Mike: So as we're digging around in the weeds,
there's a corner sink.
A lot of people are buying these old cast iron sinks
and using them in their gardens.
Mike: See how ornate that is?
Mike: This is a really cool sink.
I mean, the money shot is the underneath,
that really ornate cast iron.
The porcelain's chipped up, but you know what?
That just gives it character.
Mike: I'm glad you're sitting down, you ready?
Cammy: Okay. Mike: 25. Cammy: Oh come on.
Mike: Are you serious? Cammy: I'm serious.
Mike: Cammy.
Cammy: I bet you that probably is $40.
Mike: Oh my gosh, maybe a scrap price.
Mike: Nothing gets by Cammy.
This is going to be tough.
Mike: Remember I'm the guy that gave you 20 for this.
Cammy: That's true.
Mike: So let's do 30. Would you do 30?
Cammy: No way. That's not halfway. How about 35 halfway?
Mike: How about 35 and you throw in 5 of these?
I mean, people just use them for décor.
Like there's a really cool green one.
Frank: Insulators are one item that people collect
when they first start collecting antiques.
Mike: These insulators are hillbilly stained glass.
If you want to go full on country,
put one of these in your kitchen window and let
that light come through the green glass.
Mike: What are you thinking on those?
Cammy: Oh. I'll throw in 50 of these.
Mike: Alright, 50 of them. Frank: She's got it.
Mike: We paid the admission fee.
Now we get to see the rest of the grounds.
Cammy: There's kind of a signal graveyard ahead of you.
With some lamps and stuff. I didn't know...
Mike: Oh yeah. These are pretty cool.
Frank: The further we get back on this property,
there's all kinds of stuff coming out of the weeds.
Mike: Was your dad a railroad collector?
Cammy: Actually yeah, I mean,
he for them all of their life.
Mike: He worked for the railroad?
Cammy: Yes.
Cammy: My dad worked as a Sante Fe signal maintainer in .
He was with the Sante Fe for about 35 years.
Mike: Oh Franky, that's cool.
Cammy: He retired from Sante Fe and then went out
picking and junking.
He was a picker before his own time.
Mike: These are cool.
Frank: Yeah, those are nice.
Mike: After being in this business for 25 years,
I've realized there's certain pieces that really
never go down in value.
These are signal lights, they're very cool.
Railroad lights are hot.
And they always will be.
Cammy: How about we do 35 for one.
If you buy, I'll give you 25 each.
Frank: So two for 50? Mike: Done.
Cammy: Hey. Frank: There it is. Cammy: There's your sign.
Mike: That's your dad giving us the sign.
Cammy: With the train whistle,
I think my dad was just saying, okay, Cam.
There's my exclamation point on it.
Mike: I love the old railroad dudes,
cause when you're a railroad guy...
Cammy: It's a fellowship.
Mike: That, and you're just a dreamer, you know?
Mike: If you're a railroad man,
you're all about going places, riding the rails,
you got to be a little bit of a hobo and a dreamer.
And I get the feeling that Cammy's dad was a little
bit of both.
Frank: What's inside here?
Cammy: You know, I've never opened it.
Frank: Really?
Cammy: I have no clue what's in it.
You guys, what are you thinking?
Frank: You got something we could cut it with?
Cammy: Yeah, I think we can find something
we can cut it with.
Mike: This is the kind of place that Frank
and I dream about.
Frank: And when somebody's going to bring bolt
cutters out as their key, I'm getting excited.
Cammy: Mike? Will you help? Mike: Heck yeah.
Mike: Going in to a place like this.
Anything can happen.
I might find something that could be worth
thousands of dollars. Who knows?
Cammy: You got her. Mike: I got it. Alright.
Frank: That's been on there for a while.
Cammy: Oh yes.
Mike: Alright, do you want to do the honor since
you've never been in here?
Cammy: Yes.
Mike: This is almost like Al Capone's...Ah!
Frank: Look at that. Mike: Ooh, beer...
Frank: Some beer stuff.
Cammy: Let's shut it again. Shut it.
Frank: There's a bunch of signs, I mean killer stuff.
Frank: There's a railway express.
Mike: Mm. Kingsbury Beer.
Frank: Firestone. Pretty rough. Mike: One sided.
Frank: It's pretty rough.
Mike: Look at this. This is nice.
But it's just kind of toasty.
Frank: But as we start to flip through them.
These signs are all like shot with bullet holes,
or they're completely rusty.
Mike: For sign guys, they, these all have issues,
but these would be good for like entry level
collectors, like someone's folded that in half.
Mike: The signs in this shed are perfect for the
entry level collector.
The guy that wants to spend 100, 200.
Frank: Look at that. Cammy: Ooh. Neat.
Mike: Pontchartrain Beach.
Frank: It's got cool graphics.
Mike: This would have been in New Orleans.
Look how they burmished the metal here and then
drilled it out.
So this would actually be reflective.
And look at that clown's face.
This is exactly why people have nightmares about clowns.
You know what I'm saying?
You ever see the people that are scared of clowns.
I'm interested in that, that's cool.
Cammy: Awesome.
Mike: This clown sign is full on nightmare fuel.
I mean, it's bizarre, it's strange,
it's exactly the kind of weird I love.
Cammy: This is cool. Yes.
Mike: The amusement park is here.
This is the wicked clown laughing at you as you
puke on the roller coaster.
Cammy: That clown sign was so unique.
I knew immediately he loved it.
Mike: What are you thinking?
You seem to be pretty good at pricing stuff.
Cammy: What would you post it for in your shop?
Cammy: I love to negotiate.
But I'd rather be on the defense side.
There is a lot of parallel with negotiating and basketball.
When I used to coach.
I'd rather go ahead and have them make the first
move and then be able to counter,
rather than have to go on the offense.
Mike: I'm going to step up at 100 bucks.
Cammy: Ooh. Mike: Yeah, you know it.
Cammy: Little bigger. Mike: Really? No. No way, man.
Mike: Cammy's like a cat.
And me and Franky are like a cat toy.
Cammy: 135 dollars.
Mike: That's a retail number.
Cammy: That's a hell of a deal.
Mike: I can't do that.
Frank: She might be easy on the eyes,
but she's not easy on the prices.
Mike: Well we're just trying to get to
know each other here.
Cammy: That's right. That's right.
Mike: What are you thinking on this?
Mike: This is the piece to close the deal.
Plus, this'll make those railroad lights a lot more attractive.
Put those things together, it's gold.
Mike: Why don't we do this?
Two and I said I'd do a hundred.
Cammy: 300 for both of those, okay.
Mike: I like your style. Cammy: Okay.
Mike: Alright, very cool.
I did a deal with Cammy.
Mike: Cammy was tough, but at 300 bucks,
there's still a lot of meat left on the bone.
Frank: What do you value this one at?
Cammy: A hunie.
Frank: A hundred? I'd have to be in it at no more than 50 bucks.
Cammy: 85.
Mike: She is a very tough negotiator.
She wants top dollar for everything.
Frank: What about this one here?
Mike: Kingsbury.
Frank: I'm thinking 150. 150 on this, I was at 50 on the Firestone.
That would be 200.
Cammy: How about we go...? Mike: Ooh, Frank, look at.
Cammy: How about with that...
Frank: Yeah, that's another,
that's another 20.
Mike: She's good. She's good.
Cammy: 235? Frank: I'll do that.
I'll do that. Alright. I'll do that.
Cammy: Yay! Yay Frank!
Frank: I don't know what I was doing on that, but...
Mike: Alright.
Frank: Mike and I are getting hustled,
but with Cammy doing the hustling, we don't mind.
Frank: Cammy, what do you got on the Kansas here,
farm bureau.
Cammy: 35 bucks. Frank: 30.
Cammy: 35. Frank: 30.
Cammy: It's 35, my favorite number, you'll find that out.
Frank: 35. Cammy: Okay.
Mike: The bearded charmer has finally met his match.
The red haired charmer.
Mike: I'm interested Imperial Clothes,
and Pickett Oil Company.
Cammy: 100 for both of those.
Mike: 70 bucks.
Cammy: 75. Going...going...going...
Mike: 40 bucks. Cammy: 50.
Mike: Alright. Alright.
Cammy: You know you can't out fox a fox.
Mike: Oh my gosh.
Frank: There we go. That's a good wheel.
Cammy: That's a good wheel.
Frank: Mike and I are picking the prettiest girl
in Kansas- Cammy Camaro.
And she's showing us her dad's private collection.
Mike: What's up with this?
Cammy: One of my dad's railroad friends loaded
together and you get four kids on that.
And you sit in it like this and you keep your hands in.
And basically you go all the way around.
Mike: This is cool.
I could see my little nephews and nieces on this.
Mike: This thing's like a mouse trap.
Cammy: You do not put your hands out.
Cammy: If you would happen to stick out your arm,
it's an instant arm breaker.
Mike: Whoa.
Cammy: Let's just leave him up here, okay?
Mike: Frank, let me down slow, man.
Cammy: It is really not the safest item.
Frank: You always you say you want to get to the
very top to see the pick.
Mike: You know what this reminds me of?
You're getting me back for that exercise bicycle.
This thing isn't going to tip over, is it?
Frank: I see Mike getting real nervous and he has
good reason to be.
Frank: Ready? No.
Frank: Sometimes you got to reap what you sow.
Mike: The whole time we're going around and around
like this, it's going like this.
Mike: You know?
And I'm thinking, you had me?
Mike: Dang.
Frank: How's it going, guys?
Mike: Slow down, Frank!
Seriously, man, this thing could tip over!
Cammy: Hey, keep your hands in, keep your hands in.
Frank: Revenge. It's sweet.
Mike: Alright what else you got?
Frank: Can you top that?
Mike: So Cammy offers to take us into the main
building.
And she tells us this is where her dad kept his
prized possessions.
Cammy: You guys are the first guys that's been in
here for probably two or three years.
Mike: Oh really? Cammy: Ready?
Mike: Alright, hit it. Cammy: Here we go.
Frank: I'm thinking to myself if they got this
much outside, who knows what they have inside.
Mike: Oh man, this is frickin' cool.
Frank: Wow, you got a lot in here.
Mike: No way.
Cammy: And it's jam packed.
Mike: Frank, look. Daddy loves his insulators.
Frank: Wow.
Mike: This is the kind of place I love to dig in and
you could tell everything has been there for a long time.
It's dusty. It's dirty, it's piled.
Mike: Wow.
Cammy: This is a collection from Minnesota
to New Mexico to Idaho.
Whenever he traveled, he was always looking.
Mike: Whoa. Cammy: Maps?
Mike: Map central Cammy: Yes.
Mike: Map land. Cammy: Yes.
Mike: Everybody wants to own a piece of their own history.
These pull down maps are taking me back.
Back to the days when they used to hang above the
chalkboard in class.
Mike: Apple blossoms. Fruit developing.
Man, these are cool.
Mike: This is an old school.
It's old school cool.
Before PowerPoint, before laptops, this was it.
Mike: This one that says crayfish.
Look at that.
Frank: Very cool.
Mike: These maps illustrate everything from
the human body to continents around the world.
I'm going to start a new trend with these things,
decoration, education, they go together.
Mike: What are you thinking on these?
Like if I bought them all?
Cammy: I bet you there's probably 50 maps here.
How about the whole thing...for 250? 250?
Mike: Alright, 250.
Cammy: It's funny because we didn't negotiate,
he just accepted it, it's like...Mike, are you okay?
Mike: Frank, you seen anything?
Frank: Still looking. A lot of smalls.
Frank: Alright, Cammy, I found something.
It's got little switches.
Cammy: Okay.
Frank: They're called vein line relays,
these are railroad stuff.
Kind of cool, they got your coils in here,
then you got your plates.
This thing's kind of a cool decorative item.
You got three of the same here.
Frank: These relay switches cater more to the
intermediate railroad collector.
They were like nerve centers of the railroad.
Sending signals when a train was coming to the
lights and crossing gates so the train traffic could
move more fluidly.
Frank: What do you get on these?
Cammy: Let's go 50 apiece?
Frank: I don't think they're that decorative.
I mean, you got to have the special guy for this.
Cammy: Mike and I are very similar in our negotiating today.
Now with Frank, you know, he's cut and dry,
he's black and white.
It's I'm going to do it, if it doesn't work, it's done.
Frank: I'm thinking 75 for them.
Cammy: Let's go 100 for the package.
Frank: Alright, hold on, I'm almost there.
Frank: I know when I say a number,
Cammy's going to bump me up about 30%,
so I might as well find something that makes this
a better deal for me.
Frank: What have I got here?
Mike: Dang.
Cammy: That is some kind of gauge. Ooh, neat.
Frank: That would have went inside just a big
factory or something like that.
Frank: This is another piece for a very specific
buyer, it's a gauge from a factory,
and even though it doesn't work,
it still looks cool for anyone going for that
industrial look.
Frank: How about the gauge and the switches for 100?
Cammy: How about let's go one and a quarter?
Frank: 75 and 50? A hundred and a quarter?
That's fine. Alright.
Cammy: Good deal. Frank: You got it.
Frank: With a little TLC, I think these piece will
clean up and for $125, still bring in a decent profit.
Mike: Oh look at that.
These are all his auction numbers,
there's a whole drawer of them.
Frank: A million of them?
Cammy:I was an athlete. I always wore number 35.
Check most of his auction numbers they had
to be his lucky number.
He would always sign up for number 35.
Mike: Aw, really? Oh that's really cool.
Cammy: He brought me over here several times wanting
to kind of help guide me and tell me what things
were important.
And I wasn't going to listen,
cause we were going to beat cancer.
Well, we didn't.
So I just locked the place up and I thought when the
time was right, I'll return.
And now I need some closure.
It's time to move to that next step.
Mike: So he would just come here after the
auction, put all his new stuff in here,
just chill out?
Cammy: And there'd be big boxes.
Mike: Cammy was a daddy's girl.
You can tell that by the way she lights up when she
talks about her dad.
And to have her father's legacy to deal with can be
extremely overwhelming.
She's got a lot on her shoulders and I'm glad me
and Franky are here to just kind of guide her
through a lot of it.
Cammy: He'd bring his all the stuff in here,
then he'd have to get it kind of hidden before mom
came over to check on him.
Mike: So he would disperse it in the building?
Cammy: Exactly.
Mike: ...before she would come over?
Cammy: All the drawers were full.
Frank: The more stuff you got here,
the more you can hide it.
Cammy: Exactly.
Mike: That's a man speaking from experience.
Frank: Yes.
Cammy: To anyone it has to be overwhelming.
I mean, it's wall to wall.
Not organized.
I wish it were better, but it's not.
Mike: Look at this thing. Mm.
Coke machine. It's a 110, it's a biggie.
Mike: There are certain items in my store that we
always sell a lot of.
And Coca-Cola has always been one of those items.
Mike: What this thing's got going for it is its
original paint.
Mike: The coveted model is the model 81,
made in the 1950s by Vendo,
that's a really cool piece.
This is a model 110.
It's not the most desirable model,
but if we can get it for a decent price,
I can flip it fast.
Mike: The coin mechanism box,
that whole mechanism's not there.
The shell of it's there, but the guts aren't there.
Cammy: Okay.
Mike: I tell you what, just esthetically somebody
would use it like in a man cave or a woman den.
Cammy: Thank you, thank you.
Mike: What's it worth?
Cammy: How much is it? You tell me.
Mike: You tell me.
Cammy: Educate me. Cause I know...
Mike: You educate me.
Cammy: How much you like it?
Mike: What are you thinking?
Cammy: Oh my goodness...450 bucks.
Mike: I can't do that.
Cammy: You know it's worth it.
Mike: You're pretty strict.
May I ask what, uh, profession you're in?
Cammy: I hate to tell you boys this,
but I was a principal.
Frank: High school? Cammy: Elementary school.
Mike: Okay, now it's all coming together.
Cammy: Detention.
Mike: Frank would probably like it if you put him in detention.
Frank: I've been in detention.
I used to have to write lines.
Frank: I, Frank Fritz, did not fully conjetatethe
inevitable consequences due to my lack of failure
in cooperation to obey the regulations and rules of
Betandorf Middle School.
Cammy: This county it's legal to spank too.
Mike: Whoa! Look at, he's blushing.
Your face is as red as her hair.
Mike: But imagine trying to write that as she's
looking at you across the desk.
It's like Van Halen Hot For Teacher.
Mike: This has been touched up.
See how rough that line is there?
You can see the brush stroke in it.
So, um, principal Cammy, I would pay 400.
Cammy: My dad hand picked all of this stuff,
it was special to him.
So if they would have come in and said, ugh,
I would have punched them.
We kind of established a little rapport that, hey,
you know what?
We can work together on this, but I'm in charge.
Cammy: 400. Deal. Thank you.
Mike: Alright, I like that.
Thank you, may I have another?
Mike: To the guy that doesn't want to spend 3,
4000 dollars on a Coke machine,
and wants to spend 7, 800 bucks,
this is his machine.
Mike: Alright, you got it, Franky?
Frank: I got it.
Mike: Overall the day went well,
we had to pay up for some stuff,
but other things we got a pretty decent deal on,
so it all balanced out.
Mike: Cammy... Cammy: Hey. Frank: Thanks honey.
Mike: Thank you. Seriously. Cammy: It's been great.
Mike: It was hard to say goodbye to Cammy Camaro.
Frank: Because the next person we pick will
probably be about 88 and, uh,
not as pretty hair and probably not have a Camaro.
And probably not as good as shape.
Cammy Camaro, the girl of my dreams.
Mike: I think we scratched the surface just a little bit.
Frank: Alright, sweetheart.
Cammy: I'll tell you, Mike and Frank were wonderful.
They really care.
I mean, they're not just doing this for the money.
They truly care about the history and they have the
passion for the items.
Frank: See you, Cammy!
Cammy: See you, thank you so much.
Frank: Thanks sweetheart.
Cammy: I think Dad's saying, you know, Cam,
you did good.
Mike: I honestly believe, Franky,
if you knew where you were going.
You could drive across America on gravel roads.
Frank: I'd just as soon be on a gravel road.
Super highways, they're not for me.
Mike: When did you get those sunglasses?
Frank: I just got them, you know...
Mike: They look exactly like my sunglasses.
Frank: They are kind of like yours.
Mike: I've had these sunglasses for two years.
Frank: I liked yours, so I got them.
Where'd you get that grey shirt?
I just got this.
Mike: I know. I'm kind of freaking out here.
I don't care that you dress like me, because...
Frank: I don't talk like you.
Mike: When you copy me, that's the highest form of flattery.
But when we show up to someone's house and you
look exactly like me, like we're the men in black type dudes.
Frank: Oh yeah, that's right.
You were Will Smith, cause you're taller.
Mike: That's kind of weird.
I just can't believe they sell glasses like
that at the Dollar Store.
Frank: No I, I couldn't get these at the Dollar Store.
These I had to step up.
Frank: Danielle's calling right now.
Mike: Hello? Frank: Danielle!
Danielle: Hey, what's up? What's going on?
Mike: Hitting some back roads.
Frank: What do you got?
Danielle: So I got a lead for you, are you ready?
Mike: Ready.
Danielle: So I'm sending you to Bill and Joann's
farm, they got tons of stuff.
They've been collecting literally all their lives.
And they're ready to start letting loose of some
stuff.
They have bicycles and pedal cars on their farm.
Frank: That's cool.
Mike: Alright, let'*** it.
Send us the coordinates.
Danielle: Okay. Good luck boys.
Mike: Alright, keep up the good work, girl.
Frank: See you, girl.
Danielle: Okay, you too. Bye.
Mike: Alright, here we go, we've got a paved road. Ah.
Paved.
Frank: Ooh, that felt good.
Frank: This is it, dude.
Mike: Looking good. See that fire truck, you need one of those.
Frank: Ooh, dude this guy's got a bunch...
Mike: Ooh the guy's got...those aren't...
Frank: Look at all those old vehicles and stuff back there.
Mike: Those bicycles aren't that old. Firewood.
Frank: Give it a chance.
Mike: Hey. It's better than nothing.
Frank: Darn right it is.
Mike: Hey hey. Are you Joanne?
Joanne: Yeah, I'm Joanne.
Mike: Hey, nice to meet you, I'm Mike.
Frank: My name's Frank. Joanne: Hi Frank.
Frank: Pleasure. Mike: Is this Bill?
Joanne: This is my Bill. Frank: There he is.
Mike: Hey Bill, how are you?
Frank: That's the collector guy, huh?
Mike: Good to meet you guys.
So what are you doing?
Frank: Thanks for having us.
Mike: Digging through some horse tack and stuff.
Bill: Oh we got junk from knee deep up.
Bill: We first started off collecting antique barbed wire.
And through that it just growed and growed.
And we started with some old things and worked out way up.
Mike: So who was the bigger collector, you or her?
Bill: Well... Joanne: We split.
Bill: We kind, we kind of run together.
Frank: That's good.
Mike: Now did you collect the same exact thing?
Joanne: Oh no.
Joanne: We started probably when
the kids were little.
45, 50 years ago almost.
Little by little it's mounted up.
Mike: You guys having a sale or something?
Joanne: We're getting ready for a garage sale.
Bill: Getting ready for a garage sale.
Frank: There you go.
Mike: Frank loves garage sales.
Frank: Man, I've built a reputation on garage sales.
Mike: So I'm looking around and I'm thinking I
hope this isn't the stuff that they
were telling Dani about.
Mike: Are these your old boots?
Mike: Cause it looks like a lot of household items
and things like that.
Mike: So do you guys have anything older than this
in this building here?
Bill: Oh I'm sure there is.
Joanne: We got a few things back in that room right there.
Mike: Can we look in there?
Bill: Sure. Joanne: Sure.
Mike: After 25 years of doing this,
we've realized that one man's junk is usually one
man's junk.
The good stuff has always been hard to find.
These guys seem like avid collectors.
But they might not have the kind of
stuff we're looking for.
Frank: Oh boy.
Mike: Here we go. Now we're talking.
Mike: We go from garage sale to honey hole.
Bill: 50 years of stuff piled in there.
Mike: There's tons of stuff layered up,
it's all dusty, I mean, you can tell these items
have been in this building for a long time.
Mike: So have you guys been collecting together
your whole lives?
Joanne: Yeah.
Bill: In fact, I think she met me in a junkyard.
Mike: Did she? Did she? Joanne: It was close.
Bill: We used to go to a lot of swap meets and trade meets.
She's got her things she likes best and I have too,
but we've just got more than we can handle.
And it's just time to get rid of it.
Frank: This is kind of cool. What is that thing?
Bill: Butter churn.
Frank: I see this electric butter churn,
but it's made of glass.
Frank: The reason I like it is it's got the cow on
the front here.
Frank: A see a lot of electric butter churns,
but you never find the glass piece, I mean,
it always got broke.
This is complete.
Looks like it's been sitting there for a long time.
I mean it was in great condition.
I wanted to buy it.
Frank: What do you got to have for that?
Joanne: Make me an offer.
Frank: Well I don't know if the electric motor
works, but how about $20?
Joanne: I think we have to about double that.
Frank: You have to double that into 40?
I don't know about that.
Mike: He's got your ticket, Franky.
Bill: That name embossed in that jar makes it very
expensive, cause most of them didn't survive,
they got broke.
Frank: I would say so. Let's do 30 bucks.
Mike: Frank don't get us kicked out of here right away.
Frank: Sure, the glass is intact,
but they have a lot of stuff here and I need to pace myself.
Joanne: 35 and it's a deal.
Frank: 35, you got it. Alright.
Joanne: I thought we'd work out a deal right at
the start and let him, uh, feel good about it and
maybe he'd get a little deeper in his pockets when
it comes to the, the bigger stuff that I wanted to sell.
Mike: What about this bucket of letters?
A lot of people will buy this stuff like you know,
like a guy named Sam, he'll buy the S.
Frank: Oh yeah.
Mike: They're aluminum, they're earlier...Well
this one's toast.
The aluminum's just kind of rotted out on it,
but what are you thinking on the bucket?
Joanne: Oh my goodness.
Mike: What do you think, Bill?
Bill: I don't think, I get in trouble when I do that.
Mike: He gets in trouble.
Frank: I know who I'm going to the rest of the day.
Joanne: He likes to give things away,
he's a kindhearted soul.
Bill: Hey, life is fun, if you don't have fun out of it,
you're in trouble.
Joanne: Hm, how about three bucks apiece?
Mike: I'd do three bucks apiece.
Joanne: Alright. Mike: Alright.
Bill: I forget what was in here.
Mike: I tell you what Bill, this is a catchall.
I like your speed man. This place is awesome.
Mike: It's fun to buy from people like this,
because there's no emotional attachment to a
lot of this stuff.
It's just all about the treasure hunt, the dance.
I think when me and Franky are buying stuff,
they see themselves in us.
Mike: Frank, airport limousine toy.
Got good color still.
Frank: Toss it on down.
Frank: This tin airport limo bus, it's a cool toy.
It looks like it's maybe from the 70s.
The paint's in decent shape.
And so are the wheels. And those are always gone.
Joanne: Make me an offer. Frank: 15 bucks.
Joanne: Your voice is so low,
I could hardly hear you when you talk a little
higher, I can hear it.
Mike: She was the one who was hitting us below the knees, man.
She was tough.
Joanne: Oh, you'd go at least 20, wouldn't you?
Frank: Alright, we'll take it for 20.
Joanne: Good deal. Frank: Alright.
Mike: How much for the cow skull?
Joanne: I think it's a buffalo steer,
we raised a buffalo from a day old calf one...That's
not the buffalo?
Bill: That's that old yak.
Bill: We raised that animal from a baby.
Mike: What was his name? Joanne: Merv.
Bill: And we watched him grow up and get big and,
and, uh, had him around here for oh, 7 or 8 years.
Mike: What's that? A bullet hole?
Bill: Yup. Mike: Really?
Bill: That's what ended his life.
Mike: No kidding.
Right there, he was blasted, huh?
Bill: To got to where he was a little ornery and a
little mean, so we had to dispose of him.
Mike: Okay. Alright.
Bill: You couldn't sell him...
Mike: You haven't completely disposed of him.
Mike: It just goes to show that there's a story
behind every item.
Frank: Yup.
Mike: You know, the capped yak head.
Mike: What are you thinking?
Bill: Probably 75 bucks for that dude.
Mike: How about 50 bucks? Bill: Up to her.
Joanne: I'll split the difference.
Mike: What? 60?
Joanne: Yeah, what the heck.
Mike: Alright, let's do 60.
Mike: People just use these are statement
pieces, whether you hang it on your fence post or
hang it on the front of your Cadillac.
If you've got that rustic plainsman during the day
I'm a used car salesman, but I'm a drifter at night
thing, you got to have one of these yak skulls.
Danielle: Frank picked this coin op mini bike in Kansas.
Frank: Yeah. What'd you have to have for this?
Man: 900. Frank: 900? You got a deal.
Man: Okay.
Danielle: This is a very unique item.
So we want to find out a little bit more about it.
Bill: Hi Danielle.
Danielle: Hey Bill, how you doing?
Danielle: We met Bill Roskey a while back.
Bill: Can I help you guys? Frank: Are you Bill?
Bill: I'm Bill.
Frank: Can we keep looking around?
Mike: Dang. This is awesome, man.
Danielle: I remember that he grew up around the coin
op business.
So I figured he would probably be the perfect
guy to come and take a look at this.
Bill: Oh it's great.
Bill: I've been in coin op all my life because my
father was a jukebox operator.
I kept up in the business restoring and buying and selling.
Bill: It's a real bike that they cut down to add
on top of this.
Danielle: Oh so it was an actual dirt bike, or...?
Bill: Mm hm.
Danielle: So they just cut this part?
Bill: Right here, pieces that were underneath here,
underneath the engine here.
There's probably a handful left of machines like this
with motorcycles.
You see more horses out there,
because they were predominant in the 1950s,
cause you had westerns, ranging from Hopalong
Cassidy, Roy Rogers, to Bonanza that were very
strong back then.
You know, the bikes started coming around at
the end of World War II, 1948.
With the emergence of the suburban shopping centers,
a lot of these were made to sit outside supermarkets.
Danielle: Right.
Bill: And places like that.
Noticing that there's a 25 cent,
that's a lot of money.
Usually your first coin op machines were nickel
machines.
Danielle: Right.
Bill: And then quarter would become more into the 70s.
This is probably made either late 60 or early 70s.
Danielle: That's what it looked like to me.
Bill: Mini bikes were pretty popular,
but a lot of communities started to ban them cause
they were dangerous.
Danielle: Check this out. Still works.
Bill: That's the main thing, it's working.
Danielle: It's working.
Bill: Saves a lot of aggravation.
Bill: A lot of times these machines were left
outside, so water got to them,
the fact that all the parts are still there,
to restore this piece would be very, very easy.
Bill: I have seen, um, a motorcycle that was done
in the 50s ride like this.
Once it's restored, selling for $6000.
But it was...
Danielle: What?
Bill: But it was a 1950s bike.
Danielle: Okay.
Tell me what I can get for this bike, just as is.
Danielle: Franky picked this bike for 900 bucks,
so what I'm hoping is that he didn't pay so much
money for it based on his emotions instead of what
it's actually worth.
Bill: A lot of times years ago unrestored pieces like
this would be a few hundred buck type of a deal.
Nowadays items from the 60s and 70s have gained
headway in value.
Something like this, the fact that it works,
I would say that they'd probably pay, uh, around $2000,
I think you could get for something like this.
Danielle: No way. Bill: Oh yeah.
Danielle: This thing can bring in 2 grand,
which means that can double our money on it.
And whenever that happens, I'm a happy camper.
Danielle: Thank you so much for sharing your
knowledge about this bike.
Bill: It's definitely a piece that I would have
bought in a second.
Bill: Bye bye. Danielle: Bye.
Mike: So you guys in the process of painting the barn?
Bill: Yeah, we got to paint it or tear it down.
Frank: You can start on it.
Mike: The front painted.
And the sides you got to hit.
Mike: We're having a great time hanging out with Bill
and Joanne, a couple that share the passion of collecting.
And have a ton of stuff to prove it.
Mike: This looks it's been here for a while.
Bill: Some of this stuff's been in here for quite a while.
Mike: The attic of this barn is filled to the
rafters full of stuff.
Dusty, dirty, piled up, layered.
Mike: Wow, this is packed.
Frank: Danielle had said there was going to be some
pedal cars, but I didn't think there was going to
be this many.
Mike: Wow. Frank: Jump on in. Mike: I've jumped on in.
Mike: That's pretty killer.
Frank: And the best thing about these is they're
rough, these are all in their natural condition,
they're not in the best shape,
but there's some good models up here.
Frank: Hey Joanne, what about this one?
Joanne: That's that older style though, isn't it?
Frank: No front end. See the wheels are gone?
Frank: This is a pedal car.
Looks like it was made in the 1940s.
Nice original paint, I mean,
this is a great piece.
Joanne: 150 on it.
I can't just give the cars away,
cause there's a big market for that here. Local.
Frank: People restore these things like crazy,
and we sell the heck out of them,
so we always buy them.
Frank: 100 wouldn't buy this one?
No wheels in the front.
Joanne: I'd have to have 125.
Frank: Sure it was missing the front wheels,
but you can find those.
The stuff that was still there, the windshield,
the little pods on the front,
that stuff is amazing.
You can't find that kind of stuff and that was
still on the original car.
Frank: I'll do 125. Joanne: Okay.
Frank: Alright.
Frank: Even though this pedal car has seen better
days, it's an original handmade one.
And that's still a sound investment.
Frank: What have you got here?
Joanne: Bill, please don't go out there.
Mike: Bill, you alright?
Joanne: I need to get him off that over there,
it's not sturdy.
Frank: Bill, it's not sturdy over there.
I thin maybe you should...
Bill: My insurance is paid up pretty good.
Frank: His insurance is paid up, she said.
Bill: I'm getting over here with the good stuff is.
Frank: Bill was just along with the pick.
He's picking just like we were.
Mike: When's the last time you were up here, Bill?
Bill: Oh it's been a year or so ago.
Bill: I have done that before.
I get up there and digging in something and find it.
And I put it under my shirt and take it to the garage.
And she sees me every time.
Mike: Here's a pedal plane.
Where'd you guys find that at?
Joanne: Auctions. That was our entertainment
when the kids were small. We didn't have much money.
We may have had 20 bucks left out of the, uh,
the paycheck that we could go have fun with.
So our fun was going to the auction.
And we'd fill the truck up.
You could for 20 bucks then.
Bill: It's entertainment in, in a way. And excitement.
Joanne: It's a treasure hunt. The find.
Bill: When you find one of those things
that you don't have.
It's real satisfying.
She likes it as much as I do,
so we're real fortunate.
Frank: Hey Joanne.
What about these little cars over here?
Joanne: They're for sale.
Frank: These are great looking little cars,
they're not mint condition, I mean,
they look kind of homemade.
But I love them.
Frank: Would you do 150 on both of them?
Bill: Don't look at me, I don't ride them anymore.
Frank: I don't think I could ride this either.
Joanne: I'd 150 for both of them.
Frank: Okay, I'll take them.
Bill: I've been, I've been through this a dozen
times, I love to get up here and dig through it again.
Frank: Dig through them?
Frank: I'm looking around the whole place,
I'm thinking, you know what?
I should just buy the whole place,
cause everything I touch, they're giving me great
deal and they're selling it to me.
Frank: Joanne, what do you think?
Joanne: I'd take $80 for it if you want it.
Frank: Give me 65. Joanne: I don't think so.
Frank: Make me buy it. Joanne: $70. Going once...
Frank: $5 ain't going to make or break it.
Mike: Over the years, they're thrown everything up here.
Frank: Hey what about that Schlitz Light?
Joanne: 25?
Frank: I think I'm good at 25.
Frank: I think you got another one in here too. 20?
Joanne: Yeah. Frank: I'll take that one.
Mike: This is like the land of Oz for Frank.
Frank: This is another storage area?
Bill: Yup. Mike: Whoa! Bill: Oh yeah.
Frank: It's filled full of toys.
And there's cap guns, there's steel metal toys,
and there's a lot to look through here.
Mike: I just like watching him in there.
He's like a little kid at Christmastime.
Frank: I love this place!
Mike: Look at his face, look at him,
he's freaking out.
Bill: He's kind of like me.
He's kind of child at heart, you know,
and he likes his toys.
Mike: Look at this, Franky. Look at this.
Frank: That's cool.
Mike: One of the things I spotted right away was a
toy car, long and lean, it's got the camper behind
it, little tear drop shaped pod.
Mike: The tires on the car are completely rotted out.
But I like them like that.
Joanne: Yeah.
Mike: There's a lot of rust here and everything,
but that doesn't bother me man,
I love that airflow look and then with this on the
back, look at that, Franky.
Frank: Trailer's waiting to go.
Mike: See that kicking down that road?
Mike: As a collector, you always want to collect
things that are snapshots from your life.
I mean, guys like Bill grew up looking at stuff
like this going down the road,
wishing they could drive something like it.
Now owning this car as a toy gives the guy the same rush.
Mike: What are you thinking on the car and the trailer?
Joanne: 150.
Mike: You know what? That's what I was thinking, 150 bucks,
I'll take it for that.
Mike: The patina, it's awesome, it tells a story,
it's got the color, it's got the look,
the two pieces put together are brilliant.
Bill: There we go.
Joanne: Got one other spot I want to show you.
When that barn got full, we built this one.
Frank: Bill and Joanne's collection is crazy.
They've got acres and acres of farmland here.
And we're heading into yet another barn.
Mike: Whoa! Frank: Oh wow.
Joanne: Every box is full you see.
Mike: I see that. Man!
Frank: He's got everything in here.
He's got farm tractors, he's got oil cans,
a lot of iron and stuff.
I mean, there's a lot to look through here.
Frank: Got a Honda 90.
Bill: It's hard to tell the good from the bad.
Mike: Here you go.
Mike: In between the tractors I see this really
cool early moped.
Mike: Joanne?
Mike: It's a Raleigh, looks like 1950s,
it's got an exposed fly wheel, it's a pedal start.
Mike: Man this thing's cool.
Mike: It's got the teardrop shaped gas tank
on it and underneath all the dirt and dust is the
original paint.
Mike: I've been buying a lot of these mopeds
because a lot of the young guys,
they want something vintage to ride.
Mike: Mopeds are hot right now.
And they're kind of hipster.
There's a huge moped forums on how to hop up your moped.
Now with a moped, it's not about horsepower, man,
it's about going slow, looking cool.
This Raleigh says all of that.
Mike: I mean, it's going to need a lot of work,
there's some sheet metal that's missing,
like would go, you know, over here where that fly wheel is.
Mike: I finally find something that I can
connect to a little bit.
Two wheels and a motor.
But it's in rough condition.
I want to buy it before it falls to dust.
I want to rescue it.
Mike: I mean, there might be a guy out there that
would restore this or it might be just a parts piece.
Mike: I want to be a part of the moped army.
But for me to enlist, I got to get this moped at a cheap price.
Mike: For me, on something like that,
I'd be at like 100 bucks.
Joanne: Sounds good to me if you can get it out of here.
Mike: If I can get it...I know,
I...Can we take this wall out?
Joanne: No, that wall stays.
Mike: I paid 100 dollars for the moped.
I'm going to take 120.
Mike: What about any other old motorcycles?
Bill: Well there's some down in that pile but you
just have to walk down in the weeds and look for them.
Mike: Joanne cuts out and Bill says, hey,
let's go deeper into the property.
Farms didn't have garbage service.
When they wanted to retire something,
they threw it on the pile, because you never knew if
you're going to need a piece or a part off of it.
Bill: There's a little bit of everything down in
here, you just have to find it.
Mike: I cannot tell you how many cool things I've
pulled off these rock piles.
Frank: Oh I see a handlebar.
Mike: Look at that. What's that?
BSA super, little single, check this out, Franky.
Mike: I see it.
An old single cylinder motorcycle, I pick it up, it's a BSA.
Frank: I like it.
Mike: BSA is one of the oldest motorcycle
companies in the world.
These guys started in the 1800s making small arms
and then later on made BSA motorcycles.
A lot of guys that collect this stuff are purists.
I want to buy this bike so somebody can restore it
and put it back on the road.
Bill: Probably only been here about 30 years.
Mike: 30 years? You can still read BSA on the tank over here.
Frank: Oh yeah.
Mike: A little single. Still got taillight on it too.
Mike: The motor's stuck on it.
Bill: Yeah, no doubt.
Mike: It'd be a cool parts piece for somebody, hey, you know.
Frank: You need the tank, you need the top cylinder.
Mike: Believe it or not, the inside of the tank's like mint.
Frank: Clean?
Mike: It's super clean. That's cool.
What's up with that? Is that like a bomb or something?
Mike: I'm checking out the motorcycle,
then I see this like really cool looking bomb.
Bill: I don't know what that was,
some kind of an air tank or something...
Frank: It's an old water retention tank or something.
Mike: This thing's got the look.
Mike: A big old bomb.
Frank: It is kind of like a bomb.
Mike: It's got the hangers on it right there.
Bill: I think it's a gas tank off of an airplane.
Mike: A lot of things that Frank and I buy,
we shoot from the hip, finding something like
this, you have to have an imagination to repurpose it.
I'm hoping to find the customer that's like minded.
Mike: Alright, well let's do package here.
BSA motorcycle and the big belly tanker.
What are you thinking on these?
Bill: Oh I hadn't given it too damn much thought.
Mike: I bet.
It's been out here for a while, huh?
Mike: So all day we're talking cash with Joanne,
and Bill is just hanging out picking with us.
Now this is our first deal with Bill.
It's like breaking the ice all over again.
And I have no idea what kind of deal this guy's
going to make.
Mike: You want me to make you an offer?
Bill: If it's high enough, make me an offer.
Mike: Alright, I'll tell you what,
for the bike and the bomb, 150.
Bill: Good gracious.
I thought you was going to make me an offer.
I didn't think he was going to steal it, did you?
Mike: As the day goes on, he's getting a little bit rougher.
100 for this, cause it's a parts bike,
the motor's stuck, it's missing...
Frank: He was at 25 on the bomb.
Mike: And then I'd do 50 on the bomb.
Mike: Bill is a wild card, but Joanne,
she's ready to move some stuff.
Frank: We need Joanne back.
Bill: Haul that outta here and pay that old lady right up ther.
Mike: Alright, we doing it? 150.
Frank: Alright. Mike: Alright.
Joanne: Bring the checkbook and come on.
Frank: Alright, let's pull this out of here.
Mike: Buying this BSA wasn't a rescue,
it was a rustcue.
But me and Franky sealed the deal,
I got this and the belly tanker that's the bomb,
for a good deal.
Mike: How we going to get my baby in here?
Bill: When you get that running, you holler at me,
I'd like to see that going down the road again.
Mike: Don't, don't hold your breath.
This baby's for sale just the way it is.
Frank: This was the kind of place that we really
like to go to, because nothing was all pretty,
some of it was broken, but it had been there for 20,
30 years, it was in its natural state.
It was a great pick.
Mike: This is my favorite thing from you guys.
Frank: I like that piece.
Mike: I'll remember you before I buy that piece, buddy.
Alright, thanks for, thanks for putting up with us.
Frank: Thanks honey. Thanks for giving us the tour.
Bill: I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it.
Mike: Alright. Frank: Keep on buying.
Bill: Frank and Mike, you know, they're super guys.
And them are scarce and hard to find anymore.
It's the kind of guys you like to deal with.
Mike: See you guys! Joanne: That was fun.
Mike: Are you serious? Frank: What?
Mike: I'm thinking, I'm going to buy a shirt that
there's no way he would wear.
Mike: We're not going to somebody's house
looking like this, dude.
Frank: Why?
Frank: I saw Mike buy this shirt,
I'm just having some fun with him.
Mike: Here, do this.
Frank: I kind of like it though,
it feels good against my skin.
Mike: I don't think I like you in black Lycra.
Mike: Nobody wants to see a husky little guy in a
sausage casing.
Frank: Is yours a one piece?
Mike: Is yours a spanx?
When you can go to the extreme of buying a one...
Frank: One piece evening dress top?
Mike: To, to mess with me. I like your style.
Frank: Just agree that we're like the same.