- Hey.
Are you Robbie or Bobby?
Good to meet you.
Well, can we meet your pops? Where's he at?
Yeah, he's in here.
We're going through a few things.
All right, sure.
Very cool.
Here's my dad.
Oh, wow.
So we walk in the front door, but the showroom floor is ivy,
you know?
And Robbie's father doesn't even see that.
Bobby.
Yeah.
What you doing, buddy?
Oh, everything is everything.
He's at his desk, he's going through some paperwork.
He's just, like, hey, we're in business.
This is the way we roll.
Come on in.
I'm Bobby Collier.
I'm an AMC [inaudible] dealer.
I have been since 1955.
I'm Robbie Collier.
I'm his oldest boy.
I joined him in '64.
I grew up around AMCs, and we just love them.
Can we look around a little bit?
Sure.
You guys got, you know, some time to show us around?
Yeah, that'd be fine.
This is the best one we have.
It's the first one we ever bought.
I bought it out of--
I think San Francisco, California.
From a stockbroker out there.
Ooh.
The very first one made, the aluminum body car,
sold recently for $500,000.
It's just crazy expensive.
Robbie and Bobby obviously have an emotional attachment
to these cars.
I have no idea if they're going to be willing to sell,
but I know one thing for sure--
I'm going to try to buy one.
They open the garage door, and there's the car.
It's rusty.
I mean, you can't recreate this look.
Did this car run when you put it back here?
It did, yeah.
I'm falling in love with the car.
Now, I can't even see most of it because the forest
is claiming it.
It's an early hot rod with an American drive train
and an Italian designed body.
Bam.
American, English, Italian, Hollywood.
This thing is like a patchwork quilt of awesomeness.
Well I mean, are you guys at the point where you want
to start selling some of these?
We would sell some.
It would have to be a pretty good amount.
Well, what do you want for this one?
30,000 is not unreasonable to ask for this.
30 grand for this one?
I mean, I don't think it's unreasonable.
With the wrong motor in it?
Yeah.
What do you want for the red one?
He'd be in the same 30--
30 range.
So you think this one's worth as much as that?
That one's got the motor it it-- no,
it doesn't have the motor in it. - That's got a six cylinder.
OK, and it doesn't have the right dash.
What do you want for that Coupe?
It would be about the same.
30,000 bucks.
18 grand.
[laughter]
Oh, boy.
The reason I came up with the 18 grand
is because he's got another Coupe sitting
inside, very solid body.
The original motor, original drive train.
And he's, like, wanting 30 for that, too.
What do you think, Bobby?
I don't--
That's dual laughing on it.
Him and his dad are kind of chuckling.
They're like, that's not going to work.
20,000 bucks.
I could do something like--
25.
How about 23?
I'll tell you what--
I'd do 21.
There's a lot of ways to approach a deal.
It doesn't always have to be straight on.
What do you think about buying two, though?
Buying the Coupe-- if I buy the one with the Caddy motor in it,
you buy the other coupe with their correct motor in it.
All right, Bobby.
Robbie.
Right on.
We crunched a few numbers.
I'd be willing to offer you $25,000 for the gray one,
and 21 on the one with the Cadillac.
That'd be $46,000.
Well, I reckon--
I guess when we can go with that.
You'll do it?
- You'd do it? - I think we will.
Yep.
All right.
As pickers, you've got to take risks.
You've got to take gambles.
And here's another big one.
We're all in on these Nash Healeys.
I'm already sweating a little bit.
I mean, we haven't even seen the back half of Mike's car.
What do you got?
Get that big one.
Where?
Get that one.
We are going to surgically remove
this thing from the trees.
I got it!
And then Robbie's guy comes with the tow truck.
Hey, you got more room over here.
And he has to pull a car out from behind it to get to it.
Any place--
So finally, we get all the trees,
all the bushes away from the car, and I'm looking at it.
And it's what I thought it'd be.
I can see it!
As we get into the job, it becomes a lot bigger job than I
ever thought it would be.
Whoa, whoa!
You're lifting this car!
You're lifting this car.
You know, we can't move the Cadillac because there's
a car in front of it.
Here it comes, boys.
And now it's getting dark, and now it's starting to rain.
You know what?
I can look at this two ways.
I can look at it like, you know, this is really a bummer.
The weather is really pulling us down.
Woo!
But it was just kind of, like, washing the car off.
Is he stuck?
The racks came out.
Everyone came out.
This is fighting us.
We should just can it for tomorrow morning.
I'm done.
I'm tapping out.
I had a good time.
I like-- I like your spirit.
All right.
When I came here today, I had no idea
about Nash Healey's history.
And now I'm leaving here with a plan to get two of these cars
back on the road with new owners.
All right, we'll see you later.
- All right, guys. - Thank you.
Persistence, passion, and patience paid off today.