[Mike] So how many bikes do you have?
-Around 20 or so. -Do you really?
-Left, yeah. -No kidding.
Left, he's got 20 left, he says.
I collect a lot of things. [chuckles]
Motorcycles, uh, Volkswagens.
Um, ex-wives. [laughs]
You got any Knuckleheads?
-I got a couple. -Okay. Oof, what year?
Uh, '38 and '46.
Oh, nice.
I've, in the past, done very little selling.
But I've started to sell now because I have a lot of stuff
and my daughter's not gonna wanna mess with it.
Where's the four at?
Uh, the four... is that one.
-Whoa! -[laughs]
-Oh man. -Holy mackerel, dude.
That went through a fire in 1992.
That was one of the bikes that I lost in the fire.
I lost 15 kick start bikes in a fire.
He didn't say that, dude. He didn't tell me!
So it's not a pull.
Now I know why you didn't send me a picture.
[laughs]
It's been in a fire, and um, it's a piece of art.
-Is that for sale, really? -Yeah.
It's a four cylinder frame.
It's a 1940 four cylinder frame.
When I had it before it was in a fire,
it had the original paint on it,
the original script, Indian script.
-Really? -It was all original paint?
-All original paint. -Oh my gosh.
38,000 miles on it.
Oh my gosh.
The 1941 Indian four cylinder is probably one of the most
rare antique motorcycles in the world.
It's a great bike. It's a skirted, fendered bike.
They are beautiful machines going down the road,
they're stylish, they sound wonderful,
and they really function well.
And that came from New Hampshire.
-Really? -Do you think
this thing's gonna fall over?
-Maybe. -Yeah, look at the handlebars.
-Yeah! -[laughs]
Look at the handlebars.
They're all like, curled up. Is that from the heat?
Stuff fell on it.
How long has it been up there?
Um, 20 years?
Actually, I've been-- there's been numerous people
that have wanted to buy that,
that bike in that condition.
But I just wanted to look at it.
The tubing's not rotted, Mike.
You can see it clearly,
-it's not rotted away. -I want to see the other side.
The tanks are, the tanks are shot.
It's in definitely worse shape now than it was.
The tanks were in very good condition
when I put them up there.
But they are rusted through.
Very cool. The rear rack is a cast iron rack, Mike.
That's not going nowhere, that's good.
Yeah. Yeah, look at that.
Seeing this for the first time,
I mean obviously, you're knocked back on your heels.
But then Jersey's looking at it.
He's like, "Hey, there's no cracks in the frame,
it looks solid,
you know, it looks like it's pretty much all there."
It's got the toolbox on it.
The fenders are there, they're not rotted away.
I've worked with worse on early bikes.
Yeah, definitely, man.
I mean, we've found motorcycle frames over the years
that I've had to chip out of frozen chicken crap.
There's a giant chicken above your head! Look at it!
-[yells] -Here, you want a leg?
[Mike] We've dealt with a lot of different motorcycles.
You know, they were like, literally sitting in the dirt.
Woo!
But, you know,
Jersey's the man when it comes to frame repair
and he's looking at it going,
"This ain't that bad."
Wow, cool.
All right, so what are you thinking on that?
$20,000? [laughs]
-Oof. -[laughs]
I'm just kidding you.
[chuckles]
It kind of looks bent up there from the heat.
And this is no big deal for Jersey.
Well, here's the deal.
I have a '41 Indian four cylinder engine.
-Oh, you do? -I have a complete engine.
-Oh, there you go. -Yeah. I have a complete engine.
You got the hard part done.
No, the hard part's up there.
-Oh, really? -Right in there.
I just bought an engine.
You know, when the engines are around,
you know, people took the engines and they used them
to run a pump, a corn sheller, whatever it was.
The chassis, it's--
it's so hard to find.
This is a great project to restore.
Like, how you gonna get it down?
-I got a forklift. -You got a forklift?
-We can get up there? -Easy.
If you got the forklift, why don't we pull it down?
I can look it over really good.
-[chuckles] -Dude.
We're gonna have a deal before I pull it down.
Oh, you want a deal before you pull it down.
It's amazing that we had an opportunity
to even find this bike in the wild.
You just don't see these things.
I mean, this is an Indian four cylinder
on a pole in California.
It's surreal.
[sighs]
10,000 bucks.
For this?
10,000 bucks for this.
And...
two grand for the bicycle?
$2200 for the bicycle.
Okay. So 12,2.
Delivered to here.
-Yeah, get that off the-- -[laughs]
off of there, right here.
-Right? -Okay, yeah.
-I can do that. -[laughs]
-Thanks, man. -Thank you, buddy.
Dude, this is working out really good.
-This is cool. -This is fantastic.
Holy crap.
Didn't know what I was gonna do this morning.
And here I am getting
an Indian four cylinder frame off a pole.
I can't tell you the last time I even had an opportunity to buy
a 1941 Indian four cylinder chassis.
They don't show up. I mean,
I don't think I've ever seen one for sale.
Lower it down a little bit. Lower it down. Let's see.
-Kill it, Mike. -No way, dude.
Now we can actually see it,
we can put our hands on it.
Let's see, I'm gonna get on her.
We're looking it over and it just looks pretty cool.
Woo!
I'm engaged now, you know? I'm locked in, okay?
I'm already in for ten grand
so it's like, I'm hoping this is going to be
what I think it's gonna be.
The speedometer is still there,
-the Corbin speedo. -[chuckles]
And it looks so much better and so much more beautiful
looking at it eye to eye.
You've seen bikes worse than this restored.
-Oh yeah. -Yeah.
To restore a motorcycle like this, it's probably
gonna cost $80,000 to restore a bike like this.
To take it apart, put it back together again.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, these bikes are exceeding $100,000 now.
So what do we gotta do, then?
We gotta cut that off, or-- how do you want to do it?
We can just cut this.
Imagine the life that this bike has lived.
30-some-thousand original miles, original paint.
[saw whirring]
New Hampshire, rugged country,
running wild through the mountains.
[saw whirring]
It comes to California, it's burned out,
its soul ripped from it, it's on a post,
and boom, now it's being lowered,
and now we're cutting the bolt
from the anchor
that it's been chained to all these years
and we're rolling it off.
Yeah, she's free.
Here, Jersey, you got the front?
Yeah, hold on, hold on.
-[groans] -There we go.
You know, we're giving it a new life.
We're breathing air into this thing.
And I just love this moment.
Here, let's put it on the center stand, will that move?
One of the things I love about the antique motorcycle world
is that there's always someone out there
that's willing to take something to the next level.
-[chuckles] -Thanks, buddy!
-Thanks, buddy. -Okay.
This bike is beginning a new journey
with Jersey Jon and I.