COREY: Hey, how's it going? - All right.
Hey, I have an OG car I'd like to show you, OG gangster's car.
Original gangster car, OK.
ROBERT: Original gangster.
Pull into the alley.
There's a lot back there.
I'll meet you back there, all right?
OK.
An OG car could be a classic hot rod or something covered
in bullet holes for all I know.
Sweet.
So this is it, huh?
Yeah, this is it.
It's a 1940 Buick Sport Sedan Special.
There's only one of this series in Nevada.
This is a rare bird.
And it was Fidel Castro's car.
COREY: Really?
ROBERT: Yes.
So who told you the whole story with it
being related to Castro?
ROBERT: I bought it from the chauffeur.
Fidel Castro brought it when he went to Mexico for a few years
to fight the guerrilla war, and he didn't ship it back.
So the car was in Cuba, got brought to Mexico,
and then Castro was going back to Cuba
and ended up leaving the car in Mexico.
Exactly.
COREY: Do you mind if I kind of take a look around the car?
ROBERT: Sure, take a look.
It needs carpet.
I have the original stereo system
for it, the original radio.
COREY: OK.
ROBERT: Yeah.
I'm digging the swamp cooler.
Swamp cooler.
Back then in the '40s, they would open this up here,
fill it with water, get it frozen,
mount it back on, and on their way
with that long trip hitting the wind here and cooling the cab.
COREY: That is cool.
What are you looking to get out of it?
$35,000.
COREY: $35,000?
ROBERT: Everything's there.
All original, OG gangster right here.
All right.
You'll be rolling.
You'll be rolling, let me tell you.
All right, man.
So I am not the expert on 1940 Buicks.
Mind if I have a friend of mine come check it out?
ROBERT: Sure, sure.
Have him come out.
1940 Buick, man.
That new body was called a sea body, torpedo body.
Very distinctive, man.
Very cool.
This was GM's number two, basically
Cadillac's little brother.
Mind if I open the door and check it out?
Go ahead, yeah.
Great.
Yeah, you didn't finish the carpeting or the headliner
or any of that?
ROBERT: I have the headliner.
The carpet I don't have.
Yeah, I can see, like, a different shifter
in there that's obviously not original, right?
ROBERT: No, no.
STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: It would have been a 3 on the tree.
ROBERT: Right.
STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: Looks like the transmission's
obviously been changed.
Mind if we look underneath the hood?
ROBERT: Yeah, sure, let's do it.
All American cars in 1940 were awesome.
I can't wait to open the hood and see that cool motor.
In 1940, it would have had a Fireball 8, Straight-8.
ROBERT: Yeah, a Straight Flat-8 Fireball.
That's what that was.
And that wasn't with the car?
No, it wasn't.
That's a shame, really.
You mind if we take it for a test drive?
ROBERT: No, I don't mind at all.
See what I mean?
I think that's important.
When we opened the hood, I was a little let down.
I wanted to see that Buick Fireball-8
motor, which is one of the coolest-looking motors ever.
It just kind of ruined it for me a little bit.
[ENGINE STARTS]
Wow, with the car running, the brakes almost go to the floor.
They're real, really soft.
Oh, man, yeah.
That's pretty iffy, man.
You know?
We've got some bad brakes here.
They're way too soft.
Yeah, I'm--
I'm good.
Yeah, this is too big of a car to be
driving with brakes like that.
Yeah, I'd feel better doing that.
I really do.
All right.
The danger with soft brakes is they only go so far,
so once you hit the ground, you're not pushing anymore.
That's it.
So if the car's still rolling, there's no
stopping the car at that point.
COREY: We heard it run.
You got a good feel for it?
I think the plus on the car is the paint
and the bodywork is pretty darn good.
But underneath that, I think there-- it needs a little love.
COREY: What do you think it's worth?
I would probably put the value of this car
somewhere around $14,000.
That's just--
No, not even.
STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: That's where I would put the car.
Wow, that's-- that's OK for you, but--
Again, I think a lot of that has
to do with it's being a four-door
sedan instead of a coupe.
ROBERT: Well, that's for the hot rods,
not the low riders of the gangsters, OGs--
STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: I see.
--you know, that loved these cars and collectors.
STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: They're only worth so much.
I think that's where we are.
COREY: My man, I appreciate it.
Hey, my pleasure, Cor.
- All right. - Brother.
- Nice meeting you. - Thank you, man.
It was nice meeting you, too.
Really think he was way low on the value of the car.
Just being an OG Buick makes the car.
That's it.
COREY: All right, my man, I know you want $35,000 for the car.
Yeah.
COREY: I'm not a collector.
OK.
COREY: Everything I do is I do it for profit.
Most I'm going to go is $15,000.
ROBERT: You know what?
Give me $25,000.
$15,000 is way too low.
COREY: All right, my man.
And $25,000 is where I'm at.
We're so far apart, buddy.
It's just not there.
All right, my man, well, I appreciate it.
OK. Nice meeting you.
Thank you for coming down. It was nice meeting you.
Yeah, that's good.
Thanks.
He might know about hot rods and motorcycles and stuff
like that, but he doesn't know about old-time classics
and vintage cars.
He's too young to know.
He is definitely not an OG.