You know, I wanted to ask you about that bull nose.
Typically, most of the bull noses on signs--
they were always missing.
This bull nose is a neon piece that was
attached to an existing sign.
This would have been an ornamentation to the end
of the sign, basically.
It just sat like that.
JUAN: Yeah.
MAN: If you have a flat sign or a vertical sign hanging off
a building that's a square sign, this
would give the rounded edge on the end of it
just a decorator piece.
This has got great color on it.
Yeah, I like the colors.
Yeah.
It's just an unusual color.
I mean, the fact that it's not red or blue, you know?
You'd have to find that sign that this went to.
JUAN: Yeah.
Um, $375.
Uh, what about $400?
You know, it's porcelain.
It's kind of rare.
Yeah, when you find it, you buy it.
OK, all right.
All right, man. - Thanks, man.
[inaudible]
All right, one.
Look at that!
Ah!
Coat hanger!
And you got the porcelain shades on each side.
You guys want a Coke sign?
OK, you want to sell this?
No.
I don't blame you.
If you have a sweaty looking sign,
then you need something to hang it on that matches that--
the ornamentation on the front of this, the lights--
where they would have gone.
I was just imagining this in my shop already,
and he was like, no way, man.
I love that he said, no way, because he
knows exactly what it is.
He knows that this can turn up the volume
on any original sign.
And it's not for sale.
It's a cool piece.
Do you want to sell this big bastard?
Pass, you know.
In the corner, can you see the year?
'35.
1935.
Those colors they used in the '30s, yeah.
MAN: Yeah.
The Coca-Cola sign-- everybody typically shies away
from the size of it, but these, in the last five years,
have demanded some serious dollars.
What's that-- what's the, I would style it, price?
Your comfortable price?
This one's got more hits on it.
[laughs]
This guy's got some bambo jambo.
It's been touched up.
Somebody's touched it up over the years.
They tried to save it from rusting.
I always take that stuff off.
Yeah.
I always strip it down.
Ooh, something like that?
For, like, $2,800, something like that.
$2,800?
Yeah.
$2,800?
The fact that this Coca-Cola sign says "Fountain Lunch"
on it makes it even more desirable--
where you could actually go to the drugstore
and eat a sandwich and have a fountain drink
and have ice cream and pick your prescription up,
all those things.
Everybody's looking for these signs now.
Go ahead.
Pull it.
I am.
I'm trying to--
Here, I got it. Uh.
Let me slide this down there.
Ugh.
Right there, Mike.
What else you got here?
You got--
MAN: Sinclair behind that Texaco, I think.
You got them stacked up in here like cornwood.
Sinclair HC?
MAN: Ahh!
There it is!
[sighs] 6-foot Flying A.
The double-sided.
Yeah.
One thing about collecting gas and oil-- it's
all about distribution.
This was distributed in California.
The associated brand was all over the West Coast.
So when you're in the West Coast, what do you buy?
The flying A, only if you can find it.
How about on that one?
[laughs]
Make me an offer.
I don't know.
That's a good one, double-sided.
$6,000 for the pair.
$3,200 for this, $2,800 for that.
$6,000.
$6,000?
Yeah.
All right.
All right, brother.
So we got to pull that out.
[interposing voices]
Almost.
Hold it.
Hold on.
I got it.
[inaudible]
I got it.
Let me know when you're done.
Ahh.
Oh.
Oh, no, not done.
Help.
I'm done.
All right.
I'm done.
JUAN: Push it.
[grunting]
[sighs]
I could use the money now, so I have to let it go, you know?
I just close my eyes and let it go.
Ooh!
Dang.
Hey, whenever I can buy a Coke sign from a guy
wearing a Coke shirt--
[laughs]
I know--
I know how hard it is for you to turn loose, man.
I know.
I love signs, you know?
Juan, do you sell Coke signs very often?
This is the first time.
It's the first time you sold a Coke sign, ever, ever?
Yeah, I don't like to sell any Coke signs.
[laughs]