MIKE WOLFE: This must be the place, Frankie.
Hello?
Hey, are you Joe?
What's up?
Kind of working on a little junk here.
We speak the same language.
Yeah, junk.
How you doing, my friend?
How you doing?
Good seeing you.
Danielle said you are the sweetest man in Tennessee.
Yeah, good.
She said you've been collecting for a long time.
Nearly 60 years.
Oh, lord.
She said you have a real passion for anything
that's run by steam.
- We've got a lot to look at. - All right.
All right, let's do it.
We've got a lot-- lot to look at.
All right.
We going to look.
Am I going to get dirty?
I hope so.
35 buildings--
We've got to go.
MIKE WOLFE: All right.
It was amazing to see that much stuff.
I mean, he had old train cars.
He had old steam engines.
He had old architectural stuff.
It's incredible.
A lot of stuff here, Joe.
Oh, yeah.
When Frankie and I cruise into any barn
and there's a bunch of old motorcycles in it,
that's a good day to be a picker.
What's the story on your motorcycle here?
It's a Harley frame.
Yep.
JOE: Calm 750 engine.
There was fuel injection on there.
[mike murmurs approval]
And that bike runs like a top.
Like a top?
I thought, here we go.
He has a Honda 750 chopper.
I am really in the 1970s motorcycle pieces like that.
[music playing]
When's the last time it was licensed, Mike?
No plate on it.
No license on it.
You got a title on it?
No title.
I traded-- some of these bikes ain't got no titles.
Well, if they don't got titles,
they're just pretty much parts bikes, you know?
Something without a title is a definite no-no.
If you don't have a title, sometimes
it creates just a big hassle.
The item could be worth $200.
It might cost you $500 to get a title for it.
What do you got to have for something like this?
I couldn't take no less than about $5,500 for it?
$5,500?
Mhm.
When he said $5,500, I thought I was going to have
to get the smelling salts out.
Those bikes retail for $2,500 at best.
No way we could pay that kind of price.
I'm not having any luck on this trip.
I need a break.
That's when I spotted the Moto-Scoot.
Oh, this is cool.
What can you tell me about this?
A Moto-Scoot scooter, made between World War I and World
War II out of Chicago.
Wow, that's cool.
Yeah, it's old.
FRANK FRITZ: No seat.
The Moto-Scoot is a very rare scooter.
They were made by a very small little company in Chicago
during the Depression.
And not many of them were made.
Let's take this out a little bit here, Mike.
Let's see what we're looking at.
See what we got here.
[whistles]
MIKE WOLFE: This thing had an awesome look to it.
FRANK FRITZ: What's the tank look like, Mike?
Fresh as the day it was made?
- It's pretty clean. - Pretty clean?
OK.
MIKE WOLFE: 99.9% of it was there.
We had to try to buy it.
What are you thinking?
I mean, are you ever going to use it?
I want-- take $1,500 for it.
Oh, I could never do that.
You know, Joe has some really nice items here.
But the problem was, what he had that he thought
was nice was very overpriced.
How about $850?
I can't do that. $1,500.
$1,500?
$1,500.
Well, there--
$1,500.
[exhales]
Joe was at $1,500.
Frankie was at $850.
I mean, it was funny seeing Frank go up
against a guy with so much knowledge
and had been doing this for so long.
I mean, I like it, Joe.
It's cool.
I mean, I see a lot of things here
I don't know if you're doing anything with.
Any line that Frankie through at him, Joe
had heard it before.
It's getting dark.
I've been bit by mosquitoes all day long.
This is it.
This is the best part of the pick, the dance.
I'll do $1,000 on it.
And that's my best offer.
I don't know about that.
I mean, I'm at $1,000 or I'm checking off down the road.
If I don't make this deal on this Moto-Scoot,
I'm going to have to hear about it all the way back to Iowa.
That's cash.
It's the only one I've ever seen.
It's 75 years old.
But I'm going to trade with you.
We'll do $1,000?
$1,000.
All right.
$1,000.
Finally, I catch a break.
All right, Frankie.
Is that delivered?
FRANK FRITZ: At the beginning, I didn't think he
was going to go for the $1,000.
But at the end, I was really glad he did.
[laughter]
Yeah!
I love this scooter.
It's early and you just don't see them.
I like it.
It's got nice lines.
I bought the Moto-Scoot for $1,000.
I'm thinking it to the right guy, $1,700 to $2,200.
This is where all the magic happens, Joe.
Joe was a great character, man.
I mean, he was the kind of guy that I liked to talk to when I
was a little kid because he had so many stories,
and he'd been collecting so long that he
had some great old stuff.
The old stuff is getting harder and harder to find.
Joe, thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.
We had a good time.
Come back and see me.
We'll be back.
Thank you.
All right, I'll see you later.
[honking]