Whoa-ho-ho-ho!
Look at this!
[laughs]
Wow!
Dang!
Holy cow.
You just can't believe your eyes.
There's so many cars back here, and you
can tell that they've been back here
for an extremely long time.
How long have these been here?
30 years, roughly.
At one time, I drove pretty much every one of these cars
you see through here. - Really?
They all drove in here?
Oh yeah.
I mean, these are like metal beasts.
They're like dinosaurs that used to roam the nation's highways.
This is like their resting place.
My dad loved Cadillacs.
He did.
He just loved the way they rode.
And he just thought they were-- - They did.
They just floated right on down the road.
He'd say, them Lincolns, they had a little bit of a--
he goes, but them Cadillacs--
[laughs] He liked Lincolns too, but he liked Cadillac better.
This is the iconic one right here.
'59.
'59, baby.
Look at that.
'59 Fleetwood.
Mm-hmm.
Look at the trim on that thing.
I know.
It's unbelievable.
Holy crap, man.
And look at the interior. Wow!
Actually--
Oh, this thing's not bad!
No, this car cleans up very nice.
The biggest thing about a '59 Cadillac is the fins, the tail
lights-- everything about it.
So sexy on the back end.
- Oh, here's another one. - Yeah.
What's this one?
This is also a '59.
So this is a rare car because it's a flat top.
Yes.
The back end of this, in '59-- like, I've got a '59 El Camino,
same thing with this lip.
Is this original paint?
I believe this is, on this car.
Yes, black.
Yes.
My dad was a professional gambler first.
Well, he was in the army, and then
he was a professional gambler, and then he married my mom.
And then he opened up a little bar with a shuffleboard.
And plus, we had a hog ranch.
Is that what this building was?
Was this hogs?
That's what's part of this building, and that's what
you see all-- those were hogs. - Oh, OK, with the separation--
- Yes. - --of the wall and everything.
Then he opened up the pawn shop.
And he said, well, I've been in the pawn business for 20 years
already. - Oh, yeah?
He had a pawn shop too?
No.
In the card games, they--
- Oh! - --he did a lot of hawking.
He was loaning people money already.
So anyway--
He had a lot of IOUs.
Mm-hmm.
A lot.
[laughs]
And like he always did--
So he was already kind of in the pawn business.
He was already in the pawn business.
- Yeah. - And so it was nothing new.
One thing that's cool about a '59 Fleetwood is,
when you roll all the windows down,
there is no post in between.
Cadillac had to beef that frame up.
Look at how long this thing is!
And you can tell this thing's been repainted.
Yeah.
I see that, now that you're saying it.
Robbie, you remind me of my dad looking at these cars
before he bought them.
Hey, you got to do your due diligence on these things.
[laughs]
It's a California car.
It's all here.
The interior is intact.
It's a beautiful-looking car.
I'll start up at $12,000.
Um, you're at $12,000 on this?
Yep.
I think you can buy one of these
cars because it's a four-door.
Running, driving down the road--
$20,000.
Mm-hmm.
You can.
What it's got going for it is it's a '59.
I mean, from what I can see from the floors and the rest
of the car, just kind of looking it over with how dirty it
is, it looks pretty solid.
Yeah.
And then you get into the motor aspect of it.
30 years it's been sitting here.
You're already putting in a new gas tank, new lines, new brake
lines, new brakes, new tires.
My father-in-law, if he was here,
he'd be saying, well, them are pretty good-looking cases.
Put some air in them.
He'd say it's been buried in time.
Was he a used car salesman?
[chuckles] No.
Oh, yeah. He ran a pawnshop.
Yeah!
[laughs]
Those are buried in time.
Mm-hmm.
Time is money, though.
So make an offer.
$6,500.
Does that-- what's that really mean?
Does that mean "yes?"
[laughs] That means "up."
I thought it meant "yes," and this was no.
I thought you gave me the thumbs-up!
[laughs] That means up.
That means we're not even close.
$10,000.
I mean, come on.
I never met your dad, but I got a feeling he just said
that coming out of your mouth.
Yes, he did.
He knows it.
He's like--
I am my father's daughter.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
[laughs]
I tell you what.
Where we need to be on this car is, like, $8,000.
Yeah.
Because after we do what we have to do to it
to get to the $20,000 number, there's
not a lot of margin in it.
I'll tell you what.
I'll flip you for it.
I'd flip you for $8,000 or $8,500.
And that's my--
[sputters lips]
Heads.
I better hope I win.
Break out a coin.
Let's do it!
The coin-flipping definitely is my dad.
He just flipped everybody for things all the time.
Here, I got a quarter.
[intense music]
And here's the deal.
You're going to call it in the air,
and we're going to let it land on the Cadillac.
Sounds like a plan.
OK.
All right.
Ready?
It's heads.
[coin clatters]
Heads, it is.
Is it?
[clapping]
Son of a bitch!
[laughter]
God dang!
Thanks, Dad!
[laughter]
Wow.
You might better--
keep that quarter. You might need it again.
He must have been pleased.
I'm gonna keep that quarter.
What I'm laughing about is he couldn't see what it said.
I couldn't even see the damn thing!
I put my glasses back.
He took his glasses off, remember?
Look at him!
Russ is like, I could see it from here.
But you know what?
At the end of the day, it's a '59.
It's a Cadillac Fleetwood.
When you're behind the wheel of this thing,
I don't care if you paid $8,500 or you paid $28,000 for it.
You're the man.