What year is this car?
That car was built in 1937.
Wow.
No kidding.
And--
Aw, it's got a knuck motor in it.
Frankie, look at that.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
MIKE: What year is the knuckle motor?
ROY: 1936.
'36.
Really?
Yeah.
MIKE: When it comes to these cars,
there's four things you want to know.
Who drove the car?
What races did they win?
Who built the car?
And what engine is in the car?
This car has a 1936 Harley Davidson
knucklehead engine in it.
When's the last time this ran?
Yesterday?
Oh, really?
ROY: When I bought the car, it was a machine--
a machine with horsepower.
Then I learned more about the driver.
Barney Barnes was a midget racer from the Ohio area.
I know he started racing in 1936.
He's got championships from different tracks
up there in Pennsylvania and so on and so forth.
MIKE: Yeah.
ROY: He drove this car until 1947 or 1948,
and he grenaded it.
And he was running again in the old timer stuff.
No kidding.
Right.
He had a bunch of cars.
When he died, he had six cars.
MIKE: OK.
Once I saw that car, and I love motorcycles,
and then a knucklehead-- you know, are you kidding me?
I got a lot of information with the car.
Here's this right here.
Top speed is about 100 miles an hour.
The car is to be driven.
We're going to push it straight back to here
to make sure we got fuel in it.
All right.
And I'm going to take it to the bottom of the field.
Yeah, it's fun to look at.
Yeah, it's a knucklehead.
That's great.
So you're going to let me drive this?
Yeah.
He's going to come behind us with the car.
You're going to count to three.
The wheels are going to turn over.
The motor is going to turn over a couple times.
And you click on the mag.
MIKE: While he's pushing me, I got it in gear.
You got it in gear.
Count to three.
One, two, three.
And hit the button.
Put it on.
And you're gone.
MIKE: This is a race car.
It doesn't have conventional brakes.
It doesn't have a starter.
This is going to be wild, man.
Yeah, this is-- this really is.
MIKE: I'm starting to get a little bit nervous.
From here to the corner--
you got all that turn-around.
Don't go too far down, because it gets narrower.
And don't let off when you're in the corner.
If you drop the power off, then it wants to--
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not your whole power.
I don't want to roll this thing.
No, right.
It'd be like trying to turn in third gear--
- Just drive it. - --or something.
And I'd be chugging along.
Try to keep it running.
Yeah.
Nice-- nice knowing you.
MIKE: Roy gets in his car behind me.
And I'm going through everything in my mind.
And I realize, OK, I've got to count to three.
One, two, three.
Boom!
Flip the switch.
Dang!
[laughs] Woo!
Whoa!
[laughs]
I had no idea a 36 knucklehead engine would be
capable of this kind of power.
ROY: Oh, my gosh.
When you get in the midget car and you're running 65
through that field, you feel like you're
going 200 miles an hour.
[cheers] Whoa!
Oh, my gosh!
[interposing voices]
Oh, my gosh.
It's insane.
You were flying.
Wow.
ROY: Mike, I mean, he got into it.
You know, he's a little fearless.
You know, he's still zingy anyways, so--
[laughs] you can see that.
What do they call it--
HGH or something or other?
HARLEY: ADHD? - ADHD?
I don't know.
I think I saw a little that, you know?
All right, I had interest in this car.
There was no doubt about that.
I mean, as soon as we pulled the hood off of it
and I saw the powertrain was a knuckle, it had me.
Here's what I'd do on the car.
I'd do 28 for the car.
ROY: Mike appreciates the history on that car
like anybody should.
Yeah, if he were to take that engine out--
Oh, no.
--chop it back up and turn into something else,
it'd be a disgrace.
You know--
But he's not going to do that.
So--
No.
So are we doing 28?
Yeah, we're doing 28.
We are?
Yeah.
We're doing 28.
MIKE: [inaudible]
All right.
MIKE: This car has everything going for it.
It was built in 1937.
It's got a 1936 alcohol-burning knucklehead engine.
It's got a tremendous amount of history.
And it runs.
You still want to buy this after driving it, huh?
I mean, you're that nuts, huh? - Oh, my gosh.
That hooks me, man.
That hooked me, big time.
All right.
MIKE: Collecting is all about decisions-- what you're
going to buy, what you're going to keep,
what you're going to sell.
And today, Roy had to make a hard decision.
Hey, man. Thank you so much.
Harley, nice to meet you.
Thanks for showing us around.
I appreciate you.
The car needed now to go out into the world
again so that people could see it.
We had fun with it.
And let's go do something else.
[horn honks]
Roll on, guys!
See you later!
[horn honks]