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MIKE WOLFE: The last time I was in Italy was 2001,
and that's when I met Flavio.
I haven't kept up with the guy.
I haven't emailed him, I haven't called him, nothing.
How do you read this GPS?
Dude, is it in Italian or is it--
Here, look at it, see if you can
turn the volume up somewhere, put it in English or something.
MIKE WOLFE: I know he lives near Venice.
I'm hoping I can find his place.
FRANK FRITZ: You think you can do this right?
Just go straight.
Oh, you're good.
You're good.
This is starting to look familiar.
Make a left right here.
That's where it says.
I got the flag.
There's a motorcycle.
Oh yeah, that's his motorcycle.
FRANK FRITZ: All right.
That's his Laverda right there.
FRANK FRITZ: Awesome.
Does this look familiar?
MIKE WOLFE: Yeah, totally, this is it.
[inaudible] he got a shop?
He's got a shop or something?
He didn't have a shop last time I was here.
Yeah?
MIKE WOLFE: Flavio!
Mike?
Mike, yes!
[interposing voices]
This is David here?
No, David's not here.
- No, no. - This is Frank.
Frank!
Oh, Frank.
Nice to meet you.
My name is Flavio. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Do you like to come inside?
Yes!
Heck, yeah!
We are looking for leads, and I know you know people.
I think I can help you.
You know some people?
I know some people.
He knows everybody.
I have some bikes to sell, but it's not mine.
One man died, and his family gave this bike to sell to me.
So you're like, handling the estate for them?
I can show.
I can-- yeah.
[interposing voices] - I can show you.
All right.
Someone passed away, and they had a couple motorcycles,
and he's selling them for him.
So he's basically brokering these bikes.
Oh, wow!
Ah!
Now we're talking!
KS 750!
Bam, we see it KS 750, Zundapp.
With sidecar.
Yeah, with sidecar.
- Yeah! - Zundapp!
Oh yeah!
Now we're talking.
Zundapp.
Let me see!
Get on, Flavio.
Let's go.
I drive.
Let's go. Here we go.
Let's go.
Wow!
[chuckling]
MIKE WOLFE: They made these bikes from 1940 to 1948.
FRANK FRITZ: When the Germans approached Zundapp,
what they wanted was a motorcycle
that could carry three soldiers and everything
that they needed-- all their equipment-- with them.
Check this out, Frankie. You know what that--
- Yeah, it was-- - The machine gun.
[imitating machine guns]
MIKE WOLFE: There was also ammunition boxes--
I've seen in photographs-- strapped
to the front of the sidecar.
This thing was incredible.
Check this out.
Shaft-driven--
Right?
--and then a shaft through the axle here.
The wheel--
That's why it was was all-terrain.
MIKE WOLFE: The wheel was shaft-driven as well.
Gets you through the mud.
It's the ultimate all-terrain vehicle.
So how much is it?
[speaks italian]
This cost 12,000 euros.
MIKE WOLFE: What's 12,000 euro, Frankie?
How much is that?
He can do the numbers real-- he's like Mr. Abacus.
Yeah.
You're going to add on 30%, so we have $15,600.
Ooh, that's a style cramper.
Yeah.
So 12,000 euro, huh?
[whistling]
Do you think it's crazy?
MIKE WOLFE: These are extremely rare, man.
I tell you what, you never see these in the States.
You see them in books or in a museum.
But to actually see a farm-fresh, sweaty KS
750 Zundapp, that's unheard of.
Come over into my office here.
Let's talk some business.
Come next to me, my friend.
[interposing voices]
This is like old times, like old times.
Yeah, yeah.
Me and you.
You want me to throw a number at you?
You want me to be the first one?
Yeah, yeah.
OK, I'll be the first out of the gate, wild stallion.
7,000 euro.
That's not enough.
I've seen that look before.
It's not enough.
[chuckling]
OK.
I can sell probably for 11,000 euros.
I know what I could sell this for in the US.
I'm just trying to figure out--
OK, shipping.
And that's another thing I was going to ask you about too.
Remember last time, when we were here,
we dropped a container off?
You loaded the the container. - Yeah, I load--
[interposing voices]
And then they picked the container up here?
I'm wondering if you could do that for us
again, where we drop the container
and you load the container here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The great thing about looking at a motorcycle
at Flavio's-- if we can buy it-- is that he is the guy
that's going to ship it.
Yeah, because we could be buying this out of somebody's
garage down the street here, and they'd be like,
have a nice day. MIKE WOLFE: Yeah.
FRANK FRITZ: And then we've got to do everything ourselves.
MIKE WOLFE: He's somebody we trust.
And this bike is possibly something
we can make make-a money on, make-a money on.
10,000 euros.
When I hear him come in at 10,000,
I know we're going the right way.
If we can meet somewhere in the middle here,
we've bought a bike.
Think of it this way, you're going to handle the shipping,
handle the container and stuff like that.
We're going to pay for that.
Yeah, yeah.
So that will be some money on top, you'll pay for it.
If you get a little money for brokering it.
Think about that when the final price comes in.
I'm thinking, you know what?
Since he's Mr. Shipper, maybe he can
make some money off that, off of facilitating the container.
Which was brilliant on his part,
because Flavio doesn't care which side of the fence
the money comes from, as long as the money is coming in.
Yeah.
For all these reason that you say to me,
I can give you for 8,000 euros.
8,000 euros, and then plus you get the shipping
and the [inaudible]. - Yeah!
That's what I wanted to hear.
All right.
MIKE WOLFE: I bought this Zundapp KS 750 for 8,000 euros.
That's like $10,500 US.
I'm going to ask between $15 and $18,000.
Good to see you again.
- Good to see you again. - All right.
[interposing voices] - We'll be in touch.
Whoo!
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