Hey, are you Del?
I am. How are you guys doing?
Good. How are you doing today?
Pretty good.
You're off the beaten path here a little bit.
Yeah.
- You talk to Danielle? - Yeah.
I'm Frank.
Hey, I'm Mike.
Nice to meet you.
Dani said that you guys used to have a car museum here.
Yeah.
From day one, my mom and dad have
always collected everything.
My dad's museum came to be because he just continually
collected more and more cars and more and more things
and had to have a bigger and bigger building to put it in.
So when did that close?
Oh, well, my dad's been gone for about 30 years.
Oh, wow.
Oh, so a long time ago.
Yeah, so we've just been kind of liquidating ever since.
OK.
Wow, look at this.
Look at how long that is.
This is deceiving.
MIKE: [inaudible] is this sucker, man?
Dang.
FRANK: Jeez.
DEL: The look on people's faces--
you know, they come to the middle of Kansas
thinking they're going to see an old Model A or a Model T.
MIKE: Man, this place just keep going.
FRANK: Oh, my gosh.
And you go through here, and you'd
see 190SLs and Delahayes, and everything you can imagine--
Reo.
You know, there was just such cool stuff.
That's the sign?
That was the original sign my dad had done.
No way.
Frankie, look, it's got a Cord on it.
Did you guys have this car?
We had a 4-door Cord.
We had a Beverly. We did not have a convertible.
Are you kidding?
Love those cars, man.
The dash in them-- it's like you're
in an airplane or something. DEL: Oh, yeah.
FRANK: So neat. DEL: Way cool, way cool.
MIKE: Del's father's passion for cars was contagious,
and it's really what set Del on the path
of how he makes a living now.
Ooh, Frank, look at that.
That's a 1952 XK 120.
Dang.
DEL: So we've got 17,000 miles on it.
Oh, my gosh.
Look at this thing.
My dad would have been about 33
years old when he bought this.
- Your dad would have been? - Yeah.
- Can I sit in it? - Out in Salina, Kansas.
Yeah, sure.
MIKE: And that steering wheel's up close and personal, man.
It's like right on you.
DEL: Just like NASCAR.
Look at this thing. Wow.
And the miles--
17,000 miles.
Is this the original leather?
Yes, it is. It's all original.
Yeah, it's a neat car.
It's incredible.
All broken in and everything.
That's original paint?
Original paint.
Frank, do you want to try to get in it?
- I'd say, yeah. - Let's see you get in there.
Come on.
So I got in the Jag.
There you go.
I can just see myself going down the winding road.
I can touch the pedals and the brake.
I think that I'm double 007--
Pierce Bronson, 007.
So what do you guys value this at?
It's not for sale.
We're keeping this.
Oh, man, I don't blame you.
Lots of stuff has been here longer than I've been alive.
There's cars that are here that were bought in the '50s.
He would buy them, park them, shut them off, and that was it.
What's going on with this, Del?
What can you tell me about this?
That's a '64.
A '64.
Yeah, and look at the mileage of it.
The mileage is pretty low--
30-some thousand miles.
I throw you an offer?
Sure.
How about $6,200?
You know, I just--
I know that just to quit beating around the bush,
I'd take 7 grand.
You'd take 7 grand?
Today was one of those things where I could see Del--
he wants to get the top dollar.
I like this a lot, man.
It's a Ford--
Taunus.
Del is in the car business.
He sells cars.
So that means every day, all day,
it's a negotiation for him.
This guy is good at what he does.
He could literally do a TED talk on negotiating.
Here's a box of horns.
[blows horn]
This was all down in my dad's room
in the house we grew up in.
OK.
He actually had a padlock on the door.
We knew where the key to the padlock was.
We'd be real careful and sneaky.
You know, we'd go in there and not touch nothing.
And my dad would come home and say, you were in my room,
weren't you? You know, he knew,
Did you admit it?
Well, of course, we admitted it.
Yeah. [laughter]
He put a hair on the lock.
This is the kind of stuff, to me, that's just
as important as the car itself.
Because these are the parts and pieces that make a car
different, make it unique.
His father was collecting hood ornaments, and lights,
and horns, and gauges, because that's the gingerbread, man,
you know?
A lot of times, you'll find a car in a field,
or in a barn or something, and a lot of this stuff is missing,
or it's just in such poor shape that you
can't do anything with it.
A lot of these would be used for people that are going
to put them on a survivor car.
Like, for example, that, you know.
The wing on the back is broken off of that.
I'd do $1,000 on this box.
[sighs] I don't know.
Let me ponder on that just a little bit longer.
Ponder on that.
Hey, how about this mirror?
How about the mirror?
Want me to make you an offer on that?
Sure.
$200.
I'll do that.
Because I'd put that on a motorcycle, too.
I won't even argue with you.
Right there.
That would clamp right on a bike.
Bam.
There was some boxes that they went
through that I hadn't seen the contents for probably 20 years.
So it was kind of fun to go through that.
I'm glad to see some of these cars will stay in the family.
My youngest son will get this '52 Riley behind me.
And my oldest son is going to get the '35 Graham behind me.
So yeah.
I mean, I'm glad to see some of them will stick around.
All right, man.
It's been fun.
Thank you.
I appreciate you.
Appreciate it.
His father handed down the passion to him.
And it's something that still keeps the wheels rolling.
[horn honks]
See you, Del!
See you later!
Take care!