- Hello. - Gus.
Welcome.
My name's Frank.
I'm Mike.
Did you talk to Danielle? - Yeah.
We've got to be in the right place.
You've got the old car.
Now, is this what they call a Shoebox?
GUS: Yes.
Did you do this car?
Yeah.
MIKE: Yeah.
This is very cool.
My whole life has been buying, and selling,
and working on cars.
When I was young right after World War II,
there was no such thing as buying a new car.
So I always drove old cars and collected old things.
You got a nice place out here.
Yeah.
I guess we can go up into the building.
MIKE: This is what every guy wants.
Think about a place like this.
It's beautiful.
It's quiet.
You're surrounded by your cars.
I mean, this is what life's all about.
Dang.
Wow.
Oh, boy.
You got all kinds of stuff in here.
MIKE: Wow.
FRANK: Everybody that has a collection
has their little man cave.
Look a that.
And this is a '39 Crosley.
MIKE: That's incredible.
FRANK: This is where he's got his choice cars.
GUS: This is our 1950 Hotshot.
FRANK: He's got signs.
MIKE: Oh, you got the Bug here.
What is this, '70s?
FRANK: This is his little kingdom here.
MIKE: OK, so where did you get the Stutz?
You gotta tell me the story on the Stutz.
GUS: This was a 1923 Stutz.
This came from Tazewell, Virginia.
MIKE: Wow, that's beautiful.
Now, did you restore this?
GUS: Yes.
MIKE: How about that license plate over there.
What's that antique plate?
They made these license plates in the shape of Tennessee
from 1936 to 1956.
GUS: It's a permanent plate.
You can put it on your car and use it today.
You know that? MIKE: Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
The state of Tennessee, you can register
that plate to your car.
50 bucks.
No.
60 bucks.
No.
70 bucks.
No.
Well, how much is it?
GUS: Give me 95.
MIKE: Done.
Ooh, check these out.
I find these MotoMeters.
Check it out, Gus.
First time ever touched by human hands.
I love the wings on these things.
The first thing you see when you're going down the road
are these beautiful grills of these cars--
Airflow, Streamline.
The MotoMeter that sits on top is really
gingerbread for your car.
This is basically a temperature gauge.
But they want to make it visually stimulating just
like the rest of the car.
I've had that probably 50 years.
Wow.
Really?
It's hard to find these things period,
even more so in the original box.
And now this one's not in great shape.
It's all taped up and everything.
But I've never found one of these in the box.
This is cool.
How about $400 for the two of them?
Woo.
I think you're riding high on that one.
Let's do 400, what you wanted, if you
throw in a MotoMeter top.
Well, let's see what's over there.
I'm finding parts and pieces.
So if I can find everything, put it together,
it's going to bring the value up.
GUS: All right.
MIKE: All right.
This is the kind of stuff that people want to buy because it
individualizes your ride.
Oh, ho, ho, look at that.
GUS: That's an English Austin.
So Gus tells us it's at Model 10 Austin from 1933.
What do you value this at?
I'd like to think 20.
MIKE: Wow.
They're very sought after.
Now, I've never seen one of these before.
You know, I don't know if that's a good number or not.
I wonder if that guy we talk to that
liked the little cars, if he would like something like this.
Oh, the guy that had the Messerschmitts.
Mhm.
MIKE: We picked this guy not too long ago that's really
into European small cars.
Look.
He's got Messerschmitts stacked.
I think there's 14. MIKE: Dang.
FRANK: Man.
MIKE: This is a guy, very knowledgeable.
I think this is something that he would know a lot about.
So I take some photos, boom, hit send.
I'm like, let's get on the horn, talk to this guy, Frankie,
and see what he thinks of this car.
[phone ringing]
GUS: This is--
Oh, here's Charles.
Hello.
What's going on, man?
Did you get those photographs?
What do you think the value of it is?
All right, buddy.
Thanks a lot.
Hey, I'm going to give your information--
--because you guys should know each other.
Thank you so much, buddy.
Thank you.
All right, so what--
OK, so if you know the value of this car now,
then what are you thinking?
I can sit here.
I'm not in any hurry to get rid of it.
MIKE: You don't want to sell it?
Little cars don't take up much room here.
MIKE: And I realize I found something
that is close to his heart.
Would I have loved to have bought it?
Yes.
But it just wasn't in the cards.
I love talking to guys like this because they
help me feel like there's still stuff out there.
All right.
Even at the end of the day when we don't buy a ton of stuff
from somebody like this guy--
I mean, we did OK.
But I just walked away with my batteries charged.
It was an honor looking through your stuff.
FRANK: Hey. - I mean that.
We had a good time. - Thanks a lot.
- Thank you. - Appreciate it.
I'm glad you had a good time.
It's always nice to--
GUS: Mike and Frank were very easy to get along with.
Well, I think they dug stuff up I didn't
even realize I had half of it.
And they kept me pretty busy today.
Y'all come back.
[horn honking]
See you, Gus.