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  • - I bet there's, I bet there's 20,

  • oh, there's more.

  • Oh my goodness.

  • Oh, look at this, an El Camino,

  • a Studebaker, a Packard, a Packard,

  • looks like a pickup truck.

  • I'm Tom Cotter, the first car I found I was 12 years old.

  • I'm 61 year old now and I'm still finding cars.

  • And in this series, you'll see that there are still

  • plenty of cars left.

  • I've been dreaming since I'm probably 12 years old

  • about finding a car like this.

  • (mellow bluesy music)

  • I used to stay at a hotel just a half mile from here

  • when I was out on business in Northern California

  • and in the morning I like to run.

  • So I would run down this road called Pope Street

  • in Saint Helena, California and I'd see these old cars

  • lying around and I'd see other stuff in the background.

  • I said there's got to be old stuff here.

  • I've got to meet this guy.

  • So you got a Ranchero here.

  • - [Man In Brown Jacket] I chopped the top on it once.

  • (laughing)

  • - [Tom] Did you really?

  • - And when I chopped it, I chopped it two and a half inches

  • and it was too much so I raised it back up again.

  • - How'd you do, did you save the pieces?

  • - To an inch and a half.

  • Yeah.

  • - [Tom] Now, would you sell something like this?

  • - Oh yeah.

  • - Would ya?

  • - [Man In Brown Jacket] I'd have to.

  • I don't think I'll get around to fixing it.

  • - This is a 1954 Ford and it's a four door wagon

  • called a Country Sedan.

  • It's got a 312 V8, overhead valve V8,

  • which was Ford's first overhead valve V8

  • after the Flathead era.

  • It's got a three speed with overdrive.

  • And this car's so complete down to the hubcaps,

  • the trim, the spare tire, the jack,

  • the air cleaner still has the decal on it.

  • You don't find cars that are complete like this anymore.

  • It doesn't happen anymore.

  • I'd say this car's, you know, it's worth probably $2,000,

  • $2,500 the way it sits.

  • And restored, these can go for 20, $25,000 these days.

  • So if you were handy at home, you could buy

  • something like this, fix it up and come out cash ahead

  • if you had to sell it.

  • All pretty cool stuff here.

  • (upbeat music)

  • - Carload of fellas rolled into there

  • and they'd blown the engine up in it.

  • It was a $75 purchase.

  • - [Tom] That's Russ when he was just a young guy.

  • That's a lot of stuff going on in there.

  • - [Russ] That's all fuel injectors.

  • - This is a 1972 Jaguar

  • and the four door version of this would've been an XJ6.

  • This is known as an XJ12 because instead of a six cylinder

  • is a 12 cylinder and this is an XJ12C.

  • And the XJ12C is called that because it's a coupe.

  • So this car, interestingly, is a four door roof line

  • with two doors.

  • So they took the doors and stretched them

  • and then closed them off in the back.

  • So it's basically a four door roof with two doors.

  • So lots of room.

  • Big door, lots of room to get in and out of,

  • but a real rare car.

  • This is a '65 Chevy El Camino 327.

  • Neat, solid car

  • that is a daily driver.

  • Great stuff.

  • (upbeat music)

  • - And on the bottom of the block

  • has got die cast in there.

  • The casting number's number one

  • on the block that I got.

  • - The first Chevy V8?

  • - Yeah, uh huh, well, it's the first casting.

  • - It turns out that Russ Aves is one of the original

  • California hot rodders.

  • He's lived here for, oh, since '65.

  • He's got a Jaguar 12 cylinder.

  • He's got a '57 Ford Ranchero with a 500 cubic inch Cadillac.

  • This stuff is all for sale.

  • Russ said, "I'm not gonna get around to it.

  • "I might as well let somebody else have the fun."

  • There's a 1954 Ford Country Sedan station wagon

  • back there that's so complete, you don't find them

  • like that anymore.

  • You don't find cars with four hub caps,

  • with a jack in the back, with a spare tire.

  • It's a three speed with overdrive transmission.

  • A 312 cubic inch V8, which was Ford's first

  • overhead valve engine in 1954.

  • And you know what?

  • He said, "Look, I'd take 500 bucks for it,

  • "but I'd really like to get $3,000 for it."

  • That thing's worth restoring, very rare car

  • and wagons are very desirable these days.

  • (upbeat music)

  • When we got into Northern California yesterday,

  • we really didn't know who to talk to

  • and we just talked to a car guy,

  • who turned us onto a car guy,

  • who turned us onto a car guy

  • and they said, "Have you talked to Ricky Hall?"

  • No, we don't know Ricky.

  • So we called Ricky and he said come on over.

  • So here we are in American Canyon, California

  • and Ricky is an old Ford guy, likes '32s

  • and he's gonna show us what he's got in his yard.

  • This looks too cool.

  • Is it a four cylinder?

  • - Four cylinder.

  • It's a real early '32 pickup.

  • - Man.

  • - Serial number's show it was made, I think, early February.

  • - Of '32, really?

  • - It's got the no rib in the roof cap,

  • the roof right here.

  • - Oh, okay.

  • Single pull handles, it's got the early style gas gauge.

  • - It's a Model B.

  • Now look at that, wow.

  • Well, that's cool.

  • Now this is a '32 as well.

  • '32 four door.

  • - [Ricky] Yeah, I got this pick up last weekend.

  • It was in Lincoln, California.

  • - [Tom] Last weekend.

  • So you found this a week ago?

  • - [Ricky] It was complete.

  • I started tearing it apart this week.

  • - There are obviously still cars like this out there.

  • How rare is that to find a '32 in this day and age, 2016?

  • - [Ricky] It's getting pretty hard.

  • Especially one that's untouched.

  • - So Ricky just found this car

  • and he didn't have to search through farms or ask people.

  • This car was on Craigslist and he got it a week ago.

  • The fact that a car like this can still be found,

  • I mean, anybody could've bought it

  • and this guy lucked into buying a '32 Ford sedan

  • that's basically never been touched.

  • It's not a hot rod.

  • It's not a restored car.

  • It's just an old car.

  • Just amazing, I mean, guys would give their eye teeth

  • for this thing, all over the country, every day.

  • So this is a Lincoln Zephyr and it's a 12 cylinder.

  • So if you look some of the other cars

  • that Ricky has, they're Flathead Ford V8s.

  • Well this is a Flathead Ford V12.

  • So basically the eight cylinder

  • stretched to 12 cylinders.

  • And they were smooth and quiet.

  • An old man told me once that you could take a nickel

  • and balance it on the air cleaner and it would stay there.

  • That's how smooth those engines were.

  • Now I didn't plan on seeing motorcycles here,

  • but I've never seen a Sunbeam motorcycle.

  • Is that British?

  • - [Ricky] It's made by BSA.

  • - [Tom] Wow, what year is that?

  • - [Ricky] 1947.

  • I got that in an estate sale in Berkeley.

  • - [Tom] As it is?

  • - [Ricky] As is.

  • Actually I had to replace the fuel tank.

  • It was rotten.

  • I bought it just to resell.

  • - Man.

  • - [Ricky] So now it's just something that's waiting

  • to go down the line.

  • - Oh man.

  • So this is a '32 Ford, three window coupe.

  • If you look at this condition.

  • I've been dreaming since I'm probably 12 years old

  • about finding a car like this, in this condition.

  • I used to read Rod and Custom magazine

  • and there was a section in there called Vintage Tin.

  • And they would show these guys in California

  • and find this stuff out in the desert and drag it in.

  • And I was an East Coast guy

  • and I dreamed about coming out to California

  • because the women were beautiful,

  • there was surfing, there was Coors beer and old cars.

  • And it only took me 50 years to get out here.

  • Wow.

  • (upbeat bluesy music)

  • Napa Valley probably is some of the most expensive,

  • desirable real estate in the United States

  • if not the world.

  • And you wouldn't imagine large collections of old cars

  • to be hidden around Napa Valley.

  • Real Estate's just too expensive.

  • But we talked to a guy who turned us on to Rod

  • who lives in Napa and we just drove up the driveway here.

  • Well, there's something going on here

  • because I see a Trabant, which is an East German car.

  • I see an old Cadillac under a lean-to.

  • A Javelin on a trailer, an old Cadillac

  • up on a ramp truck, a Cadillac ambulance.

  • I can't believe I'm in Napa Valley.

  • This looks like Kansas.

  • (upbeat music)

  • Now, Trabant was an Eastern German car,

  • tell me about how the body was made on it.

  • - [Rod] It's a composition of recycled cotton

  • and paper.

  • (laughing)

  • - [Tom] So these cars have a story?

  • - [Rod] Oh, every car has a story.

  • - [Tom] And you know them?

  • - [Rod] Yeah, I do.

  • - [Tom] Oh man.

  • (upbeat music)

  • - This was bought new by the Department of Justice,

  • Washington DC and assigned to Southern California

  • during the Reagan administration.

  • It's a bulletproof Cadillac limousine.

  • - No kidding.

  • - Well, you see what happens when they do

  • the bullet proofing, they have reinforced concrete

  • they pour in the doors and of course it causes

  • the rust to happen from the inside out.

  • See what the windows--

  • - Look at this.

  • One, two, like three panes of glass,

  • or one piece of plexiglass,

  • two panes of glass glued together.

  • And these windows can't go down

  • because the doors are filled with concrete.

  • So what does this car weigh?

  • - [Rod] About 9,000 pounds, extremely heavy.

  • (upbeat bluesy music)

  • - I'm gonna identify what this car is,

  • don't tell me.

  • - I'll give you 20 guesses,

  • you'd probably still get it wrong.

  • - Alright.

  • I'm pretty good at this, now.

  • I'd say an Italian.

  • - [Rod] It's Italian.

  • - It's an Italia, Intermeccanica Italia.

  • - [Rod] I'll be doggone!

  • - I'm good at this.

  • - You're good, you're good.

  • - So this had a Ford V8 in it?

  • Some had Chevy's, but it had Ford V8?

  • - Yeah.

  • - Look at that.

  • (bluesy music)

  • - I was after this Mark II

  • just because I thought it was nice enough to pick it up.

  • Lincoln white with red interior.

  • Air conditioned car, there weren't too many

  • with the air conditioned options

  • so this is the fully optioned Mark II.

  • I'm handing the money, he's handing me the title,

  • 95 year old guy selling his cars

  • and he's retiring, he's a pharmacist

  • and he tells his son, that's 70 plus years old,

  • "Go get the picture back there

  • "because Rod's gonna wanna see this picture."

  • Brings out the picture of him, Elvis Presley

  • and the Lincoln and it says, "Have fun with the car, Elvis."

  • Okay, now, we know that Elvis had

  • a white Mark II with red interior, air conditioned car.

  • But we also know that there's one

  • in the Elvis Presley museum that they say was his car.

  • - [Tom] Maybe not.

  • - Maybe not.

  • - This is uh, this might be the Holy Grail here.

  • Holy mackerel.

  • Look at that.

  • See there's a photo here and a photo here

  • that are no longer there.

  • - [Rod] The notes on the back.

  • - It says "1956 Continental,"

  • 1977 I guess it was on display.

  • Wow, huh, there ya go.

  • We spent a morning at Rod's house here in Napa Valley

  • where some of the most expensive and desirable real estate

  • in the United States happens to be.

  • There's wineries that sell bottles of Cabernet

  • for hundreds of dollars just five miles from here.

  • But tucked away in little corners like this,

  • in even a place like Napa Valley, are great cars.

  • Happy hunting.

- I bet there's, I bet there's 20,

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