American Pickers Mega Pick - Reality TV

I love ‘American Pickers’ on the History Channel 9pm on a Monday and last night the new series hit the road running with a mega pick that had Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz all aflutter. While Mike and Frank are on the road together, they both have their own stores but work together on the bigger costing items like in last night’s programme.

We only see Mike’s store ‘Antique Archaeology’ run in his absent by Danielle Colby Cushman. She searches out contacts for them to visit spending a lot of time cultivating them.

In this episode we see them head to the Pacific Northwest to what can only be described as gearhead guy heaven, and one of the rarest motorcycles in the world. The pair need to raise the roof money wise to seal the deal.

When Frank and Mike get to the location in Oregon, we meet Zane and his mom Linda whose husband Larry was a keen collector of motorcycles and cars.

This is the perfect pick for the guys who love hard-to-find cars and bikes. The first barn building we go into with the guys and Zane is filled to the rafters with all kinds of bikes and cars. A rare Frazer Vagabond car bought for $99 and a shot of whiskey is shown first.

Fans of this series like me know that anything pre-WWII in motorbikes lights up Mike’s brain. He spies an Indian! Zane says he is willing to sell. The guys begin to dance around a price. Mike adds: “This would be such a great bike to do!”

Then things quickly go from great to wow! The guys hit another barn on Zane’s property filled with old Indian motorcycles and Mike spots a rare Ace four-cylinder bike considered the Holy Grail of antique motorcycles. Frank knows Mike wants this bike. With some more motorcycles, related stuff Mike and Frank plan to laid out $85,000, a lot but in the end, it cost them just over $90,000.

They would hope to later find a buyer and recoup their cash, but these guys know each pick is an educated gamble.

In the next pick it was more your smalls shopping trip with a mother and daughter having a clear out of the grandmothers property. There were toys and other small items but the two were surprised with Mike’s interest in six old denim jeans.

After sending some pictures to an expert Mike knew, the ladies were shocked to find a pair of 1930 Levi jeans were worth $1000/$800 and five other pair of jeans whose condition were not the best demand prices of $200/$300 each.

This show never fails to entertain me.