This show is great!!
Yes it is.
I love it when they extract old bikes and motorcycles from barns and bushes...
I am totally strung out on the series but boy do they meet some odd folks...
a rusty Maytag on the front lawn is like a lighthouse or a homing beacon to them <laughing>
Every time they go onto a piece of property that's stuffed to the gills with junk, all I can think about is how much it's gonna suck for the person who inherits it all. :P
I watched that show once, but it's too much like being at work - one of the functions I perfom for the Town I work for is nuisance and litter enforcement. I'm in court with one hoarder or another every month.
The novelty of finding one or two cool things in a mountain of crap wears off pretty darn quickly.
I could see where it could wear thin for you....
I like studying the people they meet...there are true collectors and there are broke-brained hoarders
always a crap shoot if they are one or the other or some hybrid....willing to part with stuff or if they take an offer for something as a direct stab at their mortality
American Pickers is not bad. Seems like they are a little conniving once they find someone's stash. There is a lot of disingenuous back slapping that occurs in the process of "picking" someone's stuff.
Something I have noticed about TV programming general though - it has become formulaic. For example:
Hoarders
+ better taste
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American Pickers
Or
Antiques Road Show
+ Hundred Dollar bills
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Pawn Stars
Alaska
+ Film Crew
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TLC
America's Got Talent = YouTube - the internet
... and so on.
Im amazed by how much they know about some of that stuff. I love to see all of the old bikes they find.
I don't have a TV in my house so I've never seen this show. My question is: Are the pickers the regular kind or are they also grinners, lovers and sinners?
sac
I think they are actually your garden variety ass and nose types
+1
Quote from: RAT900 on April 29, 2010, 01:25:59 PM
I think they are actually your garden variety ass and nose types
They are, after all...
on tv.
I'm a hoarder :(
There is no good reason that I have a pallet of worthless cylinder heads and a bunch fairly garden variety engines stuffed away in the corners of the garage.
Um, in my experience spare engines tend to come in handy sooner or later down the road....
Quote from: Speedbag on April 29, 2010, 04:02:53 PM
Um, in my experience spare engines tend to come in handy sooner or later down the road....
not ones with next to no hope at ever running again
Besides, 2 examples are a Ford 351M and a Ford 400. Only a good choice for rebuild if you want something less common than a 302 (have one of those too)
Quote from: SacDuc on April 29, 2010, 01:23:02 PM
I don't have a TV in my house so I've never seen this show.
sac
Who asked if you had a TV in your house?
Quote from: lethe on April 29, 2010, 04:07:20 PM
not ones with next to no hope at ever running again
Besides, 2 examples are a Ford 351M and a Ford 400. Only a good choice for rebuild if you want something less common than a 302 (have one of those too)
You don't have a Cleveland stashed....
do you?
Quote from: ducpainter on April 29, 2010, 04:26:12 PM
You don't have a Cleveland stashed....
do you?
no although the M and 400 are technically Clevelands aren't they?
Quote from: lethe on April 29, 2010, 04:34:12 PM
no although the M and 400 are technically Clevelands aren't they?
I'd consider them not Windsors...
but I'm probably being technical. [laugh]
Quote from: ducpainter on April 29, 2010, 04:36:17 PM
I'd consider them not Windsors...
but I'm probably being technical. [laugh]
Why, do you want them?
I'll toss them in the mailbox.
Quote from: lethe on April 29, 2010, 04:40:09 PM
Why, do you want them?
I'll toss them in the mailbox.
Just to save you some room.
If I throw some cardboard out...
I've got room. ;D
Quote from: kopfjäger on April 29, 2010, 04:16:28 PM
Who asked if you had a TV in your house?
Sorry. I'll be sure to check in with you next time I want to share information about myself. I was thinking of telling people how I'm training my dog out of his leash aggression in the dog thread. Would that be okay with you? Do I have to get permission from anyone else?
Thanks in advance.
sac
Quote from: ducpainter on April 29, 2010, 04:46:23 PM
Just to save you some room.
If I throw some cardboard out...
I've got room. ;D
Those two are just sitting underneath a work bench right now. I have no clue what they were originally in as I have them because someone else said they had old engines laying around and of course I said I'd take them, not that I had a purpose for them either.
And Sac, you have my permission to give just one detail about yourself a day, no more and no less.
Ok, two if you include a raccoon somehow in the story.
Don't make me pull this car over.
Quote from: lethe on April 29, 2010, 04:53:14 PM
Those two are just sitting underneath a work bench right now. I have no clue what they were originally in as I have them because someone else said they had old engines laying around and of course I said I'd take them, not that I had a purpose for them either.
And Sac, you have my permission to give just one detail about yourself a day, no more and no less.
Ok, two if you include a raccoon somehow in the story.
COOL! [thumbsup]
sac
/be on the look out for SacDuc's big ol' Raccoon Story thread coming to a NMC near you!
If these pickers ever make their way east, I'm sending them the address to my mother's farm. [thumbsup]
Better get a bigger van boys. ;D
Quote from: lethe on April 29, 2010, 04:07:20 PM
not ones with next to no hope at ever running again
Besides, 2 examples are a Ford 351M and a Ford 400. Only a good choice for rebuild if you want something less common than a 302 (have one of those too)
Well, maybe you're right.
However, years ago I built a pretty stout 400 with 351C heads that was good fun in my Ranchero shop truck.....
waaaayyyyy better than the stock wheezer was. :)
Holy shit...I KNEW the guy looked familiar. His shop, Antique Archaeology is in Le Claire, IA...GREAT river town and full of history. I have stopped in there several times on rides.
The new season has started. [thumbsup]
yup they unearthed an old Cord or was it an Auburn....sweet mother of jeebus that is a find dlose to discovering an old Vincent under a pile of rugs in a barn or something
And after that they were only about 10 miles from my house. ;D
Rat, you would have loved tonites episodes. They went to Italy and scored some sweet stuff, one of which was a Zundapp KS 750.