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BradleyJ.
·Pawn Stars ain’t real either.
The proverbial “barn find”
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerFew years back I was in Vegas and happened to be in that area so I stopped in..... complete disappointment. No one on the show was actually working, they must use mirrors because the shop was about 100 sq.ft. To make matters worse, the only thing for sale was novelty tee shirts, 2 dollar Bill's signed by the cast, and maybe 20 items that were completely trash (nothing that was cool like you'd see in any episode) So they literally stock the shelves for filming. I was in and out in under 2 minutes.
I know people who have been there and said the exact same thing.
I do watch American Pickers, more for the items as they do have some neat things on the show. Just finished watching an episode at lunch where they featured a Daisy 104 double barreled BB gun...looked very cool, and I had no idea such a thing existed.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.Few years back I was in Vegas and happened to be in that area so I stopped in..... complete disappointment. No one on the show was actually working, they must use mirrors because the shop was about 100 sq.ft. To make matters worse, the only thing for sale was novelty tee shirts, 2 dollar Bill's signed by the cast, and maybe 20 items that were completely trash (nothing that was cool like you'd see in any episode) So they literally stock the shelves for filming. I was in and out in under 2 minutes.
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Cozmopak
·The overarching theme here seems to be that “barn” inventory is geographically influenced. I would bet that New England is much more heavily stocked with luxury watches than rural Oregon, but maybe I’m wrong.
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Fritz
·Barn finds?
Was allowed to dig through my watchmakers parts bins:
47ish Tudor, dead original. 44 Longines, terrible redial. 61 Seamaster... passable redial. $400 each, each serviced & warrantied for a year.
Waltham Appleton Tracy & Co. Premier, same deal, just had to find a decent regulator, easy with this American stuff.
RCAF Waltham 6/0 42, a grand, overhauled and warrantied.
44 30T2 SC PC, running & accurate but wanting a service to be safe... free... a friend was cleaning out his parents place and gave me a bag of stuff which included this, a nice running Chelsea marine clock, some old Seiko LCDs and an old pocket watch or two.
Was allowed to dig through my watchmakers parts bins:
47ish Tudor, dead original. 44 Longines, terrible redial. 61 Seamaster... passable redial. $400 each, each serviced & warrantied for a year.
Waltham Appleton Tracy & Co. Premier, same deal, just had to find a decent regulator, easy with this American stuff.
RCAF Waltham 6/0 42, a grand, overhauled and warrantied.
44 30T2 SC PC, running & accurate but wanting a service to be safe... free... a friend was cleaning out his parents place and gave me a bag of stuff which included this, a nice running Chelsea marine clock, some old Seiko LCDs and an old pocket watch or two.
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Dan S
·A car caddy is a two-wheeled trailer that is towed behind a truck. For use when towing a car. You drive the front (or rear) wheels onto the caddy and strap them in place. Hook up auxiliary tail lights to the truck and attach them magnetically to the trunk lid of the towed car, and away you go. If the front wheels of the towed vehicle are on the road, you have to secure the steering wheel. Sometimes called a “dolly”.
Yup, I'm familiar with them, just didn't know that's what they were called. Around here, I see people towing cars/Jeeps behind their RVs all summer.
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DaveK
·Check out: Oldfathertime.com
there was a nice guy right here in Connecticut that was very well known and used to specialize in accutron repair but unfortunately he passed away. he fixed many for us over the years. who do you guys use for that now?
·Rob Berkavicius, Bangkok, Thailand
·Ernie Goldman and his homepage is: http://www.starfindings.com/ . Ernie's Ebay link which works well(Best & quickest way to send him a watch for repair).https://www.ebay.com/itm/Got-an-ACC...121865?hash=item1a67a69c09:g:6EgAAOSwo4pYelBT
·Old Father Time (as noted above) https://www.oldfathertime.com/spaceview.htm
·AccutronDoctor on Instagram (based in Japan I think)
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Professor
·A car caddy is a two-wheeled trailer that is towed behind a truck. For use when towing a car. You drive the front (or rear) wheels onto the caddy and strap them in place. Hook up auxiliary tail lights to the truck and attach them magnetically to the trunk lid of the towed car, and away you go. If the front wheels of the towed vehicle are on the road, you have to secure the steering wheel. Sometimes called a “dolly”.
I was driving on a two lane one evening at dusk and saw what looked like a old VW Bug being hauled with front wheels on the road. I hesitated to pass because I couldn't see what was towing it.
When I did finally get a clear shot to pass I saw it was not being towed at all. Someone had taken two VW Bugs, probably both rear ended, and cut them in half more or less and welded the front ends together.
I have no idea what sort of engine or frame it might have under the body work. If it had working tail lights they weren't on.
That had to be a very aerodynamic body.
Also I just remembered what had to have been a true barn find.
One day in the late 1960's I was driving through Knoxville near the UT Campus in a heavy rain. Coming the other way was a 1953 Corvette, one of the very rare American sports cars even then.
The car was in rough shape, smoking like a tar kettle, and the driver was holding the front of the canvas top up with one hand and steering with the other. There was straw sticking out every where and more than a few Chicken droppings on the hood.
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Professor
·I know people who have been there and said the exact same thing.
I do watch American Pickers, more for the items as they do have some neat things on the show. Just finished watching an episode at lunch where they featured a Daisy 104 double barreled BB gun...looked very cool, and I had no idea such a thing existed.
They are rare and very valuable these days.
Rarest Air gun I ever ran across was a breakdown spring piston .22 rifle that fired round lead balls as an airgun but the head of the piston could be switched out and the gun could then fire .22 RF short cartridges.
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Kargol
·This just in today. $23 for a mystery box off the interweb. Check out the NASA sticker on the back side of the stop watch. Oh and the 16000 Date Just is real and runs. 😲 This is a first for me where I think it's a Rolex and it is a REAL Rolex. 99.99999% of the time they are fake.
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WYO_Watch
·pawnshop in Riverton Wyoming
What brought you to Riverton?
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Vercingetorix
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