hear from your grandfather? yeah, definitely. that is what it was right doing right by him and by my family. stewart sold all of his brand paw s cars and regretted losing only won the 1924 rolling touring car it was a favorite of prohibition bootleggers. on auction day an 86-year-old woman came just to see it. she explaineded her grandfather driven had to the hospital the day she was born and sold it to oliver jordan. of all of the stories about this strange inheritance this may have been his favorite. stewart asked the man who brought the touring car for $4,800 to let him know if he ever resold it. stewart might want to buy that one back. i am jamie colby for strange inheritance. remember you can t take it with
about it. in august of 2003 oliver jordan dies at the age of 95 leaving his automobile collection to stewart and his siblings. the original windows they would stick in the sides. he tells me the 1924 car is one of his personal favorites. the model was popular among bootleggers during prohibition. they would turn off the taillights if they were followed by someone. to hide the booze. that s correct. these cars represent a stip et of his collection. i have never seen anything like this stewart. there are so many cars. it is a strange thing to inherit. before he dies he gives stewart business advice. he said don t tell sell them all at once sell them one at a time. after trying to sell a couple on-line he realizes it would take the rest of his life to
they are mostly american cars they are prewar and pre1942. stewart and a vet made plans for a one-day auction right here in the salvage lot origins to spread about oliver jordan s old treasures. they learned it is not all together a good thing. we arrived in property tcut hole and stole over 250 antique radiators tons of chrome parts a lot of nice stuff. the an leak radiators alone are worth 40,000 dollars. the biggest loss for stewart is the theft of oliver s rare and beloved 1904 harley davidson possibly worth several hundred thousand dollars. it set us back and we had to hire additional security and
god for you. thank god for you. i think he was so worried about what would happen to his things. stewart is no car expert but he does his homework and confirms the center piece of the whole collection is the cords from the 1930 s the one he remembers from his high school road trip. what did the last cords sell for? i am not sure. maybe 400 or 500 were ever made. best kate scenario. i am saying restored 300,000350 maybe. it leads him down a road that would take him a decade of travel and he lays out 10 s of thousands of dollars to ship in secure containers and build a storage building to store the cars. it s his life s work and if they are valuable why are they rotting away here? somebody has to do something
oklahoma, which is about 90 i am jamie colby.bout 90 i am north of oklahoma population maybe 50,000. they have the third largest storage capacity for grain on the planet. wedged in between i en id s silos lies tank chorus legend. a strange inheritance. in 2003 my brothers and sisters and i inherited something unusual from my grandfather. his name was oliver jordan. he died in 95. he was a child of the decibel he held on despite everything that passed through his life a tin can an automobile a piece of copper wire. oliver jordan kept it all here for 60 years. this salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knocks. hi, stewart. welcome to paradise. the rusted old cars in his