Im jamie colby in oxfordshire, england. And i feel like im driving right into a scene from a 19thcentury romantic novel, which, in a way, i am. Im on my way to meet a descendant of the great writer, jane austen. Austen left a strange inheritance worthy of a quintessentially british uproar two centuries later. My name is nicky gottelier. I inherited a ring that once belonged to jane austen, my great greatgreatgreatgreat aunt. Hello. Im jamie. Hello. Im nicky. My first question for nicky how did she get the ring . I shall tell you. Come with me. She invites me in and explains her family lineage. Jane was one of eight children. And her eldest brother, james, was my forebear. So it came down through my grandmother, my father, and then me. Did everybody know about your familys connection to jane . In those days, you didnt really brag about the fact that i was a fivetimes great niece of janes. Nor would it be proper to brag or even mention that the family is the keeper of this ring made of t
Im jamie colby in oxfordshire, england. And i feel like im driving right into a scene from a 19thcentury romantic novel, which, in a way, i am. Im on my way to meet a descendant of the great writer, jane austen. Austen left a strange inheritance worthy of a quintessentially british uproar two centuries later. My name is nicky gottelier. I inherited a ring that once belonged to jane austen, my great greatgreatgreatgreat aunt. Hello. Im jamie. Hello. Im nicky. My first question for nicky how did she get the ring . I shall tell you. Come with me. She invites me in and explains her family lineage. Jane was one of eight children. And her eldest brother, james, was my forebear. So it came down through my grandmother, my father, and then me. Did everybody know about your familys connection to jane . In those days, you didnt really brag about the fact that i was a fivetimes great niece of janes. Nor would it be proper to brag or even mention that the family is the keeper of this ring made of t
Im jamie colby, and today im cruising through boone county, iowa, smack dab in the middle of corn country. Im here to meet the heirs of a man who left behind dozens and dozens of orphans. Orphan cars, that is. So, whats an orphan car . Youre about to find out. My name is jerry quam. My father, grant quam, liked to collect orphan cars, which are cars that were manufactured by companies that are no longer in existence today. Many of these are rare cars of which theres only a few known to exist. I meet up with jerry and his brother john at this modern, climatecontrolled barn. Whats in the barn . You got tractors, you got horses . Something better. Better than that . Youre gonna love this. Whoa. I am in heaven. Did you know i love cars . Ive heard a rumor. This is an incredible collection. You inherited this . Our fathers collection. I imagine theres a great story behind these cars. Each and every one. These car stories begin right up the road in roland, iowa, where john and jerrys father,
Population roughly 50,000. Right here in enid, they have the Third Largest Storage Capacity for grain on the planet. But wedged in between enids silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. My name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. His name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. He was a child of the dust bowl. Grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. And oliver jordan kept it all here. For 60 years. This salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. Hi, stuart welcome to paradise. I found it the rusted old cars in this shed some of them relics of the roaring 20s are a few of the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. Born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. But his real interest was that fabulous new invention
Im jamie colby, and today im cruising through boone county, iowa, smack dab in the middle of corn country. Im here to meet the heirs of a man who left behind dozens and dozens of orphans. Orphan cars, that is. So, whats an orphan car . Youre about to find out. My name is jerry quam. My father, grant quam, liked to collect orphan cars, which are cars that were manufactured by companies that are no longer in existence today. Many of these are rare cars of which theres only a few known to exist. I meet up with jerry and his brother john at this modern, climatecontrolled barn. Whats in the barn . You got tractors, you got horses . Something better. Better than that . Youre gonna love this. Whoa. I am in heaven. Did you know i love cars . Ive heard a rumor. This is an incredible collection. You inherited this . Our fathers collection. I imagine theres a great story behind these cars. Each and every one. These car stories begin right up the road in roland, iowa, where john and jerrys father,