Im jamie colby here in savannah, georgia, today on my way to meet a woman whose strange inheritance was built with blood, sweat and gears. My name is Sherri Anderson. My dad was a farmer who worked more than 5,000 acres of potatoes, beer barley and sugar beets, but his real bumper crop was growing inside his barns. Sherri. Hey. Im jamie. Nice to meet you. To savannah. Oh, its gorgeous and so great to meet you. Inside, sherri shows me some old photos that tell the story of her fathers 20plus years restoring cars and trucks in his barns near paul, idaho. What variety. Absolutely. He had cars dating from 1919 up to 1982. He got a 1968 mustang, which was moms cruising car, a 1928 rollsroyce. This looks special. The 1950 bentley, my personal favorite, too. The restoration wizard, callan cal phillips, born 1925. He spends his childhood working on the family wheat and potato farm in southcentral idaho. Cal serves in the pacific in world war ii, returns home to work on the family farm, gets ma
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, heading toward the garden state parkway. Im meeting a couple of jersey boys who had an old painting in the basement. Could it really be a rembrandt . Think youre heard a stranger inheritance story . Forget about it im ned landau. Neither i, nor my brothers, roger, and steven, had any idea that our mother had left us something so valuable. Neither did the auction guy up the highway. But people around the world were watching. Hi. How are you guys . Im jamie. Hi, jamie. E to new jersey. Thanks for coming out on such a rainy day. Ned, steven, and roger landau grew up here in north jersey, just outside of new york city. Two parents, three boys, on a street where theres lots of other kids. Our father had a small chemical company. They made coatings and industrial finishes. Three boys cant be easy for your mom. What was she like . She was an expert yoga professional, and this was well before yoga was a thing. My mother was almost like a flower child. Lyla landau
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, heading toward the garden state parkway. Im meeting a couple of jersey boys who had an old painting in the basement. Could it really be a rembrandt . Think youre heard a stranger inheritance story . Forget about it im ned landau. Neither i, nor my brothers, roger, and steven, had any idea that our mother had left us something so valuable. Neither did the auction guy up the highway. But people around the world were watching. Hi. How are you guys . Im jamie. Hi, jamie. E to new jersey. Thanks for coming out on such a rainy day. Ned, steven, and roger landau grew up here in north jersey, just outside of new york city. Two parents, three boys, on a street where theres lots of other kids. Our father had a small chemical company. They made coatings and industrial finishes. Three boys cant be easy for your mom. What was she like . She was an expert yoga professional, and this was well before yoga was a thing. My mother was almost like a flower child. Lyla landau
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, heading toward the garden state parkway. Im meeting a couple of jersey boys who had an old painting in the basement. Could it really be a rembrandt . Think youre heard a stranger inheritance story . Forget about it im ned landau. Neither i, nor my brothers, roger, and steven, had any idea that our mother had left us something so valuable. Neither did the auction guy up the highway. But people around the world were watching. Hi. How are you guys . Im jamie. Hi, jamie. E to new jersey. Thanks for coming out on such a rainy day. Ned, steven, and roger landau grew up here in north jersey, just outside of new york city. Two parents, three boys, on a street where theres lots of other kids. Our father had a small chemical company. They made coatings and industrial finishes. Three boys cant be easy for your mom. What was she like . She was an expert yoga professional, and this was well before yoga was a thing. My mother was almost like a flower child. Lyla landau
Im jamie colby driving through dallas, texas. What do you get when you couple a onetrack mind to a boxcar full of bucks . A strange inheritance that im told is just the ticket. My name is jane sanders. My husband, steve, was always into his model trains. But when he got sick, they became much more than a hobby. They took him on the trip of a lifetime. I meet jane at her home here in dallas. She leads me upstairs, and i am transported to a railroad wonderland. [ train whistle blows ] oh, my goodness. Unbelievable. Its massive, 2,000 square feet, taking up an entire wing of janes house. Oh, my gosh. Thats so fantastic the locomotives drive past hundreds of handcrafted figurines and intricate details. Theres two men sharing lunch on the stairs, a blonde bombshell hitchhiker, a 1950s gas station. Theyre cleaning the windshield like the good, old days. Yes. And a scene from main street, usa. Theres the diner with people actually sitting in there eating. Absolutely spectacular, to every deta