The American — and global — fascination with antique trading, the one that made TV shows like The Antique Roadshow and Cash In the Attic overnight hits — plays on more than one core quality of ours. Our love of mysteries — what will this be worth? Our innate desire to suddenly befall a true treasure. Perhaps our desire that something that is ours could be worth its value not only in emotion but also in riches.
Basements around the nation are hoarded and filled with papers, troves, jewelry and photos; barns across the midwest stand adorned with non-working machines that have no date, seemingly no story. These have become a mainstay of our lives. When we were small we dreamt of finding treasures in the attic.
Americans and citizens around the world have been taking pleasure in peeking into people’s stories, and seeing their worth, becoming inspired: perhaps in their basement or attic, in the drawer at the parents’ home that they have never opened, in the storage unit they’ve kept since moving to the city as 20-something-year-olds, perhaps there, there is also a treasure that could be discovered, restored, and valued.
[post_page_title]1954 Nash Healeys[/post_page_title]
Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, the owners of Antique Archaeology and the stars of American Pickers were picking around North Carolina when something huge caught their eye. They happened upon two 1954 Nash Healey Sports Cars, one red and the other grey.
Only 500 of these sports cars ever made, and the guys were looking at buying two of them. In one of their biggest ever buys, the guys bought the two cars for $46,000. The purchase was a gamble, as now they have to fix the cars up.
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