On “American Pickers” (and in “American Pickers Guide to Picking,” a book out next month from Hyperion), Mr. He persuaded the reluctant owner to sell him the bike for $25,000, although “it’s worth 55 grand, easily,” he said, holding the handlebars protectively, as if a visitor might jump on and drive away. Wolfe, 46, can sniff out unique or valuable antiques like a bloodhound. After establishing that the bike was still in the family, he recalled, “I drove all the way to New York, slept in the guy’s driveway and knocked on his door the next morning.”įast-talking and persistent, Mr. He bought it in upstate New York from a man whose father ran a classified ad that Mr. Wolfe “picks,” the motorcycle has a story. So it’s not entirely surprising to walk into his house and find a 1913 Harley-Davidson parked in the dining room. MIKE WOLFE, the co-star of “American Pickers,” the popular antiques show, is known for driving the country’s back roads and pulling old signage, bicycles, gasoline pumps and other “rusty gold,” to use his term, out of people’s barns and garages.
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