Classic Cars & Neon Sign Overload at Last Day of Mecum Auto Auction Kissimmee / Portillo’s Hot Dogs
Mecum Auto Auction 2023
Transcript
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welcome everyone
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Adam the Wu here has the recording of
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this it is Sunday January 15 2023
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I am here at the Osceola Heritage Park
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Silver Spurs Rodeo Arena Straight Ahead
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that way
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just parked over here in this lot ten
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dollars to park
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and I am heading to an auto museum which
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I believe I have been told there's gonna
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be a lot of classic car alerts in here
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and it's busy there's a lot of cars
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parked here this is the fairgrounds also
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for the Osceola County Fair Osceola
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County Stadium right over here where the
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Houston Astros used to Spring train back
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in the 90s in fact I worked in there
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and I'm just going to go in look at some
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cars this is the last day of I believe
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this at least a week maybe two week
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auction 10 day don't quote me on that
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but this is the last and final day
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and I figured better better late and
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better on the last day than never right
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I'm inviting you to join me it feels
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good out here nice and cool I woke up
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this morning was 37 degrees
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now I think it's about 50 55 degrees
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feels good join me
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maybe I'll buy a classic car probably
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not shall you the name of the auction is
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Mecum Auctions
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2023 okay it started on Wednesday
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January 4th and ends today
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as a recording of the Sunday January
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15th
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it opened at eight but right now it's
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about 2 p.m so I think it closes I don't
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know five or six Maybe
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head net well I already see some classic
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cars over there nice
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all right I was instructed to walk up
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here
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where all these flags are
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and that's the way I'm gonna head in
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all right I have now scanned in gone
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through the checkpoints and we'll take a
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look at everything there's some
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merchandise over here we have some of
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the ladies shirts there
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we have some of the men's shirts over
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here little teddy bear some hats
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yeah quite an assortment
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even has the Kissimmee Florida logo on
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that one there Mika motions Kissimmee
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Florida yes is a it's a big deal I
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really had no idea about this until this
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week I heard about it
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first time here look at this little
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Gateway there is a shuttle stop I think
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I'm just gonna hoof it and walk but take
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a look at this little shuttle stop here
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what the heck this event is so large you
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get a shuttle
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and a snow plow I mean it's cold today
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but I don't think it I don't think you
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would need a snowplow here but maybe
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that's for sale I'd be cool to own one
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of those I don't know how I wonder how
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well that would go over in celebration
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if I was right around celebration or
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nothing
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might be cool
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I don't know where I'm going
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can I go in the building over there
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here's an example of one that is sold
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has the road runner up there on this
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emblem on the side of 340 but it says
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the sold sticker there
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oh man classic Chevy truck here
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Silverado over here I love old trucks
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one day I'm gonna own a classic truck
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I want a Ford though
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kind of partial to Fords when it comes
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to vehicles and trucks
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nice
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what if they just bought that so I'm a
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little jealous look at this bad boy this
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thing is lengthy
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that is a long car
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okay I could hear the auctioneer over
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here you can hear the Barker of the
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auctioneer I don't think Barker is the
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correct term it's a tiny vehicle right
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the Skyliner
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all these are sold
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this is the Isis Thunderbird right here
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nice color on this
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there's a Ford Ford F-150 there
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you got some golf carts coming through
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here a lot of big wheel trucks golf
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carts speaking of Ford trucks look at
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this one
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two dollars
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yes the Burt Reynolds could be seen you
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can see Burt Reynolds cruising around in
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this Lake back in the day
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okay this is the high bid on this was 28
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000.
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and you know compared to new car prices
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it's really I don't know I don't think
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that's bad I mean a new car now is like
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buying a house
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okay a lot of these are under these big
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tents also to Shield them from the
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elements and the Sun out here
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's a Chevy
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so evidently the the missing spots
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through here are probably cars that have
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been sold and these possibly not been
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Soldier
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I could hear the Roar of this engine
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all the way from over here
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there will come a day
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if all goes well I will own a classic
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car I mean obviously right now I do not
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have a place to store it and I have a
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half full house with a garage or
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anything like that I feel like you would
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need a garage or a lot of property to
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own a lot of these type of vehicles but
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one day
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and one day if everything goes according
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to you know desires and hopes and dreams
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and things I want a classic car I don't
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know what but I guess I'm probably a
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classic Ford truck but you never know
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something like this maybe too I don't
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know if I'd use it as a daily driver
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probably not it'd be more of a kind of a
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novelty thing yeah who knows you know if
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I end up settling down around these
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parts take it to the Saturday night
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cruise or if I live somewhere else you
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know back to California sometimes Bob
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big boys just does a classic car show on
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certain nights of the week everywhere
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it's just a real popular thing now to
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have classic cars it's a whole whole
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subculture classic car enthusiasts
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see the sun glistening off of this
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International
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that's beautiful
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Scout they call it all-wheel drive Scout
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we got some vintage signs over here too
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a Hooters sign Phillips 66 sign
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it's like classic Coke
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bar right there
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so I'm just learning something according
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to this sign now it's kind of hard to
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see it but this says world's largest
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car collections auction it's kind of
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hard to see because the sun's kind of
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like bleaching it out but yeah
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unfortunately some of the letters are
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missing
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oh it's just right on my alley all these
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old Neons it's a Quaker State
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Pennzoil Midway garage that's right here
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oh look at that old Dr Pepper one right
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there Coca-Cola Dr Pepper
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the Mustang front there neon much as you
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want to touch this follow the
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instructions though do not touch the
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knee oh the neon's for sale too
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look at this this sold right okay so
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they're auctioning off this old neon oh
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that Coca-Cola one sold
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is a sweet Neon right there and you got
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Hood tires done low tires Ferrari over
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here all these are sold
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including this ice machine signage
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that's sold all this stuff sold whenever
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you can find the unsold one or maybe
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they're all sold because it's the last
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day I've been in this room many times
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for many different events never for a
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classic car show
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all this carpeted area
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all right I can see why they are you
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know self-designated or maybe not
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self-designated maybe it's just a fact
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that this is the biggest classic car one
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of the biggest classic car shows in the
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US or the world
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this is something else kind of a low
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rider style right here
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not all the classic stuff like you got
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some sports car
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type items in here as well
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now there's just an expansive amount of
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buildings and these pop-up tents I
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cannot figure out where the main auction
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is they have the audio pumped in
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you hear the auctioneer talking
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it's even some video screams showing it
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but I don't know where the Main Auction
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building is possibly over there there's
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like a bigger building check that out I
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could see myself with behind the wheel
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of that or possibly even that I like the
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style of something like this
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oh wow look at this extended car station
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wagon a New Yorker
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I like that too I don't even think they
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make station wagons anymore
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Clark Griswold
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trying to go on a vacation now he'd have
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a hard time
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speaking of something that's even more
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outdated than a station wagon a
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horse-drawn carriage going by on the
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back of a truck bed on the back of a
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little little trailer
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well I like that one
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I don't know if I could fit in that but
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I like it and because this is the site
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of the rodeo grounds Osceola Heritage
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Park we got two there's two bulls back
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behind here two sculptures of two bulls
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going head to head with their horns here
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this has been here for years the rodeo
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one of the biggest rodeos in the U.S to
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as far as I can remember
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used to be well still is right over in
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here but my family first moved here in
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the early 90s there was an outdoor Rodeo
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Grounds kind of kind of where all this
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is now there was a big outdoor stadium
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and then they renovated it and brought
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it indoors when I first moved here in
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early 90s it was a big outdoor stadium
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true story at least I think I remember
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my doctor
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listen to how fast the auctioneer is
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talking listen
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foreign
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classic Chicago style dog which they
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just call a Portillo dog which has the
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Chicago dial dog stuffed all over it and
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then I also got a chili cheese dog over
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here too as well I am just fascinated by
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how quick this guy is talking look at
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this
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amazing
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Ed up
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it's possibly should be the next to be
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bid on they look like they're all lined
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up though in our corrode there's another
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row over here
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is that Rosco P Cole train up here it is
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I see Roscoe from The Dukes of Hazzard
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up here
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yeah you can purchase these too this is
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800 mannequin see Willie Nelson up there
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red fox Prince
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Roscoe over there
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James Dean
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yeah if I wanted to buy this guy 799
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this is kind of neat too Automotive
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literature so if you're looking for like
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a certain magazine like let's say you
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wanted to buy this old advertisement
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they have all this categorized that's
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pretty awesome it's like almost like
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digging through old archives
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I'm gonna
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every morning
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15 minutes
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I like this old neon it's like a wolf of
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some sort here dogs and suds call that a
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hot dog I just had a hot dog Portillo's
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there's another hot dog advertisement
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and then you got dabney's driving that
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is a thing of beauty right there an old
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DQ went over here too
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it's not lit up there's a DQ one this
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whole Road art
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direction through here
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is a clown with an ice cream cone not
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illuminated but
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oh it's Dairy Queen check that out it's
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Dairy Queen
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all right I think what's happening is
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these are all the automobiles that are
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now going inside the big building over
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here so they all pull through here and
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then they go in that's where the
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auctions happens
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4 30 35 horse and horse Engine with the
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fourth week old candy here sugar daddy
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Juicy Fruit
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Wrigley Juicy Fruit also another
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Wrigley's
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gum peppermint chewing gum here this one
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just says candy it's not lit up it's a
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Mid Valley Cab Company car over there
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some sort of prop for something
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it's Reba McIntyre's custom
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taxi cab
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fancy
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yeah Reba McEntire was in the back of
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that thing
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never notice here at the fairs in any of
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the events how's it going never noticed
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this big emblem here it's like a big
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coin that says Florida down here and it
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has the bull rider and all that
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all right I'm gonna see if I can see if
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I can get inside the doors and see if I
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can watch this auction I'm not sure if
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that's included with the mission or not
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or maybe you have to be a buyer
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in all truthfulness if I was bidding on
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a car I would have no idea what price
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the car is at
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and it's like speed talking
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all right
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at 1 30. this is like a whole vibe in
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again there is just an endless amount of
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these little pop-up areas that have been
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set on display
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to have all these automobiles in this is
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just one of like 30 or 40 of these this
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one is completely enclosed though it
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almost seems like there's AC in this one
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the other ones are kind of open air got
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a few muscle cars through here
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GT350 look at that old Cadillac neon
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down there too
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report experience
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six quarters
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now
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velcro Transit
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no way I could fit in this thing
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so that's the size of this little
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automobile compared to the regular size
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car
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I would not have a lot of Elbow Room or
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leg room and I think
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pretty fancy looking though
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nice tractor over here too for sale
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could buy this and just tell everyone I
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own a Lamborghini
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oh take a look at this Chevy van
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I always liked fans but look at this
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thing
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very retro
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I like that I like this
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it's been sold also
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Corvair 95.
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I like it
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this was the official pace car of the
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Daytona 500 one year
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turbo Trans Am So I said right on the
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side of the door there
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most of them have sold stickers on them
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probably because it's been going on for
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quite a while this is the last day
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and it's kind of ending the end of the
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day
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so they have taken care of business out
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and that's gonna do it for today
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from the Osceola County Stadium
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the fairgrounds
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heritage
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Park I believe it's called Osceola
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Heritage Park
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and an auto museum I've never been to
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one supposedly so they say one of the
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largest in the US maybe the world
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Mika model Museum I'll see you in the
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next video I didn't buy anything
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kept my wallet intact well I had some
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Portillo's Hot Dogs very tasty no
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regrets about this we'll see in the next
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video the Vlog
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is over
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it's a good day