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  • COREY: Hey, how's it going? - All right.

  • Hey, I have an OG car I'd like to show you, OG gangster's car.

  • Original gangster car, OK.

  • ROBERT: Original gangster.

  • Pull into the alley.

  • There's a lot back there.

  • I'll meet you back there, all right?

  • OK.

  • An OG car could be a classic hot rod or something covered

  • in bullet holes for all I know.

  • Sweet.

  • So this is it, huh?

  • Yeah, this is it.

  • It's a 1940 Buick Sport Sedan Special.

  • There's only one of this series in Nevada.

  • This is a rare bird.

  • And it was Fidel Castro's car.

  • COREY: Really?

  • ROBERT: Yes.

  • So who told you the whole story with it

  • being related to Castro?

  • ROBERT: I bought it from the chauffeur.

  • Fidel Castro brought it when he went to Mexico for a few years

  • to fight the guerrilla war, and he didn't ship it back.

  • So the car was in Cuba, got brought to Mexico,

  • and then Castro was going back to Cuba

  • and ended up leaving the car in Mexico.

  • Exactly.

  • COREY: Do you mind if I kind of take a look around the car?

  • ROBERT: Sure, take a look.

  • It needs carpet.

  • I have the original stereo system

  • for it, the original radio.

  • COREY: OK.

  • ROBERT: Yeah.

  • I'm digging the swamp cooler.

  • Swamp cooler.

  • Back then in the '40s, they would open this up here,

  • fill it with water, get it frozen,

  • mount it back on, and on their way

  • with that long trip hitting the wind here and cooling the cab.

  • COREY: That is cool.

  • What are you looking to get out of it?

  • $35,000.

  • COREY: $35,000?

  • ROBERT: Everything's there.

  • All original, OG gangster right here.

  • All right.

  • You'll be rolling.

  • You'll be rolling, let me tell you.

  • All right, man.

  • So I am not the expert on 1940 Buicks.

  • Mind if I have a friend of mine come check it out?

  • ROBERT: Sure, sure.

  • Have him come out.

  • 1940 Buick, man.

  • That new body was called a sea body, torpedo body.

  • Very distinctive, man.

  • Very cool.

  • This was GM's number two, basically

  • Cadillac's little brother.

  • Mind if I open the door and check it out?

  • Go ahead, yeah.

  • Great.

  • Yeah, you didn't finish the carpeting or the headliner

  • or any of that?

  • ROBERT: I have the headliner.

  • The carpet I don't have.

  • Yeah, I can see, like, a different shifter

  • in there that's obviously not original, right?

  • ROBERT: No, no.

  • STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: It would have been a 3 on the tree.

  • ROBERT: Right.

  • STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: Looks like the transmission's

  • obviously been changed.

  • Mind if we look underneath the hood?

  • ROBERT: Yeah, sure, let's do it.

  • All American cars in 1940 were awesome.

  • I can't wait to open the hood and see that cool motor.

  • In 1940, it would have had a Fireball 8, Straight-8.

  • ROBERT: Yeah, a Straight Flat-8 Fireball.

  • That's what that was.

  • And that wasn't with the car?

  • No, it wasn't.

  • No, it wasn't.

  • That's a shame, really.

  • You mind if we take it for a test drive?

  • ROBERT: No, I don't mind at all.

  • See what I mean?

  • I think that's important.

  • When we opened the hood, I was a little let down.

  • I wanted to see that Buick Fireball-8

  • motor, which is one of the coolest-looking motors ever.

  • It just kind of ruined it for me a little bit.

  • [ENGINE STARTS]

  • Wow, with the car running, the brakes almost go to the floor.

  • They're real, really soft.

  • Oh, man, yeah.

  • That's pretty iffy, man.

  • You know?

  • We've got some bad brakes here.

  • They're way too soft.

  • Yeah, I'm--

  • I'm good.

  • Yeah, this is too big of a car to be

  • driving with brakes like that.

  • Yeah, I'd feel better doing that.

  • I really do.

  • All right.

  • The danger with soft brakes is they only go so far,

  • so once you hit the ground, you're not pushing anymore.

  • That's it.

  • So if the car's still rolling, there's no

  • stopping the car at that point.

  • COREY: We heard it run.

  • You got a good feel for it?

  • I think the plus on the car is the paint

  • and the bodywork is pretty darn good.

  • But underneath that, I think there-- it needs a little love.

  • COREY: What do you think it's worth?

  • I would probably put the value of this car

  • somewhere around $14,000.

  • That's just--

  • No, not even.

  • STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: That's where I would put the car.

  • Wow, that's-- that's OK for you, but--

  • Again, I think a lot of that has

  • to do with it's being a four-door

  • sedan instead of a coupe.

  • ROBERT: Well, that's for the hot rods,

  • not the low riders of the gangsters, OGs--

  • STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: I see.

  • --you know, that loved these cars and collectors.

  • STEVEN RAY ANASTOS: They're only worth so much.

  • I think that's where we are.

  • COREY: My man, I appreciate it.

  • Hey, my pleasure, Cor.

  • - All right. - Brother.

  • - Nice meeting you. - Thank you, man.

  • It was nice meeting you, too.

  • Really think he was way low on the value of the car.

  • Just being an OG Buick makes the car.

  • That's it.

  • COREY: All right, my man, I know you want $35,000 for the car.

  • Yeah.

  • COREY: I'm not a collector.

  • OK.

  • COREY: Everything I do is I do it for profit.

  • Most I'm going to go is $15,000.

  • ROBERT: You know what?

  • Give me $25,000.

  • $15,000 is way too low.

  • COREY: All right, my man.

  • And $25,000 is where I'm at.

  • We're so far apart, buddy.

  • It's just not there.

  • All right, my man, well, I appreciate it.

  • OK. Nice meeting you.

  • Thank you for coming down. It was nice meeting you.

  • Yeah, that's good.

  • Thanks.

  • He might know about hot rods and motorcycles and stuff

  • like that, but he doesn't know about old-time classics

  • and vintage cars.

  • He's too young to know.

  • He is definitely not an OG.

COREY: Hey, how's it going? - All right.

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