Auction Hunters: Season 2, Episode 26: “Reel Money.”
Haff-Ton team drove to San Diego, California, for a container auction. Allen called it storage container heaven. Duo expected to find anything from brand new clothes to foreign auto parts.
Fact: The Port of San Diego imports up to 500,000 new vehicles every year.
Big time auctions draw big time crowds. Today, it drew mostly rookies. People were touching merchandise, moving and opening boxes; definitely first timers.
Foot Locker Unit
1950’s army locker, stroller, carpet steamer, weed whacker, tools, and boxes. Haff-Ton won the container for $325.
Duo opened the army locker and found a rifle scope.
Fact: Until the 80’s, only snipers were issued rifle scopes, due to the expense.
There was also a KA-BAR-like knife.
Fact: KA-BAR knife blades can pierce through ballistics vests and aircraft hulls.
Ton removed a large bag. He accidentally inflated an off-shore life raft. All aboard!
Haff-Ton team found a couple more military cases. The cases had military electronics called MILES. Alle
n clueless as to what they were for. Ton recognized the electronics from the movie, Heartbreak Ridge.
Fact: 28,000 soldiers died in the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge during the Korean War.
It was a military laser tag system used for training purposes by both the marines and army.
Fact: Over 40 nations use the MILES combat system for military training.
Haff-Ton team took the MILES equipment to Craig, a former marine and military gear collector.
Fact: Coincidentally, “miles” is also Latin for “soldier”
The kit included an umpire gun. It could be used to bring people in the game back to life, or kill them. Craig said soldiers often called it,”The God Gun.”
Craig didn’t want to make an offer until he saw if all the vests still worked. Ton volunteered Allen. Sure, pick on the little guy. Haff put on the vest. Ton and Craig shot lasers at him.
Allen did not enjoy being target practice. However, he was glad the lasers and vests still worked.
Craig bought the equipment for $7,000.
Vintage Collectible Unit
Stabilizer bar, old 50’s suitcases, vintage tennis racquet, antique easel, and boxes. Duo won the locker for $475.
They found pieces to…something. It would have to be put together before they could tell what.
A fighting chair!
Uh, what chair?
Fact: Big game fisherman strap into fighting chairs to securely reel in their catch.
For fishing, that’s what. Chair was vintage, from the 1970’s.
It needed a little TLC before duo could sell it. But with a little paint and varnish; it was good as new. Well, almost.
Haff-Ton team took it to big game fisherman named Bob.
Fact: The largest fish ever caught by rod was a 2669 pound great white shark.
Bob told them it was a custom chair, made by hand.
The fighting chair was the center piece of any big game fishing boat. Bob told them that reeling in a really big fish could take as long as 10 hours. (Holy Big Fish!)
Fact: The largest marlin ever caught was 17ft long and took three hours to reel in.
Bob bought the chair for $9,500.
Duo helped Bob install it on his boat. Time for the guys to go catch a big one!
Something H-U-G-E went for the bait.
Allen was target practice; only fair he would get to reel in a fish.
Fact: It took Allen 18 minutes to reel in this 25.1 lb Yellowtail amberjack.
It was THAT <———-> Big!
Grilled fish tonight.
Auction Total:
Paid $800
Sold: $18,940
Profit: $18,140
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