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3/15/24, 1:29 AM   #1
Kevin Olson collection on American Pickers
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Did anyone else catch Kevin Olson's collection on American Pickers? His kids are letting go of some of his stuff.. pretty interesting
And they're keeping a lot too
 
3/15/24, 7:03 AM   #2
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I went to watch it and found that I was a victim of modern streaming platforms, I do not have that channel, I will find it somewhere soon.
 
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3/15/24, 9:07 AM   #3
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Yes, I happened on to it on my Dish,lots of things, guess he was saving it for the kids ,brought back memories, good ones from the good days, had a neighbor kid who bought a new Vincent motorcycle about 1974,nice but noisy, he was a big kid and could handle it, ran karts in his home state back in the day, can't imagine how people collected all their stuff ,guess I must have had my mind to the grindstone
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3/15/24, 11:13 AM   #4
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I have quit watching pickers, but I saw the episode was about a famous race card driver, so I watched.
Very interesting. Quite a collection.
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3/15/24, 11:38 AM   #5
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One of his helmets had his blood type on the back. Was that common back then for racers to do?
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3/15/24, 12:24 PM   #6
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Yes back in the day a lot of drivers would have it on their helmet and uniform.
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3/15/24, 1:35 PM   #7
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If I remember correctly, Mike bought a hat for a hundred and a Hinchman dirt track suit for five hundred, and offered 40k for the Vincent motorcycle, and 28 hundred for the Kawasaki, but was declined on both, I have some Hinchman dirt track suits from that era, I might part with! Lol
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3/15/24, 6:33 PM   #8
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If I remember correctly, Mike bought a hat for a hundred and a Hinchman dirt track suit for five hundred, and offered 40k for the Vincent motorcycle, and 28 hundred for the Kawasaki, but was declined on both, I have some Hinchman dirt track suits from that era, I might part with! Lol
30 on the vincent and I gathered the Kaw sold...
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3/15/24, 8:39 PM   #9
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Yes, I happened on to it on my Dish,lots of things, guess he was saving it for the kids ,brought back memories, good ones from the good days, had a neighbor kid who bought a new Vincent motorcycle about 1974,nice but noisy, he was a big kid and could handle it, ran karts in his home state back in the day, can't imagine how people collected all their stuff ,guess I must have had my mind to the grindstone
The last motorcycle produced by Vincent was in 1955.
 
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