Hoping to score big on the East Coast, Mike and Frank make stops in Virginia, DC, and Maryland, and are delirious when they find themselves waist-deep in a treasure-packed machine shop. Harry's property is wired for maxi...
American Pickers
Show summary:
This show looks into the world of antique and collectible hunters who make an adventure out of traveling across America to find the rarest items.
This show looks into the world of antique and collectible hunters who make an adventure out of traveling across America to find the rarest items.
The men come home to Iowa. Included: a toy collection housed in a church converted into a museum; and a collection of items salvaged from abandoned houses. Also: an auction.
The men come home to Iowa. Included: a toy collection housed in a church converted into a museum; and a collection of items salvaged from abandoned houses. Also: an auction.
Mike and Frank are picking their way through Florida when they get a lead on a potential gold mine -- a five-acre property that's an automotive graveyard. The guys also visit an off-the-grid hangar-sized geodesic dome ho...
The men come home to Iowa. Included: a toy collection housed in a church converted into a museum; and a collection of items salvaged from abandoned houses. Also: an auction.
Mike and Frank are picking their way through Florida when they get a lead on a potential gold mine -- a five-acre property that's an automotive graveyard. The guys also visit an off-the-grid hangar-sized geodesic dome ho...
Mike and Frank are picking their way through Florida when they get a lead on a potential gold mine -- a five-acre property that's an automotive graveyard. The guys also visit an off-the-grid hangar-sized geodesic dome ho...
Mike and Frank are picking their way through Florida when they get a lead on a potential gold mine -- a five-acre property that's an automotive graveyard. The guys also visit an off-the-grid hangar-sized geodesic dome ho...
Mike and Frank are picking their way through Florida when they get a lead on a potential gold mine -- a five-acre property that's an automotive graveyard. The guys also visit an off-the-grid hangar-sized geodesic dome ho...
The curators of North Carolina's NASCAR Hall of Fame have asked Mike and Frank to find relics that tell the history of auto racing.
The guys stumble upon a salvage yard that's been in a family for generations; Mike eyes a brass diving helmet; Frank zeros in on a hood ornament; a Wild West picking opportunity.
Mil Blair decides to sell some of his rare collections of motorbikes and memorabilia; Bird's temple of surfing; the guys get their new surfboards appraised at the California Surf Museum and make a generous donation.
Bill's main street hardware store; the guys are invited to the Possum Trot, a down-home country auction; Ed's Georgia property features a missile on the lawn and building after building of awesome stuff.
Mike and Frank visit William Shatner, who gives them a very specific list of items he wants; the guys visit a man with an amazing poster collection; the hunt for Shatner's items continue until their job is complete.
A railroad guy who has a collection of motorcycles, cars and trains; the guys discover a Mecca of junk on a property littered with keep out signs; Mike and Frank stop in at a client to see if he'll buy some signs from th...
Mike and Frank find themselves in a high-risk situation when they are chased by a crazy emu; Frank Wolfe gives the guys a golden lead; the guys surprise an old friend of Mike's.
Mike & Frank head to Ohio and decide to make the trip a little more interesting by bringing along a cup dispenser from an old train station to trade with their clients, hoping to make some cash.
In upstate New York, the guys stop in at a sprawling treasure-laden farm with 14 jam-packed trailers, the result of a lifetime of collecting by the late owner.
In upstate New York, the guys stop in at a sprawling treasure-laden farm with 14 jam-packed trailers, the result of a lifetime of collecting by the late owner.
Mike and Frank challenge Danielle to sell a vintage carnival ride; the guys visit a collector with amazing pieces; the guys pick the International Clown Hall of Fame; retired mechanic Norm opens his garage to reveal a 19...
A New York collector has filled a train station with vintage cars; the guys stop at a New Hampshire home with an interesting weathervane on the roof; auctioneer Paul's property is packed with treasures his father rescued...
Mike takes his young nephew on his first pick; in Wisconsin, an eccentric mother-daughter duo is selling their extraordinary 1856 home and everything in it; the guys visit packrat Tim and his 10,000 square feet of junk; ...
Mike dives into an amazing Michigan collection but Frank seems to have lost his picking mojo; the guys visit a Wisconsin property that features a reconstituted vintage town; Frank senses engine trouble with the van while...
The guys pick the storage locker of a fellow picker named 2D; Mike and Frank visit a woman who hopes to clear out some of her late father's collection; at a Wisconsin farm the guys get caught up in the weird world of Hip...
The guys visit a serious collector who is in the mood to sell; Mike and Frank stop in at the geodesic dome home of biker couple; the guys visit two retirees who live in a former honky-tonk spot; Frank and Mike interview ...
Danielle tells the guys they need to step up their game; Mike and Frank uncover lots of great stuff in Tony's sprawling Illinois collection; Ken has room after room of unusual items; Danielle calls with a lead about .
Lifelong picker and yard sale aficionado Lester is known by his neighbors as the spooky collector; the guys visit a hard-core Illinois collector who says he wants to downsize; the guys pay a return visit to their picking...
A steelyard and a farm in Missouri are explored. Also: a home in Illinois filled with rare objects and cultural artifacts.
A farm in Missouri is explored; and the men negotiate with the owner of a 1937 Harley Knucklehead.
A farmyard in Kansas is explored; and a rare grave marker is found in demolition expert's collection. Also: an oil-can collection; and a collection of automotive memorabilia
As the guys finish their trip through the South, Danielle finds them the mother lode of rare motorbike parts; an incredible discovery guaranteed to impress their friend and NASCAR champion Ryan Newman.
Mike and Frank find the holy grail of picking in Gordon's cement factory; the guys scour the inventory of a father-and-son picking duo; the guys meet Mary who has inherited a 300-acre property.
The second season opens in North Carolina, where Mike and Frank find a 1950 Studebaker in an abandoned building. Also: Mike spots a 1934 pre-Airstream trailer; and the pair visit NASCAR's Ryan Newman.
A collector in Georgia has a shed packed with curios and movie memorabilia from his family's drive-in theater; vehicle collection in Florida; property with tractors, signs and an outbuilding full of treasures.
The guys are running low on cash and desperate for a good pick in the South; a nostalgic owner is reluctant to part with his treasures; collection of rare automobiles; famous cartoonist's sketchbook; pottery collection f...
The guys meet a Mississippi motorcycle collector with lots of cool stuff but high asking prices; an Alabama car hobbyist's yard looks like a vintage parking lot; Alabama Museum of Wonder; vintage scooter shop in Birmingh...
Mike and Frank travel to New Orleans and encounter a quirky antique dealer with a sprawling collection; a relic hunter's collection includes fossils; rare visible gas pumps; automotive graveyard with more than 2,000 moto...
After the guys discover a basement full of vintage cars, Frank makes a big offer for a 1939 Plymouth; the guys find a mother lode of rare bikes and motorbikes in New Hampshire.
Mike and Frank bet on who's the best picker while on the road in Pennsylvania, with the loser having to clean their smelly and filthy van; the guys meet ``'' Ron, a picker with a mostly hand-built, 26-room underground la...
Mike and Frank are picking their way through Florida when they get a lead on a potential gold mine -- a five-acre property that's an automotive graveyard. The guys also visit an off-the-grid hangar-sized geodesic dome ho...
Mike hurts his back, but it doesn't stop the men from exploring a 92-year-old Iowa farmer's memorabilia; or trying to talk an Ohio collector into selling his jukebox.
Circa 1920s ``visible'' gas pump designed to allow drivers to see the grade of fuel being pumped into their cars; Mike and Frank visit an opera house built in 1879 that has become home to vintage movie posters.
Mike and Frank find a veritable museum of antiques and collectibles, and negotiate for an old soda fountain and cigarette machine. They also find a Victorian house filled with antiques.
Mike's and Frank's strategy of picking -- buying and negotiating -- becomes clear as they use a motorcycle sidecar part found at an earlier pick to help close the deal on a rare, valuable Vespa Ape scooter.
From a 12-foot high sign of the iconic Philip Morris bellhop to vintage carnival rides, Mike and Frank find items that are both unique and valuable.
