Auction Hunters: Season 2, Episode 15: “The Dallas Mavericks.”
The Haff-Ton team drove to Dallas, TX. The locals were serious players. The storage facility in a nice area = good merchandise. Duo had to bring their a-game.
Fact: The world’s largest convenience store chain, 7-Eleven, started in Dallas in 1927.
Military Box Unit
An air compressor, work bench, chair, 
old electronics, military case, and lots of boxes. Duo won the unit for $200.
Ton found a pair of welding goggles and a complete set of tools worth. Allen found a pair of dolly tires.
Ton opened the military case. Inside was a turbine engine. The engine was too small for a jet or a tank. Ton was clueless to its use.
The Haff-Ton team took the engine to Terry, an engineer. He stated that it was a military motor used for a cruise missile.
If the engine worked, appraisal value between $12,000-$15,000. To make sure i
t worked, Terry would have to take it apart. He would have it modified with his own tech people.
When the Haff-Ton team returned, they saw that Terry had the engine plugged into a computer. If the motor didn’t work, it would probably explode. Yikes!
Fact: The max RPM on this turbine engine is 10 times that of a Ford Mustang GT.
Terry flipped a switch. Everyone held their breath. No explosion. It worked! They sold it to the expert for $8,500.
Trailer Unit
Barbeque, small trailer, bed, mattress, old TV, bike
, stove, doors, papers, and boxes. The Haff-Ton team won at $1,950.
The commercial barbeque grill was long, about 36 inches. Ton found a nice 60’s teak desk in good condition.
Fact: The largest grill in Texas is 40 ft. long and can cook 1,000 hot dogs at a time.
Ton pulled the trailer out of the locker. They opened the doors to discover it was a concession trailer.
Fact: New mobile food trailers can retail for $20,000 – $35,000 each.
Haff-Ton team found a pair of vintage saddles inside the concession trailer. What exactly were saddles doing inside a trailer?
Duo took the saddles to a cowboy and old west memorabilia expert named Hoot. One saddle had no value because of its condition. The second saddle was kept in good condition with Lanolin.
Fact: ‘Lanolin’ is a wax secreted by sheep and often used as a skin protectant.
The saddle was not made by a well-known manufacturer like C.P. Shipley; but still of go
od quality.
Fact: The C.P. Shipley Company custom made saddles for Gene Autry and Will Rogers.
Back in the day, the saddle would have cost $100 to $250. Present day retail value at $2,500. Hoot paid $1,250 for the pair.
Between barbeques, saddles and trailers… it was a very TEXAS day. Allen and Ton rode horses into the sunset. Yee haw!
Auction Total:
Paid $2,150
Sold: $12,125
Profit: $9,975
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