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  • COREY: I came down to my buddy Bill's shop

  • today to check out a vintage motorcycle

  • that he thinks I'd like.

  • How's it going?

  • Corey.

  • - Rick. - What's happening buddy?

  • How are you? - How you doing, man?

  • Good, good. So this is the dude, man.

  • COREY: Tell me what it is.

  • RICK: Well, it's a 1957 Chang Jiang

  • Chinese military side hack. BILL: OK.

  • I mean, you put some miles on this thing?

  • Driven it pretty far?

  • RICK: Yeah, I actually rode it here.

  • BILL: You get honked on the freeway?

  • It definitely creates a little road rage.

  • Originally, I got this motorcycle,

  • it wasn't complete or running.

  • And I finished putting it together.

  • I'm a big motorcycle collector.

  • I don't really need the money, but I need the space.

  • A side car takes up the room of two motorcycles.

  • COREY: They've got a really interesting

  • history behind them.

  • After World War I, Germany really couldn't arm themselves.

  • So they basically traded their BMW,

  • which was an awesome motorcycle, over to Russia.

  • Then they decided to take Germany's original model

  • and sell it over to China.

  • What are you thinking, Bill?

  • BILL: The overall construction of it, it's kind of cool.

  • I think the overall quality of the thing,

  • it looks pretty cool.

  • Pretty decent quality.

  • COREY: And what's the title does?

  • RICK: It's titled as a special construction 2007.

  • COREY: OK.

  • BILL: So it's basically, the department of motor vehicle

  • sees it as you home built a motorcycle.

  • RICK: Mm hm.

  • BILL: So this bike is a Chang Jiang 1957, which

  • is a replica of a replica.

  • It's really a copy of an original BMW bike.

  • What are you looking to get out of it?

  • RICK: Well, I'll tell you what, the original BMW R71 1937, last

  • year it went for over $100,000. COREY: Yeah.

  • And I saw a Ferrari down the street selling for $350,000.

  • Neither one of them has anything to do with the price of tea

  • in China.

  • Give me some numbers here.

  • RICK: I want $6,000 firm.

  • COREY: $6,000?

  • OK.

  • I've got some real concerns here then.

  • We've got a copy of a copy with bootleg BMW stickers on it.

  • It's kind of scares me a little bit.

  • People that come in my store, if they want to buy this bike,

  • they want to buy the BMW.

  • I really appreciate you showing it to me, man.

  • But I'm going to have to pass on it.

  • RICK: OK. COREY: Take care, buddy.

  • All right. BILL: Thanks [inaudible].

  • COREY: Thanks for calling me up, man.

  • BILL: You've got it, man.

  • RICK: I'm disappointed that I'm not being made an offer.

  • I know I can get $6,000 for this bike.

  • It's not going to be a hard sell.

COREY: I came down to my buddy Bill's shop

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