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The owner of the toy car was unimpressed by Frank Fritz’s lowball bid. “No, no,” he growled. “$100.” “How about $80?” Fritz retorted, eliciting a sad shake of the head and a sense of disappointment from a member of the Greatest Generation.
“It’s an iron toy, and it’s old,” the toy car’s owner explained. “It’s probably from the ’30s, and it has ‘Plymouth’ on it. I’m sure it’s very desirable.”
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It certainly was to at least one person: Frank Fritz, who grumbled and retreated when a firm price of $90 was put on the object. After a few minutes of contemplation and nearing time to leave, he acquiesced to the demands set forth. “Howard,” he relented, “would you still do the $90?” “I guess,” replied a reluctant Howard, and the co-host of “American Pickers” traded the better part of $100 to take home a tiny, canary yellow, iron facsimile of a car.
