American Pickers

- Season 20

(2019)

Danielle divides the chaps into two teams to stock up the shops. Team A is Mike and Danielle. Team B is Frank and Robbie. Team A pick an over-the-top, tiki-party-meets-rockabilly home. Meanwhile, Team B set their sights on a vast collection hidden in the fortified bunkers of an old army base.

Team A and Team B continue their hunt across America. The great pick-off continues as Mike and Danielle continue their team effort to take on Frank and Robbie for ultimate picking bragging rights.

A century-old Italian grocery store-turned time capsule features an early 20th century delivery truck and a secret crypt that is calling Mike's name. Then the chaps go up to Vermont to pick a property that includes the first Stanley Steamer to come off the production line.

The Pickers are on a presidential trail as Mike and Danielle head for Pennsylvania while Frank and Robbie are on a whistle-stop tour of North Dakota.

Mike and Frank are back for a new season and are rating to go. Their first challenge is to find out what's inside a barn that has been closed for 20+ years. While Mike makes like a honey badger, bundle master Frank strikes again. Meanwhile, their new partner Mike Mefford makes a deal for their new "cab over engine" truck and Dave Ohrt completes the "pattern model" hydro airplane.

"Raiders of the Lost Pick" Mike and Danni find a Pittsburgh time capsule, while Frank and Rob gets stuck into six generations of stuff on one of Michigan's oldest farms.

It's all Rock and Roll as the guys tackle the painstaking preservation of Aerosmith's original tour van while a star-struck Frank picks one of his teen idols.

Aerosmith's legendary tour van gets an overhaul just in time for a visit from Rock'n'Roll royalty.

The guys stumble upon two of the fastest motorcycles ever built and they are determined to save them from oblivion. Meanwhile Mike Mefford is working on the Avanti.

Mike and Mefford-the-mechanic are on the hunt for Madam X, a legendary one-of-a-kind 1929 Cadillac. The vintage masterpiece is said to be in a Michigan garage filled with museum-quality Packards. Meanwhile Frank and Robbie are picking and battling against a ringtone set on Robbie's phone by one of his daughters as they explore a collection of arcade items.

The guys' faces light up when they stumble upon a warehouse packed with vintage searchlights. Frank risks it all for a game of Space Invaders. Mike Mefford starts checking out the Studebaker truck. Then the guys visit an old shop teacher in the Indianapolis, IN area.

The guys have high hopes when they uncover a 1935 Auburn roadster on an Indiana farm, but then it all goes wrong when they end up with just a kiddie ride instead. After visiting an old car trader's who also had a car museum in Nashville they then go to see Brank in Indiana who is a dentist and collector of many oddities.

The guys uncover a treasure trove of VW buses in Arkansas, and with the collection under threat from vandals, Mike is determined to rescue as many as possible. There are plenty of "farfegnugen" exchanges. Then the chaps go to see Thomas and his collection of radios and related items.

The guys visit a gas pump graveyard in Louisiana while Danielle finds a home for a pair of historic drag bikes. They start by checking out Dale's collection of Corvettes and other "junk" in Northern Arkansas. Then they head to a very damp Northern Louisiana to see Woodie and his collection of "pumps on pumps on pumps".

An Alabama couple has one of the biggest collections the guys have ever come across, including a number of high-octane cars saved from the scrap heap. Then they go to see Beth in Kentucky an old friend of the pickers' pal, Mike Trotnic.

The final touches are added to Aerosmith's original tour van. The, it's time for the big reveal as Mike and Frank take it to meet their rock 'n' roll idols. First they call in on Jim at his surf museum in Santa Barbara. Then they meet up with Robbie Wolfe and Mike Mefford in Las Vegas to present the van that Mike's restored to Aerosmith.

Mike and Frank hightail it to Kenny in Southern Georgia hoping to snap up a super rare roadster and get it back on the motorway. Then they stop off to meet Richard at his very old country store near Savannah, GA and go picking through his barns.

On a ramshackle New Jersey estate, Mike and Danielle go on a Back-to-the-Future joyride in a DeLorean. Adam and Pattie bought the property and contents. It used to belong to a builder who worked in Staten Island, NY. They check out one DeLorean thinking about making an offer for it, then they find a second DeLorean which they can take for a drive. But the house has fallen into a ramshackle state since he left. Meanwhile Frank and Robbie visit a scrap-yard in North Dakota.

In a freaky Florida town steeped with Carnival history, Mike gambles big on the mother lode of must-have Circus banners. Then they go to see Roger in Palm Beach, FL who has a collection of cars, bikes and firearms which Mike and Frank then look through and try to pick out a few bargains.

In the mountains of Southern California , the guys get their pick on with Chris in an old train caboose and make off with a bulging bounty of cool old signs. But first they go to see Courtney in Northern California and her second generation collection of music and movie memorabilia. Finally, Danni goes to see Mike Mefford in Columbia, TN, who has fitted the gas pumps outside their new building. Just like in the old photos of the site.

Frank falls hard for a '63 Corvette Stingray and he keeps raising his offer, which makes Robbie wonder if this is really Frank; Mike and Mefford kick off an ambitious restoration project. At Larry's I'm Ohio, Robbie can't pronounce Sohio properly - he keeps saying it as "So-ohio" to the amusement of Frank and Larry. Mike also takes the Lambretta TV200 over to Dean Wight of Gran Sport Cycles in Davenport, Iowa.

The guys stumble upon a hot Hollywood hoard when they meet a Golden Age stunt man whose garage is chock-full of mind-blowing memorabilia. Then they wander further around California and pick a hoard of Lincoln cars. They can't get any of the cars but they do find plenty of other things to pick.

Frank meets a kindred spirit and international man of mystery, who teaches him a lesson about the Zen-like features of a Harley Davidson Knucklehead as the chaps continue their picking tour around Southern California. Meanwhile Mike Mefford continues rebuilding his garage / showroom in Columbia, Tennessee.

The guys have the time of their life as they pick John in his Portland clock shop packed with mechanical wonders which reawakens Frank as "Tick Tock". Then they continue their tour of the North West and visit Terry in his small town museum filled with historical artifacts.