torch, lou. you will receive an autograpped copy. >> was he a lifelong hoarder or a shrewd collector? the answer lies inside this salvage yard filled with rusty old cars. >> did you know how many cars grandpa had? >> the locals say it's a worthless eyesore. >> whoo-hoo! >> his grandson calls it an "iron gold mine." [ auctioneer calling ] which is the truth? we're about to find out. >> sold it! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and i'm just driving in to enid, oklahoma, which is about 90 miles north of oklahoma city. population -- roughly 50,000.

right here in enid, they have the third largest storage capacity for grain on the planet. but wedged in between enid's silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. >> my name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. his name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. he was a child of the dust bowl. grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. >> and oliver jordan kept it all here. for 60 years. this salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. hi, stuart! >> welcome to paradise. >> i found it! the rusted old cars in this shed -- some of them relics of the roaring '20s -- are a few of

the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. but his real interest was that fabulous new invention, the car. >> grandpa was around machinery all the time, and automobiles were just beginning to happen. he got interested, and it was just a lifelong passion. >> jordan grows up, gets married, and then, at 34 years old, abandons his wife and three young kids for a 16-year-old girl in town. >> when my mother and her brother and sister were still children, my grandfather left the family for another woman. her name was ruby, and that was quite a scandal. everybody was hurt by it. >> in 1946, oliver buys a salvage yard in enid, where he and ruby live, and where he makes money selling old cars and parts. oliver runs the salvage yard successfully for seven years.

but then in 1953, he gets into a nasty argument with the town of enid over zoning and regulations -- two words he detests. >> the city came in and told him he had to put in a bathroom and do some other things, and grandpa just didn't like to be told what to do. >> he was just not a rule follower. >> yeah, he was like, "then fine. i'll close the doors." and that's what he did. >> oliver continues to hoard old cars. he cuts himself off from most of his family and rarely lets another soul inside the shuttered salvage yard. >> pretty much everybody in this town would drive by grandpa's property and see all these old cars sitting right there. and some people -- they thought they were an eye sore, you know. >> enid native brad waken recalls venturing over to the old man's place as a very young car buff in the 1970s. >> i walked across the street. it was, "mr. jordan, i'm looking for a starter for a continental six-cylinder engine. do you have one?" well, after a long pause he basically said, "well, it's

gonna be $50." well, came back about a month later with my $50. he said, "nope. $75." [ chuckles ] i learned a little bit of horse trading at that point in time. >> as a boy, stuart never gets to know grandpa oliver. stuart's mom, oliver's daughter, dies when stuart is only six -- a tragedy that separates him further from his grandfather. >> we would come to town to visit my grandfather, and grandpa had all these cars out in front of his property. it's like a little boy's wonderland. and he had them protected with a fence and with big mean dogs. we couldn't get past the dogs. >> did you ever wish that he spent more time with you? >> you know -- >> were you curious about him? >> yeah, i was eager for the opportunity to get to know him. >> after his mother's death, stuart and his family move away. when stuart graduates high

school in 1984, he decides to take a summer road trip back to enid. >> i got a greyhound bus ticket and went out to enid on my own. he took me over to his shop, and for the first time, i got to spend some time with my grandfather. >> and with all those cars. sure, they look like heaps of scrap, but stuart comes to understand this was his grandfather's pride and joy, his collection. its centerpiece -- these two depression-era cords. >> grandpa had a fascination with the cord, because it was the first car that had front-wheel drive, and they had done some really ingenious things under the hood. >> after his high school road trip, stuart heads out west for college and then launches a successful furniture business in san francisco. then, in the fall of 2000, a call from out of the blue sends stuart scrambling back to enid. >> he opens the door [chuckles] and he's covered from head to toe in feathers.

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>> so, what was the lowest priced mass-produced american car? it's "b," the 1925 ford model t runabout. at $260, it sold for $5 less than the 1924 model. ♪ >> for half a century, cantankerous junkyard owner oliver jordan accumulates hundreds of old cars, some very rare and mostly intact, but all of them rusting as he grows old. then, in the fall of 2000, his grandson stuart gets a phone call that opens the door to a new relationship and to a strange inheritance. >> ruby, his companion of 60 years, had fallen off a ladder and broken her hip, and she was in the hospital. she called worried about grandpa, because he was back at the house and he was 94 years old. and that was the open door. >> and it took till his 90s, really.

>> yeah, because of who he was. he didn't want to need anybody. >> stuart hops on a plane to oklahoma, not knowing what to expect. >> so, here i knock on the door. he's 6'4", and even at 94, he has got quite a commanding presence. and he opens the door [chuckles] and he's covered from head to toe in feathers. he and ruby had a couple of dogs, and one of the dogs had torn up the feather bed. there was something about him that still just commanded respect, even covered in feathers. >> seeing oliver in such a terrible state, stuart decides to stay in oklahoma for a while and take care of his grandfather. >> i was getting to know my grandfather through these cars. he was so proud to be showing them to me and me experiencing his life's work and his pride and joy. >> to stuart, two things become immediately clear. first, oliver knows he doesn't have much time left. and second, he's worried about the fate of those cars. >> at one point, he said, "thank god for you. thank god for you." and i think he was so worried

about what would happen to his things. >> stuart's no car expert, but he does his homework and confirms that the centerpiece of the whole collection is indeed those cords from the 1930s, the ones he remembers from his high school road trip. what did the last cord sell for? >> i'm not sure, but maybe not more than 400 of these or 500 of these were ever made. >> best-case scenario. >> i'm thinking best-case scenario, restored, is probably $300,000, $350,000 maybe. >> thoughts like that lead stuart down a road that will take him more than a decade to travel and cost him plenty. just for starters, he lays out tens of thousands of dollars to ship in secure containers and build a steel storage building to house the most prized cars. >> it's his life's work, but also if these things are so valuable, why are they just rotting away here, you know? and someone has to step in and do something about it. >> in august 2003, oliver jordan dies at the age of 95, leaving

his enormous automobile collection to stuart and his siblings. >> the original windows that they would stick in the sides... >> stuart tells me this 1924 rollin touring car is one of his personal favorites. the model was popular among bootleggers during prohibition. >> so, there's toggle switches on the dashboard where they would turn off the taillights if they were being followed by somebody. >> to hide the booze. >> that's right. >> but these cars represent just a snippet of oliver's vast collection. i've never seen anything like this, stuart. there are so many cars. >> it's quite a strange thing to inherit, isn't it? >> before he dies, oliver gives stuart some business advice. >> he said, "now, don't sell all of those cars and parts all at once. you sell them one at a time." 'cause you'd make more money that way. >> but after trying to sell a couple online, stuart realizes it would take the rest of his life to sell them one-by-one. turns out just getting the titles for all these old cars

takes months. >> you had to get title to every single one of these cars? they're from the '30s. how do you that? >> let me show you. >> first, you have to find the cars' i.d. numbers. >> oh, my god. you can still read it! >> well, we had to polish it off. but we were able to actually get titles for the majority of the cars. >> the years click by like odometer miles. and stuart keeps spending more to authenticate and protect the old cars. a lot of plane trips from san francisco and back, too. by 2013, he says, he's invested $400,000 getting the collection primed for auction. ready or not, it's time to sell. >> hey, jamie. >> hi. how are you, yvette? stuart contacts auctioneer yvette vanderbrink to appraise the collection. so, is stuart sitting on a pile of junk or a potential gold mine? >> there's about 220 of them. they're mostly american cars, and they're pre-war, which is

pre-1942. very rare cars, 'cause at the start of world war ii, they started limiting production. and you could only get one from a ration coupon. >> stuart and yvette make plans for a one-day auction right here on the salvage lot. word begins to spread about oliver jordan's old treasures. stuart soon learns that's not altogether a good thing. >> we arrived at the property and found someone had cut through the fence and then cut a hole in the side of this building the size of a human body, and they stole over 250 antique radiators, tons of chrome parts, a lot of nice stuff. >> the antique radiators alone are worth nearly $40,000. but the biggest loss for stuart is the theft of oliver's rare and beloved 1904 harley-davidson, possibly worth several hundred thousand dollars. >> so, it really set us back, and we had to hire additional security and we had to move the auction forward.

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>> stuart piontek is racing to auction off his strange inheritance -- hundreds of vintage cars. his grandfather's lifelong obsession has become stuart's own. he's invested 13 years and $400,000 in the collection. ♪ i catch up with him at the hot rod association rally in oklahoma city. >> hi, my name is stuart. did you know my grandfather? >> while stuart works the crowd, i'm gonna see if i can get behind the wheel of one of these souped-up automobiles. >> how are you doing? hey, i'm jamie. >> hello, jamie. >> how are you? >> hello, i'm steven. >> tell me about this car. >> well it's a '37 chevrolet, so it's 77 years old. so, i've had it quite a bit of it's life. >> part of the family. >> yes, it is. >> oh, my. i've just gotten the keys. >> we can do that. >> let's go. >> all right. >> you have this thing insured? >> yes, i do. >> oh, good thing, because there's a tree right there.

>> all right. hold on. whoo-hoo! now we're talking! [ tires screech ] this would work for me in new york. auctioneer yvette vanderbrink is here, too. so, yvette, you know, you see these shiny red cars, and, i mean, you can tell there must be some value here. but some of them look like junk. but they're not? >> no. they're not junk. you know, it's a different trend in the car-collecting hobby now. >> that trend is called patina. it refers to the factory-original paint that shows the ravages of time. some car collectors relish that vintage, barn-find look and spray a clear coat of varnish on top to preserve it. that could be good news for the rarest cars stuart has -- those two cords from the 1930s. but if you're like me, you're wondering what they might look like restored. i didn't have to go far to find

out. remember brad waken, who once tried to buy a starter from old oliver jordan? he's now a cord aficionado. he's spent over 30 years restoring this cord. it's a stunning example of what a cord looks like in all its glory. >> we went through the engine, we painted it, we fixed the interior. it's something that we looked at restoring history and not just putting on a nice paint job and chroming everything. [ indistinct p.a. announcement ] [ auctioneer calling ] >> on june 7, 2014, it's finally the big day of the auction. >> we're gonna have fun and we're gonna book and i just killed 10 minutes. >> auctioneer yvette vanderbrink welcomes a crowd of at least 300 people. >> hope i covered everything for you. all right? >> stuart's sister starla crosses her fingers. >> it's been a lot of hard work. i hope that stuart just at least

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>> now back to "strange inheritance." >> the buzz over oliver jordan's antique-car auction has brought collectors from all over the country to enid, oklahoma. some are just looking to buy parts, but others are here with plenty to spend for just the right vehicle. >> i came with a trailer and a pick-up, and if i have to, i'll run back and get a bigger truck and a bigger trailer to haul more cars. [ auctioneer calling ] >> you have to be quick to purchase in this game.

these cars can go in less than a minute. >> [ calling ] sold it! [ calling ] sold it! sold it! sold it! sold it! $9,600. >> people seem in good spirits, and things seem to moving pretty well, so it's going pretty good. >> stuart's cautiously optimistic as oliver jordan's two beloved cords are about to go up for bid. stuart thinks they'd each be worth six figures if fully restored. but how much in this condition? >> the 1937 cord 812 beverly supercharged. this was one of mr. jordan's favorite vehicles. it's going to need every little piece restored. okay. $35,000. >> i have $40,000. >> $40,000. >> yes! >> now $42,000. [ calling ]

sold it! $42,000. going to new york. >> what will the second cord fetch? >> tara, what do you got? >> i got $20,000. >> $20,000, and we're going. [ calling ] sold it! $22,000. >> it's over in seconds. the same anonymous telephone bidder pays $64,000 for both cars. stuart says he's not disappointed. >> in this condition, that's a great price for them -- as much as we could have hoped for. and it's really great because they're gonna move on. >> after an emotional day, the grand total for this auction -- $540,000. subtract the $400,000 stuart invested and it's a profit of

$140,000 to split with his siblings. add in all that time the family invested in this strange inheritance, and it's no windfall. >> so, here we go. >> whoo-hoo! >> that's a good one. >> all right. >> then again, watching the grandchildren of oliver jordan pop open the bubbly has to make you wonder -- was their 13-year-old enterprise ever really about turning rusted iron into gold? or was it about a different kind of alchemy -- one, perhaps, that restores broken and brittle family ties into strong, lifelong bonds? >> we lost our mother when we were rather young, and we didn't really get to know her parents that well, and so this brought us closer. >> would grandpa -- what would he say? he'd say, "stuart..." >> i think he'd say, "i'm proud of you," you know? >> would that be important for you to hear from your grandfather? >> yeah, definitely. and that's really what it was

about for me -- doing right by him and by my family. >> stuart sold all of his grandpa's cars, and he regretted losing only one -- the 1924 rollin touring car. it was a favorite of prohibition bootleggers, and on auction day, an 86-year-old woman came just to see it. she explained that her grandfather had driven it to the hospital the day she was born and then sold it to oliver jordan. of all the stories about this strange inheritance, this may have been stuart's favorite. so, stuart asked the man that bought the touring car -- for $4,800 -- to let him know if he ever resold it. stuart might want to buy that one back. i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thanks so much for watching, and remember -- you can't take it with you. do you have a strange inheritance story you'd like to share with us?

we'd love to hear it. send me an e-mail or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. >> a menagerie of exquisite specimens... >> leopards, lions. >> ...skinned, stuffed, and mounted by a master. >> he was a different guy, different cat. >> not everyone can take something that's dead and make it look like it's alive. >> elk, moose, deer, goats... >> you're walking into someone's lifelong obsession, their commitment, their passion. >> ...antelope, waterbucks, duikers, dik-diks. these lions are from "night at the museum." >> that was a big get. [ lion roars ] >> whoa! >> can his sons get this legacy to pay off? or did they inherit a dying business? >> nobody has an inheritance like the one that we've been bequeathed. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

[ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm surrounded by millions of acres of pristine forest near vancouver, british columbia. i'm on my way to meet a family who inherited a legacy that evokes the very spirit of this wilderness. they're also left wondering how to preserve it. hi, brian. >> hi. >> how are you? i'm jamie. >> good. nice to meet you, jamie. >> nice to meet you, too. >> come on. check out the stuff out. >> love to see the house. thanks. what?! oh, my god, brian. what is going on? oh, my gosh! this is your house? i can't believe it. it looks like a zoo. >> my name's brian kulash. in 2010, my dad, steve kulash, passed away and left us an inheritance with noah's ark

implications. >> brian tells me that he and his brother stacey inherited this menagerie from their dad, a taxidermist named steve kulash. a series of calamitous events, including the one that caused their father's death, have stunned the brothers. they struggle to carry on his legacy. kulash, born in 1938, grew up on the family farm in nelson, british columbia. how did he get introduced to taxidermy? >> he sent away for mail-order taxidermy books. and he started by doing chickens and rabbits and stuff around the farm. >> it sets him on a journey that will take him far from the farm, which he leaves when he takes a job as a welder in vancouver. that pays the bills, but taxidermy remains his passion. in 1959, he marries rachel collins, and they raise three strapping young lads --

steve jr., brian, and the youngest, stacey, who i'm told has an even bigger surprise for me 40 miles outside vancouver. what?! >> welcome to the ark. >> what stacey calls "the ark" is a drafty old barn stuffed with the kulash brothers' strange inheritance -- more than four decades worth of their dad's taxidermy. ark is right. oh, my goodness. you do look like you have two of everything. this is incredible. at first, steve kulash fashioned works like these in the basement of the family home. he began with game from his own hunting trips, but soon other hunters brought by their trophies, too. >> when people seen the quality of the work that he was doing, they all started to come to him. >> did mom ever say, "if you bring another animal in this house, i'm gonna kill you"? >> uh, i did hear her say that before, but she would always soften her stance at a bit of coaxing. >> show me a really fine example

of your dad's work. >> his ibex mount is one of his best works. >> why? what makes it great taxidermy? >> he paid a lot of attention to the shape of the eye, the muscles that would make the eyes blink, and tissue. you have to have an artistic eye. not everyone can take something that's dead and make it look like it's alive. he was an artist. >> like so many artistic types, steve dreams of actually making a living from his life's passion. in the late 1960s, he pulls the trigger, quitting that welding job and betting his family's future on his skill as a taxidermist. >> i remember going with him to empty his locker. and he had said, "i'm just gonna break free and do my own thing." >> he rents a storefront and opens steve kulash taxidermy. brian pitches in when not working as a meat cutter at a grocery store in vancouver while stacey works full-time at

his dad's shop and learns his craft. >> birds of prey are my favorite. they look menacing even when they're standing still. >> his dad taught him anyone can learn to stuff a bird, but to turn a lifeless pile of feathers into this, it's about the expression, the pose, the articulation of muscles and limbs. stacey demonstrates the skills he learned at his father's side. >> so, now i'm separating the feathers along the breast plate and stomach area. the entire leg bone stays in, attached to the skin. and then you wrap cotton around the legs to make it look like it has flesh again. before, they just used to inject formaldehyde in the little fleshy part of the -- this part of the wing. >> from start to finish, each piece can take days of painstaking work. >> he would go at 9:00 in the morning, and sometimes he wouldn't come home till 8:00 at night. >> steve's dedication pays off.

soon, his shop is attracting customers from all over north america and beyond. what kind of money can you make doing taxidermy? >> a good sale that we had was $150,000 when we sold two containerfuls of animals to japan. >> his storefront on kingsway was a vancouver icon. and certainly, when you walked in, you realized you were walking in to someone's obsession. >> rachel poliquin, phd, is author of a scholarly history of taxidermy called "the breathless zoo." >> what i've done with taxidermy is to explore if it has any relevancy in today's world, what is its history, what is its meaning. great taxidermy is when you think that the creature might just reanimate in some way. >> reanimate is right. see those lions with ben stiller? steve kulash goes hollywood after the break. [ lion roars ]

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in st. gallen, switzerland. dates from 1623. >> by the mid-1970s in vancouver, steve kulash has established a thriving taxidermy business and himself as a legend in the field. >> he was a different guy, different cat. >> at the same time, tragedy stalks the kulash family. in 1981, steve's wife, rachel, dies of cancer at age 38. seven years later, steve jr. drowns in a boating accident. >> the death of my mother and my older brother crushed him. it just made him be closer to us, cause we're all he had. >> wow, how did your family manage after that? >> we just dug ourselves into our work and just kept going. >> yeah, i think that looks good. >> indeed, long hours at work prove to be therapeutic.

>> and then you're going to open it a bit, right? >> as his reputation grows, new clients come calling... [ shop bell rings ] ...some from vancouver's burgeoning film industry. >> his first prop was the "grizzly adams" movie. >> "grizzly adams" -- his first big break. >> and it just snowballed from there. >> they would commission us to make a 10-foot by 4-foot-thick grizzly bear for "macgyver." >> then another action figure places an order. >> for the first "rambo" movie they wanted to rent for the sheriff's office. >> speaking of movie rentals, do these felines look familiar? if so, you're probably one of the tens of millions who bought a ticket for the 2006 hit film "night at the museum." yep, steve kulash was the one who made them movie stars. they're the "pride" of his collection. >> here's the hall of african mammals. >> he found them and stuffed

them. and then, digital artists made them attack ben stiller. [ lion growling ] down boy! >> did you catch 'em? >> all by myself! >> so, following his passion is paying off for kulash. >> do we have schnapps? >> yeah. >> a job he loves, and the freedom and money to take hunting and fishing trips -- and safaris -- all across the globe. >> [ speaking foreign language ] >> my dad could speak a few languages, loved to travel the world. this is my dad on one of his hunts for mountain lion. >> that could be my favorite picture. i'm 50 and he was 70. [ dogs barking ] when we went hunting, i still couldn't keep up to him. >> steve's friend herb karas shared many of these adventures. >> he could handle himself up a mountain or down a mountain, or stay overnight in the woods if you had to.

>> very nice. >> yeah, very good luck you have today. >> yes. >> in 2009, kulash gets recognition not just as a master of taxidermy, but as a bona fide artist. his work is featured in a museum show of animal art called "ravishing beasts." rachel poliquin is the exhibit's curator. >> steve's taxidermy was great. it reflected who he was and it had a certain charisma and passion to it. >> the following year, kulash is preparing to pursue one of his other passions -- an international hunting expedition. >> then one night in march 2010, his son stacey, who lives in the basement of the family home, is awakened by the smoke alarm. >> i opened up my bedroom door, there was a five-foot fire. >> as stacey runs next door to phone the fire department, his dad makes a fatal mistake. >> he went and tried to put the fire out himself when he could

have just walked right out the front door. >> could you see? could you breathe? >> i tried to get him out of the basement, but there was too much smoke. i couldn't get back down there. >> steve kulash gets trapped amid piles of boxes and equipment. [ siren wails ] >> a while later they told us that our father passed away. >> he leaves behind the business where he'd worked side-by-side with his sons, filled with nearly 200 mounted animals. that's not including the metaphorical elephant in the living room. can a taxidermy business really thrive in the 21st century? and if it can, is stacey kulash the right guy to do it? did you ever say, "i know i can, i know i'm good, but it's not for me"? that's next. >> here's another quiz question for you.

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>> so, what animal was first thought to be a hoax created by a rogue taxidermist? the answer is a -- the platypus. in 1798, when british explorers sent home the first pelt of the australian mammal, scientists thought it was a hoax and that a taxidermist had sewn a duck's bill onto a mammal's body. when more pelts arrived in england, they acknowledged it was real. but if you're wondering about rogue taxidermy, don't change that channel.

>> four years after their father's death, brian kulash and his brother stacey are struggling with their strange inheritance -- a taxidermy business, plus hundreds of creatures crafted by their father, a legend in the field. they face one big complication when they lose their lease on the shop their dad occupied for more than 40 years. almost 200 mounted specimens, plus eight freezers full of skins, have to be moved to a barn outside vancouver. if someone came along and said, "i have to have them all"... >> definitely. >> how much would you want for everything you have right now? >> $270,000. >> that's not exactly just a round number. you've thought about it. >> yes. [ laughs ] >> the brothers insist that their dad's work would go for at least that much back in the day. will it get that now? stay tuned. >> let's flip it over and inspect it to find if there's any stray threads anywhere. >> okay. >> meanwhile, like his father

did, stacey kulash gets calls from hollywood. >> two months ago i was working on a life-size beaver for a movie with leonardo dicaprio. i had to make it so that the belly could be reopened so that the actor could be skinning it on camera. >> good work, if you can get enough of it. >> at the end of the day it's always about the dollars. you can't pay your bills on good intentions. >> did you ever say, "i know i can, i know i'm good, but it's not for me"? >> well, this is what i trained for for over 30 years, so i'm just gonna keep on doing what my dad taught me. >> it's only between stacey and i, so we're in solidarity because we're brothers. i'm a meat cutter, but i've recently retired and i need to regroup my family and push this to as far as we can go. >> and that may mean going pretty far out there -- to the land of jackalopes,

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>> now back to "strange inheritance." >> nobody has an inheritance like the one that we've been bequeathed. >> it almost seems like brian and stacey kulash's strange inheritance came a few centuries too late. >> taxidermy really has its origins in a post-columbus era of exploration, when people were going out around the world and discovering new lands. >> scholar rachel poliquin says in the 1800s, taxidermy really took off in the u.s., canada, and europe, growing from a scientific pursuit into a very common element of home decor.

>> in the 19th century, there's the age of colonial hunting, and then it gets into that whole other desire to display your manliness. >> throughout much of the 20th century, hanging one of these heads on your wall was still the cat's meow. >> it was either the largest one you'd ever seen, it was the hardest to kill. it really becomes this souvenir and this point to tell the story about yourself and about your encounter with the animal. >> that's one reason steve kulash's talent was in high demand... >> i learned being by his hip from when i was 6 years old. >> ...a talent his sons inherited. >> you think i can handle the real thing? >> possibly. >> should we give it a try? >> we're gonna glue some eyes in on this mannequin for the next project i'm working on. >> yeah, there's a whole selection of eyeballs. this is one of the ones that we'll be using. that's the way that the eye wants to go on. >> a little glue? >> right along the rim.

>> okay, with my luck it'll be cross-eyed. >> [ laughs ] >> so it would go right here? >> yes. perfect! >> here's looking at you, kid! poliquin says traditional taxidermy is now less popular for a host of reasons. a cultural shift toward conservation over conquest has redefined the art form. still, poliquin sees hope for the kulash boys. >> there has been a revival in taxidermy recently. i think it is -- ultimately becomes a very individual process of how you go forward. >> so, what do you do with that taxidermy business you inherited, in an era when many people see a mounted head and think "comic strip gag"? if you're the kulash brothers, you plant tongue firmly in cheek, and branch out into a new hipster movement called "rogue taxidermy." >> rogue taxidermy is certainly becoming its own art form. it's putting bits of animals

together. there is the carnival nights contest, in brooklyn, where people bring in their strange, rogue taxidermy pieces. >> we've actually done some hipster taxidermy ourselves. that was a fantasy mount that i did for a tv show. i used a squirrel skin and pigeon wings. >> adorable. >> oh, it was funny. >> i guess. >> the jackalopes were done for a café-type restaurant called the cactus club. the antlers are from a white-tailed deer. >> some of stacey's creations go beyond fantasy to the macabre. >> i took the back vertebrae of a fallow deer. and it had like a miniature human skull on the very top of it that was chrome, and i made a walking cane with it. that sold for $650. >> not your father's taxidermy. >> you do whatever you have to in taxidermy to keep your doors open. >> which doesn't mean brian and stacey are discounting their

dad's legacy. they still intend to unload that noah's ark menagerie they inherited for a pretty price -- if not in one big boatload, then two-by-two, or at least one at a time. >> we had a lady that came and bought a tiger from us. the tiger was $18,000. [ register dings ] >> a promising start, but a drafty barn in the middle of nowhere is not exactly a customer magnet. you need a new place? >> yeah. >> they're saving to open up a new shop, confident that their strange inheritance still has a future. >> it's only between stacey and i, and so we're just trying to carry on and keep our name going in this business. >> as author and curator rachel poliquin observes, death makes taxidermy possible. it seems fitting this strange inheritance will long preserve the bond between a departed dad and his devoted sons. >> he is legendary. he taught me his whole life -- little things, big things.

he always had something to offer. >> my father was basically my best friend. >> we're hoping to still dominate and be on top, where we should be. >> kulash rules. >> you know it. >> in his day, steve kulash stuffed a lot of trophy animals, but his old buddy herb karas once found him hard at work on a cat, as in kitty cat. "you mounting pets now," herb asked. well, steve explained that the animal belonged to a neighborhood woman and had been her beloved companion for 15 years. herb says steve was carefully adjusting the whiskers to give kitty the perfect feline expression, gazing lovingly at her owner. what a guy. i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thanks so much for watching and remember -- you can't take it with you. do you have a "strange inheritance" story

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