do you have a "strange inheritance" story you'd like to share with us? we'd love to hear it! send me an email or go to our website, "strang week. "strange inheritance" starts n now. >> a farmer with a unusual hobby, a huge collection. >> anybody that collects 150 tractors, buzz that make youic centric? >> he spent a lifetime and a pretty penny amassing it. jamie: a treasure trove of valuable americana or a heard of white elephants. >> dad, you are running out of room. where are you going to put them all?

jamie: i am jamie colby, i am just pulling into tol to -- lemars, iowa, a short distance from sioux city. learning about a very "strange inheritance." >> i am roma lancaster, after my dad passed away we knew that there would be a lot of things that would have to be sort out and gone through on the farm. >> roma's father, gabe hawkins has deep roots in this part of iowa, more than a century. >> my father's ancestors immigrated to the united states in the late 1800s, they moved westward with the expansion of the railroad, my grandfather, my dad's father, albert hawkins farmed just south much here about a mile. jamie: b abe grew up, as a young

farmer in 1950s, he found a tractor rusting in the wee sparks his imagination. >> the 1929 d is the with track or that delonged to my grandfather, that got my dad into collecting when he restored that tractor that originally belonged to his father. jamie: as the farm grows to over 500 acres of corn, soybeans and his family prospers, hawkins picks out the next vintage tractor to buy, and restore, and the next, and the next, including this one, a minneapolis pomineral --moline. jamie: how old is this one? >> 1944. >> incredible. jamie: i meet bruce brock. a fellow history buff, he and dave within way back.

>> i was proud to be his friend. he was a good businessman, a good father, a good husband, a great neighbor,e. jamie: i know coin collecting and cars but with trackers? >> these are reputation of the past that farmers and pharmaceuticallies, and -- farm, families and farm relations enjoy looking at. jamie: tractors are part of iowa's history, in 1892down froehlich invented the gas power tractor in a tiny village, about 300 miles east of here, it helps america become a agricultural giant. even though none of dave a 4 children tills the soil like he dhe shares his passion for tractors with his grandson alex. >> i can remember as young as 4 years old, riding in the combine

with my grandpa, taking napping at floor. >> pretty soon the sheds are filled with old tractors in various states of repair, more than a hundred. jamie: did mom ever say no more tractors? >> not really, but i remember dad called the wittors his -- tractors his savings account, to justify it. the joke became, dad are you ever going to stop? >> no, family vacations become cross country tractor hunts. would you say he was eccentric. >> he was a savvy businessman. >> over the years grandpa probably put a hundred thousand,

not over a quarter million into his collection. >> it was not about the money, it was a passion, and a love, something he wanted to do, he did not get into collecting heavily until he had the money to help us go to college, and make sure we got the education we wanted. jamie: born of hardy iowa farmer stock, dave seems as indifferent truckable -- as those tractors but in summer of 2011, his 73-year-old body grinds to a halt. >> he never complained, he was sick for a few days, we did not know what was wrong with him. ought opy i-- autopsy results came back, we found out he had cancer, it is sad, my dad is gone. sorry. >> it was more than just a

shock. it was i life changing blow. >> he went to the same church from the day he was born until the day he died. he was baptized and had his funeral in the same small kupri church, it was -- country church it was important that we all knew that legacy and continued that on. jamie: at first, life on the farm continues as before. dave's son-in-law, alex's dad, farms the acreage. alex tends the tractors but soon the loss of their patriarch sends ripples of change, dai-ichi widow jude -- dave's widow judy moved into town. >>e. did that surprise you? >> no. jamie: dave's absence creates a crisis, sparking strong disagreement went the family, should they hang on to his

collection or sell it and close out his savings account? >> at the time of his death, how prepared was he for you to take on the huge obligation? >> i wish we would have had just a couple of days to ask him some questions that would have helped us make sure we made the decisions that were how he wished for them to be made. the more people involved the harder that decision becomes, you have to know there were some bumpy roads that we traveld there. >> that is next. >> now, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. which luxury car company got its start manufactureing tractors? cadillac? cadillac? lamb baue new york state is reinventing how we do business cadillac? lamb baue by leading the way on tax cuts. we cut the rates on personal income taxes. we enacted the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968. we eliminated the income tax on manufacturers altogether.

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newlywed and his wife buy the house and move in. a bold move, by the young man who has the best shot of keeping the hawkins tradition of family farming alive, alec said, his grandma made the house buying easy for a first time buyer, isn't that what grandmas are for. jamie: did he is give you a good deal. >> yes, a family deed. jamie: dave haw hawk in's collef tractors. >> i don't think it was easy for anyone. we did go through that, where you know we were not all agreeing. number one toughest decision was can we keep the collection or do we have to sell part of it? financially, and time wise, there was nobody that could do what dad had done. jamie: did he tell you before he

passed. >> we talked about it but he never made a decision. >> dave's widow judy, asked the kids to come to a decision, it is not easy. >> how do you come to an agreement, which each party has a different idea of what is right or wrong to please 5 parties is a tough, tough decision to have to come to grips with. >> amid that family discord, tammy's son alec spends nights and weekends keeping his grandpa's precious tractors from deteriorating. >> there are a lot of expenses to keep them up am to keep the collection, and not up keep it in my opinion was not an option. jamie: dave hawkins pride and

joy was becoming a soar point. >> i just had a full-time job, graduated from college, just got married, maybe they did not realize how much time, work and money it would take. jamie: alex thinks it beo could add up more than $10,000 a year. >> there is too 67 of a financial -- too much of a financial and time commitment that we were not able to exercise, we did not expect alex to exercise, we then made the decision to sell the items. jamie: the family disie fam dect way through that open call auction. and they keep it lockal -- local, they hired their dad's

friend, bruce brock. >> i know that he made them proud. and i think that was important. jamie: what did the family tell you about how much they wanted to generate from the sale. >> they done tell us anything they just trusted to us bring them home as many net dollars as we could. jamie: it is not that simple, they made a discovery after their father died. one that could affect their bottom line. and their father's legacy. from beyond the grave, dave hawkins is guiding his family on how to handle their "strange inheritance." that is next. >> another quiz question for you. how many acres could a farmer till in a day with a horse-drawn plow? the answer when we return. when you're not confident your company's data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly

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>> the answer is b, 1 to 3 acres. jamie: after months of discussion, dave hawk in's heirs have come to a painful conclusion, time to auction off his life long collection of tractors but one more family member weighs, in dave. >> it was discovered, that he had a handwritten list of tractors he wished for us to save. jamie: going back to 1920s, are cream of dave a crop. and must stay in the family, their dad's list gets them thinking, what else should they keep off the auction block?

they each make their own list. >> it had to be gadly intervention when we got together for a family meet, nobody had picked wanting the same item. >> at first roma is undecided. >> i would think yes, i should keep a tractor, and next day, you know what it is only metal, my memories of being with dad are unvaluable to me. jamie: in the end he is cannot resist keeping two bright green deers -- john deeres. >> he asked if i wanted to drive it. >> brakes are purpose. >> your lever. jamie: he is gentleman enough to coach this city girl on the basics like how you turn the darch thing on. i'm going to start it up, i see

a key. there you go. >> perfect. jamie: they don't have nothing like this in new york. >> nothing like this. >> nothing. there in new york. >> nothing like this? >> no, nothing. >> you think the taxis will get out of the way? >> i think so. i think everyone will get out of the way. how are you experienced driving a tractor? >> my pleasure. >> that was exciting. hard to imagine that the hawkens heirs had to wrangle more than 100 of w these things to get rey for auction. >> you worked hard to get ready. i'mm sure. >> alex and todd worked through the winter ahead of that sail date, getting tractors ready. >> a lot of sweat. a lot of tears, and a lot of laughter. >> auctioneer bruce brock knows the key is getting as many

motivated bidders as possible to the hawkens farm on auction day ask tell me about the night before. did you get a good night's sleep? >> very little. we are entrusted to within a few hours bringec to fruition a lifetime of collecting and sacrifice that the family has gone through. it was a d big day for us and w had everything planned right down to the most minute detail. >> wow. every detail, except one. >> the day of the auction started out a little bit on the rocky side. >> that's next. >> you do all this research on the perfect car.

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tractors. just as the gavel is about to be raised, it starts to pour buckets. >> he went to all this preparation, though, for the auction. the sky opens up and what was it like? >> disappointing that it might davoren dampen the crowd. you can't wish away rain. >> dad would sing a song "you are my sunshine" to all of us a lot when we were small and so that morning on the way over here, i had ran into town and got us four yellow roses. >> then the clouds part. >> and so after it stopped raining, i took a yellow rose to my mother and my two sisters and said, you know, dad will always be our sunshine. so we all carried our yellow

roses around and he was our sunshine. >> all right. here we go, now here, i hear 9,000. >> once the bidding starts, it's immediately clear. dave hawkins isn't the only one obsessed with these big machines. >> was eight sellout? >> it was a sellout. we were hoping to get 5 or 600 people. we were almost double that. >> the didders come as far away as canada and mexico. 1936 john deer a sold $2,000. '46 deer slam dash sold $3,000. 49 kcs sold $600. '51 oliver road crop sold $8,000. '88 john deer is 738 diesel sold $28,000. >> tractors are valuable to people. >> tractors are valuable to people, emotionally and

financially there the dedication to dave hawkins memory pays off. the auction nets $400,000 for his heirs. i guess you can say, dave is still taking care of his family. >> i had one child in college. my oldest child had graduated from college. so i was very excited to be able to use that money to help them with their college debt. >> dad who hated debt would be proud. >> oh my goodness. >> it could be a lot more. if you add up the value of the 23 tractors that stay in the hawkins' family, it comes to more than $180,000. still, there are a few tears, as 100-plus tractors are trucked away to tractors around the country and beyond there it's kind of a bittersweet deal. there's a couple that i would have liked to have kept. >> i just feel bad for alex going out to all the empty

sheds. >> but alex hopes the sheds won't be empty forever. >> as i get older and get my own collection going, maybe i'll have the same problem again in 50 years. >> and remember that '29 john deer, the one that belonged to alex's great grandfather, that very first one that dave rescued from the junk pile. >> so there is it. >> this one is it. >> in his will, dave hawkins sets that one aside for alex. perhaps it will be the sea that grows into another grand collection just like his grandpa's. >> living out here on the farm is good. you always get to walk somewhat in his footsteps day in, day out. he's still here, a little bit, for me. people that grew up on farms that it's your lifestyle, you breathe, die farming.

>> i couldn't help but notice alex's pride, not just in that machine, not simply a strange inheritance that turned out to be quite valuable, but rather in the way of life that links him to those who came before him on this land and the determination of dave hawkins' heirs to keep his legacy together for at least one more generation. we learned one other story about dave hawkins from his family. he never spent time with his tractors without having one of his children or grandchildren alongside. a completely positive person, that's how they described him. so positive, that he'd answer the phone, good morning, whether it was morning or night. in fact, after he passed, they had tee-shirts made saying "good morning" with grampl gramps on the sleeve. remember, you can't take it with

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