# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C1VXqPlMQfj
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10469557-dmregister-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-12-26T23:00:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

## Caption

The local junkyard was Rob Wolfe’s personal Shangri-la.

As a kid, he and his younger brother Mike ― creator and still star of the mega-hit reality show “American Pickers” ― could lose themselves for hours in the acres of discarded parts and dilapidated tools all ripe to be retrofitted and patched and put back on the road.

Superfans will know rjwolfepicker as a sidekick to the formerly main duo, Mike and Frank Fritz, going all the way back to the first episode, which featured his five kids, he says with pride.

When Fritz went through a public falling out with co-host Mike about three years ago and then had a stroke that prevents him from returning on-air, Rob was promoted to full-time road warrior and picking partner. 

americanpickers is a second act, a fun one, and one that he hopes will help him cement a legacy.

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