- A garage mechanic steals Jerry's car. Elaine tries to win J. Peterman JFK's presidential golf clubs at an auction. George is asked to work on a mysterious assignment. Kramer and Newman run a recycling scam.
- In this two-part episode, Kramer and Newman scheme to make money on recycling by taking a mail truck to Michigan full of bottles and cans. But their road trip takes a turn for the worst (literally) when Jerry's car is stolen by a psychotic auto mechanic and they track Jerry's car out in the Midwest. Elaine outbids Sue Ellen Mischkie by double her budget for JFK's golf clubs and leaves them in Jerry's car. George gets a project from his boss Wilhelm but doesn't hear the other end of what he's supposed to do. Steinbrenner sees the results of George's project and has him committed to a mental hospital.—halo1k
- Elaine's boss Peterman sends her to Sotheby's to buy JFK's golf clubs. She gets into a bidding war with her long-time rival Sue Ellen but eventually wins, paying double the price Peterman had authorized. After Kramer and Newman borrow his car, Jerry has to take it into his temperamental mechanic Tony who takes off with the car - that still has the JFK clubs on the backseat. At work, George is given a special project by his boss Wilhem but he hasn't a clue what it's about and he's afraid to ask him what he wants. George later learns that he's done a great job on the project - but he has no idea who did it or what it was about. Kramer and Newman meanwhile are on their way to Michigan to collect the extra bottle deposit but find Jerry's car on the road along the way.—garykmcd
- Since he will be out of town, Mr. Peterman (John O'Hurley) wants Elaine to bid for him on a set of golf clubs owned by John F. Kennedy at an auction. He tells her he is willing to go as high as $10,000 for the clubs. Jerry thinks he hears a strange clunking noise in his car and asks Kramer and Newman (Wayne Knight), who had previously borrowed the car, about it, but they don't know anything. Newman learns that bottles and cans can be refunded for 10 cents in Michigan (as opposed to 5 cents in New York and many other states), but Kramer tells him it's impossible to gain a profit from depositing the bottles in Michigan due to the total gas, tollbooth and truck rental fees that would compile during the trip, noting his own failed attempts because he "couldn't crunch the numbers." Newman becomes obsessed with finding a way to make such a scheme work.
Meanwhile, Mr. Wilhelm (Richard Herd) is scolding George for needing to have orders repeated to him. Shortly after, Mr. Wilhelm begins talking of a big project for him to do just as he enters the bathroom. After waiting outside for a short while, George decides to go in, too. But when he enters, he finds that Wilhelm, who had thought George had followed him inside the entire time, had unknowingly been telling about the details of the big project out loud to nobody. Not wanting him to think he wasn't paying attention; George pretends he heard everything. He later asks Jerry what to do and Jerry tells him to ask Wilhelm a follow-up question.
Jerry then takes Elaine to the auction, where they bump into Sue Ellen Mischke (Brenda Strong), the bra-less "Oh Henry!" candy bar heiress, who taunts them about "getting a glimpse of high society." During the bidding, they start a bidding war over JFK's clubs, and Elaine ends up paying $20,000, twice what she was authorized by Peterman to spend. Jerry again hears a loud clunking noise while dropping Elaine off. Elaine decides to leave the clubs in Jerry's car and pick them up later. As he starts to leave, smoke begins billowing out from under the hood and Jerry finds out that Kramer and Newman had left some groceries in his car engine.
He visits Tony (Brad Garrett), a mechanic who is obsessed with car care. George tries to use Jerry's suggestion at work the next day, and Wilhelm unknowingly drops a hint: to get started, he first has to go to payroll. There, the clerk gives George a hard time because he's not being specific enough about "the project." The clerk calls Wilhelm to verify George's claims but doesn't drop George any further hints.
Meanwhile, Newman, who has spent days trying to calculate a profit to the deposit scheme, realizes that there will be a surge of mail the week before Mother's Day (the "mother of all mail days") to be sorted in Saginaw, Michigan. He tells Kramer that he signed up for a mail truck that would carry spill over mail from the other four main trucks, leaving plenty of space left over in theirs for bottles and cans to refund in Michigan. Kramer realizes that by avoiding truck rental fees, Newman has found a loophole and they set off collecting cans and bottles around the city.
Wilhelm visits George to see how he is doing with the project. George informs him that he went down to payroll and Wilhelm asks if he is going downtown then. When asked if "going downtown is really necessary for the project", Wilhelm tells George that he has to go downtown, and mentions the Petula Clark song 'Downtown.' Thinking it's another clue, George and Jerry try to decipher it, but to no avail. George considers coming clean and admitting to Wilhelm that he has no idea what the project is. Jerry goes home and finds a message from Tony saying he needs to talk to him at the Auto Shop. Elaine calls shortly after and wants to pick up Peterman's golf clubs. Jerry tells her he left them in the car at the mechanics, so they decide to meet up there.
Tony wants to make a lot of changes to the car, but Jerry doesn't want to spend so much money. He asks Tony if he could just have it back so he can take his business elsewhere. Tony is disappointed but tells him he'll bring the car out front for him. Elaine arrives and meets Jerry to pick up the clubs just in time to see Tony driving away with Jerry's car. (Basically, Tony was very caring for the cars and didn't feel that Jerry deserved such a nice car to begin with. So when Jerry refused his suggestions, Tony drove it away and the golf clubs with it)
Mr. Wilhelm is delighted with the job George did on the project; however, George has no idea what he did or how he did it. Unknowingly to George, Mr. Wilhelm had forgotten to take his medication, which would explain his compliment. The lack of medications makes Mr Wilhelm forget things like he just had dinner or that he did his house chores. Elaine has to explain to Peterman that he cannot have his golf clubs as they are in the boot of Jerry's car, which has been stolen by a rogue mechanic. The cops tell Jerry that this type of burglary is common as the mechanic form an emotional bond with the car. The cop wants to know if Jerry took good care of the car. The incident is not covered under insurance, as they don't consider it stolen if you willfully gave the guy your keys.
The cops find a mangled 1992 Saab and call Jerry to identify the body. The car is destroyed beyond recognition and the cops say that it's the job of a sick person who hates cars. But the car has a turbo and Jerry's car didn't have one, it was a 9000 S. He rejoices.
Tony gives a call to Jerry from his car, saying that he has fixed the car up but has no intentions of returning it to Jerry as he doesn't feel Jerry is committed to taking care of the car.
While riding in the mail truck with Newman, a surprised Kramer suddenly spots Jerry's stolen car on an Ohio highway and alerts Jerry by using a mobile phone that he brought along. Kramer won't call the police else Newman would be in trouble for misusing a mail truck for personal gain. Newman and Kramer quickly argue whether to deliver their mail and empty bottles to Saginaw, Michigan as they had planned, or to pursue Jerry's stolen car as it exits the highway in Ohio, to which Kramer agrees.
George is sent to a mental hospital by Steinbrenner, due to George's "report". Steinbrenner has read some pretty disturbing thoughts in the report & believes George needs mental help. George claims that he didn't write the report, but it is too late. At the mental hospital, George bumps into Deena (Mary Jo Keenen), (from "The Gum"), who believes George is finally getting the help he needs.
While still chasing Jerry's car, Kramer dumps their empty bottles to make the truck move faster and soon after, dumps Newman as the mail truck was still driving sluggish and was not able to catch up to Jerry's Saab. Newman then finds a farmer's (Rance Howard) house, complete with his proverbial daughter (Karen Lynn Scott). As Kramer continues his chase, Tony throws all of the JFK golf clubs at him, and Kramer is soon forced to give up the chase when the van gives out from the damage the clubs caused to it. While picking up the clubs from the highway, Kramer also reaches the farmer's house where Newman was having dinner.
Newman violates the farmer's only rule, to keep his hands off his daughter, and he and Kramer run away while being shot at. The daughter stops her father but calls Newman "Norman" as she professes her love for him and bids him goodbye. Peterman's golf clubs (a valuable collectors' item) are returned (albeit in a bent and battered state), but not Jerry's car. Elaine gives the bent golf clubs to Mr. Peterman, who mistakes it being in a battered state by thinking Kennedy was an angry golfer.
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