Resurrected Rides (2024) s01e01 Episode Script
Vanagon
1
-Tavon my boy. Good to see you.
-What up, my G? Nice to see you, bro.
Somehow, you still love this van.
Yeah, man. That's my van.
That's my baby right there.
Now, the crew put a lot of hours
into this thing, man.
They're the ones that did all the magic.
You ready to see this car, man?
Yeah, man.
A'ight!
Hit it!
Take a look, Tavon!
Look, we've all had an old,
beat-up ride,
one that's hard to say goodbye to.
It's missing teeth. What the hell?
Maybe your first car.
So we gotta make the engine quiet
so you could sneak out the house.
Or maybe every car
you've ever had's been trash.
Oh. Oh!
- He threw up!
- Oh!
Oh!
Oh, Jesus! Oh my God.
How do you live like this?
Well, Chris Redd is here to save the day.
So what we're gonna do
is resurrect this thing. You feel me?
Me and my garage team of pros
are gonna take people's old, dusty rides
See I brought you some doo-doo on wheels.
and bring them back from the dead
in the most spectacular way.
Now some of the design details
will definitely be out there.
I made you a puppy step
so your little dogs can climb
over the rocker right in.
We'll find something cool to do
with the trunk, maybe a droid system.
Some people are gonna love it.
Let's go! Oh my God, man!
Will they like every aspect
of their makeover?
We thought it was a great idea
to try glow-in-the-dark paint.
Ooh.
Hey! ♪
That's a different story.
What's up, my favorite garage team?
How are we doing?
With the best garage team in the world,
they're gonna help me resurrect rides
with their weird, little superpowers
and special talents.
Are they all gonna be impressive?
They sure as hell better be, man.
I'm trying to get a season two.
Come on! Let's do this!
See. All right. They broke something.
Now slam the title card!
Yo.
Meet Tavon
Hey, what's up, man?
a 33-year-old stunt man
from Philly,
whose life handed him a real lemon.
This one.
- Oh boy.
- Oh, that's nice. Nice.
Now his friends
submitted him for the show
because they think he deserves it.
He never wants to ask anybody for help.
Would give you the shirt off his back.
So we sent a camera crew out
to find out for ourselves
and tell him he's still in the running.
My name is Tavon. I drive a '91 Vanagon,
and as you can see,
she needs a little bit of help.
I am a comic book nerd,
and if you take a look at it,
it actually looks like
the Teenage Mutant Turtle van.
So that's why her name is April.
- What are some of the problems?
- Are you ready?
Grab the oil.
One, she leaks an excessive amount of oil.
Last month, I went through six of those.
The exhaust leaks back into the car.
I have this window cracked
so we're not inhaling toxic, uh, fumes.
That engine.
Yeah, it's gonna catch on fire
at some point.
Every time you come home ♪
The best part,
if I'm in a low gear and we're in traffic,
it will stall randomly.
Hey, dude, I get it. I know, man.
I think it's pretty cool that my friends
reached out to Chris and nominated me.
I'd love it if I got picked for this.
Fingers crossed.
Spoiler alert.
We picked Tavon
because A, he seems like a good dude.
And B, I am terrified
to be driving on the same streets
as that ticking time bomb.
We're about to let him know,
and we're gonna do it
in the most obnoxious way possible.
Right behind me in this park is Tavon.
Now he thinks we're just getting
some footage of him flipping around.
Yeah.
But why would we need that?
That is stupid.
What we're really here to do
is get that big mistake on wheels.
We're gonna resurrect that.
But before we do,
you know we gotta ambush this brother.
Hidden cameras, Punk'd style.
You already know how it is.
So I got my friend Rosie Okumura,
and she's gonna play
a lady in the park doing some yoga.
I'mma give her a ticket
as a parking enforcement officer.
She gonna get mad, and all of a sudden,
the fight's gonna end up
with Tavon's car getting bashed up
and tore up even more than it is now.
Then Tavon's gonna be like, "What?"
And he's gonna flip over to us
like a little Power Ranger.
Come on, Lululemon.
You could just shove me
and I can go into a shoulder roll or I
If you want to redo
some stuff you've already done,
that's okay too.
Don't feel like you need
to be coming up with new stuff.
Copy.
Oh, no front plate on this thing.
Excuse me.
No date on there. How you doing?
What's the deal?
There's no front plate.
I had to give you a ticket.
Oh, actually, I have one.
Give me a second.
Whoo, this is trash.
- Let me just grab it.
- No, just call the City.
What about the rest of the cars?
Mine's nicer than this one.
- So you're giving me a ticket
- Look at that.
That person has a problem already.
Look at the life.
- Take it back.
- I can't.
- Take it back.
- I can't.
- Take it back!
- Ma'am. Ma'am.
All right. Do you play sports?
What you gonna do with that?
Why doesn't this car have a ticket?
-They don't have a front plate.
-I don't even know if this car runs. Okay?
-I
-So it wouldn't matter if I did a little
Ma'am, it's not my car.
You don't have to do all that.
- What the hell are you doing?
- I'm not paying it!
I don't want to pay!
Okay. Excuse me.
Is this your car? I'm not
Hey, come on, now!
Yo, that is my van!
Lady! What are you doing?
-What are you doing?
-What are you doing?
Tavon, what's up, bro?
-Excuse me.
-What?
We got your ass!
We got your ass!
Let me write this motherfucker down!
- We got your ass!
- Chris Redd?
Oh my gosh, dude. What?
My boy came out
like Michael Jackson.
Oh my God! Yo!
Tavon, if you can't tell right now,
you're on Resurrected Rides,
and I'm here to make this van
the van of your dreams, brother.
- How you feeling right now?
- Stressed.
Since day one, I saw
what the potential of my van could be,
but now it's gonna come back
and be so freaking awesome,
and I'm just gonna die of excitement
right there and then on the spot.
Whoo! Buddy. Buddy, buddy, buddy.
I ain't gonna hold you.
If I knew this was happening,
I would have probably cleaned up, so
There is not enough cleaning
you could've done to make this good.
Now I've never seen a back window
have herpes like this.
I mean, this is a disease.
Goddamn! All right, you right. You right.
I'mma leave a message.
"Destroy me."
-Whoo! Ooh my God.
-Yup.
My finger's doing blackface!
- That's how dirty this man's car is.
- Ew!
Vanagon, that's what your van
should've did.
Yeah. Vanagon
The van-a-here, the van-a-gone.
Jesus! Oh my God.
Whoo! Smells like
a high school locker room.
- Boy, is that a person in there?
- No, it's
Are you gonna do the laundry
or just live with it?
Hold on. It's clean.
I know it's in a trash can,
but it's clean.
A fire extinguisher.
This is the only car I've ever seen
that feels like it needs this.
Why did you buy this?
'Cause I thought it was cool.
- I've clowned the car a lot.
- Yeah.
Let's talk about the future.
What's your dream version of this car?
Oh man. Um, you ever seen the old school
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the TV show?
I loved
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Remember the Shell Shock van?
- Yes.
I would love something like that.
You want the shell van?
I think pulling up to set
in the shell shock van would be so tight.
You could pull up to a Comic-Con
and clean up.
-All the girls dressed like turtles.
-I'm swimming at that point in time!
I think we could make
some of that stuff happen.
Welcome to the garage.
Or as I call it
- Whoa!
- the clunker bunker.
The place where I've housed
the greatest team of ride resurrectors
known to man.
Oscar and Saul
cover the body and interiors.
Lacey, she's the mechanic.
Don is our fabricator.
Nelson covers the composites and tech.
And Shayna, she does the paint.
Together, they'll turn
even the worst lemons
into lemonade.
This is what I brought.
Death on wheels.
I almost died just by inhaling it, dawg.
The smoke goes into the car.
-That's scary.
-Yeah, it's not supposed to happen.
All right. Let's go ahead
and start with this right here.
Now, this is real turf,
which he's never cleaned before.
That stuff has to go.
Absolutely.
Up here, we got the clutch.
He has to wiggle this thing
the entire time he drives,
like he's doing
a Mortal Kombat cheat code.
Whoopsie! You know what I mean?
- I can fix that.
- Perfect.
He said that he wanted his van
to look like the Ninja Turtle van.
He is a grown man.
He does kick it a lot in his van.
This thing needs all the help it can get.
It needs every single one
of y'all talents.
Now what can we do, y'all,
to make this less disgusting of a vehicle?
Hmm.
This is like his house.
We can put a camper up top.
That way, he can sleep inside and outside.
Oh, that's crazy.
If he's gonna be chilling in the car,
maybe a sectional inside.
Maybe some swivel seats.
Make everybody come together in there.
You're making this thing sound cool.
Obviously,
it's gonna need a lot of bodywork.
You've got literally rust coming through.
That shouldn't be there.
No.
The gauge cluster is a big problem,
and there's just lots
of old school things in this.
I want to modernize it.
And I'm thinking we add a projector.
We can build some kind of mechanism
that drops down from the ceiling.
That way, he and his friends
can watch movies together.
He's making me want to kick it in a van.
I'm not going to, but it makes me want to.
All right.
Our schedule is tight, y'all.
We got ten days until the next car is in.
Ugh.
Let's get to tearing this thing up, bruh.
Come on, now. Y'all start doing stuff,
and then I'll jump in with my helpfulness.
One, two, three!
You guys ready
for a Spartan kick? Kick it!
There she is, dude! Nice!
Look at that!
That's how he was riding.
There's nothing to that seat.
Besides the cobwebs,
the two inches of dust,
the trail of oil, and the exhaust leak,
it shouldn't take much
to make it reliable, right?
You wanna start
with all the door panel stuff, Shayna?
Don't mess up my door panels.
I'll do what I want.
There's a wire loom
that goes through the door panel.
It's gonna require
a lot more work than I expected.
-My name is Saul.
-And I'm Oscar.
And together, we're SOS Customz.
We do everything.
Trucks, tuners, lifted cars,
lowered cars, lowriders, exotics.
You name it, we do it.
Yes, yes! Success.
-When we do work, we're not rushed.
-We have a lot of time.
And that's the problem
with this deadline we have.
I have to do the interior.
You guys have to do the body, suspension,
motor, this that and the other,
in ten days.
It's crazy.
The good news is
that it came apart really fast,
but now we gotta put it all back together.
We need to start ordering parts.
Like, soon.
Like, yesterday.
The main thing is the roof.
Pop-top, we need to get.
Let me pull up that here.
That one's really good.
Let's buy it now,
and let's get back to work.
We've got the motor
completely out of the van.
What I'm doing right now
is replacing Tavon's clutch.
It was slipping really, really bad,
so we are fixing that today.
In the morning
I do anything to get it going ♪
I'm Lacey Blair.
I'm a Southern girl. I live in Texas,
and I build Texas-sized things.
Big trucks, big wheels, lift kits.
But I also like to put
my girly touch on some things.
I powder-coated the wheels
on my lifted truck hot pink
because why not?
Even if you don't see it,
there's a ton of women in this industry,
and I'm just happy
to be here representing.
All right. Let's see what we've got.
We're gonna take this off,
and that is gonna expose the clutch disc.
The clutch disc is coated
in friction material,
which wears down over time.
Ooh.
And Tavon's clutch disc
is seriously worn down.
So when he shifts into gear
and releases the clutch
his clutch disc is slipping.
It's not properly transferring
the engine power to his transmission.
That's why he can't drive up hills.
Once we put a new clutch disc in,
it will sit nice and tight
up against the flywheel
and send all of that
four-cylinder Volkswagen power
to his transmission.
At least that's how it would work
if the flywheel
wasn't also warped and damaged.
We're gonna have to take off
this flywheel,
send it to a machine shop,
get it resurfaced.
Which will take some time,
time we don't have.
Nelson, how are you? ♪
Do you wanna make something with me?
Ooh-hoo, you ♪
Ooh-hoo ♪
You're making the camera people
uncomfortable,
and we've got
very little time to get this done.
This guy smiled.
So what we're working on today
is a projector.
This projector is an Epson EF11.
What I developed here is a bracket
that this will mount to
-I like it.
-and it'll allow it to hang upside down.
Then we have a scissor mount
that I'm actually developing,
that this will extend down
to allow the projector screen
to shoot a 55-inch image
to the back side of the hatch.
You can actually lower it even more
so we can have exterior theater-mode
against a wall or something
for when he's entertaining friends.
So I really need your help
with the bracketry.
Whatever you need, man.
We'll engineer it and make it drop out
and slap hands and be best friends.
- Uh
- You know what I mean?
Uh, I hear your words. Yes.
-Okay, let's do this. Good talk.
-I hear them. They
That was some really good
That was just a good chat.
- Was it?
- Let's do it again.
Thank you, D. Appreciate your time.
Hiyo. Uh, my name is Steven Nelson,
and a lot of people just call me Nelson.
My superpower would be
all things composite and plastic,
and even some gadgetry.
I do really enjoy geeking out
on math and science.
I put hundreds of hours of thought
before I execute any task.
So rigging up the projector for this van
is right in my wheelhouse.
The first step is to 3D print
the brackets and the scissor mount.
And with those pieces fabricated,
I'll assemble the scissor legs.
The trick is
to get the right size hardware.
Too thick,
and the friction will jam it up.
Too thin,
and it won't support the 2.7 pounds
of this Epson EF11 projector.
It sounds simple,
but unfortunately it is very complex.
That's basically what I'm working on.
Remember how bad this Vanagon seat was?
It was really, really bad.
- Look at that! That's how he was riding.
- There's nothing to that seat.
The foam is in major need
of reconstruction,
so we're gonna glue
different levels of foam.
The pink one is the nicest one.
It's a high density.
It's gonna feel good.
I'll throw some gray on top of this,
finish putting it together, and, uh
His ass is gonna be
a lot happier after this.
Now that I've finished getting
the foam situated on the seat,
we have to cover that up
to make it look good.
I wanna do some brown,
nice, rich vinyl.
This green color definitely pops,
which is gonna go well with the plaid.
There's nothing calm about this color.
To finish up, I'll add some rivets
just to make it a little bit cooler.
And with everything sewn together,
I'll spray on a little bit of glue
and stretch it over the foam.
Voilà. And she's all done.
Oh!
Roof is here.
- eBay order!
- Cool.
- Whoa.
- Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Jesus.
You have a license for that?
He doesn't.
It's in good shape.
-Kind of ratty, to be honest.
-This is ratty?
To have this from 1991
and still be in this condition,
I wish I was still
in this condition, like
So obviously, we have to build him
something nice, slick,
to support his things up there
because he hauls
a lot of his stuff on top.
I use it for hauling things
that I don't want to put into the van
'cause I usually don't
have space in the van.
-I got an idea.
-Okay.
Let's take that roof rack idea
and pump it up.
I could draw it out, make something
epic-looking with some pattern on it.
Some tutti-frutti stuff.
So I'll let you get to it.
I need to do a lot of work on those seats.
- Okay.
- Make it tutti-frutti.
Tavon really liked that roof rack,
but honestly it's outdated.
So we're gonna go over the top.
I did a Shredder-inspired roof rack
with this really wild side panel.
Not only is it structurally strong,
but it's cool-looking.
All we're gonna do now
is actually take this design,
I'll put it into this machine and start
cutting this thing piece by piece.
But I gotta move fast
because we can't install the pop-top
until we figure out this roof rack.
Fire in the hole!
I'm Don Abenante. I'm a fabricator welder.
I like to build really wild sh Oh.
- Can I Can I say that?
- Uh, no.
Uh, I
So I build everything
from boats to cars.
I take old classic cars
and put monstrous engines in them.
But the last couple of years
has been fabrication.
I love designing stuff.
Whoo!
That's where I can shine.
- It's time.
- For the roof rack.
We'll see what it looks like.
And to be a part of this
and actually help out deserving people
who need these cars every day
Yeah, that makes me feel good.
There we go.
Good job, Don.
Is there any way
that we can put the top on it?
Yeah,
we can throw it up there. Ready?
- Be careful, Saul.
- Hold up.
Whoa, whoa!
One, two, three.
Whoa!
That didn't sound weird.
- You're gonna have to Oh!
- Whoa!
Oh my gosh, guys.
Let's get
some bolts in this thing.
- Way heavier than before.
- I think I slipped a disc.
It was a lot less heavy
without the roof rack on it.
Hey, that's on Don, dude.
He added, like, 200 pounds on this thing.
Oh, shut
It does not weigh 200 pounds.
What did you make
that out of, plutonium?
Eight-inch steel.
It's lighter than the other one.
You think he's gonna be able
to lift this thing? This heavy?
We got a huge problem.
Well, I've got an idea on this.
I just have to kind of process
how it's gonna work.
All right.
All right.
I've been working on this all night.
I think I've got it.
So what we have here is a linear actuator,
which should do the trick.
But it's tough for me to find one
small enough to fit under the pop-top
and strong enough to lift
that heavy monstrosity that Don built.
Uh, this one here is rated
for about 150 pounds of compression.
The concept is
we have it reinforced and braced
to the top layer of the roof, essentially,
and this is on the inside rail
where it's gonna be then lifting
the Vanagon top as it starts to extend.
So it's just a solution to a problem
that Don has created.
Nelly!
Whoa!
Nelson!
Got the bracket?
Hooray!
- This is it.
- Let's do it.
I want to get it on the ribs.
That's where it's got the most integrity.
If we put it at an angle,
we're good.
I'll start working on the wiring harness.
Okay, back it.
Okay.
All right.
I'm nervous, Nelson.
Me too.
-You ready? First up test.
-Let's do it.
Oh, dude!
- Okay, that is cool.
- That's pretty cool.
Dude!
I'm so proud of you! Whoo!
That's one off the checkmark.
- That is one checked off.
- That's a big check marked off.
That's a big checkmark.
The thing's turned into
a full restoration really quick.
Yeah. Probably would have been better off
just scrapping this thing, but
Oh, yeah! There's my dream team!
What's going on, y'all?
What!
Y'all ain't got
a whole lot of this done yet.
- This has been a lot of work.
- We saved the best part for you, man.
Hey, man, that all sounds dope,
but I'm wearing my best sweat fit,
so absolutely not.
We've all been here very late
every day, every single one of us.
Nelson's been coming up with
new gizmos and gadgets.
We got Donnie over there
welding some stuff up.
Look at Donnie ol' swole-ass.
What's up, Donnie?
-How are you doing?
-He look like a Marvel character.
How you doin'? Ha-ha!
I'll show you the top too.
Look at this.
This is really epic.
So now he can store
all the stuff up top with style.
That's dope. You walked
all the way over here to say that?
Yeah, I did.
All right. So lastly,
the Ninja Turtles vibe.
-How are we going to make that work?
-I got some green interior. Ninja Turtle.
- The colors for sure.
- Absolutely.
Shayna is coming up with
some badass paint design.
Right, right.
I was thinking, though
- Uh-oh.
- More than just the color?
Yeah. More than the colors.
Uh, can we put a pizza shooter in there?
The Turtles
have Shredder pinned down
and are rolling their pizza thrower
into position!
The pizza thrower's adjustable aim
and motorized firing action
gives Shredder and his henchmen
their just desserts!
Oh jeez.
Come on, dawg! It's the turtle van, dawg!
You gotta shoot pizzas, bro!
What is the pizza shooter gonna do?
Picture this. Imagine he has
a smooth, sexy date with a girl, right,
and all of a sudden, his opps,
the Foot Clan, show up,
and they mean business.
Pepperoni pizza!
Half-and-half cheese!
No bread, just sauce!
To the face!
Okay, so, um, y'all think y'all can get
that pizza shooter done?
How long do we have?
Does that add more time?
You have the same amount of time
you had before I said this.
- Jeez.
- Ain't no way, man.
- That's a lot. That's a lot of work.
- Perfect.
See y'all in a couple days
with Tavon, all right?
Y'all get ready! Do a lot of work!
Sleep some! All right, y'all!
I am working on a digital rendering
of what the Vanagon is gonna look like.
We're working on something two-tone.
So, uh, the next step is
we're going to head outside
and start prepping the van for paint.
I'm Shayna Guy. I'm a painter,
an airbrush artist, a pinstriper.
I do bodywork.
Uh, I make cars look cool.
I love painting.
I love it. I actually do.
Sanding for hours and hours.
100%.
Okay, that's a lie.
The whole process, I despise,
but the end result, that's where it's at.
That's what I love so much.
That's what makes it worth it.
So this one's getting a two-tone.
So we're gonna spray
our metallic green first,
and then wherever
we want the green to stay, we'll tape off,
and then come back through
and spray our second color.
Uh, all right.
I'm ready to spray. So, excuse me.
It's awesome
that I have the opportunity
to be able to give back to some people,
especially people who need it.
It warms my cold, dead heart.
We're kinda running out of time
at this point.
Mr. Nelson!
Hey, buddy!
Okay, so we gotta make this pizza shooter.
I need your help.
I gotta finish this.
Like, I have I have
Man, I have so much stuff to do.
-Come on, we can do this real quick.
-How much time?
Give me two hours of your time.
-I'll do an hour.
-Sold to the highest bidder. Let's do it.
-Can we use this?
-Yeah. I mean, it it works.
Okay.
Go figure out the mechanics of making
the pizza launch with that grinder.
-I'll work on the remote power supply.
-All right. I'll get to it.
-Thank you!
-Yeah, of course.
How to build a pizza shooter
in under an hour.
Step one, build a box out of sheet metal.
Give it one little smash.
All right. Let's get a box.
We have our half-inch aluminum tube.
Each one's threaded.
These will tie the whole box together
and give it rigidity and strength.
Step two, solder the power supply
from a broken grinder
onto a remote control unit
so that it can be triggered
to spit out manually.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and put the power on now.
And moment of truth.
Oh!
It do the thing. That's a win.
Step three,
install two roller wheels in your box
that can attach
to the repurposed angle grinder.
This will slide in here,
so when that pizza's in here,
when this thing spins up to full RPM,
it's gonna grab it
and just, phew, slingshot it out.
So just drill them out a little bit more?
Would that be easier?
What's up, guys?
You guys order a pizza?
-What the? Was that the pizza launcher?
-What the heck is that?
- Yeah, boy!
- Dude!
How about you actually shoot us
a real pizza? I'm hungry.
That was the stupidest thing
I ever built in my life.
I guess, yeah.
I mean, I can't believe
we got all this done in ten days.
We're like We got 15% more to go.
Well, we still got, uh,
pretty much a whole night.
Let's get some coffee going
and get this thing to the finish line.
- Let's do it.
- Sounds like a plan.
Pound it on down to Pound Town.
The Vanagon has come a long way,
but Tavon is coming tomorrow.
So we're gonna need
all hands on deck to get it there.
The interior needs the most work,
so my brother Saul is going to line
the ceiling and the pop-top
with Alcantara suede.
Meanwhile, I'll finish up
the upholstery work on the seat back.
Lacey is gonna make sure
that the engine is as good as new
by installing a resurfaced flywheel
that she got back from the machine shop.
Don's going to be welding
a detachable ladder
to go with
his Shredder-inspired roof rack.
And when he's done with that,
he's gonna help Nelson mount the projector
and the pull-down screen
for Tavon's viewing pleasure.
And to finish it all off,
Shayna's gonna add a pinstripe.
It's kinda like the cherry on top
of her killer paint job.
And we did it in just ten days.
Tavon's vision
for a Ninja-Turtle-inspired
living room-on-wheels has come to life.
Wow. I can't believe
we finished this thing, guys.
It turned out awesome.
I'm proud of it, man.
We went over the top with this thing.
I think he'll be proud
to drive this thing. I mean
- We hope.
- We hope.
We hope because this one
definitely put all of us to the test.
-Tavon, my boy. Good to see you, my dude.
-What up, my G? Nice to see you, bro.
The man of stunts.
- That's the crew over there.
- That's the crew?
- You can wave.
- Hey!
Yeah. They're the ones
that did all the magic, man,
'cause your van came in here
looking like this, cuz.
Just ugly as hell.
And it was a real headache,
and not just 'cause the exhaust
shoots back up into the van.
-Yeah. We're hoping at least that
-No, we kept that feature.
Even though it looked like
all of those things,
somehow you still have love for this van.
Yeah, man, that's my van.
That's my baby right there.
April got me through,
I think, the worst times in LA.
I respect it, man. I respect your hustle.
A'ight, you ready to see this car, man?
You nervous?
Yeah, man.
Um, I normally don't get nervous.
I do stunts for a living,
and I've never been nervous doing stunts.
So my, like, blood's kind of running hot
right now.
A little bit.
That was a long answer. Hit it!
Did you do LSD today?
Yo! Yes, sir!
A'ight, close your eyes.
- Close them up.
- A'ight.
Take a look, Tavon!
Yo!
No way!
It's finished!
Yo! Look at the wheels! Look at the rims!
That is so nuts!
- Whoo!
- Whoa!
-For you guys too!
-Hell yeah!
- Oh my God!
- Hell yeah!
That was crazy. He just really did that.
- Oh my God.
- My boy.
Aw.
My boy.
This is yours, man.
Oh my God.
- Is that April? Doesn't even make sense.
- Man, dog
With just one payment of seven
eight hundred dollars a month,
this could be yours, my boy.
Let's go through it.
Oscar, talk to him
about the outside, baby.
So this thing got fully restored.
No more dings, no more rust.
Brand-new front end, brand-new headlights,
ring LEDs and a custom grill.
This thing also has
a brand-new set of custom wheels.
After everything was said and done,
we got it all ready, all bodyworked
for Shayna to go ahead
and do a killer paint job on this thing.
You killed that thing.
As you can see, we did a tribute
to the original Ninja Turtle van.
But I did my own version of them.
And so we made it kind of cooler.
A lot cooler.
A lot cooler.
That is the most baller thing
I've ever seen in my life.
Hey, Donnie. I heard you put
a lot of time into this thing.
Oh yeah!
I made you a brand-new roof rack
and stairs to get to it,
all with that Shredder theme.
It's got that turtle vibe
but in a sleek way.
I'm sorry. Yeah, that's clean.
Okay. You ready to see that interior?
Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
A'ight, man. Saul!
- Close your eyes.
- Closing my eyes.
Bruh! Hold on!
- Remember your front seats?
- Yeah.
They were busted. Really busted.
So I put some new foam in there.
New upholstery.
Went with the brown leather.
The back seats can
also fold down into a queen-size bed.
The two front seats can swivel,
and boom, everybody can be chilling.
I don't need my legs.
- What?
- Look at this.
- Yo!
- Hey!
I'm part of the party now, playboy!
Nelson, pop it.
No! Aw, dude!
No!
- Okay, that is
- That's pretty cool.
-Yo!
-That's crazy.
Then we have to show you the coolest part.
- More?
- There's more.
There's more!
There is.
Uh, that box that looks like a projector
is in fact a projector.
So we got your own profile on Netflix,
of course, Tavon.
- That's nuts!
- You have a screening room.
You'd be surprised, they don't make
projector screens of this size.
-That's actually custom-made.
-Yeah, it's pretty cool, man.
Pretty cool.
This isn't even the coolest part.
So there's a second stage of this.
Don. Can you get the trunk?
Can we hit those lights, please?
Yo!
Dude, the resolution looks so good.
Yeah. Yeah.
And so this projector will do
a 55-inch on the interior
and then 150 on the exterior.
It's just a matter
of how far away you park.
This is the coolest thing
I think I've seen.
- Turn it off. We gotta celebrate.
- Yeah, we'll celebrate?
I don't know if I can leave this.
But you have to. Get out the van.
I've been looking for love ♪
Right now, I am overwhelmed
with a lot of different emotions.
When I got this van,
I had numerous people tell me,
"Dude, just get rid of it."
It was leaking oil,
the exhaust was falling back into the car,
the windows barely worked,
and at the time,
I was already struggling with
renting a place that I couldn't afford.
We gotta come in here. Yup. Yup.
You did that with the paint.
So eventually, living in a van,
the walls were slowly closing in.
I didn't think that I was
gonna be able to make it here.
Talk about over the freaking moon.
Oh, and the tech! The tech! The tech!
The wood, though.
For them, they're building a car,
but for me, they're building a dream.
- It's mine, right?
- Yeah.
This isn't a joke, right?
Like, "Oh, joke's on you."
Boom! And then it blows up.
I I did pitch that.
Here's the thing, though.
I got one more thing for you.
I got one more thing to show you.
Donnie, Nelson.
It's real dumb!
We didn't have much time
to design this. Don't make fun of us.
- What is it?
- Hey, Tavon.
Do you remember the, uh,
the Ninja Turtle toy van?
Yeah.
Do you remember
it had a pizza shooter on it?
Yeah.
Okay.
-Let's run this thing.
-No!
No!
Fire in the hole, baby!
What!
-What!
-Wow!
- That is useless as shit!
- Yeah!
Bro, that's so baller!
That is so dumb!
I can't believe I made y'all do that!
- That's wild!
- A'ight.
If we resurrected your ride right,
give us one more backflip.
Whoo!
Resurrected Rides, baby!
Resurrected Ride!
Hey, yo, garage team.
Just got a new submission video.
Come check this out.
This car was gifted to my son by my mom.
- Thirty-three years old, it's a 1990.
- Oh boy.
It's been Carter's dream car
since he was four years old.
He looked at that car and, "That's mine."
- Oh my goodness.
- This thing needs full overhaul.
It's powder coat time!
Look.
Like a Taylor Swift concert.
Open your eyes!
Yo!
Ha-ha! ♪
Yeah ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Ouch! ♪
Oh, I like that ♪
That's it, that's it ♪
-Tavon my boy. Good to see you.
-What up, my G? Nice to see you, bro.
Somehow, you still love this van.
Yeah, man. That's my van.
That's my baby right there.
Now, the crew put a lot of hours
into this thing, man.
They're the ones that did all the magic.
You ready to see this car, man?
Yeah, man.
A'ight!
Hit it!
Take a look, Tavon!
Look, we've all had an old,
beat-up ride,
one that's hard to say goodbye to.
It's missing teeth. What the hell?
Maybe your first car.
So we gotta make the engine quiet
so you could sneak out the house.
Or maybe every car
you've ever had's been trash.
Oh. Oh!
- He threw up!
- Oh!
Oh!
Oh, Jesus! Oh my God.
How do you live like this?
Well, Chris Redd is here to save the day.
So what we're gonna do
is resurrect this thing. You feel me?
Me and my garage team of pros
are gonna take people's old, dusty rides
See I brought you some doo-doo on wheels.
and bring them back from the dead
in the most spectacular way.
Now some of the design details
will definitely be out there.
I made you a puppy step
so your little dogs can climb
over the rocker right in.
We'll find something cool to do
with the trunk, maybe a droid system.
Some people are gonna love it.
Let's go! Oh my God, man!
Will they like every aspect
of their makeover?
We thought it was a great idea
to try glow-in-the-dark paint.
Ooh.
Hey! ♪
That's a different story.
What's up, my favorite garage team?
How are we doing?
With the best garage team in the world,
they're gonna help me resurrect rides
with their weird, little superpowers
and special talents.
Are they all gonna be impressive?
They sure as hell better be, man.
I'm trying to get a season two.
Come on! Let's do this!
See. All right. They broke something.
Now slam the title card!
Yo.
Meet Tavon
Hey, what's up, man?
a 33-year-old stunt man
from Philly,
whose life handed him a real lemon.
This one.
- Oh boy.
- Oh, that's nice. Nice.
Now his friends
submitted him for the show
because they think he deserves it.
He never wants to ask anybody for help.
Would give you the shirt off his back.
So we sent a camera crew out
to find out for ourselves
and tell him he's still in the running.
My name is Tavon. I drive a '91 Vanagon,
and as you can see,
she needs a little bit of help.
I am a comic book nerd,
and if you take a look at it,
it actually looks like
the Teenage Mutant Turtle van.
So that's why her name is April.
- What are some of the problems?
- Are you ready?
Grab the oil.
One, she leaks an excessive amount of oil.
Last month, I went through six of those.
The exhaust leaks back into the car.
I have this window cracked
so we're not inhaling toxic, uh, fumes.
That engine.
Yeah, it's gonna catch on fire
at some point.
Every time you come home ♪
The best part,
if I'm in a low gear and we're in traffic,
it will stall randomly.
Hey, dude, I get it. I know, man.
I think it's pretty cool that my friends
reached out to Chris and nominated me.
I'd love it if I got picked for this.
Fingers crossed.
Spoiler alert.
We picked Tavon
because A, he seems like a good dude.
And B, I am terrified
to be driving on the same streets
as that ticking time bomb.
We're about to let him know,
and we're gonna do it
in the most obnoxious way possible.
Right behind me in this park is Tavon.
Now he thinks we're just getting
some footage of him flipping around.
Yeah.
But why would we need that?
That is stupid.
What we're really here to do
is get that big mistake on wheels.
We're gonna resurrect that.
But before we do,
you know we gotta ambush this brother.
Hidden cameras, Punk'd style.
You already know how it is.
So I got my friend Rosie Okumura,
and she's gonna play
a lady in the park doing some yoga.
I'mma give her a ticket
as a parking enforcement officer.
She gonna get mad, and all of a sudden,
the fight's gonna end up
with Tavon's car getting bashed up
and tore up even more than it is now.
Then Tavon's gonna be like, "What?"
And he's gonna flip over to us
like a little Power Ranger.
Come on, Lululemon.
You could just shove me
and I can go into a shoulder roll or I
If you want to redo
some stuff you've already done,
that's okay too.
Don't feel like you need
to be coming up with new stuff.
Copy.
Oh, no front plate on this thing.
Excuse me.
No date on there. How you doing?
What's the deal?
There's no front plate.
I had to give you a ticket.
Oh, actually, I have one.
Give me a second.
Whoo, this is trash.
- Let me just grab it.
- No, just call the City.
What about the rest of the cars?
Mine's nicer than this one.
- So you're giving me a ticket
- Look at that.
That person has a problem already.
Look at the life.
- Take it back.
- I can't.
- Take it back.
- I can't.
- Take it back!
- Ma'am. Ma'am.
All right. Do you play sports?
What you gonna do with that?
Why doesn't this car have a ticket?
-They don't have a front plate.
-I don't even know if this car runs. Okay?
-I
-So it wouldn't matter if I did a little
Ma'am, it's not my car.
You don't have to do all that.
- What the hell are you doing?
- I'm not paying it!
I don't want to pay!
Okay. Excuse me.
Is this your car? I'm not
Hey, come on, now!
Yo, that is my van!
Lady! What are you doing?
-What are you doing?
-What are you doing?
Tavon, what's up, bro?
-Excuse me.
-What?
We got your ass!
We got your ass!
Let me write this motherfucker down!
- We got your ass!
- Chris Redd?
Oh my gosh, dude. What?
My boy came out
like Michael Jackson.
Oh my God! Yo!
Tavon, if you can't tell right now,
you're on Resurrected Rides,
and I'm here to make this van
the van of your dreams, brother.
- How you feeling right now?
- Stressed.
Since day one, I saw
what the potential of my van could be,
but now it's gonna come back
and be so freaking awesome,
and I'm just gonna die of excitement
right there and then on the spot.
Whoo! Buddy. Buddy, buddy, buddy.
I ain't gonna hold you.
If I knew this was happening,
I would have probably cleaned up, so
There is not enough cleaning
you could've done to make this good.
Now I've never seen a back window
have herpes like this.
I mean, this is a disease.
Goddamn! All right, you right. You right.
I'mma leave a message.
"Destroy me."
-Whoo! Ooh my God.
-Yup.
My finger's doing blackface!
- That's how dirty this man's car is.
- Ew!
Vanagon, that's what your van
should've did.
Yeah. Vanagon
The van-a-here, the van-a-gone.
Jesus! Oh my God.
Whoo! Smells like
a high school locker room.
- Boy, is that a person in there?
- No, it's
Are you gonna do the laundry
or just live with it?
Hold on. It's clean.
I know it's in a trash can,
but it's clean.
A fire extinguisher.
This is the only car I've ever seen
that feels like it needs this.
Why did you buy this?
'Cause I thought it was cool.
- I've clowned the car a lot.
- Yeah.
Let's talk about the future.
What's your dream version of this car?
Oh man. Um, you ever seen the old school
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the TV show?
I loved
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Remember the Shell Shock van?
- Yes.
I would love something like that.
You want the shell van?
I think pulling up to set
in the shell shock van would be so tight.
You could pull up to a Comic-Con
and clean up.
-All the girls dressed like turtles.
-I'm swimming at that point in time!
I think we could make
some of that stuff happen.
Welcome to the garage.
Or as I call it
- Whoa!
- the clunker bunker.
The place where I've housed
the greatest team of ride resurrectors
known to man.
Oscar and Saul
cover the body and interiors.
Lacey, she's the mechanic.
Don is our fabricator.
Nelson covers the composites and tech.
And Shayna, she does the paint.
Together, they'll turn
even the worst lemons
into lemonade.
This is what I brought.
Death on wheels.
I almost died just by inhaling it, dawg.
The smoke goes into the car.
-That's scary.
-Yeah, it's not supposed to happen.
All right. Let's go ahead
and start with this right here.
Now, this is real turf,
which he's never cleaned before.
That stuff has to go.
Absolutely.
Up here, we got the clutch.
He has to wiggle this thing
the entire time he drives,
like he's doing
a Mortal Kombat cheat code.
Whoopsie! You know what I mean?
- I can fix that.
- Perfect.
He said that he wanted his van
to look like the Ninja Turtle van.
He is a grown man.
He does kick it a lot in his van.
This thing needs all the help it can get.
It needs every single one
of y'all talents.
Now what can we do, y'all,
to make this less disgusting of a vehicle?
Hmm.
This is like his house.
We can put a camper up top.
That way, he can sleep inside and outside.
Oh, that's crazy.
If he's gonna be chilling in the car,
maybe a sectional inside.
Maybe some swivel seats.
Make everybody come together in there.
You're making this thing sound cool.
Obviously,
it's gonna need a lot of bodywork.
You've got literally rust coming through.
That shouldn't be there.
No.
The gauge cluster is a big problem,
and there's just lots
of old school things in this.
I want to modernize it.
And I'm thinking we add a projector.
We can build some kind of mechanism
that drops down from the ceiling.
That way, he and his friends
can watch movies together.
He's making me want to kick it in a van.
I'm not going to, but it makes me want to.
All right.
Our schedule is tight, y'all.
We got ten days until the next car is in.
Ugh.
Let's get to tearing this thing up, bruh.
Come on, now. Y'all start doing stuff,
and then I'll jump in with my helpfulness.
One, two, three!
You guys ready
for a Spartan kick? Kick it!
There she is, dude! Nice!
Look at that!
That's how he was riding.
There's nothing to that seat.
Besides the cobwebs,
the two inches of dust,
the trail of oil, and the exhaust leak,
it shouldn't take much
to make it reliable, right?
You wanna start
with all the door panel stuff, Shayna?
Don't mess up my door panels.
I'll do what I want.
There's a wire loom
that goes through the door panel.
It's gonna require
a lot more work than I expected.
-My name is Saul.
-And I'm Oscar.
And together, we're SOS Customz.
We do everything.
Trucks, tuners, lifted cars,
lowered cars, lowriders, exotics.
You name it, we do it.
Yes, yes! Success.
-When we do work, we're not rushed.
-We have a lot of time.
And that's the problem
with this deadline we have.
I have to do the interior.
You guys have to do the body, suspension,
motor, this that and the other,
in ten days.
It's crazy.
The good news is
that it came apart really fast,
but now we gotta put it all back together.
We need to start ordering parts.
Like, soon.
Like, yesterday.
The main thing is the roof.
Pop-top, we need to get.
Let me pull up that here.
That one's really good.
Let's buy it now,
and let's get back to work.
We've got the motor
completely out of the van.
What I'm doing right now
is replacing Tavon's clutch.
It was slipping really, really bad,
so we are fixing that today.
In the morning
I do anything to get it going ♪
I'm Lacey Blair.
I'm a Southern girl. I live in Texas,
and I build Texas-sized things.
Big trucks, big wheels, lift kits.
But I also like to put
my girly touch on some things.
I powder-coated the wheels
on my lifted truck hot pink
because why not?
Even if you don't see it,
there's a ton of women in this industry,
and I'm just happy
to be here representing.
All right. Let's see what we've got.
We're gonna take this off,
and that is gonna expose the clutch disc.
The clutch disc is coated
in friction material,
which wears down over time.
Ooh.
And Tavon's clutch disc
is seriously worn down.
So when he shifts into gear
and releases the clutch
his clutch disc is slipping.
It's not properly transferring
the engine power to his transmission.
That's why he can't drive up hills.
Once we put a new clutch disc in,
it will sit nice and tight
up against the flywheel
and send all of that
four-cylinder Volkswagen power
to his transmission.
At least that's how it would work
if the flywheel
wasn't also warped and damaged.
We're gonna have to take off
this flywheel,
send it to a machine shop,
get it resurfaced.
Which will take some time,
time we don't have.
Nelson, how are you? ♪
Do you wanna make something with me?
Ooh-hoo, you ♪
Ooh-hoo ♪
You're making the camera people
uncomfortable,
and we've got
very little time to get this done.
This guy smiled.
So what we're working on today
is a projector.
This projector is an Epson EF11.
What I developed here is a bracket
that this will mount to
-I like it.
-and it'll allow it to hang upside down.
Then we have a scissor mount
that I'm actually developing,
that this will extend down
to allow the projector screen
to shoot a 55-inch image
to the back side of the hatch.
You can actually lower it even more
so we can have exterior theater-mode
against a wall or something
for when he's entertaining friends.
So I really need your help
with the bracketry.
Whatever you need, man.
We'll engineer it and make it drop out
and slap hands and be best friends.
- Uh
- You know what I mean?
Uh, I hear your words. Yes.
-Okay, let's do this. Good talk.
-I hear them. They
That was some really good
That was just a good chat.
- Was it?
- Let's do it again.
Thank you, D. Appreciate your time.
Hiyo. Uh, my name is Steven Nelson,
and a lot of people just call me Nelson.
My superpower would be
all things composite and plastic,
and even some gadgetry.
I do really enjoy geeking out
on math and science.
I put hundreds of hours of thought
before I execute any task.
So rigging up the projector for this van
is right in my wheelhouse.
The first step is to 3D print
the brackets and the scissor mount.
And with those pieces fabricated,
I'll assemble the scissor legs.
The trick is
to get the right size hardware.
Too thick,
and the friction will jam it up.
Too thin,
and it won't support the 2.7 pounds
of this Epson EF11 projector.
It sounds simple,
but unfortunately it is very complex.
That's basically what I'm working on.
Remember how bad this Vanagon seat was?
It was really, really bad.
- Look at that! That's how he was riding.
- There's nothing to that seat.
The foam is in major need
of reconstruction,
so we're gonna glue
different levels of foam.
The pink one is the nicest one.
It's a high density.
It's gonna feel good.
I'll throw some gray on top of this,
finish putting it together, and, uh
His ass is gonna be
a lot happier after this.
Now that I've finished getting
the foam situated on the seat,
we have to cover that up
to make it look good.
I wanna do some brown,
nice, rich vinyl.
This green color definitely pops,
which is gonna go well with the plaid.
There's nothing calm about this color.
To finish up, I'll add some rivets
just to make it a little bit cooler.
And with everything sewn together,
I'll spray on a little bit of glue
and stretch it over the foam.
Voilà. And she's all done.
Oh!
Roof is here.
- eBay order!
- Cool.
- Whoa.
- Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Jesus.
You have a license for that?
He doesn't.
It's in good shape.
-Kind of ratty, to be honest.
-This is ratty?
To have this from 1991
and still be in this condition,
I wish I was still
in this condition, like
So obviously, we have to build him
something nice, slick,
to support his things up there
because he hauls
a lot of his stuff on top.
I use it for hauling things
that I don't want to put into the van
'cause I usually don't
have space in the van.
-I got an idea.
-Okay.
Let's take that roof rack idea
and pump it up.
I could draw it out, make something
epic-looking with some pattern on it.
Some tutti-frutti stuff.
So I'll let you get to it.
I need to do a lot of work on those seats.
- Okay.
- Make it tutti-frutti.
Tavon really liked that roof rack,
but honestly it's outdated.
So we're gonna go over the top.
I did a Shredder-inspired roof rack
with this really wild side panel.
Not only is it structurally strong,
but it's cool-looking.
All we're gonna do now
is actually take this design,
I'll put it into this machine and start
cutting this thing piece by piece.
But I gotta move fast
because we can't install the pop-top
until we figure out this roof rack.
Fire in the hole!
I'm Don Abenante. I'm a fabricator welder.
I like to build really wild sh Oh.
- Can I Can I say that?
- Uh, no.
Uh, I
So I build everything
from boats to cars.
I take old classic cars
and put monstrous engines in them.
But the last couple of years
has been fabrication.
I love designing stuff.
Whoo!
That's where I can shine.
- It's time.
- For the roof rack.
We'll see what it looks like.
And to be a part of this
and actually help out deserving people
who need these cars every day
Yeah, that makes me feel good.
There we go.
Good job, Don.
Is there any way
that we can put the top on it?
Yeah,
we can throw it up there. Ready?
- Be careful, Saul.
- Hold up.
Whoa, whoa!
One, two, three.
Whoa!
That didn't sound weird.
- You're gonna have to Oh!
- Whoa!
Oh my gosh, guys.
Let's get
some bolts in this thing.
- Way heavier than before.
- I think I slipped a disc.
It was a lot less heavy
without the roof rack on it.
Hey, that's on Don, dude.
He added, like, 200 pounds on this thing.
Oh, shut
It does not weigh 200 pounds.
What did you make
that out of, plutonium?
Eight-inch steel.
It's lighter than the other one.
You think he's gonna be able
to lift this thing? This heavy?
We got a huge problem.
Well, I've got an idea on this.
I just have to kind of process
how it's gonna work.
All right.
All right.
I've been working on this all night.
I think I've got it.
So what we have here is a linear actuator,
which should do the trick.
But it's tough for me to find one
small enough to fit under the pop-top
and strong enough to lift
that heavy monstrosity that Don built.
Uh, this one here is rated
for about 150 pounds of compression.
The concept is
we have it reinforced and braced
to the top layer of the roof, essentially,
and this is on the inside rail
where it's gonna be then lifting
the Vanagon top as it starts to extend.
So it's just a solution to a problem
that Don has created.
Nelly!
Whoa!
Nelson!
Got the bracket?
Hooray!
- This is it.
- Let's do it.
I want to get it on the ribs.
That's where it's got the most integrity.
If we put it at an angle,
we're good.
I'll start working on the wiring harness.
Okay, back it.
Okay.
All right.
I'm nervous, Nelson.
Me too.
-You ready? First up test.
-Let's do it.
Oh, dude!
- Okay, that is cool.
- That's pretty cool.
Dude!
I'm so proud of you! Whoo!
That's one off the checkmark.
- That is one checked off.
- That's a big check marked off.
That's a big checkmark.
The thing's turned into
a full restoration really quick.
Yeah. Probably would have been better off
just scrapping this thing, but
Oh, yeah! There's my dream team!
What's going on, y'all?
What!
Y'all ain't got
a whole lot of this done yet.
- This has been a lot of work.
- We saved the best part for you, man.
Hey, man, that all sounds dope,
but I'm wearing my best sweat fit,
so absolutely not.
We've all been here very late
every day, every single one of us.
Nelson's been coming up with
new gizmos and gadgets.
We got Donnie over there
welding some stuff up.
Look at Donnie ol' swole-ass.
What's up, Donnie?
-How are you doing?
-He look like a Marvel character.
How you doin'? Ha-ha!
I'll show you the top too.
Look at this.
This is really epic.
So now he can store
all the stuff up top with style.
That's dope. You walked
all the way over here to say that?
Yeah, I did.
All right. So lastly,
the Ninja Turtles vibe.
-How are we going to make that work?
-I got some green interior. Ninja Turtle.
- The colors for sure.
- Absolutely.
Shayna is coming up with
some badass paint design.
Right, right.
I was thinking, though
- Uh-oh.
- More than just the color?
Yeah. More than the colors.
Uh, can we put a pizza shooter in there?
The Turtles
have Shredder pinned down
and are rolling their pizza thrower
into position!
The pizza thrower's adjustable aim
and motorized firing action
gives Shredder and his henchmen
their just desserts!
Oh jeez.
Come on, dawg! It's the turtle van, dawg!
You gotta shoot pizzas, bro!
What is the pizza shooter gonna do?
Picture this. Imagine he has
a smooth, sexy date with a girl, right,
and all of a sudden, his opps,
the Foot Clan, show up,
and they mean business.
Pepperoni pizza!
Half-and-half cheese!
No bread, just sauce!
To the face!
Okay, so, um, y'all think y'all can get
that pizza shooter done?
How long do we have?
Does that add more time?
You have the same amount of time
you had before I said this.
- Jeez.
- Ain't no way, man.
- That's a lot. That's a lot of work.
- Perfect.
See y'all in a couple days
with Tavon, all right?
Y'all get ready! Do a lot of work!
Sleep some! All right, y'all!
I am working on a digital rendering
of what the Vanagon is gonna look like.
We're working on something two-tone.
So, uh, the next step is
we're going to head outside
and start prepping the van for paint.
I'm Shayna Guy. I'm a painter,
an airbrush artist, a pinstriper.
I do bodywork.
Uh, I make cars look cool.
I love painting.
I love it. I actually do.
Sanding for hours and hours.
100%.
Okay, that's a lie.
The whole process, I despise,
but the end result, that's where it's at.
That's what I love so much.
That's what makes it worth it.
So this one's getting a two-tone.
So we're gonna spray
our metallic green first,
and then wherever
we want the green to stay, we'll tape off,
and then come back through
and spray our second color.
Uh, all right.
I'm ready to spray. So, excuse me.
It's awesome
that I have the opportunity
to be able to give back to some people,
especially people who need it.
It warms my cold, dead heart.
We're kinda running out of time
at this point.
Mr. Nelson!
Hey, buddy!
Okay, so we gotta make this pizza shooter.
I need your help.
I gotta finish this.
Like, I have I have
Man, I have so much stuff to do.
-Come on, we can do this real quick.
-How much time?
Give me two hours of your time.
-I'll do an hour.
-Sold to the highest bidder. Let's do it.
-Can we use this?
-Yeah. I mean, it it works.
Okay.
Go figure out the mechanics of making
the pizza launch with that grinder.
-I'll work on the remote power supply.
-All right. I'll get to it.
-Thank you!
-Yeah, of course.
How to build a pizza shooter
in under an hour.
Step one, build a box out of sheet metal.
Give it one little smash.
All right. Let's get a box.
We have our half-inch aluminum tube.
Each one's threaded.
These will tie the whole box together
and give it rigidity and strength.
Step two, solder the power supply
from a broken grinder
onto a remote control unit
so that it can be triggered
to spit out manually.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and put the power on now.
And moment of truth.
Oh!
It do the thing. That's a win.
Step three,
install two roller wheels in your box
that can attach
to the repurposed angle grinder.
This will slide in here,
so when that pizza's in here,
when this thing spins up to full RPM,
it's gonna grab it
and just, phew, slingshot it out.
So just drill them out a little bit more?
Would that be easier?
What's up, guys?
You guys order a pizza?
-What the? Was that the pizza launcher?
-What the heck is that?
- Yeah, boy!
- Dude!
How about you actually shoot us
a real pizza? I'm hungry.
That was the stupidest thing
I ever built in my life.
I guess, yeah.
I mean, I can't believe
we got all this done in ten days.
We're like We got 15% more to go.
Well, we still got, uh,
pretty much a whole night.
Let's get some coffee going
and get this thing to the finish line.
- Let's do it.
- Sounds like a plan.
Pound it on down to Pound Town.
The Vanagon has come a long way,
but Tavon is coming tomorrow.
So we're gonna need
all hands on deck to get it there.
The interior needs the most work,
so my brother Saul is going to line
the ceiling and the pop-top
with Alcantara suede.
Meanwhile, I'll finish up
the upholstery work on the seat back.
Lacey is gonna make sure
that the engine is as good as new
by installing a resurfaced flywheel
that she got back from the machine shop.
Don's going to be welding
a detachable ladder
to go with
his Shredder-inspired roof rack.
And when he's done with that,
he's gonna help Nelson mount the projector
and the pull-down screen
for Tavon's viewing pleasure.
And to finish it all off,
Shayna's gonna add a pinstripe.
It's kinda like the cherry on top
of her killer paint job.
And we did it in just ten days.
Tavon's vision
for a Ninja-Turtle-inspired
living room-on-wheels has come to life.
Wow. I can't believe
we finished this thing, guys.
It turned out awesome.
I'm proud of it, man.
We went over the top with this thing.
I think he'll be proud
to drive this thing. I mean
- We hope.
- We hope.
We hope because this one
definitely put all of us to the test.
-Tavon, my boy. Good to see you, my dude.
-What up, my G? Nice to see you, bro.
The man of stunts.
- That's the crew over there.
- That's the crew?
- You can wave.
- Hey!
Yeah. They're the ones
that did all the magic, man,
'cause your van came in here
looking like this, cuz.
Just ugly as hell.
And it was a real headache,
and not just 'cause the exhaust
shoots back up into the van.
-Yeah. We're hoping at least that
-No, we kept that feature.
Even though it looked like
all of those things,
somehow you still have love for this van.
Yeah, man, that's my van.
That's my baby right there.
April got me through,
I think, the worst times in LA.
I respect it, man. I respect your hustle.
A'ight, you ready to see this car, man?
You nervous?
Yeah, man.
Um, I normally don't get nervous.
I do stunts for a living,
and I've never been nervous doing stunts.
So my, like, blood's kind of running hot
right now.
A little bit.
That was a long answer. Hit it!
Did you do LSD today?
Yo! Yes, sir!
A'ight, close your eyes.
- Close them up.
- A'ight.
Take a look, Tavon!
Yo!
No way!
It's finished!
Yo! Look at the wheels! Look at the rims!
That is so nuts!
- Whoo!
- Whoa!
-For you guys too!
-Hell yeah!
- Oh my God!
- Hell yeah!
That was crazy. He just really did that.
- Oh my God.
- My boy.
Aw.
My boy.
This is yours, man.
Oh my God.
- Is that April? Doesn't even make sense.
- Man, dog
With just one payment of seven
eight hundred dollars a month,
this could be yours, my boy.
Let's go through it.
Oscar, talk to him
about the outside, baby.
So this thing got fully restored.
No more dings, no more rust.
Brand-new front end, brand-new headlights,
ring LEDs and a custom grill.
This thing also has
a brand-new set of custom wheels.
After everything was said and done,
we got it all ready, all bodyworked
for Shayna to go ahead
and do a killer paint job on this thing.
You killed that thing.
As you can see, we did a tribute
to the original Ninja Turtle van.
But I did my own version of them.
And so we made it kind of cooler.
A lot cooler.
A lot cooler.
That is the most baller thing
I've ever seen in my life.
Hey, Donnie. I heard you put
a lot of time into this thing.
Oh yeah!
I made you a brand-new roof rack
and stairs to get to it,
all with that Shredder theme.
It's got that turtle vibe
but in a sleek way.
I'm sorry. Yeah, that's clean.
Okay. You ready to see that interior?
Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
A'ight, man. Saul!
- Close your eyes.
- Closing my eyes.
Bruh! Hold on!
- Remember your front seats?
- Yeah.
They were busted. Really busted.
So I put some new foam in there.
New upholstery.
Went with the brown leather.
The back seats can
also fold down into a queen-size bed.
The two front seats can swivel,
and boom, everybody can be chilling.
I don't need my legs.
- What?
- Look at this.
- Yo!
- Hey!
I'm part of the party now, playboy!
Nelson, pop it.
No! Aw, dude!
No!
- Okay, that is
- That's pretty cool.
-Yo!
-That's crazy.
Then we have to show you the coolest part.
- More?
- There's more.
There's more!
There is.
Uh, that box that looks like a projector
is in fact a projector.
So we got your own profile on Netflix,
of course, Tavon.
- That's nuts!
- You have a screening room.
You'd be surprised, they don't make
projector screens of this size.
-That's actually custom-made.
-Yeah, it's pretty cool, man.
Pretty cool.
This isn't even the coolest part.
So there's a second stage of this.
Don. Can you get the trunk?
Can we hit those lights, please?
Yo!
Dude, the resolution looks so good.
Yeah. Yeah.
And so this projector will do
a 55-inch on the interior
and then 150 on the exterior.
It's just a matter
of how far away you park.
This is the coolest thing
I think I've seen.
- Turn it off. We gotta celebrate.
- Yeah, we'll celebrate?
I don't know if I can leave this.
But you have to. Get out the van.
I've been looking for love ♪
Right now, I am overwhelmed
with a lot of different emotions.
When I got this van,
I had numerous people tell me,
"Dude, just get rid of it."
It was leaking oil,
the exhaust was falling back into the car,
the windows barely worked,
and at the time,
I was already struggling with
renting a place that I couldn't afford.
We gotta come in here. Yup. Yup.
You did that with the paint.
So eventually, living in a van,
the walls were slowly closing in.
I didn't think that I was
gonna be able to make it here.
Talk about over the freaking moon.
Oh, and the tech! The tech! The tech!
The wood, though.
For them, they're building a car,
but for me, they're building a dream.
- It's mine, right?
- Yeah.
This isn't a joke, right?
Like, "Oh, joke's on you."
Boom! And then it blows up.
I I did pitch that.
Here's the thing, though.
I got one more thing for you.
I got one more thing to show you.
Donnie, Nelson.
It's real dumb!
We didn't have much time
to design this. Don't make fun of us.
- What is it?
- Hey, Tavon.
Do you remember the, uh,
the Ninja Turtle toy van?
Yeah.
Do you remember
it had a pizza shooter on it?
Yeah.
Okay.
-Let's run this thing.
-No!
No!
Fire in the hole, baby!
What!
-What!
-Wow!
- That is useless as shit!
- Yeah!
Bro, that's so baller!
That is so dumb!
I can't believe I made y'all do that!
- That's wild!
- A'ight.
If we resurrected your ride right,
give us one more backflip.
Whoo!
Resurrected Rides, baby!
Resurrected Ride!
Hey, yo, garage team.
Just got a new submission video.
Come check this out.
This car was gifted to my son by my mom.
- Thirty-three years old, it's a 1990.
- Oh boy.
It's been Carter's dream car
since he was four years old.
He looked at that car and, "That's mine."
- Oh my goodness.
- This thing needs full overhaul.
It's powder coat time!
Look.
Like a Taylor Swift concert.
Open your eyes!
Yo!
Ha-ha! ♪
Yeah ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Ouch! ♪
Oh, I like that ♪
That's it, that's it ♪