Fastest Car (2018) s01e02 Episode Script
Built Not Bought
I do feel like I am living like a rock star.
I've driven close to half a billion dollars' worth of supercars, but my life wasn't always like this.
I've seen these guys with their $100,000 cars, and I'm like, "Oh, that's nice.
But I can still get it done with my junkyard parts.
" I was stuck in the streets.
I was gangbanging every day and selling drugs.
And drag racing is the only thing that made me feel alive.
Put a little snort of nitrous.
We're gonna hurt that Lamborghini's feelings.
Hammer.
Oh, fuck.
Beating a supercar with my Pinto would be enjoyable and hilarious.
- The clutch, make sure it's not on fire.
- Come on, guys, let's go! My reputation's on the line.
If I lose to a sleeper car, it's not gonna be a good day.
As soon as the light turns, it's game on.
Nice guy goes away.
I've driven race cars on Formula One tracks.
I've taken McLarens and Corvettes, and Bugattis around those.
I've taken 1600 Horsepower GT-Rs doing highway, pulls up to 180 miles per hour.
I've driven Twin Turbo Lamborghinis that sound like a fighter jet screaming by.
Getting to drive these supercars is the coolest thing I could possibly ask for.
- You ready, Pepper? - One second.
All right, three, two, one, go.
My name is Pepper Yandell, I'm a car photographer.
I travel the world, shoot private collections for people in all sorts of different places, countries, cultures, and classes.
- How'd that taste? - Not too good.
I lived in Owasso, Oklahoma, small town, not a lot of cars.
So, I moved down to Dallas, with, like, maybe $400, got a job shooting cars full-time.
Eventually, went full freelance, and started traveling the world, shooting cars for people.
My clients are the top ten richest people in the world.
So, they have security all around them.
Any time we go to a restaurant, we pull up in like four-armored fully blacked out stretched SUVs, and then you got like people checking the doors and the exits, and you feel like you're walking in with the President some of the times.
And just, "What am I doing here? I'm just here to shoot a car.
It's nuts.
" And it's giving me, definitely a unique key to like a very locked off world.
They're princes, they're sheiks.
I did the math the other day, I've driven close to $400,000,000 worth of cars.
It's what I'm passionate about and I get so much enjoyment just by pushing that start button.
One, two, three, four, five My buddy runs a company, he buys cars, and ships them over to the Middle East, but he also rents them out here.
And so, anytime I come here, he hooks me up, gives me a car.
On this trip, he's hooked me up with a yellow Lamborghini Huracán.
Every supercar has its own unique feeling.
This Lamborghini Huracán, they really knocked it out the park with this design.
It demands your attention.
The sharp angles, the super aggressive front end, like, it looks like it's just angry at you.
It just wants to eat the road and kill every car around it.
10.
4 seconds is what it's supposed to do in a quarter mile, the Huracán.
And I feel like at 10.
4 seconds, I have a pretty solid chance against most any car.
So I'm confident.
A supercar is a pretty boy's car, he paid for it, he doesn't really drive it.
It probably has 30 miles on it.
Whatever, bro.
I don't really give a flying shit.
Because you didn't build it yourself.
When I was just 13, my dad, he had this Volkswagen Bus, and he wanted to sell it because we needed to make some money, we had to pay rent.
So while he was away, trying to scavenge for some parts, the motor was just sitting there.
I watched him take it apart.
So I said, "By the time he gets back, I'm gonna have this motor back together.
" When he got home, he was amazed.
"Who did this?" I go, "I did.
What do you think?" He's like, "You know what, let's put it in.
Let's see if it runs.
" And that's why I always tell people, with cars and with motors, I feel like if you ever watched Frankenstein, when the monster was descending from the electricity and he sat up, and he's like, "It's alive," that was the feeling that I had when I heard that engine fire up for the first time, and it ran, and I did it.
The first time I came into the junkyard, it was out of necessity.
The car broke and there was some part that I needed, and I couldn't afford it.
So I figured, "You know what, I'll just go to the junkyard, see if I can get one," and that's how it started.
And it's a fun thing because it's like it's a way to get an incredible deal.
It's literally a tenth of the price of what you're gonna buy at the parts store.
This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about, when we can make some good money.
Here you got a supercharger, you get a supercharger here for 75 to 95 bucks.
Turn around and flip this thing for $495.
It is the man shopping mall.
See these guys behind me right here, you see those guys? They got their little shopping cart, right? They're back here shopping, you know, this is what we do.
This is a 1971 Ford Pinto, it weighs 2100 pounds, it's got a Mustang SVO Motor that's built.
This car puts out over 400 Horsepower and 420 pounds of torque.
I chose the Pinto because I could get them dirt cheap.
I know they're light, you know, sometimes, after I'd won a race, I've actually got out and given my car a hug.
I know that sounds ridiculous, but after a while, your car becomes a part of you, a part of your personality.
An Indiana Grand Jury today indicted the Ford Motor Company on criminal charges saying poor design, contributed to a fiery crash that killed three occupants of a Ford Pinto.
What made the Pinto truly infamous was the rear end, and that's where the fuel tank is located.
It is very close to the rear bumper and in a rear impact, it gets crushed against the rear axle, the tank gets punctured, fuel gets ignited.
The common stereotype of the Pinto is that the Pinto blows up.
But what they never showed is the fact that Ford fixed the problem with just this plastic sheet, so that the tank wasn't punctured by the bolts causing a spark.
But because of the bad name built around the car, everybody thought, "Oh, this is the most horrible car on the planet.
Oh, it's gonna blow up.
" Okay, cool.
I can get them for 100 bucks.
My Pinto is a perfect sleeper because they don't expect it to be fast.
"It's slow, it sounds like a go cart, you know, you probably get somewhere faster if you just ran.
" So, for me, it's like it is the ultimate sleeper.
You pull up next to it, and they don't know what's coming at them.
You know, they're like, "Oh, it's just This guy just put wheels and tires on this darn thing.
Just a silly little old man.
" I'm like, "Okay.
Go ahead.
Hit it.
" If I could beat a Lamborghini, I'm gonna be a legend, that's what I'm looking for.
My name is Justin Crosby.
I'm from Lancaster, California.
Here in the high desert Antelope Valley, not much to do but build hotrods.
I was involved with racing with my grandfather at a very young age and as I got older, I got into the rodeo.
And the crowd is making him watch him.
Yup.
Oh, boy⦠Hey, hey, hey! I decided to do rodeo rather than any other athletic sport, because I was born with nerve damage, and I couldn't compete like normal kids.
I couldn't run the bases in baseball, I couldn't run a hundred yards in the football field.
But I could ride a horse really well, and that led to other things.
Every young kid in or around rodeo, loves bull riding and it just, it snatched me up.
I rode professionally for about 12 years.
The feeling that you get inside of your body, the fear of possibly dying, the fear of getting hurt, people doubting you, fuels you.
But with the sport rodeo, it's not if you get hurt, it's win and how bad.
I was in a practice arena when I lost hold with my feet, and as the bull was rearing up, his head and my face collided.
Just, it wiped my nose off and fractured both eye sockets, jarred all my teeth loose.
When I got to the emergency room, I basically was holding my nose in my hands.
I had to have total reconstructive surgery of my nose.
When a cowboy has to hang up his spurs, it's a sad moment.
All the years and the pain, and the tears, and the blood, down the drain almost.
But I knew I would die if I continued to do it, it would kill me.
So I dug deep in my roots, which is cars.
Racing, hotrods, tire smoke I kind of raised Justin for a while.
Him and his mom were separated.
When he was a little boy, he followed me around everywhere I went, did everything together.
My grandfather has been a racer since the '50s.
This was my car in high school, it's a '31 Chevy Did you have Chevy in it or did you I had a V8 Chevy.
It had a - A V8? Oh, so you had a V8? - Yeah, I had a 283.
You always hound on me, "V8's don't make no torque, and blah, blah, blah".
- And you had one? - Yeah.
He was always trying to hop up low-powered vehicles.
And To race their buddy from stop sign to stop sign.
And growing up, and hearing those stories, I wanted to be him.
He was only about this tall and I started taking him racing at lakes with me.
And he would polish the Crosley, our race car, because he wasn't tall enough to do much else.
Then that grew into learning about the engine, valves, and he just had all kinds of knowledge at, like, 13, 14 years old.
I'm about American muscle.
Nostalgic.
We're riding in my 1946 Plymouth Coupe.
Her name is Big Booty Judy.
I picked it up out of a field, believe it or not, for $50.
It was the first car produced after World War II.
Therefore, they're kind of rare.
You don't see a lot of them.
I started collecting parts at drag races and swap meets.
Performance parts, parts that I knew that worked.
It took me about three or four years to acquire all the parts.
And I assembled this car in three days in my grandfather's garage.
Big Booty Judy is a sleeper car.
Looks like something grandpa would drive to the Cruise Night on Friday night.
It's old, it's heavy.
But don't underestimate her.
It would be outstanding to win this competition.
It would feel amazing to know that something that I built could beat a supercar.
My name is Glasses Malone, and this is the best sleeper car of all time.
It's an '87 Monte Carlo SS, 355 cubic inches.
It's a monster.
I'm kind of, from like a Crip neighborhood, so This is the Blood neighborhood, this 108th, Denver Lanes, they're notorious.
People who don't get along over here.
Couple of blocks away from me, Sam Cook got murdered and shit.
The legendary singer.
As far as me and racing go, my dad put me on racing when I was, like, three or four years old.
Like I've been going to the street races with my father, the person who gave me my first race car, my '68 Camaro.
I've been going to the street races with him longer than I can remember.
Potato salad, coleslaw.
This house right here was like a sanctuary.
It was special, it was something to see growing up.
It gonna be just race cars all up and down the street.
Novas, Camaros, Sevilles, Vegas, Monte Carlos, just all kind of stuff, all in this yard.
That's what our past time was when I would see my dad.
Like I just want to come around whatever he was doing.
So, this is how we spent, you know, weekends.
The thing that do make this shit dangerous is the fact they doing four in a line.
Don't race the guy, drive your car.
Glasses and I, we had a lot of common interest.
So we spent a lot of time, and my other kids used to be like, "Glasses is your favorite.
" And no, I don't have a favorite.
But I go to him quicker than I go to the rest because, like, I'mma get a good answer.
Think they think because of a Lamborghini cost 300 or 400,000 dollars that it could just beat, you know, a car like this, that don't cost $20,000.
That Lamborghini got to get wound up.
Not to mention they sixty-four, like, two seconds, like, two-two or something crazy.
Yeah, that means, they got to get wound up.
My mom and my dad pretty much did whatever it took to make a living.
They are really smart, and my mom was a registered nurse, and my dad owned a tow truck, used to pretty much do whatever it take to get a dollar.
Mom went to prison a couple times.
It was the third time being the last and worst.
She got caught in Oklahoma with ten kilograms of cocaine, eight gallons of PCP, and, like, $50,000.
Besides that, it was really cool.
Really never wanted for much, and they both were really good parents, they co-parented really well.
When they was together, they would fight a lot, though, so.
My dad shot my mom when I was younger, over some crazy shit, And that was like, good money.
It was like, "Damn, his dad shot his mom?" look behind their camera.
- You remember that situation? - Hell, yeah, I remember.
- How old were you? - Probably about five? It was a fight and shit.
My mom didn't wanna stop fighting.
My dad like, "I'mma shoot you if you don't stop hitting me.
" She's like, "I don't give a fuck.
" She hit him with a leg of a chair.
And he shot her ass in the stomach.
She made him take her to the hospital after that.
And police tried to arrest her, and she wouldn't let it happen.
My dad is a really good guy, just no-nonsense.
And my mom was just whatever words couldn't accomplish, her fist did the rest.
That was pretty much the last of it.
I think, you know, they just was like, it was Their shit was way too turbulent.
I was stuck in the streets, I was gangbanging every day and selling drugs.
Then I started doing music, like, I was already kind of fooling around with it.
Next thing I know, I was wrapped up into the music business.
I couldn't legally drag race because of my contract with Cash Money.
Took me away from drag racing for about a good ten years, maybe? I've never been more miserable with my life.
It's my first love.
I don't even have no children, you feelin' me? Drag racing is my children.
My car is my child, you know? When I'm around racing, everything's right with the world.
Everywhere else, everything is wrong.
Music business, you know, entertainment business, everything is wrong.
It's just, all the mentality about it is fucked up.
You see the worst in people.
Drag racing is one of the few times I could be me.
I need it, it's really like air, it's like it's the only thing that make me feel alive.
I hear they said the supercar is Ferraris and Lamborghinis.
Ain't nothing super about that shit.
That shit is a joke.
I had a couple of them.
They more like the cool thing to do, you know what I'm saying? They just show you got money, but they not fast.
This shit fast.
How's that? All right.
What model was that Lamborghini? Huracán? Quarter mile speeds, 2017 Lamborghini Huracán.
Ten forty-four is the best.
They're all-wheel drive.
But they're not gonna launch as hard as we can.
No way.
Well, I know it's electronically tuned and everything, but I'm gonna tune mine with a screwdriver.
Well, I don't wanna sound conceited, but that's a walk in a park, I could beat that car.
Yeah.
Yup, we got that covered.
We'll check the timing, I wanna pull about six degrees out of it.
We'll check it and put a little snort of nitrous, it's little insurance.
We're gonna put just enough to stay ahead of him, for sure.
We're gonna hurt that Lamborghini's feelings.
- I'm excited about this.
- Let's get her done.
Nitrous oxide forces nitrous and fuel into the engine, which rapidly causes more horsepower and engine RPM.
It's basically horsepower in a bottle.
The downside of nitrous oxide is, if your tuning is off, it could be catastrophic, it could ruin the engine in a heartbeat.
Haven't had nitrous in a car in a longtime, but let's awaken the beast.
Like I said, I don't think we're gonna need it, but it's good insurance.
Well, it's better to have it and not need it, - than to need it and not have it.
So - Right.
Shortly after my face surgery, I was getting sharp pains in my jaw, almost like a shocking sensation.
Come to find out from the head trauma, I had knocked an artery and a nerve loose in my brain stem, and they were rubbing together, and actually shorting out.
Life was dark, the pain was so bad.
I can't even explain it, uh, some thoughts of suicide.
So, two brain surgeries later, I am now pain-free.
My grandfather was a big part.
He used to drive me down to my follow up appointments.
And we would talk, and we would go to the races And I would say, racing saved my life.
It got me out of a cloud, so to speak.
It got me out of a hole, it got me out of my slump.
- What do you think, grandpa? - I think this is fun, man.
- A Lambo-what? - That Lambo-reckless.
Ten-forties? I think I can make a John Deere tractor beat a Lamborghini tractor.
Ten-forties.
What's so super about that? Holy shit! It didn't miss a lick, and he got in high gear right there.
My grandpa would do cartwheels if I won that race.
He would be proud.
That would mean the world to me, for him and I to, to compete on this level.
Yeah, that would be cool.
As a perfectionist, I like to be in full control of every detail.
And with people, you got bad hair days, and bad moods, and just factors I can't control.
But with a car, it looks the way it looks, it has its own, like, soul and spirit, it makes you feel a certain way.
Like right now, I'm driving around this Lamborghini in Downtown LA.
And I feel like aggressive, and exciting.
I grew up in kind of a shell.
My parents are amazing, they took really good care of me.
Couldn't ask for a better, more loving family.
But, you know, I've always had this energy where I have to move, I have to be doing something different.
And unfortunately, when I moved into the public-school system, you know, I kind of picked up some bad habits, some bad behavior.
I was making dumb decisions, I winded up getting kicked out of school.
You know, found myself in trouble with the law, multiple times.
And I got really unmotivated and disappointed with myself, and didn't think I was gonna be able to get out of that slump.
And when I started shooting cars, that allowed me to get out of that lifestyle, surround yourself with positive, hopeful people, and to use that energy to shape your dreams into reality.
And actually being able to do these amazing things, like drive around a Lamborghini or travel through Europe and Monaco, and the Middle East, meet these amazing people, that's what keeps driving me because my parents are now proud.
They're not sad, they're not worried.
But I'm not stupid.
I know when people see a kid like me in a Lamborghini, they're gonna think, "Oh, spoiled rich brat.
His parents bought that.
He's probably a douchebag.
He's probably gonna park sideways in a normal spot.
" But you know what? I'm just a normal guy like them that, for some reason, has the means to drive this car around a different city.
- I'm Cameron.
- I'm Chip.
Nice to meet you.
So what brings you in? I'm doing a little research.
I'm racing a supercar over the weekend and I got to be prepared.
- What kinda race is it gonna be? - It's a quarter mile.
And it's against a Lambo.
What kind of Lambo are you going up against? - A Huracán? - Okay.
You look at these magazines and it's quoting a 10-6.
The Huracán, it's essentially an automatic in a way where you don't have to worry about clutch wear or anything.
The traction control system is so good, assuming he has it on, he's not gonna spin out.
So if you're not a perfect jump off the line then I think it'll be tough.
- Okay.
- I could put my grandma in that car and she could probably run under 11s easy.
Hopefully, you get some guy where he's new at it and he, he's nervous and So he's gonna have to be nervous? He's gonna have to be, "Oh, my God" - And just miss the jump.
- And miss the jump.
That's what we're all I'm hoping for is that guy gets out of the car and he says, "Am I really driving it?" And I'm gonna be like dude.
- You know you got a really good chance.
- Yeah.
- That'll be good for you.
- Yeah.
Which is a plus.
- All right dudes, here's the deal.
- Sure.
All right, so it's a Lambo Huracán.
It's a V-10, puts out 610.
It's a 10-6 car, it weighs 4000 pounds and if it's four-wheel drive even his grandmother could make that thing launch.
Okay, so the transmission that I'm planning on putting in is the T-bird transmission and you checked the gear ratios, right? - Yeah.
- And what are we seeing there? Do we have enough first gear? - Yeah.
- So our gears are good? - Yeah.
Weird vibration and the noise.
- It's just we have this weird vibration Since this transmission has a vibration, we're gonna go ahead and put the other trans in that I know is good.
Ready to rock? Let's get it done.
Push it off to get it out.
- Don't push it up.
- Don't push it too much.
- It'll chop your fingers off.
- Yeah.
Get that thing out of there.
- It's caught on the nut.
See that? - So why is it hanging up? It's caught on a It's caught on a nut.
There you go.
Oh, fuck.
Okay.
It's out.
What are you talking about? That will fit.
Hammer.
Ah, fuck.
- Carly.
- Yeah? I got McDonald's.
You up? - Dude.
- Bathroom.
I have six kids.
It's been a challenge, but I love my family.
I live for my family.
There was a situation where their mother, she got sick.
She was saying that she was diabetic and that's why she was looking ill and sickly.
One day I, I came home, and she had put safety locks on the doors so if someone opens the door they can't come in.
Come to realize that the reason that she put that on the door wasn't so that people couldn't come in, it's so the kids couldn't get out.
She wasn't taking care of them.
Then I found the pipe and it was meth.
The money I was making was going towards her habit.
It was nuts, like, when we were younger, we'd be sitting there waiting for my mom to come home and my dad coming home worried, like, "Where's your mom?" "We don't know, we haven't seen her in the last two, three days.
" Or she would take us to one of her drug dealers' house.
Once, she actually left us there.
We lost everything.
We went from this wonderful house that I had out here to having to swallow my pride and move in with my mother.
I had divorced her, I said, "You know what? This is permanent.
This is it.
We're done.
" And from that point on it's you know, I just concentrate on my kids.
The junkyard to me is sanctuary and it's salvation, because for me I looked at it as this is a place to get away from all the drama and the bullshit that was going on at home that I could not fix, but at the same time I could fix things for my kids.
I've realized that there's money all over the place here.
There's opportunity everywhere in the junkyard.
You know, if say, for instance, my commission check is too low and I can't take care of the bills, I can look over here and see, "Hey what's this tail light going for?" These headlights right here, after I cleaned and polished them, blood, sweat, and tears, took care of my daughter's dance class.
I think it's amazing what he's done these past years to help us using the junkyard alone.
It's a huge miracle.
I need to test out this new transmission.
His transmission's fine.
I feel rattling, I didn't hear any humming.
- It went straight.
- It went straight.
- We didn't get hit, so - Yeah.
And I didn't go airborne.
Beating a supercar with my Pinto would be enjoyable and friggin' hilarious because when I meet him at the end of that track and they realize that I spanked the daylights out of them, he's gonna have to get out of that car and look at my less than $3000 car and say, "Why did I spend all this freaking money?" A sleeper car is someone taking an idea of what would be the best possible version of their car, spending tons of money and time and effort to try to do it and hoping for the best, and usually running into lots of problems.
This is decades of racing, research and development, Italian genius, and with this car there's a really good chance I'm gonna win this race, but you know what, I might be just a little bit nervous.
To be honest, I've never done launch control in this thing.
I looked it up on YouTube.
Apparently, I have to push this and this.
Yup.
And now it says, "Thrust mode possible.
" I mean it should be pretty simple so, you know, I think I should manage it but we'll find out.
And I'm about to go get a haircut because it's been a while.
- Welcome.
- Thank you.
- What'd you like to do with your hair? - Just like a trim maybe.
I like the front part.
I feel, like, maybe the back's a little too long.
Wanna bring your head all the way back? How long you in town? I'm here to do a race this weekend.
We're gonna do a quarter mile race down an airstrip with four cars side by side.
Have you raced with the guys that you're racing or - I haven't meet the guys yet actually.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
It's coconut? That's cool.
- Hmm-mm.
It's, like, the resort spray, it gives a nice texture, like you're at the beach.
When I'm not recording music or doing a concert or mixing a song, I'm trying to hang out with Hot Dog and soak up all the wisdom.
I'm Craig Williams but he's calling me Hot Dog.
I met Glasses basically, through the race community.
And we talked about racing.
I known his dad since I was kid, probably before Glasses was born.
This race for Glasses is somewhat of a comeback.
He's been out of the race game for a while.
He's been trying to concentrate on rapping and producing.
We're going up against a Lamborghini with the Monte Carlo.
I think the advantage we will have will be probably, the bottom-end and midrange take off.
We use a lot of nitrous because we need that much nitrous for a Lamborghini.
You know, Lamborghinis are so fast.
Nitrous is a thing that a lot of people are scared off.
I think Hot Dog had one back fire.
It's almost like an explosion but it's not.
The boom ain't the same but the fire and the explosion is just sick.
I'm not doing modifications because the car has already been modified.
You didn't get a fast enough car to make us feel threatened.
This is what I really do.
So there's no reason to make modification, we're already prepared.
One of the things that I was thinking about with a four-car wide race is, you know, it probably can get a little dangerous.
Some of these cars get a little squirrelly and they don't wanna get off the gas and they try to over correct or something.
You have to know if you can swerve to the right to avoid them hitting you or swerve to the left.
So it's just gonna take some skills to race four-wide.
It's really dangerous.
It's just dangerous, period.
I'm not scared of the nitrous.
I'm not scared of anything about the car.
At this point, it's just focusing on making sure I don't fuck it up.
I just don't got to fuck it up.
As far as him winning or losing, I'm pretty sure he's gonna win also so that was never really a, a thought.
So he can't lose, Glasses.
Race day, I like to have her looking good, I like to be intimidating.
If I've done everything right, there's no way I can lose.
We're gonna get this thing done.
I'm expected to win this race.
This is what we do.
The supercar is not a threat.
He's just making popcorn.
Two-step right there, old school.
We got this, right? We got this.
Ready? One, two, three, four! It's a four-cylinder panel.
But it's the turbo.
They're like really fast.
It sounds to me like he hasn't got anything 'til that turbo comes up and then it goes.
The reason why it's popping like that is it's on the two-step - so it's shutting down the cylinder.
- Oh, I know that.
And it's firing the fuel in just like - Just like yours pops when you hear - On a two-step? But the dude with the Lambo, is he chilling at some nice Sheraton, or Hilton? I'm excited to see what color it'll be.
Yeah.
I bet you it's No, I bet you it's gonna be lime green? No, it's gotta be yellow.
I know what these people think, "Oh, spoiled rich brat in a Lamborghini, probably doesn't care about the car at all.
" But you know what? Stereotypes are not always true.
- We have a really, really good chance.
- Oh, here comes the one.
Here it is.
- Yellow, you called it.
- What'd I tell you? Oh! - You called it.
- Fresh meat on the grill.
Fresh meat on the grill.
The good news is, back in my rodeo days, yellow is really, really bad luck.
Yes, it is.
You never wear yellow in the rodeo ring, ever.
- What's going on? - What's up, man? I'm Pepper.
- I'm Chip.
- Chip.
Good to meet you.
- Nice dude.
Let's check it out.
- Thank you.
Yeah, it's from the factory.
So probably not as custom as yours.
- You've been driving this bad boy around? - I have been practicing.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
Feel free to open the door and check it out.
- Yeah, let's take a look.
- Can we sit in it? Yeah, sit in it.
Go ahead.
Do whatever you want.
Yeah, why not? I'm Justin.
- Justin.
Pepper.
- Nice to meet you.
- How are you doing? - Good.
So you've been working on the traction control and all that kind of good stuff? Well, no, so I had, like, 100 Italians work on that for me.
I had never done the launch mode until today.
- Okay.
- I practiced it.
And it's pretty vicious.
- Okay.
Have you met Glasses yet? No? - I haven't.
Glasses.
- What's up? How you doing? I'm Pepper.
- How you doing? Nice to meet you.
- You too.
- Beautiful car.
- I appreciate that.
Are you racing today? - Yeah.
Which car? Monte Carlo.
- That's the one you got to worried about.
- That one I should worry about? It looks like it got one tire on the back going all the way across.
- That tire.
- Three wheels, that's it? - Yeah.
- Oh, man.
I was told this is the one I should worry about? - Really? - This looks like a beast.
It is.
It's a big beast.
- Beautiful car.
- Yeah.
- Yours is too.
Yours is beautiful.
- Oh, thank you.
It's not even mine though, that's the problem.
Oh, you borrowed it? Or Daddy's car? - No, definitely not Daddy's car.
- No? Girlfriend's? - Hey, that'd be a catch.
No.
- Yeah, it would.
- Bet she'd rather ride in this.
Oh, yeah.
- You think? Oh, the trash-talking begins.
I had to look up how to do launch control in YouTube.
Yeah.
It worked out well this morning so I'm hoping it works out the same today.
So you learned how to drive the car in YouTube? Well, no, I mean the launch control.
Well, but that's driving the car, right? - It's part of driving the car, yeah.
- Fair enough.
I'm just I don't have You can't YouTube a '46 Plymouth and see how to get it to leave the line.
I was just curious.
You might get confused trying to look that up.
Yeah, I might.
I'm an old hillbilly.
Dude, he's too easy.
"This car does everything for me.
" Is that what he said? That's what cracked me up, when he said he learned how to drive on YouTube.
- Did he? - It's freaking YouTube.
He goes, "Well, I've been practicing and watching YouTube.
" Call for drivers.
Drivers only.
The race begins from a standing start and ends when the first vehicle to complete the race in legal fashion crosses the official finish line.
The race will start upon a signal visible to all vehicles, so five red, five yellow, and then green.
If a vehicle has a false start, all vehicles will be recalled to the starting line.
If a vehicle has a second false start, that vehicle will be disqualified.
If there's a false start, you guys notify us at the end of the race? We'll notify you once we identified that a false start has happened.
Vehicles will be allowed one tire warming run, or burnout, before the race to clean and heat their tires if so desired.
- Any questions on anything? - No, sir.
- We're good.
- All right.
Thank you.
Okay, fellows.
Good luck to you.
I've done everything I possibly can to prepare.
I left the car running for about six hours.
I am probably at a 16th of the tank.
I'm just trying to get as much weight out as possible.
The one I'm worried about is that teal-purple, A beautiful car, but some serious stuff under that hood.
Chip and his Pinto is the one I'm worried about.
That car is very light and has a lot of horsepower.
I know it's only a four-cylinder but it's electronically injected turbocharged.
That car is gonna give me problems.
Every single one of these cars has a lot of power.
But if you can't make that thing stick to the road, you're not gonna beat me.
I wouldn't came this far if I didn't think I could win.
There's some good competition, this is better competition than I thought.
As long as I worry about how I start and making sure those tires plant down to stay down that track and it, you know, it don't blow the tires away, I'm in a good shape.
- I'm sitting in this oven.
- Is that better? A lot better.
- All right, man.
- All right, man.
Good luck.
- We got this.
- We got this.
So it all starts with a burnout.
The burnout is the most important thing, you know, spinning the tires.
That's burnout for him.
Spin it all.
Look at the clutch, make sure it's not on fire.
The wheels didn't spin at all? Are you kidding me? Damn it.
Yeah, that's a burnout.
Pepper in the Lamborghini, cute.
He has eight hours behind the steering wheel, I have three and a half years in this car and years before that.
He should have stayed home.
My reputation's on the line.
If I lose to a sleeper car, I'm going to be put in a cone of shame.
I just can't do that.
I have to win this race.
And if I lose it, it's gonna hurt.
First place is gonna be me and Big Booty Judy.
Second place is gonna be between the Monte Carlo and the Pinto.
Supercar is gonna be last.
Lambo, Plymouth Pinto last.
- Nice.
- All right.
- That thing is quick.
- Yeah, it is quick.
That Lambo kind of left early, guys.
- We, we thought it was clean.
- You might wanna look at that.
You guys might wanna look at that film.
I think he left before the green light.
They're gonna look at the film.
Yeah, in my book, that's a win.
- I don't think so.
- No? - We might be able to check it.
Yeah.
- We can check.
You saw how he jumped off the line.
It looked like he must have taken off early but he didn't.
- He launched hard.
- Good.
And you both got off the line together.
And you got into a little bit of wheel spin.
- Boy, that's surprising.
- Right.
Dude, I was honestly kind of worried about you, for real.
- But I mean, if it - I was the only one close to you.
I lost.
I lost fair and square, no excuses.
That Lamborghini showed me up.
And I don't get showed up very often.
And, I probably won't sleep for the next three days.
When I first let off the brake pedal there's was a millisecond of hesitation.
I had this thought run through my mind, "Man, this is it.
I just lost.
" And then I'm getting quarter way down the track and I don't see anyone.
I'm halfway down the track.
And I'm still, like, chugging along.
I don't see anyone.
I think it's great that I was able to compete with a supercar.
It was quite the experience.
I made a decision.
I kind of knew it was gonna be a decision that was gonna probably cost me the win.
I just had to turn the nitrous off.
Being this my first race in ten years, have a big hit of nitrous come in, it could be dangerous.
It just would have been a bad thing, I might have been somewhere over here, in the grassy knolls, so you got to take the wins with the losses.
I'm really impressed with the Plymouth.
That guy drove the fuck out that car.
You can see when the nitrous came on, the black track two, 300 feet, he never lifted.
Justin, his heart big.
It was a really hot day.
Even the ground, I could barely touch it.
And that heat, the clutch just said, you know what? That's it.
We've had enough.
But I wanna thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to share our lives, you know.
And what we do in our lives, and what the junkyard dogs, what we do.
We're not just a bunch of knuckleheads.
We're, we're not a bunch of welfare recipients.
We're guys that are out there, working hard, supporting our families, and figuring out a way to still have fun at the track.
I had faith in myself, I had faith in the car, and luckily, it all came together and I got a victory.
I'm really happy.
This Lamborghini Huracán is a seriously amazing car.
You feel like you're skydiving, like, you just jumped out of a plane just by hitting the gas pedal, it's nuts.
And of course, this is amazing.
This is the coolest feeling ever to win.
I've driven close to half a billion dollars' worth of supercars, but my life wasn't always like this.
I've seen these guys with their $100,000 cars, and I'm like, "Oh, that's nice.
But I can still get it done with my junkyard parts.
" I was stuck in the streets.
I was gangbanging every day and selling drugs.
And drag racing is the only thing that made me feel alive.
Put a little snort of nitrous.
We're gonna hurt that Lamborghini's feelings.
Hammer.
Oh, fuck.
Beating a supercar with my Pinto would be enjoyable and hilarious.
- The clutch, make sure it's not on fire.
- Come on, guys, let's go! My reputation's on the line.
If I lose to a sleeper car, it's not gonna be a good day.
As soon as the light turns, it's game on.
Nice guy goes away.
I've driven race cars on Formula One tracks.
I've taken McLarens and Corvettes, and Bugattis around those.
I've taken 1600 Horsepower GT-Rs doing highway, pulls up to 180 miles per hour.
I've driven Twin Turbo Lamborghinis that sound like a fighter jet screaming by.
Getting to drive these supercars is the coolest thing I could possibly ask for.
- You ready, Pepper? - One second.
All right, three, two, one, go.
My name is Pepper Yandell, I'm a car photographer.
I travel the world, shoot private collections for people in all sorts of different places, countries, cultures, and classes.
- How'd that taste? - Not too good.
I lived in Owasso, Oklahoma, small town, not a lot of cars.
So, I moved down to Dallas, with, like, maybe $400, got a job shooting cars full-time.
Eventually, went full freelance, and started traveling the world, shooting cars for people.
My clients are the top ten richest people in the world.
So, they have security all around them.
Any time we go to a restaurant, we pull up in like four-armored fully blacked out stretched SUVs, and then you got like people checking the doors and the exits, and you feel like you're walking in with the President some of the times.
And just, "What am I doing here? I'm just here to shoot a car.
It's nuts.
" And it's giving me, definitely a unique key to like a very locked off world.
They're princes, they're sheiks.
I did the math the other day, I've driven close to $400,000,000 worth of cars.
It's what I'm passionate about and I get so much enjoyment just by pushing that start button.
One, two, three, four, five My buddy runs a company, he buys cars, and ships them over to the Middle East, but he also rents them out here.
And so, anytime I come here, he hooks me up, gives me a car.
On this trip, he's hooked me up with a yellow Lamborghini Huracán.
Every supercar has its own unique feeling.
This Lamborghini Huracán, they really knocked it out the park with this design.
It demands your attention.
The sharp angles, the super aggressive front end, like, it looks like it's just angry at you.
It just wants to eat the road and kill every car around it.
10.
4 seconds is what it's supposed to do in a quarter mile, the Huracán.
And I feel like at 10.
4 seconds, I have a pretty solid chance against most any car.
So I'm confident.
A supercar is a pretty boy's car, he paid for it, he doesn't really drive it.
It probably has 30 miles on it.
Whatever, bro.
I don't really give a flying shit.
Because you didn't build it yourself.
When I was just 13, my dad, he had this Volkswagen Bus, and he wanted to sell it because we needed to make some money, we had to pay rent.
So while he was away, trying to scavenge for some parts, the motor was just sitting there.
I watched him take it apart.
So I said, "By the time he gets back, I'm gonna have this motor back together.
" When he got home, he was amazed.
"Who did this?" I go, "I did.
What do you think?" He's like, "You know what, let's put it in.
Let's see if it runs.
" And that's why I always tell people, with cars and with motors, I feel like if you ever watched Frankenstein, when the monster was descending from the electricity and he sat up, and he's like, "It's alive," that was the feeling that I had when I heard that engine fire up for the first time, and it ran, and I did it.
The first time I came into the junkyard, it was out of necessity.
The car broke and there was some part that I needed, and I couldn't afford it.
So I figured, "You know what, I'll just go to the junkyard, see if I can get one," and that's how it started.
And it's a fun thing because it's like it's a way to get an incredible deal.
It's literally a tenth of the price of what you're gonna buy at the parts store.
This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about, when we can make some good money.
Here you got a supercharger, you get a supercharger here for 75 to 95 bucks.
Turn around and flip this thing for $495.
It is the man shopping mall.
See these guys behind me right here, you see those guys? They got their little shopping cart, right? They're back here shopping, you know, this is what we do.
This is a 1971 Ford Pinto, it weighs 2100 pounds, it's got a Mustang SVO Motor that's built.
This car puts out over 400 Horsepower and 420 pounds of torque.
I chose the Pinto because I could get them dirt cheap.
I know they're light, you know, sometimes, after I'd won a race, I've actually got out and given my car a hug.
I know that sounds ridiculous, but after a while, your car becomes a part of you, a part of your personality.
An Indiana Grand Jury today indicted the Ford Motor Company on criminal charges saying poor design, contributed to a fiery crash that killed three occupants of a Ford Pinto.
What made the Pinto truly infamous was the rear end, and that's where the fuel tank is located.
It is very close to the rear bumper and in a rear impact, it gets crushed against the rear axle, the tank gets punctured, fuel gets ignited.
The common stereotype of the Pinto is that the Pinto blows up.
But what they never showed is the fact that Ford fixed the problem with just this plastic sheet, so that the tank wasn't punctured by the bolts causing a spark.
But because of the bad name built around the car, everybody thought, "Oh, this is the most horrible car on the planet.
Oh, it's gonna blow up.
" Okay, cool.
I can get them for 100 bucks.
My Pinto is a perfect sleeper because they don't expect it to be fast.
"It's slow, it sounds like a go cart, you know, you probably get somewhere faster if you just ran.
" So, for me, it's like it is the ultimate sleeper.
You pull up next to it, and they don't know what's coming at them.
You know, they're like, "Oh, it's just This guy just put wheels and tires on this darn thing.
Just a silly little old man.
" I'm like, "Okay.
Go ahead.
Hit it.
" If I could beat a Lamborghini, I'm gonna be a legend, that's what I'm looking for.
My name is Justin Crosby.
I'm from Lancaster, California.
Here in the high desert Antelope Valley, not much to do but build hotrods.
I was involved with racing with my grandfather at a very young age and as I got older, I got into the rodeo.
And the crowd is making him watch him.
Yup.
Oh, boy⦠Hey, hey, hey! I decided to do rodeo rather than any other athletic sport, because I was born with nerve damage, and I couldn't compete like normal kids.
I couldn't run the bases in baseball, I couldn't run a hundred yards in the football field.
But I could ride a horse really well, and that led to other things.
Every young kid in or around rodeo, loves bull riding and it just, it snatched me up.
I rode professionally for about 12 years.
The feeling that you get inside of your body, the fear of possibly dying, the fear of getting hurt, people doubting you, fuels you.
But with the sport rodeo, it's not if you get hurt, it's win and how bad.
I was in a practice arena when I lost hold with my feet, and as the bull was rearing up, his head and my face collided.
Just, it wiped my nose off and fractured both eye sockets, jarred all my teeth loose.
When I got to the emergency room, I basically was holding my nose in my hands.
I had to have total reconstructive surgery of my nose.
When a cowboy has to hang up his spurs, it's a sad moment.
All the years and the pain, and the tears, and the blood, down the drain almost.
But I knew I would die if I continued to do it, it would kill me.
So I dug deep in my roots, which is cars.
Racing, hotrods, tire smoke I kind of raised Justin for a while.
Him and his mom were separated.
When he was a little boy, he followed me around everywhere I went, did everything together.
My grandfather has been a racer since the '50s.
This was my car in high school, it's a '31 Chevy Did you have Chevy in it or did you I had a V8 Chevy.
It had a - A V8? Oh, so you had a V8? - Yeah, I had a 283.
You always hound on me, "V8's don't make no torque, and blah, blah, blah".
- And you had one? - Yeah.
He was always trying to hop up low-powered vehicles.
And To race their buddy from stop sign to stop sign.
And growing up, and hearing those stories, I wanted to be him.
He was only about this tall and I started taking him racing at lakes with me.
And he would polish the Crosley, our race car, because he wasn't tall enough to do much else.
Then that grew into learning about the engine, valves, and he just had all kinds of knowledge at, like, 13, 14 years old.
I'm about American muscle.
Nostalgic.
We're riding in my 1946 Plymouth Coupe.
Her name is Big Booty Judy.
I picked it up out of a field, believe it or not, for $50.
It was the first car produced after World War II.
Therefore, they're kind of rare.
You don't see a lot of them.
I started collecting parts at drag races and swap meets.
Performance parts, parts that I knew that worked.
It took me about three or four years to acquire all the parts.
And I assembled this car in three days in my grandfather's garage.
Big Booty Judy is a sleeper car.
Looks like something grandpa would drive to the Cruise Night on Friday night.
It's old, it's heavy.
But don't underestimate her.
It would be outstanding to win this competition.
It would feel amazing to know that something that I built could beat a supercar.
My name is Glasses Malone, and this is the best sleeper car of all time.
It's an '87 Monte Carlo SS, 355 cubic inches.
It's a monster.
I'm kind of, from like a Crip neighborhood, so This is the Blood neighborhood, this 108th, Denver Lanes, they're notorious.
People who don't get along over here.
Couple of blocks away from me, Sam Cook got murdered and shit.
The legendary singer.
As far as me and racing go, my dad put me on racing when I was, like, three or four years old.
Like I've been going to the street races with my father, the person who gave me my first race car, my '68 Camaro.
I've been going to the street races with him longer than I can remember.
Potato salad, coleslaw.
This house right here was like a sanctuary.
It was special, it was something to see growing up.
It gonna be just race cars all up and down the street.
Novas, Camaros, Sevilles, Vegas, Monte Carlos, just all kind of stuff, all in this yard.
That's what our past time was when I would see my dad.
Like I just want to come around whatever he was doing.
So, this is how we spent, you know, weekends.
The thing that do make this shit dangerous is the fact they doing four in a line.
Don't race the guy, drive your car.
Glasses and I, we had a lot of common interest.
So we spent a lot of time, and my other kids used to be like, "Glasses is your favorite.
" And no, I don't have a favorite.
But I go to him quicker than I go to the rest because, like, I'mma get a good answer.
Think they think because of a Lamborghini cost 300 or 400,000 dollars that it could just beat, you know, a car like this, that don't cost $20,000.
That Lamborghini got to get wound up.
Not to mention they sixty-four, like, two seconds, like, two-two or something crazy.
Yeah, that means, they got to get wound up.
My mom and my dad pretty much did whatever it took to make a living.
They are really smart, and my mom was a registered nurse, and my dad owned a tow truck, used to pretty much do whatever it take to get a dollar.
Mom went to prison a couple times.
It was the third time being the last and worst.
She got caught in Oklahoma with ten kilograms of cocaine, eight gallons of PCP, and, like, $50,000.
Besides that, it was really cool.
Really never wanted for much, and they both were really good parents, they co-parented really well.
When they was together, they would fight a lot, though, so.
My dad shot my mom when I was younger, over some crazy shit, And that was like, good money.
It was like, "Damn, his dad shot his mom?" look behind their camera.
- You remember that situation? - Hell, yeah, I remember.
- How old were you? - Probably about five? It was a fight and shit.
My mom didn't wanna stop fighting.
My dad like, "I'mma shoot you if you don't stop hitting me.
" She's like, "I don't give a fuck.
" She hit him with a leg of a chair.
And he shot her ass in the stomach.
She made him take her to the hospital after that.
And police tried to arrest her, and she wouldn't let it happen.
My dad is a really good guy, just no-nonsense.
And my mom was just whatever words couldn't accomplish, her fist did the rest.
That was pretty much the last of it.
I think, you know, they just was like, it was Their shit was way too turbulent.
I was stuck in the streets, I was gangbanging every day and selling drugs.
Then I started doing music, like, I was already kind of fooling around with it.
Next thing I know, I was wrapped up into the music business.
I couldn't legally drag race because of my contract with Cash Money.
Took me away from drag racing for about a good ten years, maybe? I've never been more miserable with my life.
It's my first love.
I don't even have no children, you feelin' me? Drag racing is my children.
My car is my child, you know? When I'm around racing, everything's right with the world.
Everywhere else, everything is wrong.
Music business, you know, entertainment business, everything is wrong.
It's just, all the mentality about it is fucked up.
You see the worst in people.
Drag racing is one of the few times I could be me.
I need it, it's really like air, it's like it's the only thing that make me feel alive.
I hear they said the supercar is Ferraris and Lamborghinis.
Ain't nothing super about that shit.
That shit is a joke.
I had a couple of them.
They more like the cool thing to do, you know what I'm saying? They just show you got money, but they not fast.
This shit fast.
How's that? All right.
What model was that Lamborghini? Huracán? Quarter mile speeds, 2017 Lamborghini Huracán.
Ten forty-four is the best.
They're all-wheel drive.
But they're not gonna launch as hard as we can.
No way.
Well, I know it's electronically tuned and everything, but I'm gonna tune mine with a screwdriver.
Well, I don't wanna sound conceited, but that's a walk in a park, I could beat that car.
Yeah.
Yup, we got that covered.
We'll check the timing, I wanna pull about six degrees out of it.
We'll check it and put a little snort of nitrous, it's little insurance.
We're gonna put just enough to stay ahead of him, for sure.
We're gonna hurt that Lamborghini's feelings.
- I'm excited about this.
- Let's get her done.
Nitrous oxide forces nitrous and fuel into the engine, which rapidly causes more horsepower and engine RPM.
It's basically horsepower in a bottle.
The downside of nitrous oxide is, if your tuning is off, it could be catastrophic, it could ruin the engine in a heartbeat.
Haven't had nitrous in a car in a longtime, but let's awaken the beast.
Like I said, I don't think we're gonna need it, but it's good insurance.
Well, it's better to have it and not need it, - than to need it and not have it.
So - Right.
Shortly after my face surgery, I was getting sharp pains in my jaw, almost like a shocking sensation.
Come to find out from the head trauma, I had knocked an artery and a nerve loose in my brain stem, and they were rubbing together, and actually shorting out.
Life was dark, the pain was so bad.
I can't even explain it, uh, some thoughts of suicide.
So, two brain surgeries later, I am now pain-free.
My grandfather was a big part.
He used to drive me down to my follow up appointments.
And we would talk, and we would go to the races And I would say, racing saved my life.
It got me out of a cloud, so to speak.
It got me out of a hole, it got me out of my slump.
- What do you think, grandpa? - I think this is fun, man.
- A Lambo-what? - That Lambo-reckless.
Ten-forties? I think I can make a John Deere tractor beat a Lamborghini tractor.
Ten-forties.
What's so super about that? Holy shit! It didn't miss a lick, and he got in high gear right there.
My grandpa would do cartwheels if I won that race.
He would be proud.
That would mean the world to me, for him and I to, to compete on this level.
Yeah, that would be cool.
As a perfectionist, I like to be in full control of every detail.
And with people, you got bad hair days, and bad moods, and just factors I can't control.
But with a car, it looks the way it looks, it has its own, like, soul and spirit, it makes you feel a certain way.
Like right now, I'm driving around this Lamborghini in Downtown LA.
And I feel like aggressive, and exciting.
I grew up in kind of a shell.
My parents are amazing, they took really good care of me.
Couldn't ask for a better, more loving family.
But, you know, I've always had this energy where I have to move, I have to be doing something different.
And unfortunately, when I moved into the public-school system, you know, I kind of picked up some bad habits, some bad behavior.
I was making dumb decisions, I winded up getting kicked out of school.
You know, found myself in trouble with the law, multiple times.
And I got really unmotivated and disappointed with myself, and didn't think I was gonna be able to get out of that slump.
And when I started shooting cars, that allowed me to get out of that lifestyle, surround yourself with positive, hopeful people, and to use that energy to shape your dreams into reality.
And actually being able to do these amazing things, like drive around a Lamborghini or travel through Europe and Monaco, and the Middle East, meet these amazing people, that's what keeps driving me because my parents are now proud.
They're not sad, they're not worried.
But I'm not stupid.
I know when people see a kid like me in a Lamborghini, they're gonna think, "Oh, spoiled rich brat.
His parents bought that.
He's probably a douchebag.
He's probably gonna park sideways in a normal spot.
" But you know what? I'm just a normal guy like them that, for some reason, has the means to drive this car around a different city.
- I'm Cameron.
- I'm Chip.
Nice to meet you.
So what brings you in? I'm doing a little research.
I'm racing a supercar over the weekend and I got to be prepared.
- What kinda race is it gonna be? - It's a quarter mile.
And it's against a Lambo.
What kind of Lambo are you going up against? - A Huracán? - Okay.
You look at these magazines and it's quoting a 10-6.
The Huracán, it's essentially an automatic in a way where you don't have to worry about clutch wear or anything.
The traction control system is so good, assuming he has it on, he's not gonna spin out.
So if you're not a perfect jump off the line then I think it'll be tough.
- Okay.
- I could put my grandma in that car and she could probably run under 11s easy.
Hopefully, you get some guy where he's new at it and he, he's nervous and So he's gonna have to be nervous? He's gonna have to be, "Oh, my God" - And just miss the jump.
- And miss the jump.
That's what we're all I'm hoping for is that guy gets out of the car and he says, "Am I really driving it?" And I'm gonna be like dude.
- You know you got a really good chance.
- Yeah.
- That'll be good for you.
- Yeah.
Which is a plus.
- All right dudes, here's the deal.
- Sure.
All right, so it's a Lambo Huracán.
It's a V-10, puts out 610.
It's a 10-6 car, it weighs 4000 pounds and if it's four-wheel drive even his grandmother could make that thing launch.
Okay, so the transmission that I'm planning on putting in is the T-bird transmission and you checked the gear ratios, right? - Yeah.
- And what are we seeing there? Do we have enough first gear? - Yeah.
- So our gears are good? - Yeah.
Weird vibration and the noise.
- It's just we have this weird vibration Since this transmission has a vibration, we're gonna go ahead and put the other trans in that I know is good.
Ready to rock? Let's get it done.
Push it off to get it out.
- Don't push it up.
- Don't push it too much.
- It'll chop your fingers off.
- Yeah.
Get that thing out of there.
- It's caught on the nut.
See that? - So why is it hanging up? It's caught on a It's caught on a nut.
There you go.
Oh, fuck.
Okay.
It's out.
What are you talking about? That will fit.
Hammer.
Ah, fuck.
- Carly.
- Yeah? I got McDonald's.
You up? - Dude.
- Bathroom.
I have six kids.
It's been a challenge, but I love my family.
I live for my family.
There was a situation where their mother, she got sick.
She was saying that she was diabetic and that's why she was looking ill and sickly.
One day I, I came home, and she had put safety locks on the doors so if someone opens the door they can't come in.
Come to realize that the reason that she put that on the door wasn't so that people couldn't come in, it's so the kids couldn't get out.
She wasn't taking care of them.
Then I found the pipe and it was meth.
The money I was making was going towards her habit.
It was nuts, like, when we were younger, we'd be sitting there waiting for my mom to come home and my dad coming home worried, like, "Where's your mom?" "We don't know, we haven't seen her in the last two, three days.
" Or she would take us to one of her drug dealers' house.
Once, she actually left us there.
We lost everything.
We went from this wonderful house that I had out here to having to swallow my pride and move in with my mother.
I had divorced her, I said, "You know what? This is permanent.
This is it.
We're done.
" And from that point on it's you know, I just concentrate on my kids.
The junkyard to me is sanctuary and it's salvation, because for me I looked at it as this is a place to get away from all the drama and the bullshit that was going on at home that I could not fix, but at the same time I could fix things for my kids.
I've realized that there's money all over the place here.
There's opportunity everywhere in the junkyard.
You know, if say, for instance, my commission check is too low and I can't take care of the bills, I can look over here and see, "Hey what's this tail light going for?" These headlights right here, after I cleaned and polished them, blood, sweat, and tears, took care of my daughter's dance class.
I think it's amazing what he's done these past years to help us using the junkyard alone.
It's a huge miracle.
I need to test out this new transmission.
His transmission's fine.
I feel rattling, I didn't hear any humming.
- It went straight.
- It went straight.
- We didn't get hit, so - Yeah.
And I didn't go airborne.
Beating a supercar with my Pinto would be enjoyable and friggin' hilarious because when I meet him at the end of that track and they realize that I spanked the daylights out of them, he's gonna have to get out of that car and look at my less than $3000 car and say, "Why did I spend all this freaking money?" A sleeper car is someone taking an idea of what would be the best possible version of their car, spending tons of money and time and effort to try to do it and hoping for the best, and usually running into lots of problems.
This is decades of racing, research and development, Italian genius, and with this car there's a really good chance I'm gonna win this race, but you know what, I might be just a little bit nervous.
To be honest, I've never done launch control in this thing.
I looked it up on YouTube.
Apparently, I have to push this and this.
Yup.
And now it says, "Thrust mode possible.
" I mean it should be pretty simple so, you know, I think I should manage it but we'll find out.
And I'm about to go get a haircut because it's been a while.
- Welcome.
- Thank you.
- What'd you like to do with your hair? - Just like a trim maybe.
I like the front part.
I feel, like, maybe the back's a little too long.
Wanna bring your head all the way back? How long you in town? I'm here to do a race this weekend.
We're gonna do a quarter mile race down an airstrip with four cars side by side.
Have you raced with the guys that you're racing or - I haven't meet the guys yet actually.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
It's coconut? That's cool.
- Hmm-mm.
It's, like, the resort spray, it gives a nice texture, like you're at the beach.
When I'm not recording music or doing a concert or mixing a song, I'm trying to hang out with Hot Dog and soak up all the wisdom.
I'm Craig Williams but he's calling me Hot Dog.
I met Glasses basically, through the race community.
And we talked about racing.
I known his dad since I was kid, probably before Glasses was born.
This race for Glasses is somewhat of a comeback.
He's been out of the race game for a while.
He's been trying to concentrate on rapping and producing.
We're going up against a Lamborghini with the Monte Carlo.
I think the advantage we will have will be probably, the bottom-end and midrange take off.
We use a lot of nitrous because we need that much nitrous for a Lamborghini.
You know, Lamborghinis are so fast.
Nitrous is a thing that a lot of people are scared off.
I think Hot Dog had one back fire.
It's almost like an explosion but it's not.
The boom ain't the same but the fire and the explosion is just sick.
I'm not doing modifications because the car has already been modified.
You didn't get a fast enough car to make us feel threatened.
This is what I really do.
So there's no reason to make modification, we're already prepared.
One of the things that I was thinking about with a four-car wide race is, you know, it probably can get a little dangerous.
Some of these cars get a little squirrelly and they don't wanna get off the gas and they try to over correct or something.
You have to know if you can swerve to the right to avoid them hitting you or swerve to the left.
So it's just gonna take some skills to race four-wide.
It's really dangerous.
It's just dangerous, period.
I'm not scared of the nitrous.
I'm not scared of anything about the car.
At this point, it's just focusing on making sure I don't fuck it up.
I just don't got to fuck it up.
As far as him winning or losing, I'm pretty sure he's gonna win also so that was never really a, a thought.
So he can't lose, Glasses.
Race day, I like to have her looking good, I like to be intimidating.
If I've done everything right, there's no way I can lose.
We're gonna get this thing done.
I'm expected to win this race.
This is what we do.
The supercar is not a threat.
He's just making popcorn.
Two-step right there, old school.
We got this, right? We got this.
Ready? One, two, three, four! It's a four-cylinder panel.
But it's the turbo.
They're like really fast.
It sounds to me like he hasn't got anything 'til that turbo comes up and then it goes.
The reason why it's popping like that is it's on the two-step - so it's shutting down the cylinder.
- Oh, I know that.
And it's firing the fuel in just like - Just like yours pops when you hear - On a two-step? But the dude with the Lambo, is he chilling at some nice Sheraton, or Hilton? I'm excited to see what color it'll be.
Yeah.
I bet you it's No, I bet you it's gonna be lime green? No, it's gotta be yellow.
I know what these people think, "Oh, spoiled rich brat in a Lamborghini, probably doesn't care about the car at all.
" But you know what? Stereotypes are not always true.
- We have a really, really good chance.
- Oh, here comes the one.
Here it is.
- Yellow, you called it.
- What'd I tell you? Oh! - You called it.
- Fresh meat on the grill.
Fresh meat on the grill.
The good news is, back in my rodeo days, yellow is really, really bad luck.
Yes, it is.
You never wear yellow in the rodeo ring, ever.
- What's going on? - What's up, man? I'm Pepper.
- I'm Chip.
- Chip.
Good to meet you.
- Nice dude.
Let's check it out.
- Thank you.
Yeah, it's from the factory.
So probably not as custom as yours.
- You've been driving this bad boy around? - I have been practicing.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
Feel free to open the door and check it out.
- Yeah, let's take a look.
- Can we sit in it? Yeah, sit in it.
Go ahead.
Do whatever you want.
Yeah, why not? I'm Justin.
- Justin.
Pepper.
- Nice to meet you.
- How are you doing? - Good.
So you've been working on the traction control and all that kind of good stuff? Well, no, so I had, like, 100 Italians work on that for me.
I had never done the launch mode until today.
- Okay.
- I practiced it.
And it's pretty vicious.
- Okay.
Have you met Glasses yet? No? - I haven't.
Glasses.
- What's up? How you doing? I'm Pepper.
- How you doing? Nice to meet you.
- You too.
- Beautiful car.
- I appreciate that.
Are you racing today? - Yeah.
Which car? Monte Carlo.
- That's the one you got to worried about.
- That one I should worry about? It looks like it got one tire on the back going all the way across.
- That tire.
- Three wheels, that's it? - Yeah.
- Oh, man.
I was told this is the one I should worry about? - Really? - This looks like a beast.
It is.
It's a big beast.
- Beautiful car.
- Yeah.
- Yours is too.
Yours is beautiful.
- Oh, thank you.
It's not even mine though, that's the problem.
Oh, you borrowed it? Or Daddy's car? - No, definitely not Daddy's car.
- No? Girlfriend's? - Hey, that'd be a catch.
No.
- Yeah, it would.
- Bet she'd rather ride in this.
Oh, yeah.
- You think? Oh, the trash-talking begins.
I had to look up how to do launch control in YouTube.
Yeah.
It worked out well this morning so I'm hoping it works out the same today.
So you learned how to drive the car in YouTube? Well, no, I mean the launch control.
Well, but that's driving the car, right? - It's part of driving the car, yeah.
- Fair enough.
I'm just I don't have You can't YouTube a '46 Plymouth and see how to get it to leave the line.
I was just curious.
You might get confused trying to look that up.
Yeah, I might.
I'm an old hillbilly.
Dude, he's too easy.
"This car does everything for me.
" Is that what he said? That's what cracked me up, when he said he learned how to drive on YouTube.
- Did he? - It's freaking YouTube.
He goes, "Well, I've been practicing and watching YouTube.
" Call for drivers.
Drivers only.
The race begins from a standing start and ends when the first vehicle to complete the race in legal fashion crosses the official finish line.
The race will start upon a signal visible to all vehicles, so five red, five yellow, and then green.
If a vehicle has a false start, all vehicles will be recalled to the starting line.
If a vehicle has a second false start, that vehicle will be disqualified.
If there's a false start, you guys notify us at the end of the race? We'll notify you once we identified that a false start has happened.
Vehicles will be allowed one tire warming run, or burnout, before the race to clean and heat their tires if so desired.
- Any questions on anything? - No, sir.
- We're good.
- All right.
Thank you.
Okay, fellows.
Good luck to you.
I've done everything I possibly can to prepare.
I left the car running for about six hours.
I am probably at a 16th of the tank.
I'm just trying to get as much weight out as possible.
The one I'm worried about is that teal-purple, A beautiful car, but some serious stuff under that hood.
Chip and his Pinto is the one I'm worried about.
That car is very light and has a lot of horsepower.
I know it's only a four-cylinder but it's electronically injected turbocharged.
That car is gonna give me problems.
Every single one of these cars has a lot of power.
But if you can't make that thing stick to the road, you're not gonna beat me.
I wouldn't came this far if I didn't think I could win.
There's some good competition, this is better competition than I thought.
As long as I worry about how I start and making sure those tires plant down to stay down that track and it, you know, it don't blow the tires away, I'm in a good shape.
- I'm sitting in this oven.
- Is that better? A lot better.
- All right, man.
- All right, man.
Good luck.
- We got this.
- We got this.
So it all starts with a burnout.
The burnout is the most important thing, you know, spinning the tires.
That's burnout for him.
Spin it all.
Look at the clutch, make sure it's not on fire.
The wheels didn't spin at all? Are you kidding me? Damn it.
Yeah, that's a burnout.
Pepper in the Lamborghini, cute.
He has eight hours behind the steering wheel, I have three and a half years in this car and years before that.
He should have stayed home.
My reputation's on the line.
If I lose to a sleeper car, I'm going to be put in a cone of shame.
I just can't do that.
I have to win this race.
And if I lose it, it's gonna hurt.
First place is gonna be me and Big Booty Judy.
Second place is gonna be between the Monte Carlo and the Pinto.
Supercar is gonna be last.
Lambo, Plymouth Pinto last.
- Nice.
- All right.
- That thing is quick.
- Yeah, it is quick.
That Lambo kind of left early, guys.
- We, we thought it was clean.
- You might wanna look at that.
You guys might wanna look at that film.
I think he left before the green light.
They're gonna look at the film.
Yeah, in my book, that's a win.
- I don't think so.
- No? - We might be able to check it.
Yeah.
- We can check.
You saw how he jumped off the line.
It looked like he must have taken off early but he didn't.
- He launched hard.
- Good.
And you both got off the line together.
And you got into a little bit of wheel spin.
- Boy, that's surprising.
- Right.
Dude, I was honestly kind of worried about you, for real.
- But I mean, if it - I was the only one close to you.
I lost.
I lost fair and square, no excuses.
That Lamborghini showed me up.
And I don't get showed up very often.
And, I probably won't sleep for the next three days.
When I first let off the brake pedal there's was a millisecond of hesitation.
I had this thought run through my mind, "Man, this is it.
I just lost.
" And then I'm getting quarter way down the track and I don't see anyone.
I'm halfway down the track.
And I'm still, like, chugging along.
I don't see anyone.
I think it's great that I was able to compete with a supercar.
It was quite the experience.
I made a decision.
I kind of knew it was gonna be a decision that was gonna probably cost me the win.
I just had to turn the nitrous off.
Being this my first race in ten years, have a big hit of nitrous come in, it could be dangerous.
It just would have been a bad thing, I might have been somewhere over here, in the grassy knolls, so you got to take the wins with the losses.
I'm really impressed with the Plymouth.
That guy drove the fuck out that car.
You can see when the nitrous came on, the black track two, 300 feet, he never lifted.
Justin, his heart big.
It was a really hot day.
Even the ground, I could barely touch it.
And that heat, the clutch just said, you know what? That's it.
We've had enough.
But I wanna thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to share our lives, you know.
And what we do in our lives, and what the junkyard dogs, what we do.
We're not just a bunch of knuckleheads.
We're, we're not a bunch of welfare recipients.
We're guys that are out there, working hard, supporting our families, and figuring out a way to still have fun at the track.
I had faith in myself, I had faith in the car, and luckily, it all came together and I got a victory.
I'm really happy.
This Lamborghini Huracán is a seriously amazing car.
You feel like you're skydiving, like, you just jumped out of a plane just by hitting the gas pedal, it's nuts.
And of course, this is amazing.
This is the coolest feeling ever to win.