Resurrected Rides (2024) s01e02 Episode Script
Mustang
1
Tonight, comedian Chris Redd
will take on a single contestant
in a sweet, one-of-a-kind car game show.
Welcome to my new game show.
A show that taps into two genres
that we know you, the audience member,
has an appetite for.
I put two identical cars
next to each other,
and I have a contestant tell me
which one's a car,
and here's the twist,
which one's a car covered in cake.
The one on the left is the car cake.
Okay, hold on. Hold on.
Don't answer so fast.
Let it sit for a second.
-Okay, which one is the cake?
-It
Take a hard look at both of these
identical vehicles. Think about this.
One on the left.
Okay.
Cake locked.
Now it's time for me to take a bite
to see if he is right.
Ow! I mean, Mmm!
Guess you were right.
Is It Carke?
Are y'all serious? For real? Is It Carke?
What the hell is this show anyway, man?
Is It Carke? That is so lazy.
Two of the most beautiful things in life.
Family and wild horses.
I mean, if I saw a family of wild horses
or wild horses hanging out with my family,
my heart would explode.
Come on now. What?
Why am I sounding so sentimental?
Because I'm dealing with a family
with a dead horse in their garage.
It's not a real dead horse.
I'm talking about a 1990 Mustang.
And that was the most cleverest segue
you've ever heard in your life.
Shake. Shake.
Meet Carter.
Sit, Jimo.
This is where I spend most my time.
This high school Star Wars nerd
is looking forward to getting his license
so he can drive
his dusty, old car right here.
This car was gifted to my son by my mom.
Thirty-three years old. It's a 1990.
It's been Carter's dream car
since he was, like, four years old.
He'd look at that car. "That's mine."
There's lots of damages,
discoloration.
With his official driver's test
only a couple weeks away,
Carter's mom and grandma want him
to be able to roll up to school in style.
- Ooh.
- Ooh.
-I can't believe it actually works.
-I know.
So, naturally,
they submitted him for the show.
Carter and I have had a very good
relationship from the very beginning.
She's always been there for me
through tough times.
It's really good to have her around.
I love this car. I love this car.
The car came from my significant other.
So it has been a very special car to me.
Just to think
it's been rotting all these years.
-It hasn't. It's been protected.
-Not rotting, but
What it was doing was
sitting there waiting for you.
Growing up, I didn't want to have
a car everyone else had.
It's special to me 'cause
it's special to my Grandma.
So I feel like it's something
that brings us together.
It was a perfect car for me.
Now it needs to be a perfect car for him.
I'm so excited.
We had to pick Carter.
How could we say no
to his cool-ass Grandmama.
You see them glasses?
I'm about to go give them
the good news, baby.
Give them that news
like Xzibit circa 2000.
We had the big-ass pants.
Big-ass pants.
And a big-ass shirt, right?
He'd be in the street. Who dog is this?
Jumping all over the place on beat.
And he would say some line like,
"Let's do this."
From sun up, sun down ♪
- It's a lot of rocks.
- We get money, money, money, money ♪
What's going on, Grandma Mary?
I'm here to resurrect the ride,
but first things first.
That's not my voice.
I'm Chris. Can I change clothes?
This is a costume, and I look ridiculous.
Yes? How you doing?
Somebody call Carter.
Carter! Where you at Carter?
I went into white people's houses
and started yelling.
- Yo!
- What's going on, big dawg?
Yeah. You got this.
- Yes. All right. Now, brake now.
- Brake! Brake! Brake!
- Yay!
- Good job!
- Grandma, when'd you get the car?
- 1990.
What would you wanna change
about the inside?
I just feel like
it looks too old.
Like, kangaroo pouch not cutting it.
You got the kangaroo pouch
in the Mustang.
I need some cup holders.
Yeah. Where'd you hold a cup, Grandma?
Just in your hand?
There wasn't any liquid allowed
in the car.
There wasn't even liquid.
- No liquid.
- You're thirsty till you get there.
Okay, as this is right now,
if you pulled up to your friends,
how would they react?
They'd probably say it looked like
my grandma's rug and
Because it is your grandma's rug
and your grandma's car.
They'd rip on me for sure.
All my friends got their new cars.
We gonna make sure when you pull up,
you really pull up.
They're gonna be like, "Damn.
I want an old car that's now a new car."
-You know?
-Yeah.
Mom. Are you nervous
that Carter is going to be out here
in these streets with a dope whip?
- Yep.
- Why?
Because there's gonna be girls
wanting to ride in the car with you.
Yeah, there's gonna be girls, Carter.
-There's room.
-No.
There's room!
You gonna get grounded every day, dawg.
You ain't gonna be able to do nothing.
So we gotta make the engine quiet
so you can sneak out the house.
Yeah.
Ayo, Carter. You get your license
in a couple weeks. You excited?
Yeah. Like, I wanna have this nice car
and go, like, 80 miles per hour speed.
Eighty miles an hour is breaking the law.
What kind of stuff are you into, man?
I'm thinking about
how we wanna hook your car up.
I like Star Wars.
Oh, you a big Star Wars head?
-Since I was little.
-What color do you like?
I feel like if I changed the interior
to, like, all black
-Yeah.
-get some, like, LEDs in here.
It's like you'll be driving
in a video game.
Yeah.
So what does this car mean to you?
It means so much
'cause my grandma has always been
the main part of my life,
and I understand how much it means to her.
I don't even need all the fancy stuff.
This car still means way more
than any money could buy.
- And how does that make you feel, Grandma?
- Makes Grandma want to cry.
-Right? It made me want to cry.
-Yeah.
We're gonna cry together, man.
Your grandma's cool, bro,
and she wears cool stuff.
Yeah.
This sweater's ill, bro.
I want one of them.
And we're back.
Now it's time I take your car,
make this thing dope, a'ight?
All right.
I'm excited.
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Finally, some American muscle, baby.
- This is clean.
- Whoo-hoo!
- We can work with her.
The car is dope. It's rare as hell.
How excited are y'all about this?
Oh my God! Buddy, this thing is amazing!
Let's talk game plan, y'all.
Now, my boy's 15 years old, right?
All his friends are getting new cars.
It was so sweet
that this kid loves his grandma so much.
He wants something that's from her
that means something, that's sentimental.
Dawg got me real in my feelings. You know?
That's so adorable.
It was mad sweet, but we don't do sweet
on this show. This is a gangster car show!
But he does love Star Wars, right?
So I'm thinking we Stormtrooper
the hell out this thing.
Know what I mean?
How can we make it
be real, like, spaceship?
When he sits in that thing,
I want him to feel like
he's driving to Mars or something.
You're definitely upgrading the interior,
maybe with some new touch screens,
all different gauges,
putting some lighting in there,
make it like he's in the cockpit.
You know? Something dope.
Yeah!
Uh, maybe a Cobra body kit
on this thing.
Put on some nicer wheels,
make it look like that hovercraft style.
That's ill. Nelson, talk tech, baby.
We'll find something to do in the trunk
that's maybe some kind of a droid system.
Hell yeah, man.
Dawg, he gonna have, like, a cool-ass
robot Siri in here. It's gonna be fire.
-Yeah, it'll tell him to slow down.
-It'll tell him to slow down?
-Avoid objects.
-Avoid bad women in his life.
She's not the one.
Don. What you thinking, my boy?
I'll build taillights.
- Taillights?
- Yeah.
So we went all down the line
doing Star Wars sh,
and you came with taillights, Don?
But not just any lights.
There's a reflective mirror.
When you actually look into
the back of the brake light,
it looks like it's an infinity light.
It goes all the way down and never ends.
Oh, I love that, man. Well, look.
I'm gonna let my dream team get to work.
Now you have one week 'cause this boy's
about to get his license and needs a car.
- Yeah.
- Absolutely.
And I'mma get on out of here.
Uh, beam me up, Scotty! I'm
Nope. Uh, to infinity and beyond!
Mm-mm.
Never give up. Never surrender!
There's so many space franchises.
I'm gonna piss a lot of people off
on Twitter. Uh, I'm out of here!
I'll call you.
Everybody talkin' like they ♪
This dash is beat.
We gotta do something with it.
If you wanna smoke, yeah
Come and talk to me ♪
All right, Lace,
we got to get rid of this bumper.
It's ugly.
It's very outdated. So what we have
for it now is the Cobra bumper.
- Nice.
- Let's take this one off.
Mm-hmm. Simple as that.
So now we can do
the honorary toss.
- Yeet it?
- Yeet.
I mean, pretty much since
back in Carroll Shelby's time,
the Cobra was always
the performance mark for the Mustang.
Now, we're not gonna make this thing
a performance car.
We're definitely gonna
make it look the part.
Heck, yeah. That's what matters.
We can't put a 16-year-old kid
in a Cobra Mustang, anyway.
We don't wanna see him on one
of those videos going into a wall.
Nice. I think it looks better already.
I think it'd look better
if we color match it.
-You don't like the raw plastic look?
-Mm-mm.
Anyway,
let's move around to the back.
We gotta get rid of this hatchback
and pop on a spoiler
because no '90s sports car
is complete without one.
And this one is super sexy.
Oh my.
What do you think, Don?
You want the truth or the fluff?
I want the truth.
- I think it's ugly, buddy.
- Okay, that's
It's just the way it curves
and how thick all this is.
- It goes with the spaceship theme.
- We can't give this to him.
Gotta have the vision here, you know?
So go back over there.
Go to your welding table for now.
-Focus on your other stuff.
-Prepare your mind.
- All right.
- Gonna be the baddest brake light ever.
The whole idea
of an infinity light is like
when you used to go into
an old playhouse at a carnival,
look in a mirror,
and it would keep on going for infinity.
It looked like it never stopped.
I'm gonna do the same thing,
but with an actual light itself.
When you look at it,
it'll look like it's never-ending.
All right, here we go.
First, I'm gonna design this bad boy
on the CNC machine
and cut the pieces on sheet metal.
From there,
we'll go ahead and deburr the edges,
which is just a fancy way to say
we make them smooth and shiny
so it will weld better.
Now that the old doohickey box
is assembled, let's light this baby up.
Boom. I was kind of mocking the actual
Millennium Falcon because it was bluish.
But I can change
the hue of all the palettes,
change up different strobe patterns.
When you look at it from the back,
the lights will reflect on the mirror,
come through the two-way, and make it look
like the LEDs are blinking infinitely.
I'm hoping this takes away all the views
from that dumb spoiler
we have on the back of it,
and people will look at this like,
"Yeah! All right."
Now I'm gonna go ahead
and put my layered acrylic in here.
I just gotta drill these holes,
layer this in the bezel,
put my outside fascia piece on,
from there, we'll put some tin on it,
and we're good to go.
This whole thing will be done.
I I am so stoked about this.
I'm gonna drill some of these out.
Pray for the best.
I've never drilled acrylic before.
I'm sure it's easy-peasy.
Let's just try it out.
Golly. Just took
the whole freaking end piece off.
Try again. We're gonna edit this out.
You won't see this.
-Hey.
-Hi. What's up?
I need a consult
on how I'm gonna paint this droid.
Oh.
So you mean
you want me to paint the droid?
Yes? Yes. Honestly, yes.
I can do that.
What does this
What What is this droid exactly?
-You wanna see what I'm working with?
-I probably should.
Probably should. It'd be helpful.
Try this again.
Mother trucker. I'm gonna do another one.
Wee!
Stupid!
This is dumb.
Golly.
Yep. I'm done.
Nelson!
So this is an accurate size
using augmented reality
of what this droid's gonna look like.
-Yeah. It's not
-Ooh, that's fancy.
- Exactly.
- Nelson!
Nelson!
That should fit in the trunk.
Well, if it doesn't, it's not like
we have time to do a second one, so
Nelson!
Damn.
I need you.
Well, you let me know
when you need the paint
- Nelson!
- and you have fun with the rest.
-Yes, thank you so much.
-'Kay.
Nelson! I need you.
Nelson. I need you, buddy.
Dude?
-Can you help me?
-What?
I built this badass box.
Got the two-way mirror working,
got the LEDs rockin',
and I am on the struggle bus
- Ooh.
- with this.
I need your dainty fingers
to help me drill some holes.
Uh
- What did you cut this with?
- A drill.
I have too much horsepower in my forearms.
I kept on blasting through it.
Yeah, you don't need
to be a gorilla with this.
What you need to do is
have a process of removing material
rather than abating the material.
You can use this bit and just go slower.
I'm removing material slowly but steadily.
This bit kind of sucks.
Is this the size of hole you even need?
Yes.
Good Lord.
Wow.
Taking your time with this material
is the key to success with it.
All right, I think we got a plan.
I'm gonna have you make the lens.
- I mean, I'll do it.
- Yeah?
This is something
I can manage for you on a timely basis.
Thank you.
'Kay, bye.
It's powder coat time!
I'm so excited.
Today, I'm gonna be doing
powder coating on these wheels,
which I'm super excited about
because powder coating is my jam.
Step one. I'm going to use a base,
and it is this candle green color,
which I know sounds so crazy,
but that's gonna be step one.
Powder coating is
a lot more durable than paint,
so it's perfect
for these metal pieces like wheels,
anything that you know will get
a lot of wear and tear and abuse
because it's gonna hold up.
We're gonna put them in the oven
for a partial cure, about 15 minutes.
And then, once they're cool,
I'll apply this bright candy red,
which is called lollipop red,
which is a super bright clear coat.
And basically, this bright red is going to
dilute itself a little bit with the green,
and it makes
the most perfect pretty maroon color.
All right, Saul.
There you go.
This is out of a 2018 Mustang.
Something like that. S550.
Okay, S550 Mustang.
You got the seats,
got door panels, you got the console.
Normally, we have quite a bit of time
at our shop to do this,
but you guys don't give me enough time.
So let's go see how she overlays.
Let's check it out.
We'll have to trim some stuff,
but you can kind of see the vision here.
This new modern,
you know, dash looks really nice.
But now I'm starting to see
all the little bits and pieces
that need to go to make this work.
Not only do we have to custom cut
this new console,
but we have to fit
a lot of other things into this thing.
The new dash screen,
the lighting, the cluster that goes here.
AC controls are here.
Electrical needs to be extended.
It's like opening a can of worms.
-Pretty much.
-Yeah, I think we can make this work.
If you think you can get this fitted,
this'll be your project,
and I'll get started on the seats.
Cool, cool.
I feel like we got 99 problems,
but an interior ain't one.
-I think that's our main problem.
-I guess it is.
Turns out upgrading
a 30-year-old car with new interior
in under a week is easier said than done.
But since Oscar feels confident
replacing the dash and door panels,
it frees me up to work on the upholstery.
We don't have enough time to build
Carter all new seats from scratch.
But luckily, we managed to score
these 2019 Ford Mustang seats
for the front of the car.
But now I'm going to have to rush
to build a matching back seat.
First, I'll need to cut
the foam and vinyl
and then head
to the sewing machine to sew it together.
With vinyl being a synthetic
material, it's easier to clean, wipe.
It It lasts a long time,
and he can kind of, uh,
tell his friends that this is leather,
and they wouldn't know the difference.
Once the outer shell's complete,
secure it with hog rings,
which are like staples
but stronger and more malleable.
Put the last couple hog rings
on this thing.
And finally, give it that big old slap.
This is to get it to lay more natural.
But it's also fun.
There she is.
Yes. All right, so I don't want to start
with "so." I'm sorry.
Okay, and ready, go.
I'm super excited about this paint job,
even though it's white,
which is a plot twist for me,
because there's
some really cool aspects to it.
It's in my head. You'll see it.
So, you're probably thinking,
"Shayna, you hate white."
"Why are you so excited?"
Well, first of all,
the kid loves Stormtroopers,
and honestly, I respect that.
And I have some tricks up my sleeve
to take this Stormtrooper-inspired paint
to the next level.
As a tribute to Grandma
I'm going to add a maroon racing stripe
almost identical to the OG color.
Tape it off.
Spray it with another coat of white.
Boring. I know.
But here is how to make it a showstopper.
We're doing a nifty, nifty
glow-in-the-dark paint.
We have our cool little glowy powder.
A little bit goes a long way for this.
Well, we're gonna do more than that.
Since we're on a time crunch,
we thought it was a great idea
to try something we've never tried before.
When paint is kind of gritty like this,
it makes me nervous
as far as how it's going to spray.
All right.
Glow-in-the-dark cars aren't for everyone.
So I'm pretty worried about
how Carter's gonna react.
That's why I'm not gonna spray
the whole thing with this stuff.
Instead, I'm going to tape off the areas
where I don't want it to glow
Get up and go, get up and go ♪
and spray some accents
around the racing stripe.
I'm in love with it. Honestly.
It turned out way better
than I could've imagined.
Hey, I agreed to paint it white, didn't I?
It's white.
My job is done.
Are you following me?
All right, Saul.
The dash is pretty much done.
- You are not done.
- I'm done.
Take a look at all this fiberglass work
and custom craftsmanship
to make this Tesla-style screen
fit in this box body Mustang.
It looks all right. It looks pretty dope.
Remember you said
this wouldn't fit?
AC controls are here.
Electrical needs to be extended.
I'm still looking at it. I'm still like,
"Hey, I think we can make this work."
I really doubted you, man.
So, I gotta take this moment of glory
and then just congratulate myself.
I'd like to thank myself
for all this hard work.
Let me turn this thing on.
What happened?
-Uh
-Is the battery dead or?
-No, we charged it. It's connected.
-There's power.
I hear something.
Um, let me call Nelson over here.
He's a whiz with all this wiring.
Whiz kid.
Whiz kid.
-That's not gonna work. There's no way.
-What do you mean?
It's not even the same. They don't
That's speaking English,
and this car is speaking Latin.
What could we do to make this one work?
Because I just spent
a couple days making this happen,
and we're running out of time.
-There's no way.
-What do you mean?
Do you guys still have the factory dash?
Yeah, but it's in six pieces right now.
Do you have glue?
It's beyond glue.
Like, you need a miracle.
You need to water into wine stuff.
Oscar was hoping to install
a fancy new touch screen in the Mustang,
but the one he got
is designed for a 2019 Mustang.
Even a 30-year-old car has tons
of complicated electronics to connect.
Air conditioning, indicator lights,
fuel level, temperature gauge.
And none of those things can communicate
with a touch-screen design
for a modern car.
So, now we have two problems.
First, they need to buy
a whole new electronic system
that can communicate with a 1990 Mustang.
And second, they need a new dash
to replace the one they cut up.
And so, um, with that,
I'm gonna head back inside. So
May God be with you.
Toodles.
So, basically,
we're going back to the stock.
I said that was gonna be an issue.
All that stuff.
I mean, it fits.
I mean, that was our conversation.
-That it was gonna fit. It fits.
-At least admit it. You messed up.
I don't think I messed up
because it fits.
I think we maybe just get a new dash
and call it a day.
-Go do it, then. Go do it.
-I got it. I'll get it.
You concentrate on your end.
Little brothers. Never listen.
Now we have to tear all this stuff apart,
start over.
-Carter, what's going on? How you feeling?
-I'm good.
We got a dope-ass Mustang
that we're working on.
We'll have that ready for you
in a couple days.
Before we do that,
gotta make sure you can drive.
That's why I brought Johnson here.
-He's a student driving instructor.
-Hey.
I'm just gonna observe.
You'll barely know I'm there.
-All right.
-But you'll know I'm there.
'Cause I'm the only Black guy in the car.
All right.
Hey, Carter!
I got some real life situations
out here, man. You ready?
-Yeah.
-All right, man. Don't be hitting Biden.
-I'm really nervous.
-Just do your very best.
You definitely should know
the difference between D and R
because Grandma
right in front of us, a'ight?
Watch out for the idiots
on the road.
Put it in reverse.
Hey, I got a booty on my phone.
You wanna see, Carter?
You ain't supposed to be looking, Carter!
Why you look?!
Oh!
-Oh no! That baby's not gonna be the same!
-Oh no!
No. The cone!
The cone had a wife and kids, man!
Oh! Pedestrian.
- No!
- All the way to the left.
You murdered my body! I am dead now!
Got him.
You gotta look out for pedestrians.
Yes, man. Me.
Man, so you know, with a lot of horsepower
comes a lot of responsibility.
Yeah. I got you.
Keep practicing with your grandma,
whoever is brave enough to ride with you.
Take Johnson for another ride
so he can show you what it is.
- I got you.
- I'mma give your car back ASAP
because you really need to practice.
And get Mario Kart, dawg.
What are you doing?
Saul, when I say I got it,
I got it, Saul. It's here.
Let's forget about the past.
Let's start fresh
and get this thing going.
There we go.
Put it on top. Oh.
Here it is. 1991 fox body dash
here guaranteed to fit.
So boom, Saul.
I don't know why you're bragging.
I mean, this was your mistake.
I mean, I see this as a total win for me.
So, I mean
You need to get this painted
so we can get it in the car.
-That's a win.
-It's not.
In Star Wars,
droids do all kinds of crazy things
like fix and fly spaceships
and communicate with aliens.
I only have a few days left to build this,
so mine is not gonna do any of that.
But it will be able to move its head, eye,
and talk to Carter if he has questions.
So I'm assembling now the droid innards.
It's two RC car motors,
two servos, specifically.
I got all these components
at an RC car store
because we don't have a robotics division.
So we're gonna go with what we got.
This bracket
is hard mounted to the body.
This will all actuate the head
and the eyeball or the lens eye.
The rotation
is gonna be along this axis here.
Boop, boop, boop.
That's gonna turn the head.
We also have a secondary axis,
which is gonna go like this.
This will rotate it up and down.
The next step is to mount
the servo motor inside the body
solder the battery pack
to this repurposed RC car controller
and finally,
we'll give it a test.
And it knows. See?
It looked at Daddy. It's great.
Okay. So everything we just did,
we're gonna undo it,
and then I'm gonna hand it over
to Shayna to do her thing.
Oh, I've been waiting for this.
Behold.
I don't care how you paint it.
I trust your vision.
I'mma paint it cool.
-Kick some ass. Take some names.
-Okay.
Wait, hold on. I got more parts.
Gotta have her paint this pizza tray.
- You have more.
- I do.
We got some exhaust vents.
Got a rocket booster.
We got a little knobby.
Oh, I'm all right.
I know. No, look, I will help you
because if you drop it all
Let's go.
- we're effed.
- Just walk.
Let me get the door.
Open the door.
I was a waitress
for three years. I'm not gonna drop it.
We're gonna paint this
to go along with the Mustang colors.
I have a lot of cool lines to work with,
so I'm stoked to see
what I can do with this thing.
Because a lot of the characters
of Star Wars
are very robotic and geometric,
we're gonna carry that theme to the paint,
which is why we're coming
with the airbrush.
Since there's a lot
of detail in this,
it's a lot easier with the airbrush.
It's just a very, very condensed version
of a big spray gun
to get our really fine details
and to just give it some effects
that I can't get with anything else.
Excuse me, friends.
- I have a droid for you.
- Oh snap!
Oh my gosh! It's so cute.
- That's good.
- So cute?
It's cute. Is it not?
What'd you name it?
Um
- Little Bing Bong.
- Oh God.
-Ziggy.
-I like Ziggy.
Ziggy? I like Ziggy.
Well, we gotta figure out Ziggy's new home
because she's kind of heavy.
Let me get in. I'm just nervous.
Aw, Ziggy is kind of cute.
- Super cute.
- He's gonna be stoked when he sees this.
All right, team.
Let's pull together and get this done.
- All right.
- Let's wrap it up!
Homestretch. Let's go.
This Mustang is going home
to Carter and Grandma tomorrow.
So tonight, we all need to work together
and bring this thing home.
May the Force be with us.
I'm gonna do Saul a solid
and attach the seats
My girl ♪
since he'll be busy
installing the door panels.
Look at that.
Like a Taylor Swift concert.
Meanwhile,
Don's going to install his infinity light
right under his favorite feature.
The spoiler, which I think
turned out pretty sick, by the way.
Oscar's gonna build a custom seat
for Nelson's droid, Ziggy, to live in.
It even has Carter's name
engraved in Aurebesh,
the official Star Wars language.
Oh my God, he's so cute I might die.
And if all that isn't enough
to blow Carter's socks off,
Oscar and Saul are using
hundreds of LED lights
to make him a custom headliner
to resemble the night sky.
It's like the glow-in-the-dark stickers
you used to put on your ceiling as a kid,
but a million times better.
And that, my friends, is how
you transform Grandma's old Mustang
into a teenage Star Wars fan dream car.
All right, Carter and Grandma.
I love this car, and I love this story
'cause it's a grandma giving
an heirloom down to a grandson.
Okay, now, wave at that team right there
that helped make your car amazing.
They put their blood, sweat,
and tears into this car to make it dope.
And I stood by and did nothing to help.
So, you guys nervous?
- A little bit.
- What you nervous for?
It's just more of, like,
I wanna see how much it changed.
Well, it's a truck now.
Are y'all ready to see this car?
Let's do it.
And I really hope you love it too
'cause it's out there.
- That's cool.
- That is.
What?
Oh my God. Who did that?
Dude.
All right, Carter, Grandma.
Please close your eyes.
No peeking.
And open your eyes.
Yo!
Dude, that's crazy.
-Wow.
-Dude, it's tight.
- They put lights on it too. New mirrors.
- And it all works too.
- Really?
- It's crazy how they all work.
Oh, I like the rims. Yeah.
- I didn't expect this much.
- You didn't?
-Nah.
-So we could've saved money?
You didn't have to do this much, y'all.
Sorry about that.
All right, man, while you soak it in,
let's talk about this car and the details.
So let's start with the obvious,
the paint job.
Well, what we have learned about you
is that you love your grandma,
and you're a huge Star Wars fan.
So, we went with white to give it
that Stormtrooper kind of Empire vibe.
And with the racing stripe,
we used the original maroon of the car
because you have to remember your roots
and why you have such a badass car.
-Dude
-But wait. There's more.
- Uh-oh.
- Can we turn off the lights?
She uses her special skill ♪
- Oh, it glows in the dark!
- Look at the hood. Look at the hood.
Dude, that's crazy.
So what you're seeing here
is photophosphorus accents.
So with light,
all those little stripes will charge,
and then when it's nighttime, it glows.
Yeah, now you'll always
be able to find where you parked, my boy.
- Smart.
- So will every bird that flies above you.
- All right, Oscar. Tell 'em what you did.
- Yeah.
So, the Cobra was the fastest,
most badass Mustang
that they ever produced.
So we reincarnated your car
with a Cobra body kit
so it can look like a fast car.
But don't get your hopes up.
It still has the four-cylinder engine.
Exactly. So we kept just a really nice
reliable starter engine in there
because, no offense Carter,
this is your first car.
- True.
- You do not need to go fast.
-Cool.
-Yeah, it does go slow.
But it looks fast.
-Donny! Mr. Whiz-Bang himself.
-Chris A!
No, no. That don't work, the going back.
This thing I designed is special.
It not only has a brake light,
taillight, blinkers,
it looks like a thruster when it's on.
- What the?
- Gotta hit a few buttons.
Thrust engaged.
Dude, what the
This is what they call an infinity light.
We have a bunch of programs in there.
I can tune it to any colors.
Really?
-Designed just for your car.
-Thank you. Means a lot.
Align the colors with
whatever neighborhood you're driving in.
No. Uh, if you like
what you see on the outside,
y'all gonna love the inside.
Saul. Show us what's good, bro.
You guys ready to check it out? Come on.
What? No way.
Redid did the whole thing.
New seats from top to bottom,
upholstery throughout,
door panels, carpet.
You name it. Even the digital displays
for your gauges. You can see that.
Put a new 13.3-inch screen in there.
I mean, you can watch movies.
We have an Xbox
Really?
under the seat, so you can sit down
and play video games with your friends.
That's where my Xbox went.
Why don't you show them
the starlight headliner?
Lean back. Lean the seat back.
- Yo!
- Look at that.
No way!
We had to put
650 fiber-optic lights in the headliner.
It's that much?
A lot of lights in there.
Yeah, man. You looking like
you're not trying to get out that car.
- It's crazy.
- So, what else we got, man?
Nelson, you want to show 'em?
All right. So, it's in the trunk.
Whoo!
Yeah!
It's not just that.
This is something you control with this.
When I go left, you go right.
And it actually does something
a little bit cooler than that.
You can actually query it.
Hey, Ziggy. Are you alive?
Artificially, maybe.
But not in the same way you are.
So you can ask it complex questions.
It will reply.
And it's also removable.
It'll be your copilot as you learn
to drive and navigate around town.
You can totally just lift it up,
take it inside,
and it can hang out with you
inside your house.
It's way better than I could ask for.
Thank you, everyone.
It's amazing. You guys did
an incredible job on it.
I've never seen a car
with a droid in it before!
Man, none of us have.
-I don't think we could be more happier.
-No. We are both very happy.
I gotta ask you guys.
Can you say that
your car has been resurrected?
It's been beyond resurrected.
Yeah, baby! We are ready to ride!
That's what we did!
I knew that it was going to be
something incredible.
But this was beyond anything
I could have even imagined.
I think my friends
are gonna be really jealous 'cause
they've never seen a car like this.
-What's your favorite part of the car?
-The light on the back.
Yeah!
Donny boy won the contest
that wasn't a contest!
Right now!
Thank you to everybody
for the incredible job you did
and the effort you've put into this car.
I'm just so excited for him.
I'm just so, so excited for him.
It came in here as my Mustang,
and I was very attached to it.
But in looking at it now,
it's Carter's car,
and I am so happy
I have had the car to give him.
We'll just have to pay the consequences
with the other grandchildren.
-Ask Ziggy if Donnie's cute.
-I just say it and it'll answer?
"Hey, Ziggy, is Donnie cute?"
Hey, Ziggy, is Donnie cute?
Absolutely.
But as soon as he opens his mouth,
it's gone.
Take that, Donnie.
Jess is a wonderful dog mom.
Give me kisses. Mmm!
- This is what I call the puke mobile.
- Oh, I can smell it from here.
How about we put
suicide doors on this car?
- A hinge won't fit there.
- Back to the drawing board.
Here's your car, baby!
I love that!
Ha-ha ♪
Yeah, yeah ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Ouch! ♪
Oh, I like that ♪
That's it, that's it ♪
Hey! ♪
Tonight, comedian Chris Redd
will take on a single contestant
in a sweet, one-of-a-kind car game show.
Welcome to my new game show.
A show that taps into two genres
that we know you, the audience member,
has an appetite for.
I put two identical cars
next to each other,
and I have a contestant tell me
which one's a car,
and here's the twist,
which one's a car covered in cake.
The one on the left is the car cake.
Okay, hold on. Hold on.
Don't answer so fast.
Let it sit for a second.
-Okay, which one is the cake?
-It
Take a hard look at both of these
identical vehicles. Think about this.
One on the left.
Okay.
Cake locked.
Now it's time for me to take a bite
to see if he is right.
Ow! I mean, Mmm!
Guess you were right.
Is It Carke?
Are y'all serious? For real? Is It Carke?
What the hell is this show anyway, man?
Is It Carke? That is so lazy.
Two of the most beautiful things in life.
Family and wild horses.
I mean, if I saw a family of wild horses
or wild horses hanging out with my family,
my heart would explode.
Come on now. What?
Why am I sounding so sentimental?
Because I'm dealing with a family
with a dead horse in their garage.
It's not a real dead horse.
I'm talking about a 1990 Mustang.
And that was the most cleverest segue
you've ever heard in your life.
Shake. Shake.
Meet Carter.
Sit, Jimo.
This is where I spend most my time.
This high school Star Wars nerd
is looking forward to getting his license
so he can drive
his dusty, old car right here.
This car was gifted to my son by my mom.
Thirty-three years old. It's a 1990.
It's been Carter's dream car
since he was, like, four years old.
He'd look at that car. "That's mine."
There's lots of damages,
discoloration.
With his official driver's test
only a couple weeks away,
Carter's mom and grandma want him
to be able to roll up to school in style.
- Ooh.
- Ooh.
-I can't believe it actually works.
-I know.
So, naturally,
they submitted him for the show.
Carter and I have had a very good
relationship from the very beginning.
She's always been there for me
through tough times.
It's really good to have her around.
I love this car. I love this car.
The car came from my significant other.
So it has been a very special car to me.
Just to think
it's been rotting all these years.
-It hasn't. It's been protected.
-Not rotting, but
What it was doing was
sitting there waiting for you.
Growing up, I didn't want to have
a car everyone else had.
It's special to me 'cause
it's special to my Grandma.
So I feel like it's something
that brings us together.
It was a perfect car for me.
Now it needs to be a perfect car for him.
I'm so excited.
We had to pick Carter.
How could we say no
to his cool-ass Grandmama.
You see them glasses?
I'm about to go give them
the good news, baby.
Give them that news
like Xzibit circa 2000.
We had the big-ass pants.
Big-ass pants.
And a big-ass shirt, right?
He'd be in the street. Who dog is this?
Jumping all over the place on beat.
And he would say some line like,
"Let's do this."
From sun up, sun down ♪
- It's a lot of rocks.
- We get money, money, money, money ♪
What's going on, Grandma Mary?
I'm here to resurrect the ride,
but first things first.
That's not my voice.
I'm Chris. Can I change clothes?
This is a costume, and I look ridiculous.
Yes? How you doing?
Somebody call Carter.
Carter! Where you at Carter?
I went into white people's houses
and started yelling.
- Yo!
- What's going on, big dawg?
Yeah. You got this.
- Yes. All right. Now, brake now.
- Brake! Brake! Brake!
- Yay!
- Good job!
- Grandma, when'd you get the car?
- 1990.
What would you wanna change
about the inside?
I just feel like
it looks too old.
Like, kangaroo pouch not cutting it.
You got the kangaroo pouch
in the Mustang.
I need some cup holders.
Yeah. Where'd you hold a cup, Grandma?
Just in your hand?
There wasn't any liquid allowed
in the car.
There wasn't even liquid.
- No liquid.
- You're thirsty till you get there.
Okay, as this is right now,
if you pulled up to your friends,
how would they react?
They'd probably say it looked like
my grandma's rug and
Because it is your grandma's rug
and your grandma's car.
They'd rip on me for sure.
All my friends got their new cars.
We gonna make sure when you pull up,
you really pull up.
They're gonna be like, "Damn.
I want an old car that's now a new car."
-You know?
-Yeah.
Mom. Are you nervous
that Carter is going to be out here
in these streets with a dope whip?
- Yep.
- Why?
Because there's gonna be girls
wanting to ride in the car with you.
Yeah, there's gonna be girls, Carter.
-There's room.
-No.
There's room!
You gonna get grounded every day, dawg.
You ain't gonna be able to do nothing.
So we gotta make the engine quiet
so you can sneak out the house.
Yeah.
Ayo, Carter. You get your license
in a couple weeks. You excited?
Yeah. Like, I wanna have this nice car
and go, like, 80 miles per hour speed.
Eighty miles an hour is breaking the law.
What kind of stuff are you into, man?
I'm thinking about
how we wanna hook your car up.
I like Star Wars.
Oh, you a big Star Wars head?
-Since I was little.
-What color do you like?
I feel like if I changed the interior
to, like, all black
-Yeah.
-get some, like, LEDs in here.
It's like you'll be driving
in a video game.
Yeah.
So what does this car mean to you?
It means so much
'cause my grandma has always been
the main part of my life,
and I understand how much it means to her.
I don't even need all the fancy stuff.
This car still means way more
than any money could buy.
- And how does that make you feel, Grandma?
- Makes Grandma want to cry.
-Right? It made me want to cry.
-Yeah.
We're gonna cry together, man.
Your grandma's cool, bro,
and she wears cool stuff.
Yeah.
This sweater's ill, bro.
I want one of them.
And we're back.
Now it's time I take your car,
make this thing dope, a'ight?
All right.
I'm excited.
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Finally, some American muscle, baby.
- This is clean.
- Whoo-hoo!
- We can work with her.
The car is dope. It's rare as hell.
How excited are y'all about this?
Oh my God! Buddy, this thing is amazing!
Let's talk game plan, y'all.
Now, my boy's 15 years old, right?
All his friends are getting new cars.
It was so sweet
that this kid loves his grandma so much.
He wants something that's from her
that means something, that's sentimental.
Dawg got me real in my feelings. You know?
That's so adorable.
It was mad sweet, but we don't do sweet
on this show. This is a gangster car show!
But he does love Star Wars, right?
So I'm thinking we Stormtrooper
the hell out this thing.
Know what I mean?
How can we make it
be real, like, spaceship?
When he sits in that thing,
I want him to feel like
he's driving to Mars or something.
You're definitely upgrading the interior,
maybe with some new touch screens,
all different gauges,
putting some lighting in there,
make it like he's in the cockpit.
You know? Something dope.
Yeah!
Uh, maybe a Cobra body kit
on this thing.
Put on some nicer wheels,
make it look like that hovercraft style.
That's ill. Nelson, talk tech, baby.
We'll find something to do in the trunk
that's maybe some kind of a droid system.
Hell yeah, man.
Dawg, he gonna have, like, a cool-ass
robot Siri in here. It's gonna be fire.
-Yeah, it'll tell him to slow down.
-It'll tell him to slow down?
-Avoid objects.
-Avoid bad women in his life.
She's not the one.
Don. What you thinking, my boy?
I'll build taillights.
- Taillights?
- Yeah.
So we went all down the line
doing Star Wars sh,
and you came with taillights, Don?
But not just any lights.
There's a reflective mirror.
When you actually look into
the back of the brake light,
it looks like it's an infinity light.
It goes all the way down and never ends.
Oh, I love that, man. Well, look.
I'm gonna let my dream team get to work.
Now you have one week 'cause this boy's
about to get his license and needs a car.
- Yeah.
- Absolutely.
And I'mma get on out of here.
Uh, beam me up, Scotty! I'm
Nope. Uh, to infinity and beyond!
Mm-mm.
Never give up. Never surrender!
There's so many space franchises.
I'm gonna piss a lot of people off
on Twitter. Uh, I'm out of here!
I'll call you.
Everybody talkin' like they ♪
This dash is beat.
We gotta do something with it.
If you wanna smoke, yeah
Come and talk to me ♪
All right, Lace,
we got to get rid of this bumper.
It's ugly.
It's very outdated. So what we have
for it now is the Cobra bumper.
- Nice.
- Let's take this one off.
Mm-hmm. Simple as that.
So now we can do
the honorary toss.
- Yeet it?
- Yeet.
I mean, pretty much since
back in Carroll Shelby's time,
the Cobra was always
the performance mark for the Mustang.
Now, we're not gonna make this thing
a performance car.
We're definitely gonna
make it look the part.
Heck, yeah. That's what matters.
We can't put a 16-year-old kid
in a Cobra Mustang, anyway.
We don't wanna see him on one
of those videos going into a wall.
Nice. I think it looks better already.
I think it'd look better
if we color match it.
-You don't like the raw plastic look?
-Mm-mm.
Anyway,
let's move around to the back.
We gotta get rid of this hatchback
and pop on a spoiler
because no '90s sports car
is complete without one.
And this one is super sexy.
Oh my.
What do you think, Don?
You want the truth or the fluff?
I want the truth.
- I think it's ugly, buddy.
- Okay, that's
It's just the way it curves
and how thick all this is.
- It goes with the spaceship theme.
- We can't give this to him.
Gotta have the vision here, you know?
So go back over there.
Go to your welding table for now.
-Focus on your other stuff.
-Prepare your mind.
- All right.
- Gonna be the baddest brake light ever.
The whole idea
of an infinity light is like
when you used to go into
an old playhouse at a carnival,
look in a mirror,
and it would keep on going for infinity.
It looked like it never stopped.
I'm gonna do the same thing,
but with an actual light itself.
When you look at it,
it'll look like it's never-ending.
All right, here we go.
First, I'm gonna design this bad boy
on the CNC machine
and cut the pieces on sheet metal.
From there,
we'll go ahead and deburr the edges,
which is just a fancy way to say
we make them smooth and shiny
so it will weld better.
Now that the old doohickey box
is assembled, let's light this baby up.
Boom. I was kind of mocking the actual
Millennium Falcon because it was bluish.
But I can change
the hue of all the palettes,
change up different strobe patterns.
When you look at it from the back,
the lights will reflect on the mirror,
come through the two-way, and make it look
like the LEDs are blinking infinitely.
I'm hoping this takes away all the views
from that dumb spoiler
we have on the back of it,
and people will look at this like,
"Yeah! All right."
Now I'm gonna go ahead
and put my layered acrylic in here.
I just gotta drill these holes,
layer this in the bezel,
put my outside fascia piece on,
from there, we'll put some tin on it,
and we're good to go.
This whole thing will be done.
I I am so stoked about this.
I'm gonna drill some of these out.
Pray for the best.
I've never drilled acrylic before.
I'm sure it's easy-peasy.
Let's just try it out.
Golly. Just took
the whole freaking end piece off.
Try again. We're gonna edit this out.
You won't see this.
-Hey.
-Hi. What's up?
I need a consult
on how I'm gonna paint this droid.
Oh.
So you mean
you want me to paint the droid?
Yes? Yes. Honestly, yes.
I can do that.
What does this
What What is this droid exactly?
-You wanna see what I'm working with?
-I probably should.
Probably should. It'd be helpful.
Try this again.
Mother trucker. I'm gonna do another one.
Wee!
Stupid!
This is dumb.
Golly.
Yep. I'm done.
Nelson!
So this is an accurate size
using augmented reality
of what this droid's gonna look like.
-Yeah. It's not
-Ooh, that's fancy.
- Exactly.
- Nelson!
Nelson!
That should fit in the trunk.
Well, if it doesn't, it's not like
we have time to do a second one, so
Nelson!
Damn.
I need you.
Well, you let me know
when you need the paint
- Nelson!
- and you have fun with the rest.
-Yes, thank you so much.
-'Kay.
Nelson! I need you.
Nelson. I need you, buddy.
Dude?
-Can you help me?
-What?
I built this badass box.
Got the two-way mirror working,
got the LEDs rockin',
and I am on the struggle bus
- Ooh.
- with this.
I need your dainty fingers
to help me drill some holes.
Uh
- What did you cut this with?
- A drill.
I have too much horsepower in my forearms.
I kept on blasting through it.
Yeah, you don't need
to be a gorilla with this.
What you need to do is
have a process of removing material
rather than abating the material.
You can use this bit and just go slower.
I'm removing material slowly but steadily.
This bit kind of sucks.
Is this the size of hole you even need?
Yes.
Good Lord.
Wow.
Taking your time with this material
is the key to success with it.
All right, I think we got a plan.
I'm gonna have you make the lens.
- I mean, I'll do it.
- Yeah?
This is something
I can manage for you on a timely basis.
Thank you.
'Kay, bye.
It's powder coat time!
I'm so excited.
Today, I'm gonna be doing
powder coating on these wheels,
which I'm super excited about
because powder coating is my jam.
Step one. I'm going to use a base,
and it is this candle green color,
which I know sounds so crazy,
but that's gonna be step one.
Powder coating is
a lot more durable than paint,
so it's perfect
for these metal pieces like wheels,
anything that you know will get
a lot of wear and tear and abuse
because it's gonna hold up.
We're gonna put them in the oven
for a partial cure, about 15 minutes.
And then, once they're cool,
I'll apply this bright candy red,
which is called lollipop red,
which is a super bright clear coat.
And basically, this bright red is going to
dilute itself a little bit with the green,
and it makes
the most perfect pretty maroon color.
All right, Saul.
There you go.
This is out of a 2018 Mustang.
Something like that. S550.
Okay, S550 Mustang.
You got the seats,
got door panels, you got the console.
Normally, we have quite a bit of time
at our shop to do this,
but you guys don't give me enough time.
So let's go see how she overlays.
Let's check it out.
We'll have to trim some stuff,
but you can kind of see the vision here.
This new modern,
you know, dash looks really nice.
But now I'm starting to see
all the little bits and pieces
that need to go to make this work.
Not only do we have to custom cut
this new console,
but we have to fit
a lot of other things into this thing.
The new dash screen,
the lighting, the cluster that goes here.
AC controls are here.
Electrical needs to be extended.
It's like opening a can of worms.
-Pretty much.
-Yeah, I think we can make this work.
If you think you can get this fitted,
this'll be your project,
and I'll get started on the seats.
Cool, cool.
I feel like we got 99 problems,
but an interior ain't one.
-I think that's our main problem.
-I guess it is.
Turns out upgrading
a 30-year-old car with new interior
in under a week is easier said than done.
But since Oscar feels confident
replacing the dash and door panels,
it frees me up to work on the upholstery.
We don't have enough time to build
Carter all new seats from scratch.
But luckily, we managed to score
these 2019 Ford Mustang seats
for the front of the car.
But now I'm going to have to rush
to build a matching back seat.
First, I'll need to cut
the foam and vinyl
and then head
to the sewing machine to sew it together.
With vinyl being a synthetic
material, it's easier to clean, wipe.
It It lasts a long time,
and he can kind of, uh,
tell his friends that this is leather,
and they wouldn't know the difference.
Once the outer shell's complete,
secure it with hog rings,
which are like staples
but stronger and more malleable.
Put the last couple hog rings
on this thing.
And finally, give it that big old slap.
This is to get it to lay more natural.
But it's also fun.
There she is.
Yes. All right, so I don't want to start
with "so." I'm sorry.
Okay, and ready, go.
I'm super excited about this paint job,
even though it's white,
which is a plot twist for me,
because there's
some really cool aspects to it.
It's in my head. You'll see it.
So, you're probably thinking,
"Shayna, you hate white."
"Why are you so excited?"
Well, first of all,
the kid loves Stormtroopers,
and honestly, I respect that.
And I have some tricks up my sleeve
to take this Stormtrooper-inspired paint
to the next level.
As a tribute to Grandma
I'm going to add a maroon racing stripe
almost identical to the OG color.
Tape it off.
Spray it with another coat of white.
Boring. I know.
But here is how to make it a showstopper.
We're doing a nifty, nifty
glow-in-the-dark paint.
We have our cool little glowy powder.
A little bit goes a long way for this.
Well, we're gonna do more than that.
Since we're on a time crunch,
we thought it was a great idea
to try something we've never tried before.
When paint is kind of gritty like this,
it makes me nervous
as far as how it's going to spray.
All right.
Glow-in-the-dark cars aren't for everyone.
So I'm pretty worried about
how Carter's gonna react.
That's why I'm not gonna spray
the whole thing with this stuff.
Instead, I'm going to tape off the areas
where I don't want it to glow
Get up and go, get up and go ♪
and spray some accents
around the racing stripe.
I'm in love with it. Honestly.
It turned out way better
than I could've imagined.
Hey, I agreed to paint it white, didn't I?
It's white.
My job is done.
Are you following me?
All right, Saul.
The dash is pretty much done.
- You are not done.
- I'm done.
Take a look at all this fiberglass work
and custom craftsmanship
to make this Tesla-style screen
fit in this box body Mustang.
It looks all right. It looks pretty dope.
Remember you said
this wouldn't fit?
AC controls are here.
Electrical needs to be extended.
I'm still looking at it. I'm still like,
"Hey, I think we can make this work."
I really doubted you, man.
So, I gotta take this moment of glory
and then just congratulate myself.
I'd like to thank myself
for all this hard work.
Let me turn this thing on.
What happened?
-Uh
-Is the battery dead or?
-No, we charged it. It's connected.
-There's power.
I hear something.
Um, let me call Nelson over here.
He's a whiz with all this wiring.
Whiz kid.
Whiz kid.
-That's not gonna work. There's no way.
-What do you mean?
It's not even the same. They don't
That's speaking English,
and this car is speaking Latin.
What could we do to make this one work?
Because I just spent
a couple days making this happen,
and we're running out of time.
-There's no way.
-What do you mean?
Do you guys still have the factory dash?
Yeah, but it's in six pieces right now.
Do you have glue?
It's beyond glue.
Like, you need a miracle.
You need to water into wine stuff.
Oscar was hoping to install
a fancy new touch screen in the Mustang,
but the one he got
is designed for a 2019 Mustang.
Even a 30-year-old car has tons
of complicated electronics to connect.
Air conditioning, indicator lights,
fuel level, temperature gauge.
And none of those things can communicate
with a touch-screen design
for a modern car.
So, now we have two problems.
First, they need to buy
a whole new electronic system
that can communicate with a 1990 Mustang.
And second, they need a new dash
to replace the one they cut up.
And so, um, with that,
I'm gonna head back inside. So
May God be with you.
Toodles.
So, basically,
we're going back to the stock.
I said that was gonna be an issue.
All that stuff.
I mean, it fits.
I mean, that was our conversation.
-That it was gonna fit. It fits.
-At least admit it. You messed up.
I don't think I messed up
because it fits.
I think we maybe just get a new dash
and call it a day.
-Go do it, then. Go do it.
-I got it. I'll get it.
You concentrate on your end.
Little brothers. Never listen.
Now we have to tear all this stuff apart,
start over.
-Carter, what's going on? How you feeling?
-I'm good.
We got a dope-ass Mustang
that we're working on.
We'll have that ready for you
in a couple days.
Before we do that,
gotta make sure you can drive.
That's why I brought Johnson here.
-He's a student driving instructor.
-Hey.
I'm just gonna observe.
You'll barely know I'm there.
-All right.
-But you'll know I'm there.
'Cause I'm the only Black guy in the car.
All right.
Hey, Carter!
I got some real life situations
out here, man. You ready?
-Yeah.
-All right, man. Don't be hitting Biden.
-I'm really nervous.
-Just do your very best.
You definitely should know
the difference between D and R
because Grandma
right in front of us, a'ight?
Watch out for the idiots
on the road.
Put it in reverse.
Hey, I got a booty on my phone.
You wanna see, Carter?
You ain't supposed to be looking, Carter!
Why you look?!
Oh!
-Oh no! That baby's not gonna be the same!
-Oh no!
No. The cone!
The cone had a wife and kids, man!
Oh! Pedestrian.
- No!
- All the way to the left.
You murdered my body! I am dead now!
Got him.
You gotta look out for pedestrians.
Yes, man. Me.
Man, so you know, with a lot of horsepower
comes a lot of responsibility.
Yeah. I got you.
Keep practicing with your grandma,
whoever is brave enough to ride with you.
Take Johnson for another ride
so he can show you what it is.
- I got you.
- I'mma give your car back ASAP
because you really need to practice.
And get Mario Kart, dawg.
What are you doing?
Saul, when I say I got it,
I got it, Saul. It's here.
Let's forget about the past.
Let's start fresh
and get this thing going.
There we go.
Put it on top. Oh.
Here it is. 1991 fox body dash
here guaranteed to fit.
So boom, Saul.
I don't know why you're bragging.
I mean, this was your mistake.
I mean, I see this as a total win for me.
So, I mean
You need to get this painted
so we can get it in the car.
-That's a win.
-It's not.
In Star Wars,
droids do all kinds of crazy things
like fix and fly spaceships
and communicate with aliens.
I only have a few days left to build this,
so mine is not gonna do any of that.
But it will be able to move its head, eye,
and talk to Carter if he has questions.
So I'm assembling now the droid innards.
It's two RC car motors,
two servos, specifically.
I got all these components
at an RC car store
because we don't have a robotics division.
So we're gonna go with what we got.
This bracket
is hard mounted to the body.
This will all actuate the head
and the eyeball or the lens eye.
The rotation
is gonna be along this axis here.
Boop, boop, boop.
That's gonna turn the head.
We also have a secondary axis,
which is gonna go like this.
This will rotate it up and down.
The next step is to mount
the servo motor inside the body
solder the battery pack
to this repurposed RC car controller
and finally,
we'll give it a test.
And it knows. See?
It looked at Daddy. It's great.
Okay. So everything we just did,
we're gonna undo it,
and then I'm gonna hand it over
to Shayna to do her thing.
Oh, I've been waiting for this.
Behold.
I don't care how you paint it.
I trust your vision.
I'mma paint it cool.
-Kick some ass. Take some names.
-Okay.
Wait, hold on. I got more parts.
Gotta have her paint this pizza tray.
- You have more.
- I do.
We got some exhaust vents.
Got a rocket booster.
We got a little knobby.
Oh, I'm all right.
I know. No, look, I will help you
because if you drop it all
Let's go.
- we're effed.
- Just walk.
Let me get the door.
Open the door.
I was a waitress
for three years. I'm not gonna drop it.
We're gonna paint this
to go along with the Mustang colors.
I have a lot of cool lines to work with,
so I'm stoked to see
what I can do with this thing.
Because a lot of the characters
of Star Wars
are very robotic and geometric,
we're gonna carry that theme to the paint,
which is why we're coming
with the airbrush.
Since there's a lot
of detail in this,
it's a lot easier with the airbrush.
It's just a very, very condensed version
of a big spray gun
to get our really fine details
and to just give it some effects
that I can't get with anything else.
Excuse me, friends.
- I have a droid for you.
- Oh snap!
Oh my gosh! It's so cute.
- That's good.
- So cute?
It's cute. Is it not?
What'd you name it?
Um
- Little Bing Bong.
- Oh God.
-Ziggy.
-I like Ziggy.
Ziggy? I like Ziggy.
Well, we gotta figure out Ziggy's new home
because she's kind of heavy.
Let me get in. I'm just nervous.
Aw, Ziggy is kind of cute.
- Super cute.
- He's gonna be stoked when he sees this.
All right, team.
Let's pull together and get this done.
- All right.
- Let's wrap it up!
Homestretch. Let's go.
This Mustang is going home
to Carter and Grandma tomorrow.
So tonight, we all need to work together
and bring this thing home.
May the Force be with us.
I'm gonna do Saul a solid
and attach the seats
My girl ♪
since he'll be busy
installing the door panels.
Look at that.
Like a Taylor Swift concert.
Meanwhile,
Don's going to install his infinity light
right under his favorite feature.
The spoiler, which I think
turned out pretty sick, by the way.
Oscar's gonna build a custom seat
for Nelson's droid, Ziggy, to live in.
It even has Carter's name
engraved in Aurebesh,
the official Star Wars language.
Oh my God, he's so cute I might die.
And if all that isn't enough
to blow Carter's socks off,
Oscar and Saul are using
hundreds of LED lights
to make him a custom headliner
to resemble the night sky.
It's like the glow-in-the-dark stickers
you used to put on your ceiling as a kid,
but a million times better.
And that, my friends, is how
you transform Grandma's old Mustang
into a teenage Star Wars fan dream car.
All right, Carter and Grandma.
I love this car, and I love this story
'cause it's a grandma giving
an heirloom down to a grandson.
Okay, now, wave at that team right there
that helped make your car amazing.
They put their blood, sweat,
and tears into this car to make it dope.
And I stood by and did nothing to help.
So, you guys nervous?
- A little bit.
- What you nervous for?
It's just more of, like,
I wanna see how much it changed.
Well, it's a truck now.
Are y'all ready to see this car?
Let's do it.
And I really hope you love it too
'cause it's out there.
- That's cool.
- That is.
What?
Oh my God. Who did that?
Dude.
All right, Carter, Grandma.
Please close your eyes.
No peeking.
And open your eyes.
Yo!
Dude, that's crazy.
-Wow.
-Dude, it's tight.
- They put lights on it too. New mirrors.
- And it all works too.
- Really?
- It's crazy how they all work.
Oh, I like the rims. Yeah.
- I didn't expect this much.
- You didn't?
-Nah.
-So we could've saved money?
You didn't have to do this much, y'all.
Sorry about that.
All right, man, while you soak it in,
let's talk about this car and the details.
So let's start with the obvious,
the paint job.
Well, what we have learned about you
is that you love your grandma,
and you're a huge Star Wars fan.
So, we went with white to give it
that Stormtrooper kind of Empire vibe.
And with the racing stripe,
we used the original maroon of the car
because you have to remember your roots
and why you have such a badass car.
-Dude
-But wait. There's more.
- Uh-oh.
- Can we turn off the lights?
She uses her special skill ♪
- Oh, it glows in the dark!
- Look at the hood. Look at the hood.
Dude, that's crazy.
So what you're seeing here
is photophosphorus accents.
So with light,
all those little stripes will charge,
and then when it's nighttime, it glows.
Yeah, now you'll always
be able to find where you parked, my boy.
- Smart.
- So will every bird that flies above you.
- All right, Oscar. Tell 'em what you did.
- Yeah.
So, the Cobra was the fastest,
most badass Mustang
that they ever produced.
So we reincarnated your car
with a Cobra body kit
so it can look like a fast car.
But don't get your hopes up.
It still has the four-cylinder engine.
Exactly. So we kept just a really nice
reliable starter engine in there
because, no offense Carter,
this is your first car.
- True.
- You do not need to go fast.
-Cool.
-Yeah, it does go slow.
But it looks fast.
-Donny! Mr. Whiz-Bang himself.
-Chris A!
No, no. That don't work, the going back.
This thing I designed is special.
It not only has a brake light,
taillight, blinkers,
it looks like a thruster when it's on.
- What the?
- Gotta hit a few buttons.
Thrust engaged.
Dude, what the
This is what they call an infinity light.
We have a bunch of programs in there.
I can tune it to any colors.
Really?
-Designed just for your car.
-Thank you. Means a lot.
Align the colors with
whatever neighborhood you're driving in.
No. Uh, if you like
what you see on the outside,
y'all gonna love the inside.
Saul. Show us what's good, bro.
You guys ready to check it out? Come on.
What? No way.
Redid did the whole thing.
New seats from top to bottom,
upholstery throughout,
door panels, carpet.
You name it. Even the digital displays
for your gauges. You can see that.
Put a new 13.3-inch screen in there.
I mean, you can watch movies.
We have an Xbox
Really?
under the seat, so you can sit down
and play video games with your friends.
That's where my Xbox went.
Why don't you show them
the starlight headliner?
Lean back. Lean the seat back.
- Yo!
- Look at that.
No way!
We had to put
650 fiber-optic lights in the headliner.
It's that much?
A lot of lights in there.
Yeah, man. You looking like
you're not trying to get out that car.
- It's crazy.
- So, what else we got, man?
Nelson, you want to show 'em?
All right. So, it's in the trunk.
Whoo!
Yeah!
It's not just that.
This is something you control with this.
When I go left, you go right.
And it actually does something
a little bit cooler than that.
You can actually query it.
Hey, Ziggy. Are you alive?
Artificially, maybe.
But not in the same way you are.
So you can ask it complex questions.
It will reply.
And it's also removable.
It'll be your copilot as you learn
to drive and navigate around town.
You can totally just lift it up,
take it inside,
and it can hang out with you
inside your house.
It's way better than I could ask for.
Thank you, everyone.
It's amazing. You guys did
an incredible job on it.
I've never seen a car
with a droid in it before!
Man, none of us have.
-I don't think we could be more happier.
-No. We are both very happy.
I gotta ask you guys.
Can you say that
your car has been resurrected?
It's been beyond resurrected.
Yeah, baby! We are ready to ride!
That's what we did!
I knew that it was going to be
something incredible.
But this was beyond anything
I could have even imagined.
I think my friends
are gonna be really jealous 'cause
they've never seen a car like this.
-What's your favorite part of the car?
-The light on the back.
Yeah!
Donny boy won the contest
that wasn't a contest!
Right now!
Thank you to everybody
for the incredible job you did
and the effort you've put into this car.
I'm just so excited for him.
I'm just so, so excited for him.
It came in here as my Mustang,
and I was very attached to it.
But in looking at it now,
it's Carter's car,
and I am so happy
I have had the car to give him.
We'll just have to pay the consequences
with the other grandchildren.
-Ask Ziggy if Donnie's cute.
-I just say it and it'll answer?
"Hey, Ziggy, is Donnie cute?"
Hey, Ziggy, is Donnie cute?
Absolutely.
But as soon as he opens his mouth,
it's gone.
Take that, Donnie.
Jess is a wonderful dog mom.
Give me kisses. Mmm!
- This is what I call the puke mobile.
- Oh, I can smell it from here.
How about we put
suicide doors on this car?
- A hinge won't fit there.
- Back to the drawing board.
Here's your car, baby!
I love that!
Ha-ha ♪
Yeah, yeah ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Ouch! ♪
Oh, I like that ♪
That's it, that's it ♪
Hey! ♪