Resurrected Rides (2024) s01e04 Episode Script

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Picture this.
It's 2003,
and the fashion trends
are air-brushed T-shirts,
frosted lip gloss,
and low-rise jeans.
It was a year where commercials
would just show you a stick shift
in a couple different angles,
and that was enough to sell you a car.
Like a full car.
There was a whole series of them.
I mean, this one's just gauges.
And this one is just taillights.
They was feeling themselves.
They knew they were selling cars.
What's up, beautiful people?
Welcome to another car-studded episode
of Resurrected Rides.
You know,
they say a picture's worth 1,000 words.
But if you see a picture
of the young photographer Kevin's Lexus,
I only need five words to describe it.
This is a piece of shi Is that six?
Who cares? This ain't a show about math.
Meet Kevin, a 30-year-old
freelance photographer
who lives in Los Angeles
with his girlfriend, Alex.
Oh man.
A man whose car
It started today.
has his friends and family
shaking their heads.
Honestly, my brother's car
is very embarrassing.
Here we are on this beautiful day
with this ugly piece of junk.
Okay, relax.
It's beat up, you know?
It needs a lot of work.
So we sent a camera crew out
to let Kevin know
that he was still
in the running for this show.
And to find out why that car
made such a lifelong impact on him.
I'm a proud owner
of this 2003 Lexus IS 300. Swag.
When I first got my Lexus,
it just made me feel cool.
From the side, it looks beautiful.
If you're looking at me
driving from, like, right here,
I look so, like, hot, you know?
But unfortunately,
it does need a little bit of work.
Just a little bit, though.
- What happened here?
- Nothing. It's fine.
You can tell there was some class in here.
This doesn't even work.
It's gone now.
Your seat's all scratched up.
No sun visor.
Plus, that's open electricity.
I got shocked here once, right here.
It just It's a hot mess.
As a photographer,
I don't want my client to see my car.
I park it down the block,
and I'll carry
all my equipment to the place.
I don't want them to think,
"Who did I hire?"
Of course I want to upgrade this car,
but I have other expenses.
I have bills to pay.
It's just It's hard to hustle
when your car is not hustling.
Some people will say it's just a car.
To me, it's not.
I've had so many memories.
Me and Alex's first date was in this car.
I love my car so much
I tattooed it on my leg.
I think it looks dope. Alex was livid.
What am I gonna do? It was already done,
and it's there permanently.
If this car is brought back to life,
I can make money and have a future,
an actual future that I can see with Alex,
and we can ride off
in the sunset with this car.
I'm never getting rid of this car.
I'm letting you know now.
All right. Here's the deal.
We picked Kevin for the show,
and we're gonna resurrect
his very sad ride.
But he doesn't know that yet,
and he's about to find out.
Right now,
Kevin's in there with his girlfriend
at the market shopping.
And how I know that
is because I'm an all-knowing God.
I know everything.
I've been wandering the world
through the time and space.
I am time itself.
I've been everywhere you haven't been
and anywhere you want to be.
Also, I've been texting
with the girlfriend,
and we made up this whole ruse
to keep him in there and keep him busy.
So, between that and the all-knowing ,
here's what I know.
That's his dusty-ass Lexus over there.
Alex hooked me up with the spare key,
and we're gonna toy with them for real
by switching it out
with this toy car right here.
Yeah! It's not that clever. It's not!
But I loved robbing that child for that,
and he's crying somewhere.
-Let's do this.
-Let's move the car.
Stay low! Stay low!
This is gonna be hilarious.
Hurry up! Move the car, man!
Ah, yeah.
Yeah.
Hilarious!
Right?
I've never stolen a car before.
I never thought it'd be this smooth
with this many white people helping.
He's coming out.
He's coming out.
That's them.
They out. They out.
Oh, man, look at them shorts.
That boy got leg confidence, don't he?
Wait, watch this. Watch this.
This is so stupid.
I think we had enough fun with them.
Let's go ahead
and tell him we got his car, yo.
What the hell?
Hey, man. Is this your car right here?
Is this your whip?
- Hey, what's going on, bro?
- Oh my God.
Hey, Alex. It's good to see you.
And if you can't notice,
but you made the show, man.
Oh my God.
-Yeah. I did.
-I thought someone stole my car.
Tell me about this thing.
You know, this is just the sun, man.
It's just getting suntanned right here.
This right here is
what you call, uh, sun damage, my boy.
What happened here?
Oh God. I came out of the parking lot,
and it was it was just there.
- A hit-and-run?
- A hit-and-run.
So somebody hit yo car and was like,
"It's probably better."
Yeah.
Bro, I'm glad you survived the attack,
but why did your seat not?
Now let me see this tat.
This tat I've heard all about. The tat.
It's right over here.
Your love for the car,
it's beautiful, man.
When did you get that tat?
At what stage of its life?
Uh, two years of its life.
So it was still kind of in, like,
mint condition?
-No, no.
-No, no.
-It came like Look.
-They said no together like an R&B group.
"No."
-It's never been in good condition.
-Never.
-Well, we gonna change that, player.
-Oh my gosh.
- Get in with me, boy!
- Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
Okay, so the brake says
-Be careful.
-"Hey, I stop when I stop."
- Which is dangerous.
- That's exactly it.
- Yeah.
- Let's talk about these features.
It is hot! Let me roll down this window.
-Uh, about that window.
-Never mind.
That does not work.
We are driving
an Easy Bake Oven on wheels, y'all.
- Now when you go to jobs, what do you do?
- Mm-hmm.
They cannot see this car
when I pull up on a job.
What?
I actually have
a big shoot coming up,
and I really need to impress the client.
And, uh, I just don't want
to show him this car.
Yeah, I mean, listen.
I feel you, but I'm gonna bless you.
I'm gonna help you out.
Oh my God. Thank you.
-We'll make Alex proud, you proud
-Yeah. Oh, that's amazing.
and the car proud. Because the car,
if you listen closely, it's crying.
Now it's time for me
to take it to the garage, get it flipped,
get it back to you looking clean, man.
How are you feeling?
- I'm a little nervous. Yeah.
- You a little nervous?
- What for? You think I'll mess it up?
- I don't know.
I ain't gonna do you like that.
Or am I, dawg? Who knows?
Do you really wanna do it? ♪
- Here it is! Oh!
- Here it is!
- Whoa!
- Oh!
My garage team, what's going on, y'all?
- Wow, what is this?
- I brought you some doo-doo on wheels.
Yes, you did.
All right. So y'all have seen
Kevin's submission video, right?
Got to know his vibe a bit.
You know, Kevin's a cool guy,
very confident.
You gotta be confident
to ride this around town in public.
True.
Jeez.
This is a Lexus IS 300, man.
These things in their heyday
were one of the nicest cars you can get.
So there are two ways
that you can really go about it.
You can go street race car,
or you can go with a VIP style build.
I'm thinking we go classy,
like tuxedo style.
What that usually is
is full body work all the way around.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Headlights, VIP style body kit.
We'll pull the hood off,
fix the dent, make it full carbon fiber.
We'll drop some weight
as carbon fiber is
significantly lighter and stronger.
It'll have a race car vibe
but still be really luxury and VIP.
One thing we need to do on this thing
is tear this thing apart.
Take the interior out.
You can't be riding like this.
-Know what I mean?
-Absolutely.
We can put
some nice leather diamond stitch,
a little bit of red, a little piping.
I mean, what you think?
I was gonna tell you to do all that,
but you said it, so we good.
-We're on the same wavelength.
-We on the same wavelength.
Chris the car man.
Just talking about car stuff.
These tires These tires look sad.
It look like individual butt cracks
that ain't been wiped.
New tires for sure.
I mean, I could powder coat the wheels
with some red.
- That would give it the sporty vibe.
- Oh. Yeah.
Play off the interior accents of the red.
I think that would look good.
Oh, that's gonna look cold.
I love some red wheels.
What about the suspension?
We gotta lower this thing down
a little bit, right?
I say we drop it
Yeah, two, three inches on this thing.
I wanna hook this guy up in some way
where he can travel anywhere he goes,
pulls out his camera equipment
-Yeah. Ooh!
-we can keep it safe.
So I'm thinking of,
trunk opens, something comes out.
We'll have to figure out
all his camera equipment, lay it out,
then make it safe so something closes
over it and it's locked.
That's perfect,
because he got this big shoot coming up,
and we gotta get his car back in 11 days.
See, he used to park down the street
and have to walk and stuff.
Now he's gonna ride his car
right into the building.
Then, I was thinking for the console,
we cut it out,
build a custom aluminum piece.
This sounds fire, dawg.
I might not even give it back to Kevin.
I'm about to ride past him like, "Sorry!"
Let's grab our tools,
and let's tear it apart.
- Yeah!
- Let's do it!
Grab your tools.
Let's start ripping this apart, baby!
Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪
I don't got one tool.
That's beautiful.
Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪
Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪
There's a little bit of everything
over here. He got fingernails, flesh.
Fingernails?
We might find teeth here next.
I don't know.
All right. Okay, well, that's my cue.
See y'all in a few days, man.
Y'all have fun with this. I'mma go tweet.
- This is in bad shape.
- Yep.
- My job just got harder.
- Hold.
Yeah!
A pile of destruction.
You want to fix this dent?
- Yeah, if you want to flip it.
- Yeah, that'd be nice.
Creating carbon fiber parts
is my specialty,
and fabricating a brand-new hood
for Kevin's Lexus
sounded like a good idea
when I pitched it.
Gee, that's a lot of edging.
That's not gonna work anyway.
Uh-oh.
Um, so we're gonna pull it.
But to make sure
the new hood fits the car,
I need to use the old hood as a mold,
and it's in terrible shape.
That's gonna need some love.
But I do love a good challenge.
So, the first thing we need to do
is get all the dents out.
- Sand it down.
- Time to use this bitch.
And layer on some clear coat
so we have a smooth hood.
Shayna has this hood prepped and polished.
She ran through it as fast
as possible, which is important,
because molds are expensive to make
and time-consuming.
So I don't want to have any f-ups,
and that's why I'm taking my time
but rushing as fast as I can.
Okay, carbon fiber hoods 101.
Here's the 1,000-step process
boiled down into
three easily digestible steps.
Step one. We take the sealed hood
and cast a mold of it
using a bunch of toxic chemicals.
Step two.
We say adios to the original hood,
lay top-of-the-line carbon fiber
into the mold
and inject it with epoxy resin
and wait for it to cure.
Step three.
We pop the carbon fiber hood
out of the mold,
spray on one last layer of clear coat.
And voilà. Kevin has himself
a world-class carbon fiber hood.
Sound easy? Well, it isn't.
Let's go over some of the things
we're working with.
Tooling gel coat,
which is a heavy epoxy base.
Not something you'd want to breathe in.
Acetone. You're familiar with acetone.
Glass-filled epoxy as well.
Everything we're doing is trying
to kill you, so think of it that way.
One, two, three, four! ♪
First,
we'll spray a chemical agent
to make sure our mold
doesn't stick to the original hood.
We got to be thorough. We have to get
every nook and cranny of this
because any part where the epoxy resin
or the tooling gel coat touches
Epoxy's a glue.
It will bond to it,
and it will destroy the mold.
So, no pressure.
Next we're gonna paint the hood
with the tooling gel coat
that's made up of a two-to-one ratio
of epoxy resin and hardener.
Epoxy is
a high tensile strength glue.
Fundamentally, it is a two-part plastic,
but more than anything, it's glue.
Because epoxy
on its own is quite fragile,
we need to layer in
strips of fiberglass cloth
to make sure
the mold is structurally sound.
We need the reinforcement to give
the integrity and the tensile strength
to the epoxy for lack of tension.
Finally,
we'll bury our emotions in mold putty,
which will hold it together.
Now, we let it sit and cure,
and that'll take 12 to 15 hours
which is a long time to wait
to see if this worked.
One, two, three, four ♪
Two ♪
Three, four ♪
I need to design that console
and I don't know where I'll start it,
but my question is
is it impossible for you to cut the seats?
-Is that going to make your life hell?
-Uh, no.
- Let's figure this out. Come sit with me.
- Sit on glass?
Is that what that is? Oh no.
-Here. All right.
-Let's get comfortable. We're chilling.
Just feel the vibe. Ready?
Me and you, we're coasting.
-All right.
-What are we thinking?
You need to feel like
you're back here like a VIP.
-We're going to the club.
-Okay.
Going to the club ♪
Going to the club ♪
I got it.
Sleek, sexy, straightforward.
This will ride down like a real console,
and at some point here, it dives up.
So imagine this being shallow to a point,
and then it comes thicker, comes thicker.
Roll it in here nice. Woo.
Yeah. Divide the seats.
Make them bucket style.
Yeah.
Sleek, straightforward, sexy ♪
I took measurements.
Put it into the program itself.
I think it looks really cool.
So, uh, let's cut it.
I'm using the CNC machine,
the giant computer-guided
metal cutting device
that blasts out an arc
hotter than the sun.
I'm gonna go ahead and cut the structure
of the console out of the 16-gauge steel.
I like it. The contour is a perfect,
nice and tight, rise in the cushion.
Yeah, that looks really nice.
-Can I have my seat, please?
-Yes, you can.
Kevin wanted to keep it classy,
so we decided we'll do a VIP theme,
and what's more VIP
than diamond stitching?
We're gonna kill it
with this interior.
- Oh, you're over here now?
- Yeah.
-I'm trying to see what you're up to, man.
-Man, look at this.
- You're getting there.
- This was a test panel.
I think I don't know. These diamonds
are a little maybe too squarish.
Um
I think these are too big.
I think we gotta go with
a smaller diamond.
- Because we have a smaller insert.
- That's it.
Maybe a little bit sharper diamonds
would look a lot better.
- All right, that's good. Cool?
- Cool.
Now let me work. Let me work.
In addition to
the diamond stitch black vinyl,
I'm adding a red leather accent
on the outer edges.
VIP all the way.
Once the cover is sewn together,
I'll prep the original seat
by adding some fresh foam.
That will allow the diamond to kind of
pop out more, a little bit more 3D.
You can see kind of
the seat is taking shape.
Then when he's done mounting that seat,
then you got to give it the dad slap.
You know, it's like when you go to Lowe's
and you see a big old fat pile of soil,
and you just go
"A couple of these bad boys
will do the trick."
The dad slap. That's the dad slap.
- You gotta be like
- Come on.
That ain't going nowhere.
- Good. That's nice and tight.
- You could bounce a penny off of that.
That looks really good, Saul.
That's gonna go nice with the interior.
Ah, there she is.
Honestly, this is gonna be
a big pain in the butt.
Usually just takes me a couple hours
to wrap my head around it and get to it.
So I'm trying to think of a good way
for Kevin to store his camera equipment
safely and securely in the trunk.
If we drop this bad boy in here,
there's got to be a way
that I can design this box
to come up and out.
So now I gotta play with this idea
of this thing going like this
It'll have a base bracket here.
I actually really like this design.
It's simple. It's fast. It's effective.
Nelson!
We'll see if Nelson likes it.
Nelson, death and gloom, sad boy ♪
This is your theme song.
Sad boy ♪
All right, I'm leaving.
No, I got you here for a reason.
I came up with an idea.
And I just want to share it with you
because I was I'm excited.
Really excited.
Okay, here we go.
Two pendulum arms, one bracket,
one air shock,
and as it pivots,
it physically rotates up and out.
Like an old VCR. You know,
the VHS tapes that come out like that.
Yes. We're the same age.
Um, I mean,
I love the simplicity of your design.
I think it is functional.
So you actually like this idea?
-I do like this idea. So, good job.
-Oh.
The first time.
Now, no.
-Yes, all right!
-Okay.
I wanna see you try ♪
I wanna see you try ♪
These are kind of like flimsy.
They're meant to be that way.
If you had a really stiff fiberglass
front bumper and you hit something,
what would happen?
- It would just crack. So these
- Yeah.
- They take a little more abuse.
- Look at it. You could literally
Oh dang.
bend it, and it falls right back.
Work that body, work that body ♪
It may be easy to jack it up
and take the wheel off.
Work that body, work that body ♪
Work that body ♪
We're still in
the early phase of the prep.
We still have to get this whole car
in the primer,
reblock it and get it ready for paint
so Shayna can do something very special.
All right.
-Doesn't it sound like fun?
-All right.
-Let's go!
-Like a lot of fun?
-Calm down.
-Get excited!
I'm steaming with excitement.
All this to make white look cool.
Boring-est color.
Okay. I'm actually surprised we made it
all over here without a catastrophe.
If you haven't noticed,
I don't like white.
If it's up to me, I'm gonna make
every color that they give me
look way cooler than
what they can even imagine.
More classy, a little shimmery.
That's where our pearl's gonna come in.
Then what am I doing?
First, we'll do our white base coat.
So give it some of that.
Okay. It's just our white base coat
that a bug just flew into.
That's phenomenal.
See? It's just white, and it's flat,
and there's nothing fun to it.
So we're gonna come in
with our jar of fun.
This is your pearl.
It just comes as a literal powder.
So this is the fun part.
We're gonna wing it.
This is where we go
until our heart tells us to stop.
Let's see here. Eh. Whoops.
That's a little much,
but that's all right.
No mistakes, just happy accidents.
Shimmery, silky, way better
than your boring white.
All right. Am I allowed to paint now?
I'm gonna go do that.
With my paint because we forgot the paint.
All this to make white look cool.
Boring-est color.
This is where we go
until our heart tells us to stop.
More classy, a little shimmery.
Now that the clear's done,
we still have to let it dry
before I wet sand and buff it,
but pretty stoked about it.
Take me, take me, take me ♪
Won't you take me for a ride? ♪
Yo, garage dream team! What's up?
What's up, Princess Peach?
What we got going on here?
Oh, you see me
You see me over here? Oh!
Vroom, vroom!
You know what I'm talking about?
Y'all seem hard at work, man.
What y'all This is a car hood?
- It is.
- It's gonna be.
I know because I know cars.
You sure do.
And I know sarcasm, Nelson.
It's looking good so far, yo.
Alex! Ready for the updates?
Yes, I'm ready.
So I'm sitting here
right now, right?
And this is a dope seat,
so imagine there's more seats.
Right? And then he gonna be sitting here.
He'll be able to get on his iPad
and edit for his clients.
-Know what I mean?
-Well
-Why are you not excited about that?
-His iPad got stolen.
What?
He had left his iPad in the car
during one of his gigs that he was doing,
and they broke into the car.
Oh. Okay, well, you know what?
I think we can figure that out.
- Don, where you at?
- Here.
Hey, man, he got his iPad stolen.
So we gotta, uh, get him an iPad
and put some stuff in there
to make the iPad work.
So, Don's gonna handle that.
He's gonna make sure y'all good and happy.
I'mma let you get back to work.
We're gonna have this looking good.
It's gonna be looking sexy.
We'll see you at the reveal.
Don't tell Kevin a single thing, Alex.
-I will not say a word.
-You have a good one.
I know you guys are gonna figure it out,
mostly because you have to.
We gotta get this car back to him
in three days so he has it for his gig.
I know when I come back
this thing is going to be dope as hell.
Why did I spin? I am dizzy. All right.
You don't know me, I know you want to ♪
Chris promised Kevin's girlfriend
we'd have a new iPad integrated
into the car.
So I'll hide it
inside of the console itself.
This thing goes
Then hit it again. It comes back around.
He can detach his iPad from it.
The whole idea is
he will take his iPad, edit on the go,
and then put it in here and lock it in,
hit a button. Boom. It's gone.
I'm feeling it ♪
I measured the ball bearings and
drew some brackets in my design software.
I got my best friend Nelson
to print them up on the old 3D printer.
Nelly! I have to print
some little doodads.
I did all the work.
I just need you to print 'em for me.
-This could have been an email.
-Yeah?
Just send me an email. How about that?
-All right. Thank you.
-Okay.
- I love you.
- Me too.
I'm feeling it ♪
So these are the actual brackets
that I designed in my program.
So this attaches to the servomotor,
then when I power it up,
I can spin it 180 degrees. Wap!
And I can control the speed.
I love it.
There she is.
Oh!
- That looks fancy.
- Time to test fit.
Yeah,
it's the moment of truth, buddy.
That's one! That's nice.
All right, here we go. Second piece.
You got it, Don.
- Let's make sure this fits perfect.
- Okay.
You good?
No. I got a big problem.
How's it going, Donnie?
Hold on. I'm having a panic attack.
We get it perfectly square
before I assume
I mean,
it's looking pretty good to me.
- I think I got a problem.
- Not understanding.
So I built the console
to go in here by itself
just to be an aesthetic piece.
Yeah.
Then when he wanted
to put the spinnymabop in it,
I did it all on my table.
But this thing sinks down
a lot more in here.
I think when I actuate it,
the iPad is gonna hit the bottom of this.
So let's find out.
Pull this here.
That's gonna be our ride height.
And if the iPad hits here or here,
then I'll have to go back and redesign it.
I'm gonna put my brain together.
It's okay. You got this.
That old Chris Redd.
"Just put a little iPad in it. Do it."
I'm dumb. I'm like,
"Yeah, I'll do it for you. I love you."
"Let's just put a spinning iPad in this."
"We gotta do it in a day. Let's do it.
Okay. Good job, Don." Here we go.
You're sneaking over. Hang on.
I want to see what's going on.
We might have a slight problem,
but it's gonna be okay.
Moment of truth.
- It's all right.
- Ooh!
- Never mind!
- Ooh!
- Oh my God! You lucked out!
- Wow. That is like by a hair too.
- Oh my God.
- That, um
Never mind, Chris.
I take it back. It was a good idea.
Wait.
All right, so I lucked out.
Dodged a bullet with this one.
- Thank you for having my back.
- No problem. I got you.
Thanks, Don. Now I owe Shayna ten bucks.
- I'm one lucky boy.
- Very.
To thank you for another lovely day ♪
When you shine for me ♪
I know it's gonna be okay, yeah! ♪
Look what I'm doing.
Eating cookies. You want one?
No, don't say that.
What are you doing?
Are you eating a cookie over my mold?
You guys working hard?
- No, no, no, no, no.
- They used to call me cookie boy.
Dude, I bet they called you many things.
If you touch my mold
- I wanna lay in it like a bathtub.
- We have two days to finish.
I'm gonna go have a brain aneurysm
on this side. Don't eat near my mold.
Our mold is clean,
and it is beautiful.
And it kind of gives us a good basis
of its cross directional, so about 51.
We'll cut 52.
We're set
to lay in our carbon fiber.
So this is a 12 pattern.
It's got a 45 2-up, 45 to the right,
but it's gonna be a 19-ounce twill carbon.
- So it's kind of an exotic material.
- Really?
We're gonna be doing something
that isn't seen very often.
I like this, though.
This is gonna be a statement piece.
He's gonna park next to
a Bimmer or a Lamborghini,
and they're gonna be like,
"Man, I wish I was like that guy."
Okay. We want it to go 45 to the right,
so that's this way.
You don't know how excited I am.
Always wanted to see this.
I try and kind of massage this out.
Just like someone had a hard day.
Just give them a back rub.
I mean, it all looks pretty good so far.
That's fine. We don't have time.
We just really want to secure
the face of this down.
So we'll do this half.
Just gotta keep it right there. Hold it.
This is gonna be so cool.
This is gonna be dope.
Now I'm getting excited.
I'm gonna trim this and throw
a couple more layers of carbon down
because one is great,
but several is greater.
Next, we'll cover the layers
of carbon fiber with a plastic bag
and use a powerful vacuum
that sucks all the air out of the bag.
When you have a mold this large
that was put together this quickly,
you can have a mold leak.
That's a pinhole in the mold somewhere.
So I'm just going through
and just verifying I got an airtight seal.
Once I'm satisfied
that the bag is airtight,
we're ready to add the epoxy.
- Just dump it in?
- Yup, inside.
All right.
No, no, no. Put the bucket inside.
Put the bucket inside.
- Okay.
- Yes, yes, yes.
The epoxy goes in this vacuum chamber,
which, you guessed it,
will remove all the air from the resin.
So air is the enemy in,
like, this whole process.
Oh God, yeah.
Air is Air is absolutely evil.
You're essentially taking
liquid plastic and epoxy,
and you're forcing it into
every square micron of the composite part.
So you get a really dense,
really strong part using science.
This process is very difficult.
With all the technicalities, you can fail.
And I don't do well with failure.
Are we going for the whole?
All of it?
The whole shebang.
It's all gotta come off.
Hopefully it pops right out.
There's a 50% likelihood of that.
So what's the other 50%?
- Uh, it's stuck forever.
- Oh.
We're gonna lift from the back,
and we're gonna listen. Okay?
You want to listen
for that creaking but not cracking.
Creaking is good
Creaking's normal.
That's releasing. Cracking is cracking.
Oh.
Oh.
- Dude. Yeah!
- Yo! Good job, man.
Yeah, buddy. Look at the size
of the weave. That's so good.
That looks good, man.
Okay, you ready? Five, four, three
Come on. Take the
We don't have time for this. Seriously.
Twobies!
It feels good ♪
Like I knew it would ♪
It feels good ♪
What about the trunk, Don?
What about the trunk, Don?
- That is not ready.
- Can we, like, test it?
No, 'cause if it doesn't work,
I'll be sad, and I'll have to
- Don't be sad.
- You're making me stressed.
-You gotta show us.
-You're stressing me out! I don't wanna!
Poor Don.
Wow!
Yup.
Ejecto trunko.
All right, we can do it. Ejecto trunko!
On the count of three. One, two, three!
Dude!
Oh, come on. Not on camera.
Cameras. Cameras, plural. There's many.
Let's try it again.
-Try it again. All right, let's go.
-One, two, three.
Oh!
- Dude, that's awesome, bro.
- Thank you.
We're almost there.
We just need to push on
'cause we don't have much time.
Let's bring this thing down
to clown town. Let's finish it up.
I'm out.
All right, let's just finish the work.
We don't have time
but we do have coffee.
Time to push this baby
across the finish line.
Once car people find out
you can make carbon fiber parts,
they just want more.
So in addition to making
the bottom of the hood from carbon fiber
I'm covering
the door switch panels
and the steering wheel
and the spoiler
all with the same carbon fiber
to tie it all together.
Kevin will be a real VIP.
Did someone say VIP?
I'm installing
a fingerprint-activated button
on the underside of the trunk
so Kevin's case will pop out just for him.
The front seats
are stitched and wrapped,
and we're laying them in,
covering the headliner
with black Alcantara,
and laying in
the red and black door panels
to surround our boy Kevin
with nothing but the best.
We're adding
brand-new headlights and taillights,
wet sanding and polishing the paint
and installing those
special little touches
that make it VIP.
Okay, Kevin.
The man with the Lexus tattoo.
How's it going?
We were riding in your car, right?
Not much was working.
The paint, it was ashy,
and that's an understatement.
That thing was charcoal.
But the point is
that team of badasses over there,
that's my dream team,
made your dream come true.
- What's up?
- What's up, guys?
- Hi!
- Hey!
Yo, we about to change they life!
Or disappoint them greatly on camera.
Either way, something's gonna happen!
-Are you ready to check it out?
-I'm ready. I'm ready!
Give me a whoo!
Whoo!
Oh sh! He had a lot of extra on that.
Let's go. I'm ready.
- Here we go! Hit it.
- Okay.
- Lights went way over our budget.
- Oh God.
Oh my God.
Close your eyes.
Close your eyes. Close your eyes.
All right. Look up.
-Oh my God!
-My God.
Boom! What you think, Kev?
Yeah! Tears, baby!
Yeah, Kev.
Looks so beautiful, man.
This heart ♪
That's crazy.
My God, dude. Look at the rims.
This is so fire.
I'm sorry.
Oh, my boy. My boy.
He's got me crying.
This is nuts.
This is nuts. I never thought
this would happen, you know?
You deserve it. You work hard.
Thank you, guys. Seriously, this is crazy.
You're welcome, brother.
As you take this in,
I want to let you know
that this is actually my car.
Your car is in the back.
Uh, we did very little work
to that thing, actually.
But a'ight, seriously, though.
Let's go through this.
You said you wanted a VIP build,
so of course, we had to change the body.
So we went with the full KBD
polyurethane body kit on this thing.
We also put new headlights, fog lights
and we installed
a little something special for you.
Oh my God.
So when you're cruising at night
- Oh my God!
- Ooh!
Custom underglow that has
infinite amount of colors on this thing.
People are gonna think
you ran over a rave.
We put a tri-coat paint job on here,
so it's gonna look
very metallic-y in the sun.
It has a pearl coat,
and it looks really cool.
That's amazing.
And then with the carbon fiber hood
and red wheels, it ties it all together.
All right. Speaking of carbon fiber,
let's talk about
that sexy-ass carbon fiber hood.
My boy, Nelson, on the ones and twos.
Go ahead and flex on 'em.
Uh, yeah, so I did all the carbon stuff.
He Hell yeah.
That's a flex right there.
That boy right there
sure knows how to show off.
Your OEM hood
weighed about 41 pounds.
This one will clock in
right around 10 or 11 pounds.
Oh my God!
That's significant weight savings,
and it's a full carbon build.
And also I gave you a carbon fiber spoiler
on the rear window as well as the deck lid
and also the interior trim,
so I tied it all together.
-Ready to look at the inside?
-I'm so ready. Oh my God.
Please, my man.
Sit in your VIP experience.
There's no holes.
There is no holes.
Oh my God. It's beautiful.
It's crazy, ain't it?
I'm speechless. This is amazing.
Well, as you can see,
we pretty much did away with
everything from top to bottom
and just started from scratch.
White diamond stitching,
black Alcantara suede throughout.
VIP look, you know what I mean?
Classy.
Go ahead and turn on the car.
- Oh my God.
- Get excited.
Also, the AC works now.
And the suspension is a lot tighter,
a lot smoother.
This thing's gonna drive better
than it ever did.
Well, you might notice
this unique console in here, right?
We got something special in there for you.
The whole idea was we know
you actually edit photos on the go.
Right.
So, you hit your little button.
- Oh sh
- Oh!
- What?
- What the hell?
You can edit your photos on the go,
and then you pull this thing out.
-There's you and your girl.
-Oh my gosh!
And you get a new iPad.
- This is mine?
- Yeah.
Oh my God, man. Thank you.
- I'm so stoked for you, dude.
- Yeah, boy!
-Babe, it's us.
-Oh my God.
Whiz-bang!
But I got something
even more neat-o for you.
- What?
- Super neat-o,
off the chain, off the rails.
So neat-o?
Get ready for this. Ready?
Oh my God.
Yo!
We got a little crazy back here.
We added a full audio system.
Everything that you need
to blow the windows out of this thing.
-The windows you just got working.
-The windows we just got working.
I wanna show you
what the amazing Shayna did.
- Oh my God. That's so nice!
- That's so beautiful.
You have a tattoo of your car,
so your car has a tattoo of you, my boy.
She did that all by hand.
- What?
- That's incredible.
That's crazy.
But as we dig a little deeper,
we get a little weirder.
So, we know that you take photos.
You have a lot of equipment.
We're always nervous
about somebody stealing it.
Right.
So we built something for you
that hides all your camera equipment.
We put a fingerprint scanner
underneath the lid here.
You put your finger under here.
You pop it.
- Oh my God. That's amazing! What?
- Yeah, boy.
When this pops up,
nobody knows it's there.
Whiz-bang, it is closed.
Nobody's gonna see it or steal it.
-That's incredible. Thank you so much.
-Of course.
Now no one's gonna know
where your equipment is
except the 240 million
subscribers on Netflix
who are watching this right now.
Today was absolutely amazing.
It was just pure pure magic, honestly.
Kevin, your car
has been resurrected, my boy.
Whoo!
Yeah.
Yeah.
Seeing it in its brand-new state,
it kind of just got me.
I just thought about
all the times I drove in it
and all the times it broke down.
It was a struggle, honestly,
and now it's just
a completely transformed new car.
It's just It's beautiful.
Group hugs! Get in!
So I cannot say how thankful I am
for the garage team.
I mean, they really are
changing our lives.
We're so grateful. Just thank you so much.
Your ride
has been resurrected, Kevin! Yeah!
I've got something people talk about ♪
I gotta show you what you got ♪
I can't wait to finally go
on a job and show clients my car.
That's something I can't wait to do.
And just riding with Alex, you know.
I can't wait to go to the beach
on the weekends
and, like, not having to worry
about any issues.
We're definitely gonna stop by
the drive-thru, blasting the speakers,
and finally getting
to roll down the window.
Yeah.
It's a mess.
It's a mess, but I like it.
How do you live like this?
Check out all that rust.
This is a problem. A big problem.
- Whoo!
- Yeah. I'm a surfer boy!
Full wood interior.
This will look like
a big piece of glass.
Ah, that's dope. Look at that.
Wow. It's cool.
Ha-ha ♪
Yeah, yeah ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Looking good ♪
Good looking ♪
Ouch! ♪
Oh, I like that ♪
That's it, that's it ♪
Hey! ♪