Resurrected Rides (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

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I mean, look at this y'all. Beachside.
Top down.
Wind all in my hair. Mmm!
Yeah, I know.
I look cool.
How can you not, man?
It's very easy to be cool in a cool car.
But what if I was driving an eyesore?
Would I be feeling this cool?
Hell, I don't know.
Ain't never gonna happen to me.
This next person,
she definitely knows what it's like
to drive a big hunk of trash.
Let's go resurrect them rides.
Meet Vanessa, a surf instructor
from Huntington Beach, California,
whose ride is anything but swell.
Here's our van in all its glory.
It's a mess, but I like it.
She was submitted to the show
by the Latinx Surf Club,
a group she founded six years ago
to encourage the Latino community
to hang ten.
She absolutely deserves
something like this
because she'll put all her resources
into helping other people
and then have a van
that's, like, falling apart.
According to her co-surfers,
she's deserving.
She's the biggest hype woman I know.
- And her ride is swervin'.
- You have to choose her.
So we sent our camera crew
out for a beach day
to see for ourselves.
Down on the boardwalk ♪
The sun meets the sea ♪
I grew up in the desert,
60 miles from the ocean.
Surfing did seem, like,
really out of reach.
I'm a castaway ♪
I didn't see people
that looked like me out there.
But I was very determined,
and so, I think, like, when you find
what you're passionate about,
I wanted to share that.
Grab your board,
and let's go to the shore.
And you know that if you see the van
that you can come up to me,
and and you're gonna be welcome.
My little hula girl.
She's been in the van since I got the van.
Man, Big Blue has been through so much.
You hear that noise?
Yeah. I need a little WD-40 there.
It's getting eaten alive
by all the salt water.
And I'm pretty sure that there is mold.
I've always told myself
that no matter what,
I'll keep fixing it, you know?
'Cause I love it that much.
It would mean a lot to me
to see the van transformed
'cause without the van,
I wouldn't be able to do what I do.
It would be amazing.
Yo, what's going on, y'all?
We are out here
in Huntington Beach right now.
So many people in flip-flops ♪
So many people in flip-flops ♪
Right here behind me is Vanessa's van.
It is ugly.
We have to resurrect that ride.
Now this is the Huntington Surf Museum.
That's where Vanessa works.
But before I drop the news,
I gotta mess with her a little bit.
I'm gonna call her up
and declare a surf war.
And by me,
I mean my tubular twin, Tuck.
So that's about it. That's the bit.
Did I make this up on the toilet
last night right before I went to bed?
I definitely did. Yes.
International Surfing Museum.
Hello, is this Vanessa?
This is.
Oh,
Vanessa that teaches surf lessons?
Uh, yes. That's me.
Oh, good. I'm glad I got you.
I've heard a lot about you,
and I have a little beef with you.
A beef?
Yeah, 'cause, like,
you teach surf lessons here, and, like,
Huntington Beach
is kind of, like, my territory.
It's, like, really kind of not chill.
I'm sorry, I I
Who is this again?
This is Tuck.
And if you don't stop,
I'm gonna, like, beat up your van.
You hear that?
- Judy?
- Yeah?
Can you watch the front
for a second?
- Yeah.
- Please.
I'm beating the car up, dude.
Face me like a woman.
I'm not chill right now, bro. Come out.
Vanessa, we got you!
We got you!
I'm Chris,
and I'm gonna resurrect your ride!
I tricked her,
and her car's getting resurrected.
Oh, I was so relieved
when I saw Chris and not some stranger
taking a wooden stick to my van.
I'm gonna turn this hunk of junk
into something dope as
I can't say the other word,
but you know what rhymes with it.
But, no.
Chris's surf voice was, um
It No.
Chris needs to keep his day job for sure
and leave the surfing to me.
So let's check out this car, yo.
Let's see what's going on with this thing.
Okay, so how long have you had
this dusty musty?
At least five years.
When you bought it, was it brand-new?
-No, no, no.
-Eh, that's a trick question.
I know it wasn't brand-new.
- Has this ever seen water?
- No.
If you take it through a car wash
or spray it with a hose,
it'll rain inside.
-It'll rain in the van?
-It's shameful.
Next time you go surfing,
you should drive this thing in the ocean.
Okay, so none of the doors work?
This one works when it wants to.
So your door is like a cat?
- Yeah.
- What are these lights for?
I'm not even sure,
but at night they look really cool.
-Sorry, I'm allergic to bull.
-Yeah?
What happened, here, man?
Oh. Some car came off!
There's a little bucket
with moist towels in it.
It'll get wet in here, and it steams up.
-That can't be a good smell.
-No.
-No air conditioner?
-No.
How do you live like this?
When you're surfing,
you have to be really aware.
Like, you have to pay attention
to, like, what's coming at you
because, if not, you will be humbled.
Yeah. That's so beautiful and well-put,
and that's how I feel
when I'm driving your car.
But you gotta get deep into
what's inside the van.
- Yeah.
- And that You know, that's beautiful.
I'm grateful for Big Blue.
Driving a van is super ideal for surfing.
Well, you know what?
I think that your philosophy is beautiful.
Your energy's beautiful.
You're a beautiful person.
I love the connection
you have with the car.
And I think we're gonna be able
to do something special for you with it.
So I'mma drop you off back at work,
and we're gonna get this
to the shop, a'ight?
I speak for the misfits
The have-nots and their kids' kids ♪
The weirdos antisocial
'Cause they feel society skipped them ♪
They know I'm in a class ♪
Fast as a cat.
Hey.
- Whoo-wee!
- Oh my God.
Got some room in there?
- That's a big boy.
- Oh my.
Oh!
All right, y'all.
As you can see, I've brought you a van.
It's a 1992 Ford Econoline,
and it's seen better days.
Now y'all have seen Vanessa's video.
She's very sweet. Dope energy.
And so I want to make her van dope.
'Cause right now, it is trash.
That's why I got y'all here.
Any of y'all surf?
- I drown real well.
- You drown?
- Straight to the bottom.
- Hell yeah. My boy Nelson.
Always keeping it light, my boy.
All right. Yo, first impressions, y'all.
What do y'all think?
I'm excited that it's not a car.
You a truck girl? You been waiting
to get something bigger than a car.
Oh, look at the drip rail.
Look how bad this is.
Check out all that rust.
You gotta take care of the rust,
first and foremost.
- Absolutely.
- Repair it.
Get all the bodywork straight,
so Shayna can get straight to the paint.
Shayna, what you feeling with the colors?
I'm excited for this one.
I am feeling beachy vibes,
like a wave that starts in the back
and then it comes up.
It's gonna be multiple different colors,
with a '70s twist kind of thing.
It's It's cool.
Excited Shayna is crazy to see, dawg.
Because I can tell you excited,
but you still chill.
I'm so excited right now. This is crazy.
Interior-wise for sure,
we have to match it up with her.
So maybe some nice light colors
to go with that.
Maybe a table that comes down
to hide away
so she can still store her stuff inside
at the same time.
Man, you thinking, Saul. You thinking.
I do have one really cool idea.
I don't wanna say it
'cause I know it'll be a lot of work,
but I wanna design
some sort of a sliding rack
mounted on top of the roof
for her surfboards.
Somehow, it comes out.
I don't know how, but we'll figure it out.
It'll slide over and down.
-So she can just go and pluck it off.
-That's dope.
I got this wild idea of doing
a tubular bumper on the front.
She has two posts that come out.
She could put a hammock
and just hang out and lounge on the beach.
So you going to turn her van
into a transformer. That's fire.
So you're gonna do a roof rack
that comes down,
and you're gonna do
a bumper with a hammock.
You need medication. Um
Wanna do it with me?
When you get stuck,
I'll be there to help you.
We'll figure it out.
I know 'cause y'all my dream team.
Whoo! I love that.
All right, sounds like we got a plan
for the beach van.
Now, I told Vanessa
you'd get this done in time
for her to show it off
at the annual US Open of Surfing.
It's the world's biggest
surfing competition,
and it's going down
in Huntington Beach next Saturday.
Y'all get to work.
I'm gonna walk away slowly.
Hear those pants.
They're so loud, aren't they?
You can't even
sneak away in those.
No, man.
You can't commit no crime in these pants.
This is going to take me
a long time to get out of here.
You don't have to be a mechanic
to see that this is a problem.
A big problem.
- Yeah, that's a lot of rust.
- So what do we do with rust, Don?
You have to cut it all out.
I mean, every single ounce.
What she does with the beach,
water physically makes
this thing oxidize faster.
So it's so important that
we trim all the rot off this thing.
If we leave it on, if there's
a bit of rust, this all will come back.
It's cancer, really.
It will keep on spreading.
Incrementally gonna move into it.
Grind it, smooth it,
and as far back as we see that rust,
that has to come out.
And when we have all the rust gone,
we'll take the drip rail
off this old piece.
Wrap that onto this.
But I can't tell how far to graft
until we remove all this.
It sounds like it'll take forever.
Yeah. It's gonna take a long time.
Cool. I'm in. You cut, I'll tack?
Why not? Let's do it.
Let's get dirty.
Lacey, this is gonna be our Picasso.
Me and you are gonna make
the best drip rail.
This thing is rough.
Present!
Nice.
Check this out.
This is what I was worried about.
The whole inside lip was rotted.
That oxidation physically just melts
this stuff after years and years.
It's crazy how that happens, huh?
All rotten. So that means,
not only do I have to cut the lip,
but now I gotta start digging
back in here.
Unfortunately,
this thing still needs a lot of work.
We're gonna keep cutting it up,
work our way all around,
deeper and deeper
until we get all the rot out.
I think this one's
gonna go right here.
This van has a very weird inner structure.
The inside of the van
is definitely not 100% flat.
Is that straight?
Yeah. That's pretty straight.
Now we're carpenters.
We're multifaceted.
We can just do everything.
It's pretty astonishing
how talented we are.
-Now we'll have to worry about termites.
-We could tent it.
It'll be real nice,
and it'll definitely set the tone.
We put a laminate hardwood
on the bottom, which is really nice.
-Laminate.
-Laminate.
Not hardwood.
It's a laminate hardwood.
Laminate hardwood? There's no such thing.
It's a laminate, or it's hardwood.
-It's not wood.
-But it's a hardwood.
It's a laminate.
-Are you sure?
-Yes.
We're putting in a laminate.
We'll finish putting these up.
So we're laying full wood interior.
It's easier to wipe down.
She's gonna be putting surfboards in here.
It'll go with the beachy theme.
We're gonna have to customize
around the wheel wells.
It's a little more work
than our usual wrapping job,
a little more detailed.
But I think the end product's
gonna look really good.
Hello. Camera guy. Kevin?
- It's not Kevin.
- Kevin?
- Wait, it's not Kevin?
- His name's Jeff.
Jeff. I'm sorry, Jeff.
Who's Kevin?
I'm sorry, Jeff.
I should know your name because you
you make me look good.
He's like, "Not anymore."
What you got going on?
Today, we'll be building
an epoxy pour table.
So what I'm gonna be doing is making
a table that will mount in the van.
It'll be something that folds up,
folds back down so it's out of the way,
but a bit more personalized.
She has her favorite beachfront
where she teaches her surfing classes.
So we're gonna be basically taking
that sky view of that beachline,
and we're gonna actually carve that
into the table,
and it's gonna be really cool.
First thing I'll start with,
we're gonna use the projector,
and I'm gonna project
an image of the coastline
and trace it with a sharpie.
There we go.
Um, let's go cut the thing.
Now I'm gonna use a router
to carve out the topography
I just traced on our tabletop.
Oh, jeepers. Oh, it's heavy.
This will not only create a mold
to pour the epoxy over,
but it's also a really great opportunity
for our very talented cameraman, Jeff,
to strut his stuff
and make me look like a badass.
Whoa! Look at that sawdust fly.
Just really A-plus work.
Thanks, Jeff.
And sorry I called you Kevin.
Now that we've got Vanessa's
favorite surf spot carved into the table,
we're almost ready to pour the resin.
I'm gonna place these rocks
and get a nice jetty/coastline,
and then I'm gonna start mixing up
some epoxy resin.
Epoxy resin is a type
of super durable plastic.
It starts in a liquid state,
but once properly mixed,
a chemical reaction begins
that causes it to slowly harden.
Not all epoxy's
purpose-built for this.
When you do these tables,
you need to use a specialized resin
specifically designed for this instance.
Otherwise, you'll get this thing
called exothermic catalyzation.
That's where so much mass
will literally start to gas and smoke
and could set fire.
If we do all this right,
this will look like a big piece of glass
that really looks authentic to the coast.
It'll cure permanently
over the course of about 24 to 48 hours,
then we'll figure out how to mount it
in her Econoline.
Lacey and I were working late
cleaning up the rust
that was all over the Big Blue
grafting on the new drip rail.
Oh, look at that. Perfect fit.
Now that this is no longer ready
to disintegrate in front of our eyes
There you go.
we can really get to work on it.
All right, so the whole hammock idea,
I'm thinking about doing
some 1-5/8" tubes, welding it to it.
I'll have the hammock here.
It's gonna be stationary.
It's simple. It's easy.
- Just sticking out of the bumper?
- Like it? Yeah.
You're just gonna have
random tubies hanging out or?
Yeah.
- Don.
- You don't like it?
I know we're on a short time frame,
and, like, we're wore out now,
but you can't have just some random bars
coming off this thing.
We gotta give Vanessa something cool.
You have an idea?
What do you think about this?
I'm listening.
What if I built
a tube spindle on the bottom?
We hit a button,
and an actuator will physically turn it.
Right here, a spindle. This comes up.
- This goes pow! This goes
- Okay.
Do you see it?
So that was a lot of sound effects.
-Made sense to me.
-That's all that matters.
Lacey's right.
We can make this thing
funky and functional, baby. Mm-hmm!
That Don guy
is building monstrosities.
We'll start by measuring and cutting
the 1-5/8" chromoly tube
to serve as the arms.
Next, I'll bend these tubes
using my gorilla-like strength.
And perhaps the power
of compressed air to speed things along.
Now, here's where it gets truly metal.
To weld these arms to the spindle,
we have to notch out the ends.
So I'll hook up my drill to a hole saw
and carve off the tips to these tubes.
Oh, that's dope. Look at it.
That's sick.
As long as I measured right,
they should weld onto
the spindle assembly seamlessly.
Oh yeah ♪
This van still has
the original seats from 1994.
How many, uh, butts have sat
in those seats, right?
Years of abuse. So Saul's gonna have to
make pretty much everything from scratch.
How about we let the work
speak for itself?
Let's do it.
Wrapping it up
with some marine-grade vinyl.
It's gonna be very easy to wipe down.
Kinda go play off the beachy theme.
We're gonna try to integrate
a little bit of serape.
Serape, as a material, what it is,
it's kind of like a Mexican blanket.
Seeing that she's Latina,
I think she'd really appreciate it.
It's gonna be a nice touch.
It'll bring all the colors together.
It's gonna add some major pop
to the natural colors we're going with.
Hey, you're making it work today.
Well, this is Huntington Beach,
but this is not the Huntington Beach
from a few days ago.
It's cold and wet and early.
It's cloudy and dreary and early.
And I'm about
to take a surf lesson! Why?
So I can get inside Vanessa's head
and make sure we're doing
everything we can for her van.
Y'all know how early
you gotta wake up to surf?
Early.
Early o'clock.
Chris!
Oh dammit.
Hi!
I was hoping
you would catch the flu and cancel!
Whoo! So glad that you made it.
Oh, this is a good idea.
You got us right by the lifeguard tower.
-I see how much faith you got in me.
-Safety first. Safety first.
-How do you feel?
-I feel ready to try this.
Quick vocabulary. This is the tail.
This is, like, the deck of the board,
and that is the nose.
Yours is perfect for beginners.
So this little black line
down the middle is the stringer.
When you stand up,
that's where your feet should land.
- So you ready to try it?
- Yeah.
Go for it.
As your front foot lands in that circle,
that's the gas.
-The gas?
-It's the gas, and you're going.
There's no stopping.
All right. I think I know everything
I need to know to go die on TV.
-You ready?
-I'm ready. Let's go.
There you go. Put it under your arm.
There you go. We're good.
- Holy Whoo!
- There you go.
- Oh yeah!
- Ooh!
Beautiful idea, guys!
Beautiful idea!
- Oh my God.
- Good.
Who does this by choice?
A'ight, man, just 'cause we didn't have
a mic out there,
'cause obviously it's water,
I'm gonna give you a recap of
what it was like surfing the first time.
Damn this is cold!
The water's everywhere. In every orifice.
Good decision, Netflix!
A'ight, I got my balance. A'ight, cool.
Oh!
How do I feel so good?
Hey, listen, man. I just surfed
for the first time in my life.
My first real wave, I stood up.
- Whoo!
- I'm a surfer boy.
Does that make me a badass?
I don't want to use labels, y'all.
Now I got another question for you.
How the hell do I get outta this?
Well, we gotta unzip it
and peel it off like a banana
and then go hit the showers.
-Gotta rinse the sand off.
-Oh!
-Hit the shower? Hit the shower where?
-Yeah.
Uh, right here.
Uh, the public outdoor shower.
- What kind of nudist sh is that?
- Yeah.
- This is where you shower?
- Yeah.
I don't like this at all.
Yeah, sorry.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Ooh.
Oh, that's cold too.
It's not the most ideal
shower situation.
It doesn't seem like it. It's just open
to anybody that's watching you.
I think I got an idea
how to change that for you.
All right, well, thank you for that.
I'll go back with the info I learned,
and I'm gonna see you in a few days
to show you a very resurrected ride.
I can't wait to see it, Chris.
Saul, what's up, man?
What up? How you doing?
I just had a surf lesson with Vanessa.
Boy, I was up.
I was catching waves. All that.
But I got an idea, man, for the van.
I don't mean to put more on your plate,
but this is my show. It's what I do.
We had to shower as soon as we got out,
and we were showering
in front of these strangers.
So it got me thinking, man.
Maybe we should have a shower
that's maybe coming off the van.
But it covers her so she's, like,
you know, not exposed.
-That something we could make?
-We could put something together.
My boy, Saul, you're not getting paid
no more for this.
But we got more time, though?
-Huh?
-You got me more time?
What did you say now, Saul?
I think you're cutting out.
You said what? Can't even hear you.
You're breaking up now.
All right, get that shower done.
Bye-bye now!
My people are just good.
Feel it?
Right there?
We're gonna have to drill through
two or three pieces of metal.
We might have to drop the bumper.
I think we do need
to drop the bumper.
We're supposed to give Big Blue
back to Vanessa in only four days
for the US Open of Surfing.
- This thing ready to come out?
- I have one more bolt.
So, of course,
Chris decided to throw us a curveball.
One, two, three. And voilà.
And now we have to figure out
how to put a shower in this thing.
We already established a really nice
beachy theme here with this wood interior.
So now we're executing some plumbing,
which I've never done before.
It's a tank
that's gonna go into a water pump
that's gonna go into this shower head.
Let's do it.
Oscar's gonna come in
and do the creeper,
put the water tank underneath.
There it is. All right. Does it go?
-That's it.
-That's it?
We're gonna have to drill through
two pieces of structural metal.
Just come from the bottom.
Drill it up.
Just to be able to feed line
and the fitting.
- All right. Fire in the hole.
- Fire in the hole.
Goddammit.
- What?
- It's hot.
- The metal shavings?
- Yeah.
- Oh, there's sparks. Be careful.
- It's going?
I smell a fire.
This doesn't seem safe.
It was double or triple-walled.
Give me a little water bottle
to spray just in case.
Up! Water from the heavens.
All right. Fire in the hole.
Yeah,
that was a thick piece of metal.
My only hope is you know ya role ♪
The games in my hand
Like remote control ♪
That's how it happened
When I broke the mold, it's my face ♪
Better watch what ya talk about ♪
I walk in the room ♪
- Pretty good.
- The moment of truth.
All right. So if I did
my calculations correct,
this'll allow this thing
to spin forward and up.
This'll be the perch
for the hammock itself.
And this just flips down?
We just roll it on forward.
Should be smooth.
- Seems convenient enough.
- Yeah, it's cool, right?
Where does it stop?
It'll have a bump stop in it,
so we put a pin in it.
-It'll lock in place.
-Sweet.
Unpin it, hit the button,
and it'll go back.
- Pretty simple.
- There's still a lot more work.
I gotta get the electronics,
make the actuator work, which spins out.
I'll figure that out.
I should have just enough time
to finish this up by Saturday.
The biggest thing was making
this whole thing close and open.
Well, let's put the hammock in it
and see
- See what it looks like? Yeah.
- See what it looks like.
- This
- Hook it in.
Look at that. So smooth.
That's so cool.
-So this is about where it would stop?
-That's where I'll put the bump stop.
Then she can just sit there and lounge,
have some fun,
and drink her old iced teas,
and get cozy with it.
I think that's a little low
once someone's actually in it, you know?
Then you're just dragging in the sand.
Is there a way to make it sit up higher?
Took a lot to make the tubes work.
I mean, just my hand
is almost dragging the ground.
Think we're gonna have to
figure something out.
.
Saturday, that's close.
I mean, honestly, the only way to fix that
is to figure out how much height to add.
I can't just cut and weld.
You have to make these again.
I don't want a weak spot in the tubes.
I just don't know if I have enough time.
It is a lot of extra work.
But, I mean, I'll help you with it.
Nah! If we do it,
we're gonna go all the way.
I am doing a digital rendering
of what we're gonna be painting
on the Econoline.
-I like it.
-It's getting somewhere.
Yeah, it looks good.
So I'm definitely latching on
to the beach vibes
with a sort of wave design,
but also making it kind of like
an old-school '70s vibe.
I did actually surf one time
in Hawaii on Christmas,
and I was, actually
I wouldn't say pretty good.
I was better than I would seem.
There's pictures of it. There's proof.
We're keeping a lot of blue colors,
since she calls it Big Blue.
It's really gonna pop in the sun
and complement the other colors,
so we can make it look like
one beautiful work of art.
We got this awesome roof rack system.
And we're gonna be installing it
on top of Vanessa's van
to give her a place
to transport and store surfboards.
It's actually an innovative way
of storing components
on the top of a vehicle.
This is the only rack like this
in North America right now.
But Lacey and I are tag-teaming this
because Don, as I predicted,
bit off more than he can chew.
You know, so actually,
there's a diagram here, if you look close.
So that's Nelson,
and then that's me with the ponytail,
and that's Don that is X'ed out
'cause we don't need him for this.
Look, it says, "Two adults."
So, let's knock this out.
You're so good when you're bad ♪
This should be cool for Vanessa.
She'll be able to put her surfboard on it.
It can live on top of the van, and then
she can pull it down when she needs it.
You're so cruel ♪
'Cause you know that in the end
You're so good ♪
When you're bad ♪
Yeah,
it actually has a mechanical system.
A hand crank that lowers the rack
off the side. It's really quite cool.
I'm really excited to see
how this thing assembles.
I mean, it seems easy enough.
That's also everyone's famous last words
putting together IKEA furniture.
- It's coming together, guys.
- Coming together.
- The epoxy table.
- It's a little heavy.
Do we have the hardware
to mount it?
We have some pretty robust hinges.
All right. So we got the interior done.
This, I think, is the icing on the cake.
Oh.
All right, guys,
we've all been killing it here.
Let's make that final push.
-Where's Donny at?
-I think he's still pushing.
Still
We made a lot of big changes
to Big Blue.
But if we have to get it ready
for the US Open of Surfing tomorrow,
the whole team is
gonna have to bring their A-game.
Lacey's gonna help Don
fix the hammock.
They should be able to get it
swinging into place.
Meanwhile, Oscar and I need to put
the finishing touches on the van interior,
get that custom shower done,
and help Nelson get that dope table
mounted in the back.
Now that the shower is all taken care of,
we can go ahead and finish up
with our spin cycle dryer.
All while Shayna mixes up
some final touches on the paint job.
It's just been a week,
but together, we're bringing
Vanessa's baby back to life.
- Good to see you. What's going on, girl?
- What's up?
Last time I saw you, we saw your van.
It was a hot piece of trash,
real mildewy, and it smelled crazy.
But now it's different.
That's my dream team garage team.
Say what up to 'em.
- Ow!
- Hi!
Hell yeah.
That's surfer talk for "hi."
They spent countless hours
making this van amazing.
I feel like I'm gonna be blown away.
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
What if the bumper's like
two big butt cheeks?
You gonna be happy to see that?
I like big butts.
-You ready to see this van?
-I am. All right, let's go.
Let's do this.
Put a little strut on.
She said .
Yeah.
Okay, you ready?
- I'm ready. I'm ready.
- Hit it!
-Oh yeah, look at that.
-I feel like I'm at the disco.
Look at that little man
surfing around.
Whoo! Man, I'm so excited.
- Close your eyes. Don't peek.
- I'm closing 'em.
I'm sweating.
The suspense!
Chris, it's killing me.
And open your eyes, Vanessa,
and see your Big Blue!
Oh!
- Thank you!
- Yeah, girl. Come on.
Oh my God.
- Look at your wheels, baby!
- Oh my God! Can I hug you again?
-Yeah, hug me again.
-Oh!
Oh my God. This is unreal.
Those geniuses over there
made this happen, man.
We'll start with the sick-ass paint job.
Shayna, talk to us, girl.
As soon as it came in,
I was very excited about this thing.
And Shayna doesn't get excited
about nothing!
We know
that you called it Big Blue,
so we kept a bunch
of different shades of blue.
And then I added
this really cool wave design
to go with your whole theme.
Dude, thank you so much.
When I was a little girl,
I used to draw waves on all my papers.
That's crazy 'cause I went back in time,
and I met you as a little girl,
and I got an idea for that.
That's how I'm playing.
That's not what I would do
with time travel. I would save Tupac.
Anyway, what else we got, man?
This is a one of one roof rack.
There's only one in North America.
It's by a company out of Norway.
It's custom assembled
and built by Lacey and I
on the roof of the car.
This'll give the ability
to easily store all your surfboards
- Yeah, let's move back a little bit.
- What?
- Oh!
- All right.
That is so cool, you guys.
Once you fold it up, it keeps your boards
from being on the inside
and goes back on the roof.
I've never seen anything like this.
Yo, Donny, what's the whizzbang
on this van, bro?
I always pictured you being by the beach
in a hammock, chilling, relaxing.
So I did that, but on steroids.
Whoa! Don!
So this is an active bumper
that turns into an actual hammock holder.
You can pull into the beach,
hit the button.
It's programmed. Everything locks in.
- Can I try it? For real?
- Yes.
- Get in here.
- Yeah!
Thanks, guys!
Hammock lady!
Yes! Oh my God.
I This is amazing.
I wanna see pictures
of you rocking.
I'm going to, for sure.
So, listen, this is super dope,
but you ready to see the inside?
Hell yeah.
Saul, Oscar
- Let's go to the back and check it out.
- All right, yeah.
- I'm gonna have you close your eyes.
- Okay.
Okay. Oh yeah, keep the eyes closed.
Keep your eyes closed.
- My hand.
- One, two, three.
Oh my gosh! you guys with the lights!
Oh what?
Oh my God. Thank you so much.
So this was a labor of love
for me and my brother.
We stripped out the whole interior.
You know, we tore out
all that mildewy carpet out of there.
Wow.
Up front,
we completely redid the seats,
dash, and headliner
with the combination of marine-grade vinyl
and that vibrant blue serape material.
Wow. The Mexican blanket. Whoo!
You're a Latina.
We're Latinos too. I was like,
"We gotta incorporate
the serape blanket somehow."
This is super special.
And in the back, as you can see,
there's a whole lot of wood in here.
Yeah.
We went ahead
and paneled this whole van with cedar.
And it's all been sealed,
so it's waterproof.
So not only did we refurbish
your whole interior,
the vehicle's got a lot of
new technologies, a new digital cluster,
new stereo system.
I've never
had a radio that works.
You've got this spin dryer in here
that you can
throw your wetsuit
or wet clothes in there.
And on top of all that,
now you have your own personal shower.
- My own personal shower.
- Yeah.
And also, it doesn't smell
nearly as bad as it used to.
Nelson! Come tell her about the table!
Thanks, Chris.
Vanessa, come over this side for me.
Okay. So, we know this van was, like,
super sentimental, right?
And I don't do art stuff,
but we were all so inspired and moved by
your video and everything with the vehicle
that I did an epoxy pour table.
And it's a functional table,
but the coolest part about it is
it turns into, like,
a functional art piece.
This is where you surf.
And this is the bay that surrounds it.
- Where I surf?
- Yeah.
Oh my God.
And this is a world view
of that actual map. This is your home.
- It is. Oh sh, dude.
- Yeah. Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
It It came together.
It really did.
- Damn. Wow. Thank you so much, Nelson.
- Of course.
Oh my God. Whoo!
Um, like, that's where it all
kind of began for me.
Like, at 18, I moved to Newport
with, like, a dream and like
That's cool.
I have not, uh
I have not gotten choked up
on any of the show,
but you're starting to get to me.
Yeah, she does that.
I'm not that guy.
Nelson! Give me a hug, Nelson.
- You put Blackies in my van. Oh my God.
- Yeah.
It almost feels like a dream.
Like, it does. I feel like I'm dreaming.
I have no words.
I'm just really happy that you like it.
Me too.
I'm just so grateful to all of you guys.
So, Vanessa, what's your favorite part
of this whole car, man?
You guys.
- Aw!
- Yeah, you guys.
The garage team,
they worked their butts off
to to fix this van.
They're an amazing group of people.
-Girl.
-Thank you.
And your wave.
This moment's so beautiful.
It almost makes me forget
how much I hated water up my nose
when I fell off that goddamn surfboard.
- Chris?
- What's up?
I'mma see you bright and early tomorrow?
Yeah!
It's a huge transformation.
This thing, it was beat up,
rusty, holes in it.
It was, like, on its last leg.
You guys brought it back to life.
People ask me every day, like,
"Where's Big Blue?"
"When are you getting the van back?"
And I think
that this van pulling up to the beach
is gonna bring joy
to the community, you know?
It's the coolest van
I've ever seen in my life.
Cruising down PCH is gonna be
a whole new experience with this van.
Yeah, this is gonna bring a lot of joy
for everyone who I surf with,
everyone who I've been surfing with
since I was a young lady.
It means a lot to them too.
Could you please fix up his truck
so we can spend more time with Willy?
He's a survivalist.
He knows the apocalypse is coming.
Rough and tough, Mad Max style.
I'm gonna layer, like,
60 feet of tube all over this thing.
This looks badass.
We about to make
a shooting, grappling thing.
Whoa!
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