Car Masters: Rust to Riches (2018) s02e01 Episode Script

[power tools run]
[engine revs and chain rattles]
[horn honks]
Look, we got Grandma's car.
[Mark] All right, guys,
first car in the new shop.
[Constance]
I feel like I need a tetanus shot.
Shawn, you know what the best thing is
about a four-door?
- What's that?
- I don't know. What is it?
[laughter]
- Let's unhook this
- [Mark] All right.
and get it inside.
- [Constance] I got it. Don't worry, guys.
- [Shawn] It's official.
Gotham Garage West is open for business.
- [Mark] What?
- What?
- We're not calling it Gotham Garage West.
- Why not?
[Tony] I think we're actually south.
It should be Gotham South.
Where do you come up with
Gotham Garage West?
So anybody else
got any good ideas for names?
How about Man Cave Shop?
Hey.
[Mark] Caveman, grab your toolbox.
You're fired.
[others laugh]
[theme music playing]
[engine revs]
[Mark] Here at Gotham Garage,
we upgrade and trade
turning thousand-dollar rust buckets
into six-figure works of art
in a few greasy steps.
[engine revs]
And we just came off
one of our best years to date.
[tires screech]
We just traded a '54 COE and a '55 Futura
for 170 grand.
And instead of pumping the brakes,
we mashed the gas through the floor.
We pooled our money
to get a second garage.
[Caveman] Welcome back, everybody!
In order to get this new shop
ready for action,
we've been flipping cars
and trading them for tools
just to get this building set up.
Now that you've seen your toy, show us
what we're gonna get in trade for it.
All of it's yours.
Expanding any small business this fast
is a huge gamble,
but if you want to build more cars
and be more efficient and make more money,
you just gotta double down.
And for us, that time is right now.
[power tools running]
[engine revs]
[Mark] You're not calling it
Gotham Garage West.
[Caveman] What are we doing?
You guys, let's focus on this
because I got questions.
Seriously, what is this?
This is a '53 Buick Special.
It is our trade-up car.
Yes, it looks ugly,
but we have somebody
that thinks it's beautiful.
It's the same guy that gave him
that friendnship bracelet.
- Yeah. Anyway
- [others snickering]
The guy we're trading this with
says it had to be a Buick,
it had to be a Special,
and it had to be a '53.
Apparently this four-door
is the exact model his old man drove,
and he's always wanted to own one,
but with a lot more muscle.
So what I want to do is turn this car
into the first Gotham Garage sleeper.
Gotham Garage sleeper.
We haven't done one.
[engine revs]
[Mark] I know this guy asked for
a little more muscle,
but with this new shop, we need to blow
every client's expectations away.
So we're not just adding muscle.
We're making it a full-blown sleeper,
and a sleeper is all about one thing
deception.
On the outside, it looks stock and slow,
but hidden inside is an upgraded motor
surrounded by
high-performance racing parts
that make it fast and mean.
[tires squeal]
We'll swap the original suspension
that handled like a boat
for a Corvette front end
and coilover shocks in the rear.
That way, this thing will hold the road,
no matter how much horsepower we give it,
and we're gonna give it a lot.
We're pulling out
that 60-year-old straight eight
and replacing it with a 350 V8
with tons of torque.
Then we'll complete the disguise
by restoring the outside completely stock
with a two-tone paint job
and whitewall tires.
You'll see this baby coming
from a mile away,
but good luck keeping up with her.
I like the build.
We're gonna turn it into a sleeper.
But then after we finish it,
what are we getting for it?
This isn't a car
we're gonna try and sell out there.
This is a trade-up car only.
So let me lay it out.
We're gonna take this absolute turd
and turn it into a peach
worth 25 or 30 Gs.
I've got a guy
willing to trade it straight up
for a '71 Chevy Blazer
with the full removable hardtop.
That's a very desirable truck.
And once we get done,
the value will be around 60 grand,
and that'll lead us to the crown jewel,
a replica of
a '59 Corvette Stingray concept car.
That car is iconic,
and when we make that thing beautiful
and cash out,
it's gonna be one hell of a payday.
We're talking well over six figures.
You guys get to start on this immediately.
Let's get some GoJaks and get this done.
[Caveman] Let's get this thing apart.
Shawn can annoy me nonstop every day,
but there is nobody better
at making deals than him.
He's like a savant.
For this second shop to be successful,
Shawn is really gonna
have to step it up even more.
- Pretty good there.
- How's that look?
Right there looks pretty good to me.
[Constance] Wrong size.
I need to go up one size.
If Mark would've told us
we were doing the car here,
we could've brought our tools over.
1953 was actually
a really cool year for Buick
because it was their 50th anniversary.
The Special wasn't considered
the most glamorous car that they made.
It was kind of considered
a smaller, more entry-level car,
which is crazy because in today's world,
this car's huge.
But because it's old and big
and has four doors,
it's the perfect car to make a sleeper.
Nobody will expect this thing
to go fast or handle well,
but when we're done with it,
it absolutely will.
[Caveman] Unh. There it goes.
[Tony] That motor's huge.
Let's get this out of the way
so you guys can get started.
I'm gonna work on that 350.
[Tony] It's so nice having all this
extra space here for our teardowns.
How long before we have this place
overloaded with stuff?
- [Caveman] Give it till after lunch.
- [laughter]
[Mark] Here's the entire problem
with this garage.
We have so much stuff,
but you can't throw it away
'cause you never know when you need it.
If you look at all my shelves, there's
four cars in parts on those two shelves.
I need all of this stuff to build cars
the way that I build cars.
Having less space
means not only are we
on top of each other all the time,
but we're always waiting on something.
Waiting on the compressor,
waiting on the lifts.
We waste time waiting on tools.
Think about it like this.
You got four chefs.
They're in a tiny little kitchen.
They're fighting over burner space,
time on the oven.
They're fighting over ingredients.
Food's gonna take forever to cook.
But take those same four chefs,
give them a little bit more room
Better yet, give them two kitchens,
and boom, you've got gourmet meals
coming out twice as fast.
That's the premise behind
having this second shop
same manpower, double the efficiency.
Somebody mess with my chair?
I feel lower today.
Are you trying to get up on me?
Is that the deal?
That's what I'm trying to get here. So
We got a great upgrade-and-trade car
with that Buick,
but, uh, we're gonna need
a cash car right now.
We gotta float bills
at both places right now.
Well, I've got a guy that wants us
to do a build for him.
- Yeah?
- He's got a '73 Pinto.
That's not a bad car.
They were pretty popular.
- I had I had two of them.
- Really?
Yeah. They make a really cool
mini hot rod with big, wide tires,
and you can put, like, a big block in it
sticking up out of the hood.
That's, like, a really good
Gotham Garage car.
[Shawn] Well, that's the catch
with this one.
The guy wants it to be an electric Pinto.
[background music dies off]
- Electric blue?
- No, no, no.
As in, convert the motor to electric.
This helps us expand, right?
I said expand. I didn't say
start a whole new industry-business thing.
We're not.
We're customizing a car for a guy.
You know why I don't do it? I know
what it cost to make an electric car.
I know they're expensive, but that's okay.
He's got the money.
- I think it's a perfect cash deal for us
- I'm not excited about building an
Listen, it's not just the fact
that it's an electric car.
It's who we're doing it for.
- Who we doing it for?
- Gil Losi.
He's in the Grand National Roadster Show
Hall of Fame.
If he's in the Roadster Show Hall of Fame,
then he's gotta be somebody pretty big.
Gil Losi is a legend.
He's been an innovator
in every part of the car business,
especially the racing world.
He sponsored his own IndyCar team,
and they were always ahead of the curve.
This is one of those guys
who's on the cutting edge.
He always does something kind of new.
What's he want specifically?
What are we doing to this Pinto?
He wants a Pinto dragster,
and he wants it with electric motor.
It's got to be under nine seconds
in the eighth mile.
- We're talking serious fast.
- That's quick, dude.
That's not even fast. That's quick.
You gotta be quick to beat nine seconds.
Hell, yeah.
Are you cool with this? Can you
No, I'm really not cool with this,
but I'll-I'll build it.
You just get the money.
- All right.
- Now get out of my office.
I'm out. I'm gonna go in the other room
and cry that I have to build
an electric car.
I can't believe
you agreed to do an electric car.
Sellout.
[Mark] Caveman, check out this little gem.
This is why I called you back over here.
[Caveman] Wow, look at that. A Pinto.
My brother had one. Wait. Wait.
[Mark] Yeah, there you go.
[cackles]
Dude, it has an 8-track player in it!
You're gonna love this idea.
We're gonna make a drag car out of it.
Ooh, okay. I'm down for that.
Down for a good drag car.
It's gonna go on a diet, though.
- You're scaring me.
- Gonna make an electric car out of it.
[tools and parts hit the floor]
What? Wait a second.
I gotta make sure I'm at the same place.
What's that say?
- That's says Gotham Garage.
- And what do we do at Gotham Garage?
We build gasoline hot rods here.
Yes, we do.
I know the "g" stands for gas.
If we have to do an electric car,
we're gonna do it the Gotham Garage way.
Gil wants this Pinto to look amazing.
For us, that's the easy part,
but getting it to perform?
That's gonna be the tricky part.
For comparison,
your typical souped-up muscle car
does a 10-to 12-second eighth mile.
So to get it under nine,
it's gonna have to be really quick.
How about a hood scoop on it, too?
Just for a gag. You want the big snorkel?
That 12-inch one up there? Yeah.
That would be great.
Whether it's a gas-powered car
or an electric car,
this Pinto needs to look and feel
like a badass dragster.
We'll start by putting
giant big-ass tires on the back,
and on the inside,
we'll make it racing safe.
We'll put in a four-point roll cage,
racing seats,
and fout-point racing harnesses.
We'll add a big, fat hood scoop
just for looks
and polish it off by adding
an electroluminescent coating,
which means it's gonna light up the night.
- We need to strip this little car apart.
- Okay.
[Mark] The Ford Pinto is a car
that a lot of people have heard about
[fanfare plays]
because basically,
when they got rear-ended
boom.
Ford put the fuel tank
between the rear axle and the rear bumper.
So when you hit it just right,
they caught on fire.
Let's see.
My plan when we finish this car
is to take it straight to the dragstrip,
have Gil meet us there.
That way, first time he sees it
is when it shreds the track.
Caveman likes to cut.
[sputters]
We're gonna take out the bomb next.
He's willing to give us 60-65 grand
if this thing goes under nine seconds.
If we can get it going
even faster than that,
I know we can get more money.
We gotta look at all of
the electrical components that we ordered
and try to make
some kind of sense out of it.
So all we have to do now
is figure out
how to get all of this into that.
Hmm.
This is, like, way too much technology
in my life in front of me.
There's a reason why I focus on
gasoline-powered cars.
[parts drop on floor]
Because that's what I know how to do.
Every time I stray from that,
I get myself into trouble.
A certain Smart car
that almost destroyed me
comes to mind.
What is this? That's the motor.
- It's a cap plate.
- Plastic cover?
- I was gonna say, "What the hell?"
- I'm like, "How do you get the bolt out?"
Apparently the Smart car's
outsmarting both of us.
- [both laugh]
- But I do learn from my mistakes,
so I'm calling Tony
to take the lead on this one.
[cell phone rings]
Hello?
So I need you to come over here
and help me figure this out.
- Be there in a few minutes.
- All right. Bye.
All right.
I don't know
what the [bleep] is going on here.
- 'Cause we're dinosaurs. That's why.
- I know, right?
I don't see anywhere to put gasoline.
Man, this is a sight to see. You two guys
playing with a science-fair kit?
[both] Yeah.
[Mark] Tony is a master machinist
and a really great fabricator.
He also loves this techy stuff.
So usually when we're doing a motor swap,
we're not dealing with this many parts
to make fit together.
I think it'd be cool
if we could take all these parts
- and make it into one big assembly.
- Yeah.
[Tony] Drag cars
are all about acceleration.
It's about getting off the line
as quick as you can,
and electric motors
are actually really good for that.
Most electric cars have one motor,
but two motors coupled together
can actually double the power,
and we have just enough space
in this Pinto engine compartment
to squeeze two motors in there.
This is a drag car.
Obviously we're gonna push the envelope
as far as we can.
[gibberish]
- [Mark] Ta-da. One electric motor.
- It's pretty high tech.
If we can get more power in
and make it go faster, we're gonna do it.
I guess first thing tomorrow morning,
we'll start the electrical on the car,
and, pardon the pun,
I will follow your lead.
[laughter]
[rock music playing]
[saw runs]
[Tony] I've been really into
these electric-car conversions lately.
Been doing a lot of research,
and I've been waiting for one of these
to come through the shop.
- Shouldn't have to guess, at this point.
- That's all we do here is guess.
That's what the first "G"
in Gotham Garage is for.
[Tony] I still love our hot-rod builds,
and I'll never leave that behind.
That's what we do here.
But I do want to try something new
and play with some of this
new-and-upcoming technology.
Now we need some batteries.
Rigging the Pinto up
to work on battery power
is a really big job.
- It's a bunch of double-A batteries.
- That's all it is.
Every piece that we need, we have to make.
If we need a battery box for the Pinto,
we have to make it from scratch.
[Tony] So together they make
quite a bit of voltage.
- [Mark] You really have to pay attention.
- [Tony] Correct.
[both chuckle]
That'll wake you up.
The unfortunate thing
is it's only gonna get more complicated
from this point forward.
What I'm doing here
is wiring up our Tesla battery pack.
The manual for the electric car
is about a inch and a half thick,
and half of it
is written in another language.
To top it off, these instructions
are for a single-motor setup,
and we're doing a dual-motor setup.
Since this is our first time around
with an electric car,
this could take some trial and error.
We just have to dive in and figure it out.
- [Mark] Is it ready to go?
- [Tony] I think we're ready to turn on.
Three, two, one.
[engine whines]
There's no vroom sound.
I don't know how hard to push.
[Mark] I know, right?
I'm getting my electric-car ride.
[motor sputters]
[Mark] It does not like the rev-up.
I lost power.
I got no gas.
[motor dies out]
[both chuckle]
As soon as we go full on the throttle,
we lose all power.
- [shuts car off]
- Well, that was fun.
But I've got my trusty
500-page manual here.
- [M] Figure out why your toy don't work.
- [T] This is my toy now, huh?
When they don't work,
they're no longer my toys
All right, I'm on it.
Let me get this thing plugged in.
[Constance] This 350 V8 is going to be
the perfect motor for this Buick.
I mean, nobody's going to expect it
to have so much power.
We actually pulled this 350
out of a previous build,
so it's been in the shop for a while now.
It's going from sitting on a shelf
somewhere in the back of the shop,
and now it gets the chance to be
the heart and soul of this sleeper.
I'm the engine specialist here,
and builds like this
are really why I just love my job.
Hey, Caveman,
can I get a little man muscle over here?
[grunts like a caveman]
Keep going. Keep going. Oh.
[Constance] This way some
and kick my end out some.
Ooh. Oh, yeah.
All right, we're all the way in.
- Right?
- Looks good.
[Mark] Sounds like Caveman and Constance
are cruising on that sleeper,
but the electric Pinto
is basically at a standstill.
[Tony] I got no power coming from the key.
[Mark] With gasoline-driven cars,
you can use all your senses
to figure out what the problem is.
You can see things.
You can tell if it's getting gas.
You tell if it's getting spark.
You hear things.
"That's a rod knock.
Doesn't sound like the timing's right."
Maybe back to the longer one,
do that same loop.
You can smell things.
"It's leaking fuel somewhere."
- It's quite the puzzle, isn't it?
- [Tony] Yeah.
[Mark] Electric cars
This is what you get.
[silence]
There's nothing.
How do you know if it if it's on?
- That's a good question.
- The problem could be anywhere.
I'm telling you, this is turning into
that fricking Smart car, dude.
Ah. Fun stuff, man.
Uh, maybe we just popped a fuse
or something.
Oh, yeah.
We-We just blew a fuse right here.
[Mark] Yeah.
You got one of these?
Nope, but I know how to fix it.
So in my day, this is why they said
you put cars together
with chewing gum and baling wire.
Because the foil is so thin on here
that if it really is a short,
it'll singe it and burn it in half again.
This is how you get home
from the drive-in.
Just stick it in, it'll work.
[chuckles] So we're really gonna use
chewing gum right now
to fix the electric car?
We're not actually using the chewing gum.
We're using the foil wrapper.
[Tony] If you say so.
[Mark] The best part is you'll never
have to replace that fuse again.
- [both chuckle]
- [Tony] All right.
[Mark] It needs a little old school
with the new school.
Punch the throttle.
[engine starts]
- See?
- There it goes.
That almost sounds like a real motor.
All this work,
and that's what we were missing.
[both chuckle]
[Mark] I can grab the seats we got for it,
and we can stick 'em in real fast.
- Yeah, baby.
- Not bad.
[motor running]
[tires screech]
- Whoa.
- [Mark chuckles]
- Dude.
- [both giggle]
That's got some yip-yay.
That is way better than before.
- Gets a big high five.
- Pretty good.
- High five.
- Yeah, baby.
[Mark] The Pinto
is running really well on the street.
Tony has these motors dialed in.
Everything seems to be working properly.
It seems to be really quick,
but it's impossible to know
if we're gonna get under nine seconds
in a eighth mile
until we actually
get this thing on the track,
which means we need to finish the car,
so now it's fabrication time.
First off, we need to make room for
the biggest, meatiest rear tires
we can find.
[Tony] And it's not gonna fit.
Oh, it'll fit.
One, two, three! Gotham Garage rocks!
[rock music plays]
[Mark] Then we got to build
a four-point roll cage for safety.
Every serious dragster needs one.
I asked for a hood scoop.
[Mark] The hood scoop
is really just eye candy.
It's not necessary for an electric motor
to have an air intake on top of the hood.
It's just my twisted sense of humor.
Remember to wear the safety goggles.
Where's the queen? Where's the queen?
[Mark] This is a drag car.
It should look like a drag car.
- That's a good job. I'll give you a "B."
- A "B"? It's better than a "D."
[Mark] Right. Exactly.
[Caveman] Ow.
- [Tony] I get you?
- Oh, got me good.
- [Cavemnan] Check that out.
- [Tony] That's '70s drag car all day long.
[Caveman] Right?
[Mark] The Pinto's
been anything but ordinary
up to this point, so why stop now?
We're gonna put a product on it
called LumiLor.
It's an electroilluminescent coating.
It's a light-emitting paint.
It's pretty much magic.
I don't know how it works.
This is gonna be the perfect way
to highlight our electric dragster.
[Mark] Shawn's customer
wanted a Gotham Garage ride, electrified.
And that's exactly what he's gonna get,
right down to the paint.
With that done
now we're gonna skin this
with a badass purple wrap.
Our goals on this Pinto
were to make it electric
and make it quick.
We gave it wide, meaty tires for traction,
a four-point roll cage,
racing seats,
and harnesses for track safety.
We hooked it up to two electric motors
powered by seven batteries.
This thing is lightning quick
on the street.
It should break nine seconds no problem.
But you can't test
the eighth mile out here safely,
and it's not like
I got keys to the dragstrip.
So we're just gonna have to hope
that this thing nails it at the track.
[crowd noise]
[announcer] Good evening, race fans.
Welcome to Thursday Night Thunder
at Irwindale Dragstrip.
[screeching]
[Shawn] Our client Gil
wanted a sub-nine-second car,
and he has agreed
to pay handsomely for it
to the tune of $65,000.
Our thought is that if the car performs
even better than expected,
Gil might dig
a little deeper in his wallet.
[announcer] Next up to the line
is a fully electric 1970 Ford Pinto
by Gotham Garage
out of Temecula, California.
[Caveman] Yeah, we like the Pinto!
Wow. That thing's pretty wild.
Now, if it runs like it looks
Hell, yeah, it's gonna run.
[Mark] Our goal with the Pinto was this
there's no half measures.
[Gotham crew cheers]
If we're gonna do it,
it's gonna be the most badass
Gotham Garage electric dragster ever.
[starts motor]
[squealing]
[Gotham crew cheering]
[Shawn] Under eight seconds?
Are you kidding me?
[Gil] That thing is amazing.
How'd they get that little car
to go that fast that quiet?
- [Constance] That's crazy.
- [Shawn] That is fast.
[Mark] Hitting the gas in this
makes you feel like you're strapped to
the front of an asteroid.
It flies. It eats the pavement.
We did an under-eight-second pass
on our first run with no tuning.
I never thought I'd say this,
but I actually kind of love this car.
And the only step left now is to sell it.
The guy we built this for
is huge in the hot-rod community,
and according to Shawn, he's always
been on the cutting edge of technology,
both as a car builder and as a man.
- Was that fast or what?
- That was really good.
[Gil] It's amazing. Totally amazing.
[Caveman] There goes our Pinto! Yeah!
- Now does that look good?
- It looks really hot.
I think the car is great.
You guys did a unbelievable
Runs like a champ. Thanks.
Our crew did a great job.
And it just never made a sound.
Yeah, it's a silent but deadly, I guess.
It's quieter than regular electric cars.
They make some noise.
This makes no noise.
[Mark] Yeah, yeah.
This is, like, a lot of fun. A lot of fun.
There's a whole lot done to this car.
It's pretty much a drag car,
but it's also a showpiece.
Underneath the hood, what we did
is the motors are joined with a coupler.
That's the front motor,
and that's the back motor.
And it has an electric pump
for the transmission
to cycle fluid through it.
It's got automatic transmission fluid
going through it.
It's got a readerboard that tells you
everything you need to know
in front of you.
I think the car is great.
Great color. It's a great design.
The flares and everything look good.
I love all the lights and stuff in it.
But wait. Here's the other cool thing.
This is illuminescent paint.
The stripes light up.
How do you like that?
- That's wild.
- That's an electric car, isn't it?
That's wild. I heard of this stuff,
but I've never seen it.
I didn't either. I was like, "We gotta
put that on. It's an electric car."
That's crazy. What about the radio?
- It's a 8-track.
- Yeah.
[Shawn] Originally we agreed to
65 grand for this Pinto build,
which seems like a ton of money,
but electric cars are not cheap to build.
We really only stand to make
about 15 grand for this job.
When you split that between all of us,
it's not a whole lot of money.
But this car performed
beyond expectations.
Man, we got to push for more money.
- Are you impressed yet?
- I really am.
Originally, we talked about 65,000,
but we knew that was
a bit of a floating budget.
What's this "we" [bleep]?
Well, that's us.
I talked to you on the phone about this.
- So here's what I'm gonna throw at you.
- I knew that was gonna happen.
I'm thinking
because we put in so much extra,
we're gonna just up the bill
to, like, 80 grand,
and I think that's more than reasonable.
- You got your head up your [bleep]?
- [giggles]
But 65,000 was for a nine-second car.
- We got under-eight-second car.
- High sevens.
- High sevens, exactly.
- High sevens.
So what do you think?
How's 80? Is that fair?
- No.
- [giggles]
You got a one-of-a-kind car.
- Seventy-five. We got a deal.
- Seventy-five?
Shake his hand before he changes his mind.
- Okay.
- Hand him the keys to his new car.
- Here you go.
- I appreciate what you guys have done.
Thank you, Gil.
So Mark showed him a good time,
and Gil paid for it.
- That does not sound right.
- It's all right with me.
[Mark] I showed him a good enough time
that he gave us a lot of money.
About ten grand more than
we originally thought we were gonna.
[Constance] So?
- [Tony] Well, how'd we do?
- Seventy-five Gs.
There you go.
And Gil's happy?
- Gil's stoked. Yeah.
- Gil's very happy.
- Totally loves it.
- His dream car. That's what he was after.
So now don't forget,
we still have a Buick we gotta finish.
- We did not forget.
- We didn't forget.
So I'm gonna take my truck
and go home with a empty trailer
and a happy face.
[laughter]
So I will see you all back at the shop.
- All right.
- Good job, guys.
- Good job.
- Good day, you guys.
- Look at this. 1950's technology.
- Yeah.
Twenty-first century technology. Hmm.
[Mark] We got to get back to this Buick
'cause it is very important.
We're turning it into a sleeper car.
Stop.
It's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
We're making a badass hot rod
camouflaged with a stock exterior.
Caveman and I are gonna
put that rear suspension in that car.
With those coilovers,
this car is gonna sit low and mean,
and it's gonna handle like a dream.
While we're doing that,
Constance is gonna finish that 350 V8.
- [Constance] I got shiny things for you.
- [Caveman] I know.
Oh, I'm so pretty. You can see me.
[Constance] See?
Constance is pretty. You're not pretty.
I'm very pretty.
You're not pretty.
My mother
would never lie to me like that.
She's gonna give it that classic
muscle-car look underneath the hood,
but from the outside, no one is gonna know
it's got that much horsepower.
- [engine starts]
- Whoa.
- Damn!
- Damn.
[Caveman] Ooh, yeah, give it gas!
[growls] Yeah! Awesome.
- Nice job.
- High five.
- Great job!
- Nice job.
That's fricking awesome.
So now we'll get all the body panels on it
that Shawn found
and get it over to Gotham Garage
for body work.
Let's get the hood up on a stand,
then Constance can start on this.
- Me and Constance are doing our nails.
- We're having a spa day today.
[Mark] That would be toenail-size for you.
[Mark] Now it's time
to complete the disguise.
We're doing the final blocking
and body work before it goes to paint.
I was having more fun
- With our spa day?
- with our spa day.
Hey, this thing is turning out sexy.
[Mark] In the morning,
it's gonna get that awesome, vintage,
stock-looking two-tone paint.
It is gonna be
the coolest sleeper on the planet.
[Caveman] Grandma's car looks badass.
[Mark] I'm not gonna give my crew
a spa day,
but they did a fantastic job
with this car,
so after I'm done priming it,
I think I'll give them
the next best thing.
- Oh, why, thank you.
- You're welcome.
Nice to have this thing almost done.
- [Constance] Looks good.
- [Caveman] Right?
[Tony] It's come a long way
from that rust bucket it rolled in as.
- You partying without me?
- [Mark] Speak of the devil.
Look who's here.
Yeah?
Oh, my God, this looks great.
[Tony] Small block all cleaned up.
- [Mark] It's got A/C.
- [Tony] Oh, yeah.
Now we're gonna trade it
for a '71 Blazer, yeah.
You should see the Blazer.
I could tell by that twinkle in your eye
it's a gem.
Oh, I'm twinkling.
The Blazer's a really nice truck.
And then we trade it
for a replica '59 Corvette Stingray
concept car.
- [Mark] That's what I'm talking about.
- [laughter]
As long as everything
keeps falling into place,
it'll be like a train.
It'll start to build momentum,
and we'll be golden.
- [Shawn] Where's my beer?
- [CM] He knows we're partying without him.
[laughter]
[Mark] I love this place.
Like a candy store.
I'm on the hunt for chrome bolts
for the bumpers on the Buick.
$5.65 a piece.
That bolt would probably cost you $11
if you were to buy it
at a specialty automotive store.
Or just to have it chromed,
it's gonna cost more than five bucks.
Caveman can buy tires
for him to chew on in the front yard.
[text alert]
"Call me ASAP."
What, something caught on fire?
- [cell phone rings]
- Hope he didn't blow nothing up.
[ring]
[Tony] I need you to get here right away.
There was a accident with the Buick.
- It's bad, man. You got to get here
- No, it's not.
I need you to get
You guys gotta get back here ASAP.
- [bleep]
- See you in two seconds.
[dramatic music playing]
You [bleep] kidding me.
We'll be back.
We got an emergency at the shop.
[cameraman] Slow down. Let us get in.
Let us get in the car. Hold on.
- Hurry up.
- Hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on.
Let me get in. Let me get in.
Tony called me that frantic,
which is not like Tony.
All the worst things
that can happen at a shop like mine
are all running through my head right now,
and I just know
I got to get back there as fast as I can.
- [cameraman] All right, guys, let's go.
- [bleep]
[Caveman] He hit it hard.
[Mark] You're [bleep] kidding me, right?
[CM] No, we're not [bleep] kidding you.
You're looking at it, right?
[closing music playing]
[engine revs]