Car Masters: Rust to Riches (2018) s05e01 Episode Script

1
-[engines revving]
-[people cheering]
[announcer] Welcome, everyone,
to Perris Auto Speedway
for the Night of Destruction.
[Tony] Let's go. Oh damn. They're going.
Yeah!
Do you see those ones boxing that one in?
[man] Oh shit!
-[Mark] They're having a good time.
-Look at 'em.
[Shawn] It's a great idea
to get everybody out to a place like this
and have a little fun.
It's a nice, little bonding session.
Recently, Mark dropped a bit of
a bombshell on us when he told us
that he's bringing Nick into the business
to help facilitate some high-end deals,
and we're bringing on
two of Nick's fabricators, Brian and Jake.
[Jake] Damn, do you guys
get to do this all the time?
[laughs] No.
I kinda feel like we're on our first date.
[laughing]
[Tony] Mark, Shawn, and Nick are hoping
that tonight can be
a bit of a bonding session for all of us.
And even though
these guys seem like good dudes,
we don't know how all of this'll work.
It's gonna take some time
to see how all this plays out.
[Mark] Uh-oh. Spun out.
[Shawn] Spun out but didn't roll it.
Look at this.
-[Nick] There he goes, guys. There it is!
-[Shawn] Oh!
-Oh!
-[whistles]
[chuckles]
-[Tony and Constance cheering]
-[Brian] Oh man. You can't beat that.
Hey, you broke!
Let's hope things go a little better
for us than they did for that guy.
-Right?
-Wow.
-[rock music playing]
-[Tony] Whoo! Yeah!
[heavy rock music plays]
[Mark] At Gotham Garage, we've made
our mark through upgrade and trade
[Caveman] All aboard!
turning junkyard rust
[Shawn] Oh, now here's the good stuff.
into six-figure works of art.
Our creations have also started to
attract the attention of high-end clients
that are willing to pay big money
for my creative vision.
-Are you good at 100 grand?
-Jason, we got a deal.
[Mark] And our most recent project,
a one-off Lincoln-Zephyr,
has really turned a lot of heads.
Check this out.
-[Constance] Ooh!
-Gotham Garage on the cover
-of Speedway Motors catalog.
-[Caveman] I'll take one of those. Yeah!
[Mark] One person that took
particular notice was Nick Smith,
one of the country's
premier high-end car brokers.
[Nick] So tell me
about this Lamborghini of yours.
Fantastic.
[Mark] He's agreed to partner with us,
and together we want to take Gotham Garage
from a boutique business
to a thriving worldwide enterprise.
[excavator beeping, creaking]
But we're not completely giving up
what got us here: upgrade and trade.
So this shop is gonna be busy.
[Caveman] Wow. That's a beautiful car.
[Mark] That's why we're also bringing on
two of Nick's super-skilled fabricators,
Brian and Jake.
What we're attempting here
is crazy ambitious.
[heavy rock music playing]
We could fall flat on our face,
but at this garage,
we never shy away from a challenge,
and we're gonna give it
everything we've got.
[Caveman] Up, up, and away!
[music ends]
[clicking]
[whirring]
[engine revving]
[anthemic rock music playing]
-[Mark] They'll trip when they see this.
-[Nick] Right on, brother.
I think this car's gonna scare 'em.
It's a little too nice.
Hey, you guys. Something's driving in.
Oh, no way.
-[Tony] Got the whole family.
-Let me out, Mark.
-Is it a rental?
-[Shawn] Hey.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
-How do you like that?
-[Shawn knocking] Hey!
-[Constance laughing]
-[Tony] Guess the child locks work.
-Don't leave me in the car like that.
-[laughing]
I'd hate to be your pet.
[Tony] This is a nice Charger.
-[Mark] It is.
-What are we doing?
-[Mark] This a 2013 Dodge Hemi.
-[Jake] An actual Hemi?
An actual Hemi. Only paid 22 grand for it.
Got a pretty good deal.
And this is a huge high-end deal
that Nick has put together for us.
And you'll like this guy.
His name's Tony Nino,
and he's actually one of the biggest
exotic and luxury car dealers
in the entire country.
-[men] No way!
-Ooh!
Nick's client, Tony,
is that elusive type of client
that we've been
trying to track down for years.
This guy is a straight-up baller.
He's a big-name collector.
Plus, he's willing to give me
full creative license
to go insane on this car.
You should see this guy's collection.
He's got everything.
Shawn slipped on his own drool walking in.
[laughing]
[Mark] This is why bringing on Nick
makes a difference.
We've worked with high-end clients
in the past,
but we've never had
the connections to go all in.
Nick knows everyone in this world.
So if things go well, the hope is
that we can
eventually transition this business
exclusively into
these high-profile clients.
So when we sat down with Tony,
he really wanted to do
an American muscle car
because he's already got so many exotics.
But he also wants
to be able to drive it like a new car.
So I figured, you know what?
Why don't we give him
the quintessential, mopar muscle car.
We're gonna build
a 1969 Dodge Daytona Charger Hemi,
but we're going to do it
on this 2013 chassis.
So it'll be the new version
of that old car.
-That's big.
-Oh yeah.
[Mark] The 1969 Dodge Daytona Charger is
a legendary car.
They only made 503
available to the public,
making it one
of the rarest muscle cars ever built.
An all-original Daytona Charger
will easily sell
for over a million dollars at an auction.
And that is why we're taking
this 2013 Charger
and transforming it
into the '69 Daytona for Tony.
He's not looking for
an ultra-rare museum piece
that sits in his garage.
This car is intended to be driven
and driven hard.
-[exciting rock music playing]
-To achieve that aerodynamic look,
we're gonna start
by completely modifying the doors.
We'll turn it into a two-door
by literally stretching the front doors
towards the back of the car.
From there, we'll custom fabricate
our own version of the iconic rear wing.
In the front, we're gonna build
a handcrafted nose cone
to emulate the original Daytona.
We'll give it
an iconic race car paint scheme,
and, of course, all the final touches
that make it a Gotham one of a kind.
Not only are we doing a car
for a high-profile client,
-but we're getting paid $135,000
-[Constance] Ooh!
-[crew] What?!
-and that's a pretty substantial payday
-for a deal like this.
-[Caveman] Yeah!
[Nick] I've been watching Gotham Garage
for quite some time now,
and their creativity
is to the point of genius.
I've got a database of clientele
looking for something interesting,
something unique,
something no one else has.
And I think
Gotham can provide that to them.
I'm gonna make my first creative decision.
I'm done gum flapping.
Let's get into building the cars,
all right?
[Caveman] Right on!
-Nick, let's go do some real work.
-Let's do some real work.
[Nick] But it's a risk.
I've seen a number of garages
do some fantastic work,
super creative builds,
but they can't get next level
'cause they can't get enough cars
out the door with consistent quality.
[Mark] Let's get this thing blown apart
so we can put it back together.
[Tony] All right.
[Nick] I know we can take this garage
to the upper echelon of custom car shops.
I certainly have the contacts
to make that happen,
but they have to build higher quality cars
and they have to do it consistently
and they have to do it often.
I think this client and this Dodge Charger
is a great first build
to test this new venture.
[Tony] This is so different.
Nobody's sucking down rust dust
and getting tetanus.
You guys aren't even dirty.
-So it's not all just sugar and plums?
-[Tony] Usually, there's rat turds too.
[chuckling]
[Mark] This Dodge Charger
is about to go through
an absolutely massive transformation,
but it's a very ambitious build
even by the standards of this shop.
[dramatic rock music playing]
The doors alone are going to be
a huge undertaking.
Converting this car from a four-door
into a two-door is extremely complicated.
[Tony] I pretty much have everything done,
but I'm stuck on something.
[Mark] See how the window sits
into a little white plastic thing,
and there's a push on the back
and then the glass comes out?
[clicks]
[Tony] Yeah. Okay.
[Mark] Even though
this is a complex build,
this is the type of overhaul
that we're gonna have to get used to.
And that's why I wanna use this car
to put Brian and Jake's skills
to the test.
You guys double-teaming
the back door over there?
We have fabrication hands.
We don't go good with plastic things.
-[chuckling]
-[Mark] Yeah.
From what I can tell, their metal work is
some of the best fabrication I've seen,
but there's a big difference between
doing sheet metal on a classic car
and building an elaborate custom car
like this Charger.
So on this build, we're really gonna
find out what they're made of.
-Not bad for a half a day's work.
-Yeah.
[Mark] So next thing up on this is
we get to stretch the doors.
But first thing in the morning,
I gotta meet Shawn.
He's gonna show me
what he alludes to is a very nice car.
Brian and Jake, you guys hop back
on this Charger first thing
so you can build up
some cross-bracing inside the car.
Tony, Caveman, and Constance,
bring all your tools
over to Gotham in the morning,
and once Shawn and I pick up
that other car, we'll meet you there.
-All right, you guys. Thanks a lot.
-The new guys put everything away, right?
[Mark and Constance chuckle]
[brooding rock music playing]
[Shawn] This is nicer
than what we're used to.
[Mark] This isn't bad. You're right.
No, no, no. It's not this.
I got something over here.
[Mark] Why do I feel
the nice you're talking about
is one of those trick things that you do.
-Can you trust me one time on this?
-[Mark] No, not ever.
So obviously, the Dodge Charger is
our big money commission build,
but for the past few weeks,
I've also been working on
a very big upgrade and trade deal.
[Mark] Every time you tell me it's nice,
it's always nice on one side,
and then I get to the other side,
and it's not nice.
Look, I know everyone's excited
about this Charger deal
and Nick's big-time clients,
but, hey, I can't let our new pal Nick
one-up old Shawny boy, now, can I?
-Are you ready?
-I can't wait.
All right. You tell me if this isn't nice.
-Huh?
-So it's a Barracuda.
-[Shawn] '68 Barracuda.
-[Mark] Okay, it's kind of nice.
Why don't you take a closer look?
Look inside there. This is a race car.
-[Mark] It's got a roll cage.
-Yeah.
[Mark] Got the right gauges.
Somebody actually put
a little bit of money and work into this.
-So what's under the hood.
-Oh, man.
[Shawn] Check that out, huh?
-[Mark] So that's a 360, huh?
-[Shawn] That's a built 360.
[Mark] How much is this car?
Okay, it's 15 grand.
Fifteen thousand dollars?
-Yeah.
-Where you been the last ten years?
Upgrade and trade cars
start at $500 to $1,000.
Yeah. But here here's the thing is,
I got this all mapped out, all right?
This $15,000 car,
with only a couple of trades,
can lead us to a 458 Ferrari Italia.
-Really?
-Yeah.
I just said the f-word.
How do you like that?
How is that possible?
Explain that one to me.
I got this guy named Patrick.
He's a race car guy,
loves to do a lot of street racing.
The main reason he wants this
is to beat his buddy.
His buddy's got
this souped-up Porsche 911.
I guess that Porsche has been
whooping him good recently,
and Patrick wants a car
that can finally take it down.
So if we could just beat that Porsche,
he's willing to trade this car
for a Tesla Model S.
And I got a guy willing to trade
that Tesla even for a Ferrari.
[exciting rock music playing]
To get this trade jump-started,
we'll need to take
this race-ready Barracuda,
and turn it into
a super unique road warrior.
If we can make it capable
of smoking that Porsche
in a quarter-mile street race,
it'll lead us to a Tesla Model S.
To make sure
a Tesla is worthy of a Ferrari,
the client's asking for
a one-of-a-kind overhaul
that only Gotham Garage could pull off.
And if we can,
it'll lead us to the gem of all gems.
A Ferrari 458 Italia.
If we could give it
the ultimate Gotham twist,
we should be able to get
upwards of 200 grand for that car.
I gotta be honest, dude.
This sounds like a really complicated way
to get our hands on a Ferrari.
Listen, this is a different kind of trade.
Yeah, it's a different kind of trade.
I understand
it doesn't make sense on paper,
and there's a lot of mismatched pieces,
but we're talking about a Ferrari here.
[Mark] As much as Shawn
would never admit this,
I think he's got something to prove
with this upgrade and trade deal.
Now that Nick is here
and bringing in these big money builds,
I'm sure Shawn wants to prove to everyone
that he can run with the big dogs too.
[Shawn] Yeah,
it's a little bit more of a risk,
but, I mean, we're talking about
a 200 grand cash-out on a trade deal.
How crazy is that?
[Mark] So look, I'm going to
reluctantly trust Shawn on this deal,
but he's gotta own it and make sure
nothing falls through the cracks.
I'm apprehensive to say the least,
but I get what you're saying,
and I'm willing to take the chance on it.
I'll just tell you one thing.
If this doesn't work out
the way you're laying it out,
you're the one taking all the heat for it.
I take the heat for everything anyway.
[Mark] No, you don't.
You never take the heat.
-You think that thing'll whoop a 911?
-If it doesn't, I'm gonna whoop your ass.
[upbeat music playing]
-[Caveman] What? Whoa!
-[Tony] What is that?
That can't be
what they were talking about.
[Tony] Guess Shawn wasn't lying.
It is a nice car.
-[Caveman] Yeah, but
-[Constance] Barracuda. This is nice.
[Tony] I was expecting
a rusted-out turd bucket.
Are you saying I got a terrible reputation
of bringing in turds?
-[Caveman] Yes.
-Yes. Absolutely.
-Oh, come on.
-That's why we call you plumber.
[laughing]
[Mark] So, let's get it off the trailer,
get it inside.
And, uh, Shawn'll tell you
what the big deal is.
[Caveman] Right on.
Since the stakes of this trade are
much higher than a normal trade,
we need to get through each step quickly.
-[engine revving]
-[Caveman] Oh yeah!
How's that sound?
Our normal steps are one, two, and three.
Now, we're one, two, and three.
That's good there.
[Mark] So I wanna get Tony,
Constance, and Caveman lined out
on this car immediately.
[Tony] This car feels great, man.
[Shawn] This is the new
Gotham Garage here,
where we gotta up our game
just a little bit more,
and eventually,
this car will lead us to a Ferrari.
[Caveman] Nice!
All we gotta do is make this car
beat a 911 Turbo Porsche in a street race.
Okay. So we have a race car,
and we just need to make it faster.
So supercharger, turbo? What's
[Mark] No, we're going
straight to the horsepower.
What's in this little box
gets you right there real quick.
-[Constance squeals, chuckles]
-[Tony] You got some toys in there?
-We're gonna put nitrous in it.
-Right on!
[Mark] If we want to beat that Porsche,
this car's definitely gonna need
some extra boost.
Squeeze in the juice.
[Mark] And the quickest way
to do that is to give this 360 engine
a shot of pure, unadulterated nitrous.
We'll start by installing a nitrous kit
that will easily give this thing
a ton of extra horsepower
at the push of a button.
One shot from that orange bottle will
throw you right back into your seat.
But it doesn't stop there.
We'll also do
some additional performance tricks
to make this car as light and as fast
as humanly possible.
And, of course, no car leaves this shop
without that
crazy Gotham Garage thumbprint.
So I wanna spray it with a super-unique
light-absorbing black paint.
It'll give it an insane optical illusion
and make it super stealth.
[Shawn] So here's
the thing about this deal.
We need to get our hands on
this Tesla quickly
because the guy that owns the Ferrari is
already getting cash offers.
We need to move on this Barracuda fast
and get it ready for a race
that's happening this weekend.
Well, I'm gonna put you guys
on this car together.
I'm gonna put you in charge.
You guys understand the urgency of this
because a deal can fall through
in about, I don't know, one phone call.
"Somebody bought my car."
So, with that said,
I'm gonna go over to the other shop
and get back on the Charger
with Jake and Brian.
[upbeat rock music playing]
[music ends]
[Mark] Alrighty,
now that we got the cross-bracing in,
-let's talk about these doors.
-Cool.
So, basically,
we're gonna take this Charger,
and we're gonna take the four doors
and turn it into a two-door.
[men] Let's do it. Sounds good.
[Mark] So this B pillar
has to move 14 inches this way.
So we're gonna weld
the two doors together here.
We're gonna cut it down,
and the door becomes 14 inches bigger,
and then what's left of the back door
is gonna get welded here.
So what we're gonna do is
screw up a Charger.
-[chuckling] That's what we'll do today.
-Sounds like fun.
[Mark] Lengthening the doors is gonna
massively change the structure of the car,
so we need to make sure
all of our measurements
and all of our cuts are dead-nuts on.
We'll meet at the door with a Sawzall.
-Okay.
-Sounds good.
[slow-burn rock music playing]
[Jake] We've been doing high-end
restorations with Nick for a few years,
but me, personally, I've been doing this
as long as I can remember.
My dad used to do metal finish work
and paint for Mercedes.
After I started learning from him,
everything took off from there.
Some of the cars I've worked on have won
"Best in Shows" in quite a few car shows.
Other cars I've done ended up
in very well-known music videos,
and a few of the cars I've worked on
actually ended up in the Petersen Museum.
[Jake] Moment of truth.
Yeah, yeah,
now it's time to destroy a car.
[chuckles]
[Brian] My background is
I grew up in a military family.
All my family were mechanics.
My mom was a jet engine mechanic.
As I grew older,
I got into cars, of course,
and once I figured out
what you could do with a welder,
I was hooked.
I've been fortunate enough to work with
some of the best welders, designers,
and fabricators in the industry.
People that've come from SpaceX,
from Boeing, you name it.
[Mark] Sweet. That's awesome.
Now, let's get that thing back 14 inches.
You need to dice it here and dice it here.
[Jake] We're hoping we add to the team,
and the way to really fit in, I know this
with everywhere I've ever worked,
is by working hard
and getting all the work done
-and everybody's happy with you.
-Yeah.
You got a good attitude
and you're busting ass.
-I think that's all they care about.
-Yeah.
Voilà.
Your two-door, sir.
[Jake] A full two-door.
[Mark] I like that it's a two-door,
but I'm not I'm not too enthused
about the door handle.
[tense music playing]
[Brian] The handle?
It's not gonna stay there.
We're gonna move it.
It's not really the placement of it.
I'm just not thrilled about
the door handle itself.
Since we're building an homage
to the original '69 Dodge Daytona Charger,
I think it'd look way better
with the old-school door handles,
not the modern ones.
So that means we need to make
the throwback push-button door handles
work with the modern latch mechanism.
So would you want to put the old stuff
in here and just not use it?
-Any of the stuff we have?
-If that's what it takes.
That's an awful lot of work.
It is. Yes, it is.
But That's definitely what we came here
to do is do work. So
-It's kind of a thing here.
-[Jake chuckles]
-We're figuring that out. [chuckles]
-We'll get there.
[Mark] This is lesson number one
for Brian and Jake.
At Gotham Garage, just because it's done
does not mean it's done.
The thing I like is that Brian and Jake,
they didn't even flinch.
They know it's more work,
but they're down for it
because they know
it'll improve the look of the car.
Now we got the talking part's done,
let's get to the working part.
Let's make block off plates
and get these things ground down,
welded in, and then get back to welding.
[Jake] Cool.
[anthemic rock music playing]
[Tony] Got our nitrous kit.
We have to figure out how much nitrous
we're gonna put in this engine.
[Constance] Well,
I actually did find something.
This folder was in the back of the car,
and it has all, like,
-the internal specs on the motor and so
-No way.
I mean, according to this, we're already
running 550 horsepower on it.
And we can do a 50 shot, a 100 shot,
or a 150 shot.
And, obviously, each one of these shots
gives us a different range of horsepower
we'll be adding.
Right.
But I definitely
don't want to put so much in
that we end up blowing the motor
before we're even in the race.
Yeah. So we're racing a Turbo 911,
and a Turbo should be
around a 10-second quarter mile.
So if we go in the middle, that's 100.
That would take us to 650 horse.
That should be good
for about a 10-second quarter mile.
100 shot it is.
100 right in the middle.
It's kind of like Goldilocks.
-[tool clatters]
-[chuckles]
I mean, I know I'm blonde now
and everything, but that's Shawn's thing.
I'm sorry. I've just been waitin' to
I've been waiting for that one.
[chuckles]
If this guy is showing up
to the street race with a Turbo Porsche,
he's starting up here.
So basically with nitrous,
it's not cheating because that's
really what the nitrous kit is doing
is pulling us up to the same playing field
so we actually have a chance.
[sighs] All right.
But nitrous, at the end of the day,
is kind of unstable.
It is also the quickest way
to potentially blow up your motor.
[Caveman] So who'll test drive this thing?
[Tony] That's all me.
[Caveman] How come
I never get to drive 'em?
'Cause I'm the responsible one.
[Caveman] I'm into "sponsibilities."
No, I'm responsible. Not "sponsible."
[Constance laughs]
Luckily, we do know
the internals on this motor,
and we can apply this nitrous kit
with confidence.
But there is the potential
for the motor to just
[imitates explosion]
All right. Nitrous line connected.
[Tony] All right, if you guys
wanna meet me over at the test spot
and give it a shake down.
-[Caveman] Fire it up, Tony. Let's go.
-[engine revs]
Yeah!
[anthemic rock music playing]
[engine revs]
[Tony] This looks like a pretty good spot.
Got a nice good straight
and a little room to stop.
[Caveman] Whatever you do,
don't blow up the motor.
[engine revving]
[Tony] Ready?
Keep it straight.
[dubstep music playing]
[Constance] There we go!
It'd look better with me in it.
[laughs] Squeeze it!
[engine pops, revs normally]
-[bleeps]
-[music slows]
[Constance and Caveman groan]
[Caveman] What the hell was that pop?
[Tony] Oh man.
The pop was a bad sign
right out of the gate.
[Caveman] Well, the car's still moving.
Motor must not be blown.
[Constance] But none of that sounded good.
[Tony] The car's not feeling real good.
When I hit the nitrous,
there was a little pop in the motor,
almost like the nitrous
isn't getting through the line clean,
and I'm just not getting that
hard acceleration that I was looking for.
[Constance] It's nothing catastrophic,
is it?
[Tony] No, but something's not right.
Something's definitely not right.
We gotta figure this out quick.
I'll meet you guys back at the shop.
[mellow rock music playing]
Let's get the carburetor off this thing.
Nothing like doing it twice.
There's always a ton of pressure
on a trade deal like this,
but on this particular trade,
we're on a tight timeline
because this car needs to be
ready to race this weekend.
So, this has to go right.
I think we should check the solenoid.
[Constance] Yeah.
[Tony] Mark left me in charge,
and everybody's counting on me
to get this car done
and get the trade done.
I cannot let this one get messed up.
All right,
solenoid.
So let's see
if this thing is even working. All right.
[suspenseful music playing]
[clicking]
Yeah.
[Tony] It's clicking.
The solenoid is an electrical component
in the nitrous system
that opens or closes when activated.
I wonder if there's
something stuck in there.
[blowing]
It's There's almost nothing coming out.
But when I blow into
this particular solenoid,
there's either some form of blockage,
or it's just not opening all the way.
And if the solenoid
doesn't open all the way,
it's gonna restrict
the flow of nitrous into the engine.
[Constance] I mean,
if that is malfunctioning,
obviously that would give
that feeling of the, like, bogged down.
Right now, we should probably
just go ahead and replace it.
In the morning, I'll stop and pick up
a brand-new solenoid,
then we'll install it and immediately
take this car back to the test spot
and see if it works.
Okay. Yeah.
-[funky music playing]
-[Caveman] This ought to be fun.
[Mark] So I ordered our throwback
door handles for the Charger,
but while we wait on those to get here,
I have Brian and Jake trying to figure out
how to make
our modern door latch mechanism work
with the old-school
push-button door handle.
-Brian, you got a battery?
-Yep. Yep, yep.
[Jake] Bring it over here real quick
and we can test this.
I wanted to see if the factory door pull
that works off the key fob
would have enough pull in it
to actuate the door lock.
And then this will give us
an idea if it's gonna work or not.
Let's see. Fingers crossed.
[clicks]
-Perfect.
-Oh crap. It did work. Tight.
That's perfect. Hit it again.
Tight. That's actually cool.
-Do it again.
-Sure. I like to party.
[Jake chuckling]
[Mark and Brian chuckling]
It's pretty hilarious
to watch these new guys
learn the Gotham Garage way
of doing things.
[Jake] Again.
[chuckling]
[Mark] They're like two giddy children
on the first day of preschool
learning how to finger paint.
[Jake] One more time.
Booyah.
[chuckles]
Now as long as they don't pull a Caveman
and eat the paint,
I think we should be okay.
You get your little
electric door mechanism figured out?
-[Brian] You want to see it?
-[Mark] Uh, I'll pass.
[Jake] Come on. You know you wanna see it.
[Brian] Oh, it's fantastic.
[groovy rock music playing]
[Tony] This morning, we installed
the new solenoid on the Barracuda.
Let's knock this out
and get back out to the track.
Okay, right there.
[Constance] That'll do it.
[Tony] Hopefully, this will get our
nitrous system firing on all cylinders.
If not, we're gonna have to keep
troubleshooting this problem.
At that point,
it would be very hard to get this car
ready to race by this weekend.
And the longer we wait to race,
the more likely it is
that this whole trade deal
will start to fall apart.
-[Constance] Well
-[Tony] I'm just gonna open it up
and hit the "Go, baby, go" button and
-Pray to the hot rod gods.
-Alright, let's run it.
Line 'em up and let's go!
[exciting rock music playing]
Squeeze the juice! Squeeze it!
-[hissing]
-Yeah!
Come on, Tony.
-Let's go!
-[engine revs]
[tires squealing]
It smells good.
[nitrous whooshing]
-[Tony] Whoa!
-[Constance] Hell yeah!
-Now that's what we wanted.
-Right?
There we go.
-[upbeat music playing]
-[Tony] The car felt great.
I hit the nitrous,
and it was like a kick in the pants.
It was just pulling hard and smooth
all the way down the track.
Did it feel great?
[Tony] That ran so good.
I don't believe you. Let me try it.
-[music stops]
-[Tony] Don't know about that.
[all chuckling]
[Tony] Anything can happen
in a street race,
but I feel like me, Constance, and Caveman
have put us in the best possible position
to win this race.
We're coming for the Porsche.
I like that.
We're coming for your Porsche.
We're gonna get the car back to the shop,
finish it up,
get it ready for Mark to paint,
then it's off to the race.
[dreamy rock music playing]
[Mark] On this Barracuda,
speed was obviously
the number one priority.
But Patrick, our client, could have found
any shop to build him a fast car.
He wanted to trade with us
because he also wants a race car
that looks like nothing else on the road.
And that's where this paint job comes in.
It's called Black 3.0.
It absorbs 97.5% of all light,
which means it's so dark that
it sucks up any light that hits the car.
It'll give this Barracuda
an absolutely crazy optical illusion
that will blow your mind.
[sighs] It's totally gonna work.
-Hmm!
-[heavy rock music playing]
[Mark] Since this 'Cuda will feel like
a stealth race car at night,
I wanna add some LED lighting
under the car
to push the look even further.
When he hits the nitrous,
that's when the underglow comes on.
For the other guy,
as you're losing the race,
that's what you see is underglow.
God, that'd be beautiful.
[all laughing]
[Mark] When we're done,
this Barracuda is gonna look like
a flash of light flying down the road.
[epic music building]
This '68 Barracuda just looks nasty.
With that orange bottle, we added
20% more horsepower under the hood.
And with a few not-so-subtle touches,
we made this Barracuda look like
a shadow of its former self.
[music intensifies]
That Black 3.0 takes away
all of the contours of the car.
Tony, Constance, and Caveman
did an excellent job
of putting this car together quickly.
And then the shop is one step closer
to a very serious payday.
[music fading]
[mellow electronic music playing]
[tires squealing]
Yeah! Yes! Beat the juice!
[people cheering]
-[Shawn] Patrick.
-Yeah?
-Is that your buddy's Porsche over there?
-That's it right there, that yellow GT3.
Your buddy's Porsche is gonna be left
in the, uh, rearview mirror,
is what I'm thinking.
[Patrick] I'm really excited
to see this Barracuda.
My buddy, Joe's, been dominating
these races for the last couple months,
and he's been talking a lot of smack,
and to be honest, we're all sick of it.
What we did to the car
is gonna turn heads, even in this crowd.
If this Barracuda's
what Shawn says it is, then hopefully,
we can make this happen tonight.
All I want is a car
that can put him in his place.
In fact, here he comes right now.
-Check this out. Huh?
-[Patrick] Oh, man.
-You can't see it till it comes up to you.
-[Shawn] I know.
That's that special paint.
[engine revving]
[Shawn chuckles]
-How you doing? Good to see you.
-Good to see you.
-This thing is wicked.
-So Yeah.
It's darker than you probably thought
it was gonna be.
[chuckles] I don't think
it gets any darker than this.
[all chuckling]
The car is unbelievable.
I've never really seen paint like that.
I mean, it disappears
when it pulls up in front of you.
It's pretty incredible.
[Mark] You got a built 360,
and it's also got
a little Tony surprise in there.
There's a bottle of nos
right there between the seats.
[Patrick] Wow.
The engine looks spectacular.
It sounds great.
[chuckles] And I'm really excited
to hit that button and see what it does.
[Mark] All you gotta do
is hit that button right there,
and it's "Go, baby, go."
-It's just up to you now.
-Well, this thing is absolutely beautiful.
Now, you remember our deal.
You beat your buddy's Porsche,
and that Tesla is going home with us.
[Patrick] I remember.
[Mark] Well, let's show Joe
what taillights on a 'Cuda look like.
[all chuckling]
[Shawn] Right now, we have a straight-up
quarter mile standing in between us
and a 2014 Tesla Model S.
It's gonna happen fast,
so there's no room for error.
[Mark] There we go. Test lap number one.
That's my boy Patrick in there.
He's gonna do a little shakedown run.
[Patrick yells indistinctly]
Not bad for a smelly test run.
[Mark] This is your big trade deal, buddy.
So your butt's on the line here.
You better have your fingers crossed that
Patrick hits the button at the right time.
There's a lot of luck involved.
Let's just hope luck is on our side.
Let's hope he's got enough skill
that luck don't matter.
[men yelling excitedly]
[Shawn] Okay, here we go.
We got a race going on here.
[suspenseful synth music playing]
[men yelling excitedly and cheering]
-[Caveman] Yes! Squeeze the juice!
-[Tony] Alright! Let's go!
There you go!
[music continues]
[music fades]
-[exciting rock music playing]
-[men cheering]
[Shawn] The Porsche just took the lead!
[Tony] He's gotta make up ground.
[dreamy music playing]
[exciting music building]
-[music fades]
-[clicks]
-[nitrous whooshing]
-[music continues]
[men laughing and cheering]
-[Shawn] Holy crap, we beat him!
-[man] Yeah!
Yeah! Whoo!
[Nick] Yeah. Good job, guys.
[all cheering]
He smoked that Porsche
like it was going backwards.
-Oh, he had me worried for a little while.
-Yeah.
It wasn't all the way.
I mean, it was really tight to the end.
-Hey, Patrick!
-[man] Yeah!
Whoo!
-Yeah!
-[Caveman] Yeah!
[all congratulating]
[Mark] This part of the deal's done.
So we can take a deep breath
and then move on to the Tesla.
But I think you owe Tony, Caveman,
and Constance a huge thank you
because they're the only reason
that your little deal's still alive.
Their hard work actually paid off.
Yeah, man.
They're usually slouches, you know?
I'm always carrying
those slouches on my back.
Sometimes I feel like
you just carry us all, Shawn.
After tonight,
I think I did earn a massage.
[chuckles]
-Hey, nice
-Nice job, man.
-Nice race, Joe.
-Yeah.
-I just got the jump on you.
-I know. I'll work on my clutch work.
-All right. Next time.
-Sure.
Yeah, what do you think
of that Barracuda now?
That car was a blast.
You know, I've never driven
anything with that power,
but then I hit that nitrous button,
and it felt like a sledgehammer hit me
and took me over the line.
[Shawn] So is the Barracuda
worthy of the Tesla?
[Patrick] I think you got a deal.
-[Caveman] Can I take that one?
-I'll take that.
We'll call that a win-win.
Looks like you're driving home
a '68 Barracuda.
-Have fun with it.
-Take it easy, Patrick.
[wind whistling]
[heavy rock music playing]
[Mark] Sup, guys?
Got you a little trinket. Door handles.
-[Jake] Sweet.
-[Brian] Oh, nice.
[Mark] Tony and I are gonna
let you do this by yourself,
but we'll be around
if you guys got any questions.
-Oh, well, good for us.
-[Mark] Good for you.
-Awesome.
-[both chuckle]
[Mark] With the Barracuda done and traded,
we need to hop back on this Charger
and finish these doors.
[Brian] The top needs to come down.
[Mark] While Caveman and Constance prep
that Tesla for a crazy overhaul
-[Constance] Be gingerly with it, okay?
-[grunts]
[crunches]
I heard something go snap. Okay.
[Mark] I'm gonna have Brian and Jake
install these retro door handles
on the Charger.
You have to ask yourself
at a time like this, WWMD?
-What would Mark do?
-[all chuckling]
Our client, Tony, is
a huge high-end car collector.
He's one of the biggest
exotic car dealers in California,
and he's going to scrutinize
every detail of this car.
So these door handles
are gonna have to look like
they came straight from the factory.
So once this is, when this is flat
-But see the handle is way out over here?
-[Tony] Mm-hmm.
I was thinking
we'll take some of this off this side
and tilt this in so that this touches.
-Gotcha.
-And tilt it a bit?
Yeah, do that real quick.
And I'll meet you here. Let's get to work.
[upbeat rock music playing]
[Jake] So the goal on the door handles is
to make them feel like they're
originally intended to be on the car.
It's quite a bit trickier
than you would think.
From far away, you might not notice it,
but once you come closer to the car,
you realize the precise craftsmanship
that went into it.
That's perfect.
-You likey likey?
-Yeah, that's absolutely perfect.
Look, we know Mark's testing us
on all these things,
but that just adds
motivation to get it right
and show him what we can do.
-Look at that.
-Oh yeah, that fits perfect.
I'd already have that thing welded on
and bolted in. Looks good.
[Brian] For us, we want Mark and Tony
and everybody else on the team
to look at our work
-So now we just have to make it work.
-Okay, let me get the tools.
and feel like our presence in the shop
can upgrade these builds
and step everything up a notch.
[Jake] Working just perfect.
[suspenseful music playing]
All right, moment of truth.
[music fades]
Hey!
-All right.
-What do you think?
-[Mark] Real men of genius. You win.
-[Jake] What do you think?
Check it out.
Take a gander.
[Mark] I like that.
-A lot of work, but it's worth it.
-[Jake] It was.
Real car guys will know how much work
went into putting a real handle on.
-[Tony] Nice job, guys.
-[Jake and Brian] Thank you.
[Mark] Let's get these windows in
and take it for a test drive.
[upbeat rock music playing]
Don't force-fit it. If it doesn't fit,
don't try to make it fit.
This is very expensive. I
It was, like, asinine,
actually, how much they cost.
So Brian's just hiding.
He's going into the trunk.
[all chuckling]
[Mark] These doors took us a lot longer
than I was originally expecting,
but the extra work was well worth it.
[Tony] Light as a feather,
stiff as a board.
[Mark] More importantly though,
Jake and Brian passed
every test I threw at 'em.
And so far, they have proven to everyone
that they have the skills to fit in here.
Our side works.
I don't know what's wrong with you?
-It's working and everything?
-[Brian] Yeah.
-[Jake] Man, I wish I was on your team.
-[Brian chuckling] Yeah.
[Mark] Right now I wanna put this Charger
on the street and test it out.
There it is. Wanna grab them seats
-and take it for a test-drive?
-Yeah.
[Mark] We changed the whole structure
of this car to extend the doors,
so I wanna make sure that
it's still 100% roadworthy.
[Tony] I don't know, man,
but it's pretty nice just popping in a car
that we're test-driving,
and it's got cold A/C.
-Yeah.
-I can get used to that.
I don't really hear anything creaking,
which is a good sign.
It's the biggest thing
I was worried about.
Just moving the the heaviest
structural part of the car backwards.
You know that B pillar?
Yeah, it's a pretty stiff car. It seems
like it's a good unibody construction.
[Mark] Well, I guess we'll find out.
We're about to give it
the old speed bump road test
'cause we'll go flying through this bump.
This is The Dukes of Hazzard bump up here.
[exciting rock music playing]
-Whoa! You all right? You all right?
-Whoa!
Bro, there is just glass
[bleeps] everywhere.
Don't Don't move. Just sit there.
-Aw, man. Dude. I don't What the
-Damn it.
-Let me Let me get out. Yeah, well
-Everything I'm okay. I'm okay.
Hey, hey. Don't move, bro. Don't move.
-[Tony] I don't know what happened.
-I don't either.
-[producer] You all right?
-[Tony] Yeah, I'm I'm all right.
[Mark] Hold on. Hold on.
That's just everywhere, bro. Just
-You all right?
-Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not I'm not cut or nothing,
uh, but that was
some crazy [bleeps] right there.
[Mark] Glass shouldn't break
in a car door.
That bump we hit damn sure wasn't enough
to break the glass on its own.
That tells me that something we did
to the car structurally is wrong.
I've never had glass explode on me
like that.
The question now is, how big
of a structural problem do we have?
I don't know if it's just the door
or if we messed up something structurally
with the entire car.
[Tony] We got some figuring out to do.
[closing theme music plays]