[Shorty] We got a 1966 Impal Convertible.
A '66 SS.
[Wayne] I hope there ain't no rust.
Oh, my God.
[Joel] Oh, my God.
Come on!
[Raul] We're gonna have to cut out all this rust,
replace it, and make it look new again.
I'm gonna take it all the way down to the middle and replace everything.
You fixed that quick. Amazing what a little heat do.
[Shorty] This color has two pears in it and a really fine metallic.
Damn!
Let's fire it up.
Yeah!
[Shorty] My name is Javier, but mostly people call me Shorty.
I was born in Mexico, and when I was four years ol
my parents moved to Texas in search of the American Dream.
Now I'm living that dream with my own custom shop
and a team that builds the coolest cars on the road
We make dreams come true.
-Oh! -[cheering]
[exhales] Hell yeah. Oh, here we go.
-Oh, damn. -Oh, man, dude.
[Shorty] Let's go check out this car, fellas.
-Look at that, bud. -[Joel] Oh, man. I know he's excited.
Nothing like the car pulling up for the first time on the trailer,
and you see it, and it's, like... It's magic.
What's going on, guys?
[exchanging pleasantries]
-Great to see you, man. Nice to meet you, man. -Nice to meet you.
-Damn, man. We like it already. -Yeah.
Man, we have a '66 Impala Convertible SS in the shop.
How many people can say they had those?
Really easy to identify. The only ones that have the square tail lights.
This is a really rare car.
[Shorty] Man, I love it. You guys, I guess, had a long ride?
-Yeah, long drive from Cali. Yeah. -Long trip?
You guys see enough of the state?
[laughs] Oh, yes, we did.
[Shorty] You know, Efrain and his son, Efrain Junior,
they drove 1,800 miles from California.
So for them to make that long drive over here and bring us their car,
that's something else.
Good. Well, I'm glad you guys made it.
I'm liking this side already. I don't know what the other side looks like,
-but let's check it out, fellas. -[laughs]
Okay, let's look at it.
For me, the build would be to take it back in time.
More of originality, just a few additives,
that would be just a little bit different, but you can't tell.
Well, let's unload it and take a good look at it, and see what we got.
You gonna get your hands dirty.
This thing's traveled a long way, Joel.
Joel is full of knowledge as far as motors go.
Knows a lot of everything that we do.
He's not only a badass with the cars, he's also my good friend.
-Hey, Shorty. Come here. -[Shorty] What's up, Joel?
[Joel laughs]
-Oh, man. -[laughs]
[Shorty] Come on, Joel.
Who puts silicone on a car?
Now, I've heard of duct tape fixing things, but silicone?
This is a first, I think.
Yeah. This is the first time that you've seen someone
-patch a rust hole with silicone? -Yeah.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah. That was the first time. I've never seen that.
Hey, man. That's innovative.
Guess what? It's not gonna be the only spot. I got a feeling.
Let's get it off the trailer, man.
Working here, you see a lot of things,
but I think this is the first time I've ever seen silicone to patch a rust hole.
I mean, I'm excited, but I'm, like, scared at the same time, so we'll see what happens.
[Shorty] What's the story behind the car?
Back in high school, that was my first car.
And that's how I met my wife- in that car.
And so I like it. We were talking about my wife has got
into a lot of medical issues in her life.
-Sorry about that. -And we had to sell the car to pay for the medical bills.
Your son, when he reached out to me,
he told me that you would like to have the car done
so you can at least enjoy it while your wife is still with us.
[Efrain] Yes.
[Efrain Junior] Having this car done by Shorty
is gonna mean more than just a car being done.
I was gonna fix it all up,
and then my wife situation, with the more cancer.
It's gonna mean my parents almost, in a sense, going back in time.
[softly] So...
[cries]
Hopefully, I can live up to Efrain's expectations,
and we'll give him back a badass ride.
We just brought a '66 Impal into the shop.
A '66 SS Convertible into the shop.
Stop. Right there.
[Shorty] And so, man, we are stoked to work on this car
because we have a soft spot for this Impala
'cause we obviously are from the '60s, so we love Impalas.
I'm gonna teach everybody how you say Impala.
And I wanna let my best friend say it.
-How do you say Impala? -[accented] Impala.
-That's the way you pronounce it, okay? -[laughs]
So let's get that right.
We love the Impalas.
-The Impalas. -[Shorty] Okay.
-[Pete] Yeah. -[laughter]
Fellas, we gotta bring our A game to this.
I mean, it's got one hell of a story, and, man, I don't know, Shorty.
We got... We gotta bring it, man.
It's definitely something when you get the story behind the car,
and this one really hits home too, you know.
Me personally, I just dealt with my wife having cancer last year, actually,
and she beat it, so I know what these guys went through.
And I know how much this means to them
as far as to get this car right.
You know, what's cool about this car is why Efrain and his son, Junior,
brought it to us today.
So, you know, I want us to get down on it.
Like Joel said, bring our A game.
I can't wait for them to come to see the car when it's done.
We're gonna build this car back like it came out of the factory in 1966.
What we wanna do is we wanna de-badge the car, take the chrome out primo,
and you concentrate on the interior.
You know, see if you can tak all of the seats out of it, including the carpet,
the door panels, and all tha
Easy over here is gonna start in the back, trying to take off the bumpers and stuff,
and I think T is gonna try to take off the front one.
Then Raul, you start cutting out the rust.
Joel, go ahead and start assessing the air-ride.
Efrain wanted a self-leveling system.
That sound like a plan?
All right. Let's go to work.
So we call Raul Easy round here.
He thinks everything's easy You just wait till he gets ahold
of these 50-year-old bumpers.
I'm just taking the bumper off.
They've never been take apart.
Like, you see, it's, like, really rusted.
I'm having a hard time here.
[Joel] So Pedro, aka PG, he's our interior guy.
Just show him what you want, and he'll make it happen.
I talked to the customer.
He wants to go back original with this two-tone.
Fix the springs. Carpet needs to be replaced.
And doing the whole complete door panel.
Just trying to get these bolts loosened up and get them out
so I can get the front seat out.
Look at this tramp. Look how it is. Look how it's made.
I mean, it's got all these badass curves that dip perfectly on the trunk.
'Cause I think on a '66, this piece- it's pretty hard to get.
So I'm still gonna save it because if we can't get it,
I'll send it out to get fixed, and we'll get it back looking brand new.
Maybe I can get it through here, Junior.
-I think... -[clatters]
-[indistinct] -You good?
[Shorty] Hell, you all right?
What the hell?
Junior's supposed to hold it.
-I thought you said this end. -Oh, it's all good.
Don't drop it on... Don't drop it, Easy.
[Raul] I'm not gonna drop it on it.
Here we go. Here we go. Ah!
You got it?
What you doing, Wayne?
Just finished removing the seat.
-Yeah. -And about to pull out the carpet.
Wayne is an everything kind of guy,
as well as suspension, motors...
I mean, he can basically do anything.
I mean, there's... You know, there's nothing that you can put him on
that he's not gonna do his best.
And if you need a good laugh, he's always there for you.
These floors look good, Shorty.
-[Shorty] Oh, man. -I'm hoping.
Hey, man. I'm praying.
See, I'm on my knees right now. Please.
I hope there ain't no rust.
[Shorty] I know it, man.
-I'm a little worried. -[Shorty] I know it. Me too.
Jheeze.
The floors were not good. Pretty bad.
We're gonna have to cut out all this rust, replace it, and make it look new again.
We had our '66 Impala cleaned up.
And it's very rare when you gonna get in a car like this,
and it's not gonna have any rot that you don't have to replace.
So the wisest thing to do is just put... You know, replace it with a whole pan
and move it forward.
Raul?
-[Raul] Yeah? -Come over here for a second.
-Yeah. -I would say, you know, just cut along the lines.
-Just do a rough cut right now. -Okay.
Same thing on the other side, and then we'll go from there.
Then we can start fitting our floors on there after that.
Okay. I'll get on it.
Is it gonna be easy?
-For right now, yeah. -You know, that's your slogan right there.
-Easy. -Easy.
-Yeah. I'll get it done. -All right, brother. I'll let you to it.
All right.
[Shorty] So I got Raul cutting out the floors, the rot on the '66
and just getting it ready for us to replace with new metal.
That's not good.
-Hey, Shorty? -[Shorty] Yeah?
-Can you come here? Can you come over here? - [speaking Spanish]
Did a little boo-boo.
-[groans] -I know, man. I know.
What'd you do, Ru?
[sighs] I guess the air line. Pretty...
Oh, my God.
-[Raul chuckles nervously] -No.
Raul!
[Joel] What up, Shorty? What happened, man?
What happened?
-Tell him what you did, Raul. -What happened?
[Raul] I got too happy with the grinder.
Oh, my God, dude.
Come on!
[imitates slap sound]
What lesson did we all learn from this right now?
-Check before you cut. -I think you're right. Let's get back to work.
[Shorty] We're working on Efrain's '66 Impala, trying to take it back
like the day it rolled off the showroom floor.
Raul cut out the floor in the '66 Impala,
and now it's time to fit the new pants on.
Cut my old floor.
Now I just gotta trace it.
So I'm just tracing the old one.
I'm just gonna cut the section that I need.
So I'm gonna cut right on top of it,
and then I'll start grinding little by little,
and then I hope it'll fit like a glove.
Look at this thing.
So now it's just cutting that, fitting that.
It fits like a glove.
[Shorty] Raul, he's gonna start doing some cutting where the rust is right now
It's got some rust down here, some rust back here.
You know, we're gonna get into it, see how far we can get.
Hopefully, it doesn't come back to bite us any more than what we see.
But, you know, expect the worst.
Somebody tried to patch this up with silicone.
And they just dabbed the silicone all up in there, man.
It's just full of silicone in here.
I would probably just go ahead and clean this section right here.
Clean it really good all the way to the bottom, and then see where we're at.
So we might just make one whole piece to go right here, okay?
So we're gonna cut the panel off,
and then just make a new panel.
And, yeah, just weld it back in, and get it going.
Fast and easy.
I'm working on my template.
I'm using tape for my template.
It's getting the form that I need,
and then I'll transfer it to a piece of metal,
and then work the metal to get the form out,
and hopefully, it'll be easier for me whenever I do bodywork on it
So I got Raul working on the quarter panels on the '66,
and they had some pretty gnarly rust underneath them.
I'm not so sure if he's ever seen anything like that before,
but he's gotta understand that these cars are 50 plus years old.
And if he sticks around here long enough,
he's gonna find out that that's not the worst car he's ever gonna get ahold of.
-I like it, man, Raul. -Thank you. Thank you.
You got the body line here really nice.
Continuation of that.
I mean, it looks awesome.
The reason I'm in here
is 'cause we're assessing the situation on the trunk floor.
You know, once we've remove all the carpeting
it's got several rotted area
And we just have to address it. We can't leave it like it is
So we're not gonna pull all the air-ride out of the trunk.
We're just gonna pull the pumps out of the way,
and then Joel, he'll probably go ahead and make a mount,
so we won't have to put holes in the floor.
So we're trying to remove the rotted floor.
The floor has some bracing that goes longways like this,
and then it has some bracing that goes crossways like that.
So the braces have to stay there,
so you can weld on a new floor to the braces.
[Joel] We're doing a big badass air-ride syste in this car.
It's one of the things that Efrain wanted to upgrade.
But first thing's first.
Me and my boy, Junior, we gotta check this wiring out
to make sure that this car can handle such a system.
Apparently, the switch doesn't work, to kill the air-ride,
so we're gonna have to cut the wire off.
So these cars were equipped with a neutral safety switch.
It's got an aftermarket alarm.
It has a starter kit, so it's gonna be one of these two.
-[Junior] You're not gonna believe what they did. -What you got?
Man, they put the air-ride power to the fuse panel power into the same relay.
-So... -So we disconnected this line,
but all it's going to is a built-in relay.
It's killing the whole system.
[Junior] It's killing the whole system on the car.
-[sighs] -Check it out, man.
Down here in the corner, tucked away.
[Joel] Being that Junior fou this problem,
we might end up having to rewire and put a whole new air-ride system,
but we gotta separate all this stuff.
Well, that sucks, Junior.
Good looking out, though.
You saved me a trip 'cause you don't even wanna see underneath the dash.
It's a mess.
Oh, Junior's definitely up and coming.
He's so eager to learn, and not just one thing. Everything.
-Hey, Junior. -What's up, man?
Can you get T Money in here with the forklift?
[Junior] Aw, man. I'll get T Money in here.
-The master forklift driver. -[Junior] He's a master?
That's what he said.
So we spoke to Efrain, and he wants to go ahead and change the motor out.
So as far as the wiring issues,
we're just gonna address those when we install the new air-ride.
-T Money! -[Terry] Yeah.
[Junior] Bring it in, boy.
Yeah. Terry's a work horse, and in his own mind, he's also a pro.
I got this, man. You got insurance on that?
Hell, what the...?
[Shorty] Hey, man, he put the wrong damn chain on there, too, man.
You know what? Fix that chain like you want it, man.
Man, I don't wanna do that.
I got 30-something years of forklift experience.
I'm not gonna... I got it, man.
I thought T was pro, man.
With the other one.
-Yeah, just like that. -All right.
Just give me a little bit.
All right. Go up.
[Shorty] Come on up, T.
[Joel] Come up. Come up.
Come up.
Hell yeah.
-[Shorty] PG. -Hey, what's up, Shorty?
That stuff's heavy, man.
Here, I got it.
-You got it? -Yeah.
[Shorty] Now, how about the seats, man?
Look at that. Look at that one, Joel.
[Joel] So, PG, what are you gonna have to do here?
Just skin this?
I'm gonna take it all the way down to the middle
and replace the foam, everything.
-[Joel] So you gotta reshape it, then? -Reshape it, yeah.
[Joel] What's the theory behind using the duct tape?
Is this something that Hispanics do?
'Cause my dad was, like... My head... Busted my head open.
-[laughs] -Tire flat? No problem.
You gotta go to the store? No problem.
Did you get a cut on your face?
-No problem. -No problem.
[Joel] Is there anything you can't use this for or what?
No, man. You can use that on anything, man.
Look. Apparently, they tried to make a whole seat with it, so.
Hey, when you're in a pinch, duct tape is good for anything.
Duct tape is your savior.
-[PG] I like it, though. -All right, man.
-[PG] Cool. -We'll leave you alone, man.
-[Joel] We'll see you later, Pedro. -See you later.
So we're gonna be hanging these frames,
changing this burlap to carpet.
The carpet is gonna be more sturdy than burlap.
On this foreside, we're gonna give it
a little bit more of a bolstered look, and keep it clean.
I am taking these bumpers apart on our '66 Impala.
So they don't look like it,
but once you start taking it off, they have a ton of pieces.
Any Impala, especially the bumpers.
So it's always very important to lay this stuff out.
That way, you can take a picture of it
and know exactly what bracket goes where.
Gonna send it to the chromer
and hopefully when they get back, they'll be like brand new.
Very important to get it re-chromed
because that is going to make the paint job pop.
[Shorty] Yeah. Joel.
We're gonna pull the top section off here.
Y'all are fast.
We are fast, R Dog.
Lightening.
-Hey, Joel? -[Joel] Yep.
-Can you come over here for a second? -Yeah.
So that grill that y'all just took off.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with it,
but it has rivets just like this
that are stuck to the header panel.
-Have you ever seen that? -[Joel] Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Most of the Impalas, the grills are riveted
to a structure of some sort inside.
So those rivets, unfortunately, have to be taken off.
-Just, you know, take it easy. -Yeah, yeah.
And grind the top part of it out, and then at that point,
-it'll come right out. -Okay.
The most important thing is that sometimes, you know,
we're not gonna replace the grill.
I think in this case, we are.
However, we haven't got it yet, so you wanna always be...
-That's true. -...as careful as possible in case we have to reuse it.
[Joel] Yeah.
[Shorty] This is a part of the front bumper.
And the bumper had a pretty gnarly dent right here in the corner.
I wanna get it kind of halfway good
before send it out to the chrome.
I just wanna make sure that it looks something like the other side.
It's ready enough for me. I'm gonna dial it a little bit.
-If you can get that very top lip. -Yeah. Let me see.
I think I can still get a little bit of that up.
-Move it right there, at that bump. -Yeah, there.
That bump, right?
I think I got it, Joel. Look.
-Man, you fixed that quick. -What do you think?
-Amazing what a little heat do. -Yeah.
-You think we can grind that? -Yeah.
-Okay. -I think it'll grind it up.
All right.
[exhales]
I think it's gonna look way better chrome, bro.
The 66 bumper, man, it looks great.
The little effort that we put into it came out really nice.
Nice and radiant chrome.
I love it. We'll put it in the chrome pile.
Cool, all right, Shorty.
Make sure it doesn't diffuse.
Oh, there's Victor, man. He's here to pick up our home stuff.
Yeah, Victor is our cross-specialist.
He does all the replating and stainless for all of our cars.
-Victor. -What's up, Shorty?
He gets our chrome done and back on time.
-What's up? -What you got, brother?
Man, I got a few pieces
-for the '66 Impala that we have. -[Victor] Okay.
So we're putting new trim around it, you know,
because the trim is so cheap to put in.
On a '65, '66
the bottom pieces usually paint it
-like this, right? -Yeah. Yes, sir.
[Shorty] Well, we want to chrome the whole thing.
-Hey, Victor, -Yes, sir?
what do you think about the repair job we did here?
-It got hit. -It got hit?
-It got hit. -Let's see if we pass it or not.
Hey, man, whatever we didn't get
-we're going to leave it up to you, man. -Yeah.
Yeah, we double check it.
It seem like somebody
work this one already, brother.
[Shorty] I know it, man.
This is nickel, then you got the chrome.
[Shorty] What do you do? You dip it in the chrome?
-You dip it in nickel. It's nickel-plated. -[Shorty] In nickel.
[Victor] And then you chrome plate it.
It's like a seal for the nickel when that rusts.
-But yeah, it's... -That's why we called you, man.
-Okay, brother. I got you. -That's why we call the man.
Well, you know I always take care of you. You know that.
That's what you always tell me and then you surprise me.
[all laughing]
We're about to start our block party
on our '66 Impala.
The guys are over there at the other shop
so I'm fixing to blow the... [indistinct]
and get them over here, and help me do this.
-Damn, what is that? -[man] That's for the block party.
-Yeah, bro. -I thought that was a tornado warning, man.
-Y'all ready? -Yep.
So, you each gonna do one half, half each.
We're gonna scuff it really good.
For every build we do, we have a badass block party for everyone.
You know, a lot of friends come up, they pitch in, they help out
and for doing that we like to reward 'em,
you know, with a little block party afterwards.
-[shouting] Let there be meat! -[crowd laughs]
We did good. Everybody helped a lot.
[Joel Balboa] We're having a great time.
-We get to be in the shop -Love it.
where we love to be at,
and we get to hang out with our families, you know?
[Shorty] We have several panels on our '66 Impala
over here in the bodywork area.
The panels themselves are not that bad,
but the existing material that's on it, it's pretty thick.
I mean, just in this little area right here,
I mean, look at the mounds of material that we have.
We're gonna take out several pounds of material on just this hood alone.
I'm seeing this powder.
You think it does the same thing as filler?
Like, what thing are you talking about, Ru?
You ready?
[Shorty] Raul's over here working on one of the fender
This is a fender that had a nightmare down here.
The repair came up beautiful. We maintained the body lines the way we're supposed to.
-I love it. It looks great, man. -Thank you, thank you.
Got an endless sea of parts for the '66 Impala,
and we've got fenders, doors, trunk hood.
We're about to move all of this stuff in the booth.
We're pushing the Impala into the paint booth.
I'm gonna try to turn it slowly to the right.
[Shorty] It's an exciting ti because this is the start
of the car having its new tuxedo on.
Get it done. Lot of work.
[Shorty] Right now, I'm mixing up a color for the '66,
and I'm always trying to experiment on colors.
I think I have the color dialed in,
and so we're gonna see what it looks like.
[Shorty] I'm just gonna do some last minute tacking,
make sure all the panels are nice and clean.
And then we're gonna fire it up,
put some paint in the gun, and get rolling.
You know, my passion and my specialty is painting.
That's the area that I love the most on these classic cars.
-[whistles] Good Lord, have mercy. -Damn, boy.
-You come to check out my paint job or what? -Wow.
[Shorty] What do you think about the color?
[Pete Piña] I love the color It's one of my favorite colors.
You could see this miles away on the highway.
You're the man.
-This is gonna look sick, man. -Yeah.
And I don't know if you noticed, Pete,
but this color has, like, two pearls in it,
and then it has a really fine metallic.
-So it's not flakey, you kno -[Pete] Yeah, exactly.
-[Shorty] It doesn't have.. -[Pete] That's what I'm looking at right now.
[Pete] As you move around with the light
you should be able to see it all.
It's really nice and subtle.
I'm telling you, man, I can just picture Efrain
top down, just cruising.
[Joel] I think one of the things
that makes Shorty special in what he does
is he's always seeking perfection.
Everybody knows it.
If you want the slickest paint job
you come to Shorty's shop.
I think him and his wife are gonna be stoked about it.
-See, that's what I'm looking forward to, -Yeah.
you know, for them to see it for the first time.
[whistles]
Oh, yeah. Oh, man, look at that.
Oh, there's goodies, man. Hell yeah.
Definitely the right box.
Any day you get a box full of parts is a great day.
So now we got our new motor and all our parts from rockauto.com,
it's time to get this motor together and get it back in the '66.
-Hey, yo, can you grab that forklift real quick? -[Terry] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
.All right, go ahead.
All right.
All right, that's good.
Hell yeah. So, me and the boys got the small block ready to go into the '66.
It's kind of exciting because, you know,
this is the heart and the feet of this car.
All right, come in.
Let's go.
So we're just gonna have to bring it in.
-You want to start letting it down? -Yeah.
Let it down some.
[Joel] All right, go up.
Hold it right there.
-That's badass. -Amazing, dude.
[Shorty] I love the color, man.
I think it's gonna be catchy just because it's so subtle.
Once we put the air cleaner and everything
-and that's the diamond in the box right there. -[man] That's insane.
[Shorty] So when you open the hood
-it's gonna be like the little diamond in the box. -[man] Yeah.
This car was equipped with an AirRide before.
Efrain wants something a little more controllable
so he can kind of simplify it for Senior.
So all he has to do is hit one button
and it goes to a certain level.
Hits another one, goes down to the ground.
And, hey, hit one more and he can cruise out.
So, we got the level control sensors in.
And now we got all the lines into the trunk
so we're gonna take it off the lift right now,
over to the center of the floor.
That way we can open it up and we can both work on it.
All right, Junior, you ready to go down?
-Yeah. -Okay.
That's the wire.
Aww, yeah.
All right, come on.
[Joel] Damn.
[Joel] We're gonna make something special for this trunk.
I think Efrain and his family deserves the best of me,
and I'm gonna make sure that we deliver.
With that being said, he probably won't have any trunk space.
I got my panels cut for the trunk.
Now it's just get 'em in there and test fit 'em one more time
just to make sure we're ready to rock.
Coming along great on the process here.
We're almost done with the two panels now.
As you can see, we got the top side there and then our insert.
One of the things that you try to do
when you're building a custom trunk for a classic car
is you don't want to get too extravagant.
You kind of want to keep the class in the trunk as you do in the front.
So this is the carpet that's used in the car,
and we're gonna basically use this carpet
and two-tone this deal so you get kind of a classy look.
I think it's gonna look great. I think Efrain's gonna love it.
As far as the AirRide, all the compressors are way bigger now.
We went from 380 to 485 so it's really big.
Everything's been updated on this thing.
They'll have full control at a button.
We went from not having any audio
to a super badass five channel amplifier,
so this thing should really get down and jam.
We are finally getting to a point
where I am excited about this thing.
There's so much emotion running through the shop right now
because of who this is for and what it's gonna stand for.
Efrain Jr. wanted to really spice this thing up for his dad and his mom,
and I think we've done that
I can't wait to see Efrain Sr.'s face.
I think it's gonna be something special.
-Hey, what's up, guys? -Hey, Noel.
Just coming back to start on the top. Got these new parts in.
Oh, nice.
Check it out. Here's the old one.
-Night and day. [chuckles] -Geez, man. Look at that.
All we need to do is bolt it in,
throw the top on, and we're done.
So, the trick of things with switching out a top
is just got to make sure measurements are pretty spot on.
If not, once you get it in the car
you're gonna see a whole bunch of wrinkles.
Staple on the weld liner. You gotta stretch it.
If you're gonna go with the new top,
might as well replace the motors, cylinders, and the lines
so you can get a good working top.
[man] There it is over there.
[Joel] That's strong, too. Look at that.
-Looking good. There it is. -Taught him well.
-Well, let's get this interior done. -All right.
Let's go. Let's finish it up.
[man] This is a big day on the '66 Impala for Efrain.
We're putting all the panels in and trying to wrap this up.
We're excited to see how it's gonna look.
Me and Noel are putting the door panels together.
I got the '66 seat.
I'm putting on the side moldings, the back panel.
Putting on the chrome casing to it.
That way it'll finish up the look of the seat.
[man] We got all the pieces done for the Impala.
We just need to get 'em in the car.
Here's the other thing about this thing
is that Efrain didn't want to get rid of the antenna.
So we forgot the antenna.
I got to go get the antenna and put it on.
Now, I'm assuming that one gasket does go down there
-where I put it, right? -I would think so.
Put it in there as good as you can, man.
Perfect. Straight up and down.
[Shorty] All right, so we're gonna have to hold it like this
before we put it in there.
-You got it, T? -[Terry] Yeah.
All right, here we go.
All right, man, I got it.
Yeah, there we go.
That looks good.
Here I have the grill for our '66 Impala. I'm putting it together.
These are a pain in the ass.
They have to be riveted on,
and we're working with a factory piece and an aftermarket piece
so it takes a little bit of finessing.
Everything on this grill is very sharp,
and you can't wear gloves when you put this together
because, you know, you have to hold rivets,
you have to hold all kinds of stuff.
This is the most important part of the car,
because when you look at the car from the front,
you know, it's always the grill that you see.
This is the original grill,
but this is the bottom piece that normally, on a '65, these were painted.
But remember we decided to get it chrome?
-It came out really badass. -You don't think it's gonna be too much chrome?
Nah, man.
This is one of them pieces, or one of them items on a car
that you don't know why they didn't do this at the factory.
This should have been done at the factory.
-You think so? -Yeah.
It's gonna look awesome.
-[indistinct] -Yeah?
-Why don't you get on this side? -Okay.
All right, come on in, bud.
-Come over here, man. It's a special day today. -Oh.
We all worked really hard on this car.
We appreciate everybody putting all their hard work into it.
-Let's fire it up. -Ready when you are, Junior.
Hell yeah!
-It sounds great, man. -Yeah, it sounds strong.
-The sounds are good, sounds strong. -Sounding strong, so...
-I think Efrain's gonna be real happy with the power. -Oh, yeah.
Big day for our '66 Impala.
I mean, I can't tell you how happy I am to get this engine cranked.
And for it to fire up on the first go around, that's a plus.
So I'm extremely happy,
and I hope we can get this car wrapped up in a few days
and give it back to Efrain.
-Man, that's looking good, Joel. -I know, man. I can't wait.
That's awesome, man, in here.
-[sighs] -Tell you what,
big Efrain and little Efrain, man, they'd better be...
-they're gonna trip, straight up. -They're gonna trip.
They're gonna trip out on this thing, man.
This car should do everything that they want it to do
as far as, you know, bring back the memories
that they lost or that they're missing.
Not lost but they're missing, you know?
Hopefully, they look at this car
and go back to the day when they first started.
Relive the memories they had.
Even though this is not the same car, you know,
-that was the intent of him when he bought this car. -Yeah.
Maybe we're, like, we're time travelers.
We invent a time travelling machine.
-That's what we're doing. -Well, you know what, Joel? That's exactly what it is.
It's a time travelling machine that they can obviously go back to
and relive those years, man, that they still have in their memory.
-You know what I mean? -Mmm.
It's a ride, Joel.
I've been on this ride for, I don't know, 40 plus years
-and it never gets old, man. -Never gets old.
-[car honks] -This is dusty, man.
Oh, man, talking about the wheels, there's Junior.
Let's check it out. Hey, Short Dog, the wheels are here, man.
[whistles]
-Man, big ass wheels. -Ooh-ee.
That'll make your day.
-Man, let's put 'em on. -Hell yeah, let's put 'em on.
-Aiming for... [indistinct] Yeah, let me get the jet. -Hell yeah.
Don't put up a... Here we go. Like a glove.
[Shorty] We got the new wheels on the '66 Impala.
That is the final piece of the puzzle on this car.
Drop this mother.
-Man, that thing looks like a donk. -Ooh.
I got to say it, man, the subtleness but the pop, it's all there.
So I'm really happy the way it looks.
[Shorty] Yeah, today Efrain is gonna see his '66 Impala
so we hope everything goes well.
I think we're gonna be just as excited as he is.
-I love this right here. -[all] Yeah.
-This is... -More your cup of tea?
-Yeah, this is. -Yeah.
I mean, you can't, there's no price on this, man.
You know, it's gonna be a good day.
I mean, I'm ready for these guys to get what they want.
I'm ready to see Senior's face, you know,
when he sees his pride and joy done.
When you go home with it it's a beautiful thing, you know?
-Well... -I'm pretty nervous.
[chuckles] I'm nervous for him.
My hands are sweaty. I'm ready to go.
I can't wait to see it.
I can't wait to see what his reaction is.
I think I'm gonna be looking at him before I look at the car.
-It's coming. -Oh, here it comes.
-[all chuckling] -I see it, man.
-[Joel] Here it comes. -[Efrain Sr.] I definitely hear it.
-Get ready to go back in time. -Yeah.
[Efrain Sr.] Wow.
-[Efrain Jr.] That's sweet. -[Efrain Sr.] Look at that.
-Oh, man. -That looks nice.
-Hey, how you doing, Shorty? -We're doing good, man.
-[Shorty] You guys like it? -[Efrain Sr.] Just like I envisioned it.
So much cleaner and brighter.
It's turned out to exactly what I envisioned
Now, you said that you wanted an original look
but you wanted a little touch of modern.
-[Efrain Sr.] Yes. -[Shorty] And that's one thi about the color is so subtle
it's a mixture between a little bit of metallic and pearl.
You know, you'll see a change from light to dark It's gonna look really cool
-[chuckles] -What I told you that I was looking for,
this is it right here.
[Efrain Sr.] It met, definitely, my expectations
of the way the car looks and the way it just flows so evenly.
It's absolutely beautiful.
I'll show you the engine bay.
Well, that's not the same engine that I had in there.
-[all laugh] -Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[Shorty] Remember we talked about cleaning the engine?
[Efrain Sr.] Oh, that's nice
I like it, I like it.
Show 'em what you did in there, PG.
We did bolster up the seats.
Backseat bolstered up, too. You don't see a lot of that
I love the way Shorty painte that steering wheel, too.
We got the convertible top installe
[Shorty] Yeah, that, probably, that blue top is where it's at.
Well, that's been a while hasn't it, Senior?
-Yeah, well, last time I had to do it by hand. -[all laughing]
Well, here, Joel. Let him see what else he's gonna get.
[Efrain Sr.] Oh, yeah.
How about that? [chuckles]
-Yeah. -That is nice.
[Shorty] So, everything that Joel did
he put it under there so that you won't see it.
If you open up somebody else's trunk
you have air compressors back there,
you got all this stuff that you seen.
-Like... -[Efrain Sr.] Yeah, this is all hidden on this one.
Yeah, it's all good.
They were definitely overwhelmed
when they saw the car and saw the way it looked.
They don't need to tell me anything
when they look at something and don't have any words.
This is the way to go then.
[cackles]
-Mmm. -[chuckles]
You like the little bit of more power that it has?
-Power more is mostly for my wife. -She likes it?
She wanted it to be more powerful.
It's no doubt about that when you and your wife are back in this car,
I mean, you guys are gonna be 18, 17 years old again.
-You know what I mean? -[chuckles]
-[Shorty] I think of it as a time machine -Yes.
you know, that takes you back to those years.
It's just an awesome feeling.
[Shorty] Now that you've seen the ca
is there any way that we can call your wife?
-Hey, Mom. -Heya.
Hey, how's it going?
-How's it going? -Good.
And we want to show you the car,
see what you think about it, too.
-[woman screaming and laughing] -[all laughing]
[cheering] Oh, my God. [laughs] Oh, my gosh.
This is a special moment and it was awesome, man.
[woman] Okay, fire it up, guys, fire it up.
-[chuckles] -That is so beautiful!
-Never thought it would happen -Right.
and you made it happen.
-Thank you, son. -Yeah. [chuckles]
Hey, we be doing like this right here, Shorty.
Hey, Short Dog.
-Hey, man, look. -You know what I'm saying?
-There it is. Hey. -God damn.
-Yeah, yeah. -[laughs]
-Come on. -There you go, there you go.
There you go. Keep on going.
-Keep on going, Shorty. -[snickers]
[Joel] Man, Shorty Dog,
we got to build a lowrider one day.
I know we do. We do.