We got another project in the shop, it's a special deal.
[Jerry Mata Jr.] My dad's '69 Chevy C10.
He's an old Vietnam vet.
[Shorty] Oh, man, this is bad.
Probably the whole thing is filler.
[Joel Balboa] Motor definite needs some help.
[Pete Pina] It's full of rus
Rust is not supposed to be at the gas tank at all.
[Shorty] What seemed to be a really nice truck
has a tremendous amount of issues.
The truck is in my kitchen
and it's time to put some color on it.
[Joel] It's bad to the bone
Hell yeah!
Are you guys ready?
Holy!
My name is Javier
but most 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 am living that dream
with my own custom shop
and the team that builds the coolest cars on the road
We make dreams come true.
[crowd cheering]
Hey, Joel.
Our 1969 C10 is here.
-Let's go check it out. -Oh, hell yeah, bro.
[Joel] Let's go.
-[Jerry Mata] How you're doing, Shorty? -What's going on, Jerry?
-What you're doing, brother? -[Jerry] Shorty, how you're doing, brother?
My name is Jerry Mata Jr.
I'm here today to bring my dad's '69 Chevy C10
so that Shorty and the guys can do their magic.
Well, what do we got here, Jerry?
It's my dad's truck.
I wanna do something nice for him, man.
-What's your dad's name, let's start with that. -Jerry.
-[Shorty] Jerry Senior? -Jerry Mata.
-So you're... you're... -I'm Junior, yes sir.
[Shorty] It looks pretty decent.
I know that once we get to look in that.
You know, we're gonna find a lot of...
See, my boy, Pete,
he's already eyeballing the sides.
[Jerry] It's got a lot of waves on it, Shorty.
Well, my dad's had it for eight years
and me and him have slowly been trying to rebuild it
as well as we could.
-You wanna take it a little bit to the next level? -[Jerry] Yeah.
So what's the reason you wanna do the truck?
Well, I wanna surprise my dad.
My dad's 74 years old.
He's an old Vietnam vet.
You know, just something that I wanted to do for him.
[Jerry] It needs a lot of body work.
There's some mechanical issu
that I'd like to get addressed.
I'd like something...
-something a little nicer for him. -[Shorty] Nice.
[Shorty] Obviously, I'm looking at it
and, I mean, it looks pretty... pretty rough.
-[Jerry] Yeah. -[Shorty] You know, it looks good from a certain distance
but it actually has quite a bit to do to it,
especially body-wise and we'll address that.
My dad is pretty much an old body shop guy.
He knows paint, he knows body work
and he basically just told me that
Shorty was one of the best painters he's ever seen.
Well, we'll see what we can do, Jerry
and hopefully we can...
give your dad back
-something that he's always wished and dreamed for. -Awesome.
[Shorty] You look at what you need to look at, Joel.
I'm interested in the body. [laughs]
[Joel] We got a couple of things going on in here.
I see some new water hoses, new battery.
-[Pete] We got spaghetti over there. -[Joel] Yeah.
[Shorty] And the body work is very uneven.
Wavy, it's what we call it.
[Jerry] Yeah, my dad had it out one day
and it started hailing.
-So that's where all the dents come from. -[Shorty] Oh, okay. All right.
-All right. -But yeah, definitely needs a hood.
And then the grille I guess...
it got hit a little bit around here.
The C10s right now from '67, '72...
I mean, they are the cream of the crop.
Give me the piece of junk that's sittin' out on a field.
[Shorty] You know what? You all ready to get started?
[Pete] Let's take it inside, man.
[Joel] Oh, yeah.
[tires screeching]
[Shorty] My assessment on the truck
is to take it back to how it was back in 1969.
One man's supposed to be able to open it.
Let's get all the guys out here, man,
and kind of look at it and see what they think.
[Shorty] What's up, guys?
We got another project in the shop
and it's really a special deal.
Jerry wants to do this in honor of his dad.
His dad was a war veteran.
We obviously wanna try to help him out,
give them what they expected from the get-go.
[Joel] It's custom work, for sure.
So I think that, right now we wanna go back, right?
And looks like, when we pull the engine out and everything,
maybe address the way the engine compartment looks.
It doesn't have a whole lot of heavy on the truck
'cause we do wanna keep it classy looking.
So it has a little bit of metal work.
Mostly it's body work.
[Shorty] But nothing that we can't handle as a team.
[Pete] Oh, Pedro, what we've got here, man?
I would say, looks like it's some pretty good seats.
Just put an insert on it
to match the '70 models.
And an insert here too.
[Pedro Gomez] The interior o the truck looks pretty good
but we're gonna add a littl bit of an old-school touch.
-Yeah, it's gonna need some Dynamat. -Okay, okay.
Let me check this back wall too.
-Yup, bare metal -Oh, yeah, bare metal.
[Pedro] We're trying to tie the kits more
to the modern look of the door panels
and the console.
We gotta do something with these seat belts too.
We gotta have some safety in here.
Oh, I got a good list going so far.
[Shorty] You guys ready to tear it down?
-[everyone] Yes! -[Shorty] Let's go to work.
[machine whirring]
What seemed to be a really nice truck when it drove in,
has tremendous amount of issues
that we have to address.
We're gonna address all the body work on the bed.
With the naked eye if you get right here
and you start looking at it down the sides,
well, we have a really big situation here.
For it to be nice and straig
we have to have nice and straight panels.
And then they also have an issue
with a new fuel tank that was put in here.
It has a custom filler
which is right here on the taillight,
you can open it up
but apparently it wasn't installed very well.
So we're gonna address that.
So since the fuel tank is back there now,
we're gonna take this flying saucer off
and then we're gonna plug the hole.
The wheels and tires are not really for the truck
So we are going to pick
an updated, classic-look wheel.
We're gonna pull the engine paint it really nice.
That way when we stab it back in there,
it just has a really nice and clean look.
We wanna give it a classic look,
when we put the molding back on it
and then we wanna two-tone i like it was from the factory
The middle insert is gonna be one color
and then the rest of the tru is gonna be another color.
The trim is gonna separate the colors.
[Shorty] This is day one of our '69 C10
and you know, as always,
it's kind of a scramble
to take it apart and get it going.
[grunts]
Here we go.
-Oh. -[grunts]
[Wayne Strawser] It's comin along real good.
We pulled the carpet, the seats out, the door panel
and we're gonna have to get this insulation up.
So we finally put Pete to work.
We was both on one side, he was on the other side,
to see who can get it clean
I've finished that thing so fast
[Pete] You gotta remember, Wayne's a little, I mean, he's good,
but good Lord, he's slow.
Hopefully he didn't break a fingernail.
I'm hoping he didn't.
-What do you think? -[Shorty] Well, looking better.
Is that damping material gonna stick to that?
Oh, I don't know about Wayne's side, but for sure my side.
-I mean look at that. -[Wayne laughing]
Yeah, he made a mistake calling Shorty over there
because he thought his area was clean good.
Look, man. You're missing all the crevices over here.
The brushes don't go in there.
And Shorty said, "Nope.
You gotta keep on cleaning it."
See look, man. You gotta learn how to utilize that corner.
Look at that. Look at all the stuff I'm getting off of here, Primo.
[Shorty] Yeah, this has gotta be clean, man.
The material's gotta stick.
Because if you got all these furries on here, it ain't gonna stick.
This has got to look like you're sandblasting it.
-Get in this bit. -[Shorty] You gotta get all that, Primo.
[exhales and chuckles]
Yeah, so when you start around here
you gotta start from the bottom
and work your way up.
So that's where Junior's at, the bottom.
[Joel] You already got the exhaust rod?
Down here, yeah.
It looks like it only had about a quart of water.
That's crazy.
How does it not run hot?
We've seen a couple of I'd say, customizations,
um, that I'm not...
necessarily approving of today.
One of the problems underneath this hood
is this fuel line being routed
up above the motor.
Vapor locking is something that happens in Texas
most of the times due to the temperatures around.
And that's basically where the fuel gets so hot
that it starts bubbling
and it starts vaporing into the carburetor.
So the carburetor starts suffering for gas
because it's vapor
and basically you're on the side of the road
until, you know, either your motor cools down
or your truck cools down, one of the two.
[Joel] Well this is definitely unique.
Motor definitely needs some help.
You know, it's not bad.
It just ain't right.
[Joel] Whoa, man! Get it own.
-Careful with it, careful. -[all muttering]
Oh!
-You got it? -Yeah.
Joel is pulling the electrical and the motor mounts
and we can finally pull the engine out.
-Hey, Shorty. -Yes, sir.
You see that? Pull it up.
Pull that up. That's the starter wire.
One of the most important wires on this...
on any car, really
and look how it is.
Half of the wire is almost gone.
But somehow or another it was still running.
The most dangerous thing is that
you don't ever know when you'll go and get stranded.
Come on up.
Come up. Good.
[Joel] Come up.
-[Raul Ruiz] All right. -Clear.
The components on that truck are good.
You know, they just kind of been misplaced a little bit.
We'll get it cleaned up, get it all ready to go.
We have a '69 C-10 long bed in the shop
and we're trying to keep the classic look
with a few modern touches.
Come here, Raul. Let me show you something.
When they moved the fuel tank to the back,
it looks like they needed something to cover this hole.
When the fuel tank was removed,
you know, whoever removed it bought this cap for work.
It looks like there's a flying saucer in there
and they just came and landed right there and that's stuck.
Did you ever see anything like this?
[Shorty] Look at that.
Probably grind it, a little bit first
and then make a piece, make it fit. Easy-peasey?
-Easy. -Okay, man.
Raul, no matter what the task I give him,
no matter how hard it is,
he always thinks it's easy.
So I nicknamed him "Easy".
I'm bending some metal,
with my knee transform it.
The reason we're filling it in
is because someone moved the tank to the back.
Most trucks have the original on the back of the seat.
And so, the fuel comes up through the cap
and when they do that, it's just an empty hole.
[Raul] I grind the paint dow
get the metal real shiny, real porous.
I get the new piece,
trace it, fabricate it.
Weld it to the new panel.
Clean my work real nice.
Put filler on top and get i ready for a primer.
-[Raul] What do you think? -Well, man, I think it looks really good.
-You did a great job on it. -[Raul] Thank you, thank you.
Let's trim the old and then
we'll rip the heaters off
and then we can get it ready for Shor-dawgs
to throw down some color.
So now we got the motor here.
We're gonna tear it down.
We're gonna dump the whole lot of it,
take all the accessories off of it,
get it cleaned up for Shorty
Get some paint on this baby soon.
You know, usually when you clean up an engine,
you know, everyone knows that the engines
have a lot of crevices everywhere
and they are hard to sand.
You get up and put your fing in all those crevices
and it takes a long time to do that.
I got two valve covers and some pulleys
that Joel sent me over here to sandblast inside the boot
while he is over there cleaning up the motor.
[Shorty] Pete mainly works outside the shop
flippin' and buying cars,
buying parts and working with customers.
So I just found a new buyer for our 1963 Impala
that's supposed to be going out to California.
I just did our touches to it
It's red like color red lipstick.
She's beautiful, she's gorgeous.
New top, new air rides
and the list goes on. So I'm stoked about it.
So we're gonna go and take i out for a last test run
before she gets boxed up and shipped out.
When you in one of these cars and you just finish buttoning it up,
you gotta get someone to test drive these cars
to make sure everything is running right.
It died on me at a red light.
I have a 18-wheeler
that's about to turn right in front of me.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa!
[Pete] Joel and Junior are n gonna be to happy
when I have to tell them this car is acting up.
All right, so pretty much when I was driving,
I had to exit, sort of shutting off from me,
wasn't getting no type of gas response or anything.
I tried to accelerate it more and it just kept dying out.
So if you find out what's going on
and you all need me to pick up parts,
just call me. I'll stop what I'm doing
and I'll come right back.
Joel and Junior, they know I need this car running today.
[Pete] Let's do it.
-Let's stop wasting time. -Junior!
[Joel] I'll call you.
Hey, Shorty, come over here.
Oh, my God. Look at that, Raul.
Man.
This is really thick, right here, Raul.
[Raul] Pull out.
[Shorty] Like, the whole thing is made up of filler.
[Raul] I wonder how far it goes.
There's nothing wrong using filler.
I mean, filler is really your friend.
Using filler is not the issu
It's the way they use it.
We're about to dig in
and see what's going on with this bed panel
because we know the other on was not good at all.
This one here, I have a feeling
that it's pretty gnarly as well.
Oh, man, this is bad.
[Joel coughs] Shor-dawg.
-What's going on? -I don't really know what's going on here
but look how thick this mud.
[Joel] God.
I mean, look how thick it is.
I don't know if they put on lower section or what
-but, I mean-- -Yeah, look. It looks like this section right here--
[Shorty] At this point, Joel,
it's not even feasible to do this panel here so...
I mean, he's not going to want to do it so.
We can give him a new one though.
Well, yeah. That's what I'm saying.
So the other thing we got going on here
is the fuel system.
This is kind of a cube
but at the end of the day, it's not gonna work.
It doesn't have a good vent.
So if we're gonna put a new quarter panel,
we just might as well move the fuel to another place.
The quarter panels on the C1 look horrible.
We thought we could salvage them
but at the end of the day after looking at them over,
they are just not salvageabl
So we're gonna have to replace them.
You all just see on this side right here.
[Junior] Where the wire does not go.
[Shorty] All right, here we go.
Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Put it on the ground.
Raul, watch the tire.
-[Joel] The wire. -[Shorty grunts] All right, Junior.
[Shorty] We got it? We good?
-Yup. -[Shorty] You all right?
Yeah, I'm good.
So Joel and Junior got the engine all prepped up.
It's time to get it on the booth
and let me go in there and do my thing.
[Shorty] My biggest tip on painting on motor
is make sure that it's super clean
so your etching primer will slick really good.
Damn, Shorty-dawg.
That's bad to the bone, man.
Look at that thing.
[Joel] Is that the same motor I put in here?
That's a night and day.
[Shorty] Everyone that knows cars
know that if it's a Chevrolet,
it's gonna be orange most of the times.
So we wanted to go back with a clean, classic look
that would, when they open the hood,
it will look like a diamond sitting in the box.
I can't believe it's the same motor.
Pete took this '63 Impala out for a test drive
and we're having some engine issues.
Let's test the timing, see where the timing's at
and let's test the pull vacuum on
and see what the vacuum's done.
That should tell us enough to start somewhere.
-[Junior] You ready? -Yeah, go ahead.
[engine starting]
It's dead-ass on.
I don't understand.
He said it was bugging out?
Yeah, he said it was bugging out
but you hear it right now.
Sounds great.
It has gas and the gas gauge shows quarter of a tank.
At this point, we definitely need to figure out
what's going on with the fuel line.
I think we need to investigate a little deeper.
So what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna pull the fuel line up the carburetor.
I don't think the timing's off.
I think the time of the gas getting there is off.
So this line right here feeds the carburetor.
Let me see.
Here you go.
[engine starts]
[Joel] All right.
Oh no, we've got problems.
Damn fuel pump.
[Junior] I can already picture what it is. I don't want to.
-Rust. -Looks like rust, huh?
-Looks like rust. -You know as well as I do,
when there's rust in that line,
-cut it, basic. -Gone through the back.
It's coming through the back.
Right now we're gonna verify, we're gonna drop the tannic.
Now if the tank does have rust in it,
that means the whole fuel system will have to be flushed
and we'll have to change the fuel pump
along with the gas tank, along with the setting in it
and everything else.
[Joel sighs] God.
There it comes, there it comes.
There it comes.
Oh, wow. Look at that.
-[Junior] There's still more, dawg. There's still more. -Look at that.
[Joel] Let's call Pete, he's out on the road right now
and have him pick up a pump and let's get it going.
-[call ringing] -Hey, bro.
-[Pete] Yes. -I'm gonna need a lot of stuff.
- What happened? -We're gonna need a gas tank.
- Oh, my. -We're gonna need fuel filter.
We're gonna need a fuel pump
and might as well replace the sending in it.
And I'm gonna need some fittings for the new pump.
Oh, my.
[Junior] I thought we were done with this car.
It's that one.
[Joel] Yeah, see. I like that.
That's just more classic, right?
[Shorty] I'm looking at several blues here
and this one here caught my eye.
[Joel] Walked into the offic
found him looking at some paint chips
and I was like, "Hmm. I like paint chips."
He had a really dark blue on it
and it was a non-metallic, a solid.
These are way too light, you know.
-[Joel] Right. -Right here, so...
[Shorty] What I want it to look like...
You know, I've got every toy that you can think of.
[Joel] Gee, that's badass. [chuckles softly]
So we're gonna go back, put the trim on this truck?
[Shorty] Oh, yeah.
We're gonna make it look
to what it would have looked back in that year.
I'm thinking, maybe like, something like that.
Not too blue, not to light.
-It's coming in-between. -Maybe even something like this.
Imagine this truck
and then having the white on it.
I mean, it will pop like crazy, man.
I think that's it, Shorty.
You know, I think we've got the right color for the C10.
Man, I can't wait to see it on it.
We don't have the time to take everything out so
we gotta make do with what we got.
Another day in paradise.
[Shorty] Go slowly.
You know, when you start moving parts in the booth
and getting them a primer,
that means you're making progress.
So we got the cab here,
we'll fix it up with some primer on it
and we'll be moving on to the next step.
I need Shor-dawg.
Will this work?
Perfect, Joel. Look, man.
So because of the valley being so big right here
-on this area... -[Joel] Yeah.
So this quarter inch line works great.
But down here, the valley is not that deep.
So this will work great,
'cause see, I can just put that in there.
Just like that. Look at that.
See how cool it works, Joel? 'Cuase look, man,
it lifts up the gasket
and you can get the paint in there
and once you're done, you just pull it out.
-It's all good. -It's all good
because now it looks like you pulled the glass out.
You learn something new everyday, huh.
[Shorty] You've never seen that before, Joel?
-No, man. -Come on, man.
[Shorty] Tinted my primer pretty close
to one of the colors that we're gonna put on it.
That will make it easier.
Okay, we're just gonna go put the base on.
So I finally get back to the shop with some parts
and Joel and Junior are down in the garage
busting down that red '63 Impala.
Check this out, bro.
[Pete exhales]
[Pete] Got kneel down and Jo showed me what's going on
and he poured this thing like I'll fix and go make coffee.
Well, lo and behold, it's full of rust.
Rust is not supposed to be at the gas tank at all.
The gas tank is going in the trash.
Trash, yeah.
[Pete laughs]
It's never a good sign when you have
rust coming through your gas tank
and running through all your lines and to your carburetor.
This is gonna cost us more money, more time
and it's just gonna back us up on more work.
[Joel] Oh, my God.
We've got to lift it.
[engine starts]
[Pete] Yeah! How about that?
The gas was bad due to all the rust in the tank.
So at the end of the day,
got the tank replaced,
got the fuel line cleaned,
put it back together, voila
I would go put gas in it
and then drive the hell out of it.
[Wayne] Special delivery.
Wayne and Junior are bringing in the hood for our '69 C10
that is gonna need a lot of work
before it gets painted.
All right, so I'm gonna get you a tool
and I need to prime this
and I need to prime the cowl panel.
A DA or dual action sander
has both orbital and random sanding action.
DA the top of it with 180 really good.
Have you ever done that way?
-Uh, no, but I can learn. -Okay.
-I can do it. -All right.
Look, man.
-You put your pad on there, right? -Mmm-hmm.
This is a six-inch pad.
-You don't necessarily lay it flat. -Okay.
When you put it on there,
you kind of lift that one little area
so that DA can do its work.
The reason that we're sanding it with the 180
is because we wanna put some good primer on there.
So we're gonna put two to three good coats
-of primer on there. -Mmm-hmm.
And then we're gonna block it really good
and that's gonna tell us how straight it is.
You know, Jerry was in the battlefield in Vietnam,
so I just wanna make sure that
-we give as much back as we can because he did. -Yup.
That in itself is like...
-like motivation, you know. -Yeah.
[Wayne chuckles]
All right.
-Thank you, Primo. -Uh-huh, no problem.
-It's all on me now. -All right.
No problem, Shorty.
We got this leather in for Jerry's C10.
[Pedro] We're gonna take it to the half inch
and Manuel will start cutting that
and getting our patterns going.
So the next step, we'll put our half inch foam, peat foam.
So we'll cut our pattern on top.
Make sure it's centered. It has to match up with this.
Perfect. Start stitching.
I need to keep the guide close to this foot
so I could give him a double seam here.
Looks good.
Good combination, good job.
The leather's already making a big difference.
Here we go to the piece that gets... [grunts]
clipped on to this wire.
[strained] Here we go.
So we got done here.
There you go, fresh insert.
We are down to the sanding part on the C10
and we need to make some calls
and get some help in this shop.
[horn tooting]
We need help, man. Come on.
So I figured, like, you know what?
You like coming over here and hanging out so much?
Then you got to be working.
But it's not for nothing.
You know, if you come and you help us out,
then you know what? I'm gonna feed you.
Take your time, do a good job and we're good.
When you all get hungry you come on out there and eat.
[Joel] Man, this turned out pretty good, Shor-dawg.
-You think it did? -Turned out badass, man.
[Shorty] So we're now to the point
where we can put some paint on the C10.
The truck is in my kitchen
and it's time to put some color on it.
So this one here, it hit the spot.
Not too blue, it is not too silvery.
Every time I look at this color
it just looks like a blueberry shake.
I think it's one of the just really clean combination.
And now what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna do the firewall
That way, Joel could go ahea and do all the mechanical,
the heavy stuff like the mot and all that
that needs to go back in it
-[Shorty] Over here, Joel. -[Wayne] Say when.
Wayne.
[Shorty] Junior just brough in a package rockauto.com
and it's the floor for our truck bed
and all the rest of the part
needed to put the truck together.
[Joel] Oh, it's so big, Shor-dawg.
[Shorty] Oh, wow.
So we got the floor for the bed.
Badass.
[Shorty] We got our C10 painted
and it's time to get the drivetrain back in it
so we can get it out and burn rubber.
[Shorty] I think we'll go with this.
[Junior] You need me to hold these lines, man?
Can you go up a little bit more?
All right, come in.
I'm on.
-[Joel] Come down. -Little back.
No, no. Forward, forward, forward. Not back.
-We've got too many chiefs over here. -Oh, go ahead. You're good.
[Raul] I'm in.
[Shorty] Get out of the way.
[engine starts]
I like it. The orange and blue and the black, right?
-How much time we've got? -We've got till Friday
to get it running before I come over here
and start putting all of the stuff back on.
And we've got to deliver next week.
We've got a tool box, drag it over, we'll get started.
[Joel] These small blocks had a few amount of casings.
So we're gonna just put it back to
the nice little hardline that it should have.
I'm trying to stay off the block.
When your fans are here blowing that air,
we want the air to come across that line,
to keep that line cool.
What you wanna do is kind of size it up.
So we're just gonna take it
we're gonna kind of guesstimate how much we need.
As you could see...
once we cut it, it's gonna fit pretty good.
This is exciting. We are getting down to the wire
on our '69 C10.
[Shorty] I'm hoping that we can get it
all assembled and everythin
here in the next couple of days.
But one of the most important steps
is obviously the buffing, polishing, the sanding
and the cutting of the clear coat.
[Shorty] We are so behind, Joel.
Primo said he's willing to help us in whatever it is,
even if it's not his area.
Well, let's see, man. Let's see what he's doing.
I'm impressed, Wayne. I really am impressed.
When you're sanding with a DA,
it's much different when
you're sanding on a flat paddle
and when you sand on an edge.
It can get away from you and ruin the edge really fas
It happens and we all have t just learn from it.
[Wayne whispers] Damn.
-So that's all right. -I just noticed it right now.
Yeah, yeah.
[Shorty] I don't know if I can save it.
[Wayne] Let's go and shear this back
Yeah.
This is what we need to do.
We need to stop what we're doing
and you're gonna sand it
and then I'm gonna have to put it back
-in the booth and reshoot it. -[softly] Damn.
[Shorty] Yeah, we had a little mishap.
Deep down I knew it was gonna happen 'cause it always does.
These guys wanna learn which is great.
At the same time, you know,
we're behind on the truck,
we're under the gun and it kind of hurts a little bit.
But, hey man, you know, we all make mistakes.
What's going on over here? We're about to fire it up?
[Junior] About to fire it up.
-[Joel] Hopefully it starts. -Hopefully it does.
What do you mean "hopefully"?
We didn't know how these small blocks are, Shorty-dawg.
-[Joel] Start over, Junior. -[car engines starts]
-[car engine dies] -[Shorty] Man.
Not really sure what went on with it.
I think maybe the timing is off a little bit
or it just maybe a wire that's not connected.
[car engine starts and dies]
[Joel] I'm not getting any fire.
Did you... did you hook that... that wire hooked up?
-[Joel] All right, let's try this again, Junior. -[Shorty] Come on, Junior.
Come on, man.
[car engine starting]
[Shorty] Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[car engine revving]
[Shorty] Hell yeah!
And it sounds awesome, man.
[engine revving]
That sounds pretty damn good.
[Shorty] Got our bed all painted up.
So we're gonna take it out of the booth and start
the assembly process.
Let me get some bolts.
What we're trying to do...
We're gonna have to notch the brace
that goes across the bed,
so they can get their hose on the fuel tank
and through the new filler neck
that we're gonna put on it.
The guys and myself have come up with a solution
for the fuel neck issue.
Raul is gonna make us a little box.
We're gonna bolt it up to the box
and the box is gonna be bolted up to the floor.
It's gonna be tucked up in this little corner
right here, nice and neat.
You'll never see it
and it'll be easier to get in here,
take the top off of it
and put fuel in it. No problem.
Right now, the guys and myse
are going to put the panels on it.
That way we can finish up
a couple of more things that we need to.
Hopefully everything will come out good.
Everything's new, so there should be no issues.
We'll get it on and we'll ge it done. Knock it out.
Have this thing burning gas
[Shorty] Is it gonna go in there?
It doesn't look like.
[metal clanking]
[Shorty] Go down a little bit to see, down.
About there. Now push it in, yeah.
[Shorty] All right, right there.
Now that these guys got the bed on,
I can go ahead and put this box in,
put the fuel line in it
and get this thing wrapped u
[Joel] Badass.
Lift it.
-[Shorty] That sucker's on there right. -Yeah.
These moldings, they come with double-sided tape.
You know, it won't look very good
'cause you put those on and there's a gap in between the
the body and the molding.
So we're trying to get
clips that go inserted into.
So we are gonna drill several holes for the moldin
I have a lot of confidence in my guys here, you know.
The trim, I guess it's kind of a touchy item
that we put on cars.
They bend easy, you could easily
drill a hole in the wrong spot.
When you're messing with trim on new paint,
you gotta take your time and be careful
because if we accidentally scratch it...
Man, Shorty's gonna be pissed.
And then he's gonna have to repaint it.
I don't have to worry about these guys.
I mean, they know what they're doing.
I think it's good, Joel.
I think it's good, man.
[Terry Hill] Que paso, Shor-dawg?
I see we're going to make two tone, huh?
-How did you know? -I kind of put the tape
and you taping it together
and came up with "You're gonna go two tone."
-Are all of you against me? -Yeah.
So we're gonna two tone this sucker
and we're gonna get it done, man.
[Shorty] We have the blue bomber in
ready to two-tone it.
We decided to go with a two tone
'cause I felt like, you know
that was my original idea from the get go.
Some of the guys liked it all blue
but I just kept going.
Not back and forth but forward.
I said, "Man, I'm going to t tone this thing all the way.
Because, you know, that's wh I had in mind.
Usually, when you change your mind
in the middle of something,
it usually never turns out like you wanted, so...
I know that this way it's gonna look killer.
It's gonna have that classic look
with a little modern twist, you know,
with the wheels we've put o
and the stance it's gonna have.
So it's gonna have the best of both worlds.
[Shorty] I'm excited to see
how these two colors come together
because in my mind I really know what they look like
but it's nothing like unveiling it
and looking at it. So I'm excited.
We'll put the five channel amp inside the truck. Some mids and high 210s.
[Joel] There's not a lot of space here.
We've got the seat placed in here.
And we've finally got more of a general idea
how much air space we've got which is pretty good
considering it's a single ca
Right now, what we're gonna do is make a template
and see how it fits against the seat.
Make sure that when he sits down in the seat,
it still has enough room behind the seat
so the subwoofer can breathe
and it's not pounding up against the seat.
Got plenty of space here.
It takes a certain air space for a speaker to make noise.
It basically creates a wave
You've gotta take your time on something like this
and really do the math
so that you get the sound that you're looking for.
You understand how I break these down?
[Junior] What do you wanna know, bro?
[Joel] Well, I wanna know ho much cubic air space I have
All right. We'll measure pretty much that wall
up to the first point.
Then I would take that same point,
make it into a square
or I'm just trying to do a rectangle.
I'd measure air space for that all the way across
from those two points.
I would bring it to here
and I would measure that there.
If I take it all the way across
it's gonna be half of that.
You've been paying attention.
Add those together and I'd give you
air space for the box.
Give me some, bro. All right.
[Joel] The best thing that will play
in this kind of air space,
it's gonna be 210s.
Did we determine that? No.
-[Raul] Boy. -Damn.
[Raul] Ooh!
[Raul] Roll them out, let's put them on, man.
-[Terry] Let's see, man. -[Raul] This sucker looks good.
-Wheels are like, damn. -[Shorty] Let's put them on.
[Shorty] Junior just got bac with the wheels.
That was the perfect combination
of wheels and tires for that truck.
[Shorty whistles]
Raul.
[Terry] We still got that whole truck to get out, Shorty.
[Shorty] Check it out, fellas.
[Joel] Yeah, Shorty-dawg, I think
their tailgating season is gonna be
a little different this year.
I just can't wait to give it back to Jerry
so they can at last have a truck that, I think,
they've been dreaming of all these years.
[Shorty] Go down a little bit, Junior.
That's it.
There it is.
Just like that, guys.
Boom! It's done.
This is my dad, Jerry Mata Sr.
He hasn't seen anything.
So it's gonna be a total surprise to my dad.
I mean, what can I say? It was in the garage
-when I saw it last. -Yeah.
You took and never brought it back.
Yeah.
Thank you for everyone that showed up today
and brought y'all beautiful trucks.
-You got chills? -Yeah.
-[Jerry Sr. laughs] -I got chills.
I'm pretty nervous.
I don't know what changed.
I know only one thing
that I think Shorty had pre-arranged on the truck.
-[Pete] Are you guys ready? -[crowd cheering]
[Pete] Now we're ready.
Let's do it man, let's get Shorty in here.
[Pete] You guys don't turn.
Don't turn around.
-Hey, Shorty. -[Shorty] Como estas?
-Como estas, amigo? -Como estas, amigo?
-How are y'all doing? -I'm good, bro.
It's good to see everybody here.
Thanks for coming.
Hey, man. They are so ready to see this truck.
You know, I can't say it enough to my guys,
you know, they put in a lot of hard work for you
and we're looking forward to you guys looking at it
and telling us what you all think.
[cheers]
Oh! [bleep]
-[all applauding] -[Jerry Jr.] Damn. Wow.
-Man. -Sure game.
You like it, Lucas?
I said, "If anything, Jerry, I want this guy
to work on our truck one of the days, if possible
Never thought in a million years
that he would work on our truck.
Tell me what you think?
-Shorty, man. -[Jerry Jr.] Man, I'm speechless.
You overdid it, dude.
[Shorty] You guys liked the color?
[Jerry Sr.] I like everything, man.
You think we did good?
Good is not the word, Shorty.
[Jerry Jr.] I'm speechless.
It's awesome, dude.
You know, when the guys turned around,
it's great to see somebody just...
enjoy it that much.
To me, that is satisfaction all the way down.
Love the two-tone, man.
When I turned around and I looked at it,
I was blown away.
I didn't expect that.
He blew it out of the ballpark.
I thought it would be good
to give it a touch of when the truck was new,
-you know, back in '69. -[Jerry Jr.] Yeah.
[Shorty] You know, when the truck came out.
Obviously we've put a few little touches on it,
you know, like the wheels.
Look at the brakes, man.
-Look at the brakes. -[Jerry Jr.] I know.
[Shorty] You can't even see through the wheels.
We kept the blue but obvious
it's a little bit of different blue.
Didn't want it to overpower the two-tones.
You know, that's why I kind chose the real low-key white
Holy [bleep].
-So we went through and we gave it a little facelift. -What!
-Damn. -[Joel] What do you think?
[Jerry Jr.] Wow, dude.
-We did reuse a lot of your parts. -Wow.
We did buy a couple of new parts
and we tried to make it as original as possible.
This is crazy.
You like it, JD?
I didn't think they were gonna paint inside the bay.
You like it, Lucas?
[Shorty] So on the inside,
just put a couple of little touches on it.
[Jerry Jr. and Sr. laugh]
[Shorty] We didn't go overboard.
Wow, dude. It looks awesome.
[Jerry Jr.] They got the seats, Pop.
These guys did a phenomenal job.
[Shorty] You go ahead and sit down in there.
If you're talking about Shorty,
you've got to talk about the paint job.
He did a phenomenal paint jo
Beautiful truck, man.
[Shorty] Thank you.
[Shorty] See how when we al go over bumps
it's nice and solid.
-You can't really-- -No rattle, no nothing, dude.
[Shorty] This is one that you can go to the car shows
-with Jerry and... -Oh, yeah.
-And cherish the memories. -Exactly.
[Shorty] I mean, I don't kno how many times he told me,
"You've knocked it out of the park."
For him to tell me that,
I mean, it just makes...
It just makes me love what I do more.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you for what you've done
so we can all do what we enjoy.
Did you shake Shorty's hands?
Nice and tight.
Over the years you've put up with a lot of my stuff
but this is just a small tok of my appreciation.
Thank you, Pop.
[Shorty] You know, this is a guy who served our country
And for us, for me and guys to be able to give back to h
it's an honor, man.
We put all of our hearts into it
and we tried to give him what they didn't expect.
So I think it was a hit.
-Can we say [bleep], Shorty? -You can say [bleep], man.
Right? [bleep]
I hate sanding, man. I hate it.
It's boring, you gotta have patience for it.
I love chips and salsa.
I will join Shorty in just eating.
[speaking in Spanish]
Uh, yeah, I understand a little bit.
Not much.
I know vato.
-Never forget this one. -All right.
[speaks in Spanish]
[attempts to speak Spanish]