[Shorty] We have a new car coming into the shop.
[Vardon] My car's a '71 Cutlass
and I'm looking for Shorty to give it some love.
[Shorty] Oh, man, it definitely needs something.
[Raul] This car got hit.
[Shorty] A motor that ain't no one seen before.
[Pedro] The instructions said it would fit.
Ha, it's not fitting.
[Shorty] Any time you get a car in the booth,
pure excitement.
Damn.
What do y'all think, fellas?
That looks good.
My name is Javier, but most people called 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 the team that builds the coolest cars on the road
We make dreams come true.
-Oh! -[crowd cheers] Yeah!
Hey, yo, let's go check out our new build.
-What up, Short dog? -Wassup?
[Shorty] We have a new car coming into the shop.
The new owner is Vardon.
Sold to him by another friend, Neel.
Something tells me this is going to be a challenge.
You know, I'm not that familiar with the '71 Cutlass
or any other Cutlass for that matter.
So we'll see what this car needs.
It's good to see you guys, man.
-Hey, hey, guys. -Vardon.
-Doing all right, brother? -This is Vardon right here.
-Hello, brother, hey. -Hey, Vardon, doing all right?
I see y'all made it.
My name is Neel, and my long time homie
just bought the car from me.
Hey, I don't even know how we made it here to be honest, so.
My name's Vardon Williams.
My car's a '71 Cutlass.
And I'm looking for Shorty to take care of it
and give it some love.
So, you guys coming from Austin?
-And want to get this thing built? -Yeah.
Growing up, I've always been into cars
and I'm in the position to be able to make something work.
[Shorty] That's a convertibl
And then you want to change the wheels,
'cause these are outdated.
You obviously want to put a whole new color on it.
You haven't seen the interior yet, though.
[Shorty] Check out the steering wheel,
the badass steering wheel.
Hey, check out the saddle.
All engraved leather.
White carpet, man, damn!
-[laughs] Somebody did this. -Somebody did it.
Don't really understand that.
You know, why would anybody put a white carpet in a car?
Let's see what you got under the hood, man.
Let's see it.
[indistinct muttering]
Oh, man, it definitely needs something.
That's coming out.
-Right, Joel? -[Joel] Yeah, let's just get it out.
-What are you looking for? -I'm thinking of converting this motor to an LS.
Oh, an LS 5.3 or something like that?
Whatever you guys suggest, I'm going to leave it at that.
I just want it to be restored and be useable.
You already had that.
It's almost like you can tell
he doesn't know what he's talking about.
You know, we'll get on it, I'll do my part,
Joel's got his part.
Man, bottom line, Shorty,
y'all's vision and wherever you guys wanna go with it,
I'm not opposed to whatever you guys want
to make happen, you know what I mean?
-Hey, thank you guys for your time. -[Shorty] Thank you, man.
-Man. -Golly.
That thing's heavy.
Vardon is a little lost on this build that he wants.
He didn't really know how to explain it.
I can get in his brain
and I can see what he actually wants.
When it comes time for him to pick it up,
he won't believe what it looks like.
You know, the motor's pretty important, so,
if you want, go ahead and start
-checking out your leads. -Okay.
And see if you can locate one.
A lot of the interior's gonna be changed.
We are gonna put new wheels and tires, and paint.
But I'm not sure exactly what color we're gonna go with the car yet,
but I do have a color in min
that I would like to put on it,
but changing the color means a whole lot more time
The rest of the car needs a lot of love.
As you guys can see, I mean it's got a lot of issues.
'Cause I haven't done too many of these cars,
I am looking forward to doing this one.
When the owner sees it for the first time
from when he left it, he's gonna be like...
So now it's time to get the guys in here,
and tear the car down.
If any of you do not know how to take this car apart...
-[Joel] No way. -...I got the book
-right here for you. -That is the service manual?
Service manual, right here, look.
All right, my first Oldsmobile.
About ready to pull the bumper off.
'71 Oldsmobile Cutlass, progress is pretty good.
We got our '71 Oldsmobile in the bodywork area.
I think that's the worst area,
as far as, like, bodywork, but as you can see,
we got our work cut out for us.
So let's find out if the canvas that we have,
-it's really gonna be a good canvas first. -[Raul] Yeah.
Let me know if you find something that it's not gonna work
-and then we'll go from there. -[Raul] Okay.
So, what I'm gonna do right now is
I'm just gonna mark my damage on this fender.
There's the worse fender.
I'm gonna sand down to bare metal.
And I'm gonna see what material is it.
If it has bond or how much material it has
And then we'll go from there.
I got some of the material off.
I see a big old crown.
This car got hit.
It's gonna get more hard for me gapping the car,
and not knowing if these brackets inside are bent.
[Shorty] Raul!
Stop, man, stop.
Don't waste your time.
-We're gonna get new fenders? -Yes.
[Raul] 'Cause look at this thing.
Yeah, don't even bother, man. Here.
-Get up, come on. -[grunts]
This one's too far gone.
-Yeah. -It's not even worth it.
Let's just go ahead and do the panel
-that can't be taken off. -[Raul] Yeah.
[Shorty] Unless it's just really bad.
I think that that might be the worst panel on the car, right?
Yeah, so I'll start with that one.
Get the fenders going so I could gap the whole front,
-and then... -Yes, yes.
Hopefully, that will help out the build.
How are you guys coming along over here?
I got the top done already,
I got to clean this little edge more.
I'll probably do, like, a little skin wipe
on the bottom, make it a little bit more straight.
What would you recommend, Raul,
to make sure that the panels come out nice and straight?
Use two different blocks, man.
What I'm doing is using this one,
and then, like, acrylic block
so I could just keep it straight.
You obviously have to use several different kinds of blocks
because the curvature of each panel.
Yeah, and you can see a little bit of dent here.
So all this, they had fiberglass, so I took it--
-Really? -Yeah, I took some--
-Fiberglass? -Yeah, fiberglass.
I mean, it's gonna work for another 20 years.
[Shorty] Yeah, it looks good
It's not only about putting a fender on,
-but it's about the grits of sandpaper that you use. - [Raul] Yeah.
-You know, you want to go down to at least 220. -Yeah.
What is this, Junior?
-[Shorty] I don't know. Open it up, man. -Another Cutlass, man.
[Junior] You got to start with the biggest one first.
[Shorty] Junior, he knows how to do it.
Ah, they played us.
It's just a bunch of papers.
Let's see what the fender looks like.
Let's give Shorty all the papers.
[Shorty] Oh, my God.
-That'll save you some time. -Hey, man.
That actually looks pretty good.
Shorty, you like it?
Shoot, man.
These are badass resto parts here, man.
That man's taller than me.
It don't take much for anything to be taller than you.
-Or me. -[Raul laughs] Yeah.
[all laugh]
Raul, he was working on this fender,
but it turned out to be terrible.
We can't use this fender.
We decided to get a new fender for it.
We're just fixing to try on the new one and see how it works.
Obviously this car has been
a little more than a fender bender in its life
We don't even know if these are
the original fenders for the case.
They look like they might have been a few cars before this one.
But this time around, we're gonna get brand new, virgin fenders
from Original Parts Group.
They look like they're gonna be good.
Take your hand out from back there, yeah, there you go.
Push the fender this way.
That's good.
Yeah, put the shims in there.
This one here goes under there.
Try to get these shims back under here.
It's kind of a tight spot.
As you can see, the gap is way too big.
So we need to close the fender this way
a little bit right now.
You always have to have tricks up your sleeve.
It's, uh, in order to make parts fit.
Little bit more, right there.
Let's just close the gap for now.
One side at a time.
You see how our gap just closed up?
It's looking better by the minute.
All right, hold on, Charlie.
Let me loosen it up. Don't waste your strength yet.
[Charlie] I'm not, I'm not.
-You just tell me when. -[Shorty] Come on. "When."
I bet right about now, you're saying, "Where is your damn speed wrench?"
-[Charlie laughs] -Right?
Man, look at... look how close that is.
[Charlie] Oh, yeah, that's real close.
-But check it out, man. -Yeah.
[Shorty] Not too bad.
So, what did Arturo say, man?
So, he wants us to come over, take a look at this motor
for Vardon's Cutlass.
Just keep in mind we came to get a motor.
The motor I got is a 2003 5.3 LS motor.
-What's up, Arturo? -How's it going?
-Been a while, homie. -Yes, sir.
-Been all right? Good to see you. -Yes, sir.
What you got, man?
Just cleaning up the Impala,
getting it ready for a little show on Saturday.
[Pete] We like Impalas.
-'66? -'66, yes, sir.
-Focus, Pete. Focus, bro. -P27.
[Joel] What, why are we here?
For the motor, not the car.
Hey, let's look at some cars.
[Joel] Let's go look at this motor, man.
So, we're here for a motor,
5.3 4L60 automatic transmission
that we plan on sliding in this Cutlass.
-Uh-- -We're gonna slide it in?
Well, it's not gonna be...
We thought we were gonna slide it in.
-[Arturo] Wanna pull it out? -Yeah, let's check it out.
Okay.
[Joel] There we go. That's cool.
It's all there, all complete.
[Joel] Hey, um, how many miles are on this thing, man?
[Arturo] Has about 130,000.
They didn't like changing the oil.
-Or the seals, did they? -Yeah.
What you think, Ar?
You'll do that two?
-$2,000, yeah, your buddy. -[Pete] Let's do it, man.
-It's ours. -We'll load it up.
Yes, sir.
[Joel] Keep on coming, come on.
Little more.
So, there's a few things that do need to be changed.
For right now, it looks okay
It's not the best, but we're going to find out
once we get it back to the shop.
I think we can work with this.
[Shorty] We got a new ride coming into the shop
for minor repairs,
and it belongs to my barber, he actually cuts my hair.
He just wants to, you know, update it a little bit.
I'm gonna check it out
and talk it over with him and see what we can do.
-Damn, boy. -Hoo-wee!
-What's up, Shorty? -What's up, Ray?
My name's Raymond Dominguez.
It's a 1953 Chevy Bel Air
that I just purchased
maybe a little over a year ago, I believe.
-Hey, Joel. -How you doing, man?
What's going on, Junior?
[Shorty] Hey, man, look at this thing, man.
[Raymond] What y'all think, huh?
-Hey, man, this my style right here, man. -Yeah?
Think you could put some of your touches on it?
Hell, yeah.
I'm gonna take care of this car, I'm gonna value it,
you know what I mean? Classic cars are getting
harder and harder to come by now.
You've come to the right place, brother.
[Ray] You're the best, man.
What are we doing inside of it?
[Joel] Let's see, let's see, man.
Looks like she needs some digital gauges too, huh?
Maybe a little sound system?
Yeah, I gotta have some tunes.
There's plenty of time
to get Short dog on this thing.
Oh, me and Joel go back, way back.
And now he hooked up with Shorty,
and Shorty's big in the car world.
We'll look at everything else that you want done on it,
and then if it's something feasible that we can do right now,
we'll do it.
We're going to update this Bel Air with digital gauges
and give it a badass sound system.
Just a blessing just to be able to bring the car
into Shorty's shop, man,
and watch him do his magic on it.
I'm overdue for a haircut, and I need to go see him.
If Shorty gets my car looking clean, I'll have him looking clean.
Let's go write it up, and we'll get on it.
Get out here, Junior.
[Pedro] We got the seat for the '71 Cutlass.
Customer's asked to keep it the same OG look, original.
From me looking at it,
foam and everything feels good.
Well, me and Manuel gonna start turning down
the front door panels.
And as you can see, it has the...
cowboy western look.
[Noel] On the trim pieces for the skirts,
we're gonna try to save the piping.
As you can see, it's already brittle, cracking,
and you got water stains, everything happening here.
[Noel] Being that the custom wants that same color,
it's kind of hard to find that same piping.
We'll try to get it off as best as we can.
To replace it with,
we're gonna use a ABS board with some clips.
This will stand water, heat for this car,
being a convertible.
Noel and Manuel tore these down,
so what I'm seeing is the pads.
Perfect condition.
We're gonna take that burlap off and paint in the frame,
and then we'll put a carpet back there
just to reinforce it.
We're not going to be using any of this.
This is all our pattern once we unstitch it.
Drop the patterns, they're no good.
Ah, just leave it right there.
We got to salvage as much as we can, bro.
I ain't using the harness, dog.
-[Joel] You sure? -[David] Positive.
-Finish? -[Joel] Uh, no.
[sighs]
So, once we give it a bath and clean it up a little bit
we'll crack, take the intake and take the valve covers of
check that,
and if it doesn't look good there,
we'll go a little deeper.
[Junior] We unplug those projectors.
[Joel] As long as anything's not dry and scarred up,
should be fine.
-Pretty bad. -Look right here.
Gunk's from not changing the oil.
The cam has little splotches on it,
usually meaning that it's gotten hot
and a lot of that's created from poor oil pressure.
What's it look like, Joel?
[Joel] Uh, doesn't look lik I'd like it to look.
Usually when you start seeing, like, wear like these,
-like the cams, how worn it is... -[Shorty] Mmm.
[Joel] ...it's usually, you know...
signs of not keeping up with the oil changes,
stuff like that.
Do you think it can be worth it?
-Changing the can? -Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's worth it.
If you're driving like normal, Short dog,
this thing will last, you know, for a long time.
It's not a junk motor by any means.
Lot of motors running in America right now
look just like this.
I'm confident that we can bring it back from the dead
It's just, um, I'm a little blue right now.
I've seen too much of its inside.
Yeah, baby.
I just came off the boulevard.
Hey, Joel. You look good in this car, man.
So, you gonna let me dig into it first?
[Shorty] Yeah.
First and foremost we gotta put some gauges in for Ray.
[Joel] So, we just pulled i Raymond's 53,
and we're excited about the car
but nervous about the work.
Apparently someone went in there
and they created a bed, a bed of wires.
I didn't realize the gauges weren't in there,
and I'm like, this dude's been driving round without gauges!
Oh, man. Junior, come check out this gauge.
Dude, look at this bad boy.
[wolf whistles]
God.
-Dude, that's pretty bad-ass. -Mmm-hmm.
Hell yeah. Let's go see how this thing fits.
Yeah, baby.
We're gonna put a digital dash.
Let me see that.
All that means is we're gonn make it a little more modern
Get something he can read in here
'cause right now, you know, he can't read nothing.
Hold the trim real quick.
Let me see if I can get my hand through there.
Oh, I see it, I see it.
Okay, there we go.
Oh, man. Look at that, bro.
[laughs]
This is the core support for the '71 Cutlass.
As you can see, it's got a little damage.
We're gonna clean this up.
We have to send this off to powder coating,
but definitely don't want to send it off like this.
We're trying to get a real nice,
clean look out of this car,
and this is just not gonna cut it.
We're gonna go over it and make sure
nothing else needs to be repaired,
and then we'll send it off to powder coat.
This is not a very difficult repair.
You don't wanna overthink it
I'm gonna do this in two pieces
just because there's an inner piece in here
that we're gonna lay first.
And then we'll lay the second piece on top.
The quickest, if you can see the edges are real jagged,
I'm gonna try to flatten this out just by...
with a hammer and dolly,
before I start any welding.
You can see now it's all flat.
We got that piece to go down.
And as you're welding this in,
you can come over and drop a weld on top of that
and then just grind it down.
Now you can see we got it all trewed up.
Basically just kinda created squares
so you got a good, even section
from side to side to be able to work with.
That way you don't have to make
any funny cuts or anything like that.
When you're going to do bends
you always wanna leave it a little long,
just in case you miss the bend.
We got it in there. Matches really well.
So, the core support is done. Came out great.
I'm really pleased with the finish.
Now just get it ready and se it off to powder coat.
-Joel! -What's up, brother?
-Not much, man. -Ooh, man.
-I got you a surprise. -I see it, man.
-God! -I hope you like it.
Wow, Juan.
Just for you.
I mean, that thing is smooth, man.
-[Juan chuckles] -Cor!
Man, the customer is gonna trip
-when he sees this, man. -I hope so.
I'm helping Junior get this motor together real quick.
Trying to get it done by the end of the day
so we can get it back to the dog
so we can get this thing painted hopefully tomorrow.
Before, the motor looked lik it had a trillion miles on i
And a lot of that is just because
it was mistaken care of.
This side we haven't finished cleaning
but you can see how much of the crud
from dirty oil stays inside
The reason why you change th
is 'cause every time you change that,
you're filtering out that dirt.
That will basically complete the trunnion install.
So we got all our new trunnions set in there
with our lockers on there.
Vardon's gonna have his shiny shoes on
and he's gonna be ready to get on that gas pedal
and give everybody the ride of their life.
God dang, man!
-Wanna get a lesson? -Yeah.
Show me how.
So, Vardon's motor needs a cam.
Today we're gonna take Wayne to school
and learn how to put a cam in.
Grab the cam, man. So you're gonna gently pull it out.
What you wanna do is picture it
coming out in a perfect cylinder.
And you gotta, like, hold it up.
There you go.
Real nice and slow.
Gently.
[Joel] It doesn't look too bad.
Don't drop this on the joint.
Junior, is this a different cam
from the other one we pulled out?
Yeah, so this is pretty much, like, one notch up from stock.
What side goes in first?
[Joel] Spin it around.
Soak her in there.
All right. Wait, wait, wait.
Now turn it a couple times.
Just to make sure that bearing's soaked.
Yeah, you got some good clearance in there?
Yeah.
It went in!
Damn!
[Joel] My man. Hold on. Like this.
What do you think?
I'm out, guys.
Hey, Joel.
Vardon said that he wanted some flair in this motor,
like, a motor that ain't no one's seen before.
So what do you think, man?
We got flair, and then we got...
[both] Flair.
-What's it look like? -See what you think.
You think that's enough flair,
or should we put more flair?
Put it on.
Put that on.
-All right. -I can't wait to see it.
Bling-bling.
[Joel] Shorty just finished painting the motor for the '71 Cutlass.
Now it's time for me and Junior
to get this serpentine syste on the front,
put this motor together, and get it back in the Cutlass.
Mark that lower one just so if we have a brain fart,
we know it's torqued.
What we do is usually mark them with a paint marker.
Usually, we prefer to use white,
because sometimes, you know,
down in the engine compartments, it's kinda dark,
and the white, you can see with the flashlight.
-Mmm-hmm. -[Junior] Here, let me hold it.
Man, are you kidding me?
I'll tell you one thing. They make their belts tight.
[sighs]
-[Junior] They going off? -Almost.
[sighs]
That's beautiful, man.
-It actually came out really nice. -[Shorty] I like it.
There you go.
It's actually a really nice color for the motor.
Whoever looks at that car,
when they go open the hood,
this is the last thing they're gonna expect, am I right?
-Yeah. -So when they see it,
they're literally gonna go like that.
[Shorty whistles]
-It's done. -Here's more work.
As if y'all didn't have enough, right?
Man, for a small, little car,
it has a bunch of little things.
[Raul] All the metal.
Well, you know how it is, Raul.
The smaller the car,
-the more problems you have. -[Raul] Yeah.
[chuckles]
You did an amazing job under here, Raul.
Thank you. Yeah, man, I try.
[horn blaring]
It's party time.
Block time.
That's what we're having this block party for.
You know, to have a good time.
That's why it's called a party.
All in all,
I'm happy everybody came, and they pitched in.
They did a really good job.
Mmm, mmm!
It's that time again.
We have our '71 Cutlass in the booth...
...which is, uh, pure excitement.
We're fixing the, uh, mixer.
Some white base, and then we're gonna put a little twi on this car.
We're gonna do a little bit of a black over the white.
But then,
we're gonna put another twist on it for Vardon.
I'm gonna leave that as a surprise.
But first of all,
we're gonna put some, like, racy-looking, muscley skim on it.
And then we're gonna put something else after that
that I think Vardon, uh, is gonna love,
and it's probably what he's looking for.
Wish me luck.
[Joel] We're moving along great on the '53.
We're down to the kick pedals now.
As you can see, this is the stock setup.
We're gonna take that, and we're gonna come in with something like this.
Right now, we're just gonna size it up.
But, so you can kinda see what we're going for.
The speaker will go in here.
We'll put a design in this area.
There's our blank. There's our template.
When you're in a hurry, this will speed things up.
So, you can take your jigsaw, flip it upside down.
That easy.
A nice little line, it should keep it kinda even.
So generally, I like to build something
that kinda looks kinda stock
I don't want to get too fanc
The car's not real fully custom, custom.
So, you wanna make sure that you make something that kinda blends away.
This is going in there really nice.
[Shorty] Well, we're lookin really good on this Cutlass
We decided to put a little,
just something that will make the car pop a little more.
And I think these little touches will set the car off
and give it that muscley, racy look,
even though it's not gonna be a racecar.
It's just gonna be a normal cruiser going down the road,
but it'll just look good.
That first line is really the critical line,
and then after that, all the other lines come naturally.
I have the stick-on measuring tape,
and I can put it on here...
...and measure exactly for the other side.
So when I put my other line,
I got my markers right there.
You stick a little bit on there,
and then you come over here...
...and then you lay it down.
And you go up.
You can see that it's right on the body line.
And like I said, you gotta be happy with it.
So take it off and put it on as many times as it takes,
because once you paint it,
that's it.
Damn.
What do y'all think, fellas?
-That looks good. -That looks amazing.
-[Shorty] You like it? -That color is right on.
[Shorty] You like it, Joel?
-Right on. -I like the paint skim on the hood.
[Joel] Oh, I love it.
If I may say so myself.
It looks fast, you know?
It makes it looks fast when it's just sitting there.
[Shorty] Hey, the one thing that this car did, Joel...
It brought the rain, man.
That's why you gonna call it Thunder.
Hey, what do y'all like better,
White Lightning, uh, or Thunderstruck?
-Uh, I think White Lightning. -White Lightning, man.
White Lightning, right? It goes more with it.
It brought the lightning with it.
I guess, onto the next thing. I'm gonna clean it up.
I'm gonna get me some clear ready,
and I'm gonna put the Wet Wet on it.
-You're gonna put the Wet Wet on it? -Gonna put the Wet Wet on it.
-Oh, man... -Well, we're gonna get this motor rigged.
-Come on, Wayne. Give me a hand. -All right.
[Joel] Any time you're doing a swap,
there's numerous things you're gonna encounter.
Just 'cause it tells you in the book,
"Oh, it'll fit..."
Uh, yeah, it'll fit with slight modifications.
Been the case with every one I've ever done.
It's got so much on the back side.
I know it. There's no way that motor goes that far back.
[Joel] Well, it's not fitting.
The instructions said it would fit...
[laughs]
...and, um, it's not fitting.
We can't go too much farther anyways.
That oil pan's about to smack across the...
[sighs]
At this point, we just need to, uh,
figure out what we're gonna remove to make it work.
We're running into the brakes with these valve covers.
Well...
...I guess we got our answer.
-Let's pull it out. -All right, sure.
-Let's get it out. -Get it out.
[Joel] Went ahead and decided we're gonna shave the firewall.
It just looks really bad,
and to patch it in,
we're just gonna waste too much time.
So I figured we'd just plate the whole thing off.
We'll just kill two birds with one stone.
We'll make the whole firewall smooth,
and it'll give us the clearance
that we need for the motor,
and it's just a win-win.
We've got our template. We've got our firewall.
Everything's good.
I like what I see,
and some of the things that you could do, um,
before you start, uh, welding, is prep your firewall.
Your edges here will usually be protruded.
Make sure that you go over the whole firewall,
and make sure that you kinda rub it.
Make sure you get all your high spots down.
Did you get our bead on?
We can get our beat on.
You've done this before?
Yeah.
[Joel] Kinda tricky, finding the angle.
[Shorty] What do you think about that, Joel?
Check it out, man.
Look at that.
Got kinda grounded around the edge
of the perimeter of the new panel.
And that's just to ensure that we get a good bite when we weld it.
Once that's done, then basically,
we can go ahead and start welding.
Make sure you cover your paint and especially your glass.
Most people make the biggest mistake,
start welding on cars and don't cover up your glas
What happens...
That arc will arc out, and it'll go over,
All the spill will go over to your glass
and just bury itself into your glass.
Once you have that, the glass is ruined.
This is a quarter-inch pink cell foam,
and this is close to a half-inch.
So it's gonna make that pleated thickness we want
so it won't look just flat,
which is gonna give it that nice pleat.
The patterns that Manuel get
he'll start getting them traced
and getting them pleated
so we can start taking them to get sewed.
I got Manuel cutting it, measuring, squaring it off with the square.
I'm fixing to start gluing the vinyl to the foam.
We're working to make it special for this guy,
'cause we're putting double foam on it.
If he's got a flat behind,
he's gonna have plenty of cushion for that.
So, he's gonna adjust the machine to open up the stitch.
That way, it doesn't look like it's too close to one another.
We like our stitch to look open and further out.
As you can see,
this looks pulled even.
It doesn't look like it's turning.
So that's a perfect cover right here.
There's a finished product right here,
and so that gets pulled around.
Nice and tight.
There it is.
Now, we're running into another issue
with the motor mounts.
We need it to come up just a little bit.
So that definitely is...
...too much.
Well, if we move two inches,
this is gonna go up.
The exhaust should clear at that point.
The worst case scenario, we're just gonna go up two inches.
What we're thinking about doing is cutting the motor mount
and getting a different oil pan.
If we pull that motor two inches forward,
I think it's gonna clear.
Junior just hauled ass to our part store
to get the new oil pan,
so we're gonna get this swapped out
and try to get this wrapped up today.
You know, things like this will kinda knock you in the chest, and...
If we get this resolved today,
everybody's gonna feel a lot better.
[whistles]
Man, that's gonna give it that final little...
...something something, you know?
Can you scoot it over just a little bit?
Go back a little bit.
All right, right there.
Hold up. Slow it down.
Keep going.
It's, like, so close.
Let it down just a smidge.
You see, it's close right there.
-Geez... -[Junior mumbles]
All right.
One mission accomplished.
Now let's see if we can get the other one accomplished.
But we definitely got the clearance now for the steering.
Look at her.
And I think with that, it'll do it.
Looks like we're gonna be good, man.
Looks like, you know,
we're gonna just tap that in right there.
That'll give the clearance for the transmission.
We'll be able to bolt that up.
We're just getting it primed up.
We got 60 PSI right now on oil pressure,
so we're ready to fire this thing up.
I'm gonna call Joey and have him come over and unlock it,
and then we'll be able to start it.
[Joey] Basically, turned off security.
Had to, uh, change spark and airflow
to make sure this thing will idle
with the new camshaft in it.
Joey came and he put the initial tune on it
so we could get the motor cranked up.
[revving]
Hell, yeah!
The good thing is it starts.
It's coming a long way,
but it still has a long ways to go.
[Shorty] Got another car out of the shop.
That car was in desperate ne of some help.
So we went and gave it to Raymond.
Shorty, Joel, what's up, man? Looking good, man.
[Joel] How's it nice to see your car back?
It's nice, man. I've been waiting for it, man.
-The sun's perfect to drive it. -[Shorty chuckles]
I wanna drive right now.
[Shorty] Joel can show you exactly, everything he did for you.
[Joel] Jump in there.
-Aw, man. -Isn't it great?
I can already see the kick panels, man.
He's missing the biggest point he came in for!
-He's not saying anything... -[Raymond] Yeah, but you could buy this.
But this right here, this is custom, man.
-You can't buy that. -This is handmade, man. You know what I mean?
-[Joel] Custom-built. -Custom-built, man. That's nice.
Raymond wants to hear the music.
[rock music playing]
-Sounds good, bro. -Loud enough for you?
It's loud enough. I think I can hear it, man.
Man, I was very impressed.
I mean, the time Joel took on it, it made it look really nice,
and I was just very, very satisfied
with the job that they did.
I'm gonna have to take care of them now,
make them look good.
-What's up, cuz? -Getting it done, man.
-Ready? -Hell yeah, I'm ready.
What's going on, man?
-You all right? -Good to see you, brother.
The passion for having old cars,
classic cars and stuff like that,
I guess we share the same passion.
Joel and Junior did a great job.
I couldn't be happier with what they did,
and in the process, we got cleaned up, Joel.
[Shorty] We have our final d on this Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.
It's all hands on deck right now, this car,
'cause we don't have much to go,
so we gotta get it done.
All right, good.
[groans] Oh, man...
There you go.
Perfect.
Yeah, we have to line up about 30 different bolts on here
that are screwed into the dash,
and then we have to come in from the back and put nuts on them.
So, it's, it's a pain in the butt.
But we got it lined up. That's the hard part.
It's looking good, man. It's looking real good.
Go ahead and go down.
Right there.
Damn, Shorty.
Look at that, man.
You got a little quarter-inch gap
all the way from top to bottom.
-The gaps are great, man. -Yeah.
We're good to go.
Nice and tight.
I'm really excited to show it to Vardon, see what he thinks,
and I think it's gonna be awesome when he sees it.
What's up, man?
-What up? Yeah. -Good to see you.
-How are you doing? -Good, how are you?
Good to see you, man.
Y'all excited?
-Oh, man, so excited. -[Vardon sighs] Yeah.
I'm like, at a loss for words, to be honest with you,
'cause I didn't even know it'd get to this point.
You know, we know we got him 100%.
-Oh, 100%. -Sold it.
But you, on the other hand,
I think it's gonna be a big transformation for you,
from what you had done to what it is now.
I think you might even pass out.
[Pete] You dropped off the car.
You were like, "Hey, y'all know what to do."
The crew has busted their rear to get this car done,
literally down to the last second.
It's just the anticipation of it,
'cause I already know it's gonna be off the chain.
-Y'all ready to check it out? -Let's do it.
-Y'all excited? -Yeah, I gotta get my...
-[Pete] Okay, cool. -Just gotta get my legs moving.
[Neel shouts]
Yes, let's do this. Let's do this.
All right, Junior. Open the door!
-[engine revving] -Ooh! Already hear it.
[Vardon] For real?
-Oh... -God, with the pinstripe!
[Neel screaming]
[Vardon laughs]
Shorty pulls out, and it's like...
I was expecting some excitement, but damn.
I mean, these guys were excited.
And the, and the paint job!
Ooh, and the Supreme!
-Man... -Look at you, man! Why did I sell this car?
-[chuckles] Nicely done, my friend. -You all right, man?
Nicely done.
-Oh, my God, Shorty! -[Neel] I'm having some seller's remorse right now.
-What's up, brother? [laughs] -Oh, my God!
[Shorty] I didn't even know how to act,
by the way, uh, they reacted to the car.
What do you think, man?
Man, I love it. It's clean. It's classic.
It brings it out.
Let me show you what, uh, what we did under here.
Oh...
[Joel] So, what you guys are looking at
is a 5.3 LS engine,
tricked out just a little bi
Got a Stage 1 cam painted by Shorty.
-[Vardon] Wow... -They're nice and clean. What do you think?
I'm afraid to even drive it.
-This is ridiculous. Y'all are cold! -[chuckles]
Oh, my goodness!
It's nice to build a car to represent its owner,
and this car screams Vardon.
You got bling, the car got bling, man.
That's blinging. This is way blingier than me.
Let me show you the interior.
So, you got a two-tone, weathered-looking leather.
Same design flow on the, uh, door panels.
There's new carpet, wrapped the dash for you.
[Vardon] Oh, man.
[Shorty] Um, made it look just super clean.
Let's walk around the other side
and, uh, you can sit in it.
Man, this is clean.
It's amazing.
The thing I like most about it
is I like the paint job.
I like the way that the stripes accent the car.
They're not racing stripes, so to speak.
But they just give it a good accent,
and to me, they make the front end.
But no, this is like, bananas!
[chuckles] Dream Shop did it.
-[Vardon] The Dream Shop and Shorty. -The Dream Shop did it.
Shorty and his team did an amazing job.
-You guys ready to go for a ride? -Yeah.
[car starts]
-[engine revs] -Dang.
-[Neel screaming] -[all chuckle]
That thing has some, uh, some kick to it.
It's a little scary at first
because it has a lot more power than I expected.
-Damn, Shorty. Whoo! -[Shorty chuckles]
I feel like a little kid.
This is so awesome, Shorty.
[Shorty] Well, I'm glad you guys like it, man.
It doesn't hit you over the head...
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-...but it's still catchy, you know? -Yeah, yeah.
[Neel] They're gonna see you in one of the hottest Cutlasses around.
They knocked this out the park. Beautiful.
Beautiful all the way.
Cutlass is back!
[all laugh]
We're checking out his door panel.
He's got that Western look on there.
We're gonna try to put something together on these boots.
[all laughing]
-There you go. -How about like this?
[sighs]
Junior, can you give me some toilet paper?
Hey, Junior, I need some toilet paper!
-There ain't none, look. -[chuckling]
Go bring me some.
-[cow mooing effect] -[men laughing]