All right, we ready?
[Tony] 1966 Chevy Nova Super Sport.
So, there's bubbles everywhere.
Look how this paint just keeps coming up.
[Pete] A paint body shop nightmare.
[Todd] This motorcycle here, CR250,
and Steve McQueen had one of these.
Start it up!
Man, that's fantastic.
[Shorty] My name is Javier,
but most people call me Shorty.
I was born in Mexico,
and when I was four years old, 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...
-Wow! -...come true.
[all cheering]
[Shorty] Check it out, man.
I got a friend...
Uh, you know, I know he needs work on this car right here,
so we'll see what he's up to.
I feel like I've been driving for...
-My God, you need some stretches, man. -...10 hours.
-Let's go see, Pete. Can't wait. -[Pete] Let's go see.
[Shorty] Tony is my friend.
He's a car guy, as well.
He knows his stuff,
so I'm very curious to see what he's got for us.
-How you doing, Tony? -Good, good.
Tony, how you doing? I'm Pete, man.
-Nice to meet you, Tony. -Good, nice to meet you.
Well, you know what we came for.
Uh, where's that at?
It's stuffed away inside here.
[Shorty] Well, I guess the one that we talked on the phone about,
that's this one that's covered up?
[Tony] It is covered up.
-We had to... -[Shorty] Well, let's see what we got.
So, we're in the garage,
and there's something under a big old tarp,
and I'm assuming it's the car that we came to see.
But I don't know if I wanna see it,
'cause he's got it covered up.
All right, we ready?
[Pete] Are you ready?
[Shorty] Oh, man, I don't know if I'll ever be ready
for this moment, Pete.
Well, I can tell already with the tarp,
whatever was under there had no glass.
-Uh, I feel like it ain't have no doors. -Yeah, because you see the...
[Pete] Let's check it out.
Let's see what's under the tarp.
We might run.
-We might run. -[both laugh]
-That's what I was worried about. -Try to take the other one.
Yeah, that's what I was worried about.
Got a 1966 Chevy Nova Super Sport.
[Shorty] So, what happened, Tony?
You had this car like this for how long?
[Tony] It's been sitting in this condition
probably about six years.
[Shorty] Why? I mean, you just...
[Tony] I bought the car.
I wanted to have a, you know, a car like I had in high school,
and two or three guys told me of a shop over in Fort Worth
-to take it to. -Yep, yep.
So I took it there, told the guy exactly what I wanted,
you know, told him I was gonna die owning this car.
I wanted it nice-nice,
and, uh, he had the car, you know, same old story,
"I'll have it done in 60 days," and...
A year-and-a-half later,
we go pick the car up,
and, uh, it was, it was horrible.
-I, I couldn't believe it. -Oh, wow.
-[Pete] A paint body shop nightmare. -[Tony] It was.
I hated walking in the garage and seeing it,
and knowing how much money I had invested in it already, and time,
so we just covered it up,
and just out of sight, out of mind type deal.
-SS or non-SS? -[Tony] It's a true SS.
-[Pete] True SS? -[Shorty] True SS? That's awesome.
You know, this little Chevy II is a very cool car.
Tony just had a bad experience with another shop,
so we wanna make this right for him.
Tony's old school.
He's very particular in what he wants.
But we're gonna make sure we give him back a kick-ass ride.
So, is this the way you wanna keep it, Tony?
-Like, you know, just keep the original wheels on it? -[Tony] Probably so.
Probably just like you would've ordered one from the factory
with about all the options.
It was a 327, it's original 4-speed,
-pedals and stuff still in it. -[Shorty] Okay. Okay.
-I just love it. I'm ready. -All right, let's do it.
It's definitely a good platform.
I mean, uh, it has everything,
all the, you know, the body.
It's just a shell, okay,
but everything's there, you know?
I think we can take this clean canvas
and make it look like he wants it to look.
-Who needs a winch... -[Shorty] Come on.
...when we got Tony?
There we go.
Aw, man, look at that.
-Wow. -Let's go see what he brought. Blue.
-Y'all ready? -Look at that, boy.
-Damn. -'67 or '66?
-Little Chevy II, man. -Damn. Wow.
[Shorty] It was only three of us trying to put it in the trailer.
[Pete] Y'all keep on coming all the way out here.
That's good right there, right there, guys.
So, Tony mentioned he wants to go back in time and, uh, make it,
literally, he brought it back from a time capsule of 1966.
All the markings, everything needs to be back, correct.
The wiring, everything, back to original.
[Joel] What scares me the most, I guess,
is when he says, "Put it back to 100% original,"
it's like, "Hmm, that's pretty tough to do."
So, what about the trim and the grill,
and, like, do we have all that stuff?
Well, uh, he mentioned he has 90% of it,
but you know how that goes.
And then, 90% turns into 60%.
-[Joel] On the car already? -Yeah.
So we'll definitely have to get loaded up in the truck
and then try to find the rest of the pieces.
You know, we're gonna have to come up with new remedies to make this look old.
Absolutely, man.
The good will be that Pete comes through
and gives me exactly what I need to do
to get this car completed.
You know, the bad is trying to figure out,
you know, how to replace his engine
that this car doesn't even have
and try to make it look like it did back in 1966.
Shorty, we're gonna paint this one or what?
It looks pretty nice.
Looks like we just do a quick buffing, it's ready.
-[Shorty] A quick buff? -Yeah.
You like the paint job that's on it right now?
[Wayne] Yeah, it's pretty nice.
-Come here. Let me show you something. -[Wayne] All right.
[Shorty] I know that you don't see it,
but this car has been painted somewhere else,
and that's why it's here.
Check this out, 'cause there's bubbles everywhere.
-Oh, I see now. -Look how this paint just keeps coming up.
You see how I'm pushing on it?
-[Wayne] Oh, yeah. Yep. -That's just a big old bubble. Let me show you.
Look how long that bubble is,
and this car is full of that, all over the place.
So if, like, we don't catch that...
[Wayne] So they didn't prep it right, huh?
-Exactly. Even though it looks good to the naked eye... -[Wayne] Yeah, mmm-hmm.
...it's got a ton of imperfections on it.
-Yeah. -And this is just amongst the many that it has.
-He's debating on the color. -Okay.
So that's good, because, you know, I like this color.
Don't get me wrong.
But I would like another color on this car.
-Yeah. -I don't think this color...
-[Wayne] Don't feel it? -...does it any justice.
So, the plan is for us to be really observant
on what is sticking and what is not.
So if it's not sticking, we have to fill it
and we have to repair it,
you know, uh, however is necessary.
So, Shorty, what are you gonna do here?
We're gonna just, gonna weld these,
weld a little rod up in here?
To close up this gap a little bit,
we'll, uh, clean it up,
bring it to Bare Metal and then add some metal to this
and butt it up to the door.
Next step is to, uh, you know,
get this car started and, uh, get it going.
We have our work cut out for us on the Chevy II.
We gotta get the interior done from PG,
and we have to get a new motor for it.
The car will not have its original AC back on it,
so we need to remove all the original components from the AC system.
There was all kinds of holes in the firewall, so we had to patch it
and gave it a super clean look.
[Raul] I did a little template,
just like kindergarten again.
Trace the line.
I'm gonna cut the template out and I'mma transfer it to metal now,
and hopefully, it fits.
Cut once, measure twice.
[laughs]
I just gotta trace the line with the grinder.
Go little by little,
fit it, and then cut more.
Make it look easy.
[Shorty] It's gonna be really, really difficult
for you to get it in there and butt it in.
So, maybe just trimming it a little more
and leaving it right outside the cut.
That way, you can fill it in right here,
and we just grind it.
-[Raul] So you want me to overlap it? -[Shorty] Yes.
-And then it'll look like it belonged there. -[Raul] Okay.
All right, here we go.
Come on up, yeah.
Come on up a little bit.
Right there. Perfect. Don't move.
All right.
Raul has this piece fabricated,
and now, we're gonna put a bead on it
and install it on the car.
So what kind of bead do you want it,
-just all around? -[Shorty] Yeah.
I think we'll make a nice, cool little bead like this, look.
Well, it ain't too bad.
-Make a nice bead and then start welding. -Cool.
What you got, Raul?
What you think?
[Shorty] I like the bead that we did on it.
Looks bad to the bone.
I think we're good, man.
That looks beautiful, man. I love it.
I'm just trying to see if I can fit this fender,
uh, really well,
get some good gaps out of it.
What are you doing?
Hey, man, I'm having difficulty with these fenders.
It really wasn't lined up like it's supposed to be.
For now, I'm just trying to make sure that it's gonna work.
Check this out, man.
-What do you see? -[Joel] Damn...
Is that rust?
How in the hell did that happen?
[Shorty] What it looks like to me...
They were having problems with it before,
and they sliced it and then tried to reweld it,
and then they, and then they put a little filler in.
So I guess you were moving it,
-and it, it broke even more. -I was, yes.
-So now what? -Well, I mean, that's basura.
It's basura, really.
This fender is absolutely not gonna work.
We don't have much choice.
We have to find another fender for the Chevy II.
We're looking for the seats for our, uh, Chevy II.
-[Pete] Yes. -And, uh, so we're gonna go
hunt the seats down for that car.
I'm gonna take you to one of my friends.
-His name is Todd. -Okay.
We're gonna go there,
and hopefully, those seats are the ones we need,
and, uh, maybe we'll hit the jackpot.
Todd is a great resource for locating OEM parts.
So he's the guy to go to
to get Tony's car looking like it came off the showroom floor.
Come in.
-[Shorty] What's up, Todd? -Hi. What are you doing?
You... You remember my buddy Pete, right?
-[Todd] Hey, Pete. How's it going, man? -What's going on, Todd?
-It's been a while, man. Amazing place, man. -Oh, yeah.
Yeah, right. Thank you.
[Shorty] You working on another
-one of your little projects? -Yeah.
This is a 1975...
...Suzuki RM 125.
-So, it looks like you just about have it finished. -Yeah.
-[Shorty] I mean, it... -Oh, yeah.
[Shorty] At least the frame...
I just got a few things left, yeah.
-...the mechanical components. -[Todd] Mmm-hmm.
I called you a few days ago
and asked you if you happened to have some seats, you know,
mostly the buckets for a Chevy II,
-like a '66 or '70. -[Todd] Yeah, I have some.
-Or a 70? -You think you might have it?
-[Todd] Yeah, I do. -[Shorty] You think we can go look?
Yeah. Let's go.
-All right. -Let's go check it out, man.
-Here we go. -Wow.
-Look at all these doors, man. -[Shorty] Oh, he can't wait to get in there.
[Pete] Let's see what you got in there.
[Todd] I have seats.
Over here, I have the Chevy II seats.
I think this is what you're looking for, here.
[Shorty] Let's see what you got for us.
[Pete] Oh, I can already tell. I can already tell.
I mean, we are looking good!
-[Shorty] All right. Well this... This is the back. -It's nice lookin'.
-[Shorty] This is the back bottom. -That's the bottom.
-Oh, nice. -[Todd] I've... Yeah, I've had these for a while.
That's the back top.
Hey, look. Does it look good?
Hey, it even still got the original liner on it and everything.
You got the... You even got the factory buttons on it
and the pads, you got the...
[Shorty] Yeah, but you know, we're gonna redo it, Pete.
'Cause you know, it's a different color interior.
So, we're going to have to strip the covers off of these right here.
So, what... what's the... what's the...
You know,
for that motorcycle that I'm building up there,
I do need a paint job for the tank and the fenders
and the side covers.
-So what you're saying is you want me to paint that... -[Todd] Yeah, I just...
-[Shorty] ...for the seats? Really? -Yeah, you just... yeah.
-Do that and take it. -Really?
-Yeah. We'll call it a done deal. -[Shorty] All right.
Well, what color is it anyway?
-Yellow. -Well, that's not a big deal.
I mean, I've done stuff for you before.
-Hey. I'll help you with that. -Well shoot man, I appreciate that.
-You'll help me? -[Pete] Oh, yeah.
Whatever it takes. If we have to stay late...
-...I'll help you. -Well don't forget what you're saying, Pete.
Todd and I, we... we hardly ever exchange any money on anything.
What he wants out of this deal is another paint job on one of his bikes,
so I'm glad to do it for him,
and then that's what we're gonna do.
-Man, I appreciate you doing that. -[Todd] All right.
I don't want 'em.
-I appreciate you doing that. -And we need 'em.
When it comes those seats, they were just sittin' there, collecting dust.
I really don't want him to know that,
but it kind of helped me in getting a paint job.
You showed us all the bikes.
-Are... Do you ride bikes? -Yeah, I ride one.
This... This motorcycle here...
It's a '74 year model,
and it's CR250, and Steve McQueen had one of these.
Start it up!
[Pete] Hey, he's a real rider, man!
Look at that!
-Man, that thing is bad to the bone, man. -[Pete] Yeah.
You did amazing, man.
-Here's the stuff. -[Shorty] All right.
-We'll let you get on with your day. -[Todd] All right.
-Thanks, thanks a lot bud. -[Pete] Thank you so much.
-Okay man? -All right, Pete. Thank... thank you.
-We'll see you sometime next week. -All right, we'll see ya.
All right.
-[Pete] Chevelle... or Impala, or... -[Shorty] Chevelle?
[PG] That's a Nova!
[Shorty] What kind of an upholstery guy are you, man?
We just got back from Todd's place with the new seats
for the Chevy II Nova that we're working on.
We're gonna hand 'em over to PG,
and let him do his thing.
[Shorty] What do you think, PG?
Original. Still original.
-[Shorty] Everything is really nice, the spring. -[PG] Uh-huh.
So we just got these Chevy II seats, and they look great.
The seats have a little bit of rust on the surface,
and we do have to get 'em cleaned up
and powder coated.
Hey, Easy. Got something for you not so easy.
Tony ended up changing his mind on the 4-speed,
and we're going automatic now.
So, this is the floor plate to the shifter for an automatic.
This is the standard now, so I need you to convert it
to an automatic transmission on this.
So, you're gonna have to make it look like,
-you know, it was never... -...it belonged here?
Yeah, it never was cut, so...
-No, yeah, I'll give it to him. -[Joel] All right, bro.
Hatch panel... fit there how I want it.
And right now, man, it's just time to weld, make some sparks,
and hopefully it goes good.
So, we were able to clean up the seats,
and you can see we got 'em painted.
And we... we're using the original pads,
and we're just gonna give it a little bit of a bolster feel to it.
Pick this back up and pick this back up.
I see a dip here...
...which we're gonna fill and try to even it out,
'cause it's pretty bad here.
Um, what I'm gonna do is just draw...
go ahead and draw the design, and that way we can go ahead and start getting pieces cut.
So, what I'll do is I'll draw one side up,
and manual transfer to the other side.
Trace out these lines when these two are married to each other.
They're put together, that way you know you have a center,
and you have this that's all gonna match and get cut.
Well, I think it's gonna look real good.
Manuel has already filled in that dip it had here.
And we both served this up 'cause it had a slope going that way.
We want to keep it nice and clean,
so we'll start trimming this off,
and get the right, perfect look to that.
I'm excited. I'm ready to get this going and...
...see how it turns out.
[Shorty] Hey, Pete. What's going on, man?
[Pete] Not much, man. What's up, Raul?
-[Easy] What's up? -[Pete] What y'all working on?
[Shorty] We're working on a little Nova here, man!
Oh, that looks beautiful, man.
Nice, simple and clean.
What'd you end up doing with the cap?
-[Easy] I have it over here. -[Pete] All right.
It looks like somebody's already messed with this in the past, though.
You see this, Shorty?
[Shorty] It's got the wrong rivets.
This right here is telling me that this is not correct on the car.
It's not something that we normally check,
but we trust that the owner has done their homework.
However, this VIN number looked like they had been tampered with,
so we had to take action and do something about it.
-The factory rivets are, like, unique. -[Pete] Yeah.
With the screws, it's definitely telling me that this has been altered.
Once you get to the VIN location,
you wanna make sure it's not coming back as a theft,
or as a lien.
-Hey, Shorty. -[Shorty] Yeah?
[Pete] Hey, Raul, check this out.
I think we got a problem.
Do we have a problem or Tony has a problem?
This is gonna be more like Tony has a problem.
[Shorty] That looks like the rivet's been changed
-on that too! -Yeah.
Second, you always wanna make sure that that VIN is to that car.
We have to make sure that we're working on the year that he's claimed.
[Shorty] Because there are two VIN numbers,
we don't know if the car is a '66,
and we don't know if it's stolen or not.
Yeah, so we have the theft unit come to check
the VIN number so we know that we can continue working on the car.
Let's take this fender off...
...and let's see that VIN number.
Being that we have a good relationship with
our local law enforcement here and our DMV,
if we run a number and it comes back
as a theft, law enforcement...
If they get ahold of that car,
then they repossess that car,
and it goes back to the owner.
Let's... Let's stop on this for right now, Shorty.
Because we happen to have to get one of our friends
here from the DPS and come down here
and help us out with this issue.
-[sirens wailing] -[laughing]
-[Shorty] How you doin', bud? -Hey.
So, Shorty and I are longtime friends.
Today, he's working on a car,
and he has a few different VIN numbers that don't look right,
so he asked if I could come take a look,
and of course I bring the best auto theft detective in the business
to come take a look and make sure it's on the up and up.
[detective 1] You say it was one
-in this side door here? -Yes, right here.
[detective 2] There's another plate back here.
The real VIN number is probably behind this plate.
Good news, the car is not stolen.
-Oh, good. -[detective 2] We were able to build the number
from this number that's over here.
'Cause this is gonna be what's gonna identify the vehicle.
So what... what kind of car is it?
It's a 1967 Nova II V8 SS.
Now, I feel more relieved.
We can keep on working on it now, and...
Car's clean, you didn't go to jail...
Now get back to work!
It's a win-win-win-win!
[all laughing]
I'll let Tony know so he can get started on the proper paperwork,
so he can get the correct VIN plate.
So we discovered that our Nova is not a '66...
...but it's a '67.
We called Tony and told him about the issue and the VIN number,
and he wants to go with the '67...
...which makes the fenders a little bit different.
So we've ordered some '67 fenders,
we're, uh, in the process of trying to fit 'em on the car,
and make 'em look nice, get some good gaps.
Thank God that we have the aftermarket industry
to provide us with something that otherwise we wouldn't have.
There's just not that many junkyards anymore,
that you can go and just hunt down
any of these parts that you want.
The gapping is coming along.
Uh, I have to do a little bit more
than what I, uh, was anticipating.
And my fender wasn't quite, uh, fitting.
It could be a combination of a lot of things.
So, at the end of the day, I had to cut this off.
I'm gonna have to make me some room on the fender,
about an eighth of an inch.
So I can move this backwards.
That way I can push the fender in
and line it up with the door.
And I... And I can have me a nice clean gap up here.
There's nothing like opening a fresh batch...
...of primer, man.
We got the new fenders for the '67 Nova,
so right now I'm just sanding the fenders down,
doing body work, then we can get to the car and primer.
Aftermarket fenders, they don't come perfect.
So you have to body work the fenders.
If you see where I sand down,
So, I have to do bodywork on him,
and it has to fit the car real nice.
Over here by the door,
I'm gonna do a little thin coat here,
and sand it down, that'll make it perfect.
We got the fender lined up to the door.
I'm just gonna sand a little bit more in the gap
and then it's ready for primer.
Joel.
What's up, man?
I'm running out of options on trying to find this motor for this Nova.
You got anybody in mind that could probably help looking?
[sighs] Man, did you try, um, you can try Adrian.
He's probably gonna be our last option.
-Let's go see. -[Pete] Let's go!
For this Chevy II to be like it's from the factory,
we're gonna need the right motor to make it complete.
You know, Pete's ran out of options are on the small block,
so, we're gonna head over to my buddy, Adrian's,
and see what he's got.
If he doesn't have it, nobody's gonna have it.
Yo, Dre!
[Adrian Gonzales] What's happening, man?
-You all right, brother? -You met Pete before?
-What's going on, Pete. -[Pete] Nice to meet you, Adrian.
My name's Adrian Ramirez,
work for Bishop International, I'm the sales manager.
He's looking for a period-correct engine,
you know, it's one of those needle in a haystack,
but, you know, we can always accommodate our friends.
[Pete] We're looking for a 327 V8.
Joel says that you would have it.
[Joel] The question is not having it,
the question is is he gonna wanna give it up?
-Yeah. Yeah, definitely. -[laughing]
[Pete] So, 327.
I believe I may have something stashed in the back.
Man, I hope so, man.
Let's go look and see.
[Adrian] We're gonna take a look at it, man.
Check this out, man.
[Joel] Get in there and check those numbers, see what you think.
[Pete] Boy, look at that.
All right, that's it.
Boy!
That's killer, man, I love it.
[laughing]
Adrian, I appreciate it, man, thank you so much.
-[Joel] That's it, man. -[Pete] Amazing.
I can't wait to get it back to the shop
and call Tony and let him know that I got it.
-I can't wait to see Shorty's face when he sees this. -I know, man.
Tony rebuilt a 327 V8 small block,
exactly what we were looking for.
Tony's gonna be stoked about it.
I can't wait to call him and let him know.
[Shorty] Come on in, Tony.
Let's check out the progress on your car.
[Tony] It looks good! Really good.
There was a few body line discrepancies before,
you know, that they had some problems with,
with the shop before, he straightened all those out.
Whole body lines look real good.
Can't wait to see it in paint.
We, we did some work on the radius of the moldings.
So they fit good.
The blue, you know, is what I always had in my head
that I wanted to paint it.
I always thought, "Man, that is the coolest car I've ever seen,
I want one of them cars,"
and decided I was gonna turn it into that car I always wanted.
I wanted to show you what, uh, what we came up with.
I know that Tony wants the car blue,
but he also would like to have the car
as it was when it came off the showroom floor.
It's important for him to know what the original color was
so he can make a decision.
-Check that out. -[Tony] Oh, yeah.
-Look at that. -[Shorty] Where they took the vent off of it,
the back side of the one that was on here
-stuck through it because they glued it. -Gotcha.
-'Cause they glued it... -It got separated.
...the back part of the other one separated
and it got stuck on it, but as you can see,
-you know, we got metal... -[Tony] Yeah.
...and then we got red.
[Tony] We do.
So, red is the original color of this car.
So, now's your chance to paint it real.
[Tony laughing]
You tell me and we'll do it.
The car was red.
Flip a coin.
[laughing]
Tales red, heads blue?
Tales red and heads blue.
[Shorty] Red it is.
Look, tails.
Let's do it.
It was a tough decision, wanting it blue,
and then find out it's originally red.
-Red? -Red.
All right. Let's do it red.
[Tony] It's a good looking red.
It's hard to beat a red car
when it's as striking as this one's gonna be,
so, I'm happy with it.
What's up, Shorty.
PeteCasso!
[Pete] I'm here.
Pete said that he was gonna come in
and help paint Todd's motorcycle.
I'm nervous, man.
You're one step further
to someday becoming a good painter.
Here are all the parts that you prepped.
So, what we're gonna do now
is we're gonna clean 'em really nice.
Very important that your hands are clean.
Really clean without any body oils on 'em or not.
Those oils, you'll transfer them to the rag
and then you transfer these oils to the parts.
Let me tell you something,
Pete ain't never painted his whole life,
but he said that since he knows how to sand
and got the motorcycle stuff ready,
Pete's ready to paint, he's a pro now,
he's like Terry.
You know, every time they do one little thing, they're pro.
All right, Shorty, I want you to look at something real fast.
My arm touched here and then I got spot right here.
-[Shorty] You see what I'm saying? See, look at that. -[Pete] Yeah.
[Shorty] That's bodily oil,
you can't have that, so, we gotta wipe that again.
You ever see the little bubbles that come on a car?
-Them bubbles everywhere? -[Pete] Yeah.
[Shorty] What are they?
-Rust. -[Shorty] Rust.
-Rust. -Because the oils will turn that into rust,
and the rust will come up through the primer,
through the paint, through the clear.
Now you go turn on the paint,
-and we'll be ready to start. -All right.
Yeah, this is the making or the breaking of PeteCasso.
Now get the hose.
See what I do.
Good.
Peter.
So, this is not a room.
So, when you start...
...facing a panel,
you always wanna make sure you give even coverage.
You see what I'm saying?
Uh...
...he's got a long way to go.
And, you know what, he's gonna get the hang of it one of these days,
but not today.
We're putting the final touches
on our Chevy II before we put it in the booth.
Just going over it really good,
make sure we got everything sanded down and prepped.
Damp areas really don't get a whole lot of attention.
No one likes to sand the jams.
It's just tedious and a lot going on,
a lot of crevices, so, it's really hard to,
to sand, you know?
Every little crevice of the car deserves...
-...love. -And love usually equals a lot of time.
[Shorty] It's all in the detail.
Cars have stories.
You start working on a car and they wanna tell you,
they wanna tell you their history.
Me and this car have had many a conversation, man.
-You and this car? -[Shorty] Yeah.
You'd be surprised what all they got to say.
Damn!
Putting it into the booth is a big step.
This is one of my favorite steps of doing a car.
It's time to get down and put some primer on the Chevy II.
This is kinda pretty much gonna tell the story
about how good of a bodywork we did to it.
It's a ton of steps,
and this is just in the really ready to paint process.
If you want the reward, you gotta put in the work.
Nice.
Hey, guys, Shorty wants us to get the Chevy II
-over there so we can rock it. -All right.
Man, they're all over there laughing at you, man.
[Shorty] Y'all ready?
[horn blasting]
Are you guys ready to start sanding?
[Joel] Yeah, we're ready to start work
before our food, man!
Are y'all about done over here? We got the grill.
[Joel] I'm gonna do y'all some burgers and chips today.
All right!
[Joel] I hear the fire!
That thing's fast, man.
[laughing]
Another successful block party, Joel.
Chevy II is gonna be ready for paint real quick here.
That looks great.
You feel it coming, man, 'cause it's, uh, it's ready.
-[Shorty] Let's eat, guys! -[Joel] Let's eat, guys!
[Shorty] Come on!
Mmm!
Noel, good job.
[Noel] Appreciate it, brother.
[Shorty] We have the Chevy II in the booth.
If it's in the booth, it's either one of two things.
It's either getting primered or getting painted.
In this case it's getting painted.
I'm brewing up some badass red
for our '67 Nova.
This is what I call spicy.
Check that out.
So, this is my sealer.
As soon can see, it's really close to the color.
I'm gonna put down some sealer,
and then I'll put down some base coats,
and then it's clear coat time.
I think that the color turned out very spicy.
Muy bonito.
[Joel] Is something burning up in here or what?
Man, it's hotter than hell in here, Joel.
[Joel] Damn!
[whistling]
Let me honest, you know, I'm not crazy about red, but...
You like this one?
Oh, I like this one.
-I mean, it don't even look like the same car no more. -No.
I love it.
I know you like red.
I love it.
But, man, it's going to you, Joel.
So, I hope you're ready for it.
This thing's gonna be pretty sweet, man.
Period-correct motor,
nice harness, beautiful paint job.
Came in, um, pretty much empty,
so, at this point, we're gonna pick and choose
what we get to put back in it.
It's always better to control all that.
It really helps in the end
because we know what we're trying to get and achieve.
And it just helps out really starting from fresh.
Can't wait.
It's gonna take a little bit, but we'll get there.
As you can see, these are older looking style,
but they're actually brand spanking new.
These are super cool. I mean, I love these.
Old but new.
[rock music playing]
Ah, man. These things are the real deal.
-I mean, feel how heavy these things are, man. -Damn, man.
[whispers] Look at that.
-It's got some weight on it. -Yeah, it's got some weight on it.
And they look like the originals.
You would never be able to tell
that they are brand new, digital gauges.
Like, if you look at them with the light going into 'em.
I mean, look at that. They look factory.
Junior's looking and talking to Tony about getting me some pieces.
We'll mock it up just to make sure.
You know, we'll take the two so you can knock it out.
Pet, he's got some more work on the dash.
As soon as he's done, we can get these gauges in.
Man, Tony's gonna love 'em.
Alright, man. Well, I'll be waiting for it.
I have Raul and Charlie hanging the fenders on this car.
After that, we'll move on to the trim.
And then, motor and transmission.
[wrench cranking]
[Junior] I'm getting the small block for the Chevy II installed.
We're gonna get it fitted and then, get some bolts in the motor mounts.
New motor mounts seem like they want to fight me a little bit.
So I'm just trying to get them lined up.
-[Raul] There you go. Turn it, turn it. -[Junior] Right there?
[Raul] There you go.
Alright, motor's in. Time to connect it.
[Joel] Well, we got the transmission in the '67 Nova,
and normally we would like to prefer a lift.
-[metallic creak] -Keep coming, you guys.
But in this case, we have so much going on on this car,
we have to do it here on the blocks.
And I don't know if it's Raul just giving me his good luck or something.
'Cause man, me and Junior usually do this
and we fight these transmissions to go in,
and I don't know. He just touched it and it went into place.
That's that. [chuckles]
We are down to the wire on our Chevy II.
I'm doing some intricate polishing.
And a lot of you will probably say,
"Well, you know, why do you have the emblem on it?"
And you can do it with it off,
but we are in such a tight schedule right now to deliver this car
that right now we're just doing some final detailing on it.
So everybody is grinding and trying to get it done.
We're getting ready to shoot glue on the '67 Nova back glass.
Um, some people like to shoot it on the car.
I prefer to shoot it on the back glass
to get it out to the outer perimeter,
make sure it makes good contact where the paint swelled
all the way around so no leaks, air noises,
any glue squeeze out, something like that.
[Joel] It's kinda tricky doing this, man.
Yeah, it's very, very, uh, fragile.
[Pedro] So, we got most of the interior done.
This is what we came up with on this design
and I think it looks pretty badass.
It's a crazy day today.
We got the whole crew trying to get this car together.
A lot of pieces. We got consoles, arm rests, sun visors.
Everything, the whole nine yards.
So, we're excited
and I can't wait to see what it looks like against that red.
[rock music playing]
[funky music playing]
[motor revving]
[tires screeching]
We're hanging out in the shop and we hear a loud noise.
Big ol' exhaust system coming through
and it's Todd and that bike.
[motor revving]
-Look at this guy here. -Look how fancy that is.
-[Todd] It'll be cool with that smoke coming in here. -[Shorty] Hell yeah, Todd.
-Man, that's a bad motor scooter. -That's badass.
-What's up, Todd? -[Todd] Crazy, right?
Crazy.
But behold, it looks beautiful.
Why? Because I painted it.
-Yeah, it looks good. -[Todd] Yeah, I know.
I just wanted you to see what something finished looks like.
'Cause you know, Pete-casso helped paint it.
-Yeah. -[laughing]
I was worried. I saw him pull up
and I was like, "Dang, he brought it back."
[Shorty] The paint looks beautiful, man.
That looks better than when it was new.
-[Todd] It does, doesn't it? -And that RM is from 1975.
-So is that the first year of the RM? '75? -Yeah, that's a very first.
Wow, man. That's awesome, Todd.
So, how much is something like this when it's all done, Todd?
You know, anywhere from $7,500 to $10,000.
-[Shorty] Really? -[Pete] It looks every bit worth that though.
Well Todd, we appreciate you bringing it
so we can see the finished product.
Alright, you bet.
-Alright, Todd. We'll see you, brother. -I'm gonna load her up.
You sleep like a baby tonight.
[motor revs]
Everything is done on Tony's '67 Chevy II.
All we have to do is fire the car up.
[engine stalling]
[engine sputtering]
We got a... The timing's off.
These timers? I tell ya.
No way [speaking Spanish] No way.
Yeah, you know, they sure...
You know, these cars originally come with a point system
which is a totally different system than what we got right here.
And, you know, this is a graded system
where the problem is it's big and it won't turn
because it's up against the firewall.
We're gonna kind of go back to the old system
where we can use a smaller shooter
so we can get the rotation we need to get this motor timing
and it'll just work better.
Uh, you know, it kind of feels like we're on a racing team right now.
I got all my boys here and we're getting it done.
-No, seven's in this one. -In that one right there?
That's a five. That's an issue too.
[engine stutters]
Alright, alright. You're alright. Calm down. Calm down.
Pedro, take over, man.
[engine sputtering]
-[engine starts] -Yeah!
Holy [bleep]
[laughing]
How'd that sound?
Catch me outside with that, boy.
The motor sounds great. The car looks great inside and out.
It looks nice and sharp and clean.
So now, it's time to show it to Tony and see what he thinks.
We're about to show this car to Tony.
And we're just gonna do one little final thing under the hood here.
We're gonna spice it up a little bit
to give a little more color.
Got some southwest boys, man.
-'Sup, brother? -You doing alright?
[Joel] They must be up to no good today.
-You guys are ready to see it, huh? -Yes, sir.
-Ready. -Let's walk over here.
It's hard to believe that today's here
and I can actually get in it, start it and go.
Hey Pedro, why don't you go and knock on that door, man?
Get Shorty to fire this thing up.
He's got it, man.
[knocking]
-[engine starts] -Open sesame.
Yes!
[engine revs]
-Look at that bad boy. -What you think, Tony?
-A little different, huh? -Is that the same car, Tony?
-No. -[laughs]
-Sounds good. Looks good. -Yeah.
[Tony] It is kinda shocking having to see it all together
and actually rolling and moving, you know.
It'd been sitting over in the corner for so many years.
-What's going on, Tony? -What you do, man?
-[all laughing] -What do you think, brother?
[Tony] Man, that is fantastic.
[Shorty] Tony saw the car.
He looked at me and I looked at him and I knew.
-[chuckles] -He loved it.
Seats are great. Beautiful.
[Pedro] That's all PG.
[Tony] It's modern and classy.
I like that dash too.
It's got the style of the old 60s bows,
but all the modern material.
This car started out wanting to be an original off the showroom look.
But then, he made a lot of changes.
You know, color changes, power crank changes.
[Joel] Alright, Tony. So here you go, man.
There's your small block with a fresh look.
It looks clean, don't it?
How 'bout some grey?
And he just added this pinstriping and just gave it that touch.
[Tony] Then there's these belt covers, it looks great.
I mean, when you open it up, it doesn't scream at you.
Sure, yeah. It looks really clean, professional.
You gotta see these gauges, man.
-Oh, yeah. -Let's see 'em.
So these things are just incredible.
[Tony] It's got that original look to it,
but all the modern technology
-and much brighter, of course, than the original. -Oh, yeah.
As the bill went on, you know, things started to evolve and change
and it just evolved completely from what I thought it was gonna be,
but I'm extremely happy with it.
[Shorty] At the end of the day, from what he told me,
he loved the car, he likes the stance.
He likes everything about it.
-Man, we hope you're satisfied and happy with it. -Yeah.
You guys exceeded the expectations.
The paint, the body work,
the body lines, everything is amazing.
You couldn't ask for better work anywhere.
This thing has sat in my garage for years
and years and years under tarps.
It's gonna be nice to get in it, turn the key and go.
[engine starts]
[Junior] Check it out, man.
-[laughing] -What's up, PG?
-Damn. For real, PG. -That's nice.
What the hell's going on here?
Just thought to see if he could join the club with this gold chain.
Hey, they're over here clowning around.
-Oh, dang man. -That's heavy.
I can barely carry it.
Whichever one of y'all seal the deal,
I was gonna let y'all wear my chain.
-No, no. I'm alright. -Hey, I'm good.
Yeah, I'm good.
-He sealed the deal. -[laughing]