We found the Holy Grail of Volkswagen panel vans.
Dude, this is a unicorn, man.
Put it in gear!
All right, we got some rot on the floor.
I can see a few bubbles down here on the rocker.
[Charlie] Cut it out. Try to get down to bare metal.
[Shorty] We're gonna completely sandblast the van.
It's a little bus, but this is a heavyweight right here.
This show is called the C10s in the Park.
This truck belongs to T-Money.
This truck has to look really good.
It's gonna represent all the guys here at the shop.
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 the team that builds the coolest cars on the road.
We make dreams...
-Wow. -[Shorty] ...come true.
[all exclaim, cheer]
So, where are we going, Shorty?
It's another special day, Pete.
You know, I don't even know much about this particular vehicle.
I mean, I've seen them.
But, you know, I didn't know they were really rare, really special buses.
-You know? [chuckling] -[Pete] You talking about old classic bus, Volkswagen?
I love the Volkswagens, man, they're nice.
They're something different. They're very unique.
Very hard to find.
-Keep your fingers crossed it's in good shape. -[Pete] Okay.
And if it's in good shape, then we hit the jackpot, I think.
-Beautiful place too. -[Pete] Yeah, it is awesome.
-I mean, look at that. -Yeah.
Yeah, really nice.
[David] My name is David Garrett.
They call me Flipper Dave
because I buy and sell a lot of Volkswagens,
just as a hobby for some fun.
-What's going on, man? -How you doing, Dave?
-Good. You all right? -I'm doing good, man.
-This is my buddy, Pete. -Hey, how you doing, man?
-Nice to meet you. You got a beautiful place, by the way. -Nice to meet you. Thank you.
[Shorty] It's awesome out here, man.
-Got a bunch of cows and horses and... -[David] Yeah.
-I think that that's probably what we came to see, right? -Yeah. Yeah.
So, I picked up this bus a few years ago.
It's a 1960 double door panel.
I've had this one stashed away for a while.
Just kind of didn't know what to do with it.
-[Shorty] My buddy Eliot, he's a big VW fan. -[David] Yeah.
And Eliot has one of the biggest collections of VWs that I've ever seen.
-[David] Yeah. Yeah. -[Shorty] And so, he wants to add to his collection.
Hopefully, we'll make a good buy for Eliot.
-You mind if we look at it, David? -Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah. Just look around.
Absolutely, check it out.
[Shorty] And as far as like, rust, it looks like in decent shape.
[David] Yeah, I don't think there's much rust, if there's any at all in this.
It's a real nice, straight bus.
You know what's crazy about it? You have doors on both sides.
[David] Yeah, so this is what they call a double door.
So, the doors open on this side and they open on the other side,
which makes it more rare than a normal panel.
[Shorty] It's crazy. That's a very unique feature.
-You don't have no extra parts or anything? -I don't.
[Pete] So, whatever's in here, that's it?
-This is all I have for it, yeah. -Okay.
All this is clean right here.
-I like it. -You like it?
I like it.
-I do, too, man. -[Pete] This thing is killing.
And I'm thinking that if Eliot doesn't want it,
-we'll keep it. -[Pete] I'm thinking the same thing.
'Cause it's a really cool bus.
I'd like to see you guys get it.
Eliot's a pretty big collector, I hear, so...
How about 10,500?
Will 9,500 work?
[David] No, man. Let's just do this.
You're not gonna find another one of these.
-This straight, this clean. How about $10,000? -[cow moos]
She's saying $9,500.
-[David] 95? -[Shorty] The cow says, "Sold."
-All right. Sold. There it is. -[laughs]
-All right, man. Hey, appreciate it. -Thank you so much, man.
Thank you, David. I appreciate it, man.
-[metal clinking] -[men grunting]
I think we scored pretty good.
[Pete] I'm excited about it.
Regardless, we're building this thing, if it's for us or Eliot.
We're good!
Have I ever introduced you to Eliot?
I've never met him face to face.
But I've always heard his name around the shop.
[Shorty] We're headed back to the shop with the panel van
to meet up with my friend, Eliot.
I have a feeling that when we sees this thing,
he is gonna love it.
You know, I think, at this point, he owns about 60 plus VWs.
Along with other stuff.
You know, he has other cars, but he's a big fan of VWs, man. He loves them.
-You got the wheels right there? -Yeah. Got it.
-'Sup, boys? -What's up, Eliot?
-Right here. That's... -You found one, dude!
Dude, shut up.
Does that mean you want it?
I'll tell you what, when Eliot got here and I saw his face,
he came walking in like, you know. And then, when he saw what it was,
he looked like a crazy man going from side to side of the van.
That's a double door.
You didn't tell me you've got a double door, dude.
-You said you found a panel. -Whoa.
Hey, man, I don't know much about these things.
So, what did we find?
Yeah, I gotta explain what you got.
'Cause this is... Dude, this is a unicorn, man.
This is a double door, swivel seat.
-Did y'all notice that the front seats swivels? -[Shorty] No, uh-uh.
You roll up, swivel the seat,
go out, go left, deliver some clothes, go right, deliver some clothes.
We found the Holy Grail of commercial Volkswagen panel vans.
The way I figured is like, we couldn't go wrong with it
'cause I like the shape that it's in.
So, I told Flipper Dave, I said, "You know what?
We're taking it regardless even if he don't want it."
-'Cause if you don't want it-- -Ah, I know where this is going.
[laughing] No, this is mine, dude. Are you kidding me?
-[Shorty] So, you want it? -Yeah. Yeah.
-Definitely want it? -You sure?
Come on, do I have to wrestle the big guy? What's up?
-I've never seen one. -Really?
-Like, this is the rarest of the rare. -[Shorty] Wow.
So, we did great.
I've wanted a panel van to logo up.
'Cause you know I'm building the new shop,
-you know, over there at the house. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I wanna put my logos on it.
And I want this to kind of represent the shop.
Right. What's your idea for this?
[Eliot] My plan is, I wanna get this thing down on the ground.
I wanna get it low. I wanna give it that stance,
just where it looks like a little bread box
floating in the air down the street, you know?
What I'd like to do, 'cause you know we got
a little fabrication shop down the road,
and we love that part, we love the mechanicals and so,
we definitely wanna come over here and help out,
and we'd like to maybe, like, build the motor and stuff like that.
That's kind of what I was hoping.
Bring your crew, we bring our crew.
Quantity wise, I probably got more cars
than probably anybody in the country, Volkswagen wise, for sure.
And I've never seen one of those in person.
They hit a homerun.
All right. Well, we gonna get in the shop.
And I'll get the boys over here and start tearing it down.
-Thank you. -All right, brother.
-I love it. -Thanks for letting us do it for you, man.
Thank you so much. We gonna get this thing on the road for you, man.
[Shorty] So, we have a new build in the shop.
It's a '60 Volkswagen panel van.
And we're about to tear into it,
find out how many worms are in this bucket.
And the van's got several areas to be concerned about already.
So, one of the areas that kind of concerns me the most,
we got some rot here on the floor on the front.
So, I'm going to get Raul over here.
Get him started on drilling out the spotwelds
and finding out what all we gotta do
to repair this area right here.
We're gonna completely sandblast the van.
You guys know that when you blast the car and you get it back,
sometimes half of the car just disappears at the end of the blasting.
Hopefully, it's not the case with this one.
So, there's another spot over here that we're concerned about.
And I think that Charlie is gonna tackle this spot right here,
see what we come up with.
From what I understand, this is very common on these panels
because they have the battery, it's inside this corner here.
So, the battery acid tends to corrode this corner.
I can see a few bubbles down here on the rocker
and they go all the way, all the way over.
So, this area right here, we're gonna wait till we blast it.
For now, Charlie and Raul are gonna tackle some of the areas that are rusted.
And we'll get the blast over here and see what else we can find.
After that, we'll see what Eliot wants to do about paint.
You know, Eliot's the King of VWs.
Now, the only task that we have for him
is to get this van looking... muy bonito.
[Charlie] It's pretty beat up.
Somebody tried to do some fiberglass repair on the damage here.
Get it fresh and cut it out.
Get rid of all that old fiberglass and the old repair.
Try to get down to bare metal.
Give me a good starting point for my piece.
Got my piece here to put in in my little corner
and just kind of go from there.
[Raul] I'm just taking the pedals off.
There's a bunch of little things I have to take off,
just so I can start cutting.
I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna take the steering wheel shaft off.
'Cause it goes through the floor.
So, it has to come out.
The shifter on the e-brake has to come out.
And after I take everything off,
it's just gonna go real smooth.
[clanking]
You gotta look at all the different layers, you know?
And cut off what you need.
There's a battery tray, it's got a flange on both sides,
all the way around, on the front, it comes down in here.
The template, I'll get it on here.
And I'll probably drill it to the piece and cut it off and put it on.
It's just a matter of getting everything off
so we can set this on there correctly.
[Raul] The floor wasn't that bad to take out.
But I got a little challenge,
whenever I put the new one in,
this thing's gonna be in my way.
So, I'll probably get Joel to help me out,
take this thing off the e-brake.
And then, this part,
it's like a vent that goes through.
So, I probably...
unweld it and then put the floor and then put it back in.
Hey, Joel. Got a little question over here.
-The only question that was like, does it matter what... -Nah.
-It won't matter because we're gonna have to reset it anyway. -Okay.
-Boy, your tearing into this thing. -Yeah.
-Looks good, though. I mean, so far, so good, huh? -Yep.
We got our piece on.
And it looks like it's all nice and lines up great.
And it's just trying to peel everything back to get to the source,
and start from there and work our way in.
It's just time-consuming old metal,
rusty, disintegrating.
Hopefully, there's something left after we sandblast.
[Shorty] We've been working on Terry's truck here in the shop for a while.
And C10s in the Park event is coming up.
You know, we've got to get this truck done and looking really good.
This truck is gonna represent Terry,
but it's gonna represent everyone here at the shop as well.
Yeah, so what we're doing is
we're gonna put a new suspension on this truck.
A whole new QA 1 suspension.
And I've gotta take this rear end out.
Joel's gonna knock out the interior on my truck,
all the new steering components and everything,
putting a sub-box in the back and covering it.
Then making those door panels, kick panels really look nice.
I'm a "get'er done" kind of guy, you know?
I'm gonna get it done, you know?
If I need help, I'll call one of them, basically. So... [laughs]
[Shorty] But let me tell you, man,
don't get too front heavy.
[Terry] I got the jack stands under.
Man, and don't forget that the jacks are under there,
-before you start... -[Terry laughs] Letting it down?
-Yeah. -[Shorty] 'Cause it won't be no more Old Blue
We'll help Terry where we can on the truck.
But the panel van still needs a ton of work.
So, Terry will be on his own.
We'll see how that works.
-[Terry laughs] -You too, man.
[Terry] All right. I'm gonna go get that jack
-and get that... -I'm just come here to look. I'm just looking, man.
I appreciate you coming by and checking up on me.
-I'm just... -I know you just, what it is, he just misses me
from being over at the other shop.
I felt like I lost my hand or something.
-You're not over there. -[Terry laughs]
-I know. I know it, Shorty. -I ain't got anybody to mess with.
Hey, you gotta get this rear end pulled up today.
-Today! -I'm going to get the jack right now.
-Hey, Junior! -[Junior] What's up, man? What do you need?
[Terry] Come over here and help me get this rear end out real quick.
Won't take but a second.
-What you need, man? -[Terry] Just hold that in right there,
and I'mma lower it down. Yeah, it's kind of off balance a little bit. Here we go.
We gonna just roll it back, Junior.
Man, I don't know what you'd do without me.
[Terry] I got this far without you.
-[Junior] All right, man. We'll get back to work now. -[Terry] Get to work, dude.
[Raul] Yeah, we're looking great, man.
I got all the old floor out.
I got the metal prepped.
We'll weld through primer.
I sprayed some black where they're not gonna be able to get some paint on the frame.
Yeah, this is our piece.
I prepped it, it measures right.
The new panel has a hole, so,
think I got enough room if I could just stick it in.
Just set it and weld it and call it a day.
-I'll take this. -Yeah.
Thank you, just...
-All right. There we go. -Yeah.
Well, now all the holes, they're in the right place.
So, I just push it in.
Give a couple of taps and it just worked.
And, man, it looks fine.
I got it. I ain't scared.
Put it in gear!
My friend Reed is coming out to sandblast the van.
Me and the guys are pushing the '61 panel van around the front to get it blasted.
Well, almost everybody. Joel is driving.
Hey, can we go faster?
[Shorty] Watch the wall over here, now.
-I can't see the wall. -We got it.
I mean, this thing's kind of cool to drive, Shorty.
-[Shorty] It is? -[Joel] Yeah, it's like a minibus, man.
[Shorty] Yeah? Well, it might be cool to drive, but not to push.
I'm sorry, dog! But can y'all step on it?
[Shorty] I'm glad you're enjoying the trip, Joel.
[Joel] I am, man. This is badass.
I feel like I'm cruising the boulevard.
Reid's about to sandblast the van.
The reason we're doing this process is to reveal
all the bad areas that could be wrong with the van.
Also, it speeds up the process and it gives us a lot less work to do.
Right in the center, Joel.
My name's Reed. I'm the owner of Reed's Abrasive Blasting.
I go everywhere from I strip them...
cars or any surface down to bare metal or bare brick,
whatever surface it might be, getting it prepped for the next stage of its process.
[machine whirring]
It's important to sandblast a vehicle before you do any fabrication or bodywork.
This process allows you to start off with a very clean canvas.
And it also reveals everything that we need to replace on the car.
-What do y'all think, man? -It looks good from right here.
Golly! What happened right there?
[Shorty] Well...
Hey, look. We kind of knew that was coming, right, Charlie?
Yeah. It was already kind of poking its head out.
Yeah, I don't really think that this kind of revealed any more than what we thought.
I think, all in all, it turned out great.
I mean, I think Raul and Charlie just have to finish up
whatever's left of the metalwork.
And then, proceed to the bodywork.
So, we just got our VW bus blasted.
So, I'm stoked.
We have a ton of work ahead of us still.
Guys are gonna finish doing all the sheet metal.
And then, onto the bodywork all the way around it.
And then, just the hammering on it.
and trying to get it finished.
Well, you saved us a ton of work, man.
-I appreciate it. Thank y'all for having me. -A ton of work, man.
-Thank you. -We appreciate you coming out and...
-Looking forward to the next one. -Yes. Thank you.
[Charlie] I got most of my piece cut out here.
This is good metal,
so I kind of leave it for now.
So, here was the pieces that were on it.
Pretty much rotted out and no good, you know?
That's what happens when you have, you know,
a 60-something, 62-year-old car.
Next step would be, I kind of come in here and treat this area.
And I'll fasten my piece to here
and come back and cut it out.
You know, it makes for a tighter fit, a cleaner fit.
[Raul] Well, I'm just setting up the rocker.
So, there's a outer and a inner.
So, the inner has to get welded to the outer first.
And then set up to the van.
I'mma do a couple of tags, go fit it.
And then, clamp it down.
And then, if I like it, I'll take it back off.
And then, just weld the whole inner to the outer.
And go from there.
We're done with the rockers right now.
All right so, Charlie's gonna grind down the welds for the rockers
and I'm moving on to bodywork.
[Joel] Working on the insert for Terry's truck.
He was wanting a design that's kind of simple,
kind of not too fancy.
So, we took the saw and basically,
just put these slits every two and eighth of an inch.
What we're gonna do now is wrap it.
So, when we're done, it'll look like pleats.
We're gonna get the truck ready.
And Terry's gonna look good out there.
The truck will make it. It's gonna be tight.
Maybe a few late nights, but I'm okay.
Just gotta see if Terry can keep up.
I mean, Terry's kind of old now.
We got our corner piece all welded in.
And so, it's all fitted in really nice and tight.
So, we're moving on over here to the damage.
There's a nice, big old hole in here.
Kind of cover this whole section right here.
So, I got it all tacked up and almost finished out over here.
So, nothing left else to do except cut this out.
And I get a piece to make a template.
And go from there.
It shouldn't be too hard, just a matter of getting a good template.
It's always best to have the best template you can have.
That usually equals success.
It's just easier to clean it when it's flat,
as opposed to putting it on the car.
You can get all the rust,
as opposed to putting it on the car and welding it on
and trying to come back and get that rust off.
Just marking off the center of the piece.
That way, when I line it up with my hole,
that way, when I'm starting to shape it,
I can start here and work my way out.
Here we got our do-it-yourself tabletop slip roller.
I got my piece here.
Got it marked off.
Gonna start trying to roll it along
and get it to the shape that we need for the van.
I'm just gonna slide it under here
and start kind of working it around.
So, we're starting to get our shape.
We're getting there.
Next thing to do is go put it on the van.
We got the rotted piece cut out.
Got my piece put in.
So, now I'm just kind at the point of just kind of finishing out the welds.
And then, grinding it down.
-Hey, Charlie, Raul. -Yeah?
I got you some reinforcements.
I like to bring interns into the shop
because it allows us to show the younger generation
the importance of this trade.
You know, we wanna keep this profession alive.
And the only way we can do that is bringing younger kids into the shop
and showing them the ropes.
Mr. Tyer runs the Paint and Body program
in Duncanville High School.
If we don't teach the kids that like this,
this trade might be obsolete in a few years.
Julian was in my class last year.
This year, he's in my class again, for my advanced program.
What you enjoy doing the most?
My top is probably block sanding, dry and wet.
[Shorty] I'll leave him with you.
Stick with these guys, you're gonna learn something.
-You say you know how to block. -Yeah.
Get your mask and put some gloves on
and let me see what you got.
What block would you use on something like that?
[Raul] Something soft, like this one.
Look, I'mma give you another little tip.
-You kind of just working this little area. -[Julian] Yeah.
But you gotta work the outside first.
'Cause what you're doing, you're just making a hole here.
Whenever you come back and work the edge...
-It'll be too high. -Yeah.
So, featheredge all the edge first
and then, start working in.
Right now, I'm showing Julian my method of whipping Bondo.
That's how I call it, "whip it".
What it does, it's not putting air bubbles inside of Bondo,
and then that's less pinholes on the car.
The way I do it is, I just kind of dip it.
So, I just go like that.
And then, straight. Not, not like that.
-Just straight. -[Julian] Okay.
-You see these spider kind of bending? -Yeah.
That's how you have to do it.
Whenever you spread it, try to featheredge it.
So, whenever you start blocking, it's easier.
Ah, Julian's doing pretty good.
Bodywork skills are, man, they're amazing
for a kid that's still in school so...
I hope he will take that skill and take it to the next level.
[Charlie] Man, it's a lot of roof.
A lot of Bondo.
It's just one pass.
There was a lot of little dents and dings everywhere.
You know, it started out, where it was only a couple.
Then, as I went, the more, the more, the more we found.
So, kind of chase you're tail if you're just wiping every little bitty one.
So, we decided to just kind of cover the whole thing.
I'm just gonna knock it down with 80 from here.
Find a couple dings, might cover those a little bit
and come back and do some guide coat.
You know, guide coat kind of shows you all your spots and stuff like that.
And I'll keep going from there.
And hopefully, you know, get rid of some of this Bondo on here.
You know, we don't want all this Bondo on here once we're all said and done.
[Joel] Right now, we are on the C10.
So, basically, you got the enclosure for Terry's truck.
And it's really tight.
We're recessing the speaker back,
so we have the proper clearance that we need,
so the speaker won't hit the back of the seat.
What's going on, Joel?
What do you need me to do, man? Just hold it?
No, no, no. Not just hold it, Hill.
-We're gonna do some sanding. -Okay.
-I'm ready, man. -I'm gonna do some wiring today.
I wanna put it together so you can see
-what we're talking about here. -[Terry] All right.
So, basically, that will reset the sub back.
And we'll be able to lay that seat back all the way, Hill.
-Sweet. -[Joel] Tiny little sub, man.
For a little square body with no room,
-it ought to hit though, huh? -It better.
I got the kick panels I made. Do you wanna go check those out?
-[Terry] Yeah, man. Hell yeah. -Let's go check them out. Let's go see.
-There's bodywork now, we still gotta do a little more. -Oh, yeah, man.
But it kind of gives you the concept of what we were talking about.
[Terry] Man, it looks real good, dude.
[Joel] Got your little insert in there.
It's away, so it opens up, you know, you still have legroom.
I mean, we're almost there, man.
We're almost there.
Anytime you're building a sub enclosure,
you definitely don't wanna have that kind of space
in between your holes and no support.
One of the things you can do,
depending on the sub enclosure you're building,
I prefer to keep the subwoofers in the same chamber.
In order to do that and still make this a brace,
what you'll do is, you'll cut little slots in this.
The enclosure's coming together really nice.
Putting the last board in it right now.
And, as you can see, we got our center brace.
We've measured the enclosure inside.
You do a formula and that's how you get your port for your cabin.
Um, in this case we were three quarters tall,
eight and a half inches wide, and eight inches long.
And that's gonna put the box around 32 hertz.
Once we get this port cut out, we could put the face down,
get this thing sealed up with some silicone
and we'll be ready to put it back in the truck.
You know, I'm excited to see how Terry's truck comes together.
'Cause at the end of the day, it represents Terry
but it also represents the whole shop.
[whistling]
Oh, yeah. That's it.
Check it out. Jump in there and see how you feel.
That's all the way back right there.
So, tomorrow, Hill, we'll start working on wrapping up around it.
Sanding it down real smooth and we'll start wrapping that first.
And then, we'll build around it and wrap the enclosure.
-[clicks tongue] It's gonna be sweet. -Sweet.
Man, I can't thank the guys in the shop enough,
you know, for all the help they've given me.
Still got a little ways to go.
Just wanna make sure when we're done, man, it really, you know,
represents the shop.
Hey, Shorty. Come over here.
Hey, look. I got a little crack here on the lead.
Come on, man.
-Come on, man. -I know we can't...
I know we can't put this thing in time by tomorrow. But...
Come on. Are you serious?
It's just coming right off, man.
And it's got rust underneath it too.
Look at all that rust under there.
Raul found some lead on one of the B pillars on the bus.
This has to be taken off
because lead tends to hold moisture in between it and the metal.
If we don't take it off, rust will get under there and will continue to rust.
And then, later on, it will become a problem.
Just go ahead, and might as well take it all off from over there.
Well, do your thing, man. Don't let me hold you up.
I thought we were done, but, man, little things are coming up.
On old cars, well, they used to use lead instead of Bondo.
It's on the B pillar. While I'm doing this,
I'm melting the lead out.
Sometimes, you open up a can of worms.
And thankfully, we didn't open up a can of worms.
It was like, it was old lead.
So, now we can just move forward, get it all out of there.
We're gonna wirewheel the rest.
So, now that the lead's out, now I just gotta weld this in,
do a little grinding, do a little bodywork on top.
That's it. Easy.
We have the panel bus in the booth, prepping it for primer.
But we can't do it the normal way because of its size.
As you can see, this bus, it's a little bus.
But it's punching back hard. This is a heavyweight right here.
Can't really spray it all at one time.
As you can see, the way the roof bulges up,
and it would be really hard to paint the roof and everything else
and get a consistent finish.
We're gonna have to do it in sections because of the way the bus is.
We're gonna start with the roof,
and put some really heavy surface primer.
Once the roof is done, then we unmask it,
I mask up the roof and do the bottom part.
I've painted trains before. Imagine that.
So, compared to that, this is nothing.
I'm about to weld the side door for the van.
Yeah, man. I got my piece fitted the way I wanted to.
Now, it's just tacking all around.
Let's get to welding.
On this part of the repair, I'm using a little stud gun, a little demi puller.
So, I just put a little pen, weld it to the door on my low spot.
Get the little puller, stick it in.
There you go, it pulls the dent out.
[both speaking Spanish]
[in English] Good, good.
I'm just taking this dent out.
[Shorty] That's a hard area right there.
Yeah, 'cause you got these structural, all of the vents here.
It's looking really good. You know, these areas are a problem
for this kind of stuff because they open and close so much.
Why don't you try to do one right now, while I'm here and I'll hold it for you?
-Look at that. -There it goes.
-I think that's pretty good, man. -[Raul] I'll just clean it.
-All right, Raul. I'll let you get to it, man. -All right. Thank you.
-Let me know if you need more help. -All right.
Door's coming out pretty good.
I've finished the repair here.
And then, now I'm just fixing this little area.
It had a bunch of little stress cracks on the structure of the door
and it had a bunch of rust. It was kind of iffy.
'Cause these doors are kind of hard to find.
So, I had to fabricate a new piece.
I went to go check the other door,
so it had drain holes.
I measured the other holes, I put them in this door.
So, if you see it, it's like, man, like nothing happened.
We're getting it ready for the show this weekend.
This show is called the C10s in the Park.
And it gets jam packed.
This has become one of the baddest shows in the nation.
We have 1,200 entries and 1,200 trucks are there.
This truck belongs to the president, T-Money.
So, this truck has to look really good.
It takes a lot of stuff to make a car look good.
So, it's just a lot of grinding, a lot of hard work.
[Terry] Looking good, Short-dog.
Shorty's buffed the truck.
I've got to polish it some. He's kind of showed me what to do and everything.
We have to finish it up, clean the hell out of it,
put the trim on it, and get the wheels back and put them on.
Yeah, so we're about done with Old Blue here.
It's been a long journey. But it's looks really killer.
Got C10s in the Park coming up. I can't wait to get there.
Let everybody see and see what they think about it.
I wanted to do your truck just because,
you know, I think you're a cool dude.
You know, I like hanging out with you.
Your friendship means a lot to me.
You know, this truck, it's gonna represent
-a bunch of people here. -Sure, yeah.
[Shorty] You know, it's gonna represent me,
it's gonna represent you as a person,
and all the guys that had something to do with it here at the shop.
[Raul] I'm working on the panel van.
Door has a bunch of dents.
I'm using just a regular file.
Uh, I'm just putting on... I'mma put it on the panel,
just glide it,
no pressure.
'Cause you're not trying to take a lot of material off.
You just go over it,
and that will give you the highs and lows.
So, the darker grey, those are the highs,
and the lighter grey, those are your lows.
So, on this panel, I do have a big one over here.
So, I gotta work from the lowest to the highest.
This side came up.
So, now I gotta bring all this little dent.
So, you just work in sections, cut like a little third.
And then, another one.
The dent's coming out from the panel.
So many years doing it, it's just natural now.
It's just easy, man.
It's not gonna be perfect.
If you want this car, like, really, really straight,
every car, every panel, has to have filler.
The point is what the hammer is,
just the get the metal real close
so you could just use a little bit of filler.
So, you have to spend more time on the metal,
so you could use less filler.
Than just stacking the filler and making it straight.
[Shorty] This is a big weekend.
The show is coming up here in a couple of days.
And the truck, it's not quite yet finished,
but it will be finished.
And that's usually the way it is.
It goes down to the wire.
We're putting the side trim on Old Blue.
And that can very easily look crooked.
So, we gotta be careful.
When we stick this tape, it's very sticky.
So, you can't pull it back off
and it'd be worth a crap.
So, you got one shot, basically.
And that's about it.
-Yes, sir. -[Shorty laughs]
I think it looks pretty straight, T?
I mean, right now, we're gonna have, the trim is gonna go right on this line here.
So, we have about an inch and a quarter.
So, we can basically move it down a little bit, if you want.
I like where you have it, Shorty.
Clean up to that line.
This should stick it pretty good.
I would say to put this... Yeah, there you go.
-[Terry] Right there? -[Shorty] Yeah, just like that.
Let's unstick it. Put it on.
-Right there? -[Terry] Yeah.
We've been burning some midnight oil here the last few nights
just so we can get the jewelry put on it,
shine it up and get it ready.
[Shorty] We're at C10s in the Park.
This is the seventh annual C10s in the Park.
It's gonna be a great day.
And we got a big crowd already.
It's really early still in the morning.
We're about getting ready to get Old Blue out of the trailer
and park it in its spot.
There it is, Joel.
[engine roars]
How's everybody doing?
[all cheering]
The truck is an 87 square body.
We did a full paint and body on it.
Joel knocked it out again with the tunes he put in it.
He put new interior in it.
It turned out really nice.
I mean, this truck right now, you look at it,
you're gonna want it, if you like trucks.
Bodylines look perfect, the paint is perfect.
Got the stance dialed in just right.
Really love the way the truck's sitting.
Man, I love it. It don't get no better than this right here.
We got the truck delivered. So, let's test the audio out.
Let's let him hear it, okay?
I know he heard at the shop a little bit.
But not inside. It sounds great.
-I haven't even sit in this. -Yeah, let's see what happens.
[hip-hop music playing]
This your music right here too, Shorty.
[music continues]
It has a little punch to it. You knock your back off the seat a little bit.
Blue is amazing.
That dude did it.
Shorty killed it, man.
So, it's been a year and a half since I've had the truck.
Last year, I didn't have it here.
But, man, look at that truck in the sun.
When we first got here, it was overcast real bad.
And I was like, "Man, I wanna see it in..."
And then, you know, the sun just kind of peeked out and grew.
And I was like, "Oh!"
We haven't had gotten to see the truck out in the sun, out in the daylight.
We took it from the shop, loaded it into the trailer,
and got it out here.
You know, taking it out of the trailer and parking it in the sun for the first time,
it was like opening up that box,
and that diamond is right there, it's shining like a star, man.
And this was the star today.
It really was a shop effort, you know?
Getting it all done was just amazing for us to see.
-Everybody collaborated at the shop. -Yeah. Yeah.
You know, that's what happens when you have a good team.
We all come together,
and we help out our friends.
Shorty, Joel, Junior,
I mean, just really a group effort on getting this truck ready.
And it's just like a million bucks.
You know, I consider you part of the family.
So, it's not something that we did it
and it's going away,
and we kiss it goodbye.
Everybody's gonna get to enjoy it, like today.
I'm just glad we came out here, had a great time.
Had a great turnout.
You got about 1,200, probably over 1,200, trucks out here in the park.
Man, just look at this crowd. It's just amazing how many people came out today.
And I'm always blown away.
-This year was even better than last year. -Yeah.
I mean, hell, even Raul came out. I mean...
[all laugh]
Enjoying the day with friends and family, that's what it's all about.
This is why we do what we do,
you know, for events like this,
you come out, spend the day with the family,
you have fun.
I presented it today to my family, you know, number one,
and all my friends. Man, very special day for me. Really is.
T-Money's truck was a big success at C10s in the Park today.
But I have to head back to the shop and show Eliot the progress on the bus.
-[Eliot] What's going on? -Hey, Eliot. What's up, buddy?
Man, you got another badass ride, man?
[Eliot] Yeah, boy. That's my Doka.
This is my shop truck. I had to bring you some parts.
[Shorty chuckles] This is your shop truck?
Now, who's that little kid over there, man?
Yeah, that's Jax.
[grunts]
Hey, boy.
-I wanted to show you... -[Eliot] It looks awesome.
-I have the suspension literally set-- -Just on the hubs.
Yeah, on the hubs.
And even though it's a little bus, man, that thing is high.
-[Eliot] It is, man. -You put the wheels on it,
-that thing's way up there, man. -Way up there, man.
Now, I got these things up here. We can crawl up here.
The bodywork, we blocked the hell out of it.
And now, I'm on my second round of medium build primer.
Okay. I know you can't tell really, right now,
-but, man, it looks awesome. -I think it's gonna look really good.
I'm gonna wait till it dries, and then untape it,
tape the roof up, and then do the bottom.
-"Then do the bottom"? -Because it's impossible to do the inside and out,
-and the roof at the same... Man, that's crazy. -[Eliot] Yeah.
As you can see, Eliot,
-look, we got the bodywork done on all these panels. -Yeah.
-Straight. -[Shorty] Yeah. I mean, it's gonna be nice.
As you can see, even on the area there were... there's no seat.
-It was a little bit banged up. -[Eliot] Right.
I thought you wanted them to look nice.
Yeah. I want it to look really nice, yeah.
And then, we did a little bodywork on the floor.
-We didn't get carried away. -[Eliot] Right.
Let's get this, you know, decently straight.
But I'm putting a rubber mat in there anyway because I'm gonna use this thing.
-Okay. -[Eliot] These things weren't perfect from the factory.
You'd have seen all the spotwelds and all the things, you know what I mean?
And then, you know, obviously, we put on the new rockers.
-The new bottoms there on the quarters. -Where it was rusty, right?
-Yeah. -The progress looks really good.
The bodywork looks insanely straight,
which is what I want.
They weren't that straight from the factory.
But if you're gonna redo 'em, do 'em right.
And Shorty's doing it right.
The roof, you could tell, he got that thing straight.
-How was the front end, dude? -The front end wasn't too bad.
It's a big area.
Especially like, in here.
It was, you know, kind of like this, and stuff.
It doesn't have much filler.
But it's still gonna be nice and straight.
How are like, the window channels?
-[Shorty] Window channels were great. -Isn't that crazy
this thing was sitting outside all that time?
Yeah, this is about as worse as it is right there.
-Yeah, that's nothing. -You know, for the primer.
We didn't have to really get up in there as far as bodywork.
The bus had a ton of work.
So, we still have a ways to go.
The good news is that Eliot was really happy with the outcome of what he saw.
I am really excited to get this bus finished.
I think that the way Eliot had envisioned and told me he wants it to look,
I just can't wait to see it on the road.
But we still need to prime it, paint it,
mechanical, interior,
a lot of things.
Hey, man!
Shorty, what's going on, man? You got it ready?
-I'm ready, Shorty. -[laughs]
I'm ready to get this thing on the track.
I'm not gonna...
-[both laugh] -Have you looked in the mirror?
-No, but... -You might wanna go and look at yourself in the mirror.
I'm used to looking at people in my rearview mirror, you know what I'm saying?
-They gonna be in my rearview. -You've been watching too much Speed Racer, man.
-See, I was born to race. -[Shorty] Goofy, man.
Goofy guy.
Number one!