Oh, hell.
[Shorty] Torino GT.
[man 1] There it is.
[Shorty] Iconic 351 motor.
Looks really good until you start looking at it really close.
We're gonna have to strip it all down.
It's aggressive...
Go straight down. We're in.
[engine revs]
[man 2] Whoa! See that?
Wow. Gorgeous car.
[Shorty] My name is Javier but most people call me Shorty.
I was born in Mexico...
[engine revs]
...and when I was 4 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.
-[man 3] Oh, damn. -[man 4] My God!
[Shorty] We make dreams come true.
[all cheering]
So, check this out. Today we're gonna work on a Ford, man.
-We just don't do very many Fords. -No.
So, I'm excited about that.
I believe it's a '71 Torino.
-Morning. -[Shorty] Good morning.
Good to see you again. How are you doing?
This is my... my buddy Joel.
-[Joel] How's it going? -Mr. Simpson and Richard, right?
-[Shorty] You got a nice place here, Mr. Simpson. -[Danny] Thank you.
-[Shorty] I love it, man. Look at that thing. -[Danny] 1928.
[Shorty] So, they... they run, huh?
They all run. Richard keeps them running.
He's got a lot of really nice cars in there.
Aside from having a lot of Mustangs, Shelbys and Cobras
he also has a Model T and some Model As.
-What year is this one? -'30.
-[Shorty] It's a '30? -[Danny] Got a seat for
-[indistinct] -[Shorty] A rumble seat?
What is this one here, Mr. Simpson?
The 1922 Ford Model T Speedster.
101 years old.
Whatever they built these cars with they made sure that it was gonna last.
Now, if you look at the suspensions and stuff like that
it's all made out of steel, it's all thick.
And it's wood. It's got wood in it, too.
[Shorty] And it's... most of the wood was badass wood, Joel...
-[Joel] Yeah. Crazy. -...like ash, like oak.
What's amazing is that they're here still today...
-Today. -...almost a 100 years old.
Your collection is amazing, Mr. Simpson.
-It's got a lot of history. -Got old... Got old and new.
Mr. Simpson, uh, where is the Torino?
[Danny] It's right around the corner.
-Here it is. -[Shorty] There it is.
-[Joel] Look at that. 351, huh? -[Danny] 351.
When I graduated high school
I went to Denton and bought one that looked just like this.
I've been searching for one, I found one
that's almost exactly the way that mine was.
Were you heavy-footed?
I mean, 'cause that's a lot of power for back in the day.
Think I got 11 tickets in one year with it.
-Eleven tickets? -[Danny] 11 tickets.
[Shorty] By the looks of it it looks like it runs.
-[Richard] It will start. -It will start?
So, Mr. Simpson, what are you looking for as far as, like,
how deep, you know, are we gonna get in this build?
I wanna go ahead and finish the engine out 'cause it needs fuel injection.
Needs a windshield, it's got scratches on the windshield.
Do you wanna keep the graphics that are on the side or no?
[Danny] I do wanna keep the graphics on the side.
Okay. And then you obviously wanna go back red?
Red. Red, red, red.
Let's back it out and get it in the trailer for you.
This car is killer looking.
Nice race-y look. Muscle-y.
-Muscle-y. -Muscle-y car, yeah.
You know, nice interior. 351.
I mean, iconic motor.
[Richard] You guys wanna go for a ride in the old car?
-[Shorty] One in a lifetime chance. -Yeah.
I hope I don't fall out.
Oh, hell.
Cruise control and you ain't gotta mess with the throttle down there.
Cruise control?
[Danny] Y'all look like Bonnie and Clyde.
[Shorty] What a ride, man.
We got to drive a 1930 Model A and a 1922 Model T Speedster.
Put it into manual. So, here, to go forward.
And then, to go backwards. And brake.
-That is unique. -[Richard] Throttle.
And I'll tell you what, they sure didn't drive like they were 100 years old.
They drove pretty darn good.
[cows mooing]
[whistles]
[Carl] Oh, shoot, what do we got here now?
-What we got, Short dog? -[man 5] What we got? What we got?
We got a surprise.
[man 6] Oh, man, look at that.
Torino, huh?
[Shorty] Not just a Torino.
-A GT, huh? '71. -[Shorty] '71.
Technically, this is a 1971 Torino GT.
They didn't become a Gran Torino until 1972.
But I'll tell you what, this one here is pretty grand to us.
I love that car, man.
-I love the way it looks. -Hey, man, I think we can just wash it and
give it back to him and say, "Look what we did."
I can't stress how much relief I got when I seen that.
I said, "Finally, I get a car that doesn't have that much body work."
[Shorty] Basically, we just have to go through it,
make sure everything is functional. Obviously, paint it.
Hey, PG, uh, check it out, man.
So, we're making a... a nice little console...
-Okay. -...for the car.
I think this Torino is... we're gonna have some fun with it.
It's... it's a little different and it's a Ford.
We have another badass car. It's a '71 Torino GT.
It's got the race-y body. It's got the racing graphics on the sides.
It's a GT, so, it's the car that was made in those days,
uh, to kinda compete with a Chevelle.
-I mean, this is as Ford as you can get, right? -Pretty Ford.
I mean, this is a pretty cool muscle car.
You know, 351 Cleveland in it.
Carl and Joel are gonna do a fuel injected setup on it.
[Joel] I mean, it runs pretty damn good,
so, the running part's the... the low end of this build right here.
Now, the body... Looks can be deceiving, boys.
We did notice that it has a little bit of rust,
you know, around the bottom of the car.
What I really wanna do is wash it so I can make a template
out of the graphic that's on there now.
That way I don't have to struggle later on and look at pictures.
We get to use that brand-new pressure washer on it, Shorty.
Yeah, we just bought a brand-new pressure washer. [exclaims]
[machine whirring]
The plan today is, uh, to start tearing down into this Torino.
We're gonna get brother Carl in here.
Get all the stuff from out of the engine compartment
that way we can get started on the car.
I think we absolutely need to pull the engine out, replace everything.
-After that... -[Carl] Reseal it.
...and then we'll paint it up, make it look good.
I think once, you know, we paint the engine compartment black,
-put the motor back in, I think it'll look better. -Absolutely.
-[Joel] Let's do it. -[Carl] We got it.
[Carl] What about the windshield washer hose?
-[Joel] It's good. -[Carl] All right.
We're going on this dolly right here.
-Pete, I mean, you're just in time, bro. -[Shorty] Just the guy, man.
I was gonna ask you, what's up with the chicken hat?
Oh, chicken hat?
He was supposed to get me a Ford or a Chevy or
I don't know, he just got me this, so...
I mean, I ask him about a chicken hat
and he starts talking about a Ford and a Chevy.
I'm... I gotta go downstairs.
-[Shorty] Downstairs? -[Pete] Yeah, it's more cooler down there,
so, I'm gonna go over there.
[Shorty] That thing is too hot.
[laughs]
He went to the basement. [chuckles]
You know, we joke about, you know, we're all Chevy guys, you know
we're not really Ford guys or whatever.
Know a lot more about Chevrolet than I do this Ford.
Fords have different bolt patterns on the back of the block
where they bolt to the transmission, they've got... their motor mounts are dif...
You know, there's, there's stuff that's different but it's...
All the same stuff applies.
It'll be fun to get it done and see how good it runs when it's all injected.
Go up a little bit, Hill.
-[Terry] Go up? -Just a little bit.
[exclaiming]
-[Carl] There it is. -There it is, now.
Bingo.
Come on up some more. Keep coming up.
All right, T-money, it's all yours.
I think the next step should be, let's go ahead and debadge it.
Once you take all the trim and chrome off of it,
and then once you get done doing that
-we'll go to the next step. -[Joe] All right.
So, what I'm gonna do now is just mark everything so that when we remove
I'll be able to put it right back to the way they were.
[drill whirring]
Got them bad knees.
-Look at that. -Yeah.
-[Shorty] Come on, vatos. - [Pedro] Right here.
[Shorty] So, on this one here, the first thing that we gotta have
-is we gotta have it stripped down. -[Pedro] Uh-huh.
-You know, so we can go ahead and do what we gotta do, so... -Okay.
Mr. Simpson wants us to make a console,
so, we gotta rip out the carpet and get the front seats out.
We got some power tools right here.
So, I got some new help in Ralph over here.
Hopefully, we could change the dress code a little bit
'cause that cowboy stuff, he'll have to be at the stockyard
riding a bull over there or something, the rodeo, so...
That's where I'm headed after this.
He's going to the rodeo? So, is he riding a bull?
-No. -A mechanical bull.
They've probably got a little smaller section over there
where we could put you on a bull.
-They got a miniature bull section? -Yeah, yeah.
You'd be surprised. Man, I can ride one of them big horses.
-Yeah, I'll show you. I'll show you. -[Pedro] All right.
-That's a bet right there. -[Shorty] I can ride. I can ride, PG.
-[Pedro] You ready? -[Ralph] Yeah.
How you doing over here, brother Carl?
I was gonna get the battery and of course it's, uh,
starter solenoid, the canisters and,
I guess that hose is the stuff off the firewall.
For sure. Stuff that just gets in the way
of us, you know, uh, painting the engine compartment.
-Just all the loose stuff? -[Shorty] Yeah, just all the loose stuff.
-Okay. -[Shorty] That way we could
-clean it up and paint it in here really good. -Right on.
Ford, man, they liked doing their cars without frames. What was the purpose?
I don't know. Maybe saving some weight.
-[Shorty] Saving some weight, right. -Yeah.
This is a sports car, man.
How many horses do you think this car had from the factory?
This is a Cleveland. A 351 Cleveland.
And I think the four barrel versions were, like, 300 horse.
-That much? -[Carl] That much.
That's a whole lot of horsepower than I thought.
[Carl] This was definitely their muscle car at the time.
I bet it'd be fun to drive.
Oh, yeah.
-I'll let you get back to it, brother Carl. -Sounds good.
We've got the, uh, the 351 Cleveland out of the '71 Torino.
It seemed to run good and everything.
I don't know there was a whole... whole lot we were gonna do to it
other than just take all the accessories off of it,
put new gaskets and seals and everything
and then we'll kinda get a better look at what the inside of it looks like.
Hopefully, it's not too bad but you ne... you never know until you tear it apart.
The deal about the fuel injection thing is
is that they're just more efficient than a carburetor.
They kinda tune themselves, you know, as need be
and the air changes some, which the carburetor doesn't do.
-[Shorty] What's going on, man? -Morning. How are ya?
-What's up, Tommy? -[Tommy] Doing okay, bud?
-Nick, how you doing, buddy? -[Nick] Good. How are you?
[Shorty] You can see we kinda have it
-pretty much torn down all the way. -[Tommy] Okay.
We need the back glass and the front windshield pulled out of it.
-We don't do many Fords around here. This is one of the few. -[Tommy chuckles]
But like I keep telling everyone, we don't plan it that way,
-just... that's the way it falls. -[Tommy] Exactly.
-Appreciate you guys coming. -Well, I appreciate you.
-You called the right man for the job. -Heck, yeah. I know I did.
[Tommy] At the moment I'm spraying some glass planer,
it actually helps the blade glide through.
What's been used in this particular case
it looks like some butyl tape that's going all the way around the back glass here.
Here we go.
-Bottom? -[Nick] Coming up.
[Shorty] Mr. Simpson wants to keep this stripe but he wants it painted
instead of a decal.
I'm gonna make me a template. I'm gonna mark with a stripe ghost.
And then, what I'll do is, I'll mark how far it went from the wheel.
Right now, I'm spending a little bit of time
but in the long run it's gonna save me a lot of time.
When I come back I'll put this paper right here right on... straight on the line
and... and... and that tells me that this is between here and here,
and I'll be good to go.
We're working on the Torino.
It's not gonna be only best part, okay.
But I think it's gonna be the worst part.
You get close and you notice that someone
put a patch panel back here.
It looks to me like they used some kind of a spot welder.
That spot welder had to have been used on the outside only because
I mean, there's no way to get the other part in there.
We're gonna grind the rest of it.
I'll be curious to find out what's underneath this panel.
It actually came off...
like, from right here.
From this area.
And as you can see, it's got moisture underneath it.
That's why the repair went bad.
Eventually, the moisture got inside
and got between this panel and this panel.
When you're gonna patch something up, it's better if you cut it
and the try to butt the new panel on to the old panel.
These panels are put on top of the existing
and that's why the moisture got between the two.
If you butt them together there's no way that moisture can get underneath.
That's the advantage of... of cutting it completely out
and butting it in and welding it right on the seam.
You know, even though it's such a small layer it's very difficult
to make a panel that completely butt up around it just right.
If you made a panel that's gonna fit on this quarter
and you're gonna butt it up to this panel,
this panel is normally pretty flimsy.
So, what I like to do is I like to cut one-inch strips
and I like to put them underneath.
What that does is allows me to cut a panel,
it may have a little gap right in between it,
but I like that because that allows me to fill it in with weld.
What was on there before, uh, it was just...
it was just laid on top of the existing panel.
In this case, it's gonna be actually butted up.
It's gonna recess into it.
Sometimes you have to be really careful 'cause the
surrounding metal of where you cut
is also very, uh, sensitive, very thin.
But it looks like it's gonna work out really nice.
-Primo! -Just in time?
You're right on time, Primo.
So, pull the fenders off, one by one
-and when you get done pull the ends off of them. -Okay.
-Take it one step at a time. -[Primo] Okay.
I'm gonna try to finish before Terry shows up.
-Lea... Leave him a bone, Primo. -All right.
-T-money's here. -Here we go.
-Primo! -What's up? I got it.
Let me get you a stand. Put that on it so you can, uh, strip it.
Did you say he's gonna strip?
-Well, he's gonna strip the fender. -Oh, got it. Okay.
-Come on, man. Let's get it, man. -I'm ready.
-Yeah. Heck yeah. -Let's get it.
While he takes everything out, bags and tags it,
I'm just gonna strip the fenders of all the loose parts.
Uh, so I guess that makes me the stripper.
Right now, I'm pulling the decals off this Torino
just because we need 'em gone.
It's definitely a sticky situation.
Pulled off the decal this morning.
When the paint job starts coming off with the decal,
you know you did the right thing by stripping it down.
Not many panels did that.
The one door, all the paint started coming off with it,
but I do notice, the door has big cracks.
And that tells me that there's ton of body work underneath there,
so that's probably why the paint came off with the decal.
It actually looks really good until you start looking at it really close.
It has crow's feet all over it.
So, we're gonna have to strip it all down
and come back with some new material.
-[grinder whirring] -[rock music playing]
We're officially getting started on this
Torino is, uh, I'm gonna take the doors off.
Like any other old classic car,
once you start digging into 'em,
you start finding a bunch of stuff like this.
And there's been some, patch panels have been done.
So before I remove these doors, I gotta make some marks.
What I'm gonna do is just mark the inside of the highest pitch.
Mark the actual body line with a tape before I take the door off,
so that way I can compare it to the quarter panel.
This is why you drill these holes is, when you're done,
gap and everything, you drill these holes,
you get you some stick pins and you put 'em in there.
And this ensures that the door's going on
right back to the way it was
before you start disassembling the car.
Now that I got the door off, what I'm fixing to do is,
I'm just, go ahead and just buzz over the whole door with some 80 grit paper.
And there's some paint here.
I'm going to take that off as well.
[rock music playing]
Right now, I'm working, uh,
on the driver side quarter panel.
I've already finished the passenger side.
Shorty went ahead and replaced this lower rocker panel.
It was a little rusted out.
Now I'm gonna start applying my filler.
But before I did that, I went ahead and marked off my body line
'cause I wanna have a nice, straight, razor-sharp body line.
It'd be so sharp, you'll cut yourself on it.
[upbeat music playing]
[Joe] Ooh, ooh, ooh-wee!
So now, since I already got the body work done on the bottom here,
I'm gonna proceed with putting body filler up on top.
I'm gonna lay my body filler across this whole area.
And it'll make it a lot easier for me to block.
It's a big, big quarter panel,
so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna call upon my,
my good long-time friend.
Let me introduce you to him.
This right here's Big Bertha.
She covers a big area,
and being that it's flat, it'll work perfect for me.
Not only does it ensure that the body is straight,
but it helps tremendously to have something this big to block.
Everything is bigger in Texas. Even the blocks.
[upbeat music playing]
It's another good day. We're fixing to roll the Torino in the booth
and get the whole in primer.
We're all done with the body work.
I think Joe did a great job on it.
I'm excited. We need to get it in there and keep on going.
Well, well, just on time.
-[Terry] What are you saying? -[Joe] We already come prepared, man.
-We already got some gloves on. -Look at this, man.
Man, y'all are prepared, man.
Y'all take it slow, okay?
I think that's good, man. That's awesome.
Heck yeah.
[rock music playing]
[music continues]
We got our Torino in the booth and primed.
The car is ready to start blocking and wet sanding,
and then get the car ready for paint.
[rock music playing]
[Shorty speaks indistinctly]
Once we get this done, we'll prime it one more time.
And that means water sanding.
So that means block party time.
You want nice and sharp body lines,
and you make sure that the same line you have here
runs all the way through.
I call it the, "starching that line," you know what I mean?
Taking it to the cleaners and getting the starch really good.
[man 1] I think this is a lonely block party.
[man 2] A lonely block party?
Only me and you work. Where's everybody at?
Well, think you ought to hit that horn. Wake 'em up.
-Hey, call our own block party. -All right, go ahead.
[horn blaring]
[Shorty] They beat me to it, Joel.
Man, that horn went off by itself.
I don't know what happened.
[Shorty] I guess it's time to block that car.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, y'all been doing good, man.
Got all the back done.
-Sorry we weren't here to help you. -[man 1 laughs]
This block party, we're under a time crunch.
What else is new, right fellas?
-[man 3] Yeah. -[man 4] What else is new?
-[man 3] Heck yeah. -That's why we had to bring in the dream team, man.
These are pretty cool. I like it.
-I love it. -[man 5] You just don't ever see 'em either.
-Only on the movie, Gran Torino. -[Shorty] Yup.
Clint Eastwood drove up, and he's cool, man.
-[man 6 laughs] -He's a cool dude.
[Joel] We got Junior on the grill today, man. He's tearing it up.
He's damn good at it too.
Uh-uh.
[woman 1] This is our contribution to the block party.
[woman 2] Exactly.
-[woman 3] Is there anything else? -Yup.
When we get together for this kind of things, it's always...
It kind of rejuvenates you.
And then you realize what it's all about.
It looks delicious. Y'all come up, let's eat.
-Dig in. -Thank you, Romeo.
Thanks, Romeo.
[upbeat music playing]
[Shorty] Real pieces of onion.
[laughs]
Thank you guys for everything, and I look forward to the next one.
[man 7] Hell yeah.
-[man 1] Us too. -Cut.
We got the Torino in the kitchen
and we're about to put some color on it.
We got a beautiful red right here.
Uh, we're gonna go back with the same color the car had.
Danny was telling me about him having one of these
in his younger days.
He bought the car because it means a lot to him.
Danny will be excited,
uh, you know, to see some color on his car.
And I think no one's gonna be more excited than me.
This car has got a little Clint Eastwood theme, you know?
'Cause Clint Eastwood did a Torino,
so it's gonna make my day when I put this red on.
[rock music playing]
[music continues]
Oh, shoot, man, you got the,
-got some color on it, huh, Short Dog? -What's up, T-Money?
-On the Torino? -Yeah, man, look.
-[Danny] It looks great. -[Shorty] We haven't shot in any red cars,
but man I really like this.
[Danny] So you're getting ready to measure the stripes?
-Yeah, these are decals, you know. Yeah. -Decals, yeah.
[Shorty] I'm gonna put these back on it but with paint.
I have the templates that I made originally for the car,
but you know what? Once I got in the booth,
I got in the zone, I started laying down some tape,
and you know what?
I got it looking like it was from the factory.
Just a little trick, D.
I like to put a piece of tape right there,
and then another piece of tape...
-[Danny] Over the ends. -...where it ends.
Once you do that, then you can actually
-do this right here. -[Danny] Just set it down on top of it.
[Shorty] Just set it right on top of each other, and then you just, boom.
Gonna do the stripes back to their original look.
It should be seven right here.
Which it is.
And then it should be six back here.
Which it is.
Tape it up and get some color.
Start shooting paint on it.
[Shorty] We're in the kitchen. We're mixing up some ingredients.
These are decals.
Really cool-looking and fluorescent.
Uh, but we're not gonna put those back on.
We're actually gonna paint this.
Custom paint 'em on the car.
I wanna give Danny something a little extra.
I got all my colors here. They kind of gradually get darker.
I think with these custom colors that we're gonna put on it,
uh, it'll be just as nice, just as radiant,
so I think he'll like it.
[rock music playing]
Have it pretty close to what the factory is.
Just a little bit minor change, and that's it.
That's the thing. That's what's gonna set the car apart.
It's still gonna look factory,
but it's gonna have just little bit of change, that's it.
We got all of our graphics typed up.
And now I'm gonna mix up some black
and put the border around the black.
Once I do that, I unmask it, get ready for clear.
-[paint gun hissing] -[rock music playing]
[Shorty] We got the graphics painted,
and this is where the excitement begins
because this is where you, where you start to see,
you know, what you did and how it looks.
[upbeat music playing]
Check out the other side. Tell me what you think.
-Dang, man. -[emphatically] Sweet!
-[man 8] Hey, that's a decal. -[Joe] That's a decal. That gotta be a decal.
-[Shorty laughs] -[man 8] It looks good.
I should have this cleared by tomorrow morning.
By tomorrow afternoon, should have it out.
I should be shooting the motor tomorrow,
so the motor should be ready and painted, brother Carl.
-[Carl] Right. -So you can get it put in.
-Get going. -Get it going now.
[Joe] For assembly.
Today, we're gonna work on the '71 Torino.
We're converting the carburetor system to EFI system.
First thing we're gonna do is take the tank down and get it cleaned up,
and find a location for a new sending unit.
Truthfully, we need to be in this pocket right here
'cause I think we got more depth over there.
[Terry] It's always gonna lay in the tank like this right here?
Yeah, but if there's not enough depth,
it's gonna kink this line.
We'll just kinda see where it's at and go from there.
All right, so the next thing is to get it cleaned up.
[generator starts]
-[Joel] Okay. -[Terry] Yeah.
I've got to pop the hole in the gas tank
to add basically the new sending unit
and new fuel pump.
[rock music playing]
[Joel] Now we got the hole cut,
we're gonna use a magnet to basically get all of the loose debris.
Wash it out with some water and install our new pump.
This fuel assembly is set at 58 PSI.
Normally, there would be a return here,
but it's already set at 58 PSI.
That means it's gonna return the unwanted fuel
right in here, which keeps it all in the tank.
It's all self-contained right here.
They put this extra thick cushion here,
which is your seal,
and it seals even over ribs and everything.
Really cool design.
Hell yeah.
Right now, I'm gonna work on the motor color
for our '71 Torino.
I wanna go with kind of the original motor color.
But I wanna change it up just a little bit.
I thought it was too bright of a blue.
Danny gave me free range on the motor color.
Initially, I was thinking about maybe some bronzes, maybe some browns.
But Danny is a hardcore Ford guy,
so I decided to go with my own version of Ford Blue.
We're gonna start off with the blue, of course.
We got our foundation. We got our blue.
That's just a dark blue off the mixing machine,
and I wanna make it a little lighter.
I'll put a couple more drops of white.
Okay, this is what I want. Something like this.
When he opens the hood, gonna be that little diamond.
Right there in that box, just shining like a star.
That's what's gonna be.
[rock music playing]
[Shorty] Yeah, let's turn it around.
Got another duck in the kitchen,
put some paint in my gun and get going.
[rock music playing]
Drop it, Joel.
[Shorty] If we push straight down, we're in.
Push the front of this car a little higher in here.
[Carl] Let it down a bit, Shorty.
[Shorty] Before we tighten everything up, probably a good idea to look at it.
This hose and this setup was never designed for
any kind of high pressure deal like a fuel injection requires.
So, that's the reason we're gonna eliminate
this piece of rubber and these clamps.
Exactly.
It's gonna be blowing stuff everywhere.
Normally, a carburetor runs at
six to eight pounds of fuel pressure.
A fuel injection system requires, in this case, it's 58 pounds.
So we kind of had to upgrade the rest of the fuel system.
This new poly system has the fuel pump mounted in the gas tank.
So, it's actually, the whole system is now pressurized
from the tank itself.
[Pete] Today, my job is to build Mr. Simpson a console.
This is this front side wall.
This is the front plate where the radio goes.
Cup holders go to the back,
and this will be the armrest and storage.
If you could get that going, we'll get it to manual.
[upbeat music playing]
It's looking good.
We got the cup holders to the back.
We're going to leave it a little bit down.
That way, we could take this off with magnets.
Let's start putting it together.
[man] It'll be super glue.
Oh, yeah, I like that. Got the cup holders there.
And we got the radio.
So the console came out super.
Just need one more piece to be routed out and it's over to manual.
There's still adjustments we need to do to make sure it fits.
So what I'm gonna do right now, get it up in there,
make my marks cut if I need to cut.
And then, take it back to PG and get it wrapped up.
-[Shorty] How's it look? -It's coming' along good.
I love it, man. I think it's gonna look great.
[rock music playing]
Make sure you keep your hand in between the trunk and the car.
And look right here, man.
Joel and Ryan are up in the front.
Hopefully, we'll fire it out here in a second.
In the meantime, me and the boys are gonna work on trying
to button up all the little stuff here and there.
Hopefully, Danny'll be, uh, happy when he sees the car tomorrow.
That's what we want.
Is that drinkable?
-Yeah. -Yeah?
[Ryan] It's like an energy drink.
-Really? -Hmm.
-[Joel] Sweet? -Hmm.
-Tastes like crap. -Probably. [scoffs]
[engine starts, sputters]
[Joel] Oh, it ain't working.
Try it again.
Fire in the hole.
[engine starts]
[engine revving]
There we go.
All right, hold on.
A little more.
Well, at this point, uh, let's shut it down.
Let's, uh, let's get the guys up here and, uh,
let's make magic.
Y'all got a minute, we're gonna bust this thing up.
Let's listen to it.
[engine starts]
[cheers]
[engine revving]
Heck yeah.
-Sounds really good. -Right to the bone.
Sounds good. Joel. Nice and strong.
We don't do many Fords,
but I think anyone of us would love to cruise this car.
-Right, T? -Definitely.
-I think Clint Eastwood would be proud. -[man] He would.
-He would have said, "You made my day." -[chuckles]
-[man 1 exclaims] Boy! -[man 2] Right on, look at this.
[upbeat music playing]
This is the big day.
We're putting the final touches on the '71 Torino.
We've got everybody trying to finish up the car,
you know, Danny's going to be here today.
So we're excited, man.
[Pedro] We're working on installing the console for Mr. Simpson.
And we're gonna go ahead and start adjusting the seats,
installing the door panels, and getting it buttoned up for him.
Been doing this too many years and I can probably do it with my eyes closed.
[rock music playing]
You know, we're thrashing to the end to get this thing done.
Time is what we don't have.
The motor sounds killer too, man.
How are y'all?
Good to see you. How are you doing, Danny?
-Well, are you guys ready to see the car? -[Danny] Absolutely.
Ready to drive my car.
I've been waiting and waiting. I'll follow you.
[Shorty] All right, let's go.
Wow.
Can't believe it.
-What do you think, Danny? -Looks like a brand-new one.
Looks like when I bought mine in high school.
That is gorgeous.
It looks amazing.
Paint's wonderful.
Man, Shorty killed it.
The car's gonna look amazing because of the paint,
you know, when Shorty's the one doing it.
[Shorty] These are all the guys and they all pitched in
to get the car look like the one you had in high school.
So we just made a few little changes.
-The stripe, it's no longer a decal. It's painted on. -Beautiful.
It's gorgeous.
The stripes look beautiful
and I like the idea that it's paint instead of a decal.
You did a great job.
Perfect job.
[Shorty] We put a new windshield in the front.
-That other one was, you know, pretty far gone. -[Carl] Brand-new.
[Danny] Let's see the engine.
Shorty kinda updated the blue just a little bit.
You know, it's-- it's real close to the factory Ford blue.
It's this beautiful blue.
Never saw anything prettier.
I think we did a really good job cleaning up the engine bay
and, you know, brewing up my own Ford motor blue.
If somebody from Ford was watching,
I think that's the blue that they ought to use.
We installed VFI fuel injection system.
It adjusts itself, which is a neat deal.
It adjusts air fuel ratio, it adjusts the timing on its own,
and so, you know, it's just more efficient.
So you have your radio Bluetooth right there.
And then, the little pouch for your phone.
You got cup holders.
I think that the interior is really nice.
PG came up with a really simple but good-looking console.
It's just perfect for the car.
-You like the way it sounds? -It's wonderful.
Absolutely wonderful.
[laughs]
Thrilling to get back in it again, I can't wait to drive around town.
Thank you.
You can tell, in his eyes,
he was just kinda having little flashbacks of what it was years ago.
He could see himself in that time.
Thank you so much.
Gorgeous car.
You know, we're always trying to make dreams come true.
We're always trying to do our best,
and today, Danny got his Torino back,
and I think his dream came true again.
He's already wanting to give it a go, Joel.
[Joel] I see that, man. He's got a little racer in him, man.
We've got that long road in my house
-we can go along up and down. -Oh, yeah.
We'll take the 22 out and see which one wins.
-Depends on who's driving. -[chuckles]
Well, thanks, again, it was great. It was an honor.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
-Thank you, Joel. -You're welcome, sir.
Thanks, sir. Thank you, guys.
I think that the Torino body
is probably one of the most iconic bodies that Ford ever built.
It feels awesome seeing this Torino out in the open road,
the arm out, and just cruising.
I think Mr. Simpson is gonna do the same. When he gets it back,
he's gonna go think, back in his high school years where he was dating,
and he's gonna go back to being a teenager.
[chuckles]
Hey, T, who's that, man?
This year was an awesome year.
Is this the house of Shorty?
We had a couple of guests from high, high up, you know.
-What do y'all think? -[man] Beautiful.
When they came in, I handed each one of them a gun.
-This one's for you. -Okay.
And this one's for you.
We're gonna go get some dinner. We'll be back.
And I don't know if they knew that,
but there was nothing in the gun,
but yet, they were going down to try
to get done whatever it was that needed to be done.
All right, let's get to work.