01x04 - Lexus

[bunniefuu]

Picture this.

It's 2003,

and the fashion trends

are air-brushed T-shirts,

frosted lip gloss,

and low-rise jeans.

It was a year where commercials

would just show you a stick shift

in a couple different angles,

and that was enough to sell you a car.

Like a full car.

There was a whole series of them.

I mean, this one's just gauges.

And this one is just taillights.

They was feeling themselves.

They knew they were selling cars.

What's up, beautiful people?

Welcome to another car-studded episode

of Resurrected Rides.

You know,

they say a picture's worth 1,000 words.

But if you see a picture

of the young photographer Kevin's Lexus,

I only need five words to describe it.

This is a piece of shi Is that six?

Who cares? This ain't a show about math.

Meet Kevin, a 30-year-old

freelance photographer

who lives in Los Angeles

with his girlfriend, Alex.

Oh man.

A man whose car

It started today.

has his friends and family

shaking their heads.

Honestly, my brother's car

is very embarrassing.

Here we are on this beautiful day

with this ugly piece of junk.

Okay, relax.

It's beat up, you know?

It needs a lot of work.

So we sent a camera crew out

to let Kevin know

that he was still

in the running for this show.

And to find out why that car

made such a lifelong impact on him.

I'm a proud owner

of this 2003 Lexus IS 300. Swag.

When I first got my Lexus,

it just made me feel cool.

From the side, it looks beautiful.

If you're looking at me

driving from, like, right here,

I look so, like, hot, you know?

But unfortunately,

it does need a little bit of work.

Just a little bit, though.

- What happened here?

- Nothing. It's fine.

You can tell there was some class in here.

This doesn't even work.

It's gone now.

Your seat's all scratched up.

No sun visor.

Plus, that's open electricity.

I got shocked here once, right here.

It just It's a hot mess.

As a photographer,

I don't want my client to see my car.

I park it down the block,

and I'll carry

all my equipment to the place.

I don't want them to think,

"Who did I hire?"

Of course I want to upgrade this car,

but I have other expenses.

I have bills to pay.

It's just It's hard to hustle

when your car is not hustling.

Some people will say it's just a car.

To me, it's not.

I've had so many memories.

Me and Alex's first date was in this car.

I love my car so much

I tattooed it on my leg.

I think it looks dope. Alex was livid.

What am I gonna do? It was already done,

and it's there permanently.

If this car is brought back to life,

I can make money and have a future,

an actual future that I can see with Alex,

and we can ride off

in the sunset with this car.

I'm never getting rid of this car.

I'm letting you know now.

All right. Here's the deal.

We picked Kevin for the show,

and we're gonna resurrect

his very sad ride.

But he doesn't know that yet,

and he's about to find out.

Right now,

Kevin's in there with his girlfriend

at the market shopping.

And how I know that

is because I'm an all-knowing God.

I know everything.

I've been wandering the world

through the time and space.

I am time itself.

I've been everywhere you haven't been

and anywhere you want to be.

Also, I've been texting

with the girlfriend,

and we made up this whole ruse

to keep him in there and keep him busy.

So, between that and the all-knowing ,

here's what I know.

That's his dusty-a*s Lexus over there.

Alex hooked me up with the spare key,

and we're gonna toy with them for real

by switching it out

with this toy car right here.

Yeah! It's not that clever. It's not!

But I loved robbing that child for that,

and he's crying somewhere.

-Let's do this.

-Let's move the car.

Stay low! Stay low!

This is gonna be hilarious.

Hurry up! Move the car, man!

Ah, yeah.

Yeah.

Hilarious!

Right?

I've never stolen a car before.

I never thought it'd be this smooth

with this many white people helping.

He's coming out.

He's coming out.

That's them.

They out. They out.

Oh, man, look at them shorts.

That boy got leg confidence, don't he?

Wait, watch this. Watch this.

This is so stupid.

I think we had enough fun with them.

Let's go ahead

and tell him we got his car, yo.

What the hell?

Hey, man. Is this your car right here?

Is this your whip?

- Hey, what's going on, bro?

- Oh my God.

Hey, Alex. It's good to see you.

And if you can't notice,

but you made the show, man.

Oh my God.

-Yeah. I did.

-I thought someone stole my car.

Tell me about this thing.

You know, this is just the sun, man.

It's just getting suntanned right here.

This right here is

what you call, uh, sun damage, my boy.

What happened here?

Oh God. I came out of the parking lot,

and it was it was just there.

- A hit-and-run?

- A hit-and-run.

So somebody hit yo car and was like,

"It's probably better."

Yeah.

Bro, I'm glad you survived the attack,

but why did your seat not?

Now let me see this tat.

This tat I've heard all about. The tat.

It's right over here.

Your love for the car,

it's beautiful, man.

When did you get that tat?

At what stage of its life?

Uh, two years of its life.

So it was still kind of in, like,

mint condition?

-No, no.

-No, no.

-It came like Look.

-They said no together like an R&B group.

"No."

-It's never been in good condition.

-Never.

-Well, we gonna change that, player.

-Oh my gosh.

- Get in with me, boy!

- Oh yeah!

Oh yeah!

Okay, so the brake says

-Be careful.

-"Hey, I stop when I stop."

- Which is dangerous.

- That's exactly it.

- Yeah.

- Let's talk about these features.

It is hot! Let me roll down this window.

-Uh, about that window.

-Never mind.

That does not work.

We are driving

an Easy Bake Oven on wheels, y'all.

- Now when you go to jobs, what do you do?

- Mm-hmm.

They cannot see this car

when I pull up on a job.

What?

I actually have

a big sh**t coming up,

and I really need to impress the client.

And, uh, I just don't want

to show him this car.

Yeah, I mean, listen.

I feel you, but I'm gonna bless you.

I'm gonna help you out.

Oh my God. Thank you.

-We'll make Alex proud, you proud

-Yeah. Oh, that's amazing.

and the car proud. Because the car,

if you listen closely, it's crying.

Now it's time for me

to take it to the garage, get it flipped,

get it back to you looking clean, man.

How are you feeling?

- I'm a little nervous. Yeah.

- You a little nervous?

- What for? You think I'll mess it up?

- I don't know.

I ain't gonna do you like that.

Or am I, dawg? Who knows?

Do you really wanna do it? ♪

- Here it is! Oh!

- Here it is!

- Whoa!

- Oh!

My garage team, what's going on, y'all?

- Wow, what is this?

- I brought you some doo-doo on wheels.

Yes, you did.

All right. So y'all have seen

Kevin's submission video, right?

Got to know his vibe a bit.

You know, Kevin's a cool guy,

very confident.

You gotta be confident

to ride this around town in public.

True.

Jeez.

This is a Lexus IS 300, man.

These things in their heyday

were one of the nicest cars you can get.

So there are two ways

that you can really go about it.

You can go street race car,

or you can go with a VIP style build.

I'm thinking we go classy,

like tuxedo style.

What that usually is

is full body work all the way around.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Headlights, VIP style body kit.

We'll pull the hood off,

fix the dent, make it full carbon fiber.

We'll drop some weight

as carbon fiber is

significantly lighter and stronger.

It'll have a race car vibe

but still be really luxury and VIP.

One thing we need to do on this thing

is tear this thing apart.

Take the interior out.

You can't be riding like this.

-Know what I mean?

-Absolutely.

We can put

some nice leather diamond stitch,

a little bit of red, a little piping.

I mean, what you think?

I was gonna tell you to do all that,

but you said it, so we good.

-We're on the same wavelength.

-We on the same wavelength.

Chris the car man.

Just talking about car stuff.

These tires These tires look sad.

It look like individual butt cracks

that ain't been wiped.

New tires for sure.

I mean, I could powder coat the wheels

with some red.

- That would give it the sporty vibe.

- Oh. Yeah.

Play off the interior accents of the red.

I think that would look good.

Oh, that's gonna look cold.

I love some red wheels.

What about the suspension?

We gotta lower this thing down

a little bit, right?

I say we drop it

Yeah, two, three inches on this thing.

I wanna hook this guy up in some way

where he can travel anywhere he goes,

pulls out his camera equipment

-Yeah. Ooh!

-we can keep it safe.

So I'm thinking of,

trunk opens, something comes out.

We'll have to figure out

all his camera equipment, lay it out,

then make it safe so something closes

over it and it's locked.

That's perfect,

because he got this big sh**t coming up,

and we gotta get his car back in 11 days.

See, he used to park down the street

and have to walk and stuff.

Now he's gonna ride his car

right into the building.

Then, I was thinking for the console,

we cut it out,

build a custom aluminum piece.

This sounds fire, dawg.

I might not even give it back to Kevin.

I'm about to ride past him like, "Sorry!"

Let's grab our tools,

and let's tear it apart.

- Yeah!

- Let's do it!

Grab your tools.

Let's start ripping this apart, baby!

Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪

I don't got one tool.

That's beautiful.

Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪

Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪

There's a little bit of everything

over here. He got fingernails, flesh.

Fingernails?

We might find teeth here next.

I don't know.

All right. Okay, well, that's my cue.

See y'all in a few days, man.

Y'all have fun with this. I'mma go tweet.

- This is in bad shape.

- Yep.

- My job just got harder.

- Hold.

Yeah!

A pile of destruction.

You want to fix this dent?

- Yeah, if you want to flip it.

- Yeah, that'd be nice.

Creating carbon fiber parts

is my specialty,

and fabricating a brand-new hood

for Kevin's Lexus

sounded like a good idea

when I pitched it.

Gee, that's a lot of edging.

That's not gonna work anyway.

Uh-oh.

Um, so we're gonna pull it.

But to make sure

the new hood fits the car,

I need to use the old hood as a mold,

and it's in terrible shape.

That's gonna need some love.

But I do love a good challenge.

So, the first thing we need to do

is get all the dents out.

- Sand it down.

- Time to use this b*tch.

And layer on some clear coat

so we have a smooth hood.

Shayna has this hood prepped and polished.

She ran through it as fast

as possible, which is important,

because molds are expensive to make

and time-consuming.

So I don't want to have any f-ups,

and that's why I'm taking my time

but rushing as fast as I can.

Okay, carbon fiber hoods 101.

Here's the 1,000-step process

boiled down into

three easily digestible steps.

Step one. We take the sealed hood

and cast a mold of it

using a bunch of toxic chemicals.

Step two.

We say adios to the original hood,

lay top-of-the-line carbon fiber

into the mold

and inject it with epoxy resin

and wait for it to cure.

Step three.

We pop the carbon fiber hood

out of the mold,

spray on one last layer of clear coat.

And voilà. Kevin has himself

a world-class carbon fiber hood.

Sound easy? Well, it isn't.

Let's go over some of the things

we're working with.

Tooling gel coat,

which is a heavy epoxy base.

Not something you'd want to breathe in.

Acetone. You're familiar with acetone.

Glass-filled epoxy as well.

Everything we're doing is trying

to k*ll you, so think of it that way.

One, two, three, four! ♪

First,

we'll spray a chemical agent

to make sure our mold

doesn't stick to the original hood.

We got to be thorough. We have to get

every nook and cranny of this

because any part where the epoxy resin

or the tooling gel coat touches

Epoxy's a glue.

It will bond to it,

and it will destroy the mold.

So, no pressure.

Next we're gonna paint the hood

with the tooling gel coat

that's made up of a two-to-one ratio

of epoxy resin and hardener.

Epoxy is

a high tensile strength glue.

Fundamentally, it is a two-part plastic,

but more than anything, it's glue.

Because epoxy

on its own is quite fragile,

we need to layer in

strips of fiberglass cloth

to make sure

the mold is structurally sound.

We need the reinforcement to give

the integrity and the tensile strength

to the epoxy for lack of tension.

Finally,

we'll bury our emotions in mold putty,

which will hold it together.

Now, we let it sit and cure,

and that'll take 12 to 15 hours

which is a long time to wait

to see if this worked.

One, two, three, four ♪

Two ♪

Three, four ♪

I need to design that console

and I don't know where I'll start it,

but my question is

is it impossible for you to cut the seats?

-Is that going to make your life hell?

-Uh, no.

- Let's figure this out. Come sit with me.

- Sit on glass?

Is that what that is? Oh no.

-Here. All right.

-Let's get comfortable. We're chilling.

Just feel the vibe. Ready?

Me and you, we're coasting.

-All right.

-What are we thinking?

You need to feel like

you're back here like a VIP.

-We're going to the club.

-Okay.

Going to the club ♪

Going to the club ♪

I got it.

Sleek, sexy, straightforward.

This will ride down like a real console,

and at some point here, it dives up.

So imagine this being shallow to a point,

and then it comes thicker, comes thicker.

Roll it in here nice. Woo.

Yeah. Divide the seats.

Make them bucket style.

Yeah.

Sleek, straightforward, sexy ♪

I took measurements.

Put it into the program itself.

I think it looks really cool.

So, uh, let's cut it.

I'm using the CNC machine,

the giant computer-guided

metal cutting device

that blasts out an arc

hotter than the sun.

I'm gonna go ahead and cut the structure

of the console out of the 16-gauge steel.

I like it. The contour is a perfect,

nice and tight, rise in the cushion.

Yeah, that looks really nice.

-Can I have my seat, please?

-Yes, you can.

Kevin wanted to keep it classy,

so we decided we'll do a VIP theme,

and what's more VIP

than diamond stitching?

We're gonna k*ll it

with this interior.

- Oh, you're over here now?

- Yeah.

-I'm trying to see what you're up to, man.

-Man, look at this.

- You're getting there.

- This was a test panel.

I think I don't know. These diamonds

are a little maybe too squarish.

Um

I think these are too big.

I think we gotta go with

a smaller diamond.

- Because we have a smaller insert.

- That's it.

Maybe a little bit sharper diamonds

would look a lot better.

- All right, that's good. Cool?

- Cool.

Now let me work. Let me work.

In addition to

the diamond stitch black vinyl,

I'm adding a red leather accent

on the outer edges.

VIP all the way.

Once the cover is sewn together,

I'll prep the original seat

by adding some fresh foam.

That will allow the diamond to kind of

pop out more, a little bit more 3D.

You can see kind of

the seat is taking shape.

Then when he's done mounting that seat,

then you got to give it the dad slap.

You know, it's like when you go to Lowe's

and you see a big old fat pile of soil,

and you just go

"A couple of these bad boys

will do the trick."

The dad slap. That's the dad slap.

- You gotta be like

- Come on.

That ain't going nowhere.

- Good. That's nice and tight.

- You could bounce a penny off of that.

That looks really good, Saul.

That's gonna go nice with the interior.

Ah, there she is.

Honestly, this is gonna be

a big pain in the butt.

Usually just takes me a couple hours

to wrap my head around it and get to it.

So I'm trying to think of a good way

for Kevin to store his camera equipment

safely and securely in the trunk.

If we drop this bad boy in here,

there's got to be a way

that I can design this box

to come up and out.

So now I gotta play with this idea

of this thing going like this

It'll have a base bracket here.

I actually really like this design.

It's simple. It's fast. It's effective.

Nelson!

We'll see if Nelson likes it.

Nelson, death and gloom, sad boy ♪

This is your theme song.

Sad boy ♪

All right, I'm leaving.

No, I got you here for a reason.

I came up with an idea.

And I just want to share it with you

because I was I'm excited.

Really excited.

Okay, here we go.

Two pendulum arms, one bracket,

one air shock,

and as it pivots,

it physically rotates up and out.

Like an old VCR. You know,

the VHS tapes that come out like that.

Yes. We're the same age.

Um, I mean,

I love the simplicity of your design.

I think it is functional.

So you actually like this idea?

-I do like this idea. So, good job.

-Oh.

The first time.

Now, no.

-Yes, all right!

-Okay.

I wanna see you try ♪

I wanna see you try ♪

These are kind of like flimsy.

They're meant to be that way.

If you had a really stiff fiberglass

front bumper and you hit something,

what would happen?

- It would just crack. So these

- Yeah.

- They take a little more abuse.

- Look at it. You could literally

Oh dang.

bend it, and it falls right back.

Work that body, work that body ♪

It may be easy to jack it up

and take the wheel off.

Work that body, work that body ♪

Work that body ♪

We're still in

the early phase of the prep.

We still have to get this whole car

in the primer,

reblock it and get it ready for paint

so Shayna can do something very special.

All right.

-Doesn't it sound like fun?

-All right.

-Let's go!

-Like a lot of fun?

-Calm down.

-Get excited!

I'm steaming with excitement.

All this to make white look cool.

Boring-est color.

Okay. I'm actually surprised we made it

all over here without a catastrophe.

If you haven't noticed,

I don't like white.

If it's up to me, I'm gonna make

every color that they give me

look way cooler than

what they can even imagine.

More classy, a little shimmery.

That's where our pearl's gonna come in.

Then what am I doing?

First, we'll do our white base coat.

So give it some of that.

Okay. It's just our white base coat

that a bug just flew into.

That's phenomenal.

See? It's just white, and it's flat,

and there's nothing fun to it.

So we're gonna come in

with our jar of fun.

This is your pearl.

It just comes as a literal powder.

So this is the fun part.

We're gonna wing it.

This is where we go

until our heart tells us to stop.

Let's see here. Eh. Whoops.

That's a little much,

but that's all right.

No mistakes, just happy accidents.

Shimmery, silky, way better

than your boring white.

All right. Am I allowed to paint now?

I'm gonna go do that.

With my paint because we forgot the paint.

All this to make white look cool.

Boring-est color.

This is where we go

until our heart tells us to stop.

More classy, a little shimmery.

Now that the clear's done,

we still have to let it dry

before I wet sand and buff it,

but pretty stoked about it.

Take me, take me, take me ♪

Won't you take me for a ride? ♪

Yo, garage dream team! What's up?

What's up, Princess Peach?

What we got going on here?

Oh, you see me

You see me over here? Oh!

Vroom, vroom!

You know what I'm talking about?

Y'all seem hard at work, man.

What y'all This is a car hood?

- It is.

- It's gonna be.

I know because I know cars.

You sure do.

And I know sarcasm, Nelson.

It's looking good so far, yo.

Alex! Ready for the updates?

Yes, I'm ready.

So I'm sitting here

right now, right?

And this is a dope seat,

so imagine there's more seats.

Right? And then he gonna be sitting here.

He'll be able to get on his iPad

and edit for his clients.

-Know what I mean?

-Well

-Why are you not excited about that?

-His iPad got stolen.

What?

He had left his iPad in the car

during one of his gigs that he was doing,

and they broke into the car.

Oh. Okay, well, you know what?

I think we can figure that out.

- Don, where you at?

- Here.

Hey, man, he got his iPad stolen.

So we gotta, uh, get him an iPad

and put some stuff in there

to make the iPad work.

So, Don's gonna handle that.

He's gonna make sure y'all good and happy.

I'mma let you get back to work.

We're gonna have this looking good.

It's gonna be looking sexy.

We'll see you at the reveal.

Don't tell Kevin a single thing, Alex.

-I will not say a word.

-You have a good one.

I know you guys are gonna figure it out,

mostly because you have to.

We gotta get this car back to him

in three days so he has it for his gig.

I know when I come back

this thing is going to be dope as hell.

Why did I spin? I am dizzy. All right.

You don't know me, I know you want to ♪

Chris promised Kevin's girlfriend

we'd have a new iPad integrated

into the car.

So I'll hide it

inside of the console itself.

This thing goes

Then hit it again. It comes back around.

He can detach his iPad from it.

The whole idea is

he will take his iPad, edit on the go,

and then put it in here and lock it in,

hit a button. Boom. It's gone.

I'm feeling it ♪

I measured the ball bearings and

drew some brackets in my design software.

I got my best friend Nelson

to print them up on the old 3D printer.

Nelly! I have to print

some little doodads.

I did all the work.

I just need you to print 'em for me.

-This could have been an email.

-Yeah?

Just send me an email. How about that?

-All right. Thank you.

-Okay.

- I love you.

- Me too.

I'm feeling it ♪

So these are the actual brackets

that I designed in my program.

So this attaches to the servomotor,

then when I power it up,

I can spin it 180 degrees. Wap!

And I can control the speed.

I love it.

There she is.

Oh!

- That looks fancy.

- Time to test fit.

Yeah,

it's the moment of truth, buddy.

That's one! That's nice.

All right, here we go. Second piece.

You got it, Don.

- Let's make sure this fits perfect.

- Okay.

You good?

No. I got a big problem.

How's it going, Donnie?

Hold on. I'm having a panic attack.

We get it perfectly square

before I assume

I mean,

it's looking pretty good to me.

- I think I got a problem.

- Not understanding.

So I built the console

to go in here by itself

just to be an aesthetic piece.

Yeah.

Then when he wanted

to put the spinnymabop in it,

I did it all on my table.

But this thing sinks down

a lot more in here.

I think when I actuate it,

the iPad is gonna hit the bottom of this.

So let's find out.

Pull this here.

That's gonna be our ride height.

And if the iPad hits here or here,

then I'll have to go back and redesign it.

I'm gonna put my brain together.

It's okay. You got this.

That old Chris Redd.

"Just put a little iPad in it. Do it."

I'm dumb. I'm like,

"Yeah, I'll do it for you. I love you."

"Let's just put a spinning iPad in this."

"We gotta do it in a day. Let's do it.

Okay. Good job, Don." Here we go.

You're sneaking over. Hang on.

I want to see what's going on.

We might have a slight problem,

but it's gonna be okay.

Moment of truth.

- It's all right.

- Ooh!

- Never mind!

- Ooh!

- Oh my God! You lucked out!

- Wow. That is like by a hair too.

- Oh my God.

- That, um

Never mind, Chris.

I take it back. It was a good idea.

Wait.

All right, so I lucked out.

Dodged a b*llet with this one.

- Thank you for having my back.

- No problem. I got you.

Thanks, Don. Now I owe Shayna ten bucks.

- I'm one lucky boy.

- Very.

To thank you for another lovely day ♪

When you shine for me ♪

I know it's gonna be okay, yeah! ♪

Look what I'm doing.

Eating cookies. You want one?

No, don't say that.

What are you doing?

Are you eating a cookie over my mold?

You guys working hard?

- No, no, no, no, no.

- They used to call me cookie boy.

Dude, I bet they called you many things.

If you touch my mold

- I wanna lay in it like a bathtub.

- We have two days to finish.

I'm gonna go have a brain aneurysm

on this side. Don't eat near my mold.

Our mold is clean,

and it is beautiful.

And it kind of gives us a good basis

of its cross directional, so about 51.

We'll cut 52.

We're set

to lay in our carbon fiber.

So this is a 12 pattern.

It's got a 45 2-up, 45 to the right,

but it's gonna be a 19-ounce twill carbon.

- So it's kind of an exotic material.

- Really?

We're gonna be doing something

that isn't seen very often.

I like this, though.

This is gonna be a statement piece.

He's gonna park next to

a Bimmer or a Lamborghini,

and they're gonna be like,

"Man, I wish I was like that guy."

Okay. We want it to go 45 to the right,

so that's this way.

You don't know how excited I am.

Always wanted to see this.

I try and kind of massage this out.

Just like someone had a hard day.

Just give them a back rub.

I mean, it all looks pretty good so far.

That's fine. We don't have time.

We just really want to secure

the face of this down.

So we'll do this half.

Just gotta keep it right there. Hold it.

This is gonna be so cool.

This is gonna be dope.

Now I'm getting excited.

I'm gonna trim this and throw

a couple more layers of carbon down

because one is great,

but several is greater.

Next, we'll cover the layers

of carbon fiber with a plastic bag

and use a powerful vacuum

that sucks all the air out of the bag.

When you have a mold this large

that was put together this quickly,

you can have a mold leak.

That's a pinhole in the mold somewhere.

So I'm just going through

and just verifying I got an airtight seal.

Once I'm satisfied

that the bag is airtight,

we're ready to add the epoxy.

- Just dump it in?

- Yup, inside.

All right.

No, no, no. Put the bucket inside.

Put the bucket inside.

- Okay.

- Yes, yes, yes.

The epoxy goes in this vacuum chamber,

which, you guessed it,

will remove all the air from the resin.

So air is the enemy in,

like, this whole process.

Oh God, yeah.

Air is Air is absolutely evil.

You're essentially taking

liquid plastic and epoxy,

and you're forcing it into

every square micron of the composite part.

So you get a really dense,

really strong part using science.

This process is very difficult.

With all the technicalities, you can fail.

And I don't do well with failure.

Are we going for the whole?

All of it?

The whole shebang.

It's all gotta come off.

Hopefully it pops right out.

There's a 50% likelihood of that.

So what's the other 50%?

- Uh, it's stuck forever.

- Oh.

We're gonna lift from the back,

and we're gonna listen. Okay?

You want to listen

for that creaking but not cracking.

Creaking is good

Creaking's normal.

That's releasing. Cracking is cracking.

Oh.

Oh.

- Dude. Yeah!

- Yo! Good job, man.

Yeah, buddy. Look at the size

of the weave. That's so good.

That looks good, man.

Okay, you ready? Five, four, three

Come on. Take the

We don't have time for this. Seriously.

Twobies!

It feels good ♪

Like I knew it would ♪

It feels good ♪

What about the trunk, Don?

What about the trunk, Don?

- That is not ready.

- Can we, like, test it?

No, 'cause if it doesn't work,

I'll be sad, and I'll have to

- Don't be sad.

- You're making me stressed.

-You gotta show us.

-You're stressing me out! I don't wanna!

Poor Don.

Wow!

Yup.

Ejecto trunko.

All right, we can do it. Ejecto trunko!

On the count of three. One, two, three!

Dude!

Oh, come on. Not on camera.

Cameras. Cameras, plural. There's many.

Let's try it again.

-Try it again. All right, let's go.

-One, two, three.

Oh!

- Dude, that's awesome, bro.

- Thank you.

We're almost there.

We just need to push on

'cause we don't have much time.

Let's bring this thing down

to clown town. Let's finish it up.

I'm out.

All right, let's just finish the work.

We don't have time

but we do have coffee.

Time to push this baby

across the finish line.

Once car people find out

you can make carbon fiber parts,

they just want more.

So in addition to making

the bottom of the hood from carbon fiber

I'm covering

the door switch panels

and the steering wheel

and the spoiler

all with the same carbon fiber

to tie it all together.

Kevin will be a real VIP.

Did someone say VIP?

I'm installing

a fingerprint-activated button

on the underside of the trunk

so Kevin's case will pop out just for him.

The front seats

are stitched and wrapped,

and we're laying them in,

covering the headliner

with black Alcantara,

and laying in

the red and black door panels

to surround our boy Kevin

with nothing but the best.

We're adding

brand-new headlights and taillights,

wet sanding and polishing the paint

and installing those

special little touches

that make it VIP.

Okay, Kevin.

The man with the Lexus tattoo.

How's it going?

We were riding in your car, right?

Not much was working.

The paint, it was ashy,

and that's an understatement.

That thing was charcoal.

But the point is

that team of badasses over there,

that's my dream team,

made your dream come true.

- What's up?

- What's up, guys?

- Hi!

- Hey!

Yo, we about to change they life!

Or disappoint them greatly on camera.

Either way, something's gonna happen!

-Are you ready to check it out?

-I'm ready. I'm ready!

Give me a whoo!

Whoo!

Oh sh! He had a lot of extra on that.

Let's go. I'm ready.

- Here we go! Hit it.

- Okay.

- Lights went way over our budget.

- Oh God.

Oh my God.

Close your eyes.

Close your eyes. Close your eyes.

All right. Look up.

-Oh my God!

-My God.

Boom! What you think, Kev?

Yeah! Tears, baby!

Yeah, Kev.

Looks so beautiful, man.

This heart ♪

That's crazy.

My God, dude. Look at the rims.

This is so fire.

I'm sorry.

Oh, my boy. My boy.

He's got me crying.

This is nuts.

This is nuts. I never thought

this would happen, you know?

You deserve it. You work hard.

Thank you, guys. Seriously, this is crazy.

You're welcome, brother.

As you take this in,

I want to let you know

that this is actually my car.

Your car is in the back.

Uh, we did very little work

to that thing, actually.

But a'ight, seriously, though.

Let's go through this.

You said you wanted a VIP build,

so of course, we had to change the body.

So we went with the full KBD

polyurethane body kit on this thing.

We also put new headlights, fog lights

and we installed

a little something special for you.

Oh my God.

So when you're cruising at night

- Oh my God!

- Ooh!

Custom underglow that has

infinite amount of colors on this thing.

People are gonna think

you ran over a rave.

We put a tri-coat paint job on here,

so it's gonna look

very metallic-y in the sun.

It has a pearl coat,

and it looks really cool.

That's amazing.

And then with the carbon fiber hood

and red wheels, it ties it all together.

All right. Speaking of carbon fiber,

let's talk about

that sexy-a*s carbon fiber hood.

My boy, Nelson, on the ones and twos.

Go ahead and flex on 'em.

Uh, yeah, so I did all the carbon stuff.

He Hell yeah.

That's a flex right there.

That boy right there

sure knows how to show off.

Your OEM hood

weighed about 41 pounds.

This one will clock in

right around 10 or 11 pounds.

Oh my God!

That's significant weight savings,

and it's a full carbon build.

And also I gave you a carbon fiber spoiler

on the rear window as well as the deck lid

and also the interior trim,

so I tied it all together.

-Ready to look at the inside?

-I'm so ready. Oh my God.

Please, my man.

Sit in your VIP experience.

There's no holes.

There is no holes.

Oh my God. It's beautiful.

It's crazy, ain't it?

I'm speechless. This is amazing.

Well, as you can see,

we pretty much did away with

everything from top to bottom

and just started from scratch.

White diamond stitching,

black Alcantara suede throughout.

VIP look, you know what I mean?

Classy.

Go ahead and turn on the car.

- Oh my God.

- Get excited.

Also, the AC works now.

And the suspension is a lot tighter,

a lot smoother.

This thing's gonna drive better

than it ever did.

Well, you might notice

this unique console in here, right?

We got something special in there for you.

The whole idea was we know

you actually edit photos on the go.

Right.

So, you hit your little button.

- Oh sh

- Oh!

- What?

- What the hell?

You can edit your photos on the go,

and then you pull this thing out.

-There's you and your girl.

-Oh my gosh!

And you get a new iPad.

- This is mine?

- Yeah.

Oh my God, man. Thank you.

- I'm so stoked for you, dude.

- Yeah, boy!

-Babe, it's us.

-Oh my God.

Whiz-bang!

But I got something

even more neat-o for you.

- What?

- Super neat-o,

off the chain, off the rails.

So neat-o?

Get ready for this. Ready?

Oh my God.

Yo!

We got a little crazy back here.

We added a full audio system.

Everything that you need

to blow the windows out of this thing.

-The windows you just got working.

-The windows we just got working.

I wanna show you

what the amazing Shayna did.

- Oh my God. That's so nice!

- That's so beautiful.

You have a tattoo of your car,

so your car has a tattoo of you, my boy.

She did that all by hand.

- What?

- That's incredible.

That's crazy.

But as we dig a little deeper,

we get a little weirder.

So, we know that you take photos.

You have a lot of equipment.

We're always nervous

about somebody stealing it.

Right.

So we built something for you

that hides all your camera equipment.

We put a fingerprint scanner

underneath the lid here.

You put your finger under here.

You pop it.

- Oh my God. That's amazing! What?

- Yeah, boy.

When this pops up,

nobody knows it's there.

Whiz-bang, it is closed.

Nobody's gonna see it or steal it.

-That's incredible. Thank you so much.

-Of course.

Now no one's gonna know

where your equipment is

except the 240 million

subscribers on Netflix

who are watching this right now.

Today was absolutely amazing.

It was just pure pure magic, honestly.

Kevin, your car

has been resurrected, my boy.

Whoo!

Yeah.

Yeah.

Seeing it in its brand-new state,

it kind of just got me.

I just thought about

all the times I drove in it

and all the times it broke down.

It was a struggle, honestly,

and now it's just

a completely transformed new car.

It's just It's beautiful.

Group hugs! Get in!

So I cannot say how thankful I am

for the garage team.

I mean, they really are

changing our lives.

We're so grateful. Just thank you so much.

Your ride

has been resurrected, Kevin! Yeah!

I've got something people talk about ♪

I gotta show you what you got ♪

I can't wait to finally go

on a job and show clients my car.

That's something I can't wait to do.

And just riding with Alex, you know.

I can't wait to go to the beach

on the weekends

and, like, not having to worry

about any issues.

We're definitely gonna stop by

the drive-thru, blasting the speakers,

and finally getting

to roll down the window.

Yeah.

It's a mess.

It's a mess, but I like it.

How do you live like this?

Check out all that rust.

This is a problem. A big problem.

- Whoo!

- Yeah. I'm a surfer boy!

Full wood interior.

This will look like

a big piece of glass.

Ah, that's dope. Look at that.

Wow. It's cool.

Ha-ha ♪

Yeah, yeah ♪

Looking good ♪

Good looking ♪

Looking good ♪

Good looking ♪

Ouch! ♪

Oh, I like that ♪

That's it, that's it ♪

Hey! ♪