07x05 - Just A Couple of Here's And There's

[bunniefuu]

Dave: Yeah, we're not
going to reinvent it,

let's just repaint it.

Kevin: It drives
really good now.

This is not good.

Dave: The gtx one is here. And
here's what the problem is --

I'm in the wrong seat.

Kevin:
That was about 100.

The top's still on.

We're in great shape.

Bryce:
It's going back to silver.

So we really have to up the game
with the silver.

Dave: Something as little
as a little blackout

adds quite a bit of time.

-Yeah.
-Oh, that's so much better.

Dave:
And now on with the show.

Clean...

Custom...

Bitchin'.

my name is dave kindig.

Designing and building custom
cars is my life's passion.

With the best mechanics,
technicians, and fabricators

in the business,
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We build bitchin' rides.

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justin m.:
What I see izzy's mustache

I feel that we're back
in the '70s

in a cheap tv production.

When I see izzy's mustache
I feel comfort.

[ laughs ] uncomfortable.

I just giggle when I see it.

Weirdo.

Not really fond of it.

Idiot.

Over 21 years
at kindig-it design

we've had lots of
different employees

with lots of different styles
of facial hair.

it's alright.
It catches food

the whole mask thing's
a little funky

because it only amplifies
everything inside the hair.

I'm at the itchy stage though.

Where it's like super annoying
and I want to cut it off,

but it makes my neighbors
not talk to me

because they don't quite know
how to take it yet.

I recommend everybody
grows one at least once.

Yeah, it's -- I don't know,
I'm gonna train it eventually,

put it on a leash, bring it
to work, like a child

I start saving for college.

It's just like -- it's sticky.

I feel like I'm eating ice cream
all the time.

Every time I look at izzy's
mustache I get angry.

I just feel like
he's taunting me with it.

I wish he'd get rid of it.
I don't like it.

I feel like
there's something in there.

I want to get it out,

but I'm afraid
of what's going to come out.

I don't know about
the combing thing.

Man:
He combs it way too much.

Dave: I think it's upstanding

to take care of your facial hair
the way he does.

You know what I mean?

I don't appreciate him
combing it like -- he's like --

it's like a peacock thing,
like he's just peacocking

in front of me and
don't appreciate that.

It makes me angry.

I'm starting to trend. Kevin's
gonna grow one next.

I'm not.
He can't grow one.

I can, I totally can.
Like thick?

Charity has plenty of pictures
with me with a mustache.

You want to touch it?
Never let go.

Touch it.
Just don't -- no.

I don't want to touch it.

It freaks me
the [bleep] out, dude.

It doesn't
look good either, dude.

Not if you take the hat off.
See, that's what I'm saying.

I'm a fan of facial hair.
I think he should keep it.

I'm proud of him, actually.
I think he looks

like an adult now and.
You know, it's amazing.

It's a beautiful beautifully
well-kept mustache.

My eyes are up here.
Yeah, I get it.

Not down here.
I'm not even looking

at your 'stache, bro.
Full on 'stache fest

around here
before too long.

You better lose it if you want
us to still be friends.

I love it when you know
it's gonna be a great day

because a good friend of ours,
rick cox, is sending one of his

kick-a*s corvettes up here
for us to take a look at it.

Rick really does know what goes
into one of our full builds.

And in this case, this car
is just basically

going to be a repaint

and maybe a couple other things
if we find them.

Kevin: A new car has just pulled
into the shop

and I have the daunting
task to hold dave back

to do just what
the client asked for

and not go crazy.

Um...

Problem is is dave
is super creative.

He likes shiny things,
big ideas.

This is not going to be
an easy task.

It's silver.
It doesn't look bad.

I mean, what are
we looking at here?

I see some blotchiness.
Little bit of blotchiness.

There's some picture framing,
there's some modeling.

Oh, yeah, and
the black right here.

See the build-up
of the metallics.

This '64 corvette

definitely can use
a little bit of our...

Talent.

There's a huge, huge run

all the way across
the front of that hood.

Yeah, and that's base,
right?

That's the metallics
have built up on it.

So we're three seconds in,
dave's already under the hood.

Is that an ls?
What do we got here?

That's nice.
Yeah, it's an ls,

it might be a 3,
a 2 or 3.

This is about right.

I mean, just so I think --
I just -- I think honestly,

dave, the key with this car
is it's a nice car.

I haven't lost yet.
He's not the only

sales person on the team.

There's obviously a lot of stuff
on the car that we would change.

Or that we would update,
there's newer product.

But I think that we just need
to, especially for this one,

since we have so many other cars
in the works,

we just focus on
what the problem is,

and obviously the problem

is just paint.
Yeah.

Simple is not exactly
the way

we do things around here.

But for rick, we'll
make an exception.

Has he mentioned
anything to you on color?

Do you want to stay the same,
change it up?

Yeah, I think really I can
already tell you right now,

for us, I don't think there's
a need to change the color.

I think you just want to make it
all match from front to rear,

get the quality back.
I see some flaws

and, you know, little stuff
that's inside the paint,

some heavy edges,
blotchiness.

Just looking at it,
it looks like the paint

is holding to the car
very well.

Obviously, you'll do
a little bit more

experimentation on that, but I
don't see any problem areas.

The way the paint's gonna
shrink back and pool.

I agree with you.

These cars always look nicer
on the outside.

There's always clues to the past
hidden right in front of you.

How many times
has this been repainted?

Not sure. How many --
can you count the rings?

There's two. I can at least tell
there's something on top of it.

In this situation, if we pay
really close attention,

it'll always gonna tell us

everywhere
where there's a problem.

You can tell the paint's
been rubbing or something here

so we can address that.

As long as we just
keep it to the paint job,

I think we can get this car
in and out, no problem.

What chassis is it on? Not that
I want to change the chassis.

I'm just curious.
That doesn't matter.

We're just talking
about paint.

I just want to make sure
the paint's going to stay.

Bryce: It's -- yeah, it looks
like a stock chassis.

Whatever it is,
we really don't have time.

We just want this thing
in and out.

Alright. Well, yeah, we're
not going to reinvent it.

Let's just repaint it.

Did I just hear what
I think I heard?

But, you know,
it is at kindig-it design

and you know how it happens
every time something

gets to kindig-it design.
It ends up snowballing

into his car leave here red.
No.

It would look pretty good red
with the red stitching

a little bit.
Then I'd change

the interior too
because this is really cool,

but it's a little trendy.

Great, now we're doing interior.

We'll talk to rick
and get exactly

what he's feeling on color

and if he wants to change
the color or not.

This car could be in
and out of here, but I get it.

It's job security.

Should I just
get him on the phone right now?

Yes.
Should I try?

I mean, my lunch
is upstairs.

So I'm not really
interested in it.

This car is for rick cox,

he's a very good client of ours
and a very good friend.

We'll take care of him,
we'll do what it takes.

Rick: Hey, dave.
Hi, rick.

Did I catch you
at an okay time?

You're fine, sir.
Awesome.

Hey, we got this beautiful
little silver corvette here.

Yes, sir.

What you
want me to do with this?

[ laughs ]
I mean, where --

okay, I know what you want me
to do with it.

Where do you
want me to stop?

You can see the hood's
different colors,

the lights are
different colors.

Do you know what color
silver this is?

I have no clue.
Okay, that's not a problem.

We'll put a camera on it
and we'll figure it out.

I figured that you could match
the silver, that would be great.

Yeah.
And finding it

would be a lot nicer.
Yep.

Do you mind
if I do a straight black

instead of metallic black
on that hood section?

I don't like the metallic.
Yeah.

Yeah,
it just looks blotchy.

It looks cheap.
Yeah.

Yeah, let's just go
straight black on that.

Dave is one of the best
there is on up-selling things.

Is there any reason for that
antenna?

I mean, if we're gonna be in
there, can I shave the antenna

off of that?
That's rick's call.

Rick, are you okay
with me shaving the antenna?

And then door handles.
You want me to put a set

of my door handles in it?

Yes.
Cool, and the only

other thing I'm gonna
ask you to let me do

is the center console into the
dash, it doesn't match the car.

It just looks square
in a round car.

It doesn't work.
Yeah.

So I can restylize that.

I mean, the car's
very presentable

and I mean, you know,
it's not going to be like

this big, massive overhaul.

It's definitely
gonna be a little bit of work,

but we'll make a nice car
out of it pretty quick.

Awesome.

This is already a really
good car to start with.

It doesn't need a ton.
But it for sure

needs to be
freshened up.

Really,
rick, at this point.

I think we got
a pretty good game plan.

We'll do a couple of our
little touches,

we'll make it
all one color silver

and we'll address
whatever things

that we can find mechanically
and electrically

and just make sure
you got a good car

and turn it right back
around for you.

Appreciate it, sir.

You got it.
Thank you, my friend.

Do you want to maybe
take it for a drive

before we tear it down, just to
see if there's anything else,

the drivability stuff?

All in all
I think it went pretty good.

I'm going to take this car
for a quick test drive

and make sure everything is
mechanically sound.

before we tear this car apart,

since we're going to be -- you
have to take a lot of it apart

to paint it because, you know,
we want everything off of it.

I want to make sure
that there's no

simple things that we can do to
make this a better driving car.

it drives really good now,
but if there's anything

that we can just tweak
just a little bit before

or while we have this thing
ripped apart

and we can just make that change

and it will become
that much better of a car.

I don't think we have too much
to do on the mechanical side.

It drives good, it brakes good.
It's fun to drive.

I actually like this car, feels
a little bit more roomier.

It's a little bit more
comfortable to drive than a c1,

because you know
I'm a truck guy.

Duh.

Shortcut.

So now we just have
to keep dave from

making it into something that we
don't need to work on right now

and we'll be good.

Let's get this thing
repainted,

tighten it up, put a little
kindig-it sizzle on it,

and it'll be perfect.

Dave: This car is exactly how
rick explained it to us.

It's pretty much all there.

It could just use a little bit
of fit and finish.

Kevin: We'll stick to the plan,
we'll shave off a few things,

we'll add some door handles
and we'll get it over

to the body shop.

dave: The first order of
business on this build

is to install a set of
our smooth door handles.

Right now I just got shave
all of this off

so we can make
a nice flat surface

for our new kindig-it handles
to go in.

Not much room
to get in there at all.

kevin: Fiberglass, either
you love it or you hate it.

Today I love it because
it's keeping the project

in the body shop
and away from the metal shop.

Dave: Much like a steel body,
fiberglass

takes finesse to make sure you
can feather out the body filler

and the paint and the bodywork
to make it flawless.

Not too thick, not too thin.
Just right.

The door handles
are shaved and prepped.

Next we're going to get going on
some of the disassembly

of the bigger things,
but no issues so far.

everybody knows
when you tear into a car

you could find a couple issues.
I hope we don't have that here.

the hope with this car is it

doesn't need that
much bodywork.

So when my guys
put their blocks to it,

they're going to be able to
tell me if it's good or bad.

I'm just really hoping there's
not a lot of bodywork to do.

No, don't look.
No looking here.

I saw nothing!

It's a good thing we're painting
this car because it seems like

half the paint
stuck to the clear bra.

Oh my -- you'd almost assume
they wrapped it in silver.

Just fantastic.

I love when something easy turns
into some very complicated.

This is not good.

This is not good
and should never happen.

Simple and straightforward

is exactly what dr. Dave ordered
for this corvette.

But as the guys started
digging in the car,

they found a huge no-no.

Guys are moving right along

with getting
the handles all installed,

brandon and j.J. And
javier been tearing it apart

and brandon and javier started
going to town on the clear bra,

removing it.

Not only did they remove
the clear bra,

but they removed either one or
two other paint jobs with it.

Now we got see what's going on
with the rest of it.

And if we need to
move forward with

possibly getting it stripped,

we'll just kind of take it
bit by bit at this moment

to see what's going on.

I'm gonna
have to get in a little closer

and take a look at this and see
exactly what the problem is.

Alright.
Let's see what you got here.

Ouch.
Is that where the clear bra was?

Bryce: Yeah.

So I'm pretty sure
based off of what you're saying,

you kind of already understand
probably

what was going on with it.

They put it on to you soon.
Yes.

Is that it?
Yep.

Yeah, everywhere else
on the vehicle is awesome.

No problems. Just the front clip
wherever the clear bra is.

Yep.
It's just delaminating.

Yeah.
So yeah, you just

can't put it on there
too soon. Obviously,

this was painted long enough ago
that it's a solvent,

you get it trapped underneath
that, it's just eating itself.

Going down.
It'll probably look just fine

as long as you don't try
and take that off,

you try to take that off
the paint's coming with it.

Okay.
Yeah, that's not a big deal.

So it was
the whole front fascia,

there's nowhere else
on the car that's --

nowhere else.
Okay.

Yeah. We did the handles,
it feathered out just fine.

Okay.
I went in the back,

on some areas underneath
that would

probably have a problem.
No problems.

It's not a huge deal.

I think we can go ahead
and feather this out

and take care of this whole area

and then get the rest of the car
prepped out for paint.

You gonna prime it
and see if you can get

most of those waves out
and the blocking.

There's at least
two paint jobs on it,

so I think between the build
on that

we should be able
to go down far enough

and if we need to spot
in a little 2k, we will,

but we'll get it
a lot straighter.

Okay.
For sure.

Good. Sweet.

Okay. Well.

Crisis averted.
We're good.

Don't wrap your twinkie
before it's cured.

Never mind.

Sometimes when you put clear bra

or paint protection film
on these cars,

if it's too soon
after it's been painted,

well, it'll lose adhesion,
you've trapped all the solvents,

and you can simply pull
the clear bra off

with the paint.
That would be bad.

And in this case, it's bad,
but I'm not sure

if bryce really understood
what I was getting at.

That's why you don't put
your pie on the windowsill

until it's cooked.

That's why you use tortillas
to make burritos, not bread.

Regular lay's potato chips taste
like crap with squeeze cheese.

You have to use corn chips.
Remember that.

Yes, of course I'll
be here all week.

Tip your bartender
and try the lobster.

And now on with the show.

Every day there's a potential of
having the most unique project

come in here
to kindig-it design.

And today is no exception.

Alright, greg.
So the gtx one is here.

And here's what the problem is.

So rick, when he drives this car
usually has a four-hour travel

to his other home
around the great lakes.

It rains on him
every single time.

So this top has these two
removable sections

over the driver's
as if to give you the appearance

that, you know,
you're open air.

When they built the x ones out
of these ford gts,

they basically
cut the roof off

and there was other companies
that would build a hardtop

that was removable.
Well, the problem is that top

is way too big
to put in the car on the road.

I need a soft removable top
that will compact down

and go into that
small trunk.

Ford never had a solution
for this problem.

And that's where
kindig-it design comes in.

It doesn't have to be pretty
is what rick says.

Okay.
It has to be functional

to keep him from
getting wet.

Yeah.
You think you can do it?

You know, the space inside
the hood is pretty small.

It's gonna have to fold up
on itself.

It looks like
a spring bar tent,

you know, those just --

so the top would be soft

but we're going to want
to put something in there

to keep it pulled up
and not

flapping in the wind, right?
Exactly.

This car is capable
of going pretty fast,

so we want to make sure
it doesn't have any drag

and we probably want to make it
so it can go together

with no tools.
We don't want him to have

to get allen wrenches
out, stuff like that.

No, let's make it to where
he can utilize it this way

or you can put the soft top on
if he's on the run.

We can use 3-d printing to make
our pieces fit exactly perfect.

I'd say get the faro out
and 3-d scan this thing.

Let's get the information
in the computer

and then let's start
designing up,

see what you can come up,
make it break down.

Alright.
Awesome.

Sounds good.
Okay.

Thank you.
Yep.

greg: We're building a soft top.
It's got to be removable.

It's got to fold up
really small.

I know I have to have something

that goes across
the front of the car here

and then I have to have some
pieces to go along the back.

So I'm basically just
going to make sure

they fit to the scan of the car

and then I can start
figuring out

how I'm going
to attach them together

and how I'm gonna attach
the fabric to it.

I think that the best way to do
those is 3-d printing them.

I'll clean it up a little bit

and then
I can install it on the car.

These pieces are installed
while you're inside the car.

And these serve
a couple of purposes,

but they will kind of push
everything back

and secure
everything into place.

When you bring this piece
down into place,

mount a little more secure.

The part that I've been
scratching my head about

is the fabric
that I'm going to use on here.

I need to use a pretty
thin material,

it's got to have
some stretch to it

so that I can kind of make sure
everything can conform

and fit into the trunk.

So yeah, stretchy, thin,
and it's got to be waterproof

because, you know,
it's a convertible top.

Hey, greg.
Look what just came in.

Oh, is that the material?
Got it finally.

How this material stretches
is going to be very important.

It's got some
stretch to it.

And it's windproof
and waterproof.

This is the stuff
that you'd found,

right?
Yeah.

We need to keep everything
as compact as possible

and make sure that everything
can be correlated,

rolled up, and put into
two lunch boxes.

Let's pull all directions.
Yeah.

I'm really super
curious of this.

So maybe grab about


maybe a little closer
on your side.

So you can pull it
front to back end.

There we go.

Four hands are certainly
not enough right now.

We just need another hand
to bounce on it.

Yeah,
pull it front to back.

Hey, fingers, let me
borrow you for a minute.

What do you need?
Go grab up

on his material there.

[ laughter ]
I'm out of here.

What the...Is going on here?

Pull down really hard.

You don't ask for my help
and then all of a sudden

you ask for me
to grab up on your material?

I mean,
it shouldn't flap.

Try it now.

Here, you got a blow on it
at like 100 miles an hour.

[ blowing ]

dave, do that thing you do.

[ laughter ]

[ laughs ]

how does that look?
I think it's pretty good.

Do you think you could --

putting this thing
together on here,

do you think you could
pull it that hard?

Yeah, I think.

Of course,
you're pushing

front to back with the rods
once it's in place.

You're gonna have a lot
more leverage I think

once it's put together.
Awesome.

Do you want me
to just roll that back up

and I'll take it over
to justin's and?

Yeah.

We've got to figure out
a way to make

this material
attach to the car.

My first idea is to sew magnets
into the back edge

and then we can put magnets
on the stock window

that goes in the back area.

Justin s.: And that was the
strongest one they make?

Well it was the strongest one
that isn't massive.

My concern is having the fabric
in the middle of it.

When it's a 2-foot section,
it's not like it's not strong,

you know?

Might work.

If you try to go like that...
Yeah.

...Seems like
it's pretty strong.

Let's try it.
Okay.

There's a few different
types of magnets.

Some are stronger than others.
Some are flexible.

Some aren't, magnets make it
feel a little more high-tech

and considering this is like,
you know, a supercar,

I want to make sure that we have

some high-tech
feeling attachment

going with high-tech fabrics
and high-tech car.

Let's just make it
all work together.

That's the plan.

Make sure
it's gonna hold up.

yeah, this is not
working out like

I thought it was going to.

that magnet just doesn't
seem like it's strong enough

to stay on there very well.

Might work.

That magnet just doesn't
seem like it's strong enough

to stay on there very well.

Yeah, this is not working out

like I thought
it was going to.

Looks like we gotta go
to plan "b" on this one.

I'm not super happy with
the strength of that magnet.

So I think velcro
might be the way to go.

Velcro it is?
Yeah.

I taped it on and then wrapped

that piece of fabric around it
and just pulled on it

and it doesn't take much effort
to pull that thing.

Let's go over
and test this right now.

Okay.
Try that magnet on here.

Just to see if it
comes off super easy.

Justin s.: This isn't even going
to hold in the parking lot,

let alone on the freeway.

No way it's gonna hold.
Yeah.

This velcro's made, you
can put it on your shovel.

Hm. Crazy.
Yeah.

And that stuff
just sticks on, right?

Uh-huh.
Cool.

So that'll be easy to do that.
Oh, yeah.

Yeah, and I haven't
even pressed it.

Right on.

I'm confident the velcro will be
a much better option for this

rear window than magnets.

we're going to have to do this
in a couple steps.

I got to sew one pass
of the velcro on

and then the seal
goes on the outside of it.

It's not going to be airtight,

but it's going
to really help out

with trying to get a good seal
on the window.

So the tricky part about
the seals down the sides

is I had to sell them to the top

and it had to fit just right
or it wouldn't seal.

Look at this.
Should work, huh?

Yeah, I think so.

And I just sewed it
on that edge.

Oh, yeah, I think it's okay.
I think it seals up.

Yeah, it's gonna seal up.

It's gonna end right here.

That seal's nice and tight
up against the glass.

It does.
Yeah.

I think this is the way
we should run it.

Yeah, I think so too.

Then when
it goes up in the corner,

I think it'll
work well, too.

Alright, I'm gonna go sew
velcro on the top and seal.

Alright.

so there's an issue with putting
this velcro on this material.

This material is very thin
and the velcro sticks

so we didn't want it
to wad up.

The way I fix this as I use
the sticky side of the velcro,

stuck it to the material first,
then sewed it on.

I got this all sewed up.

We're gonna go check
the fit one last time.

If everything fits well,
we'll set it on

and the last thing we got to do
is just glue these edges around.

They got to stay permanently to
what greg has built for the car.

So let's go give it a shot.

It's going to work.

I think it actually
turned out way better than

I thought it was going to.

It seals good. I mean, and
the velcro is holding it.

Very cool.

I'm taping this off.

We're gonna just run
a little bit of glue on this

outer edge, and then I'm going
to pull this guy

all the way this way, set it,

do the same thing
to the back, set it,

and then I'm going to pull
this whole unit off

and pull it all around
and finish it up.

So normally we use
the like stay fast canvas

because it's a lot thicker
and durable

but we had
such tight tolerances

we had to use this four-way
stretch stuff.

That's very thin and was
very difficult to work with.

I'm just trying to get enough
stretch out of it

that it'll at least won't

sound like it's whipping down
the road, you know what I mean?

Should work, though.

We'll see when I pull
this thing apart.

so first I tack coated
the material

and the parts that greg built.

I let it set up and then I
marked where it was going to go

and then I re-tacked it
and set it.

Just sits like so, and then this
will come around and velcro.

That way we're not going
to get a bunch of flapping.

I'm reinforcing it
with stay fast right now.

I think it looks pretty good.
I think it's time for these guys

to test drive it
and see what happens.

Come on.

There we go.
Alright.

This snaps together real fast
and I like what I'm seeing.

So this is the outside one?
That's the outside, yep.

Goes in just like that.

I don't know. You know what,
if this is air tight enough

it might be just fine.
You know what I mean?

I think the only
way to test it too

is probably drive
this thing about a hundo.

Gonna have to get it
on the road.

Sweet. Take me for that.
That'll be you.

You want
to come with me?

I appreciate kev's offer,
but I'm not driving this car.

I can't drive.
I can't reach the pedals.

I know.
[ laughs ]

[ laughs ]

well, let's give this
thing a shot and see how --

I know, what an engineering
little masterpiece, huh?

I'm very excited to be
on this test drive with kevin.

But something ain't right.

There's only one problem.

What?
I'm in the wrong seat.

No, you're not, you've driven
this car all the --

all the times it's been driven,
you've driven it.

[ laughs ]

what an amazing car.

The a/cs on too,
so we're all good.

It really does go together
pretty slick.

Wasn't really giving us
that goal

to make it pretty,
just wanted it functional.

I think it actually
is gonna look pretty good.

Our challenge here was to create
a soft top that was portable

and able to be taken off
on the road for a supercar.

Well, I think --

I think we're ready
to ship her.

I think greg in the boys
have done a great job.

I agree.

[ laughs ]

that was about 100.

The top's still on.
We're in great shape.

dave: Rick's '64 corvette was
a really nice place to start,

but we always can find room
for improvement.

Yeah, we're not
going to reinvent it.

Let's just repaint it.

So far we've disassembled
the car

and installed
a set of our k*ller door handles

and we ran into a problem.

Bryce: I love it
when something easy

turns into something
very complicated.

Dave: We got all of the old
clear bra off

and half of the paint,
and now it's time

to get it over in the body shop.

Kevin: Before bodywork,
we want to make sure

everything's fitting correctly.
The door handles are operating.

We don't want to go backwards
after bodywork has started.

We got to inspect every corner
and every curve.

We got to know everything
about this car.

dave wants this car refreshed,

which what that means is
the kindig-it design paint job

on it, panel match
from front to back,

laser straight,
et cetera, et cetera.

So we didn't need
to strip the car.

A couple areas needed a little
bit more attention than others.

We did find a lot of paint jobs,

but we made sure
that all the adhesion

was perfect for our paint job.

With the car all prepped out,

we're going to go ahead
and go into the booth

for its first primer.
And then once that's done,

we'll be able to pull it back
out, block it to perfection,

and then go to our second
and final primer.

it takes a lot of work
to make one of these cars

perfectly flawless.

That means that the gaps
are perfect

and the panel matches perfect.

Once that's all completed
its time to apply

the paint,
polish it to perfection,

and get it back
on the road.

Here we have a 2019
chevrolet corvette stingray.

Uh-huh. Car.

It's ready.
It's for you.

Here's your baby.
Are we gonna paint it?

If you want to. You're here.
You're the painter.

Yeah, I paint stuff.
Paint related stuff.

I'm excited about it
because it's super straight

and it's panel matched
and gapped and everything.

The only thing,
it's going back to silver.

So we really have to up the game
with the silver.

We got to make sure
that, you know,

a before picture of it
next to an after picture,

it's like "hey,
that's still" --

it's fresh --
that's a fresh --

fresh and on point.

So get your silver game ready
and make it happen.

I got it out in the truck.
I'll just bring it in.

Well, make sure
you grab your black too

because we got to black out
this center.

Okay.
So we're going to do

solid black here
all the way back

onto the cowl,
through the hood.

You know what, the 2-tone
or a custom graphic

in a paint job like this,

it looks pretty simple
once it's done,

but there's a lot of steps to do
to get there.

Then we're going to do
an eighth inch of silver,

then an eighth
inch of black.

So it's kind of got the
perimeter pinstripe look

around the perimeter of it.

Okay.
There we go.

I think we do
the black first.

I don't think we need
to seal this block

because there's not
any metal or any bondo

showing through,
we'll just do the black first,

flush it off, dry it,
mask that off,

and then we'll seal and paint.

I mean,
if I was worried about this,

we had some bare metal
or something,

I think we'd need to seal it.
I don't think we need to.

Alright, let's do it.
Good, let's do it.

This is brand-new swag.

It makes your paint better,
god willing it does.

Dave: One other thing that
I have a problem with

is a metallic black.

The graphic looks like you
oversprayed metallic on it.

It's better to have it a solid.

in a lot of cases like this,

I like to do the solid color
first.

That ensures that you won't get
any of the metallics,

such as the silver,
blowing back onto the black

because then you just
have to redo it again anyway.

So by doing the black,
you're able to mask

that off completely dust-free,

make sure that
there's no pearls,

and then you can do the silver,
pull off the masking,

and you'll have
a perfect paint job.

once the solid black's down
we can lay out the graphic.

We're basically going to mask
off that entire section,

that will allow us to put
the silver pearl down

over the top of it.

Once we unmask that, we have
a nice, clean transition

and a perfect graphic.

And unfortunately my magical
taping hands will not be in town

during the masking of this.

So I'm going to leave it
in some other capable hands.

You guys want to go
get the hood?

Start bringing it over.

Errr.

Don't drop it.

so what I think we need to do,
let's go get the hood.

We gotta get this hood placed

so the gap is completely
even all the way around.

Let's make sure that
these valleys are matching up

and then we're going to
have to lock it in place,

I think, with some other tape.

Just green tape
across it.

Fred: It won't scoot around.
So it's not moving.

You guys want to go
get the hood?

Start bringing it over.

We'll just leave it on here
and we'll take it off

when we get it over there.

Dave: This graphic including a
pinstripe around the graphic

is very key to look original
corvette or gm.

It was very telltale on
a lot of different vehicles.

And on this one
it's got to be flawless.

Errr.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Don't drop it.

okay, just watch
the black as you go down.

Valley looks pretty good
right there.

With the graphic
going through multiple panels,

it's not just the hood
that gets the graphic

but the cowl panel behind it.

So it's important
to make sure that that hood

is properly installed
where it's always going to live

to make sure that the graphic
always lines up.

Finished.

Dave:
Once the solid black's down,
we can lay out the graphic.

We're basically going to mask
off that entire section.

That will allow us to put
the silver pearl down

over the top of it.

Once we unmask that, we have
a nice, clean transition

and a perfect graphic.

And unfortunately,
my magical taping hands

will not be in town
during the masking of this.

So I'm going to leave it
in some other capable hands.

So what we're going
to go in and do

is right off of this valley

we're going to lay
an eighth inch fine line.

You ready?
I'm ready.

You clean?
Clean as I can get.

I trust these guys and I'm not
here this weekend, so.

I think we're ready to mask.

Okay, let's do it.

Eighth inch.

Bryce: Brian's got a lot of
graphic work under his belt.

So I think he's going
to be a k*ller component

to making this sucker happen.

Dave: The idea behind laying
this out is to make sure both

left and right sides
are matching perfectly.

And this is actually
kind of simple in the sense

that once you get
that first line down,

everything else is spaced out
by just another thickness

or width of the tape.
Pretty simple

make it sound simple anyway.

Freddy: One thing
when you're doing this

you got to make sure
the first color's dry

because you'll put
a piece of tape here

and if it's not dry
and you pull it off,

it'll leave tracks behind it.
And it doesn't go away.

It might go away
in the beginning,

but you clear coat it, you get
some sunlight on it,

you can see right
where the tape was.

So be patient and make sure
you get this paint,

you do the first color on,
make sure it's good and dry.

Once we get all the black taped
off so we can see

this little line around here
and protect the middle of it

will cover it all up
with masking paper

and then I'll seal it
and silver across everything.

Alright, mask this
[bleep] off now.

when it's all said
and done, we'll peel off

everything and clear coat
everything at one time.

This is the engine cover.

So it's kind of got
the same design

that the top side of the hood
has with the pinstriping

going on with it.

Freddy: Something as little
as a little blackout

adds quite a bit of time.
-Yeah.

I know freddy's taking
forever on his stuff.

It's ridiculous.

What did he say?

I said you're so awesome
and so fast at what you do,

it's amazing.

Well, either way,
it's a good thing

I don't care
what you think.

[ laughs ]

he's getting the spacing
all done and then mask it up

and we'll get this stuff
shot real quick hopefully.

Dave: These graphics
can sometimes be a little tricky

but these guys really nailed it
this time

and I wasn't even there
to make sure it was done proper.

I'm very happy
with the progress.

It's time to move on.

Yeah,
let's paint this [bleep].

Bryce: Well said.

When rick
set this car up yet,

it was multi colors of silver,

different shades,
different panels.

I think we can do
a little bit better.

Freddy: We'll see how
it goes with the first coat.

If it covers really fast
we can get it done in three

and then if it needs
an orientation coat,

that's just laying out
the metallics

make them look consistently.

Hopefully
we'll get it done in four.

But sometimes silvers
can be silver

and it'll be a pain in the a*s.

Dave:
Anytime you're spraying a fine
pearl or a heavy metallic,

it's kind of tricky
to make sure that every panel

has the exact same direction

and all of the same stack
up on your pearls.

Freddy:
And one thing we're going to
need to really look for

with silvers is splotchiness.

These kind of colors are really
difficult to not be splotchy.

Dave: It's time to put
on the clear coat.

This is going to consist of five
heavy coats of high solids clear

and then we'll cut a couple
of those off in the polish.

freddy: Yes, it went great.
I think we just

get it over to the polish guys.

If you need me,
I'll be in my dressing room.

Please be in
your dressing room.

Doing my pilates.

Trust me,
there's no dressing rooms here,

but they are
right about one thing --

it's time to get this corvette
polished up.

dave: Rick's 1964 corvette
is now painted,

polished, and perfected.

Now it's time to put
it back together

and get it on the road.

lane: It was loose.
I had to take off anyway...

-Oh, okay.
-...To lock the holes

for the windshield wiper
squirters.

dave:
Damn near close.

justin m.: We're getting really
close to being finished.

We're waiting on the hood,
it's in final polish.

Finishing up
a little bit of wiring.

We'll get
the door panels on.

Get the rest of the dash
put together,

get the console in it,

and this guy should be
just about finished.

Dave: Something I really noted
too is the center console

didn't match the entire build.
So I wanted to take that apart

and do our version
of a nice clean center console

including the door panels,
the seats, the center console,

the dash, the gauges, gauge
cluster, the shifter,

the carpet.

Did I miss anything?

What better color to go
with silver and black

than like a vintage red.

Bet you didn't see that coming.

One of my favorite color
combinations

is grays or silvers with red.

I think it's very vintage.

I think it's very
muscular, elegant.

It's got all of the boxes
checked.

Mwah!

Let's just do it.

so with this red interior,

it actually looks really great
with a silver heavy thread.

So a little bit of french seam
down the outer edges,

this little bit of detail
of a heavy silver stitch

on this red leather is going
to match the outside of the car

perfectly, tie it all together,

and it's going to look beautiful
and rick's car collection.

There is one last detail
that will make this car perfect.

Well, this is it, got our last
tire, going to put it on here

for rick cox's car.

Get it on, make sure
everything clears,

the other side cleared great.

Dave picked out
a k*ller wheel on this.

The wheels that came in on this
car were really nice fooses.

But to be honest with you,
I wanted to trade it out

for something
that had a little bit more depth

than a little bit
more vintage look to it.

So a set of billet
specialty bonneville gs

are going to go on the car,
up-sized a little bit,

and have a little bit more depth
on the rear

than there is in the front.

get it on the ground,
get it torqued up,

and see what he says.

Oh, I think
I know what I'll say.

Oh, that's so much better.

-Looks good, huh?
-Yeah.

far out.
Yeah, that turned out

really good. I just got the last
one on and torqued.

Nice.
Yeah, I think all

that's left
is driving it.

Oh, geez. That's a terrible
thing to have to do.

Have you --

do you want me to drive it?
Do you want to drive with me?

Whew!
I'll drive.

How are you
as a passenger?

I've never had you
in the passenger seat,

I don't think.
I'm way smarter than that.

[ both laugh ]

let's find out.
Hey, now, listen, listen.

Dave: For what came in
for just a little bit

of a spruce up actually
is leaving a lot better

than it came in.

The paint definitely needed
not just to be fixed

but updated and corrected
to be perfect.

Hell, even the pinstriping
turned out amazing without me.

So with the wiring, the
interior, and the wheels,

this car is now bitchin'.

[ laughs ]
it's broke in now.

Is that clutch or tires?

Both. [ laughs ]

might be safe to say that this
car looks better than it runs.

Its mild
and then you get on it

and it's like "aah!"

if rick loved this car
before he sent it up here,

I cannot wait for him to have
it back in his car collection.

I'm sure it'll be
the centerpiece

for at least
a couple more months.

it drives nice.
Yeah, it does.

This is a nice car.

It is a really nice car.

It's even nicer now
that we had our hands in it.

Oh, yeah.
If I do say so myself

because there's
a lot of things

that just -- the paint
didn't match right,

the body fittings, wheels
are so much better.

Yeah.

Sounds better.
Yeah.

this is definitely
a bitchin' day.

[ both laugh ]