[Will] Oh, my gosh,
this is another
[bleep] a*s Volkswagen.
This is my car.
That doesn't [bleep] make
any sense.
[Will] What'd you find?
-[laughs]
-[Eric] Half a doobie.
Must be Dave's.
[man 1] Part of working
for AkzoNobel
is the ability to
look at color and distinguish
the difference.
You have a green.
-[Kevin] Okay.
-And you have another green.
Hey, this is
the nicest car I've seen here,
let's be honest.
Take it easy.
[Will] Some of it's
pretty mangled, huh?
I was surprised.
[Dave] Hey, fellas,
look what I got.
-[Will] Oh.
-Nose job. [kisses]
Are you right there?
I have the laser beam...
-[laughs]
-[Dave]...right in your face.
[Dave] When I look
at a blank canvas,
I see endless possibilities.
As the ideas come to mind,
the lines start
to fall into place.
And before you know it,
we have a bitchin' ride.
[screeches]
[Dave] A bitchin' ride
has intense color...
-[man 2 laughs]
-[man 3] This is gorgeous.
[Dave] ...performance...
[man 4] It's fantastic.
[Dave] ...stance,
wheels, sound.
[engine revs]
[Dave] There's one thing
that makes our car stand out,
ours are bitchin' rides.
-[man 5]
Well, it never gets old.
-[man 6 laughs]
[Dave] We just got a 1963
Volkswagen convertible Beetle
into the shop to customize.
And it's for one of my
very favorite customers.
[Will] Oh, my gosh,
this is another
[bleep] a*s Volkswagen.
I don't know
if this is a Dave project
-or if this is
a client project.
-This is my car.
It's Dave's?
Spend extra special care
to it.
I don't judge
other people's car preferences
-unless it's Dave Kindig.
-Convertible?
Kinda makes sense.
What'd you find?
-[laughs]
-Half a doobie.
[Will] Oh, my gosh.
-[Eric laughs]
-Must be Dave's.
The convertible part,
kinda gross.
Whatever.
Not mine.
-You don't want it?
-No.
I'm just
tearing it apart. Right?
Well, these guys are
tearing it apart. I'm just
standing here
making stupid comments.
It's your job.
That's my job. [laughs]
[Dave] We all know that
once we're done with the build
on the vehicle, it's gonna be
one pristine machine.
But I actually think we have
a pretty decent vehicle
to start with.
[Jake] And last one.
[Eric] Woo-hoo.
The heater channels
look pretty good.
-[Jake] Uh...
-I think they look
pretty decent.
[Jake] This one's [bleep].
[Dave]
The under the seat thing?
-[Jake] Yeah.
-[Dave] That's 'cause
of the battery.
Pan halves, no big deal.
It would be dope
if I could get this body
and take this to the blaster.
Yeah.
[Jake]
Does that tunnel come out?
Or do you have
to pull everything out
from the back?
[Dave] No. That is the pan.
That ship puck right there
goes out.
So all you have to do is
undo that 10mm square bolt.
-This one?
-[Kevin] No, no, no.
I meant this one.
[Jake] Oh, yeah, yeah.
I see it.
[Dave] Yeah.
And then that just
slides right out the front.
It'll go. You got
two 10mm bolts
on the front of the pan.
-[Jake] Okay.
-There's an oval plate.
-[Jake] Yeah
-Pull that off.
And it just slides right out
that little opening
of the apron.
The brake line is not inside.
The fuel line is...
-[Jake] Yeah.
-[Dave]...inside there.
Leave it.
Don't take any tubes
out of it, whether it's
-a channel that
the cable runs through...
-[Jake] Yeah.
-...the fuel line...
-The only thing I'm
pulling out is the shifter.
Just pull the shift rod
out of there.
-The cables will pull out
just when you undo those.
-Yeah.
[Dave] You can throw
that [bleep] away if you want.
The front beam
does not need to go.
I've got a brand new one
coming from Airkewld.
I have a brand new transaxle,
a Super Street transaxle.
All the brakes, brake lines,
-all that stuff
is getting all changed out.
-[Jake] Yeah.
[Dave]
So convertible top frame
is gonna be very important.
Make sure we are
very careful with that
when we take it off. Make sure
that we make any notes
of parts that are missing.
If we can get it separated
before we go after windows
and all the other [bleep],
and then just if you can
set the body back down
and work on it like that,
that would be epic.
If we can, can we get the body
off of this ASAP
and get the pan ready
to go out?
You'll have a day or two
to take the rest of the stuff
off the body.
Awesome. And you can just
cut the wire out of it.
-We're not using any of it.
-[Eric] That's
the nicest part.
Sure it is.
-[Eric] Look at that.
-[Dave] That's not even stock.
[Eric laughs]
All right.
-Cool.
-It already has
a 12-volt conversion.
Yeah.
[Jake] Right on.
We'll get it done.
Sounds groovy.
[Jake] I don't like it.
Does not feel good.
Do you want to try to take
these windows out now?
Or do you want to just try
to get the frame out?
I think we got plenty of time.
-I don't think we're...
-[Jake] Yeah.
Is it just this one bolt
and then these four?
Do you know?
[Eric] I've never messed
with one of these before.
-Well, you already
took apart your side.
-What?
Your window?
-That was already apart.
-Oh. What the [bleep]!
Nevermind. My bad.
I thought you knew
what you were doing
over there.
Jake's kind of
struggling with this.
I think I'm gonna bring in
a relief pitcher.
-[Eric] Look at that.
-[Jake] Oh,
Jesus [bleep] Christ.
[bleep] get out of it.
Front's loose, too?
-Yeah, it's down.
-Do you want to pull it off?
Well, let's get this, uh...
-Convertible?
-...convertible top.
Trying to figure out
how to get these windows out.
-They're kind of janky.
-Yeah.
I feel like
the only thing holding it in
is this bolt on my side.
'Cause all four of mine, like,
in here are gone.
-[Eric] Oh, really?
-Well, maybe
the whole thing's just...
[Eric] Hey, look at that.
Thing came right off.
What else we got?
-Windows?
-[Jake] Yeah.
Dave and Charity are
paying most of the bills
this month, huh?
Between his Volkswagen
and her Chevelle.
Let's show Jake
how this is done.
What the [bleep]?
[Eric laughs]
How am I supposed
to get mine out?
That doesn't [bleep] make
any sense.
You know, the reason
why you can't teach
an old dog new tricks
is 'cause they know
all the tricks.
[Eric] What happened?
It just came off. [chuckles]
-[Eric] Oh.
-It'll be alright.
Like the rest
of this thing, huh?
[Jake]
Well, now I can probably just
pull my window straight out.
That's how you're
supposed to do it.
[Eric] No.
Silly Jake.
-Never worked
on a Volkswagen before.
-[Jake laughs]
-[Eric laughs]
-It doesn't come straight out?
What angle
did you come out of here?
What the [bleep]?
I'm just like flexing
the [bleep] out of
the door frame.
[Eric] I didn't even have
to take my...
regulator off or nothing.
Well, I didn't try
to take my regulator off,
it just fell off.
Ah, look at Eric.
He's worked on lots
of Volkswagens in his day.
-There we go.
-Thank you, sir.
That's kind of sketchy.
I'm, like, only
a third of the way
on the puck.
[Eric] Is it good?
[Jake] Maybe.
Give her a bump.
See what happens.
[Eric] Probably one bolt
holding the seat inside.
One broken bolt.
All right, let's roll
this thing out of here.
All right,
that's probably good.
-That's pretty solid.
-[Eric] That's really
not that bad, huh?
Hey, this is the nicest car
I've seen here,
let's be honest.
-Take it easy.
-[Jake chuckles]
[Dave]
It's so much easier to see
what we got to work with
when you take the body
off of the chassis,
or the pan in this case,
to see what kind
of structure we have.
Yeah, so what do you want
to keep here?
Okay, so, uh,
you can just take
that beam off in one big chunk
and set it aside.
Don't throw it away.
Might need the steering box,
but we'll take a look
at the quality of that.
[Eric] Okay.
[Dave] Uh, go ahead
and take the e-brake off,
take the puck out.
What I want to send over
to the blaster is
literally just these plates.
The spring plate.
I'll call and get some
pan halves coming.
-[Kevin] Convertibles are just
notorious for pan half, right?
-[Dave] Right.
'Cause the top fails
and then it basically fills
-full of water and just rusts
the whole floorboard out.
-[Dave] Mm-hmm.
Those don't need
to be blasted, we don't need
to waste the time.
-Cool.
-[Dave] So, cool.
How's the rest
of the car look, though?
Can we raise this up?
I want to see those
heater channels.
It's pretty solid, dude.
[Dave] Man,
the heater channels
look great.
-[Kevin] The convertible
supports look good, too.
-[Dave] Wow.
Yeah, those look
just a little surface.
[Kevin] Yeah, they're not bad.
You got maybe just
a little bit, but...
[Dave] Back here
where the battery...
[Kevin] Maybe, but we'll see.
I can't believe how nice
those heater channels are.
There's a little bit more
labor to do before we can
send this car up for dip,
so we'll go ahead
and get that done.
And in the meantime,
I'm gonna go ahead
and get on the drawing board
and see what
it's gonna look like.
So we're building
my latest project,
a 1963 convertible Beetle.
This color I
actually developed called
Bering Sea Blue,
and I absolutely thought
it was beautiful
on one of our CF1s,
especially with
the gold accents,
so I actually went ahead
and borrowed that combination.
It's going on my car,
and I love it.
This color I have in mind,
I'm gonna play around a bit
with the pearls
to make sure it really flops
from a very dark color teal
to a very vibrant teal.
This will really show off
all the body lines.
At my age, I don't really
care for surprises
as much as I used to, say,
when I was a little boy.
So I'm hoping there's
no more surprises.
So this is Dave's Bug.
We just got it back
from the dip.
There's a lot more stuff on it
that we found that were
messed up on it than before.
The heater channels
on the passenger side's
kind of rusted out.
And then in the back,
like, where the battery goes,
just a bunch of, like,
acid rust.
You can kind of see
some of it through here
where the light's
coming through.
This panel's probably gonna
get replaced.
Looks like it got booped
on the front at one point.
Perhaps... [chuckles]
This never happens to me.
There might be
just a little bit more
to this project
than I originally thought.
[Neil]
There's like a bunch of stuff
that just you couldn't see.
I think at one point,
this guy got in an accident
back here.
[Dave] We're building
my latest project,
a 1963 convertible Beetle.
The body has
a couple of issues,
but there is
replacement panels available,
so we're gonna go ahead
and change those out.
Some of it's
pretty mangled, huh?
I was surprised.
That nose is not worth saving.
-Yeah.
-Ugh. Dave's Bugs.
I don't know. This one,
it's relatively clean,
but it's bent,
you know, so,
we could straighten it,
but it's pretty much got to go
on a frame table
to get that nose squared away.
So if we can just chop it off
and put
a straight one on there,
then it'll probably save us
a lot of hassle.
And it'll just be
nicer overall.
Any time that
you get into, uh,
hammering all that
metal around,
if you can't get
perfect access to it,
it just doesn't end up as nice
as a fresh new stamping.
-So...
-[Neil] Yeah.
[Dave] While they're compiling
all of the parts
that need replaced,
we're gonna go ahead
and start on the pan floor.
Okay, so we got this
'63 frame back from
the sand blaster
and then these
repop floor pans.
So mixing the old
with the new,
I'm gonna make it all fresh.
Got to get
a couple little things trimmed
and prepped and bent
just to get the old
with the new fitting.
These are just a touch long,
which is nice.
Better than being short.
And the idea eventually is to
pop a bunch of holes in this
and spot-weld it
back to the frame.
I'm gonna put these
holes right back
where they were
and hopefully fill up
these voids
where the spot-welds
got drilled out.
Oops. Not there.
A couple of spot-welds there.
Then I'm gonna pop holes
all along where these
red lines are
and that will weld
this thing back together.
Looking pretty good.
Going to put
a couple of screws in here.
Clecos are something just to
hold it in place.
And then we'll be able to get
everything jiving together
and weld it all up.
[Dave] Just replacing
these pan halves
already has made
a huge difference.
Now we got to get
the body caught up
so we can marry 'em back.
Hey, fellas, look what I got.
-[Will] Oh, nice.
-[Dave chuckles]
Nose job. [kisses] Okay.
Every build that we do here
has to have a good foundation
or a reference point
in which to start.
A couple of things.
-Rear apron looks
like it's here, so...
-[Howard] Yep.
-The other day,
what'd you get?
-Yeah.
A heater tube and some of
their underbody structure.
-Oh, for under
the back seat that was...
-[Will] Mm-hmm.
-[Dave] Okay.
-[Will] Mm-hmm. Where
the battery was eating it.
Overall, the car looks
pretty good. I think,
really, the big parts...
-Yes.
-...that we're waiting on
is this, and then
that quarter panel.
-[Will] Yeah. Mm-hmm.
-Right? The front quarter.
Couple of things, though.
I don't want to do
the big overriders
with the bars
and all that stuff
and the tall bumperettes.
I'm gonna do just a blade
with the small bumperette,
which means that
these holes right here
for the overriders...
-[Will] Bingo.
-...is the support.
We need to take those out.
And now, obviously they're
not in the rear apron.
-They're in the rear fenders.
-[Howard] Mm-hmm.
So, I think you're working
on fenders right now?
-Yeah.
-Okay.
So, uh, front,
let's make sure we shave
the turn signals off.
Um, clean up anything
that looks questionable.
Stock door handles.
I mean, basically stock trim
on the car. I want
just more of, like,
a resto custom.
So, and I think we really got
a pretty decent car
to start with.
-What do you guys think?
-It's decent.
-Okay. Cool.
-Yeah.
Transaxle is
gonna be here any minute.
-Yeah.
-Uh, the front beam,
which is narrowed and dropped,
that's gonna be here.
Disc brakes
all the way around.
We're gonna go with the small
Porsche lug pattern,
uh, which is gonna look sick.
And then, uh,
Eric over at Ready is
almost done with the, uh,
the engine.
So, we'll have
some stuff to be able
to start marking up.
It's a dual 48,
so we'll make sure we got
some room under the hood.
We're not doing
any big body mods.
Stay in swing axle.
I'm not gonna do an I.R.S.
-No.
-[Will] Cool.
-No. And I think
just a nice resto...
-So, really, just
dial the body in and...
-Yup.
-...and send it.
[Dave] I'm gonna go to
a smaller snowflake tail light
instead of the '63 tail light.
I'm gonna go to
the '61 and earlier
tail light.
Which is just cooler looking.
Um, I'll get you some...
some, uh, new headlight rings
and fluted lenses.
I'd like to use that.
I think we had some
good headlight buckets.
So, we'll just make sure
we got all the components.
-Cool?
-What happened to the hood?
-And the hood hinges?
-[Dave clears throat]
Well, that's a good question.
Um, it looks to me,
based on looking at the hood,
that the hood
likely had been...
-40 miles an hour?
-...opened at
-Yeah.
-Which looks like
it tore that section.
Can you repair that or are you
-gonna have to replace that?
-[Will] We'll get it.
-Yeah, we'll fix it.
-Okay.
The car's in great hands.
It'll be in tip-top shape
in no time.
I'm just stoked to have
these parts so we can...
-Yeah, me too.
-'Cause this will go quick.
Nice. Okay. Well, far out.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks, guys.
Today we're in Michigan.
We're at our
very favorite place
to make paint.
That is AkzoNobel.
-Hey, Kim.
-So we made it.
[Kim] Hey, Dave, Kev.
-How are you, buddy?
-Good. How are you guys doing?
-Doing wonderful.
Good to see you.
-Thanks for the smocks.
-[Kim] Yeah.
-First and foremost.
Well, no problem.
We're here to develop a color
for a very special project.
First of all, welcome
to the Troy R&D Center.
Uh, we develop paint.
We hold trainings here.
All we know is we've got
these kick-a*s coats
and we're supposed
to be here at two o'clock.
So we're gonna run you through
some of the training exercises
that we do here as employees.
If you pass,
I'll let you keep the coats.
If you fail,
I'm taking them back.
Is there gonna be
like a competition
between me and Dave?
-Absolutely.
-'Cause I'm on
a hot streak right now.
I have dominated lately.
-Oh.
-Nobody lies like him
-or cheats like him...
-Wow.
-...ever.
-Wow, that's...
I really don't think
Kevin can practice enough
to cheat
as bad as he's trying.
This is my wheelhouse, man.
You ready to start?
-I'm excited.
-All right.
-Let's go.
-Let's do it.
I'm ready to teach him
a lesson or two.
[Kevin] Me and Dave
have an absolutely
amazing opportunity
to see where
one of the key ingredients
that we use on
every single build gets made.
-[Kim] Matt.
-[Matt] Oh, yeah.
-Dave, and Kev here.
-Yeah. Dave Kindig.
-Nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you.
It's like we walked
into a paint booth.
-Yeah. My own
virtual paint booth.
-[Dave laughs]
-How's it going, guys?
-So Matt is an expert
on our virtual reality spring.
They're here to learn it
and test themselves on it.
And it's a little competition
-to see who does better.
-[Matt] All right.
-Sounds good.
-More importantly,
let's figure out
-how to make Dave win.
-That's right.
I was talking... I was talking
in the third person again.
I'm sorry.
Don't act like it's a joke.
Nobody ever cheats for me.
No... Oh, there it is. Oh.
-There you go.
-[exclaims] Baby.
-[Kevin laughs]
-[Dave] Ooh.
Is this considered practice?
No, no. You know what?
I'm not gonna cheat.
Are you right there?
I have the laser beam...
-[Kevin laughs]
-...right in your face.
-[laughs] He's so excited.
-[Dave mimics laser beams]
-He's so excited.
-[Dave mimics laser beams]
-[laughs] Okay. We're gonna
need to put this back.
-[Dave] Sorry.
We're gonna need
to put this...
Oh, my God.
I'm so tripping out.
Kids have it
so much cooler than we did.
I think Kevin should go first.
I don't play
video games all the time,
but I'm about this.
[Dave] Should I stand back?
I got a feeling
-he's gonna swing...
-Stand back.
A little over here.
You can see
the part in front of you.
Yeah, but I'm like,
standing in the hood.
[Matt] Back, back,
back, back, back, back.
-This is a little hood.
-So what we can do is
actually teach painters,
specifically new painters,
how to paint our products
on specific parts.
And you paint just like
you normally would.
What do you mean
like I normally do?
I'm not a painter.
-What color is this?
-[Matt] It's a white primer.
So as you can paint,
you can see that laser
out of the end of the g*n.
That's telling you
your distance.
So red means you're
a little bit too far away.
So if you move closer
to the g*n, you'll see
that laser turn green.
Now you're
at the ideal distance
for how you want to be
for that specific paint
in that g*n to the part
you're painting.
So he has an awkward form.
He has an awkward form.
-[Kevin] I can
hear you guys. Okay?
-[all chuckling]
What we can do
in this system is turn on
other training A*DS.
We can trace
the path of the g*n
to tell you
if you're moving too fast,
moving too slow for the paint
that you're painting.
I think I did great, but let's
just check the score.
[Matt] So I'm gonna turn on
your accumulation.
[Kevin]
Yeah, heck yeah! Is it...
[Matt] So there's a heat map
of how you're doing.
So anywhere that's light green
or gray or white,
you don't have enough paint.
-[Kevin] Pretty good.
-Where you have bright green,
that's where you have
enough paint.
And if I turn on this,
now you can see,
that's your g*n path.
[Kevin]
That's pretty good too.
-[Matt] So you've got
a pretty consistent overlap.
-[Kevin] So this is... Look.
This is where I started.
-[Matt] Yeah.
-And look. Once I got to here,
I improved
on the rest of the hood.
If that was
an actual painted part,
would you hire said painter?
-[Kevin]
It's my first time, bro.
-For the first time,
-it's pretty good.
-[Dave] I know.
That's what I'm saying. But...
-Room for improvement.
I like it.
-[Kevin] Hey, just...
-Put a second coat on there.
We'll see how you're doing.
-Yeah.
-Okay.
-[Matt] So as you
build more paint,
as the paint
gets closer to hiding,
you'll see it start
to gloss up.
-And you can see that.
-[Dave] Okay. Mm-hmm.
[Matt] And that's your
visual feedback
that you're getting
a real nice wet coat...
-[Dave] Right.
-[Matt]...which is what
we're looking for.
[Dave] It's looking
a lot better, Kev.
-[Matt] Right. Now you're
ready to see?
-[Kevin] Do the things.
-[Kevin exclaims]
-[Matt] Pretty good.
So anywhere that's
a little dark green,
-that's where you may be
a touch heavy.
-[Dave laughs]
[Matt]
Yeah, just put a little bit.
Okay. So overall,
not bad if you're
a first time painter.
-Yeah, I've never really
painted anything
-Your body position
was sometimes a bit awkward.
And your overall score,
for a first time painter
is okay,
-but it's a 54 out of 100.
-Okay.
Let me give it a shot.
Kevin's going down, man.
I don't even have to think
about a way to cheat.
[Matt] Now he's got
the training wheels on.
You can see how much paint
he's putting in.
So when he gets done
with this first half,
I'll turn it off and then
we can compare this half
to the other half.
-See how nice
that white looks?
-[Dave] Yeah.
[Matt] Now you're gonna paint
the other side
and you're not gonna have that
green accumulation view.
[Dave] Okay.
[Matt] So try to wet it out
the same exact way
you just did.
[Kevin]
Just remember, if Dave wins,
training wheels were involved.
[Dave] Okay.
-You wanna see how you did?
-Let's do.
[Kevin] Not as good.
So if you look at
the first half,
the one you sprayed
with that training on,
you see how you got
full coverage.
-Yeah.
-Now, that second half,
you can see a few light spots.
Yeah, but not nearly
as bad as Kevin's.
[Matt]
No, not nearly as bad.
Form was a little better, too.
Form was much better.
Way less awkward.
[Kevin] This is just like
the time in New York.
This is what I feel like.
When I cheated?
Did you hear that,
at The World?
Cheater! I caught him again.
No, he's got full coverage.
I have full coverage, uh,
just one time.
That's a professional
thing I do.
They say
if you're not cheating,
you're not really trying.
You had much better
transfer efficiency.
Seventy-four.
[chuckles] Well...
Your scores came out
about the same.
Now, I will say this.
-It's 54 out of 100...
-What?
...but you only painted
one side.
If you flip it over,
paint the other side,
you'd be like a 98.
Could it be said that Kevin's
would have been, too?
No, because
his transfer efficiency
was worse than yours,
because he was so awkward
when he painted.
I'm [bleep] out of here.
[all laughing]
Nice! I do like winning.
-I'm just saying.
-Good job, Dave.
Thank you.
Hey, right back at--
I was actually
really impressed.
If we ever really
got in a pinch,
I could put you in that booth.
For both of you,
I'd say you passed.
-Barely, though.
-I'd hire you as
an entry-level painter.
-Yeah! Entry-level.
-There you go.
There you go.
-Hey, again,
thank you so much.
-Thanks, guys.
-Thank you for letting us--
-Thank you.
This thing is awesome.
I might sneak back
and maybe paint some more
-before we leave.
-Do some more practicing?
-But who knows.
-Cool.
[Dave and Kevin]
On to our next.
[Dave] Before I kick
Kevin's a*s again,
my bug is coming along
great at the shop.
As in most cases
with my purchases,
we have to break
the car down a lot further
so that we can
build it back up.
With so many cuts and parts
being replaced
on this front end,
we need to make sure that
we have everything in place
to make sure
it's properly fit.
Then we can weld.
The nose is
connected well enough,
so now we can go ahead
and start replacing
other sections.
[Howard] There's some rust
in the heater tube/rocker.
VWs, they ran the heat
through the rockers
from the exhaust.
There was a rusty area
right here.
It's all covered by carpet.
It's all buried.
So it's more
just structural repairs,
not really aesthetics.
[Dave] Sometimes,
to get the weld right,
you got to bring out
the big g*ns.
We're making great
and quick progress
on my Volkswagen,
but we've got
a long way to go.
-Oh, Jesus, dude, you scared
the [bleep] out of me.
-[cameraman laughs]
The body on
my '63 convertible Beetle
was actually pretty clean,
but it just seemed like
a better choice
to go ahead
and replace those areas.
Much like all Volkswagens,
they've been bumped
in the parking lot,
rear-ended,
front-ended, whatever.
Somebody hit the back, too,
so we're gonna go ahead
and replace that as well.
[Neil] I think this was like
a previous repair.
The whole thing got smashed in
and that's all fixed
for the most part.
But this was
like already existing.
This is actually looking
all right. Looks good.
When it's already
beat up like this,
it's like the metal is
a lot harder
than it would be, say,
like in this spot
where it hadn't been beat up.
So it's-- it's
a little difficult to move it.
[Dave] Sometimes,
like when you remove,
say, the rear apron,
like Howard's doing,
he basically found
that the rear quarter panel
had popped out of place.
He had to strap that back.
That's pretty common.
Once he gets that in place,
he should be able to
perfectly land
that new apron
and get it welded in.
We have a whole bunch
of innovative products
that we use.
As an employee,
you need to learn all of them.
So I'm going to
bring in Jen and Sue,
and they're going
to talk about
one of our most recent
innovative technologies
called Carbeat.
So, as Ken was saying,
as a brand ambassador
of Sikkens,
we offer Sikkens customers
and body shops Carbeat.
It is a digital
production board,
and it helps body shops
reduce their cycle times.
You need to know these things
so that we can
properly sell it
-to our customers.
-Look how scared I am.
[Jen] Don't be scared.
That's fine.
-Okay.
-So let me give you
a quick demo.
-[Kevin] Cool.
-This board takes you
from the time the car goes
into the body shop
to the time that it goes out.
-Okay.
-It follows every part
of the process
that the car goes through
in the repair.
So as they move through
the body shop
in the repair process,
you can move them
from one board to the next.
What if a car
is waiting for parts,
but it's still
in the body shop?
It will show how long
it's been a bottleneck.
So you can run reports
to see where you can
improve your efficiencies.
-It's a great tool.
-Cool.
So do you feel like
you know enough to be deadly?
-Um...
-Uh-- well-- in-- in...
Yes, absolutely.
Sue is a new customer,
and we'd like you to
sell it to her.
A new customer for this.
[Jen] She's
a new body shop customer.
Perfect. Go ahead, Kev.
Oh, you--
No, no, no, no, no.
I went first last time.
You go first this time.
Okay. Well, what I'd like
to introduce you guys to
is Carbeat.
And Carbeat basically
is AkzoNobel's product
that is able to keep track
of all of the vehicles,
the stages that they're in,
whether parts
have been ordered,
how efficiently they're being
moved through the body shop,
the paint shop and reassembly.
And so you can simply,
as you are doing
your process of each vehicle,
you can actually move them up
to the next stage.
So then this opens up
another spot for check-in.
You can basically assess,
find out all the parts
that you need,
and basically
train your component
to-- that's competing
against you
to sell you on
the same thing I just said.
-You're hired.
-Well done.
-Yeah.
-Thank you, Doctor.
-Good job.
-Doctor.
-Excuse me.
-Sorry.
Let me get out your way.
So you're thinking about
picking up
AkzoNobel's Carbeat.
What are your problems
in your shop?
I feel like we do have
some bottlenecks.
So what do you think
causes these bottlenecks?
Not sure.
Do you think it's like
miscommunication?
Or do you think it's
maybe people don't know
enough in the moment?
It could be
a communications issue.
This is an answer to that,
because basically what
you're doing
is you're putting down
everything in this system
and you're able
to switch it around--
[laughing]
I'm sorry.
-I'm sorry.
-I was about
to cut you a check.
You were doing really good.
I get it. I get it.
-[Jen] A little more serious.
-I get it.
Okay. So what this--
what this allows you to do
is just to get everybody
on the same page.
Say your parts guy's
a little slow.
Good guy, maybe a little slow.
This is gonna actually show
the bottleneck to parts
so you can put
a little bit more attention
to that department.
So without this Carbeat,
you're just
like everybody else.
I don't want to be
like everybody.
Yeah, exactly.
You want to be--
You want to be a step ahead
and you want to be efficient.
Time is all we have
in this life,
and you want to use it
as efficiently as possible.
-Would you like to go
to dinner?
-Oh, my God, I almost--
[laughing] You just said,
"Time is all we have
-in this life."
-"Would you like to go
to dinner?"
Yeah, my bad.
-Yeah.
-You're fired.
Now look who's serious.
How do you get fired
on your first day,
-for God's sakes?
-Look at who's--
I told you. Just use ninja...
-You made the customer cry.
-...status mind.
-You made her snort.
-With...
-I am crying.
-...with-- with laughter.
-With laughter.
-And a snort.
And it was awesome.
Time in body shops
is all we have.
Do we get to pick
the winner yet?
Okay. Don't listen.
You're going
to get upset with me.
-No, I'm fine.
-You k*lled it.
-[Dave] Thanks.
-[Jen] He already made
you cry.
-I'm fine.
-So now it's your turn.
You did a great job as Kevin.
-Yeah.
-You k*lled it.
Oh, thanks.
You know, actually,
long-time fan,
first-time seller.
I hate losing.
I hope I did enough to pass.
So, Jen, what's the ruling?
[inhales]
Pass.
Barely pass?
I'm really trying
to earn this thing here.
Needs summer school.
-Maybe a little
bit more training. Yeah.
-That's fair. I'll take it.
Okay. And I think it's on to
the next challenge.
[Dave] There's more.
Another part of working
for AkzoNobel
is the ability
to look at color
and distinguish
the difference.
What does that--
What did you--
-Did you call ahead?
-No.
Great. Another challenge
that's biased against me.
-Neil...
-I had no idea.
-...is a researcher...
-Hi.
-How are ya?
-...in the color group.
-Nice to meet you.
-And he is gonna take you
-through a test...
-Nice to meet you.
...that everyone coming in
needs to be able to perform.
This looks
like my girlfriend's
eye shadow selection.
That's a lot of eye shadow.
Yeah, she's crazy.
[Ken] Well, Neil, I'll let
you take it from here.
All right. Thanks, Ken.
We're testing your ability
to distinguish
different hues of color,
and it's been randomized.
What I need you to do
is put them in order
from red to green.
You get points deducted--
well, added,
based on how far apart the
two are that you messed up.
So if you switch
two and three,
then you only lose
a little bit.
But if you switch
one and three,
then you lose more points
because they're further
apart from each other.
-Who wants to go first?
-Do you want to go first?
Or do you want me to go first?
You go first.
Okay.
So, I think I'm just going
to start to move stuff
that looks more common.
These look like mid-laned.
Right there.
That's greener,
greener, greener.
That's much greener
than that one.
So I'm gonna say
that is a good match there.
[Neil] It's supposed to take
two minutes or less.
[Kevin] Less time than this.
But you're allowed to take
as long as you want.
This should be like a walk
in the park for Dave Kindig.
You should be able
to whip this thing out
in 30 seconds, huh?
Yeah,
it's an everyday activity.
-[Kevin] Yeah.
-[Dave] You know what?
I'm feeling pretty confident.
Let's just go with that.
-What do you think?
-Mmm...
Looks good to me.
Kevin's got
his own set of colors.
I got my own set of colors.
This is about
as fair as it gets.
Would you say the average
is about two minutes?
-[Neil] Yep.
-So that's coming up
pretty quick.
I think that
looks pretty good.
I'm gonna try that.
To be a color expert,
you want to get 12 or less.
So that's three errors
out of the 100.
-Okay.
-So we accept perfect.
Hmm.
I'm not gonna say anything.
[Neil laughing]
Are you good?
[Kevin] That's as good as
it's gonna get.
It might have been better
before. I'm kind of bummed.
[Neil] You flip them over.
They're numbered.
Good job.
Tell your friends.
[upbeat hip-hop music playing]
[speaking inaudibly]
One. That's it.
Dude, you're badass.
Thanks, dude.
Some might say
it's too close to call.
Uh, I think the results
should speak for themselves.
I only got one off
because I was having mimosas
this morning.
I'm totally kidding.
So those were just crossed?
Just, I got those two crossed.
-Oh!
-So Dave missed two.
And they were
right next to each other,
so it's still really,
really good.
-Thank you.
-It's just not perfect.
-I wish I could have--
-But...
we're not perfect. You know?
No, no.
I'm super-happy
that I won this one,
but I would have
much rather been able
to sell a computer program.
Well, the truth be known,
I would have rather
that been you,
only one small mistake,
and me perfect.
His was perfect?
-Yes.
-Yup. Nice.
-Hell yeah.
-Nice.
Got me by two points.
I'd like to thank the academy.
I'd like to thank the Grammys.
I'd like to thank
whoever needs to be thanked.
And last but not least,
I'd like to thank me.
-One more.
-One more?
-One more.
-The only reason I got that
is because I go
to Sephora all the time.
[Dave] Is that the color of
mascara you normally wear?
[Kevin] Yeah.
[Kevin] Dave and I have
been competing
in a series of events,
and this is
the last challenge.
When you guys come up
with a color,
it gets sent here.
So we take the panel or the
wet paint that you provide us
with the formula that
you gave us,
and we'll spray that out
and we check the hiding,
make sure it has
very strong hiding,
so you don't have to put
to get a good coverage.
But we also check to make sure
it has durability,
strong weather fastness
so they don't fade
when they're out in the sun.
And that way, your car stays
looking beautiful
as long as possible.
[Dave] Far out.
Well, it's been working
so far.
What would be fun...
if we could,
is to make a color.
Oh, you don't know.
That has been my dream
for so long.
-You want to play around?
-Yeah.
-Well--
-Do we have time?
[Ken] That's your last test.
You get to make your
own color.
-I'm in.
-All right, let's do it.
Neil, Bob,
coaching is allowed on this.
I already have one color
challenge under my belt.
This will be like
sh**ting fish in a barrel.
Okay, so you have a green...
Okay.
-...and you have
another green.
-Okay.
Here's what I want to do.
I actually want to create
maybe a color with, like,
a little bit more
on the green-gold side.
See how this green
is just slightly yellow-er
than this green?
Absolutely.
So you want to start with
one of those over there?
Yes. I want to start with
all of those over there.
Pour a little bit in a cup,
take a spatula, spread it out.
-Look what that is.
-Oh, okay. Okay.
That's a nice green.
That is a nice green.
-Why don't we start with
this here...
-Green?
...which would be
a yellow gold.
All right, let's do that.
[Kevin] Why can't
we just pour this in there
and call it the color?
-I mean, you could, but--
-Oh, 'cause we're making
a new color.
That'd be boring.
I'm gonna start with
a little bit
of Green Pearl in here, too.
Just a smidge.
This is pretty powerful.
And we're going for a green.
[Neil] Do you want it more
yellow or more blue?
Definitely more blue.
-How much are we--
How much should we make?
-Keep going, keep going,
keep going.
[Neil] All right,
there you go.
Let's just
see where that goes.
Already, we're in kind of
the neighborhood
where I wanted to be.
This is like
a chartreuse pearl.
[Neil] You wanted it
a little bluer, right?
Yeah.
-We have-- There's a blue.
-The blue's going to be
not that one.
The one to the right.
Yep. Now, don't put too much
of that in there
because it's strong.
[Kevin] How long have you been
mixing paint for?
-Uh, eight years.
-Wow!
Isn't that beautiful?
Look at that.
That'd look great with, like,
a copper.
[Kevin] Yeah,
we need to make it just
a little bit more green,
a tiny bit less blue.
-That's great.
-I want to see
how powerful it is.
-Oh, yeah!
-Yeah, that's pretty powerful.
[Kevin] And then we probably
should stir it up
at this point
and see.
-Is this it?
-[Neil] Yup.
Like, a lot? Or should we just
like baby-step it?
Uh...
[Dave] Yeah, baby,
look at that flop.
So when I come up with
a color like this that's--
that looks good wet
in the cup,
when you guys get it
and you go back
and you'll balance it
to make sure
that it doesn't go muddy
when it's sprayed,
and that kind of stuff,
so it'll get basically
the correct float
for the pearls to come
to the surface...
-Correct.
-...where we want it
to drop in.
-Okay.
-[Bob] Yup.
Okay.
Give it a good stir.
You know what? I don't think
I want to touch it anymore.
-Okay.
-I think I'm actually
really happy
with where this is at.
[Neil] Now, can you see
the flakes of the effect?
-Barely.
-You kind of buried it in?
-Yeah.
-So why don't
we up the effect?
Okay.
We'll put
a big amount of that in.
-This?
-Yep.
Bingo.
Let it rip, potato chip.
Let's spray it
and let's just see.
This will be the first color
that I've ever developed
or even made from scratch.
-[Dave] Did you do the Pearl?
-Yeah.
Nice. Let's check it out.
This at least
will do one thing for me.
It'll be less complaining,
uh, to listen to
on the way home on the plane.
So there's that.
I'm ready.
Oh, look, you made puke.
-Oh, look, you made
old-grandpa-truck green.
-Yeah, this--
Yeah, this green
reminds me about--
Where's your stir stick?
I can't see [bleep].
[Kevin] Well, I don't want
you to see it.
-It's gonna be a secret
till we spray it.
-Oh, horse-- horse crap.
Let me see what you got.
That is pretty.
You know,
I'm really a classy guy.
Uh-huh?
Sometimes. [laughing]
That's like... okay, I'm
buying what you're selling.
But, yeah, I'm excited.
-This is a really cool color.
-I like that.
What do you got?
Oh, you got, like,
a lighter VW green there, huh?
So that's-- Well,
I wouldn't say it was that.
That's where
we went different.
So you went
more to the yellow side...
-Yup.
-...and I went
more to the blue side.
Right.
Are you guys both happy
with what you have?
-I am. I am. Yup.
-Great.
I think what we're gonna do is
we're gonna have them
spread up for you here.
-Perfect.
-In the meantime,
I'm gonna send you guys
over to our Pontiac facility,
and you guys can check out
the production aspect
and what they do over there.
Oh, that'd be cool.
If you guys want to go ahead
and formulate this,
I'll take
the formula to Pontiac
-so they can just get it
into production ASAP.
-Well...
I think it kind of still needs
to go through our color team
-to make sure it's--
-The ambition.
It was amazing
to see the process
that these products
get produced
for us to apply on
these beautiful cars we build.
And now we have a car
that's ready for paint.
Go figure.
It's kind of funny.
You cross stuff off
and then you end up
figuring out more stuff to do.
So it's like a never-ending
list type of deal.
I'm waiting on parts
for some of these things.
I think I probably should
get to the fender.
I'm gonna grab the DA
and clean up some of
that fender on the other side
and start hammering
on that one.
We had to open this up,
this piece and this piece,
to make it
match the other side.
It was short.
For the most part,
it's-- it's pretty good.
There's a low spot right here
that I need to figure out,
getting rid of all of the...
like, low spot
next to the weld.
I mainly just want to get this
this weld spread back open
to pooch this back up.
Get the shape back into it.
You can feel the big
mountains and valleys,
and stuff like that.
It's just awkward
trying to hold it.
'Cause you have to hold pretty
good pressure against this,
or else you're just...
twanging the metal
in between each other.
I gotta finish welding it.
That sucks.
The rear fenders
are getting new taillights,
so I've got to measure
where those need to go
and put those in.
[Dave] The last major part of
putting this body together
is going to be the fenders.
So getting them fit perfectly,
fitting the lights,
making sure
everything has got its place,
and it's off to body.
We're building my 1963
Beetle convertible right now,
and it is ready for paint.
[Dave] This color
I actually developed,
called Bering Sea Blue,
and I absolutely
thought it was beautiful
on one of our CF1s,
especially
with the gold accents.
So I actually went ahead
and borrowed that combination.
It's going on my car,
and I love it.
I've got some of the best
polishers in the industry,
and this car is gonna shine
like nobody's business.
[polisher] So I do
a little section at a time,
make sure everything's out,
all the scratches are out,
all the swirlies are out,
and wipe the haze off.
[Dave] With so many great
projects going on in the shop
and we're so busy, you know,
sometimes you're gonna
do something for yourself,
but it's not
the biggest priority.
In this case, my VW,
it's got a close place
in my heart,
but, right now, the car
is gonna go to SEMA
without an upholstery job
and not being finished
is okay.
I'll finish it next spring,
but, right now,
it's not the biggest priority.
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11x11 - Back in the Club
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Reality show featuring Dave Kindig from the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company Kindig It Designs as they show their process of restoring and rebuilding vehicles.
Reality show featuring Dave Kindig from the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company Kindig It Designs as they show their process of restoring and rebuilding vehicles.