05x04 - Franken-Tank

[bunniefuu]

[heavy rock music playing]

[Shawn] We feel

a very fair value is 125 grand.

I'm really comfortable about $65,000 cash.

[Shawn] We're in the middle of negotiating

a sale price for this hot rod Tesla.

Mark wants 90 grand for this car.

But unfortunately, our buyer, Joe,

either doesn't think it's worth that,

or he's playing hardball with us.

You know, you're Nick's buddy.

We'll drop it

all the way down to 100 grand.

I appreciate that,

but I really feel the deal for me,

I'll go up to 78,000.

-[tense music playing]

-Man, that's just not close enough for us.

It was hard enough finding this buyer,

so I'm really hoping that

I can get Joe up to that 90 grand figure.

If you had somebody

try and build you a car like this,

there's no way

you'd even get close to 100 grand.

The budget'd be skyrocketed

on something like this.

I tell you what.

I think our absolute rock bottom

we could go,

man, is 95.

I mean, that's that's

the lowest we can go.

And you did want a Gotham Garage car.

This is a modern art piece.

This has potential

to appreciate quite well.

So from a business standpoint,

this could make some sense anyway.

Listen, for my usage

in my office as a centerpiece,

seventy-eight five is my final offer.

[tense music playing]

Cash.

-[Shawn] Mark, what are you thinking?

-[Mark] I totally get it.

Um, but I think

it's just not the right fit at this time.

So, I just appreciate

you coming down here.

I just think we're too far away today

to make it happen.

-I understand what you're sayin'.

-[Mark] I appreciate your time, man.

Much respect.

[Nick] I know Mark's the owner of the shop

and has the final say in these decisions,

but in my opinion,

we should have taken this deal.

I think Mark's fixated on the short-term

and the immediate money from the Tesla

when he should be looking at

the the long-term aspect

of having a client like Joe

owning a Gotham Garage car

and putting it on display.

-[Joe] All right, my friend.

-Thanks for coming.

[Nick] Maybe we just have philosophical

differences on how we do business,

but I think this was a missed opportunity.

[Mark] Well, sometimes it doesn't happen.

Oh, man.

[clicks, whirs]

[revs, sputters]

[revs]

-[dramatic organ music playing]

-[wind gusting]

[grunts] I just hate pushing

another expensive car into storage.

-Yeah. It happens.

-It hurts.

It is what it is.

Did you let the crew know?

Yeah. I texted them

and told them the deal was a no-go.

[Mark] And?

They weren't too thrilled about it,

that's for sure.

[Mark] I'm sure that everybody's

pretty frustrated right now

because we didn't take

the money on the Tesla.

But there's just too much time

and too much money invested

to sell yourself short.

I'm not letting it go for 78 grand.

Between building the Barracuda

to acquire the Tesla

and then building the Tesla itself,

we're about 60 grand deep

into this whole deal.

Plus, we need to pay out

eight people now instead of five.

I know what we can get for it,

and I'm not ready

to give up on that just yet.

Definitely on that one.

We've invested so much

of this shop's energy into this project.

My feeling is we have to get

a solid return for this car.

Tony's texting me. It says, uh,

"Can you guys come over to the shop?

I wanna talk to you about something."

"Me, Caveman, and Constance

are waiting for you."

-Hmm. Don't know what that's about.

-You think we're fired?

I hope.

[exciting rock music playing]

[Constance] Ah, there they are.

-'Sup?

-What's going on?

-What'sa happen?

-Are we Are we in trouble or something?

[chuckling] Not exactly,

but, you know, we've just been talking,

and, uh, you know,

we always trust you guys

to steer us in the right direction

and have the best interest

of us in the shop.

But we're just a little confused about

the overall direction that we're taking,

and it it just doesn't feel like

there's a clear path forward.

Going after the high-end clients is great.

But adding a high-end upgrade and trade

on top of that

seemed like a recipe for disaster.

Now there's way too much money

going out of the shop,

and there's just not enough coming in.

I think it goes without saying,

I'm kicking myself now

for trying to pull off

this massive upgrade and trade.

With Nick coming in,

maybe I felt like

I needed to prove my worth.

Maybe I thought

if I couldn't compete with Nick,

these guys wouldn't need me anymore.

But I had no idea

it would dig us into this big of a hole.

You know, we're not saying, like,

we're broke or anything,

but it definitely felt like

after last year we were on this up and up,

and, you know,

more money was gonna be coming in.

[Shawn] Yeah

And over the past few weeks,

it kinda feels like that's not happening,

or even taking a step backwards.

Gotta have dollars to make sense,

and now we don't have any dollars.

So it's not making any sense.

[Shawn] Seeing the whole crew

get so demoralized by this, it's tough.

I let my ego get in the way of the shop,

and that just can't happen.

Obviously, this upgrade and trade

was a bad deal.

If I would've known

that it was causing this many problems,

I wouldn't have brought it in.

You know, lesson learned.

At least you're man enough to admit it.

But I think right now

it's a little too early to panic.

We got some big picture dilemmas

that we gotta deal with, hammer out.

I think, in the short term,

if you guys are concerned about money,

I think maybe we just pump the brakes

and we just do a project

that we're all comfortable with.

That could work.

I feel like we gotta do something, though.

We gotta We gotta kind of change.

Shake it up a little bit.

So I was down in Old Town,

and I saw a Harley Dyna.

-They only wanted five grand for it.

-For a Dyna, that's a pretty good price.

We do super well with motorcycles.

They take no time to build,

and we've never had

a problem unloading a bike.

-Bikes are quick.

-Yeah.

[Mark] If the crew is feeling like

we're getting a little over our skis

and we need some quick cash,

then a custom Harley is the perfect build

to get us back on track.

You know, we could just go crazy

and do some wild customization on it

and get, like, 45 grand for it.

-[Caveman] I like crazy.

-[Mark] You are crazy.

-That's why I like crazy.

-[Mark] That's why. I know.

A Harley Dyna is a very basic bike.

It's kinda like

a Harley-Davidson starter kit.

But that means it's a perfect blank slate

for a Gotham Garage Road Warrior.

-That's old-school Gotham Garage there.

-Yeah.

-I like it.

-Sure, sounds good.

[Mark] Then, in the morning,

Shawn and I will go down to Old Town,

and we'll pick up the bike

and meet you here in the morning,

and we can start on that project.

[Tony] All right. Sounds like a plan.

[exciting rock music playing]

[engine rumbling]

[Jake] What is that?

[Tony] I think that's

our next project showing up.

-[Brian] Really?

-[Jake] Yeah.

-Little Dyna action.

-[music fades]

[Mark] It runs like a champ.

-We score a good deal?

-[Mark] Yeah. Like, stole it pretty much.

If the cops show up,

it wasn't me riding it.

[all laugh]

[Mark] So the bottom line is this

Tesla trade has set us back quite a lot.

When things get a little rough,

we do a bike.

The profit margin

in these things is ridiculous.

But you guys know the deal with bikes.

For us to make 40 grand,

we're gonna have to go

way above and beyond crazy custom.

That means tons of custom parts

and a totally unique design.

Tony, I'm gonna assign you

to this project.

And, Caveman,

I want you to be his right hand.

Yeah. Okay.

Tony did such a phenomenal job

taking the reins on the man cave build

that I want him to do the same thing

on this custom bike.

And Caveman is deep into the bike scene.

He knows Harleys better than anyone.

-Damn right I do.

-I know.

[all chuckling]

Shawn and Nick, this bike project

ain't gonna last forever,

so you guys need to go find us

another deal so we can get some money

Sure.

and get this ball rolling again.

Sound good?

-Sounds good.

-All right.

[Mark] Everybody knows their job?

Let's get it done.

[exciting rock music playing]

[Tony] I've been looking at some bikes,

and they have this crazy steering,

it's called center hub steering.

-Kinda like a rear swingarm in the front.

-Okay. Streamlined look.

[Tony] I'm definitely glad that Mark

suggested a motorcycle for this project

because I have a catalog

of custom motorcycle designs

always ready to go.

One in particular

is gonna be perfect for this bike.

I've been dreaming about

this idea for a super unique bike

for a long time now.

It's a blend of two of my favorite things,

superhero movies and badass motorcycles.

What I see in my head, Caveman,

is basically like a superhero bike.

If you wanna sell it to Harley guys,

you're gonna have to go

like a supervillain bike.

That's genius. A supervillain bike.

[dramatic music playing]

We're gonna push the bike

super low to the ground.

Really low.

Then we're gonna stretch it out.

Think more stretched out

than you've ever seen a bike before.

And then we're gonna add

two giant wide tires

in the front and back.

They obviously don't make

Harley parts like this.

So we're gonna have to make

everything custom.

We'll start with a center hub

steering system in the front

and a wider, stretched-out swingarm

in the back.

And for our paint job, we want

our supervillain to blend in at night.

So we're gonna give it

a satin black and bronze paint job.

This will be the most custom bike

we have ever done.

So, uh, can you pull this off

or you just up blowing smoke?

-No, I got this. Yeah.

-All right.

There was only a little smoke.

[laughs]

[upbeat synth rock music playing]

[Shawn] This string here,

that's an orange string.

That's like a tentative deal.

That's That's a more hardcore deal

that's gonna go down.

You're getting involved in

Professor Pilot's string theory over here?

-That's exactly what it is.

-That's not a place you wanna go.

-Anyway.

-Red strings are hot deals.

Okay, the reason the reason

we brought you in here

because Nick has found us

another big deal.

Really?

My overall plan with Gotham

is to establish them

within my key circle of clients.

And I've obviously been talking them up

and creating some buzz,

but getting these big clients to trust

a new shop with an expensive car build,

that's proven trickier than I expected.

[Shawn] It's some sort of mystery

'cause he hasn't told me a thing about it.

So spill it, Nick. What do you got?

[chuckles] I think

this is a deal you'll like.

In the meantime,

while I'm finessing my clients,

I've managed to track down

a nice project through a friend.

It'd be the perfect project

to tide us over.

It's not the biggest build,

certainly not the biggest budget,

but it has a ton of upside

and very much in Gotham's wheelhouse.

-You know Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park?

-Yep.

So Fred, who runs it,

I've known Fred for years.

He has recently acquired, uh,

an M-29 Weasel personnel carrier.

[Mark] He's got a track Weasel?

-[Nick] He does.

-[Shawn] The little tank thing?

-Yeah, it's a mini tank.

-Yeah.

He wants it for for promotion

of the Motorsports Park.

He wants to turn it

into something flamboyant.

He wants to put a car on it.

The word "rat rod" came up.

Oh, I like the word "rat rod."

So he wants us to take an old car,

put it down on an old tank.

-[Nick] Yep.

-And so what's he

What's he talking about price-wise?

Fifty-five grand.

Fifty-five grand for a rat rod?

I may not be in a position

to voice my opinion

with the Tesla and all, I get that.

You're right.

But is this the right build

for us right now?

It's a rat rod tank.

[Shawn] Look, I know Nick is doing

what he thinks is right here,

but I don't think he understands

just how much a build like this

could lead the shop down a rabbit hole.

Does it run?

[inhales] Uh Okay, no, it doesn't run.

Does he even have the car

to put on top of the tank?

No.

Whenever we do these novelty-type builds,

it's a roll of the dice

whether or not we make profit.

Even at 55 grand.

We did a hot tub car a few years ago,

and we barely broke even on it.

-[Caveman] Yeah. Whoa!

-[Mark] Oh [bleeps]

And more recently, we did a rocket car

that we lost money on.

Shake his hand and take the money.

Nick may not know all that,

but I have years

of first-hand experience on this stuff.

-What's the timeline?

-He's got a big event coming up.

He wants to have it ready,

so it's about three weeks.

I'll be lucky to get that thing up

and operable in three weeks. Come on!

Three weeks to get something running here?

-I don't think so.

-[Nick] You like the deal?

I love the deal.

How fast can you get the tank here

so we can get started?

I can have it here in an hour.

I'm gonna go get Jake and Constance

to meet me over at the other shop,

and we're gonna wait to receive a Weasel.

-Of course you are. Why wouldn't you?

-[Mark] Mm-hmm.

Yeah, uh, while I'm doing that,

you should sell the Tesla.

Yeah, I got that.

[mellow rock music playing]

[Mark] While Tony, Caveman, and Brian

knock out our custom bike project

[Caveman] That looks cool

looking at it this way.

I'm pulling Jake and Constance

to help me on a rat rod tank car.

-[Jake] What the .

-[Constance] This is new.

[chuckling] Actually, it's kind of old.

It was made in 1942.

This is an M-29 personnel carrier.

-[Jake] It's amazing you find this stuff.

-[Mark] Yeah.

Constance can help with

getting the motor up and running,

and Jake and me

can handle all the fab work.

-Let's get it off the trailer.

-How are we gonna get it off?

Does it roll?

The tracks work or were working.

So let's get it unstrapped,

and then we'll find out

how good it does or doesn't roll.

The M-29 Weasel

was a tracked military vehicle

that was built in the 1920s.

Never a dull moment around here, Jake.

[Jake] I'm figuring that out.

-[upbeat music plays]

-[projector whirs]

[Mark] This vehicle was designed to go

anywhere on any kind of surface,

including over water.

It was an amphibious vehicle,

which means it could go places

that four-wheel drive Jeeps

and trucks could not go.

It's the epitome

of an all-terrain vehicle.

[thuds]

[music ends]

[Constance] It is really cool.

I feel like it needs a lot of love.

[Mark] For sure.

But for what we're gonna do to it,

it's not gonna need

as much love as you think.

The plan is, we're gonna turn this thing

into a badass rat rod tank car.

-[Jake] For real? Sweet.

-[Mark] Yeah.

Before we can turn this Weasel

into a rat rod tank car,

we need to first

get it running and driving.

[heavy rock music plays]

So we'll freshen up the motor

to hopefully get the motor started,

and that should get this thing

moving forward and backwards.

And then it's time to turn it

into half car and half tank.

So we'll need to mount a car body on top

that lines up perfectly with the M-29.

Once that's done,

we'll give it an indestructible paint job.

We're gonna spray it with truck bed liner.

We'll finish it off with

some super unique Gotham Garage touches

that'll make it

a one-of-a-kind rat rod tank car.

Now you kinda know

what the general game plan is.

I'm gonna make a list

of everything it doesn't have

[chuckling] then we're all gonna go

to the doctor and get tetanus shots.

[Jake] Sounds good.

[mellow rock music playing]

I know all Mark wants to do is

take this tank and turn it into a rat rod,

which sounds simple,

but projects like this

always have a way

of just going off the rails.

Mark either goes way overboard

or a problem comes up and the timeline

and budget just snowballs.

Well, that's one way to do it.

[chuckles]

And on this one, there is just

so much room for things to go wrong.

Number one, it's a tank not a car.

Number two, this tank is really old,

really rusty, and doesn't run.

And number three, we only have

three weeks to get the whole thing done.

Oh, and I also forgot to mention,

none of us have worked on a tank before.

I mean,

I think we removed most of the floor.

-[Constance] Just on the cleanup.

-[Jake] Yes. I would say so.

Well, cool deal.

So tomorrow,

we need to go through this motor

and see if we can get it to fire up.

And, um, call Caveman.

Tell him there's an emergency at the shop,

and then tell him

that I said he has to sweep the floor.

-[laughs]

-You got it.

[driving rock music playing]

[Tony] All right, guys. Check these out.

-Those are large.

-Where's the front one?

That's the front one.

And this is the back one.

Was I right?

The dimensions about as wide as my a*s.

[Tony] Yeah.

So, the big challenge is

these two big freakin' tires.

These tires are way wider

than what we had on this bike stock.

So we have to create

an entirely custom front

and rear end to fit them.

Okay.

For the front, our steering is gonna

come off the neck of the bike.

So I'm gonna start designing up

our center hub steering mechanism.

Okay.

[heavy rock music playing]

[Tony] When you think of

a superhero or a supervillain,

they always have the fastest ride,

and they're always weaving in and out

of obstacles seamlessly.

Center hub steering, the kind of steering

that we're gonna put into this bike,

is gonna give the bike

that kind of superpower.

It's not the most common steering system,

but it's gonna be totally worth it.

There's a lot of pieces going on here.

We're gonna get

from A to B to C to D to E to F.

And maybe somewhere around H

the wheel's actually gonna turn.

Most bikes have

something called fork steering

where you steer the bike

with a set of forks

that grab the wheel from above.

With center hub steering,

you're grabbing the wheel from the side,

and you're actually steering the bike

from inside the wheel.

It makes the bike way more agile,

and it actually allows you

to accelerate faster.

All right, Brian.

So first things first.

This'll all get tacked

and fitted to the frame.

But there's a reason

you don't see it on every bike.

It's a very technical

and complicated setup.

[Brian] It looks good.

[Tony] Yeah. So this is gonna

[imitates whooshing] just like that.

Now we need to get it

attached to the frame.

As a motorcycle aficionado,

I could tell you firsthand

that custom Harleys

are the most desirable bikes out there.

Come on. Can I get it?

Oh yeah, look at that. I got it, didn't I?

At this point, people have done everything

you could possibly do to a bike.

[Brian] That how high it's supposed to go?

Level.

So making it look different is not easy.

But, man, this bike with this design

and all the custom parts,

it's gonna be

unlike anything you've seen on the road.

Hey, sparks are flying!

Is it the 4th of July?

[Brian] Around here,

every day is 4th of July.

[Tony] This is obviously a ton of work.

Almost every piece needs to be made here

in house on the w*r jet.

[Caveman] Damn!

[Tony] But if we're aiming for 40 grand,

our bike needs a setup like this

to make it totally unique.

[Caveman] Look at that.

Look at that thing roll. Look at that.

[Tony] I've got enough here to say,

okay, we can sign off on this

and start cutting the back up,

but we got a lot of custom work left.

Letting you know, there's some long days

ahead of us, probably some late nights.

[Caveman] If we'll have long nights,

maybe I should call my mom up,

have her bring some of that lemonade

and cookies down

to sugar us up to get it done.

Yeah, a visit from Cave Mom?

-Yeah! Why not? [laughs]

-[Tony] That sounds great.

Wait, you guys are You're serious?

Oh, man, when Cave Mom comes down,

she brings lemonade, cake, cookies.

-So we get baked goods and lemonade?

-It's awesome.

-[Caveman] Yeah.

-I thought you were messing around.

[all chuckling]

[exciting, funky rock music playing]

[music fades]

[Mark] So, first things first.

I wanna make sure that

the motor's actually mechanically sound.

[Jake] Okay.

[Mark] It doesn't run now,

but the good news is,

I did a little research

on the interweb last night,

and that motor

is just an old Studebaker motor.

So we're gonna know pretty quickly

if it runs or not.

Uh, you'll need to get a battery

and drop it in.

-[Jake] Okay.

-Then, Constance, you can climb inside.

-Yep.

-[Mark] So let's get that all started up.

[Constance] We're trying to see

if we can get this tank's original motor

and treads actually working.

Now, you may think

that there's just no way

that we're gonna be able

to get this thing to work.

But the military made every part

on these tanks built to last.

So we're thinking

that if we can kinda give this thing

a quick little refresh,

I mean, cap and rotor,

spark plug wires, spark plugs,

in theory, it should still work.

[Mark] Get some gas hooked up to it

'cause I know that fuel pump doesn't work.

[Constance] They also designed

everything on it to be easy to fix.

The issue with that is,

if your easy fix doesn't work,

you can pretty much bet that

you're gonna have to replace everything.

There's three switches over there,

all have to be flipped straight up.

[Constance] Alright.

And if it turns out

that we're gonna have to start replacing

these obscure military parts,

it's gonna be really hard to make sure

that this tank is ready on time

for this off-road event.

Okay, go ahead

and crank it around right now.

[engine sputters]

Try it again.

[engine sputters]

Alright, hold on.

Okay. Now crank it.

[engine sputtering]

Keep going.

[engine almost starts]

[Jake] Come on!

[engine rumbling]

[Mark] That's it.

Yeah!

[upbeat music playing]

Alright, go ahead and cut. k*ll it.

-All three switches down. There you go.

-[engine shuts off]

So that's freaking awesome.

That's stage one.

[chuckling] Onto the driving part.

-That's the one I'm more worried about.

-[Mark] It's the driving part.

[exciting rock music playing]

[engine rumbling]

[engine revving]

-Purrs like a kitten the day it was born.

-[Jake] It sure does.

[Mark] Well, moment of truth.

Oh, yeah.

[Constance] Movement is good.

Right, turn it.

I was.

-Really?

-Yeah, it doesn't work.

The steering doesn't work.

-Just forward and backwards.

-[Mark] Yeah.

-These two bars, they're supposed to go

-[Jake] Individually.

Forward is power to a wheel,

and back is disconnect

the power to the wheels.

That's how you get it to turn.

It skid steers.

So it ain't happening.

So there's something wrong.

Anything moving back there?

[chuckling] I mean, it kind of looks like

it's trying, but not nearly enough.

[groans] It's never that simple, I swear.

So here we go. Now we gotta figure out

how to make this thing steer correctly.

[mellow rock music playing]

So we've got some big issues

with the back end.

That tire is wider than these struts.

It sure is.

[Tony] So we're gonna

have to cut the struts off

and we have to stretch the swingarm

and fit the wide tire in.

What do you say, Caveman?

You ready to do some cutting?

Of course I'm ready to do some cutting.

I've been waiting all damn day!

[exciting rock music playing]

[Tony] Now that we have

the front of this bike built out,

and our center hub steering is functional,

we now need to assemble

the whole back end of the bike.

Basically, the back end

needs to mimic the front end.

-[Caveman] What else? What's next?

-[Tony] That's it. That's it.

I should've made it last longer, then.

[Tony] So we're gonna create

a completely one-off swingarm

that grabs the back wheel from one side,

similar to how our center hub steering

grabs the front wheel.

We'll throw a straight edge on it

and clamp it up to our back wheel.

But since the whole back

and front end are custom-made,

the challenge is making sure

that everything is true and square.

-You see it on the bubble.

-[Tony] It's looking really even.

-It looks pretty badass from this angle.

-[Tony] I'm pretty happy with it.

It's super long.

It's like a limo now.

[Caveman chuckles]

Guys, unfortunately, we do have to blow

this bike apart one more time for paint.

[Caveman] Of course.

-Hello. Michael, are you here?

-Hey, Mom.

-You got cookies!

-[Tony] It's Michael.

-[Sandra] I heard you're working hard.

-Thank you, Sandra.

-So this is Cave Mom?

-Yeah, I'm Sandra.

-I'm Brian. Nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you, Brian.

Mom has always been real supportive.

I mean, the boss

has always loved my mom too.

And everybody else. They see her coming.

"Oh, there's Mike's mom, Caveman's mom!"

"And what is she bringing?" [laughs]

You know, I knew you guys

were working hard overtime.

-So, you need a sugar rush, right?

-Yeah, we do.

-Yeah? Okay.

-Absolutely.

-What do you think of the bike?

-It's beautiful when it's finished.

Yeah, check it out.

I got it on the computer here.

Okay.

So these are all the blueprints

of what we're building.

-Wow.

-This is kind of the transformation steps.

-You can see we changed all the wheels

-That's It's longer.

-And the suspension, it's longer.

-It's beautiful.

I love coming to the shop.

-I like to see the cars, the progress.

-Do you have an English accent?

-A tad. Yeah. A tad.

-[Brian] A tad?

Yeah. I was born and raised

in England, yes.

-I gotta get Nick down here real quick.

-Get him down here.

Yeah. I like to see the interaction

with all the people working.

Especially to see my son, Michael.

[chuckling]

-Right here.

-[chuckles]

[chuckles] Oh, it looks like

Nick's about to bring

a special English treat for you.

I've always been proud of where he works

because all the love

that goes into everything.

I think it's wonderful.

[all exclaiming excitedly]

What do we got here? Oh my goodness.

-[Nick] Someone has to be civilized.

-Oh, a man after my own heart.

[Nick] See, a gentleman.

-Tea solves every problem.

-[Nick] Really does.

[Sandra] It really does.

If that was the case,

I'd have been drinking tea long time ago.

[all laughing]

I was really surprised

to meet Nick with the tea.

I thought it was lovely.

Cheers, darling.

Michael has never

made me a cup of tea in his life.

[sputtering] How am I supposed to know

which one when you got boxes in,

you know, in the cupboard?

-I know.

-Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

-You know, snack things. I don't know.

-It's what I do.

-[Sandra] Thank you. This is lovely.

-You're welcome. Of course.

Sorry to break up the tea party,

but Shawn's asking me

to meet him in the office.

Are you in trouble?

-I never go there.

-[Caveman] Take biscuits.

-Take biscuits if you're in trouble.

-[Sandra] Take these.

-[Nick] Let me take

-[Caveman] Oh!

Let me go see what he wants.

Thank you, Sandra.

Bye, darling. Nice seeing you again.

I only come over

when I bring biscuits and, uh, lemonade.

-[Nick] Then you should come very often.

-[all laughing]

[exciting rock music playing]

[music ends]

[knock at door]

-'Sup, Shawn? Hey.

-Hey, Tony. What's going on, buddy?

I got your text, man. You wanted to talk?

I'm just going crazy here

trying to get a buyer for this Tesla.

Everybody's loving the car,

but no one's willing to throw down

90 grand for a car like that.

It's so specific of a build.

I swear, I am doing my absolute best

to try and sell this Tesla,

but it is getting ridiculous.

[man] I don't know if a hot rod Tesla

is really my style.

A little more understated,

know what I mean?

Uh, understated?

Uh, it's all in the eye of the beholder,

you know?

So I called Tony in here

to run an idea by him.

It's pretty bold.

But at this point, it might be

our only way out of this mess.

I'm, uh I'm thinking about

doing a trade for the Tesla.

This is the only way

I see out of this mess.

Because right now,

there's just no one that's willing

to just put out straight cash.

After everything

that's gone down with this car,

I can't believe

that Shawn is even considering a trade.

That's what got him into this mess

in the first place.

But, look, it'd be a trade deal

that'd involve a good chunk of cash too.

Get some more cars in.

Maybe we can parlay that

into maybe something more than 90 grand.

But if he's really at the end of his rope

like he says,

then a solid trade

that also involves a good chunk of cash

might be the only way

to get out from underneath this car.

Where I'm at right now

is, um, I'm trying to think of anything

I can do to actually move this car.

I mean, it's got potential, but, you know,

if Mark sniffs out what you're up to,

he's not gonna be happy.

I say we keep it on the down-low.

You help me out a little bit.

Maybe we enlist Constance and Caveman.

-Oh, man.

-We do a little What? What?

-So

-You want a paycheck, right?

We're all gonna be your accomplice

on these shenanigans?

If you wanna call it that, yeah.

In my opinion, this is the type of car

that could give us

a ton of value in a trade.

All right, Shawn. Well, listen, man.

I'll I'll talk to Caveman, Constance,

and I'll see if we can shake anything out.

Me and Caveman are going

to a car show in a couple days,

so maybe we can even ask around there.

That's what I like.

Mark might k*ll me if he finds out,

but he's gonna love me if I pull this off.

Listen, if something goes bad,

and this gets sniffed out

and and there's there's

a price to pay, this was all your idea.

-It was all me. Yep.

-This is all your idea.

-All right.

-Okay, you know nothing.

-Alright?

-[chuckles] Nothing.

Alright? Oh, yeah. Okay.

That might get us out of this mess.

[intense electronic music playing]

[music ends]

[Mark] It's these two that are not moving.

They're bound up. It needs a little help.

-Shock to break it loose?

-Yeah. Got a hammer?

I sure do.

[Mark] The tank runs with a joystick,

so the only way to make the vehicle turn,

you have to push one forward

and pull the other one back

to make the tank turn right or left.

Our assumption here

is that this thing has been sitting

somewhere out in a field, in the weather,

and it's fused itself together.

It's seized up. It won't move.

I'm not even feeling anything,

and I'm pulling on it.

I think it's just time

to get military on it.

-Yeah. Leverage.

-And just started pulling on it. Yeah.

These vehicles

were designed for the military.

They were designed to be worked on

and fixed in the middle of a battle.

That in mind,

sometimes it just takes brute force.

That's what we're gonna try.

Go ahead and start ratcheting it.

Knowing that we gotta have

this vehicle ready

for an event that's happening

in less than three weeks,

we're really hoping

that the brute force tactic

does not backfire on us.

All right, keep going.

You're either gonna break it

or break it loose.

-[clanks loudly]

-Ah, there we go.

-[Mark] Well, that's This one's free.

-[laughs]

[Mark] You guys

button that back up real quick.

Let's, uh, say a hope and a prayer,

and it'll run, drive,

and spin around in circles.

Let's give it a whirl.

[engine rumbles]

-It's turning.

-Yeah, I did see that.

Watch the lift.

[metal groans]

[Mark] Well, I'd call it a turn.

-It goes places.

-Yeah, it sure does.

It's better than forward.

It goes forwards,

backwards, right, and left.

-[Jake] So, problem solved?

-[Mark] Problem solved.

Well, we're in really good shape

for today.

So next step is we gotta find a car body

to mount on top to turn it into a rat rod.

I'm gonna go with Shawn

and we'll get a body for this thing.

Once we find one,

it's full-blown fab work from here on out.

-Good job, you guys.

-[Jake] Thanks, Mark, for your help.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Tony] To make this bike look like

something a super villain

would ride in a movie,

it has to have a badass paint scheme.

But we also wanna pick a color scheme

that won't limit our buyer pool.

[intense music playing]

[Tony] To give this bike

a real sinister look,

we're gonna paint all the wheels

and custom suspension components

satin bronze.

That's gonna make it jump out

a little bit, but not too much.

And the rest of the bike

is gonna be satin black.

It's gonna give it a real, real mean look.

-Got some more pretty parts.

-That's the last of it, Caveman.

Yeah, you did a fabulous job.

[Tony] Alright, let's start putting

this bike back together.

We're not just reassembling

the motorcycle's hundreds of pieces.

-We're connecting the new parts too.

-One piece at a time.

[Tony] Caveman's working on the clutch,

I'm on the wheels,

and Brian is on the center hub steering.

I'm sure Caveman is dying

to take this thing for a ride.

But I already called dibs.

So once this thing's fully assembled,

it's freaking on.

[epic music building]

[engine revs]

This is definitely one

of the slickest, most creative bikes

we've ever done at this shop.

It almost looks like it was forged

in some dark, underground lair.

[sinister music playing]

[Tony] From where this bike started

and where it is now,

the transformation is just epic.

The center hub steering and swingarm

not only make the bike

faster and smoother,

the front tire almost feels like

it's floating out in space,

like it's magnetically connected

to the bike itself.

And with this stretched stance

and super wide tires,

it almost looks like it could

devour the pavement.

Riding this bike almost makes you feel

like a villain from a graphic novel

in a crazy chase sequence.

And just when it feels like

they got you caught

In the blink of an eye you're gone.

[engine revs]

[music fades]

[birds chirping]

I can't even believe

how good this turned out. You know?

Tony's got some mad skills.

There ain't another one like it out there.

[Shawn] We've obviously sold

a ton of bikes in the past,

so it didn't take me much

to track down a buyer.

My guy, Otto,

is absolutely perfect for this bike.

He loves Harleys,

and he's always

looking for something different,

and this bike is different.

I told him mid-forties.

I don't know if he's gonna look at it

and think it's amazing

and throw us 45 grand or not.

All told, Tony and Cavemen spent

about 15 grand on this build.

So if I can get about 40 grand for it,

we're looking at about 25 grand in profit.

-[motorcycle approaches]

-We'll find out if he loves it.

[Shawn] Sounds Sounds like

we're gonna find out pretty darn quick.

-There he is.

-That's a badass Har, though.

[Shawn chuckling] Yeah.

Told you he's into

custom bikes just a bit.

A little bit.

-[Shawn] Otto, how's it going, buddy?

-Good. How are you?

-Good to see you. This is Mark.

-Hey, Otto. Mark. Nice to meet you.

Yeah, Otto.

I've been buying and selling

custom motorcycles and custom cars

for close to 15 years.

This is that custom bike

I was telling you about.

It's a lot of motorcycle.

Shawn's talked this bike up quite a bit.

But, uh, I like to see stuff

that's, uh, head-turning, handmade parts.

It's stuff that you can't buy

out of the catalog.

If it doesn't check all those boxes off,

I'm not buying it.

I don't think

you'll ever see another one like it.

It's our take on a single arm,

single grab swingarm.

We made everything. We made the wheels.

We made the sprockets. We made the arms.

And you can tell by the front end

that that's not store-bought.

Every part of that front suspension

and the front wheel

is all handmade here in the shop.

Yeah, it's an interesting design.

Mind if I fire it up?

No, hop on it.

[mellow rock music playing]

[engine rumbles]

[engine revs]

[Shawn] Nice stuff.

[turns off engine]

[Mark] Like music, ain't it?

Ah, Otto looks

pretty comfortable on there.

[Otto] Where you at on price, Shawn?

I threw a number at you before.

We're talking 48.

This is a lot of bike.

Uh, it's a beautiful motorcycle.

Definitely unique, like we talked about.

48,000 is just a lot of money.

I'm closer to the $35,000.

-[Shawn] Thirty-five?

-Yeah.

Thirty-five grand. Wow!

You know, you're talking

about a custom one-off bike.

You go somewhere,

nobody else is gonna have

a bike like this.

This is special

Gotham Garage workmanship right here.

I mean, how about we do 43?

-How 'bout that?

-You're getting warmer. I'll do 41.

Go 41.5 and we got a deal.

-41.5 seems like a fair price.

-[Shawn] Yeah?

I think you just got yourself

a one-off custom Gotham Garage bike.

-Thank you. Otto. I appreciate that.

-Hey, thank you, Mark.

Man, Mark and his crew really put together

a unique custom motorcycle.

I'm looking forward to taking it home

and putting it in my collection.

Yeah, I think it's pretty impressive.

Got a lot of work in this bike, Mark.

That's about as custom

as you can do to an '04 Harley.

-Otto absolutely loves the bike.

-You're welcome.

And, you know, 41.5.

-That leaves us over $25,000 in profit.

-Twenty-five grand?

That's a good amount of money

for an old school Gotham creation.

I know we're trying to do

all this high-end stuff with Nick,

but it's nice to know

that the old way still works.

Very nice.

If you wanna go up front, do paperwork,

I'll get this thing ready for your guys

to pick it up and get it loaded.

-Sounds great. Thanks.

-I had a feeling you'd love that bike.

[exciting rock music playing]

You'll love this place we're going to.

This guy has got a variety of cars.

Right now me and Mark

are on our way to a salvage yard

to find a car body

that we can put on top of the tank.

He wants something rough and dirty,

and I know the perfect place to go.

The good thing about this

is that this personnel carrier

is on schedule,

even though we had a little hitch

in the get-along with the gearbox.

You had a problem?

What was that all about?

All you need to know now

is it runs and drives.

-[phone ringing]

-Whoa. What do we have here? Hello.

-Hey, Shawn.

-Tony! How's it going, buddy?

-It's good, man.

-What's going on?

So Caveman and I are at a car show,

and we met this guy, Jimbo.

We started talking about the shop,

everything we're building,

and I told him about the Tesla.

-[dramatic sting]

-He just got real excited.

So Jimbo has a whole bunch of cars.

He's got a '69 Chevelle

that he'd be willing to trade.

-Trade?

-Really?

We're talking about

selling the Tesla, not trading it.

I told Jimbo

that the Tesla's worth 90 grand.

He's got a whole bunch

of other cars at his property,

and he's willing to throw some cash in

on top of the trade cars.

Cash on top?

-Cash on top.

-Nice.

I really wanted to just get

the 90 grand in cash.

Okay, yeah. Don't we all want that?

But what's the harm in going over

and seeing what Jimbo's got over there?

Look, I know Mark's not too thrilled

about being put on the spot here.

But Mark is a junkyard dog at heart

just like me.

And he can't help himself to at least

go see what Jimbo's got up there.

Jimbo said he can do it today

if you guys can come make it happen.

Today?

Well, I guess there's no harm

in going and seeing what he has.

Obviously, I've got no idea

if Jimbo's got enough cars and cash

to make a trade worthwhile.

And getting Mark to agree

is gonna be an uphill battle.

So text me the address

Hell yeah.

and we'll load the car

and meet you out there.

Okay. I'll send it over right now,

and I'll meet you guys there.

-All right, brother. See you there.

-We're turning around, heading that way.

But, man, if this somehow works out,

then I might be able to put

this Tesla behind me once and for all.

[Mark] It better be worth it.

[Shawn] You worry too much.

[closing theme music plays]

[metal creaking]

[engine rumbles]