12x10 - Episode 10

[bunniefuu]

This is collin,
and collin does drifting.

Hey, mike coy,
are you ready to do this?

I'm ready to do this.

-All right. Collin?
-Hell yeah. Let's go.

If it looks like you're going
to wreck,

And everything's
going to hell, floor it.

[ Tires screeching ]

Oh, snap.

♪♪

[ Screeching continues ]

[ Engine revving ]

I'm telling you, that is
what I'm talking about.

-Whoa!
-Let's go.

-[ Laughs ] oh, my god.
-Great job.

I can't see y'all.[ Laughing continues ]

Neither can --
neither can they.

He's 16.
He shouldn't be smoking.

-Hey.
-Is this how --

Thanks for the ride
to work, man.

Is this how you come to work
every day?

-I appreciate that.
-Yeah.

Good boy.

Richard:
don't try that at home, kids.

[ Screeching ][ laughs ]

Whoo!

Narrator: right now
on "fast n' loud"...

-Boom!
-Whoo!

...hot-rod hunter
richard rawlings

And the gas monkey crew...

-Oh, boy.
-Great.

Narrator: ...are cutting it
close to their deadline...

I need the rest of it done
in 12 hours.

...as mother nature dumps cold
water on their '52 chevy...

Mother trucker.

-We have no power.
-[ Laughs ]

Narrator: ...and threatens
to zap the build.

Mother nature sucks.

Narrator: and then...

It's just getting it moving.

Good lord! Ugh!

Narrator:
...gas monkey gets classy...

[ Laughing ]

Dude.

...with a family heirloom.

[ Hisses ]

[ Laughter ]
-did it get me in the face?

It's going to be yours, dude.

Your dad's going to show
the extreme hatred

That his dad showed
and give you this car.

-You going to make him cry?
-[ Exhales ]

♪♪

Dang old race car, man.

Got a race car.
Race car tires.

Right now, I'm hanging
the wheels on the '52 chevy,

So we can decide
where to cut the fenders

To give it an authentic '50s
nascar look.

Ugh, man.

After that, we'll move
onto stabbing the motor

And installing the suspension.

From the looks of it,
we don't even have to cut

The fender wells.no, we do.

See, richard makes
cool cars to make money.

I make cool cars to make
automotive history.

About a week ago,
richard bought this '52

Chevy coupe with 1,800 bucks
with only 22,000 miles on it.

Well, let's just write
"for sale" on the back

And roll it out then.
-Exactly.

You know what?
That'd be the quickest

Profit percentage, maybe.

Richard: I could have flipped
this gem for easy money,

But we're all about
nascar here at the shop,

And we're looking to crack open
a new market based on that,

So now, we're building
a stock car reminiscent

Of the old days of nascar.

Gas monkey and nascar!

-What's up, corey?
-How are you?

You ready to go run?are you getting me through tech?

-What's up, buddy?
-What's up, russell?

Why, we have that option?

Richard: after making
a deal to sponsor

Nascar superstar corey lajoie
in his upcoming race...

Look at the monkey!

...gas monkey dove headfirst
into the pinnacle

Of american motorsports.

[ Cheering ]what's going on?

But time and money are tight,
and all those eyeballs

That were on gas monkey
at the race

Can now see
that we're into nascar,

And I've got to sell them
something pronto

While the iron is still hot.

Russell:
and look at all these fans.
They're loving this car.

-Unbelievable!
-Crazy!

Richard: we wanted to preserve
the '52 chevy patina,

So mike cleared it
before we did any build work.

Up to now, everything under
the car

Has been fitted and installed,
and once the monkeys are done,

I'm going to take this baby out
to kennedale motor speedway,

Which has a dirt track just like
the ones from early nascar,

And put the pedal
to the metal.

Boom.

-It needs to be like...
-Yeah.

You have to carry it out
to nothing at the end.

So the cut would be more
like that,

And then you'd start
to kind of roll it...

Yeah.

...all the way around.

Brian: truth be told, this build
hasn't been all roses,

And we're definitely
under the g*n.

Last week, everything was going
as planned

Until we discovered that
the cooling fan was too broad

And could scrape
the radiator.

We hit a bump wrong, especially
if we're racing this car,

Something shifts, it's going
to shred the radiator,

Shred the fan,
and we're going to ruin the car.

Brian:
finding replacement parts that
fit isn't normally a big deal

If you've got the time
to wait for them.

If we didn't find a smaller fan,
we'd have to cut the firewall

To position the motor
further back,

Which would have also
probably blown our deadline.

Luckily, chad came through
with a replacement fan.

We're just a sawzall away
from having that out of the way,

And we can set
this thing on the ground.

Just a sawzall away.

[ Whirring ]

Besides giving the '52 a cool
look by cutting the fenders,

A cut like this
provides extra room

For the big new
performance tires in the rear.

Since mike already clear-coated
the paint,

I got to make a surgical cut,

So the touch-up work
will be fast and easy.

Even though as clean as it is,

It's just a perfect canvas
for a hot rod.

Ow.

Plus, this is how they made
nascars lighter back in the day.

Tried to bite me.

♪♪

We can just cut this thing
with wild abandon.

There's really no rules
or, you know,

No reasons not to cut it up.

Once we get it on the ground,
we'll be able to see

If we have to shave
the front fenders as well.

If we don't, we'll get on
the track that much faster.

This looks like a fun car.

It's sitting
on its own weight.

First look of it
on its tires, guys.

Brian: it might look cool to
trim the front fender wheels,

But for once,
if it's not rubbing,

We're that much closer
to racing.

Leave the front, do the back.
Saves time and money.

Leave this one round.

-Leave that one straight.
-Okay.

-I like it.
-It looks awesome.

♪♪

That one might be
on the inside.

Richard: I'm helping eddie
clean the windows,

And he's doing
a pretty good job,

But he keeps missing some spots.

It's right there.

And then I see my buddy joey
outside,

And he brought his boy by.whoa, joey!

So I was like, "come on in,
dude. Have a beer."

-What's going on, man?
-Hey, brother. Good to see you.

Hey, little man.
How you been?

My name is joe mauro.

My name's joseph mauro
the thir-- iv.

Fourth, you're the fourth.aw.

You want a ginger beer?

No, I'm good.

Joe: well, I've known richard
for over 20-some-odd years.

He probably needs to lose
a little weight

And put some shoe polish
in his goatee.

Other than that,
he'd look really good.

So what you got, man?my dad passed away,

And he left me this
really cool car.

Come on, man.
We been friends forever.

Everybody's got a cool car
they want to bring up here.

No, this -- richard,
this is a special car.

This thing is absolutely
off-the-hook beautiful,

And it goes to joseph.

You don't want to break
his heart, do you?

You're going to
make him cry?

Look. Look. Look.[ Whimpers ]

It just needs some motor work,

A little this and that,
nothing big.

-It's in vegas, anyway.
-[ Sighs ]

I wouldn't do this for anybody
else, but I'll do it.

-Awesome! Come here. It's here.
-What?

-You said it was in vegas!
-I was just kidding. Come on.

-Come on, man.
-Joseph, come on.

-You said it was in vegas.
-It's right here.

Son of a [bleep].

Had a little trick
up my sleeve --

Had the car sitting
in the parking lot.

That is [bleep], joey.

What is that, man?

I thought it'd be, like,
a chevelle or a camaro.

It's an '85 zimmer.

I think there was only
three made that day.

Richard: it's a zimmer.

It's a company that made
their living out of taking,

Like, mustangs and cougars
and thunderbirds

And turning them into
art-deco-styled cars

Like the duesenberg
but with all modern components,

Such as a mustang 5.0-liter
v-8 engine and drivetrain.

Back in the day, these were sold
for 62 grand brand-new.

Sounded like a good idea
in the '80s.

This was not a good idea.

Those are volkswagen blinkers.

Those are wire wheels that
you used to be able to get at,

Like, montgomery ward's,
which is now defunct.

-[ Laughs ]
-it doesn't even start.

Joe: well, that's where you
come in, richard.

Oh, gosh.

There you go.

It's got a little 302 in it.

I bet you this thing's pushing
about 190 to 210 horsepower.

[ Laughs ][ horn honks ]

Yeah!
You want to buy a zimmer?

[ Laughs ]

[ Honks ]they're very cheap today.

Does he move in the wind?

Does he just fly around
whichever way you're going?

It's got a screaming eagle
on it.

It's got a 5-liter anemic motor
in it,

But at the end of the day,
it's a modern drivetrain,

Four-wheel disc brakes,

A.c., Power steering,
power windows, power brakes.

It's actually a loaded car,

Just one you don't want
anybody to see you in.

And would you believe
these zimmers sell

For as much as 40 grand?

All right, man.
I'll go through it,

But if it needs anything major,
it's going to cost you 12 grand.

Joe: I've been out with
richard before,

And if he has enough
miller lite,

He'll forget all about it.

Let's do that again.
[ Laughs ]

You go steer.
Go ahead, buddy.

Richard:
I'm going to get it running.

I'm going to make it work and
make sure it's in good shape

So that he can give it
to his son in, like,


Gets old enough to drive.

Ugh!

-It's just getting it moving.
-Good lord.

Oh, it's heavy, dude.

♪♪

Hell yeah, game on.

-Let's rip this thing apart.
-Oh, okay.

-If you're ready.
-I'm ready.

You ready to rip
this thing apart?

Both: let's do it.

Whoo-hoo!

All right, load up...[ Whirring ]

Brian: we're just 5 days away
from taking the '52 chevy coupe

Out to the dirt track
at kennedale speedway,

And all of us,
especially me,

Can't wait to see what
that baby will do out there.

This is high enough for me
to hit my head on every

[Bleep] thing under here.i can go up higher.

Brian: since we wanted to
preserve the patina as is,

Mike clear-coated it.

That meant we were able to focus

On installing the transmission,
rear end and suspension...

Jeremy, look out.

...plus cutting both
rear fenders.

Now all these parts can go
to powder coat out of house.

♪♪

Powder coat is a kind
of of paint

That's electrostatically
applied to metal as a powder

And then cured
under high heat.

It's tougher than regular paint
and can be applied very quickly.

-Give me this.
-Bada boom.

Now that the rear end is out,
we'll lower the chevy

And yank the motor
so we can be done.

Hold on.

Hold up, hold up, hold up,
hold up.

This kind of reminds me of
the scene from "urban cowboy"

When the lady
was riding the bull.

This kind of reminds me
of the lady

Riding the bull right now.
[ Laughs ]

The lady or the bull?

Well, I'm glad I remind you
of a lady riding a bull.

What the hell kind of comment
is that?

Sorry.
You ever seen that movie?

I'll remember that.

I think you just have
the style of --

That doesn't sound
very good either.

That's not --
that's not any better.

Let's just act like we
never even said that.

Moving on...

Would this be taking the bull
by the horns, then?

It is.now that it's been freed,

We'll send our 450-horsepower


Over to mike so he can paint it.

I can hear the ocean.

You want to hear the ocean,
jason?

Jason, come here.no.

[ Laughter ]i see where that's going. No.

[ Engine revs, tires screech ]
-whoo!

Narrator:
coming up on "fast n' loud"...

This is my favorite part,

When everybody stands back
and admires their work.

Narrator: stoked on the


-I dig it.
-All right.

-All right.
[ Laughing ]

Narrator:
... But skunked by the zimmer.

Did it get me in the face?

[ Laughter ]

♪♪

Dude, got everything painted.
We're ready, huh?

-Yeah.
-Everything's painted.

It took a while, but, man,
it's going to be worth it.

All right.i already heard richard saying

That we went too far,
but I don't know

How you couldn't do
at least what we've done.

Yeah.even a race car's got to be,

You know, waterproofed, so...

All right, cool.

Jason: we got 4 days left
on the '52 chevy build.

Bass is out sick, so it's up

To the rest of us
to install the parts

That just came back
from the powder coater.

Meanwhile, coy's mixing paint
for the motor.

If everything goes well, we can
get into final assembly,

Get this thing out the door
and onto kennedale speedway

And pay a real tribute
to '50s nascar racing.

For the rim housing housing,
I'll help you set it up.

As soon as I have this
last brake line,

I'm going to hang the control
arms, coilovers, all that stuff.

Then we got to start
locating the shifter.

You already made the plate,
but get the shifter out,

Bolt it in for the first time.all right.

Steering column will be
shortly after that so, yeah.

Rolling chassis by the end
of the day.

Yeah.
Should be a really good day.

♪♪

[ Whirs ]

♪♪

Hey, jason.
I'm putting the rear end in.

What do you think?[ Laughs ]

So many thoughts just went
through my head.

♪♪

Mike: right now,
I'm sh**ting the motor

A period-correct orange
to keep the '52 chevy

As authentic as possible.

Legend has it that back
in early nascar,

They used bold engine colors
on the motor

To make spotting fluid leaks
easier before races,

Because dark liquids contrast
against the paint.

Chevy used orange, yellow,
and finally settled on a blue.

Honestly, I prefer
the orange myself.

Another masterpiece.
I'm good.

♪♪

Tony, it's heavy.i'm not going to pick it up.

Oh, you got these nuts?you know I got the nuts.

Ow. Goodness.

Jason: it's getting late,
and tony and jeremy

Are still assembling
the rear end.

I've got the spindles
and coils on the front end.

It's like you knew
what you were doing.

Hey. Now push down
on that control arm.

I knew you were going to
need me for something.

Ugh.despite good progress,

We're not as far along
as we need to be.

Just like we had fit
that before. Huh.

You know what would be cooler,
though?

What's that?

If will would give me a set
of these for my truck.

Tomorrow, bass should be back,

And we can wrap up
all the loose ends,

Get the car on the ground
and start final assembly.

♪♪

Does it start yet?

♪♪

I guess not.put it on booster boost.

Richard dropped a zimmer car

In our lap
with simple instructions --

Jump-start and charge
the battery, test drive it

And make sure everything
inside the cabin works,

Clean it up, polish it

So we can send it on its way.
So we needed to move it over

To the paint-and-body shop
so we could work on it.

-You gonna drive it over there?
-Yeah, I'll drive it.

I'll ride with you.

It's not often you get to ride
in a zimmer.

This thing is long,
so I don't think

It's going to turn
out of here very good.

-Does it have a backup camera?
-No.

All right, stop.

So getting out of the garage
was a little difficult.

Oh. Yeah.
The brakes work.

I don't know how far
that front end sticks out.

Me neither.

I had to make
a 15-point turn,

And I didn't think
I was going to make it.

Stop.

You're good.

Stop.i don't like this.

-What was that?
-What was what?

-I thought I rubbed something.
-So did i.

Here we go.
Here we go.

We made it out just barely
on both sides.

Damn, I feel so luxurious
right now.

Do you?

I'm not going to lie.
You look luxurious.

[ Sighs ][ laughs ]

-It actually rides pretty good.
-Yeah, it does.

Look at the white stuff
coming out.

It follows --yeah, turn that off, dude.

It is.it is off.

Let's get out of here.
Let's get out of here.

[ Laughter ]

Dude.

[ Laughter ]

It's freon.

Oh, my god.it's hot freon.

Keenan: we're driving,
and all of a sudden,

Smoke starts coming out
of the a.c. Vents,

And we don't know
what's going on.

Dude, that's bad.

I think the heater core, it's
coming from the heater core.

-Probably.
-It's got to be.

Keenan: windows fogging up.

I thought that was you and mike
was getting scared.

We should not be inhaling this.

It's okay.

It's not okay. Look.
It's smoking out the vents.

It stunk.it got a little hot.

It started getting a little hot.it stunk, bro.

So we barely made it back.

We're going to just go
ahead and...

Steam it in?...cruise it in there.

-Look at this.
[ Laughter ]

Mike: we'll give this big boat
a buff and polish

While the car's cooling down,

Then we'll deal
with the heater core.

It's bad back here.

...because for some reason, us
paint-and-body guys get this job

While the other guys
are working on the '52 chevy.

Richard:
oh, yeah, the zimmer.

[ Chuckles ]

How you digging this beauty?

It's certainly rad.

Mike: so you bought this?

No. God, no.
Do you think I'm insane?

Well, i...

This belongs to a buddy
of mine, joey.

His father passed away
and left him this car,

And I assured joey that his dad
must not have liked him

Because he left him this car.yeah.

Let's just get it cleaned up,
get it tuned up,

Get some fresh gas in it,
and get it the hell out of here.

-Sounds good to me.
-Cool.

Keep an eye out for one
for keenan.

Well, keenan's just
throwing wax

All over the dadgum place.

A little messy,
aren't you, dude?

Not as messy as mike.

-Hey.
-What?

-Get back to work.
-[ Chuckles ]

Mike: once we got the detailing
out of the way,

We went on a hunt for the source
of the smoking vents.

You know, this would go
a lot faster

If we were on
a time lapse.

Roll it.

♪♪

Do we have to disconnect
the a.c. Line?

Probably.

[ Bursts ]

[ Laughter ]
-oh.

Did it get me in the face?[ Laughter continues ]

Mike: that's the first time
I've actually had a car

Spit in my face.

-Look. There's the leak.
-There it is.

Oh, that's so slimy
and nasty in there.

Been leaking for a minute.

Yes.

Mike: as we suspected, the old
heater core was fully corroded

And full of 30 years
of old slime and mold...

Kind of like my refrigerator.

A heater core is what you use
to heat

The cabin of your car
when it's cold.

Heated coolant from
the engine's radiator

Is sent to the core,

And then air is blown
onto the core.

It gets warmed up and passes
through the vents in the dash

To keep you toasty.

Let's throw this one away.
Get that one put in.

Now all we got to do is find
all the screws

And put this thing
back together.

Keenan: on the bright side,
it'll be another 30 years

Before we have
to do this again.

Hopefully.

Mike: while we're working
on the zimmer,

The guys are working on the
$300,000 sema supercar build.

No, we're going to take
the forklift,

But we'll need to balance
the back

Because the back's going
to try to teeter.

-Let's do it.
-You want to run forklift,

And I'll help teeter?
-You got it.

Anything
to keep the build going.

Jeremy: we need russell to help
us since we're under the g*n

With the '52 chevy.

That's what fixers are for,
right?

Right now, we're going to do
a mock-up

Of our '72 buick riviera,
our magnum opus build for sema,

Which is just
a few months away.

So far, I've been cranking
on the rivie.

We picked out a custom
high performance chassis

From chris alston's
chassisworks...

Check it out, richard.

...then the guys from kaytech
started tuning

The near-1,000-horsepower
supercharged engine

That richard ordered
that'll go in the rivie.



Whoo!830.

[ Revving increases ]

-Cool!
-Yeah!

Now hit it, hit it.

After that, josh and I got busy
fabbing the custom chassis.

Now that the chassis
is welded up,

We can set the body on it
and kind of get a look

And a feel for what this thing's
going to look like

And see the chassis in it.

We'll also hang a front
quarter panel

And some tires onto the mock-up
to get a true sense

Of how the rivie
is starting to come together.

Whip it good.

♪♪

Since the rivie is ultimately
going to be slammed,

That meant that the roof
needed a subtle chop.

If you slammed this
and had it on the ground

And slicked it up,
it could be sexy.

It would make the car look
very aggressive, very sleek,

And very fast as intended,
like a supercar should.

Yeah, that's much better.

-All right, I cannot see.
-Use your senses.

All the way,
swing hard as you can.

-I can kind of see it now.
-Okay, you got it.

Russell:
I know what you're thinking --
russell's not a car guy.

He's a fixer.
But when it comes to this build,

I got to make sure
it's done on time,

So anything I can do to
help out, I'm going to.

What better way to help out

Than with my spectacular
forklifting skills?

Did I mention that I'm a master
on this thing...

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

-Oh, boy.
-Great.

...with unparalleled skills?

Yeah.
You're resting back here.

-All right.
-I'm touching here.

-Come out.
-Forward from there. Go ahead.

Straight out.

-Big-boy cut and paste.
-First step.

Yeah. First step.

But now that it's on
all the way, we're able to set

The fender, the tires,
kind of get a look and a feel

For what this thing
is going to look like.

That is badass.

You got the fender?yeah. You good?

Oh, you want me to hold it
like that?

Yeah, yeah, 'cause I can't --don't need much.

Okay, let's see.

-It's better.
-Better? It can come up more?

-Nope. It's good.
-Okay.

Now those lines look good.

-For what we're doing here.
-I like it.

-It's awesome.
-This is my favorite part,

When everybody stands back
and admires their work.

We just set it down so we could
see if the lines look good.

But we waited so long
to get these pieces

To make this happen...

I'm waiting for it.

-I dig it.
-All right.

-All right. Well, victory.
-That's it. Next.

[ Laughing ]moving on.

Stop him there.

No, it's freaking cool, man.

Yeah.
It's going to be insane.

I mean, really cool.

So the rivie's looking great
with the chopped top.

It looks sleek as all hell,
but check this out.

For the money
I'm pouring into it,

You could buy a house
right here in dfw,

So it's going to have to
blow away everybody else.

Well, keep at it.

We're going to be deep
in this thing, man.

It's got to be perfection.

[ Engine revs, tires screech ]
-whoo!

Narrator: coming up
on "fast n' loud"...

-Zimmer time!
-Both: boom!

That's genuine laminated
plastic wood.

Narrator: from the zimmer's
big moments...

If you throw your head back,
it feels like you're going fast.

...to the monkeys'
darkest hour.

We have no power.

Mother nature sucks.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

♪♪

So today, we got joey
coming back,

And he's bringing his kids
to pick up his zimmer.

Thank goodness, because
this is probably the ugliest car

We've ever had here
at gas monkey.

All the work's done.
I just need to make sure

It's clean and ready to rock,

Because I am
going to bill him big.

There we go.
Zimmer time!

The zimmer has been sitting
for a long time,

So it needs a lot of work,

So we jumped into
the carburetor,

The fuel systems,
put in a new heater core

Because it was rusted out,
tires,

Wheels, brakes, you name it.

We had to go all the way
through this thing

To make it a functioning
modern-day hot rod,

But its weirdness --
yeah, we can't fix that.

Who gives their 16-year-old kid
a car like this?

-[ Laughs ]
-he must have died mad.

Wow.

What's up, joe and joe?that is awesome.

Wow, richard.
Awesome, buddy.

What you think, junior joe?

You k*lled it, richard.
It looks awesome, bro.

My dad would be so proud.

-Boom!
-Boom!

That car popped.

I mean, the paint, the chrome,
the new rubber on it --

Everything looked amazing.and your chairs.

It didn't even look like
the same car.

They knocked it
out of the park.

We shampooed everything up,
cleaned it all up.

Where you're going to be looking
at a stiff bill

Is we had to pull the dash
and redo the heater core.

It was rusted out, and that
is not an easy job on these.

Yeah. You went through
the whole thing,

It sounds like.
-Yeah.

This is genuine imitation...

-Pleather.
-Pleather. Yeah.

It's covered in plastic
for its own protection.

-Check that out.
-This is amazing!

This is going to be yours, dude!it is?

Yeah, your dad's going to show
the extreme hatred

That his dad showed
and give you this car.

[ Laughter ]

That's genuine laminated
plastic wood.

It's your car now.what is it?

That's your cheap
wood plastic.

What kind of gear shifter
is this?

It's one that moves from park
to drive sometimes.

Nah, it's actually
a pretty cool car.

We checked it out, and,
you know, it's just a foxbody

Mustang with all this craziness
on the outside,

And I was surprised
once we got it in here to see

That these things still sell
fairly decent money, you know?

Up to 40 grand
for this thing, man?

Well, get in the back, dude.
Let's go for a ride.

-Okay.
-Let's take it.

[ Laughs ]

We're off like a prom dress.

Like the one you wore?

Shut up, you.

♪♪

All right. Here we go.

Sounds good.

What do you mean?
It doesn't even make any noise.

That's what I mean.

All right.
Let's see what this thing does.

[ Engine revving ]oh.

If you throw your head back,
it feels like you're going fast.

My neck!

We're almost up
to freeway speeds.

[ Chuckles ] yes.that's pretty much it.

This is --[ laughs ] it's doing it!

This is a whopping 160
or 175-horse...

Wow.
...small-block ford.

Joe:
the car drives amazing.

It absolutely is
a completely different car.

It's a completely
different ride.

Well, seriously, thank you
for what you did.

This car is going to be around
for a while with our family,

And I know
this is not your usual gig.

Don't worry about it.

I did it for junior joe.
I didn't do it for you.

I don't think the people
know you have

A soft spot out there.
They need to know that.

I love kids, as long
as they're somebody else's.

That's right.
That's what I'm saying. Get out.

[ Laughter ]whoo!

Let's open the door.

You know what's going
to be rough, joseph?

What? Getting that door open,
princess?

Whoa![ Laughter ]

Little stinker.

Probably wondering why
I shut the door.

Joe: yeah, so I pay you.that's right.

♪♪

[ Thunder rumbling ]

♪♪

-Ugh.
-Dude, this weather sucks.

I know. I'm ready to get this...i'm frickin' soaked.

...day done.

Why is it so dark in here?

It's never this dark in here.

-Yeah. It usually --
-hit the lights.

They're on, dude.
We have no -- we have no power.

-Dude, the rain.
-[ Sighs ]

The radio's got power.

The radio's got
a battery in it, mike.

Oh. [ Laughs ]

[ Rattling ]

Sounds like the other guys
are already here.

Mike: the storm has knocked out
the power,

So not only will it be hard
to see what we're doing,

The power tools -- useless.

Dude, the coffee machine's
not going to work.

We only have 2 days left, which
is already cutting it close.

We still have to stab
the engine, do the electrical,

Do suspension, do the interior,
not to mention

Bass and jeremy still need to
fab and install the roll cage.

Boy, when it rains, it pours.[ Thunder rumbles ]

Did I really say that?we need to find russell.

He's the only
electrician-ish...

-Hey, russell.
-...type of person.

-Russell!
-There he is.

What'd you do?

I didn't do anything.
I'm over here...

What is going on with
this power, man?

...trying to figure out
what you guys did.

Well, he's
a self-proclaimed badass

At everything that he does
that has anything to do

With fixing,
buildings and --

Russell:
everything, actually.

See? You can hear him.he's in the dark. Yes.

You didn't arc anything
back there, nothing? 'Cause --

No. Nothing that we know
of that caused this.

How long do we think the power
is going to be down?

Well, at this point, none of
the breakers seem to be popped,

So I'm good on here.
I have to go outside.

I have to check where it
attaches to the building,

Make sure there's
no issue out there.

I have to check the meter,
make sure we're good there,

But I'm not
a licensed electrician,

And if I have to get
a licensed electrician

Out here to find an issue,
it's going to be expensive,

And it's going to take
a long time.

You guys have
any more of these?

-Yeah.
-So why don't you take this one?

That one's jason's.
It says "j-a" on it.

Mm-hmm. And go work by
flashlight until I get

Something going for you.we can't. We got --

I can't paint by flashlight.

It sounds like it's not going to
come on anytime today,

Which is really bad for us.

Or good.
Maybe we should go home...

-No.
-Take a break,

Get a rest,
come back and knock it out.

When are you going to make
this time up?

We don't get extra days
when the power goes out.

We can't leave.we can go home.

No. No, we can't.
Trust me.

Let's go play mini golf then.in the rain?

That's not technically
going home.

-It's in the rain.
-We can play hide-and-go-seek.

Oh, shut up.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

Mike: here's the problem.i can see you.

The lift will come down,
but it won't go back up, right?

That's fine. As long as we
can get the motor in place,

We can work
on the ground.

Right.
We got to get the car down.

As long as we don't have
the power to get it

Up off the locks...

-Ha!
-[ Bleep ]

-Locked in place, isn't it?
-Yeah.

That's what I'm saying.
We can't get the car down.

Mike:
the lift has a safety feature
which locks it into place,

So in order to go down,
we have to go up a little bit,

And we don't have any power,
so no power, no lift.

No lift, no engine install.

-You know how I feel about this?
-How?

I'm just going to forget
that I'm here.

We do that every day.

-Why's it so dark in here?
-I don't know. Be quiet.

I'm trying to tell
my scary stories.

Mike: well, let's think,
captain obvious.

It's storming outside
and [bleep].

I can't believe it.

As if the deadline wasn't
insane enough already,

Some days it just does not pay
to get out of bed.

We can't get the car down
because it's sitting on a lock,

So we can't go up.this is all we need.

You got a generator
at your shop?

Yeah, but it's busted.

This is stupid.

Mother nature sucks.

-You know that broad too?
-Yep.

The lights are out, but that
doesn't mean the clock stops.

Like sand through an hourglass,

The monkeys
are running out of time.

[ Thunder crashes ][ spooky laugh ]

Brian: the power is out,
but we can't just stop.

We have to do what we can
to keep moving forward,

So I'm starting to figure out
the numbering for the car doors.

Did we decide on 04?
Is that what we're doing?

Yeah.
I think so.

The good thing about
being a designer

Is I don't need power
to keep working,

But the same can't
be said for jeremy.

Richard said that since
gas monkey is founded

In '04, that's the number
we put on the car.

-Can you visualize that?
-Mm-hmm.

Not so much here
but here?

Yeah. Right there.

All right, so now I have to
figure out

How to transfer this
to the car.

♪♪

Guess what I just found out?

Power company says the whole
neighborhood's blacked out,

And we probably won't have
power until 8 a.m.

Oh, no.
That's a problem.

That's a whole day --
and night,

Because we technically...

We literally have, like,


Nope. We're going to have,
like, 20-something.

Now we're going to have
half of that.

What did you say, what time?8 in the morning, tomorrow.

They said 3 o'clock
this afternoon.

Nope.
It's been updated.

Brian: the car is supposed to be
on the track in 3 days,

And richard's already put down
a big nonrefundable deposit,

So if the car is not out there
kicking up dirt,

Richard's going to be
so pissed off,

And, well, I don't want to see
what that looks like.

-We got to make it work.
-Ugh! Come on, power.

[ Thunder crashes ]

[ Engine revs, tires screech ]
-whoo!

Narrator: coming up
on "fast n' loud"...

Boom. Gas going in.
Are we going to make fire?

Narrator: a second kind of
power failure...

It's going to take in a minute.
Keep rolling it.

[ Ignition cranking ]

...zaps the deadline.[ Ignition sputters ]

I need the rest of it done
in 12 hours,

So call me when it's done.

[ Clatter ]
-mother trucker.

♪♪

Scary.

It's a big old piece
of expensive tube.

-Well, we got more.
-This is our roll bar?

Yeah, it's a roll bar.

What do you think it is,
a swing set?

That's kind of what I thought
it was, like a little swing set.

Richard doesn't have kids.he's got a dog.

We have less than 2 days
until deadline,

And the power came back on
this morning.

We worked all through the night
and tightened anything

We could by hand,
which is exactly how they

Used to do it in the early days
of nascar anyway.

Right now, we're making
a roll bar for the '52 chevy.

Last week, jeremy and I
took measurements,

And now we're going to fab it.

As the name implies, a roll cage
protects the driver

In case the car
were ever to roll over,

Preventing the roof
from being crushed

By the weight of the car.

Roll bars were first used
in nascar in 1952,

So we're smart to use this
as a design element,

But the crazy thing is,
back then,

They were using
old steel bed frames

Instead of the high-quality
steel we have here,

Which was
electric-resistance-welded

And cold-drawn
to make it strong enough

To withstand the forces
from a high-speed rollover.

[ Whirring ]

Oh!

A couple of master fabricators
like us

Should be able to knock
this out lickety-split.

This is 54 1/4.

I'm calling it.
Good job.

Even a simple painter
like mike coy knows

That the secret to getting a job
like this done right

Is to measure twice
and cut once.

-This is complicated.
-Yeah, what's going on here?

Lean that way and then
this way and then...

Oh, okay. Oh.

-Oh, it's too wide.
-Missed it by that much.

-Oh, man.
-Boo!

Well, we can widen the car
a little bit if you need it.

-Yeah.
-The height looks good.

I think you got
the height right.

You just need to make it
a little narrower.

Measure once, cut twice, right?

Mike: epic fail.

Quit rubbing it in, mike.

That went smoothly.

I have zero confidence
in your fittings, bro.

Brian:
well, this is embarrassing.

Good thing nobody will see this
on national television

Or anything.

Jeremy:
then we go to the band saw.

We cut a section
out of the middle.

[ Clattering ]

-Right here good?
-That's better.

Okay.

Brian: we need to chop the main
hoop of the cage in half.

[ Whirring ]

Did I get the bigger piece?[ Clattering ]

-Yeah.
-I get to make a wish.

Make it.

I wish this [bleep]
car was done.

Brian: then we'll put the house
back in the car

To measure
how much we missed it by.

All right.
So it'd be like this.

Does that look pretty good?that looks fine.

Except for it needed to be
about 4 1/2 inches shorter,

Give or take.

What do you want to do now?

I guess we'll bend another one.

It's just money.

Finish it.

Race car, man.
We didn't spend much money.

We saved a lot on interior.

They're not used
to laying the pipe.

Brian: the roll bar hoop
at the b pillar

Has to be one piece
to be as strong as possible.

We can't just weld the two
halves together

Because they could fracture
in a crash.

Just make that.

If you could just duplicate
that, it'd be great.

-Ugh. Great.
-What?

-How off were y'all?
-Four and a half inches.

[ Bleep ]

Dang.

That's where we went wrong,
right there.

-Yeah.
-Brian: okay, new rule.

No more letting mike paint cars
first before we build them,

Because clearly, the idle mind
is the devil's playground.

Kind of bend it, like,
way up here this time.

Yeah, we got extra.
That's fine.

Already got extra
in the first bend.

Shut it, mike.i love this.

Shut it.this is awesome.

Y'all want to go to top golf
after this?

No, mike.

This is where it's going
to get tricky.

Okay. Set level.

Uh, do you want a level?

I like it.that is not level.

Did you see how he did that?
He went,

"Yeah. It's level."

What? I'm just trying to help.

So far, so good.

-Man.
-Look at that, guys.

I think you nailed that one.

-Well, almost.
-Hey.

It looks fine to me.
Let's weld this thing in.

Ugh.

It's a competition today.

-Competition?
-See how fast we can do it.

-Go. Go.
-Come on, nascar fast!

♪♪

I got a bad thread.

Ugh, tony, you don't have
a battery tool.

Oh, you cheater.[ Laughter ]

Keep going.

[ Laughter ]

[ Whirs ]winner. I'm out.

-You cheater.
-Jason wins!

♪♪

Oh, I see the seat coming.

That looks like factory
original 1952.

-Very gray.
-Looks awesome.

Matches the wheels.

Yeah, it's the same color
as the wheels.

Brian: it's the last day before
our deadline on the '52 chevy,

And we just got our seat back
from the upholstery shop.

It's nice and simple like it
would have been in 1952.

That's one less thing
to worry about,

But we still have a lot of
loose ends to tie up,

Not to mention to see if
this thing will actually fire.

Okay, I'm going to man the jack
until we get it happy.

Then I'll get inside
and lift it up.

It's a big moment.

If it happens to fall,
just don't be under it.

Brian: mike got the 383 stroker
painted a classic chevy orange,

And now charles and jason
are ready to stab it

And the tremec five-speed
transmission for the last time.

Coming down.

The thing about a 383 stroker
is they have shorter pistons,

Altered rods, and cranks,
which deliver a lot more torque.

In stock-car racing,
you need a lot of torque

To pop out of a turn

Or to burst in front
of another car in a dead heat.

At its top speed,
it's not that important.

You can probably
manhandle it, jason.

You want somebody
to go in there?

-Do I need to go down more?
-If you have it.

We're just hitting
the bolt heads right here.

There we go.that's it.

-That's all you get.
-There you go.

Now you're there.

♪♪

[ Clatter on ground ]mother trucker.

I'm about sick of deadlines,
man.

That's it.

That much closer.

Brian: now we need to button up
the systems under the hood

Before getting to hear
the 383 come to life.

Just setting it in now.
You got it.

Everything's come together
really smoothly on this build,

But with this
crazy-short schedule,

We don't have time
for any glitches

That will keep us from getting
this engine fired today.

Hold that hose real quick,
the hose.

And I hope I haven't jinxed us
by saying that out loud.

Boom. Gas going in.

Are we going to make fire?

-I hope not right there.
-Well, no.

-Let's fire it up.
-Well, we'll fire it up.

We just don't want to catch it
on fire.

This is going to be fun.

Hey, bump it up just in case the
transmission's not in neutral.

Everybody stand...
Gah!

Launch.

[ Imitates cranking ]

Let's do it.

[ Ignition cranks ]

It's going to take it a minute.
Keep rolling it.

[ Ignition cranking ]

No, you got to just pour
a little in there

To get the suction going.

Prime it.

And...

-Fire it.
-Too much.

Richard: oh, that's plenty.oh, yeah.

-Yeah, juiced.
-You guys ready?

Waiting for the fireball.here we go.

-Here it comes.
-[ Whooshes ]

[ Ignition cranking ]

Whoops. Whoops.

[ Cranking continues ]

-You got oil pressure now.
-So close.

[ Ignition cranks ]

For some reason, I don't feel
like this is as exciting

As it's supposed to be.go ahead.

[ Cranks, engine starts ]there.

-A little better.
-Hell yeah.

[ Engine revs ]

Good to be patient.

[ Revving ]it sounds really good.

-Hey.
-I like it.

-Sounds really good.
-[ Imitates engine rumble ]

-Hey, I like that exhaust.
-That sounds like a stock car.

I like that exhaust.
Yes, it's awesome.

That's good.

Is that the excitement
you needed?

Yeah, but I need the rest of it
done in 12 hours,

So call me when it's done.12 hours.

Nothing's ever good enough
for that guy, man.

Richard: we're nearly out of
time and money on this build,

And I got to sell it.

Brian: there's another saying
I believe in --

"No good deed goes unpunished."

♪♪

[ Tires screech ]
-whoo!

Narrator: coming up
on "fast n' loud"...

I guess you got power.

[ Engine starts ]

Richard takes a victory lap

And cashes in
in record time.

[ Engine roaring ]

-Oh, yeah.
[ Laughter ]

That'll work.
That'll work.

Mike!

Whoo!

Heater core!what was that?

That was horrible
was that was.

I think I just
pulled something.

Was that supposed to be
a cartwheel?

I can't do a cartwheel.you can't?

Not anymore.
I'm too fat.

Even I can do a cartwheel.

Yeah, but you're not
fat anymore.

Cartwheel contest.

Oh, and your battery's
right there.

It's a cartwheel-off.

Hey!

It really wasn't much better.

-[ Laughs ]
-seven.

Keenan,
you do a cartwheel.

All right, come on.

Oh, don't hurt yourself.

I ripped my pants.
I ripped my pants.

[ Laughter ]
-yep.

I give it an 8.6
just for the rip.

♪♪

Announcer:
good evening, race fans.

[ Cheering ]

Welcome to the kickoff
of the 1952 race season

Here at kennedale speedway.

Be sure to visit our concession
stands for a snack

And your favorite beverage
and settle in

For an action-packed night
of racing!

♪♪

All eyes tonight
are on the number 4 car,

The 1952 chevy coupe built
by gas monkey garage

And driven by richard rawlings.

I guess you got power?

[ Engine starts ]

[ Engine revving ]

Announcer:
rawlings is putting it all on
the line with this chevy coupe,

And we're all waiting to see
if number 4 lives up

To the gas monkey legend.

The pack is approaching
the starting line,

And they're off and racing!

[ Cheering ]

[ Engine revving ]

♪♪

[ Engine revving ]

Richard: I took the '52 chevy
out on the track

To test out how well it performs
and to see how it feels

To be an old-time nascar racer
from back in the day.

♪♪

If you're going to jump into
nascar like I did,

You got to pay tribute
to your roots,

And if you want to know
where you're headed,

You got to know
where you came from.

Announcer: and it's
richard rawlings

In the gas monkey chevrolet
for the win!

♪♪

Richard: rear-wheel drive,
a monster v-8,

Manual transmission --

That's the stuff of stock car
racing legends.

♪♪

I wanted to build a badass
old-school racer for a while,

And now, seeing it on the track,

I know it was the right decision
to build this car into one.

♪♪

Building any kind of race car,
you need power,

Handling, and braking.

Ugh! Dang!

When it came to the motor,
we needed a lot of power

And bulletproof reliability.

Here we go.
Going up.

So we went with a 383 chevy
small-block stroker

Turning out
more than 400 horses.

Aw, snap.

It's coupled to a new
five-speed transmission

To put all that power
to the ground

And get out of the corners
with no hesitation.

[ Cheering ]

Holley hooked us up.

To squeeze every bit of power
out of that small-block,

We turned to holley for
the carb, fuel pump, headers,

And everything else we needed
to make that car

Perform like we asked.

♪♪

Of course, with a lot
of horsepower,

You need a lot
of stopping power.

There's no one better
than the team at wilwood,

And they came through
with a k*ller set of brakes.

You can't win without
the right handling,

So we didn't hold back
on building the suspension.

We went with ridetech coilovers

Coupled with
an independent suspension

From jimenez brothers
customs.

This thing handles
like it's on rails.

♪♪

Ain't nothing like
a good rear end,

And the dutchman's rear axle
with extreme-duty wheel bearings

Was the perfect fit.

Holy cow.

♪♪

One thing we proved
tonight out here

Is there's nothing more fun

Than driving
a high-powered manual v-8.

Chalk this one up as a victory
for gas monkey garage.

Now we just got to sell it.

♪♪

[ Engine rumbling ]

Whoa!

What does this mean?

I'm trying to help direct.

I still don't understand
why we need another car

In here to sell.

Because I just posted an ad
for it on the interwebs,

And it's got a ton
of views already, daphne,

And, well, because we got
the room for it,

We might as well
have cars in here.

Richard: after a k*ller
test drive at the dirt track,

I had coy dust off
the '52 chevy,

So we can feature it over
in the merch shop.

You see, as soon as the monkeys
finished building it,

I put it up on
the gas monkey website,

And a few people already want
to come by and check it out.

-You're a fine valet, sir.
-Thank you.

-Excuse me.
-It's not straight.

Daphne's giving me a hard time
because it's the third car here,

And I'm like,
"well, we sell cars."

-Yeah.
-So...

-This is for sale?
-Hey, sir. I'm richard.

Yeah. Yeah.
We just finished building this,

So I just brought it in here,
but it is for sale.

I'd like to have some fun.business coupe?

Is it a business coupe.

My dad had a '52 business coupe.no kidding?

-Yeah.
-Right on.

Coy just set the parking brake,

And already we got ourselves
a little lookie-loo.

So, daphne, you just leave
the marketing

To your little brother.

Well, this is
all original paint

Except for we clear-coated
the outside.

And -- so we kind of
made it reminiscent

Of, you know, a stock car,

A nascar-type vehicle
from the late '50s.

It's got a pretty badass little
beefed-up small-block in it.

My name's domingo,
and I'm from gouldbusk, texas.

I remember, my dad
had a business coupe,

'52 Model, same year
as what I'm looking at now.

It was an old rust bucket.

He would buy stuff back
in the day, redo it,

And I've always wanted
a business coupe.

We would have normally done
a single seat,

But I figured anybody
that's going to have fun with it

Is going to want to
take somebody with them.

-The doors sound good.
-Yeah.

You mind if we take
a test drive?

All right,
let's take it for a ride.

[ Engine rumbling ]

It's got about 430, 440 horse,
a small-block.

[ Engine revving ]

Oh, yeah.

It's a fun little ride.

No frills, though,
no air-conditioning.

-That's fine.
-No heater.

I love the patina.

I love what y'all did
with the interior.

[ Engine revving ]

[ Laughs ]
that'll work.

That'll work right there.

Yeah, it's a fun little ride.that's what I'm talking about.

♪♪

Ha ha!

Domingo: as we're driving
the car, it sounds great.

It's made to go fast, and that's
exactly what I'm looking for.

I was kind of hoping to get
about 30 grand for it.

I mean, every single nut
and bolt's brand-new.

I was thinking around $20,000.

Mm.

So I bought this car
for 1,800 bucks,

And I put $12,000 into it,
and that brought us up

For a lot of power
and a lot of good braking,

But you're getting
a period-correct car,

So whoever buys it,
they're going to love the blend.

I mean, I know
you got money in it.

Yeah, but I mean, I need to make
a little bit of money.

It is just plenty wicked.

About $27,500?

$22,500.

Man, domingo's really not
coming up on his number much,

But I got
to close this deal.

Well, you know that's going
to make me go to 25 grand...

If we're making
a deal today.

I got cash in hand, $24,000.

All right.
Let's do it.

All right. Thank you, sir.cool, man.

Let's go do some paperwork.cool.

So I just made 10 grand.

That's not quite
what I was expecting,

But it's still a cool
gas monkey original,

And it's going to be turning
heads for a long time to come.

I'm taking this back
to central texas.

No kidding.

Well, gas monkey just
got paid.