13x08 - A Very Brady Edition

[bunniefuu]

What's up, sinjin?
What's up?

[bleep] news --
hellcat got stolen.

So I've heard, yeah.

Richard: News flash --
my hellcat got stolen.

It is serial number 2,

and some a-hole
out there stole it.

I got my social millennial team
jumping all over it.

Let's do a reward, like,
I don't know, $2,500, $5,000,

I don't even care.
I want the car back.

Wrapping up
this post right now.

The power of social media
is what it's all about.

We've got millions and millions
of followers everywhere,

and they'll find it.

Put out a hashtag like,
"where the hell is my hellcat?"

alright.

Just make sure
everybody knows about it.

I want my car back.

"where the hell is
my hellcat?"

and post.

[ engine revs and tires squeal ]
[ chuckles ]

whoo!

Narrator:
Right now, on "fast n' loud,"

hot-rod hunter,
richard rawlings...

Found a penny!

...And his band
of monkeys...

[ coughs ]

narrator:
...Are hot for a firebird.

The hell is that?

Narrator: But the build goes
cold when the bird flames out...

It's actually starting
to fold like this.

Narrator: ...And start asking
for a do-over.

And then...

This is something
that I've never done.

...Richard falls
for a super supra.

Man: You're not going to find
a car in the country like this.

No, I wouldn't be
looking for one.

Narrator:
And when a valued part

of the gas monkey stable of cars
turns up missing...

-Oh, we need to go.
-I know we need to go.

Narrator: ...Richard goes on
a mission for its safe return.

-[ laughs ]
-is that it?
-Is that it?

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[ tires screeching ]

-hey, a firebird.
-That's cool.

[ laughter ]

come on. Hop in.

[ tires screeching ]

♪

♪

that tire's done.

You're about
to lose it.

Really am surprised
it did as well as it did.

Yeah, it's shiny, and it runs
good. What are we doing?

Richard: I did a garage rehab
on a guy's place,

knapp automotive repair
over on northwest highway.

You know my other business,
"garage rehab."

that's where I invest
in rundown garages

and transform them
into the money-making machines

they should be.

The owner of this one place,
robert knapp,

had what literally could
be described as a [bleep]

god, I wish
there was smellivision,

[laughing]
'cause this smells so bad.

I can't
thank you enough.

Richard:
He handed over all his assets,

I hand over a ton of money,
and we rehabbed the garage.

But when
this rehab was done,

robert's girlfriend
showed up in this '67 firebird.

-What's up with this?
-It's a car I had in the garage.

Cool. Your garage?

Robert:
Oh, yeah, at the house.

What the [bleep]
you talking about, man.

This is yours?
Yeah, just one I had around.

You didn't tell me you had
an asset we could sell.

It's on me. I don't lie.
I own it.

I mean, you're right,
I didn't.

Next thing you know,
you're going to tell me you had

this for like 10
or 15 years.

Uh, little bit longer.

Un-freaking-believable,
man.

I thought I disclosed everything
and come to find out I hadn't.

Well, it got tense.

I'm really trying
to not be pissed off, man.

I mean,
we could have sold this

and put another 10 grand
in the shop.

Oh, it's worth way more
than 10 grand.

I'm giving you 10 grand
for it.

You are?
Yeah.

I think it's worth more,
though.

No, you don't
understand.

I just spent $125,000
in this place,

and you didn't tell me
we had an asset I could sell.

You're getting 10 grand
for this car,

and you're giving me
the title.

It's gone. We're putting
the 10 grand in the bank.

Un-freaking-
believable.

Instead of robert knapp's
first payment to me in cash,

I took his firebird.

And you call that
an asset?

Well, it's worth
5 or 10 grand.

I mean,
who gives a [bleep]

okay, well,
was it hers or his?

It was his! It's not that nice,
but pull up your socks

because I already ordered parts
to build the firebird

into the badass ride
it was meant to be.

Talking like
a screaming chicken.

♪

the first generation
of firebirds were built in 1967,

and buyers could choose
between several motors

ranging from a really crappy
six-cylinder

to the beefier
400-cubic-inch v-8.

The firebirds shared the same
fenders and doors as the camaro,

but the blended bumpers
and split rear taillights

totally set the cars apart.

It's called a pony car
because it was designed

to compete with
the super popular ford mustang,

because mustang, pony,
it's a horse. Get it?

♪

throw some decent paint on it,
change the color up.

On your drive
over here,

did you maybe think
about a color or...?

I don't know.
For some reason,

this car tells me it wants to be
like a copper-brown color.

Jason: This firebird is
bringing back memories,

and not all of them are good.

Richard:
A few years back,

I found firebird serial number 1
and serial number 2.

Jason:
Restoring those firebirds was
my first job here at gas monkey.

I brought in jason
because he knows

exactly how to make
it happen fast.

Richard: We simultaneously
built both cars, side-by-side,

all the way up, 100-point
concourse restorations.

Jason:
Richard makes it sound easy,

but those restorations
were brutal.

The rust repair
plus getting them straight

and getting them all-original,
was grueling work.

In the end, gas monkey got paid,
and that's what counts.

Black interior,
black top.

Clean. Simple.

What motor is
in this thing anyway?

It says it's a 400,
but I never looked at it.

It don't matter because
I already called

butler performance
to get a big v-8 from them.

What the hell
is that?

It's a cut-off switch, man.
[ laughter ]

telegraph.
[ imitates morse code beeping ]

oh, that's
hi-tech right there.

That is pretty rough,
isn't it?

Here's the plan.

I looked at the market
for convertible firebirds,

and if done right, they're going
for 40 to 75 grand.

Sometimes, if you can get
a firebird build just right,

it can fetch upwards
of six figures.

This one's easy cash,
so long as we get it done

quick and efficient,
so I've got all the parts

to make it badass already
on the way.

We'll replace the motor
with a 467-cubic-inch monster

from butler performance.

And to get all that horsepower
to the ground,

we'll slap on a 5-speed
silver sport transmission

and a quick performance
rear end.

For the right ride, let's go
with a new ridetech suspension

and the stopping power
of wilwood brakes.

For sure it needs
big meaty tires

on fresh rims
from american racing.

Let's get to it.


put it back together,

and let's sell it.

Hey, one more thing!

How much money
do we get to work with?

Just do it.

I heard him say
25, 30 grand.

I'll get in it.

Jason: I'll admit it --
that '67 firebird convertible

was never my dream car.

[ engine revving
and tires screeching ]

♪

it did have a little more power
than I expected,

but the car is rough man.

It is in bad shape
and it's got a terrible stance.

This one has me worried
a little bit.

This car has a few signs
that are showing

that there might be
some bigger problems.

♪

that was like
a slow donut.

Like, so slow.

♪

russell: Do you have one
of those stickers

on the back
of the sprinter

that has all
the states you color in?

No, I have
sheets of paper

that say I cannot come back
to those states.

[ laughs ]
that's how I keep track.

[ both laugh ]

I was strumming across
the old interwebs

and this supra popped up.

There's not very many of them
available for sale,

and a lot of people
looking for them.

A supra?
Yep, supra hatchback.

Times getting tough
or...?

No, these are getting
very collectible.

So, you had a supra idea?
I had a supra idea.

So, I got the guy on the phone
the next day,

and his name is ric,

and he kind of buys
and sells hot rods

and what have you up here
in rock springs, wyoming.

Here we go.

He says he's right
next to the detail shop,

so this is it.
Let's just see what happens.

Yo!

His name's ric,
not "yo."

this is pretty cool.

Maybe we see
some unicorns.

Hello.
How you doing?

Well, you probably know who
I am, but, ric, I'm richard.

Yeah, welcome to wyoming.
I'm ric.

How are you doing?
This is my wife, kelli.

My name's ric sugihara.
This is my wife kelli.

We're in rock springs,
wyoming, in our shop here,

and, yeah,
we have a lot of cars,

and the wife would like me
to get rid of a few.

[ laughs ]
it's time.

See if you can buy
some cars.

Russell:
Cars? Plural?

Cars.
We'll just go through,

and we'll sell them all to you,
make a package deal.

She's the one who wants
to sell more than I.

I'd rather
collect them.

What's the story
on the coronet?

It's 505 big-block,
fresh.

If you go underneath
and look at the motor,

all-new,
but kept it real period-correct.

He had a few cars that I've had
some of before in the past.

Had some pretty
cool old hot rods,

but they were fiberglass,
and I'm just not keen on those.

Here's what
I came here for.

Tell me a little bit
about the celica.

'79 celica.
I mean, look real close.

That's original paint.

You ain't going to find a car
in this condition

in the country
like this.

No, I wouldn't
be looking for one.

He's looking for it.
[ laughs ]

richard: The supra was toyota's
move to siphon off sales

from datsun's 280z
and mazda's rx-7.

Created in japan in 1978
as the celica xx,

it was exported
to the u.S. Market in 1979

and re-branded the supra.

It's still a celica,
but with enough upgrades

and luxury accessories to make
it toyota's upmarket special.

And not only is it
a first-year toyota supra,

but the import scene
is real hot right now,

and most of those cars
got trashed,

beat up, and to find one
in decent condition

is going to be
hard to do.

Original paint,
two-owner car.

You know what?
It's a good-looking car.

First glance, it's got some
hail dents and things like that,

you know, we can get a dent guy
to take care of that.

Let's take a look
underneath here.

This is cool.

Ric: I haven't cleaned it,
done anything to this car.

Fire it up.

As long as it runs
and drives,

and it's complete,
this will be a great car

to flip to some guy
who really wants to build it up.

[ engine starts ]

russell: What?

Ric: You just touch the key,
just touch it, and it's there.

Yeah, that's cool.
Can we take it for a ride?

Yeah, you want
to drive it?

So, we looked
the car over.

Time to take it
for a test drive.

Can't even hear it running,
can you russell?

Russell:
No, it's supra quiet.

[ laughs ]

russell: I'll wait behind here
with the missus.

I think she's the real key
to making the deal here.

♪

richard:
It drives great, man.

I mean look in the back.
There's no smoke.

Shift's good.
Yeah.

Clutch feels good.
It's pretty neat old --

called a survivor car
is what I would --

complete survivor.
No one's messed with it.

Just someone bought it
and has had the car

just original
that many years.

Richard:
The suspension was super smooth,

the brakes were super okay,
and it shifted super awesome.

There's so much super
in this supra,

you could...Eat soup
out of it.

Might have to
buy this.

The market's hot
right now,

I think I can make
a little bit of money on it

if I can get it
for the right price.

Hope we can come together
and make a deal on this.

Help me get this garage
emptied out.

This isn't a restoration for us,
this is more of a preservation

and let somebody that really
wants one in good shape get it.

Well you made it.
I told you it was a good car.

Drives almost like
a new one, man.

But I've got to
get him down.

One way to do that is maybe
find a package deal here.

Hell, he's got
enough cars.

Alright, so,
I like this car,

and I know about
what you want for it,

but I've been trying
not to look at it.

And then...I saw it.

This thing is
just so crazy.

I saw it when I walked in
from way over there,

and I'm like,
"don't look at it, richard.

Don't look at it, you'll buy it.
I know you will."

russell: Big, gold, shiny --
yeah I don't understand

why you would not want
to be drawn right to.

Just the paintwork
and stuff is so crazy cool.

You could have ordered this kit
out of a catalog,

and then if you had
an old volkswagen laying around,

bada bing, bada boom,
you got yourself a badass trike.

Boom -- there's my package deal
to get me to the right price.

Seven wheels, no waiting.

I want to be 12 grand in
or less.

That's a grand each
to get them home,

that's ten grand
for the pair,

that's where I've got
to have him.

So, I just
started there.

Well, I looked
at everything,

and unless
the limo's free,

the only thing I'm interested
in is these two.

Honestly,
what I'm willing to pay,

and it's a yes or no,

I'll give you 10 grand
for the pair,

and you can divide it up in
your head however you want to.

So, I'd say no.

Come on.
That's a fair deal.

I actually got to ship them
all the way to texas.

That's going to be
a grand a piece.

Well, we appreciate you coming
a long ways.


10.

Russell: Richard's there,
and he's negotiating,

except he was going
with the hard sell.

You've got to figure out where
the weakness is or...

The boss, actually,

and the boss was standing
right next to ric.


make sense for you?

I say 10 grand.

Great. Deal.
Excellent.

Well, there you go.
I guess she makes the deal.

Way to go, guys.
Thanks a lot.

Sounds good to me.
I said sell it.

I got two badass vehicles --
one, the supra and...

Supra-cool.

...One that's
ultra supra-cool.

Well let's go do some paperwork
and count out some money,

get on a plane,
and go home.

Russell, you enjoy
your trip to new york.

I'll see you
back at the shop.

Russell: Watch out, new york!
Russell's coming home!

Whoo!

Narrator:
Coming up, on "fast n' loud"...

And it's been
hacked up there.

...Richard's latest resto-mod
might be dead on arrival...

This is a donor car.
We can't build this car.

Narrator: ...And his search
for stolen goods gets messy.

I didn't like that
anyways.

[bleep]

♪

♪

right now let's just get
the trim, interior,

drivetrain out of it,
and then we'll give it

to the guys
in the body shop,

you guys,
with the suspension on it.

Let's go.

Jason: We're on a 10-day
deadline to knock the ugly off

the '67 firebird
and build it into a car

with some gas monkey style.

Richard pre-ordered
all the parts,

from a crate motor
to the new suspension,

so we can get this
bad boy done on time.

See, a guy that carries
a flat spare tire is not smart.

What's your over and under
on skull count on this car?

I say we got --
I say you got 12.

You said 13, right?
Yeah, I'm going to say like --

alright, I'm going to sh**t
one low just because.

Four skulls on the wheels.

We had our door lock skulls.
Right. That's six.


I'm money.

Please give me some skulls on
them license plates back there.

Nope, they're spikes.
No, negative.

So what do I win, mike?
You win a date with jeremy.

You're buying.
Another one?

I'm starting
to understand sue,

when she says
richard always brings me junk.

I feel like
he does that to us too.

I'm starting to agree
with that a lot more.

Jason: First red flag of the day
was when we got the car

in position
to tear it down,

the passenger door
wouldn't open.

Yeah, it just stopped working.
And it worked just fine,

and all of a sudden,
now it doesn't work.

You think someone sat
on the lock getting in it?

How about the linkage?

This door's broke here too
and broke here.

And it's usually something like
that and it's a snowball effect.

I think these quarters
are too far forward.

And you're positive quarters
have been put in?

No, I'm not positive,
that's what I'm saying.

I have no idea.
I can look inside.

It may be original, mike,
because I've got rust here.

The trunk pan is not and there's
fiberglass all over the place.

Yeah, the whole bottom
is fiberglass.

Well, then it's been
hacked up then.

And sure enough, as we got
the car further apart,

we started finding signs.

I can already tell you
it looks like

there's been floor pan put in.

And it's a convertible,
so if they don't do it right.

That's factory, though.
All this is factory.

Yeah, but this isn't.
No, no -- yeah.

And when we pulled
the carpet back,

we found the entire floor
of the car had been cut out

and really poorly
welded back on top of it.

They didn't it correctly,
that body could taco.

Being a convertible like that,
you don't have roof structure,

so really, all of it
relies on your floor.

And if they just
threw these pans in

and over time, that car had --

had sagged like this,
could be an issue

why we're having a problem
with our doors fitting.

We can't make a door
fit in a hole that's an inch

too short, front to back.

Let's roll it to the lift.

This puts a huge red flag
for us right now,

because if we go
to all this work

and we still can't make
all those pieces fit

without having to cut
the car apart,

then it's a wasted project.

-Oh.
-Look at this.

It's all gone. I mean, the whole
floor has come out of it.

Yeah, that's the worst
floor I've ever seen in a car.

♪

-do you see this?
-Yeah, it's --

looks like it's terrible.

I mean,
just look at the jagged metal.

Just -- they just
literally chopped it

and then laid the other floor
on top of it.

They didn't even take
the old floor out.

Jason: Richard could have called
one of us up to come look at it.

He was just a few miles away,

but he has a history
of buying crap

when he doesn't have
a mechanic with him.

Richard: Super cool, man,
super cool.

Richard went
to chicago all alone

and he bought
the mr. Norm van.

Took a big loss on that deal.

[ sighs ]
I just lost money.

The barracuda,
another garage rehab purchase,

it was more of a mess
than he thought.

Yeah, this thing
sounds horrible.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, my god.
Wow.

And when richard wound up
on his own in tennessee...

Man: '67 camaro
four-wheel drive.

...He spent 10 grand
on a camaro 4x4.

A broke one at that.

Oh, that might be
all she wrote.

Ooh.

Normally cars like this
that go back to fully restored,

that are this rusted,
are $100,000 to $120,000 builds.

We cannot put this car
back together.

We cannot put our name
on this car.

Pull the plug, we've got
half a days work in it.

Alright, so you're going to
break the news to richard?

Yep.

♪

[ sighs ]

what are you doing?
Making a sandwich

in the new
gerald company kitchen.

This gerald
company kitchen is nice,

but it's not helping me
find my hellcat,

but it makes
a damn good sandwich.

What's going on
with my hellcat?

Oh, no real leads on it.

Look, just make sure
that you call everyone you can,

get it all out
on the interwebs.

Do whatever you've got
to do to find the car.

I have and so far, you've gotten
dms from chicks

and four ford pintos.
I don't want any pintos.

But I like the dms,
send them to my phone.

Okay.
Can I do that after lunch?

I mean, I'm kind of right
in the middle of this.

Sure. Lunch is now over.

Can I make tacos later?

I didn't like that
anyways.

[bleep]

now I need
a new shirt, too.

Send the dms to me!

♪

bring it here.

♪

before you get
too comfortable,

our little firebird project,
we have a hiccup.

It was pretty straightforward.
What's the hiccup?

Well, when you see
what we've got,

you'll know exactly
what the hiccup is.

Let me guess -- rust?

Oh, it's a little bigger
than rust this time.

I mean,
rust doesn't scare me.

You know, we knew what we were
getting into with this car,

it was pretty rough anyway.
There's just no car left.

The rail connectors are the only
thing holding the car together.

We cannot ethically
put this car back together.

You couldn't attach anything
to another thing.

No, it's --
it has to all be cut out.

It's a bad one.

Mike: It's not just
rust damage,

entire sections of the floor
are missing.

Worse than that, the frame
of the car

is rotted so bad
that it's taco-ing.

It's literally
folding up on itself.

On a convertible,
you have no roof structure,

so they usually -- what they do
is they'll stiffen the frame

and the chassis and the floor.

Well, on this one,
it was so rotted out

that the car's
actually, like -- say

this is the front
and this is the back,

it's actually
starting to fold like this

because the structure is gone.

Well, it didn't drive bad.

Do you have to have
a convertible?

Has to be.

Why are we stuck
with a convertible?

Because when the top goes down,
the price goes up.

This car has to go to scrap.

This is a donor car,
we can't build this car.

I got a '67 firebird
from robert knapp

and he's a mechanic
and I figured the car

is in pretty good shape.
I should have looked it over

a little better,
but I got all excited,

ordered a whole bunch of parts,
and then we get the car in here

and we tear it apart
and it turns out it is a p.O.S.

And we've got a motor
on the way, transmission,

all the suspension, brakes.

So we can't just punk
the whole project.

We just need another car.
Normally we buy a car

and then we find a donor,
this is kind of our donor.

Can we find a car?

I don't know.
I mean, we've got it torn up,

it's in the middle
of the garage.

At this point,
send it out the door,

start with a fresh car,

maybe take some
parts off this car.

And then send it out
to the crusher.

You don't want to give anybody
that car on purpose.

Alright, let me get online
and see

if I can find a '67 convertible
that's for sale today.

Yeah, we need one today.
Tomorrow we've got to get going.

We'll go look at it,
scoop it up today.

Because right now
we're dead in the water.

Did I hear road trip?

I'm glad y'all are excited
about wasting my money.

Told you
I'd throw it in the gutter.

We should put this thing down
before it falls on someone.

♪

richard: We just found out
that the car

that I have is
completely full of rust.

It looks like swiss cheese.

I've got to find another car
to see

if we can even get one bought

at a satisfactory price
that we can build,

because we've got all the parts
already on order.

Looks like most of the firebirds
that I'm finding out there

for sale are either as rusty
as this one or already finished.

I've already got all
the parts coming

and I need a car
to build,

and pontiac parts are
so specific to the car

that what am I going to do
with them

if I don't have a '67
to put them in.

[ telephone rings ]

russell gives me a call,
because he's out

gallivanting
around the north east,

and I'm here in texas
sweating it out

trying to figure out what we're
going to do with this firebird.

We have opened
pandora's [bleep] box.

Russell:
What? The '67 firebird?

I mean, this is the --
underneath,

this is probably the worst car
we've ever had at gas monkey.

That's saying a lot.

I got to figure out
what I'm going to do now.

I don't know where
I'm at right now,

I'm scouring the [bleep] nation
right now for one.

Well, as long as
I have your okay,

I'll keep an eye out
for a convertible firebird.

Chin up, little guy, that's why
I'm your fixer, right?

Just don't spend more than 20
or 22 grand on it.

Okay. Sayonara, sucker.

[ laughs ]

right out the door.

What an a*s-whipping.

Whoo!

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

It's a firebird
déjà vu re-do.

-What'd I buy this for?
-25.

Narrator: And mike spins
the firebird color wheel.

You're about to get kicked out
of the pick the color club.

I like that color.

♪

[ horn honks ]

-what do you think, guys?
-Is that a supra?

'79, first year of the supra.
Oh, wow.

-All original?
-First year?

All original, dude.
Original paint.

I was supra excited
when I found this.

Where did you find this thing?
Wyoming.

But check it out.
It runs and drives great.

There's just not
a lot of them out there.

And this car actually runs,

drives, and everything
works perfectly.

I think since it's
100% original paint,

we have our pdr guy
come out.

Yeah, absolutely.

Pdr stands
for paintless dent repair.

If you want to make money
flipping cars,

saving the original paint
is always a good selling point.

Keep it as original as possible.
Yeah.

Hey, did you get
a decent deal on it?

Yeah, stole it, 5 grand.
Really?

I could sell it like it sits
for 10,

but I'm going to try to get 20.
You probably will.

Dude, in '79,
this was, like, exotic.

The supra, because
it was a 6-cylinder,

the regular celica just had
a little 4-cylinder,

but this was, like,
the super car.

Here's the deal,
we'll clean up the interior,

we'll fix all the dents on
the outside with the dent guy.

We'll put the original wheels
and tires back on it

and boom -- we've got
a k*ller supra.

Now I just need
a "supra-natural" buyer.

Check this out, it's my first
time ever to be to wyoming

and I don't really see
any reason to go back.

Dude, I love wyoming.

Tony, let's take it.

Work day, workout.

Dude,
what are you doing?

Got a busy day today, man.
Yeah, we've got a lot to do.

Yeah,
ain't got time for this, man,

I've just got to get to it.

Water? Nah.

Wait,
that's raw protein powder.

[ coughs ]

holy [bleep]

what are you doing?
I'll be right for the day, man.

[bleep]

[bleep]

[ coughing ]

I'm going to die for real.

[ laughs ]

[ inhales sharply ]

we need a clean up
on aisle three.

[ spits ]

jason: Look at the rust
even in the trim work, man,

this thing is junk.

This thing's [bleep]

richard:
It's awful quiet in here.

Yeah, we're contemplating
this rust bucket.

I know, we already
said we'd kick it.

But I've got russell
trying to find one.

These cars are expensive?

They're a little more expensive
than I want to spend

considering
we're trashing this one.

Uh-oh.

[ horn honking ]

-who is this?
-Oh, look at that.

-Ha-ha!
-That's a...

Well, there you go,
that's the real car.

How's that for service?

If it looks good underneath,
then I'm happy.

Well, aren't you just the --

yeah, aren't you timely.

The savior for this.
We were just talking

about how bad this car was.
I knew something was up

when you weren't answering
my phone calls.

Well, it's hard to hear
anything with the top down,

and it's a longer drive than
I thought it was going to be.

But you said you needed one
because that thing was a mess.

So you drove this in
from new york?

Yeah, baby!

What's amazing is your hair
is still perfect.

It actually is.
I was like this most of the way.

Got it, got it.

Is this a different hood
and stuff?

Still the same car though?
Right?

-Yeah. I mean, same body.
-The same car.

-Same year?
-What did I buy this for?


in the condition it's in.

[bleep]

but you're not
finding one like this,

especially with what you guys
have in mind on it.

Jason: Richard had paid
what I thought

was too much for the white car.

Now he's having to kick out
25 grand for the red car,

which seems like
a lot of money,

but this is a really solid car,
it runs, drives, obviously.

You know, it's just made
a 1,500-mile trip.

Now we have a parts car
and we have a buildable car,

and for us that's the ideal
situation to build what we want.

Cool it out,
change the color for sure.

Speaking of colors,
what are you thinking?

You still want copper?

I want to go with a combination
of g*n metal,

black, and that bronze
on the wheels.

Weren't we kind of g*n metaled
out right now?

I want it
to be different.

All that anybody
ever does is that.

We've already got a motor
coming, transmission,

everything is already
on its way here.

We have to start all over
with this firebird.

With everything I've spent
on this project,

I'm down 35 grand
before we even touched it.

But convertibles
are always popular

and this will be a high-powered
cruiser like none other.

All the cool stuff I already
ordered, that all stays.

Never mind the copper,
paint it a sexy g*n metal gray.

I originally gave the guys
10 days on the build,

but I reset the clock
and still gave the monkeys


They better move.

I'll sell that, you know,
for 5,000, 6,000 bucks.

Put the money back in the bank,
and off we go.

-Hey, that works.
-k*ller.

I can sell these wheels.
Good job, man.

-Hey, man, thanks.
-Whoo!

We need to go over some toll
receipts and some gas receipts.

It took a little bit
to get down here.

Jason: Time to start working
on firebird number two.

-Let's blow the thing apart...
-Yep.

...Get it to the sandblaster --
start there.

I have no idea
how to take this apart.

Now we have a parts car,
and we have a buildable car,

and that's the ideal situation
to build what we want.

We're going to blow
this thing apart.

We're going to take
every piece off of it,

we're going to get it
to the sandblaster

and get down to the metal and
look at what we've got to do.

Josh: I think some things
will be revealed

once it's sandblasted
and we get it back.

Otherwise, it looks pretty
clean underneath there.

It's definitely way cleaner
than our other one.

[bleep]

jason: The early firebirds
had these dampeners.

It was a 25-pound weight
in there with a spring.

Engineers installed them
in there as a quick fix

to cut down on the vibrations
on convertibles.

I feel like this is a--
when they've made a mistake.

We will definitely delete those.

-Shake weight?
Yeah, it's a shake weight.

-That's exactly what it was.
-Anti-vibration.

Josh:
I feel like when the engineers
were working on these things,

they're like,
"oh, we messed up,"

and then they had to put these
in to give it a smoother ride.

We're going to get
a major weight reduction

just taking those off the car.

Dude, and a workout.

These are heavy
little suckers.

The new one?
[ clicks tongue ]

somebody's already
gone through it.

It's a recent resto.

Well, what's cool about it too
is we can actually spend time

doing the fun stuff,
making it custom,

making it cool,
instead of restoring it.

-Just walk it off the back here.
-Oh yeah, look at that.

[ grunts ]

jason: Go in the air,
take the drive shaft,

cut the exhaust,
and drop the subframe.

How high
do we want to go?

♪

overall, I feel pretty good
about the car.

It's really nice...

Rear end's ready
to come out.

...Especially compared
to what we had.

Got a few issues, but we can
deal with that a lot faster

than what we could have dealt
with the old one.

♪

mike: Richard wanted me
to do...

And kind of gave me
an idea of what he wanted.

He said he wanted
a g*n-metal gray.

And I talked to the other guys,
and, well,

we don't really agree with that,
so what I'm going to do,

I'm going to show the guys
some other colors and pick them.

So maybe he can look at them

and hopefully
we can change his mind.

Sick.

The hood for the firebird

that we're not using
is perfect for a...

Of gold copper, maroon and blue,
because why not?

After I hit it
with a coat of clear,

there'll be ready to look at.

He'll never pick a blue.

The blue looks good
on you, though.

I can go completely
out of the box on colors,

but if nobody likes it,

then I'm really just wasting
a bunch of time.

-Yeah?
-So opinions.

The blue or the maroon?

I don't like
either one of them.

If I can get them
to kind of give me

some ideas
of what their thinking,

then maybe just maybe
we can talk

richard into doing something
a little cooler than g*n metal.

Books suck.

You know what else sucks?
Trying to read everybody's mind.

Does any blue look good
on a firebird?

-Richard detests blue.
-Richard's a hard sell on blue.

-I do like this color.
-I do. Yeah, I do too.

-I like that color.
-Okay, so you're --

are y'all thinking metallic,
I guess?

-I think metallic would be cool.
-I think metallic.

Mike: Typically,
richard's reaction is,

"why are you wasting my time
doing this?

Just do what I told you to do."

but if you watch the show,
you know that's not me.

Okay, so all y'all
like that color?

I didn't say I liked that color
necessarily for that car.

I just like the color.

You're about to get kicked
out of the pick-the-color club.

[ laughter ]

whoo!

Narrator:
Coming up on "fast n' loud,"
richard follows a hellcat lead

that could prove costly...

Oh, hell,
that should be enough.

...And the supra salesman
is a blast from the past.

Yeah, what could bring
tricky ricky out of the closet?

I'll tell you
what can bring it out.

I got to have some money
and I've got to have it fast.

-Hey, richard!
-I'm working, man.

Russell: You're going to want
to stop working.

-What it is?
-It's hellcat.

Your car.
-They found my hellcat?

If you guys want
to go grab cameras,

but we're going to get it.
We're out of here.

Okay, let's go.
-Yeah, we need to go.

I know we need to go.

He said
it's still sitting there.

-Grand prairie?
-Yeah, right down the road.

-That's like seven miles.
-Yeah, we checked everything.

We checked the vin.

The picture from
the insurance company,

I went through it,
I looked at it, it is your car.

Richard:
Holy cow, a repo guy spotted
my stolen hellcat

and called the office.
That car means a lot to me.

It was the second hellcat
ever made,

and it's worth well
north of 100 grand.

[ horn honks ]
we all jumped in the trucks,

mater hooked up the trailer,
and we're off to scoop it up,

if it's really mine.

[ laughs ]
-is it it?

-Is it it?
-That's it.

-Smells like weed in here.
-It does smell like marijuana.

Richard:
And, whammo, here we are.

It's sitting right here
in broad daylight

behind a building complex
with businesses...

This thing has not been
sitting here long.

...And nobody thought to think
and tell us.

Pop the hood.

See if you can start
this thing.

You got oil.

Man: You got water.
Richard, try it.

[ engine sputters ]

is it out of gas?

The gas light's showing.

Unbelievable.

God, this thing smells
like amsterdam.

You may want to --
before we touch any more,

you may want to call p.D.

We got a tip from a local guy
down in grand prairie, texas.

He's running his routes,
checking on things,

turns out, here we go,
hellcat serial number two.

It looks like
it's completely intact.

It looks like they went
for a lot of joyrides.

Definitely smoked
some of the old ganja in there,

but it's coming home to daddy.

I'm larry mckneely.

I repossess vehicles
for a living.

I just happened to see
a hellcat sitting there.

When I pulled it up,
it said it was stolen.

"oh, man, that's
richard rawling's hellcat."

I had to call richard
and get a hold of him.

-Hey, man, I appreciate it, man.
-Hey.

That's super badass.
You know what?

We put out a reward,
and a reward we give.

Oh, hell,
that should be enough.

-Thank you.
-Thank you, man. Appreciate it.

I'm going on vacation in two
weeks, so I needed the money.

Hey, look at that.
I also found a penny.

Never piss off
the money gods.

♪

-you want in on this?
-I do.

♪

those jalapeño?
-Yep.

-Those are delicious.
-Mm-hmm.

Jason: Okay, now that
we got the car parked,

we're going to focus on
getting the body stripped,

completing that over
in the body shop

and getting it on rotisserie
and over to the sandblaster.

♪

-keenan.
-What?

-Are you trying to die?
-Why?

Put some sunflower seeds
in your mouth,

so that whatever chemical you're
using doesn't give you cancer.

I'm pulling your leg, keenan.
That's a joke.

As we're getting the paint
stripped off,

it's kind of revealing what
actual shape the thing is in.

I haven't seen
a lot of rust yet,

but there's definitely
a lot of body damage.

I'm glad we're doing this
so that the sandblasters

don't cause more damage,

'cause they would
have to sit on it

with their blaster
to get this stuff off.

Oh, god.

It went right up my nose.

I wish we had smell-o-vision.

♪

♪

russell:
Richard says he has a sure
fire way to sell the supra.

Alright, how do I look?
You ready?

Something about replacing
expensive "camera people"

with millennials
and phones.

Why are you dressed like that?
-It's tricky ricky, baby.

It's time to sell some cars.

Russell: But, first,
I've got to brush up

on some local
advertising legend.

Alright, pepe, we only
got one shot at this.

This is like $13 a minute,
our first commercial.

We got to get this right.
You ready?

Welcome to gas monkey garage.
This is where we sell cars

and we sell them cheap.
We are stacking them deep

and selling them cheap,
and we'll finance anybody.

You got a car
you want to trade in,

you got a motorcycle,
a mule, grandma, whatever,

you just bring her on down.

What could bring tricky ricky
out of the closet?

I'll tell you want
can bring him out.

Too much inventory.
I've got to have some money,

and I've got to have it fast.

So tricky ricky's out,
telling what's up.

Stacking them deep,
sell them cheap,

right on the front lawn.

-It's live?
-We're live.

Hey, what's up, everybody?

It's your favorite car dude,
tricky ricky.

And we're stacking them deep
and selling them cheap

right out
on the front yard.

Maybe russell would be like
russell the hustle or so--

I don't even know,
but tricky ricky

is new to him
and he's freaking out.

I think it made
his beard all sketchy.

Let's go outside
and take them.

We're going to go
see some cars?

So -- so I got --
I got my regular cameras,

I got my -- my millennial
cameras, I got cellphones.

Huh?
Modern technology.

-Look at that.
-It's almost like

it's made for it.

Jeremy: Going up.

Jason: Next thing, we've got
to get the subframe apart,

get the old motor
and transmission out

and get them on a crate,
get them out of the way.

Get that blasted
and powder-coated,

ready to put the new
power plant in the car.

♪

josh:
When we pulled the subframe out
and got the motor out,

we were able to see that
there were some rust holes

on all of the mounting points.
The two in the front were good

'cause they're only
the core support,

but the ones underneath the body
got the holes real big.

So we ended up
getting the body

that was sagging
on the subframe.

Chad got us these plates.

Jeremy and I were able to cut
them and put them in place.

-I expected heavier.
-I would think the same.

Okay. We want stuff for
blasting, this would be awesome.

One down.

Whoo!

Narrator: Coming up
on "fast n' loud,"

the monkeys keep grinding away
to meet the firebird deadline,

but mother nature brings it
to a crashing halt.

Richard: The forecast
is going to be overcast

with a chance of firing.

♪

-you look like you burn easy.
-There you go.

We should be good.
You can sit now.

Whoa, that's cold water.

Yeah, you sandpaper that?

Mike don't know
what he's missing out on.

We're going to get
a lot less done over there.

[ speaks indistinctly ]

doing a great job!

Great job,
it looks beautiful!

[ speaks indistinctly ]

me and tony talked. I think
were going to make this pool

a regular wet-sanding event.
-Why is the water getting warm?

Tony?
-What?

-Really?
-Ugh!

I've been in here
for a little bit.

The bathrooms
are right there.

Yeah, but I didn't
want to get out.

Alright, guys,
I'm going back to work.

I don't want to
touch this anymore.

-You ruined a good thing.
-I was doing y'all a favor.

We're doing everything.
We've got our cars out there.

We've got to sell them.
We got a supra.

It's a first-year supra.

What's the thing
about this special car?

This right here
is what they call super.

-It is.
-Actually it's supra.

This is a 1979,
really low mileage,

original paint,
original interior.

Tell them what's in the back.
-Look at these louvers.

We all remember these louvers
from the late '70s, early '80s.

You could grate a block
of cheese on these louvers.

I'm speechless. I'm running out
of words to talk about.

Look at this thing.

This thing's a five-speed.
This thing is cherry.

You've even got
this rubber antennae thing.

That's vintage.
You used to be able to buy those

at advanced auto parts
when -- when I was young.

Look, this car's so slick,
slide right off almost.

-Now you're slicky ricky.
-Yeah.

Polyester sliding
right there.

This one right here,
it's going to go.

That's right, it's tricky ricky,
right now, and I'm live.

I'm stacking them deep
and selling them cheap

right on the front lawn.

So if you coming round
loop 12 or 35 or 635

or any of them other numbers,
get down here.

Free cash.
Whoo, there's my beer.

It's hot out here
in this polyester.

Tricky ricky's always around,

you just don't know
when he's going to come out.

Whoo!

-Hey, guys.
-Yo.

Y'all want to get it
hooked up to the rotisserie

and we'll get them over there
and get it blasted?

Yep.

Push up.
There you go.

Alright.
Winner, winner.

Alright,
off to the sandblaster.

Mike: Hell yeah.

♪

♪

tony: I don't think we're
going anytime soon.

Doesn't look like it.

[bleep] it's raining.

[ indistinct talking ]

jason: The biggest adversary
of our sandblaster is rain.

It won't allow them
to actually sandblast,

because of the moisture
in the air.

Everything's at a halt now.
So all that time we made up

in the last day and a half,
now we got to sit and wait.

Mike: The problem is
what's called flash rust.

Raw, bare metal can corrode
with just high humidity.

So to avoid it
when it's raining out,

our blaster,
well, he just shuts down.

[ imitates
thunder crashing ]

did you hear it?
-I heard your thunder.

Mike: But no worries.
This storm will blow over,

and it'll be sunny tomorrow.
I can feel it in my bones.

[ thunder crashes ]

okay, I'm a better painter
than I am a weatherman.

We've got to wait
for the rain to stop

before we can take the firebird
body over to sandblast.

So in the meantime,
me and the boys will go ahead

and get the doors and the other
panels ready for metalwork.

Jason: Okay, hold on.
We're taking it alright?

Every panel has
something small.

-Let's take them all.
-But it's all small stuff.

Mike: Since we've been stuck
in this weather delay,

we've managed to strip down
all the panels to bare metal.

So now we just need
a little bit of metal work.

No emblem holes and then, like,
here's a little bit of rust,

just in the normal spots.
-Mm-hmm.

-Thank you, guys.
-You're welcome.

Jeremy: You know, the damage
isn't too bad on these.

It's always typical, if there's
a brace right here, water,

dirt clogs up in there,
rots out the corners.

So cut it out, clean the rust,

treated the brace to make sure
it wouldn't keep rusting.

Sealed it all with some primer,
and that way,

they have something good
to do their bondo over,

and if you leave all the rust
and all the holes

it's just going to blister
back through your bodywork.

So patched it up for mike
and the boys over there.

Make sure that their bodywork
is going to hold up

and then shaved
all the emblem holes out

and this fender
will be ready to go back.

Guess what?
We got a window of sunshine.

We need to get
this thing loaded.

It might be a brief one,

so we're going to try to
get over as quickly as possible.

We're days behind
on the firebird build,

and richard was not happy

when I told him
I can't control the weather.

We ran into a lot
of weather problems

this last week in dallas,

that put our firebird
way behind.

This looks so sketchy.

Richard: As far as I know,

I built the garage,
and I put a roof on it,

and jason's telling me
there's a weather delay.

I mean, this isn't baseball.

Jason: Rain's coming.
We got to hurry.

Richard:
Between the two firebirds

and enough parts to build
both of them,

I'm at least $35,000
into this project

with nothing to show for it.

Okay, guys,
we'll be back in a minute.

I tell them which way
the wind blows around here,

and if these guys don't get
this firebird done on time,

the forecast is going to be,
stormy, overcast

with a chance of firing.
Tick tock.

[ thunder rumbling ]

narrator:
Next week, on "fast n' loud"...

-Top goes down.
-Price goes up.

...The monkeys hit reset
on the '67 firebird.

Now y'all got a week
to finish it.

Will the second time
be the charm?

Look great.

With the clock
tick-tocking...

This sucker's heavy.

...The build's
got to get rocking.

Beep, beep, er, er,
beep, beep, oh, ee.

While the paint department
is singing the blues.

-That is horrible.
-He's richard.

Narrator: Then, richard finds
three reasons to fall in love.

It is ridiculous.

Plus...

Man: It's a texas vw,
man.

...When the guys go on a mission
to rescue a rare vw...

It looks like
it's going to rain.

...It's richard
who's washed up.

I feel like indiana jones.