[kevin] when I
designed this car,
I designed it
like the original,
just smoother.
[rick] he was just
putting down your thoughts.
Okay, this has to be
between us.
[dave] we're building
our very first
production vehicle
here at kindig design,
our take on a 1953
chevy corvette.
[foundry man]
light it up.
Up a little.
[dave] oh, man,
that looks good.
I'm watching you.
[kevin] I think
that we're probably
just going to lift
this off with
a bunch of hands.
[dave] we've actually
got potentially
our very first customer.
[rick]
I don't want one.
-So you don't want a car?
-No.
[dave] when I look
at a blank canvas,
I see endless possibilities.
As the ideas come to mind,
the lines start
to fall into place.
And before you know it,
we have a bitchin' ride.
[car engine roaring]
a bitchin' ride
has intense colors...
-[laughs]
-[man 1] this is gorgeous.
...Performance...
[man 2] it's fantastic.
...Stance, wheels,
-...Sound.
-[car engine revving]
there's one thing that
makes our car stand out.
-Ours are bitchin rides.
-[car engine roaring]
[kevin]
oh, it never gets old.
[man laughs]
[dave] last year, we took
an opportunity that we had
to build our first
production vehicle
here at kindig-it design.
It's a 1953 corvette
roadster and it's bitchin'.
We took all the parts that it
took to make a 1953 corvette
and made
our own body shape.
Then we pulled
the mold off of it.
-[banging]
-[will] here goes.
It came out awesome.
Super smooth.
A lot of work, but
damn, it looks good.
We send them up to crc,
up in washington,
and our good friend
doug graf started
building us
the carbon fiber bodies.
[doug] there's 30
separate parts, at least.
The first of these cars
we actually lovingly
called it frankenstein
because it took so many
pieces to make it work.
[doug] hard as you try to
make the first one perfect,
the second one
is usually better.
You're right,
right. And that's why
-I picked number three.
-There you go. Smart guy.
After they brought
frankenstein down,
we had an opportunity
to not only put
that car together
and glue it together,
but also we made
all of the little templates
and jigs to make sure that
every one of the
cars come out perfect.
Now that we've proved that
this car is going to work,
we've actually got potentially
our very first customer,
and he's going
to come by the shop
and take a look at it.
Well, I came up to
see the 53 corvette
that dave kindig and I
had been working on
for about five years.
Well, dave told me,
you were coming.
He's sorry he couldn't
be here today,
but he said that
you wanted
to put your eyes on
one of these bodies...
-I did.
-...Before
-you pulled the trigger.
-That's true.
The good thing
about flying up here
all the way is dave's
had a few molds made,
so I'm here to
be able to see,
is this really
what I want to do?
Do I want to spend
money on this?
Let's take a look.
[rick] well, the last time
you just kind of had
pieces glued together,
right? So is this--
yeah. The other
one was kind of just
like, proof of concept.
This is the real thing.
This is an actual carbon body
that we're actually
manufacturing now.
-This is really cool.
-It is really cool.
This is really cool.
My goodness. I mean,
I can picture it.
So what do you think?
Would you want one?
Let's look at it
a little more.
-Okay.
-Come on.
That's fair. I'm working on...
We're working my salesman.
When I was asked
to sell these corvettes,
I was like, hey, kevin,
you're a good looking guy.
If dave can do it,
how hard could it really be?
[rick] what are we going to
do around the lights?
They had wires right,
in the old one.
Yeah, it's going to
have a like a cover,
like an acrylic cover,
and it might have
something
resembling the old one.
-Oh, really?
-Yeah.
Mm-hmm. Oh, that's
going to be nice.
But more importantly,
do you want one?
[scoffs]
[rick] I'm listening
to kevin,
it's like he's a car salesman.
Are you serious?
So do you want to buy it?
So you want to buy the car?
You want to buy the car.
Do you want to buy the car?
You want to buy the car?
So what do you think?
Do you want to buy the car?
You want to buy the car?
So you want to buy the car?
Who wants to buy the car?
Do you want to buy the car?
So what do you think?
-Do you want to buy the car?
-Kev, stick
to your day job, all right?
Just build the cars.
The deal is,
I really want to see
how you've been
able to fit it together.
Okay, well,
we can keep going.
Some of
the really cool features
is you can see
how deep
the seat well is.
That allows us to put
the seat back and down.
So instead of
sitting more like
you're sitting in a chair,
right, you're sitting
more like you're in, like,
a semi
lazy boy position.
-Does that make sense?
-Cool, yeah.
That's how
I like to dr
[kevin] yeah, obviously you
can see the gauge,
all the places
where we're going
to cut the holes out.
-Air conditioning?
-Air conditioning
-and heater.
-Power steering?
-Power steering.
-And heater, okay.
four speed automatic
transmission.
Wow, nice.
Okay, I was
a little aggressive
coming out of the gate,
but I think rick's
coming around.
-You know, I like it.
I think it's so cool.
-Yeah, do you want to buy one?
Uh, let's look
at some more stuff.
Okay.
He knows corvettes,
he knows
what he wants.
He doesn't like
to mess around.
That's probably the
most important thing.
Working trunk. It's not huge,
but it is definitely working.
You can put some bags
like if you go shopping for me
because you have my sizes.
Actually, I'm selling you.
-You want to buy one?
-[chuckles]
you're not a salesman, kev,
just do your mechanics.
Wow. I have
your size, like,
what am I supposed
to carry for you?
Like, if you buy me
a present or something.
-Right, yeah.
-Look, rick,
we go way back.
-We do, yeah. Yeah.
-So, do you want to buy one?
-Wow.
-I feel like you're right
-there on the edge.
-Dave's put
a lot of pressure on you
to get me to say yes.
-Maybe.
-Are you getting a bonus?
We haven't talked about that,
but I don't want
to let him down.
-All right.
-But listen,
what if I did you
a rendering of the car
and threw it in
on the deal free of charge?
If he does a drawing
for me, it's over.
An original kev dog rendering.
I don't want one.
I'm going to...
-So you don't want a car?
-No.
-Or a rendering?
-No.
[chuckles]
no, no, no, no. Stop. Okay.
-Rendering's off the table.
-We're done.
-No. Come on.
-We're done.
-Are you sure?
-Well, are you serious?
-Yeah.
-A kev dog rendering?
People make t-shirts
out of my renderings.
-They do?
-You don't see no t-shirts
-made out of that.
-I've never seen one.
Well, yeah, because
they've sold out so quickly.
-[laughs]
-wow.
I may have almost
ruined things here,
but I can save it.
Hey, rick, how are you?
I'm doing good, sir,
how are you doing?
I'm doing fantastic.
You look sharp today.
Thank you. I missed you,
by the way.
Well, and I apologize.
I was a little
under the weather,
but I understand
that you got in here.
I'm really glad
you made it up.
Kevin was trying to sell me
on the car, right? Like?
[chuckles]
oh, god,
I think he was just trying
to impress me because
I was out sick and he wanted
to send me good news.
And but did he do a good job
of selling you on the car?
[chuckles]
do I need to finish
the job? Okay.
-[laughs]
-let's go, let's go
with he did, yeah,
it was wonderful.
-Let's go with that.
-[laughs]
you know, I just wanted
to talk to you about it
-because, look,
-oh, cool.
You and I talked about
this for a few years, right?
-Yeah.
-And so this has been
a long time thing
that I wanted,
you know,
corvette starts in 53,
I was born in 53.
It's something
I wanted to do.
I said I've
seen the rendering,
which is amazing.
-Thank you.
-Now I've been able
to see the car.
And I like it. But I said,
kevin, I really want
to talk to dave.
"why can't you tell me
that it's okay?
Come on, rick."
-he was working hard.
-[laughs]
he's been
working on you.
Seriously, I wanted
to talk to you because
I wado the deal.
-Okay.
-I want the car.
You get
car number one.
But I kind
of have a condition.
-What would that be?
-Well,
I'm going to invite
a friend of mine in here.
Come on over,
mr. Jones.
Mr. Jones?
Well, hi, dave.
-How are you doing today?
-I'm good.
Sorry to have
surprised you
like this.
Yeah. That is a surprise.
So here's the deal.
I'll take the car,
but I want two. I want one.
Dave wants one.
You guys are going
to make me cry. Wow.
The only thing that's
going to make rick cry,
is when you
build my car
and it's going
to be better than his.
-[laughs]
-well, you know, we'll see.
Yeah, I mean,
that's what kevin told me.
Kevin sold you
on another car. So, oh god.
-Here we go.
-You know what?
I'm not in any position
to say no to this.
-Can you do two?
-My plan is to do more
than one,
and I would be so honored.
I think that's awesome.
So, rick,
you get car number one and
dave you're car number two.
Well, as long as
I get number one.
-[laughs]
-if number two is better
than number one.
We'll all be good.
Well, we got to do it
a different color, dave.
I don't want a plain
old white thing.
I was thinking
more of a
kind of a silverish with
maybe some blue on it.
You know, rick's has got
Okay. A jet pack,
it is for you.
Let me write
this stuff down.
[laughs]
my poor little white car
with red interior,
and you're going
to get a better one.
Well, anybody can do
white and red, rick.
Hmm.
I love you two guys
so much.
But you right now,
are reminding me
of the two muppet guys
up in the top
balcony.
[laughs]
-I know, right?
-Another small request.
-sh**t.
-What if you unveiled them
both on the same show?
Let's do it. Let's see
what we can do.
But I am all in.
No. The only real
problem with that
is that if you do take these
to some kind of show thing
-and his wins over mine...
-Well, you know it will.
...I will burn his
to the ground.
[laughs]
you know
it's going to win.
Carbon fiber
doesn't burn like that.
-Oh, well, you know--
-I'm just making it up, but--
oh, you did?
I'll use aviation fuel.
Yeah, that will
burn anything.
That's a no brainer, really.
Speaking of no brainer,
hang on one second.
Let's hold that,
kevin's in here.
What's up, guys?
He calls me and says, "hey,
buddy, this kevin called me."
and he goes, "he wants
to know if I wanted a 53.
Now you need to talk
to kindig, and--"
so it's you. It's you.
He goes, "why?" and I said,
"because I did that."
and I said, "I think
he's a little bugger."
-yeah.
-And you just couldn't
-close the deal, kevin.
-What do you mean?
You're not a closer
is what he said.
I think it's you
guys' bedtime.
Take your guys' medicine
before you go to bed.
[laughs]
don't talk
to the clients like that.
-[kevin] I'm sorry, I forgot.
-[laughs]
do you guys want one
of my renderings still?
-It's still...
The offer still stands.
-Well, I think I'm good.
-Okay, I really, please--
-[cross-talk]
[laughs]
yeah. I think I'd like to see
what I'm going to
get out of this deal.
[kevin]
yeah, I mean, I agree.
I'll do some
renderings for you guys.
[laughs]
I'll send them down to you.
Rick, don't worry,
you already got yours.
I really think that you guys
need to get some supper
and go ahead
and head for the bed.
I'm just concerned
that if dave sees
the rendering,
he's going to have
to go to therapy.
I take two green ones
in the morning
and then a yellow one
late at night,
and I don't even pay
attention to it anymore.
-[kevin] see?
-I'm numb.
That's why I can't
talk to you guys.
You guys are all pilled up,
every single one of you.
You and you
and you,
all of you guys
are all on pills
just to put up with me,
and I don't think
that's very nice.
Hang on, let me take
another one real quick here.
I got a whole
baggie full of them.
-I got to go.
-[laughs]
gentlemen,
thank you so much.
Super excited, dave,
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Rick, thank you again.
You guys are making
a dream come true,
-so thank you.
-You are welcome. Thank you.
[dave] so when the 1953
corvette came out,
they were all available
in whatever color you wanted
as long as it was
polo white with red interior.
[chuckles]
and rick, was born in 1953,
so he is my original.
I developed a white color
a while back.
It's no strings white. It's
part of my modern classic,
and I think it's going to
look exceptional with this
really cool,
orangish red interior.
Dave has a really
great collection of cars
if I put another
vehicle in his garage,
I want it to be
unique and different.
So I'm kind of thinking
a pearl silver
with a periwinkle
blue leather.
And maybe what I'll do is
I'll add a little bit of that
blue color into the silver
creating peri-silver.
Peri-silver.
Yeah, that's what.
So I'm going to
do a peri-silver.
When I first started building
this whole concept
of a corvette,
I really thought
that it would take
a little bit longer,
and might be a little bit
more of a challenge
to get a couple
of these sold.
And to be honest with you,
for two of them
to already be sold,
if this is any tell tale
of where we're going to end up
with these cars.
Um...
Yeah,
this will be pretty cool.
It's the perfect car.
It's the perfect color
for the perfect client.
And what is cooler than that?
Doing two.
You know,
with the bodies being built
and everything else,
there's a lot of other things
that need to be checked off.
So I'm going to get with
all of the departments,
all of the guys,
and get their
brainstorms to see
how we can do this
over and over
and over again.
These are car one
and two.
And they're going
to be awesome.
I know that there's
a few details
that still need
to be figured out,
so I'm going to get
the guys together.
We're going to have a
meeting and make sure that
we can get all of
this into production.
Guys, how are we
doing on this car?
Still just working out
the tidbits. It's coming.
Everything that we're
putting together right now
needs to be able to be
replicated over
and over again.
I am so excited to see
our very first cf1 roadster
go to rick cox.
I know he's going to be
super excited to have it.
And I'm so excited
to build it for him.
So how many corvettes
have we done for him now?
-One, two...
-Three.
This one is going
to be awesome, and
he was born in 1953.
I think the biggest
thing at this point
that me and jason and will
have been talking about is,
I mean, how many do
you think that you can sell?
-And the reason that
we ask that is because...
-Well, why is that?
...There's a lot of parts.
Obviously, we make
one-off parts here
all day long for cars.
-We make them one time.
-Right.
If we're going to make
five of these cars,
ten of these cars,
we probably
should look
into making
these parts
a little bit different.
Well, that was
the entire idea
of the entire project,
so that's genius
of you to bring it up.
We just haven't
done that yet.
Well, no, and that's
what we need to do.
That's why we made
a mold so we can have
the exact same body
get popped out
every single time.
There's a couple of changes
that greg and I
are going to get to
on the windshield
and the door trim.
And then simple
stuff like plumbing,
like the transmission
cooler lines,
brake lines
that are custom
for this car.
Right. I know that you guys
kind of brought that up.
So this car
realistically,
there's still a lot
of prototype pieces.
So let's do brake lines,
fuel lines, trans lines,
all of that stuff
that we would need.
Let's send them out
and get them all built
by somebody else,
if that's more reasonable.
I want to try and keep
the costs down
on these cars.
Okay. No, I'm all about it.
I think we're probably
about a month out
from having all
this stuff completed.
I think
that's a wrap.
Jason, is your list
as long as this one?
-Mine is longer.
-Mine's short.
These are just things
I'm taking care of.
We're talking
about list stuff?
-Where's your list?
-Where's your list?
-All right here.
-[scoffs]
-yup.
-Can we get that
in paper?
Can you print that out for me?
Hit the print button,
please.
[imitating clicking sound]
[laughs]
it's an old one too.
It's an older one.
It's older list
but it's reliable.
It's ink and paper,
all between my ears.
-Oh, that's funny.
-Like, I need to have
everything written down here.
I know what I'm doing,
and I know
this car is going
to be bitchin'.
-This is going to be fast.
-Yeah.
Speaking of fast.
Get to work.
You want to hang that.
[tutting]
I'm watching you,
wrinkle man.
I'm going to take
some notes off of it.
I'll be kicking your a*s
if you wrinkle that paper.
All right. I got to go.
That's enough one-liners.
We're building
our very first
production vehicle
here at kindig design, our
take on a 1953 chevy corvette.
One of the biggest tasks
at this time is to make sure
that we're making parts
that can be replicated
over and over again
so that everything
isn't one off
for every single car.
[greg] so I've been
tasked with basically
managing all the production
for the trim,
and the bumpers,
and the windshield,
things like that.
So I'm trying
to make them repeatable.
What I'm doing here is,
this is a production
casting pattern.
This portion is
the piece of trim
that goes around
the back of the seat.
I'm doing it a little
unconventionally.
So I 3d printed
the pieces.
This is stratasys nylon,
which is super strong,
super rigid.
I had to print it
in two pieces,
so it'd fit
in our printer.
That's where
they'll pour
the aluminum in,
and then it goes
down these pieces
into our final piece.
So there's
a lot of waste there,
it'll get cut off.
Then our trim pieces are,
you know,
The aluminum that these
will be cast out of
is still malleable.
I can still bend it
and tweak it
and make it perfect,
but I think it'll, you know,
be a really nice head start.
These 3d printed
pieces are going
to be used to make an
impression in the sand,
and that negative space
is going to be filled
with molten aluminum
to make our castings.
Now that I have
the pieces printed,
I'm going to cut
some pieces of steel rod
that will go in these.
So once I glue these
two pieces together,
I'm going to glue them
onto some pieces of wood
and then those pieces
are just ready to go,
so the foundry can make me
ten of these at a time,
rather than having
to hand carve
the sand for each one,
which would be expensive.
Kind of a cool process,
this is something I'm pretty
passionate about,
so I was
pretty excited,
when we got
to get into it.
So the way I printed these,
I didn't just cut it in half,
I put a step,
so that it will have
a little bit
of strength there.
And then to make sure
that it doesn't buckle,
I'm putting pins in here
that will align everything
and it'll give it
some strength.
I'm using two different
types of glue.
I'm using
the power bond stuff
that we use,
like, to glue quarter
panels onto the cars
to glue this
to the boards.
I'm not going to get it
as easy as I was hoping,
but to glue the boards
together because
I'm going to
sandwich it in there,
I'm just using
regular wood glue.
These boards have
to be smooth so that
when they take
the sand impressions
from both sides,
they have
nice flat surfaces
to mate together.
So I'll just cut off
all the screw heads
and just sand everything
and then it's good to go
to the foundry.
I picked
the easy ones first.
But this next one's
going to be really big
and I'm going
to need a hand with it.
What are you doing?
You want to take a break
and help me lift
something heavy?
-Sure.
-Cool.
[chuckles]
yeah. It's not that heavy.
We're just going
to set it right on top,
and these little tabs
will kind of sit in there.
Right on. Thanks.
Oh wait, while you're here,
you want to help
me do one more?
This is the top.
Cool. I think that's good.
Awesome, thank you.
This perimeter is
the windshield frame.
And then this is all the
gating and the runners
that the molten
aluminum will go through.
So it's pretty big.
I used aluminum plates
in the center
rather than all wood,
so that it's a little stiffer.
And then it screws together
rather than
gluing it together.
-[drilling sound]
-[banging]
greg has just wrapped up
on the final pattern
for the foundry.
Now the big question
here is will it actually work?
[music plays]
[rattling]
today, all of our really good
friends out at state brass
are going to get
a special delivery.
This is all of the parts
it's going to take to make
one of our cf1 roadsters.
Any first time
you do something,
the big question is
will it work?
We've done a lot
of this casting
with these guys.
They certainly
know their job.
I think we got
a pretty good idea
of what we're doing.
So let's see how it does.
[foundry man]
it's called nix stix.
Slather it on.
It's just
a release agent,
so I'm going
to face it with
a mix of new and
reclaimed sand.
So this is the mix
between new and
reclaimed sand,
kind of looks like
a salt and pepper.
Once the entire pattern
is based
I'm going to switch over
to reclaim only,
it's a cost saver,
but it will
set up the same
as the new
or reclaimed sands.
Switch over to reclaim only,
and this is
pretty much black.
Should take
about five minutes
to fill this in and
pack it down tight.
I got a little bit too much
on there, obviously,
you see that, but I
just want to leave a nice
level surface
here on the box,
so none of this
will go to waste.
We'll just throw it back
in the reclaimer
and use it again
tomorrow.
Now we're going to poke
some vents into the sand.
As the metal goes in
and heats up the sand,
it releases gas
and you don't want
that stuck in there.
It can leave some
imperfections in your casting.
And I'm going to take
a mallet and kind of
vibrate the board
just a little bit.
Make it settle nice,
so there's no voids
or imperfections
in the packing of the sand.
Once they set the sand,
they can now
remove the buck that
greg built
out of the metal.
[foundry man] whenever
you're pulling a box
off a pattern
or the pattern out of the box,
you want to do it
as steadily and straight up
as possible.
So it's a pretty clean draw,
you can see over here,
it's going to create
an extra fin on the casting,
shouldn't be a problem.
We can just
clean that off
in the clean-up room.
And that may be
due to a lack of draft
on the pattern.
It may be because
when I came up,
I wasn't exactly
square.
It should be okay.
So this other side is
just a runner and contact,
set this aside
over here.
So with that,
we'll blow it off.
It's just called
gray wash,
as if you were
starting with some
really fine clean mud
and mix it with alcohol
to be able to spray with it.
Kind of like a paint,
and it just fills in the grit
of the sand,
creates a nice, smooth surface
on your cast.
Once the gray wash
has been applied
to the molds,
they then burn off
the alcohol.
We're going to light it up
so that it'll dry
and, uh, bake it in.
[whooshing sound]
this is a great activity
in the wintertime,
helps warm the building,
but not so much in the summer.
[dave] they're now ready
to pour the molten aluminum.
Of course, they're going
to have to get it molten.
So what they're going to do
is go ahead and throw
everything into this kick a*s
electromagnetic melting kiln.
[western classical music
playing]
once the aluminum
is in a liquid form,
they're going to pour it and
we're going to have parts.
[clanking sound]
[foundry man] now, it's just
sticking a degassing pipe
down there and
it's got nitrogen gas,
which is heavier than oxygen,
so it forces the oxygen
and gas bubbles up
out of the aluminum.
Up a little.
[dramatic music playing]
perfect. Well,
we got it all poured.
Long day, we'll knock
it out in the morning,
see what it looks like and
see you back at the shop.
[dave]
our friends at the foundry
always do
an amazing job for us,
but really the proof
in the pudding is
going to be getting it
back to the shop,
getting it trimmed
and fit to the car.
I'm just unloading all
my castings from the foundry,
I went out there this morning
to pick all this stuff up.
And this is
the windshield frame
for the speedster.
And it looks really good.
I was a little nervous
about this guy.
It's a big casting, and
I'm really happy
with how it turned out.
[dave]
oh!
-Already?
-Yeah, yeah.
-My mold is back.
-Are you serious? Oh dude.
[greg] so we got
the bumpers,
we got the side trim
and then the
windshield frame. Yeah.
Oh my, gosh.
-Finish looks really good.
-Dude, it's actually...
I'm going
to tear up here.
[laughs]
they helped us out
by cutting off
-all the extra pieces on it.
-The excess.
-Right.
-The rear, right? Rear center.
Oh, yeah.
So I was right on it.
Well, it's the only part that
has that much curve.
[chuckles]
because I know a little
bit about this car because,
-well, I drew it.
-Yeah, that's true.
No, that's...
Man, I'm stoked.
So this kind of gives us
a little bit of a head start.
You know, we can just
fine tune the fitment
on these and...
Can we set
the windshield frame on?
I am so stoked to see what
that looks like on the car.
Let's go. The one part that
might have been the trickiest
would be the windshield frame
simply for the size of it,
the amount of cast aluminum
that has to go into the play
and how much space
is between there.
All right. Let's see
how this thing looks.
Yeah, moment of truth.
[singing]
na, na, na, na, na.
And the winner is... Oh,
man, look at that.
Oh, man, that looks good.
[happy music plays]
and this is going
to be exciting.
Every time another
piece goes on this car,
I just get one more
goose bump, maybe three.
-Yeah, yeah.
-This is rad.
You know,
looking at it now
and with this step in here,
I'm just
really starting to see
the car come alive.
It's really got some
good character.
And I think when this car
is sitting down on the ground
all painted, this is chrome,
the windshield is in, and the
leather is in there and stuff,
I think it's just
going to look fantastic.
You know,
I think doing it this way
is going to save
so much time.
-Exactly.
-And then, you know,
the car comes in,
we can just take
maybe a week to
fit all the bumpers,
fit all the trim, and just
get it to the next stage.
-Right.
-This is a cool process.
Yeah. I'm glad you kind of
just let me loose on it, and
it seems like
it's working out pretty well.
I'm pumped.
Looks wonderful, greg.
Good job.
Right on. Thanks, dave.
[dave] we just got all of the
parts back from the foundry,
and we know that the
windshield is going to fit,
but we need to really
pre-fit everything else.
Assuming that this works,
this will be great because
now we can make a pattern
for every one of these parts
and repeat it over
and over again.
[greg] I just need to kind of
go over all these pieces.
I put these little dimples
for where they get drilled
-and tapped for the mounting.
-[clanking sound]
let's go see
how this stuff fits.
Oh, it fits pretty good.
The nice thing
about the aluminum
that they cast it out of
is still a little malleable,
so we can kind of
tweak it and make it fit
exactly perfect. Needs
a little bit of tweaking.
Oh, I think it might
actually just be this.
And I stand off the gating.
I think it will
sit right here.
You can see it's a
little high right there.
And this one,
if you look from the side,
you can see
it's a little taller
than the edge of the bumper.
And I did those because
when you mount it,
it leaves a little bit
of a bump or gap.
Yeah,
I'm really excited about that.
It fits really well.
Then the last one I've got
right here is the door spears.
So these ones are
going to go right about here.
I just need to sand
this little piece off.
That's just part
of the casting process,
and it'll sit
right into there.
And then the front piece
goes right here and goes up
along the front fender.
Turned out really good, and
this is going to
work well to make
a bunch of versions.
You know, we could
make this stuff by hand, but
making it by hand
five times in a row
doesn't sound like
a lot of fun to me.
I'm extremely happy with
how everything is
fitting on this car,
and this is awesome because
we'll be able to repeat this
over and over again, and it
makes our life a lot simpler.
All right. I got a lot of work
to sand these things off.
[music plays]
[whooshing sound]
[whooshing sound]
[dave] once greg
finishes sanding and fitting
all of these aluminum pieces,
it's time to get
them off to chrome.
But that just opens up
a little bit more time
for all of the rest
of the stuff that still
needs to happen with the car.
[whooshing sound]
there's a lot of
stuff still to do,
but it's getting
exciting in the kitchen.
Okay, well,
we got rick's car here.
Compared to the
non-production car,
our car over there.
What are we missing?
I know we need the
under cowl structure.
We need the center
console glued in.
We were noticing
some spots that we need
-to glue in the front, still.
-Okay.
Just seeing this isn't
glued yet,
this to the firewall.
To the firewall. Okay.
And that will be dictated by
the windshield at this point,
yeah?
-Yes.
-I'm kind of looking
at this too.
The gap right here on
the back of the doors,
kevin looked at it earlier
and he's thinking that
we're a little bit low.
Do you think we need more
shims in the
back to tilt that up?
Because that would
change that, too.
I'd like to get
it up on a lift,
because there is some kind of
misalignments in the floor
that's not like the
other one. I'd just like
to kind of see what's
going on in there just
to see if maybe
it's just a...
It was our first
one and maybe
we may have fumbled a little
bit or what the deal is.
Or maybe they are
missing some shims,
but just kind of like
to see what's going on.
Howard cauliflower,
has spent so much time
on the cf1 projects
that I have to tell you.
Car number zero,
he had a lot of hands on,
to make all of the patterns
of everything
that goes under the dash.
The inner door structures,
basically the entire car,
how it can come apart,
how it goes back together and
how it should be
glued together.
He's got a finger on the pulse
of every last square inch
of this car,
and he's done an awesome job.
So good job there, howard.
What I'm looking at is
I'm looking at the process.
In my mind, I feel like
the other car needs
to be taken
apart at this point.
Put this body on
-the finished frame.
-The finished new chassis.
The one that has
everything on it.
I would hate to start
shimming on this
on this chassis if it's
just a little bit different.
-You know what I'm saying?
-Well, it gives us a chance
as we separate them,
to check what
they've done on this one.
That it goes hand in hand
with what we want them to do.
Because this car, once you get
this stuff kind of lined up
and get it reshimmed,
and stuff,
should be able to be blocked.
-One more primer.
-Done.
Sand the block down
and we're going to painting.
This one's going white
with the red interior?
-White with red. That's--
-like a super classic, cool.
Well, all original 53s
were wimbledon
white and red interior.
Rick's an original.
He's born in 1953, so
-he gets the original.
-Cool.
So he's only two years
older than you?
-Stop.
-[laughs]
I don't think your
math's anywhere...
You know what, I think I just
heard my brain cells popping.
-Do you even do math, kev?
-No.
-Math is hard.
-[laughs]
all right,
guys. Cool. Thanks.
All right, awesome.
A lot of [bleep] around here
for not working on these
cars or not doing enough work.
Let the truth be told, when
he actually is going to help.
[sighs]
he's a handful.
I can't tell you
how excited I am
working on this
project. Finally.
Most don't have the
heart to tell their boss
they are kind of
hard to manage.
And I just don't
have the heart either.
I mean, it's been a while.
We've been
working on it for now,
two years.
But to see it going
along the way it is now
and being this close
to actually having
our first two cars at a show,
it's going to go
crazy after that.
You know, I think kevin's
actually the handful here.
Sometimes his
communication skills
need a little polishing.
You said right?
-Left. Left, right?
-Right, but, left.
-It goes right here.
-Right. Left?
Seriously, like a handful.
Where did dave go?
Dave take my tools?
When dave decides he's
going to work pct,
it's like the first day
of school, you know,
everyone's kind of
bumping into everybody.
Nobody knows
where their pencil is.
You know,
you can't really... It's like
herding kittens.
-He's going to k*ll me.
-[laughs]
[clanking sound]
that's all right,
I got a screwdriver.
I don't know why kevin's
really complaining.
I mean, it seems to me that if
you've got more tools than I
and I need to borrow one,
you should leave
your toolbox unlocked.
Yeah, his toolbox
isn't locked.
See those three,
those two drawers
down there, maybe three,
there ain't no
tools in there.
Not for him.
Lookjust hit it
like right here, like this.
There's no keys.
[clanking sound]
there ain't no tools in here.
Just my prive sth.
[bleep]
that's why.
Here he comes.
You know, kevin is not willing
to share his tools with me,
I guess I can find some
tools somewhere else.
I mean, it's not like I
don't own the place.
I mean, I really I guess if I
was going to be down here
all the time, I'd just go
buy some more tools.
I don't really need them,
though.
I'vi hd time
finding the other end of this.
Is it because the plate
in front of it or something?
I can't see the
other side of that--
well if it's easier let's just
take it off the engine then.
That's what I was going
to do because I haven't
been able to find it.
I don't want you making
fun of me when I have
this cable sticking
off the front of here.
Oh, I don't make
fun of you, da
ain. Can I borrowcking
off that sec? Of here.
I don't make fun
of anymore, dude.
-Oh, you don't?
-Or any less.
Okay, I see what you did,
there is
a play on words and stuff.
I got to give
dave some credit.
When he decides to work,
he works hard and
at the end of the day,
it's really nice to
have him in the shop.
I'm going to get the shim out,
okay? Get you ready?
-Yeah.
-Okay.
[dave] one of the things
that the guys have done now
is take the frankenstein car,
which we've
obviously perfected,
made sure everything
opened and closed,
the gaps were perfect.
What we're going to do
to save a little bit
of time on rick's car
is we're going to go ahead
and take it apart.
Therefore, we can make
all of our patterns,
all of our templates,
and we have
a little bit more work
already finished
on this chassis
to actually put rick's
car on that chassis.
[music plays]
[clanking sound]
[whooshing sound]
[clanking sound]
so basically, this was
the first car that we had,
this car had to be
cut into a lot of pieces
and it had to be
glued together.
We went and built the entire
car as far as systems go.
Cooling lines, fuel lines,
special brake lines, special
charcoal canisters, exhaust.
We went ahead and
built all that into this car.
Now that we have
the first body,
whh I call it,
which is really the
second one of ric's list,
which is a seamless body.
We're going to
take this car apart.
Get rick's car on this chassis
because it's completed.
In doing that,
we're also going to
just make a list to
order four of everything.
For right now,
we have four of these cars
that we're building
right out of the gate.
So we're going to kind
of systematically take
this thing apart and
start making notes.
And I'll go from there.
This corvette roadster
has been a dream of mine
for many years,
and it's time for me to
put some skin in the game
-and get dirty.
-Okay, dave,
I'm super excited.
It's a great day.
-You are?
-Yeah.
I see you're working on the
corvette. I'm super excited.
So the goal of this
is to try to take it apart
-in as big pieces as we can.
-Okay.
We don't want to take
apart a ton of stuff. I mean,
steering, a couple of hoses
here and there,
we got some
hoses in the back.
Make sure some
lines are cleared
and we should be able
to really lift this thing off
with not too many problems.
You need stuff
labeled in that?
That way you
can just efficiently,
we can have this thing
apart in a couple of hours.
That's my middle name. Two
hours or less. It's perfect.
Is that...? Really?
How many middle
names do you have?
It's about 12, maybe 13.
-Is that legal?
-Sure.
-[blowing]
-[background banging]
this line can go with
the body. That's undone.
We've removed
all of the hardware
from the mounting points,
and now it's time to
very carefully get this body
off the frame without damage.
How does it feel?
Does it feel heavy?
-No.
-Do you think
we can just pick it up?
I would say four guys
would be smarter than two.
Carbon fiber
is really strong,
but it still could crack
if you apply pressure
in the wrong areas.
I think that we're probably
just going to lift this off
with a bunch of hands.
Hey, so okay, listen.
The support ends
about right here,
so I don't want to
pick up on the nose.
I'm only going
to support this.
I'm not going to be lifting.
We're going to go. All
right. Nice and easy, okay?
One, two, three. Okay, we're
good. That was a shifter.
Up. Good. Good.
Okay, everybody kind of walk,
we've got,
if you have a problem,
just speak up.
Okay, dave, you want
to line up to that first.
Line up one side,
just line yours up.
Okay, just go ahead
and set it down
on that corner.
We need to make sure that
everything is
set in correctly.
We don't want this thing
to warp or bend in any way.
This way. Come towards me.
There you go. Down.
I think yours is
too far right now.
To start with.
Well, you got it.
There you go. Good.
Far out.
[kevin] I'm glad that went
really smooth,
we're this much
closer to finishing.
So now we're going
to take this chassis
and we're going to
reverse engineer it so
we can make many
of these chassis.
We're going to have
everything lined out
all the way to fuel
and brake lines.
Nothing is completed yet,
but we're a lot further
along by separating
the frankenstein body off
of the first
production chassis.
We're making notes of
everything that has to happen
with all the rest
of the chassis, like
these tabs for
the fender well liners and
stuff you see off that side.
Got some brake lines
we have to make from
the bulkhead
up to our master.
We should be able to
take a template off of this
on the next chassis, be
able to lay the template up,
mark where the new ones,
the tabs go, weld them on.
We're done. We don't
have to prefit everything.
And then, yes,
put that body back on here.
Bolt it down,
double check everything.
Make sure it's good.
Pull it back
off and paint it.
Pretty much like that.
[drilling sound]
we've made a ton of
progress on the cf1.
Our client, rick, wants to
check out what we've done.
We are getting a lot closer.
We're waiting on dave and
waiting on dave, and then
he's not going to make it.
Really, I'm going
to sh**t this with kev.
-Are you serious?
-In fact,
we're getting so close.
It's in the body shop.
-I guess.
-Well, what do you think?
Well...
[dave]
today is a huge day for us,
rick cox is coming by to
check out car number one
of our cf1 roadsters
before it goes over to paint.
All right, rick.
[clapping hands]
-wow.
-It has been
a long time coming.
I've seen the nditions
that dave's done
and what I really want to see
n, w eshear
afiar theyy
likebuilt corvettes 53.
And it's really the first
corvette I ever wanted. But
I've driven original
You don't really
see all the nuances
of a body when
you're looking at
a drawing versus
when you get to see it
and you touch it.
Put your hands on it.
And that to me,
is what's exciting. That's
what I want to see today.
What do you think?
Well, I don't know.
I got hair standing up
in the back of my head right
now, dude, I'm telling you.
What I really like about it,
the first one he had
-was really low.
-I agreed.
And this is a little higher,
so
it kind of looks
more like a corvette.
I do love the lines.
Oh my god. What a difference.
Will this have a bubble
over it? Seriously?
Yep. Yep, that's the
way that it's going to be,
and it'll be lighted
on the inside.
-Exhaust?
-The exhaust comes out here.
-Chrome?
-All chrome
and the tail lights are
getting cut right now.
-Really?
-Yeah. Out of acrylic,
and then we'll
paint them red.
And then this
side's really cool.
This is actually where you
put the gas in.
That is amazing.
That is cooler than anything.
The car, the lines,
everything. They're beautiful.
[kevin] this is the
actual windshield.
It'll be framed
and then glued in.
-Check out the front.
-I got to see this.
The headlights are hids,
so they'll be super bright.
And then you have
a daytime running on the top.
Really? They'll
bubble like that. Really?
Because the original
had the wire.
-Yep, exactly.
-And this looks like it has
a wire in it. So
you kind of mixed?
-Yeah.
-That is k*ller.
This is a first year, so
you know, they had the teeth.
And you've taken that out.
-Yup.
-This is better.
It actually looks like it's
smiling instead of growling.
-Yup. That's a stock.
-Oh, really? Okay.
We basically just cut
it back a little bit and
took all the notches out
where the teeth normally go.
Right. And that
all will be chromed.
Yep,
everything will be chromed.
-Wow. Dude, you're k*lling it.
-It's going to be exciting.
You k*lled it.
The car is
absolutely amazing.
I can picture in my head
exactly how it's
going to look painted,
with the interior, it's going
to be an amazing car.
I'm really excited.
You tell me there's
some things here.
I haven't seen this
that are different
from the original right?
It's kind of like, you know,
when I designed this car.
Yeah, I designed this
and I did that.
I designed it
like the original.
It's just smoother.
So when dave
sent me that picture,
he was just putting
down your thoughts?
Okay, this has to be
between us.
-Oh, all right.
-That's how it went.
All right. I'm with you.
I'm with you.
Did you see one one of
my design things over here?
I got all this
stuff going on.
And the design that I did is
I just like to play off
the original,
just make it look th
does that make sense?
That does make sense
because you're amazing.
-Yeah.
-You're a genius.
Yeah, I know.
I get that all the time.
Kevin comes up
with these thoughts.
I don't know where
he comes up with them.
-I got to tell you something.
-All right.
It was really dave's design.
-Oh, really?
-Yeah.
-You told me it was you.
-I know.
But I just need to
come clean because if
if I keep the charades up,
it's going to cost a lot more.
-He's going to see it?
-[laughs]
he's going to see it?
Yeah, he's going to see it.
And both of us are
going to be in trouble
-because I bought it.
-Yeah.
[laughs]
he's is going to k*ll me.
You're going to show me
the engine?
-Oh, 100%.
-Wow.
[kevin] it's all going
to be decked out.
Shined, chromed, it's just
going to look amazing.
It's going to look amazing.
This is one of the challenges
that we had with the car.
Because the design called
for us to kind of section it,
so you lose all this height.
So we had to
really watch our height
through here, you know,
to clear the
build. That's why
these are a
little bit shorter.
But like you said,
it's just going to be--
-I think it looks amazing.
-It's going to be crazy.
And there's way
more horsepower
-than you'll ever need.
-Oh, I bet.
-Wow. This is numero uno.
-[laughs]
-yeah, number one.
-And, jones?
Yeah, he's number two.
Number two, you're
going to get number two.
I have number one.
-Let's close this.
-All right.
And I got something else to
show you while you're here.
Look at this
super vinyl white.
-Okay.
-I know a little bit
about paint, I know a little
bit less about upholstery.
It's so awesome, right?
It's called no strings white.
-No strings.
-It's actually
in the akzonoble line.
It's an amazing white.
-It looks awesome.
-So really,
at the end of the day,
I'm just going to bs
my way through this.
And it normally works.
-That's awesome.
-What I want you to do
is I want you. Let's
go outside and see
how amazing these
colors look in the sun.
Let's do that.
Look at this. Look at this
color combo in the sun.
Wow, that's going
to be amazing, dude.
Look at the contrast.
That's amazing.
And how clean the white is.
Dude,
this is going to be a k*ller.
Mine will be number one.
It will still be
the only car like it.
It will still be the number
one car that's made.
And it really pays
homage to the first one.
-It does.
-They only sold them
-in white, right?
-That was it, dude.
Mine is number one.
That's what
I'm excited about.
And I think that's
pretty darn cool.
-I like it. I like it.
-I do like it.
I'm so ecstatic that he's
been able to come down here,
check out the car,
and he's so excited about it.
That makes me excited,
and to have him as
car owner number one.
Now that's perfect.
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08x07 - Who Gets Number One?
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Reality show featuring Dave Kindig from the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company Kindig It Designs as they show their process of restoring and rebuilding vehicles.
Reality show featuring Dave Kindig from the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company Kindig It Designs as they show their process of restoring and rebuilding vehicles.