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[heavy rock music playing]

[Shawn] We feel a very fair value is 125 grand.

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

[Shawn] We're in the middle of negotiating a sale price for this hot rod Tesla.

Mark wants 90 grand for this car.

But unfortunately, our buyer, Joe, either doesn't think it's worth that,

or he's playing hardball with us.

You know, you're Nick's buddy.

We'll drop it all the way down to 100 grand.

I appreciate that, but I really feel the deal for me,

I'll go up to 78,000.

-[tense music playing] -Man, that's just not close enough for us.

It was hard enough finding this buyer,

so I'm really hoping that I can get Joe up to that 90 grand figure.

If you had somebody try and build you a car like this,

there's no way you'd even get close to 100 grand.

The budget'd be skyrocketed on something like this.

I tell you what.

I think our absolute rock bottom we could go,

man, is 95.

I mean, that's... that's the lowest we can go.

And you did want a Gotham Garage car.

This is a modern art piece.

This has potential to appreciate quite well.

So from a business standpoint, this could make some sense anyway.

Listen, for my usage in my office as a centerpiece,

seventy-eight five is my final offer.

[tense music playing]

Cash.

-[Shawn] Mark, what are you thinking? -[Mark] I totally get it.

Um, but I think it's just not the right fit at this time.

So, I just appreciate you coming down here.

I just think we're too far away today to make it happen.

-I understand what you're sayin'. -[Mark] I appreciate your time, man.

Much respect.

[Nick] I know Mark's the owner of the shop and has the final say in these decisions,

but in my opinion, we should have taken this deal.

I think Mark's fixated on the short-term and the immediate money from the Tesla

when he should be looking at the... the long-term aspect

of having a client like Joe

owning a Gotham Garage car and putting it on display.

-[Joe] All right, my friend. -Thanks for coming.

[Nick] Maybe we just have philosophical differences on how we do business,

but I think this was a missed opportunity.

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

Oh, man.

[clicks, whirs]

[revs, sputters]

[revs]

-[dramatic organ music playing] -[wind gusting]

[grunts] I just hate pushing another expensive car into storage.

-Yeah. It happens. -It hurts.

It is what it is. Did you let the crew know?

Yeah. I texted them and told them the deal was a no-go.

[Mark] And?

They weren't too thrilled about it, that's for sure.

[Mark] I'm sure that everybody's pretty frustrated right now

because we didn't take the money on the Tesla.

But there's just too much time and too much money invested

to sell yourself short.

I'm not letting it go for 78 grand.

Between building the Barracuda to acquire the Tesla

and then building the Tesla itself,

we're about 60 grand deep into this whole deal.

Plus, we need to pay out eight people now instead of five.

I know what we can get for it,

and I'm not ready to give up on that just yet.

Definitely on that one.

We've invested so much of this shop's energy into this project.

My feeling is we have to get a solid return for this car.

Tony's texting me. It says, uh,

"Can you guys come over to the shop? I wanna talk to you about something."

"Me, Caveman, and Constance are waiting for you."

-Hmm. Don't know what that's about. -You think we're fired?

I hope.

[exciting rock music playing]

[Constance] Ah, there they are.

-'Sup? -What's going on?

-What'sa happen? -Are we... Are we in trouble or something?

[chuckling] Not exactly, but, you know, we've just been talking,

and, uh, you know, we always trust you guys

to steer us in the right direction

and have the best interest of us in the shop.

But we're just a little confused about the overall direction that we're taking,

and it... it just doesn't feel like there's a clear path forward.

Going after the high-end clients is great.

But adding a high-end upgrade and trade on top of that

seemed like a recipe for disaster.

Now there's way too much money going out of the shop,

and there's just not enough coming in.

I think it goes without saying,

I'm kicking myself now for trying to pull off

this massive upgrade and trade.

With Nick coming in,

maybe I felt like I needed to prove my worth.

Maybe I thought

if I couldn't compete with Nick, these guys wouldn't need me anymore.

But I had no idea it would dig us into this big of a hole.

You know, we're not saying, like, we're broke or anything,

but it definitely felt like

after last year we were on this up and up,

and, you know, more money was gonna be coming in.

[Shawn] Yeah...

And over the past few weeks, it kinda feels like that's not happening,

or even taking a step backwards.

Gotta have dollars to make sense, and now we don't have any dollars.

So it's not making any sense.

[Shawn] Seeing the whole crew get so demoralized by this, it's tough.

I let my ego get in the way of the shop, and that just can't happen.

Obviously, this upgrade and trade was a bad deal.

If I would've known that it was causing this many problems,

I wouldn't have brought it in.

You know, lesson learned.

At least you're man enough to admit it.

But I think right now it's a little too early to panic.

We got some big picture dilemmas that we gotta deal with, hammer out.

I think, in the short term, if you guys are concerned about money,

I think maybe we just pump the brakes

and we just do a project that we're all comfortable with.

That could work. I feel like we gotta do something, though.

We gotta... We gotta kind of change. Shake it up a little bit.

So I was down in Old Town, and I saw a Harley Dyna.

-They only wanted five grand for it. -For a Dyna, that's a pretty good price.

We do super well with motorcycles.

They take no time to build,

and we've never had a problem unloading a bike.

-Bikes are quick. -Yeah.

[Mark] If the crew is feeling like we're getting a little over our skis

and we need some quick cash,

then a custom Harley is the perfect build to get us back on track.

You know, we could just go crazy and do some wild customization on it

and get, like, 45 grand for it.

-[Caveman] I like crazy. -[Mark] You are crazy.

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

A Harley Dyna is a very basic bike.

It's kinda like a Harley-Davidson starter kit.

But that means it's a perfect blank slate for a Gotham Garage Road Warrior.

-That's old-school Gotham Garage there. -Yeah.

-I like it. -Sure, sounds good.

[Mark] Then, in the morning, Shawn and I will go down to Old Town,

and we'll pick up the bike and meet you here in the morning,

and we can start on that project.

[Tony] All right. Sounds like a plan.

[exciting rock music playing]

[engine rumbling]

[Jake] What is that?

[Tony] I think that's our next project showing up.

-[Brian] Really? -[Jake] Yeah.

-Little Dyna action. -[music fades]

[Mark] It runs like a champ.

-We score a good deal? -[Mark] Yeah. Like, stole it pretty much.

If the cops show up, it wasn't me riding it.

[all laugh]

[Mark] So the bottom line is this Tesla trade has set us back quite a lot.

When things get a little rough, we do a bike.

The profit margin in these things is ridiculous.

But you guys know the deal with bikes.

For us to make 40 grand,

we're gonna have to go way above and beyond crazy custom.

That means tons of custom parts and a totally unique design.

Tony, I'm gonna assign you to this project.

And, Caveman, I want you to be his right hand.

Yeah. Okay.

Tony did such a phenomenal job taking the reins on the man cave build

that I want him to do the same thing on this custom bike.

And Caveman is deep into the bike scene.

He knows Harleys better than anyone.

-Damn right I do. -I know.

[all chuckling]

Shawn and Nick, this bike project ain't gonna last forever,

so you guys need to go find us another deal so we can get some money...

Sure.

...and get this ball rolling again. Sound good?

-Sounds good. -All right.

[Mark] Everybody knows their job? Let's get it done.

[exciting rock music playing]

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

and they have this crazy steering, it's called center hub steering.

-Kinda like a rear swingarm in the front. -Okay. Streamlined look.

[Tony] I'm definitely glad that Mark suggested a motorcycle for this project

because I have a catalog of custom motorcycle designs

always ready to go.

One in particular is gonna be perfect for this bike.

I've been dreaming about this idea for a super unique bike

for a long time now.

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

superhero movies and badass motorcycles.

What I see in my head, Caveman, is basically like a superhero bike.

If you wanna sell it to Harley guys,

you're gonna have to go like a supervillain bike.

That's genius. A supervillain bike.

[dramatic music playing]

We're gonna push the bike super low to the ground.

Really low.

Then we're gonna stretch it out.

Think more stretched out than you've ever seen a bike before.

And then we're gonna add two giant wide tires

in the front and back.

They obviously don't make Harley parts like this.

So we're gonna have to make everything custom.

We'll start with a center hub steering system in the front

and a wider, stretched-out swingarm in the back.

And for our paint job, we want our supervillain to blend in at night.

So we're gonna give it a satin black and bronze paint job.

This will be the most custom bike we have ever done.

So, uh, can you pull this off or you just up blowing smoke?

-No, I got this. Yeah. -All right.

There was only a little smoke.

[laughs]

[upbeat synth rock music playing]

[Shawn] This string here, that's an orange string.

That's like a tentative deal.

That's... That's a more hardcore deal that's gonna go down.

You're getting involved in Professor Pilot's string theory over here?

-That's exactly what it is. -That's not a place you wanna go.

-Anyway. -Red strings are hot deals.

Okay, the reason... the reason we brought you in here

because Nick has found us another big deal.

Really?

My overall plan with Gotham is to establish them

within my key circle of clients.

And I've obviously been talking them up and creating some buzz,

but getting these big clients to trust a new shop with an expensive car build,

that's proven trickier than I expected.

[Shawn] It's some sort of mystery 'cause he hasn't told me a thing about it.

So spill it, Nick. What do you got?

[chuckles] I think this is a deal you'll like.

In the meantime, while I'm finessing my clients,

I've managed to track down a nice project through a friend.

It'd be the perfect project to tide us over.

It's not the biggest build, certainly not the biggest budget,

but it has a ton of upside and very much in Gotham's wheelhouse.

-You know Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park? -Yep.

So Fred, who runs it, I've known Fred for years.

He has recently acquired, uh, an M-29 Weasel personnel carrier.

[Mark] He's got a track Weasel?

-[Nick] He does. -[Shawn] The little tank thing?

-Yeah, it's a mini tank. -Yeah.

He wants it for... for promotion of the Motorsports Park.

He wants to turn it into something flamboyant.

He wants to put a car on it. The word "rat rod" came up.

Oh, I like the word "rat rod."

So he wants us to take an old car, put it down on an old tank.

-[Nick] Yep. -And so what's he...

What's he talking about price-wise?

Fifty-five grand.

Fifty-five grand for a rat rod?

I may not be in a position to voice my opinion

with the Tesla and all, I get that.

You're right.

But is this the right build for us right now?

It's a rat rod tank.

[Shawn] Look, I know Nick is doing what he thinks is right here,

but I don't think he understands just how much a build like this

could lead the shop down a rabbit hole.

Does it run?

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

Does he even have the car to put on top of the tank?

No.

Whenever we do these novelty-type builds,

it's a roll of the dice whether or not we make profit.

Even at 55 grand.

We did a hot tub car a few years ago, and we barely broke even on it.

-[Caveman] Yeah. Whoa! -[Mark] Oh... [bleeps]

And more recently, we did a rocket car that we lost money on.

Shake his hand and take the money.

Nick may not know all that,

but I have years of first-hand experience on this stuff.

-What's the timeline? -He's got a big event coming up.

He wants to have it ready, so it's about three weeks.

I'll be lucky to get that thing up and operable in three weeks. Come on!

Three weeks to get something running here?

-I don't think so. -[Nick] You like the deal?

I love the deal.

How fast can you get the tank here so we can get started?

I can have it here in an hour.

I'm gonna go get Jake and Constance

to meet me over at the other shop, and we're gonna wait to receive a Weasel.

-Of course you are. Why wouldn't you? -[Mark] Mm-hmm.

Yeah, uh, while I'm doing that, you should sell the Tesla.

Yeah, I got that.

[mellow rock music playing]

[Mark] While Tony, Caveman, and Brian knock out our custom bike project...

[Caveman] That looks cool looking at it this way.

...I'm pulling Jake and Constance to help me on a rat rod tank car.

-[Jake] What the ****. -[Constance] This is new.

[chuckling] Actually, it's kind of old. It was made in 1942.

This is an M-29 personnel carrier.

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

Constance can help with getting the motor up and running,

and Jake and me can handle all the fab work.

-Let's get it off the trailer. -How are we gonna get it off?

Does it roll?

The tracks work or were working.

So let's get it unstrapped,

and then we'll find out how good it does or doesn't roll.

The M-29 Weasel was a tracked military vehicle

that was built in the 1920s.

Never a dull moment around here, Jake.

[Jake] I'm figuring that out.

-[upbeat music plays] -[projector whirs]

[Mark] This vehicle was designed to go anywhere on any kind of surface,

including over water.

It was an amphibious vehicle, which means it could go places

that four-wheel drive Jeeps and trucks could not go.

It's the epitome of an all-terrain vehicle.

[thuds]

[music ends]

[Constance] It is really cool. I feel like it needs a lot of love.

[Mark] For sure. But for what we're gonna do to it,

it's not gonna need as much love as you think.

The plan is, we're gonna turn this thing into a badass rat rod tank car.

-[Jake] For real? Sweet. -[Mark] Yeah.

Before we can turn this Weasel into a rat rod tank car,

we need to first get it running and driving.

[heavy rock music plays]

So we'll freshen up the motor to hopefully get the motor started,

and that should get this thing moving forward and backwards.

And then it's time to turn it into half car and half tank.

So we'll need to mount a car body on top that lines up perfectly with the M-29.

Once that's done, we'll give it an indestructible paint job.

We're gonna spray it with truck bed liner.

We'll finish it off with some super unique Gotham Garage touches

that'll make it a one-of-a-kind rat rod tank car.

Now you kinda know what the general game plan is.

I'm gonna make a list of everything it doesn't have...

[chuckling] ...then we're all gonna go to the doctor and get tetanus shots.

[Jake] Sounds good.

[mellow rock music playing]

I know all Mark wants to do is take this tank and turn it into a rat rod,

which sounds simple,

but projects like this

always have a way of just going off the rails.

Mark either goes way overboard

or a problem comes up and the timeline and budget just snowballs.

Well, that's one way to do it.

[chuckles]

And on this one, there is just so much room for things to go wrong.

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

Number two, this tank is really old, really rusty, and doesn't run.

And number three, we only have three weeks to get the whole thing done.

Oh, and I also forgot to mention, none of us have worked on a tank before.

I mean, I think we removed most of the floor.

-[Constance] Just on the cleanup. -[Jake] Yes. I would say so.

Well, cool deal.

So tomorrow, we need to go through this motor

and see if we can get it to fire up.

And, um, call Caveman.

Tell him there's an emergency at the shop,

and then tell him that I said he has to sweep the floor.

-[laughs] -You got it.

[driving rock music playing]

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

-Those are large. -Where's the front one?

That's the front one. And this is the back one.

Was I right? The dimensions about as wide as my ass.

[Tony] Yeah.

So, the big challenge is these two big freakin' tires.

These tires are way wider than what we had on this bike stock.

So we have to create

an entirely custom front and rear end to fit them.

Okay.

For the front, our steering is gonna come off the neck of the bike.

So I'm gonna start designing up our center hub steering mechanism.

Okay.

[heavy rock music playing]

[Tony] When you think of a superhero or a supervillain,

they always have the fastest ride,

and they're always weaving in and out of obstacles seamlessly.

Center hub steering, the kind of steering that we're gonna put into this bike,

is gonna give the bike that kind of superpower.

It's not the most common steering system, but it's gonna be totally worth it.

There's a lot of pieces going on here.

We're gonna get from A to B to C to D to E to F.

And maybe somewhere around H the wheel's actually gonna turn.

Most bikes have something called fork steering

where you steer the bike with a set of forks

that grab the wheel from above.

With center hub steering, you're grabbing the wheel from the side,

and you're actually steering the bike from inside the wheel.

It makes the bike way more agile,

and it actually allows you to accelerate faster.

All right, Brian.

So first things first.

This'll all get tacked and fitted to the frame.

But there's a reason you don't see it on every bike.

It's a very technical and complicated setup.

[Brian] It looks good.

[Tony] Yeah. So this is gonna...

[imitates whooshing] ...just like that.

Now we need to get it attached to the frame.

As a motorcycle aficionado,

I could tell you firsthand

that custom Harleys

are the most desirable bikes out there.

Come on. Can I get it? Oh yeah, look at that. I got it, didn't I?

At this point, people have done everything you could possibly do to a bike.

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

Level.

So making it look different is not easy.

But, man, this bike with this design and all the custom parts,

it's gonna be unlike anything you've seen on the road.

Hey, sparks are flying! Is it the 4th of July?

[Brian] Around here, every day is 4th of July.

[Tony] This is obviously a ton of work.

Almost every piece needs to be made here in house on the war jet.

[Caveman] Damn!

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

our bike needs a setup like this to make it totally unique.

[Caveman] Look at that. Look at that thing roll. Look at that.

[Tony] I've got enough here to say, okay, we can sign off on this

and start cutting the back up, but we got a lot of custom work left.

Letting you know, there's some long days ahead of us, probably some late nights.

[Caveman] If we'll have long nights,

maybe I should call my mom up, have her bring some of that lemonade

and cookies down to sugar us up to get it done.

Yeah, a visit from Cave Mom?

-Yeah! Why not? [laughs] -[Tony] That sounds great.

Wait, you guys are... You're serious?

Oh, man, when Cave Mom comes down, she brings lemonade, cake, cookies.

-So we get baked goods and lemonade? -It's awesome.

-[Caveman] Yeah. -I thought you were messing around.

[all chuckling]

[exciting, funky rock music playing]

[music fades]

[Mark] So, first things first.

I wanna make sure that the motor's actually mechanically sound.

[Jake] Okay.

[Mark] It doesn't run now, but the good news is,

I did a little research on the interweb last night,

and that motor is just an old Studebaker motor.

So we're gonna know pretty quickly if it runs or not.

Uh, you'll need to get a battery and drop it in.

-[Jake] Okay. -Then, Constance, you can climb inside.

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

[Constance] We're trying to see

if we can get this tank's original motor and treads actually working.

Now, you may think that there's just no way

that we're gonna be able to get this thing to work.

But the military made every part on these tanks built to last.

So we're thinking that if we can kinda give this thing

a quick little refresh,

I mean, cap and rotor, spark plug wires, spark plugs,

in theory, it should still work.

[Mark] Get some gas hooked up to it 'cause I know that fuel pump doesn't work.

[Constance] They also designed everything on it to be easy to fix.

The issue with that is, if your easy fix doesn't work,

you can pretty much bet that you're gonna have to replace everything.

There's three switches over there, all have to be flipped straight up.

[Constance] Alright.

And if it turns out that we're gonna have to start replacing

these obscure military parts,

it's gonna be really hard to make sure that this tank is ready on time

for this off-road event.

Okay, go ahead and crank it around right now.

[engine sputters]

Try it again.

[engine sputters]

Alright, hold on.

Okay. Now crank it.

[engine sputtering]

Keep going.

[engine almost starts]

[Jake] Come on!

[engine rumbling]

[Mark] That's it.

Yeah!

[upbeat music playing]

Alright, go ahead and cut. Kill it.

-All three switches down. There you go. -[engine shuts off]

So that's freaking awesome. That's stage one.

[chuckling] Onto the driving part.

-That's the one I'm more worried about. -[Mark] It's the driving part.

[exciting rock music playing]

[engine rumbling]

[engine revving]

-Purrs like a kitten the day it was born. -[Jake] It sure does.

[Mark] Well, moment of truth.

Oh, yeah.

[Constance] Movement is good.

Right, turn it.

I was.

-Really? -Yeah, it doesn't work.

The steering doesn't work.

-Just forward and backwards. -[Mark] Yeah.

-These two bars, they're supposed to go... -[Jake] Individually.

Forward is power to a wheel,

and back is disconnect the power to the wheels.

That's how you get it to turn. It skid steers.

So it ain't happening. So there's something wrong.

Anything moving back there?

[chuckling] I mean, it kind of looks like it's trying, but not nearly enough.

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

So here we go. Now we gotta figure out how to make this thing steer correctly.

[mellow rock music playing]

So we've got some big issues with the back end.

That tire is wider than these struts.

It sure is.

[Tony] So we're gonna have to cut the struts off

and we have to stretch the swingarm and fit the wide tire in.

What do you say, Caveman? You ready to do some cutting?

Of course I'm ready to do some cutting. I've been waiting all damn day!

[exciting rock music playing]

[Tony] Now that we have the front of this bike built out,

and our center hub steering is functional,

we now need to assemble the whole back end of the bike.

Basically, the back end needs to mimic the front end.

-[Caveman] What else? What's next? -[Tony] That's it. That's it.

I should've made it last longer, then.

[Tony] So we're gonna create a completely one-off swingarm

that grabs the back wheel from one side,

similar to how our center hub steering grabs the front wheel.

We'll throw a straight edge on it and clamp it up to our back wheel.

But since the whole back and front end are custom-made,

the challenge is making sure that everything is true and square.

-You see it on the bubble. -[Tony] It's looking really even.

-It looks pretty badass from this angle. -[Tony] I'm pretty happy with it.

It's super long.

It's like a limo now.

[Caveman chuckles]

Guys, unfortunately, we do have to blow this bike apart one more time for paint.

[Caveman] Of course.

-Hello. Michael, are you here? -Hey, Mom.

-You got cookies! -[Tony] It's Michael.

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

-So this is Cave Mom? -Yeah, I'm Sandra.

-I'm Brian. Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you, Brian.

Mom has always been real supportive.

I mean, the boss has always loved my mom too.

And everybody else. They see her coming. "Oh, there's Mike's mom, Caveman's mom!"

"And what is she bringing?" [laughs]

You know, I knew you guys were working hard overtime.

-So, you need a sugar rush, right? -Yeah, we do.

-Yeah? Okay. -Absolutely.

-What do you think of the bike? -It's beautiful when it's finished.

Yeah, check it out. I got it on the computer here.

Okay.

So these are all the blueprints of what we're building.

-Wow. -This is kind of the transformation steps.

-You can see we changed all the wheels... -That's... It's longer.

-And the suspension, it's longer. -It's beautiful.

I love coming to the shop.

-I like to see the cars, the progress. -Do you have an English accent?

-A tad. Yeah. A tad. -[Brian] A tad?

Yeah. I was born and raised in England, yes.

-I gotta get Nick down here real quick. -Get him down here.

Yeah. I like to see the interaction with all the people working.

Especially to see my son, Michael.

[chuckling]

-Right here. -[chuckles]

[chuckles] Oh, it looks like Nick's about to bring

a special English treat for you.

I've always been proud of where he works

because all the love that goes into everything.

I think it's wonderful.

[all exclaiming excitedly]

What do we got here? Oh my goodness.

-[Nick] Someone has to be civilized. -Oh, a man after my own heart.

[Nick] See, a gentleman.

-Tea solves every problem. -[Nick] Really does.

[Sandra] It really does.

If that was the case, I'd have been drinking tea long time ago.

[all laughing]

I was really surprised to meet Nick with the tea.

I thought it was lovely.

Cheers, darling.

Michael has never made me a cup of tea in his life.

[sputtering] How am I supposed to know which one when you got boxes in,

you know, in the cupboard?

-I know. -Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

-You know, snack things. I don't know. -It's what I do.

-[Sandra] Thank you. This is lovely. -You're welcome. Of course.

Sorry to break up the tea party,

but Shawn's asking me to meet him in the office.

Are you in trouble?

-I never go there. -[Caveman] Take biscuits.

-Take biscuits if you're in trouble. -[Sandra] Take these.

-[Nick] Let me take... -[Caveman] Oh!

Let me go see what he wants. Thank you, Sandra.

Bye, darling. Nice seeing you again.

I only come over when I bring biscuits and, uh, lemonade.

-[Nick] Then you should come very often. -[all laughing]

[exciting rock music playing]

[music ends]

[knock at door]

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

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

I'm just going crazy here trying to get a buyer for this Tesla.

Everybody's loving the car,

but no one's willing to throw down 90 grand for a car like that.

It's so specific of a build.

I swear, I am doing my absolute best to try and sell this Tesla,

but it is getting ridiculous.

[man] I don't know if a hot rod Tesla is really my style.

A little more understated, know what I mean?

Uh, understated?

Uh, it's all in the eye of the beholder, you know?

So I called Tony in here to run an idea by him.

It's pretty bold.

But at this point, it might be our only way out of this mess.

I'm, uh... I'm thinking about doing a trade for the Tesla.

This is the only way I see out of this mess.

Because right now,

there's just no one that's willing to just put out straight cash.

After everything that's gone down with this car,

I can't believe that Shawn is even considering a trade.

That's what got him into this mess in the first place.

But, look, it'd be a trade deal that'd involve a good chunk of cash too.

Get some more cars in.

Maybe we can parlay that into maybe something more than 90 grand.

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

then a solid trade that also involves a good chunk of cash

might be the only way to get out from underneath this car.

Where I'm at right now

is, um, I'm trying to think of anything I can do to actually move this car.

I mean, it's got potential, but, you know, if Mark sniffs out what you're up to,

he's not gonna be happy.

I say we keep it on the down-low.

You help me out a little bit. Maybe we enlist Constance and Caveman.

-Oh, man. -We do a little... What? What?

-So... -You want a paycheck, right?

We're all gonna be your accomplice on these shenanigans?

If you wanna call it that, yeah.

In my opinion, this is the type of car

that could give us a ton of value in a trade.

All right, Shawn. Well, listen, man.

I'll... I'll talk to Caveman, Constance, and I'll see if we can shake anything out.

Me and Caveman are going to a car show in a couple days,

so maybe we can even ask around there.

That's what I like.

Mark might kill me if he finds out,

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

Listen, if something goes bad, and this gets sniffed out

and... and there's... there's a price to pay, this was all your idea.

-It was all me. Yep. -This is all your idea.

-All right. -Okay, you know nothing.

-Alright? -[chuckles] Nothing.

Alright? Oh, yeah. Okay.

That might get us out of this mess.

[intense electronic music playing]

[music ends]

[Mark] It's these two that are not moving. They're bound up. It needs a little help.

-Shock to break it loose? -Yeah. Got a hammer?

I sure do.

[Mark] The tank runs with a joystick, so the only way to make the vehicle turn,

you have to push one forward and pull the other one back

to make the tank turn right or left.

Our assumption here

is that this thing has been sitting somewhere out in a field, in the weather,

and it's fused itself together.

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

I'm not even feeling anything, and I'm pulling on it.

I think it's just time to get military on it.

-Yeah. Leverage. -And just started pulling on it. Yeah.

These vehicles were designed for the military.

They were designed to be worked on and fixed in the middle of a battle.

That in mind, sometimes it just takes brute force.

That's what we're gonna try.

Go ahead and start ratcheting it.

Knowing that we gotta have this vehicle ready

for an event that's happening in less than three weeks,

we're really hoping that the brute force tactic

does not backfire on us.

All right, keep going.

You're either gonna break it or break it loose.

-[clanks loudly] -Ah, there we go.

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

[Mark] You guys button that back up real quick.

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

and it'll run, drive, and spin around in circles.

Let's give it a whirl.

[engine rumbles]

-It's turning. -Yeah, I did see that.

Watch the lift.

[metal groans]

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

-It goes places. -Yeah, it sure does.

It's better than forward.

It goes forwards, backwards, right, and left.

-[Jake] So, problem solved? -[Mark] Problem solved.

Well, we're in really good shape for today.

So next step is we gotta find a car body

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

I'm gonna go with Shawn and we'll get a body for this thing.

Once we find one, it's full-blown fab work from here on out.

-Good job, you guys. -[Jake] Thanks, Mark, for your help.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Tony] To make this bike look like something a super villain

would ride in a movie,

it has to have a badass paint scheme.

But we also wanna pick a color scheme that won't limit our buyer pool.

[intense music playing]

[Tony] To give this bike a real sinister look,

we're gonna paint all the wheels

and custom suspension components satin bronze.

That's gonna make it jump out a little bit, but not too much.

And the rest of the bike is gonna be satin black.

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

-Got some more pretty parts. -That's the last of it, Caveman.

Yeah, you did a fabulous job.

[Tony] Alright, let's start putting this bike back together.

We're not just reassembling the motorcycle's hundreds of pieces.

-We're connecting the new parts too. -One piece at a time.

[Tony] Caveman's working on the clutch, I'm on the wheels,

and Brian is on the center hub steering.

I'm sure Caveman is dying to take this thing for a ride.

But I already called dibs.

So once this thing's fully assembled, it's freaking on.

[epic music building]

[engine revs]

This is definitely one of the slickest, most creative bikes

we've ever done at this shop.

It almost looks like it was forged in some dark, underground lair.

[sinister music playing]

[Tony] From where this bike started and where it is now,

the transformation is just epic.

The center hub steering and swingarm

not only make the bike faster and smoother,

the front tire almost feels like it's floating out in space,

like it's magnetically connected to the bike itself.

And with this stretched stance and super wide tires,

it almost looks like it could devour the pavement.

Riding this bike almost makes you feel like a villain from a graphic novel

in a crazy chase sequence.

And just when it feels like they got you caught...

In the blink of an eye... you're gone.

[engine revs]

[music fades]

[birds chirping]

I can't even believe how good this turned out. You know?

Tony's got some mad skills. There ain't another one like it out there.

[Shawn] We've obviously sold a ton of bikes in the past,

so it didn't take me much to track down a buyer.

My guy, Otto, is absolutely perfect for this bike.

He loves Harleys,

and he's always looking for something different,

and this bike is different.

I told him mid-forties.

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

and throw us 45 grand or not.

All told, Tony and Cavemen spent about 15 grand on this build.

So if I can get about 40 grand for it, we're looking at about 25 grand in profit.

-[motorcycle approaches] -We'll find out if he loves it.

[Shawn] Sounds... Sounds like we're gonna find out pretty darn quick.

-There he is. -That's a badass Har, though.

[Shawn chuckling] Yeah.

Told you he's into custom bikes just a bit.

A little bit.

-[Shawn] Otto, how's it going, buddy? -Good. How are you?

-Good to see you. This is Mark. -Hey, Otto. Mark. Nice to meet you.

Yeah, Otto.

I've been buying and selling custom motorcycles and custom cars

for close to 15 years.

This is that custom bike I was telling you about.

It's a lot of motorcycle.

Shawn's talked this bike up quite a bit.

But, uh, I like to see stuff that's, uh, head-turning, handmade parts.

It's stuff that you can't buy out of the catalog.

If it doesn't check all those boxes off, I'm not buying it.

I don't think you'll ever see another one like it.

It's our take on a single arm, single grab swingarm.

We made everything. We made the wheels.

We made the sprockets. We made the arms.

And you can tell by the front end that that's not store-bought.

Every part of that front suspension and the front wheel

is all handmade here in the shop.

Yeah, it's an interesting design. Mind if I fire it up?

No, hop on it.

[mellow rock music playing]

[engine rumbles]

[engine revs]

[Shawn] Nice stuff.

[turns off engine]

[Mark] Like music, ain't it?

Ah, Otto looks pretty comfortable on there.

[Otto] Where you at on price, Shawn?

I threw a number at you before. We're talking 48.

This is a lot of bike.

Uh, it's a beautiful motorcycle. Definitely unique, like we talked about.

48,000 is just a lot of money. I'm closer to the $35,000.

-[Shawn] Thirty-five? -Yeah.

Thirty-five grand. Wow!

You know, you're talking about a custom one-off bike.

You go somewhere,

nobody else is gonna have a bike like this.

This is special Gotham Garage workmanship right here.

I mean, how about we do 43?

-How 'bout that? -You're getting warmer. I'll do 41.

Go 41.5 and we got a deal.

-41.5 seems like a fair price. -[Shawn] Yeah?

I think you just got yourself a one-off custom Gotham Garage bike.

-Thank you. Otto. I appreciate that. -Hey, thank you, Mark.

Man, Mark and his crew really put together a unique custom motorcycle.

I'm looking forward to taking it home and putting it in my collection.

Yeah, I think it's pretty impressive. Got a lot of work in this bike, Mark.

That's about as custom as you can do to an '04 Harley.

-Otto absolutely loves the bike. -You're welcome.

And, you know, 41.5.

-That leaves us over $25,000 in profit. -Twenty-five grand?

That's a good amount of money for an old school Gotham creation.

I know we're trying to do all this high-end stuff with Nick,

but it's nice to know that the old way still works.

Very nice.

If you wanna go up front, do paperwork,

I'll get this thing ready for your guys to pick it up and get it loaded.

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

[exciting rock music playing]

You'll love this place we're going to. This guy has got a variety of cars.

Right now me and Mark are on our way to a salvage yard

to find a car body that we can put on top of the tank.

He wants something rough and dirty, and I know the perfect place to go.

The good thing about this

is that this personnel carrier is on schedule,

even though we had a little hitch in the get-along with the gearbox.

You had a problem? What was that all about?

All you need to know now is it runs and drives.

-[phone ringing] -Whoa. What do we have here? Hello.

-Hey, Shawn. -Tony! How's it going, buddy?

-It's good, man. -What's going on?

So Caveman and I are at a car show, and we met this guy, Jimbo.

We started talking about the shop, everything we're building,

and I told him about the Tesla.

-[dramatic sting] -He just got real excited.

So Jimbo has a whole bunch of cars.

He's got a '69 Chevelle that he'd be willing to trade.

-Trade? -Really?

We're talking about selling the Tesla, not trading it.

I told Jimbo that the Tesla's worth 90 grand.

He's got a whole bunch of other cars at his property,

and he's willing to throw some cash in on top of the trade cars.

Cash on top?

-Cash on top. -Nice.

I really wanted to just get the 90 grand in cash.

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

But what's the harm in going over and seeing what Jimbo's got over there?

Look, I know Mark's not too thrilled about being put on the spot here.

But Mark is a junkyard dog at heart just like me.

And he can't help himself to at least go see what Jimbo's got up there.

Jimbo said he can do it today if you guys can come make it happen.

Today?

Well, I guess there's no harm in going and seeing what he has.

Obviously, I've got no idea if Jimbo's got enough cars and cash

to make a trade worthwhile.

And getting Mark to agree is gonna be an uphill battle.

So text me the address...

Hell yeah.

...and we'll load the car and meet you out there.

Okay. I'll send it over right now, and I'll meet you guys there.

-All right, brother. See you there. -We're turning around, heading that way.

But, man, if this somehow works out,

then I might be able to put this Tesla behind me once and for all.

[Mark] It better be worth it.

[Shawn] You worry too much.

[closing theme music plays]

[metal creaking]

[engine rumbles]