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On this episode of Counting Cars, I've got Pawn Stars Rick and Corey coming by

for a special project.

It's amazing.

Nice car, man.

Can we take a look at it?

I think he thinks we're a little bit crazy.

Should we bag it?

No.

I've really got an extensive collection of tattoos.

I would really like to apply that to my bike. Do we have to take naked pictures

of you?

Vegas is a gambling town.

Most people bet with chips.

I bet with rides.

Look at this. And I always go all in. Wow. What would you take for this?

I'm Dan, a .k .a. The Count, and this is my all -star team.

We find them, fix them, flip them, and sometimes I keep them. This is 30G. I

can't help myself.

For my crew, every job's high stakes, and we can't afford to lose.

This is Counting Cars.

Today, Kevin and I are cruising around looking for some cars. It's one of my

favorite things that we do. I like to just go cruise some neighborhoods, see

what's going on out there. And this kind of stuff is really important to my

business because this is how we find cars. This is how we flip cars and how

make money on cars.

Personally, it's an addiction.

Can we stop and get coffee?

Yeah, you got that, man.

Kevin's my right hand man.

We go back almost 20 years now.

They always say that you shouldn't mix business with friendship, but it really

works out just great. We do very good business together, but we remain the

of friends.

Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, look at that, look at that, look at that, look

that. It is beautiful.

Dude, spin around, spin around, we gotta catch up.

I'm serious, dude. Alright, hold on. That thing was bad.

I restore a lot of vehicles from the ground up, but sometimes I'm just

for something that's a quick flip. Either it's done or it's close to done.

And when I saw this Chevy, man, it just hit me right between the eyes. I knew if

I could score this car for the right price, this thing would be an easy flip.

We're catching up. We're catching up.

Hey, can you pull over?

Check out your car? No?

Dude,

we got a red light. Oh, thanks. All right,

hold on. Try this again.

Hey, man.

Nice car, man.

Thanks. What year is that?

Uh, 39.

39? You mind stopping for a minute? We take a look at it? Nah, I got the city.

You sure?

Yeah.

Man, I don't know. We might want to talk. He ain't happy about it, man.

No deal? He ain't into it.

I think he thinks we're a little bit crazy.

Should we bag it?

No.

I don't think I've ever been with Danny where he's given up on a car that he

wants. He will fight tooth and nail to get a car.

Oh, this guy's going to get all freaked out. He's probably going to drive to the

nearest police station.

Oh, dude, check him out.

He's trying to get away.

Okay,

here's our chance. Here's our chance.

Five minutes?

Just five minutes.

Awesome, man. Thank you.

Man, on a difficulty meter of chasing this guy down a scale from 1 to 10, it

up there, man. I would put him at a solid 8.

Thanks for stopping. My name is Danny. It's not normal for people to do that,

but kind of checked him out a little bit. He didn't look too strange and, you

know, out of place. So it kind of eased my mind.

Man, what a good -looking car.

What year is it? It's a 1939 Chevy.

39 Chevy.

That's the business coupe.

It's got a four -inch top top on it. It's gorgeous.

And I like the angle on it, man. It's sweet. It's really cocky looking.

I love the wheels.

It took forever to find those. Oh, wow.

1939. I think gas was like 10 cents a gallon or something. You know what I'm

saying? You had hair in 1939.

There's something wrong with you.

This was the working man's car.

When it was new, it cost about $650, which by today's standards would be

$10 ,000.

And between the Great Depression and World War II, that's how Chevy outsold

as America's number one leading auto manufacturer.

They were making attractive cars at a very affordable price.

And it's really interesting to see through all these years how they get

transformed into these extremely high -tech hot rod machines.

And where they came from to where they are now, it's kind of a cool vibe.

Well, it's just beautiful, and I really appreciate you stopping, but I just have

to ask, would you consider a cash offer of maybe somewhere around $40 ,000 for

this car?

I need to make this gentleman an offer that's high enough to get his attention,

but still low enough for me to make a profit. You know, it's a fine line, and

got to tread that very carefully.

I don't think she really could sell it.

I put at least probably $60 ,000 in that car. My fiancée, Tanya, and I, we went

to so many car shows and had so many good memories.

Finally, a girl I met that really likes the hot rods and not me.

That's a good girl. She likes it.

Oh, I thought you were going to say she doesn't like you. She just likes the hot

rods. I think that's mostly true.

Grab Tanya and come down to the shop sometime.

Come wander around and see what we've got going on down there. Thank you for

stopping. Thanks for stopping, Rob. Sorry to bother you.

Good luck on your next stop. Absolutely.

It's really hard to try to convince somebody to sell their car to you just

off the cuff like that. I mean, they didn't wake up this morning thinking,

know, I think I'm going to sell my car today.

But I feel like he just might change his mind and decide to sell me this car one

day. Sometimes it's just a game of patience. Just kind of lay back and

Man, that's like candy on wheels, man. Well, you get over girls quicker than

get over cars.

Well, this is looking pretty tight, man. He got all the new bushings and

everything in it, which is great.

What's that?

Check it out, man. Rick must have picked up the car.

Oh, the one you want looked at? Yeah.

Nice.

Good morning, Jess.

Danny, my man.

You just made me so happy when you guys pulled up. Good morning. You did it. You

did it. You brought her home. Yeah. I love it.

So the other day, Rick and Corey had me come check out a 1968 Mustang Fastback.

Rick's got a great idea about turning this into like a Steve McQueen bullet

replica. Corey, he's got other ideas about the car. But either way, I told

if you can score this car for the right price, bring it back here to the shop,

we can make it happen.

So give me the good news, man.

What'd you end up having to pay for? Pay $12 .50 for it. You did?

Yeah. $12 .50 too much. No, man. I think that's a really good deal, man.

So we're going to do the Bullet, right? Yeah. We're going to do the Steve

McQueen special right here. I love it. I love it. I love it. I'm just a

ridiculous Steve McQueen fan. I mean, he really is the coolest guy ever. I mean,

this is what he drove in Bullet.

And in the movie Bullet, they have the greatest car chase scene in the history

of all movies. So I just want to make sure it looks just like the car in the

movie. That's what I want.

Yeah, see, the thing about the Bullet Mustang, it was so wicked cool mad, but

yet it was so completely understated under the radar. I mean, everything was

darkened up on that car, and all the flash was just turned way down, and the

just was like, I've got an attitude.

It's you, man.

This car can potentially be like a $50 ,000 car. Absolutely.

How do we get there from this?

The only thing this car has going for it is that 30 years ago in a movie, Steve

McQueen drove the same car, but this ain't the car Steve McQueen drove.

This should have gone away with cash for clunkers back in the day. I mean,

someone should have traded this in on a Kia or something.

I can't visualize this car being cool.

It's going to be a lot of work. Yeah. The first thing we have to do is we've

to strip this car down to bare metal.

The color of this whole thing is going to be Highland Green, which actually was

a factory color that Ford had back then.

Okay.

Maybe we just fix up this red interior a little bit, then.

Yeah,

so we'll go all black inside, just the way it should be, all bone stock Mustang

interior. And we could save a bunch of this material and put it in Corey's car,

because I know.

So how much do you think it's going to cost me?

That's always a good question. But I'm going to guess anywhere between $15 ,000

and $20 ,000 should get us that bullet Mustang out of this, I'm thinking.

Okay.

This car could be worth $40 ,000 or $50 ,000 when it's done.

I'm already in at $12 ,500.

If the restoration goes much more than $20 ,000, I could get screwed on this

deal.

All right, just try and keep it close to $15 ,000, man.

I'll stay on that. as hard as I can.

I estimated it was going to take about $15 ,000 to do this Mustang, but I'm

going to hope that we can't get it done for that kind of money.

Yeah, this is going to be good.

Got a large...

Part of the team taking apart that 1968 Mustang Fastback to get that bullet

project happening for Rick Harrison.

But in the meantime, got a new client just walked through the door who's got a

very interesting paint job he wants to put on his Harley -Davidson.

Hey, man, how you doing?

I'm Danny. I'm Bob. Bob, nice to meet you. This is a really cool scoop.

Harley -Davidson Softails are wonderful motorcycles.

Softails mimic the hardtail but gives you a comfortable ride with a

It's one of the coolest frames Harley -Davidson's ever done.

How long have you been riding, Bob?

I mean, I've been riding as long as I can remember. My dad rode, his dad rode,

you know, and my kids ride.

I like that.

Do you have a vision for yourself? I mean, what do you want to see? Over the

last few years, I've really got an extensive collection of tattoos. I would

really like to apply that to my bike.

I like the way you're thinking. A paint job that's all 100 % tattoo artwork.

That's not a request you get every day, but I'm digging it.

You've got a lot of stuff going on. Are we going to cover the entire bike with

it? Sort of like a collage. Over the years, I've probably spent at least $10

,000 on my body art.

So what was the first piece that you got?

Actually, this skull, and it just started from there. All my tattoos are

memories. I love it, man. Everything means something.

Hey, Shannon, do you know is Horny Mike around?

Um, yeah, I think he is. This is something that he would just go nuts

Because, you know, he is nuts.

Oh, yeah.

I would guess.

I've got an incredible airbrush artist here at the shop. Goes by the name of

Horny Mike. And I think what he's going to bring to this project is really going

to make it pop.

Mike! What's going down?

They call me Horny Mike for a reason.

I put horns on everything.

I put them on my jacket.

I got 25 of them molded into my bike.

I'll put them on anything.

And, hey, it gets everybody horny. Why wouldn't I want to do it?

Bob here is covered in ink, and he really wants to take that vibe and cover

bike. Tattoo the bike up?

Tattoo the entire bike. Do we have to take naked pictures of you?

I mean, if that's what you're answering. I guess we got to get reference.

Can we put some horns on it?

I don't know if I'd go that far. You don't want to go crazy?

Okay, Mike, back to the paint. You can tell me exactly which ones you truly

on there, which ones you want more dominant.

All of them? All of them. Boy, this is going to be a detail paint job.

Absolutely. This is going to be crazy.

Want to go take naked pictures?

Let's do it. All right.

You want to hold hands?

No.

Hold up.

Just hold.

We ran into a little bit of a speed bump with this Mustang project.

Whoever did this insane red velvet interior glued everything down, and it

like they screwed up most of the original panels underneath all of it.

I didn't expect this to be so bad.

I can't believe that somebody glued all of this janky upholstery all... over the

console, all over the dash, all over everything.

I'm afraid that all of these pieces are literally going to have to be replaced.

Look at this.

His hat's done. That is so nasty.

Ching, ching, ching, ching. The dollars just keep adding up, brother. I'm sorry,

man. Scott is the money guy here. He keeps an eye on the books and the

accounting, manages each project to make sure that we're making money on it and

not losing.

Scott's really good at his job.

He can be a real a** sometimes.

This is going to be some late hours for me trying to find these parts.

I'm with you.

I think we're going to be a solid five grand in the interior, which we just

don't have no more room in the budget.

I think Danny needs an intervention on this one. He was way off.

Just pass me your personal credit card. We'll feel it.

Well, let's always look for the positive.

Man, I got 13 cents.

We'll put this towards the bill.

30 more cents right there on this side.

You keep digging for change, brother, man. Every penny counts.

Rick's one of my best customers, and I promised him that this project was going

to be right around 15 grand, and it looks like it's going to be more close

$25 ,000.

So I'm really going to have to try to figure out how I'm going to make this

budget work.

It's not going to be easy.

We've been building Rick Harrison's 68 Mustang Fastback for three weeks now.

It's been sandblasted, painted, and assembled to match every speck of the

Mustang from the original bullet movie.

I promised Rick that I could do this for around $15 ,000, but due to the

terrible condition of the interior in this car, I'm a little over 20K in it

right now.

But you know what?

I've got other business to attend to right now.

Bob's in the bike shop. He's here to pick up his custom tattoo bike, and I

wait to see the reaction.

Oh, yeah. Get ready for this, brother.

Get ready for this.

Check it out, brother.

Wow.

Look at that, man. That is awesome. I love it. Your ink all tells a story. Now

your bike's telling the story.

You know what, brother? That's exactly what I wanted. That is phenomenal. I

mean. It's a piece of art. When I first saw the bike, one of the best ways to

put it is like, remember being a kid? Your first time in a candy store?

It was just overwhelming.

You know, sometimes I tell people, it's just got you written all over it. In

this case, it's got you written all over it.

Holy s***.

I'm glad you're happy, brother. Oh, I'm extremely happy.

This ain't over yet, man.

Check you out. Look at this.

Oh, no.

See, now you got a nice helmet to match the bike. And, of course, you got a nice

riding vest to go with it.

Oh, man, that is awesome.

Here, you got to try it on.

I'm making everybody horny.

Absolutely, brother.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Amen. I got horns. Now I'm Horny Bob.

I knew I was going to get horned somewhere.

I'm just glad it wasn't on my bike.

Well, first impression, Bob.

Like I said, f*** me.

You know, I mean, it should do.

Mike, you came out swinging on this, brother. I tried. I tried.

Mike put in a lot of hours on this thing. About 80 hours on the whole bike.

The tattoo bike wasn't very easy.

They had a lot of detail going into it.

First, we had to put a base coat on it.

Afterwards, basically got to go through and airbrush in all the tattoos all over

it. And you have to do this all by freehand.

There's no stencils. There's no nothing. You do it all by eye.

And there's not a lot of room for mistake.

Oh, man, look at that one. There's your original piece. Yeah, my first tattoo.

There he is, brother.

The skull work is phenomenal.

There's even my koi.

Yeah.

That one's right here.

I wish the tattoo looked that good.

Sweet, huh? Everything is perfect.

This is almost up there with having your first kid.

Glad you're happy with it. Thank you. Thank you there, Horny Mike. No problem.

Now you're Horny Bob.

Get on it and get the hell out of here.

This custom tattoo paint job was a lot of work, but that's what we do here. We

take our customer's vision and make it into reality.

I'm just glad that we can make it happen for him.

Looking tough.

Nice, huh? That's so badass.

All right, so where are we at?

Top secret.

I'm just hoping you're not bringing me out here to bury me or bury the car.

This is Vegas, you know. So you really did bring us out here to kill us.

We've been working around the clock to get this bullet Mustang ready for Rick

Harrison, and after everything we've been through with her, she's finally

for the road. So I've got Kevin bringing Rick and Corey out to the desert so

they can see what this baby can do.

Seriously, Kevin, man, it's hot. What are we doing out here?

It's a surprise.

This literally looks like a road in a horror flick.

Did you bring a gun with you?

Well, there's something coming.

Definitely doesn't look like the piece of crap we bought.

Oh, wow.

That's not the same car, is it?

What's up, Jess?

My gosh, man.

That thing is amazing.

Beautiful, huh? Came out gorgeous.

Oh, this is cool, man.

I pulled my heart and soul into it just like I was building it for myself.

This is just absolutely amazing. Glad you dig it, brother. I'm looking at this

car and everything about it's amazing.

The paint job, the chrome, the wheels.

I mean, this car used to look like a piece of... Now it's one of the

cars I've ever seen in my life.

Sexy, huh? It's amazing.

What'd you do to the motor?

Everything. Well, that's definitely not stock.

I mean, we took this car down to the last nut and bolt. It's a very, very

motor, dude. That's amazing.

Beautiful. Well, let me check out the interior, man, because I remember a lot

shag carpet and stuff.

There was a lot of shag, a lot of velvet.

You know, last time I saw this Mustang, the interior was completely destroyed.

Them to actually be able to make it look brand new, I mean, it's just amazing.

Man, I'm telling you, Denny, I can't believe you were able to get it done.

car was a piece of crap.

So I'm assuming it cost more than 15 grand to fix.

Well, you know, let's talk about that later. Let's go for a drive first, man.

Before I tell Rick how much we ended up spending on the bullet, I want to get

him out on the road so he can see just how bad this car is.

Hopefully, he won't be too mad when he hears we went over budget.

All right.

It's amazing.

This thing's literally the mountain of youth.

Oh, look at me in the mirror. I'm 22 years younger.

Danny really did this car perfect.

And the whole fact that it looks exactly like the car in the movie is a big

deal. I'm a big Steve McQueen fan. I mean, he was the king of cool.

This thing's amazing, dude.

I'm going to own this car for a long time.

Nice. Look, I grew hair.

Danny told me he'd get this thing done for $15 ,000.

I think it's going to go way over that.

Okay, so I'm imagining it cost more than the 15 to 20.

It did.

I definitely blew past our budget. I know we were trying to keep it as close

we could to 15.

I've got, you know, 22 in it.

I mean, honestly.

If you would have told me 35, I would have thought that was the deal.

But, hey, I don't got to pay that. Thanks, man.

As long as you're that happy, I'm that happy. I bought the car for $12 ,500.

Danny only charged me $22 ,000 to fix it, which means I'm in the entire thing

$34 ,500.

And literally, the car's worth $50 ,000 or $60 ,000.

Or the way I'm looking at it, I think the thing's priceless.

Nice. Man, I'm really proud of our team.

Yep. Rick is happy, and we made a believer out of Corey. Yep.

You hungry?

I'm always hungry. I know you are. That's why I asked. Let's go get

eat, man. I'm starving.