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On this episode of Counting Cars, we get an impossible request for a vintage

Chevy pickup.

This is Tanya's truck. Your fiancee? Yes. We'd like to make a really nice hot

rod out of it for her.

Want a surprise her?

With this?

A sweet idea goes horribly sour.

I can't figure out what possessed you to do this.

You think you can get someone to let me down?

I think I kind of like you up there.

And I restore the soul to a legendary stud support port.

This was Barry White's car.

Kevin, come on, brother. Bring that baby out.

She's pretty. 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

for this?

I'm Danny, 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.

Rolling, my brother. How you doing, man?

What's up? I got a question for you. I need you to do something for me. Come

check this out.

Would you get under here and just clean the whole bottom side of this thing?

It looks kind of shiny to me already.

Roll it.

Who's the glasses?

Oh, it's so light I don't even notice it on me.

Now you see what I'm talking about. Oh, yeah, now I see. Okay, all right. Do it

without the glasses, okay, so I can make sure that it's good.

Whatever you like.

Who we got?

I don't know. I see a trailer and an ice truck. I think that guy need directions

to the recycle place.

Let me go see what we got going on here. Can I put my glasses back on? Yes, you

can. I'm going to do the same thing.

I know you.

Shane, right? Yes. How you doing, Danny?

Good, man. Good to see you again. Good to see you. Shane, this is Roley. Hi,

Roley. Roley, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Roley, this is Shane. When I

first met Danny, he had chased me down in my 39 Chevy.

Hey, man.

Nice car, man.

No, thanks.

Come to find out, he had a custom hot rod shop. He told me if I ever need

anything to come see him. I tried to talk to him the other day on the road. I

couldn't get him to stop for anything, man. Well, you almost got away from me.

What do you got going on here? Well, this is Tanya's truck that we had

Your fiancee? Yeah. We like to make a really nice hot rod out of it for her.

She's been really good to me, so I want to surprise her.

Did you say surprise her?

Yeah. With this?

This is a diamond in the rough. It's beautiful.

Diamond where?

In the rough. You got that right.

vision yet no he don't see it this is a gem right here man after world war ii

ended pickup trucks were in high demand and chevy answered that call with a

whole new design in 1947 they released their new redesigned advanced series

pickup truck and it was bad it was sleek it appealed to every generation after

that chevrolet became the number one selling truck in the country

What about colors? A real dark blue metallic.

It actually looks black and then turns blue.

I like that.

That's great. Cool. Cool.

The interior color is what?

Buckskin. Oh, that's tasty.

Yeah. That's very tasty.

There's only one more thing.

What you got?

She's a school teacher. So one thing I'd like to add to the truck, an apple.

All right. You know, for the teachers. You want a real apple in there?

No.

No, not a real apple. Could be airbrush.

Yeah. You want a red one, golden, you know, like pomegranate.

It's an apple. It's just a red. Pineapple. I got my work cut out for

I? Okay, that was a joke.

This 50 Chevy, it's going to be awesome. But she's in really rough shape on the

outside, and there's no telling what's going on underneath.

So before I even begin to talk about budget, I want to get this truck all

and see what's really going on in there.

Man, what is this? Another one.

You know, Vegas is a very dangerous town.

Strippers, drug addicts, hookers. And that's not even that bad. The drivers?

Forget it. The worst.

What in the world?

You could be driving a tank. They pull right out in front of you. They don't

care.

So tell me about this car, man. I'm down here kind of cruising through the

neighborhood, and I see this trippy -looking front end still coming down.

Yeah. It's a stud.

Is it a two -door, four -door?

Four. Sometimes I store cars for celebrities, and back in the 90s, I held

Barry White's studs for him while he was on tour. About a year ago, his wife,

Glodine, asked me if I could track down that studs.

And I got to tell you, looking for that car?

It's like trying to find a ghost.

If this turns out to be Barry's car, I'm going to be thrilled because Barry's

wife, Glodine, she's been a friend of mine for years, and she would love to

this car back.

Oh, man, I bet she would. Yeah, she said it was Barry's last car that he

personally owned and drove.

Hello, Barry.

I'm going to do a very good Barry White. Barry White.

Painfully obvious.

I don't know. I thought that was pretty. I thought he was sitting right there.

Shut up.

There you go.

Oh, yeah.

Let's see what we got. Absolutely. Come on, check it out. See what she says.

Without a doubt, man.

Dude, I feel like I've seen a long -lost friend.

And he's in a little bit of bad shape.

Got his ass beat a little bit. Absolutely.

It's a shame to see, you know, that she's been sitting outside, obviously,

long time. Oh, hey, bro, this is clean.

She said she'd wash it off. Wow.

So, yeah, before we do too much else, let's go up to the door and get her.

Now, Big Ryan's already spoken to the owner, and she wants to get rid of it,

I'm really hoping that this is Barry White's dutch.

Now, they only made 50 of these back in 1979, so they're really, really rare.

Odds are, very much in my favor.

Hi. Hi, Kelly, how are you? Good. We came back.

This is Danny. Hi, Kelly.

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Thanks for letting us come bug you on

this car.

Sure, absolutely.

What all do you know about the car?

It's been sitting in my driveway for maybe a year now.

Yeah? It was running when it got here. Really? Okay.

The Stutz is just all about style. There are luxury cars. There are cool cars.

There are gangster cars.

This is pimp.

Back in 1979, this Stutz 4 port cost about $70 ,000, which is well over $200

,000 by today's standards.

These cars are all handcrafted. They've got a ton of gold -plated trim on them.

They were called the Car of Kings.

People like Elvis, Dean Martin, Lucille Ball.

Robert Goulet, Sammy Davis Jr., high -end cars for high -end people.

How did you come to get this car?

It was used to pay a debt.

Why can't I find people to pay me? Not a bad bargaining chip. I know.

Exactly. Do you mind if we look it over? Is that okay with you? Go right ahead.

A little more. We looked at it a little bit when we got here. Well, yeah. I

mean, Ryan said you're willing to sell it. You want this car gone, right? Yeah,

I want it out of this driveway.

You know what? That's going to happen.

It's a bit dusty. Oh, yeah. What a trip, man.

Looking for Barry's studs, it's been like mission impossible.

But I promised to Lodeen that I would find this car, and I really feel like

today is my day. I know the ins and outs of this car, front to back, top to

bottom, and I got the feeling that this one's going to be it. We open up the

trunk of this car. If it's got white fur, it's Barry's car.

Well, let's ask her to open the trunk. Let's open up the trunk.

Do you mind if we pop the trunk to this car? Sure, go right ahead.

Sweet. All right, brother.

Here we go.

Well, let's see what you got. Let's see what's hiding in here.

Dude. Like that fur liner? Yeah, you have no idea how much we like that fur

liner. We love this white fur trunk. Feel that, dude. Come on. I think this

thing's starting to purr. So why do you guys like the fur trunk so much? It

seems like it'd be kind of inconvenient for a car trunk. It would be.

You know what? Come on, man. Absolutely.

Right is right. Let her know. He stored a car for a celebrity.

That's why we wanted to see the trunk. That's a white fur trunk. I'll tell you

whose car this was.

So whose car was it? The trunk will make so much more sense now. Yeah.

This was Barry White's car.

Wow. And if you want this car out of your driveway, I'm ready to make both

and me happy. Okay. When I learned the car belonged to Barry White, I was

surprised. But it all made sense with looking at the trunk. But it doesn't

change the fact that I do not want that in my driveway anymore.

It's not my style. I do not have the resources to get it fixed up. And it

should be fixed up the way that it was meant to be and when it was new.

If I gave you $5 ,000 in cash, $100 bills, and rolled this out of your

today, are we at least talking?

You know, originally I wanted $6 ,000 for it. Okay, so we're close.

But it's Barry White's car.

I think you should get some more.

You got to love her. You got to love her, man. I think I should get $10 ,000

it. This is why I don't play poker.

Yeah. Because I just let my feelings show. So you want $10 ,000 out of it?

Would you meet me at $7 ,500 again in cash?

$85 ,000?

You're on.

Great. You're on.

Absolutely.

Absolutely. This Stutz is so cool to glow Dean White. It just means the world

her. It just brings her husband's vibe close to her. And I can't wait to

it for her. I'm honored to be working on Very White Stutz, and I'm even more

honored to be getting it back into the family.

A few days ago, a guy brought in a beat -down 50 Chevy pickup that he wants to

restore for his fiancée. We'd like to make a really nice hot rod out of it for

her. We've taken the truck all apart, really looked it over, so now I've

Shane in so we can talk some dollars and cents.

Shane, thanks for coming down, man.

There's a few issues.

They cut the front off so short that there's nothing there to mount the front

end to. That's why it was kind of... That's why everything was flopping

yeah. And you can see under here where, you know...

The subframe in the front, it's very patched right here. I'm really not

comfortable with that at all.

You were telling me that this was for your girl, Tanya.

Yes. And for her, I'm sure you want it to be as safe as possible.

And then the front, I'm not sure what we would do. You know, we'd have to start

doing a whole lot of welding and putting stuff together to make that even work.

I'd rather put that effort into putting this onto a new frame.

It's a little disappointing.

I was hoping to spend about $15 ,000 on it.

It's not safe, so it looks like I'm going to spend a lot more. I hope it

too much more.

We can do the whole project with a new frame for probably around $25 ,000.

Tell me how you feel about that.

Almost comes down to how much do you love her, right?

If it's that, man, we got a million -dollar budget over here.

Let's go for it. I think it would be a good foundation, and overall it would be

a lot nicer truck.

$25 ,000 is a lot to spend, but it is for my fiancée, Tanya, and my goal in

is to make her happy.

That $25 ,000 will still include that apple, right?

Absolutely.

All right. I love it. Let's do this. We got the apple in here for her somewhere,

someway, somehow.

Good.

Man, I love this car.

When I called my dear friend, Glodine White, to tell her that we found her

husband, Barry's missing studs, she was beside herself.

How you doing, my man? She told me spare no expense, get this car restored back

to its former original glory. So I don't want to make any changes. I want to

take... What is here, but I want to spice it up. Instead of just shooting

bottom half brown, I want to do it in like a candy root beer.

You see what I'm saying? You know what I heard and all that? Money, money,

money. I know, but it's really, really stepping it up. This car was Barry's

pride and joy, and I got to make it perfect for Glodine. And I know my crew

going to step up and make this job flawless.

My first, my last, my everything.

crew has been going nuts on Shane's 1950 Chevy pickup. It's a gift for his

fiance. She's a school teacher. So one thing I'd like to add to the truck, an

apple, you know, for the teacher somewhere. So for the final touch, the

I were racking our brains to figure out a cool yet tasteful way to honor Tanya,

the apple of Shane's eye.

Hey, Mike. What up?

So, what are you doing?

A big -ass apple.

Can I ask you why you're putting a big -ass apple on the door of this truck?

We're talking about an apple.

Okay.

Maybe we have once discussed putting an apple on this truck at some time or

another. But at what time did I ever say, Mike, do me a favor, man.

Get the biggest apple you can on the door.

of this truck.

For the life of me, I can't figure out what possessed you to do this.

I guess I should have asked about the size. That's a good question.

And what's another good question?

Well, obviously, I don't know that at this point.

How about, where would you like the apple on the truck?

So it wasn't the door. No, it wasn't within the door. That would have not

my first choice. I would not have said the door.

Tell me that you can get rid of that apple.

I can get rid of it. A little bit of thinner, a little bit of sanding, a

bit of buffing.

And it ain't going to screw up the door, right?

No, it'll still be beautiful.

And then come talk to me. We'll figure this out.

All right. You think you can get someone to let me down?

I think I kind of like you up there.

And I'm going to get the apple off and get down.

The boys have been knocking themselves out working on Barry White's gorgeous

duds, bringing it back to its former glory.

She's ready? Okay. All right, we'll see you in a minute.

In the meantime, we've finished up that beautiful 50 Chevy pickup for Shane's

fiancee, and what better place to surprise a teacher than at school?

Congratulations, darling. Thank you. Don't waste no time over here. Run over

there, man. That's all you have.

That is awesome.

I love it.

I love it. Absolutely beautiful.

Shane, you did awesome. He knew exactly what he wanted for you.

Did you see your shifter in there?

Oh, marble apple.

That is awesome.

That's me, the grouchy teacher, chasing after the little critters.

Gorgeous. The back is exactly how I pictured it. The coloring, everything

matching the boards in the back.

That is so great.

It's the best 1950 Chevy truck I have ever seen, and I've looked at a lot of

them. It's totally me.

It was her.

and what she liked to have in my memory, and you guys put this thing together.

It just came out awesome.

So glad that you guys are happy.

Woo!

Well, man, it all came from that day that we chased you down. Aren't you glad

you stopped now?

Shane, I'm glad you stopped.

I am very glad I stopped.

So are we.

I've had a lot of hot rods throughout my days, but I said...

This is it. You guys are the shop.

So, Tanya, does Shane get an A -plus for today?

Absolutely. He'll get an A -plus on his report card.

You're keeping Shane after class today?

Absolutely. We'll teach him a lesson or two.

The school kids are going to be beside themselves. I love it. Thank you so

She's going from school teacher to cool teacher. That is exactly what she is.

For the last year or so, I've had a personal mission to find a missing car

belongs to a dear friend of mine, Glodine White.

Oh, yeah.

That Barry's car. I'm sure of it. Now, the studs that we're talking about

to her and her husband, the legendary singer, Barry White.

Now, we've put our hearts and souls and a whole lot of elbow grease bringing

this studs back to its former glory, and I could not be more thrilled than to be

presenting it back to Glodine. I get excited. You come with me, darling. Now,

Glodine, you remember.

You and I talked about this car.

And it was MIA for a while.

So we got her back. Really?

And she was a train wreck. But she was all there.

We've been loving on her for a long time now. That's what this is all about with

Barry, you.

There's been love all over this car.

I'm so honored to work on this car.

I'm ready to see her. She's beautiful.

She's beautiful.

I don't think we have enough time in the day to tell you about what this car

means to me. And when he called me and said, Lodine, darling, I found

the stuff.

I started screaming.

Kevin, come on, brother. Bring that baby out.

Your chariot awaits, my lady.

She's pretty. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Do your thing, darling. It's your baby.

Enjoy. Enjoy.

I just can't believe I'm looking at it.

It's been years, and it was the most incredible feeling. That's all I can

They'd be proud right by now, wouldn't they?

Okay. Yeah. That's what I need to know.

But they did a fabulous job on it. She looks absolutely stunning.

She matches you.

She looks like her papa.

Absolutely.

Every inch of comb has been triple comb plated on this car. My body, guys.

They went crazy on the body work. This car is straight as an arrow. Everything

lines up tight and right. They went crazy on the paint. Instead of just

the bottom, we went with a candied root beer. And then the cream on the top is

all pearl.

Get the thing out in the light, and it just goes nuts.

All the wire wheels are all brand new. It looks good.

Oh, yeah. This is my favorite set right here. The dual bars, the small grill.

That is money right there. It's beautiful. Beautiful, man.

I just see him.

I'm expecting for him to be standing here somewhere.

You know what? He just might be standing right here with us right now. I think

so. I do, too. Yeah, because he's always with me. He never leaves me.

Absolutely.

It's yours?

Absolutely. It's your car.

Oh, look at it.

You look just like you belong in this car.

Because I do. I know you do.

This project is one of the most important things I've ever done through

Barry's been gone almost 10 years, and I can't thank you enough.

To do this studs that belong to Barry White, to put it back in the hands of

wife, Glodine, come on. It doesn't get any better than that for me.

Thank you, sir. You got it, man. You got it, man.