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[Dave] So this will be the sketchy part.

It's so low I can't get in the car without it draggin', so...

Hang on. When was the last time we started this thing?

Hey, do you think it'll start, Dave?

[Dave] I don't know.

God, that'd be nice if it does.

Okay, all's I'm gonna do is pull forward backwards.

Stop. Left, right.

And then we'll push it from there. Okay?

[Kevin] Okay, fire it up.

[engine stalling]

- [Dave] Nope. - [engine stalling]

[engine stalling]

- What do you want to do? - I don't know.

[sighs]

[Dave] This has been a dream well before I was in business.

[Kevin] It's going to take a team.

Everybody's expertise, everybody's input.

[Dave] These cars cannot be displayed,

promoted, seen by the public until they arrive at Detroit Autorama.

[Kevin] There's only so many teams that have put these cars together

so it's a great, great, great opportunity.

[Dave] We'll build a car that nobody has ever seen before.

The goal is to build The Ridler.

All right, guys. Well, I had an opportunity

to meet a gentleman by the name of Dave Maxwell.

Well, his goal is to build The Riddler.

Even better it's to build it with us.

Anybody here up for a challenge

of building a car out of aluminum?

No, nobody.

[laughter]

So, Izzy, this looks--

This is looking really, really good, man.

I am super stoked.

You got the lines going just right.

Get the foam on there. Let's get it shaped up.

[Izzy] The plan is,

build all this out of foam and then use this.

We're gonna kind of create a buck.

The roof is actually going to have

like a domed roof on the car.

Huh, it's pretty cool.

Basically making something out of nothing.

[laughs] Dude!

- Turned out pretty good. - Nice.

[Dave] Hey, you know what? That's perfect too.

But I think this is a great, great way to start...

Start smashing some metal.

[Dave] And I can't say for sure,

but I'm not aware of any fiberglass cars

that ever really won the Riddler.

And so when we show up at Detroit with a Corvette coupe,

I think it's gonna be like, "Eh."

No fiberglass car has ever won.

Well, that's funny. You're right.

That's why we made it out of aluminum.

And then they're going to go, "I'm leaving.

I'm packing up my car.

I'll come back next year when you're not here."

- [Izzy] Yeah. - [Dave laughs]

I mean, that's what I'm hoping for.

Yeah, I'm getting super stoked on this.

So we're about four and three quarters of an inch

to the wheel opening.

I can't reach it.

Yeah, you can reach it that way, though.

It's like seven three-eighths or something.

Yeah, I'm gonna say about seven and three-eighths,

so that's the difference.

- [Jordan] Two and a half. - [Dave] Two and a half?

Well, that's not a big difference, is it?

Not much. Visually, it's a lot, but...

[Dave] I think, visually, I think we just lay it out.

Ah, see, roughly...

[Jordan] Five three-eighths is about there.

[Dave] So, what we're trying to determine

is based on our speedster body and the coupe body,

I want to keep the sweeps of this wheel low.

That is more classic lined.

And we're not going to do quite as big of a wheel combination.

We're going to go twenties and twenty-ones.

The roadsters or the speedsters here

are 21 and 22 inch overall diameter.

So what I want to do is I want to find a nice even flow

where this wheel well

is going to have that swept back rear-- The wheel opening.

It's gonna be a little bit higher,

but we still want to cover the top of the tire.

So it has a little more of an aggressive,

lowered stance to it,

as opposed to more of a sports car stance.

One thing I'm just noticing right now

is this rocker right here has never been extended.

That would be a real nice natural line

just to catch that, come up here and just bring it back out.

Building a car to this degree

to go for the type of award that we're hoping for,

I wanted to come up with something

that was different from what we normally build.

Just raise the bar, I think, for difficulty.

[Jordan] Stand back and look.

[Dave] What do you think?

So really, a the end of the day,

you just have to hope for all of the perfect tolerances

and the completed idea

of how the car is going to eventually go together.

[Jordan] That's a little better.

- The still is raised enough? - That's high enough.

We're going to a much bigger diameter

than what was on their stock.

So I think we're in really nice shape there.

This has a nice flow to it. So...

- It works. - Cool.

- And the same swept back from here. - [Dave] Yep.

I mean, we could do the kick back if you want,

but that's layered...

I kind of like how it rolls under in comparison to this one.

I kind of do too.

It just looks more classic.

We can try putting the pattern on this guy

and transfer that line,

- and then see how it looks on this. - [Dave] Okay.

We just gotta transfer it onto the...

aluminum panel.

[Jordan] This'll give me the line

at which I put it in the tipping wheel

- and do a little break like I've done there. - Okay.

- [Jordan] Still good on those edges. - Yep. Looks great.

- I think the line looks good. - [Jordan] Yeah.

You know, I'm really glad that I went back

and kept looking

at the classic line of the stock wheel opening

compared to what we did.

For what we're trying to build out of this one,

I think this is really the way to go.

- Ish? - Yep.

- [Jordan] It's coming along well. - [Dave] I know I like it.

- Well... - Yep.

- I'll let you back at it. - Cool.

[Dave] With the shop, the size that we have

and the amount of people we have here,

we have a really good opportunity

to design here, but actually send out

to some of our partners and vendors,

to let them kind of pick up some of the big chunks.

[Will] So with most of this, we've printed everything

to prove what the computer is saying fits.

We're right at the verge now

where we're gonna-- We need the real pieces.

We're having the rear transaxle bells

that go around the differential.

- [Dave] Oh... - Those are getting casted.

We'll throw some sand in the bottom,

push it in there,

tuck the bottom, cut the middle out.

This one is just a loose pattern.

So you've gotta come up with your own parting line

of where you think the pattern has to be cut in half by the sand.

Otherwise, it's like trying

to put a baseball on the ground, pour concrete out of it

and expect them to pull the baseball out of a piece of concrete.

It doesn't work unless you have it cut in half.

Two halves and then...

This is an aluminum-based release agent

that we put on the patterns

to prevent the sand from sticking to 'em.

This stuff's like baby poop.

You get it on you and it just goes everywhere.

Next thing you know, it's on your face and...

everywhere.

This is silica sand,

and then we have it mixed with two chemicals.

So it sets up basically just like Bondo.

Two parts, got X amount of time.

Once the two parts are mixed,

and then it sets up like a rock for the most part.

That's about where I want to be.

Neil's gonna put in some sand around the mold

while I hold it in place, I'll tuck around it.

Just gotta cut down to that chalk line I put on the parts

so we can draw it out of the sand without it locking in there.

A little bit of vibration

to help knock the sand away from the pattern.

It's called diamond dust, kind of like flour.

This helps the sand from sticking to itself

when you make a sand-on-sand-rama.

We're just gonna pop them apart and draw the pattern out.

Hopefully with no complications.

- And just even out the chains. - [hissing]

So they're lifting the same.

So you just take a little bit of pressure in there.

Just enough to get a little bit of a wiggle in there.

[whirring]

On the edge there, you can see

there's a little bit of a kick-out lip

before it draws back in.

So I'm trying to get that number

before I do the bead line to kick it back in.

So I'm trying to get that little bit of a flare.

[banging]

So I think the wheel openings,

we decided once I had the panel shaped, stuck into the car,

clamped them down and everything,

from there we were able to stand back and get an idea

of like, "Okay, how do we want this to actually flow through the car?"

Hopefully, I get a first try-ish,

and I don't have to pretend I did it right the third time.

From there,

that's when I can start taking it

to the tipping wheel machines,

some natural dyes, to do the bead edge along the wheel,

around the fenders.

Kind of looks like what I was after.

A little bit of a lip right there.

A little bit of a flare, I guess.

I'm gonna get a little bit closer to the tape next time.

Looks like I need to come out a little.

If I like it, we'll go back

and do the sharp line on the bead roller.

Kick it back in.

There's a lot of things

that we're really trying to jump ahead

in some trajectory thing here.

Like we want it better

than what we're even used to.

And we've really set ourselves up for like,

"Wow, you know..."

We know it can be done. We haven't done it.

[Kevin] It's either going to go really great...

- [Dave] Or really, really, really bad. - Or it's gonna go bad.

- Sure. - [all laughing]

It's pretty decent.

Let's see how it looks on the car.

A little bulbous right here.

I don't know if it needs to get shrink right there,

or if this needs to flare out.

I gotta see what the actual fender is doing.

So I might just need to shrink right there a little bit.

Just get it to relax a little nicer right there.

It's kind of hard to fit it to this car too,

because this kicks out before I need it to.

So it's kind of hanging up right there.

2 Kevin, I actually ordered the transaxle.

I got it coming, but there's some parts connected to it.

-You're good on the fork lift, right? - [Kevin] Yeah...

[Dave] You know how to tilt it and all that kind of stuff.

- You got the side shift. - Yeah, side shift.

- You got up and down. - Tilt, up and down. I do all that.

[Dave] Do you know how to go through a gutter straight

- so you don't get like three wheel-- - I can get through gutters.

- Get stuck... - I unload freight all the time.

You're not worried about this?

- No, I'm not worried about it. It's a transaxle. - 'Cause I would have to say

- I might be a little bit concerned about it. - Why?

[indistinct]

You know, pretty much I told you,

and you know I am a forklift master,

and I will get this done.

Hell yeah!

And, you know, normally I would just ram it.

I would just hit the curb and just do it.

But I'm maturing as a forklift driver.

- [Dave] You're gonna take it easy... - [Kevin] Yeah, I'm like

a fine wine forklift driver.

Smooth going down.

So I just try to take it real easy.

How wild is that?

This is for a special project that we're doing called The Riddler.

- [man] Okay. - [Will] Oh, my God, it's so cool.

This is the transmission we're gonna be using.

- [Will] That's a pretty cool little start. - [Kevin] That's about it.

[Will] Lots of amazing engineering in this deal.

Most of the stuff we're gonna be building ourselves.

- It's a good starting point. - Drat.

Transmission will actually be in the back of the car on that car.

This is the torque tube right here.

So this, when the engine starts,

the tube inside here is always spinning.

The clutch is there in the back.

And we have a transaxle, which is pretty neat.

So...

That's it. That's all I have.

Pretty cool. It's a good start.

[Will] Means we're gonna play hell packaging it.

It'd be really crazy to watch us cut this thing out.

[Will] It's very wide.

[Kevin] Do you have room for your ass?

Well, you know, the funny thing is that torque converter

is right there next to your butt.

I know, that's why I was asking is it gonna fit?

I think my ass will fit. [laughing]

This is cool.

I wish this was going to some [indistinct]

[Jordan] It should probably be stretched a little bit,

just so it relaxes in that position.

Sometimes it's easier to work with smaller panels.

There's a lot of curvature, you have to,

but otherwise it's kind of nice

to have a relatively large panel,

something that you can hold it out,

shoulder-widths apart

and be able to manage really well.

I don't want to shrink that, but I think that's what I need to do.

Okay, let's try a little shrinkage

and see if that goes in the direction that we want it to.

If it's too small,

you're trying to do this dainty little task in the English wheel,

and then, at that point,

it's almost easier to do it on a planishing hammer

or something like that.

But "ish" is the perfect size. [laughs]

Let's try that.

Yeah, it's really not too far.

And it's pretty decent.

[hissing]

So far, so good.

We just gotta get the pattern off the cope now.

[tapping]

Let's see if we can just pry it a bit.

Oh, got it. Thataway.

Okay, so there's that part.

- [hissing] - This is called gray wash.

It's a graphite-based wash.

It seals the surface of the sand

and it makes a better finish on the casting itself.

It's alcohol-base,

so just gonna torch and burn it off.

Then I'm gonna just put the pins in there and close it up real quick.

Make sure everything goes together nicely.

[whirring]

The metal is ready to go.

Okay, crane up.

There you go.

All right, that's it. Let them sit for about a half hour.

Then we can crack 'em open.

Make sure everything looks good.

[banging]

I'll just scoop it up with the forklift,

and, uh, take them down to the shake-out area

and we'll knock them out down there.

Just grab that.

The moment of truth.

This is where we find out if we did it right or not.

There we go.

Whoo.

Very hot.

Looks perfect.

And hot.

Looks good also.

Whoo.

Cut all the excess metal off, slick 'em up, make 'em look pretty,

and then call the guys over at Kindig It,

have them come pick it up.

Success. Very good.

2 You know, we have obviously the biggest project

that Kindig It design has ever had, this Riddler project.

But we've also got a whole shop full of cars

that we still have commitments to to get them done.

Greg, I need target top consultation.

Okay, I'm your guy.

You know, over the decades,

we've been gathering technologies,

abilities and so forth.

And we've had some pretty odd requests,

to say the least.

Okay, so you remember when we did the GT40

or the Ford GT, the roadster,

we built that soft top that folded up

and really all that kind of cool stuff.

A gentleman by the name of Brian

is bringing in a Lamborghini Murcielago roadster.

They have no hardtop option for that car.

They had what they call a toupee, which is a soft top,

it has a couple of aluminum rails

that go over the top of the door windows.

What we want to do is basically

come up with a top that can be removable

so that he can actually enjoy the car,

if it has crappy weather or whatever.

I don't know if we can do it in a two-piece

like the Aventadors.

The Aventador roadster is basically,

they have a top that slides together

- and bolts down as one piece. - Okay.

When you take it off, you break it apart

and it actually goes-- Indexes into the front trunk.

Oh, crazy.

So what Brian wants us to do

is actually build a top for this Murcielago roadster.

And they don't exist in a hardtop version.

So we're going to go ahead and give our best shot

and see what we can come up with.

So if that's an option, I'd like to do that.

But what do we need to do to begin with,

even if it's just a one piece.

How do you think we ought to build that?

Should we do molds?

Do you want to do 3D print?

I mean, what are you thinking?

I think we could do it a lot quicker

if we scan this thing and just 3D print.

If we're only doing one, I say we 3D print,

we can have the body shop body work this thing,

- get it looking perfect. - Okay.

Because I think those cars looked great as a hardtop.

- Mm-hmm. - So, you know,

making it look like a factory hardtop

and people won't even be able to tell might be the way to go.

- Yeah. - Um...

So if we're gonna paint it,

and it's not going to be carbon finished,

- I think let's 3D print this thing. - Okay.

- And I bet it'll be pretty easy to get it done. - Okay.

So obviously, when we scan this,

we got to just kind of be careful of where the windows go

because, you know, it's got, uh, you know, scissor doors.

So we'll have to be kind of careful and cautious

of where the doors are going to go across,

where the top would be.

- Yeah, sounds good. - Um...

Yeah, I think we can crank it out.

And if we need to machine some parts for it,

things like that, I'm sure I can fit it in.

I'll let you know when the car's here

and let's make some time to scan it.

Okay. Sounds good.

- Cool. - Yeah, right on.

[Dave] You know, and we're so busy right now,

I think I actually got the perfect guy for this project.

What's going on, buddy? Are you ready to go?

Yeah. This is gonna be awesome.

I guess your overall goal,

we was able to find those pillars.

So you're just going to use those

for the convertible top

that would have came with the car. Correct.

- Yes. - Bingo.

It'd be great in a perfect world

where it could break down, fit in the trunk.

But to be honest with you,

I think that the trunk is so small on this car

that we're probably smarter just to build a--

You know, "pull it all off

and put it right back on" kind of a deal.

And it should be better, and certainly better, than what came with the car.

I'm up to whatever you kind of come up with.

You're gonna try and cover

across all of this leather right here, is that correct?

[Jordan] I think that's the goal.

Let's shut the trunk thing

and see where it sits.

Well, this guy has to come out,

but it walks in,

- goes to there. - [Dave] All the way back there.

So I think as long as we cover up to here...

Yeah.

And just keep it out of the way so you can still open the top.

Okay. I think that's just fine.

This isn't really going to be a car

that is like...

"Oh, man. It's snowing outside.

I gotta put the top on so I can drive the car in the snow."

I don't think it's that kind of car.

I wouldn't drive it through a hurricane or anything.

Me neither.

The trick with this is

is it for it to be very functional,

but we have to also be realistic

about what we're building.

I know the dream was to try to make it

where the whole thing is one piece

that can be removable,

but we'll have to see how friendly it is

as far as the way these guys mount in,

- because this guy... - If you can get to the level...

...walks in at this angle and then down,

- so... - Oh.

Both of them together may be difficult.

I'll definitely try

because I don't want to make it two-piece,

but I'm hoping not.

Let's see what we can accomplish.

All right, let me let you get going

and I'll get out of your way

and let me know if you have any questions or problems.

- Cool. See you, Kindig. - Cool. Okay.

- Thanks, Jordan. - All right, well, see you.

[Jordan] First step is to scan every surface

that I'm gonna need the information off of,

and just get a game plan from there, basically.

[Kevin] Jordan's plan on this top

is going to be to print it on a 3D printer,

so we have to scan every inch of this top

and know where everything lands,

so he can make the perfect piece the first time.

I had to make it in more pieces

than I was originally hoping.

I thought I could print just one,

a quarter at a time.

I did print them out of ABS

because I wanted to be able to glue them together

without seeing any blue lines.

And with ABS you can just use a little bit of acetone,

and it kind of it melts

inside, uh, the surface of each one

and they just stick together

and you don't have any glue lines when you're done,

which is really nice.

So from here,

I'll finish them off, make sure they're all

totally glued perfectly,

um, and then test fit them side to side.

So I finally succeeded in some prints.

- [chuckles] Cool. - [Jordan] Okay, let's test fit 'em.

Which one do you want first?

[Jordan] I don't know. Let's try one at a time

- and see if they even fit. - Okay.

- This looks... - [Jordan] One at a time.

...to be, what I would guess, the passenger side.

- Correct. - [Dave] Right.

Oh, cool that lighting is perfect on these.

Hey!

- Fits so far. - [Kevin] Okay.

Neat.

[Dave] Don't get excited.

Should lock on this piece.

- It has a little... - Oh, right there.

I think I felt it. Yup.

I think I just felt it go into place.

- Cool. - Okay.

[Kevin] So we have the pins.

[Jordan] I am gonna be gluing it together. [Kevin] Okay.

- The pins just kind of reference side to side. - Oh, okay.

At the bottom, go ahead and pull the top in.

- [Kevin grunts] - Okay.

- [Jordan] I mean... - [Dave] It's lightweight.

- [Jordan] It is pretty light. - [Dave] That's good.

I like that line that you got in, and ran back to here.

That looks good. That looks nice.

[Jordan] Thank you.

Holy [bleep]. Still fits?

- Whoo-hoo! - [Jordan] Hot damn!

For the first prototype, this thing looks great.

It fits the car. It flows good.

There's so much room in here and my hair is perfect.

[Kevin] Your hair doesn't even touch.

- [laughs] - [Jordan] Whoa.

It looks really good.

And I think, you know, just leaving this rib

is just fine with me.

I don't think we need to fill it up with a bunch of foam.

I think a little bit of Landau in here

and just do a headliner, maybe some Alcantara.

It can just float over the top of that.

- You know, just wrap-- - [Jordan] Give it a little detail too.

[Dave] Just give it a little detail.

More importantly, I want to keep the strength of the center of that?

[Kevin] We might want to check the window too.

[Jordan] I say we do.

- [Dave] Cool? - Yeah.

[Kevin] The window clears, the door clears,

Dave's hair clears.

What more can you ask for?

Good job.

- Diggity. - [Dave] Looks good.

All's that's left is what?

- All the rest. - That's right.

And all the rest starts with tackling

the back part where the window lies.

Originally, these cars have a glass deflector,

which basically keeps the wind

flowing over the top of the passenger cabin.

We are going to use the same mounting points on that

to build a piece that seals to the top across the upholstery.

So now we need to machine the step

and the window recess.

So we're gonna actually receive some glass.

Programming each individual line into here,

and then I'll load up the, uh, piece on the table

and actually do a dry run.

Make sure it's what I want and then start cutting.

Looks pretty good.

Absolutely perfect.

Precision is one of my favorite parts about achieving this stuff.

It's fun.

Just being able to produce a part that didn't exist before.

Now that we've got all the parts built, it's the moment of truth.

We're going to fit them all together

and see how this thing really looks.

So we meet again.

We meet again.

Looks like you have some more parts for us.

Yeah, we got some stuff to play with.

So that's the-- That would be the back.

- That's what closes the back off. - Yeah.

So it replaces the current windbreaker.

- Okay. - And, uh...

allows for a sealing surface to the...

- [Kevin] To the car and the top. - Yeah.

So basically, when you get the top glued,

you'll have latches that basically...

engage into this

because this will be held down to the car through these, right?

Yes. It will basically have the same thing in the back.

- They're already glued on to the top. - Okay, okay.

This guy will go in the front.

I didn't want to glue him on yet

'cause I needed to know where the index is right here.

So that's going to be another goal today,

is getting positioned for this to index into that.

Let's see if it's short enough first.

Okay.

[Kevin] I think you're good.

- I think we're sitting pretty decently. - Okay.

[grunts]

2 [Kevin] All right.

Let's see what this story is telling us.

[Jordan] Looks pretty good to me.

The top's actually down on it pretty good.

So far, I'm really happy with everything.

Since I'm here. I can help Jordan get these latches on.

Where do you want me to hold? Here?

Yeah, they're kind of where my hands are.

So as long as I stay out of that area, we're good?

I'm not actually drilling through.

You're just gonna mark it.

I mean, I'll drill through,

but I'm not actually gonna hit your hand.

You might if it's in the way.

I can try pretty hard, but...

I'll still probably miss.

[whirring]

Turns out Clecos work for plastic too.

[whirring]

- Nice. - I have all my fingers.

So we're good.

Cool.

[Jordan] Yeah. Look how nifty that is.

Tech gears and all.

[Kevin] Hell yeah.

[Jordan] My part's all done with this.

Now it's up to them to bodywork it

and go for a fun test drive and hopefully it doesn't pop off.

After a lot of consideration from the math department

here at Kindig It Design,

we have realized that there is too much force

on this part for it just to be plastic.

So we're going to put one layer of carbon over the top

to strengthen the whole thing up.

After that, we're just gonna smooth it out with a little bodywork.

We're gonna get it on the car.

Hey, Brian, what's going on? How are you?

Good to see you, man. How you been?

Good to see you. I've been very well. How about you?

[Brian] Awesome. Wonderful.

My name is Brian.

My project is a 2008 Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster.

I commissioned and asked Dave

if he would take on this job of making

a custom hardtop for it.

Oh, I'm excited for you to see your car.

You want to go back and check it out?

Ah, that's what I'm here for. I'd love to.

- Come on, come on. - Always a pleasure to see you. But--

- Oh, thank you. - [Brian] Yeah for business.

[Dave chuckles]

If Lamborghini were to go back in time

and make a top for this vehicle,

what would it look like?

And my-- my goal would be

to hopefully have it look similar to that.

So I'm excited to see what they've done.

[Dave] Well, this is where we uh, keep her.

- Wow! - There's Kev doggy.

[Kevin] Hi. Glad that you came just when you did.

So we-- we've-- have the windscreen that engages.

So then this is the actual piece that hooks to the top

- Okay. - And of course, this will be

- see through not aluminum. - This is where the window goes.

- Yeah. - You can see that it has

receivers built into it.

Just slide into the existing

holes that you already have.

And then that will basically hook up to the top.

I can't wait to see it.

- Yeah. - Let's do it. Let me uh, we'll start on it

My goal is to see how it flows with the car.

Fit the car really well.

Not look out of place.

Uh, but do what we wanted it to do right?

Just be an ultimate solution.

Wow.

Yeah, the center line looks very similar to,

- like the Aventador. Yeah the Roadster. - [Dave] It does. Yeah.

- Exactly. - It looks great, guys.

[Brian] First impressions seen on the car, I was blown away.

I mean, it took so much time

into ensuring that all of the body lines

behind the passengers that are already in the engine lid

and the engine bay are followed through

very much into the hardtop itself.

And I was really impressed

with what they had come up with.

The engineering on this, too.

We figured out that the amount of pressure

at about 120 miles an hour is 600 pounds pulling up.

I'm gonna rate it,

conservatively at 115.

- Okay. - Wait a-- Wait a minute.

So you-- We just built a top, you don't do 150 miles in a Lamborghini?

Who's in charge here?

- [laughing] - Who is in charge here?

Look, I don't want the liability. That's all.

- Do you want to get in? - Sure.

- Yeah, be happy to. - Please jump on in.

The original top you couldn't go

over 100 miles an hour with

Um, so 115 seems fine to me.

Uh, you know, maybe if I have the top on, the weather is not that great.

So I probably shouldn't be going that fast anyways.

How does that feel? Pretty good.

Yeah, really, really good. It looks-- looks fantastic.

No, it looks-- I don't know if I would have

thought anything else would look better.

- I love the look. - Awesome.

Yeah, inside and out. It looks fantastic and finished.

- It'll just be that much better, so. - [Dave] Yeah, absolutely.

I was super happy what they came up with.

And it turned out great.

So I've been really excited and happy.

As the concept goes, what do you think?

I mean, it looks more than a concept to me.

It looks like it needs some paint.

And then I'll see it in my driveway here shortly.

- Right. [chuckles] - It looks wonderful.

I mean, if Lamborghini were to look back,

historically and said they could have done something different.

- This might be what they would have done. - Right.

- [chuckles] - All right. Well, thanks, guys.

- Appreciate it. Yeah, cool. - Oh, you very welcome.

Well, with Brian's thumbs up on this thing,

we're gonna go ahead and get the bodywork finished up, get it painted

and get it over to Justin for a headliner.

[spraying]

[rock music playing]

Here's the deal. You see this little notch right here.

- Are we starting from the beginning of that notch? - [Justin] Yeah.

- [man] Okay. - [Justin] All the way across?

Everything else looks pretty good.

- And I want these rounded. Not so V'ed up - Okay,

More like this one here.

Mmm hmm.

Alcantara black. Alcantara, which we have under the bench.

So, yeah, just start dialing them in just like this.

And then once we get it dialed in,

what are we hitting it with?

Nothing. We're gonna wrap it.

It's all foam back.

- [man] Are we doubling up on this? - Nope.

- No. No way. - Also, it's-- It's foam back out.

[Justin] Yeah. We double this up,

- we're not gonna get that curvature we want. - [man] Okay?

[Justin] Because we're gluing all this in.

- That's it. - [man] Okay.

[rock music playing]

2 You know the top is finished, and I got to say,

I think we actually pulled it off.

Nice.

It's factory fit, baby.

[Kevin] Easy peasy.

[Dave] Should probably take it for a ride.

Make sure it doesn't whistle.

[Kevin] Oh, we'd be done, if we didn't?

[Dave chuckles]

I'm gonna go grab my wallet.

It's got my driver's license

so I can get a speeding ticket.

- [Kevin laughs] - [Dave] Just did.

Design wise and quality wise we're a 100%.

But I have no idea how it actually performs.

We'll probably take a hot lap around the block.

You're driving a Lamborghini to go fast, look cool

like these chicks right here.

What's up, girl?

Those are-- Those are guys, Dave.

- They got pretty hair. Sorry. - [laughing]

Really solid.

I don't feel any air coming in anywhere.

I think it's good.

This is a huge area that people may not understand.

- That just takes a beating from the wind. - Oh, yeah.

[Kevin] You really have to have this top dialed.

And you know, the guy just knocked it out of the park on this.

[Dave] Yup. Absolutely.

Design accomplishment and road test checked off.

This car is ready to ship.

Ferruccio.

I think old Ferruccio would be pretty happy with this.

I think so.

[Kevin] Another bitchin' top.

2 [Jordan] Since we have two bodies

that we're modeling this thing after,

we need one coherent thing

to set all the sheet metal upon.

[Greg] So I've got all these pieces and these are the buck,

the structure so we can take these panels

that Jordan has already shaped,

and this thing will give us access

so that we can weld them and hammer

and dolly all the welds.

I think there's like 250 bolts for the whole thing.

[imperceptible]

[Jordan] Do you want to stand it up?

And then I'll grab a piece or what?

[Greg] Yeah, let's get this thing upright.

Everything's loose right now so we can get it all fit.

[Jordan] Greg was able to scan the front half of one car

and the back half of the other car

and the computer, integrated him into one,

and then he built a wire form, essentially.

It's like a two inch tall

steel plate grid of the whole car.

[Greg] Yeah, it's rewarding to find the piece that goes to the right spot,

especially when you feel like

you should know it because you made it.

[Jordan] People do things similar to this.

Usually you'd see like a wooden buck

where you have this kind of lattice,

but every six inches it's a super awesome tool.

Benefit of this versus a wooden bucket

is its hollow, so you can actually get inside of it.

Going around, tacking every joint so,

kind of locks it in loosely

and then we have some cross straps

to kind of make sure it's totally square.

Once we have that and we can tighten up all the bolts,

and feels pretty good about it being the actual

shape that it needs to be.

I'm hoping that I can get the body done before I die.

Yeah.

Any time in between to be a bonus.

[Greg] I don't know. How long does it usually take someone

to build a body from scratch.

[Jordan] I don't know. I've never done it.

[Greg] Oh, yeah.

[Jordan] We just got done building this kind

of wire frame buck sort of thing.

[Greg] Jordan got the pieces

and all shaped so,

this is the next step to making those pieces made together.

So far it's-- looks pretty cool.

[chuckles]

It's exciting to see it at that point, you know.

One of the more challenging parts of this car is being a Ridler

things have to be perfect.

So far today, I've been trying to get all these gaps,

lined up perfectly,

trimming the pieces in.

I had the one side sitting really nice,

everything trimmed in really well.

The other side I got it all fitting.

But everything was overlapping because I wasn't sure.

It's hard to know exactly how much you need to trim off

until everything is kind of jiving together.

So now we're coming back and trimming everything in.

Getting all the gaps

absolutely dialed is one of the most critical things.

And especially where the sheet metal lines up

from door edge to fender

or rear cord or something

that has to be absolutely dead nuts.

So it seems, if you follow this contour,

it feels a little bulbous right here.

But it could be that this is just

shrink a little bit too much.

You might need to come back and stretch these edges

just a little bit to get them to-- to come back up

and meet together.

If it's off a little bit, you have to build it up with Bondo

and you're gonna see that on the door edge when it's open.

And it's-- gonna start to look like a fiberglass car

and it'll look really bad.

On the other side, I trimmed it on that line,

since it's in a valley there.

Once it was trimmed and sitting down all the way,

I ended up with a little bit of a gap.

So I'm gonna try to trim it a bit fat.

2 [Jordan] On that line, since it's in a valley there.

Once-- Once it was trimmed and sitting down all the way,

I ended up with a little bit of a gap.

So I'm going to try to trim it a bit fat.

Let's uh...

slap it up there and see.

The better you can get it to lay down

where you're not forcing it into position.

The better it's going to weld together

and stay in position afterwards.

I think this one's sitting pretty good where i like it.

Doesn't feel like there's a gap or anything.

[Jordan] So this is where we're at.

We've got all the panels fitting really nice.

I've got them all trimmed in.

The excess overlaps cut out,

and they're all fitting really well to each other.

Cut the window out yesterday.

Just starting to tip the edges over.

To create a flange for that.

Tipping these edges can be a little bit tricky.

I mean, you're going into an edge that you can't see,

and you're hoping that it's touching everywhere.

Perfectly, you know?

So you gotta-- You've got to kind of rock it around.

And just to make sure it's as flat as it can be.

Another benefit of tipping the metal

when you're doing a flange

is you don't want to weld right on the edge

of a piece of sheet metal.

So you can build like the top section.

Then the side section, welded together.

And then you're welding it on the corner,

and it's very hard to stretch the corner section back out.

It's much easier to tip the edge

and create a flange right there

that you can actually shrink and stretch along that flange.

[thuds]

Now I'm gonna kind of persuade it to tip up a little bit

by putting pressure on this as it goes through.

Thank you.

Okay, now we can go and stretch this edge

and help persuaded the tip down.

This machine just smashes metal.

If you have the right dyes in it,

it's usually going to stretch,

but if you have like, the thumbnail dyes in it,

you can work it like, like the full max

with some nail dyes and shrink the metal,

but it's a really noisy machine.

I don't-- I don't prefer it for most things,

That's probably good enough.

And then even if that flange gets welded

to another section of sheet metal,

then you have a flat spot that you've welded.

And now it's easier to get a hammer and dolly in there.

And plan the sheet back out to what you need it to be.

[Dave] Wow! This is looking really good.

You got all of the roof tipped in now?

All the roof is pretty much tipped in

as far as I can until

we get it on something else.

Otherwise, if I go further,

it's just-- it's going to capture. I can't take it off.

- [Dave] Oh, you won't be able to pull it off of the plug. - [Jordan] Yeah. Yeha.

Of course. Man, that looks killer.

- Jordan, it looks so good. - [Jordan] Getting there.

So good. So what do you got left?

So I wanted to talk to you

- about the wheel opening and the rear. - Okay.

Your drawings kind of have it going back like this.

I was wondering if we want it more sweet.

To match the front a little more. Or what--

What exactly we're after?

So the front does have a lot more sweep.

It's a little bit more of a longer the angle.

I think the back one needs to be stumped up a little bit

because of the diameter of the wheel

and the fact that the back wheel is bigger.

We're gonna have that wheel well open a little bit higher.

Not as much as the front,

but let's take a look here.

[Jordan] So I did a little bit more

a longer sweep right there but--

- [Dave] Yeah, that's too far. - [Jordan] Yeah.

Go right there.

And split the difference.

Come back towards me.

Your measurement from here to there,

Something just looks out of place here.

Centerline of the wheel is

right here in the tubs where I can see it.

Am I seeing something different?

Um...

[Will] Where I'm at now is I've got a really good shell for the floor

and we need to get it out of the computer.

And turn it into a real piece.

[man] We're definitely pressed for time at this point.

[Will] I stretched it through here,

and then I'm gonna shrink this.

It's gonna take a while.

[man] Aluminum, you want to weld it on AC for this stuff fairly thin.

You want to be careful not to put too much heat into it.

There's going to be a little bit of massaging

to get it to fit that perfectly.

[Eric] We don't really know what we're looking at yet.

It was built in the computer

so technically, it should go together.

But in real life it's a little different.

- [man 1] Okay. Ready? - [Eric] Yup.

[man 1] What is this thing?

[man 2] They haven't showed you what it goes to.

I thought it was gonna be a stegosaurus when we were done but...

[man 2] You know what it is, Dude.

[man 1] Make it look all pretty

- and then it's gonna get buried - [man 2] Right.

That's gonna be cool.

[man] They fit great in the computer.

I don't know what happened.

[Will] It seems like everything I get into these days,

everything is a challenge for me.