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It's a pile of doo-doo!

We're gonna build an electric car, man.

I've never built an electric car before.

This is my first time.

The reason we despise this car is it's electric.

It's boring.

We're gonna destroy this car because we

like to break stuff.

We're going to go drive it.

Just quit being a wussy.

You feel invincible when you're driving a car like that.

I want this thing to look creepy like it's

got problems anyway.

God, I hope this guy likes this thing!

There it is!

Oh my god!

I'm Steve Darnell and I live in Sin City.

Me and my crew build one of a kind, bad ass cars

out of scrap and crap we find everywhere.

We call'em rat rods.

Don't know what a rat rod is?

Check this out...

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Oh sh�t, what's Twiggy doing down there?

She's over in Chuck Land.

Twiggy...you probably shouldn't be down here.

Why not?

This is Chuck Land.

This is my dad's area.

Really?

Yeah, he don't want nobody in here.

So me and my Dad, we share a shop together.

One side's his and one side's mine.

I call his side Chuck Land.

No one goes down there.

You don't want to be caught down there.

You stay out of that area because his cars are not

to be touched.

Chuck's side of the shop is Chuck's side of the shop.

As far as the shop goes, this is a big shop.

This is 20,000 square feet.

Chuck's sh�t only.

On the other side of the orange line otherwise

known as Chuck's world.

He's got a bunch of Chevelle's, '55 Chevy's.

I mean this guy has got some really,

really clean cars.

His 1965 GTO.

It's got a 421 in it.

He was very poor, you know,

he came from nothing.

Just a hard working man and these are the things

he's got left to show for what he's done in his life.

I want to smell it but I don't want to touch it.

Yeah, all you're gonna smell is old gas cause he

don't drive these things.

I have never taken one of my dad's cars.

Never.

My entire life I've been living in fear of

scratching or bumping or touching,

one of these cars.

You know what?

I'm gonna drive 'em.

I'm gonna drive 'em.

You are?

I'm gonna.

I'm gonna sneak one out.

Dude, you're not really gonna take your dad's car

are you?

You can't.

I don't know, I might.

Dude, there's no way in a cold hell I'm getting

involved in this.

Uncle Chuck is seriously like, the guy in the 50's

with the cuffed jeans and the cool hair with flat

top with wings that beat people up.

You know his little key case that looks like a

little phony gun case?

Yeah.

Why don't you come down and steal them for me?

We'll just take it around the block.

It's not that big a deal.

His name is Uncle Chuck, beat you up.

If you're not careful, he'll beat you up.

We're going to my house to meet Dave.

He's got a client, Jonathan Mills over there

right now.

Go over and see if we can make a deal on this car.

What kind of car is it?

It's a 1928 Buick.

Jonathan's from out of town.

He's from California.

Came out to talk about this vehicle he wants to

build for a promotional thing for his business.

We're gonna have it delivered.

It's in California somewhere.

I've only seen pictures of it so...

Definitely different.

It'll be cool.

Sometimes I like to come out here and meet up with

people cause it's peaceful.

It's just away from the shop.

It puts me in a different frame of mind.

Hey, what's up?

Jonathan, Steve.

What's up dude?

Nice to meet you man, finally.

I first heard about Steve through the hot rod and

rat rod community and I just thought "this guy

makes some bad ass stuff!"

I wanted to come meet you out here about the

deal on that car.

What kind of idea you were talking about.

It's a '28 Buick.

It's rusted to all hell.

The wood's been eaten out by termites.

It's in dismal condition.

So 1928 was a big year for Buicks.

Mobsters loved these cars.

They used them during prohibition to run alcohol

from city to city.

I sent you the pictures.

What do you think?

You think you can pull it off?

The problem with the Buick's is they got wood.

When you find an old Buick, often times they're

just collapsed.

Quarter panels, roofs, everything fall apart.

That's because of the wooden structure.

I bought that car three years ago and it's just

been sitting out there and

- There's a lot of things

about them that are rough, but you know what?

Bring it on.

I mean, that's why I'm here, man.

Let's do this.

I'm really happy to be bringing this '20's car

back to life.

This Buick is really bitching looking.

Gangsters, mobsters...I hope Jonathan's thinking

the same way I am.

I kind of want to go with the electric theme.

Electric engine maybe?

I've never built an electric car before.

This is my first time.

My father-in-law, Larry Goodman, and I developed

an electronic parking brake and I thought that

was the perfect opportunity to build an

electric car.

The next question is, how much do you think

it's gonna cost?

Budget wise, I think you're gonna be up around

35 grand to get the car completely done up,

you know what I mean?

The right way.

I'd be happy...15, 16.

I don't want to break your balls or anything because

I know there's a lot that has to go into this.

The problem is with a 15 or 16 thousand dollar car

that's exactly what you're going to get.

I mean, you are representing your

business, I want to give you a good product.

Of course.

And when you roll it in to SEMA or some of these big

shows that you're going to represent your company

with, you're going to be damn proud of this car and

it's gonna make you money.

Believe me.

SEMA's the biggest car show basically in the world.

That's where I'm going to take this thing first and

be able to show everybody in the hot rod community

exactly what we built here and showcase the

electronic parking brake in the coolest

way possible.

I'll do it for 29 grand.

That's the cheapest I can go.

Are you sure?

That's no cushion man.

You got to think there's thousands of parts.

That 12 to 15 is just electric motor and batteries.

I mean there's 4 thousand dollars in batteries.

I got some Duracells in the back of my car.

That won't start it up.

So let's just do 29 and believe me, you'll be

happy with what you get.

That's parts and labour.

It's gonna be a tight build and Steve was

reluctant to do it for 29 thousand.

It was definitely a fair price.

An electric vehicle.

Just getting the motor and the batteries is going to

be expensive.

Not to mention the labour that goes into converting

a '28 Buick to an electric car.

Okay, we got to go.

All we can do is wait for it to show up and land in

the yard and see what's going to go on with it and

tear this thing down and see how bad it is.

So we went and got the car at the rail yard,

picked it up.

Loaded on the big truck, hauled it in here.

It's a pile of doo-doo!

Pile of doo-doo!

It's kind of like a friend sends you a picture of a

girl on your camera phone, it always looks better and

then when she shows up on the date, are you kidding me?

I didn't think it was supposed to be that bad.

It's supposed to be in a lot better shape.

I don't know where it came from.

As far as I'm concerned, they could've taken it right back.

This car was in really bad shape.

Uh, well listen, it is a little rougher

than I thought.

And the bad thing about a Buick is they got a lot of

wood in them.

We're gonna polish this turd.

We're going to polish this turd and I don't care how

long it takes us to do it.

Can't we just scrap it?

Come on, gather 'round!

Everybody gather around.

We got a little project today.

Okay, we're gonna build an electric car, man.

This is gonna be fully electric.

This guy wants to make it electric.

You know anything about electric?

Hell no.

You?

I do.

Yeah, it runs your house, not a car.

When I first walk in and I tell them what I'm doing,

they're like, really dude?

We don't know nothing about this stuff.

This is a pain in the butt.

I hate electricity because you're never see it coming

and uh...here we go.

We've got to build one!

He wants to use this car as a marketing tool for

his business.

He's got a locking device that locks the brakes up

for safety and for anti-theft.

It'll be fun.

You guys got to get excited.

It's as far away as you can get from a hot rod.

You need to start thinking about a not-cool fee.

This one's gonna be electric, and we're gonna

build it and it's gonna be cooler than sh�t.

I don't want it to be like a complete politically

correct green car like everybody on the planet

would expect.

This is gonna be something totally unexpected.

It's electric.

It's boring.

Big pile of rubbish.

If there's a problem with the car, it's gonna be a

bitch to find parts for thing.

It's gonna be a bitch, period.

There's parts out there but they're really,

really expensive.

You still have to use parts and make it fit to

this vehicle.

Everything costs money.

There's nothing for free in this car.

Anyway, I'm trying to stay positive.

Dave's trying to keep negative.

So let's just work together and make this

sh�t happen.

Hey, positive, negative...

That's right.

Yeah!

Always thinking ahead.

Alright, let's go.

Alright, let's do it.

Let's tear this sh�t apart.

I'm sure Steve has a mad idea for it.

Which, knowing Steve, it'll probably, actually

be pretty cool.

But any electric car is completely out of any of

our realm.

Let's get some of this crap out of here.

That's all you.

Fricking--- It's good, we're good.

It's good.

The theme for this car is a Frankenstein.

I want it to look scary like it would zap you and

electrocute you.

I need to rip out the floors, find a place for

all these batteries and figure out how the hell

I'm going to put an electric motor

to a 1928 transmission.

It looks like this thing need Viagara it's

lost so much wood.

(laughing)

It's a tight budget.

We have to knock this thing out in ten days,

no more.

I think with Steve and his creativity on this car

it's gonna be a little bit taxed but this car may

push him over the edge.

Jonathan Mill brought me a 1928 Buick.

He wants to turn it into an electric car to

showcase his company called E-stop.

But this car's in really rough shape and I don't

know if we're going to get it done.

We've got twenty nine thousand dollars and

ten days to do it.

I'll be shocked if we pull this off.

Okay, so we gotta put a floor in this thing.

It's all rotted out.

These are all wood.

The termites have just eaten the crap out of this thing.

They do not make a wood kit for it.

The guy said that he can do it custom,

but he has to have the body.

And that's at least three or four weeks.

Oh, yeah, we don't got - we gotta build the car in,

you know, ten days.

Let's just take out all that wood.

We'll put in some metal bracing in place of it.

I really, really wanna make sure that I get to

take the wood out of this thing, if that's alright.

You WANT to?

You know how many termites are in this thing?

I'd like to get the termites out.

Um, and then we could inter, I could introduce

them back into another wood-framed car.

(laughs) No, just, come on, dude.

If somebody came in here and tore this whole shop

up that we had built up - What are you gonna do?

Take me and put me in another shop?

Listen, guys, I - I ripped the wood out,

poured gasoline all over the wood, and burn it.

Burn it.

Campfire!

Campfire!

So I'm looking for some crazy lights for this car

and I know a great place to go...Bucks.

So, what can you guys tell me about Buck?

Uncle Buck.

(chuckles) Don't get offended.

He's crude.

This is not a place that you can knock on his gate

and he's gonna warm-welcome you in here.

I mean, there's a good chance you might get shot.

So, I feel kind of special that we could get in here,

actually.

What did I do to deserve this today?

I've known Buck for probably 30 years.

Uh, actually, he used to be an old neighbour.

What'd you say your name was, there sweetie?

I didn't.

Uncle Buck.

I'm Twiggy.

We love Uncle Buck.

What's new?

What's new?

What'd ya got?

I ain't got nothing new.

Same junk.

I need some lights.

What kind of lights?

I don't know.

Just creepy lights.

You got anything creepy?

Uncle 's yard is a redneck's junkyard

with an agenda.

There's so many beautiful cars here that I don't

even know what to say.

I've been here at least 20, 30 times, and it seems

like every time I come here,

I find something new.

There's always surprises hidden over here.

Some gauges.

Well, look at that?

Is it a siren?

Strobe light or something?

Look at that light in there.

The actual fuse in there.

The light, I just think we can incorporate it because

it's kind of got like that prison flash light thing

going on?

Steve, I found a sign.

Oh, no way.

Yeah, it's pretty cool, eh?

It's bent a little bit.

Dude, I kind of like 'em rough.

Came across this Pegasus sign.

I mean, these, you don't come across.

These are super-rare.

People that have 'em don't get rid of 'em.

Hey man, I'm telling you what.

I'm taking that today.

I don't care what he wants for it.

I'm gonna try to buy it for a couple hundred bucks.

Hey Steve.

Are you kidding?

Don't even go there.

I found a trunk that I think will work really

good on the Buick.

I think it's just gonna seal off the deal on the

back end of the car.

This'll just give it that little bit more of a

creepier, kind of old look.

I'm really digging that.

Yeah, let's put this in the pile.

I want this, and I want that sign, and that light.

The trunk?

You can't afford the trunk!

Yeah, I can.

That trunk's gotta go with me today.

I need that trunk, Buck.

The thing about Buck is, you gotta hit him low,

'cause he's gonna always hit you, like,

completely ridiculously high.

Thousand Bucks, man.

Thousand - are you - you're, you're - For that?

Yeah, you're crazy.

There's no way that trunk's worth a thousand

Bucks on its best day.

I will give you three hundred dollars.

Three hundred Bucks, and then I'll give ya 250 for this,

and 50 Bucks for the light.

They just come here, they take sh�t out of my yard.

But, I, damn near raised these son of a bitches!

They might as well be my sons.

Kiss my ass.

Let's get out of here.

We gotta go.

Have a nice day, boys!

Don't come back!

These old cars, the GM cars,

had a lot of internal wood.

The doors, the door frames, everything was

based on wood.

These cars, back in the 20s, came with wooden

spoke wheels, so that tells you how close to a

wagon they were.

This car has a lot of termite damage.

Let me show you.

So this is the wood that came out of the interior

of the car.

You can see this is fully rotted.

Structurally, it's no good, and you can see by

this - This is actually part of the floor.

The E-stop is an electronic emergency brake.

So this is our parking brake.

So here's the mechanical part of it.

Put her in park.

Boop!

Press the button.

Going nowhere.

These guys, you guys smashed a lot of them.

But I think that we got enough males

and females in here that

- You gonna touch 'em?

They only eat wood.

They look like maggots.

Dude, that's gross.

Get 'em out of here.

I'm done with them.

I'm done.

Twiggy and I started stripping the body.

The doors, the metal looks really good and it comes

down to bare metal really quickly, but the rest of

the car, the metal's in really poor shape.

So this is taking way longer than we thought.

Way longer.

Those things aren't working cause it's

clogging up every sander that there is.

You know, it's got a good scale on there,

it just will not come off.

So now we've ruined a hundred dollar worth of

f�cking grinding disks trying to fix it.

Normally I don't take rust off sh�t but because the

doors were already primered on this thing

I had to make it all look the same.

It's just too expensive.

It's taking too much time.

Well this is going to take forever and we're already

a day into this sh�t and we got this much done.

We're over here dilly dallying around.

It's going nowhere.

Well this is going to take forever and we're already

a day into this sh�t and we got this much done.

It took a full day to strip down this Buick and

we're already behind.

I'm over all the sanding and grinding on this car.

It's time to get busy on this thing.

Let's scuff it, and paint it and be done with it.

Listen, let's just clean it up a bit and let's just

shoot some paint on it.

Almost like a frigging, implement paint you shoot

a tractor with.

That'll look good.

I like that.

We don't want this car to be super consistent on the

paint anyway.

I want this car to look creepy like it's got

problems anyway.

I'm a painter by trade and typically what we'd do on

this car is we'd sand it down, do the body work,

put some high billed primer on there.

This car's a little bit different.

We realized after a couple hours of sanding, doing

different parts that it wasn't going to go any

further so we ended up painting the car.

What we're gonna do now is come back with a bunch of

highlights and details.

You know, it's not gonna be perfect.

We don't want it to look perfect.

We want the car to look aged.

I'm gonna highlight some of the body lines now,

so it more or less looks, makes it look like it's

older than what it is.

We looked around for batteries,

electric motors, controllers.

How much?

Are you kidding me?

For a battery?

Damn, dude.

It was gonna be so much money, it was actually

cheaper to go out and buy a donor car.

Okay, so let's get going on this electric car today.

I wanna get uh, start getting some measurements

for the interior.

We need to get that electric car here right

away, so can start tearing into it.

They have an electric car club here, so they have

several people here in town that have electric cars.

I got a lead on a car.

It's a whole moving, working, full-blown

electric car, and it's already, you know,

it's conversion.

It's the same kit we were gonna buy.

We have the cables are already cut.

Everything's ready to go.

It's gonna save us a ton of time anyway.

I sent out this morning to get us this electric car.

He went down, got it, made a deal on it.

Unfortunately, like I thought,

something would happen.

(into phone) I'll come get ya.

I'll be there in a minute.

Sure enough, he runs out of battery about, dude,

about a block from the shop.

It's not that far.

I'll just push it home.

You're just gonna push me?

Went and got him at the Big Diamond T.

Rolled back in here.

The car's little.

I didn't even see it.

I thought I was gonna run it over when I started

pushing him.

And I don't even wanna tell about it, 'cause 's

already torqued off because we're gonna

actually going to build an electric car.

What's that, a little love tap?

I would've hit you way harder.

So I found a small car here that's been converted

from gas to electric.

It's got all the same components that we need to

use for this kit.

Gut it out and we're good to go.

Well, there she is, Dave.

That thing's cool, man.

Yeah, it's your new company car.

Let's get it in there and tear it down and get the

motor jerked out of it.

If we did not have the donor car, the electric

motor and the batteries and everything else could

top sixteen thousand dollars.

And we saved a lot of money.

We got the donor car for about ninety-five hundred,

so it really saved a lot of money.

Helped out on the build.

What's happening over here, boys?

I don't know.

Do we know what we're doing?

No.

(laughs)

We're gonna take an electric motor and

adapt it to a transmission that's 80 years old.

That's crazy.

So we opened the donor's car's hood.

It was a rats' nest.

There was motors, controllers, switches -

Dude, I hate wiring.

I hate wiring.

That's like my worst.

What is this?

Here's the flux capacitor.

I don't know nothing about that.

We got an electric car with a bunch of wires,

bunch of batteries, big motor and I have no clue

what I'm doing.

Well, we gotta wire the other one.

Are you marking everything?

No.

Do you want me to mark stuff?

Yeah, we need to mark it all, so we know how to put

it back together.

Dan. Stepped back.

He went through wire by wire, diagrams, trying to

figure out how to make this thing work.

And has a big job of trying to put all this

stuff back together.

I think everything's unhooked.

Ready to drop the motor out of it?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

Get it over to the um chassis and see if we can

start putting it in.

Electric motor as opposed to a gas motor does

basically the same thing.

It spins the transmission, drives the wheels.

It does the same thing.

Hey man.

Dude, what are you doing?

Well, I, what I'm doing is I'm separating the males -

You've gotta be kidding.

- from the females.

This is, dude, are you serious?

Come on.

Let's burn this sh�t.

Give me this crap, dude.

'Cause I know there's some in here.

No, dude.

Ha ha!

See ya!

Die, termites!

Die!

Ahh!

Ahh!

(laughs)

We're hooking them up, negative to

positive, negative to positive, which stacks the

voltage, giving it a hundred and twenty volts DC.

There's tons of voltage there, I mean there's

enough to kill ya.

I mean, it's really nothing to mess around with.

Dan.

Yah brother.

What's the side that was negative?

Really?

We got the batteries for part of the deal, and if

we would have to go out and buy the batteries,

batteries by themselves would be about 4500

dollars, give or take.

Steven...

Ts-ts-ts-ts-ts.

That's my boy.

I have a bad feeling about this.

Are you sure?

The fuel sitting in the carburetors are just old

and nasty.

The thing needs to be drove tonight.

Just let me see those keys one more time.

Why?

Just think through it one more time.

This is your last go.

Do you....

Ok, I've thought about it.

We're going to go drive it, just quit being a wussy.

Meet me back here at 7 o'clock tonight,

we're going cruising.

I think I'm gonna take it down the strip.

Go cruise Fremont.

I'm gonna go cruising like you used to go cruising.

You know, what the hell, why not?

Like, you feel like a million dollars.

Like, you feel invincible when you're driving a car

like that.

So I mean, like, we're super-rowdy, and like

we're ready to party.

This will be the time of our lives.

And it may be the last time of our lives once

Uncle Chuck finds out.

What the hell?

What's the worst that can happen?

If you were to drag-race this car...

It feels really good.

Does it?

When you come to Vegas, what happens in Vegas

stays in Vegas.

If you're gonna steal a car, you do it in Vegas.

It's overheatin'.

This wasn't a good idea.

It's overheating.

This wasn't a good idea.

It started getting hot.

I could see the check engine light came on.

And these don't have a, it's just an idiot gauge.

Soon as it gets warm, the red light comes on.

You don't really know how hot it is,

so it's like a mystery.

I mean, I had a heating issue, and I mean,

there's no way I'm gonna drive that car hot,

you know what I mean?

That motor and that car is, you know,

his prized possession.

You know, it's a 421, uh, with a six-pack.

I'd hate to get it hot and ruin it.

When the car broke down, was furious and terrified.

Cool it down.

See if it sucks back through.

The thermostat's stuck on the car.

There was no water being transferred

through the motor.

Hopefully, Chuck doesn't find out that stole,

borrowed his car, 'cause if he does,

it's game over, man.

It's circulating.

Grab all this sh�t and get it cleaned up

so we can get it going.

I think the thermostat was stuck, and it wasn't

flowing, so I just took the thermostat out,

and it's flowing now.

I mean, it's, it'll make it through the night,

for sure.

Hey guys, let's go!

Let's have a little meeting real quick.

Go over this car.

So just to be clear, nobody seen me driving my

dad's car last night.

Nope.

Nope.

You know he's gonna find out.

It smells like antifreeze.

If anything happens, blame it on Dave.

'Cause he's the one that stole the keys.

Alright, let's get to work.

Alright.

Go.

You know, we got the build coming to an end, but we

still have a lot of work to do.

The biggest thing is the interior.

I don't know what we're doing.

I mean, we're kind of really tight on money,

so we gotta figure out what we're doing.

What's happening?

What's going on?

Well, we need to come up with an idea for the

interior on this car, 'cause he's saying that

we're out of money - We're tight.

We're really tight on money.

I was expecting to pay a couple thousand dollars to

get the interior done.

You're just gonna have to roll with me.

Okay.

I don't wanna ruin the surprise.

We're at the Mob Museum here in downtown

Las Vegas, basically trying to get some inspiration.

This whole town was built on the mafia,

you know what I mean?

It's cool that they actually put a museum in

that we can go and enjoy, and like really see how it was.

Wouldn't that be cool to have that hanging on the wall?

Next thing I know, and ar geeking out.

They're looking at the electric chair.

-Dave -Yeah.

Come here.

Why?

'Cause I wanna see how comfortable this chair is.

When I have something in my head, I wanna take

somebody and try to put 'em where I'm at so they

can get into it as I am.

Put your arm there.

Will that tighten down?

I think he's good.

He's good.

It's kind of big.

We're not gonna make them that big, though.

So we're gonna put electric chairs in this

car and we're going to build them ourselves and

it's going to save us some money and where else are

you going to find them anyway?

Let's go to lunch.

Hey! Come back!

Guys!

The theme of this car is just frickin' awesome.

And it's been really fun, actually.

Hold me up over here.

They're just plugging away, going for the build.

We got a deadline we gotta get.

What's going on?

Are we gonna get this sh�t done today, or what?

I'll get it done.

Dude, seriously?

We have two days.

And you, your mellowness scares me a little.

'Cause you're like so like Dude, don't worry about it.

It's all gonna be okay.

Anyway, alright, well listen.

Get the chairs going, and let's get this padded

thing done today, okay?

No sewing circle.

The theme of the car now just went way off the charts.

From the original design, I think it's gonna be

pretty badass, to be honest with ya.

Sh�t, my dad's here.

This is not good.

He's got the cover off the car.

I kind of feel bad.

'Cause I've, you know, I've always respected

my dad and been super, uh, super-scared of

disappointing him my whole life, you know?

Steve!

Come here a minute.

I think he knows I took the car out last night.

I think he can read it on me since I was a little kid.

So that's one thing I've never been good at,

is lying to my Dad.

What's up Dad?

There's water here underneath.

Never had a leak before.

You know what happened?

Do you want lie or do you want the truth?

Well, I need to know the truth.

I drove it.

You drove it where?

I drove it down the strip.

Downtown.

Yeah, I got busted on driving the GTO.

I mean, I really did.

Well, why does it have a leak?

Cause it overheated.

And...

The thermostat got stuck.

So I had to pull the thermostat out.

What'd you put in it?

Water.

You can't put water in this.

Any of these others but this one.

You can't put water in it.

It's got a special coolant.

Water ruins it.

Well what kind of coolant do you need in this one?

Well, it's a waterless coolant.

A cup of water will ruin it.

Well, let's hope I didn't ruin it.

You're lucky you even made it back with it you know.

I hope there's no damage.

Well that's, I'm sorry I didn't meant to...

I just took it and drove it because, I wanted to.

If you let me know I would have told you not to take

it and take one of the others.

Kind of pisses me off.

I knew you'd be pissed.

I don't come take your cars do I?

No.

Ok.

I don't think you'd want to take my cars though.

I wouldn't but that's why I have these.

I'll come drain it all out.

I'll make it all right.

Sorry for taking it.

I feel bad.

I felt horrible the whole time I was driving it for...

well I didn't feel horrible the whole time

but when it broke down I did.

Other than that I had a great time.

I actually runs pretty good.

If you didn't know.

Cause you don't drive it that much so I just didn't

know if you knew how good it ran.

Thank you for helping me out on that.

I thought he'd be way worse.

I think he's getting to the age where he thinks

it's kind of cool if I drive the car,

you know what I mean?

Like, 'cause, I think it's like a gift, you know?

Like, he feels proud to be able to let me do that.

I guess I won't punch him out.

(laughs)

We're at the point where we're going to start to uh

to marry the the body down, and get it all

bolted down, put the rubber under it.

This is a cool power switch that we scored

that's actually gonna go on the outside

of the vehicle.

This one actually I'm gonna incorporate

into the dash.

McKay made these and there are, they are part of the

headpiece that actually will go behind the

electric chairs.

These are very expensive gloves.

I put in this fantastic blue mould builder to form

a hand that is see-through and awesome.

It's alive!

So creepy, dude.

Secret handshakes.

It's a major problem.

The way that those old cars were designed,

they were all cast metal. The axel on the car,

it's ripped out where the key way actually turns the

wheel to make the car drive and it's just a

really bad spot for it to break.

The internal hub's stripped down on this thing.

Chunked out, broke a big hunk of cast out of it.

It drives the whole car.

This is the whole rear end, basically.

The rear shaft comes out in this key way right here

is the only thing that turns the car, and the key

way's starting to rip out, so.

We're kinda screwed.

Kinda screwed without it.

Jonathan Mill brought me an 1928 Buick.

He wants to turn into an electric car to showcase

his company called E-Stop.

The brake's installed, the floor's reinforced and

we've given this thing a creepy cool paint job,

but with just a day left before the reveal,

we've run into all kinds of problems.

It's a major problem.

The internal hub's stripped down on this thing.

It drives the whole car.

This is the whole rear end, basically.

The rear shaft comes out in this key way right here

is the only thing that turns the car,

and the key way's starting to rip out, so...

We're kinda screwed.

The hub on the wheel basically was broken.

I'm going to make a piece that fits down in there

and then I'm going to go in there and back it up

with a bunch of mig-weld and wire and feed it in

there, pre-heat it so it goes in good.

Getting hot in there yet?

That's hot as frig!

Oh yeah, that's good.

Oh ya, that's good.

Oh, that's why it's hot.

Straighten it out a little.

Steve did an awesome job of welding it up.

Got it on there and fixed it.

There are no parts for this car anywhere,

and I think we overcame it pretty well.

We're painting the actual motor, believe it or not.

We're so used to having a big horsepower

gasoline engine.

This is the actual electric motor.

These are panels.

The inspiration for this interior is an insane

asylum padded cell.

We're finishing up our electric chairs.

Add some gauges to it, electrical wires.

I'm pretty sure that when you put those chairs in,

it's gonna be electrifying.

Dan just got the e-stop wired up and pressed the button

and uh, that's the emergency brake,

the little electronic one.

Turn that wheel.

That's pretty strong.

Pulls pretty hard.

That's tight now.

It's really tight.

He-he, that's cool!

It's really tight.

It works.

Works great.

Really good, actually.

Well, the shop forman's over here yelling at us

because he needs a welder.

Cause he ain't doing nothing but bull crapping.

Hey, I'm working motherf�cker,

I ain't talking no sh�t.

Stress levels up and down.

Everybody reacts to stress differently.

I wanna do bad, bad things to the donor car.

The donor car's gonna get smashed.

If we make it, if we make it's idea

- Then it's okay.

For sure.

Yeah, and then it's okay.

He should let all of us in the shop smash it.

Tensions are mounting in the shop right now.

We're on deadline to get this done, so.

Yeah, I'm ready.

I wanna smash something.

Kill it, kill it Justin.

Kill it!

After Steve hit, hit it coming in,

I knew it was on.

I knew we were gonna destroy it.

Yeah!

Oh!

We're gonna destroy this car 'cause we like

to break stuff.

that brings joy to our lives.

It always feels good to destroy one.

Arrgh!

Watch out!

This car was so hard for me getting parts on it.

I'm taking it out on that car.

I just wanna smash it.

The reason we despise this car is it's electric.

It's boring.

I need to find some more sh�t.

I'm running out of, I'm running out of crap, dude.

I gotta go out and look for something.

There's a little bit of stuff right here.

I don't need those, though.

I'm trying to find electrical components.

Dave, Twiggy let's go!

I'm looking for, like, some cool gauges.

I need a few more for this car, and I'm running out.

I had some, but we're using them all up.

I mean, it's just, this thing's gonna be decorated.

It's gonna be great.

So, I'm going picking at the swap shops today!

Oh, my God.

Okay, so listen, think electric.

We need electric stuff, okay?

So go around, see what you can find,

and don't break nothing.

Okay, and you be careful, too.

I'm, I don't, I'm not worried about it,

'cause I have to pay for it if you break it.

If I was black, I'd be like a dead ringer of

Lionel Richie.

'Cause you want his sweater?

No, just 'cause the moustache.

Seriously, look at the old art and stuff.

Dude, I have this tattoo on my stomach.

Do you, really?

Yeah.

Whoa, that's cool.

Oh, and you got zombie girls?

Yeah, then I have a zombie and Frankenstein.

I come through here all the time.

I see your stuff.

You got some pretty good stuff in here.

Cool. Thank you.

There's a meter right here.

I'm looking for one of these.

What is this?

That's an RF uh generator.

It's for noise, voltage, and stuff like that.

It looked like a radiation, something

creepy from like Area 51.

If you want it to look like something kind of

nuclear, that'll get it looking nuclear for you

right there.

Hey, that's pretty cool.

Okay, so what kind of money are you wanting for

this thing?

Seventy-five bucks on this one.

That's a little more than I want to spend on it.

Depends on what you're looking for.

No, it is kind of cool, but, uh,

I could probably do 40 on it.

Oh, man.

How about you meet me in the middle?

So why don't we just do fifty bucks?

You know what?

I've had it for a while.

I can do fifty bucks.

Okay.

Let's do fifty.

Cool.

Right on, brother.

This goes to the bottom of that, and this comes to

the top of this.

Yeah, this goes out there to the top of this.

There's a lot of wire.

I've never done it, so - it's a challenge.

I've done a lot of wiring in my life, but this is

the first time I've ever done electric cars, so.

The wiring's just a complete cluster

sh�t right now.

There's wiring for the batteries to the motor to

make it work, and then you've got another

separate battery that runs all the gauges and,

you know, all the accessories on the car.

Everything's wired up and actually works, so we're

just cleaning up the wires and routing everything

where it needs to be.

Okay, I got some uh, I got some power hooked up to

your switch there.

Gotta make the circuit and see if it works.

Now it's alive.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Close it.

Oh sh�t.

Hold on.

OH!

Turn the switch off.

Turn that sh�t off.

That ain't good.

That ain't good.

Smokin'.

Smokin'!

Holy sh�t.

Oh, sh�t.

Hold on.

OH!

Turn the switch off.

Turn that sh�t off.

How much sh�t did we just fry in there?

I don't know.

I don't know.

It don't look good, though.

There was a little short in the wiring.

Not sure what is was.

We're going to have to figure out what's going on.

We don't know.

They had something hooked up wrong in the car,

and they burnt some wires on it.

I mean, it wasn't nothing major.

It could've been if the wire was actually in the

loom, the main loom that goes from the front to the

back of the car.

It would've burned everything up.

But luckily they, they didn't do that.

This is the first time I've ever fired up an

electric motor in a car.

She runs!

That thing sounds like my vacuum cleaner.

I think it's quieter than a vacuum.

The car build, it was a challenge.

It was a lot of work.

We got it done.

Just finishing up a little bit of the, the details.

Jonathan has no clue to the level that I'm taking

this car as far as the, the creepiness of it.

I really honestly think that, once he takes it to

one car show, and he pulls in there and people trip

out on the detail of this car, and that it's

electric, and you open the hood, and the motor's

gonna glow, people are just gonna be like,

oh my God, what the frig, man?

Who did this?

I'm really hoping that he likes this, 'cause we put

a lot of heart into this car.

A lot of time, a lot of effort.

There it is!

Oh my God!

I saw it coming in, and it rolled right up,

and I was, I was speechless!

I, I, I didn't even know how to react at first.

I was pretty excited about the expression on his face.

That's the fun part.

When you pull up, and you first see their face.

'Cause I'm like, God, I hope this guy

likes this thing, you know what I mean?

'Cause they don't really know what they're getting.

Here we are!

This is thing is amazing, man.

How's it going?

(laughter) I don't know how you did it.

Oh!

Oh yeah.

Did you see our e-stop?

Ha ha ha!

That's perfect!

The placement of the E-stop and it was just

perfect where it is.

I couldn't have asked for a better vehicle to

represent e-stop.

It's all working.

Oh my God, this thing is so sick!

I love the paint scheme.

That's kind of like what I envisioned in my head it

would look like.

And you guys f�cking nailed it.

These fuses?

Yeah.

That cool?

Are you kidding me?

Thank you so much, man.

This thing is, this thing is t�ts.

So you got a switch for the headlights.

You got a switch for the interior lights.

You got a switch to turn the vehicle on.

Uh, and then you gotta turn a couple knobs, and

you know, lift one leg up, and you know, kind of get

all crazy just to turn it on, but I love it,

and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Ohh, you kidding?

You got the hands in the back.

Yeah.

Glowing hands.

Check out this!

Oh ho-ho-ho-ho!

What'd you think of that trunk?

That actually folds down.

This is probably this era.

This thing is amazing!

So we have to put the electric chairs so it

looks like you're getting electrocuted.

This thing is so cool!

This is the main plug.

This is how you plug the car in.

Ah!

I love it!

Turn the little gauges.

Looks like it'll shock you.

Little kids won't even want to touch it.

This is your fantastic electric motor.

This, this is, this is what I really wanted to see.

It ain't much.

Yeah, it's cool.

It's friggin' awesome.

Are you kidding me?

That's it right there.

I like that you painted it.

I didn't even know what to expect, but this, this is,

this is right up my alley.

Now, this paint is - Green's my colour, man.

We're all loving it.

We all love the colour.

Thank you all.

This thing was a rust bucket.

It was sitting in the yard for years, years.

I have chrome pieces just sitting out there,

getting rusty, too.

Let's just, let's go ride it.

Let's do it man.

You need to drive this thing dude.

Let's just go.

(Cheers)