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Gator's just a cool guy from Texas who gave me a call.

Wants me to build a sick-ass rat rod

out of a Mack truck.

So how long do we have to build this?

Well he told me within a week.

This truck's been in my family for four generations.

I'm not sure about this, man.

I might've bit off a little more than I can chew.

I'm gonna stab you in the eye with this pick.

Tension is pretty high around here.

We gotta have this thing done tonight!

Stop crying, Travis!

Ahh!

Sometimes sh�t is so screwed up you can't fix it.

You just, I cannot fix it.

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

Me and my crew, we build badass cars out of crap

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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So things are a little slow in the shop right now,

and I gotta go meet this guy Gator today.

Hopefully, we can make a deal on a car,

because I gotta keep these guys busy.

Get busy on this sh�t.

(Shooting sounds).

They give me this little pellet pistol that has no range.

These guys suck.

I'll challenge 'em any day.

Don't matter.

Rubber bands, slingshot.

I'm the best shot.

Yeah!

If I shoot him in the foot,

and he wants to kick my ass, you're helping me, right?

I know I am.

These motherf�ckers.

(Play fighting & laughter)

I'm gonna shoot you in the calf!

I'm gonna shoot you in the calf!

A client from Texas gave me a call.

Wants me to build a sick-ass rat rod out

of a Mack truck.

His name is Gator.

I'm meeting him over at my house to go over the deal.

(shooting sounds).

What's up, Gator?

What you all doing?

Gettin' ready to shoot some shirts.

This is like a swamp cooler ventilation system.

Put water on this in the summertime when it's

really hot outside, and the breeze just blows

right through your shirt and cools you down.

Gator is a cool guy from Texas who likes hot rods.

They come from a background of a little

bit of race cars.

You know, he's just a good old dude.

Steve's an artist, and I'm excited just to see what he,

what he's gonna do.

So let's talk about this truck.

This truck's been in my family for four generations,

so uh, you know,

we use to pull houses with it, and my dad,

my dad used to drive it.

And my grandfather, my great-grandfather.

Gator's truck is a 1938 E-series.

There's only 78,000 of these ever made,

so they're kind of rare.

They were used in the second world war for transportation.

This is his great-grandpa's truck.

I mean, holy crap.

Who still has those laying around?

I've never driven it.

You know, it's always been parked in the back.

When I was a kid, I used to play on it.

That's cool.

I, and you know what?

That, that helps me get inspired on the build,

because, you know, while I'm building this thing,

I'm gonna be in there building it with your

great-grandpa and your grandpa.

That's what's so fun about building these cars for

different people is you get inspired by

their lives and what they're doing.

Like, what kind of details?

I mean, I know we talked about

a little bit of gator stuff.

Since I'm into big trucks, I like diesels.

And um, I like his uh diesel rod.

That's what made me, you know, wanna,

wanna get into a rat rod and that's what made me find Steve.

I build the diesel rod in 2008.

The D-rod is the mascot of the shop.

This was kind of like what put me on the map.

Was that car.

You know, look, my name's Gator, so I want some,

you know, gator stuff in there.

Um, you know, I want like a twin turbot.

Other than that, I'm not,

I'm not too picky, you know?

Let you do your thing.

The gator thing, um, you know,

I've never done nothing like that.

But, I mean, that's something that I,

I love the challenge.

With the diesel engine, that's kind of my forte.

I like to, I like torque.

I like lots of torque, so I'm with you on that.

You can't go wrong with torque.

I used to race cars.

Um, I just like, I like more power,

and I've always had more power than you need.

So what kind of shape is the truck in like right now?

It's in decent shape.

It's not too bad.

Yeah, no, it's good, yeah.

So it's not -

I'm not too sure about that one.

I don't believe you.

No, it's, it's, it's in, it's in good shape.

If I had a thousand dollars for every time

I heard that.

You can't even keep a straight face when you

tell us it's all right.

From the smirk on his face,

I'm sure it's gonna look rough.

So I don't know what kind of money you're thinking

that you got to spend on it.

I mean, the motor you're looking at's twenty grand.

The drive train, the transmission,

the cooling system, everything that goes along

with that build is super-expensive.

I've only got about, like, 35.

35 grand?

Gator comes at me with 35 thousand bucks,

and I'm like, no way.

I'm thinking you're gonna be in this truck around 50 grand.

50 grand?

Yeah.

Man.

40s like, that's all.

That's all my wife said I could spend is 40 grand.

I can, you know, like, honestly,

45 grand's probably the bare minimum on this deal,

you know?

You know you can hide 5 grand from your wife.

See?

That's, see, that's what I'm talking about.

You can't do any better than that?

Um, tell you what.

You're into guns, I'm into guns.

Let's go have a shoot-off.

If you win, I'll build it for 42 grand.

If I win, we'll build it for 45 grand.

That's a deal.

Let's do this.

Let's do it.

So when Gator comes to pick his truck up in a

week, I'm gonna take him out here to the gun range

and show South Texas how the West shoots.

I'm just gonna show you a little warm-up right now.

Yeah.

It's kind of not fair.

Um, I'm from Texas, you know?

He really doesn't have the shot.

I can't believe he just bet Gator three grand

on a shooting match.

Dave's gonna be pissed.

With the deal, you get a shirt.

Custom ventilation, too.

I only usually gamble on things that I know I can win at.

It's yours.

It's mine? Thanks.

I'm really trusting Steve.

'Cause it's not just any old truck that, you know,

somebody went and bought.

You know, this truck's been in my family for so

long, so this Mack cab's gonna be cool, you know,

to pass down to the next generation.

Where do you want this junk?

Right there.

The Mack truck shows up full of rust,

barely any floors.

No glass, no emblems.

Just literally falling apart.

You gonna make us make something out of this.

The 1938 Mack cab that we're putting on this

chassis is just so rough.

Oh! Put a dent in it.

What's it gonna hurt!

Don't dent my rust.

The Mack cab's a piece of junk.

This is perfect.

Perfect for what?

Yard art?

And there's holes in it, and things have

lived and died in it.

It's like one week away from the Earth reclaiming it.

Can we get us some tetanus shots?

Dude, this is what we do, bro.

These are the kids people don't wanna mess with,

and we train 'em and make 'em good.

When I build something, I build it where yeah,

I'm coming, and people are gonna hate it.

And that's exactly what I want.

Because the more people that hate it,

the more people that come over and check it out.

He wants it to look like this.

He wants it ratty.

We're gonna have Industrial Injections

bringing us in a motor.

When are we gonna have a motor?

Well he told me that, within a week.

How long do we have to build this thing?

A week.

(Laughter).

I, I missed the math or something.

I was expecting something really nice.

This thing's a turd.

I just bet the guy some money on this at the gun range.

He's into guns.

He likes to shoot, and I challenged him to a shoot-off.

How much was the bet?

3 thousand bucks.

3 thousand?

Wow.

3 grand on a build like this can add a lot of

quality or take away from it.

You better get out there and practice.

It's not like shooting T-shirts.

(Laughter).

Listen, I don't have to practice.

Seriously.

I'm not gonna lose.

We need the money.

Is it a work truck for him, or personal?

I'm sure he can move a house with this by

the time we're done.

He wants it to be a rat rod.

I mean, he wants it to look old and ratty, and,

you know, he's into gators and guns.

I gotta make it look like some gator stuff in here.

And then these turbots are crawling out of the

frickin' hood like it's gonna eat you.

I mean, it's just cool.

I mean, this thing's gonna be ridiculous.

What's up, buddy.

The truck.

You know, it's been a lot of work.

Yeah, it's, it's pretty rough.

Yeah.

Yeah, all we've got is this wraggly cab.

There ain't much left of it.

Um, only good thing is we found us a good

RAM chassis we'll be able to use, and uh,

that'll save us a little bit of time.

We're gonna use that Dodge chassis.

So I've already got the front suspension,

you know, as far, I mean, the A-arms,

everything in the front, power steering.

I mean, I got, I've saved money just buying the chassis.

I don't see a motor or a trans.

What are you gonna do about that?

I'm just gonna call Dustin at Industrial Injection.

They build bitching stuff, but I mean,

is it in the budget?

This is what the client wants.

This is his main focus is to have a power plant

around this piece of sh�t that looks bad-ass.

I mean, if that's the case, then we'll do it.

The 3 grand shoot-off, I'm not too happy about it.

If it was 42 -

Listen, if it was a 42 hundred dollar job,

and I was betting 3 grand, I could see you being

worried about it.

But this is 42 thousand.

I have to keep you roped in.

Otherwise, you'd go f�cking ape sh�t on these builds.

Believe me, I got this.

This guy can't shoot.

Alright.

It's gonna be a piece of cake.

See, now you got the weather all sh�tty on me.

Don't worry about my gambling.

Ooh.

Yeah, he's doing donuts.

Is it supposed to be so smoky?

Uh, no.

I think that's it.

It's got sh�t boiling out of it.

She broke.

Something melted.

So, not good.

That motor's gone.

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So I'm building a rat rod for a guy named Gator from Texas.

This things a pile of crap.

I've got rust falling out of it from every angle.

And in the middle of all this,

now I've got a huge problem.

The motor's blowing up in my D-rod,

and I got parts strung out from hell to breakfast.

Something melted.

So, not good.

That motor is gone.

Don't even go over there.

Just, it ain't worth it.

Just stay away.

I didn't wanna look at it.

I can hear it sizzling.

I mean, it got hot.

That engine is totally garbage.

I don't know. Sometimes I just act like a 5-year-old.

That's all there is to it.

I don't know. We did something.

Let's just get it in the shop.

We'll start tearing it down.

Aren't we building something right now?

Like, any other thing that I own,

if I blew it up in the parking lot right now,

I'd be like, just leave it there.

I don't care.

But like, this is like one of my kids.

You almost don't have a choice right now, dude.

We don't have time.

We don't have time.

This car, for Welder Up, is a signature.

This is the marquis of Welder Up.

You figure it out.

I'll figure something out.

We got to.

I mean, there's shows coming up.

There's places I need to be,

and I gotta have my car.

I mean, this car is kind of like Sonny and Cher.

I mean, you know, when Cher shows up at the concert,

it's not the same anymore without Sonny there.

This truck is the signature Welder Up

type of vehicle.

It's a 38 Mac semi-truck, and we're sticking

it on a small chassis.

Then we're gonna leave it ratty.

No one can do anything until I get my job done.

These things are pretty ratted out.

So I've been just cutting up the chassis,

getting the suspension done,

so everybody's waiting on me.

I gotta hustle, stay late nights,

and just try to get this done,

and put it together as fast as I can.

You know, and making everything right.

It's a lot of work.

Alright, we need to get some stuff ordered up.

Okay.

The Gator thing's gonna be a little challenging,

but I wanna make it, not necessarily like the

whole thing looks like an alligator,

'cause that'd look stupid.

You gotta know when to, too much is enough.

You know what else?

See if you can find me some alligator heads.

Okay.

Where do you want me to look for these,

like, gator hides?

Uh, try a couple of upholstery shops locally.

Yeah?

Possibly, worst-case scenario, the swap meet.

Okay.

So it's just discreet parts on the car that look cool,

you know what I mean?

It's, a little bit of scales here,

little bit of scales there,

little bit of alligator hide here.

Couple alligators here.

And then um, we also need to go over all these cars.

Okay.

So what's the deal with the diesel rod?

The diesel rod is just in a million pieces right now.

We're just, it, it needs to be worked on.

The motor's not in it, is it.

No.

No motor in it right now.

And this is killing me.

I'm worried about the D-rod thing with Steve's head.

Uh, he can't get it out of there.

He needs to get back in the gator game.

We can get it handled.

Ooh!

This thing is not looking good.

I mean, there's parts strung from one end to the other.

The floor's completely rotted out of it.

I'm not sure about this, man.

I might've bit off a little more than I can chew.

I mean, it's, it's rough.

Really rough.

We've got nothing to work with in the cab,

and no budget.

Steve's gonna have to work his magic to scrounge up

parts for this one.

We gotta go to Nelson today.

I'm friends with one of the sons.

His dad owns the town.

Mmm-hmm.

Well, anyway, the cool thing is,

because I know him a little bit,

they're gonna take us into another section where all

their junk is so we can go dig around,

looking for some parts.

Let's roll.

I'm going to see these brothers,

Joel and Joebek in Nelson.

I need headlights and a fuel tank,

and I know these guys got a bunch of stuff out there.

What's up, brother.

Listen.

We're building this Mack truck,

and I need a few parts, and I know your dad's

got some stuff laying around out here.

And I know normally you guys don't sell stuff,

but since your dad loves me so much

- He's gone, too.

He is?

So in kind of a sneaky way,

we might be able to negotiate a deal?

We don't sell, ever, really.

You know, just uh, just hoarders.

You know, pretty much a lot of stuff over here,

we really wouldn't sell, but we got some stuff over

there that uh is more of a junk pile and stuff.

You know where all the good stuff is.

Show me your stash.

What an awesome place to come look for stuff.

My imagination goes crazy out here.

All these little things.

If it's this good, I will drive a

thousand miles to go pick

What about this old truck?

Dude, that is so cool.

These guys were probably changing brakes on this

thing all the time.

Smoke coming off.

Whoo!

I've been out here a lot, and I still see

new things all the time.

They'd look cooler in my yard.

Your dad might miss this thing if it's gone.

You can find any sort of junk out here.

Stuff you don't even know what the heck it is.

(laughs).

Just old, rusty, brown, no.

We don't really collect anything new.

How about these? Steve?

I love those.

The other one's over there.

These'll work right here if we got a pair of these.

These are awesome headlights.

This one's kind of - oh, it's not altogether.

Oh, these are cool.

Yeah, these would work great.

They're big enough.

These'll work great.

Those 38 Mack trucks came with a small headlight bucket.

To me, on a big truck like that,

it doesn't look as good as, like,

putting a big set of headlights on it.

I guess the headlights, to me,

are like someone's eyes when you're staring at

them and you're talking to them.

Hey, like seriously, look at that gas pump.

That thing is so hammered.

You don't want that, do ya?

I want it.

You don't want that gas pump.

It got ran over.

We just like to hold onto it, and we sell it.

We won't, you know, if we sell it,

it'll be gone, so.

Are you guys wandering?

Oh, they're wandering.

Ha ha.

(chuckling).

Oh, this isn't hoarding.

This is something way cooler than hoarding.

'Cause you're turning something into something else,

so you're not just, like,

collecting dead cats under your rug.

Like, this is something cool they're creating.

It's different.

And you said you're looking for another gas tank?

I need the fuel.

I need a, like a fuel tank.

There's a gas tank right there, man.

Oh yeah, perfect.

That'll work really good.

(chuckles).

There's this one right here.

This came off an old wreck truck.

Does it look like it's leaking at all?

This gas tank is perfect for what I need.

It has the right amount of patina.

I'd probably, I'd probably take that.

I mean, what do you guys want for it?

Probably a hundred bucks.

Hundred bucks?

It's ugly and it's got a dent in it.

Well, that's why it's a hundred bucks.

If you guys'll do fifty, I'll buy it.

Fifty bucks?

Fifty bucks is cool.

Alright, cool.

Fifty for this.

What do we got on the headlights?

300 bucks.

Dude, 300?

I'd go a hundred bucks on them.

Right? Hundred bucks.

Next time you guys are in town,

I'll take you to steak dinner.

How about that?

(chuckles).

Steak dinner and a hundred?

Sold.

Okay, we'll do that.

Right on.

Outta here with this - don't fall down.

Man, do you work out, or were you born like that?

I think the negotiation on this thing went

pretty good, in my favour.

'Cause realistically, the lights are worth 200 bucks.

Steve ripped us off.

I ain't get, take that dang tank to a pawn shop

and they'll pay me more in aluminum prices than

what he gave me, but.

Felt dirty.

I did rip them off a little bit.

But I'm okay with that.

(chuckles).

Get those headlights and let's go.

Alright.

Dude, we gotta get going.

It's getting dark.

Oh, don't drop that.

Why do you think I'm gonna drop it?

I'm just saying.

Granted, these guys are my friends.

And they know what I do.

They know what I'm gonna build.

You think your dad'll know this stuff's gone?

No, we got so much stuff, uh,

he's not gonna notice anything, so.

So I need to pay you guys for this.

Two, three.

Dude, where have I been?

Well, that's actually the tips you made last night

when we were doing the, uh, male revue.

I only had a 138 bucks.

He said that's good.

So I wound up good today.

Yeah, we'll never sell anything to him ever again.

The next time I see him is for steak dinner,

and that might be the last time.

(chuckling).

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I need Twiggy to get that gator crap here ASAP

because honestly, I'm stuck.

Well, don't talk to us about that.

Well, I know, but.

Where is she?

Hey, Twiggy, why don't you get some gator?

Gator stuff.

Why don't I get gator stuff?

Yeah.

Like, right now?

Yeah.

Didn't Steve ask you to get it?

Yes, sir.

I've never messed with Gator, ever.

No no, I understand that.

Well then freakin' get it.

I need it.

It's been an effing day.

Dave wanted some stuff and I guess he was panicky

that I wasn't gonna be able to get it in the

allotted amount of time that he was giving me.

I'm gonna stab you in the eye with this pick.

We need to figure out how long it's gonna take to

get those here, because if I don't get 'em,

I'm not gonna have enough time.

Man, this Mack truck has been a pain in my

butt since it showed up.

We've only got 5 days left,

and everybody's under serious pressure to

get this thing done.

It's been an effing day.

I am gonna stab you in the eye with this pick.

Hi. I was just wondering if you had any, like,

any kind of gator stuff?

Gator?

Like, I'm, like I'm basically I'm looking for

like gator heads, hands and eyeballs.

Steve was very specific on what kind of gator stuff he wanted.

I have an alligator purse or something.

I have a gator printed on a cowhide.

I guess I was silly into thinking that I could find

gators in Vegas 'cause we're in the dessert.

Please record your message.

Oh, look. There's a claw. Perfect.

This is perfect.

Yeah, I can get, like, 2 claws for like 19.99.

I ordered um 6 fake eyeballs - They were

actually more (whispers) expensive.

And I don't wanna say anything,

'cause Dave's right beside me, so

- And he's staring at me.

So let's change.

Next question.

Gator's motor's coming in today.

We're really excited about it.

It's just perfect timing.

We're, just, everybody's just ecstatic it's here.

Finally.

Dude!

Oh, yeah!

Oh, man!

That is sick.

That thing is so sick.

He's gonna love that.

You know, this guy, this is his grandpa's truck.

We want it to look like a big semi, you know?

Um, just with a bunch of Welder Up in it.

I mean, the motor that's going in this thing is ridiculous.

Should put out 650, 700 horsepower.

Good, clean burner.

That is some perfect green color right there.

That is bitching.

That's the Welder Up green.

Once it's planted in this thing,

it's gonna look like it's not even supposed to be there.

Hey, it's gonna be a diamond in a pile of sh�t.

(laughs).

I think the motor with the contrast of the ugliness

of the truck is really gonna look cool.

That's what I want it to look like.

I want it to look like its own thing in there.

Seeing Gator's engine has just got me worked up, man.

I gotta get me one of these.

Yeah, too bad we don't have that motor sitting

in your D-rod, huh.

(laughs).

Well uh, that's something we need to talk about.

(laughs).

Throw this in the shop.

Awesome. Let's do it.

Alright. Cool.

I'll grab a forklift.

Woo!

If Steve were to get an engine like this for the D-rod,

it would just put it at a totally different level.

It would just be bigger, faster, stronger.

It'd basically be, like, a rocket.

I was up in Montana, and here comes this

rusty piece of crap.

Uh, rust bucket in there.

And then all of a sudden, he knocks off an

eleven-second quarter mile in this rust bucket,

and you know changed the whole, whole status of,

of what he builds and what he does.

Listen, let me just defend myself for a minute.

You know, I built this thing in my garage

with a bunch of junk.

I mean, I'm ready to step it up.

I wanna transplant something different in it now.

These guys'll get it fixed.

I'll get it back here.

I can have the motor back in it in a day,

and driving it.

I just wanna kick the sh�t out of hundred thousand

dollar race cars.

Awesome.

What we're gonna do to the D-rod is just make it a

useable badass car that makes a thousand horsepower.

That's, that's what I'm talking about.

Awesome.

A little Welder Up style, baby.

And I think when they come back with this motor,

it's gonna be so sick.

What's that?

All the stuff you wanted.

Oh, seriously?

Yeah.

This is what you wanted, right?

The uh, the back?

Oh, yeah.

Cool.

Yeah?

Ahh.

I got a bunch of gator heads and, like,

gator hands and gator eyes and gator claws.

That thing is so disgustingly sick.

Isn't it?

Yeah, it is. For sure.

I hope he was a little impressed.

Good job on that. Holy cow.

She really pulled through for me.

She's like my upholstery sidekick.

She did a great job.

That'll make something cool,

like a centre console or something.

Dave was super-positive.

I don't think he expected me to get them as quickly as I did.

Cool.

Yeah, no, that's, that's awesome.

Pretty interested to see what Barber Dave

comes up with for all of that stuff.

I wanna get this motor in this frame today.

See this?

This is the way that you bolt together a Cummins

motor to a turbot 400.

Dan and I are starting to put the tranny to the motor.

We ran into a little bit of a bump in the road.

I wonder if they're making these plate thicker...

- The tranny, the adapter, we have a,

we have a clearance issue.

I've run into this problem before, but

- it's probably, okay, not bad.

Uh, I have too much clearance between the

torque converter and the fly wheel,

so we're trying to figure out what changed

- whether our fly wheel changed.

God, I have no idea.

We put a couple of these together, me and Dan,

and every time, for some reason, on the adaptor,

I had to use a spacer.

I wonder if the air's was, letting go on the

converter wasn't going in your shaft real smooth.

I know, dude.

I fought that for a day.

So I remember that it was a pain.

Back in we go.

You know, every time I've done them,

I've always used a little spacer plate in between

the tranny and the adapter plate.

I don't know what the frig, but that's perfect.

I know.

We had already made a spacer,

and now we don't need it.

We'll figure it out.

We'll be driving it down the road,

and it'll hit us.

Oh, yeah, now I know why.

'Cause the tranny's all strung out all over the

highway down below us.

Well, I kind of got into a little process here and uh

Twiggy's been kind enough to spend her time to help

hand-stitch in my uh piping that I wanna do to

offset the colors in the seats.

I like to work.

If I have a job, I'm stoked,

because when I don't have a job and I don't know

what to do, I'm standing there like an idiot.

Steve?

Yeah?

So um, Barber needs more gator skins than

he told me to order.

I think he needs us to get more stuff.

Okay, well, we're down to, like, no time.

I know.

By allowing somebody to have some responsibility,

it's stressful at first, and I think once they get

going, they'll be okay, but you,

it's like you always gotta check it.

I mean, it's like, really?

I mean, do I have to come over and check

everything all the time?

What's the problem here?

Um, we're out of leather.

Why?

'Cause you screwed something up?

Probably.

I was in resource all through my whole life.

I don't know how to do math.

I don't know how to do measurements.

You don't know how to read a tape measure?

Why didn't you tell me that?

What is all this stuff?

Like, what do you do, just cut,

cut sh�t up in little pieces in here?

I, I eyeball it.

See, this is why we're short.

Right here.

Dude, I'm - You know, this is a time bandit.

This is what I'm talking about.

This is why I can't get nothing done in here.

'Cause you guys cost me time and money.

Well, dude, you can't find any more hide out

on the world wide web?

Dude, we don't have time.

I have to have this done.

I just found out we don't have what we need

to finish the seats.

And now, I've gotta scramble to fix this damn problem.

Hey, Dave.

Yeah?

I'm gonna go to the swap meet.

I gotta go get some, try to find some alligator hides.

We already bought enough.

What happened?

We need some more.

I mean, we budgeted for what we have.

Yeah, but we gotta get more.

So these are the kind of things that drive me over

budget, but it's his grandpa's truck,

and I have to make it right,

so what else am I supposed to do?

I gotta get it right.

I mean, it's gotta be right,

but I don't have the money, so.

I don't really, honestly, I don't give a sh�t about

the budget right now.

We are at the Broad Acres Swap Meet in Las Vegas.

And it's pretty effing awesome.

Ohh!

Put your hand out.

(squeals).

It's good to come out here with Twiggy because she's

just learned some of these things and what's valuable

and what's not valuable.

We have come here to get um gator skins.

There's some green alligator.

Yeah.

Maybe we could use them for trim.

I mean, she's already catching on to cool stuff.

She's like, hey, come look at this, hey,

come look at that.

I mean, it's, it's good to have somebody like that

because now I can rely on her to have an eye like I do.

How about these?

Ohh.

How about these?

Oh my God, what about these?

I think these fit.

I'm trying these on.

Please, please try those on, please.

I can't even imagine, like, how do you drive?

I think you should buy them.

Are we ready to roll?

Yeah, I think so.

I was looking for some alligator hide.

You guys don't have any alligator stuff, do ya?

I hate coming here.

I get so distracted, I can't even remember

what the hell I came here for.

How about that old scale.

What do you want for the scale?

A buck?

It don't work.

A dollar?

Yeah, I'll take that for a dollar.

How's it going, man?

I came to see if I could score up on a couple

little alligator hides.

I don't know.

We might be able to incorporate them a little bit.

That's pretty cool.

That's the belly, right?

Yup.

When are you guys getting all those little alligator hides in?

The little ones?

Morning, yeah.

Can we do sixty on the pair?

Mmm, how about seventy?

She's great.

(laughs).

He would've done it.

Look at you.

(laughs).

That's why he's not allowed to talk.

I found some.

I didn't get the big ones that I wanted to,

but I need 'em.

And that's the only place that I can think of

that's got any, so I gotta have them.

And the guy brings out this like gigantic, like,

already sewn cow hide.

Oh, wow.

This looks like it should be on your bed.

Welder Up.

Yeah.

So he just buys it.

And thank you very much.

This is great.

Oh, you're gonna pack that for me?

I thought I was your basket.

Kind of nice having my own personal assistant

to carry all my sh�t.

(laughs).

I'm just kidding.

Here, let me take that.

It's a good time to get out of here.

I kind of feel guilty sometimes about being

here, but it's nice.

Okay, let's get back to the shop.

Yeah.

I got swamp ass.

Don't scratch the paint.

It'll buff out.

Everything goes where it fits.

I like it.

We don't know where it fits 'till we put it there.

Now, what about this dirt?

We gonna leave the dirt?

Yeah, we're gonna leave the dirt.

Where are we gonna find that thing at?

I don't know if Steve got it.

This fuel tank's gonna work out just great.

It's tattered, it's beat up,

it's, as long as it doesn't leak, and um,

it's gonna work out perfect.

It'll blend in with the truck just fine.

'Cause the guy's from Texas,

I'm gonna write don't mess with Texas.

I'm gonna carve it out of wood.

Don't mess with Texas.

This is gonna be one of the uh, the doorsteps.

Uh, this sucks!

Oh, yeah, that's great.

Why don't we just drive down the street

with the doors open?

These guys get carried away,

and they feed off each other,

and they get in the shop, and one of them's doing this.

Oh, dude, let's do this and let's do that.

And pretty soon, it's like, holy crap, man.

You guys just spent four hours.

I say throw it in the trash!

Start over!

No. No time for that.

No time.

Stop crying, Travis.

(drills).

Ahh!

The D-rod engine is showing up today!

Steve is stoked.

Whoa!

Look at that!

Oh, that is sick.

Oh, that is so sweet.

Dude, that's awesome.

You wrapped it?

It's like a little toy.

It's a toy that everybody wants.

I want that toy.

Should be about 850 horsepower on fuel.

Take her over a thousand on nitrous.

It's got a hundred and ten pound valve springs on

industrial injection.

A hundred and ten pound valve springs.

So I can rev this to, like, 6 thousand?

This thing will go 6 thousand RPM.

I wanna be the king.

I wanna know that people, when they come to me and

they look at that car, that represents what I do.

Uh, God, man.

I don't, don't even send me the bill.

Just go set it right inside the D-rod.

I wish I could, but I don't have time.

It's beautiful.

It's beautiful!

I mean, Gator's priority right now, and um,

I just can't put my projects in front

of paying customers.

It's just not the way I do business.

Twiggy and I are going down to the Strip Gun Club today.

Yee-HAW!

Let's go shoot some guns!

Uh, me and Gary are gonna have a little shoot-off.

Hopefully, I can win my three grand that I need,

finish this thing up.

Morning, sir.

Got here early, brushed up a little bit on your shooting.

If Steve doesn't win this bet with Gator,

we're in trouble.

We need this 3 grand.

The costs on this 38 Mack truck is killing me.

So I'm going to the gun range and meet Gator.

There's 3 grand on the line.

If I beat him, it's money in my pocket,

and I'll have this thing whipped.

I think my odds are pretty good of uh, of winning.

I have to.

I can't, I can't spend the extra money.

My wife would kill me.

Let's do something fully automatic.

Let's do that.

You got any belt fed stuff?

I got a belt fed uh AR.

It's a AR lower, uh belt-fed upper.

Shoots 223.

It's pretty awesome.

Let's do that one, man.

I think I can make my money on this deal.

I mean, Annie Oakley ain't got nothing on me.

We're working on a D-rod today.

Steve has no clue we're doing this.

He's stressed over the Gator build.

It won't take too long.

It's just, you know, a few hours of time

we don't really have.

But we're gonna do it anyway.

(laughs).

That's too tight.

And right now, we're fighting a Gator.

It's kicking our tails, and we need positive right now.

This car's kind of our mascot for the shop,

so everybody will be a lot happier and, you know,

especially, when Steve's happier, everyone's happier.

Who's going first, you or me?

You.

This is it, man.

Three grand.

Three grand.

Got smoky.

I couldn't see nothing.

I just held it down.

Wide open.

Do you want, do you wanna have Bill bring that up

about 15 feet closer?

How close?

Right about here?

Yeah.

(laughs)

(Shooting sounds).

Bring 'em in?

Yeah, let's see what we got.

Four.

Four in the hole.

Call it five.

I got it half - Yeah, you got one kind of in there.

Let's, let's check yours out.

Ah.

See that's a group.

That's a group.

You got me.

Gotcha!

You won.

Alright.

This truck build's gonna feel a little bit better for me.

I can't, I can't go home if my wife knows

I'm gonna spend that much on a truck,

so there's that three grand.

I like it.

You roll like a gangsta.

I like that.

Steve dealt with it in a very humble manner for Steve.

Well, it's a win-win situation for you,

'cause this is going right into your truck.

I guess you're right, man.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Hey, I just noticed on our invoices that you're not

charging us sales tax.

This has to be the worst part of the job,

keeping track down to the penny of everything we've

paid in parts, taxes, labor, everything.

I'm worried on every build,

especially with a build like this.

You know, engines, they're not cheap.

This one's expensive, very expensive.

here, you can quit your crying.

Is that it?

How much?

Three grand.

Cool. Yeah, that'll help.

Keep the lights on for awhile.

How's it looking on budget, anyway?

I'll crunch the numbers and this definitely helps.

'Cuz I need to know exactly.

Okay, later.

Cool, man. Alright.

What if we got that..

Yeah?

Holy sh�t.

What are you guys doing?

Ooh-ooh-ooh!

What's it look like, idiot?

Ta-da.

You guys were here doing this without me?

Well, I mean -

That's like going to bed with my girlfriend.

These guys are like working on my car

instead of working on Gator's truck.

Does it run?

(Car starts).

We'll get the thing done.

Let's get the truck done.

We'll get the truck done, we'll go for a ride -

THEN you can go for a ride.

Hey, you're welcome!

Hey.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Well, we put some brackets on the seat,

and now we're gonna try it out.

Ooh!

Let's see how it fits.

Hey, what's Dan doing down there?

Uh.

He ain't gonna be able to see now.

Yeah, he's right there.

Hey, Buddy.

Hey.

Bye.

Bye, Dan.

Bye.

Oww!

Bye.

Nooo!

It's crazy.

(muffled sounds).

You're trying to bounce the seat around

here a little bit.

You guys are kind of like carnival workers a little bit.

Carnies.

Oh, we got our, our centre console piece,

which is a gator head that we kind of brightened up

a little bit.

We airbrushed it a little bit.

We put a big rack.

Mackay's got this crazy uh, gator hunting knife.

Now that's gonna be the shifter.

Look at that.

If you're grabbing gears?

Look how sharp that is.

Owee.

Hot.

Coming in hot.

Didn't that smell bad when we were cutting the bone?

Oh, dude.

Gator brain, stunk so bad.

Bone.

Find me a f�cking square.

A f�cking little aluminum square.

Doesn't take a f�cking hour to do some stupid job.

Can't find no f�cking tools.

Dude, I don't know, man.

Tension's pretty high around here.

I am building ammo can toolboxes.

I am a Welder Up robot.

I think everybody's on edge because it's starting

to get fricking way hot.

And I'm telling you right now,

there ain't nothing worse than walking around

all day in some wet freaking underwear.

BAM!

Sick mom.

Hopefully Mackay put on underwear today,

but it looks like his pants are wet, period.

'Cause I had to cut them down,

re-weld them back together.

'Cause Steve can't go buy nothing already made.

We gotta have this thing done tonight!

You're over there f�cking running your f�cking mouth.

I guarantee you Steve's over there with some

kind of a fricking wild chafe going on.

That's probably why he's on edge.

Dude, you cut 'em off like I'm fricking Huckleberry Finn

or something.

(fake laugh) I bet you feel cooler already.

Gosh, dude.

Now I look like some kind of a weird guy in the

70's trying to make a fashion statement.

No you, no, you don't.

No, you don't.

It looks great.

What are you doing?

We're - we're work - Okay, look, seriously,

I have a truck that needs to run to-f�cking-night.

Yes.

There's a hammer.

The next time he walks up, clock him in the head with it.

That's how you deal with that sh�t.

Oh, sh�t.

We got a problem.

The transmission has a crack in it,

and it's leaking fluid.

That's a problem.

So the only real fix to it is take the transmission

back out, send it off, and we don't have any time.

Now how in the f, there's no way we could even have broke that.

No, there's no scratches anywhere.

The paint's all still cherry,

so there's no way it could've broke.

I don't know.

I don't even know what to do.

How are you feeling?

Like, sh�t.

Sometimes sh�t is so screwed up...

you can't fix it.

You just, I cannot fix it.

So I can't, what can I physically do?

So my client Gator's in town from Texas to pick up

this '38 Mac truck, and I've just hit a massive roadblock.

Transmission has a crack in it,

and it's leaking fluid.

That's a problem.

So the only real fix to it is take the transmission back out.

The transmission is not an everyday problem.

We don't have time to get another transmission.

I wait two weeks for these transmissions.

We're, we're gonna have to change it out immediately.

We cannot run it like it is.

Two weeks out.

Oh, that's right.

Two weeks out.

Pull out one of my oth, my trannies,

and put it in there.

That's the only option I have right now.

Luckily we have - that's our favorite

transmission that we use.

We could tear it off some other vehicle.

Then we gotta hook everything up.

Drive line, all the linkage.

And if it takes all night to make it happen,

we're gonna do it.

So we stayed way late last night, 'till one,

two o'clock in the morning.

Finally, we just gave up.

We're running off of caffeine.

(laughs) That's about it.

(yawns).

So we took it from there and put it right there.

So now, when you open the door,

you can just read it right from there.

Don't mess with Texas.

We have basically six hours to have this

thing done today.

The pressure is on.

Steve's over here double-checking

everything with Danny.

Uh, we still have to test-fire the truck.

Watch your fingers!

(Car sounds).

Oh, my God.

Coming in hot.

Holy sh�t

- Yeah!

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

It's two hundred times better than what I was expecting.

It's just f�cking awesome.

It's just, it's amazing.

Woo!

Yeah!

Oh yeah!

Oh, now shes relaxed!

Oh, yeah!

Man, this is so much better.

I didn't, it wasn't, it was like,

I was like expecting a one.

This is like a friggin' twenty.

Oh my god!

So we took this rusted out Mac truck and turned it

into a sick-ass Rat Rod.

I know Gator's Grandpa would be proud to see this thing.

Oh my God.

There's so much detail.

Every time you come back,

you see something different.

Over here, look!

It says don't mess with Texas!

I know.

I saw that when he opened the door.

And the little alligators on top.

Yeah, yeah those are your round lights.

Oh God, I didn't see those.

Alligator head here?

So'd you see the front wheels?

(laughs) Oh yeah - Got the muzzle brakes on there.

I can't believe this thing actually drives.

(laughs).

Gator's wife, I think, was super-excited.

She might even be a little bit more excited about

the truck than he is.

I wasn't even expecting nothing like this.

My wife likes the truck.

I was afraid I was gonna be in trouble, you know?

Maybe spend a little bit more money than

I was supposed to.

Uh, how much money did he put into it?

There wasn't a corner of the truck they didn't

put a hundred percent of their heart into.

Honestly, regardless of the amount of money that

he spent on it, I think that Steve and his crew

one hundred percent represented what Gator um

and any of his family members would have wanted in it.

This isn't just some truck I went and, and bought.

This is something that my,

me and my great-grandfather, my grandfather,

dad, now I'll be able to drive it.

My kids.

Yeah.

It's really cool.

It's awesome.

Yeah, the kids are gonna freak out.

When you pull up, and you see the smile on these

people's faces and, and they really are happy

with what you have done for them,

that's where it hits you hard, and you think,

you know what?

I'm doing the right thing here.

Okay, so you guys wanna go for a ride?

Yeah.

Alright.

Light 'em up!

Woo!

Woo, yeah!

I wanna go to bed.

I wanna go to sleep.

Can we go to sleep now?

It's been a long day.

I'm beat.

All the guys have gone home.

But there's just one more thing I gotta do.