<i> - On this episode
of "Counting Cars"...</i> What are you doing? - This is chrome. - Isn't that, like,
highly illegal? - Let's say you just wanted
to do a quick sell. What's the magic number? - I got offered
something already. - Yeah, man, come on! [engine revs] - It looks expensive. - Yeah, brother. <i> Vegas is a gambling town.</i> <i> Most people bet with chips.</i> <i> I bet with rides...</i> Look at this. <i> And I always go all in.</i> Wow.
What would you take for this? [tires squealing] <i> I'm Danny, aka The Count,</i> <i> and this is my all-star team.</i> <i> We find 'em...</i> <i> - Where's the rest
of the car at?</i> <i> - Fix 'em, flip 'em,</i> <i> and sometimes I keep 'em.</i> <i> This thing is sick.</i> [laughs]
I want this car. <i> For my crew,
every job's high stakes,</i> <i> and we can't afford to lose.</i> <i> This is "Counting Cars."</i> <i> [upbeat rock music]</i> <i> ♪ </i> [horn honks] <i> I found this gorgeous
1962 Cadillac</i> <i> that would make
a great quick flip.</i> <i> She's already
in pretty good shape,</i> <i> so we should be able to sell it
for a good amount of money</i> <i> in not a lot of time.</i> It's a really nice car. The paint is shot.
- Are you keeping this? - No.
- No? - No, this is a flip.
- Oh, good. -<i> But Ryan was so excited
to get her painted...</i> - Man, I've always wanted
to paint a '62 Cadillac. -<i> He rushed her into
the paint department</i> <i> before the mechanics
were even done.</i> This one kind of snuck
through the protocol. - I was kind of wondering
why it was in here already. - That's a problem, man,
and it could be a costly one, so I'm keeping an eye
on this Cadillac personally. <i> So I'm making my rounds
with Kevin right now.</i> <i> I'm gonna head in
to talk to Aaron</i> and make sure
that he's got this Cadillac on track the way I'm seeing it. <i> The Caddy is still semi
in pieces, man,</i> <i> so Aaron, he's got
his work cut out for him.</i> How are you, brother?
- Doing good, man. How you guys doing?
- Good. - Look at you working
on this van, dude. - Yeah.
- How is she? - Man, it's in
pretty good shape. - You know how much
I love these things, man. - I do too; I dig them. - Well, I hate
to say this, though. - What's up? - I'm gonna pull you
off this job for a minute. I got a bigger issue that I really want you
to lay your eyes on. - All right. - The '62 Cadillac
that we took in... - Mm-hmm. - We're doing so much
work to that car. - Yeah, yeah. - If the car don't sit right, what's the point? And it looks to me,
there are straight-up truck springs
and different A-arms and all kinds of stuff
to make room. - Yeah. - I want you to please
figure out what parts do we really have to get
to lay this car back down on the ground
properly. - Let's not go crazy. Let's keep the cost down,
'cause we got to--you know. - That's why I'm thinking
if we can just go stock, it's easy to lower it
from stock. - Yeah, we can just--
normal treatment; easy enough. - Just cut the springs,
right? - I don't want to
go through all this work and make it look all beautiful and it's sitting up,
like, ridiculous. - It's got to sit right.
- Yeah. - I'll go check it out, and I'll make a couple calls and see what we need
and find some springs. -<i> I know Ryan was excited
to get this Caddy painted,</i> but rushing it into
the paint department? Man, that was a big mistake. <i> We can't have
any more issues, man.</i> <i> We're sticking to my plan,
or it's gonna cost me money.</i> Rock and roll. - Let's continue
on our journey. Cool.
- Thanks, Aaron. - Yep, see you guys. <i> [upbeat rock music]</i> <i> ♪ </i> - Man, I feel terrible about
messing up the paint schedule on the '62 Cadillac. I know it's gonna cost
a pretty penny, so we're gonna try
and make it up to Danny <i> and go find a car to flip.</i> Oh, look at that. Is that a Falcon? - Falcon, they're great. - Oh, it's four-door. - That's no good,
four-door. - Yeah. - Hump? What's hump into the bump? Ryan, it says
on the street, "Bump." - Yeah. - And the sign
said "Speed Hump." - Someone was
making a funny. - No, I don't get it. "Speed hump,"
and it's a bump. - Oh, wait a minute.
What's this on the right? - Damn.
- Is that a school bus? - Oh, my God,
it's the short one. - That's the really short
short bus. - I don't want
to hear "short bus." A guy called me
"short bus" before. - I can't imagine why. Well, you want to knock
on the door and check it out? - I like it.
- Cool. - Man, that looks cool.
- Wow. That is not
a stock motor. That is not an old motor.
- That looks new. - That is a late-model
fuel injector motor. - Hey, somebody's home. How you doing, sir?
- How you doing? - Do you mind if
we check out your bus? - I'm Roli. - Nice to meet you.
This is Ryan. - I'm Ryan. - Man, this is a cool bus. - You never, ever see these. <i> GM first got into
the bus business in 1925,</i> <i> when they purchased
a controlling interest</i> <i> in Yellow Coach,</i> <i> a Chicago-based
bus manufacturer.</i> <i> When they acquired the rest</i> <i> of the Yellow Coach Company
in 1943,</i> <i> they renamed it the GMC
Truck and Coach Division.</i> <i> GM became a huge producer
of school buses like this one</i> <i> and city buses like the one
in the movie "Speed,"</i> <i> but perhaps the most famous
Chevy bus of all time</i> <i> was the "Partridge Family" bus</i> <i> with that iconic paint job
that still makes me smile.</i> - How long you had it? - I've had it for 14 years now. - Is this the
original front? Like, this is what
it looked like? - Super rare. Yes, this is. It's all powder-coated out. - It's nice. The bumper,
it looks good. - The tracks in the windows, I found them back East
from a junkyard and got them shipped out. Put all new windows in. - Yeah, they'll last forever. Our buddy down at the shop,
Mike, he's got a school bus. - You might
seen it in town, the green one
with the big horns on it? - The big horns on it?
I've seen that. - The ridiculous
horns on the roof. - Stupid bus. - It's stupid, but probably
a lot of fun, right? - Yeah. - I notice that's definitely not the stock motor. You mind if we look
at the engine on it? - Yeah, you should
look at that. - Let's see. - Yeah, that's
a new motor. - A fuel-injected,
probably about a 2003, maybe a Denali
or 6.6-liter. - They're very simple,
simple install. You working
on the inside too? - Yeah, we should
check that out. - Yeah?
- Yeah, please. - We should take
a look inside here. - Wow.
- Whoa! Holy crap. - Look at that. <i> [slow rock music]</i> - We should take a look
inside here. - I grab up Roli
so we can go hunting for cars, and damn if we didn't come
across this big-ass bus. <i> Man, this bus is badass.</i> It is right up my alley. I'm hoping that we found
the owner, Jim, in a selling mood. - Wow.
- Whoa! Holy crap.
- Look at that. I really like this. - Is this an egg chair? - Egg chair
from the '70s. - '70s,
Danny would like that. May I sit in it? - Sure, absolutely. - Awesome. This is awesome. This is like a chilling
like a villain kind of chair, like, turn the music on,
just relax, kick back, have a frosty beverage,
and just... - That chair still
doesn't make you cool, Roli. - [laughs]
- Thanks, Ryan. - Whoa, these seats
are awesome. - Orange sparkle Zodiac. - Yeah, I love the Zodiac. You can beat it to death,
wipe it right off, it's like brand-new. So I got to ask you,
this--I mean, you've had it for a long time,
and you've done a lot of work, but any chance of maybe
wanting to sell it? - No, it's too much fun.
- No? I--I feel you on that one. I--you couldn't pry this
out of my hands. It's really too bad
Jim didn't want to sell his bus, 'cause man,
did I have some ideas that would put Mike's bus
to shame. Well, you won't sell us the bus.
- No. - But whenever you're
ready to paint it, please come down
to Count's Kustoms. - Yeah.
- Jim, thank you. - Awesome.
You're welcome. <i> [upbeat rock music]</i> ♪ - Ryan, where you at? - I'm in the paint booth. -<i> Now that I got
my '62 Caddy project</i> <i> back on track mechanically,</i> <i> now we can start talking about
making her beautiful.</i> <i> Ryan's called me in
to take a look at something</i> that he really wants me
to check out, and as long as it ain't gonna
cost me any more money, I'll listen. What's going on? - I am trying
to perfect something. - What are you doing, dude? - This is chrome. I'm spraying chrome. - You're... -<i> Because we lost
so much time on the Cadillac,</i> I rushed it
straight through paint. I had no idea the mechanics
weren't done yet. <i> I was planning on
surprising Danny</i> with the new
spray chrome technique, but I really don't want
to press my luck this time. I figured it was better
to get his approval before I spray
all this chrome. - Isn't that, like,
highly illegal? - No, no, no, no. This--this is not, like, dip stuff in the tank chrome. This is spray chrome. - You shot this.
- I shot this. - Let me tell you something
about chroming, man: it's expensive,
it's complicated, and it works with
a lot of dangerous chemicals. <i> I don't know what deal
Ryan made with who</i> <i> or exactly what he's got
in that spray gun,</i> <i> but let me tell you something.</i> <i> If you're looking
for some chrome</i> <i> that's pretty close to it
and you don't want</i> <i> to spend the budget,
this is the stuff.</i> - They've got a system. Everything is
self-contained right here. It will chrome
right in front of you. - This is the Cadillac bumper,
is it not? - Yeah, for the '62. - You're kidding me.
- No, not at all. - This looks real.
- Yeah. It's not a cure-all. We can't replace one
with the other, but anyway,
in certain situations where you've got $20,000
worth of chrome plating or we have $1,800... - I love it, man. What other ideas you got? - What if we did black chrome? You know, chrome with
the black candy on top of it? So it's...
- That's really cool. - Really expensive,
but still cheap, because we're not
chrome dipping. Instead of getting rid
of the chrome, we just upped
the price of the chrome. - Upped the--bro,
I love this thing. Spray it on. I love it.
- Well, hold on. Don't leave yet, 'cause...
- What's the matter? - You know, it took, you know,
a couple dozen or so times to get that figured out. - So the problem is... - The problem is...
I've run out of materials. - Well, how much more
is that gonna cost us? - It's about $1,800. - To get the chemicals here?
- Right. - Oh, man. - But it's beautiful. - I do agree with you
on that. Well, we got to do
what we got to do, and you're right,
it's gonna be gorgeous. This spray chrome
is gonna cost me a little bit more
than my original plan to just blacken out
all the chrome on this Caddy, <i> but Ryan is right.</i> It's gonna look
awesome on this car, and frankly,
it's a great little trick to have up our sleeves
for the future. <i> Yeah, this is
gonna be beautiful.</i> I'm in; I love it. Man, let's do this. <i> [upbeat rock music]</i> <i> ♪ </i> - It's really
not comfortable. - Yeah, I get a little...
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Get off the armrest.
- I want the armrest. - No--whoa, this is
a one-person armrest here. - Come on, just right there
in the corner. You're not using that part. Finally, the '62 Cadillac
is coming together. <i> My chroming supplies
are on their way,</i> so Mike and I,
we're gonna hit the road <i> and try to find some cars.</i> On the left,
there's that Nova I saw. - No, that is...
- [laughs] - That is junk on junk. That's just...
- Man, come on. - Come on, it's nothing. That's crap. - Oh, high school, I'd rock that all day long. - Yeah, in high school. We're grown men now. I don't want to drive
my high school car. - You don't want to go back? You'd have more hair. You'd have a lot more hair. - I'm gonna backhand you.
- [laughs] - Actually, I couldn't
backhand you, 'cause I'm too close. - Yeah, you're gonna
hit the window, dude. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Back there on the right.
- Hold on. Hold on. <i> ♪ </i> Let's check it out. I think it is.
This is a serious car guy. - A Chevy II. - Two-door. - Someone's working on it. - Let's check this out. <i> ♪ </i> - Hey.
- How you doing? - We're stalking
your car. My name is Mike. Good to meet you, bro. - Joe, nice to meet you.
I'm Ryan. - Boy...what do you got here? - '63 Chevy II Nova. - Nice. <i> Debuting in 1962,</i> <i> the Nova was created by Chevy</i> <i> to compete
with the new compact cars</i> <i> that were becoming
more and more popular.</i> <i> In 1963, the Nova 400</i> <i> came with a six-cylinder
engine standard</i> <i> and introduced
self-adjusting brakes,</i> <i> a new grille insert,
and spruced-up trim.</i> <i> This made the Chevy Nova
a sought-after car</i> <i> among buyers who wanted
a compact car,</i> <i> but with some American muscle</i> <i> in its design
and under its hood.</i> Nice. - I'm a Nova/Chevelle/Camaro
guy, so. - Oh, yeah?
- Yeah. - It's got all-new
brake booster and master cylinder, and all the lines
and everything. I just built
this 350 right here. - You're gonna put
the 350 in? - Yeah.
- Whoo, yeah! - That is nice. You got a clean title for it?
- I got a clean title. - Let's say you didn't want
to put all that work into it, and you just wanted
to do a quick sell. What's the magic number? - Magic number?
- Yeah. Make a--make a quick buck on it,
and you can buy something else. - I got offered something
already just for the body. - What'd they offer you? - 6. - 6 grand, huh? So if we come back here
with 5 grand cash... - 6 grand.
- 6 grand. So 6 grand cash.
- 6 grand cash, man. Look, you got to
think about it. You don't have to do
no trunk work. You don't got to do
no floor work. You don't got to do
none of that. Just got to do
some bodywork, man. - He's freaking selling us now. - Joe, you need a job? [laughter] We come back here
6 grand cash... - 6 grand cash. - You'll let loose of her? - I'll let loose of her. - Okay.
We'll pass it on to the boss. - Sounds great, bro.
- Joe, nice meeting you. - Nice to meet you, man.
- Thanks for showing us the car. - Thanks for letting us
invade your house. - No problem, man. Anytime. -<i> As sweet as
that '63 Nova was,</i> <i> 6 grand--that's a little high
for what it was.</i> I really just think he wants
to drop the 350 in it and see what it'll do. <i> Honestly, I can't blame him.</i> That's something. We've got a maybe Chevy II. - Great. I like it, actually. <i> [upbeat rock music]</i> <i> ♪ </i> - So, my brother,
you got some good news for me? - I have some awesome news. - Man, I like good news, man,
and awesome news is even better. We're working on a sweet
1962 Cadillac, and Ryan, he's testing out
this whole new chrome technique. <i> He says the chrome is all done
and ready to go,</i> but I want to check it out
and lay my eyes on it <i> before we go any further.</i> - Number one,
all the chrome is done. Everywhere you look,
it's chrome in this place. - Oh, dude.
- It's everywhere. - Holy.
- Chrome, chrome, chrome. - It just blows me away, bro. I can't believe
this stuff, man. - Even the stupid wire
is chrome. [laughter] - It's so cool,
I can't believe that literally you're
spraying chrome back here. - I know.
- So now what? Now what are we doing? - It's candy time.
- Mmm! You know I like candy.
- All right. -<i> The chrome on this Caddy,</i> <i> it would look pretty good
just like it is,</i> <i> but Ryan and I,
we decided we want</i> <i> to take it
another step further.</i> We're gonna spray some
black candy over the chrome, and that way you'll see that
chrome through the black candy. <i> It takes that total
blackout look</i> <i> that we were gonna do
and makes it that much cooler.</i> - I've made some mixes. I have not sprayed it yet. - Saving it for me.
- Exactly. - Well, let's do this.
- You ready? - Oh, you got a mask for me?
- You need a mask. - Thank you very much. And I don't want, like,
an old mask from Mike or something like that. - Nope, never been used.
- Thank you. - I would never do that. <i> I'm a little nervous
about this.</i> All the spray chrome
came out beautiful. Now I got to spray the candy. If it doesn't look good,
I don't know what I'm gonna do. - You're just gonna spray
on top of this without prep? - Yeah.
- Blows me away. - You can't sand it,
otherwise you'll scratch it. - I'm excited and nervous.
I really want this to work. - There's no test panels. I don't have time
for test panels. - Well, whatever it is,
it is. <i> [upbeat rock music]</i> <i> ♪ </i> Wow. - I'll get it
dialed in. - Yeah, dude, that's actually
looking way, way, way cool. How many coats do you think
you're gonna lay on it? - Two coats of the candy. - How much time are you gonna
wait between coats? - Like, 15 minutes. - 'Cause this has got a way cool look to it. This may be a little bit
more expensive than just painting
everything blacked out... - Just black, yeah. - But I got to tell you,
it is so worth it. <i> This is definitely
the ideal finish</i> for the chrome on this Caddy,
and I'm sure it's gonna bring us more money
for this baby in the end. I love it. <i> [upbeat rock music]</i> <i> ♪ </i> [guitar music] - [laughs] Dude, beautiful,
beautiful axe, man. - Yeah, it sounds
pretty good. - What are you doing?
- Just working on some stuff. - You got a couple minutes? <i> My lead guitar player,
Stoney Curtis,</i> <i> he is busting in
a brand-new toy of his own,</i> so I'm gonna take him outside
and show him my new toy as well. I'm here wrapping up something,
sorting out a project, and it's--it's just
too cool for school, and I got to show it off
to somebody, man. - All right. -<i> After a few little
mechanical hiccups,</i> <i> we finally got this baby
sitting nice and low</i> <i> just like she should be,</i> <i> and that paint job
that Ryan laid down</i> <i> with the satin
and the gloss scallops</i> <i> is just stunning.</i> <i> And that chrome-like finish</i> <i> all over the trim on this car.</i> <i> I got to tell you what, man.</i> <i> I'd use this
on one of my own vehicles.</i> <i> I just hope Stoney is
into this baby as much as I am.</i> Hey, I got to get
Ryan out here, man. Wait, wait, wait.
Bring it out here, man. - Oh, man.
- Dude, dude. - Oh, man.
- Look at this thing. Cadillac. 1962.
- [whistles] - Nice, huh?
- That's sexy. [engine revs] -<i> This old girl
is looking hot.</i> <i> We finally got her
sitting proper</i> <i> on her new springs
that are just the right height.</i> <i> Ryan redeemed himself after
a little bit of a paint issue</i> <i> by coming up with
an affordable and slick way</i> <i> of freshening up all her chrome</i> <i> and giving it
a unique black candy coat.</i> <i> It really pops against
that gorgeous deep red paint.</i> <i> I know there will be
somebody out there</i> <i> who loves her as much as I do</i> <i> and will pay
a lot of dough to get her.</i> It was totally confused
when we got it, so we unconfused it. First thing that we did was,
we made it a proper Cadillac by laying it on the ground. - Right. - Get the proper
gangster wide whites on it, get the proper sombrero hubcaps
with the bullets on them, and then we did this
whole different process, 'cause the chrome was all there,
but it was shot. So basically, you're seeing
chrome through black candy, and it gives it that look. - It looks expensive.
- Yeah, brother. Amen to that.
- See, see, see? - It looks expensive. It's sweet. The way it's
bouncing off there, you don't see
this color anymore. It's lighter.
- Uh-huh. Wow, that's gorgeous. - Nice charcoal with
the silver metal flake on there. - And with scallops, too,
on the roof. - The scallops;
just a mile of scallops. - And the scallops
down the side. - It is beautiful.
- And a mile of pinstriping. - Yeah. - This took a minute
to pinstripe. - Yeah.
- Yeah. It separates
the flat from the gloss, which then makes the gloss pop
that much more. And I love the interior, too,
the white with the red. - Clean, ain't it?
- I mean, it's beautiful. - It's a clean look, man. The back bumper--
same thing. All of this black chrome,
all of this trim. - That's my favorite
part of the car. - Yeah. You'll appreciate
this, too, man. This one's a little bit
different under the hood. It has this Chevy 350
Vortec motor already in it,
all updated. So we went through
the entire motor. We went through the entire
engine compartment... - That is super cool. - Detailed it out,
air conditioning, everything done to this thing. Giant radiator,
the whole bit, in a late-model Vortec head
Chevy small-block 350. Plus, the transmission
is the 200-R4 transmission, which is automatic overdrive. Take it out on the highway, throw it in overdrive,
and cruise. - So this isn't Grandpa's Caddy.
- This ain't Grandpa's Caddy. I'm getting ready
to kind of take it out on a little maiden voyage. - Yeah?
- Yeah. And that's what we were
getting ready to do. - Are you inviting me?
- Yes. Do you want to go? - Let's do it.
- Pull up a chair, brother. - Yeah?
- Yeah, man. - All right. - Oh.
- Oh, man. - [laughs] Nice, huh?
- Come on. - That's pretty cool, man. - They don't make them
like this anymore. - They don't, man.
I'm loving it. Absolutely. Ryan, you want to
sing us something, man? - You don't want me singing. - Come on, man,
anything. - Whoa, whoa, whoa. We've got two singers up front, and you want the dirty paint guy
to start singing? - [laughs] - [sings off-key] - Come on, Ryan,
sing some blues, man. Man, ain't nothing better than cruising this Caddy
with my boys. I just love the way
this car turned out. I told Kevin
I was gonna flip this Caddy, but somebody better get this car
away from me quick, 'cause I just might
change my mind. [engine revving] - This is Vegas right here, man. You got the Vegas Bluesmobile. - [laughs] ♪
