FULL Shop Tour of Gas Monkey Garage Pt. 2- Behind Garage Doors

[Applause] [Music] so what's up everybody you've seen the shop side okay that's where we make the money on this side is where we spend the money and this is where we have fun now i designed monkey's trap at first to become a uh man cave on steroids this is where i keep the cars this is where we have fun we turn up the music we we play uh uh what is that virtual golf game golden tea yeah we've got that here we got some kind of bowling game we got beer pong we've got all kinds of games of skill that involve drinking you know we do dangerous things here actually there's nothing off limits in this building but uh normally i set it up to have like a little receptionist area here and uh some nice art on the walls all of my signs up things like that that i've collected over the years and if you want to read a little further into that this is the [ __ ] that gets sold when i die okay this is the stuff that they have the big auction on and they start selling it off to give to my kids and god bless her if my wife's still with us you know she gets it and uh on my current burn rate everybody's still gonna be alive before i crash i promise you uh this is one of my favorite cars and it's in this little bitty room because it's a 1934 ford that has literally uh only been lightly restored over its entire lifetime which is almost 100 years now and the reason that it's in this little tiny room is because i can't take it out and jack with it or customize it and i can't take it out and break it because this has never had a patch panel it's absolutely perfect it's probably one of the best survivors on the planet and i intend to keep it that way so i can't get it out of the room so here we go this place is set up for parties for events uh we have a good time when the weather's nice and i'm here and i can i try to let people tour through here and have a good time and see the cars in person but that's not always doable uh as far as art goes this is one piece that i made a few years ago this is a wall of early ford flathead speed equipment you've got pieces matching pieces even from fenton from sharp from edelbrock uh from amquys and from whalen i always add an ellen weigh-in because i'm in texas and you want to say whalen like waylon jennings but it doesn't have an l in it it's weighing but uh this is a rocket 88 motor perfectly restored to concourse level ready to go in and uh we've got a few of those laying around there's a hemi motor over there and cool stuff like that as you walk through the business side of this building it's pretty wicked this is one of my holy grail uh accomplishments as we will and anybody that builds hot rods knows that you know if you make it to the front cover of the writer's journal that's that's a feather in your hat right there uh pretty cool a few years ago we had a lottery ticket you could scratch off the spark plugs and see if you won some money uh here in texas it was pretty neat you know it's very humbling to have a lottery ticket you know knowing that people are just angrily going at your face trying to scratch it off and see if they want any money uh this is the business end of uh monkey trap that's going to be coming to you soon this is where we're going to be doing the podcast but it's not really a podcast it's a show but this is where we will sit down and talk to uh the different celebrities and entertainers that come through here but the secret is this back room over here this is my bandit room and it's uh not quite finished yet i've got a ton of more bandit material to put up here uh burt reynolds uh was truly a legend i watched every one of his shows forever and i was just uh you know growing up uh a kid in the 70s you know if you were a trans am fan or you know you've got uh hooper you got stroke or ace you've got just so many movies that bert rails did and he did all his own stunts and he was an amazing guy i'm very humbled to say that i worked on camera with him during our smoking the bandit episodes and god bless his soul because that was an amazing experience but to top it all off you didn't see this on tv but uh bert stepped away after we finished filming and he went in his house and he came out with this hat and uh i saw it i'm like holy cow that's the hat you know i gotta you know can i see it can i touch it he goes you know i never realized who i was going to give this to because i'm going to give it to you and i said if i can't take he goes you will take it and i had like man goosebumps and maybe even man tears i'm like how do you how do you take the hat of the significance and then also take it from burt reynolds and so we ended up you know shaking hands on it and and i'm very proud to be a uh i guess i would be the conservator of this hat because it's gonna live on way past my ears but bert didn't have as big a melon as i do this one sits a little high on the brim if you know what i mean but uh very humbling and very awesome to uh get such a gift from such a legend so this is where all of our stuff's gonna live uh in regards to burt uh right here is well this is monkey trap this is uh where the the the show goes down and it's not a podcast because we're not gonna be sitting here the whole time this is just part of it we're going to be doing things if i'm if i'm talking to somebody that's in the food we're going to be cooking some food right there in that kitchen if i'm talking to somebody that's in the blue jeans i'm going to be the blue jean plant making blue jeans so uh this is just part of it you know the old trap sign here if you've ever been to uh the restaurant this is half of what was called the texas trap and it was down off of uh i think it was northwest highway and garland road area and no bs people died there this was like a rough and tumble crazy bar back in the 60s and it was a big biker bar there's lots of rumbling lots of fighting and lots of you know just well mayhem so it's pretty cool to be the conservator of this and that's the last time i'm going to say conservator but check it out one of my favorite things where's that oh this so this is a it's a it's a crap sam i gotta cover this word up and and i got it this is a crap sandwich and i said just forget it uh forget the bun just just crap at my hand wait a second this is this is not my show i can say the words right so check it out this says [ __ ] the bun just [ __ ] in my hand okay and the reason i said that is because i was having a bad day and and uh you know when you're having a bad day one of the expressions is oh just keep feeding me the [ __ ] sandwich i'll just keep eating it yum yum well this was such a shitty day that i said [ __ ] the bun just [ __ ] in my hand just do it right here and this was aimed at my production crew at the time which were some of the greatest guys on and gals on the planet but i was just fed up i was done and i was done eating that [ __ ] sandwich and uh that's one of my favorite trophies i ever got from the crew uh hats off to you guys y'all made me look good on tv and that's pretty hard making a guy like me look good yeah i'm doing all right so anyways this is where we lounge we hang out we got a kitchen in there if smurfy says the bar is open the bar is open and that light never goes out as a matter of fact smurfy has an assistant that says if that light goes out there's a freaking problem and richard's going to kill you so the bar's always open that's just the way it is here because we're on this side it's time to relax it's time to unwind it's time to enjoy the eye candy that i'm fixing to show you and it's just this is my happy place i get happy here i gotta think about that for a second yeah i'm pretty [ __ ] happy so check this out this building uh we set up to house the cool stuff house the rods that i want to keep and then also hopefully show the public as many times as we can and let them in and let them see it we haven't got to do that as much especially with covid but uh that's the way it is over here is the tons and tons of memorabilia and stuff that i haven't hung up yet down there is my sprinter that is my conveyance for when i'm having some beers or popping around town or even when i go out of town it is something that i absolutely needed but i absolutely didn't i just have no self-control i wanted to sit in the back and sleep and play on the internet while somebody else did the work of driving me to the set and that turned into a double-edged sword because if you're in your conveyance and you got you know some cold beer and you're hanging out you're going down to do some filming or you're done filming for that matter and you're like well you know i'm gonna have a couple beers i got a driver i'm being safe and then you're like well wait a second i'm gonna have a lot of beers because i have a driver and i'm being safe it's a bad deal don't get a conveyance don't get your own personal conveyance because it'll just lead down bad roads here comes the hard part i'm gonna need another beer for this one it's okay i can wait yeah there's none in that fridge because i drank those you're gonna have to go to the other building i'm good though i'll just drink a beer uh you know what never mind get me the beer and i'll talk about cars all right so check it out this is a 1932 roadster that i had a gentleman up in oregon build for me a couple of years ago the the cool part about it is it's a traditional roadster it's got a kinemon brake system in it that's a well it's built to resemble those brakes which were actually had three brake pads that went out this one has hidden disc brakes inside it small blocks chevy uh automatic overdrive [ __ ] chop top just a traditional looking super cool uh ready to go little roadster i love this car uh the reason that i bought this car and had the guy up there build it for me is that uh when i started gas monkey back in 2004 i found this hood ornament at a swap meet and i bought the hood ornament and i always wanted a 32 roaster so i said you know what i'm going to keep this hood ornament and one day it's going to sit on my 32 ford roadster and now it does is this a real 32 ford roadster no it is a steel body from brookville and it is an aftermarket frame so i don't care i'm not you know freaking out about it not being original because this car is freaking super cool it is all steel super fast super fun and i love the fact that uh this guy built it for me way cheaper than i could have even built it for myself but he's a badass guy he's a good craftsman and i'm proud of the car so there you go are you here with my beer yet oh thanks god we're gonna try to drink one beer per car it's not gonna work i'm lying and we're gonna drink this beer and probably be done so this is a 1931 ford roadster and uh i love this car because a guy in california put his heart and soul into this car over the course of about three or four years it is highly detailed it's very specially built and it's a bitching car it's got high horsepower nice five speed behind it uh the four strongbergs are set up i mean this car is bitching cool it's fun to drive and i sought it for sale and i went ahead and bought it and had it brought here to gas monkey now one of the big things that i get in the old interwebs if they see it is everybody's out there oh that's the car that paul senior had jesse james build for him and blah blah no no no this car is a hundred times better than that car and it is faster and is more streetable and doesn't have the stupid crooked headlights like i don't even know why those are on there to tell you the truth at the end of the day the guy that built this car knew exactly what he was going for he nailed it perfectly and i consider it a piece of art just like the black 32 roadster these are well executed cars and they're super cool this one here is a 1932 ford three window as you can tell i like my 32s it's an all steel car uh it's an all real car and we actually redid it a little bit on the show i believe and just kind of gave it a little bit more attitude it kind of had a little bit of an 80s attitude to it and we stuck it back into the uh early to mid 60s attitude this car's got all the creature comforts at home ac bluetooth radio you know it's just a fun ride and i like to drive this car a lot uh the fun part about you know getting to have this many cars is well you get to drive them now i'm going to get all the way through them before i tell you about the shitty part you guys remind me about the shitty part this 32 ford 5 window i chased for years it was built by a friend of mine named byron and his dad and one of his dad's good friends and they spent years perfecting this car again just like the other cars just perfectly executed nothing over the top nothing too crazy just an awesome all steel all reel 32 ford now i love this car it's absolutely impeccable i tried to buy it for years and years and years i mean i think i was trying to buy this car when i you know 2010 2012 and i just kept trying to buy it and i finally got a hold of it and it's a great car to drive i love it so there you go it is pretty cool color it's got a lot of eyeball appeal and there you go this i don't even know why this is in here i think this belongs to one of my uh employees as we mentioned uh before that like to say they're working on uh one of their projects right and uh so there you go uh yeah it's a baja bug i'm sure it's pretty cool tony's a pretty uh what was the word i was looking for tony's pretty uh old yeah he's old but he's also very uh detail-oriented as to what he's building so you know there you go so this one here has got a pretty good story everybody knows my uh my ex suzanne uh which we call sue we had a set of 1968 shelbys the gt350 and gt500 when i started the business and i had to sell them because i needed capital we you know we're a brand new business we're doing it when i sold hers the the 350 like this uh she was a little upset uh obviously nobody wants to get rid of their shelby right well i promised her i'd buy her new one and you know one day i promise you gas monkey's gonna work i'm gonna get you one and sure enough gas monkey was working one day and i got her one and uh that's badass so why is it here well she didn't like me much on the second divorce so she told me just to keep the damn car so there you go how many guys get to keep the car in the divorce situation that's me now this one's super cool uh this is a dodge demon check it out it's got some different colors and stuff but i was actually having a little bit of fun doing all my dodge stuff and i had a couple of cars laying around and then i said well i need this and oh i need to mock this up for my drag car and oh can i get a couple of these wheels and i actually uh built this car out of just spare parts doesn't have a motor or interior or vin numbers or anything it's just cool i got a whole dodge demon sitting here now if you want it so you can go race it and build you a bracket car build you whatever you want to build you know it's for sale because cash is king this car here 78 78 trans am and it's got a leaf on it this is [ __ ] who cleans my cars uh i'm proud of this car for two reasons um i bought it i searched the the world over if you if you will remember the hee haw song oh that's a good one anybody remember the he-haw song searched the world over and i thought i found true love you met another and you were gone so anyways my 78 trans am i flipped cars all through high school and uh i started with the vomit comet it was horrible and i ended up graduating at 18 years old driving this car in 1987 uh and it was super badass uh so i'm pretty proud of this car it's got a hog leg four speed in it 6.6 power steering power brakes ac windows what have you it's pretty cool car to be driving around at my age at that time so this one here is my 65 k code two plus two fastback this is a killer car you know if you're into mustangs the k code was the higher horsepower 289 option and what have you so this car's been concourse restored on the outside and underneath and inside black on red is a killer combination but i wanted to go a little further oh i know what you're saying did he just set the beer on the paint yes it did because it's mine it's my car it's my beer i can do it i want boom not your typical k code get you some of that so it's also backed up to a five-speed [ __ ] instead of a four uh all ridetech suspension and four-wheel disc brakes this is a fun fun car to drive so there you go this one one of my favorite finds in the last year or so 1959 corvette popped up on craigslist here in dallas fort worth area and i called the guy he answered and uh it didn't run and drive it had been sitting in the garage for a very long time and so um i said hey i'm not going to argue the price i've already got a guy with cash in the truck with a trailer he's coming to pick it up and he goes great come on so we picked it up and drug it out of the garage got it back here gave it a little bit of a tune-up clean the gas and the gas lines runs like a top uh i mean just a great car to drive every day and i'll tell you what it was in storage in that guy's garage for 20 plus years right here in dallas texas and he calls me up and he goes i sold that car too cheap didn't i and i said oh yeah you did because he goes yeah i thought so so i was pretty happy to have given him 17 grand for this one pretty cool car but uh anyways now this one well i got a rolls baby this is a 1987. no wrong this 1986 rolls royce love this car uh i always wanted one in high school you know people aspired to have a rolls royce or maybe a uh lamborghini you know the things that were on the posters this was on a poster and so was the lamborghini back in 86 and 87 and i ran across this car super nice car love it to death i would love to be driving it right now but instead i'm talking to you people now i'll give you a few minutes to think about it but this is a quick silver zimmer only has 300 original miles it's actually all steel and uh who can tell me what it's powered by you guys that's only because i told you you were supposed to be quiet this was supposed to be a suspenseful moment in the filming of the shop and the in a monkey trap you just ruined it for those people out there that were thinking about it all right so anyways this is a like 80s fiero underneath here it's called a zimmer but it's weird but it only has like three or four hundred original miles and i bought it at an auction they had it estimated at 35 000 to 50 000 and i thought it would only bring 15 or 20. so i put in a bid at uh 25 just to be safe and i got it for 22. okay i'll try not to get emotional on this vehicle this is my dad's 1965 fastback and uh everyone knows that my dad has advanced alzheimer's and he's in a home right now one of the few things that he ever remembers even you know foregoing my name he doesn't remember that as much as he remembers this car that that's his mustang he had it for probably close to 20 years and uh he was he was hoarding uh you know during those years and it took my team close to a day and a half just to get it out of the garage i had actually thought he had already sold it or forgot where it was or or what have you but we got it out it sits here um i thought about restoring it but i think it's cooler to leave it exactly like it is my dad's too far advanced now i used to bring him here and take him for rides but he can't handle that action right now but this car i don't believe i'll ever sell unless it's to help him in some sort of way or to help with alzheimer's in some sort of way it's not a real gt350 although he believed it was all those years it's basically just a you know a six cylinder six cylinder 65 mustang fast backlits over the years gotten a transplanted heart got a 289 in it and a little uh four speed and it's a fast fun car to drive and uh you know that's pops mustang right there so it ain't going nowhere anytime soon this one here is a 1936 roadster pretty rare car especially in original condition this car over the years has been maybe lightly restored um it's all original sheet metal absolutely zero patch panels anywhere uh zero bondo anywhere it's it's just always been a really nice car that's always been kept up and uh has just always been a good driver so pretty cool car i don't remember where i bought this from but uh there you go this 1951 ford is actually a fordilac and which means in the 50s uh in mid 50s to later they started taking the 331 cadillac motors out of the cadillacs and putting them into the ford uh shoe boxes and called them a fordilac what's really cool about this is this car has been in this neighborhood since the 50s it's literally never lived more than a mile from this building uh it was phipps's dad's car uh everybody knows phipps and phipps i guess his dad took his mom to the hospital to give birth to phipps in this car i mean how crazy is that so i really love cars with with hot rod nostalgia and you know that are true to the city that they lived in this car's never left here and uh phipps's dad built it in the mid 50s and made it a fortilac and it's got the overdrive transmission and i'll tell you uh maybe one day we need to do a full story on this car with phipps and uh let him take us for a ride in it because this is it's a hell of a cool car um i'm proud to be uh can't say that word but i'm proud to be uh taking care of this car phipps is working for us now and uh it sits here and gets taken out every once in a while back here we got a few offices pretty cool you know i've got my golden elk if any of you guys and gals want to know where my golden elk came from and you can't figure it out just by looking at it then you don't have a twin peaks restaurant in your area at twin peaks restaurants and there's about 180 of them they put these things in the front entrance everywhere no matter what and i transferred a restaurant down in fort hood texas into one of mine and it was the twin peaks so they left the elk and i brought it home i thought it would be really cool to stick it on top of my rolls-royce as like a like a mega hood ornament but it proved to be too heavy and i left it here too long and mike coy decided to paint it gold because he thought it would be funny so there you go that's the story of the golden elk as you can tell we got a lot of cool signs up in the air you know uh greenville avenue bar and grill sign over here is really really cool it's an old bar that's been in dallas texas since the late 40s maybe early 50s and i'm just stoked to be taking care of that sign we're fixing to get it all working and what have you over there we got tvs we got spots where the millennials sit and do whatever it is that y'all do i have no idea there's my straight outta compton movie poster love that killer movie i highly suggest you watch it here is um the first car that gas monkey ever built as a business i had this idea back in 2003 that the patinaed cars i.e cars that didn't have the paint didn't have all of the things on it that would cause you to not want to drive it i.e be too nice like some of these uh that you could still have a killer car that uh ran and drove and and had all the creature comforts at home and was dependable and everything else but when you go and put all that money into paint uh then you start getting nervous about driving it then you start getting worried about driving it or am i gonna get a dirtying or somebody gonna put their beer on it you know or whatever so i built this car with aaron and uh it was the first car that gas monkey ever built it's a 51 chevrolet fleet line uh this uh here and on the back deck is our original logo when we started gas monkey and this is kind of what put us on the map gene winfield himself came up and he was looking at it at a show and he says how long ago was this car chopped and i said i don't know how long you think he goes well it had been a long time ago and he's looking at it and i said about two weeks and he's like looks at me like i'm crazy you know and it's gene winfield you know i'm stunned i i just started this garage and i'm already talking to gene winfield he goes wow he goes that's pretty crazy but it was the way in which we chopped it that made it look as though it's been done forever ago uh what we did was we actually sectioned the car we cut it across the amb pillars and sank it across the back fenders and literally pushed the top down because when you actually chop a car usually you're going to pie cut it and bend your metal in and fold everything down and then work the metal so this just gives the illusion that it was chopped a long long time ago which now it has been now it's been 17 years since this car was chopped but i love this car being the fact that it was the very first car that we built as gas monkey i sold and bought this car three times i sold this car once because we needed the money we were starting the business and then i bought it back because we made a little money then i sold it again because we needed the money and we're in business then we made a little money so i bought it back and then the third time you saw on the show where i went to venice beach and bought it and somebody shoe horned a 572 big block into it and some kind of crazy rear end and but still used all the old 50s uh suspension it was literally a death trap so we pulled that motor out and uh here it sits with no motor we're going to get around to sticking a heartbeat back in it soon but uh there you go then we get over here like i said we got beer pong set up we got regular pong we got games we've got a lot of stuff i wish i could show you everything but this is another car that i'm proud to own uh this is the first car that we built as gas monkey garage on tv uh so this is episode one uh we built it in about 20 days uh it's just a i guess you would call it a traditional model a four-cylinder uh you know this car would have been being hot rodded and built uh in the early thirties uh and this is the way they would have done it they were ripping the fenders off putting a little bit bigger wheel and tire and hopping up the motor and off you go not a lot of uh bells and whistles back then that stuff hadn't come along so we've got the first car that gas monkey ever built and the first car that we ever built on tv so that's pretty cool so check it out now this is what i like this is probably the coolest car to have in the collection uh this is called the king tee so what's really cool about this car is gene winfield built this in 1963 and it was the first year that corvette came out with their independent rear suspension so in 1963 he took brand new corvette parts and modified them like this and made this car exactly as you see it today uh with the turn dash the woodwork all the chrome i mean there's so much chrome work on this car it's insane and uh small block chevy the only thing that's not original to this car right now from the way it was built in 1963 uh is it had a different intake setup but i have the intake set up it's in a box up there on the shelf so just like with working with burt reynolds from you know the movie side of things and the cool side of things the other coolest cat in the world is is mr gene winfield he built this car won the america's most beautiful roadster award in 1963. this car's been in more magazines than you can count it's been a model it's been a hot wheel it's been it's been everything in the world it was in the original sweet 16 hot wheels set that came out when hot wheels started it was called the hot heap instead of the king t but it is the king tea we've got everything about it this is probably the favorite car here in the collection and i got to tell you uh mr winfield when he came here you know i'll call him gene it was amazing because he told me i said what's the secret sir i said you're you know getting into your 90s and you're still chopping cars and working every day and painting cars and whatever he goes richard i've never drank and i've never smoked never in my whole life and i said well sir that is very commendable but i've drank enough and smoked enough for both of us so hopefully i last as long so i don't know odds are probably in his favor but we're both having a good time we both played with cars now i got to tell you coming from that to this this is you know amazing i'm very privileged and blessed to do what i do and i'm very thankful and humbled by you guys and guys out there that are uh watching gas monkey and watching me and watching what we do and i plan to have a lot of fun with you in the future things are going up for gas monkey we are absolutely got some killer plans and mufflers hate mufflers i'm going to make that my new woo woo mufflers i hate them so the bottom line is i get asked a lot of times you know richard you know you you only have your first and first cars in here so why is it that you have everybody else's cars not your own well i built cars to sell that's that's how we sustain a business i take that money and i buy things that i like that i think are built well and i like to own those cars so this is my collection it's not every car i built because that wouldn't be a very good business model these are pieces of art there are pieces of craftsmanship all the way from the legend himself gene winfield to guys and gals that are all hoping to be the next gas monkey or have huge respectable businesses of their own already i'm proud to have this collection and i am very humbled and i thank every one of you guys and gals out there for watching keep watching we got kick-ass stuff coming up and uh well i'm gonna blow your mind because cable is dead can i get another beer already [Music]

Channel: Gas Monkey Garage & Richard Rawlings

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Id: 9qKc3ZEgYDo

Length: 32min 39sec (1959 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 29 2021