You really do look like a Corvette guy.
You look just like my dad.
What's up, America?
We're now only three weeks away
from our big diesel auction.
Ouch. [bleep]
-Did you bonk your head? -Uh, ho-ho. That hurt.
[Heavy D] And we're picking up the pace
with three new auction builds.
We're set to finish our first ever rat rod.
Get the seal of approval from the Rust Master himself.
I'm serious, like, I feel like I'm in a dump truck.
That's how my whole life feels.
[Diesel] Whoo!
Look who came to party!
[Heavy D] Along with a military truck build.
I'd never driven one of these before.
Oh, hey.
That sinks us like a pair of cement boots.
I can't find a bed in time for the auction.
Get ready because we are about to go on absolutely wild ride
that takes some very unexpected twists and turns.
Maybe we shouldn't sell it.
[laughter]
The open road.
I think this will be worth the trip.
It's not only a concrete truck,
it's an off road concrete truck.
-Ooh! -[Heavy] Military.
We're only three weeks away
from putting on what we believe is gonna be
the biggest and most exciting diesel auction
the world's ever seen.
We've got a really strong lineup on deck,
but we're not done yet.
[Heavy D] We still have quite a bit of work to do on our '50s
Chevy with the Cummins pop in it.
Definitely a Cummins because it's leaving its mark here.
[Heavy D] Is it leaking?
[Diesel] Oh, jeez.
But we still need one more big crazy build
to be able to get more bidders to the auction.
So we're gonna go out and find ourselves
a giant cement mixer truck
that happens to be military grade.
If this is gonna bring another audience to the auction,
construction guys.
We buy this thing for between 10 and 15 grand.
It should sell for now 30, 40.
Nice.
[Diesel] Here it is. AM General.
[Heavy D] What's up, man? How's it going?
It's a big truck, man. It's bigger than I thought.
The construction market's hot right now.
A truck like this, it's actually made to work
in an industry where there's a lot of shortages right now.
I mean, come on. I'm a freaking genius.
[engine starting]
[Heavy D] It's kind of a unique truck.
It's like the military's version of a semi-truck.
The M915 is the base model in a tactical truck series
produced in the late '70s to early '80s.
It's a 6 x 4 rear wheel drive, 14 ton semi-tractor
powered by a big Cummins motor
designed for use on improvised roads.
[Heavy D] Now this M919
in the series is a concrete mobile mixer
with the capability to transport
dry concrete ingredients and water,
mix the ingredients and discharge mixed concrete.
[Heavy D] Up to the top.
I mean, there's a decent amount of rust,
but I don't think it
it's not real like structural, right?
[Diesel] Yeah, it looks all surface rust to me.
[Heavy D] I don't know.
Now I know why it's so cheap.
I just looked in the bed there.
There's a lot of rust, but I think the truck alone
is probably worth what he's asking.
We're gonna find out.
All right.
Well, seen the body, I'd like to see how it drives.
-Let me take it for a drive. -Take it... Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
I've never driven one of these before.
-All right. -Uh!
[Diesel] Oh, hey.
-And that really sounds good. -Yeah.
Yay! We're on a roller coaster.
Bang those gears.
Pow, pow.
I was literally floored, banging through all the gears,
but we weren't going any faster.
[laughs] That's crazy.
So the motor on this truck is obviously good.
Something with the gearing or the transmission
doesn't let the truck go very fast.
So we'll have to look into that a little bit.
Nice shift in there, captain.
Dude, that thing's a trip.
But more concerning to me right now
is the fact that the cement mixer body is,
uh, it's just, it's toast.
Basically, we would spend more money
trying to fix this mixer body
than go buy a new one.
Well, Francisco,
-what are you asking on it? -Fifteen.
You know, she got nice motor,
but I don't think I could get 15 for it.
I think we're, we're probably closer to, like, eight.
-Twelve? -It go ten on it.
I'd probably do that.
-That'll work. -Go with ten?
-[Francisco] That'll work with me. -All right. Deal!
Let's get you some money and then figure out
-how to get this loaded, huh? -Okay.
[Diesel] Whoa.
Stay that way a little bit.
Doing so many modifications on this.
M919 military cement mixer truck.
[sighs] It's a little bit of a risk
because with only three weeks left before the auction.
[Diesel] Bring it right to the wood.
[Heavy] You know, that's a lot of work to do
to be able to get it ready.
But if we're able to get this truck like ready to for sale,
I have a feeling it's gonna bring in
some really high-end bidders,
who need a reliable, heavy duty
piece of construction equipment.
Meanwhile, Muscle's back at the shop helping finish up
with what is hopefully
the last of the mechanical issues
on our latest auction vehicle.
The 1957 Chevy
with a Cummins motor straight from a school bus.
[man] I had a school bus.
And they were parked next to each other...
And they fell in love.
However, we're gonna double down
on the super kind of rundown,
beat up appearance and make that
kind of the whole appeal of the car.
But we can't touch any of that until
we get all the mechanical stuff sorted out first.
He's already gone through the engine,
fixed all the leaks.
[Diesel] No more oil leak.
Replace some of the unconventional parts.
Down right, down at the farm.
And replace the rear diff
so the rear wheels can take a turn,
but nobody's gonna be able to drive it
if we don't fix the steering.
[Justin] That really not turning?
Huh!
The rag joints is completely destroyed.
Oh.
What are you working on?
-Chain the cookie? -Huh?
The coo...chain the cookie.
-Chain the cookie. -See.
-What's that? -Does it cookie? This one.
-That's what you call it? -[man] Yeah.
[Muscle] You know what the English word is for it?
-No. -What is it?
Rag joint.
The rag joint connects the steering wheel
to the steering shaft,
and the one in the Chevy is basically in crumbles,
which makes the steering wheel pretty much useless.
And with that big old Cummins stuffed in there,
there's not a whole lot of room to work around,
which means there's only one man for the job.
Oh, man, it will die.
[Muscle] You sure you know what you're doing?
[man] I'm trying amigo.
[Muscle] I'm glad you have really small arms and hands.
The rubber is there to be able to dampen vibrations
and different things like that.
Well, the problem with this rag joint
is the rubber failed, flipped off to one side.
So we have to be able to replace that
so we can connect those two ends back together
and get our steering back.
[Muscle] Can you get it on? [man] It's on amigo.
-[Muscle] Huh? -[man] It's on. It's on.
[Muscle] Oh, ho-ho. You don't know.
-Yeah, there's one... -I don't think so.
We won't know until we drive it,
but that feels much better.
The steering fixed on the Chevy.
We can finally turn our attention
to doing some of the cool stuff,
like putting our own little touches on it that we wanted to,
to be able to get it up and ready for the auction.
Which is good because...
After you trade one of our auction vehicles
for new military truck of your own...
We got it, Heavy!
Yeah!
Red Beard swore up and down
that he was gonna make you give up
one of your favorite vehicles for this auction.
If it's the last thing I do, he's gonna replace it.
You're gonna do that with that man bun?
Yeah, I do everything with this man bun.
And Red Beard chose his victim.
Rattletrap is one of the coolest Jeeps ever built.
It's got, you know, really high-end suspension,
high-end axles, really nice wheels and tires.
It's got snorkel. It's got the Cummins engine.
We bought Rattletrap to use in a giveaway
that we called Double Jeepardy!
Well, the winner of that giveaway ended up
choosing cash which,
you know, had us basically keep Rattletrap
and we've had a lot of fun with it.
Maybe too much fun.
You know Rattletrap, better than most, you've been up
the canyon with me.
It's awesome. But it could be awesomer.
-Yeah. -It needs a little TLC.
It does definitely need some TLC.
I know Heavy D is trying to convince me
that Rattletrap's in too rough a shape
put up for the auction.
But I'm not falling for it.
I know how many people love this Jeep
when it was part of the giveaway,
and I'm sure with just a little bit of elbow grease,
it'll be as good as new.
You know what happens if we get
all these high-end buyers out to the auction?
And one of them, they're obviously gonna be tire kickers
and they come out and give her one of these,
or even worse, they give her one of those.
And it sounds like a shopping cart with a bad wheel.
-Oh. -See those shocks.
-[Red] Yeah. -They could use some love.
We originally spent $99,000 when we purchased Rattletrap
to give it away the first time.
And fortunately, the giveaway went really well
and they you know paid for the Jeep
and everybody was happy.
However, this Jeep that once was worth $99,000
really isn't worth anything
if it can't tackle all these off road obstacles
that it was built to do.
This is your responsibility.
-Okay. -You got it.
You know, what we need to do to get ready for the auction?
-[Muscle] Come on. -[Heavy D] Success or failure?
-All on my shoulders? -[Red] Yeah.
We have to basically bring it back to life,
and then we got to go take it for a test.
Like, I'm not gonna put this thing up for the auction
if it's not doing exactly what it's supposed to be.
Because if we get it running right,
fix everything needs to be fixed.
We could make a decent profit on this.
We have to take it for a shakedown test.
Oh, you know what?
You need a boost.
-Get in there. -[Justin] Oh, my God.
[Muscle] Come on. Get in. Open the door.
-Open the door. -[Justin] Man.
-I got it. -Thanks.
I've been commissioned by Heavy D to make sure
that Rattletrap is ready for the auction.
[engine starting]
The only way for me to feel comfortable
about somebody buying it at the auction is gonna be driving it.
When you drive it, you feel everything.
I'm already here in a little trunk.
I feel it being a little squishy in the suspension.
It's definitely feeling really soft.
One thing is very clear on our drive over here.
These shocks are completely shot.
Let's get off here to Harry to nice flex it out
and see how it looks.
Yeah.
The big coil over shocks on Rattletrap
use compressed nitrogen to dampen the ride.
A standard shock on a car
is literally just a shock body
with oil and a little bit of gas.
But these types of coil over shocks,
the nitrogen keeps pressure on the shock fluid.
[Heavy D] The piston pushes it back and forth.
That compressed nitrogen is basically
being compressed more on and off.
And that's what allows you to dampen the ride.
There's a lot more moving parts.
If one little thing goes wrong,
it can keep the whole shock
from functioning the way it's supposed to.
There was a clicking noise over here.
[Justin] Yeah, there was a pretty gnarly clunk on that side.
You know what? It's right here.
-It's on this Heim joint. -[Justin] Ooh, yeah.
[Muscle] Is completely blown out.
[Justin] Oh, yeah. That Heim is completely blown out.
[Muscle] Destroyed.
I would say immediately we need to do shocks.
Replacing the bushings on the Heim joint
is absolutely an easy fix.
But these high performance shocks can cost
anywhere from $4,000 to $12,000.
So this is an expensive fix
that's definitely gonna cut into the profit.
[Heavy D] I want to strip it down to the bare frame.
Yes!
[Heavy D] I mean, one wrong move right now
this whole thing tumbles off.
[indistinct chatter]
Yee-hoo!
Yeah!
[Diesel] Look who came to party!
We're only a few weeks away from our big auction,
and I'm starting one last big build.
It's an M919 military cement mixer truck
with a bad cement mixer.
I know why it's so cheap.
I just looked in the bed there.
There's a lot of rust.
Oh, boy. That's gonna be close.
This truck has incredible on and off road capabilities.
It's designed to haul heavy loads to any terrain.
So even though we don't have a cement mixer working for it,
I still feel like we'll be able to get this truck
in a good condition that
somebody will be able to see it,
take it and go straight to work.
I don't think the cement mixer is any good.
-We're gonna take it off. -[Chris] Oh?
I want to strip it down to the bare frame.
Bigger trucks, bigger money.
It'll also usually means bigger, heavier,
more awkward to move
parts and pieces such as the bed.
This truck, I mean, this is not a small task.
Yeah!
Ooh! Only...
14 more to go.
It's time to try to free the bed from the frame.
[Diesel] That's definitely still connected right there.
This is where things get really, really sketchy.
I mean, one wrong move right now.
This whole thing tumbles off
and Chris and Dave are over there, so.
[Chris] How about your hose on this side?
Now that I got the bed pretty much separated.
We've got to cut a couple of hoses there
that are connected to the bed still.
Wow!
[foreign language]
Everything it's starting...
[Muscle] No, no.
[Diesel] Nice.
[indistinct chatter]
So now that we got the bed off this truck,
I'm able to get a much better look
at the cabin chassis to see
what we're working with to convert this into,
you know, an ultimate work truck.
[Heavy D] First, we're gonna climb underneath
and figure out what's going on with the transmission.
We've got to make sure that the power from the Cummins engine
is making it to the wheels.
[Heavy D] Then we're gonna make
the most of the off road suspension
with some bigger traction tires.
We'll tie up all the loose hoses and wiring
from the old cement bed and replace it with a heavy duty flatbed,
the beefy custom rack and storage for tools.
[Heavy D] Then we'll clean up the body, full paint,
front rear bumpers and a big set of work lights up top.
Look, this is obviously a ton of work to get done
in just three short weeks,
which is why I need the muscle to get cracking
and finding us that flatbed.
Well, Heavy D's busy with his new military truck build.
I'm gonna help Morgan finally put some Diesel Brother
touches on our 1957 diesel Chevy.
Now that the engine
and the steering are in tip-top shape.
Oh, ho-ho!
We're gonna focus a little bit more on the cosmetic side.
And right now, that big old Pegasus shifter knob
isn't cutting it anymore.
Morgan and I, one chunk of aluminum...
We're gonna take a big chunk of aluminum down
to our friends at Inner West.
Whoa!
And they're gonna carve our patented bearded skull
into it with their waterjet machines.
Now he's got to get to work,
turning it into an actual shifter knob.
-[Ryan] Check it out, man. -[Diesel] Oh, dude!
Most expensive shifter knob of all time.
I am super impressed with. I mean, look at the eyes.
Look at the definition. The nose, beautiful.
The next step is we need to clean up the skull.
I need to make sure that all the nooks
and crannies are free of debris.
Now, that's all cleaned up.
We're gonna weld the base on
and then take it over to the lathe
to give it a nice, smooth,
round shape that'll fit
much nicer in the palm of your hand.
Go to that. Tighter, tighter.
-[laughs] -[Ryan] Ooh!
All right.
Oh, that is so sick.
Let's try that.
Wow! Wow! Wow!
[Ryan] That is huge.
I love that. [laughs]
[song playing]
So Rattletrap used to be worth almost a 100 grand,
but right now the shocks are completely busted.
I'm already hearing in a little tunk.
I feel it being a little squishy in the suspension.
So in order for us to sell this
close to what the original price tag was,
we need new shocks.
But, of course,
Red Beard isn't gonna let us spend the money
on new high performance shocks.
So Muscle came up with a workaround.
Here are the shocks.
I see the look on your face already.
These are on a vehicle
that essentially was built more than 15 years ago.
That's how old the shocks are.
Once we get the coils off, we can inspect the shaft.
See if there's any major nicks.
-Ooh. -Now, that's why it's leaking.
So upon pulling the coils off,
we noticed that one of the shocks
had ripped the reservoir hose out of the top cap.
[Muscle] This was the real issue
about completely destroyed.
[Kellen] Yeah. All the aluminum shavings.
[Muscle] Yeah. You can see the threads in there.
With the reservoir hose being ripped out of the top cap,
you can only go up a hose size.
-Perfect. -Oh, those are much bigger hoses.
Those are bigger hoses.
[Muscle] That's quite a bit different.
Yeah. This is gonna make it right a lot better on the road.
We will have to drill and tap these tops.
Uh-oh.
This now just became a lot harder and a big deal.
We've got to drill out and tap
these aluminum pieces to fit this fitting.
This isn't like drilling into a shift or not.
If we don't do the boring
and the tapping on both ends of these, correct
it's gonna ruin these shocks.
First step, I guess, is get this in their level
and perpendicular to that.
Wait. Why do we need to have it level?
[Kellen] Don't want to drill the hole crooked.
Right there, its level.
[Muscle] This is like surgery.
If it's off, it's bad.
[Muscle] There's an X and a Y, all kinds of angles.
He was measuring the table. He was measuring the shock.
Bubbles perfect now, from this plane to this plane,
which means that should be perpendicular
to the drill now.
Man, the first couple of minutes is always scary.
[scream]
[Kellen] Here we go, gentlemen.
It just started breaking through.
A little bit more.
-It's good. -[Ryan] All right, we're good.
-Yeah. Ha, ha, ha. -Buddies!
Tapping is the most precise part
of this whole entire operation.
If we tap too far,
we will actually pull through all of the threads
that we ended up tapping into the first place
and making the hole too big.
That's exactly why we're doing this manually.
Let's see if that fitting threads
in should go in the same.
I can, I can feel it.
Start the tension up right there.
We fully get everything back together.
Oil all the way in.
Seals, all the way closed.
The shock is fully compressed.
Now it's time to fill it with nitrogen
at 150 PSI
and hopefully get this shock to come all the way up.
[Ryan] Perfect! Bam!
No leaks, filled up, shocks done.
We got three more to go.
[bleep].
I think it crashed my skull.
[Muscle] These shocks need to work
and they need to work really well.
[Kellen] Look at this thing go, dude.
It's crazy.
Ready to get started on this M919.
So I can find a bed.
But there's no way it would be here in time for the auction.
So we're currently in a little bit of a holding pattern
waiting for parts
to be able to finish our big military M919,
you know, heavy truck build.
[Muscle] I had to go find eight wheels and tires that match.
Muscle's already completely fixed the shocks on Rattletrap.
[Justin] All right. There.
Now you can go through and give a tune up
to that 12-valve Cummins motor,
so that when old Heavy D here
puts it through the ultimate off road test,
he can deem it worthy to leave the nest.
All done under there.
And our third auction vehicle, the 1957 Chevy Classic
with the Cummins swap,
is finally leaving the mechanical bay
and getting ready to get some of those
finishing touches down on the exterior
that are really gonna just put that stamp of rat rod
approval on this build.
So do you remember the restoration guys that came
and did the appraisal on the Volkswagen?
Yes, I do.
-We're going to their place. -Okay.
They're the ones that are gonna be doing this patina for us.
Okay.
Our buddies over at Mat's Rods and Restorations,
who've consigned us their own build for the auction,
do something called a patina finish on vehicles that's pretty cool.
Shane, right over here, Shane.
All right. Keep it right there.
What do you think?
Thirty years I've been working on cars,
and I've never seen anything
or driven anything quite like this.
That's good.
All right. You're the expert.
What's the first step here to getting this patina?
Well, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna clean off
bunch of that paint
and get some of that body filler feathered out.
Take out some of that rust, clean it up a little bit,
spray down my rust mode, and then let it do its thing.
-Okay. Let's see it. -[man] All right.
The first part of this process focuses on removing rust
and stopping it from spreading.
Rust is technically alive.
It feeds on oxygen and metal.
When these guys spray the stopper that kills it,
it turns it into a primer.
Wow.
That was way simpler than I thought.
Yeah, man.
So basically, we've killed the rust.
We put a primer out of the rust mode,
and then he will add the rust back to it.
I usually go for this brown first,
just has my base color.
It's just the trick is trying to keep it natural looking.
So I'm gonna add to what's already there.
Just to give it some realism.
So the thing about painting patina
is that it's an illusion you're creating.
That looks good.
That added quite a bit, just that.
This old Chevy is well on its way to becoming,
you know, an actual official ratrod.
However, since we don't know this market that well
and we need this thing to bring top dollar at the auction,
we're gonna lean on the opinion
of an absolute expert to give us his signoff.
But right now we need your expert opinion
to sign off on Muscle's, Rattletrap,
rebuild for the auction.
I'm not willing to bring down the quality of our vehicles
just to get them into the auction in time.
Meaning, if the shock fix doesn't work,
we don't have time and we don't have money to buy new ones.
It never gets easier getting in and out.
Who's been in here last? Mickey Mouse?
-Hey, come on. -Take a [bleep]
-Bonk your head? -Oh, that hurt.
-I think it crashed my skull. -[Heavy D] Are you okay?
-[Justin laughing] -Wow.
[Muscle] This is a big day.
These shocks need to work, and they need to work really well.
Good girl!
We didn't just spend a ton of time and a $1,000
to rebuild these to find out that they don't work
and they can't handle Heavy D's crazy driving.
[Justin] It really does drive better.
-Yeah. -[Justin] A lot.
We're gonna take Rattletrap out
to a local off road park to do some testing.
We need to see how it does in, you know,
all these different types of environments
that a potential bidder could put it through.
Because if it's not operating the way it's supposed to,
we're gonna know right away.
So as soon as we pull into the off road area,
we get an opportunity to climb straight up a hill.
So what I'm looking for as we go over these different obstacles is
I want to make sure that the shocks
are compressing all the way without bottoming out.
I want to make sure that the axle and the tire
are going right back down to where they need to be
quickly rather than lazy.
Because if they're lazy, then all of a sudden
you start getting this rocking motion back and forth.
Oh, yeah!
These shocks really feel great.
[Heavy D] ...get better.
I'm thoroughly impressed.
They made easy work of that.
Maybe we shouldn't sell it.
[laughter]
Next up, we headed over to a bunch of piles of dirt.
Unimproved piles of crap, rocks, concrete.
And they're big.
[Heavy D] Look at this thing go through.
It's just crazy.
[Justin] Does it matter how old you get
this just ever not get fun?
No.
[Justin] Take the big one.
[Muscle] Oh, yeah!
We just literally kind of put it in first gear
and just let it walk all over him.
And it was so smooth.
[Justin] There's no a lot of stuff that could go through there.
The way this thing just did.
It just literally tiptoed right through.
I've never been in anything that handles,
you know, big piles of dirt this smoothly.
So the next challenge is obviously water crossing.
And you might now think
that shocks had much to do with going across water, but they really do.
[laughter]
Hey, this is way deeper than I thought.
Dude, this thing really is smooth.
Usually this should be throwing your ass around.
We went across the water.
The body of the Jeep stayed properly level.
I didn't feel out of control.
I didn't have to overcorrect like crazy.
Yeah, buddy.
[laughter]
-[Heavy D] What a difference shocks make. -Wow!
How great was that?
[Heavy D] Why have we been buying new shocks?
Yes!
Rattletrap, definitely passed the off road test
with flying colors and Red Beard,
well, turned out he was right.
I think this season is gonna be
a huge hit at the auction.
But we don't have time to celebrate right now
because we're down to like a week and a half left
before the auction and we still got a lot of builds to get ready.
[Heavy D] Never felt Rattletrap ride like that.
[Muscle] Never?
[Heavy D] That was... I think you're gonna ...
We're gonna take the rattle out of the name.
-[Muscle] Yeah, we just... -[Heavy D] It's gonna be smooth trap.
-[laughs] -[Diesel] Come on, baby. Let's see this thing.
Whoa! Ho-ho, ho-ho.
What number can we put on this for our auction?
So, with Rattletrap getting the seal of approval from Heavy D.
[Heavy D] Look at this thing go, dude.
It's just crazy.
And the Chevy 210 getting a clear coat
over its custom patina paint job.
We have all hands on deck
ready to get started on this M919 to make it
into the ultimate construction vehicle for our auctions.
[Heavy D] We already took off the old broken cement mixer bed.
[Diesel] Nice!
And now we just got to get the cabin chassis ready
for the new big beefy flat bed that the Muscle ordered.
Basically, I think what we need to do now
is just go through all the airlines,
just basically while we have the bed off,
go through and get everything while it's easily accessible, you know?
Okay.
-[Heavy D] Speak of the devil. -What's up?
-[Heavy D] Ready to go. -You were talking about me?
Yeah, we were just talking about
getting this thing ready to go.
So...
I can't find a bed in time for the auction for this.
What do you mean?
An M919 is a very long vehicle,
so this bed needs to be custom
and it has a ton of fabrication.
This is not something that can be put together overnight.
I can find a bed.
But it's... there's no way it would be here in time for the auction.
Absolutely, no way.
So this M919 that we were gonna run through the auction,
it's supposed to be like a usable ready to work truck,
without a bed it's not that.
I'm just gonna make the decision to pull it.
There's no sense in running this thing
through the auction half assed and, you know,
leaving us with a big gaping hole.
Finding a replacement for the military truck
is honestly like we'd be
better off trying to find a Unicorn.
But it's not all bad news.
Speaking of Unicorn, we're finally,
after weeks of work,
putting the finishing touches on our Chevy 210,
the Diesel rat rod,
and we can find out how much this baby is worth.
It's got a new detail, new shoes, new shine.
And I got to say, a whole new vibe.
Can you just real quick stop and explain to me
what's happening on the screen?
You know, I actually don't want to know.
Don't say it. Don't tell me.
I think our moves speak for themselves.
We're no rat rod experts.
So you know what we're gonna do?
We're gonna take it to Vegas to see the king.
Steve Darnell at the WelderUp shop.
-What's up, brother? -[Muscle] How are you doing?
[Diesel] Steve Darnell is an old friend.
He helped us with the Mint 400.
-There you go. Straight up. -[Steve] Come up.
[Diesel] We've raced against him in the tough truck challenge.
[Steve] Oh, no.
Man, is a rat rod legend.
So if anyone can accurately assess
the value of the Chevy 210, it's Steve Darnell.
Are you ready to behold
with your own eyes in person, the Chevy 210?
I can't wait.
-Ooh, fired up. -Oh, I can hear it.
-Oh, baby blue. -[Steve] I love the color.
-I love the color. -Whoa! Ho-hoho-ho.
That's right baby.
Whoa!
That's actually my favorite color.
-[Diesel] Is it? -It is a sellable color right here?
All right, Diesel,
let's start off by popping the hood and show him what we got underneath.
[Diesel] This came out of a school bus, actually.
-[Steve] Oh, yeah. -Look at that stuff in there.
-[Diesel] Yeah. -This motor is so dependable.
-It's a daily. -[Diesel] Yeah, absolutely.
You can daily drive it.
It's got to be worth, you know, four to $5000
for the motor alone.
[Diesel] Sure. Show you the paint.
We actually had our buddy Mat at
Mat's Rods and Restoration do a patina.
When he started here obviously,
it was just a tiny little spot.
But when he went through and showed me
how they actually patina stuff
and made it look like this, it was awesome.
Half of this stuff wasn't even there, so.
You could spend this quarter panel,
that rocker in this door,
three or 4000 in a fender and a door in a rock.
-Right. -Yes.
-Yeah. -Or you just make it look cool.
That blue color is so beautiful
and it just pops and it's loud.
And with that little bit of brown
and the way that they air brushed,
it looks really good.
Usually, I would have went with the whole theme
of leaving the wheels that we had,
the wheels and tires, but they were bad.
The wheel with the air correct wheels,
still got some American racing wheels,
put new tires on and now it's ready to rip.
-Right. -All right.
Diesel Dave, show him my favorite part, the shifter.
Hey, come on in.
The simple things didn't make people happy.
-Yeah. -A shifter...
- Banging! -[Diesel] Look at that?
[Muscle] With a giant deep skull on there.
Feel that?
It's so cool.
Like, this thing is, like.
This is, like, a mantra.
But, like, I can't really
give you guys a price on this thing until we drive it.
[Diesel] I say we go for a ride.
Now to grab the Diesel.
Yeah!
Yeah, buddy.
Yee-hoo!
You got this...
Yee-hoo. Yeah!
[laughter]
Yeah!
I'm serious.
Like, I feel like I'm in a dump truck.
It sounds like we're in a dump truck.
That's how my whole life feels.
Like realistically, you could put a trailer on this thing.
-Oh, yeah. -Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I'm loving.
It's nothing but hot air.
[laughter]
Go in there, yeah!
Yeah.
Yeah, buddy.
[laughter]
Yes!
What do you think, Steve?
Oh, dude, it's fun.
What number can we put on this for our auction?
At your auction, I would probably value this car
at probably 25 grand.
-What? -Yes!
-Yeah, Steve. -That's what I'm talking about.
I mean, I didn't say 125.
-[Muscle] I know, but... -I said 25...
-Hey, that's like a $10,000 profit. -Yep.
After everything said and done,
and I'm happy about that.
For a couple of guys that don't know nothing about
the old rat rod style to come out ahead is gonna be.
-[Steve] Yeah, yeah. No, no. -It's gonna be a win.
Steve's given the Chevy such a high appraisal
that it's definitely a load off
especially considering how far in the hole we are
with this vehicle and how close we are to the auction day.
Right now, I got to get back to Utah to help old Heavy D
find the next auction vehicle.
No, I'm actually gonna need you to stay right there
because I'm coming to Nevada because I got to lead.
Oh, my land.
[Steve] Would you look at that?
Bye, Steve.
Wish us luck.
Listen, we couldn't leave Steve
without having a little fun ourselves.
And what's better than being able to drive
his iconic diesel charger?
This thing's got two superchargers, two turbos.
All of the awesome and none of the visibility.
You can't see a thing out the windshield.
-You can't see? -[Diesel speaking]
You don't need to see anything, man.
There we go. Heads up.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
What is it?
It's the hydrant, fire hydrant.
Muscle and Diesel Dave just took our rat rod build
down to Steve Darnell at WelderUp in Las Vegas
to get his stamp of approval.
At your auction,
I would probably value this car
at probably 25 grand.
-What? -Yeah!
While it was great to get another auction build
completed and checked off the list.
Our last big auction build,
the one we were really excited about with the military semi-truck,
it's completely flopped.
I can't find a bed in time for the auction for this.
I'm just gonna make the decision to pull it.
There's, like, no time to do anything.
However, I think I found something.
So what I'm gonna do
is have the Muscle bring the rat rod back from Vegas
while Diesel Dave and I head
to the biggest little city in the world,
Reno, Nevada, to take a look at this vehicle
to see if it's really as good as it's advertised.
So here's the deal.
I don't know what to expect.
This thing could just be a total abomination.
The picture literally looks like a Photoshop
crew cab Corvette.
Listen, I know that a gas-powered sports car
doesn't really scream Diesel Brothers,
but if this thing is a true crew cab,
it might be the Unicorn we're looking for.
We're not Corvette, guys by nature,
we're gonna have to go undercover.
Okay.
Oh, my land!
Would you look at that?
You ever seen anything so beautiful?
Hey, what's happening, guys?
-[Diesel] How are you, sir? -[Heavy D] What's up?
-[man] Good. How are you? - Oh, better now.
That is awesome.
What is this thing?
[man] Well, it's actually two Corvettes put together.
This is what happens when two Corvettes
love each other very much.
-[man] Yep. -[laughter]
Wow!
From what I've heard, there was only three of them built and...
-[man] Really? -Yet to find the other ones.
Corvette is basically the American sports car.
These things started being produced in the '50s,
and they just kind of went on forever.
It's this two door coupe, big aggressive body lines,
big V8 engines under the hood.
They're just iconic.
And this is kind of taking the Corvette
to a whole another level.
Everyone already knows us for stretching big trucks.
Had they ever seen us with a stretch sports car?
Not yet.
[Heavy D] Is that a full size TV I'm seeing there?
There you go.
Is there a VHS player?
-Do you know what year? -Yes.
The front half is1979.
The back half is the 1978 and it was built in Canada.
Oh, it's in kilometers.
[laughs]
It's a small block 350, right?
[man] Yeah. Turbo 350 transmission.
All right, another moment of truth.
-[man] Okay. -All right, here we go. Ready?
[engine starting]
[Diesel] Oh, fired right up.
I got to be honest.
All I want to do is drive it right now.
-You mind if I do that? -Sure. Drive it.
Hey, before we go,
do we look like Corvette owners?
You betcha.
[Diesel] Floor it.
Why is this so slow? [laughs]
He's got a nice motor under there.
Go.
This car is definitely a little sluggish.
And I'm driving it around, but at the same time,
I can't expect much because it's been sitting for so long.
Oh, man, there's no clearance at all.
You know this Corvette,
it's much different than the big,
over-the-top, badass trucks that we love.
However, I really do think
that it has enough of a wow factor
to take a risk on running it through the auction.
Because if people actually
connect with this car, it's gonna bring
in a whole new demographic of buyers.
What do you think?
I don't know if I felt cooler getting out of a vehicle before.
Did you?
So did one car, one half want to go one way
and the other half of the Corvette want to go to the other?
I was gonna say, did you swap out the old V8 for a four banger?
I don't know what's happening there with the acceleration.
You're asking somewhere around 15 for it?
Fifteen.
I mean, with everything that it needs,
11 grand in this deal.
Mmm!
-[man] We'll do a 11. -[Heavy D] Eleven grand. Yeah.
You got yourself a deal.
And you got yourself two Corvettes.
[laughs]
Just getting two titles, one title?
-How does that work? -One title.
Two cars.
Eleven grand is definitely more than
I wanted to spend on this Corvette.
But with only a week left before the auction,
I can't afford to be picky, so we just got to grab this
and get back to Salt Lake, ASAP.
Road trip, snack.
Oh, I got the packet.
Here.
Yeah, boy!
Please tell me this is going to shift.
There it is.
-Want to have some? -Oh.
Never have fun stuff in there.
No.
Been in there for a while.
Oh, come on, don't overheat.
You stop and check the coolant levels.
She's right there on the tippy toe of.
I smell like she's burning. There it is.
We're literally only five miles outside Reno,
and we're already stopping for our first breakdown.
[laughs]
Start to get a little warm on us.
[engine starting]
There really isn't any air going in there.
[Heavy D] There's no airflow whatsoever.
I'm kind of starting to feel like buying
one really cool modified car
has just turned into me buying two lemons.
And now we're stranded on the side of the road,
hundreds of miles away from home,
with an auction in less than a week.
Oh...
[Heavy D] One last over-the-top build.
Who doesn't want two Corvettes?
Doing some custom weather stripping here.
-Get away time! -Get away time!
It's a GMC Denali.
I want to be in charge of this giveaway.
-That's bad. -Bad.
We're finally at the finish line.
Something explodes under the hood.
We're out over $20,000.
She gone.