From my POV, I want to be the guys with the dope cars.
[shouting]
- Oh-ho! - Ah!
Right now, we not that. We the car club
- with no cars. - The Car No Club.
I think what we need is a little inspiration.
We gotta get outside of L.A.
Go to different places, experience different culture,
look at different car clubs.
The whole city, man, we take pride in this right here.
Like, this is how we tell our story, this is how we represent.
Okay, Houston culture, I like it. Give me another one.
I heard it's cracking in Atlanta.
I heard the car culture is cracking in Atlanta.
This type of culture is what we came for.
- That's the South, man. - Big wheels and big motors.
- Exactly. - [engines roaring]
Y'all got that thing looking like Cheech and Chong, bro.
That's what it was? It's still smoking!
We're building our first car. We're building a '69 Camaro.
There it is!
I thought I was gonna get the spray gun and, "Psshhh!"
No spraying for Harry.
I got that. I can do that.
[music]
Watch my hand.
Easy. Easy.
Come on, come on, come on. All right.
I like a supercharger.
But a turbo hit more on the high end.
See, I like the takeoff.
Damn, that car look good!
Who are you talking to?
Come on, y'all, gather round, gather round.
What are we taking a picture for, fellas?
- Season deuce, man. - Gotta throw up the deuces.
[music]
- Ready to see this? - Yeah.
Ooh... come on, bring it all the way out here.
- All right, all right. - Bring it all...
- All right. - Don't tease me.
Oh yeah.
Oh, this is great for my '67 Camaro.
- Perfect, this is perfect. - Right?
Love it. And I got the perfect name.
You and your names.
- Goldfinger. - Goldfinger.
- We're going with Goldfinger. - Goldfinger.
So, you wanna take it home and sleep with it?
- Yeah. - All right.
Listen, don't tell the guys.
And when I'm referring to Goldfinger, code name Fred.
Fred, Goldmember.
- Goldfinger, Fred. - All right.
- Your secret's safe with me. - Don't let nobody know.
- We'll see you. - All right.
Ooh, they gonna be, mad, mad, mad. Mad, mad, mad.
I'm a genius. I gotta be a genius.
[music]
Yeah, man. I'm excited to see this.
Excited, man. Where's Kyle at?
Where is he? Where is he? There he is.
[laughter] What's going on, man?
- Good to see you, Kevin. - How are you?
- Thanks for coming by. - Thank you.
John, Boss, Kyle.
How you doing, Kyle? Nice to meet you, man.
Nice to meet you too. Hey, Boss
- Nice to meet you, man, please. - Nice to meet you.
- Absolutely. - We're excited, man.
Excited as hell to see the car. That's the first priority.
- Right. - I got to see the car.
But also, man, just calling in the favor.
Just allowing us to kind of look behind that curtain,
see what ideas we can take from what you're doing.
We're young in this business.
The idea of a garage, a car shop, a product,
these are all things that we're thinking about.
And we're building our first car.
- We're building a '69 Camaro. - Right, right.
Yes, and we're building it to sell.
Have something as a representation as to what we can do, right?
- Right. - As a company, as a brand.
- Yes. - Detroit Speed has done
a phenomenal job year in, year out.
- Business here is booming. - Thank you.
So, getting a nice little walkthrough here is gonna do us a lot of good.
Especially with the first-gen Camaros, you guys have done an amazing job.
You know, we started there, John.
So, first-gen Camaro is where we started, the first parts.
And we always starting building cars from the beginning,
because that was some cash flow...
- Yeah. - ...to get the shop going.
- Okay. - And self-capitalize.
You build more hours, you build more cars.
A little bit more money for maybe equipment, for shop space,
or to make the next parts.
So, that's kinda how we got started, was building cars.
We love cars, we're still building great cars for customers,
and we love doing it.
- I love it. - That's great, man.
So, you started-- how did you start?
As we build our business, I would love to understand a little bit more about you.
Yeah, like so many people,
literally a two-car garage building one car,
whatever we could fit in, and outgrew that
as we had some more cars coming in shortly thereafter,
and moved the whole operation here to North Carolina in this building.
And I-- look, I've got a little raggedy garage.
- Yeah. - A little raggedy...
Boss, you need to hush up, for real. Oh!
- Ooh! - Oww!
- Ooh! - Ah, ow.
I'm talking about the brown. Unh!
- Mm! - Oh, look at the lines.
Look at the black accents.
Ooh, look at it!
Didn't wanna go chrome. Didn't wanna do the chrome.
So, we did the black.
The wheels, I gotta be honest.
These wheels is special.
This sit nice, man, this dance is killing.
- LT5. - LT5.
[Kevin growling]
We should have lunch on this engine bay.
You could. You could.
You could eat off of it right now, Boss.
- What about this red car over here? - Yeah.
I'm over this. This ain't even done.
- Oh my God. - '65 Buick Riviera, Boss.
'65 Buick Riviera, this is--
this color is, I mean, absolutely amazing.
- No, you hit the gold off. - Wow.
- What? - Yo.
- Come look at what this look like. - What, Boss?
I'm not gonna lie, Boss, this is a very, very nice color.
Yeah, and hold on. Look at they logo.
- Don't break that. - Don't.
- Listen, you touch it, you buy it. - Can you do me a favor, Kyle?
Can you tell me what I'm looking at, please?
This is a Buick.
This is a '65 Buick Riviera.
And a lot of subtle changes on the car.
I was gonna say, I'm looking at heavy fabrication.
- Yes. - Right?
Custom bumpers, in-form bumpers.
Clamshell headlights that are electric actuated now
instead of vacuum operated.
ABS brakes, carbon brakes, carbon rotors.
So, it's a supercar disguised in a Riviera.
- Yeah. - How long did it take to build this car?
- Over three years. - Wow, wow.
There's just hours and hours of details.
Absolutely. You gotta be patient.
Like, I've been-- we've been in this build for a while now.
And you gotta understand that good things have to come with patience.
Kyle, can you give me like a visual of just my interior?
- 'Cause I wanna show them some stuff. - Let's go look.
- Nice. Cool. - Yes, that's really cool stuff.
There you go. Be really special.
We're going with a cream and brown interior
to match the chocolate brown paint job.
The custom steering wheel and shifter gives a nod to the time period
but has a modern look and feel.
That's the color combination that you needed.
- Wow. - I'm talking about the brown!
[laughing] How 'bout the gauges?
These are custom one-off gauges.
Dashboard gauges are a modern version
with a vintage look to match the time period.
Classic instruments.
- This'll be the hood mounted tach. - Oh, wow, this is heartbeat.
- Look, guys, I got a heartbeat. - Yeah.
- All in the details. - Heartbeat.
- Look at that. - Is that a heart on my...
- It is. - That's a heart!
- Now, that's pretty sick. - In my daggone turn signal.
- It is. - That's nuts.
Look at this, this is insane.
- It's about the details in the detail. - We're not gonna do this.
Look at the grill. Did y'all see the grill?
- The grill. - We're not gonna keep listening to Kevin.
- A touch of gold in it. - I love that.
- Match the wheel centers. - Now, that's...
The graphite custom grill and heart motif
both elevate the look of the car, and also make it one of a kind.
- Nice. - Now, that's nice.
Frame it. [laughing]
What? I'm gonna take a picture in front of that.
No, this is absolutely amazing.
We'd love to kind of see a little bit more.
We're gonna show you where the parts are made at.
Yeah.
All right, so where are we now?
So, we're in our machine shop.
You can see the machines working,
from milling centers to turning centers.
A lot of parts in process here, they go onto somebody's dream ride.
What you see right now is actually a front frame
aluminum casting for an early Mustang.
That's interesting you said '64 1/2.
I got the first one off the assembly line.
- You don't. You don't. - Look, I have the first one.
- You don't. - Anyway.
So, the guys are running multiple machines at a time, guys and gals.
There's only about five people
- in this specific machine shop. - In this space, okay.
- Yes. - So, first thing we've seen, machines.
So, we'll take you through the fab shop.
So, that's where we're doing our tube bending.
We're also doing all of our welding of our frames, our control arms.
Any welded part gets welded in the next shop,
and then will go through the assembly,
and then from there, it goes on to inventory.
Wow. It's basically a baton.
- Yes. - It's a baton that's being passed.
Let's see some more.
- Dope, right? - I'm excited about this.
I'm excited about what we can do.
Fabrication.
This is our fab shop.
Some crossmembers that go into our hydroformed front subframe.
That all begins right here.
I'm just trying to figure out what made you guys the best?
You know, Detroit Speed has always serviced the builds
and who's interested in aftermarket performance parts.
- Okay. - Our philosophy is simple.
- We want to exceed expectations. - Wow.
This is insane. What's next?
We're gonna go through assembly where the parts come together.
- Let's do it. Assembly. - Let's do it.
- I just love the business. - We're learning, hog.
- Yes. - Learning.
So, in the fab shop, we get something like this.
- Okay. - Freshly welded, tube bent.
Everything welded together.
And then it will come into this shop, usually after powder coat.
And the guys in this area are putting 'em together.
We like to brag, but we've got some really good welders.
And if you look at this, every component in here
except for this ball joint, we made.
- Wow. - So, you think about it,
we started the business, Detroit Speed, as a parts business.
It's always been about the quality-- the quality and how the parts work.
And we're still doing that today, it's just scaled up
over many more applications.
That's kinda what we are. We in a little raggedy garage right now.
Until, you know, the finances get together, we ragged.
The word "raggedy" wasn't used.
He said a small garage, and they just did two parts.
- Well, I'm just being honest. - I know that.
I'm just-- I'm making it clear. Kyle...
- You bought us these cars. - We're moving on?
Let's move out from assembly.
Like, just 'cause we in assembly don't mean you got to assemble
- an ass-whupping on me. - No, no, no.
So, this is shipping.
- This is, this is inventory and shipping. - Okay.
So, this is where it all goes out the door.
- Oh, wow, this is cool. - Yeah!
Now, this is where the money's made at.
- You got it. - Yeah, the place right here.
It's really a sophisticated puzzle. Everything has a bin location.
There's a work order to make sure that we have the right parts
in the right box, the right quantities, the right weight.
All that happens in here, and we're looking
at the timing of all of this to make sure we're getting enough
- out the door every day. - I love it, man.
- Bubble wrap. - What?
- Huh? - The bubble wrap.
- Okay. - Key ingredient.
Gotta have the bubble wrap. I just stated the obvious.
Bubble wrap.
Kyle, I gotta say thank you, man.
First of all, my car looks amazing.
Beyond excited to see where that's gonna go.
And as we try to get closer to building our brand,
we'll be able to put some of this knowledge
into the world of what we're gonna do.
I love it, and maybe we can do a collaboration or something.
- Yeah. - Any time, absolutely.
Maybe we'll do a collaboration on some bubble wrap.
Yeah, we can do that. The best bubble wrap.
- All right, Boss, okay. - The best bubble wrap.
[music]
Oh! [laughing]
Greetings.
Welcome. Welcome to my peaceful place.
You know, building these cars takes a lot of patience.
And I'm reminded of what I wrote in my affirmation journal this morning.
[bell dings] Patience is a virtue.
So, when the guys wanted to go down to the dirty South,
what better place to go than the mecca-- Atlanta.
We're gonna go look for a car culture
that's been picking up steam these recent years.
That's right. Big cars,
big wheels, and big sound.
I'm about to pass out.
So... [chuckles]
Peace up, A-Town down.
[exhaling] Everybody likes you.
You're not short.
Mm. Mm.
Is that a heart? Mm.
[music]
- What's going on? - Ha-ha, my boy Garrett.
Y'all came all the way out from Cali to see Atlanta car culture.
- What's up, man? - I like it.
You say there's some car culture out here, now.
- Yeah. - We wanna see everything.
So yeah, man, this is one of the largest monthly shows in Georgia, man.
It's easily over a couple thousand cars here.
You got a little bit of everything. You got the individual car clubs,
you got the FR-Ses, DRCs.
You got BMWs, Porsches, old-schools, exotics.
You got everything out here.
- Look at this, look at this! - I know, this thing is wild.
- What's going on here? - I don't know.
He got flames, and he in the mud.
- That's gotta be a wrap. - You think so?
That's gotta be a wrap.
This is a paint job, or is this a wrap?
- This is a hand-paint job. - Wow.
The whole car's been hand-painted.
- No way! - Are you kidding me?
- Nope. - That's incredible.
- How you doing, bro? I'm Harry. - Hey, nice to meet you.
- David, man, nice to meet you. - David, nice to meet you.
- Yes, sir. - Garrett.
- Garrett, nice to meet you. - John.
- John, nice to meet you guys. - Nice to meet you as well.
Yeah, we're from California. Garrett's showing us around a bit.
We got the Plastic Cup Boyz Car Club.
Yep, oh, I love the show, yeah.
We're just-- we're experiencing some, you know, some car culture.
So, obviously, you guys are doing a '69 Camaro,
but you guys appreciate y'all's exotics too.
- Yeah, I mean... - Y'all got some?
- What is this? Is this an Audi... - 2009 Audi TT.
Bought the car for like $3,000.
It was blue, and we repainted the whole entire car.
My friend airbrushed the whole entire car.
- Wow. - Took him four months to do it.
- Four months? - Yeah, but it's all hand-drawn.
But what was the idea behind doing this?
When I painted it orange, my painter was like,
"Man, it looks like a pumpkin." So, he called it the Thumpin' Pumpkin.
So, I was like, well, let's just run with Thumpin' Pumpkins.
- Oh, nice. - So now, I got pumpkins everywhere.
I got 'em on the valve stems, you see it in the rims.
I got it on my speakers, I got it inside. I got pumpkins everywhere.
See, John, that's what we gotta do, we gotta name our '69.
Thumpin' Pumpkin, that's a nice name for this car.
Well, what are we gonna name the '69? What are we gonna name it?
I don't know, we gotta get the inspiration somewhere.
Burn the Turn.
- We gonna do something. - We'll just-- let's pocket that.
Hey, man, thank you so much for sharing your car with us, man.
Any time, man, I'm glad it's...
- Much appreciated. - It's a pleasure to meet you guys.
[music]
This is the exotics part of the show, so you got obviously the Lamborghinis.
- You got Maseratis, Porsches. - Oh, man.
- All kinds of stuff. - Wow.
But this thing is really different.
I don't think I've ever seen a color like this before.
- Wow. - That's like a pearl--
that's pearl on top of pearl, John.
No, I-- yeah.
- What's up, my man? - What's going on, what's going on?
- How you doing, I'm Harry. - I'm Ty, Ty.
- Nice to meet you, man. - Gary, bro, nice to meet you.
- Ty. - How you doing, man? John, man.
- Nice to meet you. - Pleasure, pleasure.
I got a question for you. What color is this, first?
So, this is a holographic wrap.
- A holographic wrap, so it's a wrap. - Yep.
I knew it was a wrap.
It has PPF over top of the wrap
and a ceramic coat on top of that.
So, you put just as much work in a wrap as like paint for you.
$15,000 for this.
- Get outta here. - Wow.
So, this is a type of chrome.
And anyone who's done wraps know chromes
are the hardest type of wraps to actually do.
So, it takes them like a month to do it.
They take every panel off, wrap around every single corner,
and then do it all again for the PPF, and then again for the ceramic coat, so.
- That's incredible. - How many accidents
do you cause on the highway
- driving this car? - One or two, you know.
[laughing]
The South really got an exotic car culture.
Yeah, yeah, we do.
In fact, we are the largest Atlanta-based exotic car club, DDATL Exotics.
And pretty much all these cars you see over here
are all with our car club.
It's about 500 of us in the exotic car club alone.
Wow. It just goes to show
different car clubs and what their style is,
- you know what I mean? - Yeah.
And we kinda hang on the restomod, pro-touring type.
But we want it to be low and mean.
- Okay. - It gotta be-- it gotta have horsepower
and it gotta have stance.
Man, I am still blown away about the amount of cars that's out there, man.
2,000 to 3,000 cars.
- And it's every month. - It's every month.
- Every Sunday, first Sunday of the month. - Wow.
Man, this supercharged S2000 is kinda different.
- Yeah. - This color's wild.
How you doing, sir?
You got an interesting paint job here, or wrap, or...
- None of the above. - None of the above.
- Correct. - What do you mean, none of the above?
It's funny that you say that, 'cause I do it to everybody
- that comes here and looks at it. - Right.
It's actually a process called Plasti Dip.
Basically, what it is, it's removable paint.
- Wow. - You spray it on like paint,
but you peel it off like vinyl.
And it doesn't leave any kind of nasty residue on the body
- or anything like that when you're done. - Really?
Just give it a good wax and buff, and it's back to normal.
I did this one seven years ago.
- Uh-huh. - The total cost of the car, 1,250 bucks.
Spray it on like paint, peel it off like vinyl.
Spray it on like paint...
BOTH: Peel it off like vinyl.
Hey, Jeremy, man, thank you so much, man.
- Absolutely, sir, yes, sir. - We appreciate it.
Thank you for the opportunity,
[music]
This Buick is slick, man.
- Gee! - Is that what that is?
This is done to the nines, bro.
- The trunk's done. - Oh, man.
Multi-piece wheels.
I like how he got the wheels tying in with the interior.
Hey, man, this thing is, sheesh!
- Man! I like it. - How you doing, sir?
- Hey, man. - Your car looks amazing right here.
Appreciate it, appreciate it.
All right, what kind of car have we got here, man?
1967 Buick Skylark Gran Sport.
- Gran Sport. - Yeah, Gran Sport.
What's all the stuff you did to it? It looks like a restomod.
- That's exactly what it is. - How long did it take you?
- From start to finish? - 2015. 2015.
- 2015? - You started building this car in 2015?
Three tear-downs, right?
- I got a lot of shiesty work done. - Got you.
But then I got with a shop, Traffic Jams,
and they did a lot of the-- they did the interior work.
Just done the trunk.
- My guy Teddy, he painted it. - Okay.
The second paint, he painted at his own house,
- you know what I'm-- - Really?
Yeah, yeah. The wheels I had built
- out in Simi Valley, California. - Okay.
- That's in y'all neck of the woods. - Yeah, so yeah.
Let me ask you, would you do this again?
- Absolutely not. - You said absolutely not?
- [laughing] - Absolutely not.
I'll just buy the car. I'll just buy one already done.
- Man, this car looks amazing, man. - Appreciate it.
Like, I love the metalwork that they did on, like, your firewall.
Man, the color combo.
I'm originally from Ohio.
My mascot colors at my high school was black and red,
so that's why I went with the...
- His high school team. - High school team.
- Yeah. - I thought it was gonna be Falcons
or something, we in the South.
Ah! You thought this was a Falcon car.
I thought that may have been what it was, man,
- because that makes sense too. - Yeah.
[music]
- Man, Garrett, thanks, man. - Yeah.
- It's been a great day, bro. - No doubt, no doubt.
- Thank you for showing us. - I'm glad you guys got to come out
- and see it. - Everything around here, man.
Like I said, we gotta see a little bit of pocket
of all the different things in the Atlanta car culture.
But if you guys are free tomorrow, you should meet my boy Sage.
Donk master's gonna be here. Gonna have some donks,
we got some G-bodies, we got some box Chevys.
- That's what we came to see, John. - Exactly.
- Yeah, that's what we came to see. - So, it'll be here tomorrow.
All right, Garrett, we'll see you later, bro.
All right, man, I'll see you tomorrow, man.
- Appreciate you, my guy. - Appreciate you, all right.
- Love is love. - Indeed.
One day, brother, we gonna be able to drive our ... cross-country
to Georgia and pull up on them, and let them know how we get down.
- I can't wait. - You dig?
Vroom vroom, we outta here.
- Where we park the car at, John? - I don't know.
- I think it's over here somewhere. - I have no-- I don't know
where the car is.
You go that way, I'm gonna go this way.
Let me know what you come up with, bro.
[music]
- Ohh! - Okay, here it is now.
Okay, that's what we talking about. Come on, now.
Yeah, so y'all know, yesterday we were out
at Caffeine and Octane, and we got to show you
the little pockets of Atlanta car culture, right?
But when y'all thought of Atlanta,
this is probably what y'all were thinking, right?
Yeah, man, this is what I see on the ground.
Exactly it.
We got a whole row of donks right here.
We got verts, we got hard tops, we got vinyl tops, we got G-bodies.
- Sheesh! - I love it.
This type of culture is what we came for.
That's the South, man.
- Big wheels and big motors. - Exactly, exactly.
'Cause you know, back in the day, donks, they were just big wheels.
- That's changed. - Right.
These guys got serious money,
these guys got serious aspirations to go fast.
[engine revving]
They figured out a way to make these cars hook.
That's crazy, 'cause these some big ol' cars that's going down the track.
They're not small.
Man, let's take a look at some of 'em, man.
- I got questions. - Well, it's a good thing,
'cause I got my boy Sage here, Donk Master,
he's gonna have the answers for you.
What y'all building, '69 Camaro or something like that?
- '69 Camaro. - So, y'all can learn a little something
from the donks, and put on what y'all got to do.
Make sure we like the style.
Who made donks famous?
- Made 'em famous? - Yeah.
- [laughter] - What do you mean?
Sage, aka Donk Master, he a legend in the donk world.
He built his first donk at the age of 16 and went straight into racing.
Hey! Hey! We're blessed, man.
You know what it is.
Sage opened his shop, In and Out Customs, in South Carolina
to advance the development of donk performing.
Man, I watched all his builds and his racing
on his YouTube channel Donk Master TV.
Well, I'll tell you what, man, we gotta learn more about these donks.
- Sage? - Yeah?
You'll tell us a little bit about it.
- All that, I can handle that part. - Okay.
Hard top, two-door, four-door, convertible, they're all donks.
'71 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala is a donk.
- Nothing else. - '71 to '76.
That's it, 1971 through 1976, Chevrolet Caprice or Impala, it's a donk.
Two-door, four-door, or convertible, it's still a donk.
- Still a donk. - How did the South
come up with the name donk, though?
The donk, from what I heard, from the OGs back in Miami,
- they act a donkey in the car. - Right.
When they get clean, fresh, pull up, they act a donkey.
Acting an ass. [laughter]
- Yeah, yeah. - So, this is Alex right here.
This is Alex from Sac Speed Shop.
- Oh, what's up, Alex? - So, he on the West Coast.
He do-- you know what I mean, he do the donuts, the drifts,
and all that stuff, but he know how to build a donk too.
It look good, man. It's pretty as hell.
- Yeah, yeah. - So, what's the year and make of this?
It's a 1971 Chevy Caprice.
Man, it's a beautiful color combination.
Man, so the rose gold I found just came out.
- Ah. - We looked at it.
- Rose gold. - And then started playing with paint.
Yo, the engine bay is immaculate. Man, what you got in there?
So, we got an LSx 427 on the motor, Frankenstein top-end.
F-1X pro charger for the blower. A whole bunch of custom hardline.
I saw you on some of the cont-- videos that you put out.
This is the first time I seen a donk race.
- Oh yeah. - So, how did you get into that?
I had Novas and Camaros, but I was beating everybody.
So, I said, man, let me put a big motor in a donk.
Hit the gas, haul ass.
So, I took the motor out of my Nova and put it in a donk
so I can sneak attack somebody and build, like, of a sleeper.
- Right. - This is like '99, 2000.
So, I took that motor, put it in a donk,
and I started giving everybody gap sauce.
- And then this started... - Gap sauce?
- Gap sauce, that's what I do. - Okay, explain gap sauce to me now.
Yeah, so gap sauce is what I drip on them
with style and grace, you know what I'm saying?
When I've beaten somebody by two or three car lengths...
- That's the gap. - That's the gap.
- Ohh. - But I'ma do it so clean,
I'm giving 'em the sauce, you know what I'm saying?
[overlapping chatter]
What kind of horsepower this thing putting down?
Oh, we're shooting for four digits.
- Four digits? - Yeah.
- Thousand. - And what's up
- with this big ol' roof, bro? - Yeah, you say a hard top, this look...
- It's a hard top... - This look like a hard top with a glass.
You know how they say closer to God, man?
I can still see it, you know what I'm saying?
Oh, okay, that's what's up. That's what's up.
- It's like a Skittles, Skittles bag. - A Skittle bag!
- Every color. - Man, man, man.
Any color you want.
- What's up, Jay? - What's up, big dog?
Welcome to the East Coast. How y'all doing?
Dang! Man!
All I see is a big-ass blower coming out the roof.
I love it. What you call this thing?
This is the legendary King Kong.
Yeah.
So, this one here done been out for a long time.
- Long time. - It■s the first donk on 28-inch wheels.
- Wow. - The very first one.
- Wow. - Sat on 28-inch wheels.
So, you been in the game for a minute.
- Oh yeah. - How much horsepower
you putting down this thing, man?
Man, we about 1,000. About 1,000 horsepower.
Just a thou-- just a little.
[overlapping chatter] That's a big block as well.
Yeah, big block. Got aluminum head, Promaxx heads.
H71 blower, two 1000s on there, 400 transmission.
Colossus drive shaft, Motra axles.
Y'all remember what you see in the front end right here.
- Yeah. - This is called King Kong,
but you know this look like the silverback, you know what I'm saying?
- Ohh! - Silverback gorilla, okay!
And we got candy paint on here.
- Got to have that candy. - Yeah.
Billet wheels, Raceline wheels that we actually put on here.
I got some of the best Wilwood brakes on here.
This is the purge out of his nose, of King Kong.
Okay, so this is Nos coming outside.
- Yes sir, yes sir, yes sir. - Oh, okay.
- Nitro. - Gas, what we call it, gas.
- You call it gas. - Stupid question here, but what's Nos?
That's nitrous.
So, nitrous oxide actually cools the engine down
at an accelerating rate.
So, nitrous actually comes out at a negative 125 degrees.
- Mm. - So, if you put that in something
that's 250 degrees, it cools it down at an accelerating rate
to speed the engine power up.
- That's what it does. - Ah.
So, that's that boost. - Yeah.
Unh! [laughter]
[overlapping chatter] That's what it do.
What else we got in here?
This a granite steering wheel. You gotta grab that rock.
- Oh, wow! - You got granite on the steering wheel!
- A granite steering wheel. - King Kong face in it.
Dang!
- Granite, this real? - Oh yeah.
- You're saying this that... - This is real granite!
You say this ain't porcelain, this is real granite.
- That's a rock, bro! - No, that's a rock. That's a rock.
- That's rock! - Whoo!
- Can we hear this thing fire up? - Oh yeah, we can hear it.
[engine starting up, rumbling]
You got the nitrous on.
- Let me stand to the side. - Okay.
He about to shoot it out over there.
Make sure to always cut your nitrous off.
[hissing]
- Hey! - Okay.
That's fly!
Ah.
- Ah. - Ah! Okay!
So, you gotta purge all the nitrous out of there.
Oh yeah. If it leak into the engine,
it's gonna blow. You don't want that.
But you turned it into a whole show.
- He stunting a little bit. - When you pull up,
- they see the King Kong purging... - Oh yeah.
- ...they know what time it is. - King Kong always mad,
he always breathing hard, so I gotta let 'em see him breathe.
[laughter]
This is really thought out.
We gotta-- when we do our car, we gotta think.
Hey, man, that's hot. Thank you for sharing King Kong
- with us, man, we're gon... - Yeah, man, no problem, no problem.
- He had a granite steering wheel. - He got a granite steering wheel.
Let's go check some more stuff out.
- Appreciate it, Jay. - Yes sir, yes sir.
Appreciate you, big dog.
Canada!
Canada? Come on, son.
This is my partner Jason from Canada.
- Jason, nice to meet you, brother. - Toronto, Canada.
- What up, Jason, how are you, man? - Toronto, Canada, man?
What-- how did car culture, especially this specialized car culture,
reach you in Canada?
Well, my father, he worked for General Motors for 40 years.
- Uh-huh? - So, we-- this is--
we've known this all our lives.
The Southern style, I took a trip to Atlanta
- when I was in grade 9. - Uh-huh.
One of my uncles picked me up in a box Chevy.
- Ah. - I bought a box Chevy the next week.
I went back home, I was 17, and I never looked back.
- Wow. - I love the color of this thing, man.
- What color is this? - So, it's a custom mix we put together.
I named it Girls Night Out.
- Oh! Nice! - It's a vert!
- Nice, right? - Girls Night Out!
That's super, man. That's great.
So, in Toronto, you got other donks there with you?
- Yeah. - You're not the only one.
I'm not the only one, there's a few of us.
- Uh-huh. - You know, a lot of people
like to claim first and things like that.
But we've been doing this, like I said, it's in our blood.
- Yeah. - So, whoever wants to say
they're first, I gotta say, talk to my dad.
- Yeah. - On the assembly line.
- Right, right. - You know what I mean?
- That's love. - He didn't wanna say it.
He the first donk on 28s in Canada.
Dang! Dang! [overlapping chatter]
- Yeah, we're the first on the 28s. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I got one last question before we get out.
The steering wheels. What I've been noticing,
the steering wheel matches the wheels.
That's just a culture thing in donks.
Yeah, but just for the big wheel game, you know, we like to have it like that.
And like I said, it's really about the flex,
- because this is so unpractical. - Yep.
Like, the chrome is blinging off your eyes in the sunlight.
- Right, right, right, right. - So, it's like-- but like, it shows well.
The thought that goes behind y'all customization
in this world, man, is second to none, man.
You guys are thoughtful and intentional
on how y'all display donks in the culture, man.
It's just taken over, and I love it, bro.
The Girls Night Out.
- Girls Night Out. - That's what it is.
- Love that, man. - I love that.
Don't steal his paints. Don't steal his color, bro.
- What you mean? - That's the color.
- Girls Night Out. - It's inspiration.
- You get inspiration. - Inspiration, bro.
- That's it, there it is. - You got it, I love this color.
[overlapping chatter]
- All right, guys. - Man, what else they got down here?
- Now, I know what this is. - Yeah, what is this?
Yeah, this the Z06, world-famous.
Yeah, the real-live Z06.
[engines roaring]
- This one's fast. - Oh yeah, is it?
"Is it?" You trying to question it?
- Is it? - Ain't no vroom vroom right here now.
He said you gonna get some gap sauce.
Yeah, you'll get it. Pour it on, whoo, dripping.
Come on now. Let me ask you about this car.
This is a legendary car.
This is the car you made the videos with.
This is the car that you won a little money with
- every now and then. - A whole bunch of money.
What's the idea behind it?
What was the genesis? What was the beginning of this?
Okay, so actually, in 2012, they came out with the Vette.
I went to the dealership to go buy me a Vette.
I sat in it. I couldn't even fit in it.
- I said, man! - Right.
So, I said, guess what, I'm gonna build me a Vette.
First, I took all the 2013 stuff out of it,
put all the Corvette stuff in the Impala.
- Oh, wow. - The brakes, the motor, the turbo,
everything out of a Corvette into this car.
That's how the name the Z06 came about.
- Got you. - Because of the Z06 Vette.
So, without giving up too much knowledge...
- Mm-hmm. - How many horsepowers you putting down?
Right now, on this setup...
[engine roaring]
...be about 2,500, 2,700 horsepower to the tire.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. - Yeah, that's pro mod.
Pro mod horsepower, man.
This whole car is all fiberglass right now.
- Oh! - Yeah.
- It look chrome. - It do look chrome.
All fiberglass.
Fiberglass, first in the world, prototype, nobody else got it.
- That's what this is. - So, the reason for that
is 'cause it's light.
It's lightweight, you know what I'm saying?
Then I had to make it lighter, fiberglass.
So, this is definitely set up for drag racing.
Drag-ass racing, give out gap sauce.
[engines roaring]
[woman singing opera]
- This is all fiberglass. - Fiberglass, first in the world.
- Wait a minute, man. - Fiberglass.
- It look like a donk. - Yeah.
- It smell like a donk. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You cheating! - I ain't cheating.
- You cheating, bro. - I'm an engineer.
- You cheating. - He an engineer.
That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to get the people
to understand how you can go fast, you know what I'm saying?
So, explain this exhaust system that you got,
- 'cause it's exiting different. - Yeah.
Okay, so my exhaust is all aluminum.
So, the reason for that, it's lightweight.
'Cause plus, I'm only in the gas about four or five seconds anyway.
You know what I'm saying? Like he be saying vroom vroom?
- Yeah. - [exclaiming]
That's what it is.
After about four or five seconds, that's it, you know what I'm saying?
Okay, I guess you don't need no parachute for this then.
Not yet, I'ma put one on there once I hit that 200.
I'm trying to hit 200 mile an hour.
- Whoo! - In a donk?
Oh, I'm gonna do it. I done did everything else.
I might as well hit 200 miles an hour.
It's gotta be a Guinness Book of World Records at that point.
[engine roaring]
Matter of fact, I'm the first one to ever run 150 mile an hour
on 28-inch wheels, and I did that 10 years ago.
I love it, man. What else we got out here, man?
- What else we got? - Oh, we got all kind of stuff.
We got the G-bodies, that's another part of the Atlanta culture, man.
I got my car over there.
We got originals, we got a race car, we got some street cars.
We can go over there and sit with the G-body.
I can't wait to see that.
[engine rumbling]
Garrett, what classifies a car as a G-body though?
1978 to 1988, all the GM cars.
So, it was Pontiac Grand Prix, Buick Regal, Oldsmobile Cutlass,
Chevy Monte Carlo-- all those cars from 1978 to 1988
were all a G-body platform, the frame,
and how, like, the cars were made back then.
What makes them so appealing, a car to kind of customize?
They're affordable, and they made a lot of them.
And the aftermarket stands behind it.
So, we can call, get a rear end, a shock setup...
any kind of parts, reproduction parts they make for these.
Aftermarket parts' stuff that make it go fast.
- They make a lot of swap kits. - Gotcha.
[rumbling]
I went with a little more a street vibe with my car, you know.
It still makes a lot of horsepower,
but it's comfortable to drive wherever you gotta go.
Now, see, this is something that I'm into, you know what I mean,
- something that I can put on the street. - He still got a supercharger though.
We ain't light around here, we still got power.
Yeah, the supercharger.
What type of horsepower you putting down?
From the seat of my pants, I'd say about 700 to the tire.
- Streetable horsepower. - Streetable horsepower.
Now that I got it on a good tire, it actually will hook up,
- get down the road. - This is slick, man.
- I appreciate it, I appreciate it. - Real slick.
- Let's see the rest of it then. - All right.
What's that black thing in the middle right there?
A stick. [laughter]
Yeah, what's that old-ass stick, bro?
I'm kinda fronting on it, I'm not gonna lie to you.
But that is a handbrake to do some drifting, to do some fun stuff.
- Oh. - We just gotta finish
hooking everything up, but it's there for show.
- So Garrett, you a drifter. - Maybe.
- I wanna be. Aspiring. - Hold up.
Oh, we all metal around here, baby.
We all metal, we ain't cheating.
Sage, he ain't cheating!
I'm just checking, I'm checking.
He got a lot more horsepower, but we ain't cheating.
- We ain't cheating. - Okay.
- Okay. - Oh-ho, okay!
This right here is a 2015 Corvette LT-1
with an A&A supercharger.
This is the first 1970s Swap Chevelle with LT.
- Oh, wow. - Yeah, so this motor,
brand-new from Chevrolet, went straight into this car.
So, I got a question. Would you race this?
- Race it? - Yeah?
[chuckles] Yeah, I'll race it.
- This is a classic muscle car. - Mm-hmm.
He just added the supercharger.
That's something we could put on the Camaro.
We could definitely add a supercharger to the Camaro.
- A little bump up. - We should get, like, the thing
where it go, "Chh, chh!"
[hissing]
We're not trying to race the car, bro.
- We're not going "chh"? - You gotta have the nitrous.
- We gotta go "chh!" - That mean we racing the car.
We gotta go "chh, chh."
- See, he on the same page. - Yeah.
But you at least go to the new motor, to the LT style engine now,
- like this one got now. - Chh!
- Why you keep making the sound? - Chh! We gotta have it.
That means he want-- he gotta have it.
- Yeah, you gotta have it. - Chh!
- Y'all don't encourage him, man. - Chh, chh, chh!
All about the horsepower, you're talking to two horsepower guys.
Come on, now. It's horsepower, baby!
- Chh, chh! - Ain't no more vroom vroom.
Ain't no more vroom vroom. It's chh, chh!
- Chh, chh! - [laughing]
I like it, man. Man, we done seen everything today.
We seen top-notch donks, we done seen G-bodies,
even a little A-body, you know, for myself.
But I wanna see these things work.
Where do you wanna see 'em work at?
We gotta hit the track. I wanna see what y'all can do.
- All right. - Let's see what you're doing.
[music]
■ One, two, three, four ■
- We got horsepower. - We got plenty of that.
We can do some burnouts, how 'bout that?
You think this can do a burnout?
If I can do a burnout, I know you can do a burnout.
We gonna burnout, that's what we about to do?
Let's do some burnouts.
[engines revving]
[overlapping chatter and exclaiming]
Did the student just beat the teacher?
ALL: Ohh!
So, who it is, my turn now?
Bet on black!
Bet on black! You gotta bet on black, man.
You can't get schooled by the student though.
[engine rumbling]
- [exclaiming] - Goddamn, bro!
That's when I go vroom vroom.
I gotta tighten 'em up a little bit.
I- I don't know. - I think I made more smoke.
- Nuh-uh. - You don't think I made more smoke?
We can't see him coming back!
- Aw, man. - We can't see him coming back.
Where's the instant replay? Where's the instant replay?
- Garrett, yours looked good. - It looked good.
But we can't see him coming back.
I don't know where to park, it's too much smoke out here!
[laughter] Oh, yeah, right!
But what happened just now? What'd you all see?
Hey, you got it. You got it.
- A little bit. - You hopped out that thing
looking like Cheech and Chong, bro.
That's what it was? It's still smoking.
- It's still smoking, man. - It's still smoking.
I think I still had it. We need instant replay.
- What you talking about? - Instant replay.
- It's still smoking in there. - Instant replay.
[engines rumbling]
If it's somebody I lose-- if it's somebody I lose to, it'd be you.
Hey, man, I appreciate y'all doing that, man.
That's-- this was amazing. Great for the information, man.
Thank you all for sharing y'all cars, man.
Look, we got a lot of stuff to take back to the crew.
- Yeah, man. - Take back to Kev, the '69 Camaro.
- Yeah. - We got a lot of ideas, man.
I appreciate everything.
We gotta get some-- we gotta some "chh, chh."
- There you go with it. - That's right, that's right.
- We gotta get the "Chh, chh." - Make that the hashtag--
Make that the car name. How do you spell it though?
- I don't know. - All right.
[laughter]
Let me see what you got.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
- Whoa. - [exclaiming]
John, what's-- who this? Kareem!
- Oh, God. - That was bad.
That was bad.
That looks nothing like Kareem, champ.
- You probably need to pass. - [grunting]
- It's all good. - Self-check.
- Fellas, fellas. - Oh, what's up, Spank?
What's good? Straight?
- What's popping? - What y'all talking about?
We giving that recap on Atlanta.
- In Atlanta. - ATL, huh?
- ATL. - Okay.
The exotics, the donks, the G-bodies.
What makes a donk, though?
- A donk is a '71 to '76. - Yeah.
- Either an Impala or a Caprice. - Or Caprice.
- In California, we call 'em glass houses. - Yeah.
- Glass houses? - That's what we call 'em.
We call it-- but down South, they call 'em donks.
We learned about nitrous.
- And you gotta purge it. - You purge it.
So, getting the cold air makes more horsepower.
- Yes, I do know that. - Yeah. Yep, yep.
"Fast and the Furious" taught us that.
They pushed that button.
- Pssh! - There you go.
Sage got the cheat code.
Sage whole car, it's all fiberglass.
- I'm sorry, what? - It's a real live racecar.
- No way. The donk? - Yes.
Aerospace engineered. Everything, man.
Do you see the excitement on y'all faces?
- Whoo! - How y'all talking about these builds?
- Yeah. - We want that same reaction
to the builds for our car, huh?
Come on, now, let's get into business.
- Okay. - Let's talk about our builds
that we're about to do for the '69 Camaro.
- Let's talk, what you got? - I wrote some things down, fellas.
I didn't know he was going full presentation.
What's up, let's go. Come on, now.
- Spank, look at you. - Number one.
Do we want highly modified, or do we want classic?
- We gotta go classic. - We gotta go classic?
We gotta go classic, 'cause we might make some choices
on the highly modified, nobody might not want that.
- I'll say highly modified. - Let's go ahead, let's go ahead.
- We're going with classic. - Mostly classic.
- Mostly classic. - Mostly classic, okay.
Color-- what color are we going for? Do we got our color yet?
- Whoo! - I'ma tell you, for a Camaro...
- Purple. - Wait, what?
- Hold on, Barney. - Chill out.
I'm not mad at that.
Fun fact here. Fun fact, fun fact.
Did you know 77% of the United States cars
are either white, black, or gray?
Put a note up there that nobody cares.
Well, yeah, but that 77 where all the money at.
I get what you're saying, I love the facts, you know.
So, it's either white, black, or gray. That's fine.
Well, I guess we going black.
[overlapping chatter] We going for black.
- Let's go black. - Going with black.
- Spank, I... - Gambling.
You don't know how to spell "black"?
I know how to spell "black," but it looks better.
I want you to see the black.
Let's go, we're going with wheels.
I think we should do 19s.
19s is a nice, solid, classic car size.
- It makes sense. - Interior!
- Whoo! - Y'all know the interior.
- Go ahead. - This gonna be easy.
- Mm-hmm. - This gonna be easy?
- Yep. Black. - Black.
- Black on black velvet. - We're not gonna-- velvet?
- Chill out. - Spank, I think you should decide,
because you're the one that is the car stylist.
Best relationship that goes with black is red.
- I'm with ya. - Mm.
Go ahead and go with that.
Red cup, baby, come on now. Red cup.
We got it. The engine.
I think we should do something with a supercharger.
So, where we wanna land horsepower-wise?
- Yeah. - 1,000.
- A stack! - A thou-wow!
Yah! Yah!
- Supercharger 1k. - Okay, all right.
- Write "build plan" on there for me. - There you go, baby.
Build plan, I got you. I got you next time.
Come on now, I got you next time. We thinking, fellas.
- Yeah, I like that. - No, good job.
- [phone ringing] - We all here, we all here.
- Yo, look, it's Kev. - What up, what up, what up?
- What's up, boy? - Ah, here we go.
- Here we go again. - Don't start, guys.
I'm not there, I'm at work, okay?
- I've seen that face before. - That's an ugly face right there.
- Boy ugly. - Okay, cut it out.
Just give me an update on Atlanta. What went down?
Oh, man, we... we hooked up with Garrett Reed.
He showed us around, man. A lot of hospitality down there.
- Wow, wow. - We saw all types of cars.
- Wow. - We saw exotics, we saw donks.
So, you guys saw the Donk Master.
We met Donk Master Sage, he really gave us
a lot of game on the donk culture.
That's dope, I'm a fan.
We got a lot of information, man.
So, so wait, so you guys are talking about
whether it's gonna be a highly modified or like a classic look on a '69?
- We went over this, man. - Yeah, we already went over this.
- I'm out, I'm not gonna sit here. - Thank you, Mr. Redundant.
If you was here like we are,
and committed to the club, then he got something to do.
- I'll see y'all later. - By the way, you know,
this is a good time to bring up a build plan, right?
That's something that we need.
Get it together, I'll chime in, give my two cents.
- That boy genius, ain't he? - Did you bug the clubhouse?
'Cause we said everything you just said.
Oh, stop, man. What's your problem?
Go back to acting and doing whatever you need to do, man.
- We got this. - That's great.
Now, we just gotta go out and you know.
- Execute. - Execute.
Okay, guys, I'm out. I'll check in with y'all next time.
This was a good talk. Good job, man.
Why'd he do that?
[music]
- What's up, my guy? - Good morning.
- Jas. - It's good to see you.
What's up, bro? What's happening?
This car I hear is almost done.
- Not almost done. - [laughing]
Today's a big day though. Ready for paint.
- Ready for paint? - Oh, that's a big day.
Paint is a big day.
We going with the-- the black.
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this car,
especially after the last time I saw it.
- It wasn't in good shape. - That's right, yeah.
Feast your eyes on the future of the muscle car crew.
Ah!
[insect buzzing]
What is this, bro?
- So today, we're gonna work. - Me and him?
- What does that mean? - Me and you working.
We're gonna work. We're gonna put you guys to work.
- We're gonna finish taping... - We gonna paint?
You're gonna finish taping this car up so I can paint it.
No, I thought I was gonna get the spray gun and "psshh!"
No spraying for Harry.
Yeah, I didn't come dressed to spray.
No, I don't think we're there yet. I don't think we're there yet.
- What do you mean taping? - We're gonna show you.
Let's go inside.
Last time I put tape on a car, I was trying to make sure
my door panel stayed on, I taped it up.
Feel like we just walked into a studio, like a recording studio.
- Sound booth. - Man, I feel like I'm going into surgery,
'cause it's so clean in here. Why is it so clean?
Whatever's floating in the air ends up in this paint job.
Tell me a little bit more about the process as you paint though.
Like, is it stroking, right? Or is it one...
- Bro, just take it easy. - Huh?
Just take it easy with the stroking thing.
- Okay, well, we-- all right. - Okay.
So today, we're gonna spray this car in single-stage urethane.
We're using a PPG factor-packed black paint, jet black.
- Okay. - Okay, that means
- it's shiny right from the hit. - Mm.
And the reason we're gonna do that is a single-stage,
not only does it give us an opportunity to build coats,
but it also gives us an opportunity to create an incredibly deep finish.
Back in the day, people didn't need car paint
because cars were made of wood and metal.
So, they used lacquer as protection.
But as time went on, manufacturers in the 20th century
started to use urethane base coat clear coat paint
for even better protection against corrosion
and to give a more polished appearance, like we've done with your car.
Today, we use paint not only to protect the car,
but to attract buyers with custom designs and finishes.
Well, I can't wait to get ready
- to tape up. - You ready to tape?
So, you guys are gonna tape this windshield.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna hand Harry his paper.
What you guys are gonna do, is you're gonna keep the paper taut.
Tight.
- Hold up, Harry. - Okay, what you need...
Don't get crazy. Make sure you're far enough over
- to get the whole... - He said don't get crazy.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - Wait, Harry.
What are you rushing for? Slow down.
- Come down a little bit, Harry. - Come down.
Come down on your side there. There you go, there you go.
- It's gotta be perfect. - There you go.
Now, we're gonna grab our razorblade that we had on the dash.
- We have a razorblade right here. - There it is.
- Yep. - We're gonna carefully cut this edge.
I used to keep a razorblade in my back pocket in my hood.
- But we're not... - In Gaffney.
- We're talking about building... - I'm saying just in case,
I used to have a razorblade to drop...
Bro, I'm not on that end, I'm only trying to focus on this car.
- I'm just saying. - All right, Harry,
- you think you can do that side? - No, he cannot.
- What do I do? - Just cut...
- Right here? - So, when you cut the paper,
don't cut the tape.
- Cut the paper? - Yep.
- You gotta actually apply pressure. - Cut it on the long side.
- On this side? - Yep, cut it on the long side.
There you go. And tucked it in.
He has no clue what he's doing.
He's gotta learn.
He has no clue what he's doing. Okay.
- He's getting it, he's getting it. - Okay, it actually coming out cool.
- All right. - Okay.
All right, so now we're gonna tuck it in.
- Boss, I'm gonna grab this right here. - Okay.
Okay. Oh, I can do this.
You got it.
Look at that. Good job, Boss.
- Nice. - This is sweet.
I wanna ask a question. When do I get to...
- And you gotta have a rhythm. - Don't even think about it.
See, I wanna give you some pointers, Jason.
When you have a rhythm with the paint...
- How are you gonna... - That's how the paint is laid.
You gotta jazz 'em up, you have a jazzy paint job.
You gotta jazz in your body, going...
How are you gonna tell the man that does paint how to do paint?
- I'm just saying. - You didn't even know
how to finish taping.
- I think we're gonna let me paint this. - Yeah.
We gotta let you paint.
- This is super interesting. - I think it's dope.
I understand why jet black is gonna work.
And you know, obviously, we're looking to sell this car.
I love how he going full strokes on one piece,
full strokes on another piece.
He not doing the jazz thing I was telling him to do.
No, that's-- it's not a jazz thing, that's what he was trying to say.
You gotta-- Boss, what you don't understand,
life is about rhythm, and it's about flow.
- And he not doing what I'm... - He's in his rhythm and flow.
See, everybody don't beat to the same drum.
So, he's gonna paint this part of the car,
go to another booth, paint that while this dries.
- And he gotta do that six times. - Yes.
And this is when I truly started
to understand the value of a good paint job.
I'm saying a lot, but I will say,
I don't think we need a paint garage in our facility.
No, no, we gotta buy this.
It's like you're recording, and you in the booth.
- You feel me? - See, I think-- yeah, no, no, no.
See, I think you're missing it. We're not expert painters.
Stay in your lane, baby.
I'm gonna stay in my lane for now.
He said it's six hours from start to finish.
He can't take a break.
So, man, there's no way I'm about to sit here
and watch this wet paint dry.
Bro, it's fascinating to me. I'm-- I'm locked in.
I'm gonna just tell you like that. My advice is I'm out.
I'll see you later on the other side.
This is some good stuff, Boss.
On the hood.