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00:00Whoa!
00:00Then we gotta patch them all together.
00:02Well, we got a problem.
00:04With any luck, we'll get this Frankenstein to run.
00:06That smells gas.
00:08That's not good.
00:11Welcome to Labrador.
00:13The middle of nowhere.
00:15At the end of the road is the last stop for Edge.
00:21We fix anything.
00:24I'm the lead mechanic.
00:26Self-tapped and proud of it.
00:29My buddy Colin and I grew up building stuff.
00:32Out here, we make do with what we got.
00:35Leanna and us, they can find anything.
00:38Our community depends on us.
00:41Cause we're the last stop and the only stop.
00:53Today, me and Cory are going to meet Dwayne.
00:57He's one of our best customers and loves to spend his money on cool projects.
01:01What's going on today?
01:02A little bit of maintenance, getting things tidied up.
01:05So you want us to fix this thing or what?
01:06Oh, this baby's fine.
01:08I got a little something else that I need done.
01:10Last year, we souped up the station wagon for his wife.
01:14No, she's getting all the limelight and all the attention.
01:17I'm just throwing it aside now.
01:21So what Dwayne's telling me here now is he's getting showed up by his woman.
01:24You know, his woman's getting all the attention, he's getting no attention.
01:26I need a little something for me.
01:27What, this?
01:28Yeah.
01:29That looks like an old cop car.
01:31It is.
01:32Dwayne got an old Crown Victoria.
01:34These things are built to win high-speed pursuits.
01:36The problem with this one, it looks like it lost.
01:38What a case, runner?
01:39If this thing even turns over, I'll be shocked.
01:41Here.
01:42When she fires up.
01:43I'm going to try.
01:44The old P71.
01:47That's fine.
01:48She fires like a kitten.
01:49Beautiful.
01:50The motor looks good, but the rest of her don't.
01:52Well, I'm not worried about the rest of her.
01:54So what are you thinking, Dwayne?
01:55Well, I'm thinking a rat rod.
01:56An old-school, ugly-looking truck.
02:00Something that stands out, right?
02:01A rat rod is a custom-made vehicle made up of old cars.
02:04And they're ugly as sin.
02:05But depending on how far you go, they can cost you a lot of money.
02:08If you're building a rat rod, I hope you got a budget.
02:10So what do you say?
02:10We say five grand, and I'll show you the pieces that I need.
02:12So you got another body for this, then?
02:14Yeah, I got something hit away in the woods.
02:15What do you mean, in the woods?
02:17Well, I'll take you down and show you.
02:18But, you know, I got to blindfold you.
02:20Last time I got blindfolded, I didn't really like the old company.
02:23You supply the parts, we'll do it on five grand.
02:25Five grand it is.
02:26Let's do it.
02:26Roger.
02:26Yes, sir.
02:27Okay, boys.
02:28For this rat rod, we need vintage car parts.
02:30And Dwayne knows just where to find them.
02:33This is where the secret stash is, down here.
02:35Lots of bodies have been hit here, I bet.
02:38I haven't hit any bodies, but the day's not over yet.
02:44It's a little off the beaten path when it's been hit away.
02:46Look at that.
02:47Is that a Volkswagen Bug?
02:48It's a Volkswagen Bug, yes, sir.
02:49That's something built in the 60s, I suppose.
02:51That's pretty cool.
02:52Oh, jeez, there's more.
02:54This place is a gold mine.
02:56We got Fords, Chevys, Volkswagens.
02:59Look.
02:59So what?
03:00You want to go with something like this, or what?
03:01Yeah, well, there's another piece, you know?
03:03For this rat rod, we've already got a Crown Vic for the frame.
03:06Now, Dwayne's got his eye on three different wrecks.
03:08There's a pan from an old truck, there's a cab from another truck,
03:10and there's a front clip off God knows what.
03:12Once we remove the Crown Vic body and anything else we don't need,
03:15we'll weld those parts onto the frame and, boom, four cars into one.
03:19How are we going to get this out of here, Dwayne?
03:21That's up to you guys.
03:23Huh.
03:26It would be next to impossible to get these old wrecks out of the forest
03:28with a simple truck and a winch.
03:30Luckily, we got a guy by the name of Dave, and he owes us a bit of a favor.
03:33None of these easy cars, it's all the hard ones, eh?
03:35Dave's here, he's all on the go and brought the excavator here,
03:38and we're going to go in.
03:39Oh, my, oh, my.
03:40It's just a pain in the royal butt to me, but I said I'd help, so I helped.
03:46This is one.
03:47Yeah.
03:47We're getting marked off.
03:48Yeah.
03:49We'll head over this way because there's another one over here.
03:51Well, you fellas are nuts.
03:52No, go on.
03:53No.
03:54This is the other one, see?
03:55I need this truck.
03:56I need that cab over there.
03:57I actually need both of them.
03:58I need all of it hauled out, but we can't hurt this front clip.
04:01I need this front clip.
04:01That's still a good shape.
04:04You dragged me down here for this.
04:06Well, yeah.
04:07For this.
04:08And that's good shape.
04:09No, that's good shape, that is.
04:10Corey is telling me not to put a dent in this stuff.
04:12It's very full of dents.
04:13These fellas are looney tunes.
04:15I mean, just plain looney tunes.
04:17Geez, the moss is growing on this, boy.
04:19The door still opens.
04:21Oh, man.
04:21Is that what I mean?
04:22Like, look, the door's not even tore up.
04:23Look, it still works.
04:25I got to come through that bush, though.
04:26Hopefully now.
04:27Don't get stuck.
04:27We'll get it out.
04:28Don't worry about it.
04:29All right.
04:29We'll see you in a bit.
04:31The main thing is getting them back to the shop in one piece.
04:37Oh, geez.
04:38Look at that.
04:40I got to get rid of this thing, Mike.
04:42Oh, ho, ho.
04:43Holy cow, that's bigger.
04:44That's bigger than I thought.
04:46No messing around with Dave.
04:50Come on, old girl.
04:51Look at that picture.
04:51Oh, Dave.
04:52No, that's okay.
04:53You're knocking the moss off.
04:55Oh, my, oh, my.
04:57Yeah.
04:57Just be careful.
04:58Easy, Dave.
04:59Easy.
04:59Easy?
05:00Holy.
05:01Ha, ha, ha, ha.
05:05Whoa!
05:07To the untrained eye, it might look like a pile of junk.
05:09But trust me, there's a method to my madness.
05:12Let's go get the other one.
05:33We don't know what kind of shape this Crown Beck actually is in, so we're going to see what it's
05:36like and we're going to go for a test drive.
05:37Seat belts or not, here we come.
05:40She starts, anyway.
05:41She starts, yeah.
05:42See what she got.
05:50The good news is, is this baby got lots of power.
05:52One, two, three.
05:56And the brakes work, too, so that's a plus.
06:07Hey, you're under arrest.
06:08The bad news is, she's steering like she's drunk.
06:11I'll try and hold the steering wheel straight and see what happens.
06:13Holy God, of course.
06:14There's something definitely going on.
06:15Yeah.
06:15He goes in the ditch if he holds her straight.
06:17The steering's bent.
06:18We need to put it up on the hoist and see what's going on.
06:22Oh, my God.
06:23Jeez, it's just like an S.
06:25First thing we noticed is a tire rod that was totally bent.
06:28Oh, my God.
06:30But the bigger problem is the ball joint.
06:32Look at the tires, they're just falling off.
06:35That's like whatever holds your kneecap in place.
06:37Yeah.
06:37It's like just having that gone.
06:38Oh, boy.
06:39Right now, we've got a bigger problem than we expected.
06:41So, what else is wrong?
06:43I don't know.
06:43I'm kind of nervous to keep looking.
06:54The ball joint's completely busted.
06:56I guess that's the reason why the steering might be a little bit sloppy.
06:58Well, I'm surprised we never went off the road.
07:00I guess we get some new parts, I wonder?
07:01I'll go get Ross there now and see if he can find something.
07:05We've got a problem right now and we've got a bunch of missing parts that we need.
07:07I always go to my dad and Ross because they kind of know where everything is.
07:10Hey, Ross?
07:11Hey, how's happening?
07:14Well, I need you to find something.
07:16Find something?
07:17Yeah.
07:18Me and Cory got that old Crown Vic out there.
07:20The tie ride's like an S and the ball joint's broke right off.
07:24I'm sure you can find that.
07:25You know where all that old stuff is?
07:27Yeah, well, yeah.
07:28I need them like right away.
07:31While we're waiting on our parts, I think the next thing to do is cut that body off.
07:37You know, cutting off, grind it off, torch it off, rip it off.
07:39And we're not going to use it, so the body's coming off.
07:41All I know is something's coming off.
07:46One thing I didn't want to do was break the back window.
07:48We broke the back window.
07:49Oops.
07:49Oops.
07:50Oh, Christmas tree.
07:51Oh, Christmas tree.
07:53See you later.
07:55Look what we got made, Cory.
07:56Looks like a mess, eh?
07:57It's not a mess.
07:58It's a convertible.
08:04Family day at Scrapyard.
08:06What we're looking for today are ball joints and tie rod ends for a Crown Vic.
08:10It's our only scrapyard, so pretty much anything that gets damaged or thrown out that relates to metal ends up
08:15in this scrapyard.
08:16It's the most logical place to check.
08:18All I see is the car.
08:20Yes, boy.
08:20It's a cop car.
08:22Can we actually get at it?
08:23No, usually we don't take them down.
08:25It's going to cost a lot.
08:26We do take it down.
08:27What do you mean, a lot?
08:28Cost a lot.
08:28At least $1,000.
08:29But then I've still got to charge you for the rental and the equipment to get it down,
08:32because for now I've got to use my time, so another $75 for the hourly wage.
08:35So what was the $1,000 for then?
08:37You should get it down.
08:38To me, that's just ridiculous.
08:40Now you might find some parts over there.
08:43Over that section.
08:44Way over that way?
08:45Yeah.
08:46Alright, thanks.
08:47Oh, God.
08:47$1,000 just to climb up for a look.
08:51We must have been over that way somewhere, boy.
08:54There's nothing here.
08:55I'm not seeing nothing.
08:57Well, I think we're lost, right?
08:59We're not even close to nothing.
09:01Keep going.
09:02Keep going with this way.
09:03Well, at least this is a pile of parts anyway.
09:05It's not a pile of scrap, so we might have some kind of a chance.
09:07You mean it's not a pile of scrap?
09:09Hello.
09:09Well, at least it looks like parts anyway.
09:13We've got something here that looks kind of like it.
09:17Can I see the ball turns on there for the nut?
09:20Well, no.
09:21Heavy rocks can lift it.
09:22There you go.
09:24It was a whole front end, so I'm sure the boys can find what they want off of it.
09:30What the heck you got us?
09:32We've got everything you'll need plus more.
09:37So you want to put it right here?
09:38Yeah.
09:38Well, we've got some good parts.
09:40We've got the tire, we've got the ball jump, we've got everything else.
09:42Thank you, sir.
09:43So when are you guys going for your operation?
09:45What operation?
09:46To get your hands cut out of your pockets.
09:48Come on.
09:48We've got some work to do.
09:49Let's go.
09:50Yeah.
09:51Whatever.
09:53Ready?
09:54Nope.
09:54Well, now the first step me and Cory's going to do is to pop out the lower ball joint.
10:01The problem is that most of these parts are bent and damaged and the threads, instead
10:04of it threading off the way it's supposed to, the threads aren't theirs.
10:06We forced it to come off.
10:08You know what?
10:08It's got to come off.
10:09Whether it wants to or not, it's coming off.
10:12We just got the lower ball joint out and it's supposed to look like this.
10:16See how this ball joint here has a threaded end?
10:20This one here is actually broke off, so very dangerous.
10:22I'm surprised the wheel didn't even come off.
10:24Hey, boy.
10:26Ross and Leander did good.
10:28The parts they got us are perfect.
10:30Well, this one looks a little straighter.
10:35Gettin' around.
10:36Ball joints are good.
10:37The tar rods are good.
10:37All we have to do is install them in the Crown Vic.
10:39With a bit of luck, she'll run straight.
10:47She's perfect.
10:49Come on.
10:50Give it to her.
10:54Yes, she's good.
10:55Go, go.
10:57Woo!
11:00It's running straight.
11:01It's running true.
11:02She might have a little wiggle left and right, but hey, that's his character.
11:06Now, we can calmly drive back into the ground like a normal civilized people.
11:13The only question now is, are these pirates going to line up with the Crown Vic frame?
11:16Hey, Kyle!
11:17Why?
11:18Come give us a hand, boy.
11:19Give me ten seconds.
11:23Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
11:30What's up?
11:31We need some muscle.
11:32Well, it came to the right place.
11:33All right.
11:33Let's go.
11:34All right.
11:36We're going to see...
11:37Oh, my God.
11:38Hold on.
11:38Hold on, now.
11:41I'm going to get straight out of the way, man.
11:42Geez.
11:44Well, you want to go back even further.
11:45Definitely going to have to cut this off in here.
11:48Take this front bumper right off completely.
11:50Move this wiring.
11:50Maybe tuck that up out of the way.
11:52It's going to be a lot of work ahead of us.
11:57Okay.
11:58It's not going to fit.
11:58But we can lift it up and try.
12:01What are you doing, man?
12:04Well, we got a problem.
12:06The Crown Vic is way too wide for these old parts.
12:09To make it fit, we'll need to cut the cab right down the middle, then line up the front and
12:13center pillars on both vehicles and weld them together.
12:19While Colin focuses on trimming up the front clip, I'm going to focus my energy on trimming up the cab
12:23to make sure that the pillars line up.
12:27We even got Ross working today, pulling off them old doors off the wreck out back.
12:40Geez, you never even use the measuring tape, and that thing is perfectly straight.
12:43You want to check the sides.
12:45Don't go that far.
12:45Oh, geez.
12:46They're straight, too.
12:47Finally, we got all the parts welded on.
12:48Now I'm going to see what it feels like.
12:50We had a comedy for Dwayne's, you know, belly there.
12:53So, who's Kyle?
12:54Kyle's six foot two.
12:55He's, you know, must be 220 pounds.
12:57All right.
13:00Looks just like Dwayne now.
13:01Give it a try, Kyle.
13:02See what you can do.
13:02Can you get your belly in?
13:04Sorry, Dwayne.
13:04Oh, geez.
13:09A little short.
13:12He's on his belly.
13:13This cab is definitely not deep enough for someone like Dwayne.
13:17No, I screwed up.
13:18You're right.
13:25A little short.
13:29He's on his belly.
13:30Yeah.
13:30I made the cab too small.
13:32I made it for me, for Colin.
13:33I didn't think.
13:33I didn't make it for Dwayne.
13:35Let's just not tell Dwayne about that.
13:36You'll never know.
13:37So, now we've got to cut the cab in half again.
13:40It's going to take more time and more labor, but it's got to be done.
13:47Because we're making the cab longer, we're going to have to make the doors longer, too.
13:51Colin got Ross working on that right now.
13:53It's all hands on deck.
13:57Two doors.
13:59I'm trimming the back pan off this old Ford F-100 and making it fit to the Crown Vic.
14:11What do you know you're talking?
14:12Look at that.
14:13Now we're cooking with peanut oil in me.
14:15I'll get it at the front, you get it at the back.
14:16Okay.
14:18Don't get them scratched up now after all my hard work.
14:21Ross got these old doors cut in half.
14:23Perfect day.
14:24Right now, all we have to do is fill in these gaps with some old scrap metal and weld it
14:27all together.
14:33We got a call from the mayor of Northwest River, said there was an issue with one of their pieces
14:38of equipment, so I said I'd grab taller and see what the problem is.
14:41My 76 stool machine here is down.
14:46And we use this guy all around town.
14:48Bumps out all the sewers.
14:50It's the only truck we have, and it's really important to us because it takes care of all the dirty
14:54business around town.
15:03Yeah, she's ill.
15:04First place we can check is dirty carburetor.
15:06It could be just a carburetor.
15:07It also could be more serious.
15:09It could be your piston rings are stuck.
15:10It could be your valves are stuck.
15:13What he's trying to say, Dave, I think it could be expensive.
15:16Oh, here we go.
15:17Yeah, this is worse than a council meeting right now.
15:19We need this.
15:20We need it today.
15:21We'll work our hardest to get her to you today.
15:24Leander, are you going to be the fuller to help me today?
15:26I think we should go have a coffee and discuss the bill.
15:29Maybe that's a good idea.
15:30So it seems like Leander does all the talking, and it seems like I guess all the doing.
15:37This is a two-cylinder, four-stroke engine.
15:39That engine runs a pump so it can pump out septic tanks or manholes, whatever they need to use it
15:45for.
15:46And then when it's full, it pumps it back out.
15:49This here is a carburetor, and it's all gummed up.
15:51When a carburetor gets gummed up, the motor just doesn't want to go
15:54because it's not getting the right amount of fuel to the amount of air that it's getting.
15:59There's lots of dirt in there.
16:21Turned out to be a pretty quick job.
16:23Not quite as difficult as we thought it was going to be.
16:26I was hoping it was going to be a little more difficult.
16:27I was hoping we could charge me like 73 hours on this bill.
16:30Can we hear it run?
16:34Oh, she lives!
16:36She lives!
16:39Well, looks like my job is done here.
16:41Let's go back to the town hall.
16:42Let's have a little bit of crown royal and ice.
16:44How's that sound?
16:45Woohoo!
16:50She looks like Mrs. Frankenstein's offspring, but she's solid as a rock.
16:56Now all we gotta do is take her for a run.
17:07That smells gas.
17:09That's not good.
17:13That smells gas.
17:30And nothing's happened.
17:32The ground's on a pair.
17:35Check the ground over there, Cora.
17:38Done.
17:39I hope we didn't melt any wires when they were welding.
17:42The car got probably 200 grounds, and most of them was in the A pillars, the B pillars, the back.
17:46You know, and when me and Colin just started going to town with the reciprocating saws and the grinders,
17:50you know, we could have cut wires, burned wires.
17:52We could have did a hundred different things.
17:54Let me look hooked up up here.
17:55Ground's on the battery.
17:58Ground's on your ground's on?
17:59All fuses look good.
18:01It looks like everything up here is all tucked away nice and neat.
18:03Yeah.
18:04We didn't cut anything down this way, did we?
18:06You're trying to blame me for it all.
18:07I'm not blaming no one.
18:12What else can it be?
18:13There's two wires broke there.
18:14What's that?
18:15Geez, that's an inertia switch.
18:17An inertia switch is basically an impact switch.
18:20If you roll over, this switch shuts the fuel delivery off to the engine.
18:23When those two wires weren't connected, what it was doing was it was having an open circuit.
18:27You know, you gotta have a closed circuit for this to work.
18:33Hey!
18:34Hey, you figured it out!
18:38I'm pretty confident that Dwayne's gonna like what we got built from,
18:41because it's gonna get him all the attention he asked for.
18:45What we got built here for Dwayne is definitely going to turn heads.
18:48Maybe not always in a good way, but she's exactly what a rat rod should be.
18:53A rugged, mean, slapped-together machine.
19:00I got a picture of this one I drew in grade two.
19:03Man!
19:04Man!
19:05Oh, man!
19:06That's pretty close.
19:07That's yours, buddy.
19:08That's yours.
19:09Oh!
19:09Yeah!
19:12What do you think?
19:13Wild, man.
19:14So ugly.
19:16It's pretty.
19:18Is this gonna beat Jen's wagon?
19:20Oh!
19:21I think that wagon might have to jump on it, but where she got the bigger motor and fuel injection,
19:25she's gonna hit her on the long end.
19:26You know, there's only one thing left to do.
19:28Race them.
19:33Are you ready?
19:34Are you ready?
19:48Are you ready?
19:51But with a little bit more time and a little bit more money, we can fix that too.
19:55At CRB, it's all about customer service.
19:58And if we can put a smile on your face, that's a sign for us that you're another satisfied customer.
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