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00:00Up next on American Restoration.
00:02This is a 1928 pretzel car.
00:05Wow.
00:06I bought this here because we got devastated
00:09by Hurricane Sandy.
00:10Oh, my God.
00:11You can't even tell what that is.
00:12I need your help.
00:14Your first impressions are always usually the best.
00:16Let's do some shredded metal, some flames, body parts.
00:19We're good.
00:21This is Chris, and he wants to get this restored.
00:23You know, most things, when I look at them,
00:25I can see them done.
00:26What they're going to be.
00:26This thing here, there's some things
00:29that just shouldn't be restored.
00:33I'm Rick Dale, and at my shop, we share a passion
00:39to give new life to pieces from the past.
00:44Every project has its challenges, but there's no job
00:49we can't handle.
00:51This is American Restoration.
00:58Fonzie!
00:59Let's bring it over here.
01:00Rick, this is Bill.
01:01Nice to meet you.
01:02Nice to meet you.
01:03So what's in the box?
01:04We've got to wait and see.
01:08All right.
01:09Wow.
01:11That thing's pretty cool.
01:12This is a 1928 pretzel car, and what made this unique was that it was two rides in one.
01:19It was a dark ride.
01:21You could sit in it.
01:22Right.
01:22It took the place of the love tunnel, which was on water, and it was also a whip, because
01:27it could make very tight radiuses, so you'd get whipped around and felt like you were going
01:32around a pretzel.
01:33Oh.
01:34When you said a dark ride, what you're saying is that this thing would run through a tunnel,
01:38basically.
01:38Scary.
01:39Right.
01:39I want it to be a little bit spooky.
01:42Spooky.
01:42A little spooky.
01:43Are these glow-in-the-dark?
01:44No, I don't think so, but we will be having glow-in-the-dark lighting.
01:48Oh, yeah.
01:48Some custom fluorescence in there.
01:50That'd be cool.
01:51Yeah.
01:51So we want this badass, is what you're saying.
01:53No question.
01:54In the capital B.
01:55In the capital B.
01:57That thing will look like it's seen better days for sure.
01:59This car is special to me because it's the oldest one we have, and we can't fix it on
02:04our own.
02:05The steel, it's been pushed and dented, and the metals all shrank again.
02:09There's sand and water and debris.
02:13I bought this here because my brother and I own the amusement park, and we got devastated
02:19by Hurricane Sandy.
02:20Wow.
02:22Hurricane Sandy absolutely decimated a lot of coastal towns in states like New York
02:27and New Jersey.
02:29We had four feet of water come rushing through our amusement park and knock everything in
02:36its way down.
02:37And so the whole park got ruined?
02:39It was a mess.
02:40This is a photo of how the ride looked, and you can see that we call it the spook house.
02:46And this is what we came back to.
02:48This is the front of the spook house, not the front door down.
02:51Oh, my God.
02:52You can't even tell what that is.
02:53It's just been blown open.
02:55Look at that.
02:56It's crazy.
02:56It's breaking my heart just looking at it.
02:59All that years and all that life and all that work.
03:02They are ruined.
03:03And we have to get them back into shape because it's been operating continuously at our park
03:09for 85 years.
03:10Wow.
03:11That's a long time.
03:12That's a lot of memories.
03:1385 years.
03:15Can you imagine?
03:16No, I couldn't.
03:17I mean, my heart really goes out to these people because I know how much of your life
03:21really goes into a family business.
03:23If we were to take a hit like that, it'd be like losing a family member.
03:27This is not one person bringing in something that's familiar just to them.
03:31This is thousands of memories all wrapped into one little car, one ride, one park.
03:37What we're going to do is we're going to do this for free.
03:40Oh, my God.
03:40I wasn't expecting that.
03:42I mean, that's really generous.
03:44What can I say?
03:45I mean, holy God.
03:46What a guy.
03:48What a gal.
03:50That's over the top, Rick.
03:52You got it.
03:52It's our way of giving back.
03:55So that's what we want to do, period.
03:57And once we get this car restored with all your new artwork, you can use it as a template
04:01for all the other cars in your park.
04:03That's over the top.
04:04I know I couldn't be in better hands.
04:06And I'm really happy that you're here to do this for us.
04:10Awesome.
04:11When you come back, that thing's going to just blow your mind.
04:13Okay.
04:14All right.
04:15Come on in.
04:18Two, four, two, set, hut.
04:22Go.
04:24You need an end zone dance.
04:26Who's this?
04:27I don't know.
04:29How you doing?
04:30Tyler.
04:31Chris, nice to meet you.
04:32How can I help you?
04:33I came to see if I can get something restored.
04:36That's badass.
04:37Yeah.
04:38I have no idea what this thing is.
04:40For all I know, it could be an antique cheese grater.
04:42So I'm going to let Mr. Know-It-All deal with this one.
04:45This is Chris, and he wants to get this restored.
04:47That's my dad, Rick.
04:48Hey, Chris.
04:48Nice to meet you.
04:50Wow.
04:51Tell me about this.
04:52It's a dry gold sluice made during the Depression.
04:54Sluice.
04:55Sluice.
04:56Funny word.
04:57Sluice.
04:58And it was used in the desert to prospect for gold in dry climates where there is no water.
05:02That's cool.
05:03On this dry sluice, how it works is you basically take a shovel full of dirt, put it inside here.
05:08You would crank the handle to where the bellows on the bottom would blow air up.
05:14Uh-huh.
05:15So you're getting all the lighter minerals out and the heavier ones, being gold, silver,
05:20or platinum, go down to the bottom.
05:21And then you'd look down in here and you'd skate through there and hopefully you'd find yourself
05:25some nuggets.
05:27Is there an app for that today?
05:28An app.
05:30That sounds like a lot of work.
05:31So where did you get this?
05:33The lady I got it from, her grandfather had a general store back in the 20s, and that
05:39went belly up during the Depression.
05:40So they made it out of what they had lying around to get money for the family.
05:45I mean, there was no money.
05:46The stock market crashed.
05:47There was no jobs.
05:48You were in line trying to get bread.
05:49It was terrible.
05:51So people would just basically go out in the middle of the desert and just pray to God
05:54that they'd find something because they need to eat.
05:57So, be it a Depression piece, because they didn't have any money, every piece of this
06:01wood came from something that was totally used up.
06:05This looks like a piece of a ladder down here.
06:07This looks like a seven-up crate or some kind of a crate.
06:10They nailed it together, took a piece of screen out of the window.
06:13Everything about it is something that they just had laying around.
06:16I mean, the ingenuity that went into this thing, this is a hand-built piece of art,
06:21you know, and history at that.
06:23So it definitely wasn't number 121 on the Sears and Roebuck catalog.
06:26No, it probably wasn't.
06:28You know most things, when I look at them, I can see them done.
06:31What they're going to be.
06:32Yeah, I can see them done.
06:33This thing here, all that life is the way it should be kept.
06:37And I swear that's what I'm really seeing.
06:39I'd love to take your money and make it all pretty again, but I think it'd be a waste.
06:43Yeah.
06:44There's some things that just shouldn't be restored.
06:48I'm totally with you 100%.
06:49Maybe make some of these bolts older instead of newer.
06:53You can come in the office and I'll give you those three nuts.
06:55And to preserve it, I see oil in it.
06:57That's all I see.
06:58Oh, okay.
06:59You know, and that would make it last.
07:01Bottom line, I want to thank you for bringing it in because I'm like...
07:03Sure.
07:03Of course.
07:04I'm at all.
07:04Okay?
07:04Well, thank you.
07:05You bet.
07:05Anytime.
07:06Well, let's go inside and I'll get you, yeah, I'll get you them screws and you can...
07:09Cheapest restoration ever.
07:12Screw it.
07:13Oh, it's heavy.
07:20Hey, where'd that seashell go I found?
07:23I don't know.
07:24It's in your personal collection.
07:26We got in this haunted house car ride and we need some help with the artwork, severely.
07:32And it's sort of tricky because we sort of want it scary.
07:37But when they ride it, we don't want to scare the heck out of the kids or be too gory.
07:41So fun and scary.
07:44I don't even know how that works.
07:45Okay.
07:46Fun and scary.
07:47At the same time, when it goes into the dark, it's got to come up a different color.
07:51We really want it to stand out.
07:53Oh, brother.
07:54They do make a night glow glow in the dark, which when it's outside, it's nearly invisible.
08:00You can't even hurt it.
08:01But once it rolls into that black light, more even so than white.
08:03How?
08:04So really, you can be more transparent.
08:06Like you don't even see them, right?
08:08Yeah.
08:09Yeah.
08:10Bang!
08:10Then he scares the out of you.
08:13That's exactly what we're looking for.
08:15Okay.
08:16You know exactly what we like putting out.
08:19So I want to make sure that you're in charge of that whole deal.
08:22This haunted house car is definitely one of the more complicated projects that Rick has ever thrown out.
08:30The more that we think about this, the more little cool things we can come up with.
08:33Yeah.
08:33Especially with the glow in the dark, that once they hit that light, it's gonna be a...
08:36It's hidden.
08:37It's gonna be a...
08:38Bang!
08:39Stop it!
08:42It's too early in the morning.
08:45We gotta get this motor tested.
08:47So, what's the idea here?
08:49We plug this in and I go?
08:50Yup.
08:51Hit me.
08:54Oh, crap.
08:55Where is the fluorescent paint going?
08:57I don't have a clue yet.
08:59Time-wise, why didn't you just use fluorescent in the first place?
09:01I don't have a clue.
09:03It needs to take a chill pill and stop breaking my balls.
09:16The pretzel car body has endured decades of abuse and a hurricane.
09:21So, we gotta get it down to bare metal without damaging it any further.
09:25So, Cowboy's using a chemical stripper to dissolve the paint layer by layer.
09:29And what we found underneath was like looking back in time.
09:33At one point, this car had a completely different color scheme that hasn't seen the light of day since the
09:381930s.
09:40Once all the paint's completely removed, we're gonna salvage as much of the body as we can.
09:45And when we're finished, it'll be jersey strong once again.
09:53Okay, Nico, this is a car from a haunted house ride from the late 1920s.
09:58So, it's gonna fall under blacklight, most likely.
10:01So, he wants it to...
10:02He wants it to come alive and light up with some glow-in-the-dark kind of things.
10:05Glow paint, yeah.
10:06Right, exactly.
10:07Rick put me in charge of the artwork for this project.
10:09But it needs some serious airbrushing, and that is Nico's specialty.
10:13We need to do some shredded metal, some flames, body parts.
10:15We're good.
10:16They want it scary, but not gory.
10:19No blood dripping out of it, no knives, no anything like that.
10:22But I'm really hoping you can help me, because your first impressions are always usually the best.
10:26Nico has a lot of talent, but we have very different ways of doing things.
10:30So, I just gotta make sure that we stay on track with all of the artistic details.
10:34First impression is going to be, for the front, I wanna see the devil.
10:40I'm thinking the classic flame coming off already.
10:43The flames are perfect with the devil.
10:45There you go.
10:45So, basically, this is the side.
10:48You know, we're gonna have the flame coming through.
10:50Maybe we can do what you wanna do.
10:52I don't know what we can do.
10:52Boo?
10:54Boo!
10:55Kids can't read.
10:56Alright, you got a point.
10:57So, on the back, we do a skull.
11:00Dink, dink, dink, dink.
11:02And then the fire gates of hell coming off the side.
11:08I don't want to scare them too badly.
11:09Alright, well, they could just be wrought iron gates.
11:13Sit!
11:16Pitch you up.
11:17Alright, so, what do you think?
11:19This says motorcycle jacket to me, so maybe we could simplify this a little bit.
11:23Whatever.
11:24Put a finer point on those.
11:25Work me up some sketches.
11:26Okay, bye-bye.
11:27Thanks.
11:27So I'll get you in trouble if it messes up?
11:30Something like that.
11:31I won't do that to you.
11:32Maybe.
11:36Hey, babe.
11:38Yeah?
11:38Get some boxes.
11:39Cool.
11:40That one's big.
11:41I know.
11:44I think that's it.
11:46Okay, dear Kelly, I would like it to be fully restored and would like Rick to have his own artistic
11:51freedom with the restoration.
11:53It's a Seabird wall box.
11:55This is actually the remote that told the jukebox what to do.
11:59Okay?
12:00Like, let's say you're sitting in the diner and the jukebox is clear across the room.
12:04And you would put a quarter or a dime or whatever it was set up for inside here.
12:08And then you would just basically pick the song instead of having to walk all the way over to the
12:13jukebox.
12:14That's cool.
12:15What year do you think this thing is?
12:17I mean, it says right here, Wall-O-Matic deposit nickel.
12:19And most songs back in the 40s and the 50s were a nickel.
12:23The look of it and the design of it, it's Art Deco.
12:26So it looks to me as if it's 40s.
12:29So what's next?
12:31Holy shit!
12:32Oh, okay.
12:35That looks so cool.
12:36Wow, wow, wow.
12:37Danville, Virginia?
12:38Danville, Virginia.
12:39This thing is basically for the railroads.
12:42It had all the sodas inside there and they got loaded onto the train.
12:46There was tons of them.
12:47Let's see inside here is where you put the bottles.
12:49They have this all stamped on there.
12:51It's only where it came from.
12:52But I mean, look at the bottom.
12:54It's falling off.
12:54It's so rusty.
12:55Yeah.
12:55Yeah, it's rusted out.
12:57See the color here?
12:58That's the color that it used to be.
13:00It used to be yellow, but it might have had a red and yellow.
13:02If they want this thing perfectly straight again, it is going to be days and days of body work.
13:07It's going to be at least three grand with all those man hours.
13:10So you get some prices to the people and we'll figure everything out.
13:25Nico.
13:26What's up?
13:27How are we doing?
13:27I'm doing good.
13:28You didn't come here to bust my balls, did you?
13:29I'm not here to babysit you.
13:30I'm just here to make sure that we're on the same page.
13:33Yeah.
13:33There's some things I want to change up a little bit, but I'm just keeping it simple.
13:38So we're on the flames.
13:39Mm-hmm.
13:40Now this is kind of where I envisioned the day glow paint, the fluorescent going.
13:46So where is the fluorescent paint going?
13:49I don't have a clue yet.
13:51The glow in the dark theme was supposed to be a big part of this design,
13:54but it's not even a blip on his radar yet.
13:56So we're 30 seconds into this conversation and already I'm freaking out inside.
14:00You know, I'm thinking maybe on the edges, on the inside.
14:03I left the lines here.
14:04Might do something in the middle.
14:05All right.
14:06Well, yeah, I was...
14:07Okay.
14:08You seem confused.
14:09So you're going to put day glow over the top of the yellow and orange that's already
14:12on there?
14:12We can still throw that on top.
14:13It's not a big deal.
14:14Whether we want to do it with a brush or we want to do it with an airbrush.
14:17Okay.
14:17Time-wise, why didn't you just use fluorescent in the first place?
14:22I don't have a clue.
14:24But like I said, that's another...
14:25I personally take that as another subject altogether.
14:27That's something once I'm done with all this, then we go into the day glow and the glow
14:31in the dark.
14:31All right.
14:32Yeah.
14:33So...
14:34At this point, I don't care how he gets the job done as long as all of the required
14:38artistic elements come together in the end.
14:41I'm not trying to hot dog this, so...
14:43Don't be scared.
14:44Ain't nothing to be scared about.
14:45Not scared.
14:46Not scared.
14:47I don't think Ted should be nervous.
14:49I think he's a little neurotic.
14:50He needs to calm down and relax.
14:51Take a chill pill and stop breaking my pulse.
14:54You could always add, can't take away.
14:56All right.
14:57I won't bother you anymore.
14:58Yeah.
14:58Why don't you go get lunch or something?
15:00All right.
15:00I got you, baby.
15:01I got you.
15:02All right.
15:02Good.
15:02Thanks.
15:02Don't worry about it.
15:03You're good.
15:04You're golden.
15:05Next time you bring some food or something.
15:15Kyle!
15:15Hi.
15:17We got to get this motor tested.
15:18So, I had Cowboy make this platform so that I could sit on it while you plug it in and
15:23we make sure it goes.
15:24Okay.
15:25I'll be the driver.
15:25I just need you to give me power.
15:28So, what's the idea here?
15:29We plug this in and I go?
15:31Yup.
15:32Hit me.
15:45It's backwards.
15:46I need to be going that-a-way.
15:49I'm going that-a-way.
15:51Turn it around.
15:52The frame he builds backwards.
15:53Oh, so I should be sitting like this.
15:57Oh, I ripped my pants.
15:59Let's turn the car around.
16:00Let's see what happens.
16:02Bring me back.
16:13Awful loud though, you know?
16:14Go.
16:20What the hell are you guys doing?
16:21We're testing the motor.
16:23That motor's-hey, that motor sounds like a broken down garbage disposal.
16:35What the hell are you guys doing?
16:36We're testing the motor.
16:38And it doesn't sound good.
16:40Why is it making that noise?
16:42Here, let me just-
16:44Oh!
16:45Let me just lift it up.
16:47That's a heavy monster.
16:49You can hold it up.
16:50I'll plug it in.
16:51Go ahead.
16:56Oh, plug it in?
16:56Yes!
16:57Please!
17:01Okay, hold it.
17:04Oh, this gear right here is so worn out, it's not even meshing at all.
17:10So this is the piece making the noise.
17:12Man, you're good at stating the obvious.
17:14So, I want you to take that and get it water-jetted and see if you can make one.
17:18This is hardened though, make sure it's hardened steel.
17:20Alright.
17:20We gotta get that finished.
17:21Alrighty.
17:22I'm ready.
17:28Rick?
17:29Yeah?
17:29Bill's here.
17:30Hey, Bill.
17:31Rick, how are you?
17:31Good to see you.
17:32I am so happy to be here.
17:33I am so excited to see this.
17:35How's the park going?
17:36It's going great.
17:37We are working through the winter.
17:39Okay.
17:39And we're at about 95% up and running.
17:42Good.
17:42This is ready.
17:43I can't wait to show it to you.
17:44I can't wait.
17:45Please.
17:46Show me.
17:50All right.
17:51So, Bill, I mean, you remember what this thing looked like.
17:53Yes.
17:54It was a wreck.
17:54It was a 1928, seen a lot of fun ride, right?
17:58Yes.
17:59So, you got that vision in your head?
18:00Yeah.
18:01All right.
18:01Here we go.
18:02Ready?
18:03One, two, three.
18:05Oh, my God.
18:07Oh, that's perfect.
18:08That is perfect.
18:09That's better than anything I could have imagined.
18:13I love the devil.
18:14I love the chrome.
18:15This is beautiful.
18:17This is absolutely gorgeous.
18:19Because he was doing this pro bono, I had no idea he was going to pull out all the stops,
18:24and he was going to make this into a museum-quality piece.
18:27I just wish my father were here to see this.
18:30He was around when this car first came to the boardwalk.
18:35And, uh...
18:36Your father would have loved this, huh?
18:38Oh, would he?
18:38I mean, this was part of our heritage.
18:41And this is our family.
18:43And, you know, he would have seen this and said,
18:45Oh, my God.
18:46This is something that's just out of fantasy land.
18:48This is just...
18:49It's beyond words.
18:50Thank you so much.
18:51Oh, yeah?
18:52Thank you so much.
18:53Thank you, too.
18:55This is gorgeous.
18:56Absolutely gorgeous.
18:56Yeah, check it out.
18:58I love the devil in the front.
18:59I mean, what an artist.
19:00This is like Michelangelo.
19:02You hired Michelangelo.
19:03You got it back from the grave.
19:05I had a little New York Michelangelo, right?
19:07Oh, my.
19:08They did the gargoyle on the top of it.
19:10I mean, that's just a stroke of genius.
19:12This is beautiful.
19:13They do these flames with this neon color in here.
19:16And then on the back of it, of course, it's got the skull.
19:18It's gorgeous.
19:19Even the seats are gorgeous.
19:21It is almost a sin to let people sit in it.
19:25They don't even have to ride in it.
19:26Just sitting in it is fun.
19:28There's a lot of work in it, though.
19:29I'll tell you that.
19:30Well, on that note, I'm going to get that other thing ready.
19:32Okay.
19:33All right.
19:34All right.
19:34So what we actually had to do, I mean, you remember the body was just destroyed.
19:38Right.
19:38And Sandy whipped on it.
19:39So we got all the metal straightened out.
19:41Got everything all nice and smooth.
19:43But the wood was shot.
19:45So we had to do all this wood cutting and shaping.
19:47And then we stained all the oak to make it look black.
19:50So remember me saying I wanted it to last another 82 years?
19:53Right.
19:53Well, that's gonna.
19:54All right.
19:55So you want to take a ride?
19:56Oh, do I?
19:56Yeah.
19:57Jump in.
19:57Let's go.
19:58When I got in the car, it reminded me of all the times when I was a kid that I
20:02would
20:03get in this car and ride and be scared.
20:06And it brought me back to my youth.
20:08You ready?
20:09I'm ready.
20:10Here we go.
20:15This is great.
20:16Absolutely great.
20:17I love this.
20:20We're good.
20:21Couldn't be better, Rick.
20:22It's perfect.
20:23You have done some job.
20:24I got one more surprise.
20:26I'm gonna push it inside.
20:28If he thought this car was great before, I can't wait till he sees what we got in store
20:32for him next.
20:33Okay, Bill.
20:34We got one more little surprise for you.
20:36So you want to see it in the dark?
20:37Yes.
20:37Oh, please.
20:38I can't wait.
20:39Babe?
20:39Are you ready?
20:40I'm ready.
20:45Oh, wow.
20:46Look at this.
20:49Are you scared?
20:50Oh, man.
20:51It's scared in a good way.
20:52This is gonna be so popular.
20:54I mean, people are gonna be just standing in line to see this.
20:57The teeth, the eyes.
20:58Look at your teeth.
21:00It's absolutely spectacular.
21:01You guys have really outdone yourselves on this.
21:04Smile, Bill.
21:06I love it.
21:08This is awesome.
21:09In the daylight, it's beautiful.
21:10And in the darkness, it's just as beautiful.
21:13I have all the templates and everything you need to make the other cars look just like
21:17this one.
21:17I can't thank you enough.
21:19This is just unbelievable.
21:20Cool.
21:20Good.
21:21I'm glad you...
21:21What the...
21:23Bang!
21:25Grow up, Tyler.
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