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and do know how far along we are? we're working on the seats today, and we're doing carpet in it, and door panels. that's all. what's different about this job than your typical job that comes in? this is a store-bought interior. all we're doing is installation on everything, we've not making the products here. do you ever have any times where you purchase something and it doesn't fit for the vehicle you're working on? oh, yeah. yeah. what do you do in those cases? you call the manufacturer that makes it and see if he can deal with it, or with our skills of cutting stuff apart and re-sewing it, sometimes we alter-- you make it work? yes. all right. what we did was, we started by stripping the frames, getting everything off of 'em. this right here is just a burlap that lays between the frame and the foam. what it does is, it keeps the foam from sagging through.

put a foam on it to take shape and... megan: it's starting to look like a seat. you want to try your hand at this? yeah. now, if i mess up, will alan ever know? it won't hurt. just make sure you grab this. yeah, you gotta take the bead and make sure it's all laying one direction.

if it's flipped one way and flipped, you get a bead that'll look like you've been surfin'. so what we do is, we make sure all the beads are all tucked a certain direction. there you have it. that is a nice-looking seat. the back seat is finished, so we're halfway there. good thing, because mike is making headway on the motor. i worked basically in the automotive industry for a long time. i was working for a company that supplied a lot of the parts for alan on some of the projects he's working on, and alan asked me to come by and help him with some of the technical problems that they've run into. what i'm used to working on is regular all-out race cars. so they require a different level of mechanical work than what a street car does, street cars have to be softer so they can live on a street environment, than a race car would. this car today is gonna take a lot of work. right now we're trying to figure out the air-conditioning system they're adding into the car wasn't designed for this car, but we're gonna make it work,

and also put on a rear suspension system. this car is essentially completely disassembled. now it's just gonna be a matter of putting everything back together. whatever's missing that we can't purchase, obviously for a car like this, it has to be correct, but there are certain things you might be able to fabricate from scratch and make work. ha ha! you would imagine it'd be a really nice street car, there's a lot of good pieces here, so i think this is gonna be a very nice car. megan: now tony's gonna show us some old-school tricks. tony: what they do is... you grab the material, and bang! tony is just about finished with the interior. so what's the first step? first thing we need to do is strip all the pieces off this, including this metal cap on the top. we got this metal cap, we need to reuse this. some of your door panels when they come pre-made will have a new cap on 'em, but they're not as good as the factory ones. so anytime you can use the factory piece

it's better than using the re-pops. we're going to cut all this off to take it off. we got new whisk rubber, so we don't have to worry about being nice with these. what we need to do is take this piece of metal off, chrome trim, 'cause we're gonna reuse it, so we want to be careful with it. right now what we gotta do is clean all this up and get it ready to reinstall. and the rest of this is bye-bye. the rest of that is junk. anything i can help you with? just watch your fingers and just...

give it a light little scrub? you're just taking all the dirt, any kind of paints or anything that's on 'em. just kind of wipe 'em off. then we're gonna put a little wax on top of it after you're done. now what i have to do is, have to align this all up. now, these have little notches in 'em. see the notch? mm-hmm. so you know that's how far you go back? that's how far you're gonna go, take it up to the bore. you have these little line-up holes that'll tell ya-- like right here, right there-- that helps tell you where it goes. now we're gonna put these little backer washers on 'em. grab the handles... now squeeze. keep going. there you go. one more time. you just want to make sure everything's lined up. the next thing we're gonna do is attach all this.

we start with the middle? yeah, you start in the middle, and then you work your way out. looks good. all right. last piece? the only piece left is the piece here and we're getting a new one, so we're not gonna mess with putting that one on. so that's your door panel. megan: we'll be ready to put that interior into the car pretty soon. in the meantime, paco is working on the dash and getting some things hooked up under the hood. actually, what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna start at the front of the engine and work my way back to the back of the car. i looked underneath the dash, and it's spaghetti down there. there's a lot of new wires, a lot of old wires,

bulk connectors that i don't think need to be there. so all the a.c. stuff, all the a.c. wiring, hasn't been done. it just got ran underneath there and then just left, so... basically, when you're assembling a car that's probably the most time-consuming thing, is wiring, especially if you didn't take it apart. i'm not really familiar with gtos, i've never really been a fan of pontiacs, but, you know, they're all the same. hopefully i can have the whole car completely done by the end of the week. that's hood painted, all the body panels aligned, a.c. working, running, driving, so... i'm shooting for friday. the gto is coming along quickly,

but we seem to be missing some of the parts to finish the job. in the meantime, let's see how glen is doing with the camaro. alan: hey, glen, how ya doin' there? fine, sir. how's this car coming? it's going right along. right up next to being where we need to be, our quality work. it's not without its problems, though. like? they were really hard. had to make a lot of stuff up. oh, that's nice. that piece looks bent. uh...like this? oh. that's nice. little bit of butcher work there. that's monkeyed up for sure. but is it old? no, actually, this was all new. it's all new, and i think a lot of it was just improper installation to be honest with you. and what's darrin doing? he is finishing up on the shocks. i'm cleaning up on this. we'll have most of it together today.

glen doesn't need my help, but alan always seems to have a new task for me. now, this is something i've never done before, so this could get interesting. this was really the first opportunity where alan told me what to do but didn't actually supervise me as i was doing it. he actually was busy painting another car out in the spray booth, so he would run into the shop, in the center bay, and say, "megan, i need you to do this," and then he'd run out, and i had to do it myself. i need you to start taking this apart for me. okay. you're gonna walk me through it? i'm gonna walk you step-by-step. the first thing i need you to do, this is the intake manifold, we need to take this intake manifold off. that's the first thing i got. so we just need to remove all the bolts? all the bolts. bucket wrench. you're all set. take all of 'em out, and then this is ready to come off. i'm gonna go put a coat of paint on, and hopefully you can get all these bolts off. okay, i will come get you when i'm done with this. you got it.

you got all the bolts out? we're ready to see if this thing's gonna come off. probably won't. oh--look at that. all sides, that's the next step. do you want me to physically remove it? you can, then just put 'em right on top of the intake. righty is tighty, lefty is loosey. there you go. megan: well, i was just working, and i had this really good pace going on, like i figured out how to turn the tool so that i could do it quicker. and as i'm doing that, i lost the screw, and the screw went further into the motor. uh-oh. i'm like, "oh, great," "it just actually fell into the engine.

"alan's gonna kill me and i'm never gonna get to do anything by myself again." so i kept looking, and actually when i was bringing part of the motor to the plastic box where we put everything, apparently the screw must have jumped out rather thaninto the engine, bounced off the ground and into the plastic box, because that's where i found it. okay, no harm, no foul, right? i found the bolt, everything is gonna be just fine. really. just fine. i think i'm gonna mosey on out of here and just fade into the background for a little while. maybe i'll just-- i'll just watch the guys work. they gave me an after-market lower section for-- it was for a 'cuda, but it was for a newer model 'cuda. and they're a little bit different, but the parts that we needed were pretty much the same. so i cut it off of that, and the patches that went in the front of the wheel,

i cut those off of the same piece. now, i had to do a little bit of fabrication to 'em, but it was easier doing it that way than it would have been to just take a flat piece of steel and bend it around. if you just take a rust hole and fill it full of duraglass and bondo, it won't last as long. but metal patches, if you do it right, with like weld-thru primer, if you get your metal work right, you have less filler. i have to finish welding it. i drilled holes in it so i could weld it, and then just finish welding the whole thing in,

and then i can finish doing my mud work. megan: with the rust holes covered in the '71 'cuda, paco can begin making the panels look nice and smooth. i started on the body, what, probably about six weeks ago? but i've been jumping off and on it. i'll be happy when i'm on it full-time. there's probably gonna be maybe 1/16th of an inch. i always figure the less amount of material on there, the better off you are,

the less apt for like soak-up, and-- i mean, i've seen it fall out of cars, but, you know, it's just... you're better off with the least amount on there as possible. when we restore a vehicle, it can be in the shop for months. sometimes the car owners like to come in and check out the latest work. they get excited, and it helps keep us excited, too. today our friend gene mccloud has driven all the way down from georgia to check in on his first love-- his 1950 plymouth. i've been looking for that car ever since i came home from the navy. because that is a copy of the identical car that i had for my 16th birthday. my first car my mom and dad gave me.

and i think they paid $250 for that, and that was in 1958. so...or '56, when they gave it to me, and i sold it in '58 for $100, to go in the navy. so after that, i always wanted my first car back. well, it's beginning to look... like my original car. the color is there. didn't have that big engine, though. had a little old 6-cylinder engine, but this is gonna have a muscle engine. this metal work is smoother and this paint job looks better than i believe it did when it came off the original assembly line. alan, he is taking it all the way down to bare metal. he's removed all bondos and everything. it is solid sheet metal all the way through. he's taken out a lot of the seams that was there, and customized it a little bit more, give it a more streamlined look and all. and it's-- each time i see it

i just sit down and just, i don't know, i just--i can't say anything when i look at it. the seams right here have been welded and fused together, all new paneling, that floor panel is brand-new in there, the firewall is new. the '50 plymouth had the little tail lights like this, and no other plymouth ever had that-- year model '49 prior, or '51 later-- had that same tail light design. you can tell a '50 plymouth from any of 'em. i want it to look as near like the original one. the same factory plated-looking cream color that came out in 1950 that the plymouth people used. it'll have a maroon top on it, a convertible top, and it'll have maroon interior. it'll have fender skirts. this car did not come with fender skirts, and so the fender skirts had to be found, basically after-market product. looking down through here, the frame, just by my naked eye, is trued up.

before alan got ahold of it and started truing things up, if i went down the street it'd look like i'd go down sideways. i can't wait. if he would hook it up to the gas tank now, i could ride around and i'd be just tickled to death just the way it looks right now. this would be a major accomplishment right here. even though in its condition that it's in, without the doors and all, but now i think it's all beginning to come together. megan: time to pack up and go south for a while. first stop, dick french's house. now, we don't have his '71 cuda ready, but we're in town and alan wants me to see dick's garage. hey, dick. dick: what's happening? you guys just get here? yeah. how is everything? you remember meg.

sure do. it's pretty hot out there, huh? hey, dick. how are you? fantastic. give her the five-minute tour? i was trying to figure out if i wanted to put on some music or not. actually, alan gave me this. this is a 1950 wurlitzer jukebox, i've got all the stuff on the inside, so it kind of adds to what we have here. very classy. yeah, yeah. but it's kind of cool. and i got into collecting some pumps, and this fits right in with this time era. these pumps are in the '30s, '40s, '50s, these are in the teens, '10s, '20s. this type thing, they're clock-faced, and they're really kind of cool. i want to make it kind of like-- i want to hang out, i'm gonna put a tv up here, put a little bumper pool table over here with all the cars. i've got 20-some-odd cars, so as alan gets 'em done, we'll fill the place up. megan: so it's gonna be the guys' room.

a guys hang-out spot. although my wife-- no girls allowed. well, we'll make exceptions. the wife actually is gonna design all that. i'm gonna put a little soda fountain over here, so she's really into it. so it'll be kind of fun that we'll be into it together. this is kind of cool. not that a penny goes very far, but read that. "1 cent for 12 minutes." isn't that pretty cool? wow! i just used a parking meter and it was a whole lot more than that. it was about 200 cents for maybe ten minutes. but that is something that i think is very cool. this became very addicting. i thought the cars were addicting, but it's a lot of fun to have this type of era stuff. for christmas i get a stoplight, you know? so that's what i've either reduced myself to or stepped up to, that type of collection.

now, if you're here tomorrow and you need a car to drive, you can have your pick. if it's not raining out, you can take a convertible. no, i gotta take b.q. down to a pageant, she's gotta sign in. that's what i'm doing here. i hate to say, i didn't actually come to visit you. i'm gonna drop her off. story of my life. i have registration tomorrow. and then you won't see me again until sunday. well, you can pull up in a corvette, that'd be pretty cool. and say, "i'm here!" "hey, look at me! i've arrived." exactly. you ready for this? megan: yeah. megan: this is actually my fifth year competing for the title of miss florida. and it was actually my last year competing for the title of miss florida, because in pageant years, i'm old, i'm 25, and if i was not gonna win, then i was actually gonna retire from pageantry and move on and close that chapter in my life. so i went into it, yes, wanting to make new friends and wanting to have fun,

but at the same time i knew it was my last chance, so i prepped the most i've ever prepared before, with my interview, with my physical fitness, and of course, updating my wardrobe. i was just so focused that i kind of had my eye on the prize, and when it came to those last moments, i had so much running through my head, and amanda zitzman was miss photogenic, so all i could think of was, "oh, no, they're gonna call her name." emcee: here we go, our first runner-up is amanda zitzman. megan clementi, you are our new miss florida usa for 2010! megan: they called her as the first runner-up, and i got really emotional, because i knew that this was the moment i had been waiting for for five seasons. alan: the good news is, megan, the first thing she said to me is, "a) i won miss florida, b) i'm still keeping my job." then the next thing she said was, "unless i win miss usa, and then i have to quit." megan: this has impacted my life in a huge way. i want to devote myself to being miss florida usa

as much as i possibly can, because there's so much i want to do for the title, and using the title i can benefit so many not-for-profits in our state that it's ridiculous. knowing that, it takes a huge chunk out of my life, which includes my work. so it's basically down to about one day a week that i'll be wkingat muscle car, anthe rest of toing our state.e lori, usess. car workout e geina tarthessts for the '23 t-buck.