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collectors, and automotive enthusiasts around the world. the company produces collector car auctions in las vegas, scottsdale, and palm beach. barrett-jackson.com. ( electrical fritzing ) ( rock music playing ) last time on muscle car workout, we finished the heads, headers, and chrome for the t-bucket and laid the flames for the '61 carryall. next up for the boy scout project-- a matching paint job fothe canoe. you know, everything kinda needs the icing on the top. the idea came along somewhere in about midstream that we would put a canoe on the top of the car.

the canoe is actually a 1915 old town canoe. and that was a great idea. the only problem was that the hood wouldn't come up. so you couldn't be showing your engine with the canoe on the top.

so that brought on another problem of getting a trailer. so at 4:00 the day before it's leaving, jim went over and bought a used boat trailer that's made for a boat, brought it back, and said, "see if you can make this work for the canoe." i wound up rewelding, remaking a trailer to fit a canoe, and then this thing looked awful. and i only had a few hours. so we tried to clean it up the best we can-- clean all the rust off it, fix everything we can on it, and then we bed-lined the trailer. the fenders and the wheels were so... gruesome. last minute, we said, "we have to paint these fenders and the wheels," which, of course, there's no time allotted. so we did the best we could. lonnie poole: the final result was this neat little canoe

behind this boy scout car with the flames and all of the scout colors-- the blue and the gold of the cubs, the red and the beige of the boy scouts all blended together, and it was truly a thing of beauty. the only problem was it was in florida, and the auction was gonna be held in scottsdale, arizona. flames look really good, but that's a little past my skill level. right now, i'm gonna be schooled on how to find the right gun for the job. i am here with wayne today. he is our spray gun expert. and, wayne, i have been doing a couple projects here and there, and i'm not the best painter in the whole world. so i'm hoping you brought some products with you today that kinda will help me out and make my projects a little bit nicer. okay. sure, megan. this has some nice features. it's available with three different fluid tips. so a lot of the painters choose the 1.8 fluid tip to start with their primer, with their ground coat on the vehicle. this is a top coat gun, and this comes with three different air cap capabilities.

we have the base coat hvlp-- high volume, low pressure-- that you can spray all your metallic base coats and solid base coats, and also a clear coat high volume, low pressure air cap. we also have the high efficiency air cap that comes with the gun also. that's the best of both worlds. wonderful. thank you so much for meeting me today. i really appreciate it. oh, you're welcome. time to test that new knowledge. believe it or not, alan is actually gonna let me paint the undercarriage on the cutlass. okay, you need to put gloves on, though. i got one. just take this, and you gotta just wipe it clean. okay. go slow. this way you make sure you don't catch no corners. the metal will cut your finger. okay? what i'm doing here is i'm mixing paint. he wanted the factory color, which is kind of like an ice-blue turquoise color.

so normally we mix it all at one time for the whole car, which we're going to do, but right now, we're waiting on tint. so i'm just painting the bottom of the car so i'll get it close enough that'll be just fine. this is the code that was off. we got the code right off the fire wall. and in this case, this is the exact code. there was no variances. sometimes they'll give you six or seven or eight variances. on this color, there was no variances. so now that we matched, this is the exact color that was in 1968. say, that's not the color. this is the color. it's not even a variant. it can't be any other color. i mean, i guess you could say. people say things. hey, how we doing in there? almost done? oh, you're halfway.

mr. cook on the cutlass-- the '68 cutlass-- last moment, i guess the car was coming out nicer than he was planning on the car coming out, and after looking at it, he says, "you know what would be nice? "let's not under-coat the bottom of the car. let's paint the bottom of the car." he is the customer. which one? you want the big one or the little one? i want the big one. ( chuckles ) i think we'll spray this. i just happened to see them there. they're for fiberglass. ( laughs ) ( indistinct ) okay, you go like this. okay? give that a try. just making it a little-- giving it a blue haze.

( laughs ) yeah, i just wanna get a coat on there. this way, we'll go over it with that. do you ever just invent colors? say what? do you just invent colors? yeah, all the time. put a coat on the whole thing. i am very proud to say that the paintjob on the cutlass, though alan was with me the whole time supervising and helping me, he said it was so good that if we had done the correct color the first time, it would only need one coat of paint. but it wasn't the right color. so we had to do two ats. yeah, right. pull that forward. exactly. ( laughs ) oh, 'cause i have the marks. ( laughs ) do you like it? ( laughs ) i didn't even know i had it on my face until everyone started laughing at me

because i took off my mask, and i had like blue stuff on me. i feel like a little kid. and what did i tell you about playing by the paint? i'm sorry, dad. i didn't think we should paint the bottom of the car. 'cause usually when we paint the bottom of a car, we take anywhere from two to four weeks prepping it, cleaning it, filling it, priming it. jim wanted the bottom of that car painted, but he didn't wanna spend four weeks, the money that it would take to prep it. he says, "whatever it is, it's good enough for me." well, it came out way better than it had a right to. it looks very good.

megan: i think i did a pretty good job. now odessa, alan's trainer, wants to take a shot at painting. so the boss man is gonna let her spray the bed liner material inside the cutlass. when you paint the bottom of a car, the car becomes very noisy. 'cause undercoating, besides protecting it from rust, happens to be a great sound deadener. the customer wanted to paint the bottom of the car, and if we don't do something, it's gonna be really noisy. we wanna insulate a little bit from the heat and so forth. so what we're gonna do is we're gonna bed liner the top surface here before we put the carpeting in, and that should quiet it down some. so because we did this, i didn't want jim to lose and get that tinny-- it gets a very tinny sound. i've done enough show cars.

so what i suggested to him and he went along with was we took bed lining material, which we've been using instead of undercoating now for several years because it's much more durable-- we found undercoating holds humidity and causes rust-- and we painted it on top of the floorboard instead of underneath the floorboard, before the carpeting and all goes down. so we still get some of that thickness, still get some of the sound deadening, and that's the reason we did that. so it gives it some quietness. we still did the trunk the regular original gm way. he wanted the speckled paint in the trunk that gm came. we did that. so that was the reason for our putting the bed liner on the top side-- because mr. cook wanted the bottom side painted. megan: went down nice. while it dries, we're gonna chat with pat the tire man about ordering some nice shoes for the t-bucket. how you doing, pat? great. hey, these are the t-bucket rims i was telling you about. oh, okay. excellent. you can take these with you. you use your own judgment-- whatever rims you think. okay, yeah, i think we can come up with

some really interesting things to get that vehicle set up. on the back, we can go as wide as you like. nice and fat, okay. nice and fat. we went with a blower motor. something kinda wild. all right, definitely. front... front--you're probably limited 'cause it's a spindle front end. it might be a little tough, but i think we can come up with something that'll definitely suit your needs. the only thing i need you to do is if you're gonna change the disc brake, you gotta let me know. okay, yeah, i'll contact you about that. i'll go do some measurements, and we'll see what we get put together, and i guarantee we'll come up with something that'll set it off. whatever you see fit. give me a call. excellent. thanks. you can take these with you. all right, i'll load them up. megan: that should keep pat busy for a few days. back at the shop, paco has the gto off the lift, and he's making headway on that to-do list. the carpet went in a couple of weeks ago. so he can get started on the seats.

all right, well, i'm not sure if the seatbelt bolts are in all the way. so i'm gonna make sure that they're tight before i put the backseat in, so we don't have any problems. now that we got the interior panels back, they have no holes. so we've got four to choose from down here. so what i need to do is, first, i have to cut this one for the window crank. just like that.

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always double check and make sure that when you're cutting these holes thinel. because if you cut the wrong hole, then we ha problems. but everybody has opinions. that's my opinion. it looked very boat-ish, for lack of any other word. not hotrod-ish. megan: with the seats installed, we can finish up the graphics. the boy scouts sent us a box of decals, and we're having a blast finding spots for all of them on that car.

because it was so late in the game, we couldn't do airbrush work, whh ulha bn my optimum way-- was airbrushing everything, all the logos, somewhere in the paint scheme. so since it was for the boy scouts, ey donated all these literally hundreds of stickers and decals and everything else, and since this car had so much glass on it, it all worked out well anyway. what we did was basically load all the windows up-- which there's plentyf nds onhica- with all the boy scouts/ cub scouts/eagle scouts decals, which worked out-- at the end result, we thought worked out really good. it brought in people. we painted it boy scout/cub scout colors, but if we didn't do that, nobody would have said,

"oh, there's a boy scout/cub scout vehicle," but because of all the decals, there was no guesswork. it always the little things that get you, but we got our details handled on this car. the clock is ticking, and we know we can't afford to make any mistakes. this is really the first place that i've worked where there was a deadline. doing restorations and stuff like that, i basically told them it'd be done when it's done. and when you do start rushing, then that's when you come up with problems. we've worked two nights-- e ghll:30 in the morning, one till 12. alan put a lot more nights in it than we did. so it was pretty hecc, and then we were all on top of one another 'cause it seemed to be everybody's work that needed to be done was in the same area. so we had the interior guy doing the interior while we were trying to do the a.c. vents and the stereo.

so were nstantly stopping... it made it really difficult. when the truck first got here, i said we need to make sure the doors open and close good with the rubbers on. you knowi' ran io osproblems bore. i call it a rookie mistake. both alan and i-- no sleep, no food, and all d takes its toll on you. the guys that worked with me didn't listen to me in the very beginning of time. they fit everything. they were fitting it after it's painted. and sometimes the simplest thing eludes you. skip kept pushing the latch in and elongating things. instead of me doing what i do and just relaxing, looking at it, studying it, with everybody watching, with the owner of the car there, wi the tow truck driver there, with skip giving his opinion,

which in this case was wrong, which he's not wrong too often, but i was wrong, too, 'cause i was going along with it and just saying, "okay, everybody relax, grab a soda, grab a cup of coffee, let's study it." finally, i did do that when i realized the doors gotta shut. we can't send it without the doors shutting, and we just relaxed for five minutes, and in five minutes, we figured out that, hey, you know what, it was as simple as bringing the latch down and the door shut perfect. and then saw that skip chipped the other door. and with not enough time to fix it, so here we are-- an eight billion hour paint job and then we're brush touching a chip on the door. that's when things get nerve-racking, and it got nerve-racking. we cut it pretty close, but our job here is just about done. next time on muscle car workout, we're gonna get the '61 carryall loaded on the trailer and send it off to the charity auction. that's 2,200 miles from new smyrna beach, florida to arizona, and the driver only has three days to do the trip.

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