Resurrected Rides

-Tavon my boy. Good to see you. -What up, my G? Nice to see you, bro.

Somehow, you still love this van.

Yeah, man. That's my van. That's my baby right there.

Now, the crew put a lot of hours into this thing, man.

They're the ones that did all the magic.

You ready to see this car, man?

Yeah, man.

A'ight!

Hit it!

Take a look, Tavon!

Look, we've all had an old, beat-up ride,

one that's hard to say goodbye to.

It's missing teeth. What the hell?

Maybe your first car.

So we gotta make the engine quiet so you could sneak out the house.

Or maybe every car you've ever had's been trash.

Oh. Oh!

- He threw up! - Oh!

Oh!

Oh, Jesus! Oh my God.

How do you live like this?

Well, Chris Redd is here to save the day.

So what we're gonna do is resurrect this thing. You feel me?

Me and my garage team of pros

are gonna take people's old, dusty rides...

See I brought you some doo-doo on wheels.

...and bring them back from the dead in the most spectacular way.

Now some of the design details will definitely be out there.

I made you a puppy step

so your little dogs can climb over the rocker right in.

We'll find something cool to do with the trunk, maybe a droid system.

Some people are gonna love it.

Let's go! Oh my God, man!

Will they like every aspect of their makeover?

We thought it was a great idea to try glow-in-the-dark paint.

Ooh.

That's a different story.

What's up, my favorite garage team? How are we doing?

With the best garage team in the world,

they're gonna help me resurrect rides

with their weird, little superpowers and special talents.

Are they all gonna be impressive?

They sure as hell better be, man. I'm trying to get a season two.

Come on! Let's do this!

See. All right. They broke something.

Now slam the title card!

Yo.

Meet Tavon...

Hey, what's up, man?

...a 33-year-old stunt man from Philly,

whose life handed him a real lemon.

This one.

- Oh boy. - Oh, that's nice. Nice.

Now his friends submitted him for the show

because they think he deserves it.

He never wants to ask anybody for help.

Would give you the shirt off his back.

So we sent a camera crew out to find out for ourselves

and tell him he's still in the running.

My name is Tavon. I drive a '91 Vanagon,

and as you can see, she needs a little bit of help.

I am a comic book nerd, and if you take a look at it,

it actually looks like the Teenage Mutant Turtle van.

So that's why her name is April.

- What are some of the problems? - Are you ready?

Grab the oil.

One, she leaks an excessive amount of oil.

Last month, I went through six of those.

The exhaust leaks back into the car.

I have this window cracked so we're not inhaling toxic, uh, fumes.

That engine.

Yeah, it's gonna catch on fire at some point.

The best part, if I'm in a low gear and we're in traffic,

it will stall randomly.

Hey, dude, I get it. I know, man.

I think it's pretty cool that my friends reached out to Chris and nominated me.

I'd love it if I got picked for this.

Fingers crossed.

Spoiler alert.

We picked Tavon because A, he seems like a good dude.

And B, I am terrified to be driving on the same streets

as that ticking time bomb.

We're about to let him know,

and we're gonna do it in the most obnoxious way possible.

Right behind me in this park is Tavon.

Now he thinks we're just getting some footage of him flipping around.

Yeah.

But why would we need that? That is stupid.

What we're really here to do is get that big mistake on wheels.

We're gonna resurrect that.

But before we do, you know we gotta ambush this brother.

Hidden cameras, Punk'd style.

You already know how it is.

So I got my friend Rosie Okumura,

and she's gonna play a lady in the park doing some yoga.

I'mma give her a ticket as a parking enforcement officer.

She gonna get mad, and all of a sudden, the fight's gonna end up

with Tavon's car getting bashed up and tore up even more than it is now.

Then Tavon's gonna be like, "What?"

And he's gonna flip over to us like a little Power Ranger.

Come on, Lululemon.

You could just shove me and I can go into a shoulder roll or I...

If you want to redo some stuff you've already done,

that's okay too.

Don't feel like you need to be coming up with new stuff.

Copy.

Oh, no front plate on this thing.

Excuse me.

No date on there. How you doing?

What's the deal?

There's no front plate. I had to give you a ticket.

Oh, actually, I have one. Give me a second.

Whoo, this is trash.

- Let me just grab it. - No, just call the City.

What about the rest of the cars? Mine's nicer than this one.

- So you're giving me a ticket... - Look at that.

That person has a problem already. Look at the life.

- Take it back. - I can't.

- Take it back. - I can't.

- Take it back! - Ma'am. Ma'am.

All right. Do you play sports? What you gonna do with that?

Why doesn't this car have a ticket?

-They don't have a front plate. -I don't even know if this car runs. Okay?

-I... -So it wouldn't matter if I did a little...

Ma'am, it's not my car. You don't have to do all that.

- What the hell are you doing? - I'm not paying it!

I don't want to pay!

Okay. Excuse me.

Is this your car? I'm not... Hey, come on, now!

Yo, that is my van! Lady! What are you doing?

-What are you doing? -What are you doing?

Tavon, what's up, bro?

-Excuse me. -What?

We got your ass! We got your ass!

Let me write this motherfucker down!

- We got your ass! - Chris Redd?

Oh my gosh, dude. What?

My boy came out like Michael Jackson.

Oh my God! Yo!

Tavon, if you can't tell right now, you're on Resurrected Rides,

and I'm here to make this van the van of your dreams, brother.

- How you feeling right now? - Stressed.

Since day one, I saw what the potential of my van could be,

but now it's gonna come back and be so freaking awesome,

and I'm just gonna die of excitement right there and then on the spot.

Whoo! Buddy. Buddy, buddy, buddy.

I ain't gonna hold you.

If I knew this was happening, I would have probably cleaned up, so...

There is not enough cleaning you could've done to make this good.

Now I've never seen a back window have herpes like this.

I mean, this is a disease.

Goddamn! All right, you right. You right.

I'mma leave a message. "Destroy me."

-Whoo! Ooh my God. -Yup.

My finger's doing blackface!

- That's how dirty this man's car is. - Ew!

Vanagon, that's what your van should've did.

Yeah. Vanagon...

The van-a-here, the van-a-gone.

Jesus! Oh my God.

Whoo! Smells like a high school locker room.

- Boy, is that a person in there? - No, it's...

Are you gonna do the laundry or just live with it?

Hold on. It's clean.

I know it's in a trash can, but it's clean.

A fire extinguisher. This is the only car I've ever seen

that feels like it needs this.

Why did you buy this?

'Cause I thought it was cool.

- I've clowned the car a lot. - Yeah.

Let's talk about the future. What's your dream version of this car?

Oh man. Um, you ever seen the old school Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , the TV show?

I loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

- Remember the Shell Shock van? - Yes.

I would love something like that.

You want the shell van?

I think pulling up to set in the shell shock van would be so tight.

You could pull up to a Comic-Con and clean up.

-All the girls dressed like turtles. -I'm swimming at that point in time!

I think we could make some of that stuff happen.

Welcome to the garage.

Or as I call it...

- Whoa! - ...the clunker bunker.

The place where I've housed the greatest team of ride resurrectors

known to man.

Oscar and Saul cover the body and interiors.

Lacey, she's the mechanic.

Don is our fabricator.

Nelson covers the composites and tech.

And Shayna, she does the paint.

Together, they'll turn even the worst lemons...

...into lemonade.

This is what I brought.

Death on wheels.

I almost died just by inhaling it, dawg. The smoke goes into the car.

-That's scary. -Yeah, it's not supposed to happen.

All right. Let's go ahead and start with this right here.

Now, this is real turf, which he's never cleaned before.

That stuff has to go.

Absolutely.