I got this car.
It's been sitting around for a while.
Been waiting for its time.
Well, the time has come.
This is going to be wicked.
Been waiting for the opportunity,
the right reason to build this car.
Opportunity has knocked.
I am answering that door today.
I'm going to sit down with my man Ryan, go over this project.
We're going to make this thing rock.
Ryan, what's happening?
Ha ha!
Where-- where did this come from?
I wasn't looking for this.
This is mine, and it was just too good to say
I'm not going to do it.
So let's roll the dice, and let's do this '61 Cadillac.
OK.
DANNY KOKER (VOICEOVER): 1961 marked
the beginning of a second generation of the wildly
popular Coupe DeVille.
The second time turned out to be a charm for Cadillac.
A new backward slant and grill gleaming
between dual headlamps, scaled down tailfins,
and a redesigned hood lip made for an understated charm
that car buyers flip for.
And while this '61 Caddy was sweet on the outside,
under the hood, it was all business.
With a 390 cubic inch V8 engine maxing out at 325 horsepower,
the '61 could get from 0 to 60 in 10.3 seconds,
get you down the road not just in style, but in a hurry.
The gentleman that had this car
before me was driving it daily.
OK.
So that's-- that's a really good sign.
So who got the car to this point
if it was running and driving?
Well, the gentleman that owned it before me
was going to restore it and do it.
RYAN EVANS: OK.
So he basically took it all apart, got to this point,
and was like, I got to do something else.
RYAN EVANS: Yeah, so what are we doing with it now?
I'm so glad you asked.
This is the next one that-- that goes to the Valspar at SEMA.
RYAN EVANS: Whoa!
DANNY KOKER (VOICEOVER): SEMA, the biggest aftermarket
automotive show in the world right
here in Las Vegas every year, and we're stoked to be there.
Guys spend years building cars to show off at SEMA.
Count's Kustoms, we show up with something cool every year, man.
This car at one point in its life
was, you know, like, the teal color.
That is a bad ass teal.
Absolutely.
I love that.
Frankly, I would love to use that tones and that color
vibe all over this thing a la the Riv, too, where, you know,
there was just stuff going on all over the place on her--
RYAN EVANS: OK.
--but in different flavors of this, teals and turquoises.
Using your charcoals and your grays and your blacks and stuff
like that all over that.
Do you want the whole thing or just
the tops and the middle flake?
Because this is a lot of car to get--
Well, I--
--that kind of flake on.
I think the top should just be a-- a solid
color flaked out top.
RYAN EVANS: OK.
DANNY KOKER: And I think the entire body then should
have all the big crazy artwork.
Think Rivi.
You know how many hours--
hell with the hours, months--
DANNY KOKER: I know.
--were in that Riviera?
DANNY KOKER: I know I know.
RYAN EVANS: Do you even know?
I don't even know. - I know, dude.
No.
Did we ever tell you how much?
No, because we didn't look at it that way.
This was-- this was a car that--
that we were just doing--
Right.
--so we just decided don't keep track.
We don't want to know.
We don't know.
And you want to do that to a '61 Cadillac?
It makes no business sense, but it's just such a nice car.
I mean, the lines are perfect.
So if she just was laid out properly
and was just insane like that visually,
this is the next one to make a statement with.
All right, we kick the door in with the Riv.
We'll finish up, you know, demolishing
the building with this.
DANNY KOKER: I'll talk to Ghetto Bob.
We'll see about some crazy stuff we can do on the inside.
But the paint-- insanity.
Man, this is going to be fun.
This beautiful Cadillac is on its way to SEMA.
We only got a few months.
Luckily, the Kellison is done.
She's ready to go.
But we are all over this '61 Cadillac
to make sure she's gorgeous.
It's representing Count's Kustoms, man,
and we are looked at by the world and by our peers.
It's important that this car rocks,
and I guarantee you she will.
I can't wait.
Thanks, man.
Dude, I'm going to stock up on flake now.
Yep.
Hoo.
It's going to be-- it's going to live in paint
for a couple of months.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You in here, Ry?
Yeah.
Ah, the doodling has begun.
What's this?
What is this stuff?
This is stressing me out, man.
You ever have a picture in your mind of what you want to do,
but it's not focused, it's real fuzzy?
You just see a bunch of colors and shapes?
Yeah, that's about when you guys tell me,
no, you're not going to do that.
That's dumb.
I don't like it.
This isn't about you.
This is about you and your hard time because--
There you go.
--you can't come up with a good idea.
I'm stressed the hell out--
Wait a minute.
--on what I want to do on the '61 Cadillac.
It's--
And this-- wait, wait, this is the one for SEMA.
Yeah, I guess you should be stressed out.
Yeah, no kidding, because '55 Gasser last year.
Last year, yep.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
RYAN EVANS: Knocked it out of the park.
Everybody loved it.
We had the Riviera.
That was another one that was knocked
out of the ballpark for SEMA.
See, we can't just--
our-- our SEMA record do this and then ehh.
Or even stay on the same plane.
It-- it can't-- exactly.
It's--
You have to show up yourself.
On top of that, I haven't done a really cool multi-colored
paint job in, what, 20 years?
Wait, wait, so you're going multicolored on this.
Candies, multicolored flakes, pearls, pin striping.
I don't want it to be like the Riviera,
where it's all different shades of the same color.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I want all the colors.
I've got color samples.
The teal on the wall, that's the fabric for the interior.
The dash is done in this color.
Gotcha.
So I want everything to be a little off.
I don't want all the colors to just
blend together because then you miss all the detail, right?
Gotcha.
So.
And so we've got different shades of teal, right--
Yeah.
--and we got four going. And then--
OK
--these are the colors I'm thinking
about for additional graphics.
I don't want any of the pinstriping to be a teal.
Well, let me help you out then.
Here, let me help you.
Here.
That's going to be a good one with that.
All these colors are good.
That's a good one with that.
Here.
Here you go.
Those are the colors.
What about these two?
What about all these other ones?
These-- that's just-- - Here.
--that's just three.
Here, let me help.
Here.
There.
There you go.
Stop overthinking it.
Those are the colors.
Don't overthink it, Ry.
You're going to do great!
That doesn't help me in any way.
DANNY KOKER: When I first got this Cadillac, man,
I didn't know what I was going to do with it.
Then it hit me, man.
Let's go to SEMA.
Let's break this thing off the chain.
Brother, we rebuilt this car from top to bottom.
The engine, the transmission, everything is perfect.
Ghetto Bob, crazy on the interior.
And then Ryan, my lord, he went nuts on the paint job.
I'm so proud of this car.
This has been no easy task, man, and I'm very, very happy.
The entire team has come out swinging.
And this Cadillac, she's gorgeous, man.
I'm so proud of my team, 100%.
We're unveiling her right now in the Matrix Booth.
I cannot wait to see what the car
world thinks of my Cadillac.
Let's go.
We got a Cadillac to look at.
She's all covered up.
You guys want to see the Cadillac?
Hell yes.
[CHEERING]
I hope you guys dig it.
Oh, my gosh.
[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]
You did exactly what we wanted you to do and then some.
So it's amazing.
DANNY KOKER (VOICEOVER): I love all Caddies.
But, man, this thing might be my favorite.
We found all the era correct parts
we needed to get her together, including, of course,
those gangster whitewalls.
We straightened and smoothed her body to perfection,
and then we made her pretty.
Ghetto Bob outdid himself on the interior,
creating a design that could be from the factory,
if the factory was the world's coolest factory
upholstery shop.
It's just gorgeous.
Man, Ryan almost hurt himself on this one,
taking hours and hours to create maybe the most insane
paint design we've ever done.
He stuck with the teal base, just like the car once was,
but he found about a dozen other colors
to complement this car's beautiful curves and body
lines.
This Caddy is cool.
This Caddy is bad.
And this Caddy is about to turn some hands at SEMA.
'61 Cadillac built Count's Kustom style.
The car itself is-- is literally brand new from front to back.
Engine rebuilt, trains rebuilt, suspension, brakes,
upgrades, air conditioning.
Drive it all day long, enjoy it all day long,
but look like a rock star.
Believe it or not, the car's original interior color,
that's what inspired-- DANNY KOKER: Was that color.
--the entire theme. WOMAN: Nice.
DANNY KOKER: Absolutely.
RYAN EVANS: And that's still the original interior color.
WOMAN: I love the teal.
Hell, walk around the side, man.
I know. I know.
I know.
We have to check it out.
I love this detail.
I love the rose petals.
RYAN EVANS: It's-- it's classy.
What I love what Ryan did was, even when he laid down the base
before he laid down the graphics,
he laid down all these different fades throughout.
Yep, there's fades for days.
So there's fades throughout the base
before he even got all the graphics on.
It's just-- it's just-- it's just insane.
WOMAN: It's amazing.
You got a white silver, then a dark blue,
then a green, and then another silver, and then a dark blue.
It changes color the whole time.
The Cadillac just asked us to be teal.
Yep.
Oh, my god, it's amazing.
And-- and so we went with the teal vibe,
but then Ryan just went crazy.
He does what he does.
Yeah.
On-- on the inside of this thing, we found this--
Thank you.
--I call it brocade.
Yeah.
Cadillac original brocade, stuff that was inside the car.
And we shopped and shopped and shopped and actually
found the original material.
And the original material, you can see the teal in it.
I think you should try it on.
I want--
Do you want to get in?
Yeah!
This is a car you cruise in. - Yes.
- Exactly. - Right?
Exactly.
Check out that steering wheel.
OK, I got to get in.
Oh, yeah, this is perfect.
Tell me that's not nice.
It is beautiful.
Tell me that's not nice.
Get everyone out of the way so I can drive out.
Go cruising.
Oh, my god, it's amazing.
You kind of look natural in there.
I know, I do. I need to pose.
[LAUGHS]
It is a girl's car.
- I'm telling you. - It's for me.
It's sweet.
I'm telling you.