MAN (VOICEOVER): Susie's here.
We've been building a wicked Corvette for her, man.
A beautiful C4 car.
Susie, how you doing?
I'm doing wonderful, I'm excited.
Feeling good?
She's a cool lady.
The car is amazing.
I hope she digs it, man.
Come on baby, bring out that Vette.
And yes, it's really the same car.
Oh my god.
Oh my god, she's gorgeous.
It's-- more beautiful than I imagined it.
She's all yours.
MAN (VOICEOVER): We wanted to update Susie's beloved Vette.
But we kept all that head-turning 80s charm.
The car is still fast as it was back in the day.
So we concentrated on her looks.
Now we did a few things like replace hoses and belts
and tuned it up, added a beautiful Borla exhaust setup.
But that's about it.
And that banana yellow paint might
have been hot back in 1987.
But for the new millennium we turn Susie's Vette
into a tangerine dream.
Ryan added black accents in all the right places
to make her look sleek, fast, and totally unique.
New wheels and tires and a fully customized interior
complete this totally cool, fully
updated 80s street machine.
MAN: Some of the obvious stuff that we did, we completely
changed the rear end.
The whole back bumper of the car,
we wanted to update it to the ZR1 styled rear bumper.
It's just a really pretty back end look to it.
And Ghetto Bob here, I'm going to give some monster kudos.
All right.
The rear wing on this car was something that you loved.
But it never was really very correct
in its original installation. - Right.
That's the same old wing, it's just been modified.
Right.
It's flatter, and it's cut out for the [inaudible] that
you used to hit all the time.
So it's how it should have been built the first time.
Exactly.
That's how it should it come first the first way.
RYAN: Matches the body lines much better.
SHANNON: Right.
SUSIE: I love that black.
That's a surprise. RYAN: Yep.
SHANNON: Yeah.
SUSIE: That is-- I didn't even imagine that.
Black and orange go together so well.
SUSIE: So well. MAN: Yes they do.
RYAN: Especially with that much glass
all the way around the top of the car.
SUSIE: Yes.
RYAN: There's so many oranges that have been overdone.
And this orange is usually forgotten.
Because most people don't apply it right.
They apply it over the wrong color
and it just comes out kind of dingy and almost brown.
This one, we applied it over the correct color.
It came out bright and vibrant.
It's almost like a butterscotch.
It really accentuates all the body lines.
And with all the glass, the huge glass hatch top, even the glass
roof, and all the windows around it,
there was so much black already there.
SUSIE: Right. - I just took advantage of that.
Brought the black across the hood and across the back.
And it lowers the whole top of the car.
It just squishes it even more.
Oh, it looks even faster than it was before.
MAN: Exactly.
We added a whole new set of wheels.
You had some old school gold wheels on it.
SUSIE: Oh, gold wheels.
RYAN: Which were very proper back in the day.
SUSIE: In the-- yes.
But we took it into a modern car.
So we added these insanely gorgeous
gloss black wheels on it.
We went with a Cooper tire RS3 set up on it.
They're like a summertime tie.
They're really sticky.
So for a car like this, it'll handle phenomenal.
And trust me, these guys have been building
tires for 100 plus years.
They're absolutely phenomenal.
I love their product.
So car sticks to the ground like amazing.
- Yeah. - And you got to see the inside.
Oh!
You're not going to believe what happened inside.
- I know, I know. - Inside got even crazier.
[gasps]
How does that feel in there?
Like I'm never getting out of it.
How do you like that dark, dark wood in there?
I love it. MAN: It's beautiful.
SUSIE: Beautiful. It's classy.
RYAN: It's not real wood.
So it's not going to fall apart and delaminate over time.
SUSIE: It's beautiful.
MAN: This is the first C4 we've done.
And when it came in, it was a lot
of sitting around staring at it, wondering
what are we going to do.
And this car has now made a serious believer out of us.
And I personally love it.
This car is beautiful.
It's not for sale.
MAN: Come on, man!
I love her more than the day I got it in 1988.
Amen.
I thought it was beautiful then.
MAN: It was. SUSIE: This is more beautiful.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome, darling.
Man, I got to tell you, there's
nothing like seeing a lady in love with her Corvette.
She is so happy, man.
Susie and Mike, these two been married for 50 years.
Most cars don't even last that long.
So I'm so happy that we get to put a dot
on the I in this love story.
Starring Susie, Mike, and a little orange Corvette.
If you guys are happy, let's go do a little paperwork
and get you on your way to Palm Springs.
So you can scare Mike on that back road.