"With every roar of an engine and turn of a steering wheel, there is an undeniabl e expression of artistry." "Everything has bee n louvered, channeled, manipulated, and blended." "A craftsman's ey e for precision and a designer's obsessio n with perfection." "It's sort of timeless design, and it's just pure design." "And there's n o greater example of this than the handmade automobile." "I'm gonna go build my own car." "Tonight we'll explor e the dying art of working with your hands." "I just had to get a car, cut it up, mess it up, keep going, and keep learning." "Creating oneofakind work s of automotive design." "The only two things that are not modified on the car are the doors." "From the highend worl d of bespoke luxury..." "It has a massage button right here." "To the, , not so highend world of buildityourself kit cars." "Get me out of this thing!" "Now, these vehicle s can look unpolished..." "Stuff like this is only old once." "They can be impractical..." " Guess there's no seatbelts." " We are the airbags." "And even slow..." "Watch when I step on it." "But there all as unique as the builder's own fingerprints." "Go for it." "Don't make excuses." "Just do it." "This is my 1931 Shotwell, built by a 17yearold kid named Robert Shotwell." "The reason I'm driving it is because this episode is called "Handmade."" "When Bob built this in 1931, it was the heigh t of the Depression." "His family was broke." "He told his father he wanted a car." "His father said, "You want a car?" "Why don't you go build one?"" "So he went down to the junkyard." "He found an Indian motorcycle 4cylinder engine." "He got some Model A parts, some Model T parts, some angle iron, and he built this car." "This is what people did before Netflix." "They actually made stuff." "Right now I'm on my way to the Old Crow Speed Shop in Burbank, California, not far from my shop." "Today you're gonna see a garage filled with homemade stuff from almost every era, from today all the way back to the '20s, and even before that." "Come on, let's go check it out." "Hey, Bobby." "I love this car." "This is a great car." "Yeah, you don't have to get out of it." "Good to see you." " Good to see you." " You too." "Welcome t o Old Crow Speed Shop, were my friend Bobby Green stores his vintage car s and motorcycles." "You know, my favorite thing about this place is, it looks like a closed in 1939 and then just kind of opened a couple of years ago." "I've been collecting for probably 30 years." "So, after cramming garagefulls at my house," "I finally had to get a shop where I could start growing." "Most guys call that divorce." " Yeah, yeah." " Yeah, same thing." "Bobby was born in the 1970s, just about the same tim e I got these jeans." "But he has the sou I and the style of someone from the 1940s." "His whole life is vintage." "Bobby run s The Race of Gentlemen, and annual competitio n of prewar vintage cars held on the beache s of Wildwood, New Jersey." "And he also own s several bars across L.A." "known for their throwback vibe." "It's like he lives in a worl d where FDR was just reelected." "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "So how did you get into this?" "I just remember being probably 12 years old and seeing some '50s cars driving down Ventura Boulevard." "I just knew instantly, that's what I want to be into." "All your stuff seems to be, get it to mechanical perfection, running, and then just walk away and leave the aesthetics to somebody else." "Yeah, I've never been the polish and show type of guy." " Really?" " Yeah, can't you tell?" "Welcome to the club." "Now, this car here looks like a perfect example of what you're talking about." "Yeah, this is the most beautiful thing I've ever found." "A Whippet." "Yeah, it's a '20s Whippet." "Came out of a farm in Minnesota." "It was a little racecar." "And no one has any history on it." "We built the motor." "We did some interior work." "We did some wiring, the gas, just enough to make it run." "Stuff like this is only old once." "Right." "If you go and restore this, it's never the same again." "This is an unusual motor." "What is this?" "So this is a '32 Ford Model B." "Okay, with the overhead conversion kit on it." "Exactly." "Now, this is the motor that we run in the Old Crow, in the belly tank." "And explain to folks what a belly tanker is." "So these were gas tanks that they would strap to the bottom of World War II airplanes." "All the teenagers that were hotrodding before World War II all went off to war, and then they see these things, and they think, wow, this is aerodynamic." "I'm gonna make a car out of It and try to go faste r than I did in my roadster." "Right, right, and they're aluminum, not steel, correct?" "Right, aluminum, lightweight, completely handbuilt from scratch." "PostWorld War II was a tim e when Americans believed that, with a little ingenuit y and a lot of hard work, anything was possible." "And these handmad e belly tankers are a perfect example of that." "You know, there's an old expression." "The heart is happiest when the head and the hand work together." "I agree with that." "Because you're using everything." "You're using your mind, and you're using your hands." "You know, people just sit and do this all day." "They don't fix anything." "So true, they never connect with their machine." "Yeah." "So we got to try to get you in one of these, Jay, and hit the Dry Lake." "Well, Bobby and I are out here at the Rabbit Dry Lake, which is aptly named." "There's no rabbits and there's no Lake." "They should have named it the Windy Dry Lake." "My hair is just a mess, as you can see." "It's normally so nice." "You know, one thing I discovered pretty early, if you're going to be a belly racer, you can't have actual belly." "I couldn't even get in it." "I couldn't fit." "I was so disappointed." "Even using Vaseline and tire tools," "I couldn't get in the thing." "They're small, and you've got to be smal I to get in it." "But again, this one, no safety equipment, no roll bar." "No, your head just sticks out of a hole." "If it flips over, you break your neck." "Yeah, well, they were kind of coined the flying guillotine." "The flying guillotine, yeah." "Because you can see why." "Yeah, tell your insurance company that." "This is exactly the cars that ran in the period, and exactly the same place." "And we're gonna run them today?" "Were gonna do it today, yeah." "Now, since these belly cars are mean t to just go fast and straight, many were bull t without even a low gear." "So, to get Bobby's car up to speed," "I'm getting behind the wheel of this 1939 Ford pickup truck to give him a little push." "You think this place is lonely now?" "Imagine it back in the '40s and '50s." "No cell phones, no telephones, there's nothing out here." "So if something happens, you're on your own, pal." "The nice thing about these belly tanks is, you just put handles on them, and the pallbearers can just dump the whole thing right in the ground." "You never have to leave it." "This is exactly how it was in the old days." "There's nothing aroun d to gauge your speed." "You're not whizzing g past telephone poles or anything like that." "So it can be very deceptive." "I'll get Bobby ou t to about 40 miles an hour and set him off." "You know, I wish I could fi t in one of these cars." "It looks incredible." "Looks really cool from where I'm driving." "You know, it really doesn't get more handmade than this, the car you built yourself using parts you found in a junkyard for a couple hundred bucks." "Sure, it's about how fast you go, but it's more about how well you made it." "Coming up, the luxury sid e of handmade." "It has a massage button right here." "It says "happy ending."" "How does that work?" "The car I'm driving right now, a 19243liter Bentley." "Actually, to be more specific, it's a 3liter Bentley chassis with an 8liter Bentley engine." "When W.O. Bentley built his cars, he built them to be racecars." "They were fast." "They were powerful." "They're still one of the greatest English sports cars." "And all Bentley s were essentially handmade." "Bentley's client s were pretty wealthy, and the cars were bull t almost without regard to cost." "Every one was individual." "It was always buil t to the client's desire." "If you wanted to Bentley with a big heavy limousine body on it, they'd build you that." "If you want a racecar like the ones that won at Le Mans five or six times, he would build you that." "And that's a tradition that continues to this very day." "You go into a Bentley dealership, and they'll show you leather samples, and how would you like your interior, and what kind of wheels would you want, and you can design the car the way you like it." "In fact, right now I'm on my way to see fellow comedian Russell Peters." "He's a big car aficionado, and he likes his cars built the Russell Peters way." "And we're gonna see what his tastes are." "Come on, this will be fun." "Russalot!" " Jay!" " Good to see you, my friend." "How are you?" "I'm glad this made it." "Russell Peters is probabl y the most successful comedian you've never heard of." "He's from Canad a and known the world over for his hilariou s standup comedy specials." "There are no professionals in my family on either side, just a bunch of dummies." "You know what I mean?" "My mom worked in Kmart." "I never really understood what my dad did, though." "I remember I was 5 years old, I go, "What you do?"" ""I work at a chicken plant."" "And then he left." "I'm 5 years old." "I can't comprehend what a chicken plant is." "For the next seven years," "I told people that my dad planted chickens." "Now Russell seem s to be accumulating quite a collection." "They've all go t one thing in common." "They're all about luxury." "That's the Bentley I've been hearing about." "Yes." "This is not as graceful to get out of is that Bentley." "No, you look good." "This is the more sporting car." "I would say." "This is the 2015 Bentley Flying Spur." "Flying Spur, I had one of those in my leg once." "Hey." "Very nice." "I like the wheels." "Yeah, I did pick that on my own." "You must have been exhausted." "Two options, I believe." "And then I went for the gangster red interior." "Very nice, I like all the stitching." "Yeah, I like the white and the red contrast." "So that's sort of bespoke." "You order that, and you..." "Yeah." "Sit with the auto book." "And then I've seen a lot of these with the dark wood interior." "I went for the lightskinned wood." "I don't really know what that's called." "That's called being racist." "Well, I think it's been racially specific." "Yeah." "And now, these really make me..." "Can I pull this one out?" "Yeah, absolutely." "Look at this." "This is the floor mat." "It's very soft." "It is very lovely." "Wonderful thing, this is." "And that also shows that I'm not wearing any makeup." "Yes, this is a natural beauty." "You can't get this in a nonbespoke car." "You actually went out of your way to get this." "Well, it was an option, and I said I'll take as much as I can get." "I mean, it's actually a really beautiful interior." "It is quite nice." "One day, a vegan friend of mine was driving in it, and she said that it smelled like death in there because of all the leather." "Yeah, that's the trouble with driving vegans in a car like this." "Now, do you have the Hello Kitty red floor mats in this one?" "Absolutely, and then it's got the tables." "The rear picnic tables." "The rear tables, yeah." "But I love that you can actually move the rear seat." "Yes." "We have to show you doing that." "Sit in there." "Let me get in there and do that." "Bring the camera around." "Here we go." "So, you know, you're sitting in the back." "You want to get a little more comfortable." "You slide yourself forward." "See, this is for people whose buttocks are so large, they cannot move them under their own power, so that have a huge motor here to move the buttock area for you, back and forth." "See how good this is?" "Yeah." "Now I can just recline." "And it goes back as well." "Yeah." "And it has massage button right here." "It says "happy ending."" "How does that work?" "Well, what happens is, the table..." "Never mind, we won't go there." "All right, enough chitchat." "Let's take a rid e in the greatgreatgrandfather of Russell's Bentley." "Guess there's no seatbelts, ?" "No seatbelts?" "We are the airbags." "Our job is to protect the car from being damaged." "The cool ocean air." "Good thing I don't have a toupee." "Obviously this Bentle y doesn't have massaging chairs, but that means the bod y only weighs 75 pounds." "For a 100yearold car, this thing could really fly." "So what was your first car?" "Obviously you like the Bentleys." "You like the highend stuff." "What was your first car?" "My first ca r was a 1992 Saturn." "I'm sorry." "I wouldn't have asked." "It only had the one mirror." "To have a second mirror was an option." "It didn't have airconditioning, didn't have a stereo." "But it had the automatic seatbelts." "Well, there you go." "And that, to me, was everything." "Yeah, yeah, that was the key." "What was the car that said, "I've made it"?" "When I moved to America and I bought a Porsche Cayenne Turbo." "Wow." "That was my first ca r in America." "So you never got into the old cars?" "You never wanted an old MG or a Triumph or an early Mustang or anything like that?" "The problem is, I really appreciate those cars, but you need to know a little bit more about cars than I know." "Yeah, yeah." "Because if something goes wrong or it's making a knocking noise, I'm gonna panic." "Okay." "Somebody once described you as the most successful comedian most people have never heard of." "Is that fair or unfair?" "You know, I mean, it's fair." "I'd rather be famous and unknown than famous and untalented." "Yeah, well, there you go." "I get to go to places most comics don't ever get to go to." "And when I go to the Middle East," "I'm not performing for the troops;" "I'm performing for the..." "The terrorists, is that right?" "Yeah." "I know you did that the ISIS show." "I understand they were thrilled." "Yeah." "They even corrected me." "They said it's "is is."" "They've been misunderstood the whole time." "Now, is it true... and I was always wondering this about you." "Yeah?" "I heard that you never, ever spent any of the money you made on "The Tonight Show."" "No, never." "Never touched it to this day." "To this day, that's incredible." "You know, I consider myself a standup, so I like to live on the money I make in standup." "When I was a kid, I always had two jobs." "The job I made the most money at, I'd save, and then I try to live on the other money." "And that worked for me." "That's actually a really cool thing to do." "Now, you seem to do the opposite." "You take one job and then just spend all the money." "I sure do." "Well, this is my problem, Jay." "You know, as they said on the "Chappelle's Show,"" "they should've never given me money." "Right, yeah." "Well, congratulations on all your success." "Thank you, Jay, I appreciate it." "Good job." "And I'm glad to do the show, because I've been watching it for a while." "Yeah, and you get to drive in a real Bentley, not one of those fancyass Bentleys you got." "Yeah!" "Coming up, we try and stum p a professional car nerd." "But it's got very good airconditioning." "German?" "Yes, it is cool air." "I feel so Alpine in this, yeah." "Just feel so alpine in this car." "It's time for another episod e of Stump a Car Nerd." "Welcome to another episode of Stump a Car Nerd:" "Professional Edition." "This time, we have our own Donald Osborne, professional appraiser." "And we wanted to find three cars that could stump Donald." "You ready to try this, Donald?" "I'm terrified, Jay." "All right, here, let's put on your blindfold." "Put your glasses away." "We don't even need a blindfold." "Here you go." "Jay, you still here?" "Put on your training bra." "Okay, yup." "I'm gonna take your word for it." "You can't see, is that correct?" "I can see absolutely nothing." "Okay, all right." "May we see our first car?" "I've chose n some of the hardest cars" "I could find to stump Donald." "All right, I'm gonna guide you towards it." "Let's star t with the 2006 Panoz coupe." "Panoz is a tin y American car company that makes custo m highperformance sports cars." "This car's got the reliabilit y of a Mustang V-8 with personalized styling to make it a tru e oneofakind." "Donald, first impression, classic or modern?" "Modern, and it's a performance car, because we are definitely being held in by these seats." "Interesting guess." "Definitely an American engine." "There's no doubt about that." "American engine is correct." "This is got to be a Dodge Viper coupe." "No, not even close, my friend." "This is a handmade car." "It'd be fair to say boutique manufacturer." "Okay." "My first thought is that it's an American manufacturer." "Okay, first thought is correct." "Okay, American engine, handmade, it's a full coupe." "Is it manufactured on the East or West Coast?" "It's not on any coast, really." "Okay." "It's somewhere..." "The Panoz!" "Panoz is correct." "Very good, Donald." "Thank you, thank you, thank you." "Yes!" "You may remove the blindfold." "Yes." "Very good, very good." "Fantastic." "I would contend there are people who are car fans who are watching this program might not recognize that, because this is such a limited production automobile, built, I believe, in Atlanta." " Yes, exactly." " Atlanta, Georgia." "That was the kickoff." "When it wasn't East Coast or West Coast," "I said, it can only be Panoz." "Let's move on to car number two." "I sense a door opening." "Very perceptive." "This I s a 2010 Morgan Aero Super Sport, a car that combine s German engineering with classi c English craftsmanship." "It's made b y the Morgan motor company, which started back in 1909, making it one o f the oldest automobile companies still in existence." "In fact, the factor y is still overseen by members of the original Morgan family." "My gosh." "Apparently a very humorous car." "It is." "Must be owned by comedian." "All right, here we go." "Comfortable car." "Yeah, it's built for the narrower of hip" " than our last car." " Right." "When it comes to hip, you are the man." "I am so hip." "Continuing our handmade theme." "That is the one thing all three cars having common today." "They are handmade." "This car does not feel American." "Why doesn't it feel American?" "American cars aren't as nervous as this car is." "Let's step on it a little bit and see what it does." "It's got a lot of power, and it's got a really deep exhaust note." "But it doesn't scream, so it's not Italian." "But is got very good airconditioning." "German?" "Is the airconditioning German?" "Is that what you're asking?" "Yes, is the airconditioning German?" "I believe it is." "Yes, it is cool air." "It is cool air, yeah?" "It is very cool air, as cool as the mountains in Germany." "I feel so Alpine in this, yeah." "Just feel so alpine in this car." "The roof panels must come off." "Yeah, well, feel to the front." "I feel the handles." "If I release these handles now..." "We're about to be hit by a train!" "So, fair to say Targa Topped car." "Targa Topped car, indeed." "We've got removable tops." "We have quilting." "The car's frontengined, rearwheel drive." "That is correct." "I know exactly what this is." "It's the Morgan Aero 8." "It's the Morgan Aero 8." "That is correct!" "What we got from Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills?" "My gosh, I wanted that." "A case of Turtle Wax." "All right, let's go to car number three." "All right, come along in here." "Okay." "Here we go." "Our final car, 1951 Muntz Jet, a flashy ca r made by a flashy guy known as Madman Muntz, known fo r his wacky TV commercials selling TVs and radios." "If someone back in the '50 s wanted something new and showy, they got a Muntz." "Pretty dark in here." "There's a clue." "What's the clue?" "It's got an antenna, so it's not a new car." "All right." "And it's got a soft top." "Right, watch your head." "Ooh, definitely vintage." "All right, let's take him for a ride." "Okay, Donald, initial impression, anything?" "Early '50s, early, mid-'50s." "Early to mid-'50s, interesting." "And American." "Why American?" "Well, the engine sounds like a big American V8, and it also smells like an old American car." "Smells like... what does that smell like, exactly?" "Is it of Hai Karate?" "I mean, what does it smell like?" "Wow, what's that aftershave you're wearing?" "Ha!" "Be careful how you use it." "It's slightly musty, but it's not old leather;" "It's old plastic." "Okay, the guy just picked up his cell phone," ""Leno has a black man blindfolded in his car."" "Amber alert." "We're gonna get pulled over by the cops." "Any other clues?" "It's very interesting, because this is a soft top, but it does not feel like a convertible top." "Interesting." "What does that tell you?" "That makes me think that it's some kind of a Carson Top." "Do you think the top comes off?" "I think the top comes off." "Do you feel you're about to venture a guess?" "I'm about to venture a guess." "So far, your two for two." "If you get this right, you'll be the alltime winner." "If not, another alsoran." "What is your guess?" "Well, Jay, is this, by any chance, a Muntz Jet?" "That is correct!" "It is a Muntz Jet, very good." "Whoohoo!" "I think these are among the coolest cars ever created." "Well, this car has a celebrity connection." "It was owned by Mickey Rooney." "Mickey Rooney." "I can't imagine Mickey Rooney actually sitting in a car this big." "Well, not without a booster seat." "Coming up, personalize d Porsches unlike any other." "The car was originally a sunroofed car." "I just don't like sunroofs." "You're English." "Sun!" "Agh!" "Agh!" "I knew I should've called first." "I'll never get a seat now." "Hey, Jay, great to see you." "Hello there, mate, good to see you." "Good to see you, man;" "Very, very good." "How was your drive up?" "Very nice, actually." "It's a spectacular road to drive on." "It really is." "Magnus Walke r is a living example of," ""Never judge a boo k by its cover,"" "because Magnu s is one of the world's preeminent Porsche collectors, known for turnin g vintage Porsches into oneofakind work s of handmade art." "For me, my inspiration comes from the late '60s, early '70s, which I think is Porsche's sort of milestone of racing." "Right." "And I just throw those influences in a blender, and out comes my sort of artistic interpretation of my ideal 911." "Back in 1992, he founded a very successful handmade clothing company, and that eventuall y afforded him the chance to live ou t his childhood dream of curating the ultimat e early Porsche 911 collection." "This episode is all about handmade, because the era of modifying cars mechanically is kind of going away." "I mean, you go to a parts store now, and it's just air fresheners and, you know, trinkets, and they don't sell performance parts anymore." "So you wind up modifying your car visually." "And that's what you really enjoy, isn't it?" "Yeah, I mean, for me, the great thing about being in L.A." "is the accessibility to a vast pool of talented craftsmen that enable me to sort of interpret my vision into the early Porsche 911s that I love to drive and collect." "And this 1990964 Porsch e really captures Magnus's singular visio n of his ideal car." "So tell our audience what we have here." "Essentially, Jay, the only two things that are not modified on the car are the doors." "But the sort of real key features are the louvered fenders, the channeled hood, the front bumper was modified, and the channeled roof." "So everything has sort of been louvered, stretched, channeled, manipulated, and blended to the point where there's not really a square edge on the car." "The car was originally a sunroofed car." "I had this whole custom roof section fabricated." "And why did you want to delete the sunroof?" "I just don't like sunroofs." "I'm a tall guy." "There's less headroom." "And you're also wearing a hat." "Yeah, something about being in the wind, so I've always got the hat on." "And you're English." "Sun!" "Agh!" "Agh!" "Sun!" "Put your hand inside and feel the roof." "There's no headliner, but it's skinned in leather." "I see, very nice, yeah, yeah." "And then everything's been stretched." "The fenders are stretched." "So you got a wider tire in the back." "Slightly wider tire." "Now, you have this Plexiglas window here, but obviously there's no way to close the vent, is there?" "No, no way." "I mean, this is just an aesthetic touch." "It's a little bit of weightsaving." "Every little bit adds up." " And you're a style guy." " I'm a style guy." "I'm all about the beard, as you know." "Whether it's freezing or 120 degrees..." "This is essentially how I look." "This is exactly how you look, exactly." "I don't really change my look." "Let's go for a ride." "I like that shortthrow shifter." "Yeah, it's pretty precise." "Physically, it's the right size for a sports car." "Sports cars really shouldn't be much bigger than this." "On so many modern sports cars, the roof is so low, you lose all of this, you know..." "Visual outlook, yeah, all that headroom." "Seating position's low, and it just sort of fits you like a glove." "And I like preairba g steering wheels." "I don't like a lot of buttons." "If I want to turn on the radio, I'll reach over." "Less is more, in this capacity." "Sounds good, feels good." "Why don't you step on it?" "So what was your first car?" "What was the first car you had when you came to California?" "Well, wait for it." "Believe it or not, 1977 Toyota Corolla." "Wow." "Bought it for 200 bucks." "200 bucks?" "$200, yeah." "And I took my California driver's license in that car." "Hilarious." "For a look at som e of his other car creations, let's go into Magnus's garage, where the handmade magi c really happens." "Wow." "There you go, James Bond style." "Magnus converted thi s warehouse in downtown L.A., which is no w where he works, lives, and store s his incredible collection of personalized Porsches." "Look at that right there." "Look at that guy." "This is a piece of memorabilia I would treasure to have." "That's one of my favorite pieces of memorabilia, right there." "Yeah, there you go." "Now, obviously, incredibly impressive collection." "But there's nothing like your first car." "What did you say it was again?" "1977 Toyota Corolla 2TC was my first car." "Come on, let's take a look outside." "What you got out there?" "Ho, look at that." "I thought you might want to..." "Where did that just appear from?" "This is the magic of television." "Relive the moment." "What you think?" "It's great." "Mine was white, but this is, you know, the next best thing." "And it has the optional torn seat." "Yeah, I like that too." "This is awesome." "Try and find one of these." "You can find a zillion 911s." "This is pretty impressive, pretty impressive." "With the beard and everything," "I think this is more appropriate." "This could be a whole new look for me." "Ready to go for a ride?" "I'm certainly ready to go for a ride." " Let's do it." " Let's do it." "Now, with mor e than 43 million Corollas sold since 1966, it doesn't get any les s handmade than this thing." "This is like stepping back in time." "Doesn't drive bad, does it?" "No, not at all." "I don't know if I want to go to Vegas in it, but around the block, grocery getter." "Yeah." "I like the precise steering." "It's like movie steering." "Yeah, exactly." "Definitely an emotional experience." "Yeah, yeah." "A little nostalgia." "I'm tearing up inside." "You never forget your first car." "No, it's like your first girlfriend." "I have no idea who my first girlfriend was." "Your don't remember your first girlfriend?" "No, I don't." "I remember my first car." "I don't know who the hell she was, though." "So, Magnus, you seem pretty smitten by this thing." "Are the 911s out the window?" "I think I'm done with those 911s." "Yeah." "I think I could be all about the Toyota Corolla." "You're a Corolla man now." "And listen, I'll take those cars off your hand." "Coming up." "I mean, this is a car you really bond with, because he built it yourself." "A drive with a legen d in the handmade car world." "Don't make excuses, and just do it." "And later..." "I think my first tattoo, I was 9." "Who tattoos a 9yearold?" "Why isn't that guy in jail?" "The car I'm driving right now, a 1970 Monteverdi." "Now, you might not know this car, because it's handmade." "Now, there are a lot of reasons why you'd want to handmade car." "Maybe you want a certain level of quality." "Maybe there's a certain color that you have to have." "Or maybe you're just so mad at Enzo Ferrari, you say," ""I'm gonna go build my own car."" "That's what Monteverdi did." "Monteverdi was a Swiss gentleman who had a sort of volcanic temperament, as a lot of these guys tended to." "He had a fight with Ferrari, and he said," ""I'ma gonna go build my own car."" "That is not a Swiss accent, by the way." "That's more Italian." "The Monteverdi wa s what we called a hybrid, but not like a modern hybrid." "That meant you had an America n engine and drive train, but with classi c European styling and Borrani wire wheel s and an Italian body." "Right now I'm on my way to meet a man named Peter Giacobbi." "Now, Peter is well known in car circles as a designer and a stylist, and he's built his own car." "This is what you call handmade." "Whoa, look at that." "That is great." "Welcome to Scuderia Giacobbi, Senor Leno." " What a car!" " Why, thank you." "I can remember that from the 1970 Torino Auto Show, the same show as when we first showed this car." "Yes, wow, boy, that's beautiful, isn't it?" "Meet Peter Giacobbi, a worldrenowned enginee r in the handmade car world." "He's known primarily for designing and building g his own Ferrari, and not just any Ferrari, a Ferrari Testarossa." "But more on that later." "Back in the late 1960s," "Peter teamed up with legendar y car designer Tom Tjaarda to handbuild thi s revolutionary sports car." "The Sinthesis is spelled incorrectly on purpose because it's half Italian and half American." "The idea was, Italian design and American engineering." "It has a Lancia Flavia flat watercooled 4." "Okay." "As far as I know, it's the first car in the world with a flat watercooled 4 midengine." "And it is midengine, that's right, okay." "Because you'd think the engine would be here." "Yes." "Part of the design was so you couldn't tell where the engine was." "I mean, it still looks contemporary." "That's what I like about this era." "It sort of timeless design, and is just pure design." "This help me get the job with DeLorean." "Back in the 1970s, John DeLorean hired Peter to be his company's chief engineer to help build their iconic car." "Peter helped usher in a new er a of automotive design known as the wedge car, when concept s like the Lotus Esprit, the Lancia Stratos Zero, and the Lamborghini Countach signaled that the futur e had arrived." "Now, this is something else you built." "This is a real labor of love." "Now, I would say this car meets all the legal definitions of handmade, because this is just, every part of this vehicle is handmade." "Now, a Testarossa toda y is worth millions of dollars, but if you ask Peter, his handmade versio n is absolutely priceless, because he made it himself." "Just by chance, he found thi s allaluminum Testarossa body in a warehouse in Italy." "It never quite made I t to the factory." "It was just hanging ther e for the last 50 years up in the rafter s of the warehouse." "Peter knew it wa s his chance of a lifetime to make his dream Ferrar I come to life." "It's all Ferrari parts, and it looks very simila r to the original." "I mean, this is a car you really bond with, because you built it yourself." "Sadly, he got into an acciden t not too long ago and almost totaled the car." "What happened?" "Somebody run into you, some idiot?" "Yeah, it was just a normal traffic accident." "Well, it's nothing that can't be fixed, right?" "No, it'll just take a little time." "In the meantime, we're gonna take this marriage of Italian desig n and American engineering for a ride around town." "This is the first time anybody else has ever driven it." "Is that right?" "Well, thank you, that's quite an honor." "Safe to say this is the first car you built, correct?" "That is correct." "So tell me what it was like that very first time starting and driving a car of your own design?" "Is a like giving birth to a kid?" "I just couldn't believe it was happening." "You know, it's a dream come true when you do it." "And, you know, there were a lot of things that weren't exactly right, but slowly but surely, you got them right." "It's hard to believe this car is almost 50 years old, because it doesn't feel 50 years old." "I mean it, it handles like a modern car." "Well, it has all the design principles that any modern car should have, or a racecar, really." "Right, and people have no idea what it is, do they?" "No." "Well, my favorite are people who go," ""Yeah, my cousin has one of those."" "Do you ever get that?" "Yeah, "I haven't seen one of these in a long time."" "Yeah." "Anything you would tell young people who want to become car designers or engineers like yourself?" "Go for it." "Go for it." "Don't make excuses, and just do it." "Yeah." "Over the decades, there hav e been many different kit cars that range from the sublim e to the ridiculous." "And this one, well, this is kind of near the end of the range, if you kno w what I'm talking about." "The car I'm driving right now is a Bradley GT." "And this car meets the definition of handmade, assuming you had two left hands." "These were popular back in the '70s." "It's really just a kit car, but you build it yourself." "Back in the '70s, you could buy a secondhand Volkswagen for a couple of hundred dollars." "You took off the body, and Bradley would sell you this "GT" body." "And in the ad, they looked spectacular." "They had the gullwing door s and kind of a cool shape." "But then, when you saw it in person, it's like someone left the fiberglass mold too close the radiator and it got hot and the whole just melted, you know?" "You look like a circus bear when you're driving it." "And your head is higher than the roof of the car, so it's almost like your head is a periscope." "And, boy, does this baby go." "Watch when I step on it." "I'm stepping on it!" "Get me out of this thing!" "You know handmade, bespoke automobiles aren't just for rich people." "I want to introduce you to a young man named Aaron Valencia." "And what he does is, he takes kids that have kind of lost their way." "Some are troubled youth." "Some are homeless." "Some have even had drug and alcohol problems." "And he teaches them a skill." "He teaches them to work with their hands." "You know, this is something that was prevalent when I was a kid, these afterschool programs." "And we just don't have enough of them anymore." "And, well, you'll meet him." "Come on inside." "Aaron?" "Hey, how you doing, Jay?" "Hey, Jay Leno, how you doing, my friend?" "Thank you so much for coming through." "This is kind of a cool setup you got here." "Looks like everybody's working." "Yeah, everybody's busy." "Aaron Valencia is the founde r of Lost Angels, a charity he starte d a few years back that takes underprivileged kid s in Southern California and gives them the skills t o build their own cars by hand." "Let's go ahead and leave that alone for now." "Work on the spark plugs." "Every year, the car they bull d is raffled off to raise mone y for his afterschool programs." "It's just a fantastic idea that's both practica I and philanthropic." "What do we have here?" "This our 1936 Ford fivewindow coupe." "This was our 2016 charity buil d giveaway project." "Very cool." "Yeah, tickets were 20 bucks, and some guy won this car." "Very nice." "Hi, guys." "Hi." "This is our motor department." "This is our little 350 engine." "Everybody looks so serious." "Yeah, motor work is serious business." "It is serious business." "Now, were you guys motorheads before you started this?" " You always been a car girl?" " Yeah." "So we're about ready for the carburetor, guys." "You just grab it out of the box, we can start putting the carburetor on and get ready." "We'll still keep pushing." "Keep up the good work, you guys." "See you in a little bit." "What do we got over here?" "So this is our welding station." "All the kids, everybody learns how to do weld." "What are you doing?" "Making a patch panel for the truck." "Very cool." "How long you been welding?" " For a while now." " Yeah?" "About to get certified." "You're gonna be certified soon?" " Yes, sir." " That's fantastic." "That's really good." " How old are you, Robert?" " 13." "13, all right, there you go." "I don't think I was welding at 13." "I wish I was." "I wasn't even saying, "You want fries with that?"" "when I was 13, so, cool." "And I saw some cool rides outside." "What do we got out there?" "We've got all of our previous giveaways." "This was our 1931 Ford Roadster." "Very nice." " Oldschool?" " Yeah." "This was our 2014 giveaway project." "Steelbody car?" " Yeah." " Wow." "All original." "That must have been tough, to give this one away." " '51 Caddy?" " Yes, sir." "Very nice." "It's been chopped, hasn't it?" "It's got a 2 1/2 inch chop, couple little custom touches." "But a Camaro front suspension, airbags in the rear." "Just a nice cruiser." "And this was another giveaway car?" "This was last year's giveaway, 2016." " Cool, cool." " Yeah." " Can we take it for a ride?" " Let's go." "So what's your background?" "Were you always into cars as a kid?" "No, I didn't grow up around cars." "I didn't know anything about it." "And I was actually getting some old tattoos covered up from a guy named Baby Ray in Hollywood." "And he had an old '54 Chevy, chop top, airbags." "Took me right around Hollywood." "And I couldn't sleep for a month." "I wanted to know everything about these sleds and custom cars." "And it just sent me in a whole different direction." "Now, how old were you when you had old tattoos?" "I started getting tattoos when I was real young." "How young?" "I think my first tattoo, I was 9." "Wait a minute, wait a minute." "Who tattoos a 9yearold?" "Why isn't that guy in jail?" "Me and my older brother tattooed ourselves." "Okay." "Because my mom had tattoos on her ankle, so we thought we couldn't get in trouble if we got tattoos on her ankles." "Yeah, it didn't go over very well." "We got whooped for that one." "So were you what we used to call a juvenile delinquent?" "Yes, sir." "Yeah, in and out." "In and out of jail, running around, homeless, you know, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and all of that good stuff." "I got into rehab in 1999 and lived there for a year out in the Valley, and honestly never looked back to that life, and just been pushing, working, trying to do something positive." "I mean, it's a great success story, because so many people stumble, and, man, they just, for whatever reason, just can't get back up again, you know?" "Yeah, a lot of these kids are going through the same struggles, no real direction, no dad showing them how to use a screwdriver, a lot of that stuff." "So we kind of come in like a big brother." "But I try to inspire them and see something else that they might not have thought was in their grasp, another life that's attainable." "Right, exactly, exactly." "It takes passionate guy s like Aaron to keep the handmad e tradition alive..." "Come on, man." "And more program s like Lost Angels." "Hey, I want to say this guy's a real inspiration, and you kids are a real inspiration." "I'd like to donate $5,000 of my money to you." "No, come on, man, for real?" "Thank you." "Seriously, guys, a round of applause for this guy right here." " No, no, he's the one." " No, thank you." "He's the one who really cares about you guys." "Hey, for real?" "Hey, for real?" "What?" "The traditio n of building a car by hand takes a lot of skil I and ingenuity." "This is what people did before Netflix." "They actually made stuff." "But the most important thin g is the artistry." "The heart is happiest when the head and the hand work together." "I agree with you." "Having a creative spark that drives you to design a ca r no one has ever seen before..." "My favorite is people go," ""Yeah, my cousin has one of those."" "Or probably never see again." "Stuff like this is only old once." "Because a handmade car, no matter what it looks like..." "Our job is to protect the car from being damaged." "It's alway s a rare thing of beauty." "Whoa!" "Look at that." "I'm tearing up inside." " Very good!" " Whoohoo!" "These are among the coolest cars ever created."