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My name's Marc.
I'm Shanon.
But we got to figure out how to take this
SHANON: We are...
BOTH: ...the Parker Brothers.
SHANON: I feel the need...
BOTH: The need for speed.
SHANON: We design and build the craziest,
most outrageous vehicles.
MARC: We don't believe in rules.
SHANON: And we never say it can't be done.
MARC: We have the biggest clients.
SHANON: 50 Cent.
I'm gonna drive this (bleep) way over the speed limit.
SHANON: John Cena.
I'm gonna need new tires and a clean pair of shorts.
MARC: And the leading film directors in Hollywood.
Never heard of it,
but I'll build one if you want me to.
We've got a Formula One racecar over here.
We've got a fighter jet over here, a spacecraft over here.
We're gonna get 'em together and have a little party,
and see what kind of babies they have.
SHANON: But building concept vehicles
that only exist in people's imagination
can sometimes be a nightmare.
The more you say you like this,
the more I don't.
Get your (bleep) hand off of it!
(engine stalling)
By the way, the motor still don't run.
(engine revving)
SHANON: So with our misfit crew of welders, fabricators
and mechanics...
(laughs)
...we go from design...
That's it!
MARC: ...to finished product.
Guys, 50's here.
MARC: The only thing that can stop us is our own imagination.
WOMAN: Got a $100,000 bid.
Because we believe in two things--
dream big and build bigger.
MARC: In an area they call the Space Coast,
where imaginations run wild,
we're designing and building...
Dream rides...
After years of doing other jobs,
we decided to rent a small garage
and try to build the futuristic vehicles
that we'd seen in the movies and our comics.
SHANON: We've always had
more of a sci-fi edge to us,
and it's kind of evolving into the designs
that we're coming up with now.
Parker Brothers Concepts. This is Karen.
It's Parker Brothers, but
keeping as much family around as possible.
(singing)
Oh!
SHANON: We work really hard here
at Parker Brothers Concepts,
but we try not to take ourselves too seriously.
Yeah!
But you kept trying to go through the shallow end.
I love the mud pit behind the shop.
It's a lot of fun, because everybody thinks
they know how to drive through it.
The problem is, most of them don't.
Turbo, splash him!
(laughter)
Yes! Yes, Turbo!
Get 'em, Turbo!
(laughter)
(whistles) Back to work!
Stop messing around!
MARC: We work really hard,
and we act like idiots a lot of the time, too,
but you know, when you can do both, it's fun.
Are we having fun yet or what?
(hissing and whirring)
SHANON: We've had a few
phone conversations with Curtis Jackson, the man.
You might know him as
50 cent. 50 Cent's an award-winning rapper.
He's in movies, he's a business man.
He's an entrepreneur. This guy does it all.
He is coming by to talk with us
about doing some sort of crazy build.
SHANON: What?
SHANON: If we can land 50 Cent, it would be huge.
We need to show him that we're not just a small-town
bike shop. We need to show him that
we compete with the big boys.
Jeff, 50 Cent's here.
Yeah, come on.
MARC: We get to meet him face-to-face
for the first time, and
everybody's really psyched about it.
That's right.
I'm here, baby.
Good to meet you.
Heard a lot about you guys.
It's all lies.
And this is your office?
Oh, this is Shanon's office here.
JEFF: Great. 50's been here
barely a minute, and
the first thing he saw was Shanon's office.
It looks like my kids' office, if they were to have one.
He's gonna think we're a bunch of idiots.
I know 50 Cent is a big celebrity, but
we have the skills to impress him and win his business.
And one of the things we do know how to do
is wine and dine our clients.
Oh, yeah.
They would deep-fry anything here.
50 CENT: Hey. How you doing?
(indistinct chatter)
Deep-fried Twinkies.
50 CENT: Deep fried Twinkies?!
SHANON: Deep-fried Twinkies?
Maybe not the best way in the world to impress 50 Cent.
50 CENT: Obviously,
I checked you guys out. Like, I
looked online, and...
Motorcycle, couple of trikes.
I don't actually see cars.
These guys are diamonds
in the rough, man.
You know, small town.
They got obvious talent
that you can't find just anywhere, you know, so...
Curious to see if they're someone
I can actually work with.
You guys have any experience making cars?
We've never done a completely one-off, you know, from scratch.
MARC: Normally,
I wouldn't go to a client and say,
"Hey, this is something we've never done before," but
here at Parker Brothers Concepts,
the things we build have never been built before, so
it's always something we've never done before.
It's a lot different than doing a bike from scratch,
but at the same time,
it's the same thing. You got a frame, you got suspension,
you got an engine, you got a body.
It's just a lot bigger.
We really need to impress him.
There's a lot riding on this for us.
And if we pull it off, I mean,
this could really launch us into a new territory
for our business.
And the good news is,
we've never gone halfway through a build
and said, "Nah, can't figure it out."
When we put all our heads together, we can
pretty much figure out anything.
But there's another group of guys that do the same thing.
What are those guys names? Um...
Um...
No. I'm (bleep) with you. See?
I'm just trying to see if you...
My observation on the two of 'em were,
they've been around each other so long
that they balance each other out.
It kind of made me feel like they can put it together.
SHANON: So, what do you see as your perfect car in your mind?
We take something, some sort of inspiration from, like,
Right.
Kind of wanted it to feel like
you're in a cockpit of, like, a plane?
That would be cool.
Some things-- they make you feel like there's space.
So, now, let's see what we come up with.
We'll definitely come up with something cool.
MARC: All right, so we've got a few ideas
of what you're looking for. See if we can
hone in on the final vision.
We got a Formula One racecar over here,
we got a fighter jet over here, a spacecraft over here.
We're gonna get 'em together and have a little party
and see what kind of babies they have.
SHANON: In the creative process,
I take the client's ideas, I kind of
start working with that, draw it out, and I put
the Parker Brothers spin on it.
Something like... like this.
Kind of a, almost bubblish shape in the front.
When we first met 50,
he was joking around quite a bit,
but I can see now, when it comes to business,
he's dead serious.
If we don't find something that he likes,
we might not be building anything for him.
Mm-hmm.
I want to make sure that they don't feel like things
that people have seen, like, on the street already.
No, we don't do anything that anybody's ever seen before.
SHANON: That's why you're here.
MARC: And I definitely want to put
some kind of, like, futuristic spin on it, you know.
What you're doing now-- it's, like,
you just changed the whole thing in front of us.
(Bleep) It's almost done. What are you talking about?
That's it right there.
SHANON: I knew eventually we would come up
with something that 50 loved, but you can't
put a limit on imagination.
You just got to throw it all out there.
If it was easy, a lot more people would be doing it.
Well, you guys had a pretty good idea of what I want.
Yeah!
MARC: Now we just got to figure out
how to bring it to life.
It's great that 50 likes this really over-the-top design
that we've come up with.
The problem now is, I've got to build it.
Let's get started on it.
All right.
All right, I'll see you guys.
Phew!
I like this idea.
50 is looking for Formula Oneish,
Yeah.
50 approved the concept drawings for the build.
Now Shanon and I have got to figure out a way to bring it
together and actually make this thing come to life.
50 is not a soft guy.
He's a hard guy. We want it to look tough.
Don't want a regular anything on it.
What about a door?
Don't need doors.
It's got to be a roadster,
in that it's got to have an open cockpit.
Do it like the cockpit on the Viper
SHANON: Okay.
One of the biggest challenges for the build for 50 Cent is
the canopy and the cockpit.
The canopy style--
he's looking for something like out of
Battlestar Galactica. The problem is,
those things don't actually exist.
I may come up with things
that most people would say can't be done,
but I can always give it to Marc,
and he'll say, "I'll find a way."
You make it pretty, I'll make it work.
(Bleep, bleep)
Look at that.
That's one of the brand-new ones, dude.
Yup.
We go to the shop today and find out we've been vandalized.
Got both tires on that side of the car.
Like we don't have enough
going on right now.
Now we've got to deal with security issues.
So, we're gonna call the cops,
have 'em come out and do a report.
That's all we can do.
Hey, guys. What have we got?
We got vandalized.
There's two
Now, they're cut, or...
They're cut.
MARC: The trailer over there,
they knifed two tires on it.
Got two tires on the Honda.
This tire right here and the front tire.
SHANON: Three air ride bags.
And then when they made it to this one,
there's blood everywhere.
Coming up on Dream Machines...
What's the reason why we can't put any metal on?
The builds aren't necessarily going as fast
as he might want,
but coming out and giving me
a hard time is not gonna make it go any faster.
Yay, I won.
Get this deck...
I can sit inside of this thing.
The wheels just got here from Asanti
and they are massive.
SHANON: I feel the need...
BOTH: The need for speed.
Hey, guys.
What've we got?
MARC: We got vandalized.
JEFF: Appears that way.
There's one, there's two brand-new tires.
MARC: We got broken into last night,
and they did a hell of a lot of damage.
There's blood everywhere.
So, evidently, when they went to stab it,
their hand went over the blade or something.
Blade folded on them or whatever.
My big concern is that they'll actually make it
inside of the building the next time
and start tearing up some of the vehicles we got in here,
especially 50's car.
I don't think it'll be easy to find them because
from the amount of blood and everything over there,
whoever cut themselves cut themselves really bad.
SHANON: Whoever's got the big gash in their hand,
That's the guy.
That's the guy? Maybe at the hospital?
MARC: Easy to recognize him.
I'm gonna have to call the deputies, and we'll do
a little crime scene on this and figure out
Cool.
I appreciate it.
All right.
SHANON: What it's gonna cost us to actually go through
and fix these things, time,
but the way I look at it,
we just got to keep pushing forward.
Gonna hang out at the hospital.
See if I can find somebody with a hand wound.
MARC: Basically, what we're gonna do
is we're gonna take a Formula One car,
something from outer space,
fighter jets, all kinds of stuff and mix it together.
We start off with just rough measurements
and kind of get some of the lines,
and then we start building the basic framework
of the car.
And it's all got to be symmetrical.
Call your wife and tell her you ain't gonna be home for a while.
Hey.
I'm concerned about the vandalism.
With the bills that we have,
the amount of money we're talking,
the time that it would set us back to have to redo
or repair anything,
we can't afford it,
financially or time-wise.
What you doing?
My taxes.
Listen, um, I'm thinking
that we need to discuss a security system.
Like a dog?
For what?
Things like
what just happened, the vandalism.
Okay, good.
So, I'll handle it.
Cool.
We'll get something installed ASAP.
Good talking to you.
Shanon laughs about it.
I'm gonna take it a little more seriously.
I am calling a security company.
(door closes)
Shanon Parker?
Get to my office now.
I'll make Karen kick your ***.
We're a brand-new company.
We're not some big factory with a thousand employees.
So, it's gonna take everybody.
It's gonna be all hands on deck
to make this project come to life.
Marc's been working the past few days
on 50's frame; while he's been doing that,
I've been sketching out ideas
for the canopy.
I think I've got it together.
I just need to talk with Marc now,
and make sure he can make it happen.
Look at this.
Open up the cockpit like a fighter jet.
It's closed like that.
Open like that.
So it actually slides back.
I like that.
Be a lot trickier than, uh, a hinge system,
but I can do it.
MARC: I'm focusing on building the pedals
and getting the seat put on.
My vision for the seats kind of started
from Giger, one of my favorite artists.
These seats look kind of scary at first.
I mean, it's kind of like this ribcage,
alien looking thing that wraps around you.
But once we get the pads on
and the fabric and everything,
it should be pretty comfortable,
and I think they're gonna look really good.
Well, how soon can we get this part done?
I need a steering wheel.
I can't do this without a steering wheel.
I mean, I've got to... I've got
to be able to place it to make sure
that you can get in around it. If I set too low...
I ordered it, but it's not here, but I've got to have this.
I can't do anything without a steering wheel.
What do you want me to do? Poop one?
SHANON: You know, Marc's telling me
he really needs a steering wheel right now.
I've ordered the steering wheel,
it's just not here yet.
Get me a steering wheel.
Take one off somebody's car, I don't care.
SHANON: John's car-- he's one of our fabricators--
his car is open.
Yo.
And it's easy to take
his steering wheel; there's no air bag.
Yeah, Turbo.
Thanks, John.
We kind of wanted John
to realize that we had his steering wheel,
so I made him
actually hold it, uh, to kind be the test dummy in the car.
The steering wheel.
Just hold it up in front of you.
Is that comfortable?
Fairly comfortable?
Yeah, this is about the normal size
of any regular steering wheel.
Your car, does it have a big old steering wheel or no?
(laughing) It's a Volvo station wagon.
It's a *** Volvo station wagon.
I'm just wondering what kind of steering wheel
It's about this size.
This actually... it looks...
(laughter)
What?
This is my...
That was the best prank played here so far.
Marc said we needed a steering wheel.
MARC: We do this for one reason
because it's fun; it's what we enjoy doing.
When Shanon and I started this company,
the first thing we said was, "Look,
"the day it stops being fun
is the day we'll close the shop down and do something else."
Hey, wait, wait for me!
(grunting)
SHANON: We've been working on this car for a few weeks now,
and it still looks like a skeleton to me.
We all like to have fun here, but there are consequences.
If we don't get this car done,
we could lose this client altogether.
Why can't we start putting body panels on?
We don't have wheels yet.
I've got build the rest of the framework and the body...
We might not have these wheels for the next couple days.
We need to go ahead and start.
MARC: Working with your little brother
can be difficult sometimes.
Shanon gets impatient,
especially at the beginning of the build
when things aren't going as fast as he wants them to.
So the first thing he thinks of doing is
coming to pester me.
The builds aren't necessarily going as fast as he might want,
but coming out and giving me a hard time
is not gonna make it go any faster.
What's the reason why we can't put any metal on?
That's when he turns back into my little brother
from when we were kids, going, "Why, why, why?"
Why can we not start doing some of these body panels?
Why can't we put this bottom piece on right now?
Why can't we be putting metal on?
What I'm focused on right now...
...is getting this deck...
SHANON: Coming up on Dream Machines...
JOHN: He'll be so pissed.
Now that Marc's gone,
it's time for some revenge.
This ain't gonna end good; you know that, right?
When you sit in this thing, I want it
to actually have that fighter jet feel.
Dog fight? Hell yeah.
PILOT: Go hard right and down. Hard right and down.
SHANON: I feel the need...
BOTH: The need for speed.
It's great that 50 finally approved
the concept drawing for the build.
But now Shanon and I have
got to make this thing come to life.
We've got to come up with a cockpit design.
When you sit in this thing,
I want it to actually have that feel.
That, "Oh, my God.
"I'm in a spacecraft,
or I'm in a fighter jet or whatever."
So, we need to find a way to go find a plane
and check it out.
Living in Florida, we've got a lot of places around
with some really cool aircraft that we can go see.
The big problem I'm gonna have is figuring out a way
of dragging Shanon down there to actually see them.
To get me in an airplane, you're gonna need one of these.
What's that?
That's a barf bag.
Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll probably
need two or three of those.
(laughter)
SHANON: Looking at pictures on the Internet,
you can do that all day long, but there's nothing
like hands-on experience, seeing it, feeling it,
figuring out how it goes together.
So, we got the opportunity to go down,
check out some fighter jets,
and that's what we're gonna do.
How you doing?
Welcome to Air Combat USA.
I'm Jim Reed, I go by Bogey.
And I'll talk about call signs in a minute.
Great. I'm Maverick, this is Goose.
I don't think Shanon's ever been in a small aircraft at all.
He's not a big flier.
SHANON: I really don't like to fly.
Damn it, 50. Why do you got to have a cockpit in your car?
Now, if you're screaming like a little girl...
JIM: You can do all the screaming you want.
Great, great.
I can get lots of inspiration
from the ground.
Totally fine by me.
If I need to go, I'll go.
But I'm freaking out.
We want you flying the airplane.
We gonna, like, drop a bomb on anybody or anything?
No, you're gonna fight each other.
Dogfight? Hell yeah.
Here's what your gun sights look like.
You'll be surprised; you're gonna fly 90% of the mission.
So, it'll be a true indication of
the two of you going after each other.
SHANON: I am really not a big fan of flying.
And now he says we're gonna be flying these things
in, like, air combat?
I just want out of here.
Any questions?
Okay.
RON: When Marc leaves,
it's really hard to do anything.
And it's irritating.
He's got a plan for everything,
but he keeps it in his head.
And when he goes,
the plan goes.
So, we get nothing done.
Karen?
Good to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
While the guys are gone,
I've got Secure Point coming in.
And we are going to sit down and discuss what it's gonna take
to get this place secure.
Definitely stick some up front.
Maybe one down the rear, one in the middle here.
Plus, this main parking lot here, as well.
You want to look at the back and see if we need
Absolutely.
Okay.
We can go around the whole facility.
JIM: It's gonna be fun.
We'll have a piece of them though.
So, Marc, you and I are in this first one.
I see a lot of stuff in these airplanes,
and in airplanes in general that we could tie into this car.
One of the things I like: everything's exposed.
You can see all the mechanical,
how everything goes together.
This is just a couple of pieces
of Plexiglas overlapped and glued together.
So it's gonna give me some interesting ideas about
different parts that we could use to emulate in the build
to give it that airplane feel.
I can actually touch it and feel it and figure out
how it goes together.
I'm digging the heads-up display for sure.
Oh, I am, too. Definitely that.
Something that I needed to see in person,
it's really gonna help us.
MARC: We came here, thinking
we were gonna just look at these planes.
Now we actually get to fly them.
I think this is gonna be a lot of fun.
I mean, how many chances do you get
to shoot your little brother?
SHANON: I really don't like to fly,
but I'm not gonna look bad in front of these pilots
or my brother, so I'm gonna
suck it up and I'm going flying.
Clear!
(indistinct radio chatter)
Put your hand on there and just kind of look straight ahead.
It's gonna be your airplane.
Okay, Bogey, you are clear to maneuver.
You know, I don't really have a fear of flying,
I more have a fear of crashing.
I think, you know, if people were meant to fly,
we would've been born with wings.
You've got the pass right here.
Start a smooth pull, lights on.
Smooth, smooth. Watch him!
Match his wings.
(bleep)
MARC: They got a targeting system
where you can see the plane in front of you.
And if you shoot somebody and you hit their plane,
smoke comes out of their plane.
Okay, got some smoke.
MARC: It's realistic.
When you hit them, you really feel like
you just shot somebody down.
Shanon, are you having fun?
Uh, yeah, lots of fun, buddy.
I feel really good about
Secure Point coming out
and getting the place all wired up.
We've got the zoom lens, we've got the night vision.
We've got just about everything you could imagine.
BRYAN: It's like a regular VCR remote control.
Rewind,
play, fast-forward, search.
You can go back and search a few days, if you want to.
What's it give you as far as record time?
At least a month off of it.
So we'll be able to go back a month.
Oh, that's cool.
So if you come around here doing anything stupid,
you're gonna be the star of your very own evidence video
that is going to put you in jail.
Now that Marc's gone, it's time for some revenge.
We're putting this chopper up on his desk.
We're putting the skeleton (bleep)...
There's an awful lot
of those alligators down in there.
MARC: You're up there, you're in the moment,
can't do anything about it.
What a view.
You're too dizzy to get sick.
So it's one of those things, you go,
"I'm just going to deal with this right now."
Lights on. Go hard right now.
Hard right now.
Hold the nose up. Hold the nose up.
Oh, he's going right.
Slam it left. Slam it and hold it.
Just hold it there.
Keep it there. Keep it there.
We've got him.
Put him right into your gunsight.
I've got Marc plain in my sights,
and the next thing you know,
bam-- kill shot.
Ah, he got us.
(garbled radio transmission)
SHANON: You know what?
I was scared to death to begin with, but that was
the most amazing thing I've ever done.
Absolute ball.
Whoops.
You know, it always (bleep)
when the pilot says, "Whoops."
I feel the need...
The need for speed!
(both laughing)
FRO: Marc's out of town, so Johnny
came up to me and wants me to help him get Marc back for...
for messing with him with the steering wheel.
He gives everybody else trouble all day long,
so can't wait to see his reaction.
This is payback for taking my steering wheel.
Go ahead.
This is some great payback for that (bleep) steering wheel.
(laughter)
This ain't gonna end it. You know that, right?
Coming up on Dream Machines:
Did you let him do this?
This time, he was trying to take the easy way out.
I don't know what you want me to do.
Listen, I don't give a (bleep) what you do now.
I'm absolutely frustrated.
'Cause I got to spend the next (bleep) hour
squaring this back up again and getting your flak.
How'd it go?
Took a while.
Hey, let's all get back to work!
Now that we've checked out some real-life cockpits
and canopies, I've got a better idea
of how to incorporate this into 50's car.
What was up with all of that?
Dude, it was... it was a blast.
(laughter)
Are you (bleep) kidding me?
Your redemption! (bleep)
I love the skeleton.
Dude, and I put
all the monkeys over there by her, too.
We play a lot of jokes around here.
We do like to... to have fun.
This time, it was on me. I got it.
No big deal. I'll get him back.
This is just classic.
This is hilarious.
Hey, Marc, clean up your office.
SHANON: All right.
I'm ready to see some body panels
going on, so... let's have this done today.
Okeydokey.
SHANON: I'm absolutely frustrated with the progress.
This frame should have been done a long time ago.
At this point, we should have body panels on that car.
Why can't we start putting body panels on?
We don't have wheels yet.
You know, Marc's telling me right now
he has to have wheels.
Why can't we be putting metal on?
I can't do anything until the dash is finished.
There's no reason he can't work
on the other things on this build without the wheels.
Why can't we put this bottom piece on right now?
Right now,
Marc is my issue.
Marc and Shanon Parker to Jeff's office.
Marc and Shanon Parker to Jeff's office.
Thank you.
Jeff is our operations manager. He's been with us
pretty much since the beginning.
Kind of showed up,
took over a position that we needed,
and, uh, he's been helping us ever since.
Guess what I got to do.
Hang out with the guys from OSHA.
Oh, don't even get me started on that.
They've gone through and done
a compliance inspection on us,
and there were some things that...
came up as issues for us.
Give me the short and sweet.
You know I don't want to hear all this.
Short and the sweet of it is--
we owe ten grand in fines.
MARC: Ten grand?
Oh, yeah, that's great.
Like we've got ten grand to throw out the window.
There's about seven or eight things.
First and foremost,
there was a chair and a computer
in the way of the emergency shutdown for the flow.
We got hit for that.
Two doors back there were locked.
Now we're talking about people's safety at this point.
Okay?
It's not like they're welded shut.
It's not hard to turn a handle.
Marc, you got to think, in an emergency situation,
I understand.
Every freaking door
in the place has to be unlocked at all times.
All right. There was chemicals around our new transformer.
For our flow.
That stuff's supposed to be away from there.
Why was it left there, and who left it there,
so I'll know who to chew out?
I don't know at this point.
MARC: So, basically, we got a bunch of sloppy,
slovenly people that can't
clean up their mess.
Well, I mean, we're uneducated.
I think that's what the kicker is,
that we're uneducated on what to do properly.
We're a small business.
We're growing, we're learning a lot,
and I can sit around and complain about it all day long,
but obviously, there were issues that needed to be fixed.
We're gonna fix those issues and just move on from there.
Let's use this as an opportunity to do something.
I mean, it's crappy-- the money.
Not like we have any, but...
It's... It is what it is.
I just... This kind of stuff just honks me off.
Just frustrates the hell out of me,
so you guys do whatever you want to do.
I'm gonna stay out of it,
'cause all I'm gonna do is get pissed off.
We need to know...
Just let me know what I need to do, 'cause I'm-I'm out of it.
Marc just needs to suck it up, deal with it,
or they can be back here
two months from now doing the same thing all over again.
So, I say, we learn from it and fix our mistakes, and just
move on from there.
(whirring)
SHANON: I got some wheels.
Turn around, big man.
Let's just look at 'em.
50 was really adamant
about the wheels on his car
being something special.
Mm-hmm.
...I want to make sure that they don't feel like things
that people have seen, like, on the street already.
No, we don't do anything anybody ever's seen before.
SHANON: The wheels on this car now
are twenty-twos.
They're gonna look great.
Now I've just got to get
the real components in here so I can
figure out the spacing on 'em 'cause...
SHANON: Well, what are you saying?
I'm saying, I need the pieces. I need 'em here.
We don't have 'em, so what can you do now?
Why don't I just pull some damn imaginary measurements
out of my ***, dude?
I mean, I don't know what you want me to do.
Want me to build it six times?
I don't give a (bleep) what you do now.
SHANON: I'm about ready to choke his ***.
I don't know what to say.
I mean, he keeps asking me
for things, I keep, you know, coming up with solutions,
and it just seems like he doesn't want
to come up with a solution right now.
MARC: We're starting on the front end of the car right now.
We're laying out the nose
and the canopy, and we're adding
kind of a unique design element,
in that we're making the whole center of the car
out of smoked polycarbonate,
so you'll be able to see all the way through to the road.
I think it's gonna really add a lot to this car.
(whirring)
Don't say it.
Did you let him do this?
And I was gonna stop him how?
Some times I'll leave Marc alone on this builds
and let him, you know, run with it.
This time, he was trying to take the easy way out.
Obviously, the front of the car is...
You know, it's the first thing you see.
It's very important, it's the key element,
uh, to tie the whole car together.
If the front's right, you know,
the rest can flow back from there.
And that's what I feel like this design needs.
What are you doing?
That piece is already welding into the windshield.
The windshield's gonna mount right over top of those.
Well, it's a weird-looking bin, isn't it?
Shanon gets an idea in his head, he gets a vision
of what he wants the vehicle to look like.
And that's great-- I understand that--
but it's up to me
to make these vehicles work and make them function,
and that's where a lot of the conflict
between design and fabrication come in.
The whole point in doing these designs
is so he can see my vision so that he can make it.
If he would look at my drawings to begin with,
he'd know what he's supposed to do,
and we wouldn't have these problems.
If he'd stop being such a *** all the time.
You know what the problem is?
I'll tell you. Is if you kept
following this line right here, you're gonna run into that.
That's my issue with it. That's why it looks weird.
MARC: I can't help that, dude. You wanted it to bow here.
It's got to be flat here and here.
I understand he draws these a certain way,
and he wants it to look a certain way,
but I'm dealing with physics and steel,
and some things just can't be done
the way he wants it to look.
Now, if I bring that in, then, it's just gonna...
Stop, dude! I got this perfectly square.
You're (bleep).
SHANON: I was just helping.
It took me a half an hour to get that (bleep) square.
SHANON: He doesn't want to build it
in the slope that I actually drew to begin with.
He wants to make it flat and straight.
It just makes it easier for him to build it that way,
but that's not the look of the car.
I can't keep remeasuring everything
and changing everything!
You can't keep
putting it up there and expecting me
just to be happy with it if it's wrong.
It's wrong...
MARC: It's not wrong!
You wanted it curved. It's curved.
What is it, a half a degree off or something?
I mean, give me a (bleep) break!
I'll give you a break when it's right.
Why is that...?! It's-It's...
It's that much different than the other.
Really that much in the center,
that much higher is that big of a deal?
Here.
Here.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Now get the (bleep) out of here and leave me alone.
Why didn't you do that in the first place?
'Cause I got to spend the next (bleep) hour
squaring this back up again and getting it flat.
It looks better.
'Cause you wanted to move it a half a (bleep) inch.
So now I got another hour's worth of work,
so I'm gonna be here all (bleep) night.
That'd be in the daytime.
'Cause you can't just move it like that.
Now I got to square every bit of it up,
or none of it's gonna (bleep) fit together.
That's (bleep)...
Coming up on Dream Machines...
I can sit inside of this thing.
The wheels just got here from Asanti, and they are massive.
50's calling on Skype.
But I got a chance to see the new designs.
New designs?
Are you talking about from Daniel?
Daniel's our CAD guy.
He's not the designer of the car.
He should never have sent anything to our client, period.
Just, he's so (bleep) bored, 'cause he's got nothing to do,
so he wants to feel like he's doing something.
He wants to come back here and make changes...
that don't... that don't even matter.
I mean, like, who the (bleep) is gonna notice
that this was a... that much higher?
SHANON: And Marc got pretty mad at me about the windshield.
He wanted it to be straight, it needed to be curved.
And I know it's a short time frame,
and that's faster for him, and I realize that,
but the curve is what we need for this build.
For the look of it, it has to be this way.
Why?
'Cause he did it wrong... again.
These arguments between Shanon and Marc
are a daily occurrence.
The build doesn't match the design,
or the design doesn't become functional.
At this point, I'm sick and tired of all that.
I want to see the thing built and delivered.
(indistinct chatter)
Is it right?
Marc's bad about taking the easy way out sometimes.
He was already
pretty close to being done with it being straight,
so I kind of knocked it out of the way for him.
Now he gets to start over and do it the right way this time.
I don't know how we're gonna be able
to get this thing built in time.
What's wrong?
I'm trying to (bleep) work here.
Chill out, man.
Was it hard to do this?
Stop, man, before you move something.
All right...
I just finished getting it back in square.
I'm just asking a question.
Yeah.
It's a pain in the ***.
A last-minute change to the design of the canopy
is no big deal to Shanon, because he's just changing
a line on a piece of paper. To me,
I've spent hours building this thing.
Now I've got to cut it apart and start all over again.
Okay, look, if you just boost this up
just a little bit right here,
then you'll have it.
I know Marc can do this canopy right.
Even if I have to stay back here
and bug him all night, he can get this done.
That's what 50 wants. That's what we're gonna give him.
So a flat piece of glass sits
on both of of these, and it'll be fine.
Glass sits flat right along these.
On top of it?
On top of it.
Good. Now, can you get this out of my way
so I can get back to work?
Beautiful!
Oh!
One, two, three.
The design that Shanon came up with is amazing.
You know, it's got this spaceship look.
It's got that futuristic look.
It's got the fighter jet look.
So, it could easily just be going down the road,
and hit a button and, you know, take off,
and let's go to Mars for lunch or whatever.
And that's-that's kind of the look that we're going for.
(loud whirring)
You've got this already, don't you?
I don't. I don't have this.
SHANON: Daniel can take any sketch that I have
and put them to exact measurements.
And that's good to have in case you ever need
to use something in the future, or make parts
after the fact.
Yeah.
And then, you know, the program extrapolates all that.
I grew up, you know, drawing and sketching
with a pen and a piece of paper because that was what I had.
Never went to school to learn those kind of programs, and so,
I bring in somebody else that does know how to do, you know,
that design part, and they take it from there.
SHANON: I don't want anybody to get hurt.
Obviously the OSHA fines hurt,
and we don't have the money
to pay those kind of things.
So we want to fix it in that respect as well.
But safety is the top priority.
Guys, listen up.
Jeff's gonna go over a couple of things
that we're having issues with.
So just listen up.
Safety is a key problem with the OSHA people that were here.
Huge, huge issue.
If there is an issue with safety,
then you get warned once.
It's a warning. If you get warned twice,
you get sent home. The third time...
you're done.
It's for to protect all y'all.
Keep y'all from getting hurt.
Dealing with OSHA's not just gonna be on me and Shanon.
I mean, it's on everybody.
Everybody's got to pitch together
to make sure that everything is in compliance all the time.
I think the OSHA thing is what we needed
as, like, a kick in the butt, so to speak.
MARC: That's sucking a lot
of money out of our pocket...
that has to be here to keep this place going.
If you're being selfish
or being... "I don't give a damn"
and just throwing stuff wherever...
somebody's got to come up behind you
and fix that, and it's slowing down production,
which is slowing down money.
We've got to do what we've got to do.
We've always run a safe work environment,
we're gonna continue to run a safe work environment,
and if we've got to tighten things
up a little bit
to meet OSHA guidelines, we'll do it.
Everybody got that pretty much clear?
All right.
Go to work.
(laughs) Oh, (bleep). Look at me.
Oh, my...
Holy crap.
Oh, (bleep).
Good God.
Initially we started out with 22-inch wheels,
we ended up with 24s. I wanted something
a bit more massive.
Holy moley.
It's the widest tire that's ever been on a car.
I think that's really gonna
set this car off.
I can sit inside of this thing.
Yeah!
Roll me down the street.
Wheels just got here from Asanti and they are massive.
Let's look at it with the, with the chrome.
MARC: 405 millimeters wide.
240-inch diameter-- I've never seen a wheel this big.
Asanti says there's only a few of them on the market.
They're a prototype.
And they're really gonna set this car off.
I'm almost kind of thinking
paint the lips white to match the car 'cause there's
so much surface area, and leave the chrome in the center.
Just do the lips in white and they'll...
I think it'll actually make them look bigger.
The wheels on this car now are massive.
They're gonna look great.
50's definitely gonna be surprised.
I hope his reaction is the same as ours,
'cause we were all blown away.
Uh-huh.
MARC: And you'll see this thing come to life.
Guys, 50's calling on Skype, get in your office.
Yeah, we can see you.
What's up, buddy?
I was calling because I wanted to tell y'all
after actually getting a chance to, you know,
think about it, I felt, like,
maybe we could take this...
and make it something bigger.
Okay.
Are you guys familiar with
the Big Boy Toy Show in Dubai?
Yeah, I've heard of it.
The Big Boy Toy Show is a huge event
that goes on in Dubai.
MARC: This is a big event with a lot of people who can
pretty much buy anything they want to in the world.
You get in with this client base and you can pretty much
write your own ticket.
I want to be able to try and take a car...
and reveal it there.
Well, 50 being 50, he's gonna go big,
he's gonna do things that most people can't do.
This is the perfect opportunity for us and for him
to launch this car and show it to the world.
It's coming up in a few weeks, right?
Yes, a couple of weeks.
Oh, great, yeah, no problem.
MARC: Building this car for 50 is already
complicated enough.
And now he wants it done in weeks instead of
what would normally take months.
(laughs): I mean...
This is why I love your calls, 50,
'cause you never put pressure; it's always so easy with you.
MARC: I don't how we're gonna be able
to get this thing built in time to get it there.
Coming up on Dream Machine...
He sent them to 50.
I told him to send the designs to him.
If 50 comes to us now
and wants to make major changes,
we're screwed.
Listen, man, I made a judgment.
Your (bleep)
judgment call was wrong.
Are you guys familiar with
The Big Boy Toy Show in Dubai?
Yeah, I've heard of it.
I want to be able to try and take the car
and reveal it there.
It's coming up in a few weeks, right?
Yes, a couple of weeks.
Oh, great, yeah, no problem.
Taking this car to The Big Boy Toy Show is great,
and it could mean a lot for the company.
The problem is, now we've got to build it
in weeks instead of months.
This why I love your calls, 50,
'cause you never put pressure;
it's always so easy with you.
And I just really don't know
how we're gonna pull it off.
All right.
But I only was considering
putting it there because I'm thinking about, you know,
going into production with it.
I think we can actually launch it, like,
let's really just sell the vehicle commercially.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We'd love to
No need doing it small, let's do it big.
MARC: Now 50 wants to take this car
into full production and that's huge for us.
We've never car go to full production before.
It's awesome-- I mean, that means a lot of business for us.
When I got the chance to see the new designs
and stuff, it just made me feel
like, we should,
you know, take it up a notch.
New designs?
Yeah.
SHANON: When 50 said he saw the new designs,
my heart just about stopped.
These ideas are great.
They're even better than what my expectations were.
Okay, I didn't know
Did Jeff send you
No, Jeff, Jeff...
I got it from-- hold on...
Jeff, Jeff-- Dan.
Are you talking about from, from Daniel--
the,
Right.
He wasn't supposed to send that stuff over.
That's all right, I mean, that's fine.
I know it's, like,
pressure for time, but if you do it,
you know, I think it'll be a success.
Let me talk to Jeff and see what, um,
what he thinks, but, yeah, we're, we're good with it.
All right.
Gonna make it happen.
All right, buddy, we'll talk to you soon.
All right.
So Daniel just decided to send whatever over
and not get our approval on it or...?
How did he get
I don't know.
He should have no contact
with him.
Jeff is the only person that's supposed to be contacting him.
SHANON: Our CAD guy Daniel, I just found out,
has sent some drawings to 50 Cent himself.
Daniel is our CAD guy; he is not the designer of the car.
He should never have sent anything to our client, period.
I'm, I'm-- I can't believe it's even happening.
We've got to get to the bottom of this.
Look at that line there, man.
The windshield would be sitting on your forehead.
There's nowhere to put your feet, there's nowhere
to put the pedals or anything.
Daniel really messed us up on this one.
He should have never sent those designs to 50.
We don't want the customer seeing the design
until we've finalized it.
We've already moved forward some of this build
and we can't go back and change it now,
and if 50 comes to us now and wants to make major changes,
with the short time we've got,
we're screwed.
What's up?
Are you (bleep) kidding me?
About what?
About Daniel-- what the hell?
Who?
The guy that's been putting
all the designs that we're building
into solid work for 50's car.
He sent 'em to 50.
He sent 'em to 50.
He's been talking back and forth
directly with 50, not going through us.
What?
I told him to send
(bleep).
SHANON: That's like cardinal rule number one--
don't do that.
But it wasn't supposed to be anything but the interior
structural stuff...
Doesn't matter.
If something changes
in the middle of this,
he's got pictures of something else,
guess what happens.
He goes, "Oh, no, I really like that one,"
and then we're screwed.
This is 50 Cent.
He's huge, and for somebody to go
behind our back and misrepresent our designs,
it could be
a disaster for our relationship with the client.
Listen to me, I-I made a judgment--
I made a judgment call to try
to make the client happy.
Your (bleep) judgment call
was wrong.
MARC: We've gone a long way
through this build already.
We can't turn back now, we can't start over.
The problem we run into is,
people will get a vision in their head.
What you see on paper
never comes out the same way in real life.
Okay.
MARC: To take that and bring it to reality,
changes have to be made.
Next time on Dream Machines...
SHANON: Every single thing
we touch
is just going... pft!
We wonder why we run out of time on these builds.
(bleep) four hours for one piece-- that's stupid.
(engine stalling)
By the way, the motor still don't run.
Had to bring 50 out,
kind of reinstil some confidence in us.
Whatever it is you're building,
I want it to feel like this right here.
Take a look at what we have built.
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