amazing race season 28

- this time on roadkill, we go digging for our new project car. - it is the episode of the century. buick century. (engine revving) (hard rock music) (up-tempo, country-inspired music) - so dave and i are here in tennessee. it's monday.

we're at a junkyard with no name, and it's full of cars hiddenin bushes, and right now, we're going to find somethingwe can rescue by friday. - [dave] where are we? - it's spelled lebanon, but here they say lebanin, tennessee. hey, sammy. - [dave] a couple monthsago, finnegan was hanging out with some fans who mentionedthat they knew this guy, sammy.

- [mike] sammy's a character. i don't know this guy's last name, and it's debatable whether or not he actually wants to sell anything. - [dave] and so this is where he ended up trying to find our latestbit of junkyard gold. - sammy, we're gluttons for punishment, so we like to go tojunkyards and then buy cars that haven't run in a longtime, or shouldn't run

ever again, and try to get them running. what is this? - [sammy] '67 buick wildcat convertible. - [dave] i can't even see a car in there. - [mike] i thought hewas screwing with us. there's a nash in there? - [dave] oh, there is! - [mike] i like pintos. - [sammy] yeah, here's some skintos.

- this one's got racing stripes on it, so you know it's fast. is there a barn back there? - no, that's just a wall. - [mike] what's the wall hiding? - [sammy] bushes. (laughs) - [dave] hiding bushes? what's your ultimate plan on this?

sell 'em, let 'em sit, enjoy 'em? - [sammy] i guess i'm doing it. this is it. - [dave] this doesn't run. i can tell. - [mike] you sure? let's do a compression check. - [sammy] car 54, who are you? - [dave] oh, that's a cop car.

- [sammy] i'm waiting for it to get older. (laughter) - [sammy] what about a crosley? - [dave] crosley's good, too! little bit of rust. - [mike] there's not muchleft of that crosley. - [dave] nope. - i want the van, but you haveto clean it out first, okay? - that's good storage.

ah, i'm not sure anythinghere runs and drives within our lifetime, muchless within the five days that we've got to make this happen. which i would like tosay doesn't scare me, but it kind of does. - did you find any snakes yet? - no. ooh, i'm liking the looks of this. - [mike] ooh, car covers.

- [dave] car covers means good. - [mike] is this whereyou hide the snakes? - [sammy] yeah. - [mike] that's a hemiroadrunner with a hemi in it? - [sammy] yeah, that's original. - [mike] whoo, we can't afford that. - no, probably not. i like this place, because, like, samurai? superbird.

- [sammy] you got to havesomething for everybody. - [dave] you realize ifi had this much land, it would look exactly like this. - [mike] what's in that barn? - more junk. - [mike] somebody beat us to it. - [dave] that's a little creepy. - [dave] no motor. - [sammy] got a place for one.

- yeah, i didn't seeanything that looks like, "oh, we can do this." - it'll be easy to narrow things down. - yeah! so we've been walking aroundhere for at least half the day, and this guy has a lot of stuff, and if you need parts, it's fantastic. if you're trying to makesomething run and drive, i don't know if that's happeningin four and a half days.

believe it or not, sammy hassome legit, really good cars that are completelyout of our price range. - [mike] the rest of it is too far gone to get running in just a few days. - [dave] so we came up with a scheme. this is a 1973 chevy corvette,america's sports car. - [mike] what if we takea c3 corvette chassis and then we take the very worst body parts of c1 corvettes thatsammy has laying around,

and put them onto thatchassis with bailing wire and duct tape to make theworld's worst c1 corvette? that could work, couldn't it? - that solves all, we'll use it. you're doing good. maybe a little more to the left? there's pretty much no chancethat we're going to get this done in time without somehelp, and so we brought in a buddy of finnegan's,jeff, from devious customs,

who owns an actual fabrication shop, but is no stranger tohacking, roadkill style. - he was parting this out anyway. i'm trying not to feel bad about it. - [mike] i have no guilt at all. we paid top dollar for this bottom junk. - it's true. i feel like we're almost done. (tools whirring and clattering)

(dramatic instrumental music) - [mike] this whole caris just glued together. - it's not good. but it looked good from afar. it's always a learning experience. i've discovered i never needto own one of these cars, ever. okay. - i believe this is called a cor-fail. - the cor-fail?

- yeah, yeah. - the cor-hate? - didn't we already doone of these on roadkill? - it was really popular. (thunder booming) (slow, bluesy music) it's raining. yeah. - uh, it's been worse on roadkill.

but yeah, it's rainingright now, but we're fine. we're fine. - [dave] because we'reway ahead of schedule, it started to rain so badlythat we had to stop wrenching. this is not going great. - [mike] it starts rainingright about the time we realized sammy didn't quite want to giveup the goods he promised us, so now, we need a new plan. - this is pretty good.

- our options are wide open right now, because every car here, the snakes are getting washed out of the interiors. so. (thunder rolls) (clattering of chains) (bird chirping) (swelling inspirational music) - there's a point in everyroadkill where we're sitting

around at dinner, going, "you know what? "the wheels are falling off this plan." and that happened last night. i think we all sat aroundgoing, "man, taping body panels "on this corvette is not exactly cool." so we have a completelynew schedule today. - we're going to keepcutting up that corvette 'ti we have a rollingchassis, but then we're going back in those woods, indiana jones-style,

and we're going to drag out another body, and we're going to put it on that car and save two priceless works of art. - this had been the plan yesterday, was to take all of theseold corvette parts, hacked off of various cars, and sort of hang 'em on our chassis. i don't know why it seemedlike a good idea at the time. i guess because duct tape was involved?

but i'm glad that's over. you know what the thing isthat is nice about these is that they burn really good. (grinding, guitar music) (tools whir and pound) this would be a lot easier if i was willing to touch anything in here. - yeah, i don't blame you. - this should be really interesting.

we're going to take the tow truck and try and use it to pull the body off. does this seem like abad idea to anybody else? - [jeff] oh, yeah. ready? (drill whirring) - [dave] i was waiting for that. - [jeff] one down, one to go. - they're like, "hey, jumpin there and cut that.

"it's just dangling by twotight 1e straps, it's cool." i'm like, "all right, let's go." - hey, jeff. one more cable. can you hit it with thedeath roll real quick? - got one more to go! - [jeff] that was scary. i didn't like that one. - [mike] with a renewed sense of purpose,

we head out back to the yard. - [dave] we've got a prettymuch naked c3 corvette frame, and we've got a yard fullof vintage american iron. we're going to go shoppingand pick a car that has the coolest body to put ontop of our corvette frame. what could go wrong? what is that? - [mike] i don't know, that's cool. there's writing on the fender.

- [jeff] yeah, what's it say? - it's a peugeot. or a renault? what is that-- - oh, it's mashed. - how angry would people be if we cut up a corvette to put a renaultor a peugeot body on it? - very french! can this be our last corvette ever?

- you know it won't. we'll have to restoreone for something else. later on, when we sellout to general motors, we'll have to do a corvette. ooh, what about a car thathad the, was it a buick? that had the name of the yearof the car on the emblem? - [dave] '56 buick? - [mike] that was kind of sweet. - [dave] it's a big car.

this one i'd feel goodabout rescuing, just because it's the only way that thatwould ever see the light of day. - check this out, though. those are all thorn bushes. - you know, what i likeabout this is no one else is going to rescue this,and if we don't rescue this, this is going to return to mother earth. - but he's not lying about the thorn bush. those are nasty.

we need steel-belted gloves. - [mike] that's mother nature'sbarbed wire, right there. - we're getting ready to hack like we've never hacked before. we're going to do gardening andmetalwork all at the same time. - [mike] i don't knowanything about woodworking. i think i know even less about gardening and home maintenance. - [dave] let's just callthis archeology instead.

- okay, i'm good with that. which one is it? i don't even know. maybe not so much over here. - [dave] ooh, this is good.- whoa. hey, i have an idea. you go way over there,i'll work right here. (pounding hard rock) (chainsaw roaring)

- don't hit the car! this might not be too bad. so, finnegan broke the chainsaw. - [jeff] medic! - 'cause he can prettymuch break anything. and so we're going to level two here. new levels of whacking off. (machinery grumbling) - so he says he only gotin there with shorts on.

(victorious rock music) there's a car in there! - the hood's not bolted on. the window's been down the whole time, so the level of ants i waswhining about in the corvette-- - snake, snake, snake, snake, snake! - will be nothing, compared to-- (all burst out laughing) that was a good one.

this is the weirdest startto a project car build i've ever been a part of. because roadkill. (tools grind and clatter) oh, look out! (bleep) (all laugh) no job too small, no garden too tall. - i've, like, found so many cars

and done so many thins,but usually in california, where you don't reallyget this type of thing, so i've never hacked an oldcar out of weeds before, vines or bush, whatever that is. this is new for me. - hey. well, we didn't get bit by snake yet. - it ain't over yet. - [dave] by the timewe had hacked the buick

out of the weeds, we werekind of attached to the thing. - how long has thatthing been in there, sam? - [sam] 25 years. - [dave] and it becamejust easier to overlook the fact that this thing is garbage. - [mike] but at thispoint, we're pot-committed. i mean, we're two days into this. we're building this buick no matter what. even if none of us are in love with it.

wow. - [jeff] where are you going with our car? - [dave] i didn't know he wastaking it around the block. call me crazy, but thisis kind of a project. - [mike] we've still got three days. - this side has sort of a mold look, and that side has the rust look. forgot to rotate it. brown on one side, then turn over.

(surfer rock) okay, we made a deal. we own a '56 buick century. now, we need to figure out howto get it onto this corvette chassis, and how to powerthe thing, and to do that, turns out lightning rod's speed shop is right across the street here,` and they specialize inls engine conversions, so they've got regularold small-block chevys

and turbo 350s juststacked up like hardwood, i guess, so we boughtthis perfectly good engine with all the accessoriesand the trans and everything for 800 bucks, and we'regoing to use the tow truck to put it in the chassis, so that we can get the whole mess back home. okay? wow, that was good. - nice work.

look at that, you parkedat the exact right spot. - [dave] really pro. - that's the smoothest engine install that's ever happened inthe history of roadkill. and all it took was removingthe entire body of the car and having somebody else stab it in. - [dave] oh, man. there's still a lot to do here, 'cause we got to get all of this

garbage back to finnegan's house. and the best thing is, man,i am just going to miss all of that, 'cause ihad a meeting with dodge back in detroit, and ihad to split for a day. okay, so you guys got this covered? - yes. - all right, bye. - happy drinking. i mean, meeting.

meeting. - [jeff] nice vacation. - you know what that means? the inmates are running the asylum! (energetic rock music) - it's wednesday, and man,we made some good progress! (car grinding up ramp) this is scary, man. i'm going to wait to get cut in half.

oh, wow. this is really crooked. i'm hoping the video guysdidn't get too close a look at our towbar install,because we had way too much extension cord going toway too gutless a welder to safely install that towbaronto that corvette chassis. - we should just uber home. - [mike] can you make it hotter? (welding gun buzzing)

what's the worst that could happen? all right, here we go. you ready for this? - 'about as ready as i'll ever be. - [mike] all right. - [jeff] did you strap the car down? - [mike] i thought youstrapped the car down. - [jeff] oh, we're doomed. - [mike] look at the tires.

- [jeff] oh, tire's already stuck. - [mike] come on, whip back around. nope. okay, flat-towing doesn't work. - [jeff] i think, flat tow: fail one. we can still see sammy's yard. - we may have set a new record for not getting very far on roadkill. (relaxing, ambient music)

- i think this might work. - [mike] all right.- [jeff] here we go. so far, so good. - [mike] all right, all right. - [jeff] okay. - oh, it looks like a tornado behind us. there's this dirt cloud. - [jeff] we look likethe beverly hillbillies. - we do.

(car engine rumbling) why is this 50 miles fromtennessee to my house the most daunting thingi've ever done on roadkill? - probably 'cause that flattow has never, ever worked. ever. - yeah, that's true. - [dave] roadkill and flat towing. yeah, good times. remember when we tried to towthe prius behind the gremlin

and ended up spinning off the highway? or how about that timewe picked up a '55 chevy and parts were fallingoff of it on the freeway and we gave the car back? - today's the day, setting records! come on, girl. let's go. - [jeff] there we go, there we go! - one buick, one corvette.

we made it! miller time? - yes! (chains rattling) - [dave] i'm gone for a wholeday and nothing changed. this still has a badidea written all over it. one thing i will say is, like, coming back to this after a day, i have no guilt about anything we do to this car.

it's garbage. - [mike] i feel good about this. this is a great idea. - make bad things happen. (car engine kicks up) are you good? jeff's good. oh, this is bad. (car engine snarling)

oh, this is safe. i like that. this is junk. - this is a car that willnever forget its roots. (exciting rock music) (vacuum humming) - [dave] that's good.- [mike] that was good. - [dave] moments fromthat was remarkably easy. - [mike] that's where it needed to be.

- [dave] yep. (tools grinding and whirring) - we've cut all of thestructural integrity out of the buick, renderingthe doors useless, and the chassis is stillstuck under the car. - dropping. aw, yeah. it wants to be free. so much hacking.

(cackling) - [mike] these tires need balancing. done. - [dave] bye, bye. - how does it possiblylook worse than it did when we pulled it out of the junkyard? - roadkill. come on, dude. you know how.

- wow. that's really bad. (dog sniffing) this should be called project shipwreck, 'cause everything i touch looks like it came off the bottom of the ocean. we're done ruining the buick for now, and we're going to startruining the corvette chassis, which has a wheel basethat is two feet shorter

than the buick, so weneed to add length to it. we're going to chop theframe right behind the transmission cross-member, and take some four by four steel and just add the link that we need, so thewheel base matches up. (metal creaking) - that's awesome. - there we go! - getting exciting, now.

- how many angry peopleare out there right now? that's what i want to know. this was a '73 corvette with a four-speed l something or other,eight and a half to one compression engine, andwe just back-halved it. - [dave] ow. that was bad. yep, that's what happens. - [mike] it did get you a little.

- [jeff] little bit. that's just a scratch. (machinery whirring and grinding) - remarkably, on roadkill,we cut a corvette chassis apart, extendedit nearly two feet, and it's only an eighth of an inch out of square, measuring like this. hallelujah. holy crap.

(pumping rock music) today was awesome. we fully gutted the buick,and we stretched the chassis of the corvette, and ithink what we're going to finish up doing here is playing the frame and getting it ready so we can marry the two together sometime tomorrow. - beef, titanic. beef, titanic.

today's the last day ofwrenching on this thing, and basically, i think whatwe're going to get done is the body sitting on the chassis, we just have no idea howthat's going to happen. - [mike] maybe we shouldhave a, "you should "not try this at home" part, huh? - oh, completely. you never want to do this. - [mike] i got safety glasses on.

- what could go wrong? i'm wearing gloves, i got shoes on. (triumphant rock music) well, the issue right now is that after all of this sketchywork trying to get this thing up on thesejackstands as high as we could, the inside of the woodthat's holding the jackstands is narrower than the width of the frame. - [mike] so we lookedaround at what we had left

in materials, and decided wehad enough metal left over from our chassis stretching job to build an a-frame above the body. - okay. this is the beginnings of a guillotine. what it does is youstrap a buick body to it, and then you get under the buick, and the strap breaksand takes your head off. it's very french.

all of a sudden, i havea sense of security now that we've got that a-frame there. you got the ratchet strapperfectly centered, right? ah, whatever. whee. chassis's going under the body. okay, pull! and stop. that's roughly it, butwe're going to have to

cut the whole firewall, the engine is set back virtually under the dash. - [mike] ah, dude. that's for handling. - that's real bad. - you know, professionals measure all this stuff before they start. - [jeff] we didn't evenhave a tape measure. - look how good it's turning out, though.

- [dave] bad ideas, poorly executed. (bombastic circus music) - [mike] we're about to attempt to lower the body down for the first time. all right, it's tilting tothe left, i don't know why. - [dave] what just happened? coming down. ooh, looks tough already. - [mike] i think the back is high.

- yeah, the back's still up. we're going to have to cut more stuff out. every moment, as the day went on, we realized how bad this buick was. it just got worse and worse. there was nothing we weren'tafraid to cut off this car. everything's got to go. that's it, folks. we just went full tennesseechainsaw massacre.

you know what, i startedto feel about all this and everything, 'til irealized we can probably just flange this and zeusit right back in there. what's hanging it over here? oh, there we go. there we go. that makes it much better. ooh, now we're getting somewhere! oh, yeah.

this side's approved. - i don't care, like, how rusty a car is. you lay one out. it's some bad (bleep) right there. oh, break time. who wants a beer? - [jeff] i guess we're done. - [dave] we went into ajunkyard and rolled the dice that we were going to be ableto drive a car out of there,

but instead, we ended upwith the world's rustiest buick, the world's worstidea, with the world's most clapped-out corvettechassis, but none of that matters, because this is just what we do. because welding and hackingand slashing is fun, and i have never hacked a carout of a thorn bush before. - [mike] we know what this car could be, given enough time, labor, money, tools, you know, all the things weusually lack on roadkill.

and at the end of the day,looks pretty cool, right? want the parts weused to build these cars? visit jeggs.com/roadkill. hey one more thing don't forget that episodes of roadkill go live on motor trend on demand . com about a month before they get posted to youtube and we have a new show that's only on motor trend on demand that is called roadkill garage so right now check out this teaser for the latest episode on roadkill

that is live right now on motor trend on demand we just ran into the rental car we did we're running out of gas yeah we'rerunning out of gas okay at this episode of roadkill is live right now at motortrend on demand . com (fancy orchestral music) (hysterical laughter) - ah, there was a snake. i'm glad we're workingunder trees over there with the corvette, because, you know,

you never know when youneed a snake down your back. it's like, hey, buddy. go get the camera guy. have you ever washed a roadkill car? - [mike] nope. oh, dude. it's working. the paint's turning beige. oh, come look at this one.

oh, boy. here we go. uh-oh. come on, corvette. - [jeff] uh-oh, uh-oh. oh, it made it! it made it! - [mike] roadkill ain't nothing.