Leepu & Pitbull
S01E02: Wild Ride
The guys have four weeks to customize a 1972 Ford Ranchero for Myles Kovacs, the founder and editor of DUB Magazine, which belonged to his father. If their design is up to the client's standards, then it will be featured in the New York Auto Show. Pitbull deals with his mechanic friends for freebies and gets a supped-up engine and a new transmission. But he is late coming back to the shop because, after years of rescuing endangered pit bulls, he saves one trapped in a car. Leepu gets inspiration from the custom wheels or "dubs" on the magazine's covers and puts 24-inch wheels on the newly built Ranchero.
Overview
Pitbull is a fast-talking master mechanic who has built his business from the ground up. He counts every cent and never throws anything away. Pitbull has started a new custom car business with the world-famous Bangladeshi car designer known simply as Leepu, a colorful creative who takes junk automobiles and transforms these wrecks into stunning supercars using nothing but old hammers, sheet metal and spare parts. Together, Leepu and Pitbull turn junk into gold and build affordable custom muscle cars for the average Joe. Leepu is a brilliant designer, while Pitbull has gasoline in his veins. Each episode, a customer with a great story, small budget and sad old jalopy asks Pitbull and Leepu to transform his or her junker into a cool customized muscle car. This odd couple experiences highs and lows while hunting for spare parts, ingenuous fixes and inspiration. Can these two homegrown geniuses from two different worlds work together and realize the ultimate American muscle car dream?