Leepu & Pitbull
S01E04: Pickup Showdown
The guys take on their first ever pickup, a beat-up 2000 Chevy S-10 truck. Despite their client's "plain and simple" wishes, Leepu plans to give it a full redesign. He includes in his design mean-looking headlights from a Japanese family car and taillights from a 2007 Cadillac CTS. Meanwhile, Pitbull replaces a junk motor with a 500 horsepower refurbished LS engine capable of going from 0 to 60 in record time—just in time to show the now custom truck off in front of a crowd at a local car show.
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?