Leepu & Pitbull

Leepu & Pitbull
Genre	Reality TV
Directed by	Sean Lewis Joe Barker
Starring	Nizamuddin "Leepu" Awlia Steve "Pitbull" Trimboli
Narrated by	Scott Matthews
Music by	Extreme Productions Music Strike Audio
Composer	Edward White
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Executive producer	Sam Maynard
Producers	Sean Lewis Joe Barker
Production location	Nassau County, New York
Cinematography	Ben Joiner
Editors	Hugh Williams Adrian Murray
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Raw Productions
Original release
Network	History
Release	June 23 (2015-06-23) – August 11, 2015 (2015-08-11)

"Leepu & Pitbull" is an American reality television series featuring mechanic and auto-garage shop owner, Steve "Pitbull" Trimboli and Bangladeshi car designer, Nizamuddin "Leepu" Awlia. Leepu transforms any type of vehicle into his own vision by taking hunks of scrap metal and creating a unique but affordable custom car for their clients out of Trimboli's Pit Bull Motors Inc. in Freeport, New York, on Long Island. The program premiered on Wednesday, June 23, 2015, at 10:00 pm EST on History.

Premise

This reality series teams up master mechanic Steve "Pitbull" Trimboli with Leepu, a renowned car designer from Bangladesh. Together, their expertise has created a lucrative business. Each episode features a customer with a small budget, an interesting story, and a heap of metal that's special to him or her. Leepu and Pitbull's task is to turn the clunker into a cool custom automobile. The guys sometimes have a difference of opinion on ways to complete each job, but they ultimately make each customer happy, which to Pitbull, is key to running a successful business.

Steve 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, with a flair for dramatic builds. Pitbull is exactly the opposite—he has gasoline in his veins and worships horsepower. This odd couple needs each other to succeed, but it's one of the most strange marriages in the history of the American automobile.

In 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 ultimate odd couple experiences highs and lows while hunting for spare parts, ingenuous fixes and inspiration. Will the car be greater than the sum of the parts? Will the customers like the cars? Or will they ask for their money back?

Can these two homegrown geniuses from two different worlds work together to turn scrap into gold and realize the ultimate American muscle car dream?

Episodes

The opening of the show starts with Narrator Steve Trimboli stating "There's nothing more American than a custom car, but today, custom means expensive. I'm Steve "Pitbull", mechanic by trade. My dream...make one-of-a-kind cars, but make them affordable. How? Meet Leepu. He's a car designer from Bangladesh I first saw online. He takes old junk scraps and builds unbelievable cars by hand. So, I brought him here to do things a little differently...and make both of our American dreams come true".

— "Leepu & Pitbull" Season1ep1

	Title	Original airdate
1.1	"Custom Overdrive"	June 23, 2015 (2015-06-23)
In the series premiere, Pitbull and Leepu take on their first job together when a client brings in a beat-up 1981 Chevy Camaro to customize for his son who graduated from college. Even though they need to make it into an automatic, Pitbull decides if they want a muscle car, he's got to go engine. Leepu finds his inspiration when he sees a brass eagle with spread wings at a junk yard and bends sheet metal into a beak design for the Camaro's hood.
1.2	"Wild Ride"	June 30, 2015 (2015-06-30)
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.
1.3	"TailSpin"	July 7, 2015 (2015-07-07)
The guys are tasked to transform a Japanese junker yellow limited edition 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer OZ Rally, into an American muscle car using parts from the junkyard. Since their client wants her car to look like Kim Kardashian owns it, so Leepu uses the model for his inspiration, designing a car with curvy lines and a rounded rear end. Meanwhile, Pitbull doubles the horsepower with a reconditioned engine and cold air intake exhaust system, as well as adding a turbo-charger to boost performance.
1.4	"Pickup Showdown"	July 14, 2015 (2015-07-14)
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.
1.5	"King Cobra"	July 21, 2015 (2015-07-21)
The guys customize a 2002 Ford Mustang GT convertible for a man who wants to give his wife a big surprise. Taking a page out of Leepu's book, Pitbull finds inspiration as he races his 1986 Mercedes stock car at the local track and adds a supercharger to the engine. Meanwhile, keeping in mind the client's instructions of turning the sharp-edges into the rounded-style of a Bentley; his wife's favorite car, Leepu transforms the classic muscle car into the curvy-lines of a cobra, his inspiration for his design.
1.6	"Drag Demon"	July 28, 2015 (2015-07-28)
The guys take on their first race-car customization when they are hired by Pitbull's boat-racing buddy to transform his slow and heavy 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass into a "unique" high performance street-legal dragster, much to Leepu's delight. But, Pitbull gets sidetracked by a bet with his buddy who challenges him to a speedboat race to knock $1,000 off the price, while the rest of the mechanics get their passion project when they save a 1966 Chevy Biscayne from becoming scrap and turn it into a rat rod.
1.7	"Quarter Mile Monster"	August 4, 2015 (2015-08-04)
The guys have two weeks left to finish the 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass dragster and the stakes just got higher. Not only does Steve's buddy want the car to run a sub-10 second, he challenges him to a quarter-mile race against his Chevy SS drag truck. But if Steve wins then the Cutlass isn't fast enough and it's free. So Steve adds 800 horsepower with a twin-turbo charged Chevy V-8 engine. Meanwhile, Leepu gets inspiration from a 1972 De Tomaso Pantera GTS and designs an aerodynamic nose, cowl-induction hood and giant spoiler, all promising better performance on the track.
1.8	"American Chrome"	August 11, 2015 (2015-08-11)
The guys have five weeks to customize a beat-up 1991 Chevy Caprice station wagon for a wife who wants to surprise her hard-working husband on his birthday. Feeling uninspired with its whale-shaped body, Leepu doesn't want to take the job. But he finds inspiration in the car's cousin; a 1965 Chevy Impala, and uses chrome for the front and back bumpers. Meanwhile, Steve replaces the old and slow engine and adds a small-block V8 and custom chrome fuel injection kit, delivering double horsepower.

Broadcast

Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on A&E on October 14, 2015, and October 12 in Brazil. The series also airs in India on History TV 18.

External links

• Official website
• Pit Bull Motors Inc. official website
• Leepu & Pitbull at TV Guide
• Leepu & Pitbull at IMDb