If you're a car enthusiast with some time to kill, Netflix has you covered with Car Masters: Rust To Riches. Following the work of the Gotham Garage crew as they build custom and movie/TV/pop-culture-inspired cars in hopes of trading up for a real money-maker. Plenty of entertainment is to be had from the mix of personalities working their hardest to build some awesome rides.

Updated October 2022: If you're a fan of Car Masters: Rust To Riches and the crew over at Gotham Garage, you'll be pleased to know that we've updated this article with some of the crazy creations from the latest season of the very popular Netflix show.

And awesome rides they are, from replicas of movie cars to unique hot rods that let the Gotham Garage crew's imagination go wild, plenty of sick cars are featured on Car Masters: Rust To Riches. And while the show may not innovate on the automotive entertainment formula, it follows it perfectly, providing some quality entertainment for any bored car nut to enjoy.

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If you aren't sold on the show already, read on and see 16 of the sickest cars brought to life by Gotham Garage, as well as 2 that sucked:

18 Sick: Land Speed Record Car

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Featured in season four of Car Masters: Rust To Riches, the Gotham Garage Land Speed Record car is one of the more interesting and accomplished builds on the show. It started out without much promise – an old tube car with an indy-racecar-derived engine that didn't look like it would be able to attract any buyer when completed.

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The crew kept the original engine. However, enthralled by the idea of building a real-life '90s cartoon car, Mark Towle commissioned Tony to build a custom flame-throwing rocket thruster and added it to the back of the car. The final build was finished in bright red and fitted with a series of propane tanks with "TNT" painted on them to provide flames to the thrusters in true '90s cartoon style. Sadly, finding the right buyer for this car proved extremely difficult, and the crew had to sell it at a loss, for just $30,000.

17 Sick: 1960s Plymouth XNR Concept Car

1960 Plymouth XNR Concept
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The Gotham Garage crew has built some very unique cars over the years. Most of these are completely their own design and vision, but the XNR was meant to be as close to the original as possible. Plymouth designed it to compete directly against the popular two-seater roadsters of the time, but the car never actually made it into production.

The Car Masters cast did their best to recreate the car as accurately as possible, and we have to say they succeeded at that, giving the audience a glimpse of a small part of automotive history in the process.

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16 Sick: 1940's Woody Station Wagon

1940 Woody Station hotrod done by Gotham Garage
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Mark Towle decided to go disregard Shawn Pilot's advice and went totally nuts when building this Woody station wagon. While they did struggle to find any buyers, and in the end traded it away for a bunch of other classics, we have to agree that Towle was right. This 1940s station wagon is certainly a unique car.

The Gotham Garage crew turned it into a stunningly awesome Woody hot rod. The purple paint job combined with the hot rod design and absolutely mahoosive engine easily made it one of our favorite cars ever built on the show.

15 Sick: Batmobile Replica

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While pop culture nostalgia can be a great thing, sometimes it can backfire quite spectacularly. This awesome Batmobile replica may be one of the coolest cars Gotham Garage has made, but it cost them dearly. Warner Brothers didn't see this as an awesome tribute, but rather as a copyright infringement, and subsequently won their lawsuit against Gotham Garage. Unfortunate, considering the love and care that went into the car.

14 Sick: Splittin'Image

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Based on a Hot Wheels original design, the Splittin'Image is a custom build that will get anyone who played with Hot Wheels as a kid excited. Based on the chassis of a C4 Corvette, this Hot Wheels tribute has some hotness under the hood too, with a tuned L79 V8, and plenty of go-fast bits to boot. The interior as well is awesome, with an Ostrich leather-wrapped steering wheel and seats.

13 Sick: Ford Vicky

The Ford Vicky, a slang term for the Ford Victoria of the 1930s, is a dream car for any Hot Rod build. Being a dream car also means they are quite pricey, a situation the Gotham Garage crew avoided by buying a replica. But the replica was spot on, and the Hot Rod building credentials of Gotham Garage shined with this gorgeous green 1930s rocket.

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12 Sick: Dodge Power Wagon

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There's not a whole lot that can match the badass nature of a big truck built for off-road dominance. There also happens to not be a lot of vehicles that can match a vintage Dodge Power Wagon in terms of bad-ass looks. Combine the two, and the end result is this amazing vintage off-road monster. Not a whole lot can slow this beast down.

11 Sick: Speed Racer Mach 5 Replica

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Fans of classic cartoons will instantly recognize this as Speed Racer's awesome retro-futuristic ride. Fans of modifying Corvettes will recognize this as the ultimate potential for customization the C4 Corvette has. With a custom body reducing the weight of the donor car by 1000 lbs, the V8 power of the Corvette remaining intact, and jaw-dropping looks, this is about as cool as a custom Corvette can get, especially for those of us with nostalgia for the golden age of cartoons.

10 Sick: Chevrolet Fleetside

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One of the more subtle builds done by the Gotham Garage crew is this sweet old Chevy pickup, but subtle doesn't mean it isn't awesome. These old trucks are sick, to begin with, embodying function over form at its most classic. This Fleetside happens to have a whole lot more performance function in it too, with Corvette suspension, and an LS motor under the hood, now that's a sick ride, with practicality and performance.

9 Sick: VW Beetle Hot Rod

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When you think of what cars are suitable as a Hot Rod, you probably imagine a 1930s American coupe like a '32 Ford, or a 1950s steel sled like a '54 Chevy. But that's been done plenty of times before, and Gotham Garage is about being unique. What hasn't been done to death is using a classic VW Beetle as a Hot Rod, a move that proved to produce some sick results, as you can see.

8 Sick: Ford Thunderbird "Rocket Car"

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Vintage T-Birds are some of the coolest-looking American classics around, even when in their stock form, but with the right custom work, they can be elevated even further. This build is a great example of that, with custom fairings inspired by rockets and fighter jets. Performance is also rocket-like with a Small Block Ford 302 V8 under the hood. And that's not even mentioning the perfectly executed chrome wrap, which often looks distasteful, but not here.

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7 Sick: International COE Shop Truck

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While most garages are satisfied with using any old truck to haul project cars and parts around in, Gotham Garage is all about going over the top with custom touches, having a boring old hauler just wouldn't cut it for them. This classic COE truck was acquired in rough shape but was turned into a custom so sick that it deserves its own place alongside the awesome car builds it hauls.

6 Sick: Ford T-Bucket Fire Truck

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T-Bucket hot rods are cool enough as is. Taking the world's first mass-produced car and turning it into a hot rod creates something truly special, adding a fully custom C-cab (notice the shape of the cabin?) inspired by fire trucks is just a whole other level of cool. Rolling down the street in this machine is about as cool as any normal person can hope to look.

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5 Sick: Lincoln Futura

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If this rolling work of art looks similar to the Batmobile on this list, that's because it served as the base for it, both in terms of the original, and the Gotham Garage re-creation. But to even get it to that point was a testament to the skills of Gotham Garage's crew. The Lincoln Futura was a one-off concept car. This one here was lovingly recreated by Gotham Garage, and for the short while it lived as a Futura, it was downright sick. Not that the Batmobile it became isn't.

4 Sick: Old Crow Special

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One of the more interesting vehicles acquired by Gotham Garage was this 1930s dirt track Sprint Racer, named the "Old Crow Special." As Mark Towle explains on Car Masters, these early race cars were built mostly by farmers with a need for speed, using whatever tractor parts they could get their hands on, and a motor usually from a Ford Model A. In the end, the Gotham Garage crew restored it beyond its former glory, and into a dirt track rocket.

3 Sick: Chevy Bel Air

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While the earlier 1950s Bel Air gets more attention as a legendary full-size Chevy, the later 1960s models are still awesome pieces of classic Detroit steel. This one in particular looks amazing in the classic baby blue paint so typical of the '60s, but with the Tunnel Ram intake, and mint restoration, this Bel Air is as intimidating as it is fresh.

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2 Sucked: Chrysler Sebring Race Car

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While a custom build like this would normally inspire people to stay well away from the shop that made it, this one can be excused. Built for the 24 Hours of Lemons race, where the price limit for a car is $500, this $400 Sebring is a whole lot funnier when you understand the garbage-worshiping ways of Lemons racing. That doesn't change the fact that it's a rolling pile of junk though.

1 Sucked: Concept Car

Gotham Garage finally sold their concept car and motorcycle duo
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The Gotham Garage concept car has already become infamous among the fans of the show for its controversial design and astronomical price tag. It's a fervently discussed topic on gearhead forums, with fans on Reddit mostly criticizing its seemingly poor build quality, tacky design, and the fact that it's based on a 1993 Corvette ZR1 chassis. Some even argue that the car ruins a perfectly good Corvette. Despite all of these points, however, Gotham Garage was asking a ridiculous $285,000 for this car.