Constance Nunes Net Worth 2026: The $2M Garage Fortune

Constance Nunes‘s net worth is estimated at $1.5 million to $2 million as of November 2026. The figure puts the Netflix mechanic in a rare spot: she built her money with her hands, not a record deal or a family fortune, earning it as the engine specialist on Car Masters: Rust to Riches, as the owner of her own restoration shop CARS by Constance, and as a model who spent years working car shows and automotive campaigns before television ever called.

Early Life and Background

Constance M. Nunes was born on November 17, 1989, in Los Angeles, California, to Maria Nunes and Ernie Nunes. Her father was a mechanic and amateur racer, and that detail matters more than most biographical footnotes: Nunes grew up around engines, garages, and race weekends, learning the trade at home years before she ever held a television contract. Multiple profiles describe her as Portuguese-American, raised in a family where cars were a daily language rather than a hobby picked up later in life.

By her own account in interviews and social posts picked up by the show’s coverage, she spent more than a decade working in the automotive world before Netflix arrived — over 12 years in the industry by the time Car Masters made her a known name, according to one 2026 profile, and over 15 years according to another. The two counts differ because they start the clock in different places: hands-on garage work as a teenager versus paid professional work. Either way, the timeline undercuts the easy story that television created her. Television found a mechanic who was already working.

Los Angeles gave her a second track alongside the garage. Nunes worked as a model, including automotive modeling, and signed with NTA Model Management, according to TV Stars Mag. Car shows and brand work put her in front of cameras long before a Netflix crew did. That dual background — a real mechanic who could also model the cars she worked on — is the whole shape of her career, and it explains why her income never depended on one paycheck.

Education

No reliable profile of Nunes publishes details of her formal schooling, and we will not fill that gap with a guess. What the record does show is a vocational education: years of hands-on mechanical work, much of it learned from her father, followed by professional garage experience across German and American vehicles. Profiles that cover her background consistently describe her training as practical rather than academic — she learned engines by rebuilding them.

That absence of a school record is normal for this corner of the entertainment world, where a mechanic’s credentials are the cars she has built rather than a diploma. Readers looking for a university name will not find a verified one in the public record as of November 2026, and any site that prints one without a source is guessing.

Career Journey

Nunes’s working life has three strands, and they braided together slowly. The first was the garage. She worked as a mechanic and engine specialist in Southern California shops, building a reputation in a trade where women are still rare on the shop floor. The second was modeling: automotive campaigns, car shows, and work with NTA Model Management kept her in front of the car world’s cameras and paid while the garage work built her skill. The third, later, was television.

Before Car Masters, she also raced. Profiles describe her as a professional driver and amateur racer, following her father’s path onto the track, and note her appearances at industry gatherings such as the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, where the aftermarket industry does its yearly business. SEMA matters here because it is where a mechanic becomes a brand: parts makers, tire companies, and tool brands scout the people attendees actually watch.

The through-line is that Nunes never left the garage for the camera. Even at the height of the show’s run, she kept working on cars outside it, and she told fans in Instagram comments — reported by Wikibious in 2026 — that she did not work at Gotham Garage full-time but as a contractor. That is a small fact with large consequences for her money: her television pay was one contract among several, not a salary that replaced her trade.

Rise to Fame

Car Masters: Rust to Riches premiered on Netflix on September 14, 2018. The premise was simple and proved durable: the crew at Gotham Garage in Temecula, California, bought tired old cars cheap, rebuilt them into showpieces, and sold them for a profit. Owner Mark Towle ran the shop; Shawn Pilot handled deals; Tony Quinones built; Mike “Caveman” Pyle wrenched; and Nunes, the only woman on the crew, ran the engine work.

The show ran for six seasons and 48 episodes, with new seasons landing in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and a final season on October 23, 2024, according to Wikipedia‘s episode record. Eight episodes a season, six seasons, nearly seven years on the air: for a reality series about restoring old cars, that is a long run, and it made Nunes one of the most recognizable women in automotive media. Her Instagram following — over 1.3 million followers, per Famous People Today and Wikibious — passed the rest of the cast by a wide margin, and that audience became a second career in itself.

The ending came quietly. Netflix did not announce a seventh season, and in October 2025 Nunes confirmed on Instagram that the show had been “canceled a while ago,” as reported by What’s on Netflix. She was philosophical about it in the same posts: six seasons is a long time for any show, people move on, networks want fresh ideas. The cancellation closed her biggest single paycheck, and it is the single most important fact for understanding her 2026 finances — the television money stopped, and everything since has depended on the shop, the modeling, and the audience she kept.

Main Sources of Income

Nunes’s money comes from five places, and their order changed when the show ended. During the Car Masters years, the Netflix salary led. After October 2024, the restoration business moved to the front, with modeling, brand partnerships, and social media behind it. Here is how each piece works.

Television. Six seasons of a Netflix reality series as a featured cast member. The pay is reported, not confirmed — the numbers are taken up in the salary section below — but even at the low end of the reported range, 48 episodes of television pay is the foundation of the fortune. The money stopped when the show did, which is why the 2026 estimate is flat rather than climbing.

CARS by Constance. Her own restoration and customization business in Southern California, specializing in 1960s Ford Mustangs. This is the income stream she controls outright: customer builds, restorations, and customization work billed directly to owners. Since the show ended, profiles report she dedicates her time full-time to the shop.

Modeling. Automotive modeling and campaigns, the work that predates television and continued through it. Modeling for car brands pays differently from fashion modeling — day rates, campaign fees, and show appearances rather than a single contract — but it has been a steady line for well over a decade.

Brand partnerships. Reported ambassador roles with automotive brands, discussed in detail below. These deals typically pay in fees, free product, and event appearances, and they reward exactly what Nunes has: a large, car-interested audience that trusts her with a wrench in her hand.

Social media. An Instagram audience above 1.3 million followers and a YouTube channel under the CARS by Constance name. Sponsored posts, affiliate links, and ad revenue from her own videos add a smaller but real line, and the audience itself is the asset that makes the brand deals possible.

Salary and Earnings

Here is where honest reporting has to slow down, because the number everyone quotes is also the number nobody has verified. Secondary sources widely report that Nunes earned around $20,000 per episode of Car Masters: Rust to Riches. BiographyClive, CelebWikiCorner, InspireHQ, and MagazineSnove all carry that figure, and it is the number most 2025–2026 profiles repeat. But neither Netflix nor Nunes has ever confirmed it, and no filing or contract has surfaced to back it.

A second reported figure cuts the other way. CliveHealth’s cast breakdown puts her pay at $10,000 to $15,000 per episode. That gives a reported range of $10,000 to $20,000 per episode, and the honest reading is that the true figure sits somewhere inside it — or below it. For scale, NetWorthPost, discussing Shawn Pilot’s pay, cites a Business Insider report that lesser-known reality docu-series stars earn around $1,500 per episode in their first years. Car Masters was not a first-year show by its later seasons, and its cast were not unknowns by season four, so the Business Insider benchmark is a floor, not a comparison — but it shows how far the $20,000 figure sits above what ordinary reality television pays.

Run the arithmetic on the reported range and the shape of the money becomes clear. Six seasons, 48 episodes: at $20,000 an episode, the gross television pay across the whole run would be about $960,000; at $10,000, about $480,000; at $15,000, about $720,000. Per 8-episode season, that is $80,000 to $160,000. Those are multiplications of reported figures, not confirmed earnings, and they are gross — before tax, agent fees, and the costs of staying in Los Angeles. They also explain why the $2 million net worth figure is plausible without being provable: television supplied the largest single block of cash, and the shop, modeling, and brand work stacked on top of it across eight years.

Two things are certain about the salary story. First, the income stream has ended: the show’s sixth season was its last, so there is no per-episode money coming in 2026. Second, the $20,000 figure should be read as “reported by several secondary sources” rather than fact. Any profile that prints it without that warning is overstating what the public record supports.

Businesses and Investments

CARS by Constance is the business, and it is also the plan for what comes after television. Nunes founded the company as a restoration and customization shop, and profiles describe it as her full-time focus since the show ended. The specialty is narrow and deliberate: 1960s Ford Mustangs, the cars she knows best and the market where a well-built restoration commands real money. A shop that owns one model line deeply can charge for judgment — knowing which car is worth saving, which parts are correct, and what a finished car will actually sell for — in a way a general garage cannot.

The shop’s location is reported two ways in the public record, and the honest account names both. CelebWikiCorner’s 2026 update places it in Murrieta, California; Wikibious and InspireHQ place it in Wildomar, California. Murrieta and Wildomar sit next to each other in Riverside County, in the same stretch of Southern California inland towns, so the two reports may reflect a move, a mailing address versus a workshop, or simply one outlet copying another’s error. Either way, the shop is a Southern California operation, and its exact street address is not published — as is normal for a working garage that takes clients by referral rather than walk-in traffic.

What the shop earns is not public. Nunes has not disclosed revenue, and no filing is available. What can be said is structural: a restoration shop bills labor by the hour and parts at a markup, and a 1960s Mustang restoration is a five-figure job at the modest end and a six-figure job at the thorough end. A handful of full builds a year, plus smaller customization jobs, is a working living for a one-shop owner-operator — and it is a living that does not depend on a network renewing a contract. That independence is the point of the business, and it is why the net worth estimate holds flat after the show instead of falling.

On investments beyond the shop, the public record is silent. No property records, stock holdings, or startup stakes tied to Nunes have surfaced in reporting, and we do not invent any. Her YouTube channel under the CARS by Constance name is the closest thing to a second business asset: a content library that can earn ad revenue and bring in shop clients for years after a video is posted. It is small today — the channel was still a plan rather than a machine when Wikibious reported on it in early 2026 — but it is the kind of asset that compounds if she keeps posting.

Brand Deals and Sponsorships

CelebWikiCorner’s 2026 profile names Nunes as a brand ambassador for Nitto Tires, VP Racing Fuels, and 4 Wheel Parts — three companies that sell directly to the people who watch her work. That is a coherent sponsorship portfolio: tires, race fuel, and parts retail, all bought by the same garage audience that follows her on Instagram. No fee figures have been reported for any of the three deals, so we will not attach dollar amounts to them; ambassador deals in this world typically mix cash fees, free product, and paid appearances at trade shows such as SEMA, where Nunes has been a regular face.

The modeling work overlaps with the sponsorship work. Nunes modeled for car brands before television, and the two lines fed each other: the modeling put her in front of brand managers, and the mechanical skill made her credible to them in a way a model alone would not be. TV Stars Mag notes her association with NTA Model Management. Car-show appearances, magazine features, and event hosting sit in the same bucket — paid days that add up across a year without ever becoming a single headline number.

It is worth saying plainly what brand money is not. It is not the $2 million. The net worth estimate rests on eight years of television pay plus the shop; the brand deals are the margin on top. But they matter for 2026 in a way they did not in 2020: with the show gone, the audience and the sponsors are the two things that keep cash coming in while the shop books fill up.

Houses, Cars and Other Assets

There is a limit to what can be written here, and it is worth stating rather than hiding: no verified property record, mortgage filing, or home purchase tied to Constance Nunes appears in the public reporting we reviewed. Some net worth profiles fill this section with a house price anyway. We will not. She lives and works in Southern California, and a Riverside County home would be the natural base for a shop in the Murrieta–Wildomar area, but that is geography, not evidence, and it does not belong in an asset list.

The cars are a similar story with one difference: the work itself is the asset. Nunes’s professional life is spent inside 1960s Ford Mustangs — restoring them, customizing them, and selling the finished cars through the shop. Customer cars pass through her hands; whether she holds a personal collection of classics has not been documented in reporting, and the show’s format (buy, restore, sell) means the most valuable cars on screen belonged to clients or to the shop, not to the cast. Any list of “her cars” printed elsewhere without a source is guesswork.

What she does own, in the plain sense, is the business and the audience: CARS by Constance, its tools, its customer list, and an Instagram following above 1.3 million people. For a self-employed mechanic and creator, those are the assets that produce income, and they are worth more to her future earnings than a house listing would be.

Awards and Achievements

Nunes holds no major industry award that the public record documents, and this section says so rather than dressing up appearances as prizes. Her achievements are of a different kind, and they are verifiable: six seasons as a featured cast member on a Netflix series; the only female mechanic on the Gotham Garage crew; founder of her own restoration business; a modeling career in automotive work; and an audience of more than 1.3 million followers that makes her one of the most-followed women in car culture.

Two of those achievements deserve a closer look. The first is the six-season run itself. Reality television chews through casts; surviving from a show’s first season in 2018 to its last in 2024, and being the cast member fans followed most closely online, is a durability record most television personalities do not manage. The second is the shop. Plenty of reality stars announce a business; fewer run one for years, in a trade they practiced before the cameras arrived, and keep it going after the show ends. That is the achievement the money rests on.

She has also been a visible presence at the SEMA Show, the aftermarket industry’s main event, and a face for automotive brands — the kind of industry recognition that does not come with a trophy but does come with paid work. In a trade where reputation is the credential, that counts.

Net Worth Growth Over the Years

No audited year-by-year series exists for Nunes, and the table below is built only from figures the public record actually carries, with the gaps left visible. That honesty matters, because the growth story is simple: a working mechanic and model in 2018, a television salary from 2018 to 2024, and a business owner from 2024 on.

The jump from about $1 million in 2021 to about $2 million by 2025 is the television years doing their work: three more seasons of pay, a growing audience, and a shop that benefited from the fame. The flat line into 2026 is the cancellation biting — no new television money, and the business replacing it rather than adding to it. If the shop grows, the estimate can move again; if it stalls, the flat line is the honest expectation.

How does she stack up against the rest of the Gotham Garage crew? The honest answer is that the comparisons are almost as foggy as the headline number. TopSpeed’s 2025 survey of Mark Towle’s fortune found estimates scattered from $250,000–$500,000 (MEAWW) to $2 million (CarTVShows), $5 million (Surprise Sports), and $7 million (The Cinemaholic) — a spread so wide it says more about the guessers than about Towle. NetWorthPost puts Shawn Pilot at about $500,000, while CliveHealth’s cast table puts him at $1.5 million. Tony Quinones and Mike “Caveman” Pyle are generally listed around $500,000 to $1 million.

Read the table with the caveat attached: every figure in it is a media estimate, and Towle’s range shows how unreliable that exercise can be. What the table does show reliably is Nunes’s position — by most counts the second-best-paid member of the crew after the shop’s owner, and the one whose post-show business gives her the clearest path to keep the number moving.

Social Media Presence

Social media is where Nunes’s fame outruns her castmates. Her Instagram account, @constance_nunes, carries more than 1.3 million followers, according to Famous People Today and Wikibious — far ahead of the rest of the Car Masters crew. One 2026 profile, TrendCelebs, claims more than 2 million; we report the 1.3 million figure because two sources agree on it, and treat the higher number as a single-source claim. Either way, she is the show’s breakout star online, and the account is the channel where she confirmed the show’s cancellation herself in October 2025 — the kind of direct-to-fans news that used to need a press release.

The account mixes shop work, finished builds, modeling shots, and event appearances, and it doubles as the shop’s storefront: a follower who likes a Mustang build can become a customer. Her YouTube channel, under the CARS by Constance name, is the longer-form version of the same idea — build videos and car content that can earn ad revenue and bring in clients. What’s on Netflix lists it alongside her Instagram as the place to find her now that the show is gone.

For a mechanic, the audience is also a defensive asset. Television fame fades when a show ends; a million-plus followers who came for the work itself does not fade as fast. That is the practical reason her 2026 estimate holds at the 2025 level instead of sliding: the audience survived the cancellation, and the audience is what the sponsors pay for.

Personal Life

Nunes married Jared Toller, a car enthusiast and amateur racer, on February 9, 2019, in Piru, California, after about eight years of dating, according to NextBiography and BiographyClive. Toller was a familiar face in her orbit long before the wedding — a fellow car person, not a television figure — and the marriage was the part of her life fans asked about most.

The marriage ended. CelebWikiCorner’s 2026 profile reports that Toller filed for divorce in the Orange County Superior Court in 2020, and that Nunes is currently single with no children. NextBiography’s July 2026 update agrees that no verified report names a current partner. That is the current, sourced position — and it is worth flagging because a surprising number of 2025 and 2026 profiles still describe her as married to Toller, copying older text without checking. Stale pages are the quietest source of wrong information about her, and the marriage is where they go wrong most often.

Since the divorce, Nunes has kept her dating life private. BiographyClive’s June 2026 profile describes her as single at 36 and quiet about dating rumors, and no credible 2026 reporting names a new partner. Her parents, Maria and Ernie Nunes, are the family members the record names; her father, the mechanic and amateur racer, is the clearest influence on the career she built. She is 36 years old as of November 2026 — she turns 37 on November 17 — and 5 feet 7 inches tall by the most widely reported measurement, though TrendCelebs lists her at 5 feet 4 inches, a conflict the record does not resolve.

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Published on November 5, 2026. Last reviewed November 2026. Found an error? See our corrections policy.