Rob “The Rabbit” Pitts, star of Netflix‘s Tex Mex Motors, has died. He was 45.
Pitts died on Sunday, August 25, from stomach cancer, his videographer Jeff confirmed. The car expert left a final message in a YouTube video titled “This Is Goodbye (RIP 7/27/79 – 8/25/24).
“I started feeling ‘off’ after SEMA [a car show in Las Vegas] last year and I was losing weight,” Pitts explains in the video with Jacob Lincoln’s “Too Late” playing. “But I was getting ready to film Season 2 of Tex Mex Motors for Netflix and wanted to be camera ready, so I didn’t mind that so much.”
Pitts explained that during the filming of the Netflix series, he started to lose his appetite and “had more and more acid reflux-like symptoms.” He said he went to urgent care several times “but didn’t get to the root of the problem.” Pitt’s castmate Jaime took him to the ER, believing it was a gallbladder issue and this was when he found out in March that he had stomach cancer.
The Netflix personality said he had been getting treatment at home “and it’s been rough,” adding, “More bad days than good, but hanging in there. I have a lot to live for and life has been going my way. Don’t be sad for me… I accomplished my dream of buying my own store, finishing Season 2 of [Tex Mex Motors] and marrying the love of my life.”
Tex Mex Motors premiered on Netflix in June 2023. The show followed Pitts and Marcos “Scooter” Carrera as they looked for vintage cars in Mexico and restored them in their El Paso, Texas shop.
Carrera paid tribute to Pitts in an Instagram post: “It’s with a heavy heart that I write about the passing of my cast member & friend ROB ‘RABBIT’ PITTS. Rest In Peace Brother, I’m going to really miss you!!!”
