Monster Garage (2002) s01e03 Episode Script
Swamp Buggy
Jumbalaya and a crowd-fished paya living
swag here deep in the
heart of Louisiana by
you country master fabricator Jesse James
takes on the raging cage and kneel to
him at oh in a swamp full blast of the
century so perfect kids
tie up to go and grab
your favorite beverage
the next monster garage
challenge is just around the bend join us
now as Jesse James and
his gang of maverick
mechanics rip grind and burn transforming
ordinary street vehicles into monster
machines in the monster garage
this week's challenge
take a 1998 Volkswagen
sedan and transform it into the world's
coolest swamp boat the rules when completed
the monster machine must appear to be
stock the team can spend no more than $3
,000 in hard cash for
parts if they meet the
challenge each crew member will
receive a Mac toolkit worth $3,400
Jesse and his crew have
seven days in nights
to design build and
race their creation and
the clock starts now day one five a
.m. Jesse and the design team arrive
these four men take on the monster
varieties greatest challenge to date turning
a 1998 Volkswagen into a swamp boat this
unassuming beetle must transform into a
roaches amphibian gator hater master
motorcycle designer and builder Jesse James
is no stranger to buy you
country he's applied many
a swamp ever vigilant for
snakes gators bats and rats
talk you talk long it's come on man crazy
ideas possible beginning
and first it went
thing and feed is something
in that James bomb
building at all orders
yeah and how to turn
it somewhere in Ricky Sue
is a top flight designer
for Honda at age 14
he arrived from Taiwan
speaking no English but
went on to graduate from one
of the best automotive
design schools in the country
JD street is a special
effects coordinator for
major Hollywood movies
basically you get paid to
things that are illegal
I get to break things
blow things up and set
them on fire without fear
being arrested I think the
biggest thing is making
it float they don't want
to get out there and
have it like what about
doing something inflatable
the situation with that is the way you're
treating this up with property uh the bag
if anyone can handle
this challenge run eat
tibidos the man he's
from deep in Louisiana
buy you country and he
builds one of a kind
400 horsepower plus air
boats the airboat can
go places and no other
boat on the world can go
it can travel on the water it can travel
on land and it just go anyway I want to go
but you need to do a
little right now so as
you start pushing the water instead of an
heck and as a as a plow
when act as a rake of
a blow we can do like
kind of off road truck
as that skid play do
some yeah it looks like
that I mean it's so
simple the way these work
basically the airplane on
the ground I think that
would probably be the job
that looks totally easy
day one ends and the design
process is complete now the
real test begins will Jesse
James succeed in this challenge
day two six AM Jesse
and his team of builders
enter in just five days
and nights this team
must build the beast John Crossic master
welder from Melebo,
California Christy Sumner
pyro technician from
Los Angeles, California
run eat tibido cage and airboat god from
centerville, Louisiana from Anaheim,
California Brian Jenbro, legendary customizer
and John Uribe, master
mechanic Ben Ayes, California
General James reveals the battle strategy
the number one obstacle
as Jesse sees it is
tackle we got to make it
float it's gonna be the
toughest we came up with
all kinds of stuff with
like putting fine tunes like out of
aluminum or something in place of the right
with no respect for fine tune German
engineering the crew rips into the near new
VW every fixture high
price or not must be
stripped out to make
room for second engine
fix lighting mount in a
three-bladed propeller
nothing better than
carrying a part of the room
you can go on eBay what
year is this car 99
sunroof Volkswagen for
sale within an hour
Jesse sells the back
seat the passenger seat
the sunroof and the
windshield on the internet
for a grand total of
seven hundred dollars
but I broke it
but when the bugs guts
are ripped out the team
discovers that its shell
is riddled with holes
and weld them in the holes
inside of there because
this is all that holds
it up and if it goes
in the water and it'll
steep right through these
and then it'll just sink.
John craws it cuts out a
score of one eighth inch
steel tiddly wings the
crew was quick to choose
John K is their master
welder interestingly
enough John comes by his
skills not as a customizer
but as an artist
this our sheet metal then cut and turn and
bend and kick and bite and punch a piece
it's all getting where
I want them to get these
funky turns and curls
and that's uh it's kind
of what I'm looking to
do. When the swamp beetle
slams into the water it
snub nose will take its
straight for the bottom
so Brian's replacing the
front bumper with a steel
prow the idea is when the
thought about five
inches Brian Gendro is a
cutting edge southern
California customizer
I love to come up with new creations new
designs all this airbag
suspension stuff I was
the first one to do it
on any vehicle like the
designer J.D. Christie
makes her living as a movie
high-ro technician so she's used to being
surrounded by men. On used
to being the only woman
you know being drowned
and just tossed around
I just go home and shower
it off and just put
on a nice coral and
some flip-flops and make
dinner. Brian and John
your reb you have completed
the prize under structure
of half inch steel
tubing and now they'll
armor it with steel plate
John your reb teaches
automotive technology
at Los Angeles Trade
Tech but is true love is
stock car racing. After
10 years in automotive
I didn't know where I
was going to go with it
I got back into racing
with with the circle track
and that's really inspired
me to learn how to
build and fabricate do some of the things
that brought me here in the first place.
As far as the swamp
bugs propulsion system
goes the big question is
how's it going to fit?
But the team plans to
cut into the fenders and
the body then weld
these pieces to the door
the hope is to increase the depth of the
opening to the rear cabin by 12 inches
but the Beatles exoskeleton
poses a major challenge.
It doesn't get anybody who's
a whole car together once
you start cutting off these
things there's nothing
to hold the car together.
The whole roof holds
this whole car together.
It's no frame, it's
nothing that's a one
thing I want to do. So
like a skilled surgeon
John must be precise one
false cut could bring down
the roof and permanently
damage the VW's underlying
support structure.
I just cut this out we're
going to attach this to this
part so the top pops up it
brings this whole piece out
we're going to get a
water line about right
here what we got to be
able to come and just
think. Great I get to
drive the irony of this
project as I was just
watching discovery this
weekend and it had a
whole hour-long show of
how to survive in a car
when it's underwater
monster garage factoid.
The first amphibious BW was
designed by Ferdinand
Porsche for the German army
during World War II. He
was called the spin record.
Keep your mojo working will
be right back with more
much bigger eyes. Day three
and there's a whole lot to do.
Now we're going to cut
the pieces out right
now for the for the fun scenes let's go.
These pantunes will look
like running boards but
they'll be hollow. The idea
is when filled with foam
the fins will act as stabilizers
and help keep the bug afloat.
The pantunes begin to take shape as Brian
and John Urebe make two 90 degree bends
using a sheet metal press.
This thing's definitely oversized.
Yeah we got to cut it right now.
Do the fit it from the front.
Do the fit it's good back.
Do you want to crew the two ends?
Yeah I think we're like centered up
all the center of the
room on the fender. With a
little sniping, cutting
and welding the pantune
fits snugly between the fenders.
Looks good to me. Yeah I guess
it would just take this down.
No, I can take another
piece and curve this way.
Watch your eyes on it.
Look at that. Wow, so I'm in
this out. Okay, just a touch.
Christy makes sure the
beetle is 100% street legal.
Be proud of this. That way we can
make the transition terms here.
But the big question remains,
how to seal up the VW's bottom.
No problem. Just take a very large
piece of one-eighth inch sheet aluminum
and cover it up. In other words,
turn the beetle into a boat.
Okay, Brian's contemplating the exhaust
pipes. The VW's pipes
end just under the rear
bumper. But when the bugs in the
water, that's going to be a problem.
The solution, custom motorcycle pipes,
tall enough to stay above water.
The two John's want to wrap the
exhaust pipes with this welding blanket
because when the cavity is filled with
floatation foam, there could be a fire.
But can the blanket withstand
1,300 degrees Fahrenheit?
Now that the pipes are covered,
skid plate sealing continues.
The flat bottom is easy,
but the curved prow requires
the special talents of Master
Fabricator Jesse James.
Look, right at it, see where
there's too much material in it.
Best handmade in the LBC. He uses a piece
of tracing paper to make the pattern.
I said, hey, how many times have I
done? I need to tell me I've done it.
I have. Where the
dimension needs to be sure
enough is about midway up. Right where I,
you could see the creases in the
paper, right where I folded it over.
Where it means there's
too much paper, which
is going to mean there's
where there's too much
metal. So right around
in here is, you know,
we'll have to run it
through the big power hammer
and make some some shrink on it.
At West Coast choppers, Jesse begins to
fashion a curved shape on a power hammer.
As the V's collapse in on themselves, the
surface area shrinks in the metal curves.
Yeah, that's what I
got. That's what I got.
The entire bottom is a slick
sheet of sealed aluminum,
able to withstand only 15
pounds per square inch.
Jesse will have to be
careful. A submerged
log could easily tear
a hole in its bottom.
Country, the start line is ready. The air
bolts are revving and
the heaters are weak.
So stay tuned for the
Roddy Swamp last ever
when we come back with
more months to garage.
Day four, the big ticket item arrives.
It's a chrome plated 110 horsepower air
hole Volkswagen engine, cost $2,800,
most of the parts budget, but worth it.
This little baby packs a whole lot
of torque in a very small package.
Ronnie Fashon's mock-up blades.
This luck only when I
go be spin in this one.
They'll serve as measurement
guides to the real
blades, special ordered
from Iowa, arrived.
Ronnie and Christie start
on the engine mount.
This will be a structure built of two-ing
steel tubing. It's
tricky because the mount
must be strong enough to
hold the 250 horsepower
engine, turning it 3
,600 rpm, but tall enough
to allow the blades to
clear the Beatles' floor.
In addition, the mount must slide
in and out of the VW on tracks.
So we can roll underneath.
Oh, that's right there.
We're just sliding down.
Watch the three years in
there and it'll be deal.
Okay, hold it, hold it.
That's too tall.
The props clear the
floor, but not the roof.
This could be a major setback.
Ronnie is beginning to doubt.
Oh, both.
The way I'm looking at it
now will never put runners
on the back of this thing
and close this door now.
But you know what, can we slide
this back until these touch?
Yeah, I can get a better measurement that
way, because it's not far away right now.
That's all the way back.
That's not going to be okay.
But Brian has a bright idea.
But then we take the air cleaners off.
That's pulled a fan shroud off.
Okay, let's move over
the air cleaners off.
Yeah, let's just, let's try and
make it fit before we cut anything.
Wait, there you go.
There you go.
There you go.
Hey, all right, let's see what we got.
Oh, they'll fly easy now.
Okay, what are we getting up?
We're stopped right now.
The air cleaner and the
fan blade shroud are gone.
But they're still not enough headroom.
The roof's edge blocks the way.
Yeah, it's really nice.
Oh, we cut the core.
That stuff up.
We can't do that.
Nobody's going to cut the core.
I want my cut to pick them.
Yeah, it's kind of a little
section out of there.
Cut it out, notches.
Smork it up.
Oh, let's pop something right there.
Go round.
Top, top.
Those things that we
just colored like that.
Now we're top.
We're trying to play with the clothing.
Runny's pushed out right
back where it came from.
Another victory for the monster garage.
Call a team effort. Good job.
I like the tail of an airplane.
Our little airboat is
going to need a rudder.
Actually, twin rudders.
I like the tail of an airplane.
This is what you call a tharsal fin.
We went down to the local harbor here.
We put one off of a shark a while ago.
He didn't need it anymore.
The twin rudders must fit
inside the door closed.
So they can't be very large.
But since volumes of air will be driven
past them by the three-bladed propeller,
they'll work just fine
according to Ronnie.
Go this way. I wanted
to turn the other way.
That's all I wanted to do.
This is a connected rod
that made the rudders
turn together and seek
out back and forth.
The fins are in place,
but now the crucial test.
Down, down, down.
Almost, but not quite.
Lift it up to frame.
I'll show you where you're
hitting right in here.
Right in here.
Right in here.
Fitting both sides.
We need to put a little
bit of a bind on it.
You don't make it look real.
Ooh.
That's the inside.
Shot it.
Hey, I like that.
These cuts require an artist's touch.
Trying to do here across
the mechanics and art.
Now they work.
We're there.
Beautiful.
We're good.
You happy?
I'm happy.
The engine will push the
car in and out of the water,
but what will push the
motor in and out of the car?
So we got 30 inches
of stroke out of this.
It'll push out 30 inches.
Abel to exert 1,000
pounds per square inch.
This monster ram could raise and lower
the dozer blade of a caterpillar tractor,
more than enough umph to push
the motor out and pull it back.
This could be out and this could be back.
Christy fabricates a clever
bracket behind the passenger seat
to hold the rear engine's gas tank.
I wish we had to put that
fuel tank on this side in.
Because we've got to have a shorter
distance to run for the hydraulics.
The fuel line is already on this side.
Right. So you feel tank could have been right
here when the vehicle pump on the wall.
But it's not a big deal to change it.
This can just got to
change it, that's all.
Oh well.
Now the tanks repositioned
behind the driver seat.
This will make Jesse happy.
Now he's got the option
of sinking in the bayou
or being blasted into the Louisiana sky.
Originally, the crew thought they'd raise
the door with another hydraulic cylinder,
but why not do it the easy way?
We've got a door on it.
Go ahead.
You're going to have to do it now.
Hold on.
Hold on.
It's in.
Okay.
Put your back up.
Go up.
I mean, that worked.
Yeah, I worry.
It's just got to get the point.
You got to get your points right.
Another thing that would work, too.
This bar was bent.
See, whenever the hinges
come out of a door,
when it's down, they have a curve.
So whenever it lifts up, it pulls it out.
You see what I'm saying?
So it comes down and
rolls into here like that.
There you go.
I mean, you can try it.
We've got a mess with stuff.
Anyway, give it a shot.
Okay.
Yeah.
It ain't broke.
Don't fix it.
That's it.
Don't open.
Now let's push.
That's it.
Monster garage mantra.
When an individual solution fails,
the monster garage force prevails.
We're ready to go airboat.
Everybody had a little input.
Everybody hit him.
We would all do it.
The rudders look fine,
but now how to control them.
It's seven foot and it's flexible.
So when the engine goes in and out,
it's going to bubble up
through what we need to do.
And then we're going to
put the throttle cable
on the same way,
to where it's going to be
flexible when it goes in and out.
Oh my god.
We need to turn it on to that.
Actually, I'm going to have to fix that
on the end where it's difficult.
Yeah, it kind of.
Back in.
But it's good.
Yeah.
It's great.
That's like right here.
Hey.
Yeah.
I'm ready, man.
Here we go.
We're driving down the road.
We're turning left.
We've got the controls ready to go.
You know.
Looking good, man.
There.
I did have a boat so I can buzz.
And I was in high school with
a milk crate for a sheep.
So my last comes full circle.
Day five.
Second to the last day to build.
Day five.
Oh, two to go.
Now that the prowess complete,
the pontoon's built,
the bottom covered in sealed.
The boat is gaterproof,
but is it waterproof?
There's so many places where water's
just going to rush right in here.
There's no way to seal
the wheel wells up.
The one I think what we should do is do
the spray foam on the edges, you know?
Every hole no matter
how tiny must be filled.
And no, this is not ready whip,
but a fast acting sealant.
Now it's time to fill up the
Beatles big hollow spaces
with floatation material.
This canful of liquid
doesn't look like much,
but its contents will expand
into a square yard of foam.
It's a lime.
Nice.
This product is known
in the trade as AB foam.
The A part is a resin,
and the B part is a catalyst.
But will it float?
My demo is to see if the foam floats.
And it does float.
Our co-can is floating properly.
Put a propeller on the back.
All right, we're there.
That's lovely.
I think I need a couple of lizard tails.
And a line so it looks
all nice and pretty in.
Seals it up really nice.
That right there covers the hood.
But if you shut the hood with the hood,
everything lower, it's cut it'll hit that.
Meanwhile, John seals off the skin.
But it's clear that an open
flame will ignite this stuff.
But not to worry.
Everyone's sure that the engines heat
won't be enough to ignite the foam.
At least that's what they hope.
It's so best of them.
We're all there to do now.
Don't help to make my sea.
Now what's this product?
I'm sorry to have all these tools, man.
You got to hand over here with the foam.
You can just rip it off.
I don't want to rip it off.
I want to cut it clean.
Now you cut and bread.
Just like it.
I got some weird stuff.
I'll use that knife yet.
That's what's supposed to flow.
All right.
Yeah, sure.
The crew was hoping that
this delivery would be the
propeller, which was supposed
to arrive this morning.
But the boxes contained monster
rims courtesy of LA Wire Wheels.
3B.
3B.
3B.
Zero.
Not out.
A lot to the buck to you right there.
The Ram's in place.
Now John Urebe and Brian develop
a hydraulic system to drive it.
One side of the ram, the
other side of the ram.
And that's it.
Wire enough for the
cylinder and the switch.
It's ready to put it
down down right here.
How fast is going to go?
We pump.
We have to dump.
And we pump the other way.
We have to dump.
We have two dumps.
And one pump.
Monster garage mantra.
For every pump, there's two dumps.
Okay, let's see.
We got hydraulic lines here.
We got start of wire.
Ignition fuel pump.
Looking ready to go.
I got power to the switch.
There they're coating on it sticks.
I just get a cross.
Watch your face.
Go.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
We got some on-screen.
That's there you go.
Go man, go.
Go man.
What's going on?
All we're going to need some
on-screen, but that's okay.
Watch my car.
Everything is shaping up real fine.
But just to remind everyone what's at
stake, Ronnie's third cousin once removed
his arrived straight from the bayou.
Go ahead.
What the hell?
Hey, what do you want?
Breakout nuts?
Yeah.
That thing better float.
We're just he's going to
race the swamp beetle.
There's many more of these
critters in the water.
I think I better actually
go back and do a little
more foaming on the
underside of that thing.
Now just to make sure,
make double sure it floats.
Chris, what do you guys use at
the board and out in the pool?
For the final sealant, the
crew sprays on Rhino lining.
This is the same stuff used
to weatherproof truck beds.
Now, hopefully, every nook
and cranny will be filled.
Look up a starter to switch, hook up fuel
lines, run hydraulic
hoses, throttle cable,
and the turning linkage.
That would be staring, yeah.
I'm falling.
And fall, right?
Do you put make your float on there?
We're not worried about that.
We're not driving it.
But if it goes in the
water, it goes like this.
But this is getting smaller.
So tomorrow we'll, we shouldn't, we'll
almost be able to button everything up.
Consider where we add.
I think we ought to go to
the water and float it to me.
Let's be careful.
I just really want to get the
underside of this car sealed,
because I'm really afraid that
water's going to start seeping it
and it's going to go down.
I don't want that to happen.
So it's just, and there's so many
places where water can get in
that we can't see.
I mean, water's going to get in.
It's going to get in.
All I can try to do is slow it down.
Day six, the final day of build.
Today, the team plans to put
the swamp boat in the water.
I felt that the car
needed a little color.
So I stopped in the garden on my way.
I had a house and I thought
some nice bearded lilies
would add a nice feminine
touch to the car.
Oops, sorry.
I thought we were going to go
straight off and move the rat.
This is going to be a plan B.
Did you set up rolling my way home?
Finally, with just hours left
in the day, the proper ride.
We were 97 and many would like 7.45.
Each blade is 14 inches
long and when a fixed
will give the propeller circle
a diameter of 36 inches.
I mean, exactly 18 inches.
That's it.
Now we actually have something to
propel the boat across the water with.
That's a concept.
The blades are made of a
composite of fiber and carbon.
Though short, they will be able
to deliver 1,500 pounds of thrust.
That's cool, isn't it?
Yeah.
That would look like you would
take your finger right off,
but the hell off.
A little off.
It's time to talk to me
about the swamp boat.
Me and Ronnie.
He swore it when come off.
I don't want to test it in the swamp.
There's some funky stuff in there.
Cutting my ol' alligator.
I shouldn't deliver it.
Telling your man, that
wasn't in the Louisiana.
We don't have mountain
in the Louisiana, man.
Whatever.
That's it.
What happened to Randy yesterday?
Give it a couple pounds.
It's crystal clear that the
bugs got plenty of power,
but will it flow?
It's not going to go down.
It's going to go down, it's
going to go down the ramp.
out in the water turn
around and back up the
ramp and out and we
come in back and then we
done. It will work. It's
last the swamp thing rolls
from the garage ready
for its first float test,
but the crew has wasted
valuable time and now
it's very late in the
game at a ramp in the long
beast marina two miles
from the monster garage
the crew prepares to roll
their little treasure
into the bay. The confidence
level is medium. I
still am not completely
positive it's going to float.
But that's why we're here.
Everybody else seems to
be like no problem, but
for some reason I haven't
seen it yet so I don't
believe it. We give it
some gas to see if we can,
well let's just see if
Master's make sure it's
going to float. Well, all we
gotta do is do it quick and
get out. But it's five o'clock
just an hour of daylight
left. If the swamp thing
floats, the crew will
have met the challenge.
But if it doesn't, they'll lose.
Fantastic. Looks like
the swamp bug is taking
to the water like a duck takes to a pond.
But it's sink in the front.
The front's going under.
Suddenly the VW starts
taking on water fast.
Easy, easy. The front's
taking on a lot of water.
See, it's all draining.
But all the water went
through the hood. That
opened. The water went through
the hood. The prow was
engineered and designed to
be permanently sealed in
absolutely watertight,
but water gets where water goes. Someone
forgot to fill the hollow
front prow with foam.
That bumper is a big
cavity you guys and that's
not full of foam like
it was going to be. So
yeah, we got any foam left,
Chris? I thought it was
in there already. I didn't
know there was no foam
in it. That's what's gotta
keep it up. Just need
a little more foam in the
front. I believe it will
be all right. But there's no time for
finger pointing. Just drill on board.
That was a lot. Is that stuff dry yet?
Let's go. Knights coming down hard
under headlights the team
races on. Okay, easy, easy.
All right, yes, all
up. Come on down, man.
It's the final hour. 11 30, 11 40, 11 50,
10 minutes to midnight.
This has got to be
it. Let's go slow, make sure it comes up.
I can't hold it no more. Yeah, it's
going up. It's going up. It's going up.
Got the water. I mean, got the water.
Get out of the water. That's the water.
That's it. That's it. It's floating.
They're pulling it up, pull it up,
flip it back. It ain't
going to sink tomorrow.
It's a foam, does it?
It's a foam, that was
a foam. That was a foam.
That's a foam, that was a
foam. And you know what,
my feet are still blind.
It floats. While the
exhausted crew sleeps,
Tom Prood of demons
transforms our little white
angel into a Diablo
orange devil. It's like
the crew at the monster
garage got another
project done for me. My
assignment for tonight
is to make it the brightest orange buggy
in the world and to obtain that what I'm
going to do. I'm blending
five different color
per lesson oranges together. Now the beetle
is going to flash like a spicy piece of
page and jater bait.
They're going to love
Jessie because he's look
at that little white
skin. They're going to
be chasing Jessie all
this while. I wish I was there to see it.
Now it's off to the bayou for the
swamp boat challenge of the century.
Don't be a gater, hater. We'll be
right back with more months to garage.
Deep deep in the very
heart of Louisiana Bayou
Country. Jessie james in
his swamp beetle heads
for a rendezvous with
destiny. Neil Tibbido,
Ronnie's son, and his hot
and buddy think they're
going to catch a mess of
bass and maybe a gater
or two. But unbeknownst
to them, this day is going
to turn into the swamp
boat duel of the century.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the big swag and Frankie
White side. Once again,
monster garage challenge,
special edition cage and
style. How you doing,
Frank? I am doing great
swag. Here we are,
center real Louisiana
ladies and gentlemen,
eight buoy challenge.
The whole town is out in
full forcing, including
the fire department.
It's going to be a
barnburner of a race, Frank.
There's our man, Jessie. Now I got to ask
you swag. He's the master
of four wheels. He's
the master of two
wheels, but swag. Water,
you got to be kidding
me. And there is his
competition for the day.
Neil Tibbido, the son of
famous swamp boat builder,
Ronnie Tibbido, and
he is looking confident.
Tibbido, as well as the
folks of centerfield,
think they are in for
traditional airboat on
airbos race. But now,
they are getting their
first look at the future.
Jessie's 1998 BW swamp
bug and they are shocked.
It's all about style. It's
all about fabrication,
and they have never seen
anything like this before,
Frank. I've never seen anything
like this before, swag. Who has?
I think it takes an hour and a cage and
it puts something like this together.
Frank, a little tidbit.
There are only a handful
of these amphibious
cars in the world today.
Ladies and gentlemen,
as we gear up for the
race, Neil Tibbido
says I'm ready. Jessie,
isn't the not I'm ready,
and the green flag is
up and they are off.
Jessie leaves his swamp
behind and hits straight
for the water. But
there's the equalizer.
Frank, the gators are
smelling blood and they're getting in the
water. Look at that
baby. She's in the water.
And holy, crawfish pie,
she's floating. Let me
tell you something. I
did a little research,
Frank, a hundred and forty-five people go
missing in the swamp every year, Frank,
and they'll 16-book in
his way over 750 pounds.
A hundred and forty-five.
I did not know that.
Right off the back, you
can see Jessie changes
smart. He's smiling. He's laughing. He is
already past the second
buoy and Neil Tibbido
hasn't even got his
boat up the trailer yet.
Yeah, but that nose is
getting a little low
on the water there.
Where is Neil Tibbido?
Neil Tibbido having problems getting that
400 horsepower swamp boat in the water.
Jessie James looking
confident and cool. And
finally, there is Neil Tibbido. The boat,
they're off and ready. And Jessie
James passing the fourth buoy.
Neil Tibbido with this
400 horsepower big block
Chevy Swamp boat gets it
ready to put in the water.
And Jessie James looking at Jessie
James giving the evil salute saying,
I will beat you, but he's taking an awful
lot of water, Frank,
and if he goes under,
not only does he have
to worry about the 16
-book gators, but he's
going to worry about them
seven poisonous deadly
snakes that got out
there in Cation Country. He's looking for
eyeland swag as he heading
for the gator graveyard.
Jessie James put this feet
up. He thinks he is going
down. Frank, he's checking all over the
place. They're coming
into the final stretch.
Jessie James is taking all
sorts of water. I don't
think he's going to make
it a the embankment.
Neil Tibbido may come back
and win this race for Center
for Louisiana because that
water bug is waterlogged.
He is sucking a lot of
swamp water there. I
don't see how he could
possibly get there.
And the bans are going,
hey, she's thinking
they know it's going to
be a photo finish and
there he is. Neil Tibbido coming out of
the water. Jessie coming out of the water.
It's going down to the line that
checkers like. And there it is, Frank.
It's done. It's done. He's started again.
Jessie James wins another must across
challenge and the local
boys are picked up.
And there it is. The
cage and not. That's what
Jessie Gator James is
all about. But there's
no time for profit.
Borrow or egg to fail.
There are miles to go and further
challenges await in the monster garage.
Transcribed by whisperAI with faster-whisper (tiny) on 18 Oct 2025 - 04:30:00
swag here deep in the
heart of Louisiana by
you country master fabricator Jesse James
takes on the raging cage and kneel to
him at oh in a swamp full blast of the
century so perfect kids
tie up to go and grab
your favorite beverage
the next monster garage
challenge is just around the bend join us
now as Jesse James and
his gang of maverick
mechanics rip grind and burn transforming
ordinary street vehicles into monster
machines in the monster garage
this week's challenge
take a 1998 Volkswagen
sedan and transform it into the world's
coolest swamp boat the rules when completed
the monster machine must appear to be
stock the team can spend no more than $3
,000 in hard cash for
parts if they meet the
challenge each crew member will
receive a Mac toolkit worth $3,400
Jesse and his crew have
seven days in nights
to design build and
race their creation and
the clock starts now day one five a
.m. Jesse and the design team arrive
these four men take on the monster
varieties greatest challenge to date turning
a 1998 Volkswagen into a swamp boat this
unassuming beetle must transform into a
roaches amphibian gator hater master
motorcycle designer and builder Jesse James
is no stranger to buy you
country he's applied many
a swamp ever vigilant for
snakes gators bats and rats
talk you talk long it's come on man crazy
ideas possible beginning
and first it went
thing and feed is something
in that James bomb
building at all orders
yeah and how to turn
it somewhere in Ricky Sue
is a top flight designer
for Honda at age 14
he arrived from Taiwan
speaking no English but
went on to graduate from one
of the best automotive
design schools in the country
JD street is a special
effects coordinator for
major Hollywood movies
basically you get paid to
things that are illegal
I get to break things
blow things up and set
them on fire without fear
being arrested I think the
biggest thing is making
it float they don't want
to get out there and
have it like what about
doing something inflatable
the situation with that is the way you're
treating this up with property uh the bag
if anyone can handle
this challenge run eat
tibidos the man he's
from deep in Louisiana
buy you country and he
builds one of a kind
400 horsepower plus air
boats the airboat can
go places and no other
boat on the world can go
it can travel on the water it can travel
on land and it just go anyway I want to go
but you need to do a
little right now so as
you start pushing the water instead of an
heck and as a as a plow
when act as a rake of
a blow we can do like
kind of off road truck
as that skid play do
some yeah it looks like
that I mean it's so
simple the way these work
basically the airplane on
the ground I think that
would probably be the job
that looks totally easy
day one ends and the design
process is complete now the
real test begins will Jesse
James succeed in this challenge
day two six AM Jesse
and his team of builders
enter in just five days
and nights this team
must build the beast John Crossic master
welder from Melebo,
California Christy Sumner
pyro technician from
Los Angeles, California
run eat tibido cage and airboat god from
centerville, Louisiana from Anaheim,
California Brian Jenbro, legendary customizer
and John Uribe, master
mechanic Ben Ayes, California
General James reveals the battle strategy
the number one obstacle
as Jesse sees it is
tackle we got to make it
float it's gonna be the
toughest we came up with
all kinds of stuff with
like putting fine tunes like out of
aluminum or something in place of the right
with no respect for fine tune German
engineering the crew rips into the near new
VW every fixture high
price or not must be
stripped out to make
room for second engine
fix lighting mount in a
three-bladed propeller
nothing better than
carrying a part of the room
you can go on eBay what
year is this car 99
sunroof Volkswagen for
sale within an hour
Jesse sells the back
seat the passenger seat
the sunroof and the
windshield on the internet
for a grand total of
seven hundred dollars
but I broke it
but when the bugs guts
are ripped out the team
discovers that its shell
is riddled with holes
and weld them in the holes
inside of there because
this is all that holds
it up and if it goes
in the water and it'll
steep right through these
and then it'll just sink.
John craws it cuts out a
score of one eighth inch
steel tiddly wings the
crew was quick to choose
John K is their master
welder interestingly
enough John comes by his
skills not as a customizer
but as an artist
this our sheet metal then cut and turn and
bend and kick and bite and punch a piece
it's all getting where
I want them to get these
funky turns and curls
and that's uh it's kind
of what I'm looking to
do. When the swamp beetle
slams into the water it
snub nose will take its
straight for the bottom
so Brian's replacing the
front bumper with a steel
prow the idea is when the
thought about five
inches Brian Gendro is a
cutting edge southern
California customizer
I love to come up with new creations new
designs all this airbag
suspension stuff I was
the first one to do it
on any vehicle like the
designer J.D. Christie
makes her living as a movie
high-ro technician so she's used to being
surrounded by men. On used
to being the only woman
you know being drowned
and just tossed around
I just go home and shower
it off and just put
on a nice coral and
some flip-flops and make
dinner. Brian and John
your reb you have completed
the prize under structure
of half inch steel
tubing and now they'll
armor it with steel plate
John your reb teaches
automotive technology
at Los Angeles Trade
Tech but is true love is
stock car racing. After
10 years in automotive
I didn't know where I
was going to go with it
I got back into racing
with with the circle track
and that's really inspired
me to learn how to
build and fabricate do some of the things
that brought me here in the first place.
As far as the swamp
bugs propulsion system
goes the big question is
how's it going to fit?
But the team plans to
cut into the fenders and
the body then weld
these pieces to the door
the hope is to increase the depth of the
opening to the rear cabin by 12 inches
but the Beatles exoskeleton
poses a major challenge.
It doesn't get anybody who's
a whole car together once
you start cutting off these
things there's nothing
to hold the car together.
The whole roof holds
this whole car together.
It's no frame, it's
nothing that's a one
thing I want to do. So
like a skilled surgeon
John must be precise one
false cut could bring down
the roof and permanently
damage the VW's underlying
support structure.
I just cut this out we're
going to attach this to this
part so the top pops up it
brings this whole piece out
we're going to get a
water line about right
here what we got to be
able to come and just
think. Great I get to
drive the irony of this
project as I was just
watching discovery this
weekend and it had a
whole hour-long show of
how to survive in a car
when it's underwater
monster garage factoid.
The first amphibious BW was
designed by Ferdinand
Porsche for the German army
during World War II. He
was called the spin record.
Keep your mojo working will
be right back with more
much bigger eyes. Day three
and there's a whole lot to do.
Now we're going to cut
the pieces out right
now for the for the fun scenes let's go.
These pantunes will look
like running boards but
they'll be hollow. The idea
is when filled with foam
the fins will act as stabilizers
and help keep the bug afloat.
The pantunes begin to take shape as Brian
and John Urebe make two 90 degree bends
using a sheet metal press.
This thing's definitely oversized.
Yeah we got to cut it right now.
Do the fit it from the front.
Do the fit it's good back.
Do you want to crew the two ends?
Yeah I think we're like centered up
all the center of the
room on the fender. With a
little sniping, cutting
and welding the pantune
fits snugly between the fenders.
Looks good to me. Yeah I guess
it would just take this down.
No, I can take another
piece and curve this way.
Watch your eyes on it.
Look at that. Wow, so I'm in
this out. Okay, just a touch.
Christy makes sure the
beetle is 100% street legal.
Be proud of this. That way we can
make the transition terms here.
But the big question remains,
how to seal up the VW's bottom.
No problem. Just take a very large
piece of one-eighth inch sheet aluminum
and cover it up. In other words,
turn the beetle into a boat.
Okay, Brian's contemplating the exhaust
pipes. The VW's pipes
end just under the rear
bumper. But when the bugs in the
water, that's going to be a problem.
The solution, custom motorcycle pipes,
tall enough to stay above water.
The two John's want to wrap the
exhaust pipes with this welding blanket
because when the cavity is filled with
floatation foam, there could be a fire.
But can the blanket withstand
1,300 degrees Fahrenheit?
Now that the pipes are covered,
skid plate sealing continues.
The flat bottom is easy,
but the curved prow requires
the special talents of Master
Fabricator Jesse James.
Look, right at it, see where
there's too much material in it.
Best handmade in the LBC. He uses a piece
of tracing paper to make the pattern.
I said, hey, how many times have I
done? I need to tell me I've done it.
I have. Where the
dimension needs to be sure
enough is about midway up. Right where I,
you could see the creases in the
paper, right where I folded it over.
Where it means there's
too much paper, which
is going to mean there's
where there's too much
metal. So right around
in here is, you know,
we'll have to run it
through the big power hammer
and make some some shrink on it.
At West Coast choppers, Jesse begins to
fashion a curved shape on a power hammer.
As the V's collapse in on themselves, the
surface area shrinks in the metal curves.
Yeah, that's what I
got. That's what I got.
The entire bottom is a slick
sheet of sealed aluminum,
able to withstand only 15
pounds per square inch.
Jesse will have to be
careful. A submerged
log could easily tear
a hole in its bottom.
Country, the start line is ready. The air
bolts are revving and
the heaters are weak.
So stay tuned for the
Roddy Swamp last ever
when we come back with
more months to garage.
Day four, the big ticket item arrives.
It's a chrome plated 110 horsepower air
hole Volkswagen engine, cost $2,800,
most of the parts budget, but worth it.
This little baby packs a whole lot
of torque in a very small package.
Ronnie Fashon's mock-up blades.
This luck only when I
go be spin in this one.
They'll serve as measurement
guides to the real
blades, special ordered
from Iowa, arrived.
Ronnie and Christie start
on the engine mount.
This will be a structure built of two-ing
steel tubing. It's
tricky because the mount
must be strong enough to
hold the 250 horsepower
engine, turning it 3
,600 rpm, but tall enough
to allow the blades to
clear the Beatles' floor.
In addition, the mount must slide
in and out of the VW on tracks.
So we can roll underneath.
Oh, that's right there.
We're just sliding down.
Watch the three years in
there and it'll be deal.
Okay, hold it, hold it.
That's too tall.
The props clear the
floor, but not the roof.
This could be a major setback.
Ronnie is beginning to doubt.
Oh, both.
The way I'm looking at it
now will never put runners
on the back of this thing
and close this door now.
But you know what, can we slide
this back until these touch?
Yeah, I can get a better measurement that
way, because it's not far away right now.
That's all the way back.
That's not going to be okay.
But Brian has a bright idea.
But then we take the air cleaners off.
That's pulled a fan shroud off.
Okay, let's move over
the air cleaners off.
Yeah, let's just, let's try and
make it fit before we cut anything.
Wait, there you go.
There you go.
There you go.
Hey, all right, let's see what we got.
Oh, they'll fly easy now.
Okay, what are we getting up?
We're stopped right now.
The air cleaner and the
fan blade shroud are gone.
But they're still not enough headroom.
The roof's edge blocks the way.
Yeah, it's really nice.
Oh, we cut the core.
That stuff up.
We can't do that.
Nobody's going to cut the core.
I want my cut to pick them.
Yeah, it's kind of a little
section out of there.
Cut it out, notches.
Smork it up.
Oh, let's pop something right there.
Go round.
Top, top.
Those things that we
just colored like that.
Now we're top.
We're trying to play with the clothing.
Runny's pushed out right
back where it came from.
Another victory for the monster garage.
Call a team effort. Good job.
I like the tail of an airplane.
Our little airboat is
going to need a rudder.
Actually, twin rudders.
I like the tail of an airplane.
This is what you call a tharsal fin.
We went down to the local harbor here.
We put one off of a shark a while ago.
He didn't need it anymore.
The twin rudders must fit
inside the door closed.
So they can't be very large.
But since volumes of air will be driven
past them by the three-bladed propeller,
they'll work just fine
according to Ronnie.
Go this way. I wanted
to turn the other way.
That's all I wanted to do.
This is a connected rod
that made the rudders
turn together and seek
out back and forth.
The fins are in place,
but now the crucial test.
Down, down, down.
Almost, but not quite.
Lift it up to frame.
I'll show you where you're
hitting right in here.
Right in here.
Right in here.
Fitting both sides.
We need to put a little
bit of a bind on it.
You don't make it look real.
Ooh.
That's the inside.
Shot it.
Hey, I like that.
These cuts require an artist's touch.
Trying to do here across
the mechanics and art.
Now they work.
We're there.
Beautiful.
We're good.
You happy?
I'm happy.
The engine will push the
car in and out of the water,
but what will push the
motor in and out of the car?
So we got 30 inches
of stroke out of this.
It'll push out 30 inches.
Abel to exert 1,000
pounds per square inch.
This monster ram could raise and lower
the dozer blade of a caterpillar tractor,
more than enough umph to push
the motor out and pull it back.
This could be out and this could be back.
Christy fabricates a clever
bracket behind the passenger seat
to hold the rear engine's gas tank.
I wish we had to put that
fuel tank on this side in.
Because we've got to have a shorter
distance to run for the hydraulics.
The fuel line is already on this side.
Right. So you feel tank could have been right
here when the vehicle pump on the wall.
But it's not a big deal to change it.
This can just got to
change it, that's all.
Oh well.
Now the tanks repositioned
behind the driver seat.
This will make Jesse happy.
Now he's got the option
of sinking in the bayou
or being blasted into the Louisiana sky.
Originally, the crew thought they'd raise
the door with another hydraulic cylinder,
but why not do it the easy way?
We've got a door on it.
Go ahead.
You're going to have to do it now.
Hold on.
Hold on.
It's in.
Okay.
Put your back up.
Go up.
I mean, that worked.
Yeah, I worry.
It's just got to get the point.
You got to get your points right.
Another thing that would work, too.
This bar was bent.
See, whenever the hinges
come out of a door,
when it's down, they have a curve.
So whenever it lifts up, it pulls it out.
You see what I'm saying?
So it comes down and
rolls into here like that.
There you go.
I mean, you can try it.
We've got a mess with stuff.
Anyway, give it a shot.
Okay.
Yeah.
It ain't broke.
Don't fix it.
That's it.
Don't open.
Now let's push.
That's it.
Monster garage mantra.
When an individual solution fails,
the monster garage force prevails.
We're ready to go airboat.
Everybody had a little input.
Everybody hit him.
We would all do it.
The rudders look fine,
but now how to control them.
It's seven foot and it's flexible.
So when the engine goes in and out,
it's going to bubble up
through what we need to do.
And then we're going to
put the throttle cable
on the same way,
to where it's going to be
flexible when it goes in and out.
Oh my god.
We need to turn it on to that.
Actually, I'm going to have to fix that
on the end where it's difficult.
Yeah, it kind of.
Back in.
But it's good.
Yeah.
It's great.
That's like right here.
Hey.
Yeah.
I'm ready, man.
Here we go.
We're driving down the road.
We're turning left.
We've got the controls ready to go.
You know.
Looking good, man.
There.
I did have a boat so I can buzz.
And I was in high school with
a milk crate for a sheep.
So my last comes full circle.
Day five.
Second to the last day to build.
Day five.
Oh, two to go.
Now that the prowess complete,
the pontoon's built,
the bottom covered in sealed.
The boat is gaterproof,
but is it waterproof?
There's so many places where water's
just going to rush right in here.
There's no way to seal
the wheel wells up.
The one I think what we should do is do
the spray foam on the edges, you know?
Every hole no matter
how tiny must be filled.
And no, this is not ready whip,
but a fast acting sealant.
Now it's time to fill up the
Beatles big hollow spaces
with floatation material.
This canful of liquid
doesn't look like much,
but its contents will expand
into a square yard of foam.
It's a lime.
Nice.
This product is known
in the trade as AB foam.
The A part is a resin,
and the B part is a catalyst.
But will it float?
My demo is to see if the foam floats.
And it does float.
Our co-can is floating properly.
Put a propeller on the back.
All right, we're there.
That's lovely.
I think I need a couple of lizard tails.
And a line so it looks
all nice and pretty in.
Seals it up really nice.
That right there covers the hood.
But if you shut the hood with the hood,
everything lower, it's cut it'll hit that.
Meanwhile, John seals off the skin.
But it's clear that an open
flame will ignite this stuff.
But not to worry.
Everyone's sure that the engines heat
won't be enough to ignite the foam.
At least that's what they hope.
It's so best of them.
We're all there to do now.
Don't help to make my sea.
Now what's this product?
I'm sorry to have all these tools, man.
You got to hand over here with the foam.
You can just rip it off.
I don't want to rip it off.
I want to cut it clean.
Now you cut and bread.
Just like it.
I got some weird stuff.
I'll use that knife yet.
That's what's supposed to flow.
All right.
Yeah, sure.
The crew was hoping that
this delivery would be the
propeller, which was supposed
to arrive this morning.
But the boxes contained monster
rims courtesy of LA Wire Wheels.
3B.
3B.
3B.
Zero.
Not out.
A lot to the buck to you right there.
The Ram's in place.
Now John Urebe and Brian develop
a hydraulic system to drive it.
One side of the ram, the
other side of the ram.
And that's it.
Wire enough for the
cylinder and the switch.
It's ready to put it
down down right here.
How fast is going to go?
We pump.
We have to dump.
And we pump the other way.
We have to dump.
We have two dumps.
And one pump.
Monster garage mantra.
For every pump, there's two dumps.
Okay, let's see.
We got hydraulic lines here.
We got start of wire.
Ignition fuel pump.
Looking ready to go.
I got power to the switch.
There they're coating on it sticks.
I just get a cross.
Watch your face.
Go.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
We got some on-screen.
That's there you go.
Go man, go.
Go man.
What's going on?
All we're going to need some
on-screen, but that's okay.
Watch my car.
Everything is shaping up real fine.
But just to remind everyone what's at
stake, Ronnie's third cousin once removed
his arrived straight from the bayou.
Go ahead.
What the hell?
Hey, what do you want?
Breakout nuts?
Yeah.
That thing better float.
We're just he's going to
race the swamp beetle.
There's many more of these
critters in the water.
I think I better actually
go back and do a little
more foaming on the
underside of that thing.
Now just to make sure,
make double sure it floats.
Chris, what do you guys use at
the board and out in the pool?
For the final sealant, the
crew sprays on Rhino lining.
This is the same stuff used
to weatherproof truck beds.
Now, hopefully, every nook
and cranny will be filled.
Look up a starter to switch, hook up fuel
lines, run hydraulic
hoses, throttle cable,
and the turning linkage.
That would be staring, yeah.
I'm falling.
And fall, right?
Do you put make your float on there?
We're not worried about that.
We're not driving it.
But if it goes in the
water, it goes like this.
But this is getting smaller.
So tomorrow we'll, we shouldn't, we'll
almost be able to button everything up.
Consider where we add.
I think we ought to go to
the water and float it to me.
Let's be careful.
I just really want to get the
underside of this car sealed,
because I'm really afraid that
water's going to start seeping it
and it's going to go down.
I don't want that to happen.
So it's just, and there's so many
places where water can get in
that we can't see.
I mean, water's going to get in.
It's going to get in.
All I can try to do is slow it down.
Day six, the final day of build.
Today, the team plans to put
the swamp boat in the water.
I felt that the car
needed a little color.
So I stopped in the garden on my way.
I had a house and I thought
some nice bearded lilies
would add a nice feminine
touch to the car.
Oops, sorry.
I thought we were going to go
straight off and move the rat.
This is going to be a plan B.
Did you set up rolling my way home?
Finally, with just hours left
in the day, the proper ride.
We were 97 and many would like 7.45.
Each blade is 14 inches
long and when a fixed
will give the propeller circle
a diameter of 36 inches.
I mean, exactly 18 inches.
That's it.
Now we actually have something to
propel the boat across the water with.
That's a concept.
The blades are made of a
composite of fiber and carbon.
Though short, they will be able
to deliver 1,500 pounds of thrust.
That's cool, isn't it?
Yeah.
That would look like you would
take your finger right off,
but the hell off.
A little off.
It's time to talk to me
about the swamp boat.
Me and Ronnie.
He swore it when come off.
I don't want to test it in the swamp.
There's some funky stuff in there.
Cutting my ol' alligator.
I shouldn't deliver it.
Telling your man, that
wasn't in the Louisiana.
We don't have mountain
in the Louisiana, man.
Whatever.
That's it.
What happened to Randy yesterday?
Give it a couple pounds.
It's crystal clear that the
bugs got plenty of power,
but will it flow?
It's not going to go down.
It's going to go down, it's
going to go down the ramp.
out in the water turn
around and back up the
ramp and out and we
come in back and then we
done. It will work. It's
last the swamp thing rolls
from the garage ready
for its first float test,
but the crew has wasted
valuable time and now
it's very late in the
game at a ramp in the long
beast marina two miles
from the monster garage
the crew prepares to roll
their little treasure
into the bay. The confidence
level is medium. I
still am not completely
positive it's going to float.
But that's why we're here.
Everybody else seems to
be like no problem, but
for some reason I haven't
seen it yet so I don't
believe it. We give it
some gas to see if we can,
well let's just see if
Master's make sure it's
going to float. Well, all we
gotta do is do it quick and
get out. But it's five o'clock
just an hour of daylight
left. If the swamp thing
floats, the crew will
have met the challenge.
But if it doesn't, they'll lose.
Fantastic. Looks like
the swamp bug is taking
to the water like a duck takes to a pond.
But it's sink in the front.
The front's going under.
Suddenly the VW starts
taking on water fast.
Easy, easy. The front's
taking on a lot of water.
See, it's all draining.
But all the water went
through the hood. That
opened. The water went through
the hood. The prow was
engineered and designed to
be permanently sealed in
absolutely watertight,
but water gets where water goes. Someone
forgot to fill the hollow
front prow with foam.
That bumper is a big
cavity you guys and that's
not full of foam like
it was going to be. So
yeah, we got any foam left,
Chris? I thought it was
in there already. I didn't
know there was no foam
in it. That's what's gotta
keep it up. Just need
a little more foam in the
front. I believe it will
be all right. But there's no time for
finger pointing. Just drill on board.
That was a lot. Is that stuff dry yet?
Let's go. Knights coming down hard
under headlights the team
races on. Okay, easy, easy.
All right, yes, all
up. Come on down, man.
It's the final hour. 11 30, 11 40, 11 50,
10 minutes to midnight.
This has got to be
it. Let's go slow, make sure it comes up.
I can't hold it no more. Yeah, it's
going up. It's going up. It's going up.
Got the water. I mean, got the water.
Get out of the water. That's the water.
That's it. That's it. It's floating.
They're pulling it up, pull it up,
flip it back. It ain't
going to sink tomorrow.
It's a foam, does it?
It's a foam, that was
a foam. That was a foam.
That's a foam, that was a
foam. And you know what,
my feet are still blind.
It floats. While the
exhausted crew sleeps,
Tom Prood of demons
transforms our little white
angel into a Diablo
orange devil. It's like
the crew at the monster
garage got another
project done for me. My
assignment for tonight
is to make it the brightest orange buggy
in the world and to obtain that what I'm
going to do. I'm blending
five different color
per lesson oranges together. Now the beetle
is going to flash like a spicy piece of
page and jater bait.
They're going to love
Jessie because he's look
at that little white
skin. They're going to
be chasing Jessie all
this while. I wish I was there to see it.
Now it's off to the bayou for the
swamp boat challenge of the century.
Don't be a gater, hater. We'll be
right back with more months to garage.
Deep deep in the very
heart of Louisiana Bayou
Country. Jessie james in
his swamp beetle heads
for a rendezvous with
destiny. Neil Tibbido,
Ronnie's son, and his hot
and buddy think they're
going to catch a mess of
bass and maybe a gater
or two. But unbeknownst
to them, this day is going
to turn into the swamp
boat duel of the century.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the big swag and Frankie
White side. Once again,
monster garage challenge,
special edition cage and
style. How you doing,
Frank? I am doing great
swag. Here we are,
center real Louisiana
ladies and gentlemen,
eight buoy challenge.
The whole town is out in
full forcing, including
the fire department.
It's going to be a
barnburner of a race, Frank.
There's our man, Jessie. Now I got to ask
you swag. He's the master
of four wheels. He's
the master of two
wheels, but swag. Water,
you got to be kidding
me. And there is his
competition for the day.
Neil Tibbido, the son of
famous swamp boat builder,
Ronnie Tibbido, and
he is looking confident.
Tibbido, as well as the
folks of centerfield,
think they are in for
traditional airboat on
airbos race. But now,
they are getting their
first look at the future.
Jessie's 1998 BW swamp
bug and they are shocked.
It's all about style. It's
all about fabrication,
and they have never seen
anything like this before,
Frank. I've never seen anything
like this before, swag. Who has?
I think it takes an hour and a cage and
it puts something like this together.
Frank, a little tidbit.
There are only a handful
of these amphibious
cars in the world today.
Ladies and gentlemen,
as we gear up for the
race, Neil Tibbido
says I'm ready. Jessie,
isn't the not I'm ready,
and the green flag is
up and they are off.
Jessie leaves his swamp
behind and hits straight
for the water. But
there's the equalizer.
Frank, the gators are
smelling blood and they're getting in the
water. Look at that
baby. She's in the water.
And holy, crawfish pie,
she's floating. Let me
tell you something. I
did a little research,
Frank, a hundred and forty-five people go
missing in the swamp every year, Frank,
and they'll 16-book in
his way over 750 pounds.
A hundred and forty-five.
I did not know that.
Right off the back, you
can see Jessie changes
smart. He's smiling. He's laughing. He is
already past the second
buoy and Neil Tibbido
hasn't even got his
boat up the trailer yet.
Yeah, but that nose is
getting a little low
on the water there.
Where is Neil Tibbido?
Neil Tibbido having problems getting that
400 horsepower swamp boat in the water.
Jessie James looking
confident and cool. And
finally, there is Neil Tibbido. The boat,
they're off and ready. And Jessie
James passing the fourth buoy.
Neil Tibbido with this
400 horsepower big block
Chevy Swamp boat gets it
ready to put in the water.
And Jessie James looking at Jessie
James giving the evil salute saying,
I will beat you, but he's taking an awful
lot of water, Frank,
and if he goes under,
not only does he have
to worry about the 16
-book gators, but he's
going to worry about them
seven poisonous deadly
snakes that got out
there in Cation Country. He's looking for
eyeland swag as he heading
for the gator graveyard.
Jessie James put this feet
up. He thinks he is going
down. Frank, he's checking all over the
place. They're coming
into the final stretch.
Jessie James is taking all
sorts of water. I don't
think he's going to make
it a the embankment.
Neil Tibbido may come back
and win this race for Center
for Louisiana because that
water bug is waterlogged.
He is sucking a lot of
swamp water there. I
don't see how he could
possibly get there.
And the bans are going,
hey, she's thinking
they know it's going to
be a photo finish and
there he is. Neil Tibbido coming out of
the water. Jessie coming out of the water.
It's going down to the line that
checkers like. And there it is, Frank.
It's done. It's done. He's started again.
Jessie James wins another must across
challenge and the local
boys are picked up.
And there it is. The
cage and not. That's what
Jessie Gator James is
all about. But there's
no time for profit.
Borrow or egg to fail.
There are miles to go and further
challenges await in the monster garage.
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