Monster Garage (2002) s01e04 Episode Script
Switchblade
Hello, everybody, it's a beautiful
day here in Indio, California.
It's 65 degrees, and the wind is coming
out of the southwest at 6 miles per hour.
The conditions are near perfect.
So sit the kids down, tie up the dog.
Grab your favorite beverage.
The next monster garage challenge
is just around the back.
Join us now as Jesse James in his gang of
fabric mechanics, rip, grind, and burn.
Transforming ordinary street vehicles into
monster machines in the monster garage.
This week's challenge, take
a 1994 Mustang GT5-liter
convertible and transform it into
the world's fastest lawnmower.
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.
Jesse and his team have seven days in
nights to design, build and race the car.
If the team is successful, they will each
be awarded a Mac tool
kit valued at $3,400.
And the clock starts now, day one.
Before a monster is born,
it must be conceived.
Jesse James arrives with
his design team, artists,
engineers and specialists
from across the US.
But Jesse didn't tell his gang
what they'd be starting with.
It's cute, huh?
What are we going to do with this now?
It's going to be a mower.
A must-ang mower.
A must-ang mower.
A stock-1990 Mustang GT convertible
with a 200 horsepower motor capable
of speeds in excess of 130 miles per
hour is a good machine to begin with.
But making it cut grass at high speed
will take some monster modifications.
So the design team ascends to the
war room to coordinate their attack.
I just want to see
everybody's head collect
this when they see us
roll us out on my god.
Jesse James, a direct descendant
of the legendary outlaw,
is one of the premier motorcycle
builders in the world.
He's built one of a kind bikes for
some very high profile customers.
For Jesse, bike building
is a labor of love.
But why did he take on this
challenge of turning a stock
Mustang into a ground pounding,
sod slashing steel rocket?
I think it's just the
smart, wise thing to do.
We're going to take something that's
pretty non-threatening, generally accepted.
Everybody likes it and make it
something that's going to scare people.
When I thought as we
could just sit here and
just get conceptual,
all right, we got a car.
Mike Desmond was chosen for the
team because of his talents as a
designer for Mitsubishi Motors and
his strong desire to break the rules.
I think everything is over-designed.
I think I think with this project
we're going back to basics.
But for these guys, what
does back to basics mean?
I want a mind to be a half-track Mustang.
A half-track concept is
killer with calendar.
Keep throwing ideas out.
It should be like that off-screen
aircraft, which is like they flip out.
Deep in the heart of the
south is Locus Grove, Georgia.
There, Jesse recruited
Bobby Cleveland, head
engineer for the Snapper
lawnmower company.
Bobby's also the number one
lawnmower racer in America.
I've been around a lot of lawnmowers, but
I've never imagined anything like this.
Perfect lawn cutter is when the
grain is just as pretty as corn.
Well, this machine, on
the other hand, is you'd
be lucky to have a lawn
left when you get through.
Hopefully nobody gets their toes cut off.
What about using something like
on the front of a con button?
It's the big wheel like the reapers?
George Bears is a 40-year veteran
of the automotive service industry.
He's blown in from Stuart Florida.
The team that I'm working
with, well, they've
got visions that I've never seen before,
and trying to find the pieces that go
with it's going to be even crazier.
Let's just make it explode.
Given enough time and money,
these designs could be built,
but the rules of the
game must be abided by.
We need to make this car look
like a completely stock Mustang.
I think it in a week,
you know, if you get
tricked, but we can't,
like, outtrick ourselves.
Do you think it would
be actually easier to
come straight out of the truck backwards?
So you pull it back?
It gets closer to the ground.
The delta type is, would be big
enough, probably fit in there.
Well, you got your blade to here.
He got three blades.
Right.
And that could fold into the trunk.
That's what I started.
And that could be, instead
of doing some robotics,
that could be a lever actually.
The rear deck will mow down the
middle, but what about the sides?
You know, you might have to make
it where you get slung to go open,
and then you just pull the lever and
this just pop down to the ground.
I was thinking, calling
it the switch blade.
Definitely doesn't matter
if it's safe or not.
You know, if it's not to me, you'd
have yellow stickers all over it.
It all looks good on
paper, but will it work?
This is a piece of shit.
I found change.
What if we don't take it?
I think we should put a full
throttle knife or switch on it.
Five liters, you could
pump up pretty good.
Swingy hit full throttle, kicks
in like an extra 200 horsepower.
You know, it only opens
about 70 degrees, so.
We're going to drop a pin
in the hinge, big pin.
To lock those doors forward,
we're going to rip this panel out.
Here's all this extra space
that we could cut out.
And we're going to run an old rear motor,
polished, deadly sharp.
I'm thinking if I'm a halfway
intelligent person golfing.
And I see a five liter Mustang
coming with straight pipes.
A chrome lawnmower's coming out the side.
I'm going to let him play through.
We got it roughed out.
Now we actually have a
half-ass achievable plan.
The 11 hours, 23 sketches
and 51 pencil points later.
The design day is over.
Day two, enter the build crew.
For this task, Jesse is
brought together only the best.
Billy Lane is a rebel motorcycle
designer from Melbourne, Florida.
When I got out of college, I had this
great job lined up to work at NASA,
making it over 50,000 a year.
And I didn't want the job, I decided
I want to be a grease monkey.
It's a little motorcycle.
My contraris of Hermosa Beach,
California is an oil rig rough neck.
We build the whole oil rig completely
from all the rails and everything else.
All the way down to the top drive
that actually spans the bit.
Carol Hyge, wrenches on classic English
cars in her hometown
of Seattle, Washington.
I mean, anything involving sending
sparks shooting and melting metal.
It's great.
Bill died just from
Long Beach, California.
He is a master mechanic who builds
high-end motorcycles for Jesse James.
All my life, I've been
different than everybody else.
If they say I won't
work, it's got to work.
This team must build the Mustang
Motor in five days and five nights.
They will work, eat, and even sleep
here if necessary to get the job done.
You don't need this anymore, doing?
Day two, the build crew goes to work.
It's time to gut the beast.
All non-essential parts must go.
The first operation is to remove
and relocate the 20 gallon gas tank.
Will you want to use this gas tank?
We can just relocate.
Take the gas tank out,
cut the exhaust off.
Are you going to catch you on the falls?
It's heavy.
It's heavy.
Take it on the fuel filler.
Is this cast up somewhere in your face?
The fumes are making me dizzy.
Let's get this protective
shield out of here.
Let's try to save this lead
for that fuel pump thing.
And we can just run it straight
up to the back of the seat.
There's one more line right here.
I can't film my legs.
I got this head.
Don't let that side get
lower than this head.
We'll put it right in the head.
Got to keep that in higher.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Oh, gas on my neck.
Oh, hey, don't fit.
What's the termination
we're supposed to do?
Okay.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
There.
That works.
Could've got this thing right here.
That's support.
Oh, where are you there?
Where am I?
Right there.
Wait, hang on.
Make sure it has a leg room.
Let's check.
Dude, what Dr. Barley makes
your pickles out of this?
The team is rocking and George is
trying his best to stay ahead of them.
This is why I am suffering
from absolute frustration.
But as the clock turns, the only
thing turning is his stomach.
We've been searching for pieces
for the deck and for the reels.
And we found what we wanted.
We even spent considerable
amount of money to have those
Frated from Atlanta.
Snapper designer Bobby
Cleveland has found a Delta deck
collecting dust in a Georgia warehouse.
But they're supposed to be here.
Not here.
So now we're trying to chase him down.
Get him here.
The gas tank has been
moved to the backseat.
Now the fuel line must be rerouted.
Here comes some gas, sit.
What are your safety glasses, woman?
Sure, I'll stop for
the light to secure it.
We'll tie that back up and then
we'll run the fuel lines in there
to the gas tank and
we'll be doing just fine.
Next in line for the monster
mechanics is the exhaust system.
All right.
Let's get the plasma cutter over here.
Where's that plasma cutter?
Let's cut this exhaust out of the lift.
We're going to need all this
space from the rear end back.
We'll just put side pipes
out of it or something.
If we cut them here,
it's probably going to be
the place you're going
to be able to get around.
For this job, Jesse grabs the
ultimate shot tool, the plasma cutter.
It uses electrically charged super
heated gas to slice through steel
like a hot knife through butter.
The gas tank relocated and the gas lines
repositioned will the
monster come to life.
We're going to try to fire it up.
We're not going to blow up.
How do you know what it looks like?
Hey, you know what?
It worked out well.
I do back there.
Maybe stick around for that.
Got that little test slide over there.
There's that one.
What?
If that's all it is.
It's reset.
That's when you get in the wreck.
It's set.
Let's see.
Okay, now as you see, we got it fired up.
Everything's good.
We're in.
That was the hardest
part of the whole job.
The rest is fun.
Today was a good assessment day.
We actually got it.
We actually accomplished a
lot by taking all the stuff.
We needed out of the
trunk, which is we gained
a lot more space than
I thought we'd have.
And then relocated the gas tank
where the back seat used to be.
And then rerouted all
the fuel lines and fuel
injection and fuel pump
stuff back there too.
So it's a running car again.
The Mustang will move.
But will it move?
Don't go against it.
Watch the garage.
We'll be right back.
Day three was to begin with the installation
of the giant Delta Mallard deck.
But it's missing in action
somewhere between L.A.
and Locus Grove, Georgia.
Like a train.
Real lowers.
Are you going to go break them up?
Run over to the ER and
grab some CEO training.
So the crew takes their meager
budget in search of major parts.
Caroleville and Jesse
had to Jesse Shopping
is met Black 54 chopped
in channeled Chevy.
Their mission scrounge some
2 by 2 inch metal tubing.
Who is that? Who is that?
George Billy and Mike
go looking for two push
-type mowers, which will
drop down from the doors.
The real mowers were a
strict cash outlayer.
That's getting all hot.
Very winter to go just
about everywhere, Tom.
We picked up two 18 inch wheels.
I don't know how you're
going to break it to this.
Carole tears out the door panels
to make room for the push mowers.
Right now these old fashioned
machines appear to be just the ticket.
But in the near future,
these simple mowers
are going to complicate everyone's life.
Easy muscles.
You can wear that up to a club.
When does God?
I just go in as far as you can.
I mean, I know it's not
going to go in flush.
I would start off better than to sneak
up on it instead of cut too much.
We have to start off right here, baby.
I actually like to make it.
That's pretty heavy, do you?
Well, the others chow down.
George is still chasing the big blade.
Okay, it's going to be here
delivered by here by three o'clock.
The ace mechanics take
a break and talk about
what triggered their
gear head chromosomes.
I always tell everybody, I
was really good at legos.
I just have that ability
to take a bunch of little
pieces and start visualizing
and start making it.
I remember when I was
a kid sitting inside
the garage and my dad
would be working stuff.
So I spent a lot of time with pops,
you know, just getting involved.
I guess growing up with brothers
used to lean around guys.
I worked on cars and
motorcycles all my life.
I wasn't really rich.
I couldn't really afford to pay.
Pay to have somebody fix
themselves and it fix my own stuff.
It's 4 o'clock and George
is really under the gun.
If the deck doesn't arrive within
an hour, another day is lost.
Jim, do you have a telephone number
where I can reach the people here in LA?
Unbelievable.
The world hates me.
Finally, at 10 minutes
to five, the 48 inch
tree-bladed Delta style
mowing deck arrives.
Great news for the team, but a lot of
time was lost waiting for the part.
This will give us a perfect
place to mount that mower.
Let's measure that thing right
now and see if it will fit.
We're going to just waist it up
under there to see how big it is.
You're going to take a set it on the
back of there to see what it looks like.
Look at that.
How's that look from back there, George?
Can you see it that much?
Not really.
You can see the wheels
in the basic part of it.
You can lose the spirit.
If you'd like it, it would look just
like part of the body and frame.
Oh, work.
It's perfect.
You got to keep the line though.
I got there, Carl.
I got it.
What would you probably do?
Let's take some cardboard.
And some tape.
Let's make a chipboard.
Just a rectangle of the size of this.
That way we're not having to lug
this big heavy thing up in there.
We'll put it up there.
We'll figure out our dimensions of
the swivel to get it up and back.
Then we're done.
We can hold it right up here and whack
all this stuff out where we don't need it.
More in.
More out.
At the end of a 14 hour frustrating
day, the team wants to call it quits.
I found a perfect molar
attachment for the front.
Where is it?
But there's no quits in Jesse James.
Cute.
And I like this little guy right here.
Oh, damn.
What's your name?
Huh?
You think you're better
and lower than us, huh?
Yes.
This is a little bit.
Hey, everybody, big swag here.
Now it's time to check
out the competition.
We're just meant away from finding out if
Jesse's power pony can
really eat up the turf.
Day four.
Work has begun on the door reels
and the rear deck has arrived.
But the team is a long way from the door.
Hey, careful.
Scratch-pain.
You passed that one?
No.
We got that one.
We got that one. Door stopped down.
So the door opened all the way to 90.
There it is.
There it is.
That's a 90.
That's a 90.
The more mechanism looks good on paper.
But how's it really going to work?
We'll just pivot it out here.
So please write that
bar come out like this.
That way it can come out when it goes up.
Yeah, it's like that
and then it slides down.
That can be done.
Easy.
You'll see that it's not
quite that easy because
that ball would have to
melt like right here.
And then you can't pivot this up.
How about if we put it on the axle?
Do you know how about we take
the wheel off and then do it?
This swing's on.
Put a pin in the axle.
If it's here, if it's here.
And then it swings up.
And then what would happen is it would
actually want to be the door upside down.
This.
And then you clear this.
And then drop.
Yeah. And you have plenty of
room because it's up iron.
We'll have to see.
Yeah.
We're going to be able to.
Billy seems to have come up with a
suspension design that might work.
The door ones, I think, are
going to actually be harder.
And then the rear because the
rear is just dropping straight on.
It's basically on a track.
Yeah.
And my kids were telling this friend
of mine, hey, we have a computer.
We have a computer.
My friend Dom said, well, that's cool.
Do you guys know how to use any tools?
There's always going to be a need for people
who can make something out of nothing.
When I was in engineering school, there
was kids in the classes who were brilliant.
When it came to doing a math problem.
But if you ask them to apply
it, what do you mean apply it?
We got our rims.
It was done in traditional
compassion too.
We already had these picked
out before we even knew
what the hell we were
going to do with the car.
A guy do a lot of business with
the son owns L.A. wire wheels.
And so he hooks me up
whenever I need something.
And then he's ready for everything.
For you, baby.
No, no.
Thank you, car candy green.
The green is for the money.
The gold is for the honey.
Green for the money.
Gold for the honey.
Bill and Billy fabricated a
bracket to mount the 10 horsepower
Biggs and Stratten
motor on the Delta deck.
With the tank gone, there's enough
room for the 48 inch motor deck.
But not enough for the motor, so
Jesse cuts out the trunk's floor.
Monster garage mantra.
When Brains fail, brute
strength prevails.
The deck should fit
almost tight against here.
The brackets will come out on here.
It's going to hang down probably
an inch and a half or so in here.
Meanwhile, Roughneck Mike fabricates a
lightweight replica of the 200 pound more.
It's going to be a 3D
template, so we can find
out just exactly how much
clearance we do have.
That way we can find out exactly
what we need to cut or what we don't.
Nothing in theory should
go right up in there.
Just like that.
We actually got way more
clearance than I thought we had.
We'll probably have to do some
mounts off the stamped frame rails.
I'm going to start working on the
patterns for this bracket and back.
So we'll do a little engineering.
So basically we need a bracket.
This sits in here and ten inches down.
Tell it, which clicks out.
The mower will travel down on steel
tracks into a cutting position.
From half inch steel, Jesse begins
to fabricate the mower track plates.
We're going to give it like inch and a
half holes to give it a little clearance.
Jesse uses a drill press
and a band saw to create
the slots for the mower
to move up and down.
He also turns skateboard
wheels, which will be
attached to the mower and
travel in the slotted tracks.
We're going to try to
run this thing today
on the floor before we
put it up in the car.
But even master mechanics are subject to
Murphy's law and anything
that can go wrong will.
It's not.
How come it's not?
Part of the problem maybe because
the motor is not grounded.
So this is the start.
That's it.
Okay.
How is it killing this battery?
This battery starts the frigging car
and these wires are getting really hot.
Something's up with that
start because this battery's
plenty start strong enough
to start up that V8.
Start engine outdoors.
Wait until any spilled fuel evaporates.
That's what we got.
I knew she would find
that part of the manual.
Being as we don't have a
starter repair shop for
ten horsepower motors will
be full starting this.
Let me try to be this model man.
Oh, come on, I had it going.
That world's actually
not left for you now.
Yeah, I like that.
I know.
Yeah, obviously it starts at
runs as far as this project.
We have bigger picture
to fry than that starter.
We can pull start right now.
It runs.
I think we should move on somehow.
Push it up.
All right.
Let's set this bumper back on here so we
can see how far back it could actually go.
Jesse went to machine some parts for the
rails to actually hold
this thing in place.
Oh, you're done with those?
Yeah.
You, you.
Hey, look at that.
See skateboard view
action speed bearings.
Let's raise that up and hold
these up there real quick.
Let me take this off.
All right.
All we got to do is make a bracket.
It's like a tee that holds
two of these right up here.
Probably spread them out
like six or eight inches.
That should keep more than keep
it from rocking back and forth.
Yeah, sure.
I mean, we're going to rock or nothing.
I mean, that's going to be strong.
We're going to weld this
right to the frame rails.
The team will weld brackets to the
mower wheels attached to the brackets.
And the whole assembly fits
into this lot of tracks.
Jesse spot wells the mower
tracks to the Mustang's frame.
I should be stuck.
How's it, is it?
Yeah.
Yes, cool.
If we make an L bracket
off the frame, then
it won't keep it from
shimmy inside the side.
Why don't you make the brackets
with the wheels on and facing out.
We'll put the plates on it and tack
the plates on there in position.
So they're held there and then
hold it up there and tack it.
We're almost ready to mow.
As we're tightening the bolts,
it's pushing the bearings into.
We're going to need
to put it in a washer.
So we're going to have to shorten
that by just to hear that moment.
Yeah.
You know, we originally were talking
about it in the design phase.
I thought it was going to work like crap.
You know, it's kind of going
to be a joke alarm alarm.
I think it's actually
going to really mow grass.
Monster garage factoid.
A square foot of lawn has
3,000 blades of grass.
And a single grass plant
has 387 miles of root.
Day five begins on a bad note.
The giant mower deck goes
up, but not far enough.
So this is the size it's going to go.
Well, we got more travel.
We could angle this up more.
So the size out. I mean, put
this. So the size out farther.
We're just going to adjust this bracket.
That's why we just tacked this temporary.
So we could test the travel of it.
So now we got to raise this
up about 3 inches or so.
So it has more room to go up higher.
The more motor needs more clearance.
That cut is a direct
indication of how tired I am.
I don't even drink.
The delta deck will be
pulled up and down by
a steel cable threaded
through the rear wall
and attached to a winch.
Bill has figured out
how to lower and raise
the mower deck by
installing a small winch
in the back seat.
We don't need to go through reverse.
I got to hook up a double switch, maybe.
The parts budget of $3
,000 is almost maxed out.
But the winch was an old used winch day.
I don't know what was
laying around my shop.
I don't even know where it came from.
I ran just some tubing.
Just be tested on there.
But it'll pull and retract.
We got to wire it up yet.
We should pull the mower
up about another 2 inches.
Bill's a bit one click.
All right.
Let's do that again.
There's a line.
You're prying it.
It's so far.
The plastic wheels seize up
causing the winch to overheat.
Another second back.
You're stuck?
Yeah.
We're going to make some
different wheels with
some bigger either 5,
6, 6, or 1,5 inch bolts.
The skateboard wheels didn't work.
Take those in the shop tomorrow.
We'll machine some out of some steel.
Just a little bit.
We got to finish well everything
and Gus did so strong.
Make some new wheels because you can see.
It's tearing a hell out of wheels.
Those are hard skateboard wheels.
They work enough to carry my fat.
But not for the big giant lawn mower.
A new starter for the
mower motor arrives.
Here's the bad one.
And there's the good one.
It's time to fire up
the mighty Delta deck.
That's the new one.
But amazingly, this
one has burned out too.
Same deal.
That's time to stop.
Pretty much ready to go home.
Are good.
Day 5 ends in disaster.
The mower deck didn't go up high enough.
The winch almost burned out.
This gate wheels ate it.
The second starter motor failed.
Day 5 was a complete bust.
And there's only one
more build day to go.
Day 6, the final day of building.
With only a few hours sleep,
the crew is back to work.
Late last night, Bill made some custom
steel wheels while the other slouch.
Custom made.
The wheels are in.
What will they support
the 200 pound deck?
They're ready?
Yeah.
Go ahead, though.
All right.
There is a reverse.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Now the winch is able to
pull up and drop the mower.
This is the third starter.
Will it finally fire?
The delta deck is awesome,
but the door mowers are still not cut.
The doors, the doors.
If it doesn't do 100
miles an hour of mowing,
then we didn't do our
job with some failure.
You know, if we do something that
the flops out, it's going to be,
when you hit stuff, it's
going to, it's a broken joint,
but if we do something that
slides straight down, it's locked.
Since we got the patterns for the
wheels and everything already,
we'll put a track at that.
The real mower will be like this.
You'll drop down to ground level.
With the bearing on it, it'll bottom out.
We'll make it so bottoms out.
Have a dual thing, so
it doesn't tilt back.
And this will go up and suck it up.
So it's below the bottom
level of the door.
We're going to have to come in here.
Cut all this stuff out.
And take some of that one by one tubing.
And basically build a
whole box structure.
So it'll be nice and strong.
Tie it into the inside where
the hedges are spot welded.
So it's going to weld it right to then.
Sometimes it's easy
to out-trick ourselves
and make something
that's over-complicated.
And you're something to be said about
just having it straight down straight up.
Jesse's new idea is simpler,
but it's very late in the game.
And the crew has only 10 hours left.
George has priced motor
driven door reels,
but at $2,400 a piece,
they're out of the question.
A decision is made.
The door mowers will be strictly
ornamental, a major setback.
On this final day, the team must build
the new door mechanisms from scratch.
They've also decided to add a flame throwing
exhaust system to try and save face.
The budget is blown, so George scavenges
a couple of more reels from a junkyard.
We did it.
This kick out should
give it enough clearance,
and it shouldn't slide
out on the slide angle.
The motor.
Once the motor is gone, we turn on the
spark or just pump it and make all that gas.
This hasn't burned up, it'll
shoot up and back here.
Let's see how it goes.
They're trying to pull up, they know.
Yeah!
5 cooling days are over.
Cash for parts, $2,994 in 17 cents.
The rear deck is in, the door reels drop.
The exhaust system works, and the
switch blade is ready for action.
But what's it all been about?
That's what I see.
As the exhausted crew
sleeps, very late at night.
Tom prool it of Damon's
transforms the stang into
a shiny green metal-flaked
fire-breeding dragon.
I'm going to paint this
thing up, we're going to
put green for the money
and gold for the honey's.
I'm going to top it off with some
chameleon flamish mouse color.
I think Jesse and Timmy just
want to look for this thing.
So we're going to use a lime
-time house color green base coat.
We're going to put some yellow
lime, a lake over there.
I'm going to give it about 5 coats of
candy apple, lime gold, house color.
It's going to look like it's going
to 100 miles an hour sitting still.
Tomorrow, the final test.
Monster Garage Factoid.
In 1990, there were 30 million
acres of lawn in the United States.
Don't flood your engine, Monster
Garage will be right back.
We're rolling all the way out to
India about 100 miles from LA.
And I guess the the bad of grass
is a place called West Coast turf.
We're going to go out
there and check it out.
Day 7, the final trial.
The switch blade lives in breath.
Now watch the world's
fastest lawnmower chew
up the turf and eat
the competition alive.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the big shrank with my co
-host Frankie Whiteside
monster garage challenge.
West Coast turf it looks to
be a big burn burner frame.
I got to tell you swag.
I have never ever been
this pumped up before race.
Daniel Torres on a 7-game tractor more
tip-been the scales at over 4,000 pounds.
He looks confident.
And Jesse James in his 1990 Mustang G
convertible riding up and down the track.
I think he's trying to
intimidate his competition frame.
Never going to happen, swag.
I spoke to Daniel
Torres before this race.
He is called.
He is determined.
He is ready to go.
Mono, Mono.
It's like the thriller in Manila.
Look at the stared out of
the eyes and Jesse James.
Could Jesse have been enough more soft
than he can chew Frank Daniel Torres.
Perhaps his engine.
And James Ravs back.
Now Jesse James is getting his
first look at this big bad machine.
Look at the blades come down.
Oh, there are seven of them.
And Daniel Torres gets his first look
at the tire slashing lawn ruckin.
There's the eye.
The engines are Evan and
the race is about to start.
Three, two, one.
There up.
Oh, one of them start for Daniel Torres.
He's way out of head.
Is Jesse James having
mechanical problems, Frank?
No.
No.
Like the tortoise in that hair, is
he that confident in his machine?
Oh, did you see that bolt of lightning?
Daniel Torres is halfway down the track.
Well, look at this.
Jesse his cool.
He's come.
He's collected.
He reps the engine.
And he guns it.
I think it may be too late swag.
Look at how fast he's going.
Already swag.
He's up to 30 miles an hour.
The he is reaching speeds
up to 70 miles per hour.
That fort.
He's about to pass Daniel
Torres and stretch.
You got to be kidding me, Frank.
I can't believe it.
I feel for Daniel Torres.
One and upset.
They can see the look of rejection.
40 seconds left.
He is a new lawnmower record, Frank.
It's got to be a big
blow for West Coast hurt.
Folks, I am speechless.
But look at the not a gesture of mutual
respect between Jesse
James and Daniel Torres.
You don't see that often in
the lawnmower business, Frank.
No, you don't swag.
And I am proud that I was here.
Well, there's no time for fun and games.
He's off to his next big
challenge in the monster garage.
Come on.
Wow.
Are they really for us or do we
have to run away and steal him?
No, they're for you guys.
He gives the tools before
we start the project.
I know.
We need it, though.
That's neat.
Thank you.
A lot of shiny tools, huh?
Wow.
Very cool.
Very good job, guys.
Thanks for watching.
Transcribed by whisperAI with faster-whisper (tiny) on 18 Oct 2025 - 04:31:27
day here in Indio, California.
It's 65 degrees, and the wind is coming
out of the southwest at 6 miles per hour.
The conditions are near perfect.
So sit the kids down, tie up the dog.
Grab your favorite beverage.
The next monster garage challenge
is just around the back.
Join us now as Jesse James in his gang of
fabric mechanics, rip, grind, and burn.
Transforming ordinary street vehicles into
monster machines in the monster garage.
This week's challenge, take
a 1994 Mustang GT5-liter
convertible and transform it into
the world's fastest lawnmower.
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.
Jesse and his team have seven days in
nights to design, build and race the car.
If the team is successful, they will each
be awarded a Mac tool
kit valued at $3,400.
And the clock starts now, day one.
Before a monster is born,
it must be conceived.
Jesse James arrives with
his design team, artists,
engineers and specialists
from across the US.
But Jesse didn't tell his gang
what they'd be starting with.
It's cute, huh?
What are we going to do with this now?
It's going to be a mower.
A must-ang mower.
A must-ang mower.
A stock-1990 Mustang GT convertible
with a 200 horsepower motor capable
of speeds in excess of 130 miles per
hour is a good machine to begin with.
But making it cut grass at high speed
will take some monster modifications.
So the design team ascends to the
war room to coordinate their attack.
I just want to see
everybody's head collect
this when they see us
roll us out on my god.
Jesse James, a direct descendant
of the legendary outlaw,
is one of the premier motorcycle
builders in the world.
He's built one of a kind bikes for
some very high profile customers.
For Jesse, bike building
is a labor of love.
But why did he take on this
challenge of turning a stock
Mustang into a ground pounding,
sod slashing steel rocket?
I think it's just the
smart, wise thing to do.
We're going to take something that's
pretty non-threatening, generally accepted.
Everybody likes it and make it
something that's going to scare people.
When I thought as we
could just sit here and
just get conceptual,
all right, we got a car.
Mike Desmond was chosen for the
team because of his talents as a
designer for Mitsubishi Motors and
his strong desire to break the rules.
I think everything is over-designed.
I think I think with this project
we're going back to basics.
But for these guys, what
does back to basics mean?
I want a mind to be a half-track Mustang.
A half-track concept is
killer with calendar.
Keep throwing ideas out.
It should be like that off-screen
aircraft, which is like they flip out.
Deep in the heart of the
south is Locus Grove, Georgia.
There, Jesse recruited
Bobby Cleveland, head
engineer for the Snapper
lawnmower company.
Bobby's also the number one
lawnmower racer in America.
I've been around a lot of lawnmowers, but
I've never imagined anything like this.
Perfect lawn cutter is when the
grain is just as pretty as corn.
Well, this machine, on
the other hand, is you'd
be lucky to have a lawn
left when you get through.
Hopefully nobody gets their toes cut off.
What about using something like
on the front of a con button?
It's the big wheel like the reapers?
George Bears is a 40-year veteran
of the automotive service industry.
He's blown in from Stuart Florida.
The team that I'm working
with, well, they've
got visions that I've never seen before,
and trying to find the pieces that go
with it's going to be even crazier.
Let's just make it explode.
Given enough time and money,
these designs could be built,
but the rules of the
game must be abided by.
We need to make this car look
like a completely stock Mustang.
I think it in a week,
you know, if you get
tricked, but we can't,
like, outtrick ourselves.
Do you think it would
be actually easier to
come straight out of the truck backwards?
So you pull it back?
It gets closer to the ground.
The delta type is, would be big
enough, probably fit in there.
Well, you got your blade to here.
He got three blades.
Right.
And that could fold into the trunk.
That's what I started.
And that could be, instead
of doing some robotics,
that could be a lever actually.
The rear deck will mow down the
middle, but what about the sides?
You know, you might have to make
it where you get slung to go open,
and then you just pull the lever and
this just pop down to the ground.
I was thinking, calling
it the switch blade.
Definitely doesn't matter
if it's safe or not.
You know, if it's not to me, you'd
have yellow stickers all over it.
It all looks good on
paper, but will it work?
This is a piece of shit.
I found change.
What if we don't take it?
I think we should put a full
throttle knife or switch on it.
Five liters, you could
pump up pretty good.
Swingy hit full throttle, kicks
in like an extra 200 horsepower.
You know, it only opens
about 70 degrees, so.
We're going to drop a pin
in the hinge, big pin.
To lock those doors forward,
we're going to rip this panel out.
Here's all this extra space
that we could cut out.
And we're going to run an old rear motor,
polished, deadly sharp.
I'm thinking if I'm a halfway
intelligent person golfing.
And I see a five liter Mustang
coming with straight pipes.
A chrome lawnmower's coming out the side.
I'm going to let him play through.
We got it roughed out.
Now we actually have a
half-ass achievable plan.
The 11 hours, 23 sketches
and 51 pencil points later.
The design day is over.
Day two, enter the build crew.
For this task, Jesse is
brought together only the best.
Billy Lane is a rebel motorcycle
designer from Melbourne, Florida.
When I got out of college, I had this
great job lined up to work at NASA,
making it over 50,000 a year.
And I didn't want the job, I decided
I want to be a grease monkey.
It's a little motorcycle.
My contraris of Hermosa Beach,
California is an oil rig rough neck.
We build the whole oil rig completely
from all the rails and everything else.
All the way down to the top drive
that actually spans the bit.
Carol Hyge, wrenches on classic English
cars in her hometown
of Seattle, Washington.
I mean, anything involving sending
sparks shooting and melting metal.
It's great.
Bill died just from
Long Beach, California.
He is a master mechanic who builds
high-end motorcycles for Jesse James.
All my life, I've been
different than everybody else.
If they say I won't
work, it's got to work.
This team must build the Mustang
Motor in five days and five nights.
They will work, eat, and even sleep
here if necessary to get the job done.
You don't need this anymore, doing?
Day two, the build crew goes to work.
It's time to gut the beast.
All non-essential parts must go.
The first operation is to remove
and relocate the 20 gallon gas tank.
Will you want to use this gas tank?
We can just relocate.
Take the gas tank out,
cut the exhaust off.
Are you going to catch you on the falls?
It's heavy.
It's heavy.
Take it on the fuel filler.
Is this cast up somewhere in your face?
The fumes are making me dizzy.
Let's get this protective
shield out of here.
Let's try to save this lead
for that fuel pump thing.
And we can just run it straight
up to the back of the seat.
There's one more line right here.
I can't film my legs.
I got this head.
Don't let that side get
lower than this head.
We'll put it right in the head.
Got to keep that in higher.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Oh, gas on my neck.
Oh, hey, don't fit.
What's the termination
we're supposed to do?
Okay.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
There.
That works.
Could've got this thing right here.
That's support.
Oh, where are you there?
Where am I?
Right there.
Wait, hang on.
Make sure it has a leg room.
Let's check.
Dude, what Dr. Barley makes
your pickles out of this?
The team is rocking and George is
trying his best to stay ahead of them.
This is why I am suffering
from absolute frustration.
But as the clock turns, the only
thing turning is his stomach.
We've been searching for pieces
for the deck and for the reels.
And we found what we wanted.
We even spent considerable
amount of money to have those
Frated from Atlanta.
Snapper designer Bobby
Cleveland has found a Delta deck
collecting dust in a Georgia warehouse.
But they're supposed to be here.
Not here.
So now we're trying to chase him down.
Get him here.
The gas tank has been
moved to the backseat.
Now the fuel line must be rerouted.
Here comes some gas, sit.
What are your safety glasses, woman?
Sure, I'll stop for
the light to secure it.
We'll tie that back up and then
we'll run the fuel lines in there
to the gas tank and
we'll be doing just fine.
Next in line for the monster
mechanics is the exhaust system.
All right.
Let's get the plasma cutter over here.
Where's that plasma cutter?
Let's cut this exhaust out of the lift.
We're going to need all this
space from the rear end back.
We'll just put side pipes
out of it or something.
If we cut them here,
it's probably going to be
the place you're going
to be able to get around.
For this job, Jesse grabs the
ultimate shot tool, the plasma cutter.
It uses electrically charged super
heated gas to slice through steel
like a hot knife through butter.
The gas tank relocated and the gas lines
repositioned will the
monster come to life.
We're going to try to fire it up.
We're not going to blow up.
How do you know what it looks like?
Hey, you know what?
It worked out well.
I do back there.
Maybe stick around for that.
Got that little test slide over there.
There's that one.
What?
If that's all it is.
It's reset.
That's when you get in the wreck.
It's set.
Let's see.
Okay, now as you see, we got it fired up.
Everything's good.
We're in.
That was the hardest
part of the whole job.
The rest is fun.
Today was a good assessment day.
We actually got it.
We actually accomplished a
lot by taking all the stuff.
We needed out of the
trunk, which is we gained
a lot more space than
I thought we'd have.
And then relocated the gas tank
where the back seat used to be.
And then rerouted all
the fuel lines and fuel
injection and fuel pump
stuff back there too.
So it's a running car again.
The Mustang will move.
But will it move?
Don't go against it.
Watch the garage.
We'll be right back.
Day three was to begin with the installation
of the giant Delta Mallard deck.
But it's missing in action
somewhere between L.A.
and Locus Grove, Georgia.
Like a train.
Real lowers.
Are you going to go break them up?
Run over to the ER and
grab some CEO training.
So the crew takes their meager
budget in search of major parts.
Caroleville and Jesse
had to Jesse Shopping
is met Black 54 chopped
in channeled Chevy.
Their mission scrounge some
2 by 2 inch metal tubing.
Who is that? Who is that?
George Billy and Mike
go looking for two push
-type mowers, which will
drop down from the doors.
The real mowers were a
strict cash outlayer.
That's getting all hot.
Very winter to go just
about everywhere, Tom.
We picked up two 18 inch wheels.
I don't know how you're
going to break it to this.
Carole tears out the door panels
to make room for the push mowers.
Right now these old fashioned
machines appear to be just the ticket.
But in the near future,
these simple mowers
are going to complicate everyone's life.
Easy muscles.
You can wear that up to a club.
When does God?
I just go in as far as you can.
I mean, I know it's not
going to go in flush.
I would start off better than to sneak
up on it instead of cut too much.
We have to start off right here, baby.
I actually like to make it.
That's pretty heavy, do you?
Well, the others chow down.
George is still chasing the big blade.
Okay, it's going to be here
delivered by here by three o'clock.
The ace mechanics take
a break and talk about
what triggered their
gear head chromosomes.
I always tell everybody, I
was really good at legos.
I just have that ability
to take a bunch of little
pieces and start visualizing
and start making it.
I remember when I was
a kid sitting inside
the garage and my dad
would be working stuff.
So I spent a lot of time with pops,
you know, just getting involved.
I guess growing up with brothers
used to lean around guys.
I worked on cars and
motorcycles all my life.
I wasn't really rich.
I couldn't really afford to pay.
Pay to have somebody fix
themselves and it fix my own stuff.
It's 4 o'clock and George
is really under the gun.
If the deck doesn't arrive within
an hour, another day is lost.
Jim, do you have a telephone number
where I can reach the people here in LA?
Unbelievable.
The world hates me.
Finally, at 10 minutes
to five, the 48 inch
tree-bladed Delta style
mowing deck arrives.
Great news for the team, but a lot of
time was lost waiting for the part.
This will give us a perfect
place to mount that mower.
Let's measure that thing right
now and see if it will fit.
We're going to just waist it up
under there to see how big it is.
You're going to take a set it on the
back of there to see what it looks like.
Look at that.
How's that look from back there, George?
Can you see it that much?
Not really.
You can see the wheels
in the basic part of it.
You can lose the spirit.
If you'd like it, it would look just
like part of the body and frame.
Oh, work.
It's perfect.
You got to keep the line though.
I got there, Carl.
I got it.
What would you probably do?
Let's take some cardboard.
And some tape.
Let's make a chipboard.
Just a rectangle of the size of this.
That way we're not having to lug
this big heavy thing up in there.
We'll put it up there.
We'll figure out our dimensions of
the swivel to get it up and back.
Then we're done.
We can hold it right up here and whack
all this stuff out where we don't need it.
More in.
More out.
At the end of a 14 hour frustrating
day, the team wants to call it quits.
I found a perfect molar
attachment for the front.
Where is it?
But there's no quits in Jesse James.
Cute.
And I like this little guy right here.
Oh, damn.
What's your name?
Huh?
You think you're better
and lower than us, huh?
Yes.
This is a little bit.
Hey, everybody, big swag here.
Now it's time to check
out the competition.
We're just meant away from finding out if
Jesse's power pony can
really eat up the turf.
Day four.
Work has begun on the door reels
and the rear deck has arrived.
But the team is a long way from the door.
Hey, careful.
Scratch-pain.
You passed that one?
No.
We got that one.
We got that one. Door stopped down.
So the door opened all the way to 90.
There it is.
There it is.
That's a 90.
That's a 90.
The more mechanism looks good on paper.
But how's it really going to work?
We'll just pivot it out here.
So please write that
bar come out like this.
That way it can come out when it goes up.
Yeah, it's like that
and then it slides down.
That can be done.
Easy.
You'll see that it's not
quite that easy because
that ball would have to
melt like right here.
And then you can't pivot this up.
How about if we put it on the axle?
Do you know how about we take
the wheel off and then do it?
This swing's on.
Put a pin in the axle.
If it's here, if it's here.
And then it swings up.
And then what would happen is it would
actually want to be the door upside down.
This.
And then you clear this.
And then drop.
Yeah. And you have plenty of
room because it's up iron.
We'll have to see.
Yeah.
We're going to be able to.
Billy seems to have come up with a
suspension design that might work.
The door ones, I think, are
going to actually be harder.
And then the rear because the
rear is just dropping straight on.
It's basically on a track.
Yeah.
And my kids were telling this friend
of mine, hey, we have a computer.
We have a computer.
My friend Dom said, well, that's cool.
Do you guys know how to use any tools?
There's always going to be a need for people
who can make something out of nothing.
When I was in engineering school, there
was kids in the classes who were brilliant.
When it came to doing a math problem.
But if you ask them to apply
it, what do you mean apply it?
We got our rims.
It was done in traditional
compassion too.
We already had these picked
out before we even knew
what the hell we were
going to do with the car.
A guy do a lot of business with
the son owns L.A. wire wheels.
And so he hooks me up
whenever I need something.
And then he's ready for everything.
For you, baby.
No, no.
Thank you, car candy green.
The green is for the money.
The gold is for the honey.
Green for the money.
Gold for the honey.
Bill and Billy fabricated a
bracket to mount the 10 horsepower
Biggs and Stratten
motor on the Delta deck.
With the tank gone, there's enough
room for the 48 inch motor deck.
But not enough for the motor, so
Jesse cuts out the trunk's floor.
Monster garage mantra.
When Brains fail, brute
strength prevails.
The deck should fit
almost tight against here.
The brackets will come out on here.
It's going to hang down probably
an inch and a half or so in here.
Meanwhile, Roughneck Mike fabricates a
lightweight replica of the 200 pound more.
It's going to be a 3D
template, so we can find
out just exactly how much
clearance we do have.
That way we can find out exactly
what we need to cut or what we don't.
Nothing in theory should
go right up in there.
Just like that.
We actually got way more
clearance than I thought we had.
We'll probably have to do some
mounts off the stamped frame rails.
I'm going to start working on the
patterns for this bracket and back.
So we'll do a little engineering.
So basically we need a bracket.
This sits in here and ten inches down.
Tell it, which clicks out.
The mower will travel down on steel
tracks into a cutting position.
From half inch steel, Jesse begins
to fabricate the mower track plates.
We're going to give it like inch and a
half holes to give it a little clearance.
Jesse uses a drill press
and a band saw to create
the slots for the mower
to move up and down.
He also turns skateboard
wheels, which will be
attached to the mower and
travel in the slotted tracks.
We're going to try to
run this thing today
on the floor before we
put it up in the car.
But even master mechanics are subject to
Murphy's law and anything
that can go wrong will.
It's not.
How come it's not?
Part of the problem maybe because
the motor is not grounded.
So this is the start.
That's it.
Okay.
How is it killing this battery?
This battery starts the frigging car
and these wires are getting really hot.
Something's up with that
start because this battery's
plenty start strong enough
to start up that V8.
Start engine outdoors.
Wait until any spilled fuel evaporates.
That's what we got.
I knew she would find
that part of the manual.
Being as we don't have a
starter repair shop for
ten horsepower motors will
be full starting this.
Let me try to be this model man.
Oh, come on, I had it going.
That world's actually
not left for you now.
Yeah, I like that.
I know.
Yeah, obviously it starts at
runs as far as this project.
We have bigger picture
to fry than that starter.
We can pull start right now.
It runs.
I think we should move on somehow.
Push it up.
All right.
Let's set this bumper back on here so we
can see how far back it could actually go.
Jesse went to machine some parts for the
rails to actually hold
this thing in place.
Oh, you're done with those?
Yeah.
You, you.
Hey, look at that.
See skateboard view
action speed bearings.
Let's raise that up and hold
these up there real quick.
Let me take this off.
All right.
All we got to do is make a bracket.
It's like a tee that holds
two of these right up here.
Probably spread them out
like six or eight inches.
That should keep more than keep
it from rocking back and forth.
Yeah, sure.
I mean, we're going to rock or nothing.
I mean, that's going to be strong.
We're going to weld this
right to the frame rails.
The team will weld brackets to the
mower wheels attached to the brackets.
And the whole assembly fits
into this lot of tracks.
Jesse spot wells the mower
tracks to the Mustang's frame.
I should be stuck.
How's it, is it?
Yeah.
Yes, cool.
If we make an L bracket
off the frame, then
it won't keep it from
shimmy inside the side.
Why don't you make the brackets
with the wheels on and facing out.
We'll put the plates on it and tack
the plates on there in position.
So they're held there and then
hold it up there and tack it.
We're almost ready to mow.
As we're tightening the bolts,
it's pushing the bearings into.
We're going to need
to put it in a washer.
So we're going to have to shorten
that by just to hear that moment.
Yeah.
You know, we originally were talking
about it in the design phase.
I thought it was going to work like crap.
You know, it's kind of going
to be a joke alarm alarm.
I think it's actually
going to really mow grass.
Monster garage factoid.
A square foot of lawn has
3,000 blades of grass.
And a single grass plant
has 387 miles of root.
Day five begins on a bad note.
The giant mower deck goes
up, but not far enough.
So this is the size it's going to go.
Well, we got more travel.
We could angle this up more.
So the size out. I mean, put
this. So the size out farther.
We're just going to adjust this bracket.
That's why we just tacked this temporary.
So we could test the travel of it.
So now we got to raise this
up about 3 inches or so.
So it has more room to go up higher.
The more motor needs more clearance.
That cut is a direct
indication of how tired I am.
I don't even drink.
The delta deck will be
pulled up and down by
a steel cable threaded
through the rear wall
and attached to a winch.
Bill has figured out
how to lower and raise
the mower deck by
installing a small winch
in the back seat.
We don't need to go through reverse.
I got to hook up a double switch, maybe.
The parts budget of $3
,000 is almost maxed out.
But the winch was an old used winch day.
I don't know what was
laying around my shop.
I don't even know where it came from.
I ran just some tubing.
Just be tested on there.
But it'll pull and retract.
We got to wire it up yet.
We should pull the mower
up about another 2 inches.
Bill's a bit one click.
All right.
Let's do that again.
There's a line.
You're prying it.
It's so far.
The plastic wheels seize up
causing the winch to overheat.
Another second back.
You're stuck?
Yeah.
We're going to make some
different wheels with
some bigger either 5,
6, 6, or 1,5 inch bolts.
The skateboard wheels didn't work.
Take those in the shop tomorrow.
We'll machine some out of some steel.
Just a little bit.
We got to finish well everything
and Gus did so strong.
Make some new wheels because you can see.
It's tearing a hell out of wheels.
Those are hard skateboard wheels.
They work enough to carry my fat.
But not for the big giant lawn mower.
A new starter for the
mower motor arrives.
Here's the bad one.
And there's the good one.
It's time to fire up
the mighty Delta deck.
That's the new one.
But amazingly, this
one has burned out too.
Same deal.
That's time to stop.
Pretty much ready to go home.
Are good.
Day 5 ends in disaster.
The mower deck didn't go up high enough.
The winch almost burned out.
This gate wheels ate it.
The second starter motor failed.
Day 5 was a complete bust.
And there's only one
more build day to go.
Day 6, the final day of building.
With only a few hours sleep,
the crew is back to work.
Late last night, Bill made some custom
steel wheels while the other slouch.
Custom made.
The wheels are in.
What will they support
the 200 pound deck?
They're ready?
Yeah.
Go ahead, though.
All right.
There is a reverse.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Now the winch is able to
pull up and drop the mower.
This is the third starter.
Will it finally fire?
The delta deck is awesome,
but the door mowers are still not cut.
The doors, the doors.
If it doesn't do 100
miles an hour of mowing,
then we didn't do our
job with some failure.
You know, if we do something that
the flops out, it's going to be,
when you hit stuff, it's
going to, it's a broken joint,
but if we do something that
slides straight down, it's locked.
Since we got the patterns for the
wheels and everything already,
we'll put a track at that.
The real mower will be like this.
You'll drop down to ground level.
With the bearing on it, it'll bottom out.
We'll make it so bottoms out.
Have a dual thing, so
it doesn't tilt back.
And this will go up and suck it up.
So it's below the bottom
level of the door.
We're going to have to come in here.
Cut all this stuff out.
And take some of that one by one tubing.
And basically build a
whole box structure.
So it'll be nice and strong.
Tie it into the inside where
the hedges are spot welded.
So it's going to weld it right to then.
Sometimes it's easy
to out-trick ourselves
and make something
that's over-complicated.
And you're something to be said about
just having it straight down straight up.
Jesse's new idea is simpler,
but it's very late in the game.
And the crew has only 10 hours left.
George has priced motor
driven door reels,
but at $2,400 a piece,
they're out of the question.
A decision is made.
The door mowers will be strictly
ornamental, a major setback.
On this final day, the team must build
the new door mechanisms from scratch.
They've also decided to add a flame throwing
exhaust system to try and save face.
The budget is blown, so George scavenges
a couple of more reels from a junkyard.
We did it.
This kick out should
give it enough clearance,
and it shouldn't slide
out on the slide angle.
The motor.
Once the motor is gone, we turn on the
spark or just pump it and make all that gas.
This hasn't burned up, it'll
shoot up and back here.
Let's see how it goes.
They're trying to pull up, they know.
Yeah!
5 cooling days are over.
Cash for parts, $2,994 in 17 cents.
The rear deck is in, the door reels drop.
The exhaust system works, and the
switch blade is ready for action.
But what's it all been about?
That's what I see.
As the exhausted crew
sleeps, very late at night.
Tom prool it of Damon's
transforms the stang into
a shiny green metal-flaked
fire-breeding dragon.
I'm going to paint this
thing up, we're going to
put green for the money
and gold for the honey's.
I'm going to top it off with some
chameleon flamish mouse color.
I think Jesse and Timmy just
want to look for this thing.
So we're going to use a lime
-time house color green base coat.
We're going to put some yellow
lime, a lake over there.
I'm going to give it about 5 coats of
candy apple, lime gold, house color.
It's going to look like it's going
to 100 miles an hour sitting still.
Tomorrow, the final test.
Monster Garage Factoid.
In 1990, there were 30 million
acres of lawn in the United States.
Don't flood your engine, Monster
Garage will be right back.
We're rolling all the way out to
India about 100 miles from LA.
And I guess the the bad of grass
is a place called West Coast turf.
We're going to go out
there and check it out.
Day 7, the final trial.
The switch blade lives in breath.
Now watch the world's
fastest lawnmower chew
up the turf and eat
the competition alive.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the big shrank with my co
-host Frankie Whiteside
monster garage challenge.
West Coast turf it looks to
be a big burn burner frame.
I got to tell you swag.
I have never ever been
this pumped up before race.
Daniel Torres on a 7-game tractor more
tip-been the scales at over 4,000 pounds.
He looks confident.
And Jesse James in his 1990 Mustang G
convertible riding up and down the track.
I think he's trying to
intimidate his competition frame.
Never going to happen, swag.
I spoke to Daniel
Torres before this race.
He is called.
He is determined.
He is ready to go.
Mono, Mono.
It's like the thriller in Manila.
Look at the stared out of
the eyes and Jesse James.
Could Jesse have been enough more soft
than he can chew Frank Daniel Torres.
Perhaps his engine.
And James Ravs back.
Now Jesse James is getting his
first look at this big bad machine.
Look at the blades come down.
Oh, there are seven of them.
And Daniel Torres gets his first look
at the tire slashing lawn ruckin.
There's the eye.
The engines are Evan and
the race is about to start.
Three, two, one.
There up.
Oh, one of them start for Daniel Torres.
He's way out of head.
Is Jesse James having
mechanical problems, Frank?
No.
No.
Like the tortoise in that hair, is
he that confident in his machine?
Oh, did you see that bolt of lightning?
Daniel Torres is halfway down the track.
Well, look at this.
Jesse his cool.
He's come.
He's collected.
He reps the engine.
And he guns it.
I think it may be too late swag.
Look at how fast he's going.
Already swag.
He's up to 30 miles an hour.
The he is reaching speeds
up to 70 miles per hour.
That fort.
He's about to pass Daniel
Torres and stretch.
You got to be kidding me, Frank.
I can't believe it.
I feel for Daniel Torres.
One and upset.
They can see the look of rejection.
40 seconds left.
He is a new lawnmower record, Frank.
It's got to be a big
blow for West Coast hurt.
Folks, I am speechless.
But look at the not a gesture of mutual
respect between Jesse
James and Daniel Torres.
You don't see that often in
the lawnmower business, Frank.
No, you don't swag.
And I am proud that I was here.
Well, there's no time for fun and games.
He's off to his next big
challenge in the monster garage.
Come on.
Wow.
Are they really for us or do we
have to run away and steal him?
No, they're for you guys.
He gives the tools before
we start the project.
I know.
We need it, though.
That's neat.
Thank you.
A lot of shiny tools, huh?
Wow.
Very cool.
Very good job, guys.
Thanks for watching.
Transcribed by whisperAI with faster-whisper (tiny) on 18 Oct 2025 - 04:31:27