Monster Garage (2002) s01e22 Episode Script
Tundrinator
We're taking off Floss
Country again, looking for the
best-and-faddest homemade
monsters in a monster nation.
We don't care if it's a
beauty or a basket case.
We're going to drive it into your living
room, even if it's a
real piece of Chevrolet.
And we're heading to Jesse's mom's alma
mater, Jordan High School in Long Beach.
My mom was kind of hot
looking when she was here.
She looked like a little bit of a tailor.
Jesse's here, just a school, another
shop class in monster making it.
So basically we're going
to build a little race car.
And Jesse's mom shares some
heartwarming stories about her son.
Another time you tried
nasty notes on rocks.
And sail the moment in neighbors.
Are you surprised?
So round up the kids, let the
dog out and crank up the volume.
Joy is now as Jesse and a gang of 3
million fabricators rip, grind and burn,
transforming their own vehicles into
monster machines across the monster nation.
Our first pit stop on the monster
nation tour is Winslow, Arizona.
If you're ever standing
on a corner in this desert
town, there are some
sites you just might see.
They are the creations of auto-recker
and monster maker Rodney Rucker.
Rodney and some builder
buddies are just putting
the finishing touches
on a brand new monster.
This fabulous fabrication is a one
-of-a-kind, super-sized shopping cart.
Built the basket first.
And then we had two or three
different truck frames that
we tried to put it on and
they just didn't look right.
So then we finally got inspired
to build our own frame.
These ended like a hot
wheels or street rod.
We raked the front.
We raked the back.
Everything's driven from the top.
We borrowed a hydraulic
ram off the steering
of a fork lift and we mounted it on this.
And it seems to work really good.
This suspension is all
78-fort truck coilover.
Have we do any one ton
coils all the way around?
These are gas shocks.
We have our tunnel ram with a six pack.
It has a nice hot rod hat on it.
We have a lot of weekend for
Rodney and his buddies to get
their shopping cart from the
checkout line to the starting line.
It took us a year to build the basket.
We did it on weekends one
day actually a month that I
could meet with my friends
and get everybody together.
After more than a year
of building, Rodney is
ready to take his super
shopper out for a spin.
This is a made-in voyage since we've
got all the bugs worked out of it.
You're 15 feet up in the air.
Kind of take a look at this because
it wiggles and moves around a lot.
So there's a lot of dust
everywhere in this guき into this.
is ready to buy in bulk.
Thanks for coming out, guys.
I'm right.
I'm right.
If Jay wanted Jordan High School and his
modeling junior build crew
is putting down the books
and picking up their tools.
Their challenge, assemble
all of these parts,
piece by piece, both by balls,
and end up with a 5-8
scale, 1937 Chevy Legend car
that will be ready to race
at Irwin Dale Speedway.
The rules, the folks at 600 racing,
are picking up the parts tab
for the student builders.
They'll get five days to
complete their monster,
but they have to finish their
regular school day first.
If successful, each team member
will receive a Jesse James Toolkit,
worth 700 bucks, and Jordan's auto
shop will also score two Mac Toolkits.
Months to class is now in session.
Representing hardworking hand
-crafting high schoolers everywhere,
are Gregory Hillyard.
Eddie Dalyone.
Adam Huerta.
Francis Go Megalonis.
Richie Mazah.
Sergio Barba.
And the head huncho, their
teacher, Mr. Brian Kramer.
Jesse James shows up right on time for the
first period bell and monster lab class.
All right, guys.
So basically we're going
to build a little race car.
I think the store class for
like kids like 15 and older.
It's kind of an inexpensive
way to start racing.
A lot of kids like Tony
Stewart and stuff like that
that started in a racing ass car
now that started racing one of me.
So it's good to learn.
This midget monster will go
together just like a model car.
They'll start with a suspension
and work their way up,
assembling their monster piece
by piece until it's race ready.
But there's a catch.
Something's missing from
their monster model.
The instructions.
The directions that came with the
car kit have been confiscated.
You should be able to look at
and see where everything goes.
Well, instructions are
enough in the middle.
Much to be puzzle.
That's kind of like one of
those models when you're kid,
but you lost the instructions.
You know, look at all the
pieces of wonder where they go.
No monster tear down for this build.
All they've got to start with
is the skeleton of the car.
Those are the operators of the car.
Yeah, those are the floors.
They start out at ground
level with the suspension.
Apparently the rear end
fits right through here.
The center of the frame.
The brute force you
figured out where it is.
The puzzle pieces are
coming together slowly,
but the team has big day one
plans for their monster race car.
Our goal today is to
have the car in rolling.
Things are looking pretty good right now.
The team hits the brakes and Eddie tries
to put a stop on day one over confidence.
Honestly, I was thinking of myself.
This is just a three-day project,
but I don't want to start assuming things
cause the way monster garage works.
Once your nation mantra,
it ain't over till you
take home the tools.
He's buying dinner if he's wrong.
The crew starts the
install on the shocks.
Then they get another shock.
When the youngest member of
their team shows up unexpectedly.
This is one of our golden
members right here.
Francesco's the youngest
one that's been on any of
the build teams in the
history of monster garage.
Much going there and
help them get greasy.
His father's been dealing with a
terminal cancer for a long time,
and he ended up passing
away this Saturday.
And for him to even be here today,
he really says a lot about his character.
What are we looking on?
Suspension?
Well done.
Put it in the bottom.
Francisco's arrival puts
the team at full strength.
He suits up and helps finish
bolting on the suspension.
Then the brakes are assembled.
Gregory and Eddie mount them.
The master cylinder is also installed,
so they'll need to bleed the
air out of the brake lines
and check for pressure.
I want to break it.
To prove the excitement
or the market back up.
This is all those bubbles
that you can see in the line.
I don't want to make the
brake system pay just fail.
They begin bleeding the
brakes at the master cylinder.
Then they hit each wheel to
work the air out of the lines.
Let's shake the brake pressure.
All right, you guys ready?
But when they finish the process,
their brakes are broken.
So we have no brake effort here.
I guess the framework will take it apart.
Maybe it's even a year, you guys.
Eddie's been thinking apart.
Take the caliper off and reset it.
Just some little whole thing.
Eddie and Mr. Cramer work
together to break down the brakes.
There we go.
There we go.
Get in better.
There we go.
All right.
Good.
After building, tearing down,
and rebuilding the brake system,
their racer finally shows
some stopping power.
They're good.
Yes, all right.
Finally.
Finally, it is.
Yes.
The hardest one I've ever done.
Day one has been a long
one for these builders,
but they've accomplished a lot.
The entire front-strain
suspension and braking systems
are all clearly done.
We're in good shape.
We set ourselves up pretty
good for the rest of the week.
Suspension and brakes.
Check.
Today they installed the
shocks and the stops.
Tomorrow they'll work on the goal.
The next stop on this
monster nation road tour
is Baltimore, Maryland.
Where artist and steel
sculptor Derek Arnold
is set to show off a couple of
his prehistoric bed projects.
It's creator, Chris in this
8-ton 14-foot-tall monster
Cat Arreptosaurus.
Cat Arreptosaurus is a dinosaur.
A raptor.
It's completely made of
caterpillar tractor parts.
Part of the funding came
from the Johns Hopkins.
They have an outdoor sculpture show,
and I was selected to build this dinosaur
for that outdoor sculpture.
Another one of Derek's primitive projects
could easily be a daily driver
for a certain Stone Age family.
He calls it bedrock to barter town.
You need that because it's
part of the fun stones
in any part Mad Max.
Derek took his inspiration
for this monster
from a fallen giant.
I began with a piece of wood
a 115-year-old piece of
oak tree that had fallen
at my neighbor's property.
You're going to see where
the wood's been worn
off right here.
That's when I got the
piece from my neighbor.
I dragged it down the
road with the tractor.
Basically the car is a 72
Volkswagen Beetle chassis.
I started with a wood and
I cut it down the middle
to make two symmetrical pieces.
I hollowed out the center of it
and then mounted it on the chassis.
It's a car made out of wood and steel
has some farm equipment parts.
This part right here is a cast
steel piece which is from
a sickle barn miller.
These are the guards which the blades
ride in between and
they go back and forth
and these are actually cutting edges.
This is a piece of sickle miller wood
and originally was a not hole
from sickle millers to sickle miller.
This monster melms man
-made to mother nature.
The reason I built the
wood and metal combination
was because I like the
organic quality of wood
steel.
But mostly, Derek built his bedrock buggy
just to turn heads on the highway.
There's maple.
People's most common reaction to the car
would be it seems like they're
baffled.
No, that guy's looking at me
like, what the hell is that?
You know, it gives people a chance to see
something completely different.
Back at Jordan High School
and it's day two of
the legend racer build.
Monster mechanics 101 is back in session.
Yesterday, the build team
started from the ground up
getting this suspension ready to go
and the brakes ready to stop.
Today, they'll pick
up where they left off
and set something straight
starting with the alignment.
It's going to make car
handle a lot better
and also be a little bit more safer.
It's just when you're going
to attract high speeds.
To do a wheel alignment,
it helps to have wheels.
And when the crew arrived this morning,
there was a cherry set of racing tires
waiting for them courtesy of 600 racing.
Check these out. These are nice.
Oh, we got wheels, huh?
Yeah.
This is going to look pretty cool.
They give their new rims
and tires a quick spin
to balance them. Then they mount them up.
More seconds.
Come on.
Well, we got to do the alignment now.
Now, we've really got to do it.
They use old school radius plates
to help them adjust the car's alignment.
It's a lot of tires to rotate freely
without finding on the concrete.
The team works together
on getting the front
end straightened out.
They're ready?
Well, they're on our roll.
They pop in a few body
panels in a battery.
They run some fuel lines
and hook up the fuel pump.
They even measure out a
cooling system for a motor
that's still missing.
Something like that.
We need that engine here
so we can start getting a better idea
of how we're going to run this thing
because obviously with that huge gap,
there's like, we have no idea
how we're going to run it around.
The builders break for lunch
and the master fabricator
who's as into class
with some extra toppings for their racer.
That's the
I got belt.
Racing restraints
and other goodies
from impact racing.
And for that tastiest treat of the day,
all brand new motor
with everything on it.
That'd be sweet.
Whoa, which way?
While the crew gets their hands dirty,
mounting their much-awaited engine,
Jesse checks out Kramer's shop.
No.
It's a whole bunch of old equipment
and toys.
Cool.
This is a good shop.
This is where my mom went,
so you know the school rule.
You write a picture?
Yeah.
My mom was kind of hot
looking when she was here.
She looked like a lizard, but Taylor,
not that she's not hot looking now.
She's totally hot.
Jesse lays out the seat
belt and racing harness.
These should be pretty loose,
so you can cinch them down.
And then these, when they're tight,
the buckle should be
right on your nipple.
Right about that much adjustment
and it, because when you drive,
you know, the throwing
you against the side.
And they loosen up, so you
want to be able to pull down
and tighten them even more.
Well, Mr. Kramer leads
the rest of the team
and mounting the motor.
Jesse and Eddie install the
racing harness in belts.
Well, it's not gonna pull loose,
it pulls in on itself.
Then you fold it up and zip tie it.
So it doesn't, there's no sloppy.
The belts are buckled up,
and Mr. Kramer and the gang are
attaching the throttle
cable to the carburetor.
And you go, man.
No, or not.
I think it'd be easier to
just pull the carburetor up.
Put it on, and put it back on.
Or you can spend another 45 minutes.
Let's do that into the whole easy way.
Jesse's suggestion works.
All right, now we got the throttle grip.
It's in?
Yeah, it's in.
Is it tight and down?
Yeah?
Tight?
All right, guys.
The master fabricator
heads home after all.
It's a school night.
Well, Jesse coming in and helping
us figure a little bit out.
You know, I'm totally happy right now.
We got the throttle linkage hooked up.
So this is ready to go.
We got the clutch line hooked up.
The motor's almost mounted, completely.
I said it three days.
Monday, three days.
It's over.
Today's day two.
It's a model that thing is rolling.
All right.
It looks like the Jordan
High School built team
as way ahead of schedule.
But in the monster nation,
looks can be deceiving.
To find our next monster nation creation,
we head into the Black
Rock Desert in Nevada.
This damsel in the desert is no morage.
She's the contissar, a replica of
a 16th century Spanish galleon.
She's the monster.
Now meet her makers.
Hi, I'm Steve.
I'm Greg Jones.
And I'm Simon.
And this is our galleon, the La Contessa.
This monstrous mistress is
definitely in the plus sizes.
She's 60 feet long.
16 feet wide and stands 55 feet tall.
She may look like royalty now,
but the countess used
to have it pretty wrong.
This ship started out as a school bus.
So here we are in the
engine room of La Contessa.
You can see, in fact, it
is a yellow school bus.
Up here we have the steel structure.
That's created a
exoskeleton around the bus
to which all of the
deck members are mounted
and then the whole
sections around the outside
are hung underneath the deck sections.
Inside the Contessa beats
the heart of a harlet.
The inside here was modeled
after a 16th century
bordella.
We actually put a lot of
attention into the detail.
It took us five months to
build about a hundred people
I've worked on it.
Fully assembled, this monster
weighs two and a half tons.
And once this ship were
the desert gets rolling,
it's best just to get
out of La Contessa's way.
We've got to have a pilot
upstairs because I can't see much
from down here.
The board's starboard.
I'll have board.
You have to be really careful
about bumps and things
because we have about
a six inch clearance.
Great.
A monster like La Contessa goes to show
that with a little
ingenuity, a lot of help
and enough hemp rope to go around
ship happen.
The next stop on the monster nation tour
is a late back city by the sea
that's home to a big time monster.
Santa Cruz, California.
Michael Leads is one of those guys
that still enjoys getting up
early on a Saturday morning
and detailing his custom ride.
It just takes him a little
longer than most people.
Leads is the proud
papa to the super sized
drop-top dream car, Big Bertha.
Three decades ago in
Michael found Big Bertha
she had outlived her
usefulness as a fire truck
and been put out to pasture
in the city scrapyard.
I took a 1941 fire engine
and I just went off on it.
I stripped the body
off and then I started
playing around with
different body designs.
Some of the things
that really inspired me
are the classic designs,
Ducenbergs, who gotties.
The back of this car
is mostly reminiscent
of the cars that really turned me on.
Everything is wind swept.
I took a 1947 student baker,
pick up truck hood and turn it around
backwards and that became
the back of the boat tail.
The process of building the fenders
is that you build wooden forms.
The first year and a half was
spent in building the forms.
I went through six different designs
until I came up with
exactly what I wanted.
This is really not a car.
This is a gigantic piece of sculpture.
One of the features of this car.
So fully adjustable air ride.
It's got air power steering.
It's got air brakes.
It rides like a dream.
This is not a trailer queen,
a show car that gets trailer to a show.
This is a car that I drive.
This is something that I can get in
and I can take out in the
street and I can drive.
That's what makes it fun for me.
It is essentially a gigantic toy.
The reaction that I get from this car
and he clips my wildest dreams
when people ask us how
fast this car goes.
What we say is that it goes smiles
per hour, over a hundred smiles per hour.
It just makes you feel like a king.
It's a project that's very
near and dear to my heart.
Without any compromise,
I did the best that I could do.
It's day three at Munster Technikai.
And the build cruise first assignment
is to carry their Munster's body parts
to the Jordan High Paint booth.
Build team member Sergio has volunteered
to do the paint and body work.
I've had auto-butter
repair for two years now.
It is over time.
He'll get the hang of it
and become better at it.
While Sergio suits up to give their music
a monster a lacquer black shine,
the rest of the team focuses
on making it race ready.
And the major part of today
will be spent on getting
the car fired up.
While Francisco and Gregory go below
to install the clutch,
Mr. Kramer gets on the horn
with Irwin Dale Speedway
to find out the official specs
for setting the camber
on their mini monster.
Eddie and Adam made a quick run
to the local parts door
to pick up motor oil
and some other essential
items for their monster.
Moin, black, school colors,
you can't have a car without that.
You want to play some dice?
The fuel cell has also arrived
so they mounted and top it off.
It's almost time to
fire up their monster.
Three days of wrenching
and it all comes down
to pushing a button.
At first, their monster
is playing hard to get
so they prime the carburetor with fuel.
This is Reving.
Now that that quickly.
The motor starts, but
it revs out of control.
We're in a run, check out the throttle
and get you to get stuck.
It got hung up on there, that's
why it revs out pretty loud.
We put it in a new position
and it looks like it's
clearing it pretty easy
with the throttle clear
they try it again.
Three days of wrenching
the Jordan High Gearheads have blasted
through their build like honor students.
We got a pretty good day today
but they were going to call the quits.
Guess how's that?
We do a little water today.
We want it, yeah.
This team thinks that
all they have left to do
to finish their monster
is bolt on the body panels.
But tomorrow, Jesse is scheduled
to check their progress.
There ain't looks a little cocked
in relation to the drive shaft.
Take a tape and measure axle axle.
Yeah, it's awful a little bit right here.
So you guys are done.
Team Mini Monster better think again.
There's a term in race cars
called Nutton and Boldenit.
Every single nut and bolt on the car
you need to go over and
make sure it's tight.
Because there are long
way from the finish line.
Hey Monster fans, there's
plenty more building
and lots more monsters coming your way.
And the Master Fabricator's
bomb is stopping by
for an insightful visit.
Stay tuned.
Pause the angel and ask a kid ask her.
I have many embarrassing moments.
Day four, still riding
high from their success
with the motor test, the
build crew shows up for class.
Straight out of the box.
These builders were
brimming with confidence.
Honestly, I was thinking of myself.
This is just a three day project.
It's just a three day project.
I said it three days,
three days, three days.
We're doing one of them.
This team seems to have
forgotten one hard and fast rule.
Don't ever think you got
the monster by the tail,
because the monster can still turn around
and take a big bite out of you.
At the start of day
four, trouble is brewing.
Adam and Eddie discover
that the clutch is ready.
The engine assembly is putting
the pitch on the brake line.
The line for the clutch is basically
splashing the line for the brakes.
We have to take the clutch out.
This young team needs to learn that
finger pointing won't fix a problem.
They go back and switch the
clutch and brake lines around
and then bleed the clutch again.
Come on with the caravans and learn.
All these wires are back here.
Don't hit anything.
You got to check everything because I
don't want to have to take everything out.
It's all right.
It's all right.
It's all right.
Rustrated with this setback,
Eddie starts barking orders.
Adam tries to attach
the tecometer that he
and Eddie bought at the
part story yesterday,
but it presents another problem.
It's not hooked up.
I don't know.
We're setting you guys out for
oil and we come back with a tack
and some fuzzy dice.
You guys got to figure it out.
You guys wanted to mount it.
Eddie was the one who got it.
I was on the other side,
so I didn't have no idea.
It doesn't matter who got it.
So let's get it fixed.
More finger pointing
from team mini monster.
Always unpredictable, but
occasionally punctual.
Jesse James rolls in right on schedule
for this built team's midterm exam.
You guys almost done?
Yeah.
You know what you got to tackle?
It's good.
It's good in this problem.
There's a four cylinder tack.
Yeah.
It comes with the switches in the body.
So let's just forget the tack.
All right.
Do you want to see it?
Yeah.
Mr. Cramer takes the master
fabricator over to the paint booth.
To check out Sergio's hand you work.
And to give his other students
a little time to blow off steam.
That's what happens when you piss me off.
We're done.
That's how I appreciate some
particular idea that I had.
You got it out.
It's not good in our way anymore, so.
While Eddie battles with the tack,
Jesse checks out the car's new skin.
It looks awesome there.
They were all proud of him.
And you got credit.
It's cool for doing it, huh?
You're gonna get an A.
That's the best thing.
Then when you're done, you get paid.
So what's going to return this?
Now you can't take it back.
The build crew thinks they're done.
Except for hanging.
The freshly painted body panels.
But Jesse knows better.
You get on the hat.
We're done in a gun.
Er, er, er, er.
There's going to be something.
So don't think you guys
are like home free.
Jesse begins his inspection
on the midget monster
to see if this student's
work is for his class.
If he stand back here and
look at that rear end,
that rear end looks a little cocked
in relation to the drive shaft.
You know, measure your your shock tension
and all that stuff.
Make sure they're wound up identical.
You know, all this wiring
here that's all loose
and stuff like that.
If you get a flat tire and
the tire starts to shred,
it's going to take all that stuff out.
If you go out on a racetrack and
you wing this thing full throttle
and it hits that and it comes apart.
That's going to shoot right through your.
Did you take a tape and
measure access to the axle?
Uh, in the back now.
Thought you guys were done.
There's a term in race cars
called Nutton and Boldenit.
Every single nut and bolt on
the car you need to go over
and make sure it's tight.
Double check and then double check again
and then have someone else go
and double check what you did.
Then it's full proof.
I know you guys think
you're done, but you ain't.
All right, I'm out of here.
I'll see you tomorrow.
After handing out a good dose of reality,
Jesse leaves his built team
with something to think about.
When it comes to building a race car,
the devil is in the details.
Jesse comes in and points things on
and we realize that you know what?
It's the little things
that we're missing.
Going to basically stop
making assumptions about
finishing the car as soon as we can.
And just take our time a little more
and make sure everything's fine.
At the end of a tough day four,
the humble crew pulls themselves together
after a good kick in the butt.
Tomorrow, hopefully they'll return
with a new approach to monster building.
There are legends that tell of
a place out on the left coast
of the Munster Nation where
the West is still wild.
In Barstoke, California,
Greg Parker spends a lot of
his time making monsters,
but he's not a mad scientist.
He's just an artistic auto-recker.
A one-body-shop and garage is
much more than a wrecking yard.
It's Greg's laboratory.
He's been building beasts
right here for 35 years,
using only the best
junk from his junk pile.
He's created a corner
copia of cool contraptions.
Everything from a 1957
Hillman Husky Half-Track
to a 1970 View Station wagon
turned urban assault monster.
This is off of the irrigation pipe.
This is off the roof of
the house, the heater.
This is a water tank.
The gun up on top is a pentotransmission
with a lawnmower handle.
Greg began building to boost business.
He started drawing people in,
so the more elaborately made the cars
and more customers that we had.
Parker has an artistic
flair for making monsters.
His early works have a mad max
and a world sort of appeal.
But with his most recent works,
he's moving out of his
post-apocalyptic period
and seems to be welding his way
into a whole new creative stage.
Well, we're building
here as our stage coach.
With the exception, it's going
to be a lowered street rod.
We've bent the infrastructure
and got it all corrected square
and now we're skinning it with
this 20-gauge sheet metal.
To get an idea what the
final product will look like,
just check out the 4x4
model he built last year.
Frame is out of a 78-forward Bronco.
It's a 351-forward engine.
The bodies all made out
of 1-gauge square tubing
with 20-gauge sheet metal.
The rear suspension was moved back
a total of 10 inches from
the stock Bronco design
and I put an extra set of
springs on it inverted.
Greg builds his monsters
to show off it auto shows
and for hometown bragging rights.
We've built these things.
We've built them for the
Halloween parade every year.
It's put on by the city of Barstone.
A few years ago, Greg took just one month
to build himself a custom woodie
with old-time styling
and big-time performance.
This thing's made out of
a 74-forward 3-quarter ton
pickup with a 460 Lincoln
motor and transmission.
4-wheel drive.
It's got a 44-inch tall tires.
It goes anywhere.
For any wannabe builders out
there in the monster nation,
Greg has just a pinch of sage advice.
If anybody wants to start
building stuff like this,
what they should do first is get a welder
and just go for it and
create something different.
And you get out of the box.
People from hundreds of miles
come in to see your work.
Art grabs you.
It's a lifetime.
Love affair with that vehicle,
because it's the only one there is.
Back at Jordan High,
it's day five,
the last day of the build.
Yesterday, just he schooled the team
and proper workmanship.
I know you guys think you're done,
but if you go out on a race track
and you win this thing full throttle,
then it comes in part that's
going to shoot right through your.
And today,
they seem to have learned
their monster lesson.
Just check everything.
No more sloppy building.
The team has its straight.
Now they need to straighten up
the rear end of their race car.
For instance, in a kind of an angle,
so it's a wheelbase
to shorter on one side
than it makes on the other.
So it changes a lot.
After some quick but careful adjustments
and a whole lot of measuring,
their race car's backside is dialed in.
That's it right there.
Alright, let's find that.
Good work, sir.
Next, the team double checks every nut,
bolt, screw, rivet, and
tie wrap on their race car.
If Jesse performs an idiot check today,
he won't find any idiots here.
The freshly painted body panels
have had enough time to cure.
They're ready for installation.
Just look at it man.
Look at these lines.
It's just man.
Cause it doesn't look delicious.
It's looking pretty good, yeah?
Hang on man.
I don't know what it's all.
The sucks after work every day, huh?
Not on a cry like this.
It doesn't really blow to me.
It gets old, trust me.
Even though a hammer in
all of them after a while.
For the final day of the build,
Jesse brings a very special guest.
My mom's here.
You're kind of good looking.
You think so?
Yeah.
You did that, bitch.
That's my boy.
He even loves his mom's
high school, bitch.
She has an angel when
I was a kid, ask her.
Is that true?
No.
I had many embarrassing moments.
A lot of others mad at me.
For a little on-re guy.
Everyone, I threw that rock
through that old lady's window.
She'll drive by the house.
And then I ran inside and took off
all my clothes and messed up my hair
and pretended like I was sleeping.
I can remember.
Mom just came in and found.
Let me have it.
Didn't even ask her.
Another time.
You tied nasty notes.
Nasty words on rocks.
And sailed them over the neighbors.
I didn't do that.
I didn't do that.
Well, are you surprised?
He was very intelligent.
You still live.
He had a lot of potential.
I don't know if he used it off.
But
Hey, I got my own TV show.
I think there's a lot
of teachers out there
that's still probably grumble
every Monday night about 9 o'clock.
Jesse's mom takes a walk.
And the team is ready to take a ride.
Okay.
Let's do it and drive it.
Yeah, it does.
This is just a little baby car.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Job, guys.
Things for
Things for anyone.
Hold on.
You guys want some tools?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like you're excited now.
These are just a few.
Good job, guys.
All right.
Monster garage CDs.
Jesse James Mac tools.
Yeah.
There we go.
You two being
Mac tools says for the shop here.
Oh, my God.
So cool.
Thank you, Jesse.
Good job, guys.
Thanks a lot.
Over at West Coast choppers.
Legendary pinstriper Pete
Finland is set to put
the finishing touches
on the legend race car.
Let's go on Sergio.
Today, Pete is taking on an apprentice.
He's offered to teach built-in members
Sergio the secrets of striping.
We're coming to you from
our home away from home.
Erwin Dale Speedway.
Where we're getting ready to fire
up another monster nation challenge.
The Jordan High Bill team is showing
up for the showdown monster style.
And their legend racer is
ready to pound the plate.
Driving their mini monster
will be none other than
championship legend racer
15 year old David Ross.
But the competition will be fierce folks.
Driving car 72 is Erwin Dale's
raceway rookie of the year.
16 year old Austin Grumpowski.
Okay, folks.
The rules of this challenge are simple.
You drive fast.
You turn left.
And you win the best two out
of three laps around the track.
We're there.
Take all.
Whoa.
These guys came to race.
Check out the monster's stare down.
Gentlemen.
Parker.
But drivers will take one
pace lap to heat up the times.
Two teams with nerves of steel.
They're in off the track to find
out who's the king of the road.
They don't get any
more monster than this.
David Ross in the Jordan High team.
Clark takes the first lap.
But Austin Grumpowski hit the red 70.
His right on his bumper.
Whoa.
He makes a great move to the
inside and takes the lead.
I want to go as you go.
Grumpowski takes lap two.
Yeah.
Gotta be kidding me.
It's tied up with one lap to go.
He could be all over for Jordan High.
One of them move by David Ross.
He takes the checker flag.
And Jordan High takes home the chrome.
And the monster nation proud.
Jordan High's mini is a monster success.
Enjoy the tools boys.
You've earned them.
A tension monster shepherds.
We've trailed through the wild west.
Sailed with monsters from centuries past.
And pedal around in bedrock buckets.
And we've shown you a future
monster builders can do.
But we're not done yet.
The next monster nation road
trip is just around the bend.
A legend in the world
of custom fabrication.
Indian Larry rides again.
Next, on bike or build off.
It's off to drag racing
school for the OCC guys.
As they prepare to build a drag bike
unlike any other American chopper.
Tomorrow.
Battle lines are drawn.
Who will take the title of
America's most beautiful roadster.
Hot Rod build off.
Tomorrow.
Transcribed by whisperAI with faster-whisper (tiny) on 18 Oct 2025 - 05:03:03
Country again, looking for the
best-and-faddest homemade
monsters in a monster nation.
We don't care if it's a
beauty or a basket case.
We're going to drive it into your living
room, even if it's a
real piece of Chevrolet.
And we're heading to Jesse's mom's alma
mater, Jordan High School in Long Beach.
My mom was kind of hot
looking when she was here.
She looked like a little bit of a tailor.
Jesse's here, just a school, another
shop class in monster making it.
So basically we're going
to build a little race car.
And Jesse's mom shares some
heartwarming stories about her son.
Another time you tried
nasty notes on rocks.
And sail the moment in neighbors.
Are you surprised?
So round up the kids, let the
dog out and crank up the volume.
Joy is now as Jesse and a gang of 3
million fabricators rip, grind and burn,
transforming their own vehicles into
monster machines across the monster nation.
Our first pit stop on the monster
nation tour is Winslow, Arizona.
If you're ever standing
on a corner in this desert
town, there are some
sites you just might see.
They are the creations of auto-recker
and monster maker Rodney Rucker.
Rodney and some builder
buddies are just putting
the finishing touches
on a brand new monster.
This fabulous fabrication is a one
-of-a-kind, super-sized shopping cart.
Built the basket first.
And then we had two or three
different truck frames that
we tried to put it on and
they just didn't look right.
So then we finally got inspired
to build our own frame.
These ended like a hot
wheels or street rod.
We raked the front.
We raked the back.
Everything's driven from the top.
We borrowed a hydraulic
ram off the steering
of a fork lift and we mounted it on this.
And it seems to work really good.
This suspension is all
78-fort truck coilover.
Have we do any one ton
coils all the way around?
These are gas shocks.
We have our tunnel ram with a six pack.
It has a nice hot rod hat on it.
We have a lot of weekend for
Rodney and his buddies to get
their shopping cart from the
checkout line to the starting line.
It took us a year to build the basket.
We did it on weekends one
day actually a month that I
could meet with my friends
and get everybody together.
After more than a year
of building, Rodney is
ready to take his super
shopper out for a spin.
This is a made-in voyage since we've
got all the bugs worked out of it.
You're 15 feet up in the air.
Kind of take a look at this because
it wiggles and moves around a lot.
So there's a lot of dust
everywhere in this guき into this.
is ready to buy in bulk.
Thanks for coming out, guys.
I'm right.
I'm right.
If Jay wanted Jordan High School and his
modeling junior build crew
is putting down the books
and picking up their tools.
Their challenge, assemble
all of these parts,
piece by piece, both by balls,
and end up with a 5-8
scale, 1937 Chevy Legend car
that will be ready to race
at Irwin Dale Speedway.
The rules, the folks at 600 racing,
are picking up the parts tab
for the student builders.
They'll get five days to
complete their monster,
but they have to finish their
regular school day first.
If successful, each team member
will receive a Jesse James Toolkit,
worth 700 bucks, and Jordan's auto
shop will also score two Mac Toolkits.
Months to class is now in session.
Representing hardworking hand
-crafting high schoolers everywhere,
are Gregory Hillyard.
Eddie Dalyone.
Adam Huerta.
Francis Go Megalonis.
Richie Mazah.
Sergio Barba.
And the head huncho, their
teacher, Mr. Brian Kramer.
Jesse James shows up right on time for the
first period bell and monster lab class.
All right, guys.
So basically we're going
to build a little race car.
I think the store class for
like kids like 15 and older.
It's kind of an inexpensive
way to start racing.
A lot of kids like Tony
Stewart and stuff like that
that started in a racing ass car
now that started racing one of me.
So it's good to learn.
This midget monster will go
together just like a model car.
They'll start with a suspension
and work their way up,
assembling their monster piece
by piece until it's race ready.
But there's a catch.
Something's missing from
their monster model.
The instructions.
The directions that came with the
car kit have been confiscated.
You should be able to look at
and see where everything goes.
Well, instructions are
enough in the middle.
Much to be puzzle.
That's kind of like one of
those models when you're kid,
but you lost the instructions.
You know, look at all the
pieces of wonder where they go.
No monster tear down for this build.
All they've got to start with
is the skeleton of the car.
Those are the operators of the car.
Yeah, those are the floors.
They start out at ground
level with the suspension.
Apparently the rear end
fits right through here.
The center of the frame.
The brute force you
figured out where it is.
The puzzle pieces are
coming together slowly,
but the team has big day one
plans for their monster race car.
Our goal today is to
have the car in rolling.
Things are looking pretty good right now.
The team hits the brakes and Eddie tries
to put a stop on day one over confidence.
Honestly, I was thinking of myself.
This is just a three-day project,
but I don't want to start assuming things
cause the way monster garage works.
Once your nation mantra,
it ain't over till you
take home the tools.
He's buying dinner if he's wrong.
The crew starts the
install on the shocks.
Then they get another shock.
When the youngest member of
their team shows up unexpectedly.
This is one of our golden
members right here.
Francesco's the youngest
one that's been on any of
the build teams in the
history of monster garage.
Much going there and
help them get greasy.
His father's been dealing with a
terminal cancer for a long time,
and he ended up passing
away this Saturday.
And for him to even be here today,
he really says a lot about his character.
What are we looking on?
Suspension?
Well done.
Put it in the bottom.
Francisco's arrival puts
the team at full strength.
He suits up and helps finish
bolting on the suspension.
Then the brakes are assembled.
Gregory and Eddie mount them.
The master cylinder is also installed,
so they'll need to bleed the
air out of the brake lines
and check for pressure.
I want to break it.
To prove the excitement
or the market back up.
This is all those bubbles
that you can see in the line.
I don't want to make the
brake system pay just fail.
They begin bleeding the
brakes at the master cylinder.
Then they hit each wheel to
work the air out of the lines.
Let's shake the brake pressure.
All right, you guys ready?
But when they finish the process,
their brakes are broken.
So we have no brake effort here.
I guess the framework will take it apart.
Maybe it's even a year, you guys.
Eddie's been thinking apart.
Take the caliper off and reset it.
Just some little whole thing.
Eddie and Mr. Cramer work
together to break down the brakes.
There we go.
There we go.
Get in better.
There we go.
All right.
Good.
After building, tearing down,
and rebuilding the brake system,
their racer finally shows
some stopping power.
They're good.
Yes, all right.
Finally.
Finally, it is.
Yes.
The hardest one I've ever done.
Day one has been a long
one for these builders,
but they've accomplished a lot.
The entire front-strain
suspension and braking systems
are all clearly done.
We're in good shape.
We set ourselves up pretty
good for the rest of the week.
Suspension and brakes.
Check.
Today they installed the
shocks and the stops.
Tomorrow they'll work on the goal.
The next stop on this
monster nation road tour
is Baltimore, Maryland.
Where artist and steel
sculptor Derek Arnold
is set to show off a couple of
his prehistoric bed projects.
It's creator, Chris in this
8-ton 14-foot-tall monster
Cat Arreptosaurus.
Cat Arreptosaurus is a dinosaur.
A raptor.
It's completely made of
caterpillar tractor parts.
Part of the funding came
from the Johns Hopkins.
They have an outdoor sculpture show,
and I was selected to build this dinosaur
for that outdoor sculpture.
Another one of Derek's primitive projects
could easily be a daily driver
for a certain Stone Age family.
He calls it bedrock to barter town.
You need that because it's
part of the fun stones
in any part Mad Max.
Derek took his inspiration
for this monster
from a fallen giant.
I began with a piece of wood
a 115-year-old piece of
oak tree that had fallen
at my neighbor's property.
You're going to see where
the wood's been worn
off right here.
That's when I got the
piece from my neighbor.
I dragged it down the
road with the tractor.
Basically the car is a 72
Volkswagen Beetle chassis.
I started with a wood and
I cut it down the middle
to make two symmetrical pieces.
I hollowed out the center of it
and then mounted it on the chassis.
It's a car made out of wood and steel
has some farm equipment parts.
This part right here is a cast
steel piece which is from
a sickle barn miller.
These are the guards which the blades
ride in between and
they go back and forth
and these are actually cutting edges.
This is a piece of sickle miller wood
and originally was a not hole
from sickle millers to sickle miller.
This monster melms man
-made to mother nature.
The reason I built the
wood and metal combination
was because I like the
organic quality of wood
steel.
But mostly, Derek built his bedrock buggy
just to turn heads on the highway.
There's maple.
People's most common reaction to the car
would be it seems like they're
baffled.
No, that guy's looking at me
like, what the hell is that?
You know, it gives people a chance to see
something completely different.
Back at Jordan High School
and it's day two of
the legend racer build.
Monster mechanics 101 is back in session.
Yesterday, the build team
started from the ground up
getting this suspension ready to go
and the brakes ready to stop.
Today, they'll pick
up where they left off
and set something straight
starting with the alignment.
It's going to make car
handle a lot better
and also be a little bit more safer.
It's just when you're going
to attract high speeds.
To do a wheel alignment,
it helps to have wheels.
And when the crew arrived this morning,
there was a cherry set of racing tires
waiting for them courtesy of 600 racing.
Check these out. These are nice.
Oh, we got wheels, huh?
Yeah.
This is going to look pretty cool.
They give their new rims
and tires a quick spin
to balance them. Then they mount them up.
More seconds.
Come on.
Well, we got to do the alignment now.
Now, we've really got to do it.
They use old school radius plates
to help them adjust the car's alignment.
It's a lot of tires to rotate freely
without finding on the concrete.
The team works together
on getting the front
end straightened out.
They're ready?
Well, they're on our roll.
They pop in a few body
panels in a battery.
They run some fuel lines
and hook up the fuel pump.
They even measure out a
cooling system for a motor
that's still missing.
Something like that.
We need that engine here
so we can start getting a better idea
of how we're going to run this thing
because obviously with that huge gap,
there's like, we have no idea
how we're going to run it around.
The builders break for lunch
and the master fabricator
who's as into class
with some extra toppings for their racer.
That's the
I got belt.
Racing restraints
and other goodies
from impact racing.
And for that tastiest treat of the day,
all brand new motor
with everything on it.
That'd be sweet.
Whoa, which way?
While the crew gets their hands dirty,
mounting their much-awaited engine,
Jesse checks out Kramer's shop.
No.
It's a whole bunch of old equipment
and toys.
Cool.
This is a good shop.
This is where my mom went,
so you know the school rule.
You write a picture?
Yeah.
My mom was kind of hot
looking when she was here.
She looked like a lizard, but Taylor,
not that she's not hot looking now.
She's totally hot.
Jesse lays out the seat
belt and racing harness.
These should be pretty loose,
so you can cinch them down.
And then these, when they're tight,
the buckle should be
right on your nipple.
Right about that much adjustment
and it, because when you drive,
you know, the throwing
you against the side.
And they loosen up, so you
want to be able to pull down
and tighten them even more.
Well, Mr. Kramer leads
the rest of the team
and mounting the motor.
Jesse and Eddie install the
racing harness in belts.
Well, it's not gonna pull loose,
it pulls in on itself.
Then you fold it up and zip tie it.
So it doesn't, there's no sloppy.
The belts are buckled up,
and Mr. Kramer and the gang are
attaching the throttle
cable to the carburetor.
And you go, man.
No, or not.
I think it'd be easier to
just pull the carburetor up.
Put it on, and put it back on.
Or you can spend another 45 minutes.
Let's do that into the whole easy way.
Jesse's suggestion works.
All right, now we got the throttle grip.
It's in?
Yeah, it's in.
Is it tight and down?
Yeah?
Tight?
All right, guys.
The master fabricator
heads home after all.
It's a school night.
Well, Jesse coming in and helping
us figure a little bit out.
You know, I'm totally happy right now.
We got the throttle linkage hooked up.
So this is ready to go.
We got the clutch line hooked up.
The motor's almost mounted, completely.
I said it three days.
Monday, three days.
It's over.
Today's day two.
It's a model that thing is rolling.
All right.
It looks like the Jordan
High School built team
as way ahead of schedule.
But in the monster nation,
looks can be deceiving.
To find our next monster nation creation,
we head into the Black
Rock Desert in Nevada.
This damsel in the desert is no morage.
She's the contissar, a replica of
a 16th century Spanish galleon.
She's the monster.
Now meet her makers.
Hi, I'm Steve.
I'm Greg Jones.
And I'm Simon.
And this is our galleon, the La Contessa.
This monstrous mistress is
definitely in the plus sizes.
She's 60 feet long.
16 feet wide and stands 55 feet tall.
She may look like royalty now,
but the countess used
to have it pretty wrong.
This ship started out as a school bus.
So here we are in the
engine room of La Contessa.
You can see, in fact, it
is a yellow school bus.
Up here we have the steel structure.
That's created a
exoskeleton around the bus
to which all of the
deck members are mounted
and then the whole
sections around the outside
are hung underneath the deck sections.
Inside the Contessa beats
the heart of a harlet.
The inside here was modeled
after a 16th century
bordella.
We actually put a lot of
attention into the detail.
It took us five months to
build about a hundred people
I've worked on it.
Fully assembled, this monster
weighs two and a half tons.
And once this ship were
the desert gets rolling,
it's best just to get
out of La Contessa's way.
We've got to have a pilot
upstairs because I can't see much
from down here.
The board's starboard.
I'll have board.
You have to be really careful
about bumps and things
because we have about
a six inch clearance.
Great.
A monster like La Contessa goes to show
that with a little
ingenuity, a lot of help
and enough hemp rope to go around
ship happen.
The next stop on the monster nation tour
is a late back city by the sea
that's home to a big time monster.
Santa Cruz, California.
Michael Leads is one of those guys
that still enjoys getting up
early on a Saturday morning
and detailing his custom ride.
It just takes him a little
longer than most people.
Leads is the proud
papa to the super sized
drop-top dream car, Big Bertha.
Three decades ago in
Michael found Big Bertha
she had outlived her
usefulness as a fire truck
and been put out to pasture
in the city scrapyard.
I took a 1941 fire engine
and I just went off on it.
I stripped the body
off and then I started
playing around with
different body designs.
Some of the things
that really inspired me
are the classic designs,
Ducenbergs, who gotties.
The back of this car
is mostly reminiscent
of the cars that really turned me on.
Everything is wind swept.
I took a 1947 student baker,
pick up truck hood and turn it around
backwards and that became
the back of the boat tail.
The process of building the fenders
is that you build wooden forms.
The first year and a half was
spent in building the forms.
I went through six different designs
until I came up with
exactly what I wanted.
This is really not a car.
This is a gigantic piece of sculpture.
One of the features of this car.
So fully adjustable air ride.
It's got air power steering.
It's got air brakes.
It rides like a dream.
This is not a trailer queen,
a show car that gets trailer to a show.
This is a car that I drive.
This is something that I can get in
and I can take out in the
street and I can drive.
That's what makes it fun for me.
It is essentially a gigantic toy.
The reaction that I get from this car
and he clips my wildest dreams
when people ask us how
fast this car goes.
What we say is that it goes smiles
per hour, over a hundred smiles per hour.
It just makes you feel like a king.
It's a project that's very
near and dear to my heart.
Without any compromise,
I did the best that I could do.
It's day three at Munster Technikai.
And the build cruise first assignment
is to carry their Munster's body parts
to the Jordan High Paint booth.
Build team member Sergio has volunteered
to do the paint and body work.
I've had auto-butter
repair for two years now.
It is over time.
He'll get the hang of it
and become better at it.
While Sergio suits up to give their music
a monster a lacquer black shine,
the rest of the team focuses
on making it race ready.
And the major part of today
will be spent on getting
the car fired up.
While Francisco and Gregory go below
to install the clutch,
Mr. Kramer gets on the horn
with Irwin Dale Speedway
to find out the official specs
for setting the camber
on their mini monster.
Eddie and Adam made a quick run
to the local parts door
to pick up motor oil
and some other essential
items for their monster.
Moin, black, school colors,
you can't have a car without that.
You want to play some dice?
The fuel cell has also arrived
so they mounted and top it off.
It's almost time to
fire up their monster.
Three days of wrenching
and it all comes down
to pushing a button.
At first, their monster
is playing hard to get
so they prime the carburetor with fuel.
This is Reving.
Now that that quickly.
The motor starts, but
it revs out of control.
We're in a run, check out the throttle
and get you to get stuck.
It got hung up on there, that's
why it revs out pretty loud.
We put it in a new position
and it looks like it's
clearing it pretty easy
with the throttle clear
they try it again.
Three days of wrenching
the Jordan High Gearheads have blasted
through their build like honor students.
We got a pretty good day today
but they were going to call the quits.
Guess how's that?
We do a little water today.
We want it, yeah.
This team thinks that
all they have left to do
to finish their monster
is bolt on the body panels.
But tomorrow, Jesse is scheduled
to check their progress.
There ain't looks a little cocked
in relation to the drive shaft.
Take a tape and measure axle axle.
Yeah, it's awful a little bit right here.
So you guys are done.
Team Mini Monster better think again.
There's a term in race cars
called Nutton and Boldenit.
Every single nut and bolt on the car
you need to go over and
make sure it's tight.
Because there are long
way from the finish line.
Hey Monster fans, there's
plenty more building
and lots more monsters coming your way.
And the Master Fabricator's
bomb is stopping by
for an insightful visit.
Stay tuned.
Pause the angel and ask a kid ask her.
I have many embarrassing moments.
Day four, still riding
high from their success
with the motor test, the
build crew shows up for class.
Straight out of the box.
These builders were
brimming with confidence.
Honestly, I was thinking of myself.
This is just a three day project.
It's just a three day project.
I said it three days,
three days, three days.
We're doing one of them.
This team seems to have
forgotten one hard and fast rule.
Don't ever think you got
the monster by the tail,
because the monster can still turn around
and take a big bite out of you.
At the start of day
four, trouble is brewing.
Adam and Eddie discover
that the clutch is ready.
The engine assembly is putting
the pitch on the brake line.
The line for the clutch is basically
splashing the line for the brakes.
We have to take the clutch out.
This young team needs to learn that
finger pointing won't fix a problem.
They go back and switch the
clutch and brake lines around
and then bleed the clutch again.
Come on with the caravans and learn.
All these wires are back here.
Don't hit anything.
You got to check everything because I
don't want to have to take everything out.
It's all right.
It's all right.
It's all right.
Rustrated with this setback,
Eddie starts barking orders.
Adam tries to attach
the tecometer that he
and Eddie bought at the
part story yesterday,
but it presents another problem.
It's not hooked up.
I don't know.
We're setting you guys out for
oil and we come back with a tack
and some fuzzy dice.
You guys got to figure it out.
You guys wanted to mount it.
Eddie was the one who got it.
I was on the other side,
so I didn't have no idea.
It doesn't matter who got it.
So let's get it fixed.
More finger pointing
from team mini monster.
Always unpredictable, but
occasionally punctual.
Jesse James rolls in right on schedule
for this built team's midterm exam.
You guys almost done?
Yeah.
You know what you got to tackle?
It's good.
It's good in this problem.
There's a four cylinder tack.
Yeah.
It comes with the switches in the body.
So let's just forget the tack.
All right.
Do you want to see it?
Yeah.
Mr. Cramer takes the master
fabricator over to the paint booth.
To check out Sergio's hand you work.
And to give his other students
a little time to blow off steam.
That's what happens when you piss me off.
We're done.
That's how I appreciate some
particular idea that I had.
You got it out.
It's not good in our way anymore, so.
While Eddie battles with the tack,
Jesse checks out the car's new skin.
It looks awesome there.
They were all proud of him.
And you got credit.
It's cool for doing it, huh?
You're gonna get an A.
That's the best thing.
Then when you're done, you get paid.
So what's going to return this?
Now you can't take it back.
The build crew thinks they're done.
Except for hanging.
The freshly painted body panels.
But Jesse knows better.
You get on the hat.
We're done in a gun.
Er, er, er, er.
There's going to be something.
So don't think you guys
are like home free.
Jesse begins his inspection
on the midget monster
to see if this student's
work is for his class.
If he stand back here and
look at that rear end,
that rear end looks a little cocked
in relation to the drive shaft.
You know, measure your your shock tension
and all that stuff.
Make sure they're wound up identical.
You know, all this wiring
here that's all loose
and stuff like that.
If you get a flat tire and
the tire starts to shred,
it's going to take all that stuff out.
If you go out on a racetrack and
you wing this thing full throttle
and it hits that and it comes apart.
That's going to shoot right through your.
Did you take a tape and
measure access to the axle?
Uh, in the back now.
Thought you guys were done.
There's a term in race cars
called Nutton and Boldenit.
Every single nut and bolt on
the car you need to go over
and make sure it's tight.
Double check and then double check again
and then have someone else go
and double check what you did.
Then it's full proof.
I know you guys think
you're done, but you ain't.
All right, I'm out of here.
I'll see you tomorrow.
After handing out a good dose of reality,
Jesse leaves his built team
with something to think about.
When it comes to building a race car,
the devil is in the details.
Jesse comes in and points things on
and we realize that you know what?
It's the little things
that we're missing.
Going to basically stop
making assumptions about
finishing the car as soon as we can.
And just take our time a little more
and make sure everything's fine.
At the end of a tough day four,
the humble crew pulls themselves together
after a good kick in the butt.
Tomorrow, hopefully they'll return
with a new approach to monster building.
There are legends that tell of
a place out on the left coast
of the Munster Nation where
the West is still wild.
In Barstoke, California,
Greg Parker spends a lot of
his time making monsters,
but he's not a mad scientist.
He's just an artistic auto-recker.
A one-body-shop and garage is
much more than a wrecking yard.
It's Greg's laboratory.
He's been building beasts
right here for 35 years,
using only the best
junk from his junk pile.
He's created a corner
copia of cool contraptions.
Everything from a 1957
Hillman Husky Half-Track
to a 1970 View Station wagon
turned urban assault monster.
This is off of the irrigation pipe.
This is off the roof of
the house, the heater.
This is a water tank.
The gun up on top is a pentotransmission
with a lawnmower handle.
Greg began building to boost business.
He started drawing people in,
so the more elaborately made the cars
and more customers that we had.
Parker has an artistic
flair for making monsters.
His early works have a mad max
and a world sort of appeal.
But with his most recent works,
he's moving out of his
post-apocalyptic period
and seems to be welding his way
into a whole new creative stage.
Well, we're building
here as our stage coach.
With the exception, it's going
to be a lowered street rod.
We've bent the infrastructure
and got it all corrected square
and now we're skinning it with
this 20-gauge sheet metal.
To get an idea what the
final product will look like,
just check out the 4x4
model he built last year.
Frame is out of a 78-forward Bronco.
It's a 351-forward engine.
The bodies all made out
of 1-gauge square tubing
with 20-gauge sheet metal.
The rear suspension was moved back
a total of 10 inches from
the stock Bronco design
and I put an extra set of
springs on it inverted.
Greg builds his monsters
to show off it auto shows
and for hometown bragging rights.
We've built these things.
We've built them for the
Halloween parade every year.
It's put on by the city of Barstone.
A few years ago, Greg took just one month
to build himself a custom woodie
with old-time styling
and big-time performance.
This thing's made out of
a 74-forward 3-quarter ton
pickup with a 460 Lincoln
motor and transmission.
4-wheel drive.
It's got a 44-inch tall tires.
It goes anywhere.
For any wannabe builders out
there in the monster nation,
Greg has just a pinch of sage advice.
If anybody wants to start
building stuff like this,
what they should do first is get a welder
and just go for it and
create something different.
And you get out of the box.
People from hundreds of miles
come in to see your work.
Art grabs you.
It's a lifetime.
Love affair with that vehicle,
because it's the only one there is.
Back at Jordan High,
it's day five,
the last day of the build.
Yesterday, just he schooled the team
and proper workmanship.
I know you guys think you're done,
but if you go out on a race track
and you win this thing full throttle,
then it comes in part that's
going to shoot right through your.
And today,
they seem to have learned
their monster lesson.
Just check everything.
No more sloppy building.
The team has its straight.
Now they need to straighten up
the rear end of their race car.
For instance, in a kind of an angle,
so it's a wheelbase
to shorter on one side
than it makes on the other.
So it changes a lot.
After some quick but careful adjustments
and a whole lot of measuring,
their race car's backside is dialed in.
That's it right there.
Alright, let's find that.
Good work, sir.
Next, the team double checks every nut,
bolt, screw, rivet, and
tie wrap on their race car.
If Jesse performs an idiot check today,
he won't find any idiots here.
The freshly painted body panels
have had enough time to cure.
They're ready for installation.
Just look at it man.
Look at these lines.
It's just man.
Cause it doesn't look delicious.
It's looking pretty good, yeah?
Hang on man.
I don't know what it's all.
The sucks after work every day, huh?
Not on a cry like this.
It doesn't really blow to me.
It gets old, trust me.
Even though a hammer in
all of them after a while.
For the final day of the build,
Jesse brings a very special guest.
My mom's here.
You're kind of good looking.
You think so?
Yeah.
You did that, bitch.
That's my boy.
He even loves his mom's
high school, bitch.
She has an angel when
I was a kid, ask her.
Is that true?
No.
I had many embarrassing moments.
A lot of others mad at me.
For a little on-re guy.
Everyone, I threw that rock
through that old lady's window.
She'll drive by the house.
And then I ran inside and took off
all my clothes and messed up my hair
and pretended like I was sleeping.
I can remember.
Mom just came in and found.
Let me have it.
Didn't even ask her.
Another time.
You tied nasty notes.
Nasty words on rocks.
And sailed them over the neighbors.
I didn't do that.
I didn't do that.
Well, are you surprised?
He was very intelligent.
You still live.
He had a lot of potential.
I don't know if he used it off.
But
Hey, I got my own TV show.
I think there's a lot
of teachers out there
that's still probably grumble
every Monday night about 9 o'clock.
Jesse's mom takes a walk.
And the team is ready to take a ride.
Okay.
Let's do it and drive it.
Yeah, it does.
This is just a little baby car.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Job, guys.
Things for
Things for anyone.
Hold on.
You guys want some tools?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like you're excited now.
These are just a few.
Good job, guys.
All right.
Monster garage CDs.
Jesse James Mac tools.
Yeah.
There we go.
You two being
Mac tools says for the shop here.
Oh, my God.
So cool.
Thank you, Jesse.
Good job, guys.
Thanks a lot.
Over at West Coast choppers.
Legendary pinstriper Pete
Finland is set to put
the finishing touches
on the legend race car.
Let's go on Sergio.
Today, Pete is taking on an apprentice.
He's offered to teach built-in members
Sergio the secrets of striping.
We're coming to you from
our home away from home.
Erwin Dale Speedway.
Where we're getting ready to fire
up another monster nation challenge.
The Jordan High Bill team is showing
up for the showdown monster style.
And their legend racer is
ready to pound the plate.
Driving their mini monster
will be none other than
championship legend racer
15 year old David Ross.
But the competition will be fierce folks.
Driving car 72 is Erwin Dale's
raceway rookie of the year.
16 year old Austin Grumpowski.
Okay, folks.
The rules of this challenge are simple.
You drive fast.
You turn left.
And you win the best two out
of three laps around the track.
We're there.
Take all.
Whoa.
These guys came to race.
Check out the monster's stare down.
Gentlemen.
Parker.
But drivers will take one
pace lap to heat up the times.
Two teams with nerves of steel.
They're in off the track to find
out who's the king of the road.
They don't get any
more monster than this.
David Ross in the Jordan High team.
Clark takes the first lap.
But Austin Grumpowski hit the red 70.
His right on his bumper.
Whoa.
He makes a great move to the
inside and takes the lead.
I want to go as you go.
Grumpowski takes lap two.
Yeah.
Gotta be kidding me.
It's tied up with one lap to go.
He could be all over for Jordan High.
One of them move by David Ross.
He takes the checker flag.
And Jordan High takes home the chrome.
And the monster nation proud.
Jordan High's mini is a monster success.
Enjoy the tools boys.
You've earned them.
A tension monster shepherds.
We've trailed through the wild west.
Sailed with monsters from centuries past.
And pedal around in bedrock buckets.
And we've shown you a future
monster builders can do.
But we're not done yet.
The next monster nation road
trip is just around the bend.
A legend in the world
of custom fabrication.
Indian Larry rides again.
Next, on bike or build off.
It's off to drag racing
school for the OCC guys.
As they prepare to build a drag bike
unlike any other American chopper.
Tomorrow.
Battle lines are drawn.
Who will take the title of
America's most beautiful roadster.
Hot Rod build off.
Tomorrow.
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