Hi, Monster Garage has a bug being worked on tomorrow night. Not a rerun. Joe Cali Next Generation USA
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Hi, Monster Garage has a bug being worked on tomorrow night. Not a rerun. Joe Cali Next Generation USA
I don't think it's going to be "worked on" in the sense that VW fans and the folks on ramva would use the phrase. More like worked over...'course I would love to be proven wrong.
I do enjoy the show most of the time but there is something about Jesse that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's the editing...
Mike T
I would love to be proven wrong.
Nope in real life he's an a-hole. I expect the worst...like an early 60 bug chopped up to be a giant blender or something. that said i like the show. cant say much for the looks of his bikes from west coast chopper though
Well I agree with both you guys, about Jesse, the stripping of the bug, which they did if I was going to go for custom bike it would not be one of his or Orange County Chopper. I live near those guys and their regular bikes are all off the shelf parts. I do enjoy the show, Miky is real funny. Actually I enjoy all the shows. Waiting to see how American Hot Rod turns out. Rides so far has my attention. Joe Cali Next Generation
its cool to see them build a buggie (flashbacks). Hope the rest of the body goes to good use.
Mario
There are now - what - three chopper building shows one now and NOTHING that builds standards or sportbikes. Sigh.
It's cool that they kept it a "VW" and didn't do something really tragic, but the bug looked like it was in decent condition and shouldn't have been gutted. The front end was balljoint anyway. They couldve gotten a late model with collision damage easy.
Oh I more then agree that it was a real nice 66 and would love to have had it for a daily driver. I would have given them a chassis already stripped ( yea I know) okay one of my parts( rusty crunched) beetles to use. But that shows you what calf. people call parts cars.
Mario
yeah I saw it last night... that was a pretty decent looking '66. They turned it into a Meyers Manx style buggy by doing away with the body and shortening the pan 15 inches, which they almost boched... NOT my '66... but still interesting.
they also showed a bug turned into a bbq smoker, which busted a tie rod end while being towed by a trike and flipped, sending the bug smoker into a gaurdrail.
More vw content...
the shopping cart/go cart raced a karmann ghia in the street and the ghia lost.
the GT40 replica was sitting on a vw pan, but they did away with that and put it on a blazer frame to make it a rock crawler, which sucked.
Now when the show was starting, they showed the single cab mated to a ghia briefly, and a ghia as some kind of boat
so it did have VW content.
I think the dune buggy that raced Jessie let him win, but thats just me.
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That got to me too. Why not just take the VW chassis and make a 4*4 out of it? That would have taken a couple of days at most and actually worked.
did anyone happen to catch a glimpe of the carbies when they were pulling that body off??? I wonder what those Putzy Delorean dudes did with that stuff? Mark Detro Englewood, FL
Paul Yaffe or Indian Larry for my next two-wheeled ride... those guys fabricate. Jesse James even admitted on camera that he's a knob, that's why his wife left (he says).
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'66.
When they were about to cut into the tunnel, did anybody notice that the announcer says they're about to "shorten the driveshaft"? :-D
-- Scott
Even OCC is barely passable at fabrication. The whole problem is, the real craftsman and fabricator of the family is stuck in the office every day while his half-baked sons try to equal his skill. Paulie twinks around envisioning himself to be artist and Mike, God bless him, has the desire, but none of the raw talent. The father - this bike he's working on now is much better made than the others(so far).
But Paul and Larry - daz the real shiz. :) Man - that bike Larry made on that competition show was amazing - just gorgeous old-school glory. If I wanted a custom bike, no question where I'd go to.
Did you see Junkyard Wars tonight? I swore I saw a convertible bug with
8-spokes in that pile of junk...Actually, both hours of MG had aircooled content.
The first ep featured a high school auto class that turned a shopping cart into a 12hp go-kart -- which beat a KG in a short sprint. It also had a kafer-cum-cooker -- a Beetle-turned-barbeque -- and the Carthedral, a hearse with a sedan as second story.
The second hour placed a '67 sedan in the hands of a different HS auto class, who did a very straightforward pull-the-body, shorten-by-18-inches and plant-the-fiberglas-tub dune buggy conversion.
Jim
actually didnt he say something like... so-and-so was refurbishing the CV Joints?
um.... a 66 has a swing axle... at least jesse called the bottom half of the beetle a "pan"
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I liked the 5 gear burn-out. Larry's going to lose some tats when he gets road rash at 65 mph! One day while riding with his feet on the 'bars or standing on the seat with his hands in the air he'll find out it wasn't such a good idea :o)
GWe got ripped off with Discovery Canada. Our MG had a jet powered Celica, the one JJ used in the celeb race. Speaking of that, what did y'all think of him trying the "pit maneouver" on the lead car in the last turn so he could (if it'd worked) take the lead/win. Is that considered a "rub" and just part of the game or just poor sportsmanship? If you can't out drive them then cheat? Just wondering.
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