03x09 - Deplorean

[bunniefuu]

- Wap!

- [Narrator] How you doing there, Monster fans?

Jesse's working on a new standup routine.

- This is my [bleep] job and you see me laughing?

- [Narrator] It's a laugh a minute

down here at the Monster Improv.

- If you don't like it and you think this is funny

and you don't think what I says go,

get the [crash] out right now.

- [Narrator] He's got them rolling in the aisles.

- You're building the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

- Do you wish for me to leave? - Yeah.

- [Narrator] Don't go anywhere.

Stick around for a roast, Monster G style.

[rock music]

Join us now as Jesse and his g*ng of maverick mechanics,

rip, grind and burn,

transforming ordinary street vehicles into Monster Machines,

in the Monster Garage.

[rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster Garage

This week's challenge, bring an extinct DeLorean

back to life as a hovercraft from hell.

New garage, new rules.

When built, the Monster Machine

must still appear to be stock.

The team will now have $5,000 to spend on parts

and be limited to just one freebie.

They have seven days and nights.

On the first day they design, for the next five they build.

And on the seventh, the Monster Challenge.

If successful, each team member takes home a $3,400 set

of Mac tools and the clock starts now.

[glass crashing]

- Ahh!

- [Narrator] Jesse James and the design team

push the stainless steel DeLorean into the garage.

Just like the man whose name it bears,

it's busted.

[machine shaking]

- Shoobie doobie doo

- The design team assembles in the loft

and Jesse is there waiting for them,

but they better watch out.

It's an ambush.

- I don't know.

My confidence level on this whole build

is at zero right now.

One, not only we do we have a car that was like a failure.

- Now wait a minute now.

I got a customer with 500,000 miles on that car.

- [Jesse] Whatever.

- [Narrator] Jesse might not like DeLoreans,

but Don Steger has made them his life's work.

- I've been in the business for 22 years.

I'm good at what I do.

I mean, I've got probably 25, 30 cars at my shop

and I do transmissions, I do electrical, I do body work.

I tear 'em apart, rebuild 'em again while I do everything.

- That car doesn't even run.

Plus it's a DeLorean, which is a car company that failed.

And two, we're making a hovercraft, which, you know,

I know you built one before and everything,

but to me it doesn't make any sense.

We could gold plate the whole thing

and it's not gonna be better.

So, let's just start building it.

Draw a good picture, I heard enough.

- [Don] So I get to do the whole thing myself, cool.

Yeah, he's done his whole thing.

- Yeah, whatever

- [Narrator] Jesse wishes this build would just go away.

Since it won't, he does.

The rest of the design team has to fend

for themselves while a master fabricator,

- Yo, Choco-Taco to go right there [indistinct]

- [Narrator] turns to his sweet tooth.

[ice cream truck music]

They're down a Jesse,

but they still need to design a Monster.

Here's where they're at.

Don set the team up with the DeLorean

and Rich secured them one working hovercraft.

[guitar riffing] [cash-register dinging]

All they have to do is figure out how much

of one will wind up in the other.

- We're talking, just cut everything out.

Take this whole thing, leave it structurally.

I mean, it's gonna be what? And then

just put it on a piece of

- Right.

- It's gonna sit on the hovercraft.

- We can, if, if we sit it on the hovercraft and,

and we use just, you know, like angle iron, steel,

perforated steel to hold it in place.

- Right? - That's all we really need.

- [Narrator] You think Jesse would classify you as a geek?

- I think he would definitely put me in the nerd category

- [Narrator] For Rich Weissensel, every day

is Revenge of the Nerds.

Whether he is driving one of his sports cars,

- We're gonna do a little boogie-in'

- [Narrator] or flying a hovercraft,

this brainiac gear head knows how to have fun.

- [Rich] There are really no rules with the hovercraft.

You could go over anything, you know, so that's

what really intrigued me was the, the all-terrain aspect of,

of the hovercraft.

Rock on.

[tires screeching]

- Okay, so the basic thing is here's the hovercraft, right?

Here's the DeLorean.

Sat down on it like this,

just comes right down and that's it.

- [Narrator] Here's how what's left

of the design team will turn what's left

of their DeLorean into a hovering Monster.

They'll peel off the top

and the DeLorean stainless steel skin

and wrap them onto the hovercraft.

Jesse, I hope you're watching.

[marker squeaking] [rock music]

[motor rumbling]

Day two, the build team enters the Monster Garage.

DeLorean diehard Don Steger returns

from Garden Grove, California.

At his side, from northern Illinois,

Rich Weissenel, DeLorean owner and hovercraft hobbyist.

John Rago brings his fabricating skills

from Highland, California.

From Inglewood, California, car mechanic

Casey Heller is here to hover.

And completing the crew is electronics expert

Rick Gendreau from Pembroke, New Hampshire.

Jesse gives the builders the same earful he laid

on the designers.

- So the basic challenge is to make a DeLorean hover,

I don't know why, as if I got nothing better to do.

These two are excited.

[group laughing]

They've been waiting their whole life

to do a DeLorean hovercraft.

Let's relentlessly hack this thing up.

Show no mercy.

If you guys screw anything up, I still don't care.

[group laughing]

- [Narrator] Jesse's made his point.

- Do you think McFly's gonna come here and show us

how to drive this?

- [Narrator] The future is now

for the gull-winged eighties icon.

- Tire's flat.

- [Narrator] It's time to make a Monster.

First on the to-do list, the tear out.

The DeLorean has some interesting design features.

Behind the stainless steel skin,

a fiberglass frame.

[pieces crashing]

- Do you guys care if I smash the window?

- [Narrator] Monster Garage Mantra:

"Smash first, ask questions...

eh, don't bother."

[glass smashing]

[phone ringing]

- Hello? - All right.

- Cool, we'll wait, go ahead.

Take your call, we'll wait.

Just trying to make

- Yeah, I'm actually being filmed

so I gotta get off the phone [laughing]

[intense music] [welding machine sparking]

Jess, you mind if we use that?

- This? - Yeah.

- I'm using it.

- They want, they got one one, they got

one bolt to get the quarter panel up.

Three minutes, okay, thank you.

You're a gentleman and a scholar.

Here, guys, here.

[group chatting]

- I hate everybody.

- Here comes Cameron with the T top.

- Dunn's like Howard Cosell.

He's giving the play by play of the whole build.

- T top.

Hey!

- Make hands work faster, close mouth.

- [Narrator] The gull-wing doors are removed so

that excess weight can be trimmed.

[tools grinding] [machine whirring]

- It's all yours guys.

Yeah, you can't throw that.

- [Narrator] A quick as*ault with the torch

makes the wings light as a feather.

[machines whirring] [parts clattering]

- [indistinct] bro.

[part crashing]

[glass breaking]

Alright, you made me do it.

- [Narrator] With the car down

to its fiberglass underbody.

The team takes a look at the hovercraft.

Jesse is equally unimpressed.

- We gotta turn a battery terminal, Jess?

- There's nothing coming on on and the gauges aren't moving.

- Can we take that switch on there and bypass it?

- Put this, let's put it back together.

Pretend like we never touched it, wait for the key.

We doing, do something else.

- [Don] There's no cameras inside.

- Well, I mean, it's,

they're all here so we might as well

finish, might as well get this thing running.

- That's the only thing I can do, only thing I do.

I only work when the camera's around, okay.

Camera's not around. [chuckling]

- I just want Don to shut up, that's all I want.

- [Narrator] Playing to the camera

is not playing well with Jesse.

[motorcycle rumbling]

He hits the road for some time away from the garage.

[rock music]

The team continues to move forward.

Rick, Don and Rich meet to decide what portion

of the DeLorean will hover and what will be cast aside.

- If we use just the upper portion of it.

We don't have to worry about weight on the bottom.

- You know, obviously cutting it at all

is too much for Jesse already, so,

- No, he likes butchering things.

- Yeah, but he thinks it's cheating

by not using the whole thing.

If we can, if we can,

- He's playing with our heads, that's all.

He probably knows we're doing the right thing,

but he's still gonna tell us, "nah, nah, no, no."

- [Narrator] Despite Jesse's warning, Don

and his disciples decide that no cut is too much.

[saw cutting] [blade grinding]

[machines whirring]

- A little bit. - Hey!

- [Narrator] The top of the frame is cut away

and put aside.

It's the only part of the car they're saving.

- All the bolt holes and everything

are all still there.

We'll bolt everything right back on the car.

So I'm excited about this.

This looks like it's gonna work out pretty good.

- [Narrator] What seemed a little lame

on design paper looks positively

un-Monster-ish in the flesh.

They roll the stripped

and beheaded DeLorean out of the garage.

Is that any way to treat an icon?

The team walks out on day two thinking they've done a good

day's work in the Monster Garage.

Let's see how they think tomorrow.

[relaxing music]

[metal crunching]

There were two, 24 karat gold-plated DeLoreans made.

Together, they're worth over $350,000.

Enough to buy over 56 pounds of gold.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

Day three, the hover-crafters stroll in

and pick up where they left off last night.

The majority of the DeLorean is out the door.

All that's left is the outer skin.

- Fire while we're doing this [grunting]

- [Narrator] Next on the Monster chopping block,

the hovercraft.

Before building their airship, John

and Casey fabricate a rolling rack

to make the Monster movable.

- It'll be our dolly to hold the car.

Put some casters on it.

We can roll it around, work on it.

When I see all these cars hoppin', I hear,

"cha-ching, cha-ching".

- [Narrator] As co-owner of Max Springs,

John Rago makes his living making cars hop.

- We're the number one air distributor in the United States.

- [Narrator] Hopping cars is cool,

but this single dad gets a bigger kick out

of building soapbox racers with his daughter, Theresa.

- She's my bud, Theresa's my best friend.

[rock music] [tools sparking]

- That's the first time I ever seen

hovercraft before in my life, so

- [Narrator] The Rich and Don twosome give

the hovercraft's hull the once over.

Safety first in Monster Garage.

- Basically cosmetically, it's not pretty,

but functionally as far as the integrity

of the hull is very good.

A little cracking in the gel coat here, it's not too bad.

- [Narrator] Up above, Rick is making sure

they're wired and ready.

- We're gonna get everything in order wiring wise so

that the new engine can just be put in with a minimum

of fuss and in the event that something happens

that causes the new engine to not make it,

we'll be in a better position to get this one running.

'Cause failure's not an option.

Redundancy is good.

- [Narrator] Redundancy may be good,

but wasting time is bad.

With a new engine on the way,

Rick is squandering time on a worthless project.

- Okay, I got, I got better over.

[engine struggling]

- [Narrator] The engine turns but won't start

- Three.

- We need a judgment call.

Something's wrong with this, I don't know what.

We could spend all day trying to figure it out.

- Gonna wait for the packs to come

in with the wiring diagram.

- Yes, and in the meantime, I would rather not do anything

to this because I think it's a wasted effort

and I'm not sure what's going on

- [Narrator] With the old engine left to sputter.

It's time to dress a hovercraft in DeLorean clothing.

- Okay, Rick, you go ahead, I got this, go ahead.

- Got it?

- So can we go back just a little?

- No - We gotta really move that.

- Okay. - Right there.

- [Narrator] The DeLorean top and

the hovercraft bottom come together.

Jesse shows up just in time.

- Yeah, no, no, no, just, just take it off.

Just like a straight line.

- I don't know, I distinctly remember saying the

car's got a hover.

Well, now that the car doesn't exist anymore,

it doesn't look like it's coming back.

Like these guys are lazy.

We should have just put DeLorean stickers on the hovercraft.

- What do you think?

- I think it sucks.

I think we're gonna make something else.

- [laughing] I'm interested in your input.

What would, would you do differently?

- I would've gutted the car and made it leave.

Left, leave the car intact.

You know, it's bad enough that we have the hovercraft here

to scab parts off of, you know,

this is a hovercraft decorated like a de DeLorean.

- So you would've left the car intact and

- I don't know.

You, you don't even get it at all, not even 1%, so just

- I'm sorry, then, I'll listen.

- [Rick] He probably knows we're doing the right thing but-

- Okay, but how would you sh**t air at the bottom?

- "But, but, but", quit saying, "but", I mean, it's dumb.

- [Rick] We'd be happy to stop

if you wish us to stop, or I would if you,

if you really don't want it working,

- I think we should stop and do something else.

- Do we get another five days? - No, no.

- Yeah, let's just carry on.

- In your mind, do you really think that's a DeLorean?

That's a hovering DeLorean?

Honestly,

- Best we can with our input materials.

- [Jesse] Well, I mean, honestly, yes or no.

It's not a like, I mean, you really think that's a DeLorean

that's hovering?

- Well, I don't know.

- [Jesse] I think you guys went for the ultimate easy way

by cutting the whole roof line off the car.

- Easy?

- You can think what you want, but this is [bleep],

you know, the whole premise of the show is

to take one thing and make something else out of it.

It's not, take something that already is a hovercraft

and decorate it to look like a DeLorean.

That's stupid.

Like the swamp boat, we should have took the Volkswagen

and then just drove it right onto like a bayliner

and then that would've been a swamp,

Volkswagen swamp boat, right?

- You know, I'm game, I'm good with just packing it in

and saying, all right, it's a failure.

Let's save ourselves three days.

- No, I'm not saying it's a failure.

I'm trying to figure out a way to make it cool.

If you don't have the desire to do it, don't do it.

I'm not forcing anyone be here.

If you don't have the desire,

if you wanna pick something totally easy

and lame to do, go do that.

You know, just do it on your own.

- [Rick] If I didn't wanna do it, I wouldn't do it.

- This show's a challenge

and I, you know, if it's not a challenge,

then we're not gonna do it.

Wow, this is a toughie.

Well, you guys [crash] this one up good.

It's gonna be, take a miracle

to like pull a rabbit outta hat on this one.

- We could grab another underbody.

We can grab another underbody.

- Let's do that, let's make Jesse happy.

Let's get another underbody.

- [Jesse] Hey, I'm trying to make you guys look good,

and not look like a [ding], you know.

- Oh, thank you, likewise.

- You know, this ain't my first [static] picnic,

so if you think you're [static] you know,

cool on TV, keep doing it.

You know.

- The bottom line is, Jesse thinks this project sucks as is.

So why don't we defer to his wishes.

- No, I think I should have stayed here and

babysit you guys all night.

So you would've did it the right way.

- Oh, I mean, let's be realistic.

We can salvage this skirt and that stuff.

Attach it to another car, get that car as light as we can.

- Yeah, I don't have a problem cutting this apart,

using the parts off it, but actually using

the thing in tact.

I mean, if you don't see that, that's lame.

You know, you don't, you don't see it,

or you think that's totally cool.

- Hey, I thought it was cool until you told me it wasn't.

- We do it the way we're doing it.

It's gonna be a cool thing.

But like he says, what's really that difficult?

Just chopping off top of the car

and set it in a hovercraft and make it work.

- No, you guys are missing the whole point of the show.

You and you obviously want to be on TV really bad.

No [bleep] about it, you know.

- [Rick] Well that's really not the case.

- No, you do, both of you.

I've seen both of you the way you act, you know,

you're hamming it up for the camera

and [bleep] like that, you know.

[Rick cackling]

This show's about fabrication and stuff like that.

You think it's funny?

- No, I'm sorry, but I don't generally get thought of

as somebody who hams it up for a camera puts on a fake air.

- You're sitting there [bling] running your mouth right now.

You know, you think it's funny.

This is my [bling] job.

If you don't like it, you think this is funny

and you don't think what I says goes,

get the [bling] out right now.

- Nope, you're the boss.

What you say goes. - Go, go.

- You wish for me to leave?

- Yeah, I'm not laughing at you.

And you, you're building the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

And I'm not laughing.

You see me laughing?

- Well, you know, you told me to go, I should go.

- Bye.

- Thank you.

It's been a pleasure meeting your set and your crew.

- Yeah, you said enough, just beat it.

- See you Rich, Don, John.

- Chill out. Bye.

- [Jesse] Yeah, you said enough,

just beat it, beat it, beat it [echoing].

Bye, you said enough, said enough [echoing].

- [Narrator] An awkward silence fills the garage

as the team contemplates their fate.

The DeLorean is ruined.

Two build days are gone.

And now they have to finish the build with one less builder.

There's no time now to wallow in their losses.

Jesse takes command.

- You go get the underbody right now.

Can we cut some windows in this

and kind of look at it so we know

- Absolutely. - How to pull it apart.

- [Narrator] Don hits the road

to retrieve the second DeLorean.

- Wow, all of a sudden it's interesting now.

- [Narrator] The remaining crew attack the

hovercraft with a vengeance.

[bright music]

- I may come off as a d*ck,

but I would way rather fail at trying

to do something really, really hard,

than accomplish something that was super easy.

- [Narrator] They rip into the hovercraft

and salvage the fan and other parts

they will need to make the DeLorean fly.

- Turn that baby on. - Let's cut it real low.

So we're, so we have some

material to attach to, you know what I mean?

We're gonna have to probably trim it back.

- [Narrator] John tears through the upper skin

of the hovercraft with ease.

They free the fan housing from the craft's base.

With the fiberglass cutaway,

Jesse now gets to see the how behind the hover.

- Where's the air escape from these bags at?

Or does it just-

- It goes, it goes right down

and the the bags open up at the bottom, like on a-

- Like on a slip?

- Yeah. - Yeah, at the very bottom.

- This whole ring around here,

this V shape coming up acts like an air tank.

So the bags have a constant charge of air.

So having that whole thing charged with the same charge

of air, you know it's gonna it's gonna keep it more stable.

- Exactly. - And if you throttle it in

or out, it's the charge of air

is gonna still keep this puffed up

and keep it off the ground, right?

- Right.

And I think if we go with whatever that is,

a six or eight inch diameter, like a HVAC pipe,

that should be the same amount of volume as that space.

- Inspiration comes from strange places sometimes

by kicking him off and putting us behind the eight ball

and destroying our second DeLorean

and putting a time crunch on it.

That's real pressure, you could feel it.

[upbeat music] [machine sliding]

- [Narrator] Jesse's new plan for the DeLorean is

to run a six inch PVC pipe around the perimeter of the car

and through the center air duct.

Thus creating a cushion of air for the car to float on.

[upbeat music]

Back on the road, Don confesses his Monster missteps,

- You know, work for your boss on earth

as you would for your father in heaven.

He's my boss, so I gotta do

what he says to me, tells me to do.

- [Jesse] You're not a very good

listener, listener, listener [echoing].

- I wasn't listening to him. He told us what he wanted

and we were doing something totally different.

- [Narrator] As Don's conscience clears,

the crew salvages the air sacks off the old

hovercraft.

- These are the strong zip-ties.

These are like the kind they use for handcuffs.

We're cutting it's sack off.

You look like an Ewok.

[group laughing]

[truck beeping]

- [Narrator] The DeLorean underbody arrives

and victim number two succumbs

to the Monster Garage tear apart.

- Okay, we start over again.

[rock music]

[metal crashing]

[parts crunching]

[group cheering]

[hammer hitting]

- Here we go. - That's perfect.

- That's more like it!

- [Narrator] Amidst the fury of flying parts,

Don finds redemption.

[rock music]

[metal crashing]

[rock music]

[upbeat music]

- It's gonna be way the hell up there [indistinct]

- Yeah.

So "vehicle must appear to be stock" is totally out now?

- [laughing] Doesn't matter.

- Yeah, we'll just slip in

"DeLorean must hover" in for

"vehicle must appear to be stock".

This thing almost made right up in there.

This car was built to be a hover craft.

- Man, this thing made to order, huh?

- Look at that. - Sweet.

[machines whirring]

- Watch your fingers.

[rock music]

- Can see things, huh?

Huh?

Ahh!

[machine chugging]

[cash register dings]

[upbeat music]

- Yep. - Flows to that.

- Yep. - Okay,

- So right here on the bottom coming out about right here.

- Cool.

- Is everybody on the same page now?

- Yes.

- Cool? - Cool.

- All right.

Now do you see the difference?

- Yes.

[funky music]

- I apologize because in the beginning what

you said, what Richard said,

- It's cool.

You know, we just moved forward.

That was, that was earlier today,

we'll leave that there, just go forward.

With the odds stacked against us losing a day

and a half and one guy down.

If we make it, it'll make it that much better.

I think we come in tomorrow,

everybody working on the same page

and they're in the right state of mind.

I think we can knock it out easy.

[funky music]

Boom!

[funky music]

[expl*si*n blasting]

- [Narrator] Monster Garage factoid.

The fastest crossing of the English Channel

by a hovercraft was 22 minutes.

Just two minutes slower than the high-speed train running in

the channel tunnel beneath.

[rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

Day four.

It's one man down, three days to go.

Jesse kicked a guy off the team,

now he's ready to quarterback.

- Since the dude that got sent home was being

such a d*ck about it.

Now I have, that made the desire happen.

Now I am determined to make it happen.

There's no reason why we can't make a DeLorean hover.

- Nothing personally against Rick, of course,

but I think this kind of forced us to really

go tooth and nail with this thing

and know that we have to step up

to the plate and get it done.

It's gonna be one of the projects I finish, I hope.

- [Narrator] The team starts out low.

They need to seal the underside of their Monster.

A patchwork of sheet metal will plug the holes

and create an airtight chamber under the car.

- I used to install windows, man.

- [Jesse] [laughing] People couldn't see out of 'em,

but they couldn't see out of 'em when you were done.

- [Narrator] Casey Heller has been servicing cars

in the same shop for 18 years.

- I keep soccer moms and construction guys

and everybody else on the road.

I check everything from air pressure to blood pressure,

you know, that's what the customer needs.

- [Narrator] And Casey's heard it all.

- "When I turn right, it goes reh-reh-reh-reh-rech".

"It squeals in the morning", "pulls to the right".

Well that's 'cause your right front tire is flat.

[upbeat rock music]

- You gonna be able to reset okay?

It's not a short joke, it's just a convenience joke.

[equipment whirring]

[tools grinding]

- Go through, there's some steel pegs right here.

- [Narrator] An early delivery gives the team some lift.

A Yamaha snowmobile engine.

- It's a 998 CC four stroke.

Puts out about 145 horsepower.

This is freebie, freebie [echoing].

Zip, zero, nada.

The engine burns up their one freebie,

but the shipping will cost them.

[cash register dings]

- Look at that, this is stuff that's very lightweight,

which is really critical.

- [Narrator] The engine and parts have everyone smiling.

- That looks better - Yeah. [laughing]

- [Narrator] Jesse likes it.

- Full pull.

- [Narrator] Then he tells Rich how he'd like to install it.

- I think we should mount the fan and get that all set

and then we'll mount the motor to it

with that bracket and everything we have there

we can mount it up to that bracket

and then that should slide in and mount to the-

- The bracket from the old engine?

- Yeah.

- [Narrator] The old hovercraft engine coughs up a

propeller and mounting bracket,

inspiring Casey to spit out a Monster Garage Mantra.

- Use what we can make, what we can't.

[rock music] [guitar wailing]

- [Narrator] The team breaks to refuel

and Casey makes sure they're pumped up for the race ahead.

- Whatever it takes to get this done.

Are you down?

- I'm down for it. - Are you really down?

- I'm down. - Are you? Do it with me.

- I am down.

- I don't know what you're saying, but I agree with Casey.

- We're getting done. - You're good.

That's all I know.

We're gonna get this thing done

- [Narrator] After lunch,

John's stomach starts

to churn when he sizes up the new engine.

- This motor, this motor where it mounts

is six inches deeper than that motor.

- This is gonna jack this baby.

- Four inches to the,

to the bottom of the motor.

This one here has gotta be at least eight, ten.

So we're like [ding].

This right here is about damn near



So that means the motor's gonna be, have to go

down into that air box.

- [Narrator] The new engine is bigger

and needs to sit six inches lower than the old one.

John's got the solution.

- Just lets them out right here like that.

So we have to cut the bottom of the floor out.

- [Narrator] They hit the deck with a couple of sawzalls

and soon enough there's a hole where the floor used to be.

John and Casey prepare the new engine

for its new life in a Monster hovercraft.

- That's, that's perfect.

That's [bling] right there.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Narrator] The blue collar duo finished the last

of their homemade engine brackets.

[machines buzzing]

- You know that right there is perfect.

- [Narrator] Rich and Don have teamed up

to work on airflow problems,

but the only air flowing is coming from their mouths.

- So we can't use anglers to go on the outside here.

- It's still not gonna be far enough.

- We have 'em up further, we just need to make sure

we keep fastened to the car.

- Right, I mean fastened to the car is fine,

but I mean it's, this all has to be sealed behind here.

- I see a lot of this going on.

- Say that again.

- The bigger the air cushion area,

the easier it can lift the weight.

- Where are we at now?

- The only way to keep the pipes

in the position that they are is, you know-

[voices quickly chattering]

- When we get done will the air sh**t out here, then here?

Or down here? - What are we missing?

- Should we go in further with these?

- And it's kind of worrying me, you know.

- [Narrator] Jesse puts an end to their endless discussion

and gets them moving forward.

- Why don't we get it up and level?

- Okay.

- And then we will run, let's run all the tubing

and then, then we'll bracket it off it.

We'll hold it, we'll secure it.

- Okay.

- [Narrator] The last job

for the day mocking in the PVC piping,

which will channel the hovercraft's airflow.

[rock music]

The team has a gutted DeLorean and a chopped up hovercraft.

Progress was made, the bottom was patched up,

the new engine was prepped and the fan cut to fit.

But with just two days left, they have a crushing amount

of work left to do.

That's it for day four.

[blast exploding]

- [Announcer] Jesse's looking for a hover

that won't blow his cover.

Can he make a DeLorean rise to the challenge?

- All right, you ready?

- [Announcer] Stay tuned.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Narrator] Day five starts off

with something you just don't see every day.

The Monster Garage DeLorean Drill Team.

[distorted voice singing]

They deserve a lot of credit for willing to be seen

as dorks on national television.

Jesse starts his day five on a different note.

- I just tell everybody, "don't worry until I start

to worry," and I'm a little bit worried.

- The thing that worries me most is getting the engine in

there and bolted safely.

- [Narrator] What's the best remedy for worry?

Work.

- I'm making some shackles, so I'll hold the pipe in place

- [Narrator] First, using the garage's new iron worker,

he cuts out and punches holes in

some square pieces of metal.

Then he makes some steel collars using the tube bender.

- Yeah, smart [beep]

[rock music]

[metal welding]

- [Narrator] He winds up with a set of bombproof shackles

to connect the PVC piping.

[rock music]

Casey has no problem opening a box of new blades

for the hovercraft fan,

[cash register dings]

but he's flying blind when he has to install them.

- What do you know about pitch.

- Pitch?

Pitch and woe?

[both laughing]

I have no freaking idea. I'm not a, I'm not a hover man.

- This kind of pitch, three strikes you're out.

- I'm not a hover man, I'm a welder.

- [Narrator] Getting the right pitch,

or blade angle, directly affects

how much air the fan can push.

- I know there's gonna be some

hovercraft people watching this and they go,

"man, this guy don't know what he's doing".

- [Narrator] Casey and John are not alone

in their hovercraft ignorance.

- I mean, I've never worked on hovercraft before.

I've never ridden one, don't know anything about it.

- [Narrator] Rich worked on a hover project once before,

but he's hardly an expert and he's worried.

- I mean, every time you add more

and more stuff on there, it just gets heavier and heavier.

It's still theoretically possible to do.

I just wish I was able to do the calculations

and everything, but we don't have time for that right now

[laughing] so, we'll do the jump to light speed

without the calculations and hold our breath.

- They're talking about gluing stuff

and I'm not really, just who's trying to explain things?

- You quit doin' glue. - No, no, no, no, no.

Just I want something to do.

- What do you doing now?

- [Narrator] Confused by Casey, Don goes back to glue.

It's time to lock the plastic pipe in place.

- This is the plumbing portion of the show.

It's a huffer-craft.

[pipes banging] [rock music]

- [Narrator] John drills holes in the pipe

so that air will vent through the skirts and lift the craft.

- Whatever the mind can

conceive and believe, it can achieve [echoing].

- [Narrator] The engine and propeller

are ready to be installed.

- Put the fan on, we'll bolt it all together, get it to fit.

- Okay.

- Bolt it up tight and we'll put the whole thing as one unit

'cause we got enough space.

- [Narrator] Fitting the fan becomes a challenge of its own.

- Go at an angle like, there you go.

- You out on top over there? - No.

[rock music] [pipes banging]

- [Narrator] A few hits, and it fits.

Casey locks it down.

- Ever since I've been on this show,

I had like two hours sleep a night.

It's like a looping tape in my head.

"Monster Garage, Monster Garage".

- Don't know what the [crash] you're talking about

[laughing] 'cause when I go to bed at night,

I just hear the looping tape that says "k*ll everyone".

- [Narrator] The boys give the DeLorean its power plants.

- Yeah, we're getting ugly back here.

- Slow.

Right there.

There we go.

- [Narrator] While the crew secures the heart

of the Monster, Jesse makes sure it can roar.

He crafts an exhaust to echo the sounds of scary.

- Wap!

- That, oh, really?

- Look at that.

- If it fits, I'm the King of the World.

I didn't even know that thing went over like that [laughing]

I mean, yeah, my calculations were correct.

[group laughing]

[rock music]

- Where's all this go?

[machine sparking] [rock music]

[tools banging]

[rock music] [machine sparking]

- You look like way, way, way the hell out

at the end of tomorrow,

there's a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

So, aside from something

catastrophic, I think we're cool.

I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I'm probably 77.5%.

That's over three quarters.

- Yes. - I say we're gonna make it.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Too close.

- [Narrator] Day five was a monster success.

They installed the engine and fan,

piped the perimeter of the car

and didn't lose anyone along the way.

- This is wild, you know, you get so involved

and you don't even think about what you're doing

and then you look at it and you go,

[thunder rumbles]

[blast exploding]

- [Narrator] Day six, 8:00 AM, the final build day.

By midnight tonight,

it's heroes who hover or zeroes who don't.

- The biggest obstacle, I think,

to still overcome is the weight.

- Weight is the factor.

- [Narrator] A skirt in the monster garage?

- Every hot rod needs a skirt, somewhere.

Either sittin' passenger or

that frilly thing across the bottom.

- [Narrator] The skirt needs to fasten

directly to the tubes.

So Don and John fabricate a metal attachment strap.

[tool zapping] - Ouch!

How'd I get zapped? [laughing]

God, that felt good.

- [Narrator] 11:06.

The strapping is complete.

- Skirt turn.

- And I want to attach it, you know,

in as many places as possible.

- Oh, everywhere.

- You got it.

- [Narrator] As the skirting begins,

Jesse grabs the Sparco seat

and makes a mount for it to lock in the car.

[cash register dinging] [rock music]

Respecting the car's Irish roots,

Jesse puts the seat on the English side.

- Can I get a deep socket with a ratchet?

Gimme that with a ratchet that whole one, gimme a whole set.

- John's like a heart surgeon.

He's used to just shouting out tools.

"Need a deep socket with the ratchet, 19 millimeters stat"

[indistinct] yelled out.

Two orders at my shop fly is working up until they going

too much [clang] going on in my head.

[expl*si*n blasting]

- [Narrator] 3:36.

The engine is ready for its first firing.

- Clear.

[engine turning]

[motor sputtering]

[motor growling]

[engine roaring]

[engine roaring]

[group celebrating]

- Got a good air flow coming out of it.

- I made my brain itch. [laughing]

- That's awesome, I got the chills.

- [Narrator] It looks like a Monster

and sounds like a Monster,

but it's not a Monster yet.

- Until we can lift

that weight up, it doesn't mean anything.

- [Narrator] But before Rich celebrates, he fabricates.

It's an all out effort

to complete the airtight chamber under the car.

[cash register dings]

The fever is contagious.

Casey wires makeshift controls for the craft.

- That's bitchin'

- [Narrator] As day turns to night,

the team works desperately to bring the DeLorean to life.

- Nobody answer any more questions.

Just work.

Just nod and don't stop moving your hands.

- Try and make you

[rock music]

[tools grinding] - You know what'd be funny,

if I threw someone off the team now.

Get outta here!

[rock music]

- Now we got our steering.

Kicking a*s.

- We have rudder!

[guitar wailing]

[siren]

- It's the final hour life.

- [Narrator] With less than an hour to go,

the final pieces are put in place.

- One of the last skirts.

- I've reached the point of no return.

Just get it done. - That's right.

- Who cares what it looks like.

[rock music] [hammer pounding]

- [Narrator] There are only minutes left in the build

as the crew complete their Monster.

Duct tape.

The last line of defense against escaping air.

- These guys have all kicked a*s big time.

Just doing what I can to try to get us there.

- 15 minutes boys.

- That's it.

Need to fire this [bleep] up and see what it does.

All right, you ready?

[rock music]

[engine chattering]

[motor purring]

[hovercraft buzzing]

[hovercraft buzzing]

- And like this side lifted up,

and that side didn't.

- Yeah.

- Is there bags caught over there?

- There's one that tore off. - One tore off.

- Tore off the bottom.

- It broke, though. - So we got a leak here.

[rock music]

[hammer pounding]

[engine struggling]

[engine growling]

[hovercraft buzzing]

[hovercraft roaring]

- Let's tilt it up, see what's up.

- Right down there.

- See where air is leaking from.

Hey, let's take this [bleep] drop and just shift it on

and put it on the ground right here.

Watch your feet.

[machine dragging]

- [Narrator] It's after 1:00 AM.

They've tried to get their Monster

to rise from the dead three different times.

All with the same result.

[engine growling]

[hovercraft buzzing]

[hovercraft roaring]

[hovercraft roaring]

- Got some good flames sh**ting.

[guitar music]

- [Narrator] There's no need for words.

They're written on the exhausted builders' faces.

- Failure's not an option [echoing].

Failures, failures, failures.

The odds stacked against us [echoing].

- Why did it look so good the first time?

- I'd like to put it on a rack and look underneath.

- It was probably sealed up

and then once it got a little pressure it probably blew out

all the little small holes everywhere.

- Sure, but it hasn't even blown off that duct tape.

- I know, but there's, you know, all the little tiny

leaks add up to one big one.

So,

- [echoing] Failure, failure, failure, failure.

One guy down... We have a deadline and we missed it.

- It's your call.

- [Narrator] Jesse has no words either.

[object crashes]

- [Jesse] I'd way rather fail at trying

to do something really, really hard

than accomplish something that was super easy.

All right, good job, Rich.

Thanks a lot, you guys, appreciate all the effort.

Good job, John.

Casey, good job.

Hey thanks, man.

- Hey, tried, it was fun.

- [Jesse] [echoing] Nobody liked to lose, lose, lose, lose.

- I'll say this much.

It wasn't for, it wasn't for lack of trying.

- Hey brother, can't win 'em all, man, that's life.

Well, you know, nobody likes to lose,

but hey, we had, we had a deadline and we missed it.

We made a DeLorean tilt

[group laughing]

and that's good enough for me.

- "Come see the tilting DeLorean." [laughing]

- [Jesse] We made a DeLorean tilt, tilt, tilt [echoing].

I'm not happy to, if you don't hope you don't.

It's gonna be one of the projects I'd finish,

I hope, I hope, I hope [echoing].

- You guys get your rule as your game, your thing.

But personally I feel we should have had more time.

I mean, I'd like to know why, that's all.

I wanna know why, that's it.

- [Jesse] We had a deadline and we missed it [echoing].

- It's one o'clock in the morning and that thing didn't fly.

- Time's up, game over.

- We did five guys worth of work with four guys.

Hey, we came up a little short, that's life.

- [Jesse] [echoing] Game over, game over, game over

game over, over, over over.

- [indistinct] Rules are rules.

Good job, brother.

- Good job.

- One more time, one more time [echoing].

That's not good enough for me, for me, for me [echoing].

- Well, I'd do it again tomorrow.

[mellow guitar music]

[rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

[liquid bubbling]

- [Schwag] Hello again, Monster Troops.

Sergeant Schwag reporting for duty.

I want you all to stand and salute

because on the back of that trailer,

is a fallen Monster.

Private Whiteside, fill us in.

- [Frankie] Here's what we know so far.

We're down at Camp Pendleton,

a military base just north of San Diego.

The Marines and the Navy are teaming up on a joint mission

to help dispose of this heroic but doomed monster.

- [Schwag] Failure number three for Captain Jesse James.

- [Frankie] They tried to turn a DeLorean into a

hovercraft, but came up short.

- [Schwag] But these dudes didn't.

Say hello to L-CAC.

Landing craft air cushion.

It's 87 feet long with four 6,000 horsepower engines.

It runs on jet fuel and can do 50 knots plus.

This sucker kicks serious global a*s.

[upbeat music]

- You think you guys could have hammered this out in a week?

- Probably.

- Five days? We can do it in two.

- They're thinking about it too much.

You need to get in there and do it.

- I'll give 'em an A for effort.

- They have the right idea.

- [Schwag] These dudes honor all fallen soldiers.

The dead DeLorean gets the Swift Intruders'

stamp of approval.

Oorah!

[whistle] [rock music]

- [Frankie] Schwag, looks like D-Day is getting underway.

They got a name for this operation?

- Better sucks, Oorah!

- [Schwag] They beached the DeLorean!

And there's Jesse, here to pay his final respects.

- Any final thoughts for the failure here?

- Nope.

- [Schwag] Jesse James, a man of few last words.

He's heading for the L-CAC. - Good to meet ya, man.

- How ya doing?

- [Schwag] Oh yeah!

It's ball battle gear for the master fabricator.

Looks like Jesse's riding shotgun.

[knuckles cracking]

[switches switching] [power humming]

[hovercraft whizzing]

[rock music]

You gotta be kidding me.

It goes from turf to surf in under six seconds flat.

- [Radio Voice] Five, two, be wet on normal.



And we're a thousand yards on the beach.





[hovercraft buzzing]

Ready to go on. - Roger.

- I'm ready to go.

[hovercraft buzzing]

- [Schwag] What is that?

- [Frankie] Three letters, Schwag, AAV,

as*ault amphibian vehicle.

- [Schwag] I like it.

Incoming!

Oh yeah.

[Marines shouting]

Marines have landed!

[rock music]

Incoming!

[metal crunching] [wheels turning]

[motor revving]

Oh yeah, the DeLorean's still got some

fight left though, Frank.

- [Frankie] Jesse gives the order and the AAV responds.

- Bring it, Jesse, bring it.

Yeah, bring it, Jesse.

[wheels spinning] [rock music]

[metal crunching]

- [Schwag] You gotta be kidding me!

[group yelling and cheering]

[metal crunching] [wheels spinning]

[group yelling and cheering]

It's got some food stuck in its teeth.

Complete annihilation.

Total destruction.

The DeLorean shredded.

Mission complete.

Operation Failure Sucks, a success!

[group cheering and applauding]

- This is one I did not want to fail.

I'd still rather be hovering in it.

You know, I'd still rather be successful

and be able to give those guys their tools.

But that ain't always the case.

I guess you could never truly taste victory

until you've went through defeat.

- [Schwag] Is Jesse gonna take a piece of this one?

- [Frankie] He's got a better idea, Schwag.

- You guys want some of this stuff? Yeah?

- [Schwag] Yeah, that's right.

Pack it in, pack it out.

We leave no one behind.

[rock music]

- This will be mounted up somewhere as evidence

of Jesse James being here

and destroying what could have been a good hover [laughing].

- We appreciate you coming out, good luck with everything.

- I appreciate you guys.

- [Schwag] But Jesse's got no time for retreat defeat

and DeLoreans that can't get up.

He's got sparks to fly,

metal to burn,

the next Monster Garage Challenge

and it's just around the bend.

Swift Intruders, Monster Garage salutes you.

[rock music] [wave crashing]

- Monster Garage, you rock! - Yeah.

[rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster

[heavenly music]