[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] A Monster Garage recipe fit for a beast.
Take one basket of free range truffles, the white ones.
One head of lettuce, gripped and ripped.
t*rture one ripe tomato.
Put a means slice to one cucumber.
Add hot tempers... [glass shattering]
- [beep] [beep]! Go weld something, dude.
- [Narrator] And flambe.
[flame whooshing]
Dinner is served in the Monster Garage.
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.
[upbeat music]
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster Garage, garage, garage ♪
- [Narrator] This week's challenge:
take a 1984 Porsche 944 and transform it
into the world's fastest golf ball range picker.
The rules, when built, the monster machine
must appear to be stock.
The team can spend no more than 3,000 greenbacks for parts.
[air whooshing]
Jesse and his crew have seven days and nights.
On the first day, they design.
For the next five, they build.
On the seventh day, they race.
If successful, each team member takes home
a $3,400 set of Mac tools.
[dramatic music]
And the clock starts now.
[expl*si*n booming]
[tires screeching]
Designated driver Jesse James delivers the Porsche
to the Monster playpen.
[upbeat music]
Fast on his heels is his hand-selected design team.
Jesse has called upon their talents
to make monster modifications to this jewel
of German engineering.
- All right, guys. So this is it.
We're gonna make a Porsche 944
into the ultimate golf ball collector.
[air whooshing]
- [Narrator] Jesse James.
A direct descendant of the legendary outlaw
of the open range is a renowned and revered hero
in the world of custom choppers.
[engine whirring]
But today, he steps into the shoes of the underdog,
the unsung hero of the driving range,
the sitting duck known as the-
- Range ball picker guy.
[metal clanks]
[metal clanks] [engine whirring]
- You're like that little kid at school
that gets picked on all the time.
[metal clanks]
- It just rings. It's like inside of a bell.
You just can't get used to it.
[metal clanks]
- It'd be nice once to fire back.
- [Narrator] Mac Gillum knows a thing or two
about picking up golf ba*ls.
[upbeat music]
He builds handcrafted range pickers
for a living at his company: Different Designs.
- I like to tweak things.
I like to do things just to see if they can be done.
It'll roll over, pick up a golf ball.
You have a set of fingers.
It's set between your disc assemblies.
When the ball rolls, it'll hit the fingers,
eject it out into a basket system.
The normal ball picker speed's
around five to eight miles an hour.
- [Narrator] But at that speed, the range picker's
an easy target for any nimrod with a nine iron.
Our picker will have to move faster.
- We plan on doing this maybe 50 or 60 miles an hour.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Pete Pepe commands the pencil.
As a creative designer for Disney animation,
his ideas are anything but Mickey Mouse.
- I just think the skill of just basically
just trying to think outside of the box.
You're basically making something
that is a simple design into something that's cool.
- Golf is never going to be cool as far as I'm concerned.
- You've gotta remember, golfers nowadays
are construction workers.
They're motorcycle builders, car builders.
We don't wear knickers anymore.
'Cause I'm a golfer, I don't wear knickers.
- Sissies. [Pete laughing]
- I wouldn't want to stand in front of Tiger Woods
hitting a golf ball at 150 yards out,
because I've seen him drive
it through 3/4 inch plywood before.
- 3/4 inch plywood? No way. - What?
- Absolutely. - Maybe 3/4 inch cardboard.
[Pete laughing]
- I think the picker's a pretty basic design,
and we probably shouldn't screw with that, you know?
[upbeat music]
- [Pete] This particular Porsche has a very large area
in the back of it, which gives us plenty of room,
I think, in the back side.
Well, that'd be quite a bit of cutting
for it to accept it underneath.
- [Narrator] Fitting the Porsche with a picker
should be easy enough.
But Jesse wants to up the ante.
- Forget the collecting part.
It's the launching them back part.
It's gotta be like a weapon. [voice echos]
- [Narrator] Not only will our picker
dodge the golfers' shots,
it will pick up their ba*ls and return fire.
- I think we should gull-wing the passenger side door.
We want that element of surprise.
So that thing opens up.
- Also, our cannons will be completely hidden
until we decide we want to open
the door up and k*ll everybody.
- Definitely got to put a loud exhaust on it.
- Oh, absolutely.
- I think we got the basic design down.
You know, I think the problems are is
figuring out the feeds,
you know, basically feeding the ba*ls to each cannon.
I've got enough info.
I can do it.
- [Narrator] Jesse calls the design day early.
Tee time tomorrow is 7:00 AM.
He'd rather rest up than worry about the details.
Here's the plan.
They'll build a mechanism that will
pluck the ba*ls into the truck,
and transport them to a g*n hidden behind a gull-wing door.
- I think, just as an ode to all those poor
golf picker guys driving these things,
I think that they finally get their revenge.
[marker squeaking] [expl*si*n booming]
[air whooshing]
- [Narrator] Day two, 7:00 AM.
Jesse leads the build team troopers
onto the b*ttlefield of the Monster Garage.
[door whirring]
[tools whirring]
Philadelphia boy Jay Skwarlo is a bike mechanic
with a hot rod passion.
[tools whirring]
Custom Car Creator Eric Scarlett
hails from Ventura, California.
[tools whirring]
Wendy Schmidt from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
brings her animatronics training to the table.
[tools whirring]
Alex Anderson, custom car builder
from Temecula, California.
[tools whirring]
And our ace in the hole, Designer Matt Gillum,
stays on for the build.
[upbeat music]
Our outlaw wastes no time in laying down the law.
- No screwing around.
To me, this is just work.
So we're here to work and do a job.
You know, I want this thing to get done, and that's it.
You guys got to keep it simple,
and keep it so you're not backpedaling, fixing stuff,
because there's no room for error in five days.
- [Narrator] Before they create, they have to destroy.
The crew yanks, pulls, grabs, and pries
to make room for the golf ball collector and cannon.
- Coming down. - This is the fun stuff.
Taking a car that was perfectly good,
and just destroying it. [laughing]
[metal clanking]
[air whooshing]
- I'm gonna turn this over to our accountant here.
[air whooshing]
- [Narrator] George Beers, Monster Garage greens keeper.
Green bucks, that is.
- This is the change we found in the car.
A whopping seven cents.
[upbeat music]
[register dings] [printer whirring]
You'd think with a Porsche,
that we would have found a little more.
- At least folding stuff.
[Jesse whistling]
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Meanwhile, for Master Chef Jesse James,
it's feasting time at Chez Monster.
With plasma cutter in hand, he trims the excess metal
like the fat on a slab of meat.
The exhaust must go, [metal clanking]
and the back end too.
Anyone for Porsche flambe?
The butchery roars to a stop.
- Wow, that sucks.
- [Narrator] Jesse realizes finding space
for the ball collector won't be that easy.
- This tr*nny's gotta come all the way out
to get the fuel tank out.
[metal whirring]
- Cut the floor out above,
take the [indistinct] take out through the top.
- Yeah, something that's not gonna make sparks or heat.
- [Narrator] Monster Garage mantra:
gas tank plus sparks equals boom!
[voice echoing]
[expl*si*n booms]
Jay uses the power hammer to cut through
the steel metal blocking the gas tank.
Like a German pit crew, they remove the gas tank.
- [Worker] Das is good, ya?
- [Narrator] Now that the Porsche
has been picked to the bone,
it's time to build.
Quickly, the door is removed,
so it can be modified gull-wing style.
[upbeat music]
- Shredding the door, taking some of the weight
off the door itself, so we can make it a little bit lighter.
[plastic ripping]
[saw whirring]
- [Narrator] Jay and Alex team up
to make the gull-wing door fly.
- Cool. [metal clanks]
[upbeat music]
Making it flat requires re-framing.
- We have to reinforce all of this channel right here,
so that it can take the weight of the door.
I'm a custom car builder.
I build custom cars, customary suspension.
[air whooshes]
- [Narrator] For Alex, building k*ller custom cars
is all in the details.
- Kenwood touchscreens, 23-inch neepers,
four Firestone 317 compressors.
You might as well be doing something that you like.
When you get done, you can stand back
and be like, "Yeah, that looks cool." [chuckles]
- [Narrator] The golf ball cannon
is the hot topic for discussion.
- I want it to look like it's raining golf ba*ls.
[air whooshing]
- [Narrator] Jesse thinks this simple tube conveyor
from Mac's shop will do the trick.
- This is what I'm thinking,
like a super-charged something like this.
So when we feed the ba*ls out of the basket
into one tube, in and out.
[ba*ls clanking]
- [Narrator] Alex has another idea.
- [Alex] Look, cause of pressure.
- [Narrator] And Derek agrees.
- Just keep sh**ting them out.
- Maybe the air thing's the way to go, you know?
- [Narrator] Air power is commonplace
in the custom car world.
[metal clicks]
- That ball's gonna haul.
That ball's gonna go.
- [Narrator] But the weapon is worthless without a*mo.
Getting ba*ls to the g*n is job one.
- You three need to work on getting the picker in there,
with a lever to go up and down, and a basket.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Mac heads to his shop,
where he scavenges for parts for the picker,
and gives himself a monster deal.
[jarring rock music]
[register dings] [printer whirring]
Mac returns with picker parts.
[metal clanking]
- This is a drum assembly for a ball picker.
[ball clacking]
[tools whirring]
- [Narrator] Once it's assembled,
the question arises,
how do you mount a picker to a Porsche?
- And we use an arm from right here, from the driver's seat.
Pull it back, and it'd just drop right down.
- St aright down. - Okay, now you want my input?
- Okay. Go for it. - Yep.
- Let's build this here so we clear on both sides.
- Right. - Uh-huh.
- Then we go in here, and we weld a swivel bar
that comes right straight across here.
And it just goes just like this, and just like this.
And swivel off of here.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Before Mac made golf ball pickers,
his life was on a faster track.
- Mac was a drag racer back in the '60s.
[engine whirring]
- Ultimate goal is go as fast as you can go.
[engine whirring]
I got into it, because like I said,
you grow up on a farm or a ranch,
driving Farmall tractors.
We started racing them suckers in the field.
All right, so you just kind of go from one step to the next.
[engine whirring]
We took an old Roadster.
And made it as light as we could make it,
as strong as we could make it,
and go as fast as humanly possible.
It was like getting hit in the a*s with a freight train,
doing about 90 mile an hour.
Some guys say we're nuts.
I would absolutely have to agree.
[air whooshing]
- [Worker] Coming up.
That'll be your door.
- We played this right here,
and the hinge goes right there.
- [Narrator] Jesse sees a problem.
- [Jesse] That's gonna limit us.
- Well, not really.
I was thinking about your position.
Well, yeah.
- [Worker] I thought we were going right
for the kneecap-groin area of the people sh**ting-
- Well, that's not a very big lob, though, you know?
If they're going 100 or 200 yards out-
- So we need to bring it- - Yeah.
- [Worker] Okay. Well we'll still be all right.
- Yeah. I mean as high as we can get it.
- [Worker] Go to about 150 degrees, then.
- Okay. [upbeat music]
- [Narrator] The Monster crew cleaned up on day two,
tearing into and setting up the task to be tackled.
But nothing has been installed,
and the g*n is a big question mark.
[upbeat music]
Monster Garage factoid,
the contact time between a golf ball and a club
is 1/2 of 1/1000 of a second.
♪Monster, Monster Garage
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Day three, 6:00 AM.
[air whooshing]
Before the first sip of coffee,
Mac lays out the goals for the day.
- Let's see if we can get a g*n together today, okay?
Let's see if we can fire a golf ball today,
I don't care how.
Then that kind of lets everybody's brain rest.
Then why don't the three of us make our test
on this sucker to make sure
we can get it to their g*n, all right?
- [Narrator] Alex and Eric are on g*n duty.
They need valves, fittings, and air cylinders
to rig up the air cannon.
[tense music]
But bad blood over where to get the parts
triggers a shootout.
[b*llet whooshes]
Eric shoots first.
- I think Alex has had a problem
with one of my companies, but I think it's all personal.
- They burned me.
I don't want to give them any kind of foot up.
I don't want to do anything for them.
We agreed yesterday that I wouldn't
go through who you didn't want me to go through,
if you didn't go through who I wanted to go through.
- I don't want to discuss burning.
Burning's business. This is personal.
I don't want- - This is personal.
- This is a job that we need to get done.
- You want me to help somebody out that burned me.
That's what you're asking me to do.
- [Narrator] In the competitive world
of custom car building, loyalties can be fierce.
- Let's just get them from somebody else.
It's that simple.
- I don't want to get them from somebody else.
[beep]. - Yeah, see,
you want to help you. - Work as a team.
Or I'll just get in the car,
and these guys can run their [beep] show by themselves.
- You want to, look, look.
Right here. - [beep].
I'm not some- - You want to help?
- Dude, I was asked to come to the [beep] show by them, so-
- Okay, well that's what you're saying.
You're saying that you only want to do it your way.
- I'm not doing it my way.
You're doing the door now, right?
Well then do the door, or go weld something, dude.
- Hey, wait a minute. - [beep], get out of my face.
- Come on, relax a little bit.
If it'd gotten much longer,
you'd have found me crawling in my truck
and go home, because I don't need to put up with it.
I'm too old.
Reminds me of my boys.
Both my sons used to work for me.
They'd go out in the parking lot and fist fight.
It'd be over in five minutes.
They'd walk back in the shop,
and go back to work again.
- Instead of going to the parent company,
he wants to go to the distributor.
Go to the parent company.
Go to anybody. Don't go to that person.
- [Worker] Well, as long as we get the car done,
does it really matter?
- People I designed parts for,
and they burned me for them.
And he wants to help them.
And I don't want to help them.
- You gotta have drama.
When you throw any number of people together in a group
and expect them to do one project,
you're gonna have a little bit of confrontation.
- I don't know about the whole arguing and fighting crap.
We're all going for a common goal.
We're fighting against this, not each other.
- [Worker] I just want to get the [beep] car done.
- Well we can get the parts from a dozen other places.
And that's what I'm saying.
Get them from anywhere but those people.
And he had a problem with people
that I wanted to get it from,
so I said let's go to the the parent company.
Let's go to anybody. Or let's buy the parts.
- Yeah. - The valves are a couple,
they're $30 or $40 each.
You know? - Is he coming back?
What's the deal? - I don't know.
He don't want to talk about it,
he just wants to get mad.
- [Narrator] Alex orders the parts from a third party.
- Were doing an air cannon.
We need some valves. Immediately.
That sounds fine.
[air whooshing] [upbeat music]
- [Narrator] In the aftermath of the altercation,
the team presses on.
But Eric is AWOL.
Alex and Jay grab a hold of the gull-wing
and work on the hinge. - Should work.
[upbeat music] [tools whirring]
[hammer thudding]
[tools whirring]
[metal dragging]
- Nice. - Woo!
Hey, just like we knew what we were doing, almost.
- Far out. - All right.
[group cheering and clapping]
- [Narrator] After acing the hinge,
Jay and Alex take a pint-sized victory lap.
[upbeat music] [engine whirring]
- Woo! [worker laughing]
- [Narrator] The ba*ls need to travel
from the trunk to the front seat.
[motor whirring]
Mac and Wendy test to see if the picker will throw
the ba*ls forward enough to feed the g*n.
- I don't think so.
Don't think we can get it up high enough.
- The ba*ls don't fly as far
as we had thought they might.
We thought maybe before,
we could just fly them to that area.
But it looks like we're gonna have
to carry them to that area.
- [Narrator] The ball's flight
to the g*n was no gimme.
Time to change their approach.
[soft music]
It's been two hours, and no sign of Eric.
The others have no choice but to pound out each project.
[fist thudding]
- This is a new option
on the Porsche 944 Monster Garage addition.
It's the golf ball deflector.
- [Narrator] Meanwhile, Mac is taking another swing
at using his tube conveyor in the car.
It didn't work as a weapon, but he thinks he can use it
to transport the golf ba*ls forward to the g*n.
[upbeat music]
- I need to get 18 inches, okay, in here.
And right now, I'm 16.
But I need to get it in here, and up enough
to be off the ground, okay?
- [Narrator] Space is an issue,
but Jay has a solution.
- Okay, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
This motor doesn't need to be right next to this drive
if we have a longer chain.
So I'm gonna run down Jack's Bicycles
and grab some chain and some sprockets,
so we can move the motor
maybe behind the seat, out of the way.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Jay hits the road.
- Things keep changing.
So I'd kind of like to just see a finalized plan,
and just go with it but it's tough.
I mean, we're just rolling with it,
adapting as problems come up.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Jay Skwarlo is a bicycle mechanic,
and builder of seriously cool custom rides.
- But when I have my choice, this is what I'd be doing,
is building bikes similar to this.
I don't want my name on something
that I can't show off, and be proud of.
- [Narrator] But pushing the limits of pedal power
is just one of his passions.
A greater force brought him West.
- You're into oranges, you move to Florida.
You're into cheese, you move to Wisconsin.
You're into hot rods, you move to California.
So I picked up and moved 3,000 miles
to be around the car scene.
And I guess here I am doing it, and it's pretty cool.
[air whooshing] [upbeat music]
- [Narrator] As Jay raids the bike shop-
- Mission accomplished.
- [Narrator] Mac and Wendy do some downsizing.
[tense music]
They cut and they cram it, but it still won't fit.
- [Wendy] Okay.
[tool whooshing]
[metal thudding]
[tool whirring]
- [Mac] It's just too big.
[metal thuds]
[jarring music]
[register dings] [printer whirring]
[tool buzzing]
[metal clanking]
- [Narrator] As the work continues,
George arrives with a gift for Alex and Jay.
A brand spanking new actuator. - Yeah.
- There's your actuator. It's $350 bucks.
[jarring music]
[register dings] [printer whirring]
Make sure that when you put it up there,
you don't have to break it, cut it, or move it.
- Aw, man. - Please?
- Damn,
- [Narrator] Linear actuator,
an electric motor that makes stuff move.
- We're gonna want to put a towel on here like this,
and then this is going to be down here like this.
- It's not long enough.
I don't think that's gonna be enough leverage.
If we go that high on the door,
we're gonna have to mount it out here.
- Well, we can make this thing long.
- I need to think about this.
[suspenseful music]
It's a heavy door.
We've got to use leverage.
You know?
- [Narrator] But even with the actuator,
the gull-wing isn't an open and shut case.
Alex and Jay can't figure out where to mount the motor.
[air whooshing]
While the crew has assumed Eric is sulking,
he's actually been thinking about the g*n.
With supplies in hand, he returns to the shop.
- All right, we got a drill bit,
and some pipe thread compound.
It's right here. It's like lipstick.
And you stick your fitting in there.
[air whooshing]
- [Narrator] This kind of pressure
is nothing new for Eric Scarlett.
As a custom shop owner, he faces difficult deadlines
on a regular basis.
- For a living, I build this custom street rods,
motorcycles, you name it.
I do full fabrication work for about 10 years.
This has everything.
This is your ultimate sport truck is what you'd call it.
- [Narrator] Every detail is a testament
to his passion for his work.
- Digital control units all the way around,
DVD, navigational.
This vehicle's buck nutty. [laughing]
This is it.
I just, this is all I do.
I don't play cards. I don't do anything.
I just build cars on my own and on my spare time.
[metal clanks]
- [Narrator] In a spray of sparks, the loose cannon
has started building his g*n.
[upbeat music] [tools whirring]
- [Eric] So these are gonna be the three main
barrels for this g*n.
[tool whirring]
- [Narrator] A one-man firearm
fabricating mission begins.
[tool whirring]
- Once it's done, I'll get it all welded,
and put an air fitting in there,
and see what we can go from.
[tool whirring]
[whip smacks]
[tool whirring]
I'm gonna ultimately close the sides off
with some sheet metal when we get around to it.
[ball thuds]
When this clicks open, and has all the air behind it,
it's gonna sh**t on of them out.
- [Narrator] As Eric's cannon takes shape,
the gull-wing still ain't flapping.
- Maybe we need to not use that actuator.
There's gotta be something else.
- Like what?
- I don't know.
It's just not gonna be as easy as we thought I think.
- This is a hard deal, to go winging the door.
[soft music]
- There's something really simple we're missing.
- I know. We need a fresh insight.
- Yeah, we need somebody who- - We know what it takes.
I just can't see in my mind to get it to work.
- [Narrator] As the clock ticks down on day three,
Jesse gives a post-game wrap-up on the biggest play.
- We're just gonna recap basically what went on.
There was some friction between these two guys,
and they were using a lot of this, their mouths.
When they should have been using this,
punch, to the solar plexus.
And then he should have swung around
and gave him a right to his mid jaw.
But if they were using more of this,
back and forth kicking and punching action,
and a little less motor mouth action,
everything would have been okay.
[air whooshing]
[soft music]
- [Narrator] Day three was a complete choke.
Squabbling and indecision has kept the team
in the rough all round.
If this keeps up, they might as well hit the clubhouse.
[crickets chirping]
[metal clanks]
Monster Garage factoid,
for an average par round of golf,
the ball is in contact with the club face
a total of approximately 36/1000 of a second.
Or three blinks of an eye.
[upbeat music]
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
[glass shattering]
- [Narrator] It's a new day, same old battle.
Team versus clock. [clock ticking]
A quick second to ponder their Porsche.
[air whooshing]
- They didn't give us an easy one.
- Well if it was easy, it wouldn't be cool.
- [Narrator] Their to-do list
has just one word on it: everything.
The gull-wing door still needs power
to open for the g*n that's still in pieces
which will sh**t out golf ba*ls fed to it
from a collecting system that still doesn't exist.
In other words, time to go to work.
- Let's go screw with that door.
- Let's go. - See if we can
get it dialed in. [worker grunting]
- [Narrator] Jesse helps Jay and Alex out of their door jam.
- Me and Alex stared at the door for probably half the day.
- No, yeah, just do an A bracket with some plates.
So push this right here, straight out. [imitates door]
Opens it up.
- Fresh set of eyes came in, said do this and this.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Finally, the electric power arm
finds its proper place.
[tool whirring]
- Okay, you ready? - Ready.
- [Narrator] And the fledgling gull-wing takes flight.
[upbeat music]
- [Worker] We have the door opening and closing.
- Yes! - Yes, sir.
We are good to go. - We got a door.
- [Narrator] Gaining momentum,
Mac tackles the collector.
- Is it sitting in the garage or the attic? [laughing]
- Oh, sitting in my garage.
- [Narrator] He's hoping that the conveyor
that didn't work in his garage
might work in this one.
- I built it for a new conveyor
that I'm messing around with.
- Oh, cool.
- But I decided to change something else on it,
and put this over in a corner.
[upbeat music]
We wanna go....
Oh, yeah.
- [Narrator] An important piece of the puzzle
has been filled in.
The picker will lift the golf ba*ls off the grass
and feed them to the conveyor.
The conveyor will feed them to a basket.
The basket will feed the g*n.
Oh yeah, the g*n.
Don't ask.
- Give me a couple of golf ba*ls.
I just hate being questioned.
So I want to try this out, man.
- Let's all check it out. - Whatever's in the barrel.
[air whooshing]
- So you've got one jam.
[air whooshing]
Need more pressure.
- [Narrator] Bad news.
The last thing this guy needs is more pressure.
[Eric laughing]
While the garage heats up,
Jesse's looking for inspiration.
He jumps from the frying pan to the grid iron.
- Coach Bradshaw used to tell me,
make the body respond to what the mind demands.
So mind demands side pipes right here,
so I gotta make my hands make it.
[upbeat music]
[engine revving]
- [Mac] There we go. We got it now.
- [Narrator] With Mac's conveyor in place,
he and Wendy press on, building a steel cage
for the golf ball transport system.
[upbeat music]
Using hand power, they put the conveyor to the test.
[ball thuds]
[Wendy laughing]
- [Wendy] Cool!
- I've never worked with a lady before.
It's probably taken more getting used to
than anything I've ever done in my life.
But this lady can do a lot of things.
She can weld, she can cut, she can drill,
she can, you know?
She must have been one hell of a tomboy.
- [Wendy] I grew up in a male world with brothers,
and I guess I was always told you can't do that
because you're the girl.
[tool whirring]
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Wendy Schmidt is used
to playing in an all boys club.
- I do animatronics.
I like things to move, and I like to know how things work.
I do mechanics and electronics.
Other people design the puppet
and what it's gonna look like.
And they tell me how much space I have,
and what they want it to do.
And then it's my job to make it do that.
- [Narrator] A grease-stained drag racer
and a brainy puppeteer equals dynamic duo
in the Monster Garage.
[upbeat music]
The odd couple start building a collecting pan
to bridge the gap between picker and conveyor.
[tools whirring]
The team breaks for lunch, but Jesse never lets up on Mac.
- [Jesse] He says a golf ball-
- [Jesse And Mac] Will go through a 3/4 inch plywood.
- You bet your [beep] it will.
[group laughing]
- What's your definition of "plywood?"
- Whatever I can drive a golf ball through.
- Maybe 100 bucks.
- [Narrator] After filing the barrels free of obstruction,
Eric is ready to test the g*n.
[suspenseful music]
[air whooshing] - Nope.
[air whooshing]
- [Narrator] In a fusillade of flying spheres,
Eric finds redemption.
After his success,
Eric is ready to tour as a motivational speaker.
- Never underestimate yourself,
and never answer to anybody else.
[Eric grunting]
I know it was gonna work.
Pow, pow, pow, pow!
I feel it's 50% of this job.
It's half of this whole job.
[Eric laughing]
Step out of my way, and let me do it.
I can do anything.
I'm a jack of all trades,
and I'm a master of pretty much all of them.
- Works there on the ground.
Let's see it in the car finished, done, working.
- [Narrator] A couple of days in this place
will have your car looking cooler.
But will it start?
- We wanna fire up the car today,
and make sure we didn't cut through
or disconnect anything that we're gonna need to make it run.
[engine cranking]
[tense music]
- [Worker] Is it leaking again?
[item thuds]
[item thuds]
[engine cranking]
- I don't hear the fuel pump running.
[fist thuds]
[engine cranking]
[fist thuds]
- [Narrator] Monster Garage mantra,
when all else fails, break something.
The team is tired. The Porsche is dead.
If this day was a turkey,
you can stick a fork in it because it's done.
[crickets chirping]
[metal thuds]
Day five starts with a Monster Garage wake up.
- There's no more iffiness, right?
Everything's dialed? - Yeah.
- Everybody stay focused,
and just keep blasting like we have the last three days.
- [Worker] This is how you come out
and find your car in the morning.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] The team helps the Porsche
get rid of a monster hangover.
The car wouldn't start because the fuel wouldn't flow.
Alex has the answer.
- I have the monster fuel pump for the Monster Porsche.
[jarring music]
[resister dings] [printer whirring]
[upbeat music] - Is it gonna start?
- [Worker] Okay.
- Ready? - Ready!
- Wanna try to fire it? - Yeah.
- You got pressure? - Just wanted to make sure.
[engine whirring]
[engine revving]
- Woo! Damn, that went well.
[group laughing]
- That sounds good.
- Who's your daddy, now, huh? [laughing]
That's right. - Great job, bro.
- We got it. Fuel pump was the problem.
We had a dead fuel pump.
- 944 sounds pretty- - Yeah, it does!
Straight, wide-open header.
- That was hell, right there. - Yeah!
[hand slaps]
- [Worker] It will still pass smog right?
- Right! [worker laughing]
- It's very loud.
- Damn, it's loud.
- Monsters are supposed to make noise.
Whether it's like the Creature of the Black Lagoon,
[engine revving]
or King Kong.
[engine revving]
Or Godzilla.
[engine revving]
They all made noise. They're all loud. [imitating monsters]
And this one.
[engine revving]
- [Narrator] In any Garage,
bad ideas help drive the good ones.
The motor from Mac and Jesse's first ball shuttler
[buzzer ringing]
is used to power Mac's conveyor system.
[upbeat music]
- [Worker] Yeah!
- Okay, Mac we take back half the bad things
we said about you. - Oh, Okay.
Hell, you ain't the first one.
- Woo! - Woo!
- Okay, there you go. - One more hurdle overcome.
If you need a golf ball moved
from point A to point B,
Mac is the man that you should talk to.
- Whoa. - Oh!
That's a new problem. - Uh-oh.
- [Narrator] The eager ba*ls are bunching up
at the conveyor's entrance.
- No need to panic.
- Well, who's panicking? - I'm not panicking.
Are you panicking?
- Hell, no. - Hell, no.
Mac doesn't panic. - I'm having fun.
- [Narrator] If it looks like panic,
and it smells like panic.
- We're in a jam, right at the moment.
[upbeat music]
[air whooshes]
- [Narrator] A small crossbar restores order,
forcing the ba*ls to ascend two by two
into range picker heaven.
- I'm trying to make it jam [indistinct].
- I'm trying to push all the ba*ls in one place.
It's not jamming. That's what we want.
- [Mac] I love it, I love it.
- Right. - Yeah.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Mac cuts down and installs
a length of hollow steel beam,
the final link between picker and g*n.
Golf ba*ls go in, but what comes out
is nothing but hard, white a*mo.
- [Worker] Look at that thing spitting out ba*ls, baby!
[upbeat music] [people chattering]
- [Narrator] Eric puts the final touches on the cannons.
And the transformation from Porsche to Panzer
is nearly complete.
- [Worker] I think that looks pretty cool.
[Eric laughing]
I feel sorry for whoever gets hit with that thing.
[both laughing]
- [Narrator] Former foes now best of friends.
It's just too darn hard to stay angry
when you're having so much fun.
[machine whirring]
The lone g*nman returns,
ready to put his sh**ter to the big test.
[ba*ls thudding]
[Eric laughing]
[ba*ls thudding] [workers yelling]
[ba*ls thudding]
- Okay. [laughing]
- That rocks! - Leave it laying here.
- [Narrator] General Jesse sizes up his secret weapon.
- It's not scary enough, though.
- [Narrator] For added fear factor,
he pulls out one of his own demons.
A figure capable of making millions
who look upon it scared silly: clowns.
[people laughing]
- Clowns are scary.
[upbeat music]
- [Worker] I'm scared of clowns.
They are evil.
Their face.
You know, that whole like, tears and big hair.
Just jumping at kids.
[person laughing]
[air whooshes]
[tool whirring]
- [Narrator] It's been a big day under the big tent.
It started with a start, and here's how it went.
It got louder and weirder. [tools whirring]
[Eric laughing]
And in between all the fun,
the Porsche got a picker that turned into a g*n.
It's time to stop rhyming.
Clown time is done.
- [Narrator 2] Coming up, will Jesse bag a hole-in-one?
Or will he be just another tiger lost in the woods?
[narrator roaring and snorting]
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
[upbeat music] [tool whirring]
- [Narrator] Day six. [air whooshes]
The team has played the monster course well.
But this is the last day in the garage,
and it's a long par five.
Before their round is done,
they still have a lot left to do.
[tool whirring]
Jay hits first.
He needs to tie the picker into the front of the car,
where it can be lowered and lifted by the driver.
- You know, we can raise this thing
a number of different ways.
The easiest thing to me, a lever and a cable.
There's one ugly shift lever.
It looks like a freaking bicycle mechanic
welded it together.
Oh wait, a bicycle mechanic did weld it together.
[upbeat music] [tool whirring]
Now pull up that other side.
- Keep going. - Okay.
- You've got another four inches, at least.
- [Narrator] Jay's landed in a trap.
- Ah, crap.
- [Narrator] His makeshift picker shifter
doesn't lift it high enough.
Any hacker worth his double bogeys knows
you never drive with a putter.
- [Jay] Just [beep] [beep] [beep].
[tool whirring]
- [Narrator] Jay's got more than one club
in his bag of tricks.
[upbeat music continues]
The arm for the power window
becomes a slick picker lifter.
- And when we move this switch right here.
it's gonna operate that.
So that goes up.
- [Mac] It's about 28 inches off that sucker.
[machine whirring]
Comes up like a bat out of hell.
- Is that high enough? - That's high enough,
right there. - All right.
Cool.
- [Narrator] The scrappy bike mechanic takes a victory lap.
- We got time to do all kinds of stuff, baby.
♪ Some like this
[upbeat music] [tool whirring]
[glass shattering]
- [Narrator] The garage hums with activity,
as the team tweaks and fine-tunes
their monster to completion.
The expanded steel rear window needs some refinement.
Jay's on it.
- We're using a 250-pound press here
to flatten out the back window
to make it fit a little bit better.
- [Narrator] Alex tacks the new
mesh fastback to the hinges.
Now the Porsche is prepared to take a pounding.
- Green with a white stripe. - Okay.
- [Narrator] Eric and Alex run the electric for the cannons.
As for Jesse...
- I'm just winging it.
I'm making the best '70s van wing I've ever made.
[upbeat music] [tool whirring]
How do you like that, Mac?
You ever have a van with one of those?
- Yes. - You did?
- Yeah.
That's exactly what it's like, too.
- [Jesse] What do you think, Mac?
Down the final stretch - Yep.
- [Narrator] At this point, the monster
is in the details for Team Porsche.
If their golf ball picker passes its test,
a hard-fought victory will be theirs.
It's time to dot the Is and cross the final Ts.
- So nobody gets confused.
Fifth knob, we got our trigger.
It's the creature comforts that Porsche is known for.
[tool whirring]
[sparks crackling]
- [Narrator] Wendy continues to work on the clown.
She welds the motor to the back of the clown head,
as Jesse works on the final welds for is wings.
[fire crackling]
- Fabricators don't worry about that.
It always happens.
- How's that look?
- Has it got the look? - I think it looks good.
- [Narrator] Finally, the icing on the cake.
- [Worker] Well that should do it, right there.
[person laughing]
- [Narrator] With the clown's eyes fixed on the prize,
this monster is ready to roll.
But before they test,
there's still some unfinished business
between Jesse and Mac.
[jarring rock music]
- A golf ball- - Will go through
a 3/4 inch plywood. - 3/4 inch plywood.
- You bet your [beep] it will.
- So we're betting. Him and I are betting 100 bucks.
- [Narrator] Game on. [upbeat music]
The only thing standing between winning and losing:
a 3/4 inch sheet of plywood.
To help settle the score, we've brought
in John Di Scala, the teaching pro
at Dominguez Hills golf course in Carson, California.
- I've seen it done on television,
but it takes one heck of a swing.
- It's going through it.
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] John tees it up, Monster style.
The gallery takes cover.
[ball thuds]
- [Jesse] That's one!
Right below that scuff mark. - Right here, right here.
Here it is. Right here.
[ball thuds]
- [Jesse] That was right
on the same damn- - Same hole.
- Right there. - A chunk of wood
fell off the back. - Look at the back.
[worker laughing]
- [Jesse] Okay, one more.
- [Worker] You can cut the tension here with a knife, folks.
It's down to the final shot.
[ball thuds]
- Where'd it hit? - Right underneath.
- [Jesse] Oh. [laughing]
- [Narrator] Three swings, three misses.
The only hole's in Mac's wallet.
- Good try, son. - Thanks.
- Pleasure doing business with y'all.
- No doubt.
- All right, my turn. Let me try.
Never had one lesson. [suspenseful music]
[air whooshes]
Aw. [laughing]
That was just my practice swing.
I'll bet you 100 bucks I don't make it through.
[group laughing]
Come on. - Keep your hands still,
and come right around.
[ball thuds]
- [Jesse] Time to put some
muscle in it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah!
[ball thuds]
[ball thuds]
I may have to give up this whole
fabrication thing after this.
[air whooshes] [group laughing]
[ball thuds]
[group laughing]
- [Worker] Jesse, that's you right there, look at it.
You broke it completely on the front side, look.
- I almost went through, look at that.
Who made it farther? [Mac laughing]
- [Narrator] No more banging, and no more bets.
It's time to test.
[engine rumbling]
Jesse takes his newborn monster out to meet the world.
[engine roaring] [tires screeching]
Next stop, the driving range.
Check that, the sh**ting range.
[upbeat music]
The duffer from Long Beach looks like
he's ready for some smash mouth golf.
[jarring music]
[register dings] [printer whirring]
- I feel like I'm going to court.
[group laughing]
[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] Jesse lays out the objectives.
- We want it to pick up golf ba*ls,
convey it into the basket,
load it into the g*n and make sure the g*n fires,
and we're cool.
We can paint this sucker and hand out some tools.
- [Mac] Right now, we're priming the g*ns.
- [Worker] Set them both about 250.
- [Narrator] The g*n is loaded.
The gull-wing is open.
Jesse hits the gas.
[engine whirring]
[group cheering and clapping]
- Arm it, Jesse! - Turn it on, Jess!
[upbeat music] [engine whirring]
[group cheering and clapping]
[ba*ls crunching]
[clown laughing] [air whooshing]
[engine whirring]
- I call that a success. - All right!
- [Worker] Gone and went.
- Sweet!
- I think it's a good test for our ingenuity.
I think we did a fine job with it. Yeah.
Considering the nut behind the wheel,
yeah, I think we did great.
[air whooshing]
- I like it. It's almost weapon-like.
[air hissing]
[engine revving]
This is what it's all about.
Forget everything else, getting stuff.
[group laughing]
so we got some Mac tool kits and some Porsche golf clothes.
- Cool.
- Good job. - Thank you, Jesse.
- Good job, Jay. - Thanks Jesse.
- Wendy, awesome. - Thank you.
- Eric. - Thanks, bro.
- And Mac. [Wendy laughing]
Tear into those.
- [Narrator] The Porsche passed its test.
Jesse passed out the tools.
It's monster painting time.
Tom Pruett of Damon's Motorcycle Creations
is the man with the spray can.
It won't be long now before this blazing beauty
burns up the fairway.
- [Worker] Well, Jesse said he wanted bright.
He's gonna have to wear sunglasses
in the morning on this baby.
The guys at the country club
aren't gonna know what hit them
when they see him pull out on the grass.
- [Narrator] Monster Garage factoid,
every year, one out of every two golfers
is injured during play.
The most common injuries include
sunstroke and heart attacks.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
[soft music] [birds chirping]
[sprinklers whirring]
- [Schwag] Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to another Monster Garage challenge.
I'm your host, the Big Schwag,
with my partner, Frankie Whiteside.
Frankie, where the hell are we?
- [Frankie] El Dorado Park golf course
in Long Beach, California, Schwag.
- [Schwag] Tell them why we're here, Frank.
- [Frankie] Hey, see that kid out there?
That's why.
- [Schwag] Exactly right.
We're here for the kid.
- There it Is.
- [Schwag] The kid in the picker.
He's got a job to do, and we're gonna cheer him on.
[ball thuds]
Oh, hey, that's a rough start!
- [Frankie] Hey, hey! That's not nice.
[golfer laughing]
[ba*ls thudding]
- No! - [Schwag] Hey!
The kid's taking a pounding, Frankie.
[ba*ls thudding]
What's it gonna do to the kid, Frankie?
Something like this?
He sets out to work, ready to make a contribution,
and this is how he's treated?
It could put him down, and keep him down.
Frankie, I can't watch!
He's a lamb being led to the slaughter.
[ba*ls thudding]
[upbeat music]
- [Frankie] Schwag!
- [Schwag] What's that?
- [Frankie] Not what, Schwag. Who!
- [Schwag] You've gotta be kidding me!
Kid, if you can hear me, just hold on,
because help is on the way.
That's right, Frankie the cavalry is here!
A one-man army named Jesse James.
Frankie, tell the folks at home
what the heck he's driving.
- [Frankie] We're looking at a 1984 Porsche 944.
With a nifty '70s-style van wing on the back.
Nice touch, Jesse.
[engine revving] [upbeat music]
- [Schwag] This is not your German father's Porsche, Frank.
- [Frankie] Looks like Jesse's turned the Porsche
into a picker, a range picker!
- [Schwag] Look at him go!
That is without a doubt the quickest,
slickest golf ball picker the world has ever seen!
- [Frankie] It's the "Link Ness" monster.
- [Schwag] It's the deranged picker.
Move over, Rover, and let the pro from Dover take over.
[motor whirring]
- [Frankie] What's he doing now, Schwag?
- [Schwag] It looks like he's shouting at the golfers.
Hey folks, let's listen in!
- Now, I've never seen a bunch of lazy golfers move so fast.
Hey, you in the hat! Your mama.
[ball thuds]
[engine rumbling]
- [Frankie] Those guys are taking aim!
He's a sitting duck! Why doesn't he move?
- [Schwag] Because the man is cool under pressure, old pal.
- [Jesse] You suck.
Come on, fancy pants, you can do it.
Come on, my mom can do better than you guys.
[ball thuds]
Except for you.
You're okay. You can't hit me.
You can't hit me.
[machine whirring]
- [Schwag] The door is popping up!
Jesse's going with it!
[clown laughing] [circus music]
[engine revving]
Jesse James giving the Ozzy Osbourne salute!
- [Frankie] There's the meanest-looking
clown face I've ever seen!
[button whirring]
- [Schwag] That's no clown!
- [Frankie] It's a cannon!
- [Schwag] That's no Porsche!
- [Frankie] It's a Panzer!
- [Schwag] He's firing out all cylinders!
[g*n whooshing]
Jesse is pumping through the lines
and the troops are scattering!
It's payback time, Frankie.
[g*n whooshing]
That ball's coming out faster, Frankie!
- [Frankie] That's easy 100 miles an hour or more!
[Jesse grunting]
[engine whirring] [upbeat music continues]
[Jesse laughing]
[tense music]
- [Schwag] Check it out, Frank. Did you see that?
He tossed the keys to the kid.
- [Frankie] Wow.
- [Schwag] For Jesse James,
there's no time for bogeys, birdies, puts, and driving!
There's metal to burn, and sparks to fly.
Because the next Monster Garage challenge
is just around the bend.
[upbeat music continues]
[upbeat music continues]
[soft music]
[soft music]
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02x02 - Golf Ball Picker
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A team of five people with mechanical, fabricating, or modifying expertise was assembled to modify a vehicle into a "monster machine."
A team of five people with mechanical, fabricating, or modifying expertise was assembled to modify a vehicle into a "monster machine."