02x17 - Stunt Truck

[bunniefuu]

- I'll be back!

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Hey, Monster Garage fans,

you are about to witness the final battle

between man and machine,

or Jesse at most of Long Beach.

[Jesse laughs]

- [Brett] It's time to terminate Monster Garage style.

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.

[thrilling music]

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

The Terminator is back.

To challenge him, Jesse and his build crew

must conceal a stunt motorcycle inside the cab of a pickup,

and then surprise pedestrians with a high speed launch.

The rules:

When built the monster machine must appear to be stock;

the team can spend no more than 3,000 bucks

in cold cash for parts;

Jesse and his crew have seven days and nights.

On the first day they design,

for the next five they build,

and on the seventh day, it's lights, camera, stunts.

[car exploding]

If successful, each team member takes home

a $3,400 set of Mac Tools.

[clock playing music]

And the clock starts now.

[upbeat music]

Jesse is no stranger to stunts.

There's been more than a few hairy moments

around the garage,

but for Mr. James there are no stunt doubles.

[tires screeching]

- [laughs] It's not my truck.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] The design team makes their entrance on cue,

direct from the movie set of "T3: Rise of the Machines."

[upbeat music]

- Hey, Jesse! [speaker mumbles]

- Hi! [speaker mumbles]

[speaker chuckles]

- All right, so what the hell are we doing now?

- The ultimate stunt vehicle,

basically kinda launch a motorcycle out of the Tundra,

have it revealed, and have this event happen at speed.

- Yeah!

- I mean, it's- - One expl*sive.

That's a terminator.

He plows through things, just terminates things.

[thrilling music]

- [Brett] Monte Rex Perlin knows,

he's been at this 22 years.

- As a kid, I started racing motocross

over rocks and logs and things,

and I saw on TV one day a guy on Pepsi commercial

ride over a car, and I thought,

"Hey, I could do that, and get paid for it!"

- [Brett] Monster Garage doesn't have the big bucks

to show scenes from his movies.

So this is kinda sort of like what he did in such movies

as "Memento", "Point Blank", and "Con Air."

- [Speaker] Eh!

- I almost died three times.

- [Brett] Most recently working on "Terminator 3."

- My role was doubling Arnold Schwarzenegger,

and doing the most crazy stunts that I've ever done.



- [Speaker] Ooh!

- What if we put the skids underneath?

[somber music]

- Hey, turn that off!

We put the skids, the hydraulic skids under here,

throw this thing into some 360s,

with me and the bike sitting in there, right?

So you get the sensation of that,

all of a sudden blows through.

Bike comes out, goes into some burnout donuts,

and then wheelies towards it.

That's one idea.

- To me it's kind of boring. Boring, boring, boring,

boring, boring, boring, boring, boring!

- We incorporate like a little more machination to the gag

without the help of visual effects.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Jeffrey Mann comes from the movie world,

monster budgets, huge crews, designer sunglasses.

- While I was a mechanic, I started wrenching when I was 19,

and I'm now production designing in feature films.

- [Brett] Production designers are the people

who guide the look of a movie,

the sets, the props, the machinery up on the screen.

[vehicle explodes]

- People seem to like what I have generated to date.

Knock on... Well, there's no wood [speaker chuckles]

probably anywhere in this whole place.

There we go.

- [Brett] In the "Terminator" movie,

machines bash their human masters;

in Monster Garage, humans bash on the machines.

- The most movie stuff, it looks cool in the movies,

but if you really see the way it's done and stuff like that,

it's like- - In stages.

- 80% BS, special effects, and stuff like that.

- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.

- Just an idea, whether we throw it out or not,

the cab can split in a cool way,

either by sliding apart or gull winging.

Meanwhile the drivetrain, the transmission,

and the driver are all in the back here.

Potentially the driver would need to be

looking at a video monitor and facing rearward

in order to see what is happening in front.

- Okay, right.

- You create a- - Now you've exceeded

the five-day limit.

We only have five days. - Right.

- [Brett] Forget Hollywood, Jesse got his own ideas.

- Instead of totally radically modifying

and moving the motor around and everything,

I think it would be way cooler

if we make a bike fit inside the truck.

- Mm-hmm. - And come out

like a switchblade, a small platform that kind of like, chu-

- Mm-hmm. - Pops the bike out.

And you just drop ride over, do stunts, whatever,

and then the bike can ride back on.

- Right. - Then it's not

totally movie stuff, it's something that's-

- Right. - Actually useful.

- Right. - Or could be

perceived as useful. - Right.

It's not beyond the things I've done already.

And if we really wanna get crazy, we'll lay it down.

Come right at me, play chicken, get outta the way,

and I'll lay it down to a nice high speed lay down, I mean-

- We don't have no insurance, you know that, right?

- I hope you got it covered. [speaker laughs]

- Just get the day-to-day renters insurance for five bucks.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] The third member of the design team

is known by two words.

- [Speaker] The Pizz, T-H-E P-I-Z-Z.

- [Brett] The Pizz.

[upbeat music]

He's high up in the art world

of Southern California lowbrow.

- What makes it kind of lowbrow is like,

Joe Guy on the street would get it, you know what I mean?

There's no art degree needed to like

understand his painting,

and it's fun like

'cause people look at stuff like this and they just dig it.

[upbeat music]

This is for Jesse, he wants another chopper painting,

and he also was talking about pin-up painting,

so combined it.

The easiest way to get a lot of money outta Jesse

is just make the painting really big, so. [laughs]

- And then we need to figure out the roof.

- Hmm. - I think it needs to come up-

- On cantilever hinges and- - Yeah,

because if we're going like



and that whole thing coming up in the air-

- Yeah. - It's gonna-

- So how are we gonna do it? - It's gonna

make it really unstable.

- Well, I don't think we need to go 50, 60.

I mean, we can still get the same effect at 30, 35.

We'll start slow.

Safety is the main factor, of course, for everyone.

- Yeah. [Jesse laughs]

- Oh, oh, oh! [Jesse laughs]

- Jeff? - As long as you're not gonna

puss out when it comes to riding it.

- Oh, God! - All right.

- [Brett] A Toyota Tundra pickup will be transformed

into a monster stunt truck.

The passenger's side will pop-up

exposing a hidden motorcycle stuntman,

a launch ramp will lower him into position,

allowing him to fly off the speeding truck.

After a few stunts, he'll return

and be swallowed up by the stunt mobile.

[upbeat music]

- I love it!

- Let's remember, I'm the one doing the bike, guys, right?

So I think it comes in to here,

I'm respecting all your ideas, and that's cool,

and here we are working together.

[animal growling]

- [Brett] Looks like there's room

for only one alpha male in the Monster Garage.

A lesson for the new guys starting tomorrow.

[upbeat music]

[motorbike vrooming]

[upbeat music]

Day two, an all new-build crew enters Monster Garage,

but first a Hollywood screen test.

Sean Gibbs, the visionary,

a welder pipe-fitter from Middleton, California;

Eric Roy Ortega builds custom cars

in Redondo Beach, California;

Paul Moore from Seaside, California,



Tom Conard, the company man,

works for Toyota as a Product Engineer;

and from Tucson, Arizona: Dwaine Jungen,

builds radical off-road machines.

[upbeat music]

- Ookie-do!

- [Brett] On the rack, a brand-new Tundra vehicle.

The best efforts of Toyota's design engineers

is about to be sacrificed. - Ah!

- [Brett] And next to the Tundra,

a Triumph classic commodore.

It's also new, but Hollywood has given it motorcycle makeup

to make it look old.

- You guys are probably wondering, what's it do?

What's it for?

Why we're doing like a stunt vehicle?

I'll drive it,

and the stunt guy will be sitting on the bike,

this thing is gonna take the bike,

come outta the side, put it to ground level,

he'll be able to ride off, close up, we'll take off,

then he'll be able to do whatever, and then ride it back on.

- How fast are you going when the bike...?

- I said like 80,

[speakers laughing] and then he said like 20, so.

But I want it to really actually work

and be slick and and cool. - Sounds good.

- You guys gotta make a conscious effort not to cuss,

just 'cause there's a lot of kids that watch the show,

plus it looks kind of dumb, it looks like "The Osbournes."

[speakers laughing]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] It's time to rip into virgin Tundra.

Jesse asks the crew to be gentle.

- Instead of blasting it apart,

we should more or less dissect it.

[speakers laughing]

- Hmm, like that.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Trashing a Tundra is a new experience

for Tom, the Toyota man.

- Rip the part, a brand-new one, nah.

[laughs] It's pretty cool.

[upbeat music]

- You're not gonna send this to Toyota, are you? [chuckles]

Because I think I might have sent them a resume.

[Jesse laughs]

- [Speaker] Did anybody measure the bike yet?

- [Speaker] No, I think we're just ripping in turn.

- [Speaker] Ooh-ah!

- [Speaker] Uh-hoo!

Let's do!

- People at Toyota are cringing.

Hey, you can't do that, wait!

[upbeat music]

[car parts thudding on the floor]

- My philosophy is, you always wanna look ahead,

you look at what you're gonna be doing,

so that when you get there,

you already have the plan made out

and know where you're going before you get there.

- [Brett] Good advice, Dwaine.

But is your team onboard with that?

Will the motorcycle actually fit in the cab?

[motorbike vrooming]

[upbeat music]

- Seven foot five

from front of the tire to end of the fender.

- Just so the bike will get in,

and we're going all the way back into the wheel well.

[speaker chuckles]

- We got our work cut out for us.

- [Brett] Surprise!

The Triumph is bigger than it looks.

This changes everything.

- As I was saying, forethought. [chuckles]

[bell chiming]

- [Brett] The problem, the Triumph's back wheel

needs to go right where the Tundra's leaf spring

suspension is now located.

How do you fix that?

- Mm-hmm.

That's a toughie!

- Then put the solid point in the back

and put airbags on top.

[upbeat music]

- That would give us a clear span right here.

- He's just taken, wax the springs off, put airbags on top.

- [Jesse] Yep.

- [Brett] Dwaine, the desert rat,

has suggested adapting a design once used

in building dune buggies.

Cut the rear leaf springs in half,

and use the back halves only.

[machinery tools buzzing]

Dwaine plans to reattach the cut down leaf springs

on the rear axle, but only for stability.

In his grand plan, the weight of the truck

and motorcycle will be carried by airbags, yet to come.

The dune buggy design seems a little

too buggy for the rest of the team.

- This thing I'm gonna have really bad wheel hop,

if you jump on it. - It's gonna have a bad...

It's gonna have wheel hop

something fierce when you get on it.

- Oh!

[clock playing music]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Tom and Paul have taken on a major task.

♪ In my car

♪ Ta-na-na-na

[upbeat music]

They are now the new doorman at Monster Garage.

[upbeat music]

After stripping them down,

Paul will weld the door shells together

to create a kind of stealth launch hatch.

- This whole thing's gonna come up as a unit.

[intense music]

- When I was turning wrenches,

just doing regular mechanic work,

they said that working at the dealership

was the pinnacle of your career.

I lasted like six months. [laughs]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] What's his job now?

Paul fabricates super-streamlined race cars.

[upbeat music]

- It's the idea of creating something from scratch,

it's the idea of being able to

make something else out of them,

or really interesting vehicle that goes fast.

[upbeat music]

- Paul?

- Oh, sorry. [laughs]

[intense music]

- [Brett] The stealth hatch is ready

for its first fitting.

[upbeat music]

- Ah, look at that! - I'd say,

that's almost perfect. - All right.

- I just nailed to it.

- You got it.

- [Brett] Now Paul needs to reinforce the door,

so it won't flap wildly when it opens in the wind.

[speaker laughs]

[upbeat music]

You gotta watch your toes when you're shopping for steel.

Tom and Eric are loading up on bars

and tubing to be welded into the stunt mobile.

[somber music]

To make more room for the Triumph,

the team is rerouting the support frame deeper inside.

Changing the frame could seriously screw up the truck,

but Sean is obsessed, meticulous.

He never stops measuring things.

- These are all the tools of the trade:

Squares, levels, tape measures.

It's everything you need, I use them every single day.

[intense music]

At seven, I got my first real bicycle

and I started taking it apart,

putting it back together every day.

- [Brett] Sean and his father

spend weekends customizing dragsters.

- I had a V8 Vega over the 350 Chevy,

and it was my first car.

It was a real handful having that much horsepower

in that little tiny car.

[cars drag racing]

- My blueprints are all right here right now

for the rest of the show.

I look at some, I have to visualize it,

and start building it.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Sean has customized cars

and he has customized motorcycles,

but until now he has never customized a car

to swallow a motorcycle.

- Well, we just can't say, "Oh, we're gonna... "

We can't coast now. - Oh, no, no, no!

- We gotta hit it harder tomorrow.

I think we did good for today. - Worked a lot harder here

than I normally do. - I don't think it's

a bad first day, [speaker chuckles]

- Man, I want your job!

[speakers laughing]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Monster Garage factoid,

the first Hollywood stuntman jumped from a tower

into a small pile of hay in 1916,

he was a Native American named Eagle Eye.

[upbeat music]

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

- Day three.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Day three, the build crew cranks it up again,

turning a tundra pickup into a stealth motorcycle launcher.

- We made this guy a bet

that if we didn't finish this in time,

we're cutting it off.

[speakers laughing] - No way!

[speakers laughing]

- Now this ought to be fun.

- [Brett] Dwaine of the desert has spent years

building suspensions that ride over sand dunes and boulders,

but will they work on the Tundra?

- [indistinct] has been in all kinds of Tundras.

- [Speaker] - Yes. [chuckles]

- I've never seen a rear end

with the front part of the leaf spring never cut off,

so I'm kind of skeptical.

[upbeat music]

- Mine's in.

- Dwaine is kind of taking the lead on the rear end,

he seems to be the suspensions expert.

- I think it's gonna fit cool.

- That's gonna be his little baby.

- Sold as is, where is, no warranty expressed or implied.

- Tough working with this guy.

[speaker chuckles]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] They're on Monster time.

They have only hours to search for a lifting device.

He's Arnold Schwarzenegger stunt double.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] What they are searching for

has to be already built

and able to drop the motorcycle to the pavement,

and lift it back at the push of a button.

- Yeah, grab that lever at the top to pull it.

- [Brett] A Tommy lift is usually found

bolted to the back end of small trucks for heavy lifting.

[upbeat music]

One like this may fit the bill.

[upbeat music]

They're going to the tape.

- That one I've got over there.

- Yeah. - I [mumbles] guys for 700.

- We're on a budget here, so...

- Well, turn around and make me offer. [laughs]

- 500 bucks.

- Okay.

- [Speaker] Good deal.

[Tommy lift thudding]

[playful music]

- We did pretty good today so far.

- Pretty good, 500 bucks for used liftgate.

[somber music]

- [Brett] When it's time for the stunt truck to shock

and awe pedestrians,

the entire side will have to open up like a wing.

What Paul needs is an actuator.

[upbeat music]

[speaker laughing]

This one can lift half a ton.

- Yeah, check it out!

[upbeat music]

- [Speaker] Freebie!

Freebie!

Zip, zero, nada.

[somber music]

- [Speaker] 750 pound, 36 inches.

- Ah, there you go. - 36 inches.

- Yeah. - There's your door opener.

- It's not the size that matters,

how you use your tool...

[speakers laughing]

- [Brett] The used tailgate lift has arrived.

Keyword "tailgate."

Nobody has ever tried to weld one in sideways.

- This is gonna come out of the vehicle

and drops, all in one motion.

We'll do some modifications to it

to fit it inside the Tundra.

We're probably gonna have to remove the rocker panels

and hook them onto the door.

[liftgate buzzing]

- I love it!

- Yeah, I think it'll work out great.

All right, let's get to work.

[upbeat music]

- Yay!

[upbeat music]

- I scratched it.

[upbeat music]

[metals clanging]

- Got it!

- Ohh!

[upbeat music]

[worker breaking glass with hammer]

- I can't break anything at work, or I get in trouble.

Stuck behind a computer and stuff

is just not nearly as fun as this.

[intense music]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Tom may not look exactly

buttoned-down corporate,

but he actually went to car college.

- Automotive Technology Management is my major.

From college I got a job out here with Toyota Motor Sales.

I'm in alternative fuel vehicles and equipment.

I take care of special service tools

we provide to the dealers.

A lot of paperwork.

Paperwork, paperwork.

[upbeat music]

- [Speaker] Ah!

- For airbags.

- [Speaker] Oh!

- [Speaker] Freebie!

Zip, zero, nada!

[somber music]

- [Brett] With the leaf spring suspension cut,

the pickup ride will be rough, wild,

all but impossible.

The airbags will smooth the trip

and help control the truck during the launch.

- It'll hold up a Cadillac.

I don't know if it'll hold up a Tundra

with a motorcycle inside it.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] The airbags are being wedged in.

[upbeat music]

Dwaine's teammates watch and wonder.

[upbeat music]

- You're watching, man.

That stuff's gonna get caught, your must die.

- That's how you trim it.

Whatever hits out the hood is open for being burned.

[speaker chuckles]

- [Brett] Dwaine Jungen is known

for his monster mustache,

[intense music]

but he is better known for the monsters he builds,

[upbeat music]

rock crawlers.

Meet the scorpion.

- I've been doing rock crawlers

for probably about three and a half years now,

and it's something designed for a toy

that kinda got outta hand.

- [Brett] The scorpion never met a wall

or a boulder it didn't like.

To climb over, that is.

[upbeat music]

- It'll keep going and I'll be falling over backwards.

- And cut.

[machinery tools buzzing]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] The rocker panels have been sliced out.

- Got it.

- Okay.

- [Brett] Sean pulls out his tape

to triple check the length of the launch window.

- It's like 64, okay.

- [Brett] And the motorcycle.

- Okay, see how everything forward has to go.

- Everything forward to there.

- Yeah. - Radio, everything.

[machinery tools buzzing]

[upbeat music]

[machinery tools buzzing]

[upbeat music]

- Let me some skin.

- [Brett] There seems to be a battle brewing here.

Every time the torch and saw g*ng makes their hole bigger,

Sean finds a reason to make the launch lift even bigger.

- The liftgate is about five and a half feet long,

we need to have it seven feet long

for the motorcycle to fit on.

So I'm gonna add

about a two-foot extensions platform in the backside of it.

[machinery tools buzzing]

[upbeat music]

- Airbags are in.

Once I get the third link in,

the rear suspension will be basically done.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Dwaine's sand dune suspension

has been reinforced in all directions.

He designed it to keep the wheels

and axles straight under power

and allow them to bounce up and down to cushion the ride.

And the other is, shifting, twisting,

or bending would cause big problems.

That is why Dwaine added the bar linkage

and the bags to beef up the sliced springs.

- Well, I hope so.

- [Brett] But it's anyone's guess whether it will work.

- We have a few doubts right now, but-

- So on theory, man.

- [Brett] It's a moment of truth

for Dwaine of the desert.

[metals clanging]

- It works, we have suspension.

- Oh, there's plenty of play.

- [Brett] Dwaine's face hair is safe for now.

- The only problem we're gonna have is

when the weight comes off the vehicle,

that side of the vehicle is gonna pop up.

- I'm hungry, tired.

- [Speaker] Right.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] The question at the end of day three,

will the extra half ton of weight on one side

be too much for Dwaine's airbag system,

and make the motorcycle launch dangerous?

[upbeat music]

- That's a wrap, fellas!

- I got a bolt.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Monster Garage factoid.

The Tommy lift was invented by Delbert Brown in 1964.

A Delbert lift didn't sound right,

so he named it after his son, Tommy.

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

- Day four, action!

- [Brett] 8:00 a.m., today the team must solve

the major challenge.

- This thing looks like it's gonna work.

- [Brett] Finish converting the rusty tailgate lift

and mount it inside the pickup's cab.

- That's a rusty looking piece of

[beep] right there. [chuckles]

- [Speaker] It's got 1,000 pound capacity.

- You wanna tack it there right now

and see what it does.

- [Brett] The liftgate was exactly

what Jesse had in mind.

[Jesse beatboxing]

A ready-made device that will drop bike

and rider to within inches of the pavement.

[upbeat music]

- Are you gonna have this drag in the ground like sparking?

- That'd be cool until he rides it back on,

he better have like goggles on.

[upbeat music]

- That's hacked.

- He said he was gonna do all kinds of burnouts

and wheelies and stuff on that bike, all kinds of stunts.

- Glad I get to see that. - [chuckles] Yeah.

[speaker chuckles] I bet that bike

can't even do a wheelie.

- [Speaker] Okay.

[motorbike vrooming]

- [Brett] Jesse thinks the Triumph is missing something.

Raw noise.

He knows how to fix it.

[motorbike vrooming]

- And you can hear the difference.

[motorbike vrooming]

[upbeat music]

- What a wise guy!

- [Jesse] I bet that bike can't even do a wheelie!

[intense music]

[motorbike vrooming]

- We're getting ready to test it right now.

- [Brett] With the lift welded in place,

they can reconsider

how the stunt might actually work or not.

- It's not out far enough.

We're not coming out far enough.

So how much platform you think he needs?

- A little more than that. - Yeah.

- [laughs] That's all.

Woo!

- Hmm.

We don't have enough clearance for the motorcycle

to safely exit the vehicle.

- How is it gonna be a stunt

if we make it all safe and easy?

- Granted he could be able to get on the ramp,

but then he is not gonna be able to get it in the vehicle.

- He is a big muscle guy, he could just drag the bike over.

- [Brett] The build guys work there on day one

to meet Monte, the stuntman.

Jesse fills them in.

- You're gonna like him.

He's all like custom. [speaker laughs]

- All right. - Oh!

[speakers laughing]

- Like- - Oh, tongs and prongs.

- Full bodybuilder. [speaker laughs]

[upbeat music]

- Well, we got no real choice.

The gram's gotta come out more.

- 20 inch extension.

- Yeah.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Sean immediately starts laying out

the steel skeleton for the platform extension.

- When is Arnold coming?

Is he gonna help us weld?

[somber music]

- [Brett] Sorry Jesse, Arnold's busy.

[welding sparking and buzzing]

[upbeat music]

Yesterday Dwaine applied his rock crawler experience

to the suspension,

now he helps design a rock solid roll bar cage.

[metals clanging]

- This hoop bar is tied to the top

of our motorcycle lift,

and then we're gonna come across

with the top of the cage bar from side to side,

and with a diagonal brace,

so it transfers the weight off the lift

and over onto the other side of the cab.

- [Brett] The new extension has been rough together.

Sean considers the big picture.

- It's all about triangles.

- It's all about triangulation.

[swooshing music]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Tom is plumbing in the air pump and tank

to inflate the airbags to float all the extra weight.

[upbeat music]

- I'll plumb this wiring here,

fire up that compressor,

and see if the bags hold air.

It shouldn't take too much longer.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Eric Ortega is the stealth worker

on this stealth project.

To find him, you gotta follow the sparks.

Sparks, sparks. - All right, where?

- The sparks. - Where?

[intense music]

[upbeat music]

- I'm a hot rod builder for California Street Rod.

I do all the wiring,

I do most of the assembly, the small fabrication.

So I'm working with cars that are over 100 grand.

So I'm usually really careful.

Going from working really careful to building monsters,

it kind of doesn't mix.

Sparks. - I thought you said farts.

- [Brett] When Jesse comes back from lunch,

he's driving one of his custom choppers.

Parks it head to head with the Triumph.

- No competition!

[speakers laughing]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Now the team is tackling a new problem.

How to get the hinge platform to fold up inside.

Paul has gone to the local hardware and bought gate springs.

- The plan is to put it in between the gap in there

and wind them real tight,

so that they'll hold that last ramp up.

[upbeat music]

- You wanna play with his springy?

[speaker laughs]

It's flexible. [speaker laughs]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] As Jesse considers

the folding extension platform, he sees a problem.

- I'm trying to figure out how we can get the bike

from right here and slid out to there

without having to like do the Austin Powers

back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

If this is slid, whoosh, and drop that down

and it slid right out to the edge,

then when he rode on, it slid back in, close.

That would be cool.

- Better he angles off and angles on.

- I'm just thinking it's a lot to do in two days.

- Yeah.

- What do you think?

You wanna flip a coin?

Heads we do it, tails we press on.

[upbeat music]

[speaker tossing coin]

Oh!

Tails.

All right, stunt guy's gotta go at an angle.

This big oily muscles. [speaker laughs]

Bam, bam, bam, bam!

[welding machine buzzing]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] The build is interrupted

by a surprise celebration

to mark the success of the first season of Monster Garage.

Blow it out, Jesse, the producers are waiting,

and they want to show you the real surprise.

- We wanted to commemorate the 22nd episode

of Monster Garage.

So we went out, we got something special for you.

- Cool!

- Armored twist up carrier, the ferret.

- Look at that! [chuckles]

[speakers laughing]

Oh, man!

Let's go ram something.

[chuckles] That's cool.

- So thanks, man. - Thanks.

[motorcar vrooming]

[speakers laughing]

- I just want to take it home to my house

and see what my [beep] neighbors think.

[speakers laughing]

You thought the lowriders and loud music were bad,

now it's more.

[motorcar vrooming]

[upbeat music]

Kind of hard to buy presents for.

[speakers laughing]

- [Brett] Okay, enough of the antique w*r machine.

[speakers laughing]

Back to Hollywood via Long Beach.

It's time for the Monster's first fitting.

- It's gonna totally work,

it'll look like "Clash of the Titans."

Huh!

Uh-ah-uh-ah-ah!

[liftgate buzzing]

- Whoa!

- [Speaker] As you can see, Monte is gonna be

totally comfortable like he would in a stock.

[metals clanging]

[speaker laughs]

- Well, he is not gonna have a whole lot of headroom,

we're gonna try to lower the bike down a little bit.

- [Brett] The cab can't be made bigger,

the Triumph will have to shrink.

[upbeat music]

Sean considers the downsizing.

Plenty of work for tomorrow.

[upbeat music]

But Tom and Eric want to finish the airbags today.

[upbeat music]

- One last thing, we have to worry about tomorrow.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Meanwhile, back at the lift,

the gate springs have been bolted in and tensioned up.

They don't cut it just too wimpy.

[upbeat music]

- No.

- They're the biggest ones that hardware store had.

[upbeat music]

[indistinct]

[upbeat music]

- We'll figure out a solution.

If you had a winch with the pulley, tisshh,

and you had it right here and you had it laying on here flat

and put some duct tape on it-

- [Brett] It's late in the day.

Duct tape, a winch, and duct tape.

- We get the winch

and then the cable just pulls the duct tape up,

and psshhh, out of the way.

Is that cheating?

[upbeat music]

- No, that's engineering.

[speaker laughs]

- [Brett] Just when they seem to be hallucinating,

it's Dwaine to the rescue once more.

- Yeah, but if we do this number, put that there,

and tag this like that.

As the gate comes up, it's gonna hit it,

and as it keeps going up, it's gonna pivot,

and it's just gonna roll it up.

- Try it.

- [Dwaine] That's all we have to do, just tack it correct.

[upbeat music]

- Just give it a try.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] A couple of spot welds,

and the desert rat is ready to demo

his super-slick auto ramp closer.

[liftgate buzzing]

- Bam! - Damn, dude!

- It's k*ller.

I'm, hey, not worthy. [speaker chuckles]

- I love it!

- You get to keep your mustache.

[Dwaine laughs] [speaker chuckles]

- [Brett] Combat starts again at dawn.

[upbeat music]

Coming up, will stuntman, Monte, make good on his challenge,

or will Jesse make bad? [Jesse laughs]

Stay tuned!

[tires screeching]

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Day five, and Tom leads the charge

on his BMX bike.

[upbeat music]

- Oh, yeah!

- [Speaker] Ooh!

- Nice job!

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Yesterday they managed to

get the Tommy lift installed and working.

Still to come, downsizing the Triumph,

so it will launch quickly off

and land back on its new launch pad.

[upbeat music]

[machinery tool sparking and buzzing]

- I'm lowering the motorcycle

to give us some more clearance.

[upbeat music]

And then we also cut the bars,

narrow those down three inches.

We're gonna make it a subcompact bike now.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] The stealth launch hatch is complete.

Now it's time to weld the hinges in place.

[upbeat music]

Dwaine's mustache is close to the flames again.

- Ah!

Hey!

Ah! [speaker laughs]

- Ah, that hurts! - [chuckles] Yeah.

- Dwaine burned himself. - Ah!

Ah!

- [Brett] As luck would have it,

Dwaine's face hair wasn't what got scorched.

- Got a wild one down my breeches.

[somber music]

- [Brett] Monster Garage mantra.

When sparks are in flight, keep your belt real tight.

[machinery tool sparking and buzzing]

[upbeat music]

The stealth grinder, Eric,

is adding a hot rod touch to the launch control lever.

[upbeat music]

And it seems the desert rat has cooled off a bit.

- Do you know, Dwaine looks like Yosemite sand?

Uhh-ahh, I hate that rabbit!

- All right, a beauty!

- Woo! - Woohoo!

- Ummm-aah, I hate that rabbit.

[speakers laughing] - All right.

- Woo! - Whoa!

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Jesse's become a cosmetic surgeon.

To make the Tundra look extreme and mean,

he's welding a front end facelift.

- Does that look Terminator-ish?

- [Brett] No, Jesse, that's Terminator-ish.

[upbeat music]

Can you say "actuator"?

Paul can.

Now the hatch will open at the flick of a switch.

- I really hope this actuator can pull this thing.

That's the only thing left to worry about. [chuckles]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] The team is on track

and ahead of schedule with this complex project.

- Well, that's sweet.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] They have had to redesign

the Tundra suspension,

reroute the truck's frame,

and hardest of all,

rebuild a Tommy lift into a motorcycle launcher.

[somber music]

- Oh! - Whoa!

- [Brett] So now it's time to load the Triumph

in the truck for the final fitting.

- Up gate. - Up gate.

[liftgate buzzing]

- [Brett] Will it fit?

Or will this project be terminated?

[liftgate buzzing]

- [Speaker] [chuckles] No problem.

- [Speaker] Stop!

What's hitting?

Find out.

- [Speaker] That was holding it.

- The brake lever is hitting and the foot peg's hitting.

- Oh, yeah. - Watch the actuator.

[liftgate buzzing]

- [Speaker] The foot peg is our worst problem.

- [Speaker] Okay.

- [Brett] But in fact the foot peg

may not be the biggest problem.

Tom is thinking about the stunt itself.

- He's gonna be scrunched in there,

then miraculously has to maneuver the bike off of here.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Cut, rewind.

Wasn't this side slide problem settled just yesterday?

- Heads, we do it; tails, we press on.

Tails, stunt guy's gotta go at an angle.

Go at an angle.

Go at an angle.

- [Brett] But Monte, the stuntman

has been working on a movie.

He doesn't know that decisions have been made

by the flip of a coin.

- Have we even talked to this guy yet?

[phone ringing]

- Starts lifting.

- Hey, is this Monte?

- [Monte] This is Monte.

- Monte, hey, this is Paul from Monster Garage.

How are you?

- [Monte] Good, what's happening, man?

- Well, we're sitting here with a Toyota,

and we're sliding this motorcycle in and out,

and we're thinking about you.

- [Monte] Oh, okay.

- The bike has to physically come out,

and we're trying to figure out how to deal with that.

In other words, get you lined up to get off of this thing.

Any ideas?

- [Monte] It should have

almost like a forklift type of thing

that goes underneath the subframe there of the motorcycle.

- Okay.

- [Monte] So both wheels are running free.

- Mm-hmm.

- [Monte] That way I can be in second gear

with wheels spinning, and then you just set it down.

- How's he gonna get the forklift thing out

from underneath the bike?

- [Monte] We retract them.

- Yeah, we either have to retract them

or something like that.

Right, well, is there any way

that you might be able to stop by tomorrow,

and just hang out for about 10 minutes

and kinda go over a few things?

- [Monte] Okay, well, lemme see what I can do,

maybe a midday thing.

Okay? - Okay.

[clock playing music]

[upbeat music]

I don't think he understands the concept.

No.

- He's not here- - He hasn't been here

in five days. - Yeah.

- We've given him a platform.

- [Speaker] Yeah.

- I'd say he gets what he gets.

[upbeat music]

- I refuse to come down and see your freaking truck.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Day six.

The stealth stunt project had seemed ahead of schedule

until the crew finally got stuntman, Monte, on the phone.

[upbeat music]

- Monte wanted some sort of forklift mechanism

that he could be freewheeling the whole time.

And that was the first we've heard of it in four days.

[toy bike thudding on the floor]

- I'd say, we just put grip tape on it,

go get my 250 from the shop,

we'll take it out here and test it, and I'll do it.

- [Speaker] Cool.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Before Jesse's tryout,

there's a few final details to be completed.

[upbeat music]

- [Speaker] Roll on, roll.

- [Brett] A tonneau cover arrives

to add to the stealth look,

courtesy of Tom's company, Toyota.

[upbeat music]

- We're gonna put some Teflon grind rails on the bottom,

so when it hits the ground, they grind on the Teflon.

[upbeat music]

- We are done.

- The ultimate stunt vehicle.

Stunt vehicle.

- I love it!

[upbeat music]

- Safety is the main factor, of course, for everyone.

[speaker chuckles] - Oh-oh-oh-oh!

- [Speaker] Yeah.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] It may look like a stock Tundra,

but before the build crew can qualify for their prize tools,

the stunt mobile will have to pass a final test.

Jesse is going to do it himself riding his Fox Honda 50.

- [chuckles] It is kind of hairy, huh?

[motorbike vrooming]

[upbeat music]

[motorbike vrooming]

- Yeah!

- Bafoom!

- Yeah!

[motorbike vrooming]

- [Brett] Okay, that worked,

but can he bring it back onboard?

[upbeat music]

[motorbike vrooming]

- Yeah! - Yeah! [laughs]

- We need no stunt guy, we got me on the payroll.

[motorbike vrooming]

- [Brett] Monster Garage number 22

is ready for its challenge.

All it needs is to look more Terminator-ish.

[upbeat music]

It would be a shame to paint over

a brand-new Toyota paint job.

So we went to Garage Graphics

for the finishing touches on the Tundrinator.

- Oh hi, welcome to Garage Graphics!

- [Brett] Here they printed out the

"T3: Rise of the Machines" vinyl graphics.

- I'll start the machine here, set it.

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Then it was back to the garage

for the final application.

[upbeat music]

As they say in Hollywood, that's a wrap.

[upbeat music]

Monster Garage factoid.

Typical stuntman fees: Fall from horse, $1,000;

fall from airplane, $10,000;

fall from Tundra, priceless.

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

- Okay, Monster fans, we got the Terminator himself,

Arnold Schwarzenegger, beating the drum,

and getting the word out on this

next Monster Garage challenge.

[helicopter chuffing]

- [Announcer] All right, people settle, settle.

That is hot.

[upbeat music]

We're going live up for stunt.

[upbeat music]

[Announcer mumbles]

Speed.

- [Frank] We're going Hollywood on this one, Schwag.

The new monster is called the Tundrinator,

a brand-new Toyota Tundra pickup truck

Jesse and the g*ng transformed

into the ultimate stunt truck.

[upbeat music]

That's Monte Rex Perlin,

one of Arnold's stunt doubles

in his latest Terminator flick, "T3: Rise of the Machines."

[machine g*n firing]

[upbeat music]

Monte has to launch off the Tundrinator

on his tricked out Triumph motorcycle

while the truck is moving.

[motorbike vrooming]

[upbeat music]

Yeah, and then drive it back onto the truck

while it's moving.

[motorbike vrooming]

- [Brett] Check it out, Frankie!

Monte brought his own bike to show Jesse a few moves.

- [Speaker] Hi!

[motorbike vrooming]

[tires screeching]

[upbeat music]

[motorbike vrooming]

[tires screeching]

[upbeat music]

- [Brett] Jesse is a sucker for a wheelie.

Smart move, Monte.

I think he likes you now.

[upbeat music]

- [Frank] Schwag, it looks like the challenge is on.

- [Brett] Jesse is behind the wheel.

- [Frank] And Monte in his Triumph motorcycle

are getting stuffed into position.

[upbeat music]

Pretty tight quarter, Schwag.

- [Brett] Looks like my apartment, Frank.

[upbeat music]

- They're off. - They're off.

[upbeat music]

- The Tundra is transforming. - Into the Tundrinator.

[upbeat music]

- [Frank] The go wing is up.

- [Brett] The platform is down.

Monte is getting his bike into position.

[upbeat music]

Frankie, I'm not used to seeing Jesse drive so slow.

- [Frank] Monte, he is a stuntman,

it's safety first, speed second.

- [Brett] Okay, here he goes.

- Well, that was- - Safe.

- [Frank] This is a complicated stunt, Schwag.

Monte has to rev the Triumph to get enough RPMs

to match the speed of the truck

when he comes off the launcher,

or else he's roadkill.

- [Brett] Whatever!

[upbeat music]

- [Frank] Wait, they're going for seconds, faster.

- [Brett] Yes.

- And faster. - Yes.

[motorcar vrooming]

Yes. - And faster.

- [Brett] Oh, yeah!

[upbeat music]

I like it!

[upbeat music]

- [Frank] He's bringing it in for a landing.

[upbeat music]

- [laughs] Yeah. [motorbike vrooming]

- Like that bit?

- [laughs] Yeah. - The driving there, bro.

[upbeat music]

- [Speaker] Come on!

[upbeat music]

- [Monte] In "T3" I saw the Tundra do a whole lot of stuff,

but I never did that.

If anyone could do it, Monster Garage [chuckles]

can take care of business.

Nah, I trust Jesse's driving.

He was smooth and precise, which is very important,

'cause if he veered to the right one inch, he munches me.

- [Brett] With Monte it's all about the stunt.

- [Frank] Monte Monster Garage salutes you.

- Let's do it again now.

[motorcar vrooming]

- [Brett] And with Jesse,

it's all about the 360 in his Ferrari.

- [Frank] Nice wheels, dude!

- [Brett] Well, Jesse's got no time

for slow moving safety-conscious stuntman

unless they can do this.

[motorbike vrooming]

Because he got metal of a bird, sparks the fly,

the next Monster Garage challenge

is just around the bend.

- [Frank] All right, Schwag, go ahead, say it.

- [Brett] He will be back!

- Dear Monte, you're stuntacular!

From your pals at Monster Garage.

Just because he's a cool guy.

- [Brett] This build team came in ahead of schedule

and under budget.

After Monte's successful challenge,

Jesse is doing more than blowing smoke.

He's got some Mac Tools for Team Tundrinator.

[motorbike vrooming]

[upbeat music]

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

♪ Monster

♪ Monster Garage

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[upbeat music]