- [singing operatically] Monster! Monster Garage!
[glass shattering]
[sparks hissing]
- [Host] It's an all-Italian episode.
- Uh, where's the wine?
[glass cracking]
- This would be better with machine g*ns
coming out of the fenders.
[machine g*n fire]
[marker squeaking]
- I told you not to do anything!
[laughing]
[machinery clanging]
[horse whinnying]
- [Host] Get the message?
- Whoa, Nellie. Whoa, Nellie!
- [Host] Fuh-gedda bout it.
- Now that's Italian.
- [Announcer] 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.
[lightning striking]
[aggressive metal music]
♪ Monster. Monster Garage.
♪ Monster. Monster Garage.
♪ Monster. Monster Garage.
♪ Monster. Monster Garage.
♪ Monster. Monster Garage.
♪ Monster Garage.
[glass shattering]
[jaunty Italian music]
- [Host] This week's challenge:
Turn a slightly damaged 1981 Ferrari 308 GTSI
into a pasta factory on wheels!
The rules: When built, the vehicle must appear to be
bravissimo!
[cash register ringing]
The team has five large 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, they mangia!
If successful, they'll walk away with a $4,000 set
of mech's hottest tools
and they'll each get a 28 bolt lithium ion combo kit
from Milwaukee Electric Tools.
And the clock starts now.
[machine g*ns firing]
[body thudding]
[blood sloshing]
[engine revving loudly]
- [Host] We've finally done it.
Monster Garage broke the bank this week
and splurged on a Ferrari.
[tires screeching]
- [Jesse] Those are those good Magnum PI peelies.
[happy music]
- [Host] Its body is a little wrinkled,
but this 25 year old Italian beauty can still burn rubber
and turn heads.
But Jesse doesn't care how good it looks,
he's hungry for a car that really cooks.
[metal clanging]
[upbeat electric guitar playing]
- [Jesse] She's a beauty.
[bell ringing]
- [Host] Here to plan out this pasta-making sports car,
the all Italian design team featuring:
transportation designer from Padova, Italy,
Guido Bottazzo.
[warped noises of movement]
The chemical engineer from Oakland, California,
Luigi Odani.
[warped noises repeat]
And custom machine designer and salesman
from Mission Viejo, California,
Ricardo Caretti.
[fake Italian accent] They step up-a and show their respect
to garage don a-Jesse James before he makes them an offer
they can't refuse.
- Hi, Ricardo.
- How you doin', Ricardo?
- Good.
- So let's make a Ferrari and do a pasta maker.
[laughter]
- [Luigi] It sounds like a good idea.
- [Guido] Yeah.
- That's the first thing I think of.
- We always do a lot of fast, crazy stuff and fire and...
I think we gotta do a culinary build.
You know, something that makes food.
- Yeah.
- [Ricardo] So we start from scratch from the flour
and then we end up with what?
With a plate of spaghetti?
- Yes.
- With the sauce on top?
- Yep.
- [laughing] Oh god.
- [Jesse] I think that's perfect.
- Are we gonna be eating off of it?
And we gotta do everything like stainless steel
and food grade...
- Well...
- Food grade hydraulic oils and all the rest?
- Monster Garage food grade.
- [laughs] Okay.
- I mean, I don't know how self-contained
these machines are and how small we can get one.
- Well, we can do a lot of things.
First of all, we need to decide how are we gonna make pasta?
There are different ways of doing it.
- Yeah.
- [Ricardo] There's rollers.
- [Luigi] Yeah.
- [Ricardo] And you run the mixture through the rollers
and then you have a sheet coming out
and you have to cut that sheet into
fettuccine and that stuff.
Here's the other system.
There's an extrusion system.
- So you just make the dough, mix it up,
and then it extrudes it through the die.
- There's a worm screw and there is a die. Exactly.
- That's like the Play Doh barbershop, you know.
- Huh?
- Play Doh barbershop where you [raspberries].
Pushes it through the little holes, yeah.
I like that way.
- Yeah.
- So once it comes out of the extrusion,
how long does it have to sit before we cook it?
- It doesn't have to sit.
We can actually dump it directly into boiling water.
- [Jesse] Okay.
- Another decision is what kind of pasta to make,
whether long or short.
There is a shape of pasta called radiatore.
- [Jesse] What is that like?
- Which is the radiator.
- Okay.
- [Ricardo] I think we could use that.
- Oh the one, it's like honeycomb kinda, yeah?
- [Ricardo] It has, yeah.
- Yeah.
Since this is gonna be the biggest thing...
- [Guido] Mm-hmm.
- I say we put it right in the passenger side.
You know, you put the machine here.
- [Luigi] Mm-hmm.
- And then it comes out and, you know, goes straight.
You got the worm screw here.
- [Ricardo] Uh-huh.
- This is the hopper.
- [Luigi] Yeah.
- And this thing...
- [Luigi] Okay.
- [Jesse] Comes out here
and then we scab this side off the car, get rid of it.
- [Guido] Uh-huh.
- [Jesse] And have one pot to dump the pasta in.
[group making sounds of agreement]
and one pot to cook... to heat up the sauce.
So we can make...
and we could probably use propane or something here
and make two burners that this is sitting underneath.
- Oh yeah.
- So this stuff comes out and dumps right into the water.
- [Ricardo] Yeah, that's a good idea.
- All right, cool. Let's start hackin' it up.
[upbeat Italian music]
- [Host] To turn this import into a noodle-making bistro,
they'll free some interior space
and drop in a custom hopper and extruder
before transferring the pasta to the burners up front
for its boiling hot baptism
and destined meeting with the red sauce.
[fast rock music]
[marker squeaking]
[sound of water boiling and engine running]
- [Host] Day due.
This Italian-American crew struts in
to begin working over the 25 year old import.
[power tools whirring]
From the west side of Chicago,
Ferrari mechanic Giovanni D'Avola.
[power tools whirring]
Fabricator and Ferrari restorer from Long Island, New York,
Doug Perone.
[power tools whirring]
Import customizer from Los Angeles, California,
Ralph Biazzi.
[yells in effort]
[metal clanging]
[power tools whirring]
And staying on from the design,
engineer Luigi Odani.
[glass shattering]
[power tools whirring]
And pasta guru, Ricardo Caretti.
[rock music playing]
Jesse's warming up for this build
with a little Italian decorating.
[cash register ringing]
[boom of doors opening]
The crew rolls in, ready to hear the plan
and Jesse is surprised to see a familiar face in the crowd.
- [laughing] Oh, what the [whirring noise]
are you doing on this build team?
That's a surprise.
I didn't know you were gonna be on this team.
It's cool to see a friend come through.
Awesome.
All right.
We're gonna make a Ferrari and do a pasta maker.
[laughter]
- Okay.
- [Jesse] So we need that thing to make fresh pasta
out of dough.
So we'll probably have to hide a propane tank,
make a couple burners.
We could probably get rid of the hood
and that fender and everything.
You know, most of our money's gonna get chewed up
with his stuff.
I can already tell.
[Ricardo laughs]
That's not cheap stuff.
Is there stuff we can get here?
Or you said everything's from Italy?
- I have some with me right now.
- Okay.
- I actually brought it in my suitcase.
- [Jesse] All right.
- Okay.
- [Jesse] Let's get this thing taken apart.
[engine revving]
[rock music playing]
- [Host] They get right down to business
heading straight for the banged up hood, fender,
and front end.
And Doug offers up an estimate
of how much the body would cost to repair.
- About 12 grand.
You can't buy this stuff.
Somebody's gotta make it.
It's a lot of time.
You know what they say, time is money.
So somebody's gotta pound that out
and make it by hand.
- You got it?
- Yeah.
- [Host] Even with the body damage,
the crew is handling this car with kid gloves.
Well, we're trained that way, you know?
We're sort of...
It just goes against the grain, you know?
We're trying to...
- Until we get used to it.
- It's very... Enzo Ferrari is looking somewhere
and he's going [angry groaning].
[expl*si*n]
- [Host] The kind of work Doug normally does
would make Enzo proud.
- I own an exotic car repair service,
sales, and restoration company dealing 99% with Ferraris.
[camera flashing]
I also make after market and I have another company.
That company is called Berlinetta Motorcars.
We do a lot of performance stuff.
Suspension, brakes.
We do regular everyday service on vintage Ferraris
all the way up to the current 360 models
and 555, 75 Maranellos.
- [Host] Even though he's the boss,
Doug can still get the job done himself.
- I definitely still get my hands dirty.
I still fabricate things.
I like to make things, design things,
and I like planning the whole thing out.
[power tools whirring]
- [Host] Enough of this fine Ferrari treatment.
The windshield comes out monster style.
- You wanna kick that windshield out?
- Yeah. Is that an invitation?
- Yeah, of course.
[metal music plays while shoes thud against windshield]
[glass cracking]
[glass slamming against floor]
[power tools whirring]
- [Host] While most of the crew is tearing into the import,
Ricardo shows off some imports of his own.
- So worm screw, extrusion channel, and the dies
to make pasta.
I just brought this from Italy because I thought,
this is essential.
Without this, we can't make any pasta.
Everything else, we can build it here and fast enough.
But not these parts.
- [Doug] You're gonna build it, right?
- Me?
- [laughing]
- No, I'm the designer.
- Oh, oh, okay.
- AC. AC. AC.
- [Host] They'll need a motor to power the pasta maker
and Doug searches for one
that meets their power specifications.
- [in unison] DC.
- We're getting warm.
- Getting warm.
- [Doug] Torque output, overload capacity.
Max input horsepower 87. 1750 RPM.
So we go with this RPM.
- [speaking in Italian]
- Yeah.
- [continues in Italian]
- [Host] Ricardo wants to make sure they're all
on the same page.
- [speaking in Italian]
- [Host] But whether it's English or Italian,
Luigi's tired of all the talk.
- We'll be fine, but I need to get started on that maybe,
you know, soon.
Tomorrow or the next day.
- We'll just weld them. So it's...
- Yeah, welding and cutting and bending.
- Yeah. [laughs]
- [Luigi] And fitting and bearings. Yeah.
- That's...
- It's just welding though. We'll do it.
- That's your job! That's why I'm not concerned about it.
- That's good. I like that!
[expl*si*n]
- [Host] Luigi's used to getting the job done
when he's working on his own cars.
- I have two Alfa Romeos that I have in various stages
of disassembly at any given point in time
and I kinda do that in my spare time.
- [Host] But he still considers himself
more mechanical engineer than mechanic.
- Oh yeah, I don't pretend to be a mechanic. [laughs]
I prefer the manufacturing aspect of things.
You know, sort of the theory and looking at things
and deciding if they're strong enough
or how they should be put together.
This is sort of more of what's interesting to me, you know.
I enjoy playing with my cars and my bikes a lot, though,
but I don't want to do it for anybody else. [laughs]
- [drum heavy beats playing]
- [Host] At the end of the day,
they're aware they haven't done much
but they haven't had much to work with.
[chains clinking]
- We're gonna need some metal sheet.
We're gonna need a motor.
We're gonna need...
A lot of work in here.
But first we have to get some supplies tomorrow.
- [Host] So for now, they call it a night
and plan to start burning rubber tomorrow.
[jaunty Italian music plays]
[tires screech]
- [Host] Monster Garage factoid.
There are over 500 documented shapes of Italian pasta,
one of the most popular being the "bow tie".
Despite this pasta's success,
actual bow ties are worn by les than 5% of necktie wearers.
[funky music playing]
♪ Monster. Monster Garage.
[xylophone tinkling]
[sound of body thudding and tomatoes squishing]
[groan of pain]
- [Host] Day tre.
Yesterday, the Italian crew ordered parts
and prepped the Ferrari.
Today, it's time to get down to business.
[electric guitar jamming]
- I think today, we gotta get this burner thing done...
- [Ralph] Yeah.
- [Luigi] and get a pot in there.
- And you and I will take care of that.
- Okay.
- And actually, while we're at it, a propane tank.
- [Ralph] Well yeah.
- And we'll mount that up as well.
[tape measure rattling]
- [Giovanni] [mumbling] Still looks nice.
About 24. 24 by 20.
- Yeah. So we're probably gonna have to use
two ten-inch burners.
Right? Two ten-inch burners.
One on this side, one on this side
and put a, like, 40 gallon pot.
- [Host] After measuring the space under the hood,
Giovanni and Ralph head into da hood
in Ralph's 996 twin turbo to see a guy
about their cookin' gear.
Luigi, Doug, and Ricardo stay behind
to cut the components of their mixing machine.
- [Luigi] Ready? Fingers still there?
- Yeah.
[metal breaking]
- Okay, there we go.
So what we have here are the two end plates for the hopper.
We're gonna wrap this in sheet metal
alongside these edges to come around here.
We're gonna feed the flour and water in.
There's gonna be a shaft that mixes.
There's gonna be a spot for the augur
to push it through the die.
- [Host] To crank out this monster pasta,
they'll start with the end plates, wrap them in steel,
then install a motorized mixing shaft into the hopper
to stir each batch of flour and water.
Once the dough is done, it feeds into the extruder channel
where a worm screw forces it through a die
that shapes the pasta
before a cutting blade chops and drops it onto the conveyor.
[water bubbling]
- This is the mixer shaft that we're gonna use
to mix the flour and the water.
- I'll hold it.
You just guide it a little bit and I'll put a tack there.
Okay?
- I see.
- All right, let's start with the one in the middle first.
- That's easy, yeah.
[sparks crackling]
[metal squeaking]
- Okay. That ain't goin' nowhere.
- I'm good at advice as well, huh?
[expl*si*n]
- [Host] It takes a lot more than flour and water
to make good pasta.
- I import food processing and packaging equipment
from Italy.
I know not only the process of pasta making,
but I know all kind of machine.
My business was always based upon
supporting the customers, really, to be successful.
So I knew the culinary part of it,
but also the mechanical part.
I knew the machines very well.
[chains clanking]
- [Host] Ricardo knows how this machine should work,
but fabricating it is up to Luigi.
- [Ricardo] Are you okay?
- Yeah. I gotta redo my math.
- Do you need help on that?
- No, I just need... [British accent] privacy!
- Privacy. Okay.
- Not from you.
- [Ricardo] Get out of here.
- It's these guys up here.
- Get out of here! [laughing]
He needs privacy, okay? [chuckles]
- [nervously laughing] When are you gonna leave?
[marker squeaking]
[cameraman groaning]
[laughing]
[engine revving]
- [Host] Ralph and Giovanni return
with everything they'll need
to cook up an old world monster feast.
[pot clanking on floor]
[metal thudding]
- And this is our double burner.
One for the pasta.
- One for the sauce.
- And one for the sauce.
[rock music playing]
[propane tank clanging on ground]
- Now we need the pasta.
- Hold on. [laughing] We're working on it.
[power tools whirring]
- [Host] Ralph gets right back to work
cutting away the dented fender
and welding in brackets to anchor the burners.
[welding equipment sparking]
- We've got the back brackets already
and now we're gonna build the two front one
and we can set it down and this is done.
[heavy electric guitar playing]
[welding equipment sparking]
- Okay.
[sparking]
[electric guitar continues]
[metal clanking]
- Adjusting it...
Perfect. Like it was made for it.
Yeah. That's exactly what it...
- Woo! Viva! Ricardo.
[speaks in Italian]
[conversing in Italian]
- It's strong enough you could stand on there.
- Yeah, stand on it.
- You wanna stand on it?
- Yeah.
- You said that, now you have to prove it.
- Nah, nah. You too heavy.
You too heavy.
- Good job.
- Woo!
All right. We got it. Let's cook Ralph.
[chuckles]
[electric guitar continues]
- [Host] They piece together the rest of the system
and bada bing, bada boom!
Just like that, they're cookin' with gas.
- They got a fire over there.
- [Giovanni] Yeah, we got fire over here.
I think we got everything under control at this point.
[laughing] I hope by the end of the day,
we have a big move on project over here.
So I can sleep better tonight.
I couldn't sleep last night.
Dreaming of all these gears and stuff.
[expl*si*n]
- [Host] The build is making him anxious,
but Giovanni is doing the two things he knows best.
- I don't know nothing else except fixing cars
and cooking.
I'm a mechanic.
I own a mechanical shop, repair shop,
and we specialize in Ferrari.
We do custom work, high performance,
restoration, and maintenance.
- [Host] When it comes to food or cars,
Italian authentico is the only way to go.
- It's hard to describe. It's just like... I don't know.
A good spaghetti sauce.
Everybody can make it, but the Italian, I think,
make the best.
[whistling]
- [Host] The parts to power the pasta machine
have just been delivered.
- Everything we need to make it.
[blade cutting through tape]
- Sprockets. A motor. Pasta machine power.
- [Host] And Jesse arrives to check their progress
two days in.
- Hey Ralph, you want me to make some steel fender thing
around that?
- Uh, I haven't decided what the hell I'm gonna do
with the fender yet.
- I can make a little...
- If we can make a little...
- Tube around it. Some tubing.
So in case you hit someone, you don't hit the propane tank.
- I hope you don't hit someone with a propane tank.
- [Host] He's planning to hand craft a replacement fender,
but the location of the propane tank
brings back a few monster memories.
- Remember that hearse we blew up?
That was what was in it.
- [Luigi] Are you kidding me?
- We snuck one of those under the seat.
Those blew up huge.
[expl*si*n roaring]
[electric guitar playing]
- This would be better with machine g*ns
coming out of the fenders.
[mimics machine g*n fire]
[machine g*n fire playing]
- [Host] With three days to go,
they have plenty of time to make improvements.
But pasta remains priority one
and this car is still a long way from makin' macaroni.
[car revving]
[strange electric music playing]
- [Host] Day quattro.
Ricardo's out shopping for parts
and the rest of the team has a lot of work to do.
But Doug isn't about to sacrifice quality for speed.
- I mean, after all it is a Ferrari.
Let's respect the mark. Okay.
It's difficult to explain.
I think the thing I always say most when somebody says,
"Well, what's the difference between a Ferrari
and some other car?"
And I say, "Well, a lot of other cars,
you can drive them on the road
and you can drive them real fast."
When I'm driving a Ferrari, I feel like
I'm more part of the road.
If you can get the meaning.
I sort of feel like I'm down in the road
and it's a very intangible quality.
- [Host] Jesse's vision for the monster
is a little different.
- I got some more Ferrari stuff, too.
- That's pretty cool.
- Some trim, antennas.
- All right.
- A new hood ornament.
- Yeah.
- [Host] Not to mention a new horn
which he welds a mounting bracket onto
before Giovanni installs it through the wheel well
and serenades the rest of the crew.
[horn honks popular Italian tune]
- It works, yeah?
[horn playing again]
- That's just Italian.
[power tools whirring]
- [Host] Ricardo rolls in late
after picking up a motorized pasta cutter,
but he was hoping they'd be done with a lot more
than just the horn.
- I've been looking forward to having this mixer ready,
but it's not happening
and I'm a little concerned about that.
I thought it was a matter of one day
and today, half of the day's gone.
What is lacking here is a program.
You know, I cannot tell everybody what to do.
Although I'm good at that, but... [chuckles]
So I just go along with the group.
- Ah, I don't know. The team is growing restless.
They're waitin' for me. I gotta make 'em happy.
But I know they won't be happy
if it doesn't go together right.
[welding equipment sparking]
- [Host] Luigi tacks the hopper walls
to the extruder channel.
But Ricardo's losing his patience and wants some answers.
- So I'm calling for a meeting. Team over here, please.
Luigi! Somebody has to take charge, okay?
- Yep.
- [Ricardo] So I'm doin' it.
Now we need to make a plan.
Otherwise we're not gonna get through this.
- So I wanna know from each one of you
what you think you are responsible for.
- Let's you and me get the hopper in place.
- Okay.
- Get the table in place underneath it
and when we're done with that, we'll wire it up.
- Okay. I want to know by when this is going to be done.
- Me too, you know? If we get started now,
it'll get done five minutes earlier.
- No. Look, this is about commitment. I want to know.
- [Luigi] Well, we're not gonna be sitting around.
- I'm asking you...
- [Luigi] Before Friday.
- [Ricardo] As a commitment.
No, before Friday's not good enough
because we need time to test the whole thing.
- [Luigi] Yeah.
- So this has to be finished before Friday.
- Well, I can't tell you when we're gonna be done
by the hour, but I can tell you that if we get started now,
we'll be done sooner.
We gotta go do it, though.
Because I agree.
The whole point of the meeting is that there's some urgency
to get this stuff done.
- Exactly. And I want it to be on the same page.
- I know exactly what I'm doing.
My hands have a purpose and I'm gonna go put 'em to work.
- [Host] Luigi quickly bolts on the extruder
so they can mount the machine
and start on the motor and conveyor.
But Doug doesn't want it done fast.
He wants it done right.
- Have you tested this for water
or see if the welds leak?
- Well, I think that we need to get it mounted
regardless, right?
- And if it leaks, are we gonna take it off
and fix it?
- Yeah.
- Well you know it's gonna leak, so why mount if first?
Just fix the leaks first.
You're lookin' for double work.
Come on. I'm serious about it.
That's ridiculous. Don't mount it first
and then find out it leaks.
- I tell you what.
- It's gonna leak!
- We're gonna do it, okay?
- So fix the leaks!
- If you don't mind, we're gonna do the test. Do you mind?
- The water test?
- Yeah.
- Okay. Um, but... All right. I mean, first we say...
Okay, go ahead. Yeah. That's good.
- [Ricardo] Yeah.
- I don't know. It's a mess right now.
We got a little decision discussion over here.
Everybody wants to be the chief.
- [Host] Sure enough, the pasta maker leaks
where the hopper meets the extruder.
So Doug spends a few minutes welding between the tacks.
[welding equipment sparking]
- That's fine. Let's put it up.
- [Host] They begin to mount it on the dash
to keep it close to the burners,
but Jesse wants the pasta maker ridin' shotgun.
- Put it right here so it's a straight shot.
Right? Like that. Mount this solid.
Just make a back bracket and leave all this free space
and make it a straight shot so it's a little bit sloping.
- [Ralph] Is that okay with you?
- It's fine.
- [Ralph] Yeah.
- I'm concerned about the time. That's all.
- [Jesse] You got two days. You guys are halfway there.
- Well, the horn works.
[laughter]
That's good.
- We haven't tested this yet.
- Not yet.
- I want to see this working.
[whip cracking]
- [Host] They're finally all on the same page,
but the day is done.
So powering up their pasta maker
will have to wait until tomorrow.
[electric guitar thrumming]
Monster Garage factoid.
The words "pasta", "noodle", and "macaroni"
are often used interchangeably.
But by definition, noodles are a pasta that includes egg
and to call it macaroni, the pasta must be made with
only flour and water.
♪ Monster. Monster Garage.
[Italian music playing]
- [Host] Day cinque.
After three days of work and no noodles,
it's starting to look like this monster
might end up sleeping with the fishes.
- The goal is to be able to test the pasta machine tonight
before we leave and make sure that it works.
- [Host] Ricardo and Giovanni begin piecing together
the components of the hopper.
- That sounds bueno.
Look. Spin.
[metal clanging]
and that's pasta mixer.
- Yep.
Make some bocconcini.
[discussing in Italian]
- [Host] It has yet to extrude a single noodle,
but this monster machine is already
leaving a bad taste with Ricardo.
- Well, it is a desire for quality and for beauty.
That's what it is.
That's why I'm having a problem
when I look at some of the things of this pasta machine.
- He wants to make it Italian, you know?
- [Ricardo] Yeah.
- This is West Coast.
- [Ricardo] [laughing] This is West Coast!
- [Host] The cutter blade and motor aren't pretty either,
but they get the job done and that's all that matters.
- Okay, ready? There we go.
- Go.
[laughing incredulously]
- [Ricardo] Beautiful!
[exclaiming in Italian]
- It's a beautiful thing.
- [Host] While the guys finish up the extruder,
[power tool whirring]
Ralph puts together a panel to control the whole system.
- Switch panel.
This is the forward/reverse for the pasta maker.
This is the on/off switch for the cutter.
And this is the death ray.
[sci-fi ray noises]
[expl*si*n]
- [Host] Ralph Biazzi makes a lot of cool cars even cooler.
- I own a custom shop.
I build custom cars for a living.
Mercedes, Porsche, and Ferrari mainly.
A lot of customers will bring a brand new car
from the dealer that's completely stock
and we'll change the wheels and suspension and brakes.
We'll basically transform the car.
It'll look like a completely different car
when it leaves.
- [Host] Just don't ask him who he builds them for.
- A lot of celebrities. Um...
I probably shouldn't mention.
A lot of people that aren't celebrities
and have a lot of money
and I can't mention them either.
And then other people have special needs
like, you know, b*llet proof windows
and run flat tires and cars that'll go faster than normal.
Can't mention them either.
Well, you know, we know how to keep our mouths shut.
Otherwise you, you know, suffer the consequences.
[jaunty Italian music playing]
- [Host] The pasta maker is beginning to take shape
and Chef Nick Figlo arrives to whip up
a classic three meat sauce for a monster meal.
- The best sauce you ever had in your life.
Pure Italian sauce. Lots of fresh ingredients
and I'm ready to [expl*si*n sound].
We got tomato sauce, onions, garlic, peppers,
mushrooms, tomato paste, and more garlic.
[cans clanking on table]
We're ready.
[knife chopping]
- [Host] So what's the secret to cooking up a k*ller sauce?
- Lots of garlic, lots of onions. Great base.
Ah. Monster sauce.
Ah, it's awesome. This is the way to go.
I mean, what a concept.
A beautiful Italian Ferrari and beautiful sauce.
What could be better?
[jaunty Italian music continues]
Magnifico. I mean, just smell it.
It comes right through the television.
Take a big deep breath. Just go... [inhales deeply]
Now that's Italian.
- [Host] While Chef Nick keeps cookin' up his special sauce,
the builders are working up an appetite
piecing together the pasta maker.
[machinery squeaking]
- Italian ingenuity.
- Extra virgin olive oil.
- Make sure it's extra virgin olive oil.
- [Host] A touch of olive oil even makes
the extruder shaft taste good.
- Nice, huh?
- Look at how smooth we are.
Ready? Eh?
Boom.
[meat lightly slapping plate]
- [Host] [Italian accent] So how them meatballs comin'?
- Mm! Mm! Mm!
Perfect.
- [Host] Let's hope it is perfect.
There's some tough critics here
[fire and sparks whooshing]
- [Jesse] [laughing] That looks pretty evil.
[blowtorch hissing]
- [Host] This ain't buffet style.
Waiter Graham Fenton rolls in to
[Italian accent] serve up the sauce with some genuine flair.
- Now mangia.
[singing operatically]
- For you, Giovanni.
[singing together]
- Well sung.
[operatic singing continues]
[speaking in Italian]
- Ah, grazie.
- [Host] The spaghetti dinner was supposed to inspire
their work on the car.
But instead, it's turnin' the garage into Italian Idol!
[singing operatically in unison]
[applause and clapping]
[sings operatically]
- [Host] Only one builder has yet to eat.
- I'm a vegetarian.
- [scoffs]
[applause]
- [Host] With only one day left to finish the Ferrari,
this crew might be singin' a different tune tomorrow night.
At this point, no one can say if the build is going to fly.
But at least the pasta does.
[laughter]
[heavy guitar riff]
- [Host] Will this dough be ready to go?
[metallic cracking]
- [Luigi] Stop it, stop it, stop it.
- [Ricardo] Stop the machine for a second.
- [Host] Or is it destined for destruction?
- [demonic voice] Burn this place down.
♪ Monster. Monster garage.
- [Host] Day sei.
[cartoonish balloon stretching noise]
The crew arrives for their final day
confident they'll finish by midnight.
- Good morning.
- [Host] Assuming, of course, the garage is still standing.
- [in childish voice] Hey Jesse,
why don't you light some fireworks?
Hey Jesse, you need to get back to work.
[demonic voice] No, burn this place down.
[laughter]
[plastic crashing together]
[in demonic voice] Die, die, die, die!
[plastic clattering onto floor]
[laughing]
[eerie musical sting]
[in demonic voice] Welcome to the dark side, Jesse.
Rah! [laughter]
- [Host] But Jesse knows just how fast time flies
on day six.
- Are you guys gonna try to make pasta on the table here?
- Huh?
- Yeah. Is that a problem?
- Nah, let's put it in. Let's get it done.
Let's get this thing-
- No, but see, if we have a problem
and we need to do anything,
then we have to take it out again.
That's why we wanna just test it here for one time
and then as soon as we know it is working,
we're gonna do it.
- I don't think you have enough time
unless you're gonna do it right this second.
Are you gonna do it right now?
- A few more minutes.
- Okay.
[heavy electric guitar]
- We could connect both of 'em on the motor
and then just [fades out]
- [Host] Once it's ready to go,
Giovanni connects the motor to a battery
and fires it up for the first time.
[machinery whirring]
Everything appears to be working
so they decide to test it on the table
and try to mix some macaroni.
- [Ricardo] Stop the machine for a second.
- [Host] But Ricardo spots a problem right away.
- It's not mixing!
It's not mixing the flour because the pedal is too short.
- [Host] The problem with the pasta mixer is that
it isn't mixing the pasta.
The hopper pedals aren't long enough
leaving a space above the extruder
where the flour sits unmixed.
Ricardo wants them to recut longer pedals
but Doug has a faster plan.
- You just take another piece of metal like this
that we cut off and we put it next to it.
We clamp it with a vice grip.
- And weld it?
- Get the welder, bzzt, and it's done.
And that's it. We do that to each one.
- [Host] Instead of replacing the pedals,
they'll weld on extensions
to mix the flour accumulating at the bottom.
[welding equipment sparking]
[machine whirring]
Once the extensions are on,
the dough begins mixing just right.
- Okay, you did it buddy.
- Come on, let's get a...
- Give me a high-five.
[machinery whirring]
Good.
- Arriba!
- [Host] But when they activate the worm screw
and begin pushing out pasta,
the pasta starts pushing back.
[metal cracking]
- [speaking in Italian] Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
Stop.
- [Doug] Break the main shaft.
- [Ricardo] Great.
[laughter]
- [Host] The force on the mixing shaft is too strong
for it to handle.
So Ralph heads to the shop down the block
to machine a sturdier shaft and sleeve
that won't buckle under the pressure.
[machinery whirring]
[electric guitar riff]
[sounds of metal sliding]
[gate rattling open]
[power tools whirring]
- [Host] Back in the garage,
Jesse's preparing the crumpled front end
for a handmade custom fender
and his old buddy Ralph knows quality craftsmanship
when he sees it.
- [Ralph] I would hire him.
I think he used to work for Old Shibe.
He's pretty good at that.
[machinery whirring]
- What do you think, man?
You guys hiring any body men at your shop?
[gas hissing]
I'm gonna be out of work in like three weeks.
[chuckles] Ralph.
[hammering against metal]
[exhales]
[hammer clanging on fender]
[rapidly hammering metal]
[saw buzzing]
[funky guitar music]
- [Host] [Italian accent] That's a nice-a front fender,
Jesse.
- Perfecto!
- [Host] But it's missing something.
A little gold trim bling.
[scrapes against metal]
- Look at that.
Yeah.
Now everybody knows, huh?
Built by Italians.
[electric guitar music picks back up]
- [Host] The stronger mixing shaft fits tight
through the hopper bearings
and after putting everything back together,
it works good on another dry run.
- As long as this is gonna hold,
we're gonna be successful.
So we need to put that in place.
And then the test will be the final performance, I think.
- [Host] They hold off on testing it with dough
so they can mount the machine in the car
and begin building their conveyor
which has just arrived.
- Solid. [hand banging on wood]
- Thank you.
[rolling cymbal]
- [Host] Less than six hours till midnight
and the conveyor is just starting to come together.
They need a motor to drive the belt
and Doug has another easy answer.
- It's the windshield wiper motor
which is generally a pretty slow-turning motor
so it should be good for the conveyor system.
- Hey, how do you say, "Hurry the [metal clanging] up"
in Italian?
[group laughing]
- [Host] Everyone wants to know when they'll be done.
- Before midnight.
[electric guitar playing]
[metal hammering]
- [Host] They finished tying together the belt
then weld in the support structure.
And when they power it up,
the windshield wiper motor works perfecto!
Just when the monster is starting to come together,
another delivery serves as a wake up call
that it's do or die time.
- Oh, it's a horse's head.
Oh no, it's a bloody horse head.
- [laughing]
- [Host] Jesse knows just how to handle the prop pony.
[fire hissing]
[aggressively blowing]
[laughing]
- I fixed it. [chuckles]
- [Host] It's almost 8 PM and they're finally ready
to fire it up and test the entire system.
- Yeah.
- Woo!
- Awesome.
- [Host] Ricardo pours a measured amount of water
into the flour and lets the mixer do its thing.
But this batch looks dry, so Ralph adds a little more liquid
which opens up Ricardo's flood gates.
- [Ricardo] Wh-What are you doing? Huh?
- I haven't done anything yet.
- Huh?
- I put a drop of water.
- But who told you to do that?
- No one.
- Huh?
- No one.
- I told you not to do anything.
- I know.
- Okay. Be my guest, then. Do whatever you wanna do.
- Does it need more water?
- [Ricardo] I'm going on a break.
I don't get it.
Do you really want to [crashing noise] around?
[crashing noise] around.
[glass shattering]
[tense sound of clock ticking]
- [Host] After the mix is complete,
the team tries again to extrude some noodles.
[tense clock ticking]
[machinery whirring]
- [Luigi] Hey, there it goes!
[metal clacking]
[metal falling]
- Bang! Oh-h*-h*, awesome.
Better. The chain broke.
- [Host] But the outcome doesn't change
and the end result still leaves them hungry.
- Oh boy.
- How many people are we gonna feed with that?
[tambourine rattling]
- [Host] Only three hours left
and in addition to breaking the wells
joining the motor to the worm screw,
they also bent the solid mixing shaft.
- Nothing's like aligned.
Everything's going like this.
- No, but the reason is because
this was not one piece with that.
- You guys quit [metal clanging]
and put the [machine whirring] back.
We'll weld it up and fix it.
You know? You're just wasting time.
- [Host] There's no time to replace anything.
So all they can do is strengthen the wells
connecting the extruder and motor.
But the fate of this build might be doomed
by a higher power.
Jesse's magic eight ball.
- Don't count on it.
[slamming on shelf]
[ominous bell tolling]
- [Host] But this team isn't about to quit now.
- Almost. Yeah, the... [inaudible]
The sauce is getting ready.
But we should be okay.
[guitar riffing]
- Ricardo mixes up another batch of dough
and the crew can already see the improved performance.
[discussing in Italian]
- Yeah.
- Makes a difference.
[Italian music and electric guitar overlaying]
- [Host] An hour and a half to go
and they activate the extruder
hoping Jesse's welds can hold it together.
- [Ricardo] We have pasta!
[jaunty Italian music plays]
[laughter]
- [Luigi] They're falling into pots!
[overlapping excited chatter]
- Look at that.
- Woo!
[jaunty Italian music continues]
[laughter]
- [Ricardo] You seem not too convinced.
- No.
It looks like [water splashing]
- This tastes pretty damn good.
- The best words I know in English,
it's "made in Italy".
- [Host] So the crew can finally exhale
over a warm bowl of noodles.
The pasta machine took them all week to build,
broke twice, and won't be winning any beauty contests,
but this is definitely a pasta-making Ferrari.
- I guess you guys can have some tools.
[glitching audio]
[funky bass line]
- Good job.
- Thanks, man.
- Thank ya.
- Thank you!
- [Jesse] That was well ex*cuted like a fine oiled machine.
[chucking]
- Yeah, olive oil pushing.
- [Jesse] Mech tools.
Milwaukee Power toolkit.
- [Giovanni] Eh. Cool.
That's awesome. Thank you very much.
- [Ricardo] Nice. Nice. Thank you.
- Out of all the build teams...
- [Doug] Yeah.
- You guys are definitely one of them.
[laughter]
- [Doug] Oh wow.
- [Host] Build cost tally.
Hard cash: $4,876.64.
Vehicle cost: $14,600.
Freebie value: Zero, zip, nada!
Grand total: 19, eh, fuhgeddaboutit!
[electric guitar playing]
♪ Monster. Monster Garage.
- [Host] Mama Mia, monster fans!
It's the big shrug and we're here in San Francisco
for another Monster Garage challenge.
[funky guitar line]
Down in Long Beach, the guys at West Coast Choppers
are fixing up a homemade gravy to give the monster noodler
a little zing.
[heavy guitar line playing]
- [Host] [exaggerated accent] But don't use-a
too much garlic, eh?
[spray paint hissing]
Comin' fresh out of the kitchen,
this monster's been done up Italian style.
[electric guitar and Italian melody overlapping]
But back in the SFC, these quaint little cable cars
will be jockeying for position with Mr. Jesse James.
[engine revving loudly]
Jesse takes on the legendary turns of Lombard Street.
[custom horn honking tune]
It's okay if he loses his lunch.
He can just make more.
[Italian music and electric guitar play]
[engine revs loudly]
So where's he headed, anyway?
- The Flor d'Italia restaurant here in San Francisco,
we're the oldest Italian restaurant in the country.
[jaunty Italian music plays]
We make almost everything from scratch
here at the restaurant.
We make our pastas fresh, we make our sauces.
[pans sizzling]
We've got quite a variety in Northern Italian
and it's Mom's food, I think is the best way
to look at it.
Fettuccine here.
And tortellini here.
- [Host] What does Bob think about the new pasta slayer
that just rolled into town?
- Uh, pasta made in a Ferrari. Hm, yeah, okay.
I'd like to see it.
I'd like to see how it's done.
[engine revving]
[custom horn playing Italian tune]
[laughing]
[revving engine]
- You like that, right?
- I do too. The horn's awesome.
- [Host] But this ain't no beauty contest!
This here's a noodle off.
- Whatcha wanna do? You want to make some pasta?
- [Host] And the best pasta wins.
- Ooh!
[crowd oohing and laughing]
- [Bob] Hey, nice!
- Let's do ours. We're gonna make ours with Bisquick.
Is that cool?
- Yeah.
[crowd laughing]
- [Host] Chef Gianni gives Jesse a hand
and Luigi from the male team comes out
to keep an eye on the monster.
[pasta sloshing]
- You ready? Go ahead.
- Watch out how speedy it goes, though.
- Well you can...
- Think about it.
- Is that good?
- Yeah.
- [reverberating] Yeah!
- That's pretty good.
I must say.
- [Jesse] It's kind stirring now.
- Good composition.
- [Jesse] Mm-hmm.
- Let's see. Yeah.
[metal clanging]
- [Jesse] Oh. [groans]
- [Luigi] It broke right there
- [Jesse] [laughing]
- [Host] You gotta be kidding me!
That doesn't sound good.
- [Cameraman] Which part broke, show it?
- [Jesse] Right here, look.
- [Cameraman] So we can get a closeup.
- [Luigi] Is that one of your welds?
- [Jesse] Nope.
[crowd laughing]
- [Host] This monster is busted.
The dough put so much resistance on the shaft,
it snapped the motor bounds!
- We could finish that up though
and probably get something to come out
if it'll still turn.
- No way, man. If it doesn't work,
we gotta blow it up.
- [laughing] It's got a propane tank in it already.
- Yeah.
- [Host] Not so fast, Jesse!
Everybody knows you can't whack a made monster.
[crowd laughing]
- So you guys win. Congratulations.
[crowd laughing and cheering]
- Thank you, Jesse.
- Let's make some pasta inside!
- Okay. Let's go check it out.
- Come make some pasta inside. Come on.
[Italian music playing]
- [Host] Now it's time for the real pasta makers
to go to work.
- [Jesse] That was quick.
- [Host] Jesse heads inside for a glimpse
at Mama's secret recipe.
[greets in Italian]
- Look at that thing.
- We make a very thick roll of pasta.
We can make ravioli.
- Uh-huh.
- Or we can make fettuccine.
[Italian music continues]
[machinery runs quietly]
- Okay, our machine is actually broken too.
What happened, this should cut it automatically
at the length that you want.
But because it's electronic in this part
and they don't make this machine any longer
so we have to cut it by hand now.
Five of those will give you an exact portion.
- [Jesse] Five handfuls?
- [Chef] Yeah.
That's it.
- [Jesse] Whoa. I feel like I Love Lucy
when she's trying to do the-
[chef laughing]
- Well thanks, guys.
- You're welcome. Thank you.
- Congratulations.
[laughing]
- [Host] So what next?
[electric guitar thrumming]
Jesse's got no time for straights that aren't straight,
trusting in fate, or monsters that can't make dough!
- So you guys win. Congratulations.
[engine revving]
He's got metal to burn, sparks to fly!
The next Monster Garage challenge
is just around the bend!
[orchestral swell]
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05x12 - The Noodler
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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."