03x02 - Low Bull Rider

[bunniefuu]

[bulls grunts]

- [Big Swag] Saddle up Monster fans.

- I'm Jesse James.

- [Big Swag] It's Wild West Week

in the Monster corral.

- You can't get much more cowboy than that.

- [Big Swag] Will James g*ng rise again?

- Boing boing.

- [Big Swag] He's got some homeboys and some cowboys.

- I am like so scared right now.

- [Big Swag] And what they're brewing up.

- It's not natural man.

- [Big Swag] It's good. It's bad.

And it's ugly.

- What the hell.

- [Big Swag] Giddy up.

- It's official.

- [Big Swag] Yeehaw!

- [Narrator 1] 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.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage,

♪ Monster, Monster Garage,

♪ Monster, Monster Garage,

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

This week's challenge, take a 1970 Ford Ranchero

and turn it into the rankest bucking bull

this side of the Rio Grande.

The rules: when built the monster machine

must appear to be stock,

the team can spend no more than $3000 for parts.

Jesse and his crew have 7 days and nights.

On the first day they design,

on the next 5 they build.

And on the seventh day, they buck.

If successful, each team member takes home

a $3,400 set of Mac tools,

and the clock starts now.

Day 1.

[techno music]

The design team arrives to mutate

this tired and tame Ranchero

into a rip storting, cowboy stomping, rodeo bull.

Jesse James, like his outlaw relative of the same name,

is a natural born leader.

He's assembled the perfect g*ng

with the right combination of cowboy and homeboy

to make this Ranchero come out rocking and hopping.

- It's Western Week on Discovery.

- Rocking rodeo.

- So we're gonna do a kind of a mechanical bull car.

So basically what we're gonna do is take a Ranchero

and a hobby horse.

I think the - hobby bull.

- [Jesse James] Yeah. A hobby bull.

- [Chad] There you go.

- The saddle, it'll be stationary,

or is it gonna be moving as well as the car?

- We could put it on one of those big springs,

like those ducks at the kids' playgrounds

where they're goin',

[Jesse James makes spring noises]

Can we put horns on it?

- Yeah. Aesthetically

- I'd probably put horns on it.

- Okay. - I think up here.

- [Kenny] I think on the roof.

- Put the horns on the roof?

- [Kenny] Yeah. And it's closer to him.

- That's what we need. Horns close to me.

- [Narrator 1] Chad Denton from Oroville, California,

has taken enough bull to rank 16th in the PBR,

the Professional Bull Riders tour.

- Qualified for the original course showdown.

Qualified for the PBR finals last year for the first time.

I've had 10 surgeries, 11 broken bones.

I've broke my right ankle 4 times,

my left ankle twice,

my femur, my pelvis, my cheekbone my shin bone.

I've just faced the fact that I'm going to get injured.

I can't even believe I'm doing this.

You got a bull rope so there's no saddle.

- But it should be semi padded.

You know, we can have it done with a little bit of

like some half inch closed cell foam.

- Maybe some of those steel spoke wheels

or something. Kind of.

- [Jesse James] Yeah. - Yeah.

- [Jesse James] We gotta keep it, you know,

part bull, part low rider.

- With this front suspension, we're gonna have to bring

the front cylinders to the top of the hood.

- [Narrator 1] Quinter Pittillo, hits switches

and drops bodies for a living in Sacramento, California.

- I've been working on cars since I was about 14 years old

and that's been really my strive to have

something different than anybody else has.

And I just do it for selected people now.

You know, maybe 4 or 5 cars a year

that I actually build and

I just pick and choose who I want to build 'em for.

Once I seen this show, I knew this show was for me.

You know, this showcases what I do. I love this show.

If there's anything for me to be on TV, this was the show.

- [Kenny] So there'll be holes there or the hood off.

- There'll be like a two inch hole about right here.

And then there'll be a stroke sticking up

outta the top of it with the hose on it.

- [Kenny] All right. Okay. One, or are you gonna put two?

- [Quinter] Two one on each side.

- [Kenny] One on each side.

- Now the thing that I'm concerned about is safety wise,

you know, like if you get thrown off a bull,

you know you might hit part of the bull coming down,

but mostly you're just gonna hit the dirt.

- If this sucker goes to throw me off

and jump on top of me,

we're gonna have to push the old power button.

- Okay. - Is there a power button?

- Yeah, we can - [Chad] Can you rig that up?

- We can stop.

- Ridin' bulls, there's no pause button.

- Yeah, I think you might wanna wear a helmet on this one.

- You know what? One thing we gotta quit talking about

falling, because, it ain't gonna happen.

- [Jesse] Okay.

- [Quinter] All right.

- Gonna be ridin' a,

The driver's seat there Jesse?

- [Narrator 1] Kenny Youngblood is better known

for drawing cars than cattle,

but for this design, he brought his bullpen.

- The kids are just gonna love this.

The Low rider guys are gonna love it.

Any motor sport enthusiast really

is gonna have to get a kick out of this.

This could start a whole new trend.

[bull moos]

- So I think base our basic elements are

a lot of suspension, batteries, pumps and dumps.

You know, a bunch of hydraulic hoses.

Probably just do some tubular u bends.

We'll cover that with sheet metal,

and then cover it with some cow hide.

I think that's it, you know.

- And you gotta get some kind of truss level going here.

[men laugh]

- [Kenny] This'll be a, man,

you'll be the first bull rider in history

to ride a low rider.

- Probably. I don't think this has been done before.

- There it is.

- Cool.

- There's his Monster.

- Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

As long as you can ride it, we can build it.

- [Quinter] Yep.

- Right on. Let's get it on.

- [Narrator 1] The plan:

Inject a lethal dose of hip hop and Low rider hydraulics,

and build a steel bull seat to shake and break

any bow-legged c*ck cow punk.

[upbeat music]

Day 2.

You can almost hear the jingling

of switch blades and spurs,

as the build team of Vacas and Vaqueros

arrive for the showdown.

Rob Smets has been fighting bulls for 26 Longhorn years.

He's from Clover, Texas.

Ed "MacGuyver" Sifuentes takes low riders

to new heights in Van Nuys, California.

Eric Jones works for Pro Hopper,

a custom low rider hydraulics manufacturer

in Los Angeles, California.

No way Quinter Pittillo is going to miss this build.

And Chad Denton's gonna make sure there's no bologna

in the monster bull.

- Yo.

So we're gonna build kind of a bull riding car,

kind of a mechanical bull, but a real one

that we could drive around.

- Who's gonna be driving it while I ride it you?

- [Jesse James] I'll drive it.

- All right.

[all laugh]

- You get a little bumper.

- We're coming to match you at your event,

then you get to come and play at ours

and then you know, turnabout's fair play.

- Riding the bull is no problem.

I think that's totally easy. It's just the falling off part.

[all laugh]

I don't wanna hit the ground.

Well we know what we gotta do.

Let's get after it.

- [Narrator 1] The crew gets down to goring the Ranchero.

Say adios to the circa 1970 roll bar.

Lost the key to the lock and lug nuts

on those bitchin' mag wheels? No problemo.

[rock music]

- [Quinter] You having fun yet big boy?

- [Rob] Not too happy with it here.

- [Narrator 1] Rob's a worker.

He's got the plasma cutter by the horns.

- I can run the plasma.

- [Eric] All right.

- Buddy, I can cut.

- [Narrator 1] Rob Smets puts on funny clothes

and fights bulls for a living, but he's no clown.

- Our job's to make sure that they get out,

those guys do get on, they'll get on a bull.

They ride the bull for 8 seconds

or if they get thrown off prior to that.

It's my job to try and provide myself as a better target.

- [Narrator 1] Rob has been gored, trampled,

and had his neck busted, twice.

- It's a lot like

standing on the street corner waiting for a wreck

and then jumping in.

[rock music]

- Touchdown Cowboys.

[men laugh]

- Go down. Okay.

We're gonna take the spring shocks and sway bars off.

[power tools buzzing]

- [Narrator 1] The crew finishes tearing down the Ranchero.

Time for the hard part,

figuring out how to build it back up.

- [Ed] Should we take the leafs off of it?

- [Quinter] No, we don't even need to take no leafs off.

Leave the leafs on the bottom for the weight.

- [Ed] Those scraps don't do anything

but hold the leafs in place.

- [Narrator 1] Hydraulics hot shots, Ed and Quinter,

can't decide whether or not to blow away the leaf springs.

- [Ed] Let's put coil overs, save it,

it'll be less headaches.

- [Quinter] Yeah. Then we got, take in consideration.

The movement at the top, you know what I mean?

- [Ed] It don't move that much. It won't move that much.

- When this thing's jumping off the ground 3 foot.

It's gonna move at least 6 or 8 inches.

- Yeah but, he's gonna have the bed going upward

like a pyramid, right?

- Right. - So it's not,

nothing's gonna happen. It's not gonna matter.

- [Quinter] Depending on how high it's gonna go though,

there might be - It's gonna go high.

We're not gonna,

what size cylinders you gonna put in it 10s, 12s?

- [Quinter] Yeah, 10s.

- So, there's plenty of room.

It's only gonna move whatever the coil allows it to.

- Right. And the coil's gonna collapse completely

when it's hoping 3 foot off the ground.

- There's plenty of room up there.

- Alright man.

- [Ed] I'm just saying for when he does side to side,

you ain't gotta worry about losing anything, you know it's-

- Well if you put deep cuts on the axle,

you didn't gotta worry about losing anything either.

- You could,

but you still gotta fasten that coil down to it.

- Alls you gotta do is put weld the platform on there

and put a deep cup on it. Nothing won't never go nowhere.

- That's my opinion. I'm just saying coil over.

That's my opinion.

Love working on cars.

So pretty much you put something in front of me

and it's like dinner.

I'll just go right at it and I won't stop till I'm done.

Pretty much self taught everything I know

as far as hydraulics, practicing on my own vehicles.

Many years ago people used to actually

steal pumps off of lift gate trucks

just to get their systems to work on their car.

You know, get their cars going up and down.

I think it's mostly pride, fun,

and show what you can do out there.

- Well let's make this list.

- All three quarter inch all thread?

- Yep. Need some nice heavy duty chain.

I don't know what size links.

How are we gonna mount the bull?

Are we gonna mount it with

struts coming off each four corners,

or are we gonna put it on a pipe?

- Chad and I can get him mounted.

- [Chad] I don't know, they kick.

- [Quinter] The bulls kick?

- Yeah if you tried mountin' one.

[all laugh]

- [Quinter] I'm watchin' from the stands where it's safe.

- [Narrator 1] A little barnyard humor

to close out their shift.

Cowboy Dan McKenzie is in the garage to help sing it out.

♪ Now they've taken all the wheels off ♪

♪ and they've torn out the suspension ♪

♪ and from the road crew to the rodeo, ♪

♪ they're sure to be some tension. ♪

♪ Now the chassis cut and the shocks are gone ♪

♪ and there's nothing left to do ♪

♪ but hit the bars, drink some beers and celebrate Day 2. ♪

- [Narrator 2] Monster garage Factoid:

Men's Fitness magazine developed a mathematical formula

to determine the world's toughest sport to be... gymnastics.

Bull riding placed 5th.

[bull moos]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

- [Narrator 1] Day 3.

- Mornin'.

- [Narrator 1] It's time for the morning cattle call

and the builders arrive to find,

they've struck the mother load of monster parts.

Low rider hydraulic components from Pro Hopper.

- [Voiceover] Freebie, freebie. Zero. Nada.

- These are the motors. This is the

power from the battery goes direct to this post here.

This is your gear drive.

This is what's going to create the pressure.

These are your hydraulic rims.

These go on the suspension all 4 corners.

When the pressure goes in the top here,

it pushes down on the suspension,

which makes it jump up.

We got the coil springs,

that also helps with the bounce of the car.

So it starts goin', we're gonna get the coil reacting.

We start taking off, everything starts to move.

- [Narrator 1] Eric Jones

has been around Low riders all his life.

- My father owns a import company.

Went over and helped him out.

Took a liking to it right away.

If these things go through pretty heavy views,

'cause what can happen is the ball joint can bust off.

You got a coil that just was compressed,

sh**ting out the side, that thing's flying.

That hits you in the leg, it's gonna break your leg.

I've seen defective cylinders, actual piston

sh**t out the top,

[wheels slam]

go through the roof,

[wheels slam]



[wheels slam]

A lot of fires, you know.

[wheels slam]

I think, you know honestly,

it's gonna be good for everybody.

These dancers get a lot of pressure

and that's basically what we're building here

is a car dancer.

That's what they wanted, that's what they get.

And, feel bad for the guy

that's gonna be on the back of that.

- We could stop one piece right here

and then angle it down also.

- All the way, yeah, that'd be perfect.

Put the battery rack on top of it

and lay the tower on top of it.

Connects the whole car to the front. You're done.

- [Narrator 1] Hydraulics experts, Ed and Quinter,

have all the parts they need.

Now they need to figure out where they all go.

- See you're gonna have a spring,

a cup and a spring up here.

- [Eric] Yeah,

- Cylinder's gonna be above the spring,

and the hydraulic pumps are gonna pump fluid

into the cylinder, which is gonna

move the shaft out, pushing the spring.

Then you get that momentum.

That's how you get the car to hop.

And basically, as long as he hit that switch

and keep going at us, cars gonna keep hoppin' and hoppin'

'Til it breaks.

- [Narrator 1] The team puts the heat to their monster.

Chad and Eric need to carve out

some extra room underneath the Ranchero.

While Quinter puts some extra steel on the A-arms

for reinforcement.

- I'll plate in the sides.

And then I'ma cap the whole top with another piece of,

plate to fit inside here

so we can mount our power ball in the middle.

This isn't something you normally do,

but you don't normally lift a Ranchero neither.

- I usually just assemble pumps.

Make sure everything, all the fittings together.

He's the fabricator.

- [Narrator 1] Ringleader. Jesse James comes out of hiding.

He's a wanted man in this here garage.

- [Jesse] You ready to make a bull? All right.

- [Narrator 1] His first item of business,

see how Chad's going to measure up for their Monster Bull.

- [Jesse] So like a taco shell but upside down.

- Yeah, pretty much. Except for a little bit

flat on the top.

- [Jesse] What do you think width wise? 18 inches?

Well yeah, 16. And then if we put a one inch pad,

- Yeah. - [Jesse] On it. Okay.

- Maybe even want to put a little thicker pad

or double that one inch pad up.

Have you ever been on a bucking machine?

- No. - [Chad] No.

Yeah, good choice.

[rock music]

- [Narrator 1] Jesse begins building a steel tube skeleton

for the bull seat.

- Everybody always said I was full of a lot of bull.

[bull moos]

This is living proof.

- [Narrator 1] He's using an old school tube bender

that's powered the old fashioned way, elbow grease.

- Only 400 pumps left to go.

This thing's kind of slow but

makes some pretty nice bends.

I like that.

- [Narrator 1] When the Ford Motor Company

designed the Ranchero,

they definitely didn't have this in mind.

Quinter's still pounding away at the A-arms,

to make them stronger.

- As you can see, Quinter is modifying these A-arms

in authentic Low rider fashion.

- Pound it to submission.

- We're trying to make a template so that we can,

we're gonna reinforce this back in.

I'm going off what the bosses say.

They're the jumpers.

Chad and I, we're the cowboys.

My solution is get a bigger hammer.

- [Chad] Rob Smets is not ASE certified.

- [Rob] Right there, right there.

Yeehaw, we got fire, that's for sure.

- [Narrator 1] Rob can take the heat.

He fights bulls that breathe more fire than this.

- [Rob] You better gimme something more than that rag.

It's like putting a fire out with a paper towel, right?

It's going out.

- That doesn't work.

- [Narrator 1] A load of angle iron

and steel tubing rolls in.

Just what the team needs

to give their monster bull some backbone.

[guitar riff]

[rock music]

Ed welds a steel brace on the rear axle

to keep it from snapping in half in the bull ring.

For maximum bounce, the rear of the Ranchero

should have a full stack of coil springs.

So the team must fabricate a suspension tower

to make more room.

- Basically we want the rear end centered in this opening.

- [Narrator 1] The next shipment to gallop into the garage,

an even dozen 12 volt batteries

to shock their monster into jumping.

[guitar riff]

- So I don't think this thing's gonna be able to

throw anybody off.

[Ed laughs]

- You'll see.

There's a certain way you hit the switch where,

what they call around the world,

basically corner to corner doing this movement.

It'll knock you out.

- [Narrator 1] Ed's convinced

he can leave this Chad dangling.

- I'm worried.

- [Quinter] Oops, sorry about that dog.

- [Narrator 1] As their big bad bull takes shape,

Bull rider Chad seems less and less worried.

He sets to work building battery trays.

The cowboy-homeboy team is starting to feel their oats.

They think they've got this monster licked.

- Check for little problems here and there,

buzz, and we're done.

They'll be ready on Friday if we're playing around.

Maybe even Thursday.

- Let's say Thursday.

- Probably Thursday afternoon.

- [Narrator 1] But what does Cowboy Dan think?

♪ That's just the type of c*ck that ♪

♪ might come back to haunt them in the end. ♪

♪ Beware my friend.

[Cowboy Dan yodels]

- [Narrator 1] Day 4, the builders are back in the saddle

and ready to get down and dirty with their monster bull.

[guitar music]

If these guys are worried about anything,

it's the old Ranchero's ability to take the punishment.

- Alright, my only concern with this car basically is

I like cars with frames.

And this one definitely doesn't have a full frame.

- [Narrator 1] Part car and part pickup,

the Ranchero was designed with uni body construction.

- The car can break. I mean it just basically buckle.

It would just buckle the suspension. Buckle the uni body.

- [Narrator 1] They need to brace up the entire vehicle

and tie it into its new steel frame reinforcement.

If they don't, their bucking bull

would be off to the glue factory

before you could spit and holler howdy.

- Very thin. Real thin.

As you can see, we had to connect just the sub frames

just to get it strong enough.

We got a lot of work to do.

- [Narrator 1] They're taking extra care with the Ranchero

because in low riding and bull riding,

the ride helps bring home the chrome.

- The animal's responsible for half the score.

So the animal is as valuable a commodity as the cowboy

and therefore if he's that important,

the last thing you're gonna do is hurry.

This is all tied into the

base of the structure there and now we tied in.

So it's just gonna help keep her solid

when it goes to bouncin'.

- [Narrator 1] It's high noon

and time to strap on the feedbag.

[cowbell rings]

- [Eric] Yeah, this meat looks good.

Life is good.

- [Narrator 1] How's the chow boys? It's okay?

- [Bull] So good.

- We've made up some good time this mornin'.

- You can't partner cowboys

and low riders together or it's over.

[men laugh]

[bull moos]

- [Narrator 1] After lunch,

Chad gets a taste of what he's in for.

The show stealing Pro Hopper car

does a little dance for the crowd.

This 2 ton pavement pounder

teaches Chad a valuable lesson.

This ain't gonna be no joy ride.

- That's something.

I wonder what the cowboy's gotta say about it.

- Chad'll ride it.

- Chad said he wasn't gonna fall off of it no matter what.

Somebody made a mistake,

being too confident, so good luck.

- What's that?

- Said I don't think this thing's

gonna be able to throw anybody off.

- Well all week he's been talking about how it's no problem.

- He's gonna be in for a ride. That's for sure.

This thing's gonna take off and

it's not gonna be what he's used to. That's for sure.

I've seen him hold onto those bulls though, so,

I think he'll hold on.

- I think Chad's coming off.

- He's gonna get bucked outta that car. I guarantee it.

He will. If we have to bring the car back in here

and put more batteries to it, we will.

But he will fall.

- I'm worried.

- I don't think the cowboy's gonna break the bull.

I think the bull's gonna break the cowboy.

I think we have enough power.

[rock music]

- [Narrator 1] Jesse's ready to mount the frame

for his bull seat.

- [Ed] Oh boy.

- Is that cool?

- Yeah, except for one thing.

- [Jesse James] What?

- Our pumps go back there.

- [Jesse James] Just slide it back.

- [Ed] How far can we go back?

- [Narrator 1] Not far enough.

Jesse's going to have to do some reconstructive surgery.

[power tools buzzing]

- The leaf springs,

the coil springs that we're gonna put on the cylinders-

- [Narrator 1] Now the team is getting

serious about suspension.

- The leaf springs, the car would be way high in the back

and there wouldn't be enough suspension travel

and unless the rearend come back up,

then it'll let some more weight go onto the coil spring,

which collapses it.

And you need to get a happy medium

between the coil spring and the leaf spring.

- [Narrator 1] In the eternal battle

between the customizer and the car,

Quinter has some words of wisdom.

- The car always loses.

I'm thinking probably about right

there would be probably a good ride height.

- [Ed] So measure that.

- [Quinter] Up in here.

- [Narrator 1] Quinter and Ed determine

the right height for the front springs.

- [Ed] You got 10?

- That's gonna cut off 1, 2,

that's gonna cut off 3 turns.

Too much. Huh?

We smash 'em, huh?

- You gotta come down.

On cars like hoppers, cars that hop all the time,

those cars, you know, some of them put a full stack in there

but we're not gonna do that with this.

We're just gonna basically just dance it.

So 4 and a half,



I mean they're real small. We have no room up there.

So we'll work with what we have.

- [Narrator 1] With the suspension tower

completed in the rear of the Ranchero,

the coil springs and cylinders are mounted

between the frame and the axle.

Springs and cylinders are also mounted

above the reinforced A-arms on the front.

Some steel cable is used

to limit the axle's travel while hopping.

A block of 144 volts go in

to give them some bang for their bucking bull.

- [Ed] Mount the cylinders, put the pumps in.

- And add some oil and hit some switches.

Tomorrow afternoon,

we will have the new Monster Garage build record.

Everything hard is done.

We're in the home stretch.

I just hope the Ford stays together.

♪ Well, the sun is goin' down on this here Long Beach Town. ♪

♪ It's been a dirty long day in the old Monster Garage. ♪

♪ I've been working on a Ford

♪ and I want to get the heck outta Dodge. ♪

♪ Well we're all worn out and tired ♪

♪ but we almost got the thing wired. ♪

♪ Just a few short days on this a buggy ♪

♪ we'll be back on the road, yeah. ♪

♪ A-Buckin' like a Bronco hopping like a horny toad. ♪

- [Narrator 2] Monster Garage Factoid:

Bodacious was rodeo's most dangerous bull.

Ridden successfully only 9 times in 135 runs.

He let the trail of smashed faces and broken bones

before his owners decided to retire him.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

[bull moos]

- [Narrator 1] Day 5,

the builders giddy up into the garage

loaded down with goodies.

- [Jesse James] We got pretty wheels.

[man whistles]

Let's put 'em on baby.

- [Narrator 1] It's homie on the range

with these wire spoke wheels.

- [Voiceover] Freebie, zero, nada.

- [Narrator 1] The team is determined

to get this Ranchero hopping today,

because Rob has to head out tonight

for a bull ride back east.

- Play here all week and catch a red eye flight to

North Carolina tonight.

Fight bulls tomorrow night.

- [Narrator 1] The last time Rob was in Raleigh,

he got KOed by an angry bull.

- The first bull out on Saturday night.

That bull comes up and kinda spins his head

and catches me with a horn.

Left me a nice little shaving scar right here.

Knocked me out, knocked 2 teeth out

and I'm out for 8 minutes.

Don't get to work the rest of the bull riding

obviously that night. Concussed too, you know all that.

The first bull out that night and it's all over.

I sleep through the rest of the night.

[rock music]

- [Narrator 1] Now it's time to beef up their bull.

The Pro Hopper hydraulics will be the muscles.

- Inside these pumps is basically a gear pump.

- [Narrator 1] The motor runs a pump

which forces oil into the cylinder,

causing the cylinder to extend, raising the car.

A dump valve is activated,

which depressurizes the system

by returning the oil to the reservoir.

- So basically what you do is

to get the up and down movement is

power the motor, release the pressure,

power the motor, release the pressure.

That gets the car going up and down.

- [Narrator 1] With 4 pumps and a dozen batteries,

all this power comes with a price

and Chad is the one who'll be left with the bill.

- [Chad] I thought you guys were just gonna put like 8

because the extra weight or somethin'.

- [Ed] We were, but then you got brave

saying you can handle it. So we went up to 12.

[bull moos]

[upbeat music]

- [Narrator 1] Eric fills the pumps with standard



- We got oil, we can test it out

once they got the chains done in the front,

wire the rest of this up and it's ready to go.

- The car's basically done. The mountain's ready for it.

You know, alls we have to do is weld that in.

Once the bull's done, just set it in there, weld it in.

And that's it.

We'll be ready to hit some switches and lock it up.

- [Narrator 1] Head hombre, Jesse James,

has finished reworking the seat frame.

It's a tight fit.

Now it's time to give El Toro some backbones.

[welder sizzles]

- Woohoo. How's that look?

[bull moos]

- [Quinter] The last finishing touches.

[upbeat music]

- White 13s are about as western as you could make

a hundred spoke look.

[horse neighs]

- [Narrator 1] Jesse welds some cross members in place.

Chad considers his place in the big monsters picture.

- That's why I kept askin' him,

are you sure you wanna to ride it?

- No sweat. Don't sweat the small stuff.

[upbeat music]

[men yelling]

- [Jesse James] All right.

[men yelling]

- There you go make this a motorcycle.

[men yelling]

[metal bull rocking]

We go ahead and set it down now?

- [Jesse James] We've got, let's put it on the ground.

- [Ed] Yeah.

- [Jesse James] Just test it.

- [Ed] Test it.

- You already pressurize everything. Yeah?

No leaks, pressurized?

- [Ed] Yeah. I pressurize the front right now.

- Yeah, I'm gonna leave them before they break something.

And I have to go back to work.

- [Narrator 1] Jesse James heads out

into the wild west town of Long Beach

and then strolls out

with a few last plucks from Cowboy Dan.

♪ Now Rob's about to catch a plane. ♪

♪ They're sad to see him go.

♪ But he's got a beef with 50 bulls at the rally rodeo. ♪

♪ Now this job is not completely done ♪

♪ and the deadline's drawing near. ♪

♪ 'Cause this car needs 2 horns, not 1, ♪

♪ to be a steer that you can steer. ♪

- [Big Swag] Listen up here Monster side busters.

- Where's that wild bull at? Where's that wild bull at?

- [Big Swag] We got ourselves a real showdown.

Can any man ride the rip snorting monster bull?

Y'all stick around now you hear.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

- [Narrator 1] Day 6. It's no bull, it's the last build day.

The crew is down to 4 and might be down to 3

after Chad takes a test ride on the Ranchero.

[lassos whipping]

The Ranchero doesn't need the lift anymore.

It should have plenty of its own.

- [Quinter] Barely.

It'll go.

Alright, let's wire this baby up.

[slow techno music]

- [Narrator 1] Quinter takes to the switches

to begin the test, while Eric cowers with expectation

inside the bull's belly.

- One hat Eric, one hat man.

- [Eric] Uh oh chains are too short.

- [Ed] Just move the change down one link.

[electricity crackles]

- We're gonna find out what,

where the weak link is, if there is one.

If it breaks, that just means it needs to get fixed. Right?

- [Narrator 1] After the batteries are hooked up,

and some last minute adjustments,

the sleeping bull finally comes to life.

[rock music]

[men yell]

- I am like so scared right now.

- [Jesse James] Don't do it.

Make Quinter do it.

[men laugh]

- [Quinter] Huh?

- [Chad] Up in this, hey this is all dust, huh?

- [Quinter] Yeah.

- [Narrator 1] The Ranchero just shook off



After the dust settles, they make an unsettling discovery.

- This cable broke.

We knew it was gonna break. It's too thin.

- [Ed] Got the rims ready. Lemme try.

- I don't know.

How 'bout those tires going flat, dude.

- [Ed] I know. One of those is leaking.

- [Narrator 1] One of the tires is coming off the rim.

Chad tries to put it back on.

[pressurized air blows]

- Let's see if I can do it like this.

I don't know. I don't get it.

[pressurized air blows]

- [Quinter] No, no, don't pipe it like that.

- You guys can do this?

You know what you're doin'.

- Here. Pull up and turn.

There it is right there.

Oh no, we got it.

- [Narrator 1] To keep the Ranchero's frame

from breaking while it dances,

they need to strap it down to its new steel braces.

If they don't, the bucking will stop here.

- We're putting on our nice new and improved beefy straps.

Yeah, instead of the shoestrings.

We're not using our shoes strings.

- [Eric] Yeah where's our shoestring that they gave us?

- [Quinter] Right there.

- There we go. See the difference?

- [Quinter] Yeah. - [Eric] Yeah.

- [Quinter] This will hold up a telephone pole.

This will hold up your computer stand.

- [Narrator 1] The moment of truth is getting close

and Chad is showing a bit less bravado.

- I haven't ever used a helmet to ride bulls yet.

I've been thinking about doing it for a while.

But sh**t, this needs to, I mean, before

we didn't even think about Chad getting on this thing,

that's not the problem. This thing needs fixed.

This needs to be covered with metal,

needs to be freaking have some pad on it.

- [Ed] You, you said you weren't gonna fall,

so we wanted to put some spikes.

- I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about, nevermind.

- [Narrator 1] Is the cool and c*ck cowboy

showing signs of stress?

- Well, you got up there and sat on it and looked around

and it's like, wow, this is insane.

Who talked me into this?

Man, I must be getting paid a lot

but I'm not.

Can you imagine that?

- Can you weld today?

- Yeah, what do you need?

- We're gonna weld this wire, that wire mesh on there.

- [Ed] Oh, the one over there?

- Yep.

- Let's cut it. I'll weld it.

Or I can put it on first and we'll just trim it.

- Okay.

- Piece of cake. I'll do a good job.

[rock music]

- [Chad] We don't have enough material.

- [Narrator 1] Nervous or not,

Chad's ready to mount his monster

and grab this Ranchero by the horns.

[rock music]

[banjo music]

Jesse built some horn mounting plates

for the Ranchero's hood.

- Perfect.

What the hell?

- Come on cuz.

- It's more aerodynamic.

This is east of the Mississippi.

This is west of the Mississippi. What do you think?

- [Eric] Those are some serious horns.

- Should we flip a coin?

Heads forward, tails backwards.

Forward.

- [Eric] Watch the Naugahyde.

[upbeat music]

- [Jesse James] Cool.

- [Quinter] Hey, you're not gonna get scared

and not get on right?

- [Chad] No.

- Alright dude.

[men yelling]

- All right, look out buddy. You'll get run over.

- [Jesse James] Hang on the headlight.

- [Quinter] Oh, we got a problem back here.

- I think the best thing you could do is

just think of it as a bull.

- Yeah.

- Don't think of it as a big huge car,

'cause I think that might throw you off.

Did you ever see Pee-wee's Big Adventure?

- [Chad] Unfortunately.

[Jesse James mimics Pee-Wee's Big Adventure]

- That's what I'm visualizing. Sorry.

I just don't know you that well.

Like super slow mo.

- [Chad] I don't think so brother.

- [Narrator 1] This tiny bit of bucking

has already broken one of the hydraulic fittings.

- Do we have that fitting Mac?

- [Narrator 1] The team still has some time,

so they hop on the job.

[metal clatters]

- Told you about the weak links, right? Gotta find 'em.

We want this thing to work for months and months and months.

Not just 2 days.

Like all the rest of the projects around here.

[men yell]

A little bit of fire.

- What the hell? That ain't no damn bull.

- [Narrator 1] Chad ties up the loose ends on this bull,

literally. He's got his game face on

and he's ready for a good hard bucking.

- [Chad] Ow.

[upbeat music]

- This is bull riding equipment.

This is a pair of chaps right here,

they're more for show than anything.

So cowboys can put their sponsors' logos on the side of 'em.

A little bit of protection. Not much.

You don't have to have a pair of chaps to ride bulls.

You don't have to have a vest either.

But it's a pretty good idea.

Vest is made with hard plastic on the outside.

Velcro's together in case a bull's horn gets stuck in there,

it'll break free. You know what I mean?

Instead of packing you around the arena for too far.

A bull stepped on my back right here about chilled me.

But, you know, it happens.

This deflects it,

instead, it'll cushion it as well as make it blow off ya.

This is a bull rope. This is what goes around the animal.

In this case the Ranchero.

This end goes through the loop, comes back through,

hold onto it like that.

This pair of spurs is what we use on bulls, as you can see,

they're dull, very dull.

They do not cut through bull's skin.

Bull's skin is 7 times the thickness of ours.

About like this right here. That ain't doing nothing.

All it is is to get a a hold,

so your feet don't blow past ya.

I might not even need the spurs,

but we'll see after I watch.

[Chad laughs]

- [Narrator 1] The Ranchero is herded over

to West Coast Choppers.

The Rumble Kings are on hand

to provide musical entertainment

for the first annual Long Beach Low rider Rodeo.

- We have paramedics.

- [Chad] Let's get it on.

- [Narrator 1] The man of the hour arrives

and bets are placed.

- I said he is on for at least, or he's just gonna stay on.

- [Eric] I got 500 for Quinter to get on it.

- Oh, I don't think so brother.

Gotta take double that.

- You workin' at Chippendales after this?

- [Narrator 1] As Chad ties on his bull rope,

the reticent Ranchero cops a little attitude.

[men laugh]

- Well all right make it sit up.

That's fun, man. That's funny.

- [Jesse James] What are you doing?

- [Quinter] Just, something just took over.

- [Jesse James] He's gonna ride it.

[jazz music]

- Yeah.

- Ah. It's not natural man. It's not natural.

- [Jesse James] Okay.

- The way I'm set up, mentally-

- [Jesse James] We'll go for it 8 seconds.

- Yeah, I'm set up for 8 seconds

and then after that my body kind of quits

'cause I'm used to it.

- [Jesse James] Alright, are you guys hearing that?



- Grab the damn bonds be watchin'.

[Quinter laughs]

- [Crowd Member] You've got the power.

- [Quinter] Hey, we're gonna do all 4.



- [Chad] Hey. Hey. Right here.

Quinter, you say go and then everybody will count.

- [Crowd Member] You've got the power.

- [Jesse James] Down from 8.

[Ranchero clanks]

[crowd cheers]

- [Narrator 1] The the bull bucks, the monster lives,

and Chad survives the test. It's all good.

The team gets their just rewards.

- Look at that. Done early. Quinter, call this shot.

Mac,

Eric.

- Thanks.

- [Jesse James] Big Chad.

Got some Mac tools.

- [Eric] Sweet.

- [Jesse James] Monster Garage CDs, guys good job.

- Wish Rob was here.

- He'll say something smug like, I knew it was nothing.

[all laugh]

Good job guys.

- [Chad] Thanks.

- [Narrator 1] Jesse goes over the paint plan

with guest painter Mike Lavallee.

He's a custom airbrush master from Everett, Washington.

- Yeah, I like that. Then the back ends of the bull.

- [Mike] Yeah.

[upbeat music]

- [Narrator 1] Using projected images,

Mike makes this bull mad and bad.

Say hello to the Low Bull Rider.

Yeehaw!

[upbeat music]

- [Narrator 2] Monster Garage Factoid:

In 1956, a new California law stated,

"no part of the vehicle can be lower

than the lowest part of the rim".

Using surplus parts from World w*r II fighter planes,

Ron Aguirre invented low rider hydraulics.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

- [Big Swag] Hello again. Monster Buckaroos.

Big Swag here along with my trusty sidekick,

Frankie Whiteside. How's it going, partner?

- [Frank Whiteside] Great Swagman!

We're here at the Yucca Valley Grub Stake Day's

Honeycutt Rodeo.

It's where the Cowboys come to test their mettle.

- [Big Swag] That's right Frank,

and we're here to test our metal, our metal monster.

- [Frank Whiteside] It looks like a great crowd today, Swag.

- [Big Swag] And they're here for just one reason, pal.

- They love it. They love Jesse James.

- Show 'em your tattoo.

We're proud of that one.

- [Frank Whiteside] Swag, you may find this hard to believe,

but this is my very first rodeo.

- [Big Swag] You gotta be kidding me, Frank.

- [Announcer] That's got to hurt.

- [Big Swag] The rodeo's got it all.

Good old fashioned butt kicking competition.

You got Bronco bustin',

steer wrestlin', calf ropin', pretty gals and

what the hell is that?

The other thing they got is bulls. Spine cracking bulls.

- [Frank Whiteside] Whoa, that dude looks like

he woke up on the wrong side of the stall.

- In my opinion, riding bulls would be

the craziest thing you could do in rodeo.

It's not if, it's how bad and when you get hurt.

- [Frank Whiteside] Swag, I guess a good bull ride

is when you only get hurt a little.

- [Big Swag] I think our monster bull

is comin' into the ring, Frank.

- Where's that wild bull at?

- [Announcer] Feast your eyes on the world's only



Ford Ranchero

Low Bull Rider.

[crowd cheers]

- [Frank Whiteside] Check out the horns.

- [Announcer] What do you think of that?

- [Big Swag] I'd get the hell out of the way if I heard

that bull barin' down on me.

But Frank, where's Jesse?

- [Announcer] Jesse James unfortunately

cannot be here today.

He's recovering from a shoulder operation.

- [Frank Whiteside] Well, that answers that.

- [Big Swag] Who's that big dude?

- [Frank Whiteside] That's Quinter Pittillo.

- [Big Swag] Is he gonna ride it?

- [Frank Whiteside] He'll be riding the switches.

- [Big Swag] Thank God for the bull's sake pal.

- [Frank Whiteside] There'll be 2 brave cowboys

testing their skills on the Low Bull Rider.

And we're playing by the rules in this one.

They'll just need to hang on for 8 long seconds.

- [Big Swag] Looks like cowboy number 1 is ready to rock.

Oh yeah.

- [Announcer] 8 seconds on a monster.

- [Big Swag] Ride 'em cowboy. Yeehaw!

Let's shake, rattle and roll, Frank.

- [Frank Whiteside] Cowboy number 1 is

pumping the Low Bull Rider.

[crowd cheers]

Check it out Swag. That cowboy lost his hat.

- [Big Swag] And the Low Bull Rider,

lost his big brass bells.

- Uh oh. That's not good.

- [Big Swag] Cowboy number 1 seemed to like it.

- If they want, they can park that in my house

and then it'd be good practice.

- [Frank Whiteside] It's cowboy number 2's turn.

- [Big Swag] Quinter's got the switches. It's showtime.

- [Frank Whiteside] Look at this cow dude.

He's all over it.

- [Big Swag] Oh yeah. He's diggin' those spurs in.

This cow pokes got game.

- [Frank Whiteside] He's beating it with his hat Swag.

[upbeat music]

[indistinct]

[crowd cheers]

- [Big Swag] These dudes brought the rodeo.

Yucca Valley Cowboys, Monster Garage salutes you.

This monster has no time for big hats and no cattle,

big snakes and no rattle, and broken ball giants.

We got metal to burn, sparks to fly.

The next Monster Garage Challenge is just

around the bend.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage.

♪ Monster, Monster.

[Discovery Channel theme sounds]