- [Announcer] Hear ye, hear ye,
Lord Jesse the Monster Slayer has been toiling away
with his Knights of the Garage
to launch another chapter of mechanical mayhem.
Pull up your drawbridge,
gather your sweaters and maidens and duck
because "Monster Garage" is in the house. [laughing]
[glass shattering]
[dramatic music]
- [Narrator] 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."
[grunge music]
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster
- Something's buggin' Jesse.
Mr. Intensity's tractor beam stare
is locked on the target.
- I absolutely despise waiting for something.
By the time I've waited and waited for a week,
I coulda probably made it myself.
- [Narrator] This week's challenge,
turn a 1998 Chevy P1000 step van
into the ultimate as*ault delivery vehicle.
The rules, when built, the machine must appear to be stock.
The team can spend no more than $3,000
in hard 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, they race.
If successful, the team walks away
with a $3,400 set of Mac tools,
and the clock starts now.
[glass shattering]
[hard rock music]
[truck engine rumbling]
The Mac truck arrives fully loaded,
but the last thing Jesse the tool fanatic wants
in his Mac tools truck today is tools.
Out they all go.
- I guess this makes me the Mac daddy.
- [Narrator] The design team meets their general,
Postmaster Jesse James.
- [Jesse] All right, guys.
The problem in front of us is trying to make something
that delivers packages and mail faster.
So, I think we need to make a cannon
that would launch it straight outta the side.
So, if you're driving straight down the street
and the houses are right here, it's do do do do do.
- What if you had a series of about 10 barrels
that just rotate it out,
and you've delivered 10 newspapers at the same time?
- If it's mobile and you can stand up there,
and you're the actual turret,
grab one load and then do do do do do...
- But, for every action,
there's a direct and opposite reaction.
Every time it thumps a package out, it thumps you back.
[Jesse groaning]
- [Narrator] Dave Norris designs and makes air cannons,
those cool hot dog and tee shirt sh**ting bazookas
you see at sporting event.
- I would say the most favorite thing is
pullin' the trigger the first time,
and hearing the foomp,
and watching the tee shirt fly 100-150 feet.
- [Speaker] We'll just make a turret
that we can climb out and that way,
you can get up there and you can, you know,
aim it at whatever house you want.
- [Narrator] That's a good start.
- Okay.
- You know, my mindset's kinda on rapid though, you know,
if we're gonna actually take this thing
and be competitive with it.
- [Dave] With catapult technology,
there are lots of design variations.
People have been building catapults for 2,500 years.
[launcher popping]
- Look at that.
[dramatic music]
- [Narrator] Ron Toms makes a living by making catapults.
[launcher popping]
- I'm the world's largest manufacturer
of siege weaponry in miniature in the world.
[warrior laughing]
[dramatic music]
[catapult rumbling]
[rock smashing]
See, that's what I'm talkin' about.
- [Narrator] Ron has three steps to go from rapid to fire.
First, a device to sh**t envelopes
directly into a mailbox.
- Here's an idea for the envelopes.
This is based on the idea of a baseball pitching machine.
You take the envelopes and get the wheels goin'.
You sling 'em like that.
[wheels whirring]
- [Narrator] Next, get medieval on Mac,
with something that looks like a crossbow on steroids.
- This is a ballista.
What you can do with this is have it in the truck,
in the c*ck position.
The package is in it.
Then, it's ready to go.
Then, you just pull the trigger and it goes.
- [Narrator] Finally, for the big and bulky,
there's only one way to go, over the top.
- Like, if you had a heavy package
that needed to go up a long driveway
or somethin' like that,
we could pull this thing right up and do do do do.
[wheel rattling]
- [Narrator] With one of Ron's catapults,
a bowling ball becomes a deadly cannon ball.
[wood smashing]
[launcher popping]
- [Ron] It's to eliminate the walk, you know,
and deliver the packages straight to the door
without gettin' outta the truck.
- You know, with the way this thing's designed...
- [Ron] Careful, it's loaded.
- as far as, you know, so we can actually
build the A-frame part of it right inside here,
and make the back part of the roof lift off,
and it, wham, launch it forward.
- [Narrator] Ron has in mind a specific
type of catapult called a trebuchet.
- Now, a trebuchet is a type of catapult
that uses a counterweight on an arm.
There's a sling attached to the end of the arm,
and that sling pivots around the cannon
and throws the projectile.
[projectile thudding]
Except for the ceiling. [laughing]
- [Narrator] The arsenal's all set.
Time to sweeten the pot.
Jesse likes eye candy.
- My rule of thumb, everything's always better with flames.
- [Dais] Yeah.
- [Narrator] Design artist, Dais Nagao,
was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.
He graduated from the Pasadena Design Center,
and quickly landed his dream job.
- I design motorcycles for Honda.
[engine rumbling]
- Woo, where'd you learn to draw flames at?
- Jesse James Bike.
[men laughing]
[engine rumbling]
[percussive music]
- [Narrator] This design is locked and loaded.
[g*n firing]
For small packages, they will use the air cannon,
for medium-size packages, the crossbow-like ballistas,
[bionic music]
for large packages, the trebuchet.
Their big and roomy Mac truck just got very crowded,
and the kinds of items they'll be delivering?
- Really fragile.
- I think a nice box o' china.
- Bowling ba*ls are good.
- Hot lead.
- Flaming pots o' tar.
- Impress the kids o' the neighborhood
and launch a few hot dogs to 'em.
They'd be impressed by that.
- Cool, I think we got it nailed.
Pretty confident on this one.
Usually, I'm the...
- [Ron] [laughing] You're the skeptic.
- I'm the skeptic.
[dramatic music]
- [Narrator] The lone skeptic rides off
in an ear-shattering roar of approval.
[engine rumbling]
[dramatic music]
[sign slamming]
Day Two, 6:00 am.
Jesse has assembled five monster mechanics,
eager to put their stamp on the Mac truck.
[jackhammer rat-a-tatting]
Jim Farley, from Reno, Nevada,
monster truck mechanic and jaws of life operator.
[jackhammer rat-a-tatting]
Paul Campbell from Santa Monica, California,
plastic surgery nurse and human customizer.
[jackhammer rat-a-tatting]
J'me Whitlock, from Costa Mesa, California, welding diva.
[jackhammer rat-a-tatting]
Continuing from the design team, Dave Norris
from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, air cannoneer.
[jackhammer rat-a-tatting]
And Ron Toms, from Sherman Oaks, California,
king of all catapults.
[jackhammer rat-a-tatting]
With the build team in place,
it's now a race against time.
[clock ticking]
- [Jesse] This is the deal.
We're gonna make the ultimate delivery truck.
This, to me, is just work.
If you guys [bleep] around and do, you know,
stupid [bleep] on camera, these guys don't care.
They're gonna make you look like an a*s on TV, you know.
It's gotta be workin' together as a team,
and we gotta, like, start right now
and treat every day like it's our last day.
- [Narrator] To speed up the process,
Jesse appoints Dave and Ron as the team leaders.
- Both set up in two different groups.
One start working on the air cannon.
- Good idea.
- And one will start constructing the catapult.
- [Narrator] First things first,
it's time to gut the box on the delivery truck.
[drill whirring]
[drill whirring]
[metal rattling]
[grungy music]
[metal clunking]
[metal banging]
- [J'me] Woo! Those are ladies boots.
Those are girls' boots.
- [Jesse] No, they're not.
- [J'me] They have frills on them. That's funny.
They're totally girl boots. They are. [laughing]
[grunge music]
[pieces smashing]
[pieces slamming]
[pieces slamming]
- [Worker] Oh yeah.
[panels tearing]
[panels banging]
[drill whirring]
[grunge music]
[wood rattling]
- [Narrator] Ron wades through the wreckage
and scores some spare change.
- [Ron] We found 25, 35, 39 cents in the truck.
- [Narrator] Just enough for a postage stamp.
[rock music]
Ron hits the graph paper to design the monster catapult.
The big questions are, will they have enough time
and manpower to complete their mission?
- Back in the Middle Ages, they used to have, like,
So, we've got five people and five days.
I think the biggest challenge will be
staying friends with everybody. [laughing]
[funky music]
- [Narrator] Jim brings in the raw steel
needed for the catapult and the giant crossbow.
[metal plopping]
[rock music]
- In order to optimize our time,
we're gonna build it out here,
and then, we're gonna figure out how much
of the body of the truck we have to cut
in order to make it fit properly.
- [Narrator] The goal is to complete the trebuchet
by the end of the day.
[rock music]
[saw whinging]
[metal clunking]
- This is part of the base to the trebuchet.
This is going to be one of the sides of the trebuchet.
This will be the left side of the trebuchet.
Another one just like it'll be the right side.
And then, once we have those up,
we'll start welding cross-bases between them.
- We'll use these galvanized pieces.
I'll just come in and weld pieces in between them,
and knock the center out.
I'll do the roof and the floor
and figure out how to mount it...
- [J'me] All right.
- 'cause I think if we,
we gotta stay split up a little bit.
- Then, what we have to do is
we have to build a four-barrel launcher.
What I need you to do with your expert welding
is to start putting this barrel assembly together.
- Okay, I'm gonna cut 'em,
and then you can start welding them together.
We'll get this puppy done.
- Okay.
[funky music]
- [Narrator] Jim's cannon better be better than good.
It's going up against the fastest
paper boy in the West, Joe McMahon.
[dramatic music]
[launcher popping]
[launcher popping]
- So, these will go on here, and then we'll drill a hole,
and there'll be an axle through 'em.
So, we can rotate it, pull it back, launch it,
rotate it to the next barrel.
There'll be four, and just continue to do that,
and as you get somebody stuffin' 'em on one side
and somebody shootin' 'em on the other.
- [Narrator] Jim Farley is a man of many talents,
mechanically speaking.
- I work on all aspects o' the truck,
engines, transmissions, rear ends,
electrical and minor body work.
I was brought up around race cars,
and my dad had his own repair facility.
It interested me, so that's the way I went.
I'm also a certified auto extrication specialist.
When people get into an accident
and they're trapped in their vehicle,
what you have to do is peel the car away from the person.
You cut the roofs off, the doors off.
You pull the steering columns to get the patient out.
[rock music]
- [Narrator] When he's not saving lives,
Jim builds hot rods,
his favorite car, a 1929 Model A Roadster.
[engine rumbling]
- Its a hand-built car.
It's all reproduction steel sheet metal,
but the frame and all the fabrication
is all done by my father and I.
[engine rumbling]
- That's a sweet ride, good job on that one.
- Thanks. - Well done, mate.
[men laughing]
- Got our springs, man.
- [J'me] Woo hoo!
- [Narrator] Ron's a happy guy.
The springs he needs for his catapult have arrived.
- [J'me] Woo hoo!
[rock music]
- These are the springs for the trebuchet.
This is what's going to give the trebuchet power.
Each one o' these springs puts about 300 pounds
of energy into the system, 300 foot pounds.
I need to know what their maximum extension is.
So, I'm gonna hang 'em from the rafters,
and start adding weight to 'em
until I find out how far they go.
[lively music]
Okay, come get on my back.
- [J'me] Really?
- Yeah.
- [J'me] Then, they're gonna tell me
I'm a tight weight on that, no?
- Yes. - No.
- [Ron] We'll figure it out.
- I don't want that. [laughing]
- [Ron] We can calculate it.
- Go.
[upbeat music]
Get the hell off me.
[Ron laughing]
- We'll assume that 3 feet is the maximum extension.
- [Narrator] Day Two is about to strike 12.
Before they head out, the team looks back.
- We need a plan meeting.
- [Worker] I'd like to see getting
this frame in here tomorrow.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- Close enough to being done.
- [Worker] Oh yeah.
- Get the warm done, get the springs on.
- [Jesse] I think we need to set some goals for ourselves
to get this thing done in five days.
- Well, I wanted to get the,
the frame of the trebuchet done today,
and we've got most of the frame done.
- Come in tomorrow, some cuts and welds and we're there.
- Then, we have to start on the ballista.
I'd like to finish the ballista frame tomorrow also.
- We are well on our way.
- Actually, the team worked together very well.
I was surprised by that.
- [Worker] With not knowing each other.
- [Ron] Yeah.
- We're well on our way.
- [J'me] I think we're ahead o' target.
- [Narrator] Their first skirmish in the garage
has the team smelling victory.
[drill whirring]
[saw whinging]
[torch sparking]
Day Two is in the out bin,
but the battle has just begun.
- [Actor] Saigon, surrender. [laughing]
you black-hearted, fish-feeling dog.
- Never, you filthy vulture.
[launcher banging]
- [Narrator] "Monster Garage" factoid,
trebuchets were used in the Middle Ages
to hurl plague-ridden corpses over castle walls,
the first recorded instance of biological warfare.
♪ Monster, monster garage
[dramatic music]
[torch sparking]
Day Three, good morning, team.
- Good morning.
- [Narrator] J'me arrives with a hand winch
purchased at a local hardware store.
[rock music]
- The winch is what we're going to use to c*ck the machine,
to actually, to actually crank the arm down.
Without a winch, it's gonna take
and that's not very safe
because if one person loses their grip,
slips, falls, lets go, it starts a chain reaction.
Next thing you know, two people are flyin'.
[launcher popping]
[person yelling]
[projectile thudding]
- [Narrator] Because of the spring's massive resistance,
the trigger is a critical part of the trebuchet.
Ron plans to use something called a pelican hook.
- [Ron] These are the heaviest duty
pelican hooks in the world.
For yachting applications, they use this
to hoist loads outta the yacht, for instance,
and when it's under a heavy load, how do they release it?
They pull this lever, and it just releases
out like that, and their load falls.
- [Narrator] It's simple.
Tug on the rope, the hook opens, and the arm is released.
The price of a pelican these days?
- I had to order these from a marine supply store,
a yachting supply store.
They're 50 bucks each.
[rock music]
Unless we want to custom-make triggers,
this is the only way to go.
- And those are nice and reliable and heavy duty.
- And they're shiny.
- Yeah.
[grunge music]
- [Narrator] Jim works on the four-barreled launcher,
and J'me describes what she's doing to the trebuchet.
- The welds that I'm doing are, of course,
extremely strong, over-building everything.
I'm just welding the snot out of it.
- [Narrator] J'me Whitlock is a single mother
who defies all stereotypes.
- As far as being feminine, I always kinda feel like
I've been somewhat of a tomboy,
but I'm not, like, butch, I guess you would call it.
But, I mean, I work around mostly all guys.
I'm pretty confident in what I do.
So, I don't feel like I have to try to prove myself.
- [Narrator] Welding sparked J'me's artistic side.
- I used to take all different kinds of, like, brake drums
and gears and funky pieces of metal
and I would make lamps.
Everybody loved them.
So, I started doing candlestick holders and ashtrays
and little people, and I would sell
all my stuff in a gallery,
and people paid a few hundred dollars for my lamps,
which was pretty gratifying to me, I guess, you know.
- [Narrator] Paul installs the final bracing.
[bass-heavy music]
They should be able to
test their catapult within the hour.
- I wanna have this finished by lunch.
- [Worker] Okay.
- And then...
- But, it won't do us any good
'cause Jesse James still hasn't showed up to cut the truck.
- I'll come in first thing in the morning
and start guttin' this.
- Maybe he plans on, like, doing an all nighter.
I don't know.
- We seem to be doin' all right without him.
Let's see what he says about it when he gets here.
- [Narrator] J'me's suffering from Jesse deprivation,
a common affliction to newcomers in the monster garage.
The crew takes matters into their own hands,
and cut the roof without him.
[saw whinging]
First, they cut through the fiberglass,
[saw whinging]
[funky music]
then add hinges.
[tool rat-a-tatting]
They rip through the rifts,
add support, and open.
- Okay, well, it opens, yeah.
[funky music]
It should go.
- [Worker] Yeah?
- Bitchin'.
- [Narrator] A few final welds
and the trebuchet frame is complete.
[torch sparking]
The throwing arm pivots perfectly.
Next, install the springs to power the arm.
- Nice.
- [Narrator] Ron's not happy with this winch.
It takes too long to crank.
He'll ask Jesse about it when he arrives.
- So, the most efficient use of our time
is to set this project aside,
get crackin' on the ballista, and then...
- And if Jesse doesn't like that,
then he can come here and tell me so.
- [Narrator] Does J'me really want
a shootout with Jesse James?
Maybe not.
Cramming so much delivery firepower inside the Mac truck
is giving Ron the fits.
- The question is, are we gonna have enough room
to be able to operate the ballista with it in here,
'cause it'll fit, but it's just gonna fit. [laughing]
- [Narrator] Ron returns to his calculations.
[grunge music]
Dave shaves the launcher barrels clean to avoid snags.
Like a snub-nosed 38 revolver,
each cylinder will rotate onto the firing chamber,
where a blast of compressed air
will deliver the news with tremendous force.
[grunge music]
- We're talkin' slick.
- That'll definitely work.
- Newspaper boys, watch out.
Pull it back, show 'em that index is right on there.
[machine clicking]
[machine clicking]
Reach it?
- [Narrator] The air g*n still needs to be tested.
They're just waiting for the CO2 tanks to be delivered.
- [Dave] Bueno, good, thank you.
- [Narrator] The design for the ballista is done.
The team can now go ballistic.
[grunge music]
[torch sparking]
[saw whinging]
[torch sparking]
[torch sparking]
The mother of all crossbows,
the ballista's arms extend out 8 feet each side.
- This is the ballista frame.
We're going to be putting our axles here for our arms.
The arms are gonna basically go,
go whack like that against the ends of these.
- [Narrator] This bad boy packs over a ton of wallop.
[projectile smashing]
The compressed air tanks have finally arrived,
gunpowder for their cannons.
[dramatic music]
- [Jim] Kick that thing along.
- [Dave] I am kicking it.
- [Narrator] Jim shows Dave the proper way to treat a tank.
[Jim laughing]
- [Dave] I don't wanna hurt it.
- [Narrator] Monster garage mantra,
if it's under pressure, dangerous
and able to explode, kick it.
[Dave groaning]
- Kickin' is for young kids.
Senior citizens do it safely.
[machine whinging]
- [Narrator] They'll use cardboard tubes
to simulate newspapers for the test.
[grunge music]
- We're not waitin' for anybody. This is a w*r.
[launcher popping]
[projectile bamming]
[launcher popping]
[projectile bamming]
You wanna sh**t it?
- Oh, you gotta aim at something better than that.
[launcher popping]
[projectile bamming]
[project bamming]
Oh!
[projectile bamming]
Woo!
[launcher popping]
[projectile bamming]
- Sweet.
- Well, I'm pretty sure it would work,
but it's always good to see that it works.
- [Narrator] Jesse suits up
and takes a look at his team's handiwork.
- Yeah, that looks cool.
Think we got an actuator for a trunk lid
that'll open it automatic, yeah.
- [Narrator] Ron's g*n shy about using the hand winch.
- I think the hand winch, like, keeps with that whole...
- Medieval feel of it?
- Yeah, do do do do do do do do do h*!
[launcher popping]
- [Speaker] Yeah.
[projectile thudding]
- All right, we'll put the hand winch on.
- [Narrator] Jesse still wants more monster
in his monster truck.
- You could make it scarier, you know.
Splatter red paint all over it,
and glue the heads off of baby dolls all over it,
and get some big speakers on the top
and play the theme from "Halloween."
Ch-ch-ch-ch, ahahaha, ch-ch-ch.
Just cruise around on low gear,
delivering fear to everybody that wants some.
[dramatic music]
- [Narrator] For the last 12 hours,
the team has gone full throttle
on their monster in the making.
Time to punch out.
Day 3 is yesterday's news.
[grunge music]
Monster garage factoid,
in 2001, the US postal service lost $3.1 billion.
The last time it showed a profit, the postmaster general
was Benjamin Franklin, the year, 1760.
♪ Monster, monster garage
[country music]
- Hi.
- [Narrator] Dave sails smoothly into Day 4,
[wheels rattling]
kind of.
[glass shattering]
Someone shows up in a dumb costume.
- Quack, quack, quack, quack.
- [J'me] Stop.
- [Narrator] And the henpecking begins.
- Stop! I'll pop you.
- Quack, quack.
- I'll pop you.
- Quack, quack, quack.
- [Narrator] The team settles down
and sets their goals for the day.
- By the end of the day today,
we can have the ballista at least in the truck,
if not fully mounted, and the trebuchet complete
outside o' the truck.
Then, that'll be a good day.
- Oh, a good day would be on the beach, frosty beverage,
- There you go.
- And...
- [Ron] And a bunch o' naked women.
- No, surrounded by pneumatic launchers of all sizes.
- Well, let's quit jabbering and get back to work.
- [Jim] I think that's a great idea.
- [Narrator] Time to bring out the g*n grande.
This big brother of the four-barreled launcher
will sh**t small and medium-size packages.
- What we have to do is take this plate.
This plate gets bolted on here.
- [Narrator] Jesse starts the day
with a plan for the exhaust.
- I'm thinkin' some big old stacks, just one big one,
comin' up the sideú, all the way up the top, vroom.
What do you think?
- [Speaker] Oh yeah.
- [Narrator] The rest of the team
wrangles the heavy ballista into position.
- This is gonna slide towards you about 4 inches.
- Hang on. Let me help.
[voices chattering]
- Hang on. Let me help [bleep].
- I gotta finish my donut.
- Oh my god, oh my god, that is so classic.
- Yeah, this stuff looks too nice for Monster Garage.
- Yeah, right.
- No, I'm serious.
- [Narrator] The powerful springs
need to go on the ballista,
and it takes a total team effort to get the job done.
[grunge music]
- Watch out now.
Okay. Schwing-a-ling-a-ling.
- [Narrator] The team tomboy can handle a broom.
- I'm a really good sweeper.
[broom swishing]
Ha, beep beep. - Okay, big step.
- Okay, let's take her in now.
- Actually, no, you can probably get this...
- [Narrator] The big question,
- corner around.
- [Narrator] will it fit?
- We could just stand it...
- No, cartwheel here.
Why don't we come in this way?
Why don't we lift our end up?
- Yeah.
- Okay, there you go.
Let's open the roof, open the roof.
[machine rattling]
- Okay. - Okay, clear.
- Clear!
- Okay.
[machine rattling]
- Oh, okay, I'm gonna run you over here.
[funky music]
[machine rattling]
- Okay, yeah.
[machine rattling]
- Okay, oops.
- Now, it's a good time to think about [indistinct].
- We shoulda just bought it as a factory option.
- Yeah.
[machine rattling]
- You're in a bad spot. You got it?
- You got it, Dave?
- I got it. [indistinct]
- Okay, there you go.
[machine rattling]
- That's it, and we'll do that side as well.
That's gonna be nice.
- [J'me] Sweet.
- [Narrator] It fits perfectly.
[voices chattering]
- What we need to do now is figure out
where we're gonna cut this hole.
We need to start building the base,
the base of the frame against that.
And then, once the hole's cut,
we need to install the trough
'cause it's gonna stick through the hole.
I hope this thing shoots more than 20 feet.
Well, it'd be nice.
- Oh, it's gonna sh**t a mile.
If you put a heavy box on here, it's gone.
[Ron laughing]
Lotsa power.
- [Narrator] The ballista's installed,
but will it deliver?
- I'm building a tray for the box to sh**t out of,
outta the ballista.
- [Narrator] A strange material has entered the garage.
Team member, Paul Campbell is pretty sure
it's something called wood.
[tool hammering]
Paul Campbell makes a living customizing people.
He's a plastic surgery nurse.
- I think you can look at the human body
and see where improvements can be made,
just as you can see about customizing a car.
- [Narrator] From people to cars,
his basic approach to life is hands on.
- Every car I've ever owned or driven, I've built myself,
cars, motorcycles, just recently,
I took a year and a half off and built my own house.
[warm guitar music]
I've actually worked with the doctor on an instrument.
He saw a problem with something.
We saw a way of getting around it.
So, I went ahead and drew it up,
and I now have a surgical instrument named after me.
- The Paul hook.
- The Campbell Lip Awl.
[rock music]
[torch sparking]
- [Narrator] The truck gets a new window,
but it's not for sight-seeing.
- [Paul] In the hole.
- [J'me] In the hole.
- How much more do we need?
- [Ron] Oh, that is way nice.
Okay, get the sh**ter.
- [J'me] Nice chute, dude, nice chute.
- [Narrator] It's time to test the ballista.
- Go full c*ck.
[machine whirring]
- [Narrator] An electric winch c*ck the crossbow.
[rock music]
The team takes cover.
- [Paul] Everybody ready?
- [J'me] Yep.
- [Paul] Hit it. Three, two, one...
[launcher blasting]
[workers laughing]
Woo! That thing went far.
- [Jim] Yeah, that come down here.
- [Ron] We need to put it just a little looser in there.
[voices chattering]
- [Paul] Did it hit the opening or what?
I think the box is gettin' air.
It's so light. It's getting a little air underneath it.
Try stickin' some weight in it and do it again.
Who wants to bet it works with weight in it?
- Well, we also got a smaller box.
I think the smaller box makes the bigger difference.
- [Paul] Oh, if you guys wanna use that
as your excuse, that's cool.
I'll let it slide.
Ron's very, very, very serious about trebuchets,
ballistas, all this stuff.
- We're arty.
- He's not up for any extra chit-chat or anything like that.
It's very serious business.
- I have ye old catapult.
[fanfare music]
[launcher blasting]
[Paul laughing]
- Ready?
[launcher blasting]
[projectile banging]
- We're almost there. - Oh, okay.
- [J'me] Now, what did it do?
- [Narrator] It has just the right
amount of power for Monster Garage...
[engine revving]
[projectile slamming]
too much.
- [Ron] We're crushing the box
when we try to launch it.
So, what we're gonna do is cut our power in half
and see, just to see what happens.
[voices chattering]
- [Narrator] Ron removes the top two springs.
[drill whirring]
- [Worker] Whoa.
- [Paul] Are we ready?
- [Ron] Ready.
[hand smacking]
What the hell?
- [Paul] Oh no. You've gotta be kidding me.
I'll get it. We ready?
[tool hammering]
- [J'me] Careful, Paul.
[tool hammering]
[launcher blasting]
Yeah!
[grunge music]
Yay, that was sweet.
[projectile banging]
- [Narrator] Monster Air Freight has been launched.
- [Ron] It went over the rafter
and came down on top of the truck.
- So, how far are we there? 20 feet, 30 feet?
- It's gonna go...
- [J'me] It's gonna go 50 feet.
- 60?
- It's gonna hit the ground about 60-70 feet, yeah.
- [Worker] Perfect, yeah.
- Perfect.
- Good, like to see the first project in
and goin' and workin', it's wonderful.
- That means we've got two
[voices chattering]
outta the five things done.
- [Narrator] Now, Dave is under the g*n
for Launcher Number 3.
- Well, I think I've got the big cannon finished,
but I have to do some little tune-up to it.
Because we're putting a square peg in a round hole,
we have a lot of area around the box
that doesn't get sealed, and when it's not sealed,
the pressure just goes past it.
- [Narrator] He tries gift-wrapping the box monster-style.
[rock music]
It goes in,
[downbeat music]
and doesn't come out.
Paul has an idea.
[upbeat music]
- Aren't you clever?
[machine whinging]
- [Narrator] A styrofoam plug will trap the blast of air.
[upbeat music]
[launcher blasting]
[projectile banging]
- [Dave] Good.
- [Narrator] The hand winch is welded onto the trebuchet.
Their massive, steel catapult is ready to go in.
- Three, two, yeah.
[metal rattling]
[wheels squeaking]
[rock music]
That's it.
[metal clanging]
[trebuchet sliding]
Yeah, Dave.
- Door.
[trebuchet dragging]
- That's it.
- [Ron] That door ain't gonna close like this.
- Well, we just gotta knock at the door.
- [J'me] Yeah.
- [Narrator] After a little encouragement,
monster garage-style...
[tool whirring]
[hammer whamming]
the Mac truck has a new delivery tool.
[upbeat music]
- Check this guy out.
- Uh...
- Come on, no, like seriously.
Oh my, wow, hi, baby.
I'm workin' with that guy. [laughing]
[upbeat music]
Oh jinkies, who'd o' known?
He's just Paul, but take off his shirt
and he's Paul. [laughing]
- [Narrator] Jesse's back from a shopping spree
with a load of goodies.
- I went to the trucker place.
I got all kinds o' good stuff.
[bag clunking]
- [Narrator] It's the makings for a monster smokestack.
[rock music]
- Right on! - Hey, hey!
- Oh yeah, baby.
[plastic crinkling]
- [J'me] Didn't have this one chrome, did they?
- Yeah, didn't have chrome, but that'll...
- Yeah, it looks bitchin'.
- [Narrator] Their shift is winding down.
- Pretty much.
- This thing better be bolted and working
to the best of our ability without breakin' your house.
- Yeah, and then just needs to tune it.
We just need, we're gonna have to get somewhere
where we can tune that trebuchet.
- Yeah.
- [Paul] We need to get it outta...
- Tuning the trebuchet, it's gonna be a big job.
- Yeah.
- So, we're gonna need all day Friday to do the testing.
So, if we're not finished by the end of the day tomorrow,
it's gonna affect our ability to tune the machine properly.
- [Narrator] Day 4's shot.
Time to go home and reload.
[grunge music]
Look out. Jesse's got a package for you.
So, stay tuned. Your signature will be required.
♪ Monster, monster garage.
Day 5 finds the team in good shape.
So far, it's been nothing but bulls-eyes
for these sharp shooters.
All the weapons are built and the talk is pretty c*ck.
- Let's undo everything we did yesterday,
and start over with Day 2.
- Okay, 'cause we are that far ahead.
[record needle scratching]
- [Narrator] But, it's a little too early
for pats on the back.
- We can't forget 'cause I know
we all keep forgetting about it.
We got that envelope sh**ter we gotta build also.
- Oh yeah. - That's right.
- So, that's, yeah, it's a small machine,
but it's just as important as the others.
- Who, who has the design for that?
- I do.
- You have the design, but we have to figure it out?
- I'll figure it out. You guys build it.
[downbeat music]
Originally, it was just gonna be a flat plate
with two wheels on it and a channel
that you put an envelope in,
and you put the envelope in the channel.
Slide it into the wheels,
and the wheels grab it and phew.
[wheels whirring]
Simple machine, you know.
This is the one, because it's so simple,
it's being left till the last minute.
- [Narrator] Dave has no problem
with the letter b*mber, just the designer.
- I'd like to cut an inch offa this.
This needs to be under the edge of the tire.
- I like the length it is now personally.
- Why?
- I just think it'll work better.
See, the envelope's sitting on the
- All right, look at that. - on that,
so if you cut an inch off here, we're okay.
- [Ron] Watch this, watch this.
Dave has a different approach than I do,
and there's a little bit o' friction sometimes.
- [Dave] Basically, you weld the pin on the side.
If it's too far away, you whack the pin,
it bends the tire a little bit.
- If we bend the tires so that
they're not parallel with each other.
It's gonna change the way it works.
- [Dave] Yeah, well, how many have you built?
Exactly the same I've built, I'm sure.
- Well, I know it's gonna change the way it works.
- Ron just has a bossy attitude sometimes,
and I think the team is a very non-boss-needed team.
- I honestly don't know what he's got going on here,
but if we don't figure this out today, we'll be behind.
And we gotta get this done today.
All right then.
- [Narrator] Jim's heard enough back and forth.
He starts building the letter blaster.
- [Jim] Something level would be helpful, but...
- I got a level head.
- Yeah.
- [J'me] The only one.
[torch sparking]
[grunge music]
[voices chattering]
[wheel whirring]
- [Narrator] After 20 minutes of whining
and five minutes of welding, it's ready to sh**t.
[men laughing]
- [Jesse] It's gonna hurt.
[machine whirring]
[letter whooshing]
- [J'me] Woo, yay, yay, yay.
[grunge music]
[voices chattering]
- [Narrator] The letters fly out.
[letter smashing]
Jesse sends his replies.
- That's not scaring anybody.
Ooh, the mail!
[voices chattering]
It's stupid.
- [Narrator] This is one mail carrier
that will not get through.
- The cool factor just isn't there.
I'm making the executive decision to nix it.
I just wanna put a TV in this and launch it.
- [Narrator] Dave moves on to mount
the air g*ns and cannons.
- We moved the pneumatic launcher from the front to the rear
because we calculated with the swing of the trebuchet,
and Ron's ballista, that anybody in front of
either units would become a paraplegic.
[projectile whamming]
- Yeah!
- And besides, I like the name tail gunner better.
- [Narrator] Every cannon needs a turret,
and Dave slices a hole outta the Mac truck roof.
[bass-heavy funk music]
- [Dave] One up.
- [Narrator] The g*ns are ready for battle.
Next, this cat needs room to pult,
and the roof needs help to open.
- [Dave] This is our friend, the linear actuator.
We're gonna use it to go ahead and lift the roof up.
[rock music]
[metal clanging]
- Pushin' from this side is never gonna open this thing.
- Couldn't we just use the old Manuel method
and shove it over?
One guy at one end, one guy at the other end,
we both shove it and it flops over?
- If we had a hell bar or something
that comes up over to here...
- Well, since it's the roof,
and nobody on the ground is gonna be
seeing the roof anyway, I don't see why
we can't just lose that whole panel.
- The idea is to look stock.
[grunge music]
- [Narrator] The team's turned down a dead end.
Jesse arrives and sheds light on their darkness.
- Yeah, too much bull [bleep].
Keep it simple.
Once you mount it right here to a bracket,
it'll go about right here.
- That'll go from the center of...
- Yeah, this'll lift, like, 300 pounds.
- [J'me] Are you ready?
- Yeah, I'm close.
[torch sparking]
[bass-heavy music]
[torch sparking]
- Okay, electricity.
- [J'me] We have liftoff.
[roof door whirring]
- [Ron] Let's just hope it goes far enough.
- [J'me] Woo! We have it.
That is it. - Stop.
- [Narrator] The ultimate as*ault delivery
vehicle needs armor.
This comes in the form of diamond plate.
[sheet sliding]
[sheet plopping]
[voices chattering]
- We're gonna be drivin' through
some pretty dangerous neighborhoods.
We're gonna be sh**ting things at these houses,
and we're afraid that maybe
some o' these houses are gonna sh**t back.
That's what it's for.
[funky music]
[machine hissing]
[machine hissing]
- [Narrator] The diamond plate is solid aluminum
and 1/16-inch thick,
strong enough to withstand any as*ault
on the monster air cargo truck.
[funky music]
- [J'me] Yes!
[tool whizzing]
[tool hammering]
- More.
- We're done. Seal it, we're done.
[funky music]
[tool whizzing]
[took sparking]
- [Narrator] The final touch, Jesse's monster smokestack.
[rock music]
- That's so dumb, they'll burn their arm on it.
- [Narrator] At the end of Day 5,
the Mac truck is looking very monstrous,
but if it doesn't pass tomorrow's firing tests,
they're just blowing smoke.
[grunge music]
[engine rumbling]
Day 6, the final touches go on their as*ault vehicle.
- Just got here and all we have to do
is a very few, little touchin' up things,
and apparently, we're gonna add a couple more springs here.
- [Narrator] Ron decides to put
even more springs on the catapult.
[metal clattering]
- Don't do this at home.
This is very dangerous.
You know, there's a lotta power here.
There's enough power here to throw
a 50-pound object a hundred feet,
and that's enough power to rip somebody's head clean off.
- They have been a little bit worried about the whole thing,
only because, the master is a little bit concerned.
We have doubts, so, you know...
- I've never built a spring-powered machine
this big before, so, you know,
there's always, there's always questions,
things that maybe I forgot to consider.
I mean, it's possible that
we'll have some unexpected results.
- [Narrator] The team is nervous.
Their trebuchet is big, powerful and untested.
- What are we waitin' for?
- [Ron] Jesse.
- Jesse.
- [Ron] I think we're waitin' for Jesse.
- [Dave] Jesse.
- [Worker] I think we're waitin' for Jesse.
- Well, we ready? Yeah.
- Oh boy.
- Oh yeah. - Oh yeah.
- They moved the mirrors down
so you can see out of the corner sides.
- [Narrator] Jesse heads out to the proving grounds.
[funky music]
[engine rumbling]
Before firing off a shot,
he puts his monster through the paces.
[engine rumbling]
Jesse avoids any obstacle thrown in his path,
unless it's something that begs to be hit.
[vehicle ramming]
[rock music]
[engine rumbling]
[funky music]
- [laughing] This thing handles the traffic
circle too. - I know.
[funky music]
[tool whirring]
- [Narrator] The testing begins.
- Two, one...
[launcher popping]
- [Narrator] Up first, the ballista.
- [Jesse] Woo!
- [Narrator] Check.
- Is it my turn yet?
[grunge music]
Yo, Jesse.
[g*n firing]
- [Narrator] The Gatling g*n passes muster.
The cannon works, but it could use a little more mustard.
[grunge music]
[winch winding]
Now, for the main event.
It's time for the big dog to deliver the goods.
- Three, two, one...
[launcher blasting]
- Oh!
[glass shattering]
- Oh no. - Oh!
- We have to get an expert in here.
See what's goin' on.
[dramatic music]
- [Narrator] He's gotta be careful.
The spring-loaded weapon
is jammed and extremely dangerous.
could release at any moment,
turning the cable into a head-smashing, steel whip.
- We gotta get the pipe outta there
before that thing fires.
- It's not on there.
[pipe whacking]
[pipe scraping]
[pipe whacking]
[pipe whacking]
[metal clanging]
- Watch this.
[men laughing]
[pipe whacking]
[pipe whacking]
[pipe scraping]
[pipe scraping]
[pipe scraping]
- [Worker] Whoa!
[men laughing]
What?
- [Worker] Whoa, we have liftoff.
[people cheering]
[launcher blasting]
- [J'me] Woo hoo!
- [Narrator] The trebuchet is a smashing success.
[people cheering]
Their monster has passed the test.
[grunge music]
Now, it's tool time for the monster Mac tool team.
- All right.
- Look at these.
- Look at this.
- You guys did awesome.
Got some Mac tools for ya, "Monster Garage" CDs.
- Awesome. - Awesome.
- Good job, guys.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, Jess.
[Jesse laughing]
- Don't, don't hurt him.
- Don't ya hate those people that, like,
shake your hand too long.
You're like, get off me.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- [Narrator] Later that night, Tom Pruitt
of of Damon's Motorcycle Creations
gives the ultimate delivery truck the monster makeover.
- We're gonna lay on about six to eight coats
of the Blue Blood Red from House of Color.
It's possibly the most pure red pigment in the world.
[paint g*n spraying]
And we're gonna top it off
with about six to eight coats of clear.
[paint g*n spraying]
And who knows?
I might even throw in a little bit of Red Ice Pearl on that
just for, just for good measure.
- [Narrator] The transformation is complete.
Behold, Monster Air Cargo has arrived,
and it's ready to deliver the goods.
Monster Garage factoid,
last year, 17% of the US population moved,
resulting in 44 million change of address requests.
♪ Monster, monster garage
- [Schwag] Hello, Monster fans.
The Big Schwag here with my posse of one, Frankie Whiteside.
How ya doin', Frankie?
- [Frankie] Just great, Schwag.
It's a beautiful morning down in LBC,
and we're waiting for the start
of another Monster Garage challenge.
But Schwag, where is Jesse James?
[engine rumbling]
- [Schwag] Can't you hear that rumblin'?
I'll tell you where he is.
Jesse James is roarin' into this quiet neighborhood
in a righteous, red delivery truck, return to sender.
[engine rumbling]
[brakes squealing]
[engine revving]
Oh-oh, it looks like a showdown,
shades of the OK Corral.
Jesse's had enough of wet newspapers and late packages.
He's out to teach someone a lesson.
- What is that, man?
- That's my truck. [laughing]
Let's go.
- [Schwag] The challenge is on.
The fastest paperboy in the West
and the man in blue and his little white truck
versus Jesse James and
the ultimate as*ault delivery vehicle,
Monster Air Cargo.
The rules are simple.
Whoever delivers the most packages and papers
down this quarter mile stretch
of residential racetrack wins.
[engine rumbling]
- And they're off.
[engine rumbling]
[grunge music]
Jesse lowers the hammer and the Mac truck zooms out first,
but the kid's a gamer.
He fires off the first few papers.
- [Frankie] Nice arm.
Joe McMahon, remember that name.
- [Schwag] Stop the presses. What's that?
- [Frankie] It's a newspaper Gatling g*n, Schwag.
- [Schwag] Whoa, Jesse's launching papers left and right.
Check out that accuracy, Frankie.
Go, Jess, Jess, Jess, Jess, Jess.
- [Frankie] The man in blue is R-Ring it, Schwag,
running and ringing.
- [Schwag] He looks pretty determined, Frank.
- [Frankie] Hey, Schwag, look.
- [Schwag] The Mac truck's pumped a new porthole.
You gotta be kidding me.
Incoming!
[packages plopping]
[launcher popping]
[projectile smashing]
[engine rumbling]
- [Frankie] The little white truck
has plenty under the hood,
but the man in blue meets a four-legged dead-end.
[tires skidding]
Paperboy lays down a perfect roadie
and throws a perfect strike.
[launchers popping]
Jesse's carpet-bombing the street.
Bad news for the kid.
It's rainin' papers, yeah!
[launchers popping]
That's it for the paperboy named Joe.
Keep your head up, kid.
- [Schwag] Jesse versus deliveryman, goin' truck to truck.
- [Frankie] The man in blue is trying,
but he's tripping over his own two feet.
- [Schwag] D'oh!
[launchers popping]
[packages thudding]
- [Schwag] Jesse goes for the k*ll.
[launchers popping]
[packages thudding]
- It's a bombardment. - It's a barrage.
[launchers popping]
[packages thudding]
And a slam dunk for Jesse and the Mac truck.
Game over.
- [Frankie] The paperboy named Joe
and the man in blue have been bested by the best there is,
Jesse James of Monster Air Cargo.
- Ha ha.
[downbeat music]
- [Schwag] But, Jesse's got one last
very special delivery to make, Frank.
- [Frankie] He's not getting through those pearly gates.
[engine rumbling]
[engine revving]
Looks like the big Mac's got a sunroof.
[engine revving]
[grunge music]
- [Schwag] Wait a minute. Who's that, Frank?
- [Schwag] That's the only person left
in the United States who hasn't seen "Monster Garage."
[grunge music]
Schwag, look, it's a TV in a trebuchet.
- [Schwag] That's easy for you to say, pal.
[launcher blasting]
Incoming!
[glass shattering]
Oh, you gotta be kiddin' me.
- [Frankie] Now, that's what I call Direct TV.
- [Schwag] Let's see a little instant monster replay.
[glass shattering]
[grunge music]
There's no time for snail mail and bad reception
because there's metal to burn and sparks to fly.
The next Monster Garage challenge
is just around the bend.
[engine rumbling]
[grunge music]
[grunge theme music]
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
♪ Monster, monster garage
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02x05 - Delivery Truck
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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."