- [Voiceover] Yes, Virginia.
There is a monster garage.
- On the first day of Christmas
My true love game to me.
- [Voiceover] But you may not hear tons of Christmas cheer.
- Ahhhhhhh,
- [Voiceover] Everyone knows Jesse doesn't like whiners.
You better not cry.
I'm telling you why.
- [Voiceover] Tis the season of transformation.
- Five Gear heads out there.
Now I gotta turn 'em into Art Geeks.
- [Voiceover] Not an easy challenge on Monster Garage.
So line up the lawn chairs
'cause the creatures are stirring.
- Oh I just hooked a dude.
This is my version of hell.
- [Voiceover] Monster Garage is heading to town.
- This is the craziest thing I ever *bleep heard of.
- [Voiceover] 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
- [Voiceover] This week's mission turned this
dressed up like a 91 Testarossa into the fiercest
and wildest parade float ever seen.
The rules:
The team can spend no more than 5,000 bucks.
Jesse and his crew has seven days and nights.
On the first day they design,
for the next five day build.
And on the seventh day they parade, if successful.
They walk away with a $3,400 set of Mac tools
and the clock chimes now.
Jesse drives the beast
through the,
Wait.
Who is this driving into the Monster Garage?
- Oh, that's great.
Came all the way down
the 4 0 5 dies now.
- [Voiceover] For this holiday special.
We brought in a ringer to help spread some Christmas fear.
Discovery's popular on-air decorator.
Christopher Lowell.
- Talk to the hand.
- [Voiceover] And he's already spreading some Feng Shui Ying
into the Monster Garage's Ying.
- I could take care of this.
You know these guys,
they didn't know what they're doing.
You know it's really, really loud.
You could stuff a couple of throw pillows in here
and that kind of muffle the sound
and add a kind of a decorative element to it.
What do you think?
you know?
Perfect space right there.
Be nice.
- [Voiceover] But his card has given up the ghost
of Christmas, past, present, and future.
So Chris Kringle Lowell gets a little push
into the monster garage.
- Okay,
here we go
- [Voiceover] Where he meets the art director
from his hit show, Jocelyn Boris
and the rest of the design team
and then the jolly old man himself.
- Hey Jess, how are ya?
- What's up Chris?
- [Voiceover] To honor the holiday season,
Jesse James doesn't wanna watch the festivities.
He wants to be part of them.
- So we're gonna build a parade float.
- Say you take like the ghost
of Christmas present from Charles Dickens, Scrooge
with a sickle and the whole thing
and he's actually dragging the tree through a graveyard.
- You like to scare him.
What about something that scares people?
A big scorpion or a snake or
- Any germ of an idea here, Jess,
that we can go from?
- My first thing was a wheelie float.
We'll do a float that does wheelies,
but then I thought with me driving at a parade,
it would have to like teeter
and go super slow so we wouldn't run over any kids.
- Yeah, parade speed is two and a half miles an hour.
- Yes.
- It's not very exciting.
- No.
- How about evil Santa?
I mean evil snowman
that spits flames of course
- You want everybody to love it
or do we want everybody to hate it?
- Yeah,
- I do a room and they hate it.
I'm out of business like big time
- Man what's your budget, Jess?
- Like five grand.
- Alright, well I'm outta here.
- There's a good idea out there somewhere.
It just hasn't, hasn't hit me.
- [Voiceover] It took a little time,
but Jesse just got a monster idea.
Go evil.
- Well, maybe we should try to scare the hell out of them
- Mommy is Santa dead?
Yes, I think so.
- Man, you should hear the thoughts going
on in my head right now.
- [Voiceover] It looks like a big stocking,
full of fear will come from Jesse James this year.
Before he lets Christopher's whimsy get out of hand,
Jesse talks garage with the float expert.
- Now how's this stuff made like that?
Is that just all tubing and chicken wire and
- This is all steel rod quartering, steel rod shaped
and then covered with window screen, then sprayed
with a cocooning material,
plastic material.
- [Voiceover] For this design.
Jesse couldn't have picked a better float expert than
d*ck Gillespie.
- Yeah, I've been working on floats since the mid 60s
and as my sons grew up, they got involved in the business.
So there's three generations there and it runs in the family
- To keep the tradition alive,
His family legacy will be joining the monster holiday build,
calling on demons from Christmas dreams past.
Jesse comes up with a plan.
- We need to do one like this where it's either a snowman
or like a scary skull face Santa.
- Yeah.
- So do you want him to start that way
or do you want him to surprise you that as it
as this thing begins to animate, it turns into
- I think it's got a surprise.
It's gotta look like
Santa's passed out drunk
and then all of a sudden he raaaah,
He wakes up pissed
and starts raining candy out of his hands.
Then they'll know Santa's real.
Santa's real pissed.
- [Voiceover] Here's how they'll make a fake Ferrari float.
Strip it down to its bare bones to prepare it
for its bsd to the bone,
Monster sized Santa.
The flick of a switch will raise their whole forward
to power line threatening height,
an added touch candy cannons
in each arm will blast
sweetness into the cheering crowd.
- See, I knew there was a good idea.
It just took me a second to click
[Fun music plays]
[Rock music plays]
- [Voiceover] To see that Santa has the right helpers.
Jesse's assembled a team
that has float making in their family tree.
Mike Gillespie Sr.
A float builder and son of d*ck Gillespie.
The Rose Parade's ultimate float guru.
Mike Gillespie Jr.
A general automotives guy who's dabbled in the family float
business.
Ian Johnson,
A car engine and mechanical expert
coming all the way from the 51st State Canada.
Jeff Covey, custom fabricator
and race car builder from Middleville, Michigan.
Garth McCrohan,
a pro welder and monster Garage phonetic,
and expert float sculptor.
Gary Twemlow from Duarte, California.
Jesse introduces himself to the team
then to this week's challenge.
- So we're gonna make the world's coolest parade float.
I think it might scare a lot of people,
but that'll be cool.
Basically we wanna have this thing going down the street
like Santa's dead.
It'll look like, you know, real clean,
nice Santa on the top
and then when it stands up,
it's gonna have a total skull face
and I want it to rain candy over the crowd.
Either out of like air tubes in his hands
where it dumps it into like a chamber and shoots it
- Unfazed by Jesse's wicked Christmas vision.
The team starts to chew on the task
- Motor and step off exposed when he goes up?
- Yeah, I don't care.
We could shorten the whole chassis.
I mean we could shorten it
and then make that whole engine
and everything and couple it right to the rear end.
This looks like he's got it bending at the knees.
That would probably put his knees right
about at the door jam.
So this here forward would all,
huh?
Like that.
- Okay.
- Which might actually be kind of cool.
Yeah, actually if we shorten it up as short as we can,
you know with the front wheels is then we can do like 360s
with it.
Raaaah
[laughs]
Yeah to the kids
[laughs]
- The next year when they ask the kids, you know?
What do you want Santa to get you this year?
Nothing.
[laughs]
- His face back.
- [Voiceover] But what kind of producers
would we be if there was no monster gift
for the Master Garage or on a Christmas bill?
- Is there present in here that can
- It is Body G.
- What's he doing here?
[laughs]
- [Voiceover] Past Monster Garage or Body Drop.
Who showed his skills on the RV Skate Ramp Show
wants in on the holiday fun.
- You wanna help us?
- Sure.
- All right.
- [Voiceover] Now that the Christmas niceties
are out of the way,
it's time to tear open their present.
[Rock music plays]
- There you go.
- [Voiceover] The tear out is going along without a hitch,
but is the Christmas helper one of Santa's elves
or Scrooge's assistant?
- Body drop unplugged my cord.
[rock music continues]
- [Man 1] You can do it.
- I always want to do that on purpose.
- [Voiceover] Now that they've kicked the kit
out of their car,
the team can start working on other challenges.
- Why don't we start it up and see
what's wrong with that, if anything?
- Well, if you wanna check the firing wire,
you've got one, you've got 2, 5, 6,
no Frangars, right.
- Really?
- Yeah. 2 8 2 4 3's are like that.
- [Voiceover] Ian Johnson is a perfect team member
for this build
because he lives a lot closer to the North Pole.
- [Ian] I'm from Smith Falls, Ontario, Canada.
I'm a high school auto shop teacher.
- [Voiceover] He uses Monster Garage as a teaching aide
- Monster Garage as a shop teacher,
it almost makes my job easier in a way.
We'll talk about Monster Garage for 20 minutes
before class starts and they just wanna know
about everything that happened.
How did they cut that piece of metal?
What was that piece of machinery that you used?
I found it's really got the kids interested in shopping at
different level than they used to be.
- [Voiceover] Wait until they see their teacher in action.
- Watch your eyes.
Yeah, it's got lots of fuel pressure man.
It's not the fuel pump, it's not the fuel pump relay.
It's something more serious than that.
- Yeah right
- [Voiceover] Now that the team has had a chance to see
what they're up against,
they take a breather
and float some concerns.
- Well like the biggest concern right now
is the car won't run.
When you roll it over,
Like it's not the oil pressure's low
on crank like you can hear the rod knock it.
- Well what do we do if we look at a used motor
from a junkyard motor, trans combination.
Something they pull out that we can use.
- I'll spend another hour
or so on getting the motor running.
- Okay,
- Then we'll plan a motor,
a motor swap. Sound good?
- Wait, don't run off yet.
All we gotta do is need to work.
- We need to
okay, Santa's gotta bend over at the knees.
- What do we need for that,
linear actuator?
You wanna do it hydraulically?
- Linear.
- It's like you guys are the float guys.
That's your world.
So I think it's best if you guys do that.
Like I don't, I don't know anything about
making Santa Bend at the knees.
- Tell us if you need us to weld,
put something together, whatever.
We'll do that.
- The team will divide into two groups.
One group will get the car shortened and running smoothly
while the others will be building Santa.
Artsy fabricators:
Mike and Gary have made a career at Phoenix Decorating
building Power parade floats.
- I've always been artistic.
So when I got on they,
they shooted me right into the art department.
I did a lot of the screening,
cocooning, painting, that sort of thing.
- I do their mechanical end of things.
In other words, I'll take a chassis
and fix whatever needs to be fixed.
They don't gimme any miles on 'em,
but they're pushing a lot of weight
and they get a lot of wear and tear on 'em
- To keep the family legacy afloat.
Mike Junior has followed in his father's
and grandfather's footsteps.
- Floats have been a part of my life ever since I grew up.
I'm really interested in what my father was doing
and my grandfather.
- The floats these men build are super sized, super powered
and can be super expensive, reaching as much as $300,000
for one monster machine.
But after eight months of building,
what do these float aficionados do with them?
- It's over so fast
and then next thing you know it's in the yard
and you're taking bolt cutters to it
and throwing it in a dumpster.
That took a little while to get used to.
- On the first build day,
Gary's showing his true colors.
He's serious and he's nervous about the
monster task at hand.
- I mean it is a float.
So it's going down.
It's gonna be in a parade.
So width is a consideration.
Visually, he's gotta be able to drive it.
He's gotta be able to see whatever we decide
to put in his knees to get him up and down.
You know that's gonna be a pretty big job too so
- The mechanical knees that will raise Santa's body
is no small task,
but right away the team
may have scavenged some scrap in the
monster junkyard that may solve the problem.
- What is that? Four feet?
- 42 Yeah.
- Oh man, that's three.
- The level length is 9 inches on
a 12 inch - 12 inch cylinder.
- cylinder.
That'll do 90. That'll do a 90.
- Perfect.
- I don't know if we can use these.
They said we could
use anything in the yard though, huh?
- [Voiceover] But these arms have an evil history.
They were part of the very first monster garage failure.
Cursed construction parts are not.
The team breathes new life into the dead beast.
[Rock music plays]
- That's nice.
Structurally sound strong.
That's what we'll do.
We'll power it up
and then gravity it down
using a Tailgate pump.
- It would probably save a good day, day
and a half of steel fabrication.
- [Voiceover] As promised Ian works
over the original Firebird engine
and brings it back to life.
- [Man 1] It's alive.
Check it out man.
- Cut it off right now let's run it up
in the air and cut it off.
- We're gonna cut the car off right behind the seat.
'cause Jesse would like a real short wheel base so
that he can attempt to spin the car around.
So what we're gonna do is take the rear end housing
and move it all the way up here
and make about a 10 foot long car out of it
- [Voiceover] And the boys get fired up.
[upbeat music plays]
- [Voiceover] The car team's torching, grinding, sawing
and good old fashioned banging this car apart.
- [Man] Here she is
- [Voiceover] And the Pontiac's unibody frame is now in two.
- [Man] That is,
that is the fun way.
Half a car
- [Voiceover] As a final order of business
on their first build day,
Garth cuts out the only thing they'll need from the back
half of the car,
the rear axle.
[Rock music plays]
- [Voiceover] And saves it for their new shortened car.
- Oh yeah.
- [Voiceover] After just one build day,
the team has put quite a dent in their car
and figured a way to raise Santa.
But Gary's got plenty of work ahead of him
and he has only four days til Christmas.
Munster Garage factoid.
The Macy's Thanksgiving day parade is second only
to the United States government as the largest consumer
of helium in America.
But experts say by the year 2010.
There may be no helium left on earth.
- [Voiceover 2] Oh no.
Heavy.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
- [Voiceover] On the third day of Monster Christmas,
the car has been separated and so has the team.
Mike Sr. finds out how much weight
his scrap metal arms will have to lift.
- What do you think Santa is gonna weigh?
- You mean total complete done?
I'm, I'll probably use the 200 pounds
of rod maybe to get it done.
- What's the candy?
- Screen Candy.
Whatever we throw inside.
Yeah Four, 400 pounds
- [Voiceover] To help this monster get off the ground,
the father son team spend a little bit of the budget.
- What we did was we swapped out the reservoir
to a larger one so we get more
fluid running through the system.
- I'm laying out skeleton Santa Claus.
I got a one foot grid here
and I'm transferring a three eight scale drawing
of the figure that we're trying to do.
To get it full size, I just transfer the grid
to a one foot grid, so every three-eighths
of an inch here equals one foot on my grid.
- [Voiceover] Inside, the team's other half starts building
their minicars seat.
- Right, Tomorrow we're gonna build able to roll cage,
off rom here we're gonna build
our own aluminum top fuel type seat
inside of it for Jesse to sit in.
The Santa's gonna lay out over the front of the car
and it's going to pick up with the hydraulics
and stand up in the air from there
so it'll actually stand in front of him.
- [Voiceover] Jeff Covey takes his clients' dreams
and turns them into custom race car realities.
- Most of the guys that come to us come with a idea of a car
that they want to build out of the ordinary.
We've done a lot of things like wheelie cars.
We've built a lot of the strange stuff that's out there.
- [Voiceover] His own racing career began with a bit
of illicit borrowing,
even if it was all in the family.
- By the time I turned 16,
I was swiping my mother's Buick out
of the garage on Saturday night when she wasn't around
and was going to the race track
and racing it in the F stock clock category
back in the early seventies.
She always wondered why that car used
so many tires as it did
- [Voiceover] Back outside,
Gary's making progress
by placing pencil thin steel rod over his drawing.
- Basically what you do,
you do a front view of it,
then you do a side view of it,
and then you stand the two up
and you put the two together
and then you just lace it up with some rings.
The silhouettes take some time.
- [Voiceover] The car's starting to take some shape,
so the lead elf himself comes in to check things out
and immediately finds a fault in the plan.
- We try to stand him up.
It's gonna have this big hole in his stomach.
- [Voiceover] The plan was for Santa
to completely cover the car,
but when he's raised,
he'll reveal an engine sized hole in his chest.
- We could make his torso come up over here
and then his arms go right past here.
- [Voiceover] Jesse wants the team to spin Santa
so his boots will hide the engine compartment
to match the body with the bigger boots.
The 12 foot Santa Gary already started will have to increase
to nearly 25 feet long and 10 feet wide.
- I think the whole thing with him going down the street
where it just looks like Santa's floating down the
street face down.
It's cool.
- Okay, cool.
Fat Santa.
Yeah, it's feasible, sure.
In four days,I don't know man.
That's the only thing
that would keep us from doing it
now is the time.
- [Voiceover] And time has been wasted.
As Gary starts all over, the rest
of the team gets fuel injected.
- Wow.
[electric guitar]
- Are these going in soon or what?
- Yep.
- Okay alright
Because I can't put my fuel cell in.
- Okay.
- You know what I mean?
Like we're dead
until this goes in the car pretty much.
- Okay.
- All right.
- We're reaching
where we gotta stop until the hydraulics go in.
- [Voiceover] The hydraulic lifts aren't holding up Santa.
They're holding up the team
so the father and son get cracking up.
- Up
We got one going a little fast, don't we?
- We're gonna tie 'em both together.
That'll work.
- [Voiceover] Jeff finishes shortening the drive shaft
for their mini car.
- This one we need.
Drive shaft
- [Voiceover] And body drop tries
to spread some holiday cheer in the garage.
- Hey, those are some pretty good welds.
is that all you?
- Pretty ugly actually,
but they're big and fat and strong.
- [Voiceover] Garth McCrohan is a custom fabricator
and welder who practices old school techniques unknown
to most modern welders.
- I've always been fascinated by it.
Despite his down to earth approach,
His crafted components
that have shot into space on the shuttle.
He figures his special skills will put him
on the map someday.
- Everything's become computer driven.
When anarchy takes over and nobody knows how
to do anything by hand anymore,
I figured that's where I'm gonna become famous.
- [Voiceover] The hydraulic arms are completed
and brought to their final resting place.
Gary's all by his lonesome to deal with building Santa.
- Yeah, because Santa is so much bigger now.
I'm probably gonna have to lay him out in two pieces.
Maybe even three.
Legs, boots, torso, head
went from an easy one to a a little tougher one now
- [Voiceover] Just when Gary's feeling
as alone as the ninth reindeer
that didn't make Santa's gut.
He's got the team backing him up.
- Try to speed things along,
now that Santa has grown in extra 10 beats
and take probably double the time now.
- Cool dude,
I'm glad you came out here and gimme a hand.
That's gonna help a lot
- No problem, bro.
- He got a lot bigger.
- Good.
- Look at that man.
He's freaking huge now.
- Hey is this actual size or is this
- No this that's the the, the bozo one.
This is the size right here
- And man,
- You stick welding?
- Yeah.
- Right on.
- Yeah.
- That's the first time anybody's ever stick
welding in monster garage.
- [Voiceover] As hours pass,
Gary makes progress on his new
and improved Santa
Inside, the car team can almost make their car run again.
- Drive shafts together.
Welded drive, shaft works.
We're all set there.
We got that back in.
So the car should move under its own power
as soon as we get the fuel cell.
- Yeah.
- Does Carl live longer than Jesse does?
- [Voiceover] The second build day is finally through.
So the team sneaks a peak at the bigger and better Santa.
- Whoa, look at that.
- Whoa, that's a amazing,
- Looks like the dude Uniroyal man.
- Yeah,
- That's how the pros do it man.
We win slack on you guys here.
[laughs]
- [Voiceover] Monster Garage Factoid:
Santa has no choice other than
to head south on Christmas Eve
heading away from the North Pole.
It's all south.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
- [Voiceover] The fourth day of Monster Christmas
has, yeah.
Already caught up to the team.
- We can't put the body on in here.
So basically what's gotta happen is
that thing's gotta be mobile and able to get out there
and then we can start mounting body and stuff.
- It can be running,
- it can be running.
But it don't have no steering. - No steering
- No steering, no brakes
- Why don't we just take it outside.
Are you planning that it doesn't come back in?
- It can't come back in.
- Alright.
- Once we hook that torso on there,
it ain't getting back in the door.
- [Voiceover] Since the car is completely flipped around,
it will now steer and be powered from the rear.
- Trying to think what we have for junk.
We can use as a gearbox or something,
- [Voiceover] But first things first,
get the car running.
[engine attempting to start]
[imitating sound of disappointment]
- [Voiceover] Ian's back to the drawing board.
Rechecking his wires for a loose connection,
but it's his teammate that solves the problem.
- Thanks Jeff.
That could be why it didn't have any fuel
- [Voiceover] With the car's computer back in.
This North American teacher is looking smarter already.
[engine starts]
[Rock music plays]
- It's not gonna get any better than that.
- He's really in rough shape.
- But I'll survive.
I'll bounce back all I need some back bacon
and some Tim Horton's coffee.
You have no idea what that means.
- [Voiceover] With the engine running,
Jesse begins his junkyard search
to solve the reverse throttle in steering problems.
He tries to summon the ghosts of monster's past
to meet the ghost of Christmas present.
- Oh Hmm.
Let's steal that throttle cable with the line.
- Yeah,
- For sure.
- Throttle cable, throttle pedal.
We're ready to rock and roll.
- [Voiceover] Throttle check
Steering?
Still working on it.
- This would work if the shaft was coming out
this way.
Just weld the gear on this shaft here and then have it
and then have it sh**ting back the other way
for the to work
with the regular Pontiac steering box, you know?
- Yep.
- For as much as we're gonna be turning,
I think that would be good.
- [Voiceover] Here's what's inside the mind of Jesse.
The forklift steering column
with its counter-rotating gearbox is attached
to a series of pulleys.
Then to a chef running back into the Firebirds original
rack and pinion steering.
It'll drive like a forklift,
but since the gearbox reverses all directions,
the wheels will steer the opposite way their turn.
- Yeah right.
There's cool then.
So if you wanna make a little plate quarter inch,
we'll just run tubing straight up off of the air.
- [Voiceover] While the team figures a way
to steer Santa's sleigh.
Mike Sr. extends the brace
that'll hold the giant Cringle.
- Christmas delivery.
[Indistinct Shout]
[Exciting Music plays]
[Electric Guitar plays]
- [Voiceover] But it looks like this little elf
is delivering more than just parts.
- [Man] Ohhhh.
- [Voiceover] This may be the first time
in Christmas history that an elf gets coal in his stocking.
With Elvin terror creating distractions in the garage,
the Team pushes through the storm.
Mike Junior is learning the delicate art of sculpting.
- Still because you're gonna want to crack
it off until we're done.
- Ah,
- Got it.
That's how you do it.
- Yeah.
- [Voiceover] While his pops has the batteries set
to power the hydraulic arms.
Next, Ian is getting crushed
by the complicated steering system.
- It's gonna change direction about three times.
Eventually it'll turn the right way,
- [Voiceover] But Ian forgot to order some parts
and like grandma's car stuck in the snow,
the wheels are spinning and it ain't moving.
- Waiting on two parts. Once it gets to two parts,
I can finish building the steering
and then maybe we can drive it outta here.
It's gotta be outta here tonight.
'cause they need it outside to put Santa on it,
'cause that's gonna be two days of hard labor.
So that's what will slow us down. Santa
- [Voiceover] Slowing the progress further.
Gary's put his work on hold to worry about
how Father Christmas will fire candy from his fingertips.
- The big blaster
continuous float confetti cannon
- Jeff and I are gonna build them.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- So you guys know where to buy the valves?
You can get the regulator?
- Yeah yeah that'll be on us.
It'll be faster.
- Alright.
- Alright.
- Alright.
- [Voiceover] Ian tries to keep the team focused
before the Christmas candle blows out.
On Bill day three,
- The cannons will be right in the back of Santa's arm.
We've already found the spot in the structure.
They'll just sh**t up.
We're just gonna run three inch
exhaust tubing and it'll just poof.
We may put some candy all the way back up to Canada,
but we'll see what happens.
- [Voiceover] Gary heads back outside
to make some progress on Santa
Ian starts to weld his super cylinders
and Jeff is putting the scavenge throttle cable to use.
- Since we're in a parade, we decided
to rig up a hand throttle
using our favorite little skulls and crossbones deal.
Now we're gonna mount this linked through a cable back
to the throttle so that he can actually just set the speed
by hand and it'll maintain a steady speed that way
- [Voiceover] The further Ian gets into his cannons,
the more difficult they're becoming.
- Yeah, it's a little more work than I thought,
but I've never built one before.
So we're just gonna build sort of a backup cylinder
so when the air comes up,
it'll be sitting in a smaller cylinder here.
There'll be a like a quick valve right there
and when the valve fires all the air that's in there,
I'll just fire out the end.
Harder, sometimes more fun
- [Voiceover] Like the little kitties do on the 24th,
The team is setting their sights on the next morning.
- Tomorrow we still gotta get a seat build in here.
- Yeah.
- I gotta finish the throttle.
- Yeah.
- We gotta get stirring mounted.
- You need it outside as soon as you can, right?
- Yeah,
- I'd say 10
- 10:00 AM deadline.
- 10:00 AM Deadline.
It rolls out the door.
That's the way we'll have to do it.
By 10 o'clock at the latest it goes out.
And then we're working around you
- [Voiceover] A lot for only two days left
and it looks like Santa himself may be this team's
Grinch who stole Christmas.
- [Voiceover] Jesse's not asking for too much this year.
- I just wanna scare a kid tomorrow.
- [Voiceover] But the team struggles
to find their inner route up
and make the float fly.
- I didn't come here to freak in,
put out a piece of crap.
- [Voiceover] Can Christmas really
bring out the gentle Jesse?
- It's my goal in life
to have everybody like me.
- That ain't gonna work.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
- [Voiceover] There's only two shopping days left
on this build.
- Pressure's on to get this thing out of 10 o'clock
so we can get the body mounted.
So time's getting short.
- I expect it out of here about 11:30, 12:00
- You know what, we can go outside with it if we
- Let's do it,
Let's do it.
- Okay.
- Watch out there.
- [Voiceover] Surprising their built team counterparts.
The car crew met their deadline and moves outside.
[Rock music playing]
- Woo-hoo.
- It steers really well.
- [Voiceover] Now that Ian's delivered the car part
of the float ahead
of Gary's pessimistic predictions.
He turns his attention to sh**ting off some holiday treats.
- That's a candy cannon my friend.
Simple as can be.
Air in, open the solenoids,
all the air out candy everywhere.
- [Man] So all you gotta do is fill it up.
- You'll just have to fill it up,
pack it in a little bit and boom.
This is the nitrogen cylinder
that's gonna power this air cannon
right here.
Good to go.
[shoots]
[laughs]
- That's perfect.
- That's awesome.
Thanks to us,
there'll be new float rules.
All spectators must wear helmets.
- [Voiceover] Now the only thing
that could sink this build is the float.
- I still gotta sculpt the head, boots,
Santa's gotta have a hat.
Still quite a bit of work to do.
- [Voiceover] Jesse comes outside to see
how this skeletal Santa will get its skin.
- Covered with
windows, windows, windows, windows.
- [Voiceover] This is a float building step.
Gary didn't think would be necessary
to collect his tools
by the end of the week.
- You don't think we can do it if all of us?
- Well, I'll tell you
what my main concern is is
that I want it to be a nice figure, man.
I want to look good for you.
- Well these guys, you guys
are just about wrapped up though, yeah?
- Yeah.
- So I mean, I think all
of us working together tomorrow,
we can probably knock out.
You don't think?
- Well, we don't want to look at all perfectly.
That's true.
We want it to look a little bit monster garage.
- I just want to scare a kid tomorrow.
- Yeah, you gonna like come on kids,
Come to Monster garage.
- Kids aren't gonna be scared by a bunch of wires.
- Daddy's here.
Come see Santa.
- Oh, the wire's gonna get me.
They're not scared of that.
- I got you.
- I think we can finish it by tomorrow.
- [Voiceover] After Jesse splits,
Gary tells the team how he really feels.
- Oh yeah,
We could freaking do it,
but it would look like hell.
You want do something that looks like
you wanna look like a clown on Monster Garage?
Sure, we can do it.
I'm not into that.
- [Voiceover] Mike Sr wants to take his hydraulics
for a test drive.
Making sure that Santa can rise from the dead,
not die from the rise.
Even when there's plenty of building going on.
There's always time
for a visit from the Christmas elf.
- Delivery for Gary.
- Free present
- Body drop came with gifts.
- Thank you.
- A freaking roll of screen.
- We got a screen to make a screen in for us.
- Yeah
- [Voiceover] The fourth build day is nearly over
as the sun sets in the monster junkyard.
Gary's now got the supplies
and the automotive guys
to help him finish sculpting the giant statue.
- You wanted to try some boots, I mean if you wanted
to give a shot, this is, this is a boot, right?
See?
Every square on this piece of paper represents
one of those squares.
- Okay.
- Alright.
- We'll work on it.
- If Santa Claus is wearing sandals
when we get done,
you'll know why
I've never made a foot before
- [Voiceover] With help from Mike Junior,
Jeff's boot silhouettes are finished in short order.
Now it's time to figure out a way
to mount them to the chassis
- Bridge go up and then one piece all the way
across to hold them both
- [Voiceover] Jerry's beginning
to feel some Christmas cheer.
That is of course,
if the team succeeds in sculpting the
entire Santa.
- I love her.
This is fun.
I've never done this before.
I'm serious.
I never built this stuff before.
This is awesome.
I love learning new stuff.
- [Voiceover] After 14 straight hours of work,
the team has a meeting
to figure out how to get their Santa fully screened
before time runs out.
Gary May have his doubts,
but these guys were brought in
because they have some skills
and like it or not,
they're the ones that'll get it done.
- I don't wanna,
we won't ruin your reputation in this town.
Okay?
- Yeah, yeah.
- That's what they're worried about.
They're worried about it's together
and it'll look like less than good.
- No, no,
I didn't left the garage to build.
I mean, I didn't come here to freaking put out
a piece of crap either.
Yeah, I want a nice product to be in that parade.
- So we'll do everything we can do
to get the thing ready.
- Hey man, we got hog greens, dude.
We'll get it done.
- [Voiceover] It's the end of day four
and all through the shop,
the builders are leaving before they all drop.
They've got one last day to get Santa done
and if they don't get it right, Jesse will kick their a*s.
It's the final build day
and the team is almost ready for the kids
to come downstairs and check out the loot.
- Christmas hundreds folks,
- [Voiceover] Before they begin the day,
Jesse Claus shows up
with something to get the float rolling in style.
- Look at that.
That's gonna put it pretty low.
Like another three inches.
- What are we gonna do about the vehicle
Must appear to be stock rule.
- I mean a lot of people b*tch about that rule,
but
I don't know.
- I'd really hate to anybody off, you know?
- Yeah, me too.
- It's my goal in life
to have everybody like me.
- Those wheels make it.
- You don't see a lot of 'em in Canada,
but I think they're awesome.
- [Voiceover] Ian's done his job
and like a true team player starts to help
with Santa's skin.
First, Gary has to teach his gearheads
the way of an artist.
- Okay guys, quick screen lesson.
The biggest trick to screening is
that if you pull it straight across like that,
it don't do speed for you,
but if you pull it at a bias
or at an angle,
it'll freaking start curving up for you.
You can work it and get it to start rolling around.
The glue unfortunately takes a while to set up
and it's kind of like a,
like a contact or a tacky glue
and we just use the cardboard
and get that glue through the screen.
- Would it be okay to overlap the screen?
- Oh, by all means.
Overlap the screen.
- Lesson over.
Is there a test?
Do you have a test for us?
Something like that?
Yeah the test is at midnight.
- Test is at midnight?
what it looks like?
- Yeah.
- All right sounds good.
- I'm thinking I'm gonna rock on this and get it done.
- [Voiceover] It looks easy,
but these are some float screening virgins
and time's ticking against them.
- Garth is gonna finish the belt up.
He wants to lift it so he can get on the underside
and Ian's gonna work on the boots.
Alright.
You see what he is got done?
- That's awesome.
- So you got well, I mean,
but you see what we got ahead of us, right?
That's an hour's worth of work right there.
It's not a Slam dunker.
- No, but that's awesome.
It looks good.
- There's no room for me back there anymore.
I've done my job, so I'm gonna
come up here and do some screening.
I think everyone's gonna have to jump in
and get screening soon
or we're not gonna get it done.
- [Voiceover] What does body drop have
to say about their Santa afloat?
- That ain't gonna work.
That ain't gonna work.
That ain't gonna work
You guys need to hurry up.
That ain't gonna work
That ain't gonna work.
That ain't gonna work.
- I couldn't hear your speech.
- Oh, this sucks.
- [Voiceover] ] The six builders are now working
as one Santa screening team.
They even share stories of Christmas past
- And my middle son was born the day after Christmas.
That was a pretty good Christmas gift.
- Yeah.
- Aw.
- Worst Christmas gift ever got?
I had a relative that every year
would buy me black turtlenecks.
And I don't know if you've noticed,
but I have no neck,
so when I put a turtleneck on,
I tend to walk into stuff
I can't see something like here.
Gotta like pee, cut a hole in it to breathe man.
- Being in prison on Christmas is about the worst.
And what do they do?
They bring Christmas carolers in
to come and sing to you.
Just to remind you when all you've tried
to do all day is forget
and the best been all of them since.
[laughs]
That was a long time ago.
- Santa lying face down is just the epic float statement.
Mommy, is Santa dead?
Yes, I think so.
Oh wait, he's moving. He is not dead.
[laughs]
That's exactly how I pictured it.
- So we wouldn't be able
to pull it off without this guy right here.
You know?
I could have probably did it,
but it would never look this good.
This looks look like we really knew what we were doing,
- But really it was a team effort.
These guys really come together.
We're all getting it done.
- That goes both ways.
If it, if it breaks,
then it's all Gary's fault, right?
- Yeah.
[laughs]
- [Voiceover] The final piece of screen goes
on the Santa they thought
would never get done.
The gearheads became Art Geeks.
- It's on.
It's done.
- I believe it is done yes.
Even body drops excited for the team's
incredible accomplishment.
- This is good.
I like it.
- [Voiceover] Now it's time to have a little fun.
- We're gonna load up some cannons now
we're gonna pull it ahead
and Jesse's gonna test it.
- Put some suckers in there
- For kids.
- Oh, those are cool suckers too.
- [Voiceover] Next it's a solo parade
down the beautiful streets of Long Beach.
[Rock Music]
[Rock Music]
[Rock Music]
[Rock Music]
[Rock Music]
- Hey look.
It's Santa.
- Hey everybody look
It's Santa
- You guys want some candy?
Alright, ready?
- Ready?
- Yep.
- Call it Jesse.
- Go
- Candy man.
- We can literally make anything here.
Look at this.
Look at the silhouette.
[Laughs]
- All right, let's go get some tools.
[Rock Music plays]
- Good job guys.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Want the garage CDs?
- Awesome.
- Some for everybody.
Open it up, see what it is.
- Alright,
- Tools.
- Woo-hoo.
Just what you wanted.
- Yeah.
- Nice.
That's perfect man.
It was really nice.
- Thank you Santa.
- Good job guys.
[Laughs]
- Go home.
Go.
Go home.
[Laughs]
[Rock Music Plays]
- [Voiceover] After a quick LBC Slay ride.
The experts at Phoenix Decorating give Santa some float
finishing touches.
- We're doing a little rib cage that's peeking
through his shirt and we're making the the fur
kind of raggedy.
[Rock music continues]
- [Voiceover] Tom Pruitt's in the house
and he's seeing red
a whole lot of red.
He calls his airbrush Buddy Steve Vanderman
to come help out.
- [Tom] Steve, it's Tom and working on one
of these monster cars down here, kind of hurting for time.
Think maybe you could grab your airbrush.
Come on down and gimme a hand doing a skull?
- What the hell is that?
[Laughs]
[Rock Music continues]
- [Voiceover] Steve puts a final touch
of evil on Santa's skull.
Add some dead garland from the Christmas decoration experts.
and this float is ready to parade.
Build cost tally:
Hard cash,
Freebie value,
Vehicle Cost
Grand Total.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
- Hey schwag
Is that Jingle Bell's I hear?
- [Voiceover 2] We're in Pasadena Frank,
but this doesn't seem like
The Rose Parade
- [Voiceover] Ahh, That's because
it's the Doda parade.
- Jesse land that one on me.
- [Man] The Doda Parade is the anti Rose Bowl parade.
- Get a chance to laugh and be happy.
See a lot of stuff you haven't seen before.
- [Man 1] Monster, monster Garage
- [Woman] You can't jump out there
and holler and mess with the people.
Hit the road parade.
- [Metal Man] Wipe my shiny metal.
- [Man] Whoa.
- Hey, hey,
- [Man] you're a big name.
I'm surprised the dude parade attracts
such a big name like you.
- Well, I mean, I'm also very down to earth.
- [Voiceover] You got a big kidding me.
It's perfect for the master builder, Jesse James.
He brought his float to show them a thing or two.
- Satan Claus is a part of American Heritage.
- Bad Santa
- Everybody wants to see Satan Claus
in a parade with this kind of holiday spirit.
- Ahhhh.
- [Voiceover] Oh my God Frank, look at Jesse cavorting
with the local fauna.
- Is the little bunny a chick or is that a dude?
- It's a dude.
- No, *bleep it I just hugged a dude.
- [Voiceover] For this parade,
you are supposed to do strange things, Shag.
- This is my version of hell.
- [Voiceover 2] Before the parade gets underway,
Jesse sends his elf, body drop to ride on the float.
- All the time.
Do that the whole parade.
Yeah, like that.
- [Voiceover] He adds the final touch.
His favorite holiday mantra.
Jesse's not alone in his anti Christmas mode.
- I'm a Muslim. I don't celebrate.
- [Both] Merry Christmas Everybody.
- 1, 2, 3. Two.
- [Voiceover 2] With the crowd whipped into a frenzy and
before the camera guy pukes,
the parade begins.
[Rock Music]
- [Voiceover] Ah, A perfect parade for Monster Garage.
- [Both] Monster Garage Rocks
- [Voiceover 2] They're sassy gals
in purple wearing red hats,
- [Voiceover] dirty old men.
- [Voiceover 2] Dogs with wheels,
- [Voiceover] barbecue kings,
- [Voiceover 2] and of course the amazing monster Garage's
Santa Claus?
- Wait, load it up good.
- [Voiceover 2] Can you believe it?
The candy rockets out of the arms
and rains down on the adoring crowd.
[people cheers]
- We have the best float.
[Rock music continues]
- That's the craziest thing I've ever heard of.
- Shag, What's the madness behind Jesse's monster method?
- I just want, want kids
to listen up when they say Santa's coming to town.
I want them to be scared.
So they're good
[Rock Music continues]
- Because Santa,
[Rock music continues]
- That's Christmas Eve..
- [Voiceover 2] Prepare the plate of Cinder for Santa Claus.
He may be rolling onto your roof soon,
but Jesse's got no time for Wizards or Wine.
- This interview is over and your here is ending
- [Voiceover 2] The fruit of the vine or Santa Claus,
folks bid over remote.
- Ahhhhh,
- [Voiceover 2] He's got middle of burn
. Sparks the fly.
The next Monster Garage Challenge is just
around the band
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
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03x15 - Monster Christmas Float
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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."