04x13 - Open Road Challenge Car

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- [Presenter] It's a tough week in the Monster Garage.

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- [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.

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This week's challenge, turn a 1964 Lincoln Continental

into an open road racer.

The monster must appear to be stock.

They'll get 5,000 bucks for parts.

The crew has seven days and nights.

The first day they design, the next five they build,

and on the seventh day they race.

If successful, the team gets a $4,000 set of Mac Tools,

and the clock starts now.

Monster Garage is known for bringing fast cars to life,

but the ultimate speed challenge

is building an open road racer.

Staged on a closed highway,

an open road race stretches a distance up to 130 miles,

with cars reaching speeds near 200 miles per hour.

Any type of car can participate in an open road race.

So Jesse decides to try his luck

with a classic Lincoln Continental.

The design team, Dave Golder,

expert open road race car designer.

Craig Joel, race car builder and fabricator,

and automotive designer, John Caswell.

- I've been thinking about this for a while,

Silver State challenge type of deal where, you know,

just flat out, time trial.

[heavy rock music]

That's my inspiration for this.

It's not that dangerous, is it?

- At this speed it gets there.

The biggest problem out there is you're not a racetrack,

you don't have any constrain.

If you go off the road, you're just gone.

You're gonna tumble and tumble and...

- I like having no wall to hit.

If I'm a little bit scared, I know it's gonna be good.

And then picking a car that couldn't be more...

- Non tough to do.

- Non aerodynamic. - Non aerodynamic.

- [Dave] It's a brick.

- It's like a Winnebago.

We got a road course chassis. It's a walker chassis.

I got it from my friends at Petty's.

The chassis we have is basically done,

which seems like it would be really easy.

All we have to do is pop the body off and put it on,

but this thing's 17 inches longer.

So to cut this thing down and make it look cool,

to wax 17 inches out of it.

I mean, first thing came to mind is an altered wheel base,

like a sixties drag racer, like Darts,

where they put the rear wheel way forward,

but that's still almost not enough.

- You're gonna have problems getting the tires on and off

when you do that.

You're running cup tires.

- I think we're gonna run street tires,

like eighteens or nineteens with big Yokohamas,

- [Dave] Right. Yeah.

- You actually ran a cup car. - Yeah. Yeah.

- That's cool. - Yeah, and it's a tough deal.

- I mean it takes a lot of power to push.

- I got a cool motor coming like 800 horsepower small block,

full on NASCAR motor.

- Try and keep it stock looking.

- Yeah, so it just looks like a continental

and everybody thinks it's just a big tank.

- Best thing about open road racing

is there's only rules for safety.

You can run whatever you like. - Whatever you want.

- It's gonna look bitching no matter what.

Cool. - Awesome.

- [Narrator] For this car to go from classic cruiser

to fast mover,

the body of the Lincoln will be lifted from its frame

and shortened by 17 inches.

A bear race car chassis will be plumbed

to support the small block engine.

Then the shortened continental body

will be mounted to the new frame.

Day two.

The team picked to build this machine

knows what they need when it comes to speed.

Race car fabricator from Orange, California, Matt Goodsell.

From Janesville, California Hot Rod builder, Brian Haynes.

Fabricator from Bellflower, California,

via New Zealand, Craig Joel.

From Highland, California,

open road race driver and mechanic, Dave Golder.

And from Portland, Oregon,

race car designer and old timer, Pat McElrith.

- Howzit, man!

- Jesse. - Pat.

- [Pat] How you doing, Jesse?

- Matt. Good. - How you doing?

- All right, try to make a Lincoln go 200 miles an hour.

I have a Nextel Cup car, a road course chassis, complete,

everything we need.

So only hitch is, it's 17 inches shorter wheel base.

- Maybe just take a little bit of each door,

a little bit out of the roof, boom, slam her together,

and won't even know the difference.

- Chop the body on? - Yeah.

- Pull the main body off and then we'll just ditch the frame

and then we can put this up on stands,

and then frames over my shop so we can run over and grab it,

and wheel it over here,

and put 'em side by side and see what we think.

- That's what we gotta do? - Cool.

- We'll work best.

All right, guys. Cool. - Let's do it.

- [Narrator] Usually when you see a '64 Lincoln in a garage,

it's in the process of being restored,

but in Monster Garage,

it's not about restoration, it's about transformation.

- I don't know how much thing about cutting up classic cars,

it makes the others worth more.

- That's it.

- Yeah, okay, hold on, get this down and we'll get it.

- [Pat] Okay.

- God dang this thing, man. - Got it?

- There we go.

- Yeah.

- [Narrator] The body is the only thing

that will be used from this old boat.

So everything on the inside has a date with the dumpster.

[heavy rock music]

- This thing weighs more damage than the damn engine does.

- I had one of these convertible boats.

Nice, four door convertible. Is that with you?

There it goes. Okay.

- [Dave] Let's roll at 90 degrees. Damn it.

- Good job, guys.

It's built, man. Like us old guys.

- [Narrator] Pat McElrith is a race car design consultant

with 50 years of fabrication experience,

he's created some of the fastest open road racers around.

- Well, one team that holds the Silver State record.

Now we still hold that.

That car was a stock car I put together three years ago

and we averaged 207 mile an hour for the silver State race.

Thought I was retired, you know, I'd love this stuff.

At the end of the day,

you turn around and you've done something, you can see it.

That makes me sleep at night, you know?

Chasing young women, now this is a cool deal too.

This is great.

Some poor guy restoring the Lincoln's gonna watch this

and just crap, man.

Watch your eyes.

There you go.

- Got it.

- This is the monocoque body. There's no frame.

So we're trying to get to where we can cut the whole body

off at the floorboards here with the whole body comes off

pretty much one piece.

[heavy rock music]

- [Narrator] With most of the cars insides out,

Brian and Dave go to Jesse's to pick up their better half.

- I thought it was a car that had already been used before.

A lot of work. A lot of work.

There's just an awful lot to do.

A lot of plumbing, fuel system, tires, steering.

All the brake lines have to be plumbed in the car.

About three weeks worth of work to do in a week.

- [Narrator] With no time to waste,

they take the frame back to the garage.

[heavy rock music]

The race car chassis enters its new home.

- We have a really good rolling chassis

with no plumbing, no electrical, no brakes.

- Lot of marks to the...

- Could be done 'cause it's no big deal.

Yeah, we just gotta do it. We need more money.

Gimme that big pile of money, man.

- [Brian] Hold on, hold on.

- We're just gonna roll it out and put the switch place.

- [Narrator] The continental is removed from the lift

and replaced with the new chassis.

Brian immediately starts a parts list.

- These guys are good. They know stuff that I don't know.

That's what I like.

- I've been doing it all my life.

Just been around it since I was a little kid.

- [Narrator] Working with a Monster Garage build team

is like a normal business day for Brian Haynes.

- I've worked right side by side

with some of California's toughest inmates.

My daytime job, I'm a construction supervisor

for the California Department of Corrections.

I take care of two prisons up in Susanville.

I'm in charge of construction projects, remodels,

and special repairs at the facilities.

My racing background is stock cars.

I grew up stock car racing,

race cars, airplanes, hot rods.

That's been my lifelong passion.

Cutting around. Light it up. It's a heavy car.

We need a light.

- [Narrator] As Brian removes the excess weight

of the doors,

the rest of the team lightens the Lincoln's load.

Nothing can be done to the chassis until the parts arrive.

So they continue the tear out and remove the rear axle.

[heavy rock music]

- I think that's a forklift item right there.

Tomorrow we can basically gut the front section

where the motor's at.

You're doing good because then we can get two or three guys,

concentrate on putting the motor tr*nny,

everything together on this.

We can continue to get this all cleaned up,

so it's a nice piece.

Set it on there and then get busy.

- [Narrator] As the first build day comes to a close,

the Lincoln is prepped to fit the new chassis,

but before it becomes a race car,

it needs the skilled touch of this talented team.

Monster Garage factoid,



designed and built the first road through a marsh.

He never saw a single mile of his work.

At the age of six, he was blinded by a disease.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

Day three.

The build team enters the garage

and the Lincoln looks like a good car

left in a bad neighborhood.

The success of this build isn't hinging on the body work,

it's something else.

- Parts, parts, parts, parts. Need a motor.

Once we see the motor,

we can make a lot of decision on which way to go.

- [Narrator] While they wait for the new engine.

Craig and Matt remove the old one.

- Just like we did the rear yesterday.

Basically, motor tr*nny, front suspension,

drop it out, roll it out the front,

so we can start cleaning it up.

[heavy rock music]

- Bigger hammer is always the answer.

- [Narrator] Matt and Craig try to get the engine out

as Jesse checks in.

- Making it look pretty easy right now.

- Okay.

- Pretty anti-climatic.

- [Matt] There we go.

- Okay, once again, the little guys back here.

- Alright, that's good. Sit down right there.

- [Narrator] Out with the old and in with the new.

Once again, JEGS has come through with a new engine.

- It's a small block.

- [Narrator] Now that they have the motor,

it needs to be set into the engine compartment.

Pat rolls in the transmission,

which is temporarily attached to the motor,

so they can test the fit of the engine assembly

in the race car.

[heavy rock music]

- It's getting easier and easier

'cause we thought we were gonna have to cut

this whole tr*nny tunnel out

and rebuild it all and raise the motor in transit.

But we put it in there and we put it right

where it's supposed to be with the mounts and it's perfect.

- [Narrator] With the garage Gods smiling upon them,

the engine is set into position

and Brian and Dave make the motor mounts.

- Motor mount extensions,

so we can extend these motor mounts up,

get that motor space up high enough

so that pan doesn't hit the floor.

Pieces and parts.

- [Narrator] The mounts are in place

and Pat levels the engine off.

- [Pat] It's about level.

And we are perfect.

- [Narrator] With the assembly of the chassis

off to a good start,

Jesse checks the progress on the body work.

- You know what we should do?

Let's just cut it in half, put it on the floor,

and we'll just push it together.

We'll sand it and heliarc it.

- Because we wanna make a pretty nice piece out of this.

So we want to trim all the crap that's still on the wires

and bracketry and get all this jagged stuff off.

- [Narrator] Matt and Craig

start grinding off the inside of the car,

but Craig accidentally grinds off

more than the car's enamel.

- What happened? Catch your shirt or what?

- What happened? - Broke his tooth.

- Yeah, the grinder caught my shirt and just wrapped it up,

crossed my arm.

- [Matt] Let see your arm.

- Actually broke his tooth. - His arm.

- You all right dude? - Just a mere flesh wound.

- This is the grind that got me.

See I took a piece out of it with my tooth.

Right about there.

- [Narrator] Craig Joel is a race car builder

who needed a new attitude, so he changed his latitude.

- That was one of the best decisions in my life

was leave New Zealand and move to America.

- [Narrator] Since he's been in the States,

Craig's enjoyed the freedom of open road racing.

- How often do you get a chance to get out on the open road

and just go as fast as you want?

Two hundred and twenty five mile an hour, I think,

is about the top speed I've been at.

I've actually launched a car off the ground

at over 200 mile an hour.

Had all four wheels off and that gets a bit hair raising.

- He got tagged in the mouth, man.

- [Narrator] Even though he's busted up bicuspid,

he's still willing to help Jesse

bite into the Continental's body.

[heavy rock music]

The wheel base of the Lincoln

is longer than the wheel base of the race car.

So 17 inches has to go.

[heavy rock music]

Then the two halves of the car are reconnected.

Jesse takes a moment to admire the new view.

- Man, that makes that hood look like a mile long.

It looks cool. - It's 'cause it is.

Hey, I never cut a Lincoln in half and put it back together.

I'm gonna do that.

Yeah, it's Tuesday, let's cut the car in half.

- [Narrator] Matt holds in a new member for the car

from Chrisman's drive line.

- [Matt] This is the third member for the rear end.

- The axle comes outta here.

It goes out to the wheels, drives the rear wheels.

- [Narrator] The parts for this monster

are slowly rolling in.

Oh, I see the big guys are just great for this stuff.

- Big and stupid is stupid, man.

- [Narrator] Jesse and Craig complete their work

on the Lincoln Body. - Let's just tack it

- And then we can try to push it around on the top

to get it to line up. - Okay.

- There's a couple spaces on this side.

- [Narrator] It's been a productive day in the garage

and as their work comes to an end,

Jesse and Pat make a wager. - Huh?

- It ain't gonna weigh 3,400 pounds.

I'll bet you a hundred bucks it weighs over 4,000.

- I'll take it. - All right, shake my hand.

- I hate to take old man's money,

but you know, this is a business.

- You don't get to put any weight that's without you in it.

- Okay. - Alright, cool.

- Probably a social security too.

- [Narrator] All bets are in

as the third day comes to an end,

and it looks like the odds are in the build team's favor.

Day four, the team enters the garage,

but before they can fill their dream car with parts,

they need to add to their wish list.

- We're trying to put a deal together right now

and we'll send body drop up to Camarillo

to get some of our clutch stuff,

get our brake parts and everything we need.

It's gonna be kind of fendy,

but we haven't hardly fit anything yet.

So now we get to break the bank today.

- [Narrator] Familiar with breaking things,

Craig feels the results of his injuries.

- It's a little sore all over.

- [Narrator] Pat gets in a bar fight of his own

and customizes the sway bars.

- A sway bar keeps the car from leaning.

Okay, that's a basic purpose that does a lot more than that.

- [Narrator] In open road racing, it's important

when trying to reach speeds of over 200 miles per hour

to keep the vehicle from swerving.

The sway bars will help keep Jesse on a straight path.

Mr. James arrives in his new Bentley.

- The more time we can spend on the body and make it nice,

the nicer the car will come out in the end.

- [Narrator] Because the members of this team

are highly skilled race car builders,

Jesse isn't concerned with the work on the chassis,

he focuses on fabricating the body.

- We're gonna take eight and a half inches

outta either side of the door.

We're gonna lose the door handles

so it looks totally shaved.

- [Narrator] All four doors of the continental

are chopped down to fit the shortened body.

[heavy rock music]

- I'll get it off here in a second.

- [Narrator] The doors are modified

and are ready to be welded together.

While Jesse preps the two doors to become one,

The process of connecting the Lincoln's roof

is riveting.

- Just put in some more pop rivets

to hold the roof before they weld it.

Not a fabricated by trade, not even close.

I can do this. This is a grunt work.

- [Narrator] Dave Golder's specialty

isn't working on race cars, it's driving them.

He's won numerous open road championships.

- Love fast cars. Always had fast cars. It's a great sport.

I mean it's a chance to drive

whatever kind of car you wanna drive.

Pretty much as fast as you want to go on a public highway,

and you're not doing it for two miles

or three miles or five miles,

you're doing it between 90 and 120 miles

depending on the road you run on.

I mean, five years ago, six years ago,

you could average 160, 170 and win every race.

Nowadays if you're not averaging over 190,

you might as well stay home.

It's an adrenalin rush.

You know, that it's hard to get rid of.

- [Narrator] The engine is removed

so it can be completely assembled.

[heavy rock music]

- Yeah, this is the old way of doing stuff.

We need a shade tree. We need a shade tree, man.

It'd be perfect.

- [Narrator] Pat heats up the flywheel to soften the metal.

- Okay.

- [Narrator] Allowing him to attach it easily

to the drive train.

Dave installs the starter.

Without a torque wrench,

Pat has to use his years of experience

to determine the tension.

- Okay, that was 55, here comes 70.

See, right there, 70. Did it. Okay.

[heavy rock music]

Come on in there with it.

We should be all done with it.

- [Narrator] The engine is permanently mounted

into its final racing place.

Matt hits the monster junkyard

and salvages the exhaust pipes

from the all girl team, Dirt Track Racer,

before it's a scheduled destruction.

- What we're gonna do,

we're gonna hook the headers up to the boom tubes.

[heavy rock music]

So we're connecting it all up right there.

So everything will still come off at separate pieces,

but there's just no bolting or anything.

You basically gotta line everything up

and slide it together.

- [Narrator] Jesse surprises the team

with an impromptu fireworks display

signaling the end of the day.

[fireworks crackling]

- Ooh, what'd that guy eat?

- [Narrator] The build day ends with a bang

and that team is getting closer to launching their racer

onto the open road.

Monster Garage factoid.

Modern roads are paved with used tires

mixed with regular asphalt.

It takes 1,500 tires to pave one lane mile of road.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

Day five.

The team speeds into the garage to work on their road racer.

- Should have this thing running today

and hopefully get the body set on sometime this afternoon.

Everything shows up this morning like it's supposed to,

then we'll be sitting pretty.

- With this chassis, we got a safe car, you know,

for Jesse to go have some fun with.

Now if we just make it look pretty where we go.

- [Narrator] Craig continues on the body

and fabricates a tail fin.

[heavy rock music]

- Here it comes over the back of the car

and gets trapped in here.

Actually presses down on here, give you more rear downforce,

and plant rear tires help keep the car stable at speed.

- [Narrator] As Craig makes the fin final,

the parts needed to complete the chassis arrive,

starting with the brakes.

- Hey guys, more parts. Shocks and power steering.

- [Narrator] With all the parts in,

the team starts to build the chassis out.

- [Jesse] We'll get 'em in here. Make sure it's right.

- A little shaming. We got front brakes, man.

- So I'm just putting the finishing touches

on the hydraulic clutch line.

We got shocks. We're coming together.

- Okay, the rear is plumbed? - Yes it is.

- The brakes are good to go.

- Okay, clutch is good to go too then.

Ready to go.

- I love it when people know what they're doing.

- A couple pieces of foam in the bottom.

- It's gonna give us fuel for our fire.

- [Dave] Drop in, baby.

- [Narrator] The race car is coming together

and soon they'll be able to start the engine.

Jesse rolls into the garage.

- My toes are cold.

- That's pretty bitching. - Yeah.

- That's definitely nice for a Monster Garage car.

It doesn't look like a dog chewed out of metal.

- [Narrator] Jesse welds the doors together,

but it appears he's lost his drive.

- I'm gonna work all day, but I don't feel like it.

I could think of a million other things

I'd rather be doing today

besides welding these doors together.

Like watching TV,

riding some more on my bike, eating,

watching TV.

- [Narrator] The band, Mud Bath, stops by

to add some excitement.

[rock music playing]

Matt puts the finishing touches on the muffler.

- This is completely different from what we were gonna do

from here back on Monday or Tuesday.

Just basically these are gonna just slip into the boom tubes

underneath the car,

so there's no three bolt flange or anything.

Just looks a little more racy this way.

- [Narrator] Matt Goodsell builds high-end off-road racers

from the ground up.

- In off-road racing, it's not a real stable deal.

You just kind of go from project to project.

Usually building a half million dollar truck,

takes six months or something like that.

So you do that one and then there's nothing to do.

So you go find the next deal.

- [Narrator] And the next deal he found

was building chopper style bicycles.

- It just, you know, it's bicycles, cars.

It doesn't matter what it is.

If you got the drive to do it, you can make it.

- Slide them in for good.

- [Narrator] With the exhaust system installed,

the assembly of the race car chassis is complete.

The team juices up the monster

and gets the open road racer ready to roar.

- It should run 150 miles an hour, 200, no problem.

If it starts.

- We tighten down these motor mount bolts?

- Yeah, great. - Yeah, are done.

- Ready to drop it down?

- Yeah, I think so. - Let's fired up.

- [Dave] Fire the hole, baby.

- Hit it.

[engine whines]

- [Narrator] The engine runs,

so the team tunes it up and checks the timing.

[engine roaring]

- There goes the power steering.

- There goes the tool.

- Yeah. - we got soaked, man.

- My feelings exactly.

- Body time. It's body time. It's looking good.

- [Narrator] It's the moment the build team

has been waiting for.

The body is placed onto the chassis

and the team gets a look at their completed road racer

for the first time.

- It's like driving a Frigidaire. It's the same color too.

It's like appliance white.

- [Narrator] Excited by the builder's progress,

body drop takes his scooter for a spin.

- [Jesse] It worked.

- You alright? - Yeah.

- [Narrator] With one day left,

the team is working toward an early finish,

proving they have the skills to get the job done.

- [Presenter] Is this team thinking

they're gonna get done with their Lincoln

or are they just long in the tooth?

Stick around.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Narrator] Day six.

It's the build team's last day in the garage.

Their modified Lincoln is ready to run,

but it's not ready for the open road.

The Continental body needs to be married

to the race car chassis.

Metal panels are cut out then installed between the body

and the chassis connecting them.

- If you weld, it's all solid, it warps.

It's hard to keep it straight.

So we just tack 'em together like this. Okay?

All right, that's the fabrication way

of Winston Cup cars now.

It's been that way for years.

- [Narrator] Because this former four door

may reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour,

it needs a front lip to make it aerodynamic.

- Gonna start working on the front air dam.

Try to make it look as much as like the drawing

that the artist rendering did,

and I'm hoping Jesse's gonna show up

to help out with that

'cause sheet metal's not really my forte.

[heavy rock music]

- [Narrator] Jesse arrives just in time to help Matt

with the metal work on the air dam.

- Because I say we could put a crease in it to make it

so it's not flimsy.

- [Narrator] Craig cuts a hole out of the hood

to make room for the carburetor,

then begins to fabricate an air deflector.

- Would that press then?

- [Narrator] Brian continues to weld the panels to the car.

The extra metal being added to the car

weighs heavy on Pat's mind,

making him worry about his bet with Jesse.

It's gonna weigh over 4,000, Jesse said.

- I'll bet you a hundred bucks it weighs over 4,000.

- This body's pretty heavy. I'm a little nervous.

- I hate to take old man's money,

but you know, this is a business.

- I'm just a little nervous, you know? I am gonna win.

This sucker can't weigh that much.

We don't have enough horsepower for 4,000 pounds, man.

- [Narrator] An unusual group of fabricators

enter the garage led by dentist, Gary Glasband,

of Long Beach.

- Well, I got a call that one of the guys

that's on Monster Garage broke a tooth.

We had him in in the morning, we numbed him up.

And now what we're gonna do

is put a permanent crown back on there.

Fix him back up as good as new.

- [Narrator] The technology the dentist will use

to make Craig's tooth

is similar to the technology Jesse uses

to create the rims for his choppers.

- This is pretty sanitary work environment.

- I've seen you do CAD cam. I've seen you design wheels.

That's a camera. It takes two pictures.

A 10th of a second apart from two different angles

and then it renders it into that.

- Awesome. That's bitching.

- You ready? - Yeah.

- You got it fixed up?

You sure you want the crown or you wanna leave it like that?

Come on.

- Have a seat. You get the big one.

- I'm losing my redneck smile.

- [Narrator] Craig's new tooth is designed on a computer

and then recreated on a CEREC restoration system.

- [Gary] There it goes.

Yeah.

From now it takes two minutes to set itself up.

- Finest. - Yeah.

- It's gonna make one pass.

When it's done, it'll just drop out the finish crown.

It'll just fall out at the bottom of that.

Buried treasure.

Lookie lookie.

Oh yeah, look at that.

You ready?

Oh, nasty. Look.

Voila.

Wow. Look at that. Perfect.

Oh, that looks great. That looks great.

It's amazing.

- [Narrator] The fabrication of Craig's new chopper

is complete.

- [Gary] You're done. Quit smiling.

- [Narrator] But there's still work to be done

on the Continental.

Jesse rolls to a close on the fabrication of the doors.

- Yeah, we're very close.

- [Narrator] The rest of the team

gets the racer ready to roll.

[heavy rock music]

The doors are welded into place,

and this monster is ready to eat some road.

- Now it's time for my work to begin.

[heavy rock music]

- [Narrator] Before Jesse can take it to the streets,

Craig uses an old school trick with a baseball bat

to put a curve in the wheel well,

so they don't catch on the tires.

Jesse takes the new monster for a spin around the block.

[heavy rock music]

The '64 Lincoln open road racer is a success.

- Six three.

- Getting knocked by around the corner, man.

- Yeah.

- [Narrator] The team is ready to collect their tools,

but there's one matter of business left to be settled.

- [Pat] Okay, we're zero.

- Hold. I'm getting in there.

I ain't losing a hundred bucks.

- [Pat] Oh man.

- Hey, come on, this is how they do it.

- Hey, total! Total!

Thirty six hundred. Get to that side of...

Oh, 3,561.

- Still, 34 without the driver, what I said, man.

- God damn it.

- It's good. - Hope you're happy.

- My kids ain't going to eat this week.

- Play the games.

I'll spend it well.

- Good job, guys. - Thanks, man.

- That was awesome. - Thanks, Jesse.

- Time to spare. - Thanks, Jesse.

- Thanks Jesse.

- Just like everybody else except for those chicks.

Monster Garage CDs, Mac Tools.

- [Narrator] Build cost tally.

Vehicle cost to $21,500.

Build costs $6,215.

Freebie value, $26,600.

Total cost, $54,315.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Presenter] Hey Monster fans,

we're flying high over the hills of North Las Vegas,

headed for a stretch of open road.

We're gonna run the open road Lincoln

and see what she can do.

Check out the wicked green flames.

What's Jesse's plan.

- Slow and safe, that's my motto.

- [Presenter] Yeah, right.

A few friends at the garage have made the trek

with some toys of their own.

Gary Patterson works for Shelby.

He knows a thing or two about fast cars.

Hey Gary, what do you think about this monster?

- Looks like quite a piece.

Question is, will it have the horsepower

to punch through that air to hit the big number?

- [Presenter] Bob Griffith

has won the Sandhills Open Road challenge in Nebraska,

pushing his Viper to an average speed of 194 miles per hour.

And Lefty Ferris brought his stock 1965 Lincoln

and his dog, Scratch,

to see what an unmonsterized car can do.

- This definitely doesn't strike me as an open road car,

but I saw the one you built, it's impressive.

- [Presenter] First up on the line,

a man to whom going fast comes naturally. Jesse James.

- The best thing, it looks menacing. Look at that thing.

It's pretty aerodynamic for a refrigerator laid on its side.

- Yeah.

- [Presenter] There he goes!

Hit it, Jesse, hit it!

[engine roaring]

The first run

saw the beast make it up to 156 miles per hour.

Jesse's just beginning

to break in the newest open road challenger.

Now let's see what these other cars can do.

First up, the stock Lincoln.

A whopping 93 miles an hour.

Not bad for a 40-year-old car.

Gary gets his Shelby Cobra with the 350 horsepower Ford 3O2

up to 130 miles an hour.

Now Bob Griffith punches his Viper

down the deserted desert road.

Hey, 183 miles per hour. Now that's fast.

Can Jesse in the monster Lincoln

catch the vicious Viper?

A desert pooch somehow finds his way

to the master fabricator and wants to ride along.

- Only on Monster Garage would a pit bull find me

and jump in the car.

- [Presenter] That pooch has got some cojones.

Look at that monster move.

These desert roads have never seen a creature like this.

A 173.3 miles per hour.

This may be the fastest Lincoln on the whole planet.

- That was like bending the gas pedal.

- [Dave] Yeah, I know.

- Trying to get some more out of it.

- [Presenter] But is Jesse satisfied? Hell no.

He wants one more run.

Ah, the clutch is dead.

This monster Lincoln is now staking.

- Just shifted hard in the second gear

and it, bang, blew the clutch.

We might have to fix it and try it again. To be continued.

- [Presenter] It's time to head on down the road

because Jesse's got no time for clutches that suck,

dogs down on their luck and empty desert roads.

He's got metal to burn, sparks to fly.

The X Monster Garage Challenge is just around the bend.

[heavy rock music]

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