04x15 - Ultimate Surf Mobile

[bunniefuu]

- [Schwag] Hey, all you surfing monsters.

We're gonna try to turn a rotten rusted woody

into the ultimate surf mobile.

Jesse's pal, Jay Hodge, is here from Hawaii

to make monster surfboards.

- Are you gonna make me slap you?

- [Schwag] Wood that he could.

- It's arts and crafts with welders.

- [Schwag] Builders are superstitious about knocking wood.

- I don't wanna jinx myself.

- [Schwag] And some of the builders

sports special spectacles.

- This is my woody.

- [Schwag] Rock guitar legend d*ck Dale stops by

to lay down some gnarly licks.

[guitar strings twanging]

- Don't sneeze.

- [Schwag] You might miss something.

Surf's up!

- [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.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Narrator] This week's Challenge.

Turn a 1950 Ford Woody

into the ultimate wave chasing surf wagon.

The rules, when built, the vehicle

must appear to be gnarly, dude.

The team has 5,000 bucks for parts.

Jesse and the crew have seven days and nights.

On the first day they design, for the next five they build,

and on the seventh day surf's up.

If successful, they walk away

with a $4,000 set of Mac's hottest tools.

And the clock starts now!

With the exception of the drive to Long Beach

from automotive.com's warehouse,

this car hasn't seen the road in over 20 years,

and those years haven't been kind.

Before they begin,

the design team muscles the rundown Woody onto the lift.

Mother Nature's had years to beat this car to death.

Let's see what Jesse and this team can do in a week.

Seven time Monster Garage designer

and Long Beach Native, Mike Desmond.

Woody Builder from Signal Hill, California, Doug Carr.

From Chino, California, off-road champion

and vehicle builder, David Snutty.

- What's up, man? I'm Jesse.

- [Dave] I'm Dave.

- How you doing, man?

- [Dave] Nice to meet you.

- I just think we need to build

the ultimate cool Woody surf mobile.

You know, I hate the word theme,

but I think it's just an overall building

a total user-friendly vehicle

that you could drive to Africa.

You know, and just wherever we wanted to go,

just get in it and go.

I mean, I've been surfing places in Mexico.

The roads are always washed out

and you drive through water and sand.

- Yeah, you first gotta find your way to the beach.

- Yeah.

This is gonna be a pretty good chunk of work right here.

- [Dave] Oh man.

- That thing needs a lot of love

and it's gonna need motor, trans, rear end suspension.

It's gonna probably need to clip the front end

and put all like a power steering clip.

Well I think the biggest thing,

the toughest thing is suspension.

- Maybe make it a four wheel drive

if you want it to go anywhere.

Depending on how soft the sand is, where you drive it.

- You just let air outta the tires.

[Dave chuckles]

- You can cut a clip off of just about anything

and clip it onto the front of it.

- [Jesse] Yeah, well then we need

to do a whole different tr*nny set up, you know,

with the transfer case and all that.

- Right. - I mean,

that wouldn't be that difficult.

- [Dave] Okay.

- You know, doing the ultimate car for a surf trip,

I mean, we're gonna have to redo the wood.

- Fix everything so nothing's falling apart, right?

But leave it kinda, you know?

- You're thinking of trying to retain

the original paint on the sheet metal?

- I don't know.

I mean, it looks pretty cool, you know,

patch the rust so it doesn't get any worse,

but the way the roof and everything is now,

I think it looks bitching.

So basically we're gonna do motor trans suspension,

little bit of exterior with the wood, and then just go surf.

- [Narrator] Before Jesse can cruise to the beach in style,

they'll need to drop in a new power plant,

beef up the chassis and suspension,

and convert the Woody from two to four wheel drive

all while replacing the signature wooden veneer.

Then it's off to the surf come hell or high water.

[intense heavy metal music]

[engine revs]

Day two.

Our team of beach combing builders

stroll into the garage ready to hit this project

like a fresh setup early morning waves.

From Lake Tahoe, California mechanic, welder,

and artist Bob Lopez.

Expert woodworker and one heck of a hula dancer,

Carlsbad California's Ron Heiden.

Car customizer and surf shop owner

from Laguna Beach, California, Jim Cocorez.

Auto parts sales rep and engine aficionado

from Escondido, California, Nicole Downey.

Here to hand shape a couple

of custom surfboards from Honolulu, Hawaii, Jay Hodge.

And staying on from the design,

off-Road vehicle builder, David Stoddy.

- All right, it's the ultimate surf mobile.

It's not a garbage truck or anything like that

we're just gonna take it and go surfing.

We'll just make it hardcore,

but at a glance it still looks like a vintage Woody.

There's always the guy that took the like,

'79 Chrysler Town and Country station wagon

and put it on his Ram truck chassis.

Woo-hoo!

You know, I don't wanna be that guy.

We'll just start taking it apart

and see how bad it really is.

It looks pretty bad from right here.

- [Narrator] It's clear right away

this beach cruiser is no stranger to water.

- Whoa.

So what do we got in here?

- I bet that maybe doesn't spin.

- No, not with it being lots of water inside the manifold.

- Well, this thing's total rust.

I'm surprised that these even spin.

- [Narrator] With the hood out of the way,

it's fire sale time for the decomposing Woody.

Everything must go.

- Gas tank.

All right, now we can get the torch over here

and get these off.

[upbeat lively music]

There you go.

Okay.

[upbeat lively music]

- [Narrator] It's warm and dry inside the garage,

but our surfboard shaper is looking more soaked than stoked.

- We got everything set up, and it started pissing rain.

So we're dripping water so makes it difficult.

I don't wanna get shocked,

and so we're just gonna have to wait 'til it dries out.

- [Narrator] For Jay Hodge, the life of a foam smith

was both a calling and a necessity.

- I was buying boards and it seemed like

I never got what I wanted.

I figured, you know what?

I can screw up a blank as good as anybody else

for less money.

You know, people started buying my boards,

and more and more people started buying my boards.

I just went from there.

I'm proud of the fact that I still try

to make the next one better than the last one.

- [Narrator] These builders didn't just bring

their skills to Long Beach,

they also brought their vintage Woodies.

- Well, you know, the rain in the wood,

it creates such a problem

as far as getting under the varnish

and lifting the varnish off the woods.

We decided to let's just pull 'em in

and not have to worry about it and get the car torn apart.

- [Narrator] The original wood is too damaged to restore,

so Bob chips away at what he can.

Ron grinds the heads off the blind nuts

to remove the weathered woodwork.

[hammer clanking]

- Time to take the wood off this car.

There we go. Woo-hoo!

Boy, they're going good down there.

- We should save this so it's cooler.

That's secure. [chuckles]

Look at that.

Don't sneeze.

- And all I need is the front clip

with all the suspension parts on it.

- [Narrator] David works the phone

trying to track down an array of parts,

and locates an entire truck they can use

to bolster the car's frame.

- All right, thanks.

We're gonna use a Ford Bronco,

and we're gonna get that car for free.

- I kinda like using a mismatched bunch of stuff

and making it work, you know?

- That's cool.

- You know, instead of getting everything all, you know?

- Yeah. All right.

- The car doesn't care.

- No, it doesn't matter.

- [Narrator] With fresh freebies on the way,

they turn their attention back to tearing into the Woody.

[intense heavy rock music] [welding rods sizzling]

- Do we need these through your panel?

- I would save 'em for right now.

Oh man, the singing units.

- Okay, so we roll the car back.

- I think let's roll it back.

- Wow, it's stripped.

- [Narrator] Like a rotten muller,

they yanked the useless engine from its former home

and lay it to rest in the monster junkyard.

- Oh God, what a job.

- Sounds good.

I think we got it just down as far as we're gonna get it.

I think this is cool 'cause it doesn't have to, you know,

trim hedges or nothing,

so we can just have fun and do whatever.

As long as it gets us to the beach,

then everybody gets their tools.

What about you?

Have you started doing anything yet?

- Tomorrow. I got time.

- [Jesse] Okay.

- I planned a day for screw ups.

- Okay, so you already wasted that?

- Yeah.

- [Narrator] The rain may have cost Jay a day,

but the rest of the team tore away at decades of decay.

Come tomorrow, they'll be ready

to start turning this woody into a monster.

"Monster Garage" Factoid.

The wood harvested from one large tree

can produce enough lumber to make one Woody wagon,

two dozen surfboards, 200 rolls of toilet paper,

or 30,000 toothpicks.

♪ Monster, Monster garage

- [Narrator] Day three.

After chopping up the Woody yesterday,

the surfer dudes are back for more.

- So because we're so lucky what we did yesterday,

we get to do all over today only on hat Bronco.

- Yeah, we'll rip that one apart like we did this

with torches and plasma cutter.

- "Monster Garage" style.

- [Narrator] The '86 Bronco was delivered at dawn.

It doesn't run, but they only need the front and rear ends,

which are 35 years younger than the Woody.

- Oh we're gonna take the front slip off

and after we yank the motor out of it,

we're gonna cut the frame off.

[heavy rock music]

- You know, there's just not enough work for us to do

so we figured we'd make a little bit more work for us

by tearing this Bronco apart.

Yeah, and do exactly the same thing we did yesterday today.

- [Narrator] Bob Lopez doesn't mind keeping busy.

When he's not polishing his 1940 Woody,

he's either making art, music,

or taking road trips to the ocean.

- I am a retired fireman, and now I build hot rods,

and I create surf art, woody art, and also hot rod art.

You don't have to have any boundaries,

especially if you enjoy doing what you're doing,

you could build some really fascinating things.

If we get done real early, like, there's a possibility

we're gonna go surfing.

How's that?

- [Narrator] They ditched the front bumper and body.

- [Bob] Just drag it out.

- [Narrator] Then it's the Broncos wiped out V8

and tr*nny's turn to go.

- [Bob] Here we go.

- [Doug] Yeah!

- [Narrator] Doug Carr from the design

is back to deliver the building blocks

for the custom wooden frame.

- All right, get some of this wood inside.

- [Narrator] But this ain't no ordinary pile of wood.

Doug just finished this framework

for a customer who ordered it months ago,

but agreed to give it up to the garage.

- Well, they're all pieces of eastern hard rock maple,

and the laminated pieces, there's eight of these,

are all done with ash underlayments

and then they have maple on the outside.

This is exactly how they were done originally by Ford,

and then it normally takes about a hundred hours

to fit 'em up on the car properly

and get 'em ready for varnish.

- Over here, I got a bunch of tools I already brought in.

You don't have any woodworking tools here

so I brought my own.

Don't like glasses I make.

I love to free time do a little special stuff.

I do it off the wall, but you know what?

I'm a woody guy.

This is my woody.

I got woody glasses.

- [Narrator] Much like the wacky glasses he carves,

Ron Heiden is one of a kind.

- I restore wooden cars.

I do the woodworking on the old Woodies basically.

Helped a friend work on his woody,

and that just sort of turned into,

well, let me do a little more

and so I ended up just working for him for about a year,

and then I bought the business out from him

and that was it, and I started doing it.

[tool whirring]

- [Narrator] While she's waiting

for their engine to be delivered,

Nicole decides to help Ron assemble the panel frames.

- Perfect!

Right on the money.

I got good help.

- Never thought I'd ever work with wood in my life.

- [Narrator] Whether she's working on a car

or working the phone selling auto parts,

Nicole Downey is used to being the only woman on the job.

- I'm a sales rep for Napa.

Basically, I deal with all the outside customers,

selling them all the parts they need,

stock orders, stuff to run a shop.

A lot of guys don't think

a girl could figure out what a part was,

but most guys are coming around

to the fact of girls working in shops and stuff.

- Do I look like a clown to you?

- [Narrator] Jesse isn't clowning around.

The master fabricator has his work cut out for him today.

- Since they got a long ways to go on the chassis,

I'm trying to make all the other stuff like the side steps.

- [Narrator] He cuts away at the rust hoping to expose

some good metal underneath.

[upbeat rock music]

- Really nasty.

Looks like solid rust.

[heavy brooding rock music]

- [Narrator] Now that the surf shack is weatherproof,

Jay's free to start shaping the Long Beach longboards.

- [Jay] First step I'm gonna mill the top, then the bottom.

As I shape it and I start doing

my bottom curves and stuff like that,

the shadows will show you where your flaws are

if you know how to see 'em,

if you know what you're looking at.

And so you basically use light to help you make it easier

to make a nice board.

Instead of just like the old days

hanging a bulb over the top and whacking 'em out.

That's why they sucked 'cause most of 'em, you know,

they couldn't see what they were doing.

They just saw white stuff.

And so that's why I have the light set up the way I did.

It's all done on shadows and feel.

- [Narrator] When you're talking about surf rock,

there's only one name you need to know.

d*ck Dale, and the big kahuna himself has dropped by

with 12-year-old son Jimmy for a midweek jam

and a trip down memory lane.

- I have a 1940 Ford black.

- And that's where the whole wood grew.

- Woody. All Woody. - Yeah.

- And then I went and I took out all the hardware.

I plated it all nice.

Took all our boards and shoved them in the back.

- Yanked the seats, right? - And all the kids

got all asphyxiated

from the gas fumes. - There you go. Oh yeah.

[upbeat melodic bluesy music]

[builders cheering and applauding]

- [Builder] You're the man!

- [Narrator] Back from their intermission,

Bob cuts loose the Bronco's front end.

[metal clanking]

- [Jesse] What took you guys so long?

- We're slow, man.

We're surfers.

- [Narrator] Then they're clear

to make some final adjustments.

- These components have to come off.

We can put the other springs

and the other components for the lift kit on here,

and get a taller lift on the body for Baja, right, Jay?

- Yeah, actually it'll be a taller lift on the suspension.

The body's gonna stay the same on the frame.

[upbeat heavy rock music]

- [Narrator] Tear up number two is complete

with the donor truck surrendering its front and rear ends.

Then the forklift returns to hang two into the Bronco

and corral it out back in the monster junk yard.

Jesse's trying to make the most of the original body.

He cuts and welds bars attempting to restore integrity

to what's left of the frayed metal.

[welding rods sizzling]

And Jay's doing a little renovating of his own.

- I was walking past the trash pile and I saw this.

You know, we gotta do something with this

since it's off the original car.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut a piece of this off,

and then cut it down close to shape.

I'll glue it up on here,

and then I'll take my hard pad and shape it down

so we'll have part of the old woody

to go with the new surfboard.

[tool whirring]

Okay, and I just reshape it to match the bottom of the board

and then we're gonna have a tail block,

and that takes a while so the camera can go now.

- [Narrator] When he's working, Jay likes to be left alone.

Jesse apparently never got that message.

- Are you gonna make me slap you?

He thinks I'm scared.

I'm the only guy to hit him and get away with it.

- [Narrator] Ron and Nicole are burning through the framing.

- Just say gorgeous!

We still have super fast, but we're on fast right now,

and I got help so this is good.

[tool whirring]

[upbeat lively music]

- [Narrator] Their new front end is ready,

but first, the old one has to go.

[intense heavy metal music]

- Okay, go the other way.

Go in. In.

[metal clanks]

Right on. It's off.

Hey, that wasn't that bad.

[intense heavy metal music]

- [Narrator] By the end of day three,

this team's worked circles around two cars,

the panel frames, and a couple of boards for the beach.

Let's hope they can ride this wave of momentum into tomorrow

without wiping out.

♪ Monster, Monster garage

- [Narrator] Day four.

Big Wednesday in the garage, and this team still has

a whole lot of monster left to build.

- I guess it's clip day today, huh?

Let's clip that.

- Dial it all that stuff and fit that clip on it,

and weld it to the car and start bolting the bones back.

- I'll continue on the wood

and we'll see if we get more of this stuff on here,

and hopefully we'll get most of it on today.

- [Narrator] They pick up where they left off last night,

and get the new front end ready to weld to the woody.

- Okay, remember we're gonna have to slide this thing

forward and then in, and it's going

to the inside or outside?

- Outside. - Okay. Whatever you want.

- The Bronco frame is several inches

wider than the woody frame.

Do some cutting, bring it back on, and clamp it down.

- [Narrator] Bob and David tailor the ends of the rails

to match the Woody's frame.

Then force them into position

and take some final measurements.

- Oh man, I'm telling you, this one here

is right on the button.

Whatever you do in the front of a frame,

you gotta square it up, level it, and, you know,

make sure it's level front to rear, side to side,

and then corner to corner, you have to square it up

so that the thing goes down the road straight.

- [Narrator] For David Snotty,

building off-roaders isn't too far off the beaten path.

- I'm a fabricator.

Build off-road race cars, pre-runners, trucks.

I work for a company called Wide Open.

We build cars that usually once a year for a race

to race the Baja 1,000 and then we crash a car

and something breaks that's, you know,

that's bound to happen.

That's all racing.

Bring it back to the shop and fix it

and wait 'til the next time.

- [Narrator] The glass guys from Fiberglass Hawaii arrive

to bring the surfboards one step closer

to hitting the water.

Jay has no problemo handing over his creation

to the fiberglass pros.

- I hadn't done this stuff in 20 years, man.

I'll do acid splashes,

and there's certain little resin things that I enjoy doing

'cause it's just way messed up.

But the regular day-to-day stuff,

that's what these guys do every day.

It's like with Jesse building bikes.

- It's silica.

It's the same as a window glass.

This is molten in very thin fibers,

and then weaved together like you do on any textile,

and this whole glass is so flexible now.

It doesn't break.

- [Narrator] The surface is then coated

with an ultraviolet resin compound,

which bonds the silica to the board,

and cures with exposure to sunlight.

- Now the light of the sun is gonna make this resin

kick very fast and gonna be able to flip it over

and keep going right away.

- [Narrator] Back inside, David hauls in a lift kit

courtesy of Four Wheel Parts.

- There you go.

Set right up here.

- [Narrator] With the lift kit in house

and the front end done,

Jim and Nicole mount the control arms and axle.

[tools whirring] [intense heavy metal music]

- Seems gonna look pretty wild looking

with all that suspension in front.

- It's gonna have probably around 12 inches

of front wheel travel, which should make

for a nice ride also.

- [Narrator] The combination of surfing and wrenching

isn't very different from Jim's usual routine.

- I run Jim's Volkswagen Service and Repair,

a little independent Volkswagen repair shop

in Monterey Park, California.

We do service and repair on all types of Volkswagens,

and I run a surf shop in Laguna Beach, California.

When you like what you're doing and having fun,

that's what it's all about.

Okay, push.

- [Narrator] Then they turn their attention to the back,

and roll the Broncos rear end under the Woody.

- We'll do whatever we have to do

to make the back the right height.

- Give it that just a kick down a little bit.

No Arkansas style.

- No, that's the worst.

- Someone playing a banjo in the back.

[Jesse imitate banjo twanging]

- [Dave] It's gotta be down in the back

a little bit, you know?

- Yeah. Long Beach style.

- [Dave] That's the way it is.

- [Narrator] Happy with the team's suspension work,

Jesse starts fabricating a new bumper

to replace the degrading original.

[intense heavy metal music]

- The way that molds around there.

Yeah, it's like butter.

- [Narrator] Forget about riding waves.

Nicole's happier surfing in on their brand new



- Cool.

We don't need to know anything.

Put plug wires on it and plug it in and go.

- And just go. - Yeah.

Start having fun right away.

- [Nicole] We don't need that.

- [Narrator] Both their engine manual

and day four are in the can.

- [Nicole] We're good.

- All right, we're cool.

You guys are kicking a*s, yeah.

- We're trying.

- In the morning, we'll get all least the front

done and hung, and then we can pop the motor trans in.

- Yep.

- All right.

- [Narrator] The team heads out for the night

having kept their heads above water so far.

Let's hope another wave of work tomorrow doesn't drown 'em.

"Monster Garage" Factoid.

The first wooden wagon on record

was built in Holland around the year 1600

when engineer Simon Stevin

added carriage wheels to a sailboat.

The vehicle carried 28 passengers over land or water

at a blazing speed of 20 miles an hour.

♪ Monster, Monster garage

- [Narrator] Day five.

Our build team starts the day

still riding high on yesterday's wave of momentum.

- We're gonna get her done.

- Yeah, I think we'll get it done, maybe.

- [Jesse] Maybe?

[Nicole laughs]

- I don't wanna jinx myself.

We don't need this.

- [Narrator] As Body Drop waits to go on a parts run,

Nicole's just trying to make their engine run.

[melodic bluesy rock music]

- Hey, let's put this wood on this side of the car here.

Let's get this car together.

[tool whirring]

We're getting closer to finish, finished product.

- [Narrator] The sanders Jay's brought in from Foamy Z

arrive to polish off the boards.

- Lemme show you your sanding room.

- All I'm gonna do in the sanding process

is just take all the high spots down, grind down the boxes,

grind the overlaps, the deck plug.

It's dusty and simple.

- These guys make bank 'cause nobody wants to sand.

They make bank.

- [Narrator] It's sanding room only

in the monster surf shack.

[sanding tools whirring]

And in the garage, Bob changes gears and wheels

in the transmission.

- It's parts time.

[intense heavy metal music]

- [Narrator] It's a quick fit to the motor

before they haul the power plant over to the woody.

- [Bob] Okay, start dropping it down slow.

- [Narrator] But loading it into the engine compartment

is no walk on the beach.

- Okay. Can it go back?

You can't go back though.

- Distributor now is up against it.

- Well, lower down some more.

Okay, stop.

Nothing fits right, that's the problem.

I think we got a Bronco, we got a '50 Woody,

and we got a Chevy small block Chevy

with a 700 R transmission.

God, nothing fits. Go figure.

We're gonna have to cut from this way in, Bob.

- [Narrator] To clear a path for the bulkier engine,

David torches a section of the firewall under the dash.

The rusted steel proves no match for the plasma cutter,

and after a few adjustments, they're back in business.

- All right, this looks rather plain Jane right now.

So we're running over to West Coast Choppers

to drop this stuff off.

[tires screeching]

- [Narrator] For the Picasso of pin striping, Pete Finland,

it's not a surfboard, it's a blank canvas.

- This is kinda like a throwback.

This is how I started painting surfboards.

[upbeat lively music] [paint fizzing]

[upbeat lively music continues]

Okay, finally everything's painted.

It's time to clear it.

[upbeat lively music] [paint fizzing]

- [Narrator] Back in the garage,

Bob and Jim are busy mounting the off-road shocks.

- We're gonna have dual shocks in the front.

These are the second pair.

We gotta have 'em this front end plenty strong.

Dual shocks better than one.

Just in case this car gets pounded a little bit,

you want it to take a little bit

more compression and rebound with two shocks.

Keep it from banging up and down in the air.

- [Narrator] The shocks will make Jesse feel

like he's riding on air, but he'll need four wheel drive

to power through rough terrain, and the transfer case

is its key components.

- [Jim] It's transfer time.

- [Narrator] The transfer case works

by splitting the motor's energy output to two drive shafts

that run to the front and rear differentials.

Without the added benefit of four wheel drive,

this Woody might not make it out of the woods at all.

- [Jim] You slide, I'll move and hold it.

- [Bob] Lift it up in the back, Jim.

[welding rods crackles]

- [Narrator] While the rest of the team

worries about getting the woody to run,

Jesse's making sure that when it does,

it looks like a monster.

He cuts additional sections of diamond plate

to fill out and brace the bumper,

and grinds the pieces to a smooth finish.

But a smooth finish might not be in the cards

for this monster.

- You guys got that out of Colma Chevy for complete idiots?

I'll bring mine in tomorrow if you need it.

- [Dave] You have that seriously?

- Yeah.

- [Dave] Well, bring it please just in case.

- I have every manual known to God.

- I'm almost done with this super cool bumper.

I think I'm just entertaining myself now on this build.

I'm not worried about anything

that's why I'm making a bumper.

Something the car doesn't even need to run.

[upbeat lively music]

It's arts and crafts with welders.

[upbeat music]

Will I get as lucky on the second side?

Try it, what do you think?

What are the odds?

It's a quarter of an inch too high.

I need to fix it. But close.

[welding rods crackling]

How's that look?

Does it look like a shoebox Ford front bumper?

- Exactly.

Look at them.

- [Narrator] They're impressed by Jesse's handiwork,

but David and Jim know they've got a lot of work to do

before midnight tomorrow.

- We're making our to-do list.

So far, we're up to number 15.

Not bad, but by morning they'll be more.

- [Narrator] Day five is behind them,

and the builders hit the road with only one day left

to beach their woody.

- [Schwag] Will the wind flatten the waves

of this monster build?

[engine cranking]

Or will the surf Woody make the sound

Jesse thinks it oughta?

- Ocho Cylindro sound, you know? [imitates engine cranking].

- [Schwag] Stick around and find out.

Tallyho!

♪ Monster, monster garage

- [Narrator] Day six.

Only two questions remain.

Will this team finish the build,

and what's up with those matching shirts?

- All righty, it's Aloha Friday.

Let's smooth right through this thing today.

- Wrap it up. - Wrap it up.

- Everything's gonna get touched one more time.

- How's that? - That's it.

- Gotta wire it up and we gotta make sure it'll run, huh?

- Well, let's get to work.

- [Narrator] David gets going by carrying in

the front and rear drive shafts,

and joining them to the transfer case and differential.

[upbeat lively music]

Bob gets busy mounting a new radiator.

The parade of parts continues

as Jim wheels in their fuel cell.

- All right, hold on.

You know what?

It's not gonna fit in here.

- How about like that? - Hold on, dude.

You know what I think we ought to do

is I think we ought to torch the floor out

the same width as this.

- Drop it flat with the floor.

- And drop it in until it rests on here.

- [Narrator] Bob turns their plan into action,

cutting the Woody's flooring

to rest the tank in place on the undercarriage.

[upbeat lively music]

Nicole helps Jay carry in his finished boards,

and this g*ng of lifelong longboarders

likes what they see.

- [Jesse] You guys see those?

- Oh my God. - Hot dog.

That is awesome. Oh my God.

[upbeat heavy rock music]

- [Narrator] The last day of the build has Jesse fired up.

He's taken the exhaust in hand

and starts customizing the pipes

to branch around the Woody's crowded engine compartment.

- It won't be that loud.

It'll have a good ocho cilindro sound.

You know [imitates engine cranking].

- [Narrator] Jesse's crooked exhaust system is taking shape,

but without a running motor,

all this twisted metal could quickly turn into dead weight.

David and Ron cart in the Woody's new Jesse James rims,

and 32 inch Toyo off-road tires.

If they ever get the Woody running, it'll be ready to roll.

[upbeat lively music]

And Jesse's making sure this Woody will roar.

[Jesse bellows]

[welding rods crackling]

- I don't think it's that I know

how to do anything that good.

I just know how to work all the tools that do it for me.

How tight that exhaust hooks up there.

- [Narrator] Woodman Ron really shows his mettle

assembling their shifter.

- Not made of wood.

I changed my talents out.

That's gonna be our console for the shifter for the floor.

This is gonna make it all happen.

B & M shifter.

- [Narrator] Then it's time for the boys

to do some tailgating.

[upbeat lively music]

With less than four hours to go,

all the pieces are finally starting to come together.

[upbeat lively music] [welding rods crackling]

- All right.

- [Narrator] After adding fluids, it's time to see

if their new motor will turn over.

- Well, it all boils down to this.

[engine cranking]

- [Narrator] But somewhere along the way,

it seemed Nicole's lines got crossed.

- No, firing order.

- I know the firing order.

It's right here.

- I said we know the firing order.

- I've got it in order.

- She said she had it right over and over.

Should be 18173.

- [Nicole] It's 1872.

- Well, it's not. - And it's not.

This is number seven.

What's the order?

- [Narrator] If the connection

between the distributor and the spark plugs

is out of order or mistimed,

their new motor doesn't stand a chance of starting.

And the problem could take hours to unravel.

Precious time these builders don't have.

- [Jesse] This is like fourth down and nine.

You know what I mean?

- Yeah.

- [Narrator] As the rest of the team grasps at straws,

David's back on the phone making a desperate call for help.

- Okay, all right, that's all I needed to know.

See ya.

- Okay, did you get it to top dead center yet?

- No. - Okay.

Well, that's what we need to do right now.

- [Narrator] Convinced the problem isn't the wiring

but the timing with the piston cycle,

David rotates the crankshaft pulley

to get the pistons to their natural starting point.

- [Dave] There we go. Set it.

. Okay.

All right, you guys clear up there?

- [Bob] Yep. Fire it up.

First time.

[engine cranks]

- [Narrator] The engine and the build crew

are all revved up.

- Whoo!

- [Narrator] With the build in the bag,

it's time for a little early celebration.

[fireworks popping]

Then Ron unveils something

he's kept under wraps all week.

- Free "Monster Garage" rear view surfboard mirror.

It's just pulling away from.

We're done. - All right.

- Official.

We're gonna hit the beach.

Bam, bam, bam! That easy.

[intense heavy metal music]

- Well, let me adjust the timing. [laughs]

[intense heavy metal music]

- [Narrator] Out on the sand,

this Woody doesn't miss a beat.

[intense heavy metal music]

- Yeah, Jesse! - All right, all right,

all right, yeah!

[intense heavy metal music]

- Look at that flotation city, man.

- It feels good.

It feels tight.

- We're stoked, man.

- It works.

You guys want some tools?

Good job, guys, and girl.

That was a good one.

- Pleasure. - All right. We had fun, man.

- [Jesse] All that work just to go surfing.

- That's it. What a blast.

Mac tools and "Motorcycle Mania 3" CDs.

- Right on. - Appreciate it.

- Now, this is from the Woody guys to you.

- Oh, awesome.

That's cool.

- An original Lopez hose rack, man.

That's for you.

- That's pretty cool.

I'll put that in my house.

Thanks, man. - You're welcome.

Thank you. - You're welcome.

- It's been a hell of a week. - That's the first time

I ever got something.

Except for a lesson.

- [Narrator] Build cost tally.

Vehicle cost, $14,000.

Build cost, 3,570.

Freebie value, $22,363.

Surfboard materials, $2,800.

Grand total, $42,733.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Schwag] Hey, monster surfers!

Guess where we're heading today?

That's right, to the beach!

They say the early bird catches the waves.

Bob, Jim, and Ron from the build team

have flown in their Woodies to see about hanging 10.

- Now what?

We can't drive down that road.

- Wave's out there.

- Come on, let's get our stuff.

- Let's go do it. - Let's head on down.

- [Schwag] What's that?

It's the monsterized surf Woody.

Will Jesse stop? Hell no!

The back seat is full of Jay Hodge's custom surfboards.

Sorry, dudes!

[upbeat rock music]

[engine revving]

Oh yeah!

Donuts on the beach in the world's only lifted

four wheel drive surf Woody.

Now that's the right way to start your day!

- This seems bitching.

All right, let's go surfing.

- Get the wetsuits on and go. - Let's get wet.

[upbeat lively music]

- [Jesse] Beats working.

- [Schwag] The master fabricator dons his wetsuit,

and hits the 60 degree water.

Catch that wave, Jesse!

[upbeat lively music]

While Jesse and the build team find the cut and hang 10,

let's get a good look at the handiwork

of these surfing builders.

Oh yeah!

Jesse doesn't pretend to be a champion surfer.

- I peaked when I was like nine at surfing.

I'm good as I wanna be.

Back to work.

- [Schwag] Before Jesse goes,

he puts the monster through its paces one last time.

[intense heavy metal music] [engine revving]

Hey, look out, Jesse!

It's Johnny Law on your tail!

Hit it, Jesse! Hit it!

[sirens blaring] [intense heavy metal music]

So long, coppers!

Peace off!

'Cause Jesse's got no time for cops on the beach,

wave's outta reach, or Woodies stuck in the parking lot!

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

The next "Monster Garage" challenge

is just around the bend!

[fast paced melodic bluesy music]