The WORST episodes of Monster Garage
Every episode of Monster Garage ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Monster Garage!
Monster Garage is a game show where a group of people who have a passion for building, modifying, or fabricating cars get the chance to create a vehicle that can transform into a completely different machine. If the build is successful, the build crew gets a tool chest with $3,400 worth of Mac tools. Later add-ons to the prize, Monster Garage soundtrack CD, and occasionally (to some of the builders who go above and beyond) a Monster Garage jacket. If the build is a failure, host Jesse James feeds it to a shredder. James got his Discovery Channel fame by being chronicled in Motorcycle Mania and Motorcycle Mania 2. In Monster Garage, he is practically involved in every build; from design, construction (or destruction), and the Monster Challenge.
#2 - Wheelie Santa Float
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/2003
Project vehicle: 1986 Pontiac Firebird with 1991 Ferrari Testarossa body Christmas turned from nice to naughty when monster mechanics created an evil Santa float. Design team: Christopher Lowell (Discovery Channel decorator), Jocelyne Borys (art director), Dick Gillespie (float expert), Art Aguirre (sketcher) Build team: Michael Gillespie (as Mike Gillespie, Sr.), float builder and son of Dick Gillespie from San Gabriel, California Michael Gillespie, Jr. (as Mike Gillespie, Jr.), general automotives guy and float builder from Sierra Madre, California Ian Johnson, car engine and mechanical expert from Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada Jeff Covey, custom fabricator and race car builder from Middleville, Michigan Garth McCrohan, pro welder and Monster Garage fanatic from El Cajon, California Gary Twemlow, float sculptor from Duarte, California
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Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/2004
Project vehicle: 1988 U-Haul International 16 Series Well, here's something you don't see every day: a hydraulic-powered wrestling ring/U-Haul box truck. Right? I mean, when you think U-Haul, do you think WrestleMania or RAW? Design team: Bill Goldberg (as Goldberg) (professional wrestler), Ellis Edwards (stuntman) Build team: Mark N. Carpenter Sr. (as Mark Carpenter), professional wrestling ring constructor from Bridgeport, Connecticut Angel Figueroa, welder/fabricator from Long Beach, California Mike Dilgard, U-Haul guru from Phoenix, Arizona Ron Powers, Hydraulics expert from San Jose, Carlifornia Marty Coronel, welder/bartender from Valencia, Carlifornia
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Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/26/2004
Project vehicle: 1988 Chevrolet Blazer A truck was converted into a racing vehicle to climb Pikes Peak. Design Team: Larry Ragland (Pike's Peak racing record champion), Patrick Janicke (vehicle artist), Randy Ruyle (Pikes Peak International Hill Climb director of competition) Build Team Randy Ruyle, Pikes Peak local from Cascade, Colorado Rhys Millen, Racer/Pikes Peak champion, from Huntington Beach, California Sarah Grenier, Engineer/mechanical specialist from Manchester, New Hampshire Doug Evans, Mechanic and hot rod builder from San Marco, Texas Mike Cook, West Coast Choppers special project director from Huntington Beach, California
#5 - Old-School Chopper
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/11/2004
Project vehicle: 2004 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail Last time, Jesse made motorcycle from a truck; this time, he goes back to his roots by customizing a motorcycle. Sounds too easy? Not if Jesse wanted to prove himself to a build team of motorcycle legends that had help started Jesse's bike building career. Design team: Mark Rowe (motorcycle frame builder) Don Hotop (custom bike builder) Carl Morrow (engine specialist) John Reed (motorcyle pioneer) Keith Ball (motorcycle builder and journalist) Jamie Seymour (sketcher) Build team: Mark Rowe, motorcycle frame builder from Seabrook, New Hampshire Don Hotop, Don's Speed and Custom Cycle owner and custom bike builder from Fort Madison, Iowa Carl Morrow, engine specialist from Daytona Beach, Florida John Reed, motorcyle pioneer from Morgan Hill, California Keith Ball, motorcycle builder and journalist from Wilmington, California
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#6 - Honey Bee Drift Car
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/2004
A 1975 Datsun 210 Honeybee is Monster-ized into a drift car when the team installs a Nissan 350Z engine.
#7 - Open-Road Racer
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/2004
Project Vehicle: 1964 Lincoln Continental A luxury cruiser was converted into a race vehicle to run in open road. Design team: Dave Golder (expert open road race car designer), Craig Jull (race car builder and fabricator), John Caswell (automotive designer) Build team: Matt Goodsell, race car fabricator from Orange, California Brian Haynes, hot rod builder from Jamesville, California Craig Jull, fabricator from Bellflower, California Dave Golder, open road race driver and mechanic from Highland, California Pat McElreath, race car designer and old timer from Portland, Oregon
#8 - Belly Tank Lakester
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/13/2004
Project vehicle: Phantom F-4 fuel tank Jesse James competes in the fastest challenge ever by building a vehicle from a fuel tank. Will the transmission fail him this time? Design team: Bill Burke (world's first lakester builder), Al Teague (fastest lakester speed record holder), Jason Wilbur (artist) Build team: Robert ""Stainless"" Steele (as Stainless), Boeing technical support specialist from Wichita, Kansas John Gowestski, retired air force machine builder and fabricator from Littleton, Colorado Charlie Hamilton, lakester expert, mechanic and fabricator from Lake Tahoe, California James Iiams, welder and fabricator from Cypress, California Tim McNees, race car fabricator and builder from Salt Lake City, Utah Al Teague, the king of speed from Brea, California
#9 - Ultimate Surfmobile
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2005
Jesse and a team of surfers, transform a broken down, rusted out, 1950 Ford Woody Wagon into the ultimate wave-chasing off-road machine.
#10 - Miata / Jet Ski
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/7/2004
The gang tries to convert a Miata convertible into a personal watercraft.
#11 - Crop Circler
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2005
Jesse makes a Crop Circle Maker out of an old, beat-up farmer's tractor. He wants to do what the aliens do; visit a field of wheat, and leave behind a pattern that can only be explained as a visit from another world.
#12 - All Female Dirt Racer Revisited
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2005
Jesse and the all-female Monster Garage team tries to build a dirt-track racer.
#14 - Logsplitter
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/21/2005
For this build it was "goodbye, crash helmet" and "hello, wool cap," as Jesse and the crew created a log splitter out of a 1982 powder-blue Zimmer Golden Spirit, a car made famous in the early '80s for an over-the-top, pimped-out luxury style. The plan: to cut the Zimmer in half, extending the car; after a log was dropped in, the car would come back together via a couple of hydraulic cylinders and thus split the log.
#15 - Folsom Prison Low-Rider
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/16/2005
Monster Garage has always been known for its tight deadlines, sure, but this is the first time its builders couldn't leave the set ... literally. Because in this episode, a select group of Folsom State Prison inmates � many of whom learned their mechanical skills while behind bars � joined Jesse in transforming a rusty 1969 Chevy Impala into the ultimate low-rider.
#16 - Georgia High School Dragster
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/19/2005
Jesse leaves the monster garage and travels to Robert Groves High School Career Academy. Jesse and the students take the frame and body of a junior dragster and turn it into a dialed-in, super-sleek racing machine.
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#23 - Rock 'em Sock 'em Scions Pt2
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/12/2004
In the second installment of this two-part episode, teams finish transforming XA & XB Scions, into deadly Monsters and pit them against each other.
#25 - Road Ramp
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/2003
1987 Winnebago Itasca/Suncruiser / Skate Ramp Will Jesse and his team — which includes pro skater Tony Hawk — successfully turn a 1987 Winnebago Itasca/Suncruiser into a skate ramp? • Jesse James, custom-bike builder/designer, West Coast Choppers, Long Beach, Calif. • Chris ""Body Drop"" Artiaga, skate-boarder and fabricator, San Luis Obispo, Calif. • Nigel Benjamin, former lead vocalist for a British glam band turned music studio designer, Toluca Lake, Calif. • Steve Cadena, creative consultant, Gaylord's Kustom Trucks, Long Beach, Calif. • Tony Hawk, pro skater, San Juan Capistrano, Calif. • Jason Jessee, pro skater and motorcycle fabricator, Santa Cruz, Calif. • Jeff King, skate rail and ramp builder, San Diego, Calif. • Joe ""Leaf Eater"" McCluskey, custom-car builder, Hemet, Calif. • Mike McIntyre, skate ramp engineer and builder, SITE Design Group, Tempe, Ariz. • Rick Thorne, professional BMX freestyler, Santa Ana, Calif.
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