Jesse James and my old car: The monster garage 308 pasta car

Tuesday, March 21

Good Morning Sue:

I am writing on behalf of Doug. "Remodeling" the car was not his call, and he felt bad about taking it apart. Doug owns two 308s. The Tri-color paint scheme at the end was a total surprise. Here is the info that you requested:

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Janet for
Doug Pirrone

 

Hello!

My thoughts exactly. I don't want to see a show where they weld together a kitchen appliance.

If they had bought one, they might have actually come up with a design that allows for it to be maintained etc and the pasta maker car could be used at Ferrari events as an attraction and make food for the audience. But this hack job didn't work, is probably unsafe to eat and impossible to maintain (how do you clean it afterwards?).

 

Janet,

pls let Doug know, that he and Giovanni were the guys I respected in the show for what they did. His idea with using the windshield wiper for the conveyor belt and his input in testing the pasta maker before installing it showed me, that he knows what he is doing when working on cars.

I thought Doug and Giovanni got out of this affair with their honor intact. Not something I'd say for the rest of the team.

 

yeah, when they served up a bowl of pasta to Jesse, he had a less than enthusistic expression....

 

What a complete waste of resouces and talent.

I would rather see a show where the build team walk us throught a full restoration and fabrication of parts needed to fix the damage. Someone said the car needed $12K to make it right. With a price of $14K the car wasn't quite upsidown in value.

There are alot of resto-rod/customizing shows on cable these days. I just wish we had a show for us where salvage F-cars are brough back to life and entered in concourse events.

 

Sorry Sue.

Never watched the show before and will never watch it again.

It was a bad joke gone bad.

It would have still been bad if he won the pasta contest, since he didn't

it was a total waste.

stephen

 

Can anybody explain to me why they took the engine cover off?

 

Quote from Forrest Gump: Stupid is as Stupid does

 

good point. didn't catch it at the time......

 

I bet the other P.O. of this car is gonna be P.O.'d about this!
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I was wondering that myself. At least they didn't defile the engine compartment.

I thought one of the restoration guys on the show said the original damage could be fixed for about $4,000(?) That seems a bit low, but maybe I heard wrong.

 

I believe they said 14k, which seemed high. Their explanation was that "you can't get these parts anymore". BS. There are plenty of parts around to fix that.

It is kinda hard to see, but I think they actually did fix the accident damage when you look at the green front. Combine that with the hydraulics for the front bonnet and the paint job and you see how ridiculous the whole deadline concept is: Jesse's staff obviously was working on this car after the week was over. The whole show is just one big pile of BS.

 

no me gusta

 

"Tonight on Monster Garage: Retarded grease monkeys throw feces."

 

One of the producers of this show posted on "the other" site looking for Italian American mechanics only for this project about 9 months ago, he was flamed I believe. Must have been scraping the barrel to request Ferrari mechanics on the internet.

 

Don't forget the copious bondo.

Saw him in the Paddock club once, baggy prison denims and a black 'wife beater' t-shirt, tatooed hooker wife falling out of her halter.

To paraphrase Forest Gump: ...Trash is as trash does.

 

Wow, Sandra Bullock used to be a hooker?

 

If you don't want someone doing anything to your car, don't sell it in the first place, right? If you sell your car, it deserves whatever the new owner wants.

Nope, but his ex used to be a porn-star.

 

I didn't see the show (just the stills from this thread), how bad is the damage? If we fed it to the carreaper, I bet he could set it right and make some money without breaking it up.

Regards,

Art S.

 

New front window, new paint job, fix the original accident damage (maybe done already), new front left fender.

 

But Jessie was in a couple Porn movies, comic acting only, produced at his old shop, , on his pool table... probably included his Ex.

DOUH,,, , , , , I mean,,, so I've been told. (wink)

 

JJ's got a nice catch, , , ,
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Episode 74
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/monstergarage/episode/season5/slideshows/episode_74/episode_74.html

Some ratty photos

 

Arrghh!

First time I see the golden antennae and the horsey shifter. Yuck!