GOLD RUSH [A Trans Am Documentary]

The future has arrived, the all-new Trans Am for 1978, complete with a luxurious sporty interior for a comfortable drive. 6.6-liter, 400 cubic-inch engine for plenty of power when you need it. The most radio-tuned suspension for better handling and excellent rope performance. local dealer today and request a test drive in the new Trans Am. Yes the Phoenix went up and around midnight he took the front spoiler off and I remember being under it to get it all back so I got all that. together and we got it back, everything went well and then Linda was driving it down a dirt road and her spoiler fell off so they blamed her.

I think it was probably because of me that her father left. I was the first, yes, he is the one. there's the car that started the

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ient fever for this family, absolutely yes, there aren't many pictures of my dad's

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Trans Am, but there are some 8 millimeter pictures showing this

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Trans Am, we had no idea he had bought he. car didn't tell me so I'm going to go get it, it just shows up with him one day, a gold 1978 Trans Am and it was, you know, it was an instant love story. I know, I remember dad working on the car a little bit and me. jumped on him, he got so sad oh yeah, I thought so, I mean all I could see was the trouble he did, he made an entrance and then I need to save every damage, he did a kid on the sidewalk, he did headbutts, it was quick, that's going to turn into a bit, you know, Torquay, that car was okay.

I remember driving it and things coming out of the consoles every time you drove. He had to put it. I can tell it's Saturday everywhere, probably 79 or 80, right outside the front yard. just filming you know random things and it turns out he comes home and drives down the driveway and I catch him on the street stopping at the mailbox and then going down the driveway and that's probably the most precious footage I have of my father. And to the car that started it all for us, we took the original color and added a bigger metal, it's so rich it's solid, yes a little more coppery, but we're using the original color on the wheels.

We are going to powder coat the wheels in the original color so the DNA color stays on the new car throughout the issue. I love this lens, yes, and what I'm telling you, when it comes out, you'll see a mold, yes, yes. sure to pop a little dance in the Celestra with the red trim it looks amazing it really looks good so it looks amazing for a modern gold this is look at me this this piece here this is the interior door you know where they are I made the rug , I love the way they actually floated the bird on top, it looks 3D there, yeah that's really cool and this will have a red border around the surface, you can see how it would look against the red, so all that it was made right here the shock made the carbon fiber Steve did an amazing job making the jig and this hadn't even been polished or anything so this is like a plant that looks good they did a good job it's going to blow.

I'm spectacular, here you know what you think about how crazy it is that of all the cars we've built, this is the first time we've done it. You know who knows that this carmine started a whole new series? You think about success. the Hearst Edition had the Bandit Edition had the Super Duty editions, all of them sold out, the 77 in the fifth generation series in the Hearst GTO edition that were signed by Nate Shelton, president of Hearst, when it can be said that there are only 50 of these. There are only 77 in the world and perhaps many of them have been shipped overseas, so how many are left here in the United States?

The smallest edition we have done is seven, in which case they sold out before we finished and many times they do. It has been worth it because in the secondary market most cars sell for more than what customers paid. I can't guarantee it always, but I can say that so far that's been the track record and it's exciting for us to see that people appreciate the product that we're putting out, this car is going to be shown at SEMA, so we're about six weeks in right now, we're in T top, the guys have to finish it so the car can go into mechanics this weekend. so Josh can install the suspension, engine,

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mission, we are excited to partner with Magnuson on this build.

We are using the Magnuson 2650 supercharger, which is new on the market today and we will be the first to really test it. on a big cubic inch engine, Josh and Mike were the two that were really excited about experimenting with this blower. They had used it in previous applications during the development of the unit with Magnuson and found that it worked extremely efficiently, giving them freshness. It allowed them to have more timing, when they do that they can have more fuel and increase the power starting at 150 degrees, I need to go down 11 degrees at maximum and drop to 140 and the other thing they have to change is that I can't do an automatic.

I have a domain, yeah, take the pressure off a little bit, we'll get another restraint strap, but yeah, I think it's headed for the moon, you know, I mean, yeah, less than less than desirable, set up here today trying to get to deposits in the middle of Rearranging so many things in our way, challenges and knowing that I ordered you guys to remove parts from the car so we risk scratches and new paint, we have done three races so far, Josh Miller completely changed. over a thousand pound-feet of torque and I think we can squeeze a little more out of it, so we'll see if it's a good day so far.

Oh, it's a bit of ours, yes, you liked that work, thank you, very few photos of the original target trance and my dad, one of them has a photo of a motorcycle, that island, there's my formula, there's your Trans Am and that's your motorcycle that I used to ride, yo mom, yeah, you know this black motorcycle that I bought when I was in college. to get back and forth to school so I don't put miles on my Trans Am I changed a battery oh my god I take off my body I remember I used to ride that with your flip flops and your dolphin shorts in a t-shirt without a helmet That was Korea so Scott and I grew up on my grandfather's dairy farm in the early 70's.

My grandfather went from herding cattle with horses to motorcycles. The entire family that lived on the farm got a motorcycle, so there were about ten of us on the farm. At the peak where we were milking over eleven hundred cows a day, it took a long time for him to wear down a horse pretty well galloping across the field, so the motorcycle just made a natural transition to getting these cows up a lot. faster, I don't know. How many days would I be on my way to school at the same time Dad pulls out his gold Trans Am and I'm traveling down the road, you know, behind him?

I thought you know. I think it would be cool to build a modern motorcycle. code with the money and Sam reminded me what OCC did when they built the three bikes for us, oh yeah, like what it's been like now eight nine years ago, man, they really look good together, you know what I really like. I've been seeing lately that it's the Indians, the Indians are cool and there's kind of a theme there with the Indian and the Pontiac, the Pontiac is the Indian, yeah well we were filming this same video a few days ago and Scott noticed that the Indian bicycle was a direct link to the Pontiac Indian and the logo and heritage that comes with the Pontiac brand is actually named after an Indian chief who has a very distinctive mark on American history.

I went to Red Hills, which is our local dealer, and told him what I wanted to do is become a Trans Am, buy everything from changing the gauge to all the little components that would traditionally be branded on the bike, now I have Trans Am, I met with Jason there and he loved the idea of ​​our liquid cooled dual camshaft. engine basically built around performance which we loved and it's one of my favorites because it has the most modern architecture as we go, there's a previous photo of his bike obviously the original Scout bobber, the second version of Indian's Scout , these are some good ones.

Looking at a bike remember you know a lot so this shape is very similar to the inner door panel and what I'm thinking of doing especially duplicating what we are doing on the inner door panel Woodland the hood is fiber carbon. that we are going to keep parts of the charcoal exposed on the bird in the shape of the sake that was made before. We've never done this, but not the whole thing, not just the block, probably just the black part, the middle part of the bird, remember? The Bandit had red accents, yeah, yeah, so we're thinking, what if we did some of those red accents along with the gold car?

We put a template on the charcoal. We've sprayed the entire lens on the car and then removed it now that we have. two perfectly locate our additional stencils, perfect location to place additional colors and it's a build that only gets one chance, place it directly on the trunk lid on the letters, it's supposed to be carbon fiber, yes, like the TransAm on the part back, the letter will be exposed. carbon outlined by accent color so you have black and red to play with as you go, it's painted on carbon, it's not real, notice that while you're painting around everything you're leaving the carbon on, it's carbon, we're just painted exactly like you Leaving that, that's really up to you, I thought about this, even the steering wheel that we're making Harley, it's extraordinarily special for me to design a car that is a tribute to my father and actually do it in collaboration with my son , so now you have three generations that are.

Contributing to the design and result of this car. The moldings around the outer edge first break the life, which is the pretty red frame. Let's do that first and then when we spray the black, we'll have our nice little trim and the trim will be half of the. Beyond that quite frankly, I think this particular car will offer more in terms of performance, creativity, design and first evers than any other car we've ever built. What we are starting with is a four point support on the frame itself. The rest of the fender is built from that reinforcement and fabricated from there.

They took a new bike before it was ridden or started and disassembled. The challenge we are working with now is being able to support a back seat. structure taking a Scout fender into the barbershop world and trying to keep our clearances very barbaric and very tight to the tire and achieve the travel of our suspension and make it look good all at once, so those are our three big challenges . I needed something that my wife could travel with me, so I needed a removable passenger seat and they didn't have anything like that on the market. They figured out how to integrate a second seat just when needed and get better fender drop.

Yeah, look, we really like seeing this. near the tires we can get it initially. I got Kenny involved, he's one of our fabricators. You can't mount it on the fender because it balances out. You know he's in suspension, so you know you could easily create some kind of support. of like the package, our luggage rack for a Harley, the way they slide and then they snap together and then you can float. Can you do that by cutting such a tall offender by cutting him in the oh yeah, sure, well, right where they have him? this bracket, you see the welds, there's a bracket up here that gives it a structure and it's a bracket, so we'll just take it out and when we cut it to 12 then you'll only have a limited part of the radius to be.

Looking at all you'll see is this here, you see that Kinney is working on a plan for a golden car: unveil the bike at SEMA roast, which puts us about 20 days from when the car has to leave to be there. time and quickly realized that there was no way for him to accomplish both. I brought in a master bike builder who was previously at West Coast Choppers. I actually called him three days ago out of the blue and I've never talked to the guy in my life and I said, I know this is a long shot, you don't know me, I don't know you, this is a Hail Mary here, but I need to put together a bike with a secondary seat, everything needs to be fabricated and all I have at this point is a rough fender and some steel parts and he said send me pictures.

Send him some pictures and then he called me back. He says I can do it. I told him I will take you by plane in the morning. You can upload? a plane it's 6:00 a.m. oh, this connects, we're going to run two airtight pins through the frame and a hidden latch on the inside so you can reach under the driver's side, pull the latch, this will lift up from here and then you can put a beauty dish on, a block plate or a beauty plate there and then when you have your seat here, what you will find is that that beauty plate will fit perfectly under your seat, so it will absorb all of that. space and it will be like a rest for the seat, although it doesn't need it, because I mean the seats are tight, but it will fit justunderneath, so it looks like it fits perfectly, which It will use chrome 4130, so it's strong, okay, so we know this is not going to have a problem.

We are going to mount this directly to the swing arm so that it stays with the swing arm at all times so there is never any fluctuation. distance between the tire and that, yeah, it's really well designed and we have the tools and the equipment here that I needed to be able to do it, which a lot of people aren't doing because they have those stands. the fenders that you bolt onto this little square pad for someone and it's mounted to the frame at that point yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is mounted to the frame instead of the swingarm, but now we have this whole swing arm system that It's going to float, have you ever made one like this before?

Something similar, butNo, no, with the removable seat, with a removable seat, that's something new, but it's something that, if you look at it, you have to do it right, someone has to do it. Yeah, the belt guard and fender are now floating together, you know? I think once these fenders are mounted and everything and basically this entire frame system is ready to be finished. I think I'm going to go with the smoke windows like you did on this one, yeah, and then I'll put smoke on. tops, yes these Recaro seats are the ones I chose. I will have the option of using the four point harness or just using the OEM seat belt retractors.

Well, I can go in any direction, one of the things I really like. Josh has done on this car: he relocated the coil packs, they're really gone and now you have a clear view of the valve covers which really gives that old school vibe to the engine bay. It's that pushback we're looking for. and he just did an extraordinarily good job of cleaning up the engine bay and making it look really old school. You know this is the complete package for sure and my dad's favorite number was seven and it turns out this car is number seven. in the edition of 50 that we built in collaboration with Joey Arrington for the Super Duty model yes it's amazing how far these cars have come yes I was thinking about that this morning it was ten years ago that Kevin Morgan and I were in the barn trying to create a rear spoiler with cardboard tape and putty to look like your rendering and we've evolved from that too to this, yes, 3D CAD drawings that were designed in-house, so what do you think dad? think about this oh, he would love it, yes, he would claim this car as his right, yes, and with the power, it's a total package.

Oh, dad, he's been so proud, oh yes, yes. I think it's the greatest tribute you can guarantee when you have my dad's. car there the two things that you were going to find a box of Tic Tacs and a King James Bible from 1611 which is the car that started the transient fever for this family absolutely in speaking Mara I became trans ooh it is extraordinarily special for me to be Sign a car that is a tribute to my father and in fact doing it in collaboration with us, but it was incredible, yes, yes. I had never driven anything like this.

Well, neither did I, that bike turned out to be pretty amazing. Should you have seen that? When you were running down the road, how do you get over this? Yes, that's going to be difficult from a personal perspective of the same. The best way to say is: I am very proud to be a part of this. He's a class act here. Good mortgage ass. We've got some things to work on, we'll raise the bar, we'll get through it somehow, the last ten years are just gone, yeah, that's something you learn as you get older, how fast guys, so enjoy it now.

It's time to enjoy it, yes, enjoy it by letting me drive it, yes, I thought that would come. No I dont think so. I think they actually sing, he tries to kiss me, he howls. Anatomy.