00:00Intro Music
00:23Expert car customiser Jerry Patrick has transformed a golf cart into the animated car's character
00:29This is our newest creation. We'll call him Little Mater. His daddy was a famous tow truck and his mama was a southern belle of a golf cart.
00:36We build Mater all in house, all hand laid fiberglass, all LED lights, west coast mirrors just like he was born with.
00:49As we come down the side we try to keep him as screen accurate as we could.
00:53As we come around to the back, here again trying to keep it as screen accurate as possible for a golf cart.
00:58All new upholstery front and back.
01:00Jerry has been bringing movie and cartoon cars to life for over a decade.
01:04I own AKA Junk. It kind of started about 15 years ago out of necessity, meaning that I couldn't afford to pay someone else to paint my cars and do body work and weld and everything else.
01:16And so we kind of started our own show and been doing our own thing ever since.
01:19Bader the golf cart, he's made up of 13 LED lights, he has a perforated front windshield, new upholstery front and back, an all steel back boom, fiberglass front end obviously.
01:33We customize his wheels, we customize all the paint, there's about 16 colors that go into a paint job.
01:39And we sell the Tow Mater golf carts for $7,900 a piece on up and that's based on the year and a few variables but it's basically around $7,900.
01:47Having already created a number of these cartoon replicas, it's taken time for owner Jerry to perfect his Mater method.
01:54The most challenging part of Mater was doing the first one. The process we have done a little bit better but the first one was a lot of trial and error to get it as cartoon accurate as we could, at least our version of it.
02:05And I'd have to say that's the most challenging part which is doing the first one and getting all the kinks worked out of it.
02:10Every cart has been carefully mapped out to build the most cartoon accurate vehicle possible.
02:15Generally we bring in a stock golf cart, they're normally 2013's or newer and we strip it down, we strip it down to the frame.
02:22To add an overwhelming amount of steel to the back for the structural support for the whole back end for the seat area.
02:27The sides are made out of a marine grade lumber coated in fiberglass resin.
02:31The front end obviously on the factory cart is removed and we put our fiberglass front end on it.
02:35And about a day and a half of straight up wiring a gob of LED lights to make it as matery as we can.
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