Disney Fan Builds Pixar’s ‘Mater’ From Golf Cart

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THIS movie buff has transformed an old golf cart into Mater the tow truck from Pixar’s Cars. Jerry Patrick, 51, first set up AKA Junk over a decade ago when he couldn't afford to pay someone else to paint his cars and do bodywork - now the team are experts in replica TV and movie cars. After a Cars’ themed dream, Patrick decided that he had to make Mater come to life outside of the cartoon world.

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00:05Intro Music

00:22Expert car customiser Jerry Patrick has transformed a golf cart into the animated car's character

00:29Matar

00:29This is our newest creation. We'll call him Little Matar. His daddy was a famous tow truck and his mama

00:34was a southern belle of a golf cart.

00:40We build Matar all in house, all hand laid fiberglass, all LED lights, west coast mirrors just like he was

00:48born 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

00:57golf 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

01:12to 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.

01:20Matar

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01:49of 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

01:58little bit better, but the first one was a lot of trial and error to get it as cartoon

02:02accurate as we could, at least our version of it. And I'd have to say that's the most

02:06challenging part, which is doing the first one and getting all the kinks worked out of

02:09it. Every cart has been carefully mapped out to build the most cartoon accurate vehicle

02:14possible. Generally we bring in a stock golf cart, they're normally 20, 13s or newer, and

02:18we strip it down. We strip it down to the frame. We have to add an overwhelming amount of steel

02:23to the back for the structural support for the whole back end for the seat area. The

02:27sides are made out of a marine grade lumber coated in fiberglass resin. The front end, obviously

02:32on the factory carts, is removed and we put our fiberglass front end on it. And about a

02:36day and a half of straight up wiring a gob of LED lights to make it as matery as we

02:41can.

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