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00:33Straight out of the 1960s cartoon, this incredible Mark V speed racer
00:38is the handiwork of car customizer, Jerry Patrick.
00:42The Mark V started off with a 94 Corvette, a really nice 94 Corvette and we kind of destroyed
00:48it for lack of a better word.
00:50The whole back of the car, in front of the car, it was totally taken off.
00:54We fiberglassed the new body back on it and it takes about 90 to 120 days to complete
01:01one.
01:01We got the interior, put the correct red leather interior inside.
01:06Obviously, custom paint, custom decals, the emblems, the steel wheels, in fact, we custom
01:13make them here in-house.
01:15The whole process began with Jerry customizing his own cars to save on mechanic bills.
01:20We started customizing the old school Camaros and Mustangs probably 15 or 20 years ago and
01:27that kind of parlayed into doing the TV and movie cars.
01:30So I'd say the love the most is definitely doing the TV and movie cars.
01:34When we go out and do car shows, you see gobs of the Mustangs, Camaros, Chevelles, but you
01:40don't see too many Mark V speed racers.
01:43Growing up with the cartoon as a kid, Jerry couldn't resist building his own speed racer.
01:48The inspiration behind the Mark V was straight off the cartoon from a 51-year-old guy back
01:53in 1967-ish is when the cartoon came out.
01:57So I was really enthralled as a kid to watch this and I thought, you know, one day, I'm
02:02going to be driving a Mark V. The cost to build on the Mark V is another one of these
02:07classified
02:07things that I've got to keep that a big secret from my wife.
02:12The build also posed some problems for the veteran customizer.
02:18The biggest challenge on building the Mark V was building the first one.
02:21I mean, we started off with a body that was a sculpt from someone else and we had to kind
02:26of morph it into what we wanted for our own car where it actually fit right, look right,
02:31do right.
02:32And now we're actually building our own bodies.
02:38When you hop in the Mark V it can just go broil the tires and just go have fun with
02:42it just
02:42like you would see in the cartoon.
02:48I get asked generally sometimes from some specific questions on how fast the Mark V can
02:53go.
02:54Let's just say it's unlimited.
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