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00:00Hi, everyone, Jeff Dunham and Bubba J here at Dunham Family Motors.
00:03Hi, everybody in Key Theed Land.
00:06This next car is what happens when someone builds a vehicle with no oversight
00:10and a whiteboard that just says, yes.
00:12It has the attitude of a black ops project, the silhouette of a stealth fighter,
00:17and the kind of cockpit that makes you say, should I even be in here?
00:21The car is a legend, but the story is even better.
00:24How about this? Our unbelievable 1 of 17 W8 first American supercar, the Vector.
00:34Throughout time, humanity has been obsessed with getting places using anything but their own two feet.
00:40We've tried all kinds of things, until finally the greatest invention of all time, the automobile.
00:49Moron!
00:51These are the cars that drove us.
00:56Ah, Europe in the 70s.
00:59A sophisticated hotbed of art, cuisine, culture, and speed.
01:09Lamborghini, Quintosh, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar.
01:16Not to be outdone, Americans stood toe-to-toe with art, cuisine, and culture.
01:26But when it came to speed...
01:31In the United States, we've had fascinating design, but in the 1970s, we had 55 mile an hour speed limits.
01:37And there were fuel economy standards, there were emissions standards, crash regulations.
01:43Safety first?
01:44Yeah.
01:45Made America... last.
01:48We have the highest technology, we put people in space, we build the fighter aircraft the rest of the world
01:53wants.
01:54Why can't America have their own exotic sports car?
01:58Well, we actually did.
01:59And it was...
02:00Built like a jet fighter, as exotic as they come.
02:03That's right, the Vector W8.
02:07A car that the rules didn't apply to, mostly because...
02:11It wasn't designed to be an automobile, it was designed to be aircraft or spacecraft.
02:16And if that doesn't make any sense, it's because it doesn't.
02:19Because Vector visionary Jerry Weiger and his automotive accomplices made their own rules.
02:25We just had different priorities.
02:26Leaving some to wonder if these car men were con men.
02:30But Jerry didn't let that stop him.
02:32If he set out to do something, he would just do it.
02:36So when it came to getting this jet-fighting, space-faring supercar to take off, how did Jerry just do
02:45it?
02:46Well, as most American automotive stories do, this one begins in the Motor City.
02:51Jerry grew up in the Detroit area.
02:54He was a really creative guy.
02:56Think outside of the box.
02:58So he ended up doing an internship with General Motors.
03:01That made him realize he didn't really want to work for a giant corporation, taking orders.
03:06He had this dream of building an American supercar that could compete with Ferrari or Lamborghini.
03:14Which is easier said than done.
03:16One of the hardest things I think you can do in the world is start a car company.
03:20And he didn't have a lot of financial resources himself.
03:23Some people might say that you need a little narcissism.
03:26Or in Jerry's case, carcicism.
03:29He had a ton of confidence and he believed that he could make this car come into production.
03:35He was a showman.
03:36He knew how to attract attention.
03:38And Jerry's best marketing angle was a literal angle.
03:42Jerry came up with the name Vector.
03:46But at this point, the Vector was only highly performing on paper.
03:51Need a car?
03:52And he'd get one by partnering with Lee Brown, who customized the iconic 68 Mustang GT in the Steve McQueen
04:01classic, Bullitt.
04:02While Lee worked on the mock-up, Jerry got the word out.
04:05Hawking it just like a Barnum & Bailey.
04:08And while it may not have been the circus, the 72 LA Auto Expo was the perfect place to debut
04:15Jerry and Lee's engineless Vector mock-up shell.
04:18But that's all it was.
04:19It was a mock-up.
04:20The mock-up definitely turned heads.
04:22But as the attention was heating up, Jerry and Lee's partnership was cooling down.
04:28Both guys had the same big ego and wanted to claim the ownership of the project.
04:33So that mock-up got taken by Lee Brown.
04:38Leaving Jerry...
04:39Need a car?
04:40There's no cars left.
04:41...right back where he started.
04:43Jerry still owned the Vector name and design, but with no mock-up, this motor was trending downward.
04:50And after several years of no car, Jerry kind of dropped a little bit off the radar screen.
04:57The Vector was starting to feel more like Vapor.
05:01Without a proof-of-concept mock-up to drum up investment capital, Jerry Weigert's Vector project was nearly dead.
05:08But then, he met this man.
05:11I changed my name since the original days of Vector.
05:14But now he goes by Rob Portiel.
05:17I was making a lot of money in real estate at the time.
05:19So I put, essentially, the first money in the company.
05:22And we formed Vector Aeromotive Corporation.
05:26Jerry now had the funds to do one better than Lee Brown's mock-up shell.
05:31And instead, built a fully functional Vector prototype.
05:35The most innovative thing about the car was that whole use of aerospace technology.
05:41Right down to the Vector's chassis.
05:43The semi-monococ aluminum honeycomb chassis.
05:46Uh, spell check, please.
05:48Semi-monococ aluminum honeycomb chassis.
05:51So, what exactly is a sell-my-lama-cockamillion honeycrumb jazzy?
05:56Think of two skins of aluminum, maybe three-quarters of an inch apart.
06:00And then, there's a honeycomb of aluminum in between the two.
06:04It's really, really innovative.
06:06And Dave Koska knows innovation when he sees it.
06:08After all, he's an engineer.
06:10I was living not that far from Venice, where the Vector project was taking place.
06:15I went by there, and they had pushed the car out of the garage.
06:19And then he saw it.
06:20You know, the, uh, that thing.
06:22Aluminum honeycomb monococ chassis.
06:25Which made his heart skip a beat.
06:26Wow.
06:27What a cool place to work.
06:29So then Jerry Weigert comes out, and next thing I knew.
06:32Jerry hired this random guy off the street to sweep the floors or something.
06:37No, no.
06:37Uh, Jerry's assistant?
06:39No, VP of engineering.
06:40I was volunteering 60 hours a week on top of my 40-hour-a-week job.
06:46And I was glad to do it.
06:47And good thing, too, because the Vector prototype's development had already burned through all the
06:52seed money put up by Rob Porteal.
06:55Luckily, he had an elite secret weapon up his sleeve.
07:00Wealthy individuals.
07:01The main source of funds was deposits for cars.
07:05Are these cars in the room with us now, Dave?
07:10And so Jerry had to put that patented Weigert marketing magic to work.
07:14The primary reason the Vector was designed was to be a challenge to European dominance of
07:19the exotic car luxury car market segment.
07:21The fastest European cars are 175, 180-mile-an-hour cars.
07:26Could we build the first real 200-mile-an-hour vehicle?
07:30Well, could they?
07:31For us to get the kind of horsepower we needed to get out of this engine, we were using aircraft
07:36turbos.
07:37That, coupled with the lightweight of the semi-m-m-m, could potentially get them up to those speeds.
07:43Nobody's ever done it before on, like, a production street-driven car.
07:47But Jerry was a very special salesman with a very special pitch.
07:51It's a very special machine for a very special person.
07:55And very special people began placing very special deposits of over $100,000.
08:01The number one car was an ex-Saudi prince.
08:04And the second order came from another Saudi prince.
08:07That oil money does run deep.
08:09Third order came from a wealthy American businessman.
08:13Which allowed this less wealthy American businessman to finally finish his prototype.
08:18Jerry christened his supercar the Vector W2.
08:21The W was for Weigert.
08:23And went into marketing overdrive.
08:25He maximized his press coverage.
08:28And there was this sensation created that the Vector was a real car and in production.
08:33There was only one.
08:34We just painted it a lot of different colors.
08:35In fact, there were journalists that made fun of us.
08:37They go, oh, they're trying to pretend there's a lot of different cars.
08:40They said that because you were, Rob.
08:43And you could forgive them for wondering if there was some other pretending going on.
08:47Vector was on the cover of Car and Driver.
08:50But the guy who wrote the story didn't get a chance to drive the car.
08:54Because while the styling was almost complete, the mechanicals were not all that complete.
08:59And the claims, well, we'd seen them already before.
09:02600 plus horsepower and potential top speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour.
09:07And you just wondered, hey, man, you going to build some cars?
09:13Things came to a head with a 1987 write-up in Auto Week, 15 years after Jerry had first conceived
09:20of his fighter jet for the streets.
09:22The guy blasted us saying that this is never going to happen.
09:26It's all a big scam.
09:27It's a con.
09:28It was not flattering.
09:29And it characterized Jerry as somebody who was raising money but never going to produce cars.
09:34It was clear that Jerry needed help getting this fighter jet for the streets off the ground.
09:40So he found a fighter jet manufacturer from Northrop Grumman.
09:44I was working on the F-18 and F-5 fighter program.
09:46And he was used to managing production.
09:49Something Jerry...
09:50You going to build some cars?
09:52...could use some advice on.
09:53I said, not only are you not ready for production, I don't think you really understand what it is.
09:57But doing things Mark's way...
09:59Rent facilities, hire people, set up benefits packages, counting the system, tooling, equipment...
10:04...would be more expensive.
10:05Through the 80s, the total amount we'd raised was less than a million.
10:09So Vector Air Motive went to the capital of investment capital.
10:14The stock market.
10:16Jerry found an underwriter to take us public.
10:20Blinder Robinson had 2,000 brokers.
10:23They were the biggest penny stock firm in the country.
10:24He was very good at manipulating stock.
10:27Say what?
10:28You know, we knew this.
10:29That's okay.
10:30Stop while you're ahead, Rob.
10:31Jeez, man.
10:32Does your lawyer know you're here?
10:33They basically launched an IPO and that was a startup money.
10:37At the time we got funded, we promised the shareholders that we'd have the first production card done in a
10:43year.
10:43So all the team had to do was dust off the original plans and see which components needed to be...
10:48There were no plans.
10:49Ugh, come on, guys.
10:51We're on a deadline here.
10:52That's pitiful.
10:54They had to disassemble the prototype and lay the pieces down on paper and trace them and then make a
10:59drawing out of it.
11:00And by the time we were done with that process, it's like everything's different from the W-2.
11:05We should just change the model name.
11:07So that's when we came up with that W-8.
11:108 was the cylinder count of the car.
11:13Which still sounds like the name of a tax form, but whatever.
11:16The important thing is, Mark Bailey could finally get started on what he had been hired to do.
11:21That is, if Jerry Weigert would let him.
11:24Jerry and I got it at odds from time to time because we just had differing priorities.
11:28He had all kinds of marketing campaigns.
11:30Heads turn and eyes are drawn to this distinctive car.
11:34A restoration of a GMC motorhome they wanted to use to take to shows.
11:37So he would borrow my production personnel and work on his motorhome for the day without talking to me about
11:43it.
11:43Which sounds like a pretty dysfunctional way to work.
11:46Especially now that there were shareholders asking...
11:49You gonna build some cars?
11:51Mark was trying.
11:52It's a very complicated, complex vehicle to manufacture.
11:56Expensive, too.
11:57Which is why sometimes a few corners had to be cut.
12:00The gearbox for the Vector was mated up to what was basically the front-wheel drive transmission out of the
12:05GMC motorhomes.
12:06And since Jerry's motorhome was off-limits...
12:08We went rummaging through the junkyards looking for transmission castings to use in the first couple cars.
12:13It's not like we were ever gonna let anybody know where they came from.
12:17Sure.
12:18Why not?
12:18And it's highly doubtful that this decision will come back to haunt them at the worst possible time.
12:23Speaking of time...
12:24We were scrambling to finish the first cars.
12:26The LA Auto Show was the big unveiling.
12:28And after almost 20 years, the Vector was finally on the market.
12:32Price tag in today's money?
12:34Over $1 million.
12:36It was literally what Jerry envisioned.
12:41Aerospace technology for the street.
12:43It had a screen on the left side of the steering wheel.
12:46And it had a little set of buttons to change the view.
12:49You could look at the chassis and see if anything was open.
12:52You could see your speedometer on another screen.
12:55And as you speed up and accelerate, that whole bar graph moves.
12:59All aircraft circuit breakers.
13:02Every one of these push buttons in the dash are right out of the cockpit of the military fighter aircraft.
13:13And don't forget the, um...
13:15Semi-monocoque aluminum honeycomb chassis.
13:18So a bunch of these things that, to us at Vector, seemed like logical things to do, Jerry was pioneering.
13:23But he was still far behind on one thing.
13:28And so the first Vector production car, serial number 001, was finally delivered to its Saudi prince.
13:36I believe it was about a 10-year cycle from the time he made his investment.
13:40And soon enough, even more of those aforementioned wealthy individuals started lining up to kick the tires.
13:47But billionaires weren't the only ones lining up for joyrides.
13:50Of course, then all the car magazines wanted to come and do a story.
13:54Automotive journalist Chabachera would be getting behind the wheel to test the Vector's performance claims.
14:00At least, that was the plan.
14:01Suddenly, the transmission is packed up.
14:05The engine was still running fine.
14:07But no matter what gear you selected, the car is coasting.
14:11At that point, pulled over on the shoulder.
14:13And there was a Vector guy with me, a guy named, uh, Casca.
14:17Oh, this guy?
14:18Really?
14:19I hadn't had that problem before.
14:21The front-wheel drive transmission out of the GMC motorhomes.
14:24Motorhomes.
14:25Motorhomes.
14:26Luckily, there were two cars available that day.
14:29We called them pre-production one and two.
14:32It kind of got nicknamed PP1 and PP2.
14:35Good thing, because David was in deep poo-poo.
14:38And so we proceeded with the second car.
14:41But as soon as we started some of the acceleration runs, the car started overheating.
14:46What?
14:47There was steam wafting out of the various grills behind me.
14:50I'm thinking this car is just, you know, half-baked.
14:53Nope.
14:54It's fully toasted.
14:57With two broken cars, Chaba Chara's road test of the Vector W8 for Car and Driver magazine
15:02had hit the skids.
15:04We couldn't get a test done.
15:06And Jerry says, you know, stay another day.
15:07We'll get the car fixed.
15:09But I was on a flight the next morning.
15:11Sorry, Jer.
15:11So I go back to my hotel.
15:13And Dave went back to the shop to check on PP1.
15:16Or was it 2?
15:18I get a call at 2.30 a.m.
15:20No such thing as a good phone call at 2.30 a.m.
15:23It's Jerry.
15:24And he says, we got a car together.
15:25Yay.
15:27And this time, the car is running reasonably well.
15:31I got a 0 to 60 of 3.8 seconds.
15:33I got a quarter mile of 12 flat at 118 miles an hour.
15:38Which was nowhere near the W8's reported top speed.
15:41However.
15:42The transmission was acting up.
15:44Again.
15:46And it wouldn't shift into third gear.
15:49We potentially have a really bad write-up coming here.
15:52This is not good.
15:53But it wasn't all bad either.
15:55Based on that test, the Vector performance-wise was in league with the two fastest cars in the world.
16:00The Porsche 959 and the Ferrari F40.
16:04And when the write-up hit newsstands.
16:06A world wonder or a great pretender.
16:08But at this point, the Vector W8 needed some definitively positive optics.
16:13And soon enough, Jerry Weigert found them.
16:16Tennis pro Andre Agassi bought a Vector.
16:19It was not quite finished.
16:21He wanted it right now.
16:23Apparently, Jerry asked the Tennis pro not to drive it.
16:25He took it for a spin.
16:26And apparently, the carpet in the back end set afire.
16:32We didn't sell another car after that.
16:35So we were running out of money at the same time.
16:37And I left the company.
16:38And with the tenure of his captain's cut shorts, the short, Jerry was left all alone atop a crumbling empire.
16:45But Jerry's joyride wasn't over yet.
16:47An Indonesian firm called Megatech came along.
16:52Megatech.
16:53Megatech.
16:53An investment group so mega loaded.
16:57They bought Lamborghini.
16:58And they basically told Jerry, if you make your production numbers, we will continue to invest.
17:04If not, we're going to take the company.
17:06But this was the moment he had been training for his whole life.
17:10And with the fresh infusion of Megatech's investment capital.
17:13Jerry did not make the production numbers.
17:15And they tried to take over the company.
17:17Mega screwed.
17:19Mega screwed.
17:19And as the Vector Board prepared to vote on Jerry's ouster, he hatched a plan.
17:25Jerry essentially barricaded himself into the Wilmington facility.
17:28Then he just hired a security service.
17:31They called it the Waco of the West.
17:33Not the best look when the press compares you to the Waco from Waco.
17:37The standoff dragged on for six months until a judge ruled in Megatech's favor.
17:43Corporate law says the board has control.
17:46Jerry was finally removed by sheriffs.
17:48And just like that, the joyride was over.
17:52Megatech took over the company.
17:54We could sell this car for less if we run the Lamborghini engine and drivetrain.
17:58Now it was not the all-American supercar anymore.
18:01And so they had trouble selling cars.
18:03And then a bunch of money turned up missing, and the whole thing collapsed.
18:06And guess who was there to pick up the pieces?
18:10Jerry was excited to get Vector back in court.
18:13And then Jerry launched another attempt.
18:15But his WX-8 would never make it past prototype.
18:20Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
18:24In January 2021, at the age of 76, Jerry took his final flight into the vast blue highway in the
18:31sky.
18:32Three days before he died, he was talking about going to the Middle East to finish the WX-8.
18:39A consummate salesman to the very end.
18:42People might look at Jerry and think 20 years developing the Vector was ridiculous.
18:49But it's also spectacular.
18:54We should applaud his audacity.
19:03I think a lot of people would have given up.
19:08We're trying to do what any car company has like 500 people doing.
19:13And we're like two people doing that amount of work.
19:20Jerry and his small band of upstarts took on the European giants in the most American way possible.
19:27Doing it cooler, doing it better, doing it faster.
19:30But wait, did they go faster?
19:32We actually never broke 200 in them.
19:34We got 198, 199.
19:36Well, at least it topped 200 in one way.
19:39I watched the temperature gauge, went up to 250.
19:43And if the ride was bumpy, it was only because the Vector was blazing a new trail.
19:50It's a fighter jet plane on wheels.
19:53It's just flat out badass.
19:58But, you know, I can't help but wonder.
20:00Maybe it was just a little bit ahead of its time.
20:03This does not feel like a 90s car at all.
20:05This thing could have been built today.
20:08It really does feel like that.
20:09In other words, it might have been just a little bit too much too soon.
20:14And there couldn't be anything more American than that.
20:18It did make a mark on history.
20:20It was a little smaller than we would have liked, but it's there.
20:24This is the Vector.
20:25The very first true American supercar.
20:39I kill you!
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