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.
01:21Matar
01:22Matar
01:22Matar
01:23He's made up of 13 LED lights, he has a perforated front windshield, new upholstery front and back.
01:29An all steel back boom, fiberglass front end obviously. We customize his wheels and we customize all the paint.
01:36There's about 16 colors that go into the paint job and we sell the Tow Matar golf carts for $7
01:41,900 a piece on up.
01:43And 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,
01:51it's taken time for owner Jerry to perfect his Mater method.
01:54The most challenging part of Mater was doing the first one.
01:57The process we have done a little bit better,
01:59but the first one was a lot of trial and error to get it as cartoon accurate as we could,
02:03at least our version of it.
02:05And I'd have to say that's the most challenging part,
02:07which is doing the first one and getting all the kinks worked out of it.
02:09Every kart has been carefully mapped out to build the most cartoon accurate vehicle possible.
02:14Generally we bring in a stock golf kart, they're normally 2013s or newer,
02:18and we strip it down, we strip it down to the frame.
02:21We have to add an overwhelming amount of steel to the back
02:24for 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 kart, 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
02:39to make it as maitory as we can.
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