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00:33Straight out of the
00:341960s cartoon, this incredible Mach 5 speed racer is the handiwork of car customizer
00:40Jerry Patrick.
00:41The Mach 5 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've got the interior, put the correct red leather interior inside, obviously custom
01:08paint, custom decals, the emblems, the steel wheels in fact, we custom make them here in
01:14house.
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,
01:26and that kind of parlayed into doing the TV and movie cars, and so I'd say the love the
01:32most 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 Mach 5 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 Mach 5 was straight off the cartoon.
01:52I'm a 51-year-old guy back in 1967-ish is when the cartoon came out, so I was really
01:58enthralled
01:59as a kid to watch this, and I thought, you know, one day I'm going to be driving a Mach
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02:04The cost of building the Mach 5 is another one of these classified things that I've got
02:08to keep that a big secret for my wife.
02:12The build also posed some problems for the veteran customizer.
02:18The biggest challenge on building the Mach 5 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, and now we're actually building our own bodies.
02:38When you hop in the Mach 5, it can just go broil the tires and just go have fun with
02:42it,
02:42just like you would see in the cartoon.
02:48I get asked generally sometimes from some specific questions on how fast the Mach 5 can go.
02:54Let's just say it's unlimited.
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