Discovery Channel's "Motor City Motors" Makes it Wild
Detroit Bros. Crew Takes on Creative Challenges with Help of Local Workers
December 23, 2009
The Discovery Channel's innovative new show "Motor City Motors" honors American ingenuity by pushing automotive and motorcycle engineering to another level, while also giving much-needed opportunities to unemployed Detroit auto workers. The show, created by the brains behind "Deadliest Catch," premieres at 10 p.m. Dec. 28.
Viewers will watch two brothers, Dave and James Kaye, and their father, John, work out of their Detroit Bros. custom bike shop. Each week they hire a new crew and turn cars into wildly imaginative one-of-a-kind vehicles under a tight five-day deadline.
"The genius of Detroit -- that's the whole idea," says executive producer Thom Beers. "This what made the country great. World War II -- a bunch of farm boys with pliers and cable could make anything run. Throw a challenge at us, we figure it out, and we do it not just with our brains, but we do it with our hands and our heart. That's what this show's about."
The team transforms a 1992 GMC Suburban into a pothole filler and a 1969 military truck and a combine harvester into a corn picking and roasting machine. The guys cut a 1991 Ford Festiva in half and mount it on two 10-foot steel wheels (hamster wheels on steroids), dubbing it the "Festevil." They create a giant mechanical spider with a Mitsubishi Spyder engine; make a hovercraft from a 1961 Airstream; churn out a 1938 Chevy that runs on ethanol and turns into a bar; morph two motorcycles into amphibious bikes; and create a bike resembling the one in "The Dark Knight."
"This is the craziest thing I've ever been involved with," says Dave Kaye, laughing. "There are build shows on TV that build cars and make fast cars. We didn't want to do that. We want to make crazy feats of engineering and fabrication. We want to make really wild stuff. They're really, really challenging fabrication and engineering builds."
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