Brittown (2008) - full transcript

- I can still remember the
smell of my dad's Triumph

when he would shut her off.

It had a weird smell,

it was hot, you could smell it.

Every once in a while a
bike will come into the shop

and I'll smell that smell again.

It's a weird smell.

("The Quay" by The American Wake)

(engine roaring)

("Ballydesmond" by The American Wake)

(engines buzz)



- My friends call me Meatball.

I started off having a motorcycle shop

in Huntington Beach, maybe 15 years ago.

It started off as just being a place

to goof around and store my bikes

and maybe get a few of
the guys' bikes running

and get some cheap parts and stuff.

I got serious for a moment
and bought a vintage home

in Anaheim and started working
out of the back of that

instead of renting shops all the time.

I figured I'd buy a house that had a place

where I could store my stuff
and get some work done.

That's Gus and Lucky, the No Gooders.

The world's largest motorcycle gang.



It's always good having the No Gooders

out here to drink beers with
but also to get some work done.

The last couple months we've been building

this '71 Triumph motor.

A lot of guys put a big board kit,

pump it up with horsepower
and stuff like that.

We decided to go a little different route.

It's been a long couple of months.

In the morning we're gonna
find a couple of deserted roads

and race around on it,
see what she can do.

("So Long" by Smiling Face Down)

(engine revving)

We're working on a 1971 Bonneville.

World's fastest motorcycle.

- [Lucky] Were they the
fastest in 71, I don't know.

- They got the position at Daytona in '71.

With our friend Gene Romero.

157 miles an hour.

- [Lucky] That's a good thing.

I'm out of terrible beers.

Who wants another one?

- I do.

First thing you wanna do is get everything

good and clean so you can
really get a good look

at what's going on, what's
worn out and what's not.

What we'll do is tear this bad boy down

and we're gonna get it all bathed.

Tank it all, hot, soapy
water, get it all tanked.

Get all the oil out of these pores

so it looks real nice and
get all the parts cleaned up.

So we know what's broken and what's not.

Triumph Motorcycle is the best
British motorcycle ever made.

The 650 motor went
through the least amount

of changes through the years,
but it's the best motor.

It's lightweight and a good
horsepower make and motor

that rotates the right
way so it handles well.

Triumph motorcycle was what
everyone wanted to have

to go racing with or go to the bar with.

It was a great motorcycle.

("So Long" by Smiling Face Down)

All the heat and straight chopsticks

in the world can't get that gear off.

I gotta go get some new chopsticks.

Then we'll do it again.

We're gonna get it off,
we're gonna call it a night.

I think I got my first motorcycle

probably it was 1969 or 1970.

I had a Yamaha Mini Enduro, the little

white and red one that's
on the opening film

of On Any Sunday, with
the big feller on it.

My dad used to have Triumphs, used to do

a little bit of racing and stuff.

Finally, I found my first Triumph,

I still own it and I
got 200 thousand miles

on that thing and I've never
rebuilt the bottom end.

It's just a great motorcycle.

It's actually the same year as the one

that I'm building right now.

It kinda came full circle again.

It's a good motorcycle, '71
Triumph's a good motorcycle.

It's a fun project.

My buddy who had a Harley, he was always

waiting on me, you know.

"Where's that freaking Meatball at?"

I'd be down the freeway still coming.

That's when I first started thinking,

I've gotta make this thing go faster.

Because 650 Triumph can only go so fast

compared to a 1200 CC Harley Davidson.

They went down the freeway
a little better than I did.

Of course I didn't know
how to time my bike right.

I had one cylinder running
30 degrees advanced

and one running 40 degrees retarded.

Just winging it, smoke
billowing out, goofing around.

Probably embarrassing at some point.

That's probably why
they called me Meatball.

But then I slowly learned
how to make the bikes

go a little better, and tune em right.

Then I started going to the racetrack

and seeing what those guys were doing

and making em lighter, pulling stuff off

and cutting stuff off the frame.

Making the exhaust free flowing.

Before I knew it, I could
make a Triumph go pretty fast.

Pretty cool.

- I met Meatball at the neighborhood bar.

Just got married in September,

and we've been together for
almost four years this August.

Everything about him is unique I think.

There's nothing about him
that's like anyone else.

It was probably on our second date,

and he took me out to the parking lot

and he said, "Guess which
one of these cars is mine."

I was looking around, and I
knew it wouldn't be an SUV

or a Honda or something.

There was this little dirty
convertible, green car

is his Triumph car, it's
all beat up and dinged up,

and I said, "It's that one."

He's what he is up front.

There's no denying what he
likes or what he's into.

Probably from there I asked him

what kind of car that was,
he went into the whole

Triumph thing, how he has
50 motorcycles or whatever.

I had never heard of Triumph before,

so for a while I didn't
quite understand what he did.

Like, did he sell Triumphs,
was he a dealership?

I had no clue until I
actually went to the shop.

Once I walked in, I knew
what it was all about.

There's a lot of racket,
a lot of guys hanging out.

I like to watch.

(engine rumbling)

(talking over each other)

- This is a big deal.

(speaker drowned out by metal clanging)

I remember when I bought
that 1970 Husky 400

and I took it to George Updike,

and I was all, "Hey, can you
help me out with this thing?"

He's all like, "What
the fuck you doing kid?

"They sell brand new dirt bikes."

Oh no, I wanna ride this one.

"Go race it in vintage motor cross."

He was over it, guy was
just like, "Beat it."

- Watch your head.

- He's got a helmet on, don't worry.

- Do they make these in
the hard hat version?

We're a hat club now.

I thought after all the
stupid stories we've told,

this fucking thing. - I tell ya.

- [Lucky] A cracked egg.

Look at that.

Damn Meatball, you waited
too long, that yolk's hard.

- [Meatball] Come on, give me a break.

- The bearings popped right out.

- [Gus] That's that two piece bearing.

Wow, that's some cute oil
you got going on with that.

- You can make it sit right there.

I'm going out to the
Elsinore Motor Cross Track

and we're gonna mosey around a little bit

and get stared at by a much of
modern bike motorcycle guys.

I'm bringing the '68 BSA
Single and a '71 BSA Single.

I was gonna see which one of
these bikes might work the best

for the Elsinore Grand
Prix that's coming up.

That's this weekend.

I like the vintage bikes
seeing how's I'm getting older.

It fits my lifestyle a lot better.

I figure the coolest thing to do

is just get some old Triumph or BSA

that makes a bunch of racket.

Heck, I'm used to riding those
older style bikes anyways.

I think I ride just as good
on an old BSA or Triumph

as I would on a modern bike.

Just doing a burn out and a wheelie

and jumping it, doing
silly stuff like that.

People think, "Wow, that's pretty cool."

It took a long time for Triumph and BSA

to make a real motor cross bike.

They had a couple of
factory racers and stuff

but if the average California guy

wanted to race a BSA at the
races in the '60s and '70s,

he just took his street
bike, took the lights off it,

and put a couple lighter things on it.

Took his badges off and
just went and raced it.

Regular street bike, you know.

So the bikes that I race,
they're just street bikes.

I take everything off em that's heavy.

Maybe rework the head a
little bit, the carburetor,

run a little sprockets,
I eliminate chain weight

and stuff like that.

Cam and a little difference so the power

comes on at a different RPM,
and it works pretty good.

Maybe change the front end
out so you can get a little

lighter front end that takes
the bumps a little better.

British bikes make good dirt bikes.

Right off the bat, you
just take a few things off

and they work pretty good.

And they're cool, girls like em.

(engine rumbling)

My arms hurt, I'm a little tired.

I don't get to do it very often,

and when your arms get
tired you make mistakes.

So I just figured, I'll take it easy

and save my mistakes for
Saturday at the races.

No sense getting hurt here.

If you're gonna get hurt, you
wanna do it at the racetrack.

I'll just take it easy
and then Saturday morning

we'll see what kind of mind set I have.

(engine revving)

(people talking)

Today's Elsinore Grand Prix

and we're out here at Lake Elsinore.

Me and a few of my buddies
are gonna all go out there

and kick some dirt around,
throw some rocks at some guys.

- Too old for this.

No just kidding, old's what you

become when you don't do this.

I just gotta survive
for whatever time it is.

That's all it is.

And hopefully kick a few asses on the way.

- This is the necklace
Juliette made me for good luck.

Me and Rose and her got one on.

We'll see how it works.

I'm gonna put on a little bit of plastic

in case I roll around on that pavement.

- [Juliette] You look cool Dad.

- I think the best part is
just being a little bit nervous

and then when the flag goes down,

you forget about being nervous
and it's all concentration.

So it's that quick change from being edgy

and then bam, the concentration.

It's pretty fun to go fast.

It's like breaking the
law, breaking the rules.

(engine revving)

I think it was Adelanto Grand Prix

was the first time I ever raced,

and I caught the banners in my wheels.

I wrecked about five
times, they were trying

to drag me off the track.

One time I went off a jump and landed

right in the face of the next jump

and I drove the handlebars into my chest,

right into my gas tank.

I didn't even have a chest protector on,

no pad across it, my
chest hurt for a month.

I think I bruised my
heart, but I went crazy.

I got on that thing, they waived the flag,

and I just went ape, went crazy.

Falling down, just trying
to keep up a good pace.

I don't even know what
place I got, who knows?

I was trying though.

("Ambition" by Fortune's Flesh)

No brakes.

(people talking)

- I felt pretty good
until I hit the ground.

The ground's very hard.

I hit my elbow, my face.

Should wear a full face helmet.

This vintage stuff is really, fuck.

Meatball, this tank got destroyed.

I came around a turn and I
was going to cross the path

because I knew there were
some potholes coming up,

and I misjudged it and I hit the potholes.

Like Meatball said.

The thing started swamping
on me, and down you go.

I felt like I wasn't gonna
get back on it, but I did.

- Here you go.
- Thank you.

- [Rose] I'm sorry you didn't finish.

- A lap later, I started going
again, but it's way too late.

Can't crash, you've gotta stay on.

- This is my vintage motor cross shirt.

That's Lucky right there.

- [Gus] That's Lucky right there.

- [Meatball] That's Brook's number,

but Lucky was riding the bike.

That's a flying lip stand right there.

- [Rose] That's the split,

and he's about to scratch up his face.

- [Lucky] It wasn't too fun.

It all happens pretty quick.

- I'd rather have the t-shirt
than experience it firsthand.

How did the high performance
BSA handle that hill?

- It handled it good,
but no brakes I tell ya.

- [Rose] I think it was loud though.

- It was good.
- You could hear him coming.

You could hear him going.
- It was plopping.

It was shooting flames out the back.

And the people at the
top of the hill going,

"Come on, come on," so I go by every time,

"No brakes," down the hill.

They're all like, "Yeah, no brakes."

- [Lucky] All the way to the bottom,

I thought oh I'm gonna die this time.

- There's a big hole dug
out at the bottom too.

I tried to miss that thing,
but when you're sliding down,

the rocks are tumbling down behind you,

everything's trying to
push you into that hole.

No, not getting buried alive yet.

- I got something for
Meatball and I to share.

It says to Lucky, from Meatball.

I'm gonna put this thing to use.

- Look at my seat, you know
it's not gonna be the best

when a guy has a seat like
that on his motorcycle.

I ain't gonna drink out of that thing.

Is it really tequila in here?
- Hell fucking yes.

- [Lucky] Sorry about that mom.

- Cheers, the hole never heals.

- [Lucky] Swimmers, bowling, and women.

- Lovely.

I gotta go work right now.

I gotta go put a couple
motorcycles together.

What we've done is we've torn the motor

completely apart and we've separated it

into categories, things
that need to get bathed

for inspection and things that
are okay the way they are.

In order to check bearings and clearances

and find out what parts are still good

and what ones aren't, we
need to go have them bathed.

What we do is we put them in a tank

with extremely hot,
soapy water, and it gets

all the dirt out of the pores and out

of the little crevices and stuff so that

we can check things thoroughly.

We're on our way to the bather,
we're gonna go take a bath.

- Just like your momma's dishwasher.

- This is my buddy John Edwards.

This is R & D Machine Shop,
Costa Mesa, California.

- What we're gonna be
doing on this silver head

to increase the performance
is to change the valves.

We're gonna put a little
bit bigger valve head

in the engine, and we're
also gonna put a smaller stem

in the engine as well.

The big difference between these

is you can kinda see, this
is the stock, standard valve.

This is a brand new valve.

You can see that the stem is fairly large

compared to what we've got here.

This is approximately eight millimeters

on the old stem, the new one
is gonna be six millimeters.

So that's a significant amount

of reduction in stem diameter.

The fact too that the valve is gonna be

a little bit lighter than
what this one's gonna be.

Valve guides have not been produced

for this style of installation.

This is something that we're
doing as a development project.

So I'm taking a stock
valve and I have a blank

I'm going to machine down
the exterior dimensions,

but you can see it's gonna have

a much smaller inside diameter

for the new valves we're
gonna be putting in.

This is the same head as what
we're gonna be doing this to.

We will be opening up
this area a little bit.

We'll also enlarge the port area

to allow for a little
more air fuel mixture

to enter in to the cylinder.

Then we'll go inside, get
rid of all the rough spots

that might be inside there.

We wanna try and make the
flow going through the ports

as efficient as we can.

We have to look at boundary layers,

we look at laminar air
flows and we wanna make sure

those are within parameters that are gonna

give us the best amount of horsepower

for the size engine
that we're dealing with.

Another thing to about going
to a smaller stem valve

and going to a lighter valve
is that the acceleration

for the engine is gonna be much quicker,

and that's an important
feature when you're doing

a racing engine, 'cause
you wanna be able to get

your RMPs as quick as possible.

Make sure you get that power
to the ground of course.

By doing that, you generally win races.

- The idea for Smiling Face Down came

after I'd been in a couple of punk bands

and I thought it'd be fun
to do a little something

not so heavy and maybe
a little lighthearted.

Once I hooked up with
Paul, my guitar player,

from there it was all fun and games.

It was just a good time to get together

with the fellers and of
course have a cold beer.

What makes tonight
special is all my buddies

from Santa Barbara are coming down.

We're gonna head south to Doheny Beach

to play at Coconuts, should
be a really fun night.

(engine revving)

("Miss Birmingham Small
Arms" by Smiling Face Down)

We're back here at R & D Machine Shop

and we're gonna check out the
cleaning job that was done

and we're gonna clean the sludge
trap and the Triumph crank

and then we're gonna do
some balancing tricks

to the crank assembly,
then we're gonna go out

and look for someone to
kick the shit out of.

See these spots here,
near the cylinder bore.

That is probably from where
the rings were sitting

and rusted, and so we
have small indentions.

So when the rings come
by the cylinder here,

they'll wipe it clean but it'll
miss these indentions here

and oil will sit in the barrel

and will cause the bike to smoke

and lose a little horsepower too.

We're gonna ditch these spots,

we're gonna make it
all brand new in there.

New pistons, new rings, new bore.

Alright, this is one of
the most important things

to rebuild on your
motorcycle, is making sure

the sludge trap in this
crank assembly is clean.

The reason why it's so
important is first of all,

there's a trap in here
in order to catch dirt,

debris, and stuff, and
if we don't clean it out

it slowly starts to build up,
blocking these passageways.

Causing the oil not to flow
through the motor properly.

When you're out of proper oil flow,

things start to stick together, overheat,

and then we have a major malfunction.

So what we've gotta do is every time

we have this motorcycle
part, the sludge trap

needs to be pulled out.

This is most important,
very, very important.

So now we're gonna reassemble this.

One crank assembly, ready to go.

Me and GG are going out
to Paris Raceway today,

do some dirt track.

It's a $400 motorcycle, the engine case

is in the barrels and
stuff and this chassis

I don't even know if it's straight or not.

I just put some Bultaco front end on it,

Bultaco wheels, and plopped it together.

It's a 1966 BSA 441,
got a 30 year old tire

on the back and a $30 tire on the front.

This thing is so loud I can't ride it.

I went around the block and people

were yelling out their
windows at me and stuff.

It came alive.

Some guy was trimming his
trees right there by the fence.

I'm running, I bump in,
he just goes, "Wow."

Like this right next to this guy.

He's cutting his trees,
he jumped out of his skin.

Into the freaking atmosphere,
he was yelling at me.

(engines revving)

("Sailor Jerry Rum" by Faraway Boys)

(engines revving)

Today is a day we get stuff
back from the machine shops

and the crank balancing shops.

We have a Triumph 650 crank
and we've had some weight

taken out of it in order to
make this thing run smoothly.

We're gonna get this thing put together,

we're gonna get some rods put on there

with new shell bearings and eventually

put it in the icebox, get it nice and cold

and put it in the other
two motorcycle halves

and start building a motor.

This thing will go fast, scare people.

Cams are usually sold in pairs,

and to go road racing
you're gonna want more

of a top end cam and when
you go dirt tracking,

you want a mid-range top end cam.

When you go motor crossing,
you want to use a low end cam.

Right off idle, where it makes your power

where you're on and off the gas a lot.

With these cams we split it up,

we used two different
style cams to get more

of a pull off the line
and not be real extreme

in any way, but really
hook up good horsepower

and good delivery with the horsepower.

This is a good stopping point for today,

and what we're gonna do from here

is we're gonna plop it in our motor stand

and then slowly start putting it together

piece by piece, the
little finishing touches

and gears and stuff, clutches.

That's it for today.

This is Tom Brokaw, signing off.

- Thanks a lot for inviting
us to the bike show.

We appreciate it.

I thought of Benihanas
and Kawasakis, fucked up.

This is off the number 143 hit

in Texas, Japan, and Malaysia.

This is called Don't
Need No Woman Tonight.

("Don't Need No Woman
Tonight" by Thirteen Stars)

This is the First Annual Hell
on Wheels Beauty Pageant.

People should be in here somewhere.

This is a great day for
a horny, married guy.

Which one of these girls am I
not going home with tonight?

All of em.

We have two judges, we
have the No Gooders' Gus.

(audience applauding)

The underappreciated Gus.

(audience cheering)

The highly underrated Gus.

And Lucky, the overrated Lucky.

The highly overrated Lucky.

(audience cheering)

Number one and first up.
- Two blonde bombshells.

- [Announcer] In the Hell on
Wheels Beauty Pageant is Z.

(audience cheering)

Did you see that kick?

Do that kick one more time.

Next up we have Abigail.

(audience cheering)

Look at that outfit, for god's
sake, look at that outfit.

Why won't my wedding ring come off?

("If I'm So Wonderful"
by Smiling Face Down)

- [Meatball] Rose, is that you?

- Hello.
- I need help.

- [Rose] Okay, I brought
your Coke if you're thirsty.

- I need you to pin this motor real quick.

- [Rose] What do I do?

- Just grab these pins and when I get

the holes lined up, you pin her.

- [Rose] This is cool, where'd you get it?

- I got it from Darren,
he made that for me.

Are we ready? - Yes.

- Okay, make sure I don't
pinch my hands on the sink

'cause I'll start crying.
- Alright.

- Get that top one first.

- [Rose] Go up a little bit.

Wait wait, it's not all the way through.

- It's not?

Alright, I'm gonna be out
here for a little bit.

- Okay.

- [Meatball] So, make me
some dinner, huh? (laughs)

- Got it.
- Give me a kiss.

I was just joking.

- [Rose] Now you have red lipstick on.

- Now make me some dinner. (laughs)

Freshly polished from GG.

Keep mucking with my hands.

This bore is gonna be
60 over, 60 over 650.

We're all good to go with the 650 bore.

I feel pretty confident that
we go really fast with a 650.

We don't need the extra 100 CC's.

And the final chassis on
this will be a TT Racer.

That's Tavern to Tavern Bar Hopper.

We probably won't be taking on the track

or anything like that,
but we're gonna wanna

go fast through town.

It's starting to look
more like a motorcycle.

We're at a good stopping point here,

seeing as how we're waiting
for a couple of parts

to come in, so what we'll
do is pin this thing,

make sure it's not gonna fall around

and then throw a couple
rags and a bag on it.

Then she'll be ready to go to sleep.

It took me a while to
get used to road racing.

It's fun, when you're
going 120 miles an hour

you realize that shoot, I
probably shouldn't be doing this.

It's not too safe, so you get
pretty excited when you do it.

It's like taboo you know.

Gosh I probably shouldn't be doing this,

but it's pretty fun, good fun coming in

and making a bunch of racket
and going really fast.

Have bugs splatting on your windscreen

and stuff, it's pretty cool.

(engine revving)

("The Doryman" by The American Wake)

We got our new head back
from R & D Engineering

in Costa Mesa, we made
a couple improvements

to make this bike go faster.

First thing that we did
is cut the valve stems

down to six millimeters
instead of the big old

tree stumps that we used to use.

The second thing we've done is we've gone

to a lighter single spring conical shape

instead of the two big old
springs we used to use.

The old springs were
two springs, they were

laid upon inside of each other.

This is how they got the
tension that they wanted

on the valve train, so
this'll make the cam work less

and the motor work less
to do what it needs

to do in order to make horsepower.

Starting to look like a motor.

This is our replacement for the chain.

The guy that built this, Bob Oswald,

he's back in PA and he's 95 years old

and he's still kicking ass.

He puts these things together.

Still wraps stuff in newspaper
like in the old days.

Here's our crank seal to keep the oil out.

This is the engine gear right here.

It runs off the crank, and
here's our clutch assembly.

Instead of running three clutch springs,

you have one single diaphragm.

It's all tricked out,
makes for a nice even flow

when that clutch is grabbing.

What I'm doing here is I'm
weighing the weight difference

between the two assemblies.

This is the QPD belt drive, it comes in

at about eight pounds.

Then we'll stick the
stock Triumph one on there

and see what that thing comes in at.

So it looks like we're gonna save about,

eight minus 14, six pounds of
rotating mass on this motor.

Five and a half, that's pretty damn good.

One QPD belt drive.

This is a good stopping point for the day.

I've had enough motor building,

and now I'm gonna meet up with my buddies

to go for a good long ride.

("Cowboy Moon" by Faraway Boys)

(people talking)

- You can make fun of me,
but the '60s was a fun time.

'60s and '70s I think.

I don't know, I think we
had our problems back then

and we got our problems now, but people

were cooler back then for sure.

I don't know.

Steve McQueen rode Triumphs and Huskies,

he was a movie star, had
all the money in the world,

could do anything he wanted,
and that's what he did.

Kinda like, I'm living like a movie star.

I'm just 40 years out of it.

I'm not a movie star by today's standards.

But I'm doing what was good enough

for a movie star 40 years ago.

That's my life.

("Dry" by Smiling Face Down)

- I rolled out the '71
and we cleaned it up,

touched it up a bit so
it'd look halfway decent.

Tonight I have the best
of all my buddies here.

We're anxious to get
this motor in the frame

and get it buttoned up so we
can go test it this weekend.

This is Chris Wakula, Wakula Racing.

He's a good gear man.

He's a good buddy too.

- I'm trying to dial these cams in

so they open and close at the right time.

It's not a standard cam so kinda

cajole them into place a bit.

- [Meatball] It's kinda odd that the motor

I'm building and testing is a '71

because my first Triumph motorcycle

that I ever bought was a '71 Triumph.

I'm very familiar with
this chassis and the bike

'cause I've got 200 thousand
miles on this chassis

so it's gonna be like
my first baseball glove

or something, I'm gonna know it so well.

It makes me realize how much
I really miss this bike.

Every one of my buddies is good
at a lot of different things

but my good friend Mike Englet,

he can straighten anything that's metal.

He's great at putting on
fenders and straightening tanks,

takes golf ball dents out of everything.

He just looks at a fender
and gets it lined up.

Everybody thinks putting
a fender on is easy.

It's not easy, I guarantee
you nine out of 10 guys

put their fender on crooked.

Got GG helping me so that I look

pretty good going down the street.

I got John Lee, who's a trained mechanic

but he can put anything together.

He's great with details.

- Oh fuck, I never had anything.

- [Meatball] Saved six pounds,
it's got the trick clutch.

- Six pounds?

- [Meatball] Saved six
pounds of rotating mass

and it's got. - Fuck.

- Nice clutch.
- That's what I've got

to do next on mine.

- [Meatball] Of course I've
got the No Gooders here

drinking all my booze.

They got a fine eye for
knowing what's the coldest beer

and what's the best tasting brown water.

("Midnight Rambin' Man" by Thirteen Stars)

- I feel privileged, I'm
opening up the last ARD Magneto.

I didn't even get one.

- [Meatball] That's
the last one ever made.

- [Man] Look at that bush.

- Is this what he sent?

Holy cow, jackpot.

I think he cleaned out his whole

Playboy collection for this.

It's the last one, I
guess the guy's retiring.

So that makes it pretty special

and he was the kick ass ARD Magneto guy

for forever.
- Since the early '60s.

- Yeah, everybody ran this shit.

Meatball's privileged to have
the guy made him the last one.

Thank you very much, Alan.

- [Meatball] The bike looks
good, it all came together

the way it was supposed to.

Tomorrow's the big day, we're
gonna sound the trumpet.

("Dry" by Smiling Face Down)

- How fast do you think it's gonna go?

Come on, Lucky.
- It's gotta go 130, right?

140? - What about you?

What do you think?

- I think we're gonna go 170 on this.

- Thinking high.

- I'd think 100 miles an
hour would be fast enough.

- I think at least 150, 150.

- [Lucky] And we're gonna
take it to Daytona and run it.

150 like Gene Romero.

- [Man] Give Gene Romero
a run for his money.

I bet everyone a dollar it'd start up.

- I got a buck on that.
- Alright.

- First kick or second kick?

- I say second kick.

- [Lucky] I say fifth kick.

Meatball? What kick?

- [Meatball] First or second.

(engine starting)

- [Everyone] Oh!

(men cheering)

(engine revving)

- I can't wait to see it on the road.

Today's just the first day, starting.

Next is actually getting it on the road.

That's where it's really
gonna be exciting.

It's a throwback to the old ways.

The way things used to
be done in the old days.

When people liked motors that went fast.

That's what this is, it's a motor

that's gonna go super fast.

Good job, well done.

Another masterpiece.

("The Quay" by The American Wake)

(train rumbling)

(engine revving)