Cartoon Junkie Builds Mach 5 From Speed Racer

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An expert car customiser has transformed a 94 Corvette into a stunning replica of the Mach 5 from the iconic 1960’s cartoon Speedracer. Jerry Patrick, who owns car replica extraordinaire AKA Junk, has been transforming cars into classic cartoon and movie vehicles for over a decade. After falling in love with the Mach 5 in the 60’s, 51-year-old Patrick had to fulfil his lifelong dream of driving the real deal.

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00:28Straight out of the 1960s cartoon, this incredible Mach 5 speed racer is the handiwork of car

00:40customizer Jerry Patrick.

00:42The 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.

00:55We fiberglassed the new body back on it and it takes about 90 to 120 days to complete

01:01one.

01:02We got the interior, put the correct red leather interior inside, obviously custom paint, custom

01:08decals, the emblems, the steel wheels in fact on it, we custom make them here in house.

01:15The whole process began with Jerry customizing his own cars to save on mechanic bills.

01:21We started customizing the old school Camaros and Mustangs probably 15 or 20 years ago and

01:27that kind of parlayed into doing the TV and movie cars and so I'd say the love the most

01:33is 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 from a 51 year old guy back

01:55in 1967-ish when the cartoon came out so I was really enthralled as a kid to watch this

02:00and I thought, you know, one day I'm going to be driving a Mach 5.

02:05The cost to build on the Mach 5 is another one of these classified things that I've got to

02:08keep that a big secret for my wife.

02:11The 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

02:27of 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.

02:34When you hop in the Mach 5 it can just go broil the tires and just go have fun with it just

02:43like you would see in the cartoon.

02:44I get asked generally sometimes from some specific questions on how fast the Mach 5 can go.

02:54Bless you say it's unlimited.

02:55Bless you say it's unlimited.

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