About this season
A team of professionals headed by expert mechanic Jesse James specialize in transform cars. The clock is ticking as they attempt to turn ordinary vehicles into 'monster machines' in just a week.
Episodes (10)
1. Milk Bomb
Aired 3 October 2005 • 45 min
Jesse and five builders take a beat-up, 1959 Chevy Apache milk truck and transform it into the world's first mobile milking parlor. The truck is gutted to make room for a milking machine, a custom pasteurizer, a cow stall, and a 1,400-pound dairy cow!
2. Sour Kraut
Aired 10 October 2005 • 45 min
Jesse and a team of legendary Volkswagen racers and customizers set their sights on turning a rare, 1951, split-window ragtop. They attempt to turn this car, which had been left to rot in a swamp, into a nine-second quarter mile dragster.
3. Armored Dunkster
Aired 17 October 2005 • 45 min
The Team tries to turning an armored truck into a mobile dunk tank.
4. Full Steam Ahead
Aired 24 October 2005 • 45 min
A team of experts joins Jesse in his dream quest to harness the awesome power of steam, by converting an 18-foot, 1964 Chris Craft wooden boat into a steam-powered monster.
5. Crop Circler
Aired 31 October 2005 • 45 min
Jesse makes a Crop Circle Maker out of an old, beat-up farmer's tractor. He wants to do what the aliens do; visit a field of wheat, and leave behind a pattern that can only be explained as a visit from another world.
6. Backyard Monsters I
Aired 14 November 2005 • 45 min
Jesse leaves behind the monster garage and searches for Backyard Monsters.
7. All Female Dirt Racer Revisited
Aired 14 November 2005 • 45 min
Jesse and the all-female Monster Garage team tries to build a dirt-track racer.
8. Backyard Monsters II
Aired 7 November 2005 • 45 min
Jesse leaves behind the monster garage and searches for Backyard Monsters.
9. Anglia Nitro Dragster
Aired 12 December 2005 • 45 min
Jesse and his team of mechanics try to transform a 1959 British Anglia Coupe into a high-speed drag racer.
10. Texas High School Rat Rod
Aired 19 December 2005 • 45 min
Jesse builds a car with students from the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin.