THIS movie buff has transformed an old golf cart into Mater the tow truck from Pixar’s Cars. Jerry Patrick, 51, first set up AKA Junk over a decade ago when he couldn't afford to pay someone else to paint his cars and do bodywork - now the team are experts in replica TV and movie cars. After a Cars’ themed dream, Patrick decided that he had to make Mater come to life outside of the cartoon world.
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00:00 00:55 COMM: Expert car customiser, Jerry Patrick,
00:25 has transformed a golf cart into the animated car's character, Mater.
00:29 01:00 JERRY PATRICK - This is our newest creation, we'll call him Little Mater.
00:32 His daddy was a famous tow truck and his mama was a southern belle of a golf cart.
00:38 01:13 JERRY PATRICK - We build Mater all in house, all hand laid fiberglass, all LED lights,
00:46 west coast mirrors, just like he was born with.
00:49 As we come down the side, we try to keep him as screen accurate as we could.
00:53 As we come around to the back, here again trying to keep it as screen accurate as possible
00:57 for a golf cart.
00:58 All new upholstery front and back.
00:59 01:32 COMM: Jerry has been bringing movies and cartoon
01:02 cars to life for over a decade.
01:04 01:36 JERRY PATRICK - I own A.K.A.
01:06 Junk.
01:07 It kind of started about 15 years ago out of necessity, meaning that I couldn't afford
01:12 to pay someone else to paint my cars and do body work and weld and everything else.
01:16 And so we kind of started our own show and been doing our own thing ever since.
01:20 01:55 JERRY PATRICK - Mater the golf cart, he's made up of 13 LED lights, he has a perforated
01:26 front windshield, new upholstery front and back, an all steel back boom, fiberglass front
01:32 end obviously.
01:33 We customise his wheels, we customise all the paint, there's about 16 colours that go
01:37 into the paint job.
01:39 And we sell the Tow Mater golf carts for $7,900 a piece on up, and that's based on the year
01:44 and a few variables, but it's basically around $7,900.
01:46 02;10 COMM: Having already created a number of these
01:49 cartoon replicas, it's taken time for owner Jerry to perfect his Mater method.
01:54 02;22 JERRY PATRICK - Mater The most challenging part of Mater was doing
01:56 the first one.
01:57 The process we have done a little bit better, but the first one was a lot of trial and error
02:01 to get it as cartoon accurate as we could, at least our version of it.
02:04 And I'd have to say that's the most challenging part, which is doing the first one and getting
02:08 all the kinks worked out of it.
02:09 02;39 COMM: Every cart has been carefully mapped out
02:11 to build the most cartoon accurate vehicle possible.
02:14 02;45 JERRY PATRICK - Mater Generally we bring in a stock golf cart, they're
02:16 normally 2013's or newer, and we strip it down, we strip it down to the frame, we have
02:21 to add an overwhelming amount of steel to the back for the structural support for the
02:25 whole back end for the seat area.
02:27 The sides are made out of a marine grade lumber coated in fiberglass resin.
02:31 The front end, obviously on the factory cart is removed and we put our fiberglass front
02:34 end on it.
02:35 And about a day and a half of straight up wiring a gob of LED lights to make it as Mater-y
02:40 as we can.
02:40 as we can.
02:42 [Music]