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Thanks Jake I needed a good laugh. What about me and the rest of the world?

I tried using txtdrop.com, and that service only accepts 10-digit numbers..... Guess I'll have to use the IPhone.... That does suck, by the way... Where do I have to go to get an Obamaphone????

I'm with you Jake! This amounts to a Poll Tax! I say we start a texting campain to our.........oh wait. CRAP!!!

anotheridiot wrote:

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I dont like it either, but its much easier to keep people from stuffing the ballot, one phone, one vote.

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 Unless you have multiple texting devices....  Pre-paid cell-phones????  Maybe Senior or the others could buy up unlimited amount of them an have the crew sit all night sending votes in for his bike...  Gas Monkey said they would give out t-shirts to texters for them.......LMAO....Let me borrow some of rumples foil to keep the voices out...

I can't remember where I saw it; probably Twitter, but they alluded to other bike build offs between the guys. So if they use the same text system here is the secret at least for an iPhone. You bring up a new contact and type in the phone number (it didn't require a 10 digit number) and then in the content section I put in 1 for PJD.

I had texted Jr on Twitter and told him if you want votes you need to give enough information to allow us to text on our phones. He provided the information. The one thing they did not provide was the information telling you to do it on a new contact page. But then they might not have known how all phones work. I was able to figure that part out.

In terms of paying to vote, other contest shows on TV require you to text or call your vote in to a number and you pay for the call. Of course the amount of time you spend on the phone is minimal.

There must have been voter fraud. I don't see how anyone could have voted for Senior or Jesse James.

rumple wrote:

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There must have been voter fraud. I don't see how anyone could have voted for Senior or Jesse James.

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 If you saw chopper live, last night.  i missed catching the segment where, the reason that sabotaged Jessies build time was by Senior having Jesse build him that Rat Rod.  That sabotaged Jesse from making the deadline which IMO sabtaged him from getting more votes than F 'n L an I am sure that is how Senior got in a few sneak peeks as to what Jessie was doing an pretty much copying what jessie was doing in the frameless sport chopper..

ElGuapo wrote:

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OCC did not copy anyone. You must be thinking back to when Junior copied the design of the Cadillac, shrunk it down and fitted it to a motorcycle. Truly innovative to steal someone's else's design.

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 Now now El we all know who the copycat is bud. Remember the flame thrower and how Jason stole that design?

Happy Dance!%$#^^%!$$!$!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a 1951 Kaiser "Drag'n" which was built by a "real life industrial designer", and featured on Jay Leno's Garage:

 

Who, may I ask would you consider to be a true industrial designer, Pohl, or the owner/fabricator of the Kaiser??

dahammer_57 wrote:

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Chip Foose - another fabricator turned designer whom Jason Foole is not qualified to be in the same room with. Just imagine what might have been if Sr had hired an individual who learned design fom real world fabrication rather than the xbox playstation monkey who filled the seat. The first requirement should have been show me what you've built from your designs, not gee that there is a cool looking chopper you put in dat der OCC electronic pinball...why don't you uhmmm come drawer errr..choppers for me...uhmmm.....der.....

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 Well, look at what kind of quality worker he got when he decided to hire a well known, experienced fabricator from Milwaukee Iron in Tennessee.

(Lee Stamper) 

Even Jr made the same mistake of hiring Lee when he started PJD.

-- Edited by Izzy Ryder on Thursday 28th of February 2013 08:49:33 PM

We all know Foole was only hired to draw Jr's designs. When did he became this so called "real life industrial designer"??? If he was this "real life industrial designer" why would he take a job drawing someone's designs?

dahammer_57 wrote:

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Chip Foose - another fabricator turned designer whom Jason Foole is not qualified to be in the same room with. Just imagine what might have been if Sr had hired an individual who learned design fom real world fabrication rather than the xbox playstation monkey who filled the seat. The first requirement should have been show me what you've built from your designs, not gee that there is a cool looking chopper you put in dat der OCC electronic pinball...why don't you uhmmm come drawer errr..choppers for me...uhmmm.....der.....

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 He hired PHULE because a real life designer would have demanded a higher paycheck. Buy cheap, get cheap, build cheap. 

Lee was well known?

Izzy Ryder wrote:

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One "Industrial Designer" who's not afraid of creating design sketches to build from.

Chip Foose

 

 

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 But those look like cars. Can you show one of a motorcycle from him or any other builder besides OCC?

SilentBob wrote:

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Izzy Ryder wrote:

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One "Industrial Designer" who's not afraid of creating design sketches to build from.

Chip Foose

 

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 But those look like cars. Can you show one of a motorcycle from him or any other builder besides OCC?

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 Here's a short video clip about Arlen Ness.... motorcycle-mavericks

At the 28sec mark you'll see him sketching a concept.

Also check this old "Biker Build-off" episode.......

Ten of the best builders in the country get together to build one bike in 3 days.

They all sketch their concept before the build starts. (at 3:55 mark)

-- Edited by Izzy Ryder on Friday 1st of March 2013 09:22:06 PM

jakemac wrote:

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Lee was originally on a knock off show (I think they called it "Southern Steel") that very few people saw, and that didn't last long. The owner of that shop (Milwaukee Iron) died, and not long after, Sr hired him as a fabricator. That didn't last long either, and Lee was sent packing. He tried several times to get his own shop going, and to get back on tv, but between the bad economy and well ... him, it didn't work out. He may still be working on bikes, but I don't know what happened to him since.

Why either of the Teutuls would hire him again is beyond me. He was an ok fabricator (medium skilled), but a train wreck of a human being.

http://leestamperdesigns.wix.com/leestamperdesign#!

 

Update :  FOUND HIM ! he's building custom golf carts in North Carolina

http://back9network.com/tv/video/back9network-work-of-cart/

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 The owner of Milwaukee Iron didn't die. Lee's mentor and chief fabricator (Gary Woodford) was the one who unexpectedly passed away.

The loss of Gary Woodford, and  the poor economy sank the Milwaukee Iron business.....    Randy Simpson closing Milwaukee Iron

BTW.... OCC used to buy blank fender stampings from Milwaukee Iron to make their front and rear fenders.

Coxie:" I know what a stupid idea to have the bike look similar to the car"

 

Similar????? It was a scale down. No innovation. Nothing original.  Which is funny because those are the exact words plastered all over the truck Junior drives and probably every thing else he owns.

 

I could see if an item inspires someone to design something else.  But if all you do, is make it smaller, I just don't see genius, innovative, original design.

Following this thread is like watching a tennis match being played by two schizophrenics on biker crank.

It starts way back in early December with Jakemac saying; "...Those of us who have invested years in supporting this program, but don't have access to one of them new fanggled texting machines, should have the same opportunities to vote for our favorite bike as any 12 year old with twitchy thumbs...."

Yadda yadda...

Then Elgjuapo lobs this gem (which has fuqhall to do with anything, as far as I can tell); "OCC did not copy anyone. You must be thinking back to when Junior copied the design of the Cadillac, shrunk it down and fitted it to a motorcycle. Truly innovative to steal someone's else's design. ..."

Lee is mentioned, Chip Foose appears briefly and an Arlen Nest video surfaces, which for some insane "reason" makes Elgjuapo start babbling about things shrinking (!) and being copied and something about innovation and words plastered on Junior's truck...

... and now is characterized by a Lucha Libre Mexican wrestler "action figure."

Pass the prozac.

-- Edited by rumple on Saturday 2nd of March 2013 03:01:21 PM