Grab that International pickup at 0:47 It's a torque monster with a wicked granny gear. Then pull the bed and doghouse off, add a transfer case and 4x4 axles, Done!
"i want a suzuki samurai" pretty specific demand. oh, but look! luckily there is one laying around. what a coincidence. hate it when a show is staged that much -.-
There have been a whole bunch of times where a specific request for a part or vehicle wasn't found.. not to mention, the samurai was missing the diff, so it became mostly useless to the original design.
Not that it matters at all but he actually said like a samurai, Not specifically a samurai. The show also takes place in a junkyard so it is possible you would find 1 or even 10 of them there, I know a few of the yards around here have a few sitting in them or did, they have probably been crushed by now but its fully possible without being scripted. I'm not saying the show wasn't scripted, just that finding one is possible for anyone at a junkyard
You are right about that Arwin. I remember the time though when I drove cars into the junkyard, just to get rid of them. Today, some would pay heaps for them. But there is no excuxse for scrapping a vw van, eventhough they were made by the thousands. In any case, junkyard megawars whatever is utter bollocks.
If they really knew vehicles, they'd KNOW that Ford truck wheels have the exact same bolt pattern as their Suzuki, instead of hunting for JUST Suzuki wheels.
Probably due to the yankafication of the show. A once so civilized challenge, the scrapheap challenge somehow was to polite for the average yank. So they made a "war" out of it and added a "mega". Accompanying this display in tastelessness, they added some mentally challenged (mega brain wars) "yeahaaaah", "whoooot", "uuuumurica!!!" shouting idiots. I think that about sums it up.
These type of shows are pre-staged. It's predetermined what they'll build so salvage parts are already available. I've done fabrication & welding and from design to completion... they're not doing it in 10 hours. All these shows are just designed to try and entertain.
I agree with the parts but if they took any longer they must have little experience and or low IQ. They prove it by cutting the bus apart for the drivetrain that drops out with 6 bolts
4wd's built by people who don't wheel... this was interesting. They ought to be shot for cutting up that multi-window VW though, people would KILL for a body like that.
This was one of my favorite shows. But there was another very good program which was very similar to this one but I just don't remember the name. Can any one help me? Students compete in two teams(red and blue), the tasks were not that complex therefore, they were assigned pretty much any task other than vehicle building, and if I remember correctly the word "Junk" was in the name of the show.
xKYLE96 That's not quite it. In this program competitors were young teenagers. And teams were red and blue. Commentators were a guy and a girl. Each supporting a team.
no way you would find a geo traker that old that good aound heir they all rusted out years ago fun thing to drive but very thin steel road salt kills them
I wanted red to win so bad, they had the better ride, what killed them was 2 things the SMF should have known, first WTF didnt they deflate the tires, bald fulling inflated tires ???????? and 2nd they should have welded the diffs to make lunch box lockers.... and FFS floor mats would have gotten them out of 1/2 the problems...
easiest 4 wheel drive system ever, two front wheel drivetrains one mounted in the front one in the back, best part is if one engine fails, it can still move.
I lost interest in the franchise when the many-team competition Junkyard Wars morphed into Junkyard Mega-Wars. The challenges were still mildly interesting, but not so much as ambitiously challenging teams of 3(?) to build a snow mobile for a race, or to build digging machines to drill thru the walls of an imaginary prison, or to build mine-finding machines to blow up as many buried paint bombs as possible, or to build hydroplane boats, or to build a vehicle able to carry an open barrel of paint racing an obstacle course spilling as little as possible. Compared to this series where every week was initially 2 new teams, until the semi-finals, where they faced off, & then the final challenge for the grand prize... what incentive was there to care about 2 identical teams week after week after... I simply lost interest in Mega-Wars, watched sporadically, then found something else on another channel. Morning the fall of Junkyard Wars. (My favorite ambitious fail was the snowmobile "race" that was supposed to be 3 laps. The winner was the machine that got the most number of feet from the starting line before dying completely!)
it' s sad that new age shows depict rapid flashing edits as a means of increasing viewability, of course it' s their option do what they perceive as their liking, but is my opinion the contrary usually happens they degrade the content this way.
I agree with you that all the weight in the back of the vdub was a bad idea, but as far as electric motors go, theoretically they are a better choice because an electric motor can provide instant and constant torque whereas an internal combustion motor has a power band and no constant torque.
such a amatures a electric motor from a golf cart dont have enough torque to climb hills they should have use a big truck engine on 4x4 body with wide tyres
1 of the few shows I'd love to see come back on the air
Grab that International pickup at 0:47 It's a torque monster with a wicked granny gear. Then pull the bed and doghouse off, add a transfer case and 4x4 axles, Done!
Poor 15 window bus. So hard to watch it get cut down.
Yup, yanks got no respect for anything!
This show needs a reboot except make it real and cut out all the corny crap. Still, loved this show as a kid.
Itd have to be two 8 hours days to make it real but I'm sure they could make it work
Especially those two annoying hosts.
That samurai stock would've been a better rock crawler 😆
Not without a engine (which was missing when they found it) it wouldn't.
Or a transfer case for that matter, so no four wheel drive either.
"i want a suzuki samurai" pretty specific demand.
oh, but look! luckily there is one laying around. what a coincidence.
hate it when a show is staged that much -.-
There have been a whole bunch of times where a specific request for a part or vehicle wasn't found.. not to mention, the samurai was missing the diff, so it became mostly useless to the original design.
Not that it matters at all but he actually said like a samurai, Not specifically a samurai. The show also takes place in a junkyard so it is possible you would find 1 or even 10 of them there, I know a few of the yards around here have a few sitting in them or did, they have probably been crushed by now but its fully possible without being scripted. I'm not saying the show wasn't scripted, just that finding one is possible for anyone at a junkyard
4:27 Did she just say.... "They're going to take the electric ENGINE out of the golf cart, and replace the samurai's MOTOR"? Ugh!!
I know... Basically they are taking a pre-made basis for a rock crawler that would just need lift and tires and they are throwing it out the window
there was no engine in the samurai .
Wow. The floor was pretty much perfect on that vw van...
😂
NOOO!!! You want more weight in the FRONT, so you don't flip over.
the american version of scrapheap challenge , only its worse!
defender of the couch junk yard wars is from the early 2000's lol theres a reason it got cancelled.
i think i would have cut the hood off whatever was closed, sat down, and had the team pull me up the mountain like santa clause.
ruined a perfectly good sammi. Should have done a spring over, cut the fenders, bigger tires, weld the diffs, aired down the tires and done deal.
Except for the small matter that there was no engine in the Sammy.
Wow that's a testament to electric vehicles and go cart engines electric samurai heck yea!
Folks never heard of airing down a tire
I knew this show was creepy but I was too young and stupid to know. Aww the nostalgia
saw a interview with the lady who produced the show, she said she was sad to see how the show ended up...
that poor split window bus :(
And the very few parts they used off it could have been bolted off. Complete wankery to cut it up like that.
zippofani the *complete* wanker was the person that put it in the junkyard in the first place
You are right about that Arwin.
I remember the time though when I drove cars into the junkyard, just to get rid of them. Today, some would pay heaps for them. But there is no excuxse for scrapping a vw van, eventhough they were made by the thousands.
In any case, junkyard megawars whatever is utter bollocks.
And that, kids, is why we have legs.
they built a dune buggy to do a rock climb? brilliant.
...
Unbelievable competition
OH MY GOD MY EYES!!
that poor bus!!
why couldn't they have done that to a bay window instead...
Boy these guys really know how to fuck up a clean samurai!
I am thinking air pressure in the tires might have helped?? Rock crawlers do not have full air in the tires
Nobody aired down tires. Lol
Fuck that was dangerous pulling on those ropes while it tries to climb. Why not lower tyre pressure they had a welder but didn't weld the diffs? Wtf?!
😩 cutting up that split screen VW bus like that!
Quite painfull to see a VW van to be destroyed :( That would be such an awesome project to restore
ye say that again now 9 years later when times are harder to find a vw..
@@THOMASS_P damn for real haha. In hindsight it's a very expensive episode
Even 9 years ago they should have known better
low air in tyres would of helped
And battery power sucks ass, always has. Still does.. maybe someday..
Black leather dude is so annoying
Hes clearly on crack
yeah, complete douchetool
Good lord this show's painful to watch. The builds are interesting but there's so much horribly scripted crap packed in around them.
The "hosts" were trying too hard to be "cool".... and failing miserably. Bobby Sue's talent is entirely in her bra, whereas Rossi has none at all.
“I’m so psyched about this Suzuki!”
I much prefer the British version. It is still goofy but it is much less hyperactive.
watching in 2019 here
2020 during covid 19
@@markmiranda1710 Sept 2020, still covid
Anyone else want to see a Hell's Angle guy just beat the FUCK out of this host dude in the leather jacket?
why are they screaming all the time? Dont get it...
Only sad thing is it doesn't seem like any of these guys know anything about rock crawling.
They seem to know very little about vehicles in general
COOOL I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS SHOW!!!
Bobbi Sue Luther! Damn!
If they really knew vehicles, they'd KNOW that Ford truck wheels have the exact same bolt pattern as their Suzuki, instead of hunting for JUST Suzuki wheels.
stumpy0227 5x5.5 dodge and Jeep had those too
If these idiots knew vehicles they would have been done long before the time limit. The whole drivetrain of that bus drops out with 6 bolts
when I think of silent but deadly, sadly, I think of a fart. The slow leakers are always the worst it seems.
Probably due to the yankafication of the show. A once so civilized challenge, the scrapheap challenge somehow was to polite for the average yank. So they made a "war" out of it and added a "mega". Accompanying this display in tastelessness, they added some mentally challenged (mega brain wars) "yeahaaaah", "whoooot", "uuuumurica!!!" shouting idiots.
I think that about sums it up.
I don't understand why they are making the front end pivot. It just won't matter if they aren't drive wheels.
43:41 when he hits her in the face hahaah
haha I didn't catch that.... ...but she did, in the face.
These type of shows are pre-staged. It's predetermined what they'll build so salvage parts are already available. I've done fabrication & welding and from design to completion... they're not doing it in 10 hours. All these
shows are just designed to try and entertain.
I agree with the parts but if they took any longer they must have little experience and or low IQ. They prove it by cutting the bus apart for the drivetrain that drops out with 6 bolts
Don't weld diffs or air down tires. That never helps.
nah never.
Really,?
this show is made up but i like it! Die Junkyard Tante würd ich ja gern mal bürsten...
that was nice episode
that VW van would sell for at least $5k even in the condition that was in, in good condition those sometimes sell for $100k
He said “unbelievable competition” like 6 times at the end lol
That was pathetic
4wd's built by people who don't wheel... this was interesting. They ought to be shot for cutting up that multi-window VW though, people would KILL for a body like that.
I know my eyes were better when I was younger, but how did we even know what was happening on TV with this resolution???
they have no idea
so... they cut the entire vw bus to use only the drive train and suspension... right o.0
wow this is sad. they could have left the samurai stock and done better
I would find a jeep cherokee... and climb it easily
This cool when did thisd come out never seen it before
no wonder this show is dead and buried. What was I thinking?
Do you have season 11 episide 1 when they did snowmobies
2020 still here.
This was one of my favorite shows. But there was another very good program which was very similar to this one but I just don't remember the name. Can any one help me? Students compete in two teams(red and blue), the tasks were not that complex therefore, they were assigned pretty much any task other than vehicle building, and if I remember correctly the word "Junk" was in the name of the show.
+Roger Sings scrapheap challenge soz for late reply
xKYLE96
That's not quite it. In this program competitors were young teenagers. And teams were red and blue. Commentators were a guy and a girl. Each supporting a team.
yeh not to sure then if i find anything ill let you know
xKYLE96
Thank you
+Roger Sings Thunder Races
Why'd you cut up the Volkswagen bus you didn't use any of it
boobby sue was they only draw... lol ... pull them cars up them rocks!!!!
1:49 that’s my dad! 😂
she just hooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no way you would find a geo traker that old that good aound heir they all rusted out years ago fun thing to drive but very thin steel road salt kills them
watching that vw bus get cut up made me cringe
I wanted red to win so bad, they had the better ride, what killed them was 2 things the SMF should have known, first WTF didnt they deflate the tires, bald fulling inflated tires ???????? and 2nd they should have welded the diffs to make lunch box lockers.... and FFS floor mats would have gotten them out of 1/2 the problems...
Thanks a lot, I look down for just a moment and you ruin it by mentioning who won. Typical idiocy.
Dont be too hard on ur'self.
From the user name you should try back in a few hours.
>:)
ramairgto72 LOL
a gas powered 4x4 like an xj would have done it without a problem
easiest 4 wheel drive system ever, two front wheel drivetrains one mounted in the front one in the back, best part is if one engine fails, it can still move.
Did literally nobody know about airing down back then lol
Only put 5 lb air pressure in the tires you'll get traction
I lost interest in the franchise when the many-team competition Junkyard Wars morphed into Junkyard Mega-Wars. The challenges were still mildly interesting, but not so much as ambitiously challenging teams of 3(?) to build a snow mobile for a race, or to build digging machines to drill thru the walls of an imaginary prison, or to build mine-finding machines to blow up as many buried paint bombs as possible, or to build hydroplane boats, or to build a vehicle able to carry an open barrel of paint racing an obstacle course spilling as little as possible. Compared to this series where every week was initially 2 new teams, until the semi-finals, where they faced off, & then the final challenge for the grand prize... what incentive was there to care about 2 identical teams week after week after...
I simply lost interest in Mega-Wars, watched sporadically, then found something else on another channel. Morning the fall of Junkyard Wars.
(My favorite ambitious fail was the snowmobile "race" that was supposed to be 3 laps. The winner was the machine that got the most number of feet from the starting line before dying completely!)
Late reply, I know, but I loved this show as well but hated it's revamp. The "lightning bolt " chango ray caused me physical pain.
Why the blue team is stuck in the 2nd run?
makes sense
Nooooo not the vw micro bus!!!!!😮😮😭😭😩😩
What junkyard are they at?
Jan Jones mega wars
This is the american version, which is not even close to the british
it' s sad that new age shows depict rapid flashing edits as a means of increasing viewability, of course it' s their option do what they perceive as their liking, but is my opinion the contrary usually happens they degrade the content this way.
Wait bowser that name is so uncommon mayb this the guy from SCRAP HEAP CHALLENGE? Did usa steal the show and bowser?
Deleted ions yep same guy. This is the American version of scrap heap challenge
What's with the ropes and bars people it's about the cars
Yay for knowing Swedish and having auto unexpected Swedish subtitles! Nej (see what I did there?) for it being on a crappy show though ._.
such a great old show, parts are cringeworthy though
@Corvette1658 No i haven't
that fuckin beep
10k van ..cough cough 😅 alot more now
Too awful to finish watching
And not one person thought of airing down the tires smh
United States is just one of 35 countries in America
Back when O.S.A.H didn't matter, we gonna bring back junkyard wars
11:07 who doesnt know that.. poor vw :(
The hosts get a solid F. Seriously, holy shit they are bad.
there not really not rocks most of the time. there getting stuck on sand. if there building rock crawlers then put them on a rock course
I agree with you that all the weight in the back of the vdub was a bad idea, but as far as electric motors go, theoretically they are a better choice because an electric motor can provide instant and constant torque whereas an internal combustion motor has a power band and no constant torque.
What a couple pieces of crap they built !
@sillymonsterfromthe4 very good point lol
such a amatures a electric motor from a golf cart dont have enough torque to climb hills they should have use a big truck engine on 4x4 body with wide tyres
they should have welded the diffs
Moondollar.......
AIR DOWN!
Oops, thought this was the UK version, this one seems pretty acted.
Not that I'd expect anything else from Americans.
is the scripted the get everything they need and want?
that high pitch whistle drove me crazy...