"cool running" good job. as a hover craft owner down under, it needs a Little trimming out. take 2 -3 degrees out (lower the angle) of your multi wing (fan blades) so it will ride higher. and when you get the balance down pat, hop in turn it on in the trailer and step back as giving some revs and it will reverse out. that is awesome feeling especially when other are watching, seeing you go in reverse stuns people. keep up the flying and have fun.
I can understand why we don't see him on Roadkill any more. He's having WAAAAAAY more fun now than wrenching on some old beater in a parking lot with Freiburger.
I'm pretty sure it won't happen because Kevin has his own successful business but it would be amazing if he joined cleet or even moved to the FF and opened a shop on that land, kind of like what cleet talked about jeremy doing.
“I’d sure feel stupid if I was one of those guys loading a boat on a trailer” 😂😂😂 Don’t know why I find this so funny after he zips by them at 20 mph from water To land. 😂
WOW, this sure brought back some memories. I was a Scat Dealer in San Diego, CA in 1987. For the 4th of July that year, we had 3 Scats flying on Mission Bay! Great Idea, but very tough to sell. We even offered a flight school for prospective buyers. Had to buy 4 to be a dealer. We eventually sold all 4, but it took a while. Great fun to fly though!
K. Please tell me you gave Fin that hovercraft. That's more than a best-day-at-work-ever expression on his face. You just made his dreams come true. He's worth it. You WILL get back more than you ever spent on it with him. Also. WOW.
Cleetus: Owns hovercraft, drives drag boat and proclaims it the greatest thing ever. Finnegan: Owns drag boat, drives hovercraft and proclaims it the greatest thing ever.
Not bad guys - I have been driving Hovercraft for 30 years now (I know hard to believe!) I have only driven a SCAT 1 time and the problem isn't 30 HP as my current craft does an Honest 50MPH with a little over 30HP. It was the fact that it is an integrated duct (lift and thrust in such a small package) Bigger thrust props are much more efficient and why you see racing craft often have a separate lift system. I need to put up more videos of my craft in action, but it is so hard to get good footage with me being a sole cameraman/pilot. Peace
One other thing to keep in mind when you're running through the parking lot. When a hovercraft is on hard ground that air cushion can throw dust and grit all over the place. The other guys around the lot with all those shiney boats can get hostile in a hurry if their paint jobs start showing rock chips.
soupy conch I just had an experience like that when I finished my twin engine go kart and built a dirt track at my boss’s. 😂☺️ I was tasting dirt for days after, but I couldn’t help but smile!
Not sure what it has to do with the country he is in, America "home of the free" is one of the least "free" first world countries out there lol. The smile was ace though!
God bless your family, James... and your newest addition! Cleetus, you Coop, Spence, Kev and those boys from Finnegan's make me proud to be from the South. You're all intelligent, well-spoken, polite, and down to earth friendly. Keep on with your awesome lives and thanks for sharing.
Can you even imagine living on this lake? One day, a jet boat flies by. The next, it's a ski boat with a hovercraft crossing the wake back and forth. Nuts!
Look like it had a small 150 merc on it so I doubt that ones a 100mph boat. Maybe 70 at best. I have a 200HP Yamy on my 19’ Ranger. On a good day I can hit 70mph.
slayer2112w1 Hopefully he does. Otherwise he wasted 10,000. An XR series is cheaper, lighter and more comfortable with out being set up as a fishing boat. New, the XR was about 10,000 less than an XB. R=race, B=bass.
Monroe Five-O Rangers are heavy and slow. An Allison hull will do the same speed with 75 less horsepower. But don’t go bumping stumps with an Allison...
WOW, what a blast that was! You know everyone on the boat ramp was jealous when you blew by them! LOL! Should have had the trailer open and road it right in. LOL! Thanks for sharing! Take care and God bless you all! David
If Finnegan hasn't been on one b4 then he's a natural. We have one on our Fire Service and they are not the easiest to master. Ride in wide open spaces and keep distance at least for a while. Best wishes and prayers for James' family. Hoping it all goes well for them.
@Richard Harrold they definitely had one built actually but it just got sat aside for a different project when they found the gt500 chassis for so cheap. I'll find the video for ya if you want.
@Richard Harrold I take back whether it was ever built or not, but here is the video where he had it upstairs, talks about it in the first minute of the video. ua-cam.com/video/_pPDAvyYN3Y/v-deo.html
Yeah if you've never met the guys at any of the events, cooper is 6'1" ish, James is like 6'3"-6'4" ish, and ol' Cleeter is I think like 6'8"-6'9". The whole crew is pretty big guys.
Zach Troyer that’s what they have said before. I met Dax Shepard yesterday, they were in Old Town Sacramento filming for his car show. Same thing he’s like 6’2” super cool guy
Guys James is having a baby boy tomorrow. Love and prayers for his fam so we can have a safely delivered baby jackstand!
🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅
🇺🇸
Can’t Wait to see him grow from a little 1/2 ton to a 6 ton jackstand!
Congrats Jack stand Jimmy!!!
Thats awesome news congrats to his family
The Mcfarland/Finnegan crossover has to be the best in recent history
Possibly better than Jimmy Neutron/Fairly Odd Parents crossover
We need more crossovers with him.
I agree sir
Jeremy and Brent made a bad ass k car though 🤔
I have to agree with that!
I don't think Finnegan stopped smiling the whole time on the hovercraft.
The sincere happiness on his face was contagious hahaha
It seems to have that effect!
Simple fun
Neither did I. Amazing.
The hovercraft may not do many miles per hour but it has more Smiles per Hour than anything else out there.
Cleet: after about 10 minutes you're ready to get off
Fin: has the absolute time of his life
"cool running" good job. as a hover craft owner down under, it needs a Little trimming out. take 2 -3 degrees out (lower the angle) of your multi wing (fan blades) so it will ride higher. and when you get the balance down pat, hop in turn it on in the trailer and step back as giving some revs and it will reverse out. that is awesome feeling especially when other are watching, seeing you go in reverse stuns people. keep up the flying and have fun.
Cleetus just single-handedly brought back the personal hovercraft.
These guys are talented drivers, we don't need a bunch of idiots getting in them and crashing xD
@@Lofi.z34 Nonsense. We need all the idiots. Idiots get good eventually.
@@agenericaccount3935 idiots makes great videos too.
@@Lofi.z34 you clearly haven't seen his early videos. Duck call/supercharger.
@@agenericaccount3935 kinda wholesome attitude man
Fin thinks he’s going to convince cleetus to get a jet boat when actually fins being convinced to buy a hovercraft
Zachary Armstrong Yep!
I can see both of them getting each other's toys lol
1000cid blown 6 seater hover craft
@@denvera1g1 yeah combine both hobbies. Haha
It’s sounds like a fair swap deal to me...they trade jet boat for Hovercraft!
For some one who owns a speed boat, Finnegan couldn't stop smiling while he rode the hover craft, lol
Manuel Mayo, speed boat? Isn’t that thing he has like a water dragster?
It's the miata fallacy. It's more fun to drive slow things fast than fast things slow.
@Captain MufDyven you watch to much vice grip garage
@@Wmoore1 Absolutely, I can drive my 94 Golf to the absolute limit and still not even break the speed limit lol
The joy on Finn's face when he's flying the hovercraft is priceless!
I can understand why we don't see him on Roadkill any more. He's having WAAAAAAY more fun now than wrenching on some old beater in a parking lot with Freiburger.
@@longshot7601 How does missing one episode during a Pandemic translate into not seeing him on Roadkill anymore?
@@Serps-ii9zc I haven't seen any Roadkills lately. I've been seeing Freiburger and Dolcich in Roadkill Garages. The the regular Roadkill still on?
@@longshot7601 yeah, regular Roadkill is still a thing, RK Garage is a separate show and has always been Freiburger and Dulcich
The good old hovercraft. Nothing beats the feeling of being out of control about 95 % of the time 😂
The smile on Finnegans face while out on the Scat was epic.
He was grinning ear to ear. Hell yeah
That dang hovercraft just brings out the kid in everyone. 😅
We need more of Kevin, he's such a cool friggin dude
Any clips of that Allison?
I'm pretty sure it won't happen because Kevin has his own successful business but it would be amazing if he joined cleet or even moved to the FF and opened a shop on that land, kind of like what cleet talked about jeremy doing.
@@Jeremy-eu9bx GM probably wants to divest from that shop him n Jeremy went in on, now that they have new property.
@@Jeremy-eu9bx Yeah Im sure they wont merge anything, but still good to see ol Cleeter hanging with the big boys now.
Watch his channel.
“I’d sure feel stupid if I was one of those guys loading a boat on a trailer” 😂😂😂 Don’t know why I find this so funny after he zips by them at 20 mph from water To land. 😂
9:41
This ladies and gentleman is what life is about. The face expression of pure fun, enjoying life!
Finn smiled harder on the Scat than he has in Game Over.
I think that’s because Game Over is trying to kill you every second your in it. The Scat just wants to have fun.
@@thebigdustin Or that GameOver has been a bit of a hassle to get to run to the caliber that Finn wants haha more or less saying the same thing!
Cleetus: "they're very hard to handle
2 minutes later
Finnigan: proceeds to do 360's
The 360 proves his point, rotate the entire thing and its still going forward
Oh ya that was a full send forsure aha
Top speed?
She's a little slow but man if she doesn't start right up and run like a dream
Guaranteed if Finn had one it’ll have a V8 within months
Boys...Smokes!
Rick Richardson Chang your name to Ricky lafleur
@@SuzukiLTZ- I'm incognition. Mr. Layhey keeps fucking with my dope.
Rick Richardson worst case Ontario just try and drown hi. In a trailer again
When Finnegan mentioned Chips, he became my new favorite person.
I thought he woud've started calling it the "brothercraft" by now.
Brothercraft genius
Classic!!
The look of pure joy on Mike's face was priceless.
I see Mike getting a scat soon with that smile that never ended.
That smile never left finns. Face definitely looked like he fulfilled a childhood dream for sure. RIGHT ON!
Way to represent doing it up 80s style even wearing a Cypress Gardens life jacket that badass.
WOW, this sure brought back some memories. I was a Scat Dealer in San Diego, CA in 1987. For the 4th of July that year, we had 3 Scats flying on Mission Bay! Great Idea, but very tough to sell. We even offered a flight school for prospective buyers. Had to buy 4 to be a dealer. We eventually sold all 4, but it took a while. Great fun to fly though!
James Kid:
First Name: Jack
Middle Name: Stand
Last Name: Freedom
as long as he's not from Harbor Freight
Last name Taal
With the last name Taal, and when you put his name in a list, it'll read Taal, Jack Stand.
Cleetus- Its kinda boring after 10mins.
Fin- *smiles ear to ear for an hour*
Edit- this is the most likes I've ever got. Thanks cleeters.
He didn't say it was boring. He said "had enough", meaning he was exhausted.
Legend has it, the smile hasn't left.
@@gdxd7956 OH yeah.?
The huge smile on Finn's face the whole time makes it worth owning.
Finnegan and Cleetus are the luckiest and most fun having fellas on earth!
K. Please tell me you gave Fin that hovercraft. That's more than a best-day-at-work-ever expression on his face. You just made his dreams come true. He's worth it. You WILL get back more than you ever spent on it with him.
Also. WOW.
Cleetus: Owns hovercraft, drives drag boat and proclaims it the greatest thing ever.
Finnegan: Owns drag boat, drives hovercraft and proclaims it the greatest thing ever.
People want what they dont have haha
We need a motor upgrade, aggressive blade pitch
@Daniel T Quick might wanna start with a 4banger swap and see how she feels first
2 rotor for some high rpm and to make sure it fits
@Daniel T Quick or a ls1 😄🇺🇸
Texas speed 427 incoming
I'm betting he will build a complete different one and leave the old classic as is.
Cleetus... YOU LITERALLY BRING SMILES AND JOY EVERYWHERE YOU GO, PLEASE NEVER DIE
Not bad guys - I have been driving Hovercraft for 30 years now (I know hard to believe!) I have only driven a SCAT 1 time and the problem isn't 30 HP as my current craft does an Honest 50MPH with a little over 30HP. It was the fact that it is an integrated duct (lift and thrust in such a small package) Bigger thrust props are much more efficient and why you see racing craft often have a separate lift system. I need to put up more videos of my craft in action, but it is so hard to get good footage with me being a sole cameraman/pilot. Peace
Literally nobody cares
@@terrabnadia1793 I care!
@@terrabnadia1793 Dick
Why are you lying
@@someoneidk6303 what?
One other thing to keep in mind when you're running through the parking lot. When a hovercraft is on hard ground that air cushion can throw dust and grit all over the place. The other guys around the lot with all those shiney boats can get hostile in a hurry if their paint jobs start showing rock chips.
Finnegan was smiling like 12 year old boy with his first look at a playboy magazine!!!!
Lol
Finnegan and Ol Cleeter givin us gear heads a two-fer tonight
Why whenever I see these 2 having fun, I can't stop smiling?
I was smiling the whole time.
Same!
*Brap Brap the Vargas Brothers have entered the chat.
Next Week: We're rotary swapping the Scat!
YES!
Best idea ever
2rotor
I hope cleetus reads this
He'll probably ls swap it
Finnegan clearly was having the time of his life , smile never left his face 💯😁😁
The smile on his face riding around on that hover craft is what america is all about hahaha hell yeah brother!!
Same exact thought I had.....boy what a big smile LOL
@@egomaniac247 I cant remember the last time i had that much fun xD
soupy conch I just had an experience like that when I finished my twin engine go kart and built a dirt track at my boss’s. 😂☺️ I was tasting dirt for days after, but I couldn’t help but smile!
Not sure what it has to do with the country he is in, America "home of the free" is one of the least "free" first world countries out there lol.
The smile was ace though!
I know, that hovercraft brought absolute joy to us all, and the smile proved it!
Breaking news: Flordia man/giraffe hybrid flies into boat ramp on a hover craft and rides waves of boats.
Florida giraffe ***
@@tonymanchester9898 correct
Finn's 'idiot grin' the whole time made me smile...he's a pro..
Haha
between Uncle Finn and Cleetus they have all the toys in the world...an ancient hovercraft get everyone excited..love it
That child like joy from something like this is one of the reasons I started watching Roadkill so many years ago!
Clet and Finn. One of the best collaboration on UA-cam ever. Roadkill at the Fredom Factory??? I think so
That hovercraft is cool but I wouldn’t mind having Finnegan’s boat.
Honestly if I had the boat I’d probably end up yanking the engine out within the first month lol
Henry Jones should just a get a cig boat at that point they already have a big block from the start
@@54raceman you would yank the engine out of the 200k wakeboard boat?
TheBCninja it’s more like 80-100k my dads got one in green
@@TheBCninja think he's referring to the jet boat engine
Googled "80's SCAT movies", wasn't prepared.... Hovercraft culture was pretty different back then..... 😳
TF! LMFAO!!! Immediately regret being corious!
Lmao weren’t ready to see all that “shit” huh?
God bless your family, James... and your newest addition!
Cleetus, you Coop, Spence, Kev and those boys from Finnegan's make me proud to be from the South. You're all intelligent, well-spoken, polite, and down to earth friendly.
Keep on with your awesome lives and thanks for sharing.
Mike: Don't step on that, it could be a live wire
Cleetus: Steps on it
these have been great videos.. definitely miss James.. stoked for him and his wife having another child.. can't wait to have him back tho. :)
I was grinning ear to ear the whole time I watched this! Guys were having so much fun!
Can you even imagine living on this lake? One day, a jet boat flies by. The next, it's a ski boat with a hovercraft crossing the wake back and forth. Nuts!
Guaranteed the nimbys are furious!
What lake is that?
@@MikeCris lake allatoona
I like how nobody is talking about the wake boat that they were in... that boat alone brand new is easily over 100 thousand.
@@YaBoiSwank, happy to see their success, though. These guys work super hard! All we're seeing is the end result: the content.
Warning: Do NOT search for 1980’s Scat films
Agreed😂
XD
instead look for 2 Girls 1 Cup. You won't be disappointed.
@@Drunkledore It's not that bad. You seen the chili dog one yet? Haha.
Hovercraft seller: You should really read the manual before driving it.
Finnegan: Hold my beer.
Newbern: Hey that looks fun. Hold these beers.
That was priceless finnigan had a perma grin while running it across the lake .great vid bud
Good luck James hope everything goes well with your baby boy and that he’s a healthy man
“Those 360s are finesse” lol not something I expected to hear around finn
Omg, ok, I'm sold the the addition of the hovercraft. The joy it brings to other people riding it is worth it
You are on the right channel if you are smiling from ear to ear just watching!
Good clean fun men.
Outstanding!
That was so funny! Finnegan looked like a kid in a candy store.
Cleetus: So this is how you operate the...
Finn: Just hold my beer
The guy in the Jeep loading the boat at the very end was so confused when you drove up the boat ramp
I wish they would show that Allison boat making a couple runs. That’s a 100+ mph bass boat.
Thats a sweet Allison,,,, question is does he fish with it, I have some buds with Allison's that just use em to haul a#$
Look like it had a small 150 merc on it so I doubt that ones a 100mph boat. Maybe 70 at best. I have a 200HP Yamy on my 19’ Ranger. On a good day I can hit 70mph.
Xb2002 with a 150on it is still a 90mph boat easy
slayer2112w1 Hopefully he does. Otherwise he wasted 10,000. An XR series is cheaper, lighter and more comfortable with out being set up as a fishing boat. New, the XR was about 10,000 less than an XB. R=race, B=bass.
Monroe Five-O Rangers are heavy and slow. An Allison hull will do the same speed with 75 less horsepower. But don’t go bumping stumps with an Allison...
i just took my boaters course and i never realized how many laws are being broken on a daily basis😂
I love how Finnegan’s smile piloting the Scat was just as big as Cleeter’s smile piloting Game Over
Jack stand family is in the prayers! 🙏🤟
Dude, I don't think I've ever seen anyone have as much fun as Finn is having on this hovercraft.
I betcha the guy who restored this thing is stoked to see Mike Finnegan out there ripping it. That would bring a smile-tear to my face.
Nothing says "freedom" like driving straight up the boat ramp and back to your vehicle!
🇺🇸We Need Another Month Of Freedom🇺🇸
Please put a 440 twin on that thing and adjust the blade pitch for more speed. That should do at least 60mph
That sketchy thing would terrifying at 60mph!
This needs to happen
The smile on Fin's face the whole time he was riding that thing is just priceless! XD
WOW, what a blast that was! You know everyone on the boat ramp was jealous when you blew by them! LOL! Should have had the trailer open and road it right in. LOL! Thanks for sharing! Take care and God bless you all! David
9:36 favorite part of this video. Pure bliss
Permagrin- When ya know somebody is having a kick ass time
Refreshed the page, and this was posted six seconds ago. Just in time.
But you weren’t first slow poke
I was hoping it would be the race video finn already uploaded his
Love the hovercraft content. Now its gotta be souped up!
Haha 😂 Leroy had to turn it down a little bit and can I get one like for every congrat for James on his baby Boy! Merka!!!!
If Finnegan hasn't been on one b4 then he's a natural. We have one on our Fire Service and they are not the easiest to master. Ride in wide open spaces and keep distance at least for a while. Best wishes and prayers for James' family. Hoping it all goes well for them.
The best thing you can do for yourself, if you own one of these, is to get some gardeners kneepads. Helps make the experience way more fun :)
Make a “commercial” talking about how the hovercraft rips!!
"let's just add a little more horsepower by doubling it" 😂😂😂
CONGRATULATIONS DAVID! ON YOUR 1,190TH VIDEO.
Finnegan: has a 1700hp jet boat.
Also Finnegan: has more fun on a scat hover craft
Nobody:
Cleetus: so guys we decided to put the cyote enging in the hovercraft
They never did use the coyote engine they built for neighbor originally... just saying.
Brap! *the Vargas Brothers have entered the chat.
@Richard Harrold they definitely had one built actually but it just got sat aside for a different project when they found the gt500 chassis for so cheap. I'll find the video for ya if you want.
@Richard Harrold I take back whether it was ever built or not, but here is the video where he had it upstairs, talks about it in the first minute of the video. ua-cam.com/video/_pPDAvyYN3Y/v-deo.html
@Richard Harrold yeah I'm not sure. At first they said they were keeping it for a future project but I doubt they still have it now.
If that thing doesn’t get built, cleetus just isn’t trying anymore...
NEW SHIRT IDEA: giraffe riding the hover craft with a chipmunk on skis riding the wake
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Driving up the boat launch at the end was top 10 funniest things I've ever seen!
8:48 was the most epic thing I’ve seen in a long time
Dang I didn’t realize how big Copper is until he got in the ramp truck and barely fit 😆
Yeah if you've never met the guys at any of the events, cooper is 6'1" ish, James is like 6'3"-6'4" ish, and ol' Cleeter is I think like 6'8"-6'9". The whole crew is pretty big guys.
Zach Troyer that’s what they have said before. I met Dax Shepard yesterday, they were in Old Town Sacramento filming for his car show. Same thing he’s like 6’2” super cool guy
Finn looked like he was having the time of his life.
Everyone i have seen ride a hovercraft o n any medium ever:
"This is sketchy"
True, but ALWAYS said with ear to ear smile. It's the hovercrafts' "razors edge": most fun possible/guaranteed death (luckily fun usually wins)!! haha
That's the happiest I've seen a person all year :D Was just as enjoyable to watch from this side of the screen
Nice little boat but we need speed The fun of driving in rivers is speed.🐢🐬
Cleetus: this thing rips
Finnegan: look what I can do
The huge shiteating grin on Finnegan’s face says it all! 😂😂😂 I’m digging the collabs between your channels! 🤣🤣
Finn was smiling the whole time.
The pure unadulterated joy on Finns face is priceless.
Love how he just got Leroy and the Hovercraft in the trailer just ready😂🤘🏻