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Expert car customiser, Jerry Patrick has transformed a golf cart into the animated car's character, Maiter
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This is our newest creation. We'll call him Little Mater. His daddy was a famous tow truck, and his mama was a southern bell of a golf cart
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We build Mater all in house, all hand-laid fiberglass, all LED lights
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West Coast mirrors, just like he was born with. As we come down the side, we try to keep him as screen accurate as we could
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As we come around to the back, here again, trying to keep it as screen accurate as possible for a golf cart
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All new upholstery front and back. Jerry has been bringing movie and cartoon cars to life for over a decade
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I own AKA Junk. It kind of started about 15 years ago out of necessity
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meaning that I couldn't afford to pay someone else to paint my cars
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and do body work and weld and everything else. And so we kind of started our own show and been doing our own thing ever since Bader the Golf Cart He made up of 13 LED lights He has a perforated front windshield new upholstery front and back an all steel back boom
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fiberglass front end obviously. We customize his wheels. We customize all the paint
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There's about 16 colors that go into a paint job. And we sell the tommeter golf carts for 7,900 apiece on up
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And that's based on the year, a few variables, but it's basically around $7,900. Having already created a number of these cartoon replicas, it's taken time for owner Jerry to perfect his Maiter method
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The most challenging part of Mator was doing the first one. The process we have down a little bit better, but the first one was a lot of trial and error to get it as cartoon accurate as we could, at least our version of it
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And I'd have to say this most challenging part, which is doing the first one and getting all the kinks worked out of it
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Every cart has been carefully mapped out to build the most cartoon accurate vehicle possible
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Generally, we bring in a stock golf cart. They're normally 2013-s at newer, and we strip it down
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We strip it down to the frame. We have to add an overwhelming amount of steel to the back
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for the structural support for the whole back end for the seat area. The sides are made out of a marine-grade lumber
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coated in fiberglass resin. The front end, obviously, in the factory carts
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removed and we put our fiberglass front end on it. And about a day and a half of straight-up wiring a gob of LED lights
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to make it as materie as we can
