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I'm working on this stuff just for the fun of it
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And, you know, sure, I get a kick at it, jaw drops. That's what makes it work well
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I built Tenkenstein and restored the monster trike
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This is car enthusiast Sean Cormier. He has spent years building, altering and creating unique and eccentric vehicles
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I don't know if I have a passion for cars, it's kind of a sickness
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I guess I could still say Tank-N-Stein is still the world's only rat rod tank
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Right up until someone says, hey, no, I have another one. Tank-N-Stein is a mixture of old car parts and different vehicles put together
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It kind of like Franken where they took the different body parts from one person and put it on the other Well this is the same same thing So it a compilation of parts stuck together and made to work
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This marvelous car creation is a mixture of many different vehicle parts, dating back as far as World War II
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So this is Tankenstein and this is basically a World War II Bren gun carrier chassis
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And what we have here is a 47 Mercury tow truck cab
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She's got bullet holes all over the place. These are 22 holes here
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And it's got a shotgun slugged through the door over there. We've thrown them all together into Tankenstein
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When I pull in with Tankenstein at a car show, people come running over to watch it
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get unloaded off the trailer, and there's a lot of people interested in it
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What is it? I mean, what is in it? It's Tankenstein. And it's not just the vehicle
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that lends its name to fiction. Sean also likes to drive in costume
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So when you drive Tankenstein, you have to be in character, so that's why you get the helmet
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And it's the Thompson. Do you think it's not a real one
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I'd be crying right now, it's full of mud. For now, Tankenstein is powered by a 305
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It got roughly about 175 horsepower She do about 45 50 mile an hour top end that red line Who needs air conditioning or windows
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when you have original glass? This is original glass from 47. Everybody tells me I should take it out
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because I could get cut. But no, I think it adds character to it
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I don't use any blueprints or drawings. It's all done by eye, what looks good
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If you stick to plans, like life, plans change all the time. So why bother making plans? Just go with the flow. The total cost of
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a built Tankenstein I think is right around $2,000 or $2,500. I kind of lost track. I try to use
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recycled parts like old stuff, but it still costs you money to buy it. I think it's been five or six
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years now since I started Tankenstein. When you're living in Canada like I do and it's minus 30 out
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and then you have the wind chills so it's minus 40 something, you don't really want to go outside
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and work on this stuff. I keep adding things to it and changing things a little bit. And the cooling
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system should be changed soon. It's never going to be done. You'll always be adding
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a little bit more to it. And it's not just Tankenstein that Sean has been tinkering with
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Now I'm the proud owner of the Black Widdle Monster trike. I didn't build it. The Black
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Widdle Monster trike is a collaboration of different parts like Tankenstein It has an early 80s chevette 1 engine and transmission it has a shortened up rear end of an s10 the gas tank is custom built
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It's a shock factor from people when they see it. That's all that's cool
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But in reality there is a reason why they stopped making three-wheelers because they're dangerous
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I think my favorite of the build was Tankenstein. I didn't really build the Black Widow Monster
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trike, I took it and got it fine tuned so it would run and added brakes and stuff, but
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I think the favorite by far is Tankenstein just because of the reaction it gets. That's
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my funnest thing to drive right now. Sean's mechanic hobby has been further documented through his YouTube channel, which has amassed
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quite a following, giving Tankenstein a dedicated fan base. I'd never really probably sell Tankenstein
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I've been offered a lot of money for it before, but I mean there's only one
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So if I sell it, what do I have after that? I'll have a bunch of money
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What good's that? Like there's only one of one thing. There's only one of me, or one of Tankenstein
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So if I sell it, what am I going to do then? Thank you
