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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 03:02 PM
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Jesse James Crashes 1000HP Hennessey Ford GT

Stick to building choppers Jesse.

http://jalopnik.com/5865868/exclusiv...car-claims-son
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 05:23 PM
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stick to being a freakin' moron, is more like it... oh wait, that's what he's doing.
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 05:27 PM
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Why couldnt it be any other Hennessey vehicle? Why does it have to be a GT? Such a beautiful car, ruined by a toolbag.

Save the GT's!
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 05:30 PM
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Man can build bikes but can't drive worth a ****.
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 05:30 PM
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I would have rather heard he wrecked a ferrari or lambo please not another GT gone! There are so few to begin with.
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 06:02 PM
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That bike be built in the build off was terrible. He was probably blowing off some steam from losing.
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 06:06 PM
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poor GT
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 06:10 PM
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I just gained more love for Hennessey

"We've built a couple of vehicles for Jesse including our GT1000 twin turbo upgrade on his Ford GT," Hennessey told Jalopnik. "It's nice to know that Jesse drives his Hennessey GT hard enough to find the limit. After all, if you don't crash or break every now and then you're not going fast enough"
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 08:07 PM
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I just gained more love for Hennessey

"We've built a couple of vehicles for Jesse including our GT1000 twin turbo upgrade on his Ford GT," Hennessey told Jalopnik. "It's nice to know that Jesse drives his Hennessey GT hard enough to find the limit. After all, if you don't crash or break every now and then you're not going fast enough"
or risk others' lives? ... forget that mess.
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 09:43 PM
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Man can build bikes but can't drive worth a ****.
Actually he's fairly decent, plenty of good drivers have wrecked nice cars by doing dumb stuff.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 10:44 AM
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Ethanjbeau
That bike be built in the build off was terrible. He was probably blowing off some steam from losing.
Originally Posted by Moosetang

Actually he's fairly decent, plenty of good drivers have wrecked nice cars by doing dumb stuff.
I watched the bike build off and I liked his the best. I did like Jr.'s bike that was the P-51 Mustang tribute but Jesse's looked classic.

I really thought Sr.'s was weird.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 12:46 PM
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I only saw the final results, why did senior build something that wasn't a motorcycle LOL? I liked what he built a lot, but seriously, it was like he was in a seperate competition
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by stangfoeva
I only saw the final results, why did senior build something that wasn't a motorcycle LOL? I liked what he built a lot, but seriously, it was like he was in a seperate competition
It looked really weird when he was driving it! Like he was laying down. said it went 90 on the highway. Lol. Plus flame throwers?
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I have 3 beefs with Jr's bike.
1, calling it "P-51 inspired" is a real stretch. The exhaust is, for sure, but if you take that off it's just kinda a general aviation-themed bike. I can't understand why he did no nose art, Normandy Stripes, or something along those lines.

2, The panels and rivets were all cosmetic. When James did his copper for Motorcycle Mania awhile back, the copper and the rivets on the tank and fenders were structural. Jr just used them to dress up the plain metal underneath.

3. A barely 1-gallon tank is silly.
Originally Posted by stangfoeva
I only saw the final results, why did senior build something that wasn't a motorcycle LOL? I liked what he built a lot, but seriously, it was like he was in a seperate competition
On the show, he essentially said he knew he was coming in last place because its a popularity contest and he's not nearly as popular as the two younger guys, so he wanted to do something crazy and have fun rather than worrying about winning.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Moosetang
I have 3 beefs with Jr's bike.
1, calling it "P-51 inspired" is a real stretch. The exhaust is, for sure, but if you take that off it's just kinda a general aviation-themed bike. I can't understand why he did no nose art, Normandy Stripes, or something along those lines.

2, The panels and rivets were all cosmetic. When James did his copper for Motorcycle Mania awhile back, the copper and the rivets on the tank and fenders were structural. Jr just used them to dress up the plain metal underneath.

3. A barely 1-gallon tank is silly.

On the show, he essentially said he knew he was coming in last place because its a popularity contest and he's not nearly as popular as the two younger guys, so he wanted to do something crazy and have fun rather than worrying about winning.
I agree with the tank being silly, goes like 20 miles before you have to stop again? The propeller wheels were pretty cool and since my dad was a pilot maybe that's why I'm a little partial but I liked Jesse's bike better all-around.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 06:36 PM
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Jesse James...talented fabricator or not, I lost ALL respect for any of his abilities when they took a nice bigblock el camino turned it into a piece of **** then took it out and wrecked it.

abilities or not, it appears all about huge egos and zero respect for classic cars...like when Boyd Coddington hacked a absolute museum piece model t into a 'ratrod'...a 'ratrod' that probably ended up with a 100k pricetag to boot.
the poor old man that sold him that car probably cried- think all they used off it was parts of the body, trashed a MINT antique in order to get equivalent of "a 50 dollar kansas field body" to hack up.

seems often when hollywood ego sets in, all common sense goes out the window, dont it? probably 90% of the 'successful' hollywood folks wind up tripping hard over their own egos, winding up in rehab/multiple divorces over screwing around- or just generally disliked by the masses for being jerks. sad.
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Old Dec 11, 2011 | 06:47 PM
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All he did was talk trash during the whole build process. Lol
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