Junkyard Wars Power Pullers full episode. Jet Doctors vs Missile Masters. Originally aired March 2003. Featuring Kirk Wester, Darren Tamanaha and Jeff Higinbotham. Expert Gregg Long
@@chrisbraley nah it would be full of bullshit and most likely they would have to make gas powered to electric because carbon emissions on a show would be bad for business.
Joel, on the Missile Masters team, was a very good friend of mine. We met when we served aboard USS Yorktown in 1996. There was nothing he couldn't build, and he was one of the funniest guys I knew. Joel lost his battle with cancer a couple of years ago and watching this has me waxing nostalgic.
I loved this show as a kid! I remember recording these and bringing them to my daycare to watch during “movie time” but none of the other kids shared my enthusiasm.
I kept waiting for the "skip add" button 😄 It's funny seeing old commercials. Thanks for the upload. Foe me, this was nostalgia on par with Battle Bots.
I was ADDICTED to this show!!! I used to pray it would still be airing when I was old enough to compete. I looked forward to watching every single episode when it came out. You guys inspired me for so much in my life! From hobbies to my career!
That's very nice of you to say! we certainly didn't realize we were being inspirational back then, but it was a lot of fun filming the shows! Thx for watching!
I kept thinking, "NOBODY throws away tires and wheels like that!"...as I realized this show was totally crafted in advance. And the likelihood of building a tractor in 10 hrs? Really?
This show kept me up back then when I had school in the morning. Now it's keeping me up and iv got to work in the AM. I'm loving it! The commercials too👍 Thank you!!
It actually makes some sense that it turned out this way. If you ever messed around with Knex as a kid, you'll know that it's easier for a small gear to turn a big one than it is for a big gear to turn a small one, and smaller wheels get going more easily than big ones. Sure, big wheels are great for ground clearance and uneven terrain, but that doesn't matter on a flat dirt track. What matters is how much power you can put into the ground. Smaller tires do that better.
An absolute time machine video! I loved this show even though they convienant hid all the needed parts out in the junkyard. They still needed a bunch of imagination and mechanical skill to pull off a win. Never missed an episode!
I remember when this show was on the air. I think I knew at the time that it was staged, but I didn't care. The concept was cool. Now that I'm old, I've actually done some crazy crap like this, and I do think the show was part of the inspiration.
@@Sarah-hp2ty the builds were planned out ahead of time, with the materials, vehicles, and parts needed placed in the junkyard ahead of time to be "discovered" by the teams during the shoot.
You think those matching rims and tires would just be there without the prop guys. But I still liked the show. I miss being 10-15 and watching new episodes of monster garage and myth busters and juskyard wars and dirty jobs. Life was so much easier and happiers then.
I used to watch this all the time as a kid! It was one of my favorite shows, and probably a part of the reason I'm so into building things today. Unfortunately this shows seems much more scripted and set-up than I remember. 😅 The commercials were also a good bit of nostalgia!
Blast from the past!! I sincerely credit this show for my love of building stuff and becoming an auto mechanic and later on, an automotive instructor to HS students. Things like this inspired me.
Just finished the episode. This was the height of TLC. I LIVED this show. I used to pulley swap lawn tractors and go-karts after learning gear ratios and out of the box thinking from shows like this. Jeff, you did great and I hope this show can inspire kids today like it did to me when I was 16. I'm so curious to know what it was actually like on to compete. I have so many questions!
Damn I forgot about this show. It was like one of my favorite shows ever!!!!. Probably inspiration, I became a truck mechanic lol. How dare I forget!!!! Binge watching here I comes!!!
This hit so hard in the nostalgia like so many others have commented. TLC was so great back then and I lived for this show having to watch live. Thanks for the blast from the past!
@@CLENCHEDCURVE74 it definitely was not done in 10 hours lmfao that another staged part it'll took days to pull this kind of stuff off with all the safety checks,everything aside forget it's staged and bring back this show 😭
Literally was thinking about this show today… in my head. I haven’t thought about it for many years. Then it just appears in my feed. Kinda freaks me out. But I loved this show and watched so much of it
I was totally addicted to this show in my childhood! My father and I used to watch it together.. I wish if we had something similar here in India. Thanks and lots of love for sharing this.❤
Man these commercials and prices bring back memories. Cingular Wireless, the paint center computer at Home Depot, $17k for a new Acura. RadioShack still exists. Not to mention Monster Garage and Extreme Engineering. BRING ME BACK
die hard fan still, and of scrapheap. a true inspiration to create and learn for me. as a kid, it seemed so impressive. now, its like watching wrestling, entertaining and as real as you want it to be, thank you to everyone that kept this series alive, truly.
Super cool that you are uploading these episodes for us to enjoy. I was 10 years old when this episode came out and I remember looking forward to every Junkyard Wars episode. I'm sure it played a part in me ending up as an Aircraft Mechanic myself.
It was like a time travel, I was addicted to this show. I was a kid that time. All those Adds of Fuji film camera with 2mp and 16 mb of memory looks funny now.
I’m so glad this popped up on my suggestion videos. I watched every single episode of Junk yard wars when it came out! This show inspired me in so many ways with what I do today!
Hey Chasey this is Jeff from the jet doctors team. Yes I recorded our season on dvd when it aired 20 years ago. Funny thing is putting it on CZcams now, I didn’t know how to edit out the old commercials and they end up being what people enjoy the most. Haha. Thx for watching!
Man seeing this show again is just such a stark reminder of what crap they put on TV these days. And also a reminder that reality shows actually used to resemble something approximating reality.
I actually apperciate the ads for once, brings back the memories of watching on TV, especially catching a marathon of these, I would look forward to it all the time
The early 2000 commercials are crazy funny.. I watched all 3 different style s of this show the best was the og from England. And then discovery picked it up then tlc. Then they killed it. Its a show they could bring back now and make a #1 hit again like battle bots
haha yes that is correct but we were told at the safety briefing, that if there's a fire, just yell it out and they will come running.... not so much. haha thx for watching
I actually watched this on TV on original air date , I was addicted to this show
Dude the Amish intro brought back so many memories lol
Me2
Same bro
Me 3
Me 4, both the British and US versions.
imagine how badass it would be if they brought this back.
They'd ruin it nowadays but yeah, agreed.
@@orztirr1417 Heck, there is also a chance that they'd make it better too!
@@chrisbraley You and I could, haha.
@@chrisbraley nah it would be full of bullshit and most likely they would have to make gas powered to electric because carbon emissions on a show would be bad for business.
@@BrosOfArmz Shoot, all they have to do is film in Tennessee then we’re good. 🤣
This really takes me back to when cable TV was worth watching and the world was a better place.
TLC actually used to be a watchable channel 😂
It turned into fat people, people sexualizing small children, and people drinking gasoline
Joel, on the Missile Masters team, was a very good friend of mine. We met when we served aboard USS Yorktown in 1996. There was nothing he couldn't build, and he was one of the funniest guys I knew. Joel lost his battle with cancer a couple of years ago and watching this has me waxing nostalgic.
Thank you for your service and thank you for sharing. I appreciate you and Joel as well as every service member. 💪
CV-10?
They were a great bunch of guys to meet. I'm shocked and saddened by this news. Sorry for your loss. Jeff Jet doctors
@jetdocj1441 dude you're great
rest easy, sailor! the next mission is on us! (retired USAF disabled, space command)
We aren’t skipping these commercials😂..this upload a blessing
as soon as I saw the commercials were still in it i was like oh hell yeah
Junkyard Wars/Scrapheap Challenge, Mythbusters, Battle Bots and Dirty Jobs... Those were good times!
I miss these good old shows and that lack of fake drama
I loved this show as a kid! I remember recording these and bringing them to my daycare to watch during “movie time” but none of the other kids shared my enthusiasm.
we would have been great friends in daycare
@David Cook I think it was monster garage, my dad and I would watch these two shows together back to back, great shows.
You would’ve been the bro dude
Loved this as a kid. 10 years as an engineer now I’m sure these old tech shows played a role in that😊
I kept waiting for the "skip add" button 😄
It's funny seeing old commercials. Thanks for the upload. Foe me, this was nostalgia on par with Battle Bots.
Yes it’s a fun look back at a moment in time. We filmed these episodes 20 years ago. Thx
Lol, whats worse than commercials? 20 year old ones 🤣
skip ass button lol
What's even better is when you get to one you *can* skip, one you can't resumes 🤣🤣🤣
Makes me want a new 2002 F150 after doing some shopping at RadioShack
Nearly two decades later and that intro theme still sounds like I heard it yesterday.
Anyone else from 2024
Someone needs to start a petition to vote to get this show back on the air. Because this show is real entertainment.
Here here.
Careful what you wish for, you may just see this show pulled out of the media junkyard and destroyed with 2020's style bull-honkey.
OMG my childhood 🥲, as a kid I LOVED this show. This got randomly suggested to me and now I'm going to binge watch
This is the type of shows that need to make a comeback
I was ADDICTED to this show!!! I used to pray it would still be airing when I was old enough to compete. I looked forward to watching every single episode when it came out. You guys inspired me for so much in my life! From hobbies to my career!
That's very nice of you to say! we certainly didn't realize we were being inspirational back then, but it was a lot of fun filming the shows! Thx for watching!
I appreciate the old commercials, thank you.
I remember the power stripe lol
Classic. Somebody was digging through their box of tapes and found this gem, uncut.
It's nice not having mesothelioma and prescription drugs rammed down ones through
Yes, it was so nice for the producers to plant amazing "finds" in the junkyard ;) Still fun to watch back in the day.
We thought of it as an Easter egg hunt. Haha After the first show we knew what was added at the beginning of the next show. Thx for watching!
I kept thinking, "NOBODY throws away tires and wheels like that!"...as I realized this show was totally crafted in advance. And the likelihood of building a tractor in 10 hrs? Really?
I think of it as a necessary "evil", if there are no running engines or tires in the yard, there is a pretty boring show!
What is it with you old farts starting fresh comments like you're answering a question no one asked :D Does it lend to credibility or something?
Man this show takes me back to the good old days thanks for the memories
This was a great show. I never missed an episode when tv opened minds. i can't believe the commercials were left in that was a nice touch
This show kept me up back then when I had school in the morning. Now it's keeping me up and iv got to work in the AM. I'm loving it! The commercials too👍 Thank you!!
same
Same same bro 🤣
Jet doctor's: small tire tractors are better for pulling.
Every pulling champion ever: Am I a joke to you?
It actually makes some sense that it turned out this way. If you ever messed around with Knex as a kid, you'll know that it's easier for a small gear to turn a big one than it is for a big gear to turn a small one, and smaller wheels get going more easily than big ones. Sure, big wheels are great for ground clearance and uneven terrain, but that doesn't matter on a flat dirt track. What matters is how much power you can put into the ground. Smaller tires do that better.
An absolute time machine video! I loved this show even though they convienant hid all the needed parts out in the junkyard. They still needed a bunch of imagination and mechanical skill to pull off a win. Never missed an episode!
Also they were ALWAYS done on time
Well how to do cast an engine from scrap? You can't make tires either. And you have only 10 hours + some extra time to make sure everything works.
Used to love watching this show with my father, not long before he passed. Good times.
Me too bro, miss my dad bad. 😪
This takes me back. I even watched the commercials🤙🏾
Junkyard Wars was one of the absolute coolest shows ever created! BRING IT BACK!!
I remember when this show was on the air. I think I knew at the time that it was staged, but I didn't care. The concept was cool. Now that I'm old, I've actually done some crazy crap like this, and I do think the show was part of the inspiration.
staged in what way?
@@Sarah-hp2ty the builds were planned out ahead of time, with the materials, vehicles, and parts needed placed in the junkyard ahead of time to be "discovered" by the teams during the shoot.
You think those matching rims and tires would just be there without the prop guys. But I still liked the show. I miss being 10-15 and watching new episodes of monster garage and myth busters and juskyard wars and dirty jobs. Life was so much easier and happiers then.
@@1987FX16 true
@@1987FX16 word
This is something that I had completely forgotten about till now, holy. Remember watching this a lot.
Needs powerful engine proceeds to walk past cat dozer with complete engine 🤣
it alone was 2klb lolol
Was 14 when this aired and i was addicted!
we had fun filming it! thx for watching!
I used to watch this all the time as a kid! It was one of my favorite shows, and probably a part of the reason I'm so into building things today. Unfortunately this shows seems much more scripted and set-up than I remember. 😅 The commercials were also a good bit of nostalgia!
Came for the show, stayed for the commercials
This just unlocked a memory I forgot. I loved this show as a kid
I loved this show when they were new I watched every episode which they still did this show
The commercials are the real blast from the past, i remember when new fords looked like that!
This show has to come back desperately
Blast from the past!! I sincerely credit this show for my love of building stuff and becoming an auto mechanic and later on, an automotive instructor to HS students. Things like this inspired me.
Just finished the episode. This was the height of TLC. I LIVED this show. I used to pulley swap lawn tractors and go-karts after learning gear ratios and out of the box thinking from shows like this. Jeff, you did great and I hope this show can inspire kids today like it did to me when I was 16.
I'm so curious to know what it was actually like on to compete. I have so many questions!
Were getting old folks...
First time in ages I enjoyed advertisements.
Including the commercials is a great touch, I loved this show as a teen!
Gotta love the old school commercials and remember the world before it went completely insane.
Absolutely loved this show when it came out, I forsee me binging all of this when I get a chance.
Damn I forgot about this show. It was like one of my favorite shows ever!!!!. Probably inspiration, I became a truck mechanic lol. How dare I forget!!!! Binge watching here I comes!!!
That’s awesome! Thx for watching!
The best recommendation ever, used to watch this when satellite tv was the future
WE NEED THIS SHOW BACK ON THE AIR
Scrapheap Challenge was the best and certainly should be bacl
This hit so hard in the nostalgia like so many others have commented. TLC was so great back then and I lived for this show having to watch live. Thanks for the blast from the past!
in high school I so wanted to be on this show it looked so fun.
Can anyone remind of other shows like this that used to air back in time . Its pure nostalgia 😁😁😁
The best part is the original commercials that I remember from the original air date. CLASSIC!!!!
Who throws away a good matching set of tractor wheels with 2 almost brand new ag tires mounted on them that hold air? LoL
For tires that size they only threw away like $1800. Yeah, definitely one of the staged parts of the show lol.
some of the parts are obviously placed there intentionally but its still a really impressive that they can complete a working build in 10hrs!
@@CLENCHEDCURVE74 it definitely was not done in 10 hours lmfao that another staged part it'll took days to pull this kind of stuff off with all the safety checks,everything aside forget it's staged and bring back this show 😭
Literally was thinking about this show today… in my head. I haven’t thought about it for many years. Then it just appears in my feed. Kinda freaks me out. But I loved this show and watched so much of it
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing. Used to love watching this show when I was a kid. I actually used to pull garden tractors too haha.
this show needs a reboot
Takes me back to a time when had to be concerned about how many daytime minutes I had left on my flip phone.
I loved this show! It was fun to watch! I wish they would bring it back to TLC.
i dont know how i got here but the nostalgia is unreal lol
Welcome and thx for watching! Haha
Wished this show would come back on tv, cool ass show
Loved this show, remember stumbling across the British version on TV late one night.
Wow, this takes me back!
I was totally addicted to this show in my childhood! My father and I used to watch it together.. I wish if we had something similar here in India. Thanks and lots of love for sharing this.❤
Thank you for watching! Jet Doctors Jeff
Damn I forgot all about this show! Glad it got recommended to me today haha!
I love the early 2000s commercials
This, monster garage, and battle bots were my childhood
Man these commercials and prices bring back memories. Cingular Wireless, the paint center computer at Home Depot, $17k for a new Acura. RadioShack still exists. Not to mention Monster Garage and Extreme Engineering. BRING ME BACK
Man, you can FEEL the early 2000s in this lol.
Also, the Missile Masters were creeps snatching up every wheel they could find.
Yea they were creeps for taking the tires but the logic behind the strategy was solid lol.
die hard fan still, and of scrapheap. a true inspiration to create and learn for me.
as a kid, it seemed so impressive.
now, its like watching wrestling, entertaining and as real as you want it to be, thank you to everyone that kept this series alive, truly.
Super cool that you are uploading these episodes for us to enjoy. I was 10 years old when this episode came out and I remember looking forward to every Junkyard Wars episode. I'm sure it played a part in me ending up as an Aircraft Mechanic myself.
Wow that’s awesome! We sure had fun filming the shows. Never realized we were inspirational. Good luck with a long career! Thx for watching
@@jetdocj1441 can you please upload the transatlantic special between the long brothers and the Megalomaniacs
Is it weird that I like that it still had the original commercials? They're kinda neat to see again.
It was like a time travel, I was addicted to this show. I was a kid that time. All those Adds of Fuji film camera with 2mp and 16 mb of memory looks funny now.
we sure had fun filming it! Thx for watching
Always caught this show in my teenage years. Always awesome to see what they came up with.
I’m so glad this popped up on my suggestion videos. I watched every single episode of Junk yard wars when it came out! This show inspired me in so many ways with what I do today!
Love that someone took the time to digitize their old VHS tapes, commercials and all! Great add!
Hey Chasey this is Jeff from the jet doctors team. Yes I recorded our season on dvd when it aired 20 years ago. Funny thing is putting it on CZcams now, I didn’t know how to edit out the old commercials and they end up being what people enjoy the most. Haha. Thx for watching!
Man seeing this show again is just such a stark reminder of what crap they put on TV these days. And also a reminder that reality shows actually used to resemble something approximating reality.
a lot has changed in 20 years. It was fun to film. Thx for watching!
Nowadays, TLC just plays reality shows.
Time was simple then. I would watch this show and Robot battle and WWF. Like was great 2000-2005
I actually apperciate the ads for once, brings back the memories of watching on TV, especially catching a marathon of these, I would look forward to it all the time
This was one of the best shows ever made
One of the best shows in discovery channel
I absolutely love that they left the OG commercials in
thx. I actually didn't know how to edit them out. haha. 9 out of 10 people luv them. thx for watching. Jeff from the jet doctors
I really enjoyed seeing this, commercials and all. brought back memories. I was addicted to this as a kid.
Early 2000’s…I loved watching this show
Thanks for leaving in the commercials. Old commercials are becoming pretty rare and it offers a unique peek into the past.
I didn’t know how to edit them out! Haha. Thx for watching!
I wish they'd bring this show back it was so much fun to watch
I haven't seen this in 20-something years... I love how it still has VHS quality
YOOOOO...the commercials tho....bringing back memories lol
man I love all the commercials this brings me right back to Middle School!
the old commercials are almost as interesting as the show
Oh, god. I really, REALLY miss this show. I hope that there will be a new season.🤪
The early 2000 commercials are crazy funny.. I watched all 3 different style s of this show the best was the og from England. And then discovery picked it up then tlc. Then they killed it. Its a show they could bring back now and make a #1 hit again like battle bots
Scrapheap challenge and robot wars hell yeah 🤟🤣
Man, the early 2000s were so cool. Everything had this blue tint to it, idk how to explain it.
It’s a small world. I actually pull mini rods with Greg Long, I wanna say his tractor is actually called junkyard warrior
That’s awesome. Tell him the jet doctors said hello. He’s a great guy!
@@jetdocj1441 Not sure when I’ll see him again. Our tractor is out for the season 😂
@@jetdocj1441 Greg long + green = winner
@@StFidjnr Gregg was very happy to be back in green again! Great guy! Thx for watching!
Such a great show , I watched every episode when it originally aired
I still like the guy on CZcams that put the 454 Chevy on his lawn tractor and took it for an unreal fast run down the road.
They need to bring shows like this back
Just throwing this out, I found the old commercials just about as entertaining as the show.
Man I miss these days, watching a new epsiode of Junkyard wars with RadioShack and craftsman commericals before the brand went to shit.
The commercials are golden.
God I missed this show so much. That and monster house and monster garage.
They should bring this back!
these commercials are fire
These where the good old days
Omg yanks!! If you got fire and there’s an extinguisher at hand, it should be your first port of call 🇬🇧🤣👍🏻
haha yes that is correct but we were told at the safety briefing, that if there's a fire, just yell it out and they will come running.... not so much. haha thx for watching
It was fun watching old commercials 🤣🤣
20 years wow, I was young back then lol