Randy Grubb's Garage 8: Frogman's Rocket 3 Start to Finish
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Grants Pass, Oregon-
Randy Grubb was ranked among the top 15 U.S. fabricators by Hot Rod Magazine. Among his builds are Jay Leno's Tank Car, the Indy Special, the B-702, Piss'd Off Pete, the DecoLiner, the DecoPods, and the body for the Bob Maddox Pulse Jet Lakester.
Then Randy got a call from his English pal, Tim "The Frogman" Cotterill, famous for his bronze sculptures of frogs and birds. The Frog had designed a powerful, ultra-sleek machine with animal-like qualities that he called the Rocket 3. “It combines my love of choppers, trikes, hot rods, and dragsters,” Frog said, and then he asked Randy to team up with him to build it.
Earlier, the Frogman had built the Rocket 1, a trike he made famous in England. Next, after he moved to Venice, California, Frog built the muscular 1,000 horsepower blown Hemi Rocket 2. This monster does 0-100 in less than 5 seconds with a top end of 200!
From mind to metal, now you can witness Randy's complete build of Cotterill’s Rocket 3. Its rear suspension is beautiful, cool, and crazy; it flexes just like a big cat on the run. And with its 430 horsepower Corvette engine, the Rocket 3 will scram, doing 0-60 in less than 4 seconds.
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SPECS:
120" wheelbase
Chevy E-Rod LS3: 6.2 liters, 430 horsepower
Hydra-Matic 4165-E 4-speed automatic
Front End: Kugel Indy-style pushrods, IFS 13" rotors
Rear End: Kugel Diff 9", LSD 3.50 ratio, 13" rotors, 22" flange-to-flange
Boyd wheels with 20” x 20” rear rims, Mickey Thompson tires
Designed by Tim Cotterill, Built by Randy Grubb
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CNC machining by Ron Crume, Infinity Motorsports
CNC programming by Chris Rizzo
Wiring by Jim Colvin, Automasters
Polishing by Scott Kozlowski, Precision Polishing & Detailing
Shop help: John Heuring
Model: Teresa Luker
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Randy Grubb: www.randygrubb.com
See Tim Cotterill's Rocket 2 Trike:
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Ron Crume/Infinity Motorsports: / infinitymotorsports
Jim Colvin/Automasters: (541) 956-5903
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Theme music by Arabella, logos by Don Tippit
Written, directed, filmed, and produced by Randy Johnson
©2015 by Randy Johnson, Flying Hawk Productions
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I'm quite sure that there are only a handful of custom shops on the planet, capable of fabricating a project like this. Kudos & respect, Randy.
facinating
Damn i nearly cried seeing this, i was trained to do this kind of metalwork in the early seventies, it seemed it was only me that loved it so much. I pissed my life away
working in an office. Heartfelt and deeply emotional thanks to you two gents for achieving this in your lives. Love from London UK.
Randy Grubb is fantastic. A true artist. Wish to meet him once.
That was amazing, art, engineering, mad metal work skills, hot rods gone to art school n who doesn't love the Frogman, so enthusiastic, mad enough to be really interesting n a little scary, the worlds a far better place with both u guys here, your skills, imagination and need to create. Only wish it was a hour or two longer but made my night watching Rocket2 on Jay Leno's Garage then exploring some of the other creations by Grubb n friends and then finding this, what Joy, my face hurts from the grin I'm still wearing, thanks so much for it all ;).
Jaw Dropping every time I've seen it, even in pictures.
What a gorgeous machine. Definitely a gorgeous piece of art as well. The ability to design and build this machine should make you one of the top 5 custom vehicle builders in the world. I wish I had half of your talent and skills. It's truly amazing how so many people talk crap about something that they have no clue where to start let alone build anything close to the caliper of a vehicle like this.
I had the privilege to help load this beast on a trailer leaving the SEMA SHOW 2014 .Randy is a true artist ...Looking forward to the next project.
Amazing, beautiful, unique, Timeless. A Masterpiece!!! Bravo!!
that suspension is awesome how it jumps up from the line, incredible build Randy
What a beautiful piece of hand and machine work.................and just enough power!
The pounce that the bike does when you accelerate is Awesome, to see the fell of the bike, it is an awesome sculpture
sweet chist this dude is a champion!!!!!!!!!!! all the artists of the past would bow to this guy!!!!
This is what "unlimited imagination and budget" can do. Absolutely beautiful in every way.
Amazing. I respect the body form molding to the metal. I would love yo build one like that one day.
i think Randy's videos are just as great as his craftsmanship. Great stuff!
Wow ! The craftsmanship is unbelievable. Great job !!
My greatest respekt for this "Quad"!!! I m only a garage mechanic and this ideas and the whole work makes me breathless ! Wish you a lot more ideas in future,cheers from hamburg.germany: Tom
wow, hat's off indeed. I am in awe of your fabrication skills.
Has an angler appearance, so awesome.
Never Stop what you're doing....
Beautiful. When I got plenty of extra cash i want it! But with burgundy red main body and cream color the reverse panels. I would also add a tiny fenders on the back wheels and spread them just few inches more. Bravo what an amazing job.
Hey man... We need to keep you! Please wear a helmet when you ride. I know you are absolutely confident of your build, but the world needs your talent and others like you. I would probably cry if I heard you were killed driving or testing one of your amazing machines of art. You are great and thanks...
Pretty sure it's a free country he can wear one if he wants or not.
Pure talent, man.
love how when u take of instead of squatting like most autos, it lifts. very sweet machine I'm not sure about the headlights but every thing else about it is awesome!
Yes, the reverse curves are just right, and the from horizontal grille is awesome. Frogman has a good eye for design, it looks like a big, badass insect. I always wanted to take a 40 foot city bus, like GMC RTS, or old GMC Fishbowl and put 4 blown supercharged nitro meth engines inline right down the center isle
Absolutely fantastic
0 to 60 in under 4 seconds. That is a calculated figurewithout taking into account the wheelspin which would be impossible to contain on this thing. Nice design by the Frogman. Nice execution by M Grubb.
sculpt art very good!!
Wouldn’t the world be a boring place without artists, craftsmen and engineers?
Hyundai owners love boring ......
Would be a better world without crooked cops
He has skills of a old farmer. Artistic design of a Predator. Forward thinking of a man on a acid trip.
In other words cool as shit.
OK, OK, I admit it....FANTASTIC work.
Mr. Frogman I think your Creations are out of this world like no other has and that's something special to be treasured but a treasure is to own not to buy that's what qualities come in hand and knowledge begins because the next one you make might be the one that'll be the ultimate of all thank you for letting me see this vehicle TCB third son of Elvis Presley alive and well in Canada somewhere my daddy came here in 1957 to Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto Ontario Canada for two shows and this is how I come around momentum they had a date together and here I am that's simple
Unbelievable talent to carry this theme! Reminded me of the first world speed car, the belly tank salt flats racer! Fantastic metal work, totally outside the box! What in the world could you do next? Hybrid diesel, gas turbine, six wheel buggy? Man, you could almost do anything we could think up, I think Leonardo de Vinci has been seriously reincarnated here! Freaking awesome!!!!
A couple months ago, I saw the cleanest Bright orange detomaso Pantera... I pulled over to take a picture, and it was him! Randy Grubb. But I was so distracted by the car It didn't dawn on me till he drove away. LoL 😂
Insanely beautiful! I love it!
That’s awesome in every way absolutely gorgeous design.
thanks for sharing this.. incredible video and workmanship
What a diabolical engine !
That is a true dream machine. Well done!
Great music in this vid. And of course and AMAZING creation!
You guys are the Best!
That's just beautiful work
Amazing looking build.
My goodness that tinwork was impressive. Love it!
Aluminium
@@romandybala anything thin enough to dent with a hammer is tin, but well done for spelling aluminium correctly.
@@dingledooley9283 So if its copper sheet and its able to be dented you would call it tin? Or brass sheet? Well?
Of course I spelled it correctly , Im not American.
@@romandybala personally I don't get the opportunity to talk about sheet copper and brass as much as I'd like but I suppose so, certainly a tinsmith is more likely to be working in copper or brass than elemental tin, after all how many brasssmiths have you ever met?
Normally when I refer to tinwork in my trade it is a way of differentiating it from the underlying structure and sheet is just the big flat bit at the start of the job.
@@dingledooley9283 And then from that flat sheet the magic begins. Good luck with your projects . Greetings from Melbourne Australia.
great art work sir
Fine art work
No words just unreal
Super work
Good stuff, admire the mind to metal.
It’s a timeless piece of art 👌
Im not a big art fan but this thing is pretty badass. The only thing I personally would change would be the rear end. I would make the track width the same as the front. Great job gentlemen.
Potpuno besmisleno vozilo, šteta novca i truda.
The rear suspension would benefit from a damper installed in parallel below the leaf spring to tame the jacking/rebound.
hey Brian, totally agree. That was the only thing i didn't like about this bike/cart . Launch too hard, and your on the bonnet :)
@@andrewmurray6772 With this design, nothing will eliminate the torque reaction on blast-off. You may slow it down a little with a dampener but that too will affect ride quality. Its best to just praise it as techno art, beauty to behold, but not to drive.
@@tigerseye73 I'm pretty sure you can get intelligent suspension that can tell the difference between drag strip and canyon road, and react appropriately. Although it would struggle to handle all that axle mass.
The swing arm is so short that any damper that could tame the torque would also create a rear end so stiff it might as well be fixed. The swing arm really needs to be way longer, like reaching up under the engine.
Amazing work of art!!!
Very dangerous its going to be fantastic!
Stunning watch absolute art
It‘s breath taking 👍
You do great work and I am very impressed.
I think you can improve your creations by using some anodizing to compliment them.
I see an opportunity to use that blank aluminum canvas to really make it pop.
Kudos to you and your team.
Great video in every way! The things I would build if I had that skill...
Very nice work but it also looks like a total deathtrap.
Needs a mower deck underneath, then I'd have a use for it 😎
No more so than a regular motorcycle.
Stu it’s basically riding art...more visual then a performer...I’ll ride it down a strip or something but I wouldn’t try gain track times In it..
That's the point.
@@prettyboy1970 It's not a custom motorcycle. If it has 4 wheels, it's a car, not a motorcycle.
Many think like this, very few do it. Whoever said that genius is 5% inspiration, and 95% perspiration had it right. I'd go with 2% and 98%.
Beautiful!!!!!
All I can say is wow. Surely amazing 😍
Very nice machine....
and then Mr Frog picked up his dream-bike , put on his WW II helmet, the snoopy goggles and a realy long red scarf and drove off ........
Jo Miller better not get that scarf caught in the rear wheel 🤪
great result
nice work man, very inspiring
Nice music starting at 8:38, a nice break from the bullcrap hip hop a lot of channels use! Also nice Hot Rod! Amazing metal working skills!
Hip hop is amazing
Amazing, True GENIUS !
Awesome Prowling machine
That is SICK. Bad ASS. Next project SR-71 BLACKBIRD trike powered by 2 Suzuki hayabusa engines, one in EACH wing powering the REAR WHEELS.
Incredible work! subscribed! Mechanical art! Oops im drooling! 😂
Wonderful
You deserve way more subscribers. Great content!
Wow, those exhaust vents 😍😍
this dude could be an evil villan with all of his bikes!
he his English, so has to be mad as a box of frogs. That's what Yanks expect.
He's called Frogman. 'Nuff said
Randy would be a millionaire just by making the tooling and start stamping out decopod,clones I love his work
Stunning work as ever Randy. If I had the chance to learn in one workshop in the world yours would be on a very short list for sure. I really don't like how the rear suspension on the trike looks under acceleration, how does it feel when you pull away?
This is fucking off the hook absolutely completely FUCKING AWESOME !!!!!!!!
We think you got something pretty cool here. May we suggest adding a silver metal helmet?
Artist !
Nice work Randy, I guess the reverse flow water pump I built worked out ok for you.
Cheers, Flying Dutchman!
There isn't a single thing in this built that was simple, but he makes it look routine. I would have liked to see some of the sheet metal work. I assume the body panels were rolled, but the "reverses" were hammered?
Simply Aw-inspiring! Truely Amazing work!
That is inspiring.
Simply amazing
Outstanding 👌👏
All I can say is WOW!!!
😥I love it...With money..I’ll have two..one polish aluminum-in the British guys dialect..and another one in the hottest red known to man..👌🏾good job guys..it’s a beautiful piece of metal..
Its beautiful but that Anti-squat is murderous.
awesome!
So badass
You guys are amazing
Those tires... Genius + Psycho = This!
Beautiful!!
Holy Shit Batman, what a ride!!!
There is something wrong with this man. He is not normal... THANK GOD !!!
Pretty cool.
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should put it on Jay Leno's Garage. Peace, Flood!
beautiful art . But Iwas wondering, Is the radiator placed horizontal ?
I absolutely love it..! I've just two problems to solve. First would be the money to build me something like this, the second would be getting it through the vehicle inspection around here. DAMNED..! Why the f&%¤# don't they just relax and let us build such beautiful machines..