Paul Teutul Jr. is taking a step from boutique motorcycles into the automotive customization realm with his company coming up with a special Chevy Camaro package.
Partnering with Trans American Muscle, Paul Jr. Designs is putting its own touch on the Camaro inside-out and everything in between. Inspired by WWII fighter planes, the sheetmetal is garnished with custom metal paneling and real aircraft rivets over matte black paint, while the factory shifter is replaced by one mimicking a joystick, complete with a red button at the top. We wonder if it fires missiles…
PJD also fitted their first custom Camaro’s LS3 V8 with a 2.9L Whipple supercharger, Forgiato 22″ wheels, SLP sub-frame connectors and exhaust, and custom stitching on the seats. If this all sounds like it needs to be in your garage, PJD is building only 77 of them. So get to ordering one via Trans American Muscle ASAP.
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Uh, maybe not…
that is one of the ugliest cars I have ever seen. JR, stay out of the tacky modifications and create good looking stuff again.
Jessie James had called Paul Jr. a cake decorator… Kinda hard to argue with examples like this.
That is one ugly car! You didn’t do anything to this Camaro that anyone else could have done. Bolt ons- Stick ons – Why are you so concerned with putting your name and logo on everything? Tacky – How many places on the Camaro ? Really, what is with the labels. Who cares other than you? Seventy six more cars like this one = Sucker born every minute.
I don’t get this at all – a few bolt ons that anyone could easily do (supercharger, wheels, suspension parts) and a few tacky chrome pieces – couldn’t agree more that Paul Jr is only concerned about getting his name out, but he totally forgot about tarnishing it in the process.
Ruined a nice Camaro . It would take a lot of money to fix all the body damage
The other thing that seemed silly to me was that they flew “Nubs” to Florida to paint this car – I was expecting his artistic graphics that was really the only thing that made PJD bikes special, but all did was a plain matte black!?!? Most boring American Chopper show I ever watched, even Horsepower TV is more interesting.
God Help Us,Bling.
I am so glad I am not the only one that hates this car! All episode I was waiting for something awesome to happen to that car and got nothin.’ Ruined a perfectly good car.
Fix all the body damage indeed. I feel bad for the car. And we have to live with 76 more of these things? Ugh. Do you think other Camaros are hiding in fear of being taken to his shop?
Wow. All this hate. Did Jesse James write all of those comments under assumed names? Step back, and like a piece of art, look and study. Look at the workmanship – 2000+ hand installed rivets, wheels with center caps the evoke flight, propeller, Mustang, War, dog fight, Rivets and aluminum panels – evokes America, says hard work. Yes – flat black – yes Nub did this. From the exterior, this is not just a “bling’d” Camaro – It’s art. It’s like no other Camaro I have ever seen. Oh, and you say anyone could do it? Wrong. Aluminum is hard to work with, putting in rivets by hand is hard work, not screwing up the panels or rivets or paint during installation, that takes talent. No, not everyone likes every piece of art. The car has flaws – mostly on the interior. I feel the new seat covers weren’t installed all that well. Too many folds and wrinkles. That could have been done better. The bolt on’s give it what? Almost 200 more horses than stock? Oh and that sound. Great exhaust system. Is this car for everyone? Nope. Obviously not, based on the last 9 comments. But ugly? Nah. Paul Jr’s best work? No again. A car I would like to own, drive and show off? Hell yeah! Plus they gave a Ferrari a run for it’s money. Non professional drivers in the low 12’s? Nothing to sneeze at. Can I afford it? No again. If I could, I’d be proud to own this car.
how come its slower than a stock one this comment smells fishy just like his wife hmm.. she probably wrote it…
Some tips.
Cars cannot be art, ever. It doesn’t matter who built it orginally or who breathed on it afterwards; cars are not art. They are mear tools and appliances of transportation. You can throw all the numbers at us and tell how much much hp the blower adds or the size of the ricer-rific rims, it won’t make the car (or any car) a work of art.
Art is something moves someone to make art. All this car does is tell us all that 22’s are as dead as 2007 is; fitting as that was the peak of modern American automotive excess. If there was one good thing about the recession, it killed aftermarket rice house car like this thing hard.
I don’t care about the rivets, or the quantity of them. It’s when you’ve tried to depict the Camaro as a world war two fighter craft that really shows how desperate someone can be to defend this car as art.
“wheels with center caps the evoke flight, propeller, Mustang, War, dog fight, Rivets and aluminum panels”
Because if it wasn’t for the Camaro, the US would have lost in the Pacific theater. True story. Nevermind the fact you’re trying to convince us all of this cars worth by rambling on about centre caps, perhaps the least interesting thing about any car.
Cars are art, dude. Art, science, practicality, recreation… cars are many things.
When cars have as much of an impact as an art as much as music or architecture has, link me to this thread. I’ll print off my post and eat it.
I suppose designers are being stricken off from being considered artists as well? It’s all subjective. Just like your music and architecture examples.
Hey vin pic a number
Okay pauly 200 hundred
Thanks vin thats how much horsepower we just to this car ,how did you pic that number
that how much you pay me each week pauly,hey do you think we should have changed the piston too low compression
why vin everybody knows my work is a piece of art and too be looked at and not driven, remember down in florida when the sprocket got stuck on the crankshaft and we took a hot wrench to it ,Do you think that customer ever drove that bike
He would of been pretty stupid if he did escpecailly if he watched the show pauly
Lol…… thats right vinny nobody is going to drive this car it would be like driving a honda pacer every body would be able to see the chump that paid 80,000 for a bucket of rivets and some pieces of tin and my logos all fifteen of them on the car
hey pauly why is nubs coming down
he’s going too paint the car vin
really pauly I thought he only does mailboxes
he does vin hes just going too fake it for the tv show just like everything else the fans will eat it up
dude, a car can be just as much an object of art as a painting of the virgin Mary with dung thrown on it. in fact i’d say there are far more beautifully styled cars that are universally agreed upon as “art” than there are actual paintings and sculptures that supposedly universally qualify.
have you ever seen a Delahaye 165? there is nothing functional about that car. it is purely a rolling sculpture on wheels, never mind a Mercedes SSk, How about the Tail fins of a 1959 Cadillac? PURE ARTISTIC whimsy, actually the whole car is! and its an America ICON of pop art itself.
you can’t look at a car like the Bugatti 57SC Atlantic Coupe and say it’s purely a concession to function that it has the beautiful kink in it’s side windows or the flow of it’s fenders and fastback is not a expression of artistic inspiration captured in hand hammered metal and glass.
that said, THIS Camaro IS ugly, but it’s still a artistic expression of Paul Jr.
jzEllis, I completely agree with you and this was exactly what I was thinking about when I said it was ugly.
I would also like to through out the Hispano Suiza H6 as an automotive work of art. Oh, and my personal favorite: Gallardo. =)
that’s one seriously ugly car. i’m no big fan of Paul Sr, or Jr’s Bikes, but at least the aesthetics of the bikes is somewhat pleasing. this however, is an eye sore.
I saw the re-run last night. As much as I am a fan of the show (10 years now?), I must say that I was quite disappointed with this last build. I don’t want to make rude and obnoxious remarks. However, what the HECK was Paul and T.A.M. thinking with this car? It was quite a disappointment to say the least. Nothing special about that car. Anyone could do that (Why? Is another issue in itself.) Furthermore, you would think that PJD would have thought about adding a custom performance BRAKING system for all that power? Maybe some hood vents and side gills as well? A rear diffuser? A front lip? The list goes on and on in comparison to what PJD’s “kit” includes.
I think Senior’s 2011 Pontiac Trans Am Hurst Edition looks 1000000x better.
Unique and stylish.
I don’t think it’s too late to make some changes to this kit, but who am I? Just a fan of the show with an opinion. I respect Jr. for stepping out of his “comfort zone”, but that’s about it. If he’s trying to do new things like this, and AMP it up the way he portrayed it, he really needs to step up his game about 100 levels and rethink this whole thing, because I don’t see this car selling, especially for $84K.
(For the record, I NEVER write stuff like this on the net, however this recent episode bugged the heck out of me and I had to vent.. Lol.)
Best of luck regardless. Love the show!
Char11, it’s funny you mention many of the flaws of this particular episode. it reminds me of one of the primary issues I’ve ALWAYS had with Paul Jr. is no matter how many bikes he’s “designed” and i use that term very loosely, he can never shake the aura of a non car/ motorcycle guy trying hard to play the part. you can see it in his designs. in fact the whole “theme” realm of car and transportation customization is merely the defacing of perfectly good vehicles as a “theme” is plastered all over a object of motion. anyone with a good eye for design or appreciation for vehicles would always look to enhance or showcase the fact that this IS a object meant to move.
Most of Paulys designs don’t do either. more often than not, you get the feeling that this 800-1000lbs motorcycle is just some poor unfortunate lump of metal that just happened to have wheels and an engine, and was forced to wear all this extra sh#t. sorta like a pretty girl wearing too much make up and jewelry, while also wrapped in a dress and shoes that are 4 sizes too big; with some arbitrary “theme” plastered all over the whole outfit in an attempt to bring it all together.
his best work has always been the bikes that could stand completely apart from their theme. they looked like awesome bikes first, and then on closer inspection you’d notice small little touches that revealed the “theme”.
then again, i can’t help but look sideways at a guy who has been “building” bikes for a significant part of his life yet can’t turn a wrench on engine or even figure out how to get one to run (as shown on many an episode.)
I think the car looks great, period.
not only is that car butt ugly and full of holes,his last few bikes have the same after-
market front ends,fenders and same tanks,just different paint.he’s losing it.