Ever since this reality-TV craze put every type of customization/builder on TV, I cringe as the viability of the brands get smaller and smaller. The Teutul family is no different. I know, this is what they do… make custom bikes for money and those bikes are many times used for promotions. It's just getting phony (see the OCC video game review a few stories down if you want more proof).
Orange County Choppers have been commissioned to build a Lincoln Mark LT-inspired chopper to appear on their TV series on the Discovery Channel Feb 14 and Feb 21 at 10:00 pm ET/PT.
In a contrived BS statement about a truck that is nothing really but a nose and deck job on the F-150, Paul Teutul, Jr. said “We’re excited to partner with Lincoln on this project bike. We visited Dearborn to see the passion and detail that goes into developing a product like the Mark LT. I was inspired by what I saw and I’m confident that the bike will reveal the true essence of the truck.” I’ll have no doubt that the bike will be more passionate than the truck.
The OCC team also will build a custom glass trailer to transport the chopper with a Mark LT
design theme. Then Lincoln will parade around the Mark LT chopper, the trailer and the truck to make a “complete
statement about Lincoln luxury”. How a bike and trailer adds to the “Luxury” side of the equation, I don’t know.
The F-150 is a solid truck, and the Mark LT, while breaking no styling boundaries, seems to be just as “nice”, but it just doesn’t hit me where I live, if you know what I mean. The passion isn’t there, and I believe passion is what you need to sell trucks in the $40,000 - $60,000 range.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Higgy @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
I got queasy reading this. The show just got leass appealing to me.
sue esponte @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
Despite loving the show, both Jr. and Sr. bought themselves a pair of H2s (which are nothing more than a rebadged Suburbans) - from Karl Chevrolet/Hummer in New Canaan, CT for any trivia buffs, so I think they're both well acquainted with soul-less automobiles.
n8 @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
I don't blame the Teutels for cashing in -- if you don't make the most money you can out of your 15 minutes all your left with is a hangover.
Mark Olson @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
My wife realy likes the Navigator, and we need a tow rig for our race car, and from what I have read the new Mark LT would have fill the bill. But with this conection I will be looking elswhere.
BrianS @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
This is nothing, and the video game is nothing. This month's FHM has an add for (trying not to hork up my dinner) OCC Cologne. Yes, now you too can smell like Paul Sr's crack!
Oh, and didn't Lincoln learn anything from the absymal failure of the Blackwood?
KT @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
A Blackwood this isn't. You can actually order this with 4WD, multiple colors (not just black) and it has a useful bed. Does Lincoln need it? They need something. Will people buy it...maybe a few.
KT @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
I just read the write-up. So, the Caddy EXT isn't just a pimpy nose and deck job on the Ugly-as-Heck Avalanche? Please.
Walter J Keegan @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
Just like politics KT, don't assume that I am standing up for one side when ragging on the other UNLESS it is so written.
If I wrote, "I love the Escalade, but the LT is crap" your argument might be usefull.
The Escalade is just a nose and deck job with a crappy looking interior. I like GM vehicles, but I'm not a blind follower.
ebp2k2 @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
Tuetuls, William Hung, Survivor castaways, ex-Apprentices, etc etc.. i couldnt care less what they do with their 15 minutes of fame...
I'm just disheartened Discovery channel has turned into a biker channel... seems like they have 15 different biker shows... gimme a break...
that said, this lincoln is nothing to write home about...
Mark @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
Yeah, 15 different biker shows that are all about the same thing. Even the different builders they showcase on "Biker Build Off" mostly build the same style bikes (Russell Mitchell is the exception -- he may build choppers, but they're the coolest choppers I've ever seen).
As a motorcyclist myself, I'd rather see a little variety -- Discovery should give us shows along the lines of "A Bike Is Born" (in which a Brit named Mark Evans restores a WW2-era Harley and a 1970 Triumph Bonneville, then builds a trike out of a VW Beetle) and "Long Way Round" (in which Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman ride around the world). Or at the very least, they should have other types of bike builders on "Biker Build Off" -- how about someone who builds custom cafe racers, or vintage-style race bikes, or something? The chopper thing is just getting really old.
Angelo P. @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
Let me make this real easy for some people. GM makes garbage. And so does Dodge. The Escalade EXT they make is a p.o.s Avalanche/"rubbermade truck". There is nothin different but a symbol from cadillac.
When you look at Ford yeah it is pretty much an F-150 frame, but on the inside it's a whole different truck. Also if Ford sucks so much, which they don't, why is it that all you see on the road is F series, Explorers,Expeditons and Navigators. Because Ford knows how to make a truck, unlike that trash u call a "Hemi" or junk from GM.
As for OCC,they have the talent, and with that talent their making money. So more power to them.
Angelo P. @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
Let me make this real easy for some people. GM makes garbage. And so does Dodge. The Escalade EXT they make is a p.o.s Avalanche/"rubbermade truck". There is nothin different but a symbol from cadillac.
When you look at Ford yeah it is pretty much an F-150 frame, but on the inside it's a whole different truck. Also if Ford sucks so much, which they don't, why is it that all you see on the road is F series, Explorers,Expeditons and Navigators. Because Ford knows how to make a truck, unlike that trash u call a "Hemi" or junk from GM.
As for OCC,they have the talent, and with that talent their making money. So more power to them.
Rick M @ Dec 18th 2005 10:33PM
Lighten up folks. Are you really so passionate about something as immaterial as a truck? Geez, as William Shatner said, "you folks need to geet a life."
Paul Sr. and Pauly are talented builders and businessmen, and are enjoying something few get to. What they do with it is their business, you can change the channel....