The last two shows are December 11th and 12th I believe. It will be a live build off with a few other builders. After that the show is HISTORY!!!!!! Unless something changes!!!!
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THE DAWG
I never really understood OCC. I mean other than the theme bikes shown on the TV show, I have only seen one OCC bike in 10 years. And that one was a very disgruntled customer who somehow got security to let him into live Biker Buildoff at Laconia. The paint had cracked out everywhere there was a weld or bondo and he'd carved OCC SUCKS into the rear fender with a buck knife. Since that time, I've looked for OCC at Laconia, Daytona, Sturgis and everywhere in between. Hell I mean I spend 5 months a year riding the highways and backroads of New England including through and around their hometown (no, I've never stopped at OCC- - no disire) Anyway, I've never seen any bikes other than what they bring with them to the big events for their $5 per autographs on only OCC merchandise. I've never heard anybody from this site owning one of their bikes. I mean it just seems hard to believe that the production bikes they talked about on the show are nowhere to be found. I recently logged onto their website and there was only 1 production bike listed in inventory. WTF ? Where are their bikes ?
Bottom line to me would be that OCC goes belly up very quickly without the income from American Chopper and the $300,000 theme bikes. PJD might survive in the long run if you can believe what was being shown on the last episodes of the show. Jr opening up a design studio, getting into lots of areas outside of building custom motorcycles etc.
As to personal feelings. I never really cared that much except for some animostity toward Sr based on a personal experience with him at Laconia way back when he built his very 1st custom (that gaudy yellow softail -- - - yuck) At the end, it mattered little what the hell they did. I could see both sides of the argument in the feud between father and son and my only comment on that is that Sr was waaaaaaaaay out of line allowing that idiot Jason Pohl to mouth off at Jr in one of the final episodes. Why ? Pohl is an employee of OCC and as such should have been expected to act as one. So far as I could see, Jr never dissed any of Pohl's work, only saying that CAD design was not his thing. So Pohl had no right to shoot of his mouth unless he wanted to do so personally off camera and not on the property of OCC acting as an OCC employee. That Sr didn't call him on it speaks volumns as to where Sr is really at with regard to Jr. So anyway, one last post on these drama queens and their show and that's it. My final comment being Sr talking to Vinny telling him "I made you" No Sr, American Chopper made you. It made OCC, it made PJD and it made everyone on the show famous and in several cases wealthy. WIthout American Chopper, OCC would be in the trasheap that includes several iterations of Indian Motorcycle, Texas Chopper, Bourget, West Coast Choppers - - the list is endless.
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