[Bob Seger]

Lets not forget that the "talented" jesse james took 6 weeks over the deadline :lmao:

Personally I think that James should have been DQed to begin with. I think you do have to consider that Jesse did hand fabricate pretty much everything he did, himself. I'll give him that. He didn't have a million dollar water jet and the so forth. But I know where you are coming from. Actually from what I saw, James and Kaufman were the two who did most of the hands on work. In my mind they are the two craftsmen. But the level of technical difficulty in their respective projects were not even close to being on the same level. Like it has been mentioned, the Gas Monkey bike was more of a resto-mod restoration, while James' was a hand built creation. Junior and Sr. pretty much relied on a staff to do their work, while I never saw Rawlings ever even pick up the first tool. Junior and Sr. may have been the master minds behind their projects but I saw a lot of delegating going on.