Posted on 04/07/2009 7:44:32 PM PDT by Islander7
It’s the typical story of American ingenuity. Two buddies get together, get an idea to build something and before you know it, they’ve come up with a one-of-a-kind item. And of course there’s an engine involved.
“We just started throwing parts at it,” said Russ Freeman, one of the inventors of the unique MotorHead Grill. Freeman’s good friend, Jay Thurman, had come into his garage and said he wanted to build a functional grill out of an engine block for his dad.
The West Jones High School grads tried this and tried that. Eventually they had what looked like what they were trying to build. They had an engine stand fabricated and hid their “engine-grill” .
The duo knew they had something, but weren’t sure where to go from there. They decided they needed to patent this thing, but that would cost money — something neither had a lot of.
Thurman had done some real estate and “flipped” a few houses. He knew of a house that was coming up on foreclosure. A mutual friend loaned them $10,000. Freeman’s wife wasn’t so sure.
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Cool rig,, uhh, grill!
Good luck to the grill builders.
Would the deep fryer leak oil?
Just some riceburner humor at the expense of the HD die hards.
Your link goes to an Eddie Murphy movie site.
Yes, in the movie “Holy Man”, Eddie Murphy plays a guru who is promoted on a shopping network. One of the products they want him to push id the “Grill Buddy” that cooks food in the air intake.
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