when customising the Scooby Doo Mystery Machine by, as luck would have it, watching tons of cartoons.

COMM: For over ten years AKA Junk has created

incredible replicas of TV and movie cars.

JERRY PATRICK: This is our Scooby Doo Mystery

Machine. We do everything in-house. We do the paint, the bodywork, the decals, everything’s

done right here at our shop. If we walk around, we try to get it as accurate as we can, cartoon-accurate

that is. We come around back and we get to see Scooby and Shaggy peaking out the back

window, looking down. A Scooby Doo tag for the back handle.

JERRY PATY: The famous purple front and back

bumpers try to be as cartoon-accurate as we can.

COMM: Owner Jerry first started customising

classic cars before moving onto TV and replica vehicles. Over three months, the team transformed

a 1967 Dodge van into this well loved mystery-solving machine. Every detail was painstakingly planned

to match the iconic cartoon.

JERRY PATRICK: As we come around to this side

of the van, we get to open up the side doors to reveal the secret compartment inside, it’s

rarely shown in the cartoons. We kind of took some creative liberties on the inside. About

a hundred feet of LED lighting and we get to hang out with the gang on the inside of the van.

COMM: And a project this size didn’t come cheap.

JERRY PATRICK: I get asked from time to time,

how much certain cars cost to build. With my wife sitting in the other room, I’d hate

to say the true figures, so let’s just say that I have got a stack of paperwork this

big on most bills and I don’t ever run a total on any of it from fear of what my wife

might actually say to me.

JERRY PATRICK: The biggest challenges of building

The Mystery Machine is the sheer size, that’s a big van. We are talking about doing inside

and outside, the roof, the side panels. Overall, I mean, it’s hard to describe something

that’s that enormous to work on. If you do an older car, you are talking about doing

two doors, and this car, this van, has six doors. So when you take six doors off and

have to replace the door rubber, the paint, the body and do everything, it’s a challenge.

It’s a big project to undertake, but it turns out really really awesome. I mean, I'm a guy that

grew up with Scooby Doo, and who wouldn’t want to have a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine?