A brand spankin’ new issue of Garage Magazine hits the stands in a couple weeks jam packed with its infamous “off the beaten track” tales of unsung heroes, miscellaneous malcontents, and random nutjobs of the motorized world. We can’t tell you everything that’s gonna be in the issue, but here’s a little behind the scenes video of our fashion shoot. Spunky, cute girls on wheels. What’s not to love?

Garage Magazine #19 Fashion shoot from Franky Luckman on Vimeo.

The Jesse James Working Man’s Tour is hitting the road again this summer. The truck is loaded with new bikes, the vintage Apache, and some cool giveaways. It pulls out on July 12th and will be on the road for 3 months hitting fairs all across this great land of ours. Stop out and meet Jesse, get some swag, and have something signed…our workwear brochure, a photo, your baby, whatever! Please note: if you’re covered in funnel cake dust we’ll have to turn you away as it clogs the marker pen. Check out JESSEJAMESWORKWEAR.COM for tour dates. If you stop by and mention you read about the tour on our blog, you’ll receive a super deluxe Carny Makeover Kit! Stop and see us when we’re in your neck of the woods.

Have trophy truck…will travel. The West Coast Choppers trophy truck is out on summer vacation. Hitting all the hot spots in Europe. Jesse is driving it right now in England at the Goodwood Festival of Speed [ F.O.S. for those in the loop ]. It’s the first time in 17 years that a trophy truck has been invited to the festival, and will most likely make quite a big impression on those little fish and chip eating Brits.

After Goodwood, the trophy truck takes a little time off for sight seeing and sunning along the coast. Then vacation’s over. Jesse returns to Europe, July 24th-26th, this time in Germany, competing in the Baja 300 Powerdays just outside of Berlin. So get those damn little squirrely Subarus off the road and make way for some real American Style off road racing!

June 16th, 2009 is a day for the record books. Jesse James officially broke the hydrogen land speed record in the West Coast Choppers-built, totally green, emission-free, hydrogen car. With some technological know how and equipment from his pals at Quantum Technologies, he was able to rocket the streamliner to 199mph and some change.

And while it was sunny and warm for the most part at El Mirage, it was probably a sad, cold day at the BMW shop in Germany where lots of tense little engineers in white lab coats with clip boards were probably pacing and wringing their hands. Maybe if they stripped a few layers of show wax off that car they could could up their speed by a digit or two. Or maybe add some flames to their paint job, or use an American made big block…dunno, just a few suggestions. But if you want to catch the whole story, and see the record stomping run, be sure to catch the season finale of Jesse James is a Dead Man on SPIKE on August 9th.

Tune in this Sunday night to SPIKE and watch Jesse bundle up, put on his seal skin riding gloves, and drive 200 miles on a frozen river to visit his friends in the Arctic Circle. The fun begins when they core the ice and find out they might fall through. Oh those crazy kids! Risking plunging to their death just to drop off a few hockey sticks.

Ok boys and girls, safety first: Strap on your protective head gear, buckle your safety belt, carefully program your Tivo, and get ready for Jesse James is a Dead Man. Guaranteed to be action packed and whining celebrity apprentice free. Tune in Sundays starting at 10PM on SPIKE, and in the words of Jesse, “let the games begin.”

Over this past weekend, the Long Beach Development Committee sent out groups of kids to plant trees throughout the city. Cisco Burger was lucky enough to get a few planted along the green belt next to the restaurant. Thanks to all of the kids that were out there digging and planting. Here’s the crew that was on hand this Saturday.

So, in case you missed it on Sunday…Jesse’s now a free man, and is back welding, hammering, cutting, and implementing all of the human resource skills he honed on the Celebrity Apprentice. He’s now just a little powder blue head on the Celeb homepage. That’ll teach Jesse not to give the Jedi Mind Death Stare to Trump’s little British henchman. Piers just was not digging on that. But…Jesse was the last man standing before The Donald decided to keep Joan + Annie Duke on for the Cat Fight Finale to see who will get the title of Celebrity Apprentice 2009. Tune in next week for the FINALE…there’s a chance Jesse will be on hand to give his 2¢.