Orange County Choppers: The Tale of the Teutuls

224 pages. DJ wornIn the year 2003, Lady Luck reached out to a hard-living, hard-working family in a small town in Orange County, New York. That was when a team from the Disco very Channel began filming the custom chopper shop of Paul Senior Teutul, his son Paulie, and the rest of their highly dysfunctional, totally authentic crew a s they did what they do best: make great custom-crafted bikes from the ground up . Within a few episodes, the Teutuls were famous: for their hilarious head-butti ng, their outrageous yelling, their amazing designs, and, most of all, for being real every step of the way. With their hit show American Chopper turning into t he Discovery Channel's top-rated program, the Teutuls became unlikely national i cons.Now the Teutuls tell their story as it has never been told before. Seni or chronicles his harrowing journey from a hell-raising teen to a star-crossed b usinessman desperately trying to keep his demons at bay. And Paulie remembers wo rking by his father's side in their ironworks shop-and the bond that developed b etween them when they first built an EVO-powered custom chopper from scratch.From youngest son Mikey's entrance into the shop to all the other members of th e extended OCC family, this is a chronicle of Panheads and Softails turned into gleaming works of art, of Old School design versus Paulie's amazing theme bikes that took custom biking by storm-and earned the Teutuls some of the most famous clients in the world.With over 60 family archive photos that capture this tr ue rags-to-riches saga, ORANGE COUNTY CHOPPERS is the raw, honest story of a fam ily that was born to be wild, how they came together around a shared passion and skill-and how they captured the heart of America.…