Junkyard Wars debuted on the Learning Channel in December 2000. 2 teams of 3 people meet in a junkyard and have 10 hours to assemble a contraption using what they find or fabricate. A wind-powered coffee grinder, a hovercraft, a steam-powered car : these are challenges the METAL MEN know and love. So we put together a videotape application to be on the show (artist friend Kevin enthusiastically joined our team). The task was to explain how something mechanical works...... These are excerpts :