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Jesse Gregory James (born April 19, 1969) is an American entrepreneur, automotive mechanic, and television personality. He is the founder of West Coast Choppers and former partner of Austin Speed Shop and current CEO of Jesse James Firearms Unlimited, both based in Austin, Texas.
Host Jesse James claims to be the great-great-grandson of a cousin of the legendary wild west outlaw, Jesse James. Jesse G. James has both mechanical and metal fabricating expertise and is the founder, owner and head bike builder for his custom chopper shop, West Coast Choppers. Jesse said he liked monsters that went fast and did something.
West Coast Choppers (WCC) is a brand that began selling screen-printed T-shirts and stickers with the company's Iron cross/Maltese cross logo while founder and "master marketer" [2] Jesse James was finishing high school, packaging the accoutrements of the chopper lifestyle long before any actual West Coast Choppers customs had been ordered or sold.
The company's first bike, "True Blue", was debuted at the 1999 Daytona Biketoberfest. Due to the success of their reality TV show, which premiered September 2002 on Discovery channel, OCC built a new $12 million, 61,000 square foot, custom facility in 2003, in Newburgh at 14 Crossroads Crt (off Rt 17k).
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The December 5, 2011 edition of American Chopper was a special two-hour episode featuring a three-way build-off between PJD, OCC, and Jesse James. Inspired by an actual Titan T-51 Mustang that was brought into the shop, [ 20 ] PJD built a bike in tribute to the 3/4 near-scale replica kit plane.
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