Orange County Choppers New World Heaquarters Progress

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This morning, I decided to take a ride up to Newburgh, to check out the progress of Orange County Choppers (of "American Chopper" fame) new World Headquarters, located off Route 17K by the I-87/I-84 interchange in Newburgh. I had passed it on my way home from Montreal last week, suprised knowing it was being built but actually seeing it, and was too tired to backtrack and get photos.

Initially, I had heard that this project was being funded by the Discovery Channel, and it was going to be a production studio coupled with a tourist attraction (viewing area for visitors to watch bikes being built, etc) as well as OCC's headquarters and manufacturing facilty. I thought this was supposed to be completed months agos.

Also, apparently the OCC owners have their own construction company, "Full Throttle Construction", or at least it seems because they have a similar logo.

I don't know if "American Chopper" still has the same popularity it once did, especially since they switched from Discovery to TLC. Also, whenever I tune in it's always a repeat or the same old stuff. That's why I think this building came a little too late for fans, but maybe chopper enthusiasts are now the main target.

Impressive looking building, and I look foward to visiting the completed "OCC World Headquarters"

Here are the photos (Sorry, it was hard to get a good angle):

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Interesting twists.

1) You can watch the construction live at the following link: http://www.constructioncam.com/occ/

2) Supposedly, according to a Wikipedia article, there will be a Orange County Choppers store opening at the Palisades Mall in West Nyack (can anyone confirm this??)

[Ladder44 73]

yea i personality dont enjoy the show naymore becasue its all yelling and they got to popular to fast if you can understand that, idk what was wrong witrh expiditonsd and pick ups now theres hummers and "bling" and more stuff.

yea theres a store going in at the pallasade mall, its gonna be clothes models and other stuff

[Guest partyrock]

Whats up with the shame on signs?

[ace84 100]

Whats up with the shame on signs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-dm4K_t6Rw

[Danger 160]

Well, all I have to say about that is IBEW 1320! Screw them!

[IzzyEng4 427]

I thought OCIW (Orange County Iron Works) was a union shop also and this? Wow!

[ace84 100]

I thought OCIW (Orange County Iron Works) was a union shop also and this? Wow!

OC Iron Works is a NON-Union Shop

[OnTheWheel 43]

Had the "pleasure" of stopping one of their trucks with a trailer. (no bikes in it though :-( ) Got the inside scoop, Vinnie quit, it will be on a show coming up. The plan is to have a contest for his replacement on a series of shows. I guess he felt unappreciated, which he has every right to, hes the backbone of the bikes and doesnt get the credit. But at the same time, the Tuetls faces are OCC and what sells bikes, maybe he should have known that going into it. I know theyre pretty good to local emergency services though, Ive seen some donated items from them at 10-13 parties for raffles/auctions. Have you ever seen the unions protesting and Joe Schmoe's house when he uses non union workers? NOPE! Theyre trying to expoloit this project because its so high profile! Whos money hungry now???

Edited October 6, 2007 by OnTheWheel

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I understand OCC is in some legal hot water over some shady dealings on their iron works shop too. I guess the one son (who's never on the show) is the principle for OCIW and was having some cash flow problems. He had a lot of debt they wanted to clean up. So they quietly transferred most of that company's holdings and assets to OCC which was TECHNICALLY not his and had the iron works declare bankruptcy, thereby protecting them from their creditors.

They're a real mixed bag.