That facility is insane. Who knew that a custom made chopper fad tied to a couple of reality TV shows would fade out? 😆

The old man ruined everything because he was so enamored with his own magnificence.

Lot of people might not know but Paul Jr was the one who designed that logo

Excellent presentation. Thank you. That said, OCC wasn't successful or even close. The whole mess was a self serving temple to their own egos and it still continues in Florida. They left a trail of tears for both their customers and investors.

This makes me sad. I truly enjoyed OCC in their early years. To see where it all ended breaks my heart. 😢

I was able to visit here twice. The first time I was in the area and found it by accident. I wondered around the retail shop before going and eating at the cafe. The second time I went, they were in the process of shutting down. I was also able to get a tour of the production area. Not a lot of the bikes were on display at that time as they were being transferred, I would assume to Flordia, where OCC is now. I am glad I got the chance to see it in full swing and in its days where it was going out.

Thanx for this video. I visited it in 2014. Saw senior, Christian, and Rick working on bikes in the back. Jr was gone

I was working in the area while it was open and still running. I had bought a sweatshirt and long sleeve tee. I still wear them till this day. Most people I talked to them were really good quality. I remember to the two bars and the bowling lane if my memory serves me right. I was saddened to hear the closing. The bikes were amazing to look at. Thanks for bring me back to a good time in my life.

First rule on urban exploring: Take only impressions with you, no things!

Calling any thing built by OCC a Motorcycle is like calling a Wheel Barrow a Cadillac.

I feel old, like I'm in the future, remember watching the tv show.

When you see that abandoned building, one word comes to mind: hubris.

Original building was on Stone Castle Road, next to OC Iron Works, was in the early shows. The 61,000-square-foot building on Route 17K in the Town of Newburgh has been on the auction block since Monday, with a minimum bid of $900,000

I have a picture of me standing on those steps in front of all of those windows of that new OCC building in 2011. It was huge.

Went to several car meets there. Got a tour of the facility by one of Mazda owners who worked there. Awesome building!

I remember visiting the new headquarters while it was being built. Fun times watching that show.

Having been in there and inside, the original was in the basement of OCIW. Behind the building. Then they moved "upstairs" to the front of the building. This is two doors down from where Jr would later build his shop. Its only a short drive from their final shop next to the airport. Their middle shop next to the railroad ive never been to, however i know the roof collapsed shortly after they moved out

I remember junior saying their last fight , if I wasn't here this place would go to shit!! Well today the bank can't seem to give it away

I was there in 2008 during a 2 week NE road trip vacation. What really surprised me was how close this facility was to the original location. Roughly 3 miles East on hwy 17. The Show depicted these locations as though they were 20-30 miles from each other. I was there Vinnie Demartino and Cody had left the shop/show. I found out Vinnie had opened his own shop in partnership with Cody called “V-Force Customs”in a location literally around the corner from the from the original OCC location. I stopped in at his shop and we chatted briefly. He was working on a Contracted chopper build for the owner of an Arena Football team, I don’t recall the name though. He essentially tried riding the coattails of OCC using the notoriety of being on the show showcasing his own Fabrication skills in doing the actual bike building versus Junior coming in occasionally to give his 2 cents on design styles. Don’t get wrong, Junior had some really cool designs, but after the first two seasons of the show, did very little of the fabrication work after that.

I was waiting for sr to come out of the trees and say put my brick back

Looking at that building just reinforces the fact that both father and son were insane. There’s absolutely zero reason to construct something that monstrous for a company that is “cottage” at best. And the bank that made the genius decision to fund that fools endeavor should be investigated by the F.T.C.

Cant tell you how many times i went through them doors and each times i went it got emptier and lacked everything that it was built for. Once the series ended for that few years they went down hill. Jr was smart and landed a small place to just build bikes and hes doing fine and expanded to lbi now. This was way beyond there means and at some point they had to know the party was gonna end. Jr leaving there operation really put a hault on there business and they slowly started going down hill.

very good video thank you foir posting

Great video, thank you!

When I saw Paul Sr. at an outdoor sports show I was amazed how small in stature he was, eventhough he had platform boots on.

27 Stone Castle was their first shop . Good video 👍👍

So sad, I have been there a couple of times back when they first opened the new facility. You couldn’t even find a parking spot, it was packed inside with all their motorcycles like a museum, and there was a long enclosed walkway with windows along the way to watch the show being filmed and the cast working on the bikes. Sad to see it sitting empty with the parking lot starting to fall in disrepair. Thanks for the memories.

10:45 that’s the door junior slammed when he quit

In 2011 I visited the Headquarters Building and still have the cap I bought. In your video, when you walked to the left and past the handicapped parking area, what you see is the actual area where the filming took place. Those windows on the inside on the right is where you could stand and watch them. When I was there I stood and took pictures of Rick working on a bike while being filmed. I also went to the Paul Jr. Designs location you showed. I walked halfway down the driveway before a nice production person came out and told me they were filming and I couldn't go inside. He told me they did not have a merchandise area and referred me to HQ. I was hoping to see Paul Jr. or Vinnie. Just took some pictures of the building and truck with the PJD logo. I was on a business trip to NYC and drove out for a day trip.

On one hand it is interesting to see how things change. On the other hand I feel sad about it. It was such a cool series on TV. I was a big fan of Vin. After he leaved OCC I enjoyed Cody's work very much... So sad 😞 Thank you for this Video.

This is what happens when you have a core product that has a very limited customer base. Their bikes were too expensive for the masses and impractical as daily riders, which limits them to a very small group of customer that had very deep pockets, a love of bikes and a desire to show it all off. The businesses expansion relied too heavily on the popularity of the TV show, made up mostly of an audience who would never be able to afford to buy their bikes. You can only make so much money selling t-shirts, and once the show ends selling those t-shirts becomes a lot more difficult.

Very cool and interesting video thanks 👍

The company actually started in the Basement of Sr.‘s house that he eventually gave to Mikey then it was in an addition of the ironworks until Sr. Sold it to the middle son and they moved to the building across from JR.s eventual shop and then to the big shop.

I've ridden out from Massachusetts to see these locations while they were in use and after. interesting how they declined so quickly. Fun fact-just a couple miles over the Hudson there is a great motorcycle museum called Motorcylepedia.

Cool, really enjoyed the vid!! It will be interesting to see what happens to the building.

The headquarters is now a storage unit facility. Building still looks the same but it's now filled with storage units

I loved that show

If the show stayed on the air, it would still be going strong. The whole custom chopper market collapsed. When your customers disappear and move on to other things, you have to shut down. Opening a business is a skill & knowing when to close a business is a skill too. They had an incredible run & made the most of it & tried to stay on even longer, in retrsopect, than they probably should have, but who knows if the market would shift back again. Great memories.

Sr should stick to welding fences, LOL !!!!

Sad to see, sure had a bubble and it popped. Enjoyed the show.

Watching the dysfunction of others is a good way to make your life feel like it’s moving along nicely lol

I was there a couple times, my brother only lived 10mi from there. Cool in the hay day

Jr. was the really creative person in the OCC enterprise. Sr. badgered him until he gave up and walked out, and then OCC started sinking. Jr. and Sr. had the legal war, and somewhere in there their staff left. Mikey was caught in the middle of it all - I felt badly for him. So much family dirty laundry was aired - sad. Sr. didn’t have what it took to keep the place going. At the end they were building kit bikes instead of building bikes from scratch - they were using prebuilt frames, crate Harley engines, and aftermarket parts to finish them. They obviously didn’t care - the magic was gone. It’s sad seeing what’s left and pondering what it might have been if egos had been put aside. All that is left is Sr’s hubris.

Paul tried to go big and it backfired from the start

My former employer had ties to Orange County Choppers, so I made constant trips to all facilities. I knew that right away from the jump when I met both Senior and Junior that it would only take a short time until the OCC EVENTUALLY met its demise at least in its New York location. My former colleague worked directly for OCC. I made many trips to the OCC world center for many car shows for Mazda. Those were some great memories that I will forever remember. I’m sure some of those Mazda enthusiasts have made some comments on this exact thing. Paul Jr has a shop in New Jersey now. Not sure if he’s still operating out of New York. So as a whole. The entire OCC Company failed due to lack of leadership. That’s just my perspective. It definitely could have succeeded further in the New York location. However things happen for a reason. I know the state of Florida location has been doing very well from what I understand. I think that’s more of a cafe and restaurant with a small shop in that location. Overall a great video. Nicely done.

Junior has a little storefront on Long Beach Island NJ now. Not sure why, but there are a bunch of custom bikes from the show there.

I used to drive by the big building everyday on my way to work until i moved in 2017 and i would pass paul sr still driving his bright yellow 06ish hummer h2. Parking lot there was always empty. Right before i moved i heard they were working on fourwheelers and small engine repairs in the back just to keep it going with like 2 employees

Man, somebody’s holding the bag on that white elephant!

O.c.c had another 2 shops before the world headquarters was built. One of them was right next to juniors old shop.

The very first original location actually was on stone castle rd in rock tavern ny, behind the original Orange County iron works. The second shop was that building you went to first. The HQ in Newburgh was the last location 4 shops total

The first shop was in the basement of the steel shop from what I remember. When it was just a plot show in season 1

Im from europe Belgium and used to watch the teutuls,It realy hurts the haert to see how it all ended,such a shame....such a pain....

It's been a long time since I watched the show, but I'm pretty sure there was a second building between the "original" location and the "HQ". I remember them moving their stuff.

They’re in Florida now at Bert’s barracuda Harley Davidson dealership & occ roadhouse

Wow, the first building looks almost exactly like a factory I worked at in Connecticut in the early 2000’s…

You missed the original building at the ironworks location. They had the area next to it and a new building below it….

Quite a memorial to hubris unchecked....

Paul sr is the best example of where megalomania and complete overconfidence can lead. More and more and more. it was never enough for him. The fact that his whole family fell by the wayside in the process bothered him relatively little. but now the old man is sitting in florida and making a big deal out of it and thinks he's still the greatest

Nothing left but dreams.

Almost looks like an abandoned mansion that will soon be overgrown and forgotten forever

Weren’t they on stone castle Road in Rock Tavern at some point too? Can’t believe that building is going to waste now- it was near that building that Paul Jr had

I was there in December 2nd ,2019….. I took several pictures so I could remember what it looked like. 😮

Their eyes were bigger than their stomachs. Just like with Gas Monkey. Richard was basically a car flipper with rich friends. Next thing you know he is on the TV and buying/building themed restaurants. OCC was a bunch of steel workers that did some bike assembly on the side. When Discovery came along they thought they were superstars and it would never end. Next thing you know they are building that insanity of a bike shop like there was going to be endless people with a 100 grand a pop wanting a bike with no suspension and a gas tank that holds a gallon of gas. They had to have really thought that it would stay that way for the next 30 years while they paid off the mortgage. Looks like Gas Monkey got to keep his garage. OCC you aint keeping any of it.

My father and I went to the HQ location back in 2012 when it was still in full swing, saw a bunch of the bikes, bought some shirts

I remember when they had a webcam/livesteam of this building on their website as it was being constructed in 2005 or something.

So sad, my old band played there years ago the building was amazing. A bowling alley, bar full stage.

I visited the new place while on a solo road trip in 2016

Relics of a bygone era.

The location in the first clip is actually their 5th location as others have said it started in Sr’s basement then at the iron works then the lower shop that was built then a new shop was built above the lower shop then your first clip then newburg then Florida

Pauli Jr’s store is in LBI.

The decaying process happens quickly

Think about all the people that got screwed over by them.

OCC was a reality show that kinda built “motorcycles”

They peaked just before people lost interest...

The show actually started in the yellow building. Back when Vinnie was totally involved.

Paul JR "If I wasn't here, this place would go to s**t."......

Where are all the broken office chairs that Junior and Senior threw at each other???

The funny thing is that Paul senior's operation has ceased to exist and he was the one who expanded who got the publicity who built a calf to sell even more merchandise but Paul junior's operation is still in business and still has a clientele base just shows you that the way Paul junior Ran his business and treated his employees speaks volume to which establishment is still operating and which has filed for chapter 11

They were in a smaller building before the first place you filmed. It was very small... maybe like a 2-4 car garage in size.

TV show or not. That building drew in a lot of tourism dollars for the area. Paul Sr even said the lockdowns were the final straw for moving operations to Florida

The reason why big companies have a 60k bike made is because their company name was being exposed for an entire episode, and that was worth 60k to them and not the bike. But OCC thought that companies would still come a order one when the show would be no longer on tv, so how wrong they were!

Yes all those people that bought OCC bikes that payed over one hundred grand for . The bikes now are only worth around 10,000.00 it's sad

Sad to see the building & company allnshut down

Just like most of my colleagues thought during that time, in the same business. Occ will end bad. As it did. Let's be real. They priced themselves out of business. They weren't what people thought they were. We could build the same bikes for less than half the money they charged for bolt together junk. Their production bikes were just kit bikes that anyone could order and bolt together and ride. Sadly the public thought all the bikes were customized like the show portrayed

Would love to have seen some badass hotrods roll out of there instead of those POS bicycles

OCC let the fame get to there head as usual

Every episode was a one hour commercial for the company who sponsored the bike build.

Does anyone know who brought the building and what their plans are for this building???

I liked this show but after season 6 it all went down hill and I even watched jr vs senior but it wasn't the same I like watching the old seasons

Alot of stuff from their last shop was auctioned off. Some cool stuff was sold off.

its sad to see how quick things change, i remember watching this on discovery all the time, was a great show with alot of drama and builds, learned alot from them. if they would not have built such a huge building for alot of money they might have been alive today. Also, the choppers where kinda cool but pretty much just junk. Never understod how they could get past a MOT with the frame cut and stuff like that.

You recorded your own crime...j/k So sad ,I've watched this show from the beginning and still do in reruns.Senior sunk his own business ,even Junior said it in an episode once.The money just got to Senior's head ,I mean look at the compound & the car collection he had.All that success ,fame came and gone just like that.Guess the American dream turned into a nightmare.Good luck to all the former employees who worked there who dealt with a maniac of a boss all those years.

I remember watching the show when I first came on The Discovery Channel. And I'll watch it all the when they have the senior VS junior stuff. Now he's in Florida somewhere. I can't remember.

I was getting sick of the show about the time they were building that and I remember shaking my head because I had a feeling the craze had about run its course and that building was gonna be an albatross...

They rode the wave just like everyone else on Discovery but at least they employed people and they all had skills an when the bubble burst they all had something to fall back on.

Change and decay in all around I see, o thou who changest not abide with me.

i got lucky enough to go to the OCC HQ before it shut down

I don’t think any of us who watched the show can say that they are surprised how it all ended. All of that infighting had to be bad. Scripted or otherwise. Useless bikes anyway.

Went there for a few car shows

The first indication of occ going down hill was when they built the building and moved in and then had to sell it because senior needed the money He spent so much money collecting bikes cars Money his house He could not afford to keep that building