Gregory Abbott, known professionally as Reverend Gadget, is a steel fabrication artist, craftsman, prop builder and television personality based in

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. He is best known to television audiences as part of the build team on the short-lived

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series ''

Big! Big! is a TV series in which an episode consists of a team of engineers manufacturing the world's biggest items (usually a household item that's normally hand carried, scaled up to proportions that make the items unusable without JCBs and Cherry ...

'', and has more recently been part of their other series '' Monster House'' and ''

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''. He is currently working with ''EarthxTV'' on his own series ''Reverend Gadget's Garage'' – also known as ''Gadget's World'' – in which he shows his advocation of

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sources by converting gasoline-powered vehicles to electricity. Abbott took the name "Reverend Gadget" to reflect both his craftsman works and the fact that he has been an ordained minister since 1986. According to his website, he currently holds 10

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s for his works, some of which were with the ''Big!'' build team. He was interviewed in the documentary ''

Revenge of the Electric Car ''Revenge of the Electric Car'' is a 2011 American feature documentary film by Chris Paine, who also directed ''Who Killed the Electric Car?''. The documentary, executive produced by Stefano Durdic, and produced by PG Morgan and Jessie Deeter, had ...

''.

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Crashed Tesla's Become Classic Electric Cars
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Meet Reverend Gadget
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Burning Man Mutant Vehicles
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Mechanic Looks To Start An Auto Revolution
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More On Reverend Gadget and Left Coast
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Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car
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