| Full Name: |
Michael Joseph Teutul,
aka Mikey |
| Birthday: |
November 26, 1978 |
| Siblings: |
1) older brother Paul Michael Teutul
Jr.
2) older brother Danny Teutul (general manager of Orange County Ironworks)
3) younger sister Kristin Teutul (attends nursing school in Rochester,
N.Y.) |
   
Young Mikey Pictures! Click to enlarge!
photo credit: All Access OCC
SEE MORE OF MIKEY AS A YOUTH HERE
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| Astrological
Sign: |
Sagittarius
(Optimistic and freedom-loving, Jovial and good-humored, Honest
and straightforward, Intellectual and philosophical) |
| Chopper License? |
No YES! He had to get it for Europe. |
| Girlfriend? |
No Now it's a YES! |
| Was Voted in H.S.: |
"Class Wittiest" |
| Dream Vacation? |
 Go
to Hawaii and get hit on by women in grass skirts |
| In his spare time? |
Hang out with buddies, go out for
a couple at the local tavern, enjoy nature, listen to great music
and go to the movies a lot |
| Favorite movie? |
The Big Lebowski |
| Watch on
TV? |
Not very much, Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live used to be my favorite
show, I'm
with Busey, American Chopper |
| Favorite Tom Waits
song? |
Hard to say because they're all
great |
| Favorite Music? |
Ween,
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, not much modern music |
| Favorite Bubble Wrap
to Pop? |
Three quarter inch bubble
wrap (medium because "small isn't that satisfying and
there's way too much of it and you feel the need to pop all of
it") |
| Typical Work Day? |
Staring at the beautiful secretaries
working at OCC, getting yelled at and being forced into actually
doing something |
Bio from
Discovery
Channel: |
 Like
his brother, Mikey went to work for Orange County Ironworks at
age 12, working on and off until he graduated from high school. From
there he went on to community college, but after a series of zeroes
he realized it wasn't quite his scene. It was back to his dad's company.
Mikey toiled at Ironworks until he turned 20 and moved to Tempe,
Arizona, where he had six different jobs in five months:
* bouncer at a bar, which didn't work out because
it interfered with his night life
* busboy, which didn't work out because he was "treated
like crap"
* telemarketer selling cell phones and cell-phone service,
which didn't work out because he hates being bothered at home by telemarketers
* valet-parking attendant, which didn't work out because
they made him run - and shave
* movie-theater guy, which was enjoyable because he
didn't really do anything but see free movies
But overall, Arizona wasn't quite Mikey's pace either, so Rock Tavern
beckoned once his money ran out.
Back at home Mikey did carpentry with a friend for a year before again
returning to Orange County Ironworks and working with his brother
Daniel. Then, after two years of a job that was "unrewarding, cold and
cruel," he went to a tavern one January night and met the man who would
advocate his hiring at Orange County Choppers: Rusty, a.k.a.
Russell Muth, producer of American Chopper.
Mikey was soon on board at OCC, answering phones, picking up
parts, popping bubble wrap and taking out the trash. But within
two weeks of his new job he was already on the road attending
bike shows with his brother and father, and his stand-in was
already out-performing him. So while he has two people working
under him now, he's not quite sure what his job is anymore. But
does that really matter?
That year, the father-and-son team debuted their bikes in Daytona
to massive interest, and they've never looked back, With Paul
Jr. as the chief designer and fabricator, and with Paul Sr. lending
his considerable business acumen, OCC is unstoppable. |
We now have photos to
document what Mikey actually does around the shop!!
  
  
(answers the phone, doodles, plays with bobbleheads,
throws furniture, sniffs gasoline, eats and drinks)
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