Several months later, Cody Connelly, a friend and co-worker of DiMartino at Orange County Choppers also left to join him at V-Force Customs.
DiMartino and his wife Melissa have three girls and a boy, Vanessa, twins Isabella and Ava, and Vincent.
In 2002 DiMartino started working for Orange County Choppers which was owned by high school friend Paul Teutul Jr.'s father.
Although a pilot episode was shot just before he was hired, it was only a month after starting his new job that DiMartino learned The Discovery Channel was turning his workplace into a reality television show called American Chopper.
[3] DiMartino and Cody Connelly announced the build from mid-field at a Storm game at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida.
The bike is touring the southeast United States with all proceeds going to the Pinellas County Humane Society and The Shriners Hospital for Children in Tampa.
[5] DiMartino made his debut appearing in the first episode of the revamped series which aired in the U.S. on The Discovery Channel on Aug. 12, 2010.