All the car shows on TV

[Robliepse]

Myself, I've been a car guy for a long time, started out of necessity...I had to get to work and my only car was a 15 year old 72 Roadrunner. Making close to minimum wage my tool box and a couple of salvage yards were my best friend. I learned a lot about the car and always knew what I should work on and even on a very limited paycheck to paychek budget what I should leave to the professional.

Now the the TV part of my post.

The guys on TV with all the tools and all the experience make things look so easy and I think that drives a lot of folks with good intentions to get in way over their heads and their budget. Not that that's a bad thing, everyone needs a hobby but some of the things you see on the internet makes a guy sit back and think "WTF was that guy thinking"......LOL. The TV guys make it look so simple. Maybe just a worthless early morning post on the forum but was on my mind driving in to the salt mine this morning. I sure wish I had a big garage full of tools and sponsors who gave me all the best of the best products for my projects.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Professional sports looks easy too, and in a one hour restoration show, they don't show everything; that's for sure.

 

[YY1]

Careful, there...just because he has a big, expensive tool box doesn't mean he's got a ton of experience.

I frequently find all sorts of errors with what gets said and/or done on those shows, and I'm not just talking about whether the core support gets painted black on a blue car.

Also those shows leave out a LOT of the hardest parts of the job, and frequently parts of the job get "sent out" to some one else.

They have a tendency to show the "sensational" parts of the job, and not the tedious.

They also do a poor job of the accounting.

I appreciate your opening paragraph. I almost thought I was reading about myself.
I HAD to learn it or else I couldn't own a car, because there was no way I could afford to pay to get work done.

 

[Darter6]

Ive worked with/on several of the tv shows and always hated that realism was forgotten. Overhaulin' was fun but it was several weeks to complete a car,and several more to work out all the bugs.On the subject of parts,My jaw hit the ground when I walked into the backshop of Horsepower Tv. Pallets and pallets of new parts that were sent to them from the manufactures wanting to be used on the show. There, it takes 4 days of shooting to make a 20 minute show. It was ,shoot a segment,view,2 seconds too long,go over the lines,shoot it again and try to loose that 2 seconds before going on to the next segment.

 

[Robliepse]

Yep, ......and now that I've watched every episode of every show I'm going to buy that rolling chassis and a welder and be at Barrett Jackson's next summer making the big bucks. Its like [FONT=arial, sans-serif]Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Rigmont High with his dad's awesome set of tools [/FONT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5cneCgNA9U

 

[Bruzilla]

I also think there's a huge difference between how we worked on our cars in the 70s and 80s and how people are working on them today. Back in the day the mission was keep the car on the road, and if you raced it, keeping it in the fight. There were no originality points, no restoration points, no "done right" points. Back then we would use Bondo to fix dents without a second thought. Now the use of Bondo draws dirty looks from many in the community who find it heresy if you don't empty your bank account by repairing/replacing the sheet metal to make sure the repair is "done right".

When it comes to car shows, they are TV shows and not documentaries. Can you imagine sitting there week after week watching a real-time resto of a car? You would be reaching for the remote before the first episode was half over. "Okay, that's one bolt out. Now I'll start taking out the second one. Okay, that's two bolts out, now I'll get the third. That's three out, now I'll go for the fourth..." The Reader's Digest Condensed work doesn't bother me as much as the blatant product placement/infomercial flavor of some shows... yes, Graveyard Carz... you are The Worst of the Worst in this regard. Every time some company gives GYC something, it's not enough to keep working in front of a huge banner for the company, nope, you can count on most of the show being Worman droning on and on and on about how wonderful his free product is. Blah.

 

[Robliepse]

My vote goes to Gas Monkey Garage for pure unrealistic entertainment. I followed the thread on that show a few weeks ago. Pure fiction but very entertaining My daughter (22 year old engineering student) and I like to watch Chasing Classic Cars because Wayne appears to lose money ever time he goes to auction.

Fun stuff

 

[Seax440Dodge]

bolts never get stuck, and they never use RTV........

 

[JamieZ]

The guys from Roadkill did a real time engine swap at one of the trade shows this summer, and broadcast it on the web. It was 24 hours in total length (three 8hr days). It was actually pretty interesting to see it all done real time.

 

[Budnicks]

I watch them all, to me it's much better than watching the rest of the lousy drama, talk show or the rest of the gay crap on TV, there's a couple I don't really car for much & there's some, I'll just fast fwrd thru all the grab a$$ BS, get to the cars or builds...

I look at it like, it's not a documentary, it's just merely entertainment, take all the stuff at face value, I know the reality, I can tell BS from the truth... Anyone who thinks they can do it like the shows do it deserves what ever they get...

I do like the Sunday Morning Power Nation stuff on Spike TV...

Also I'm often saying, "Must be really nice to get all that cool stuff, I wish someone who would send me & give me a bunch of free parts &/or all the cool tools, to help me build my projects too"... Just a little envious...

Oh well such is life... I've done well in the realm of quads, Bikes, trucks, muscle-cars, racecars & projects to keep my sanity, over the years, I can't really complain...

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Yep, ......and now that I've watched every episode of every show I'm going to buy that rolling chassis and a welder and be at Barrett Jackson's next summer making the big bucks. Its like [FONT=arial, sans-serif]Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Rigmont High with his dad's awesome set of tools [/FONT]

That was a great TEEN movie for it's time, reflects my youth, we all knew a Jeff Spicoli... mine was named Rocco

 

[khryslerkid]

I watch them for all the hot babes! Especially Courtney

 

[Robliepse]

mmmmm, Courtney............yummy. My friend managed a Jiffy Lube back in the late 80's and always talked about opening a topless oil change place and he was going to call it Tim's Boob and Lube.

 

[Bruzilla]

bolts never get stuck, and they never use RTV........

They do get stuck on Fast & Loud. A lot. I remember all the foot dragging when they had to change the heads on the flat head Ford because they knew they were going to be shearing some bolts and having to redrill & tap the heads. Or the issue with getting the steering box to fit on the Galaxie, or the floor pan problems on the 32 coupe, or going through three engines on the Bandit Trans Am build. I guess that's why I relate better to that show than others.

 

[Seax440Dodge]

I watch them for all the hot babes! Especially Courtney

Sometimes I worry about Courtney... she's got a deeper voice than I do

 

[Herr_Poopschitz]

I enjoy the Power Nation shows on the net since there are far fewer commercials. I've tried Gas Monkey and the like and don't know how you guys can watch that stuff. There's no tech and too much manufactured drama/BS. I find nothing redeeming about them.

 

[Bruzilla]

I started watching Fast & Loud when I watched the first few minutes of the episode where they built the Ford Fairmont drift car. When Rawlings bought that car, I thought he was crazy. When he made it a drift car, I thought he was crazy. When he "chromed" it, I thought he was insane, but I stayed with the episode because I wanted to see how they were going to concoct a story about someone meeting their price on a POS chrome Fairmont drift car. Then they went to the auction and nobody bid on it, and I was thinking "now that's reality for a change!"

I think the next episode I saw was the 32 Coupe one where Aaron keeps wanting to do this and that, and as the cost keep going up and up you could see Rawlings getting more and more pissed, which is so much different than shows like Overhaulin where everything is donated by sponsors. Aaron was always focused on the automotive part, and Rawlings was always focused on the bottom line, and seeing how they balanced those two interests was what made me like the show.

 

[ma mopar nutz]

I watch them all, to me it's much better than watching the rest of the lousy drama, talk show or the rest of the gay crap on TV, there's a couple I don't really car for much & there's some, I'll just fast fwrd thru all the grab a$$ BS, get to the cars or builds...

I look at it like, it's not a documentary, it's just merely entertainment, take all the stuff at face value, I know the reality, I can tell BS from the truth... Anyone who thinks they can do it like the shows do it deserves what ever they get...

I do like the Sunday Morning Power Nation stuff on Spike TV...

Also I'm often saying, "Must be really nice to get all that cool stuff, I wish someone who would send me & give me a bunch of free parts &/or all the cool tools, to help me build my projects too"... Just a little envious...
I'm with you bud I would rather watch a couple of jerk offs work on cars then some fu$#ing be real housewives of how gives a shi# ! I can't stand that crap but my wife loves it ugggh thankfully more then 1 boob tube in the house or who knows what would happen !:spam dragon:
Oh well such is life... I've done well in the realm of quads, Bikes, trucks, muscle-cars, racecars & projects to keep my sanity, over the years, I can't really complain...

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That was a great TEEN movie for it's time, reflects my youth, we all knew a Jeff Spicoli... mine was named Rocco

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