BOSTONCAMARO

Of all the shows, I really dislike this one...I think the owner is a pompous, arrogant ***.

My favorites, though don't watch a ton. Overhaulin, also been watching Fat and the Furious, they are pretty funny. Gas Monkey too.....my number one though is Street Outlaws. I am sure all of them are scripted, but I like watching people that 'seem' like they are decent people.

tokim

I certainly can appreciate the sentimental importance of the car, and the fact that he apparently can afford it..but I value common sense just as much.
Common sense wins out in this mental tug if war.
I would have kept the original car just as it is/was (needing full restoration). I would then seek out another identical car, for the memory of the drives, and saved myself over a $100+ grand.

ed427vette

If that was my son I would do whatever I could to come back from the great beyond..........and kick him in the *** for being so foolish with his money.

The big issue was he didn't want anything replaced. He wanted everything repaired which can be a killer on time/dollar wise. The father would consistently leave the car out in the rain with the windows opened which of course rusted out everything.

But if this Vette story from this show wasn't bad enough, what about the 63 vert with the custom split window removable top. The car itself came out great and the idea is novel. But here is the clincher. When delivered to the shop it had the original 327. But since the cam was wiped out he TOSSED the motor and dropped in a crate 350. Bad cam, oh well, get a new motor.

vettebuyer6369

Oh, the '63 convertible was the subject of another interesting thread, including appearances by the car owner and builder...

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c1-a...l-63-vert.html

Alan 71

Hi,
I'm curious about what kind of restoration can be completed in 1000 hours.
The restoration shops and individuals I've talked to about the time involved all seem to indicate it takes far more time than that to do a serious restoration.
This is why it's so easy to get far more money in a car than it's worth.
Regards,
Alan

1996Z15

I know we're talking about the Corvette on that episode but, in my opinion, the Corvette owner is a genius compared to the guy who had Fantomworks install a wrap and fake machine guns on his Cobra kit car.

army

Me too. I wouldn't do anything that might initiate divorce proceedings but everything else is on the table

army

They did what?

toddalin

Obviously they had to just to go with the wrap to make it look like a fighter plane. Said he wanted it to look like the Blue Angels.

John A F

"It is morally wrong to let a sucker keep his money"-W.C. Fields

vettebuyer6369

Apparently, a $130,000 restoration.

army

I'd rather have the little red Fiat 500 in the background.

minitech

Good point about the time. At shop price of $100 per hour the 1000 hours is $100,000.00 So most people that do their own quality restoration are putting 3-4 times that amount in labor or more (Of their own time.)

EDIT: So a dude that makes $400 per hour at work might get the better deal just letting the shop just do it.

AdamMeh

So many here bashing someone for spending his money on something he wants.

Shark Racer

It definitely wasn't a nut+bolt restoration. I noticed how chewed up the AC compressor is in one of the shots. The car was probably an 8/10 or so. The high impact areas got done really well. I'm sure stuff you couldn't see wasn't perfect. Interior and paint looked great, as far as the cameras told me. I've definitely seen TV "restorations" were the paint is swirled to death, body gaps awful, etc.

AzMotorhead

Corrected.
Struck me as odd because they said the guy was a F14 Pilot. which is a navy bird. Yet he wraps his car in a AF paint scheme

toddalin

When I was a kid growing up, mom worked at Nellis AFB and we often watched the Thunderbirds perform, and I knew that was more what it looked like when completed. But I seem to recall that one of them said "Blue Angels" on camera. I didn't record it and could be wrong.

Historic Thunderbirds:

Shark Racer

I heard Blue Angel as well.

army

I don't like fake guns. They're like breast implants. I like the real ones.

Blue Angels or Thunderbirds, if that guy had the skills and the ***** to fly jets like that he probably doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about financial matters. Those guys have OCD bad. They live and breath flying. Their only recreation is playing beach volleyball against Goose and Maverick.

VCuomo

Actually, he said he wanted it to look like a Thunderbirds plane. Since I thought he had said he was an ex-Navy pilot, I wondered why he didn't say "Blue Angels". Maybe the whole story was just whipped up by writers who don't know any better. Or maybe I heard it wrong...