Fire these clowns......
Pro
Joined: Sep 2010
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From: Las Vegas Nv
I got rid of any type of TV programing 24 years ago. Never have missed it since. I prefer Youtube how to videos or reading. I do like to watch Jay Leno's Garage though.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2020
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From: Central NJ
The Chip Foose show was never any good, same with Texas Metal, Car Fix, Rawlings, The Count, and if the guy from phantom works ever talked to me the way he does on that show I would cancel it and him.. I like Road Kill. .like when they did wheelies with that old tractor. .lol.. Iron resurrections does some nice work and Joe is amazing with paint, Some of the hot rod garages and faster with Finnigan were ok... The Mopar guy knows his stuff but the show is a bore.
I think a show with different people doing different things each week would be entertaining. I'm sure a lot of us have done some major wrenching with some buddies, along with some refreshments and food... show something real. Last year my buddy, his son, and myself ripped the front end completely off a show worthy 70 Lemans Sport and reassembled it without one little scratch and it started right up, everything worked. We did it on his one car driveway with jackstands, beer, hoagies, tons of laughs, just three guys having fun and yet doing something...
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I think a show with different people doing different things each week would be entertaining. I'm sure a lot of us have done some major wrenching with some buddies, along with some refreshments and food... show something real. Last year my buddy, his son, and myself ripped the front end completely off a show worthy 70 Lemans Sport and reassembled it without one little scratch and it started right up, everything worked. We did it on his one car driveway with jackstands, beer, hoagies, tons of laughs, just three guys having fun and yet doing something...
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Drifting
Joined: Nov 2021
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From: People's Republic of Nueva York
Funny you bring it up. I just saw that mess for the first time today and had the same opinion. I pity any car they put their hands on.
Before that came on it was the two girls. I was more impressed with them. Not significantly, but they still didn't insult my intelligence like those clods.
Before that came on it was the two girls. I was more impressed with them. Not significantly, but they still didn't insult my intelligence like those clods.
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Dr. Detroit
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From: New Braunfels Texas
Jebby
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Dr. Detroit
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From: New Braunfels Texas
theres alot of guys like that on youtube if you are trying to research a repair on a newer vehicle...lots of stupid people. Then there is the corvette facebook groups that try to tell each other how to fix something....we get those losers trolling here once in a while.....complete waste of oxygen
Jebby
Melting Slicks
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From: Thunder Bay
There's still a couple of decent cars shows:
Engine Masters - they answer a lot of questions, some I never thought to ask.
Roadkill - they don't pretend to be doing anything right.
Graveyard Cars - yeah it's corny, but they build some nice cars. Why can't someone do a version of this show with GM products?
Engine Masters - they answer a lot of questions, some I never thought to ask.
Roadkill - they don't pretend to be doing anything right.
Graveyard Cars - yeah it's corny, but they build some nice cars. Why can't someone do a version of this show with GM products?
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From: Massapequa Park NY
If I watch any other car-fix-it shows I have the urge to throw the remote right through the screen.
1967 Pedal Car Champion
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My problem with most of the "car" shows is that they feel like blatant 30 minute long commercials that keep stringing you along without much meat. The only TV "car" show I watch anymore is the British Top Gear. All past episodes and the current specials, after they lost the series when Jeremy Clarkson assaulted one of the producers years ago, are quite funny. More along the lines of a travel show with motoring antics throughout, but I like it. On YouTube, I am pretty committed to South Main Auto (he is a diagnosing master), Jamsi Machinists, The Corvette Ben, and Hagerty engine rebuilds with Davin. Vice Grip holds about 50% interest for me; sometimes too much of the road tour content. Mid-Year Mitch is OK too but not really a how-to, more like a how-did.
Racer
Joined: Nov 2016
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From: Bala Cynwyd PA
My son and I got to meet David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan when they were at Atco Raceway (RIP) for Drag Week. Both were accessible and very friendly. We watched Finnegan race and film an episode with his 55 gasser. I truly believe that their shows were only marginally scripted. I like to watch the old versions of Top Gear as well. Back in the early 2000s. It was like watching a comedy show. But I never once believed it was not completely scripted. And Clarkson's kind of a d***.
Side note, my older brother looked at me like I was completely crazy when I told him I was taking my 13-year-old out of school on his birthday to go watch "drag week"
Scott.
Side note, my older brother looked at me like I was completely crazy when I told him I was taking my 13-year-old out of school on his birthday to go watch "drag week"
Scott.
Racer
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From: Va.Beach Va.
I to came to the realization years ago that most of these programs were not geared for my demographics. I used to be so hungry for good automotive programming that I subjected my self to crap in hopes it would show up as there was nothing else to watch. I haven't had paid TV for a couple years now and have to admit I sleep better. No more channel surfing and moronic opinion news. Thanks for the laugh Jebbysan.
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For those of us who turn wrenches every day 6 days a week. These shows are an absolute insult.
it's like the "let's build custom motorcycles" Shows that were so common about 20 years ago.
People would actually ask me if that's what my work was like. (I really did build custom motorcycles).
I would answer them with a solid NO.
Our bikes have speedo's and lights that actually work! We build our engines, we just drop them in from a box. It actually takes months to build a street legal vehicle and a couple more months to get it registered.
And we don't drop customers bikes off of lifts 2 and 3 times!
it's like the "let's build custom motorcycles" Shows that were so common about 20 years ago.
People would actually ask me if that's what my work was like. (I really did build custom motorcycles).
I would answer them with a solid NO.
Our bikes have speedo's and lights that actually work! We build our engines, we just drop them in from a box. It actually takes months to build a street legal vehicle and a couple more months to get it registered.
And we don't drop customers bikes off of lifts 2 and 3 times!
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I like vice grip garage coffee walk old man's garage and sometimes uncle Tony all on you tube. Motor trend lost me when the characters were wearing muzzles.
1967 Pedal Car Champion
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I used to watch all of his content before he moved south and became commercialized. Back when he'd get a car running and drive it 500 miles home with no brakes, leaking radiator, and the smell of Limburger cheese mixed with 7-day old gym socks; freezing his *** off while his eyes watered from exhaust coming up from below; blow-torching the fog off the inside of the windshield as he drove; wondering what Reba McEntire was doing that day.
