its all ab out sponsers and availability of parts...im sure chip would have loved to have done a model a...but year one makes alot of parts for a camaro...and the engine mounts are available...etc...they really do do it in 7 days and the easier they can make it the better...
I dont know whether to thank you or hate you for blowing the plot.......it just started here................I was hoping to see an A...........CHANNEL CHANGE!@
That;s a good thing... After all, no one here would like whatever would have been done to a Model A anyway so it's best to just not do it.
Have you seen what he building himself. not too shabby http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72828&page=1&pp=20&highlight=foose
Too many comercials! Payed for Direct TV for 10 years. Now I'm back to PBS HD with no commercials. WHy charge when they get billions in ad dollars? With the HD tuner built in and all the major networks broadcasting free HD, why pay DD to watch insufferable commercials? Speed Chnnel, I mean left turns all day and night with nuthing but adds for ****** and Tide. BORING! Time far better spent with family, the HAMB, friends, Rotary and more heat in the garage!
the gayest part of the newer Overhaulin' episodes are the way they reveal the cars. instead of this big reveal, they have the person stand there with their eyes closed then have them open them. i still enjoy Rides more.
For the most part, I find those hot rod TV clone shows a joke. Typically you see one or two guys, barely breaking a sweat, with no grease on them- doing major engine rebuilds, etc. yeh, right.... the average hot rodder cannot afford a fully equipped garage, heated, air conditioned, with a lift, tiled floors, etc. Those shows are pie in the sky. And buy a typical 1940-50's car, take the motor/trans out, tear it down to rebuild- then look at your floor or driveway- it will make the biggest damn mess this side of New Orleans. And you'll be grease from head to toe, and need a shower- badly. Clothes will go right in the washer on hot with bleach. those shows need a reality check. how bout a show where a guy buys an old '53 Chevy, and a '49 Olds, and puts the 303 Rocket in the Chevy, in his driveway. Now that would be interesting. Then takes it for a ride and gets some rubber. not the $10K paint job on the $30K ch***is, with the $15K drivetrain. That's BS to me. to put it in perspective, we may as well be working cl*** guys and watch shows on how to build $500 mill mansions. Where's the connection ?
Isn't that kinda the point? As far as the chioce of Camaro, muscle cars have a huge mindshare in the American public right now... Foose is a marketer as much as a car builder, and he knows his audience. Traditional rodders (and even street rodders) are not really the intended Overhaulin' audience...
Right. Nothing noteworthy about that Ridler award thingie... Did Chip steal your girlfriend in highschool? Maybe he took 2nd chair clarinet away from you in band? There has to be some rational reason for your hatred of Foose... I'd love to hear about it. (but keep it under 4000 characters, I'm kinda busy at work today.)
Most of us aren't married to super models, ******* Playmates or Penthouse Pets either...but we'd rather look through those magazines occasionally than "Totally Average Housewives" or "The Middle Aged Lady Next Door" magazine. Now granted, most of us ARE married to women who are closer to the second examples--and we love the hell out of them and wouldn't trade them for anything--but nobody is buying magazines about them (well, they are, but the market share is stupidly small). Car magazines and car shows are the same thing. FNG HAMBer gofaster and another guy we work with were on that Camaro build by the way. -Brad Oh, and I for one was VERY happy the Model A didn't get overhauled...I wouldn't have enjoyed seeing that get totally "updated" at all.
I usually like watching all those shows. It is like looking thru street rodder, you are just hoping to find something that surprises you. When the camaro was picked I too turned the channel. Personally I feel the Model A wasn't built was lack of a big dollar company like year one to donate a bunch of parts. Oh well, someday we will have this old garage on tv.
I was working in the garage last night and watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos on the science channel at the same time. I enjoyed it. I have been watching the entire series every Tuesday at 8. Then I watched "Sleeper Cell" on showtime. That Farik guy has really wierd looking ears you know. I watched the news at 10. It said that the weather was going to get ****py. I decided to sleep in a bit and let it warm up before I went in to work. I saw 3 cars in the ditch this morning. What does all of this stuff have to do with anything, nothing really, but it as just as exciting as anything anyone else has posted. Fat Hack, I started to read that "Van Halen" book you sent me. I want to get Diamond Dave's book "Crazy From the Heat" and read it sometime. Hi Brad! Why don't you get on one of these shows?
I ain't purdy enough. Plus they won't put "Miles O****" in the credits, so I ain't interested. I also don't have cable or satelite, and live in an area that gets really ****py reception with an antenea. I've watched them film episodes in the shop here, and last night we were bowling and they had the show on the tv over the lanes. That's the first episode I've ever watched...and I only watched about 10 minutes of it. I'd have watched more, but we were done bowling and I wanted to get home and work in my shop... -Brad
I just wish they would pick more poor ***, living in mom's ba*****t, barely getting by kind of people. It seems that most of the time, the people have enough dough to hire him if they wanted. I guess poor people don't make good TV?
Yeah like some poor *** surfer still livin' at his folks house with a nightmare of a '56 Chevy... ...oh wait they did that... yawn Olson
the actual design ****ed donkey ****. could it look more 80s? Foose is usually pretty good about making them cool, even if they are mostly a-bodies.
Just a little insight to the build of this car because I was the one putting the engine in and getting it running (and spilling gas in my shoe while the camera guy asked what was going to happen once we fired the motor up). Alot of what you see is an incredibly condensed version of what takes place. Let me put it this way, we averaged 18 hour days for 6 days and on the last day we worked 24 hrs straight... all shown in a one hour show so yeah, it probably does seem fake and way too easy. I always wondered myself about the quality of the cars when they were done and all I can say is regardless of whether you like the car/design/paint, this particular car was straight, functional, had a monster power plant with a Mark Williams 9", full Baer brakes, and full Hotchkiss suspension upon completion. As far as not breaking a sweat, my ***. But... sweat and blood is not what advertisers want to see so the viewer gets the sanitized, condensed version for entertainment use only. Be honest, your average couch potato doesnt even wash his own car anymore so could you possibly expect them to understand why a tall deck big block with a single plane manifold wouln't fit under a cowl hood? To you and me its cool that we had to pull the intake off and mill a half inch out of it, reduce the height of the float bowl vents and remove the choke plate for air cleaner/hood clearance but you did not see any of that because joe average would not be able to follow along and besides, milling the intake with a Bridgeport just isn't that picturesque. The average viewer leaves their gas cap at the gas station and their gas door open for a week and wonders where all the water came from in their gas after a week of rain, per their local mechanic at $80 bucks an hour. Bottom line is that the show is not for car guys but the work that goes into the car is completely done by car guys and damn if getting a car stripped, painted, re-powered and running in 7 days isnt busting ***. Chip Foose and his design and vision are for real. I watched that guy come in at midnight after spending two days in Colorodo stripping some guys private jet to lay out those flames and work a nasty crease out of the door the old fashion way (hammer, dolly and a dent puller) instead of mounting a repoped door skin and needing only a light coat of the plastic stuff to make it perfectly straight. Many will critisize him for going "commercial" because his name is everywhere and that he is not "a real car guy". Over the whole week, this guy may have seen his family awake for 4 hours tops. This car fought us every step of the way and he always took the high road with a solution instead of saying f***k this. I reserve comments on his designs and the use of 20" wheels and the color of the cars but in my opinion, this guy is a car guy who has had the good luck, and talent, to turn what he digs to do into a profitable gig. I'm pretty sure that when he retires in 5 years at the ripe old age of what, 43 years old, he won't much care what we think. Oh yea, everyday he showed up in a different car that any of us would be proud to have in our garage. Just my two cents from the other side of the camera.
Funny you should say that because originally he had laid out an outline of the state of Texas on the trunk lid that thankfully never made it. No doubt about, they will definitely see junior coming.
I was kinda laughing when the two guys were swordfighting with them. Pretty obvious the crew was jacking with the owner about those stupid things... and his grimmace made it all the more funny. Oh yeah, as if Texas didn't already have enough gawdy paint jobs on Camaros. Change the paint and wheels and that could have been a neat car. Super-low-profile tires ALWAYS look ridiculous, doesn't matter what it's on. I don't think that car qualifies as HAMB discussion material though.
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