American Icon: The Hot Rod "New Show"

Man that show was kick ***.I watched both shows twice and will watch it again.They told the hot rod story the way it was with tons of cool old pictures and video.They beleave California was the only place on earth where hot rods were built,LOL. Cool show. Todays rat rod guys should watch and take notes,LOL.

 

I missed it early and stayed up late, well worth it. A great tv show.

 

Can somebody please seed......

 

I'm glad that someone finally put out a fairly true history of the hot rod. SoCal was definitely the place, but there was other places that were following their lead. Maybe the future episode's will show some of that. Foose needs some training.
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Saw it last night and was impressed. Great show with some great history.

 

It's on again tonight at midnight for those (like me) that missed it the first go round. I watch HDT religously how did I miss it!

 

I enjoyed both 1/2 hour episodes. It is important to have the first generation hot rodders tell their story. I caught a couple geezer chats at the Hot Rod Reunion back in the mid 90's. It was great to hear Wally Parks, Alex, etc. reminisce about the early days.

 

Thanks for the heads up. Got the DVR set for this PM.

 

I would have missed it if it weren't for this thread, THANK YOU! I watch HDTV all the time, but never saw one promo commercial. They've played Cafe Racer commercial a 1000 times.

Is Chip Italian? What's with all the hand talking?

I would have paid extra to watch this show!

 

You could tell Chip sounded like he was reading a script from boards.

 

great show-looking forward to more. now I know where to find Cafe Racer. Chasing Cl***ic Cars and Auction Kings worth a watch now and then too.

 

I watched it, good show! Was neat to see all that old footage, and the old guys talk about their street racing days! Its funny, how they talk about how even though they were racing in the middle of nowhere, the papers were telling the general public how horrible they were and how they endangering everyone. Some things never change....

Its a cool channel, lots of car stuff. I'm excited to see more of "the long way around" were the two guys are going from london to new york on motorcycles, by heading east!

 

Watched the first two episodes and it's a good show, I love all the old footage from the dry lakes that they had. I can't wait to see the episode about the early days of drag racing.

 

Saw the show it was good! great pics and good interviews with everyone. I agree Chip needs to loosen up some and relax. But not a bad job.

 

Amen, I'll have to search for a torrent on it tonight.

 

looks like I found it..will have to keep checking to see when it's on again

 

SuperFleye, Any luck finding a torrent yet? I'm coming up with nothing.

 

Its on TUESDAY night at 9.00 & 9.30 east time on HD cable # 631 on Verizon In Bucks Country Pa

 

DVR set, 8:00 central time new show, looks like one from last week @8:30

 

Another decent show. After seeing all three shown so far, I would be happy to recommend it. A lot of great pictures and films.......sort of HAMB lite but still good

 

Yeah you would think he has been on TV enough that he would be more natural...but it could be some smooth jerk off that didn't know squat about cars. I'll take Foose over the cat that does Rides any day.

 

I've enjoyed the episodes I've seen so far. The old footage is definitely worth seeing. It is good Tuesday night entertainment.

 

Great show.

 

Just checked on Dish, doesn't show on Thur. the 11th? watch it all the time. Me*** auto auction and a bunch of other good shows.

 

We just got Dish's "HD for life" (back in OCT) and HD Theater was on the list.
Saw the first two episodes and was looking forward to more!
Come first of November it was gone! Made me...very angry!
I guess it was a preview or something.
What Dish package do you have?

 

The show format and production is great, though it would be nice if Foose's delivery were more natural. California centric but understandably so, and it's important the players are being interviewed and recorded for posterity, something that hasn't been done before. But some things left out of the storyline are almost unforgiveable: during the LSR story about Mickey Thompson's officially unrecognized 1960 run, they jumped to Breedlove and SOA. No mention of the Summers Brothers at all? They held the wheel-driven NA AI-II-11 cl*** record for 44 years!

No forum to ask about episodes or content on the Discovery site. Still, finally having some quality gearhead programming avialable is mighty nice.

 

My biggest ***** is that the network doesn't promote the show enough. I can never find out when it's going to be on. Iv'e only seen episodes 1 & 2.

 

its about time theres a new hotrod show on the tube, some of these re-runs have been on for years!

 

Been DVR'ing it, very enjoyable. Chip is a little too obvious that he's reading from a prompter but that's okay.

 

Foose is no Brad Pitt !