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My missus is watching an Abba DVD, which stopped me watching "Overhaulin'", a US programme about customising cars, a subject I am really into. Back in the eighties with a mate, we used to go to weekend/evening auctions and try to purchase cheap classic cars (and not so classic). He would do the mechanics and I would finish the body and painting.
So, with Abba downstairs I started looking for Overhaulin' on Youtube. I came across this. The guy in the video is Chip Foose, a top US car custom designer, and this is him designing a custon '69 Camaro for a client. The attention to detal is stunning.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3yMRrEQj7Y
 
Try Bitchin RIdes or Kindig Customs as its called on more PC channels. The details and time taken to achieve it is next level. 2 years to do a car from start to finish is crazy
 
Similarly, Phantomworks.
Used to enjoy the American Hot Rod series but don't like the workshop manager (? Dwaine?). Not a fan of the Goblin Works end products but can appreciate the attention to detail that goes into the cars. Also like Chasing Classic Cars.
 
Back in the eighties, the custom bike scene was pretty big in the UK and I used to go to a few meets every year. The Kent Custom bike show at Stowting Showground was a massive affair, with thousands of people going, decent rock bands and the standard of the bikes was really high. After getting my driving licence I started going to car shows.
 
IIRC, '89 was the last Kent show I went to. Took 9 hours to get there because a mate was using it as a shakedown/running in ride for his fresh chop. Had a peanut tank so didn't pass many petrol stations!!!
 
There seem to be lots of these custom car programs around, although they all suffer from being too much like soap operas with set up and staged scenes. I like Iron Resurrection the most, the Martin Brothers do some absolutely beautiful work.
 
boogie man said:
There seem to be lots of these custom car programs around, although they all suffer from being too much like soap operas with set up and staged scenes. I like Iron Resurrection the most, the Martin Brothers do some absolutely beautiful work.
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Eve the likes of Wheeler Dealers is scripted and set up to an extent.
In one of the older Wheeler Dealers, where they did up a Fiesta XR2, the car had a buckled front bumper, which Mike Brewer made out had been done by the woman he bought the car from. Truth is, the bumper had been just fine when they turned up to buy the car, Brewer had crashed into the back of the camera car on the test drive. In one of the recent Wheeler Dealers Dream Cars, they bought a Delorean, a workmate was the owner that sold it to them, but the £32k they supposedly paid was actually several thousand short of what he sold it for and the bloke on the programme that they bought it for wasn't even the new owner, it went to a collector.
 
nilagin said:
Eve the likes of Wheeler Dealers is scripted and set up to an extent.
In one of the older Wheeler Dealers, where they did up a Fiesta XR2, the car had a buckled front bumper, which Mike Brewer made out had been done by the woman he bought the car from. Truth is, the bumper had been just fine when they turned up to buy the car, Brewer had crashed into the back of the camera car on the test drive. In one of the recent Wheeler Dealers Dream Cars, they bought a Delorean, a workmate was the owner that sold it to them, but the £32k they supposedly paid was actually several thousand short of what he sold it for and the bloke on the programme that they bought it for wasn't even the new owner, it went to a collector.
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Not surprised, all of it’s a set up. One of my friends owns a Delorean and had an insight into the Wheeler Dealers process when they did a Delorean episode with Edd ages back. The producers had already offered the finished car for sale on the club website before the work had even started... so much for Fat Mike “putting the deals together”. The cars are also found and bought by the production team well in advance , Mike just turns up and films “the buy”.

The guy who’d agreed to buy the Delorean apparently wasn’t best pleased with the finished article when he got it, he insisted the car was taken back and the bodywork and several other details done properly. I think that’s the bit they show where the various dents are knocked out and refinished by a specialist.

I still watch it though, but just for the mechanical processes, can’t stand Fatboy Brewer.
 
Like the Edd bits in WD. Don't like the new version at all.
 
boogie man said:
Not surprised, all of it’s a set up. One of my friends owns a Delorean and had an insight into the Wheeler Dealers process when they did a Delorean episode with Edd ages back. The producers had already offered the finished car for sale on the club website before the work had even started... so much for Fat Mike “putting the deals together”. The cars are also found and bought by the production team well in advance , Mike just turns up and films “the buy”.

The guy who’d agreed to buy the Delorean apparently wasn’t best pleased with the finished article when he got it, he insisted the car was taken back and the bodywork and several other details done properly. I think that’s the bit they show where the various dents are knocked out and refinished by a specialist.

I still watch it though, but just for the mechanical processes, can’t stand Fatboy Brewer.
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I can't stand Brewer, he makes me cringe.
My workmate appears in the old Edd China Delorean episode as well, mainly at the end, where he is crouched in front of his car with his daughter.
My mate did fall foul of the director and got told off. Years ago my mate made a mechanism up for folding the front number plate away under the bumper. He kept folding the plate away for some shots and out again for others and the producer couldn't work out what was going on..

View: https://youtu.be/gY4MUjSlbYY
 
nilagin said:
I can't stand Brewer, he makes me cringe.
My workmate appears in the old Edd China Delorean episode as well, mainly at the end, where he is crouched in front of his car with his daughter.
My mate did fall foul of the director and got told off. Years ago my mate made a mechanism up for folding the front number plate away under the bumper. He kept folding the plate away for some shots and out again for others and the producer couldn't work out what was going on..

View: https://youtu.be/gY4MUjSlbYY
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Lol, brilliant. Your workmate probably knows my friend Mike Ward then, he was in the same episode. .
 
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