Just saw they are working on a GS on tonight's episode. I'm recording it, but thought I'd see what everyone thinks about it? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
Jennifer spend the entire show rolling her eyes at my comments- "I have that flywheel in the basement" "my 72 has cruise" "I have a whole 4 speed conversion in stock" "That front grill is in the spare bedroom upstairs"
I didn't get to see the whole show (I'll catch it again tomorrow) but I did hear them say that they found an N-25 bumper for the car and had to work on it. By the time they were done they had $4000 in the bumper alone! Couldn't you pretty much make one from scratch cheaper? I don't think they'll be getting my bumper business anytime soon!
These shows just prove the old saying that it's much smarter and cheaper to just buy a car like this done rather than pay to have it done. It'll be 100 years before that car is worth what was sunk into it.
The rear bumper that they spent $4000 for looked like crap where the BUICK emblem was. It looked all pitted. I feel the same way about parts. Every time he said " It was hard to find " : I was saying " I have 2 of them in my garage. " For $70,000 he could have bought Ginpolejumpers GSX and saved enough to have it shipped to England.
Rusty Davenport needs to call that guy and tell him he will make him N25 bumpers for half of what he paid for the last one. I was floored when that car turned out to be a 350. I went the entire episode assuming it was a 455. If the owner is happy though, whatever. Its his money.
Let's See. "Only 41 Available." Son, Where are You Looking??? "The N-25 Package" = Bumper & other parts mentioned. DUH!!!!!!!!!! Have to put in a 12 Bolt for better performance. This gets Dumber by the Minute. Did anyone else see the Rust on the Inside of the Rear Window, or how the arm rest Flopped on the shift change when they Test drove it? I also had to Love the Guy's comment about Ohio cars rust, and his comment about, "Rust Free Ohio car? I'm From Ohio.............." (so am I originally, so I can agree) Even the Dumb & Dumber group on Fat & Furious are crying about "The Rust Belt." (they even show a lot of what is found there) In all Honesty, I would have to throw a Lot of poor information and what is seen on the script writers. JR
I wouldn't get too hung up on what the cost was, it's TV, I'm sure the real cost was much different. Every show is about drama, and high prices and other things drive it, look at this thread...
I don't know if that is completely accurate. Reading the Project Submission criteria on the website describes their warranties on new and used parts and mentions the 25% markup on parts that they purchase. There is no mention (that I can find) that prohibits the owner from supplying parts. I would think it improbable that this is true. If you were to take a car into their shop and had a trunk full of hard to find parts for it I cannot believe they would decline to use them because they didn't source them. If that were the case the guy with the '39 Plymouth and his box truck full of parts in the same episode would be very disappointed. I'm sure that if the owner of the GS had brought them a box with a complete rear defroster and cruise control assembly they would have been happy to use them rather than slowing the job by hunting the parts. Additionally, the shop would have to have a crew on the phones and computers constantly hunting parts that would surely drive their markup well beyond 25%.
I wonder why they didn't look for parts on the biggest Buick site in the world? I would have been a "win win" situation.
Mixed emotions, but understandable. Guy supplies a Transmission built by his Kid in Auto Shop 101, & the trans dumps on the guy, 2 weeks after installation. The Customer is going to go back after the Shop with the story They did something wrong on the Install. Shop has to eat all the Labor, & possibly the Transmission, Unless they sign off on it as an exclusion. Rob, I am Sure the prices are inflated. Like Tommy Christmas on Fat & Furious. I stopped at his Real Shop, when I was in Y'town a couple of years ago, Not the 2 they use on TV. All that garbage about the figures tossed etc. ("We'll put in a "Stroker Motor" and get it in the 11s for $30K) is a bunch of Scripted Crap. Some of the cars used, were rented for the Show, and were running a Lot quicker than what they say, before they were Filmed. It's All for Air Time, and as what has been said, It Draws attention either Negative or Positive, depending on how it is seen. JR
I don't watch "reality TV" as I believe it is as real as wrasslin' and I know that isn't real. Pinks was the last reality show I watched and that has been a long time.
I watch this show, they do nice work... The owner can be an $%^, one show he did a Mustang for a guy, he built it the way he wanted to, not the way the customer wanted it... When it was done the owner hated it and wouldn't take delivery of it, the shop had to buy it from the owner of the car... The shop owner even says at the beginning of every show that "if there is a disagreement the car will win over the owner of the car"... I'll never bring anything there, they are located in Virginia...
