He wants an arm & a leg + your 1st born to sell a car. Dude needs a haircat BADLY, but he is a character..
I liked some of the vehicles Fantomworks has done, but the drama was unbearable at times. Graveyard Cars does amazing work, but Mark drives me crazy! Gas Monkey Garage is among the worst. I enjoy Bitchin' Rides for the most part. "Kevdog" is pretty annoying, but they seem to produce some quality work. It's not always my taste, but looks well done to me. I went to the Supernationals car show in Albuquerque Saturday and Kindigit Designs had some of the cars there that they done on the show. They look very impressive in person!
Rust Valley Restorers is an entertaining show for sure, in yesterday’s episode they rolled out a beautiful ‘39 Buick (I think that was the year anyway) that reminded me of the Blackhawk concept. Did up a Riv in the first season too. Edit: the first season is on Netflix (might be Cdn only)
I watch this show. He even has 74/75 Buick Century convertible in his yard that has a good looking trunk lid I could use...
Not factory as far as I know. At one time you could make a convertible out of anything. You can see it really good in season ep 4.
The difference between Barris and Liberace was that (in his own words) he was "laughing all the way to the bank." At one time he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, and he was in reality a hell of a piano player. As to Barris - I agree with those who think that he rarely improved on the original appearance of the car that was his victim. Just my opinion.
I watched that show every week and continue to watch the reruns. I have seen the episode where they built the Buick GS350 for the English fellow.
I will miss it.. Most tv is crap...I DVR a bunch of car shows and pick and choose what to watch by what they are working on. I pay for 200+ channels and watch like 3 that have all the car shows..... but can't get them in a smaller TV package...
Digging up a bit of an old thread, but here is Dan Short laying it all out there...explaining what happened, and what is in the future for the shop.
Thanks for sharing that video Adam. I ran across the fellows from Dream Car Garage years ago ( at Sema?) and asked what happened to their show? I liked their show, which was from Milton, Ontario and myself having the opportunity to tour their facility after the GSX reunion I was wondering what happened to them. They told me the network (at the time) wanted them to pay to have the show so they were out. seems the misconception is if you are on TV everyone is making money which seems not to be the case? FYI, another entertaining Canadian show, 2 words, “Bad Chad”
I love watching Bud Lindemann’s road tests “Corners flat” as the rockers throw sparks and the bias plys struggle to hold onto the bead LMAO. Yeah, smaller butts, more cleavage, high heels, and wear bikinis TINY ONES!
Interestingly, last night I watched an episode of Fantomworks that I had previously recorded. It was a show that featured a '72 GS that Dan bought for a customer from England. He made a huge deal about the N-25 package. It was an interesting show about interesting cars. If they didn't invent a little drama, most of those car building/restoring shows would be boring.
No way to know if this is true, but: "How much is Dan on FantomWorks worth? $3.5 million Dan was earning a salary through Velocity TV somewhere around $10,000 to $50,000 per episode (according to Earn the Necklace), and after eight seasons… that adds up to a lot of scratch. Add to that the success of his own business, and that's how Dan came to have a net worth of $3.5 million"
Nichols Paint & Fab on the TV show, Wrench'd. Looks like they got some skills. The Riv they did sold for big bucks: https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1963-BUICK-RIVIERA-CUSTOM-COUPE-245744