Thread: no more orange county choppers

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hey PAT MCCARTHY proposed a engine building food eating show, how many would watch,? i would ask my girlfriend my two favorite things are cars and food beer and her fall somewhere next, haha i propose a show where they scrounge for parts like all of do, bbq , and break stuff, no expensive tools nobody can afford like that stacy david show, some thing needs to be on tv to watch, the first few seasons of occ was okay but how many ways can you build a chopper ???

ever see the british show wheeler dealers? they take older cars and do enough work to make them sound and flip[ em. Now I really don't know how much money they are talking about when they say pounds or quit but I have a rough Idea. a show like that but with old hot rods that get refurbioshed

A British pound is about a buck and a half, so when they say 1,000 lbs they are talking about $1,500 or there abouts. A Quid is slang for a pound.

OCC got old I agree, but it was a gear head show so we don't really need to lose to many o0f those. OCC was no loss though. Interseting how Senior is takeing junior to court over money. I don't have a clue about any of the details but when family has to file suit in court it can't be a good thing.

Great line in a western Movie about money, the movie is Conager (sp) and Sam Elliot when asked why the bad guys are doing what bad guys and is told "Its about the money" Elliot response is "Money-- God help us if thats all it is"

RS

My problem is that I would watch a show, where they talk about the "plan" for a project maybe trips to swap meets, or buying used parts they found...discussion of why they made the choices they did.... some interesting tips on the construction and assembly....and the fun they might have at shows and races afterward.

What I won't watch is shows where they fight amongst each other....throw tools because they are mad....play games with people while they do a quick build without the owner's permission.... or follow them to a volleyball game, or other unrelated crap.

I guess this is why I don't watch them any more.

Yeah, no great loss on losing that show..... Just more made for TV drama crap anyway.

Dave, I think you hit the nail on the head with your comment about "Made for TV drama crap" Isn't it interesting that no matter which one of those so called "reality" shows that are on they MUST have some required amount of drama?

It's like none of the things have a story strong enough to stand on there own, so they just invent a little drama......

Roland

Originally Posted by Hombre259

Dave, I think you hit the nail on the head with your comment about "Made for TV drama crap" Isn't it interesting that no matter which one of those so called "reality" shows that are on they MUST have some required amount of drama?

It's like none of the things have a story strong enough to stand on there own, so they just invent a little drama......

Roland

Well Roland, one can only hope that all the drama was invented for TV..... Kind of scary to think it was "for real"

and to those not involved with chopper or Hot Rod building, is this how they would perceive all of us?????

wile we are on the subject of reality shows did you know that Phil harris captain of the cornelia marie on the deadliest catch died of a massive stroke at st. paul island died onboard ttoo bad he was a good captain r.i.p phill.....ted

Wonderful use of caps, sentence structure, and punctuation Ted.

I enjoy Sunday mornings on the Speed network such as Stacey David's Gearz and Cut Chop Rebuild, just wish they were longer shows.

I also wish they made more episodes of Gearz and Chop Cut Rebuild.I set my DVR to record these shows and there is never any I haven't seen!!argh!

[QUOTE=Gretsch;377888]Wonderful use of caps, sentence structure, and punctuation Ted. QUOTE]

Who needs caps, sentence structure and punctuation? That was for English class in school at least 40 years ago. We're gearheads more interested in cars, trucks, boats, etc. I think all of us understood Ted's message just fine.

BTW, for proper punctuation and sentence structure, shouldn't 'Ted' be used at the beginning of your sentence and it isn't necessary to use a , after structure.

Originally Posted by Nelly74

I also wish they made more episodes of Gearz and Chop Cut Rebuild.I set my DVR to record these shows and there is never any I haven't seen!!argh!

Those are good shows. Also, Two Guys Garage (since Bryan Fuller joined) and PowerBlock have some good episodes. All these show that a gearhead show can be made without all the phony "drama" and screaming. Bryan was chopping a 33 Ford on today's episode.

Overhaulin is my favorite TV show. It's fun and Chip is not only an amazing talent, he seems like a very nice guy.

Mike - don't get me started on the "how the web, email, and texting has made us lazy" topic... But I enjoyed your shot nonetheless.

Huh - didn't realize Gearz has so few shows? I just began watching. I am spoiled by the many network websites which offer full episode streaming. Speed looks to only offer snippets of each episode? Can't imagine bandwidth and storage price is an issue.... maybe it's a sponsorship/advert thing.

Being new to this world, any step-by-step How-To's are more than welcome.

I'll run a search on Overhaulin' and a few others which were mentioned.

EDIT:
Episodes of Overhaulin are here, though one needs to register which looks free?
http://www.yidio.com/show/overhaulin

Gearz - but for a fee of 1.99 through amazon - anything to make a buck....
http://www.clicker.com/tv/gearz/

Yeah, that show was really lame the last time I saw it. I think Sr thought he was some kind of action star; building the project was not the focus anymore. I'd like to see them pick a different boneyard each week, and build a car out of nothing but yard parts. Maybe have two teams doing it and race them at the end.