Been watching 'Restoration Garage' for a few episodes and I'm a fan. Its just cars and guys that are great at what they do making great cars and its entertaining without any manufactured drama or bs. The people have personality which you may like or not but they are seemingly genuine and all just trying to do a perfect job on each car and they usually do it seems.
I hope this show and 'Bitchin Rides' do well and we get more like them.
Just watched that show for the first time. I love it. Canadian, which is why there's not so much drama, though the deadlines for finishing the Toronado and Bugatti were typical.
Lancer007 wrote: without any manufactured drama or bs.
Say what?
They definitely play up minor issues for the drama factor. I guarantee the scratch on the 912 was a pre existing thing that was just played out for drama. It is actually on right now and they are making a HUGE deal out of a fuel pump being hooked up wrong. One wire.
I LOVE the fact that every single person on that show talks exactly like every Canadian swears that no one there does. 
All Aboot and 'eh and polite as can be.
I don't mind the show. The cars are certainly cool. The ratty 510 and the little Alfa GT Junior were awesome
Well it's better than Fantom Works, the owner on that show is just a douche about everything. I don't know if it's for the show, but I get tired of these shows where the owner of the shop is just a super douche about everything. That's the reason I don't like Graveyard Carz either, the owner is a know-it-all douche. I get he's the "Master of MOPARs" but it doesn't give you the privilege of being the mayor of Douchetown.
I don't think I said douche enough.
Douche.
I enjoy the show whenever I get to catch it. The TP filter on the 240z that they did was an interesting bit of trivia and it turned out pretty nice.
It's still mostly muscle cars though. I feel like that era of cars has been done to death by these shows so it's not horribly unique. I understand that's probably the larger demographic for the shows (read money from advertisers) but for those of us that enjoy cars from other regions of the world it gets a bit old. I'd say the same thing if they only restored 70s and 80s Japanese cars but I can only watch so many 60's Chevelles, Camaros, Mustangs, et al., be restored before I lose interest.
In reply to The0retical:
You're thinking of Garage Squad. That's not a bad show either. The guys on that show are the Truck U guys and the girl was a IndyCar trackside reporter.
In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:
Oh yes I am... I'm a bit addled from a lack of sleep and jet lag. We'll just blame it on that.
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Well it's better than Fantom Works, the owner on that show is just a douche about everything....
Yup. Saw one show where he goes off on a guy for not ordering the right parts (rear fender for a convertible something), wasting time, blaa, blaa, blaa.
Turns out THEY DO NOT MAKE the fender for convertibles! So there was no way to order one.
They clearly knew this all along, but I guess it looked like a great opportunity to "add some drama".
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