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Mar 13, 2010 22:32:18 GMT
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It'd be wrong to base your entire opinion of Boyd on a TV show. TV needs drama, suspense and jeopardy...cars alone don't quite have enough interest to pull in a big enough audience so rows, deadlines and various characters are added to the package. Growing up reading American rod mags Foose and Boyd were just names associated with the cool cars I saw and that's still a good way to see them. They all have an important place in hot rodding's history and you shouldn't really let what you see in a show tell you the whole story. If you want to judge people on nothing more than you see on TV (or rather the version that comes after the edit is complete) then Big Brother is the show for you, if you want to look at the skills of a car builder then the only place to see the results is in the cars they build. I always thought it was a mistake for Boyd to do that show; I think he devalued his image badly. His legend had already been established. look at all the ground-breaking cars he was behind (albeit some with Chip Foose's help): Vern Luce's '33 coupe, Jamie Musselmans' 33 roadster, the Eliminator Coupe, Cadzilla, Chezoom, the Aluma Coupe et al (had got images for all of these but my browser crashed twice so can't be arsed to do it a third time). OK, maybe one: Alright then, two: Note that the car above, Vern Luce's three window coupe, was built in the early '80s. It established the billet look just like Jimmy Shine's pick-up help cement the early 'rat-rod' look in the '00s.
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joe90
Yorkshire and The Humber
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Mar 14, 2010 10:48:12 GMT
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I remember this as a feature car in custom car in the early 90s and is one of my all time favourits. Bryan
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Mar 15, 2010 13:05:58 GMT
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Blue bear got away with murder. I also got the feeling he was a friend of the Boyd family or something. How else could you get away with being so disrespectful to everyone and not get fired in 5 minutes like the ginger guy did. Chaaaad
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BRETT HAWKSBEE - don't be afraid! retro rides will protect your feelings and censor you from harm! bless Moderator comment: This signature is why Sidmuss has his account disabled for 50 days. Personal attacks are not welcome on RR. If you don't like the forum, don't use it.
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Mar 15, 2010 13:26:17 GMT
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I would rather drive wooden spikes through my own eye sockets than watch a 10-year-old soap opera set in a hot rod garage. You guys know entirely too much about Blueballs, DuhWayne, and the minions who used to work for a dead guy. WGAFF? Do you think they care where you work? ;D
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Mar 15, 2010 13:37:01 GMT
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I would rather drive wooden spikes through my own eye sockets than watch a 10-year-old soap opera set in a hot rod garage. You guys know entirely too much about Blueballs, DuhWayne, and the minions who used to work for a dead guy. WGAFF? Do you think they care where you work? ;D Cheer up Norm! Sometimes, we have nothing better to do that watch TV - and out of all the stuff that is on TV, it's far from the worst. We do realise it's all dramatized But the fact that it is sunny, and these people have, warm, light, clean, dry workshops and non-rotten things to work with makes it seem like a dream for us.
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Mar 15, 2010 13:45:23 GMT
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I'd be happy enought just watching paint dry in a hot rod garage like Boyds
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BRETT HAWKSBEE - don't be afraid! retro rides will protect your feelings and censor you from harm! bless Moderator comment: This signature is why Sidmuss has his account disabled for 50 days. Personal attacks are not welcome on RR. If you don't like the forum, don't use it.
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Mar 15, 2010 19:47:22 GMT
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I have friends who visited the shop while filming was on and knew Boyd well enough to go out for meals with him...it's all television The biggest problem was the fall out from the high exposure resulting in an investigation of Boyd, and many other rod shops, that has ended in the SEMA managing to create am amnesty for incorrectly registered vehicles, at least in California. Fame is a fickle mistress.
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luckygti
Posted a lot
I need to try harder!
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Mar 15, 2010 20:45:43 GMT
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I'm a big fan of all of them, American Hotrod does get on my nerves a bit, can you really run a business doing everything with such tight deadlines? Seems a bit rushed to me. Overhaulin? Love it, IMHO the cars are all works of art (except one 4x4 he did, which was a bit naff) I'd jump at the chance to own something like that. In fact TV wise, I'll watch just about anything where someone else is doing all the hard work, it's an excuse not to get my lazy into the garage
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khaOs
Part of things
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Mar 15, 2010 23:37:20 GMT
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just wondering if someone has "How clean is your car" from Mark Evans. I have all the An MG is Born and A Car is Born episodes and i wanted to get "How Clean Is Your Car".
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Chop shop FTW I find that the majority of these custom shows get a bit boring after a while, with the same persons style being put into the cars each time you can almost guess what the end result is going to be like, and generaly its off the shelf to make the job easier/quicker (understandable) There used to be a Biker Build-Off show (possibly called Biker-Build-Off, i cant remember ). The idea was for 3 teams to build bikes for a show, as it was different teams each time, scrounging parts out of each others sheds to build the bikes it made for good Tv, no soap-opera rubbish either. I'm not even into bikes but id rather watch that to most of the off-the-shelf shows.
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chip83
Part of things
One day at a time....
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It was always better than the soaps on the other side, although custom my ride seems to have taken over the mantle on dicovery. They do some nice stuff, 57 nomad with nascar running gear was last weeks episode, and this weeks is a classic charger with modern running gear.
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Quashqui and Yeti (needs must currently) SAAB 93 EST (Sold) Volvo S40(sold) Volvo V40(sold) MK2 astra aka "THE SHED"(sold) Mgb GT (crashed) Peugeot 405(sold) Orion 1600i (sold) Metro (scrapped) Mk1 Fiesta (Broken for spares) Mk5 Cortina (crashed)
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Chop shop FTW I find that the majority of these custom shows get a bit boring after a while, with the same persons style being put into the cars each time you can almost guess what the end result is going to be like, and generaly its off the shelf to make the job easier/quicker (understandable) There used to be a Biker Build-Off show (possibly called Biker-Build-Off, I cant remember ). The idea was for 3 teams to build bikes for a show, as it was different teams each time, scrounging parts out of each others sheds to build the bikes it made for good Tv, no soap-opera rubbish either. I'm not even into bikes but id rather watch that to most of the off-the-shelf shows. The biker build-off pitted 2 professional bike builders against each other over a number of days to build one-off custom bikes and ride them to a bike show (normally hundreds of miles) to be judged by the crowd. No scrounging was involved, these bikes were hand built specials. By far the best show. Build or bust is good too, giving someone a chance to build a custom bike over 30 days, if they completed it to a high standard, got it running and did a burnout they won the bike. The best of the car shows is definitely wrecks to riches usa.
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Mar 16, 2010 11:11:22 GMT
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I'm really glad i don't have an idiot lantern. for every hour you spend watching all this guff (that to be quite honest has little to no automotive content other than cars being in the background whilst people have a fight), i spend in the garage building. funnily enough, an american hot rod
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Mar 16, 2010 12:18:09 GMT
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I'm really glad I don't have an idiot lantern. for every hour you spend watching all this guff (that to be quite honest has little to no automotive content other than cars being in the background whilst people have a fight), I spend in the garage building. funnily enough, an american hot rod S,true, why veg on a sofa watching others build when you can be in a workshop making progress. case in point: my Rover 214 needed a timing belt change (plus all of the associated bits). Hadn't done a belt swap in years. Spent all Saturday: belt, tensioner, water pump, PAS belt, alternator belt, coolant change, new spark plugs. Result? Approx. £300 quid in saved labour kept in my skyrocket instead of some greasy spanner monkey's holiday fund. And I feel like a timing belt god. Dang, the cuppa I had afterwards tasted gooooood..... ;D Now back onto the BMW engine rebuild....
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