Favorite 'Car Guy' TV show

[schultz]

None of them impress me anymore, They make everything look so easy and affordable.

[PurdueSD]

Originally Posted by Rory Bellows

I loved Trucks with Stacey David. The new "Trucks" copied 3 of his shows almost exactly and did it in a poor fashion. I like "Gearz" but I've only seen three episodes on ESPN2. Their scheduling is terrible and 2 times when scheduled a different show came on. I think it is on speed channel now but haven't seen any shows yet. It might be my fault because I rarely check speed channel. Most of speedtv doesn't interest me. Besides the Barret Jackson auction and some episodes of pinks I don't check it. Plus on Time Warner in my area it is a way off channel.

They did move his show to speed.

Stacey David is probably my favorite, but i tivo the powerblock and overhaulin. Lately Hot Rod TV has had some good shows too.

[pipehack]

Gearz.....

[HAMAR]

Top Gear, Fifth Gear & A car is Born with Mark Evans on Discovery

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/A...e-1_704503.htm

[dolfans]

Is Overhaulin still being made or just reruns?

[scofo]

I enjoyed "Rides" pretty good show, didn't have all the BS like fake deadlines and drama the other shows employ for the non-gearhead crowd.

[colt zantop]

yes....RIDES was awesome..now just reruns....and overhaulin too minus the pranks...but thats just reruns too!

[Old Donn]

Liked Shadetree Mechanic/Two Guys Garage till Sam Memolo left. The two new guys try way too hard. Chop, Cut & Rebuild if they'd ever get some new episodes. Horsepower TV on Powerblock. Yeah I know it ain't that easy, but it's interesting. Courtney Hansen's nice to look at, but I can't take that voice. Too many Marlboro Reds & Jack Daniels.

[70Chevy]

Stacey David's Gearz is probably the best because he seems to be a real car guy. Courtney Hansen is easy on the eyes, but like someone else said, the voice is kinda rough.

Wrecks to Riches, Overhaulin', American Hot Rod and any other of those deadline shows kind of wear thin on me about the high pressure to get it done stuff. My car was at the paint shop for months - he wasn't worried at all about the 6-8 week thing that he told me about in the begining.

[autoace]

Originally Posted by gsport

i liked danica patrick better as the host of power block, she's way hot... but courtney is ok too

Danica is hot

[wreckercologist]

I watch alot of what has already been mentioned here with one addition. I watch "Wrecked". This show seems to me like a lot of modern TV shows with scripted scenes and dialog(reality TV). Over the top drama queens that can't seem to accomplish anything unless they call out a $500,000.00 Rotator for a simple tractor-trailer roll over. A lot of these shows feel like a sales pitch.

+1 on Foose. After you strip all of the "TV" away, he's a pretty talented guy.

[Mr. Welsh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R135OMKjOlg

[larryv]

Overhaulin, truck U, Rides, Two Guys garage if only that one guy would calm down.

[Coach James]

Liked Shadetree Mechanic. Also liked Two Guys Garage until the guy with the goatee joined. He seemed like a talented guy, but I got sick of his "funny" antics real quick. I don't watch it much now as it seemed to morph into a show about adding aftermarket high performance stuff. I'm more concerned with fixing what breaks.

I liked the car show with Bruce Bonebreak. I can't remember the name of the show. I do remember he used Stahwile tools though and the focus was on repair and diagnostics which was great for me.

I don't get why so many of these shows think they need to have funny pranks and silly nonsense. I'm not twelve years old so a show where adults act like adults and present things in a serious manner is prefectly ok with me.

Coach

[rickairmedic]

I generally watch all of the above mentioned ( gearz is usually on early on saturday and sunday mornings on Speed thats why I have a DVR ). I cant believe nobody mentioned Livin the Low Life for eye candy Vida Guerra makes Courtney look sad .

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Rick

[54FordPanel]

I try to watch the shows that show me "how-to" stuff. I have no use for Overhaulin.......it's all about the personalities and the trick. Way too much of the stealing the car than the rebuild. It might as well be about giving refrigerators away. Not nearly enough nuts and bolts with Chip Foose, and way too much Extreme Makeover.

I like Gearz, although Stacey David's AM Disc jockey personna gets a little old. I like Muscle Car, Trucks, Horsepower TV...the Power Block things. I would kill for the tools and garages those guys have access to! Geez....those bandsaws are nice.

I like Chop, Cut, Rebuild, because they get into detail about the builds. Although, that guy is Canadian......

2 Guys Garage would be good, if it weren't for that hip/cool/righteous guy. Somebody having ADD should be a disqualified as a TV host.

I really liked the Hot Rod TV ones and Rides but they apparently aren't making new ones of those, just re-running the old ones.

I also record all the Barrett Jackson and Metchem auto auctions.

[Lippyp]

Wow, didn't realise Top Gear was so popular over the pond. When I worked for Microsoft over here we had Clarkson compere a big sales conference for resellers. First thing he did was come on and make a joke about the car aprk being full of Nazi Staff Cars (BMW's) to an audience for whom having a BMW as a company car was pretty much the holy grail! Nice guy though, by the end of the evening he was totally wrecked wandering around drinking straight from a bottle of red wine.

As and entertainment show its pretty funny, it used to be a really serious motoring show with reports on new cars from dull presenters, stuff on motorsports etc. Scrapheap challenge (I think you got it as junkyard wars or something) sed to be pretty damn good but it got really watered down the last few series to the point of it being "Right we need a V8 and a MiG 29 for our build, Oh Look theres one hiding behind this wrecked pickup" Shame really as they built some fantasticly dangerous piles of junk.

[Mr. Welsh]

Originally Posted by Lippyp

Wow, didn't realise Top Gear was so popular over the pond.

Neither does the BBC, apparently. They keep trying to sell us watered-down versions of the real thing, they don't offer the DVDs for sale over here, etc.

We get it months after the first airing on BBC America, we download it online (gonna take some time now that it's in HD!), or we'll buy the DVDs abroad and play them on a DVD player that doesn't mind international coded DVDs (they're all made in China, after all).

It's the best motoring show in the world by far.

[Curt_pnw]

Top Gear, and anything on HD Theater!

[SpiderGearsMan]

bruno massel on truck u is the real deal , leads competition eliminator points in nhra with his wild ecotec chev cobalt