The cut the cross member to make it work.    They didn't get to the transmission yet. 

Steve69

Sometimes Days Corky...LOL.    It helps to have a Team of 8 or 10 little also....LOL

Anyone else notice the bed of the 60 Dodge they finished and sold last week was still sitting on sawhorses in the background this week?
Also saw the green forklift last week, but it was just delivered this week.....

It's funny to me how after they beat home improvement shows to death now they've moved on to all sorts of other types of "OMG we have 2 weeks and lots of drama to build something" and it's all half as%%ed crap. Seems to me nobody values craftmanship and pride of doing something right. It's all at extremes now, spend 200k to have some hip business of the month build your car or slap it together in 2 weeks and roll it to auction (sometimes they are the same )

Actually now that I think about it the custom bike show and West Coast Customs show might have started it all (including DIY home improvement).

After all that work and a crate coyote engine and a custome C-4 tranny, a paint job and seat covers, they sold it for $20,000 for a profit of $3,500.  I understand PROFIT beingMONEY MADE, but seems like that was a giveaway price for that car with that engine.  Without the engine, would anyone give $10k for a 67 Galaxie?  It was a cool looking car, but they should have put a headliner in it.  That $200 would have brought $1,000.

On similar note.   Is OverHaulin real?  Can you really get a car, disassemble it and ORDER AND RECEIVE ALL THE PARTS and paint it and reassemble it in one week?  And completely rewire it in one afternoon? I don't care how many people you throw at something, they would have to be climbing all over each other to get that much done in a week.  It's kind of like saying THREE women can make a baby in THREE MONTHS...  Whaddayathink?

its just television fella's.........sit back, grab some cheeto's and enjoy the show

I love all those shows.   I DVR Fast & Loud and Counting Cars.   Id rather watch this than cooking channels with my wife...LOL

Steve69

Raymond_B wrote:

Hornman wrote:

Raymond_B wrote:

It's funny to me how after they beat home improvement shows to death now they've moved on to all sorts of other types of "OMG we have 2 weeks and lots of drama to build something" and it's all half as%i%ed crap. Seems to me nobody values craftmanship and pride of doing something right. It's all at extremes now, spend 200k to have some hip business of the month build your car or slap it together in 2 weeks and roll it to auction (sometimes they are the same )

Actually now that I think about it the custom bike show and West Coast Customs show might have started it all (including DIY home improvement).

It all makes more sense if you remember that those guys twisting the wrenches are ACTORS. The shows are ENTERTAINMENT. Its not an ad for their restoration shop. Would any of us trust our cars to anyone we have seen on TV?

While I agree they can be entertaining, that is not their main reason for existing. They are massive infomercials that promote shortcuts and crappy ways of doing things. Compare one of those weekend make over shows to This Old House on NPR. Sure the NPR show doesn't have the language, glitz, and eye candy, but it sure as heck promotes a higher degree of craftsmanship and information.

 Yep, Raymond...   How many driveways and sidewalks have you seen them pour without first installing some rebar?  Same stuff goes on everywhere, just like all the stuff mastercrap did not do properly on my fastback, and now I have to disassemble several layers to get to it to fit it right.

Wnat an eyeopener?  Go to the Overhaulin forum.  Some people did not get their car for a year!

MustangSteve wrote:

After all that work and a crate coyote engine and a custome C-4 tranny, a paint job and seat covers, they sold it for $20,000 for a profit of $3,500.  I understand PROFIT beingMONEY MADE, but seems like that was a giveaway price for that car with that engine.  Without the engine, would anyone give $10k for a 67 Galaxie?  It was a cool looking car, but they should have put a headliner in it.  That $200 would have brought $1,000.

On similar note.   Is OverHaulin real?  Can you really get a car, disassemble it and ORDER AND RECEIVE ALL THE PARTS and paint it and reassemble it in one week?  And completely rewire it in one afternoon? I don't care how many people you throw at something, they would have to be climbing all over each other to get that much done in a week.  It's kind of like saying THREE women can make a baby in THREE MONTHS...  Whaddayathink?

 
ive heard all the overhaulin cars go back for final assembly after the show is over. They basically make them look good for the camera and marginally driveable but then someone fixes everything later

I didn't understand that either.   I know there is new overdrive kits out there for $5000.00 range.   I thought I seen $4K scroll across the screen for the c4.

Some of the newer car shows are just...stupid. Some of the older ones, too.  But don't you feel just a little better seeing "pros" haveing trouble with fitment, ordering, unseen problems, engines that won't start, fluid that ends up on the ground because someone forgot a plug, things like that?

That's nothing.  I watched a show last night where they completely remodeled a kitchen while the owners were out to dinner.  Talk about quick !!

And it has only taken me since Thanksgiving to get this tranny crossmember built.