Re: New Car Show Called Muscle Car

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Here here Doc! I have to second that. I didn't see that episode, but that's a definite sign of a hack job to me. I'd do something like that to a show car before I would a daily driver or even a racer -- provided it didn't show and the car for certain was going to be a trailer queen. Well, actually, I don't think I'd do something that major at all. It doesn't take a lot to level the car up on a somewhat level concrete floor and take some measurements at least. The only problem for the show is they'd have to track down the frame measurement data from a real shop manual or a Mitchell's publication. They should have not shown that segment. They could have shown that the fenders didn't fit right, discussed the right way to do it (hacked it off camera), then come back and showed installing the fender. That might be somewhat dishonest, but better than telling millions of viewers (it will be in syndication and re-run a few times too, and videos/DVDs sold) it's okay to hack something!
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On March 8, 2006 Mr. AMC wrote:

> Nice show BUT anyone can bolt together a half finished El Camino and an
> all new Camero convert. I have watched this show since it started and
> they are good parts replacers an fair fabricators. The reason I say this
> is when they found that the fenders did not fit on the old Mopar because
> they determined the unibody was bent they notched the unibody and bent
> it so the fenders fit properly and rewelded it bck up. Not having the
> whole car put on a frame machine and having it all straightened
> properly. Sorry to me that made them HACKS. Even for time and budgets
> for a TV show if they were all that good and were forced to do that I
> would not show it on TV. A few of my friends in the automotive business,
> custom car builders and regular hard core muscle car lovers, builders
> and owners and just plain mechanics share my opinion after seeing that.
> Nice show but no cigar on a major quality failure. I was a fabricator in
> construction, built roll cages and custom parts from scratch for all
> kinds of cars and also built custom truck body's from scratch for 40
> years so I am just not running them down I have been there and done that
> and know a hack job when I see it. Sorry.
> "Doc"


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