I can't believe the owner didn't sue them for what they did to that thing. The "fit and finish" was beyond amateurish. If that were my car, I'd seriously just torch it and not tell anyone I was involved. That '33 to what ever that thing was, was just embarrassing.
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And I wonder what it's like to sell out like that and ruin your own reputation within the classic car community by going on TV to say that this garbage is of the highest quality. It's sad that they destroy so many decent cars for the sake of rushing a TV show. Most of these creations clearly aren't meant to actually be used. The quality isn't even good enough to look decent from a distance because they cut every corner they think they can get away with knowing that they can be creative with camera angles and lighting on TV. At least most of their sales aren't actual sales (they even ended up with one of their season 2 creations sitting outside their shop after it had allegedly been delivered to the buyer). The short of it is that any time they mention a price, you can be certain it's completely made up numbers.
The engine alone could have run twice that. Pretty much the only thing they kept was the body shell, and that needed work, so there's no way that only cost them $5K.
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But they did a full chassis swap, put in a new or freshly rebuilt Chevy 454, then added the supercharger and all the engine bling, new glass, new seats, new rims and tires, and all the missing trim. They also claimed that the bus was worth $15K as they received it and claimed to have put in only $5K for a total cost of $20K.
That means the edges are sharp and shouldn't be handled without gloves, regardless of if the panel is fiberglass or metal (but seriously, they wouldn't take the time to make that stuff out of metal when the quality is so bad). And that motorcycle, like everything else they do, doesn't have rolled edges on any of their custom body panels. You can't even check the oil on that car, much less change the oil or do any other engine work, without removing the entire body. And since they were trying to make this front-engine car look remotely like the sketches they showed, if you squint hard enough, they set the windshield base at the front of the engine block. Nope, even rebodied Corvettes with racing history don't bring that much. Regardless, they rebodied a 1993 Corvette and tried to compare it to a Bugatti and claimed it was worth $250K. Then they decided the perfect starting point for that was a 1993 front-engine Corvette? What they built had nothing to do with the sketches that this guy had allegedly been working on for 20 years. They ripped off the Peugeot 4002 (which wasn't even a concept car) in the sketches, which is definitely a mid-engine, cab-forward car. Then there's the alleged concept car that isn't a concept car. And that was allegedly done for a photographer with an eye for detail? And they supposedly got paid $60K for that work? Not a chance. Beyond that, the grill, the exposed rivets, the exhaust, the leather straps, and pretty much everything else they did to the car was all wrong aside from stretching the wheelbase. The body line isn't continued onto the engine covers, they used late 30s / early 40s headlights in a car meant to represent an early 1930s car, and the headlights neither point forward nor sit flush in the fenders. The windshield is at the wrong angle which leaves a half inch gap between the frame and the body in the corners. The skirts don't meet up with the fenders at the bottom, front or back. It creates a discontinuous curve with a hump at the fender to running board transition. They cut up two sets of generic 1932 Ford fenders and slapped them back together in roughly a decent shape and fiberglassed over the rivets. Some of these cars aren't even amateur quality builds (comparing them to multiple scratch-built cars I've seen from people who had zero prior experience).Ĭase in point, the alleged Delahaye replica where the only thing that looked remotely like a Delahaye was the paint color. If they took the money they claimed they were getting for the cars as shown on the show, they would have been sued out of existence long ago. I like the premise, and it's less annoying than most "reality" shows, but this show is faker than a three dollar bill.
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