FAKE to Riches...

[enzo]

I just finished watching tonights episode of Wrecks to Riches where they built a 69 Camaro. That show is so fundamentally artificial. I have seen the last three episodes and the same people are on site bidding on the cars. I feel as if the good people of TLC have grossly underestimated their audience and think they can pull one over on the viewer. In addition, that car was a piece of caca. Anyone can slap a paint job and wheels on a car and say it's custom. If this Barry fellow is so "high profile", enough to warrant his own show, he should try building cars that will impress audiences with craftmanship and creativity. You can slap a bow on a piece of crap, but it's still a piece of crap. Just my thoughts after blowing an hour on the couch. Any comments???

[4mm]

I thought the red convertible Camaro that closed at $25.5K was a heck of a deal!

[lil427z]

did you see the part where they said they spent 9000.00 on body parts.
that is bs.
rick k

[Todds69]

What doesn't make sense to me is when he looks at the vehicles, he just walks around them and says "OK". You would think he would be crawling all over and under it. He needs to send someone else to check over his prospective purchases.

[Sales@Dutchboys]

Originally Posted by enzo

I just finished watching tonights episode of Wrecks to Riches where they built a 69 Camaro. That show is so fundamentally artificial. I have seen the last three episodes and the same people are on site bidding on the cars. I feel as if the good people of TLC have grossly underestimated their audience and think they can pull one over on the viewer. In addition, that car was a piece of caca. Anyone can slap a paint job and wheels on a car and say it's custom. If this Barry fellow is so "high profile", enough to warrant his own show, he should try building cars that will impress audiences with craftmanship and creativity. You can slap a bow on a piece of crap, but it's still a piece of crap. Just my thoughts after blowing an hour on the couch. Any comments???

I thought the same thing man!

[MaxHarvard]

I just have to rant about this complete and utter BS of a show.

First.... he pays $6200 for a shell without looking it over... hell, i sold a 69 for $9,000 and it ran and had full interior!!

Secondly, the whole ploy from the police department was so over the top fake i almost tossed my cookies on my TV. Worst acting i've ever seen from just about anyone.

Finally, when it came to auction... that little red 69 'vert went for $25,000... was a steal!!! Then his "custom" camaro, which was nothing more than shiny paint, a big motor and some wheels slapped on went for over $60,000. And guess who won!?!? THE SAME GUY WHO WON THE FIRST CAR!! Can you say "set up"? or Corporate stooge? Jeez, give me a break!!

I'm just beside myself with how bad this show is. I tried to give it a second chance and boy oh boy do i want my 1 hour of my life back.

0/10 worst show ever.

[Payton King]

Apparently the grey headed dude as a hard on for Barry's cars and thinks the first cars in his new line of (super mucle cars) is going to be worth big bucks. Still trying to figure how they come up with the build cost on this show when they do not take into account the rate per hour to build the car and do the metal work. I am guessing the $45,000 was just for all of the parts.

Yea, I would have liked to have had the opportunity on the 68 conv.

[MarkM66]

I saw the one with the orange Chevelle, and the one last night with the black Camaro. I too thought the same guy bought both, guess I was right. What a joke! Boycott that show.

I wonder how much dirt was in those stripes that they just painted out in the open like that, .

[markss28]

Originally Posted by MarkM66

I saw the one with the orange Chevelle, and the one last night with the black Camaro. I too thought the same guy bought both, guess I was right. What a joke! Boycott that show.

I wonder how much dirt was in those stripes that they just painted out in the open like that, .

I thought the same thing. They didnt even tape up much of the fenders to spray the stipes.

I think the show is a joke and the fact that the same guy keeps buying the cars is getting a kick back from the show/TLC. IMO

All in all I still like any car show out there. I would not mind driving the 71 Sat he built last week.

[Hdesign]

The winning bidder has come to Barry's rescue 2 of 3 episodes now. If it happens again, I'll probably stop watching. Though, as I said before, it's not American Loser...errr..Idol and it's not another lame over-dramatized cop/court/hospital/foresics spin off show. I'm all for more car makeover shows...good, bad or otherwise. (Unique Whips and Pimp My Ride are the exceptions because "Bling" is stupid IMO). I don't watch the show to critique the production shortcomings or even to watch the "high-profile" builders get into a tight situation. I just want to see the process of taking a beater and transforming it into a cool car.

My critique of this episode: I never saw Chris Brown finish the rendering...not that it was a terribly exciting car anyway. Silver, flat-black stripe, big rims and stupid "SMC" logo.....ZZZZZZZZZZ. Chris is pretty good at drawing and rendering but I think we have a lot more talent as far as design and artistic ability on this site based on what I've seen of his work on the show (and other shows he's been on). Maybe there should be a show based on contest between car designers...there's a reality/makeover show about everything else!

I sure as S*** wouldn't have just done a 1 minute walk around on that car considering the guy wanted $7grand for it. It turned out to be a total rat....$9K on new sheet metal...c'mon! As far as I'm concerned it was no more than just another rotted out $2K 69 Camaro....I saw 3 of them in the local want-ads last week.

That 'vert was definitely a steal....I'd personally rather have that one and throw some custom rims on it.

Just my $.02