Would you want your current project "Overhauled"? - Lateral-g Forums

**jonny51** · #1 12-21-2005, 11:38 PM

Umm how about no.

TravisB · #2 12-22-2005, 05:25 AM

No thanks

Derek69SS · #3 12-22-2005, 06:03 AM

They could do my '70 El Camino project I'm trying to sell. Say what you want about me when I try to sell it for $80,000 instead of $800 I'm asking, but I'd take it

I wouldn't let them near either of my '69s.

I'd maybe let them near my '95 wagon, but only if they promised no TVs, No custom stereo, No wheels bigger than 18", and no gaudy graphics... in fact, they could just buy me a set of wheels and that would be good enough

JohnM69SS · #4 12-22-2005, 07:10 AM

Thats an easy one for me....NO! They wouldnt want my car anyway, it is almost completley stock and will be completley stock sometime soon I hope. If they did take my car, I'm sure that they would modify it..... and I would take no prisoners. Do you know how long it took me to find an original mint condition green tip dipstick? ha ha

I'm with Scott though, they can have my truck. I'm itching to tweak it a bit. I just hope that they don't miss their exit off the freeway and end up on pimp my ride instead.....

540 · #5 12-22-2005, 08:49 AM

Hell yes!!!.

If you have been looking at the show they have an insider that tells Chip what the mark likes. HMMM 14" 6 piston front brakes, 13" 4 piston rear Fast efi for my 540 please sequential with a MSD crank trigger, Custon dash with auto meter gauges, gear venders od,yes please call Marcus at SCS for the suspension,all rust gone bead blasted, power coated frame, leave the borla SS exhaust in but new SS header 2 1/4, Vintage air ac, smooth the fire wall, roll the fender lips,hydroo boost,Wilson elbow,106mm TB, please repaint with the Phanton Blue color but make the strips have ghost flames.
Oh please take my Pro ratchet shifter and make it look at home in the stock consol, tires and wheels HMM one off Foose big enogh to clear the brakes and the tires at least 335 rear and 285 front. Killer am/fm cd no TV and a yes alarm, Hmm no door handels, Stock looking interior but make it out off black lether, call jody for the emblems, upgrade the lights olso billet housings, and dillet hood hinges. I will have a list for my insider to sit with Chip and say this would make him fall over.HAAAHAAHHAHAHAHA yes!!!.
I would put more than 100 miles on it. Don't get me wrong I love working on my car but I enjoy driving it better!!!!

**Steve Chryssos** · #6 12-22-2005, 08:54 AM

At the Christmas party I handed my CNC programmer a copy of Tony Huntimer's Ford PT book to help redo his 67 Mustang. She took me aside and said she applied for Overhaulin and was heartbroken that they were turned down.

She was shocked when I told her that all the Overhaulin cars were slapped together. I convinced her that everything they need to know is in Tony H's book.

Everyone I talk to says the same thing. We would much rather be dazzled with skill than drama

**Stuart Adams** · #7 12-22-2005, 08:57 AM

Those cars stay there for 2-4 months getting the bugs worked out.....

rwhite692 · #8 12-22-2005, 09:18 AM

For me, the therapy and enjoyment is in the building of the project, so...no.

I do like some of the "worthy" cases that you see on the show tho. Like the guy with a huge family who is busting his butt 12-14 hrs a day in a grease pit to put bread on the table and just can't put any time or money into a car he's had since high school, that kind of thing.

I don't enjoy watching someone like Lance Armstrong or Ian nose-ring or whatever his name is get overhauled, for example.