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12-14-2021, 09:12 PM #1
Best Wrenchin Shows on TV
Figured I would make this separate from the Wrenchin thread, so it doesn't get lost in there.
What are your favorite car and truck fab shows?
There are a lot of really bad ones that are basically just hour long ads. I am talking about the shows you actually learn a lot from.
My two favorites:
Full Custom Garage- Ian is a wizard with metal fab. I don't always like what he builds, but I always watch. Only negative is that he only seems to have one customer- Victor Cacho, who seems to fund the show. I learn so much from this show, and Ian is chill. No bs drama, just custom fab and knowledge.
Fantomworks- Not a lot of manufactured drama, cool unique old builds. My favorite part is when they sit down with the client at the end and spell out exactly how many hours went into the build, and they tell them the price straight up. Lots of these shows make it seem like they do these builds in a week and they cost $20,000. One old 1930's car they did, they had 2800 hours in, and the guy had supplied almost all the parts himself. It was an amazing build with wooden wheels and everything. Not my taste for $350,000+, but a really cool build.
Honorable mention-
Bitchin Rides- I hate the sing song way they narrate, and there is some silly drama bs, but the builds are sweet. They are SLC based- Kindig-It Designs. Tons of Sema builds. The artistry helps me ignore the show format.
What are you watching?
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12-14-2021, 09:15 PM #2Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
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12-14-2021, 09:16 PM #3
Also love Chasing Classic Cars, but there isn't much wrenching. I drive by that place all the time in Portland, CT.
I would love to poke my head in there one day, but I wouldn't want to find out Wayne is not cool.
I mean I am sure he would be cool if I was looking to shell out the cash for a Ferrari or something, but I doubt he wants fans swinging by.
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12-15-2021, 12:02 AM #4
Roadkill Garage and Hot Rod Garage on Motortrend.
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12-15-2021, 12:06 AM #5Registered User
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Vice grip garage on the YouTubes! Help a guy understand! I wonder what Shania Twain is up to right now? The guy is the Bob Ross of wrenches.
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12-15-2021, 01:50 AM #6Registered User
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Dirt every Day with Fred and Dave. I used to like Ian's builds but he's pretty much the Guy Fieri of off road TV.
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12-15-2021, 05:58 AM #7
On television
Wheeler Dealers
Roadkill Garage
Prefer YouTube wrenching shows though more wrenching less BS. Theses guys have achieved a good balance of strong content, useful information, cheeky delivery and decent amateur production values.
South Main Auto
Vice Grip Garage
Legit Street CarsDamn, we're in a tight spot!
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12-15-2021, 06:49 AM #8yelgatgab
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Best Wrenchin Shows on TV
Early Roadkill and Roadkill Garage are great. The new stuff is good but much more polished and professional in a bad way. The “Extra” stuff has some good content and there are a ton of them.
Roadkill Extra
Dirt Every Day
DED Extra
Faster With Finnegan
Junkyard Gold
Hot Rod Garage
Engine Masters is great if you really want to nerd out
YouTube has a ton of stuff, though I think Vice Grip Garage is the best mix of info and entertainment.
Finnegan’s Garage, has some nice tie-ins with the Motortrend shows.
Junkyard Digs. Hit or miss and he bitches a lot lately about how busy he is creating content, but he and Thunderhead289 did some revivals together that are really good.
Dylan McCool. Bone dry, but informative and he covers some really deep dive stuff.
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Mortske Repair
The Hagerty channel has some gems. Redline Rebuilds is informative. Barn Find Hunter is good inspiration to find your next project, and Tom Cotter has an encyclopedic knowledge of classic cars.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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12-15-2021, 07:45 AM #9Registered User
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Wrenchin' shows or car tech shows? For actual wrenching and learning stuff, I like Wheeler Dealers, Garage Squad, Truck U, Car Fix, All Girls Garage and if that Worman guy wasn't "the star" I'd like Graveyard Cars too.
@warthog - I stop by F40 a few times a year to check out the shiny stuff in the showroom and what they're working on in the other building. In all the times I've been there Wayne hasn't been around, I missed him by minutes once as he was pulling out of the lot in what looked and sounded like an old DB4. There is some really cool old stuff hanging out in that other building at the end of the lot, you should stop and be a stalker peering in through the dusty glass sometime, you sure won't be the first (or last).
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12-15-2021, 07:49 AM #10
Peep my YouTube thread.
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...hlight=youtube
Sizzle chest.
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12-15-2021, 08:25 AM #11
Damn, lots of good stuff. I will check out Dirt Every Day and Vice Grip. Those sound like good ones.
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12-15-2021, 08:26 AM #12
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12-15-2021, 11:32 AM #13yelgatgab
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Just go ahead and pay for the Motortrend OnDemand subscription. $5/month well spent, IMO. There are some other decent, non-wrenching shows, plus you get access to some Top Gear episodes (I subscribe through Amazon, so I'm not always clear what's coming from Prime and what's coming from MTOD).
Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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12-15-2021, 12:07 PM #14
On YouTube which you can watch on your TV so I guess it counts?
Check out:
M539 Restorations https://www.youtube.com/c/M539Restorations/videos mostly BMW work but guy is highly competent and entertaining
Practical Enthusiast https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEnthusiast/videos dude fixes and overhauls stuff in his home garage"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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12-15-2021, 01:00 PM #15
Vlad and Garage 54
https://www.youtube.com/c/Garage54ENG/videos
Vlad is a deranged genius.
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12-15-2021, 01:29 PM #16
Rich Rebuilds is a really fun channel. Does lots of nutty stuff with Teslas.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RichRebuilds
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12-15-2021, 02:24 PM #17Registered User
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Different. Ian from xtreme off road. He has some really cool builds and wheels them hard but he just rubs me the wrong way.
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12-16-2021, 11:29 AM #18
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12-16-2021, 11:45 AM #19
I don't have a TV, but all of the car-centric stuff on TV always seemed way overproduced anyway.
On Youtube I like Deboss Garage, Fab Rats, Dirt Lifestyle (I skip the episodes where he's out #overlanding, and just watch the fab)
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12-16-2021, 11:50 AM #20
Moonshiners.
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12-16-2021, 06:56 PM #21
Iron Resurrection and Wheeler Dealers when it was Edd China
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12-17-2021, 10:34 AM #22Registered User
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I think all 3 versions of wheeler dealers are good, the new guy knows his shit and Ant just had a way of making things look possible for anybody.
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