I've been watching the TV show Wrecks to Riches and I have some comments/questions to share.

1) I root pretty hard for them to NOT to meet their price. Does this make me a bad person? :)

2) Its always the same people bidding on the cars. The couple and the old fat guy and the old fat guy always wins. The blonde lady and her husband should not even bother showing up if they don't have the cash to outbid the old guy.

3) You know that old fat guy just packs those cars away and doesn't drive them.

4) Do the volunteers helping build the cars (this week it was guys from the Beverly Hills Fire Department) get paid?

http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128172

Barrys wife and daughter have been posting on the Camaro board. Their username is Hotrodgal.
http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=79576

you are not a bad person, if you are then I am too. I had a smile on my face when that blue car (was it a cloned GTO or something??)didnt sell

with all the T.V. shows people making money on cars... pretty soon a rat trap beat to death 307 4 door Impala will be 100 K !!! I can see it now :(

To add insult to injury.......I saw a commercial for yet ANOTHER car program called FAST INC. that will be airing on MTV:rolleyes:!!!

Brian

I'm just happy to see somebody saving old cars from rotting away and doing something with them.

you are not a bad person, if you are then I am too. I had a smile on my face when that blue car (was it a cloned GTO or something??)didnt sell

Make that 3 of us hoping they cant BS their way into those crazy prices :beers:

What upset me the most about the blue clone, is they NEVER called it a "CLONE" or a "TRIBUTE" or a "RECONSTRUCTION"
they just kept saying they "made it a GTO" !
Once it was painted it was now a real GTO. I dont really know if at auction it was ever accuratly discribed or not ?

But it was ridiculas when Barry's wife commented about the TRUE ORIGINAL RESTORED GTO saying "our's is much nicer" What an idiot !!!:angry:

It seems to me, Barry has no, for lack of a better word, "passion" for what he is doing. At least that's what the show portrays. It's all about what he can make off the car.
Is there only one guy that buys his cars?

Looks like I need to watch this show at least once just for reference.

What channel is it on?

I like how he gets all of the "volunteer" work and then pockets the profits. lol - He also does everything bas ackwards, he does the paint & body and then does all of the grinding, patching on the floors, ect. afterwards.

LK

I'm just happy to see somebody saving old cars from rotting away and doing something with them.

Tend to agree with that statement.

But also agree, that ol Barry is far from personable.
Reminds me of Mr. Burns on The Simpsons.

Gotta give him credit though, he's found and angle, and a fella with deep pockets to help him out.

with all the T.V. shows people making money on cars... pretty soon a rat trap beat to death 307 4 door Impala will be 100 K !!! I can see it now


sooooooooooo............what do you think a 68 4 door chevelle thats nearly done will bring? LOL!

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Yah, what gives. Spend lots of time/money to paint the 'Stang then let guys (Firemen) grind metal/weld all around it? :eek:

Then it appears the under side is gets done (painted - did they put it on a rotis and media blast it before paint?) I guess they don't have time to rip it back down for paint. and it looks cooler hanging parts off a purty car. :)

I put more than few grind spark marks in a primer job last time I put patches in a floor!

I like the show as an alternative to American Idol and the like, just wish they would spend more time on the "doing".

I did recognize "Memory Lane" auto yard. That place is awesome. But the value of the Super Muscle car is just about worth the parts they put into it, no big surprise there.

At least they "rescue" a real car. I still feel sorry for the 1st one, his daughter's Chevelle. How much work did she do prepping it BEFORE Barry decided to use it, or was it California clean?

I've never figured out why, if the cars are selling for 20K over what he has in them, he just doesn't go to the second low bidder and make a deal to do another one for his last bid. It would be a deal because they save the bidders premium. But on other hand might get him banned from auctions too. Arnell has said that he thinks the cars are worth more than they sell for at the auctions. Watch for them to start showing up with higher reserves in a couple of years.

Buy them at the "junior" auctions, truck them over to Barrett-Jackson ...... I see a trend here. Well at least its always the same 5 or 6 guys swapping the money around. I think Hawaiian shirts are necessary.

i saw the one on the 1st generation camaro, where he bought a shell to start with. interesting show and certainly a gorgeous car when they were done. some things that did bug me just a tad:

1) when he was negotiating for the shell, the guy wanted 7k. he says thats over his budget and counters with 6. the guy then counters with 6.5 as a compromise and he says "weeellllll i dont know that still stretches my budget, how about 6200" the seller accepts that and they close the deal.

what annoyed me about this part is that he proceeded to spend 45K on the shell. in the big scheme of things that 300 dollars was trivial, yet the entire project hinged on it. just doesnt make sense to me. not logical to pretend that 3 yards was a big deal when it wasnt.

2) at the auction there was an original camaro convertible that looked really nice, that brought around 20k plus change. to me i would have much preferred the original car. the "project" car eventually brought around 57k. now the 20k original camaro was a much much better investment because it will go up year after year, whereas the project car would depreciate after the inititial purchase for a while until it might begin to go up in value.

3) all of those type shows, this one included, pretended to be working against the clock. "ohhhh we have to meet this deadline!!! my God will we make it! doesnt this make this show so exciting because you want me to barely meet my deadline dont you?"

I like watching most all those car shows unless Gunsmoke, Leave it to Beaver, Bonanza, Green Acres or a good John Wayne movie is on.

No but seriously they are all sooo much better than most of the other junk on TV even with all the "meet the dead line and other drama".
(except for all the bleep bleeps on Codington's show)

I've been watching the TV show Wrecks to Riches and I have some comments/questions to share.

1) I root pretty hard for them to NOT to meet their price. Does this make me a bad person? :)

Hell no. I said almost that exact same sentence in the other post. Barry White reminds me of Boyd in some ways. And the subject of this show just further supports the fact that its just another way to drive up the cost of cars in our hobby with this buying for a profit bs.

I watch it along with several of the others. It seems that most of the guys don't have much passion for the cars. They must've when they started but now it's become a job. Fosse seems to love what he does. The thing about the "GTO" bugged the crap out of me. It's not a GTO, it's a clone !They made a big issue about the paint chip on the Mustang fender. Well it was bound to happen. Then they re-used the old wireing harness that they had removed from the car. I'd hate to pay big money for it and find that out. Still many of these cars were heading to the crusher.