Rant: Horsepower/muscle car tv shows

Horsepower TV's guys about make me sick, I remember the 69-69 Cuda they worked on...much as I like smallblocks, I sure as hell wouldn't buy a car already cut up for fenderwell headers with a 440 in it, yank that to put a fairly moderate smallblock back in .
Joe whathisname then takes what loked to be a perfectly good black Holley style regulator and fuel system off, only to replace it with a shiny chrome piece that was otherwise identical! I wish I could have their castoff parts...
I also think it's odd that the younger new guy came on about the same time they built anything serious, and he's the only one driving the fast stuff....and Chuck was just a dork, period.
I watched that new show that looks like a re-hash of Boyd Coddington's show, they spent more time talking about the personality clashes than they did about what was actually done to that near mint 67 Cuda. They make a custom dash that looked like they stole it out of a 77 Trans-Am, and the end result of the car just wasn't that great. They blacked out so much of the trim it looked like they forgot to put the grille back in! They even destroyed the Formula S only wood door trim..
I sure as hell wouldn't take a car I cared about to that place, legends in residence or not.
GearZ commands a hell of a lot more respect from me with Stacey David at the helm. That man builds some serious stuff, and his joikes are actually funny...
And for pure fun it's hard to beat Top Gear, even if they do crack on American cars a bit too much. WTF, they're English...
The Stig would wipe up the track with Horsepowers' crew, that's for sure...

Don't get me started on Pinks either.....

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