"Graveyard Carz"...any fans here?

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I don’t care for Mark’s *** hat antics on the show either but enjoy the rest of the car stories and restoration.

I’ll also add that I met Mark, Alyssa, and Will at SEMA in November 2019 and all were very pleasant.
 
i think his antics are sometimes for those that are not car enthusiasts...it's just entertainment.But they know their stuff and restore gorgeous cars.I like the show.
 
barbee6043 said:
Just how nay people will spend $80-100,000 on any A body build. I bet that is bout what it cots??? Dunno Except a '68 Hemi superstocker??
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That's right. It'll cost almost exactly as much to restore an A-body as it will any other Mopar that starts out in a similar condition. Labor is labor, and that's where a huge part of the cost comes from. Put $100K into a '70 340 Dart, or $100K into a '70 440 'cuda? Everyone knows which one will be worth a lot more when it's done.
 
Remember, Mark has a good buddy Ron Jenkins from Magnum Force JUNK. And he uses Jamie Passon for all of his 4 speed stuff. Two big strikes against him.
 
lemondana said:
Remember, Mark has a good buddy Ron Jenkins from Magnum Force JUNK. And he uses Jamie Passon for all of his 4 speed stuff. Two big strikes against him.
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I agree about the Magnum Force stuff, but I've never heard a bad word about Jamie? He's always bent over backwards to help me with 4 speed stuff. Just wondering what I missed?
 
JDMopar said:
I agree about the Magnum Force stuff, but I've never heard a bad word about Jamie? He's always bent over backwards to help me with 4 speed stuff. Just wondering what I missed?
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His 5 spd stuff has had issues, his customer service is non-existent.
 
Look on here for the 855 5 speed post by matthon, 13 pages. You be the judge.
JDMopar said:
I agree about the Magnum Force stuff, but I've never heard a bad word about Jamie? He's always bent over backwards to help me with 4 speed stuff. Just wondering what I missed?
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Well, I look at it this way; any Mopar resto show, bad actors or not, is a good thing. It introduces a whole new generation of people to the classic musclecars of my youth, and in turn drives up the prices and desirability of our classic cars. 5 years ago my 31 year old youngest son didn't give rat's *** about Mopars. Now he's gained a very keen interest in them.
 
I don't watch the tv show, but enjoy the 5 min youtube clips where he shows off a car pre-resto and some after resto.
 
I like the show a lot. Yes I do fast forward through some of the cartoon crap but I mean it's a show about Mopars. Enough said.
 
I also find it enlightening that it takes the GYC crew (numerous and talented as they are) years sometimes, to power through a resto. Little wonder why it can take us decades! (well, it sounds like a valid excuse, anyway! We'll roll with it...) :lol:

I'm sorry, but I can't for the life of me wrap my head around dropping off a project car, waiting 3-4 years, then writing a check for $80-100 grand. Who has that kind of disposable income?
 
The show has gotten more informative and Worman has toned down his schtick just a bit for the better.

Having spent four years (68-72) at Mopar dealers as a line mechanic I have caught a couple errors Worman has made when spewing his knowledge. Nothing big... just made me smile.
 
Mopar show or not, I wouldn't let those monkeys change the oil in any of my cars... Yes I know that some of the workerbees are good but I still couldn't do it.
 
Something interesting that Mark has mentioned several times; he says he does not normally do A-bodies (unless requested by a customer) due to the fact that restored value is just "not there" in comparison to an E-body. A little research seems to to agree with this basic premise; restored B and E body cars are bringing in well into the six figure range, while even the finest original A body resto might bring you as much as 40k...but only if it's a perfect numbers-matching concours resto...verage value of a nicely done A-body resto is generally only around 20k. Any particular reason for this? The A-body musclecars were some of the greatest sleepers ever built.
 
^^^^ A bodies,in general, were the economy model, the value car.
The 340 cars never developed the same status as a Roadrunner, Super Bee, Charger/
The big block A bodies were never really pushed by the factory and the A body Hemi SS were off the line hand built strickly for racing.
 
Captainkirk said:
Something interesting that Mark has mentioned several times; he says he does not normally do A-bodies (unless requested by a customer) due to the fact that restored value is just "not there" in comparison to an E-body. A little research seems to to agree with this basic premise; restored B and E body cars are bringing in well into the six figure range, while even the finest original A body resto might bring you as much as 40k...but only if it's a perfect numbers-matching concours resto...verage value of a nicely done A-body resto is generally only around 20k. Any particular reason for this? The A-body musclecars were some of the greatest sleepers ever built.
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Yeah because almost no A-body was ever considered a "muscle car" (irregardless of performance). To most people a Mopar muscle car is a Road Runner, 'cuda, Challenger, Super Bee, Charger... That's just how it is. The GM guys have the same problem with the V8 Novas and such. "No respect", as Rodney Dangerfield put it.
 
I watch it and enjoy it, better than 90 percent of the rest of TV. IMO.
Just not enough A's for me, I am waiting on the Barracuda and the GTS Convert to come on.
And looking at his shop, equipment, backlog and parts cars, he is doing quite well.
 
Hyper_pak said:
I watch it and enjoy it, better than 90 percent of the rest of TV. IMO.
Just not enough A's for me, I am waiting on the Barracuda and the GTS Convert to come on.
And looking at his shop, equipment, backlog and parts cars, he is doing quite well.
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Yeah, having a 100+ build backlog on the lot can't hurt business. He seems to have a pretty good core team at this point in time, but seems like a good time (pandemic and all) to find and train additional team members. His crew appears to be spread way too thin. In reality, they ought to be able to flip a typical resto in under a year. I would never take a car to somewhere that I know it might be 3.5-4 years before I get it back, even if I had the money (which I don't). Mark is pushing sixty...do the math.

If you figure he's getting 100k per car, he should be able to kick one out the door every month...that's a good, solid business.
 
I agree with most of the comments here . Mark is a f***ing asshat but the craftsmanship is outstanding . I will always advocate fro raising the bar of professionalism . Not lowering it . Reminds me of Jesse JAmes , Paul Tuetil and the like . Great craftsman , terrible people . I had to turn off Graveyard because of the stupid drama .
 
It ain't Mark's fault... his mother dropped him on his head when a baby.. That's where his strange sense of humor arose from maybe!!! ha
TV in general, is just mindless entertainment.
 
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