American Hot Rod

[tmadden]

I know I'm late to the party on this show. But there's alot of very unlikeable guys on this show. Especially Duane. Damn!!

[Ketzer]

I can't imagine trying to run a shop like that with all those ridiculous personalities. I get it was TV but not all that was acting. Most of those guys were awful. Work ethic, attitude, apptitude, the whole bit.


Jeff-

[DRJDVM's '69]

I've been watching those episodes again lately.....

Let's see..... Your shop foreman is a complete douchebag that belittles and treats everyone like ****.... You set ridiculous deadlines and get pissed when employees wont repeatedly cancel their personal lives and work ridiculous hours, nights, weekends and hollidays....

And you wonder why everyone has a bad attitude and quits?

I still like to watch it because I really love to watch craftsman build stuff.... The rest is garbage

[Blake Foster]

ask Mike Curtis what it was really like , he just laughs, and shakes his head.

[kennyd]

ask Mike Curtis what it was really like , he just laughs, and shakes his head.

i hear there is a shop in vancouver like that also ............

[rwhite692]

I never had really watched the show back when it had originally aired (2005 - 2007 or whatever).

Nowadays I happen to see it on Velocity, as re-runs, while I am at the gym

OMG, outside of the work done by a few of the skilled guys, a lot of the work they were letting out of that place was just some horrific stuff.

[strtcar]

I watch that show and I'm like man this industry sucks as much as mine does. Now I don't know if thats how it really is or not, but i venture to guess thats how some are. Maybe those with busy shops can comment.

Also while Duane is a dick most of the time i think you need somone like him in that role to get things done. Sometimes the right hand man to the owner of a high profile company needs to be that way to meet deadlines. Not saying everyone should be that way, i just think it one management approach that in his case works.

[GregWeld]

That show was Boyd's demise...



It's not worth watching -- the human interactions are despicable - the work performed was even worse... and NOBODY in the universe gaps a car by cutting the bondo!

Don't even get me started....


:rolleyes: