Any bike worth test riding usually needs the asking price in cash to ride...

Basically need a collateral of what the bike is worth.

Oh no, this format [while tweaked] is still used. Gas Monkey garage is basically the same as these older shows but with worker skirmishes diminished.

The most interesting thing I’ve found is that the late Boyd Coddington (American Hotrod) and Chip Foose had a huge falling out after Boyd declared bankruptcy and basically forced Chips hand into survival (Chip apparently never received his last paycheck from Boyd). They were just barely on speaking terms at the date…

Perhaps it was inevitable then, camera or not.

It’s a legitimate inquiry. My belief is that a lot of those bikes are basically show pieces, like artwork (our sports team has a done up team chopper that just sits in the mall). So I don’t think too many miles were put on them. I would be interested to know if any customer is or was blasting one regularly around. The…

“I bought a crack’in motor ey Edd?

Oh trust me, I’m there!

Oh it’s a viewership platinum formula, which is why shows continue to revel in likeness. I’d rather watch B is for Build and skip Richard Rawlings humming and hawing about how he spent too much on his flip or when his car doesn’t meet reserve.

The British have a way of toning it down to a lively but acceptable level, these shows were just boisterous and garish. It’s assaulting and insulting at the same time... I didn’t mind watching the builds, but the soap opera yip yap and tomfoolery ‘for the LOLZ’ was and is garbage TV.

It’s very difficult to say if this would have happened if they hadn’t had a camera planted on them at work and that the show in general is what caused the choices of Paul Jr. and this outcome.

Hahahaha. Oh you slay me!

American Hotrod was basically the same except with cars. Man those were some dark days. Back when one could pop on to YouTube to watch Top Gear right after it aired...

Everything wrong with vehicle shows.

Yay, were back! I had a feeling the auto-show was the culprit, which I why I held my tongue...

He had gotten rid of it before I met him. I think he was on it pretty good usually and it remembering him telling me it crapped out 3 or 4 times before he got rid of it. It was a cheap import from what I gather and wasn’t fast with the 2.0L. He’s also very mechanically inclined, so its break downs weren’t some charge…

This makes a good argument for Autopilot like systems to not be in the cars.

I have a saying at work when equipment goes wary: “We have to be smarter than the machine”.

My buddy had imported a MKIII with the 1G and it (the engine) was nothing but problems surprisingly. Dunno if it was lemon but it made the 7M an angel comparatively.