Fantom Works - Discovery channel

rizzodun

Just wondering if anyone has been watching this show. It follows the day to day running of DRS Fantomworks, a classic car restoration company.

I quite like some of the builds but just watched one tonight where they restored a 1968 Chevy Impala convertable from a rolling shell to full car.

Final bill for the work was $97,000!

In fairness it needed a lot of work, but the owner provided some parts including engine & gearbox. I did a quick check on ebay and although it's only a rough figure, there's not one going for more than 20k, I can't see the fully restored model on the show being worth anything remotely close to the price paid to restore. I know you'll never make your money back on a restoration normally but paying maybe more than twice or three times the final value of the car in restoration seems crazy.

Notch000

i only saw one episode where they we charging some kids insurance 8.5 K to fix the wing, bonet & suspension of a clasic beatle, which as everyone know are made of mechano.

they also charged another lad 5K for doing up his TR6 where they basically just moped his paint work and retimed the interior.

Main point of the show was around meetings where they discussed time allocated V cost of each job.

Realty TV, would watch Loud and Fast all day every day before another episode of this dung

Tzar Chasm

97k was lunacy for that car and over 5 months, gas munkey would have completed the whole thing for pennies and done it in a fortnight, to much the same standard, I didn't see them do anything fancy with the car.

also yellow wheels on the chevy, he even compared it to a john deere, seriously, you think a customer actually wants his classic to look like a tractor

Do-more

Tzar Chasm wrote: »

97k was lunacy for that car and over 5 months, gas munkey would have completed the whole thing for pennies and done it in a fortnight, to much the same standard, I didn't see them do anything fancy with the car.

also yellow wheels on the chevy, he even compared it to a john deere, seriously, you think a customer actually wants his classic to look like a tractor

Fast 'n Loud could just as well be called "Wheeler dealers US" it's normally the same formula of take it in, tart it up and shoot it out the door. They are not generally what can be classed as restorations, which I take to mean restoring a car to new or better than new condition, enjoyable TV but I don't think you would want to buy one.

Tzar Chasm

yeah, wheeler dealers US is a good description, but that's not a bad thing edd/aaron clearly know their stuff, and the bits that get fixed are the bits that need fixing,

gas monkey in particular do put in a lot of structural work on the cars.

Max Headroom

Getting tired of these scripted "reality" shows now....typical yank thing to take a good idea and turn it into crap.........F n L was good but then they got loads of money and now its all about spending money and larking about......remember Top Gear when it started..??..it was all about cars....

Example...Fantom Works...i'd like to see a whole programme on that kid that does the metalwork...genius..

rizzodun

Max Headroom wrote: »

Getting tired of these scripted "reality" shows now....typical yank thing to take a good idea and turn it into crap.........F n L was good but then they got loads of money and now its all about spending money and larking about......remember Top Gear when it started..??..it was all about cars....

Example...Fantom Works...i'd like to see a whole programme on that kid that does the metalwork...genius..

I like Fast N Loud, taken at face value its not too bad, and the cars a finished well, even if not mirroring how it came out of the factory.

As for that kid on Fantom Works, he'd probably charge you 5k to pull out a dent!

liam7831

I used to love discovery but all these stupid gold shows, & car shows and storage wars, and ice road truckers. Everyone one of them more scripted than the next

Max Headroom

The only good thing (for the moment) with WD, is you still get to see Edd doing some work on the cars, i've picked up a few tips anyways....

homingbird

The program is ok watchable it will probable get better as this is only season 1
http://www.alluc.to/tv-shows/watch-fantomworks-2013-online/514531.html