Hot Rod Garage Presents
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Been putting hot small blocks in those thing a few years after they came out. So what new. A truck vortec with a comp 282 hyd. roller cam and a 3.73 gear will get you in the mid 12s easy.
I miss Tony on that show as well. With him and Lucky the show never felt scripted. Where it seems much more scripted with Alex. I believe she has real skills, but I don't like how the show has turned into a plot of us 'making sure' that we see that - my opinion.
Again this is my opinion, but the show is about showing how to do what you described above in an entertaining environment. Everything has been done before, imagine if they were trying things that didn't succeed, who would watch episode after episode of that content - they could call the show 'Watch Us Fail At The Hot Rod Garage' haha. I kinda like that everything they do doesn't turn out perfect on the 1st attempt and they continue to work on it in later episodes, i.e. the Grand National. I think it shows that building a fast car isn't as easy as some would have us believe. And building a 12 second street car takes more than a cam, gears and headers. And FWIW, a 12 second true street car is fast, despite the internet lore of everything needs 4 digit power.
I know that many don't care for Happel and his 'Sloppy' builds, but watching him from the early years learn as he went along was entertaining, and has led to the 'Don't BS Me' build recipe. If one was to only watch his Don't BS Me videos one could think that development of his 'recipe' was something extremely simple, easy and obvious - it was so obvious that it took him about 8 years to come up with it haha.
ck80 Curmudgeon fits - well done Texas82GP !
In MT's collective bean counter eyes nobody wants to watch real out comes, just the perfect out comes with little to no showing of the work (good or bad) that get to that. Think back to why Ed China left Wheeler Dealers when MT put their ideas in how the show was to be done.
That's another good example of someone I miss a lot but don't mind his replacement even though it wasn't what I enjoyed about the show but isn't a deal breaker.
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