"Squid" (squid)
12/04/2013 at 05:18 • Filed to: None
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"Squid" (squid)
12/04/2013 at 05:18 • Filed to: None | 1
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So I'm watching them work on that 67 GT350. I wonder if they realize that if they stop cutting corners and bitching about break in oil costing so much and cutting corners with cheap O'Reily's oil and a "what you call zinc" additive, they might actually save some money. It kind of upsets me that Aaron claims to be a "master mechanic" yet he allows these mistakes to happen. I would be embarrassed that this is shown to the world. Yes mistakes happen but usually it is with inexperienced builders or people who don't know better, like the kid who set his V8 Miata on fire while trying to start it up while it was hanging from a cherry picker. I guess I'm a weirdo, but I wouldn't buy a car that they have touched. The Gas Monkey name isn't worth much to me, I don't know but tearing apart a car completely and cheaping out on crap oil and then not replacing a wiring harness that has been hacked apart. It is just silly.
What say you Oppo, am I wrong in thinking this?
promoted by the color red
> Squid
12/04/2013 at 06:02 |
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I got sick when they cut up that unmolested Ford roaster to give it "stance" in the first episode.
rabidpenguin
> Squid
12/04/2013 at 07:23 |
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Thank goodness some one else has noticed this. They half ass almost every car they work on. For instance, I think they built a galaxy and to make the headers clear the steering shaft they used Clarkson's favorite tool instead of fixing it right.
And all the "side" cars he flips in a week? He makes sure they start and gives them a good wash and it is out the door.
William Byrd
> rabidpenguin
12/04/2013 at 07:53 |
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Aren't you jealous of that though? If you could make a living flipping "side" cars, wouldn't you? He buys low and sells high(er), makes sense to me.
xx45xx
> promoted by the color red
12/04/2013 at 07:56 |
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a roaster. god dang youre makin me hungry.
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William Byrd
> Squid
12/04/2013 at 08:33 |
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Meh, most shops probably wouldn't fair well having each and every decision and step they make shown on TV. I think they do as well as they can under deadlines generally speaking. I enjoy the show, watch regularly.
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rabidpenguin
> William Byrd
12/04/2013 at 09:03 |
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I understand it makes business sense, but he is passing off these off as high quality automobiles. Also, once you watch the show would you really want to buy from him?
Meatcoma
> rabidpenguin
12/04/2013 at 09:14 |
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That's what I want, a $20k car that someone pulled out of the woods where it sat for 10 years, vacuumed out, repainted, and only changed the fuel/filter because it quit on them. Nah I'll pass. I do however wonder how much work the new owners have to contend with after they are sold their quality cars.
greenagain
> Squid
12/04/2013 at 09:39 |
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Most ridiculous are the constant fake Tweets being posted by the show itself.
TurboSloth
> Squid
12/04/2013 at 09:56 |
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First and foremost, they're a business. They're going to cut corners to make profit. I hate that, but it is what it is. Also, they call Aaron a master mechanic, because they really can't go
"AND AARON, THE 2 BIT AMATEUR MECHANIC". I also love his beard.
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Squid
> TurboSloth
12/04/2013 at 11:41 |
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I understand that they are a business, but of the worst kind that people bitch about all the time, a shady used car dealer.
I find it an insult to technicians who actually do know that you can't avoid the cost of doing something correctly if you only want to do the job once. Also they point out in that show they are extremely unorganized and the same people don't put the parts back on that they took off the car in disassembly. If the profit margins were a whole lot smaller it could be forgivable but not when he is making $20,000 off a car.
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Squid
> TurboSloth
12/04/2013 at 11:42 |
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Oh and Aaron does have a pretty bitching beard. I will give that to him, just not the master mechanic title. . .
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Squid
> rabidpenguin
12/04/2013 at 11:45 |
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I would love to be able to flip cars like that, and I honestly think that some of those prices are staged. I also don't understand what some people will pay for a pig with some lip stick on. . .
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Squid
> William Byrd
12/04/2013 at 11:48 |
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True, but I guess the general public has no idea that what they are doing is not the correct way to work on cars. I would honestly be surprised if all the cars they tear apart end up being put together 100% correctly with no extra bolts and nuts, hell I'd be surprised if they got one put together 100% correctly.
They also have no idea how to run a shop so that it is efficient. it is just a piss poor quality shop and a prime example of the sleazy used car salesman.
Makoyouidiot
> Squid
12/04/2013 at 13:12 |
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As a purveyor of cheap O'Reilly oil I would like to point out that it works pretty well, although I wouldn't really use it in a GT 350.
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Squid
> Makoyouidiot
12/04/2013 at 15:06 |
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I don't doubt it is an adequate oil that meets or exceeds the API and SAE standards, but using it in a freshly rebuilt motor for break in is just not a smart idea. Why run the risk of guessing if the ZDDP additive was mixed in the oil enough for start up. Why risk the chance of damage to a car that "sold" for $90,000? Did that extra $72 really make a difference in the long run? It would have been a case that doing the damn job correctly the first time would have netted a larger profit margin. Really in the grand scheme of things, on a collector car that you are "restoring" you shouldn't charge top dollar for half ass work and bitch at your workers when shit is wrong with the car when it gets torn down.
If I ended up being the buy of that car I would feel cheated that there was a claimed light restoration and instead of taking care of the mickey moused wiring harness and replacing it they added more repairs to it and thus creating more potential failures with the wiring in the long run? Why do people expect to make a whole bunch of money by taking shortcuts? I honestly don't see that a business can have any sort of longevity using those practices and then advertising to the world that is how they operate.
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Squid
> promoted by the color red
12/04/2013 at 15:10 |
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When repro frames and bodies are cheap and in most cases better built than the originals there is no reason to take a nice '32 and turn it into another hotrod. . . But I can say if I ever got my hands on a nice '32 I would put all the Offenhauser parts on that flat head I could. Some of the stuff they do is plain stupid, but generally the really stupid shit they do ends up biting them in the ass.
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Squid
> Meatcoma
12/04/2013 at 15:12 |
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My question as well, I would like to know how well the cars hold up. It is pretty easy to make fresh paint look good on camera only to have it look like shit in person. Let alone I wonder how many NVH issues the vehicles they build have.