It curious that shows like that are so popular, along with Avoid the Boyd Coddington and Barret Jackson Auctions. There must be a large group of guys that are tired of the computer and lust for some real machinery, but they just are too scared to disobey their girlfriends so after they are done cleaning the tiolet they watch shows like that. I'm sick of working on crap so I don't watch those shows a whole lot.
I have a 55 Buick and every time we take that car out we get swamped, you'd think people have never seen a 50's car before. We took it to breakfast a few days ago and then shopping and I had one old dude tell me what a nice old Chevy it was. I told him it was a Buick (it says so on the hood

) and he told me I was wrong and that he knows his Chevys. While this fascinating conversation was going on more and more people came over to check the car out, I had a one car car show going on. One old girl told my wife she got popped in the back seat of one those for the first time... I told my wife that it might of been this car, there IS a stain back there.
I guess my point is that today's mechanical offerings are so bland and soulless people are starved for something made from metal. If you live in an apartment in a big city it would be hard and expensive to have "toys", hence these TV shows as an outlet.
Look at this post... I must have the "Flip" syndrome...
