Season 3 – Car Masters: Rust to Riches

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Chris W @RT75651138 01/11/2025 Baffled this show keeps getting the airtime. If it wasn't for Tony, Constance and Caveman building the spider web cars, it would be a full on soap opera. See more Kenneth O @RT90140531 01/05/2024 Entertaining and encouraging to see how determination can make you a winner. Also, sticking to your dreams and having like minds follow you on that journey. Great combination of characters, each bringing their own values to the table. Fantastic show, love every bit of it. See more pedemel p @RT26769058 09/07/2023 Why do they have two garages? Travel time and gas is ridiculous - not to mention rent on both locations. Shawn spends most of his time on the phone with potential customers and seems to know what they want - seems to know what will and will not sell. Does Mark listen? No! Perhaps that's part of the plot - but they could waste much less time and money building cars that Shawn knows will sell. For Season I am wondering how the Brit and his two fabricators are going to get along with Mr. Sunshine Mark and the 2 year old Caveman. See more 07/29/2022 I like the premise, and it's less annoying than most "reality" shows, but this show is faker than a three dollar bill. If they took the money they claimed they were getting for the cars as shown on the show, they would have been sued out of existence long ago. Some of these cars aren't even amateur quality builds (comparing them to multiple scratch-built cars I've seen from people who had zero prior experience). Case in point, the alleged Delahaye replica where the only thing that looked remotely like a Delahaye was the paint color. They cut up two sets of generic 1932 Ford fenders and slapped them back together in roughly a decent shape and fiberglassed over the rivets. It creates a discontinuous curve with a hump at the fender to running board transition. The skirts don't meet up with the fenders at the bottom, front or back. The windshield is at the wrong angle which leaves a half inch gap between the frame and the body in the corners. The body line isn't continued onto the engine covers, they used late 30s / early 40s headlights in a car meant to represent an early 1930s car, and the headlights neither point forward nor sit flush in the fenders. The door isn't flush with the body. Beyond that, the grill, the exposed rivets, the exhaust, the leather straps, and pretty much everything else they did to the car was all wrong aside from stretching the wheelbase. And that was allegedly done for a photographer with an eye for detail? And they supposedly got paid $60K for that work? Not a chance. Then there's the alleged concept car that isn't a concept car. They ripped off the Peugeot 4002 (which wasn't even a concept car) in the sketches, which is definitely a mid-engine, cab-forward car. Then they decided the perfect starting point for that was a 1993 front-engine Corvette? What they built had nothing to do with the sketches that this guy had allegedly been working on for 20 years. Regardless, they rebodied a 1993 Corvette and tried to compare it to a Bugatti and claimed it was worth $250K. Nope, even rebodied Corvettes with racing history don't bring that much. And since they were trying to make this front-engine car look remotely like the sketches they showed, if you squint hard enough, they set the windshield base at the front of the engine block. You can't even check the oil on that car, much less change the oil or do any other engine work, without removing the entire body. And that motorcycle, like everything else they do, doesn't have rolled edges on any of their custom body panels. That means the edges are sharp and shouldn't be handled without gloves, regardless of if the panel is fiberglass or metal (but seriously, they wouldn't take the time to make that stuff out of metal when the quality is so bad). They also claimed that the bus was worth $15K as they received it and claimed to have put in only $5K for a total cost of $20K. But they did a full chassis swap, put in a new or freshly rebuilt Chevy 454, then added the supercharger and all the engine bling, new glass, new seats, new rims and tires, and all the missing trim. Pretty much the only thing they kept was the body shell, and that needed work, so there's no way that only cost them $5K. The engine alone could have run twice that. The short of it is that any time they mention a price, you can be certain it's completely made up numbers. At least most of their sales aren't actual sales (they even ended up with one of their season 2 creations sitting outside their shop after it had allegedly been delivered to the buyer). The quality isn't even good enough to look decent from a distance because they cut every corner they think they can get away with knowing that they can be creative with camera angles and lighting on TV. Most of these creations clearly aren't meant to actually be used. It's sad that they destroy so many decent cars for the sake of rushing a TV show. And I wonder what it's like to sell out like that and ruin your own reputation within the classic car community by going on TV to say that this garbage is of the highest quality. See more 01/25/2022 These guys are just incredibly bad. Season three was probably the worst. That '33 to what ever that thing was, was just embarrassing. If that were my car, I'd seriously just torch it and not tell anyone I was involved. The "fit and finish" was beyond amateurish. I can't believe the owner didn't sue them for what they did to that thing. You could drive cars through the gaps and none of the body "contours" resolved in anything that approached what you'd hope to see. The '33 body line just below the top of the door trim simply stopped because they apparently didn't think they needed it to continue! Plus, because they simply don't have an eye for design, they added RIDICULOUS little "swirly-ques" of metal on the "skirts" and other places. It was a rolling joke. Anyone ever see Chip Foose or Troy Trepanier SLAP their own gigantic LOGO on the side of a customer car? No? Me neither and for GOOD REASON. The windshield was set at SOOOOO the wrong angle! It needed to mimic the grill angle. The "insert" for the grill was SAD, again HUGE gaps. I can't believe ANYONE would spend big dollars at a shop like this. Granted the "big boys" get really serious cash for their work but if you can't afford them and can't do the work yourself best to just leave it alone! See more 09/01/2021 As far as reality shows go the cast is okay I really I don't find any of them overly appealing or annoying they're just kind of there, occasionally though they do get me to crack a smile. What I'm more interested in is the cars and maybe I've been spoiled by other car shows but the quality of the work that they do just seems very poor and lacking polish (I'm constantly seeing flaws in paint and trim) Some of their creative ideas I like some I I think are ridiculous. I'm okay with going over the top. I did enjoy the Woody build although I wonder if the engine wouldn't rip itself right off the frame if you actually stomped on the gas pedal. In the end I find it hard to believe people are shelling out the money that they are, for some of the cars they produce. See more Read all reviews

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