I agree to a point. the work with the basic tools, a buddy and a crappy garage...yup. Affordability for the average guy? bit of a stretch sometimes. They still get comped a fair amount of spendy parts that take the average guy quite a while to save for.
That being said, I signed up for MTOD the first month it was live and have had that subscription since. RK, RK garage, HRG and Engine Masters are my "gotta watch" shows. I was a little unsure when Tony Angelo left Motor Trend and Hot Rod Garage, but Alex Taylor as his replacement is "mint". Alex and Lucky crack me up, and she is a hell of a wrenc in her own right.
I peruse others, and will admit Roadworthy Rescues with Derek Bieri is decent, as is "Faster with Finnegan" even though Finnegan stepped away from that show to spend more time with his family. now it's "Faster with Cotten and Newbern" lol
That's not lost on me Rene, DF building a tunnel rammed big block for his 32 that makes over 1,000 hp N/A isn't avg guy stuff.
That's hard-core stuff. But remember these are hard core guys that do make a living with their hobby.
It's not a hobby, it's their profession.
Got to remember that SD was a freelance journalist, so they means putting out his own dough to write cars articles and getting paid once the article is bought.
Don't think for a second that DF And SD aren't getting company money to spend on parts.
They are. But they need to make content.
Spend money to make money.
RG wouldn't be worth watching every episode was a budget 300hp 350 small block.
It just wouldn't be.
The redeeming quality is that, this fact isn't lost on DF, he realizes he's in a very unique situation that he gets paid to play with his toys.
And that he's using company money to pay for parts.
He's very very selective on what he tells the camera about where parts come from.
He can be very open about him paying for parts with his dime. And he can be pretty quiet about it to.
That's 110% calculated.
In my opinion.
The fact that he's pretty open about it and he make it known that you don't need to be as extreme to have fun in this hobby. That is why it doesn't bother me. And why I think they still apply to to the avg guying building a 57 poncho.
