Yet another car show

[Jack_Tar]

I make a habit of Not watching these shows. A few, very few are somewhat realistic, but that may be by accident. The producers of the shows have endless budgets and foot the bill for most of this stuff. More than that, they are the ones behind the scenes causing all of the hate and discontent between the shop crew. Add to that the misconceptions that it creates in the general public as to how this industry really works.
I had one of these producers call me a few months ago to ask about putting my shop on one of these shows. They were actually looking for a boat restorer to do a show on and had seen our video on youtube of the 1950 Chris Craft the we did a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cGSChFzKyY Anyway, they asked about our shop and how the crew gets along and do we ever go out or get together after work. I could tell from the way she was asking the questions, she was trying to steer me to see if we had a bunch or drama in the shop. When I told her point blank that we do get together from time to time, but we don't have a bunch of drama and that I don't put up with that in my shop. I told her that it is not what my customers are paying for and that atmosphere breeds poor quality, she quickly ended the conversation and said that our shop was not what they were looking for.
As for me, I love to watch Overhaulin, but fast forward through the pranks. I want to see the build and what goes into it. Even that show distorts the industry to the general public. I have seriously had people call me and ask if I could restore their car in a week and were disappointed when I told them it was impossible without a crew of 30 people and a limitless budget. I can put everybody in the shop on one project and bring in a couple of other people that I trust and we can get it done fairly quickly, but get ready to dig deep. It is not going to be cheap.