Yet another car show

**sixt9rsx33** · #1 02-15-2014, 01:04 PM

So I was watching this show that I had yet to see, "Car Fix". Two guys that appear to more dangerous than knowledgable. They take a perfectly good 71 Camaro with a mint body and proceed to chop it to pieces with BS modifications. Granted the car was a 307 automatic, but the body was mint. They pulled up the carpet and the original red oxide floors were in place. The oem sound deadening the original carpet etc. Under the hood the original radiator sticker was still on the radiator cover, original master cylinder, brake booster etc. I wish these "auto restorers" would take rust buckets and hack them up not great original cars.

69VN · #2 02-15-2014, 01:26 PM

Yeah, I know what you mean. These people are butchers. Really no need to take what seems to be a solid original car and modify the crap out of it. Probably worth more just left alone as a true survivor.

SAL

bigjake · #3 02-15-2014, 04:49 PM

I couldn't believe he was operating the cutting tools with SHORTS ON!!!! They could have hacked up a junk yard car with all the mods they did.

**Dave Rifkin** · #4 02-15-2014, 06:33 PM

I watch the show quite often and they are not "butchers" as you've called them. Are they treating the car as you might want them to; maybe not but, not everyone has the same vision for their cars.
The guy doing the work is Jared Zimmerman and I am almost certain that he used to work for Troy Trepanier. Lou Santiago is also not a hack and knows his stuff; I think we just need to realize that not everyone wants a cookie cutter Camaro. Sure they are modifying a nice clean car but, isn't that something everyone would prefer to start off with? I mean come on; it's not like they're modifying a Z28 or L78 SS for God's sake.

**Bill Rose** · #5 02-15-2014, 06:55 PM

It's no different than what I did to the Nova. I set out to buy a 69 Nova, with a good body, with no rust, then I made a cool hot rod out of it. It was a 32,000 6cyl/power glide/10 bolt. Now it's a big block/M22/Moser 12 bolt, and way more fun. The Camaro in the show is a basic 307 auto, with a nice rust free body too. I have the numbers matching trailer queens too, and they are a blast to own, but I find nothing wrong with hot rodding an old 307 Camaro. Different strokes............

ds1 · #6 02-15-2014, 09:06 PM

We are going to put a 66 hemi in a 70 Cuda 340 4 speed ralley cluster car. Mopar guys are going nuts over that. It is going into something. What should we put it in? Certainly not a Duster. We had a 6 cylinder a/c 3 speed stick 70 Barracuda. It was way more rare than the 340 car but that did not make it worth more. I may not always agree with what someone has done to there car but that is individuality. These shows are to inspire people to not just settle for normal. Jared is a very talented person. Every car I build I get better and my skills are broader. These shows are to illustrate what can be done. I rarely like any car Foose does on Overhaulin, but I respect his talent and sincerity. So I will not pick his cars apart.

**sixt9rsx33** · #7 02-16-2014, 02:37 AM

These guys hosting the show were not changing drive trains from a low HP car and putting in big HP drivetrains. I believe most agree do this if this is your preference. The unfortunate practice IMHO, is to take a perfectly good body car and take a cutting wheel to it make body mods. If cutting up a car is your thing why not do this to a car that needs new panels? Not a car that is in perfectly good shape where one could put a L78 or LS3 in it provided it was a 6 cylinder or low HP car.

TMagda · #8 02-16-2014, 02:40 AM

I watch a lot of these show and always held Lou Santiago in the highest regard. He really, really knows his stuff.

**x77-69z28** · #9 02-16-2014, 04:50 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sixt9rsx33</div><div class="ubbcode-body">These guys hosting the show were not changing drive trains from a low HP car and putting in big HP drivetrains. I believe most agree do this if this is your preference. The unfortunate practice IMHO, is to take a perfectly good body car and take a cutting wheel to it make body mods. If cutting up a car is your thing why not do this to a car that needs new panels? Not a car that is in perfectly good shape where one could put a L78 or LS3 in it provided it was a 6 cylinder or low HP car. </div></div>
Because they can! The show provides them with the car, the tools, the parts, everything. You have to admit, it is a lot easier to work on a rust free car than a bucket! The car needed quarters, and a rear valance. It was a 307 grocery getter, they will make a wicked resto-mod out of it. I like it.

**DW31S** · #10 02-16-2014, 03:15 PM

I think I have to agree with the "Bill Rose" philosophy on this one. I don't know of the specific show or car in question, but using a good-rust-free 307 powered Camaro body to build a moder day hot-rod can't be such a bad thing. Other than a re-body for a '71 Z/28 or a '71 SS, that car got a new lease on life. Had it been something more desirable my opinion might differ.