Texas Car Wars TV show

[Obsa]

Last night one of the shops bought a 63 Uni for 2000 at a junkyard auction. Put a slick Red and White paint job and as the old joke goes "then a miracle occurred" (unshown work was done). The end result was they sold the truck for 11,000. The show seems to be just a rehash of the Auction Hunters/Storage wars/Shipping wars formula. But the Uni did look "Slick"!

[rickairmedic]

Yep it also reminds me of that show done in a junkyard where they " restored " cars to sell for profit . The Uni Restoration looked to be mostly cosmetic and honestly if you looked close had alot left to do ( no headliner etc. ) . The part that also made me wonder was the truck had a tailgate at the beginning of the show and no tailgate at the end of the show . I will admit I was envious of that rust free Uni but wish they had done more to it than just make it shiny and run off with the money .



Rick

[Total Gearhead]

2 G's for a truck that you can't start? I can buy 3 drivers for that. But I guess they didn't have to deal with any rust issues...

[ICEMAN6166]

reality tv=
anything but real

did not ever watch this stuff before as we did not get it out in the sticks

travelling and staying in motels that had satellite tv recently i saw lots of unusual stuff.
IMO it just drives up the prices of junk and makes some sellers think their lead is gold.

[thenephilm]

The price of the resto seemed pretty unrealistic as well. $3500.00 for paint and bodywork seems real low given the condition that the truck was in.

[therealjoeshmoe]

anyone got a pic of that truck i missed the show!!!

[rickairmedic]

Joey the show will most likely rerun 3 or 4 times between now and next week so you should be able to catch it . They started with a pretty clean Texas " rust free truck " that had a little body damage on the drivers side rear but nothing to bad Lance has fixed worse .


Rick

[LM14]

I am always amazed on these shows that they mess with it for 5 minutes and it starts! Then they drive off like it's "all good". My guess is if you want to flip a pretty much ruse free unibody, you slap a couple cans of bondo, shoot some cheap enamel and buff it. New cheapo tires and cheap shiny wheels make for eye candy. Same formula as the guys in the desert junk yard. 1 week restorations?

It was far from "restored", and far from done.

I get so mad watching that crap that I can't wait to see what they are going to do next week!

SPark

[Truckrat]

Sounds like that show "Fast and Loud" which comes from Dallas. TR