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| | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 45 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 45 | I'd just seen a listing for Spike TV this weekend , they are suposed to install a must.II crossmember on a '49 = finally something on tv worth watching ! Also , seen a new Tim McGraw video "Southern Voice" has a couple shots of Tim driving a neat old stovebolt . | | | | | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | What show is it?????????? | | | | | Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 104 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 104 | Trucks TV on Spike at 11:00 AM | | | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 45 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 45 | OOOpps , sorry , I forgot that part , Trucks ! | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 | Just saw the show on East Coast. Nice weld-it-up-yourself front end.
Drew
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 69 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 69 | its a pretty good show. we bought our 1952 truck 3 days befor they aired the episode with them introducing their 1949. i laughed hard.
2000 Nissan Frontier, 3.3L (sold)
2006 Chevy Cobalt SS, 2.4L
1952 Chevy 1/2 pickup, 235 c.i. I6
when life speeds up, downshift
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 | That is the second episode. In the first, they drove it down the road and made horrible, disrepectful jokes about the old girl! Then they identified the motor as an original 216, which was clearly a newer 235 replacement. In the second episode they corrected the description saying the numbers pointed to a 1956 235. It sounds like they may rebuild it and use it. That would be good to see and also it will be interesting to see what they do for the carburetor setup. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 829 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 829 | Here are links to both episodes online.. 1st episode 2nd episode Enjoy! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 | Wow, I didn't know that these were online. Thanks for the link! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 829 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 829 | My wife and I both didn't like the way they talked about the truck in the first episode either. They came across as cocky and misinformed. The second one was quite informative on the MII front suspension install, though. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 69 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 69 | well you have to consider that the hosts of the show are in their 20's. and i have watched that show for years. They commonly do modern things like jeeps and diesels and drag trucks. so this is a totally new thing for them. and what they usually worked with probably made them view this truck as inferior.
2000 Nissan Frontier, 3.3L (sold)
2006 Chevy Cobalt SS, 2.4L
1952 Chevy 1/2 pickup, 235 c.i. I6
when life speeds up, downshift
| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | Something else to consider, and this isn't a slam on the guy, Kevin Tetz is more of a body and paint guy, and he's actually very good at it. He's the one that did the body and paint work on Copperhead, the '67 Chevy that Stacey David built when he was the host of the show.
Bill Burmeister
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 5,152 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 5,152 | I was a little annoyed at some of what they said in the first episode too, but I wrote it off to a couple of kids who are learning about old trucks, not to a permament problem.
And what are they doing? They are building a mild hot rod I'd probably enjoy owning, so its not all bad.
1955 1st GMC Suburban | 1954 GMC 250 trailer puller project | 1954 GMC 250 Hydra-Matic | 1954 Chevy 3100 . 1947 Chevy COE | and more...
It's true. I really don't do anything but browse the Internet looking for trouble... | | | | | Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 431 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 431 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 829 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 829 | ...and now we have the 3rd episode | | |
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