Chasing Classic Cars gets Hershey...

WTSHNN

WTSHNN

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Anybody catch tonight's episode of Chasing Classic Cars on Velocity network?

In the episode, Wayne Carini brings a '31 V12 Cadillac to the RM Hershey auction. They do a nearly five minute bit about Hershey and I have to say, they pretty much nailed it. The camera follows Wayne as he wanders the fields looking for parts and does a decent job of pointing out the size of the meet.

The show highlights the human aspect of the hobby like nothing else that I have seen on TV. Wayne comments that his first Hershey was in '57 with his dad and they even show pictures to prove it. His father, Bob, is a well known restorer of cars, specifically Model A's. In this episode most of the pictures of young Wayne are him in front of Model A's, including a picture of a 400A (with the top down, which is the rarest kind!).

Anyways, if you get the channel, check it out, a reality show without BS.

-Tim
 
It is the best "Collector Car" show on TV, shot with one camera guy and one assistant and Wayne. I've meet him and he is the same guy you see on TV, nice guy with a great working knowledge of our hobby. Sadly we are only an hour away from eachother but the TV channel isn't available to me. If he could somehow sell tapes of each season I'd buy them, so would a lot of other people. Bob
 
Wayne hosts an open house and coffee and donuts at his F40 motorsports facility each first saturday of the month. A nice mix of cars shows up each month. He is there to chat with people while they check out the showroom full of very expensive exotic cars. This saturday I am bringing my MGBV8. My father was friends with his father. He is fortunate to still have his father with him, mine died 31 years ago. They both were really into model A fords at the time. Bob's signature on a restored model A ford was a silver stripe on the sidewall of the tires.
 
WTSHNN said:
Anybody catch tonight's episode of Chasing Classic Cars on Velocity network?

In the episode, Wayne Carini brings a '31 V12 Cadillac to the RM Hershey auction. They do a nearly five minute bit about Hershey and I have to say, they pretty much nailed it. The camera follows Wayne as he wanders the fields looking for parts and does a decent job of pointing out the size of the meet.

The show highlights the human aspect of the hobby like nothing else that I have seen on TV. Wayne comments that his first Hershey was in '57 with his dad and they even show pictures to prove it. His father, Bob, is a well known restorer of cars, specifically Model A's. In this episode most of the pictures of young Wayne are him in front of Model A's, including a picture of a 400A (with the top down, which is the rarest kind!).

Anyways, if you get the channel, check it out, a reality show without BS.

-Tim
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I actually watched them filming him in Howard Sharpe's swap space at Hershey last Fall. While I was not there for the initial part of the shoot, it did appear that they "planted" an item that was 'discovered' on the table. I guess it is the "realist" (perfectionist) in me that thinks it is totally stupid for them to walk up to someone (--or knock on the door) and that person answers acting so surprised as if they had no idea they would be there ....yet that person acting all surprised has a wireless microphone attached to them!! Call it what you want, ...but in my view it is deception. If they are deceptive about that, what else are they deceptive about??

Ohh, and while I am on a roll,:rolleyes: ...have you watched any of those American Restoration shows? These people show up with bizarre items, and Rick acts all surprised and then proceeds to tell them all about the history on when & how their item was made, and stats like how many were made. Yeah Right!!:p Then after looking at it for less than one minute Rick throws these pie-in-the-sky $$ amount quotes out and says "well it will take about 4 hours to disassemble, and about a day to do the paint & bodywork, and another 8 hours to assemble". "Mr. 'Customer', it is gonna be $6500.00 to restore that." "Well Rick, this has been in our family for 35 years and I think that is a great price and I know you will do a good job!" Jeez, ...$6,500.00 for 20 hours of work is a great price?? :eek: Really???

At least when I was a kid and watched the TV show called Fantasy Island, ...folks that watched it knew it wasn't true. I think these reality TV shows should be required by law to display one of those Disclaimers at the beginning of the show saying 'This program is just for entertainment purposes only and all content is purely bullsh%# and is not real.' Those infomercials all must do that telling these are paid actors and the stories are simulated. Even fictional movies must tell at the end that the show is fictional and any resemblance to being factual is purely coincidental. Oh well, back to "reality" ................ :D


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I get the Velocity channel and would like to watch some of the good stuff that they have on. The problem is it doesn't show up on the guide. by the time that I see mention here of a model A related show on the channel, it is over.
 
Boy, they are getting disgustingly transparent. I supposed they have to phoney it up to hold the attention of the masses. How about the Wheeler Dealers that buy a worn junker and rebuild it in high speed video then make about $500 profit and don't count labor then figure they are winners.
 
You "everything negative" guys must LOVE the news with war, election, fuel prices and telling us the economy is coming back at a steady pace (now this is fantasy island!)

I rather watch the shows that somewhat pertain to our hobby, nothing negative!
 
How naive are you guys?
Did you REALLY think Chasing Classics or American Pickers were documentarys?

I also walked along with Carini for a short time at Hershey and I was not surprised that he was making a show, and not recording a documentary. There were short rehearsals and preparations. I have been interviewed by TV a number of times, but almost never cold. The pre-interview sets the stage and the interviewer has a good idea of the expected results.
 
You're right guys. I stupidly thought that a show talking about one of my favorite times of the year (Hershey) and that they focused on how you get to catch up with old friends, meet new friends, find the part you need for your restoration and see hundreds and thousands of cars of all types, I thought all of that was real. How could I be so stupid!!! I'm a fool!

All of it was clearly pre-planned, staged, smoke and mirrors!!! That is clearly the only reason the weather was so perfect last year. All these years I've been going to Hershey I thought I was meeting friends and enjoying my hobby and here I find out that I was actually on a soap opera set!

I'm not saying Chasing Classic Cars is 100% realistic but compared to the other **** on tv these days, it is the closest thing I have found to what my reality within the hobby is. I have never seen another show convey the impact the old car hobby has had on me and my friends like Chasing Classic Cars has. I constantly refer to the human aspect that they cover in the episodes. Watch the episode from last season where Wayne visits his dad and they work on a Model A Fordor together; tell me that doesn't reflect upon the hobby better than anything else on TV today. Those other shows talk about the human side of the hobby one minute and then turn around and gloat over getting something for dirt cheap and selling it for thousands.

I too have seen Wayne filming the show, both at Hershey and at the Hartung auction last November. I'm sure he got to do a second take if he screwed up a narration but there were no second takes during the auction. I never saw him approach the same thing twice with the camera crew around because he flubbed a line. In fact, what was amazing, was the amount of stuff I saw him doing when the camera crew WASN'T around. He didn't run to a trailer and hide.

I'm done. I have to get off my soapbox.

-Tim
 
Bruce Adams said:
How naive are you guys?
Did you REALLY think Chasing Classics or American Pickers were documentarys?
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I enjoy both of those shows, and it doesn't bother me one bit to know they are somewhat staged ahead of the actual filming. We get to see an entertaining and condensed version of what otherwise would be hours of tedium.

Mel
 
WTSHNN said:
You're right guys. I stupidly thought that a show talking about one of my favorite times of the year (Hershey) and that they focused on how you get to catch up with old friends, meet new friends, find the part you need for your restoration and see hundreds and thousands of cars of all types, I thought all of that was real. How could I be so stupid!!! I'm a fool!

All of it was clearly pre-planned, staged, smoke and mirrors!!! That is clearly the only reason the weather was so perfect last year. All these years I've been going to Hershey I thought I was meeting friends and enjoying my hobby and here I find out that I was actually on a soap opera set!

I'm not saying Chasing Classic Cars is 100% realistic but compared to the other **** on tv these days, it is the closest thing I have found to what my reality within the hobby is. I have never seen another show convey the impact the old car hobby has had on me and my friends like Chasing Classic Cars has. I constantly refer to the human aspect that they cover in the episodes. Watch the episode from last season where Wayne visits his dad and they work on a Model A Fordor together; tell me that doesn't reflect upon the hobby better than anything else on TV today. Those other shows talk about the human side of the hobby one minute and then turn around and gloat over getting something for dirt cheap and selling it for thousands.

I too have seen Wayne filming the show, both at Hershey and at the Hartung auction last November. I'm sure he got to do a second take if he screwed up a narration but there were no second takes during the auction. I never saw him approach the same thing twice with the camera crew around because he flubbed a line. In fact, what was amazing, was the amount of stuff I saw him doing when the camera crew WASN'T around. He didn't run to a trailer and hide.

I'm done. I have to get off my soapbox.

-Tim
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Your point is well taken Tim, and no one here thinks you are a fool. Shouldn't each of us be allowed to offer our differing opinions here as to what our perception of it is? My posted opinion was largely based on the last few words of your closing sentence in your opening post. I believe a direct quote was "...check it out, a reality show without BS." Bruce, while I cannot speak for others here, I surely wasn't naive enough to believe it was a Documentary however I am also not naive enough to believe it is a Reality TV either! The Producers of that show, --along with Tim are billing it as a Reality Show. So is it really a Reality show without any BS?? Being honest, it truly isn't in my view. Maybe it is because "real" or "reality" has different meanings to me. If others don't agree with my definitions, thats ok too.


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Well folks, welcome to middle/old age, skepticism and the like. I'm almost 65 and have bout decided everything is fake, fraudulent, a scam, lie, smoke/mirrors, con and the like. You can't beleive much (if any) of what you see or hear on TV anyway. That is everything from Chasin Cars to the 6 o'clock news.

A pessimist is an optimist after 20 years!

We all need to just enjoy what makes us happy, serve others as needed and try to get to Heaven!

Happy Easter!
 
I don't think any show on the old boob tube is reality, everything has been somewhat scripted, in the chase for ratings and timeslots, to please sponsers, its all about the almighty dollar. If there was a true reality show no one would watch it as it would be too boring. That being said, I do like watching some of the B.S. shows for what they are and that is entertainment. I get a real good chuckle at most of these knuckle heads....
 
2manycars said:
Wayne hosts an open house and coffee and donuts at his F40 motorsports facility each first saturday of the month. A nice mix of cars shows up each month. He is there to chat with people while they check out the showroom full of very expensive exotic cars. This saturday I am bringing my MGBV8. My father was friends with his father. He is fortunate to still have his father with him, mine died 31 years ago. They both were really into model A fords at the time. Bob's signature on a restored model A ford was a silver stripe on the sidewall of the tires.
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Sounds like a good reason to get up early and dust off the old Ford.
 
I don't know, there is phony and then there is phony. Did the cameraman find the part or someone else find the part and let him know so the "find" would have been an reenactment of someone finding the part or did he have it in his back pocket all the time and decided to put it in the pile of a random vendor to "find" ?
 
Called Comcast today since I don't get Velocity, but have several worthless spanish basketball stations that run 24/7. I'd need a new HD TV, a new cable box and the house rewired to accept them. If Wayne really wants a larger viewership he needs to get on a "normal" channel or start selling tapes of all the former programs.
 
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