Anyone else tuning out of Graveyard Carz?

These last few seasons are so darn painful to watch. Im half tempted to cancel my Motor Trend on demand account. Seriously, how much more schtick can you make about Will's painting or childhood stories with Doug or Royal? The first couple of season of the schtick was funny and entertaining I must admit, but anymore, when the passive reference to Darren get's you remembering how good the show used to be it may be time to get back to your roots.

Anyone else tuning this show out? Mark is obviously knowledgable and can be such a great asset to the community but I'dunno, its just too much nonsense now at days - esp the silly cartoons.

I gave up on it a LONG time ago (like....third episode?), but I wouldn't cancel my MT On Demand over it. There's other (better) shows on there to watch.

Could any of you guys work for MW without punching him out? Good thing he writes the paychecks or else there would be a mutiny.

My feelings exactly I subscribe to Motortrend On Demand for many other shows,

I have not watched Graveyard cars for a lot of years even though I really want to like it.

I like shows that emphasize tech, this is the way we do things. IMHO, Texas Metal and Iron Resurrection are probably two of the best current shows for that. When it was on I always liked Legendary Motor Cars episodes because they had a specific block dedicated to tech. If GC devoted more time to how you do things rather than the trips down memory lane, the show would be better. My

I was actually thinking it has gotten better. I thought Mark had tuned down his "comedy" quite a bit. I've never avoided watching because of him although I do think sometimes he goes too far. An all Mopar show is so rare and I'm not going to miss out on some nice cars and I still really enjoy seeing them and the work being done on them. IMO some other shows are far worse with their flat billed over the ears baseball caps and non stop b.s. and same old builds just different cars (Chebby, Chebby, Chebby, Phord, Chebby, Chebby, Chebby, Phord).

I watch some of their YouTube videos occasionally if they pop up. I lost track of when the new shows were on TV and stopped watching.

The show is primarily based around big block 70-71 E bodies and a B body occasionally mixed in. After a few seasons of the same stuff my interest dwindled a little bit.

At least you don’t see jacked up rides or air lowered rides on GYC. That is something you see way too much of on most shows.
I’m not a big fan but do watch GYC sometimes.
The best shows in my opinion are the now defunct Fantomworks, the show I can’t recall the name of about the Guild restoration shop in Canada, Chasing Classic cars even though Carini is sort of full of himself, and Full Custom Garage. Garage squad is good too.

He's just a goofball with a unique sense of humor all for the camera. I've worked for people way more obnoxious than that with no sense of humor at all.

I don't complain about Mark's antics, no other make of car has a show dedicated to it.

I see it the same way. The guy likes to have fun. The latest episode, Mark quoted a dialog from a movie that I'll bet MOST people would never get. It was Alec Baldwin from Malice.

Exactly, which is why I watched all along (and honestly will continue to do so). I just have no interest in seeing the build of any other brand, truck, Camaro, Chevelle etc. I may watch a coupe episodes of some random show for a cool mustang but unfortunately I take the whole Mopar or No Car thing too far lol.

Don't get wrong, I love all muscle cars, but I don't have enough interest in others platforms to watch shows dedicated to their restoations. I cherry pick various episodes on different shows which feature Mopars but that's really about it.

Anywho, I love that we have a show like this, I just wish there was more tech stuff to it.

Maybe its a case of having exhausted everything there is to elaborate on with respect to 64-71 Mopars and simply trying to find other ways to engage the audience (and if that is working for him then that is great). I noticed this in their random trivial questions during commercial breaks. It used to pertain to Mopar history and tech but now deals with older cars that were featured on their older shows. But after 14 seasons, I understand them wanting to introduce new types of material.

And maybe I am being too picky here, but even this new format seems a little forced. Before, a build spanned over an entire season with various deeper tidbits into the restoration process. Now, entire restorations seem to be crammed into one episode (which could work sans all the jokes) as though they are satisfying a customer's expectations of having significant airtime. Something that was pitched to me when I approached Mark about restoring one of my cars.

Again, not hating on the show or coming across as too critical (I hope) - I love what this show has done for us. I'm just hoping the show could ease off on the theatrics. It really has a ton of potential and I'd still ask him to restore a car of mine over anyone else.

Regarding the stuff posted on youtube, I watch it religiously as I do favor the older shows

And yes - absolutely. I think off camera he is different. I have yet to meet a person who has met him in person that has said a negative thing about him or his family. Further, he and Alyssa are incredibly accommodating and very engaging. I have heard from multiple people that they are very kind and salt of the earth type. Members of my immediate family have been treated like first class when they stopped at GYC. Not a negative thing to say about MW or any of his family on that front.

If I ever got to a point where I was finincially secure and did not need to work, I would seriously offer to intern there for free just to learn from the best.

I just record it, and FF through the silly "comedy" and any cartoon stuff, all of which is pointless.
Some of the movie trivia is amusing, but even the "facts" are BS sometimes.
Nevertheless, Mopars being worked on, I want to see it.
It's not the only show where someone's a bit too in love with the camera; heck, look at YouTube...

I’ll watch it sometime but it’s not often that I sit down and just watch tv. They do turn out some nice cars. From a building standpoint I prefer Full Custom Garage. That dude has some skills!

Have any of you heard about the dildo episodes?

Apparently guys that work there and that were not on camera took an adult sex toy and placed it in v the background, on tool boxes and shelves. This appeared in numerous episodes.

You tube has a highlite reel of it appearing on TV.

Same here but my FF button gets a workout with every episode.

Again I don't understand so much criticism for him. YES, I could work for him, in fact it would be a dream! Working for a Mopar fanatic, with a Mopars only resto garage and a guy who obviously is a legitimate Mopar guy since he was a kid! And you can tell he's a sentimentalist by his frequent revisiting his childhood with pictures and returning and his friendships. So he gets goofy, big deal. He seems to have a heart, a since of humor and be a decent guy. In this screwed up world I'll take him over 95% or more of what I come across and again DREAM JOB working for him. He doesn't have to have tatts all over his neck and arms, spiked hair, stupid bball cap and other ridiculous clothing that's age inappropriate. I'd hang out with Mark and talk Mopars all day. Same for Fantomworks Dan Short but I'd take Mark first because of the Mopar connection. I think it's super easy to be a critic from the keyboard. They are trying to manage a business, pay bills, satisfy TV producers and handle all the stress with these and that's not easy.

It is kind of amazing there is a Mopar TV show if you think about it. I figured we'd have a Mustang or Corvette based restoration show first due to popularity alone. Way more of them than us.

They seem a little lost this season. What they need to do is follow one car from rescue - strip - metal - paint - assembly - delivery even though that process would stretch several years. This season they jump from car to car to car and I sometimes lose track. They seem to be doing better tech wise, but they need to find a better way to deliver the content.

Still watch it. Better than some of the other crap shows out there.

I couldn't get them all in Canada when I had motor trend. I forget if it stopped as they were working on the Christine project or when it was done.
I always liked watching it because of the mopar content. I think the earlier seasons were kind of annoying to watch because of the stupidity going on but were interesting because they actually did more work on camera. Now it seems that other then Mark being Mark it's a bit more serious but they mainly show the start of what they are doing and the end when something is going back together but not much of the middle of how the work progressed or how something got done.

The eye candy is really hot ... but I wonder if the cars drive as good as they look. When Mark was driving with his daughter it did not seem so.

I enjoy the latest version of GYC and like many record it and fast forward parts of it like the cartoon, but enjoy the cars and often have it on in the background when doing other stuff. CCC is good to and enjoyed FantonWorks when it was on and like Garage Squad but I think the new Squad this season will be unwatchable.

How about Will's homeless looking grizzly bear beard...?

now NOW ....

Tastefully placed tats on chicks WORKS FUR ME

I’m ericLUVIN a kinky tramp stamp

It is better than watching rue paul drag racing at least .

To me this is like everyone complaining that the new Charger was a 4 door. Just be happy that Chrysler was making a V8 RWD car again because it was a dark world before the LX Cars came out. Its a show that features Mopars, how many other shows on TV do that? I think at this point they have run out of ideas, are they on like season 16 now? You can only have so many ideas/episodes. To me its a background show...I'll put it on when I'm on the computer or working on something out in the garage.

It's still on? I stopped watching after he had AMD rebody their flagship car for them. I do find it funny that one of the "best Mopar restoration shops in the world" has a shop that is actually one of the best Mopar restoration shops in the world do their dashes for them.
As for the salt of the earth type, I guess I am one of the few that remembers him data-mining here, one of the members actually giving him his process on how to restore something, and then him passing the process off as his own on the show. Yep. What a class act.

I watched an episode the other night,where he said,in 1968 Plymouth came out with the GTX. I thought the GTX came out in 1967. People take what he says as gospel,and he is wrong quite a bit!

Lots of shows feature Mopars.

Roadkill and Roadkill Garage especially does tons of Mopars.

Car Fix does Mopars.

Garage Squad does Mopars

Heck even All Girls Garage does Mopars.

Or did you mean Mopars and nothing but Mopars?

I don't mind other makes because you know there is more than one way to do things and sometimes even the other guys have a better idea.

So . . . you watch that stuff?????

Occasionally, I watch a re-run on their YouTube channel. The first 2 or 3 seasons were just an offshoot of Orange County Choppers-type of humor and just terrible😆

I've actually tried to watch the show a couple of times. I usually make it a few minutes and then switch to a channel that has a show on about watching paint dry. NOBODY can listen to that clown for more than a few minutes without getting sick to their stomach. Thought I would be interested due to the subject matter, but the head guy makes it totally unwatchable.

I do find it funny that one of the "best Mopar restoration shops in the world" has a shop that is actually one of the best Mopar restoration shops in the world do their dashes for them.


Mark told a friend of mine who has his car there for the last 6 1/2 years that he does "driver quality" restorations. You read that right,"driver quality" restorations. Look at that burnt tan 70 Coronet convert that Mark called the "Million Dollar Car". That car was at the Spring Fling and was torn apart with dozens of mistakes, in a later episode Mark said the car was back to have all that corrected. I saw the car in the background with the hood off and lots of yellow pieces of tape all over it. Interesting to note that GYC has never has a car in OE judging.

I think I watched about 1 1/2 episodes of that show way back when, I couldn't deal with the head idiot's antics, so I never watched again. I can't believe the show is still on.

I watched it occassionly but when MW stiffed me for payment on one of his cars (Q5 69 GTX) he built poorly and I was asked to fix as the owner is in the Chicago area, I quit caring at all what his life is about. Sucks because it IS a Mopar build show, but Mark is not a man in my book...

I can't watch Mark for more than a few minutes without getting annoyed at his antics. And I've heard him spout Mopar facts that are dead wrong.

It gets annoying, but I can watch it just fine. Where else can you see MoPars restored to what to me seems correctly, no 20" wheels, or slammed to the ground?

I'll take it. And Fantom(?) Works stays pretty much stock, and restores some weird stuff. Although rarely a MoPar seen, I like Chasing Classic Cars as well

Just my .02 worth

I didn't hear that but it wouldn't surprise me. He seems to be focused on the 1968-70 model years of B and 70-71 E body cars.

Trydd to watch a couple shows years ago. Total bs clown show.

That usually quiets down the "Take it to GYC" crowd. Usually.

Phantom Works... there's a reason its not on anymore except in repeats... I happen to know that the production company ended up paying someone else to redo a car they did after the customer wasn't pleased with the outcome. The car was redone here in N.J. .... I get a kick out of seeing Tony from Tonys Parts on GYC I remember him when he lived in Orange County N.Y. and raced a blue GTX at my local track before moving to Delaware, the GTX is still around but I haven't seen the acquaintance that owns it since buying from parts from him a few years ago. I like seeing the oddball / rare cars that Chasing Classic cars come up with and redo. I just saw a new show last night... Rust Valley Resto saw a few Mopars and the guys are real characters.

Thanks for the kind words.
the car i raced was a 69 road runner, B5 with a Black Vinyl top.
i traded it to Mickey Murray who lives in rockland county new york in the early 90s, i believe he still has it. i owned it for about 13 years.
some pics attached

I liked fantomworks but man a lot of people have deep pockets. SOme of the prices seemed ok for the amount of work the cars needed but I guess if they focused on the lower priced jobs it wouldn't be much of a show.

I also like Restoration Garage, there's usually some interesting project going on and shows people actually working without the stupidity factor of some other shows.

I watched some of the Fantomworks. In my opinion, the guy was a hack. Some of the work he did was beyond questionable. In the end, when they tallied up the bills for the customers, most of the time I would have walked away and left the car. Prices were nuts for sub-par work.

I liked it too. Dad would DVR it so I could see it when visiting. I liked it because they did more than muscle cars, unique cars today that were common then. I seem to recall a '65 GTO collision repair that ran to $66,000?

Adding factory air conditioning to a '55 Cadillac? They didn't show 5% of the frustrations with that project.

They kept the contrived drama and BS to a minimum, liked that as well.

I still say that these are TV shows and it's super easy to sit back and judge not being the one going through the process, long hours, stress, and all that goes with it. Also, what is supposedly the final product we see is quite likely not really what the customer's final product. They have to wrap up an episode and very well may continue work on the car.

P.S. Very cool old school pics Tony. THOSE were the days!

Love it Tony, so cool.

I saw that too on the dashes.
The blonde producer office gal (can T remember her name) emailed or PMed me. Few times with questions.
If they could film.Mark less show would be BETTER

Hey Tony! I Couldn't remember if it was a Road Runner or GTX .. I bought some parts from Mickey a few years ago and he still had it then but I haven't seen him or the car at the track for awhile now.

I f you can't read sarcasm out of that you have a very DRY humor bone .

as far as the blonde girl,
there used to be a character on the show named Holly, besides her Marks Daughter Allyssa is the only other girl i can recall.

As far as them sending out the dashes,
on an e-body its just the cluster and switch panels,
and the same for some b-bodies, while sometimes on b-bodies it is the whole assembly depending on what kind of time frame theyre working with

i dont know of another shop that restores their own gauges (except of course Mike Mancini's American Musclecar restorations that uses their inhouse partner company instrument specialties).
its quite a process the instruments have to go through (silkscreening, plating, calibration, etc) and unless the shops are just cleaning and putting new decals on the face or installing new reproduction gauges (neither of which is a good thing) i dont know of any resto shops going through the whole proper gauge restoration process themselves

as far as none of their cars being OE judged, thats not as much a reflection of their work as much as it is a product of the customer not supplying assembly line type parts and not wanting that end result.

and lastly, i can say this. Graveyard Carz restoration charges are about 1/2 of most shops and their prices include parts too! so there are no open ended never ending price escalating to infinity like i hear about so frequently from customers who have gone through horror restorations. i know they have a long wait list and restoration time, but Mark doesnt hide that from customers either.

Yes that's her name Holly. She was not 40s maybe office lady she I thought was listed as producer on so shows. Or read tgat here were we all know everything posted must be true. I read it on the internet.
That is the person that is said was using Moparts as a mind for info.
She might just have been tring to learn something to be more useful or just not be known as the gal that knows nothing but works here.
No harm in that that is why we are all here.

Okay, I'll put you on the spot. What do you think the total will be for your wife's car that Worman is working on?

We have all the same shows down under, we also have Nicks Garage from Canada which is very popular, how do you rate that show?

One question I have on GYC, what is the deal on the dozens of cars sitting outside? Are those all customers cars awaiting their turn getting restored at the shop? And if I was sending them my project, would I feel good about it sitting outside in the elements deteriorating for several years before he finds time for it?

I wouldn’t be thrilled, with having my rare Mopar sitting out there in the parking lot, for years. Whatever good parts that are left in the interior will be toast. Ideally, they should be parked in a warehouse.

Nick’s Garage is an excellent YT channel👍..Very genuine and a nice man.

My wife and I occasionally watch GYC. I am glad to see the cartoons are gone somewhat. I did watch the episode where they fired up the HEMI from the Phoenix Cuda, the one that burned up in the garage fire. Anyway as the engine was running My wife and I noticed that it sounded like a dead cylinder!!! They were commenting on how the heat was burning off the exhaust manifolds and all was well. Later on the crew was standing in front of the engine and the paint on the tube for #2 cylinder was not burned off. To me that is saying he had a dead cylinder and never caught it, did anyone else see that?? You can find it on YouTube Phoenix hemi Cuda engine runs after 20 years, keep your eyes on #2 tube at 2:11.

Its going to be different for me since i supplied so much of the parts.
buti can tell you that the costs are considerably less then most other shops

some are customer cars, some are Marks, and some are parts cars

about a year or so ago they put up a HUGE outside tent/garage that holds dozens of cars,
and, he just got a very large building to also store cars inside

and any deterioration is really only affecting the amount of work GYC has to do, the price quotes are already locked in with customers, so there isnt any additional charge to them regardless if it suffers from any deterioration.

Tony, I won't ask what you're paying to have your car done but what is the turn around time??

Maybe Mark is like some of us, myself included, and he can't help himself and buys up some Mopars with big dreams and that's why he has so many in his yard. I have to admit if I had a lot of space I'd have so many lined up.

It would be great if Mark could show more A bodies. He has teased us with a red '71 Demon, but they just show it getting painted, that's it. I think he also has a '69 440 'Cuda he is working on, but again just short bits of film footage on that car as well. While I enjoy seeing all Mopars...a little variety is nice too, besides 68-71 B and E body cars every episode. I do remember Mark Worman saying one episode.... "A body cars aren't worth anything"...has he seen the current prices of A body's lately?

Ive watched maybe an hours worth of the show ,,,,and that was spaced out over several shows over several years.
So one could say Ive never really 'tuned in ' so to speak. at least not intentionally

I simply couldnt get past the clown act to feel it was anything close to serious

The first several seasons were focused on drama and they’re difficult to watch. To Worman’s credit, he did listen to viewers on FB, Twitter, etc. and he added more technical information and less BS.

Yep, it's been noticeable and more enjoyable

Can't remember the last time I watched it, then yesterday I saw it was on. Starting on a '68 GTX. Changed the channel after 15 minutes. Too much BS.

It’s ok. The tech can be a little dry but I have to give them credit for toning down the “humor” and deep diving on some of this stuff. I think they need to break things up a bit, maybe cover some of the national shows and just talk to some owners. Not everything has to be a sob story, but that’s television these days. I really wish they would do a dealership tour ala the Rapid Transit Caravan.

....., maybe cover some of the national shows and just talk to some owners.......


Worrman doesn't allow his employees to attend any car show, A cast member told me that. Beside, Mark is afraid to fly, he won't travel to any major shows.

Bump.

A few years

Mark does allow his employees to make appearances at cars shows/events.
Since they would be appearing as a member of GYC the arrangements have to be made through GYC,
not a promoter circumventing GYC and contacting the employee directly.

On the show thing, I can just imagine if Mark had employees attend a show while he stayed home or got Tony to do it, probably doing face time on the phone with the screen keep going back to Mark on the phone screen telling the person on the other end they are a nimrod or whatever for not looking at the right part of the car or quizzing them on the color and options codes... that would be annoying yet probably interesting for the first couple minutes.

Thank you for the clarification.

I find the show entertaining. They don't design those type of shows for us, because they already know we're going to watch, they're going after the bigger audience. I would also prefer more time spent talking about specific tools or products, but I have a bunch saved on DVR to use as future reference material. I've learned quite a few things from that show, the biggest being painting my own car is beyond my skillset.

If you're interested why not call Mark? No two jobs are apples to apples, so Tony's turn around time is likely to be different than yours.

Real turn around time is 7-9 years, yeah you read that right ,7-9 YEARS . My friends car has been there 6 1/2 years and that A 12 car featured recently was there since season 2 which was 9 years ago.

So you already had the answer you wanted.
Maybe if you didn't have a hidden agenda and asked the question more completely, like "how long was your car there total?", you would have gotten a different answer.
I took your question as how long did the restoration take, not how long has it been there.

Dave's A12 Bee has been done for well over a year maybe 2. But i agree it was still too long.
Do you also know how much the restorations cost?
ALOT less then just about any other shop would have charged.

Maybe I should have phrased the question like this: How long does a car sit there deteriorating before work is started? If its 2-3 years and the resto takes 2 years that's 5 years , totally egregious.

I have not watched it, not even once.

The righteous indignation is STRONG with this one^^^^^^.

What's the turn around time at your shop for a full resto?

Or maybe you shouldn't have asked TONY in the first place

I actually have come to enjoy the show quite a bit...In the beginning it was a little rougher but that was because I believe Mark or a non professional was producing it. The first few seasons had a lot of drama between a few main cast members but since they departed the show, it has become much more enjoyable to watch. I konw sometimes Mark likes to joke around and use cheesy quotes but I think it just adds to the show most of the time. Kinda like the show, "the office"...if you didn't like that show, you probably wont like this one. I konw some folks may not enjoy marks antics but at least you konw he doesn't take himself to serious. I like that he is committed to providing quality restorations of mopars whether it is oe style or modified. I konw that sometimes he makes some mistakes on what he says but Tony in the captions will correct him At the end of the day, there is no other shows going this indepth on any Chrylser products. There are tons of Ford and Chevy cars but not anywhere near that amount of mopar. I understand that not everyone likes the show but what is the alternative ? No mopar show ? Or a resttoration show just like every other show which features all makes ? I know in the more recent seasons , Mark has toned down the antics and tried to tailor the episodes to what viewers have requested. I will keep watching the show for as long as it is on.

I like the show and the cast/staff they have now. I don't mind some of the antics (movie quotes, etc) but the cartoons are not my favorite. I like to learn more about the cars and the hobby and I do learn some from watching the show. I do wish they would show more technical body/paint work such as when they replace panels how they ensure a good fit and how they fix paint issues such as debris in paint, or how they assemble a car and paint bolt heads after the fact.

I like when Tony is on the show as well. Seems like a healthy and fun rivalry.

Stop playing the cartoons. Stop showing the filming crew or behind the scenes guys. NOBODY cares what the pencil neck geek producer thinks. This is a car program.

Absolutely!!!

I would like to see more in depth technical scenes on engine/suspension builds...and better trivia questions, than about what was shown on a past episode, as in: "do you remember what engine was in this1970 Charger we showed you eight years ago?" That needs to go! And what happened to the FE5 Ralleye Red '71 Demon they showed one episode? I know Mark doesn't care for A bodies as much as B and E body cars, but at least show more of the Demon you started to work on?

I think they apply the "looks good" @ 25 foot rule technique when assembling a finished car, dealing with paint issues, etc.....here the SEMA Superbird up close....rest of the car was pretty much the same.....

A bit thin skinned aren't you?

I like it for what it is...a little bit informative and a little bit entertaining

Ouch!!

watched the show tonight with tony d and his wife, not sure why they put a black headliner in a plum crazy white interior white vinyl top white stripe challenger, mine is the same except with a factory white headliner and i chose to not put the vinyl top back on it, maybe it was there personal preference, also you guys do realize that part of his (mark) antics are aimed at some of the very people on various innerweb sites that make fun of him or nit pick his work, but those who do should not let that go to their already over inflated heads.

Probably relies on the same info/facts that he used when he applied the R/T decal in the middle of this Challenger's hood.......

How so? You said their turn around time was egregious, so can you do better? How can any of us complain about things we don't have the ability to do? We can either rebuild these cars completely ourselves and the quality is dependent on our own abilities, or source out work. If you choose to source out work, you forfeit your ability to complain.

I complained about body work taking forever as do most people...well if we don't like it we can buy sanding blocks and sealers and have at it.

i never tuned them in. Every car related show I've watched is nothing but BS with possibly the exception of Jay Leno's garage.
There was one years ago ( 30 or so) on PBS called Last Chance Garage. It was a one man show with an old f-rt like I am now. He would take on problems that others couldn't fix, showed you where they screwed up and fix the problem. Great show

That looks badLOL!

Can you document the sublime green Superbird in the picture was done by GYC?

I don't watch it since I can't stand all the stupid stuff. If they just focused on the cars and cut out all of the stupid stuff then it might be interesting but evidently the guy who produces the show likes stupid little gags and jokes. He must think that stuff is entertaining and maybe it is to some people but I think it turns off more people than not.

I found a great portrait of Worman on a local trash dumpster!

I tried it after seeing this thread and they make it hard with the bs. Like the mopars, need no banter fellas.

Found one called CarFix. That one I can take seriously so far.

I like the guy. He is one that I'd like to hang out with.
Some people on this forum, despite what they think, have very little sense of humor.

I prefer to watch Nick’s Garage on YouTube. Even UTG is viewable at times..lol.

The carfix guys worked on a lime green Superbird two weeks ago.They had restored the body and we're showing you how to put on a vynl top without leaving wrinkles.Very cool!

EXACTLY!!^^^^^^^^

I watch when I can, and DVR the rest.

It comes down to this; where else can I see Mopars of all body styles being worked on, and most of which I will never be able to afford/own.
Having a T/A, I liked when they did about a 6-7 minute overview of the 70' T/A.

I'm with you

and i agree with both your posts on this page

I also agree with both of you
Jim F

Yup.

If Worman didn’t constantly crow about being this amazing god of mopar knowledge and ability, I wouldn’t comment on his goofy show. I like Tony D, but his argument holds no water. Every premier shop has at least one build they hang their hat on strictly to show off their abilities. Worman’s claim to accuracy in restoration work begs that he put his time and money where his mouth is and produce an OE Gold certified car rather than boasting while cranking out budget restos. Constantly saying you know it all and never once demonstrating it is beyond annoying.

Friday night, I turned on GYC while throwing some photos up on Flickr. Two episodes, one mostly on the '66 Hemi Charger, the other mostly on the '69 RT/SE.
On one of them, Worman did the entire trivia answer segment in his grade-Y Stallone impression, so roughly four minutes of the show taken up with "Urruh ruh ruh ruh, bluh ruh urruh urruh uuuhh." Not actual mumbled words, just "ruh ruh ruh" noises.
(Grade-Z is just saying, "Hi, I'm Sylvester Stallone" in your normal speaking voice.)

I'm often unsure if Doug is really as dim witted as he seems or if it is an act. He really comes across as a competent tech but a complete dork.

I do not dislike Mark or anyone else on the show but would like to see less of them and the Dugie history. They should go i out and get a few cokes or beers after work and talk about old times between themselves.
The whole time thet are tellimg stores they could show some cars in various stages that would better fodder. You can see them in the background while they tell you about nonsense that no one cares about Even just a quick look see of them like when guys do junkyard walks would be better

Need to get rid of all the soap opera drama and get back to building the cars. One of the coolest episodes was when they showed a factory sun roof car with it working.

Yes I do remember what engine was in the 70 Charger, it was a Hemi, Mark's engine build failed and the engine was pulled out and had to be completely rebuilt since.

OOOps !

Any idea what failed? I'm not looking to bash Warman but I'm going to be assembling my first Hemi in a year or two and if there are mistakes I can avoid........

There was a thread on For B Bodies Only that the owner of the 70 Hemi Charger R/T pulling the engine and sending it out to be rebuilt again. I don't remember the exact details, but I don't think that the engine had more than 500 miles on it.

No different assembling than any other B/RB engine other than it's unique head/rocker design and crank cap bolting, the only areas I can think of that cause some running issues are to assure proper intake sealing and proper re-torqueing of the intake after some time on the engine, and removing/deleting the spark plug compression washer before installation to avoid tube distortion/oil leaks/burning, there's little quirks here and there on assembly along with newer design/retrofit assy products to improve the HEMI on the market depending on your build.... and like any engine, esp today, proper cam break in is paramount... it's amazing how some have no clue to breaking in a cam, I actually watched one owner "idle" his newly built/installed $30K HEMI for "break in" for 30 minutes while he fiddled with timing, carb adjustments, carrot snapping/etc...would not heed any advice/warnings as he was one of those know it all experts, the cam was wiped and the results were fatal to the engine with no more than 3 hrs total run time.... total tear down/rebuild because of cam trash throughout the engine

MikeG

Ha ha...I would love to give a big fat "I told you so" to that arrogant guy.
I love it when a "smart guy" gets his ass handed to him.

PLEASE! Don't you know in today's very sensitive society you should not use the word "fat"? It should be a "big full figured 'I told you so' to that arrogant guy".