Huffington Post published a pretty interesting and not-so-surprising article about the MTV show Pimp My Ride, claiming that many of the cars never got needed maintenance work, many of the modifications never made it on the road, and many of the reactions were staged.

Quote :

"Glazier told one example of what he felt was shoddy work: the car needed a muffler, and so a fake exhaust pipe was installed to make it seem as if that's what the car was supposed to sound like, "even though it was just lack of a muffler.""

Quote :

"And often additions -- such as the famous backseat TV screens -- simply wouldn't work."

Quote :

"In Justin Dearinger's Reddit AMA, he claimed that "they actually take out a lot of the stuff that they showed on TV," such as in his case, a "pop-up" champagne contraption and a "drive-in theater." Further explaining to HuffPost, Dearinger said that they removed the champagne part because the show didn't want to condone drinking and driving. The theater was removed for not being street safe. "

No surprise here:

Quote :

"Jake Glazier had a bit of a different experience, remembering they had to coax him to go "ape shit" as his natural reaction to being genuinely excited is a more silent shock. His first real reaction to the car was just a quiet amazement where he said, "This is good." They immediately yelled "re-do!""

link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/pimp-my-ride-cars_n_6663840.html

I wonder how much business West Coast Customs got from people seeing that show.

2/26/2015 10:12:20 PM

:|

2/26/2015 10:28:52 PM

dudes this should not have been news...

i saw them bolt a new small block to a rusted-through engine mount in an old chevy van...

2/27/2015 9:38:32 AM

The name of the show is “Pimp My Ride”, not “take care of my vehicle, and bring all the maintenance up to date”.

My favorite was spray painting the dash or upholstery...

2/27/2015 10:56:27 AM