Like West coast customs or Occ or Monster Garage with Jessie James. Although I think we can all agree that pimp my ride was kinda fucked from the start but that was MTV anyway...
Still doing his welder up show on the web,it's popular and his shop is a tourist attraction here in lasvegas, ,Steve comes to cars and coffee with some of his rods ,really cool guy, takes pictures with anybody who wants one
Yeah, real cool guy. He's a rip-off artist. Super cool dude. His son buys a dirt bike for $200, leaves it in the middle of a parking lot, it gets run over. Not only did he charge the guy driving the car $50 more than the bike was worth, but then he shook down the PASSENGER of the car for ANOTHER $250! So he got back $300 more than he lost, and that passenger? His own family member he shook down, over something that wasn't the family members fault, for a dollar amount he didn't even deserve, when Steves son was at fault in the first place, for parking his dirt bike in the middle of a traffic lane of the parking lot... Where do you think he learned that kind of behavior from? From his dear old dad, Steve darnell, who pulls that exact type of s*** on people all the time. A new generation of ripoff artist coming around already, and he was only even a teenager...
If something is worth $2,000, and someone offers to sell it to Steve for $1,000, Steve will come back with a $200 offer, and lowball the person until he buys it for the absolute lowest dollar amount that he can get it, and if it's anywhere near what the item is actually worth Steve just won't buy it at all. He has to get over on the person, or he won't buy an item, because he refuses to make a fair deal. He literally has to get over on the person, because it's a fair deal he won't do it... Yeah, real cool guy
When my cable bill starting costing more than my food bill for my family i had to cut the cord. Sorry never saw the show. But i saved over 2 thousand a year.
That worked a few years ago. Now every single channel is going to have their own streaming service. I got rid of DirectTV but now if I want to watch Formula 1 its $80 for the year and MotoGP is $165 for the year. That's on top of Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, Hulu, and who knows what else my wife is subscribed to. So Cutting the cord was a great idea 5 years ago but it's about to turn into the exact same thing as cable tv. Only instead of paying one person you have 15 different bills every month for streaming services. Pretty soon we will have them getting together and making "streaming packages" that combine multiple streaming services. We will be right back to cable TV but over ip instead of coax with set top boxes.
Also if you could feed your family for less than $200 a month you have a small family (2 people no kids) or your entire family is horribly malnourished. My family of 5 spends close to $200 a week on groceries and that is bargain hunting and using coupons.
I agree with Heath. The craftsmanship and skill designing and building collector cars and trucks is enough. Fake drama and time issues detract and diminish those shows to the point they become unwatchable.
I think most of us have no idea the amount of pressure, and stress a production crew puts on a real life business. VRR is one example, another is Fantomworks. Dan Short did a very thorough job of explaining why he had to end his show after 8 seasons. I was sad to see FW go, but I could not argue with his reasoning.
I'm surprised the EPA didn't jump on them as soon as they saw the Diesel Smoke from the engines kinda like they did to the Diesel Bros. and fine them out of house and home...... Love what they built for sure.
@@Axial32 i use to like this too it was called "Sin City Motors" in UK. I thought it was a UK production as it had the Dave / UK TV Logo in the credits
Wasn’t this the show where he found an old guy in the Desert with a really valuable old Las Vegas Sign and paid peanuts for it and selling it for a fortune thinking he was so clever. The old guy looked like he didn’t have much to live on. Stopped watching it after that.
The show ended because Steve didn't want to be locked to what someone tells him too. He decided, not someone else. I talked to him, and Merlin at length about it at SEMA..Seems like you want clicks.
@@dieseldabz7104 Kid..that's funny, I'm probably older than you. I'm glad you have the inside scoop. There were other people in the industry there with us, but ok. I know multiple people from Discovery/MotorTrend
Going with how Discovery treat their "talent" I'm inclined to believe you. They seem to be focused on tv production schedules not fabrication/build schedules.
@@Ibiza210 I agree.. Even though it's the same " company " the MotorTrend merge has helped some.. I have heard some behind the scenes from several shows, and become friends with several people on shows.
My wife and I haven't watched TV for many years. We do watch a few internet shorts pertaining to our interests. No drama is very good. Unfortunately, we now have to be active in replacing our incompetent, and criminal infested government. We hope others will join us, and are successful in the removal of these criminals.
So what your saying is the Discovery channel ruined Vegas Rat Rods and Gas Monkey Garage, Welder up, OCC all because Discovery wanted projects done on their schedule and not the time actually needed? Maybe Discovery needs to change their schedule.
Im a metal shpaper and I hated watching them hack up the good cars thereby destroying good American classic cars. I cringed during the 55 (approximately 55) chevy. What they did to the sheetmetal was awful. That and how "no fucks given" attitude the owner has about everything.
So it was canceled due to low ratings, which sounds about right. The problem with this & so many others is, they lose their way, we watch them for the car when they get established that all goes out the window, it turns into stupid antics & ego's add to that the inevitable greed & vanity & no one that watched it for the cars wants to see what stupid preconceived shit they get up to.
Stumbled across a shoot for this show on Fremont while visiting Vegas. Got shooed out of the way by the producer as I had no idea what was up with the Davetar booth.
@@grantschwartz8254 12 hours of straight up work on your feet in boots on concrete in the heat is no joke now don’t get me wrong it is a regular work schedule for 3 on 4 off no OT or 4 on 3 off with 4 hours OT anybody with a grain of work ethic can do that but 5-6 day in a row of real work in a tuff environment is not easy for any body 40+ with a family to deal with now at 18-30 no family and young with confidence and skill or need and want for skill can and do 12+ 6 sometime 7 days a week but at 47 years old I can tell you that it gets hard and you’re health can go down hill quickly! Now I still work 10-14+ hours a day 5-6 days a week running my own small business and I’m extremely competent and very skilled in my trade ( HVACR , in the winter I take on Plumbing and electrical jobs as well ) but in the last 3 years my pain level and ability to crawl/climb in and out of tight areas has decreased and become way way harder for me to do multiple times every day ! So I pretty much need a helper to jokey up and down for me daily in other words I’m not as good as I once was but I’m as good once as I’ve ever been ! So don’t knock 12 hour days like it’s child’s play I can promise you it will catch up to you ! Maybe not as soon as it did to me but it will ( I also played just as hard as I worked for 35 years I have been in the field literally my entire life I was running a 3 man install crew for my fathers business at the age of 11 ) and I acted and competed in extreme sports like I weighed 140 lbs instead of 200 + lbs and partied like I just turned 21 from 16 until 36 years young ! Lol Just stating my opinion!
Canadian element is mandated by the Canadian government to maintain their funding is the same as a Canadian radio station having to play Canadian music at least by a certain percentage
These guys couldn’t handle “consecutive 12 hour days”? That’s only half a day😂 I’ve been working 12s and 16s nights and days often 6 days a week, but even up to 10 days in row for 15 years. Give me a show so I can take a break😂
I live the diesel work, but not into the ridiculous stuff so much. I'm not a rat rod person. I did like the big truck stuff. Might contact him to get something built, I never have time to build my stuff anymore.
Really miss the show, Steve is a great guy and a good friend to have. Ya have to remember , he has a business to run and make money, thats the name of the game, it's not fun trying to work with a camera up you ass all the time, we are all human and say or make mistakes, if you don't like the cars or the builds, don't watch it. Have been a fan and friend of Steve's for a long time. He's a hard working guy and a good man. As a business owner, he has the rite to go and come as he pleases. Anyone notice the shots from the 5 finger death punch vidio?. Good luck and work steve.☠
The Discovery Channel and the History Channel can take a successful business and wreck it in record time. I know one pawn shop that kicked them out because they were tired of the staging and the people they had to deal with. To quote the owner "I was a millionaire before you ever came in the door and I'll be a millionaire when you leave"
@@commoguru The pawn shop I was referring to was not taking advantage of desperate folks. It's been part of the community for a very long time and helped people with loans that banks wouldn't touch. Some people do stupid things that make themselves "desperate" like gambling.
Itcan be exhausting, i was to be in texas show where they go around filming old unique businesses, i worked for a hatter named joe peters( Peter Brothers Hat's), worked there as a Hatter for about five years, so these guys come in offering joe the deal, so we all started doing what we normally do, but the film crew wanted the perfect shot, so we had to re- do over and over the same things until they were satisfied, i was exhausted in the first hour, in the end they cut me out of the show. I really dislike the guy, I remember now the name of the show, i think is called' The Texas Country Reporter'.
Really enjoyed the show, no obvious TV BS and seemed to get along well. Very talented. I don’t want to switch on to watch screaming and shouting a-la Orange County Choppers. That was crap.
First of all, the term "rat rod" is something that never existed back when guys were building their "hot rods", in the 30's, 40's 50's, they did not consider their cars rat rods, they were their hot rods, their pride and joy. They didn't have the resources nor the money to buy parts so they used what they could get. The cars people are destroying to build what is marketed as a "rat rod" today is sad. The idea of spending tens of thousands on a car to make it look fake old and pieced together is a joke. I just figured the show thankfully ended because it was bad.
These shows ended because youtube automotive content creators KILLED their entire purpose. Why would I watch a 30-60 minute show where they take a junk car and turn it into a show car or hot rod in that 1 hour show? We don't see any of the work and 50% of the shows were just manufactured drama about a deadline for a car show or parts missing. It's literally just a montage of little clips of welding or sanding. The youtube content creators just record clips throughout the week and give us some actual insight into what actually goes on in a shop. None of the car builder shows on TV ever did that. I take that back, GEARZ is a great show that actually shows some real work and the processes involved in the work. Unfortunately its a 23 minute show with the entire last segment saved for show sponsors and advertisers. So it's really about 12-15 minutes of actual work and good information. Stacy David seems like a great guy and wonderful ambassador to the public of what goes on in restoring and customizing vehicles. RUclipsrs are actually spending the time giving viewers info on what they are doing, why they are doing, what makes it important, and the costs involved with it. Discovery network car shows were 100% garbage from the start. Phantomworks, Vegas Rat Rods, and all the others were nothing but fluff and fake drama or over acting how big a deal an issue actually was. I wouldn't turn my vehicle over to jerkoffs that acted like that over small issues like a part being ordered wrong or a fabricator making a small mistake. Nobody who owns a business expects it to go perfectly. Only a real piece of garbage would overreact like they did on these shows. I can watch a guy build a car and take a year and release a video every week that is 30-40 minutes long and watch it every week. Where they explain problems they have run into, solutions for those problems, and anything else they want to talk about. I can watch that persons video every single week and sometimes multiple videos a week. That is what killed ALL OF THESE garbage car shows. They were no "what really happens in a shop" because if 10% of that actually happened in a real work environment they would have been sued by every employee to walk through that shop for creating a hostile work environment and breaking various other rules of employee/employer relationships. No business would last a year with employees/management acting the way they did on these shows. I worked in the industry for years. I did it on both the tech side and the body side of the shop with 7 ASE tech certs, parts certification, and 2 ASE certs on the body side. None of the things these shows had going on in the shop would be allowed by a competent manager/owner. All of that drama just slows down the work, creates issues between employees and hurts the bottom line. That's why they failed, because they were 100% manufactured crap. They built cars (I assume) but other than that it was nothing more than a soap opera for men who wanted the experience of working in an automotive shop but didn't have any idea that these shows were nothing like actually doing it. None of these shows represent what it's like to work in any kind of place of employment. That kind of behavior would not be allowed in 1990 and certainly not in the last 10 years. These car shows were the automotive equivalent for men of Love Island or Big Brother. The people involved know that playing things up and causing drama gets idiots attention long enough to make it look like the show is successful. So everyone ends up being a big problem and it grows over time. Big Brother and Love Island can keep going because they have a short run and then replace everyone. You can't do that in a shop and the fake drama just builds and builds until it ends up turning into real drama and hurt feelings. It's a terrible formula and these shows should be kept in the public eye as an example of how not to run a business. They can't reboot them because TV doesn't work like youtube. Cleetus McFarland couldn't do his show on TV. Phantomworks could have been a really good show if the owner wasn't such an uptight dickhead 99% of the time and the other 1% was him crying about a customers sob story because of how special their late fathers car is to them. It was a horror to watch. The answer to "why this car show stopped" is going to be "because it was bullshit" and that's really all that needs to be said. OMG WE HAVE TO GET THIS CAR READY IN 1 WEEK OR WE WONT MAKE SEMA. STFU and GTFO nobody gives a rats pubic hair that you waited way too long to get your SEMA car ready. It was sitting there in the shop, you had all the parts, you had employees able to work on it but you kept them on something else so you would have a big crunch drama for an episode to get the car ready. That is every one of these car shows in the last 10 years. It's like people who wake up at the last minute and then drive 100mph to work because their lazy asses couldn't set the alarm 20 minutes earlier and get out of bed like a normal human would. There is no drama except the drama these guys invented themselves.
The other Canadian financially supported cable tv show is Texas Metal. Another show with a creative owner behind the wheel. Canadian viewership seems to prefer builds over the drama when it comes to their tv car culture. Maybe because a typical hot rod costs 3 to 4 times more to build in the GWN than in the States. The brains at Summit Racing really need to think about international expansion into Canada.
Canadian here. I don't watch may cable TV car shows for this exact reason. I can't deal with made for TV drama, unrealistic time lines, and trying too hard for the camera. I didn't think richard rawlings could be a bigger douche bag that he comes off as on TV, meeting him in personal briefly at roadkill live proved me wrong.
Sorry to say, all these network people somehow think drama, yelling, cussing each other out, and weird characters is what drives ratings. I can't figure out why they don't realize we watch the shows to see how talented people build cars. I'm sure there are quite a few people, like me, who build cars in their garages and want to see metal work, engine and transmission work, and suspension work when they aren't doing it themselves. TV producers have always been about tinsel and I guess people with that propensity will just ruin anything they don't understand. I hate Vegas Rat Rods is gone.
I hate the bullshit drama that’s injected into these shows. I work together with a crew every day and we work together to solve problems and we have a drama free workplace. In fact, I would expect 99% of the individuals reading my comment have a mostly drama free workplace. Just show the builds from start to finish and eliminate the artificial drama. It’s a huge turn off
Isn't a American rat rod shop business not Canadian steve moved to lo vages from the Dakota's north or south the film crow is from Canadian just like gold rush welder up was on RUclips years before they were on TV do your research you make a video and there was one or two cast members that were Canadian but the business was never in Canadian
The show was Canadian produced and funded. Part of the funding was based on training which is where the Canadian women came from. For all intents and purposes it was a Canadian TV show shot in Vegas with mostly Yanks in the cast.
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Is it just me or discovery gets great shows started, Then screws them up injecting their "Hollywood" BS that nobody really wants??
Like West coast customs or Occ or Monster Garage with Jessie James. Although I think we can all agree that pimp my ride was kinda fucked from the start but that was MTV anyway...
thats exactly what happens. Perfect example is Gas Monkey...Richard became all Hollywood....zero quality cars.
They always want to make it about drama instead about building cars.
"We gotta finish this or we'll lose the shop!!!" ....yyyyuck.
They want his first born
The answer to the question was 10 minutes too long.
But what was the answer? Canadians, female's, I honestly must have missed it...
@@exogator naw it was covid lol
NO SHIT!!!
Nah none of that
Still doing his welder up show on the web,it's popular and his shop is a tourist attraction here in lasvegas, ,Steve comes to cars and coffee with some of his rods ,really cool guy, takes pictures with anybody who wants one
I wish I would’ve known when I came out there last year I would’ve loved to stop by the shop I’m a big fan
Yeah, real cool guy. He's a rip-off artist. Super cool dude. His son buys a dirt bike for $200, leaves it in the middle of a parking lot, it gets run over. Not only did he charge the guy driving the car $50 more than the bike was worth, but then he shook down the PASSENGER of the car for ANOTHER $250! So he got back $300 more than he lost, and that passenger? His own family member he shook down, over something that wasn't the family members fault, for a dollar amount he didn't even deserve, when Steves son was at fault in the first place, for parking his dirt bike in the middle of a traffic lane of the parking lot... Where do you think he learned that kind of behavior from? From his dear old dad, Steve darnell, who pulls that exact type of s*** on people all the time. A new generation of ripoff artist coming around already, and he was only even a teenager...
If something is worth $2,000, and someone offers to sell it to Steve for $1,000, Steve will come back with a $200 offer, and lowball the person until he buys it for the absolute lowest dollar amount that he can get it, and if it's anywhere near what the item is actually worth Steve just won't buy it at all. He has to get over on the person, or he won't buy an item, because he refuses to make a fair deal. He literally has to get over on the person, because it's a fair deal he won't do it... Yeah, real cool guy
When my cable bill starting costing more than my food bill for my family i had to cut the cord. Sorry never saw the show. But i saved over 2 thousand a year.
you didn;t miss a thing
Wait so your food only cost you $2000 a year for your family can you lead me in the right direction please.
That worked a few years ago. Now every single channel is going to have their own streaming service. I got rid of DirectTV but now if I want to watch Formula 1 its $80 for the year and MotoGP is $165 for the year. That's on top of Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, Hulu, and who knows what else my wife is subscribed to. So Cutting the cord was a great idea 5 years ago but it's about to turn into the exact same thing as cable tv. Only instead of paying one person you have 15 different bills every month for streaming services.
Pretty soon we will have them getting together and making "streaming packages" that combine multiple streaming services. We will be right back to cable TV but over ip instead of coax with set top boxes.
Also if you could feed your family for less than $200 a month you have a small family (2 people no kids) or your entire family is horribly malnourished. My family of 5 spends close to $200 a week on groceries and that is bargain hunting and using coupons.
Cable ain't worth it that's such a rip-off specially Comcast
I agree with Heath. The craftsmanship and skill designing and building collector cars and trucks is enough. Fake drama and time issues detract and diminish those shows to the point they become unwatchable.
I think most of us have no idea the amount of pressure, and stress a production crew puts on a real life business. VRR is one example, another is Fantomworks. Dan Short did a very thorough job of explaining why he had to end his show after 8 seasons. I was sad to see FW go, but I could not argue with his reasoning.
That was one of my favorite shows , going to miss Fantom Works
I hardly watched that one but I pass it all the time in Norfolk...actually met Steve and Dave in Vegas. It was awesome
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The Discovery Channel:
("There focus wasn't the cars.")
Well I'd say there's where your problem started, and ended !
The problem was Steve had to jump through hoops like some dog. He's a freakin artist, not some kick dog that rich fucks shit on.
@@unchained20000000 well he should have figured out the costumer is always right
SOoo, after What? Happened?
Covid? The chick leaving? A fart?
No point!
He has RUclips it's called welder up they put out regular episodes on there why would I want to go to motor trend or discovery
When will they realize cable tv is headed out the door?
Glad to know that Thx
Motor trend not even going to be available for people in uk soon. How shit
Cable went to hell when they got rid of the Speed channel
This guys voice makes me feel like my iq is tanking
So, this explanation almost mirrors the Phantom Works one, and also the reasons for pulling the plug on their respective shows.
Litterally 3 seconds of things that happened, but 10 mins of history
@Scott Robinson found em
I'm surprised the EPA didn't jump on them as soon as they saw the Diesel Smoke from the engines kinda like they did to the Diesel Bros. and fine them out of house and home...... Love what they built for sure.
Hope they bring this awesome show back. There is a huge following of it over here in the UK and we love our Rat Rods too.
Got instagram?? Go follow him there..i enjoye every trip and vids he post there...♥️🤟
They still produce cool videos of builds. Just not for the discovery channel, which is fine.
@@Axial32 i use to like this too it was called "Sin City Motors" in UK. I thought it was a UK production as it had the Dave / UK TV Logo in the credits
Wasn’t this the show where he found an old guy in the Desert with a really valuable old Las Vegas Sign and paid peanuts for it and selling it for a fortune thinking he was so clever. The old guy looked like he didn’t have much to live on. Stopped watching it after that.
I am 79 years old living vicariously watch cool RUclips content. Your stuff is BY FAR the coolest I’ve seen yet.
"in an industry dominated by men" - Thank Christ!!!
love this show it was different from every car show on TV so disappointed the way it turned out at the end please come back
Thanks for answering my wonder as to why The Canadian Film Board logo appears on car shows that are clearly not Canadian.
I’m pretty sure that vegas rat rods have a RUclips channel
They do it's Steve's Darnells Account.
The show ended because Steve didn't want to be locked to what someone tells him too. He decided, not someone else. I talked to him, and Merlin at length about it at SEMA..Seems like you want clicks.
Agreed
Brian you must believe everything your told because Steve lied to you kid...
@@dieseldabz7104 Kid..that's funny, I'm probably older than you. I'm glad you have the inside scoop. There were other people in the industry there with us, but ok. I know multiple people from Discovery/MotorTrend
Going with how Discovery treat their "talent" I'm inclined to believe you. They seem to be focused on tv production schedules not fabrication/build schedules.
@@Ibiza210 I agree.. Even though it's the same " company " the MotorTrend merge has helped some.. I have heard some behind the scenes from several shows, and become friends with several people on shows.
Waaaaaaaaay better than Street Outlaws and OCC . I hope the cars are better made than Occ choppers.
Welder up had some cool cars.
My wife and I haven't watched TV for many years. We do watch a few internet shorts pertaining to our interests. No drama is very good. Unfortunately, we now have to be active in replacing our incompetent, and criminal infested government. We hope others will join us, and are successful in the removal of these criminals.
the video series "officially ended after this" is very clickbaity. its never been just ONE event.
I liked the show...I even spotted them hitting the bong on a build.
I got stoned with Steve then spent 3 hours starting random engines lying around in his yard
"The Dude abides"...¡☆☆☆
What episode did u see it on?
@@scottrobinson9666 i think it might have been the cab over truck build...its right near the end ..it was a truck build I remember for sure.
Also was hitting the cute girl with tattoos and big tits and that caused a HUGE problem...
great show, hope it makes a return!
I remember watching a few episodes on Quest and it was called Sin City Motors
I love that show and steve darnell.
So what your saying is the Discovery channel ruined Vegas Rat Rods and Gas Monkey Garage, Welder up, OCC all because Discovery wanted projects done on their schedule and not the time actually needed? Maybe Discovery needs to change their schedule.
Right
If you feel the need to PHUCK something up.....just bring in the cameras....Steve had WAY more patience than I ever had with PRIMA DONNAS
Im a metal shpaper and I hated watching them hack up the good cars thereby destroying good American classic cars. I cringed during the 55 (approximately 55) chevy. What they did to the sheetmetal was awful. That and how "no fucks given" attitude the owner has about everything.
Admittedly not for everyone ....but why WATCH.....If you're Canadian, I understand...lmao
They should have ended the show before they ran over the Pontiac with tank
That was the idiots on misfit garage
So it was canceled due to low ratings, which sounds about right. The problem with this & so many others is, they lose their way, we watch them for the car when they get established that all goes out the window, it turns into stupid antics & ego's add to that the inevitable greed & vanity & no one that watched it for the cars wants to see what stupid preconceived shit they get up to.
Yes it would be nice to get the show back on it was the best one that I always watched bring it back
Saw it in person. Very very strong very very awesome .glad it off .discover kills tv
Stumbled across a shoot for this show on Fremont while visiting Vegas. Got shooed out of the way by the producer as I had no idea what was up with the Davetar booth.
That’s kinda rude of them haha
Sorry buddy I love your videos welder up I will miss you buddy come back on when you can Steve good luck
Welderup is STILL available on Motor trend on demand...
Also on RUclips
Also on Pluto TV
Wow. Several 12 hour days on a row. Lmao.
Yeah that's called.....ummm....work back where I come from
I am sure the crew was being paid very well for those 12 hour days.
That's not very accurate many of the days were much longer than that. But it was a job and we did get paid for it.
@@grantschwartz8254 12 hours of straight up work on your feet in boots on concrete in the heat is no joke now don’t get me wrong it is a regular work schedule for 3 on 4 off no OT or 4 on 3 off with 4 hours OT anybody with a grain of work ethic can do that but 5-6 day in a row of real work in a tuff environment is not easy for any body 40+ with a family to deal with now at 18-30 no family and young with confidence and skill or need and want for skill can and do 12+ 6 sometime 7 days a week but at 47 years old I can tell you that it gets hard and you’re health can go down hill quickly! Now I still work 10-14+ hours a day 5-6 days a week running my own small business and I’m extremely competent and very skilled in my trade ( HVACR , in the winter I take on Plumbing and electrical jobs as well ) but in the last 3 years my pain level and ability to crawl/climb in and out of tight areas has decreased and become way way harder for me to do multiple times every day ! So I pretty much need a helper to jokey up and down for me daily in other words I’m not as good as I once was but I’m as good once as I’ve ever been ! So don’t knock 12 hour days like it’s child’s play I can promise you it will catch up to you ! Maybe not as soon as it did to me but it will ( I also played just as hard as I worked for 35 years I have been in the field literally my entire life I was running a 3 man install crew for my fathers business at the age of 11 ) and I acted and competed in extreme sports like I weighed 140 lbs instead of 200 + lbs and partied like I just turned 21 from 16 until 36 years young ! Lol Just stating my opinion!
My record was 38 - 12s with a couple 14s mixed in
Absolutely love the show and the crew and the amazing products they put out
They released a season in 2020 and more is coming but on hold due to Covid
It became illegal federally to swap a different engine into a production car body in the 90s
You Said It Was A Hit Show? > So as A Hit? Show How The Hell Was Taken Off the Air!
Damm stev the master of V8 diesel creations ⭐️💝⭐️💝 miss the Madness 🎩
Yes great show ,the dead lines are ridiculous!
This was aired in England but was called sin city motors, loved it
Once the production went US the fake drama went way up and viewers saw that and tuned out then, with the Canadian production it was way less dramatic
By the looks of that office trailor it appears to be simillar to a scene of a certain lost essence from a construction site.
Canadian element is mandated by the Canadian government to maintain their funding is the same as a Canadian radio station having to play Canadian music at least by a certain percentage
At cars and coffee Steve mentioned he was tired from the tv production ,he has a business to run
Hope you come back on Steve will miss your videos take care buddy
These guys couldn’t handle “consecutive 12 hour days”? That’s only half a day😂 I’ve been working 12s and 16s nights and days often 6 days a week, but even up to 10 days in row for 15 years. Give me a show so I can take a break😂
you must of been working when you watched this and commented
@@scumdog88 I was actually.
I live the diesel work, but not into the ridiculous stuff so much. I'm not a rat rod person. I did like the big truck stuff. Might contact him to get something built, I never have time to build my stuff anymore.
They need an older, wealthy clientele to survive. $65k for a C8 Vette or a Rat Rod? Why would I possibly buy a rat rod?
Really miss the show, Steve is a great guy and a good friend to have. Ya have to remember , he has a business to run and make money, thats the name of the game, it's not fun trying to work with a camera up you ass all the time, we are all human and say or make mistakes, if you don't like the cars or the builds, don't watch it. Have been a fan and friend of Steve's for a long time. He's a hard working guy and a good man. As a business owner, he has the rite to go and come as he pleases. Anyone notice the shots from the 5 finger death punch vidio?. Good luck and work steve.☠
Agree!
bro just looks suuper blazed in the thumbnail😂
The Discovery Channel and the History Channel can take a successful business and wreck it in record time. I know one pawn shop that kicked them out because they were tired of the staging and the people they had to deal with. To quote the owner "I was a millionaire before you ever came in the door and I'll be a millionaire when you leave"
Not hard to be successful when your business is taking advantage of desperate folk.
@@commoguru The pawn shop I was referring to was not taking advantage of desperate folks. It's been part of the community for a very long time and helped people with loans that banks wouldn't touch. Some people do stupid things that make themselves "desperate" like gambling.
I really enjoyed our you guys shows I hope you guys come back stronger just don't slip down the hill
Im thinking drawing up me plan to build a mini rat rod with custom tray
I worked with a film crew on a discovery show... 2 days was enough for me!
Was it too spicy?
@@samjohnson4014 That's not cool. Why would you josh him about his name?
Itcan be exhausting, i was to be in texas show where they go around filming old unique businesses, i worked for a hatter named joe peters( Peter Brothers Hat's), worked there as a Hatter for about five years, so these guys come in offering joe the deal, so we all started doing what we normally do, but the film crew wanted the perfect shot, so we had to re- do over and over the same things until they were satisfied, i was exhausted in the first hour, in the end they cut me out of the show. I really dislike the guy, I remember now the name of the show, i think is called' The Texas Country Reporter'.
WelderUp also has a great YT channel. Same name.
I couldn’t hang in there so can somebody tell me why the show ended please ?
Covid I think.
They never really say.
so where was their shop in canada ?
Have you ever put 67 chevell sail panels on a 65 cotvair.
This Video has more Filler than some of those damn Cars.
Really enjoyed the show, no obvious TV BS and seemed to get along well. Very talented. I don’t want to switch on to watch screaming and shouting a-la Orange County Choppers. That was crap.
Darnell! Like the shop owner in the movie “Christine”
Thanks for some info, but please…talent who appears on camera and stars in the show are called cast, not crew.
There is so many people loved doing there builds are just like real hobbies I n his life with rest rods are the best looking rig ever seen
Rust valley best show ever can't wait four 4 seasons. God bless
No cable bill = more go-fast parts. Change my mind.
First of all, the term "rat rod" is something that never existed back when guys were building their "hot rods", in the 30's, 40's 50's, they did not consider their cars rat rods, they were their hot rods, their pride and joy. They didn't have the resources nor the money to buy parts so they used what they could get. The cars people are destroying to build what is marketed as a "rat rod" today is sad. The idea of spending tens of thousands on a car to make it look fake old and pieced together is a joke. I just figured the show thankfully ended because it was bad.
I work 12-16 hour days 5-7 days a week. It’s something you get used to.
What's up with the wreck in the beginning ....
These shows ended because youtube automotive content creators KILLED their entire purpose. Why would I watch a 30-60 minute show where they take a junk car and turn it into a show car or hot rod in that 1 hour show? We don't see any of the work and 50% of the shows were just manufactured drama about a deadline for a car show or parts missing. It's literally just a montage of little clips of welding or sanding.
The youtube content creators just record clips throughout the week and give us some actual insight into what actually goes on in a shop. None of the car builder shows on TV ever did that. I take that back, GEARZ is a great show that actually shows some real work and the processes involved in the work. Unfortunately its a 23 minute show with the entire last segment saved for show sponsors and advertisers. So it's really about 12-15 minutes of actual work and good information. Stacy David seems like a great guy and wonderful ambassador to the public of what goes on in restoring and customizing vehicles.
RUclipsrs are actually spending the time giving viewers info on what they are doing, why they are doing, what makes it important, and the costs involved with it. Discovery network car shows were 100% garbage from the start. Phantomworks, Vegas Rat Rods, and all the others were nothing but fluff and fake drama or over acting how big a deal an issue actually was. I wouldn't turn my vehicle over to jerkoffs that acted like that over small issues like a part being ordered wrong or a fabricator making a small mistake. Nobody who owns a business expects it to go perfectly. Only a real piece of garbage would overreact like they did on these shows.
I can watch a guy build a car and take a year and release a video every week that is 30-40 minutes long and watch it every week. Where they explain problems they have run into, solutions for those problems, and anything else they want to talk about. I can watch that persons video every single week and sometimes multiple videos a week.
That is what killed ALL OF THESE garbage car shows. They were no "what really happens in a shop" because if 10% of that actually happened in a real work environment they would have been sued by every employee to walk through that shop for creating a hostile work environment and breaking various other rules of employee/employer relationships. No business would last a year with employees/management acting the way they did on these shows.
I worked in the industry for years. I did it on both the tech side and the body side of the shop with 7 ASE tech certs, parts certification, and 2 ASE certs on the body side. None of the things these shows had going on in the shop would be allowed by a competent manager/owner. All of that drama just slows down the work, creates issues between employees and hurts the bottom line. That's why they failed, because they were 100% manufactured crap. They built cars (I assume) but other than that it was nothing more than a soap opera for men who wanted the experience of working in an automotive shop but didn't have any idea that these shows were nothing like actually doing it. None of these shows represent what it's like to work in any kind of place of employment. That kind of behavior would not be allowed in 1990 and certainly not in the last 10 years.
These car shows were the automotive equivalent for men of Love Island or Big Brother. The people involved know that playing things up and causing drama gets idiots attention long enough to make it look like the show is successful. So everyone ends up being a big problem and it grows over time. Big Brother and Love Island can keep going because they have a short run and then replace everyone. You can't do that in a shop and the fake drama just builds and builds until it ends up turning into real drama and hurt feelings.
It's a terrible formula and these shows should be kept in the public eye as an example of how not to run a business. They can't reboot them because TV doesn't work like youtube. Cleetus McFarland couldn't do his show on TV. Phantomworks could have been a really good show if the owner wasn't such an uptight dickhead 99% of the time and the other 1% was him crying about a customers sob story because of how special their late fathers car is to them. It was a horror to watch.
The answer to "why this car show stopped" is going to be "because it was bullshit" and that's really all that needs to be said.
OMG WE HAVE TO GET THIS CAR READY IN 1 WEEK OR WE WONT MAKE SEMA. STFU and GTFO nobody gives a rats pubic hair that you waited way too long to get your SEMA car ready. It was sitting there in the shop, you had all the parts, you had employees able to work on it but you kept them on something else so you would have a big crunch drama for an episode to get the car ready. That is every one of these car shows in the last 10 years. It's like people who wake up at the last minute and then drive 100mph to work because their lazy asses couldn't set the alarm 20 minutes earlier and get out of bed like a normal human would. There is no drama except the drama these guys invented themselves.
No Fish NO Tuna Just Soggy Crust
great show hope it returns
Most of these shows have a 4 to 8 season run
The other Canadian financially supported cable tv show is Texas Metal. Another show with a creative owner behind the wheel. Canadian viewership seems to prefer builds over the drama when it comes to their tv car culture. Maybe because a typical hot rod costs 3 to 4 times more to build in the GWN than in the States. The brains at Summit Racing really need to think about international expansion into Canada.
Canadian here. I don't watch may cable TV car shows for this exact reason. I can't deal with made for TV drama, unrealistic time lines, and trying too hard for the camera. I didn't think richard rawlings could be a bigger douche bag that he comes off as on TV, meeting him in personal briefly at roadkill live proved me wrong.
Bad Chad is another one also. Don't really prefer that show tho. Mostly hack builds using coat hangers for welding rods
Great show, welder up has a youtube channel now.
Did anyone see if Jr kept the chair he threw
Why did Parker Brothers Concepts TV show Officially END?
Bring back Philly Throttle!!! Best show discovery channel ever did!!
Twiggy was cool 😎
WTF DID THEY DO THAT STUPID MOVE FOR STEVE IS THE MAN NO ONE IS BETTER THAN STEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did this show ends? Or no? :^
I miss Vegas rat rods
Bait and switch
Do your research! most rats are 20’s and 30’s cars not 40-60’s as you state in the clip...
Guess I'm an OG cord cutter now. Never even heard of any of those shows.
Love watching the show
All bike and car shows, black shirts are mandatory.
Use to watch this show all the time
Sorry to say, all these network people somehow think drama, yelling, cussing each other out, and weird characters is what drives ratings. I can't figure out why they don't realize we watch the shows to see how talented people build cars. I'm sure there are quite a few people, like me, who build cars in their garages and want to see metal work, engine and transmission work, and suspension work when they aren't doing it themselves. TV producers have always been about tinsel and I guess people with that propensity will just ruin anything they don't understand. I hate Vegas Rat Rods is gone.
if anyone still wants to see whats up with them check there youtube channel welder up
Most everyone who watched this video watched the show. This would have been a great 3 minute video.
I hate the bullshit drama that’s injected into these shows. I work together with a crew every day and we work together to solve problems and we have a drama free workplace. In fact, I would expect 99% of the individuals reading my comment have a mostly drama free workplace. Just show the builds from start to finish and eliminate the artificial drama. It’s a huge turn off
Isn't a American rat rod shop business not Canadian steve moved to lo vages from the Dakota's north or south the film crow is from Canadian just like gold rush welder up was on RUclips years before they were on TV do your research you make a video and there was one or two cast members that were Canadian but the business was never in Canadian
The show was Canadian produced and funded. Part of the funding was based on training which is where the Canadian women came from. For all intents and purposes it was a Canadian TV show shot in Vegas with mostly Yanks in the cast.
First off the owner of the shop was a complete tool bag
Whose the bird??
Amazing how much of our tax money gets pissed away doing shit like this.