Tex Mex Motors

I've watched other very obviously fake car shows on Netflix, but none so obviously fake as this. It's a shame as the show doesn't need the silly dramatisations.

People watched pimp my ride to see the car transform (as ridiculous and often dangerous and pointless as those transformations were). I don't know why these shows can't do the same format as pimp my ride but with the actual talent that these people obviously have.

The transformations look great, and though I know nothing about cars the general consensus seems to be that these guys actually know what they're doing. Such a shame they aren't just showcasing that talent in a real way without the bad acting and dumb setups.

At episode one they have to put rocks to stop the wheels from rolling when they sell it to the estate agent. What ???? A new refurbished car that the handbrake doesn't work!!! Nice work. Plus at the close ups you can see that the paint job is white and someone left as a mark red fingerprints on it. In short very poor job. I imagine that the buyer isn't real and it's all part of the show. Otherwise I don't see the reason to buy that car for 30.000 dollars. And when we talk about staging how come the cops stop them in Mexico and the film crew suddenly from close ups end up a mile away, not mentioning the cop who is full of tattoos.

I've watched plenty of car resto shows in my time and although I love the location, the 'characters' are just far too irritating especially Scooter. I had to fast forward through the majority of the season just to avoid having to see or hear him! He ruins the show in my opinion. The cars are poorly restored besides new paint jobs not much is done. Interiors are barely touched. Maybe I'm expecting a bit more class and cars that look professionally restored not cars that appear to have been done in someone's backyard. If it's wasn't for some of the gorgeous cars I would have stopped at episode 1.

I was enjoying this show, but something didn't seem right. Then the fourth episode they kept calling a white Z28 camaro an "IROC". Not all Z28s were given the label IROC. At the end when you see the before/after shots, pay attention to the rear bumper where the Z28 and IROC symbols are. Those symbols are not interchangeable witjout changing the bumper. Either they replaced the hood, front and rear bumpers with Z28 parts, or it is a different car. And as someone who has had a few IROCs, I put my money on the ending car being a different car. I'm not saying they couldn't have changes the parts, but if that's the case, he kept calling it an IROC BEFORE the parts swap when it wasn't one.

Driving into Juarez, Mexico to find cheap classics and bringing them back to the US to polish up and sell is what it's all about. It's fun to watch, the characters grow on you. Rabbit (whose voice sounds like king Zog from disenchantment) is the slick buyer/salesman who could probably sell Henry Ford a car, and Scooter his giddy, keen sidekick with connections to sellers in Juarez. They make for a entertaining buddy roadtrip duo. Some other comments are saying it's fake, that they film the Mexican segments in rural New Mexico are right and wrong. It looks like the cars are actually bought in Juarez then brought back, but some extra "pickup shots' that the production decided to add later are filmed in rural US. I guess it just makes practical sense that if you decide to have a drone shot of them driving away from the purchase, but you didn't think to get that shot at the time, that you'd just find a similar looking location in Texas or New Mexico. It's reality TV, but yeah.. it's still TV. They do seem to push the resto work through fairly quickly, sometimes taking less than an episode on a car, or having two projects in the works. Also, they don't really go into minute details of the resto, usually just focusing on one or two problems and how they fix them. But still, it's easy watching, interesting and some light-hearted humor thrown in.