Overhaulin’
New to the reality/home-improvement television genre is reality/auto-improvement. Shows like American Chopper are pretty entertaining even for a non-auto nut like me. The next phase, though, is the Trading Spaces/While You Were Out treatment on shows like MTV’s Pimp My Ride where a pro team takes someone’s wreck of a car and turns it into a chrome-wheeled hip-hop G-ride.
The newest show is Overhaulin’ on TLC. I’m looking forward to this one especially since 11 years of driving an extremely practical 72HP econo-ride has me feeling like the perfect candidate. I guess the hitch here is they do it to unsuspecting car owners and have to use some clever tactics to part them from their cars for a week. I’ll be watching for sure.