pimp my ride is my new favorite show. it's the dumbest show ever but i love it. i can't help it. everything about it appeals to everything i love in life.
it's one thing to take a shitty beat-up car and fix it up with non-broken parts so it looks nice and new and runs well.
it's another to give a boxy 1980s sedan a spoiler, a moon-roof, drop it down, give it huge chrome rims, a flashy paint job, neon running lights, a ps2 in the backseat, and so on and so forth.
i love it. it bypasses the practical, useful, boring upgrades of most of the new makeover reality shows, going instead for excess and luxury where there should be neither.
some kid had a pickup truck that was falling apart he used for hauling auto parts around; they made it a lowrider, painted it orange, made the doors remote controlled, and put a cover over the bay. the cover is on hydraulics and pops up to reveal A GODDAMN PING-PONG TABLE!!! and pull THAT off to get at the gamecube with tv, speakers, and a couch built into the truck bay.
one of the other cars ended up with a fish-tank installed between the rear seats; and they'd torn out the rear bench and installed two more bucket seats.
they tried to put a flamethrower on the exhaust pipes of one car, but it wasn't street legal so they had to take it off.
this show hits exactly the same cool nerve as junkyard wars and monster garage. there's nothing cooler than taking something and turning it into something completely different, with little to no practical value, for absolutely no reason.
it's one thing to take a shitty beat-up car and fix it up with non-broken parts so it looks nice and new and runs well.
it's another to give a boxy 1980s sedan a spoiler, a moon-roof, drop it down, give it huge chrome rims, a flashy paint job, neon running lights, a ps2 in the backseat, and so on and so forth.
i love it. it bypasses the practical, useful, boring upgrades of most of the new makeover reality shows, going instead for excess and luxury where there should be neither.
some kid had a pickup truck that was falling apart he used for hauling auto parts around; they made it a lowrider, painted it orange, made the doors remote controlled, and put a cover over the bay. the cover is on hydraulics and pops up to reveal A GODDAMN PING-PONG TABLE!!! and pull THAT off to get at the gamecube with tv, speakers, and a couch built into the truck bay.
one of the other cars ended up with a fish-tank installed between the rear seats; and they'd torn out the rear bench and installed two more bucket seats.
they tried to put a flamethrower on the exhaust pipes of one car, but it wasn't street legal so they had to take it off.
this show hits exactly the same cool nerve as junkyard wars and monster garage. there's nothing cooler than taking something and turning it into something completely different, with little to no practical value, for absolutely no reason.