Agree for the most part, but I'd grade Ant higher and Mike lower.
Warning ..... serious rant ahead:
Car fix: Jared and Lou were awesome, never missed it. A's for both.
But for some reason they were replaced this year and the show is now pretty much worthless, I had to remove the show from my record list.
Two guys garage:
One of the worst shows on TV period. Almost as bad as goblin works but not quite.
Dufffasses trying to act like street gangstas with all their stupid animated motions, wanna-be wrappers. Like vanilla ice on meth pretending to work on a car.
Absolutely horrible.
it was good back in the old days with Sam Mimosa, but not anymore.
The guys on graveyard cars are finally starting to warm up, the technical stuff are incredible and I've learned to ignore the stupid antics of Mark worm-Er. the show would be much better with him behind the camera instead of in front of it.
Galpin garage's show: Can't remember the name of the show because they keep changing it. Car kings maybe?
Incredible cars, incredible guests, top of the heap as far as car history IF you can stomach the dumb stuff.
10 minutes of intro personal crap, 10 minutes of poser reveal at the end, and in the middle if they have time, they might show about 3 minutes of incredible car work.
IOW, here's a historic famous show car, but it's a basket case.
And when we come back after the commercial, it will be completely repainted, new interior, rebuild drive train, and ready to drive.
Get a haircut, forget the side distractions, and focus on the cars.
Don't show more footage of driving to get parts than you show on restoring the car.
Just about any car show NOT on motor trend:
infomercial.
Ian on fourwheeler: A+
Good guy, doesn't take himself too seriously, knows his **** and does great fabrication. Awesome show and I'm not into 4-wheeling, but get rid of the dooosh hair fer pete's sake.
geared up:
new show, terrible acting, painful to watch, won't tune in again. If it makes it to the end of the season something is wrong.
Restoration garage: good show from canadia, I like what they do, but they talk kinda funny
Fantomworks: over-the top faux-anger crap acting, but good details of work on cars.
Cancelled, not sure if I'll miss it or not.
Speed is the new black/texas whatever/iron resurrection/diesel bros etc etc etc
generic with two much emphasis on non-remarkable personalities: pass. Not interested.
Dirt every day. awesome show, never miss it.
Any show with Finnegan or Freiburger, must watch. Best on TV period. Dulshich (sp?) is cool too. you can tell he's real.
Hot rod garage: love the show, love the detail and work they do, Lucky is the greatest, it would be better if Tony would tone down the Napoleon complex a couple notches.
Street outlaws: Nope. Fake.
Salvage hunters, nope.
Desert car clowns: they build clapped out crap out of junk with an earl sheib paint job and pretend to sell it for a gozillion dollars, nope.
Truck-U, good show. Bruno does OK, other guy does good. Too much blatant infomercial stuff.
garage squad: good show, Joe Zolper is awesome. Bruno is ok but gets in the way sometimes, but not too bad. I miss heather storm, did you know that she's 56 years old? Very nice.
Cristy Lee is doing OK, needs to relax and be herself. It isn't a photo-shoot
All girls garage: haven't bothered to watch it in many years. And won't.
full custom garage:
good guy, smart, incredible skilz but makes too many bondo works of art, not real cars. Shame.
Richard Rawlings: read too many of his own press clippings, acts like an ass because it's just in his nature. No thanks.
Wayne Carini: class act, good show.