Translation: "Yeah, good luck with all that."
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All the fighting was more irritating than entertaining and I haven’t watched the show since the first season or two.
I always just assumed the fighting was just show. Didn’t realize that it was real.
I quit watching this show a while back but the wife had it on the other night and I took a peek. What’s up with Paul Sr. (dad)? Did he quit the steroids? And I heard Mikey was in rehab...?
IIRC, they built a bike for Sarah Palin and delivered it to her in Alaska. Perhaps someone has a photo of the bike to post on this thread?
If there was ever a pair I wanted to see ride off on “donorcycles” it was these two.
If they wiped out Dog the Bountyhunter at the same time it would be a plus.
Great looking motorcycles, but I couldn’t watch the show.
Same for the late Boyd Coddington.
If you want to see truly nice people build spectacular vehicles, watch “Overhaulin’” with Chip Foose, one of the nicest guys in the business. And one of the most talented.
Oh, and, Chip... my ‘57 Pontiac is just waiting in my garage to be overhauled. Hint Hint
They built these huge buildings and homes and now they will watch it all crash and burn on them. One of the most dysfunctional families I've ever seen.
That thing is still on?
The Chopper fad is over for now. Every thing cycles but with the capital out lay of money for the new OCC could be the end of OCC.
I liked some of the personalities and watching the creative process as they built the bikes but I really didn’t like watching dad and son fight. So I stopped watching.
Sorry to hear that things have gotten so ugly in the family.
The Teutels older custom rides, by older I mean prior to the tv show, are now selling for pretty hefty discounts in the local Orange county area due to the recession and lots of the baby boomer customers trying to offload the toys to raise cash.
A custom car shop owner about 10 minutes from the Teutel’s old shop told me his business is off over 50% from 2007. If the custom car market is off by that much I can’t imagine how the smaller custom cycle market is fairing.
Harley Davidson jsut reported it’s first quarterly loss in over 16 years, to give some color to that thought. http://seekingalpha.com/article/183966-harley-davidson-first-loss-in-16-years
“We’ve got Harley-Davidson (HOG) having a tough morning because their orders dropped 53% compared to the same period last year. Going to be a tough time in 2010” CNBC’s Squawk on the Street 1/22/2010
All I got out of the series is a custom motorcycle is pounded until things fit, weld on dumb things, chrome it then sell it for 10x what its worth.
I wondered why I’ve been seeing frozen tears on the cheeks of guys wearing ‘Orange County Choppers’ silkscreened hats who had never been to Orange County NY nor Orange County CA for that matter and who had never ridden a chopper nor even a motorcycle. But the guy next door had an OCC shirt so they followed suit.
I turned off American Chopper when they started trying to make a hero out of that bungling slacker idiot Mikey. There’s a guy who would have to train to keep a seat warm and he’s part of the build team? Either he truly is the buffoon they portrayed him as and he shouldn’t be allowed in the shop, or they fictionalized his character to broaden the show’s appeal to the brain-dead demographic. In either case, the chrome peeled off that show faster than it did off one of OCC’s mufflers.
http://www.carolenash.com/insidebikes/bike-news/1m-lawsuit-in-american-chopper-feud.htm
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