Américars: rapides et musclés

For all the haggling and worrying about money etc, Richard apparently receives $50k per episode from Discovery and if celebritynetworth is even remotely accurate, he's also worth about $15m, so he's scarcely on the breadline.

So to retain the Discovery contract, he needs to keep the viewer entertained and that doesn't happen by looking at the intimate aspects of a car build and the shop usually farms out work that they can't do anyway. So you don't watch the show to take notes as to what to do for your own '67 Fastback restoration job, no you watch the show to see the interaction between the people and be entertained. Christie & Sue are the real stars of the show. Christie never takes a backward step in front of the boss and Sue is just hilarious, "why you always bring me junk?"

You get the usual formulaic car show things, ie., check out the car, detract its worth, haggle on the price etc but the episodes zip along at a good pace and sometimes throw in some very clever spins (such as the Smokey & the Bandit episode) and the few cameo's the show has along the way.

Richard is actually quite an astute businessman though & the show has followed the growth of Gas Monkey from a rented space at Phipps Automotive to his own premises, to opening his own restaurant & then taking Tom Smith, his most engaging employee/star (outside of Aaron), "firing" him, and hey, look, Richard's producing a show called "Misfit Garage" about Tom & Jordan's rival set up, "Fired Up Garage", who, surprise surprise, are renting the space at Phipps' once more....

Richard's no dummy and as long as he keeps me entertained with whatever show he has, I'll keep watching and laughing.

If you want a serious car show, I'm sure they exist somewhere but this isn't it.

Now, where's my beer assistant?

I use to like this show ... But I don't watch it anymore ..Not sure if anyone else has really paid attention but.. out of all the shows I have not seen A Hispanic or a colored person in the show !! "All" of his employees and All the people he hangs out with on the show are all White !!! All those people he has working for him are all white !! Seriously .. And as for Aaron He thinks way too highly of himself ! I also think they rip a lot of people off !!They tell the people they buy the cars from that their car isn't worth what they want.. Then when they sell it oh..its a different story !!! And last but not least. I really hate when they have a really nice ride that's is worth a bunch of money and they Mess it up by putting that Dumb Gas Monkey Logo on it !! Why spend all that money on a ride and put that on it??

I used to watch fast n loud a lot more than I do now. i like watch fast n loud to see what cars Richard buys. And interested to see what Gas monkey does with those cars.

I get tired of hearing that there is a deadline and they must hurry to get the car finished. They seem to always be behind schedule. Ii don't watch fast n loud to see if gas monkey gets a car fixed up by the deadline which they always do so where is the Suspense. I am not interested in whether Richard loses money on a deal or the mechanics get fired because they did not finish the job on time.

On the episode I watched they did not say that they were behind schedule a lot. It seems like they did say that a lot more in past seasons.

I like the car part of fast n loud. The rest of it I can live without.

Rawlings must get paid each time he calls for a Lite beer.

Love the old cars, but not a fan of Aaron's spectacular visions which usually would have been better off left alone. To me the guys in the garage and support builders are the hero's of this show.

Reality my ass! Wish I had friends that would pay such inflated prices for the crap they turn out. Outside making money from the show itself I really doubt making money as depicted.

Richard Rawlings is a marketing genius and smart businessman, but that's the only real part about this reality show. It's certainly entertaining, but the unrealistic deadlines and lipstick-on-a-pig tactics, don't exactly lend itself to actual high-end, quality-based builds. It's a highly scripted show created entirely for entertainment purposes, and not a real business that existed beforehand. Great fun for car enthusiasts, and nice projects for publicity sake, but I personally prefer shows that are a little more reality-based.