In article .com, Denny
says...

I have watched a few early episodes of Junkyard Wars, and Monster
garage, and Orange County Choppers, and that custom car guy in
California - Ward something or other -but I have quit... The fake
deadlines and manufactured crises annoy me to the point that I cannot
enjoy watching... Actually what they do with the machinery is
interesting and I dearly love watching rough metal being shaped and
smoothed and painted and coming out looking like a piece of sculpture,
but the crap that the vapid producers use to hype the show ratings is
intolerable...

It's true enough that sometimes things get hyped or overblown. There were enough
real life crises in the first episode I was on to help balance the hype.
There are deadlines but you have the next day called "safety day" to fix up any
potentially dangerous items.All in all it was a lot of fun for me especially if
you take it tongue in cheek. I like you enjoy seeing guys using things like an
english wheel or making ribs by beating metal around wooden forms.
Unfortunately it seems that everyone in Hollywood is following the same format
and think a show can't be interesting unless there is a crises real or
imagined.

See ya

Chuck S