Last night I unfortunately stumbled upon one of the newest car reality shows, but hopefully it won't be on long. It starred a guy named Mark Muller. You probably have never heard of him, but maybe you have heard of his brother, who is the radio shock jock named Mankow(Erich Muller). He also appears on the show, but the show apparently is more about his brother's alleged auto sales business. The show has the over-the-top title "God, Guns and Automobiles". In the opening credits for the show, Mark Muller claims to be a huge gear head and car guy, and if course he supposedly owns a car dealership, which I guess sometimes sells classic cars. He must be in his early 60's, and he's a self professed car guy, so you'd assume he'd know something about classic cars of the 60's.
Well, what happened in the first few seconds of time that I had ever watched this show really illustrated the current state of "reality" shows in America, and helped shine a light on the credibility of these shows. As in all reality shows, they take the shows stars aside and have them sort of narrate what is just about to happen in that portion of the show. So Mark is telling us how he is visiting this classic car dealership, looking at a 1964 Ford Galaxy. Then they show him and Mankow in this shop looking at this, umm, 1964 Galaxy. Problem is, it's NOT a '64...... They don't really show much film of the car, but it appears to be a 1966. It's got the over-under dual headlights instead of the side by side lights of the 64. This might not have been that big a mistake, if the 64-66 Galaxy's shared the same basic body style, but they don't. Ford made a major redesign of the Galaxy in 65. So the later model Galaxy is a VERY different car than the 62-64 design. It amazed me that nobody on that show, including the 60 something year old "car guy", nor the alleged classic car dealer, nor the producers of the show knew the difference and at least edited the narration sequence so that the year of the Galaxy was cut out.
In my opinion, there isn't much if any reality in reality tv anymore, and these classic car buy and sell reality shows seem staged to me. That makes them difficult to watch when you know you're being duped. It's occasionally cool to look at the car pictured in these shows for a few seconds if you happen to switch by that channel, but I turn on something else soon after. I did like Pinks and All Out though.
What's your opinion on these shows?
Well, what happened in the first few seconds of time that I had ever watched this show really illustrated the current state of "reality" shows in America, and helped shine a light on the credibility of these shows. As in all reality shows, they take the shows stars aside and have them sort of narrate what is just about to happen in that portion of the show. So Mark is telling us how he is visiting this classic car dealership, looking at a 1964 Ford Galaxy. Then they show him and Mankow in this shop looking at this, umm, 1964 Galaxy. Problem is, it's NOT a '64...... They don't really show much film of the car, but it appears to be a 1966. It's got the over-under dual headlights instead of the side by side lights of the 64. This might not have been that big a mistake, if the 64-66 Galaxy's shared the same basic body style, but they don't. Ford made a major redesign of the Galaxy in 65. So the later model Galaxy is a VERY different car than the 62-64 design. It amazed me that nobody on that show, including the 60 something year old "car guy", nor the alleged classic car dealer, nor the producers of the show knew the difference and at least edited the narration sequence so that the year of the Galaxy was cut out.
In my opinion, there isn't much if any reality in reality tv anymore, and these classic car buy and sell reality shows seem staged to me. That makes them difficult to watch when you know you're being duped. It's occasionally cool to look at the car pictured in these shows for a few seconds if you happen to switch by that channel, but I turn on something else soon after. I did like Pinks and All Out though.
What's your opinion on these shows?
