So this is the feel good Roadkill of the fall. Freiburger and Finnegan hit the highway in this episode of the show to get a custom Mercury up and running so they can deliver it to its new owner. They also stop at a bitchin’ hot rod shop and ranch on the way up. In all honesty, this is one of the more laid back episodes of the show. Sure there is wrenching, some roadside fixin’, and the hood ends up in the back of the car, but there are no near death experiences, no tanks, and it actually seems like the pair got to sleep! The dog is back for this episode as well but thankfully there is a 100% reduction in vomit.
The major task of the episode is to fetch a pretty rough Merc convertible that is powered by a big block Chevy engine. Before you get any ideas about big block torque, power, and tire shredding anger, check those at the door. The rat motor in this Mercury has spend some time living in the sewer. By the time the video is over they have coaxed a decent burnout or two out of the car, but it is by no means a rocket ship. Granted, few customs are so it isn’t like we were expecting a Mercury that could run 9s or some business like that, but this thing needs some more oats. The fabrication work on the car is not exactly pro level, but the car does seem to run and drive well enough. Finnegan and Freiburger are able to make at least 66mph down the highway in drama free-fashion. That may be a Roadkill record at least for the level of comfort they are in at the time!
We dig this episode for the simple reason that it isn’t a totally death defying thrash. We can see ourselves on this trip having some laughs, delivering the car, and going home feeling like we had just owned the road for a weekend. There’s not much better than that!
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An episode packed with more ridiculous, negative stereotypical antics than a bad SNL skit.
Examples: a crap-pile Elco . . . Finn’s adolescent need to “peel” at seemingly every intersection . . . Sleep-inducing, pointless (and generally not funny) banter . . . the hamfisted Corona product placement . . . a “Kustom” apparently straight out of the trailer park. . . . the apparently inevitable overheating/ “let’s-rip-off-the-hood” scenes.
“Roadkill” seems more a parody of hot rodding than anything else. Heaven help the poor, pitiful editors who have to chop this hot mess into something they imagine is coherent. “Duck Dynasty” this certainly “ain’t.”
If Wally Parks and Pete Petersen weren’t already dead, watching an episode of this home-movie video monument to a pair of egos would surely kill ’em.
Now, how do I get my 24 minutes back?
If you don’t like it… Don’t watch it! Simple as that…. IMO roadkill is what real hot rodding is all about. Road side wrenching, overheating, making something not running run again or making it way faster and louder than what it really needs to be, Thats what its always been about. Im sure a majority of us have had an experience like the ones mentioned above. Thats what its all about! Its frustrating at the time, but it makes for one hell of a story later on in life.
@ Steve from ICON … love your cars [ the 4×4’s .. not the faked patina restomods ]…. hate this pathetic travesty of all things Hot Rod & Custom TV ‘ show ‘ with a livid passion . THIS .. is what it used to be all about ? In what revisionist history might that be true pray tell ?
This … is low life ” NoBrow ” ( read the damn book ! ) crap for the masses masquerading as ‘Reality TV ‘ [ which all of us in the ‘ industry ‘ as well as in the know know damn full well is scripted months in advance ] pretend wanna be TV about Hot Rod & Custom Culture as it never was .
Fact is … back in the day anyone worth his or her salt would be ashamed of both this show as well as the pitiful ‘ faked ‘ patina’s on these cars . People back in the day TOOK PRIDE in the appearance of their cars .. and did what ever it took and as long as they had to to get em right
No son ….. This ! … is not what it ever was/is or ever should be about
This show … is a bunch of Suburban Urban Hipster wanna be BS pretending to be about Hot Rods and Customs … e.g. This show … and your defense of it … are both a pathetic joke . At our expense and time I might add !
the above should of been Guitarslinger .. not anonymous … just so we’re clear who’s doing the accusing and criticizing here 😉
Glad your hot rodding is so spotless and as clean as a surgical room!
someone needs to get off the internet and get laid and step back into reality
Don’t get out of your mom’s basement much do you?
Maybe you should get some funding and make your own show. Then post it up for the world to see. I bet it would be so amazing that all the gearheads of the world shed a tear while watching it because it would be so ground breaking, visually stunning, educational, entertaining and well…gosh…it would just be swell.
Go rub one out to the Victorias Secret catalog and drink a beer….maybe you’ll feel better.
I feel just fine. And I don’t need an ego-feeding, self-aggrandizing internet “home movie” reality show to prove anything.
If you feel the “Ab Fab” duo are great role models and properly represent the poorly-planned, trashy reality of “real” hot rodding, then feel free to have “Roadkill’s” baby!
Just know that all the sycophantic fan worship/beatification of it is hardly universal.
Sooooo How bout them Raiders eh?
Look, they are having some fun. Don’t take it too badly, at least they have street cred, unlike the CNBC jabronies.