Gas MOnkey Garage / Dodge commercials

[bobtile]

Anyone see these yet? I like the show for its entertainment value. Not so much for the cars and builds they do. But this is stupid. They are clearly Mopar haters.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOqOfIdYJ9s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhGKoaMWM0U


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsxTICCeoNE

 

[Bruzilla]

Just saw the Double Up one. On the plus side, maybe this will get them to start taking a better look at Mopars. Just think of it... getting to see Mopars worked on without the horse's asses from GYC drama! Talk about a win-win.

Also, I don't think they're Mopar haters. The only thing I've ever heard being hated on was Mustangs. I think they don't dabble in Mopars because until very recently they've been too expensive to buy and work on. These guys have been about buying cars for next to nothing, and dropping in a bunch of readily-available aftermarket gizmos and flipping them, and that's tough to do with "Oh, you have a Mopar... they don't make these for those" cars.

 

[Budnicks]

just now saw them, in a couple of posts above, I haven't seen any on the boob tube, as of yet... looks like it's right up Richards alley to me.... :headbang:

 

[1969 Dodge Coronet]

I've seen this show before and frankly I get tired of the plot devices they use in this show such as phony deadlines, confrontations between the master mechanic, the owner, and the garage staff, etc. That stuff is recycled from a million other car and bike shows and gets in the way.

The master mechanic does do some good work, I'll give him that much credit. It seems though that he wants to lower everything he works on. Gas Monkey doesn't seem to work on many MoPars either. They're mainly a Generic Motors/Blue Oval shop from what I've seen but they did do a major job on that Ferrari that was crunched in the front. I got to admit that it was pretty ballsy for the owner of the shop to take a project on like that when the parts alone would cost in the thousands of dollars. You had to know though that he had already figured out how he was going to flog the car and get his money out of it before the videographer had shot even the first scene.

 

[Bruzilla]

The only Mopar they've done that would interest most of us was an old Challenger, and all they did was drag it home and flip it. The problem is, as we all know so well, there's TONS of cool stuff you can do to most any Chevy or Ford, but when you get to 66-74 Mopars, that list gets really frigging short. You can redo a lot of cars a lot of ways, but once you start talking vintage Mopars there's some decent OEM stuff, but "cheap and available custom parts" and "vintage Mopar cars" are just two phrases that don't mix. GMG does stuff fast & cheap, and Mopars don't fit that formula very well.

Besides, I can just imagine the whailing and nashing of teeth if Rawlings drug home a nice Charger or Road Runner and let Aaron lower it, drop a 350 in it, and do all the other crap he loves to do to cars. Oh, how the hate mail would fly!

As for the commercials, I'm digging them. They are funny and cool, and like the Road Runner did in 68 might just expand Mopar appeal to a different group of people, and that can be nothing but a good thing after that horrible Ron Burgundy/Anchorman II fiasco of a marketing campaign. I think Will Ferrell and his mom were the only ones who saw that movie, and Fast & Loud is one of the most popular shows on cable.

 

[Sonny Black]

Sonny just happened to view the commercial, I have new respect:VB toast: for those two jags....



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[ma mopar nutz]

exactly its all about the all mighty $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$:headbang:

 

[Budnicks]

I saw a couple of "new" Gas Monkey/Richard Rawling commercials for the new Dodge lease programs & another new one last night on Discovery or Velocity

 

[BahamaA12RR]

When they took the motor out of the old Dodge truck and put a brand X motor in it, and when he jumped on the hood of the old Polara and smashed it and said "take this piece of crap to the scrapper"- that's when they lost me. :no:

They are idiots! :jerk:

 

[HT413]

I like the commercials. The first one you posted shows they know how over the top mopars are.

Like Bruz said, they cant afford to mess with mopars.

 

[satman72]

I think thats the thing. It's easy to take Fords & GM's and buy em cheap & do stuff to them. It doesn't work with Mopars because there simply isn't as many of them around.

 

[Bruzilla]

I think thats the thing. It's easy to take Fords & GM's and buy em cheap & do stuff to them. It doesn't work with Mopars because there simply isn't as many of them around.

All of us have had that experience of walking up to an auto parts store with the big signs out front that say "ALTERNATORS $29 and up", "STARTERS $39 and up", or "HEADERS $79 and up", and when we go in we find out "and up" means Mopar. You want SBC headers, they're $79... oh, you want small block Mopar? Oh, those are $379."

Whole lot cheaper to mod and flip a Ford or Chevy than a Mopar even when you're dealing with new parts.

 

[65moneypit440]

^x2. But seeing older Mopars in popular media, even with people like RR in front, is a good thing. And as awesome as Chargers, Roadrunners, E-bodies, etc are, it's nice to see a '65 Coronet tail end,even if it's up on the lift.
Did anyone else notice what I believe were the only two Chrysler products in the Jersey Boys movie? A (I think) '56 and a '65 Coronet. There might have been a '60 Plymouth too-just the front fender. What others did I miss?