User Reviews

Seriously one of the worst car shows I've ever seen in my entire life. Acting is bad, very poor writing as well.

Don't bother.

This show has potential if the presenters would include more detail about the restoration, costs, time spent and sourcing of parts WITHOUT making an infomercial like the other shows.

The appraiser opinion is a great idea. The heavy metal background music is tiresome. The scenes around the shop locations is excessive.

I missed the 190SL but did see the 220SE and the 911. My advice, more content, less talk and scenery.

Broadcast on Optimum has endless advertisements to suffer through. I didn't even bother to finish Pinky.

The first episode I watched they supposedly restored a Mercedes for a actress/model. The car they started with had obviously had the top cut off and the car at the finish was a real convertible. Ridiculous.

It takes that car show formula and expands it to the worst of the worst parts of all those, " if we don't finish this car we're going to lose the shop" shows. Hard to watch

I'd they would just take the wife/sister Kelly or whoever she is outta the show, it'd be lots better than it is now. (It'd still be bad, but better) You can tell by watching it she thinks she's gods gift to mankind and that she's just a guru of what these car restos need. Every time they show her name and title it says Diesel Shop name. Wtf does that have to do with it. They seem like they have some cash and have bought themselves their own tv show. The first show is about fixing up her brother or brother n laws truck. That should tell u something. It's one of those things after u watch it ,u feel dumber.

Just so badly scripted, voiceover is terrible. I liked Art and Ralph isn't bad but a bit soft spoken, Kelly needs to get cut out of the show, that might help it a bit.

This show is lame. They sub out all the work, and the owners act like they are experts. Other restoration show the shop's knowledge and expertise, yet this shop dose not do engine work or body work. All they do is assembly and they even have to bring in an expert to determine value of the cars. Just shows the lack of knowledge of the shop. The production is terrible, which makes the show unwatchable. Don't waste your time.

Every other review here hits the nail on the head with how bad this show is. It's produced, in part, by the husband and wife and they're obviously in way over their heads. I'm sure they're hoping this will be expanded beyond the app and make it onto broadcast tv. But at this rate they'll be lucky if they make it through one season without MT pulling the plug. But hey, they'll still have their mediocre car business, a coffee distribution and whatever the hell other irons in the fire going for them.

Interesting show. They do a lot of their own work. They sub some of it. Different approach to restoration. I don't expect Shakespeare - not on a reality show budget- and I don't expect philosophical sophistication. Keep doing an interesting show.

The wife in the show clearly isn't very knowledgeable about cars but acts as though she does. I like the show and Ralph seems to be a pretty decent guy but his wife is irritating as hell. Otherwise a pretty good show.

I'm a big fan of reality car shows, this is by far the worst one I've ever seen, this is probably the worst reality show I've ever seen. WOW

Love the show , Kelly is the b word. You can see all the guys just roll their eyes when she comes out of the office

This show is really stupid. They mostly have other companies do their work. They never build anything that trips your trigger, and both the owners are totally not interesting in the least.

I am a long time purveyor of car restoration shows as well as a long time automobile enthusiast. I was watching the episode which involved restoring a Mercedes 220 SE S1, E4. I couldn't believe that when the vehicle came back from paint that better care was not taken to not scratch the car! Further more, the cars mechanical s should have been installed and working properly before paint to avoid costly delays, hence the scratched right front fender!! Guess I'll keep watching for the comedic value.

It's got good ideas of taking cars that need restoration and making them either daily drivers or show pieces. But this show fails on all fronts. It's insane the values they have to achieve to make a profit. At no time do they discuss the restoration costs with the owner. Also, why doesn't the owner get a say in the color or interior? Like the 220SE they restored, they allowed her (the owner) to have heated seats, wow! How lucky for her to have heating pads installed, it's not expensive of a part. Then you have the dummies placing tools on the cars on top of the paint protectors. As if the tools might not slip off the edge and scratch the paint. Like what happened in the episode as they were installing the engine into the car after it was painted. Only to have Someone scrach the fender, and Ralph explains how you have to watch what you doing and not scratch the paint, only to the worker, exclaim, Oh, Ok, Boss!

The quality of restoration shows seem to hit the sub quality variety, as the shows like phantom works and others like it were fun and informative. This one drops an engine and minutes later it starts up like it was a brand new car, sure thing! At no time do they show the problems they had to overcome, like something doesn't fit or having issues. Which you know happens all the time.If this is canceled it wouldn't be unexpected. It's just more fun to laugh at the stupidity of the show.

Program would get a 5 star or better if you would eliminate the shop owners wife from the program She brings nothing to the show I turn it off when she comes on

I love there is finally a Mercedes show. That's where it ends. The owners are horrible actors, they hire people that dont know anything and ralph is condescending to them. The wify is annoying. They barely know how to put cars together and couldnt fab a part if they tried. Rank amateurs. These people ruin classic Mercedes and think it's cool. It's not.

First watch this morning. Couldn't get through one episode. More car restoration and less of those two and their stupid dialogue.

You lost me on this one. Rather watch decade old reruns of "Shade Tree Mechanics".

I loved the Pink 911! Amazing to see the transformation. Can't wait for the next show.

Watching S1 E10. Hopefully, MT fills this series with infomercials for muffler bearing washers. Actually, Car Shield commercials for 27 minutes straight would be better. I know it takes some time for a show to gel, but 10 in and it's so rough to watch.

What's with the sandwich making in this episode? Plus points for the dog watching the sandwich being made. That earned it another star.

I don't claim to be a restoration expert, but some of the welds look pretty sketchy and not finished well. Plus the shop looks like a disaster area. Pull this show out of the rotation.

I like the restomods and the final scenes. It is fun to watch :)

I watched to the end - hoping something was going to make it better.

Safety wire instead of a screw? Why show that, because of the tool that spins or the mention of used on airplanes? Maybe because they mentioned the engine is going to vibrate a lot more - no that is bad too... simply wow....

Editing was out of sequence and repetitive.

I guess sometimes you have to see how bad a production can be to appreciate the good stuff.

S1 E8. Good God Almighty!!!

Nobody puts wide whitewalls to the inside.

This is just an example.

Please quit cutting corners.

This show has the potential to be great.

Slow down. DON'T cut corners.

DON'T worry about the customers "deadline".

Do the entire job right, or don't take that job into the shop.

How a person does one thing, is how they do everything.

The show is full of clips of them talking about what they want to do. Then it shows other shops doing the work. At the end the car is done when the Diesel shop didn't do any of the real work. Then the get a fake appraisal that over appraiser the cars. lol lots of curing conners, I feel bad for the car owners.

Premises here are guy with his "better looking half" runs business of restoring Mercedes cars in small fully resto shop.

Not a very original idea to begin with... but he works on Mercedes's so it got my attention.

I watch all car shows...but this one is un-watchable.

Main characters have no charisma or charm. This is fine if show has a decent amount of technical content...but this show does not.

(You can watch meaningful youtube videos with guys barely speaking English if there is good content) Show is super slow and techniques of rebuilds and level of expertise are questionable. Does not entertains or teaches you anything... Do not waist your time.