Chasing classic cars just failed

I have come to really like the show over the last couple of years. But latley the built in adds have been creeping in. Then tonight they had a full blown commercial for autogeek in the show as part of the show just sucked. Ruined the show. CCC just came down many rungs in my list of good car shows.

If anyone from CCC or velocity are reading this please note you are better speed tv and spike. And there half hour auto product commercials that they try to pass off as tv shows.

And autogeek take note you got great product placement at the expense of pissing me off. I bet that I am not the only one. Because of this I am now allot less likely to use what ever you are selling.

all of those shows are 1/2 hour long infomercials- they have to be, that's how they make the money to produce them.

I saw OVERHAULIN with their stealth ArmorAll ad. Big turn off. This CCC is much worse. Wayne seems like he's better than this. Seemed to me that he wouldn't sell himself like this but as they say: money talks... Loudly.

GRM needs a TV car program

In reply to ebonyandivory:

Maybe it's not Wayne so much as the show's producer?

They all do that. Anybody remember the "Subway ads" in the middle of American Pickers?

It's going to continue to happen, because DVR is causing nobody to watch commercials anymore.

If you hadn't noticed, product placement is WAY more prevalent.

BoostedBrandon wrote: In reply to ebonyandivory: Maybe it's not Wayne so much as the show's producer?

Right, but he's gotta have an opinion on the matter and if that opinion was the one I would like it to have been, it wasn't strong enough to beat out the cash. Either that or he likes the idea.

Either way its unfortunate (for me) but ill sleep ok tonight regardless.

Hawaii five-o is the worst show ever about this lol. It's like a one hour Chevy commercial with subway and other stuff thrown in. And American pickers is bad sometimes too.

In reply to nepa03focus:

This has been happening for a very long time. In the 1970s, Private Detective shows were everywhere. Prominently displayed in the credits was:Vehicles provides by (fill in the blank - mostly Ford and Chrysler). Producers made sure that cars featured prominently in screen shots. Even the Brady Bunch did this. Mike Brady had a different new Chrysler every episode (he even had a Cuda convertible). The family wagon would change very so many weeks from Polara's to Coronets, to Satellites to Furys. The last season featured GM cars. The Rockford files made a point of highlighting Jim Rockford's Firebird (which would change when Pontiac updated the exterior. In Charlie's Angels, Farrah Fawcett drove a Mustang II Cobra. The car received as many close-ups as she. Many 70s shows were nothing more than car commercials.

Meh, if you don't like being advertised to, stop watching television. Also, take note of where we are, and what pays the bills for their operation. I don't mind it as long as it's relevant and brief. I doubt Wayne makes much money from the show other than increased business for his shop.

There should be a pretty nice radio show coming out soon to provide you withsome real entertainment. We'll... Durr... They'll talk classic cars. I mean, I'm sure they will if you provide them with subject matter.

Yep, noticed AutoGeek and the Hagerty "app" commercials.

I keep waiting for someone to parody the product placement stuff in a subtle way like leaving Bud cans around in the background of a Game of Thrones episode or putting Ford badges on the Starship Enterprise.

It's not just TV that crams commercials down our throats, it's getting to be everything. I have a 15 minute drive to work and 10 minutes of it are commercials on the radio. Every website or youtube video you are forced to watch an ad for some product you have no interest in. Endless pop ups on the net. My mail (USPS) is full of worthless solicitations/junk. Have you ever looked at some of the fashion magazines like Vogue? Just a glorified advertisement. I understand companies need the revenue to operate but this is getting out of hand. It's far worse than years ago.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I keep waiting for someone to parody the product placement stuff in a subtle way like leaving Bud cans around in the background of a Game of Thrones episode or putting Ford badges on the Starship Enterprise.

ATHF has done something like this...well it was actually product placement but at the same time they were parodying the obnoxiousness of product placement.

The last few episodes of Overhauling I've seen are horrible for this.

GRM does not need a TV show. We'd be back in the garage because those people are too damn important to talk to us.

If you watch 50's detective shows, it's hysterical. The good guys always drive the sponsor's car, the bad guys drive the competition. It's even better when they change car sponsors in different years. You can tell what year the show is by the hero's car.

Overhauling does a lot of it because they get free parts from the guys, which helps with the builds.

If you watch these shows, you can tell who pays, because the banners in the background aren't blurred out. American Chopper was bad about it.

If GRM had a show, they would be pimpin concrete mix.

The problem is how you produce revenue and who controls the commercial slots within the program. These days they are largely controlled by the network's and or cable outlets. And on top of that most shows have to use outside production companies. You see where this is going. If a show is not produced by the network, doesn't own many or all of the commercial slots, it has to make money from somewhere. If that means you have to view a commercial inside the show so be it.

we produced many shows like this and it was the only way to keep them on the air.

The content/ad ratios are far worse than they've ever been. If this gets much worse ill just... Do my own builds I guess.

The problem really comes down to unlimited greed. In the early days of TV it was broadcast for free and then ads paid for it, then subscription fees came in, then pay per view, now product placement and content dilution (making shows painfully slow-paced and reusing content to lower production costs)...there's no point where they'll make "enough" money from a show.

it did not start with TV. You can go back to the radio serials to hear it in action. They were not just commercials put in, but the actors actually worked them into show

nepa03focus wrote: Hawaii five-o is the worst show ever about this lol. It's like a one hour Chevy commercial with subway and other stuff thrown in. And American pickers is bad sometimes too.

The bad guys usually drive Ford too

I watched the two episodes last night and I was also taken aback by the blatant infomercial type stuff. I think they got that really wrong - if they'd taken a bit more care to not make it quite that blatant/disruptive then I would have found it a lot less annoying, too. OK, so Wayne is never going to have a second career as a TV pitch man but boy was that grating.

Loved the Hudson story, though.