scortboy
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I'm also reminded of the episode I saw where the guy calls up, says he's from JP Morgan and says he's got 10 Magnums to do, and the first one needs to be done in like 6 hours time. In the end Will can't find the guy, doesn't even work for JP Morgan. Will got conned. It was funny because throughout the episode he keeps talking about not worrying about getting paid, about getting the work done then worrying about the money. SPEED put it together great on tape to foreshadow he was about to get screwed. In the credits they said they still hadn't found the guy. It's funny, he does business with a guy he never met face to face, but on another episode he was bitching at the driver about picking up checks and about how important it is to get paid when they deliver the car, from Marcus
Banks, a guy I'm sure they'll have no problem getting money from (that is unless he was afraid he'd realize the work was overpriced and refuse payment!) yet in the JP Morgan situation he acts the opposite way about a guy he never met. Smart fellow.
I give Will credit for finding a niche, but what it boils down to is he's a high end version of Circuit City or Best Buy. Production line installs with a hit of "uniqueness" but they aren't really what SPEED or Will try to portray it as, a true custom shop. If you want that, go find a shop like Rad Rides by Troy. The problem is, a shop like Troy's takes months to go from start to finish and to a TV production company, that's to much film time per project. With unique, they get three or four rides per show which keeps the couch potatoes interested. The average Joe doesn't know the difference between a shop that takes 2000 man hours of hand fab to build a ride and one that suckers rap and sports starts out of the same amount of money for a tenth of the manhours. That's probably why RIDES is not around any longer. That was a great show when it came out, but I'm sure cost of production per episode was to much because of the time they spent at each shop with each project. Hard to get the sponsors/endorsements/product placement to keep it going when you're jumping shop to shop all the time.